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Denzel McCampbell's Plan to Revolutionize Detroit Neighborhoods - Ep. 151 w/ Denzel McCampbell · Black Fridays: Business Growth for Entrepreneurs, Creators & Professionals

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think we're at a very interesting point in Detroit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've seen a lot of investment downtown, and that's, I'm not saying that that's a bad thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think every city that's driving is going to have a driving downtown, but also every city that's driving will have driving neighborhoods.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's one of the reasons why I decided to run is that I've been doing this work on the ground time and time again and wanted to be at the City Council table to not only push for resource and investments in our neighborhood, but really to bring folks to the table.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're making history here on Black Friday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is someone who has made a lifelong career out of community organizing and being able to be able to people to do much more.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And also, the only other dinzer that would be on the podcast, Miss LaGaza, I'm a Campbell.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you so much for having me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a good name.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a great name.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's a great name.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Appreciate you having me all.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Of course.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so, dinzer, you are currently a candidate.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're in the middle of the race for City Council of Detroit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: District 7, which is also my district.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So definitely love to get more into the conversation about people being able to learn about district 7.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some of the things that you're trying to do for it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But before we get to all that,
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[SPEAKER_00]: I got more pressing questions for you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So were you named after Denzel Washington?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I was named after Denzel Washington.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was named after Denzel Washington.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He was my mom's favorite actor.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Same.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Same.
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[SPEAKER_01]: OK.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So people part have actually about is your name, Denzel or Denzel?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Have you gotten that lately?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You could try it because that video started to restart.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, no, my name, Denzel.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what they got going on, but that's how it is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Have you do have people's misspelled your name either give you an extra ill or L.E.
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[SPEAKER_01]: like have people I've got an extra ill.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've got an L.E.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've got an I.L.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All type of way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You got to get your extra ill man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll spell man with two.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what you got to do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah exactly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like that's what it is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But it's all it look.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I appreciate, like, it's one of those names that, like, everybody is like, oh, like, Denzel Washington, I'm like, yes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, how many times have you heard that in your life?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Every time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But like, there is not a week that goes by if I don't hear that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: For sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Or do people tell you, like, oh, Denzel, I ain't going to forget that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Forget that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So you get the same thing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: See, it's like, you just hear it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like I'm doing a spreader man, me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, but I love it and it's like it's really one of those things like It's also like black culture in that way, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like you Dencils like oh you you didn't hit that name in part to late 80s early 90s, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's most likely if you see a Denzel on paper you're talking to the black person that they ma love that Yeah, yeah, how many other Denzel's have you met?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I probably
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[SPEAKER_01]: You probably like the fifth or six, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I went to high school with the Denzel.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I went to Michigan State of Denzel.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Valentine was on the team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, um, and I parted met a couple of more Denzel's in the, just, okay, past.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just a multi verse.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: For sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think I went to high school with three or four.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was two months that was the same years mean.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it was one maybe two that were a couple of years behind us.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Gotcha.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they, we everywhere.
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[SPEAKER_00]: How old are you?
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[SPEAKER_00]: 34.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm at age where I'm starting to forget.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm 33.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's like yeah, wrong.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a tough time for that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: For sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like on the on the boy says name Jalen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Uh-huh.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You can see you think back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like what does happen to the door?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a trend.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a trend.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, so now back to the important stuff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we'll love for you to be able to talk about you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As I mentioned in the intro, you have created a career out of not only community organizing, but being able to serve the people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I want to know, before we get into the campaign and the aspirations of what you plan to do in that seat for District 7, we'll love to be able to talk about how did you get drawn to community organizing and or serving people in a public face in a way?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I really had, I told folks that it dates back to my parents, um, my dad was born and raised in Detroit, uh, was a UAW member, um, and what always saw about the importance around the union, um, how, like, the workers were against their bosses and the unions will always have their back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: My mom was born 25 miles outside the Selma, Alabama.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm doing the Jim Crow here, so she always saw me about the importance of my vote and her memory is to see him black folks holds his turn on them dogs turn on them, of course be in the kill, just for simply having the right to vote, wanted to have the right to vote and they all taught me about the collective, the importance of collecting action and community.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's where I think back and that was that like C-planted into me and then started doing college organizing at Michigan State and got into this was also doing the time where there were we were going to the administration pleading with them to invest more dollars into counseling
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[SPEAKER_01]: invest more dollars into sexual assault prevention and survivor programs and this was what we didn't know during the time this was while the whole air NASA scan was going on right so seeing that doing that work and seeing how folks were in power had the opportunity to actually
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[SPEAKER_01]: helped the people that they were in charge of protecting students on that campus and instead telling us that, well, we had to take money from the classrooms if we put money into the council center and these programs, which was a false choice, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that got me into this role of thinking about community organizing advocacy is that,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Folks in government, always try to, or for the most part, present this false choice between, we can't do this and serve in the folks, cause we have to serve this interest, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's not what, for me, that that's not what government should be about, it should be about.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What the people actually need and folks in government should actually be serving on those needs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's what got me into this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I started doing voting rights and the lecture protection organized once I got out of the college.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was part of the early group that we now know of promote the vote of pushing for a ballot initiative to expand our access to the ballot box.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's why we have the same day registration and no recent absentee early voting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of folks have done work around that and I appreciate all the work and I'm proud to have been a part of the early conversations around that and push it on that and a former Detroit charter revision commissioner so I served on that, that's the city's governing documents and served on that, trying to push for what we call a Detroit ability rights around environmental justice around workers' rights.
