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does mean is that cities set their own 74 00:03:21.960 --> 00:03:24.080 priorities and states set their own priorities, and they don't 75 00:03:24.120 --> 00:03:27.319 necessarily get dictated to by the federal government. So what 76 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:30.080 we're seeing is all of all of this administration's posturing 77 00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:34.439 towards those places, towards those cities especially, but doing things 78 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:38.719 like having ICE show up places, you know, deploying you know, 79 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:43.680 ice who's funded by DHS, deploying those agents to just 80 00:03:43.719 --> 00:03:45.919 be visible things like that. 81 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:50.400 I guess it's it turns into what did you people 82 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:53.960 vote for and what were your expectations? Did you expect 83 00:03:54.360 --> 00:03:58.919 to see random agents with no badges and foosh niceties 84 00:03:59.039 --> 00:04:02.240 running around city harassing folks and pulling well, you know 85 00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:04.120 what the kid Didbacle. I'm not even gonna comment on 86 00:04:04.199 --> 00:04:06.039 because in his first term there were kids in cages, 87 00:04:06.120 --> 00:04:08.240 so y'all knew what he was capable of. So I 88 00:04:08.280 --> 00:04:09.960 don't even want to get into that about the kids 89 00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:12.240 meeting snatched out of schools, But did you really expect 90 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:16.360 them to start snatching quote unquote illegal people from churches 91 00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:20.519 and concerts, and you know, eventually it started rolling over 92 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:21.800 into other types of people. 93 00:04:21.959 --> 00:04:23.800 Did you vote for this? I really won't know. Did 94 00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:24.839 is what you voted for? 95 00:04:24.959 --> 00:04:26.199 And are people paying attention to? 96 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:28.279 Like you made a point earlier about how our economies 97 00:04:28.279 --> 00:04:30.759 so dependent on immigrant labor and it is true, And 98 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:32.759 I don't know if people have noticed or paid attention 99 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:35.040 to how many farmers are talking about this and talking 100 00:04:35.079 --> 00:04:39.920 about labor shortages, crops rotting, prices rising, trying to get food, 101 00:04:39.959 --> 00:04:42.160 trying to get vegetables, trying to get dairy all when 102 00:04:42.199 --> 00:04:44.879 you're seeing food prices spike, that is like signal number one. 103 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:46.839 That is one of the first ways that we'll probably 104 00:04:46.839 --> 00:04:49.519 see it the most. But it also happens with things 105 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:53.399 like construction, you know, as you know, whether it's the 106 00:04:53.399 --> 00:04:56.879 city or something residential, roofing, other sorts of like labor trades, 107 00:04:56.920 --> 00:05:00.600 those labor shortages are also assigned, which is not going 108 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:03.279 to help our housing crisis whatsoever. And you might also 109 00:05:03.319 --> 00:05:06.199 see it in the service industry if restaurants are closing 110 00:05:06.279 --> 00:05:09.920 or closing early, or if hotels can't keep up. You know, 111 00:05:10.079 --> 00:05:12.319 those are other sorts of workforce issues that we'll see. 112 00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:15.399 So yeah, well as well, I was like, so, let's 113 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:18.199 that's the thought process. So, like you said, when you 114 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:19.800 go to a hotel and now you can't have your 115 00:05:19.839 --> 00:05:22.319 room clean because they're short, and you're going what, well, 116 00:05:22.439 --> 00:05:24.360 a lot of those housekeepers were spanning. We joked about 117 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:25.680 all the time, Maria cleaned my room. 118 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:27.800 Things that made to We joked about these things. They 119 00:05:27.800 --> 00:05:28.519 were actually real. 120 00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:31.160 A lot of those staffs were Hispanics who were dedicated, 121 00:05:31.199 --> 00:05:33.079 faithful to making sure your room was clean. Things that 122 00:05:33.120 --> 00:05:35.240 made to you getting their chase and going by their business. Well, 123 00:05:35.319 --> 00:05:36.639 now when you can't get through because I've been in 124 00:05:36.680 --> 00:05:38.399 hotels now and it's just like, yeah, nobody's coming to 125 00:05:38.399 --> 00:05:38.839 clean your room. 126 00:05:38.920 --> 00:05:39.120 Yeah. 127 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:42.399 But there's also Caribbean populations, like there's there's plenty of 128 00:05:42.439 --> 00:05:45.920 black people as well who are who have been working 129 00:05:45.920 --> 00:05:47.279 in this country for a long time. You have lots 130 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:50.240 of students that are on student visas or that's that 131 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:53.000 was originally their entry into this country. And that's yes, 132 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:57.240 it's food, is housing, it's healthcare, home care, individuals who 133 00:05:57.240 --> 00:06:01.079 are assisted live working in that said living facilities, who 134 00:06:01.079 --> 00:06:03.160 support our seniors and provide the sorts of elder care. 135 00:06:03.680 --> 00:06:06.879 A lot of those individuals not necessarily naturalized or are 136 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:09.879 US born citizens, so you know, people who take care 137 00:06:09.920 --> 00:06:13.560 of our aging population. Those are also people an industry 138 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:16.079 that's heavily dependent on immigrant labor. 139 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:20.120 So yeah, it's restaurants. I know, to ask somebody who's 140 00:06:20.079 --> 00:06:22.560 spent half their life in restaurants. Half the kitchen staff 141 00:06:22.639 --> 00:06:26.839 was typically Hispanic, half the prep staff was Hispanic. So 142 00:06:27.160 --> 00:06:30.079 now

you're looking at wrestlans, like you said, closing or there. 143 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:31.160 Are a lot of restaurants closing. 144 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:34.759 Yeah, that's actually very scary. You know the way staff 145 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:36.720 things that magnitus. So now you're going to restaurants. You're going, 146 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:38.639 but there's all these infy tables. Yeah, but there's no staff. 147 00:06:39.199 --> 00:06:41.120 So that's why there's all these empty tables because nobody 148 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:42.639 to serve you. So would you rather serve you and 149 00:06:42.639 --> 00:06:44.639 nobody comes to you and now you're really mad or 150 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:46.439 you rather it's be honest with you and say, yeah, 151 00:06:46.439 --> 00:06:49.560 there's a two hour wait because we don't have enough staff. Yeah, 152 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:51.879 so it's like, again, is this your key, Is this. 153 00:06:51.879 --> 00:06:53.920 What you voted for? I just want to know, is 154 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:56.040 this what you voted for? A segment? Is this what 155 00:06:56.079 --> 00:06:58.399 you voted for? You know? Then we look at other 156 00:06:58.439 --> 00:07:00.639 things healthcare. What is healthcare? 157 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:00.879 Like? 158 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:03.079 Do you even have health care at this point? You know, 159 00:07:03.160 --> 00:07:05.959 because they rolled back to what the ACA supplements? Is 160 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:07.680 that what they called ATAC and. 161 00:07:07.839 --> 00:07:10.120 Anytime with the ACA, but like there was so it 162 00:07:10.199 --> 00:07:12.439 was the supplementary type of insurance, like a secondary insurance 163 00:07:12.439 --> 00:07:13.079 that people would have. 164 00:07:13.639 --> 00:07:14.399 Is that what you're talking about? 165 00:07:14.480 --> 00:07:14.920 Yeah? I think so. 166 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:17.720 Like the subsidiaries that they or the subsidies they had 167 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:22.240 to make quote unquote Obamacare, Uh, they rolled all those back. 168 00:07:22.319 --> 00:07:23.879 So now you've seen your premium go from like one 169 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:25.959 hundred to maybe a thousand, six hundred secalf you have 170 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:27.800 a family, like, is this what you voted for? 171 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:28.199 This? 172 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:29.240 This is what you wanted. 173 00:07:29.279 --> 00:07:31.800 So basically what they've been doing is pulling money from 174 00:07:31.839 --> 00:07:35.439 the safety nets of the disenfranchised to move over to 175 00:07:35.560 --> 00:07:39.800 primarily immigration and now the lovely war that we have. 176 00:07:41.079 --> 00:07:42.439 Is this what you voted for? 177 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:43.040 Yeah? 178 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:44.000 This is this is what you voted for. 179 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:46.360 Looking at this war, he picked a fight with Iran 180 00:07:46.519

--> 00:07:48.720 out of the blue, with no. I think the running 181 00:07:48.759 --> 00:07:53.120 theme of this administration has been executive orders. Yeah, there's no, 182 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:53.879 there's no. 183 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:56.120 Coming much more fast, much faster than they were at 184 00:07:56.120 --> 00:07:59.040 this point last year. They're much more specific. Some of 185 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:01.759 them are just increasing. Like I don't even think there's 186 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:03.839 a betting process at this point, like is this legal? 187 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:05.439 Will this get struck down? Is this a waste of time? 188 00:08:05.480 --> 00:08:07.639 Doesn't care, it doesn't matter. It's gonna be issued, and 189 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:09.399 if it can't be enforced, it can't be enforced. But 190 00:08:10.439 --> 00:08:12.680 let's definitely spend months, you know, wasting people's time and 191 00:08:12.680 --> 00:08:15.199 wasting the court's time, and wasting congress is time, you know, 192 00:08:15.319 --> 00:08:16.879 debating whether or not this is possible. 193 00:08:17.639 --> 00:08:21.199 It's just well, that's the weird thing. It's like executive 194 00:08:21.279 --> 00:08:24.519 orders are like a speed race. So he puts the 195 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:26.360 car on the speed race, he signs, and they starts 196 00:08:26.360 --> 00:08:29.399 shooting around. It's not around the third lap that the 197 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:31.439 federal judges are able to step in and say no, no, no, no, 198 00:08:31.439 --> 00:08:33.559 no no no, but you already made two laps in 199 00:08:33.639 --> 00:08:35.480 that time. It's like looking at the NPR when he 200 00:08:35.519 --> 00:08:38.200 pulled Funny from NPR. Now the federal judge is like, no, 201 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:40.080 you can't do that. Yeah, but it's been going on 202 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:41.559 for seven or eight months, so the people who are 203 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:44.080 working those jobs, they've walked away and probably found something else. 204 00:08:44.279 --> 00:08:46.480 So it's like the damage has been done. 205 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:48.720 The short term impact is major. 206 00:08:48.759 --> 00:08:51.559 It causes major damage, right, Like, it changes how people 207 00:08:51.559 --> 00:08:54.240 have to behave, They have to shift and people like again, 208 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:59.399 even we're thinking about TSA, So deciding to back pay 209 00:08:59.480 --> 00:09:03.480 TSA who had been you know, unfunded for over a 210 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:06.279 month and had missed multiple paychecks, Well, let's give people 211 00:09:06.279 --> 00:09:08.320 back pay at this point, no promises for pay going 212 00:09:08.320 --> 00:09:09.039 forward for back pay. 213 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:11.799 Five hundred people are already quick. Five hundred people. 214 00:09:12.799 --> 00:09:15.799 Literally, it's like those people have found it's survival

of 215 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:16.639 the fit is literally. 216 00:09:17.159 --> 00:09:17.399 Yeah. 217 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:19.639 So people, when when you haven't gotten a check for 218 00:09:19.639 --> 00:09:21.600 a month, I have to I have to find something 219 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:22.039 else to do. 220 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:24.080 So that's what's happening on. These people have found other 221 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:24.559 things to do. 222 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:28.240 And usually you know, government jobs were get one, you 223 00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:30.600 good for life. That's not the case anymore. It's like 224 00:09:30.600 --> 00:09:32.080 get ones that you may or may not get. You 225 00:09:32.080 --> 00:09:33.759 may or may not get a check home, Like yeah, 226 00:09:33.759 --> 00:09:36.120 if they start acting up upstairs, you're not getting a check. 227 00:09:36.159 --> 00:09:38.039 So now it's not even a guaranteed to get a 228 00:09:38.039 --> 00:09:40.080 government job if you can actually get one. 229 00:09:39.919 --> 00:09:42.399 Because of and and it changes how people operate because 230 00:09:42.440 --> 00:09:44.080 then they have to start thinking, Okay, for people who 231 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:46.600 are still there, how do we do this, you know leaner, 232 00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:50.120 what do we remove? You know, freezing hiring, Like, let's 233 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:51.600 not do anything. Let's not do anything we're gonna have 234 00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:54.159 to undo. So instability is a big deal. And I 235 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:56.720 feel like a lot of people, I don't know if 236 00:09:56.720 --> 00:09:58.399 this is talked about it and maybe it is talked about enough, 237 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:00.519 but it's like, even for the things that the strike 238 00:10:00.600 --> 00:10:03.360 down that he tries to issue, or the Congress strikes down, 239 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:07.679 it's the instability in the meantime that causes so much damage. Yeah, 240 00:10:08.159 --> 00:10:09.919 that takes a long time to undo. You can do 241 00:10:09.919 --> 00:10:13.279 the damage in a day before it can all fall apart, 242 00:10:13.320 --> 00:10:15.679 But we spend months and months and months just trying 243 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:18.480 to catch up to the changes in the labor force 244 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:19.639 after he's done something like that. 245 00:10:19.799 --> 00:10:21.200 Well, I think people you have to think about the 246 00:10:21.240 --> 00:10:24.000 concept of if I work with five hundred people and 247 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:26.679 everybody's been assigned the task, and we're a well or machine, 248 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:28.320 and then an order comes to and say slice three 249 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:30.519 hundred of them, so now we're figuring out how to 250 00:10:30.600 --> 00:10:32.840 run off three hundred. So then you rolling back around 251 00:10:32.879 --> 00:10:34.440 seven months later saying, okay, now you have the three 252 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:37.279 hundred back. Well, we've already reassigned tasks, we were already 253 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:40.159 changed our budget. Yeah, so it's like, it would be 254 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:41.679 nice to have them back, but what are you guys 255 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:44.279 actually gonna do, because now our mindset has changed. We 256 00:10:44.799 --> 00:10:47.399 don't We don't operate like having five people five hundred. 257 00:10:47.440 --> 00:10:49.600 We operate like having three hundred. So you said, well, 258 00:10:49.639 --> 00:10:51.159 now you're having back, it's like, well, where we're going 259 00:10:51.200 --> 00:10:53.840 to put him because we don't even there's no constant 260 00:10:53.879 --> 00:10:56.120 of them anymore because you made us change our mindset 261 00:10:56.279 --> 00:10:57.399 and that's kind of what we're looking at. 262 00:10:57.440 --> 00:10:59.559 So okay, well you put the funding back for NPR. 263 00:10:59.600 --> 00:11:03.600 Okay, well all those shows, all those spaces, they're all gone, 264 00:11:03.639 --> 00:11:05.360 like you pulled all the funding from them. So we're 265 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:08.080 down to the bare minimum. And you know, the sponsors 266 00:11:08.080 --> 00:11:09.799 and the people that were doing those shows, they probably 267 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:12.759 went to, you know, create their own platforms. You know, 268 00:11:12.879 --> 00:11:16.120 like the joy Reads and the Noahs, they all want 269 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:18.279 to create their own platform. So you're returning that money. 270 00:11:18.279 --> 00:11:19.799 At this point, it's like, Okay, what are we still 271 00:11:19.799 --> 00:11:20.279 doing it in now? 272 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:23.960 Yeah, and public has shifted away from where they're you know, 273 00:11:24.200 --> 00:11:26.840 where they're going to hear or filling that time with 274 00:11:26.879 --> 00:11:29.919 something else. So yeah, a lot of that has been 275 00:11:29.919 --> 00:11:32.799 struck down. Courts have also come to block him or 276 00:11:32.799 --> 00:11:37.519 temporarily block some of his asylum rules and enforcement expansions, 277 00:11:37.559 --> 00:11:40.440 like when he's trying to you know, use executive actions 278 00:11:40.480 --> 00:11:43.279 or executive authority to like push whether or not states 279 00:11:43.399 --> 00:11:47.399 or cities can grant asylum. They also trying to overrun 280 00:11:47.440 --> 00:11:49.919 like some AI efforts, which we should talk about a 281 00:11:49.919 --> 00:11:51.240 little bit more later as well, because I think that's 282 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:54.080 a big one. But yeah, like the First Amendment protections, 283 00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:56.039 the courts, I think we're the ones who stepped into 284 00:11:56.080 --> 00:12:01.600 intervene there for sure. So it's just yeah, courts block 285 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:07.840 actions fortunately

