Speaker 1: Y'all.
Speaker 2: I'll go from.
Speaker 3: You don't want to.
Speaker 4: Don't want to ask your question?
Speaker 5: Real good.
Speaker 3: Let's just keep it real straight shot with no chaser.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna get a little bit ruptured. I'm here for it.
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Speaker 5: You know y'all say, y'all so love support black media.
Speaker 5: We really do need your support now more than ever,
Speaker 5: and it doesn't come from just one person.
Speaker 3: We need you, not five friends.
Speaker 5: Jay, we needed to tell ten ten tail, twenty twenty
Speaker 5: tail thirty like seriously, seriously, seriously. This is not about
Speaker 5: bad begging. It's not about trying to be popular, Jade.
Speaker 5: It is about what it is period new It's not profitable,
Speaker 5: it's not popular. Some days it is, some days it's not.
Speaker 5: So we need everybody to literally tap in, and I
Speaker 5: need you guys to tap in because as we go
Speaker 5: through this belt to ask, because this is the Belt
Speaker 5: to Ask program that we own. As we go through
Speaker 5: Belt to Ask, I'm going to be giving information, real
Speaker 5: time solutions, Shade, You're gonna hear me say them over
Speaker 5: and over and over, the same ones, over and over
Speaker 5: and over, because we can't catch everybody, and we need
Speaker 5: to be repetitive on what people can do right now.
Speaker 5: Because in myself, it's great to have these long term visions.
Speaker 5: It's great to talk about what we need to do
Speaker 5: in the next one hundred years.
Speaker 3: It's great to.
Speaker 5: Talk about in the next fifty, the next twenty five.
Speaker 5: We need to build our own industry up. We need
Speaker 5: to do for self, We need to this for that.
Speaker 5: It's great to sell these ideas of being completely free
Speaker 5: of government interference, which by the way, is not possible
Speaker 5: in America.
Speaker 3: We're in America.
Speaker 5: Everything you report, everything you have unless you're gonna Are
Speaker 5: you starting a Department of Treasury? Are you starting your
Speaker 5: own arrests? Are you starting your own common Department of commerce?
Speaker 5: Like I'm all about to do for self, But I'm
Speaker 5: also about doing not doing lies, and giving people actual,
Speaker 5: real solutions that make sense while still trying to gain
Speaker 5: as much independence as we possibly can. Yes, and everybody
Speaker 5: Jay can sell hair products. Everybody can't sell moisturizer. Everybody
Speaker 5: can sell lotion. Do we have a pharmaceutical industry?
Speaker 4: No, we don't.
Speaker 5: Where's the scientist that's making the medicine. Where are the
Speaker 5: farms because according to my records, the black farmers, we
Speaker 5: have to sue for them to have access. Yes, And
Speaker 5: how many people got chickens at their house with this
Speaker 5: egg shortage?
Speaker 4: I don't have one, but I'm thinking about renting one.
Speaker 5: Like real talk, Like let's stop, we gotta there's a
Speaker 5: dupe for sale. But I'm gonna be honest when we
Speaker 5: say we're not our ancestors. No, our ancestors actually got
Speaker 5: a better shot because they knew how to fish, knew
Speaker 5: how to.
Speaker 4: Can food yeap, knew how to hunt, knew.
Speaker 5: How to hunt, knew how to sew, knew how to
Speaker 5: stretch things, knew how to live together, knew how to
Speaker 5: build community. What we know how to do go on
Speaker 5: social media and talk. That's no offense, It's just what
Speaker 5: it is. This is why I'm pushing micro organizing. Micro
Speaker 5: organizing in your town. Fifty people, twenty five people, one
Speaker 5: hundred realistic things. Jade because bell to ask is on
Speaker 5: the way.
Speaker 3: Bell to ask is on the way. Tell him what
Speaker 3: do you mean by bell to ask? It means.
Speaker 5: This is what America wanted. People got tied the Democrats.
Speaker 5: I'm with you, I was too. People said the Democrats
Speaker 5: was weak.
