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2025 Hopefuls · WRTR Real Talk Radio

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  Speaker 2: We ain't been here, but y'all have, and we're welcoming
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  Speaker 2: you to a new week and a new year here
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  Speaker 2: on WRTR Real Talk Radio.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely on this lyric.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go again another year, a new other year,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: What are we gonna do?
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  Speaker 1: Be successful and grown into the bank.
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  Speaker 3: I want to feel that way. I do. I do.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see.
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  Speaker 2: But outside of our usual format this week, we wanted
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  Speaker 2: to do our holiday special because, you know, in the
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  Speaker 2: midst of chaos and everything, the hustle and bustle of the.
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  Speaker 3: Holidays, things behind it, we didn't.
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  Speaker 2: Know holiday specials, so we kind of just wanted to
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  Speaker 2: step outside.
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  Speaker 3: Our normal format, just chat, just say hey, so have
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  Speaker 3: some fun. Yeah, yeah, of course. But first we'll start
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  Speaker 3: the show off.
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  Speaker 2: We will do a little structure, So we'll start off
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  Speaker 2: with when I grow Up, because I feel like this.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that.
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  Speaker 2: Segment pays homage to those in the black community that
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  Speaker 2: have done or are doing great things. So miss a Lyric,
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  Speaker 2: why don't you kick off twenty twenty five with this.
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  Speaker 1: Sure thing? Sure thing? All right? So for my when
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  Speaker 1: I grow up, I want to be like Terry Michelle Bradley.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know who that is, I will explain. She
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  Speaker 1: is a founder and creator of Brown Toy Box, which
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  Speaker 1: is a stem kit box created and cultured for black
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  Speaker 1: children to enjoy, learn and have fun. This was, let's
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  Speaker 1: see created and started off in twenty seventeen and now
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  Speaker 1: she is working with Fortune five hundred companies and campaigns
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  Speaker 1: designed to connect with the African American community. Her products
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  Speaker 1: are now on Amazon and in our favorite store, tar Ja.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, this Target is getting up there.
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  Speaker 2: They are really getting up there as far as like
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  Speaker 2: you know, their notoriety. I mean not that Target has
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  Speaker 2: ever been behind, but where Walmart has fallen off.
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  Speaker 3: Target has definitely taken a torture. Ran so got out.
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  Speaker 1: I love to see it. I want to read their
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  Speaker 1: mission statement really quick and off. Their mission statement is
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  Speaker 1: we aim to create innovative choice and entertainment that cultivate curiosity,
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  Speaker 1: spark joy, and celebrate culture. I love it, so do you?
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  Speaker 3: I all right?
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  Speaker 2: So when I grow up, I want to be like
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  Speaker 2: one of these three autistic black women in Atlanta. Aliyah
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  Speaker 2: Alicia Thompson and her twin sisters a Nija and Anaya
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  Speaker 2: Bird their barrier with their natural hair salon and beauty school.
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  Speaker 2: It's called Aliyah Beauty Bar, so specializing in locks and
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  Speaker 2: natural hair techniques. The salon also empowers individuals with autism
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  Speaker 2: by offering hairstyling training and five scholarships. So according to
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  Speaker 2: Black Enterprise, their success showcases the creativity and potential of
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  Speaker 2: the autism community, inspiring.
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  Speaker 3: Others to pursue their dreams.
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  Speaker 2: And this kind of hit home with me because I
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  Speaker 2: remember when, like one of my earliest childhood memory is
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  Speaker 2: being on a playground, right, I'm there at school and everything.
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  Speaker 2: This was like god to be like eat pre kindergarten.
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  Speaker 2: But I remembered when I went, I didn't look like
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  Speaker 2: any of or many of the other kids there. And
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  Speaker 2: the only other little black kid was you know, he
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  Speaker 2: had autism or actually I think he.
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  Speaker 3: Had down syndrome, but I remember him. His name is Cedric.
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  Speaker 3: And I remember all.
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  Speaker 2: The girls and all the guys and like nobody would
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  Speaker 2: play with him. But you know, I was just that person.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just like, well why not, you know, we're just
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  Speaker 2: playing and this that and the third and all the
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  Speaker 2: kids would run from and fatism and stuff, and I
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  Speaker 2: was just never that person. So I believe that a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people with autism, a lot of people with
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  Speaker 2: you know, other learning disabilities and complications and hurdles. They
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  Speaker 2: are often placed into this bucket of people that we've
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  Speaker 2: been being lesser than or inferior to us, or you
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  Speaker 2: know the rest of society. And it's just like, are
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  Speaker 2: are they really or are we just giving them that
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  Speaker 2: impression you know what I'm saying, or are we giving
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  Speaker 2: them that kind of label? So shout outs to them,
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  Speaker 2: showing people in the face of all other kinds of
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  Speaker 2: adversity that for our baces and no matter what they do,
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  Speaker 2: especially people, so up when we come back the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the show, We'll be right.
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  Speaker 4: Back, y'all.
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  Speaker 5: Remember when Kanye got up on stage and said Beyonce
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  Speaker 5: they had the greatest album and he couldn't quite figure
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  Speaker 5: out why Taylor Swift was getting an award. Well, I
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  Speaker 5: agree with that sentiment back then, but I agree with
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  Speaker 5: it more now than ever.
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  Speaker 4: And this is really no shade to Taylor.
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  Speaker 5: This is all a system that was created long before
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  Speaker 5: she ever got here. Now, I'm not a part of
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  Speaker 5: the Beehive. You won't see me posted anything else about Beyonce,
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  Speaker 5: But when I see something I feel like I have
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  Speaker 5: to say something, and in this moment, I can understand
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  Speaker 5: why Kanye got up on that stage that day. Yonce
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  Speaker 5: has won more Grammys than any other artist, but she's
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  Speaker 5: never one Album of the Year. She has the top
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  Speaker 5: selling country album right now, but the cmais wouldn't even
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  Speaker 5: give her a nomination. Beyonce is one of the greatest
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  Speaker 5: examples of a black person having to work ten times
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  Speaker 5: harder to get what a white person.
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  Speaker 4: Is just given for being white.
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  Speaker 5: If Taylor Swift were black, would she be as famous
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  Speaker 5: as she is?
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  Speaker 4: If Justin Bieber were black. Hell, if em and m
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  Speaker 4: were black.
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  Speaker 5: How much harder would these people have had to work
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  Speaker 5: if they were black to get the same accolades they
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  Speaker 5: are given because they're white.
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  Speaker 4: And this ain't nothing new, It's a constant thing.
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  Speaker 5: You have people like Chuck Berry and Little Richerd who
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  Speaker 5: are the creators of the rock and roll sound. But
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  Speaker 5: yet the king of rock and roll is a white
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  Speaker 5: man name Elvis Presley.
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  Speaker 4: What made him so great? Was he the greatest entertainer? No,
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  Speaker 4: he was white.
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  Speaker 5: When white people do things that black people innately do,
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  Speaker 5: it's considered great. For example, it's like when a white
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  Speaker 5: person can dance.
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  Speaker 4: People all up in arms.
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  Speaker 5: Oh my god, this white person can dance like a
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  Speaker 5: black person. Do you hear yourselves giving them credit for
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  Speaker 5: doing something that black kids everywhere can do. It's a
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  Speaker 5: black person out here that can outdance them all day.
