Hello, welcome to Sustainability Unplugged. I am Jessica. And I'm Lynn. Tell me what you've been reading and watching and wasting your time doing. Yeah, and I've been wasting my time a lot over the holiday season. So someone suggested love and death. OK. believe it's primary HBO. I don't remember.

The main character is played by Elizabeth Olsen. Okay. And it's based on a woman's true story. And she goes on trial. It's like the late 70s, early 80s, Texas. And she was on trial for murder of one of her good wife friends. That is like one ounce of the whole thing. ⁓ okay.

There's murder, there's mental illness, there's... No, it's soapy. Is it soapy? It's not, no. It's weird. Yeah. So, at work suggested So, have you recommended it? I don't know. I don't know. I do, because it's like a true story, but someone at work recommended it right before we left for the holiday. And I went back.

recently and I looked at her and I said What do you watch? Because that was weird and she's just laughing So I did watch that I I think I do recommend it But I caution you you have been warned I Watched it's all her fault. yes, that's on my list. have you have you watched it? I have okay. What are your thoughts?

wonderfully done. Yes, absolutely recommend. Yes, 100 % recommend. Twisty tourney. Till the very end. I don't think you'll know. Unless you're like one of those super sleuthy. I mean, I kind of like at beginning I was like, oh, this is like a book I read. And then at the end it's like based on a novel. Have you read?

So I have not read it, but it is yeah, it's very much like, you know the thrillers, you know, do I yeah, I it's hard to say it like talk about it without giving it away. But yeah, it's it kind of points at all of the different people that are part of the show, right? All of the different characters of who could have done it. Yes. And how it came about, who was involved and why were they involved and all this stuff. So

I think they did a great job of not giving it away. So I would synopsis as family drama involving missing child. Yes, Yeah. Yeah. And ⁓ centers around the mom who is I can't remember her name, but she's the daughter on succession. So wonderful actress. The actors did such a good job in that. Yeah. ⁓

That was good one. Okay, what else? What else have you watched? Also, what came out about the same time and kind of similar as far as genre, it was The Beast in Me. Okay. So, ⁓ all her fault was on Peacock. Correct. Okay. Yeah. The Beast in Me is on Netflix. It is a series. I need to know your full-on thoughts because I also have watched it. First of all, Matthew Rhys in EVERYTHING Amazing. He's amazing.

He could do no wrong as far as And I feel like all of his shows are, he plays an American. He is not. Yes. Where is he from? Scottish or something. You could never tell. Right. And he's just a wonderful actor and Claire Danes. Same. I so I loved it. I highly recommend it. Very, very good. Claire Danes, I grew up on.

my so-called life, you know, like I grew up as she grew up basically. She, in my mind, is, while watching it, I was thinking, man, you really have to play a specific kind of character, like a neurotic kind of character, right? And I'm like, I can't really do you if you want, like, what would, Homeland, neurotic person, this one, pretty neurotic. And then over the holidays, I watched The Family Stone.

she's not neurotic at all. She's like an artsy fartsy. And I was like, I take back everything I said about you. most normal person in the family. Yes. And then I had to take it all back. Well, but she wasn't a main main character in that movie. Yeah. I also watched the Family Stone. Did you cry like a baby? Well, I always cry like a baby. And then I knew this year because of Diane Keaton that I was like, yeah, I got to the end of I was I lost it. Yep.

I basically just laid on the couch for an hour afterward thinking about feelings. I actually didn't. I watched it at a particular time. Like I kept, you know, it's on when you're scrolling and trying to figure out what to watch. You know, it was always there and I was like, nope, can't do it right now. Can't do it right now. It was a particular time. Okay. Reading? you any specific reading?

December I read all Christmas books. How do you feel about that? I do it every year. It's wonderful. Yeah. It's just most wonderful time of the year. I just dive in and get them all done. January, I've jumped back into regular reading. So I finished the latest Frederick Bachman, who is a wonderful author and can do no wrong.

