WEBVTT - Ep 241 - Trouble Don't Last Always 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:03.400 Mandra, Do you know what I need? I need to 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.120 walk in these streets in my BA swag. You know 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:08.160 what I'm really looking forward to? First of all, be 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:12.200 your own Brown Boost. What an awesome phrase. I cannot 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:14.360 wait to wear that on my chest like Superman. And 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:16.840 what I'm really excited for, though, is I am a 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:20.720 sweatshirt and like hoodie girl. So the classic Brown Ambition 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:23.520 logo sweatshirt has my name all over it. 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:25.480 But where can I go? Where can I find it? 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:29.240 I was hoping you would ask Young Tiffany. Tiffany, get 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:33.480 your Brown Ambition swag at Brown Ambitionstore dot com. 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Maybe are we? 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:01.040 I'm gonna I hope that we're, but we could also 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:01.720 be uncertain. 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:05.080 Still, Yes, this is very true, because the future, it's 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:07.480 so guys. We tape typically Manday and I tape our 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:11.080 podcast on Mondays and then they don't go a lot 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:14.639 to Wednesday, And for those of you in the future, 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.720 yesterday was the election, and so we might not know. 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.000 It's Wednesday, so we might not know the outcome. 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:27.000 Yeah, I know how many atavand tablets I have left 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:29.520 to get me through these next twenty four hours. I 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:32.320 know that much. I counted them this morning. 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:35.720 I know how much toilet issue I have because has 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:39.079 been obsessively texting make sure you have all your mix, 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:41.080 make sure you have all toilet tissues and your food 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:43.520 and your water and yet this, and make sure you 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:46.280 lock the doors because apparently, you know, if we normally 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:48.520 sleep at the doors wide open, while we locked doors, 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:50.520 I'm like, Mommy, we locked the doors out of back on. 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:52.080 A basis they're coming for you. 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:54.400 Well, it was, I guess. 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:58.560 It wasn't until today that someone mentioned businesses have been 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:02.760 boarding up. And you know, here in New York, Trump 0:03:02.840 --> 0:03:05.320 supporters shut down for a little bit. One of the 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:08.720 major bridges near actually the ten minutes from where we live, 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:13.320 the Mario Cuomo Bridge, and that freaked me out that 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:16.080 they just stop traffic for no good goddamn reason. 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:20.800 Saw well, you know, wait, okay. 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:24.400 Yeah, yeah, it's just and today the feeling at work 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:28.240 was super dense, and I felt I felt like as 0:03:28.240 --> 0:03:31.400 a manager I needed to just bring some like just 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:33.960 be positive, just try so. I like, played music, I 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.000 made jokes, try to make a jerk of myself, like 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:38.680 make them, you know, just make fun because you know, 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:41.480 you can just tell everyone is on edge. 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:44.280 Yeah, because it's scary times, honestly. 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:47.000 It really is. And but I do feel the sense 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:52.240 of personally, I can sleep knowing I did everything I 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:55.360 had the time and the bandwidth in the mental you know, 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:58.840 space to do in terms of help encouraging family to 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:01.200 get out and vote, help making sure that I got 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:04.520 myself to vote, my husband, his family, you know. And 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:07.320 I feel like at this point, we just got to 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:10.120 see what happens, you know, and we have to hold 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:14.200 elected officials definitely accountable. And I really feel, you know, 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:16.480 I hate that we're the ones you have to suffer 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:19.440 through this, but this is a really good example of 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:22.760 what happens when citizens forget the power that they hold. 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:25.440 And you know, even if this has to go to 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:29.040 the courts, we're going to find out the repercussions, you know, 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:32.080 the ripple effect that was caused you know, four years 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:35.440 ago when this person was elected, and how it goes 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:39.440 so far beyond the White House. So pay attention, and 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:41.960 let's just I hope that we can just learn these 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:44.960 lessons and never forget them, ever forget. 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:49.200 Yes, I mean there was actually this really great post 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:52.120 that someone shared. It basically was like, you know, for 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:58.880 those of you who have been vocal. I'm not just 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:01.800 supporting this adminute, but some people, of course, you know, 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:04.640 have gone above and beyond to be instead of Black 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:08.080 Lives Matter having bumper sticker said that say black lives splatter. 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:12.080 And for those of you who have like actively been 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:17.120 vocally racist and transphobic and homophobica and all these other things, 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:20.480 that like, here's the thing that one day this man 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.080 won't be president. Whether it's in three months or maybe 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:26.200 the next four years, no one knows, right, but your 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:30.120 family and friends will always always always your your neighbors, 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:34.479 your coworkers, You're that stain will always be on you. 