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The Collection Plate is Shaking ( Druski Mega Church Skit) · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: into the latest. Wow, there's a lot to talk about
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Speaker 1: with this story. So first up in the Latest, Drew Ski,
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Speaker 1: comedian Drew Ski, he'dne pissed the people off. Okay, Now,
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Speaker 1: let me just say that anytime somebody makes fun of
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Speaker 1: anything in the church, there's always somebody that's upset.
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Speaker 2: You're either upset.
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Speaker 1: Because you're one of them church going folk who don't
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Speaker 1: believe the church. And when I say the church, I
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Speaker 1: don't physically mean God, I don't like you know, I'm
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Speaker 1: talking about the physical uh place, like the church itself,
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Speaker 1: physical place itself, but also the community. So the people
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Speaker 1: that you meet in the church, and the people who
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Speaker 1: run the church, work in the church, all that stuff. Right,
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Speaker 1: If you're one of those people who don't think any
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Speaker 1: of those people can do anything wrong, you get upset
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Speaker 1: when people laugh and joke about the church. If you're
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Speaker 1: one of those people who y'all know them people. Everybody
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Speaker 1: got at least one or two in their family where
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Speaker 1: it's like they kind of grew up in church and
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Speaker 1: then they had like one thing that happened to them
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Speaker 1: in church. And I don't mean like nothing, because you
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Speaker 1: don't know something is going on sometimes in these churches.
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Speaker 1: I mean like, uh, you know, maybe they heard something
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Speaker 1: they didn't like, or the pastor because this happens denounce
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Speaker 1: something that they you know, believe in, or you know,
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Speaker 1: the way that they live in their life or whatever.
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Speaker 1: So now they hate all things God, religion. They're just
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Speaker 1: they're they're universe people, right, see one of those people,
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Speaker 1: or you're just one of those people who grew up
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Speaker 1: you know, like a lot of us. Did I know,
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Speaker 1: I'm one of these people. I'm not mad at this
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Speaker 1: skit though I thought the skit was funny as hell.
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Speaker 1: I'm one of those people who grew up in the church,
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Speaker 1: grew up in a very faith based family and home.
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Speaker 1: So from the elders, you just don't play with certain things,
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Speaker 1: and church is one of them. So Drewski has a
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Speaker 1: lot of people having a lot of conversations right now
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Speaker 1: because he dropped a skit via his Instagram and on
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Speaker 1: his social media platforms all about the Mega Church and
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Speaker 1: some of the things that go down let's that's what
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Speaker 1: I'm sad.
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna have Wanda stand up here, Wanda please. Wanda
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Speaker 3: told us earlier this month that she cannot have a
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Speaker 3: baby anymore. So I impregnated her with the word of God.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to impregnate everyone with the word of God.
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Speaker 3: You don't gonna get pregnant with the word of God.
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Speaker 3: Don't won't get pregnant with the world of God. Don't
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Speaker 3: gonna get pregnant with the I had somebody in the
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Speaker 3: congregation asked why I'm wearing Christian to York and Christian
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Speaker 3: lupid Because I'm a Christian and I walk in the
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Speaker 3: blood of Give them some prey. I'm a question part
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Speaker 3: and I'm walk in the blood. I give them some pain.
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Speaker 3: Give them.
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Speaker 1: It's the subtitles. It's the subtitles on the the the video,
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Speaker 1: the that appear like Snapchat for me. So Drew Ski
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Speaker 1: on a surface level, right, takes some of the big
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Speaker 1: things that happen to church. So you have ties, you
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Speaker 1: have offering, you have the prayer, like the prayers for
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Speaker 1: people in the church. So when he brought the lady
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Speaker 1: up and basically like those prayers for those miracles, and
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Speaker 1: you know how like there's that time in church where
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Speaker 1: like you do like church announcements, right, and they talk
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Speaker 1: to you about this person was going through this and
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Speaker 1: then survived this, and we pray this, and you know,
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Speaker 1: he does all of that, even the prayer requests at
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Speaker 1: the end of the video where people are asking for
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Speaker 1: the pastor to pray for their rives. There, you know,
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Speaker 1: all the things, the fundamental things that go down in
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Speaker 1: church where people come to praise, to wordship, write.
