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QUEEN ANGELA ON WBNN NETWORK................................... · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Good evening.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Elijah Lewis, and I am an author
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  Speaker 4: Greetings.
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  Speaker 5: I am doctor Kimberly Thomas. I am an author, a poetist,
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  Speaker 4: The Well Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. I want to thank you
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  Speaker 4: guys for joining in on tonight. We're in for another episode.
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  Speaker 4: I tell you, I get excited every chance I get
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  Speaker 4: to come on. I am willing to be filling the
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  Speaker 4: in tonight for Prophetess samon Williams Young. I'm not sure
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  Speaker 4: if you guys know what she is currently going through,
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  Speaker 4: but she was diagnosed with a brain tumor. She had
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  Speaker 4: brain surgery and over the holidays she suffered a couple
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  Speaker 4: of seizures. So she's been dealing with a lot, but yet,
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  Speaker 4: but God, y'all, if you see this young lady is
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  Speaker 4: yet pressed and she's yet standing, She's yet still being
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  Speaker 4: a miracle, walking living testimony of the power of God.
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  Speaker 4: So I definitely am standing in for her tonight, letting
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  Speaker 4: her know that here on the Crew podcast that we
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  Speaker 4: always have your back. Y'all know, she is a prophet
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  Speaker 4: and she's a woman a guy, so I'm definitely going
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  Speaker 4: to share something that has has to do with the Word.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, y'all know, I am a a woman of
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  Speaker 4: God too. I don't have an office, an official office
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  Speaker 4: or walking official office, but I am a true woman
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  Speaker 4: of God. I believe in the Word and I try
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  Speaker 4: to apply to everything that I do.
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  Speaker 7: Y'all.
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  Speaker 4: I'm excited because not only tonight, I actually have a
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  Speaker 4: special guest on with me. Of course, I y'all know,
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  Speaker 4: I have Chanette's co hosts with me tonight. He had
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  Speaker 4: called earlier and I said, you know what, call back
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  Speaker 4: and I'm gonna do a show and you can come on.
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  Speaker 4: Got a lot to talk about tonight. I'm actually going
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  Speaker 4: to be live on the w b n N. So
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  Speaker 4: I want to encourage you guys to come on over
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  Speaker 4: there tonight, tune in press that start to join the conversation.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna have one of our very own, Doctor Chinchira
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  Speaker 4: is gonna be over there on the w b n
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  Speaker 4: N with me. Y'all gonna get an opportunity to get
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  Speaker 4: up close to personal with her, get to know a
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  Speaker 4: little bit about her. So I encourage you guys to
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  Speaker 4: come on over to the w BNN and join us. Y'all,
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  Speaker 4: we're gonna be sharing some poetry because of course she's
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  Speaker 4: a poet. My second guest up too, he is a
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  Speaker 4: poet as well, Doctor Carry Bracket. He's gonna be in
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  Speaker 4: the building. He is actually one of the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 4: five Poets of the Year nominees. He's gonna be in
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  Speaker 4: the building tonight. So I want to encourage you guys
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  Speaker 4: to come on over and we're gonna be talking about
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  Speaker 4: the poetry book Footprints in the Sands of Time. Y'all,
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  Speaker 4: we're gonna have an opportunity to share I got me
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  Speaker 4: some today. I may even give away a copy. I
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  Speaker 4: may even give away a copy, So you have to
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  Speaker 4: be live on air with us tonight to get a
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  Speaker 4: free copy, y'all. This is a nice book, y'all. Normally
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  Speaker 4: I don't critique my books and go through them like that.
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  Speaker 4: Cornell is actually in this book. He is in this book.
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  Speaker 4: Give him an opportunity to share. But y'all, before I
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  Speaker 4: jump on in, I'm gonna say a prayer and then
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  Speaker 4: I am going to bring my guests on in, and
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  Speaker 4: then we're gonna jump in the conversation. Wherever it leads us,
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  Speaker 4: it leads us, because y'all, I don't have an outline
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  Speaker 4: for the program. I just said that I would cover
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  Speaker 4: her shows for her in her absence, just to let
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  Speaker 4: her know that, you know, we support her, that we
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  Speaker 4: love her, and we're there for her, and we're yet
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  Speaker 4: praying for her. I call a name out every morning
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  Speaker 4: over there on the prayer list. So I'm trusting and
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  Speaker 4: believing God that's gonna move and do exactly what he
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  Speaker 4: said he would do for us. So with that being said,
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna lead us in prayer, and then the next
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  Speaker 4: onch you here will be that mister Cornell. He's gonna
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  Speaker 4: introduce itself and say hello to y'all, and then we're
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  Speaker 4: gonna get started in the conversation. Okay, Father God, in
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  Speaker 4: the name of Jesus what I thank you for yet
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  Speaker 4: another day, Lord God, I thank you for this day
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  Speaker 4: that was not promise. This, Lord God, a day that
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  Speaker 4: we get an opportunity to impact lives, to do something
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  Speaker 4: that we didn't do on yesterday. Lord, because you extended
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  Speaker 4: your grace and your mercy, because somebody didn't get this chance.