Speaker 3: I'm with you. People said they don't give black people enough.
Speaker 3: I'm with you. But now the alternative was Trump. People said,
Speaker 3: I'm of old Trump. I don't care. Let you know.
Speaker 5: They need to learn lesson bet Well. Now, Jay, we're
Speaker 5: in the lesson finding that mold. That means it's gonna
Speaker 5: get worse before it get better, before either Republicans get
Speaker 5: it together, or Democrats get it together, or whoever the
Speaker 5: Do for Self movement get it together. Whatever it is,
Speaker 5: we gotta get there. It's gonna get harder before it
Speaker 5: get worse. It's not a scare tactic. It's not trying
Speaker 5: to make nobody you know, afraid, but your damn show
Speaker 5: better be concerned. And the belt to ask is when
Speaker 5: big Mama will tell you to go outside. If you're
Speaker 5: from that generation, get a switched, get your own switch.
Speaker 5: So what America has done is pulled its own switch
Speaker 5: off the tree. And now it's belt to ask on
Speaker 5: March thirteen, massive federal layoffs are in play.
Speaker 3: Massive. You're in the Maryland area, right in.
Speaker 5: The heart of DC. Yep, DC, yep, right there. When
Speaker 5: we look at the median income, let's just go by facts.
Speaker 5: I know, due for self ain't ain't a you know,
Speaker 5: ain't big on this, ain't big on people having jobs.
Speaker 5: But somebody actually got to have a job sometime. Everybody
Speaker 5: can sell hair products. And when the people that do
Speaker 5: sell help hair products, somebody gotta buying.
Speaker 3: So nothing wrong. Who would having a job.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So just so you know, and the median household
Speaker 2: income for the DMV that's DC, Maryland and Virginia in
Speaker 2: two thousand and two, that number was one hundred and
Speaker 2: nineteen thousand, eight hundred and three dollars. So that was
Speaker 2: back in two thousand, excuse me, twenty twenty two, and
Speaker 2: now we're in twenty twenty five, you know, so that
Speaker 2: is still significantly above the average.
Speaker 4: You know, people are making.
Speaker 2: Money down there, and it's because the largest employer in
Speaker 2: the DMV is the federal government tas.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 5: So these massive layoffs that are about to happen, guess
Speaker 5: whore getting hit. I know, we like to say Oh,
Speaker 5: white people don't get hit worse just in sure numbers,
Speaker 5: We got that. But who's gonna be Who's gonna have
Speaker 5: a better chance in an unemployment line? White man or
Speaker 5: the black man? Oh the white men? Yeah, it ain't
Speaker 5: Nona d a I too. So nobody got to hire
Speaker 5: anybody based on nothing. So who who's going to have
Speaker 5: a better chance? White man and black white man? That's
Speaker 5: the bottom line. That's the bottom line our middle class
Speaker 5: if as far as black middle class is concerned, if
Speaker 5: people make more money in DC, as far as employer
Speaker 5: is concerned, that's like a good chunk of our middle class.
Speaker 4: Definitely.
Speaker 2: But this is the thing to tas the median household
Speaker 2: income in the DMV decreased by ten thousand dollars in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three. So you know how I said, in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two it was like one hundred and nineteen
Speaker 2: thousand dollars and some well, in twenty twenty three was
Speaker 2: one hundred and eight thousand dollars. So people already struggling.
Speaker 2: Just in general, people are already struggling the economy and
Speaker 2: inflation is doing what it does, and so that is
Speaker 2: definitely impacting the household income so now with all of
Speaker 2: these layoffs and folks just losing their jobs and everything
Speaker 2: else going on, these terarists are about to hit. I
Speaker 2: can only imagine what that looks like in the DMV
Speaker 2: with them being the largest federal government, you know employer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and USAID found eighty two thousand.
