WEBVTT - Ep. 70 — Adventures in House Hunting 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:20.639 Welcome back to Brown Ambition with Tiffany, Alicia, and Mandre 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:22.360 soon to be another last name. 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:27.440 You just said Mandre. I did no, no, no no, because 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:29.800 that my you. I have friends who call me Mandra 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:34.479 because that is that. That accident happens so often. Really 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:37.680 at my own graduation, both college and high school, the 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:39.920 person reading my name because my last name is Woodruff 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:42.960 and when they say Amanda, they start reading Woodruff before 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:45.800 they finished, and I think, okay, so it's always been 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:47.520 Amandra or Amandra Wandruff. 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:48.720 I'm not I can say that. 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:49.440 Not bad. 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:50.920 That's ok. That's my nickname. 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:53.720 I'm so used to it, right, So people always call 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:54.360 me Stephanie. 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:58.280 I'm like, like, Africans cannot say Tiffany. They cannot. I'm 0:00:58.280 --> 0:00:58.560 telling you. 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:05.560 They're like, You're like, no, Tiffany's like literally and uncles 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:08.000 they're like, ah, Steph, how are you. I'm like Steph, 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:09.840 So now I have it. I can't even say tiff 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:10.959 That's tell you. 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:14.320 Like how a native Spanish speaker might say, they put 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:16.480 e in the friend and most words. 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:20.160 But I was gonna say that the natives they do that, 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:23.680 both the Africans, West Indians and Hispanic people tend to 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:24.880 call me Stephanie. 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:27.880 So that is your linguistic lesson of the day, Brown ambition. 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:32.759 It's important to learn languages, so you know what it's 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:35.320 We're already almost halfway through February. That's why is it 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:38.800 sucks that this is the shortest month. But I thought 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:40.400 we could kick off the show by sharing a little 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:42.040 bit of black history. If you don't mind, are you 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:45.440 down for the something I learned today? Let's do let's 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:46.560 let's do it. 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:46.800 Well. 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:49.440 I Well, one thing I'll point out is so the 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:52.200 end day n double a CP Image Awards for yesterday, 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:55.000 so I relived it through my Instagram feed. I don't 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:57.280 actually know what channel they come on, but uh, I 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:59.200 never actually watched it, but I always tune in for 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:03.040 the speeches after So of course Hidden Figures one and 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:06.760 they're amazing. But then Denzel won for his role in Fences, 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:09.600 and he gave just a really I mean, I feel 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:11.919 like Denzel should have been a preacher if he wasn't 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:15.240 like a multimillion dollar, you know, award winning actor. But 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:18.640 he can preach, you know, and it's like, really, yes, 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:20.320 if you haven't you need to go. I might play 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:22.640 a clip of his speech but he just gave an 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:25.320 amazing speech. He was like, basically the theme of his 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:28.160 speech was that don't let anyone tell you this is easy. 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:30.520 It's hard and if and I'm glad that it's hard, 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.200 because if it weren't like he says, easiness is a 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:39.359 bigger threat to success than difficulty, and he talks about that, 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:41.680 he talks about the benefit of challenges, and you can 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:43.440 just I don't know. I just felt like I went 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:44.840 to church in two and a half minutes. 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:46.919 I'd do very much. 0:02:54.080 --> 0:03:01.919 Thank you, very much, Thank you, Tanny See Williams, Arthur Miller, 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:09.399 Eugene O'Neil, Edward Albie, August Wilson. August Wilson is one 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:13.640 of the greatest playwrights in the history of American all 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:20.600 world theater. It is a privilege and honor, a responsibility, 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:26.800 a duty, and a joy to bring his brilliance to 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:34.120 the screen. I am particularly proud and happy about the 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:41.760 young filmmakers, actors, singers, writers, producers that are coming up 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:50.640 behind my generation, in particular Barry Jenkins. Young people understand 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:56.520 this young man made ten, fifteen, twenty short films before 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:59.840 he got the opportunity to make Moonlight. So never give 0:03:59.920 --> 0:04:06.360 us up. Without commitment, you'll never start, But more importantly, 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:12.000 without consistency, you'll never finish. It's not easy. 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:14.600 If it was easy, there'd. 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:17.280 Be no Kerry Washington. If it was easy, there'd be 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:23.560 no to Rogi Henson p Henson. If it were easy, 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:26.360 there'd be no Octavia Spencer. But not only that. If 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:29.520 it were easy, there'd be no Viola Davis. If we 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:32.719 were easy, there'd be no Michael T. Williamson, no Stephen 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:37.599 McKinley Henderson, no Russell Hornsby. If we were easy, there'd be 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:44.400 no Denzel Washington. So keep working, keep striving, never give up. 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:49.880 Fall down seven times, get up eight. 0:04:49.960 --> 0:05:00.839 Ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship. He's 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.320 is a greater threat to progress than hardship. 