July 27, 2025 • 30 mins
Freedom of speech is under attack, and I'm not staying silent about it. Just as I've reached 2,100 subscribers by being authentically myself, I'm witnessing escalating censorship that should alarm everyone who values free expression.
My journey from quiet child to outspoken podcaster reflects a personal revolution against self-silencing. Growing up, I was that kid who barely spoke, always flying under the radar to avoid conflict. When people would say "you're so quiet, you should talk more," I'd try—only to be criticized for what I said. This led me into adulthood as a people-pleaser, a doormat letting others dictate my life while suppressing my true thoughts. The exhaustion of living inauthentically finally pushed me to speak up, set boundaries, and embrace my voice—even when it meant losing relationships with people who preferred the silent version of me.
This transformation mirrors what's happening on a larger scale. The recent cancellation of Stephen Colbert's show under suspicious "financial" circumstances, despite the same company signing a $1.5 billion deal with South Park, raises serious questions. South Park's brilliant 27th season premiere addressing censorship has essentially created a litmus test: if they face repercussions for criticizing powerful figures, it reveals the true nature of Colbert's cancellation—not financial troubles but silencing of dissent.
We're witnessing increasing restrictions on free speech across social media and mainstream platforms. I've lost multiple accounts for speaking against racism and political issues, but when established media figures face similar silencing, we've crossed into dangerous territory. The First Amendment specifically protects us from government interference with our speech, yet we're seeing potential political influence over media cancellations.
Your voice matters—whether you have two followers or two million. In a world of sanitized, brand-friendly content, authentic expression becomes radical and necessary. I'll never regret finding my voice after years of silence, and I encourage you to use yours. What made you smile this week? Share your thoughts and join me in speaking truth, even when—especially when—powerful forces would rather we stay quiet.
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Daijné (00:00):
Is this thing on?
Hello, hello, uh-oh, anotheryapper with a mic.
Hello everyone, and welcomeback to the Napkin in Between
podcast.
I am your host, Daijné Jones.
I hope everyone is having agood week, except for that
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orange drink, lady, of course.
Guys.
Wait, I'm finna cry.
I hope everyone is having agood week, except for that
orange drink, lady, of course.
Guys.
Uh, wait, because I'm finna cry.
I'm blushing so hard right now.
I don't know if you can tellbecause I have melanin, in case
you couldn't tell of that either, but we hit 2,000 subscribers.
Well, I think point umsubscribers on youtube.
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Oh my god, wait.
Yo, oh my god.
Thank you guys, so much, I'm solike.
Okay, so this past episode thatI posted last week has been like
my most viewed episode ever.
Currently, as I'm filming this,it's at like 3.1 thousand or
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3,100 views and that's like.
It's just so crazy to me, likeI know in hindsight of like
podcasts and things like that.
Like 2000 subscribers isn't alot, 3000 views isn't a lot, but
like for me, that means so muchto me and that's like crazy to
me because, like that episode,that means so much to me and
that's like crazy to me because,like that episode.
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It was very last minute andwhat I mean by that is like so I
filmed that episode, right, andI had filmed it, talked about
what I wanted to talk about, andthen I was like, okay, I'll
edit it later.
And then my procrastinationlike I'll be trying to fight the
procrastination, but sometimesshe'd be winning.
So last week, for last week'spodcast episode, the
procrastination was winning.
Like I didn't open that, like Ifilmed it and then, like later
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on in the week, I was like, letme, let me edit this.
Right, I open all of the youknow, the video, the sound,
whatever, and I had accidentallyum recorded the sound not
through the mic, like the micthat I hold in my podcast
episodes.
The sound wasn't recordedthrough that, it was recorded
through my laptop and so it'snot like you could barely hear
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me talking through the wholething.
And I was like, fuck, what do Ido?
Like it was Thursday.
Usually it takes me like a weekto to edit my podcast episodes
because I just like I'm verytedious about I'm a
perfectionist.
The perfectionist in me reallycomes out during editing.
So it usually takes me likedays to edit and I had already
procrastinated way too close tothe sun, and so I'm like, do I
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skip this week?
Do I try to re-record it?
Like what do I do?
So I was like you know what,I'm just gonna re-record it.
So I re-recorded the episode onFriday, friday morning, edited
the entire thing on Friday sothat it would be available for
Sunday when my episodes come out.
So I was like I wasn't reallyhappy with the episode.
Like it was very rushed, it wasvery last minute and I was like
, oh, like, hopefully, like thisis okay, like hopefully they
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like it.
Whatever, fast forward to today.
That episode is my highestviewed episode of my entire.
All of my podcast episodes.
I got like so many newsubscribers, which I'm so
thankful for.
Like it just shows me that likeI put too much pressure on
myself for my content sometimes.
Like I'm like I'm such aperfectionist and like I'm very
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tedious when it comes to editing.
Like my dream is to get to thepoint in podcasting where I can
just film and then send thefootage off to someone else to
edit.
I'm already praying for myfuture editor because I'm so
annoying and I'm like if there'sone little thing I don't like,
I will literally spend so muchtime on it more time than is
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needed to get it to where I likeit.
So I'm already praying for myfuture editor.
But like I wasn't very, like Ididn't get to watch the episode
enough, where I felt like, okay,like this is a good episode,
I'll put it out.
But I was like I don't reallywant to skip a week.
I had skipped a week a coupleweeks ago because my family was
here.
So I was like I don't reallywant to skip a week, like I love
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to be consistent with you guys,like I and I also love like
seeing you guys, I love readingyour comments and like engaging
with them and different thingslike that.
So I was like I don't reallywant to skip a week.
I already skipped a week thismonth.
So I was like you know what?
I'm just gonna put it out likewe'll see how it does.
I hit 21,000 subscribers or not20, not 21000, 2,100 subscribers
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, most viewed video of all mypodcasts, like and like that's
my thing is like I put so muchpressure on myself where it's
like you don't really need to doall that, like it's okay, you
can just talk, edit it and putit out, like that's what I need
to do, moving forward.
I'm saying this now, knowingvery well that I'm not going to
do that moving forward, but it'slike a good, a good sign to
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have.
You know what I mean.
That's like I don't have to putso much pressure on myself, I
don't have to be such aperfectionist, I don't have to
be so tedious to know, like whatI'm saying matters and like to
know that you know I'm makingsense.
Like sometimes, when I'mtalking, I'm just like am I even
making sense?
Like even like what I just said.
I'm like does that even makesense?
Is this like a flowing chain ofthought?
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Because my thoughts are sojumbled all the time and I'm
always like jumping from thoughtto thought to thought, so every
time I film something, I'm like, is this even cohesive?
