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The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Dinesh Reveals the Effects of Musk Derangement Syndrome
"Let's turn to mister Elon Musk because he is causing the left to have a freak out. And it's a little bit interesting to think about why. Is it because, well, one thought it occurred to me yesterday and that is that Elon Musk has been really focused. He's freeing speech on the one side, but he goes, I'm really going to crack down on Twitter on pedophiles on pedophiles. And this too has freaked out the left. It's kind of interesting to see. I mean, is it because there's a substantial fraction of pedophiles in the cultural left as Elon Musk kind of nuking a wing of the left that doesn't, you know, they can't openly say, well, we're pedophiles. So what they do is they pretend I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be leaving Twitter on principle. It could be a secret reason for the leftist freak out. Here's Alyssa Milano, who, by the way, used to be a huge Elon Musk fan. I have found it fascinating. You're a couple of Milano tweets. I'm in awe of Elon Musk. And then she goes on to thanks Elon Musk and Tesla. Elon Musk you're amazing. She says that she could have dinner with four people. She picked Jesus Roberto Clemente John Lennon and Elon Musk. And then more recently, here's Alyssa Milano. I gave back my Tesla. I bought the Volkswagen. I love it. Now, what's so weird about this is first of all, she's turned on Musk. Why? Because evidently he's for free speech. That alone is enough to set her off. Number two, she buys, let's call it the Nazi car. Why? Because Vogue, if you want to talk about history, Volkswagen was started under the Nazi regime, it's in fact the word volk is a very fascist term volk means, of course, people and the Nazis who were socialists talked about the people's car, Volkswagen, the wagon of the people. So here's a list of Milana while she doesn't really know about her, but nevertheless, part of she has MDS Musk the arrangements syndrome.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
Alyssa Milano Trades in Her "White Supremacist" TESLA for a Nazi VW
"Alyssa Milano goes on Twitter. Oh, I love this. And she's so happy to tell everybody. I gave back my Tesla. I bought a Volkswagen I love it. I'm not sure advertisers can buy space on Twitter. Publicly traded company products being pushed in alignment with hate and white supremacy doesn't seem be a winning business model, Elon is she the dumbest leftist cult member of all time. This is the girl who wore a crocheted face mask during the pandemic, not realizing that there are holes in there that are as big as the Panama Canal to a germ like COVID. But what she's not understanding or didn't bother to care about is what many of us have known. Volkswagen was literally founded by the Nazis and Adolf Hitler. It originated during the Third Reich in an attempt to create an affordable car for German people. So Volkswagen used both Jewish and non Jewish forced labor. And they also operated for a concentration camps and 8 forced labor camps on its property. But listen, Alyssa Milano loves her Volkswagen, but will not be caught dead in a Tesla.
Mark Levin
Brandon Straka: Peaceful March to the Capitol on Jan. 6 Was Actually Called 'March to Save America'
"We sat there with a great day at the ellipse listening to the president speak and then he told everyone as was always planned to march peacefully to the capitol The event was despite what the media has reported The event was not called stop this deal The event was called march to save America And so there was always supposed to be a march to the capital followed by an event with dozens of speakers So I was one of the last people to be able to leave the ellipse because I had such a great seat And one of the downfalls I guess of being in the front row is that you're the last person out So I was one of the last people to leave the ellipse and I jumped on the D.C. metro and I headed toward the capitol to do my speaking engagement When the train was approaching the station near the capitol I started getting text messages from friends and people I know who were at home watching on television And they were saying things like people are going inside the capital The capital has been breached I had no idea what this meant But the first thing that I thought of was honestly the number of times that left wing activists like Alyssa Milano and a number of other left wing activists have gone inside of buildings pounded on senator stores shouted during events And I thought to myself wow something really interesting seems to be happening today possibly with the conservative movement something unlike I've ever seen I've never seen Republicans or Trump supporters do anything like that So I didn't know whether to really believe it or not But I thought to myself one of two things is true here either that's not happening and my scheduled and I'm going to go speak as plans or something very unique and interesting is happening at the capital and I want to be there to document it and
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
Alyssa Milano Thinks Giving Birth Is Like Sexual Assault
"How about a list of Milano? Jesus Christ that I break up with her in time, huh? She is a rip roaring mess. Listen, there's nothing worse than an actress who has nothing to promote or rehearse for. Instead, all some of them do is look for ways to their voices to be heard. They're faces to be seen. They look for any and always to be relevant and in the conversation. And it's getting insane lately with this one. I told you I saw her making a speech about abortion somewhere. I didn't see a ring. I did not see a ring on her left hand and I'm thinking I'm hoping that maybe the husband finally said enough of this shit I'm out. Maybe she's keeping it quiet. I could see her doing that. I don't want to say I hope so. They got children, but what man could live with what woman can live with this person? The most recent thing this got get on said, she had the balls to compare the beautiful experience of bearing children to sexual assault. I'd say she's alone here since most, if not all women count childbirth as the single most wonderful thing that ever happened to them, they don't ever liken it to a crime. And she said to somebody dumb enough to give her an interview, some podcast. After going through therapy, after giving birth to Milo, and remembering that one moment of feeling like I was being held down and had things being done to me that I didn't want to me was very reminiscent of being sexually assaulted. Apparently it triggered all these memories that she thought she dealt with. And she claims that PTSD from sexual assault has a way of living inside you forever. She continued this idiot. I think anyone who's dealt with trauma has the moments where you're like, I'm fine. I've dealt with that. Versus the moments where you go, oh no, I didn't. I just tried to tuck it away so no one can see them, or I couldn't see them or feel them anymore. This is a beauty. She was specifically triggered when she realized how so many people had access to her vagina when she was giving birth to her daughter. Access. How else do they get the fucking baby out, honey? Through your throat?
Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry
"alyssa milano" Discussed on Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry
"Who i don't even have to tell you political affiliation. But here's his voting record. Let's say it's like ted cruz or something like that where you can't deny that there's some ego stuff going on there some power so what you do. It's a great question. That's why i said early on. There's a difference between politics and partisan politics right so everything is inherently political. Politics is personal exactly and one of the ways. I use my platform. As i try to always talk about those issues. The i think that we oftentimes get stuck in these echo chambers. Where we're only if you will preaching to the converted that's why the algorithms on all these social media channels are so dangerous because you are only getting side that you can digest that palatable the side that doesn't challenge your fragile ego exactly even is there are plenty of highs and one of my dear friends started an organization that i think you would love. Call the tahari justice center which is one of the largest nonprofit coalition of attorneys. Who are on the frontline fighting for the rights of immigrant women and girls who are fleeing domestic violence and gender based violence and genital mutilation etc and. They're actively always campaigning to change policy. And that's different right policy while it may seem like it is intertwined with partisan politics. Actually i believe in many ways is separate because i think we need to be moving in a direction where it is about the outcome and not about the party and that is where spirituality comes. That's where justice comes in. That's where we have that strong sense of the personal political of understanding that. Okay what am i fighting for gun. Violence great well. I'm not going to go take on the nra because guess what the nra's never going to change their mind. But there are a lot of people that i believe that live in places that may vote in line with the way that party votes who are deeply compassionate spiritual sensitive people but they've been completely written off because they've always voted for a certain party and the more that we do that the more that we're forgetting that we're all human beings that we all are empathetic compassionate sensitive people. We all love. We all have dreams and hopes and parents and we all suffer and we all feel pain. And if i can reach these people then maybe i can change. That law can change that world and that's separate than just jumping on the bandwagon and talking about a person. We're voting for campaigning. And there are some deeply spiritual fundamental truths missing from our current two party system that will never change by someone being elected or someone else being elected. I have met with ted cruz on gun. Violence prevention and it was a two hour meeting. And i thought it was super important for us to go in. I went in with ben jackson. Who's our producer of this podcast. And also fred gutenberg who lost his daughter jaime at fourteen in the parkland shooting an unlikely meeting at the us. Capitol tuesday between senator ted cruz and actress and metoo movement and now gun laws activists elissa milano. It started with this tweet from milano. September i in which she asked can someone site which passage of the bible. God's states it is god given right to own a gun crews replied an excellent question worth considering carefully without the snark of twitter. I thought it was important to take that meeting. It was hard for me. Because i got it from both sides people like. Why are you meeting with the enemy but also people from the right like. Why would he meet with you. You're just an actress. Stay in your lane guy. You gotta love that show up dribble. Stay in your lane. But this isn't that the problem. Yes exactly. isn't this whole idea of the other and it happens and unfortunately it happens on both sides and one of my favorite quotes from our faith is paolo when he talks about what happens to argue about a principal or a teaching. He says they're both wrong. And this idea that we have an enemy but yet we're fighting for a common goal is antithetical to unity and we have to start to see each other as you don't like each other. We have to love each other. We just have to recognize the interconnectedness of all of us of everything of everything. And i think that we have completely lost that and in a way. It's bizarre because we are more connected than we've ever been before with the internet and social media. I always say social media's like time travel like we can be with people who are fleeing from afghanistan and the taliban at the same time that we're getting the score of the baseball game. It's really remarkable. But i don't know how we got to the point where we can't connect that all of this is connected that the individuality is not a thing every once in a while and this is such a silly thing but i'm gonna share with you but every once in a while i will look at my coffee and i will specifically think there is someone across the globe that pick these coffee beans that ended up in my kitchen and i just feel like if we did a little bit more of that and it is a tale as old as time right at that. We're all under the same stars. We all look for the same moon and yet it feels like we have just gotten and i think a lot of it has to do with people are just working way too hard. I think that to make a living in this country but a lot of countries. You have to work too hard that you don't get to work on your soul to work on your heart to work on your spirituality. I wanna talk about your book man enough and also you co host. A podcast of the same name. Will you tell us about both and really tell us what you're looking to achieve with those. Yeah so i wrote man enough. It's a personal kind of meditation. Masculinity and i use my life and my story and my mistakes as an example i never had men in my life model vulnerability. Imagine with me for a moment. A world is peaceful and loving as you can. What do we think that world would say what it means to be a real man when i was young. Heard the mighty tales mighty warriors and their crusades. The superheroes saving the world in their uniforms and capes. I wanna be a hero mom. I ikea fly in the clouds. Hey dad look wackadoo. Doesn't it make you proud. They cheered me as i beat up the bad guys and put them all in jail. My superpower never ever fail and then one day too. Soon i learned didn't have those superpowers and that cape was just a piece of cloth cried for hours. I've put on every mask every suit of armor that you could put on as a man. I have hurt. Countless people have hurt myself. I've been deeply hurt. And this is a personal journey. Where i kind of take the mask off. And just say hey. I'm sharing this. Because i believe that there are hundreds of millions if not billions of men that identify with these same issues and one of my favorite compliments came from brother. Who's trans man. Fifty year old black trans said for the first time in my life. I read your book and i felt seen and that was the most important message i got because i couldn't think of someone farther away from my story than this person and yet it showed me that the universal truth of suffering the way that we treat men the way that we put us men in a box and then train our men to then hurt to acquire to dominate happens to everybody regardless of gender. So it's pretty gnarly and vulnerable and honest. I talk about things like my struggle with porn and my first sexual experience which honestly was salt which. I couldn't say those words in the book at the time. Because i hadn't truly healed enough to be able to. I've been on personal journeys since then of recognizing what actually happened to me and just not honoring. My feelings as bell hooks writes about and thinking that bravery is actually about physical risk and fiscal feats versus emotional. And so the whole book takes you on a journey from a lot of different viewpoints of what i've experienced in my life even down to dating and marriage and success you talked about work and work addiction and my hope is that people see themselves and what i'm loving hearing right now is that let's be real. I knew that women would buy before men but an reading so many messages from women who have read this book and who for the first time. Feel some compassion for men. And that's what. I want to say like not that. They're listening to your podcasts. Elissa but if they are that's awesome but guys who maybe are put off by that phrase toxic masculine the new year guys that maybe feel like they're under attack the feminist movement. It makes them feel like they're under attack the end of the day. This is about compassionate empathy and recognizing that all of us are enough. But we're not taught to believe that growing up. We're taught that we have to become ex in order to feel this. Masculinity is a performance that we must earn. And if you just think about that if you think about the fact that masculinity can be taken from us then you know it's not real. I can't take your feminine. You eliza i could maybe say that you're in your masculine but i can't take your femininity away. You can take my masculinity away from this fake word called them escalation you can take it away from me because it's not real because it's a performance and if i spend my life trying to perform for approval to be seen as enough that never going to be happy. I'm always going to be chasing a carrot into my grave and at the end of the day. Happiness comes from contentment and from recognizing that we are enough as we are so. That's the book and the podcast is really just about expanding the conversation to have awesome people on like yourself maybe one day and anytime anytime thank you. I'm a whole litter but folks that have deep conversations about this stuff because it's one thing to read a book another thing to listen to. Maybe somebody you admire or somebody. You wouldn't think would go deep on this topic and talk about the things they've experienced in their life because that's how we learn it's so important to have conversations about things that are filled with nuance. Because i think we're in a time when nuance just doesn't exist especially on the internet because of context collapse exactly and finally my last question for you is what gives you hope my children and all the children well justin bell doni. You give me hope. Thank you so much for all you do. And being a part of the podcast. Thank you for your bravery over the course of my career. I've had the great honor playing some of the greatest male role models ever represented on television. You might recognize me as male. Escort number one. Photographer date rapists. Two shirtless tape rapists from the award. Winning spring break shark attack surely medical student shirtless steroid using conman and in most well known role as rafael. a brooding reformed playboy who falls through all things virgin and his only occasionally shirtless. Now these roles don't represent the kind of man. I am in my real life. But that's what i love about acting. I get to live inside characters very different than myself. But every time. I got one of these roles. I was surprised because most of the men i play uis. Machismo charisma in power. And when i look in the mir. That's just not how i see myself. It should be no secret by now that we live in a world which expects women to change to accommodate the failings of men all the time. You hear well if you don't want the attention don't dress like that or she shouldn't have been at that party. Man by and large are the perpetrators of sexual harassment and discrimination domestic abuse and other expressions of patriarchy. It can be easy to forget that men are also victims of the same system. We expect men to change but far too few of us are teaching men how to change in a way that validates their humanity and leads to positive outcomes. That's why people like justin and the work they do are so important redefining what it means to be a man in healthy ways and showing men the path to define their own enlightened masculinity is such a critical part of creating a culture which is safe for all of us telling men to do better without showing them. What better looks like is a fool's errand so this is my challenge to men now. You know there are tools out there. There is a path where men are leading the way for you to follow to a better version of you now. You have to choose to do the work. Don't buy into the red pill pickup artist bullshit. you know. that's not good. You know it hurts women and ultimately it hurts everyone instead book to justin or to ted bunch of a call to man or to any of those men who want to help you set yourself free from a truly broken system. Be a man. Make the right choice. Sorry not sorry is executive produced by listen milano. that's me. Our associate producer. Is ben jackson editing and engineering. Natasha jacobs and music by josh. Cooke alicia eagle and milo locally ari. That's my please subscribe on spotify tunes or wherever you get your podcasts. And if you like the show please rate review and spread the word..
Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry
"alyssa milano" Discussed on Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry
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Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry
"alyssa milano" Discussed on Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry
"How about backlash from parents or the community even about helping kids find their social and political voices. So i am fortunate because i work in a pretty liberal city new york city also my high school the high school for environmental studies so it attracts definitely a liberal population of kids because they're integrating climate change warriors and their into social justice. So i will say that. I am privileged to be at a school where it is so gay and queer friendly. If student comes in and says. I know my name is a female name on paper. But i want to be identified as smell name. No-one balks at it. In fact the administrators changed their email address in a second. I'm so lucky to be in a school like that. Now when i talk to colleagues across the country they're not as fortunate and so that's where i can't really give advice on what to do except for i believe if you're going to get into education you need to be wanting to support every young person regardless if they fit into the mold or not the school environment so you might have to do it in more subtle ways to support them but i do believe there's always ways to support young people even if like explicitly. You can't put it on your instagram and twitter. You were supposed to start your teaching career on nine eleven and we're coming up on the twentieth. Can you believe the twentieth anniversary of that day. Tell us about that day for you and how really a changed education. It did change education at changed the world. So i was supposed to wake up and go to laguardia. Performing are tie slow. Start my first day. As a student teacher i changed. I worked in entertainment. And i shifted gears at i enrolled in grad school and here i was probably had like a freshly pressed outfit ready to go since then ironed. Your clothes still thousands you probably wear pantyhose ever did but i do love a great pair of pantyhose style. Full circle again in my twenties. I was like h o pantyhose love but that i was too cold for that but i do remember having cute outfits setup i probably heels that were uncomfortable because i want to make a first impression and instead i used to wake up to the z morning zoo because they were so an i know offense not gonna got me out of bed and they were talking about something about the world trade center and plane and i thought wow. That's really dark humor. That's actually too far. But i pressed snooze anyway because that's how i am. Press news if anyone wants to know too much benchley got up and then let's say at and start my first day and instead my apartment which was in midtown manhattan became.
Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry
"alyssa milano" Discussed on Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry
"Last summer i had a webinar with two epidemiologists. And i said it's as if people think that you can get covert anywhere else but schools are magical fairy tale places their magical fairy lands and kobe's has no. I'm not going to enter the school building because young people wanna learn and it just made no sense that the flu can spread. And i've gotten some crazy. Illnesses teaching classrooms like just ridiculous. I've gotten like foot mouth disease as an adult. And i remember telling people that are like like we are. I've got the weirdest stuff in the cloud ringworm. I haven't done that. I haven't gotten that yet. Oh and adults get that stuff. It's far worse and those experiences of mine made me realize like okay. So you're telling me that you can get all these other crazy illnesses touching a paper that a kid touched maybe touching your face. But i'm not going to get some kind of co variant and so the reason why. Kobe wasn't spreading in schools. Like it's now doing is because a lot of the schools were hybrid not fully packed or even open. So this is one of the situations where it's like. I don't like saying. I told you so. Because i was doing magical thinking wishful thinking too about this year but i feel like it's just as scary as last year but like with no excuses because now we know better now. It's like scary because of the rebellion of these states. Right because of their war on science and information and vaccinations so it's scary on a whole other level. It's not just the unknown now. It's scary like we know and people are still working against us. It's almost like they're even more hardened in their views. It's now become solidified in their personalities. And in who they are. It's been politicized like everything else in this country. I want to switch gears for a minute. A number politicians on the right have latched onto critical race theory as a lever to attack teachers conservative. Dark money groups are now pushing the critical race theory. Debate on a local lover level. A hyper local level. This comes as at least four states have passed legislation banning lessons about race in the classroom and the number of states considering the band continues to rise and nbc news analysis found at least one hundred and sixty five local and national groups are feeling this discussion among parents and teachers first of all. You're a high school history teacher. How much critical race theory has been incorporated into your lesson plans over the years. None never heard of it until this year. Not because i'm ignorant. I actually pretty expert in civil rights history. I may get a point to really teach that. From the beginning of the school squier critical race theory is not taught however they don't really means critical race theory when they're shouting about this in school board meetings and passing these spells. But they're really talking about is teaching about anti-racism teaching about structural racism. Systemic racism racism. Exactly so this is just a term that was tested at in focus groups because it sounds like marxism and connect something related to that. I've heard but it's something that is not taught in the k. through twelve in fact. It's not taught college now. What's kind of ironic is probably going teach about it. Now since they've put it in current events and it's something that my students are going to ask about because they probably see it everywhere but it's not tough and it's also because everyone freaked out about the sixteen nineteen projects but again i think it was fred joseph who said well they can't say they're anti anti-racism because then they're just saying they're racist if they say they're against critical race theory it sounds may be scary to people. Yeah because i think it's easy to be against something that nobody knows what the fuck is right. It's like yeah exactly. It's interesting because i don't understand really that this is the thing that they're latching onto right now with so much that is going on in our country in the world. Globally that they're taking this and this a moment to fight against the teaching of history. And i get like they're really good at messaging. So we're talking about you know we're we're bad at messaging. They actually do go in and test. These words out and these phrases out and clearly critical race theory is something that scared people that resonated and they're like yep we're gonna go with that so if it hasn't been part of the high school curriculum why or educators being attacked for it because ultimately even though critical race theory which is something that is taught if you happen to take law school classes in this area right now. I believe there are twenty seven states in counting introduce these measures to ban or make it difficult for schools to examine racism in american history or teach to sixty nine hundred product. And i think it might be more now but at least eight states have actually turn these bills into laws. If you look at these bills or these laws that have been passed. But they really don't want you. Cheech is the details of slavery. They don't want you to teach about the fact that the first enslaved people were brought over here in sixteen nineteen and that slavery was chattel slavery and race based all those all the really ugly parts of american history. They don't want you to teach and they also are saying they don't want you to teach things that make white students feel uncomfortable so ultimately they're using the term critical race theory but what they're really banning. Teaching is any content that a white parent. Because i don't think we're really including young people in this conversation force right. Why would you ask young people what they want to learn about what the parents white parents are. Freaking out about is that i don't even know if they are freaking out about. But now they are right. And the fear is i don't want my teacher being told that america isn't just amazingly great place it's too negative and makes them uncomfortable. White kids need to be a little uncomfortable. People should be uncomfortable about racism. They should get uncomfortable. They should sit in the discomfort and examine what they can do to change. Can you give me some examples of systemic racism in american history. Oh absolutely let's talk about schools. The fact that are small systems from the very beginning once reconstruction ended were segregated. And they still are there still segregated and what that means is that you're not going to have equal funding in schools and the schools that have primarily minorities aren't going to get all the same opportunities as the more primarily white schools and that's baked into the structure and it carries over into the opportunities. They have post high-school post college. Another great example is housing redlining. And this is something where essentially very simply put if you were blocker. Brown fewer bipasha. You weren't allowed to even look at a house in a certain neighborhood because they were keeping them segregated. What's really interesting. Keep in mind is wasn't taught when i was in high school but i sure as healthy That redlining images happen in the deep south it happened in the north happened in new york city. It's the idea that racism isn't just something that individuals perpetuate. It's something that systems have been built around to keep it that way and it's so important that not just black and brown by students. Young people learn this. It's important light. People learn this. Because i don't know about you. I think you're gonna agree. People created these structures. People can change these structures. And it's this idea that somehow if we share the power that we were given because of these structures that were put in place where somehow we're going to lose what we have and it's such a misconception right but it's something that people fear and then it's politicized but if a black and brown person gets the same opportunities as me does. That doesn't hurt me. In fact studies show that white people who are integrated schools are the ones who benefit the most from it. But a lot of people don't want to believe that. How would it hurt your students to not be able to teach about these events which not only happened but are still happening. They already.
Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry
"alyssa milano" Discussed on Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry
"Beth rosenberg on the show. Sarry is a public high school teacher in manhattan whose career was originally due to start on september eleventh. Two thousand one school time can always bring about some mixed emotions. Then you add cove in one thousand nine hundred anxiety the to the mix. It can be a lot of profit. We've got a local breaking news alert for parents students and teachers in ware county. All public schools will now be closed for two weeks because of a rise gerona virus cases. This all started with the school board in williamson. County passing a mask mandate that went into effect today. Hundreds of parents who could not fit inside the auditorium stayed outside shouting no more masks during a protest. The president saying today this is about safety not about politics. Very term itself critical race theory has become a political flashpoint across the country. Especially when it comes to how to teach young people about justice and equity in america. Hi my name is sherry. Beth rosenberg. I believe that we have to educate in order to have a democracy. Sorry not sorry sorry you are going back to school and the delta variant is raging across the country. Tell me how that feels. It feels scary. I will say that my first emotion about back to school is. I am excited. I was teaching remotely all last year while since march twenty twenty and when i finished up the school year online i talk to all my students from this year. Saying we go back. This was when it was announced in new york city that we didn't even the masks anymore and all my students we're getting vaccinated so we left the end of the school year on such a good note that we're gonna have a pizza party when we get back and meet each other in real life and they're going to help me decorate my classroom. Something i loved doing. And all that came crashing down mid july and suddenly my emotions around returning to splurge back to how. I was honestly feeling your ago and i hate to say that out loud because i had such different expectations of how i was going to feel this summer. Is it anxiety. Can you pinpoint what you're feeling anxieties. The word for it. It's anxiety for my students because first of all. I know that they're returning with heightening anxiety. After a year being essentially shot in not socializing the way they're used to and they already felt anxiety and now. I know for sure that everyone's going to be extra anxious about safety about just the fact that even when you're vaccinated this virus can spread and so i wanted to put all my social emotional support into helping them. Acclimate back to in person. Learning and what that means and my goal is to add a lot of socializing back into our activities because they haven't been able to socialize with each other in that way and now. I'm anxious about even doing that. Because god forbid. I do activity where people are a little too close and someone gets sick in my classroom. It's so unfair. I mostly just feel angry for our young people. Because they're getting short changed a second year. I know as. I dropped my kids off to school this morning. For their first day. Bellas in first grade and milos in fourth grade. And they're too young to get the vaccination so also dealing with that terror of of course they're going to get sick because kids get sick and school and being someone who's anxious anyway once that happens. Let's say it starts with both. My kids usually get super poopie when they get sick. Guess sign that. They're seconds so. I was trying to work through in my head that first time during the school year when they get sick and my own hysteria of is this just strap as it something that we can treat with antibiotics or is it cova. And that's just because i think they're still so unknown about how children get this and how they get sick and what parts of there being are impacted. I'm just terrified. i'm so sorry it's just. It's not my fault but as a woman. I always apollo i apologize on behalf of the delta variant right. He's apologized i'm not yes. Sorry not sorry. What cova protections is your school requiring for you and for the students. I believe that we have those pepe filters in every classroom. Not every classroom. That exist in. My school building has windows so i'm hoping that like last year we don't use those windowless buildings but that has to do with capacity. How are teachers responding to this. Debate over mass mandates so by and large teachers want the mass mandates across the country. It's not that teachers like mass. It's really uncomfortable to teach in a mask is uncomfortable to be in a mask. As part of the reason why ventilation systems really have to be better. But we've just been thrown a curve ball with the delta variant and we want more important than anything else. Schools need to be open full on four kids for a safe and welcoming and joyful school year. And we need to keep them open. And that's what the mass mandate will help do as of now what's going on in new york city. At least i can sort speak for other places by in new york city. The last shock beat article. I read that covers. Education is that administrators are in conversation with the department of education asking them from work guidance. About what social. Distancing is supposed to look like the other issue that i saw it. There's a group called teens take charge. And they're a young activist group in new york city. They fought for school integration and they just sent a petition out asking for a remote school option. So that's something else. That's kind of looming in the background. That what about the kids under twelve. What happens if they're immune compromise or family members are and so we're not going to give them the option to learn remotely until they can be vaccinated but also the breakthrough cases. Which aren't that many. But when you think about trying to get our lives back to normal going to do those things that we want to do like my brother fully vaccinated went into a german and worked out as lots of people have done and he got the delta varian and so then he was terrified of bringing it home to luke and to charlotte has wife. They were knock on wood. Fine milo and bella gets sick they bring it home. There's possibility for breakthrough cases. And then you look at my parents who are in their mid seventies and part of me feels like we message this all wrong from the beginning i feel like we message dead on a nat. Well obviously it..
