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Why Christians Should Vote: A Conversation with a Prosecutor | FT Chuantae Brown | EP79 · Jess Ask

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  Speaker 1: Yo, it's your girl, Jessica Smith, and you already know
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  Speaker 2: Right, put some respect on it. Put some respect on that, y'all.
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  Speaker 6: Those where tell the folks how you feel the baby
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  Speaker 6: I'm good.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. That's it.
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  Speaker 6: I'm good today, see y'all.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all.
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  Speaker 4: Can y'all go encourage her in the common season because
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  Speaker 4: she acting like she don't know what she's doing, because
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  Speaker 4: she's almost like having a kid in the candy store
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  Speaker 4: trying to buy all the sweet candy pies.
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  Speaker 2: She's gonna look at the wallst I was like, oh
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  Speaker 2: my god, I can't believe this. Walllece up here. She
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  Speaker 2: acts like she.
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  Speaker 6: Got no home training, like Brad gonna get you. So
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  Speaker 6: let me try it again. Des Ray, tell the people
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  Speaker 6: how you feeling.
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  Speaker 7: I'm fantastic today, y'all. The God is good. I'm just
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  Speaker 7: we're just glad to be in this space. Like I'm
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  Speaker 7: literally like a king the candy store likes all the
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  Speaker 7: little gadgets, y'all see some of the little wise like.
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  Speaker 2: It's okay, you can sell a se uh break good time.
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  Speaker 4: Come, good time. But y'all, before I get to this
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  Speaker 4: special guest, you know, we gotta do. We got close
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  Speaker 4: to the right side of my.
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  Speaker 2: Own right now. It's tingling. Okay, I'm trying to compose myself.
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  Speaker 4: But we're gonna get to huh in a minute because
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  Speaker 4: I got to get to another huh in our community,
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  Speaker 4: because you know, it is our community highlight. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we just started this, so I want to make sure
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  Speaker 4: we're consistent with it. And I want to shout out
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  Speaker 4: a special young lady. We have never met, but she
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  Speaker 4: actually joined lunch with just when I was doing it
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  Speaker 4: on Tiatong, and y'all, I think i'ma have to strike
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  Speaker 4: something backup on TikTok.
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  Speaker 2: I've been leaving y'all too lonely for a little too long, Okay.
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  Speaker 4: But I met this young lady through that community, and
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  Speaker 4: when I say proud, proud.
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  Speaker 2: I get out Unlike other influencers.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what other influencers do, but I know
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  Speaker 4: what I do, and I get to know my people,
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  Speaker 4: and baby, when I tell you, because she's reached out
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  Speaker 4: to me, she shared some things with me.
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  Speaker 6: She has supported Share, like coming in and subscribed.
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  Speaker 4: I know what's going on, and so I want to
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  Speaker 4: shout out Ashley Williams. Okay, her TikTok name is at
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  Speaker 4: am I t l asol. I'm not even gonna try
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  Speaker 4: to spell it or say pronounce that. She's gonna have
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  Speaker 4: to tell y'all later. But Ashley Williams, you know exactly
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  Speaker 4: what I'm talking about. I want to tell you. I'm
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  Speaker 4: so proud of you, girl. I just saw that you
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  Speaker 4: are on your sober Okay.
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  Speaker 6: She has committed to go and dry.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: She said that relationship with alcohol was defeated or trying
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  Speaker 4: to defeat her, and she is coming up on it.
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  Speaker 4: So I want to tell you, yes, you can do it,
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  Speaker 4: just the same grace as God has put on my
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  Speaker 4: life to go drive this year and to be exposed
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  Speaker 4: to the greatness. Hallelujah. You will see it. I even
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  Speaker 4: see that your musicianship will enhance. You will get so
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  Speaker 4: much clarity the things that you want, the things that
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  Speaker 4: you desire. God is gonna give you clarity on the
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  Speaker 4: progression towards that. I feel like the Lord is even
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  Speaker 4: enhancing your steps.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Holy Spirit. And you are.
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  Speaker 4: Gonna be crushing serpents heads. So Ashley, my girl, Congratulations,
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  Speaker 4: We love you over here at day.
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  Speaker 6: Congratulations.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations.
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  Speaker 4: Man, going dry as hard, especially when you listen. Listen
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  Speaker 4: that local, that local get it to you and do something. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna be one to tell you to lie
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  Speaker 4: about it. It's not easy because I promised you. I
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  Speaker 4: had to call Desiray on multiple ocasions say hey, I
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  Speaker 4: want a little taste because it's getting there. But we
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  Speaker 4: celebrated that, y'all. I'm nervous because this gift that we
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  Speaker 4: have today is well rounded. She's a well rounded being.
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  Speaker 4: Her life is a full testimony young young.
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  Speaker 2: Young little Tennarney. But she ain't on them streets because
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  Speaker 2: she's a whole married woman Okay.
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  Speaker 6: She's count she is kunt Okay, she's.
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  Speaker 4: A mother, she is a daughter, and but most importantly,
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  Speaker 4: she's a child of God. Listen, I have on this
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  Speaker 4: platform or a special reason, y'all. Y'all know, I don't.
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  Speaker 4: I don't necessarily do the politic thing. But I got
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  Speaker 4: on this platform because of her well roundedness and because
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  Speaker 4: of her heart for God.
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  Speaker 6: And so she gonna give us some clarity today.
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  Speaker 2: Baby.
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  Speaker 4: She is from or study at the University of Alabama,
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  Speaker 4: roll Tide. So that's some's some special kudos, okay. And
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  Speaker 4: not only one degree, she got both of them from. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: she's lowered up. Okay, that's the law. She got that
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  Speaker 4: low law. Okay, So don't don't get it twisted. But
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  Speaker 4: also listen, she is running right now for probate judge.
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  Speaker 4: And I have no shame about promoting that because I
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  Speaker 4: think she's the right I know she's the right woman
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  Speaker 4: for the job. So I introduced to some and present
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  Speaker 4: to others missus Shanti Brown.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get down with Brown. Let's get down with Brown.
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  Speaker 4: Let's get down, get down, get down.
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  Speaker 2: I love you.
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  Speaker 6: I love you, Okay, I'm so happy for you. How
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  Speaker 6: you feeling this.
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  Speaker 7: I feel great, I feel amazing. I feel blessed to
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  Speaker 7: be on your platform. Like I have all the feels.
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  Speaker 7: It's your right armies, my listener, Okay, I have all
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  Speaker 7: the fields this.
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  Speaker 2: Morning, all the bodies listen.
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  Speaker 4: I'm super excited because I feel like this is about
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  Speaker 4: to be a space to where I know I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: be educated because like I said, I don't I don't
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  Speaker 4: do the politic thing, and I don't I don't really learn.
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  Speaker 4: But I also really, I really love the opportunity to
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  Speaker 4: get to know you better because as just seeing it,
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  Speaker 4: I'm she's a couple of years older me, but we
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  Speaker 4: went to the school University of Alabama around the same time,
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  Speaker 4: and I've been able to like, you know, you see
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  Speaker 4: people in passing right and just to see your life
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  Speaker 4: in passing I've taken. I'm like, oh I can get that,
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  Speaker 4: I can I can do that, or oh she doing that, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: let me support that, let me pray for her behind
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  Speaker 4: the scenes with that, Like so you're you're one of
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  Speaker 4: them those people. I'm like, man, she she outside doing
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  Speaker 4: a dog on thing, making a difference. So shout out
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  Speaker 4: to you, shout out to you for being great Okay,
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  Speaker 4: so I want to I want to. One thing I
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  Speaker 4: do like to allow my guests on my platform to
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  Speaker 4: do is to talk about themselves.
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  Speaker 2: How do you how do you introduce yourself to the world? Boy,
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  Speaker 2: it's hard. Why is it hard?
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  Speaker 4: Because?