Like, does this even make sense?
I guess it makes some sensebecause, like y'all liked it and
I love that y'all liked itbecause, like I love to talk, I
love to yap, I love to put myideas out there, and that's
another thing about the podcastis like number one.
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I feel like I talk aboutimportant things and doing the
podcast really helps me to likeamplify my voice.
Like every day I'm trying toamplify, amplify my voice even
more and I feel like it helps me, especially like heal my inner
child, having this podcast,because as a child, I don't want
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to say my voice didn't matter,but like not too many people
like told me that my voicemattered, you know.
So I was always very quiet.
I was always very like go withthe flow, like do whatever is
necessary to just, you know, flyunder the radar.
You know what I mean.
And so I didn't like everreally make a fuss about
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anything like I was always justvery like timid and my voice was
just like I just didn't talkmuch and people were always like
asking me my thoughts, but thenwhen I shared my thoughts, I
was like reprimanded for it,like they were like oh my god,
you're so quiet, you should talkmore.
And then I would try to talkmore and they're like, but not
like that you know what I mean.
So it's like do you want me totalk, do you know?
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So I always, like, going into myadult life, I was just very
like passive.
I didn't want to rock the boatlike.
I just was like agreeing withwhat everyone else said, whether
or not I truly agreed with itor not.
I was just going along withwhatever everyone else said and
it got to the point where it waslike people just like wouldn't
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take my feelings or my thoughtsinto account, like they would
just do whatever they wanted andregardless of how I felt, and
that gets tiring after a while.
Like it's very, very tiring andI was just like you know what
fuck it like I'm gonna finallystart speaking my mind and
saying what I feel.
And speaking.
However, I want to speak andlike when I first started doing
that, it was hard because it'slike when you finally stop being
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a doormat and letting peoplewalk all over you, like you lose
a lot of people because it likeit, at least for me personally,
I found that like when Ifinally started talking for
myself and setting boundarieswith people, they didn't want to
be my life anymore, becauseit's like I was just letting
them do whatever and the factthat I was and now I'm not
allowing that they didn't likethat.
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They didn't like that I was nolonger being a doormat, that
they could no longer walk allover me, and so now that I'm at
the point of my life where I'mjust like doing me and doing my
own thing and like Sharing thethoughts that I actually have
and setting boundaries that I amkeeping and like not letting
anybody cross.
It allows the good people tocome into my life.
You know what I mean.
Like it allows the people whogenuinely respect me and View me
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as a person and not justsomeone that they can like get
over on um to come into my life.
And being able to do that onsuch a wide spectrum, like again
, I know that you know 2,000subscribers, 3,000 views in
hindsight isn't a lot, but it'sso meaningful for me because
it's like y'all are seeingexactly who I am.
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You're hearing all of mythoughts, all of my beliefs, all
of my ideologies.
What, like, what really goes onin my brain is what I'm
actively putting out and I lovethat like I'm being fully myself
and y'all are here becauseyou're witnessing who I am fully
.
It means so much to me becausethis heals my inner child, the
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little girl who just didn'tspeak a lot and just kind of
like went with the flow.
She's being actively healed andI just love that for her.
I love that for her, I lovethat for me and I just love that
for her.
I love that for her, I lovethat for me and I just love that
for the world, because I feellike I just I wish people were
just more authenticallythemselves and just like spoke
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their brains.
I was actually thinking aboutthis the other day.
I hate how like PR trainedpeople are now like I was
watching videos of people inlike the early 2000s like
celebrities, and when they woulddiscuss, like having beef or
having an issue with somebodyelse, they would just speak
their mind like it wasn't.
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These pr answers of just likewell, you know, we just see
things differently, like no,like they were not.
Like, for example, hillary duffshe had beef with so many
people and seeing the way thatthey're just like so honest
about it and just being likeyeah, like that, like fuck her,
like that bitch is messy, likewhatever they want to say, I
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miss that.
I miss.
There's just like noauthenticity in the world
anymore and it sucks becauseeveryone's trying to like
conform and like be like brandfriendly, like oh, I hate that
shit and I've experienced thatmyself too.
I've talked about this a littlebit but like I've had interviews
with like talent agencies andpeople like wanting to like
represent me and they're like ohmy god, we've seen your videos.
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Like we really like you, likewe want to meet with you, blah,
blah, blah.
And so we have this firstmeeting, and the first meeting
always goes really well, right,like they're like hyping me up
and saying me how much they likeme, whatever.
And then I think that inbetween the first meeting and
the second meeting, like theyactually listen to my content,
like I think in the firstmeeting they just see my
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engagement because not to brag,but y'all be tuned to fuck it,
and so they see that engagementand they're like, oh, like she
has really good engagement.
And then, after the firstmeeting, they go to the second
meeting and it's always likethey tell me, without telling me
, that I can't be as vocal aboutthings that I am and by things
I mean like the political stateof the world and different
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things like that they want me tolike not talk about different
things.
Like they want me to not callout racism and misogyny and
transphobia and talk shit aboutTrump, and it's just like that's
like bullshit to me.
That propaganda that I willnever fall for is that you have
to be like brand safe and likenot talk about politics in order
to work with a brand, and likeI've seen people like
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influencers that I follow orthat I'm mutuals with talk about
how like they can't talk somuch about political stuff
because it doesn't make thembrand friendly.
That's propaganda I'm notfalling for.
I don't like that.
I can't call out racism and geta brand deal because my thing
is like there are so manyinfluencers and content creators
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who have a history of racism,misogyny, transphobia,
homophobia, all these things,and they're still able to get
brand deals.
If you're able to have ahistory of racism, misogyny,
homophobia, big whatever sort ofbigotry and get a brand deal, I
should be able to call out allof those things and also get a
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brand deal.
Like hello, like that's likecrazy to me.
It's like people feel like theycan't call those things out
because it makes them less brandfriendly.
Meanwhile, they have people whohave a history of racism,
homophobia, transphobia,whatever, and they're like the
face of a brand.
Be serious, like just beserious.
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That's crazy to me and so likethat's why I will I'll never
stop talking about those things.
And I feel like we need to bringback like non-pr trained people
, people who aren't pr trainedand they're just like speaking
and doing them and going crazylike how, whatever that means.
We need more of that.
We need more authenticity,because there's too many people
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who are just putting on thisfront for, like, brand deals or
whatever and they're just notbeing their self.
I hate that.
I hate that I never want tochange, because I feel like
again, the things that I talkabout are not only important,
but like I finally found a placewhere I can fully be me and
it's taken me 25, 26 years to toget here and to finally be like
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you know what?
Fuck it.
I'm gonna say what I feel andif you like it, cool.
