WEBVTT - Highlights: Michelle Lions

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<v Speaker 1>Calgary Audio. What's up with you, mother Suckers? Welcome to

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<v Speaker 1>another episode of your mother Sucker Podcast with me, Michael

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<v Speaker 1>Blackson and my co host, Chinese best Friend Man. How

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<v Speaker 1>are you doing? Chinese best Friend? Hey? Everyone, Hey Michael Blackson,

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<v Speaker 1>It's been a long time. I'm doing good. There's a gentleman,

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<v Speaker 1>very good friend him. I've known for many years. She's

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<v Speaker 1>into the fashion word. Uh, it's where she started and

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<v Speaker 1>she still does run a lot of things with fashion.

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<v Speaker 1>But now she's also running for Congress. There's nothing powerful

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<v Speaker 1>black woman, Michelle. Can you tell him? Welcome to the show.

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<v Speaker 1>Michelle tell us about yourself. Lions but she tells the truth.

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<v Speaker 1>That's right. Yes, I'm an a lionist. So uh yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>so I um, I've always had a passion for politics.

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<v Speaker 1>Actually worked in DC for a year after you know,

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<v Speaker 1>it was around the comedy bid and then entertainment industry

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<v Speaker 1>since I was sixteen years old. Uh, and then when

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<v Speaker 1>I was twenty five, I got a great offer to

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<v Speaker 1>work um on the Hill. So I worked on the

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<v Speaker 1>Hill for a year and as a TV on bt

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<v Speaker 1>Right TV show The Hill of meaning Capitol Hill in DC.

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<v Speaker 1>So yeah, I worked. I actually got to work alongside

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<v Speaker 1>Nancy Pelosi and Jim Clyburn and a lot of great people.

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<v Speaker 1>And this past two years, I've just had a calling

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<v Speaker 1>to dive back in to politics. And I speak four languages,

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<v Speaker 1>so it's like so many things in my life. Have

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<v Speaker 1>lived in five countries and um, and I've had three businesses.

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<v Speaker 1>So I just have a lot of experience that that

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<v Speaker 1>God has just showed me this is really your path,

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<v Speaker 1>this is why I made you. So I'm excited. Do

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<v Speaker 1>any of those four languages in clues? Heannessy? Or? Um?

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<v Speaker 1>Was it? Uh not? Was it black language? Us? Like?

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<v Speaker 1>What language you speak? Um? I speak Portuguese is my

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<v Speaker 1>best language? Portuguese? Can you do you know any Portuguese?

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<v Speaker 1>Michael blacks and I barely speak English? What the fund

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<v Speaker 1>you pointing at the wrong Chinese? Can you say something

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<v Speaker 1>Portuguese like, Mike, you look good? Can you said that

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<v Speaker 1>in Portuguese? Cattot? She said, Mike got a big duck wow?

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<v Speaker 1>And it was the other language? No, uh, follow Portuguese. O,

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<v Speaker 1>it's Italian. I lived. I lived in Italy. I love Italy.

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<v Speaker 1>I used to go there a lot back in the day.

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<v Speaker 1>What's up my socas this is your African King up coming.

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<v Speaker 1>episode every Tuesday. All right, let's get to because I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know ship about Congress. What then do you congress do?

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<v Speaker 1>Like what is the congress job? Do you work with?

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<v Speaker 1>How many congress all there? Oh, that's great questions? So

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<v Speaker 1>there are four hundred and the STA so and that

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<v Speaker 1>I could be wrong because you know, we just lost

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<v Speaker 1>the congressman, so you know, California just lost one. It's

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<v Speaker 1>all it's always burst off the census. So, uh, it's

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<v Speaker 1>around four fifty. And then we have the and then

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<v Speaker 1>we have senates. So there's a hundred senators. Each state

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<v Speaker 1>gets two senators. That the House is always based off

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<v Speaker 1>of population. California just lost. We just lost the congressman.

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<v Speaker 1>So we're waiting for reds lost them like death nobody

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<v Speaker 1>meaning no, meaning that we're getting there, taking away one

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<v Speaker 1>of our Congress. But now we're gonna have wet because

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<v Speaker 1>the biggest state, a bigger state, you have Congress based

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<v Speaker 1>on population. So I feel bad for Portland's main Probably yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>there there are there are states that have like just

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<v Speaker 1>a few, you know, so it's always based on your

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<v Speaker 1>on the population, you know, So probably ain't gotten anybody

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<v Speaker 1>know You're Texas, Florida, California, They're gonna have the most

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<v Speaker 1>because they have the best population, you know, I said

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<v Speaker 1>New York, right, Texas, New York and Florida and so forth.

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<v Speaker 1>So those those four states have the most Congress. They

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<v Speaker 1>take like those states almost take up half of Congress.

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<v Speaker 1>So now okay, so and and what is a conqueror's job. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>Congress are who actually passed the laws for the country.

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<v Speaker 1>So this is this is what you for the country.

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<v Speaker 1>A state actually for the country. So the state actually

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<v Speaker 1>has its own senators, the state has its governor, it

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<v Speaker 1>has its mayor, and so forth. So Congress, you're you're

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<v Speaker 1>also working for the state as well, but you're passing um,

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<v Speaker 1>you're passing stuff for the countrys That's why Congress goes

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<v Speaker 1>to Each congressman goes to the capital d C two

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<v Speaker 1>days every single week. So I would have to fly

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<v Speaker 1>to d C two days a week every week. So

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<v Speaker 1>if for a fifty congressmen died there, you go two

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<v Speaker 1>days a week every week, every week, and senators off

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<v Speaker 1>all hud senators go three days a week. What that many?

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<v Speaker 1>I mean that often? Yes, because you have to you

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<v Speaker 1>have to meet, and you have to, you know, talk

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<v Speaker 1>about all the issues. And we've got to talk about

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<v Speaker 1>pay raise. You know, every time they vote on something,

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<v Speaker 1>they need everybody to vote on that. So if we're

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<v Speaker 1>gonna raise the minimum wage, they need everybody there to vote.

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<v Speaker 1>And you have to pass laws, pass bills. The Congress

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<v Speaker 1>is actually who writes the bill. So it goes to

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<v Speaker 1>Congress first and then it goes to Senate, and then

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<v Speaker 1>this president signs it. So everybody thinks the president does

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<v Speaker 1>a lot, but the president actually just the signer people

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<v Speaker 1>who make the laws. Our Congress. The mother Sucker Podcast

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