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  Speaker 7: Like what do I Okay, I'm one. I'm a child
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  Speaker 7: of God. Let's start there. So my mom, she has transition,
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  Speaker 7: she is with the Lord, but she instilled in me
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  Speaker 7: the importance of having a relationship with God. So the
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  Speaker 7: biggest thing I'll say is I'm a woman of faith
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  Speaker 7: and He has killed me through it all. So I'll
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  Speaker 7: start there. I'm a wife. I'm a proud wife. I've
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  Speaker 7: been married to my husband for ten years. I'm a
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  Speaker 7: mom to my baby, Kobe Ava, that's my baby. I'm
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  Speaker 7: a Sorrower deuilta signatate of Sorority Incorporated. I'm also a lawyer.
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  Speaker 7: I'm a public servant. I was a public defender and
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  Speaker 7: then I became a prosecutor. So I have literally literally
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  Speaker 7: served on both sides of justice. So that's another aspect
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  Speaker 7: of me. And then now you can say I'm a
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  Speaker 7: I don't like to say I'm a politician because I
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  Speaker 7: wouldn't say I'm a politician, but I do have.
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  Speaker 2: To run in order to become a judge.
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  Speaker 7: So I'm now in the political realm and I'm running
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  Speaker 7: for district judge Place eleven.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let's start.
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  Speaker 4: Let's start there as far as like the politician, because
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  Speaker 4: I know I was like, I don't do politics. I
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  Speaker 4: don't do and the politics gotta negle connotation. I think
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  Speaker 4: you probably understand why why would you what would you
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  Speaker 4: dress that up to be?
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  Speaker 7: Like?
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  Speaker 4: What makes you different as a politician, because although we
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  Speaker 4: don't like that word, that's what people view you.
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  Speaker 2: Or you ask what makes you different? What makes you
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  Speaker 2: stand out?
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  Speaker 7: Because I'm just a public servant. I think a lot
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  Speaker 7: of people run for positions for selfish reasons because of
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  Speaker 7: the title, because of what they can get from it.
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  Speaker 7: But I'm running because I literally just want to continue
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  Speaker 7: to serve. So I start serving one as a public defender.
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  Speaker 7: And when I graduated from law school, I could have
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  Speaker 7: easily opened up my own private firm, or I could
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  Speaker 7: have went and worked for a firm, but I decided
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  Speaker 7: to be a public servant because so many times people
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  Speaker 7: find themselves in a situation and they can't spend five
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  Speaker 7: ten thousand dollars on an attorney. But they deserve somebody
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  Speaker 7: that's going to go in the courtroom and fight for them,
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  Speaker 7: as if you were spending that much money on me.
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  Speaker 7: So I chose to be a public defender. I chose
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  Speaker 7: to be a public servant. And then I realized I
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  Speaker 7: spent so much of my time as a public defender
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  Speaker 7: begging prosecutors to just be reasonable. I'm like, Hey, do
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  Speaker 7: they this they first offense? Do they have to get
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  Speaker 7: a feelingy? Can we do something different? Can we go
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  Speaker 7: about it a different way? So instead of continuing to
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  Speaker 7: beg for a prosecutor to be reasonable, I just became
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  Speaker 7: what I wanted to see.
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  Speaker 2: That's so good, And I became a prosecutor.
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  Speaker 4: So and I was going to ask you about that transition,
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  Speaker 4: because prosecutors get.
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  Speaker 2: A bad rep, a horrible rep.
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  Speaker 6: And so the reason why what I just heard you
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  Speaker 6: say is because you.
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  Speaker 2: Was done begging.
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  Speaker 4: Let me just go here and be I think that's
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  Speaker 4: so powerful. And it also leads to something I was
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  Speaker 4: curious about. I watched you on TikTok. Y'all should follow
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  Speaker 4: on TikTok. We're gonna have for information in the description.
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  Speaker 4: I was watching you on TikTok, And one of the
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  Speaker 4: things I appreciate about your page is that you really
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  Speaker 4: show your day in a life type of thing, but
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  Speaker 4: you also share your heart. Like sometimes prosecutors can and
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  Speaker 4: seem like dehumanized cold.
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  Speaker 7: We can sing cold and like you said, dehumanized, but
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  Speaker 7: it's it gets to we're human.
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  Speaker 2: We're human.
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  Speaker 7: It's a lodgist. And again, thank you Lord of my
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  Speaker 7: relationship with God. Because you were just talking about you
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  Speaker 7: choosing to be dry. It was a point in my
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  Speaker 7: life where that was my coping mechanism where I had
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  Speaker 7: a long day. I'm coming home. I need to wine
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  Speaker 7: of glass too. That's how I'm going to relax. I
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  Speaker 7: gotta run Backford. I'm getting a wine glass. But then
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  Speaker 7: that wina glass can either turn into two and then three,
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  Speaker 7: and then before you know it, you picking up a
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  Speaker 7: habit that you you don't need to pick up, right,
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  Speaker 7: So I was I was once there where it was normal.
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  Speaker 7: If I'm going to buy some chicken, you say, I
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  Speaker 7: like the cook I do, But with that chicken and
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  Speaker 7: their rice and the green means I'm picking up two
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  Speaker 7: bottles of wine too, and to cope with what's going
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  Speaker 7: on because it's so much. As a prosecutor, I typically
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  Speaker 7: meet someone when they're at their lowest because a family
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  Speaker 7: member has been murdered and kill. So I'm talking to
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  Speaker 7: a mother who is broken, yeah, because her child has
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  Speaker 7: been murdered on the street. And that's just so that's
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  Speaker 7: a lot to take on, you know. So, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 7: it's it's a lot.
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  Speaker 2: It is so.
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  Speaker 4: I love that we're going down this path because one
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  Speaker 4: of the things that I did notice I started, like
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  Speaker 4: recently following Birmingham City Police Department and there's stuff and
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  Speaker 4: of course everything kind of hit at a peak. I
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  Speaker 4: didn't realize I wasn't following them because it's one thing
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  Speaker 4: to follow the Mayor's office.
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  Speaker 2: They gonna only give you so much. Now let's really
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  Speaker 2: follow the police department. The boots on the ground, the
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  Speaker 2: boots on the ground. I love that.
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  Speaker 4: And one of the things that I guess it was
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  Speaker 4: the chief he mentioned that the biggest problem that we
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  Speaker 4: have in a city, in this city is gun violence.
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  Speaker 4: Everything seems to be else, seemed to be under control,
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  Speaker 4: but the gun violence seems to be hiding out.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 4: So technically you're running for District eleven, which is best
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  Speaker 4: the best on the area.
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  Speaker 2: What is it that we.
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  Speaker 4: Are at the community are missing in this and how
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  Speaker 4: can we help impact positive results in this whole gun
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  Speaker 4: violence matter?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, so I think one, well, that's such a hard question,
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  Speaker 7: because how do you fight gun violence? We know one
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  Speaker 7: that the gun laws were changed so you no longer
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  Speaker 7: need a pistol permit to even carry. So I think
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  Speaker 7: that's one. Any any and everybody can carry a gun
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  Speaker 7: now in the state of Alabama without any background check anything.
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  Speaker 2: Let's start there.
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  Speaker 4: You just learned me something I didn't know that. Did
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  Speaker 4: you know that I didn't? You just learned me something
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  Speaker 4: right there.
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  Speaker 7: You used to have to go to the sheriff's department
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  Speaker 7: whichever county you live in. So for example, we live
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  Speaker 7: in Jefferson County. We used to have to go to
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  Speaker 7: the Jefferson County Sheriff's department and pass the background check
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  Speaker 7: and get a pistol permit before I can go legally
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  Speaker 7: purchase a by your arm.
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  Speaker 2: The governor they took that away. That's no longer the law.
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  Speaker 7: So we are a pistol. We don't need a pistol
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  Speaker 7: permit anymore, no background checks, nothing. Anyone can just go
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  Speaker 7: and buy and buy a gun. Yeah mm hmm.
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  Speaker 6: She just blew my mind with that. And I didn't
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  Speaker 6: know that.
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  Speaker 2: I thought you still had that.