Speaker 5: So I found even lord than that that the average
Speaker 5: was eighty two thousand, but forty percent earning one hundred
Speaker 5: thousand or more. But again, all of these things you
Speaker 5: just mentioned. The tariffs are hitting next week, then you
Speaker 5: say it was next week, yes, a March four, So
Speaker 5: March fourth.
Speaker 2: We Trump already said it's already set into motion, twenty
Speaker 2: five percent tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada and
Speaker 2: ten percent tariffs on goods from China.
Speaker 5: And even though we're putting the tariff on them, well,
Speaker 5: oh well, they're goods coming over here.
Speaker 3: So that means it's gonna go up. Correct, that's just math,
Speaker 3: that's just gonna go up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And listen, any type of supply you have for
Speaker 2: your let's say you do have a black business, especially
Speaker 2: if you have a black brick and mortar, if you
Speaker 2: have things that are being shipped in, how can black,
Speaker 2: the average black business owner compete with this level of
Speaker 2: you know, inflation and with these tariffs, and so folks
Speaker 2: are talking about do for self. I'm all about self determination,
Speaker 2: but we have to look at the full context of
Speaker 2: everything that's happening and be really rational about what we're saying.
Speaker 5: Well, that's what BELTAZ is all about. You know, you
Speaker 5: can't we're at a state of a place now, Jay,
Speaker 5: that warning doesn't matter. You know when people's said Project
Speaker 5: twenty twenty five wasn't real, Well, the one that came
Speaker 5: in to make these cuts and said that these cuts
Speaker 5: would be immediate, it's actually Russell Voight who was one
Speaker 5: of the authors of Project twenty twenty five. He's over
Speaker 5: the Office of Management and Budget that is doing these
Speaker 5: massive layoffs. So you know, we can say it was
Speaker 5: a scare tactic, say it wasn't real, say.
Speaker 3: It really don't matter. Well, none of that matters.
Speaker 5: We're gonna get a chance to see in real time,
Speaker 5: like how does this gonna affect everyday people? The really
Speaker 5: we really are with medicaid now saying you know what,
Speaker 5: y'all need to go to work if y'all want to
Speaker 5: get medicaid.
Speaker 3: The poor people disabled.
Speaker 5: All of that, you need to figure out how to
Speaker 5: go to work, need to literally figure it out, even
Speaker 5: though seventy percent already go to work, school and some
Speaker 5: type of program. No, they want that extra thirty percent
Speaker 5: that can't work, because let's be clear, a lot of
Speaker 5: people literally can't work, like literally can't be on my
Speaker 5: friend or you know, my best friend is paralyzes, literally
Speaker 5: can't sit in the chair for a certain amount of
Speaker 5: time without getting sores and feet, just had its toe
Speaker 5: imputated from too much pressure from even Uber driving. I
Speaker 5: know people Jay that is given everything they got.
Speaker 3: How many how many Uber drivers do you know?
Speaker 5: Their driver with sticks because they paralyzed. They ain't telling
Speaker 5: you somebody that's trying to do everything they got. I
Speaker 5: don't know what else.
Speaker 3: So what happens with him.
Speaker 2: With the medical Uh what do you call that medical insurance? Right?
Speaker 5: He's on Medicaid, he's on those those types of programs.
Speaker 5: So what happens with the seven, eight, nine times pills?
Speaker 5: He got to take a day for various health issues
Speaker 5: from being paralyzed. This is the real deal. The people
Speaker 5: ain't don't want to talk about. This is about to hurt,
Speaker 5: Like we really literally hurt people for real, and we're
Speaker 5: gonna be hurting bad. It's not a scare tactic. So
Speaker 5: the only other ways is for people to see it
Speaker 5: in real time. They can't warn you because that didn't work.
Speaker 5: They said, that's just being a Democrats shield and just
Speaker 5: capping for the LGBT, the initiative or whatever it was.
Speaker 5: So once we get through all of that, what is
Speaker 5: it going to look like? And I am hard on Democrats.
