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Watch Your Mouth · TMI

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Speaker 1: I'm Tameka D. Mallory.
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Speaker 2: And it's your boy, Myson the General.
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Speaker 1: We are your hosts of TMI.
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Speaker 2: Tameka and Myson's information, truth, motivation, and inspiration.
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Speaker 1: New name, new energy, but.
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Speaker 2: Same old us.
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Speaker 1: What's up, Myson? How you doing today?
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Speaker 3: I am still exhausted from Merriam Day, our 10th anniversary.
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Speaker 3: You know, it was a beautiful day, but it was
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Speaker 3: a long day. There was wind and tear on my body,
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Speaker 3: so I'm just recovering.
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Speaker 4: It was a great day for our community. 10 years
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Speaker 4: is the way to do it. A lot of people
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Speaker 4: came out and a lot of young people definitely can
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Speaker 4: say that they walked home with many.
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Speaker 1: Supplies, lots of things.
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Speaker 4: Thank you to Councilwoman Nantasha Williams, who's actually the Deputy
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Speaker 4: Speaker of the City Council of New York, who sent
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Speaker 4: some book bags that had really, really good supplies. And then,
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Speaker 4: of course, Julianne Hoffenberg, our team member who took the
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Speaker 4: time in between. She has a show she's producing in
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Speaker 4: the Hamptons and a lot of other things going on.
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Speaker 4: But she still took the time to make sure that
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Speaker 4: we ordered and picked up, you know, other things that
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Speaker 4: the young people need. And, you know, also, of course,
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Speaker 4: Blackbird and Tenadrian Fleming's. People just really poured in and
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Speaker 4: made sure that our young people had not just school supplies,
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Speaker 4: but also a good time at Miriam Day this year.
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Speaker 1: So that was great.
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Speaker 4: And of course, I have to give so much love
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Speaker 4: to Goldie, who slaved over a grill.
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Speaker 1: For hours and hours. Lots of people working together to
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Speaker 1: make it happen.
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Speaker 2: Yes, they did. Shout out to Christine, my cousin, my aunt.
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Speaker 3: Annette, who was out there, and, you know, they brought
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Speaker 3: the preacher out there, and he said a word. They
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Speaker 3: actually honored Miriam with a plaque. It was for me,
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Speaker 3: but it was actually for Miriam. You know, Vanessa Gibson
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Speaker 3: came out to show love, who is our Bronx world president,
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Speaker 3: with a citation for the 10th anniversary of Miriam Day.
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Speaker 3: So all in all, it was a beautiful day, man.
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Speaker 3: The weather was good. It wasn't too hot. It wasn't
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Speaker 3: too cold. You know, it wasn't no incidents. A little
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Speaker 3: argument here and there, but it was... Without incident, you know,
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Speaker 3: everybody went home safe. I got home the wee hours
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Speaker 3: of the morning after storage and packing things up, but
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Speaker 3: it was worth it.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely. We look forward to it. Giving back to
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Speaker 4: the community. Let's get started today. So just a personal note.
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Speaker 4: I went to the store to purchase a meal and
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Speaker 4: I decided to get two things. I got some fish.
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Speaker 4: rice and peas and cabbage. And then I also got
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Speaker 4: a small order of oxtails with rice and peas and
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Speaker 4: cabbage as well. Figured I could bring that home, share
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Speaker 4: it amongst my crew and cool. And when it was
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Speaker 4: time to go to the register and the woman said
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Speaker 4: that those two meals were $ 55 and I was literally
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Speaker 4: blown away.
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Speaker 1: Like I was literally blown away.
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Speaker 4: I was expecting 42, 44. Hell, if it would have
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Speaker 4: been 46, even though I think that's a little bit
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Speaker 4: too expensive, but that would have been okay. I would
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Speaker 4: have accepted that you got a piece of fish, you
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Speaker 4: got some oxtails. Oxtails are really high right now. But
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Speaker 4: $ 55 for two meals at a takeout spot was very, very, very.
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Speaker 1: Shocking to me.
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Speaker 4: And I was just thinking to myself, I know we've
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Speaker 4: talked about it on this show many times, that I
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Speaker 4: just am not sure how people are going to make it.
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Speaker 1: And I'm people.
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Speaker 4: Like, I'm a part of those who I'm really concerned
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Speaker 4: about the prices and the way in which everything is
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Speaker 4: just so high.
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Speaker 1: I mean.
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Speaker 1: That to me.
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Speaker 4: And then I asked, I said, well, how much is
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Speaker 4: the how much was the oxtails? And she said, well,
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Speaker 4: the fish is 27 and the oxtails is 28. And
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Speaker 4: I'm like, OK, so I guess when I hear it
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Speaker 4: as one item or one meal. Maybe it doesn't sound
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Speaker 4: as bad, but combined, $ 55 is really outrageous for two
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Speaker 4: meals at a takeout spot with no sitting down, eating, service,
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Speaker 4: no table, no nothing. My God. And it was in
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Speaker 4: the Bronx, in a little spot. It wasn't downtown. It
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Speaker 4: was in the Bronx, in a little spot. And that's
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Speaker 4: how much it costs to buy two plates of food.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's... Food and just shopping is getting outrageous. I
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Speaker 3: actually went and brought some groceries today.
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Speaker 2: And I went to the hood.
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Speaker 3: I'm tired of shopping in these well-to-do areas. I went
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Speaker 3: to the hood, found me some real bargains, and it
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Speaker 3: still was expensive. So I haven't really just been looking
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Speaker 3: for bargains, but I'm realizing that every time I go
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Speaker 3: to the supermarket now, it's almost $ 300 for stuff that
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Speaker 3: used to be $ 150. So this one came to a
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Speaker 3: little over $ 200 for the same thing. So I'm like, well,
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Speaker 3: this might have to be the supermarket I start shopping
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Speaker 3: at because it's a lot.
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Speaker 1: It's interesting, though.
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Speaker 4: You have to be very careful because some of those places,
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Speaker 4: especially in the community, there's a lot of things. For instance,
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Speaker 4: expiration dates, you have to check them because sometimes they
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Speaker 4: let things sit.
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Speaker 1: For a while.
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Speaker 4: They don't always have the best and healthiest options to
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Speaker 4: choose from. I always thought that bumblebee tuna fish was good.
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Speaker 1: You know, that's something that we've been eating for years
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Speaker 1: and years.
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Speaker 4: And I'm sure there's probably another name for it, but
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Speaker 4: I see bumblebee up there.
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Speaker 1: So maybe that is the brand.
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Speaker 4: And I saw, you know, on a site today that
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Speaker 4: that particular tuna fish is in the worst category and
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Speaker 4: they have all these other ones that are better. And
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Speaker 4: of course, the ones that's better are a little slightly
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Speaker 4: like a dollar more or maybe, you know, 49 cents
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Speaker 4: or whatever more. So it costs a little bit more money,
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Speaker 4: but they lay out like what's in the tuna fish
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Speaker 4: in one can versus the healthier option. And so I
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Speaker 4: am 100 percent sure that the healthier option is not
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Speaker 4: in every not to say this in none, but it's
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Speaker 4: not in every community grocery store. So you find yourself
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Speaker 4: having to negotiate with your health as well when you
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Speaker 4: are trying to get a bargain. be convenient, and at
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Speaker 4: the same time, make sure that you are taking care
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Speaker 4: of yourself and your family. I mean, it's not easy.
