April 18, 2025 • 53 mins
In a world with so many variables in it's equation, we address more than an issue, we will introduce our viewers to a beautiful person named Kendra Watson. Lyn Ann Bowling and I will host the forum, providing a platform for a subject that must not be overlooked and the people impacted by the cruel political climate that vilifies them.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ah ex.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Good evening everyone, Thank you so much for joining us
on a.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
World awakening and oh my god, how the world is awakening? Yeah, okay,
so tonight I'm gonna just hop right in and make
the very most of our almost an hour. You can
see everybody's here, Lennan Bowling, my Linny debutah Ruth, Kendra Watson,
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and you know, God knows you all know me, the
Yankee swamp pag.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Okay, so here's.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
The deal, I clean up. Okay though stop.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Tonight is a very important show. It means a great
deal to me personally. I know so many thousands of
people of every persuasion, and the love that I feel,
the honor, the respect, the reverence that I feel for
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humanity is I don't really have words for it, so
I tried to capture it to the best of my ability.
In the title and the description for tonight's show, It's
called Transformation Capital t R A n S Transformation and
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Important Conversation, and.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
The description of the show is as follows.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
In a world with so many variables in its equation,
we address more than an issue. We will introduce our
viewers to a beautiful person named Kendra Watson, le Nan
Boling and I, along with Deb Daruz, will provide a
platform for a subject that must not be overlooked and
the people impacted by the cruel political climate that vilifies them.
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So here we are anybody that wants to hop out
because they just heard the word politics. Sorry, some government
runs every country in the world have a conversation of
any relevance at all that doesn't include politics and religion.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I'll give you a gold star because there's.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Just nothing more important in going on in the world
right now. And is responsible for wars, and is responsible
for peace, and is responsible for chaos and upheaval, and
is responsible for calm, and it's all wrapped up And unfortunately,
I feel like part of the paradigm shift that I
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have been talking about is the nullification and vilification of
people that don't look, dress, or sound like us. And
so again we confront the notion of do unto others
as though you are the others. We are all the
others to someone. So, Lenny, I would like you to
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introduce you, introduced me to you. Introduce Kendra.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Oh, I don't know if I'm I'm I'm a good
one to do that, Okay, I am behind. I am
your behind the scenes gal. I am so nervous when
I do get on camera. So I I seem to
have this thing where when some when people reach out
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to Andrea, there are people I connect with without knowing
why or anything like that. And that is what happened
with Kendra. I just I mean, I connect with everybody,
but I don't know, there's just sometimes a little bit
more in that. And I know that they need to
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be part of our circle. It is a big piece
of it.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
And I knew that into the vortex.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Yes you do, death does the same thing.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
She's not, yep, yep, So yes that that's that's really
all it is is.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Shopping.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Nothing makes me happier than when my friends make friends
with my friends.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
It's just you know.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
But you're the one that introduced me to Kendra and
said you have got to talk to Kendra.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Did We connected immediately.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I was sitting waiting for my sister to buy a
car in the Crew dealership and that's when we had
our first back and forth, wonderful conversation.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
I should have known when I got a call from
somebody in Georgia.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I know, well, that's because she gives everybody's phone numbers
to me, and now she does. She's like, call Kendra,
call Ken, So Kendra, why don't you tell us about yourself?
And then I'll bring deb On so that she can
bring her perspective into this according to her own experience.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Okay, Well, I am twenty four here in Illinois. I
live a seemingly normal life except that I am trans
So I've never really had like an easy experience with this,
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Like it was relatively simple to just come out of
the closet, if you will, because it was harder being
in it, right, But you know, I wasn't kicked out
of the house. I wasn't.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
You know.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
I'm thankful for that. You know, I have not had
any sort of horror story with it.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
And there are too many of those.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Yes, too many, too many, and not to say it
doesn't make it, you know, easier, but with what's having
a good, you know, upbringing, and you know, I do
have very conservative family and it's unfortunate, you know, they're Trumpers,
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but you know, I say pretty much they're the only
people that I'll allow in my space of that political
uh side, Otherwise it's fuck off, you know. Uh. But
you know when this election happened. I think it just
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kind of became so surreal, Like you know, twenty sixteen
when he became president. You know, I was still in
high school, so it didn't affect me as in an adult.
But you know, I see every time I log into
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any social media that this is affecting people anywhere in
the country, even outside of the US.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
It's amazing everybody, everybody in the LGBTQ category of humanity
as a targeter.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Yeh yeah. And I'll admit, you know, I got a
little pessimistic after the election, you know, just seeing you know,
let's all fight and let's all stick together. I'm like, man,
our fight was November fifth. But like Andel said, I
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think last week, you know, we never learned the lesson
the easy way. We never never So I just got
to get through it, you know.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I know, and you know, I honest to God, Kendra,
I know I discussed this with you because we went
we went deep right away, and I said, as painful
a notion as this is, I think it's most likely
the truth, and that is that everything happens for a reason.
This had to happen this way, or it would have
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happened another way, and we wouldn't have learned anything.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah, yeah, so you know, but.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Look at I mean, from from abject despair three four
months ago to mobilization and momentum now, like I haven't
seen in this country in my lifetime. And I lived
through the Vietnam War protests. Devin, I know you did too.
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We're basically the same age. I mean, it is amazing.
What is happening?
Speaker 6 (10:26):
No.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I turned on the news this afternoon. Chris and I
had to run around and do some stuff, and when
we came home, I was watching some event that was
taking place in like a blood red state and there
were ten thousand there, Like, what is happening here? And
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what is happening is the paradigm shift. What is happening
is the awakening. What is happening is the zone has
been so flooded that we're all having to float to
the surface of it because and flip over and float
because it's so overwhelming.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
And yet, in spite of.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
All of that, I have said over and over, everyone
that watches the show has heard these words out of
my mouth.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
No one is.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Free until everyone is free. It is an all or
nothing proposition. And so for anyone to ridicule and bright
and belittle another person because of the way they were
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born is to me the height of ignorance, and I
have no tolerance for it.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Let me.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
We were on the phone a little earlier today, and
I want you to speak to this. You and I
a few weeks ago, basically at the same time, watched
the film Conclave. Yes, and without growing a spoiler into
it spoilers who hasn't seen it yet, I would highly encourage,
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especially during Holy Week on this Friday, take a couple
of hours. The film will change the way you think
about everything if you're not already there, if you're already
there right, or it.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Will give you just even more evidence that what you
feel is right. Yes, if you already feel that way,
it will just submount your beliefs.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Well, every one of us has people in our lives
that we cherish and adore. I have close friends whose
children are trans who did every everything in their power
when their child came to them and said something, Hi,
Terry said something akin to money. I think I was
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born in the wrong body. That is a very very
powerful statement. Now, let's not kid ourselves. Every one of
us is a natural, co creative phenomenon of divine consciousness
or you know, source energy or God or whatever you
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want to call it. We are all children of the universe,
and there is none of us, not any of us
that is a defect or should be rejected.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
And no matter what form we come, no matter what.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Part of us, speaks to our own soul and says
I need to make this change to feel comfortable in
my own skin. And so this phenomenon has existed for
as long as humanity has existed. Yeah, ten percent of
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the world population is exclusively homosexual, exclusively, and all through
the ages, those of us that were perceived as different,
those of us that were called witches, those of us
that deb.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
You know, speak to this. You know the persecution, You
know the history of persecution.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
The same way that I know the history of persecution,
and that I don't find.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
There's nothing I find more offensive.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
And I know that you have a personal connection, Deb
Why don't you speak to that?
