like [as jesse ventura] let me tell you something, it's all about truth. [normal voice] and, like, absolutely no one anywhere besides the united states knows or case who that is. >> why do you want to do this? >> i think-- >> no, but seriously. >> to me, following the joke, following people's narrative, that would be the coolest thing about this project. oh, this stuff isn't just contrived in a joke book. these aren't just witty one-liners that i thought of. this is real life. [line rings] i'm calling the laugh factory. we're trying to save the world through comedy. hello? hello? my mission was set. check out the comic uprising in india and south africa, perform th my comrades in stand-up over there, see what they're talking about, then i'llring one comic from each of those countries back here to perform with me and my friends at the world-famous laugh factory in l.a. if there was a comedy revolution going on, i wasn't gonna miss it. ok, this is a test here. i'm in newark airport. most times i travel for stand-up, at the max it'll be like a 5 hour flight s

i'm jesse ventura is governor of minnesota. i was on the front lines of kim's politically was strangled american politics. i'm still in the white question. more me questions, birth new questions, numbers as stars and endless as this. and bring you all inside this debt and lift your eyes from all that remains in question blue. welcome back on contact. we continue our discussion about america's endemic racism, capitalism and empire. and it's next us with professor nicole paul singh. so before the break, you were talking about the murder of george floyd, the public reaction that it was an abomination. and yet we have the largest prison population in the world. 25 percent of the world's prisoners are almost all of whom are poor and disproportionate. a number of whom are people of color and that is an a, a structural abomination. the people are not rising up against that is true. that is true. and i think, i think on the one hand, i would say we have been in the period in which there has been greater attention to criminal justice re