If you don't, also cool.
Like I just can never.
I can never go back to like thebox that I had put myself in or
like the world my upbringinghad put me in, like I'm.
I'm too vocal now and I can'tgo back to not being vocal.
So I say all that to say I'mvery happy.
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Thank you guys so much for21,000 subscribers on my YouTube
channel.
Um, like that's just reallycrazy to me and I'm really
grateful and I'm so happy thatall of you are here.
I'm a little freaked out, to behonest, because it's like like
I sometimes forget that y'allare real people, like there's
actual people behind the numbersand that's why it's so easy for
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me to be like, oh, I can justbe myself because, like, I
forget that y'all are realpeople.
So I just want to say, likethat, this has been the peak of
my week just seeing all of youguys and I am so grateful and
thank you guys so much for beinghere and, yeah, I just I'm just
so grateful for all of you.
So, um, I just wanted to saythis has absolutely been the
peak of my week.
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It's just like seeing theinflux of subscribers, of views,
like I'm really really gratefulfor, for all of it.
So thank you you guys so muchfor 20,000.
I just keep saying 20,000.
I guess we're going to getthere soon.
I guess this is likemanifestation, you know what I
mean.
It's 2,100, but I keep saying20,000, but that's because we're
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going to get there soon.
So thank you in advance for20,000 subscribers and thank you
currently for 2, subscribers.
I'm really really grateful andI'm I'm just happy that you guys
are all here.
So that has been the pick of myweek.
Please tell me the pick of yourweek, something that made you
smile, kept you grounded, keptyou sane in the chaos of the
world right now, speaking ofusing your voice and not
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allowing anybody to silence you,and being your authentic self,
segwaying it right into whatwe're gonna talk about today the
censorship and being yourauthentic self, segwaying it
right into what we're gonna talkabout today.
The censorship these days isfucking crazy.
Like I've I've been feeling thecensorship for a minute now.
I'm on my third account ontiktok and it's because I call
out trump and racism andhomophobia and misogyny,
anti-blackness.
Like I've lost several accountsbecause I call that shit out on
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TikTok.
But Stephen Colbert just got hislate night show canceled
because of financial issues.
I say in quotes because that'swhat they're saying, but it
doesn't feel like it's financialissues.
It's very much giving.
You know.
He's gotten under Trump's skinone time too many and Trump shut
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this shit, the fuck down.
That's what it's giving to me.
I don't know all of the details, let me preface it with that,
but Stephen Colbert has been onTrump's ass for a hot fucking
minute and the fact that hisshow is just now getting
canceled, it doesn't seem like acoincidence to me.
That's all I'm gonna say.
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But anyway, sohen colbert'sshow was just recently canceled
for money issues and today southpark premiered their 27th um
season and it it's giving clapback to me.
It's giving that they weretrying to clap back at the
censorship and everything that'sgoing on, which I fucking love
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their episode today.
It was brilliant in so many ways.
Number one, obviously they theycalled out trump and they were
making jokes about him, abouthow he's always trying to sue
everyone and you know, likeeveryone needs to like fall in
line or they can get their showscanceled too.
But it was also really smart tome because, like they're saying
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that they canceled StephenColbert's show because of, like,
money issues or whatever.
They just signed and I'mtalking about Paramount.
I think that there's like aparent company to Paramount, but
the Stephen Colbert show was onParamount and South Park is
also on Paramount.
Paramount signed a 1.5 billionbillion that's.
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So I can't even fathom how muchmoney that is, like billion.
Like when we start talkingabout billions, I can't
understand that that's so muchfucking money.
But they signed a 1.5 billiondollar contract with the
creators of south park recentlyand in their 27 um season
premiere episode it wasbasically about the censorship
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and Trump and getting shit shutdown, like if they talk
negatively about him or if it'ssomething that he doesn't like,
right.
So in the episode theyliterally had like Jesus in the
episode and Jesus was tellingthem like you guys have to fall
in line, like if you, if youdon't want to get canceled, you
have to fall in line.
You have to not talk aboutbadly about Trump.
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Like you guys have to stop allthese rallies and talking
negatively about Trump.
And I feel like it was sobrilliant, because if they
really canceled StephenColbert's show because of money,
like you just signed a 1.5billion deal with South Park,
right?
So if now, all of a sudden,south Park is canceled because
they're throwing shots at Trump,is is the issue really money or
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is the issue censorship?
Because I feel like censorshiphas gotten really bad on social
media and we we need to beworried because this is the
censorship.
Like I hate when people getonline and they'll say things
like racial slurs, like then-word or whatever, and they're
like oh, freedom of speech, likeI can say what I want because
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freedom of speech, open theschools.
Open the schools, becausethat's not what freedom of
speech is for.
It's not to protect you, to saythe n-word, freedom of speech
is for protection from thegovernment.
So it's like if you get onlineand you say the n-word, that's
not your freedom of speech.
Like that doesn't free you fromfrom me giving you a verbal
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lashing.
You know what I mean.
Like people like I've calledpeople out for saying the n-word
and people are like oh my god,god, freedom of speech.
Like you can't be mad becausethey host freedom of speech.
No bitch.
I can be upset, but people willget in my comments and be like
oh my god, freedom of speech.
Like they can say whatever thefuck they want.
And it's like that's not whatfreedom of speech is.
Freedom of speech isn'tprotection from a regular
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civilian like me.
Like freedom of speech is fromthe government and so, like if
Stephen Colbert's show wascanceled because, like Trump
just feels like he's talking toomuch shit about him or whatever
, stephen Colbert's freedom ofspeech is the one that's under
attack.
Do you know what I mean?
And if it's like, if he can gethis show canceled because he's
saying things that he doesn'tlike, what does that mean for
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everyone else?
You know what I mean?
Like, if not dictatorship, why?
Dictatorship shaped like whatthe fuck?
Like that's, that's weird.
Like that's, that's scary.
That's scary for someone's showto be canceled because and this
is just my personal opinion,right like the reason they gave
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for the canceling is becausefinancial, I don't believe that
shit.
You just signed a 1.5 billiondeal, you know what I'm saying.
So it's like that's suspicious,right, this is scary.
Like this is censorship on awhole new level.
Like taking away my itty bittyaccount.
Itty bitty, I had 400 000 plusplus followers but like, like, I
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was not like super well known,like someone like stephen
colbert is well known, like youknow what I mean?
Like his late night show wasvery well known, getting that
off of the air because he wascriticizing you, because he was
saying things that you didn'tlike, bro, that's crazy.
And like that's what I'm sayingthe censorship these days is
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getting really, really bad andit's getting really scary.
