Latest / Coconut Justice / CJP #11: Bernard Taylor ( FL-21 )
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- speaker-0: Hey, what's good everybody? ⁓ we are gonna do a round table on this video. So ⁓ C4 explosives is here. speaker-1: Who's cracking? speaker-0: And we wanted to bring in from the from Florida's twenty-first district, the one and only Bernard Taylor. speaker-2: Hello everyone. Hello, welcome back. Welcome back. Nice to see you guys again. speaker-0: So Bernard, I have to ad I have to ⁓ I have to tell you something. ⁓ I bought one of your t shirts. Mm-hmm. And I was gonna do this whole grand reveal. I was gonna do an unboxing, all kinds of super dramatic stuff. I just got back about half hour ago from Tahoe and your shirt is packed in my luggage. And so So you're gonna speaker-2: Yeah. speaker-0: Gonna have to you're gonna have to come back so I can give you all the dramatics and the unboxing of the speaker-2: All right, that's a bet. That's a bet. That's a that's a guaranteed nether appearance now. There we go. speaker-0: So Mrs. Taylor, I said thank you for making that t shirt for me, mailing it out. speaker-2: Yes, yes. speaker-0: Cause when we talk about grassroots, you guys, like Bernard is exactly that. We're supposed to have Russell too. He might be joining us in a little bit, but ⁓ when we talk grassroots, we're talking people like Bernard Taylor that are up against it. And I wanted to kind of get a feeling from you as to you're running as a Democrat, but you are also still bumping into some obstacles. Can you like share with us some of the things that are happening? speaker-2: Well, obviously again, you know, I wasn't picked by the establishment. You know, nobody anointed me to say this guy's gonna be the one that runs under the party. So you're not really gonna you know, I tell people all the time, don't expect me to have that ⁓ that statewide party support or that nationwide party support. not only for the simple fact that I wasn't picked, but also because we are in a primary season, so there are other candidates that are trying to get this seat and according to the rules and and their laws that they can't really ⁓ endorse or get behind or support of any way, any one of the candidates until there is a nominee, which is unfortunate again here because in Florida, our primaries are two two and a half, three months before the general election. So you we can literally take this thing all the way up from April of next year when the following date is complete, when you have to have your fee or your petitions and put yourself on the ballot. It can go from April to August fighting amongst ourselves trying to get the nomination. And then you only have three months to try to ⁓ you know, build your case against the ⁓ the incumbent here in the district. So that's been challenging. Also, you know, fundraising at a grassroots level when you are literally just trying to do the small dollar donation, keeping your integrity and your character, not accepting any, you know, corporate interest groups, not accepting any foreign lobbyists, those types of deals. You know, you really depending on the working class to help support your campaign. And it's hard out here for everyone. So, you know, my last quarter we raised ⁓ We raised a little bit over $26,000 for the last quarter. ⁓ but again, as a grassroots candidate and you know, being in this arena in this field, you know, you tell someone that for people like us, that's like holy, you know, you that's half that's half a year's salary, you know, raised. Yeah. ⁓ when when you tell somebody in the political space and then, ⁓ that's cute. You know, that's that's cute. You really know I was like, that's cute. I was like, okay, we can Yeah, yeah, you know, and like you say, you know, you I look at the the people in my primary, you know. speaker-0: For dinner sometimes. speaker-2: ⁓ the U1 young lady, she came in with 400,000 and she raised another 380,000 on top of for this last quarter. So she's already raised about $780,000. We had another young man jump into the race ⁓ this month and he jumped into the race with $150,000. They're both experienced when it comes to being up in Washington. One, I think, is former ⁓ security advisor for Vice President Harris during her campaign. ⁓ the other young lady, ⁓ she spent a couple years up in White House in ⁓ Washington as a White House fellow. So she worked up there in politics as well. But they have the experience and things of that nature. And obviously they've had the connections to be able to raise that type of money from, you know, the sources that they raise them from. I'm not gonna speculate, but you all can go look up and see where money's coming from. I told you that the last ⁓ the last time I was on here. So yeah, that is it is speaker-0: it's safe to say it's it's safe to say that that that money is coming from people that want to see things go their way exact people and it's usually