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I mean, there aren't very many news articles and news stories about how 25 Ojibwe people just laughed and couldn't stop laughing in a community hall, right? Like, people aren't, you aren't getting your news about that you have to you have to live it, you have to, you have to be there with the people, you have to make the effort and not make the efforts wrong. You know, I don't expect people to go travel 25 minutes just to go introduce themselves. But it's just what there are, there is so much there is so much sadness, various through so much pain, it's just, we, maybe this is just our way of constantly healing. You know, recently, when I've been doing stand up, a conversation has started to be began with audience members, you know, not intentional, but we do get maybe it's that I'm trying to develop a more conversational tone when I'm on stage. But a conversation does start with with people, we start talking about issues, you know, and it's, it's because that people, not only, like people knew about it, but now they want to, they want to empathize, they want to hear about it. This is, this is something that people were taught, and I'm speaking about, like residential schools, and that's like reconciliation. And ever since, like, the ball has been really moving. And it's only gonna get bigger. I want to voice You know, I want to say something, I just, I don't want to be you know, I don't want to end up being a punchline. Or just like, you know, Carrot Top types. I'm not gonna get involved into the native Carrot Top. I know that. Yeah, I want to really say something and open up eyes. And yeah, but I want to make people laugh at the same time. That connections, too good not to if I did a one man show about generational trauma, and about the residential schools, and how it affected my grandmother and my mother, and now myself, you know, and that was like, I think that was really that was a form of healing for myself, you know, and it helped me open up. Because I've come a long way from when I was a kid, I used to get bullied for being negative all the time, right. And I was kind of ashamed. I used to I once told somebody that was Filipino, so I didn't have to tell them that I wasn't afraid. So, yeah, you just kind of you just learn to be honest and do your truth up there and it's a form of healing for everyone. You don't have to have pigmentation

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