He struggles with depression and so he has mentioned that this could be his last book and I just hope not. What was this one called? My Friends. Okay. So he the Bear Town series is wonderful. I anxious people I do like I was trying to think of. He makes you feel everything. So when I read anxious people, I did not like it.

because it made me anxious. I was like, I already have problems and I read it and I was like, oh my God, these people. yeah, wonderful. Wonderful author. So that was how I kicked off January. I have a huge stack for January and I'm gonna try to do, let some friends pick what I'm reading. So I took a picture of my bookshelf and then sent it to a group.

and they each picked one. Are you anxious about any of their, I mean they're all books from your shelf. No, so I said you could pick a book that you loved. It could be a hate pick. interesting. Or it could be something like you want to hear about it, you know, want to know if it's any good or if you want to buddy read together. okay. So anyway, yeah. I'm gonna need three picks from that. I ended up

getting a couple books from the library that I always say I accidentally got things from the iWrp library. Because I put stuff on hold and I like to wait until I'm at the top of the list and then pause the hold so that I can make sure I get it when I'm ready to read it. OK. Like for newer stuff where there's a long wait. And I did not get it paused in time. So I had to add those two to my stack. have a book.

Well, I need to read books for this podcast. So we'll get there eventually. It's a large stack. I mean, I have I have full faith in you that you will get done everything that you want to get done. I I also know, I mean, it doesn't well, it doesn't matter. Like I read for fun. This is not a, know, I definitely need to know how you.

feel about the ones that your friends picked for you? That is a very interesting experiment. OK. Could go a I mean, but it doesn't matter, does it? It doesn't. But it's just a very interesting way to decide what you're going to read next. Yeah. I've never heard anybody do that before. Well, I did a, like, back in August, I did a DNF challenge. So I made them pick the books that they liked the least.

And it gave me more permission to quit early. If I'm not liking it, I know that they didn't like it either. that was kind of fun. It's a different way. Because I stare at the shelf and I'm like, what do I want to read next? So it's just a different way to pick. Interesting. What have you read? I am fully engulfed in the fourth wing Iron Flame onyx. ⁓ really?

Yes. I would not. I know. Pick that for you. I wouldn't either. I would not have picked it for myself, but I have not read them. I probably won't ever. People kept talking about them when the third one, the onyx storm came out. People kept talking about it. And I was like, what are they talking about? So was like, well, clearly I need to go look this up. And then I did. And everyone else was talking about it. So I read the first one, fourth wing.

last year, middle of last year probably. And I just recently started, I think I have like three hours left in the audio book of the Iron Flame, which is the second one in the series. I listened to them and I listened to the graphic audio version. So you hear, it's like a, it's a fantasy series, right? Romantic scene, Yeah, yeah.

there's dragons and all of this stuff. So you hear like, if you're on a dragon, you hear the whooshing of the wind. Or if they happen to be making out, you hear those, that's very awkward. You those sounds. You hear the dragons, like it's a full cast, so it's different, different ⁓ people speaking. I absolutely love it. I absolutely love it. I'm not a fantasy,

or a romance person in general, but this one is very, very good. So I'll keep you updated. have this, the second one left. I don't know if there's supposed to be more or three, is it? I have no idea. I'm just going in this blind. So I will finish that one and then I will probably read a book for this podcast. I have to break them up because oftentimes they can be very heavy and a lot of information.

And so I have to do fun stuff and then read one of those. I have to do it simultaneously, like read some 20 pages of the boring book and then finish the evening. do that. I can't read more than one book at a time. ⁓ I cannot do it. Even if they're so different like that? Yes. I need to focus on one thing at a time. I don't know why I'm going to guess. It's because

I have so many things going on in my life, I don't want to add two or three books to it. Like I can only focus on one book at a time. Yeah. I've always read multiple at a time. So I think that's impressive. I've you can do that because I just cannot.

OK. Well, it sounds like we have been busy over the holidays listening and reading and watching. Yep. OK. So everybody go out there and listen to all the things that we have talked about.

