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B.A.D.D.-2-BUSINESS IN THE NEWS 32325 · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Think, Think, Think, Leads, gentlemen, I have your attention.
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  Speaker 2: Please the show stops it.
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  Speaker 4: My eight.
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  Speaker 2: Seven six five four three shoo fue go.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, hey, hey, welcome, Welcome to another episode of Bad
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  Speaker 3: to Business. I am your host, Shining Saffron. Thank y'all
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  Speaker 3: for joining me tonight. I am waiting on a couple
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  Speaker 3: of people to join in. I got a lot of
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  Speaker 3: things to talk to y'all about this evening. I got
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  Speaker 3: some great news in and about the culture, and so
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  Speaker 3: I'm not so great news and then about the culture.
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  Speaker 3: So definitely want to share some beep, some black entertainment
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  Speaker 3: podcasting with you all. It's been a lot going on,
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  Speaker 3: but I am blessed to be here, be here with
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  Speaker 3: you all and share some good news some other news,
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  Speaker 3: and I hope you all feel the same. I hope
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  Speaker 3: you all had a great weekend, did what you could
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  Speaker 3: with your families and get yourself mentally prepared and all
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  Speaker 3: those things that the week is going to require of you.
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  Speaker 3: So we will get into that. Hello again, everybody, welcome
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  Speaker 3: to Bad to Business. I just want to, like I said,
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  Speaker 3: kind of talk about some things that's been going on.
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  Speaker 3: I've been reading about some things we all know that
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  Speaker 3: day to day stuff is a challenge. Life is a
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  Speaker 3: challenge right now, and it's shaking some things up. Some
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  Speaker 3: of us have already been prepared for it, lived through it,
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  Speaker 3: and had some different challenges. Some of us are just
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  Speaker 3: kind of going through some things and living life as
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  Speaker 3: a come. So both times, I know God is in
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  Speaker 3: control and we got to be able to trust him
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  Speaker 3: and know that everything is working for our good. If
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  Speaker 3: you love him and you know what he does, you've
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  Speaker 3: been challenged before you made it through.
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  Speaker 4: You're here to even hear this.
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  Speaker 3: So y'all stay holding on, Okay, But let's go ahead
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  Speaker 3: and get down the business. Like I said, I got
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  Speaker 3: some things I want to share with you all. I've
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  Speaker 3: heard about some things in the news.
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  Speaker 4: And it really bothers me.
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  Speaker 3: Things from the smallest things to what's happening in our
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  Speaker 3: everyday community to the things that are happening on a
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  Speaker 3: higher level that we don't get to.
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  Speaker 4: Engage in. We don't get to have a saying.
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  Speaker 3: And I used to have this saying where it was
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  Speaker 3: kind of like, well, if you don't vote, you don't
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  Speaker 3: have a voice, right, And that's something that they kind
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  Speaker 3: of teach us and try to tell us that if
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  Speaker 3: we don't vote, you didn't get in there. You don't
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  Speaker 3: have a voice, you don't have a say soul. I
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  Speaker 3: used to believe that's true. I'm not against or for voting.
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  Speaker 3: That's your own choice. What I do believe in is,
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  Speaker 3: as long as you're taking my taxes, I have a
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  Speaker 3: say song what's going on. So I will tell some
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  Speaker 3: of y'all if you're paying taxes lawfully the right way,
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  Speaker 3: make sure that you are able to say something, or
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  Speaker 3: you are petitioning getting some things in there. Like I've
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  Speaker 3: said before, I know your local officials. It does make
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  Speaker 3: a difference when they start. You know, when you start
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  Speaker 3: disrupting the budgets and the money will say that you
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  Speaker 3: start disrupting some peace if you will. Some things that's
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  Speaker 3: just going on that shouldn't be going on. So I
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  Speaker 3: really want y'all to get out there and understand your
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  Speaker 3: rights and do the things that you're supposed to do.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, let's get down the business. So some things
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  Speaker 3: in the news there was a young man. This has
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  Speaker 3: really just been heavy on my heart. Just young people
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  Speaker 3: have been heavy on my heart. I do have two
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  Speaker 3: younger daughters, one in junior high school, one in high school.
