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You Don't Have To Consume Their Narrative · Voices for Voices®

• 0:01
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Hey everyone, it's Justin here at Voices for Voices.
• 0:05
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Really want to give a big welcome to our new viewers, new listeners to Voices for Voices, and uh those returning viewers and listeners to our Voices for Voices podcast and TV show.
• 0:21
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you so much for joining us, whether you're watching, listening here in the United States or across the world, uh you are helping us make a big difference and helping uh creating a positive atmosphere uh so that individuals can feel inspired, they can feel empowered, uh and know that they have they have somebody on their side, even though we are more small.
• 0:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um we we do have a megaphone.
• 0:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's not a very big megaphone, but we do have a megaphone, um, which is our which is our voices for voices podcast and TV show, which you're tuning into.
• 1:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So welcome back if this is not your first show, and welcome to our brand new viewers and listeners.
• 1:19
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If you're new to the show, we have over 500, as you can tell with the number uh of this episode, over 540 episodes.
• 1:30
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• 1:33
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• 1:46
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• 1:58
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• 2:00
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• 2:02
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But what we also have is a merch shop, and you can find that in the description.
• 2:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You can find our uh two of our books, as you can see over my shoulder.
• 2:16
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• 2:18
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• 2:23
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• 2:29
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• 2:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um, excuse me.
• 2:36
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, and again, we're uh we're we're very thankful and grateful that you know you keep watching, you keep listening, and we have an audience that is I'll put our audience, our viewers, our listeners, I'll put you above any other any other show out there.
• 2:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: What I do want to do though is I want to thank the Dan Bongino show and the Joe Rogan experience for paving the way for podcasts such as the Voices for Voices podcasts.
• 3:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Because without their uh trailblazing, uh we we may not we not may not be here because we might not have uh thought about uh the having a show and what it all takes and and and all that.
• 3:33
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So again, I want to give big thanks to Joe Rogan and Dan Bongino for paving the way uh so that uh you know us independent uh individuals, organizations, uh, especially with us where we're nonprofit.
• 3:52
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So any donation you make, whether you're you purchase a book, whether you buy a piece of merchandise, uh a sticker, a shirt, a mug, uh a bag, uh you you name it.
• 4:09
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We we've got a well-rounded uh merch shop that not a lot of people know about, and now we're starting to uh publicize it and advertise on the show.
• 4:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So I wanted to talk about my hair real quick as we're kicking this one off uh from the housekeeping uh points that we we we share.
• 4:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so growing up, I didn't have I didn't have uh longer hair.
• 4:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And it might not my hair might not seem very long.
• 4:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I I don't depends, I guess, how you look at it and uh what what what are thoughts on like what's long.
• 4:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I mean, someone like me who has had you know the kind of buzz cut for most of my life, hair like this, I never in a million years when I was growing up was was thinking about growing my hair out, and you know, even if I did, uh was like, oh, like because I'm impatient, right?
• 5:18
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: A lot of us are impatient, and and and so it takes a little bit of time for that to happen.
• 5:26
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so, you know, after about four or five weeks is usually when I go get haircut, the barbershop, uh the best barber in the world, Fred the Barber.
• 5:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Shout out, he's retired, uh, Myers Lake, uh, barbershop, Canton, Ohio.
• 5:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh my dad went to him for I don't know, 40 plus years uh for his hair.
• 5:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh he he started taking me and and then I fell off for a while when I was at college and um and then I started back for quite a while and then and then he retired, which he is very uh he's in a good good good position too, because uh he's he realizes you know, like like life is uh life is short, like we don't have as much time, like it seems like we do.
• 6:37
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like, oh my gosh, what am I gonna do today, or what project am I gonna work on?
• 6:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um and and so I'm I'm happy for him to finally get the rest, relaxation, do things that I know he liked to play golf.
• 6:54
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Anyways, so my hair was like buzz cut majority of my life, and then I as I got older, like what I'd say within the past year, maybe year and a half, I mean, I'm just guessing, went to homemade two to specifics.
• 7:14
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um but I decided I was like, I'm gonna try growing it out and see what happens.
• 7:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh and I have a little bit better patience now, a lot of it's because I've been practicing, you know, my uh grounding and my uh you know, coping mechanisms and all those things that take that type of stress uh away.
• 7:45
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And then I have it, and then it like it the hair as it starts to grow out, it like starts to itch.
