So with that, we're going to move ahead and offer our own land acknowledgement. So I'll start by introducing myself. So I am Kyle Shaughnessy and I am of mixed Indigenous background. So I am Denne and Irish, and I hold a joint position between the Indigenous initiatives team at CTLT and also the workplace learning and engagement team in HR. And so I'm an Indigenous education consultant and I'm speaking to you today from UBC campus, which is on unceded Musqueam territory. And I will pass it over to Bronte. Thanks Kyle. My name is Bronte and I'm an Educational Resource Developer on the Indigenous initiatives team at CTLT. I'm coming to you today from the lands of the Musqueam and Squamish and Slewa two people. I'm in downtown, but I'm originally from the lands of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes in Western Montana. And I like to acknowledge them always because they don't get as much as acknowledgement in their own territory. So I'm excited to be talking with you all today. I also want to give a shout out to Carissa, who's our CTLT and Veterans Coordinator. If you have any issues during the presentation or during any other part of the technical issues, if you direct message her, she'll be able to take care of you. So thank you Carissa for helping us. Thanks Bronte. And I want to introduce myself as well. My name is Ola Kulesha. I'm the Instructional Designer and Project Manager with Central HR and Workplace Learning and Engagement. I'm joining today from the territories of the Coast Salish, Stolo, Slewa two and Squamish lands. And I'm originally from and was lucky enough to grow up on the lands of the Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe and Mississaugas of the New Credit. Thanks everyone for joining us and I'll pass it to Claudia. Thanks Ola. My name is Claudia de Diaz. I am an Educational Consultant in CTLT Indigenous Initiatives and I'm joining today from my home, which is located on the unceded territories of the Masken people. I am originally from Latin America, what is now known as Chile and living in the territories of the Masken people has helped me to learn more about the lands of the Mapuche people who are the Indigenous people of the place where I come from. You might often notice that in this first slide, there are four pictures and each of these pictures is a picture taken by each of us. And one of the key ideas that are part of the course on land acknowledgement that we will be presenting today is centering Indigenous places and knowledges through our land acknowledgement. And each of these pictures represent in a way our own relationship with this land and is a reminder for us of our own responsibilities towards this place. And today, this is a note I want to share on behalf of the group, we decided to do a brief land acknowledgement precisely to emphasize the importance of centering our land acknowledgement on the place and on the relationality piece in which we are located. So the course that we will present today offers a number of examples of land acknowledgement for course participants and we hope that each of you get excited about this course, either to enroll in the course or perhaps to recommend the course, but most importantly we would like to again recognize their relationality piece and the importance of centering our land acknowledgement on the places where we are situated. Next please, next slide. So for today we have organized the session in two parts. The first part is what we can call behind the scenes in which we will be sharing some details on how this course has been developed. And in this section we are going to talk about the need for the course, how we became a team, how we built a process for this course development and some learned lessons. And in the second part of this show and tell we will do exactly that show and tell the course for you. So we will have Bronte who will walk us through the course and then we are going to end up with some Q&A for all the participants. And I think I will be passing on Kai. Great, thanks so much Claudia. So we'll just move to the next slide, perfect. So I'm going to talk for just a couple of minutes about recognizing the need for this training. So as I'm sure many of you know, land acknowledgments feature in a lot of different areas around UBC, so both large and small. So we see them in our email signatures when we're opening staff meetings, ongoing land acknowledgments in classrooms, major events for sure. And even in curriculum design, you'll see them in print as well. And so up until say like the last very uncertain year, UBC staff and faculty and students have always been able to rely on existing resources and knowledge gathered and developed specifically to Musqueam and Point Gray campus. So when doing a land acknowledgement, a lot of that research has already been done and there was those specific statements that you can find in the Indigenous portal on UBC's Indigenous portal just telling you exactly what what some of your options are for making a land acknowledgement statement. However, when we moved to working from home, there was a real need for people to shift their land acknowledgement to the areas that they're actually living on. So people felt moved to reflect on their relationships to the land that they're living on, raising their families on, possibly owning properties on, which can be a complex either situation or bring about some complex feelings that they wanted to navigate with their land acknowledgments. People participated outdoor activities, growing their own gardens, really engaging with the land in those ways, and also having spaces of personal refuge and development in these lands. And so relationship to land really changed when we all started working from home. And so a large part of my work beginning at UBC, which did start, I started in my position, I think it was about two, three weeks after we started working from home. So I did on board remotely. And so a large part of the work that I started within my position at UBC focused around land acknowledgments. And so there was a lot of different ways that this would happen. So there was one-on-one consults with people. There would be shorter segments for larger workshops on Indigenous perspectives, myself and several other staff both on the Indigenous Initiatives team, as well as staff from Kewa Library, developed a series of four micro-videos around different aspects of developing a land acknowledgement. Eventually that turned into a 90-minute workshop for the online teaching program at CTLT. And then that further expanded into two-hour workshops that we were offering for individual teams and faculties and programs across the university on developing meaningful landing knowledge. And so the focus for people reaching out for consult, both for themselves and for other teams, was really focused around developing acknowledgements that were home-based and invited reflection. And another motivator for the UBC community is the Indigenous Strategic Plan, because that's really invited the UBC community to increase their capacity to integrate Indigenous specific content in the courses, into their programming, and also to acknowledge and continue fostering good relationships with host nations. And so we just sort of felt, you know, that it just, it became a major, major component to our work. And it was, it was really great because it generated so much good conversation. Like we had so much opportunity to really discuss what goes into creating a meaningful land acknowledgement, because that was just the number one question. And I mean, as incredible and rewarding as that was, we also needed to rethink how we were doing this in terms of, like, consults and running workshops, because the demand kind of grew beyond our capacity. So the desire, we also had a desire to expand some of our own work in other topic areas as well, because we found a lot of the work was starting to focus on land acknowledgement between myself and a couple of the other team members. So that got us sort of sparking on the idea to maybe develop an asynchronous training. So we'll just move to the next slide and talk a little bit about how we constructed our team. So after we identified that there was a need on campus, there was an opportunity to really pull together some support. And I mean, as much as there is a tactical piece of becoming a team, there's also a dynamic and a relationality that's needed to function effectively as a team. So there was interest and availability that was expressed by different team members across meetings. And it was kind of a bit accidental, the way we sort of formed as a team. And so we're going to be acknowledging each other in this slide, providing a little bit of context, holding each other up in this work, appreciating each other in this work, and really, I think engaging in relationality, which is such a huge aspect to developing land acknowledgement. So each of us can really speak to the strengths that the other team members brought. So I would like to talk about, oh, this feels very emotional. I feel like I'm going to cry. This is very exciting. So I'm going to speak about my teammate, Bronte. So Bronte has an amazing amount of experience as a librarian at Wewha Library, with an incredible amount of knowledge on just resources related to Indigenous perspectives and knowledges. And so she has this brilliant, not just knowledge of the resources, but also what makes them good resources. So it's not that she'll just give you a list or a name of something or an article or a citation. She'll give you the full-on reason why you need to engage with it. And she's super excited about it, and it gets you excited about it. And so it's a really wonderful thing to have somebody so thrilled about their work and so thrilled about resources. And Bronte can really just sort of work on a document and calling on, or you can like work on a document that calls on your own knowledge and your own experience, but Bronte is really able to pepper relevant citations throughout the entire document. And this also really helps shape the content, because when she was able to bring these resources, it's really invited other questions like, hey, have you heard of this thing? Have you heard of this topic? Well, no, I haven't. How can we expand what we're talking about based on these resources that exist? So it's just, you