easily, usually because something is just flat out unconstitutional, 286 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:10.799 and if it's not, it's because maybe the justification doesn't 287 00:12:10.799 --> 00:12:13.919 make sense because there was no public comment process, and 288 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:15.200 some of the things he tries to do require a 289 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:18.320 public comment process or the agencies have to do certain things, 290 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:20.919 which when you replace everybody in it at the head 291 00:12:20.919 --> 00:12:22.960 of every agency. I'm sure agencies aren't only going to 292 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:25.279 be so yeah, but that's another thing. 293 00:12:25.360 --> 00:12:29.120 Yeah, yeah, Well I think the funniest one to me was, 294 00:12:29.600 --> 00:12:31.919 you know, he started dismantling that wing of the White 295 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:35.120 House to build his grand ballroom. Now they're like, no, 296 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:37.320 you're not moving any further with this until you get 297 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:39.000 approved from Congress, which is what you're supposed to do. 298 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:39.440 To the first time. 299 00:12:39.559 --> 00:12:42.559 Yeah, but not have the buildings dismantled, Like okay, so 300 00:12:42.840 --> 00:12:44.600 what are we doing now, Like it's just this big 301 00:12:44.639 --> 00:12:47.399 hole in the White House where he'd start dismantling stuff 302 00:12:47.399 --> 00:12:49.440 without the approval of Congress was apparently he was supposed 303 00:12:49.440 --> 00:12:51.879 to have before he did it with his illegal funders. 304 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:53.960 And now they're like, yeah, stop, you're not doing You're 305 00:12:54.000 --> 00:12:56.320 not going any further until you get approved from Congress. 306 00:12:56.320 --> 00:13:00.279 So it's like this turnaround situation where the damage been 307 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:03.360 done and it's like, can we fix it or well 308 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:06.600 we have an enirded episode. The next episode, we talked 309 00:13:06.600 --> 00:13:09.759 about the term reimagine. Can we fix it or are 310 00:13:09.799 --> 00:13:12.200 we in a space to reimagine what it looks like 311 00:13:12.279 --> 00:13:14.720 now that the funding has returned? So I think for 312 00:13:14.759 --> 00:13:17.799 me that's the interesting part. I'm waiting to see that 313 00:13:17.919 --> 00:13:21.000 now that NPR has their funding back, can we reimagine 314 00:13:21.000 --> 00:13:24.320 what a new NPR looks like, you know, new shows, 315 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:27.559 new talent, things of that magnitude. Like, I guess that's 316 00:13:27.559 --> 00:13:30.879 where we're at now, reimagining spaces, because I don't think 317 00:13:30.879 --> 00:13:32.399 we can return to a lot of these spaces. The 318 00:13:32.440 --> 00:13:35.679 mindset of changed, the concepts have changed, the constructs have changed. 319 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:37.360

I don't think we can return to the old way 320 00:13:37.360 --> 00:13:38.919 of doing things. And honestly, I can't say that's a 321 00:13:38.919 --> 00:13:41.000 bad thing. Yeah, I can't say that's a bad thing, 322 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:45.120 reimagining the world in a twenty twenty six frame, having 323 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:47.840 to almost start from ground zero with the funding you 324 00:13:47.919 --> 00:13:50.519 just got back. Yeah, So I'm very curious to that's 325 00:13:50.519 --> 00:13:52.440 going to play out. 326 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:55.960 What It's just so shocking to me that there's not 327 00:13:56.080 --> 00:14:00.320 more outrage about, you know, US cutting snap benefit. It's 328 00:14:00.360 --> 00:14:04.279 like gutting a crucial source of food for so many populations, 329 00:14:04.360 --> 00:14:09.159 especially those rural, white Midwestern populations. And there's a four 330 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:12.519 hundred million dollar vanity project that was approved that the 331 00:14:12.519 --> 00:14:13.799 Federal Planning Commission improved. 332 00:14:14.879 --> 00:14:16.639 I don't think it's really hit them yet, though, I 333 00:14:16.639 --> 00:14:19.039 think we're still in a slight cushion space. I don't 334 00:14:19.039 --> 00:14:23.360 know how, but I refuse to believe that the people 335 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:26.799 who are being directly impacted or that either nonchalant or 336 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:29.120 that ignorant to what's really happening to them. 337 00:14:29.519 --> 00:14:31.720 I don't want to believe that. Like I don't want 338 00:14:31.720 --> 00:14:32.320 to believe that. 339 00:14:32.879 --> 00:14:35.879 I think you have to watch more. There are certain 340 00:14:35.879 --> 00:14:37.600 networks you have to watch a lot more of to understand. 341 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:39.639 You have to watch a lot more Fox News. I 342 00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:42.240 think you have to listen to a lot more, a 343 00:14:42.279 --> 00:14:45.919 lot more people like Ben Shapiro who spend a lot 344 00:14:45.960 --> 00:14:50.519 of time focused on and I've had some conversations this 345 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:51.519 week that are fascinating. 346 00:14:51.600 --> 00:14:55.279 But oh, I want to hear no, I want to 347 00:14:55.320 --> 00:14:55.720 hear one. 348 00:14:55.759 --> 00:14:56.360 I cannot. 349 00:14:57.720 --> 00:14:59.919 I'll just say there are very There are people who 350 00:15:00.120 --> 00:15:02.799 truly believe Trump is the greatest president of their lives, 351 00:15:03.639 --> 00:15:09.360 truly and deeply, who compare his uh, compare his haters 352 00:15:09.399 --> 00:15:14.279 to Jesus Is haters and Moses Is haters and Davids haters. 353 00:15:14.600 --> 00:15:17.559 I'm not and within the same breath and with full 354 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:20.360 conviction and sincerity, and yeah, but. 355 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:21.519 What kind of people are we talking about? 356 00:15:21.519 --> 00:15:24.360

The directly disenfranched people, or we talk about the people 357 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:26.519 who always is that. 358 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:29.480 These people don't see themselves that way, right, Like people 359 00:15:29.600 --> 00:15:36.600 don't see themselves as disenfranchised or as uh my my 360 00:15:37.039 --> 00:15:38.360 thought would be like getting bent over. 361 00:15:38.799 --> 00:15:39.879 They don't see it that way. 362 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:45.320 They see it as uh that Trump is smart, he's brilliant, 363 00:15:45.480 --> 00:15:48.600 that he's been he's wealthy, that he's done so much 364 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:52.360 with his wealth. That and that he's just hated and 365 00:15:52.399 --> 00:15:54.000 that he's you know, he's a strong leader, and people 366 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:55.279 always hate strong leaders. 367 00:15:56.200 --> 00:16:02.759 And who I am? I know I am, And. 368 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:06.120 We're talking about the directly disenfranchised people that receive the 369 00:16:06.200 --> 00:16:07.120 snap benefits. 370 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:10.200 They no, no, maybe maybe they have, maybe they haven't. 371 00:16:10.200 --> 00:16:12.120 Maybe their mama has, maybe their grandma has, maybe their 372 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:14.639 neighbors have. But in either case they see that as 373 00:16:15.519 --> 00:16:17.919 more about the fact that, you know, these are not 374 00:16:17.960 --> 00:16:22.480 things that you should need at any rate, and so 375 00:16:22.519 --> 00:16:26.080 they kind of live in this fantasy where the playing 376 00:16:26.120 --> 00:16:29.440 field is fair and where if people can succeed like 377 00:16:29.519 --> 00:16:32.360 Donald Trump, who is the epitome of success in this 378 00:16:32.480 --> 00:16:35.919 model that they're speaking from, then the game is fair 379 00:16:35.960 --> 00:16:37.799 and that anyone who's not succeeding just really needs to 380 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:39.200 figure out how to succeed so they don't have to 381 00:16:39.240 --> 00:16:43.360 worry about using food stamps. So there's no practical part 382 00:16:43.399 --> 00:16:45.679 of the brain that says, okay, but people are using 383 00:16:45.679 --> 00:16:47.360 food stamps, and those people have kids, and the kids 384 00:16:47.360 --> 00:16:49.519 need to eat and kidney. Food stamps and food stamps 385 00:16:49.519 --> 00:16:51.559 also pay for employment and training and things that people 386 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:54.279 can use to get credentials like CDLs and to you know, 387 00:16:54.440 --> 00:16:57.799 to move forward. And those are too practical. Those those 388 00:16:57.879 --> 00:17:00.600 pieces don't don't land for them. 389 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:03.279 So they need to get evicted and literally be living on. 390 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:06.200 The streets, right because you know, the consequences would be 391 00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:10.079 you would think like, okay, wages have been stagnant for

decades. 392 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:14.079 CEOs have continued, investors have continued to make more of 393 00:17:14.119 --> 00:17:17.160 corporate profits than they ever have before. The top fifteen 394 00:17:17.200 --> 00:17:20.240 percent of the country hold eighty five percent of the 395 00:17:20.359 --> 00:17:24.039 wealth that has increased, which it was about fifty percent 396 00:17:24.480 --> 00:17:27.759 in the seventies and eighties. Now it's eighty five percent. 397 00:17:27.839 --> 00:17:31.440 So it's the middle class, the working class, people who 398 00:17:31.480 --> 00:17:34.160 are in poverty who are sharing the other fifteen percent 399 00:17:34.200 --> 00:17:35.759 of GDP amongst ourselves. 400 00:17:35.839 --> 00:17:38.960 Oh my god, it's a horrible picture. You a horrible picture. 401 00:17:39.079 --> 00:17:40.400 But when you put it that way. 402 00:17:40.480 --> 00:17:43.440 But the problem is the poor people. 403 00:17:44.079 --> 00:17:45.480 Who don't view themselves as poor. 404 00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:50.000 Yeah but yeah, so so, but you blame the poor. 405 00:17:50.200 --> 00:17:52.640 It's just it's fascinating to me that people truly think 406 00:17:52.680 --> 00:17:54.279 that the reason that they're struggling is because of the 407 00:17:54.279 --> 00:17:56.680 other people who are struggling but who have different skin colors, 408 00:17:56.839 --> 00:18:01.799 or who weren't born here, or who are using government benefits. 409 00:18:01.960 --> 00:18:05.759 Like so okay, so I'm trying. I'm trying to grasp this. 410 00:18:06.119 --> 00:18:09.079 So there, I'm trying to grasp this is actually real. 411 00:18:09.119 --> 00:18:11.440 I trying to help me, So there I have. The 412 00:18:11.599 --> 00:18:15.119 thought process is, although I'm sharing this pot of government 413 00:18:15.160 --> 00:18:17.599 funding being a snap or whatever the case they'd be, 414 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:23.440 I'm not mad that I'm not conscious that I'm using 415 00:18:23.480 --> 00:18:25.680 these things. I'm more conscious of the other people that 416 00:18:25.759 --> 00:18:28.519 are using these things, and that as a result, they've 417 00:18:28.559 --> 00:18:33.559 created this lag on this pot that we're all sharing, 418 00:18:33.720 --> 00:18:36.599 so they should be got rid of that. 419 00:18:36.599 --> 00:18:40.559 That's essentially it. That's essentially it. So God, it does 420 00:18:40.599 --> 00:18:42.400 not matter that like three. 421 00:18:42.279 --> 00:18:45.440 Million people now less people have access to food stamps, 422 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:48.680 that food banks are are flooded and struggling to stay afloat, 423 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:51.640 that that cost to try to save, to try to 424 00:18:51.640 --> 00:18:54.359 put a hole in the deficit, but that we also 425 00:18:54.759 --> 00:18:57.640 are spending billions out of war, that we have no 426 00:18:57.720 --> 00:19:00.960 business in spending half a billion on the ball room. 427 00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:02.039 That none of you will ever. 428 00:19:01.920 --> 00:19:02.799 See that part. 429 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:06.039 But we don't have any money, but we have money. 430 00:19:06.319 --> 00:19:08.039 Oh but it gets better because apparently I don't know 431 00:19:08.079 --> 00:19:09.559 the clip was we moved or not where he stood 432 00:19:09.599 --> 00:19:11.480 up and said that America, the federal government can't pay 433 00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:13.960 for daycare, that states should pay for daycare because. 434 00:19:13.759 --> 00:19:14.559 We don't have the money. 435 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:17.839 My guy, you just asked him for a billion more 436 00:19:17.880 --> 00:19:19.680 dollars for a ward that you're pretty much getting ready 437 00:19:19.720 --> 00:19:21.519 to walk away from because you realize that being a 438 00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:23.680 bully is not effective in other spaces. 439 00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:26.559 You can't be serious. 440 00:19:26.359 --> 00:19:28.039 It's funny, it's funny, it's. 441 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:31.920 Cringing, it's cringing, it's it's scary. People. 442 00:19:32.160 --> 00:19:33.880 That's just fine. They do, and they believe it. They 443 00:19:33.880 --> 00:19:37.920 completely believe it. They also so a lot of it 444 00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:39.119 is Trump, a lot of it is not. 445 00:19:39.200 --> 00:19:40.839 I'm going to say that like some of it is 446 00:19:40.880 --> 00:19:42.880 the Republican Party in general, but a lot of them 447 00:19:42.920 --> 00:19:45.119 are not necessarily huge fans of the Republican Party. 448 00:19:45.119 --> 00:19:48.000 They're just fans of Trump to such a degree. 449 00:19:48.559 --> 00:19:50.400 Right, So are we talking about Mega We are we 450 00:19:50.400 --> 00:19:52.079 specifically talking about Mega. 451 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:56.599 Yes, yeah, yeah, but yeah, yeah, I just it was 452 00:19:56.640 --> 00:19:59.000 it was a fascinating conversation just based on this person's 453 00:19:59.000 --> 00:20:02.559 skin color alone. It was just a fascinating conversation. So 454 00:20:03.240 --> 00:20:05.000 we could we could move on, We could move on. 455 00:20:05.079 --> 00:20:10.720 But yes, yes, So we've spent over over one hundred 456 00:20:10.720 --> 00:20:15.640 and fifty billion dollars in the last four years between 457 00:20:17.000 --> 00:20:19.519 that's just for Ukraine, Ukraine and Russia. We've spent one 458 00:20:19.599 --> 00:20:24.319 hundred billion in Israel so far. We have at least 459 00:20:24.319 --> 00:20:26.920 fifty billion more that we've already dedicated to rebuilding Gaza. 460 00:20:27.960 --> 00:20:31.960 So, but we can't pay for daycare or healthcare subsidiaries 461 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:34.039 in this country, but we have money. We can scrounge 462 00:20:34.079 --> 00:20:36.799 up money. Isn't it the same thing when cop City 463 00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:40.559 was a thing. It's like, so, y'all found