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"Jumping the gun on the recommendation coming. So e c p the advisory committee and immunization practice from the cdc will offer an opinion on that or you know there might be parents who are desperate for their ten year old or eleven year old to get vaccinated the paediatrician ride off label prescription for attentive eleven year old. It was interesting that the the vaccine was not approved for twelve to fifteen year olds yet so they have an all of the data that they want. So it's only sixteen and up in the fda took the unusual step on saint ex-navy on frowned upon. P people writing prescriptions. for under twelve. At this point until we can move forward on that so along those lines Diana asks what our recommendations on boosters for long haulers. Well i think you know the first of all you know. It's not a complete that the recommendation will come through for the third boosts. The white house has said they're going to ask the fda and cdc to move forward but here here's the confusing part The the level of protection against infection for the pfizer buying tech vaccine after seven. Eight months has gone down from over ninety percent to forty to fifty percent. So the number of breakthrough infections but the vast majority of those are with no symptoms are mild symptoms. And the the supporting data. Say that there's also breakthrough. Hospitalizations is not quite there yet and and so the question never because they're not reporting or they're not monitoring it so the problem is we're not getting a lot of reporting data out of the cdc too. I mean what they should have is every major medical center on the cdc website. We should list look at. The hospitalizations was the percentage of vaccinated versus unvaccinated. And we're not seeing that so the question then is clearly. If we're seeing a lot of breakthrough hospitalizations in. It's very important to boost. But there's debate in the scientific community. If you're not only seeing breakthrough infections not hospitalizations. What does that mean. Well what the white house said was well even if you're not seeing that yet the fact that you're seeing so many breakthrough infections and efficacy is maybe declined from over ninety percent of forty to fifty percent. That's the tip of the spear and it's inevitable that you're gonna start seeing breakthrough hospitalizations others in the scientific community thing. No i'm not so sure that's necessarily the case so i think that kind of debate is going on and then and if that's not confusing enough you have people to say well. Look you know even even if it's not protecting against hospitalizations. I don't wanna get a breakthrough infection. I don't wanna get long coded So i still want the third immunization. And so i think the bottom line is now that the white house has made this statement. They've come out. Strongly in favor of third musicians is going to be hard to put that one back. I think it's it's going to happen and and And and i in the hope is that it's going to restore not only prevention of symptomatic illness and ensure that you're getting longer durable protection but that you're also going to halt the symptomatic transmission because we had that for a while and then baby we can vaccinate away out of this epidemic as well if enough people ever get vaccinated and if i've thoroughly confused you of it's because as.
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"I would just like if we could focus on clean water. That's half the battle unfortunately in this country and a lot of people know this but we have pipes that are over one hundred years old. Don't even know how to talk about that. Los angeles downtown los angeles. We had a lead in our water fountain issue because pipes were over a hundred years old. You know we saw what happened in flint michigan clean. Water is a basic human right as a unicef ambassador. It's something that i fight. Four in developing nations. The fact that we have not taken care of our water system is amazing it needs to and it needs to happen now because there's no recovery from lead poisoning children their education their ability to learn. Everything depends on clean water and that is also infrastructure. So we have to get serious about this and you're right about the roads and the tunnels and bridges. It's a disaster waiting to happen like the building. Collapse in florida was because of negligence because of basic infrastructure of that building they knew that there was a problem and it just went ignored and look at what happened. That could happen all over this country. It's terrifying on the flip side. What do you think they missed like. Wet spin the biggest failure. I don't like to look at it at its failure. Because i think that they did a really good job. People say oh. The democrats have majority both houses. And what's going on. But they have to remember in the senate that they need sixty votes even know there is a majority. they can't get stuff passed. If that was the case then for the people would pass. George floyd would pass and so i wouldn't say it's the administration itself. It's we need to do. Something about congress itself in order to change the filibuster. I strongly believe we need to do that or otherwise. It's getting to be very difficult for the biden harris administration to get something passed. I don't think it's anything on their fault to do that. For the people should have passed. You should allow people access to the polls. It shouldn't be something that would be an issue but because there's not enough votes at even know people say oh. Democrats have majority. You mean still need sixty votes. And so i think that's important now. There's always work around. Do i believe that we should make a federal holiday. Absolutely let people go to the polls. It's crazy we haven't done that yet. I think we should start having said all of that. Do you think presidents deserve the credit or blame. They get for what happens early in their terms. And thinking about what you said in particular. Obviously mitch mcconnell and joe manchin and others people from both sides and the amount of obstruction they've enabled. What are your thoughts on that. I think absolutely. I think that as democrats they definitely work with people across the aisle but sometimes we have to get stuff through sometimes. We're just not able to do that. I'm going gonna ask you again. You said that you oppose scrapping the filibuster. The question i have is whether or not and you say you hope that that will bring the parties together. The question i have is whether or not you're doing it exactly the wrong way and hear me out on this. If you were to keep the idea that maybe you would vote to kill the filibuster. Wouldn't that give. Republicans an incentive to actually negotiate because all joe mansions out there. And who knows what he's gonna do by taking it off the table habit. You empowered republicans to be obstructionist. So i don't see it as a failure of the administration. I think that we as the american people need to say okay. I need to get out and vote. And twenty twenty two so that bake sure the biden embarrass administration have enough representatives there so we can get stuff done to help the american people. This is a call to action in twenty twenty and say listen. Something has to be done. The democrats need sixty percent majority in the senate so we can get stuff passed for the people at george floyd stuff that should not be an issue for the american people to help them one of the things. I really hate about american politics as that. We're only six months into the presidency and already talking about the midterm elections and they are starting to take prominence do think that we need to shorten election seasons to let some actual governing happen. No i think that we me to make it easier for people to vote. I believe in the state of colorado. They mail people their votes to give people access. And there's places rican drop off female. They can track it. There's procedures in because people say oh there's gonna be fraud. It's worked in the state for many years and that people should get mailed their ballots. Not have to ask for it. I remember protecting voting in florida and a woman came in to vote. And they said. I'm sorry ma'am you haven't voted in a certain amount of time you can vote. And they just took her off the register. I know but i didn't do anything they're like. I'm sorry there's nothing we can do. And so i think we need to make sure that we give people access to the polls in able them to do that and people work. I mean the fact that someone's waiting in line hours in line in someone in some states can't give them a bottle of water or give them a slice of pizza because they worked all day they maybe have two or three jobs. ran over. there in stood in line in the lines at some places are horrific. I've seen it and they're waiting there and they're hungry and then people have a choice at go eat or am i going to vote. They should do that to people and so they should start making it a crime if you give someone a slice of pizza. It's so upsetting and listen as an activist. I've been waiting for the right issue to get arrested for an a really feel like going to georgia and handing out water and pizza might just be it because it is so absurd and you make a great point into my listeners. Please check your voter registration. Make sure that your registration was not purged off the rolls. Make sure that you are still registered. Sadly at something that we all need to do before elections. We can't do it at the last minute. Also remind her friends to look at their registration. Make sure they're still registered. It is vital. Your book focuses on the build back better agenda of the biden presidency. Which i think is really exciting. What do you think is the most important thing the president can do right now to make sure his agenda doesn't disappear into the next campaign that's a really good point. I think it's important for him to really talk to the american people. Studies have shown if a majority of american people support it than it's hard for people to vote against something and so it smart how he talks the american people about staff for example the voting rights and showing how people support it and it shouldn't be whether you're republican or democrat but then reaching out to your representative and saying hey you're my district. I'm supporting and if they don't do it to get out there and vote and do what he can as the president whether it's issue executive orders. Doing whatever he can making voting federal holiday. Whatever he can do to able to make sure his agenda is passed and do that. Now some staff can pass in the senate reconsiliation staff where you don't need sixty percent majority as well and try and go that way as well to do that. I think it's important to work between the isles publican democrat but if he can't get his agenda done by doing that. That is important for him to proceed and do that. I think that's important absolutely couldn't agree more. And finally what.
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Alyssa Milano Involved in Car Crash After Uncle Suffers Possible Heart Attack
"Is a crazy story. I don't know if you guys saw this, but Alyssa Milano was involved in a car crash yesterday morning after her uncle suffered a possible heart attack while driving on an L. A highway. So I guess she was in the passenger seat. Her uncle started to have some sort of medical issue. He became on conscience unconscious. Excuse me. The SUV drifted out of its lane hit another. Car, So she had to reach over and use her hands to hit the brakes. Oh, wow. So like she had to think fast. Um, she then gave her uncle CPR until the police could get there. They took her uncle to a hospital, and she was able to leave the scene uninjured after her husband her up. That's insane. That's frightening. Yeah, Yeah, So they did hit another car, and she did have to, But I would be nervous like if it was moving to, like, Put my head down there because you don't know if I write something else. But and then there Like some good Samaritans that we're helping out, but no update on her uncle. I hope he's doing okay. Though he didn't even really have a scratch. Which is crazy. You used to be able to grab the emergency brake like when it was in a situation like that, when when they sort of pulled up, But a lot of them now are electric. Yeah, I don't know if it would work the
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"Are you worried about the effect football hat on your brain. At times. I do worry. Have you had a scam. I have had a scan before a routine not because of any symptoms or anything like that and it was clear and clean thankfully haven't expressed any symptoms. But i think right now. My focus was truly been on being the best neurosurgeon. I possibly could be and trying to help in this space anyway. I can not only through the science but also advocacy. I feel like my voice being a former player. Maybe the nfl teams or other orientations. May listen a little bit more. Well this guy played and now he's studying neuro-surgery and neuroscience maybe he has a bit of authoritative voice on this subject. So i would love to use that platform. What do you think of all of the new advancements we've made in mental health with psychedelics. I figure it's very pertinent that we have now expanded and brought in the way we think about mental health. The way we think about psychiatry psychology. The way we think about the human in general mental health used to be something very stigmatized. Especially in certain demographics. Where you really don't want to talk about it or you brush aside because it didn't seem like it had a physical tangible sort of approach. You can't see it exactly and so now that people are at least embrace the fact. Okay well maybe we can't see it but it's real. There's real life consequences for individuals. How can we use alternative therapies and other modalities to help. These individuals achieve their goals in their health. Achieve their goals in their life. Allow them to return to their communities and be successful and contribute. That's incredibly important. Appreciate the fact that more minds are occupying the space to target an effect these individuals in a very positive way. I think it's pretty interesting and as someone who suffers from anxiety. I can tell you that for me. My entire life my go-to my base feeling is a feeling of doom. And i'm very optimistic. I always believe that good things will happen but if there is any sort of situation i go to fight or flight and it takes me very long time to get out of it because i feel like my brain. It's like that is the shortcut to make sure that i'm okay is to put me in a state of panic and it's been like that my entire life so the idea that there is treatment or people are experimenting with psychedelics to give your brain other pathways besides the one that you keep going to. That might be hurtful to yourself whether it be through. Depression anxiety is really interesting to me and also makes a lot of sense. I agree for a long time. Westernized medicine has been very black and white. The hasn't been studied or written about and the new england journal of medicine or some huge publication. They wanted to stay away from it. We're going to stick to this sort of cookie cutter approach. But that doesn't work. Everyone is different. People have different experiences. People have different reactions to different events. As you mentioned there's certain individualized issues that need to be individually looked at examined explored and then tried with modalities that may be unconventional but may work for that individual person so i think medicine is moving more towards that. I think the generation that i've come from and the medical doctors that are coming through medical school at least when i was getting into medical school. We were preached that quite often that look if not the old nineteen sixty medicine anymore where you have an issue lobotomy. Or even issue. Let's just throw you away because you don't matter is really trying to focus on the patient and making sure that they are at the center of their management and then if we could try other modalities then let's do that because it could be effective man if we can help some veterans who have. Ptsd come back and feel safe and that they can contribute to society in a productive way so far it. i'd like to reach quote quote. Football is a man's game. It shouldn't be played until the age of puberty. You said that and you set it in one thousand nine hundred seventy four. How did you know have a sense about the threshold age to your mind. Some forty plus years ago. I played before puberty and got knocked on my acid stunned. Okay what advice would you give as a neurosurgeon and as a professional football player for parents whose kids want to play football knowing what you know now so the advice that i would give as football as alluded to earlier is an amazing team sport. I'm biased. i love the sport. My wife knows nothing about football. But i'm trying to get into it been married for about a year and a half from like georgia whereas football. It's really really huge house man. I tell her dad all the time and her mother like you didn't put your daughter around some football so she can get into it. But that's just my personal by. I think football's a great sport because it teaches you. These sort of intangibles develop these traits. That i think are easily transferable to you being a student a thinker. A leader a christian or whatever it is that you want to be working with people who are different than you working on a team to whereas one collective goal taking coaching. There's a generation. Now that if we get talked to people sometimes crumble instead of writing to the challenge to say you know what okay you wanna challenge me. I'm going to meet that. Challenge head on and i'm going to stand up in the face adversity and do well relying on your fundamentals on pressure comes being adjustable and flexible when kobe hit and my nurse surgery stopped and i had to be cova. Dr adjust and adapt my practice. So that i could help take care of these very sick patients in bossom so all of that works and what i would tell. Parents is think about that when you think about putting your child into football but also make sure that the fundamentals are being taught being emphasized that we're not doing the same old drill that we're doing we have one player lineup. Here another player on appear and they run headfirst and slam into each other. Almost like a macho sort of alpha male drill that really has no benefit to the actual game play but literally. It's just to say who's the biggest dog in the bunch that we're moving away from that we have to make sure the equipment is right. Make sure you have good proper helmets that fit. Well they sure you're wearing the mouthpieces. That are protective. Make sure that you're not playing the sport as tackle football player until you're in your early teens. Maybe eleven twelve years old. Maybe a pre. I will give them advice going forward because i think the game can be done safely but it has to be done in a very controlled and manage way last year. You advised that it was too early for the nfl to play in the pandemic and of course they went ahead and played anyway because a lot of money was at sake and they had a lot of infections. Do you think they should be playing this year. Biggest getting better now. Absolutely you're absolutely right. I was a staunch proponent of not playing last year college pro no less worry about this amick i and i think he was sending a message when you're the nfl or the ncwa or the nba. And you're the major organizations say. Let's focus on health of people who are very vulnerable who aren't multimillion dollar athletes. Because they're sitting from their homes or sitting in their communities and rural and suburban america and struggling with these issues and you could honestly have taken those funds that you had accumulated for your sports. Put your sport on to put into the communities to help with vaccine rollouts. Now they're happening or to help with other health issues. That could help the public health fight and push here. I do believe it was a mistake last year. Now it's getting a little bit better. Numbers are getting better. I'm looking at our hospital general. We don't have as many patients in boston with covert so we're moving more in a normal setting so i think it's reasonable to return now with certain restrictions and limitations whether it be the amount of people who can come whether it be and isolated pseudo bubble whether that means getting players vaccinated so they don't become spreaders and these events. I think he could do it now in.