know, have you heard of this? No, I haven't. I had no idea about that thing. So that and not only this, but she has an incredible enthusiasm for doing this work in a way that offers respect and intention for Indigenous communities, and also just willingness to be open about her own process of developing land acknowledgments. So that was one of the things that really called to inviting Bronte onto the team. That was so sweet. And also it is very like, it is emotional like you're thinking so like Claudia, it's your turn to now blush like I was blushing because I'm going to say some really nice, great things about you. And so Claudia joined our team is kind of like, I see her as like our lead teacher, like the person who was going to, who helped us really like hone in on our learning objectives and how students interact with materials. And it was just so impressive. And I was always learning something new about like instructional and our instructional role. But she also constantly pushed us to ask critical questions about comfort, like about comfortableness and discomfort and why we were including the topics and really pushing us to make sure that people had like had a space to sit in their uncomfortableness that comes with land acknowledgments. Sorry, folks. And so, and that was just like something that really made me think about the teacher's role and about how and so she really made sure that we understood that like a teacher's role sometimes is to push people to learn and sometimes that includes uncomfortableness and discomfort. And I was really just in awe always of her really helpful questions of exploring and understanding of and she always had us take a step back and say, why are we doing this? Why are we learning this? Why are we including this? Is it just because we have in the past and synchronous ones or is it because it's going to add something to our course? So thank you, Claudia, for being such a great teacher to me as a team member. Yeah, thank you, Bronte. For everyone to know, each of us is going to speak to another member of this team to show how we became a team. I am not going to have the chance to say the wonderful things about Bronte, but I can echo what Kyle said. My mission today is talk about Ola and I have to tell that I became part of this wonderful team in November. And before that, I had used some of the resources that Kyle had developed for land acknowledgement. So I was super excited to become a part of the team and work with him. But then when we met the first time, I quickly realized that he was not going to be the only one who surprised me. Ola, who is a structural designer, was very quickly, I realized all the skills and knowledge that Ola was bringing to the team. And for example, I was especially impressed by Ola's skills and abilities to offer us a path to organize our ideas. And as you can imagine, when we started this work, we had many diverse ideas and many of them were very messy. And Ola helped us with tools and knowledge and experience to start organizing those ideas in a way that helped us to move forward. And that was very important to arrive to consensus and then find the next step in our course development. And I think she was very clear to remind us who was our audience and which was the scope for this course. And this is very important because as you take courses in land acknowledgement and many other topics around indigenous engagement, you will see how which are these topics and then different levels of depth and engagement. So Ola helped us to keep in mind our audience and the scope of the course so we could work on something useful and ultimately help others to really learn something that would help them to do their own land acknowledgement and engage with this place, which is the ultimate purpose of doing this practice is really as the title of the course says, doing it with respect and doing doing it with with sincerity and responsibility. And I learned so much from Ola many tools how to organize and do course development and all the last part that had to do with populating with all the course content we developed into the canvas shell was a part of her responsibility. So all the credits are for him. So it was real pressure to working with Ola as well. Thank you, Claudia. Yeah, gosh, it's hard to sit that long being like talked positively, but we're not I'm like, I need to shake it off or something. Such kind words. Oh my gosh, I'm not used to this. Thank you. And I'm honored to have the chance to talk about Kyle and the role that Kyle had on the team and the project. We had initially had a chance to connect around opportunities for pursuing maybe some content in the professional development space. So the HR PD workshops and thinking about indigenous focused content. And then I'd had a chance to attend the land acknowledgement workshop that was offered live via zoom last year, and really was inspired in that session to sort of realize that as much as I had felt at that point that I've been engaged in this conversation, both at UBC as well as other institutions, realizing they're just so much more to learn and the way that Kyle was presenting the information making it so inviting to be curious and not to maybe feel ashamed or uncomfortable beyond maybe the regular discomfort we should have to just, you know, recognize our privilege and position. But really appreciated that and got inspired to kind of volunteer myself and maybe even fallen told Kyle that I'm in the project and I'm going to be part of it. So we when the momentum built for this self directed course, which we now are happy to be presenting to you all, Kyle invited me into the conversation. And I was so in awe of the way that he was able to kind of lead us as a team. And while I think we had this sort of shared leadership, it was really Kyle who kept the kept the ball rolling kept the ideation being curious throughout, throughout the different stages of the process and ability to hold a vision of something that is quite complex and has has sensitivities to it, but also then being quite open minded and curious to explore different ways of talking about the content and presenting it, as well as navigating that content in ways that doesn't intimidate learners, but invites them in to also be curious and explore. And I think if you have a chance and when you have a chance to look at the content, it's really clear that that facilitate of approach and conversational approach relational approach that Kyle facilitates with has translated into the text of the course. And as you read through it, you kind of feel that invitation and hopefully are inspired to keep pushing yourself in your learning journey as well. And so really grateful to be to have been part of the process seeing this leadership of, you know, grace, focus and relationality where we were able to, you Kyle were able to recognize the strengths of everyone in the room as well as those recognizing where we needed more and who else we needed to tap outside of our own little four person group and making sure that those voices were heard and informed our process. So thank you for, for being part of that and bringing us all in. I think we all have you to thank for bringing us into this process and allowing us to be part of this course.  I'll just close to say that we wanted to kind of represent this, you know, we're all slightly unique little circles ovals here. We're all different in our own ways. And with some messy processes and lines and bureaucracy to navigate, we were all able to kind of come together as this unique team that worked together fluidly. But maybe it's never no team is perfect, right? So we have a little bit of some jagged lines in there. It's all part of the process and it was a joy. And I think I'll pass it to Claudia. Yes. Yes. So now that you know a little bit of this team and what each of us brought into this course development, we wanted to share how we build this process. And we got started in November 18. That was our first meeting in which we met to know each other. I was new on the team on the Indigenous initiatives. And Bronte and I didn't know Ola. So the first meeting was really about and meeting each other and knowing a little bit how we work on our work styles. And based on that meeting, we quickly started to work on the course architecture and process documentation. And this Ola was really important for get us started. She brought a tool which was sort of a table in which we had the different parts of what we were envisioning for this course, the purpose, the learning objectives, the audience, the time of completion, all the different tiny parts that are part of this course. And then as we were meeting and discussing different elements, we started to fill up this table and develop course development and the content of the course. Of course, Kyle brought an incredible amount of information and resources with Bronte. But as we started to discuss, we realized something that Kyle continuously was saying. And he said, I want participants to engage with respect, with sincerity and responsibility in this course. And so at some point, we realized that those three words were the pillars of the course. And we started to organize all the content based on those pillars. So as you can see, there was quite a bit reorganizing through this process. But as we arrived to that organization, we were quite happy. And we realized that it was a good flow for this particular course. At some point, we started to work in one to one, one, for example, Bronte started to populate with resources. And Kyle started to write. I kind of support that part of the work. And Ola was started to document asking questions about the different stages of part of the course. And then we started, well, we started, it's a large number of people, Ola started to populate campus and create the best layout for going to the next stage, which was all the feedback process, which Kyle is going to tell us a little bit more about it. Yeah, sure. I'm going to talk a little bit about the feedback process and also just share a bit more about the content. But I also just wanted to take sort of a side note, something that occurred to me as we were doing those introductions in the last piece, and just sort of like the warm fuzzies that they get created when we're interacting like that. So often you'll hear in Indigenous