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Speaker 4: And it feels to me like in today's, just in
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Speaker 4: our society today, that everything is just a little bit
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Speaker 4: harder and you would want things to be a little
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Speaker 4: bit easier for us. And I think that if you
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Speaker 4: and I sat here and analyzed everything that's happening in
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Speaker 4: the world and all the money we waste spending it
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Speaker 4: and sending it and doing all the things, there are
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Speaker 4: ways to make things better for us as Americans. But
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Speaker 4: right now, it just doesn't feel like it's going in
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Speaker 4: that direction.
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Speaker 2: It's harder.
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Speaker 1: It's tighter.
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Speaker 4: You know, people are struggling and You know, I just,
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Speaker 4: I feel like at some point something has to give
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Speaker 4: because if we just continue rolling down this hill, we're
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Speaker 4: about to like run into the embankment and off into
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Speaker 4: the water. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I mean, we're in real serious time, especially economically. Anybody
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Speaker 3: that's acting like it's not, it's just lying to themselves.
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Speaker 2: You know, I was just, it was crazy because.
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Speaker 3: I was on the internet today and I just seen
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Speaker 3: a guy post about people was talking about how Kamala
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Speaker 3: would have been worse. And he said, it's impossible because
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Speaker 3: y'all want to let her, there's no way that we
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Speaker 3: would allow the black women to do all of this
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Speaker 3: without impeaching her and calling for her to resign and
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Speaker 3: all type of marches and rallies and everything is impossible. Black,
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Speaker 3: the black man couldn't even wear a tan suit. So,
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Speaker 3: you know, it is, it's really crazy though. Cause I'm like,
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Speaker 3: I'm really looking and like, wow, I've like, I've been,
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Speaker 3: I'm 50 years old. you know, and I think I
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Speaker 3: became a lot, became conscious of government and all these
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Speaker 3: things probably the last 15 years of my life. And
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Speaker 3: in that time of level of consciousness and just doing
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Speaker 3: studies and understand, I don't recall a time.
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Speaker 2: Where it was this crazy.
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Speaker 3: You know, I know it was times it was hard,
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Speaker 3: but I don't recall a time where there was so
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Speaker 3: many things and economics just was the icing on the
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Speaker 3: cake with it. The groceries was hard to, electricity is high.
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Speaker 3: Like literally, I think somebody tried to scam me about
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Speaker 3: electricity today because they know how high electricity is. So
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Speaker 3: a man randomly calls me and like, hey, I'm working
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Speaker 3: with a company that can stabilize your electricity. You know,
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Speaker 3: right now it's at 37 cents. We can get it
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Speaker 3: down to 18 and make it stable. Just give me
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Speaker 3: your information. I'm like, I had to hang up, but
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Speaker 3: he almost got me because I'm like, the way I'm
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Speaker 3: playing Con Edison electricity, man, I need somebody to stabilize it.
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Speaker 3: And the thing is, They can run these scams because
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Speaker 3: things are so hard that people are trying to find
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Speaker 3: a way out. They trying to look for any little
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Speaker 3: way to squeeze, you know, a penny out of a dime.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's a lot of that.
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Speaker 4: It's a lot of scamming going on. My dad, he
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Speaker 4: got a new vehicle and the insurance is $ 600 more
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Speaker 4: every six months.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just everything is really, really high.
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Speaker 4: So. I, I just, you know, we got to lock
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Speaker 4: in and people have to support one another and kind
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Speaker 4: of combine your resources as much as possible to make
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Speaker 4: sure that you're sharing and, and, and taking care of
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Speaker 4: one another in this moment, because it's a lot happening.
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Speaker 1: And then at the same time, you know.
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Speaker 4: It's like, On one hand, things are definitely tighter, but
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Speaker 4: we also have evolved as a society and folks want
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Speaker 4: to have nice things. They want to have nice things.
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Speaker 4: They want to make sure the environment is nice. You know,
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Speaker 4: when you go to college, the room that they give
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Speaker 4: you is pretty much.
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Speaker 1: Just, you know, I mean. It's neat. It's clean. That's it.
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Speaker 4: And that's all you really need. If that's all you have,
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Speaker 4: that's all you need. But I can understand some of
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Speaker 4: the families who are putting their work into, you know,
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Speaker 4: fixing up the room and, you know, fixing up the
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Speaker 4: beds and putting a little stripper wallpaper on the wall
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Speaker 4: and making it look more like home and trying to
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Speaker 4: give their children something you know, something that I'm sure
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Speaker 4: they would like and just a more luxurious feel. And
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Speaker 4: it really has a lot of people pissed off because
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Speaker 4: I see people on the internet that are like, these.
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Speaker 1: Kids don't need those kind of college dorms.
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Speaker 4: And let me just say that understand sort of both
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Speaker 4: mindsets because there is something about the character that you
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Speaker 4: build when you are away in college or going you
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Speaker 4: know going anywhere even if it's summer camp wherever it
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Speaker 4: is that you go that you have to learn how
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Speaker 4: to survive that you don't have access to be able
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Speaker 4: to go in mommy and daddy's room and say oh
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Speaker 4: I need $ 20 I need $ 10 whatever you really have
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Speaker 4: to figure out how to make it from day to day,
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Speaker 4: how to make the schedule work, how to make the
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Speaker 4: meal plan for the cafeteria work, how to make your
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Speaker 4: little extra spending money work, you know, how to get
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Speaker 4: your transportation, get your social life on. And of course,
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Speaker 4: handle your studies and the extracurricular activities that you want
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Speaker 4: to participate in. And that's a lot for a student
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Speaker 4: that is 18 years old coming into college, trying to
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Speaker 4: balance all those things and also mind your mental health
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Speaker 4: and dream about what it is that you want to be.
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Speaker 1: So I get it that.
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Speaker 4: The college dorm room is a part of that journey. However,
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Speaker 4: I feel like A lot of times we kind of
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Speaker 4: live in our heads of what we experienced, what we
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Speaker 4: were going through, what we had. Instead of us seeing
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Speaker 4: that this is a new this is a newer generation
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Speaker 4: of people, not just kids.
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Speaker 1: It's a newer generation of people.
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Speaker 4: You've got parents who are in their 30s that's sending
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Speaker 4: their children to college. They have not experienced life the
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Speaker 4: same way that we have as 45, 46 and up.
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Speaker 4: There's a whole different experience out there. So these children
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Speaker 4: who are going off to college, the skill set that
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Speaker 4: some of us had It's to make it a little cuter,
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Speaker 4: you know, fix it.
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Speaker 1: Up, make it feel more like home.
