We have a special guest in town who just have to be here and just send me a text a couple days ago and he's like, I'm speaking. It wasn't a question. It was awesome. He's a former daily show producer, worked at the onion, but mostly he's an activist and author that demands us to be better. Please welcome Baratunde Thurston. Yeah, we're not there yet. Are we ready to make America smart again? I come to you from Brooklyn, New York by way of science. I want to first express appreciation for all of you for being here. You are beautiful. You are bold and you are brilliant. These signs are amazing. I have seen some of the cleverest signs of my life. I want to give a shout out to what do we want, evidence-based science. When do we want it? After peer review. I want to show some love for a very simple sign. Geology rocks. It sounds like chilling in the front game. It's amazing. It's amazing. And then my favorite of the day, but I know there's thousands more. Knowing stuff is good. Why do I even have to march for this? There's a lot of people asking how do we get to a place where Jared Kushner is our president. I think it's a great question. And the answer is always history, but I also think the answer is science. Show some love if you know who Isaac Newton is. Isaac Newton, for those who don't know, is the creator of CrossFit. Isaac Newton tweeted out on Snapchat the other day, third law of physics. Newton's third law. To every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. I think those same rules apply to our politics and this nation. To every brilliant, competent, first black president. There is an idiot white supremacist president. It's just science, it's just physics. So I am here because I had a mother who helped me be here. My mother was born in 1940, Washington, DC, when nobody wanted to be black. Black people didn't even want to be black. White people had to go out and run to it yet. And she did not have a college degree. She raised my sister and me on her own. She was a domestic worker. She was a secretary, but she ultimately became a computer programmer for the federal government. She was black girls code before it was a black girls code. And as a child, I didn't know what a computer programmer did, but I discovered one day with that man. See, I would get home alone in my job. Do homework. Don't watch TV. So, of course, I did the opposite. But I would keep an eye out the window because I was smart. And as I saw my mother approach, I would turn off the TV. I go stand at the kitchen table. I start doing my homework. My mother would walk in the house. She'd walk over to the television. She'd put her hand on the television. Some of you also had them, mother. And she would feel the heat generated by her lying son. And that's what I realized, computer programmers are wizard, simply from the future. It's at the night cartoons like Duck Tales and Dennis Domenna's, the lonely children in the hood. See, my mother had a hypothesis that her son was lying to her and then she tested it. And then, like an idiot, I offered her to repeat that experiment. Because she was a scientist. And the last thing I want to stress today is that we are here, in many cases, in opposition to a dark orange cloud we feel descending on our nation. But that's not the only reason to be here. Because regardless of what's going on in the halls of Congress or the halls of the White House, science itself has more work to do. Science alone doesn't fix things. And who makes science is important. I am here because my mother can help make some science. And in this debate area, the yay area, we should constantly be questioning who's making the science and technology that defines our future. Who's been a good friend of the job in economic office, and that define the reality of which you will live? So yes, for resistance in the true scientific sense, but also yes to inclusivity and creation in the full of trans-accessive sense. The last thing I want to say is to paraphrase the words of Neil's bore. Can we get up to Neil's bore? Hi. I made it hot yoga. Neil's bore has a quote about what science ultimately is. It's a paraphrase. The essentially says science is the gradual elimination of prejudice. Science is questioned in their assumptions. We look at the world and say, what else is there? And we are constantly chipping away at prejudice because we are not afraid to ask ourselves questions. So let us all continue to ask ourselves questions. Let's be scientific in our approach to expanding the promises of justice and let's turn up this march. I'm Baratunde Fosten. Thank you very much.