spaces, like especially if you are making something like I recently had the privilege to take part in the rattle making workshop through Musqueam, which has been offered it through WeWa. And also taken part in drum making workshops and stuff. And something that is so often said is make sure that when you are doing this, when you're engaging with these materials, when you're engaging with this object that you're making, you're doing so with a good heart and a good mind. And so to be approaching these things with positivity, with good energy, and I think that that is so much a part of doing this work is that we wanted to create something that was going to feel accessible and inviting to people and cultivating good relationships and good, appreciative relationships that hold up each other's strong suits. It was really a part of that. And I think that that energy lends itself to the actual training that we were able to develop. So anyways, back to content. Thank you for listening. So I just wanted to share a little bit more about the content. So a lot of the content was based out of things learned through consulting at UBC. So it was one-on-one consults with staff from all areas of the university, consulting on staff training modules, consulting with faculty on integrating into course delivery. Indigenous initiatives also hosts virtual coffee sessions. So there's great discussions in there. So so many just really good discussions inspired some critical questions, some critical thinking around what it means to develop a meaningful land acknowledgement. And that's where so much of that came from. So in the feedback process, it was a fairly standard feedback process. So we saw feedback from staff who were from a variety of areas. So staff who were subject matter experts, so other folks who were on the Indigenous initiatives team or other Indigenous programming, staff whose expertise is in staff training specifically, staff who would want to take the training for their own professional development. So maybe land acknowledgments are fairly new to them. We also wanted to ensure that we had feedback across multiple campuses. So we had folks submit feedback from UBC Vancouver, UBC Robson Square and UBC Okanagan. And so we circulated feedback forms with a course link. I gave people about one or two weeks with a Likert scale and then also some specific questions just based around the campus that they're from or the role that they're in, circulated the feedback forms and and then received them back fairly quickly. And one of the wonderful things is that none of the feedback really contradicted each other. So we didn't really have to do too much groundwork once it came back in. We had a lot of positive response. And then also especially from folks who were subject matter experts, we had a little bit of that sort of deeper questions for reflection for maybe we should shift things this way and have we thought of including this resource. And so that was just so helpful from multiple perspectives. And so it was all feedback that actually could quite easily fit the course parameters. So now we're at a point where we're starting to share our work.  I don't have a, I don't know who is speaking next, but I know that maybe it's Claudia. I think I'll hand it back to Claudia. We are going to share our some lessons that we learned in the process. And I think you are going to present that first tool. Awesome. Okay, so back to me. So we're just going to talk a little bit about some of the lessons that we have learned throughout the development process. So I would say one of the first lessons learned for me as I sort of wanted to get the idea started, wanted to get the idea for the training started was that it takes time to do quality work and to do so intentionally.  But, you know, I was like, Oh, it'll take about three weeks. We'll just develop something really quick that goes online, five minute micro video, totally no problem. Make a one hour course about it. I'll just sit there and blab at the zoom camera for an hour sounds like a great idea. And so it was really helpful to be able to bring in some other folks and and realize, no, you know what, we need to slow this down, we need to take some time to actually build out some other components. We need to make this interesting with a variety of mediums, there needs to be text, there needs to be video, there needs to be a variety of methods sort of brought into it. So we did have to move the timeline a few times. So I'm very thankful to my teammates and and leadership within my team that that we're able to move the timeline so many times to make sure that we got this right and make sure that we did our work well. And our own learning evolved over time as well, because the longer you sit with the topic, it's kind of like writing a thesis the longer you sit on it, the more information you have the longer it gets. So, you know, we learned new things over time. So our own understanding of doing land acknowledgments evolved. And the other piece that I've already spoken to just a little bit was just that it's better to work as a team on something like this, because not only is there multiple skill sets as we all shared, but there's multiple social positions. So myself having an indigenous background have a particular way of reflecting on the topics than other folks would necessarily and also having just different levels and types of experience with the topic in terms of like where we've done land acknowledgments before, conversations that we've had with others in our work. So we all had a very varied experience working with land acknowledgments and offering and speaking about land acknowledgments. So it was really helpful to be able to have a team to have those multiple perspectives. And I'll hand it over to Bronte to talk about word choice. When we were all like, oh, what have we learned from this process and something that I had said was like be how intentional we were about our word choices, because words have so much power and people remember what our words are. And even down to the title of this project, it went through multiple different adjectives at the top, because we couldn't figure out exactly like what was the best word to describe what we were trying to put into this course. Sincerity was in there for a while. And so, and the different words came in and out because we really wanted to be intentional and focused on what we were describing our feelings as. And throughout the whole course, then, we were very intentional on what we were putting down and what we were saying. Every each word or phrasing that's non-anglicized, that's using hunkminum or other Indigenous language characters. That was intentional because we wanted to normalize people seeing those spellings and see that it's possible doing canvas and that you can do those type of things that are at UBC and on there and through these interfaces. And something that Professor Lynn Kessler says in the What I Learned in Class Today project, which is another CTLT Indigenous initiatives project, is that we're learning the language as we go in this learning process of reconciliation and of learning about Indigenous topics and perspectives and people. And so, the word choice really does matter. And so throughout this course, we were really intentional on what we're going to pick and what people are going to remember and because they're going to remember what we wrote down. And now I actually think is when Ola gets to share a little bit about what she learned. Thanks, Bronte. Yeah, for me was two things in particular. One was responsiveness. And I think this for me was I come from a bit of project management background, as well as coming in as an instructional designer was really thinking that, you know, I'm here to build a process like that's sort of my mindset is that I'm here to build a process, but really a recognition that adapting the processes that maybe I had in mind or, you know, templates that I already hoped that we would kind of go through and really recognizing that the way that we're working through the course needs to be unique for the content that we're developing and the team members that we have and the ways that they prefer to work. We were, you know, even something like we tried one driver, like it's new on campus. We should do that because we're also in different departments, so we don't have the same share driver. Like I guess this makes sense.  And, you know, you're not sure what's going to work and if you're going to have to restart something and apologize for wasting someone's time, but really being able to be responsive and sharing ideas and recommendations of what you think might work based on your own expertise and having the space to navigate that together as a team was, I think, really effective for our group. And then the other piece, I think this was a group reflection, but I have the honor to talk to it specifically, was integrating relationship building. And Kyle's really spoken to relationality as a critical component of Indigenous engagement as a whole. And I think in our engagements as a team, that was a particularly valuable way for us to build comfort with one another, to have slightly uncomfortable conversations or be vulnerable with each other, acknowledge our gaps in knowledge or, you know, say like, oh, I've been doing it this way for years. And I think maybe that's wrong based on what you just told me. And I need to learn. And I think that how we did that was unintentionally, I think initially. And then maybe it kind of became a bit more of an intentional process was the first. Kyle, I think set us up for usually hour and a half meetings, if not sometimes two hours. And the first 10, 15 minutes were just chit chat, like what's going on in life, whether it was weddings or dog updates, or, you know, whether we got to go for a walk in a new location, thanks to COVID, that's as far as we went. But really an opportunity to just sort of level set at the beginning of a conversation. Say, look, this is where I'm at. This is what's going on for me. Maybe this is my energy level today. Like, you know, I've presented four times this week, and I'm, I'm going to contribute as much as I can. But maybe I'm not there. And that really helped us work through the content in a way that I think that was effective. And no one really feeling that, Oh, gosh, we're losing, we're