1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,320 Sertul coffee, it's only seven dollars 2 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:09,880 Sit and sip your cup, share both your joy and hollers 3 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:13,120 Stay and drink your brew, but spill your tea 4 00:00:13,120 --> 00:00:19,360 You might be the asshole, or a store tell like me 5 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:23,840 Small town cafe, where secrets blend with steam 6 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:29,160 Voices rise and fall, like rivers in a dream 7 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:33,240 From heartbreaks to triumphs, sales on full 8 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:37,080 Speak your truth, let your courage be bold 9 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:40,840 Stay alive, let your heart unwind 10 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:44,280 This corner booth piece you'll find 11 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:48,360 Whether you're the robot, say so tall 12 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:52,040 In the warmth of coffee there's room 13 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:54,280 One, two, three, hi there! 14 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:58,840 It's Edith Ivey Rosenblatt, a bisexual coffee 15 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:01,160 It's only seven dollars 16 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:02,600 I'm sorry I can't do it 17 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:05,080 That's okay, we have stock 18 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:09,400 Bisexual coffee, it's only seven dollars 19 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:11,000 It won't break the bank 20 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:15,240 Uh, voice of you now that I'm just gonna throw into every new episode 21 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:16,600 Okay, we'll just use that 22 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:19,080 Good, the only thing we need now is music 23 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:23,320 I wish to God we knew a musician who could just make some riff for us or something 24 00:01:23,320 --> 00:01:27,240 I- didn't we just- hey, Jace, what are you doing brother? 25 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:29,080 Hi buddy! 26 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:31,880 This is a great said word 27 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:33,880 Yeah brother, right is the song! 28 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:36,280 I can't believe how smooth that was 29 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:38,120 Thank you, thank you 30 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:40,520 I-sexual coffee 31 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:41,960 Yes baby! 32 00:01:41,960 --> 00:01:43,320 Here we go 33 00:01:43,320 --> 00:01:44,760 Cut, clip, alright 34 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:45,800 Jace, that's all we need man 35 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:47,400 Thank you so much for coming out to now 36 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:50,520 Ah, yeah, yeah, so it was a great show 37 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:51,800 Peace! 38 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:56,120 Hey, Jace, my friend, I would like you if you would 39 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:59,000 please let our listeners know who you are 40 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:00,520 Hey, okay, alright 41 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:03,000 Well, I'm Jace Beck, I'm 52 years old 42 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:07,720 I grew up in southwestern Pennsylvania in a county called Fayette County 43 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:12,440 which is a county which was about 40 minutes from the attempted assassination of Donald Trump 44 00:02:14,920 --> 00:02:19,800 Just I point that out because people have seen that imagery of that area because of that 45 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:23,320 disastrous event that took place 46 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:25,800 so you can kind of get a picture of where I was from 47 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:27,480 The county that I was born and raised in 48 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:30,040 was the poorest county in the state of Pennsylvania 49 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:33,240 My family was very engaged with poverty 50 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:38,360 I was raised in a redneck culture of ill-billy redneck 51 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:40,440 and sometimes saying this word 52 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:43,080 not trying to keep the slur into the air 53 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:45,800 what sometimes people would refer to as white trash 54 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:48,520 the dougliness of the term 55 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:49,000 Sure 56 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,920 is the indigenous to the types of areas we're from 57 00:02:52,920 --> 00:02:55,960 because it signifies lack of education 58 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:57,480 a tremendous amount of racism 59 00:02:57,480 --> 00:02:59,480 a tremendous amount of misogyny 60 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:04,600 a tremendous amount of living in lower self-consciousness 61 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:06,600 from the ground up 62 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:13,080 that is a culture of living by the example of being raised 63 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:14,120 and really, you know 64 00:03:14,920 --> 00:03:17,560 I started in private school hotly enough 65 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:19,320 this is the strangeness of this story now 66 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:21,080 when I was six or seven 67 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:23,720 I tested out of first, second, and third grade 68 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:25,960 but they had just changed the laws in Pennsylvania 69 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:27,400 to not accommodate them anymore 70 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:29,400 so I was forced to attend them anyway 71 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:31,800 I started playing the piano when I was three 72 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:35,320 I guess looking back, I suppose it's fair to say 73 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:38,680 that I was something that you would call now as a prodigy 74 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:41,160 I could hear anything, play anything that I heard 75 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:44,360 and it goes on to a very weird level with it 76 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:44,920 That's cool 77 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:47,880 being able to recall things with a weird accuracy 78 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:48,600 and this kind of stuff 79 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:51,320 so this came with me through my life 80 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:52,840 music was always part of my life 81 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:55,480 I probably had 10,000 hours behind the piano 82 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:57,960 by the time I was 12 or 13 years old 83 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:00,600 by the time I was finishing high school 84 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:02,040 they would want me to be a priest 85 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:03,240 something I didn't want 86 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:06,040 that's why they think of education and Catholic Church 87 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:09,880 I left school and I received my first professional employment job 88 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:11,480 performing the piano in public 89 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:14,120 in public from 16 or 17 90 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:16,360 I had had a couple of little jobs before that 91 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:18,600 which I clearly, you know, spend them away 92 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:19,800 it's typical stuff, you know 93 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:20,920 two months of McDonald's 94 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:22,440 couple months of the grocery store 95 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:24,360 and my entire life 96 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:26,600 this point forward has been self-employed 97 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:28,760 I make music as a freelance artist 98 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:31,240 I've done this all my life in private venues 99 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:32,200 and these kinds of things 100 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:33,480 I have a bunch of albums out 101 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:34,520 I have a website 102 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:36,600 where now we're getting re-coordinated 103 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:38,360 as a content creation 104 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:42,360 is the primary mechanism of my... 105 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:44,120 of my purpose, you know 106 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:45,960 something which has developed quite rapidly 107 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:47,240 here on TikTok 108 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:51,320 I have a very independent mindset 109 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:54,120 but a very strong left-wing set of views 110 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:59,000 I, like many people, have spent the better part of this past year 111 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:00,920 voicing my opinions very staunchly 112 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:03,720 on things that I've seen over the past 15 years 113 00:05:04,840 --> 00:05:07,080 this is not something new 114 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:10,200 these recent events in this rotten stew 115 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:12,280 that we're all trying to walk away from 116 00:05:12,280 --> 00:05:14,840 realizing it's on the table no matter where we go 117 00:05:14,840 --> 00:05:16,120 it's nothing new 118 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:17,640 it's been going off for a long time 119 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:20,040 and it's been a steady journey to get here 120 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:23,080 so I'm looking at how can I... 121 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:27,080 how can I be of a value to the community that I've built 122 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:29,640 I've created a Discord server to do so 123 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:31,160 and it's just been launched 124 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:34,360 and I'm creating music that is designed to 125 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:36,200 authentically showcase it 126 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:39,240 I am wandering on this timeline with you 127 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:41,240 trying to find my inspiration 128 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:42,280 and my light 129 00:05:42,280 --> 00:05:44,520 sometimes I'm able to step into it 130 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:46,360 and sometimes I just have a cloudy day 131 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:47,960 and I just have to wait it out 132 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:50,360 so I get my next shaft of sunlight 133 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:53,480 so it's a very realistic approach I take 134 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:55,480 a very holistic approach to life 135 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:57,160 how I do and what I... 136 00:05:57,160 --> 00:05:59,400 it's just as important as what I do 137 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:01,320 how I live on this timeline 138 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:03,800 how I choose to engage 139 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:06,920 how I choose to set my modality 140 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:09,960 to deal with these events that make me angry 141 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:12,680 how I choose to take this again 142 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:14,040 and what I do with that energy 143 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:15,320 I have a very special... 144 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:17,080 special approach with emotional energy 145 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:19,640 that I've developed over 20 years 146 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:22,440 I guess it would be also a good... 147 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:25,480 a good to say that I am extremely empathic 148 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:28,920 to the point that I've had a couple of events 149 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:30,440 three or four in my life 150 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:34,120 that were a little bit close to an ex-files moment 151 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:35,160 personally for me 152 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:37,560 and it was that powerful but experience 153 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:40,200 till this day when I think about things that happened 154 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:41,480 it was just a little bit... 155 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:43,560 a little bit much even today to process 156 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:45,400 I can understand that 157 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:46,840 the energy of people 158 00:06:46,840 --> 00:06:50,040 the body language combined with the way that they speak 159 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:51,160 the sound of their voice 160 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:52,200 when a person talks 161 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:54,600 I can almost feel the sound of their chest 162 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:57,320 my ears are extremely sensitive 163 00:06:57,320 --> 00:06:58,520 being a professional... 