Is it on?

Hi.

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo.

I'm Jill Jackson.

I teach here, I go here, I'm introducing tonight's guests.

Probably because I was super excited when one of my students came to class on Tuesday

was like, oh, I'm hosting this, but also because I'm from Oakland, so I don't

just have this conversation with you. Yes. All right, we have Blake Simon's, Don't See Parkham. So if you all know anything about the Hillback podcast or their work, they also have the people's breakfast in Oakland. I want to talk to you about that. If you know anything about Oakland, does we know anything about Oakland? Yes. Okay, so we know about gentrification, we know that the house is right

right now the Bay Area.

What's really great about their work is that they've been showing up for young folks,

folks who are on the streets, folks who need hygiene packs, we need food, we need support in the

Bay Area, so writing them with the support that they need.

So this is not just about having a conversation about a podcast, but also about thinking about how we serve as communities and how we show up for one another in very specific and special ways. And so I wanted us to think about that as we're going on to the podcast tonight and think about things like neoliberalism, race, student, class, orientation, environment. That's what we're talking about, I assume, since that's what we've been talking about since the podcast started yes something like that yeah something like that all right so let's be

started and thank you all coming out and let's talk a good thing to you what's happening how

y'all doing it's cracking we can't try that again I don't think my shit is my shit on yeah is it on that's on y'all can? Oh shit, we can have to try that again. I don't think my shit is my shit on? Yeah. Is it on? It's on. Y'all can hear, I can barely hear myself. You turn his mic up a little bit. Yeah, there's a little bit. I'll be talking a lot of it too. All right, how y'all doing again? Let's try that again. Yo, yo, there we go. All right. All right. Let's talk. It's cracking. How y'all doing? Y'all look amazing. Hella black people in this motherfucker. Keeping the hella black. Super late to be in Chicago. Yeah. I got like mixed emotions. Yeah, we've been through a lot. Honestly, our first, like, ten minutes here.

I was skeptical of how I would and start this, because I'm like, damn, I can't end the podcast before we even started because I might want to fuck me up after this hot take that I have. We had some hot takes on Twitter when we got here, and people was like, oh shit, yeah. Y'all gonna get ran out of Chicago talking the way y'all talking.

I got a lot of love and respect for Chicago.

This is my first time, yeah, this is my first time out here. Yeah, y'all gonna get ran out of Chicago talking the way y'all talking. I got a lot of love and respect for Chicago.

This is my first time out here.

But if you be on the internet, you feel me grew up, I feel like, it reminds me a lot of Oakland.

Just like when I think about Chicago, I think about black shit.

Like I see black people when I think about Chicago.

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