Like this is an actualinfringement on your freedom of
speech because that, like, it'ssupposed to protect you from the
government, and so I feel likethat's why this south park
episode was so brilliant.
Because if they face any sortof repercussions because of
their episode, because that theywere making jokes or rage
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baiting trump or whatever, itthen goes to show like, okay,
like this wasn't about money,this wasn't about like, oh, we
canceled the show because offinancial reasons, this goes to
show that it was more because hewas saying things that trump
didn't like.
And if that's where we'vegotten to as a country of like
trump can criticize uh, not onlycriticize a show, but like, get
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it taken off the air becausethey're saying things that he
doesn't like or because they'recriticizing him, I want off this
ride.
I want off this ride.
That that's not.
This is literally now fuckingwith people's constitutional
rights.
The first amendment is aconstitutional right and this is
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like I.
I said this when he sent thenational guard to california to
like be there because theprotests were unpeaceful.
Meanwhile, most of the protestswere peaceful.
He's trying to see what he canget away with.
He's trying to see how far hecan go before somebody fucking
stops him.
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Somebody stop this man.
Like that was step one.
He's just like every singlething he does is like a guinea
pig thing for him to see doesthis work, can I get away with
this?
Okay, let's take it anotherstep further.
Does this work, let's?
Can I get away with this?
Okay, let's take it anotherstep further.
And it's like how much do welet him do before someone is
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like okay, we, we have to stepin and by someone I mean, like
like Congress, the House ofRepresentatives, the Senate,
Like when does someone stop him?
Because clearly I can't saythat, I don't know if I can say
that, but like, what I'll say ispeople are dying that ain't
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never died before.
But like, fuck, grim Reaper,annabelle, like y'all aren't
getting the right person,respectfully, y'all are missing
the right person.
Like I seen, hulk Hogan diedtoday, which ironically he
passed away today on theanniversary, on the 10 year
anniversary of like a rant thathe had put out went viral, of
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him like calling black peoplethe N word hard ER.
That was shown to everyone 10years ago today and he passed
away today.
Bitch, that's fuckingreparations.
Like sorry, sorry to that man,but damn, the ancestors don't
play, that's what I'm saying.
Like y'all need to stop playingwith black people because the
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ancestors do not fucking play,don't play, that's what I'm
saying.
Like y'all need to stop playingwith black people because the
ancestors do not fucking play,don't play at all.
But I saw somebody say, like wesaid the orange man, like take
the orange man, but we, weweren't specific enough.
Like damn, like people aredying, they ain't died before,
but it's like I'm not the rightperson.
Like we're getting closer withHulk Hogan am I allowed to say
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this, I don't know?
Anyway, we're getting closer,but not the right orange person.
Let's try again.
Let's second time's a charm.
Third time to charm, I don'tknow.
Let's try again.
It doesn't seem like that ishappening soon, right?
So it's like when does somebodystep in and like stop this man
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from this crazy shit that he'sdoing?
Because it's like thiscensorship is getting really
crazy.
And again, like I've seen,especially like I've seen it
firsthand with me and like otherpeople that I know post more.
That's like politics stuff.
That's like against trump.
Their videos, they get takendown, their accounts have been
banned.
Like the censorship is crazy.
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This is infringing on people'sconstitutional rights, like this
is our first amendment rightsto be able to say what we want
and not have repercussions fromthe government.
You know what I mean.
Like obviously, add nuance inmodern.
Like you know what I'm saying.
Like you can't just sayanything and not get
repercussions, but like you'resupposed to be able to speak
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your piece and speak yourcriticisms and not face backlash
from the government for that.
So if stephen colbert, his showis getting canceled because
trump just doesn't like whathe's saying about him.
That's an issue, that's scaryand we need to make a bigger
deal about that.
And I feel like that's likewhat this season premiere of
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south park kind of did.
And so if, if they facerepercussions because of that
episode, I think it's a clearsign that, like this isn't about
money, this isn't about, likestephen colbert show wasn't
canceled because of monetaryshit.
It's because if trump doesn'tlike what someone is saying
about him, he will step in andtry to, you know, get them taken
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off air or cancel their show,like censor them, whatever, and
that's that's a big issue.
That's something that we wereally need to to take seriously
because, again, like that'sinfringing on people's
constitutional rights and he'salready done that with the
peaceful protests in californiaamongst the ice raids.
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If people protesting the iceraids and like people I'm sorry,
ice going into businesses andlike just taking people who some
people who are, like, legallyhere, have their documents,
everything like that, likethey're going in and and
snatching up these people, orlike people who may be
undocumented but like they'rehere working, they have no
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criminal record, things likethat.
Like that's why the proteststarted, you know, um, and again
I feel like that was his firststep.
Like, can I get away with this?
Okay, I'm getting away withthis.
Like what else can I get awaywith?
Someone needs to stop him.
He must be stopped.
He must be stopped because it'sjust gonna keep getting worse
and worse and worse, and this isnot what america's is like.
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America is is not adictatorship, you know what I
mean.
So it's like I need someone tostep in and do something.
Like we can't just like keepletting him get away with shit.
As we're off with today'sepisode, I just want to
encourage like I know peoplemight feel like your voice
doesn't matter, but itabsolutely does, whether you
have two followers or you'resomeone like Stephen Colbert and
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have a million followers.
Like don't, don't letcensorship take you over.
Like your voice matters.
You know what I mean.
Like you need to continue totalk about things that are
important to you, criticize youknow this administration if you
feel like it's necessary, likehe cannot keep getting away with
this stuff, like this is crazy,this is insane things that he's
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getting away with, and like wejust can't continue to let it
happen.
So, if you're able to, if youwant to like, use your voice,
speak about things that areimportant to you and just be
authentically you.
That's like.
That's like I feel, like it'sso important and, like I said,
there's so many people today whoare just trying to like be
brand friendly or, you know, notspeak about things that they
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really care about because, like,they're worried about the
backlash, whatever.
Like speak about what'simportant to you, like it's so
important for everyone to justuse your voice, whether, again,
you have zero followers or athousand million billion
followers like that's not a realnumber but just use your voice
and don't allow anyone to takeyour voice away, because it's so
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like we're just in really crazytimes and authentic voices are
needed now more than ever, andthat's why I try to always be my
authentic self.
Like that is so needed thesedays, because there's just not a
lot of people who do it,because everyone's trying to
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like walk this fine line ofbeing like politically correct
and saying all the right things.
I never cared, and neithershould you, who gives a fuck.
Speak your mind, live yourtruth.
At the end of the day, we'reall on a floating rock in the
middle of fucking space.
Like fuck, leave people aloneand let them fucking live.
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You know what I mean.
