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LETS TALK ABOUT IT W/ SHANETTE W JOHNSON & CORNEL JACKIE DRUMMER 12/2/24 · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Talking about the talking about, talking about the talking about
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  Speaker 1: talking about the talking about the thing, talking about the
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  Speaker 1: talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, good evening and welcome to another episode of Let's
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  Speaker 2: Talk About It. I am your Hostnett Johnson, and joining
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  Speaker 2: me this evening is my co host Cornell. First, we
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  Speaker 2: just want to talk about I just want to check
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  Speaker 2: in and see how everybody Thanksgiving, when how your mental
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  Speaker 2: health is going and everything. Well, let me tell you
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  Speaker 2: my Thanksgiving was enjoyable.
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  Speaker 3: I had.
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  Speaker 2: My grandson's here with me, my daughter here with me,
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  Speaker 2: and of course I did all the cooking, and I
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  Speaker 2: enjoyed that because last year I was planning my son's service.
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  Speaker 3: At this time.
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  Speaker 2: So by me in the kitchen cooking and a house
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  Speaker 2: full of little boys or four little boys running through
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  Speaker 2: the house and you know, just the laughter. I enjoyed
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  Speaker 2: that because last year I was in another different place,
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  Speaker 2: and it kept me from going into that place and
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  Speaker 2: waking up because.
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  Speaker 3: They was here a long time.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday I was at the point where, boy, I'd be
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  Speaker 2: glad when they go home, because they had pushed me
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  Speaker 2: I would wake up. Can you know how you can
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  Speaker 2: feel people staring at you? My four year old grass
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  Speaker 2: on Tristan was in my face. He was he might
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  Speaker 2: as well just open my little eyes up and talk
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  Speaker 2: to me. But you know, and I enjoyed that now
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  Speaker 2: and that they gone and it's just quiet here.
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  Speaker 3: I miss them.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's just the strangest thing. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: I call him and keep in touch with him. I
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  Speaker 2: also sent out little happy thanksgiving wishes to the men
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  Speaker 2: that's incarcerated, and today I received.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you from from them.
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  Speaker 2: Some of them was telling me, Wow, you know, they've
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  Speaker 2: been in so long that they haven't received anything like that,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, and they were so appreciative of receiving that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just doing something to make sure that just
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  Speaker 2: to brighten their day up, even though you know they're
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  Speaker 2: in that situation. And then today, well yesterday I was
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  Speaker 2: talking to my co hosts and he was telling me
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  Speaker 2: he had to get off the phone, and I heard
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  Speaker 2: the lady the CEO in the background how they was
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  Speaker 2: talking it to them, and you know, I wasn't. I
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  Speaker 2: really didn't like that they are still men regardless of
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  Speaker 2: the situation. My thought on that is that if you
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  Speaker 2: don't like the job that you applied for, then then
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  Speaker 2: leek go find a job that you or that's for you.
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  Speaker 2: You know, some people get jobs that that's not for them.
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  Speaker 3: They just get in there just to get a paycheck.
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  Speaker 2: Or you know, whatever you got going home going on
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  Speaker 2: at home, you're supposed to leave that at the door.
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  Speaker 2: You're not supposed to carry that on into the workplace,
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  Speaker 2: and especially in that type of environment, you know, yelling
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  Speaker 2: at grown men just because you think you got some
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  Speaker 2: quote unquote authority that you can do that that wasn't.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it just upsets me when I hear things
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  Speaker 2: like that, when they you know, when I go here,
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  Speaker 2: when I go visit my husband, or you know, see
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  Speaker 2: them talk down on on these men and women as well.
