SLAP the Power
SLAP the Power - a dynamic new show from SLAP the Network that aims to weave artistry into advocacy through the raw power of music, comedy, movies, visual arts, and beyond.
Hosted by world touring musicians Rick Barrio Dill (@rickbarriodill @vintagetrouble) and Aja Nikiya (@compassioncurator), join them as team with musicians, comedians, actors and artists of all angles and try to chop up some of todays most troubling topics, but with a fat side of chocolate cake and incredible silliness.
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Art, Accountability, and Awakening: A Journey Through Healing and Change with Blu Nyle
Ever wondered how to balance the heartwarming with the thought-provoking? Join us on "Slap the Power" as we kick off with tales of courage and compassion through our "Paws for Progress" initiative, spotlighting the incredible recovery stories of Miss Daisy, Mr. Wiggles, and Bowie. We're thrilled to update you on their journey towards healing and the upcoming adoption event in Los Angeles. Plus, our Gen Z correspondent Asher Freidberg keeps things lively with "Make this Ish Make Sense," offering a fresh take on everything from music to mascots.
When does fandom cross into a moral dilemma? We tackle this thorny question amidst allegations against iconic music figures like Jay-Z and Sean Diddy Combs, exploring the tricky terrain of separating art from the artist. Adding a lighter note, we venture into the whimsical world of Japanese mascots, spotlighting the antics of Chitan, a rogue figure who’s become a global sensation. Special guest Luna, a multidimensional artist and spiritual wellness coach, shares her transformative journey of healing generational trauma and embracing her role as a light worker in a complex world.
Shifting gears, we journey through the realms of plant-based healing and the evolving concept of sobriety, encouraging you to explore personal paths to wellness. From the impact of systemic issues to the pressing need for societal transformation, we shed light on the importance of activism, community, and feminine energy in today's world wiuth Blu Nyle. Don't miss our call to action as we discuss healthcare reform, justice, and the power of collective healing. Stay connected with us on social media to keep up with our dynamic discussions and vibrant community.
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That being a light worker versus being a light slave, being African and indigenous and having the. We were talking about releasing those old dogmas of scarcity and you know, my enslaved ancestors versus and my mother who was a street worker and a drug dealer and all this stuff and having that stuff was like that's not mine, that's not mine. Hey, won't we go slap today.
Speaker 3:Yo hey, won't we go slap today? Yes, yes, the world may not need another podcast, but it can definitely use a slap. Welcome to Slap the Power, the show that lifts artists who use their powers for positive progress. I am Rick Barodil.
Speaker 4:And I'm Asia Nakia On the show today. We are going to touch base on Paws for Progress and our furry friends Miss Daisy, mr Wiggles and Bowie, and talk about our upcoming adoption event right here in the Los Angeles area. This.
Speaker 3:Sunday Hell yeah, all right, all right, and more on the JZP duty allegations.
Speaker 4:And then we're going to catch up with our Gen Z correspondent with a new edition of Make this Ish, make Sense.
Speaker 1:Make this ish make sense, Asher.
Speaker 3:And do we have a new vigilante on our hands, Luigi Mangione?
Speaker 4:And then we're going to switch back to some serious positivity with the one and only Blue Nile. Yes, I mean, she is an amazing multidimensional artist who is inspiring people all over the world to really be able to get through anything with her healing.
Speaker 3:Then a little later, two scams and a slap. One of the two of us today learns in real time, along with you, the listener, which one is a true slap in the face of reality.
Speaker 4:But first we are going to talk about Paws for Progress. But first we are going to talk about Paws for Progress, we have Miss Rachel Daisy, still unidentified name for this poor girl. It's just because, you know, nothing has really stuck with my soul just yet. She's such a soulful dog, she is a soulful dog. I need a little more time, you know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I love how we've, since the election, we've kind of pivoted to starting the show with a dose of fresh air. Yeah, and your little girl is, and all the dogs that you've been working on lately, especially like Mr Wiggles, is pretty insane With a name like that, though, come on, who doesn't want to adopt Mr Wiggles? Everybody needs to adopt.
Speaker 4:I mean everybody loves Mr Wiggles, everybody needs to adopt. I mean everybody loves.
Speaker 3:Mr Wiggles, yeah, but how are things? Because we actually have Daisy, sasha, rachel sitting next to you today and in all my years in Los Angeles, in all my years at going and anything even related to the pound here or the kennel kind of situation, I've never seen a tougher, happier dog in my entire life. Like she's bionic. Right now she's got like metal, like transformers, walking around the office going pew, pew. But please tell the listeners come on, give us the update, pause for progress, tell us how it's going.
Speaker 4:I mean, you know we've been talking about her surgery, you know the last two episodes, I think, and she finally got into her very, very specific specialized orthopedic surgery. She got both legs fixed which we thought maybe we were going to have to amputate. She is a bionic toy poodle now for sure. She's definitely not making through any tsa yeah security systems but nor kanye west.
Speaker 4:But no, yeah, that part yeah, uh, but she's, you know, like you said. I mean she's just so happy and so brave. I mean I can't even imagine the amount of pain and uncomfortability of having metal plates and rods going through your legs and she is just still sitting here, smiling, tail wagging, tail wagging, looking for lovins and just she's just a breath of fresh air and I mean I would have spent $5,000 70 more times to get this little girl her legs.
Speaker 4:So we've got, you know, a long road ahead. She's got a lot of time in cage rest, which is going to be tough. She's a one-year-old puppy. She does not want to be doing that, and then we're going to try some therapy physical therapy, some water therapy but she's on her way. She's on her way to recovery.
Speaker 3:I know you Is this dog yours now? Are you looking to try and you're just fostering her?
Speaker 4:No, as much as I love her, and she will be another soul dog that I will probably cry hysterically over on the day she leaves me but, you know, I, I want her to be the center of attention in someone's life. She, she deserves that. Yeah. So you know I will give her up, even though it will be another tough one. Um, her and mr wiggles, really they, they have my soul right now for sure?
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's for sure. And how about Bowie?
Speaker 4:Bowie's doing good. He actually just had another ortho consult. They think they might be able to save his arm. So we need another $5,000 for Bowie.
Speaker 3:No, is it really Is?
Speaker 4:that what a limb is? No, it actually. Literally that's the standard price of a limb, if I go on the black market. His surgery is $4,980 to be exact. So you know the search goes on to find another ortho and see what we can do for Mr Bowie, but Mr Wiggles did have his surgery yesterday. He is doing amazingly well. So Mr Wiggles is going to definitely be looking for his home sooner than I thought.
Speaker 3:All right, all right. Well, keep tuned to Slap to Power, we'll have everything kind of.
Speaker 4:All the updates are there and through Compassion, Kind yeah. Oh, and if anybody wants to come meet our adoptables, I won't even bother with the address here, but we're going to put it in our links in all the show notes, Please, anybody that wants to come out. You know we're going to start doing more adoption events in the LA area, so come say hi.
Speaker 3:And is there an adoption event coming up this Sunday?
Speaker 4:There is an adoption event this Sunday. We'll put all the details and we will have, I mean, seven of our babies up for adoption. Hey, yeah.
Speaker 3:So get your furry friends, you know, because they are the best, they kind of save us all.
Speaker 4:They do.
Speaker 3:And how's this? For a segue, Jay-Z says lawsuit accusing him of raping a child at an awards after party is part of an extortion ploy. A woman who previously sued Sean Diddy Combs alleging she was raped at an awards show after party in 2000 when she was 13, amended the lawsuit Sunday to include a new allegation that Jay-Z was also at the party and participated in the essay. The 24-time Grammy Award winning rapper and a man whose book I do have by my bed full disclosure producer and music mogul called the allegations idiotic and heinous in nature in a statement released by Rock Nation, one of his companies.
