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What is politics?

I hear

people say they don’t

like to talk politics

so what is politics…

Odd to define a word with the word you’re looking to define…

The best words actually defining politics (without using political) is “use of strategy in obtaining power”.

so politics is who strategizes best to gain power in a system.
but politics, the power must address issues the system was created for. And that’s societal, society.
everyone talks about their society. not everyone wants power over others. And some, want to give their power to others.

Maybe that was part of the reason

the YIPPIE! movement could not completely take over.. because they wanted

power for The People.

Abbie Hoffman defined politics perfectly

“Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible”

The Fight for $15 has been going on for OVER a decade. Meanwhile, the price of ALL goods has risen - EXCEPT THE PRICE OF LABOR.
If the $7.25 min wage kept up with productivity & CORPORATE GREED, the min wage would be $25/hr.

YOU, employee, are UNDERPAID.

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We all want our country’s children to be better off then we had it. We want the children of our nation to have a better education, be more educated and smarter than we are so they can lead us with better insights when the day comes for them to lead.

The way for that to happen is to equip our children with as much knowledge as we can.

Critical Race Theory is not controversial, unless teaching America history is.
There has been an effort to manufacture outrage over CRT. And a major disinformation campaign to misconstrue what Critical Race Theory actually is.
Most humans, want someone who has read & understood the literature to speak about the specific topic for discussion. But the ones crying out against The 1619 project, the ones emotionally reacting and trying to ban this history, are the humans who may have not read the book.

There’s a simple fix - read the literature. If you want to deny history, at least read the history you’re trying to suppress. You may come to see your fear based overly emotional response is something we’ve actually witnessed before in American history. They do a good job addressing it in the book.

The irony of those who flauntingly tell people they should stay out of topics (like business or politics) they know not about yet emotionally over react to topics they didn’t do their homework on (simply reading The 1619 project) is like a incorrect meme going viral. So many humans are willing and ready to support an idiot because it amplifies their point of view that the topic becomes stretched into an unidentifiable mess - which is an actual tactic conservatives use - called making a term go “toxic”. Meaning that even the mention of the term, will make people associate the worst they’ve heard with the term (that majority of the time are not actually associated with it) - spreading fear & hate, making & keeping people distant from wanting to even discuss it.
Essentially- they are banning topics by making them “toxic”.

If someone tries to ban or burn a book - read it. The fear that inspired people to keep that information from you, must be powerful.

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Social Media can be a haven for dis/misinformation. The Facebook Whistler Blower spoke explicitly about how controversial posts (whether accurate or inaccurate) get more action & amplification in the algorithms. And by the time it’s gone viral, it’s too late to fact check because the controversial post has left the station.

I don’t know many humans who want to be part of the problem of reposting and amplifying dis/misinformation.

Be aware of what you repost on Social Media.
I’ve been reading & watching reports (including John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight) revealing Russian propaganda being pushed out to smear false provocations against Ukraine & manufacture consent for Russias criminal war. One disinformation campaign I continue to see some people prop up is the false narrative that there are nazis in Ukraine. This is a Russian disinformation attempt, to cover their illegal invasion of a free Ukrainian country. Ironically, some people sharing that disinformation are ones who believe the nazis in America should be allowed to speak up or have some place in public discourse… to that I say - their view is an old hate filled one that was crushed once in a world war and has no business being regurgitated again, just like those confederate asshats. Hate-isms aren’t free speech. I’d also say - imagine, that because some asshats in our country are nazi re-enactors - does that make an entire country fair game to declare war on or INVADE? Imagine if Canada was like, too many Americans are dressing like and regurgitating nazi view points again, let’s invade.
If so, white southern Americans & the other asshats we see doing that would potentially be held accountable.

On the home front, I’d like to congratulate the IHeart Podcast Network who have Unionized or won collective bargaining recognition from the WGAE, the Writers Guild of America East.

This is big for the podcasting industry. And hopefully it inspires more workers, more industries to see the power in uniting. When workers come together, the mangers and owners have to listen to them or risk losing the work that the workers create. This is the way… we make progress. Corporate GREED masquerading as “inflation” and price gouging by profiteers will not stop, trickle down or be charitably given - workers must unite & demand their due.

