June 27, 2025 • 12 mins
To use a basketball analogy, you can't play all 48 minutes. You gotta take a break. But for many people, a break ain't an option. However, for those who want to continue to fight for those that don't have the privilege to rest, we must make sure that we rest ourselves. I'm asking you to tap out for a second.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Calls media.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Briah, dang homie. This is a lot.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I can't take credit for this because I heard it
on the Slate Political gab Fest, which is a podcast
I highly recommend and is oftentimes resource for me as
I process all of these things. But they have this
show every year called The Conundrum Show where it's people
(00:37):
kind of call in. I mean, it is remarkably white,
but my white card is strong. I can I know
who Jeff Tweety is anyway. It's one that I've used
oftentimes as like my favorite sort of like icebreaker or
just yeah, just like a silly question to ask one
(00:59):
of it is and it's a two parter. It's what's
the worst thing you love? And then what's the best
thing you hate? And I love it like it's it's
such a great little like starter and hearing the different
answers some people say, like the worst thing they love
is like Kanye West, like his music where you're just
like I he is the worst, but dangn when he's on,
(01:23):
he's on. For me, it's harsh, like chemical cleaning products,
like I feel like you need to feel dizzy when
you clean the bathroom, like you should have accidentally made
nerve gas, like mix autumn chemicals together. I'd like, that
(01:46):
is the worst thing I love. Like, I love really
harsh cleaning products, all the microplastic chemicals, like a one
eighth delusion of chlorox got clean this mug.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Nothing should survive.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
And then the best thing I hate is generally like
when people have good boundaries, like around their phone, like
if I text you, text me back, like if I
call you, like answer my call.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
It's just it'd be doing something to me.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
When people have good boundaries around listen, I'll respond when
I'm ready to respond, I'd be like, but but I'm important.
That's the best thing I hate, because I know it's
the best thing to have boundaries. But one thing my homeboy,
Jay Gibbons said, which really is the reason why I
bring this up, is Jay Gibbons. I just call him
(02:45):
the Designated Shooter, an incredible rapper. He works for reach LA,
which is a LGBTQ and queer advocacy a nonprofit in
Los Angeles. I am a part of Jay's coming out story,
(03:08):
like that's one of my closest friends.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
But one thing he said, he.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Said, the the worst thing he loves is male privilege.
He was like, I know, this is terrible, and he's
saying this as a gay man. So he's just like, no,
I'm still I'm sis, I'm cisgendered, you know what I'm saying.
I'm just I just happen to be I just happen
(03:34):
to be homosexual.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
But like.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
The privilege I have, He's like, I'm a black man. No,
I get it, but the but the there are things
that just come to me that I know are because
of patriarchy. This is the worst thing, but it's I
hate to admit it, but like sometimes it's good.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Like and you can say this.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
As a black man too, in in in senses that
we gotta find somewhere where we gotta where we gotta
live up. And he is a black gay man, so
like the intersections of suffering and oppression this my brother
experiences is very real. So he's like, yeah, dude, it's
(04:26):
it's male privilege. That's that's probably the worst thing. I love,
which brings me to the privilege that I am going
to ask some of you to exercise tap in with
(05:00):
so out here in LA during these ice raids and
just this, you know, modern Gustafo, like there's just no
I don't know how else.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
There is no other way to explain this.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Like you, you don't have the jurisdiction to arrest citizens,
yet you're arresting citizens, Like you don't have to show
your face. I'd like, there's you just just what it is.
The government has given you the power to do this
(05:31):
on American soil. Anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
The privilege I have in this.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Situation is a birth certificate and a passport, and I
have used that privilege to walk with less fear. And
another privilege is I'm clearly not Latino. Now I say
that in a very ignorant way, because there's black people everywhere.
(05:59):
There are black Latinos. But yo, ignorant ass yo is
in these ice agents. Don't think that You not thinking
like that? You looking for brown skin? Do you understand
what I'm saying? So because of that, I'm clearly black
as hell as soon as I open my mouth on
black as hell.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
That's a privilege.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
So I am a lot less nervous around these people
than anyone else should be.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
That's a privilege.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
But I'm gonna use that to stand in the way,
to stand in the gap, and to be more bold
and more outside than some other people should be. I
have no problem going to the grocery store, driving and
delivering your groceries. I have no problem getting on the
phone and helping somebody get a job and be like, Yo,
the shop is right down the street. You can walk down.
