we need to get him off. and so with that, the young man actually said, no, don t block me i ll get off. and so he had gotten off. i continued with my speech. but as you know, it went on further pass that. and al womble, when did you realize was happening? and what could you do about it. this is just as representative phyllis thede said. i tried my hardest to remove that person from the zoom meeting. then we had more individuals come on. as i said before, it almost felt like playing whack-a-mole. the moment i smacked one down, another one came up. i tried to move as quickly as they kept coming up. and mr. al womble, how long did this go on? it went on for quite a few minutes. we were eventuality able to
but i never wavered from that because that is why we were on the call in the first place. so we were able to finish. and i thank god that al womble was able to help us get through that. and that was very important. so i m very happy the way that it ended. and representative phyllis thede, did you have a chance to speak after the fact with other people who were involved? and what it felt like for them when this happened? absolutely. i got tons of calls and emails. people were upset. they were frustrated. they were angry they said i am so sorry that this happened to you. i even had a minister say, this is awful, this is not with this country is about. so we really just rallied together with other folks. and it felt really good. we know that there are people out there that will not tolerate things like this. and you know what, this is going to continue to happen
caucus chair al womble. representative phyllis thede let me begin with you. you were in the middle of seeing something when this suddenly happened. how did you realize what was going on? well, things were humming along quite well i had been ten minutes into my speech. and then all of a sudden a monkey came on to the screen. i didn t think too much about it but as it went on, the young person started to say things about what the monkey look like. who unaddressed, and i m sorry to be so forward, but it talked about how big the testicles were. and then began to laugh and scream. and so it took me off guard. and so i said to al womble that
until all of us take our voices out there and say, enough. enough is enough. we know that we aren t going to tolerate this anymore. we are done with this kind of rhetoric. and what we are going to do is to call you out on it. and once we do that, we are still going to move forward with our target. things that we need to do, and i feel good about that. nothing is going to stop me. i ll keep going. and as people want me to come and talk to, them i will do that as well. but nothing will stop us from telling the truth. representative phyllis thede and al womble, i am very sorry but this happened to you. and this is the region that you re joining us tonight. please come back, we want to hear more from you. thank you very much. thank you. thank you. and up next, a special last word tonight about sydney parties, and other greats that we lost this weekend. greats that weall right, let s go get something to it. we are done. okay.
young person started to say things about what the monkey looked like and addressed and i m sorry to be so forward, but talked about how big the testicles were. and then began to laugh and scream. and so it took me off guard. and so i said to al womble, i said we need to get him off. so with that the young man actually said no, don t block me. i ll get off. so he had gotten off, and i continued with my speech. but as you know, it went on further past that. and al womble, when did you realize what was happening and what could you do about it? so just as representative thede said, we saw the image that came up on the screen. i tried my hardest then to remove that person from the zoom meeting. then i we had more individuals come on. and as i said before, it almost