Speaker 4:Yeah, until the verdict is out. Yeah, yeah, who knows? But I mean, we all knew this diddy. I'm not even going to call it a scandal, it just is what it is. Yeah, we knew this was going to have, you know, repercussions, and new names were going to be coming out, left and right.
Speaker 3:I really hope this is not the case, but I was joking, but it is really the kind of the root of the conversation, I think, which is separating the art from this sort of modern day litigious society we are in, and also it's not to deny any of the you know allegations.
Speaker 4:We have these ethical dilemmas that are coming up left and right in so many different areas. But for the listener or the person that's following this artist, you know how do you navigate listening. You know an artist that you've listened to for 30 years, but they're not matching up and aligning with your ethics. How do you move forward? Do you shut off every song when you hear it? What is the way to advocate for these women that are being affected? Not buying their music, you know, but then also we're surrounded by it. I mean, I feel like now it's like how many you know? Like we said in the in the top of the show, it's like these are artists I listened to since I was in high school.
Speaker 3:Again, I don't know who I listen to anymore school again listen to anymore.
Speaker 3:Everyone needs to, you know, be careful when we're talking about it, because I kind of said this about the Kevin Spacey thing. It got, you know, it got all I got awful, but he was acquitted and didn't get his career back at all. Right, you know, and I think you know he even I saw there was a, he was on Piers Morgan and he even I saw that he was on Piers Morgan and he was basically saying he was losing his house, his family house and everything like that. I believe it. I mean, I hate to say it, but the Pete Hegseth stuff, right, it's odd, it's horrible, it feels very sort of Kavanaugh-esque in how they're just covering up a guy's You're, you know, when his mom writes a letter saying how despicable you are and then goes on Fox, on Fox only Right, and says, oh well, the New York Times, it's.
Speaker 3:It's just fascinating to me that we've somehow also moved the argument now that journalists can't do their job, right, and so to me, you know, I, when you call to verify a story, it's not, you know, and somebody says it's not extortion or it's not. I don't even know what the word she used, but I'll find it and it's going to piss me off, but the point being is that I don't know how that became a thing like that. They were missed, that the press is somehow extortionist or not trustworthy, or all they're doing is asking you to either verify or push back against your own words, and I don't understand how that happens. So I you know. The point being is just, we got to be diligent about the stories and what is going on. The new york times is allowed to do journalism, don't you know? And if you're, you're trying to walk back your own words or something and accusing them just because they said confirm this or we're going to run with the story that we have or deny it. Confirm or deny that, that's journalism. So, anyway, I feel like moving forward.
Speaker 3:Whether it's Jay-Z or the Diddy stuff, you know the Diddy stuff. That's why he's locked up and in jail. But until proven guilty, blueprint's still on my playlist. Man, blueprint's still there, hov, hov. So, and our resident Gen Z correspondent, mr Asher Freidberg, through the magic of TV and podcasting, we're going to make him. For those of you at home, we do a poof noise here in the office and Asher appears in the three spot at the table. So are you ready, asia? We're going to go one, two, three and we're going to go poof.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Speaker 3:Okay, one, two, three poof, that's your fried word.
Speaker 5:I was in the bathroom.
Speaker 4:You're always doing something.
Speaker 3:See, we have a portal here at the studio, so you didn't know that. Now you know Now.
Speaker 4:I know. Did you wash your hands at least before we start? I didn't get to start. Did you wash your hands at least before we start? I didn't get to start. Oh man, what is it?
Speaker 3:Since you will never tell us what we're going to talk about, what is?
Speaker 4:it. What ish do we need to make sense out of? Tell us.
Speaker 5:So today I'm going to talk to you guys about Chitan. Do you guys know who Chitan is?
Speaker 3:No, oh my God, is that you talking about the?
Speaker 5:mascot. I had a feeling you were going John Oliver, very well-known Japanese mascot. So I don't know if you're aware, I know Rick is In Japan mascots are a lot bigger than they are here. Each city will have their own mascot. They're usually really cute, they're usually really fun, harmless, you know, just give them good vibes. And then there's Chiton. I'm going to show you guys just a little clip.
Speaker 3:Yes, all right, you can get some cheaton. Yes, what. Oh my God, Okay, okay, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, che god, oh my god, oh my god. Cheaton on stilts.
Speaker 5:Suspense is killing me. Does he make it so that's Cheaton.
Speaker 5:Okay, and make it make sense, yeah, so he's been on for a little while, or she, I actually forget. This actually leads me right into my point. So Cheaton is non-binary. Okay, and right now Cheaton is currently going was going viral on Twitter X whatever you want to call it because it was advocating its support for the transgender community. You know it was mostly just doing pictures with like flags and just using the right colors. You know flags and just using the right colors. You know Cheaton is not typically a magical sea otter of words, but this time it was.
Speaker 5:So what happened was it got a tweet. It got a tweet saying in terms of advertising, this is a colossal failure. Not only is the trans issue volatile here in America, but it's not even recognized worldwide, being outright banned in many countries. Ironically, you pan into a very low percentage in terms of views. This was very and Chetan responded to this. Chetan said Thank you so much for your concern. I appreciate your feelings For Chiton. It is more important that transgender people can live happily as themselves than add ratings To Chiton. Transgender people are like family. Thank you so much for your concern. I appreciate your feelings, love you. Wow, this is Chiton. Chiton for the win. Gotta love Chiton. Yes, oh, my gosh Dope, awesome. Yeah, I wanted to share a little bit of what's going on with Chitan right now just being outright much more of an advocate and ally of the transgender community and, is, you know, being part of it right now, essentially, you know, being non-binary, yeah. Yeah, I think it's just really interesting to get these kinds of advocates, especially from countries where there are less advocates.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, I mean, I was going to say where's Chitan from?
Speaker 5:So Chitan is from the city, is I'm going to probably pronounce it wrong? I believe it's Suzuki. Okay, in what country this is in Japan. In Japan okay and funny enough. Chitan is not the legitimate mascot. Chitan's a rogue mascot. You mean there's multiple Chitans, sort of like Santa Claus. Not like that, no, because there's only one Santa Claus. That's true, there is one Santa Claus. I'm Jewish and I know that.
Speaker 4:No, but yeah, Chiton is just. No one's told him yet, he's still too young. Yeah, yeah, too young.
Speaker 5:I guess he'll tell me when I'm 40.
Speaker 3:Yeah, maybe.
Speaker 5:But no, so Chiton is Not that there's multiple Chitons. From what I understand there could be, but that's not what I know.
Speaker 4:What I signed in or anything by the government, while other ones have actual ones, that are official. You know, chitan is rogue and she got you copy.
Speaker 5:Yeah, chitan, so this is just a person that made their own costume to wear and makes videos. I mean, they have a full you know team behind chitan. You know, it's just they're not government sanctioned like many other mascots. Okay, and I believe at one point um the city, um itself made a comment saying like we don't associate with Cheaton.
Speaker 4:Well, I think, for Japan. I think it's great that they have an ally like Cheaton. I don't know anything about this mascot world other than the fact that I went to high school where our mascot was a sponger, which made it on the David Letterman show. A sponger yes, what's a sponger? We don't have time for this, okay, but that's the only mascot that I can like. You know, that's my relatability to this conversation.
Speaker 3:Cheaton had a run on John Oliver yes, going back and forth, and all I know is that that's killer Asher, but I love it. I appreciate that. Yeah, Thank you for making that make sense. And you know, shout out to Cheaton.