(06:50):
You want me to go walk with you, I'll walk
with you. Like I have no problem with that. I
have no problem putting out these go fundmes, which again
I can't thank y'all enough for supporting. I ain't no
problem with that because I'm not scared of I have
a privilege. My privilege is I was born at the
Fox Hilles Hospital.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
In Inglewood, California.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
So like you ain't like you're not finna say nothing
to me. But there's another privilege I have. As our
nervous system continues to get riled up, we mister President
of Peace, mister no more wars, as the homie on
(07:37):
the Internet said, like, I'm not an expert in endings,
but this looked a lot like a beginning the amount
of things we need to be concerned about, Hell, Sudan, Congo,
like it's still going on in Ukraine right now, mister,
I'm gonna end this shit in two hours, Like what
(07:58):
the We still ain't talked about the Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Which still annoys me that it's called that.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Y'all still losing your reproductive rights, Social Security fin a runout,
Medicaid FINNA cost too much. Like there's so much that's
not even considering. Here's enough thought. Let's just say, in
a weird world, we were really justified for bombing a
(08:29):
nuclear site where you think that radiation gonna go. There
is so much to be concerned about. It is very possible,
and I just like, if you don't think it's possible,
I don't understand what you're not seeing. Listen, these kids
who went through junior high and high school in a
pandemic might have a chance to die in the Middle East,
(08:51):
just like we did, and just like our big homies
did in desert storm. Like, do you understand, like this
is three to four generations fighting wars that ain't have
shit to do with us. I'm stressed this is all happening. Listen,
do you know that the water in Malibu in Santa
Monica is unswimmable?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Why?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Because La was on fire. It's so much going on.
But you know what, though, if you can, it is
a privilege to unplug. I'm going to encourage you, especially
if you believe you want to stay in this fight
with us.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
You want to stay in a justice fight. You gotta
take breaks. Listen.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
It's hard for me to say this because again, it
is a privilege. But since your city ain't being actively bombed,
since you may or may not be afraid that ice
might knock down your door, you have a chance to
calm your nervous system down.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
It's a privilege.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Since you don't live in Iran, you have a chance
to unplug for a second. You have a chance to
slow drip your information in. We can't all be lizard
bring we can't all be in fight or flight. Listen,
this is a lot and I know, like I'll give
(10:07):
you a sports reality. You know, when the team down
by down by thirty, you like, give me the rock.
I don't want to take a break. I want to
play the whole game. Bro, you can't play the whole game.
You just can't. Can't play all forty eight minutes. Talk
to them, Sophie. You have to take a break. You
have to sit, You have to trust the team. You
have to rest your knees. You're gonna turn into the
(10:30):
gingerbread man like Anthony Davis, like you have to, you
have to rest your knees. I am saying that while
acknowledging that that is in fact a privilege. It is
a privilege for me to sit down and record podcasts.
It is a privilege for me to stand in the
gap and take on all of your dumb ass comments
(10:50):
on my social media.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
That's a privilege.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
It's a privilege for me to even talk and advocate
for veterans who are also in my comment sections that
are saying no is right.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I served my country and it destroyed me.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Like clearly, y'all, I ain't never had to talk somebody
down who had a gun.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
To their head.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
You heard my voice crack, because it's real. You don't
know the PTSD when these brothers come home. These were
our friends. Our friends are still somewhere in the desert
in Afghanistan. Oh, I'm looking at them right now. The
hummy ain't been the same since, still getting night terrorists.
Let me tell you something right now, I'm about to
be real personally. My father was a Vietnam war vet.
(11:31):
Do you know that? For at least twenty to thirty
years after that, he wouldn't eat rice, and it was
because of seeing bodies in rice fields. This shit is
nothing to be excited about. So inas much as you
can unplugged, man, take a break. Rest your knees. Please,
(11:51):
I'm begging you, don't do them scroll. This is too
serious right now and we need to be healthy and
okay for those who don't have the privilege of taking
a break. So when this tap in, I'm asking you
to tap out.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
We got it.