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The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in his inaugural address said “I don’t want pictures of me in your offices, the President is not an icon or idol, please hang photos of your kids and look at them when you make decisions”.
What a brilliant insight and powerful point. The President is not an idol to be worshipped. And it’d be rad to hear this from other myopic leaders who believe their position of power is anointed by God herself.
And now, Zelenskyy is on the front lines of his city defending his home with his countrymen.
What a vast difference in the way American leadership is separated from the public… when the current President offered Zelenskyy a ride out of the country, he said I don’t need a ride I need ammunition. It’s hilarious to think our country’s former “leader” agent orange tried to extort Zelenskyy, a man of morals & character.
Standing with Ukraine.

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It’s sad & frustrating time for the people who have a passion for radio, who made a living working in their passion, to see CEOs praised and written about, yet no one is asking these CEOs if they are doing what they preach… spoiler - they are not… and, “yes men” are enabling the ruin of local radio.

I agree with Bill Owens, CEO of Townsquare Media and Radio Executive, that “Radio will succeed if it’s Local”… but I will also ask him - why are his Townsquare Radio stations syndicating shows from other Companies? Like WCYY Portland Maine’s Alternative Station. Townsquare’s WCYY in Maine has a Boston Morning Show syndicated to it. Syndicated in from an entirely different corporation, Beasley Radio… Townsquare actually syndicates to a few more of their alleged “local” stations too… not very local.

This Is putting local talent out of work and making CEO Bill Wilson not a man of his word. Why would he go out of his way to say “local local local” and then not do that? Are these CEOs and companies surprised when they continue to stay in massive debt because they avoid putting the solutions to stay relevant into action to try and save on costs?
I recently interviewed with Townsquare, for a different station / location, but I respectfully asked why are they syndicating shows to their great local stations? Especially if they continue to say their specialty is “being local”.. not only did I not get an answer but I have not heard back.

The people who won’t ask these questions are not helping their own industry… in fact, they are quietly standing by while massively in debt corporations say they are saving it yet their actions are destroying radio. And if these yes men believe keeping quiet will save them down the road when more layoffs happen - they’re fooling themselves. Maybe they’ll speak up when a syndicated show replaces them.
If layoffs of local talent haven’t got your company out of debt over the past 15 years, maybe listen to what I’m saying and try something different. Try investing in people instead of cutting talent out of the equation.

I want the people running radio to be accountable for what they are doing to my industry, the industry I love.
And Townsquare themselves recognized my talent, they know my passion for radio and understanding of the industry. It’s how they set me up on a variety of interviews at their company.

Maybe “Higher Ups” & people who don’t like to be questioned don’t understand my other value, asking hard questions to those in power. I’m not a yes man, and the radio industry could use a bit of that right now. I’ve faced off with other powerful figures who’ve believed they were right because they said so, without looking at their actions.
I listen to a lot of radio. And study the places I would potentially work. While listening to Townsquare’s Talent in Maine, I listened to a morning show spend an entire show (which is all on their podcast) search for local talent to work & fill in the mid day shift because the over worked Morning Show is on air from 6 am - 2 pm (which is two jobs and they’re not getting paid for doing twice the work).

All the while calling other Personalities and taking calls from listeners, they talked about how low the pay was and how no one with a degree or any actual talent would want to do this work for the little pay offered.
So, there is not only the problem but the solution… from the horses mouth.
If these corporate radio leaders would stop believing cutting costs by laying off their most valuable asset (that description is the actual language CEOs use) and stop syndicating in shows as a “one size fits all” fix, maybe radio could start to charm listeners again and bring them back to listen to local radio.
It’s ironically unfunny, that the CEOs who syndicate shows - do it because a show is successful (and brings in lots of revenue) in their local market. They want that success in other markets but don’t want to pay the costs of a show, So they syndicate.
Not realizing the successful shows can be replicated locally without syndication - if you pay your people and invest in them.
You will never get gigantic success from a Morning Show that has to also do the Mid Day show and has a bunch of other work to contend with. Good shows focus on their content and prepare to entertain. Just ask your consultants if your most valuable asset, a show host, should be working two shows if the first isn’t hugely successful.

Leaders of Radio, do better. If you’re going to claim the success of an industry depends on being local - and you have the power to call those shots - do that. Because when you’re not doing what you say, it comes off like you’re allowing failure or sabotaging yourself.

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Watching Stephen Colbert’s A Late Show discussing the Russian invasion of Ukraine and thought this was an odd sanction…

If the President of the United States is aware of corrupt billionaires doing business, why is it sanctioned for stoppage only now? So outside of war corrupt billionaires & their families get a pass, because they’re billionaires, but once an invasion happens THEN the people in charge pull the billionaires approval to do business?
Is this official policy, if you’re wealthy beyond measure then corruption doesn’t matter, just don’t do war. Because then your card gets pulled in the US. Wtf.