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  Speaker 5: But because they can do a little bit of dancing,
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  Speaker 5: you must all get together and make them feel special.
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  Speaker 5: It's the same thing with Caitlyn Clark. She can shoot
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  Speaker 5: date threes, She's amazing. But there are black women who've
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  Speaker 5: been on the court forever doing the same thing innately.
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  Speaker 5: But guess what, they're black, so they're not going to
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  Speaker 5: get the same accolades and credit that a white woman
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  Speaker 5: would get. Who is just doing with black women have
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  Speaker 5: been doing. But when she said there's a white privilege
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  Speaker 5: to the game, there is. She is definitely benefiting from
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  Speaker 5: her whiteness because if she were black, you wouldn't care.
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  Speaker 5: When I see people trying to downplay who Beyonce is
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  Speaker 5: but trying to tell me how great Taylor Swift is,
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  Speaker 5: stop it. I have literally watched in the year of
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  Speaker 5: twenty twenty four two black women who are overachievers get
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  Speaker 5: pushed to the back of the line, all because they're
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  Speaker 5: black women.
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  Speaker 4: And that is Beyonce and Kamala Harris.
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  Speaker 5: Two women who have worked hard to get where they are,
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  Speaker 5: and for people who do not look like.
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  Speaker 4: Us to try to tell us.
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  Speaker 5: That somebody who is mediocre at best is better than them.
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  Speaker 1: It's real job.
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  Speaker 4: I U rgr Real talk Radio.
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  Speaker 3: We keep it real. This lyric that Holliday, Happy Holidays
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  Speaker 3: to you too. I said, how were they? Was that bad?
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  Speaker 1: How they was quiet? I'm getting over cold, so I've
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  Speaker 1: been down since New Year's Eve, But today I feel
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  Speaker 1: much better because I loaded myself up with medicine and
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  Speaker 1: they breub it all sorts of vitamins and stuff. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm feeling much better today.
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  Speaker 3: And you got the Johnny jobs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, unfortunately. And it's so weird because I really haven't
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  Speaker 1: caught like a real bad, bad cold since COVID.
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  Speaker 3: Actually right, and you know what's back? Yeah it is,
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  Speaker 3: it is. And with twenty twenty five here you got
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  Speaker 3: like I guess.
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  Speaker 2: The the magas and just people in general.
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  Speaker 3: They feel very empowered.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know why, because if COVID taught us nothing,
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  Speaker 2: it's to cover your mouth, use.
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  Speaker 3: Me in sanitize.
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  Speaker 2: I have seen so many people open mouthedly cough.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and just either their hands or just any of that.
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  Speaker 3: It's been just oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: And okay, So for those of y'all that know me
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  Speaker 2: on a personal level, my mother over the holidays, she
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  Speaker 2: suffered her third heart attack.
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  Speaker 3: It was tough. It was actually during her heart appointment.
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  Speaker 3: So she goes to the doctor.
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  Speaker 2: She goes to the cardiologist to find out like where
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  Speaker 2: the blockage was because she was having problems of breathing.
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  Speaker 2: I had visited her and I made you know, I
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  Speaker 2: told her, I said appointment now, So she made themppointment.
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  Speaker 2: She went to the doctor and while she was there
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  Speaker 2: she had the heart attack. So I guess, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if we're looking at balance, if it were going, if
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  Speaker 2: it was going to happen, I would have much rather
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  Speaker 2: it been there than anywhere else, right, So but I
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  Speaker 2: said that to say that when I was at the
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  Speaker 2: hospital visiting her, I saw so much just people. Just
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  Speaker 2: there's hand sanitizer boosts right there, and people will cough
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  Speaker 2: into their hands and then touch surfaces.
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  Speaker 3: Sure will. Oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: But the highlight of my twenty twenty four holiday, what's
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  Speaker 2: seeing you and ticket man again?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we don't.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't get to see For those of y'all
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  Speaker 2: that don't know, we don't get to see one another
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  Speaker 2: as often as we did before, like when we were
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  Speaker 2: going to a studio every week and seeing one another.
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  Speaker 3: Like now everything is over.
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  Speaker 2: Zoom, and although we talk, there's still like you're still
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  Speaker 2: not really in one another's lives.
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  Speaker 3: I'm still in Baltimore, y'all are still in DC.
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  Speaker 2: Like you know, even though we're neck connect like we
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  Speaker 2: keep one another involved, but we're not really involved.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. Everything yeah, after the fact.
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  Speaker 1: But there's nothing like being in person and seeing somebody
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  Speaker 1: in person and feeling your energy in person.
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  Speaker 3: It's just felt like we were connected. We were connected.
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  Speaker 1: Of course.
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  Speaker 3: It did.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta do that more often.
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  Speaker 3: We do. But you know what I did notice here's
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  Speaker 3: the part that annoyed me. So did you notice when
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  Speaker 3: you me and uh taking man, we're talking a lady
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  Speaker 3: that was sitting next to you.
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  Speaker 2: So we're sitting at a bar, I'm in the middle,
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  Speaker 2: Tony's on one side, Lyrics on the other. So of course,
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  Speaker 2: ever you know, take a man and facing me on
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  Speaker 2: one Eric's facing men you like, we're all kind of
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  Speaker 2: in our circle. So as you're talking and telling me
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  Speaker 2: about whatever situation.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I think we were reminiscent about old time, but we
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  Speaker 2: were talking about niggas anyways. The what irritates me even
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  Speaker 2: more is when people will hear your conversation ear hustling
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  Speaker 2: and then kind of involve themselves in it.
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  Speaker 3: Did you notice that from the lady I did, Like
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  Speaker 3: every time that.
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  Speaker 2: I would say something or I was, you know, talking
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  Speaker 2: about whatever situation I was dealing with at the time,
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  Speaker 2: Like she's sitting there rubbing and rolling her neck and
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  Speaker 2: you know, like bobbing back.
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  Speaker 3: And forth and doing the little gestures with.
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  Speaker 2: Their hands where to clap small this, like why do
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  Speaker 2: y'all have to trade women?
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  Speaker 3: Why do y'all do that? When you see gay men
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  Speaker 3: like I get it.
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  Speaker 2: Solidarity, yeah us. You know you're not here to kill
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  Speaker 2: us like the rest of America. And that's great. I
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  Speaker 2: love it, But by every time I gay person is
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  Speaker 2: openly gay around you, or at least comfortable around you,
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  Speaker 2: to like, why do y'all have to what's with the animation?
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  Speaker 3: What is that?
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  Speaker 2: I know you don't do it, Larry, but I don't
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  Speaker 2: understand that. And then to interject herself into the conversation.
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  Speaker 2: It just made it uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, I understand That's why I ignore people I'm used to.
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  Speaker 1: It seems like every time I go out, and it's
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  Speaker 1: with certain people, Like have you noticed when we go
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  Speaker 1: out the craziest things always happen?
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  Speaker 3: What is that?