Speaker 5:Cheaton.
Speaker 3:Cheaton. We're big supporters here at Slap the Power, so shout out to Cheaton Good on you. And when we come back from the break, the one and only Blue Nile is going to be in here in studio for the interview, so stick around.
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Speaker 3:All right joining us in studio today for the interview. She is a multidimensional artist, a hip-hop activist, a sound healer, a Reiki master, a spiritual wellness coach. Author. Activator Company's called Rooted in Her Power. Please welcome to Slap the Power, luna, let's go Ancestors in the building. Thank you so much for coming in. It's great to be in your presence. For those people that do not know you, please set yourself up.
Speaker 1:Well, you said a lot. Well then, you've got to go around to each of the boxes and say why that's deserved.
Speaker 4:For sure, and I'll ask if you don't come around to that For sure.
Speaker 1:So I'm a human being, a divine light. First of all, I'm a light worker. I bring light to the darkness of this world, whether it's music, tv and film, rapping, singing, dancing, writing, all that stuff. But as a little child I have a clear cognizance and a knowing of the higher sources of the elements. And as soon as I moved here from New York I was on a big shaman path with Lakota tribe, navajo tribe and all my teachers. So I am a shamanic Reiki master. So the energetics, and on a journey of healing myself. I was signed at 16. I came from Boston, moved to New York, so I've had a.
Speaker 1:The book that I published is called Trauma Thriver, and so I've been on a journey of healing generational, intergenerational trauma within my life and helping others do that. I work in recovery. It's a multidimensional for a reason because it's infinite. I channel divine energy, whether writing or helping people turn on their light and to turn up their chi reiki. Rei is a Japanese word. It literally means higher power, higher power.
Speaker 1:So yeah, however, the sources want to do it, whether I book a movie, a TV show, holla, you know, or if I'm working at a treatment center and helping someone save their life from mental illness and dysterbia and all of those things where we just need to learn how to breathe. These somatic therapies that I've gotten certified in to save my life and to heal for me never really did. I think I would be like helping others I knew musically. Yes, I'm an activist. Hip-hop activist like always been about the origination of hip-hop was to be an activist and to truly inspire. And you know, as an African-American, queer, gay woman, you know I mean Jamaican, it's like we got. We've had work to do in the civil rights and equality, so human rights is just my life.
Speaker 3:For me, energy became about everything. I didn't realize it until I met my girl, and when you meet someone that is like, like, for lack of a better way to put it right.
Speaker 3:And then, even if we can't help ourselves sometimes, one of the first things I realized was oh, wow, you're just emitting all this amazing godly light and yet, when you turn it on yourself, you don't have that. And I was like, wow, I want to make sure that you see this. I'm going to devote my life to making sure that you see this. But in it and this is why you inspired me to think of this in it and this is why you inspired me to to think of this is that it's through helping others that it helped me. Yes, get out of my own way, right, you know? So how was your journey? Like you said, you started off early in the business. We're both in the same business. Um, how did you? At what point did you kind of have your sort of aha or, you know, lowest, kind of moment?
Speaker 1:The womb. Yeah, god bless my mom. You know I was born into, you know, survive the projects, and she as a Greek woman, italian woman, love black men and unfortunately she had really bad taste in men and so I was activated as a survivor of stuff from childhood and she was also a singer and I was also in dance school at three. So I was writing and singing and had my cassette tape on to get me through when I was at my mother's house. But luckily I had my mother's side of the family up until I was like 16, who just my yaya, my papu and my nana who allowed me to have that unconditional. But I was a survivor of a lot, so music was my escape and I wrote and I performed and then I got signed at 16 and that allowed me to open up for lots of people and perform in front of that's.
Speaker 1:When I realized I was an energy conduit and I was like, wow, there's a, there's something here and I was transmuting, my awakening happened, I mean in a near-death experience. I'm also in recovery. I'm seven and a half years free of drugs and alcohol, 10 years on that journey, cause I never went to treatment. It was really hard Cause I walked in like I have to end this. So I, my ancestors, told me, in order for the healing to stick, you got to give up the alcohol.
Speaker 1:And then to do that was like, really do I, you know? So I had to really negotiate and be like why it's not as bad as this person, but it's the inside bottom. It could be successful and money, but if you have thoughts of really not wanting to, be on the planet.
Speaker 3:That might be an issue. You know what I mean. Yeah, I know, sure.
Speaker 1:So it was a multiple. That near-death experience kind of woke me up because I saw the other side and I moved to New York from Boston and tried to do it. You know what I mean. But not until I came. My teachers were all in spirit realm. Like Michael Beckwith, I started watching the Secret 20 years ago which was an awakening, and what the Bleak Do we Know? Which was quantum physics, and that just woke up my scientific and electromagnetic auric field type Joe Dispenza, and then now Michael Beckwith's, my teacher in real life.
Speaker 3:Hey, yeah, what's wild, that's what's up. Yeah, I'm saying yeah so it's honestly.
Speaker 1:When I moved here from from new york 15 years ago, as soon as I stepped on this land was my awakening, yeah, same for me yeah same for me there's something about like energetically.
Speaker 3:There's just I've been fortunate to travel the world, all you know, multiple times, kind of go all over, and there's two places that, no matter when I get on the soil, it's, it does something different to my, to myself, and it's los angeles and it's and it's kind of almost anywhere in spain for some reason. But yeah, I just there's something about a kind of an energetic shift for me, whereas I I you know no disrespect, although I've done pretty much a lot of disrespect to tampa both tampa and florida before, no disrespect.
Speaker 3:Now to tampa or florida, but I I can't, I can't. You know that there's just they call it woo out here on everybody. No, we're in touch with our energy, come on, it's exactly. You know, I got friends like my friends they need, they'll go out and they'll go hit like joshua tree. Right, you know, go get right, my friends they need, they'll go out and they'll go hit like joshua tree. Right, you're gonna go get right with you, get right with your energy, and everybody's like, oh, but no, it really works. You were really, yeah, vortex for real, for real.
Speaker 3:Um, what do you think is you were talking about your sobriety and and it's interesting to me because I I don't out here, we have what's called like californ, california sober, and you don't have to talk about any of this if you don't want to, but yeah, but like my relationship with weed changed completely when I did stop drinking for more than a year and they say that you're you're like your liver kind of like regrows and fixes itself and and you have to really almost get it out of you for like a long, you know a long period of time. But I never considered weed uh. I mean it was always in a drug category but like with recently, finally it got moved from a schedule one to, yeah, I think it's schedule three or whatever, but it's all the money to make it, all I know they better, but that's how they move things down is the more money they make, then the less of a class they make, then the less of a class.
Speaker 4:You know that's the less of a class.
Speaker 3:They make a lot of money off of heroin. They just call it, you know, Oxycontin.
Speaker 4:Yeah, they just do it the pharmaceutical route yeah.
Speaker 3:No, no, no, Sure, yeah, it's a different packaging. Yeah, you got to be able to know how to market that stuff. Gotta get the right.
Speaker 4:Gotta get the right distributed I mean the emergency room is yes their favorite place yeah, yeah and then we wonder why we have people on the streets with drug addictions.
Speaker 3:Yeah, what's your kind of take on? I mean, on that, do you like, because to me that's it's plant medicine. Right is what they got here, but I don't.
Speaker 1:I don't put that in a drug category yeah, so for me it's all about the intention, and for me, and did you abuse it? Because I for forever.
Speaker 2:I was like but I'm.