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  Speaker 2: Little do they know they are an itch away from
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  Speaker 2: being trading places with them, you know, because who are
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  Speaker 2: we to look down on someone in that position. We
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  Speaker 2: all had did things and got away with it, but
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  Speaker 2: some of them, some people got caught, some people got
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  Speaker 2: didn't do things, and they're sitting in prison for things
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  Speaker 2: that they didn't do. So, you know, then to not
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  Speaker 2: hear from my co host, because he usually called me
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  Speaker 2: at least twice on the day of our shows, and
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  Speaker 2: I got kind of worried, you know, because I didn't
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  Speaker 2: hear from none of them today. I did hear from
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  Speaker 2: my husband because he's in Denver, but I didn't hear
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  Speaker 2: from my brothers from Texas. But I am so glad
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  Speaker 2: that I have him on the phone with me and
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  Speaker 2: just to on yesterday. This is, you know, part of
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  Speaker 2: my little mental health I had. I went into a little, slight,
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  Speaker 2: little depression because I went on Facebook and I seen
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  Speaker 2: that one of my friends, one of my dear friends,
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  Speaker 2: she passed away yesterday. And then I got a phone
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  Speaker 2: call it later that evening saying that my uncle passed away.
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  Speaker 2: So that kind of threw me in a little funk.
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  Speaker 2: But I came out of it and I'm ready to talk.
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  Speaker 2: And I see my co host picture is up on
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  Speaker 2: the screen, and I know he's ready to jump in
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  Speaker 2: for now.
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  Speaker 3: How are you doing on this evening, ma'am?
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  Speaker 4: How you going tonight? And I feel pretty good tonight, man. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: even though I'm going through a family crisis tonight, man,
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  Speaker 4: you know.
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  Speaker 5: I still be good because.
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  Speaker 4: God is good all the time, and all the time,
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  Speaker 4: God is good, And I'm glad that you had a
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  Speaker 4: good holiday season with your grandkids. It was pretty nice talk.
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  Speaker 4: But uh, yes, I had a real silly situation on
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  Speaker 4: thinks in the day. Uh, somebody killed four to two
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  Speaker 4: people and shot two people in their sleep. And one
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  Speaker 4: of these kids that got killed was my nephew, you
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  Speaker 4: know about the nephew, and they got to kill executions
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  Speaker 4: now a friend who was setting him up with some
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  Speaker 4: other guys. You know. Now my family's going through that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, trying to make arrangements for them, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and trying to get them you know, property sent home
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  Speaker 4: to the father and stuff like that. So but that's
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  Speaker 4: just goes to show you that everybody in this world
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  Speaker 4: are gone from so right, you know, you know, whether
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  Speaker 4: it's a death in the family, whether it's you know,
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  Speaker 4: mental issues, you know, he's questioned or something to their nature,
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  Speaker 4: everybody is going through something that's gonna be holidays. So
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  Speaker 4: that was something we was not expected, you know, for
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  Speaker 4: my nephews get killed on Thanksgiving. And so with that
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  Speaker 4: being said, yes, not I'm kind of going f a
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  Speaker 4: little bit, but I'm strong. You know, I've been here
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  Speaker 4: thirty four years, so you know, I've missed a lot
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  Speaker 4: of holidays with my family. But you know, being in prison,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you become family with people in prison. So
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  Speaker 4: this is where I've had to embrace, you know, and
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  Speaker 4: a lot of people in prison to be My family
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  Speaker 4: were strong. So my family, you know, I spoke to
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  Speaker 4: my brother Liarry and he's you know, he said, he's strong.
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  Speaker 4: He's doing okay. But you know, the situation is very
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  Speaker 4: serious and is very dramatic, and you know, it's something
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  Speaker 4: that everybody's now talking about, you know, and they're trying
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  Speaker 4: to outline and address all of the kiddo's in Santoni
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  Speaker 4: to the kids. You know, usually our power towns right
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  Speaker 4: around here killing each other like it's just like it's
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  Speaker 4: just normal. You So, so with that thing said, ma'am,
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  Speaker 4: you know, like I said, I'm trying to stay focused
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  Speaker 4: and hanging hanging. It's just no situation. Hen Like I said,
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  Speaker 4: I'm always willing to comfort the show and I'm glad
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  Speaker 4: to be here. But that's why I might feel good tonight.
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  Speaker 4: So thank you for having membership.
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  Speaker 2: Man, You welcome, and my condolences to you and your
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  Speaker 2: family as well. Yes, ma'am, my heart goes out to
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  Speaker 2: your family because don't nobody need to hear that about
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  Speaker 2: a loved one or a.
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  Speaker 3: Sibling or what have it. You know, it goes to show.
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  Speaker 3: You need to watch wols in your circle.
