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Speaker 1: Levels to This is an iHeart women's sports production in

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Speaker 2: What's Up? Everybody is your Girl? Trerika Foster Brassby.

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Speaker 3: And I'm your girl, Cheryl Swoops. What's good y'all? A?

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Speaker 2: This is the Levels to this podcast. This is the

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Speaker 2: show where we share that it is levels to the

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Speaker 2: ship that women go through. And honey, do we have

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Speaker 2: a show today? Because today I can't even hold I

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Speaker 2: can't even play with people's feelings emotions. Today, I just

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Speaker 2: gotta tell you, OKATAINB we have none other than the

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Speaker 2: Jasmine Crockett joining the show today. And Jasmine is that

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Speaker 2: girl like give you guys like our surface level conversation

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Speaker 2: where we just kind of like shoot the shit a

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Speaker 2: little bit about whatever. But I gotta take this surface

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Speaker 2: to just talk about how excited I am to check

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Speaker 2: with Jazzmine. What I think is so funny, because I

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Speaker 2: think this is just real, is that we have to

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Speaker 2: tell y'all how we were even able to get Jasmine

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Speaker 2: Crockett on the show. Tell them what you did?

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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, so let me before I tell them. Before

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Speaker 1: I tell them, they need to know. They need to know.

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Speaker 1: Like I don't fan out or fangirl over a lot

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Speaker 1: of people, not very many at all.

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Speaker 3: Jasmine Crockett is one.

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Speaker 1: Like she is a sister, she's her, she's that girl,

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Speaker 3: So I did what people normally do to me.

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Speaker 1: And it's so crazy because lots of times I don't

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Speaker 3: I'm like no, and then what I do when I do.

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Speaker 1: And if people are like asking me for an appearance

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Speaker 1: of things like that, I'm like, no, this ain't real

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Speaker 3: I gotta tak Well, I was that person.

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Speaker 4: I went to her.

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Speaker 1: Instagram dms and sent her this really cool sweet messag

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Speaker 1: and was like, we would love to have you on

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Speaker 1: our podcast now. It took her probably about four or

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Speaker 1: five days to respond, but granted she's pretty busy. When

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Speaker 1: I got the response, t I read it like three

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Speaker 1: I was so excited at y'all. Listen, you know our

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Speaker 1: surface level, we usually get into a whole lot of

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Speaker 1: shit that you and I have done, and the weekend,

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Speaker 1: all the things, but uh, this one's all about Jasmine Crockett.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you this te This is for you

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Speaker 1: or for the people you know, you know what. I

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Speaker 2: What's that bleach blonde, bad built, butch body.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a bad line, right there was epic And I

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Speaker 3: I adin't say it like her. I just need to

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Speaker 3: hear her say it for me.

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Speaker 2: That is that is probably the line. Like if you

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Speaker 2: Now turn I'm saying, end you knew exactly who Jasmin

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Speaker 2: Crockett was after that line went viral because that was crazy,

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Speaker 2: but it was so accurate. It was so accurate.

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Speaker 1: Every one of the bees, every one of the bees,

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Speaker 2: She continues to defy why people are saying all black

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Speaker 2: women are mad and aggressive. No, black women are not

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Speaker 2: and that's exactly what That's what Jasmine does every single time.

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Speaker 2: But no. She serves the thirtieth Congressional District in Texas,

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Speaker 1: So well, you know what they say when when you're

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Speaker 2: My mom used to say when I was a kid, girl,

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Speaker 2: if they talked about Jesus, that part they.

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Speaker 3: Talk about Jesus, you know they're gonna talk about you

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Speaker 2: That's it.

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Speaker 3: And that's what I just think with Jasmine.

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Speaker 1: I love how she's just unapologetically herself and everything she does,

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Speaker 1: And we need more Jasmine Crockets out there.

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Speaker 2: We do, and so we will not continue to be

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Speaker 2: be one that is going to be incredible. So without

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Speaker 2: further ado, let's just go ahead and get into the

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Speaker 2: next level and bring on our girl, Jasmine Crocket. Cheryl.

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Speaker 2: I think that today is probably the day that you

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Speaker 2: and I like you are usually the person that people

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Speaker 2: get to come on and fangirl. But I think today

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Speaker 2: Because facts, our guest today is none other than the

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Speaker 2: phenomenal and amazing US representative for Texas's thirtieth Congressional District,

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Speaker 2: Our girl and the love of everyone who has any

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Speaker 2: common sense, Madame Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 3: We're giving you all the Baals and West.

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Speaker 2: That is exactly what we're here for and what we

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Speaker 2: are absolutely going to get to that. But before we do,

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Speaker 2: we just want to have a little icebreaker because we

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Speaker 2: want to know more about Jasmine, the girl from Saint Louis,

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Speaker 2: to know her. So really rapid fire questions for you.

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Speaker 2: What kind of music is on the playlist? Oh?

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Speaker 5: Listen, it goes anywhere from gospel to trap, right, But

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Speaker 5: I feel like it's like the real black girl experience though, right, Like,

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Speaker 5: I mean, when you need to get pumped up, it

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Speaker 5: be gz Like you just don't know how about that. Yeap,

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Speaker 5: that is my soundtrack.

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Speaker 4: It's all the.

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Speaker 2: I'm either praying wish you or praying for you because

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Speaker 2: something's finna go down. I'm with you something finna go down.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's good.

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Speaker 3: I like that one. Okay. Pineapple on pizza.

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Speaker 4: No, absolutely not. I have like putting sweet stuff on

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Speaker 4: the songs.

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Speaker 2: I love Hawaiian pizza and it's fruit.

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Speaker 4: It's fruit.

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Speaker 5: It's like, take you separate, like dessert. Maybe so you

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Speaker 5: don't go to like the peach cobbler. But it definitely

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Speaker 5: is not supposed.

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Speaker 4: To be on a pizza. Not on a pizza.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they don't go together. They don't go together.

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Speaker 2: You're on your own. I love I love a good

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Speaker 2: pineapple pizza. Sorry, okay, speaking of food, what is your

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Speaker 2: guilty pleasure for food? Like you know you ain't got

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Speaker 5: I just mentioned it because you see, it was in

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Speaker 5: my mind. It's the peach cobbler. It's the peach cobbler.

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Speaker 4: And let me tell y'all something.