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  Speaker 6: So how do you so, how do you control that?
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  Speaker 2: Like, how do you control exactly? And there's no control.
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  Speaker 7: We have lost control, which is why so many people
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  Speaker 7: are carrying guns, and then they're carrying these it's called
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  Speaker 7: switches where they can turn a regular gun into an
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  Speaker 7: automated gun, which means that they can pull the trigger
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  Speaker 7: for three seconds, but seventeen bullets come out at one time.
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  Speaker 7: And that's how the mask to hit so many people
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  Speaker 7: at one time. But just pulling the trigger for three seconds,
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  Speaker 7: that's seventeen bullets coming out at once.
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  Speaker 6: It's a war, that's what it is. That's the language
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  Speaker 6: for it. It's a war.
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  Speaker 4: And it's like not even just a war in between
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  Speaker 4: like two parties or whoever beefing at the time, but
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  Speaker 4: now it's it's like the whole community innocent.
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  Speaker 2: It's a war. It's a war.
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  Speaker 7: Because there are so many casualties of war. You know,
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  Speaker 7: it may be a targeted hit, but because they're spraying
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  Speaker 7: so many rounds, you got three innocent people that didn't
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  Speaker 7: have anything to do with this. For example, at Hush
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  Speaker 7: four people got killed, seventeen other people got shot. They
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  Speaker 7: didn't have anything to do with this, So one, how
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  Speaker 7: do you combat it? I think the laws need to
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  Speaker 7: be changed again to bring that back where people need
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  Speaker 7: background chicks.
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  Speaker 2: And because I do think it's a warfare. It's a
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  Speaker 2: spiritual warfare.
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  Speaker 7: Come on now, making it's a spiritual warfare. So I
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  Speaker 7: do think that they say we're supposed to separate church
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  Speaker 7: and state, but I think that we as the Christian
• 16:41
  Speaker 7: community can do more within getting our community. We can't
• 16:45
  Speaker 7: just stay in the four walls of our church and
• 16:47
  Speaker 7: pray about it. We gotta go walk these streets and
• 16:49
  Speaker 7: pray about it. For example, from me, I don't just
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: stay in the courtroom. I go to schools all the time,
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: and I talked to high school ors. I even go
• 16:58
  Speaker 7: to middle school because I try to catch them as
• 17:00
  Speaker 7: young as I can't. Yeah to say, I rather for
• 17:02
  Speaker 7: you to see me here than for me to get
• 17:04
  Speaker 7: to know you in that court room.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: And I'm so glad you brought I'm so glad you
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: brought that up because one of the things that I
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: probably disagree on is that you know, we have this
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: language of this generation don't want it.
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: This generation they different. Now I ain't gonna lie.
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: This generation is a is a little different, but the
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: desire of the heart is not the same. Like they
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: want to be around this. What are you hearing in
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: the schools when you're visiting they want?
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: I will say, they're not different. See we think that
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: they're different. But when I go talk to them, it's
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: the same as you and I, Jessica. They want the
• 17:41
  Speaker 7: same things. Children won't structure, they won't discipline. They want
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: people to say, hey, you.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Deserve more, your worth more than this. You do have
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: something to lose.
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: Like But if people keep saying they different, they bad.
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: They that's what we're putting into their spirit. But if
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: I say, baby, no, no, I don't know you have something
• 18:02
  Speaker 7: to lose. Do you know who God created created you
• 18:04
  Speaker 7: to be? Do you know God has a plan for you?
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Do you know?
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: For example, when I go inside these schools, I bought
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: these cheap journals. They're about this big yeah, And I
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: told them how important it was to write their vision
• 18:16
  Speaker 7: and make it plain. And you know how excited those
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: children were to get a journal, to get a journal.
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: They were excited about that. And I'm talking about fourteen
• 18:27
  Speaker 7: year old boys. Girls didn't matter, black, white, hispanic didn't matter.
• 18:31
  Speaker 7: I was at Huretown Middle School. They were so excited
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: to get that journal.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: But not only to get the journal. What I hear
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: is that they were excited that somebody told them they
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: had a vision. Okay, I told the woman the God
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: that I was in the third heaven. So I almost
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: took off right there. But honest to God, like, how
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: many children know that they can, that they are permitted
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: to see?
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: Like you got.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: Pission to not only see, but to write down what
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: you are seeing.
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: So now it's not even just a journal. Now you're
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: giving me. I got a dream, I can write down
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: a dream.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: I got something to write. I got something to write.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: Okay, let me let me gather myself. I got this,
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: Joe and little Oil this listen. So when as a prosecutor,
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: I'm there is because I love a good.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Law and order. Yes, I love a good.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: So so when I'm looking at your your profile on TikTok,
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: I just I mean, I really enjoy it.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: I hear your hear your heart beat on it.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: What's the proudest moment that you've had as a prosecutor?
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: Because we hear about the sad moments, But what's that
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: moment where you said, you know where God you helped
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: me do that, like you help me overcome that thing.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Oh that's a that's a good question.
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: It's been so many cases that have just pulled on
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: my heartstrings. But I give you one, and I'm gonna.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Try to say this without crime, just God, because I
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: don't want to. It's okay, so I prosecute murders, but
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: I also prosecute child.
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: It's say cases, right, explain that child sexual assault case? Okay,
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: So I didn't know if I you know some platforms,
• 20:27
  Speaker 7: she can't say sexual assaults. Okay, so I prosecute those
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: as well. And it was this young black girl. And
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: let me say this, this is another reason why it's
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: so important for I think black people and especially black
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: females to be prosecutors because a lot of times we
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: are victims and we if the person don't look like us,
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: sometimes they don't understand us. So I was able to
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: bumd with this one girl and she was sexually assaulted
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: by her mom's boyfriend. And let me say this, a
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: lot of times the sexual assaults are the family friends
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: that you think you can trust yeah. And I remember
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: I was second charity, which means that I wasn't the
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: primary I wasn't the initial prosecutor on the case. It
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: was my colleague who does not look like you and I.
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: So when I came into the room, I saw that
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: her whole, I saw the kids. I see that it changed,
• 21:24
  Speaker 7: and so I began to talk to her, and then
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: she just broke down and she said, I thought everyone
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: forgot about me, and I just I just went over
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: there and I just like literally just held on to her,
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: and she literally just cried in my shoulders. She was like,
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: I thought everyone forgot about me. And then we went
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: to trial and it was time for her to face
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: this person that has done all these things.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Literally put a gup.
• 21:50
  Speaker 7: She was raped that gunpoint as a child, and she
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: was it was time for her to testify, and she
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: ran out of the courtroom crying.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: I went out.
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: We went in the back stairwell and I literally just
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: talked to her as if she was my daughter.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: I said, this is your moment, this is your moment.
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: I know you're afraid, but this is your moment to
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: look him in the face and say, you know you
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: did this to me, and she cried.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Then I held her and then I wiped her face.
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: I fixed her but and I remember her little bun
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: was missed up and I fixed her hair and I said,
• 22:22
  Speaker 7: you got it. And she went on this stand and
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: she testified, and so that case will always we still
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: we still are in communication to this day. He was
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: found guilty, Thank God, make good prison for what he did.
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: But we still communicate to this day. So shout out
• 22:37
  Speaker 7: to you. She no, I won't say her now. Of
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: course you know who you are. I love you, girl,
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: and we still communicate to this day.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, wow, that was the one. That's one of
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: the cases.
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: When the jury came back with guilty, I was like, Yo,
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: this is why I'm doing what I'm doing.
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: It's a reminder.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's reminded because I believe also, I wouldn't be
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: surprised if you had cases that's like why did why
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: didn't this go this way? Or how are you able
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: to manage that going home at night? Like what is
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: your systems? Your your s ops for going home, because
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: that's you taking a lot of drama. Yeah, you said
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: you ain't drinking no more. Yes, trauma, trauma and drama
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: and you're bringing it to home.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: So how do you as a promo starty one.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: Woman, listen, cleanse yourself of that that that heartache, and
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: be able.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: To be present as a wife and a luma.