I don't know what's gonna happenwith south park.
Um, I did see that the whitehouse trump himself at this
point that I'm filming thishasn't said anything about the
episode, but the white house wasnot happy about the episode.
But we'll see.
We'll see what happens.
I think it was a brilliantepisode because it's either
gonna it's gonna show if it istruly like an infringement on
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people's constitutional rightsor if it was really a monetary
thing.
I think south park I can'tremember the, the two guys names
who started south park but Ithink it was very brilliant of
them exactly what they did to tosee what happens.
So thank you guys, so much fortuning in to today's episode.
I hope everyone's having a goodweek, except for that orange
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lady, and I will talk to youauthentically and uncensoredly
in the next episode.
Peace and love.
Talk to you later.
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Hello, hello, uh-oh, anotheryapper with a mic.
Hello everyone, and welcomeback to the Napkin in Between
podcast.
I am your host, Daijné Jones.
I hope everyone is having agood week, except for that
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orange drink, lady, of course.
Guys.
Wait, I'm finna cry.
I hope everyone is having agood week, except for that
orange drink, lady, of course.
Guys.
Uh, wait, because I'm finna cry.
I'm blushing so hard right now.
I don't know if you can tellbecause I have melanin, in case
you couldn't tell of that either, but we hit 2,000 subscribers.
Well, I think point umsubscribers on youtube.
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Oh my god, wait.
Yo, oh my god.
Thank you guys, so much, I'm solike.
Okay, so this past episode thatI posted last week has been like
my most viewed episode ever.
Currently, as I'm filming this,it's at like 3.1 thousand or
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3,100 views and that's like.
It's just so crazy to me, likeI know in hindsight of like
podcasts and things like that.
Like 2000 subscribers isn't alot, 3000 views isn't a lot, but
like for me, that means so muchto me and that's like crazy to
me because, like that episode,that means so much to me and
that's like crazy to me because,like that episode.
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It was very last minute andwhat I mean by that is like so I
filmed that episode, right, andI had filmed it, talked about
what I wanted to talk about, andthen I was like, okay, I'll
edit it later.
And then my procrastinationlike I'll be trying to fight the
procrastination, but sometimesshe'd be winning.
So last week, for last week'spodcast episode, the
procrastination was winning.
Like I didn't open that, like Ifilmed it and then, like later
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on in the week, I was like, letme, let me edit this.
Right, I open all of the youknow, the video, the sound,
whatever, and I had accidentallyum recorded the sound not
through the mic, like the micthat I hold in my podcast
episodes.
The sound wasn't recordedthrough that, it was recorded
through my laptop and so it'snot like you could barely hear
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me talking through the wholething.
And I was like, fuck, what do Ido?
Like it was Thursday.
Usually it takes me like a weekto to edit my podcast episodes
because I just like I'm verytedious about I'm a
perfectionist.
The perfectionist in me reallycomes out during editing.
So it usually takes me likedays to edit and I had already
procrastinated way too close tothe sun, and so I'm like, do I
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skip this week?
Do I try to re-record it?
Like what do I do?
So I was like you know what,I'm just gonna re-record it.
So I re-recorded the episode onFriday, friday morning, edited
the entire thing on Friday sothat it would be available for
Sunday when my episodes come out.
So I was like I wasn't reallyhappy with the episode.
Like it was very rushed, it wasvery last minute and I was like
, oh, like, hopefully, like thisis okay, like hopefully they
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like it.
Whatever, fast forward to today.
That episode is my highestviewed episode of my entire.
All of my podcast episodes.
I got like so many newsubscribers, which I'm so
thankful for.
Like it just shows me that likeI put too much pressure on
myself for my content sometimes.
Like I'm like I'm such aperfectionist and like I'm very
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tedious when it comes to editing.
Like my dream is to get to thepoint in podcasting where I can
just film and then send thefootage off to someone else to
edit.
I'm already praying for myfuture editor because I'm so
annoying and I'm like if there'sone little thing I don't like,
I will literally spend so muchtime on it more time than is
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needed to get it to where I likeit.
So I'm already praying for myfuture editor.
But like I wasn't very, like Ididn't get to watch the episode
enough, where I felt like, okay,like this is a good episode,
I'll put it out.
But I was like I don't reallywant to skip a week.
I had skipped a week a coupleweeks ago because my family was
here.
So I was like I don't reallywant to skip a week, like I love
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to be consistent with you guys,like I and I also love like
seeing you guys, I love readingyour comments and like engaging
with them and different thingslike that.
So I was like I don't reallywant to skip a week.
I already skipped a week thismonth.
So I was like you know what?
I'm just gonna put it out likewe'll see how it does.
I hit 21,000 subscribers or not20, not 21000, 2,100 subscribers
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, most viewed video of all mypodcasts, like and like that's
my thing is like I put so muchpressure on myself where it's
like you don't really need to doall that, like it's okay, you
can just talk, edit it and putit out, like that's what I need
to do, moving forward.
I'm saying this now, knowingvery well that I'm not going to
do that moving forward, but it'slike a good, a good sign to
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have.
You know what I mean.
That's like I don't have to putso much pressure on myself, I
don't have to be such aperfectionist, I don't have to
be so tedious to know, like whatI'm saying matters and like to
know that you know I'm makingsense.
Like sometimes, when I'mtalking, I'm just like am I even
making sense?
Like even like what I just said.
I'm like does that even makesense?
Is this like a flowing chain ofthought?
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Because my thoughts are sojumbled all the time and I'm
always like jumping from thoughtto thought to thought, so every
time I film something, I'm like, is this even cohesive?
Like, does this even make sense?
I guess it makes some sensebecause, like y'all liked it and
I love that y'all liked itbecause, like I love to talk, I
love to yap, I love to put myideas out there, and that's
another thing about the podcastis like number one.
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I feel like I talk aboutimportant things and doing the
podcast really helps me to likeamplify my voice.
Like every day I'm trying toamplify, amplify my voice even
more and I feel like it helps me, especially like heal my inner
child, having this podcast,because as a child, I don't want
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to say my voice didn't matter,but like not too many people
like told me that my voicemattered, you know.
So I was always very quiet.
I was always very like go withthe flow, like do whatever is
necessary to just, you know, flyunder the radar.
You know what I mean.
And so I didn't like everreally make a fuss about
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anything like I was always justvery like timid and my voice was
just like I just didn't talkmuch and people were always like
asking me my thoughts, but thenwhen I shared my thoughts, I
was like reprimanded for it,like they were like oh my god,
you're so quiet, you should talkmore.
And then I would try to talkmore and they're like, but not
like that you know what I mean.
So it's like do you want me totalk, do you know?