Speaker 6 (14:48):
Well?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I have many personal connections and Andrew, You're exactly right, Kendra.
I do want to say welcome, thank you for being here.
I'm so happy to see your face and meet you.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
But you guys do It's so weird. Like being on
your yah.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Who knows you for doing this, because I'll tell you,
with everything that is going on, people are absolutely terrified. Yeah,
And you know, Andrey and I did a show last
week and one of the comments I made is nobody
is safe right now. But I have some people close
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to me whom I truly love, love, love with all
my heart who are trans and who knew all their
lives they had just they had the wrong body. And
I could attest to that. Of course, the persecution has
been horrible, absolutely horrible. You know, I have to say,
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as somebody who has lived a little different life, to
put yourself in that position, nobody is going to come
out and say, guess what, my body doesn't go with
my soul, So I'm going to do this just for
the heck of it. Here.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
They just do it to get in the bathrooms. And
you know exactly.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
The automatically with that sticker berber right, it's cruel beyond
it's it's cruel beyond belief.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
It truly is. And it you know, they don't think
about what it's like for that person to go to
a public place and really need to use the restroom
and be terrified to go in there. But with everything
that's going on, you know, it's really almost put people
in hiding. So bless you Kender for coming and being no,
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I'm like this. It's also made many lgbtq A people
super depressed, fearful, suicidal. It's it's horrible what's going on.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Well, everyone is terrified. Everyone should should be. Yes, we
should be, and there is. There's legitimate fear and illegitimate fear.
This is legitimate fear when people can be dragged off
the streets and flown to a gulag in El Salvador.
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That can exactly one of us. It can happen to
any of us. And you know what, I have no
fear at all.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
I am.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I don't know if I was born this brave, if
I evolved to this. But what's that meme you sent me, Lenny,
I have no more fucks to give, zero left to give.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
You want to come.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
After me, you come after me, because what I've got
my own army behind me.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Spiritual light workers that would you know, come after me
for letting people, providing a platform for people to speak
their truth from their heart to others in the hopes
that they become somewhat more enlightened about who and what
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this extraordinary period of time reflex. But Kendra, I didn't
get the impression, not for one minute, that you were
afraid of anything. I could be wrong about that. I mean,
in your heart of hearts, I know you've been depressed.
I know you've been anxiety written. Yes, I know, and
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that is absolutely all legitimate deb and I Lenny, I
mean we talk every day.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Oh god, you know what I'm next. Oh my god, I.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
Think I'm past the scared part. It's more of Madas Hill.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yeah, I'm to take it anymore. Yeah, that's where we are.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
That's hey Anger.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Yeah, did you ladies know anybody out there that's listening.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
I am a student of history. I grew up in
New England.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
I grew up, you know, visiting places like Salem and
Lexington and conquered and and when I was a child,
stood on the foundation blocks of the Old North Church
in Boston, and my mother and my father told us
before we even learned it in school, told us the
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story one If by Land to If by Sea, with
the lanterns up in the spire of the Old North Church,
to let the people in Boston and beyond know that
the British were coming one if by land, too if
by sea.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
The Red Coats were coming.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
And it was on this night two hundred and fifty
years ago, right now, that Paul Revere was on the
fastest horse in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, going from.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Village to village to village to village.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Letting the people know that the Red Coats were coming.
And when they arrived at Lexington and conquered, they walked
into an army waiting for them, a militia of ragtag
colonists who were waiting for them, and thus began the revolution.
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And right now tonight, Wow.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I did not know that. Yes, yeah, so things like
that don't give us hope and hold up the lantern.
Hold up the lantern. Yep, that's what we must do.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
That's what we're going to do, absolutely, that's what we're
going to do.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Yes, and shine that spotlight on every single individual. We
are a collective, yes we are a society. A collective,
yes we are, but it is incumbent upon each and
every one of us to support and to cherish each
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other and to respect our differences, to even admire our differences,
because they grow us as a anxiety. You know, there
should be know, you.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Know what about ism.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
You know, this is a time for us to come
together and to understand that everyone is valid, that everyone
is valuable, that everyone deserves a chance to live their
best life in pursuit of life, liberty, and the pursuit
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of happiness. So says the paperwork, the story, the drama,
and the chronicling of the revolutionary experience, the result of
people thinking.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
There's a better way to live.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
There's a better way to live, and that is self rule,
and that is being challenged now, and that is being
challenged in a way that I don't think any of
us could have even ten years ago expected that this
might be a potential outcome to what we have seen
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over the course of a decade. It has taken that
long to light the fuse, and I do believe that
as it approaches explosion level, millions and millions and millions
and millions of us will flood the streets of America
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and say, oh, hell no. My poster I went on
April fifth, I'm going again tomorrow to Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
It's just down the road, about forty five minutes.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Finding a parking spot takes longer than driving there, But
my poster says I made it myself. I made posters
for everybody in our entire family.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
We all went. My poster says.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
I'm fighting stage four cancer and I am here big
letters to fight for democracy. It's as important to me
as my own life. I could be home laying on
the couch watching it, flipping through the.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Look at the crowd there, Oh, look.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
At the crowd there. I want to be in the crowd.
I want to be a voice in the darkness, in
the depths of the deprivation that we are seeing the
damage that is being done.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
And tomorrow the theme is no kings.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
We defeated a king once, we shouldn't have to do
it again. But then again, we also had rights to
our own bodily autonomy for fifty years, and we're having
to fight that fucking fight again. So you know, I mean,
sometimes history repeats itself until you learn your lessons.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Sorry, I didn't mean to scream.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
We're going back farther than fifty years. Oh yeah, we're
starting suffrage up, you know, with voting, you.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Know, yess, with to say act, We're definitely gone backward.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Yeah yeah, but it's only women changed their last names men.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Yeah, this is all being done deliberately to silence us.
And when I'm told to shut up, I don't know
about any of you ladies.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Someone tells me to.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Shut it, Oh my god, I don't need a bull horned.
Know how many tumors I've gotten my lungs.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
You what I've got to say.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Yo, and every bit of it.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
It's the best way to make us louder. Yes, yes,
it is.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Tell me not to do something?
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Yeah, And I think you know it's important that people
understand that. The more they get out there. I know
it's scary to speak up. It's scary to go to
these rallies. It's scary to kind of out yourself. Oh
I didn't find it scary. I was excited. Well, for
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some people, it really is. It's safer to stay home
and be quiet. I've literally had people who do love
me tell me, doubt, you have to shut up. You
need to. But when we speak out, when we stand up,
that gives us hope, and that gives us drink, and
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that lets us know you're not taking us down. We're
fighting for our company, in our country, our world, for
people who we love, our people like Kendra in Yeah,
millions and millions of others.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
So well, Jamila started to you know, she said a
lot last week about how white women have to step up.
We just we have to step up to we have
We do not have a choice. This time, it is us.
This time, it does come down to us. I you know,
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some people might know that I just had a significant
loss in my life. I lost someone who I considered
one of my bonus children I have. I have kids
that have come into my life that I just I'm
your mom. Now i'm your mom. You need something, you
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let me know. And I was not privileged to be
there for the beginning of their life when they came
into the world, but I was here when they left
the world, and it was a privilege and an honor
and it was so precious to have that time with them,
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and so many people don't have that. Jesus how I
do not know. There's nothing that my child could do
to make me just absolutely turn my back on them.
I don't understand it. So it's upsetting, But we have
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to act this time. I didn't really the first administration.