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There’s a deadly perception in America that keeps us from progress.

The idea that it will never happen to me.

For those who’ve been on the receiving end of tragedy, injustice, or a bounty from fear filled humans masquerading around as hate fueled “radicals”, the persistence to examine discuss and change the way things are is a necessity.

*The Conservatives, New Nazis and Anti-Deniers are not “Radicals” - to be Radical you need to have some type of “new” / “extreme” ideology. These people are basic. Ironically they recall “the good old days”, and with it comes their very basic yet dangerous wants. Their ideology has been at the core of history, the resistance to change. And if any of them took some time to understand these beliefs that have been crushed in multiple wars, maybe they’d be quicker to abandon them. Is it ironic that some of these humans call for a second Civil War - do they not remember or know what happened to the South in the last one? *

But there is a good section of the population and the entirety of Centrists, who because it’s never happened to them or because they don’t believe it could happen to them they are quiet on important societal issues. Or they take on the mantle of victim and impersonate actual social activists.
*If you have been watching the Trucker convoy saga, maybe you recently read the Newsweek story featuring one of the convoy leaders who gave up the cause, quit organizing and went home after ONE NIGHT IN JAIL! Imagine if ONE NIGHT IN JAIL was all it took for Martin Luther King Jr quit!!! These folks are far from radicals, activists, or revolutionaries. They are people getting in the way of The Peoples progress.
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The “Freedom Convoy” organizer didn’t expect or think he’d have to be accountable. This speaks volumes about how privileged some humans are. And we’ve seen this time and time again, the privileged humans believe they have a right to not be accountable.
*Btw a majority of Canadian Truckers are vaccinated and do NOT stand with these anti-intellectuals in their so called Freedumb Convoy.*

This concept of “once it happens to me, everything changes” is a major problem. Thinking only criminals endure police brutality. Or only the lazy become homeless. Or only outcasts become addicts. Or only hard workers get wealthy. Are the great American myths. And they only serve the Corporate Masters of America. Keeping the people divided is how they continue to abuse the system that’s rigged in their favor.

I don’t believe a society that chooses to not protect or help it’s most vulnerable is the best we can do. A society that by choice lets children fall back into poverty and go hungry, is the most success we can achieve. Are the children the future? Or should they too pull themselves up by their bootstraps? Is it survival of the fittest… for kids? The mentality that you’re tough by sacrificing the weak, is just an illusion. Some of the toughest humans who ever walked this planet, were strong because they had compassion. To endure suffering that isn’t yours is a strength most will never know, and should be grateful for it. The only muscle that gives true strength is your heart.

Progressive workplaces, which people consider Starbucks being one, are firing employees who are trying to join together to fight for better work conditions. If these Employers are so progressive why do they fear their employees joining together? Maybe because worker raises may cut into the raise CEO Kevin Johnson gave himself, a 40% raise in his pay from 14 mil to over 20 million last year. All the while, still raising prices and blaming “inflation or supply chain issues”.

Every employee is underpaid. It does not matter what sector you work in - if your not part of the upper management / ownership structured titles, you are underpaid.
Some don’t get this. They invest in the thinking that we are a caste system, just between the very poor, moderately poor, and less poor…. Some egos are so tied to their income they feel threatened by those below them getting paid humanely. So let me repeat….
You are underpaid. No matter what job you have, if you’re an employee, you’re underpaid.

Its now Radical to believe one income should be enough to have shelter, food, and basic necessities. When people brag about working 3 jobs to afford necessities, who are you bragging for the CEOs? Showing them your willingness to accept this failed state. And there’s a lot more people who get to live with parents or have inherited wealth (anything inherited is wealth) so they stay quiet or pretend to be self made. And you’re in the way of progress. We are fighting for people to make it on their own, not living at their parents… but like their parents who could afford to buy a home on one income.

If minimum wage kept up with inflation and worker productivity, instead of 7.25 - it would actually be 25 / hr.
The fight for 15 has been going on for over a DECADE. Everything in society has experienced rising costs / inflation EXCEPT LABOR.
Why is that? Maybe because corporations join together in Corporate Unions to “fund” politicians who will make sure nothing changes for workers… and the CEOs can keep filling their pockets while blaming inflation - which apparently only happens to products, not labor. Odd. We always hear the theory - well if people get paid more expect prices to rise… but have prices stayed the same? No. They rise because of CEOs joining together in a union to raise their salaries, to have golden parachutes giving themselves millions when they are fired or retire, and to conspire to blame all costs on having employees.

