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Herspiration Happy Hour, Season 9, Episode 26: The People Have Spoken… Now What? · Herspiration Happy Hour

• 0:10
  SPEAKER_03: Are you ready for cocktails and conversations?
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_03: Are you ready for cocktails and conversations?
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_03: Are you ready for cocktails and conversations with your host, the unapologetic diva Dr.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_03: G, the girlfriend therapist Dr.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_03: Cortina Lewis, and the networking extraordinaire Diana Richardson Philippus.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_03: Are you ready for cocktails and conversation?
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_03: This is Herspiration Happy Hour.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_03: Happy Hour.
• 0:38
  unknown: Happy Hour.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_03: It is season nine, uh, episode 26.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_03: And this is your unapologetic diva, Dr.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_03: G.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_04: This is Dr.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_04: Cortina Lewis, aka the girlfriend therapist.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_02: And this is your networking extraordinaire, Diana Richardson Philippus.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_03: All right, ladies, it is Wednesday.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_03: And before we hop into this momentous day, or over, you know, after a momentous night, uh, we can go around and we always talk about what we can win.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_03: What are we, what can we celebrate with each other today?
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_03: It is winning Wednesday.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_03: So who wants to kick it off?
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_03: What we're what you know, something to celebrate.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_03: What are we celebrating?
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I'll out to go.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I am celebrating that I cooked dinner tonight.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, I am celebrating myself.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_02: Y'all, I got the lasagna in the oven.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_02: The husband is happy.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_02: You hear me?
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_02: Because, baby, I don't even.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_02: I remember the last time I made a lasagna.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_02: I told him I was gonna make it.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_02: He was like, Really?
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_02: I was like, Yeah, if you just go to the store and get the little couple i he went right to the stovechild's right in the oven.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_02: So if y'all see me dip off for one second, just know that I'm getting my lasagna out of the oven.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_03: I gotta do one more time.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_02: Cause she knows.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_02: She knows I don't.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_03: Uh so Cortina, what can we celebrate with you today?
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_04: Um I don't know.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_04: I guess I just uh changed my what do you call it?
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_04: Um workspace.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, that's changed my workspace.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_04: I worked outside all day and um it felt great.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_04: I needed a different space, so I did something different.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_04: I worked outside today.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, and I've been walking at least three times a week.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_04: I set my little I know.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_04: I know, yes, that is a win for me.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_04: Yep, I try to make sure I go walking.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_04: It gets dark so early now, so I try to do it um when I can, but yeah, I'm getting more active.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_02: Look, you can be walking buddies.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_02: You gotta call me when you're going on your walk so I can go too.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_04: Girl, it's real random.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_04: Sometimes it's between clients.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_02: You know it ain't in the walk.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_02: I don't care because I'll go with you because I've been saying I'm gonna do it for weeks and weeks and weeks, and I don't.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, yeah.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, yeah.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_03: All right.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, let's see.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_03: What do I want to celebrate today?
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_03: Um, gracious.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_03: You know, I got so much shit going on.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I would say, you know what, I'm I'm really grateful that I'm very proud that I get to celebrate my special weekend with my closest friends, and I'm so looking forward to that and entertaining them in my new city.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_03: So, you know what?
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_03: That's what I'm celebrating because I have planned so much stuff that it is taking me out almost.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_03: So that's what I'm celebrating to the front.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_03: Yay! Oh, I think that was, you know, it's so funny that I just said that that was the the the caterer.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, I'm am I messing up here?
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, the caterer just uh messaged me about a Saturday, Saturday brunch for our French brunch.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_03: So I was like, okay, yeah, but yes, getting getting everything situated, and I'm so ready for Friday, which is uh, I'm gonna tell you, this is how good my friends are.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_03: So I had it so where everybody can work during the daytime, and I'm like, you know what?
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_03: The night it starts at 6 p.m.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_02: So that if people needed to fly in late and all this, everybody's showing up early, everybody would be there Friday morning, and I was like in position, so because we understand the assignment, ain't nobody getting no sleep, don't nobody got time.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_02: We come in early.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_03: What I decided to do because it is classic me.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_03: I'm going to make breakfast.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_03: I'm going to make breakfast.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_03: So I'm gonna go to the grocery store when I get back to uh Charlotte tomorrow and make breakfast for my friends on Friday morning.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_03: Nice, give yourself a clap.
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_03: I'll probably say get the clap.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and you know, I love breakfast, so you know I'm trying to decide what I want to do if I'm going to set up like an omelet bar, like where you can pick the stuff that you want, and I'll make your omelet.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_03: Um, you know, just either with, you know, get some chicken sausage, get some bacon, just you know, just have some some food, get some bottles for some champagne and mimosas.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_03: Um, yeah, so we're gonna have breakfast Friday morning.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_03: When everybody gets in, there'll be food to eat.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_04: Well, longest I have about two and a half hours in my own space so I can do what I need.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_04: Up in the office.
• 5:44
  unknown: Because I'm working.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_03: Up in the office.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_03: You got time.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_03: You got you will have time.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_03: And it are they are there appointments in the morning?
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_03: No.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, okay.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_03: So you can talk about breakfast.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_04: 12 and 1.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, 12 and 1.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_02: That sounds good because we're gonna have breakfast.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_02: That'll be nap time.
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_02: That part me because I know I'm gonna lay clean down before you be having me up for the rest of the weekend.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_04: Well, I'm gonna come lay down too because our flight is butt cracking down early.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_03: So you'll come in and eat, have a mimosa mimosa, so I'm gonna come home and go to sleep.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_04: You're not gonna eat?
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_04: I'm not an early eater.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, yeah, I can't eat that early in the morning.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_04: I'm not a early eating at 10.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_04: I hope to be asleep at 10 o'clock.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, okay.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I'll just be getting there, so I'm gonna have to come waking you up.
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_03: Hello, good morning.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_03: Good morning.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, so but I'm gonna be you know, I'll be busy anyway on Friday after I make breakfast, is which I'll be turning over the house for the first half, you know, first half of the night, you know, setting up all the Tokyo night stuff and getting everything ready for the games and the fun and the laughter and all of that stuff.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_03: So I am so excited.
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_03: And then we have Friday, early Friday morning.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_03: I gotta be up anyway because um, never mind, I'll share that with y'all off off screen.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, too many people, so too much, but my business being out there.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_03: But but Friday morning, I have to be up early anyway.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_03: So, yes, but I'm gonna tell y'all, I don't know about y'all, but last night was historic for women.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, definitely was it definitely?