ninety million dollars. Yeah, 464 00:20:40.599 --> 00:20:42.880 but we can't do anything with the homeless problem that 465 00:20:42.880 --> 00:20:45.640 which is getting increasingly worse. Exactly, but we're to find 466 00:20:45.720 --> 00:20:48.880 ninety million dollars for a training facility. Let's be mindful 467 00:20:48.880 --> 00:20:52.559 a training facility for cops and firefighters. 468 00:20:52.759 --> 00:20:54.920 Yeah, so it's yeah, so basically, what are we spending 469 00:20:54.960 --> 00:20:57.319 money on that we're not spending at home that none 470 00:20:57.319 --> 00:20:59.759 of us will ever see even if we just takes 471 00:20:59.799 --> 00:21:07.079 now decreases versus domestic investments, like it's yeah, I'm concerned 472 00:21:07.960 --> 00:21:10.960 even more people when people we should be pissed off, 473 00:21:11.240 --> 00:21:14.440 I'm increasingly people are getting pissed off, which I am 474 00:21:14.519 --> 00:21:17.480 thrilled about. But yeah, I mean, we were spending one 475 00:21:17.559 --> 00:21:20.160 hundred billion a year or whatever on Snap and we've 476 00:21:20.160 --> 00:21:22.720 just spent how many billions? How many how many hundreds 477 00:21:22.759 --> 00:21:23.680 of billions. 478 00:21:23.319 --> 00:21:25.400 In the blink of an eye. Yeah, just gone and 479 00:21:25.480 --> 00:21:26.640 a pointless war. 480 00:21:27.599 --> 00:21:27.720 Uh. 481 00:21:28.920 --> 00:21:31.400 But the question becomes, how can this get worse? I'll 482 00:21:31.400 --> 00:21:34.920 tell you how can this get worse? Birthright citizenship That's 483 00:21:34.960 --> 00:21:35.400 how this. 484 00:21:35.319 --> 00:21:35.920 Can get worse. 485 00:21:36.279 --> 00:21:39.119 The notion that if you're born here, you're automatically a citizen, 486 00:21:39.200 --> 00:21:40.839 versus if you're born here now you've got to go 487 00:21:40.880 --> 00:21:43.599 through some rigorous process to prove that you're a citizen. 488 00:21:43.680 --> 00:21:45.559 That's how it can get worse. Now you're going to 489 00:21:45.599 --> 00:21:48.880 create immigrants in the country. So that's what they're having 490 00:21:49.119 --> 00:21:50.079 conversations about. 491 00:21:50.119 --> 00:21:51.400 Now is is it? 492 00:21:51.480 --> 00:21:52.960 Are we going to keep that on the books that 493 00:21:53.000 --> 00:21:55.680 if you're born here, you're you're allowed to be a 494 00:21:55.720 --> 00:22:00.240 citizen body fault versus Now, if you're born here, that's 495 00:22:00.279 --> 00:22:00.720 not enough. 496 00:22:00.839 --> 00:22:02.559 You've got to go through over. 497 00:22:02.519 --> 00:22:05.799 One hundred and fifty years we've had the fourteenth Amendment. 498 00:22:06.640 --> 00:22:08.599 If you were born here, you are a citizen, regardless 499 00:22:08.640 --> 00:22:11.240 of what your parents citizenship are. This has been you know, 500 00:22:11.400 --> 00:22:13.799 ending or limiting that citizenship has been a focus for

501 00:22:14.279 --> 00:22:16.559 you know, for Trump for a while, since before he 502 00:22:16.640 --> 00:22:21.480 was re elected. The courts have always protected it, and 503 00:22:21.480 --> 00:22:24.079 they protected it very broadly, so you would think that 504 00:22:24.160 --> 00:22:26.640 means it won't change very easily. He's definitely tried lots 505 00:22:26.680 --> 00:22:28.680 of different things that have not moved forward because of 506 00:22:28.720 --> 00:22:31.079 the courts. That doesn't give a lot of us too 507 00:22:31.119 --> 00:22:33.880 much confidence though, especially because you know, a major change 508 00:22:33.880 --> 00:22:35.640 would go before the Supreme Court, and we already know 509 00:22:35.680 --> 00:22:38.799 who's who effectively stacked the Supreme Court. 510 00:22:39.960 --> 00:22:44.079 But I will say that they've grown a moral compass, 511 00:22:44.319 --> 00:22:46.599 so lady, they have been voting against him. But I 512 00:22:46.599 --> 00:22:50.400 guess he called himself marching up into the courtroom and 513 00:22:50.480 --> 00:22:54.759 sitting before Brown, the lovely Brown, and she gave her 514 00:22:54.839 --> 00:22:57.680 remarks and things that magnitude, and he ended up walking 515 00:22:57.680 --> 00:22:59.559 out and wasn't happy because she kind of laid down 516 00:22:59.559 --> 00:23:01.799 the law o birthright citizenship. And I guess he thought 517 00:23:01.799 --> 00:23:06.000 his presence would intimidate. Sir, we have realized that black 518 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:08.519 women are not your thing, especially smart educated ones. We 519 00:23:08.559 --> 00:23:10.359 know they're not your thing, but they are not intimidated 520 00:23:10.359 --> 00:23:12.680 by you. Should know that after going after Liticia James. 521 00:23:12.839 --> 00:23:15.119 They're not intimidated by you. They don't play these games. 522 00:23:15.400 --> 00:23:17.400 Yeah, I mean, it's not even it's not an immigration issue. 523 00:23:17.400 --> 00:23:19.599 It's a deep issue about who's who's allowed to be 524 00:23:19.640 --> 00:23:27.079 an American and who says basically, So, yeah, the executive 525 00:23:27.160 --> 00:23:30.119 order that he tried to issue is a freaking joke. 526 00:23:30.160 --> 00:23:32.119 You can't rewrite the Constitution by an executive order. 527 00:23:32.200 --> 00:23:34.000 Side and he continues to try. 528 00:23:34.160 --> 00:23:36.000 Yeah, I mean, just for the chaos and calamity that 529 00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:36.720 it causes alone. 530 00:23:36.759 --> 00:23:37.559 I mean, it's just true. 531 00:23:38.519 --> 00:23:43.759 But for the record now, executive orders will be returned, 532 00:23:43.759 --> 00:23:46.480 will be overturned as soon as another president comes, especially 533 00:23:46.519 --> 00:23:48.480 a democratic one. So he's gonna spend the fort he 534 00:23:48.559 --> 00:23:50.160 or she's going to spend the first year or two 535 00:23:50.720 --> 00:23:53.680 rewriting all these executive orders that were issued that just 536 00:23:53.759 --> 00:23:54.960 cause chaos and calamity. 537 00:23:55.000 --> 00:23:57.599 So let's be very clear, these are not laws. These 538 00:23:57.599 --> 00:23:57.960 are like. 539 00:23:57.920 --> 00:24:00.440 Temporary orders for the sitting president to kind of I 540 00:24:00.440 --> 00:24:01.680 don't want to say, do what he wants to do, 541 00:24:01.920 --> 00:24:03.680 but do things in essence a little faster. 542 00:24:03.839 --> 00:24:05.319 But it used to have parameters around it. 543 00:24:05.319 --> 00:24:07.599 There were certain things you just didn't write or as four, 544 00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:09.960 he just decided not to do those things and just 545 00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:11.440 write them every time he feels like he wants to 546 00:24:11.440 --> 00:24:13.480 write one, which I'm starting to think. 547 00:24:13.519 --> 00:24:15.079 But we noticed this issue. 548 00:24:15.119 --> 00:24:17.799 They have sided with him sometimes, right, so, like I 549 00:24:17.839 --> 00:24:19.960 think I've seen I've seen Washington Post said that about 550 00:24:19.960 --> 00:24:21.960 seventy five they kind of track how often the Supreme 551 00:24:22.000 --> 00:24:24.720 Court either backs Trump or you know, stops Trump and 552 00:24:24.759 --> 00:24:26.839 for different reasons, and I think seventy five percent of 553 00:24:26.920 --> 00:24:30.759 the time they have supported him in some way. And 554 00:24:30.839 --> 00:24:34.480 sometimes that looks like, uh so, for example, he had 555 00:24:34.519 --> 00:24:37.880 the immigration enforcement powers he tried to create where ice 556 00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:40.039 could just go into states and cities and do whatever 557 00:24:40.079 --> 00:24:42.480 they wanted to do, and like they have allowed that, 558 00:24:43.279 --> 00:24:46.599 They've lifted like restrictions on things like that. We were 559 00:24:46.599 --> 00:24:50.640 talking about this recently as far as the characteristics of 560 00:24:50.680 --> 00:24:53.720 a human being that warrant them to be questioned for 561 00:24:53.759 --> 00:24:57.200 their ID and that was approved. So if you are 562 00:24:57.920 --> 00:25:01.279 speaking Spanish, if you were near home depot, you know, 563 00:25:01.319 --> 00:25:04.160 those sorts of characteristics, those are those are truly considered 564 00:25:04.200 --> 00:25:06.400 to be enough evidence that you could be questioned by 565 00:25:06.599 --> 00:25:08.039 federal federal authorities. 566 00:25:08.640 --> 00:25:11.480 So that's basically a racial profile and basically right. 567 00:25:11.519 --> 00:25:14.400 On the other hand, the Supreme and the Supreme Court 568 00:25:14.400 --> 00:25:17.839 also ruled that the lower courts can't block nationwide policies. 569 00:25:17.960 --> 00:25:20.519 So you know, in some cases the lower courts tried, 570 00:25:20.559 --> 00:25:23.920 they tried to block the birth threat

citizenship issue. The 571 00:25:23.920 --> 00:25:26.519 Supreme Court didn't improve it on his behalf, but they 572 00:25:26.519 --> 00:25:28.640 did say, you know, lower courts aren't allowed to rule 573 00:25:28.680 --> 00:25:30.799 on it, like that's you know, that's something we have 574 00:25:30.839 --> 00:25:35.960 to do, right Actually, So they are like defining what 575 00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:38.920 the limits of executive power are and redefining them basically 576 00:25:38.920 --> 00:25:40.440 with every every attempt. 577 00:25:40.599 --> 00:25:44.240 What's annoying because this is why I'm reminded that Trump 578 00:25:44.279 --> 00:25:46.680 is what I call a shock jock. He does things 579 00:25:46.720 --> 00:25:48.519 that are supposed to shock you so he can get 580 00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:50.160 your attention away from what he wants to do. 581 00:25:50.559 --> 00:25:50.759 So. 582 00:25:51.000 --> 00:25:53.680 Writing half these executive orders does one or two things. 583 00:25:54.000 --> 00:25:56.279 Either it really does for his agenda because he know 584 00:25:56.319 --> 00:25:58.160 he probably can get away with because he's stacked the court, 585 00:25:58.559 --> 00:26:00.960 or I just want to do go there so I 586 00:26:00.960 --> 00:26:03.880 can do something over here. And it's actually working because 587 00:26:03.920 --> 00:26:05.240 you know every time he does and we're just like, 588 00:26:05.240 --> 00:26:06.640 oh my god, I believe. 589 00:26:06.799 --> 00:26:08.519 Yeah, I can't. We can't believe he did that, and 590 00:26:08.519 --> 00:26:12.599 he's like, I'm doing this. Yeah, it's absolute foolishness. 591 00:26:12.640 --> 00:26:15.400 And you know, I again this episode that is not aired, 592 00:26:15.599 --> 00:26:18.039 but I'm still sitting with what we talked about with 593 00:26:19.799 --> 00:26:24.440 Whitehead and Farley about the red Line and how from 594 00:26:24.559 --> 00:26:27.079 Jump Streak it was red line and now you see. 595 00:26:27.240 --> 00:26:29.319 Years later that it achieved. 596 00:26:29.680 --> 00:26:32.519 Yeah, it achieved that objective that you have the Alpharettas 597 00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:34.720 and the Sandy Springs and then you have the Backhead 598 00:26:34.759 --> 00:26:37.440 and areas like that who were out the gate supposed 599 00:26:37.440 --> 00:26:40.599 to be defunding and things of that magnitude. The thought 600 00:26:40.599 --> 00:26:42.759 of that I was I didn't realize they were that diabolical. 601 00:26:42.839 --> 00:26:45.359 You hear it, but to actually talk about it and 602 00:26:45.359 --> 00:26:47.640 see it play out, it's just wild to me that 603 00:26:47.680 --> 00:26:50.200 people are that nasty and hateful to just because of 604 00:26:50.200 --> 00:26:53.319 the color of skin. So it's very you know, but 605 00:26:53.400 --> 00:26:57.319 the birthright citizenship thing, hopefully it'll stand because if it does, 606 00:26:57.359 --> 00:27:00.400 it you talk about things getting worse. Oh baby, that 607 00:27:00.440 --> 00:27:02.839 would be worse, even a voting thing that they're trying 608 00:27:02.839 --> 00:27:06.200 to pass this law that your ID, your real ID, 609 00:27:06.440 --> 00:27:07.000 is not enough. 610 00:27:07.039 --> 00:27:07.559 So what does that mean? 611 00:27:07.599 --> 00:27:09.240 That means I will no longer be able to go 612 00:27:09.480 --> 00:27:11.519 vote and just show my ID. Now I have to 613 00:27:11.519 --> 00:27:13.519 have a birth certificate or I have to have a 614 00:27:13.519 --> 00:27:14.960 pass for which I'm not gonna lie. I don't have 615 00:27:14.960 --> 00:27:17.240 a passport, and there are plenty of people like me 616 00:27:17.279 --> 00:27:19.480 that don't have one. But I have a driver's license. 617 00:27:19.519 --> 00:27:21.480 But I do have my birth certificate, so I'll be fine. 618 00:27:21.480 --> 00:27:23.359 But it's just the emphasis for a lot of people 619 00:27:23.400 --> 00:27:24.480 to start getting passports. 620 00:27:24.599 --> 00:27:27.319 Yeah, I think it's all my less Yeah, at this point, 621 00:27:27.319 --> 00:27:29.799 I don't a pass will alwasupposed to be a luxury. It 622 00:27:29.839 --> 00:27:31.559 wasn't supposed to be a necessity. So the fact that 623 00:27:31.559 --> 00:27:33.079 you're trying to make it a necessity, I. 624 00:27:33.079 --> 00:27:36.039 Mean, there's genuinely called we I mean colloquially you've been saying, 625 00:27:36.079 --> 00:27:37.599 like you got your freedom papers, you know, we got 626 00:27:37.640 --> 00:27:42.559 your freedom papers wherever we go, truly, and it's it's yeah. 627 00:27:42.119 --> 00:27:43.440 I mean sitting in there. 628 00:27:43.599 --> 00:27:46.519 And I want because we're dealing with a generation that 629 00:27:46.599 --> 00:27:49.839 doesn't know all of the history, especially African American kids, 630 00:27:49.839 --> 00:27:51.880 because it's not taught like it used to be. So 631 00:27:52.200 --> 00:27:54.480 I want them to know that this is what this 632 00:27:54.519 --> 00:27:56.440 looks like when we talk about voter suppression. This is 633 00:27:56.440 --> 00:27:59.279 what voter suppression is. Voter suppression is not old school, 634 00:27:59.279 --> 00:28:01.240 old school when they got dogs and hoses. No, it's 635 00:28:01.319 --> 00:28:03.920 making it super inconvenient for you to have to get 636 00:28:03.960 --> 00:28:04.880 stuff to go vote. 637 00:28:04.960 --> 00:28:07.319 That's the objective, making it super inconvenient. 638 00:28:07.480 --> 00:28:08.920 Now I got to pay one hundred and something I 639 00:28:08.920 --> 00:28:10.559 think as most to hunred dollars get a passport. I 640 00:28:10.559 --> 00:28:12.119 have to pay almost two hundred dollars. I have to 641 00:28:12.160 --> 00:28:14.359 wait for almost two months to get it, you know, 642 00:28:14.400 --> 00:28:15.880 and if you don't do it in time, you're not 643 00:28:15.880 -->