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: Well I'm glad you said wife because my husband won.
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: He's so good. They say opposite is a tract, and
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: it's literally us to a t I'm an aries, I'm
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: very type, I'm very like.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: He's a lib. He's like, girl, why are you swinging?
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Girl?
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: And sit down? Like girl, why you stressed you?
• 23:47
  Speaker 7: And we've been together for so long that he can
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: tell like I don't even have to say something like
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: I don't even have to tell how my day was.
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: He can just read the room and be like.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: So, how was your day?
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: Yeah, like what's going on? And then so he's he's
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: real good at that. And then I do I read
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: the word he already knows. I go upstairs in my
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: guest room where my mom my mom transitioned at my home. Wow,
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: And some people think it's a it's a bad thing,
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: but it actually gives me peace that that's where she
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: that's where she passed. So I think her spirit, I
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: know her spirit is still in that space. So so
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: a lot of times I go upstairs where she passed
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: and I read my Bible. My baby Kobe. She's a comedian,
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: so she keeps me on my toes just laughing, and
• 24:36
  Speaker 7: it's it's the family.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: It's the way. I'll say this. The trauma and the
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: drama I experience, it.
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: Works give give me another level of appreciation of what
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: I have at so, I think it puts a lot
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: of things into perspective.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: But once I get home, like God, I thank you,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: God went up.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: I almost just took this table off, because there's no
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: gratitude than being able to be experienced like we on
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: this same earth, we walk in this same land, and
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: your experience is different from my.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: God. I thank you God. I thank you that I
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: didn't lose my mind.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: God, I thank you that my husband is here with
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: me and I got to worry about him being gunned down.
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: I thank you that I'm in this safe space.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: God.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: I I thank you, Yes, girl that thank you become
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: different when you see, when you see different things and
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: you experience different things. My goodness, that almost sent me in.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: But I'm so glad. You continue to bring up your
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: mom and I want to talk about her at her
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: I want to. I'm gonna try to say this without crying.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: Don't cry because I don't want to. But I admire
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: you so much, Chante, because you are so strong and
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: I know, as black women especially we always got She's
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: so strong, you know, I'm saying it from a heartfelt place,
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: like the perseverance, the tenacity, the resilience. Only only walking
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: through it with God can get you there. And if
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: I want and I could be and have that level
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: of tenacity, resilience, perseverance, I know I could be a
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: great woman.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: And you're the epitome of that.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: And to see, first of all, let's let's before we
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: talk about your mom, because we gotta. I gotta give
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: a understand, give people the understanding of Okay, I'm not
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: just talking about the grieving your mother. I'm talking about
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: you in law school and you find out or you
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: have you find out you're pregnant, and you have your
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: baby while you're doing law school. How did baby? We
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: love you, Kobe, but my god, you made an appearance.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Our world. How was that time for you?
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: I mean, you're a stupid You're right out of undergrad
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: like you have your whole life ahead of you.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: In the name bam dropped it.
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: Like they say, God has a sense of human because
• 27:12
  Speaker 7: when you write your plan, now God got up the
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: laughing like, girl, yeah, this is what you're about to do.
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: You about to become a whole mom right now, right now.
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: Once again, I got kudos to my husband because I
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: call my husband like Lord Jesus.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: But at that time, were y'all engaged? Were y'all? We
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: weren't even married yet. We weren't even married yet. So
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: and I was in law school.
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: I had I got a scholarship initially, I went to
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: law school in Montgomery and he was still in Tuscaloosa.
• 27:41
  Speaker 7: So we were living long long distance, but not really
• 27:44
  Speaker 7: you know, it's like an hour or so. Yeah, So
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: I wasn't even Tuscaloosa at the time. So I call
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: him like, oh my god, what am I gonna do?
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: And again he's my calmness. I don't know how he
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: does it, maybe because he's in the military and he's
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: seen so much, but he just has this life level
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: of colmness to him where he's like I remember calling
• 28:03
  Speaker 7: him and I told him like, oh my god, my god.
• 28:05
  Speaker 7: He said, okay, it's going to be okay, he said,
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: tell me before you took the test.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: What were you about to do? I said, I was
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: about to get my nails done.
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: He said, go get your nails done. That was go
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: get your nails done. It's okay, we'll figure it out.
• 28:18
  Speaker 7: Why are you go get your nails done? Like we're
• 28:20
  Speaker 7: about to have a baby. This is like literally and
• 28:23
  Speaker 7: I was like, okay.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Same grace because baby and got that.
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: I'd be swallowing, like you will get your helpmate again.
• 28:32
  Speaker 7: God knows what you need. And I went to go
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: get my name. I went to go get my nails done,
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: and I applied. I contacted Alabama, applied to Alabama, got in,
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: thank God. So I was able to transfer to Alabama,
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: the University of Alabama Law School.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: And I had Kobe. Let me tell you again how
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: funny God is so and she laughing. Girl.
• 28:56
  Speaker 7: So Kobe was due on August to fourteenth. You know
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: what significant about that day? That was the first day of.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: School, my last year.
• 29:05
  Speaker 7: So I got pregnant my two o year and I
• 29:08
  Speaker 7: had her right before school started, my last year of
• 29:11
  Speaker 7: law school, right and she was doing August fourteen. So
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: I went to the doctor. I said, look, you're gonna
• 29:17
  Speaker 7: have to get her up out of here.
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: I said, we're gonna induce sea section, whatever we gotta do.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: She got out there.
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: Off before August fourteen, I went to my doctor. She said, baby,
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: you're not even dilating yet. I'm not inducing. She was
• 29:32
  Speaker 7: calm when she calm, so I said, Lord Jesus.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: What I'm gonna do? So baby, I got to walk in.
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: I'm telling me, I was walking everywhere and this is
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: this is walking up the hills and.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: There walking up hills.
• 29:44
  Speaker 7: If I went to Walmart, I'm parking at the back
• 29:46
  Speaker 7: of the parking line so I can walk.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: I'm like, she gotta get out of here. She got,
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: you got to go, and she did. She came on
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: her own. She lit again.
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: Got but let me say this. I was trying to
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: do everything on my own. And I remember, remember I
• 30:00
  Speaker 7: went home and prayed. I remember, and sometimes you it's
• 30:04
  Speaker 7: in those situations where it's literally outside of your hands.
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: When my baby enters this world, it's literally out of
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: my hands. And so I remember praying. I said, God,
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: it's on you. If she comes on August fourteenth, I
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: know I'll still graduate. I know I give it all
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: you literally they literally I just gave it to him.
• 30:21
  Speaker 7: I said, God, I get I give it to you.
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: I gave it to you. I gave it to him.
• 30:27
  Speaker 7: My water broke on his own when I'm sleeping at
• 30:29
  Speaker 7: that when I'm when I rest, when I stopped stressing,
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: literally was asleep, resting, and it's pool water broke.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: Oh lord, now I'm like all.
• 30:45
  Speaker 7: On August the fifth, water broke on his song. On
• 30:49
  Speaker 7: August the fifth, I maybe pushed twice. I'm telling you,
• 30:53
  Speaker 7: such an easy delivery. Literally, everything just can't. I had
• 30:58
  Speaker 7: her on August if on a Tuesday. By August fourteenth,
• 31:01
  Speaker 7: Pho Niches thirsty, I was sinning class.
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: You were sitting in the class. You ain't getting no
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: work brought to you.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: I was sinning class. I was sinning class. That's what you're.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: Gonna make my point, because I don't know if it
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: could be. That's another level of strength.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: I was sinning class.
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: Like them, them seas ain't comfortable like you, just putting
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: somebody please.
• 31:27
  Speaker 7: Milk coming stitches, still sinning class.
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: That's the that's another level of determination. That's another level
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: of I saw with what God saw, he showed it
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: to me. Come on, he showed it to me. And
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: by enemies necessary.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: That's a strength. I mean. And again, my husband took
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: off work for three months. What's the what's your husband?
