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I'm so glad to be joined today by FD Signifier who has been on a whirlwind of bread tube success.

I'm a video essayist. I do social political media analysis and usually use a lot of media in it.

I tend to focus more explicitly on black interest things and explicitly on the experiences and issues around black men and masculinity.

For our listeners, you're probably, you know, I want to put you in the mind of kind of like a counterpoints video essay with a few fewer costumes and makeup, shall we say?

Yes, yes, less theatrics, although, you know, I wish I had that budget or that scope, that visual flare.

But, you know, similar subject matter on a lot of levels, definitely a lot of left wing philosophical stuff. A lot more hip hop.

I will say that. A lot more hip hop.

Well, one other thing that you two haven't common is that you both were PhD candidates.

We were talking a little bit a moment ago about, you know, what you attribute your success to.

And I would say a lot of people are really eager after years and years of listening to a lot of folks who don't have a lot of background on what they're talking about on the internet.

Having folks that actually seem to informed on what pedagogy has come before them and are able to marry that with what's going on in the hashtag discourse and a way that feels really contributed.

Like you're not just doing another response video. You're really adding to the discourse.

Yeah, I probably should have said that more explicitly.

But I mean, to me, again, that's part of like being older means that I was a teacher for 10 years.

And I had to get an advanced degree as a teacher and the experiences of teaching high-risk students both white and black.

Having a front seat to like how educational systems fail people, especially failed black boys.

And then I went from teaching to working in the juvenile justice system, which is a whole other front seat to a lot of also systemic problems.

And then around then is when I also started my PhD program, which gives me a whole, you know, background in all the books. I like to say the old white people's books.

I think sometimes when people research for these essays, which I think are really important.

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