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  Speaker 3: So I do keep up with what's going on with
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  Speaker 3: Generation Next as I'll call us call them. And I
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  Speaker 3: heard about a young man who went to what's called
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  Speaker 3: Senior Skip Day Senior Skip ditch Day, and he was
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  Speaker 3: shot and killed. Eighteen year old, promising future. He was
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  Speaker 3: a senior, very clean cut young man. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: his background is lifestyle, but as far as I know
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  Speaker 3: about him, he had a promising future had he went
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  Speaker 3: to senior Skip Day as many seniors have done so
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  Speaker 3: much in the past, even when I was in school,
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  Speaker 3: and he didn't come home. This eighteen year old was
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  Speaker 3: shot by a sixteen year old during this time. And
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  Speaker 3: first red flag is what is a senior or a
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  Speaker 3: sixteen year old doing at senior skip Day?
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  Speaker 4: That is not your day? You know?
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  Speaker 3: Little did your brother have to bring you because he
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  Speaker 3: couldn't come because that just wouldn't have been his day either,
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  Speaker 3: But he came, he brought a gun, he took a life.
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  Speaker 3: And that's just very sad because, like I said, I
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  Speaker 3: have daughters, I have one in high school, and we
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  Speaker 3: want our kids to be socially rounded, grounded, be able
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  Speaker 3: to have the fun things out of school, especially when
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  Speaker 3: they've worked so hard, but there's been a lot of
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  Speaker 3: things I've had to tell my daughter no for or
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  Speaker 3: no to.
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  Speaker 4: If I can't go with her, she can't really go.
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  Speaker 3: If there's not gonna be enough security and chaperones, she
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  Speaker 3: can't go, of course, cause that's just as a parent,
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  Speaker 3: that's what type of security.
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  Speaker 4: You want to have.
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  Speaker 3: I never want to feel like my daughter is not
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  Speaker 3: gonna come home if I ever, If I ever feel
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  Speaker 3: like that, she just can't go. I know God has
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  Speaker 3: recovered and all those things, but we're not gonna put
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  Speaker 3: ourselves in the way of those things. So his name
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  Speaker 3: is Justin Ettien. I definitely want to give condolences out
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  Speaker 3: to his family. There was a student that said something
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  Speaker 3: about she's an old senior excuse me, previous senior, and
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  Speaker 3: she said that someone got stabbed on her senior dish
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  Speaker 3: day and she doesn't even know why they're still having it.
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  Speaker 4: Why are we still having it if there's no security around.
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  Speaker 3: Definitely, again, I don't feel like we should cut out
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  Speaker 3: the senior activities because they've worked so hard to get
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  Speaker 3: there and worked so hard to see that there are
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  Speaker 3: some rewards for doing that, even academically. She said something
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  Speaker 3: about a lot of students find it as an op day.
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  Speaker 3: You know, no teachers around, they can't stop me from
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  Speaker 3: doing certain things. It's almost like they target this day
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  Speaker 3: to do certain things.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm just really bothered by that.
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  Speaker 3: So make sure you stay involved with your kids, involved
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  Speaker 3: with what's going on. I do know, like I said,
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  Speaker 3: senior dishy does exist. We've got some seniors getting their business.
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  Speaker 3: Let you know, find out what's going on with them,
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  Speaker 3: what they're doing, so that you don't hear the bad
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  Speaker 3: end to this. Again, just in at ten and his family,
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  Speaker 3: I feel really bad for what's going on. He was
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  Speaker 3: on his way. His mom made a statement that said,
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  Speaker 3: when you when you killed my son, you killed a
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  Speaker 3: part of me. And I'm pretty sure a lot of
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  Speaker 3: parents feel like that. And it's just very disturbing. So
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  Speaker 3: not only an end too gun violence, but this young
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  Speaker 3: culture violence that we somehow, they somehow deem as necessary.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know where the jealousy comes in. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know where it is where we're targeting certain events. I
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  Speaker 3: can't take my daughters out, my kids out. I'm afraid
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  Speaker 3: of being shot. You know, the irony is us older folks.
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  Speaker 3: When we were coming up younger, we were afraid of
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  Speaker 3: getting in altercations and getting in dry by shootings and stuff. Again,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I rep la all day, but we were
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  Speaker 3: in jeopardy of being harassed or something happening by our peers.