Speaker 5: I know Democrats ain't being shit. I'm hard on them, Jay,
Speaker 5: but I'm just telling you this all the way went
Speaker 5: all the way to the right getting rid of the
Speaker 5: Department of Education. I just talked to my best friend
Speaker 5: who we've had on the show before. I should have
Speaker 5: been a teacher twenty five years. They are now going
Speaker 5: to a four day work week. Teachers doing a four
Speaker 5: day work week in a society where children.
Speaker 3: Are already behind in China. Wow.
Speaker 5: And the teachers are gonna get a brunt of it
Speaker 5: because when they can meet their expectations and they can't
Speaker 5: meet their marks, they won't have no job either. So
Speaker 5: this is about funding, you know, I pretty much always
Speaker 5: feel like teacher is a safe job.
Speaker 3: At the end of the day.
Speaker 5: I can go teach. I don't even know if that's
Speaker 5: true anymore, Jade. So now the five days a week,
Speaker 5: that's not enough for the children. Now you gotta do
Speaker 5: it in four days a week because they can't afford
Speaker 5: to keep.
Speaker 3: The doors open.
Speaker 5: She said that almost have the school ain't been showing
Speaker 5: up because of immigration.
Speaker 2: Yes, that is with my education consulting what I've been
Speaker 2: saying around the country. I've been checking in with principles
Speaker 2: and stuff, and attendance on average has dipped about fifteen
Speaker 2: to ten percent. Parents coming to schools trying to have
Speaker 2: PTA meetings and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: Forget about it. A lot of them are scared, they're
Speaker 4: not doing it.
Speaker 2: And to some of the you know schools I've spoken to,
Speaker 2: ice has actually shown up. So people are scared people
Speaker 2: are not coming to school. And also it's just impacting
Speaker 2: a lot of systemic things.
Speaker 5: And when people don't come to school, you can't count
Speaker 5: them for funding. They get paid for a child exactly.
Speaker 5: So again, if immigration is your issue, and you're like Tess,
Speaker 5: I'm with it because we need to clean it up. Okay,
Speaker 5: I'm just telling you the road's gonna be bumpy through
Speaker 5: this cleanup. It's kind of like if in a relationship
Speaker 5: and you say, y'all know some people like I don't
Speaker 5: want to go to counseling because I don't want to
Speaker 5: have to open up those wounds, you know, I don't
Speaker 5: want to have to deal with it. I'm just let
Speaker 5: you know, we're just getting ready to have to deal
Speaker 5: with it. We're getting ready to have to deal with it.
Speaker 5: If you think Trump and then over there playing in
Speaker 5: Gaza and that holy ward that's been going on for
Speaker 5: hundreds and hundreds of years, and there's no consequence to that,
Speaker 5: I guess we're gonna see in real time. That's called
Speaker 5: bell to ask, definitely. So we're just gonna have to
Speaker 5: see in real time midterms next time. It'll be simple.
Speaker 5: If you like the way things are going now, continue on.
Speaker 5: You want to get rid of the Department of Education.
Speaker 5: Bet want more federal layoffs? Bet if you say this
Speaker 5: money we're gonna save is all of a sudden gonna
Speaker 5: make a difference in your everyday life. Bet we'll see.
Speaker 5: If it do great, I'm rooting for us all but
Speaker 5: do But if it don't, you have another decision to make.
Speaker 5: No more talking about what's going to happen. We are
Speaker 5: in the phase of actually finding out Democrats have thrown
Speaker 5: their hands up. I hate to say it, Jay, because
Speaker 5: I love to see them be fighters, but I also
Speaker 5: want to tell y'all know, they can't be Trump. What
Speaker 5: else can they do? He got the House, the Senate,
Speaker 5: the courts. They're not a better marketers than him, They're
Speaker 5: not better organized. I'm just telling you true. They can't
Speaker 5: beat them on his messaging. Every day is a press
Speaker 5: conference for him. He got the digital they got the
Speaker 5: digital discipline with regurgitating their.
Speaker 3: Stories over and over and over and over.