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  Speaker 2: Who you running with, because all friends ain't friends and
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  Speaker 2: they not meant for you. You know, I heard the stories
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  Speaker 2: of people friends, so called friends, having them set up
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  Speaker 2: into here. That happening to your nephew while he was sleep,
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  Speaker 2: that was a currently act and.
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  Speaker 3: That's no my conductively, what is going through my head? Boy?
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  Speaker 3: You don't, don't nobody need to be up in my
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  Speaker 3: head right about now, don't.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just I mean, it's just, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just just speechless sense. Listen, you know how people is going,
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  Speaker 2: how the world's gonna take us seriously, people of color,
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  Speaker 2: and we or going around taking our own each other life.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 2: It this hurts because you know, it takes me back
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  Speaker 2: to when my son was when he was shot, I
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  Speaker 2: was at work and they pulled me off and I
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  Speaker 2: drive commercial buses, and I remember getting relieved at the
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  Speaker 2: hospital and they told me, oh, you got to go
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  Speaker 2: back to the division. They need you need to talk to.
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  Speaker 3: The superviss So when I get back all the way back.
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  Speaker 2: To the division, that's when they tell me you need
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  Speaker 2: to call home. Your your son had just been shot.
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  Speaker 2: And I called home the very hospital that son that
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  Speaker 2: they relieved me in front of.
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  Speaker 3: Is the hospital that I had to go back to.
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  Speaker 2: Because my son was in there in the hospital in surgery.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, when I talked to him after, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when I talked to him because the sheriff had put
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  Speaker 2: a cold on me, and when I talked to him,
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  Speaker 2: I said, are you all right? I said, did you
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  Speaker 2: see the person that did it? And he was like yeah,
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  Speaker 2: my mom seen him and you know, and I was like, well,
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  Speaker 2: who was it and he was like, oh, it was
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  Speaker 2: a It was a black boy. I was like what
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  Speaker 2: and he was like yeah, Mama. He stood over me
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  Speaker 2: and he went to shoot me in the head, but
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  Speaker 2: the gun jammed and then everybody came out of the house.
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  Speaker 2: I thank god for that because that allowed me a
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  Speaker 2: couple of more years.
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  Speaker 3: With my baby.
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  Speaker 2: But the people, I mean, we gotta reach our young men,
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  Speaker 2: our young women. This has to stop. They're not gonna
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  Speaker 2: take us serious that we constantly, you know, if the
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  Speaker 2: young people is still out there running rapid and you
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  Speaker 2: know doing this, I mean, you guys is hurting family.
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  Speaker 2: You taking fathers away from children, You're taking mothers away
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  Speaker 2: from children. I mean, look what you're doing my you know,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know me. You guys shouldn't know me
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  Speaker 2: by now. My my son father was killed before he
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  Speaker 2: was born. He didn't even get a chance. His father
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  Speaker 2: didn't even get a chance to lay eyes on him
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  Speaker 2: or touching. He was killed before he was born.
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  Speaker 3: My grandson.
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  Speaker 2: Father was killed before he turned one. My son has
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  Speaker 2: of congestive heart failure.
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  Speaker 3: And his son.
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  Speaker 2: Was turning was Kyler was ten. He turned eleven in January.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, I'm at the point like where, Like, lord,
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  Speaker 2: what what I mean? What message are you trying to
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  Speaker 2: show me? What are you trying to get me to?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 3: What is my purpose?
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  Speaker 4: You know?
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  Speaker 2: Am I supposed to share my story about what the
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  Speaker 2: struggles I went through with not.
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  Speaker 3: Having kyle biological father here with him.
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  Speaker 2: But I did have my daughters, which became my my husband.
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  Speaker 2: He stepped in and he raised Kyle as his own.
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  Speaker 2: His family loved Kyle as their own as well. You know,
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  Speaker 2: just hearing what Cornell family is dealing with, it kind
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  Speaker 2: of just kind of took me back to what I've
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  Speaker 2: been dealing with, what I dealt with with my son
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  Speaker 2: being shot by don't I don't know the people that
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  Speaker 2: shot Cornell's nephew. I don't know that nationality, but I
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  Speaker 2: do know the nationality of the person that shot my
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  Speaker 2: son back a couple of years ago. But anyway, Cornell,
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  Speaker 2: we you know, you know how I get Cornell?