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Speaker 4: The one thing I would say is that if you
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Speaker 4: are a parent showing up to a college and you're
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Speaker 4: getting your child set up, which we see is every day,
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Speaker 4: you see all the reveals and everything. People are checking
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Speaker 4: in at college and actually in the next few weeks,
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Speaker 4: homecomings will start. But if you are somebody that's doing that,
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Speaker 4: the least you could do is make sure that you
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Speaker 4: bring some stuff for the roommate.
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Speaker 1: I saw a couple of videos where one side of
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Speaker 1: the room look all beautiful.
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Speaker 4: And then the other side, either you had a kid
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Speaker 4: just kind of sitting there looking or it would be like,
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Speaker 4: you know, it looks it doesn't look comparable. So I
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Speaker 4: would say that you have to try to be mindful
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Speaker 4: of that because you don't want to create a dynamic
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Speaker 4: where there's an imbalance with your student and your child. But,
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Speaker 4: you know, I don't see anything wrong with people wanting
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Speaker 4: to put a little bit of fashion and pizzazz on
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Speaker 4: their children's dorm room, particularly if the child is going
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Speaker 4: in and you believe that they're going to do well
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Speaker 4: and that this is a part of making them feel
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Speaker 4: like they're still at home, even though they're not.
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Speaker 3: And that's your prerogative. As a parent, all of us
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Speaker 3: have our things that we want for our children. Going
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Speaker 3: to college is a big thing. As a father, knowing
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Speaker 3: the day that my sons go to college is going
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Speaker 3: to be something that I want to be prideful for.
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Speaker 2: I want them to be comfortable.
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Speaker 3: I don't want them to have to work in a
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Speaker 3: space or live in a space that doesn't make them
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Speaker 3: feel homely. But I definitely don't, if they have a roommate,
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Speaker 3: I'm going to try to do my best to try
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Speaker 3: to make it to where the whole room is because
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Speaker 3: just having your child's side look good when the other
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Speaker 3: side looks like it's not, you know, and everybody's financial
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Speaker 3: situation is different.
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Speaker 2: So, you know, we want to do the best we can.
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Speaker 3: I don't judge anybody who wants their kids to have
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Speaker 3: nice things and they worked hard and provided, you know,
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Speaker 3: the opportunity. Some people are, you know, taking food out
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Speaker 3: their mouth and they're taking clothes off their back to
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Speaker 3: provide their children with education. And some of them, this
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Speaker 3: is their first time you know, generation of kids who
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Speaker 3: went to college because they didn't go to college. So
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Speaker 3: they really, they're living in that moment. So, you know,
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Speaker 3: I don't want to take that away from anybody, you know,
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Speaker 3: but at the end of the day, we also don't
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Speaker 3: want anybody to feel inferior, you know, and that those
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Speaker 3: things could cause friction inside a dorm room. You know,
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Speaker 3: when one person has a bunch and then you have
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Speaker 3: somebody who doesn't. So you got to be mindful and
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Speaker 3: try to figure out how do you balance all of that.
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Speaker 2: But all in all, man, you know, do it, do
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Speaker 2: what you can and we'll do what you want for
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Speaker 2: your children.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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Speaker 4: And also the way that they live at home, I'm sure,
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Speaker 4: you know, you don't want to take them into an
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Speaker 4: environment and you completely strip them down to nothing. Now,
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Speaker 4: there's many people who will say, well, I did it.
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Speaker 4: And if I could do it, so can my child.
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Speaker 1: And that's fine. But I don't think that we should
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Speaker 1: be judging people who want.
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Speaker 4: To make sure that, you know, their kid has some
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Speaker 4: of at least some of the resemblance of how they
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Speaker 4: live on an everyday basis.
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Speaker 1: I think that is cool. I especially love it for
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Speaker 1: young black men.
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Speaker 4: Because, you know, I feel like young Black men are
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Speaker 4: always getting sort of like the short end of the stuff,
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Speaker 4: whatever that may be.
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Speaker 1: Just getting the short end.
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Speaker 4: You know, girls, of course, get pink and this and
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Speaker 4: fix it up a little bit and it's cute and whatever.
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Speaker 4: But the boys sometimes get like the more rugged side
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Speaker 4: of everything. And I actually appreciate that. I actually appreciate,
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Speaker 4: you know, the type of work that's been put into
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Speaker 4: making these college boys have you know, a nice environment.
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Speaker 4: So I'm with you that do what you can for
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Speaker 4: your kids, but of course, make sure that you share. And,
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Speaker 4: you know, it still needs to be with the expectation
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Speaker 4: that they are going to do well and to produce
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Speaker 4: and not just to be trying to live somewhere, you know,
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Speaker 4: like they fly guy in the college dorm. So there's that.
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Speaker 4: And I know that nobody else cares about it, but
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Speaker 4: I would say that, you know, from just, I see
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Speaker 4: so many, Well, I would say a lot of people
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Speaker 4: probably don't care about this topic, but I really saw
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Speaker 4: like parents going at it in the comment section on
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Speaker 4: so many pages where there was like real debate on
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Speaker 4: whether or not these kids should be able to, you know,
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Speaker 4: go to school and have these fancy setups. So I
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Speaker 4: just thought I'd bring it up because, you know, we
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Speaker 4: talk about everything on TMI.
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Speaker 3: No, I mean, it made sense. You know, it's the
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Speaker 3: school season. And these are the thoughts in the community.
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Speaker 3: So why not bring it up? But, you know, everyone,
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Speaker 3: like I said, everyone is entitled to do what they
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Speaker 3: feel is best for their children.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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Speaker 4: Okay, let's go to my thought of the day, which
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Speaker 4: is certainly not on as light of a note as.
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Speaker 1: The college dorms.
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Speaker 4: So Angie Nixon out of Jacksonville, Florida, she is a
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Speaker 4: state representative. She is a business owner, an entrepreneur. She's
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Speaker 4: a mother, a wife. And came out of labor. So
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Speaker 4: she's also an organizer by nature. Angie has been at
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Speaker 4: the center of fighting for Black people, fighting for disadvantaged communities,
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Speaker 4: fighting for people who have had to deal with the
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Speaker 4: issues of oppression or the issue of oppression for too, too,
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Speaker 4: too long. for Floridians and speaking out about things happening
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Speaker 4: across the country.
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Speaker 1: She's a bad sister.
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Speaker 4: Angie is the woman with the viral video that I
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Speaker 4: know I posted in April of 2026. She was on
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Speaker 4: the floor in the House of Representatives, and it was
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Speaker 4: during the redistricting vote that Governor Ron DeSantis, of course,
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Speaker 4: was backing, dissating. She had a pink bullhorn in the
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Speaker 4: on the floor saying this is a violation of the Constitution.
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Speaker 1: She was protesting. She was she was, you know, fighting back.
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Speaker 4: And in many ways, when you look at the footage,
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Speaker 4: she was kind of there by herself, even though others
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Speaker 4: were there, other state legislators.
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Speaker 1: But she was really the one who was speaking up
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Speaker 1: and calling it out from the floor.
19:34
Speaker 4: And, you know, I think that it is interesting because
19:37
Speaker 4: as a black woman being probably one of the more
19:41
Speaker 4: vocal people in Florida and in Jacksonville and, of course,
19:45
Speaker 4: in the state legislature there at this particular time, most.