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:36.960 Like I just don't you know what I mean, I 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:40.039 just I guess what shocks me is how it's like 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:45.080 when I see men argue over viciously over their team, 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:48.520 like no the bulls are better, No the Spurs, and 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:50.480 you're like Michael Jordan does not know. 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:55.719 You, you know, because I like, you see literally people breaking 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:59.440 the law, putting their own freedom in jeopardy, Like there 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:03.320 was a I use the word gentleman loosely who took 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:06.160 one of those cat those like not a bulldozer, the 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:06.839 smaller ones. 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:07.960 You know, I don't know what they call I feel 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:10.360 like Bob kind of yeah, right, took one of those 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:14.960 bobcats and in his town and anybody's lawn that had 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:18.560 a Biden Come All a sign. He you know, didn't 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:20.360 just take the sign because that was just too light, 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:23.640 used the bobcat to basically dig the sign out of 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:26.600 their front lawn and went like, you know, so using 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:30.160 a vehicle doing more than fifteen hundred dollars worth of 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:32.880 damage to property, which makes it a felony. Now, so 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:39.400 even if this person wins the presidency either way, you'll 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:40.359 enjoy it from jail. 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:43.240 I just I guess that's the part that like. 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:48.039 Really flabbergasts me. For lack of a better word, it's 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:53.400 like what I just well, you know what, I just 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:55.680 don't know. That's people are just raggedy. That's been the 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:57.880 word that has been the pervasive word for me. There 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:00.440 are some people who are just really Raggedy's one thing 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:02.520 to say this is what I'm voting for, Okay. It's 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:06.600 another thing to like run your car through a crowd 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:09.040 of people, shoot people at a protest. 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:14.000 You know. I just yeah, people, and. 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:17.000 I'm I you know, in a way, I'm grateful because 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:21.000 it's shown, it's it's given people like the past four 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:25.160 years have made certain people feel comfortable showing sides of 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:29.480 themselves that they weren't showing before. And I think we 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:31.880 can all be where. I feel much more educated about 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:35.040 the people in my circle, my family, my extended family. 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:37.640 I know where people stand, and you know what, I'm like, 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:41.840 I'm glad because why continue, you know, putting on a facade, 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:45.640 and especially growing up in the South, being always taught, 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:49.000 you know, politics was and polite conversation. You don't ask 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:52.000 people where they stand on certain issues. I feel like 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.240 at least that's you know, one of the over linings 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:59.800 is that it's become you can't escape it. This pandemic 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:03.600 year itself, I mean, it has forced everyone to have 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.360 to reckon with what they believe and decide where they 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:10.400 stand in that I'm grateful for. I was also, you know, 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.240 another silver lining I was just reading. There was a 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:16.160 report that came out. I think it's the Center for 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:20.440 Women Center for American Politics put out a report. Did 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:25.200 you know one hundred and fifteen women of color are 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:31.240 running for election in the House this year, which is 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:34.480 pretty remarkable. Like, right now, let me look at my 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:37.240 let me look at my little notes. There's something like 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:40.080 what forty waiting to see? Let me get my notes? 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:41.160 Where are my paper's at? 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:42.720 Ooh, I'm old. 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.959 I got a squint. Forty eight out of one hundred 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:50.360 and twenty seven congresswomen right now, that's only forty eight 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:55.320 are BIPOC, and yes, one hundred and fifteen BIPOC women 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:58.280 are running for election. And I do feel like this 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:01.720 is the change that, for better or for worse, Trump 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:04.720 selection has brought about, and not just Trump selection, but 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:09.920 everything happening with racial and social unrest. It has, It's 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:13.640 given people, it's lit fire under our butts to realize 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:17.160 the power we have as women and how much we 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:20.439 are needed, and that you know, running for office is 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:23.280 not the only thing you can do to act and 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:27.000 better society, but it means a whole hell of a lot. 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:28.760 So I looked at that, and you know, I saw 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:31.440 that on GMA this morning, and that gives me. That 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:32.240 gives me hope. 