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's because of our energy. People are attracted to
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  Speaker 1: our to our light, to our energy, and so random
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  Speaker 1: people be doing the most randommest things every time we
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  Speaker 1: go out. It don't matter what time of the day
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  Speaker 1: it is, It don't matter what the events about, It
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  Speaker 1: does not matter. Just people just be doing random stuff
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  Speaker 1: like they want to be seen. So I just to
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  Speaker 1: ignore people, to be honest with you, because if I
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  Speaker 1: sat there and went back and forth with every freaking
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  Speaker 1: person that did that, I would lose my ship.
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  Speaker 2: But you know what, that is a testament of my
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  Speaker 2: growth because had this been ten years ago and that
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  Speaker 2: had happened, how much differently would I've responded?
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  Speaker 3: Because you notice this time I said I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Grow yeah, And and you said something, but you said
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  Speaker 1: it in like a playful, like respectful manner. You know, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: they don't know that we know that you're being nosy,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, you need to lack a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: So, but it was just weird because her nigga was
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  Speaker 2: like really uncomfortable, Like you could tell that he was
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  Speaker 2: uncomfortable with the conversation because I was talking about a dude.
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  Speaker 3: So if you like, you've now not only yourself, you've
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  Speaker 3: invited yourself into my conversation. You shouldn't even be there.
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  Speaker 3: But then you brought a plus one, like, girl, what
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  Speaker 3: what are you doing? What?
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  Speaker 1: It was more ambarrassed that she was all involved in
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  Speaker 1: our conversation and not what they had going on because
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  Speaker 1: you out on a date or or maybe that was
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  Speaker 1: your husband, I don't know, because I wasn't involved in
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  Speaker 1: your business. You out with a whole person. Instead of
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  Speaker 1: paying attention to what they got going on and interacting
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  Speaker 1: with them, you worried about what we got going on.
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  Speaker 2: So it really was all right. So let's see, let's
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  Speaker 2: look at some of these questions.
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  Speaker 3: So how have your views changed about the world?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so we've been doing this podcast twelve years? Mm hmm,
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  Speaker 2: I'm about to go into our thirteenth year. How well
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  Speaker 2: I am I think you've been what?
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 6: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: What's about it? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Just about Yeah, how have your views about the world
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  Speaker 2: changed since we started doing the show?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think it's fifty to fifty? Honestly?
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  Speaker 3: Why?
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  Speaker 1: First? Politics? The government going government, Like there's there's gonna
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  Speaker 1: always be something that I'm just satisfied with. So and
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  Speaker 1: that's on both sides. I just wish that people weren't
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  Speaker 1: so evil to each other, you know, because now I'm
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  Speaker 1: starting to see all these mass killings and stuff like this,
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  Speaker 1: And like, my whole thing is, if you're that unhappy
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  Speaker 1: with yourself, work on you or take your own self up.
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  Speaker 1: Why you gotta go out just like what happened on
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  Speaker 1: New Year's Eve and New Orleans. Why you gotta go
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  Speaker 1: out and drive through crowds of people like they just
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  Speaker 1: trying to live. They not like hurting anybody, They trying
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  Speaker 1: to party their way into the New year. Why you
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  Speaker 1: got to go out and drive through people and kill
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  Speaker 1: them for what? For what reason? Because you're unhappy, because
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  Speaker 1: you're miserable with life, or because you've got something going
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  Speaker 1: on mentally, or you haven't dealt with whatever trauma that
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  Speaker 1: you have in your life, Like, why you gotta do
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  Speaker 1: all of that? I just I'm sick of that. Type
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. I'm sick of people who are miserable with
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  Speaker 1: life or going through stuff, walking walking into school, shooting
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  Speaker 1: innocent people, killing children, killing teachers. I'm sick of that
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  Speaker 1: type of shit, PRU. And it seems to me like
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  Speaker 1: it's getting worse.
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  Speaker 3: It is, It certainly is.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know. I just wish that people would
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: like really take their mental health seriously. That's what's really
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: been on my mind these past couple of years. The
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: lack of seriousness that people have for their own mental health.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Why people won't go get therapy, and why is this
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: such like a taboo thing.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: To do.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: To work on your trauma so you're not out here
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: like crashing out and ruining other people's lives, Like.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: For a lot of think for the people they you know,
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, go ahead, finish, I'm done. I'm just thinking,
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: like for a lot of people, when you talk about
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: the stigma of health and mental health rather you know,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: first thing, I mean, it's like alcoholism. The first thing
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: is admitting that you have a problem, and that is
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: where the buck stops for a lot of people, because
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: none of us want to admit.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: That we don't know everything.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Like you look at the political landscape and just the
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: world in general. Hell, you can look at traffic and
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: see that. Like, for example, I posted this video on
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: TikTok the other day after being behind somebody. I'm going
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: sixty miles per hour, they're going fifty five.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: They're in front of me. Two lane highway.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: I had somebody to the left of me, So as
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: soon as that person on the left of me sped
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: up enough for me to be able to switch lanes,
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: I did so to maneuver around the person that was,
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: you know, in front of me, because I'm clearly going faster.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: So this person sees me trying to go ahead of
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: them and then speeds up after the fact.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: So that let me know then that the issue isn't that.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: It's like people have.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: This fear of being lesser than someone else or feeling
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: lesser than someone else.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: Now, me going around you got nothing to do with you.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: But because you didn't want me to get in front
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: of you for whatever reason, we're not even going to
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: the same place right for whatever reason, you just felt
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: the need to get in front for what. And a
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: lot of people have these kinds of views and they
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: take them and it creates or that doesn't create, but
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: it's a result of this kind of just weird stigma
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: around getting mental health therapy.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Around just moving different. I don't know.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: In the past twelve years of doing this podcast, I've
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: seen so many things. But I started just to have
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: a just a chat session with my friends.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Every week. We go down, like that's our drinks and
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: you know, key key time. And that's how it started.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: And then you know, it became a little bit more popular,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: and some of the things that we would say, we
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: would you know, make jokes or you know, dark humor
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: and things of that nature. And as I got older,
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: as the podcast got older, as it evolved more is
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: the more people that were around it, I started finding
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: myself in different circles of people, you know, and it
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: would just be all kinds of walks of life. Because
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: I started off from ground level, just working on the podcast,
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: trying to get a name, you know, just trying to
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: make an income. Honestly, I wasn't trying to We're not trying.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: To be famous. We just want, you know, something cool
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: to do with friends. YadA, YadA, YadA. That's how it started.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Right then we went on further and found ourselves in
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: bigger rooms, I was invited to Congressional Caucus and like
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: just different things that we've done.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: But then I.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Noticed the impact that we were making, like with independent
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: artists and stuff, we were able to do that. Now
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: it serves more so informational. A lot of the people
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: that listen now are listeners there have been listeners for
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: a very long time, so they come to us to
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: kind of kind of get the balance out of everything
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: that like it's this big headline, ooh, what's this about?