losing time, right, we're losing minutes. But that this is part of the process, our ability to be honest with each other and be vulnerable with each other was dependent on sort of having those moments to converse outside of quote unquote work and content. And so I really appreciated that and hope to embed that in the future as well. Yeah, thanks, Ola. I think as I was listening to each of you, I thought to integrate the two lessons that I am going to present. One of them is says shared ownership, but I think it's really about shared responsibility. And as we were building our relationship, as Ola just said, we also were building a sense of shared responsibility for this course happened. And that felt when we were working together, we always had on work and our next meeting was the moment to share what we had done. But also we were really supportive of our colleagues by saying, do you need support in this or that. And so that was a real sense of shared ownership. And so at some point, we are trusted that this was going to work. Despite we realized it was a big responsibility to develop this course. And the second point has to do with leadership and recognizing everyone's abilities, skills and knowledges. And also, I would say has to do with the stories that we bring. It is very important to make clear that this course is possible because all of the work that is surrounding us. Three of us are coming from the team of Indigenous initiatives who have been working on this for quite a while. They have been working with other people who have guided them in terms of what to do in a through land acknowledgement. What is the purpose. So in a way in this course are coming all the stories from those relationships. So here the word leadership has to do also with recognizing leadership outside our team that has informed so much our work. And so in sharing this lesson, our purpose is really showing how we did this work. And we hope that perhaps some of this lesson might inform your own approach to course development. So that is the purpose of this section behind the scene. And I think now we are ready for the second part of show and send. Am I right? Yeah, I think so. We are getting pretty close to the big moment. So Bronte is going to be walking us through just in a minute or so like the actual course itself just to go and have a look. I am very excited to see it because I have only seen a particular version of it. Sort of the scaffolding behind the scenes part of it. So one thing that I wanted to share though is one of the first considerations you will see in the course is about the audience focus. So this course is actually designed for all learners across campus. So for staff, faculty and students. And then something as well that was quite important in our design is ensuring that it was not necessarily designed for non-indigenous people in mind because it can be really easy to center non-indigenous people in land acknowledgments as we spend time focusing on our relationship to land as settlers and stuff. And it's very important to be able to bring the focus back and also to ensure that this is inclusive of everyone. So there was a need to acknowledge that of course many Indigenous people themselves may want to know more about doing land acknowledgments. I know myself having mixed Indigenous background. I didn't know all there was to know about land acknowledgments. It took learning. It took going out there and trying them out. It took stepping up to offer them. And I also needed some encouragement and some coaching in that process. And also a lot of Indigenous folks, myself, partially included is a lot of us are raised outside of our own cultures. And so we don't have opportunities to learn these things close to our home communities. And also for a lot of, for some Indigenous nations, doing land acknowledgments is not actually part of their own protocols. And so this may be something that Indigenous learners don't necessarily have access to. So we wanted to ensure that this course was accessible to everyone, that it wasn't exclusive work of one particular audience. So we're going to go ahead and share screen and have a look at the course. Anyone want to do a drum roll with all of the talk of teaser in the chat? That's what I kept thinking. So this is it. It looks like a Canvas course. So as UBC folks, we all know what Canvas looks like. But so this is our landing page when you enroll. After I do my little spiel, Ola's going to drop the link in so that you all can go register.  I'm sorry. But so this is the entrance of the course. And if you get on here and you press start course, you'll enter our like welcome landing page. And this was really important that we opened up first with land acknowledgments from Vancouver and Okanagan. And that was something that constantly came up throughout the courses that we wanted to have equal representation from Musqueam and from Silks Okanagan Nation so that both of them, so those campuses have lots of resources and lots of places to go and explore when building their own land acknowledgement. So that's this page.  That's a little bit of what Kyle was just speaking of about setting the audience up and explaining that we know that we wanted to acknowledge that lots of different people are going to take this course. And this is who this course is for. Next is our intention setting. And this is really to help call people in and to call people and and say like you might feel uncomfortable, you might feel vulnerable going through this course, there might be things that you're never that you've never heard before. Or there's might be new learnings that go against what you have learned. And so you might have some unlearning, you might have some new learnings, but come in and join us for this like 60 minute course and just see where you end up and see where that goes and see how you feel afterwards. And so not to go through the whole course because you want to know what a Canvas course looks like. I'm going to use the modules tab over here and just pop into specific places in our course that look a little that are different than most other Canvas courses. Most other Canvas courses won't have things like this because we did this with a relationality perspective in mind and that and wanting to focus in more with an indigenous way of knowing and seeing how everything fits together. So I won't be going through all of it. I invite you all to go in and actually take the course and see every page and watch all of our videos. So I'm not going to do that. But so my next place that I'm going to point out is under, sorry I have speaker notes, is under, so here we have that respect, sincerity, responsibility. And so these are those areas that we're also really highlighting. And then here on develop your learning acknowledgement, press the wrong button here.  So it's like a choose your own adventure. Let's let's build it together. And what we were really hoping to do actually in these pages is assuage that nervousness and that, oh, I'm not, oh, I don't know what, I don't know what land it is. Well, we're going to give you tips on how on how to find that land nations. I don't know how to pronounce the name, or I don't know, or I don't, or I don't have the right terminology. I get nervous saying these things beforehand. So we really tried to give them so we really tried to give participants some like encouragement, as well as assuaging that nervousness and assuaging that anxiety. Because we want that because by the end of this course, we want you to be comfortable doing this and be, and be eager to do it and be like, yeah, I'll do the learning acknowledgement. I want to honor the people of the people's lands that we're on right now. So back to the modules tab. And so after our people build their acknowledgement, we have a place called share your acknowledgement. And this is a living document. It's through Padlet. And so after participants go through the course, they'll be able to add their landing acknowledgement here and see also everybody else's, all the other participants who have been on here's course. Through this little tab button, they can populate their own land acknowledgement and write it in. It's anonymous. So people don't have to feel nervous about sharing. They don't have to do this part of the course, of course, but it's really there for people to add and see what other people are at and to see where other people's learning on and see what they wanted to and see what they took really to heart from our exploring landing on this pages and see what they just see what everybody comes up with. So that's so this is actually one of my favorite parts of the course so that people can see what other people say and seeing what like and seeing how far you can go. And also as somebody, if you take the course, you can come back over and over again and get new ideas. Because every single time that I hear somebody else's acknowledgement, I'm like, Oh, that's an interesting thing that that's something cool that maybe I could either add or something that I want to go research for my own land acknowledgement. So if somebody says something interesting about like their homelands, I'm like, Oh, I wonder what that is like where I grew up. Let me go check it out. So that so I'm really excited for this page. And to see how it ends to see what people come up with. The last part of the of the course that we wanted to highlight is our next steps enclosure page. So of course, we have resources, because this was my big thing is I was like, Oh, let me just give everybody the things to read. I just want people to know how to read them. And so we have so we broken it up under like foundational knowledge, understanding like why UBC wants people to do my acknowledgement. So understanding like the calls to actions, the MMIWG calls to justice, and then internationally like UNDRIP and calling people's attention to those things and how they influence what we also do on campus. We have blogs, we have and this is where we have that specific like UBCO, UBCO location, and then UBCV point grade campus, we're often square, have things there for them. And then finally, we have our continuous learning and next steps page. And this is really a call to action for folks, so that they can understand that doing a 60 minute course is not going to is isn't just the end. You shouldn't just do this