164 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:00,760 professional musician I've trained this also 165 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:03,720 so I hear things in people's voices sometimes 166 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:04,760 that I don't want to hear 167 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:07,240 it's just... 168 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:07,880 it's just... 169 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:09,560 you know it's something that... 170 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:11,640 you know I sit in this house 171 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:13,320 having this conversation with you right now 172 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:16,120 it's a white man living in San Francisco, California 173 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:18,840 and the past week on this app 174 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:20,760 I've seen enough pain to... 175 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:24,680 if it could be converted into a fuel burning energy 176 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:26,840 would be enough to power this country for a month 177 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:32,040 and simultaneously seeing people trying to cope with this 178 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:35,080 from my position of executive privilege here 179 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:39,000 living in the most liberal, powerful, democratic government 180 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:40,680 in the world perhaps 181 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:42,680 you know even with its shortcomings 182 00:07:42,680 --> 00:07:44,120 even with its mistakes 183 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:46,280 California is a collection of mistakes 184 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:48,600 mistaken experiments that have failed 185 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:50,520 forward always forward 186 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:52,680 sometimes with one failure to the next 187 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:56,360 but because we will not treat homelessness like a pariah 188 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:59,560 and instead look at these experimental policies 189 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:02,280 that are designed to try to deal with some one 190 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:03,720 fails after another 191 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:07,320 we become the target of the rest of this 192 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:09,880 right-leaning country as being a failure 193 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:11,720 failure is failure to try 194 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:14,520 talking about people's lives 195 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:19,000 it's all about suppression isn't it 196 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:20,760 I mean at the end of the day 197 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:22,040 that's their language 198 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:24,120 that's the language they're using 199 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:25,880 especially in this election 200 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:28,520 it's fear-based 201 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:29,720 it's oppression 202 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:32,680 yes they want to get inside your head 203 00:08:32,680 --> 00:08:34,280 police the way you say 204 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:37,400 if I could engineer you to be ashamed to open your mouth 205 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:38,280 I owe you 206 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:41,640 and this is a lot of what is taking 207 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:42,520 place right 208 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:45,080 it's this going back to a culture of 209 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:46,840 queers get back in the closet 210 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:47,960 where you belong 211 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:50,840 this kind of language is absolutely abhorrent 212 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:51,160 you know 213 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:55,000 your job is to be a servant to a man 214 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:56,520 if you talk about being independent 215 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:57,480 we're going to shame you 216 00:08:57,480 --> 00:08:59,640 if you talk about wanting to run the household 217 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:00,520 we're going to shame you 218 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:01,640 if you can talk about being a 219 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:03,240 strong independent woman 220 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:04,200 I'm going to ridicule you 221 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:07,880 this is the emotional battle 222 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:08,840 that is taking place 223 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:09,480 right now 224 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:10,840 in the soul of a woman 225 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:14,280 the soul of the LGBTQIA members 226 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:18,120 for the soul of the victims of systemic racism 227 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:19,960 and at the top of this heap 228 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:21,800 we have white supremacy 229 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:23,640 who has circled its wagons 230 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:24,760 all right now 231 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:27,080 with the most volatile 232 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:32,920 the most history-on-a-people in their culture now 233 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:35,720 that are right up this close 234 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:37,960 this close to the end word 235 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:39,800 in the conversations 236 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:40,520 I mean 237 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:42,680 this we think that this is an impossible place 238 00:09:42,680 --> 00:09:43,720 that we can't get to 239 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:45,960 but it's there in everything but word 240 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:48,120 this is the place that we find ourselves on 241 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:48,600 and this 242 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:49,080 I mean 243 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:51,560 incredibly preposterous peculiar time 244 00:09:51,560 --> 00:09:52,600 it's slipped out 245 00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:53,400 and almost 246 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:56,280 of like full words just in new circles 247 00:09:56,280 --> 00:09:57,160 you know of course 248 00:09:57,160 --> 00:09:58,280 you know as soon as those come out 249 00:09:58,280 --> 00:09:59,320 people are quick to clip it 250 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:00,680 and show it and people people's like 251 00:10:00,680 --> 00:10:01,000 look man 252 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:02,680 this is what people are saying about 253 00:10:02,680 --> 00:10:03,400 anybody 254 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:05,160 the hate the slurs that come in 255 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:05,960 and not just 256 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:06,840 not just for the end word 257 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:07,800 but also for 258 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:11,880 for also other words 259 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:12,680 familial 260 00:10:12,680 --> 00:10:13,720 and yeah 261 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:14,840 other words that have been 262 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:16,280 you know 263 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:17,480 boiled and baked by 264 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:18,840 Nazis 265 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:20,440 and other hate groups 266 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:21,880 not just white people 267 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:22,520 they're targeting 268 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:25,320 but boy do they love to put them front and center 269 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:26,200 and that 270 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:27,320 sucks it fucking sucks 271 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:28,680 I um 272 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:31,720 I watched Dr. Phil 273 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:33,960 and I watched Donald Trump 274 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:35,400 in conversation 275 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:37,080 on a YouTube video 276 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:37,880 and 277 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:40,280 sure 278 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:42,600 look at your microphone volume somewhere 279 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:44,200 you're sounding a little low 280 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:46,360 hello 281 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:47,080 oh yes 282 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:47,800 it's down to the 283 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:48,920 up is that better 284 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:49,400 a little better 285 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:50,120 can you hear me 286 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:51,480 all of these words 287 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:53,080 that people use 288 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:55,000 the only way 289 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:57,400 after watching that conversation with 290 00:10:57,400 --> 00:10:58,600 Dr. Phil 291 00:10:58,600 --> 00:10:59,880 and Donald Trump 292 00:10:59,880 --> 00:11:01,080 the only way 293 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:03,640 someone can control you 294 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:05,000 is 295 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:06,440 and this is my belief 296 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:08,040 is if I allow it 297 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:10,760 I have to allow that information in 298 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:13,000 and the only reason I am the way I am 299 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:14,120 and creating 300 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:14,760 emotions 301 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:17,480 that lead to our power 302 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:18,520 well 303 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:19,400 taken away 304 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:20,200 if I may 305 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:20,760 yes 306 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:21,560 sometimes 307 00:11:21,560 --> 00:11:22,680 if you look at 308 00:11:22,680 --> 00:11:24,600 the behavioral profession 309 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:25,560 and people who 310 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:27,320 voiced 311 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:30,040 their opinions on the subject of severe depression 312 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:32,120 and severe negative emotions 313 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:33,240 right off the bat 314 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:34,040 it's important 315 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:34,920 important to 316 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:36,840 quantify 317 00:11:36,840 --> 00:11:37,800 a couple of things 318 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:39,160 right 319 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:39,880 and this isn't 320 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:41,240 this isn't so much about 321 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:43,400 your power in relation to the situation 322 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:45,480 this is about the situation itself 323 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:46,280 this is a time 324 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:48,840 this is a bad moment 325 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:50,280 let's just call it what it is 326 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:51,080 you know 327 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:51,560 you know 328 00:11:51,560 --> 00:11:53,160 depending upon who you are 329 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:54,440 what you 330 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:56,840 what life you live 331 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:57,960 how bad that is 332 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:00,120 is not exactly equal 333 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:01,320 to everybody else 334 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:03,000 which makes this even more difficult 335 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:04,360 because now we bring in a quality 336 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:05,320 into the subject of 337 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:06,040 hey 338 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:07,240 layers and levels 339 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:10,360 layers and levels of consequences 340 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:13,080 to various people from various marks of life 341 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:14,600 so when you say something like this 342 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:15,320 you have to be 343 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:17,960 I don't want to 344 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:19,400 I don't want to be a terrible hearer 345 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:22,440 you don't want to be cold or callous 346 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:22,840 about it 347 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:24,200 you want to be very 348 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:25,080 principled 349 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:25,800 when you say 350 00:12:26,520 --> 00:12:27,080 or think 351 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:28,760 or hear these words that 352 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:30,680 hard times move 353 00:12:30,680 --> 00:12:31,320 they come 354 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:33,240 and they pass 355 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:35,400 how bad this is going to be 356 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:37,240 depends upon circumstances 357 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:40,360 which has not yet completely occurred 358 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:42,440 fearing the consequences right now 359 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:44,600 what has not come to pass 360 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:47,240 is just as disruptive and destructive 361 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:48,840 as walking through the timeline 362 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:51,640 when they are in its own unique way 363 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:53,320 we have to believe 364 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:55,640 that we have the power 365 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:57,080 and the pathway 366 00:12:57,080 --> 00:12:58,520 to get through this 367 00:12:58,520 --> 00:12:59,160 first 368 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:01,960 if we do not see things in such a way 369 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:04,120 where we are willing to say that 370 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:05,240 this is happening 371 00:13:05,240 --> 00:13:06,200 it's horrible 372 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:07,880 and there will be a tomorrow 373 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:09,000 and this tomorrow 374 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:09,960 sooner or later 375 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:11,400 is going to get better 376 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:14,440 and this is the dangerous slippery slope 377 00:13:14,440 --> 00:13:15,240 of something called 378 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:15,960 hopeium 379 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:16,520 you know 380 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:18,120 toxic positivity 381 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:19,400 it's not about that 382 