• 7:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so at least for me, so that's just how my scalp is, my skin is uh very oily, and anyways, too much information, but uh so I've I've been growing it out, and it's it's just been interesting uh talking to different people, uh and and some of the the people uh that for example we went to a funeral.
• 8:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I went to a funeral with with my with my mom that I talked about in an earlier episode and how that impacted me and and all that.
• 8:36
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um and so it was the sister of uh uh of the deceased uh who saw my hair, and so my hair is pretty tame, I guess.
• 8:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, but it was like a little bit wild that day.
• 8:56
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like, I mean, it was I don't know.
• 9:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I thought I I I liked it, but I again I'm I kind of tried different things like that and see how it looks, and and uh so it was really it was it was a wild hair day, let's call it that.
• 9:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um, and and so the the sister of the deceased said, I'm so glad like you you grew your hair out, or you could see a little bit little curl um in it, and uh you know, you know, you know, don't do that buzz cut again.
• 9:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I mean it was let's say like small tall, right?
• 9:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You're at a funeral, it's a very somber uh reflective time.
• 9:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And and and when when she said it, and a couple others have have said, uh, and I I don't know, I did I just I'm just worried about all the gray hair that's coming, that's well that's already here.
• 9:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um and so then I got that decision, right?
• 9:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like how long how long do I keep it growing, and then at what point do I color it?
• 10:05
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Because I am 44, I'm not getting younger, uh, and and so I'm gonna maybe need to do that, or maybe I'll just let it go and just let it let let nature do its course with the hair.
• 10:22
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And uh so why do I bring that up on this mental health podcast?
• 10:28
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And that especially for our newcomers, it's because I tried something new.
• 10:37
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Now, the easy thing for me, and for the person that cuts my hair now, which is it which is random, just depends on when I go, and I don't know the people personally.
• 10:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh but a buzz cut is just the easy it's an easy thing to do compared to like styling and you know layering and all these terms that I had no idea existed.
• 11:11
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um still having still having trouble trying to figure all that out, but uh it's all good.
• 11:18
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah, if you hear some growling, that's that's our that's our dog.
• 11:22
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: She's uh up and add on this this morning.
• 11:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh so I tried something new, and I'm growing out my hair, and I just want to use that analogy of sometimes you can try something new.
• 11:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so for the newcomers to voices for voices, and our voices for voices, podcasts, TV show, uh all the all the books we have, all the um all the things that uh may or may not be in the works.
• 12:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You're trying something new.
• 12:14
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You've been doing something, you've been part of a group, maybe for some reason.
• 12:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I mean, who am I, right?
• 12:27
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm not here to judge.
• 12:28
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm just here to say you're trying something new, and I tried something new with my hair, and we we can try things that are new, we can look at things in a different light, a different perspective of give you another example.
• 12:47
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We lost our remote, so you know that's that it's it's not it's not an emergency.
• 12:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um, but and it feels like it in a little bit because just so used to having the remote.
• 13:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So we have a remote for one on TV, and now we can't find the other one, and not sure where it went, but it went somewhere.
• 13:17
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, so we're not sure uh where where it's at.
• 13:20
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so when I talk about perspective, so you know, the you know, looking around, right?
• 13:26
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You're looking in for, you know, you're lifting up cushions of furniture and looking under and around and just places that it it shall not be for.
• 13:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Well, I'm in kind of I guess the third location.
• 13:45
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, so I'd call it the third perspective of I have a different view now where I'm at than when I was at when when I when when yesterday uh we came about.
• 14:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh and so it changes the perspective because depending on which way, which direction the the furniture um faces, you get a different perspective, like you see a different angle.
• 14:20
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh and and so uh that's one of the reasons why I you can't tell with the with the virtual background and not with the show.
• 14:29
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um and so that's another thing.
• 14:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's like let's try something new.
• 14:37
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Let's instead of sit or being in a certain position in a certain piece of furniture or wherever, I don't know, and move it around, and maybe the remote will come into my view viewing area that I can go, oh, I can see it underneath the TV stand that I couldn't see when I was in another area, and and so I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm going over these, you know, the hair and then the remote.
• 15:13
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: These are like it's like new new things, and sometimes new things are maybe a little bit scary because of the unknown, because maybe we've been doing things for a long time.
