This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the show,

Loree Daniel Favors.

You know, you and I, when we're here, pipeline, architect, you know,

we are crafting the 10,000 year plan and so I started watching this TV show on

Cinemax just because you know night I just want to unwind and just watch mindless

television and it's called The Warrior. It was a Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee before he died had this vision. Took a bunch of years of course for somebody to pick it up but it's it's a it chronicles the

story of a young man who came over on a boat from China. His grandfather was

American who fell in love with a Chinese woman and had two kids.

The daughter ended up over here and she's like an organized crime.

She's badass.

So he's coming to get his sister and there's a whole

backstory I'm figuring it out what year are they in 1870 18 right so it's a period piece

it's history and to me you know it's like underground and all yeah

you get so much out of these stories you know hell on wheels you get to learn some

things right so I have a cursory knowledge of the Chinese,

you know, the railroads, of course.

I knew that there was a rule that women couldn't come.

So that was interesting.

I knew that there was, for example, a federal law. So that was interesting. I knew that there was a for example a Chinese exclusion act several.

Yeah, there were actually several. All right, so that was a that was a federal law first signed by Chester Arthur in 1882 prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.

Then 1875 I think they banned Chinese women from immigrating to the United States.

...