19:50
Speaker 4: people would tell you that her mouth would get her
19:52
Speaker 4: in trouble and she would never, ever be able to
19:56
Speaker 4: accomplish what has happened now. She is running for Senate,
20:01
Speaker 4: for the United.
20:02
Speaker 1: States Senate, and she actually.
20:05
Speaker 4: Won the Democratic election So she won the primary by
20:09
Speaker 4: like 150,000 votes, I believe, and is now the nominee
20:15
Speaker 4: for that particular seat, which is the United States Senate
20:18
Speaker 4: seat in Florida.
20:21
Speaker 2: Now.
20:22
Speaker 1: This is, of course, brought out all kinds of fools.
20:26
Speaker 4: It's not just white folks and those kind of far
20:31
Speaker 4: right people. It's also some of our own Black people
20:35
Speaker 4: who have said horrific things and or tried to find
20:39
Speaker 4: ways to derail Angie and her progress and what she
20:44
Speaker 4: is about to accomplish when she becomes the United States senator.
20:49
Speaker 4: She's running against the current Republican sitting senator, Ashley Moody. And,
20:55
Speaker 4: you know, obviously it's heated. It's a white woman who's
20:59
Speaker 4: in the seat. A Black woman is running to unsee her. And,
21:03
Speaker 4: you know, this is not an easy thing. Of course,
21:06
Speaker 4: Angie didn't have anywhere near as much money as this woman.
21:10
Speaker 4: I think the last numbers, it was like right under
21:12
Speaker 4: a million dollars that Angie had. This woman has had
21:16
Speaker 4: millions of dollars poured in to defeat Angie.
21:20
Speaker 1: She is powerful. She's fiery.
21:22
Speaker 4: She's just a regular community person who believes in change
21:28
Speaker 4: and she believes in people power.
21:29
Speaker 1: And she's out here fighting to get things done.
21:32
Speaker 4: And of course, that brings out the political people, whether
21:36
Speaker 4: they be Black or white and the establishment people and
21:41
Speaker 4: all those who believe will just have been saying and
21:45
Speaker 4: just doing and saying things to her that's crazy.
21:49
Speaker 1: I watched interviews with people that ought to.
21:52
Speaker 4: Be ashamed of themselves, the way in which they're interviewing her,
21:55
Speaker 4: the questions they're asking her, the way that they're pushing her.
21:59
Speaker 4: And it's Black people, white people, it's a bunch of
22:02
Speaker 4: people who have either said about her or done to
22:06
Speaker 4: her very, very disrespectful things since she won the election. Now,
22:13
Speaker 4: There is one person, however, who has taken it to
22:18
Speaker 4: an entirely different level. And that is Laura Loomer, who's
22:24
Speaker 4: a political consultant or whatever she is, a commentator and
22:28
Speaker 4: a good friend of Donald Trump's in and out of
22:30
Speaker 4: the White House. She took it and just went over
22:35
Speaker 4: the top. Now, I'm going to tell you what really
22:39
Speaker 4: bothered me. Laura Loomer made a comment that not just Angie,
22:44
Speaker 4: but she was specifically targeting Angie. So she made that,
22:48
Speaker 4: you know, the point of saying that she's ghetto. And
22:51
Speaker 4: then she called her ghetto bitch. And I mean, it
22:56
Speaker 4: goes on and on with the nasty and disrespectful things
23:00
Speaker 4: that Laura Loomer said.
23:02
Speaker 1: Now, I could get.
23:04
Speaker 4: Upset about being called the ghetto bitch, but who cares? Like,
23:09
Speaker 4: talking to your mother anyway. So I don't, whatever. Who
23:13
Speaker 4: cares if you call me a ghetto bitch?
23:16
Speaker 1: I'll take it. Because the bottom line is I'm not
23:19
Speaker 1: a dirty bitch like you. So I'll take ghetto. I
23:22
Speaker 1: will take it. It is what it is.
23:24
Speaker 4: But it's the next thing that Laura Loomis said that
23:28
Speaker 4: actually makes me not just angry, but it makes me
23:32
Speaker 4: really afraid for not just us as black people and
23:37
Speaker 4: like the attack that we're under. But it makes me
23:40
Speaker 4: afraid for some white folks out here who might believe
23:44
Speaker 4: that the way in which Laura Loomis spoke to over
23:49
Speaker 4: social media, Angie Nixon is OK. And somebody is going
23:55
Speaker 4: to get themselves or themselves hurt.
23:58
Speaker 1: Like people are going to get themselves hurt.
24:01
Speaker 4: I saw on Roshanda, our girl Roshanda's page, where she said,
24:06
Speaker 4: I will slap the shit out of you. And what's
24:09
Speaker 4: going to happen is a bunch of Black people going
24:11
Speaker 4: to end up going to jail, especially Black women, because
24:15
Speaker 4: we're going to be putting hands and feet on people
24:18
Speaker 4: who speak like this.
24:19
Speaker 1: And just listen to what she said.
24:21
Speaker 4: She says, I called you a ghetto bitch because you
24:24
Speaker 4: are Angie and your record proves it. But then the
24:27
Speaker 4: second line, she says, But you speak Ebonics though. So
24:33
Speaker 4: maybe I need to bark at you and tug your leash. Now,
24:40
Speaker 4: that part right there is the part that lets me
24:45
Speaker 4: know that we are approaching a space where there's going
24:51
Speaker 4: to be some physical violence that's going to take place
24:55
Speaker 4: on you.
24:56
Speaker 1: I'm telling you. That's unreal.
24:58
Speaker 2: That's unreal.
25:02
Speaker 4: I'm telling you that it is going to turn into
25:06
Speaker 4: physical violence.
25:09
Speaker 3: And it should. At that point, you've made a conscious decision.
25:13
Speaker 3: Like I tell people all the time, when you take
25:15
Speaker 3: respect off the table, then you put violence and disrespect
25:19
Speaker 3: on the table.
25:20
Speaker 2: Like, what would make you think that you could.
25:22
Speaker 3: Talk about somebody else's child or mother or anything in
25:26
Speaker 3: that manner without some type of consequences? Like, why would
25:29
Speaker 3: you like why would you think that is OK? Like,
25:32
Speaker 3: how did these white people get so, you know, empowered
25:36
Speaker 3: and and feel like they can just disrespect us and
25:38
Speaker 3: just say anything to people without some type of consequences?
25:42
Speaker 3: I'm just so confused that that lady would talk about
25:45
Speaker 3: that lady like that.
25:46
Speaker 2: That's crazy to me.
25:48
Speaker 1: But here's what I will say. And I know I
25:50
Speaker 1: keep saying, but here's what I will say. So let
25:52
Speaker 1: me say something. Here's, I guess, my.
25:57
Speaker 4: Second point that should be the first point but God
26:02
Speaker 4: is not through with me yet and I'm telling you
26:06
Speaker 4: that saying that you're gonna tug at my leash would
26:10
Speaker 4: definitely push me to a place like you know how
26:14
Speaker 4: they'll say oh don't let people get to you they
26:16
Speaker 4: know how to push your buttons.