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Speaker 2: All that stuff.
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Speaker 1: But the difference in Jewski skit is he leans in
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Speaker 1: to the megachurch vibe. So at the megachurch is you
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Speaker 1: have And there's been a lot of pastors who went
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Speaker 1: viral for the theatrics in their church flying through the ceiling, uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, just even in how they preach, leaning into
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Speaker 1: things that are like pop culture and culturally relevant, like
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Speaker 1: can you help me?
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Speaker 2: I said, baby, can you help me? Then he's like,
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Speaker 2: but I'm gonna do the church version of it.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: A lot of churches flipping hip hop and rap songs
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Speaker 1: on its head have went viral as well. And whenever
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Speaker 1: these certain things happen, people always have the commonnversation about
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Speaker 1: whether these things help the church, and a lot of
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Speaker 1: people who you know have younger congregations will say they
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Speaker 1: do because you attract a younger audience, you keep that
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Speaker 1: audience there. It's hard to get people in church. People
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Speaker 1: want a church from YouTube now, especially young people. And
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Speaker 1: then there's the other side of people who were like no,
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Speaker 1: because if you're coming and you're coming for God, and
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Speaker 1: you're coming for the Word, and you're coming for the deliverance,
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Speaker 1: you don't need a production like this, right. And then
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Speaker 1: there's always the conversation about money in the church, and
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Speaker 1: Drew Ski leaned into that.
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Speaker 3: You are raising funds for a project in Zimbabwe. Yes,
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Speaker 3: we are trying to get a congregation over in Africa.
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Speaker 3: Hey man. We wanted to raise four million dollars for
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Speaker 3: that iliyah that needs to appear today. We are not
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Speaker 3: letting anyone leave until we reach out gold Amen. Hello Loui,
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Speaker 3: your life savings here. Give him some praise for that.
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Speaker 2: Give it this life savings other.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 1: I talked about a lot of pastors who went viral
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Speaker 1: for the way that they went about money and collecting
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Speaker 1: money within their churches. Pastor Marvin Whinings more recently was
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Speaker 1: a pastor that I covered people were very upset at
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Speaker 1: this moment that happened in his church.
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Speaker 2: Hi ROBERTA.
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Speaker 4: McCoy giving faith and standing unity with the vision of
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Speaker 4: perfecting church or sowing this seed of one thousand dollars
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Speaker 4: plus two hundred and thirty five dollars and receiving the
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Speaker 4: blessings to come to all that participating.
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Speaker 2: Now that that's only twelve hundred dollars.
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Speaker 3: Yes, y'all not listening to what I'm saying. If you
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Speaker 3: have a thousand plus one thousand.
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Speaker 4: Okay, I'm gonna work.
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Speaker 2: On the other hand, well, that ain't what I asked
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Speaker 2: you to do. Now, I don't know. People are up arms.
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Speaker 2: Drew Ski and this skit have.
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Speaker 1: Been trending across x all day long. Honestly since he
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Speaker 1: first dropped the skit. Last night, I saw that Drewski
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Speaker 1: posted that this video has now become one of his
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Speaker 1: videos that has over one hundred thousand comments right on Instagram.
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Speaker 1: But I spoke to a rep from Jewski who tells
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Speaker 1: me this is his most popular video. The video, y'all,
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Speaker 1: at this point, hasn't even been up twenty four hours.
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Speaker 1: Drewski posted this video last night at eight o'clock PM.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna give you guys the numbers.
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Speaker 1: So a rep for Drewski tells me that this is
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Speaker 1: that not even one of his most popular videos, that
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Speaker 1: this is his most popular videos.
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Speaker 2: This video in less than twenty.
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Speaker 1: Four hours, has thirty four million views in eighteen hours.
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Speaker 1: And I'm trying to explain to you guys. A lot
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Speaker 1: of it is the discourse around the video. People were upset,
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Speaker 1: people are not upset. A big part of it, and
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Speaker 1: from what I was seeing online is there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of people who feel like you shouldn't play with the church,
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Speaker 1: that you shouldn't discuss certain things.