00:28:17.519 gonna be able to vote, because it's not going to 644 00:28:17.559 --> 00:28:19.720 be here. If you don't do it in those two months, 645 00:28:19.720 --> 00:28:21.240 it's not going to be here for you to vote. 646 00:28:21.559 --> 00:28:22.920 And if you don't have a bursity gift. Now I 647 00:28:22.920 --> 00:28:24.119 got to go to SOI Security Office. 648 00:28:24.200 --> 00:28:25.599 Waiting another two or three months to get it may 649 00:28:25.599 --> 00:28:27.240 actually be long enough fro when I was so told, 650 00:28:27.400 --> 00:28:28.720 But I have to wait two or three months to 651 00:28:28.759 --> 00:28:32.119 get it. It's the absolute inconvenience of having to get 652 00:28:32.160 --> 00:28:34.640 something to prove that you're an American citizen. That's what 653 00:28:34.720 --> 00:28:37.240 voter suppression looks like. It's not dogs and hoses anymore. 654 00:28:37.440 --> 00:28:40.200 It's the bureaucracy. It's the red tape putting it there, 655 00:28:40.319 --> 00:28:42.119 so you have to leave work or pay money you 656 00:28:42.119 --> 00:28:44.200 don't have. That's the objective. So we have to be 657 00:28:44.279 --> 00:28:47.079 mindful of these things because again we're in a new time, 658 00:28:47.240 --> 00:28:48.319 but it's the same old tricks. 659 00:28:48.680 --> 00:28:50.799 It's same old tricks. They just look different and have 660 00:28:50.920 --> 00:28:51.839 different red tape. 661 00:28:51.640 --> 00:28:53.440 Policy and then they say it's fair because it was 662 00:28:53.440 --> 00:28:53.920 a policy. 663 00:28:54.000 --> 00:28:55.880 Yeah, it's the same old tricks. But if you're not, 664 00:28:56.079 --> 00:28:58.960 if you don't know that, then you'll fall victim to it. 665 00:28:59.000 --> 00:29:01.559 So we got to be more aware of what these terms. 666 00:29:01.559 --> 00:29:03.160 And we have to make sure we explain these terms 667 00:29:03.160 --> 00:29:04.880 when we say voter suppression. 668 00:29:04.400 --> 00:29:06.640 Because we're deal with some kids we can't even read. Yeah, 669 00:29:06.839 --> 00:29:10.519 the poor and trust me, I know, I know who can't. 670 00:29:10.359 --> 00:29:14.119 Really turnout turnout matters. That's a good segue. We should 671 00:29:14.119 --> 00:29:17.640 talk about the midterms, o god, because it is twenty 672 00:29:17.680 --> 00:29:19.039 twenty six, so it is the mid terms. 673 00:29:19.079 --> 00:29:19.480 I think that. 674 00:29:19.759 --> 00:29:21.680 So there's there's some US stuff that we should just 675 00:29:21.720 --> 00:29:23.640 do a quick conversation on, and then we can definitely 676 00:29:23.640 --> 00:29:25.440 talk about Georia because Gorgia is a very important state. 677 00:29:25.599 --> 00:29:29.279 So you know, both parties are aggressively recruiting their candidates 678 00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:33.000 earlier than usual. There's a big focus on swing districts, 679 00:29:33.440 --> 00:29:35.720 non traditional candidates, so there's a lot of veterans, business leaders, 680 00:29:35.759 --> 00:29:39.559 local officials coming out. There's some like quiet competition happening 681 00:29:39.599 --> 00:29:42.519 behind the scenes. So the recruitment, like who who runs 682 00:29:42.519 --> 00:29:46.720 the most often often determines who wins. Earlier candidates tend 683 00:29:46.720 --> 00:29:48.480 to get like the donor networks and the endorsements and 684 00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:51.240 the name recognition. So it's a really important time to 685 00:29:51.240 --> 00:29:53.119 be voting. We don't just vote every four years people, 686 00:29:53.160 --> 00:29:54.839 that's children, that's child play. 687 00:29:54.880 --> 00:29:56.400 We don't do that. 688 00:29:56.720 --> 00:29:58.000 So, yeah, you don't want to be in a situation 689 00:29:58.039 --> 00:29:59.559 where by the time you're paying attention to the decisions 690 00:29:59.559 --> 00:30:01.319 have already been and basically made. 691 00:30:02.680 --> 00:30:03.839 For US races. 692 00:30:03.920 --> 00:30:06.599 Right, let's talk about some Senate races Georgia John ass 693 00:30:06.599 --> 00:30:07.920 Off seat, so one of our. 694 00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:09.319 Senators is up for grabs. 695 00:30:09.920 --> 00:30:12.559 There's a very crowded field. On the Republican side. 696 00:30:12.599 --> 00:30:15.279 You have Buddy Carter, who's a former excuse me for 697 00:30:15.279 --> 00:30:20.079 who's been a us UH congressman. You have in District one, 698 00:30:20.119 --> 00:30:21.720 you have Mike Collins, you have a few other people. 699 00:30:22.920 --> 00:30:25.039 His seat is very vulnerable because Trump won in twenty 700 00:30:25.079 --> 00:30:28.680 twenty four, so there's only a handful of seats that 701 00:30:28.839 --> 00:30:31.720 are still Democratic in the state that Trump took this 702 00:30:31.799 --> 00:30:33.480 most race in time. So Georgia is not just like 703 00:30:33.519 --> 00:30:36.160 a little competitive, it's kind of a test of you know, 704 00:30:36.200 --> 00:30:38.400 ken Democrats hold their Democrats hold their ground. 705 00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:40.799 But also also the primary. 706 00:30:41.519 --> 00:30:43.359 Well, he's the only person running on the Democratic side, 707 00:30:43.319 --> 00:30:44.759 so's he's a Democratic arctive. 708 00:30:44.960 --> 00:30:47.720 You know, sometimes they like the crowd a field, so they're. 709 00:30:47.599 --> 00:30:51.440 Keeping we're keeping competition slim there. Michigan as well has 710 00:30:51.599 --> 00:30:53.880 U has no incumbent. They've got a Senate Senate seat 711 00:30:53.920 --> 00:30:55.640 that's really important. Michigan's also a swing state. 712 00:30:56.400 --> 00:30:59.880 And also further explain a primary for those that don't know, 713 00:31:00.359 --> 00:31:03.480 we got to really get down to the promise is. 714 00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:05.640 What happens usually in the spring, and it's usually over 715 00:31:05.680 -->

00:31:07.759 in the summer or fall. It depends on this state. 716 00:31:07.799 --> 00:31:12.240 But ultimately parties can run multiple candidates and candidate. You know, 717 00:31:12.279 --> 00:31:15.160 we have a two party electoral system here, so generally speaking, 718 00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:17.559 people will announce that they're going to run for an 719 00:31:17.599 --> 00:31:20.480 office once the candidate finally deadline opens. If multiple people 720 00:31:20.480 --> 00:31:22.599 announce under the same party, they go to a primary. 721 00:31:22.640 --> 00:31:25.039 So a primary election has to be held, where basically 722 00:31:25.119 --> 00:31:28.640 the candidate gets narrowed so that party's ticket becomes the 723 00:31:28.680 --> 00:31:30.920 person who is on the ballot in November. 724 00:31:31.279 --> 00:31:34.960 This is important because what we've seen with Republicans primarily 725 00:31:35.119 --> 00:31:37.920 is even their incumbents, they have so many people running 726 00:31:37.960 --> 00:31:39.880 that the income get is pushed out and doesn't win 727 00:31:39.920 --> 00:31:42.079 his primary, which is good for us because we didn't 728 00:31:42.119 --> 00:31:43.920 like you anyway, so now we don't have to worry 729 00:31:43.920 --> 00:31:45.920 about you because you got put out of your own field, 730 00:31:46.039 --> 00:31:48.240 so now you can't even run, and the awful person 731 00:31:48.279 --> 00:31:51.000 that's been there, we could end up with somebody more awful, 732 00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:52.920 but I think we rather take our chances at this point. 733 00:31:53.200 --> 00:31:54.319 So that has been working. 734 00:31:54.400 --> 00:31:58.400 Very Primaries have been knocking out bad Republicans a lot lately, 735 00:31:58.480 --> 00:32:01.119 so shine to primaries because that's one les's battle we 736 00:32:01.119 --> 00:32:01.480 have to fight. 737 00:32:02.200 --> 00:32:04.839 Yeah, I mean it's but so yeah, So basically something 738 00:32:04.880 --> 00:32:09.000 important to pay attention to. Anyone can vote, you can 739 00:32:09.160 --> 00:32:11.200 vote in the primary. You have a right to vote 740 00:32:11.200 --> 00:32:14.160 in the primary. It's been We should talk about that 741 00:32:14.200 --> 00:32:15.960 little bit more in the future, but it is something 742 00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:17.759 we should talk about to get people to vote. For 743 00:32:17.799 --> 00:32:19.680 the Senate race for Georgia, because we only have John 744 00:32:19.720 --> 00:32:22.000 oss Off, it's less less something to talk about. But 745 00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:23.640 when it comes to the governor's race, which we'll get to, 746 00:32:23.839 --> 00:32:25.200 I think we should talk a little bit about it. 747 00:32:26.319 --> 00:32:28.079 Other just a couple of states to know. North Carolina, 748 00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:30.640 of course, that's a very true toss up. There's an 749 00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:35.440 open Republican seat. It's a very important swing state as well. Yeah, 750 00:32:35.480 --> 00:32:37.359 they had they have been read, they have been Yeah. 751 00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:39.519 So I thought South Carolina and North Carolina have all. 752 00:32:39.400 --> 00:32:43.720 Been read and then but Texas has a really nasty 753 00:32:43.880 --> 00:32:47.000 primary right now, so Democrats are talking about that. It's 754 00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:49.119 also being a potential opening because even though it is Texas, 755 00:32:49.160 --> 00:32:51.440 so it is Republican, there's a lot of infighting and 756 00:32:51.480 --> 00:32:54.079 there's a lot of competition that could basically split their votes, 757 00:32:54.200 --> 00:32:56.240 which means that Democrats could end up with more votes. 758 00:32:56.519 --> 00:32:58.640 That could be a big opening, especially in a state 759 00:32:58.720 --> 00:33:01.519 like Texas and Maine as well. 760 00:33:01.720 --> 00:33:04.680 So well, this is where we start talking about when 761 00:33:04.720 --> 00:33:07.799 we fuss at you all about local races, this is 762 00:33:07.839 --> 00:33:09.960 where we get into it because the more local seats 763 00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:12.599 that are filled by Democrats, the more power they have 764 00:33:12.720 --> 00:33:15.359 to even if they have a Republican governor, they have 765 00:33:15.440 --> 00:33:17.599 a lot more say so in these smaller pockets that 766 00:33:17.640 --> 00:33:18.680 make the bigger pockets. 767 00:33:18.880 --> 00:33:19.880 So this is why this. 768 00:33:19.839 --> 00:33:23.000 Is important when we talk about primaries and a local 769 00:33:23.039 --> 00:33:25.599 office is being filled by the proper party, this is 770 00:33:25.599 --> 00:33:26.480 why this matters. 771 00:33:26.720 --> 00:33:28.319 Yeah, because they. 772 00:33:27.759 --> 00:33:29.440 Give the opportunity, they get the opportunity to give a 773 00:33:29.440 --> 00:33:31.920 lot of pushback, even if they have a Republican governor. 774 00:33:31.960 --> 00:33:33.359 So you can't just do here or she can't just 775 00:33:33.359 --> 00:33:35.039 do what they want to do. They're getting pushed back 776 00:33:35.079 --> 00:33:37.839 from local areas. So this is why this matters, especially 777 00:33:37.880 --> 00:33:41.440 now like us taking these locals and green gaining that 778 00:33:41.519 --> 00:33:44.480 ground paints a whole different picture, which even I didn't 779 00:33:44.480 --> 00:33:48.480 get into this until this actual scenario. I was like, oh, 780 00:33:48.720 --> 00:33:50.720 this makes a lot more sense. I mean, I understood 781 00:33:50.720 --> 00:33:52.480 because I went to school for it, but to see 782 00:33:52.519 --> 00:33:56.079 it in action, it's like oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. 783 00:33:56.240 --> 00:33:58.200 Getting that audit to seat makes a difference. Clerk of 784 00:33:58.240 --> 00:34:02.200 court makes it different. These little physicians for sure. 785 00:34:02.319