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: And like, I think one of the things that's appreciated
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: about us is the fact that now we dissected a
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: little bit more than we did maybe twelve years ago. Yeah,
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: we look at it from more of a mature lens,
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: and you know, just seeing things like, oh we miss
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: it's trial and error.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: I got into that whole.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Thing with the eat and the dogs and the cats
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: and the memes and the fun because it was so
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: hilarious and ridiculous.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: But to me now flashed forward, it's.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: January fourth at our time, recording January fourth, twenty twenty five,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: and to now see that those kinds of things, because
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: we made those tropes so popular, the the other side
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: went and took that and turned it around into like
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: and made people think that people were actually doing this,
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: and it influenced votes, like you had people you had
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: figureheads like Roseanne for and you know, like, ain't no
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: figure heads for us, Let's be real, But I'm talking
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: about like figureheads for the other side saying things like yeah,
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: they're eating dogs, they're vampires, this, that and.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: The third and telling people and people believed it. So
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: I guess in the past twelve years, I've.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Learned to be a little bit more tempered with the
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: content and the things that we say and the information
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: that we put out to you know, just kind of
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: you know, we ain't got to be expert. Shit, ain't
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: nobody trying to be no expert. But we can have
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: an opinion. We can say what it is that we
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: want to say that. You know, we're not dangering people.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: We're just dissecting the information as we see in our
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: own lands.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so what do you think this year has taught you?
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry last year, Let's see what did I write?
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Because I wrote, like a whole spill on my Facebook,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: very serious Facebook.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: You spoke on Facebook.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: This is ethic, But I told you I think I'm
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: shadow band on Facebook because nobody, like nobody liked it
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: or anything. So I don't think anybody even seen it. Wow.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: We Well, you know, I've kicked the metal platform altogether.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: So Instagram, Facebook for those of y'all to follow.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: Threads, I'm not doing it anymore. Uh.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: You know it came out that Zuckerbird gave a million
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: and something dollars to Donald Trump in pursuit of this presidency.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: So as a content creator, yeah, it was a great check. Yeah,
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: it got me a lot of outreach and a lot
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: of y'all know me through Facebook. But to consistently get
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: on this podcast and talk about how much damage these
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: kinds of things do to me, and then to turn
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: around and put my energy into promoting a platform to
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: the turnaround and try to shoot me in my back like, no,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not doing it anymore. It's morally like
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: I can't. I can't do that and say you know
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: that I stand with us, like those things are not
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: conducive for me. So I'm sorry, But go ahead, what's
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: your post?
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: Say what? Twenty fourth? Twenty fourth?
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: I said twenty twenty three was the year of sacrifice?
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Said twenty twenty three, oh thirty.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Three was the year of sacrifice. Twenty twenty four was
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: the year of truth. I said that even before the
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Kat Williams thing came out.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: So it's another one coming out.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I heard, I heard, and he dealt and he
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: and he drops more names and I'm like, oh my gosh,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: what what in the world. But twenty twenty four really
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: was the year of truth, like not even more so
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: in the media, like in personal life and being true
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: to yourself and your intentions and your goals. That's what
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: it was for me. Twenty twenty four for me was
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: being true to myself as far as not limiting myself
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: and what I can do and really stepping out on
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: faith and starting back school.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: I didn't know modulations. Again.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: I was like really in my own way and thinking like,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: oh it's too late, Oh I can't do it, just
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: feeling I had a different ranges of emotions. And then
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: I just decided, you know what, my kid went through
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: a whole four year experience. He's about to graduate, Like
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: if he can do it, I can do it. Like
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: it's not too late, you know. And I was super
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: hard on myself. But if I failed this, that and
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: the third I'm not gonna do well. I'm not a
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: good tester, this, that, and the third. Like I just
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: I had a lot of things going on, but I
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: bit the bullet bullet and said, you know what, I'm
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: gonna do it. I'm gonna do this not for anybody else,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do this for me, and I'm gonna put
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: my best foot forward and just try and that's gonna
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: have to be good enough. Whatever I put my mind to,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: just do it. So I made the decision twenty twenty
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: four to start back school in September. Fast forward to now,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: I am doing extremely well. I am holding my four
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: point oh gpay work and work well. That just goes
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: to show like if you step out on faith and
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: you stay true to yourself and you really like do
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: what you want to do as far as your goals
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: and just hang on to it and just try your best,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: you literally can do anything that you put your mind to.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: And so that was one of the things that I've
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: learned in twenty twenty four is to trust myself, trust
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: my instinct, trust my gut, and just go with it.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: And so I did, and this is what I got
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: for doing so so hopefully that continues and I graduate
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: in October of this year with a four point zero
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: because that is my goal.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: Work work. I'm so proud of you for doing that.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: Like that. That takes a lot, because it's.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Something that I tease and it's something that you know,
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I want to say this on air,
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: but it's something Okay, fine, It's something that I've toyed
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: with the idea of doing myself. You know, I really
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: want to tap into some of my innate talents.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: Like I can do the entertainment landscape.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: I can do everything logistics wise, drive, pack, ship, all
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: of that. But I also like there's more, there's more
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: layers to me that make me me that I've used
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: as a part of my personality but have never really
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: pursued as a career. So maybe I'm I'm open to
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: the idea, at least in my own little mind, you know,
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: repairing itself and picking up the pieces.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: I think you should go for it.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: Maybe again, we'll see, we will see.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: I mean, even if it's not on on campus, experience
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: online is just as good. And that's another thing people
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: are like online that ain't shit that and the third
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: it's not really a real experience.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: Yes, it is your whole lives. Whole lives during COVID
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: was online. Don't tell me that.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: Live became online because online was the only way to
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: get shipped done. You nat to give me that argument.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: And let me tell you, the work is the same.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: You have to work. You still have assignments that you
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: have to turn in, you still have papers that you
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: have to write. It is no difference. The only thing
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: is that you're sitting in your house wearing your pajamas
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: or whatever you got going on. But you still have
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: to do the same amount of work. So I dis
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: missed that. Of course, try to be like, try to
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: lowball my situation. I'm like, please, I am working hard
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: as ship for this, okay. And so I say to
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: anybody who wants to go to school, I'm go online.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: You could make your own schedule fit that in to
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: however your life is set up, and get it done. Honestly,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: I go for it. You know, I'm supportive of you.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: Absolutely. For me.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Twenty twenty four, I'm not sure what year you said.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Did you say twenty twenty four was the year of true?
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because it was definitely that for me. I might
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: echo that again.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Lots of people really showed they ass in twenty twenty four.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Like I didn't think that there could be coons like
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Byron Daniels, you know what I'm saying, Like, I didn't
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: think that there could be people like that in popular
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: you know, like in this culture right now. And I
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: guess I knew that they would. They were, but just
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: maybe not on you know, epic landscape, like like a
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: figurehead for some people.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: I don't know, and that may have been my naivety
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: or whatever, but I will say that for.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: The ripple effect of seeing that on such a big platform,
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: the ripple of that kind of mentality play out in
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: smaller situations around me, that has been really the mind
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: fucked for me, just seeing different people that maybe I
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: once admired, maybe that I've even helped along the way,
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: just take some of the stances that they've taken, be
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: it women against women, be it against gays, be it
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: against like whatever opposing thing that they're doing. It's been
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: eye opening because not approving of something it is, you know,
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: and I'm talking about like sexuality at this point, I'm
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: talking about women leading, I'm talking about abortion, I'm talking
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: about all these core principles that everybody says that influenced
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: how they feel about the political landscape right now, all
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: of those forces at once, to see them, to see
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: that people feel so strongly about them that they will
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: then bypass that humanity aspect of it in order to
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: push these kinds of ideals forward.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: That's the part that's disconnected me so much.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: And I think you know me, like a lot of
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: Americans have been traumatized by the whole COVID pandemic thing.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: It's made us a lot more hypersensitive. It's made my
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: germophobia ten times worse.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: Mm hm.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: It's already hard for people, you know, anxiety depression, it's
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: it's already hard for people like me to go outside.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: But when we do go outside, we've always felt like
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: this sense of safety with those around us, or at
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: least the community that knows us. Like you might not
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: invite a whole bunch of gaze over to your house,
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: but you recognize me is, oh, the cool gay guy
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: that don't bother nobody in the neighborhood. And I've always
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: been that, And I've always kind of stuck to the
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: same places, the same areas and stuff because of those
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: you know, kind of safety protocols and you know those things.
