Hmm, i just i have an idea - and i um about getting those about getting the interpreters out, and i just wanted to see if i understood the problem correctly, but the way that the times told the story was that it's essentially paperwork like there's all these servicemen And they're naming names like this man, i worked with zach he's stuck because xyz like we can get him out of there. It's just like the the it's not getting pushed through. I mean that's part of it. That's definitely happening and but - and so you don't have any information about whether the white house is expediting things or it's not even a matter of the white house.

Is it it's? It's legislature, um here, stop recording. Take me out speaker. Okay, your reward for sitting through this boring civics exercise is that i'm going to tell you in the end why southern california has the best donuts in the world, but before we get to that, i want to talk some business and we got to get those people Out of afghanistan, those people who helped us and who we promised we would protect and the way we're gon na do that is we're going to, and i know it's a pain in the neck and everyone says it's easy, but it's nerve-racking. We are going to call our senators and representatives and we're gon na tell them.

We want these people safe. We want these people out of afghanistan. This is neither a controversial, nor is it a partisan issue. I just saw a cbs poll that said 81 percent of americans say we should help afghan translators enter the u.s and i'm going to show you exactly how you do it and then i'm going to leave a link in the description.

So you can click and just follow the directions and probably takes you know what i'll time it i'll see how long it takes and i'm slow, you're gon na go to this website that i found on google there's a link to this site. In the description of this video, unclick, local county and state, we don't care about them, put in your home, address click search, and here they are i'll admit that i didn't know who my representative and one of my senators were before i did. This click contact over here and bang. You have their phone number in washington, uh you're, probably gon na get their machine.

When you call now, i tend to ramble. Obviously so i wrote a script which was the most difficult part of this process and the script i wrote you can download a pdf from a link. That's in the description. Okay, this is the scary part.

You got ta call them after you do. The first phone call you're gon na feel pretty tough, like a like a secret service agent and the other two are much easier and more fun. I'm calling today to ask you to draft or support legislation that helps the state department and this department of defense evacuate and bring to safe havens, afghan translators and other helpers. In particular, i'm asking for legislation that extends the evacuation time frame and uh reduces the afghan's paperwork burden.

Thank you for your assistance with this matter. My phone number van neistat n-e-i-s-t-a-t good-bye, and to the influencers in particular people like me, who can earn a living off of their social media platforms, be sure to tell them the number of subscribers and or followers that you have i'm a youtuber. My channel has 414 000 subscribers say the number and they will their pants because their elections these days are so close. Sometimes it's a couple dozen people and when they hear 20 million 3 million a hundred thousand 10 000, they will, even if we fail at this, it will change their perception of where their influence is coming from n-e-i-s-t-a-t goodbye.

I would make these calls with a desktop computer in front of me, so you can jog through the script and phone numbers and whatever this is um senator feinstein. And if you do happen to get a human i didn't, but you might just tell them. You have a prepared statement, you'd like to read, then read it to them. According to my youtube analytics, most of you watching are millennials, which makes you a hero generation.

Well, here's an opportunity, i'm just a punk, ass gen x, nomad whatever that means s-t-a-t these legislators in washington, they're our waiters and our waitresses, and they will do what we tell them to do the problem. Is we never? I never call them and say hey. I want you to do such and such okay donuts. The reason why southern california has the best donuts and the reason why they come in a pink box is because, in 1975, president ford and congress passed the indochina migration and refugee assistance act of 1975 year.

I was born and thousands something like 18 000 to 50 000. I couldn't really. Thousands of immigrants came from cambodia after the fall of phnom penh and the taking over by the khmer rouge. They came to camp pendleton in california and one of them this guy, named ted, started from nothing a basically system of doughnut shops all over southern california, and it became this system for cambodian refugees to have these little businesses and support their families.

And now we have. I mean a lot of their kids. Like ended up, you know they go to college, become professionals whatever, but we still to this day, two generations later we have their grandchildren running these amazing donut shops in california, and that's why we have the best donuts in the world. You.