26:17
Speaker 1: And Absolutely, 100%.
26:22
Speaker 4: That would push my buttons to where if Laura Luman
26:26
Speaker 4: and I was sitting in the same space and she
26:28
Speaker 4: says something like that, I would take the palm of
26:31
Speaker 4: my hand and hit her in her face so bad
26:34
Speaker 4: that her.
26:35
Speaker 1: Damn nose would break. I know I would do that.
26:37
Speaker 4: So that's why I have to stay away from those
26:39
Speaker 4: types of environments and those types of.
26:41
Speaker 1: People because it's not appropriate.
26:44
Speaker 4: We should be able to just walk away and turn
26:47
Speaker 4: the other cheek and the whole thing. But it is
26:49
Speaker 4: no way that you would sit in my face as
26:51
Speaker 4: another grown woman and say to me that you might
26:56
Speaker 4: have to bark at me and tug my leash. There's
27:00
Speaker 4: no way that you could speak to me like that
27:02
Speaker 4: with all of the PTSD and trauma that I as
27:06
Speaker 4: a Black woman experience every single day being treated as
27:11
Speaker 4: someone said to me and corrected me on my page,
27:14
Speaker 4: less than a freaking animal. Now, Let me go to
27:20
Speaker 4: the more appropriate response to this and a more sophisticated analysis.
27:26
Speaker 4: What I noticed on, and this is my thought of
27:30
Speaker 4: the day, As Laura Loomer disrespects Angie Nixon and Ayanna
27:38
Speaker 4: Pressley and others in Kataji Brown in the ways in
27:42
Speaker 4: which she has done, all it is doing is affirming
27:46
Speaker 4: for me what my grandmama and my mama and Cora Mastersberry,
27:51
Speaker 4: who was on our show a few weeks ago as
27:53
Speaker 4: an elder, she would always tell me. That what the
27:58
Speaker 4: devil means for bad, God means for good. That you
28:03
Speaker 4: might think you're knocking me down, but actually you're boosting
28:07
Speaker 4: me in front of the world. And Cora Mastersberry once
28:11
Speaker 4: said to me, that sometimes people will get to know
28:16
Speaker 4: you from your enemies better than they can from your friends.
28:21
Speaker 1: So as Laura Loomer.
28:23
Speaker 4: Disrespects Angie, Angie is in some ways considered to be
28:28
Speaker 4: an underdog, right?
28:30
Speaker 1: The Democratic Party.
28:32
Speaker 4: With its pitiful self, was never going to do.
28:36
Speaker 1: Anything tremendous to help Angie.
28:39
Speaker 4: Some of them perhaps, but not the entire party getting
28:43
Speaker 4: behind her the way that they do other people who
28:46
Speaker 4: they consider to be more, I guess, fit or whatever
28:50
Speaker 4: kind of stupid ass criteria they had for how they
28:54
Speaker 4: support people at times. But in this situation... Angie is
28:59
Speaker 4: looked at as being sort of the underdog. Meanwhile, Laura
29:03
Speaker 4: Loomer's disrespectful racism has forced the Democratic, the Florida Democratic Party.
29:10
Speaker 1: It has forced Hakeem Jeffries.
29:12
Speaker 4: It's forcing all of these individuals who probably would have
29:16
Speaker 4: said maybe nothing, you know, maybe a little bit of something,
29:19
Speaker 4: but they weren't really going to do anything to lean
29:21
Speaker 4: in to support her in the ways in which she
29:24
Speaker 4: needs to help her to win this race.
29:27
Speaker 1: They have passed her aside. I love my brother Bakari
29:30
Speaker 1: Sellers so much. But what he said was very, very
29:34
Speaker 1: troubling to basically make it as if Angie's race is
29:39
Speaker 1: a waste of money. It should always be. I thought
29:42
Speaker 1: it was vote blue no matter who.
29:44
Speaker 4: We're supposed to get behind this system because if we
29:48
Speaker 4: all support her, she absolutely can win.
29:51
Speaker 1: She absolutely can win.
29:53
Speaker 4: If we support her in the ways in which she
29:56
Speaker 4: needs and deserves because she has proven herself to be
30:00
Speaker 4: a viable candidate, right? And so what has happened is
30:04
Speaker 4: that because of this woman's racist rhetoric and disrespect, she
30:10
Speaker 4: has elevated Angie's name in the.
30:13
Speaker 1: Algorithm, got people talking about her.
30:16
Speaker 4: And the thing that I see from page to page
30:18
Speaker 4: is people saying, I've now donated to her two times.
30:22
Speaker 1: Three times. I'm going to give more money to help
30:25
Speaker 1: Angie Nixon.
30:26
Speaker 4: People are now finding out who she is and turning
30:29
Speaker 4: to her race. So while I want Laura Luma, while
30:33
Speaker 4: if it was me, if we all would probably be
30:35
Speaker 4: bailing me out. But in this situation, I'm glad that
30:39
Speaker 4: Angie is taking the Michelle Obama.
30:42
Speaker 1: When they go low, we go high. Stay out there, Angie.
30:46
Speaker 1: Keep going high. Stay focused.
30:49
Speaker 4: Laura Luma will be dealt with in her own way
30:52
Speaker 4: and her own God will handle her at.
30:54
Speaker 1: A later time. But you, Angie, use the opportunity to
30:59
Speaker 1: rise above and to do your thing as an organizer,
31:02
Speaker 1: to take yourself all the way to the Senate. And
31:05
Speaker 1: we are going to get behind you. and support you.
31:08
Speaker 4: And it's going to force even your enemies to have
31:11
Speaker 4: to speak out against this woman, which means that they
31:15
Speaker 4: will be elevating Angie's name everywhere that she goes. She's
31:20
Speaker 4: going to be more well-known because the racist is making
31:23
Speaker 4: it happen. Maybe if they shut up and leave her alone,
31:26
Speaker 4: it will go under the radar. But now they're putting
31:28
Speaker 4: her on an international stage for people to support a
31:32
Speaker 4: Black woman who pretty much was called a dog by
31:35
Speaker 4: a woman who literally, literally is and looks and walks
31:41
Speaker 4: and quacks like a dog.
31:42
Speaker 2: That's one thing you always say.
31:43
Speaker 3: You always consistent and say they'll always go too far.
31:47
Speaker 3: He's like, you know, a lot of times I began frustrated.
31:51
Speaker 3: You were like, trust me. The thing I know about
31:54
Speaker 3: these racist people, that they so racist and they're such
31:57
Speaker 3: horrible people that they'll do their own bidding. You don't
32:01
Speaker 3: even have to do nothing because they will go too far.
32:04
Speaker 3: And like you said, what God mean, what the devil
32:06
Speaker 3: meant for bad, God will always use for good, man.
32:09
Speaker 3: And like you said, a lot of people are noticing Angie.
32:13
Speaker 3: I've been paying attention. And I just, for a while,
32:15
Speaker 3: I just kept saying, what is it about Angie that has...