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  Speaker 4: Somebody died with dreams, somebody died with hope, somebody died
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  Speaker 4: with aspirations within them. Lord God, they didn't get to
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  Speaker 4: do the things that you had called and purposed them
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  Speaker 4: to do. But Lord, you gave us this opportunity to
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  Speaker 4: do that. You gave us this opportunity to be here.
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  Speaker 4: You gave us this opportunity to do just what we're doing.
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  Speaker 4: And I thank you. I thank you for just being
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  Speaker 4: who you are in our lives. So, Father, I asked
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  Speaker 4: that you will have your way on tonight, Lord God,
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  Speaker 4: move me out of the way, Lord God, and allow
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  Speaker 4: your spirit man to rise up, not on just on
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  Speaker 4: this show, but on the show that I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: do tonight at nine thirty over on the wbn N. Lord,
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  Speaker 4: just use me for your glory. Lord God Father, I
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  Speaker 4: thank you and your son Jesus name hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what happened, but it looked like during
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  Speaker 4: the prayer Cornell got disconnected. So hopefully he will call
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  Speaker 4: back in. But nevertheless, y'all, I'm grateful because a lot
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  Speaker 4: of us don't get an opportunity to do some of
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  Speaker 4: the things that we want to do in this life.
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  Speaker 4: For God has given me an opportunity to do a
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  Speaker 4: lot of things. I've had an opportunity to work with
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  Speaker 4: people incarcerated, I've had an opportunity to publish books, an
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  Speaker 4: opportunity to give other people, y'all, thirty people in this
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  Speaker 4: book see thirty people inside of this book give other
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  Speaker 4: people an opportunity to share their thoughts, their perspective, a
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  Speaker 4: little bit about themselves in the way that they want
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  Speaker 4: to do it. So I'm just glad to be a vessel.
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  Speaker 4: I thank God. I thank him for thinking enough of me,
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  Speaker 4: because let me tell you, I ain't always been on
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  Speaker 4: the straighten now and even now, you know, I'm not perfect.
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  Speaker 4: I have my faults, I have my errors. I can
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  Speaker 4: be a little bossy, I can be a little demanded
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  Speaker 4: because guess what, God has given me a spirit to
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  Speaker 4: see stuff and to see people, and to see gifts
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  Speaker 4: in people. And when I see a gift in you,
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna pull it out. And I may be pushing
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  Speaker 4: you to do stuff that you normally may not do,
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  Speaker 4: that you normally may not do, and it may be
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  Speaker 4: outside of your box. But trust me, I don't mean
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  Speaker 4: no harm and I just want the best for everyone.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like if you come in my miss that
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  Speaker 4: there's a reason why God placed us together, because I
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  Speaker 4: don't believe that He make mistakes. I believe that there's
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  Speaker 4: a reason why He brings you in my circle, in
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  Speaker 4: my network.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I don't believe that He would just bring you there
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  Speaker 4: for us to, you know, not be productive for the kingdom.
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  Speaker 4: I believe that it's something for the kingdom. But welcome back, Cornell.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what happened, but yeah, got disconnected doing
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  Speaker 4: the prayer. But welcome back, welcome back, welcome back. I
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  Speaker 4: was just sharing with those just a little bit, just
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  Speaker 4: just dropping a little nuggets. Channette said that she missed
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  Speaker 4: your call earlier. She said to call her whenever you could,
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  Speaker 4: so just want to let you know that. But I
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  Speaker 4: was sharing just a little bit about I don't know
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  Speaker 4: just me about being a voice, being an outlet, allowing
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  Speaker 4: your voice to speak. I for the first time, I
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  Speaker 4: am like at our and just happy at something that
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  Speaker 4: I've done. Like I'm looking at this book and I
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  Speaker 4: see my books all the time, and I don't think
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  Speaker 4: about it, you know, I'm just like just I just
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  Speaker 4: want to be as so to be used and seeing
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  Speaker 4: this makes me want to be a vessel to be
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  Speaker 4: used even more, because when you can see your work
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  Speaker 4: in your hand and you can see the I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you think somebody else did this, like you see him like,
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  Speaker 4: but you did that, And I'm just like, Okay, I'm
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  Speaker 4: in and I'm grateful for everyone that I thought it
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  Speaker 4: not Robert to be a part of these projects. Tonight,
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  Speaker 4: We're actually gonna be sharing some of the poetry Cornell
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  Speaker 4: on my other show on the WBNNN tonight, I have
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  Speaker 4: doctor Chen who is a host here Our Speaks. She's
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  Speaker 4: on first and third Thursday, So y'all got to check
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  Speaker 4: her out. Y'all come check her out tonight, and then
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  Speaker 4: y'all come back and check y'all have not been checking
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  Speaker 4: her out. Y'all got to come back and check her
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  Speaker 4: out right here on the wbn N on first and
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  Speaker 4: third Thursdays. She'd be bringing some people on here, y'all.