This time I'm going to This time, I have to
speak up. We white women have to speak up for
all of the people that can't right.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
When I went to the rally in Atlanta on April fifth,
what I found most encouraging was the incredible eclectic mix
of people. There were children, there were dogs. There were
nobody broughtcats that I saw, but lots of dogs, lots
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of kids, every color in the rainbow, every age group.
I sat and talked for hours with elderly women in
wheelchairs who found a way to get there, held hands,
cried on each other's shoulders. I wasn't the only one
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who had my own personal fight going and found my
way there.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
And you know I would love.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
To I was thinking today.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
I put on my poster I am here, a defiant,
definitive statement of my presence and why I was there.
But really, I want us to have a national and
international voice, and I want tomorrow is no kings. I
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want one, even if we organize it, and we can
do that.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
We certainly have that reach. We certainly do.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Oh yes, I want us to have one, and I
want it to be we are here, deb Lenny. You
know the significance of that statement for me. I have
That's been the title of lectures that I've given at
the UFO con. And we'll probably give again next weekend
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when we gather together as.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
We will in Houghton Lake for a mystical.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Retreat that there are many many people coming. I personally
going to brave humanity, not at a march, but to
get on a plane at Atlanta Hartsfield Airport. Oh, Mother
of God, please keep me in your prayers and and
fly to Detroit and drive up to Houghton Lake in
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the heart of Michigan. And we like minded, free wheeling
Yankee swapeg white light witches are all going to get
together with the Reikie heelers and with the I mean,
you know, our shaman and our all of all all
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the light that can be stuffed into one pinpoint on
the planet.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
Okay, let me go get tickets.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Come on, Kendra. Yeah, so you're not that far away.
You could make the drive bag, you know you could.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
It is We need this because we need to actively
alter the vibration. We need to raise the vibration, We
need to enhance the frequency.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
We need to lift each other up and look.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Up because we are not alone in this, and we
are here. It is a defiant, definitive statement of our
existence and our presence and one of the things on
my poster says respect existence or expect resistance. Well, we
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are the resistance. It is us, we are here.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
The time is now. Yeah, amen, absolutely, Oh god, I'm
gonna have to tuck my soulf back back under me
of it, put it down the plane and BT with
you amost yourselves.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
I have an exposed soft underbelly of a shiaha needs
to be padded.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
Just buttercup, talk amongst yourselves. So so, Kendra, what are
some things that you find helpful to support you in
in the just in the daily world today? What can people?
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What can people do? How can we help you? How
can we help somebody who is feeling alone?
Speaker 6 (33:27):
I mean, for me personally, I'll curl up and either well,
I would say read a book, but I'm so adhd
I have to listen to audible the audio books. You know.
I'll read a book, but that'll take me longer than listening.
I just I can't sit and I gotta be up
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and moving podcasts, just listening to people like me or
like minded kind of helps ground me or you know,
like I'll I'll open up TikTok and that app is
this ways both ways for me, I'll open it up
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and I'll see some bullshit and then I'll get in
a bad food and you know, or I'll open it
up and I'll see something something wonderful. You know. It's
social media has its yeah, yeah, yeah, and you know,
just I I go to a support group good, so
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that that does help a lot. But definitely just being
around listening to like minded people, that's one of the
best and something I'll tell everybody to do, but that
that just keeps me grounded, feel insane, you know.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Yeah, m hmm. Yeah. I love that you have supportive,
supportive people around you. Yes, that's that's huge.
Speaker 6 (35:10):
You know, my family is fairly supportive. You know, they'll
have their their moments, but it never is it never
was a kick to the curb and yan Aara, you know,
they work with me and we have our mutuals. So
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if you have family, you know, or a decent support
group or not even just blood family like family is yeah,
there's way more than that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Yeah. So do you know a lot of people, I mean,
I'm assuming in your support group, in your circles, you
know other trans people who don't have that kind of support.
Speaker 6 (35:53):
Yes, yes, And my friend Maddie in particular is a
disabled veteran who lost most of her family members with
coming out at her age. She came out, and you
all know they are trying to do away with some
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of the the oh my god, uh the the veterans yes,
what was it? The yeah, the v yes, and she
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as of last week lost her therapist and lost access
to h r T. As of I think two days
ago or so, she she does have access now, so
that's good at least, but.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
They had to do that, right.
Speaker 6 (37:02):
It's just there are people a lot worse in a
predicament than me, and it affects everybody, you know, excuse
me for I mean, when I was little, I always thought,
you know, veterans were we respect them, you know, we
give them the bare necessities.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
And now mm hmm yeah, mm hmm, yeah, the tables
have turned in many, many, many ways. So can I
ask you, Kendrick, would you recommend all trans people get
a passport if at all possible? Now?
Speaker 6 (37:43):
Yes, yes, I have mine and I am lucky that
my partner, my boyfriend, is in a dual citizenship to Australia,
so nice. I think all need to do is get married.
And I'm you know, I never said I wanted to
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get married. I never really believed in the traditional marriage.
This is a totally off topic, but like it almost
missed me off. When uh uh they'll announce the couple
mister and missus John Smith. That shit always pissed me off.
I'm keeping my last name, and you're gonna announce me
by my first last name. I'm not taking his name.
(38:28):
I'm not taking his last name. Like oh, I was
always turned off with marriage. But if I need you
for some paperwork, I will. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
Some people are looking at it strictly as paperwork in
lavender marriages, right.
Speaker 6 (38:44):
Yes, do what you gotta do, Do what you gotta do.
If you got to jump up and leave the country,
I mean, it's it's in the back burner. But like
sometimes I feel like, you know, maybe that's not plann d.
That might be planned c mm hmm. I think it is.
(39:04):
I know.
Speaker 5 (39:05):
I think it's smart to at least think it through,
think the process through. If this does go down, what
needs to happen to get me out of here? Yeah,
because I don't I don't know, but I.
Speaker 6 (39:19):
Do have to say, when you get your passport to
those and any sort of situation to where you would
need a birth certificate on hand, you know, you know,
be mindful of whenning how you do that and what
sort of you know, your p's and q's need to
be in a row because they're out here sending citizen
(39:42):
US citizens to Louisiana and El Salvador and.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Right abducted Canadians that come across. Do you know a
lot of work and oh my god, san diego. Yeah,
you know, let us look at your phone, all your
ropes something that we don't like.
Speaker 4 (40:01):
Oh, he wouldn't approve of that. You know, it's not
off with your.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
Head time, but it's go get in that jail cell.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
And this is a horrifying place that we are.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Never in my life, never in the life of any
American has it been like it is now. Anyone unwilling
to see that, anyone unwilling to acknowledge it, I'm sorry,
qualifies as part of the problem. I wrote something down
that I thought would be pertinent to tonight's show. So
(40:37):
I'm just gonna throw this out there and see you
know what your response is to it. It's trans people
are alchemists of the soul. Pain has an alchemical power
by transforming the wisdom it brings into something of great value.
(41:01):
Amidst the chaos of life's trials. Certain individuals possess an
innate resilience, channeling their suffering into a deeper purpose. A
tapestry unfolds as they leverage their own experiences to illuminate
the paths of others.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Powerful.
Speaker 6 (41:31):
That's a good one, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Very powerful. Andrea takes your breath away.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
Yes, saying the purpose of this pain right now, I'm
not saying, embrace it, resent the hell out of it.
Shouldn't have to live like this, None of us should
have to live like this. But if this is what
the conflict is, if this is what we must be
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the formidable foe, We must be the adversary. Because this
isn't left or right, right and wrong? What is your
value system? Do you even have one? What is your
moral compass? Is it pointing true north? No one can
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have a crisis of conscience if they do not have
a conscience.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Amen, Amen, Yeah, use this, Use this to give you
strength to be angry enough to be the resistance, to
stand up, to have the hope, and to have the
knowing that we are the people, We the people, the people.