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: Seeing things play out the way.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: That they have has made those safe, those places seem
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: and those spaces seem less safe. To me, I don't
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: I don't feel great about going outside.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: I have to think twice about leaving just after dark.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: I was laughing with you know someone the other day
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: about going outside after dark. I was like, I feel
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: like I need to be inside the house before the
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: street lights come on.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: And I really do.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: And with daylight savings, of course that happens, it's goddamn noon.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: But it does feel it feels weird. It feels weird
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: just being out now. And four has been the year
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: of truth.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: I've seen a lot of these people show me who
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: they really are through their action, and so many of
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: so many people have disappointed me in so many different ways.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: I haven't unpacked the layers yet of how that's betrayed
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: me and what it's caused inside of me. That doesn't
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: make me want to go out. I'm sorry that makes
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: me not want to go out.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Rather yeah, but to me, you have to look at
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: it like a blessing. And twenty twenty five, I put
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: on my post twenty twenty five will be the year
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: of blessings. I know it will be in my life.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: And I'm not going to tell our listeners what's going on,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: but you know, like what is about to happen in
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: my life? But it really is. And twenty twenty four
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: being the Year of truth, everybody unfortunately had to realize,
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: you know, who people really are in their life, what
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: their views were morally in all of that, And that
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: in itself is a blessing to me because I don't
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: want you to be a friend who doesn't value my rights.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: I want you to be an associate of some that
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: has their views, but somebody that I don't have to
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: call a friend, you know what I'm saying. It brought
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: all of that out, like you at least know who's
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: who in your life, so now you can do your
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: spring cleaning and get rid of people who have really
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: no place in your life because they don't even have
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: they don't even have the love in their heart to
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: even recognize that you should have certain rights as a
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: human being. So I'm glad that people came out and
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: was like, oh, this is my view, I'm standing on it,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: and I don't think that women should have the right
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: to their bodies and this that and the third, I'm
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: so glad that people got to speak out and show
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: who they really are, because one thing about it is
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: what I've been seeing in media. People are already regriting it,
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: already voted for Trump, are already why Grandma, you can't
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: even need Grandma's house anymore because you voted for Trump, Holly.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: No Christmas muffins for you, bitch.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: Nothing nothing, So many videos and tiktoks of people crying
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: and stuff. I'm so upset by grandmother. She doesn't want
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: me to come over. I haven't seen so many people
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: who are so ill informed about the political race that
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: they didn't know what tariffs were. They're losing your job,
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: You're dumb. The knowledge was there for free truth. You
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: can have the truth on a platter. All you have
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: to do is research it for yourself phone and listen
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: to whatever Trump's building out to his health and use
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: that as a premise to what you wanted to vote for. Well,
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: guess what it comes back to bite you in the ass,
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: and guess.
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: What really does.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: He's going to find you no damn job, because guess
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: what the benefits that you get when you lose your job.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: He's trying to get rid of those.
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: Two Yeah, lit research.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: Even before, even before twenty twenty four, you had it
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: in your hand, like, okay, none of us even leaves
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: the room without our phone or without feeling like we're
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: attached to our phone. That device in and of itself
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: has access to a web browser.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: That web browser.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: On everybody's phone, whether you got Chrome or not, goes
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: to Google dot com. Absolutely, we have so many we
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: have AI now you can ask it questions. There's literally
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: no reason why anybody at this point should be ill informed.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: And if they are ill informed, well, like, part of
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: adulting is not just listening and running with things. Some
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: of it is interpreting what that means to you. Everything
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: cannot be force fed to you through Twitter and truth
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: social like. You have to do some outside thinking, some
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: outside research. That's part of what makes adulting adulting. Oh
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: and you've had access to it the entire time. It's
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: been right there in your hands. And so many of
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: you use your time online to be so horrible people,
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: such horrible people.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: That that's what makes it so delicious to me.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you use your time to do that instead
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: of looking ship up.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: That's all. And those of you who chose you're gonna
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: see your eyes will be opened, and maybe next time,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: the next election, you'll choose more wisely and really think
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: about other people other than what you want to go through.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: That's that's trending because a lot of people voted for
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: him because it was trending too. They want to control,
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: They trolled their they used their vote patrol, and that
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: that's just ridiculous. The lack of maturity and understanding is baffling.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: But it's also not surprising either, because it seems to
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: me that people are getting stupider and stupider by the year.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: For us recording on a different schedule, it's got my
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: whole schedule thrown off. So I just jumped out of
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: the shower to get on here, and my legs asked you,
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: so I gotta put on some lotion, be right.
• 44:00
  Speaker 6: Yes, there's been discussion about how the conservative shift in
• 44:04
  Speaker 6: politics is being reflected in social media's algorithms, and I
• 44:09
  Speaker 6: have to believe that that is why my for.
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: You page is so rancid right now.
• 44:13
  Speaker 6: Rancid in the sense that even some of the creators
• 44:16
  Speaker 6: whose perspectives that I generally respect are coming off very
• 44:21
  Speaker 6: I'm trying to find a nice word.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: Conservatives.
• 44:25
  Speaker 6: The policing of immodest women is an example of this.
• 44:29
  Speaker 6: You think booty chicks are inappropriate for homecoming, Fine, I
• 44:33
  Speaker 6: personally don't care. Poster girl dresses are workerware, so they
• 44:37
  Speaker 6: are impractical for the daytime, and many young women do
• 44:40
  Speaker 6: take cues from sex workers without understanding what comes with
• 44:43
  Speaker 6: that lifestyle. Fine, I agree, But why are we y'
• 44:46
  Speaker 6: all throwing around terms like hypersexual something that is a
• 44:50
  Speaker 6: medical condition that y'all are diagnosing people with based on clothing.
• 44:54
  Speaker 6: How did y'all go full red Peel by saying that
• 44:57
  Speaker 6: these women should not be surprised if they're harassed or
• 45:00
  Speaker 6: assaulted in this attire. Meanwhile, there is no actual correlation
• 45:04
  Speaker 6: between sexual violence and clothing. Men have just programmed y'all
• 45:07
  Speaker 6: to believe that so that you brain women for their behavior.
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: Death feminism one on.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: One, I thought we all got that.
• 45:13
  Speaker 6: Why are people spreading myths about HIV and a's like
• 45:16
  Speaker 6: it's the fucking eighties? Ronald Reagan asked motherfucker's talking about
• 45:20
  Speaker 6: they shouldn't be allowed in tattoo shops and that prep
• 45:23
  Speaker 6: commercials are bad because they encourage people to.
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: Sleep with infected people.