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"Dollars a year was so incensed this entire pandemic as companies would throw up the signs saying hero works here tanko worker. Or how greater these essential workers. They're just wonderful. But don't trades people pay them but we're also a state where we have the highest number of votes who have crushing student loan debt which puts people in a position where they're not able to buy that first home or to start that family or to take a risk and maybe start at enterprise with the dreams and talents that they have because of the weight and because of being affordability. We've seen in higher. Ed there a lot of folks who say well now come. You're black and you're gay. How can you ever win in pennsylvania. Because i will tell people don't have to look like me or love like me to know that i will fight for them because i'm also fighting for myself and i'm fighting for my community. I represent the third poorest districts in the commonwealth parts of my district. The average annual income is under ten thousand bucks there. He'll section on my district. Last time. i saw the numbers on this. We were talking about nine thousand seven hundred and eighty three bucks average annual income in so these are the families who are working two and three jobs who are driving uber. Who were part of the gig economy. Who are working in the grocery stores that kept everything going for doing the service jobs that have become so arsenal of our economy but we have left them out again and again. And you'll sony. People talk about the new deal. The fair labor standards without talking about the fact that in the fair labor standards we actively left out domestic workers on the accuracy left out agricultural works right which make up a lot of the workers in pennsylvania workers who were seen the highest rates of infections. Because they couldn't work from home. Okay you can't do. Agricultural work from home they were out working but yet we don't give them the pay or protections that they deserve. I mean the care industry it needs to be completely restructured from the ground up and we're seeing the repercussions of what happens to a country when they don't put certain respect behind certain positions the two million women that had to leave the workforce because they didn't have childcare. That's a lot of money that has been taken from our economy because of shortage in child and elder care and we need to do better for sure. It's seems correct me. If i'm wrong but it seems like the gop in pennsylvania is not a lot different from the gop and rest of the united states. They're worse and they tried very hard to crush a free and fair election so absolute tell my listeners. What is happening with them in your state right now. A lot of people i think. Got me for the first time nationally. When i was on rachel maddow using the legislative process. And using things i've learned as community organizer to block a bill that i think had it become law. I'm not sure what it would have happened in. Pennsylvania this resolution. Excuse me not build. This resolution will stay called an election. Integrity committee okay which you have to use air quotes four because there was nothing about it at any level of integrity would've allowed them to investigate the election as it was happened to investigate allies that they told they create it lies and then they wanted to investigate their fever dreams. They would have allowed themselves to subpoena ballots to impound voting machines into physically compel elections officials. Were supposed to be counting the votes physically compel them to come before sham hearings to talk about the lies that they were telling about the election and i will never forget. And it's one of the best moments of my career there. Little scooby doo villain press release that they put out after for basically saying you know we would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for exa radical democrat. Forget all the things. They called me but this is what they have been up to for a long time and it hasn't stopped with the election. I had members my colleagues. Sue me in my personal capacity because the president asked me to be an elector to the electoral college. Personally sumi to try to stop me from going. And exercise that responsibility while taking a look at pennsylvania now where the state's highest court dealt another blow to the trump campaign's efforts to overturn election results in a unanimous decision. The court rejected. The trump teams baseless claims of mass voter fraud. This comes one day after the state dismissed a lawsuit brought by republican representative kelly that argue that the state. Gop legislature violated the constitution when it expanded absentee voting. This is bonkers stunts after the election was over the house. Republicans state government committee of which. I remain a member a really powerful committee because it oversees all of our elections as well as just you hear it from the title state government. Almost anything can go to that committee that affects state government and we conducted ten different hearings. Where we heard from elections officials we heard from so many people we also heard from unfortunately members of the heritage foundation and other bonkers. People who were a part of spreading. The election is and are still spreading. These lies today ten different hearings to try to prove their lie and now they want to do things like voter. Id in the state they wanna do. Things like limiting drop boxes limiting the amount of time that people have to utilize the drop boxes. They wanna do all of this stuff because they believe that the way they hold on. Power is to gerrymander districts. Every chance they get every ten years and then to make it as difficult as possible for people to participate in the electoral process in. I am sick of debating these issues with them every single day. Tell people what that's like. Because i think right now. People are thinking about running for these offices on a state level and it might help to hear you. Tell us what it's like and what they're getting into the first advice that i give anybody who's thinking about running for office is to run. You have to run. I would encourage anybody who's listening. You have something to offer. I would encourage you around in a lot of what keeps people from running. Is this belief that the folks were an office are just so much smarter so much better prepared or something then you i work with these folks and i promise you. We're not sending like rocket scientists. Okay these people in many cases don't know what the hell they're talking about and that is what it's like. I'm dealing with a lot of who don't know what the hell they're talking abou. Who are what. I call button. Pushers we have electronic voting in the house and they go in and their job is to look and see how all the other republicans voted and they just vote that way. And that's incredibly unfortunate because we're not having serious conversations about just. What are the best ideas. What are the ideas that have the most support from the pennsylvanians one of the things. We do all the time as we renamed bridges in the state house. We're not fixing lot of time changing names and naming them what it's like. Let's actually invest in making them saying the infrastructure.
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"It's not popular with the folks in the senate it's also what they've pinned radical ideas on which i'm sorry expecting a good education expecting people to not have to live in debt or to live without a home. These are not radical ideas. Sorry not sorry. yeah exactly. These are common sense things but the issue is we don't have enough officials who actually have skin in the game when it comes to the results of this public policy or are they forget some how they evolve into something differently and they don't wanna look back at what made them who they are in the struggle that they have because i see that a lot in the entertainment industry right every actor every person in the entertainment industry has a pretty humble beginning. Unless you're born into a hollywood family which sure there are of those but most actors artists in my industry. They do so for that reason. You wanna change your life do something about it because we have no way out and so i feel that there is an element that some people don't want to look back at the struggle once they've had certain amount of success and that could also be what's happening with certain elected officials. I think there's certainly examples of ad that people can pull out. But i think because of how broken our core parts of our democratic process that you have to raise gobs and gobs of money to even get to congress in the first place because of bad the system as currently constituted then.
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"And i went from again one night being at this high school rally where there are a lot of people. Big event biden harris. Whitmer cory booker was there to Marching band like all to then getting home in this crazy way and i unpacked my carry on bag and then i went to the supermarket filled it up with canned soup and toilet paper and all the things that we were all freaking out about getting at that point and to go from that to fifteen months or so later to just like simple thing of god dinner. I hope that we don't do what human beings always do which is to push off the things that were hard and sad and our minds. I think that's how we cope. I know that i have spent very little time. After biden noise elected very little time and energy on even reading anything about trump. I can't go back there. It's triggering for main. No i understand it and look. When i set out to write this book i wanted to not have it. Be another trump book and there's very little donald trump in this book on purpose. I think in a way that hopefully will be refreshing to people because he's there as the context for all of that but it's really this whole story of things that when trump was blotting out the sun and that was the only thing anybody could pay attention but actually was a complete revolution of how things worked in the democratic party and all these super interesting characters and stories we talked mostly about joe biden but like bernie sanders buddha judge elizabeth warren cory booker. Come all our benches deep. Yeah it was a crazy group of people to get into an..
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"Maybe i can do something to help now. I don't know what came of that. But i do know that he does follow up with a lot of people he does and he also think this thing about him that i've learned when i don't know him well but he makes you feel scene and he does that in a really intimate special way. The last time i saw him was at a fundraiser. Like right before he got the ticket and i was involved without being involved in their campaign. And i did everything i could to help him win. But the last fundraiser. I saw joe looked at me right in the eye. He gave me a huge hug and he held my hand and he looked me right in the eye and he said i want you to know that we talk a lot about you in our camp and something and the way you told that story that i think is significant in itself. Because he's the president that had states now and you said joe you would. You have ever said. Barack looked at me or donald or george or bill right now. It's something different. And obviously most americans haven't had that kind of conversation with him or the conversation that woman had with him but people do get the sense that that's who he is it comes off of him. It doesn't seem impossible to have that conversation with him when you look at him when you hear him. This like calm that he has. I don't know it. Just it makes you feel better first of all. Also i know and this is something as an activist that is so valuable. I know that he is listening to people in the advocacy activism organizing space. And that if he says something or does something and anyone voices that people who voice that that are closest to the pain..
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"Just on the women's march i went to the women's march in dc to cover it. I got out of the trade union station. And i never got even within sight of the stage because it was so many people. It was just overwhelming. How many people were there. And there's a quote from cecile richards. Who is planned parenthood at the time and she said if an organization tried to make the women's march happened on its own the amount of time and money it would have taken never would've been like that and it just happened spontaneously and i think that's a real testament to what activists able to do what people just taking politics into their own hands rebel to do. I want to talk about gun. Violence a little bit more because joe biden has taken a much more active stance on gun violence in his presidency. Obviously it's something. He's been focused on for years in the book end in the real world. We hear a lot about his compassion and his empathy. That the loss of his family seems to have fostered in him. How big of a factor do you think that was in his decision to get into the race and his ultimate nomination. I think it's huge to just go back to the march or for second how this played in. There's a moment in the book that i have of him the day before the march they brought the kids to capitol hill to go meet with their representatives. And the organizers not. Okay who do we bring in. Who's like the speaker that we have here in this moment. And they bring joe biden they bring them in because they know he's obviously big time politician..