The people who stand in the middle on important issues are standing in the way. If someone says something disparaging and you stay silent, no one knows if you’re condoning it or just don’t have the strength to oppose it. But if something nasty is said to you, maybe you’ll respond. And the response does not have to be negative, it can be positive. We can respond to the negative by standing up for ourselves and holding people accountable.
It becomes much easier when we stand together.

Please don’t be someone who has to wait for it to potentially happen to you, for you to compassionately stand with those who suffer.

Maybe people who spend one night in jail then quit, will come to understand real conviction & true injustices. Maybe they’ll come to understand the strength, compassion and suffering of true radicals that lived & died for a cause.

Who knew thatAmerica, Somalia & India are the same when it comes to paid sick leave for employees…. We need to stand together to create change.

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A Peoples History of The United States by Howard Zinn is one of my favorite books. It could be described as American history told by those America conquered. It’s heart wrenching & insightful. Here is the author Howard Zinn speaking about American Exceptionalism at MIT.

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YouTube has a ton of content. Almost anything you are looking for can be found there. One content creator is Dr. Todd Grande, who provides insights to different topics & issues. He recently discussed the Joe Rogan topic. I covered this previously on my blog and said Joe Rogan acts as an innocent “presenter of information” but really invites guests who will promote Joes established biases. I’ve witness this happen in radio. Some Hosts who are too afraid to say their thoughts & be held accountable for their stance on an issue will bring on guests that have aligned beliefs and are openly promoting them. Then the show will give that guest ample time to promote whatever the belief is & even “act” like they are discovering this belief for themselves. The show will ask questions that they probably already know the answer to & most likely agree with the answer. The show will even pretend that this interview is opening their mind and changing their position on a topic - when all along it’s an act. The show is just too afraid & potentially not smart enough (their show may not be considered a source for whatever the belief/topic may be) so this outside source (promoting the shows established bias) lends their credibility. They are all in on it, except the audience.
It’s funny & ironic, Joe Rogan the comic who titled his Stand Up Special - Triggered, now pretends his words don’t have influence.
Also - This has nothing to do with Free Speech. I’ve yet to hear about the Government making a law to stop Joe Or Spotify from saying what they want on their platform / podcast. If you’d like to learn about Free Speech issues, I recommend reading about Abbie Hoffman, Fred Hampton, and MLK & their run ins with the Government.
And for those who are against “Censorship” - what are your thoughts on Spotify pulling a bunch of Rogan’s episodes off their platform?
I heard a lot of people complain about FEARS of censorship when Neil Young took a stand. I heard lots of folks talking that they did not want Joe censored…. But Spotify did censor Joe Rogan - they removed episodes of his podcast off their platform. So are you people of your word, will you boycott Spotify because they believe in Censorship?
Here is Dr Todd Grande’s thoughts on the Joe Rogan topic.

One of the raddest parts of YouTube is the creators decide what photos to use in their content. Usually on TV, the producers will choose standard pics of celebs during the report. But on YouTube, creators use whatever they want. Which leads to great thumbnails like the one above with that picture of Joe.
The creative freedom on YouTube is rad.

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I admire Trevor Noah and his insightful commentary & questioning style featured on The Daily Show. In this interview, Trevor speaks with Frances Haugen aka The Facebook Whistleblower.

It’s disturbing to hear Frances talk about the inner workings of Facebook and it’s impact on the youth. For those with kids, do you allow them on? And at what age? When my kids asked if they could get Facebook, I told them yeah, when you’re 30.

A moment of Zen

This is not a test. This is real. Dog Raincoats.

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Am I being too sensitive? Am I being too judgmental of “entertainment & comedy”?

The reason I didn’t like Bob Saget’s comedy is because I felt it was basic. Anyone could have created the dirty jokes he said, it was unoriginal & totally lacking perspective. I know everyone says he was a good guy & loving - but I’m not talking about who he was as a human - I never met him, maybe he was loving. I’m strictly speaking about his career in comedy.

I tell you my perspective on him because I want to address something in Radio. And we can all agree that the more you do something - the better you (are supposed to) get at it.