(42:52):
We are here, We are here, and we take our
country back.
Speaker 5 (42:59):
Yeah, because this is not my country.
Speaker 8 (43:02):
I I I don't recognize that not And I know
I personally have friends in other countries and Andrew, I'm
sure you do too who have been contacting.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
These saf Oh yeah, what a huge check stopped this?
You people, you know, you Americans need to do something.
Why are why why are you allowing this? We're not
We're not.
Speaker 5 (43:30):
We're not. Most of my friends know we're not. I mean,
I mean me personally that I'm not. But I have
like acquaintances online from other countries, and I'm surprised. I
continue to be surprised.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
At uh.
Speaker 5 (43:48):
The right leaning views of some of those people.
Speaker 6 (43:54):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 5 (43:55):
That's hard. I mean, it's it's hard to do it
within our community. And we talked about a little bit
last week. We have it's more important that we protect
people then we worry about a casual friendship online or
somebody that we're going to see an event. It's so
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much more important that we say these things are wrong.
And if you think that they're okay, I'm not okay
with you anymore. I'm just not.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
Yeah, we can't do it, you know.
Speaker 3 (44:28):
And the thing is that there are people that are
in my life that I have to love from a
safe distance.
Speaker 4 (44:35):
Yeah, I can still look ready to.
Speaker 5 (44:37):
Say that, well, yeah, yeah, that's that's a better way.
Speaker 3 (44:40):
To say distance is from the other side of the universe,
because that is how counterintuitive their world view is to
my own. So literally juxtaposed in the extreme, radically juxtaposed
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to my philosophy of love and light and care and
embrace for humanity. Do unto others as though you are
the others, because eventually you will be right.
Speaker 6 (45:18):
Yeah, or at least have somebody close to them that.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
Is you know, that is you know, subjected to cruelty,
who is objectified, who is lied about, who is disrespected,
who is treated as something less than human, Absolutely unacceptable, unacceptable,
(45:44):
and frankly, anybody that thinks that's okay, I am just
like let me said, I'm not okay with them.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
I'm done okay with that. I'm not.
Speaker 5 (45:53):
I made last administration, I'm not doing it this time. No,
it was exhausting. It was exhausting and.
Speaker 2 (46:02):
Deb and I talk about that all the time.
Speaker 4 (46:03):
Oh my god, I'm so fucking tired. I can't drink coffee.
It's mental exhaustion for me.
Speaker 6 (46:10):
I can't even enjoy anymore.
Speaker 3 (46:15):
I know, I mean, you know when my escapism is
binging the Big Bang theory and just laughing for a
few hours because I have.
Speaker 4 (46:24):
To get it out so that it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (46:30):
We can't be we cannot become what we loathe, and
so I project out what you know, Toxins build up
in me, and I know that this last ten years
is part of why I.
Speaker 2 (46:45):
Got sick in the first place.
Speaker 3 (46:47):
And now I'm using that same anger and revulsion as
I see this transformation of our societie. I'm using it
as nitroglycerine jet fuel to make the posters walk the walk,
(47:10):
talk the talk, get the platform out there, and do
everything in my personal power to elimit illuminate the world
about this subject and so many others. This show was
not accidentally titled a World Awakening.
Speaker 2 (47:31):
We are a world awakening.
Speaker 3 (47:34):
We are in the midst of the process of the
paradigm shift, transformation, transformation, right.
Speaker 2 (47:45):
We are all transforming, yep, every one of us, our
planet yep, yep. So let's make it a good transform.
Speaker 3 (47:57):
Yes yeah, and thanks Step for talking to me off
the ledge the other night.
Speaker 2 (48:03):
I don't remember what I was.
Speaker 4 (48:05):
So oh yeah, now I do.
Speaker 2 (48:06):
I don't even want to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (48:07):
Yeah, we want, you know, I mean news for ten minutes,
going to milk down for ten hours.
Speaker 4 (48:15):
She's like, you have to stop that now, honey, okay.
Speaker 3 (48:18):
Because you're going to And then the next morning I
had to go to the hospital to go get my
confusion and to go get my you know.
Speaker 2 (48:26):
Five hours talking to you.
Speaker 6 (48:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (48:29):
Yeah, on the way.
Speaker 4 (48:34):
Mouth, I'm sending the reiki, you know.
Speaker 3 (48:38):
I mean, it's like, oh my god, it's And there
are times when I just I see something. I hear
something factual, not made up, not fake news, factual. It's
(49:00):
all right, who's close enough to New York State to
reach over and slap Bill?
Speaker 2 (49:07):
I saw that five minutes this hour has gone.
Speaker 6 (49:13):
Wait.
Speaker 2 (49:17):
I think it's really important that we all realize that
we are in control of our own emotions. Yes, but
in those moments. I do it every day, you know,
every day right now, because every day I'm reading the
(49:38):
news and going what But I have to stop myself
and say, okay, am I going to allow this to
destroy me? So I can't help anybody? Where Am I
going to breathe in and breathing out and calm my
anxiety and know that we've got this. You know, fear.
Fear is the opposite of am ul commit negative emotion.
(50:02):
If we use that fear to strengthen, you know, to
get that fire going to make us do something that
it's a good thing. If you use that fear to
be all anxiety written and not good for anybody, mostly yourself,
then fear wins, Hendra. We are all holding your hands.
Speaker 3 (50:25):
You're sharing what I'm probably just hanging on your neck.
You know, it's I want you to feel the support,
to feel the love, to know that we honor you,
that it is a privilege for us to have you
join us on this show tonight and to speak your
(50:48):
truth fearlessly. You are a beautiful, beautiful soul, my dear beautiful.
Speaker 2 (50:56):
Yes, and we're honored to have you. That's proud of you.
Speaker 6 (51:01):
I'm compelled to say one one piece of information and
it's been in my mind. This whole show is to
anybody out there listening trans and otherwise, you know, turn
on the news and you will see people like us
(51:24):
getting arrested for you know. You know, I'm not saying
sit out the battle, but you know, pick your battles.
Be safe. You know what I'm saying, be very watchful. Yes,
and you know while being vocal, and you know resisting
(51:51):
is of the utmost importance. Please read into what they're
doing to us in jails and prisons. We can't, we
can't just get off of our HRT like this. You
know it is it is. You know, it might as
well be like Anie said earlier, off, it might as
well be off with your head. If you know what
(52:11):
I'm saying. Like and I've said it before, I'll say
it again, death before d transition and I mean it.
Speaker 2 (52:18):
Yeah, we are with you. We will all get through
this together.
Speaker 3 (52:23):
We are stronger than the narrow minded head in the
sand opposition to the notion that no one is free
until everyone is free. And we've got a piece of
paper to prove it. It's called the Constitution. That followed
(52:43):
up nicely a little idea called the Declaration of Independence.
And we are together, and we are one, and let
there be a complete transformation and total realization of I
love you all, Thank you so much for joining me tonight.
(53:05):
I'll be on the phone with each of you in
about two minutes after I take the puppies out. Everyone
have a wonderful Passover, a beautiful Easter season. Live the light,
be the light that you seek, and celebrate this season
of light.
Speaker 2 (53:22):
Good Night everyone, I love you, I love you.