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Speaker 5: I go in and talk about how bad the food

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Speaker 5: But literally I got onto the train here at work

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Speaker 5: And she said actually I knew. I was like, oh,

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Speaker 5: So Miss Peaches, I was like, now, can you really

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Speaker 5: And so literally, like my birthday just passed. Miss Peaches

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Speaker 5: had to make my peach cobblem because Miss Peaches knows

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Speaker 5: Miss Peaches, I can't like okay because I.

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Speaker 4: Already gained weight.

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Speaker 5: You know, it's a struggle, and every time I want

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Speaker 4: It's probably better that I just have a piece of

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Speaker 5: Like my hips and my thighs and my waist, it's

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Speaker 5: really worse. It would be better that I just cuts

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Speaker 2: You know what. Don't have me come to DC looking

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Speaker 2: for miss Peaches. Now I have to say, Johnson, Now, y'all.

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Speaker 5: Like, if y'all are about, if y'all are on y'all's way,

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna make sure miss Peach's got some peach cobbler.

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Speaker 4: She it is. It is phenomenal.

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Speaker 2: I believe it. I believe it.

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Speaker 1: Listen, Sis, don't don't don't be talking about no thighs

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Speaker 1: and hips and all that, cuz we all got the

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Speaker 1: you're saying that about the soul food because you're in Texas, right,

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Speaker 1: Like DC ain't gonna have the type of soul food

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Speaker 5: Has, right, DC don't have nothing that Texas has. Like

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Speaker 5: I mean, it's it's really a Southern divide. Like you know,

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Speaker 5: you can roll into New Orleans, which I'll be there shortly,

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Speaker 5: and you can go anywhere. You can go into the

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Speaker 5: neighborhood hole in the wall, and you're gonna be ready

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Speaker 5: to slap your mama right like here, they'd be like, oh,

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Speaker 5: we're gonna charge you fifty dollars for something that ain't

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Speaker 5: even good. I'm like, y'all, I need y'all to get

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Speaker 5: the tacos right.

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Speaker 4: I need y'all to get the Chinese right.

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Speaker 5: I need y'all to get something right, Like, give me something.

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Speaker 2: Only thing you gonna get right and DC is chicken

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Speaker 2: and mumbo sauce and brunch. That's it. You ain't getting

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Speaker 2: none else in DC. You gonna get the mumbo sauce.

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Speaker 5: Listen, I am. I am absolutely yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 4: That's it. Don't try nothing else.

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Speaker 4: A sugar or salt on grits. Oh I'm a sugar

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Speaker 4: I mean so it's sugar. It is sugar, sugar ship wheat.

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Speaker 5: But other wise it is salt like if it's something

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Speaker 2: It, salt. See, I'm just gonna put salt and pepper

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Speaker 4: Before Paples on a pizza girl.

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Speaker 1: That part, that part that's nasty, and then the pineapples

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Speaker 1: All right, here's the last one for me before we

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Speaker 3: I do. I keep up with you. And so I

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Speaker 3: saw the prank from nephew Tommy.

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Speaker 6: Oh, yes, are you're still salty about that?

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Speaker 4: No, I'm not. I'm not, but I'm hilarious. In the moment,

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Speaker 5: But honestly, in my real life, if somebody gets my

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Speaker 5: You know, Usually my constituents are not as abrasive towards me,

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Speaker 5: it clear and be like, listen, I did not give

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Speaker 4: I did not do that.

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Speaker 5: It was me, No, But I did tell a story

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Speaker 4: Dollars for approximately two years.

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Speaker 5: And so she is friends with one of my friends,

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Speaker 4: He she was like, bro, my staff got this. Like,

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Speaker 5: I mean seriously, like I mean, people feel better if

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Speaker 5: is what makes us actually great, right right, And so

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Speaker 5: literally I was like, she just need to call the staff.

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Speaker 5: So literally I get the call and it's like, you know,

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Speaker 5: don't know what it is for somebody else to have

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Speaker 5: my million dollars. I ain't got no millions for them

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Speaker 2: Don't play with my coins. You owe me five dollars

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Speaker 2: and we got a problem. Don't blame with my.

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Speaker 4: Car curier, it's on site or.

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Speaker 2: Coins. So yes, we wanted to make sure we had

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Speaker 2: But you know, over the last several years and even

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Speaker 5: I think that I've always been kind of outspoken and

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Speaker 4: As a litigator, when.

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Speaker 5: I walk into that courtroom, regardless of what anybody believes

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Speaker 5: that really just wants to be like yo, like Okay,

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Speaker 5: well he didn already been convicted of dope, he didn't

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Speaker 5: already been convicted of assault, but like you want me

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Speaker 5: to believe that this time, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 5: Like it's tough, like you know, so I have to

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Speaker 5: comes from this idea that you know, as I'm sitting

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Speaker 4: Who are accomplished on your own right.

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Speaker 5: You know, it is never lost on me that any

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Speaker 4: It's hard to get there.

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Speaker 5: And so when I sit around and I look at

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Speaker 5: And so like, why am I going to be intimidated

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Speaker 4: Like that's not my story.

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Speaker 5: Like my parents couldn't just call on their friends and

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Speaker 5: she deserves to be in Congress, or oh, yeah, I

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Speaker 4: I got here as the girl.

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Speaker 5: That really is a very unlikely story, even though I

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Speaker 5: I mean, look at Kamala Harrison, look at Donald Trump.

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Speaker 5: So for me, I'm like, listen, I know who I am,

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Speaker 5: I actually I think i'd be kind of daring out

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Speaker 5: This ain't my seat in the first place. To see,

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Speaker 5: belongs to the people, and I truly believe in democracy.

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Speaker 5: And so at the point in time that people feel

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Speaker 4: Like that's just what it was, right.

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Speaker 5: Like I have never been that person to push that.

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Speaker 5: They call me everything like they I mean, you know,

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Speaker 4: I'm like, okay, whatever, you know. You know, I'm your person.

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Speaker 4: That's what matters.

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Speaker 2: That's what it is.

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Speaker 3: But it's out of respect.

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Speaker 5: it's a matter of yeah, we want everybody else to

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00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:13,280
Speaker 5: follow the law, but me, I'm an exception, right, And

438
00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:15,640
Speaker 5: that's what it is. It's all the rules, like they

439
00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:17,400
Speaker 5: want to be able to break all the rules.

440
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Speaker 4: And frankly, you know, we as.