course and be like, Great, I'm an expert. I don't need to do anything else. That there's that there's that there's tons of things to do after this to continue your learning journey, and to continue exploring how you can how you can work within indigenous perspectives within to your work, or within your personal life. There's people who after doing our landing knowledge, our synchronous landing knowledge courses in the fall who say, Oh, yeah, now I look up on native lands where whenever I vacation, like where I'm going. And so it's just a constant. And so hopefully this this is our page that's hopefully making people think like, after the course, what am I going to continue to do to to to continue my learning. And also, what it was, what were things that were interesting in the course that I want to go read more about afterwards, like, did reading about the missing and murdered indigenous women's calls to justice make me more interested in that topic. And where can I go find more things about that. And also, we wanted to just invite people to our indigenous initiative virtual coffee hours. And so that's like a very so that's a highlighted place for us, so that we could also continue this conversation in person. And it's synchronously and through connection with people is that if people who are doing this course and they have and they have questions or they want to come discuss it with us that our team is open to that and to please contact us and that we would love to do that. So, and of course, at the end where we really wanted to acknowledge that mistakes are part of that learning that that learning process. So why not get started. And that's our course. If I could go back to the slide show. Oh, wait, Ola, I think it's gonna, did you put it in? I don't get to see things because I'm in this like share screen. It is there indeed. Thanks, Frontie. Yes. So please go register. So please go enroll and take it. And on the next slide, we're going to stop the recording and so that everybody can ask questions and feel comfortable sharing out. And so please like use the chat, use the use your voice, turn on your camera. We would love to hear any of your questions about this.


what's up guys welcome back to my channel i hope that you're all doing well so if you're coming from my ASMR channel you have maybe seen our not so relaxing mukbang that we just filmed over there but now we're gonna do a chill video i actually asked you guys on my instagram to leave some assumptions about me and my best friends here are going to rate them and say whether they're true or not these two here who have known me for almost like my whole life if anyone in the world knows the answers to these questions it's going to be them too don was here for moral support he's gonna be a little peanut gallery you just kind of because i don't know how much of this you're gonna know so whatever you want to chime in i think i know you i think i know you pretty well yeah he's he's getting there so uh we have some wine mostly for me because i might need it i don't know i haven't really looked through the assumptions yet so i don't know how many are good or how many are bad but i figured we would just go through for anyone who doesn't know do you want to introduce yourselves say your names you want to go down the line go ahead i'm down i'm kathy and i'm joenia okay in scrolling through one that i see i've seen it a couple times a lot of people think i have a secret boyfriend that i'm not telling you guys or them about listen if she ever had a secret boyfriend i would stop her across her face because we're supposed to know so aggressive no and you know no yeah if i was dating someone they would probably be the first probably some of the first to know so uh no i'm gonna put it in no she doesn't i'm gonna put it in there well what well why not what have you answered this question no i don't i don't i'm skeptical and tom oh my god i do not have a secret boyfriend she does i am single as a pringle but pringles come in packs of a lot okay the next one says you're a really understanding person and you're not quick to judge others and how they act no i'm totally kidding i think you're very understanding i think so i try to be kathy's pretty quiet i know kathy what do you think i'm thinking um she actually she's a very interesting person she was my therapist quote unquote in high school and it was hers um she's not very much quick to judge but when someone does somebody that she loves very wrong is when oh well then i'll judge of course yeah of course there has to be never forget never you're never forget true i'm very easy to forget to forgive because i feel like i understand like i i'm very empathetic but i don't forget very easily yeah or at all yeah yeah that's that another one is i'm the mom friend of the group no no i used to be you used to be go ahead well you did in high school sam was really the mom of our group of friends and then i feel like in college it became you it somehow became me and i don't know why but i feel like you just became wild and i'm wild i feel like it's definitely the fun and the fun and oh yeah that's the vibe i like the envelope you come over and it's like we're gonna hang out do this and it's like what okay i'll take that i'll take that yeah you know i definitely came out of my shell in college yeah in high school i was very like they used to call me the angel like i was afraid to do anything wrong very responsible very much so i mean i'm still responsible yeah you are so like i just i came out of my shell yes so she became the fun i am the next one is i'm very clumsy but i can pull it off in a smooth way i don't consider you clumsy i feel like i do consider you clumsy not okay explain on some sides like she could chip over a foot and like like oh quick hair swing and then she's fine but why are a lot of it really well that's what it said i said i'm so bad so why do you think i'm i feel like yeah maybe i'm thinking about like when we were like younger oh i was younger i was yeah i was i feel like i was like always getting hurt like you were one of those kids that just always was i have the scars on my legs to prove you didn't feel like fall down the stairs of the high school yeah i sprained my ankle um the next one says am i is it does it take a lot for me to get mad yes it says it takes a lot for you to get mad yes it does yeah i would say i think i feel like i feel like i i don't know you that well but i've never seen you like i i don't even remember the last time i've been like angry i feel like you get sassy yeah annoyed but like i don't even remember the last time i think i'm mad yeah i've never been mad at like any of you yeah you remember me no not yet the night is the night i don't know what's happening right now taking a little break is this one good oh my god that was the joke you know you got it done yeah yeah that was the joke that was like take up a thing next one says that i love to dance of course i feel like we we all do well maybe well don't know down oh i love to dance too how well is a different is a different question but you know the dance you have rhythm i do i i get told that i have rhythm he does i know follow would be he's a kid follow be i could follow it the three of us we danced for years in high school she loves dancing like is out of high school and we started in middle school so yeah we danced for quite a long time and i miss it a lot so yes she loves to dance um yes i miss it a lot the next one says i'm a home body i don't even know how i would answer that question what is a home like you like you prefer to be home she used to be a home body not anymore i feel like i still kind of am not necessarily no just because like you're i feel like you want because you work that's it yeah i feel like you i feel like adulthood is like you go you just need to go home after working a lot yeah yeah wait but i have an interesting follow-up okay have you ever taken the 16 personalities mires briggs test in college i had to were you extroverted intro i don't remember but probably introverted back back then probably thank you they're best friends okay the next one says you were popular in high school okay we went to a very large high school yeah i don't know if you ever mentioned yeah our school had like 4 000 kids yeah collectively it was like a different popular wasn't a thing it yeah i will say that like i knew who you were so i feel like you were we like we were a separate friend groups and like we were friends with a bunch of different people yeah so we had like we knew like they played volleyball i was on the dance team so we knew sporty people we took ap classes so we knew like the smart kids we were friends with theater kids yeah we were just we just i don't know we were all very friendly everyone just intermingled but i wouldn't say it like it wasn't like the classic in my life i feel like it wasn't like popular like it means in like movies yeah right thought that you are cool no i wasn't cool like it was like like we didn't really hang out but i knew who you were yeah yeah i feel like people knew who you i don't like that i don't like the word popular yeah the next one says you are not a very spontaneous person and need to make a plan for everything i feel like that's correct yeah yeah i don't think you're sorry i think yes you're probably going to see she means like a plan for me i know plan is not gonna happen i need structure i need but i'm not am i annoying about it no no i don't think i'm like i'm not like type a where like everything has to be like itinerary itinerary yeah but i need a general like a plan mind and yes i'm correct yeah correct do you feel like generally that you're the person that plans things depend i feel like depends on the friend group what about like with us but i feel like it's you and me yeah usually and then kathie's just down for anything so i never know what's going on oh god they said you're a girl in real life you talk bad about people behind their backs no hate no hey does it really say that that is absolutely were there any movies no wow they put an x like no hate kiss wow okay so we're all right answer it go ahead absolutely can i read it again yes uh she's not at all uh she doesn't talk bad about anybody bad about like i said earlier if you're gonna put that one in it's if you cross her badly if you do something wrong to those like