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  Speaker 4: She's over in the Virgin Islands. She lived in Virgin Islands.
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  Speaker 4: She's a professor. She teaches at the University of the
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  Speaker 4: Virgin Islands. She is a historian. I mean when she
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  Speaker 4: loves history. She loves to inform people about, you know,
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  Speaker 4: things that happened before our time. You know, she's very informative.
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  Speaker 4: She is a very enlightened person. And I tell you,
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  Speaker 4: I love watching her shows. I love catching her lives.
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  Speaker 4: I just love being in her miss So y'all check
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  Speaker 4: her out again. I'm just shotting everybody out, just getting
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  Speaker 4: the chance to just be who I am. But anyway, y'all,
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  Speaker 4: we got Cornell here, and y'all that have been following
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  Speaker 4: and support Shannette and have followed me for a while,
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  Speaker 4: know that Cornell is one of the individuals that we
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  Speaker 4: work with inside of TDCJ the State of Texas. He's
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  Speaker 4: been very instrumental and a lot of the things that
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  Speaker 4: Shannett has done, I have done like he is. Like
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  Speaker 4: everything that I've done inside of TDCJ would not have
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  Speaker 4: been possible without him. So I'm grateful. When I tell y'all,
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  Speaker 4: y'all don't believe I prayed for Shannette. She don't believe
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  Speaker 4: she believed that she prayed for me, and that I
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  Speaker 4: was a We was a help make to each other
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  Speaker 4: because I needed her, because I needed a voice for
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  Speaker 4: those that were incarcerated, not just in Texas but all
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  Speaker 4: over and I knew that I could not do it
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  Speaker 4: with all that I had going on. So I'm grateful
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  Speaker 4: for her. And when I tell you she's been doing
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  Speaker 4: an amazing job, she has been doing an amazing job,
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  Speaker 4: and I am so so proud of her. Again, Cornell,
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  Speaker 4: thank you for letting me rather on eighteen minutes of raveling.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for being here tonight and sharing so what
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  Speaker 4: we are going to talk about tonight, I'm just I'm
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  Speaker 4: just really grateful, and I just want to really pass
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  Speaker 4: on that spirit of gratitude you have had the opportunity
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  Speaker 4: we were talking about poetry. We lost an amazing poet,
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  Speaker 4: doctor Nikki gi Giovanni, and we're actually gonna be honoring
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  Speaker 4: her tonight on the w B n N. I am
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  Speaker 4: going to be honoring her over on Walking and Purpose
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  Speaker 4: with Angela. I have two guests tonight.
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  Speaker 1: But what have.
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  Speaker 4: How have you utilized writing and books and different things
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  Speaker 4: into your life and into your rehabilitation, and how can
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  Speaker 4: you share with someone else because we keep having to
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  Speaker 4: tell the people, and I want you to before we
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  Speaker 4: jump in briefly. You ain't got to give them the
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  Speaker 4: whole spill, because they should know who you are by now.
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  Speaker 4: Just briefly tell them who you are, and then make
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  Speaker 4: sure you include your current situation.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, my name is Connel and Drummers come to Texas
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  Speaker 1: to an animator thirty four years and you know, for
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  Speaker 1: a murder case in a drug case that was run back,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm serving the sense of one hundred thirty four years. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I've been in Coortort, like I said, for thirty four
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  Speaker 1: years and since my confinement. Matter of fact, since growing
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  Speaker 1: up in life, I never realized how important education were.