Speaker 1:my grandfather was born in Jamaica. I'm Jamaican but like I smoke like Snoop. I have smoked with Snoop I smoke too much and then I'm like it's just an escapism, I can never smoke weed again. I can microdose. I can microdose Like I microdose mushrooms and plant medicine. Because it's different, because again 15 years ago, when I started on the plant medicine journey, I took five years off of everything Because my guide, my mentor, was like you need to get, because it takes seven years for the bodies really, truly to regenerate the organs.
Speaker 1:Every year our cells regenerate, but the organs take seven years. So, like me and my ridiculous nerd studies, I'm like'm like okay, I really want to transform and change my brain and after five years, I healed so much trauma and I went in so deep because this is my passion and I'm client number one to be the proof to be like look how far and what you can do.
Speaker 1:Yes, it's blood, sweat and tears. So for me I can't smoke, and even the weed like it's about feelings and if you're really a true addict and like you have that isms and it's not what alcoholism and addiction is not what people think it is. Like you, I sat in 12 steps meetings and I learned what it is and it's the, the psychic change. Like I have a spiritual hole, which is so true because I'm a seeker, I'm a universal priestess because, I seek all the master teachers and study.
Speaker 1:It's got to be something in that physical allergy when, like, one is too much and a thousand is never enough and I had that experience, but with the party powder, that was the worst one, like I don't drink because I drink and I used to drink and I used to break out on cocaine. So I was like I don't want to do that. Drugs killed. My father took my mother Like God, bless her she's alive, but still so. Bless her she's alive, but still so.
Speaker 1:So it's like I just got wise and I was like, okay, this is not for me, it's individualistic. I say everybody you have to know thyself, number one, and find the language of your heart, because people will tell you what to do, but only you know. Look, it worked for you. I can't and I don't even want to test it. I will microdose some um, two and a half milligrams of this instead of an antidepressant, because I went through some stuff and I was like I'm going to do this instead of an antidepressant. Because I went through some stuff and I was like I'm going to do this instead of that Right and it's very helpful.
Speaker 3:That's yeah, that that's my, that's my. Where I landed on it is like I was like, oh wow, this is way better than pharmaceuticals.
Speaker 4:Yes, you know I think you know anything that can come from the earth, but you can always abuse anything.
Speaker 4:I think what you were saying about you know, know it being intentional if you're utilizing mushrooms to get to a certain level, clear your head, you know, find a path. Whatever it is that you're seeking, then I think that's different than you know abusing anything too much. I think everything is in moderation, you know. But if you're using it for healing, I'm the same. I can't smoke, but I have a different reaction to smoking. I don't know. If it's because it's supposed to relax you, then my body goes. No Asia, nothing will relax you.
Speaker 2:You will be on all the time. It does the opposite. It does the opposite I turn into a hypochondriac?
Speaker 4:I don't like myself, I'm like you know wigging out, so I cannot like it does no relaxation for me whatsoever. Maybe at some point I wish that it had.
Speaker 1:I thought maybe that would be a good, a good source but no, I love it and the reverence, like, please honor these. Like I talked to it and I talked to the plant and especially with mushrooms and psilocybin, which is billions of years old, the oldest organism right.
Speaker 4:Mycelium is just ridiculous, so respect and like people like but, I had a bad trip.
Speaker 1:I'm like well, did you pray for it? Did you honor it? They're like no, why would I do that? I'm like that's why they're going to teach you a lesson. They're more brilliant than you Hashtag science.
Speaker 4:They're the most connected being on the planet. I mean hands down, literally, literally.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:They are connected everywhere. I'm very curious about it, but I always find it interesting that, like when we say tripping, or when you're going on these experiences, we're always like everyone always wants to be in nature and everyone wants to go back to nature. Or you have some experience in the forest and I love that about it, but it's like at the root of it, we're just all trying to get back to nature. I keep saying that over and over again, but mushrooms is one of the things that I'm looking at now, because it's so interesting to me that that's the first place people go. It's nature and reconnection and I'm like, yes, that's what I've been saying everyone you need to reconnect, you know.
Speaker 3:Now, do you do mushrooms? I don't. I have once.
Speaker 4:I've microdosed once yeah, and I mean it was at my best friend's wedding and we were in North Carolina on an indigenous land that was respected. You don't have to sell me. No, I'm not selling you.
Speaker 4:I want to tell you how beautiful the experience was Okay please, and why I said yes to it. All right, so we're on this like indigenous land like 30 minutes of the wedding. So we're on this like indigenous land like 30 minutes of the wedding. There was like 10 minutes of my best friend and her husband and then the rest of it was acknowledging the forest.
Speaker 4:And it was the most beautiful, like ceremony I mean. And then the trees were like I mean, there was no wind and the trees just started talking and everyone was just oh, it was like you could hear the people. It was beautiful. So after that everybody was microdosing and I was like, all right, asia, this is your time. You're in the forest, you're with good people, you're with your best friend it's her wedding, aubrey. You know what I'm talking about. I was like, yeah, this sounds great and it was. It was great. I was fine. I haven't done it since then. I didn't feel like it gave me anything, you know, like I don't know, maybe I didn't take enough yeah, right, I didn't, but but next time.
Speaker 4:Yeah, but I think there was like a lot of stimulation too right it's a wedding and I was also in charge of like everything so, but I didn't have a bad experience, so I'm up for it again. I just want to do more research. I want to know. I want to set the intention the next time. But yes, I'm very intrigued by mushrooms at the moment. I love that. How about you?
Speaker 3:oh, I mean you're like every day. I'm a rock and roller man. What do you want from me?
Speaker 4:tell us how often you microdose.
Speaker 3:No like a lot. So you're just dosing no well, kind of like you know it's so funny. Um, because it is intention and it is and it is, everybody's got to kind of find their thing right. And our manager shout out doc mcgee, love the man. And uh, he managed some of the biggest, most the most over the top bands in the world and they used to call it full contact management because he managed Motley Crue at the heyday.
Speaker 3:Like you would have to, they would handcuff the guys to the bed and they would still sneak out. They would figure a way to sneak out. Like there's one story where he's got a part of the bed handcuffed. Tommy Lee they're in Orlando, I think, is where it was he's got a part of the bed handcuffed to his hand. They were on the third floor and they had somebody on the front making sure that he doesn't come out. So they took the piece of the bed because they wanted to go to a strip club. Of course, yeah, that's how it always ends. But I mean, brie, shout out to Brie, I was like Brie where's Brie Talking?
Speaker 1:about strip clubs.
Speaker 3:Respect on the Florida strip clubs. You got to put respect where it's due. You know Tampa.
Speaker 4:Yeah, exactly, dale Mabry, we have probably the best strip club, oh 100%, 100% Shout out Venus 2001.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, it's legit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they wrote Girls, girls, girls. Shout out to the homeland. They wrote Girls, girls, girls about that. So it's legit. So back to Doc. One of his things is anything worth doing is worth overdoing. That's his motto and I kind of I'm built for that in a lot of ways. So I like to know where the edge is and then kind of go back.
Speaker 2:That sounds dangerous to me, I know for me, and then I have fun inside it.
Speaker 3:I have fun inside it. No, don't get me wrong, I don't know. I don't even know why. There's a part of me that, like I know how lucky I am to be alive on so many different occasions. I heard, I hear you, I have had my conversations with the creator and I think that's one of the reasons why I tattooed it on my hand is because I, you know, basically the three principal tenets for me is love, light and self-discipline, but in three different languages. That where I, the three different kind of cultures that sort of changed my, my life. You know, kind of marrying into an Indian family and the Bhagavad Gita and everything was a, is a whole different way to think about spirituality for me. Yeah, and I got to really dive into that over the pandemic, and and and but, uh, you know, uh, all of the, the, the journeys, whether it be um, lsd or or or for me.