32:19
Speaker 3: The Democrats angry. I'm so confused. What is it that
32:22
Speaker 3: she's like? She seems like somebody who's always been for us,
32:25
Speaker 3: who's always spoke truth to power, who stood up, who
32:29
Speaker 3: didn't care about the consequences or ramifications of speaking the truth,
32:33
Speaker 3: you know, who's in tune with... the people who's who's
32:37
Speaker 3: been doing grassroots organizing like she's she's been working with
32:41
Speaker 3: a lot of different you know um elected officials for
32:44
Speaker 3: years she's been the grant on the ground like she
32:47
Speaker 3: knows what's going on so i'm just trying to figure
32:49
Speaker 3: out why would she be somebody that people don't want
32:52
Speaker 3: to invest in like why i would think that that
32:54
Speaker 3: would be somebody especially in this time when we're watching
32:57
Speaker 3: the mandamis and we're watching the other, you know, democratic
33:01
Speaker 3: quote unquote socialists or people who just are for the people,
33:04
Speaker 3: you know, get elected and get, get energy. Like why
33:09
Speaker 3: wouldn't we get some, especially as a black person, because
33:11
Speaker 3: we've been saying lately, I've been saying lately, you know,
33:14
Speaker 3: there aren't a lot of black people that are being,
33:17
Speaker 3: you know, highlighted in that, in that space, you know,
33:20
Speaker 3: but now we have one of our own that's actually
33:22
Speaker 3: being highlighted in that space. Why wouldn't black people say, Hey,
33:25
Speaker 3: Let's get behind her because we know that in this space,
33:29
Speaker 3: she can speak to the realities of black people, you know,
33:33
Speaker 3: and she can take the same energy in, but she
33:35
Speaker 3: can speak to the realities of black people and have
33:37
Speaker 3: people focus on black issues. So I don't understand to me.
33:41
Speaker 3: It's just like, it's like sometimes we just cut our
33:44
Speaker 3: nose to spite our face. And we always keep being
33:47
Speaker 3: angry when we just not being strategic.
33:49
Speaker 2: And this is strategy.
33:50
Speaker 3: This is, this is us getting one of our people
33:53
Speaker 3: in a position to, in a party at a time
33:58
Speaker 3: when it's on the rise.
33:59
Speaker 2: So let's make it make sense.
34:01
Speaker 4: Well, I don't know. Is it on the rise or
34:03
Speaker 4: is it on a decline? It depends on how you
34:05
Speaker 4: look at it. I appreciate what you said because I
34:11
Speaker 4: don't think it was a mistake. I think when you
34:13
Speaker 4: say arise, you see it in a different way because
34:16
Speaker 4: what you're saying is that there's new blood and new
34:20
Speaker 4: voices entering the party.
34:22
Speaker 1: And so therefore... to you, you're seeing a rise.
34:27
Speaker 4: Some of us are seeing a decline, but I'll tell
34:32
Speaker 4: you that it is, it's almost prophetic because the natural
34:36
Speaker 4: order of things is that something has to die in
34:41
Speaker 4: order for a new thing to be born in that
34:44
Speaker 4: same spot, right? Like you're not getting ready to have
34:50
Speaker 4: continuous crop of the same exact fruit or vegetable or
34:56
Speaker 4: you know whatever it is that you're growing for the
35:00
Speaker 4: continuous time there's a point when it will die in
35:04
Speaker 4: order for a new thing to grow and even.
35:08
Speaker 1: You know, humans, we as people.
35:11
Speaker 4: Our old ideas, our old habits, our old ways, in
35:16
Speaker 4: order for us to be born again and to be
35:18
Speaker 4: born anew, to have new experiences, to have new things,
35:22
Speaker 4: we have to make decisions that may kill parts of
35:25
Speaker 4: what we used to be or what we used to
35:29
Speaker 4: be committed to. And the party, so therefore it doesn't
35:33
Speaker 4: have to be, and this is what I think I
35:35
Speaker 4: hear you saying, It doesn't have to be a bad
35:39
Speaker 4: thing that this new energy is coming into the party.
35:43
Speaker 4: We have to just decide who we are and what
35:46
Speaker 4: do we want to do? Because we could just lose,
35:48
Speaker 4: you know, people because folks are people have turned.
35:52
Speaker 1: Their head away from the Democrats. They are pissed. It's high.
35:57
Speaker 1: And everybody wants to keep saying, well, what's the alternative?
36:00
Speaker 1: You know, what's the alternative?
36:01
Speaker 4: I don't know. But you're not going to folks are
36:04
Speaker 4: not willing to hear that. Because there doesn't feel like
36:08
Speaker 4: a better alternative, because there isn't a stronger alternative in
36:11
Speaker 4: this moment that they just have to accept the crap
36:14
Speaker 4: that you laying in front of them.
36:15
Speaker 1: They don't want it. They don't want it. They don't
36:18
Speaker 1: want it.
36:19
Speaker 5: You got people who will refuse, refuse to vote for
36:25
Speaker 5: the current makeup of the Democratic Party unless there are
36:29
Speaker 5: some changes that are made.
36:31
Speaker 4: And those changes are happening. But it has to be
36:35
Speaker 4: if it's going to be a big tent, if the
36:37
Speaker 4: Democrats are going to have a big tent, then they're
36:40
Speaker 4: going to have to create a big tent.
36:43
Speaker 5: That.
36:45
Speaker 4: Really does represent all the different types of people coming together.
36:49
Speaker 4: And that means that even the leadership has to change
36:52
Speaker 4: to allow for more of the progressives, more of the
36:56
Speaker 4: socialist mindset to become, to really be a part of
37:02
Speaker 4: the leadership dynamic of the Democratic Party.
37:05
Speaker 1: And we'll have to see.
37:06
Speaker 4: We'll have to see if they look at it from
37:09
Speaker 4: your perspective that the party is on the rise or
37:12
Speaker 4: if they look at it from other perspectives where people
37:15
Speaker 4: feel is dying.
37:16
Speaker 3: I just think for me, like, why would you think
37:18
Speaker 3: something is on the rise? I mean, would you would
37:23
Speaker 3: you think something is dying when the people are supporting it?
37:26
Speaker 2: Like, that's what the government is about.
37:28
Speaker 3: Right. Elected officials are elected by the people. So if
37:32
Speaker 3: you're seeing that this new energy, the Democratic, the new,
37:36
Speaker 3: the way to do more to the left, the more
37:38
Speaker 3: progressive is.
37:39
Speaker 2: Where the people want.
37:41
Speaker 3: If you're not catering to the people, then how do
37:44
Speaker 3: you think that something is dying? If you see that
37:48
Speaker 3: what's happening right now is catering to the people, when
37:51
Speaker 3: the people are saying, this is what we want, what
37:53
Speaker 3: you're giving us in excuses and the bipartisan way that
37:57
Speaker 3: you try to go about it, we're the party that's
38:00
Speaker 3: never been bipartisan.
38:01
Speaker 2: That have always.
38:02
Speaker 3: voted for themselves, that has always done the best thing
38:04
Speaker 3: for themselves. And they constantly doing things to move the
38:08
Speaker 3: needle in a direction. And you're trying to play this,
38:11
Speaker 3: you know, holier than thou and no, let's try to
38:13
Speaker 3: do it the right way. And it's not working for people.