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  Speaker 1: But growing up, our family used to always teach us
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  Speaker 1: about go to school, tell us to go to school,
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  Speaker 1: get your education, get your education, and many is a
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  Speaker 1: prova the poor environment of the neighborhood, of coming up
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  Speaker 1: in the real developing homes and stuff like that. I
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  Speaker 1: was around nothing, the drugs and negativity. Woman, and you
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  Speaker 1: know the negative thoughts of life. So with that being said,
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  Speaker 1: I can practically indicated I became a part of my
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  Speaker 1: Bob and as I got appin, I started, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to commit clients. And when I started to commit clients
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  Speaker 1: and stuff, that started to have an impact on my
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  Speaker 1: life and took me down in the negative role t
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  Speaker 1: Well coming into the president system, and you know, I
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  Speaker 1: never realize that, you know, I would have to you know,
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  Speaker 1: find myself because if not, I would find myself at
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  Speaker 1: the bottom all the time. And I utilize and the
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: skills and ability that I had in life. So with
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: this being said, you know, coming in and out of prison,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: I learned a lot. When I was talking to myself.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: I had to teach myself how to read, I had
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: to teach myself how to write, how to you know,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: add Lord to find control. T Well. This time I
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: have one hundred and fifty four years. And God spoke
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: to me one time and he said, mister Drum, I'm
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: gonna do something for you. I'm going to get through something,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: and I want you to do one thing for me.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: I want you to blame everybody with you. And I
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: didn't understand what that means, but what he was telling me,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: is that he's going to give me a boy to
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: be a voice for somebody, to be able to help
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: people come up out of a root. Well, with that
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: being said, he gave me the kill that I need
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: to learn the legal system. And when I learned the
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: legal system, I thought, you know, realizing what he meant,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: but I think in me that I would be a boy. Well,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: I've never realized how important that was, you know, to
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: a lot of people. But I kept doing enough, kept
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: doing it, and then I ended up meetings uh missus Thomas.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: And she's a poet, she's a book writer. And with
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: that being said, I never real how important a poem
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: could be to a lot of people, how pot could
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: change the life of a lot of people. But with
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: that being said, I started to remembering that a poem,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: a book, a letter, a short story could change the
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: lives of a lot of people. The meanings him And
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: when she did, I got more and more interested in it.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: So I want to becoming a partner with her, and
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: I started taking her books and getting her her magazines,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: and I started looking at them and they were so
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: important and so powerful. I started taking a liking to them.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: So I started showing them to everybody in the prison system.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: And people were self made by the fact that these
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: poems in these books and these magazines and were so
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: powerful that they wanted to be a part of this
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: operation through podcasts. So with did that, dam Say, I
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: connected with him with Lichtus Thomlins and she started registering
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: and cooking initatives up and started sharing her stuff with them.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: And like I said, a plum is a very important
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: factor in a lot of people's lives. It's like a
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: book deal. And now with that, they said, I've learned
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: a lot. And I became a part of her program,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: the same that was with miss Senate as the senet job.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: She's the same powerful individual and I inspired her and
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: she inspired me to be a voice for those who
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: are in the lead of a voice. So that's why
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: I can say to me that you want to be
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: a part of this program, let's talk about it and
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: make human will be doing stands for justice because if
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: you can't stand together or something, we're standing together long.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: But that's what I will be here.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: Wow, And.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: I'm just sometimes I find myself wondering how and where
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: do you find the strength because it's not like you
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: actually did a crime, you were wrongfully incarcerated, and yet
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: you have found a way to press past that, You
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: found a way to get over it. Yet we have
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: people on the outside that will get mad at you
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: for just asking them you to communicate, or just asking
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: for something, or simply stepping on the shoe, or just
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: the simple things, the things that we take for granted.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: I have really realize that a lot of those that
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: have been wrongfully incarcerated have embraced and they've utilized. It's
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: like we read the word, but we don't apply it
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: to our lives. But it's like when you're put in
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: a place, in a position where you have to take
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: that word and apply it to your life, and then
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: it becomes life and you begin to see it work.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: Like I want you to share with that person that
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: may be tuned in live or may hear this as
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: a replay, how have you turned those lemons into lemonade?