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"The trump administration with a complicit senate completely overhauled the united states judiciary filling it with unqualified and far right extremist activist judges all the way to the supreme court to discuss the impact of these appointments. And what can be done about them. I've invited tamra bremmer to the show. Tamra is the senior adviser for engagement and outreach. for demand justice lawmaker plans to introduce legislation. Today it would expand the court from nine justices to thirteen one of the bill's sponsors new york congressman when dare jones tweeted. Republicans half the ford when mitch. Mcconnell held mirror garland seat open nearly a year before an election then confirmed amy. Kuney barrett's days before the next election disarming the courts radical right-wing majority would correct this injustice. Whose last week. The president signs an executive order creating Bipartisan commission on the supreme court of the united states. A bipartisan group of over thirty constitutional and legal experts. Were examining a range of questions about proposed potential reforms to the supreme court. We are here. as a coalition Beginning this effort To ensure that we restore justice to the supreme court. Hi i'm tamra brummer. And i'm fighting to add four seats to the supreme court. Sorry not sorry tara. Thank you so much for being a part of the podcast. Will you talk to us. About what the judiciary is supposed to look like a postal. Like one would argue that. The judiciary should be reflective of the american people and the people who make our country go. But if you've ever looked at our federal judiciary in particularly maybe our supreme court might be a better example for folks listening. Our supreme court doesn't really reflect visually. What america looks like it's overwhelmingly white male and older noce. Older folks are white men or oldman but they aren't overwhelming majority of our federal judiciary. And so when you think about who understands and interprets. The law of the land in our constitution in the roles. You're only getting buried limited purview of bad interpretation. I are what the constitution for all of us. And so our judiciary should look like you and me. It should look like women women of color people of color but in one hundred thirteen justices for instance at the supreme court. There's never been a black woman. There's never been a patient person. There's never been a native american so we've got a lot of work to do to get our courts that actually look like america. And why is that important. I think is very important because if you think about our society and our ecosystem you wanna make sure for instance if you are defending going in front of the judge what would it mean for you elissa if you went in front of a judge and your judge had never. I don't know argued in front of the court before or your judge only had experience defending corporations and oil companies or if you're judge in their lawyer light their life had only represent the federal government but never just regular people so making sure that we have a diverse judiciary not just in terms of democrats which is very important right but also in professional experience means that we have a more deeper robust understanding of how our laws and our country work and operate. And i think that we've seen this recently in some of the hearings that we've had around already people calling in front of the senate judiciary around or court. Nominations white men are not asked any questions. About how does being white or man influence you being a judge however when this black women who's been asked they always been asked will your race and your gender influence your decision as a judge. Those women have said no. And i believe them. But i think what we're really getting to is that you have a lived experience in the body that you have in this world how you walk through the world and that we want to have people who've had different lived experiences walking through this world being able to interpret our laws and be able to give us equal justice under the law for all of us is really important. We'll be dealing with our federal judiciary but right now. It's really tough. I think for folks to get a fair shot for americans to get a fair shot our democracy to get a fair shot in the current structure of our government. Can you just break down for my listeners. What happened during the trump years. Oh absolutely i like to talk about it this way. Although donald trump was a one term president he was very successful in keeping his legacy alive without the federal judiciary. I don't know if called snow this but during his tenure him and mitch mcconnell. We're able to confirm over two hundred federal judges so that's two hundred plus people who will have a lifetime appointment on the federal court. I mean in the supreme court. He put three people on the bridge. And so we talk a lot about mitch mcconnell and how we all understand how that man still alive but at the end of the day he now has over two hundred mitch. Mcconnell lights will carry on his legacy. So what really. Donald trump mitch mcconnell and republicans have been very crystal clear about doing laser. Focus is laying out the part of the federal government that they feel like they have the most control over. And that's the federal judiciary. They've been laser focused for multiple decades. And i think there are now. Democrats and those of us on the left progresses what we're realizing. Oh my goodness this is something that we need to be concerned about as well. But we're catching up while republicans in donald trump mitch. Mcconnell have been laser focused for years. I feel like we're always a little reactionary instead of proactive. But especially in this case because as you said and i think it's important for the listeners to know and understand that this is ben part of the plan for the gop for decades and we are seeing this plan. Come into fruition. And i would just love free to remind everyone what mcconnell dead with merrick garland and neil gorsuch. Oh absolutely so. When president obama was in the last year of his term he was like i have an opportunity to put a supreme court justice. And we're like oh my gosh. That's amazing but mitch. Mcconnell said no. He's doing it. The next justice could fundamentally alter the direction of the supreme court and have a profound impact on our country. So of course of course the american people should have a say in the courts director. It is the president's constitutional right nominate a supreme court justice and it is the senate's constitutional right act as a check on a president and withhold. Its consent what he did was totally illegal. He decided that he just going to make the rules as he goes along. But he definitely said. I'm not going to allow this president his rightful place of putting justice. I'm going to wait. So he waited all sixteen months sixteen months between the passing of school year. To the appointment of worth itch. We just totally forgot about that. In mitch. mcconnell just decided to ram through. And i think that's important for folks to understand about why the federal courts are so important to republicans people should remember. You remember i remember. This was not popular with the american people. The american people say you absolutely need to let president obama appoint the next supreme court justice. The republicans didn't care about what was popular. They cared about keeping power and so the courts for them or their way of keeping a stronghold on our democracy in.
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"You mentioned. Mayor bowser she was recently admitted to the democratic governors association. Do you think that this is going to help move statehood efforts forward. I think any time that you can talk about the unfair any of the differences. Any conversation about that moves the needle forward. It's why we've seen again of twenty points in support of state of the last four years but absolutely the district operates already as a state county city all same time so anytime somebody tells me we have city mexican will because we have a state board of education. We do stay board of transportation. We do everything the state does any county does so it just makes sense that she's part of the dj our attorney general part of the democratic attorney general's associations well and our district council members of the mcas el national council state legislatures. So it makes sense to elevate all of those officers whether it's Or dj holds office because we are assistant and she acts with the exception. Odyssey nationals who are the proponents of statehood in congress and where is statehood in the legislative process recently passed the house of representatives so there are two hundred sixteen advocates for stated in the house. One to sixteen to two zero six in that one obviously the largest champion of stated in the house of representatives is eleanor holmes norton. Our delegates represented jamie raskin from maryland obviously is a huge supporter as well. There's a number of former zone of debt halland now attorney general of minnesota keith. Ellison there's a number of folks who have advocated loudly In the house on the senate we stand at forty four cosponsors original sponsor for a total of forty fives all of them from democratic hopkins. Senator carper is the lead on the bill. Senator van hollen of now because champions over on the senate side and we expect at some point here relatively soon a hearing in the senate homeland security committee on the bill which would be the first hearing about some end arises afternoon along with several of our colleagues to discuss the key to end the policy of taxation without representation which millions of americans in the district of columbia have endured over for over two hundred years and hundreds of thousands still endure. Today is policy was wrong. In seventeen seventy six when thirteen colonies took on the mayas thing on earth to end. It is wrong today. Wow so the time is now absolutely. There is no reason to wait anymore. Tell us about. Dc vote and how my listeners can support the work. Do vote is one of the longest established dc statehood organizations. We've been in existence for twenty three years you can head to. Our website is the most obvious. Dc vote dot org. You can follow us on twitter at dc underscored vote to forget these discover website where swings through all of that but we actually need folks outside of dc almost more than we need. The folks in dc get invoked ducey residents who fired up showing up and we need people from across the country to take that next step as i said we don't have center some. We don't have a representative that can vote passenger this legislation and to educate people about it. We need to lean on people outside of the district so go to our website. There's tools you can use to talk to your friends and family that is sample tweets and sample post for facebook. You can start a conversation with anybody you know and get them involved in this effort because it is going to take folks from outside this area working on our backs are you hopeful and then my final question is what gives you that hope. I am cautiously optimistic. What gives me that. Hope is where we have common the last four years one example. I can get when we first past the ballot initiative and really focused on statehood. We developed a sign on letter to where we could get organizations to join our efforts in support it and we struggled to get to fifty one organizations fifty one scottish a big thing around here. It's one of our favorite numbers so we pushed to get to there and it was a struggle to get fifty one organization signed off just before the recent house vote. We submitted another letter and it had two hundred seven organizations including some of the largest political organizations coach. We see public support going from thirty four to fifty four percent of the last five years we obscene our cosponsor was. We almost a fireworks. Got one hundred four sponsors the first time we've now passed the bill through the house the first time and the second time in history hasn't happened in two hundred years. We set a goal. Last year of forty cosponsors may hit twenty two when out forty five in the senate and so the trajectory is our direction et grew in orange county california and spent it fair bit a time at the beach and i have often said you can have a really great surfer. But if you don't have the waves and the atmosphere and the win all of the right moment all right time you're not gonna make it to the end and i feel like we're at a point where those things camel on. There's a lot of work still. There's a lot of effort. We need to put forth stuff like this is super helpful. But i think we've got the shot and we've ever had. Well you give me hope. Bow and please call on me if i could be of service to you and dc vote. I really appreciate you being a part of the podcast and sharing your expertise with my listeners. Ventures and much for others. I now yield five minutes to the gentle lady from the district of columbia the author of this bill and moment in history. The great eleanor. holmes norton. Five minutes gentleman is recognized for five minutes. Thank you mr speaker. And i find my good friend. The gentle lady for her leadership on this dc statehood bill congress has both a moral obligation and the constitutional authority passed. Hr fifty one. This country was founded on the principles of no taxation without representation and consent of the governed but dc residents are taxed with representation and cannot consent to the laws under which they as american citizens must live. Okay make no mistake. The republican party opposes statehood for dc solely because they fear giving equal representation to the residents of the nation's capital will be a political nightmare for them. Their entire argument rests on keeping nearly a million people. A million mostly black and brown people out of the national political dialogue because they fear it will hurt their majorities heaven forbid they changed their policies to better reflect the will and needs of these people. Why do that when you could just ignore them. That's what dc statehood is about. It's about telling the government they can't simply ignore hundreds of thousands of residents in the shadow of the capitol building. It's that simple. If congress truly holds to the self evident ideal that all people are created equal then it must allow those people to have equal representation in our government. I mean why are they so afraid. Sorry not sorry is executive produced by alyssa milano. Our associate producer has been jackson. Editing and engineering. By natasha's jake guts and music by josh cooke. Alicia eagle and that's my boy. Please subscribe on spotify tunes or wherever you get your podcasts. And if you like the show please rate review and spread the word sorry..
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"Are. What are they are. The silly ones why we don't have a car dealership. We don't have we don't have landfill on we. Don't have loggers. These are things brought up under oath in congress and by senators by representative so mention them. Because you don't know if they're serious or not when it comes under oath but it shows you how ridiculous all of the there are no serious ones which is why they spend the time on the digital since the semi intellectual arguments in opposition one is the constitutionality which is sort of hinted at at the very beginning of the conversation. We know that it's constitutional at one point. There was a proposal to make the entirety of the district. The state and that wouldn't be Rfk author diverts amos memo in nineteen sixty. Four saying it would not be constitutional names right because taking the entire district and making it. A state goes against that establishment clause that we talked about earlier because there has to be a federal district and right now our proposal on that bill that's before the house and the senate preserves a federal district. It's a little bit smaller if you look at the map in dc. It used to be a perfect diamond now. A diamond with a chunk missing. Let's 'cause we gave. The trump back went to virginia so that virginia could maintenance so we can change the size of the district. that's already been established. We want to change it one more time. Preserves the postcard zone is what i call. What would stay as the federal district and where everybody knows the white house the library of congress the capitol building the monument scott would stay as a federal district to comply with search. So that's why it's said it's some intellectual argument against there are some folks who argue that we can just take land and it back to maryland. They call it retrocession except that. It's no retro. Their dc was part of maryland longer ago than texas was part of mexico where louisiana was part of right. Like the idea that we're just gonna go back to a different land. Is insulting more than anything else. And so that's not a workable solution. Either dc residents. Don't wanna be maryland residents. Don't want it and see. Nobody who's really engaged has any interest in that. So that's the other argument that you hear quite a bit in opposition. I jokingly in the opening talked about messing up the flags. Some people are a little concerned about fifty one stars by the political arguments that you brought up there on the way to do international things done the green new deal medicare for all and by the way you may have mentioned this on your show but they unplanned plan to To make the district of columbia state getting to know democratic senators. Puerto rico state. We give them to more new democratic senators and a former supreme court clerk yourself. You've surely noticed today. Plan to expand the supreme court so this is full bore socialism against they. Don't carry much weight when you examine on against your. Yeah because i feel like republicans are opposing statehood. Because they're afraid they're gonna lose power in the government and i'm afraid also because the senate is so close that because we seem like we're pushing for this now becomes political optics symptoms right but if you look throughout history who control the senate entity given point. It's a very small number of months. Actually not even quite years were two additional even if he assume are going to be democratic from dc to additional democratic senators would change the balance of power. That's a scare tactic even right now to additional democratic senators. Don't change the of power. The democrats control the us senate. I'm like i said our elections are opened anybody to enter. If you have the right candidate and the right message you might be able to win no matter which party from. We've elected people from both parties. Before i susan collins recently suggested to make makdissi part of maryland instead of granting statehood. Tell me what your feelings are on. that idea. that's the idea that's called retrocession though was getting just a little bit. Retrocession is problematic because it goes against the american fundamental values of self governs. The consent of the governed is one of the most important things of our democracy and it's one of the things that sets us apart across the world and so if the people who are going to be governed washington residents and maryland. Don't think that that's how repetition should go. that's not how it should go and do spoke. Eighty six percent favor pulling in maryland. Shows most of maryland as opposed. So they don't have the consent of the governor. this idea. it's legally a harder thing to do. You have to get an act of congress enacted the maryland legislature and. Then you have to figure out how to stitch all the laws to go there. Speeding laws are are speeding. Laws that are going to rule the day right if you crossed the line. Does it suddenly change. And that's obviously fifty example but all of our laws our tax laws marriage lost. All of them would have to be blended in some form between the two entities. And who wins. That argument is at maryland. they're larger or is a d. c. Because we've had those less for two hundred and some odd years depending on which ones you're talking all of those pieces are far more challenging the idea that seven hundred thousand people have determined for themselves. What sort of government they would like to live under and that that determination complies with the greater government of the united states. What would you say to senators. Who are working against this. I don't know. I don't understand the arguments against the arguments against are based on power and racism. And that's all there is to in the district of columbia is a majority district of color. We have a plurality of significance or -ality of african american residents. We would actually be the blackest in the country when we enter the union. And when you combine the black population with the latino population on the asian american we're majority personal color state. We are governed by majority white body. The united states on it is a living walking breathing example of white supremacist and so there is a fair bit of opposition based on that that structures of white supremacy are being supported by individuals across the country. There are absolutely power concerns. The republicans don't want to more urban representing senators regardless of what party. They end up. There is a significant rural. Urban divide in the country and the dc senators would represent urban interests and so that power is at play as well but none of this none of their arguments. None of the opposition is based on american values of one person one soul. And that's why. I don't understand that's why can't get to a don't understand. Gerrymandering don't understand the idea of walking people. I've been trying to get the equal rights amendment pass for the last three air. That's another one. I don't understand the arguments against it. The incredibly mobile concept that women are equal praise. Yeah it's really out there that's so progressive accused saudi gender being a radical and. I'm just like if i actually put forth radical ideals call me a radical. But i feel like they're relatively normal and the public supports. Standard is fifty four percent so this should be a no-brainer. Speaking of the public. supporting it. I would love for you to just talk to why people. Outside of washington advocate for dc statehood. Americans believe in representation. It's one of our fundamental values not to sound completely cliche but until the represented none of us actually are because if all of our voices aren't heard equally everybody else's voices freaked unmodified. Somehow i come out of the lgbt marriage. I used to straight people who were on behalf of manage all the time. Why do you support. Because they're in pathetic because they can understand equality they can understand that everybody should be on the same page and those same arguments come to stay on. The idea that us gaining statehood takes away from your somehow is nonsensical increasing representation to include. Everyone is what we should all be sick. And that's where we do draw parallels with things like redistricting and jerry mandrake is that everyone's voice should be weighed equally concluded equally and county. Let me ask you this do you think that dc not being stayed impacted the response to the january. Sixth attacks or absolutely.