Speaker 3:I did my college paper on LSD because that's why you and I kind of say I was like I want to know about this and I was like the Beatles they changed their whole sound after this. I was like I want to know what changes somebody's sound. So I did my paper on it and it changed my life and it was one of the coolest things that ever happened. But my intention was definitely set going into it and, uh, I think I've seen situations where, um, people handle all kinds of things amazingly that other people's can't handle with certain types of things, myself included, and some of that you kind of also sort of can take for granted, and that's why giving people their space and letting people come to their own, you know, their own sort of design on self be true, yeah, period, church, yeah, and the light.
Speaker 3:You know, for me, everything started to become about light, like you talked about, like you realize that, about your purpose, your journey, you know, is to be a mirror, a reflector of the light right or an emitter of light right.
Speaker 1:The journey of that being a light worker versus being a light slave, being african and indigenous, and I'm having the. We were talking about releasing those old dogmas of scarcity and, you know, my enslaved ancestors versus and my mother, who was a street worker and a drug dealer and all this stuff and having that stuff was like that's not mine, that's not mine how I so letting go as a woman, as like all the others in this ism system that is broken.
Speaker 2:How do?
Speaker 1:I confront and allow myself to choose my own. It is breaking yourself free to be a light worker and knowing how to protect my light and shine it and radiate it radiate it radiate it.
Speaker 4:We're told to not shine our light most of the time, like we're supposed to be in the back. We're supposed to. You know, you can go down down the list, especially if you're queer, especially if you're black and brown, especially if you're a woman. I mean you've just got everything, yeah, all all the back row seats available to you. You know, yeah, so you really have to work to get through all of that to shine some light up at the front.
Speaker 1:I mean that's, it's a big that's why plant medicine, mother earth is here to help us like done properly.
Speaker 4:She sure is appropriated appropriately, please yeah and and I think she heals us in in all the ways I think we, you know, we focus a lot on things like mushrooms because it's the most studied right and and it's out there and we're still learning so much. We still don't even know about all of the mycelium that you know exist. But even things like I'm interested about you know how standing by the ocean for 20 minutes affects your blood circulation and bring stress levels down and cortisol. I mean the things your body does when you're next to waves and water, which is why I know I can never be away from water more than 30 minutes Might be my next you know, like there's just a different.
Speaker 3:And Southern California. Let's be honest. Let's be honest Come on. It's a whole different thing. Yeah, you know cause it's that sweet spot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it sure is.
Speaker 3:Yeah, one of the best parts about being out here is I never, I never feel like anybody's being squashed in a way where it feels like other places that are trying to make more of a homogenous sort of culture and things like that, or gentrify places and stuff like. Like, when you look up in the hills there there's a hundred different housing styles. Go run around Lake Hollywood, you know you'll go from a. You know, because it's not a subdivision with all the sameness, right, because it's not a subdivision with all the sameness, right, it's everybody kind of getting to express themselves with their place because, why not, it's your place, express yourself.
Speaker 3:So you see some of the most intricate and complicated architecture you know, up around here and everything like that. And that's kind of a reason why I love California, because we have the muscle of two of the biggest ports on planet Earth, which is just, you know, let's be real, since the muscle of two of the biggest ports on planet earth, which is just, you know, let's, let's be real, since since the dawn of man, the ports kind of control everything. You know so much. But then you combine that with uh, I, I do think you know being out here and the being with the water around us and everything it does create a kind of free spirit that I always say it's. It's. It's delusional, but it's.
Speaker 1:Everybody's coming with a dream and it's just if they let their dream get squashed or if they find their way to their dream but everybody has a little bit of a different, because, as a person of color, I kind of beg to differ, because there's still so I don't want to say no, it's not, it's gentrifying, but it's so segregated still Like when I go, like I'm Los Angeles, or Los Angeles.
Speaker 1:Like, just like my experience of looking for another black person. You know what I mean. Like I have to. It's rare. Well, I'm always the only one in the room Shout out to my mentor, Laura Robbins, who wrote you know, Like, and it's so. We all have different experiences. So I love there's so much black history there, but that's what I'm looking for to feed my soul you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:I need that like Octavia's Bookshelf, the first black woman bookstore, where Octavia Spencer I don't know who, y'all know the author, but just she was her father's. She was a slave and just learning of like the redlining, and that was a sundown town. You know what means. Like my ancestors had to be in the house before the sundown or I might get killed. So like that energy is here too. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:So I'm like it is, but I focus in the light and I try to experience that, but my blood and my bones, the ancestral trauma, is just like hey, what's up?
Speaker 4:No for sure. And I mean you know, but just in working in Compton and Skid Row, the things I've seen, I mean it's devastating, but to your point too, about like crushed dreams, like it's like I feel the crushed dreams in those moments too, like, especially on Skid Row and especially in Compton, and you can see the segregation still, and you can see the poverty and and, and I think this place is magical for so many reasons because you feel like you can do anything, like we were talking about this, we've talked about this, like you feel this power when you're here, that everything is attainable.
Speaker 3:Yes, your luck can change on a on a dime by the, by the most random of encounters.
Speaker 3:But I think it's. And let me ask you, your luck can change on a dime by the most random of encounters. But I think it's. And let me ask you this is I think it's having kind of loved Los Angeles since I was born, even admiring it from afar and the riots and seeing what the transformation that did, whether it was the Rodney King riots or whether it was the Watts riots before that. Or you think about a situation that we've been lucky not to necessarily have, but it's just like a natural disaster with the wrong leaders in place or a natural disaster with no leaders in place. What does that do to civilization? Kind of like writ large right, there's eight million people here. That's kind of like spread out. I think it's a class issue, it's a socio class issue because I started uh, started this show with Maya Sykes. I don't know if you're familiar with Maya Sykes. Yeah, I love Maya Sykes, my girl. She sang with our band. I love Maya, she's fam.
Speaker 3:Obviously, her perspective was always one of those things where it was interesting. Because I wanted, I loved the combination of being able to have conversations with her experience growing up in Compton and in South Central. Because I wanted. I loved the combination of being able to have conversations with her, her, her experience, you know, growing up in Compton and in in South central and growing up in Long Beach and and, but then really having a sort of all politics is local perspective. You know to to where it sounds trite, but she comes from a place of being the change you want, right, and you know, okay, to see which, which kind of means there's also I've learned this from from my girl too there's also. If I start telling myself a message, then that is true, right, and so if I want it to change.
Speaker 3:She said something to me early on. She was like why are you advocating for a, for an event or an outcome that you don't want to be true? And so if I catch myself doing that, that's where I'm like. I do appreciate, like the argument of of the, that we, there's a systemic failure that's going on all over, that's continuing to go on. There's original sin that's baked into this. There are all kinds of forces that are in there, but that said, period, period, policing, policing that said, what is the way to band together? Because we are there is a larger block of people that think the way we do than there are, you know, than there are the nefarious types.
Speaker 1:Well, I think it's this and us coming together with our, our truths, right. And sharing and giving the diversity, like we were just talking about this last night. Democracy is crushing as far as it's gone in January, and so how do we create democracy If everybody doesn't have a voice and then they're really not speaking? For I can speak for the black. I'm not on Skid Row, I'm not homeless, but how do we?
Speaker 1:get that and do the grassroots and give them a voice and kind of uplift them, because what you're saying is energy work and me changing my perspective, which also I don't like to gaslight myself and spiritually bypass the truth and the facts because I am an activist and. I'm here to tell the truth, and we were just talking about this. Let go of the scarcity, the scarcity of slavery mentality. And no, I belong here, right, but like I have to do so much inner work, more than the cis person that doesn't have absolutely indigenous blood or african blood.