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Speaker 2: But I feel like.
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Speaker 1: If these things are happening in some churches, right, not
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Speaker 1: all because, not all because I do like at the
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Speaker 1: end of the Drew Skies video the way that the
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Speaker 1: pastor of the church is portrayed as like there's money hungry.
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Speaker 1: You know, I rock the red bottoms, I'm driving away
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Speaker 1: in the car. I don't really care about the people.
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Speaker 1: This is all just a business. But I mean, all
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Speaker 1: of this stuff stems from somewhere, Like none of this
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Speaker 1: is made up. This stuff is really happening in some churches.
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Speaker 1: Drewski posted this video of this pastor flying down from
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Speaker 1: the ceiling.
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Speaker 2: To preach to a church.
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Speaker 1: If it's really happening, Like, why are we upset that
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Speaker 1: someone puts it together and makes it funny. One of
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Speaker 1: the things that I'll never understand about conversations about church
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Speaker 1: is the sensitivity of it. And y'all can correct me
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Speaker 1: if I'm wrong. I'm not a pastor whatsoever, but I
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Speaker 1: do attend the church shout out to seize the greatness.
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Speaker 1: My pastor would never fly in from the ceiling, just wouldn't.
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Speaker 1: But back to my point, if this is something that
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Speaker 1: is actually happening, why are we upset when people put
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Speaker 1: together and have conversations about it. I think one of
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Speaker 1: the things that really distracts people from getting to God.
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Speaker 2: It's not the theatrics.
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Speaker 1: It's not you know, someone sitting in the church and
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Speaker 1: trying to figure out who's really here for God and
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Speaker 1: who's really sent by God to let people versus who's
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Speaker 1: here to be manipulative and just make money and you know,
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Speaker 1: take money and all the things. But I think it's
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Speaker 1: the judgment of like maybe some people like the theatrics.
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Speaker 2: I remember my first time.
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Speaker 1: Pulling up to a megachurch in La I had never
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Speaker 1: been to one before. All the churches I've been to
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Speaker 1: in Delaware prior to that were smaller churches, and even
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Speaker 1: if they were bigger in congregation, it just wasn't what
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Speaker 1: this was. I went to one church LA in LA
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Speaker 1: for the first time. Pastor Torrey and Sarah James Roberts
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Speaker 1: used to be the pastors there. They're now over in
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Speaker 1: Dallas at another Potterhouse church. They took over for Pastor T. D. Jakes,
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Speaker 1: who is Sarah Jakes's dad. But this is when they
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Speaker 1: were preaching there. This was some years ago, and I
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Speaker 1: remember Number one seeing metal detectors and I was like, what,
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Speaker 1: you have metal detectors at a church?
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Speaker 2: But what blew my mind?
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Speaker 1: They have valet. They have valet, like you could valet
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Speaker 1: your car outside of the church. And I don't know
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Speaker 1: if one church is still like this, but you could
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Speaker 1: valet your car outside of the church. At this point,
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Speaker 1: I've never used the valet system there, so I don't
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Speaker 1: know if it was paid for or if it was
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Speaker 1: not paid like if you had to pay or if
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Speaker 1: you did it, or if it was just more of
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Speaker 1: like a parking like customary service. But I remember my
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Speaker 1: first day walking up, and when I saw that that
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Speaker 1: they had somebody that could park your car for you,
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Speaker 1: at that point in time, it threw me off. I
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Speaker 1: was like, is this, Like is this the church I
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Speaker 1: shouldn't be going to? And then something in me was
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Speaker 1: just like, you're in La. You know this is a
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Speaker 1: bigger church. And I had heard of the church online before,
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Speaker 1: so I'm like, you know, you never know who they're
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Speaker 1: trying to accommodate by having something like this. And also,
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Speaker 1: don't let the physical things that you might not be
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Speaker 1: used to or agree with stop you from getting to work.