441
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Speaker 5: Democrats were very compassionate people, were very loving people, yes,

442
00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:28,880
Speaker 5: and honestly people have been mistaking that for being very

443
00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:32,640
Speaker 5: weak people as well. And my deal is, if you're

444
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Speaker 5: gonna throw a punch, Babee, just be ready because I'm

445
00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:39,640
Speaker 5: punching back, like I don't know like who y'all think

446
00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:43,000
Speaker 5: I am. But like you know, I mean, you bring

447
00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:45,360
Speaker 5: up some of the things, and you know, the hot

448
00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:48,800
Speaker 5: Willls thing was like so ridiculous in the sense that

449
00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:52,919
Speaker 5: anybody can look and see the number one. It's been

450
00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:55,359
Speaker 5: going on for a long time. I didn't come up

451
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Speaker 5: with a nickname. And you know, Democrats ain't even that

452
00:21:57,720 --> 00:21:59,440
Speaker 5: creative to come up with nicknames for people.

453
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Speaker 4: I just want to be.

454
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Speaker 5: Clear, and ain't even the Democrats was like, I mean,

455
00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:05,960
Speaker 5: that's not even thing. And if there was really a

456
00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:08,320
Speaker 5: conversation to be had, the conversation should have been had

457
00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:11,960
Speaker 5: around the fact that this is not a champion for

458
00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:17,600
Speaker 5: those within the uniquely abled community, like he is really

459
00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:21,359
Speaker 5: their worst enemy. The whole way that he was able

460
00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:24,960
Speaker 5: to become a multi millionaire because of what happened to him,

461
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,520
Speaker 5: he is also the same person that signed a piece

462
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Speaker 5: of legislation that would prevent anybody else from being able

463
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Speaker 5: to do that very same thing if they then had

464
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Speaker 5: a tree fall on them.

465
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Speaker 4: I just want to be clear about that. I also

466
00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:38,520
Speaker 4: want to be clear that he is one of the

467
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Speaker 4: leading governors.

468
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Speaker 5: That is ANTIDEI right with Stansford Diversity, Equity and inclusion,

469
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Speaker 5: even though they have tried to use DEI as a

470
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Speaker 5: slur for black people.

471
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Speaker 4: At this point in time.

472
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Speaker 5: There is an A in that title right for the

473
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Speaker 5: accessibility community, and I like to say that the AA

474
00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:03,159
Speaker 5: is silent, okay, and frankly, if we go through it,

475
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:05,440
Speaker 5: there's a V for veterans. There's a lot of other

476
00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:08,960
Speaker 5: letters that are included, but this has been one of

477
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:13,080
Speaker 5: the leading people that has gone against everything as it

478
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Speaker 5: relates to DEI, including those accessibility things. This is somebody

479
00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:20,639
Speaker 5: who recently signed a piece of legislation into law that

480
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Speaker 5: would make it more difficult for those within the uniquely

481
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Speaker 5: abled community to be able to access the.

482
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Speaker 4: Ballot box via mail ballot.

483
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Speaker 5: So I mean, if you want to have a conversation

484
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Speaker 5: about who has been on the right side of history

485
00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:38,159
Speaker 5: for the community and who has not been. Let me

486
00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:41,639
Speaker 5: tell you, my record speaks for itself, not just on

487
00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:44,000
Speaker 5: the state level, but also on the federal level. And

488
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Speaker 5: I'm gonna just need y'all to go and check it

489
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:48,119
Speaker 5: out and see that I got receipts and then go

490
00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:51,120
Speaker 5: check his out. So I do not have an issue.

491
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Speaker 5: I've never had an issue. I have never gone after

492
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Speaker 5: someone innocently or whatever and try to go after an

493
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Speaker 5: entire community.

494
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Speaker 4: And it was a whole game for them to be.

495
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:02,560
Speaker 5: Like, oh, we're the victims and may God and all

496
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:03,679
Speaker 5: this other kind of stuff, and they're like.

497
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Speaker 4: Oh, poor Greg Abby.

498
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Speaker 5: I'm like, but wait a minute, y'all said Democrats is weak.

499
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Speaker 4: Oh so I'm not allowed.

500
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Speaker 5: To say anything about him because he's in a wheelchair.

501
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:15,600
Speaker 5: Is it okay for somebody to be in a wheelchair?

502
00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:18,719
Speaker 5: Are we not allowed to mention that people are in wheelchairs?

503
00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:21,280
Speaker 5: But even still, I made it clear, and this was

504
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Speaker 5: what was so frustrating to me, is that you know,

505
00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:28,719
Speaker 5: whether it was trains, planes, or automobiles, that he was

506
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:35,080
Speaker 5: literally like fast tracking, literally speeding in a speedily way,

507
00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:41,080
Speaker 5: getting immigrants out of our state and seeing them immediately

508
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Speaker 5: to black mayors all around the country and that is

509
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Speaker 5: what I said I was talking about.

510
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Speaker 4: And the very next thing.

511
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Speaker 5: That I said is that he is a hot ass

512
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:54,320
Speaker 5: mess talking about his policies because he literally he spent

513
00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:58,560
Speaker 5: so much money on planes, private planes to sit up

514
00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:01,199
Speaker 5: there and fly people out as soon as they got in.

515
00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:03,800
Speaker 4: So like, don't come at me and.

516
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:06,879
Speaker 5: Say, oh, it's about his disability, Like I told you

517
00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,200
Speaker 5: what it was about. Yeah, but even if y'all want

518
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 5: to have a disability conversation, we can, we can, we

519
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:15,000
Speaker 5: can have that conversation. And I tried to tell democrats.

520
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:18,560
Speaker 5: I said, now, y'all have seen Trump make fun of

521
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:21,320
Speaker 5: everybody under the sun, give everybody a dag on nickname,

522
00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:25,200
Speaker 5: go after any and everybody just because they exist. Literally,

523
00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:26,879
Speaker 5: where was the outrage when he was saying that the

524
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:29,119
Speaker 5: Haitians was eating the cats and dogs? Where was the

525
00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:31,600
Speaker 5: outrage when he decided to mock a journalist who was

526
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,080
Speaker 5: trying to do their job. Where was the outrage when

527
00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,680
Speaker 5: they were sitting up there calling a sitting senator Pocahontas

528
00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:41,120
Speaker 5: trying to literally be racist and play in your face.

529
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Speaker 5: Like I can go through the whole list of things

530
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Speaker 5: that he has done. But like, if you didn't have

531
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:47,679
Speaker 5: that energy for him. Even if you thought that I

532
00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:51,560
Speaker 5: was like doing something that was out there, then don't

533
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:52,560
Speaker 5: have the energy for me.

534
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Speaker 4: That is all I got to say.

