Luke Burbank (67:25)
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. We would absolutely support that. But all that is to say, my other thing that I noted about being in that part of Florida was that every. Everybody's wearing A shirt that, that represents a different vacation place in a different part of the. Everyone's wearing a T shirt that either says like, Cape May, New Jersey, or like somewhere in Hawaii. It's like everyone wants to establish that they recreate, you know, everywhere. Like it's attitudes and latitudes. Like, hey, I know I'm in Cocoa Beach, Florida right now, but guess what? I also sometimes go to Hawaii or Cape May, New Jersey. Jersey. Like, thank you, Rex Ryan, for confirming that with your T shirt. All that is to say, the politics out there are unpredictable. And every time that I was getting in a car, like taking a Lyft or an Uber somewhere, it seemed the person driving the car was going on about their politics, which were rarely, in fact, never in alignment with mine. Where am I going with all of this? It just feels like being out there in real life, particularly if you live kind of in red America like I do, is a lot of just kind of being freshly saddened by like the sign display that someone has put up in their yard or the bumper sticker that you're seeing or the thing that the Lyft driver is saying. And so to suddenly just go to good old Portland, Oregon, baby, Antifa zone, and just get together with like 40 to 50,000 like minded, predictable ass liberals. It was really good. It really felt good. Becca and I were commenting that like on the march, like this is a lot of people, right? And it's very like, you know, this won't mean a lot to people that don't know from Portland, but you know, the Willamette river runs through the kind of middle of Portland. It kind of separates the city. You got the east side and the west side. And we had all gathered in this kind of area called like Tom McCall park, which is on the, the west side of the Willamette River. It's big kind of grassy area. And everybody got together and there were some speeches and some stuff, some music. And then everybody got onto this road called NATO Parkway and we go up, we marched up this thing called the Steel Bridge across the river, another like maybe half mile around the east side and then back across something called the Burnside Bridge and then back down and through sort of downtown Portland. And there was a period of time where that entire route that I've described, Andrew, was full of people. In other words, the, like this, if you consider this sort of a snake, it was, it was like, I don't know, a few miles long or, yeah, maybe a couple of miles long and full of like elbow to elbow, shoulder to shoulder. People just packed, packed, packed. Doing this thing and stuff like that could, you know, under other circumstances is a lot of opportunities to be mad at someone because they stepped on your toe or they were rude or they bumped you or they hit, they whacked you with their sign or something. The friendliness in that, you know, as you were in that march, like I was taking, it was, got hot. So I was taking my sweater off. I completely bonked a guy on the head like, like Cat Williams, the guy on the head, accidentally. Something that normally would be kind of a problem because I just was taking my sweater off and didn't realize it. And I was like, oh my God, I'm so sorry. He was like, hey, no problem, man. Or like anytime there was like one of those little inconveniences that in normal life if you're at the airport has you fuming. There was no human because we were all there to try to just say, hey, man, this is not okay. What's going on? There was so much just kind of friendliness and I don't know if collegiality is a word, but like, like just the, the vibes were very, very immaculate again. The weather really cooperated. There was, you know, I was enjoying the signs, you know, the creativity amongst the signs and things like that. Now there was one thing that I did learn though about, I don't know if I guess we call this a protest about protesting, which is I do. And I, and I kind of have a feeling, Andrew, that I know where you would come down on this. I don't like feeling like I have to do the chant. Yeah, I don't feel, I don't. I, I want to be there. I want to be encouraging. I don't have any problem with other people chanting. I don't like the pressure to do the, the this is what democracy looks like or hey, hey, ho ho, or whatever. And then you've got these people and again, they're well intentioned. They're there too. They're trying to build the energy of the community, but you'd just be marching along, along and you got your little sign and we had American flags that they were handing out. And like you're walking along and you're talking and you're just kind of like taking it all in. And then there's just somebody who's got a megaphone, who's the self appointed chant starter and they're walking through and they're saying, you know, laptops out, shoes off. Yes, I know. I was, I was thinking TSA Right. When I said that they're the like self appointed TSA person who's, who's giving you, who's screaming the advice. Now again, I'm not saying anything about the motivations or intentions of these people. They're just trying to build the energy and I totally get it. And there are people that really enjoy doing the chance and I'm glad for them to do it. It's not the, it's. The chanting is not bothering me in any way. I feel for some reason mildly embarrassed to be yelling while marching, which is strange because, like, what else are we doing here? But then worse, I feel really bad for the person with the megaphone when the crowd's not fully participating. So now I'm in a, now I'm in a situation where it's like I got to either chant, which I kind of don't feel like doing, or emotionally feel bad for this person who's just trying to kind of build the energy and do the, you know, they're trying to get the wave started and no one's, no one's going because that was the thing. It wasn't a tremendous, for there being thousands of people, it wasn't a tremendously chanty audience. So you'd have someone trying to get this thing started and then you'd have like, like maybe two or three people kind of tepidly go, this is what democracy looks like. Like, and then, and then, you know, tell me what democracy looks like. And then a couple of people, this is what democracy looks like. It was like, it was like Tina from Bob's Burgers was doing the response. And then they'd kind of like, then they'd eventually get kind of like, you know, I don't know, they would, they would sort of realize, ah, this isn't really taken off. And then they just like hustle up to the next section of the march and they'd start their thing up again.