Or give us recommendations for other things. I like recommendations. Okay. Eco events. Yes. All right. What do we got?

Local EcoEvents, January 26, 11 AM. We talked about this on the last episode. Plugin KC is hosting a live webinar. They're going to explore EV, electric vehicle, adoption.

Smart charging and emerging technologies that are creating new opportunities to improve grid reliability, flexibility, and long-term resilience. We are both going to be listening in on this webinar. So pack your lunch, turn on your computer, and follow along with us. These are always really informative. I've done a couple of before with them. They have a lot of good things to talk about. Also in our area, Cultivate KCs.

Annual Farmers and Friends meeting is on Saturday, February 7th. It's from 8 to 2. Apparently they have lots of pie. Yeah, that's all I know about it. Pie and fellowship. So you're going to be eating and talking a lot. We love Cultivate KC, so I think this will be a really good event. Nationwide or globally, International Day of Education is held every January 24th to recognize importance of working to ensure inclusive

an equitable quality education for all. I know this is very close to your heart. So education. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. February 2nd will be World Wetlands Day. I did not know this, which raises how did you not know this? I I don't know. I just didn't know. I do now, though, that it raises global awareness about the vital role of wetlands for people and the planet.

February 20th, so looking ahead in February, World Day of Social Justice. It is a UN recognized holiday. It promotes gender equality, indigenous peoples and migrants rights. So very important. Yes, these are all really good ones. Man, it's a great way to start the year. It is. Lots of stuff going on. Yeah, we need to be busy. Okay, so.

Speaking of recognized holidays, Monday, January 19th, we observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

It is a day about service for everyone. It's a time to reflect on what each of us can do individually and collectively to serve our home.

It's the only one we have. So true. That's true. King would certainly be on the front lines of the climate crisis if he were alive today. Fully agree. Yes, he would. Mm-hmm. Let's talk about him. All right. He's important. So not to get into his life too much, but just in case you didn't know.

Martin Luther King Jr. was born January 15th, 1929. He was the leader of the modern American civil rights movement for just 13 years. From 1955 until his death on April 4th, 1968. He used the power of words and acts of nonviolent resistance, such as protests, grassroots organizing, and civil disobedience to achieve seemingly impossible goals.

His notable works include the I Have a Dream speech, the Letter from a Birmingham Jail, and I've Been to the Mountaintop Address given the day before he was assassinated. He is the only non-president to have a national holiday dedicated in his honor and is the only non-president memorialized on the Great Mall in the nation's capital. He was named Time Magazine's Man of the Year for 1963 and in 1964 at 35 years old,

Martin Luther King Jr. became the youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Okay, I had completely forgotten that he had won the Nobel Peace Prize, first of all. Also, when you said 13 years, the impact that he still has today in having been in the national spotlight, the world spotlight for only 13 years, and that's tremendous. Right.

Absolutely. mean, I didn't like I knew he died young but it's like when you actually put a number to it was like crazy. Yeah, and it talks about how he is the only non-president to be memorialized in the Great Mall in the nation's capital. So I was in DC a million years ago and I believe it's front of the Lincoln Memorial on one of the like marble tiles. It has like I have a dream and it says his name on it.

And oftentimes people will like put water on it because it's easier to see in a picture or something. We went through the whole rigmarole with the whole National Mall and all of the Smithsonian and all the different memorials and all of that stuff. I have to say that that right there, just seeing it and looking out to different places where he was giving speeches, where the people were listening to him giving a speech, it was a significant feeling. just, none of the other things

that I was seeing that day had as much of a.

reaction from me that that did. I don't know why, but he clearly is a significant part of our history.

A little bit of history on the day. MLK Day is observed on the third Monday of January, which was chosen because his birthday is January 15th. The campaign for a federal holiday in King's honor began soon after his assassination in 1968. President Ronald Reagan signed the holiday into law in 1983, and it was first observed three years later on January 20th, 1986. At first,

Some states resisted observing the holiday, giving it alternative names or combining it with other holidays. Official observance in each state's law as well as federal law occurred in 2000. Okay, I'm guessing nobody is...