535
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Speaker 5: And don't sit up there and talk about how we

536
00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:01,080
Speaker 5: are bullies. I'm sorry. Even if I was being a bully,

537
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:04,680
Speaker 5: I learned from the best. Obviously, y'all like to elevate,

538
00:26:05,560 --> 00:26:09,320
Speaker 5: so listen, don't try to put me down. Lift me

539
00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:11,960
Speaker 5: up the same way you lift it your con artists

540
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:12,200
Speaker 5: of a.

541
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Speaker 2: President every single time. That's what makes it so interesting.

542
00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:17,720
Speaker 2: And what's crazy is like Sherl and I are in

543
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,080
Speaker 2: the sports sector, and people don't really like to bring

544
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:22,960
Speaker 2: sports into politics. But I was a poly sad major

545
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 2: polysid pre law, and literally there are so many similarities,

546
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Speaker 2: and there are so many things, for example, like politics

547
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:33,119
Speaker 2: and sports both basically have a good old boys club.

548
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Speaker 2: And I look at women like you, like former Congresswoman

549
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,920
Speaker 2: Barbara Lee, like who's now the newly elected mayor of Oakland.

550
00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:43,159
Speaker 2: I look at women like congresswomen Maxim Waters in California,

551
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:45,920
Speaker 2: like Robin Kelly out of Illinois, and I see these

552
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 2: black women continuing to rise to the occasion, continually seeking

553
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:53,879
Speaker 2: to set the records straight. Continually to rally the troops,

554
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:56,359
Speaker 2: and at some point it gets tiring, I know in

555
00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:59,320
Speaker 2: the sports realm, between Cheryl and I and other black

556
00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:01,480
Speaker 2: women who are in continuinely trying to have to be

557
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:05,280
Speaker 2: tired of proving ourselves of having to go beyond just

558
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:08,400
Speaker 2: for the basic power of respect when our resumes speak

559
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:10,199
Speaker 2: for itself as far as what we've done, what we

560
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,919
Speaker 2: continue to do, and how many people try to do

561
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:14,879
Speaker 2: what we do but can't do what we do effectively.

562
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,960
Speaker 2: But there has to be something that continues to motivate

563
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 2: you to want to do the work that you're doing

564
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:24,119
Speaker 2: despite the vitriol and the heat that comes along with that.

565
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:28,440
Speaker 2: What is that motivation for you, especially as a black

566
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Speaker 2: woman in this space.

567
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:36,119
Speaker 5: Yeah, it is tough, No, it is tough. But I

568
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 5: tell you what, and I say it all the time.

569
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:41,200
Speaker 5: I'm a terrible politician for a lot of different reasons,

570
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 5: but one of them is that here recently when we

571
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:47,119
Speaker 5: had our two week recess. When you're in Congress, you

572
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 5: always have to raise money, like money over everything, right like,

573
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:54,159
Speaker 5: and that's another measure of proving really your worth, and

574
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,280
Speaker 5: it's really how you get power, or how you're supposed

575
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:59,440
Speaker 5: to get power. So you know, I spend a lot

576
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:03,879
Speaker 5: of time really trying to raise aggressively so that even

577
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 5: within the ranks, they are limited in how much they

578
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:10,680
Speaker 5: can mute me. Right, But like I went home, and

579
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:13,880
Speaker 5: I was only home this first week for one day,

580
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 5: and I told my staff, I say, yo, I got

581
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:20,480
Speaker 5: to go to one of my schools. I don't care

582
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 5: which one. I just want to go to one of

583
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 5: my schools. Now we won't even going to high school.

584
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:29,120
Speaker 5: We're talking about people that can't vote, okay, but they

585
00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 5: motivate me. I mean the work that I do. I

586
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 5: tell people all the time. They look at me, they

587
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 5: think I'm so young, especially since Congress is so old.

588
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 5: So I guess I am young in congressional years. But

589
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 5: but I'm like half of my life has already passed

590
00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 5: me by. Like the fights that I'm waging are for

591
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 5: those future generations. And I don't have my own kids,

592
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 5: but just know that that doesn't mean that I don't

593
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 5: care about the kids that are coming behind me and

594
00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 5: the opportunities that they will or won't ever have. And

595
00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 5: so for me, they got me to to one of

596
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 5: my schools. I got to go in and talk to

597
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 5: my kiddos, and it gave me an opportunity to also

598
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 5: see how is this current environment impacting them? Are they

599
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,719
Speaker 5: being impacted? Like do they understand what's going on? Like

600
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:14,479
Speaker 5: what is happening? Like I wanted to get a pulse

601
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 5: on what was happening with the kids. You know, it

602
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 5: is always so emotional for me to see their smiling faces.

603
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 5: And you know, when I was growing up, there was

604
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 5: never a black congresswoman from my area. Corey Bush became

605
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 5: the first black woman to be elected to Congress from Missouri,

606
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 5: so I never saw that. I could not imagine it

607
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:35,400
Speaker 5: because I never saw it.

608
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:37,000
Speaker 4: That wasn't my experience.

609
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 5: And so knowing that I represent these kids and knowing

610
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 5: the fights that I'm waiting on their behalf, so I

611
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 5: wanted to go into their schools. But like it is

612
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,560
Speaker 5: still also very weird and different because like they know me,

613
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 5: Like I would not have been able to tell you

614
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 5: very much about what was going on in politics when

615
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,720
Speaker 5: I was their age, But they know me, like they

616
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 5: follow me on TikTok. They tell me what's happening like

617
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:04,120
Speaker 5: they know me, and it only gives them so much

618
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 5: hope to know that I see them, that I don't

619
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 5: just go and talk about these people, but like, I

620
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:11,720
Speaker 5: want to go back, and that's who I want to

621
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Speaker 5: be with, even when I am only home for twenty

622
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Speaker 5: four hours.

623
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 4: But that is what refills my cup is.

624
00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 5: Seeing them, hearing them, knowing how smart they are, knowing

625
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,720
Speaker 5: how ambitious they are, and knowing that there are people

626
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:25,959
Speaker 5: and forces that are pushing against them to make them

627
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 5: feel as if they are lesser than being able to

628
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,560
Speaker 5: pour into them and tell them, don't ever let anybody

629
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Speaker 5: tell you what you can't do. Tell them everything that

630
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 5: you are going to do. And so that is what

631
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:39,120
Speaker 5: fuels me is young people.

632
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 4: It is always young people.

633
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Speaker 5: I gotta do two college graduations over this weekend and

634
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:49,000
Speaker 5: next weekend, and it is so inspiring to me because

635
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:51,520
Speaker 5: I was like, do they want me or somebody else?