• 15:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh like with the hair, I mean, I I was going Fred a barber for a a ton of years, like a lot of years, and so I had to find I I I had to kind of make a decision, like I'm gonna continue to go to one of the other barbers, which I've seen hundreds of times.
• 15:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So um am I gonna drive down, you know, a ways to get there, or am I gonna do something a little bit closer?
• 15:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And and so uh I so I tried something new.
• 16:03
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I did the the hair part of going, okay, Justin, let's let's try it, let's see where it's at.
• 16:11
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And then I get I've been getting it trimmed just a little bit.
• 16:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh I don't know, four or five, six, seven weeks or so.
• 16:21
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh it just depends when when that that time is.
• 16:26
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But doing something new is it's hard to do, especially if you know a lot of our maybe friends, our colleagues, maybe people we've collaborated, collabed with.
• 16:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, you know, the y'all been doing you know the same thing, and then all of a sudden it's like, oh, I didn't even know voices for voices existed.
• 16:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I don't even know what it is.
• 17:01
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm just now hearing the name Voices for Voices.
• 17:05
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: What is it?
• 17:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: What do they do?
• 17:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: What do they talk about?
• 17:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: How does it relate to the individual?
• 17:14
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So you and the other viewers and listeners that are uh joining uh for the the first time, uh and I'd recommend going back and downloading the rest of uh the rest of our episodes.
• 17:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh there's a lot, and there's a lot that will pique your interest.
• 17:36
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I guarantee that uh some people say, well, you did a lot.
• 17:46
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You did oh, you did these episodes about one topic.
• 17:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's like, okay, how many episodes we have?
• 17:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Five hundred and forty seven or so?
• 18:01
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: The reason why I'm saying or so is because there's multiple in production, so um that's why I said or so.
• 18:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so out of, you know, five forty-seven or so episodes, some don't like it.
• 18:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um that's called life.
• 18:33
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Let's call it what it is.
• 18:35
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If you have a child, and they're going to to school or daycare, and something happens, I don't know, some incident happens, you have a choice.
• 18:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Do you after seeing how the staff reacts and told whatever, I'm just like, this is just a wide open, like I'm not giving a specific example.
• 19:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm saying, like, okay, so both both parents go back to work, or if it's a you know, single parent, you know, goes back to work, and so the the child needs to um to be cared for for a period of time over the course of the day.
• 19:36
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so after all the investigation, all this and that, you and I, in this hypothetical example, we have the option to stay with that same school or that same daycare.
• 19:57
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We could stay or we could go to a different one.
• 20:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's called choice.
• 20:07
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's called choice.
• 20:09
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's called choice.
• 20:11
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's one of the beautiful things about where we reside, where I I reside.
• 20:21
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Where a lot where I say like everybody resides, like we have the choice.
• 20:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Do we stay or do we go?
• 20:35
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so all these analogies I'm I'm talking about are because a lot of people are just learning about voices for voices, and I'm so grateful everybody here, which is basically me, so we we have a website, but it's not this well-oiled professional pay.
• 21:05
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I don't even know how much to to set up.
• 21:11
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We have less than a thousand dollars.
• 21:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Okay.
• 21:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So you want to talk about being transparent in the facts?
• 21:20
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's a fact.
• 21:22
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's a fact.
• 21:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We have less than a thousand dollars.
• 21:27
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah.
• 21:29
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We're being told that our shows are so inflammatory.
• 21:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Okay.
• 21:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Number one is the First Amendment.
• 21:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Number two, we have a human trafficking survivor.
• 22:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Three, you have a choice.
• 22:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You can watch or listen, or you can focus on yourself and what you're doing.
• 22:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Instead of saying, Oh, I don't like this one, which, oh, by the way, mysteriously, right?
• 22:26
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Mysteriously, several months ago, the Voices for Voices TikTok channel was six hundred followers, not six million, not sixty million, not six hundred million followers, not even six thousand followers.
• 22:47
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It mysteriously gets suspended.
• 22:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Can't use it.
• 22:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So we have, I think, seven followers, so we had to restart that.
• 22:57
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's not enough, though.
• 23:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: There's more.
• 23:05
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: People don't like it.
• 23:09
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Well, if I go back to that example with the ch the incident or accident at a daycare, I have a choice.
• 23:22
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I can leave my I can stay and go, okay, the staff is hold the staff is dealing with the situation the way they should.