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  Speaker 3: Cornell?
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  Speaker 2: Uh No, I just want to jump off this subject
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  Speaker 2: because boy, this is like this is.
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  Speaker 4: Just uh well, well that's a good subject. Now what
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  Speaker 4: out because you know, we all have a whole mindset
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  Speaker 4: today for thinking make our own decisions in this world, okay,
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  Speaker 4: And you know they have been a misconception about you know, uh,
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  Speaker 4: individuals are accepting gangs to be able to draw, to
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  Speaker 4: feel like they're being loved and feel like they're not
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  Speaker 4: getting in love from their moms and their dads. So
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  Speaker 4: they turn the games and you know, these games of
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  Speaker 4: you know, dinner, drugs and doing everything under the sun.
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  Speaker 4: You know, understand us against the law. So you know,
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  Speaker 4: these kids having me you know, uh we call them
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  Speaker 4: all to egos. Think that they're gangsters and fun around
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  Speaker 4: here with boozies and big old guns and pants dagging
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  Speaker 4: and you know, do at and stuff like this. Now
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  Speaker 4: they're not able to really seek the big picture of
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  Speaker 4: you know, they potentials of money wow, because they can't
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  Speaker 4: think of further than what they already see, which is
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  Speaker 4: an ulti ego, but think that they're a gangster. Man.
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  Speaker 4: So you know a lot of times, man, you know,
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  Speaker 4: things that happened to us. You know, we have to weep,
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  Speaker 4: but the week we so we have to, man. And
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  Speaker 4: that's what's going on with these games and stuff, man,
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  Speaker 4: because a lot of kys have offered, you know, how
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  Speaker 4: to the game activity, you know, and we don't have
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  Speaker 4: nobody out there with the child. You know, he turn
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  Speaker 4: these kids away from this type of stuff. It's like
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  Speaker 4: society even perishing this stuff, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, children, if you may have people out
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  Speaker 4: there to the tournament, you know, at is trying to
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  Speaker 4: stand up and try to, you know, give them programs
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  Speaker 4: and stuff. But these kids are not taking these programs
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  Speaker 4: because they say they're not being learned by their model
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  Speaker 4: and the dance. To try to give them the intensitive
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  Speaker 4: that they need to stop they opened on what's imported
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  Speaker 4: in their life. It's right there then and tell them.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he said, he have too many kids from
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  Speaker 4: the juvenile system who are charged with capital too. Mother,
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  Speaker 4: he said, it's just he said, it's a sad and
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  Speaker 4: we have kids actually charming with capital mourners, just like
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  Speaker 4: what happened to my nephew them this the boy actually said, yes,
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  Speaker 4: I was a part of it, and I did now
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  Speaker 4: he shot with capital murder. It's like this will you
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  Speaker 4: don't care? So you know what I'm saying, man, is
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  Speaker 4: that you have everybody suffering. You know, moms and dads
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  Speaker 4: trying to figure out what they're going to do. They
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  Speaker 4: gotta bury their kids and stuff, and you know, everybody
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  Speaker 4: lose in these situations, man, So it's all a mental
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  Speaker 4: thing happens, you know, everybody trying to figure out what happens. Well,
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  Speaker 4: if it happened now, so you know, we have to
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  Speaker 4: try to turn to guy and try to find an
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  Speaker 4: understanding and move on right strength you'ing man, because god.
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  Speaker 3: You know, and it's just like.
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  Speaker 2: They're trying to make a name for themselves. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: what kind of name are you trying to make?
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  Speaker 5: Eight?
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  Speaker 2: What kind of legacy are you trying to leave for
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  Speaker 2: your child? You know, heartache? Oh, my father was wooped
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  Speaker 2: the woop this and he was from this. What kind
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  Speaker 2: of legacy is that? That's not a legacy?
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  Speaker 3: You know, well, I mean, I.