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:08.200 So keep moving, keep growing, keep learning. So yeah, it work. 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:14.039 Wow, And it was nice he called that all the 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:16.919 different names and the actors and the audience, and just 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:19.640 felt so nice. But what I also wanted to share 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:21.440 is I read this article and I don't know how 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:24.640 I missed this last year, But last year this news 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:28.960 came out. So everyone knows Jack Daniels, this famous Southern bourbon. 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:33.440 Don't I knew Kennethy, Kennethy, thank you. I was gonna 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:36.720 say Tennessee or Kentucky. I forget Tennessee. 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:37.159 Yeah. 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:41.280 It turns out so the history of the company's over 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:42.840 one hundred years old, I think one hundred and fifty 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:46.160 years old. And you know, this man named Daniels who 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:49.520 created the whiskey was always credited for it. But actually 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:55.400 this apparently the original Daniels was taken in by a 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:59.640 family and the patriarch of the family is who got 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:03.520 him into to making whiskey. But it was that guy's slave, 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:09.760 a man uncle Ners or near Us, who was really 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.919 responsible for all the methods and the recipe for the 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:15.279 original Jack Daniel's whiskey. And I never knew that. 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:17.640 I think I saw that somewhere. I think I saw 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:19.120 an article about that, and I was like. 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.760 Yeah, Black Enterprise did another story yesterday on it. That's 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:24.080 where I read it, and then I was like, wait, 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:26.120 they said it happened last year. So this came out 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:29.359 last year and the Telegraph, of all places, look at 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:34.320 Britain calling out Colena. How America has whitewashed its own history. 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:38.240 But yeah, and this guy's descendants have been trying to 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:40.800 get him more credit for the actual recipe and all that, 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.080 but you know, just kind of reminds you. And I 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:44.800 mean this was also in the year that you know, 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:47.320 Hidden Figures came out, and you just realize there are 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:50.400 these like huge moments in history, these huge things that 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:54.760 were accomplished, and all these nameless people, these nameles African 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:58.400 Americans who don't get credit or didn't get credit. So 0:06:58.440 --> 0:06:59.880 I just wanted to give a shout out to uncle near. 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:04.360 Yeah n e A R I s. 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:07.520 Although I don't partake in the drink, I know, but 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:09.239 you know, no, that's awesome. 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:14.400 Actually, that's funny story. Jack Daniels is like my everyone 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:16.120 has like if you do drink, you you know, you 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:19.120 have like your trigger liquor, the one it turns you 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:24.640 into like a crazy person. That's my trigger liquor. Trigger 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:29.400 trigger liquor. That's a dangerous combination of it sounds really terrible. 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:35.440 I was somebody I was wearing like a Detroit like sweatshirt. 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:39.040 It's just like sweating. I got so nervous. 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:40.880 Liquor. 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:42.840 Stop saying that exactly. 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:44.440 I don't like it. 0:07:44.560 --> 0:07:46.160 Like it's like funny because it's like the same kind 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:48.000 of like player on words and I was like, oh 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.200 my god, you have a Detroit sweatshirt. And I said, girl, 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:55.680 I love the d And then I realized and I 0:07:55.800 --> 0:08:00.200 said it like so loud, proud, and like I'm just 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:00.680 gonna leave that. 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:05.880 We all have those moments. That's that's what she said, 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:06.520 moment you. 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:08.760 Know, yes. And then meanwhile, there's some people who are like, 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:09.480 I don't get it. 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:11.680 Is that once again, that's one of those You're innocent 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:13.360 and we want to keep you that way, so we're 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:14.560 not going to explain what that means. 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:16.400 Yeah, I don't know. I feel like our audience is 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:18.240 on to us to get it. 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:23.240 But I I can't wait for the wins because I 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:24.640 have an awesome win. But I'm gonna save it. 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:26.679 Okay, oh did you buy a house? 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:28.680 No? No, no, it's not me. It's an awesome win 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:30.560 for somebody who like, I'm like, I'm so proud of that. 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:32.840 Oh okay, okay, good. I'm trying to I always do that. 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:34.600 Someone's like I have a surprise that I'm like, immediately 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:36.480 start trying to guess it until I ruin it. For 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:41.120 my song. It's a cute little habit. So the biggest, 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:42.920 one of the biggest things, well, two big things in 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:47.480 women's news today, women's history. So one step backward is 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:50.360 that Betsy de Vos was nominated to be the Department 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:53.760 of Education secretary. As a former teacher, Tiffany Leitch, how 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:57.760 do you feel having a woman of her you know, 0:08:58.080 --> 0:08:59.480 lack of stature and experience. 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:04.720 That's charge because one thing you learn when you're a 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:08.960 teacher is you learn how critical it is for the 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:11.800 upper levels of you know, of people who are in 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:14.880 education and creating policy, how critical it is is they 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.840 have at least taught because there's no substitute for that. 