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: And not that sour puss lemonade, but some sweet, savoring lemonade.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: That is that is that that is mouth watering to
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: your thirst.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: You have strength of standing on my own two feet
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: to find my way. And after I started trying to
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: find my way down, I started you know, running cope
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: law to get the individual hands to my sister. I
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: started getting up, I started going to church. I started
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: even becoming doing one on one and started learning more
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: about God. Because without God in my life, I do
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: one thing, I could not do it. So I had
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: to find the word of God and put God on
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: everything that I did it because through that I got
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: the strength, I got the wisdom, I got the knowledge,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: and I got the because the ability keyes to do
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: what I do today. And no matter if don't nobody
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: else want to do it, if don't nobody just want
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: to get involved. God told me one thing, continue to
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: do what you do and one day you will see
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: that I'm showing favor on you. Succeed in everything that
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: I have commandity for you to do. And that's what
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: I do. Every day. I waked up trying to find
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: a way to be a boy, try find a way
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: to connect the dock, trying to find a way to
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: reform criminal justice system. It's not even it's a little
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: to side now because they can't take it any more.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: So I always look up every day trying to find
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: a way to be that voice, to give that home
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  Speaker 1: and let these people know one day's gonna be all white.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: One day the door is gonna open. So if I
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: can get the other side down religion, I'm gonna stand
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: up and I'm gonna be that boys and that for
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: criminal justice, reform, mental health, because but everything that I
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: canna be a voice from, that's what I'm gonna do.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: Now, Wow, I mean that's that's amazing. I mean it
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: truly is. I listened to Jerry Show last night on
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: the w BN. Then, of course she is the host
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: over on the network that I'm on, and she was
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: sharing a guy on there last night. I think he's
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: someone that Dot their Chinchilla has been working with. Of course,
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: everybody that knows Chinchilla knows that she works with social
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: injustice wrongfully overly incarcerated individuals, and this is a guy
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: that's been incarcerated. I think he's been incarcerated since he
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: was a teenager. I don't know where he is. They
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: didn't disclose that on last night, but he's now forty
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: four years old. He's now a a licensed minister. He's
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: gotten so many degrees they are now given individuals. I
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: don't know if all of the facilities are doing it,
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: but I've seen a couple of facilities within the prison system.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: They are allowing these individuals that are excelling in school
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: and doing these different things that have shown that they
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: are rehabilitated. They are given them opportunity to speak before
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: classes and stuff, and they're able to use that when
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: they go up for parole. So now, before I share
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: a piece of poetry that you wrote in this book,
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: I want you to share because in sharing that, I
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: brought up a subject that I know is near and
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: near to your heart, and that is your current status.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: For those that follow know that Cornell was paroled in August.
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: He was granted parole, but yet he still sits behind
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: prison walk. He was granted a fi was it the
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: f I six, So he was granted the f I six.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: So with that f I six, he was required to
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: attend a program. It is now December. He was supposed
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: to be at his program, started his program, and now
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: should be two months into his program, and yet he's
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: yet to leave the facility. With that f I six,
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: that meant that he's supposed to do a six month
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: program and then he was supposed to be released. We're
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: now two months over his time that he's supposed to
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: be doing the program. And this is what we're finding
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: in a lot of the Texas facilities, not just Texas,
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: but we're finding it in a lot of facilities. But
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: it is really bad in Texas. And those commissioners have
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: taken a personal vendetta against some of these inmates and
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: really made it personal. I mean they really made it
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: personal to where they are holding their records and then
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: they are holding their verdicts and stuff until the last day,
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: and then they're pushing them and holding them on when
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: they get to these programs. Because remind you, now, the
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: program time does not start until you get to the
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: pro So you got to get to the program first.
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: So if they hold you six months before they get
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: you to the program, and then you go over to
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: the program, you got to do another six months, that's
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: already another year added on to your time. Well, some
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: of these people have already served over twenty years. Now,
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: where is the fairness of that? Now? We all know
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: back in the day a life sentence, when they used
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: to give out these life charges and these life sentences.
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: We know when they used to give out those, that
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: was like people did twenty five thirty years and they
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: was home. Now you doing forty fifty years before these
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: people even want to bring you up for a parole,
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: and then they want to play with you once they
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: bring you up for parole. Where is the fairness? Where
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: is the were trying to really get these people back
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: out into society and allow them to function. Where is that?
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: It is not there because it's all about the money.
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: And we got to move from that. We gotta understand
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: that we got to get back to values, and we
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: got to y'all. If you have family members that are incarcerated,
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: I don't care if they're your cousin, your brother, your nephew,
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: your fifth cousin, if they weigh down the line. If
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: you have family members that are in prison, you should
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: be writing people. You should be standing up for them.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: When you see stuff going on that shouldn't be going on,
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: you should be saying something. Whether you reach out personally
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: or if you reach it out as an advocate, you
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: should be advocating about these things. See, I can't sit
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: down and be quiet because I have family members that's incarcerated.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: I have a nephew that's incarcerated, So I can't sit
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: down and be quiet. I may not be directly affecting
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: his case. But I can't sit down and be quiet
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: when I know that he's part of what is going
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: on in America and then it needs to be addressed,
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: so I speak. I may not be all. I may
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: not be going to all that Shanett is doing because
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: I don't have the time for y'all. If I did,
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: I'm telling you I would. I try, but I just
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: I can't. And and I'm grateful for people like Shannette.