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[SPEAKER_01]: around making sure that we had transpired in a child ability in our government and really did that process and bringing folks in to say, how do we want to see our city shape and make sure that our charter reflected that I worked on all levels of government, I worked on the congressional level as a communications director and the advisor and now I serve as a manager and the director for statewide organization for doing advocacy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's really been I've been in a lot of different places with this, this
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[SPEAKER_01]: the center goal of how do we actually make sure people have the power that they're supposed to have and how do we make sure that folks in our government are serving people's best interests and not serving corporate interests that are not aligned with what we need.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know a big part of your campaign or in conversation we've had and that you say publicly you're a part of that reason why you are for the people and advocacy of the people you're not accepting like corporate dollars or anything like that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That was a big push for you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's and this is how I view it and I know there are folks and I'm not saying that
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[SPEAKER_01]: everyone who accept corporate dollars are someone who is not acting as someone's best interest.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: For me, it is the action of the corporate packs and the corporations themselves.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because we know at the end of the day, their goal is to increase their bottom line.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So if they're given the dollars to someone, the expectation there is that they're going to come back and ask for something.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So for me, I don't accept that also there is no expectation there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And beholden to the people that I serve.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that when I'm at the council table, I am bringing forth what the residents in D7 one, what small business owners in D7 one, what the stakeholders who are living in D7 and doing work and play in D7 actually want and need and centering that and not having any other outside forces impacting that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: For sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We don't need you to.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What do you have a rotation right now?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Where are you listening to?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I so since the Super Bowl announcement, I went back to Bad Bunny.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We said elbow.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I've been listening to that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've been listening to a lot of, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Beyonce as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Beyonce is my favorite singer and usher.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, for sure Yeah, so could you paint the picture of District 7 for someone who had been in those areas of those neighborhoods?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so How it till folks?
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is basically, let me, I'll go through the boundaries now I'll go through some main roads, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: So living noise the most eastern point, and then the referb order is the most western point.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're born, they're born houses at the south.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And for the most part, 96 is the northern border.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But in some areas, we go up to peer to and lendon over to living noise.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Folks like Joy-Row, Warren, Greenfield, Evergreen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: when I'm bling.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Plymouth, those are some of the main roles in it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: As you go north of Miami, like I said, Myers, London, Peerton, are some of the streets.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We got, we're home to Rouge Park, which I tell folks this all the time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Rouge Park is the largest city in the city of Detroit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not bill out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Rouge Park is actually the largest urban park in the state of Michigan.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's bigger than such a park.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that is a gym of the district that I really want.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like the friends of Ruse Park have been doing amazing Job at putting more program in there and bring a more folks and I think we can do more of that But also District 7 has more children or young people than seniors
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, so we have a lot of young folks, um, and we have a lot of, you know, seniors that have been in that neighborhood or been in that district for decades, it is like when I'm door knocking folks are like I've been in 56 years, I've been in the same house, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's folks that have
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[SPEAKER_01]: been here do the ups and downs of the city and those are the folks that I look to center in this campaign, but yeah that's the picture of this year 7.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's dope.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Are you a Kony Allen kind of short?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I am.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, what's your order?