Speaker 3:You know what I mean yeah, no absolutely it's your point almost come when we were talking about we.
Speaker 3:We had the opportunity we've never talked about this on on on the show, but we had the opportunity to, um, you know, get involved in the kamala harris campaign and right away it was we knew or like okay, I don't know if the country still isn't over misogyny enough to do it.
Speaker 3:And then is, you know, brock obama kind of kind of changed the paradigm on some things. So, and you know, and it was, it was interesting thing. But I do think um being, you know, brock obama kind of kind of changed the paradigm on some things. So, and you know, and it was, it was interesting thing. But I do think um being you know black cis, you know female is is one of those things where it's it is such a a shit deal out the gate that it's uh, I, it does need to be talked about it, like what is baked into the system on a percentage point, a percentage basis. Now, when we're looking back at it, we'll say was that because he only Trump only won? By now, we found out, like one point four percent, which is not a lot. It's two hundred seventy three thousand votes in three different states.
Speaker 1:Her silence lost it.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I wish she would have spoke up in some way, but again, capitalism rules probably had some people, investors. But if she would have just said something about Gaza, congo, palestine, like something.
Speaker 4:Give us a flag. I voted for her. No, it would have helped. And again, we don't always know the reasoning behind things. We don't know what threats, we don't know what she was dealing with, but yeah, I mean that was definitely on my mind we all needed an answer.
Speaker 1:I was going back and forth. I didn't want to because of that.
Speaker 3:That was my argument, so your other option would have been to not vote Apathy, and I can't do apathy, so I was like I ain't doing apathy.
Speaker 1:My ancestors are banging on me, you know. Like Shirley Chisholm, Like you know what I mean, Like I got a vote for a self and empathy because I really, truly know nothing about politics and I'm not a politician and never want to be, or maybe I should be, who knows. Right.
Speaker 3:That could actually turn a bug into a feature.
Speaker 1:Facts In a heartbeat. Like you said, anything can happen.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I was like should I apply for the LA shelter role or should I just stay in my lane outside and try to change it over there? But you know, you don't know. But politics is always a really a really hard one, but it was sad to me to see how many people could not vote for her. Yeah, based on one thing, yeah, which is that she was a female, I think Other things, yes, but the misogyny came out in such a way that it really hit.
Speaker 3:It's depressing because I don't see that we don't create that in our world. Right, and that's kind of one of the reasons why there was a time in Los Angeles where it was bad for the first 10 years because I had a bunch of friends around that were negative. And it's called commiseration for a reason, right, because misery loves company, right. And then I moved to Nashville for a brief stint and I rejected it like a bad heart transplant because I didn't have any water and, let's be honest, it's a red state and but shout out to Nashville, I love me, some Nashville peeps, but Nashville is blue-ish to Nashville.
Speaker 4:I love me some Nashville peeps.
Speaker 3:Even though it's the music capital now, right, nashville's blue-ish and I love it. I got mad peeps there that I'm mad respecting and stuff. But coming back I got to approach all a white, a clean slate of okay. Well now, who am I hanging out with? What am I letting in on my chi? What am I letting in on my spirit? And then I realized, my god, I was letting that in. Previously I was like, oh, that's what was pulling from me and I was like no. And now it's like you. When I feel that energy from anywhere, it's like no, this ain't no, we gotta nope, we're getting rid of this. You know, I feel like we kind of have to band together because there's a lot more of us that that think the same. I think there's there's generations of you said you, you just said it, give us a flag right.
Speaker 3:If she would have done, you know, you'd call her Negro Exactly which she did a little bit, but not enough, not enough not enough.
Speaker 1:She did I mean at least it wasn't publicized.
Speaker 6:I didn't catch it. I was looking for it, I know.
Speaker 3:And I want to say the crip walk on tiktok wasn't enough, you know no no, no, that's just culture, that's that's pop culture, yeah, no, no, I'm kidding. I don't know. I don't think she did.
Speaker 1:It would have been an AI but like what you were saying about being a black woman, I had to say because first of all, I was telling her black women, we were the first shamans in Africa. Black women, we are the gifts to this earth and world with the appropriation of everything.
Speaker 1:So, like us, what? What you're saying? It's a shit order. Like I refuse that, I rebuke that. It's actually the greatest initiation of my life, because I have to step up, I have to find my voice, I have to speak up and yet I have to learn how to rest and not take it. And like we tie it, we tie it. You have to teach yourself every other culture, like I got the fire to teach it and spread it authentically.
Speaker 1:But like I can tire myself out because you're right, it's a lot being a black woman.
Speaker 3:It's almost like how, once you have like gerrymandered districts, they explain it like you have to win by three points just to win, just to win by a percentage, and that's what it is. And I think just the I'm my mom's Cuban, I kind of only that was really the only relatives I knew growing up. So the only experience I sort of understood was the immigrant experience and coming over on the boat lifts and stuff was how I met my relatives and in a way that it was just like, oh cool, I got new, new relatives. You're a young kid, you don't realize it, but and I hope you don't what I was meaning by a bad situation is also something that I've learned just now.
Speaker 3:Not just now, but I'm saying at this point in my life where and praise to Ty Taylor, because every as if you're constantly in art mode, if you're constantly in creating, in a creating uh state, there are no bad things right there, there, and there are no, there are. There is no bad, it's only what we create, which, so we can create good out of everything. And I was saying this the other day and it's hard to talk about because I don't want to get canceled or anything like, but all my, all my heroes. I didn't even realize that all my heroes were, I didn't even realize it. All my heroes were Motown and Stax and James Brown and Parliament Funkadelic. And then I found, you know, prince and Stevie Wonder, and so I was like that was my sort of I don't know that unlocked me and my kind of gifts or whatever.
Speaker 1:I feel your reverence and your allyship and your empathy. It's just that, you know, as a black woman, I'm like, let's let us know it's not a shit, it is yes, and I appreciate the recognition.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't mean. I mean it's like what did you say that again?
Speaker 1:I said and we are goddesses, goddammit. No, that's why.
Speaker 3:I mean like, and it's 100% fascinated by it because, on one level, like if I, I have been afforded luxuries just because of where you classify visually right, and that is a prism by which I am now. I love looking at everything else through before which I previously woke up. Yeah, fuck, fuck off. Woke is okay. I'm waking the fuck up, right.
Speaker 2:You know, and I'm waking up.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and you know it turns out like getting rid of history doesn't mean that history didn't happen right, and so acknowledging it is more is the only thing I meant by saying.
Speaker 3:You know you're coming out the gate where everybody else has already been out and they're running the race, absolutely, you know everybody else has already been out and they're running, they're running the race, you know, but but you're the, you are the original goddesses. So I, that's why I, that's why I love it. I'm, I am honored every day to be around Asia. Maya Bree, I'm just, you know, it's kind of one of those things where a long time ago I don't know what it was, it was probably like I don't know, seven years, eight years ago, I was, was like women just need to take over please can you take over?
Speaker 3:can you take over, please? Like for the most part, men just fuck so much shit up, but we we as a society.
Speaker 4:I mean so much shit up, we suppress things we don't understand right? Yeah, suppress what we don't understand and we suppress things that make us feel insecure, and I think that a lot of feminine energy makes so many men insecure.