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Fixing What We Broke With Former White Supremacist Christian Picciolini
"Christian. I'm really glad that you're here. Because it feels like. We are at a precipice in america right now. Where one misstep will send us plummeting into generations of racial hate and violence. And i think it is so very important to understand how people enter hate groups and white supremacist organizations so in order to get a better understanding. Can you tell us a little bit about your story in particular. Yeah thanks for having me. It's an honor to be here but it's also a privilege. I want to acknowledge that. Oftentimes people that look like me Second chances and we still live in world. Where black and brown folks aren't getting even first chances many cases so i wanted to point that out too. But thanks for having me. I was recruited at nineteen eighty-seven was fourteen years. Old into america's first neo nazi skinhead group. I spent eight years as a member of that. Until i was almost twenty three years old but before that the take a step further. I wasn't raised to be a racist. My parents are italian. Immigrants who came to the united states in the mid nineteen sixties and. When they came over they were often the victims of prejudice. They also had friends from all over the world different religions and backgrounds and it was always exposed to that so it wasn't a matter of my parents rearing that in me but because my parents are telling immigrants they also had to work extremely hard when it came over and they started a small business. They were gone seven days a week sometimes fourteen or sixteen hours a day so i didn't really see them a lot and i knew that they loved me. I was surrounded by a lot of love grandparents. Aunts and uncles. But i never saw my parents and i always wondered where they were and why they weren't around than it always came back to. Maybe i wasn't good enough. So i never really voiced that so i went looking for that elsewhere looking for that sense of family and when i was fourteen years old in nineteen eighty seven. I was standing in an alley and was smoking joint and a guy with shaped head came up to me and it was eighty seven so nobody really knew what skinhead was. I certainly and this guy walked up to me. And he pulled the joint from my mouth and he looked me in the eyes and he said that's what the communists and jews want to keep dessel
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We Gather Together - Creating an American Thanksgiving with Denise Kiernan
"So denise. I want to start by asking you to cover the early history of thanksgiving were all taught. From a very early age that the pilgrims landed in plymouth and shared a feast with the native americans living in the area. How close is that accurate. What's so interesting about thanksgiving as we celebrated versus thanksgiving as it has been on this planet for much longer. I'm always fascinated about how traditions and practices evolved the concept of gratitude and giving thanks has been around basically as long as humans have walked the earth. The word thanksgiving and even the practice of thanksgiving has been around for centuries before even conception of the united states of america. Yes the pilgrim's did land at plymouth. Yes the pilgrim's did have a meal with the woman. Og indians was. That proclaimed a thanksgiving now. When thanksgiving became a federal holiday in the united states of america was that event singled out as the reason for establishing that holiday. Now i want to be clear. I am not putting anything out there. That other people haven't said for a while and what's really interesting. I think is that every year. You'll see these. Hey here's the real. This part of thanksgiving and i think part of the reason. Is we tell these stories. We tell this. Essentially two kids in school and then later on when they get into high school or college or whatever we don't necessarily re contextualised and give them the full story so every year it's almost necessary that we keep trotting these things out and contextualisation of history is so important to really kind of look at everything that went into a particular event and thanksgiving again. Like i said you know. I am not the first person to come out. And say yeah. That's not exactly how it happened. But what i'm interested in. And what was one of the linchpins at making me want to do. The book we gather together was the ageless. Timeless concept gratitude view stevens. I'm and author here in madison wisconsin. And i'm thankful for men. Women working press in use of the people. The you don't have a great thanksgiving. There is an alternate true factual story about thanksgiving and gratitude and harvest festivals. And all of those things. And how. The actual holiday came to be in america and evolve and erica so i thought was an alternate entry and wouldn't that be fun and i'm interested. How thanksgiving celebrations changed in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. So a lot of what thanksgiving is rule out of things like harvest festivals. Which again go way. Way back thanksgiving's were often religious practices in various parts of the world. You would set aside a day sometimes for fasting and humiliation as they would say to give thanks for could be particular event. When i was working on we gather together. I came across some really interesting articles including some archives from the atoms stanley. john adams. John quincy adams. Abigail adams and john adams writes in his diary thanksgiving for the repeal of the stamp act. So like that was something. You would have a thanksgiving for declare thanksgiving for thanksgiving's for various wins in battle or days of general thanksgiving or like. I said fasting and humiliation so those sorts of advance existed outside of north america. What we now consider the continental united states they existing europe and those traditions were obviously brought over when people came over but the concept of having days set aside for saying thank. You is something that goes back a very very long time. Tell us about. Sarah josefa so sarah of a hail was so compelling to me because she was a young woman born in the early nineteenth century actually of the eighteenth century. She had no formal schooling but her parents instilled in her a deep deep love of reading and learning and she was obsessed with the written word. She married a man who shared her love of all these things. They used to have study hour together in the evenings. She lost him fairly early on in their marriage and so she was a widowed mother of five children and because of her desire to write ended up becoming one of the most influential editors in the nineteenth century. She edited to popular women's magazines. The american ladies magazine and then go. Jeez ladies magazine which was one of the most popular magazines in the nineteenth century. And just to be able to do that to me whether thing but what really moved me about her was that she had all of these things that she needed not wanted but like needed to do for herself and her children but she still found time to raise money for people who have less than she did and to bring people's attention to causes she thought worthy and her ten city was just. I mean seriously. I was interviewing her thinking good. What have i been doing with my time. You know how i feel like. I'm talking to her. You know when. I am interviewing her. I'm looking at what she wrote. I'm looking at what she was quoted as saying. I'm looking at the book she put out. I'm looking at the end. Policies that she curated
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Prom at the Polls - Young Voters Taking Charge
"Thanks for being here. So so be tell us about promised the polls, what it's all about and what promised polls doing in the weeks leading up to the elect show prometheus polls is a youth led civic engagement event meant to take back twenty twenty, and we're doing this through a series of social media challenges and different fund ways for young people and adults to get involved and make the voting process. Exciting. We lost our promise graduation. We lost so many things due to the pandemic and we're GONNA, take that back with prompt the polls we are creating excitement around voting through the challenge. Hashtag proposals and Hashtag address up to vote. Those are the two main things that we're working on now and all the way up until the election. So the first one we're using the HASHTAG proposals is challenging someone to go to the polls if you or to vote by mail with you, and we're doing this to create a big wave of youth voters and to get so many more people engaged to wouldn't have before. So if I challenged my friend to vote and they vote with made than they challenged someone else I'm reaching so many more people than if I just voted alone so. You may ask what is a puzzle so a proposal similarly to proposals in highschool for problems or forms it is asking someone to go out with you. So in our case, we're asking people to come with us to the polls or to just vote with us from the comfort of our own home. The other aspect of this is dressing up to vote. So we're using the HASHTAG dress up to vote, and if you participate in any of these challenges, which we really encourage you all to do make sure to use the Hashtag online. So we can spread the word and share the. Content that you're creating but dress up to vote is exactly what it sounds like. It's putting on prom or formal attire and either going to the polling place or walking to your mailbox or going to a dropbox to cast your ballot. But making sure that you're voting in style and just making voting fun and exciting for everyone and up until the election will be participating and we have some really interesting people and Super Cool influencers who are participating, but it really comes down to the youth and the population participating everyday people getting out getting excited about voting and participating in these different challenges. Tell us a bit about how promised the poll started promised. The polls began when you actually introduced the five of us and put us in kind of a think tank room and we all are really passionate about getting out the youth vote and making sure that every young person in this country knows that their vote matters and that their voice matters and we wanted to come up with a fun and creative way to inspire young people to go to the polls to vote and make their voice heard on election day. Nicole Brown celebrities are really stepping forward. So just one quick word of encouragement. Please encourage other folks to get involved in their platforms the way you are. I WANNA say that first of all is not lost there is still time there's eighteen days as a young man named Jerome, Foster, the second who created prompt the polls. That's the thing we joked about at the beginning he's trying to encourage young people to enjoy their senior year at the polls. So find somebody you WANNA, take to the polls and and shout them out and shoot your shot, and then just encourage people to find different interesting Korean of ways to go and make a different voice matters use it out of the first meeting after you connected us we came up with this idea and ever since then have been meeting daily to pull it off and make it happen. Where can people find out more information? We have a website promised the polls, dot com but most of our information at all of our content is on all of our social media platform. So twitter instagram tech, pock facebook you can go there and we'll be posting some super cool content from now until election day on the various platforms and you can find more ways to get involved. They're amazing. And Matthew. What do you think is the goal for promised the polls what do you hope that promised the polls will accomplish I. Think we succeeded if we have even just one person vote in planning on voting before obviously the goal is a lot bigger than that. But at the end of the day when we sit out to start the prompted the Bulls project, you said to results what do We want to accomplish how do we WANNA help and how do we think the country needs to change and one of the big things that we talked about that the vote isn't being considered enough is being cared about enough and there's people in the country in our generation that are voting. So we thought let's take that opportunity. Let's take that situation and make it something fun. Make it something. that. They can enjoy but also make it something that they're going to participate in for the next. However many years they want to see you know really at the end of the day the goal is if we get as many people voting as possible that haven't voted before as many people involved in the political process that weren't involved before and there's many people interested that weren't interested before we've succeeded.