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  Speaker 3: And now as we're older, like I just want to
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  Speaker 3: go out and have a good time wherever I can,
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  Speaker 3: and especially if I can take my kids too, And
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  Speaker 3: now I just feel like I can't do that. I'm
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  Speaker 3: afraid us older people are afraid of getting shot by
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  Speaker 3: the younger kids. We can't just go out and have
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  Speaker 3: a good time with our kids, our seniors, our people
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  Speaker 3: that are graduating. Things like that, because for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 3: I still don't know. Still believing God is in control.
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  Speaker 3: It's a part of his plan for what needs to happen,
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  Speaker 3: what has been written, some things that are going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: I always tell people if you want to know, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: there's a source kind of tells you what's going on.
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  Speaker 3: So again, I just want to give a prayer out
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  Speaker 3: to that family and continue to watch over your children.
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  Speaker 3: In other news, also about these twin brothers. They were
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  Speaker 3: found murdered, and I hate to be the bearer of
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  Speaker 3: bad news and it's really not the bearer of bad news,
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  Speaker 3: but I love to be the carrier of truth. It's
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  Speaker 3: not about to make anyone feel bad. It's not you know,
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  Speaker 3: bad news is bad news. Whatever is going on. But
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  Speaker 3: what I am noticing is we got to stay awake
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  Speaker 3: and alert.
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  Speaker 4: Again.
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  Speaker 3: Life has its rough edges, but we can smooth them around.
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  Speaker 3: So please just do what you can do, and got
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  Speaker 3: to do what you can't.
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  Speaker 4: That was the word.
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  Speaker 3: So anyway, and the other news I found out about
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  Speaker 3: these twin brothers that were murdered found in the mountains.
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  Speaker 3: The irony behind the whole story is that they were
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  Speaker 3: supposed to be traveling. They were brothers of Laurnville, Georgia.
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  Speaker 3: Let me get this story straight. They were brothers of Laurensville, Georgia.
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  Speaker 3: Twin brothers graduated last year, promising futures. They were gonna
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  Speaker 3: go see some friends in Boston. Never made it on
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  Speaker 3: their flight. They were found in the mountains, murdered and killed,
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  Speaker 3: shot in the head kind of execution style.
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  Speaker 4: And the.
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  Speaker 3: It's really crazy and I kind of get emotional about
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  Speaker 3: this stuff because again, these are kids, these are they
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  Speaker 3: didn't even make it to twenty one. It's getting let
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  Speaker 3: the lifespan of our culture, of some cultures, but mainly
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  Speaker 3: ours are getting shorter and shorter, and that's getting scarier
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  Speaker 3: and scarier. Don't even want my kids to leave the house.
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  Speaker 3: But stand on track. These young men were murdered. Their
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  Speaker 3: family are giving statements about how they didn't even know
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  Speaker 3: about the area. They don't understand how they were even
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  Speaker 3: found in those areas of the mountains, and so some
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  Speaker 3: hikers found him. Of course, you have the first responders,
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  Speaker 3: the fireman and everything. And the irony was that there
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  Speaker 3: was one volunteer fireman that shared the photos of the
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  Speaker 3: crime scene kind of social media, if you will, put
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  Speaker 3: it out there. They were able to trace it back
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  Speaker 3: to him, and even the uncle of the brothers, who's
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  Speaker 3: been a first responder for over ten years, said, one
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  Speaker 3: thing that we know is that we never take pictures
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  Speaker 3: of crime scene and share.
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  Speaker 4: That's just off limits. But the irony is that.
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  Speaker 3: I read something where they said we don't exactly know
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  Speaker 3: how he did it. No, we do know how he
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  Speaker 3: shared it off his phone. That's how we share everything, right,
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  Speaker 3: He took a picture of it and he shared it.
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  Speaker 3: So it's not about how, it's about why, why did
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  Speaker 3: he do that. And the way that everybody actually found
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  Speaker 3: out about it is it was shared on some type
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  Speaker 3: of social media somewhere and it got back to the
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  Speaker 3: students of the high school, and the authorities of the
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  Speaker 3: high school found out about it, or the local high
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  Speaker 3: school found out about it, because the students had to
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  Speaker 3: say something, Hey, the students who used to go here,
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  Speaker 3: blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 4: This is what happened to them.
