Navigating Safety and Identity in Divisive Times

What happens when you mix tornadoes, Crocs, and the Democratic National Convention? 

Brace yourself with Shane Ivan Nash and Jessie McGrath for a clip episode packed with humor, chaos, and insight!

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

There's so many things simultaneously going on right now, like just historic events. Even in weather there's tornadoes and things popping up and billionaires every year getting sacrificed to another boat thing. It's like there's so much going on in the world and I think it's also probably social media. We're constantly streaming. We're much more aware of it. There's so much more factors to it, because as a millennial, I remember less stressful.

Speaker 2: 0:27

we're more easily manipulated because we we get repetitive things and and and, so we start seeing that and that's what becomes the reality, and uh, you know, god, I don't want to live in the world of idiocracy, I mean I I know.

Speaker 1: 0:43

But here's the thing I already own Crocs and they're so comfortable and those are the ones from the movie and I see so many people still wear Crocs although I think I can't wear them anymore because you said something racist and now I'm like fuck man. Crocs really help because I have a wide foot.

Speaker 2: 0:58

Pronto, it's got electrolytes.

Speaker 1: 1:09

Oh, oh, my god. Yeah, I know, it's what, it's what plants crave. It's what plants crave. Oh god, I mean you gotta admit just a little bit of you. When you were at the dnc you were like, am I an idiot?

Speaker 1: 1:13

obviously, a little bit, like I thought president camacho was gonna come out like if they brought terry, like all there would have been cool on t on TikTok, pretending to be president for like a month or so ago, and that was hilarious. But it's also kind of scary because I'm like, oh God, I own Crocs.

Speaker 2: 1:34

But yeah, no, I came out of there just fully convinced that we have the core of the party energized, that we have the core of the party energized. We've got and we had one of the guests that we had on our breakfast was David Poole, you know, who did Obama's campaign and he actually is also doing that now. And they have ads out now that are running in the key battleground states and CD2 Nebraska. So we are getting the advertising that the battleground states are getting because they realize our one vote is a battleground, and they've got full-time staffers in the state of Nebraska on the ground. They put staff into the congressional district election. They put staff into the congressional district election and they've devoted a very big media buy into Nebraska to potentially do some flipping here. So I just love the fact that I came back at this time and I'm back home in my home state and getting involved in all of this and and you know, being able to contribute to it.

Speaker 1: 2:45

Yeah, no, I mean it's. It's cool to learn more about you, because I've just watched a few episodes where you were shooting with. One of the episodes I just watched was the one of the DA or the.

Speaker 2: 2:57

That was my. That was my first. That was, that was my first podcast.

Speaker 1: 3:00

So yes, yes, yes, which is really interesting, because even I've had some interesting stuff going on with. You know, my personal case didn't get, you know, such the greatest attention, because I feel like the DA didn't do the best of jobs there as well. Someone that has the privilege a because that's not a grand, everybody can't go buy a house but it's nice to see that you went and did that and you're actually contributing in that way and and that's that's pretty much how it sounds like that's the path for some community members, if they have that privilege to do that, is to move in those spaces. But I had a question, though, in moving in that space as a trans person, because, like, moving into red spaces can be kind of like, oh my god, am I gonna be hate crime? Because california, like you, everybody kind of leaves everybody alone. Pretty much here it's nice nebraska passed constitutional carry.

Speaker 2: 4:01

I can consume my gun without a permit anywhere.

Speaker 1: 4:04

Okay, so you're like you can be trans person, just stay strapped up I I can stay strapped in nebraska, uh.

Speaker 2: 4:12

And then I I was in the military, I was an armorer, I I know how to do uh, put together, take apart ars uh 15s and I'm very proficient in firearm usage. And also they allow you to open, carry a firearm within the state capitol. And I I was tempted this year during the legislative session to show up a couple of times with my 40 cal on my hip and see how fast they go. Uh, you know ronald reagan and the?

Speaker 1: 4:49

uh, the black panthers in sacramento and ban it in the capitol, how it is because of the black panthers.

Speaker 2: 4:55

Yeah, but and it's like there's a member of the State Board of Education and other elected officials who show up at the Capitol to protest stuff or be in support of stuff. They're walking around with guns on their hips.

Speaker 1: 5:09

I'm like if they can do it, I should be able to your suggestion to trans people if they move into red states is buy a strap, have a gun Be strapped, know how to use it, and that's one thing.

Speaker 2: 5:21

I think that trans people anywhere should at least know how to use firearms and know some of the safety and relationship to them, because if crap ever does hit the fan, I think you know we're going to have a transition.

Speaker 1: 5:39

So yeah, oh, believe me Honestly, though, like trans people are the most resourceful people I have ever met in my entire life and the cool thing is is here's the advantage that we have we as a community, because of a lot of our social economic challenges we face, we actually tend to gather in groups more diversely than other communities, so trans people actually know how to communicate within other communities. Some are problematic, a lot of people can make mistakes, but still, for the most part, we're gathering with each other more mixed and diverse, so that already gives us the advantage. Plus, have you ever seen a trans person that needs to get someplace and look good, they do it on $1.50 and you're like what the hell? How did you do that? And trans people are so resourceful, so I would kind of be scared of a trans militia because I'd be like, oh my God, they'd be making bullets out of wood somehow and somehow they'd be lethal and you know what.

Speaker 2: 6:39

I mean, we just get a machine shop and we're going to be making those zip guns for everyone.