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  Speaker 2: Guess it's just heartbreaking when another young African American, he Hispanic, Caucasian, Asian,
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  Speaker 2: purple brown, whatever you may want of them, say, lose
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  Speaker 2: their life to senseless violence, whereas gang related, whereas overdose,
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  Speaker 2: whereas drunk driving. It's we got to do something to
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  Speaker 2: say to our children, and we got to do it fast,
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  Speaker 2: because they're spiraled down a rabbit hole. You know, they
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  Speaker 2: got this marijuana. I hate when they get on the
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  Speaker 2: bus smelling like it. Well I used to when I drove.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not driving right now, but I eventually, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: go back after I get my mind together. They smell
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  Speaker 2: like that, They go to work smelling like that, They
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  Speaker 2: in the store smelling like that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's like we can't get away from it.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I used to tell my children, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you don't know what they mixing in that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: They can be mixing some of some stuff. They have
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  Speaker 3: you hallucinating in that.
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  Speaker 5: Mh.
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  Speaker 3: We got to be careful. We got to sit down.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, when our kids is like four years
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  Speaker 2: old and stuff, don't be like laughing and giggling. Oh
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  Speaker 2: that's cute, No, that's cute, that ain't cute. He gonna
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  Speaker 2: grow up, she gonna grow up. Ain't gonna be doing
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  Speaker 2: the same thing as a teenager and a young adult.
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  Speaker 2: We gotta start nipping this stuff at in the bud
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  Speaker 2: when they're young, because we're responsible for them until they
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  Speaker 2: become of age. And my kids knew, they knew, don't
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  Speaker 2: make me look bad. You make me look bad, I'll
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  Speaker 2: be up at your school. And they knew that. Kyle
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  Speaker 2: knew I will do we tip on him. If I
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  Speaker 2: caught him ditching, I'll call the school. You know, we
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  Speaker 2: got to be more active in our children life.
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  Speaker 3: We have to. And go ahead, Cornell.
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  Speaker 4: Well, ma'am. You know if you look back to the
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  Speaker 4: early eighties when the gang infignation and the warm drugs
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  Speaker 4: and stuff came about, now you know, you know, I
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  Speaker 4: come to have a lot to do with this. You know,
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  Speaker 4: they're not on me that I own. People have about
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  Speaker 4: you know, rap music, and you know the misconception about
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  Speaker 4: raph music. Kids thinking that the gangster just because they
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  Speaker 4: hear something about other gangster and you know, something like this.
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  Speaker 4: But these kids have taken these, you know, these songs,
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  Speaker 4: and with their mentality and thinking like that, man, they
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  Speaker 4: try to act these things down. And now even if
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  Speaker 4: you got mothers and dogs, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 4: they don't know what to do man, because sometimes you
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  Speaker 4: could get it that they're just not going to listen
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  Speaker 4: to you no matter who you are. And then you
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  Speaker 4: turn to be gangs to feel like they being above.
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  Speaker 4: Like I said, ma'am, give you just your child is
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  Speaker 4: out there running the street, got a big old gun,
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  Speaker 4: and you can't chase your kid anywhere they go. You can't.
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  Speaker 4: So ma'am, here is you've got to just these drugs
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  Speaker 4: out there and then and then you got the rap
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: music and you got these kids making sending drugs and
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: making money and driving cars and stuff. They're making more
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: money and people that can get businesses now. So with
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: that thing said, ma'am will ever come with the parature
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: with his bottlens and they're doing drive by shoers and
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: kid and kids to each other. That's what they're doing now. Man.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: So it's very sad. But you know, we as people
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  Speaker 4: and advoctists and people that got you know, influencers, they
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  Speaker 4: heed the ones who need to stand up to start
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: trying to create programs and getting these fear fives and
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: Charla Teast's kids that it's a better way that they
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: don't have to remember the printing system mat. And if
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: I look around, and I can tell you right now, everybody,
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: most of the guys in there gang here. They most
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: of them have a jod lot of shoes, most upper gang,
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: guns and kids and stuff like that. One of them.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: But this is where we at. This is the life
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  Speaker 4: clients will live in there. So with that being said, now,
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  Speaker 4: you know, yes, we hate to see the things like
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  Speaker 4: this that happening, and a lot of society people. We
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  Speaker 4: have to find a better way. Our government have to
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  Speaker 4: find a better way to trying to reach these kids,
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  Speaker 4: and they're not doing that. Then they got a thing
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  Speaker 4: in Philadelphia call h what is it, uh the zombie
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  Speaker 4: sha zombie rolled or something. But they showing you that
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  Speaker 4: all of these people on that one street there the
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  Speaker 4: news everyone anywhere, man, and you ought to see it,
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: just saying the Christians going out there trying to keep
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  Speaker 4: these people commuting these tom It's just too sad. You
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  Speaker 4: need the government doing not knowing nothing about it, right,
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: and you.