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, all right, so it depends if we talk about in the morning, right, in the morning I'm getting a veggie omelet with hash browns,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Cheese and grilled onions mixed in okay if it's lunch or dinner I love a cafe sandwich from El George's was some cheese fries never tried that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, not not cabbage.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't even know the heck Yeah, okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, so that's my order for sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it used to be
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[SPEAKER_01]: to choose for us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Bob, I'm a pest contrarian.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've been in the pest care.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is 2014.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So just to choose for us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, no, I'll choose for us.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Nice.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So if you are able to win the seat, would you ask you where glasses would you get buffed up?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've been looking at like I need to get some, yeah, absolutely, yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As a treat for you getting past the finish line.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like it's a ride of passion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I got to get some on because I want to be a family heirloom.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to be able to pass it down to the generation.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's Detroit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So like, here you go.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Got your buffs and then we get a little order.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to make.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to go keep that up.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Look, I'll look at four to step into those.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you had a friend who was in town that wasn't from Detroit, that came in town What's the first thing that you would take them to do?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Never been here before.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would take them below.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because I think like sunset point on Bella is one of my, you know, I said, There's not the larger part, but I'm going to give this clue to those.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But sunset point to just see the city.
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[SPEAKER_01]: the skyscape and just see how beautiful like you're on this island right in the nature there but also just in the city how beautiful it is like I go when I go to friends all the time
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I'm always like the choice of the special place that I can't tell you about.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You have the experience and everybody who comes to the choice they're like, oh yeah, I gotta come back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This ain't none of like, I've never experienced that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that would be the first place I'll take you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Very dope.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, thank you for partaking and freestyle Friday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Appreciate it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Great job.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I come back, I'm gonna have to come back with some bars.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, no excuse at this time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: for sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I wanted to ask in terms of your career and background, you had mentioned the path that led you up to wanting to be more civically engaged.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so now you being a part of this campaign and looking to seek election for that seat in District 7, what made you
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[SPEAKER_00]: come to the decision of one to kind of go from somewhat behind the scenes of advocacy and community involvement to being at the front of it and being vulnerable to the public in this type of space.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think we're at a very
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[SPEAKER_01]: um, interest and point in Detroit, um, we've seen a lot of investment downtown, and that's, I'm not saying that that's a bad thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think every city that's driving is going to have a driving downtown, but also every city that's driving will have driving neighborhoods.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's one of the reasons why I decided to run is that I've been doing this work on the ground time and time again and wanted to be at the city council table to not only push for resource and investments in our neighborhood, but really to bring folks to the table.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've not gone to $20,000 on this campaign, going to neighborhood block clubs, neighborhood association, and we know that our solutions are in our neighborhood.
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[SPEAKER_01]: run in for city council to not have it just be about me to really bring this code governance model to the forefront to say whether you're aviation or west order drive or plimate bubble or the happy homes neighborhood or prior area
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[SPEAKER_01]: What do you want to see in your city government and being a city council person to take that not only to the city council table, but to bring folks to the table.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want to make sure that we have legislative and community work groups that have those folks there to say this is what we're seeing this we want to push.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so that's what drove me to run for office to really bring the work that I've been doing and together with community on the ground to the city council.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So let me ask you this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to play double advocate a little bit because in terms of being on city council There seems to be opportunities to be able to do that exactly what you said But what about the people who are from the school of thought that City council you just there to prove a budget and manage the budget for the city and like what else are you going to do outside of that?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so
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[SPEAKER_01]: City Council is there to prove about you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're there to draft and approve legislation or anist in the city.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But for me, being on the charter revision commission, seeing the power that the city council has also been a vested, a vested, a vested body, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: With the city, I feel that we have to take it a step further.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is one thing to approve of budget.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But if we're not being, especially with this council by district model, if we're not being public service and say, I approve this money for recreations,
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[SPEAKER_01]: How can we make sure that our parts again right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm here for folks in the district that they're not seeing such and such happen or they are seeing such and such and such happen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's continue that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's make sure That's what I think fulfills the role and to say yeah, we're given as money to it, but let's make sure it's working and the only way that we can do that is actually being in the community and talking to folks because we can't do that from the 13th floor down at the company on center right
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[SPEAKER_00]: What have you been hearing so far in your discussion is with the community and the folks in District 7?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think we have to, what I've been hearing for the most part is that people want to see more activity in District 7.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They want to be able to go to a grocery store with fresh affordable food.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They want to be able to go have a nice meal right in their neighborhood.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like they don't.