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:20,360 it's about just 383 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:22,680 just about the very realness of the situation 384 00:13:22,680 --> 00:13:25,240 that we can't choose 385 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:27,720 how we operate through this moment 386 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:30,120 and look out two years from now 387 00:13:30,120 --> 00:13:30,600 and 388 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:32,440 right literally I do believe 389 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:33,800 this is speculation 390 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:34,440 pardon me 391 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:37,880 that these people are going to fuck things up so badly 392 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:39,160 that the consequences 393 00:13:39,160 --> 00:13:41,000 that come back to middle of the road 394 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:42,440 dipshit swing voters 395 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:44,040 who just basically vote like a 396 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:45,640 change of season 397 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:48,920 who don't take personal consequences 398 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:51,640 until it comes to their doorstep 399 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:55,080 and hurts their particular family members 400 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:56,200 and their particulars 401 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:58,040 and their particular children 402 00:13:58,040 --> 00:14:00,520 that over this course of this two years 403 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:01,800 whether it's through the tariffs 404 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:03,560 they wreck this economy 405 00:14:03,560 --> 00:14:05,800 or laws that revoke civil rights 406 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:05,960 of 407 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:07,560 you know 408 00:14:07,560 --> 00:14:09,720 and I say this with love of black gentlemen 409 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:11,400 who voted for Barack Obama 410 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:12,760 voted for Joseph Biden 411 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:15,800 but will not vote for a women 412 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:17,320 and this is one example 413 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:18,920 I'm not keeping responsibility 414 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:19,960 on one race or culture 415 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:30,840 and I say this to you 416 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:32,600 so what can we do 417 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:33,960 what are we going to do 418 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:34,840 to stay vigilant 419 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:35,960 to be better people 420 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:37,560 to affect people around us 421 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:38,920 put power healing out 422 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:40,040 get healing back in 423 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:41,640 I was going to akin that karma 424 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:43,320 I didn't get that quite yet 425 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:44,600 but now I am 426 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:47,880 and we have came to talk about 427 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:48,520 what 428 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:50,600 self-defense classes can teach you 429 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:51,880 on how to be a better person 430 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:53,240 yes that's where we left off 431 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:54,120 yeah 432 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:55,240 all right 433 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:55,960 all right 434 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:57,560 so defense classes 435 00:14:57,560 --> 00:14:58,200 jays 436 00:14:58,200 --> 00:14:58,840 oh my god 437 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:00,440 yes I was saying that I taught women 438 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:01,640 self-defense classes 439 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:02,360 for a couple of years 440 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:03,560 I used to wear the body suit 441 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:04,440 and 442 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:04,760 you know 443 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:06,920 it's really about situational awareness 444 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:07,080 and 445 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:08,360 a woman 446 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:11,080 being able to use all the resources 447 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:13,000 of her capabilities to 448 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,080 whatever is in the immediate environment 449 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:16,440 to 450 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:17,800 lower risk level 451 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:18,840 right from the start 452 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:21,000 and some of these concentric circles 453 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:21,400 started 454 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:22,440 two feet 455 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:23,400 six feet 456 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:24,360 ten feet 457 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:25,720 go out to 20 feet 458 00:15:25,720 --> 00:15:27,640 that when somebody enters that perimeter 459 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:29,560 it is okay to start assessing them 460 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:30,600 as a risk 461 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:31,800 anybody who 462 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:33,800 continues to close that distance 463 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:35,880 the risk factor is going up 464 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:37,640 infinitely the closer they get 465 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:38,440 they get to you 466 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:40,760 so the idea is to start managing 467 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:41,800 your mind space 468 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:42,440 what you're doing 469 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:43,320 and how you're doing it 470 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:44,440 and addressing 471 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:46,040 whatever it is that's coming towards you 472 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:46,520 from the start 473 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:47,720 anyways the point I'm making 474 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:50,120 is 475 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:52,040 in this society right now 476 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:53,800 we have a large segment of this 477 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:54,840 voting population 478 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:57,400 that's living under 60 feet of muddy water 479 00:15:57,400 --> 00:15:58,520 with a blind hold on 480 00:15:59,320 --> 00:15:59,720 that 481 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:01,080 that basically goes like this 482 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:02,520 and reacts to whatever 483 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:03,560 whatever's out there by saying 484 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:04,360 oh that hurts 485 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:05,000 I don't like it 486 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:06,120 I'll go this way 487 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:08,440 and that means cognitive dissonance 488 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:09,560 transgender 489 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:10,520 society 490 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:12,920 is the weaponization of cognitive dissonance 491 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:13,560 in these people 492 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:14,120 that's why 493 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:15,320 Donald Trump spent 494 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:17,560 $100 million 495 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:18,280 dollars 496 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:19,960 on an advertising campaign 497 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:22,520 30 days before the election 498 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:24,440 that focused on nothing 499 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:27,080 but bigotry towards the transgender community 500 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:27,560 now 501 00:16:27,560 --> 00:16:30,040 a lot of these ads had to do with Kamala Harris 502 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:31,320 supposedly funding 503 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:33,160 the sexual reassignment surgery 504 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:34,360 am I seeing that the right way 505 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:35,240 of 506 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:35,640 yeah 507 00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:36,680 those videos 508 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:37,000 yeah 509 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:37,560 I was about to say 510 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:38,600 I don't think I saw them 511 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:39,400 but as soon as you said that 512 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:40,360 I didn't either 513 00:16:40,360 --> 00:16:41,240 I didn't see them 514 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:41,800 so so well 515 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:42,200 I can see you 516 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:43,480 there's so many social media 517 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:45,160 you're a huge on YouTube 518 00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:46,120 for some reason 519 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:46,920 well that's 520 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:47,480 yeah 521 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:48,040 so 522 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:49,160 Kamala Harris 523 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:50,200 was involved 524 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:51,000 with two 525 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:52,680 and I'm not exactly sure the story here 526 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:55,000 but apparently it can be tied to two events 527 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:56,280 of inmates 528 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:57,080 in California 529 00:16:57,080 --> 00:16:58,440 that were receiving the 530 00:16:58,440 --> 00:16:59,320 type of care 531 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:01,160 that is given in these circumstances 532 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:02,600 which is things that I'm still learning about 533 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:03,160 and 534 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:04,200 and when you consider 535 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:07,000 that there is a population of 40 million people 536 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:07,960 two people 537 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:10,360 is such a small percent of 40 million 538 00:17:10,360 --> 00:17:12,680 did you have to use scientific notation 539 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:13,640 to write it out 540 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:14,360 it's something like 541 00:17:14,360 --> 00:17:15,400 something times 542 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:16,360 minus 10 to the 543 00:17:16,360 --> 00:17:18,040 five minus five power or something 544 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:18,840 I think so 545 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:20,280 minus five minus six 546 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:20,840 something like that 547 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:21,480 yeah 548 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:22,040 so some 549 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:22,840 something 550 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:22,920 it's very 551 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:24,040 it's very small 552 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:26,680 but this was the entire campaign for 30 days 553 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:27,240 aimed 554 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:28,440 at middle America 555 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:28,840 so 556 00:17:28,840 --> 00:17:30,760 so they can get them to the point 557 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:31,560 where they say this 558 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:33,320 I'm so tired of hearing about this shit 559 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:35,240 I am so tired of hearing about this shit 560 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:35,640 well 561 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:37,240 the reason you're tired of hearing about it 562 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:38,840 is because the people who want you to vote 563 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:40,280 for them are talking to you about it 564 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:41,480 26 hours a day 565 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:43,640 I live in San Francisco, California 566 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:44,200 and today 567 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:45,240 you would think 568 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:45,480 you know 569 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:46,440 with this big motto 570 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:47,960 that's placed on San Francisco 571 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:50,200 about the LGBTQIA community 572 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:52,040 if Republican story was true 573 00:17:52,040 --> 00:17:53,640 by the time I go out my door 574 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:56,040 I've encountered 75 transgender people 575 00:17:56,040 --> 00:17:58,040 before I get to the first block on the street 576 00:17:58,040 --> 00:17:58,520 into this 577 00:17:58,520 --> 00:17:59,720 it's just this inundated 578 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:00,520 the trans people 579 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:01,480 yeah 580 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:03,080 and into this day 581 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:04,600 I have not encountered 582 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:05,240 I 583 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:05,880 you know what I mean 584 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:06,360 that 585 00:18:06,360 --> 00:18:06,760 sure 586 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:07,720 are you sure 587 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:09,960 where are they 588 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:10,680 you know 589 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:12,360 I say this because I hardly go 590 00:18:12,360 --> 00:18:14,120 I say this because I