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:20.600 Like there's certain things that you cannot learn without being 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:24.319 in the classroom because you're like, oh, for example, I'm 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:26.520 working on you know, like that that literacy bill was 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:31.199 my friend who's an Assembly women Assembly Women, Angela v. McKnight, Right, 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:35.439 So we're working on this financial literacy bill for elementary 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:37.640 and middle school students that they make it mandatory to 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:40.520 teach financial education in the lower grades. They already have 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:43.080 a law in place for high school. So I met 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.559 with the Education Committee in New Jersey and the women 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:48.240 were like adamant, like they were kind of like pushing 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:51.680 against this potential law. And Angela asked if I would 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:53.760 come and sit with them and talk with them, and 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:57.640 so I did. And this is the pushback. It was like, 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:02.400 the educational day is already two packed, and me, being 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:05.120 a teacher of ten years, totally got it. And I 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:07.840 explained to them, I know what that looked like to 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:11.160 have a new you know, some sort of new mandate 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:13.840 and then having to fit it where, when, and so 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:16.240 what I was explaining is that the way I wanted 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.120 the law to be phraised was not that you had 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:20.960 to set aside time in the day for its financial 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:25.240 literacy time. Instead was to give teachers the tools to 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.840 teach to incorporate it. And they're already packed day. So 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.720 instead you already have library time. Why can't there be 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:33.800 at least three or four books in your library area 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:37.160 that deal with money. You're already doing counting. Why can't 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:40.040 you know that sometimes some of your counting activities include 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:43.760 you counting up money. So that nuance of like, because 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:46.679 it's so easy for somebody to say, hey, add this 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:47.680 new thing to your classroom. 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:49.960 It's good for the kids, But as a teacher, you're. 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:53.120 Like why and how and so if you don't get that, 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:55.600 if you don't understand what it's really like to implement 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:59.520 these like laws and mandates, because ultimately the teacher has 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:01.439 to be the one to implement those things, and she 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:04.959 doesn't have that nuance understanding. And so it's really frustrating 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:08.280 because you know, she's going to make laws and or 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.040 make changes based upon something that she has no idea 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:12.439 how that's going to affect the day to day learning 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:14.959 of a child, you know, and you can see the difference, 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:17.200 like you know, so it's just really frustrating. But I 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:19.200 did get a giggle out of her trying to visit 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:21.240 a public school and then. 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:24.520 Running her out. Here's a video. I will send it 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:25.520 to you so maybe we can share it. 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:30.360 In they like protest, there's one guy. Your kids are 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:34.360 the wokest of the woke. On another level, I feel 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:36.240 like I slept through middle school. These kids are like 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:39.160 mm hmmms, Betsy, we see you, we know who you 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:39.800 are and have you. 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:40.720 But it wasn't the kids. 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:42.400 It was like I guess some like protests or so 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:45.080 like parents or whatever, and this guy told and he's. 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:47.079 Screaming shame, shame, shame. 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:49.400 So that's been like that's been like my hashtag with 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.199 my friends, like shame, shame, And so he's like basically 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:53.880 telling her our schools are not for sale. 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:57.120 She looks so uncomfortable. They usher her to the car. 0:11:57.360 --> 0:11:59.000 You know, he doesn't touch her anything, but he's very 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:01.280 clear and vocal. But yeah, I'll share the video because 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:03.079 I definitely got a snicker. Like you thought it was 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:07.520 gonna be easy. She was like, you cannot buy our schools. 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:11.080 Shame, sham, shame. That's a good title for the podcast today. 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:14.120 Shame, shame, shame. I don't know, I feel like that 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:15.119 my term people. 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:16.480 Away, like what's happening. 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:20.920 This is the Catholic edition of Today's past exactly ten 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:23.960 million hail marries for everybody. So the other half of 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:27.640 this was so Betsy Devas was, you know, after a 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:31.640 highly contested confirmation hearing, finally she was approved. She's in 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:34.040 it where you know, it sucks, but it's over. But 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:36.280 during the course of the week, Elizabeth Warren had a 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:38.240 moment for her. You know, I feel like she's like 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.760 launching her twenty twenty campaign already. But Miss Lizzie Warren 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:43.880 on the floor of the Senate was trying to read 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:51.840 the letter from Credit Scott King criticizing Jeff sessions from 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:54.560 back in the eighties. Credit Scott King wrote this letter 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:56.440 and while she was reading it, apparently there's some like 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.240 old rule on the Senate floor that you're not able 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:03.560 to disparage actual lawmakers like your your senate brethren or whatever, 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.280 and they invoke that and kicked her off the floor. 