if you were to go after them exactly then i come for you that's it you know what i mean but that's for anybody yeah so no wait yeah this one i just feel like because it kind of comes back to what we were saying before okay it says um sam makes dad jokes a lot oh yes for my god sure she hates it for sure hates it i like corny people i like corny jokes i do i find the show a lot it's just she takes it to an extent she does where it's like all the time like really and it's like it's always been like that like sam's been making dad jokes since we were like 10 years old and we were like is that even a joke can we define can we define the dad joke because are we just hating on puns okay wait one of the oldest ones i remember my god i still remember remember my i remember this is getting real no i'm so excited which one is it i'm thinking of if it is a what do you call a cow with no legs ground beef ground i guess you just have to be in the right mood oh see that was all come on utter now okay can i at a circus no intense man i should have seen this one coming it's funny it's an assumption but it's a question will you it's from my it's from my sister my little sister will you try watching anime has anyone ever watched anime yes hunter hunter what do you watch i wonder i don't know if i've never watched anime i feel like honestly you actually would like hunter hunter really you want to do really uh no i didn't watch it but don't explain like every episode it's really it's really good my sister's obsessed with it maybe she watches them she probably does i think that's like a really a lot of women okay another assumption of sam it's a treat sam is ocd and sometimes it shoots her in the foot oh my god she used to be so really i feel like i'm more so now really in every class you and i was in math class and trig in with miss such a maria remember yes wait a minute what in pre-hand yeah i was in my class oh my god tom you were i remember that okay this is also just a question will you keep doing asmr for the next five to ten years that's so specific yes she would she would i i mean i don't have a time limit on it i but i could see myself doing it keep watching i like i would like to keep doing youtube though like even just on this like channel just like document because it's so fun to like look back on my videos from years ago and be like oh my god i was such a baby or i was going through this or like and you just like literally document your life so yeah that's pretty cool kathy sam well the assumption is you play hard to get with guys who try to hit on you yes absolutely absolutely she plays the game okay so i feel like can i well do you want to expand or can i speak no you can speak i feel like i can i see why you're saying that i can definitely be a flirt but it's always just when i do it it's like in fun it's never to actually like go anywhere you play hard to get i can be like a casual flirt where it's like in fun but it's never to like go anywhere but then if a guy actually does want to date me then i just get awkward and i don't do anything about it don't reciprocate the feelings and like i'm the type where i'm not going to date just to date like if i don't feel it then i'm just not going to go for it like sam will like entertain certain uh candidates you know let's put it that way um but um once you do something that's like just like such a turn off like she she's out the door yeah like she won't even say i can't i can't fake it leaves of air and leaves things you just she is single like a pringle so you go ahead oh my god there are a couple people in here looking to go ahead yeah i saw a few of those this is uh this is kind of fun it just says i've been waiting for this i don't have an assumption i just love you and can't wait for this video oh that's really so most like 99 percent of people are so freaking nice um not a very good cook but you enjoy putting effort into trying i don't know about her i've never eaten anything she's made yeah i've never cooked for them i think my food actually tastes pretty good my mom says it's bland sometimes but that's because she puts a double on everything oh of course so the the Puerto Ricans now this one says you can be a very mean and pretty person when it comes to standing up for others or yourself oh yeah it's appropriate yeah your teeth be a little bit it doesn't go pretty well i feel okay do you think you're confrontational no no i should be i wish i was more confrontational i'm very confrontational i'm not i like to keep the peace all right so are we are we good i don't know how successful this was i think i like it i like it it's good we got a lot of them honestly all righty you don't have you're right you're kind yeah all right well thank you guys so much for watching i hope that you enjoyed this very very chaotic video i have so much editing to do i'm afraid but i hope that you guys got at least a little laugh out of it thank you for sending me your assumptions and we will see you next time bye guys thank you thank you so very all right


Taylor Swift, whoever thought you would hear about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey, let's not forget Travis, on the Iran book show. I mean this is very unusual. I have to admit that my knowledge of Taylor Swift is primarily of her business success. I'm not familiar with her music. I doubt that I would like her music, but I'm just not familiar with it. I probably heard it. It's probably everywhere, right? So I probably heard it at some point, somewhere, somewhere. I've seen pictures of her in costume and just pictures of her because she's everywhere. You can't not see Taylor Swift if you're in this world, in reading the media or on Twitter, or anywhere. Really, she is, she is, she is everywhere. And she's a billionaire. She's the biggest thing in music from a financial perspective, possibly ever. Her tour, which is global, is sold out everywhere. It's on a scale of no tour that's ever been before. I mean, there was Beatlemania, but this is on a completely different level where Taylor Swift is achieving what she's doing, you know, from a business, from a business and entertainment perspective.  It's not just that she, her album sell, she's had, I don't know what the numbers are, a huge number of albums at the top of the list, a huge number of songs, you know, at the top of every list of songs, titanium albums, whatever they call them these days. She's had it. She is, you know, this jaw-dropping success. It's hard to imagine.  She's bigger than, I don't know, Beyonce or any of the modern singers out there. Exactly what made her so successful, we'll get to in a minute, but she's huge. And there's nobody as big as her in the world today. And what complicates the story, of course, I don't know what to make of the story, this is the funny, stupid, ridiculous, idiotic, but it's the story. So we covered here in the Iran Book Show, and I think it does reveal something really, reveal something really sad about American politics. But anyway, she is dating Travis Kelsey. Travis Kelsey is the, what is he? He plays for the Kansas City Chiefs. He is a, God, I forget the name of the position. Anyway, he is on the tight end, thank you, is a tight end on the Kansas City Chiefs. He's one of the great tight ends from what I've read, one of the great tight ends in NFL history. He has won, I think, two Super Bowls already and is in the Super Bowl coming up, right? So you've got, there's Travis Kelsey in the Super Bowl. You've got his girlfriend, the biggest star on the planet. Literally, she will be flying in from Singapore, I think, on a private jet, you know, and only because she'll basically be doing a show and watching the Super Bowl in the same day. But since she's traveling over the date line, it won't be the same day, but technically it'll be the same day. And she's going to be there in the stands and, you know, this has brought a whole new generation of new football fans to football because all the girls who adore Taylor Swift, they call it Swifties, are going to be watching the game and watching Taylor and Kelsey. It's kind of this romantic fairy tale. He's a good-looking, you know, football player. He's younger than she is, I'm pretty sure. We'll get to that, too, in a little while, kind of the insanity of the whole thing. But anyway, you think this is just, okay, an all-American story. Incredibly successful entertainer. Makes a billion dollars, is one of the richest people in the planet and people love her and adore her and they buy her merchandise, they buy everything she touches. It's one of those stories that you hear about in America constantly, but just she's just taking it into a new dimension. It's just done being more successful than anybody else. And supposedly we love success in this country, particularly conservatives claim they love success in this country. They love entrepreneurs. She's definitely an entrepreneur. She's done something few people have done before. And yeah, I mean, this is a fantastic story, which we should all be happy for. And then we've got one of the best football players in America. Football, after all, is the American sport. Nobody else really plays football. It's the sport of the working class. It is the sport of Sunday sitting on the sofa, watching the game. Everybody who in America doesn't love football. I mean, football is America. And you've got one of the great football players, maybe of all time, certainly in his position, falling in love with one of the most successful entertainers in all of history. She's a billionaire. He's only worth probably tens of millions of dollars. So that is a little bit of a role reversal in terms of gender. But there you go. You think everybody would be crazy about this? Ultimately, Taylor Swift is a woman. She dresses sexy.  She's not trans. She's not pretending to be something she's not. She's not confused. She's not psychologically problematic. She's she's good old a woman who's pretty sexy.  