636
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 4: Because let me call because I know a couple of celebrities.

637
00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:56,280
Speaker 3: No, no, no, they want you. They got the right person,

638
00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 3: They got the right person.

639
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 4: And they were like, no, they really do want you.

640
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 4: And I was like, oh, yeah, you know what they

641
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 4: want you because you are you.

642
00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 1: I love how you're just so unapologetically yourself and listen

643
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:11,360
Speaker 1: the clapbacks.

644
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 2: David, could you be coming with the clapbacks.

645
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 3: Question for you speaking of.

646
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 1: Schools and education, and there's so much stuff going on

647
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 1: today that I mean, we could sit here and talk

648
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 1: to you forever about it, but I do want to

649
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 1: get your thoughts and opinions on what you think it

650
00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:44,240
Speaker 1: means for lower income families with the dismantling of the

651
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 1: Board of Education, the.

652
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 5: Department of Education being defunded so that they can boot

653
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 5: leggedly illegally shut it down because to be clear, it

654
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 5: was created by Congress and authorized by Congress. Then Congress

655
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 5: is the other ones they can get. But when you

656
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 5: have a bootleg dictator slash tyrant, I mean, this is

657
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 5: what we end up enduring, especially when you have like

658
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 5: weasels that are in elected seats and redus to honor

659
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 5: their oath to the Constitution and instead are trying to

660
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 5: make sure that their Orange idol knows that they are

661
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 5: falling in line. I will tell you that it is

662
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 5: going to disproportionately negatively impact all communities that are not

663
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 5: individually wealthy. When I went through school, and I'm still

664
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 5: paying student loans, so y'all know, I was applying to

665
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 5: go to school, I had to fill out my FAFSA

666
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 5: and your parents probably had to fill out their fass

667
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 5: A too, And it is the Department of Education that

668
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 5: actually takes those applications. Those fafs are applications, and this

669
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 5: is how they begin to facilitate the moneies that will

670
00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 5: then go to students so that they can get an education.

671
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 5: The fact that they are minimizing workforce number one, I

672
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 5: mean I spoke to someone who actually worked in the

673
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 5: financial aid kind of space of this, who does some

674
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 5: of the fastest stuff. I mean, this is going to

675
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 5: number one, slow things down, if not make it come

676
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 5: to a complete halt. And everything that this administration is

677
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 5: about doing, whether we're talking about the FAA and who

678
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 5: is going to oversee the safety of our flights, or

679
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 5: whether we're talking about Department of Defense or whether we're

680
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 5: talking about Department of Education, everything is about privatization. So

681
00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 5: putting people into a scenario where if you want to

682
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:38,120
Speaker 5: go to college and you don't already have the money,

683
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 5: then maybe you can go and get a loan that

684
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 5: you can take out. But when you think about the

685
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 5: rates that are on a personal loan to do something

686
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 5: like that, the rates are so much higher. They are

687
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 5: not kind of going to be regulated in the same

688
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 5: way because they are alone that is backed by the

689
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 5: federal government. It is completely different. I Mean, one of

690
00:33:57,760 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 5: the reasons I ain't paying my through loans offic because

691
00:33:59,440 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 5: I'm like.

692
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 4: This is deep is dead.

693
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:02,520
Speaker 5: I got everything else is hey, I mean I'm gonna

694
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 5: pay off everything for the student homes because I pay

695
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 5: less than two percent.

696
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 4: I can't get that for a house.

697
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 5: So I mean, listen, I pay off my house before

698
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 5: I pay off my student loans. If we're gonna put

699
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:14,759
Speaker 5: some extra money on something, right, like, I mean, just

700
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 5: because of how cheap the debt is. Right, and we

701
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 5: will see people that are you know, dealing with and

702
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:26,360
Speaker 5: even people you know, listening to some of the stories

703
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 5: of people right now that they want to go and

704
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 5: start to do collections.

705
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 4: Some people have already.

706
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 5: Been victimized, even with us having the Department of Education, right,

707
00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 5: and we're hearing people that say, hey, I only borrowed,

708
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:41,600
Speaker 5: you know, thirty thousand, and it's ten years later and

709
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 5: I now owe sixty thousand, Like how is it ballooning?

710
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 4: Right?

711
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:48,359
Speaker 5: These are things that the last administration was working on

712
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 5: that for the most part, this radical Supreme Court was

713
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 5: pushing back on the things that really would affect the

714
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 5: middle class. One of the things that I talked about

715
00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:00,439
Speaker 5: all the time was the amount of students loan debt

716
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 5: that actually had been forgiven under the Biden Harris administration.

717
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 5: I was talking about the billions of dollars that had

718
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 5: been forgiven, right. And I remember being at Essence last

719
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 5: year and I was doing a podcast live, and I

720
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 5: was telling them the story about traveling the country and

721
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:19,600
Speaker 5: being in various places. And I had gone to Florida

722
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:23,799
Speaker 5: and how I had spoken at the public opening for

723
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 5: Omegasi five. So I had spoken at their conclave, and

724
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 5: I tend to do this. I had done this at

725
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:33,400
Speaker 5: a regional conference for Delta as well. And I know

726
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 5: that in this room, everybody has at least attended college.

727
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 5: Maybe you didn't graduate, but you attended, right, You attended

728
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:43,759
Speaker 5: at some point. And so I knew like having black

729
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:45,920
Speaker 5: folk who had attended college, I know the numbers. I

730
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,920
Speaker 5: knew that black people are disproportionately weighed down in student

731
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 5: loan debt, right. So I knew if I walked into

732
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:55,400
Speaker 5: one of those rooms, that the chances were that someone

733
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:58,480
Speaker 5: had actually benefited from the student loan debt relief that

734
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 5: the Biden Harris administration done. So I would tell people

735
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 5: to raise their hands and I was doing good. I

736
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 5: would have hands all of it. I was like, now,

737
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 5: these are the testimonies y'all need to give. But Black

738
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:10,400
Speaker 5: people don't like to talk about money, especially y'all with

739
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:12,759
Speaker 5: y'all fancy educations. You don't want to go out there

740
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:13,720
Speaker 5: and tell the good news.

741
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 4: Right. You got other people.