people that are used to having things go their way speaker-2: Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. So you can tell by where the money is going, who the establishments wants to pick for this race. But luckily for me, you know, I've been out here doing the work. I've been out here talking to people, having conversations, being in the community. People have seen my face for the last four or five months. They see me be active. They see me and heard my message. So the the the people that go to the ballot and put the votes in, I have them on my side. So speaker-0: And they've seen you pull in people from burning buildings. ⁓ Let's come on, son. speaker-2: ⁓ man, so for all the for all the financial ⁓ the financial you know gaps between me and my other ⁓ primary opponents, that's that's not even talking about the the general election where that guy got millions of dollars gonna be coming his way to keep his seat. ⁓ again, just being able to put that s sweat equity in and being able to connect with people and get the message across to all people, regardless of ⁓ background or democra or demographic. ⁓ Again, every time I'm able to get in the room and have conversations or people hear my message, I I walk away with their support. So the the goal is to make sure as many people see my message as possible. And that doesn't take a million dollars. You know what I'm saying? It does take money, but it doesn't take you raising, you know, millions and millions of dollars. It just takes enough of you being able to have ⁓ enough ⁓ money to be able to establish a team to be able to go to different areas because obviously you can't be everywhere in this district at once. But as long as you have people out there pushing your message, people out there ⁓ handing out your flyers and and continuing to spread who you are, ⁓ money helps that. Money helps to be able to get the message out. speaker-1: I haven't seen a whole lot of people out other like your your the people your opponents that speaker-2: Yeah. speaker-1: Like other than what you're talking about for them because otherwise I wouldn't have known them other than looking them up. You know what I'm saying? So you could you could tell there is a I really don't care because I have a war chest behind me versus like I gotta get out here and grind. There is a big difference. I don't see any anything from them out here. speaker-2: No, and that's the thing, like though the the one young lady, ⁓ it's like I'll be at an event and then you know they announce things that are going on and like, ⁓ this person gave, you know, five hundred dollars to the to the to the caucus or to the calls and or to the event or whatever. But it's like, all right, that's nice, but this guy's out here with us in his heat, sweating, helping, you know, helping volunteer, helping with what we're trying to do. You know, this guy just came out here. For the food pantry. Yeah, you gave a couple hundred dollars to the food pantry, but this guy came out here and actually ran the five K with his fellow constituents and was having conversations and doing these things. So and the people notice that. And I think we're at a time right now in the country where the people are like, you know what? This this we've we've been we've been so consumed with ⁓ that candidate's raised a lot of money, he must got a lot of support. We're just gonna vote for that person. I think a lot of people are waking up to the fact that that's no, that's that's not how this shit that's how it's supposed to go. Like I need to start looking into these things and start making sure I'm voting for the person that is actually out here trying to earn my vote and not trying to buy my vote. speaker-0: Yeah. And just to let everyone know, ⁓ Bernard is running in the twenty-first district, which is where C4 Explosives lives. So to put that in and to make that connection. So it's not like it's not like we're randomly talking to Bernard. It's like he's representing Mike and and it I think it's important. for folks to get to know their the people that are trying to represent them. Because it's through talking and seeing what's needed. Like you guys talk about ⁓ this river and the whatever Hakanatui River and the the southern So it's important, it's important for people to realize that like Bernard is literally in the community. He's literally he's literally doing these things. And if you're tired of career politicians who they might get the bag and then just kind of have a house in that district, like Bernard is literally saving people's lives. When I say he's pulling people out of burning buildings, Bernard is a superhero. speaker-2: Absolutely. speaker-0: He is a he's a EMT, he's a fire, he's a firefighter, he's that dude. And so, you know, his message resonates with me. I even though I live in California, I want my politicians to be more like Bernard. I want my politicians to be more like Andre Vasco. Again, I keep talking