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:08.320 But there's you know what they say about when you 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:10.520 ban a book or when you ban something like there's 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:14.640 you're not by banning it, You're only ensuring that everyone 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:16.760 is going to read it, like way more people are 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:18.920 going to hear it or read it than ever before. 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:21.320 And of course, what did miss Lizzie Warren do. I 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:23.920 love her, She's my spirit animal. And those purple pants suits, 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:27.280 I love it. She went outside and proceeded to read 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.319 the letter on Facebook Live and got like over two 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:31.920 million views, and it was all over the news. She's 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:32.959 got her own hashtag. 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:37.679 Now, let's Lizzie speak, Let Lizzie speak, Let Liz speak. 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:41.240 But then and hashtag, she persisted, it's everywhere. I mean, 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:43.240 it's gone viral. She's still I got an email from 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:46.080 her campaign like this happened on a Tuesday. By Thursday morning, 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:47.920 I had an email saying you can buy your she 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:52.240 persisted t shirts on Elizabeth Warren got I was like, 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:54.480 all right, all right, all right, I mean, you know, 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:58.280 goes toward her campaign or whatever, but uh yeah, I 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:01.080 just so shout out to Elizabeth Warren and I feel 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:04.360 like her voice, you know, was absolutely heard in the end. 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.240 And who was it that Chuck Schumer came in behind 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:08.760 her and he was able to read the whole thing? 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:12.240 You know what I do? You know, hearing that, I 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:14.400 just have to say, I feel a little weird hearing 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:19.320 about the the protesting. Well, the way you know, Elizabeth 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:21.200 Warren was treated was sort of people were saying, you 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:22.680 know what, they had done that to a man. Because 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:24.800 then Chuck Schumer came right behind her and read his 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:27.480 letter and then to hear the I mean, I know 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:31.320 that Betsy da Voss is like completely unexperienced for this 0:14:31.400 --> 0:14:33.080 office and all that kind of thing, But I wonder 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.240 if the same sort of visceral reaction would be happening 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:37.920 if it were a guy. I mean, I don't think 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:41.160 Jeff Sessions is getting run out of you know where 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.600 if he goes near a police precinct or I don't know, 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:46.680 you know what I mean. I and when you said 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:48.680 the shame, shame, shame. That made me think of Game 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:52.000 of Thrones when you know, as a nerd Game of Thrones, 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:55.520 there's a central scene that's like famous and the queen 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:59.400 is being shamed by this church who has all this power, 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:02.200 and she's forced walk naked through the town and as 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:04.960 she walks, they yell. This nun is yelling shame, shame, 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.040 shame at her the whole way down, and it was 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:08.960 sort of seen as like a and she's you know 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:12.000 in jail, in church jail, which used to be a thing, 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:15.880 I guess, wow, for committing adultery. So it's it's it's 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:20.120 just fascinating. I mean, yes, there's reasons to completely you know, 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:23.840 not want her anywhere near our public schools and our 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.320 you know, higher education. But I don't know, I just 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:28.560 I'm trying to like step take a step back and 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:33.040 listen to how how people are criticizing and how they're 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:38.360 sort of treating people, you know, as Voldemort is fleshing 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:41.040 out his cabinet, I mean I think she's like the 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:41.840 only woman. 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:44.280 Right, Yeah, well yeah, I think so. 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:46.560 I can't think of any other women in his cabinet. 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:50.480 I mean, so, uh, it's just it's it's it's interesting, 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:52.120 and I'll just I'll just leave it there at dot 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:52.600 dot dot. 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:02.400 I will I'll give you some update about my I 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:04.760 told you a little earlier we had some update about. 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:07.160 My house search done. 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:11.840 So I've learned so much about this process. I meant, 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:12.960 what so you know? 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:16.680 So one, for those of you who know Superman and I, 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:18.520 I wanted to buy a house. 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:20.200 You know, we just recently were engaged. 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:22.520 But one of the reasons why I wanted to get 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:25.640 a house, it's because when when we first started dating, 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:26.240 you know. 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:28.000 I knew I wanted to purchase a house. 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:29.360 I had one before when I was like in my 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:32.280 twenties and lost it to a foreclosure, and I wanted 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:33.840 to do it right the second time around. 