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_04: We did that leadership in women.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_04: No, Georgia, Georgia, Georgia.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_04: I'm talking about me.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, tell you I almost fell out the bed because y'all know I be I be up watching the stuff, but I knew she was gonna win.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_02: I felt it in my spirit.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_04: I'm not just talking about her, I'm talking about all Tanya.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_04: Um, the secretary board, yeah, like everybody being different, and they all but yeah.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, I was like, I I want to move to Georgia.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_02: But see, that was a long time coming, and I know Pam, you want to get into it, but let me just say this.
• 8:17
  SPEAKER_02: Stacey Abrams, oh, she she really set the course for what happened last night.
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_02: She opened the floor.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_02: Let's pay homage where homage is due.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_02: You know, she she really did.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_02: Stacy Abrams set this thing up so good that the people coming behind her, what did they say?
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_02: She she she ran so it so everybody else could just walk right on through the door, right behind her.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_02: Because what go ahead, Pam, because I I got time.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_02: I got time.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_02: I got time today.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, I got time.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_03: Share your share your thoughts.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_02: I'm just saying, you know, in Georgia, everybody, well, maybe everybody doesn't know the history um of Georgia and and how things go around here.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_02: Um I'll leave, I'm not gonna make any negative comments and I'll leave that up to your imagination.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_02: Uh those that know, no, okay.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_02: And so Georgia has really been through a lot um in terms of um, you know, government and and how things and the voting rights act, like all of these different things that have plagued the black voter.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_02: Let's just put let me put it in perspective, the black voter here.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_02: Last night was a complete repudiation for that president that we have, or excuse me, Trump.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_02: I don't even want to call him president, he's not presidential to me.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, you know, to me, he's not presidential, but that was a complete repudiation of him, all of the negative, nasty, ugly things that are going on today.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_02: When I say that Georgia voters, one time to my Joe Georgia voters out there that got up and understood the assignment, because we understood, we understood the assignment and we came out and we did what needed to be done.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_02: And let me just say this: this was not just a Democratic uh Republican thing.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_02: This was a joint effort because this happened not just because the Democrats came out and voted.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_02: This happened because Republicans understood that this is not okay, the government that they desire, right?
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_02: And they crossed the line to get the job done because people want a better America.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_02: This is not what people don't want this, and so I'm just I'm so proud.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_02: Like I really am.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_02: I've been smiling all day.
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_02: Like when I say the Democrat but house and like listen, listen, it's gonna be some changes.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_02: What they say, a change gonna come, a change gonna come.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_02: Buckle up buttercups, yeah.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_02: Buckle up buttercups.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_03: And so what I what I was saying was like, you know, we had black women shattering major barriers.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_03: We had Native American and Latin well Latino women achieving major firsts.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_03: Um, you know, there was and it's across the board, so I don't want to just highlight, you know, that there's just all the minorities, but even some of the some white women broke barriers in South Carolina.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_03: That's what I was getting ready to say in their in their states.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_03: I'm like, wow, I'm like, this it was just absolutely amazing.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, of course, Keisha Lance Bottoms of Georgia.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, hands down to her, like you said, the first black woman elected governor in the United States history.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_04: And Mississippi, the county's not over yet, but that Senate race.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, he's gonna win.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_04: They haven't had a black senator since 1881.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_04: When Senator Bruce evacuated the seat during Reconstruction, 1881.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_04: 1881, yeah.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_04: Right now, he's currently leading what he was last time.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_04: I looked by 28 votes.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_04: So when people say my little vote don't count, this man is in the lead by one by two-digit numbers, 28 votes right now.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_02: But you know, that's what people want you to think.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, the government, Trump, Trump, Trump.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, no, this ain't the government.
• 12:33
  SPEAKER_04: I'm talking about people I personally spoke to.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_02: They say they vote, they vote, don't count.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_04: They will because you know, we had um our voice don't have amendment three on the ballot here in Florida.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_04: That is about the increase in the homestead tax exemption.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_04: How happened here to um that's gonna be horrible for police and and not even just police, right?
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_04: Police fire, yeah, they might be safe, but budgets will be slashed, right?
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_04: So we gonna get rid of the police as a whole or the firefighters, but ancillary services.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_04: What's gonna happen possibly to those mental health counselors that do ride alongs with the police officers that program they put in place?
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_04: That might be slashed because that might not be in the budget.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_04: What about uh food assistance and the food banks and the food pantries?
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_04: That might be slash, parks and recreation and other services might be slashed.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_04: You have um what else might be slashed?
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_04: Libraries, clothing, okay, boys and girls clubs, YMCAs, they all get uh government dollars, and so people I I I feel like because I'm just gonna put this out there, and so this morning um for the people that I know that voted, I said, congratulations on y'all vote.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_04: But every single time something comes up that is directly impacted by that, they're gonna get sick of me because I'm gonna say, Well, that's your vote, your vote did that, your vote did that.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_04: Even in my own house, we were house divided.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_04: So I vote canceled out Dunchy's vote because I voted hell no, because I think of the least of us, yeah.
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_04: None of those programs are gonna bother me because I don't utilize them.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_04: However, I know the importance of the people that do.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_04: I have worked in nonprofit, I know how government funds trickle down, and they're gonna be a lot of state funded programs or even part, not even maybe fully funded by the government, but ancillary sub um other um no um grants that come down when they have those RFPs that you know uh nonprofits and other organizations, oh, you know, we got this money, this pot of money over here.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_04: Um just be mindful of that and how all of those things because they got to get the money from somewhere, so all these other fees that may increase, these assessments that you might start seeing, your property taxes might be good, but everything else around you might be increasing.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_04: That's just my soapbox on that.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, so that's that.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_04: But just like um Stacey Abrams amazing, but here, even though she did not win, you talking about Angie, she did not even get help from the Democratic National Party Party.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_04: She did she got seven thousand dollars, seven million dollars or something like that.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_04: And and that was toward the end, that that was toward the end, and the guy in the primaries that she was running against, I think he got something like not 17 million, it was like eight times the amount that she ran her campaign with.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_04: Do you know?
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_04: With literally grassroots on the ground, like boots on the ground, door knocking, phone banking, grassroots effort, she shifted 66 of uh Florida's 67 counties.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_04: Blue.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_04: Sure didn't shifted them towards blue.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_04: Only one county where in 2024, only one county shifted.