I follow a lot of Radio industry people. And I recently came across a site promoting a show with personalities that have been on the air for decades. And one of the highlighted segments was about a “stalker”. There were multiple audio segments in the stalker series which probably means this bit was carried out over the course of a week or two or at least over a few days. And it came across Basic. Something that a new show, maybe trying to get clicks or attention, trying to establish themselves might resort to. It really just came across like it was trying to exploit a potential bad situation. And if it was real - it missed a opportunity to address a morbidly interesting topic.
*Spoiler Alert - at the end it took a surprise turn - the woman on air personality’s stalker had mistakingly stalked the wrong person!

Listening to parts of the bit I got this overall vibe like this was a disservice to the community. Now I understand the art of “the tease” but Click Bait titles “Somebody wants to kill our show member” are not clever. Just rewording it may have had more of an impact & showed a sense of “we’re trying to be authentic / real in our entertainment”. Not thinking our audience is vapid & careless. How about “Is show members life in danger? Or Should Show member be in fear for life?” I don’t know I only put 2 seconds of thought into those, who knows maybe that wasn’t the final title. Stalking as a topic can be morbidly fascinating. Which tackling that topic as a show would definitely draw attention. But when it’s treated as a piece of click bait, I as the audience feel that disingenuous vibe & associate it with the people trying to sell it.

It also sent some bad example vibes, like when they called & confronted the “stalker”. I’m sure there are humans out there that have experienced stalking - now again, if you as a show want to tackle this topic it can get dark, so with topics - choose wisely - and I’m not sure if you’d hear from anyone who has experienced stalking but calling & confronting the stalker had an amateur vibe to it. Does this put the victim of stalking in a weird position? Does this promote a weird potential solution to being stalked? Does it encourage anything?

Does stuff like this on radio connect with the community/audience? Or does it present a campy version of a real situation that can be addressed in a serious & entertaining & potentially comedic way. Or are we all in on the joke, and is this just an extremely over hyped examination of entertainment.

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The “tribe” or “team” mentality *can cause blindness.

I’ve always felt the greatest humans to have around you are not the ones who are ready and willing to always say Yes (yes men), but the ones willing and Not afraid to be honest with you & disagree at times teaching you along the way. When I was in charge of hiring assistant producers, I would tell them this. It was in stark contrast to what had been going on in the work culture previous to my arrival - the place was swarming with yes men hoping to yes their way to the top of the sh*t pile. But I wanted to create a more dynamic & insight filled work place that didn’t have blinders on, that allowed anyone to speak up freely without fear of retaliation.

Long story short, I’ve known a few people in positions of power keeping themselves insulated with Yes men.

It’s odd that our culture is mutating into such an extreme & blindly devoted to the tribe mentality… and that to disagree means you become the opposition. To question becomes bad. Especially with those tribes who claim be be fans of hearing different points of view, questioning the norm - this has got to be Irony… You’d think they would be the ones ready to embrace criticisms, or try to be willing to learn along the way & admit their faults. It’s even more odd when the one they follow is fine with admitting faults.
It’s hard to take criticism or hear you’re wrong. It can be even harder to admit your wrong and apologize. I appreciate & commend those who listen, try to understand where they went wrong, apologize and are willing to move forward better for now knowing.

Being wrong is a feeling, I’d hope, most of us are familiar with. And the character defining qualities come from what we do, once we realize it.

There’s an even bigger issue plaguing society. The cultural belief that money translates to mean you’re doing something right or means you’re correct. People think because someone’s wealthy they have secrets to success which gives them the power of being right. And the wealthy believe that their money is proof they can’t be wrong. To refute money makes you right - I present exhibit A - the life of the Christ Yeshua - powerful message to radically love one another, never had any money & died broke.

“If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity”

- Roger Ingersoll

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“Stop taking the bait on corporate schemes like the individual carbon footprint”

- Second Thought

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YouTube is a media world of its own, yet still has traces of the mainstream living inside & among it. A vast & deep alter-verse, which, if a reflection of society, I think I’ve learned that talking sh*t gets more views than the original idea. It’s a HUGE micro media verse, an oxymoron itself, where massive money funding advertising empires take an oddly undefinable & repetitively subtle style. Youtube - the best doesn’t always rise to the top but the AI & algorithm cyborgployees sort through the piles of content & are often persuaded by clickbait. But hey, this is America & priority is profit. How come in the Metaphor “double edged sword” people seem to believe it means having a good and/or bad possible outcome, have we considered the sword represents a violent outcome, something negative, one sided or two… and remember those who live by the sword die by the sword. Nonetheless it’s a medium accessible to essentially anyone to create, which becomes a beautiful thing for the genuine artists. Nerd City is one of those artists. And, like a serious artist, they sometimes disappear deep into their work, only to arise from their slumber like Banksy awakening a city with stunning graffiti. Nerd City are the Banksy graffiti taggers of YouTube… elusive, keen & highly anticipated. Here is Nerd City’s latest… a collab with Colossal is Crazy.