--> 00:34:04.519 And there's a lot of judicial races. You know, I 786 00:34:04.759 --> 00:34:06.720 paid a lot of attentions to a judicial races. So 787 00:34:06.799 --> 00:34:09.039 but the share of the DA all of that, that's 788 00:34:09.119 --> 00:34:10.199 twenty twenty eight territory. 789 00:34:10.320 --> 00:34:13.039 So I need to find out who Craig isn't the 790 00:34:13.480 --> 00:34:16.480 sheriff in common more he is? Okay, because I saw 791 00:34:16.519 --> 00:34:18.360 some things a little while ago and I didn't get 792 00:34:18.400 --> 00:34:20.400 a chance to delve into my I was like, yeah, 793 00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:20.639 so we. 794 00:34:20.639 --> 00:34:22.039 Got a couple of years before we can talk about 795 00:34:22.039 --> 00:34:23.840 some of those. But those are also very very very 796 00:34:23.920 --> 00:34:27.119 very important races. But just to finish off the federal stuff, 797 00:34:27.159 --> 00:34:31.599 Democrats do have momentum. They're leading the ballot and nationally 798 00:34:31.599 --> 00:34:34.639 by about four or five points, which is a big advantage. 799 00:34:34.639 --> 00:34:36.079 It's not just a toss up. That means that there 800 00:34:36.360 --> 00:34:39.079 could potentially be a blue wave, and the presidential approval 801 00:34:39.199 --> 00:34:42.559 rating historically means that the other party will take the 802 00:34:42.599 --> 00:34:44.719 mid terms. Like that's just very commonly happens when you 803 00:34:44.760 --> 00:34:46.719 have a whether they have a blue president or a 804 00:34:46.719 --> 00:34:50.400 red president. Sometimes at the halfway point there will be 805 00:34:50.440 --> 00:34:56.000 a wave of Congress so Senate and House representative seats 806 00:34:56.000 --> 00:34:58.239 that switch to the other party. That just happens a lot. 807 00:34:58.360 --> 00:35:01.440 And Trump is in the low forties, so historically he's 808 00:35:01.440 --> 00:35:04.239 in dangerous territory as far as approvals concerned. So there's 809 00:35:04.280 --> 00:35:06.280 a lot of models showing that Democrats will take the 810 00:35:06.320 --> 00:35:09.559 House for sure, and maybe even have a full Democratic sweep. 811 00:35:10.400 --> 00:35:11.519 The Senate is a little bit harder. 812 00:35:11.519 --> 00:35:15.519 The Senate is mostly like you know, the Senate draws 813 00:35:15.519 --> 00:35:18.079 a lot from the national mood, but the House tends 814 00:35:18.119 --> 00:35:20.519 to be a real toss up like a neighborhood neighborhoo 815 00:35:20.519 --> 00:35:22.519 districty district. You can have a lot of outliers on 816 00:35:22.599 --> 00:35:25.440 the House on the House side, but very rarely do 817 00:35:25.480 --> 00:35:27.719 you have two Senate seats that are split. So usually 818 00:35:27.760 --> 00:35:29.840 the Senate is going to be either both blue, both red, 819 00:35:30.440 --> 00:35:31.199 something like that. 820 00:35:31.599 --> 00:35:34.519 Well, the interesting part apparently the heavens have opened and 821 00:35:34.559 --> 00:35:36.880 a lot of Republicans are running for the exits, meaning 822 00:35:36.880 --> 00:35:39.400 they're retiring. So there's like all these seats that are 823 00:35:39.400 --> 00:35:41.760 opening up from people who normally would not would be 824 00:35:41.800 --> 00:35:43.559 incumbents and just kind of kings and queens. 825 00:35:43.599 --> 00:35:45.079 They're actually running for the exits. 826 00:35:45.480 --> 00:35:48.639 So there really is an opportunity for the Democrats, if 827 00:35:48.639 --> 00:35:52.480 done right, y hope they yes. 828 00:35:52.199 --> 00:35:55.800 To actually do this. Now, why do midterms matter? 829 00:35:56.719 --> 00:36:01.599 So midterms matter because as we've seen, despite how I'm 830 00:36:01.599 --> 00:36:04.119 not gonna say strong, despite who the president is, they 831 00:36:04.159 --> 00:36:07.079 need support. So they need support to carry out what 832 00:36:07.119 --> 00:36:10.079 they're trying to do. The Congress can and does and 833 00:36:10.159 --> 00:36:12.280 has blocked the president from doing what the president wants 834 00:36:12.320 --> 00:36:14.760 to do on a regular basis. We saw this under 835 00:36:14.840 --> 00:36:19.400 President Obama. We're seeing it now on occasion on occasion. 836 00:36:19.920 --> 00:36:23.360 So Congress matters. Congress matters a lot. Congress also they 837 00:36:23.400 --> 00:36:27.679 make laws, implement policies. They also when they fail to 838 00:36:27.800 --> 00:36:30.920 shut down, right, which is where we are now, So 839 00:36:31.519 --> 00:36:32.440 Congress matters. 840 00:36:32.719 --> 00:36:35.519 Well, you also start seeing partial shutdowns, which is kind 841 00:36:35.519 --> 00:36:37.920 of where we're sitting as well, where it's like what 842 00:36:37.960 --> 00:36:41.239 we were saying, TSA has gotten their money, but they 843 00:36:41.280 --> 00:36:43.960 funded the Department of Homeland Security, but they having funded 844 00:36:44.119 --> 00:36:48.119 ice and some other elements, so now the are still 845 00:36:48.159 --> 00:36:50.119 made with that and it's like, which I'm actually probably 846 00:36:50.119 --> 00:36:52.719 the Democrats is that we're not until you reform ICE, 847 00:36:53.239 --> 00:36:55.039 we're not giving you the money to fund ICE. 848 00:36:55.199 --> 00:36:56.719 So I'm actually probably them for standing on that. 849 00:36:56.800 --> 00:36:58.679 And to see that the Republicans had to cave and 850 00:36:58.679 --> 00:37:01.760 pass that bill because finally got enough heat from people 851 00:37:01.800 --> 00:37:04.800 being sick of sitting an airplane airport lines for five 852 00:37:04.840 --> 00:37:07.679 and six hours because y'all, y'all are too stupid to 853 00:37:07.719 --> 00:37:10.280 make a deal is very impressive. 854 00:37:10.360 --> 00:37:11.280 I was very impressed with this. 855 00:37:11.320 --> 00:37:14.400 It's fascinating. Okay,

Georgia, we should talk about the governor's 856 00:37:14.480 --> 00:37:15.000 race a little bit. 857 00:37:15.199 --> 00:37:17.800 So I don't know if I'm depressed about this or not. Yeah, 858 00:37:17.840 --> 00:37:19.280 I don't know if I'm depressed about this or not. 859 00:37:19.320 --> 00:37:25.000 The fact that Keisha Last bottoms Democratic front runner, I 860 00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:26.559 don't know how I feel about that. On one hand, 861 00:37:26.599 --> 00:37:29.719 I'm like, at least she's a Democrat. She does have 862 00:37:29.760 --> 00:37:32.719 some experience in running an office. And on the other hand, 863 00:37:32.719 --> 00:37:34.599 I'm like, yeah, but I wasn't impressed when she ran 864 00:37:34.639 --> 00:37:37.199 that office, So giving her a higher office where the 865 00:37:37.199 --> 00:37:41.320 stakes are higher. You know, camp Camp may not be great, 866 00:37:41.960 --> 00:37:43.599 but I have seen him stand his ground on some 867 00:37:43.639 --> 00:37:45.519 things that he really felt strongly about. I will give 868 00:37:45.599 --> 00:37:47.519 him that and even when it comes to teachers, thank 869 00:37:47.559 --> 00:37:49.280 you Kem for that lovely two thousand stipend. 870 00:37:49.360 --> 00:37:51.920 I know quite a few Georgia voters who are a 871 00:37:51.960 --> 00:37:53.639 Democrats who are not upset. 872 00:37:53.360 --> 00:37:55.599 With Governor Kemp. 873 00:37:55.719 --> 00:37:56.920 Yeah, I don't love him. 874 00:37:56.920 --> 00:38:00.920 It has not been entirely one sided or unreasonable and 875 00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:03.159 yeah so, but Keisha Lan Spottoms is the clear front runner. 876 00:38:03.199 --> 00:38:05.159 You know, of course, former mayor of Atlanta. She has 877 00:38:05.199 --> 00:38:07.519 really strong name recognition and she's, you know, sort of 878 00:38:07.519 --> 00:38:08.760 the establishment candidate. 879 00:38:08.800 --> 00:38:08.960 Here. 880 00:38:09.519 --> 00:38:12.880 There is Jason Estebez, who is you know, fighting for 881 00:38:12.920 --> 00:38:13.920 that runoff position. 882 00:38:14.519 --> 00:38:16.800 He's been what has he been? He's not a senator, right, 883 00:38:16.840 --> 00:38:17.880 but he was like on a school board. 884 00:38:17.920 --> 00:38:19.559 It kind of seems like a next generation candidate. He 885 00:38:19.599 --> 00:38:22.239 is policy focused. I don't know a lot about his resume. 886 00:38:22.679 --> 00:38:24.880 But I remember that name. He was on something. I 887 00:38:24.880 --> 00:38:25.599 remember that name. 888 00:38:25.639 --> 00:38:28.480 I don't want to say it was like a school 889 00:38:28.480 --> 00:38:31.320 board seat or something, but I remember that name because 890 00:38:31.320 --> 00:38:33.039 I remember running. I don't think he ran for something 891 00:38:33.039 --> 00:38:35.599 he didn't win, but I remember the name for me. 892 00:38:35.679 --> 00:38:38.039 His name recognition, him having done something. 893 00:38:38.079

--> 00:38:40.199 Yeah, I mean, and there's name recognition as well. With 894 00:38:40.440 --> 00:38:42.960 of course with Jeff Duncan. Michael Thurman's also running. Jeff 895 00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:46.400 Duncan's also running. He was the former lieutenant governor. Of 896 00:38:46.440 --> 00:38:49.119 course he's running on the Democratic ticket. He's now running 897 00:38:49.119 --> 00:38:50.400 Democratic instead of Republican. 898 00:38:51.320 --> 00:38:52.760 I don't know how I feel about that. How do 899 00:38:52.800 --> 00:38:53.960 you how do you take that? 900 00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:56.760 Because again, for me, I feel like Republicans are comelion. 901 00:38:56.800 --> 00:38:57.079 You're right. 902 00:38:57.079 --> 00:38:59.199 Sorry about Jason. He was on the school board. Say 903 00:38:59.199 --> 00:39:00.280 I think he was school board and. 904 00:39:00.239 --> 00:39:01.480 He became boord Chare at one point. 905 00:39:01.559 --> 00:39:03.079 Yeah, Like he's done some things. 906 00:39:03.079 --> 00:39:04.719 I mean they're not his risme is not nearly as 907 00:39:04.760 --> 00:39:08.079 impressive as keyshes if we're being honest, But he's done 908 00:39:08.079 --> 00:39:09.599 some things that he cares about the community. 909 00:39:09.599 --> 00:39:12.000 That part, I do know, But I don't know when we. 910 00:39:11.960 --> 00:39:14.599 Start to people flip switching seats, I don't know how 911 00:39:14.599 --> 00:39:17.760 I feel about that. Wild Yeah, because Republicans, again, they're comedians. 912 00:39:17.800 --> 00:39:19.400 They do what they have to do to survive. And 913 00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:21.800 if you see that, you can't get that leeway, and 914 00:39:21.920 --> 00:39:22.960 you know you just can. 915 00:39:23.159 --> 00:39:25.320 Honestly, I would I would have loved to see Jeff 916 00:39:25.400 --> 00:39:28.400 Duncan run as an independent, or even run as a 917 00:39:28.440 --> 00:39:31.400 Republican and I would love to see him as governor 918 00:39:31.480 --> 00:39:33.280 at this point in time, based on who we have 919 00:39:33.320 --> 00:39:36.000 in the field. It's it's unfortunate he's pulling as low 920 00:39:36.039 --> 00:39:38.199 as he is. But I do think flipping parties is hard. 921 00:39:38.760 --> 00:39:41.280 I really, I really don't know when it's ever a 922 00:39:41.320 --> 00:39:42.920 good idea. I just don't think it helps. I don't 923 00:39:42.920 --> 00:39:45.119 think it helps. I think that, you know, the entire 924 00:39:45.159 --> 00:39:49.400 point is to not to position yourself against your former party, 925 00:39:49.400 --> 00:39:52.559 but just position yourself above and ahead of everybody else. 926 00:39:52.599 --> 00:39:55.719 And he has name recognition, he has experience, he's been 927 00:39:55.719 --> 00:39:58.000 lieutenant governor, he would have been in the line of succession. 928 00:39:58.320 --> 00:39:59.519 I think it would have made perfect sense to just 929 00:39:59.559 --> 00:40:02.480 run as a publican and I think he would have 930 00:40:02.480 --> 00:40:05.800 hopefully been a lot further along and it currently is now. 931 00:40:05.840 --> 00:40:08.000 So do you think that the stigma on an independent 932 00:40:08.039 --> 00:40:09.760 candidate is the same. You know, in the old days, 933 00:40:09.840 --> 00:40:11.760 running as the independent was frowned upon us, like, so 934 00:40:11.800 --> 00:40:12.960 you can't do either party. 935 00:40:13.119 --> 00:40:15.119 It's always hard, right because because we have a two 936 00:40:15.119 --> 00:40:18.320 party system. So unfortunately, like most people vote a ticket 937 00:40:18.320 --> 00:40:21.079 and they vote down a ticket. Now the governor's race 938 00:40:21.199 --> 00:40:22.719 is the top of the ticket. So I think to 939 00:40:22.760 --> 00:40:25.679 the extent that you have any shot, it's better to 940 00:40:25.719 --> 00:40:28.480 go for a higher office. But you know, because we 941 00:40:28.480 --> 00:40:30.679 have such a strong two party system, very often it's 942 00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:31.119 it's hard. 943 00:40:31.159 --> 00:40:31.880 It's just hard. 944 00:40:32.119 --> 00:40:34.760 Very rarely see independence win. It happens every blue moon. 945 00:40:36.440 --> 00:40:38.440 And you also don't have the same backing right because 946 00:40:38.440 --> 00:40:41.199 there is no like Independent Party Association of America to 947 00:40:41.360 --> 00:40:44.079 fund and to fuel, and so yeah, it's harder not 948 00:40:44.119 --> 00:40:46.119 to be looking in on a party ticket. 949 00:40:46.159 --> 00:40:49.360 Oh absolutely should maybe look into an independent party that actually, 950 00:40:49.440 --> 00:40:51.440 because most Peo we're not happy with a two tier party, 951 00:40:51.519 --> 00:40:53.719 so not at all, Maybe it's not to look into. 952 00:40:54.039 --> 00:40:56.960 Which reminds me, while we're in this space, there is 953 00:40:57.679 --> 00:41:00.320 a bill that they're trying to pass that would move 954 00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:05.519 the parties from the ballots, which is a nasty trick 955 00:41:05.760 --> 00:41:08.119 because they know many of us will go in there 956 00:41:08.159 --> 00:41:11.079 and vote Democrat down a ticket. So think about the 957 00:41:11.199 --> 00:41:15.960 reving the thing, So think about they remove the party 958 00:41:16.000 --> 00:41:18.760 affiliations on the ballot. It's a nasty trick. And I 959 00:41:18.800 --> 00:41:20.440 was like, y'all are really crafting. I don't know if 960 00:41:20.440 --> 00:41:22.239 I want to punch y'all or actually give y'all credit 961 00:41:22.280 --> 00:41:24.559 for it. It's a nasty trick because that means I 962 00:41:24.559 --> 00:41:26.559 have to do my research to know exactly who I'm 963 00:41:26.599 --> 00:41:27.400 voting nobody. 964 00:41:27.960 --> 00:41:29.079 It's a bad thing. 965 00:41:29.280 --> 00:41:29.760 It's a bad thing. 966 00:41:31.079 -->