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: Name is?
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: John Brown? Shut John Brown? Mister John Brown.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: If they make duplicates of you, I know it's some
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: women out here in these streets that needs you. Can't
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: you can't hear, you can't have causes tape lets let
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: us know, because they say birds fly together.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: So mister Brown, if you got this single.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: Friends, I know people that are looking. But no, that's
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: that's so, that's so beautiful. For one, it sounds like
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: for when your your your husband is a real, a
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: real man of God, like his character is intact. Like
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: you don't even sound like, oh, I'm just doing this
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: my wife, It's like that's his being.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: Like, so God care of you, a good man, and
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: take care of you. God.
• 32:36
  Speaker 7: Man took off for three months. I didn't miss the
• 32:38
  Speaker 7: day of school and you finished. I finished on time
• 32:42
  Speaker 7: and passed the bar the first time. Nothing but God, literally.
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: So you couldn't even question if you was supposed to
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: be doing this or not.
• 32:50
  Speaker 7: Clearly, God, clearly, because it's like what you thought would
• 32:54
  Speaker 7: have stopped me.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: Or delayed me. Nothing.
• 32:58
  Speaker 7: Literally, I didn't miss a step then miss a day
• 33:01
  Speaker 7: of class, graduated on time. Kobe wasn't even one yet
• 33:06
  Speaker 7: when I was studying for the bar, so I literally
• 33:08
  Speaker 7: still had a baby studying for the bar, took the
• 33:12
  Speaker 7: bar that July passed, the bar, got my bar results
• 33:15
  Speaker 7: on my husband's birthday.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: That I passed. You say that.
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: This is what I'm getting from you, that you don't
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: allow life that be lifing to interrupt the plans of God.
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: And I think, especially as believers, let's talk about the believers,
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: we have an opportunity to lean on what we know
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: or say that we believe. And what I'm hearing from
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: you is that your belief has always been intact. So
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: I bring that part up is because I think that
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: your story, or seeing you walk through this journey of
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: greed with you with your mom passing, has blessed me
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: beyond measures, because if I could be transparent with you
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: real quick. My father is where we're saying, he's on
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: his victory journey from cancer.
• 34:18
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: This is the second time he's had it. Right.
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: And but when I see stories like yours, my cousins
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: they've lost their father to cancer, the cancer thing is just.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: It's a trigger. Yes, it is mm hmmm.
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: And as a daughter and seeing and I'm trying not
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: to get emotional because I notice your story.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: No, no, but this is what we're here.
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: Yeah, how do you still push through that pain point?
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: Because I know she was your best friend.
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: I know that y'all were working together, baby, y'all will
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: cook you like y'all, y'all was doing some things like
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: best friends.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: It's my best friend.
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: How you pushed through that and be at the place where, oh,
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: I'm running again? Because does make this very clear? This
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: ain't shut as first time running.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: For judge probate judge.
• 35:18
  Speaker 7: This saint the first time district district judge, my distrate judge.
• 35:21
  Speaker 6: Not my girls.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: My friend's running for probate. Yes, and my girls. I
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: told y'alln't know nothing about no politics.
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: I told you, but it's not your first time running.
• 35:35
  Speaker 6: She was here on the first run and now she's not.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: How new?
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: How does Shanta deal with this? How does she navigate
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: through this process?
• 35:43
  Speaker 7: I would I wouldn't even say it's a day by day.
• 35:46
  Speaker 7: It's a moment by moment because one moment you may
• 35:50
  Speaker 7: be okay and.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: Another moment you may cry, and that's okay.
• 35:54
  Speaker 7: And That's why I want to tell people, like I
• 35:56
  Speaker 7: think when it comes to grief, I think people think like, oh,
• 36:00
  Speaker 7: it's a time where you're grieving, then it's then you'll
• 36:03
  Speaker 7: be over.
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: No.
• 36:04
  Speaker 7: I think I will be in some stage of grieving
• 36:08
  Speaker 7: for as long as I'm here on earth, until I'm meet,
• 36:10
  Speaker 7: until I transition myself. But grief, it's different. How do
• 36:17
  Speaker 7: I say this? I saw, so I'll say this. I
• 36:22
  Speaker 7: saw something on TikTok where this girl was talking about
• 36:27
  Speaker 7: her best friend's dad passed away, and she was saying
• 36:31
  Speaker 7: that her best friend was saying, I want to get
• 36:33
  Speaker 7: back to the normal version of me, and she says
• 36:37
  Speaker 7: she told her friend, You'll never get back to that
• 36:40
  Speaker 7: person because that person had your dad. You have to
• 36:43
  Speaker 7: discover what's the new person. So for me, once I
• 36:49
  Speaker 7: let go of that version of chante, you know, that
• 36:52
  Speaker 7: version of chante having my mom here is gone. She
• 36:55
  Speaker 7: loved When my mom loved, this is now a new
• 36:58
  Speaker 7: version of chantay. But what is that a chante that
• 37:00
  Speaker 7: is able to persevere, A chante that remembers my mom
• 37:04
  Speaker 7: and her legacy and what she left here on this earth,
• 37:07
  Speaker 7: and the values and the foundation that she instilled in me.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: I'm able.
• 37:12
  Speaker 7: That keeps me going, you know what I mean. And
• 37:16
  Speaker 7: it's literally a I won't even say day by day.
• 37:19
  Speaker 7: It's a moment by moment because I could wake up
• 37:22
  Speaker 7: full of joy and happiness, and then the smallest thing
• 37:26
  Speaker 7: may be a trigger and I may find myself crying,
• 37:28
  Speaker 7: but not like a bullhoo cry, just to you know,
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: a cry, and then I may go back to being happy.
• 37:33
  Speaker 7: It's literally a moment by moment. Just it's a moment
• 37:36
  Speaker 7: by moment because it's nothing like that's the person I
• 37:40
  Speaker 7: don't I didn't know a life without her, you know,
• 37:43
  Speaker 7: you know, and that was my best friend, the person
• 37:46
  Speaker 7: I called.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: For everything, whether it's.
• 37:50
  Speaker 7: Girl im and Walmart where they keep the chicken booyon
• 37:52
  Speaker 7: because I'm trying to I'm trying.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to make sure my green's right.
• 37:57
  Speaker 7: Oh okay, I need to I need to get some
• 37:59
  Speaker 7: bacon grease, so let me go get the back and
• 38:01
  Speaker 7: like small stuff like that to big stuff. When I
• 38:04
  Speaker 7: found out, I was praying in law school girl and
• 38:05
  Speaker 7: praying the girl like.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: The person that you literally call for everything is no
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: longer here. So what does that look like?
• 38:12
  Speaker 7: Especially at such a young age like I was only
• 38:14
  Speaker 7: thirty two when she passed away. She had just turned sixty.
• 38:18
  Speaker 7: And then on top of that, I was her caregiver. Yeah,
• 38:22
  Speaker 7: so my mom found out that she had and let
• 38:25
  Speaker 7: me say this, this, I think this is why it
• 38:27
  Speaker 7: was such a traumatic experience for my sisters.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: And I have two sisters as well. And I had never.
• 38:34
  Speaker 7: Seen my mom sick at all, like I'm talking about
• 38:37
  Speaker 7: never even seeing her with the cold. Like my mama
• 38:40
  Speaker 7: was the type of mama where she woke up at
• 38:42
  Speaker 7: four o'clock every morning without alarm clock, and she would
• 38:46
  Speaker 7: pray and she would cover us and she would cover
• 38:48
  Speaker 7: her body and I'm talking about pray from head to
• 38:50
  Speaker 7: toe over her body. I never seen my mama even
• 38:53
  Speaker 7: literally with the cold before. So for her to go
• 38:56
  Speaker 7: from that to going to the hospital and being diagnosed
• 38:59
  Speaker 7: with stage four minutes steadica venian cancer, it was like whoa.