• 23:33
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: They're being up front, they're being transparent, they're showing corrective action and all that.
• 23:40
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Or I can say, no, this isn't, this is it.
• 23:46
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like, it's my kid, my child, we're going somewhere else.
• 23:54
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so I want to say thank you for trying something new.
• 24:03
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you for coming and spending however much time you do, however many episodes you watch or listen.
• 24:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you for that.
• 24:20
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We don't have millions of followers.
• 24:26
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We're we're we know people are watching and listening.
• 24:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But we're not the Joe Rogan experience, we're not the Dan Bongino show.
• 24:45
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Those are the big boys.
• 24:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We're a nonprofit with less than a thousand dollars in assets, and there are individuals saying you need to take something down.
• 25:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Well, how many controversial videos do you think Joe Joe Rogan experience and the Dan Bongino show have?
• 25:14
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Or they've had like over their career?
• 25:17
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I know I'll say I know I think Dan Bongino, because he he had a year where he um was the deputy FBI director, I think.
• 25:29
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So outside of that, uh he he's had his show.
• 25:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I I think he's over 2,000 episodes or more.
• 25:37
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We have 540 plus.
• 25:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I don't know what the count of Joe Rogan is because they have like a consistent thing uh where you know day in and day out, except I think the weekends and maybe some weekends, they do have shows.
• 25:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like they have a well-oiled machine, they have people working for them, they have people helping, you know, put up graphics on the screen or play clips, and we we're just talking.
• 26:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We share information, we share public safety concerns, public safety alerts.
• 26:31
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Children are porn, right?
• 26:37
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: No child is for sale.
• 26:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: No child's for sale, no child is for sale.
• 26:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Talked to the San Diego district attorney, Summer Steffen, last week.
• 27:01
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So go back a few episodes and and you'll see.
• 27:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: The week of Comic Con San Diego.
• 27:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We had the district attorney of San Diego County on our show for the second time.
• 27:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We had her on last year, we had her on this year.
• 27:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If what we were doing or allegedly doing was so inflammatory, she wouldn't come on the show.
• 27:43
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Shannon Miller wouldn't come on the show.
• 27:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Oksana Bayul wouldn't come on the show.
• 27:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I mean, I can we can do this all day.
• 27:57
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So if we're doing what is being alleged, number one, you have a choice.
• 28:07
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You can stay or should I stay or should I go?
• 28:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That song, right?
• 28:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Should I stay or should I go?
• 28:14
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I forget who sings it.
• 28:20
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm not stealing it.
• 28:21
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm just I just don't remember who's who sings it.
• 28:31
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so that's the part that a lot of a lot of people they don't understand.
• 28:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: They just go, oh, look at this episode.
• 28:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Oh, look at this.
• 28:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You know what I do?
• 28:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I only download and listen or watch the episodes I want to.
• 28:57
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I don't download, I don't and I do that because it lowers my stress.
• 29:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like I I'm not gonna take the time, just like I'm not gonna take the time to write a review on a show if I don't like the guest or I don't like the show.
• 29:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm just not I'm just gonna turn it off.
• 29:26
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'll find something else.
• 29:29
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: There's a bazillion shows and podcasts out there now.
• 29:40
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So again.
• 29:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We have a podcast.
• 29:52
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We have solo episodes, we have episodes with guests.
• 29:56
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We have episodes like this, we have episodes on location, like we had with Don Mattis Jr., which I'm not telling anybody they need to stop drinking alcohol, I'm not telling anybody that this man is over 40 years sober and drug-free, and so I've been in good contact for several years with him.
• 30:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so we went to help celebrate and had him on the show, and so we did it on location.
• 30:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Ted Cruz, Senator Ted Cruz from the great state of Texas.
• 30:46
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You might say, oh, well, you know, we're bringing politics.
• 30:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: No, really not.
• 30:52
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm bringing common sense because we talk more about culture and what's just going on in the life than we talk about politics.
• 31:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: For those that are new, watching, listening, check out our transcript.
• 31:14
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: The take it down law.
• 31:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So take it down act.
• 31:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: A couple years back, there were I think three or four young ladies in high school have an Instagram account or social media account.
• 31:40
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I know our our uh resource and connection.
• 31:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It was an Instagram.
• 31:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But what ended up happening was her name's Ellison Barry.
• 32:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Google her.
• 32:02
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: See if anything comes up.