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_04: That was Summer County during uh Trump's election at the time.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_04: She I I feel like she has now set the fire, and she will be uh running in 2028, and so I'm so excited.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, she has.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_04: I would say I was a little bit sad yesterday that she ain't win.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_04: However, the work, the groundwork that has been laid, and now we can show the DNC like, hey, okay, y'all were sleeping on her, y'all didn't know if she really was gonna win.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_04: But look at what she did without y'all's help.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_04: Imagine if y'all would have put a little bit more money behind her and had faith in the black sister, but y'all did.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_04: So I'm so excited about that.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_04: Um, I love her.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_04: I felt like you know what?
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_04: Hell, when she runs again, I want to be a part of the grassroots team.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_04: Hell, you need me to do some phone banking because I've done that before.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_04: I when I worked at Planned Parenthood, we did phone banking, we did all those different types of things.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_04: I hell, I mobilized, and so I'm just so so so uh excited.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_04: Jolly didn't win.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_04: Say it, another blow.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_04: However, we took the house in Florida.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_04: They're blue, okay, and so one of the things I have to say, we broke the supermajority, which is amazing down here because you know, Byron Donald, he can do what he wants to do, but we got some checks and balances in place.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_04: And I think for anybody, any local official, we need to make sure that it's great that they're in the seat.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_04: Now the work happens when they're in the seat and they keep to the promise that they promised the constituents.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_04: And if we don't see that they are doing what we have elected them to do, it's our responsibilities as the constituents to call them bug the hell out of their offices because it does work.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_04: There are a lot of things that we're supposed to go through, but they was like, Oh shoot, no, the people turning on us, they won't stop.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_04: But it was like, we gotta walk this back.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, we can't do that, we gotta walk it back.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_04: No, they ain't gonna vote me in next time because you know I'm tripping.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_04: And so I think it's I think overall last night really showed the establishment DMs that progressive is the way to go.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_04: No more business as usual, no more centrist type of politics.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_04: You have to think differently out of the box.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_04: Um, and it's okay to be a progressive.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_04: You know, everybody used to like tiptoe around that.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_04: I think Mindani started in New York Mayor, you know, he was like, Well, we're gonna do all this stuff.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_04: Um, Abdul El-Say loves him down.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_04: I'm not either too.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_04: And he's just so real.
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_04: And these people, they be, I don't know if y'all heard some of these people, but they clap backs when they own Fox News and like they it's not like I'm challenging you or I'm aggressive.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_04: They just give it back to them.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_04: Like you asking me a dumbass question, and I'm gonna give you a very political uh answer, but it's gonna be a little curtain to it too, so that you know I see you.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_04: I know what you're doing.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_04: You're trying to trip me up, but you can't trip me up.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_02: Can't do it.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_04: So I think it's just it's good, it's great.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_02: I'm happy.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_02: It's a wonderful moment.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, and I just hope that they don't.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_02: Now that you know we have swept right the house and and and the senate, what I really want is for them to really stay focused on the task at hand, to your point, Cortina.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_02: And while I do understand that a part of that is definitely rolling back the undoing, right, of a lot of the things that have been done.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_02: And, you know, because they're talking about, you know, subpoenas rolling down, you know, they want to corruption here, Trump that all these different things, but I don't want us to get caught up in that, that they lose sight of the bigger picture, which is creating a better America for us.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_02: Because if we start, y'all know how the last time under Biden, no disrespect to Biden, you know.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_02: I I love Biden, you know, but all like it just became.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, for I'm just gonna say it how I feel, like a shit show, basically.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_02: You know, it was a shit show.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_02: So I just want for for us to now that we have what the majority of what we need, let's get business done.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_02: Let's not get caught up in all the indictments and all this and that, and this person needs to come to the hill.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_02: We got work to do, and and and and better yet, we got a presidential election that's gonna be coming up soon, too.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_02: Let's stick to the script, please.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_04: But at the same time, we still do have to stabilize what has been jacked up.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_04: We do, so we do we can't move forward with these new things until what's already in place has some type of stabilization because Cheeto has to stabilize so much, there needs to be a some yeah, some form of balance and normality put back into the chambers.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_04: Absolutely, because they just been girling, knucking and bucking up and all across the thing.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_04: So I think that there that does need to happen, and some of these things, a lot of bipartisanship, I feel like it's gonna be more of that because now the the reign of terror is going to be reined in because now you don't have all these loyalists that will just do your bidding, and it's like, uh, yeah, that's crazy.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_04: We're not gonna do that, and I do think we need to.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, we need to stick to the promises, but a lot of those things that people were on was stopping the war, right?
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_04: That might not help anybody with healthcare right now, but stopping the war because the budget is tied up in that, right?
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_04: These tariffs, right?
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_04: The treaties that we have with other countries, those foreign policy things are, I feel like, are important as well.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_03: Because absolutely, that's part of the undoing.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_03: We don't know.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_03: He pulled us out of every foreign conversation that we should be a part of.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_03: And and as someone who frequently traveled, um, as somebody who worked for the State Department for a while, who traveled as a diplomat for a while, met lots of ambassadors, it was very disheartening as soon as he came in the first time how many just left.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_03: And they never really backfilled initially.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_03: And the morale changed at the State Department, and it was just it was a lot.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_03: And this time, I feel like it's even worse.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_03: He really started pulling us out of NATO conversations, out of uh, what else did he pull us out of?
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, gosh, everything pretty much everything, but critical conversations.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_03: So we have no idea who our real enemies are abroad, or allies.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_03: Not any more left.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_03: If that's part of the easy, I was about to say, I mean, do we have allies?
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, but and I think that's one of the most important things.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_03: I think the other the other part is education.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_03: You know, I really do think that that's another area that's gonna need major reconstruction.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, and oh my gosh, here's another one.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_03: What is it?
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_03: The um not the FAA, the um what is the the food administration, the FAA.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_03: Oh FDA, FDA, the FDA, I'm sorry.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_03: The FDA.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, they're dishing money into the FAA.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, I every time I turn around, something new is going on, a new airport's coming up, and all of those things.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_03: But the FDA, a lot of funding cut to that.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_03: And the CDC, and the CDC, it really hindered our ability to take care of ourselves because we they're just willy-nilly, and like you said, they knucking and bucking and bucking into our food and just saying, oh, you know, you can have all this genetically modified meat and genetically modified fruit and genetically modified fish.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_03: And this is it's the it's the grapes with no seeds for me.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, that's the only thing I eat.
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_04: I can't eat no grape with no seeds.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_04: But how?
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_04: Where do seeds?