about him. He's an alderman in the north side of Chicago. And you know, all kinds of stuff is happening in Chicago as we But Andre is out there, he's got his phone and he's showing everybody, hey, this weekend we have a thing happening. There's a function happening here, and you know, come out and we're gonna have food and games and all the things. And yeah, I love seeing the people being in the community of which they represent. speaker-2: All kinds of stuff. Absolutely. Got to, man. Got to. Again, you can't you can't say you're working for the people if you don't know what the people need. You know what I'm saying? You can't say you're representing people if, you know, when you are a representative like my representative, you know, when you come out to events and people are trying to, you know, express their concerns to you and you know, you you calling them derogatory terms. And things of this nature and and you know, acting above it because you just think no matter what you say and do, you just got this thing in the bag. So you don't have to have any form of decorum and you can just talk to people any way you want. And that's that's that's what we're gonna show ⁓ man. That the the arrogance will be the downfall because people are starting to wake up and realize that we deserve better as a country. speaker-0: Yeah. And going back to what's happening in Chicago, they have full on there's ice raids happening, they have the the the like the literal military. Yeah. It's not it's not it's not the the regular military. speaker-2: Not even the Chicago National Guard, it's the Texas National Guard. speaker-0: Texas is the fight. So I don't know about you, but it seems ⁓ to me, it seems a little like you're trying to pick a fight. speaker-2: Trying to tell you. Well what's going on with speaker-1: Let's say what's cool is going on there is you have a strong mayor up there, you know, Brandon Johnson, who said who just signed an executive order saying they can't use any ⁓ public buildings for any of their operations for ICE. So he he's taking a stand and he's putting, you know, his That's kind of the round table that we're looking for and that in our leaders. And that's why we know we want to do these these round tables with people in different demographics and different areas so they can share ideas. What is working in your area so we can try to implement something over there? What's working over there that's gonna work over here? And just and just keep fighting them on all fronts possible because they're they're they're money, they're printing money and they could do they could try to do whatever they want, but when people are up there in front of their faces, they're They're starting to become hesitant because the people that are in power in places like Chicago and if we elect Bernard Taylor, you know, to to sit at the seat and sit at the table, we got guys like that that are gonna fight for us too. That's important. speaker-0: And that's one of the things people keep asking me. There's ⁓ you have a podcast, everybody has a podcast. Yeah, but I think I'm trying to do something a little bit different. To me, I think that democracy is the conversation, exactly what you just got done explaining is a conversation of like here's an idea. Let's I don't know, let's put it through the scientific process where This is what I'm thinking. Let's poke holes in it. Okay, cool. Now, how do we make it better? How do we make it better? But unfortunately, what we've been learning is that we can't necessarily trust the people that are being funded as freely as they are because now we're starting to see in real time that we're starting to see the game. And folks with money will. Do what it takes for them to continue to have the money and all be damned. speaker-2: Absolutely. One hundred percent. One hundred percent. Somebody asked me today, like, Am I ready to be called all types of, you know, anti-Semitic and all these different things? Because that's that's what's gonna happen, man. People gonna throw dirt, they're gonna throw stones, they're gonna make up stuff that you know is not true. But when you got enough money to put it out there and and say it enough times, you know, unfortunately, with our society, we hear things enough times we start to believe them. So I still I say, look, man, all I can do is get out here and be myself and try to do the best I can. I can't I can't control what others say and do and what they try to portray me as. But I knew I knew what I was signing up for. I knew what the potential was coming down ⁓ as far as like getting into this game and I know how dirty it can be. ⁓ and again, like I said, if I wasn't ready to get down there in the mud, I wouldn't have started this process, you know, all these meet supposed. So ⁓ speaker-0: And not for anything, but they're gonna call you those names anyway, whether or not you're speaker-2: Exactly, like like regardless. I call that stuff you get