• 32:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: See if anything comes up with the president of the United States sign in the Take It Down Act into law, federal law.
• 32:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So states can't pick and choose, uh well, we're gonna, we're not gonna, it's gonna be up to the state.
• 32:21
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: No, this is a federal law.
• 32:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Passed in the Senate, passed in the House of Representatives, President Donald J.
• 32:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Trump, I don't care you like him or not, if it if President Joe Biden was in office and he signed it, I would just say the same thing.
• 32:38
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: President of the United States signed it into law.
• 32:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And what happened?
• 32:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Well, these three or four young ladies went to school one day.
• 32:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: People were whispering.
• 32:54
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And Elliston came to find out that somebody in her school used an AI artificial intelligence program to take an innocent take innocent photos of Elliston on her Instagram account and turn them into nude photos.
• 33:22
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Big tech was just like you gotta be Taylor Swift, or you gotta be somebody like like you're just you know a regular everyday person, you don't get that type of treatment.
• 33:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So Senator Ted Cruz, after Ellison's mom called every legislature, every congressperson in their state of Texas, told the situation, and Senator Ted Cruz picked it up.
• 33:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: He has daughters, one an uh a year older and one a year younger than Elliston.
• 34:07
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: He passed the Take It Down Act in the state of Texas, but because big tech is like a federal thing, because right, like I I can get Instagram where I live, you can probably get Instagram where you live, so it's it's like an interstate commerce type of deal where so it's a federal thing.
• 34:29
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So when they pass the take it down act in Texas, it couldn't fully be enacted unless up and until the act, the take it down act was signed into law by the president of the United States.
• 34:54
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So Senator Ted Cruz, again, I don't care if you like him or not, I don't agree with everything.
• 35:01
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I don't live in his state, but this man did the right thing.
• 35:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: He got that passed in the state of Texas, he took this legislation in the committee before it goes out for a vote in the Senate.
• 35:21
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Went into committee, out of committee, passed in the Senate, then passed by Donald J.
• 35:31
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: President Donald J.
• 35:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Trump.
• 35:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And the reason I'll I'll say that is because, well, he's the president, he signed it.
• 35:38
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So did the first lady.
• 35:45
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: She didn't have to.
• 35:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: She didn't have to.
• 35:57
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: She got the pen that the president signed in the law.
• 36:02
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um we've had episode we have episodes with Alliston, her mom, Miss Anna.
• 36:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So check those out.
• 36:09
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Again, we have a ton of a ton of episodes.
• 36:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so it got passed.
• 36:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: By the house, by the Senate.
• 36:27
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And it could have been signed into law by President Joe Biden in last year.
• 36:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Or not last year, but he he could have signed it in in hit the last days of his presidency.
• 36:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But he he he decided not to.
• 36:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: He had you know roadblocks put up and uh had people block it in the house.
• 36:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um but then when Trump was elected, that's that that nonsense stopped.
• 37:05
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so it's a federal law to take pictures and turn them into nude photos.
• 37:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's a federal law to take innocent photos online on social media and use an AI program or any program and turn those into nude photos, sexually explicit nude photos, could be videos, you know, the same deal.
• 37:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um and so that's a thing.
• 37:45
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's that's a real life law, it's a federal law.
• 37:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so that's one of the guests that we've had on.
• 37:56
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I think we had it on three times.
• 37:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like first one, yeah, anyways, we had three times.
• 38:03
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: The most recent one showed the pen, president signed.
• 38:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So again, talk about getting things done, sent her Ted Cruz, yeah, traveled to DC, interviewed him in person.
• 38:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That episode you could you can find.
• 38:27
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's like a 13 or 14-minute episode.
• 38:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Real quick, real easy, right to the point.
• 38:38
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So whether you agree with his politics or not, he's helping children and even adults.
• 38:46
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's gonna happen to an adult too.
• 38:54
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So for those that are new to Voices for Voices, these these are the type of things, these are the type of topics we talk about.
• 39:05
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I didn't get to meet the president, I didn't get to meet the first lady, I didn't Ellison did.
• 39:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Ellison was President Donald J.
• 39:17
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Trump's guest, one of his guests of honor at one of his State of the Union speeches.
• 39:27
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Ellison was sitting right next to First Lady Melania Trump.
• 39:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Say what you want about her.
• 39:33
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: She's the first lady of our country.
• 39:40
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So again, Google that name.