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  Speaker 2: Know I see it down here, you know where I
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  Speaker 2: live at you know, uh, I'll be up so early
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: in the morning. It ain't even funny. We're going out
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: and go leave out to go to work. Just to
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: see the young people homeless out there, just you know,
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  Speaker 2: off that fentanyl off.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: What what is it.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Meth to see them out there like that. These are
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  Speaker 2: young people, well that.
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  Speaker 3: Had a bright future.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: And they still can have a bright future if they
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  Speaker 2: can just you know, if we have programs in place
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  Speaker 2: for them, you know, just to see them out there.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, and it's cold over here. I know it's
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: cold in the other parts, but out here, I think
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: it was like we was in the thirties last night
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: and it's cold, and they're out there and they walking around.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: They walk all night, They walk all night.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: And then during the day you will probably see them
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: behind the buildings sleep, or they sitting at the bus
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  Speaker 2: stop on the bus stop sleep.
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  Speaker 5: You know, this is.
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  Speaker 3: M hm.
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  Speaker 2: And we're supposed to be the great a great nation
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  Speaker 2: in the United States is supposed to be.
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  Speaker 3: So great.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: But we got so much homelessness here. We got so
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: many young people that's on Math and Fenton.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: Al and hair Ron, and we got.
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  Speaker 2: Only God can only God can save us, only God,
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: only God can do Only God can save us.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's very sad we have homelessness and stuff like that,
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: and I couldn't. It's not doing enough to try to
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: curb the additions. Man. So you know what that say.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: Anybody who's listening to the podcasts tonight, you know what
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: I'm saying, it would be you know, theyvery encouraging for
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: you know, you to get involved in these communities, to
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: get involved in trying you know what I'm saying, show
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: these please if there's a better way creating sentitives for
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: these kids and all to know, the picking the potential
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: that they've better that go and what they are and
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: what they're doing, you know, and that's all they needed.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: Somebody to get to them and talk to them and
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: them and show them that it's a better way. Yeah,
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: that's all they need. I oppose the kids over here
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: in prisons, they an't retalizing. You know what I'm saying,
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: what their potentially think. They locked up. They locked up down.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Now you hang up out to pour potential a while
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: because you're incarcerated them. He had capitalize speak. Kid got
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: eighty million years in prisons. Man, they never get out.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: When they get out, they behold the great man. So
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: you know we actually to listen to these podcasts about
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: that because trying to you know, help their amenity and
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: stuff like that. Didn't talk to these kids if you
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: used to get child about the mess of the drugs.
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: So I hang with the wrong crown, didn't put them
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  Speaker 4: to the side, but I'm going to set them down.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: Don't just let him keep doing what they do because
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: that's gonna lead to something totally, you know, one thing
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: to another. So you know it, your child is be
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: in prison, but your child be then gone from something
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: that you could have prevented.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's what it is.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: So for people to you know, need to get it
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: up and that should get it. We need to get
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: it because right now the society is dangers out there.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: You know you got to just doing a drive. I
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: should have just proponed now you know that's my little
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: big baby, just to getn't kill just somebody shooting in
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: the house and stuff. It's that so all that we
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: could do. But what I can do right now manners
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: pray for everybody, to pray that everybody's knowing good mental
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: stable health right now and going forward. We have to
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: keep God right. So mist you know, like I said,
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: you know I'm doing pretty good. I'm trying to maintain
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: my sanity right under the circumstances about fact going to
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: this my nephew. Man. But other than that, I'm doing great.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Okay, that's good man, and that's glad. I'm so glad
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: to hear from you, because you know how I was
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: kind of worried. I was like, he ain't called and
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: I called Angela was like did he call you?
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: And you know, and I'm just waiting around. You know,
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: I'll be like, oh my god, what's going on over there?