I highly suggest checking out all of Nerd City’s work… it’s radical & revolutionary.
And if you’re the YouTube type - subscribe ⤵️

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Rest In Peace, Afeni & Tupac Shakur. Our work continues….

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The little things… sometimes I notice things in interviews that may seem like little things, an off the cuff remark or a keen insight hidden in the midst of a bigger answer to a question asked.

I want to share two of these moments… the first is in this interview by MTV News’ Tabitha Soren with Tupac…. Tupac is answering her question to explain his confidence now opposed to his lack of it as a child, and he says “the money gave me confidence”. It’s such a radical keenly aware & insightful comment. And in Tupacs life the money helped him build his confidence to accentuate the man he needed to become (there will be naysayers who lock him into his Thug Life persona - not willing or wanting to understand who Pac really was - a poet, an actor, an intellectual, a radical, a revolutionary and more) but Tupac cared & spoke up for women & children. He wanted to make changes for an entire generation. And his self observation, the money helped give him confidence, is proof of the radical & genuine genius he was.

It’s too often in our society, people think they make money - not the money making them… but so many of these “so-called self made” folks don’t attribute the wealth of their parents or other generational wealth that allowed them to succeed. Or like in the case of a Joe Rogan type, a change begins to occur when people start to make “f u” money. Joe was always confident in his beliefs but getting paid 100 million can make you start to believe you’re right. Vast wealth can make people think what they’re doing is anointed. They (not out loud - though I’ve witnessed some wealthy people say it out loud) may start to believe / say “How could I be wrong if I’m getting paid this much? How could I be wrong if I’m this popular?”. Believing you’re infallible because of popularity or money is a good time to consider learning history, esp the history of those who convinced nations to commit atrocities or the wealthy who deceived to gain their wealth. Money isn’t justification of being correct or moral. Sometimes people insulate themselves from the world with “yes men” too. But always challenging yourself or having insight like Tupac had to see what helped build you is a rad thing to see, it’s brilliant & humble, it’s a sign of intelligence.

Tupac talks about money building his confidence at 16 mins into interview.

Being Self aware is a radical trait.

The next “little thing” I noticed was from an interview or “dinner with” Abbie Hoffman. I’m not sure how this “supper” interview came to be, the woman interviewing Abbie seems to be very “on-guard” or waiting for a “got ya” moment. It’s a solid interview from what seems to be the lost tapes of Abbie Hoffman. And considering there isn’t too much of 80’s Abbie, I consider this 2 part interview a gem. Abbie always had keen insights, but what struck me was Abbie speaking about himself “not being an addictive person” and how he was proud to have quit smoking cigarettes. These more humanizing qualities & personal struggles of such a “bigger than life” character yet human such as Abbie, sadly make me want to inquire more about those personal trials that helped build him to become who he was at that time.

Abbie discussing addiction is close to the 5 minute mark of the second part of this interview.

Abbie & Tupac are radical teachers, revolutionaries for the people. I’ve continued to learn from the wisdom they shared with humanity. And I’m always inspired when I read their books or hear their art.

Shine your light.

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The internet should be free for all to access.

The infrastructure bill allots 65 billion to improve internet access, and supposedly to help make the internet more affordable… in todays society, the internet has become utility.
And activists are fighting for better & clearer internet pricing - much like calories are now clearly stated on food & drinks… internet prices can be deceiving and activists work for transparency for the people.

If you’ve tried to get a job lately you may have noticed that employees will refer you to a website to apply. But sometimes those searching for work don’t have internet access & are now forced to find a library JUST to apply.

This pandemic has only highlighted the virtual future. Zoom interviews, remote work & things that haven’t even happened yet, but in a virtual future will become more & more the norm.

Free internet is a step in the right direction, helping America live up to her motto - land of the free.

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The first Blizzard of 2022… and I strongly encourage all the able bodied people to check in on your neighbors & help each other shovel out…. Esp if you live close to older folks. Take care of each other… it’s wicked nasty out there.

The local birds are fed.