Ah ex.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Good evening everyone, Thank you so much for joining us
on a.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
World awakening and oh my god, how the world is awakening? Yeah, okay,
so tonight I'm gonna just hop right in and make
the very most of our almost an hour. You can
see everybody's here, Lennan Bowling, my Linny debutah Ruth, Kendra Watson,
(01:44):
and you know, God knows you all know me, the
Yankee swamp pag.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Okay, so here's.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
The deal, I clean up. Okay though stop.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Tonight is a very important show. It means a great
deal to me personally. I know so many thousands of
people of every persuasion, and the love that I feel,
the honor, the respect, the reverence that I feel for
(02:17):
humanity is I don't really have words for it, so
I tried to capture it to the best of my ability.
In the title and the description for tonight's show, It's
called Transformation Capital t R A n S Transformation and
(02:38):
Important Conversation, and.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
The description of the show is as follows.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
In a world with so many variables in its equation,
we address more than an issue. We will introduce our
viewers to a beautiful person named Kendra Watson, le Nan
Boling and I, along with Deb Daruz, will provide a
platform for a subject that must not be overlooked and
the people impacted by the cruel political climate that vilifies them.
(03:09):
So here we are anybody that wants to hop out
because they just heard the word politics. Sorry, some government
runs every country in the world have a conversation of
any relevance at all that doesn't include politics and religion.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I'll give you a gold star because there's.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Just nothing more important in going on in the world
right now. And is responsible for wars, and is responsible
for peace, and is responsible for chaos and upheaval, and
is responsible for calm, and it's all wrapped up And unfortunately,
I feel like part of the paradigm shift that I
(03:54):
have been talking about is the nullification and vilification of
people that don't look, dress, or sound like us. And
so again we confront the notion of do unto others
as though you are the others. We are all the
others to someone. So, Lenny, I would like you to
(04:18):
introduce you, introduced me to you. Introduce Kendra.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Oh, I don't know if I'm I'm I'm a good
one to do that, Okay, I am behind. I am
your behind the scenes gal. I am so nervous when
I do get on camera. So I I seem to
have this thing where when some when people reach out
(04:47):
to Andrea, there are people I connect with without knowing
why or anything like that. And that is what happened
with Kendra. I just I mean, I connect with everybody,
but I don't know, there's just sometimes a little bit
more in that. And I know that they need to
(05:10):
be part of our circle. It is a big piece
of it.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
And I knew that into the vortex.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Yes you do, death does the same thing.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
She's not, yep, yep, So yes that that's that's really
all it is is.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Shopping.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Nothing makes me happier than when my friends make friends
with my friends.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
It's just you know.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
But you're the one that introduced me to Kendra and
said you have got to talk to Kendra.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Did We connected immediately.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
I was sitting waiting for my sister to buy a
car in the Crew dealership and that's when we had
our first back and forth, wonderful conversation.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
I should have known when I got a call from
somebody in Georgia.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I know, well, that's because she gives everybody's phone numbers
to me, and now she does. She's like, call Kendra,
call Ken, So Kendra, why don't you tell us about yourself?
And then I'll bring deb On so that she can
bring her perspective into this according to her own experience.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Okay, Well, I am twenty four here in Illinois. I
live a seemingly normal life except that I am trans
So I've never really had like an easy experience with this,
(06:50):
Like it was relatively simple to just come out of
the closet, if you will, because it was harder being
in it, right, But you know, I wasn't kicked out
of the house. I wasn't.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
You know.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
I'm thankful for that. You know, I have not had
any sort of horror story with it.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
And there are too many of those.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Yes, too many, too many, and not to say it
doesn't make it, you know, easier, but with what's having
a good, you know, upbringing, and you know, I do
have very conservative family and it's unfortunate, you know, they're Trumpers,
(07:42):
but you know, I say pretty much they're the only
people that I'll allow in my space of that political
uh side, Otherwise it's fuck off, you know. Uh. But
you know when this election happened. I think it just
(08:06):
kind of became so surreal, Like you know, twenty sixteen
when he became president. You know, I was still in
high school, so it didn't affect me as in an adult.
But you know, I see every time I log into
(08:29):
any social media that this is affecting people anywhere in
the country, even outside of the US.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
It's amazing everybody, everybody in the LGBTQ category of humanity
as a targeter.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Yeh yeah. And I'll admit, you know, I got a
little pessimistic after the election, you know, just seeing you know,
let's all fight and let's all stick together. I'm like, man,
our fight was November fifth. But like Andel said, I
(09:11):
think last week, you know, we never learned the lesson
the easy way. We never never So I just got
to get through it, you know.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
I know, and you know, I honest to God, Kendra,
I know I discussed this with you because we went
we went deep right away, and I said, as painful
a notion as this is, I think it's most likely
the truth, and that is that everything happens for a reason.
This had to happen this way, or it would have
(09:44):
happened another way, and we wouldn't have learned anything.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Yeah, yeah, so you know, but.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Look at I mean, from from abject despair three four
months ago to mobilization and momentum now, like I haven't
seen in this country in my lifetime. And I lived
through the Vietnam War protests. Devin, I know you did too.
(10:19):
We're basically the same age. I mean, it is amazing.
What is happening?
Speaker 6 (10:26):
No.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I turned on the news this afternoon. Chris and I
had to run around and do some stuff, and when
we came home, I was watching some event that was
taking place in like a blood red state and there
were ten thousand there, Like, what is happening here? And
(10:48):
what is happening is the paradigm shift. What is happening
is the awakening. What is happening is the zone has
been so flooded that we're all having to float to
the surface of it because and flip over and float
because it's so overwhelming.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
And yet, in spite of.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
All of that, I have said over and over, everyone
that watches the show has heard these words out of
my mouth.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
No one is.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Free until everyone is free. It is an all or
nothing proposition. And so for anyone to ridicule and bright
and belittle another person because of the way they were
(11:42):
born is to me the height of ignorance, and I
have no tolerance for it.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Let me.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
We were on the phone a little earlier today, and
I want you to speak to this. You and I
a few weeks ago, basically at the same time, watched
the film Conclave. Yes, and without growing a spoiler into
it spoilers who hasn't seen it yet, I would highly encourage,
(12:18):
especially during Holy Week on this Friday, take a couple
of hours. The film will change the way you think
about everything if you're not already there, if you're already
there right, or it.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
Will give you just even more evidence that what you
feel is right. Yes, if you already feel that way,
it will just submount your beliefs.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Well, every one of us has people in our lives
that we cherish and adore. I have close friends whose
children are trans who did every everything in their power
when their child came to them and said something, Hi,
Terry said something akin to money. I think I was
(13:09):
born in the wrong body. That is a very very
powerful statement. Now, let's not kid ourselves. Every one of
us is a natural, co creative phenomenon of divine consciousness
or you know, source energy or God or whatever you
(13:30):
want to call it. We are all children of the universe,
and there is none of us, not any of us
that is a defect or should be rejected.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
And no matter what form we come, no matter what.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Part of us, speaks to our own soul and says
I need to make this change to feel comfortable in
my own skin. And so this phenomenon has existed for
as long as humanity has existed. Yeah, ten percent of
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the world population is exclusively homosexual, exclusively, and all through
the ages, those of us that were perceived as different,
those of us that were called witches, those of us
that deb.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
You know, speak to this. You know the persecution, You
know the history of persecution.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
The same way that I know the history of persecution,
and that I don't find.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
There's nothing I find more offensive.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
And I know that you have a personal connection, Deb
Why don't you speak to that?
Speaker 6 (14:48):
Well?
Speaker 2 (14:48):
I have many personal connections and Andrew, You're exactly right, Kendra.
I do want to say welcome, thank you for being here.