00:41:33.440 People on this very table to do the research. 967 00:41:33.360 --> 00:41:35.800 All we do, but how often does that happen? 968 00:41:36.239 --> 00:41:39.639 So Georgia Republicans did pass a bill to remove to 969 00:41:39.679 --> 00:41:41.960 make some local races nonpartisan. 970 00:41:42.320 --> 00:41:45.519 I know that a nasty trick, but it applies. 971 00:41:45.239 --> 00:41:47.679 To the big counties like and the applas to the 972 00:41:47.920 --> 00:41:51.679 district attorney, clerk's, tax commissioners, DAD, those sorts offices. 973 00:41:51.719 --> 00:41:52.880 I don't think so. I don't think so. 974 00:41:53.280 --> 00:41:53.599 Why not? 975 00:41:53.840 --> 00:41:56.280 But here's the thing. Removing it from the ballot is 976 00:41:56.280 --> 00:41:57.280 one thing. I don't believe. 977 00:41:57.320 --> 00:42:01.079 They should be partisan offices periods. So that's why I 978 00:42:01.199 --> 00:42:03.880 like the bill, because those sources of offices should not 979 00:42:03.880 --> 00:42:06.360 be partisan. Your county commission shoudn't be partisan, Your clerk 980 00:42:06.360 --> 00:42:08.400 should not be partising, your DA should not be partisan. 981 00:42:08.519 --> 00:42:10.960 Sheriff does not listen. I don't think here, I don't know. 982 00:42:11.039 --> 00:42:14.400 Sheriff should not be a partisan. To me a judge, 983 00:42:14.199 --> 00:42:16.599 all judge races are not partisan, of course, but the 984 00:42:17.840 --> 00:42:19.840 not the clerk of court, but the superior court judge 985 00:42:19.960 --> 00:42:22.400 very well can have a party party affiliation even if 986 00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:23.199 it's not on the ballot. 987 00:42:23.280 --> 00:42:26.400 So personally, I don't like it. I don't like it. 988 00:42:26.440 --> 00:42:27.880 I don't think that if you're in a public safety 989 00:42:27.920 --> 00:42:29.360 position you should be a part of a party. 990 00:42:29.440 --> 00:42:31.639 Yes, but that's wishful thinking, and in the world we 991 00:42:31.679 --> 00:42:32.639 live in, it is. 992 00:42:32.800 --> 00:42:33.679 I think you're important. 993 00:42:33.719 --> 00:42:35.079 I think it's important. I think if you remove the 994 00:42:35.159 --> 00:42:37.480 LAEL maybe you'll change how people make decisions. I think 995 00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:38.360 it's a good idea. 996 00:42:38.440 --> 00:42:41.039 Yes, but we've said increasingly when we look at Democrats, 997 00:42:41.079 --> 00:42:43.400 people that vote Democrat and people that were Republican, people 998 00:42:43.440 --> 00:42:45.880 that vote Republican, look are typically more informed. So of 999 00:42:45.880 --> 00:42:48.400 course they're probably done any researchs. They're they're looking for names, 1000 00:42:48.519 --> 00:42:51.360 they're not looking for party affiliation. The less informed people 1001 00:42:51.400 --> 00:42:53.840 are looking for party party affiliation. I feel like it's 1002 00:42:53.840 --> 00:42:54.480 a nasty trick. 1003 00:42:54.599 --> 00:42:57.559 We don't want people to be proudly less informed. 1004 00:42:57.599 --> 00:42:58.519 I'll just say that. 1005 00:42:58.760 --> 00:43:03.320 We know this world, we know well. And that's. 1006 00:43:04.960 --> 00:43:07.039 That did not pass, which I do appreciate, is a 1007 00:43:07.039 --> 00:43:09.119 bill that would have tried to make it a close primary. 1008 00:43:09.480 --> 00:43:11.920 So basically a bill that would require you to it 1009 00:43:11.920 --> 00:43:16.000 would have tracked party affiliation before a primary, which is 1010 00:43:16.000 --> 00:43:17.840 not happening, and I'm glad it's not happening. So let's 1011 00:43:17.880 --> 00:43:19.480 go back to the governor's race really quick. Just talk 1012 00:43:19.519 --> 00:43:21.960 about that because I want people to know how to 1013 00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:23.880 participate in it. So just so you know, the governor's 1014 00:43:23.960 --> 00:43:26.239 race of Georgia, it is highly contested. It is like 1015 00:43:26.280 --> 00:43:27.840 a fifty to fifty split right now. It is not 1016 00:43:27.840 --> 00:43:29.960 a given that Republicans will take this seat. So turnout 1017 00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:34.280 matters so so, so so much between Democratic and Republicans. 1018 00:43:34.519 --> 00:43:37.199 There is a very tight There is a Republican field 1019 00:43:37.239 --> 00:43:40.800 right now that's somewhat competitive. You've got Burt Jones, who 1020 00:43:40.880 --> 00:43:45.880 is who has the endorsement of President Trump, which represents 1021 00:43:46.039 --> 00:43:50.079 MAGA alignment. You know, he's kind of considered I think 1022 00:43:50.079 --> 00:43:52.119 he's kind of considered like the establishment candidate because he's 1023 00:43:52.119 --> 00:43:56.639 funded by Trump. Rick Jackson is just a wealthy business 1024 00:43:56.679 --> 00:44:00.880 man who's self funding his own race. You know, other 1025 00:44:00.920 --> 00:44:04.239 names that have been floating around, Brad Raffensberger, former Secretary 1026 00:44:04.280 --> 00:44:06.559 of State, and then Chris Carrs, the former attorney general. 1027 00:44:06.639 --> 00:44:09.719 So it's a crowded field. I do think people consider 1028 00:44:09.760 --> 00:44:12.760 Burt Jones and Rick Jackson to be the two contenders here. 1029 00:44:13.320 --> 00:44:16.960 And you know, I will say, if you haven't seen 1030 00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:18.639 the ads yet for Burt Jones my. 1031 00:44:18.679 --> 00:44:22.400 Sister's issues and Rick Jackson, they're horrible. 1032 00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:27.199 They're ghastly, they're they're ghastly, and they're constant, and they've 1033 00:44:27.199 --> 00:44:29.719 really ruined local television for me because I don't want 1034 00:44:29.719 --> 00:44:32.760 to watch the news at this point anymore. So yeah, 1035 00:44:32.800 --> 00:44:34.000 that but that will be a big race, and it's 1036 00:44:34.000 --> 00:44:35.840 also makes you

very scary for who could potentially makes 1037 00:44:35.840 --> 00:44:39.280 me very scared for who could potentially win. So it's 1038 00:44:39.320 --> 00:44:41.199 kind of turning aginst a financial arms race, like who's 1039 00:44:41.239 --> 00:44:44.400 spending the most millions because you've got them both spending 1040 00:44:44.400 --> 00:44:46.440 a lot of money. Candidates like Burt Jones has taken 1041 00:44:46.480 --> 00:44:49.000 millions and loans. Brit Jackson has millions of dollars on 1042 00:44:49.000 --> 00:44:50.800 his own, so he's you know, spending a lot of 1043 00:44:50.800 --> 00:44:54.360 money for it. Now here's how it works. So anyone 1044 00:44:54.360 --> 00:44:58.480 can vote in the primary. That's important. Anyone can vote 1045 00:44:58.480 --> 00:45:03.199 in a primary election. Primaries are partisan, so the only 1046 00:45:03.239 --> 00:45:06.719 thing you cannot do is vote in both. You're not 1047 00:45:06.760 --> 00:45:10.000 allowed to vote in both a Democratic primary and a 1048 00:45:10.000 --> 00:45:12.400 Republican primary, but you are allowed to vote in the primary, 1049 00:45:12.679 --> 00:45:14.599 and I really encourage people to vote in the primary. 1050 00:45:14.800 --> 00:45:17.360 So you me anybody else could vote in their Republican 1051 00:45:17.400 --> 00:45:20.000 primary and pick a candidate of your choice for governor. 1052 00:45:20.679 --> 00:45:22.880 You just could not do the same thing. You could 1053 00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:26.480 not also vote in the right right exactly, everybody has 1054 00:45:26.519 --> 00:45:27.920 to get If you don't get more than fifty percent, 1055 00:45:27.960 --> 00:45:30.400 that's when things go to a runoff. And the runoff 1056 00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:31.920 is when of course, so a lot of people like 1057 00:45:31.960 --> 00:45:34.079 we mentioned before, are just fighting for our number two spot, 1058 00:45:34.199 --> 00:45:37.159 like fighting totally get to a runoff, But if one 1059 00:45:37.199 --> 00:45:39.679 candidate gets well over fifty percent, there won't be so 1060 00:45:39.719 --> 00:45:41.039 they'll just become the candidate. 1061 00:45:41.039 --> 00:45:44.199 And when run happen during the summer, they'll. 1062 00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:45.800 Happen shortly after an election. I want to say, it's 1063 00:45:45.800 --> 00:45:48.559 like thirty days or so, between thirty or sixty days posts. 1064 00:45:48.679 --> 00:45:50.320 So if once the percentage just come down and the 1065 00:45:50.360 --> 00:45:52.639 accounts our final, it will be I think thirty days 1066 00:45:52.760 --> 00:45:54.239 that there'll be another day announced and you. 1067 00:45:54.159 --> 00:45:55.159 Have to go back and vote for that. 1068 00:45:56.159 --> 00:45:57.639 That means even if he should. 1069 00:45:57.519 --> 00:45:58.320 And some people. 1070 00:45:58.039 --> 00:46:00.880 Withdraw during that time from a race, like we've on 1071 00:46:01.000 --> 00:46:04.920 multiple occasions, sometimes in either an agreement will be come 1072 00:46:04.960 --> 00:46:06.760 to or something, and some people will just withdraw. 1073 00:46:07.280 --> 00:46:09.599 I know Democrats do that a lot. Well, Republicans do too, 1074 00:46:09.599 --> 00:46:11.360 because they were like, listen, we're banking on this guy. 1075 00:46:11.599 --> 00:46:13.280 We need you to go, and we'll give you this seat. 1076 00:46:13.719 --> 00:46:16.559 We'll compromise, you take this seat. You saw it on 1077 00:46:16.639 --> 00:46:18.760 Scandal all the time, when when Scandal was a thing. 1078 00:46:19.239 --> 00:46:21.199 It was actually interesting because that is how it works 1079 00:46:21.199 --> 00:46:23.159 sometimes where Oliby would give people like listen, if you 1080 00:46:23.159 --> 00:46:25.679 don't run for governor, we'll give you I don't know, 1081 00:46:25.760 --> 00:46:27.719 some other seat instead. And they was like, okay, fine, 1082 00:46:27.760 --> 00:46:29.440 I'll take it because at least we can put you 1083 00:46:29.480 --> 00:46:31.519 there versus we need to get somebody here that we 1084 00:46:31.599 --> 00:46:33.840 know can actually get it. So you saw it on Scandal. 1085 00:46:34.280 --> 00:46:35.760 I just thought about that parallel. You saw it on 1086 00:46:35.800 --> 00:46:37.800 Scandal all the time. She's Olivery used to leverage it 1087 00:46:37.840 --> 00:46:39.679 all the time. Yeah, that's a real thing. 1088 00:46:39.760 --> 00:46:41.239 So as long as you're a register voter, you can 1089 00:46:41.320 --> 00:46:43.119 vote in it. And if there's a runoff, you can 1090 00:46:43.199 --> 00:46:43.679 vote in that too. 1091 00:46:43.719 --> 00:46:45.159 But you can't. You just got to pick. You gotta 1092 00:46:45.159 --> 00:46:46.079 stick with it and you can't switch. 1093 00:46:46.119 --> 00:46:47.719 That's all. So who is your candidate? 1094 00:46:48.159 --> 00:46:52.559 In the primary for governor on the Democrats side, would. 1095 00:46:52.400 --> 00:46:53.400 You be okay with Keisha? 1096 00:46:53.960 --> 00:46:55.159 I would be okay with Keisha. 1097 00:46:55.320 --> 00:46:58.199 Yeah, you have a second choice on the Democrats side, 1098 00:46:58.440 --> 00:47:00.519 absolute Jeff Duncan would have been my second Joe Duncan 1099 00:47:00.519 --> 00:47:03.519 would have been my first choice and in perfect world, 1100 00:47:03.559 --> 00:47:05.800 but again, I just don't think he makes sense on 1101 00:47:05.800 --> 00:47:06.639 the Democratic ticket. 1102 00:47:06.760 --> 00:47:08.800 So so in you and. 1103 00:47:08.800 --> 00:47:11.920 Yourself, I'm all okay. 1104 00:47:12.079 --> 00:47:14.119 I can live with Keisha, because at this point we 1105 00:47:14.159 --> 00:47:16.880 need more democratic governors, so I could live with Keisha. 1106 00:47:17.360 --> 00:47:20.320 Would have been the first time in decades, decades. 1107 00:47:20.039 --> 00:47:23.119 The fact that we couldn't get black man as