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_03: I know, I know, but grapes without seeds have been around for a very long time.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_03: However, it don't make no sense.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_03: Genetically modified, I mean, the same way seeds, broccoli don't have a seed, cauliflower don't have a seed.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_03: Grapes are supposed to have a seed.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_03: No, no, thank you.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_03: But I'm saying, but I'm naming other things that don't have seeds, so but we've been eating them our whole lives.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_03: Now, when you start having this genetically modified beef and you have genetically modified fish and genetically modified everything almost salad and fruits and veggies.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_03: I that and then they wonder why people are not mentally healthy, why people are not physically healthy, why while cancer is just running around the page because of what this administration has done.
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_03: And so we look at this, you know.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_03: I really my hope, my hope is that come January, they have the the House and the Senate now having the majority has the power not only to impeach but to remove.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_02: I need a hand clap for that, please.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_02: We need to clap.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, I hand clap.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_02: So it was there.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_03: Oh it's a choice to me.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_03: It is a choice at that point.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_03: If the house and the senate continues to allow you know the Cheeto to run them up, breaking 29.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_03: It is something that they can actually fix.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_03: They can impeach and remove him, and then he can go on his ass on the jail for all the crimes that he has committed.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_03: Where he'll make a nause with him.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_04: Just a little update where he was earlier today, up 28 points.
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_04: He's now up 1138 points.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_04: So I think they're gonna be pretty close to calling it in Mississippi.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_04: That would be awesome.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_04: And I I I heard something that Hakeem Jeffries said.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_04: Um, I don't know, was it yesterday?
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_04: It had to be yesterday.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_04: I don't know, maybe it may have been today.
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_04: Um, it wasn't today.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_04: Um but he was saying we're finally in a position where black people can elect the candidates of their choice.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_04: And when it was broken down, it's like, yeah, we can vote for whoever we want.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_04: But voting is an action.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_04: Being elected is the is the the the aftermath of when when you vote, right?
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_04: And so it's the outcome of an of an uh of a of a of a vote.
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_04: And so that is what happened.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_04: That is what we saw, that is what we are seeing.
• 27:45
  SPEAKER_04: And I feel like the individuals, like for example, there are some of these states that I don't even live in, but just the passion that they have, the the age of the candidates.
• 28:02
  SPEAKER_04: We ain't talking about John Joe, 76 years old and about to coke over.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_04: No, we think they are younger, galvanized, well, conscious people.
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_03: They are much more consciousable, yes, and they you they are hungry and relatable right now in this climate.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_03: And they want to see that change for their communities.
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_03: And I would say, I'm loving that, you know.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_03: Uh we just well, me and Jay, I say we as in us, we just moved to North Carolina, and for the first time in 15 years, Democrats won control of the North Carolina House for the first time in 15 years.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah.
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_04: Um it's crazy.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_04: Morgan, she was like, Mom, mind you, we did our part.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_04: It's grandma generation that ain't do they part, the boomers and all those.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_04: And I said, you know what?
• 28:59
  SPEAKER_04: That's probably what happened in Florida because you know, all of them migrate down here.
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_04: But uh well wishes to people in Tallahassee, Orlando, Miami, Palm Beach, Jacksonville, Tampa.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_04: Those are the people who get the praises, and and because we are the metropolitan areas, and those were the areas that were blue.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_04: You know, even them Cubans in Miami woke up a little bit finally, because I was confused.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_02: What are y'all doing?
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_02: Sorry, I said it, but what we what are y'all what was your why?
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_04: But I will say, when you look at the exit polls, this one group, we already know white men, ain't gonna be on that.
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, this one demographic do it to us every time, every single time, it is the white women, and yes, I said white women because I just be scratching my head like y'all don't get it.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_04: Shocked.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_03: Are you shocked?
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_03: Y'all really get it?
• 30:16
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not I'm not shocked by that.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_03: No, I'm not, but I don't feel like all white women are as progressive when it comes to when it comes to things unrelated to them.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_03: They are very tunnel-visioned and are often led by what their spouses would say, yeah, yeah, okay.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_03: And so especially when you're talking about in the south.
• 31:17
  SPEAKER_03: But I feel like the south is still not really mentally over the whole time.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_04: Well, even in Florida, the last time the Florida House had a Democratic uh majority was in 1994.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_04: 1995.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_03: 32, 32 years ago.
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_02: And yeah, this is I'm I'm I You know, I believe most people, we understand the history that the South brings, right?
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_02: And we understand all the things that go along with that mindset um in the South, no matter how far along we come, that there's still a very large demographic of people that think, and I I'm being evasive here, of course, but that think a certain type of way.
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_04: Well, let me say this.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_04: So, you know, Byron Donald's is a black man.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_04: I don't know.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_04: I think his skin just black.
• 32:21
  SPEAKER_04: I don't know if he's black though.
• 32:23
  SPEAKER_04: I don't even want to even talk about him.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_04: No, he pissed us.
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_04: There are gonna be a demographic of people, non-melanated people, that say I can't be racist because I voted for Byron Donald's.
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_04: Just because you voted for Byron Donald's, that doesn't mean that you're you can't be racist, right?
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_04: Because you had in plantation owners and you had black individuals that were over the slaves that would report back to the plantation owner if an enslaved individual got out of line.
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_04: So just because you voted for this person, hell, you had racist slave owners who were having sex and babies with their enslaved individuals.
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, there that doesn't just because they had sex with them, does that make them any less racist?
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_04: No, no, not at all.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_04: So just having them to understand uh that because I've heard that a lot.
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_04: Oh my god, like you guys have been saying the Republican Party is racist, and we voted for a black man for governor Byron Donald.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_04: So now you all have to hang up that um not rhetoric, but that that talking point.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_04: And I'm like, no the hell we don't.
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, it's a cool thing.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, what was the alternative?
• 33:43
  SPEAKER_02: Let's just say that, and not only that, I'm talking about this for them.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, and not only that, but he he he is like everything that he adopts is just like Rubio.
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_02: You or is it DeSantis?
• 33:57
  SPEAKER_02: No, no, no, no, no, it's like DeSantis interesting DeSantis, right?
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_02: And so he's speaking y'all language, he's he's saying the things that that you want to hear behavior, coon behavior, coon behavior.
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna go ahead and say it.
• 34:11
  SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna go ahead and say it because that's what it is.
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_02: You know, so if he's the token, and sin.
• 34:18
  SPEAKER_02: So so you you weren't gonna vote for um Jolly.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_02: Jolly, you you clearly you weren't gonna vote for him, but he had a one-point margin, it was close.
• 34:29
  SPEAKER_02: I was praying for him at first.
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_02: I thought he was really gonna take it.
