Is that the kind of architecture that you're referring to, or is it coming from different places?

Well, it is coming from different places, but the architecture and the intention, I think you're exactly right.

We should not lose that understanding.

This is a campaign.

This is organization, the authoritarian movement.

has organizers just like city government or recruiters like the military or pundits on hand like CNN or your local news station.

There is real organization and intention, but it's also a coalition.

What is this about? And take it to a level that is not the current kind of discourse that we see, but a more thoughtful one.

Is this just an authoritarian takeover? Is it just to control marginalized communities? What are they gonna win here if they scare us all to death?

What they're gonna win is the ability to, uh, overturn 75 years of civil rights gains, uh, in this country that have moved us forward as a nation.

Uh, let's be clear.

Um, when we look at the data of what life was for an ordinary American, regardless of your color or your religion 75 years ago, it was a tough life, and the civil rights movement transformed those lives in lots of, of different ways.

Now, I'm not here to say everything is better.

And as a African American in the United States, I can attest to the fact that, you know, we're not in some fantasy land.

Life is still hard.

I, I'm wondering if you just have some concrete thoughts about w- what we do, about what you've been informing us all about.

But, uh, a- and so let's get into why this game, why this push, uh, to finally kind of get that monkey off the back for Scott Stadium and sell out.

Yeah.

First of all, I was at that Southern Cal game, and Preston, I think you said you were too.

That was a, uh, that was a pretty sweltering day.

So I do believe that, uh, the, the heat is not gonna be as big of a factor as it could be, but, um, in attendance.

You know, I think, uh, you look at the trajectory of attendance in college football, and I wanna just pause and talk about that for a second.

Um, attendance at college football games peaked in 2008.

But, uh, what is, what's the push to get people in there, uh, week zero?