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  Speaker 3: And like the family said, it's really scary to know
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  Speaker 3: that something like that is being shared on social media
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  Speaker 3: because you don't even want to pick up your phone
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  Speaker 3: or pick up anything, go to Facebook, go to any
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  Speaker 3: type of social media for fear that you're gonna see
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  Speaker 3: your family. They're spralt out like that's the news. The
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  Speaker 3: news is finding out what's going on and how did
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  Speaker 3: it happen or why did it happen. In further reading
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  Speaker 3: of it, I saw somebody who made a comment and
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  Speaker 3: the comment was very disturbing. I won't say who said it,
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  Speaker 3: but I just want to bring it up as an awareness.
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  Speaker 3: The comments are said that these things were going around
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  Speaker 3: like this and they're being called trophy photos. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: let that or for a second, trophy photos what type
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  Speaker 3: of trophy? Again, can we please not look at how
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  Speaker 3: he did it?
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  Speaker 4: But why? Of course, they're still pending investigation.
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  Speaker 3: And it was really funny because at first when they
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  Speaker 3: did the preliminary investigation, they ruled it a homicide suicide.
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  Speaker 3: They believe that one brother shot the other then shot
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  Speaker 3: himself initially until the family said, not gonna happen like that.
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  Speaker 3: They stuck together, They were inseparable, they loved each other,
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  Speaker 3: never had a heated argument, probably some sibling arguments, but
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  Speaker 3: never they were still they graduated together, they were traveling together.
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  Speaker 4: No way that this would happen.
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  Speaker 3: So it took the family to say, I need this
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  Speaker 3: to be investigated a little bit more before y'all just
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  Speaker 3: rule that out. Because they did that, some other things
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  Speaker 3: have unveiled, of course, so again keep fighting for what's
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  Speaker 3: right on what's going on. I do again want to
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  Speaker 3: give a prayer out to that family, promising future for
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  Speaker 3: these young black men that was just taken from for
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  Speaker 3: no reason, and we need to find out why.
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  Speaker 4: Again.
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  Speaker 3: That whole trophy photos thing kind of gives me chills.
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  Speaker 4: I remember there were some.
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  Speaker 3: People talking about, you know, are people disappearing, the trafficking,
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  Speaker 3: the sex trafficking, the young black ladies disappearing.
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  Speaker 4: We're not talking about it, we're not making that mainstream news.
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  Speaker 3: And yet and still you got people who are taking
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  Speaker 3: pictures of crime scenes of young black men and sharing
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  Speaker 3: it on social media like it is a trophy. So
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  Speaker 3: be aware of that, be alerted that, and stay woke
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  Speaker 3: about that. Prayer goes out to those families. Though sorry
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  Speaker 3: to hear about these young men, but again, it makes
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  Speaker 3: you scared to even go outside. And I don't want
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  Speaker 3: to live like that, but I don't want to die
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  Speaker 3: like that either. On the flip side of news, so
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  Speaker 3: there's been some good things. I heard about a young
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  Speaker 3: man named Jason R.
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  Speaker 4: Day right now.
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  Speaker 3: He is the youngest black professor at Cambridge University.
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  Speaker 4: It was his story was remarkable.
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  Speaker 3: I really do want to share the things that I
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  Speaker 3: read about him. I don't want to just kind of
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  Speaker 3: ramble on about it. Let me share exactly what I read.
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  Speaker 4: It says.
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  Speaker 3: Jason our Day, once unable to speak, read or write
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  Speaker 3: until his teens, is now Cambridge University's young youngest Black professor.
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  Speaker 3: Overcoming and financial struggles, he has dedicated his life to education,
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  Speaker 3: social justice, and uplifting marginalized communities. If he can do
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  Speaker 3: it and put his mind to it, anybody can do
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  Speaker 3: what they want and put their mind to I found
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  Speaker 3: it remarkable that he wasn't even able to speak English,
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  Speaker 3: read or right until he was about eleven, then got
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  Speaker 3: all his degrees, and then now became the youngest black
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  Speaker 3: professor at Cambridge University. Homage to you. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: who was in his life. I haven't really gotten into that,
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  Speaker 3: but it just goes to show that even through obstacles
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  Speaker 3: like that, not until he was almost in his teens,
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  Speaker 3: he was able to do some things, do some things
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  Speaker 3: that we've been given more privileges to do than he has.