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Bringing Democracy to the People With Amanda Litman
"So Amanda Run was founded on the day of trump's inauguration. So tell me a little bit about the organization and why you founded it. So I worked for Hillary's for two years before that for President Obama for the Florida Governor's race in for nonprofit and between the week after election day I, got a facebook message from somebody I went to college with Hey Amanda. You've worked in politics. You know this world I. Want to run for office because of trump president seems like anybody can do this. What do I do and I did? Not have an answer for him. I did not know what to tell him to go. He wanted to be more than just a volunteer and more than just voter. If he wanted to actually lead, there was nowhere that would be guaranteed to take this call. So I reached out to a whole bunch of people. One of whom became my co-founder that's incredible operative, Dross Morales for Cudjoe we wrote a plan we built a website and me launch run for something. As you said on inauguration day we thought we'd got maybe a hundred people who wanted to run for local office instead in the first week, we had a thousand as of today we're up. To more than fifty one, thousand young people across the country who've raised their hands just say I want to run for local office what next so we've built an organization that does best that we find more people who wanna run things like School Board City Council and state legislature and we help them through the process I think it's so cool and one of the things I love so much about run for something is that you proudly self identify as progressive and that you came from the Obama and DNC campaigns and I, think there is this kind of lake mistaken belief that you can't be progressive and be a traditional. Democrat. So what are your? Thoughts on that lay that out for US unpack that a little bit. How does it work for us? I think we define Progressive Democrat really broadly, we look for a set of shared values shared belief that everybody deserves access to affordable healthcare that everybody's sort of access to education that we need to fight for working families that we need to protect organized labor that we need to protect it and for the environment, and we can share those goals and disagree on the tactics that we need to accomplish them. But the only way we get to really implement those tactics or even have a starting place to decide a meme is to win elections. I. So, for us a Democrat or progressive in New York might look a little different than Democrat in Vienna right. But we gotta be willing to win everywhere to run everywhere on our set of shared values and we also know that for most people especially for local elections. Partisan identification is the way they make their voting decision they look at the ballot and they say, this one's a democrat. Cool. That's all I know about them. So for us, right really important to support people running under that party line knowing that that's the way the most voters make up their minds. It's so smart and it makes so much sense because every district of restate the. Issues are different and I think people forget that when we live in these big cities that when you look at some place, a state that isn't sort of a metropolitan city, you get such tunnel vision about what the issues are in the context of your life that you forget that it could be different in the context of someone else's life and especially because what we only work on local elections. So Library School Board, Water Board, University Board and Community College Boards and Yes State House and State Senate. The issues that you're focusing at these levels is often a little bit more but also a lot less partisan it how keeping water clean how are We getting trash picked up are we funding our roads and our schools? The tangible delivery of those issues makes it so that what it means to be a progressive on them are things like my favorite example here we work for the Coroner Candida in Jefferson County. Colorado which factor more than thirteen hundred counties they'll elect corners he was reading on a progressive platform. The thing that he wanted to ensure was that after death trans people were not being this gendered, which was something that the current coroner was doing, and that is a really important thing because the way that gender is recorded on death certificates affects crime statistics and homicide statistics and suicide statistics. All of which are really important especially as they relate to a community that is disproportionately represented in things like suicide homicide. So as you think about what is the progressive value look like an issue like a coroner's office? That's one of the ways in which you can show up and it was a really interesting way to see the way that our values can trade themselves into progressive policies and all kinds of offices
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Cassandra Speaks and the Power of Women as Storytellers with Elizabeth Lesser
"So Elizabeth let's talk a little bit about storytelling. Why is it so powerful? This is the way humans learn. We've always learned through story. I. Mean I often think about the first human sitting around the first fire kind of grunting pointing and telling stories about What's going on here? How did we get here? Where do we go? When we die? What do we do in between the way we learn the bestest through telling stories, making up stories to explain mysteries to create power structures. It's all done through stories I totally totally agree with you and I also think storytelling is the greatest tool when we're trying to change narratives but I do think that throughout history stories have mainly been told through the eyes of men do you agree? That's how our stories have generally been told. Well, I certainly do agree I've written a new book. That's all about that. I wrote it because I've led these conferences for years for women maybe about fifteen years ago I thought to myself why do I get so uncomfortable when I put the words women in power together women empower those even makes me uncomfortable and it certainly makes other people uncomfortable makes men. Really uncomfortable. I. Just thought why is that I wanNA gather women together whether they're in the arts or leadership or astronauts or any place where women are in that space and say, what do you think about power had a you feel about the word? Is there a way to do power differently and over all those years I heard from so many great women but I never got to the bottom of why Why did we get to this place where we trust ourselves? So little women why we're always apologizing and giving space to the more powerful and how do we get back and how did this happen? So I went back into the oldest stories I could find five appre bio Greeks, Chinese, the stories and elicit. It's just bizarre and amazing. How many of the earliest origin stories are about I to be created male second in creation female She's the first to sin, and that story is repeated over and over whether it's eve or Pandora or Cassandra or other tales we were born second, but we send I and there's a lot to unpack in that idea that women got blamed for a lot of the general problems of being human and that sticks to us stories, stick to humans. Created only by men are really stories about men. This is the problem with many of our origin tales hero's journey myths. And Foundational Literature left out of that Canon. Are the voices and the values and experiences and priorities of women. When women join the storytellers, the human story changes. You might think I don't read the Bible. I. Don't even know who Pandora is what, but it sticks to us and we're still run by those stories. And I think that also when you look back at how women have throughout history for as long as there is time been basically property of men and you think about how we are today and how those stories have evolved you know like I just learned recently that rape was always almost justified if it was someone who owned their woman whether that be through marriage whether that is the enslaved and so throughout history I don't think there's ever a time that we can look back to where true feminism has ever been even within our reach any country I think it's something that we strive for I think it's something that we understand the intersection -ality of an how really vital it is but I Don't think you can go back to a time where we were empowered. So my question to you is what changes when women become the storytellers we're seeing right now how hard it is to change narratives, Anna how much effort disruption it takes, I. Mean we're seeing it with white supremacy. Now, that story is being exploded in front of our eyes so that we can change it. You can't change something that you don't see.
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Children of Incarcerated Parents with Ebony Underwood
"Hi, my name is under would I'm fighting for the rights of children and young adults impacted by parental incarceration? Sorry Not Sorry Evans thank you so much for doing the podcast. I WANNA start by talking about your story your father has been in prison for more than three decades. Only. Right now they're still funny. Listen I'm GonNa play so you could hear. Paid. Call you. I'm happy charged for this call college from. Being, recorded for. Monitoring. Hold on I'm doing interview but I'm GonNa get into politics because he can talk they're. Sorry no don't be sorry at all I totally get it. You don't WanNa. Miss that phone call. Oh my God. You know why? Because the federal prison system is on lockdown this is the first time national lockdown and like twenty five years. been on lockdown. So the way that he called like we speak very frequently prior to Kobe, but since Calvin with whenever he calls so I can't miss his call. No of course, not especially when it's public health going on just he feel like he is being exposed in a way that makes him very vulnerable. He's sixty six years old. So he is part of what the CDC considers the most vulnerable population to cove is. We did look at. A time for y'all get it. There is an added touch desperation two calls coming out of jails and prisons. Around the country these days guys is called in it and there's no way to escape us. Oh This is what you see. Me noted I love you and you know. I mean at this hour Dabbagh Israel. Confinement. and social distancing are mostly incompatible. Sale. You have to basically figure out how are you going to just because a few feet down from you is another person. Learn scary for me every single day. I. Talked to him over the weekend. So that's why I was okay with letting my sister taught him because he didn't talk to him but I talked to him over the weekend and he shared with me that he actually was tested and he's negative thank God how do we keep him negative? I mean do they have any protocol whatsoever in place because from what we're hearing it's close quarters there's no masks there's no sanitation is that true? So this is what I know about federal institutions right there oldest. That's number one no error. He has been social distancing till the way that they've been doing it as separating people and allowing each group of people I think it's like ten people at a time. So they're like dorms and bunks, and so within his dorm, they allow the men to go out but because of his age he's like it just seems like there's too many people out and I'm a little tired but which is Kinda bad. Because every other day he gets the shower go commissary and like either email or call all within one hour the twenty three remaining hours he's shelter in place in a cell he basically on lockdown. So it's really heartbreaking sides calling his daughters is there anything that is giving him hope in this time the work that I've been doing tell me how old you were father was incarcerated. I don't actually say my age but I'll say this. I like that. Because of the issue that I'm talking about mainly but I was an adolescent young adolescent when my father was incarcerated and it completely devastated me completely I'm sure and that's such a hard age for a young woman anyway. Yeah. I was a young adult. So it was like thirteen fourteen years old when it occurred what effect did it have on you? I mean besides just being hard how did that manifest itself on your being on your heart? Right, so you know the stages of grief I would say most immediately. Just, Kinda give you an overview what happened. So my father was in the music industry he was a music manager promoter and publisher, and at the time of his arrest, he was like the pinnacle of his career like really doing well. So he traveled very often because he promoted records, he would often go to different states go to radio stations to promote different aren't because he couldn't go to everyone he worked for all different labels and so he promoted many different artists. From like Michael Jackson to like Kenny loggins well under yeah. It's a Ray Charles like all of people and so when he was arrested I guess my gut reaction was to just assume that he was on the road writings traveling because there are no real instructions for how this occurs. Right? I believe it was a coping mechanism. Yeah. Probably that is true it amazing how resilient we can become right after Moodley, and so for the first nine months, we act that way so. It's me and my sister, my sister we have the same mom and then I have two other brothers, an older brother and a younger brother and my younger brother was actually president when my father was arrested he was five years old and he was actually there hasn't of the whole arrest fathers in federal prison. So big like da you know these drug charges. Yeah. It was not good. So my sister and I weren't there and so we just kinda like to him being. On the road some of the first nine months we did not see him right and then he calls and he had been calling all along and now it's this new format calling receive a call and you hear this sweetness from a federal institution. Blah. Blah Blah and so okay, that's new. But whatever again Kinda put him in mind and just assuming that he's where he is but he says the US at that nine month part. Are you guys GonNa ever come visit me?
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Senator Chris Murphy On The Violence Inside Us
"Thank you so much for joining us. You start out your book by talking about a fistfight that you got into in first grade and I think one of the most striking things you write about that you felt like you were just hardwired to fight. Can you tell me and my listeners that story and what you meant by that? You know this is the introduction by the way. Let's the thanks for having me on. Again this is a topic that both you and I are obviously deeply committed to in this book is really about my study of the issue gun over the last seventy. Years Changed in twenty twelve of the shooting in Connecticut and I think what I wanted to communicate at the beginning of this book is a recognition that there is violence that sits inside all of us that as a species, we are hardwired for violence and well, ninety nine point, nine percent of Americans had never taken a life very few of us have never had a moment in which we didn't at least contemplate putting our hands on someone else. That's because our species is actually more violent, much more violent historically then almost any other and so it's important for us to recognize that so. That we can make changes in the way that we associate with ourselves, the rules that govern us to try to tamp down that instinct, and that's what this book is really about it's about the long human has Rian violence and how we've been pretty effective in controlling it but then America's unique history of violence and how we've been very ineffective in this country at controlling it. It's interesting because you say that we're hardwired for violence and it makes me think of fight flight or freeze, which is our natural response to any kind of danger that response to sits at the bottom of our. Brain stem, which is like the most primitive part of our entire body. It has not evolved at all, and so that is there for survival mechanisms. Right is there for survival mechanisms, but our body has actually sent a message that it doesn't like to use that mechanism. So this stories in the book as well when you experience that fight or flight moment, right when you're presented with such a danger that you either run or you fight back, your body releases a hormone cortisol, and at the moment that hormone is really helpful because it helps you make quick decisions and it gives you a little. Bit more courage and strength. But in the long run cortisol breaks your brain, it breaks your brain and so if you have these fighter flight moments every day or every week, then you literally can't learn you can't relate to other human beings and so why we call the epidemic of violence in this nation of public health epidemic is because kids who live in violent neighborhoods fear for their life every time they walk to the Corner Bodega or their school in the morning, their brains are broken by this hormone that gets released over and over and over again, and so it's no coincidence that. The underperforming schools are all in the highly neighborhoods, kids whether their shot at or not. They simply are different or bodies respond differently because of this constant exposure trauma, and then you add just food vulnerability and how hard it is to find fresh produce and all of those things that helped to restore the brain, restore the body, and then it becomes a whole other issue nourishment makes it very difficult for a child to learn and for a brain to grow. I. Want to ask you how do you think violence in America is different than violence in the rest of the world the first part Of this book is really a story of the trajectory of American violence and what's interesting is that America is actually not a wildly violent place until about the middle of the eighteen hundreds and three things happen there that separate us from the rest of the world and we never returned back to Earth we became a more violent nation and we still are more validation and quickly the three things are in their interesting I. It's the expansion of the slave population in the south. After the invention of the cotton gin more slaves means more violence in the country kind of becomes anesthetize to violence. Numb to it because it's what is necessary in order to just keep our economy together second, you've got all these waves of immigrants coming to the United States in what history tells us is that the more groups in one space at one time the more risk there is for conflicts and violence but then lastly, it's the invention of handgun and the decision of the United States to not regulate that weapon it gets sold in every corner of the United States and all of a sudden common arguments on the street become deadly because you've got this little weapon that you can hide in your pocket.