742
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,240
Speaker 5: That's going out and telling everything about this twelve hundred

743
00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 5: dollars that he did not give, But y'all won't go

744
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 5: talk about one hundred thousand dollars that y'all got, And

745
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:25,360
Speaker 5: let me tell you, that's shouting money, okay. And I

746
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 5: would tell them that, like, think about what difference getting

747
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 5: six figures off your back can make. This means that

748
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:35,239
Speaker 5: that home that you wanted to buy so that you

749
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 5: could build this generational wealth, now you can do it

750
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 5: because now your debt to income ratio is in a

751
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 5: way that would allow you to get a home and

752
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,839
Speaker 5: allow you to pass something down for the generations. So

753
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 5: I was like, I don't want to hear people telling

754
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 5: me that Democrats weren't looking out for the middle class,

755
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 5: because I got receipts that maybe people didn't talk about

756
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 5: it exactly, but I got receipts, and so these hands

757
00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 5: started to go up slowly, right because people, you know

758
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 5: again and black people just getting that kind of an ena.

759
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,800
Speaker 5: They so they started to raise their hands, and then

760
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 5: she decided she wanted to ask how much. I'm like, girl, ahh,

761
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 5: now you cause it's not you, right, because I'm like,

762
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:12,319
Speaker 5: if it's fine dollars, people gonna be like dead.

763
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 4: See, they ain't even do nothing. It was you.

764
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 5: And literally, I mean she was sitting there like, Oprah,

765
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:20,320
Speaker 5: how much was yours?

766
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 4: How much was yours? How much? Majors?

767
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 5: And the most that I heard because I had never

768
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:27,319
Speaker 5: asked anybody how much because that that really is like

769
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:30,400
Speaker 5: tricky territory. The most that we got was two hundred

770
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:34,719
Speaker 5: and fifty thousand dollars a quarter of a million dollars.

771
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 4: That is wild, right, wow.

772
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 5: And so I was like the fact that more people

773
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 5: don't know this, or the fact that like we're pitting

774
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:49,799
Speaker 5: middle class against working class against working poor against like

775
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,880
Speaker 5: the fact that we're we all in the same boat,

776
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:54,879
Speaker 5: the one that they right now are trying to sing,

777
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 5: ain't none of us are on the sixty million dollar

778
00:37:57,239 --> 00:37:57,839
Speaker 5: wedding boat.

779
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 4: Okay, like, we we not there with you, Jeff, We're

780
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:03,359
Speaker 4: not there. What you missed? The bezos Okay.

781
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 5: They pitted us against each other, and people were like, well,

782
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:07,960
Speaker 5: that's unfair.

783
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:11,280
Speaker 4: They went to college and had the stud loan that relieved.

784
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 5: I didn't go to college and I ain't get Okay, listen, fine,

785
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 5: but let me tell you. We didn't try to take

786
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 5: housing benefits. In fact, we want to expand it. We

787
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 5: didn't try to take food off your table and get

788
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 5: rid of snap benefits, and instead we wanted to expand that.

789
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 5: We were the ones that understood how important the child

790
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 5: tax credit would be and how much money that could

791
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 5: put into people's pockets. People were getting hundreds of dollars

792
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 5: a month because of that. I think it was three

793
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:37,719
Speaker 5: hundred dollars per child.

794
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 4: A month because of that.

795
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:42,399
Speaker 5: So, no, we were looking out for everybody that wasn't

796
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:46,440
Speaker 5: part of the one percenters. Yeah, and y'all decided to

797
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 5: install the people looking out for the one percenter.

798
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 2: I know that you have to go, madam Congressman, because

799
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 2: we don't want to make you.

800
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,319
Speaker 4: Not go vote. Yeah, I know. I got to keep

801
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:57,360
Speaker 4: my black job and if I don't bo Yes.

802
00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 2: I'm wondering if you can answer this one question estion

803
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 2: for me very quickly, because I'm curious and I'm gonna

804
00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:06,560
Speaker 2: put you on the spot because we know that Jerry Connelly,

805
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:08,880
Speaker 2: who is the ranking member of the Oversight and Government

806
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:11,840
Speaker 2: Reform Committee, is stepping down. I do hope that he

807
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 2: gets better due to his medical situation, and you have

808
00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:17,560
Speaker 2: spoke so highly of him, but he's not seeking reelection

809
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six. I know there was a battle

810
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:22,720
Speaker 2: back in January between him and AOC for that spot,

811
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 2: but you, as the vice ranking member, I'm wondering, are

812
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:31,920
Speaker 2: the rumors true? Are you considering running for that seat?

813
00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, the rumors are true. So first of all, I

814
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:35,279
Speaker 4: don't go.

815
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 5: You know it is it is hard for me to

816
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,840
Speaker 5: put into words what it is to give thirty years

817
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 5: of service. Lord knows, I don't think I got thirty

818
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 5: in me.

819
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:46,440
Speaker 4: I just want to let y'all know. I just want

820
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 4: to let y'all know.

821
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:51,359
Speaker 5: But I did come behind a giant and when I

822
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 5: text Jerry once I received the news that he wasn't

823
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 5: gonna seek reelection and that his illness had resurfaced and

824
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 5: he was going to focus on getting better, I talked

825
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:05,640
Speaker 5: about what it means to do thirty years, because I

826
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:08,720
Speaker 5: know because my predecessor did thirty years. And I said,

827
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:11,680
Speaker 5: and one of the most difficult things it was for

828
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 5: my district was to transition because for some people their

829
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 5: entire life, the only congress person they knew was Eddiebernise Johnson,

830
00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 5: and for them, she wasn't just an elected she had

831
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:24,719
Speaker 5: become family for so many people. And so I wanted

832
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 5: Jerry to understand that, like his constituents, most of them

833
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:31,400
Speaker 5: probably look at him as family at this point, because

834
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:34,279
Speaker 5: when you've been in the community and serving for that long,

835
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:35,239
Speaker 5: that is what it is.

836
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:38,239
Speaker 4: And I told him, you know, one.

837
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 5: Of the people that I hate that I didn't get

838
00:40:41,239 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 5: to serve with, but I got to meet was John Lewis.