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  Speaker 4: So I just wanted to kind of share that with
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  Speaker 4: you all.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see what else is on the roster. I want
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  Speaker 3: to share something else. So this is really cool. I
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  Speaker 3: found out about a young black man. When we talk
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  Speaker 3: about promising futures, this young black man or young black king,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna call um.
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  Speaker 4: His name is Darnelle Kelly. Darnelle Kelly is.
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  Speaker 3: A high school quarterback headed Toon Hughes High School in Fairborne, Georgia,
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  Speaker 3: has a promising future. And I'll want to kind of
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  Speaker 3: follow this and see what happens this young man. I'm
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  Speaker 3: a football fan, la Rams hardest fan ever. But this
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  Speaker 3: young man comes out. He has twenty seven touchdowns in
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  Speaker 3: his sophomore year. Twenty seven touchdowns, twenty nine hundred yards,
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  Speaker 3: just doing great. So he's decided to go back to
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  Speaker 3: Langston High School. And what I like about this story
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  Speaker 3: is that he has so many NIL endorsements as a
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: high school athlete. When the NIL endorsements came out, when
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  Speaker 3: they thought about thought about it for the college students,
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  Speaker 3: it was a great thing because, as we know, we
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  Speaker 3: got a lot of publicity at the colleges for the
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  Speaker 3: college athletes who do great and amazing thing, but they
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  Speaker 3: weren't getting the accolades. Other people were getting bonuses, other
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  Speaker 3: people were getting contracts, they were getting school endorsements, I'll say,
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  Speaker 3: but it was not going to the students. The students
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  Speaker 3: were still having trouble, you know, sometimes paying their tuition.
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  Speaker 3: But the NIL opened up something for the college students.
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  Speaker 3: And when I first heard about that, I was like,
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  Speaker 3: that's great. It doesn't just go to the NFL, and
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't just go to the coaches. It's going to
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  Speaker 3: the students and the athletes that's really putting in hard work.
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  Speaker 3: So to hear about this young high school student already
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  Speaker 3: having nil endorsements as a sophomore, as he should, great academics, great.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna call it field presence, you know, as a
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  Speaker 3: promising quarterback. Absolutely incredible reading about this young man. He's
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  Speaker 3: actually looking forward to it too. He's starting with a
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  Speaker 3: four star running back, a force star wide receiver. He's
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  Speaker 3: sounds like a five star quarterback again. This will be
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  Speaker 3: his senior year, going to Langston Hughes. So I want
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  Speaker 3: to say kudos to everybody who's uplifted this young man.
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  Speaker 3: If you hear about him, you know about him, you're
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  Speaker 3: in the Georgia area, please, like I said, pay attention
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  Speaker 3: to that. And I'm bringing that up because I feel
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  Speaker 3: like that is very important. We don't have YMCA's like
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  Speaker 3: we should. The boys and girls clubs have now become obsolete.
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  Speaker 3: We don't have anything that really encourages young people to
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  Speaker 3: do things like we should. Again, get into your city
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  Speaker 3: and local officials about these things. If you're paying taxes,
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: school taxes. We got some new people on the board
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: with Trump, the new elected Director of Education and McMahon's
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: granddaughter she may know some stuff. I don't know what
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: she knows, but get to reaching out to her. These
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: are things that we need to see. If you're gonna
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: start closing down schools, which is gonna be another topic
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: coming up pretty soon.
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  Speaker 4: I gotta get some more information on that.
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  Speaker 3: But you're gonna start closing down schools and making things obsolete,
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: getting rid of history, you know, all those things that
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: come into this domino effect of just making things obsolete
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: under one control. Get in there and let them know
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  Speaker 3: what our kids need. We can't keep complaining about how
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  Speaker 3: they're not being encouraged and not being motivated and not
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: being mentored, and we're not investing in that. One thing
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: they want to see us do is invest in that.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Can't just invest your comments. Gotta invest your time, make
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: it repetitious. You gotta invest your money. You already know
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: money talks the rest walks. So there's some things that
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: we need to see for our kids upcoming and stuff.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: So I'm so glad for this young man again. His
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: name is Darnielle Kelly, going to Langston High High School
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  Speaker 3: next year.