Calls media.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Briah, dang homie. This is a lot.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I can't take credit for this because I heard it
on the Slate Political gab Fest, which is a podcast
I highly recommend and is oftentimes resource for me as
I process all of these things. But they have this
show every year called The Conundrum Show where it's people
(00:37):
kind of call in. I mean, it is remarkably white,
but my white card is strong. I can I know
who Jeff Tweety is anyway. It's one that I've used
oftentimes as like my favorite sort of like icebreaker or
just yeah, just like a silly question to ask one
(00:59):
of it is and it's a two parter. It's what's
the worst thing you love? And then what's the best
thing you hate? And I love it like it's it's
such a great little like starter and hearing the different
answers some people say, like the worst thing they love
is like Kanye West, like his music where you're just
like I he is the worst, but dangn when he's on,
(01:23):
he's on. For me, it's harsh, like chemical cleaning products,
like I feel like you need to feel dizzy when
you clean the bathroom, like you should have accidentally made
nerve gas, like mix autumn chemicals together. I'd like, that
(01:46):
is the worst thing I love. Like, I love really
harsh cleaning products, all the microplastic chemicals, like a one
eighth delusion of chlorox got clean this mug.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Nothing should survive.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
And then the best thing I hate is generally like
when people have good boundaries, like around their phone, like
if I text you, text me back, like if I
call you, like answer my call.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
It's just it'd be doing something to me.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
When people have good boundaries around listen, I'll respond when
I'm ready to respond, I'd be like, but but I'm important.
That's the best thing I hate, because I know it's
the best thing to have boundaries. But one thing my homeboy,
Jay Gibbons said, which really is the reason why I
bring this up, is Jay Gibbons. I just call him
(02:45):
the Designated Shooter, an incredible rapper. He works for reach LA,
which is a LGBTQ and queer advocacy a nonprofit in
Los Angeles. I am a part of Jay's coming out story,
(03:08):
like that's one of my closest friends.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
But one thing he said, he.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Said, the the worst thing he loves is male privilege.
He was like, I know, this is terrible, and he's
saying this as a gay man. So he's just like, no,
I'm still I'm sis, I'm cisgendered, you know what I'm saying.
I'm just I just happen to be I just happen
(03:34):
to be homosexual.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
But like.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
The privilege I have, He's like, I'm a black man. No,
I get it, but the but the there are things
that just come to me that I know are because
of patriarchy. This is the worst thing, but it's I
hate to admit it, but like sometimes it's good.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Like and you can say this.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
As a black man too, in in in senses that
we gotta find somewhere where we gotta where we gotta
live up. And he is a black gay man, so
like the intersections of suffering and oppression this my brother
experiences is very real. So he's like, yeah, dude, it's
(04:26):
it's male privilege. That's that's probably the worst thing. I love,
which brings me to the privilege that I am going
to ask some of you to exercise tap in with
(05:00):
so out here in LA during these ice raids and
just this, you know, modern Gustafo, like there's just no
I don't know how else.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
There is no other way to explain this.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Like you, you don't have the jurisdiction to arrest citizens,
yet you're arresting citizens, Like you don't have to show
your face. I'd like, there's you just just what it is.
The government has given you the power to do this
(05:31):
on American soil. Anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
The privilege I have in this.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Situation is a birth certificate and a passport, and I
have used that privilege to walk with less fear. And
another privilege is I'm clearly not Latino. Now I say
that in a very ignorant way, because there's black people everywhere.
(05:59):
There are black Latinos. But yo, ignorant ass yo is
in these ice agents. Don't think that You not thinking
like that? You looking for brown skin? Do you understand
what I'm saying? So because of that, I'm clearly black
as hell as soon as I open my mouth on
black as hell.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
That's a privilege.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
So I am a lot less nervous around these people
than anyone else should be.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
That's a privilege.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
But I'm gonna use that to stand in the way,
to stand in the gap, and to be more bold
and more outside than some other people should be. I
have no problem going to the grocery store, driving and
delivering your groceries. I have no problem getting on the
phone and helping somebody get a job and be like, Yo,
the shop is right down the street. You can walk down.