She's a model of entrepreneurship and capitalism and making money and being successful at goals, go over there, go to go to a contest dressed like goals. You think you think people would be excited about this, particularly again, conservatives would be excited about about this phenomenon. Now she has a weakness. Everybody has a weakness, right? She has a weakness. After all, human beings do have original son. And her weakness is that in 2020, she endorsed Biden. And here's where it gets pretty crazy, right? She endorsed Biden. She's not a crazy lefty. She's left. But she doesn't act left. She's obviously acting capitalist. She endorsed Biden. That is unacceptable. That cannot be tolerated. And so over the last few weeks, the make America great again, universe has gone apoplectic over Taylor Swift. She is a, you know, we'll talk about what she is. But you know, let me just give you a few examples, right? I mean, first of all, it's clear Mike Crispy, a congressional candidate who lost. Luckily, Mike Crispy tweets, the NFL is totally rigged for Kansas City chiefs. Taylor Swift, Mr. Pfizer, we'll get to Mr. Pfizer, Travis Kelsey, all to spread democratic propaganda. Calling it now, KC wins, goes to Super Bowl. This is just before the previous game that led to the Super Bowl. Swift comes out at the halftime show and endorses Joe Biden and Kelsey at midfield. It's all about, it's all been an op since day one.  He's like, you know, solid. He's the real thing. Good looking white guy, played football, making, making, making money, being successful, winning Super Bowls. Again, you think, you think that he was, he'd be adored. No, no, no, no, no, no. Why? He actually participated in, in a advertising campaign to encourage people to get, God forbid, I mean, this is like the devil, but to get vaccinated. He actually, actually participated in a campaign to encourage people to get vaccinated. And therefore he is part of the, the, the, you know, the evil, whatever, fill in the blank. He is the agent of the devil. He also, by the way, and this is, you know, hard. I don't know. I don't know how you want to evaluate him, but he also made a commercial, right? Made a commercial for, for Bud Light. Yep. Yeah. I don't want to get into discussion of vaccines, vaccines of science. Anybody who doubts the vaccines and the data is ignorant at best, but probably not just ignorant. It's probably a lot worse than that.  I mean, he's a good quarterback. He's a great quarterback.  And the fact that he has Atlas shrugged in the back doesn't redeem him from the fact that he's not that smart when it comes to anything other than football. But that's okay. That's okay. You guys, you guys go along with the, with the vaccine mythology of the right. This is Vivek, Vivek, Vivek writes tweets, Vivek is trying to stay relevant, of course, tweets, I wonder who's going to win the Super Bowl next month. And I wonder if there's a major presidential endorsement coming from artificially, culturally propped up couple this fall. Just some wild speculation over here. Let's see how it ages over the next eight months. So Vivek is now playing into this idea. Oh, it's all rigged. This is, this is all, this is all just a democratic conspiracy to, you know, to win the Super Bowl and use it as a platform for advertising Joe Biden as, as president. I mean, Joe Biden campaign is pretty sophisticated. You've got to admit it. Unbelievable sophistication. Here's Laura Luma. Laura Luma is a loon, a complete loon. Although Scott probably likes it. So but Laura Luma says, the Democrats, Taylor Swift election interference site, psych off up is happening in the open. It's not a coincidence that kind of photo by that former Biden administration officials are popping up Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey. They're going to use Taylor Swift as the poster child for their pro-abortion Go TV campaign. I don't, what do you say about, what do you say about this? It just, it gets loonier and loonier. But, but, but, you know, this is loony stuff. I don't know. Foxes is pretty bad, but you'd think that Fox maybe would be, would be, you know, somewhat same sanity, a little bit of sanity, maybe not completely nuts in the Republican world. But again, Taylor Swift by all accounts, self-made woman, self-made, unbelievable success. But Republicans can't accept that somebody is a self-made, unbelievable success and still supports Joe Biden. So here is, here is Jesse, somebody, Jesse Waters explanation for what is going on with Taylor Swift, because it just can't be, it can't be that somebody endorses Biden and then goes on and becomes a billionaire and even dates a football player who happens to be in the Super Bowl. Something very suspicious is going on here, people. Wake up, wake up. The world is being taken over. Here is Jesse Waters, who is just a straight up Fox guy. Well, Taylor Swift's the biggest star in the world. Sorry, Gutfield. She's been blanketed across the sports media entertainment atmosphere. The New York Times just speculated she's a lesbian. And last year's tour broke Ticketmaster. New York Times just speculated she's a lesbian. Why is that relevant in this context? Is that just a slam against the fact that she's a lesbian? Makes a bad in some way, probably. This is Fox after all. And so so here we go. She's a lesbian, maybe, maybe she's a lesbian. So that just reinforces the idea that her affair with Kelsey is all popped up. It's not real. It's all pretend. A tour that's revenue tops the GDP of 50 countries.  She's all right. But I mean, have you ever wondered why or how she blew up like this? Well, around four years ago, the Pentagon Psychological Operations Unit floated, turning Taylor Swift into an asset during a NATO meeting. What kind of asset? A PSYOP for combating online misinformation. Listen, can you believe this? So so so she's a PSYOP for combating online information. She's she blew up because the Pentagon wanted her to blow up. They have been propping her up. They made it possible. They I mean, this is Fox. This is not some crazy channel. We'll get to the crazy channel in a minute. This is Fox. Now, here's the presentation from the Pentagon, right? This is a presentation at some summit, you know, some conference, public conference, by the way, public conference, not some secret hidden away operation. Notice the woman making the presentation. She can barely speak. But but, you know, this is the Pentagon's secret operation to take over America by using Taylor Swift as a PSYOP.  The idea is that social influence can help can help encourage or promote behavior change so potentially as like a peaceful information operation.  I don't know if you're part of her. Yeah, that's real. Yeah, it's real. But she's like a kid. She can barely speak. This is a high level Pentagon operation run by a kid who's making this public. All she said is use Taylor Swift as an example of how such a thing could happen. I mean, really? But he doesn't stop there. The Pentagon PSYOP unit pitched NATO on turning Taylor Swift into an asset. Is that what you saw? I didn't see NATO being pitched of anything new in the 1950s. The government's strong armed Louis Armstrong into doing propaganda tours across Africa. Exactly the same. The CIA did the same thing with jazz singer Nina Simone, except they did it without her really knowing. In the 70s, Nixon was in his war on drugs. He gave the king a badge and named him a covert federal law enforcement agent. Michael Jackson was tapped by Reagan using his song, Beat It, and his public service campaigns against teen drinking and driving. But, quotefully, I take it. The production was persuading miners not to drink. Anyway, so is Swift a front for a covert political agenda. Primetime obviously has no evidence. If we did, we'd share it. No evidence. No evidence. And yet, this is a five-minute story on it. How do you do a five-minute story on something that you have no evidence about, and you're willing to admit that you have no evidence about? This is journalism. This is amateur, not 101. This is nobody. I mean, it's just unbelievable. Unbelievable. All this is is to get this idea of a sigh of out there. No evidence. Just stick it out there so that people start talking about it. So it creates online chatter. This is like the lowest. And everybody's talking about this, by the way. Now, you know, everybody online is talking about this.  Off of no evidence?  This world is literally insane. This world is nuts. And this is on the right, where now everything is political. Truth doesn't matter. Reality doesn't matter. Sanity doesn't matter. All that matters is who's on what side? Who's on which team? We got to do one more of these, because this one is precious. She is amazing. This is OAN, this is a granted. This is a marginal right wing news show. But these are, this is MAGA. This is Make America Great Again World. This is the foundations of Trump's supporters. These are the people who flood the media with this craziness and nonsense and who dominate his supporters. This is why this country is going to hell if he wins, because it only emboldens these nutcases, these completely insane people. Now, this is the difference. They're insane people on the left. They're complete wackos on the left. Completely insane. Completely insane. All the woke and the DEI and the pro Hamas. I mean, there's an unlimited number of insane people on the left. But they're not going to be president of the United States. And they're not this close to the president of the United States. They're marginalized even by their own people. This is at the heart of it. This is at the heart today of the Republican Party. I watch this. This is a classic. Pop star celebrity sweetheart joins forces with the top dog in the NFL, playing for the team that's going to the Super Bowl. I mean, let's be real here. This is bread and circuses on steroids. Major League sports in and of itself is nothing but a PSYOP. Get kids plugged into the cycle of going to public indoctrination camps, playing sports for their school, and going to games. Many end up devoting their entire childhood to competing in various sports. Is that awesome? Only to be cut from the team, at which point they become brainwashed into supporting professional teams because they know their dreams of becoming a pro athlete will probably never have it.  