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: Even though I can't do what she's doing. I'm still
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: able to sit and brainstorm with her, and we're able
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: to toss things off of each other, and we're able
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: to talk about things, and we're able to share, and
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: we're able to you know, I can be in the
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: background and and help her with whatever it is is
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: needed to go for. You know that that's what collaboration
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: and coming together and working together is all about. Like
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: all eight of these hosts over here, no I got
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: they back, no matter what they need, I'm there. If
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: you need a guess, I'm there. If you need me
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: to help you with a guess, I can help you
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: get a guess. If you need whatever you need, I'm there.
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: And if I can't guarantee you I know somebody that can,
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: and I'm gonna hook you up with them. That's one
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: thing about me. I can't take none of this, no
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: where with me, So yes, what I want to leave
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: it so that other people can be able to carry on,
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: because guess what, life gonna go on without me? Life's
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: gonna go on without all of us. But we need
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: to make sure that the ones that are coming behind
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: us that they are equipped with the things that they need,
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: that they may go forth, and that they may be great,
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: because there may be some things that we may not
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: be able to tap into just yet, that we may
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: be setting the frequency and the flow for them to
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: walk into. But if we don't show up, guess what
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: we'll never know. So a lot of us we want
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: to make excuses, but like my big brother, Oh say,
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: there's no excuse. Excuse. Us are for the incompetent, and
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: I don't deal with in company people, so I know
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: that that's not us over here. We don't make excuses.
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: If we can't, we gonna tell you we can't. We're
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: not gonna try to do more than what we can,
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: but we always one thing we gonna do over here
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: is we gonna co communicate with you and we don't
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: do nothing else. That's one thing about me. I'm gonna
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: communicate with you. If I don't do nothing else, I
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: may not show up, but I'm gonna communicate, and you
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: gonna know why I ain't showing up. And I may
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: have somebody showing up for me or whatever the case
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: may be. But Cornell, I want to share with those
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: that are listening one of your pieces that you wrote
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: inside of Footprints in the Sands and Time. What what
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: is it like trying to create a legacy being in
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: the current situation that you're in. What does that look
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: like for you? And what would you say to someone
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: that may be in the same situation that you're in,
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: that may have given up.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Now that's a very good question. Now, okay, when you're
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: opening them eyes to see what the real problem Amlican
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: and the country. Now you will realize now that you know,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: our countrys founded that slavery, you know, and because of that,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: now our institutions the capital lot of slavery. So with
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: that being said, man, the truth is the truth. We
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: can't ask nothing to them, we can't take nothing away
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: from it. So with that being saved, now, but there
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: these institutions. Now, you know, it's hard trying to get
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: done for my como justice system. Why because of that
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: list right there that our countress founded on racism and
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: bee and have had topoism and this is a multi
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: tillion dollar enterprise right here. Incarceration. We have two point
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: two million people incarcerated in the United States. We have
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: seventy million people that's on parole probation are incarcerated. Now,
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: these are some very staggling numbers. So when they comes time,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: man the challenge of criminal justice system that's broken them
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: like this without our state representatives, I take extendencies, and
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: our governments and our president for whoever is in office.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Trying to fix these products now is hard and people
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: are willing to you know, they fight, but it's hard.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: So they be choosing to give up because you can't
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: win the criminal justice system right now, our parole bard
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: is found about the judicial practic which means that we
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: are now governed by an individual, not the system. My
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: commissioner right now has recommended and leans that possis our program.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: And mind yourself this same indidical thing eighty five years ago,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: after doing twenty eight years and since that time. Now
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: I haven't completed in every program within the system three times.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Because when he saw me this time, he said, in
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: the fail tell me why should that you go? I said, well,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: my credential speaks for themselves. I've completed every program three times,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: college courts and anything. He said, well, okay, at the
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: building I can agree with returning. So when I got
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: my answer, it's I all at six. So I'm like,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: belait a minute. You can't get to the program and
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: complete the program until you get to the facility. But
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: you got thousands of endimates waiting to go to the facility.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: And so what that man said, that is a complete
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: whole traveling of a set off. After he just gave
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: me five ideas, was the set off man? Because now
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: the problem is this our system has start working because
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: my legislators and I recognized it. He's followed within our
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: system using projects to be to not to release people
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: and the society people. If they released all of the
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: people already the.
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: System, well of course they're not gonna do that because
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: if they do, if you, like you say, if they
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: release all those people according then it will be empty.
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: And then if it's empty, then there's no more free
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: labor there. They're just they can't charge for the beds
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: being pulled, so they know what they're doing. They know
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: exactly what they're doing. We're just gonna continue to pray
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: it could get worse because we're talking about you. You're
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: talking about a president that's going to get in the
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: office and talking about deporting everybody. He even talking about
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: deporting US citizens and I'm talking about, how do you
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: talking about deporting US cities? I mean, the man really
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: already done lost his mind and he ain't even in office.