• 39:05
  Speaker 7: And so that was in April. She left the hospital
• 39:07
  Speaker 7: and she moved in with me. She said, I want
• 39:09
  Speaker 7: to stay with you. So I went from Okay, you know,
• 39:14
  Speaker 7: now I'm a Now I'm in this caregiver faith walk mode.
• 39:19
  Speaker 7: So you know, my mom, I remember being at the hospital.
• 39:22
  Speaker 7: I never forget this, and I remember the doctors, and
• 39:23
  Speaker 7: you know, you can tell when something is like whoa,
• 39:26
  Speaker 7: because I can tell one it was a team of
• 39:28
  Speaker 7: doctors that came into the room. So I'm like, all right,
• 39:31
  Speaker 7: it's about ten of y'all in here, and all y'all
• 39:33
  Speaker 7: look sad, like what's going on? Like y'all whatever, y'all
• 39:36
  Speaker 7: about to say, I don't think this is good. And
• 39:39
  Speaker 7: so I remember seeing in her bedside and they delivered
• 39:42
  Speaker 7: the news and they said it was incurable, you know,
• 39:43
  Speaker 7: and all of that, and I remember just feeling like
• 39:46
  Speaker 7: I was about to just pass out, and I never
• 39:48
  Speaker 7: forget my mom said, oh, okay, okay, because I'm not
• 39:55
  Speaker 7: gonna go.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: This is gonna be a good thing. I'm not gonna cry.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: My mom said, no, weap informed against her.
• 40:01
  Speaker 7: Shall prosper, Like for you to look in the doctor's faith,
• 40:05
  Speaker 7: like doctors are telling you essentially you're about to die,
• 40:08
  Speaker 7: you have an incurable disease.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: And my mom.
• 40:10
  Speaker 7: Immediately gave them the word like I will never forget that.
• 40:16
  Speaker 7: I will never forget that. She said, no, weap informed
• 40:19
  Speaker 7: against her, shall prosper. And I remember, okay, it's okay,
• 40:24
  Speaker 7: and I remember they brought her back from doing the biopsy,
• 40:30
  Speaker 7: and I remember we turned on whose report.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: Do you believe? We shall believe the report of the Lord?
• 40:35
  Speaker 7: And I remember my mom she was already losing weight,
• 40:39
  Speaker 7: and I remember she we got up and we were
• 40:44
  Speaker 7: like dancing around the hospital room.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: Whose report do you believe? We shall believe the report
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: of the Lord? And thank you, thank you so much.
• 41:00
  Speaker 7: And so she moved in with me, and we used
• 41:02
  Speaker 7: to go on walks and I still got and I
• 41:04
  Speaker 7: cherished those videos.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: I'm happy I recorded them.
• 41:08
  Speaker 7: But when we used to go and walks in my
• 41:09
  Speaker 7: neighborhood and we used to just literally pray and speak
• 41:12
  Speaker 7: the word and confess. And so when my mom transition,
• 41:16
  Speaker 7: I tell people, you know, yes she transitioned, but she
• 41:19
  Speaker 7: received the ultimate healing, like she's in a place where
• 41:22
  Speaker 7: we all pray to be one day. So that's that's
• 41:25
  Speaker 7: another reason why it gives me peace, because I'm like
• 41:27
  Speaker 7: my mama. I used to tell everybody, you know, how
• 41:29
  Speaker 7: they say Jesus on the main line, I'm like, no,
• 41:31
  Speaker 7: but for real, my mama can't call him like if
• 41:34
  Speaker 7: something's going on, I know it's called my mama. She
• 41:37
  Speaker 7: got a different relationship with him, like, if I call Jesus,
• 41:40
  Speaker 7: he may put me on hold on lib you know
• 41:42
  Speaker 7: what I'm saying, Like he's gonna be like a hold on.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: But if my mama call with my mama call, he
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: picking up like she got him. That's the type of
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: relationships they had.
• 41:53
  Speaker 7: The Lord put me on hole because sem like, girl,
• 41:57
  Speaker 7: I ain't car me about two three when you being shit,
• 42:00
  Speaker 7: He's gonna put me on a whole little bit.
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: But my mama she on the main line, So I said, Yo,
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: she she's with Jesus.
• 42:08
  Speaker 7: So that that gives me peace because I know she
• 42:10
  Speaker 7: her and Jesus are up there, and I can tell
• 42:13
  Speaker 7: that she has I definitely have a different level of coverage.
• 42:18
  Speaker 7: I feel like it's so many situations where now people
• 42:21
  Speaker 7: be like Dan should say how are you, how are
• 42:23
  Speaker 7: you dealing with this, or how are you dealing with this?
• 42:25
  Speaker 7: I'm like, I know I got Jesus up there, and
• 42:26
  Speaker 7: I know I got my mom. There's just a different
• 42:29
  Speaker 7: level of coverage, a different level of peace that I
• 42:31
  Speaker 7: have in certain situations because it's stressful being a wife,
• 42:36
  Speaker 7: being a mom, being a prosecutor, and campaigning. You know,
• 42:40
  Speaker 7: I just feel like I'm I'm always being told. But
• 42:44
  Speaker 7: then at the same time, I do have that peace
• 42:46
  Speaker 7: that the past is all understanding. Yes, and I tell
• 42:50
  Speaker 7: people people always quote that, but I said, what is
• 42:52
  Speaker 7: the scripture before that pray about everything and worry about nothing.
• 42:55
  Speaker 7: Come on, you will have peace? Thats her past or
• 42:58
  Speaker 7: are understanding?
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: We yeah, man, you're talking really, I'm telling you this
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: side of my body.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: I'm telling you this side of my body.
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: You so's it was inevitable that you would be a
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: woman of God, Like it was no way that you
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: could go around for somebody of.
• 43:14
  Speaker 7: Life without them. My mom like my mom and still
• 43:18
  Speaker 7: we was. We was one of them kids. There was
• 43:20
  Speaker 7: a church Monday through Saturday, almost like growing up. Like
• 43:24
  Speaker 7: literally Saturday morning we're doing anycessory prayer. Sunday, we're at church.
• 43:29
  Speaker 7: Wednesday where at Bible study. If it's something going on
• 43:32
  Speaker 7: throughout the week where they need people to come volunteer
• 43:34
  Speaker 7: to put something together. The church, we were there. I
• 43:36
  Speaker 7: was on the praise team. I was mining babe church
• 43:59
  Speaker 7: to say tell that church up, the baby, white face
• 44:06
  Speaker 7: church up.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: Did you have the black lip? No, a black lip?
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: I see people doing that now with the black child.
• 44:13
  Speaker 7: I had the black little I had the white face
• 44:16
  Speaker 7: with the gloves.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: Baby put on what's that song? I used to do
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: forever every month? You brah me.
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: So she's telling y'all, if you got a ministry or
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: a school that need a mind ministry, she might have
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: to pull out her all.
• 44:34
  Speaker 7: I have all tire, but I will come and help.
• 44:39
  Speaker 7: But I have retired my gloves helping put up your gloves.
• 44:43
  Speaker 7: Get Oh, I forgot that they do her gloves.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, that has took me. Okay, thank you for getting
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: us out of the York because we needed to laugh.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: Is good for I'm telling I love to laugh. But
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: I love that. So I love that you're a woman
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: of God. I love that. I absolutely love that.
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: How I guess in in in in society's norms, right,
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: I would I would think that it's come it comes
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: a point where you have to make a solid decision
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: because that's you're a woman of God first versus what
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: you believe in politics, right, and so like when we
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: talk about the balance of that and we talk about
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: being being people of God, how do I.
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: Vote as a believer?
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: Like I know this voting thing, like it's a it's
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: a conversation, right, and the conversation in the Christian community,
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: right is I don't know who to vote for. I
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: should I'm leaning towards this we it's not even part
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: of the conversation.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: I don't if you vote, vote for who you're gonna
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: vote for.
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: But how do I come to that solution of why
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: should I vote and who should I be voting for?
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: As a believer? One again, pray?