839
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:48,959
Speaker 5: And I sit in awe every chance that I get,

840
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 5: and I go snuggle up. She ain't really a snugly

841
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:54,280
Speaker 5: type person next to Maxine every chance I get, because

842
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 5: I know that I am so privileged to serve with

843
00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 5: serving giants, and so to be able to to serve

844
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 5: with Jerry, to be able to serve as his vice ranker,

845
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 5: is huge to me. Yeah, At the same time, when

846
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:09,880
Speaker 5: I signed up as vice ranker. I signed up always

847
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:12,239
Speaker 5: knowing that there may be a point in time when

848
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:15,000
Speaker 5: I may have to step in and I may need

849
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:18,359
Speaker 5: to run that committee in number one, I signed up

850
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:23,400
Speaker 5: with full confidence that I could. I also ran and

851
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 5: was elected unanimously to the post. And this is a

852
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:30,319
Speaker 5: way that I can see myself in service not only

853
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:33,759
Speaker 5: to the Caucus, but to the country. Because most people

854
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 5: are talking about Doge. Doge is right under the purview

855
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 5: of oversight. This is about doing for me, offering myself

856
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:45,319
Speaker 5: on the next level of service to make sure that

857
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:48,279
Speaker 5: we can go out, we can educate everybody. That was

858
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:50,759
Speaker 5: just in Vegas last week a couple of days ago,

859
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:54,319
Speaker 5: and I'm sending in line for a taxi and this

860
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:58,760
Speaker 5: man turns around and says Jasmine Crockett and I was like, yeah,

861
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 5: And it was he and his wife, and I introduced

862
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 5: them to my colleague that was standing with me.

863
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 4: You know.

864
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 5: They were just talking to me, and I was like, oh,

865
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 5: you know where y'all from? They say, at Georgia. I said, oh,

866
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:10,799
Speaker 5: y'all don't live in her district? Do you y'all know

867
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 5: who Herry is?

868
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:11,799
Speaker 2: Right?

869
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:17,839
Speaker 5: So, and so they were like, they said no, but

870
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:21,320
Speaker 5: we are Republicans, and we love you. I want to

871
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:24,839
Speaker 5: be clear that I get messages from Republicans, from Independence,

872
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:29,880
Speaker 5: from Democrats, from all over this spectrum, because when I speak,

873
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 5: I always do my best to make sure I am

874
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 5: backing it up with facts and I am always speaking

875
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:38,840
Speaker 5: from the heart, because again, I'm not that worried about

876
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:39,280
Speaker 5: the seat.

877
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:41,360
Speaker 4: I am more worried about service.

878
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:45,240
Speaker 5: And so for me, I think that I am ready,

879
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 5: especially since you know the president loves to have my

880
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:49,719
Speaker 5: name and his mouth.

881
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:53,000
Speaker 4: Honey, we can talk about some things. Then we can.

882
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 5: Talk about some things because I got some oversight that

883
00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:58,800
Speaker 5: I want to do. Honey, there is not currently a

884
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 5: vacant now, that's but once there is a vacancy, and

885
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 5: knowing that he's not seeking reelection, so for all I know,

886
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 5: there may not be a vacancy until next term. Theoretically,

887
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 5: I am listening to the calls of the people right now,

888
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:15,279
Speaker 5: as the people is all of the internets, and so

889
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 5: I appreciate that the people have the confidence to know

890
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:22,000
Speaker 5: that I would be ready to rumble that you can

891
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:22,359
Speaker 5: do it.

892
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:24,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, I know you got to go, but I

893
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 1: need you to be the first black female president.

894
00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:33,359
Speaker 3: I'm putting that out. I know she said she ain't

895
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 3: had thirty years in her but uh yeah, I'm putting

896
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 3: that out yeah, putting.

897
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:39,160
Speaker 2: That out there for you. Now. I love that. I

898
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:42,479
Speaker 2: love that. Well. Thank you so so much for your time.

899
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:45,000
Speaker 2: We truly appreciate just being able to chat with you

900
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 2: and chop it up with you in wish you the

901
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 2: best of luck with everything that you're doing for the

902
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:55,240
Speaker 2: remainder of your career for this term. But we ain't eed. Listen,

903
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:57,120
Speaker 2: we already know you are called, you are blessed. We

904
00:43:57,120 --> 00:43:58,799
Speaker 2: ain't even got to worry about you getting it done.

905
00:43:58,840 --> 00:44:00,560
Speaker 2: We know you will. But thank thank you so much

906
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 2: for your time.

907
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:01,680
Speaker 4: Thank you.

908
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:03,719
Speaker 5: I just wanted to say, I just wanted to say

909
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:07,400
Speaker 5: this was so much fun and I'm so happy whoever

910
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 5: dropped jumped in the DMS to make it happen. Okay,

911
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:13,279
Speaker 5: because it does go down in the DMS. If y'all

912
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:17,080
Speaker 5: didn't know, yes, I didn't know if somebody from Cheryl's

913
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:18,839
Speaker 5: team did it, so but.

914
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:20,920
Speaker 4: It was, but it was it was legitimately me.

915
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:25,120
Speaker 5: It was legitimately me for sure, because on my campaign account,

916
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 5: I'm the one that checks it. So I appreciate the

917
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 5: invitation it's truly a high honor, and I am so

918
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:35,560
Speaker 5: proud of everything that you each have done to really

919
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:38,040
Speaker 5: pave the way for women that are coming behind you.

920
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 5: I mean, just think about like the WNBA, and you know,

921
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:44,640
Speaker 5: I've been able to go to the All Star Game

922
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:47,400
Speaker 5: with them and have some real conversations and all the

923
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 5: work that so many women are still trying to do

924
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 5: to push the envelope as relates to women in sports

925
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:56,640
Speaker 5: in general. So thank you, thank you, thank you. I

926
00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:57,799
Speaker 5: really do appreciate y'all.

927
00:44:57,880 --> 00:44:59,799
Speaker 4: I honor y'all. And again, it was great to.

928
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 2: Check with y'all. Likewise, likewise, go right back and now

929
00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:04,240
Speaker 2: go vote.

930
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 6: Okay, one to vote, Charlo.

931
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:19,160
Speaker 2: I could have kept talking to Jazzmine all day, all day,

932
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 2: and I got stuff to do today, but I mean,

933
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:25,600
Speaker 2: nothing as important as going to vote on Capitol Hill,

934
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:26,520
Speaker 2: but steal.

935
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:32,759
Speaker 1: But such a great conversation, a great person, and you

936
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 1: know what, I love her even more now you want

937
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:36,759
Speaker 1: to know why why?

938
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:38,719
Speaker 2: Because she does she doesn't.

939
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:42,160
Speaker 1: Like pineapple on pizza either, and she puts sugar in

940
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:42,800
Speaker 1: her grits.

941
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:46,880
Speaker 2: Y'all. Some haters. First of all, it's disgusting, y'all are disgusting.

942
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:47,239
Speaker 4: It is disgusting.

943
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:52,240
Speaker 2: Of Pineapple on pizza is disgusting. Pineapple and pizzas amazing

944
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 2: Hawaiian pizzas great.