• 34:32
  SPEAKER_04: I didn't know I thought he was gonna take it.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_04: I thought Jolly was gonna win.
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_04: I yeah, and then uh we all thought Jolly was gonna win.
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_04: I did.
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_04: I thought Angie Nixon, but she did a fun, she ran a phenomenal race, a phenomenal race.
• 34:47
  SPEAKER_04: Her race, because she did not have any backing, is going to be studied in in um civics classes.
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_04: Uh let me tell you something.
• 34:57
  SPEAKER_04: They are political classes, even though she didn't win, political science classes.
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_03: I said civics and political science classes, yeah.
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_02: But even though she didn't win, let me tell you something.
• 35:09
  SPEAKER_02: Those Republicans are still nervous, like she was this close to beating Mooney.
• 35:16
  SPEAKER_02: This close, and the picture that they kept showing of Mooney last night, Moody, Moody, Moody.
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_02: What is it?
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_02: Moody.
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_02: I was like, she looked.
• 35:23
  SPEAKER_02: Let me be quiet.
• 35:24
  SPEAKER_04: But she didn't even debate, she didn't want to debate, she ain't even on the platform, she ain't run on nothing at all, except for Bash and Andrew Nixon.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_04: That's it.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_04: She didn't want to debate her because she was scared, of course, because the people did not elect her.
• 35:35
  SPEAKER_04: No, she was appointed, she was appointed.
• 35:39
  SPEAKER_04: But guess what?
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_04: It's small potatoes.
• 35:41
  SPEAKER_04: She's going to the Senate.
• 35:42
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, she she one person, don't worry about it.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_04: And we flip Texas, yes, not that Hot Wheels gone.
• 35:53
  SPEAKER_03: Not Hot Wheels, not Hot Wheels.
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_04: I took that from Jasmine Crockett.
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_04: She called a man.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_02: So I was very happy for Tellerico.
• 36:10
  SPEAKER_02: Like he, I like him so much.
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_02: I really do.
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_02: And I think that he, amongst others, are going to do an amazing, I think they are too amazing job.
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_04: Yes.
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_02: Amazing job.
• 36:22
  SPEAKER_02: So we did our thing.
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_02: You know, we we we did our thing.
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_02: That's all I can say.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_02: We the people understood the assignment, okay, and delivered.
• 36:32
  SPEAKER_02: We it was a very clear message.
• 36:35
  SPEAKER_03: Showed up and showed out, and I will tell you, I was very shocked at how many red states flipped.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_03: I was I personally was not ready for that.
• 36:47
  SPEAKER_03: I was not ready for that.
• 36:49
  SPEAKER_03: But when I woke up this morning and I saw it, I said, Well, thank God.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_02: Girl, you was up last night looking.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_02: I I fell asleep.
• 36:58
  SPEAKER_02: I even turned the TV off because it got late.
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_02: You know, I gotta be trying to and put, I have, you know, of course, the direct TV on my phone.
• 37:05
  SPEAKER_02: I was started laying down still, I fell asleep watching it.
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_02: You hear me?
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I just I was just smiling from ear to ear last night.
• 37:17
  SPEAKER_02: Like, we really did that.
• 37:19
  SPEAKER_02: We I knew that it was gonna happen.
• 37:21
  SPEAKER_02: I did, I felt very confident, but not like that.
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_02: No, okay, not in the way you did.
• 37:28
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, I didn't think that we were going to sweep both, I just didn't.
• 37:33
  SPEAKER_02: I thought that we were gonna get the house.
• 37:35
  SPEAKER_02: I I did believe that we were gonna get the house.
• 37:37
  SPEAKER_03: Both is great.
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 37:40
  SPEAKER_03: And the Senate blue, it just it literally makes me feel really, really good.
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_03: And the other thing that I was actually I was looking at, and I pulled it up online, um, and I'll share as soon as I as soon as I find it again.
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_03: Um, so it's what I was looking at was just like because if it was woman after woman after woman, and I'm talking every nationality.
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_03: I had to look up and I said, wow, 125 seats in the U.S.
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_03: Senate are women, 27 seats in the U, I mean in the House, 125 seats in the House are women, 27 seats in the Senate are women.
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_03: That is 152 seats in Congress.
• 38:19
  SPEAKER_03: Now, granted, we have a long way to go because it is 535 seats, but this is a start.
• 38:27
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, it's a big start.
• 38:28
  SPEAKER_03: This is a this is a major glass shattering moment because it's been even within the in the house, no, in the senate, when Juliana Stratton of Illinois was elected, that meant three black women will serve in the Senate simultaneously for the first time.
• 38:49
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and she joins Angela Oslovke and Lisa Blunt.
• 38:53
  SPEAKER_03: That's major.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_03: That's not that's not small.
• 38:56
  SPEAKER_03: I I don't want to overshadow like the importance and the significance of what this election brought about.
• 39:05
  SPEAKER_03: Because to me, this set this is a stepping stone.
• 39:08
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and now we see what people are really capable of, what people are tired of, what people are exhausted with having to deal with, or better yet, not being able to have.
• 39:21
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, this is a reckoning.
• 39:22
  SPEAKER_03: This is it, is it certainly is because you think about gas is high, groceries is high, everything high, everything is high except for people's paychecks.
• 39:31
  SPEAKER_03: People are losing jobs still.
• 39:34
  SPEAKER_03: It's yeah, and even when people work, they're not making what they should be making, because even employers cannot afford the inflationary cost that's that's hitting them.
• 39:47
  SPEAKER_03: Electric is high, you know.
• 39:49
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, you ain't got to tell me super high, ridiculously high.
• 39:57
  SPEAKER_03: And that is why people showed up to the polls.
• 40:00
  SPEAKER_03: That's why people flipped from Republican to Democrat because they said they said this is like we can't wait for me right now.
• 40:09
  SPEAKER_03: We cannot continue to go down this road, so I have a better chance of trying something new, yeah, to see if that works out better than where I'm at.
• 40:21
  SPEAKER_04: Well, we won't be getting them five thousand dollars checks from the president.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_04: Remember, he said if the damns lose the meaturns, he's gonna send everybody five thousand dollars checks.
• 40:34
  SPEAKER_03: That's the other part.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_03: When he makes statements like that, and somebody says, Oh, I'm gonna send everybody five thousand dollars.
• 40:41
  SPEAKER_03: That is your taxpayers' dollars that he is spending.
• 40:46
  SPEAKER_03: So he can't.
• 40:48
  SPEAKER_02: That's trying to bribe the people.
• 40:50
  SPEAKER_02: Bribe the people.