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Speaker 1: That's my point, is like, if we really focus on
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Speaker 1: getting to God, just pour your own poison, pick where
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Speaker 1: you want to do it at, and focus on whatch
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Speaker 1: I got going on over there. People are always so
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Speaker 1: upset and so not upset, but people are always so
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Speaker 1: touchy about these church things as if they don't happen,
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Speaker 1: but they do, and because they do, low key it's
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Speaker 1: fair game in my opinion, right, So I go into
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Speaker 1: the church, and I love the church. I was at
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Speaker 1: one church my whole all of my eight years in La,
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Speaker 1: I was at one church, and I'm so happy that
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Speaker 1: I did not allow what was different and what I
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Speaker 1: wasn't used to stop me from getting to where I
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Speaker 1: needed to get to when it came to my relationship
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Speaker 1: with God. And once I got to know the people,
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Speaker 1: not even got to know, but once I got to
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Speaker 1: because that is a big church. It's hard to kind
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Speaker 1: of get to know the leadership and all that stuff
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Speaker 1: in a church like one church La, especially if you're
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Speaker 1: if you're new to the church. But once I was
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Speaker 1: there enough and I begin to see just the different
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Speaker 1: people that would attend the church. Right, So you have
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Speaker 1: Beyonce's mom coming on any given Sunday, and Miss Tina
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Speaker 1: be in church and she's there most of the time.
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Speaker 1: She's not there with security, just different things. I begin
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Speaker 1: to realize, like, Okay, this is not about trying to
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Speaker 1: look elite or a way to collect money. This is
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Speaker 1: about understanding who you have in your church and just
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Speaker 1: trying to make sure everybody's good and everybody's protected, which
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Speaker 1: is why there's also meta detectors, which again too that
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Speaker 1: threw me off girl when I first saw it, But
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Speaker 1: even right now in this moment looking back at that,
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Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, people run into churches and shoot them up.
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Speaker 1: Imagine if you I have the metal detector from allowing
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Speaker 1: you in the church because you're used to walking in
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Speaker 1: the churches that don't see the need for that.
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Speaker 2: The distraction would have been so real. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I think the skit was funny. I think we let
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Speaker 1: it be funny and we move on. But if we
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Speaker 1: really being honest.
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Speaker 2: This stuff happens in the church.
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Speaker 1: And I've reached out to a few faith leaders who
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Speaker 1: you know, I was unable to get someone to come
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Speaker 1: on and make a comment. I didn't know this was
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Speaker 1: so touchy, did not know, but chot out the drewski though.
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Speaker 1: I mean he accomplished what I think he set out
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Speaker 1: to do. I mean there's conversations started, the engagement is real,
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Speaker 1: and now we move on, hopefully hopefully, And now we
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Speaker 1: move on because one thing that's not gonna happen. If
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Speaker 1: somebody is corrupt and they in the church, that person
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Speaker 1: gonna be corrupt until they not. If somebody is in
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Speaker 1: church with the wrong intentions, them intentions ain't gonna change.
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Speaker 1: Hopefully God get to them, but them intentions are not
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Speaker 1: gonna change. You just got to focus on being you,
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Speaker 1: understanding what you came to that church to take out
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Speaker 1: of it. And if it's not a right fit, just leave.
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Speaker 1: If we're being honest, there is a business component to
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Speaker 1: anything that houses people, serves people, or provides any type
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Speaker 1: of product for people. I don't care if it is
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Speaker 1: a shelter. I don't care if it's a food bank
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Speaker 1: or a food shelter and a food desert, or if
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Speaker 1: it's a church. There is a business element to it.
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Speaker 1: There has to be a business element to it, because
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Speaker 1: when you're inside of that church, you got to look up,
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Speaker 1: you got lights, you got heat, you got comfortable chairs
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Speaker 1: to sit in, you know what I mean. And a
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Speaker 1: lot of times of people that are working in these
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Speaker 1: churches that are volunteering their how many churches are not
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Speaker 1: being paid. But when you do have a pastor that is,
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Speaker 1: you know, leading your church, they are being paid. Now
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Speaker 1: the thing. And I get it, people don't want to
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Speaker 1: be manipulated. Totally understand that. And I think it's nothing
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Speaker 1: wrong with calling out people when those things are happening.