Speaker 5: They got the am market lockdown, the podcast market lockdown,
Speaker 5: the cable news lockdown. So how can a Democrat be
Speaker 5: do any campaign against them other than people fucking around
Speaker 5: and finding out exactly I get it for Gress's man, Oh,
Speaker 5: they need to be speaking up. Why this is what
Speaker 5: everybody said they wanted. Yeah, but the people won't be
Speaker 5: hurting as a result. But this is gonna be their campaign.
Speaker 5: They don't have, you know, they don't have anything else
Speaker 5: to run on except.
Speaker 3: What just happened. I wouldn't be surprised of all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, some magical you know.
Speaker 5: I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but I wouldn't be
Speaker 5: surprised some magical pandemic appears all of a sudden the
Speaker 5: blame shit on that, because we're not gonna have a
Speaker 5: pandemic to.
Speaker 3: Blame it on.
Speaker 5: This is just actually going to be about what happened
Speaker 5: this year, moving forward and the results of it.
Speaker 2: Definitely, And honestly, we're only thirty something days in, so
Speaker 2: this is the first thirty days. What is the next
Speaker 2: And I think you say he's already completed forty percent
Speaker 2: or what's the pen.
Speaker 4: He's already completed.
Speaker 2: As of Monday, he had already completed about thirty five
Speaker 2: percent of his agenda of everything he said he would
Speaker 2: do within the first one hundred days. So since my day,
Speaker 2: he's also signed additional executive orders and has given out
Speaker 2: more order so he's really on track for accomplishing all
Speaker 2: the things he said he was going to do in
Speaker 2: the first one hundred days. Remember, on day one, there
Speaker 2: was controversy. You know, we're kind of like, well, he
Speaker 2: said he's going to sign one hundred executive orders, Like really,
Speaker 2: we're going to see if heed he signs one hundred
Speaker 2: executive orders. On day one, he actually signed like two hundred.
Speaker 2: So there's that Trump is he ain't playing. He's not playing.
Speaker 2: He's very organized his team and they're ready.
Speaker 4: They came in. They didn't just get into office and
Speaker 4: figure out what they were gonna do.
Speaker 2: They have been planning this for the last four years.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 5: So hey, guys, bilta ass, bunker down. I appreciate all
Speaker 5: my brothers. We're gonna have a good, ig healthy debate
Speaker 5: on it, you know, about what does it mean to
Speaker 5: do for self? And we gotta be yo, okayalking about
Speaker 5: in the next fourteen days? Though, what do people do
Speaker 5: in the next fourteen days? Y'all y'all not building these industries?
Speaker 5: Y'all talking about in fourteen day why they ain't been
Speaker 5: built it? So I'm not against it, But in the
Speaker 5: next fourteen days, what do you do? So I am
Speaker 5: telling you, I'm gonna keep telling y'all three things. Save
Speaker 5: save your money, get your everyday expenses down, cut out
Speaker 5: whatever you can. I have had several people, may be
Speaker 5: four or five people, and my family's asked to borrow
Speaker 5: money in the last thirty days.
Speaker 3: It hurt me a lot. I just couldn't do it.
Speaker 3: I literally just can't do it.
Speaker 5: I can't depend on you giving me that two hundred
Speaker 5: back in two weeks. I literally have to hold onto
Speaker 5: everything I have period. You bet you can come live
Speaker 5: with me. You can come sleep on the floor and
Speaker 5: contribute some in this house, you know, to make it work.
Speaker 5: But that's all I got. All I got is a
Speaker 5: pillow off you. I can't give no more resources, Jay, say,
Speaker 5: reduce your resources. This ain't the time to be doing
Speaker 5: no risky nothing. I'm even worried about.
Speaker 3: You know. I got rental houses.