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_03: That would be up to the house and the senate, or less that's built in the president's budget, which I can assure you that was not built in his budget.
• 40:59
  SPEAKER_02: At all.
• 41:00
  SPEAKER_03: So we, you know, people people need to take some some history lessons on how the powers work and where the purse for the United States really because it is definitely not in the executive office or in executive house, rather.
• 41:16
  SPEAKER_03: It's not there.
• 41:17
  SPEAKER_03: The power of the purse sits on the heel, which is why it's so important in how you vote and how you pay attention to because they are dictating how the dollars are really truly spent.
• 41:28
  SPEAKER_02: At least they're supposed to.
• 41:29
  SPEAKER_04: Well, now we'll make sure, you know, the purse.
• 41:32
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, now now we'll make sure because that's what they're supposed to do.
• 41:35
  SPEAKER_04: The purse can go back to the adults now.
• 41:37
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you, please.
• 41:38
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you, thank you, Lord.
• 41:40
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
• 41:41
  SPEAKER_02: Because I I just that's why I haven't really been like watching TV.
• 41:45
  SPEAKER_02: And well, first of all, I'm busy, but I just I had to like just just block it out because it's so it's so much every single day.
• 41:58
  SPEAKER_02: It's like I cannot.
• 42:00
  SPEAKER_02: It's enough to drive you to a nervous breakdown if you let it, at least me.
• 42:05
  SPEAKER_02: Like I get really invested because it's upsetting to me with this president.
• 42:11
  SPEAKER_03: Cartoonish, it is cartoonish to me, and it is very much like I am watching a really bad reality TV show.
• 42:21
  SPEAKER_03: Well, because he sometimes some things he says can't be serious.
• 42:25
  SPEAKER_03: No, sometimes I'm thinking it's can't this has to be AI because what in whose right mind?
• 42:32
  SPEAKER_02: But I think the author is- I don't think he is in his right mind, and I don't think he's been in his right mind in a long time.
• 42:38
  SPEAKER_03: He's not, but one thing that I do hate with him coming in both terms, he's made a mockery of the presidency, the position.
• 42:47
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, he has.
• 42:48
  SPEAKER_03: He's made a mockery of it, and the fact that the House or the Senate did not take control or pull the reins, he probably wasn't listening anyway.
• 42:57
  SPEAKER_03: He's a classic narcissist, I tell you, but you know, you you couldn't pull the reins from him because he just went willy-nilly.
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_03: But they could have done something about that.
• 43:05
  SPEAKER_03: They could, they really could have done that, they could have got him out of there way.
• 43:08
  SPEAKER_03: They could have got him out there a way long time ago.
• 43:11
  SPEAKER_03: He should not have ever made a second office.
• 43:13
  SPEAKER_03: That's the best part where he should have never been in office twice.
• 43:17
  SPEAKER_02: After January 6th, let me be quiet because I ain't even got time because I can go down this rabbit hole because it's so many things, like I don't even understand how he's the president right now.
• 43:29
  SPEAKER_02: Right this second.
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_02: Why?
• 43:31
  SPEAKER_02: How there should be no way that he should have been able to run, let along, even if he did run.
• 43:38
  SPEAKER_02: Why would why would why would people vote for him?
• 43:42
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I don't understand.
• 43:44
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, well, let me take that back.
• 43:46
  SPEAKER_02: There's a lot of people that agree with his rhetoric, right?
• 43:48
  SPEAKER_02: There's a lot of people that think like him, you know, and there until it starts hitting them in their pocket and it starts affecting their way of life.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_02: And now all of a sudden it's oh, I shouldn't have.
• 44:04
  SPEAKER_02: He said, Well, he's a liar.
• 44:06
  SPEAKER_02: He's been a liar.
• 44:07
  SPEAKER_02: He was a liar the first term.
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_02: He was a liar after the term.
• 44:11
  SPEAKER_02: He let me be quiet.
• 44:13
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, all he do is sit in meetings and go to sleep.
• 44:15
  SPEAKER_03: Every time you see him on the news, he's like this.
• 44:18
  SPEAKER_02: That's why he does go to sleep.
• 44:21
  SPEAKER_02: Because he's old.
• 44:22
  SPEAKER_02: Remember how he used to say sleepy Joe?
• 44:24
  SPEAKER_02: Who's sleepy now?
• 44:25
  SPEAKER_03: That part.
• 44:26
  SPEAKER_03: No, look, he's this is him.
• 44:32
  SPEAKER_02: Because he could care less about what they're talking about.
• 44:36
  SPEAKER_02: Let's start there.
• 44:37
  SPEAKER_02: He has no interest in the ongoings of America and our nation and the betterment of our nation.
• 44:46
  SPEAKER_02: All he is concerned about is building wealth for him and his family and building monuments and gold ballrooms and anything and putting things Trump this, Trump that.
• 44:59
  SPEAKER_02: That's all he's concerned about.
• 45:02
  SPEAKER_03: Look, when he held the UFC fight on the White House lawn, I was done.
• 45:07
  SPEAKER_03: Oh I said, what you know what?
• 45:11
  SPEAKER_04: And with all the gerrymandering, look at what happened.
• 45:15
  SPEAKER_02: Ah how you like that?
• 45:22
  SPEAKER_02: Then we're people was like, that's cool.
• 45:25
  SPEAKER_02: We still that oh you did that?
• 45:27
  SPEAKER_02: No problem.
• 45:27
  SPEAKER_02: We still gonna vote this way.
• 45:29
  SPEAKER_03: Not at all.
• 45:29
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
• 45:30
  SPEAKER_02: Didn't make a difference at all.
• 45:33
  SPEAKER_03: Uh people showed up to the poll, but this and a lot of it was the same people that showed up on the to the poll, they just voted differently.
• 45:41
  SPEAKER_03: It's the only way you can flip states, like the way that those those states were flipped across the aisle.
• 45:48
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 45:49
  SPEAKER_03: So you had the same people who were voting before for their interests.
• 45:53
  SPEAKER_03: Now they said, look, uh, I'm Republican, but I'm not today.
• 45:57
  SPEAKER_03: I'm I'm gonna have to go the opposite way.
• 45:59
  SPEAKER_03: So they are, I feel like they are the reasons why those states flipped.
• 46:05
  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely, because I don't think you got that many more minorities in to vote.
• 46:11
  SPEAKER_03: I'm not saying they didn't.
• 46:13
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I think a lot of minorities did more than a lot of minorities did, but those states, the majority is all those who's voting, are they don't look like us, they ain't got no pigmentation.