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: Hit But this is who we this, this is who
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: we voted for. And I'm gonna say we because we
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: are the people, and we got to stand together. So
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: we all one, We all one, regardless of how how
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: how we voted, we all one. So since this is
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: who we as a majority, say that we wanted in office,
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: this is who we got. So now this man talking
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: about deporting people that was not born here, So all
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: those different people that were born in different countries, even
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: though you've been here a long time and you may
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: have your citizenship, he's still talking about deporting you. But
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: this is the man that you want in office because
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: you say, oh, we we we struggle with education. We
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: struggled with this. I listened to a lot of these
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: people say a lot of the reason why they voted
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: for this man. But this is well, this is this,
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: this is what we want. It is crazy. But I
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: want to end on a note of share some poetry.
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: Since we are honoring the late doctor Nikki Giovanni. We
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: had a poetry book that Corneill took part in, How
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: Footprits in the Sands of Time. It is part of
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: the Legacy Chronicle, a journey through time and eternity. Inside
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: of this book, there was thirty individuals that share in
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  Speaker 4: this book. If y'all have not checked this book out
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  Speaker 4: on Amazon, go check it out. It's on Amazon, It's
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  Speaker 4: on mac. I think it's on mad Cloud. It's it's
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  Speaker 4: in most retail places that you can get books from,
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  Speaker 4: and then it may be in your local library because
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  Speaker 4: we are in a lot of the library systems as well.
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  Speaker 4: So check it out. Check it out. I'm gonna read
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  Speaker 4: this poem that Corneier wrote. It's called Echoes of the
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  Speaker 4: Forgotten in the Sands of Time. Footprints tell a tale
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  Speaker 4: other man Ron trapped in a thirty four year jail four,
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  Speaker 4: finally set free, But the shadows of the past still
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  Speaker 4: cling to thee memories of your youth, not distant and
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  Speaker 4: far regrets, mistakes like a relentless scar nostalgically for days
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  Speaker 4: gone by, lost and abyss, reflections on life, opportunities miss
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  Speaker 4: time marches on relentness and cruel, leaving behind fragments of
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  Speaker 4: a broken old fool. But in these shadows there lies
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  Speaker 4: a glimmering of hope, a chance to reveal, to learn
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  Speaker 4: how to cope through the darkness, a light start to shine,
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  Speaker 4: a beacon of redemption, a chance to realign. Footprints in
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  Speaker 4: the sands washed away by the sea, a symbol of
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  Speaker 4: rebirth of a man now free. Though the past may
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  Speaker 4: haunt and the memories may stem, there's a chance for
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  Speaker 4: a new beginning, and the shadows of past a story's
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  Speaker 4: untold of a man who rises strong and bold. And
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  Speaker 4: that's that piece that was written by Cornell y'all is
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  Speaker 4: calling the echoes of the forgotten Cornell Jackie Drummer. So
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  Speaker 4: Cornell that piece when when? When when individuals asked you
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  Speaker 4: to write? What was your thoughts when you were asked
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  Speaker 4: to to share inside of this poetry book?
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  Speaker 1: I was a very fire man. You know, I was
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  Speaker 1: very you know, you know working with another you know podcast,
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  Speaker 1: and you know it felt a lot out of me,
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  Speaker 1: the knowledge you have a boy that my voice is
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  Speaker 1: and I don't want to be a part of anything
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  Speaker 1: that has to do with propitivity in this world now
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  Speaker 1: because I do want to be the change that our
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  Speaker 1: desire to see in this world. And that means that
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  Speaker 1: if together for something we stand alone, join us on,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about it. Thank you very much, Alath for
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: having me on your.
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  Speaker 4: Children well, thank you for always your willingness to come on.
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  Speaker 4: I know your time is almost over, so thank you again, y'all.
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  Speaker 4: If y'all can, I want y'all to join me tonight
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  Speaker 4: on the w B n N. Y'all know, every chance
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  Speaker 4: I get to come on here, I'm gonna come on
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  Speaker 4: here again. Y'all. Send some prayer, some love, some hugs
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  Speaker 4: up to our Queen's sister Simone as she's going through.
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  Speaker 4: Of course she will be back season three. We'll keep
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  Speaker 4: our February right now. I just want her to relax.
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  Speaker 4: I just want her to, you know, go through her therapy,
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  Speaker 4: go through her new norm, because this is a new norm,
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  Speaker 4: adjusting adjusting to things that happen, you know, us just
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  Speaker 4: being able to adjust and move on. That's that's what
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  Speaker 4: it's all about. So y'all send up much prayers, love
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  Speaker 4: and hugs to Simon. Remember those that are going through grief,
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  Speaker 4: because grief during the holidays can be something else. Remember
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  Speaker 4: those that have lost loved ones during this holiday season
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  Speaker 4: because it's not easy. And remember to check on your family.