• 45:28
  Speaker 6: Somebody actually said that, why is it cool to now
• 45:31
  Speaker 6: openly mock disabled people under the guise of faux adoration.
• 45:35
  Speaker 6: I love Shanan Bria the way that y'all are demonizing
• 45:39
  Speaker 6: radicals to cape for politicians before election day. Ill mocking
• 45:43
  Speaker 6: genocide victims and posting the number to ICE as a
• 45:46
  Speaker 6: joke in response to Kamala losing. Ill using identity politics
• 45:50
  Speaker 6: as a pejorative when you don't even know where that
• 45:52
  Speaker 6: term originated from. Similar to how conservatives do woke ill
• 45:57
  Speaker 6: implying that.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: Trans women are not allowed.
• 45:58
  Speaker 6: To be upset at being miss gendered if they don't
• 46:01
  Speaker 6: look feminine enough. Ill repackaging gender roles and sprinkling on spirituality,
• 46:06
  Speaker 6: talking about dark, divine feminine energy. Ill ill im and
• 46:11
  Speaker 6: now this just then, y'all are about to pretend not
• 46:13
  Speaker 6: to understand why a woman is saying not only that
• 46:16
  Speaker 6: she likes to be thin, which is her right, but
• 46:18
  Speaker 6: that sometimes it's all she thinks about to her comment
• 46:21
  Speaker 6: section that's full of the most scary comments about women
• 46:24
  Speaker 6: in their pursuit of fitness. Now we're about to pretend
• 46:26
  Speaker 6: like we don't see why that's a fucking problem. I
• 46:28
  Speaker 6: can't stand y'all.
• 46:29
  Speaker 7: So if I'm understanding the tech broke position correctly, is this,
• 46:33
  Speaker 7: we can't hire Americans because they're not educated enough. Americans
• 46:37
  Speaker 7: are like educate me, they like f off.
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: Think about it.
• 46:41
  Speaker 7: One of the most booming industries in this country right
• 46:44
  Speaker 7: now is tech, and these folks believe that Americans are
• 46:47
  Speaker 7: not qualified or not educated, not motivated enough, and then
• 46:51
  Speaker 7: got to be able to hire people that need H
• 46:53
  Speaker 7: one B one visus that don't have American citizenship in.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: Order to hold down these American jobs.
• 46:58
  Speaker 7: This whole time there was Chess saying, hey, put me
• 47:01
  Speaker 7: in office, put the person an allied with an office,
• 47:04
  Speaker 7: because they gonna ensure that American jobs.
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: Are for American people. But Americans are not educated enough
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: for them tech jobs. I guess you feel me.
• 47:13
  Speaker 7: Hey, they're gonna do mass deportation except for people they
• 47:16
  Speaker 7: got an H one people and visa.
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: You good?
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: Oh alrighty bitch, as we back my legs nice and
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: glazed and look, how do you feel moving forward into
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five with what you know today? That's lyrics
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: like what are your what are your fears? What are
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: your expectations? Maybe got a conspiracy theory you gotta want
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: to get off your chest, like what's what are your
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: feelings about it?
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: Personally?
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: Personally, I'm just taking it by the day. I suffer
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: from anxiety, PTSD and all of that good stuff, and
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: I'm working on that. This year. I'm not going to well,
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna try not to think the worst. I'm just
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: going from now on see how things play out, and
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: that's how I'm That's how I'm going for as far
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: as twenty twenty five. I'm gonna see how things play out.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: If somebody does something that's upsetting, I'll deal with it accordingly.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna waste too much time on people who
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: don't make time for me. I'm just gonna be looking
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: at this year in a totally different perspective than I
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: did previous years, and just I'm just gonna see. I'm
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: just gonna see what happens and deal with everything accordingly
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: to how I see fit. If you happen to be
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: catch me on a fuck around and find out type
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: of mood, then that's the type of mood you're gonna
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: get if you find me in a Oh, I'm trying
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: to work better on me and I'm not gonna cush
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: your glass out. But I'm gonna talk to you and
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: let you know I ain't like what you did. Then
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: that's what you're gonna get. I mean, I'm just gonna
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: take it day by day.
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: I think that's been my vibe lately, just and not
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: rip your head off. But I don't know you want
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: to know?
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: Why is because now the older I get, the more
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: I've realized that peace of mind is everything.
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: It is, Oh my god, it's so simple, Like, but
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: put a price tag on it.
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: You can't because it takes you a minute to get there.
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: M hm.
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: And like certain factors have to be I don't know.
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: And maybe that just comes with They say it comes
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: with age. So I guess we are experiencing that.
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: Let this be our documentation.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: Ye baby, you can be dismissed blocks like, and I won't.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: I act like you've never existed in life. That's how
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: I'm carrying stuff from that on. I like, I never
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: met you, you never were involved with me, Like my
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: cutoff game is about to be so and so crazy, respectfully,
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: But That's how I'm carrying stot from that one, because
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: like you want to disturb me, you can get the
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: fuck out of here. And I'm going to be in
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: my little my safe space for myself. Then I created
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: for my space for myself. And that's another thing too.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: You have to learn how to create a safe space
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: for yourself and not look for other people to do
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: that for you. You have to be so well in tuned
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: with what you want and know what you value and
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: create a safe space for yourself and learn boundaries. Learn
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: that word no. Stop letting people take advantage of you,
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: take your kindness for weakness. Start going respectfully or disspectfully
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: if that's the mood you're in that day.
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: I know that's right.
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: I feel like doing a praise dance and a Tyler perrywig.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: Listen.
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah I don't, but I definitely oh much.
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: Okay, So I'm a lot less structured or a lot
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: less together. Find you with you because see anxiety, she's
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: like running crazy in my head right now, she's running,
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: she's bumping all in the shit, knocks it over, and
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: it's so many different scenarios that are playing in my mind.
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: So for example, again this is January fourth in my mind,
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: like it's gonna be some clause with him. I don't know,
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: it's just something about him being a convicted felon and
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: them amplifying that it can't just be in my mind
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: right now, it can't just be Hm, he's a convicted
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: felon and he's gonna lead our country, and we just
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: wanted you to know that it.
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: Can't be just that. It's got to be something that
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: they're waiting for. The Yeah, like you right.
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: There about to be sworn and they're sworn in.
• 52:03
  Speaker 8: And they're like, so hey, girl, according to these papers,
• 52:08
  Speaker 8: you can't be the president if you are feling like
• 52:12
  Speaker 8: that kind of shit is playing into my head and
• 52:14
  Speaker 8: then everybody goes out and breaks out into a musical.
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: Anyways, that's my ideal mind.
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: That is a perfect scenario, mm hmm, moving into twenty
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: twenty five knowing what I know at this point. Without that,
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: it gives me optimistic fear, and I don't know if
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: those things can live in the same I know that
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: they can, but I haven't figured out how to navigate
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: through that yet. So while I want to maybe go
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: out more and engage with people that I want, you know,
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: well not anybody that I've cut off, but while I
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: want to get out and maybe start from ground, I
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: you know, actually being in Baltimore, like it's different when
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: you move to a different city that is, you know,
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: outside of.
• 53:07
  Speaker 3: Your normal social circle. Yeah, it's about learning new people.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: I think that I have a couple of people that
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: I want to hang out with, but then that also
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: comes with what are these people's intentions?