• 39:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Go ahead, do it.
• 39:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: For all you fact checkers out there that say that you look into things and you really don't.
• 40:03
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: For whatever reason.
• 40:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I don't know.
• 40:05
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm not here to judge at.
• 40:07
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: All I'm here is helping people, sharing information, and so it's a big deal.
• 40:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's a public service announcement that this law passed, and that when people get in trouble, and they abuse children, abuse elderly, really abuse them.
• 40:36
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Not this made up nonsense of somebody saying, Oh, they're abusing me when they never met in person, they never like so like it.
• 40:57
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I mean, anyways, like I'm talking about people taking people across the border, I'm talking about having people in warehouses and cages, like that's the stuff we're talking about.
• 41:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If it makes you feel uncomfortable, it should.
• 41:13
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It should piss you off because it pisses me off.
• 41:19
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Because we have people that be careful how I how you say it, but we have people who they don't want to hear it, but yet they did they'll be the first one to watch or listen to the show.
• 41:37
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I mean, I guess thank you for the downloads and you know, viewing and listening to the show our shows.
• 41:46
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I mean, I think we've been we've had a show for maybe two years, maybe a little bit longer.
• 42:01
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Again, I'm just focused on the here and the now and then the future.
• 42:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Because I don't know what I don't know how much time I have left on earth.
• 42:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I don't know anybody that that knows that specific information.
• 42:19
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So that's why I'm talking about the here and the now.
• 42:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But when somebody has a grievance, okay, great.
• 42:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And the big tech, how do some grievances get a platform like our TikTok taken down and it's puffed up in smoke?
• 42:52
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: There's there's nothing there.
• 43:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And then I report something and it's just like, nope, that doesn't qualify.
• 43:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Okay.
• 43:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So we're so grate grateful to have you.
• 43:19
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Here's our puppy.
• 43:23
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• 43:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: She always knows when something's going on.
• 43:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So thank you and welcome to our new viewers and listeners.
• 43:39
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• 43:57
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• 44:03
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• 44:14
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• 44:18
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• 44:24
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• 44:27
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• 44:28
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• 44:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You're always welcome here.
• 44:33
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We're not going to put people down.
• 44:36
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We don't.
• 44:38
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But we will we will talk the truth and we'll show facts.
• 44:43
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And that's that's what we've done.
• 44:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And some people don't like that.
• 44:54
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Some people don't like the facts.
• 44:59
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We don't have a profession, yeah, we don't have professional website.
• 45:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We don't have.
• 45:14
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: What we do have is you are great viewers or great listeners that show up day in and day out, and we're able to see it with the analytics.
• 45:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so yeah, that's why I say thank you and we're grateful so often because we are.
• 45:43
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If we didn't have a show if we didn't if we weren't making an impact.
• 45:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I I I don't I don't I don't know where I'd be.
• 46:14
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Lucy, what'd you do?
• 46:19
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: There we are.
• 46:22
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Lucy just with her paws, like tapping a different button.
• 46:28
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So I was like, oh my gosh, you stopped it, or it disappeared.
• 46:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um but yeah, and in all reality, um our viewers, our listeners, our supporters, our volunteers, anybody that's ever been involved with voices for voices.
• 46:52
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Again, we don't we we don't have um a lot of the resources, a lot of the things that other organizations do.
• 47:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But what we do have is we have heart.
• 47:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We have heart, we have empathy, we have content that aims to help people, that aims to bring people together, not divide.
• 47:35
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And without you, I'll say one last time here.
• 47:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Without you, we we we aren't we aren't the voices for voices that we are today.
• 47:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you very much.
• 47:54
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• 48:12
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• 48:19
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So until next time, we hope to see you back here.
• 48:26
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: To those that been with us from the beginning, we know we'll see you and you'll hear us.
• 48:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And for those that are trying something new and learning a little bit about voices for voices in the foundation of mental health, trauma, and recovery that's embedded with every single episode we do because of my mental illnesses.
• 48:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's how Voices for Voices was founded.
• 49:03
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• 49:10
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• 49:22
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So until next time, let's celebrate the voices of the world.
• 49:26
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Let's not divide, let's celebrate all the voices.
• 49:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Let's be a voice for not only ourselves, but maybe somebody else in need that deserves to have their voice amplified.
• 49:40
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We'll see you next time.
• 49:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Goodbye for now.