called that stuff regardless. It don't even matter. Exactly. speaker-0: They don't even have to see you. Like one of the one of the one of the thorns in my side lately is the Steven Miller guy. He gets on stage and he talks so much garbage. And it's someone who you can tell by his body that he doesn't he has never put in a hard day's work. speaker-2: Absolutely not, man. And he talked he talked like somebody who knows he got like a bunch of people standing behind him. He wouldn't dare talk like that if it was just him versus another person in the street, man. And that's what I don't like about this stuff, man. It's a lot of these people up here just be talking like I can tell y'all ain't never been like punched in in your mouth ever in your life. You just been literally just been out here just talking. It's it's cool. I can say what I want, won't nobody do nothing. I got all this power. Well, one day all that stuff's gonna be gone, man. This this whole power trip y'all all on. And and like I say, man, you you you're not even smart enough to do what you're trying to do. You're getting on CNN and and giving the game away, talking about some plenary authority and all these different things, man. It's like when I see stuff like that, that that again, that just makes me like, ⁓ yeah, that's right. Anytime I start to feel down, I see stuff like that, it's like, ⁓ yeah, that's right. We're these people are dumb. speaker-0: Yep. Yep. And it and it goes to show you like it maybe at one point in we'll just we'll limit it to the existence of the United States. Maybe at one point people with money were probably a little more educated because they had access to the books and all the things, all the knowledge, right? Now with nepotism, we're starting to learn that you can be an idiot and have money. Because if your parents gave you everything you have speaker-2: Yeah. You c you could be a D average student when you already got the money. When you ain't got the money, you can't be a D average student. You gotta be a student. Exactly. That's why you say a lot. That's why a lot of people always say, man, what's that one parable? You know, the ⁓ the the dad work the dad walked so the the kid can drive, the kid drove so the the child can fly. And when his child started flying, he forgot that he he forgot how to walk and he had to start the process all over again. Yeah and the first The further that stuff goes along and when you talk about nepotism, the further the money goes down into the family, into the generations, the you always hear, man, that people either go bankrupt or something tragic happens and and now you now you born, it's like, Well, all this money my family had, you're like, Hey, your mama messed it up, man. I know what to tell you. Your daddy was out here being stupid. Now you got to start all over. Now you got to start all over because they ain't know how to manage the money. Crazy. Yeah. speaker-0: And don't go thinking that ⁓ there's a little brave thing that he's got going on, Steven Miller specifically. Just because hey, just because you got stacks that make you feel like a giant. speaker-2: I don't know, man. I think AOC hit that thing on the head, man. He he operated like somebody who 410 and know they 410 and just mad. That's crazy, man. I can't believe that they made that man listen to that on live TV, play that clip of that lady calling him short, and he just had to sit there and take it. speaker-0: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Talking all that mess too. And then like like when he was doing the when he did that speech as the at the Charlie Kirk that we'll call it a funeral. When he was saying you don't build anything, you don't design anything, you don't da da da da da da, right? Come to find out, he kind of he took though those ideas off of ⁓ O'Boy's ⁓ propaganda, yep, minister of propaganda that was a literal Nazi. Yep, and then a Jewish dude. This is how bankrupt, this is how morally bankrupt he is. A Jewish guy was quoting Nazis and telling us that we don't make anything, we don't design anything. We don't. I'm sorry, sir. But with those soft ass hands and a body that looks like a bag full of potato mashed potatoes, I know for a fact that you haven't built a damn thing in your life. speaker-2: No, no, absolutely not, man. That's the then that's their game, man. They they they keep us going against each other. They keep the rhetoric flowing so that the people down here who are working with our hands who do help this country stay afloat and do the work to keep this country going, they keep us at each other instead of actually looking at these people like, wait a minute, who who are you? Like what are you what you talking about right now? Tom, what you don't know about a hard day hard days work? Like what do we got going on here? Like, and I I think there's I think a lot of people are starting to look up. We've been looking at Left and right for so long, I think a