Speaker 5: They always buyd one of them just is getting put
Speaker 5: off the Section A program. I don't know if it's
Speaker 5: gonna be Section A programs, yeah, to cover to cover
Speaker 5: people's rent Like, I'm just telling you the real deal, Jade,
Speaker 5: Like the real deal. Now, I could sit on here
Speaker 5: and lie and tell y'all do for self, open up
Speaker 5: shampoo business. I can tell you the truth. This ship
Speaker 5: about to get rough as far as me. Pack this
Speaker 5: shit up, go back to the house I own. Not
Speaker 5: the fanciest house in the world, but it's roof over
Speaker 5: my head. Just telling like, that's that's really where we
Speaker 5: are with shit, Jade. It's a four bedroom, yea four bedroom.
Speaker 5: I got three bedrooms. I got to sell the three
Speaker 5: bedroom bed I got a four bedroom. That's enough for me,
Speaker 5: my baby, a couple other family members will stack it up.
Speaker 3: That's right, Like, that's just.
Speaker 5: You better realize what it is. You'll be playing us
Speaker 5: a garden in the backyard. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 5: Like straight up, like I'm telling y'all what really.
Speaker 3: The real deal?
Speaker 2: Yes, and I am seeing that HUT programs are at rest.
Speaker 4: And I just sent you. I sent you that article.
Speaker 2: The Housing Choice Voucher Program, a rent lifeline for low
Speaker 2: income families, faces of funding shortfall as the layoffs target
Speaker 2: the Federal Housing Agency. Wow, in this program, this HUT
Speaker 2: program has been around, or this Housing Choice Voucher program
Speaker 2: has been around for fifty years.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 4: It provides rental assistance for some two point three million
Speaker 4: qualified households annually.
Speaker 5: We send that to my team right now, sending it
Speaker 5: in real time. Definitely see the lady that one of
Speaker 5: the ladies in my house. It's another thing, guys, when
Speaker 5: y'all get in these programs, stay in these programs. Don't
Speaker 5: do nothing to get put off. Turn in what you're
Speaker 5: supposed to turn in, Do what you're supposed to do.
Speaker 5: Do whatever you get off these programs, you ain't getting
Speaker 5: back in. That's why my next move I'll be announced
Speaker 5: in about six weeks or so. And y'all better get
Speaker 5: in everything you wanted to get in. You better get
Speaker 5: in now, because they shutting that shit down, Jade, they
Speaker 5: shut everything down across the border. I'm just giving you
Speaker 5: the rell say second shack. When I say shack again,
Speaker 5: I'm talking about living with people, going back home. My
Speaker 5: baby going to college. I already told her all that
Speaker 5: after college, you going here, going there, you come right
Speaker 5: back to the house.
Speaker 3: Yep, do whatever you need to do here. We can
Speaker 3: figure it out.
Speaker 5: Ain't no rush, don't worry about trying to go be
Speaker 5: on your own all they Oh no, no, we gotta
Speaker 5: figure this out. The relationships that y'all say, y'all tired of.
Speaker 5: Better figure it out.
Speaker 3: These men with these side holes. You better figure it out.
Speaker 4: To get better.
Speaker 5: Get down to respectable too, instead of hey not. I'm
Speaker 5: keeping it real. You can't afford it, brother, y'all struggling
Speaker 5: figure it out, may get some discipline in your life.
Speaker 5: Businesses all about combining resources. Last night I was with
Speaker 5: my Amheart family, my revote family. Hey, we gotta figure
Speaker 5: it out. We can't afford to be in those solos.
Speaker 5: Y'all got a client that want radio. Hey, y'all want
Speaker 5: to get TV too. We gotta client want TV.
Speaker 3: Y'all want radio two. You know what I'm saying, like,
Speaker 3: come together, figure this out. P R me, you, Michelle,
Speaker 3: Michelle b. How can we put out together? Okay? J?
Speaker 3: Can you write a press of leasa? Kay? Boom? Can
Speaker 3: I do this? Can I do that? How do we
Speaker 3: package these services?
Speaker 5: Stack this shit? That's why I bring you to all
Speaker 5: my gigs, all my stuff. We can't afford to be no,
Speaker 5: we gotta figure it out. Come on, Let's get it out.