• 45:56
  Speaker 7: I feel like pray about everything and worry about nothing,
• 45:59
  Speaker 7: So one pray ask God for guidance. I feel like
• 46:01
  Speaker 7: it's nothing too small that you can go to God about.
• 46:04
  Speaker 7: I feel like sometimes we feel like we all was
• 46:06
  Speaker 7: supposed to go to God for the big things, like God,
• 46:08
  Speaker 7: I'm believing in this that even the small things God,
• 46:10
  Speaker 7: Who should I vote for?
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: Who is really not only talking to talk but walking
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: this walk?
• 46:17
  Speaker 7: Because again, that's why I don't like politicians sometimes because
• 46:20
  Speaker 7: I know they just say some some politicians do. We
• 46:23
  Speaker 7: say that, they say what they think we want to hear,
• 46:26
  Speaker 7: and then I would say, do your research, actually research
• 46:29
  Speaker 7: kennidates look at what they're talking about and say what who?
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: Who is aligned with my beliefs? Who's aligned with that?
• 46:39
  Speaker 7: And I think the decision is clear in this race
• 46:44
  Speaker 7: presidential race, but again, vote for who you want to
• 46:46
  Speaker 7: vote for. But I think the answer is clear about
• 46:49
  Speaker 7: who you should be voting for.
• 46:51
  Speaker 5: If you if you really do your research and really
• 47:00
  Speaker 5: just watch some interviews.
• 47:02
  Speaker 7: I think I think you would. It would be I
• 47:05
  Speaker 7: think God has made a plane.
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: What do you tell tell the person that says they
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: that they don't their vote doesn't matter, especially in like
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: a presidential candidcy, because I don't understand what is it
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: the yes, thank you saying saying that the mic so
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: the people can hear you, the electoral college, the electoral colleges.
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: I don't even understand for real how that works. Like
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: I said, I'm not into all of that. Yeah, And
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: they say, well, that's what really gets the president in
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: office and we don't matter.
• 47:34
  Speaker 7: What do you what's your response to that? So I
• 47:36
  Speaker 7: would say this, For example, we live in Alabama. Alabama
• 47:39
  Speaker 7: is a red state, so I already know our electoral
• 47:42
  Speaker 7: votes are going to go toward the red candidate, the Republican.
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: I do know that.
• 47:46
  Speaker 7: However, people have to realize that the power that the
• 47:50
  Speaker 7: president holds. So for example, although my electoral votes may
• 47:55
  Speaker 7: go toward him, when you vote and we hopefully get
• 48:00
  Speaker 7: the candidate I think is best. The president has so
• 48:03
  Speaker 7: much power as far as nominating, for example, Supreme Court justices.
• 48:08
  Speaker 7: And that's so important because we know this current Supreme
• 48:11
  Speaker 7: Court justices they took away they overturned a case Roe v. Wade,
• 48:17
  Speaker 7: and so that is a case that was in place
• 48:20
  Speaker 7: for fifty some years and now this Supreme Court took
• 48:24
  Speaker 7: that away.
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: And if a certain candidate.
• 48:28
  Speaker 7: Gets selected, they plan to put two more Supreme Court
• 48:31
  Speaker 7: justices on there that can also take away landmark cases.
• 48:35
  Speaker 7: And we think that certain things won't happen, but you
• 48:37
  Speaker 7: don't know. We're people like us can vote because of
• 48:42
  Speaker 7: the Voting's Right egg that was.
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: Passed by Congress.
• 48:45
  Speaker 7: Okay, but if you don't vote, we can potentially have
• 48:51
  Speaker 7: someone that say, you know what, we need to overturn
• 48:54
  Speaker 7: the voting Rights egg. We need the overturn Brown versus
• 48:58
  Speaker 7: Board of Education. We need the overturn you know what
• 49:00
  Speaker 7: I mean. Like, so it's a trickle down effect, is
• 49:02
  Speaker 7: what I'm trying to say. Like, you're not when you're
• 49:05
  Speaker 7: voting for that one person, it's so much other things
• 49:08
  Speaker 7: start are tied to that vote. You have one candidate
• 49:11
  Speaker 7: that is trying to take away the Department of Education
• 49:13
  Speaker 7: because they don't want it federally regulated because they're tied
• 49:17
  Speaker 7: of slavery being taught. They want to wipe away history.
• 49:22
  Speaker 4: I just learned that black history is not being taught
• 49:25
  Speaker 4: in the schools exactly.
• 49:26
  Speaker 7: And if they take away the Department of Education, that
• 49:29
  Speaker 7: federal regulation is not going to be taime. So things
• 49:33
  Speaker 7: like that where it's such a I wish people. What
• 49:38
  Speaker 7: I would say to the audience is when you cast
• 49:41
  Speaker 7: your ballot on November fifth, is so much more that
• 49:45
  Speaker 7: it's connected to that one vote.
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: Your vote, That one vote can potentially.
• 49:51
  Speaker 7: Say who's going to sit on our Supreme Court justice,
• 49:54
  Speaker 7: who's going to be our Secretary of State, who's going
• 49:57
  Speaker 7: to be over our Department of Education.
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's so much tied to that vote.
• 50:03
  Speaker 7: So I would say every vote matters, every vote counts.
• 50:08
  Speaker 7: So many people die trying to give us the right
• 50:10
  Speaker 7: to vote. So please don't take it for granted, because
• 50:13
  Speaker 7: if you take it for granted, it can easily be
• 50:14
  Speaker 7: given away, which one taken away, which one candidate has
• 50:18
  Speaker 7: said that that's what they're trying to do. He's literally saying,
• 50:21
  Speaker 7: just vote this one more time for me, and once
• 50:23
  Speaker 7: I get into president. Once I become the president again,
• 50:25
  Speaker 7: I'm going to take away like the democracy basically.
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: And it's going to turn into a dictatorship.
• 50:31
  Speaker 6: Basically and Layman's urns.
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: But I just heard it.
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: Look because for the folks that think like j Justica, okay,
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: the folks that get it on the plane line is
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: basically she's saying that it will turn into what do
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: you want versus this is how it's gonna be.
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: This how it's gonna be. You no longer will have
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: a choice.
• 50:51
  Speaker 7: It's a this is our king, this is our dictator,
• 50:55
  Speaker 7: and they're going to be making the rules for us.
• 50:59
  Speaker 7: Like other countries such as China or Russia, that's how
• 51:03
  Speaker 7: they're operated. We in the United States, we have the freedoms,
• 51:07
  Speaker 7: but those freedoms can easily be taken away. One We
• 51:10
  Speaker 7: didn't always have these freedoms. Remember that now, and don't
• 51:14
  Speaker 7: take it for granted that just because we're in the
• 51:16
  Speaker 7: year of tweeny twenty four that it will remain that way.
• 51:19
  Speaker 7: We have to continue to exercise our right to vote
• 51:22
  Speaker 7: in order to keep those freedoms.
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: That's that's good.
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: That's good, A good answer to like digest as to
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: take it because it is, like like I said, I
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  Speaker 4: think I think some we, if we really real about it,
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: a lot of us are just confused. Like it's a
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: lot of just confusion with how everything works. And I know,
• 51:43
  Speaker 4: like Ricky Smile is really big on like pushing the
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: local votes as well, so locally on this, I know
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: we talk about nationally locally what should we be looking
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  Speaker 4: for in this on November fifth? Because I know, my girl,
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: we gotta get down with yes.
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  Speaker 7: So I say, I say, local elections definitely matter because
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  Speaker 7: who will you see more in your lifetime?
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  Speaker 2: Me or the president? Yeah, and so on.
• 52:09
  Speaker 7: On the local level, you nominate or you elect rather
• 52:13
  Speaker 7: the sheriff, you elect the district attorney, you elect the judges,
• 52:18
  Speaker 7: you elect the county commissioners. And then if you want
• 52:21
  Speaker 7: to get even on a more local level next year
• 52:24
  Speaker 7: are municipal races, so that'll be mayor your city councilmen.