Nobody's surprised that some people pushed back on it. Sure. I get that. The fact that it was signed into law in 83 and then wasn't fully accepted and observed until 2000. 17 years. And 2000 isn't even that long ago. Right. 26 years. What a shit. Well.

in the whole grand scheme of things, I mean, he was born in 1929. But considering what he was fighting for and what he was about as a human and that only 26 years ago, everyone fully adopted and observed it, that's significant. A little saddened. I don't know. mean, things take a long time. This is true. It is. just, sometimes I think about the things that he

did and was a part of seems so long ago, simply because I just wasn't alive. They really weren't that long ago. It's not very long ago. He would have only been 97 this year. Man. If that helps, it in perspective. mean, 97 is old if you're alive. like in the grand scheme of like. He still could have the possibility of being

alive.

On this day, we reflect on the life and legacy of a leader whose vision of justice, equality, and dignity for all continues to inspire movements for social change. Dr. King's enduring message of interconnectedness that, quote, injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere resonates deeply with the environmental justice movement, which seeks to address the disproportionate environmental burdens faced by marginalized communities.

That quote, injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, King wrote in the 1963 letter from Birmingham jail, which he wrote after being incarcerated following nonviolent protests. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied to a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. I've read that. is basically

what we talk about here. Absolutely. I was looking through the notes for this episode and I reread the first portion of that quote probably a good six to ten times the way that

He could write something.

so well, so eloquently, but means something so significant. I don't know, he just had this way of talking and speaking to people. I just, I love that quote. I don't love that, the reason behind why you have to say it, but. Yeah. Yeah.

King's tireless work as a civil rights leader directly helped convince President Lyndon B. Johnson and the US government to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed segregation, public discrimination, and job discrimination, as well as the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which banned voter discrimination on the basis of race. Those two major acts were very much associated with the Clean Air Act,

of 1963 and the Clean Water Act of 1972, both of which set out to reduce local environmental pollution, issues that tend to disproportionately affect black communities and other communities of color. All of these acts were also tied to the Endangered Species Act of 1973, which was created to protect endangered animal and plant species as well as bolster biodiversity. Do you think that

Someone who isn't maybe tied to environmentalism knows that he was significant in those acts being passed. Well, I did not know it until I was researching this. Really? I mean, I'm not going to sit here and tell you, I absolutely knew that. I never really put the two together. Yeah. I mean, it wasn't something I thought about. Exactly. Yeah.

In April 1968, King was in Memphis for the sanitation workers strike. He joined the strike to support African-American workers demanding better wages and safer working conditions. Their struggle highlighted the link between economic and environmental injustice as many of the hazards they faced were environmental, exposure to waste, poor air quality, and dangerous workplace conditions. And that was specifically, it was comparing

⁓ the black workers environment to the white workers. So they were all sanitation workers that had very different workplace conditions. And a quote from the Christmas Eve Sermon of Peace

It really boils down to this, that all life is interrelated.

Also, not having connected his integral part in environmentalism and those acts being passed. Obviously, anybody who knows about why he was there and what happened when he was there, I never really thought about it.

Like he was there to talk about the working conditions of the sanitation workers, white versus black sanitation workers. we talk about what I remember. I didn't put the two together. The environmental aspect of

It oftentimes is put out there as racial injustice versus the connection to environmentalism. I just don't think about it. That's why we're doing this episode. I know, but I think it's amazing. I just want to keep pointing out that I think it's amazing that he is so integral in it. And something like this quote, really boils down to this, that all life is interrelated. Right. Just brings it all full circle.

kind of like what we were talking about in the last episode. It is. It's very much like it. Very much. Increasingly, the global climate fight is being seen as a fight for climate justice because Black, Brown, Indigenous, and poor people are being

are bearing a disproportionate impact from climate disruptions. And we also talk about this all the time. While the terms environmental racism, environmental justice, or even global warming were not invented yet at the time of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968, we can look to his work and see that there is an intersectionality between his work and what is being done today.

or what we're trying to do today, in regards to climate change. In his work and recorded speeches, we can hear echoes of his ecological and environmental consciousness. The cities are gasping in polluted air and enduring contaminated water, he warned in 1967. He also opposed nuclear technology and the existential threat it placed on people and the planet, which is interesting.