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Speaker 1: But why do can we as people act like this
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Speaker 1: stuff doesn't happen to church? Like why are we so
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Speaker 1: mad at Drew Skie. I saw somebody say that they
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Speaker 1: had to unfollow Drew ski for this skit because it
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Speaker 1: just felt demonic in their soul to watch it. So
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Speaker 1: now we don't know that there are pastors out there
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Speaker 1: that are very money hungry, that's walking in red bottoms
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Speaker 1: for all the wrong reasons. And like, y'all, this is
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Speaker 1: all real stuff, Like this is real, real things. Focus
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Speaker 1: on you and your church. If it's not happening where
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Speaker 1: you at, you good?
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Speaker 2: You know what I mean? You got, y'all, You're good. Now.
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Speaker 1: In other news, as we move right along, this segment
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Speaker 1: is all about the people being upset. Next up, in
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Speaker 1: the latest following Drew Ski, people are upset about the
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Speaker 1: autism barbie. Now, we talk so much about wanting diversity
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Speaker 1: and inclusion and all the things, and Mattel has tried
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Speaker 1: to do that with this line of barbies that they
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Speaker 1: call the Fashioniste the Barbies. So these barbies are not
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Speaker 1: only diverse in skin color and in look, but they're
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Speaker 1: also diverse in weight, they're diverse in disability, and the
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Speaker 1: people are upset. So yesterday, so honor so on one
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Speaker 1: of our previous episodes, please go check that out if
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Speaker 1: you guys get a chance, we talked about the fact
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Speaker 1: that Mattel dropped this autism Barbie, and with the autism
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Speaker 1: Barbie became a pink spinner. The autism Barbie also has
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Speaker 1: on really big headphones. All these things are because of
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Speaker 1: the sensory needs that go along with a person who
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Speaker 1: is living their life with autism. We also talked about
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Speaker 1: the clothing and the clothing being flowy and you know,
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Speaker 1: just different sensory things when it came to like, you know,
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Speaker 1: various fabrics and how they touch your skin and they
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Speaker 1: on your skin if you are a person dealing with
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Speaker 1: certain levels of autism as well, y'all people are upset.
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Speaker 1: They're saying, Mattel missed the mark. So we're gonna take
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Speaker 1: it to the streets, into the tweets and I'm an
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Speaker 1: tell you, guys, some of the things that the people
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Speaker 1: are saying, and I want to hear from you.
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Speaker 2: Let me know if y'all think that this is valid.
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Speaker 1: I honestly, and I said this in the episode when
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Speaker 1: we talked about this, when it originally dropped an autistic Barbie.
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Speaker 1: To me, I'm like, how do you even know that
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Speaker 1: the Barbie is autistic? And then I looked into the
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Speaker 1: accessories and I'm like, okay. And CNN did a interview
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Speaker 1: with a girl. I'm gonna find her name, and that
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Speaker 1: is what made it registered to me, Like, Okay, autism
19:26
Speaker 1: isn't just a isn't just a Look. There are things
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Speaker 1: that accompany, you know, people who are autistic that help
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Speaker 1: their life be a bit easier, the same way that
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Speaker 1: if you had a paraplegic barbie, the barbie would be
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Speaker 1: in a wheelchair and it would be very easy to spot,
19:42
Speaker 1: but it would also add to visibility for people who
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Speaker 1: are also a paraplegic.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, I'm gonna get to the streets.
19:50
Speaker 1: Let's take it to the streets and the tweets, which
19:52
Speaker 1: is our segment where we take these pop culture segments
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Speaker 1: and we look at what.
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Speaker 2: Are y'all saying, Low riders, what are y'all talking about?
19:58
Speaker 2: You call a treat? We outside? We outside?
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Speaker 1: Okay?
20:02
Speaker 2: Every other played drug? Okay.
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Speaker 1: So doctor Jessica Taylor, she is a Sunday Times best
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Speaker 1: selling author, a psychologist. She studies victim focused forensic psychology.