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: You know, it's just a.
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: Different shit that you got to worry about. But like
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: I said, the optimism part is.
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: I guess just.
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: How I want my ideal to play out in my
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: mind as far as like you know, having spaces and
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: you know, being in rooms to get things done and
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: grow more.
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: Like those things are in my mind.
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: But it's just again having to get there, having to
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: rebuild because I've cut a lot of people out since
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: this whole bullshit, Like, no, there's too many people have
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: deemed themselves unsafe to be in my space.
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: I can't do it anymore.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: And that's perfectly fine.
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: It is I and I'm working it. It sucks.
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: It sucks to not really have a whole lot of
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: shit to do, but the things that I'm doing, I'm
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: doing actively and again working on myself. That was twenty
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: twenty four, rebuilding me, twenty twenty five for me is
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: going to be putting that kind of repaired side of
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: me back out.
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: Mhmm, thanks Jo so.
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: M that felt relieving, Yeah, a little bit.
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: Anyways, let's see what have we got next. What do
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: you say it was your favorite moment of twenty twenty four?
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: Mm hmmm mm hmm. It could be the podcast or other.
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: Actually just do one. Let's do one for the podcast
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: and then one for you know, just in general.
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, I want to do the podcast first, or you
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: want to do or actually you want me to go
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: for her?
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: Yes, all right, some time to think.
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: All right, hmmm for me, The funniest moment of twenty
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: twenty four on the podcast, I would say, was you
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: cussing out that girl to put that tattoo on her face?
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: That ship was funny. Do you even remember that? I
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: don't I don't want it Krashan?
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, that was funny.
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: If y'all didn't know, go back to listen to that.
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: So that shit was funny.
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: But now four, I would say, just as an overall,
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: at least in the news and stuff, I know it
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: is problematic, but they're eating the dog shit. That was
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: funny because it just came out of left field and
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: it was so disrespectful. And egregiously like incorrect that I
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: thought that we all knew that, Like I thought that
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: that was so confirming. I was like, Okay, so now
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: everybody's gonna see that this person is an idiot. That's
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: that's that's not what really happened, y'all. Y'all were completely fooled.
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: But for me, that was just epic that there was
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: nothing fun than that moment because I just remember erupting
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: in the laughter because I thought, how ridiculous, how dare you?
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: And thank god he said something so goddamn dumb. I
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: thought all of these things at once, and it was
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: just this moment of joy that came out, like I
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: felt like, wow, you know, everybody's gonna be in on
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: the joke.
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: No, again, that is not what happened, but that was
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: my funniest moment of twenty twenty four.
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: What About You?
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: Far as the podcast goes, it would have to be
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: right before Tigger departed, where our listener wrote in trying
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: to get Tiger Man's actual only fans in me when
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: I say that shit took me out because like y'all
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: gotta know, we play around a lot that man does
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: not really have an only fans page and for y'all
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: to be that to really be like, can you send
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: me it? Because I would subscribed and all of this
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: stuff y'all are nasty.
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it shouldn't be happening.
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: I'm sprying.
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: Listen.
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: I know you are a married woman, not a you know,
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: not a cheater or anything. But I'm surprised that well,
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know because our listener demographic has changed since
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: we talk a little bit more about social issues now.
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: I guess the hip hop nigga's kind of listen sometimes now,
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: But either way, for me and Tiger, it was hell
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: there for a minute because for whatever reason, now niggas
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: think that I'm into like feet and peet and shit
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: like they do that kind of thing.
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: There's a difference. Listen.
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: There is a kink for everybody, and not kink shaming anybody.
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: But for whatever reason.
• 59:00
  Speaker 9: I'm listening and judging people ask what they like, what
• 59:07
  Speaker 9: they like, and I am here for you liking what
• 59:10
  Speaker 9: you like.
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: I always have been I always will be.
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: But something is wrong with you there that they call it.
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: They call it scat, they call it, And I was like,
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: what I discovered this This was years ago that I
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: discovered this, I was like.
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: No way, no, really, and then I thought.
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: It was like, oh, because I saw this on a
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: profile on the dating site. I can't remember what you one,
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: but I saw it on the you know, the dating site,
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: and of course my nosey ass I clicked on it
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: looking this, that and the third reading it and.
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: I thought at that point at my life again a
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: much younger me, I was like, you're just nasty.
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah it is, and.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: I left it at that.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: But then as I got to know more gay people,
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: it was like because for the longest time, y'all have
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: to remember, I was never put in rooms or areas
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: with a lot of gay people. So for me, learning
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: the get the gay landscape has been it's been a lot.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: It's been a lot for me because I'm already a
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: little neurotic, but I'm also very like, I'm curious and
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: I don't judge. Again, I was the friend with the
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: kid that nobody wanted to be friends with, so I
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: don't mind being you know, like you've given me daggers
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: from the side of the like from the other side
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: of the room. That's not gonna do anything to me,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: because I got a look that will just like kill
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: a lot of people. But for me, it's just been
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: being like trying to navigate and find find out different things.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: And again I thought that this was just one individual.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of niggas that like a lot of
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 3: different shit that not necessarily has ever entered my line
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 3: of interest. Y'all be into let me pee, and you know,
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: I want a nigga a p in my button. I'd
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 3: be like, what the like, what are y'all into? What
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: is happening?
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: And I guess that people being you know, I've always
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: been a barfly because I've always gone to straight environments.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: And in straight environments, when straight people want to.
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  Speaker 2: Meet or you know, at least be sociable to be
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  Speaker 2: picked up, one of the things they do is they
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  Speaker 2: go to the bar, and it's usually die bars, you know, sometimes,
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  Speaker 2: so I would got I guess I got into the
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  Speaker 2: atmosphere of being comfortable in those environments. With the bar,
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  Speaker 2: you kind of get it. And then with my time
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: in the clubs and stuff, you know, hosting shows, going
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  Speaker 2: to shows promoting the show, you know, our radio show.
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  Speaker 3: I learned a lot. I don't know, I just got
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  Speaker 3: cool in those environments.
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  Speaker 2: So when I switched over and started going to more
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  Speaker 2: gay places.
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  Speaker 1: It.
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  Speaker 2: I don't mean switch over as far as sexuality for
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: y'all out there. I'm talking about as far as you know,
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  Speaker 2: just me going more out into being you know, more
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  Speaker 2: open to gay people. It's just been interesting to see
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: a lot of things that y'all are into.
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  Speaker 3: It's just it's it's mind blowing, it really is. And
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: again not judging.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know where I I don't even know
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  Speaker 2: how I got down that rabbit hole, but.
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  Speaker 3: Probably a fetish for that ship too.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: Anyways, but what what what the hell were we talking about?
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  Speaker 3: The four?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I said thing about the listener who wanted.
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  Speaker 3: Information.
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  Speaker 2: Anyways, I said that to say, it's been a challenge
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  Speaker 2: just to see the kind of people that hit me
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: up now Versually. I used to get emails with people's
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: mixtapes and you know epks electronic preskeets and you know,
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: interview requests and things, and now I get asty dicks
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: and booty whole pictures and you know, people trying to
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  Speaker 2: touch me where I pee.