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[SPEAKER_01]: this aspect that we have to go to other districts, other cities that get what we need.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That are in other neighborhoods, it's something that people want to see.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Of course, the public safety comes up a lot and what I talk about is how do we actually get to the root causes of harm and violence, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: and push them all around community violence intervention and violence interrupters.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Making sure that people have access to good pan jobs in our neighborhoods.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I tell folks that most of the folks in Detroit go outside the city for jobs and most of the jobs that are available in the city are higher pan jobs, but they are going to folks who live outside the city.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We have to change course in that, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: and make sure that our folks have access to those jobs and the skills of doing more skill trade training and thinking about how do we bring some more of the emerging fields, especially around tech, especially around entertainment into district seven and have our folks into those good pan jobs as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then the last thing is like as I touched on really given we have a so many young folks in the district that's thinking about how do we make sure that they have something to do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: before and after school programs, but also mentorship programs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We have so many folks that are doing amazing work, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: You, the stuff that you are doing is amazing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And you are a resident of District 7.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And there are so many young folks who probably want to say, how do I have a, how do I start a podcast?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I have some to say, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: How do I do stuff around comms and marketing and designing, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: The stuff that you already do is like bringing folks to the table to say their folks that are next door to you around the block They're doing this and how do we uplift our young folks to do that I bring up the
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[SPEAKER_01]: There is a young person on the East Side in the free press.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was called it to say, before I joined the mentorship program, I didn't know who was out there for me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't know what a positive future could look like.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And now I know that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's what we need to have more of.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and I was definitely one of those young people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I grew up in District 1, and then I lived in, I think what is, so Central High School, is that considered District 5, or is that, I mean, District 7 or District 5.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think central is five.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I'm past, because I grew up on, well, I spent my high school years on 14th and literally in the North End.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's five.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's five.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so five.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I lived in one five and seven, based on the district model, but I was one of those young people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And definitely something that I want to be able to see in terms of limiting the
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[SPEAKER_00]: amount of negativity that could happen in those communities is just to be able to give our young folks more things to do because we're not grew up like the I forget what was the closest community center to me I think they re-did it or maybe re-opened or something but they it wasn't accessible to me and like some of the things like even the parks I used to go to they shut those down and stuff like that so if we could have more
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[SPEAKER_00]: of those.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that that would be a huge help to give those young folks that light at the end of the tunnel to be able to show them like, okay, you have what you need in your community, your community is beautiful.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's not the wrong way you come from where you stay at and that there is access to a better and brighter future.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's key.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's like, and I think that's the partnership that our city government should have with like DPSCD and our
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[SPEAKER_01]: was going on outside the classroom and making sure that they have skills and enrichment and folks to say, like really bringing back aspects of like it takes a village to raise a child.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we all have a part in doing so.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Instead of what I, what I fear is that we're going on this path of like,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, if you were beyond getting the tray, you ought to know good, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Or you ain't, and it's like, dang I'm gonna do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They don't have anything to do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And what support are we giving them?
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[SPEAKER_01]: What support are we giving parents, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, do we have a priority to support programs?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like the, and then what I also tell folks is like, we have to think about
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[SPEAKER_01]: They experience the folks right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We have parents that are working on multiple jobs just to make games meet, three or four jobs, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: We have folks that are living with trauma that has not been addressed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We have folks that need access to mental health care.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's another thing that I push on my platform is not only getting more resources to mental health care but also breaking down the stigma that still exist on folks in the care that they need because we have a lot of unresolved trauma in our communities as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you know, it would have been like the transition so far for you to be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: more public faces.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So to speak with the with the work that you're doing and putting yourself Denzel on the flyers and on the website, not that type of stuff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Has that been a transition for you?
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's been a little bit of transition.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's been a transition like what I'm just out like when I'm not campaigning.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm just thinking about it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because I also just enjoy like supply of time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just like, I'm just about to go, go get a meal, just to go chill, and to see people out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But it's also great.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like,
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like a community aspect.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it has been a adjustment just to be like to have like my name on these flyers My name on like digital ads.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's see it at it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, by face of people like oh, I know who you are Yeah, that has been a bit of a adjustment.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, cuz I don't know how y'all do the cookies or whatever, but you keep showing up in my
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[SPEAKER_00]: S.E.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I.U.