hardly 591 00:18:14,120 --> 00:18:15,000 go out 592 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:15,800 no fair enough 593 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:16,440 okay 594 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:17,000 so 595 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:18,760 the math is kind of stacked for you 596 00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:19,400 I got you 597 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:21,160 let me ask you this Jace 598 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:21,880 I mean because 599 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:23,000 I 600 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,400 I believe everybody's a little trans 601 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:27,080 I believe everybody's a little gay 602 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:29,640 I believe everybody's got a little 603 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:31,320 they're inner drag queen 604 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:31,880 I believe 605 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:33,960 I believe all these things like 606 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:35,880 well keep in mind 607 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:38,440 I'm talking about the Republican perspective here 608 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:39,960 of what transgenderism is 609 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:41,560 and LGBTQIA 610 00:18:41,560 --> 00:18:42,920 if their story 611 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:44,920 is the one that is the truth then 612 00:18:46,120 --> 00:18:47,720 transgender people look like this 613 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:48,920 LGBTQIA 614 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:50,120 looks like that 615 00:18:50,120 --> 00:18:50,680 this look 616 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:51,400 you know what I mean 617 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:52,120 it's just this 618 00:18:52,120 --> 00:18:54,120 it's so generalized 619 00:18:54,120 --> 00:18:55,720 I mean just the bigotry 620 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:56,760 against 621 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:57,800 I have a trans 622 00:18:57,800 --> 00:18:58,840 I'm trans 623 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:00,840 but I have a girlfriend 624 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:03,960 who was previously identified 625 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:04,920 as a man 626 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:05,720 but now 627 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:08,520 she's a goddess 628 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:09,800 I mean I look at her 629 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:11,560 and that's what I see 630 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:14,920 she's a hundred and fifty million percent woman 631 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:16,360 there is nothing about 632 00:19:16,360 --> 00:19:18,760 she is more feminine than me 633 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:19,960 sure sure 634 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:21,560 I don't really care 635 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:22,360 I always wondered 636 00:19:22,360 --> 00:19:23,800 I talked to a friend of mine 637 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:24,280 about this 638 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:26,600 that I hadn't talked to in 10 or 15 years 639 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:29,160 and he's one of those swing voters living out Pennsylvania 640 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:29,960 in a subject 641 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:31,560 this subject came up and I said 642 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:32,120 you know 643 00:19:32,120 --> 00:19:34,840 of course I'm probably going to trip over my own personal ignorance here 644 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:36,120 because we're all learning here 645 00:19:36,120 --> 00:19:36,760 we're all 646 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:37,560 we're all 647 00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:38,920 in this timeline together 648 00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:40,760 discovering new things about other people 649 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:42,760 that we've never known before 650 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:45,560 with that comes a whopping dose of personal ignorance 651 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:46,920 it only comes with experience 652 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:47,160 you know 653 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:48,680 you get experience 654 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:50,040 and I thought to myself 655 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:51,480 how would I feel 656 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:53,480 this is just how my head works 657 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:54,360 bear with me 658 00:19:54,360 --> 00:19:56,200 because I'm really going out on 659 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:57,640 how would I feel 660 00:19:57,640 --> 00:19:59,960 if I woke up in the morning 661 00:19:59,960 --> 00:20:02,520 and I looked in the mirror at the image of that 662 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:04,200 myself coming back to me 663 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:04,840 or 664 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:07,160 or whether it's the feel of my own skin 665 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:07,480 body 666 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:08,200 whatever else 667 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:09,560 however you want to describe this 668 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:11,000 and I felt 669 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:12,600 with all my heart 670 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:14,120 and all my soul 671 00:20:14,120 --> 00:20:17,240 and all of my experience that I am actually 672 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:17,960 a woman 673 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:18,840 how would that 674 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:20,120 how would that make 675 00:20:20,120 --> 00:20:21,400 how would that make 676 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:21,960 me 677 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:22,600 feel 678 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:24,760 and just off the top of my head 679 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:28,360 the range of emotions that my empathy wants to point at 680 00:20:28,360 --> 00:20:30,440 whether they're incorrect or correct 681 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:32,280 makes it clearly evident to me 682 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:33,960 that this is not a situation 683 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:38,200 that might seem at first comfortable 684 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:39,640 fun desirable 685 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:43,640 easily to find happiness in 686 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:44,040 right 687 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:45,080 and meanwhile 688 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:47,240 right wing America is pointing at me 689 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:48,360 as trying to 690 00:20:48,360 --> 00:20:48,920 live 691 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:50,280 in this situation 692 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:51,400 as being evil 693 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:53,480 at all 694 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:54,760 at all the same time 695 00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:57,640 and acting as if 696 00:20:57,640 --> 00:20:59,400 I'm doing this because it's fun 697 00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:00,360 I'm selfish 698 00:21:00,360 --> 00:21:01,080 and you know 699 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:02,680 I'm just playing games here 700 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:04,680 and I'm more concerned about myself 701 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:05,480 than the rest of the world 702 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:06,360 when back 703 00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:07,000 man's man 704 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:09,000 woman's woman that's it and story blah blah blah 705 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:10,200 and if I go against that 706 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:11,800 then I'm toying with everybody 707 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:14,600 I don't think anybody signs on to this 708 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:15,720 from a perspective of 709 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:17,560 I think I'll have some fun with this 710 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:18,040 yeah 711 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:18,360 now 712 00:21:18,360 --> 00:21:19,400 this is life 713 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:20,680 this is life 714 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:21,800 look at it too 715 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:23,640 look at it this with this way 716 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:25,240 and I've realized this 717 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:25,880 that 718 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:27,400 it doesn't matter who you are 719 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:28,440 if you hate 720 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:30,360 you're gonna side with that side 721 00:21:30,360 --> 00:21:30,680 yeah 722 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:31,560 you hate 723 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:32,360 you're you 724 00:21:32,360 --> 00:21:33,000 I've seen 725 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:34,520 you know 726 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:36,360 Latinos for Trump 727 00:21:36,360 --> 00:21:37,560 Latinos 728 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:38,360 for Trump 729 00:21:38,360 --> 00:21:40,040 because they don't want any more 730 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:42,280 immigrants 731 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:43,480 coming over 732 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:45,640 and taking their rights away 733 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:46,280 but yet 734 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:47,800 you're a Latino 735 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:49,640 and you're voting against your 736 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:50,760 people 737 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:51,240 well 738 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:52,040 that they hate 739 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:52,680 I just 740 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:54,200 it all depends on what you're clear about 741 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:55,240 generation there 742 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:56,360 I just want to clear this up 743 00:21:56,360 --> 00:21:57,320 because I don't want anybody to 744 00:21:57,320 --> 00:21:58,680 misinterpret what I'm saying 745 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:00,840 under no circumstances whatsoever 746 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:01,960 am I implying 747 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:03,720 shame in this situation 748 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:05,320 of somebody in these circumstances 749 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:06,680 what I'm trying to say is these 750 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:07,880 yeah 751 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:08,440 we're 752 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:09,800 feeling people 753 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:12,040 trying our best to understand 754 00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:12,840 who we are 755 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:13,400 what we are 756 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:15,640 in circumstances 757 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:17,800 that land on us 758 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:18,840 that this is our 759 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:20,760 this is our story 760 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:21,720 this is who we are 761 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:22,040 you know 762 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:23,800 and that's the transgender community 763 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:25,560 it's every community on this planet 764 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:26,680 yeah 765 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:29,000 it's just amazing 766 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:29,400 it's like 767 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:30,440 it's like a giant 768 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:31,400 is it 769 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:32,920 all the challenges of everybody's 770 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:34,600 personal life is enough 771 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:36,440 you got this giant wheel of bigotry 772 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:37,480 with a spinner on it 773 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:38,440 and it's transgender 774 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:39,160 start 775 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:40,360 transgender community 776 00:22:40,360 --> 00:22:40,680 you're 777 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:41,800 you're going to be the pariah 778 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:43,400 for 2024 election now 779 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:44,920 who will it be in 2028 780 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:46,600 I will come to fear 781 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:48,120 what they don't understand 782 00:22:48,120 --> 00:22:48,680 and 783 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:50,520 there are a lot of people who don't 784 00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:51,960 want to understand 785 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:52,840 things that 786 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:54,840 were not in their social sphere 787 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:56,920 because they feel that it's going to 788 00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:57,640 affect them 789 00:22:57,640 --> 00:22:59,960 they've lived in their comfortable 790 00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:00,600 bubble 791 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:01,720 for so long 792 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:02,440 that 793 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:04,200 the idea of bringing 794 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:05,560 another thought in 795 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:06,920 feels like that that might change them 796 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:09,240 and people also inherently afraid of change 797 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:11,240 people are afraid in general 798 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:14,200 comes out in all types of different ways 799 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:15,400 but the biggest one that we all hear 800 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:16,680 about is anxiety 801 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:20,600 I feel that anxiety was such a driving force 802 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:20,920 