945
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:57,680
Speaker 1: Sugar and Grits is sugar and grits is the best,

946
00:45:57,960 --> 00:45:58,480
Speaker 1: the best.

947
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:00,719
Speaker 2: And one thing, and one thing Jasmine and I have

948
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 2: in comment is that we both say how we feel

949
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:04,920
Speaker 2: in the moment we feel it and I told you

950
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:10,680
Speaker 2: all asses day and it was nasty, but such.

951
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 3: A great, meaningful conversation.

952
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 1: And you know from there, there's so much going on

953
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:18,319
Speaker 1: in this world right now.

954
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 3: It's it's nice.

955
00:46:19,440 --> 00:46:23,000
Speaker 1: To be able to have a conversation with someone who's

956
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 1: who's in it every single day, right and can.

957
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:27,680
Speaker 3: Give us a completely different perspective.

958
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:31,360
Speaker 1: Have so much love and respect for Jasmine, and thank you,

959
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:34,919
Speaker 1: thank you to Jasmine and her team for coming on

960
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:35,920
Speaker 1: the podcast.

961
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:39,440
Speaker 3: And uh yeah, super happy to have her own.

962
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:43,399
Speaker 2: Absolutely only Cheryl Swoops can go into somebody's d MS

963
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 2: and get it in. Can't nobody else do that?

964
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:48,200
Speaker 3: Oh that that's not true.

965
00:46:48,640 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 1: Listen, there are a few other people now that I

966
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:51,360
Speaker 1: know at worked, there are a.

967
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:53,880
Speaker 2: Few other people I know.

968
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 3: That's right.

969
00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:57,680
Speaker 2: But with that being said, we want to bring this

970
00:46:57,719 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 2: episode to a close, so it is time for us

971
00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:04,080
Speaker 2: to level off and Charyl, what you got for us

972
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 2: this week?

973
00:47:05,080 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 3: I got a good one.

974
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:11,240
Speaker 1: Let's not forget we are still in Black Women's History

975
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:15,440
Speaker 1: Month and to end to close out the month, no

976
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:17,480
Speaker 1: better way to do that right than to have the

977
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:21,440
Speaker 1: jasmine crocoddle on. So I got a pretty nice quote

978
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:25,520
Speaker 1: here by Janet authoring, and it says, I am a

979
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 1: black woman.

980
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,759
Speaker 3: Don't look beyond me, don't see through me.

981
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 1: Look me in the eye, hold my gaze, Listen to

982
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:38,319
Speaker 1: my heart, see my soul, see me for who I am,

983
00:47:39,160 --> 00:47:42,600
Speaker 1: not what you would like me to be, accept.

984
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 3: Or reject, but don't hide from my truth.

985
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:48,680
Speaker 2: I'm gonna need you to read that one more time. Yeah,

986
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:50,839
Speaker 2: that might be one of my faves. Run that back

987
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 2: one more time.

988
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:52,720
Speaker 3: I am a black woman.

989
00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:57,400
Speaker 1: Don't look beyond me, don't see through me, Look me

990
00:47:57,520 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 1: in the eye, hold my gaze, Listen to my heart,

991
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:06,480
Speaker 1: see my soul, see me for who I am, not

992
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:09,880
Speaker 1: what you would like me to be, accept or reject,

993
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:14,120
Speaker 1: but don't hide from my truth. See me for who

994
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 1: I am. Honey, Yes, that was the lie. That was

995
00:48:19,239 --> 00:48:20,640
Speaker 1: the lie.

996
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:23,560
Speaker 2: That part. Yeah, love it, love it. You know my

997
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:26,960
Speaker 2: mother taught me a long time ago when I was younger,

998
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 2: that if you really ever want somebody to respect what

999
00:48:31,040 --> 00:48:33,600
Speaker 2: you're saying and respect your confidence, you have to look

1000
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:36,120
Speaker 2: people in the eye when you're talking to them. And

1001
00:48:36,800 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 2: that is just something that I see. People don't look

1002
00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:42,399
Speaker 2: down and looking around and look over here just because

1003
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 2: you lie, you lie in, or you ain't got no

1004
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:50,760
Speaker 2: respect for me, or you don't understand what I said. Nothing,

1005
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:51,880
Speaker 2: So you everywhere else.

1006
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:55,279
Speaker 3: Yes, you're not holding You're not holding my gaze.

1007
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:56,880
Speaker 2: You can't hold my gaze.

1008
00:48:57,640 --> 00:48:59,879
Speaker 3: That get good. That's good.

1009
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 2: That's a good one. That's a good one. Well, we

1010
00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:04,960
Speaker 2: are going to close it out on that note, and

1011
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:07,799
Speaker 2: hopefully we were able to hold your attention throughout the

1012
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:10,239
Speaker 2: duration of this podcast, because I think it was a

1013
00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:12,319
Speaker 2: great one, and I know Schrol does too, and so

1014
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:15,759
Speaker 2: we appreciate you. If you got this far, that means

1015
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:17,719
Speaker 2: you got to the end. So thank you so much

1016
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:20,520
Speaker 2: for listening to levels to this. We will be back

1017
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:23,319
Speaker 2: next week with more Next Level conversations. And next week

1018
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 2: is going to be such a fun episode. Charl and

1019
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:27,440
Speaker 2: I are going to be out on the road again

1020
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:29,800
Speaker 2: doing what we do in front of a live audience.

1021
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:37,400
Speaker 2: So I can't wait. Hey, I love.

1022
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:39,840
Speaker 3: Us playing music with my friends.

1023
00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:44,439
Speaker 2: Friends, I can't wait road again. Come on now, y'all.

1024
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:45,719
Speaker 3: That's about this episode for y'all.

1025
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:52,000
Speaker 2: Right there, scream it. Listen, y'all, leive us a review

1026
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 2: with Apple Podcasts and follow us on Instagram, because clearly

1027
00:49:56,480 --> 00:49:58,880
Speaker 2: me and Shrol ain't got no damn sins today. I

1028
00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:00,640
Speaker 2: don't even know how to close out the show that

1029
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:02,960
Speaker 2: we got some sent so it just kind of is

1030
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:05,760
Speaker 2: what it is today. Follow us on Instagram at ltt

1031
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:08,720
Speaker 2: pot and until then, do a better job of keeping

1032
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:11,000
Speaker 2: your mentals ground level than me and Cheryl are apparently

1033
00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:13,840
Speaker 2: doing right now, and we will be back next week.

1034
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:15,719
Speaker 3: Peace y'all.

1035
00:50:17,440 --> 00:50:21,320
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