the majority of people starting to look up and be like, Hold up, something ain't right. Something ain't right. Yeah, yeah, this this is not right, man. I literally just I made a video today talking about how ⁓ you know the priorities of this country is just all ass backwards, man. Between the ICE budget going from forty billion dollars to 150 billion dollars. That hundred and ten billion dollars, I looked it up, I I did the research, that hundred and ten billion dollars that they found. speaker-0: This does not work for it. speaker-2: To do the ICE budget to increase, that same $110 billion could have funded paid maternity and paternity leave for every American. It could have paid for free breakfast and school lunch for every American. And it could have paid for free pre K for three and four year olds here in this country. Those three things, how would that affect your cost of living if you didn't have to pay for those things? How far do your dollars spread now if you don't have to pay for those things? So when they tell us, ⁓ we don't, we don't have the money to do all that stuff, yes, you do. You just don't prioritize it. I tell people on the campaign trails, like whenever they're telling me about these things, like, ⁓ how you gonna pay for that? The same way we pay for everything else, make it a part. speaker-0: Exactly. How this? Or how about this? How about we don't bomb a country for a little bit? speaker-2: Yeah, yeah, you know. You know, that that that that might be a great idea actually. speaker-0: Because if we ⁓ look it, we spend money to bomb a country and then we spend money to get them back up on their feet. But yet you're not gonna spend money to get us back up on our feet? No. The greatest nation this world has ever known. No. And we're creating more homelessness than we're solving. speaker-2: Yeah. And I think somebody, ⁓ Maxwell Frost was listening to him talk. He he said he made a great point. Every hundred dollars the rent goes up, homelessness goes up nine percent in this country. ⁓ Every hundred dollars your rent goes up, homelessness goes up nine percent in this country. That is that is a insane stat. Insane stat. So think about that. When you are when the rent goes up, if there is 10 people in your life, one of y'all will be homeless because the rents increase by $100. That is absolutely insane, man. And and again, you know, we ain't got money for that stuff, but don't worry, you know. You know, the Qatares got a air force base over in Idaho now, so everything's all good. Yeah, you ain't see that, Mike? Man. speaker-0: Isn't weird? I just found out about that today. speaker-2: Yeah, that came out today, man. Yeah, that that they go they gonna let them ⁓ had an air force base over there in Idaho to come over here and train and things of that nature. But you know America first. speaker-1: Trying to play back. speaker-2: Crazy. speaker-0: Wait, you speaker-2: ⁓ that no they they they over here they people over here. They gonna make sure speaker-0: That was part of the that plane was attacks. Yeah. ⁓ speaker-2: ⁓ yeah, he said, Hey, ⁓ you got a plane and we're building this golf course. ⁓ yeah, let's get these bases over here set up in your country. speaker-0: Let's remember, let's remember, even even in the first Trump term, he he got in trouble because he went to Ukraine and said, Yeah, we could hook you up, but speaker-2: Yep. Right. Mm-hmm. speaker-0: So what's the what's to what's to keep him from saying going to Qatar and saying, Yeah, we can hook you up, but I'm gonna need a golf course and I'm gonna need a jet. speaker-2: Show enough. speaker-0: Does it is it weird would by me saying that, does it does it sound like outside his behavior? No. No, that's who he is. And so make America great again by what? By giving Qatari an air force base? speaker-2: No. Yeah, very first. speaker-0: And this is my thing about ice. This is how I know all of these ice raids are bullshit. Because they said we're gonna sick ice on said city. Okay, cool. Good plan. Then what? Then what you gonna build a grocery store? Like are what are you defending? What are you doing? And let me tell you, and let me tell you, ⁓ where where where ice is hitting, they go downtown and they do what ain't nobody there's no illegals downtown, bro. There's no illegals downtown, there's none. They're in the neighborhoods, so you have to go into the neighborhoods. That's where it's gonna get dirty. That's where we're gonna find out. We're gonna find out if what we say about Chicago is true when they go into the neighborhoods, we're gonna find out. speaker-2: Let them leave them people alone, man. I hope, I hope, I hope it doesn't happen because that's just gonna give them an excuse to be like, you know what, martial law. And then we got a whole different problem. speaker-0: Right. But instead, instead of doing all of that, what you could have said is look, we have a ICE budget of however many ⁓ what was it, one and a half billion dollars? 