• 46:27
  SPEAKER_03: Texas, yeah.
• 46:31
  SPEAKER_03: Well, ain't that many, ain't that many mofos moved to Texas to turn to flip the state like that?
• 46:38
  SPEAKER_01: No, there's a lot of people that that crossed, and I'm grateful that they had a come to Jesus moment.
• 46:45
  SPEAKER_04: Well, people are gonna be scared now because they're gonna know.
• 46:50
  SPEAKER_03: Look, I'll give it up to Gina, the first Latina elected governor of Texas.
• 46:57
  SPEAKER_04: I don't want to mess up uh Gina Hina Josa and then um Deb Hollowand.
• 47:05
  SPEAKER_04: I don't want to mess up her name either.
• 47:06
  SPEAKER_04: The first Native Oh, yeah.
• 47:10
  SPEAKER_04: I can't, I can't.
• 47:11
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah, the the first Native American um governor in the well in the in the United States.
• 47:18
  SPEAKER_03: You got Peggy, what is it, Flanagan of Minnesota?
• 47:20
  SPEAKER_03: She's the first Native American woman elected to the U.S.
• 47:23
  SPEAKER_03: Senate.
• 47:23
  SPEAKER_03: You got Claire Valdez of New York, the first Native American woman elected to Congress from New York.
• 47:30
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, and you got the first Latina elected from Nebraska, Denise Powell.
• 47:36
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 47:38
  SPEAKER_02: It's just there, it's across the board.
• 47:41
  SPEAKER_02: This is what I said.
• 47:43
  SPEAKER_04: It looks the people we represent we we elected are reflective of what America looks like.
• 47:52
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 47:56
  SPEAKER_04: It's diversity.
• 47:57
  SPEAKER_04: Like I was looking at all the people, I said, This is diversity right here.
• 48:03
  SPEAKER_04: This is what we need.
• 48:05
  SPEAKER_04: Who is sitting at the table helping us uh make the decisions for the country?
• 48:11
  SPEAKER_04: If everybody thinks alike and look alike, that ain't gonna work at all, and hasn't worked.
• 48:19
  SPEAKER_04: So yeah, this is great.
• 48:22
  SPEAKER_04: It is great.
• 48:23
  SPEAKER_03: I'm so happy.
• 48:24
  SPEAKER_03: I'm so happy.
• 48:25
  SPEAKER_03: What do you all think is next?
• 48:26
  SPEAKER_03: You know, come January as as American citizens, what should we be doing next?
• 48:33
  SPEAKER_03: Like what you know, what do we encourage people to push move, make movements towards or pay attention to come January?
• 48:43
  SPEAKER_04: So I would say pay attention before we even get to January because there are some butt hurt people that steal from office.
• 48:52
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, Texas has already sent out a memorandum, a letter saying, you know, we're gonna be doing everything in our power.
• 49:01
  SPEAKER_04: They got what month we in November?
• 49:03
  SPEAKER_04: Essentially, like two months to do whatever it is that I guess they want to do to run amok in the palace, um, until they're ousted out.
• 49:15
  SPEAKER_04: So we just gotta be mindful about okay, what type of trickery?
• 49:18
  SPEAKER_04: Thank God it's the holidays, so things are more so closed, but just being mindful of what's happening, I would say still stay vigilant.
• 49:28
  SPEAKER_04: Absolutely and keep that head on.
• 49:30
  SPEAKER_04: What's happening locally, uh, like with your county commissioners, your uh um city commissioners, those type of candidates too.
• 49:44
  SPEAKER_04: Um and just prepare.
• 49:46
  SPEAKER_04: Like, what is it that you are looking for?
• 49:50
  SPEAKER_04: Just think about okay, what is it that I would like to see?
• 49:53
  SPEAKER_04: You got to be realistic.
• 49:54
  SPEAKER_04: We can't be like, oh my god, you know, they looking out for black people.
• 49:59
  SPEAKER_04: Well, these people are elected to govern everybody, not just black people, and so yes, we want for them to just not implement harmful policies for people that look like us, right?
• 50:14
  SPEAKER_04: Making sure that they're able to put a stop to this.
• 50:16
  SPEAKER_04: And I say still stay politically connected.
• 50:20
  SPEAKER_04: Politics is for everybody because if you don't do politics, politics will do you, and understand that this is not the end, right?
• 50:28
  SPEAKER_02: This is just the beginning of a very continued along road.
• 50:35
  SPEAKER_02: We have not made it to the promised land yet, but we almost there.
• 50:38
  SPEAKER_02: We we're getting there, we're getting there.
• 50:40
  SPEAKER_03: It's a lot of work to do, it's a lot of work to do.
• 50:43
  SPEAKER_03: It's gonna be a lot of work to do come January, and that would that work is really less about kicking him out of office.
• 50:51
  SPEAKER_03: There's so much more work to do than that.
• 50:54
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it is it is it is restoring the you know, I guess what is it what I want to say?
• 51:02
  SPEAKER_03: Not even it's just restoring democracy back into the United States.
• 51:09
  SPEAKER_03: Because I mean, we it's it's I don't know why people want to think that this is oh the kings rule things and all of this other king mentality or whatnot that they have.
• 51:20
  SPEAKER_03: And I feel like it was not just in the presidency, I think it was in the house and the senate with the Republican Party.
• 51:26
  SPEAKER_03: Because otherwise, why would you just allow a president to just do everything that he wanted, especially when you go around Congress and initiate a war?
• 51:40
  SPEAKER_03: Because you don't really have the you you you have the authority to do that, but you also need permission.
• 51:46
  SPEAKER_03: That's where the balance of power.
• 51:48
  SPEAKER_03: And he didn't, he felt like, no, I don't have to.
• 51:51
  SPEAKER_03: And they allowed, and they allowed and they did nothing about it, and they did nothing, so we have to start holding our uh the people that we vote for accountable, and this is one way that this is one way to do it, is to work for American interests, not just your individual interests, but America's interests.
• 52:15
  SPEAKER_04: But we also have to be mindful that with that big bull big bullshit bill, the worst of it begins in 2027 and 2028.
• 52:26
  SPEAKER_04: So we have just had this blue wave.
• 52:29
  SPEAKER_04: I need the people who don't read, I need the people who have an IQ of less than 60 to understand that just because the blue wave has now been ushered in, some of the changes and the how America is going to be hurt has nothing to do with the Democrats.
• 52:47
  SPEAKER_04: This is all results and effects from the big bullshit bill.
• 52:54
  SPEAKER_04: That part.