Very interesting. Which you can also tell a different time. We know that nuclear energy to be very safe and one of the best there is as far as impacting the environment. So he wasn't right on everything. Correct. he probably, I mean, they didn't know back then. Right.

We've played havoc with the destiny of the world. Somewhere we must make it clear that we are concerned about the survival of...

I don't think I've ever heard that quote. But that's that's like a punch in the face, you know? I mean, you can't put it any more bluntly. Yeah. But he says it so eloquently. It's like a nice punch in the face.

So in talking about the terms, environmental racism is like the perfect example is the sanitation workers strike and the conditions of

Black versus white. So what are the conditions like for different people and how we treat different parts of the city? So that is what environmental racism means. Environmental justice is similar, defined as the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people, regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, or income with respect to the development.

implementation and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations and policies. It is an issue that reverberates as strongly today as it did in the 1960s from climate change and its disproportionate impact on people of color to the battle led by indigenous peoples around the world to protect their forests and defend their national rights, their land rights. Yeah. And I mean, we talked about this on the episode specifically about indigenous people.

and some of the struggles that they've had to endure, some of the choices, some of the policies that have been made that affect them environmentally. I mean, we can see some of this in our own city. One of the biggest in Kansas City specifically, one of the biggest choices that they've made is 71 Highway and what they did when they put it in. it goes through a predominantly part black part of town.

when they built it decades ago, they literally ripped up people's houses and they didn't give people a choice. They said, we're going to do this. And it now divides a community with little to no access to certain things like grocery stores, health care, grocery stores, basic services. They don't have them on one side of the highway. They now are coming back and saying, hey, let's give us your opinion.

We want to change this. We want to make it better. mean, there are crosswalks and people are going 70 miles an hour. Right. It is not safe. And it's a prime example of how it's happened in our own city. These racial injustice, environmental injustice, all of these things. And I drive down it every day, almost every day. That's crazy ass highway. So it's mean, it's everywhere. And these were the things that he was fighting.

against so that they didn't happen and unfortunately they're still happening. Right, well we talk about when it comes to climate change and who's affected the most when we're making new policies like are we taking into account all communities and even in the

what, maybe positive things that we're doing, like lithium mining for EV batteries where we did a documentary episode that we had where, you know, it's a lot of indigenous lands where the lithium deposits are and those companies not caring of the disruption they might have on the community.

And the same thing is happening with all of these AI or data. The data centers. Thank you. The data centers that they're proposing, not only in our city, but across the country and the places that they're wanting to put them. Yeah. A lot of them people are having to fight because they are being put in places where it's predominantly going to affect those of a lower income or an already marginalized community.

It's sad that we're still having this fight and that it's still happening. If he were maybe not 97, but if if he were in his 30s today, if he were in his 30s today, what do you think would be his primary things that he would be protesting the places he would be, the things he would be saying? Dude, that man could not sleep.

I don't think he ever did. I've watched a lot of the like, portrayals of him and things like that. And he had a lot to say. He had a lot of energy. Yeah. Well, if you think of like how many like the issues then there were many. I feel like, well, there should have there should be improvement. It feels like there's more today. Yeah. You know, like there's like I don't feel like

a lot of them have been solved and then we've just added on more, right? Like you have to add on the data center thing. Maybe like a large progressive things have happened, you know, you know, integration versus segregation and civil rights acts and things like that. Well, they're talking about... I mean, I don't think it's been solved. Like there's policies that have been put in place, but I feel like the new

problems we have now are just another, I think that's what you're saying, like it's just another way we're having to solve the problem that we thought we solved before with a policy, a law that was put in place and now it's still happening. Yeah, I mean, I think he would be doing the same things. Do you think he would be out protesting AI data centers?