Speaker 4:And that's across the board. You know, and it's with other beings too we don't appreciate what we don't understand. Yeah, but how do you get people to understand? How do you get people to see you? How do you get people to see an elephant? You know how do you. How do you get people to see you? How do you get people to see an elephant? You know how do you? How do you get there? And I think it's through finding the commonalities, working through the traumas and figuring out a way forward where you can do the least amount of harm to those around you. I mean, and that's that's my chi, that's how I try to move forward in my life, if I can go through a day without impacting someone, which is very hard to do. I mean, the things we buy, the things we eat, um, everything we do has an impact. But I think just really like directing that energy towards not doing harm.
Speaker 4:I mean, that's just my way forward sanskrit you know like that that's where I'm sitting right now and it kind of like brings me. I guess my thought train was I wanted to come back to post-elections and how people are grappling or how are we going to go? You said it January 20th. How do we move?
Speaker 3:forward. January 20th shock is going to be the. That is the point, you know, chaos and in your face.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's gonna be so in our faces and unapologetic and so rude yeah, really like disrespect, like that come on that's no, it's inside, it's a feature well, probably what. Who wants to bet we'll have um some blackouts that day? I mean anybody it's. It's fortunate, lots of things are going to sadly erupt.
Speaker 1:It's just the for me. I held a frequency of peace that day, like literally in meditation and like Vedic, like in silence and like really like activating, radiating peaceful light. But three days after I was hit. You're talking the 5th November, 5th, yes yes, and three days after I was was just like I got hit with it like, and not for the simple fact because I knew he was gonna win.
Speaker 1:Actually, yeah, not for that, because we're going through a dark night of the soul. That has to happen. The old has to collapse. The divine feminine is rising. Lessons are learning, learning less. It's it's. It's a part of our evolution. That's been written by the greatest minds and prophesizers in the world. It's's happening. We can't fight it, but like it's the people. So how are we going to deal with going to the grocery store, driving these people who, with the road, rage this woman?
Speaker 1:was driving a thing middle finger. I was just praying and sending her love. I have deep mindfulness practices. I am a shaman, I'm on a shamanic path and deep reverence to the indigenous people who came before for me and my elders. We have to come up and heal ourselves and hold that tuning fork piece of free, like frequency of peace, because it is going to explode. But I got so sad and grief and depression for like a few days because of me having to deal. You know what I know I have to deal with in our world the hate that's going to be risen and then cause. We have to stop moralizing everything. Everything is not good and bad, it's all yes and but that takes an open mind.
Speaker 4:And even for you, knowing that we're going through these trenches, because it's part of the process and because, but, as a human being with a heart and some compassion, you're thinking to yourself well, along this journey, how many people get hurt, how many people get stuck in a crossfire? How many police do that, like? How many riots incite violence on this group of people? So it's, it's really hard to figure out how to move through that when you know all of these people and animals and the earth are going to be impacted by it. So so it's so, I guess. How do we move forward? You know what? What is the way forward? How do we build community? How do we find like-minded individuals? I think this is like the biggest time for grassroots yes, that we've had in at least a hundred. I mean, this is big right now, like we have to get at the ground.
Speaker 4:And for me, I think, because I've been working in areas where no one cares, you know, not, no one cares, everyone cares, the community cares, but the government may not care, the US may not care, but you know, I've been working in vulnerable communities that are, you know, facing hunger and no electricity and no power, and they've been living in isolation and guess what? We've been able to move mountains in those areas. So I had to shift my focus. I was going through the same thing. You know, it was like first day was a shock, and then I just felt heavy for the like following days. But then I just I flipped my script and I was like no Asia like you've been doing this work this whole time. You've been working with vulnerable populations, you've been working with indigenous tribes. We've been doing this. We just have to keep going and we have to keep adding more people to our army of peace.
Speaker 1:We're doing it our inner work too. We have to help each other sustain ourselves while we connect each other to do this deep work. That is an energetic shift at the community level, Like us sitting together, allowing us okay, now moving forward concerts, events, workshops, like activating people to care, Like, because how can you care about healing your country if you don't care about healing yourself?
Speaker 3:There's a period of seven weeks or whatever, but I know our work's going to be cut out for us yes and what? Inspires you now. What are you looking forward to? As far as what do you have coming up kind of big project, wise.
Speaker 1:I put a new single out, Seven Day Candle and my podcast, Revolutionary Anecdotes and creating more activist. Like workshops, and I have a workshop called I Receive and learning how to receive and give permission where we do with of permission, where we do with. I'm a sound healer and sound bowls, but we do shadow work and teaching people how to do shadow work and I'm just kind of inspired through entertainment or through poetry and activism and activating people, Cause I have that gift and God's given me that gift, so I have to use it and I mean, like you, I performed in front of thousands. I'm like, wow, I can't wait to do this and activate, like Joe Dispenza does in rooms full of thousands and wake people up and activate them to learn how to empower themselves. Like turn on people's light. Like I, like Martin Luther, like I shine the light on the darkness and I'm inspired to do that in whichever way. Spirit makes it known for me in the less harm for everybody and especially myself because, like I said, I deserve rest and a vacation.
Speaker 3:Yes, you do so yeah, pushing limits, learning you know, acting you know like pushing limits continuing to train and continuing to invite and be open minded and open mind and talk to some and even not cancel people who voted for Trump and actually talk to them. I understand we have to call on my ancestors who sat with Open mind. Yeah, yeah, I got it. I got it. Okay, cool, I got to exercise that muscle the more we close it off the more we close it off, the less the conversation is happening.
Speaker 4:We have to be open, we have to create those spaces. It has to be uncomfortable or there's no forward motion.
Speaker 1:Yeah, everyone just stays over here and everyone just stays over here. I'm by the Black Panther Party, where my ancestors sat in front with the KKK. They sat and they made treaties. They made agreements, so if they did it, I can do it Exactly.
Speaker 2:Who the hell do I think I am.
Speaker 1:Humble myself and put the full armor of God's spirit creator on and not the half armor that's what's up? Okay, so therefore, I have to make sure my cup is full. So I want to help activists and thought leaders and people fill their cup up and learn energy tools and leaders and in the communities that are burnt out because we're just giving, giving, giving, giving giving, but you're you're, you're on the lead of death Like no, we need you, so let's, let's learn how to take care of self-care, not just beauty self-care you know like emotional, mental, spiritual self-care.
Speaker 4:Yeah, because we need them and we need them for the long run. Yes, yeah, well, before we go, how can people find you? What's all the links, your website.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So Blue Nile is B-L-U-N-Y-L-E world and that is building, loving, uniting new you, limitless empowerment, activists, always belonging, liberating. Yeah, blue Nile world I have rooted in power. Healing is my shamanic reiki master. I'm a somatic coach and therapist yoga, breath work all things under wellness that I teach in recovery coach as well. So find me on the gram at blue now world, at rooted in power healing. Revolutionary anecdotes is incredible podcast. We talk about breaking generational curses and it was birth when george floyd was brutally killed.
Speaker 2:Four years ago, but what we're going?
Speaker 1:through now in a different way, with so relaunching that and y'all are inspiring me and just continuing to communicate and, just like you know, build community.
Speaker 3:You know I, I mean the, the impetus for uh, for me, originally, starting the show was to um, it did not feel like artists alone. I saw people not speaking out early on and I was like I think how long it took like even Taylor Swift or something like that, you know to speak out and you like bringing the people who it's Sonics, love, action, progress. Because it's basically, if you're making noise like that, just making noise, let's get, let's get on board, let's, let's put, let's put our love together with some action and we will progress. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can't tell you how much of a pleasure it is. Let's. I want to do this again. I want to keep in touch with what you're doing and please, yeah, please, for sure, having me Respect and respect both of you Much love, thank you.
Speaker 6:Join me Sasha Petersa, on Women in the New Season 2, where we bear it all except for our bodies. Leave that to your imagination. My wish for women is that we strip away the fear of judgment and really embrace the full spectrum of who we are.