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So I always, like, going into myadult life, I was just very
like passive.
I didn't want to rock the boatlike.
I just was like agreeing withwhat everyone else said, whether
or not I truly agreed with itor not.
I was just going along withwhatever everyone else said and
it got to the point where it waslike people just like wouldn't
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take my feelings or my thoughtsinto account, like they would
just do whatever they wanted andregardless of how I felt, and
that gets tiring after a while.
Like it's very, very tiring andI was just like you know what
fuck it like I'm gonna finallystart speaking my mind and
saying what I feel.
And speaking.
However, I want to speak andlike when I first started doing
that, it was hard because it'slike when you finally stop being
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a doormat and letting peoplewalk all over you, like you lose
a lot of people because it likeit, at least for me personally,
I found that like when Ifinally started talking for
myself and setting boundarieswith people, they didn't want to
be my life anymore, becauseit's like I was just letting
them do whatever and the factthat I was and now I'm not
allowing that they didn't likethat.
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They didn't like that I was nolonger being a doormat, that
they could no longer walk allover me, and so now that I'm at
the point of my life where I'mjust like doing me and doing my
own thing and like Sharing thethoughts that I actually have
and setting boundaries that I amkeeping and like not letting
anybody cross.
It allows the good people tocome into my life.
You know what I mean.
Like it allows the people whogenuinely respect me and View me
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as a person and not justsomeone that they can like get
over on um to come into my life.
And being able to do that onsuch a wide spectrum, like again
, I know that you know 2,000subscribers, 3,000 views in
hindsight isn't a lot, but it'sso meaningful for me because
it's like y'all are seeingexactly who I am.
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You're hearing all of mythoughts, all of my beliefs, all
of my ideologies.
What, like, what really goes onin my brain is what I'm
actively putting out and I lovethat like I'm being fully myself
and y'all are here becauseyou're witnessing who I am fully
.
It means so much to me becausethis heals my inner child, the
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little girl who just didn'tspeak a lot and just kind of
like went with the flow.
She's being actively healed andI just love that for her.
I love that for her, I lovethat for me and I just love that
for her.
I love that for her, I lovethat for me and I just love that
for the world, because I feellike I just I wish people were
just more authenticallythemselves and just like spoke
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their brains.
I was actually thinking aboutthis the other day.
I hate how like PR trainedpeople are now like I was
watching videos of people inlike the early 2000s like
celebrities, and when they woulddiscuss, like having beef or
having an issue with somebodyelse, they would just speak
their mind like it wasn't.
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These pr answers of just likewell, you know, we just see
things differently, like no,like they were not.
Like, for example, hillary duffshe had beef with so many
people and seeing the way thatthey're just like so honest
about it and just being likeyeah, like that, like fuck her,
like that bitch is messy, likewhatever they want to say, I
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miss that.
I miss.
There's just like noauthenticity in the world
anymore and it sucks becauseeveryone's trying to like
conform and like be like brandfriendly, like oh, I hate that
shit and I've experienced thatmyself too.
I've talked about this a littlebit but like I've had interviews
with like talent agencies andpeople like wanting to like
represent me and they're like ohmy god, we've seen your videos.
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Like we really like you, likewe want to meet with you, blah,
blah, blah.
And so we have this firstmeeting, and the first meeting
always goes really well, right,like they're like hyping me up
and saying me how much they likeme, whatever.
And then I think that inbetween the first meeting and
the second meeting, like theyactually listen to my content,
like I think in the firstmeeting they just see my
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engagement because not to brag,but y'all be tuned to fuck it,
and so they see that engagementand they're like, oh, like she
has really good engagement.
And then, after the firstmeeting, they go to the second
meeting and it's always likethey tell me, without telling me
, that I can't be as vocal aboutthings that I am and by things
I mean like the political stateof the world and different
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things like that they want me tolike not talk about different
things.
Like they want me to not callout racism and misogyny and
transphobia and talk shit aboutTrump, and it's just like that's
like bullshit to me.
That propaganda that I willnever fall for is that you have
to be like brand safe and likenot talk about politics in order
to work with a brand, and likeI've seen people like
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influencers that I follow orthat I'm mutuals with talk about
how like they can't talk somuch about political stuff
because it doesn't make thembrand friendly.
That's propaganda I'm notfalling for.
I don't like that.
I can't call out racism and geta brand deal because my thing
is like there are so manyinfluencers and content creators
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who have a history of racism,misogyny, transphobia,
homophobia, all these things,and they're still able to get
brand deals.
If you're able to have ahistory of racism, misogyny,
homophobia, big whatever sort ofbigotry and get a brand deal, I
should be able to call out allof those things and also get a
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brand deal.
Like hello, like that's likecrazy to me.
It's like people feel like theycan't call those things out
because it makes them less brandfriendly.
Meanwhile, they have people whohave a history of racism,
homophobia, transphobia,whatever, and they're like the
face of a brand.
Be serious, like just beserious.
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That's crazy to me and so likethat's why I will I'll never
stop talking about those things.
And I feel like we need to bringback like non-pr trained people
, people who aren't pr trainedand they're just like speaking
and doing them and going crazylike how, whatever that means.
We need more of that.
We need more authenticity,because there's too many people
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who are just putting on thisfront for, like, brand deals or
whatever and they're just notbeing their self.
I hate that.
I hate that I never want tochange, because I feel like
again, the things that I talkabout are not only important,
but like I finally found a placewhere I can fully be me and
it's taken me 25, 26 years to toget here and to finally be like
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you know what?
Fuck it.
I'm gonna say what I feel andif you like it, cool.
If you don't, also cool.
Like I just can never.
I can never go back to like thebox that I had put myself in or
like the world my upbringinghad put me in, like I'm.
I'm too vocal now and I can'tgo back to not being vocal.
So I say all that to say I'mvery happy.
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Thank you guys so much for21,000 subscribers on my YouTube
channel.
Um, like that's just reallycrazy to me and I'm really
grateful and I'm so happy thatall of you are here.
I'm a little freaked out, to behonest, because it's like like
I sometimes forget that y'allare real people, like there's
actual people behind the numbersand that's why it's so easy for
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me to be like, oh, I can justbe myself because, like, I
forget that y'all are realpeople.
So I just want to say, likethat, this has been the peak of
my week just seeing all of youguys and I am so grateful and
thank you guys so much for beinghere and, yeah, I just I'm just
so grateful for all of you.
So, um, I just wanted to saythis has absolutely been the
peak of my week.
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It's just like seeing theinflux of subscribers, of views,
like I'm really really gratefulfor, for all of it.
So thank you you guys so muchfor 20,000.
I just keep saying 20,000.