150. What if what if, since Chicago is supposedly struggling as much as they do, what if we took ICE, gave them fifty billion, and then we took a hundred speaker-2: No, they're a hundred and fifty billion now. speaker-0: billion and went into the west side of Chicago and actually like built it up. Gave them instead of a hundred and fifty liquor stores, what do you give them speaker-2: Wait, stop. We don't do that in America. We don't invest in people. Stop that. What are you talking about? You you that's not We don't invest in people here in America. That that is crazy talk, don't what do you got going on, man? speaker-0: Yeah, we only have ⁓ Qataris. speaker-1: Acc according according to Trump, Portland doesn't even have grocery stores. speaker-2: Yeah, that's right. That's right. Yeah. No grocery stores in Portland. Yeah, yeah. ⁓ swear to God. These people, man. Whenever they do them little round tables with like all the cabinets just sitting there and talking and just faking having a just a circle jerk. I I just like this. I know I didn't pay as much attention in my twenties and growing up when I was younger to politics, but I don't ever remember this going on, man. Like I remember none of this stuff going on, man. speaker-0: Really long. You have to think about that stuff. Like when they're sitting at the round table and they're pleasing him. They're they're giving him verbal fellatio. Please. you have to think of it, you have to think of it like this. Trump's whole game is what people see, how he can leverage the media. That's it. That's all, nothing else. There's no substance, there's no nothing. Everything is about what you can see and what he can pitch you. So what he's doing is He gets all his little clowns to sit around the table. They all jerk him off. And then those clips he then sends to wherever the hell it is that he needs to go, whether it's Russia, whether it's Saudi Arabia, whatever, whether it's North Korea. And then he goes and he says, ⁓ look at, look at all my people love me. ⁓ look at I've done all those wonderful deeds. speaker-2: Or right? Yep. speaker-0: Yeah. Forgetting that literally everybody else got a camera. speaker-2: Absolutely. Everybody. Everybody. We can see bottoms. Yeah, and that's the thing. Like, we it ain't like you know, back in the day we had landlines, we can't see what's going on in other places. We yeah, like we got to, you know, you get you gotta charge, you know, twenty dollars to make a long distance phone call. Like, no, I can go on the app right now and search, hey, what are these people over in this country saying right now? And you'll have a bunch of videos of people just like clowning, clowning these people over here, man. And it's just like speaker-0: See you. Gotta do everything was written on paper. speaker-2: ⁓ gosh. It's not all of us. Anybody anytime I get a comment and from somebody from another country that asks, what's wrong? I say, look, it ain't all of us. ⁓ It is not all of us. I'm sorry that y'all are seeing the worst of us right now, but we would we're working on it. We working on it, man. speaker-0: And to my and to my brothers and sisters out there not in the United States, we're sorry that you are seeing what we're seeing. I get I get messages from overseas too. And I say, I apologize for you having to see what it is that is that we're going through, but we're seeing it for the first time too. Right. speaker-2: Mm-hmm. speaker-0: We're starting to turn on the lights now with social media and everybody's a reporter. We're turning on the lights and in all these dark rooms and we're starting to see, ⁓ you're doing that. Okay. Well, we gotta stop that and we gotta stop that and we gotta stop that. speaker-2: Yep. ⁓ okay. Mm-hmm. Yeah, all that sleight of hand is going out the window. Ain't no ain't no ain't no more magicians out here. We see everything. speaker-0: 'Cause back in the day, like Bernard probably wouldn't even be in this race. ⁓ no. speaker-2: Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Not with not without ⁓ the old ways of doing things. Like you said, you had to be anointed. You had to know somebody the newspaper. You gotta again go in all these groups who got all this power and all this stuff. Now, again, you can just build it up on your own, man, and get the support of the people and things of that nature. So ⁓ very fortunate. I think again, this has just been a perfect storm and the right time to try to do something like this. And we gotta we gotta make it happen, man. We we have to because we can't do this. We cannot do this for another two years after twenty twenty six. No. There there is no way. We we we barely holding on to get through this first year. So ⁓ luckily we'll have a bunch of elections next year to keep things ⁓ distracted. Hopefully they don't cause any more damage, even though I'm I don't have my hopes too high on that. But ⁓ yeah, we just gotta continue