Maybe. I think that would be like it's wild to think about. Yeah. I mean, I was just thinking of all the the protests that have been happening recently where he would have been there.

Although I feel like maybe they would have probably found a way to put him and keep him in jail. you think so? I don't know. Really? Right? That's an interesting opinion, or a way to think about it. We'll think of how many people are being

imprisoned, captured today. Yeah, just completely brought down by the system. Do you think if he had not unfortunately passed, been assassinated, he would have run for president? do you think he possibly could have been the first black president? Yes. Really? Right. I think.

Well, he mean, I mean, because he resonated. You think about the Mark, the Washington and how many people were there. Yeah. And the impact that he had when speaking. think. I would have voted yes. I mean, it has because I just standing there thinking about this is where he was. And yeah, decades later. Right. Yeah. I mean, I think I don't know, because I think.

I don't know. mean, you know, if you in what year, like what went so let's say he ran for let's say he's going to be like against Nixon. Well, I was going to put it. I. Well, that was like seventy two. Right. So let's just bring him to like to age to date now. Let's say he ran for president in the next election. No, I don't think he could be elected today. Really? I think I think you could have like in his time, like if you're saying

him to be the first black president, which would have been before Obama. Sure. Because I almost forgot. I don't know why. know. I was kind of thinking about it. I think I was kind of thinking like the first woman president that hasn't happened yet. Yeah, because the way that you said it was like, I want to do both. So let's say that he ran in his actual age frame, his time frame. So if it would have been in because he was thirty nine and sixty eight. So

Again, you're doing the math. The end of like the late 70s. OK. So Nixon. Vietnam era. ⁓ that would have been. I think you could. I think so. mean, people like Nixon until people like elected Jimmy Carter. True. And there wasn't a lot that was just looking for. Something right. Yeah, like a bright spot.

See, I don't know if he would have been elected back then. don't know that people were ready for it. I don't know. I mean, I think it took us until what? 2008?

Right. what was your what who were your candidates before then? Jesse Jackson. Right. Yeah, I feel like. But the idea of I feel like King was like more.

The way that he spoke was to everyone. Absolutely. Absolutely.

yeah, do you think those so the protests that have happened For the current administration they are called no kinks breath protests

So if he was able to protest today, what would they call it? I'm the only kid.

Mean we people you know people are creative it would they would find it. Yeah, well it would be hard There would it probably would not be The note like if he was alive and leading protests they it would not be called that to begin with I also because that would be confusing if he had not been assassinated I also truly believe in my heart that our world at least our country would look It would look different. I feel like things would have possibly turned out differently

Yes. Yeah. For the better. Well, but there's a lot of, mean, that's the people that have been assassinated. You think like, right. So Kennedy was assassinated in 63, which was five years before him. Those two at that time, the impact that they could have made both like huge, right. That's why. And that's why it happened. know, unfortunately. Yeah.

It's unfortunate. So I was reading through your notes and then I was doing a little bit of deep diving of my own. And surprisingly, and I told you this earlier, when I was doing my research for the last episode, this woman came up for a quote about the Bill Gates thing. And she came up in an article that you had read as well for the research about Martin Luther King.

So she said that he showed us the power of the voices of ordinary people, not the powerful or wealthy, but the underprivileged, the ordinary, and the oppressed. She said, their voices changed the world before, and I believe their voices will change the world again. That's why I'm convinced the most important thing any of us can do about climate change is use our voices to advocate for change at every level, from our homes and our neighborhoods to our cities and our countries. And I think.

she kind of sums it up like he was just a normal person. And until he wasn't until he wasn't right until he became somebody he wasn't this.

a really educated, highly rich, very influential person from the beginning. He created this movement, this grassroots and had these followers. And it just goes to show that. Any buddy could do it and that your voice matters. Why local voices matter the most. Yeah, right. Absolutely. And I think she just summed it up in that way. That really spoke to me because it makes me feel better about