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[SPEAKER_00]: or yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that like you keep showing up and that's good stuff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's good stuff that's working.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, definitely work in the campaign.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, exactly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, but, you know, I really am, I mean, you bring up a point like,
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm really proud of the support that I have been getting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm the only person in this race that has been endorsed by labor unions and SCIU has been a great partner in that, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's because of the work that I've been able to do with, like when the strike comes up, when folks are rallying, like again, from my background, to being from a labor family, both of my parents would
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I was taught, right, to show up for the working class and to demand more Because we see corporations making profit over profit and then our wages are staying with a All so yeah, yeah, and I have a question for you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm talking to you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not attacking you personally This is more so for broader for more running campaigns.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Why don't take some as just be so long?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Why are you all tech men?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know when you take people and they'll take messages.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're not big.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what you are.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They still be like, you're right.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you know, I've had a conversation with the team about those.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So like, we part of the cut this down.
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[SPEAKER_01]: How do we get to the point?
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[SPEAKER_01]: But the thing is, we've been wanting to say so much because we, we also know that we have just a little bit of your time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You might, that might be the one shot.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That might be the one shot.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because once you see, like, you're like, who just just takes me?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're like, hey, this is such, you're like,
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[SPEAKER_01]: dog, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: But hopefully you go back to that, or if you're really inclined, you're re-through at all.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But we try to fit all that in because we know you're not going to really engage with it, be honest.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because out of the guy who wants wears like people, pictures of the people that dominate dogs, I'm like, I don't know you or your dog.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And how you get my number?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I will tell folks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's the question that we get a lot.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Your number is a part of a public voter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: File okay, so it's not like you not so yeah, so we use that but you always you know you capped out You could up out and I'll tell the folks this if you are ever tired of getting phone calls sex messages mail
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[SPEAKER_01]: just vote once you vote we're not gonna bother you okay hopefully it's voted for the person that you he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he he
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, one of the things that we had talked about prior to recording was there are peep.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lack of information in terms of the different ways that people can vote and I think that that was definitely apparent in terms of the primaries because of the voter turnout numbers and how there was kind of an expectation for probably a little bit of a better turnout.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But it consecutively in certain elections there has been pretty low turnout for the primaries at least.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, I wanted to ask you if you could walk us down the different ways that people can make sure that there are doing their due diligence to get out and go vote in the way that they can do that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so right now folks can vote absentee and that's just mail-in vote.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, if those go to www.michigan.gov slash vote, you can see all, first you can see all the information of where you vote.
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[SPEAKER_01]: your sample ballot to see who was on the ballot.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then you could request what's called absentee ballot.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You would get that sent to your house.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then you can send that back in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Make sure you sign this in the back in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Starting off October 25th, you can vote early in person.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There are various locations around the city of Detroit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If you go on a website, you will be able to see those.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In District 7, the closest is the Adams Bustle Recurations Center.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Of course, voting on election day, which is Tuesday, November 4th.
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[SPEAKER_01]: For the folks who are watching this, if you are wanting to vote, do it early.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because we're like, oh yeah, November 4th, I'm putting on my calendar.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Things come up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Poles are open from 7am to APM.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But if you're working on an I-N-A-F-I-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L-E-L
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[SPEAKER_01]: You've already, now you only got 7 to 9 and then 5 to 8, you got to take the kids school, you got to pick the kids up, you got to handle this, you're better guy, you like, oh, I go to the gym if I could do that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Go and vote early in person or do absentee so you can get out the way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We have so many ways for folks to do it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And also,
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[SPEAKER_01]: When you go to that website, you can check your registration.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And you can update your registration.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe you moved and you forgot to update it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You can do that on that website.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You can also go in person and update it and then vote right there as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Perfect.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's speaking of buzzer shout out to Bussle because they I just saw I think I found them on social or maybe the city He traded those to them, but like all the stuff that they do Bussle always got something to do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't care if you a kid or if you are a senior citizen They got hustle classes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They got workout class.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I would not want to go vote for the primaries.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They had they were doing a Was it like It was like
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[SPEAKER_00]: Basically, jabs are sizing and twerk and I don't know how to explain it, but they do everything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Basketball games, be up there, volleyball, ice cream and everything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Butso does everything.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And they got swim lessons.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, if you were Black Persons, like I need to learn how to swim, they have a dog and you swim lessons.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, for babies as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And Black people, we got to get past this myth of us not being able to swim.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Go learn how to swim.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're a dog and you should learn how to swim.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Luckily, I paid attention.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I had swim class in the high school.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Bless to be able to have that and I learned how to at least swim a little bit there, but yeah, you too old do not know how to swim Look, I'm about to go.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm one of the first who can ask one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so you just call me out But I brought up muscle so classed because So is this cafe this over?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm gonna sign up for those please.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah So I'm gonna go ahead.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, for sure
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we're both millennials and so I would love to know for you what was the Not determined in fact or because I believe that you had mentioned that earlier, but like what keeps you in politics So to say we're not politics, but Community advocacy Community organized that type of work that's based in the community because it's not necessarily the ideal pathway for some people They get discouraged because people say you don't make a lot of money or you know, there's
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[SPEAKER_00]: a ton of politics involved obviously things like that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm just wondering for any like young person or somebody in our demographic maybe listening and interested in pursuing a career in the political space, some way shape or form, what keeps you in it?