people 803 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:23,880 such a driving force 804 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:25,320 that pushed people to vote 805 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:26,520 the way that they voted 806 00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:28,520 people who would have maybe not 807 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:30,360 have voted for Trump two years ago 808 00:23:30,360 --> 00:23:31,560 voted now because 809 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:33,160 the thought of change 810 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:35,720 the thought of a woman being in the White House 811 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:38,600 or any of the other 812 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:40,600 shit sandwich things that they saw on the ballot 813 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:41,640 that they just didn't like 814 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:42,600 and they're like well 815 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:44,040 here's an old white dude 816 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:44,760 I mean 817 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:45,640 he did it before 818 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:47,080 maybe he could do it again 819 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:47,960 there's been 820 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:48,680 well you know 821 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:49,560 I said 822 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:50,120 yeah 823 00:23:50,120 --> 00:23:51,240 it's hard man 824 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:52,440 really frustrates me 825 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:54,280 so many different reasons 826 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:55,240 of this situation 827 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:55,880 yeah 828 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:56,920 and you know what's really 829 00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:57,960 when I say this 830 00:23:57,960 --> 00:23:59,080 it makes me like 831 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:00,360 feel a range of emotions 832 00:24:00,360 --> 00:24:02,760 when I think about the fact that if Joseph Biden 833 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:04,760 had been under a different set of circumstances 834 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:05,480 and I'm just 835 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:07,240 this is nothing more than a hypothetical 836 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:08,200 experimental question 837 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:09,640 just like my last question was 838 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:11,480 I love to have thought experiments 839 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:13,160 surely not trying to offend anybody 840 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:14,280 trying to offend anybody 841 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:15,560 by having thought experiments 842 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:16,520 because I believe it's a key 843 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:17,880 to having empathy for people 844 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:19,160 is to try to 845 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:21,160 feel what it is other people are feeling 846 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:22,440 which is often impossible 847 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:23,480 but worth trying anyways 848 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:24,360 and if Joseph Biden 849 00:24:24,360 --> 00:24:24,920 would have stepped down 850 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:25,960 in the presidential race 851 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:26,680 six months ago 852 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:28,120 we would have had a primary 853 00:24:28,120 --> 00:24:28,920 what would have happened 854 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:30,120 I want to tell you my predictor 855 00:24:30,120 --> 00:24:31,640 I do believe that the misogyny 856 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:33,880 and systemic racism that prevented Kamala Harris 857 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:35,240 from achieving the office of president 858 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:35,960 of the United States 859 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:37,640 and I do believe that this moment 860 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:38,920 it is the primary reason 861 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:40,520 she is not president 862 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:42,040 I believe she is the right 863 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:42,760 right woman 864 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:45,560 and in the right place 865 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:47,800 at the right in the right place 866 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:49,080 and for me 867 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:50,920 at the right time 868 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:52,200 but apparently for these 869 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:53,720 centrist voters in this country 870 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:55,160 there's never such things 871 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:57,240 so that this all would have manifested 872 00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:58,840 and Gavin Newsom 873 00:24:58,840 --> 00:24:59,720 whether you like him 874 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:00,760 love him or hate him 875 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:01,880 or whatever else 876 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:03,080 people some people love him 877 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:04,120 some people hate him 878 00:25:04,120 --> 00:25:05,960 he's a pariah with certain sectors 879 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:07,560 among the left population 880 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:08,520 I understand 881 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:09,800 what if the case is 882 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:11,080 he's got the look 883 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:12,760 he's got the talent 884 00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:13,720 on the debate stage 885 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:14,840 just like Kamala had 886 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:16,440 but he's got his own way about him 887 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:18,200 and he would 888 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:20,280 might possibly be the president 889 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:22,200 of the United States right now 890 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,440 because I think that those same people 891 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:25,880 who were in the middle of this 892 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,120 might have turned their attention 893 00:25:28,120 --> 00:25:29,960 to the greed and the weirdness 894 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:31,240 that was taking place 895 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:32,760 a little bit more 896 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:34,920 and just with a calm message of 897 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:36,200 here's what these people are doing 898 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:38,200 here's why they're wrong 899 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:39,800 it might have steered them 900 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:41,640 a little bit more in the middle 901 00:25:41,640 --> 00:25:42,600 to the left 902 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:44,920 and this is what the Democratic Party 903 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:46,040 is going to have to figure out 904 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:48,040 it's like you know look 905 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:49,880 when you use optimism 906 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:51,080 to wish away something 907 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:52,760 like systemic racism 908 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:53,800 and misogyny 909 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:55,640 and begotry towards the various members 910 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:56,680 of our population 911 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:57,560 whatever which 912 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:00,280 the various they are when you and you look past it 913 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:01,640 beautiful for you 914 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:05,080 bad for necessarily if you're trying to set a standard to win 915 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:06,600 are we ready to accept that? 916 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:08,440 are we ready to accept that maybe 917 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:11,000 as I believe that Pete Buttigieg 918 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:13,960 could be one of the most qualified leaders 919 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:15,000 in this country right now 920 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:16,440 and that's my personal belief 921 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:17,640 I admire him 922 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:19,080 I appreciate him 923 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:21,400 I would vote for him 924 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,720 that he may not be able to win 925 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:25,000 because of who he is 926 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:26,520 yeah 927 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:28,440 this is the reality of the situation 928 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:29,880 so now we have to ask ourselves 929 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:31,400 we're going to take that sit down 930 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:33,400 or we're going to go out there and educate people 931 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,040 you can't educate people who are the dumbest 932 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:37,160 most gullible 933 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:40,360 absolute most manipulative people 934 00:26:40,360 --> 00:26:42,040 in this society 935 00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:44,360 which is the core base voter population 936 00:26:44,360 --> 00:26:44,920 to the right 937 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:46,600 because I know because I grew up with them 938 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:47,880 okay 939 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:50,120 and it's also people in the middle of this 940 00:26:50,120 --> 00:26:53,720 who politics is like walking into a basket of romans 941 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:55,720 and picking from 42 different flavors 942 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:57,560 of whichever flavor looks the most 943 00:26:57,560 --> 00:26:58,760 whatever they're in the mood for 944 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:00,360 that's the one they pick 945 00:27:00,360 --> 00:27:00,760 yeah 946 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:02,040 so I'm weak 947 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:02,520 yeah 948 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:02,840 okay 949 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:06,920 Michael you're you were in the military 950 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:08,040 guilty 951 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,040 and I would say you 952 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:11,640 so there's this perspective 953 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:14,120 them I know of the military 954 00:27:14,120 --> 00:27:16,520 the teachers the like me 955 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:17,320 I'm a nurse 956 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:19,240 I work for the government as well 957 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:20,040 you know 958 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:22,040 in certain facilities and things 959 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:23,880 and I don't see any money 960 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:24,920 going back 961 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:28,760 going but I don't I don't know how the military spends its money 962 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:33,560 and if if there's a lot of military who don't know how the military spends their money 963 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:36,760 yeah I mean I don't know how how people are living 964 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:38,600 because if you're working for the government 965 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:40,920 I mean I live with a school teacher right now 966 00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:45,160 and he's doing fine but you know you're not going to get rich 967 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:48,360 doing you want a little insight on what it's like to actually 968 00:27:48,360 --> 00:27:50,520 live in the military when it comes to like money 969 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:54,520 well I can't I can't speak to the people who are doing it now 970 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:59,480 because it's you know it's literally a score of years since I was in the military 971 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:07,320 but if it hadn't been for the housing that they gave us in Virginia 972 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:10,520 I would have never had the chance to live in a decent house 973 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,560 when the money that I was making at the time 974 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:17,080 also to be fair we were young we were dumb we knew nothing of savings 975 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:20,440 our money handling was atrocious but there's a lot of kids in the military 976 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:21,480 or who are like that 977 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:23,320 straight out of high school being thrown in there 978 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:25,560 if they weren't taught about finance in high school 979 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:27,240 they're not going to learn about it in the Navy 980 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:32,280 we lived in a pretty shitty apartment we had enough money to basically you know 981 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:36,120 keep our car afloat the military insurance was there so we didn't really 982 00:28:36,120 --> 00:28:40,680 for anything else like that but you know it's not like we were 983 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:44,520 we didn't spend our money on a whole bunch of creature comforts 984 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:48,360 your comforts or a whole bunch of flashy stuff there were people who did 985 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:52,200 but I have a sinking sign that if you were young 986 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,880 fresh in the Navy and you had all the stuff that you opened up lines of credit 987 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,680 and then you thought that you were going to be in the military to pay them off 988 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:02,360 I saw that happen I don't know how much it happened to a whole bunch of other people 989 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:06,600 