Speaker 1: Calgary Audio. What's up with you, mother Suckers? Welcome to
Speaker 1: another episode of your mother Sucker Podcast with me, Michael
Speaker 1: Blackson and my co host, Chinese best Friend Man. How
Speaker 1: are you doing? Chinese best Friend? Hey? Everyone, Hey Michael Blackson,
Speaker 1: It's been a long time. I'm doing good. There's a gentleman,
Speaker 1: very good friend him. I've known for many years. She's
Speaker 1: into the fashion word. Uh, it's where she started and
Speaker 1: she still does run a lot of things with fashion.
Speaker 1: But now she's also running for Congress. There's nothing powerful
Speaker 1: black woman, Michelle. Can you tell him? Welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: Michelle tell us about yourself. Lions but she tells the truth.
Speaker 1: That's right. Yes, I'm an a lionist. So uh yeah,
Speaker 1: so I um, I've always had a passion for politics.
Speaker 1: Actually worked in DC for a year after you know,
Speaker 1: it was around the comedy bid and then entertainment industry
Speaker 1: since I was sixteen years old. Uh, and then when
Speaker 1: I was twenty five, I got a great offer to
Speaker 1: work um on the Hill. So I worked on the
Speaker 1: Hill for a year and as a TV on bt
Speaker 1: Right TV show The Hill of meaning Capitol Hill in DC.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I worked. I actually got to work alongside
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi and Jim Clyburn and a lot of great people.
Speaker 1: And this past two years, I've just had a calling
Speaker 1: to dive back in to politics. And I speak four languages,
Speaker 1: so it's like so many things in my life. Have
Speaker 1: lived in five countries and um, and I've had three businesses.
Speaker 1: So I just have a lot of experience that that
Speaker 1: God has just showed me this is really your path,
Speaker 1: this is why I made you. So I'm excited. Do
Speaker 1: any of those four languages in clues? Heannessy? Or? Um?
Speaker 1: Was it? Uh not? Was it black language? Us? Like?
Speaker 1: What language you speak? Um? I speak Portuguese is my
Speaker 1: best language? Portuguese? Can you do you know any Portuguese?
Speaker 1: Michael blacks and I barely speak English? What the fund
Speaker 1: you pointing at the wrong Chinese? Can you say something
Speaker 1: Portuguese like, Mike, you look good? Can you said that
Speaker 1: in Portuguese? Cattot? She said, Mike got a big duck wow?
Speaker 1: And it was the other language? No, uh, follow Portuguese. O,
Speaker 1: it's Italian. I lived. I lived in Italy. I love Italy.
Speaker 1: I used to go there a lot back in the day.
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Speaker 1: don't know ship about Congress. What then do you congress do?
Speaker 1: Like what is the congress job? Do you work with?
Speaker 1: How many congress all there? Oh, that's great questions? So
Speaker 1: there are four hundred and the STA so and that
Speaker 1: I could be wrong because you know, we just lost
Speaker 1: the congressman, so you know, California just lost one. It's
Speaker 1: all it's always burst off the census. So, uh, it's
Speaker 1: around four fifty. And then we have the and then
Speaker 1: we have senates. So there's a hundred senators. Each state
Speaker 1: gets two senators. That the House is always based off
Speaker 1: of population. California just lost. We just lost the congressman.
Speaker 1: So we're waiting for reds lost them like death nobody
Speaker 1: meaning no, meaning that we're getting there, taking away one
Speaker 1: of our Congress. But now we're gonna have wet because
Speaker 1: the biggest state, a bigger state, you have Congress based
Speaker 1: on population. So I feel bad for Portland's main Probably yeah,
Speaker 1: there there are there are states that have like just
Speaker 1: a few, you know, so it's always based on your
Speaker 1: on the population, you know, So probably ain't gotten anybody
Speaker 1: know You're Texas, Florida, California, They're gonna have the most
Speaker 1: because they have the best population, you know, I said
Speaker 1: New York, right, Texas, New York and Florida and so forth.
Speaker 1: So those those four states have the most Congress. They
Speaker 1: take like those states almost take up half of Congress.
Speaker 1: So now okay, so and and what is a conqueror's job. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Congress are who actually passed the laws for the country.
Speaker 1: So this is this is what you for the country.
Speaker 1: A state actually for the country. So the state actually
Speaker 1: has its own senators, the state has its governor, it
Speaker 1: has its mayor, and so forth. So Congress, you're you're
Speaker 1: also working for the state as well, but you're passing um,
Speaker 1: you're passing stuff for the countrys That's why Congress goes
Speaker 1: to Each congressman goes to the capital d C two
Speaker 1: days every single week. So I would have to fly
Speaker 1: to d C two days a week every week. So
Speaker 1: if for a fifty congressmen died there, you go two
Speaker 1: days a week every week, every week, and senators off
Speaker 1: all hud senators go three days a week. What that many?
Speaker 1: I mean that often? Yes, because you have to you
Speaker 1: have to meet, and you have to, you know, talk
Speaker 1: about all the issues. And we've got to talk about
Speaker 1: pay raise. You know, every time they vote on something,
Speaker 1: they need everybody to vote on that. So if we're
Speaker 1: gonna raise the minimum wage, they need everybody there to vote.
Speaker 1: And you have to pass laws, pass bills. The Congress
Speaker 1: is actually who writes the bill. So it goes to
Speaker 1: Congress first and then it goes to Senate, and then
Speaker 1: this president signs it. So everybody thinks the president does
Speaker 1: a lot, but the president actually just the signer people
Speaker 1: who make the laws. Our Congress. The mother Sucker Podcast
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