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Find the Helpers with Fred Guttenberg
"Hi My friend Fred I love you so much. Can you start please by reminding listeners of your story briefly tell us about who you were before Jamie was murdered and who you've become after. Was Murdered? It was just nothing more than your. Typical Dan of two kids to teach kids as a husband. Suburban lifestyle now. This week, that's the lifestyle community that was known to be super. And secure I also was rubber at a son. Who's going through the loss of mine? Her brother Michael From cancer related to service and. He died in October two, thousand seventeen. I want to thank Mr Collins Mr Naylor putting this together. But as I sit her today, I can't help but think. What an incredible metaphor. This room is. For the entire process. That getting healthcare and benefits for nine eleven. First responders has come to. ME. A filled room. Of nine eleven first responders. And in front of me. A, nearly empty congress. So, my wife took A. Forty. Two, thousand, eighteen. Months after my family's call to the loss of micro and as a family, we've never been through anything wiped out before this kind of significant loss we were fortunate. We just all were managing to live our lives and my brother's loss was the first. My parents had outlived their son and that's the worst thing that happened to her family. Right. It should have been the most overwhelming family ever experienced except four months. Later, my daughter was hard because I sent her to school I to school at fourteen to learn to be safe to laugh to be excited about coming home on Valentine's Day for the plan. I had set for life family and didn't work out that way shooter came into school at day my slide Jesse. Thank God I still get to. But J visitor cemetery and. As only, this kind of thing had harrison was the outlet. Grandparents should alain grandchildren. It. Stops inning for me and really understood the gravity of what happened. I went into this whole new life. I don't have the same life I had before and my wife actually became depended upon me. But upon the amazing people who I got to surround myself with WHO became a part of my life or who were already a if my life and I would emission and we're going to succeed we're going to change the. Politics of country we're going to pass on safety after November third every time I hear you till the story I feel like there is something a little bit more grounded in the way in which you tell your story, and I'm wondering if it is because you had this time to write this book and really reflect you've got a book coming called find the Helpers and before we get into that I, want to note The huge amount of praise. This book is already getting new have blurbs from members of Congress actors, activists, people from across the social and political spectrum, and they're all raving about it and I don't think in my life. I've seen such hype about a book even before it is released. So what do you think it is what do you think it is about finding the helpers that makes it so universally loved and also. Tell me about the process of writing it, and if it was Cathartic for you because I think we hear. So often people that tell stories an especially stories that are so close to your being your heart people always say you know it was Cathartic and it was their -Peutic for me to write. This is that how you felt writing it such a great question because this was not the case before Jamie was killed. Afterwards. Writing became my therapy in started doing social media. You know I became very prolific on twitter and I considered people twitter became force. My way of getting things out of me and those book just took to another level being able to sit down and think about all of the relationships what they meant to me about my daughter and what hurt lost means to me and others, and what my book really got to think about is people in a very different way because you hear the same things I hear people sock opticians, sock media. And I writing my book and I couldn't come to that conclusion any of these
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Rose McGowan Claims Alyssa Milano Made the Charmed Set Toxic AF
"There's is daily top. We have so many feuds to talk about today starting with rose McGowan claim that a listen the Llano. made the charm set toxic A. Okay this whole thing started as a political view, but then it got very personal rose accused of throwing fits in front of the crew on the set of charmed rose even says she cried every ten shows renewed because a listen made the set. So toxic in a statement to news listen. Milano said hurt people hurt people commenting any further doesn't align with my wellness plan we have not yet heard back from rose or or Warner, brothers, which produced charm. So a lot to unpack here. Again, it started off very political was a Democrat argument but then rose went there why he thinks she went there to bring charm to behavior. Look, hold. One hundred percent and if we're fighting and I'm holding a grudge against somebody I'm pulling out every receipt I don't care it. One Thousand Nine, hundred, ninety, nine, hundred. This is an audit. We're going to have this fight whether you like it or not. I guess that's true and also she's trying to discredit a list right? That's her way of saying like you shouldn't. You can listen to. Elissa because she's not as relatable as you think because listen to this she may two hundred thousand dollars a week on charm and was still throwing right she didn't get paid enough. It's like a way to discredit. I don't know. That is also. To your argument, sometimes, people will buy into that and be like absolutely. You know what? She's right rose you. If she's FELICIA's really as bad as you say that I'm listed work she says, but then other people can see right through that to say like obviously you have a grudge obviously, you don't like her you've made that very clear. You said it in an interview you do not like or. Do we really trust your opinion because it's obviously very biased. I just feel like this has become somewhat sticky with rose like we can just expect her to just go off and sort of sale of these things and quite frankly does anybody really care twenty years later if the listen. Milano through set like threw a fit onset of charms like I just don't think that's relevant to the conversation like none of us were there. None of us really really cared that much about how she behaved obviously, you want to be respectful to the crew and people that work really hard. To put on a production as we all know but we've all had bad days on this show I just feel like if in fifteen years, one of us were to be like well, she was impossible to deal with. It's like, okay. Then you should have said something then I feel like it's just so kind of in line with WHO rose is trying to be now and I'm not saying that she likes her and I'm not saying that she feels like she's credible or that she believes in anything she says. Every time someone says something that has nothing to do with you. That doesn't mean you need to go and jump in on it. And I, I hate to say this because I'm not away from everybody's experiences and I always say this you gotTa pick struggle and you've got to stick with that struggle and pick up a fight and fight as hard as you can. If you're fighting in the me too movement because it happened to you I totally get it. You're also writing because somebody was in a toxic work environment made something toxic fighting another break, and then what's next if something else comes up and you're fighting about that as well take you just take it away and makes it seem like you're only saying those things because. Of the week, right right and it's also like she made two, hundred, fifty, thousand dollars a week like made that much money. It was a hit show like I don't I also don't see how that's relevant. You know what I mean like you don't need to also bring up how much somebody made I. Don't think that that's her pleasure bill, but I will say. It rose McGowan felt leg she made. made the workplace toxic that are that's her feelings. That's her way of engaging and listened with tolerance to her. She don't have to do it over the air. She can do on the phone and just throw rose a my dad if I if you thought that way and I did that to you but I, don't think. Anymore. I don't think. I'm. Giving that apology I'm sorry I. Think we know a lot of different people not everybody has a good day I. Think People think just because you're on television or you're part of ensemble cast like your life is so easy. It's a lot of hard work that goes into this. So maybe she maybe she had a bad week or month or whatever. But there's a lot of people that we've experienced that can be toxic or disruptive or difficult to deal with. But that's just sort of this part of this dysfunctional family you keep that within yourself. You don't need to go and spread around and the and the truth is like the whole point rose trying to make was was again a political argument and so politics you know just keep arguing your facts and I think that's a fair argument to have. We argue politics stop in this country. So if you want to argue that with Eliza and you guys want to go back and forth about what who vote for do that. But I say again as you guys said, keep the history out of it because honestly just makes your arguments. Lesson weaker. We aren't just there's no right word. Thank point.
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Getting Things Done with Senator Doug Jones
"I'm Senator Doug Jones from Alabama and here's the truth it all my work in the Senate I have your back and no one else. Sorry, not sorry first of all senator thank you so much for taking the time to do the podcast I would like to start by talking about Kobe nineteen and we're recording this in the middle of July. We knew in February and March, what needed to be done right now one hundred, thirty, eight, thousand people have died projections indicate more than two hundred, thousand people will die by November, cases are rising almost everywhere in the. Country especially in the South and the trump administration is just I don't know how else to say it, but he has just failing in every possible way in managing this pandemic. So what is your opinion? What should we be doing nationally and what should Alabama be doing to combat covert nineteen listen first of all, thanks for having me I really appreciate this opportunity to speak with you. It's good to talk to you. See you again. Let me tell you I think we have to do what I've said all along that we have to do and that is listened. To the healthcare experts listen to the healthcare experts that are the national voices like Dr, Fallacy and Dr Redfield and those that are on top of this, listen to your local healthcare professionals, listen to the statewide healthcare professionals and follow their advice. The problem that we have right now is that clearly we have a lack of leadership from the administration. We have not seen the kind of leadership that we should have from the very beginning of this administration was downplaying it, and then as I think the president realized that we had to shut the economy down which was. His Pride and joy Dan, he started to try to intimidate people too much to open the economy up. He was intimidating protesters in Michigan and elsewhere, and that had a ripple effect around the country. Then it was politicizing the wearing of masks as we learned more and more about this virus it became clear that we needed to wear masks, and then all of a sudden became a political issue. It's not as much anymore, but it's still in places a political issue, and now we're politicizing the opening schools schools. Do you think that Alabama was too quick to Rio Ben? I think we tried to accelerate. The process and I think you know From our standpoint that has had a negative impact on our progress and I think that's why we've regressed. And we've seen a three hundred percent increase. In cases month over month after going the first three weeks of this. At a forty percent club if people would listen to the healthcare professionals, follow the guidelines and understand the world had never seen this virus before like December nobody has the antibodies at that time. Nobody had the immunities and this is a work in progress. We are learning more and more and more about this virus. As we go along, we have no vaccine are therapeutics are getting better. The only way we can stop the spread of this virus is for us to do our part. We're in this together, we need to act like, do you think we need some sort of coordinated national shutdown? To try to get this under control I. think that would be very, very difficult to try to do that in there are places in this country where I think that you wouldn't need to shut down nationally right now if they take some of the precautions, we're a big country where diverse country we have seen the virus spread in different areas I think it would be very, very difficult to try to have any kind of national shutdown but you know a lot of the governors are stepping a lot of them are not and lot of them are seeing their states ravage along the governors. have been stepping up doing the right thing. Our governor in Alabama issued a statewide score. She's the only governor in the deep South that his issue that in fact, the governor of Georgia, which is raging as much as Alabama yesterday issued something banning local officials from issuing a mask order. So damnedest thing I've ever heard of and so I think that the states are stepping up individual beers have been stepping up. I mean. When you have a lack of leadership coming from the administration, you've got to have the local leaders stepping up. So I think we're doing it on a hot spot by. Hotspots state-by-state by state community, mount community basis be tough to do it on a national basis, but there's plenty of spokesman out there illicit from the national level better telling people to wear masks and suggestions and do those things. It's amazing to me how the masks were politicized and I saved a lot on this podcast. But anytime, we politicize something we dehumanize it and I think this is a perfect example. But when you look at deaths, the numbers don't lie. So even if you were the type of person to say you know what? I don't believe in science I think truth and fact is. Relative there's concrete numbers here that are undeniable and do you think that there's any chance that we get this under control while this administration is still in place or do you think that it's going to continue to rage and grow until we have leadership in there that can at least be willing to listen to science? Are we gonNA answer you with a glass half full and I'm going to say I put faith in the majority of the American people to start doing the right thing. They're seeing these numbers to their seeing the lack of leadership they're seeing the numbers in the deaths in. The virus, they're seeing the fact that the average age of someone catching this virus now has gone down fifteen years fifteen years from when we first started to. This is just not a senior's forest anymore. So I'M GONNA put more faith than I guess I have more faith these days in. Awadh. The governors of whatever political party and local leaders and mayors to lead by example, and to do those things necessary. What's interesting to me is that her so many folks in Alabama and we had a problem with folks not wearing masks we still do but the so many people aren't listening to the Reason why you wear a mask they think it is just to protect themselves. I've heard so many people say well, I don't need to wear a mask I may get it but I'm gonNA low risk category. So I'll take my chances. It's not about you. It's about the people with preexisting conditions, the diabetes heart disease that things like that puts them at risk. You could be a symptomatic and spread this disease spread this virus so easy without wearing a mask and you not even know it and putting people at risk. So I'll tell folks down here. Look this is golden rule time. Okay. This is new unto others as you would do unto yourself and so wear the mask for others where the mass for those healthcare professionals that are on the front lines that are just having mental breakdowns these days with all that they are overwhelmed about look I'm going to again go back to your question I'm going to have a glass half full I give a lot of faith in the American people to see where we are at start making these comparisons and see through the like of leadership and start doing the things necessary for themselves.
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Femicide and the Forgotten Women of Juarez with Oz Woloshyn and Monica Ortiz Uribe
"For nearly thirty years, women in the Mexican border city of Juarez. have been disappearing many of them turning up dead in mass graves. We. Don't know who the killers are very few have been charged and fewer convicted. My guest this week. Our odds volition and Monica Ortiz Rebbe. Of the amazing podcast forgotten the women of what is the final episode two, which is now available, they are incredible journalists with an infuriating story to tell. If! You've ever been to war with disposing of bodies, Israelis. You don't have to dig to her dirt. You're digging through saying. Just across the bridge from El Paso Texas, hundreds of young women have been tanning up dead in Juarez Mexico. Many artists covered in mass graves. Some have strange symbols coughed. Some. have their hands bound with shoelaces? And? Everyone from the families of the victims to the United States. FBI has tried to uncover who is behind these crimes. But one thing is clear. The crimes are connected. They're not just random victims. The women were picked. They were selected I mean there could be an abduction in broad daylight. No one saw it. No one talked about it. These are like ghosts. The numbers started to rise, and then a lot of theories were floated up the gangs serial murder. The cartels organ traffickers the possibility of some sort of strange devil worship. It's been fifteen years since I first heard about these murders, and I've been haunted ever since. How is it possible? These crimes remain unsolved on journey to find out we talk to victims, families FBI agents and a psychologist who claims the new one of the culprits. We visit, the site of one of the mass graves and traveled to a dangerous part downtown. Where many of the women disappeared? I Voloshin, I'm one of the hosts of Forgotten Women of Juarez. The podcast explores what happens when this become targets, and when the judiciary is compromised, I'm fighting for bust institutions and freedom of speech. Sorry, not sorry I'm Monique, our three, they co host of the podcast forgotten. The women of what is I believe workers everywhere should earn a fair wage and women ought to live free from violence Nazari Period I. WanNa give the listeners some back story on what's happening in Juarez. How many women have gone missing in the crimes not being? Even really investigated by authorities and then go into why you felt it was important to do. The podcast I first started working on this podcast of several trips to the Texas Mexico border specifically El Paso Texas and In Mexico. And it took me several trips before I learned something that everybody in the region knows, which is that? Since the early nineteen nineties, hundreds of women have turned up dead in Horace, and many of them met incredibly brutal fates, which was evident from that bodies when they were discovered. That been five mass graves of Women Discovering Juarez since nineteen ninety five. And yet, all of this was happening right across the border from one of America's safest cities, a prosperous suburban Texans city, and so I was just very curious. How could this be happening? How could the crimes not be solved? And it ended up being this journey with Monica that open up. All kinds of other questions particularly learn things like the FBI had tried to solve the crimes, not once not twice, but three times. When the mass grave was discovered, and suspects confessed harder Crawford was the FBI special agent in charge of El Paso. Is Office was just a few miles away from the site. The mass grave and he taken a special interest in the murders of women in Juarez and was following this case closely as a potential breakthrough. You could sense that the pressure was mounting. Political pressure public pressure international pressure. The families and relatives and friends of the disappeared. Women were allowed. Those women would hold use. Mourning the deaths and George attention to that. That was huge. There was all kinds of attention from the international press. People like Jennifer Lopez. Eve ensler involved and yet these crimes remain stubbornly unsolved wasn't clear. Who was killing these hundreds of women, and why and it was a story of vulnerability, but also a story of the deep paradox irony of the border that many of these women were working in factories, which were American owned could see across the border into a Passo a city of. A Fred safety enormous safety by comparison and that Alpes Owens could see back into war as many of them had relatives there many of them. Have Friends there and yet. Those this seeming inability to do anything and that struck me as something which was I had to know more