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[SPEAKER_01]: The fact that they will make decisions on our behalf, whether we're active table or not, they focus in power.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, if you look at the age of folks in Congress, you have folks that are, and this is no disc to folks who are senior age, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, but you have folks that are 80 and 90 in Congress, that's crazy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Making up more than the folks who are in Gen Z and millennial, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And Congress goes by seniority, so those folks are in those leadership roles, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And there are folks who don't have our best interest in mine who actually bank on us, not voting and not being involved.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because what I hear often is that, oh, they're not here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If they were here, they would say something, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: If they cared about it, they would say something.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They know that that's not true, but they use it as a way to make decisions that are not best interest.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's why I have stayed involved as to say, we deserve to have a safe at the table.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Y'all are making decisions on our behalf.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This all stood in long the bait that they went through was like, it was led by folks who didn't have student on that right right right Yeah, you don't know how this did got a college right exactly ahead like didn't have to go to college came out of that what a house a car No student loans and pay for the house.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's not the reality now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We have folks that are loaded with students that housing this old unaffordable and people aren't making decisions to not have a family because they can't afford it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's like we deserve to have that see at the table and my goal is to push to make sure that that voice is there and that I'm bringing folks along as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's dope.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What's your outlook for the city in terms of I'll ask it in the two-folded question?
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[SPEAKER_00]: What's something that it sucks you and then what's something that scares you or concerns you, moving forward.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what we're about to go into a new leadership with the mayor.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Also, the state of Michigan is going to go through some changes next year with governor things like that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, and then also other things that's being that's on the ballot right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What excites me is that I think we're at a place where folks are realizing what's actually at stake here, that we have so many folks making a lot of, we have a class of folks making a lot of money with our labor and we're not seeing the fruits of that, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: We have
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is a, for me, when you have someone becoming the world's first children there, when yet folks are living in poverty, when you have great things happening downtown, but yet majority of our children are living in poverty, people are now realizing what
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's the cause of that, and it's corporate greed and wealth in the quality, and it's manifesting itself on all levels of government, and it reflects the money and politics of those folks trying to call it a shot.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I know that's a lot of doom and gloom, but the exciting part is that people are realizing what does that stake here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And being saying that was actually the forces behind the folks acting out of our best interests, we need to tackle that, we need to run for office, we need to be at the table, we need to have folks that and be to drum to make sure that we have a folks that are putting the work in class first.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That is what it's like, excites me and being an unapologetic about it, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: What scares me is that how brazen those folks have gotten that are working against us, right on the federal level of the folks that are making hand money hand over fist just doing whatever they want, right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The influx of money that we've seen in our politics to really try to sway people's opinion in one way when they know that's not the fact, right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That is what scares me that that will continue and that we will have a
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[SPEAKER_01]: atmosphere of this information out there, of folks being pitted against each other's communities saying, you're the reason why this type of crab and the barrel mentality, but we also know that it doesn't have to be this way, and I think that's more that we have the truth telling and folks willing to speak out that the city of Detroit will be better off the state of Michigan and our country will be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Nice, you know, what keeps you in Detroit or what brought you back to Detroit?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, you spend some time in East Lansing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Once you went to school at state, but I'm not sure if you lived anywhere else outside of Detroit or at the state of Michigan.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But what keeps you our has kept you in Detroit?