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: Ma? Yes, ma'am. We had a situation today, man, yes, man,
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: I was gonna get the call, but she told me
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: I got totally night. I'm like this, man, because because
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: you know, y'all got to show I suy yes man.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: We had just want to go eat and come back.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Yes, so we got I'm not gonna hold you long
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: because our time is going down because we got three
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: more shows. We got three more shows for the month December,
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: and then we're gonna be all, yeah, les, I'm gonna
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: give Cornell a few Uh.
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: Okay, well, my pall gonna cut off and look the
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: thanks you can have me on the show. Thank you
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: for allowing us this opportunity to come on the show
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: to David and on this podcast. I'm let's talk about it.
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: I look forward to being here for the last and
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: the next three shows. But I want to say, listen there,
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: thank you very much, ma'am for what you do. You
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: are being powerful boy, the power growing on a power
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: avocan man. You just keep doing what you do. Man,
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: it's going to be our life. We're going to find
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: something better. We don't get something going, but these people
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: are gonna start knowing who we are. We are, let's
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: talk about it. So when we come back, we will
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: be justice. Huh Justice, that's right, Yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am,
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: that's that's right. That's who we're going to be. We're
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: going to get it now. So you take care of him,
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: and thank you very much for having me on your show.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: Okay, goodbye.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Well that was my co host Cornell, and my condolence
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: go out to his family for the loss of his
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: I believe he said two nephews that was tragically killed
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: in their sleep on Thanksgiving days. I don't know the
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: details before details so about it, so I'm not gonna
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: speak on it. But anyway, I thank you guys. What
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: a minute before I end, I wanted to say this.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: I do have a book.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: That's coming out that I'm that I'm currently working on.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: At first, I was kind of skeptic. I didn't want
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: to do it, but I'm gonna go ahead and do it.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: I am looking if you lost a parent, a child,
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: a sibling, a spouse, grandparents, and you want to share
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: your thoughts in my first.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: And you know I get tongue tied, reach out to me.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: At Chanette Johnson on Facebook or let's talk about it
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: on Facebook. You can call me at area code nine
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: one six six nine four four five zero. You can
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: get in contact with me like like that. That's my book,
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: From Grief to Glory. That's what I will be doing
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: in All So Little Unique.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: She has a book, she's working on her book.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: We have.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Samiria Osborne. She's doing a book on I Believe Prayer?
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: Am I right?
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Angela? We have the twenty one. Angela is working on
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: a one hundred and twenty one Day of Prayer. So
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: if you want to get into that book, reach out
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: to Amla Angela Thomas Smith. I had a couple of
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: co hosts that just completed books. We have Black Diamond
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: that her book is on Amazon. Habitual liar. I believe
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: we have Trevita's book out.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: I've written down.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: The name of their books, but I left my paper
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: over there on the other side. Trevita got a book out, Angela,
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: you have the name of their books. Can you put
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: them up for me? Angela has a book out, and
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: neither In Nighting you're in in her Flame, she has
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: a book and she also have Echo. I have written
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: in three in all three series. But there's my book
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: up there. If you guys would like to join me,
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: if you want to be a voice, if you want
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: to expression, That's how I express my grief with my son.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: I learned to channel it by putting it on paper
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: when I'm mad, like today, I was mad at him.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: I don't know why I was mad at him. I
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: was just mad, and I had to write it down.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: I had to read write down why I was mad
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: at him. You know, Angela, if you have anything to share,
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: you more than welcome about the projects that you have
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: coming up, because you do that to me.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: So I just want to.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: See when she put me on the spot. When she
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: put us on the spot, she wants us to be
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: rest to go.
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: Well, anyway, I'm not prepared to come on camera, but
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: I'll come on. So we have a couple of projects going.
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: Y'all know, I keep my hands busy. I stay with something.
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: God is always downloading and dropping things in my spirits.
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: So if it's not for me, it's always for someone else.
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: So I tell people, if you're in my miss it
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: may get pushed off to you if it's not for me.
