Randall

Um, in this case, you have two artists who, you know, some, there's some commercial motivation, obviously.

Um, but they do seem to have sort of an authentic, uh, calling to do this.

And they have, um,

good pure motivations, for lack of a better term.

But yeah, to historicize Native people in that way, it's problematic for a lot of reasons.

And I wonder if you can just sort of talk about some of the conversations around that.

And it's a clumsy and awkward nostalgia.

And I think that's – you get into that –

That there's serious, I mean, serious thinkers believe that Native people will go extinct.

They'll go extinct.

And that had been the case since, you know, even back to Jefferson and before.

But then there's this question of, again, authenticity and Indian-ness.

But there are people driving pickups, right?

And there are people working jobs.

And it's fascinating that it takes an outsider to...

To recognize that.

Oh, brother, I couldn't have said it better myself.

Okay, it's going to sound a little unusual, but for a year I've been texting a woman in Vietnam, and we've had a very deep connection, and we've gotten to know one another so well that I fell deep in love with this woman.

Whoa.

Good for you, man.