Speaker 6:I don't know if you were coming to terms with being pregnant on the show. Yeah, I think she was a little depressed. Let's live boldly and openly and change the narratives that define us. I called my doctor. I'm like I want to drive my car through a brick wall. We deserve it and there's no better time than now. Let's get out of our comfort zone and get down to the bottom of who we are.
Speaker 4:All right, that was whoa I mean. I don't even know, I don't have the words. I feel a higher energy just being around Blue Nile she buzzes when she walks in.
Speaker 3:She's buzzing and I love I think. I just thought about something kind of right now as we're talking, like I don't know you're gonna get that kind of conversation anywhere else right now, from the perspective of the people at this table and with her. So, uh, yeah, like props on her. She's bold and and I love that. You know I love conversation like and she's just like radiating light yeah, you just see it bouncing off the walls.
Speaker 4:So I'm so I feel so like just blessed that we were able to have her here hell yeah, hell yeah all right, moving on to, uh, another for us positive story. Um, is that too much?
Speaker 3:yeah, no, it's great, that's great. I'm like everyone's saying it yeah, yeah, so everybody's.
Speaker 4:Well, we might as well chop it up um so so York prosecutors have charged Luigi Mangione with the murder in the assassination of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's right the 26-year-old Ivy League graduate from Maryland. He's also charged with two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, one count of second-degree possession of a forged document and one count of third-degree criminal possession of a firearm.
Speaker 4:Online court documents show these parasites had it coming is one line from the document. That read, according to a police official who had seen it. Another reads I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done.
Speaker 3:He's referring to UnitedHealthcare, describing United as one of the largest companies by market capitalization in the United States.
Speaker 3:According to law sort of the shorthand for how they deny claims, and I saw the graph today that united was and by far the largest denier of health care claims in the whole gang of kind of relatively awful health care companies that we have, um, and in the in the united states at least, and it's, you know, permission to speak freely, your Honor, you know.
Speaker 3:I mean it feels like like, obviously, you know, sort of vigilante is not something that at the core, we, we can't devolve to that. But it's really hard when the president of the United States says fuck the rule of law, what are we looking at, what are we coming up, you know, like, what are we, what are we dealing with? Up, you know like, what are we, what are we dealing with? Yet people kind of have to take things into their own hands. If we are, if we are letting our this happen, okay and not pushing back against this stuff, to me that is a type of pushback. And uh, it's just sort of natural when you do this to human beings and energy writ large, you push that kind of energy, it is going to push back at you, so well, and I can imagine you know the.
Speaker 4:The I mean this is, you know, emotion against all of the human beings that have probably lost their lives, not probably that have lost their lives, definitely yeah due to their insurance being denied for one, you know reason, or I mean. It is a scam from every angle. I mean all of it. So I see where he's coming from. Now, is murdering someone the right way to go? No, but it brings about a conversation about change.
Speaker 2:And you would hope.
Speaker 4:But for me, the issue that I have with it is we can't just go out, you know, killing all the bad guys and then replacing them with more bad guys. We have to change from within. So I don't know what the way moving forward is for this. I'm not mad at the guy either. I mean we have to do something about it.
Speaker 3:So props to him.
Speaker 4:But also murdering everyone isn't going to be the way forward, because now they're just going to move up somebody from the other ass-backwards board committee that was having a meeting while this was taking place.
Speaker 3:I don't know, did you see this, brie? Yeah, yeah, I mean, it was cold-blooded. He was shot at like 8 in the morning and they were still having their board meeting by 9. They were like no, you ain't stopping this train, man, the green train runs on time every day.
Speaker 4:It's illegal running mafia is what it is. But you know, for my Italian family, you know mafia does a lot of good, so I don't even know that I should call them mafia.
Speaker 3:This is the conversation that needs to be had the separation between the haves and the have-nots. You can't. The foundational point of health insurance can't be to find out where we can deny, to increase shareholders' bottom line. That's not how health care works. That's not how it's supposed to work. Listen to Bernie Sanders. He pipes it every day. It's like he's saying he's telling you how it should be and so other countries do this. Right, you know it's not, it's not, it's not a fucking mystery. Right, there are other countries and other places that do. They do this a lot right? So hopefully, uh, this, there's a wake up that kind of happens here.
Speaker 4:We've got a ton of exemplars to go after.
Speaker 3:I mean.
Speaker 4:European countries have been doing this right for quite some time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, amen.
Speaker 4:All right. Well, we've got one more super fun thing to do, one of our favorite segments two scams and a slap. That's right. I am reading today you are going to have to pick, All right.
Speaker 3:I haven't gotten this right yet, and we switch off every show. We switch off every yeah, I think Asia's 3-0 and I am 0-3. I'm sucking ass at this.
Speaker 4:Let's do it, though you know what you might get this one today.
Speaker 3:Okay, you might I have faith in you.
Speaker 4:Okay, all right, first one Woman claims to have invented a mood ring for plants, saying it helps her garden thrive emotionally, okay.
Speaker 3:All right, got it, that's one Okay.
Speaker 4:Number two, los Angeles artist creates a series of paintings using only expired condiments, sparking debates on art and food.
Speaker 3:I love that. Go LA. And then okay, and what's three?
Speaker 4:All right. Then there is my co-host, slash, superhero slash, amazing entrepreneur, slash, rock star um rick, who had a birthday and we just want to know what's true. That did I have a?
Speaker 3:birthday. I, I get this one right, I had a birthday. Yes, yes.
Speaker 4:So we just we got to call it out on the show. We just want to say happy birthday. Aw For those listening. Yes, Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, happy birthday.
Speaker 3:I just love listening to it.
Speaker 4:We should not be singing Happy birthday, happy birthday, I just love listening to it. We should not be singing Happy birthday to you Aw, for those listening.
Speaker 3:There's a carrot or there's a candle inside a carrot, and to signify that there is next to it an actual, real carrot cake.
Speaker 4:Yes.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we know, I do like to eat healthy. You like to eat?
Speaker 4:healthy, and we know that. You know we wanted a balance here. All right, so I'm going to eat healthy.
Speaker 3:You like to eat healthy, and we know that we wanted a balance here. All right, so I'm going to make a wish. Yep, okay, got it. This is yet another test, well, and also, do you go carrot or cake?
Speaker 4:Oh yes, it is Sure?
Speaker 3:It's a test?
Speaker 4:Yeah, okay, yeah, come on guys, all right, and you know what they say about making wishes on carrots. What's that? You just reminded me of what's up, doc. I'll leave that to the viewers.
Speaker 3:I'm sorry to be eating in your guys' ears. No, no.
Speaker 4:We need the ASMR from the chewing of the carrots Chewing in your ear.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Nom nom. Thank you guys for the carrots. It was your ear. Yeah, Nom nom. Thank you guys for the carrots. It was really sweet yeah.
Speaker 4:Oh, definitely.
Speaker 3:Being in Los Angeles is, and we just went to the water and then just drove on the coast and that's the most coolest thing about LA is like you want something cool to just get in the car, drive west, and it was amazing. So I love it that we got to enjoy our city and I look forward to doing good stuff in our city next year and we're certainly happy that you were born.
Speaker 4:Thank you, and we're glad you're here. That's very sweet.
Speaker 3:Thank you. Thank you, I love it. Okay, that will do it for our show Birthday and all. Thank you, guys. We're going to keep you posted on everything. Before we head out, make sure to like, comment, share, subscribe. It's an agreement. It's a simple agreement. We put this show on for you guys and so please subscribe, help out anywhere you can and make sure to for compassion kind.
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