doing what we're doing, man. Out here bringing awareness every day and and out here in these streets trying to get people to see the light, man, and see that there are are people that want to do right and we just gotta find them. speaker-1: chop we chopped it up for a little bit and ⁓ a couple c about a month ago ⁓ you know we met up and then after we met I pull I as I was pulling out you were talking you were talking to some people that were sitting over there in Panera. Like what what what is it like just having like I'm sure you do that all the time because you just you just gotta you see an opportunity. What are those conversations like and and are is there what what type of resistance are you are you seeing from them? speaker-0: Yeah. speaker-2: Be perfectly honest with you, man. I have not had a negative interaction since I've started this thing in April. Everybody, when I when I'm having these conversations, like, ⁓ what's your run? I was running for Congress. Here, I say, Yeah, like who are you running against? I'm Bri ⁓ Brian Mass is our representative. It's always the same thing. I can't stand it. I hate it. It's always the same thing. And it's literally like, I'm not just talking about it, like certain areas. Like, no matter where I go in this district, even in Martin County, with Martin County is heavily Republican district. I'm just running into people is like, ⁓ like staunch, staunch, staunch Republicans they can't stand this dude, man. They cannot stand this dude to save his life. And when I'm having these conversations and we're having these these back and forth discussions and people are kind of j you know, kind of filling me out, seeing types of things that I wanna do, who I am as a person, what my values are, what my character is. I I can say with confidence that I have a ninety-six percent closure rate as far as like people saying, We're gonna vote for you or we support what you're doing. And that's again talking with people with all demographics. So that's why I'm so adamant about the more people that see my message and I can get the more people that can see who I am and see see my candidacy and my campaign, the the better it's gonna be when it comes time to make these decisions in the ballot box come next year. And that's what Again, that's what the finance does, man. The finance gets your name out there. ⁓ to run ads down here in this in area in in South Florida, any other area in Florida, I think it's like for 600 ads, it's about $250,000. But because we live in South Florida with all these rich folks and they think everybody got money, that same amount of ads here is five hundred thousand dollars. So even to just have those ads on the TV come next fall is almost half a million dollars. And that's that's the types of things that you that people know that have all this money that aren't in the community because they know when the time comes, they'll hit you guys with an ad blitz. And then that's when you'll start to be like, ⁓ this person's on TV quite a lot. That what's what's what they got going on? They they they must be the person I'm supposed to support because they're on TV all the time or I hear them on the radio and hear their name and things of that nature. And that's what happens. That's why you don't see a lot of people ⁓ in the streets like I am and in the community like I am, because they They still go on with these political consultants who are telling them, you know, just lay low, we're gonna raise money. And when the time comes, we just flitch these people with a bunch of ads and things of that nature. And you don't have to be out there and present yourself because on top of, you know, not wanting to, you know, consume your time with that, you don't want people out here to slip up and make a mistake by saying something they ain't supposed to be saying and things of that nature, because you know, a lot of people, they're very manicured as far as like being politicians and Americans are sick of that, man. We want authenticity. That's why when I get out here and I'm speaking and I talk on these platforms, people can tell, like, nah, that man just talking. Cause I I ain't ducking no questions and my answers is always like, I'm gonna give you a straight up answer. Whether you know we agree or we don't, I'm still gonna give you a straight up answer. And then we either gonna agree to disagree and keep it moving. Because that's the beautiful thing about not having to be attached to none of these ⁓ organizations and these big political action committees and things of that nature. You have to be careful what you say as to not offend your donors. And when you don't have those ties, I ain't gotta be careful I say because my donors are the people. I'm not I don't have to worry about, you know, ⁓ you you said something, now we not writing you this big fat check and all this other stuff. Like, no, I'm gonna say what's on my mind. You gonna you can write you can donate