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Speaker 1: She's been seen on Netflix, various TV stations, radio, So
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Speaker 1: this is all in her bio. I don't know doctor Jessica,
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Speaker 1: doctor Jessica Taylor, but I do know that her post
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Speaker 1: about the autistic Barbie is going viral, so she says,
20:32
Speaker 1: autistic Barbie by Mattel just landed.
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Speaker 2: So let's get into it.
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Speaker 1: She is thin, conventionally attractive, feminine, long, straight haired, neatly
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Speaker 1: presented Barbie proportion with the mini dress and long legs.
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Speaker 1: And what makes her out as autistic headphones, a fidget spinner,
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Speaker 1: and I quote, a vacant look in her eye, according
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Speaker 1: to Mattel, to represent that autistic people struggle with eye contact.
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Speaker 1: That's it, Doctor Jessica Taylor on XSYS, be real with me.
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Speaker 1: This is not representation of autistic lives. It's esthetic labeling.
21:04
Speaker 1: Autism reduced to a single, sanitized visual cue that has
21:08
Speaker 1: become popularized through social media stereotypes. Headphones function as a
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Speaker 1: shorthand for sensory sensitivity, which is then flattened into autism.
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Speaker 1: This is branding and commodification of autism. Autism is where
21:22
Speaker 1: you have headphones on and a vacant look in your eye.
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Speaker 1: I mean, are we being serious? Nothing about this die
21:27
Speaker 1: reflects the material realities of autistic people's lives. There is
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Speaker 1: no engagement with power, exclusion, or harm. Autism is treated
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Speaker 1: as something you accessorize, not something that's shaped to how
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Speaker 1: you are treated by schools, employers' healthcare systems, families, friends, partners, police, court, police,
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Speaker 1: court's prisons, or the state. But forget about all that
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Speaker 1: look pretty, get your legs out and play with your
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Speaker 1: fidget spinners.
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Speaker 2: This my new article. Then she posts an article that
21:54
Speaker 2: she did on this.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I can like, I hear her, but like, now,
22:00
Speaker 1: let me go to the CNN article because because I
22:03
Speaker 1: hear her, but I also don't. I do think that
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Speaker 1: there are people who, you know, use these certain accessories
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Speaker 1: to make their walk through life every single day a
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Speaker 1: bit better. And the only reason I'm saying this I
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Speaker 1: don't know. I don't have anyone close to me who
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Speaker 1: suffers from autism. But I read this article when I
22:26
Speaker 1: was preparing for this segment the other day, and because
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Speaker 1: I also didn't understand it, I was like, why would
22:31
Speaker 1: you create an autism Barbie, Like, how do you physically
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Speaker 1: show autism? Because I know it's in mannerisms, it's in
22:39
Speaker 1: it's in so many different ways that you know you
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Speaker 1: can pick up on a person's like autism, and when
22:48
Speaker 1: you're seeing them, when you're talking to them, when you're
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Speaker 1: experiencing them, and there's various different things that people like.
22:54
Speaker 1: She said that people other you by when you are
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Speaker 1: an autistic person. It's not just your physical dress or
23:01
Speaker 1: the things that you carry along with you.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: So in this article, by seeing in there's a young
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Speaker 1: black girl and her mom that they focus on. And
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Speaker 1: this girl, her name is Miko. She is five years old.
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Speaker 1: So this scene in an article says five year old
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Speaker 1: Miko's eyes light up with glee when she noticed something
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Speaker 1: familiar about her Barbie. The doll held a fidget spinner
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Speaker 1: and wore oversized headphones just like hers. The moment was
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Speaker 1: almost magical, said Miko's mother, Precious Heel, who's based in
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Speaker 1: Las Vegas.
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Speaker 2: Then they go in.
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Speaker 1: They go forward to say Miko, who is nonverbal, also
23:37
Speaker 1: uses an AAC device, which is the tablet device that
23:40
Speaker 1: the autism Barbie also comes with, which helps people who
23:43
Speaker 1: have speech or language problems communicate. Autism is such an
23:50
Speaker 1: invisible disability at times. And to see that it's being
23:53
Speaker 1: represented through Barbie. Everybody knows who Barbie is, it felt
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Speaker 1: really good. Hail says, it's Miko's mom. It's really important
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Speaker 1: to me that Miko walks through life having representation. It
24:02
Speaker 1: really matters to me that she is not alone.