governor 1108 00:47:23.159 --> 00:47:25.440 to get a black woman, which actually be very interesting 1109 00:47:25.480 --> 00:47:29.679 because where we're sitting now, you know the thought process 1110 00:47:29.760 --> 00:47:33.280 that black women educated, viable, Black women under attack. So 1111 00:47:33.400 --> 00:47:36.840 for her to win Georgia, I feel like we're sending 1112 00:47:36.840 --> 00:47:38.920 a message. Actually, you know who my top candidate would 1113 00:47:38.920 --> 00:47:40.239 have been, but y'all want to treat her like trash. 1114 00:47:40.719 --> 00:47:44.079 So Stacey would have my girl. Stacey would have been 1115 00:47:44.119 --> 00:47:47.119 my girl. I don't blame her like y'all proven that 1116 00:47:47.159 --> 00:47:49.760 y'all just don't want Stacy. Y'all hateful people, and you're 1117 00:47:49.800 --> 00:47:54.480 all going to hell. Uh would have been my ideal candidate, 1118 00:47:54.559 --> 00:47:57.760 but no, I think Stacy at this point, Stacey, Stacy 1119 00:47:58.000 --> 00:48:01.800 and Jasmine need to be somewhere important. I don't know 1120 00:48:01.840 --> 00:48:04.480 what positions those are, but they need to be somewhere 1121 00:48:04.480 --> 00:48:06.320 because that's some kind of worry about Jazminedn't they draw 1122 00:48:06.360 --> 00:48:07.079 her out of her district? 1123 00:48:07.079 --> 00:48:07.400 I don't think. 1124 00:48:07.400 --> 00:48:09.519 I don't think Stacey's done. I'm not sure it's going on. 1125 00:48:09.639 --> 00:48:10.400 Jasmine crocket right now? 1126 00:48:10.440 --> 00:48:11.840 Yeah, if she got real quiet, I think they drew 1127 00:48:11.840 --> 00:48:12.559 her out of her district. 1128 00:48:12.639 --> 00:48:14.719 So I'm meant to do the research to find out 1129 00:48:14.719 --> 00:48:15.480 what happens next. 1130 00:48:15.800 --> 00:48:18.480 If they draw you out of your district, what happens? 1131 00:48:18.480 --> 00:48:20.079 I mean you can run again for another district. 1132 00:48:20.440 --> 00:48:20.639 Yeah. 1133 00:48:20.679 --> 00:48:22.159 Don't you have to live in a certain district be 1134 00:48:22.159 --> 00:48:22.599 able to run? 1135 00:48:24.320 --> 00:48:24.920 Not necessarily. 1136 00:48:24.960 --> 00:48:27.599 Some people literally will will move while they're running for 1137 00:48:27.639 --> 00:48:29.559 office in a certain district. We'll just move to that district. 1138 00:48:29.599 --> 00:48:31.840 So it's very rare that there's a residency requirement US 1139 00:48:31.920 --> 00:48:35.239 citizenship requirement. Sure, you don't necessarily some people. I don't 1140 00:48:35.239 --> 00:48:37.159 think you necessarily have to live in the state that 1141 00:48:37.199 --> 00:48:38.199 you're running for office in. 1142 00:48:38.679 --> 00:48:40.000 Oh, that'd be nice. 1143 00:48:40.079 --> 00:48:40.599 Yeah, not for her. 1144 00:48:40.960 --> 00:48:44.360 I need the Democratic Party in their state the chairs 1145 00:48:44.800 --> 00:48:48.079 to put those ladies in some very important positions because 1146 00:48:48.119 --> 00:48:50.159 they have something to say. Jazz has been to eight 1147 00:48:50.199 --> 00:48:52.559 girl for at least a year and it's not a show. 1148 00:48:52.679 --> 00:48:55.119 She can handle herself. She can pull her weight. And 1149 00:48:55.159 --> 00:48:57.320 then some they need to be in. This is where 1150 00:48:57.320 --> 00:49:00.719 we start getting into the generations and agism in these 1151 00:49:00.800 --> 00:49:04.320 big positions. Okay, well, Auntie Maxine, I love you, but 1152 00:49:04.400 --> 00:49:06.679 give one of them girls your position on one of 1153 00:49:06.679 --> 00:49:08.119 these boards or something. Give one of them girls you'll 1154 00:49:08.159 --> 00:49:10.519 seat or something like, you can go take a rest. Now, 1155 00:49:10.760 --> 00:49:13.119 we love you, but you go take a rest. Pass 1156 00:49:13.159 --> 00:49:14.559 it down to some of these girls who are active 1157 00:49:14.599 --> 00:49:17.760 and have voices. That was you at some point, like 1158 00:49:17.880 --> 00:49:20.320 at some point, these ladies have to recognize, okay, it's 1159 00:49:20.320 --> 00:49:22.400 trying to pass the chorch, especially when you have voices 1160 00:49:22.639 --> 00:49:24.639 in this day and age who are as powerful and 1161 00:49:24.679 --> 00:49:27.559 as impactful and have that you thing like the ladies 1162 00:49:27.599 --> 00:49:29.679 like Jasmine. Give them girls that button to let them 1163 00:49:29.760 --> 00:49:31.599 run with it before you die with it in your hand. 1164 00:49:31.599 --> 00:49:33.000 And then we got to have any election and somebody 1165 00:49:33.039 --> 00:49:35.719 takes it. Come on, people, let's let's we gotta start 1166 00:49:35.760 --> 00:49:38.480 thinking better. You know, we we love our older ladies 1167 00:49:38.480 --> 00:49:41.280 and men, but when you have viable voices that can 1168 00:49:41.320 --> 00:49:44.039 speak to a generation and a current generation, give the 1169 00:49:44.079 --> 00:49:44.599 torture to them. 1170 00:49:44.639 --> 00:49:46.800 Jasmine has proven that she's that chick. 1171 00:49:47.519 --> 00:49:49.840 Let's let's think about these things before you die and 1172 00:49:49.880 --> 00:49:51.840 then it goes up on the chopping block and somebody 1173 00:49:51.840 --> 00:49:54.880 else gets it from the other party. Let's go, let's 1174 00:49:54.880 --> 00:49:57.159 think about this. We gotta we gotta think about that. 1175 00:49:57.239 --> 00:50:00.360 Sitting people that are aging out baby voices. 1176 00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:03.480 We need these horses. And we also need liberals and socialists. 1177 00:50:03.880 --> 00:50:06.119 I don't leave it at that. We need liberals and socialists, 1178 00:50:06.119 --> 00:50:09.719 not institutional right leaning democrats. 1179 00:50:09.719 --> 00:50:10.440 We just don't need that. 1180 00:50:11.519 --> 00:50:13.639 So

yes, just a quick correction, you do have to 1181 00:50:13.679 --> 00:50:14.639 live in a state, which you don't have to live 1182 00:50:14.679 --> 00:50:15.960 in that district. You can be from anywhere in the 1183 00:50:15.960 --> 00:50:20.159 state to run for Congress and for other sorts of races, 1184 00:50:20.159 --> 00:50:22.639 like for the governor's races. There's just eight certain many 1185 00:50:22.679 --> 00:50:24.039 years you had to have been in a state to 1186 00:50:24.119 --> 00:50:26.320 run for governor of that state. Well, yeah, you can 1187 00:50:26.360 --> 00:50:28.239 be from any district and run for any other district. 1188 00:50:28.320 --> 00:50:29.280 What's Florida looking like? 1189 00:50:30.400 --> 00:50:31.760 Florida's is interesting. I think Florida. 1190 00:50:31.840 --> 00:50:34.440 Florida's not on the map for contentious states to share, 1191 00:50:34.519 --> 00:50:36.440 so it's not even listed as a swing state, which 1192 00:50:36.480 --> 00:50:37.920 gives me the impression of Florida it's going to be 1193 00:50:37.920 --> 00:50:38.639 firmly Republican. 1194 00:50:38.679 --> 00:50:38.920 Again. 1195 00:50:39.000 --> 00:50:41.800 One thing they're winning the top five like cities and stuff, 1196 00:50:41.920 --> 00:50:42.639 which I'll take. 1197 00:50:43.480 --> 00:50:45.000 I mean maybe locally, I'll take that. 1198 00:50:45.159 --> 00:50:47.119 It's not in the top five swing states for the 1199 00:50:47.400 --> 00:50:48.599 for the twenty twenty six men terms. 1200 00:50:48.639 --> 00:50:49.400 What were the top five? 1201 00:50:49.800 --> 00:50:54.559 North Carolina, Texas, Georgia. No, No, North Carolina and Georgia, Michigan. 1202 00:50:56.760 --> 00:51:01.000 And where's the main there's one more. 1203 00:51:04.519 --> 00:51:06.639 So in places I don't even think about. I'm just like, 1204 00:51:07.840 --> 00:51:09.519 I just thought you were Republican. I didn't even think 1205 00:51:09.559 --> 00:51:11.239 you there was any other option. I just figured you 1206 00:51:11.320 --> 00:51:12.000 were Republican. 1207 00:51:12.360 --> 00:51:15.320 Yeah, I mean, look, Florida, so gross is probably let 1208 00:51:15.360 --> 00:51:20.920 me see Ohio, Pennsylvania, so yeah, not even on the list. 1209 00:51:20.960 --> 00:51:22.320 And then the next on the list is Nevada. It's 1210 00:51:22.360 --> 00:51:24.639 number six. Wisconsin's number seven. 1211 00:51:25.199 --> 00:51:25.840 Wisconsin. 1212 00:51:26.000 --> 00:51:27.320 Wisconsin is number seven. 1213 00:51:27.199 --> 00:51:28.519 Yeah as a swing state. 1214 00:51:28.599 --> 00:51:31.079 As a swing state, Wisconsin, so. 1215 00:51:31.400 --> 00:51:33.519 Black people in Wisconsin, I don't know about that. But 1216 00:51:33.519 --> 00:51:35.920 white liberals live in Wisconsin. Enough, white liberals must live there, 1217 00:51:35.960 --> 00:51:38.360 They said, this is there's a growing urban versus rural 1218 00:51:38.360 --> 00:51:43.840 divide in Wisconsin. Yeah, the same reason for Pennsylvania, because 1219 00:51:43.880 --> 00:51:46.000 you've got like Philly and then you've got like some 1220 00:51:46.039 --> 00:51:50.079 college educated white folks. So yeah, Florida's falling off the 1221 00:51:50.079 --> 00:51:51.599 list in terms of being like a Bible swing state, 1222 00:51:51.599 --> 00:51:54.280 which is fine with respectfully. 1223 00:51:54.559 --> 00:51:57.360 At Florida. I could care less Florida, Florida. 1224 00:51:57.400 --> 00:52:02.119 But the deadline because I have a family, because you know, 1225 00:52:02.199 --> 00:52:03.920 my family is huge, and we have chapters. 1226 00:52:03.960 --> 00:52:06.159 There's a Florida chapter which I meant to have a meeting. 1227 00:52:06.440 --> 00:52:08.519 What are y'all doing? What are y'all like even doing doing? 1228 00:52:08.760 --> 00:52:10.320 They're actually getting ready to change the name of the 1229 00:52:10.360 --> 00:52:12.480 airport to Donald Trump Donald D. 1230 00:52:12.559 --> 00:52:13.159 Trump Airport. 1231 00:52:13.199 --> 00:52:16.559 They have the Peach Palm Beach air Are you serious? Yeah, 1232 00:52:16.599 --> 00:52:20.440 So it's not swing streak. Cousins, cousins, none of the 1233 00:52:20.440 --> 00:52:29.159 map Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, North Carolina are more competitive. Okay, 1234 00:52:29.360 --> 00:52:33.159 so last thing registered vote by April twentieth for the primary, 1235 00:52:33.920 --> 00:52:36.039 the governor's race. Again, it's a big governor controls a 1236 00:52:36.079 --> 00:52:38.400 lot April twentie. If you have to be registered to vote. 1237 00:52:38.719 --> 00:52:42.039 The primaries are May May nineteenth, so basically a month after. 1238 00:52:42.679 --> 00:52:45.519 If there's a runoff, that runoff will be June nineteenth. 1239 00:52:46.320 --> 00:52:49.119 Also, check your registration. Check it now before you get 1240 00:52:49.199 --> 00:52:50.840 rid of and that goes for me. I need check 1241 00:52:51.280 --> 00:52:53.679 now before I get down thinking I'm good Jesus, which 1242 00:52:53.679 --> 00:52:55.320 I normally am, and then find out I can't vote 1243 00:52:55.320 --> 00:52:57.960 a week before they likes check your registration now. I'm 1244 00:52:58.000 --> 00:52:59.360 going to do mine as soon as I leave because 1245 00:52:59.360 --> 00:53:01.320 I need to. I'm sure she does hers all the 1246 00:53:01.320 --> 00:53:01.760 time she. 1247 00:53:01.719 --> 00:53:02.079 Was doing that. 1248 00:53:03.119 --> 00:53:05.599 I need to check mine now because what was that 1249 00:53:05.639 --> 00:53:08.599 Texas and they were voting when Jazz was up and 1250 00:53:08.639 --> 00:53:10.840 people went to vote and they were all over social media. 1251 00:53:10.840 --> 00:53:12.320 Like I thought I was good to vote and I 1252 00:53:12.360 --> 00:53:14.400 got here. Now they tell me I can't vote. Check 1253 00:53:14.440 --> 00:53:15.880 it now. So if