So sad. Imagine being so brainwashed by sports you actually show up to your team stadium to shovel snow for free so you can watch a bunch of grown men who are overpaid tackle each other. God, American used to love sports, right? People underweight in particular used to love sports, particularly football. What has happened? This country's gone insane. At least some people in this country have gone completely insane. Scott Walker. Scott Walker was the governor of Wisconsin. He was a good guy. I liked Scott Walker. I would have voted for president if he'd lasted beyond I think the Iowa caucuses whenever it was that he ran. And I think it was the same year that Mitt Romney ultimately was the candidate. Scott Walker was good. He broke the unions in Wisconsin. He was a tough guy. He was a good governor. He tweets this with a picture of Travis Kelsey. He tweets, funny how liberals are interested in the opinion of a white man living in the 1% who does work for Big Pharma, an insurance company. Oh my God, an insurance company.  She also mentioned sweatshops because he must have a clothing line or something that probably is accused of being sweatshops. Everybody uses sweatshops. Most of the clothes you wear were produced in sweatshops. You know, this is Scott Walker tweeting, and who has a girlfriend who is going to fly around the world in a private jet to watch him play? And what's the problem with that? Why is that wrong? And it's not liberals. It's regular Americans. It's just regular Americans. It's not like Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift are the favorite of the world crowd. They're the favorite of average Americans, the people who go to their shows. People go to their shows and not the crazy left. They're just regular people. People who watch the Super Bowl. Believe me, the woke people don't watch the Super Bowl. They're not interested. They're very much like the crazy white. They think football is awful. They're just regular Americans. So Scott Walker's making fun of regular Americans because they're interested in Kelsey and Taylor Swift. You know, and it goes on and on and on.  So no point in watching 49ers will lose because it's rigged. It's rigged. It's a psychopoperation by the Pentagon.  Don't worry about it. And this is the craziness. This is the nighliness. This is all in Benjamin. Oh, and Benjamin's a comedian. So maybe this is supposed to be comedy. I don't know. I find it hard to generally to tell when something is comedy these days or not because the world is so insane and so, in a sense, funny that it gets, it's hard to differentiate. So here's Owen Benjamin. Why would a rich, famous guy marry a 34-year-old woman? Because she's beautiful and talented and successful and amazing? I mean, is that it? I don't know how many, what the age difference is between them. It can't be that much. It's probably six, seven years. Is that what's gonna kill it, right? If you start it immediately, and this reveals it all, right? Because this guy's obviously a conservative. If you start it immediately, you might be able to have two kids.  Well, that rules her out.  I mean, I think attitude should be the exact opposite. She has experience. This is great.   Despite her wealth, she's very low quality for any successful male. Really, the billion dollars. And in her physique, with her physique, and the way she looks, give me a break. Maybe this is comedy after all.  Why would a successful man want a middle-aged woman who's always on tour? It is, could it be because he's gay?  So that all fits. And then he adds, what was that thing? He says there's a type of guy who marries the 34-year-old trainwreck who's always gone. He looks very, very gay. My theory is he wants access to Taylor's young fans.  That's a fact, no matter how mad it makes you, don't make the same mistake she's made, it's hell. Really, really? So as a woman, you can't choose not to have kids and be super successful and be admired for being successful. Any mom is better. Any mom is more inspiring. Sorry, Owen. I mean, assuming you're not just kidding, maybe you're just kidding.  It just is sad, a statement in the 21st century for people to hold these views. All right, so what's going on here?  One is, look, the reality is the Trump has drawn out the wackiest, craziest, most insane people on the right and he's mainstreamed them. He's given them a voice because he's wacky, crazy, insane. And he's likely to repeat these when Taylor Swift endorses Biden, he's likely to repeat some of these crazy ideas. He's made it legit. He's made it okay. We've elected to Congress after all. Marjorie Taylor Greene, and she's one of Trump's favorites. You know, it was Jews and space lasers and all kinds of stuff. We've legitimized all kinds of crazy conspiracy theories. We've voted, you know, what's her name? Bob, we've voted people like that into Congress. She probably won't be coming back to Congress after the next election, but we did vote her into Congress in spite of the fact that she held some of the most insane, crazy conspiracy theories. Now again, you've got the same thing on the left. The left has these people as well. But the president of the United States doesn't embrace those theories. Indeed, they land up criticizing the president of the United States quite a bit. But Trump has embraced the crazy. He's part of the crazy. He encourages the crazy. And his next administration is probably gonna be filled with some of these crazy. Now it's also true, and you have to grant this, that there's a massive monetary incentive, just like there is with a vaccine, a fixed denial. There's a massive monetary incentive to say crazy things that go viral, to be at the cutting edge of stupidity. Social media has made this possible so that you have a lot of right-wing pundits who are just, you know, is Jesse Waters just really believes this? Or is this his ploy to try to capture more of Tucker Carlson's followers? Is the game here really just to get clicks, just to get followers? So you've got an overlap of real, you know, wackos. And then people trying to get followers. And then on top of that, you've got people who want to gain attention. You know, and again, mimic him Trump. Trump is all about attention. I mean, what is Vivek entering into this? Because Vivek wants to be cool. He wants to be among the cool kids.  Oh, did I say the cutting edge of stupidity? I don't know who said the cutting edge of stupidity. Are you citing me or somebody else at that? Because I don't remember saying it. But the cutting edge of stupidity really is a good phrase. And it fits the modern day right now, 2024 Republican Party. Cutting edge of stupidity. There is also a wing of the Republican Party.  Just paranoid people. People who are convinced, at least I think so, I think they're convinced unless it's all a show, that the world really end. I mean, there was Flight 93. That was serious, right? If we don't elect Trump, it's the end. The world is finished. We're all dead. If we reelect Biden, he's gonna come after all of us. We're gonna be arrested. We're gonna go to jail. There is this real paranoia among this fringe in the Republican Party. And it's everywhere. And if you consider that paranoia, then whoa, it could very well be. That the Pentagon has unleashed Taylor Swift on us as a secret weapon to try to manipulate the election and get it, everybody, to vote for Biden. I mean, it's amazing to me how people who generally don't think the government is that sophisticated and able, or at least never used to, now think that the government is all powerful. They can pull off a Psycop like this. They're thinking, fool, millions and millions of people around the world. Wow, I mean, that's amazing. And of course, what this all is leading to is really, I think, the collapse of the Republican Party. The Republican Party is a party of losers right now. It should have won the Senate last election, but it shows as its candidates, people who are wacky, crazy, losers, Dr. Oz, they chose as house members. They should have won the house. If you remember the predictions about winning the house, where they were gonna win the house by 40 members, 50 maybe. You remember the red wave, they were gonna take the Senate and dominate the house. They didn't. Why? Because most Americans like Taylor Swift. Most Americans just think she's fun. Most Americans love the Super Bowl and they don't think it's rigged.  They really don't. I mean, as long as he's not taking a knee, but even when they took the knee, people still watch football. They just wanna see a good game. And the fact that he's good looking and she's successful and good looking, hey, they make a cute American couple. And people love that. So this is suicide for the Republican Party. And they're in suicide mode. There's no question about that. They are letting the wackiest people go out and represent them. And because it's on Fox and become people like Vivek and Scott Walker amplify this, it doesn't seem like it's just a crazy wacky people. It's not just Laura Luna or whatever she's called. It seems like more reasonable people are picking up on this. And it's these crazies. These crazies that have been inspired, motivated and emboldened by Donald Trump that are destroying, you know, what was a political party? Not a great political party. There was always critical of them, but at least something. Now there's nothing. The best they can do, as we'll talk about tomorrow, the best they can do is claim that, now Zuckerberg is responsible for teen suicides rather than maybe the parents who should watch what they can consume on social media, but no, Zuckerberg is responsible.  That's them at their best. If they wanna lose many more elections, they'll do what they're doing right now. They will, you know, go after abortion in every single case everywhere, including going after a doctor. If you remember a doctor that did an abortion on what was she, a 12-year-old girl or a nine-year-old girl who was raped and was pregnant, couldn't get an abortion in her home space. She had to go to another state to get an abortion and they still went after the doctor. Yep, that'll get you a lot of votes. That'll get you votes.  And they denied her an abortion in Texas. Texas Supreme Court denied her an abortion. She had to go out of state to get an abortion. And then there was some talk about potentially, they never did this thankfully, about arresting her when she came back to Texas. They think this is a winning strategy and then making Taylor Swift into some kind of Pentagon ops operator or the NFL is rigged in order in favor of Biden. They really think this is going to win. Yes, it'll rally the crazies. It'll make America a great nation. Enthusiastic, they'll love them. But is that gonna get the independence, the more rational Republicans excited to come out of vote? No.