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:35.760 Yeah, I mean I and nothing lasts for always, right, 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:40.000 all folks, So truble don't last always, Although I will 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:43.240 say tomorrow I am a little you know, like if 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:45.400 you could stand inside, stand inside, especially if you live 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:50.559 in an area where you've seen those Trump trains, because 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:54.840 I feel like people feel more emboldened to be wanton 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:57.160 in wild and. 0:09:58.160 --> 0:09:59.760 If you do go out there, bring your cell phones 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:01.480 and court everything. That's how I feel. 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:03.520 And your taser. I mean literally, I went for a 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:06.480 walk today. SUPERMANO was like, you have your taser? And 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:08.959 every yeah, he always he got me a taser a 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:11.640 while ago, just because he's like, he got me everybody 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:13.440 in the house has a taser. And then he made 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:15.640 us because my sister stays with me, and of course 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:18.000 super Girl is here, so he's like, oh yeah, when 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:19.240 you need to have a taste, he got us pink 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:24.240 tasers because you know sex and I know. But then 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:26.120 if you had to have taser class with him, I 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:27.760 was like, I don't know, have danger class. He's like, 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:29.640 show we had to turn it on, so we had you. 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:31.240 I was like, oh my god. But I'm not gonna 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:34.440 lie during times like this. When I went out for 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:35.960 my I try to take a walk every day. I 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:37.080 went out for my walk, he said, do you have 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:40.280 your taser? Normally I'm like, oh boy, but today I 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:41.480 was like, you know what, I don't let me go 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:42.360 upstairs and get. 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:44.280 It, Well, you might need it if you're fighting the 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.680 panic shopping comes back and people are fighting over bounty again. 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:49.240 Right, Well, I was just going for a walk, and 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:52.640 I guess he's just basically like, you know, he just yeah, 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.600 I just it's times where normally I wouldn't. I'm like, 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:58.440 it's so extra, but you know, if my mom making 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:00.040 sure make sure you have enough food and water and 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:02.440 this and that, and I think it's just more so 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:04.480 not that there's not going to be any of those things, 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:06.679 but if you don't have to be in the fray. 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:10.079 I mean where I live is live is fairly liberal, 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.440 but I walked to my neighborhood today and there were 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:17.840 two homes that had Trump signs. You know, everybody else, 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:20.560 Like I said, the New York is a pretty liberal 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:24.240 you know, black and brown city. But still, yeah, you know, 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.760 and you just don't know what people will do, and so. 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:31.880 Yeah, thinking about our future selves again, I just hope. 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.880 I hope at least if you go to vote on 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:36.760 an election day, that you were able to vote and 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:40.160 it is peaceful and your vote is counted, because I 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:43.800 do know there's so many especially black families in particular, 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:47.000 I'm saying families, but black people in particular like to 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:49.480 vote on election day, you know. And I think about 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.360 Fulton County and Atlanta. Everyone's got every Atlanta is in 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:55.400 Fulton County. But anyway, everyone's eyes are on battleground states 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:59.520 like Georgia and Florida and Texas, Michigan, and especially in Georgia, 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:02.520 where there's just there's been so much evidence of voter suppression. 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:06.200 Stacy Abrams was giving a really powerful speech. I don't 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:08.319 know if it was yesterday or today, but I saw 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:11.839 a clip of it, and I mean, you really have 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:15.000 to be determined if you're going to go on election day. 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:18.040 I hope people stay. Don't let people, you know, talk 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.880 you out of voting. Let's get it done. But for 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:23.240 you know, when when when Biden says this is a 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:25.280 fight for the soul of the nation, I think how 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:28.560 tomorrow goes is going to send a message to the world. 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:31.480 You know, are we still the America that we say 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:34.000 we are? You know, is this most powerful democracy in 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:38.160 the world or is it fracturing? And I really mean, 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:40.480 I'm pray to God, whether you support Trump or Biden, 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:42.880 I just want us to have a peaceful election. It 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:47.480 is such a fundamental part of our democracy that we 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:49.680 go to the polls and we vote and it is 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:53.160 safe and votes are counted, and if we don't have that, 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:56.600 that terrifies me more. So That's what I think about. 0:12:56.679 --> 0:13:02.640 And you know, hey, futureselves, I hope, I hope you 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:03.480 all are doing okay. 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:07.120 Yeah, yeah, I mean, because what else can you say? Honestly, 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:08.240 I hope you're doing okay. 