I'm so happy to see your face and meet you.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
But you guys do It's so weird. Like being on
your yah.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Who knows you for doing this, because I'll tell you,
with everything that is going on, people are absolutely terrified. Yeah,
And you know, Andrey and I did a show last
week and one of the comments I made is nobody
is safe right now. But I have some people close
(15:26):
to me whom I truly love, love, love with all
my heart who are trans and who knew all their
lives they had just they had the wrong body. And
I could attest to that. Of course, the persecution has
been horrible, absolutely horrible. You know, I have to say,
(15:51):
as somebody who has lived a little different life, to
put yourself in that position, nobody is going to come
out and say, guess what, my body doesn't go with
my soul, So I'm going to do this just for
the heck of it. Here.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
They just do it to get in the bathrooms. And
you know exactly.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
The automatically with that sticker berber right, it's cruel beyond
it's it's cruel beyond belief.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
It truly is. And it you know, they don't think
about what it's like for that person to go to
a public place and really need to use the restroom
and be terrified to go in there. But with everything
that's going on, you know, it's really almost put people
in hiding. So bless you Kender for coming and being no,
(16:58):
I'm like this. It's also made many lgbtq A people
super depressed, fearful, suicidal. It's it's horrible what's going on.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Well, everyone is terrified. Everyone should should be. Yes, we
should be, and there is. There's legitimate fear and illegitimate fear.
This is legitimate fear when people can be dragged off
the streets and flown to a gulag in El Salvador.
(17:40):
That can exactly one of us. It can happen to
any of us. And you know what, I have no
fear at all.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
I am.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I don't know if I was born this brave, if
I evolved to this. But what's that meme you sent me, Lenny,
I have no more fucks to give, zero left to give.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
You want to come.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
After me, you come after me, because what I've got
my own army behind me.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Spiritual light workers that would you know, come after me
for letting people, providing a platform for people to speak
their truth from their heart to others in the hopes
that they become somewhat more enlightened about who and what
(18:40):
this extraordinary period of time reflex. But Kendra, I didn't
get the impression, not for one minute, that you were
afraid of anything. I could be wrong about that. I mean,
in your heart of hearts, I know you've been depressed.
I know you've been anxiety written. Yes, I know, and
(19:03):
that is absolutely all legitimate deb and I Lenny, I
mean we talk every day.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Oh god, you know what I'm next. Oh my god, I.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
Think I'm past the scared part. It's more of Madas Hill.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Yeah, I'm to take it anymore. Yeah, that's where we are.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
That's hey Anger.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Yeah, did you ladies know anybody out there that's listening.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
I am a student of history. I grew up in
New England.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
I grew up, you know, visiting places like Salem and
Lexington and conquered and and when I was a child,
stood on the foundation blocks of the Old North Church
in Boston, and my mother and my father told us
before we even learned it in school, told us the
(19:59):
story one If by Land to If by Sea, with
the lanterns up in the spire of the Old North Church,
to let the people in Boston and beyond know that
the British were coming one if by land, too if
by sea.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
The Red Coats were coming.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
And it was on this night two hundred and fifty
years ago, right now, that Paul Revere was on the
fastest horse in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, going from.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Village to village to village to village.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Letting the people know that the Red Coats were coming.
And when they arrived at Lexington and conquered, they walked
into an army waiting for them, a militia of ragtag
colonists who were waiting for them, and thus began the revolution.
(21:00):
And right now tonight, Wow.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I did not know that. Yes, yeah, so things like
that don't give us hope and hold up the lantern.
Hold up the lantern. Yep, that's what we must do.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
That's what we're going to do, absolutely, that's what we're
going to do.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Yes, and shine that spotlight on every single individual. We
are a collective, yes we are a society. A collective,
yes we are, but it is incumbent upon each and
every one of us to support and to cherish each
(21:48):
other and to respect our differences, to even admire our differences,
because they grow us as a anxiety. You know, there
should be know, you.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Know what about ism.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
You know, this is a time for us to come
together and to understand that everyone is valid, that everyone
is valuable, that everyone deserves a chance to live their
best life in pursuit of life, liberty, and the pursuit
(22:30):
of happiness. So says the paperwork, the story, the drama,
and the chronicling of the revolutionary experience, the result of
people thinking.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
There's a better way to live.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
There's a better way to live, and that is self rule,
and that is being challenged now, and that is being
challenged in a way that I don't think any of
us could have even ten years ago expected that this
might be a potential outcome to what we have seen
(23:12):
over the course of a decade. It has taken that
long to light the fuse, and I do believe that
as it approaches explosion level, millions and millions and millions
and millions of us will flood the streets of America
(23:34):
and say, oh, hell no. My poster I went on
April fifth, I'm going again tomorrow to Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
It's just down the road, about forty five minutes.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Finding a parking spot takes longer than driving there, But
my poster says I made it myself. I made posters
for everybody in our entire family.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
We all went. My poster says.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
I'm fighting stage four cancer and I am here big
letters to fight for democracy. It's as important to me
as my own life. I could be home laying on
the couch watching it, flipping through the.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Look at the crowd there, Oh, look.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
At the crowd there. I want to be in the crowd.
I want to be a voice in the darkness, in
the depths of the deprivation that we are seeing the
damage that is being done.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
And tomorrow the theme is no kings.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
We defeated a king once, we shouldn't have to do
it again. But then again, we also had rights to
our own bodily autonomy for fifty years, and we're having
to fight that fucking fight again. So you know, I mean,
sometimes history repeats itself until you learn your lessons.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Sorry, I didn't mean to scream.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
We're going back farther than fifty years. Oh yeah, we're
starting suffrage up, you know, with voting, you.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
Know, yess, with to say act, We're definitely gone backward.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Yeah yeah, but it's only women changed their last names men.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Yeah, this is all being done deliberately to silence us.
And when I'm told to shut up, I don't know
about any of you ladies.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Someone tells me to.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Shut it, Oh my god, I don't need a bull horned.
Know how many tumors I've gotten my lungs.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
You what I've got to say.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Yo, and every bit of it.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
It's the best way to make us louder. Yes, yes,
it is.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Tell me not to do something?
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Yeah, And I think you know it's important that people
understand that. The more they get out there. I know
it's scary to speak up. It's scary to go to
these rallies. It's scary to kind of out yourself. Oh
I didn't find it scary. I was excited. Well, for
(26:25):
some people, it really is. It's safer to stay home
and be quiet. I've literally had people who do love
me tell me, doubt, you have to shut up. You
need to. But when we speak out, when we stand up,
that gives us hope, and that gives us drink, and
(26:47):
that lets us know you're not taking us down. We're
fighting for our company, in our country, our world, for
people who we love, our people like Kendra in Yeah,
millions and millions of others.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
So well, Jamila started to you know, she said a
lot last week about how white women have to step up.
We just we have to step up to we have
We do not have a choice. This time, it is us.
This time, it does come down to us. I you know,
(27:28):
some people might know that I just had a significant
loss in my life. I lost someone who I considered
one of my bonus children I have. I have kids
that have come into my life that I just I'm
your mom. Now i'm your mom. You need something, you
(27:48):
let me know. And I was not privileged to be
there for the beginning of their life when they came
into the world, but I was here when they left
the world, and it was a privilege and an honor
and it was so precious to have that time with them,
(28:09):
and so many people don't have that. Jesus how I
do not know. There's nothing that my child could do
to make me just absolutely turn my back on them.
I don't understand it. So it's upsetting, But we have
(28:31):
to act this time. I didn't really the first administration.
This time I'm going to This time, I have to
speak up. We white women have to speak up for
all of the people that can't right.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
When I went to the rally in Atlanta on April fifth,
what I found most encouraging was the incredible eclectic mix
of people. There were children, there were dogs. There were
nobody broughtcats that I saw, but lots of dogs, lots
(29:08):
of kids, every color in the rainbow, every age group.