38:16
Speaker 3: And you telling the people who are voting for the
38:19
Speaker 3: people that are saying, yes, we do need healthcare.
38:22
Speaker 2: Yes, we do need living wages.
38:24
Speaker 3: Yes, we do want, you know, Our kids to go
38:27
Speaker 3: to proper school and we do want police reform. We
38:30
Speaker 3: do want the things that the average individual, everyday individual wants.
38:35
Speaker 3: If you see the fact that people are being energized
38:38
Speaker 3: by that as the party.
38:39
Speaker 2: Dying, I don't even know what kind of party you
38:42
Speaker 2: wanted from the beginning.
38:43
Speaker 3: What is a democratic or where is a democracy in
38:46
Speaker 3: a party that doesn't want to adhere to what the
38:49
Speaker 3: people want?
38:50
Speaker 2: Because what happens is people have got their elected.
38:53
Speaker 3: Officials and people within this party who have got comfortable
38:56
Speaker 3: in their space without doing anything, without having to have
38:59
Speaker 3: really any real change, just being consistent with doing absolutely
39:04
Speaker 3: the bare minimum and saying, look, hey, you know, we didn't.
39:07
Speaker 2: Get what we wanted, but look what happened.
39:08
Speaker 3: We got a little bit, you know, while we are
39:11
Speaker 3: constantly watching the other side just bulldoze over us. And
39:15
Speaker 3: then what we got to do is fight back. to
39:17
Speaker 3: get 10% of the 100% of shit that we lost
39:20
Speaker 3: every time.
39:21
Speaker 2: People are tired of that. It's not going to work.
39:23
Speaker 2: Nobody is enthused by that.
39:25
Speaker 3: Nobody is happy just to see your black face smiling
39:28
Speaker 3: up there saying, look, a black person is in a position.
39:31
Speaker 2: No, what is the black person going to actually do
39:33
Speaker 2: for us?
39:34
Speaker 3: How is the black person going to actually change the
39:36
Speaker 3: black community's reality to where we see profit and growth
39:40
Speaker 3: and we see evolution? And it's like to not understand
39:43
Speaker 3: that is like you've got to be the most obtuse
39:46
Speaker 3: person the most deaf person in the world to actually
39:49
Speaker 3: not see that.
39:50
Speaker 1: For sure. For sure.
39:53
Speaker 2: So that brings me to my, I don't get it.
39:56
Speaker 3: So, you know, being hip hop, my ears are always
39:59
Speaker 3: in tune with what's going on in the hip hop arena.
40:02
Speaker 3: And it's very well known that the rapper Little Dirk
40:06
Speaker 3: is on a federal trial for conspiracy, you know, which
40:10
Speaker 3: involves murder for hire. And he's facing, you know, life
40:14
Speaker 3: in prison. So as I'm listening to the case, I'm
40:20
Speaker 3: constantly hearing different things. You know, I don't know whether
40:24
Speaker 3: he's innocent. I don't know anything. You know, I would
40:27
Speaker 3: hate to hear a young man lose his life for
40:29
Speaker 3: the rest of his life in prison. But, you know,
40:31
Speaker 3: I don't I can't not speak to his innocence or not.
40:35
Speaker 3: But as I'm listening to the case, you know, everyone
40:38
Speaker 3: is aware that there are many of his quote unquote
40:42
Speaker 3: friends who are testifying against him, stating that. that allegedly
40:46
Speaker 3: he was the mastermind and he paid for this to
40:49
Speaker 3: happen whatsoever. And once again, I do not know whether
40:55
Speaker 3: that's true or not, but I'm just listening to the case,
40:59
Speaker 3: you know, and I remember a couple of years ago,
41:03
Speaker 3: maybe a year ago for prior to not a year ago,
41:06
Speaker 3: probably a year prior to little dirt going to prison. Right.
41:09
Speaker 3: And I've always spoken about how a lot of these websites,
41:13
Speaker 3: especially DJ academics is, one of the worst people in
41:17
Speaker 3: the world, you know, and the way that they utilize
41:21
Speaker 3: these young rappers in these situations for clicks, but also
41:25
Speaker 3: to get these young kids in trouble because they agitate
41:28
Speaker 3: the beefs.
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Speaker 2: They promote the beefs. They market the beefs.
41:32
Speaker 3: You know, they literally on, he literally sits on his
41:34
Speaker 3: page and dares other rappers to retaliate for violence and
41:40
Speaker 3: You know, he's literally got on his page and said, oh,
41:42
Speaker 3: they killed your man and you ain't slide back and
41:44
Speaker 3: do nothing.
41:45
Speaker 2: You ain't gangster.
41:46
Speaker 3: He's literally antagonizing and, you know, amplifying these beefs. So
41:52
Speaker 3: I remember watching and him and Little Dirk hadn't spoken.
41:56
Speaker 3: You know, Little Dirk had never got on his platform.
41:58
Speaker 3: And I remember the day that Little Dirk sat on
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Speaker 3: DJ Academic's platform.
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Speaker 2: And I was so confused, you know, because.
42:07
Speaker 3: I was watching a little Dirk evolve. You know he
42:11
Speaker 3: came from a rough background. Everybody knows what's going on
42:15
Speaker 3: in Chicago and where he comes from, but I was
42:17
Speaker 3: literally watching him evolve into someone who had learned from mistakes.
42:22
Speaker 2: I actually met his.
42:24
Speaker 3: Father, who did a lot of time in prison, who
42:27
Speaker 3: was Muslim. We had a good conversation, and I was
42:30
Speaker 3: watching little Dirk just evolve. I've been around him. The
42:34
Speaker 3: last time I had seen him, was at Swiss and
42:36
Speaker 3: Alicia's event, you know, and he looked like he was growing.
42:39
Speaker 2: He was getting, you know, Swiss was.
42:40
Speaker 3: Talking about him, how much, you know, he was growing
42:42
Speaker 3: and he really liked him. I had a conversation with
42:45
Speaker 3: for a few minutes, gave him a pound, but I
42:46
Speaker 3: was really just watching his trajectory. And it seemed like
42:49
Speaker 3: he was trying to move away from negativity and try
42:52
Speaker 3: to do more positive things, you know, and I didn't
42:55
Speaker 3: understand why he would sit on DJ academics platform, which
42:58
Speaker 3: never stood for anything positive.
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Speaker 2: And I kept saying, this doesn't make sense to me.
43:02
Speaker 3: Like why, you know, And fast forward, today, I heard
43:09
Speaker 3: that the DA played a clip of DJ Academics with
43:17
Speaker 3: 6ix9ine and Wack 100 talking and them bringing up, you know,
43:23
Speaker 3: Lil Durk in the conversation.
43:25
Speaker 2: And they played it in court. Now, I say that
43:28
Speaker 2: to say... These people are watching these websites.