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:10.880 I hope you're planning. I'm planning a vacation. I'm taking 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:15.400 the last I am thinking about Crimis. I am Chrimas. 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:17.280 I'm thinking about Chrimas. I'm thinking about it. 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:20.479 It's like you can't think about Crimis until thanks Gimmen 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:21.160 is done. 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:24.880 No, I'm good. I want crimas well. Thanksgiving is like 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:27.960 my It's also Rio's first birthday. I'm excited about that. 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:30.199 I've already got some plans in the work. But for Crimas, 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:33.000 I have a toddler, basically he's he's not even one yet, 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:35.960 but he's almost walking. And I really, for my own 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:39.040 just my own sanity, I don't want to have to 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:41.520 keep him from knocking your Christmas tree down every day. 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:43.960 So I decided we're gonna go to like a real 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:47.000 live Christmas tree farm in the country now, because you 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:50.480 know Georgia, and we're gonna we're gonna cut down our 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.839 own tree. Did they let you cut it yourself? Whatever? 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:58.880 I pick out our own tree, Sorry, farmer, I mean, 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:01.679 but they might let me anyway. And we're gonna put 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:03.640 it in the front yard and I'm gonna light that 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:06.040 sucker up like the Rockefeller tree. We're gonna have like 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:08.839 a tree lighting, and I want to get a huge one. 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:13.280 And what inspired me was my little neighborhood. I mentioned 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:16.560 my neighborhood. It's it's a rare, you know, kind of 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:21.239 old black, middle class neighborhood in our pocket of suburbia. 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.480 And there's just a lot of really cool history here. 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:28.760 And there's a small kind of civic association. We don't 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:31.400 pay h away fees, but there is a little group 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:34.000 of people who, you know, try to keep the neighborhood 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:36.960 organize and like know your neighbors and stuff. And just 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:40.760 randomly this these these two people and names Paula and Josie, 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:43.800 they just hosted a Halloween street party and they shut down, 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:46.720 they got the street closed off and they had like 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:50.000 a bouncy castle and we got all dressed up. Rio 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.800 was baby Yoda. I was Rey from Star Wars. That's 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:54.880 the extent of my Star Wars knowledge. Do not ask 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:58.360 me any follow up questions. But we all went and 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.640 like Paula's husband was cooking on the grill, and it 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:05.680 was just so nice. We all social distance, but I 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:07.600 was like, you know, if we could just stay in 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:09.920 this little pocket of community in our neighborhood, things are 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:12.680 nice here. So hopefully I was thinking, you know, look 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:14.640 at the big tree. Maybe we'll do like a Christmas 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:17.440 festival thing just for the neighborhood or something, because it 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:19.360 just it felt really good. 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:22.840 Yeah, no, that's great. I love, you know what I 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:25.560 love when a neighborhood is a neighborhood. I grew up 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:27.760 like in a neighborhood like that, where like I knew 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:31.200 I would say, on our block there was maybe like 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:34.960 ten houses, and the ten houses, I think we basically 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.200 knew everyone, you know, and half of them more than 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:39.840 half of them had kids our age, and so like 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:43.120 a really neighborhoody neighborhood is great, where like the neighborhood's 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:45.560 your key, and if you leave your light on, you 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:47.600 get a text or a phone call or you know, 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:52.320 those things are those things are nice. My our favorite 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:55.720 neighbors from across the street, remember the guys Keith, Yeah, 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:59.600 Keith and Creithan's partner. He just put out his sign Biden, 0:15:59.680 --> 0:15:59.880 come on. 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:01.400 OK. 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:05.680 That was like, I guess. 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:07.520 I sent one to my mother because I was like, 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:09.080 I was going to buy one, but it's like thirty 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:11.440 five bucks and they honestly, we don't need another Biden 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:14.360 sign in my area. We're very progressive here. But I 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:16.880 sent one to her because she's in like this. Uh, 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:20.360 she's in this pocket outside of Saint Louis, Missouri, where 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:23.840 it's kind of dicey. And she told me on on Halloween, 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:25.480 when they had all the trick or treats coming through 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:27.800 their neighborhood, one of her neighbors came up and he 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:30.200 just whispered. He's like, I don't want people to hear 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:33.920 me say this, but I like your sign. I like 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:37.440 your Biden sign. She also has a Black Lives Matter sign. 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:40.640 My mom has been I just wow, she has come 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:43.600 a long way, long way, and I don't think she 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:45.680 would have come this far without the pandemic and the 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:48.800 real uncomfortable discussions we had as a family this summer. 