I sat and talked for hours with elderly women in
wheelchairs who found a way to get there, held hands,
cried on each other's shoulders. I wasn't the only one
(29:30):
who had my own personal fight going and found my
way there.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
And you know I would love.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
To I was thinking today.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
I put on my poster I am here, a defiant,
definitive statement of my presence and why I was there.
But really, I want us to have a national and
international voice, and I want tomorrow is no kings. I
(30:02):
want one, even if we organize it, and we can
do that.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
We certainly have that reach. We certainly do.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Oh yes, I want us to have one, and I
want it to be we are here, deb Lenny. You
know the significance of that statement for me. I have
That's been the title of lectures that I've given at
the UFO con. And we'll probably give again next weekend
(30:35):
when we gather together as.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
We will in Houghton Lake for a mystical.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Retreat that there are many many people coming. I personally
going to brave humanity, not at a march, but to
get on a plane at Atlanta Hartsfield Airport. Oh, Mother
of God, please keep me in your prayers and and
fly to Detroit and drive up to Houghton Lake in
(31:05):
the heart of Michigan. And we like minded, free wheeling
Yankee swapeg white light witches are all going to get
together with the Reikie heelers and with the I mean,
you know, our shaman and our all of all all
(31:29):
the light that can be stuffed into one pinpoint on
the planet.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
Okay, let me go get tickets.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Come on, Kendra. Yeah, so you're not that far away.
You could make the drive bag, you know you could.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
It is We need this because we need to actively
alter the vibration. We need to raise the vibration, We
need to enhance the frequency.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
We need to lift each other up and look.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Up because we are not alone in this, and we
are here. It is a defiant, definitive statement of our
existence and our presence and one of the things on
my poster says respect existence or expect resistance. Well, we
(32:26):
are the resistance. It is us, we are here.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
The time is now. Yeah, amen, absolutely, Oh god, I'm
gonna have to tuck my soulf back back under me
of it, put it down the plane and BT with
you amost yourselves.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
I have an exposed soft underbelly of a shiaha needs
to be padded.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
Just buttercup, talk amongst yourselves. So so, Kendra, what are
some things that you find helpful to support you in
in the just in the daily world today? What can people?
(33:17):
What can people do? How can we help you? How
can we help somebody who is feeling alone?
Speaker 6 (33:27):
I mean, for me personally, I'll curl up and either well,
I would say read a book, but I'm so adhd
I have to listen to audible the audio books. You know.
I'll read a book, but that'll take me longer than listening.
I just I can't sit and I gotta be up
(33:51):
and moving podcasts, just listening to people like me or
like minded kind of helps ground me or you know,
like I'll I'll open up TikTok and that app is
this ways both ways for me, I'll open it up
(34:13):
and I'll see some bullshit and then I'll get in
a bad food and you know, or I'll open it
up and I'll see something something wonderful. You know. It's
social media has its yeah, yeah, yeah, and you know,
just I I go to a support group good, so
(34:37):
that that does help a lot. But definitely just being
around listening to like minded people, that's one of the
best and something I'll tell everybody to do, but that
that just keeps me grounded, feel insane, you know.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Yeah, m hmm. Yeah. I love that you have supportive,
supportive people around you. Yes, that's that's huge.
Speaker 6 (35:10):
You know, my family is fairly supportive. You know, they'll
have their their moments, but it never is it never
was a kick to the curb and yan Aara, you know,
they work with me and we have our mutuals. So
(35:31):
if you have family, you know, or a decent support
group or not even just blood family like family is yeah,
there's way more than that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Yeah. So do you know a lot of people, I mean,
I'm assuming in your support group, in your circles, you
know other trans people who don't have that kind of support.
Speaker 6 (35:53):
Yes, yes, And my friend Maddie in particular is a
disabled veteran who lost most of her family members with
coming out at her age. She came out, and you
all know they are trying to do away with some
(36:17):
of the the oh my god, uh the the veterans yes,
what was it? The yeah, the v yes, and she
(36:39):
as of last week lost her therapist and lost access
to h r T. As of I think two days
ago or so, she she does have access now, so
that's good at least, but.
Speaker 5 (37:00):
They had to do that, right.
Speaker 6 (37:02):
It's just there are people a lot worse in a
predicament than me, and it affects everybody, you know, excuse
me for I mean, when I was little, I always thought,
you know, veterans were we respect them, you know, we
give them the bare necessities.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
And now mm hmm yeah, mm hmm, yeah, the tables
have turned in many, many, many ways. So can I
ask you, Kendrick, would you recommend all trans people get
a passport if at all possible? Now?
Speaker 6 (37:43):
Yes, yes, I have mine and I am lucky that
my partner, my boyfriend, is in a dual citizenship to Australia,
so nice. I think all need to do is get married.
And I'm you know, I never said I wanted to
(38:07):
get married. I never really believed in the traditional marriage.
This is a totally off topic, but like it almost
missed me off. When uh uh they'll announce the couple
mister and missus John Smith. That shit always pissed me off.
I'm keeping my last name, and you're gonna announce me
by my first last name. I'm not taking his name.
(38:28):
I'm not taking his last name. Like oh, I was
always turned off with marriage. But if I need you
for some paperwork, I will. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
Some people are looking at it strictly as paperwork in
lavender marriages, right.
Speaker 6 (38:44):
Yes, do what you gotta do, Do what you gotta do.
If you got to jump up and leave the country,
I mean, it's it's in the back burner. But like
sometimes I feel like, you know, maybe that's not plann d.
That might be planned c mm hmm. I think it is.
(39:04):
I know.
Speaker 5 (39:05):
I think it's smart to at least think it through,
think the process through. If this does go down, what
needs to happen to get me out of here? Yeah,
because I don't I don't know, but I.
Speaker 6 (39:19):
Do have to say, when you get your passport to
those and any sort of situation to where you would
need a birth certificate on hand, you know, you know,
be mindful of whenning how you do that and what
sort of you know, your p's and q's need to
be in a row because they're out here sending citizen
(39:42):
US citizens to Louisiana and El Salvador and.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
Right abducted Canadians that come across. Do you know a
lot of work and oh my god, san diego. Yeah,
you know, let us look at your phone, all your
ropes something that we don't like.
Speaker 4 (40:01):
Oh, he wouldn't approve of that. You know, it's not
off with your.
Speaker 3 (40:05):
Head time, but it's go get in that jail cell.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
And this is a horrifying place that we are.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Never in my life, never in the life of any
American has it been like it is now. Anyone unwilling
to see that, anyone unwilling to acknowledge it, I'm sorry,
qualifies as part of the problem. I wrote something down
that I thought would be pertinent to tonight's show. So
(40:37):
I'm just gonna throw this out there and see you
know what your response is to it. It's trans people
are alchemists of the soul. Pain has an alchemical power
by transforming the wisdom it brings into something of great value.
(41:01):
Amidst the chaos of life's trials. Certain individuals possess an
innate resilience, channeling their suffering into a deeper purpose. A
tapestry unfolds as they leverage their own experiences to illuminate
the paths of others.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Powerful.
Speaker 6 (41:31):
That's a good one, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Very powerful. Andrea takes your breath away.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
Yes, saying the purpose of this pain right now, I'm
not saying, embrace it, resent the hell out of it.