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  Speaker 4: Those that that that you think are strong, check on them,
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  Speaker 4: especially check on them. Those are the ones that you
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  Speaker 4: need to check on during the holiday time because y'all,
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  Speaker 4: they've been strong all year loone for everybody else, and
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: then during the holiday time they may need somebody to
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  Speaker 4: be strong for them since they've been strong for everybody else.
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  Speaker 4: So y'all check on your loved ones. And if y'all
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  Speaker 4: can join me tonight over on the w b n end,
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  Speaker 4: let me see if I can pull this this flyer
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  Speaker 4: up so y'all can see where we're gonna be at.
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  Speaker 4: I have, actually I have two hosts, two guests that
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  Speaker 4: are gonna be on tonight. Doctor Chen is gonna be
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  Speaker 4: one of my guests. And then again I have the poet,
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  Speaker 4: the one of the poet nominees for twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 4: He's gonna be on. His name is Carrie Brackett. He's
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  Speaker 4: also a professor. He's also a poet. So they're gonna
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  Speaker 4: be on sharing they their works, They're gonna be talking
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  Speaker 4: about their brands, They're gonna be talking about their school.
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  Speaker 4: Of course. This is the flyer with the information on it, y'all,
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  Speaker 4: so y'all can see the information, but the college information.
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  Speaker 4: I'm trying to enlarge it so y'all can see the
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  Speaker 4: calling information. Don't worry about everything else. Just the calling
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  Speaker 4: information is what i want you all to look at.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm gonna put it up. I'm gonna be down
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  Speaker 4: in the in the in the corner, so y'all not
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  Speaker 4: gonna see me, but y'all gonna see the information. So
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  Speaker 4: y'all can call in tonight and support me on the
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  Speaker 4: w b n N over there, so y'all, if y'all
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  Speaker 4: can again, I am going to be live on w
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  Speaker 4: b n N tonight at nine thirty pm. I have
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  Speaker 4: doctor Chen who is one of the hosts here. She
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  Speaker 4: hosts a show called ass Speak, and she's gonna be
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  Speaker 4: on tonight. And then I have one of the nominees
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  Speaker 4: for Poet of the Year Doctor carry Bracket. He's gonna
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  Speaker 4: be on tonight. So we're gonna be talking about being intentional,
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  Speaker 4: being intentional about your purpose for twenty five, twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 4: and not allowing your flame to burn out. So as
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  Speaker 4: educators and as teachers and as mentors and leaders, we
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  Speaker 4: definitely want their input, We definitely want them to share.
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  Speaker 4: So this is a great topic for tonight, so, y'all,
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  Speaker 4: great topic for going into twenty twenty five. Y'all, we
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  Speaker 4: only got a couple of more days, y'all. This time
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  Speaker 4: time is winding down. We have what nineteen more days
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  Speaker 4: in this year, and this year is over. We have
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  Speaker 4: nineteen more days. I think nineteen or twenty more days.
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  Speaker 4: I think we got twenty more days. We got twenty
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  Speaker 4: more days, and then this year is over with, so y'all,
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  Speaker 4: I'll see y'all today. Make sure you call in seven
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  Speaker 4: press pound and then the end of the studio, you
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  Speaker 4: gotta press one pound, and then if you want to
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  Speaker 4: jump on and talk to me, press Star two. So
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  Speaker 4: make sure you call in, join in on the conversation
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  Speaker 4: and enjoy some poetry, because we're gonna share some poetry.
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  Speaker 4: And if you got some poetry, this is your opportunity
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  Speaker 4: to share it live on air. You get to share
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  Speaker 4: it to over thirty million listeners and you get to
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  Speaker 4: shout out your brand. So when we open up the
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  Speaker 4: lines for conversation, y'all, make sure you press start too,
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  Speaker 4: so you can join us live. If you got a
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  Speaker 4: piece of poetry, bring your poetry so we can honor
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  Speaker 4: doctor Nikki Giovanni for all that she's done and for
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  Speaker 4: leading the way for poets like us, y'all, some of
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  Speaker 4: us that probably never thought we had a voice. I
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  Speaker 4: thought we could use our words to speak. So thank you,
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  Speaker 4: doctor Nikki Giovanni. Your legacy live on and we gonna
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  Speaker 4: make you proud. So y'all, I love y'all, I appreciate y'all,
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  Speaker 4: and I'll see y'all tonight, See y'all tonight, Okay,