you need to do what you 1254 00:53:15.880 --> 00:53:17.840 gotta do, do what you gotta do, but check it down. 1255 00:53:17.840 --> 00:53:20.119 That includes me, Me and smo On gonna check us 1256 00:53:20.119 --> 00:53:22.400 when we leave hours when we leave, you check yours. 1257 00:53:22.519 --> 00:53:24.679 All right, let's get out of the politics space. Just 1258 00:53:24.679 --> 00:53:26.519 in random random thoughts. 1259 00:53:26.880 --> 00:53:28.920 Jill Scott's new album. Have you listened to it? 1260 00:53:28.960 --> 00:53:33.559 I have not? Okay, so I heard about it either. 1261 00:53:33.840 --> 00:53:35.800 Here's the thing about Jill Scott's new album. 1262 00:53:37.119 --> 00:53:40.679 We're Rotney. We're used to join uh. We're used to 1263 00:53:40.800 --> 00:53:43.960 Jill giving us what we need out the gate. We 1264 00:53:43.960 --> 00:53:45.679 wet have to search for nothing. It was like, she 1265 00:53:45.760 --> 00:53:48.559 gives us the fire singles, we know those are the standout, 1266 00:53:48.599 --> 00:53:50.039 We get the album, we press and played, we just 1267 00:53:50.079 --> 00:53:50.639 letting it roll. 1268 00:53:50.760 --> 00:53:52.119 She did not do that this time. 1269 00:53:52.639 --> 00:53:54.559 This time she was like, I'm gonna give you something 1270 00:53:54.559 --> 00:53:57.159 that I like, which was pressure, which I didn't love immediately, 1271 00:53:57.599 --> 00:53:59.519 and then she gave us an album. I was like, no, no, no, no, 1272 00:53:59.719 --> 00:54:01.679 I'm not gonna tell you the standouts, go find them. 1273 00:54:01.960 --> 00:54:03.199 So for a lot of us it was like, yo, 1274 00:54:03.199 --> 00:54:05.679 I don't like this. And it took seven listens to 1275 00:54:05.800 --> 00:54:08.960 actually start hearing standouts. At first, I was mad about it, 1276 00:54:08.960 --> 00:54:10.800 but I was like, you know what, Jill is an 1277 00:54:10.880 --> 00:54:13.639 established artist who has never failed us. The fact that 1278 00:54:13.679 --> 00:54:15.760 she made us go on a quest on her album 1279 00:54:15.800 --> 00:54:18.360 to find songs, I actually I. 1280 00:54:18.320 --> 00:54:20.840 Can respect it. I can respect it because me and 1281 00:54:20.880 --> 00:54:23.280 my friend Campbell, you know, Joe, we diehard fans. We 1282 00:54:23.280 --> 00:54:25.000 were just like, yo, we're not we're not getting this. 1283 00:54:25.199 --> 00:54:27.360 And then we had to let it spend and marinate 1284 00:54:27.960 --> 00:54:29.800 for about a couple of weeks, and he was like, no, no, no, 1285 00:54:30.159 --> 00:54:34.639 I got my standouts the Math Universe. So it's an 1286 00:54:34.639 --> 00:54:37.079 album you actually have to listen to to find the 1287 00:54:37.119 --> 00:54:40.239 standout song. She didn't give us her norm where normal. 1288 00:54:40.239 --> 00:54:42.199 It's a whole R and B neo soul album. 1289 00:54:42.519 --> 00:54:44.039 No Jill did what Jill want to do. 1290 00:54:44.039 --> 00:54:45.960 This sound just a little bit of everything on this album, 1291 00:54:46.119 --> 00:54:48.239 and you really have to listen to it to find 1292 00:54:48.280 --> 00:54:49.159 the standouts. 1293 00:54:49.440 --> 00:54:50.920 But all of no, it is a good album. 1294 00:54:51.119 --> 00:54:52.960 You would you call it like an R and B 1295 00:54:53.000 --> 00:54:55.159 album or would you call it a what would you call it? 1296 00:54:55.199 --> 00:54:58.599 I would call it an eclectic album because there's literally 1297 00:54:58.639 --> 00:55:00.960 a little bit of everything on here. When old school, 1298 00:55:01.400 --> 00:55:03.119 she gave us the R and B that we're used to, 1299 00:55:03.400 --> 00:55:04.800 like pressure, which I actually. 1300 00:55:04.599 --> 00:55:05.800 Do love now. It grew on me. 1301 00:55:06.880 --> 00:55:11.519 This song, the Math is my favorite song. It's the 1302 00:55:11.639 --> 00:55:13.960 lyrics and the vibe. It's like, you do the math, 1303 00:55:14.239 --> 00:55:16.920 you you factor in the fake and the real, You 1304 00:55:16.960 --> 00:55:18.719 do the math, And that's literally what the hook is. 1305 00:55:18.760 --> 00:55:19.400 You do the math. 1306 00:55:19.519 --> 00:55:22.519 It's yeah, it hit Me Universe is a good one. 1307 00:55:23.280 --> 00:55:24.760 There are some other ones I haven't I listened to, 1308 00:55:24.800 --> 00:55:26.280 but I don't remember the name. But those two are 1309 00:55:26.320 --> 00:55:29.000 definitely standouts. But it's actually a very good album. Also, 1310 00:55:29.039 --> 00:55:33.079 I think Moonchild and Alex Osley both have new albums. 1311 00:55:33.360 --> 00:55:36.000 I did listen to Alex's It's Our Usual with the 1312 00:55:36.039 --> 00:55:39.079 beautiful voice, the beautiful undertones. I do need to go 1313 00:55:39.199 --> 00:55:41.960 listen to moon Child because they did like Jill, and 1314 00:55:41.960 --> 00:55:42.880 gave us a lot of stuff they. 1315 00:55:42.800 --> 00:55:43.679 Don't normally give us. 1316 00:55:44.679 --> 00:55:46.920 But thank God for Pandora because it plays them and 1317 00:55:46.960 --> 00:55:48.960 I'm like, okay, cool, that must be from a new album. 1318 00:55:49.280 --> 00:55:51.519 So those are three albums. If you're an R and 1319 00:55:51.559 --> 00:55:54.079 B person or you love these particular artists, you should 1320 00:55:54.119 --> 00:55:58.400 go check out. Moonchild, Alex Osley, and Jill Scott are 1321 00:55:58.440 --> 00:56:02.599 the three you should check out. Uh oh yeah, hers 1322 00:56:02.679 --> 00:56:03.920 is good to Ari Lennox has one. 1323 00:56:03.960 --> 00:56:04.679 HER's is good too. 1324 00:56:05.320 --> 00:56:08.199 I also haven't heard anybody rave about it yet. Well 1325 00:56:09.039 --> 00:56:12.400 I'm out for myself this weekend, but I went independent. 1326 00:56:12.480 --> 00:56:13.639 Well I think she went independent. 1327 00:56:13.679 --> 00:56:15.840 You know, when

you go independent, the resources are not 1328 00:56:15.880 --> 00:56:19.039 as big as they were to really advertise unless you 1329 00:56:19.079 --> 00:56:21.000 have like a big social media platform, which I don't 1330 00:56:21.000 --> 00:56:24.119 see her that often on social media, but hers is 1331 00:56:24.119 --> 00:56:27.119 also nice as Ari Lennox, Moon Child, Jill Scott, and 1332 00:56:27.159 --> 00:56:29.960 Alex Osley all have new albums that are definitely worth 1333 00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:30.840 giving and listen to. 1334 00:56:31.599 --> 00:56:34.000 Uh So, yeah, the music is rolling. 1335 00:56:34.079 --> 00:56:34.280 You know. 1336 00:56:34.559 --> 00:56:37.280 I'm a little disappointed because there was supposed to be 1337 00:56:37.280 --> 00:56:40.440 an iconic tour with s not an SVV with Envo, 1338 00:56:40.880 --> 00:56:44.039 TLC and Salt and Pepper was looking forward to it. 1339 00:56:44.079 --> 00:56:45.960 Then she got her big dump ignorant tail on the 1340 00:56:45.960 --> 00:56:49.239 internet and made some political things about Trump. This isn't 1341 00:56:49.239 --> 00:56:51.719 the first time, I know, I know, and that's that's 1342 00:56:51.719 --> 00:56:55.000 what's come up. And now they're threatening to derail the 1343 00:56:55.039 --> 00:56:58.960 whole tour. So my thing is, I'm not being nasty. 1344 00:56:59.679 --> 00:57:01.840 Every since left I die, I've not really been checking 1345 00:57:01.960 --> 00:57:03.920 with TLC. The good old days with TLC to be 1346 00:57:03.920 --> 00:57:05.480 are gone. They're just kind of on tour just doing 1347 00:57:05.559 --> 00:57:07.639 old songs. So replace them. 1348 00:57:08.599 --> 00:57:08.960 I don't care. 1349 00:57:09.000 --> 00:57:11.039 If you put SWV there, I'm okay with that. Then 1350 00:57:11.039 --> 00:57:15.280 you have SWV, Salt and Pepper and in Vogue, I'm 1351 00:57:15.280 --> 00:57:17.360 okay with that. I don't think that you should let 1352 00:57:17.440 --> 00:57:20.519 Salt and Pepper and in Vogue go to the wayside 1353 00:57:20.559 --> 00:57:22.440 just because TLC, which is only two of them now, 1354 00:57:22.679 --> 00:57:23.760 can't get theyself together. 1355 00:57:24.159 --> 00:57:27.079 I don't replace them and keep it moving. I'm trying 1356 00:57:27.119 --> 00:57:27.360 to think, is. 1357 00:57:27.320 --> 00:57:30.039 There anybody else I will replace with STVV? Who else 1358 00:57:30.039 --> 00:57:34.599 could be a viable replacement? Sterv just makes sense. They 1359 00:57:34.639 --> 00:57:35.239 just make sense. 1360 00:57:35.360 --> 00:57:36.760 You got in Vogue, and I think in Vogue and 1361 00:57:36.800 --> 00:57:39.639 SLV don't have any beef. So yeah. 1362 00:57:40.360 --> 00:57:44.119 But lastly, since we're talking about in Vogue, Maxine's back 1363 00:57:44.880 --> 00:57:50.400 and Rona's out let that marinate, well, let that marinate, 1364 00:57:50.480 --> 00:57:58.320 mind you for history really quickly, SV had four members,

Don, Cindy, Maxine, 1365 00:57:59.159 --> 00:58:05.360 and I'm it's someone Terry, Terry and Maxine, and well, 1366 00:58:05.400 --> 00:58:09.480 first Don left, then Maxine left. They Terry and Cindy 1367 00:58:09.679 --> 00:58:11.360 sued them for the name so that they could not 1368 00:58:11.480 --> 00:58:12.360 use that name anymore. 1369 00:58:12.599 --> 00:58:13.599 Then they went and got Rona. 1370 00:58:13.679 --> 00:58:15.880 Ronana has been traveling for the last twenty years, and 1371 00:58:15.920 --> 00:58:19.239 then somehow Maxine them coming back and Rona's out. It's 1372 00:58:19.280 --> 00:58:21.079 wild to me, but I'm kind of happy about it 1373 00:58:21.079 --> 00:58:22.000 because they look like in Vogue. 1374 00:58:22.039 --> 00:58:22.199 Now. 1375 00:58:22.480 --> 00:58:23.039 I like Rona. 1376 00:58:23.079 --> 00:58:24.880 She's very talented. She she held it down. But it's 1377 00:58:24.920 --> 00:58:27.480 something by having three of the original members back. I 1378 00:58:27.480 --> 00:58:29.119 don't know if Don will come back. I can't see that. 1379 00:58:29.119 --> 00:58:31.840 I love Done, but I'm good with those three girls. 1380 00:58:31.840 --> 00:58:33.760 So that was just that was my rant because you 1381 00:58:33.760 --> 00:58:36.000 know army music and I'm old school from the nineties, 1382 00:58:36.119 --> 00:58:37.000 so that was my rant. 1383 00:58:37.199 --> 00:58:40.840 But final thoughts, I wish you would listen to Kanye's album. 1384 00:58:40.880 --> 00:58:44.000 So week kanyeill his grade. 1385 00:58:44.719 --> 00:58:47.679 I spilled on his grade. He's dead to me. Yeah, 1386 00:58:47.679 --> 00:58:48.039 you tried. 1387 00:58:48.719 --> 00:58:50.000 I wanted to listen to it. 1388 00:58:51.360 --> 00:58:53.280 Some kind of apology recently. I don't know what that 1389 00:58:53.320 --> 00:58:54.920 apology was. I'm going to look it up. But Bro, 1390 00:58:55.360 --> 00:58:58.599 the way you've gone, it takes more than apology. You 1391 00:58:58.639 --> 00:58:59.960 get a car, You get a car, you get a 1392 00:59:00.119 --> 00:59:01.840 r You need that kind of apology. 1393 00:59:02.400 --> 00:59:04.119 Just register to vote, people and save up and get 1394 00:59:04.159 --> 00:59:06.199 your free to papers. That's my final thought. That's my 1395 00:59:06.239 --> 00:59:06.760 final thought. 1396 00:59:09.039 --> 00:59:09.760 Final thought. 1397 00:59:10.360 --> 00:59:13.239 Check out this week's episode where we have doctor Lottoria 1398 00:59:13.280 --> 00:59:19.400 Whitehead and Chief Sustainability Officer Shandra Farley. It's very good 1399 00:59:19.639 --> 00:59:24.000 conversation about environmental justice and the agenda of Mayor Dickens 1400 00:59:24.280 --> 00:59:27.800 as it claims to environment Very good conversation comes out 1401 00:59:27.840 --> 00:59:31.360 on Thursday. Check the website at www dot Blend Television. 1402 00:59:32.000 --> 00:59:33.320 Is that right? Blen Television? 1403 00:59:33.880 --> 00:59:34.159 Lord? 1404 00:59:34.400 --> 00:59:37.679 I know because I redid it. It's uh crap. 1405 00:59:37.800 --> 00:59:42.920 Just just at r D Rights or at Leadership Media, 1406 00:59:43.440 --> 00:59:46.679 uh or record a Ricky Rights on Facebook or the 1407 00:59:46.760 --> 00:59:50.039 Leadership Blend channel on Facebook. 1408 00:59:50.199 --> 00:59:51.519 The website is there. I just redid it. 1409 00:59:51.559 --> 00:59:57.760 I'm embarrassed. I think it's Blend ben Television TV dot org. Yeah, Google, 1410 00:59:59.159 --> 01:00:03.360 I's right. Or just going on YouTube and tapping the 1411 01:00:03.400 --> 01:00:05.840 Leadership Blend it should come up. But it comes out 1412 01:00:05.840 --> 01:00:07.400 on Thursday if you follow the UC because you don't 1413 01:00:07.400 --> 01:00:12.239 have my advertised And I just redid our streaming because 1414 01:00:12.280 --> 01:00:13.519 I had kind of gotten rid of it, but I 1415 01:00:13.519 --> 01:00:15.119 got it back. So now we're back on our Heart, 1416 01:00:15.199 --> 01:00:19.360 We're back on Spotify, all those channels, Pandora, SoundCloud, We're 1417 01:00:19.400 --> 01:00:21.039 back on all those channels. So not only can you 1418 01:00:21.039 --> 01:00:23.360 see us, you can listen to us again. So check 1419 01:00:23.400 --> 01:00:25.119 us out. We will see you next time. Same play 1420 01:00:25.119 --> 01:00:26.960 the same time on the Leadership in Live podcast with 1421 01:00:26.960 --> 01:00:29.119 your host Riccardi Rights and my coals simeon SI