43:32
Speaker 3: People keep saying it's just entertainment and they just report
43:35
Speaker 3: a note. The federal agencies have realized that these bloggers
43:43
Speaker 3: are actually talking about literal crimes. They have a task
43:47
Speaker 3: force that goes on these blog sites and goes on
43:50
Speaker 3: the internet and they get information and they are performing
43:53
Speaker 3: their investigations based on what these bloggers are talking about
43:57
Speaker 3: because they feel like they have real insight into the
44:00
Speaker 3: streets and into the violence that's going on in these streets.
44:03
Speaker 3: So that's first of all, but second of all, as
44:08
Speaker 3: this case progresses, I'm constantly listening to DJ academics, lay
44:14
Speaker 3: out a case against little Dirk where he is speaking
44:18
Speaker 3: matter of factly about situations that happened and saying, Dirk
44:22
Speaker 3: told this person to do this. And, This person said
44:25
Speaker 3: that Dirk told him to do this. And you can
44:27
Speaker 3: tell if you listen to the music, they really was
44:29
Speaker 3: doing it. Look, it's in the music here. He's literally
44:32
Speaker 3: laying out the DA's case. The DA could actually do
44:37
Speaker 3: his case based on DJ academics commentary. So I'm saying
44:42
Speaker 3: to myself, I don't get why anybody would ever go
44:47
Speaker 3: on a DJ academics podcast show. Or sit down with
44:51
Speaker 3: a person like that who is actively, actively utilizing information
44:56
Speaker 3: that is getting people indicted and getting people convicted. I
44:59
Speaker 3: do not for the life of me understand why do
45:02
Speaker 3: y'all keep going on these blog sites with these people
45:04
Speaker 3: who have proven track records. Like they're literally reading their
45:09
Speaker 3: commentary inside these courtrooms. They're playing the audio from their
45:14
Speaker 3: conversations inside these courtrooms. And y'all keep sitting down with them.
45:18
Speaker 3: Y'all literally keep sitting down with the people who are
45:21
Speaker 3: responsible for literally putting you in jail. And I'm so confused.
45:25
Speaker 3: You know, I don't wish jail on anybody. Hopefully, you know,
45:28
Speaker 3: God willing, Dirk, you know, finds his way out of
45:30
Speaker 3: this situation.
45:31
Speaker 2: He's able to live his life.
45:32
Speaker 3: You know, he seems like he's changed his life over.
45:35
Speaker 3: He's moved into Islam and I want him to be
45:37
Speaker 3: able to be free. I don't wish jail on anybody.
45:40
Speaker 3: But I hope this is a lesson for everybody else.
45:43
Speaker 3: Stop sitting down with these bloggers, man. They are literally
45:47
Speaker 3: getting you indicted. These people, whether you think they literally
45:51
Speaker 3: working for the feds or it's just... It's a coincidence
45:55
Speaker 3: that the feds is taking information off these sites. You
45:58
Speaker 3: should not be up there. These people do not want
46:01
Speaker 3: to see you successful. These people want to utilize your
46:04
Speaker 3: demise for their own success. They're not trying to help you.
46:07
Speaker 3: You're not getting lit because you're going DJ academic. You're
46:10
Speaker 3: getting lit all right. You're getting lit your ass on
46:13
Speaker 3: fire because these feds is watching you and they're trying
46:15
Speaker 3: to create a case.
46:16
Speaker 2: They do not want to see young black people.
46:18
Speaker 3: Boys who come from poverty, evolve from poverty and get
46:22
Speaker 3: out unscathed. They do not want you to be able
46:25
Speaker 3: to evolve from a life of crime and say, no,
46:27
Speaker 3: I'm changing my life and I'm moving out of this situation.
46:29
Speaker 3: They do not want that. They want to catch you
46:32
Speaker 3: when you're at your highest peak and they want to
46:34
Speaker 3: make example of you. They want to constantly throw you
46:37
Speaker 3: into these prison cells. They want to constantly put you
46:40
Speaker 3: in a position to where you don't be successful. So
46:42
Speaker 3: stop surrounding yourself with going around, sitting down with individuals
46:49
Speaker 3: who they are using to trap you off. It's a
46:55
Speaker 3: constant thing if you don't look what they did to
46:58
Speaker 3: all of them. I can go on and on. I
46:59
Speaker 3: don't want to name anybody because I don't want to
47:01
Speaker 3: do all that. But you know, y'all know that these
47:04
Speaker 3: individuals are either directly or indirectly working with the feds.
47:08
Speaker 3: And y'all keep giving them this information, man. And it's
47:10
Speaker 3: sad to watch, man. I hope that somebody is paying attention.
47:14
Speaker 1: It's allegedly. It's allegedly. It's allegedly.
47:19
Speaker 2: Okay, you can say it's allegedly.
47:20
Speaker 1: No, you can say it's allegedly.
47:23
Speaker 3: Okay, we can say it's allegedly, but I'm just telling you,
47:25
Speaker 3: based on what I'm seeing, whether or not they are
47:27
Speaker 3: directly working with them or indirectly working with them, the
47:31
Speaker 3: feds somehow constantly are using clips from their blog sites
47:36
Speaker 3: inside of these courtrooms. And that's not a coincidence. And
47:40
Speaker 3: that's not allegedly. This is definitely happening. So if you're
47:43
Speaker 3: not smart enough to understand the play that they making,
47:46
Speaker 3: then you're going to keep on getting played.
47:48
Speaker 4: I don't think that there's anything else that I can
47:51
Speaker 4: add to that. It is totally a mic drop. I mean,
47:54
Speaker 4: we got to somebody got to be out here to
47:58
Speaker 4: tell the truth and shame the devil, because all of
48:01
Speaker 4: it is just way too much.
48:03
Speaker 1: And we just are so far away from it. You
48:06
Speaker 1: know what?
48:07
Speaker 4: This is what I will say about everything you just
48:09
Speaker 4: said and Laura Loomer and everything, the whole show. The
48:16
Speaker 4: midterm elections are in just a few weeks. It's the
48:20
Speaker 4: beginning of November. Early voting starts in October. And that's
48:25
Speaker 4: all I have to say. So all the things that
48:28
Speaker 4: everybody want to talk about and fight about and fuss
48:31
Speaker 4: and cuss and call each other names and do all
48:34
Speaker 4: of the things we're doing. The midterm elections are in November,
48:39
Speaker 4: just a few weeks away. And early voting begins in October.
48:44
Speaker 1: That's my response.
48:45
Speaker 3: And your response also is going to be in the
48:48
Speaker 3: next few weeks, we're going to be talking about the
48:50
Speaker 3: importance of these elections.
48:52
Speaker 2: You know, who's running what?
48:55
Speaker 3: What, you know, what power comes with it, you know,
48:58
Speaker 3: how it's going to affect us directly, because a lot
49:00
Speaker 3: of people don't seem to understand the seriousness of these elections.
49:05
Speaker 3: So I think, you know, what we want to do,
49:06
Speaker 3: I call it, you know, politics and elections for dummies,
49:11
Speaker 3: not literal dummies, but people who just don't understand. So
49:14
Speaker 3: we want to break it down to you so you
49:16
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49:19
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49:23
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49:26
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49:28
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