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  Speaker 3: Up in my inbox, So quite different.
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  Speaker 1: I still get that from time to time. Now, don't
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  Speaker 1: get it twisted.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm not saying that you are not desirable or mustious.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: Black black block. I'm letting y'all know right now. Oh God, immediately.
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  Speaker 3: Already, miss Lyric. Let's go ahead and on and I
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 3: guess wrap this up with the goals.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so I did speak or in schooling. That
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  Speaker 1: is one of my major goals.
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  Speaker 3: My goal is to.
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  Speaker 1: Finish school, but not just finish. I want to finish
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  Speaker 1: with my four point h gpa. That is a major
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: goal for me. I am not playing like I am
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  Speaker 1: really like headstrong on that because if I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: go back to school, I want to finish in a
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  Speaker 1: major way. And to me, the greatest accomplishment that I
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: I could do for myself is to finish with that goal.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: So that's one of the major things that I'm going
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: to be focusing on. My second goal is to become
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: a homeowner work. I am so sick of dealing with
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: landlord yep and slum lords, I should say, and somebody
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: else's dream, if that makes sense. This isn't profiting me. Yes,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: it's a house to stay in. Yes it's my residence,
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: but it's not my home. It's somebody else's home. I
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: want my own. I want my own piece of safety
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: and contentment and comfortability that I won't have to worry
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: about oh months down the line. Now I gotta go
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: look for something else now. I want to have my
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: own piece of I guess you could say the American dream,
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: but that's I'm saying that real loosely. Y'all know what
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: I mean. Myself and my children. So that's the second goal,
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: and the third goal is probably music related. I want
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: to continue down the path that I started last year.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: I did start recording again and started, you know, put
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: myself back out there as a artist, a solo artist,
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: and that's one of the things that I'm gonna focus
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  Speaker 1: on as well. One of my goals I want to
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: perform at the Howard Theater so bad. I don't know
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: why I have been. I've been having this on my
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: mind since like twenty twenty fifteen or so. That has
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: been one of my dreams. I don't care who it's with.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: I don't care if it's a solo show. I don't
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: care if I'm opening up for somebody. That is my goal.
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  Speaker 1: I want to perform at the Howard Theater with me.
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  Speaker 2: I know that I will be there, and not only
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: will I be there, but I will pull whatever connects
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: I have to make sure that you get there.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. So that's about it. That's my top three if
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: I'm not mistake. I mean, I have other things that
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: I want to do. Is with my music, like do
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: a record with Rahem Devn and I might be having
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: some things and works with that. You know, people who know,
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: people who know, people have been looking out, so that
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: might be something in the future that I might got
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: going on. So who knows. The years blessings and I
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: mean that and everything that I suffered with and dealt
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: with in twenty twenty three up until now, it's going
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: to make everything in this year worth it.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 3: Wow, I look forward to that. Shake out your glass
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 3: being half full.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna get there, and that's my goal for
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. I want to smile at me and
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: the goal to get there is simply doing that and
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: without getting all into my business. But it's simply doing
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: the things that I don't want to do. And I
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: don't mean I don't mean like you know, something harmful.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: It just means something that I'm just that I'm the block.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna stop getting in my own way.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 3: Yes, that's my first goal.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: Second goal, go outside and not cut somebody out for
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: being stupid.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 3: Child because I struggle sometimes a struggle.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: No, but seriously, next goal, I would say is to
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: at least put myself in a room where I can
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: pursue this educational endeavor.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, that's a goal, okay.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: And my third goal is to spend more time with
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: my family.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 3: And that includes my family, you know, friends.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: And family, my maid family, yeah, my maid family, and
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: my also biological family.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 3: So it's it's gonna be some.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: It's growing up, yeah, even more so because I'm already
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: I feel like I grew up, but I feel like
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: I grew up very I don't know, it's this weird
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: kind of I guess the word for it is maturity.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: I'm going to approach things with a little bit more
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: mature of a mind because I can't.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 3: In this atmosphere. Everything is driven by anger, right everything.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: I mean, you even at how things are politically right now,
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: you got Trump that is just waving around Thor's hammer,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: just angry and he doesn't care where the lightning bolts strikes.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 2: It's just he's waving around this thing and anger. And
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: when I look at myself and how for many years
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: I've weaponized my intelligence and activated it during anger.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 3: Now I kind of want to.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: Work with my intelligence and use it to elevate myself
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: and those around me even to higher platforms than I
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: have been able to do so before. Yeah, and that's
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: going to require.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 3: Some very stern very soon.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: And therefore I really am, I really am so twenty
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: twenty five, bring it, bitch. What do you think are
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: what's the predictions? What do you think that we're going
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: to see that we haven't seen this year?
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: I don't really know. But what I do know is
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be watching The Simpsons because them bitches there
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: then predictions that ship.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 3: That's what I'm gonna do.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to predict nothing. I'm gonna I'm gonna
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: watch the Simpsons and see what they predict, because listen,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: I don't want I don't want to call myself a
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: conspiracy therapy. There there is. If it sounds like a duck,
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: it walks like a duck, it swims like a duck.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: Bitch girl, the Simpsons. I see so many episodes on
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: the literally mirror what has been happening now and in
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: recent news it's the ship I've ever fucking seen. That's
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: what I'm gonna be doing with my time watching Simpson episodes, like, oh.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, do you think we're gonna get to see an
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 3: alien this year? Lyric?
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: Now, I don't want to see no alien, y'all. Stay
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: why it's already fucked up down here, Like, we don't
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: need to put aliens in the midst of what we
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: got going on, Like do you.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 3: Know how many people flode?
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: You know how many heads flow with the idea, with
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: the idea of aliens like that would just.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: Yo, we don't need aliens and demons. Come on, now,
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: that's a bit too much.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 2: We do not, Oh my god. But no, Honestly, I
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: think that we're going to see a very serious political shift.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: I see it happening very dramatically, and I don't know
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: which way it's swinging in, but it's got my it's
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: got my Spidey sense. Its tangling like almost more than
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: they ever have so and it might also just be anxiety.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: But either way, that's most who don't know. I think
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: it's Uganda. They're offering free centerzenship for anybody of African
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: American descent to come over and live there.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 3: Well, we're gonna need a little different recording schedule. I'm
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 3: headed out, girl.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: I'm going back to the Motherland. If anything pops up
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: off over here, that's maybe a little unsavory for my family.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: I'm going to Africa, and y'all gonna be here a
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: w R t R broadcasted from the Motherland with me.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 3: Heo, y'all.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: So we are happy to bring in twenty twenty five
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: with you, guys, Like, honestly, it has been a hell
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: of a ride year thirteen. Let's go, let's push this out,
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: let's make it happen. Let's see what happens. So back
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: to structure next week, and once again, thank you for
• 1:14:28
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• 1:14:33
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• 1:14:42
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• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I don't have one of those accounts yet,
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: but I guess I'm gonna have to for.
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 3: Somebody hear this and then's still your name.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: But still I'm still on Facebook, TikTok and no longer
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: on Twitter, but you guys can still email me as well,
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: like Bravado at gmail dot com for next week for
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: if I were lyric as well, yep yeah, w.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 3: R t R Radio at gmail dot com. Y'all, I
• 1:15:20
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• 1:15:24
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