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  Speaker 4: I support you.
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  Speaker 3: I can't wait to see the great things that you
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: bring to that high school and the encouragement that you
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: bring to the other students. High school has been to
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  Speaker 3: the championship the last three years. I can't wait to
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: see them actually win something this year. So got a
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: lot of sentimental connection to Langston High School, So Go Panthers.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, just wanted to tell y'all that.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: So it's been some great things going on, and like
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: I said, I want to continue to touch into the
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: black history as much as possible. We're making history, so
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: as much as they might want to erase it, we
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: can replace it. I'm sorry, I don't want to say replaced,
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: but we can add to it. It might be some
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: things that are being diminished, but it's up to us
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: to keep it going. And these young black innovators are
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: doing great things. There's also another young black innovator I
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: wanted to talk to you all about. His name is
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Khalifa Amenu. What I read about this young man was remarkable.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry I almost forgot to tell y'all about this,
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: and this is pretty cool. He has created sensory glasses
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: that help blind people walk safely and be a little
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: more independent. Eighteen years old, he also has created a
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: radio station, a bomb detector, and an automatic spray system
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: for farmers. All of these inventions he is built with
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: his own two hands, no external support, no access to
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: mass production resources.
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  Speaker 4: Eighteen years old.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: I did not want to forget him because one of
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: the things they said about him is that he's not
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: only helping to make the world a safer place, but
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: also showing us the incredible power of innovation that comes
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: from necessity and heart. That is one of the things
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: I wanted to pull out. The things that we need
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: to do based on necessity and heart. Keep looking to
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: God and keep praying for where you can apply necessity
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: and heart things that need to be done. As one thing,
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: I'm learning again with these queen, the Queen of Collaboration,
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Salute and all these other queens that are mentoring me,
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: helping me, supporting me as I do them. You definitely
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: want to be the change you want to see, So
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: start applying yourself petition for things, apply or I'm sorry,
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: invest in things. Do the things that we want to see.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: You can't just talk about it. While you're just talking
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: about it, they're still taking your money and not doing
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: anything about it. So hopefully this year we'll see some
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: new things we've already seen some strange things occurring. We're
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: not even in the summertime, we're not even down year one.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: So I encourage everybody to just start flooding, flooding the
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: suggestion box, letting them know what we need but we want.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: There are some other things opening up for the cultures,
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: looking to those black owned businesses, land things of those nature. Explore,
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: don't keep taking the same things that you don't like, and.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: You know the rest of that. You go with God again.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: You do what you can and He'll do what you can. Right.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: So, in my closing, I just wanted to share something
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  Speaker 3: with you guys. If you've been following me, you know
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: I've been on this journey where I'm seeking God and
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: looking for his master planning because I know he got one,
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: and I can't wait to see what he got in
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: store for me being obedient this time, for me following
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: his words and sticking with him and not just giving
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: up because things didn't look right, didn't feel right, and
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: I went through something this past week. I want to
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: share this with y'all, and I definitely want to get
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: this off my spirit on this fine Sunday because I
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: want to be ready for next week going into what
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: could be another challenge, another challenging week. So I wouldn't
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: say this was one of my messages that God wanted
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: to give me on this journey that I'm on with him.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: It definitely was a point of understanding, and I love
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: him for that because really we can just obey, listen, obey,
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: and he doesn't have to give us understanding, and we
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: shouldn't really look for it. We just know it's all
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: working together for our good.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: But I went through something last week and I was
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: a little upset about it. I know God knew about it.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: I was a little more upset that he didn't do
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: anything about it. And when I went to God and
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: I talked to him, like, you know, I have the
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: tendency now to go to my.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: Father and be like you saw that.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: You saw that happen, right, because I'm supposed to keep
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: my composure, supposed to let things happen. And I went
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: to God about it and he said to me, I
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: need you to back.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: Up off of that.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: It's bigger than you. And I said, it's bigger than me. Okay, Well,
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: if it's bigger than me, then I needed handled. And
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: one thing that we have to understand and I'm coming
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: to an understanding of is it's one thing to be
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: It's one thing to accept something that we have to