so it's not a huge lavish lifestyle if you do well in the Navy they'll promise 990 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:09,320 to help you with other things like maybe get into school 991 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:14,040 pay for your tuition VA loans are available but they're not exactly the best 992 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:17,720 I mean but then again what loans are the food 993 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:23,720 the food was okay I mean I was on the USS enterprise so you know we had two 994 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:29,880 galleys that were pretty well stocked they offer stick steak and lobster to the 995 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:33,800 the families when they came aboard it was the the cheaper lobster but still 996 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:38,040 you know the spiny spiny rock lobster but all in all 997 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:41,720 it's not I don't think most people go into the military I mean 998 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:47,160 I wrote in my book that my dad asked me about going into the military because 999 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:51,000 they were going to pay for college and the recruiter who brought me in there 1000 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:55,000 gave me nothing but promise of money if I went in for nuclear side of things and 1001 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,760 so yeah money was definitely part of the reason why I went in but I don't think 1002 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:02,680 a lot of people are thinking that this is going to be the cash cow now as you 1003 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:06,040 get older if you're staying there longer maybe if you do your 20 years I don't 1004 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:09,720 know I did only four years myself I should have done six got out on four on bad 1005 00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:13,160 behavior so well that's what my whole point is 1006 00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:19,080 it's like okay Washington is so separate from everything Washington is a 1007 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:24,280 separate entity correct yeah they create laws in Washington 1008 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:28,280 well think about it it's like okay Washington 1009 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:34,600 governs they don't govern Florida we have a governor that governs Florida 1010 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:38,440 correct this laws are created in Washington 1011 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:46,280 and then eventually they trickle down into legislature in states 1012 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:50,040 it to you know it doesn't directly affect my state 1013 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:52,680 right Washington you mean Washington DC yes 1014 00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:56,360 yes Washington DC yes yes that's my question 1015 00:30:56,360 --> 00:31:00,600 that's what I've wanted to know it's like okay Michael was in the military I've 1016 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:05,480 worked for the government I look at the facility that I work in 1017 00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:09,080 and there's literally no money being put into it 1018 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:12,920 no money for the patients no money for medications 1019 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:20,280 we're they spend 80 cents a day on the food for patients okay and you know you 1020 00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:25,800 can go to Washington and you can pick it and you can and you can fight for your 1021 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:29,560 rights and you can ask for this and you can ask for that but I can tell you 1022 00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:32,520 right now the government the government is 1023 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:37,800 going to do what the government wants to do am I right or am I wrong 1024 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,680 I see where I see where the boomerang came back in this I 1025 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:45,640 see I see that yeah yeah I mean so there is a sort of 1026 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:49,400 helplessness I think that comes along with people who have been working 1027 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,680 in government positions for so long in fact 1028 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:56,280 people who do work in government are very cynical about how the wheels of 1029 00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:59,720 change either are too rusted to move or too big to be 1030 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:03,560 seen while they're moving in our lifetime will we see the change that we 1031 00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:06,520 actually want to enact I'll be honest with you that's kind of the way life 1032 00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:09,880 goes with government or not a lot of the things that we want to put out there 1033 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:12,760 unless they're small direct we know that we can turn the wheel 1034 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:15,960 ourselves we're not going to see the change immediately which is why we try 1035 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:19,400 to be the best person we can there are two things I want to say 1036 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:23,960 in that first one being that my friend one time asked me what the meaning of 1037 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,760 life was and I took a couple of days to 1038 00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:31,240 there well I took a week there there's probably more to life than just this but 1039 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:34,440 it feels me with like purpose every time that I say it 1040 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:37,720 and my answer is is to make this world better for the people who are going to 1041 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:41,240 come after us because ultimately that's all we are we're a chain of 1042 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,880 organisms that are just trying to build on the past 1043 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:47,880 yeah and then the other one being if you want to 1044 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:51,080 talk about exactly how hopeless you can feel in the military 1045 00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:54,440 I was technically homeless while still being in the military 1046 00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:58,120 it was during my downswing it was while I was getting out but I definitely lived 1047 00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:02,040 in an extended stay hotel because I couldn't afford anything else 1048 00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:09,800 so uh having all that said there are things that I'm putting out 1049 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:13,400 for me to try to make a better world for the people who are coming after me 1050 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:17,000 there there are people who are coming onto my page but either people who know 1051 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:21,080 me or don't who are saying things like I'm scared 1052 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:25,480 what do I do the there's a lot of this going on was what is my dog whistle to 1053 00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:30,120 let people know that I'm on their side those are the the ones that are scared 1054 00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:32,600 just because they really don't understand what's going on a lot of these 1055 00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:36,120 kids are young you know like just got out of high school or 1056 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:39,480 approaching the end of high school or maybe you know just hit their 20s 1057 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:42,200 technically I mean let's be honest with you as far as brains go that's still 1058 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,960 pretty young right and my answer to them has been 1059 00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:50,360 we gotta keep our eyes open we gotta keep our heads up humans 1060 00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:54,440 are have a horrible time looking up we all want to look down 1061 00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:57,960 where we're going where we're stepping but things that are happening above us 1062 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:02,760 can happen with such quick ferocity that it'll leave us stunned maybe even 1063 00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:06,760 injurious if we're not paying attention and so it doesn't matter whose side 1064 00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:11,560 that you're on if people are taking away our basic needs as humans we are not 1065 00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:15,320 allowed to grow as people again going back to that humans versus people thing 1066 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:19,880 we were talking about a couple of days ago Edith I just 1067 00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:26,760 I want people I want to generate a sphere of people who care about the basic 1068 00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:32,120 needs the who who to put them in a space where they can 1069 00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:35,080 develop empathy 1070 00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:45,880 and to know how important that is. 1071 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:50,920 It feels that way too. Well it's just it's known to be one of the poorest 1072 00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,800 empathy nations on the planet it really is. Well it's definitely what they're 1073 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:58,280 advertising to everybody too and that's the shitty part. 1074 00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:03,080 The lack the lack of empathy in this country is what is fueling the problem 1075 00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:07,480 that that you know so many democratic party analysts right now are 1076 00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:11,240 gleefully overlooking as they talk about Kamala Harris's messaging towards the 1077 00:35:11,240 --> 00:35:15,400 middle class Kamala Harris is messaging towards these people those people lack 1078 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:19,240 of this should have done this if you would have done that this would have been 1079 00:35:19,240 --> 00:35:23,560 but when you're dealing with people who literally like I said are under that 1080 00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:27,160 60 feet underwater walking away from what hurts them the most this is 1081 00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:31,000 basically another way of another way of illustrating 1082 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:36,440 cognitive dissonance formulating the the structure by which people decide 1083 00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:40,520 their their biases you know. Sure. Whatever makes me feel slightly 1084 00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:45,160 weird or uncomfortable I trend away from. Oh my god that is so true. 1085 00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:49,880 When people when people say things that also are in agreement with my trend in 1086 00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:53,960 that direction then I trend that way faster and you know 1087 00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:57,400 we could argue all day alone with damn it isn't there a way we could have 1088 00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:01,480 messaged on behalf of it marginalized communities in this country. 1089 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:06,040 What's easy for us to understand as an education and assist a system of 1090 00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:12,200 inclusivity is fighting directly against constant radicalization 1091 00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:16,760 and somewhere along the line. Good way to put it. 1092 00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:19,880 People people discovered that there are elements on the 1093 00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:24,840 outskirts of me out there on the left end where extremism starts that there's 1094 00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:28,360 radicalization that is available there too so let's 1095 00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:31,640 pull this apart from both sides like anything else 1096 00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:34,760 I believe the situation can become stronger it's 1097 00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:39,080 the annoying part about this the most angering and annoying part about this 1098 00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:43,400 is that I have to unless I get some other data that concludes otherwise 1099 00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:47,400 I have to conclude that there is consequences that must take 1100 00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:50,840 place here for the people who are 60 feet under the water because whether 1101 00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:54,920 or not we like it they are the ones that are deciding this election in this 1102 00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:59,080 messed up broken-ass electoral college system which wouldn't have saved us this 1103 00:36:59,080 --> 00:37:02,680 time anyways apparently because you know the popular vote was lost as well 1104 00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:06,600 and I you know just I knew things were going bad 1105 00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:10,440 the day of when the when the supposed landslide 1106 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:15,720 didn't happen by 6 p.m. this evening west 6 6 p.m. that evening west coast time 1107 00:37:15,720 --> 00:37:18,920 I took a close look at the electoral map of Pennsylvania 1108 00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:23,000 and I saw something there that looked very very very dangerous 1109 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:27,880 and by 8 30 p.m. that evening I had a glass of wine and I went to bed early at 1110 00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,920 9 p.m. knowing the Kamala Harris lossy election 1111 00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:35,640 yeah I would have known that too take you know take at that take at that time 1112 00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:43,000 and wow how we how easily we were we were cajoled because of the energy 1113 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,000 because of our willing to believe that this was the moment. 