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I lived in DC for a little bit as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's what we talked about earlier.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is a special place.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There is no other place.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I know people will say
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[SPEAKER_01]: But Detroit, there's no other place like Detroit, and just being from here and the pride that we have, and the constantly have folks like,
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[SPEAKER_01]: have this idea of us that is not true and then they come here to like, oh, this is a man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we told you, we got us, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's really that sense of community that Detroit has had.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You ain't about to talk about our city like that, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we're going to take pride in every part of our city.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we're going to work together.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's something that, you know, as much as we had to do more of that, but like I said, the Black Club, the Neighborhood Association of San Foces and that this is our community.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we're going to do what we can to make it better.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just love the city like I am Detroit through and through because of not only what the city has provided for me, but what I know we all deserve here as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we have is here like we have the folks to make it happen and we're going to do so.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you believe that the block clubs and neighborhood associations have over the years do you feel like that they've been more empowered or do you feel like they've lost
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if I would say lost to him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think what I would say is that I think they have been empowering and folks are continuing to do work in those black clubs.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The folks in those black clubs never associate any more of us young people in there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that is like if you are someone who is watching this and listening.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One, if you don't have a block club, like I'm happy to put you in contact with folks to how on how to start one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But check with the folks who have a block club and a neighborhood association, folks are just asking for help to just pass out flyers, or helping someone to help them with social media, they're like, we wanna get this out to folks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's our role to do, or like, their plant and flowers and wants some folks to get out there help.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the role that we can help, or just show up, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is an easy task that makes a world of difference that will improve our communities and show our elders that we are there and we care about our communities as well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Facts, facts, very nice.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So how can people support this Gamble, how can they support the campaign?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like how can they tap in with you to be able to help out?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so our website is www.densil4detroid.com
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's all spelled out, only had one, but also we're all well on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, it just didn't sell McCambo or at Dins, McCambo, DNZ, McCambo.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Folks can, like I said, we've knocked 20,000 doors.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've made tens of thousands of calls.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Your folks have a little bit of time to give.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You can come volunteer with us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We are less than 30 days out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And this is crunch time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So if you love what you heard or liked with you here, come out and door knock with us.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a fun time, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like people, the conversation that we have have been amazing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But also if you have a few coins to give, too, where you take your gut donations, then that goes right to reaching people.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like you said, those digital ads, those, these flyers, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: It calls money.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's what your money would go to.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then please, if you are in District 7, vote for Denzel McCample, all number 4, 2, they know number 4.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If you're not in District 7, share this with three people, five people, share it on your platforms.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let them folks know who is out here because so often people are voting on name, just that they all that may have heard it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We need more folks to know who they're actually voting for in their track record.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And no matter where you are, please do vote on your number 4.
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[SPEAKER_00]: How can you go in, excuse me, how can you go in being the most informed voter that you can be because I know that that's a thing and there's some awareness building up around being able to help people get more.
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[SPEAKER_00]: have people better understand what's on their balance and then me also being intentional about making sure them introducing people to candidates like yourself so they can make those decisions for themselves and so what's the best way in your opinion to be able to show up as an informed a voter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think you said it like listening to these watching this podcast right here in straight from people's mouth.
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[SPEAKER_01]: their outlets like outlet outlier and British Detroit they're doing a lot of in-depth reporting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Sam Robinson is doing that with the Michigan Chronicle.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Read a lot of that by his view of these races and see who is showing up and actually and see what they're saying and how they feel about public service.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't look.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Hopefully, it would be amazing if somebody watched this and agree with everything that I said.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know that most often it's not the case.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But for the folks that you feel that have integrity, the folks that you feel that have been rooted in your community, the folks that you feel is like that's the vision that we need to have for it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I will look more into those folks and see what they're all about in the support them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Love that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, excuse me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what's going on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Season again getting the best of me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is like for sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I love it down.
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[SPEAKER_01]: 80s one week and then 50s a day.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we appreciate you coming on platform today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks a lot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Definitely grateful for the work that you have done and being an advocate for the people on the back end.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're also stepping into the forefront and then putting your being in to
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[SPEAKER_00]: for District 7 for City Council.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we wish you the best of luck before with the campaign.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Appreciate it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for having me all.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This has been great.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Of course.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I got one more detailed question for you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Got you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What's your family nickname?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, wow.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, Denny.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Take call me Denny too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: See you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I did, uh, my mom's nickname for me was a boom man.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, yeah, if my dad is, uh, he calls me Danny, but he also called me his name, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what's up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's love, right there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, y'all, Danny and Danny signin' off.