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:37.800 And as we started to get more serious, I realized, Huh, if. 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:39.960 We purchased the house in the right way, I can 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:45.040 really and we can really position Superman, my fiance to 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:47.320 to to really start a business. 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:50.120 And so he works for the city where we live 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:51.520 in Newark, for the. 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:53.160 Housing Authority, and one of the things he does is 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:54.920 that he flips properties and stuff for them. It's like 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:56.840 knows how to fix everything. So I thought, well, why 0:16:56.840 --> 0:17:00.160 don't we get multi family house since literally this is 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:01.280 what you do for a living. And he was like, 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:02.320 I don't want to be a landlord. 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:04.080 And it took like a year and a half, but 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:06.199 finally I was like, you are a landlord. You are 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:06.760 a landlord. 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:09.600 You're a landlord of three hundred units, so what's you know, 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:12.240 like you're doing it? And so I'm like, but you know, 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:13.920 and so we did the math and it wasn't until 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.200 we did the math that we saw that after basically 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:19.960 three multi family houses, it well exceeded what he made 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:23.800 as as working for the city. And so not going 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:25.719 to say that he would quit, but at least that 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.639 was an option for if I decide that I no 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:30.560 longer want to work for the city. Once we get 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:33.399 three properties, you know, I've more than matched my income. 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:35.399 So that was like my dream because I, you know, 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:37.320 I travel a lot, and sometimes he wants to go 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:39.679 and can't get off work and he wants to kind 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:41.760 of go back to school, but you know, he's raising his. 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:43.359 Daughter, so he doesn't have as much time. 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:47.280 So we've been looking for multi family properties and we 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:49.879 wanted to live in Newark because Newark is really starting 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:53.920 to yeah, pop honestly, Like you know, they talk about 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:56.439 places starting to transform, and they've been talking about Newark 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:57.560 is coming for years. 0:17:57.640 --> 0:17:59.080 But it's fine. You should have heard. 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:01.480 I went to a baby yesterday and all the way 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:03.600 out in Long Island and those crowd of people were 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:05.760 talking about Newark. So you watch out. 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:07.720 I know, honestly, it's Mandy. 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:12.800 It's like scary, like scary, but exciting. I mean if yeah, 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:14.760 there's so many first of all, one like you know, 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:18.359 the they it's almost basically here. They have these new 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:21.800 apartments downtown Newark for a one bedroom Mandy twenty two. 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:25.440 Hundred dollars, what Newark, New Jersey twenty two hundred dollars 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:26.520 for a one bedroom. 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:30.320 It's crazy because Newark has already has two trains that 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:32.680 go directly to New York City. They're building a third, 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:35.600 so you're gonna have three trains directly to the city. 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:38.840 And I can literally from Newark get to Midtown faster 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:41.919 than somebody from Brooklyn can. And then Newark has an 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:44.800 international airport that flies everywhere in the world, so it's 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:46.640 already and then it's right next to a port. It's 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:50.240 it's the position of Newark is already perfectly positioned it 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:53.399 just the infrastructure was there but not being utilized. And 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:55.119 so now they're starting to clean up the neighborhoods. And 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:58.520 there's one neighborhood in particular that I particularly like. It's 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:01.399 a Weekway section of Newark. It's very family focused, so 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:03.520 everybody there has lived there for like I lived here 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:06.320 twenty years, I lived to ten years during the riots. 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:08.280 Is one of the few neighborhoods that did not fall 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:10.359 victims to the riots. 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:13.800 So the houses are beautiful, like nineteen thirty, nineteen nineteen, 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:16.200 and I love those kind of like old houses, and 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:18.320 many of them have been renovated. So we've been looking, 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.119 but it's been discouraging because a lot of the houses 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:22.159 have not been kept up. 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:23.600 So you might find a house for eighty. 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:25.800 Thousand dollars and you're like, well, I don't know that 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:28.679 we have the skill set yet to renovate at this level. 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:31.199 Or you see a house for like two fifty or 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:34.359 two seventy and you're like really, like the floor is 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:36.119 pulled up, like is it even worth this? 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:39.160 So we finally found the house this weekend, whoo whoo. 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:42.080 So Mandy, it is perfect. I cannot wait for to 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:44.200 have you a fiance bou to come. 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:46.120 Is it a house? Are you doing? Are you doing? 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:49.639 Like the multifamily, it's a multi family, and so this 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:50.760 is what's so great about it. 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:53.640 It's three units. It's in my beloved Weekway section where 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:56.000