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  Speaker 7: So I definitely say, I say, I don't care if
• 52:30
  Speaker 7: it's a somebody running for a dog catcher in my neighborhood.
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  Speaker 2: I'm voting.
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  Speaker 7: I'm voting for everything. Okay, I'm going to exercise my
• 52:38
  Speaker 7: rights to vote because it literally affects your day to
• 52:42
  Speaker 7: day life. You know, for me being a judge, my
• 52:45
  Speaker 7: particular seat. When I have the victory on November fifth,
• 52:50
  Speaker 7: declaring it amen, Amen, my particular seat, I'll handle everything
• 52:55
  Speaker 7: from a traffic ticket all the way up to Class
• 52:57
  Speaker 7: A felonies, which will be attempted murder robbery cases. So
• 53:03
  Speaker 7: one thing that I think won't circling back to where
• 53:05
  Speaker 7: we're talking about the gun violence is drugs.
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  Speaker 2: Drugs is connected to that.
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  Speaker 7: My position, I would be over the Drui Court program.
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  Speaker 7: So that's also something that I'm very passionate about because
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  Speaker 7: a lot of times we send people to wei. I'll
• 53:19
  Speaker 7: say that we as in the criminal justice system, send
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  Speaker 7: people to prison that are battling drug additions. That's not
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  Speaker 7: going to help because drugs are in the prison system.
• 53:28
  Speaker 7: So what do we do to try to battle these
• 53:30
  Speaker 7: drug additions. Well, I will be off the Druid Court program,
• 53:32
  Speaker 7: which is a it's a process where they'll have to test.
• 53:36
  Speaker 7: It's certain things that they'll have to do, and then
• 53:38
  Speaker 7: they'll be able to graduate saying I've been a year
• 53:40
  Speaker 7: or something drug free.
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  Speaker 2: I also connect them with jobs.
• 53:45
  Speaker 7: A lot of times people feel like they don't have
• 53:47
  Speaker 7: anything to lose because they don't have jobs. I'll be
• 53:50
  Speaker 7: able to connect them to getting their ged. So it's
• 53:53
  Speaker 7: a lot that a judge can do other than just
• 53:56
  Speaker 7: going through the dockets sentenced people. You know, you can
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  Speaker 7: be a true public servant on that bench.
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  Speaker 4: You just said something that makes so much sense and
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: shout out to TikTok, you know, because TikTok will giving
• 54:07
  Speaker 4: you some information.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't even watch the news. Yeah, like, let
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: me give you information.
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  Speaker 4: I saw this clip on TikTok of the judge or
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  Speaker 4: judge and uh, someone that was I guess that he
• 54:19
  Speaker 4: was supposed to be going to jail or whatever, and
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: he said some of the things you just brought up.
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  Speaker 4: He was like, Hey, you need to go get your
• 54:26
  Speaker 4: g ed and if you don't, go get your ged,
• 54:28
  Speaker 4: and I need to see the progression of that. I
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: need to see that you've applied. I need you to
• 54:32
  Speaker 4: see so you passing certain tests. I need to see that.
• 54:35
  Speaker 4: And I'm gonna have you here every two weeks until
• 54:37
  Speaker 4: you get it done. And if you pissed, if your
• 54:40
  Speaker 4: pissed ain't clean, said your piss ain't clean, I'm tending
• 54:44
  Speaker 4: you to jail. This is your way out. And that
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: that brought my heart so much joy. And so what
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: what I'm gonna say. What Judge Brown is saying, yes,
• 54:54
  Speaker 4: is that as as and her leadership, her goal is
• 54:58
  Speaker 4: to make sure that we're giving help and not hindering
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  Speaker 4: lifestyles just based off of decision, based off of a
• 55:07
  Speaker 4: bad moment, a bad season and life. We're believing in restoration.
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  Speaker 4: And that is how the Woman of God is going
• 55:14
  Speaker 4: to bring the Kingdom to the court.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, go ahead, Kingdom the court.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, yay, listen, should say I have thoroughly enjoyed you.
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: And I know listen, I know, I know, I know,
• 55:42
  Speaker 4: I know it, and that's what I'm about to say it.
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: I said that you would Judge Shanty Brown for a reason.
• 55:48
  Speaker 4: Your heart is in the right place God. The Kingdom
• 55:51
  Speaker 4: needs you, then the Kingdom needs you position and so
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: I back you. That's why you're here on this platform.
• 55:57
  Speaker 4: I can't vote for the Woman of God because I'm
• 55:58
  Speaker 4: not in the district, but I want you to vote
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: for you live in Jefferson County.
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: I don't live in Jefferson County.
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  Speaker 6: I don't live.
• 56:07
  Speaker 4: I don't live in Jefferson County, but I know plenty
• 56:10
  Speaker 4: of you that do, and so I need for you
• 56:13
  Speaker 4: to cast your ballots, make sure you vote, and make
• 56:19
  Speaker 4: sure you vote for her down.
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: As right. Did you have something to say? Are you good?
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: Go vote?
• 56:30
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: Go vote.
• 56:32
  Speaker 4: Now. There's a tradition here, just as the podcast, where
• 56:36
  Speaker 4: we allow you to leave your final thoughts if there's
• 56:39
  Speaker 4: nothing that we've talked about several things with your life,
• 56:42
  Speaker 4: the transition about voting and all that stuff like that,
• 56:44
  Speaker 4: but if there was something burning on the inside of
• 56:47
  Speaker 4: you to make sure you released that that you want
• 56:49
  Speaker 4: to leave with the people, I want to give you
• 56:52
  Speaker 4: the opportunity to do that.
• 56:53
  Speaker 7: Okay, right now, okay, right now. Look I was so
• 56:59
  Speaker 7: I'm like, okay.
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  Speaker 2: I would say this.
• 57:03
  Speaker 7: I think Jessica has talked about my perseverance and how
• 57:06
  Speaker 7: I was able to get through everything, and I know
• 57:08
  Speaker 7: that I was able to do that by staying in
• 57:10
  Speaker 7: my lane. Jeremiah twenty nine to eleven is one of
• 57:14
  Speaker 7: my favorite scriptures for I know the plans that I
• 57:17
  Speaker 7: have for you, and because I know God has a
• 57:19
  Speaker 7: plan for me, I don't care about you know, don't
• 57:22
  Speaker 7: focus on the plans that he has for Jessica for
• 57:24
  Speaker 7: anyone else. Focused on the plans that God has for you,
• 57:28
  Speaker 7: hear from him, and I premise you're going to see
• 57:30
  Speaker 7: it manifest in your life. So just focus on your lane.
• 57:34
  Speaker 7: That's all.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I would say. That's where I leave you with.
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  Speaker 6: Amen, focus on your lane, your lane.
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: Listen.
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  Speaker 4: I'm down for Shantay Brown. I hope you're down for
• 57:44
  Speaker 4: Shantay Brown. And until next week, go catch catch the votes,
• 57:49
  Speaker 4: November Field, and let's make this happen.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Kingdom.
• 57:54
  Speaker 4: Kingdom has to be here on earth and we only
• 57:56
  Speaker 4: we're the people that I operate in that.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, Love you guys. We'll see you next week.
• 58:02
  Speaker 4: Until then, remember life could be much more simple if
• 58:06
  Speaker 4: you just ask Yay.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for tuning in to this week's episode. Since
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: you've made it this far, you might as well connect
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: with us on all social media platforms at the Jessica S.
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: Smith.
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: I know I won't see you back until next week,
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: but until then, remember to love always yourself and always.
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  Speaker 3: Thank thank God for one another day. Hey, hey, I
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: know we could be another way. Hey, pray thank God
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: for another day. Hey Hey, I'm just thankful for another day.
• 58:53
  Speaker 3: Hey hey another day? Oh another day? Why is another day?
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  Speaker 5: To get it?
• 58:59
  Speaker 3: Right, the day that rise up, another day, living another day.
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  Speaker 3: We loved ones I always remember holding down for a
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  Speaker 3: ball one yep.