Like, I'm not some super influential person who everybody listens to my voice just like he wasn't until he was, right? Like everybody can be like that. are 12 people out there that are listening to us right now. There's probably more than 12, but I think we get a lot of we. But you know what? His first meeting in a church basement somewhere.

maybe only had 12 people. And then he goes to Washington one day and millions of people are there or listening or watching or all of those things. then millions upon millions of people continually for decades after are using him in studies and education. They are using him as an implements in their own life, motivation in their own life to do good things. That's huge.

He deserves his own holiday. Hell, he deserves his own month as far as I'm concerned. He's just super important. And he just shows us that like what we're trying to do here, it matters. It all matters in the end. Absolutely. Speaking up for what you believe and making sure everyone is taken care of. Yes. Because what did you say? It's all interconnected. We are all interconnected. We are. It's weird to think about when you think of the billions of people in this world.

But yeah, it's Mm This is really good information. You ready for the next green thing? You know, I always love them.

Dr. King's dream of a just and equitable society calls on us to address the environmental challenges that perpetuate injustice. By standing together and working for change, we can honor his legacy and ensure that future generations inherit a world where justice truly prevails, environmentally, socially, and economically. On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, let us recommit to the fight for environmental justice and celebrate the progress made by those

who carry Dr. King's torch forward. Together we can create a more just and sustainable world for all. On many, well, many people on MLK Day do a day of service. So find something that you want to go do, I guess. There are lots of options as far as official events on how you can honor his legacy.

⁓ or just make it a part of your, I don't know, life. Not just that day. So you can do it any day, but find something to go and do. And if that's the day that you need to start so that it continually goes through your life, then so be it. Right. I love it. I don't personally have that day off of work, so I'm going to try to find something that I can do.

So maybe it is like get on your employer about making it officially day off, official day. Yeah. I wonder, I know it's a federal holiday, so people who work for the government and banks, like that. I would be interested to know statistically how many companies like privately owned corporations in this country honor that holiday and give

people the day off. know a past employer, we didn't originally have that day. They weren't closed. But they did honor if somebody wanted to go do volunteer work and things like that. It was honored as a, you know, a free day. And then throughout my term with them, they did. Eventually, it was a day where we were closed. So they changed those things. I currently do not work for an employer where I have that.

Luxury, but I bet if I were to say if anybody were to say to their employer hey, I'm volunteering this day I mean, that's something that you could do maybe possibly yeah, all right. Maybe I should look into that Maybe yeah, yeah figure out do you have any do you have the day off? I do have the day off okay? I do have appointments that day, but I Like I'm trying to see if there's something that I can put an environmental flare on what I want to do

that day, right, to honor that aspect of life. I'm really going to have to think about this. Maybe it's.

I I don't know. Maybe it's picking up more trash on my walk with the dog. Yeah. Just something. Just doing something. OK. Awesome. Well, thank you for all this info. This is good. You're welcome. I mean, I think we both learned a lot of this when we were growing up in school and things like that. But I think it's a really good reminder. I know it has been for me to kind of think about all the things that he did and push them in our lives going forward and continue to remember them. Yeah.

I haven't read the I have a dream speech in a long time. So reading rereading that was interesting. It was shorter than I remembered it because we had to memorize it. I mean, I think a lot of students. That's oh, I'm pretty sure. Wow. But yeah, I was like, oh, this is a lot shorter as an adult than it is as kid. Everything is so much different. Like, why was this hard?

but yeah, it's maybe that's what I'll do applies. Yeah. Why don't you memorize it and then like

get up in front of someone, your family. I will. Recite it. I should do that. We should all, we should memorize it as a family. That's what we're going to do. Okay. You're ready here first. Okay. Well, thank you again for all of this information and to everybody out there. Thank you for listening. You can find us on all the social medias, the Instagrams, the TikToks, obviously on YouTube. So let us know.

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