(06:50):
You want me to go walk with you, I'll walk
with you. Like I have no problem with that. I
have no problem putting out these go fundmes, which again
I can't thank y'all enough for supporting. I ain't no
problem with that because I'm not scared of I have
a privilege. My privilege is I was born at the
Fox Hilles Hospital.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
In Inglewood, California.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
So like you ain't like you're not finna say nothing
to me. But there's another privilege I have. As our
nervous system continues to get riled up, we mister President
of Peace, mister no more wars, as the homie on
(07:37):
the Internet said, like, I'm not an expert in endings,
but this looked a lot like a beginning the amount
of things we need to be concerned about, Hell, Sudan, Congo,
like it's still going on in Ukraine right now, mister,
I'm gonna end this shit in two hours, Like what
(07:58):
the We still ain't talked about the Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Which still annoys me that it's called that.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Y'all still losing your reproductive rights, Social Security fin a runout,
Medicaid FINNA cost too much. Like there's so much that's
not even considering. Here's enough thought. Let's just say, in
a weird world, we were really justified for bombing a
(08:29):
nuclear site where you think that radiation gonna go. There
is so much to be concerned about. It is very possible,
and I just like, if you don't think it's possible,
I don't understand what you're not seeing. Listen, these kids
who went through junior high and high school in a
pandemic might have a chance to die in the Middle East,
(08:51):
just like we did, and just like our big homies
did in desert storm. Like, do you understand, like this
is three to four generations fighting wars that ain't have
shit to do with us. I'm stressed this is all happening. Listen,
do you know that the water in Malibu in Santa
Monica is unswimmable?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Why?
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Because La was on fire. It's so much going on.
But you know what, though, if you can, it is
a privilege to unplug. I'm going to encourage you, especially
if you believe you want to stay in this fight
with us.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
You want to stay in a justice fight. You gotta
take breaks. Listen.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
It's hard for me to say this because again, it
is a privilege. But since your city ain't being actively bombed,
since you may or may not be afraid that ice
might knock down your door, you have a chance to
calm your nervous system down.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
It's a privilege.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Since you don't live in Iran, you have a chance
to unplug for a second. You have a chance to
slow drip your information in. We can't all be lizard
bring we can't all be in fight or flight. Listen,
this is a lot and I know, like I'll give
(10:07):
you a sports reality. You know, when the team down
by down by thirty, you like, give me the rock.
I don't want to take a break. I want to
play the whole game. Bro, you can't play the whole game.
You just can't. Can't play all forty eight minutes. Talk
to them, Sophie. You have to take a break. You
have to sit, You have to trust the team. You
have to rest your knees. You're gonna turn into the
(10:30):
gingerbread man like Anthony Davis, like you have to, you
have to rest your knees. I am saying that while
acknowledging that that is in fact a privilege. It is
a privilege for me to sit down and record podcasts.
It is a privilege for me to stand in the
gap and take on all of your dumb ass comments
(10:50):
on my social media.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
That's a privilege.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
It's a privilege for me to even talk and advocate
for veterans who are also in my comment sections that
are saying no is right.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I served my country and it destroyed me.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Like clearly, y'all, I ain't never had to talk somebody
down who had a gun.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
To their head.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
You heard my voice crack, because it's real. You don't
know the PTSD when these brothers come home. These were
our friends. Our friends are still somewhere in the desert
in Afghanistan. Oh, I'm looking at them right now. The
hummy ain't been the same since, still getting night terrorists.
Let me tell you something right now, I'm about to
be real personally. My father was a Vietnam war vet.
(11:31):
Do you know that? For at least twenty to thirty
years after that, he wouldn't eat rice, and it was
because of seeing bodies in rice fields. This shit is
nothing to be excited about. So inas much as you
can unplugged, man, take a break. Rest your knees. Please,
(11:51):
I'm begging you, don't do them scroll. This is too
serious right now and we need to be healthy and
okay for those who don't have the privilege of taking
a break. So when this tap in, I'm asking you
to tap out.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
We got it.
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