City of Albuquerque - Department of Arts & Culture

I did a show in Pueblo, Colorado.

Well, started in Grand Junction, then Pueblo, then Albuquerque.

But the reason I'm bringing that up is that somebody was like, I go, any questions? You know, I kind of do like a little Q&A.

And then this lady, she was like, how expensive was Renee's fireplace? And I was like, I don't know, but it looks amazing.

Wow.

That took a left turn in Albuquerque.

Jesse Cramer, OG says 19.

I'm trying to think of the best way to get some drama in here.

Look for yourself.

Boston, Philadelphia, Houston, Albuquerque, Chicago, Miami, Portland, Oregon, Portland, Maine, Portland, Indiana.

I

seem to like that name.

Wait a minute.

Huh? Yeah, all right, go ahead.

New Orleans, Chicago, Seattle, Wichita, Minneapolis, Albuquerque, Little Rock, Duluth, Kansas City, and here in Philadelphia.

Good.

These are disposable PDAs and they're pretty easy to come by.

But it's a little bit more like the early 2000s where you know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy in Albuquerque who will meet you in the Walmart parking lot and sell you one.

It's not like it is nowadays where you can walk into the bodega and buy one.

You guys

as you said, is Tony Kessel.

I live in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

I have five children.

I'm married.

On a map, it's a long spatter of red dots like blood droplets from Wilmington, North Carolina to Barstow, California.

The red dots run through Raleigh, Nashville, Memphis, Little Rock, Oklahoma City, Amarillo, Albuquerque, and Flagstaff.

That's the I-40 interstate.

Across America, just 25 ex-truckers are in prison for murder.

And then, you know, we can, at another point, talk about how the stars and everything aligned for us to all end up in New Mexico.

But, you know, we had the conversation there with the Domestic Violence Resource Center in Albuquerque.

And then that concept became a real New Mexico project.

So can you take us back to how our worlds all connected and collided and then walk us through how Safe U and Purple Bridges and that Domestic Violence Resource Center came together into something real on the ground in New Mexico?

Oh yes, New Mexico was really like this moment when...

Constellation, all these right people and forces were in the same place.

So I was invited by U.S. Department of State as a young transatlantic innovation leader for an exchange program to Albuquerque.

And I remember it was second week when I was there, I was doing... a little bit of research in domestic violence resource center in different organizations that were a part of fight against domestic violence, sexual violence, trafficking, et cetera.

On a map, it's a long spatter of red dots like blood droplets from Wilmington, North Carolina to Barstow, California.

The red dots run through Raleigh, Nashville, Memphis, Little Rock, Oklahoma City, Amarillo, Albuquerque, and Flagstaff.

That's the I-40 interstate.

Parenting means always staying one step ahead of life's messes.

And I say down there.

I mean way down there in Albuquerque.

So like Montana's better, Florida.

It just depends from place to place.