Speaker 4: It has to be consistency, and we have to do
Speaker 4: multiple things at the same day.
Speaker 5: Damn jobs, overqualified, overworked, worked to the bottom, underpaid.
Speaker 3: That's the new play. I want to hear J. But
Speaker 3: that's the play.
Speaker 4: It's a survival at this point.
Speaker 5: It absolutely is. I'll be moving in with you and
Speaker 5: you and your mom here soon. The news that's will
Speaker 5: really will be the news desk, right And I'm telling
Speaker 5: you I'm not I'm not trying to put Parannoya with people.
Speaker 2: Jad.
Speaker 5: I'm just trying to get people real advice shack. Then
Speaker 5: the third one strap two way protect yourself crime is real.
Speaker 5: Protect yourself and don't be running around and having no baby.
Speaker 5: Strap up on that too. This ain't the time. I know,
Speaker 5: everybody all I better have baby for This is the
Speaker 5: first time I've ever wonder, damn, should I have had
Speaker 5: a baby? And I love being a mother and I
Speaker 5: love you. I've never thought about that, Jade. But I
Speaker 5: was at dinner last night with my friend got two kids,
Speaker 5: and we was like, we're in the third quarter of life, Jada,
Speaker 5: first quarter? What's she She still got eighty ninety eighty
Speaker 5: ninety years in the game, hopefully. Hm, what what is
Speaker 5: the ship gonna look like? I don't like what is
Speaker 5: looking like, Jade, but I want to remain hopeful. I
Speaker 5: want to remain that. But I will say this and
Speaker 5: closing so the people don't be like, damn, let me
Speaker 5: go jump out the room jump. I'm just trying to
Speaker 5: get people as realistic options as possible.
Speaker 3: But I will say this, Jay.
Speaker 5: One thing I do know is when it when they
Speaker 5: when them white folks start getting affected, they kind of
Speaker 5: started making some changes.
Speaker 2: They take it to this. They gonna get gangster want
Speaker 2: to they're gonna turn up. We're want to see all
Speaker 2: the types of meltdowns and then you will see.
Speaker 5: Yep, that's right. So the white folks might be able
Speaker 5: to save themselves. We're gonna see black people. Don't We
Speaker 5: done did all we can do. But let's see if
Speaker 5: the white people go. Because when it started affecting their money,
Speaker 5: when they should start, you know, then the all case
Speaker 5: shit kind of started looking different, definitely, So that is
Speaker 5: some hope that they may. I don't think we can
Speaker 5: save them, but they might be able to say themselves.
Speaker 5: Because I know one thing to show the people in
Speaker 5: all the people in Hollywood that told Joe Biden to
Speaker 5: get off the ticket and set that up for that
Speaker 5: whatever they thought this was about to be. When people
Speaker 5: ain't able to buy their tickets and go to their
Speaker 5: concerts and investigate shit and you know, help them with
Speaker 5: their movies and do all that, when it kind of,
Speaker 5: you know, start hitting home a little bit, definitely, they
Speaker 5: got to start giving more money than they trailer park
Speaker 5: cousins and you know all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe they'll switch it up.
Speaker 2: I've just never seen anything like this before. It's has
Speaker 2: and i know you're not the conspiracy theorist type, but
Speaker 2: I am.
Speaker 3: I can be. You know, somebody can.
Speaker 2: There's theories is real though, like some of this is real, yeah,
Speaker 2: because I'm like, yo, like when they didn't prepare a
Speaker 2: bench because Biden say he was going to run for
Speaker 2: one term, did they plan this the whole time?
Speaker 4: Because this was just an.
Speaker 2: Epic failure of a failure of magnets great proportions, and
Speaker 2: we're seeing what Trump can accomplish within the first thirty days.
Speaker 2: I don't know, It's just like this just seems like
Speaker 2: just a concerted effort to just do a complete overhaul,
Speaker 2: and the Democrats did not fight hard enough, they did
Speaker 2: not do their due diligence. And the American people, I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: American people actually wanted this.