1114 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:50,280 That's what I was saying about Washington 1115 00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:56,680 is that it's a racket it is a show I was telling you 1116 00:37:56,680 --> 00:38:01,160 um Jace I said you know what I knew I knew she was gonna lose 1117 00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:06,040 I knew she was gonna lose because they can't afford to have a woman in the 1118 00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:11,000 White House because I knew too Donald Trump has created so much 1119 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:15,960 fear in people like oh took away my rights well look honey I'm trans 1120 00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:21,400 I'm gonna be trans I'm queer and both sides I will say we're peddling a little fear 1121 00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:28,200 yeah yeah yeah yeah they had their own way each one had their own way I think 1122 00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:33,400 the biggest mistake the biggest mistake right here 1123 00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:38,440 that the Democratic Party can make number one top of the list 1124 00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:45,160 is expecting miracles for example MnZ is gonna save us 1125 00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:51,560 okay I have seen Gen Z dudes 21, 22, 23, I'm three years old and are in that 1126 00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:57,000 Zoom in my comment feeds you know how long you've been a woman 1127 00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:00,680 when did you decide you were trans you've got such pretty pink lips 1128 00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:04,360 well look at his soft dove white skin do you have a nice ass 1129 00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:10,040 you have such pretty long hair constant constant constant barrage oh yes 1130 00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:16,360 constant barrage and bigotry because damn this bro culture this bro culture 1131 00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:20,760 than Joe Rogan has ignited that's why Joe Rogan saved 1132 00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:24,840 his endorsement one or two days before the election 1133 00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:30,360 after one month of bigoted campaigning from the Trump convict Trump to the tune 1134 00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:34,840 of $100 million Rogan says at the very end of this now guys go do what has to 1135 00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:37,080 be done show people in this country who the men are 1136 00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:42,520 yeah this is this is a state well Gen Z young men are susceptible 1137 00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:48,120 yes but also Gen Z are also young and they have 20 years to get through the 1138 00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:52,680 20 or 30 years depending on how long we want to wait for them to catch up to our 1139 00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:57,000 ages to see the mistakes and get into politics themselves 1140 00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:00,760 there's going to be a new fresh wave of people what that's going to look like 1141 00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:05,400 it's not necessarily going to be great or bad that's the nature of politics it's 1142 00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:11,400 it's a quagmire of feelings and money and greed and fear so it'd be 1143 00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:16,600 interesting to see when Gen Z grows up to see what they believe what it looks 1144 00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:20,120 like what world they want to shape I hope it's going to be good because 1145 00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:24,520 hopefully I'll be looking at retirement around that point if it's such a thing 1146 00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:28,600 even fucking exists I don't think there's a such a thing for me 1147 00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:31,960 I mean I feel me you know I say that with love though because I feel more 1148 00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:36,040 ignited I feel do creative I'm really retired 1149 00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:40,840 but I'm one fucking fire I am one fucking fire 1150 00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:44,440 I wake up in the morning with smoke rise around my 1151 00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:51,320 around my enthusiasts I am I am ignited by the people who are coming to me on an 1152 00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:55,480 almost sometimes hourly basis you know I underestimate myself I've had my 1153 00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:59,880 TikTok for a year I've built it up now and it's about to hit 80,000 followers 1154 00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:03,640 of course I believe TikTok is going to get banned so naturally I said to myself 1155 00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:07,480 you know I've got a I've got a I've got a pool of wagons in here now create my 1156 00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:11,480 home base and I've got a website it's JSTOTLive and I've got my 1157 00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:15,400 I've got my Discord server and so anyways long story short I put it out there in a 1158 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:18,200 couple of pieces of content just randomly after I was 1159 00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:22,520 either lampooning someone or pointing out you know who the dumbest people in 1160 00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:25,560 this country are. That's all this stuff. Well I'm 1161 00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:29,560 very I can be very very point blank with my my takes and 1162 00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:36,840 I say by the way I'm creating a Discord server I'm averaging 500 email signups 1163 00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:40,920 in two days. That's really good. And you know as I know 1164 00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:44,920 doing what we do email list is the hardest thing to grow in this business 1165 00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:48,360 because when people give you their email it's because they want you to have 1166 00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:51,800 contact and that is still the principal point of contact 1167 00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:55,640 for people. This is the way most businesses done is through email 1168 00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:59,560 transactive email list building and marketing and stuff like this which is 1169 00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:03,960 that's just a point that I'm pointing at that says that's how powerful email is. 1170 00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:07,480 I underestimate myself you know I'm getting these messages thank god you're 1171 00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:11,240 doing this man I don't know what else I would do where else I would go. 1172 00:42:11,240 --> 00:42:15,640 I'm not trying to be a guru for anybody and I'm not trying to be this 1173 00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:18,360 lighthouse on the cliff pointing out into the sea but 1174 00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:24,120 whatever reason I'm good at pointing this and whatever it is that I believe is 1175 00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:28,040 what needs to be said and delivering it in a way that is that is 1176 00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:32,600 effective to people certain people and this is where I am right now and I 1177 00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:36,760 feel needed I feel wanted and I feel more importantly 1178 00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:40,280 that's a more shallow element on the more important element. 1179 00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:44,600 I feel like I can actually help someone 1180 00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:48,360 and that is what you know makes me feel better. That's what might be causing all 1181 00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:51,720 that smoke on my face. That's good that's what's causing that 1182 00:42:51,720 --> 00:42:54,520 energy. They say that you know people empower some 1183 00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:59,000 of the best people who are and I say empower I mean like 1184 00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:03,160 people who lead I guess really who lead effectively 1185 00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:06,440 are not necessarily the ones that decided that they were going to step 1186 00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:14,360 into that position. They just happen to graduate that's how it happened for me 1187 00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:18,760 is I just kind of graduated into this position that I'm in because 1188 00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:24,120 I was in the lowest of the lowest place when I say the Republican my both 1189 00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:29,960 both parents staunch Republicans they you know I love the Indians I love 1190 00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:33,640 I love Latino community I've always wanted to be black 1191 00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:39,080 and of course I'm Jewish but never grew up Jewish I was in a Baptist cult so 1192 00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:45,960 I mean you know and then there's the queer aspect of my personality so to my 1193 00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:50,680 parents my parents actually hated me they talked to me like they hated me 1194 00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:57,320 my dad even to this day talks to me like I'm in servitude towards him and that 1195 00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:01,480 I need to be obedient so I had to quit talking to him 1196 00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:05,640 yeah I mean they're just my parents off too 1197 00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:09,240 yeah I mean and I didn't even realize that I should 1198 00:44:09,240 --> 00:44:14,120 have been doing that well you're so now I understand that if someone's 1199 00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:19,000 beliefs don't align with mine I don't really need to be in that 1200 00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:22,440 close proximity or a relationship with them 1201 00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:29,080 or if I am then I set the boundaries and they need to be respected so 1202 00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:33,400 you know I'm lucky that I have a brother that loves me dearly 1203 00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:39,960 he's a Democrat he's also a geologist he's an insurance investigator for 1204 00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:46,040 Humana right now he lives in Portland Oregon I mean he's he's the most amazing 1205 00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:51,160 person and I love him so much but my upbringing was not like his my 1206 00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:56,520 parents saw to it that he had the education that he had at all of his 1207 00:44:56,520 --> 00:45:00,280 needs met when I was growing up they medicated me 1208 00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:05,160 they put me on all kinds of medications I don't feel sorry for myself 1209 00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:08,920 that's the cool thing I look I look at my past like this 1210 00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:12,600 girl you picked it for a reason honey I don't know why you wanted to climb a 1211 00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:18,360 big mountain like that but okay so I've had to climb over a lot of hate 1212 00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:22,040 other people's hate for me for the sunshine that I have 1213 00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:25,400 well it sounds to me like a healthy dose dose of acceptance there 1214 00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:29,800 that is that is so very powerful and so very compelling and so very important 1215 00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:33,080 without accepting that these circumstances 1216 00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:37,720 have power to screw your life up now but accepting 1217 00:45:37,720 --> 00:45:41,720 that this happened to me and I happened with it it takes the 1218 00:45:41,720 --> 00:45:46,120 victimization of it and victimization is something that can 1219 00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:51,560 has forward potential to inform your sense of yourself the belief of your 1220 00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:55,880 ego and your belief systems you know I've seen 1221 00:45:55,880 --> 00:46:00,840 all of that change just within a year and a half of knowing Edith she's been 1222 00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:04,440 through a whole lot from the first meager 1223 00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:09,560 conversation that we have on the first episode of my lost podcast that I have 1224 00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:14,680 to running these with her and like the enthusiasm that she has on 1225 00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:20,120 trying anything new and trying and trying and successfully finding new 1226 00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:23,960 ways to grow it's been great watching that uh I 1227 00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:27,880 want to touch on community because it seems like that's where 1228 00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:32,360 that's where we're headed is that we want to make sure that the communities 1229 00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:36,840 that we grow are in a space that they can grow 1230 00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:40,040 in empathy you know that they can be self-aware 1231 00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:44,440 I mean the growth in one year is amazing I've been at TikTok for four 1232 00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:47,480 years it's only been like the last two years that I've really known what I've 1233 00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:50,840 wanted to do like creatively but I've been pretty much 1234 00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:54,520 capped at like 10,000 on TikTok and I've got like meager growth in other 1235 00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:57,240 places and I just want to know Edith I don't know 1236 00:46:57,240 --> 00:47:01,160 anything about your numbers I don't know how many followers or anything that you 1237 00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:05,080 have but I have a feeling that your community is more along about the 1238 00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:10,360 people that you bring in for these conversations it is it's it's not I don't 1239 00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:15,640 have an obsession about the growth it's more about finding my voice and my 1240 00:47:15,640 --> 00:47:19,960 authenticity and my voice was so small when I started 1241 00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:25,400 and Michael knows it's so funny it was really small but I had this big big 1242 00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:30,360 idea big dream and that is for other people like myself 1243 00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:33,240 who I couldn't even find out of a paper bag 1244 00:47:33,240 --> 00:47:37,000 Jace it was terrible my my voice was so small 1245 00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:41,080 speaking up for myself and standing up for my boundaries 1246 00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:46,520 has been so hard for me and my roommate has helped me with that which I'm 1247 00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:50,200 truly grateful for we're very different 1248 00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:54,680 and we're both in agreement of that now and 1249 00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:58,600 you wouldn't believe two people fighting to stay in a relationship 1250 00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:03,960 that doesn't belong as a relationship and that's the thing I cannot be with a 1251 00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:08,760 misogynist male I cannot be with a man that even thinks 1252 00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:15,240 they're gonna dominate me just a little bit because I'm proud of you 1253 00:48:15,240 --> 00:48:19,000 because I know there's a certain part of you that goes 1254 00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:23,160 but yeah but it's a sexy dude event but then 1255 00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:28,120 