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: accept and go through things that we have to go through.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: It's one thing to accept it. It's another thing to
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: be okay with it. And I think when not, I think,
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: this is what happened. So last week he said it's
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: bigger than you. I needed to come up off of it.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: I accepted what he said, I didn't accept it with
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: the greatest of attitudes.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: And so.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: You know, I didn't give it my best attitude. When
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: I was going through it, I kind of I didn't
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: give it my best I really didn't. I just kind
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: of had a bad attitude. Okay, and this is the
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: this is how it is, and this is how it's
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: gonna be.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: But he kept telling me, I need you to stop
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: feeling like that, thinking like that it's bigger than you.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: And so as the week came to an end, and
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: I had been pretty much sour all week, I did.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: I was sour about what was going on. I was
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: more so sour because God told me to chill on it,
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: do not react. When he says vengeance is mind. He
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: didn't say revenge or avenge is his. He said vengeance.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Anything you're feeling angry about stuff, you need not worry
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: about that. I was angry, and like I said, I
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: think I was more angry that he wanted me to
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: chill on it. And I was like, well, if you
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: want me to chill, this must be my memo that
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: I ain't got to deal with this.
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: I ain't.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: No, it wasn't that. When I asked, God, okay, I
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: got to chill on it. Then let people leave me alone,
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: let me not be bothered by it. He didn't let
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: that happen. He allowed it to poke at me. He
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: allowed it. I could tell because I kept going to
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: him saying, hey, it's poking at me, and was like, yeah,
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: I need you to back off. It's bigger than you.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: So I went through the week kind of sour. By
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: the end of the week, some things were revealed to me.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: He not only told me it was bigger than me,
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: but he showed me it was bigger than me. I
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: got a chance to see the situation kind of open
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: up a little bit, saw why things had to happen
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: the way they did, even where I was involved, where
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: I thought things were unfair to me. There were other
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: people in the situation that it was more unfair to them,
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: And to be honest, I was more protected in the
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: situation than anybody. I was more protected in the situation
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: than anybody. And I had to sit back and I realized,
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: and I even shared this with my daughter, and so
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: I want to share this with you all. When God
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: told me to back up off of its bigger than me,
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: he wasn't talking about my situation in which I continued
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: to deal with and found unfair. It's bigger than me,
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: then do something. Well, that's what he was doing. When
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: God was telling me it's bigger than me, he wasn't
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: just saying my situation. He was also telling me. He
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: was He's bigger than me. I'm bigger than you, Shina,
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: and I'm bigger than you. I know what's going on,
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: and if you trust me, you love me, know that
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: I'm working everything out for your good. So I got
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: to see that, I got to experience it, and above all,
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: I got a better understanding that when you give it
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: to God and let him have it, regardless of what
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: it looks like, what it feels like, if you love him,
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: you know him, you know him, and you trust him.
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: He's working it for your good.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: It may not look right, it may not feel right,
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: but he's working it for your good.
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: And I felt so good for him to even share
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: that with me.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: So I just want to leave y'all with that that
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: some things are bigger than you, and when they're bigger
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: than you, then you go to the God that's bigger
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: than that. So I just want to close up with
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: you guys and let you guys know that you know
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: some of the things you're going through when you can't
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: figure it out, when it seems like it just don't
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: feel good, when you've talked to God about it, then
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: know that it's bigger than you.
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: So I just want to leave y'all with that. Again,
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: my name is Shining.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: I hope y'all tune into the next episode of Bad
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: to Business. I'll be talking more and look forward to
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: more of this celebration we got going on. It is
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: airy season. I am in aries myself for y'all who
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: you know, want to celebrate us, encourage us, support us,
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: love us, be looking out for that. I hope that
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: y'all can join us for this airy celebration, this airy season,
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: all this season long, all year long.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: So look forward to that.
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: I look forward to sharing some things with you, so
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: stick with us the Crew podcast, Queen of Collaboration, It's
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: angela one hundred authors movement. I look forward to doing
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: a whole lot of great things with y'all, so have
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: a good night. I am shining Saffron. This is bad
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: to business. I love y'all beyond the next episode.