or you you you don't. It ain't gonna make me no never mind. ⁓ speaker-0: And let me point this out to politicians that are currently politicians. Authenticity don't mean getting on TV and and saying bad words. Yeah. Yeah, like that's not authenticity. Yeah. speaker-2: We can tell that I I know people who curse and I know who people ain't who don't know how to curse. And I can always tell on TV people who ain't never used a cuss for a day in their life. Like that's that's not even where that F goes in that sentence, man. I'm like, stop that. Like we we know you, we know you don't know what you're doing. I'd have been cut I'd have been cussed out and I seen my mama cuss out many people. I'm a fluent speaker of getting cussed out, and I can tell when somebody don't know what they're doing. speaker-0: Who was it? Who was it? ⁓ was it mystical that said I'm a cuss word? speaker-2: There you go. That's right. 100%. 100%. Yeah. One hundred percent. And I knew it was gonna happen, man. That pager going off, bro. So I'm gonna have to get on out of here. Look like I'm getting a call, man. It's gonna have to cut this conversation short apart, man. Appreciate you, bro. Absolutely. speaker-0: Taking time to check in. We'll get you back on. speaker-1: Thank you, brother. speaker-2: ⁓ God. Somebody vehicle accident. Somebody done went into the turnpike. Got to get it. See you guys later, man. ⁓ man. Take it easy, folks. speaker-0: Take care, brother. All right, folks. So that was the talk with ⁓ Bernard Taylor. And we're gonna have him back on the channel just because he's always so giving. And if you follow him on social media, you're gonna see that he's incredibly active. He's always doing TikTok lives, he's always out there, like creating content and and giving you guys a really good idea of what. it would be like to have him as your representative. I didn't even ask him. I wanted to ask him, ⁓ wrote ⁓ like a yes or no. ⁓ release the Epstein files. speaker-2: Yeah. speaker-1: Yeah, I I already I I I got a good idea what he was saying. speaker-0: Anyway, yeah. So if you guys ⁓ want to please check out Bernard Taylor, we're gonna have all his ⁓ social media stuff as well as C4 Explosive. We're gonna have all their social media stuff in the description of this video. So please go ahead and ⁓ check them out. And if you can, if you can, this is grassroots efforts that we're seeing more and more because everyone is tired. speaker-2: Ha ha ha. speaker-0: We want our representatives to be from us, not someone who's paid enough to have a house here. Like ⁓ I think it was Russell that was talking about his the person that he's running against. Russell took a picture of his car and his car had California license plates. So how are you running for Congress in Montana? But you're one of your residents? possibly your primary residence because you have California plates on your car. That means I'm assuming that your primary residence might be in California. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know the deal. But I know that I know that if I'm voting for a representative, I need someone who's here in my area so they know, like I was telling earlier on in this conversation, how would anyone that doesn't Stay in district twenty one, know what's going on in district twenty one. You know, like speaker-1: If there's somewhere else. Same thing happened with speaker-2: Yeah. speaker-0: Yeah. speaker-1: You know, when he was trying to run, he's not even in Pennsylvania or whatever or wherever he's trying to run at. speaker-0: Yeah. Full of shit. No. So this grassroots push is happening and it's gaining steam. That's why we're seeing the no kings. But by the way, I'm gonna go to no kings here in San Francisco. We're gonna rouse some rabbles. And that's what it is. It's like people are tired of electing people that we are told to. vote for instead of like a Bernard, like a Russell. They're out there. They're grinding. They're literally going from place to place to have these open houses. Meanwhile, the established candidates, they don't. They don't have round tables. They don't have open houses. They don't do any of those things because they know they're going to say the wrong thing and the establishment isn't letting them say those things. Right. So we need to yeah and we need people like Bernard that are there active in the community. They know Bernard knows exactly what to ask for. Bernard because he's there. So all that to say, please check out Bernard if you can help him. ⁓ please do that. or ⁓ even people that are pushing ⁓ grassroots efforts in your area. Please think about if you can supporting them. And if you don't mind, send their contact information to us. Send them to us and we'll have a conversation with them too. And then that way, you know, grassroots efforts are the way to make meaningful change. And we're here to support those efforts. And with that, we're out. speaker-1: It is. Coconut chestnut.