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Speaker 2: So I mean, I.
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Speaker 1: Some outrage, y'all, is just why it's very selective, Like
24:18
Speaker 1: I don't understand the point in being upset about something
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Speaker 1: if there are other people who will likely agree that
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Speaker 1: this thing deserves to be in the world.
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Speaker 2: That is the whole. That's the through line of this
24:29
Speaker 2: whole episode with drewski skit.
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Speaker 1: Be mad all, y'all want to Let's not get away
24:35
Speaker 1: from the fact that everything that he called out in
24:37
Speaker 1: that skit, either we've actually seen it over the last
24:42
Speaker 1: couple of years and it's went viral. You've experienced yourself
24:45
Speaker 1: in church or you know, so blink if you know
24:48
Speaker 1: someone who knows someone okay, like church people themselves will
24:51
Speaker 1: tell you there are people in churches who are not
24:54
Speaker 1: good people. There are church experiences in church, you know,
24:57
Speaker 1: infrastructures that are set up that are not good things.
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Speaker 2: It is real.
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Speaker 1: The church is a physical place where you come to
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Speaker 1: get close to its spiritual being or beings, God, Jesus,
25:10
Speaker 1: that whole, you know, the Trinity, the God, God, the Father,
25:13
Speaker 1: the Son period. I might not have said that right,
25:17
Speaker 1: but I'm promise you I'll go to church, but we
25:20
Speaker 1: can't lean on that so much. Like I just wish
25:22
Speaker 1: people would stop leaning into like these And maybe this
25:25
Speaker 1: is me getting older. Oh my god, do I sound
25:27
Speaker 1: like an old person yapping because I wish people would
25:31
Speaker 1: stop leaning.
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Speaker 2: So much on other people's.
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Speaker 1: Experience or take on things or lack thereof, like with
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Speaker 1: the autism barbie, Like I didn't understand it, but the
25:43
Speaker 1: more I looked into it, I'm like, Oh, if there
25:45
Speaker 1: are people in the world that feel like this is
25:47
Speaker 1: helping me with anything, I'm happy for those people. Let
25:50
Speaker 1: them have the barbie, not the trendy or the now
25:55
Speaker 1: trending and viral discourse about why this autistic barbie is
25:58
Speaker 1: a slap in the face to autistic people in our
26:00
Speaker 1: There may be people who actually suffer with autism that
26:02
Speaker 1: feel that way. I'm not taking that away from them either,
26:06
Speaker 1: I am not. But what I'm saying is is that
26:11
Speaker 1: here we y'all just get along. Honestly, That's what I'm
26:14
Speaker 1: really saying. But I know y'all don't want to hear that.
26:15
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to hear that because that's not the thing
26:17
Speaker 1: that you want to talk about. But what I'm saying
26:20
Speaker 1: to each his own period. If you don't like Drew
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Speaker 1: ski skits and you don't think he's telling the truth
26:26
Speaker 1: about what happened in some of these churches, baby, I'm following.
26:29
Speaker 1: But when I saw y'all say I'm gonna following Drew
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Speaker 1: Ski because he's demonic because the man did a skit
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Speaker 1: about church that it was very funny, by the way,
26:35
Speaker 1: and entertaining, I'm like, okay, we need to take one
26:38
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five or more characters away from some
26:40
Speaker 1: of your people. It's Lorna Rose that this has been
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Speaker 1: another episode of the Latest with Lauraa Rosea, your daily
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Speaker 1: dig on all things pop culture, entertainment, news and all
26:49
Speaker 1: of the conversations that are shaking the room. I tell you, guys,
26:52
Speaker 1: every single episode, you could be anywhere with anybody discussing all.
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Speaker 2: Of the things, but you choose to be right here
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Speaker 2: with me, my low riding and know I appreciate you
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Speaker 2: for that.
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