I guess we're going to getthere soon.
I guess this is likemanifestation, you know what I
mean.
It's 2,100, but I keep saying20,000, but that's because we're
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going to get there soon.
So thank you in advance for20,000 subscribers and thank you
currently for 2, subscribers.
I'm really really grateful andI'm I'm just happy that you guys
are all here.
So that has been the pick of myweek.
Please tell me the pick of yourweek, something that made you
smile, kept you grounded, keptyou sane in the chaos of the
world right now, speaking ofusing your voice and not
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allowing anybody to silence you,and being your authentic self,
segwaying it right into whatwe're gonna talk about today the
censorship and being yourauthentic self, segwaying it
right into what we're gonna talkabout today.
The censorship these days isfucking crazy.
Like I've I've been feeling thecensorship for a minute now.
I'm on my third account ontiktok and it's because I call
out trump and racism andhomophobia and misogyny,
anti-blackness.
Like I've lost several accountsbecause I call that shit out on
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TikTok.
But Stephen Colbert just got hislate night show canceled
because of financial issues.
I say in quotes because that'swhat they're saying, but it
doesn't feel like it's financialissues.
It's very much giving.
You know.
He's gotten under Trump's skinone time too many and Trump shut
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this shit, the fuck down.
That's what it's giving to me.
I don't know all of the details, let me preface it with that,
but Stephen Colbert has been onTrump's ass for a hot fucking
minute and the fact that hisshow is just now getting
canceled, it doesn't seem like acoincidence to me.
That's all I'm gonna say.
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But anyway, sohen colbert'sshow was just recently canceled
for money issues and today southpark premiered their 27th um
season and it it's giving clapback to me.
It's giving that they weretrying to clap back at the
censorship and everything that'sgoing on, which I fucking love
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their episode today.
It was brilliant in so many ways.
Number one, obviously they theycalled out trump and they were
making jokes about him, abouthow he's always trying to sue
everyone and you know, likeeveryone needs to like fall in
line or they can get their showscanceled too.
But it was also really smart tome because, like they're saying
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that they canceled StephenColbert's show because of, like,
money issues or whatever.
They just signed and I'mtalking about Paramount.
I think that there's like aparent company to Paramount, but
the Stephen Colbert show was onParamount and South Park is
also on Paramount.
Paramount signed a 1.5 billionbillion that's.
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So I can't even fathom how muchmoney that is, like billion.
Like when we start talkingabout billions, I can't
understand that that's so muchfucking money.
But they signed a 1.5 billiondollar contract with the
creators of south park recentlyand in their 27 um season
premiere episode it wasbasically about the censorship
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and Trump and getting shit shutdown, like if they talk
negatively about him or if it'ssomething that he doesn't like,
right.
So in the episode theyliterally had like Jesus in the
episode and Jesus was tellingthem like you guys have to fall
in line, like if you, if youdon't want to get canceled, you
have to fall in line.
You have to not talk aboutbadly about Trump.
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Like you guys have to stop allthese rallies and talking
negatively about Trump.
And I feel like it was sobrilliant, because if they
really canceled StephenColbert's show because of money,
like you just signed a 1.5billion deal with South Park,
right?
So if now, all of a sudden,south Park is canceled because
they're throwing shots at Trump,is is the issue really money or
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is the issue censorship?
Because I feel like censorshiphas gotten really bad on social
media and we we need to beworried because this is the
censorship.
Like I hate when people getonline and they'll say things
like racial slurs, like then-word or whatever, and they're
like oh, freedom of speech, likeI can say what I want because
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freedom of speech, open theschools.
Open the schools, becausethat's not what freedom of
speech is for.
It's not to protect you, to saythe n-word, freedom of speech
is for protection from thegovernment.
So it's like if you get onlineand you say the n-word, that's
not your freedom of speech.
Like that doesn't free you fromfrom me giving you a verbal
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lashing.
You know what I mean.
Like people like I've calledpeople out for saying the n-word
and people are like oh my god,god, freedom of speech.
Like you can't be mad becausethey host freedom of speech.
No bitch.
I can be upset, but people willget in my comments and be like
oh my god, freedom of speech.
Like they can say whatever thefuck they want.
And it's like that's not whatfreedom of speech is.
Freedom of speech isn'tprotection from a regular
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civilian like me.
Like freedom of speech is fromthe government and so, like if
Stephen Colbert's show wascanceled because, like Trump
just feels like he's talking toomuch shit about him or whatever
, stephen Colbert's freedom ofspeech is the one that's under
attack.
Do you know what I mean?
And if it's like, if he can gethis show canceled because he's
saying things that he doesn'tlike, what does that mean for
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everyone else?
You know what I mean?
Like, if not dictatorship, why?
Dictatorship shaped like whatthe fuck?
Like that's, that's weird.
Like that's, that's scary.
That's scary for someone's showto be canceled because and this
is just my personal opinion,right like the reason they gave
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for the canceling is becausefinancial, I don't believe that
shit.
You just signed a 1.5 billiondeal, you know what I'm saying.
So it's like that's suspicious,right, this is scary.
Like this is censorship on awhole new level.
Like taking away my itty bittyaccount.
Itty bitty, I had 400 000 plusplus followers but like, like, I
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was not like super well known,like someone like stephen
colbert is well known, like youknow what I mean?
Like his late night show wasvery well known, getting that
off of the air because he wascriticizing you, because he was
saying things that you didn'tlike, bro, that's crazy.
And like that's what I'm sayingthe censorship these days is
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getting really, really bad andit's getting really scary.
Like this is an actualinfringement on your freedom of
speech because that, like, it'ssupposed to protect you from the
government, and so I feel likethat's why this south park
episode was so brilliant.
Because if they face any sortof repercussions because of
their episode, because that theywere making jokes or rage
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baiting trump or whatever, itthen goes to show like, okay,
like this wasn't about money,this wasn't about like, oh, we
canceled the show because offinancial reasons, this goes to
show that it was more because hewas saying things that trump
didn't like.
And if that's where we'vegotten to as a country of like
trump can criticize uh, not onlycriticize a show, but like, get
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it taken off the air becausethey're saying things that he
doesn't like or because they'recriticizing him, I want off this
ride.
I want off this ride.
That that's not.
This is literally now fuckingwith people's constitutional
rights.
The first amendment is aconstitutional right and this is
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like I.
I said this when he sent thenational guard to california to
like be there because theprotests were unpeaceful.
Meanwhile, most of the protestswere peaceful.
He's trying to see what he canget away with.
He's trying to see how far hecan go before somebody fucking
stops him.
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Somebody stop this man.
Like that was step one.