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: So know that if things are being downloaded, it's being
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: downloaded for someone We have a couple of projects again,
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: we are searching for authors. If you are an author
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: and you are looking for an opportunity just to share
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: your brand, to bring some awareness. You can be a
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: seasoned author, you can be wherever you are, does not matter,
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: if you're looking for to allow your brand to be
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: seen and heard around. I'm doing a initiative call the
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: one hundred Authors on one hundred Authors to watch and
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: authors on the Rise is what we're calling it. We
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: have some amazing authors, some have co author books and
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: now they are stepping into their own and twenty twenty
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: five they will be come on their owns. They will
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: be in charge of their own solo projects and then
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: we have some that are going to be releasing so
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: low books by themselves, So what we're doing collaborations. But however,
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: it is an amazing opportunity. I tell everyone, if you
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: are not being visible, you can never share too much.
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: So don't think that you are sharing too much. There's
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: always opportunities to get out there. Someone may not see
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: you because you gotta think we're all in different times, ze,
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: we all do stuff at different times, and especially with
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: the acmarithma and all the things that go into account
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: when we're dealing with social media. So you can never
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: share too much. You can never put yourself out there
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: too much. And if you are building a brand, this
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: is a great opportunity with ninety nine other like minded individuals.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: That is seeking the same thing.
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: So with this.
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: Opportunity to be featured on the blog, you will be
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: featured inside the magazine. You have opportunities to be a
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: part of podcasts. And when I say you'll have opportunities
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: to be a part of magazines and podcasts, I'm not
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: just saying you. Everything is surrounded around a lac Aspiring
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: Authors magazine and the Crew podcast. Because we do collaborate.
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: They don't call me to queen up collaborations for nothing.
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: I love to collaborate. I love to share individuals. So
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: if I have individuals that have magazines, of course I
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: want you to be in their magazine too, so I'm
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: gonna share you with them. I get opportunities all the
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: time where individuals are looking to feature individuals, so I
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: share individuals that's looking for individuals for their podcast. We're
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: always looking to connect, collaborate and share. I am looking
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: to partner with some bookstores, looking to partner with anybody
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: that work with authors and it's willing to help bring visibility.
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: We have some amazing things throughout twenty twenty five. We're
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: hoping to go abroad. We're hoping to go to Africa.
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: We're hoping to travel to the Virgin Islands. We're gonna
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: kick off AA L A C Chasing Your Dream Book
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: Tour in Charleston, South Carolina in March. We're hopefully going
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: to have an opportunity to showcase these amazing poets. Hopefully
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: we will have the new Poet of the Year and
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: we're able to present them in Charleston as well as
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: the amazing one hundred authors on the move. Those to watch.
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: We definitely want to be able to share them.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: So that that I think that's about it.
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: We did have one.
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: Twenty one days. It's a prayer book. But it's getting
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: ready to be released, y'all. We don't need any more
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: entries for that.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: That book is a wrap. It's getting ready to come out.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: It's getting ready to hit.
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: Those that have got their pre order in for ebook,
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: you'll probably have it before the thirty first, so know
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: that it is almost ready.
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: I'm excited about this book.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: I'm truly excited about everyone that had the opportunity to
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: share their testimonies. I tell everybody that we overcome by
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: hearing and sharing the testimonies the book. It's just that
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: we are one hundred and twenty one days of sharing, scripture, sharing,
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: word sharing those things we need to keep going to
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: stay on this journey because again, listening to your show,
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: we're all dealing with something. We're all dealing with something.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: So thank you for allowing me to come on and
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: and and give my little spill here at the end. Again,
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: I thank you for all that you do here on
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: the Crew podcast and for bringing awareness to social injustice
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: and those things that people don't like to talk about
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: because a lot of time. People don't like to talk
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: about controversial subjects, so sometime go outside of But I
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: thank you for bringing awareness to our brown community and
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: the things that.
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: Brought to.
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: Again.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: Thank you, you welcome. Thank you Angela.
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: That was the.
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: The visionary of the Crew podcast.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: Well, on that note, I am going to leave you, guys.
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: I got homework to do. I've been slacking on my homework,
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: waiting til the last minute to get it in. So
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: on that note, I love you guys.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: I can't wait to sit back down and talk to
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: you again. You guys, have a blessed and wonderful week,
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: and I'll see you soon. Don't forget to reach out
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: for me if you want to be in my book.
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: Love you have a good