Ugh how much longer do i have to sit here . Im just gonna do it. Im shut up. Stop talking pee my pants in your brain they wont even know. Bears, beets, battlestar galactica. Oh, my god, can we please literally go anywhere else . Silence the chatter. Bjork, bjork, bjork. Shut up, brain shut up gah [nicky blitz blast off] getting too close, better pull on back what if i travel the world, exploring what makes some places happier than others . Need a onetwo im looking at the ways that where we are. Yeah, im acomin, im acomin affect who we are. Whoo, im acomin im acomin, yeah its been said that the search for happiness is the chief source of unhappiness. Im acomin, im acomin well, thats okay. Im already unhappy, so ive got nothing to lose. Lets blast off lets blast off blast off [upbeat music] oh, man, this view is insane. Chiang mai, thailands rose of the north, a 700yearold holy city boasting 300 buddhist temples, and. You want to get massaged by an excon . I know just the place. Where th
- so back at my hotel room after a nice, hot shower. such a beautiful hospitality. i struggle to know how to interact with people that are so kind and warm and open-hearted. i go to being a little acerbic, being the funny guy. i don t know if that s just me or if that s my americanness. i m not exactly sure. i ve spent my life trying to think my way to happiness. but perhaps the source of my frustrations isn t flawed thinking, but the act of thinking itself. in thailand, you either come around to this way of not overthinking everything, or you go insane. it s too soon for me to say on which side i m gonna land.
been asked to go back. i turn to elly miss stall and muslims for progressive values. good evening to you. blair, what do you hear when you hear that chant? it makes my heart palpy tate hearing those chance the. it s not surprising. it is deeply disappointing. this is an america that is familiar to many of us including those of news the black community, those off us in the muslim community. when i converted to islam, it was like part of my americanness was stripped away. people immediately started telling me to go back. i very clear ofly would i post links to pie paypal and say okay, send me a ticket. i would go to wherever you think i m from. you have to be a resilient person to deal with this. we should not have to endure this as people of color and from religious minorities here in the united states. it sen consequence snabl. ellie. every grown black person has a story the first time they were
that really doesn t need to happen and treads on a lot of real sensitivities. we don t need a conversation about the fidelity and loyalty of american jews or aipac. what we really do need is a conversation about palestinian human rights. and i think one of the roles ilhan omar can play, which is crucially important, especially for people who care about who oppose all bigotry is to talk about the enormous suffering and human rights abuses that take place for palestinians in the west bank. that s what she should be shining a loot on. i think unfortunately by turning this conversation and those comments to the question of who may be you know, have allegiance to a foreign government she s actually diverted from the conversation we really need to have. and that of course and it plays in, dean, to a lot of anti-semitic things. right? as peter says, there s a conversation that needs to be had and then there s a conversation that is sort of a dog whistle to certain groups that should n