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:53.280 And I you know. I it's it's you can't. It's 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:55.480 hard to be grateful for something that is so awful. 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.480 Over two hundred thousand people in this country alone, millions 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.760 across the world have died. But in a way it 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:05.840 created the circumstances for these conversations to happen. And my 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:10.520 mom put out a black lives freaking math's huge. Come on. 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:17.439 So yeah, I know, I'm not gonna lie. I just 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:21.119 I have just been online just to like there's certain 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:24.400 pages that, like, you know, they don't do political because 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:27.760 I've been like super political, like what that was okay today? No, no, no, no, 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:31.000 but they're like, you know, like, hey, I'm rebnovating my house. 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:32.960 I'm like, okay, Oh look at my dog. Isn't he's 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:35.600 so cute in his Halloween costume. I'm like, oh, he 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:38.639 is so cuteness Halloween costume. Like so that's That's the 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:40.199 only time I've been online today is to kind of 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:41.600 look at that. You know. 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:44.560 Definitely work with the team. I will say that there 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:47.480 was a funny meme that Logan on my team prosts. 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:49.280 I said, Logan, you are a hot mess. This was 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:52.560 like like this weekend or late last week. She said, 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:55.880 what y'all wear into next week's civil war? 0:17:56.000 --> 0:18:02.320 I said, Logan, Oh no, I was like loss. 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:07.200 She was like, what, I don't think our youth are prepared, 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:09.920 Like no one knows how to fight, Like they don't teach. 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:11.440 You a battle comic. 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:15.639 We like all the children today just game like, like 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:17.480 we're not prepared to fight each other. It's gonna be 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:18.520 a real funny battle. 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:21.359 And I was sicker to myself almost like you know 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:24.320 what Sometimes I'm you know, I'm like when I look 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:26.320 at Superman, I'm like, oh, he's so rough around the edges. 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:29.359 I'm not gonna lie times like this, I'm like, yes, 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:33.040 bring the roughness forward. 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:40.440 Remember those fights in high school? Bring them for no. 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:43.040 But like I'm I mean, you never know. 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:45.119 But like I said, nor if it is pretty liberal 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:48.040 and pretty you know, we're some andre for the most part, 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:51.439 even Keith across the street, you know he don't want 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:53.480 to throw them hands anyway. But plus I see his son. 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:56.280 Progressives can be assholes too. You know, we're allowing you 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:58.119 everyone to be very multifaceted. 0:18:58.280 --> 0:18:59.520 You know, true, It's true. 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:02.080 You know the jerks you're gonna vote vote for Biden, 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:04.960 you know what I mean? Like we uh we we 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:08.119 need every every vote counts, okay, even Keith so he 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:13.359 can get a point. Yeah, all right, well let's let's 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:17.560 take a quick break future selves. I hope that you 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:20.320 know you're doing okay and coping well, but let's take 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:21.920 a quick break, come back with some question. 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:57.800 So we are back to my favorite section of the show, 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:03.040 which would be question questions. 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:06.680 I literally my brain just froze. I'm back. 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:10.320 What's going on? I'm not gonna lie. Yes, there's so 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:10.920 much going on. 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:13.760 There's so much going on. Well, thank y'all. I did 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:17.760 a really bad Instagram live yesterday because I just wanted 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:19.239 to say hi and thank you to all of our 0:20:19.280 --> 0:20:21.680 BA fans. And some of you guys were like, hey, 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:24.359 I've asked a question, it hasn't been answered yet, ask 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:27.199 it again. You know, just our dms have gotten a 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:29.840 little Craig Cray. I still try and read them all, 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:32.000 but sometimes I just you know, I'll forget if I 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:34.119 read something, So send them again. And also you can 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:37.399 hit me up at Mandy Money my personal inst a 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:40.480 Instagram account. Be a little persistent. I'm not mad at that, 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:43.119 and it's Mandy with an I. But thank y'all for 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:47.480 joining that, and I will take this question from the 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:51.120 Graham All right, this comes from Instagram user. We'll call 0:20:51.160 --> 0:20:55.240 her Sam. Sam has a question about some credit card debt. 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:59.359 All right, you ready? I have about forty three hundred 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:02.600 dollars left of credit card debt between two credit cards 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:05.639 with high interest rates. Lending Tree. Oh, I know that company. 0:21:06.000 --> 0:21:09.359 Blending Tree suggests that I take out a personal loan 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:12.800 and transfer both balances to the personal loan. They also 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:16.360 suggest that I get more credit because my credit utilization 0:21:16.640 --> 0:21:18.400 or what does she mean? Her my credit is low? 0:21:18.560 --> 0:21:19.760