He's just like every singlething he does is like a guinea
pig thing for him to see doesthis work, can I get away with
this?
Okay, let's take it anotherstep further.
Does this work, let's?
Can I get away with this?
Okay, let's take it anotherstep further.
And it's like how much do welet him do before someone is
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like okay, we, we have to stepin and by someone I mean, like
like Congress, the House ofRepresentatives, the Senate,
Like when does someone stop him?
Because clearly I can't saythat, I don't know if I can say
that, but like, what I'll say ispeople are dying that ain't
(23:02):
never died before.
But like, fuck, grim Reaper,annabelle, like y'all aren't
getting the right person,respectfully, y'all are missing
the right person.
Like I seen, hulk Hogan diedtoday, which ironically he
passed away today on theanniversary, on the 10 year
anniversary of like a rant thathe had put out went viral, of
(23:25):
him like calling black peoplethe N word hard ER.
That was shown to everyone 10years ago today and he passed
away today.
Bitch, that's fuckingreparations.
Like sorry, sorry to that man,but damn, the ancestors don't
play, that's what I'm saying.
Like y'all need to stop playingwith black people because the
(23:48):
ancestors do not fucking play,don't play, that's what I'm
saying.
Like y'all need to stop playingwith black people because the
ancestors do not fucking play,don't play at all.
But I saw somebody say, like wesaid the orange man, like take
the orange man, but we, weweren't specific enough.
Like damn, like people aredying, they ain't died before,
but it's like I'm not the rightperson.
Like we're getting closer withHulk Hogan am I allowed to say
(24:09):
this, I don't know?
Anyway, we're getting closer,but not the right orange person.
Let's try again.
Let's second time's a charm.
Third time to charm, I don'tknow.
Let's try again.
It doesn't seem like that ishappening soon, right?
So it's like when does somebodystep in and like stop this man
(24:30):
from this crazy shit that he'sdoing?
Because it's like thiscensorship is getting really
crazy.
And again, like I've seen,especially like I've seen it
firsthand with me and like otherpeople that I know post more.
That's like politics stuff.
That's like against trump.
Their videos, they get takendown, their accounts have been
banned.
Like the censorship is crazy.
(24:52):
This is infringing on people'sconstitutional rights, like this
is our first amendment rightsto be able to say what we want
and not have repercussions fromthe government.
You know what I mean.
Like obviously, add nuance inmodern.
Like you know what I'm saying.
Like you can't just sayanything and not get
repercussions, but like you'resupposed to be able to speak
(25:13):
your piece and speak yourcriticisms and not face backlash
from the government for that.
So if stephen colbert, his showis getting canceled because
trump just doesn't like whathe's saying about him.
That's an issue, that's scaryand we need to make a bigger
deal about that.
And I feel like that's likewhat this season premiere of
(25:37):
south park kind of did.
And so if, if they facerepercussions because of that
episode, I think it's a clearsign that, like this isn't about
money, this isn't about, likestephen colbert show wasn't
canceled because of monetaryshit.
It's because if trump doesn'tlike what someone is saying
about him, he will step in andtry to, you know, get them taken
(25:57):
off air or cancel their show,like censor them, whatever, and
that's that's a big issue.
That's something that we wereally need to to take seriously
because, again, like that'sinfringing on people's
constitutional rights and he'salready done that with the
peaceful protests in californiaamongst the ice raids.
(26:18):
If people protesting the iceraids and like people I'm sorry,
ice going into businesses andlike just taking people who some
people who are, like, legallyhere, have their documents,
everything like that, likethey're going in and and
snatching up these people, orlike people who may be
undocumented but like they'rehere working, they have no
(26:38):
criminal record, things likethat.
Like that's why the proteststarted, you know, um, and again
I feel like that was his firststep.
Like, can I get away with this?
Okay, I'm getting away withthis.
Like what else can I get awaywith?
Someone needs to stop him.
He must be stopped.
He must be stopped because it'sjust gonna keep getting worse
and worse and worse, and this isnot what america's is like.
(27:01):
America is is not adictatorship, you know what I
mean.
So it's like I need someone tostep in and do something.
Like we can't just like keepletting him get away with shit.
As we're off with today'sepisode, I just want to
encourage like I know peoplemight feel like your voice
doesn't matter, but itabsolutely does, whether you
have two followers or you'resomeone like Stephen Colbert and
(27:21):
have a million followers.
Like don't, don't letcensorship take you over.
Like your voice matters.
You know what I mean.
Like you need to continue totalk about things that are
important to you, criticize youknow this administration if you
feel like it's necessary, likehe cannot keep getting away with
this stuff, like this is crazy,this is insane things that he's
(27:43):
getting away with, and like wejust can't continue to let it
happen.
So, if you're able to, if youwant to like, use your voice,
speak about things that areimportant to you and just be
authentically you.
That's like.
That's like I feel, like it'sso important and, like I said,
there's so many people today whoare just trying to like be
brand friendly or, you know, notspeak about things that they
(28:06):
really care about because, like,they're worried about the
backlash, whatever.
Like speak about what'simportant to you, like it's so
important for everyone to justuse your voice, whether, again,
you have zero followers or athousand million billion
followers like that's not a realnumber but just use your voice
and don't allow anyone to takeyour voice away, because it's so
(28:29):
like we're just in really crazytimes and authentic voices are
needed now more than ever, andthat's why I try to always be my
authentic self.
Like that is so needed thesedays, because there's just not a
lot of people who do it,because everyone's trying to
(28:49):
like walk this fine line ofbeing like politically correct
and saying all the right things.
I never cared, and neithershould you, who gives a fuck.
Speak your mind, live yourtruth.
At the end of the day, we'reall on a floating rock in the
middle of fucking space.
Like fuck, leave people aloneand let them fucking live.
(29:10):
You know what I mean.
I don't know what's gonna happenwith south park.
Um, I did see that the whitehouse trump himself at this
point that I'm filming thishasn't said anything about the
episode, but the white house wasnot happy about the episode.
But we'll see.
We'll see what happens.
I think it was a brilliantepisode because it's either
gonna it's gonna show if it istruly like an infringement on
(29:33):
people's constitutional rightsor if it was really a monetary
thing.
I think south park I can'tremember the, the two guys names
who started south park but Ithink it was very brilliant of
them exactly what they did to tosee what happens.
So thank you guys, so much fortuning in to today's episode.
I hope everyone's having a goodweek, except for that orange
(29:53):
lady, and I will talk to youauthentically and uncensoredly
in the next episode.
Peace and love.
Talk to you later.
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Daijné Jones, post-production byDaijné Jones, music by Sam
Champagne and graphics by IsmaVidal.
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