Shouldn't have to live like this, None of us should
have to live like this. But if this is what
the conflict is, if this is what we must be
(42:00):
the formidable foe, We must be the adversary. Because this
isn't left or right, right and wrong? What is your
value system? Do you even have one? What is your
moral compass? Is it pointing true north? No one can
(42:24):
have a crisis of conscience if they do not have
a conscience.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Amen, Amen, Yeah, use this, Use this to give you
strength to be angry enough to be the resistance, to
stand up, to have the hope, and to have the
knowing that we are the people, We the people, the people.
(42:52):
We are here, We are here, and we take our
country back.
Speaker 5 (42:59):
Yeah, because this is not my country.
Speaker 8 (43:02):
I I I don't recognize that not And I know
I personally have friends in other countries and Andrew, I'm
sure you do too who have been contacting.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
These saf Oh yeah, what a huge check stopped this?
You people, you know, you Americans need to do something.
Why are why why are you allowing this? We're not
We're not.
Speaker 5 (43:30):
We're not. Most of my friends know we're not. I mean,
I mean me personally that I'm not. But I have
like acquaintances online from other countries, and I'm surprised. I
continue to be surprised.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
At uh.
Speaker 5 (43:48):
The right leaning views of some of those people.
Speaker 6 (43:54):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 5 (43:55):
That's hard. I mean, it's it's hard to do it
within our community. And we talked about a little bit
last week. We have it's more important that we protect
people then we worry about a casual friendship online or
somebody that we're going to see an event. It's so
(44:15):
much more important that we say these things are wrong.
And if you think that they're okay, I'm not okay
with you anymore. I'm just not.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
Yeah, we can't do it, you know.
Speaker 3 (44:28):
And the thing is that there are people that are
in my life that I have to love from a
safe distance.
Speaker 4 (44:35):
Yeah, I can still look ready to.
Speaker 5 (44:37):
Say that, well, yeah, yeah, that's that's a better way.
Speaker 3 (44:40):
To say distance is from the other side of the universe,
because that is how counterintuitive their world view is to
my own. So literally juxtaposed in the extreme, radically juxtaposed
(45:00):
to my philosophy of love and light and care and
embrace for humanity. Do unto others as though you are
the others, because eventually you will be right.
Speaker 6 (45:18):
Yeah, or at least have somebody close to them that.
Speaker 3 (45:23):
Is you know, that is you know, subjected to cruelty,
who is objectified, who is lied about, who is disrespected,
who is treated as something less than human, Absolutely unacceptable, unacceptable,
(45:44):
and frankly, anybody that thinks that's okay, I am just
like let me said, I'm not okay with them.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
I'm done okay with that. I'm not.
Speaker 5 (45:53):
I made last administration, I'm not doing it this time. No,
it was exhausting. It was exhausting and.
Speaker 2 (46:02):
Deb and I talk about that all the time.
Speaker 4 (46:03):
Oh my god, I'm so fucking tired. I can't drink coffee.
It's mental exhaustion for me.
Speaker 6 (46:10):
I can't even enjoy anymore.
Speaker 3 (46:15):
I know, I mean, you know when my escapism is
binging the Big Bang theory and just laughing for a
few hours because I have.
Speaker 4 (46:24):
To get it out so that it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (46:30):
We can't be we cannot become what we loathe, and
so I project out what you know, Toxins build up
in me, and I know that this last ten years
is part of why I.
Speaker 2 (46:45):
Got sick in the first place.
Speaker 3 (46:47):
And now I'm using that same anger and revulsion as
I see this transformation of our societie. I'm using it
as nitroglycerine jet fuel to make the posters walk the walk,
(47:10):
talk the talk, get the platform out there, and do
everything in my personal power to elimit illuminate the world
about this subject and so many others. This show was
not accidentally titled a World Awakening.
Speaker 2 (47:31):
We are a world awakening.
Speaker 3 (47:34):
We are in the midst of the process of the
paradigm shift, transformation, transformation, right.
Speaker 2 (47:45):
We are all transforming, yep, every one of us, our
planet yep, yep. So let's make it a good transform.
Speaker 3 (47:57):
Yes yeah, and thanks Step for talking to me off
the ledge the other night.
Speaker 2 (48:03):
I don't remember what I was.
Speaker 4 (48:05):
So oh yeah, now I do.
Speaker 2 (48:06):
I don't even want to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (48:07):
Yeah, we want, you know, I mean news for ten minutes,
going to milk down for ten hours.
Speaker 4 (48:15):
She's like, you have to stop that now, honey, okay.
Speaker 3 (48:18):
Because you're going to And then the next morning I
had to go to the hospital to go get my
confusion and to go get my you know.
Speaker 2 (48:26):
Five hours talking to you.
Speaker 6 (48:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (48:29):
Yeah, on the way.
Speaker 4 (48:34):
Mouth, I'm sending the reiki, you know.
Speaker 3 (48:38):
I mean, it's like, oh my god, it's And there
are times when I just I see something. I hear
something factual, not made up, not fake news, factual. It's
(49:00):
all right, who's close enough to New York State to
reach over and slap Bill?
Speaker 2 (49:07):
I saw that five minutes this hour has gone.
Speaker 6 (49:13):
Wait.
Speaker 2 (49:17):
I think it's really important that we all realize that
we are in control of our own emotions. Yes, but
in those moments. I do it every day, you know,
every day right now, because every day I'm reading the
(49:38):
news and going what But I have to stop myself
and say, okay, am I going to allow this to
destroy me? So I can't help anybody? Where Am I
going to breathe in and breathing out and calm my
anxiety and know that we've got this. You know, fear.
Fear is the opposite of am ul commit negative emotion.
(50:02):
If we use that fear to strengthen, you know, to
get that fire going to make us do something that
it's a good thing. If you use that fear to
be all anxiety written and not good for anybody, mostly yourself,
then fear wins, Hendra. We are all holding your hands.
Speaker 3 (50:25):
You're sharing what I'm probably just hanging on your neck.
You know, it's I want you to feel the support,
to feel the love, to know that we honor you,
that it is a privilege for us to have you
join us on this show tonight and to speak your
(50:48):
truth fearlessly. You are a beautiful, beautiful soul, my dear beautiful.
Speaker 2 (50:56):
Yes, and we're honored to have you. That's proud of you.
Speaker 6 (51:01):
I'm compelled to say one one piece of information and
it's been in my mind. This whole show is to
anybody out there listening trans and otherwise, you know, turn
on the news and you will see people like us
(51:24):
getting arrested for you know. You know, I'm not saying
sit out the battle, but you know, pick your battles.
Be safe. You know what I'm saying, be very watchful. Yes,
and you know while being vocal, and you know resisting
(51:51):
is of the utmost importance. Please read into what they're
doing to us in jails and prisons. We can't, we
can't just get off of our HRT like this. You
know it is it is. You know, it might as
well be like Anie said earlier, off, it might as
well be off with your head. If you know what
(52:11):
I'm saying. Like and I've said it before, I'll say
it again, death before d transition and I mean it.
Speaker 2 (52:18):
Yeah, we are with you. We will all get through
this together.
Speaker 3 (52:23):
We are stronger than the narrow minded head in the
sand opposition to the notion that no one is free
until everyone is free. And we've got a piece of
paper to prove it. It's called the Constitution. That followed
(52:43):
up nicely a little idea called the Declaration of Independence.
And we are together, and we are one, and let
there be a complete transformation and total realization of I
love you all, Thank you so much for joining me tonight.
(53:05):
I'll be on the phone with each of you in
about two minutes after I take the puppies out. Everyone
have a wonderful Passover, a beautiful Easter season. Live the light,
be the light that you seek, and celebrate this season
of light.
Speaker 2 (53:22):
Good Night everyone, I love you, I love you.
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