yeah you got you're looking past that and I'm proud of you 1256 00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:30,920 both of you all were talking about your parents jace you said you're cut your 1257 00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:34,200 parents off and it was everything I could do 1258 00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:39,400 just not to not say to dive into my dead parent humor and go my parents pretty 1259 00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:43,160 much handled themselves but it's not necessarily what it was 1260 00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:47,880 health issues being what it was that's what ultimately 1261 00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:52,360 you know change their fate yeah but um I'll be honest with you it'd be 1262 00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:55,880 interesting just looking back at my parents like my dad was 1263 00:48:55,880 --> 00:49:00,040 a racist I wanted to I wanted to include more people 1264 00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:05,400 of color in my life when I was growing up and I had one really cool friend who 1265 00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:09,080 was black who I guess through humor alone won his 1266 00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:13,640 way into our house but no other friends that I ever brought around who were 1267 00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:17,080 people of color were ever really accepted including the one crush I wanted 1268 00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:20,680 to bring over one time but mom I don't know I don't know where 1269 00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:23,640 she would be in all this I think she would have been stoked about the idea of 1270 00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:25,960 Kamala I don't know if she would have believed 1271 00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:29,400 necessarily the rhetoric she was never really one to take people 1272 00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:34,280 at face value with commercials something that I've inherited so I don't 1273 00:49:34,280 --> 00:49:38,840 know like it's it looks like I think we kind of all 1274 00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:41,240 know what we're what we're going to try to do 1275 00:49:41,240 --> 00:49:46,200 we're going to try to build build better communities build community I love that 1276 00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:51,080 I have such empathy for young people I when I run into 1277 00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:54,840 a young person that's all I want to hear I want to hear your hope 1278 00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:58,280 someone hear your dreams someone hear all about you 1279 00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:03,480 you know and and if we could all do that a little bit more 1280 00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:07,640 just touching the heart of a young person 1281 00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:13,400 and letting them express themselves and and their dreams for themselves because 1282 00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:18,440 that is something I didn't have as a child no one cared 1283 00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:21,480 you know something I think about my mom would have liked you I would have liked 1284 00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:24,840 her too sorry something I think about no no it's fine 1285 00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:28,360 something I think so so great grateful to be here thank you both this has been 1286 00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:31,160 wonderful it's hard to experience and I feel enriched 1287 00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:34,520 enriched sharing this timeline in a space with you both I really do 1288 00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:37,560 this was a wonderful choice to be here the same thing you've had a great time 1289 00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:42,200 and I value every minute of it I think about you know where 1290 00:50:42,200 --> 00:50:45,640 where this road goes from here as far as the people who 1291 00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:49,960 I feel have betrayed us voted but they're left lower based emotions and 1292 00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:53,240 operated under their non-growth conditions and 1293 00:50:53,240 --> 00:50:58,040 whatever you'd like to call it and I am hitting these people 1294 00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:03,240 hard in my TikTok content you are I'm you know and 1295 00:51:03,240 --> 00:51:08,040 yeah standpoint from standpoint of you know my liberal friends I'm sure I'm 1296 00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:11,080 going to hear from one of them or them in a situation sooner or later I mean 1297 00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:13,640 like could you say I think you've made your point here but this is not going to 1298 00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:16,840 win these people back into our fold I imagine that conversation is going to 1299 00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:19,800 start at some point and I don't know what I haven't 1300 00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:23,480 said about that yet I'm busy enough right now 1301 00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:29,000 in this in this space. We'll cross that bridge later. 1302 00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:31,880 I love my liberal friends you know and I mean like I said I call myself a 1303 00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:35,640 progressive independent did not I have I'm willing to disagree with 1304 00:51:35,640 --> 00:51:40,120 certain mindsets it's not politics it's a mindset about certain things because 1305 00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:44,200 I've really worked hard on and I'm still failing but I'm 1306 00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:47,320 still learning but getting back to this whole thing I just uh 1307 00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:52,680 when I made the decision back in 2016 to say what the fuck are we doing here 1308 00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:57,480 republicans what is going on are you there hello car 54 where are you 1309 00:51:57,480 --> 00:52:02,760 what is going on? What's home darling? I immediately 1310 00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:06,760 immediately started hearing from not one but hundreds of people loved your 1311 00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:10,360 music my whole life just want you to know I'm throwing your CDs at the trash 1312 00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:14,120 I loved your music my whole life I used to listen to it every Sunday morning I'm 1313 00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:18,120 not listening to you whenever again and I that was me saying hey what are we 1314 00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:21,400 doing you know that was just for that just for that and I knew 1315 00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:25,880 right then that I will not I will not put myself in a 1316 00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:28,680 situation of having to look at the reflection coming back to me in the 1317 00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:32,120 mirror and know that I'm sitting on my hands and my speaking my truth of power 1318 00:52:32,120 --> 00:52:35,480 but is undragged ambitious enough to what these people's money 1319 00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:39,240 yeah that that that was a strong move right there 1320 00:52:39,240 --> 00:52:43,000 to change the trajectory of my life forever forever you know because I'm an 1321 00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:46,760 artist I rely on people I rely on people going like this 1322 00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:50,600 and returning value to me taking this in and giving it back 1323 00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:54,680 and that cut that right down right down the center but you know 1324 00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:58,040 I want to give a I want to give a little bit of hope to people artists 1325 00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:01,800 painters musicians people out there thinking about having 1326 00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:05,160 thinking about having a professional career doing this please listen to these 1327 00:53:05,160 --> 00:53:09,400 words this is not 1990 there are more than enough people in 1328 00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:13,720 this world that will allow you your privilege of having a professional 1329 00:53:13,720 --> 00:53:18,920 career as an artist 71 million people voted for Kamala Harris 1330 00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:21,960 and counting you know that we're still figuring some things out about that 1331 00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:25,800 election but your art and your creativity 1332 00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:31,240 closer you get to your authenticity the more powerful you become and this is 1333 00:53:31,240 --> 00:53:35,720 pulled off a layer of the of the onion with me that has enabled me to get to 1334 00:53:35,720 --> 00:53:41,720 the fresh fresh skin of my creativity and don't be afraid to 1335 00:53:41,720 --> 00:53:45,960 I mean if you're wanting if you're wanting to be a world famous celebrity or 1336 00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:48,360 something like that I don't know what to I don't know what to tell you there 1337 00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:51,880 that's something that's beyond my ability to understand when it comes 1338 00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:57,480 to having people who your music means the world to you know and it comes from 1339 00:53:57,480 --> 00:54:01,160 the philosophy of not making something for everyone making something that has 1340 00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:04,920 the potential to be a lot for someone when it comes to that 1341 00:54:04,920 --> 00:54:09,400 that is a trust-based relationship and when you speak your truth to power from 1342 00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:13,960 your heart with passion and dignity and in some cases pride whatever it is the 1343 00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:16,920 only thing that does is bring people closer to that 1344 00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:20,680 you have to walk past the people that think you're a piece of shit to get to 1345 00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:25,080 the people who think that you are one of the most important parts of their 1346 00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:29,400 experience whatever that is okay and just keep that in mind when you're when 1347 00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:32,040 you're trying to figure this out if you're a young artist out there and 1348 00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:35,560 you're like oh man if I see what I want to say about what's happened you know 1349 00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:39,160 when you look back through history of the most successful artists out there 1350 00:54:39,160 --> 00:54:43,400 they were known for having pretty big mouths yeah look and I know a lot of 1351 00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:49,240 artists and I know a lot of artists that are LGBTQIA 1352 00:54:49,240 --> 00:54:53,480 I mean there's just something special about 1353 00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:59,480 a gay artist there just really is I mean look at new Patrick Harris that man 1354 00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:03,960 can sing and dance and act and you know I just I love 1355 00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:07,800 artists and I want to come the other way and go as 1356 00:55:07,800 --> 00:55:11,720 much as there are cool gay folk queer folk out there there's 1357 00:55:11,720 --> 00:55:15,400 also queer assholes but you know that just makes it all 1358 00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:19,000 just makes it all a more interesting community like that crazy guy from 1359 00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:22,920 Florida on tiktok that crazy guy from Florida on tiktok who is you know 1360 00:55:22,920 --> 00:55:26,680 outspokenly outspokenly gay and proud just great 1361 00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:32,040 but just literally is the most right wing crazy right wing 1362 00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:38,840 I mean that's what we call a mean gay honey people people have layers 1363 00:55:38,840 --> 00:55:44,440 uh jace I think that's the show for today because I love you did it 1364 00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:49,720 Edith promised to edit this one and we have given her a sizable chunk of 1365 00:55:49,720 --> 00:55:54,280 stuff to go through so uh more more power too I still 1366 00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:58,280 I still am finishing one of our last big interviews who is also 1367 00:55:58,280 --> 00:56:03,880 from California and the he had rave reviews for California said everything 1368 00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:07,080 was great over there and he's an interesting individual I 1369 00:56:07,080 --> 00:56:10,920 recommend checking out we just actually released our first part of his 1370 00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:15,000 it's on youtube it was a wild ride it was interesting it was interesting 1371 00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:18,760 I think we're gonna thank you so much for this wonderful experience I really 1372 00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:22,840 appreciate it this has been a great lively conversation 1373 00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:26,360 you're welcome back anytime man Edith you want to you want to 1374 00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:31,240 absolutely and if you feel like writing a song for bisexual coffee honey 1375 00:56:31,240 --> 00:56:35,480 I'll take it yeah other things that we should say honey 1376 00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:39,560 yeah if you want to make music we're looking for a nice cool instrumental 1377 00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:42,680 we could talk prices too if you want to you just let us know what's going on but 1378 00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:46,680 also if anybody has anything that they would like to add ask any of the 1379 00:56:46,680 --> 00:56:49,800 people who've been on here please put if there's comments where you're 1380 00:56:49,800 --> 00:56:53,800 listening to this like on Spotify or Apple leave us a review actually Apple's 1381 00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:57,320 not ready yet Apple's not ready yet but Spotify is Spotify Amazon 1382 00:56:57,320 --> 00:57:02,680 does Amazon have comments okay Amazon's ready but also we have an email 1383 00:57:02,680 --> 00:57:06,840 and it's so easy to find it's bisexual coffee podcast at gmail.com 1384 00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:11,000 and we'd love to hear from you we'd love to hear from you wonderful 1385 00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:15,000 and so Edith you brought us in I'm gonna take us out Jase thank you so much for 1386 00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:18,360 coming in and peace out and word to you mother my pleasure 1387 00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:20,520 my pleasure 1388 00:57:20,520 --> 00:57:23,640 good night good night thank you bye bye 1389 00:57:23,640 --> 00:57:33,400 bisexual coffee it's only seven dollars sit and sip your cup share both your joy and hollers 1390 00:57:33,400 --> 00:57:39,640 stay and drink your brew but spill your tea you might be the asshole or a 1391 00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:45,560 store tell like me small town cafe with steep 1392 00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:52,680 it's blend with steep voices rise and fall like rivers in a tree 1393 00:57:52,680 --> 00:58:22,520 from heartbreaks to triumphs sails on full 1394 01:00:52,680 --> 01:00:54,880 you