• 52:56
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, because they strategically said, okay, this is gonna happen in 2027, this is gonna happen in 2028.
• 53:03
  SPEAKER_04: So just now tell your people who don't read, who don't know, who don't know about politics, who don't know about anything except for emotions and feelings, this is how it works.
• 53:18
  SPEAKER_03: And we see how emotions and feelings run a uh a country into the ground.
• 53:27
  SPEAKER_03: Very much so.
• 53:28
  SPEAKER_03: Literally, yeah, very much so.
• 53:32
  SPEAKER_03: But I I'm grateful uh that we had a chance to have this conversation and shout out and congratulations to all of the you know electorates, uh, you know, electees that will be coming into office in January.
• 53:48
  SPEAKER_03: I think a lot of you all did an amazing run and campaigning to get to where you are, and I can imagine the sacrifice that it had to take uh and the time.
• 54:00
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, and one thing that I just want to share because my hometown is underwater, my business partner was trapped in.
• 54:06
  SPEAKER_04: Um, I'm from South Florida, and the floods are devastating.
• 54:14
  SPEAKER_04: Um, so just pray for South Florida, parts of Central Florida, the east coast of Central Florida, um, Brevard County, Palm Bay, all of those areas, Palm Beach County, Broward County, all of those areas, poor St.
• 54:31
  SPEAKER_04: Lucie County, well, St.
• 54:32
  SPEAKER_04: Lucie County, that are being severely impacted by um unprecedented flooding right now.
• 54:41
  SPEAKER_03: I did not know that, and I have not seen that on the news.
• 54:44
  SPEAKER_02: I just found out today.
• 54:46
  SPEAKER_02: I talked to um Elizabeth and she sent me some pictures.
• 54:49
  SPEAKER_04: Horrible.
• 54:51
  SPEAKER_02: I can't even believe it.
• 54:52
  SPEAKER_04: Thank God, like where my business partner lives, she can't get out of the development, in the development, anything.
• 55:06
  SPEAKER_04: Cars are underwater, they're disabled.
• 55:09
  SPEAKER_04: Um on the street that our business is on, we're on the second floor street flooded.
• 55:16
  SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna send y'all some videos.
• 55:17
  SPEAKER_04: Alligators, alligators, bull sharks.
• 55:21
  SPEAKER_04: Um in the middle of the room.
• 55:25
  SPEAKER_04: Well, the only thing is because it probably wouldn't have been as bad, but we have something known as a king tide that's happening right now, and so that's when the tides are unusually high.
• 55:36
  SPEAKER_04: And when you have this many inches of rainfall in a short period of time, and we're building so much that you know the marsh, the water has nowhere to go, it it puddles, and so it's a a multitude of things that's causing this unprecedented flooding, and um yeah, so Byron Donald's want to put up these um um data.
• 56:01
  SPEAKER_03: There's no state of emergency anywhere.
• 56:03
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, it should be no, not not.
• 56:05
  SPEAKER_04: I don't think uh DeSantis has declared it a state of emergency.
• 56:09
  SPEAKER_04: Of course not local counties I know have, but I I'm not saying he hasn't.
• 56:15
  SPEAKER_04: I just haven't heard that he has a lot of things.
• 56:17
  SPEAKER_03: So I said I haven't seen it, and I'm thinking maybe do you think it was overshadowed because of the elections?
• 56:24
  SPEAKER_04: No, because this started before the election.
• 56:26
  SPEAKER_04: This has been going a lot of people couldn't even vote because of that.
• 56:30
  SPEAKER_04: Oh wow, so but anyway, the people that did vote, they were uh leaning Republican.
• 56:36
  SPEAKER_04: But anyway, we did our thing.
• 56:37
  SPEAKER_03: So true, yeah.
• 56:40
  SPEAKER_03: So that's that's okay.
• 56:42
  SPEAKER_03: Well, we are at the top of the hour, ladies.
• 56:44
  SPEAKER_03: Uh Diana, back there with the good lasagna.
• 56:48
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry.
• 56:49
  SPEAKER_03: Where can every where can everybody find you?
• 56:50
  SPEAKER_03: I know I was just saying it's the good lasagna.
• 56:52
  SPEAKER_03: What by the way, what else are you making with it?
• 56:55
  SPEAKER_02: That's it for tonight.
• 56:56
  SPEAKER_02: It's late.
• 56:57
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, some salad together tomorrow, channel, so and some garlic bread.
• 57:01
  SPEAKER_02: I just had to get it done.
• 57:02
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you can find me at Diana Richardson Philippis.com on all social media platforms.
• 57:08
  SPEAKER_02: And well, I gave my website Diana Richardson Philippis.com and Empowered Womenpower.com.
• 57:15
  SPEAKER_03: All right.
• 57:15
  SPEAKER_03: And Dr.
• 57:16
  SPEAKER_03: Lewis, where can everybody find you at?
• 57:18
  SPEAKER_04: Um, yeah, you can find me at the Girlfriend Therapist on all social media platforms.
• 57:24
  SPEAKER_04: You can also find me on the Noir, you know, I R Center and on Smile Facilitation Services.
• 57:30
  SPEAKER_03: And you can find me on all social media platforms at I am Dr.
• 57:33
  SPEAKER_03: P.
• 57:34
  SPEAKER_03: Gurley.
• 57:34
  SPEAKER_03: And thank you all so much for coming to hang out and you know, playing back and going back and leaving comments and feedback for us.
• 57:41
  SPEAKER_03: Deeply appreciated as we start to wrap up season nine.
• 57:45
  SPEAKER_03: We only have a few more episodes left.
• 57:48
  SPEAKER_03: Um, looking forward to it.
• 57:50
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know if I'll be on the podcast next week because I will be in Seattle uh on vacation, birthday vacation.
• 57:57
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, yeah, yeah.
• 58:00
  SPEAKER_03: And it's a holiday, so I might, I might, it depends because I know the time difference probably gonna be a little while for me.
• 58:08
  SPEAKER_03: But so that probably gives me the leverage to be able to log on next week from Seattle.
• 58:12
  SPEAKER_03: But looking forward to seeing you, ladies, for my birthday.
• 58:19
  SPEAKER_03: Happy early birthday to me.
• 58:21
  SPEAKER_03: Um, my dog over here acting weird, but you know what, you'll find us here next week, same time, same place.
• 58:29
  SPEAKER_03: Y'all have an amazing week, the rest of the week and weekend, and like we always end our episodes.
• 58:35
  SPEAKER_03: Cheers.
• 58:43
  SPEAKER_03: This is Herberation Happy Hour.