Speaker 3: They voted for it.
Speaker 2: So it just seems like it's just so many layers
Speaker 2: to this. But it's just a huge shakeup. I know
Speaker 2: people that are impacted by the annoyances of emails from
Speaker 2: Doge talking about sending your full bullet points to you know.
Speaker 2: I know people who have been off and they have
Speaker 2: not worked in an office for over four years or
Speaker 2: however long, and now they're back in the office. There's
Speaker 2: no parking spaces, there's limited you know, workspace in some
Speaker 2: of these government these federal offices that have really been
Speaker 2: downsizing their physical space, Like folks are heavily, heavily, heavily
Speaker 2: impacted and then also on edge even more. I know
Speaker 2: senior level government employees that have had to have sit
Speaker 2: down conversations with new government federal government employees that were
Speaker 2: on probation that had to get fired because that was
Speaker 2: like one of the first directives, right, anyone who's in
Speaker 2: that grace period who are.
Speaker 4: New hires, get rid of them.
Speaker 2: M hm. So not sure how these agencies are gonna function,
Speaker 2: Not sure what tax season is gonna look like. People
Speaker 2: depend on their refunds. A whole bunch of IRS workers
Speaker 2: have been fired. This is just a colossal shit show.
Speaker 2: Since it is I my friend of works for the government.
Speaker 2: He was like, oh, no, we're gonna be fine. We're
Speaker 2: gonna be fine.
Speaker 5: They're gonna just he disliked it with everything sometime be
Speaker 5: irritake because he just sees one of them guys is
Speaker 5: just believe in trying to keep calm and don't worry
Speaker 5: about it, and know they said we're gonna make our
Speaker 5: own discretion. Oh yeah, he's back at the office now,
Speaker 5: bank at the office. My best friend also back at
Speaker 5: the office, was working from home.
Speaker 3: Back in office.
Speaker 4: Interesting looking at people all day.
Speaker 5: And I know some people that I kind of miss
Speaker 5: being in office. I do like going to the office
Speaker 5: when I get a chance. But this is not even
Speaker 5: about an option at this point. This is just what
Speaker 5: you're gonna do.
Speaker 2: People who have been at home have not had to
Speaker 2: drive or spend gas or all that extra time, you know,
Speaker 2: commuting from you know this place of that place. I mean,
Speaker 2: especially with these gas prices, that's a whole other expense
Speaker 2: that you have to factor into your household, especially if
Speaker 2: you have multiple people in your household that now have
Speaker 2: to commute and go into the office just because they said.
Speaker 5: So yep, well, hey, y'all say that was taking a
Speaker 5: mental health break and tapped out and you know, said,
Speaker 5: y'all done with it. So this would have looked like
Speaker 5: and I know some people that's been struggling with it
Speaker 5: and it was really hard for him to go into
Speaker 5: the office. They got a job at home because they
Speaker 5: were able to function better.
Speaker 3: They don't care. But none of that they're telling y'all
Speaker 3: get over that mental health and get over that anxiety.
Speaker 5: Bring your ass back in the office, right, Some people
Speaker 5: do function better in the office, So I ain't gonna
Speaker 5: lie about that. It will be a lot of slacking
Speaker 5: at the house. Everybody can't have that level of discipline.
Speaker 5: I mean, we're just gonna be honest about it. I missed,
Speaker 5: but I've been self employed back and forth at home,
Speaker 5: you know, for seventeen years, so I do like going
Speaker 5: to the office. You know, today I alsopos to go
Speaker 5: to the office, But to your point, I don't have to,
Speaker 5: and I wasn't gonna spend the month. So when I'm
Speaker 5: in Atlanta, I'm ubering most times.
Speaker 3: So I'm not rich.
Speaker 5: I know the rest of them like to pretend they're rich,
Speaker 5: but I'm not. So I'm like, girl, I've been at home,
Speaker 5: but like I have went. I had to go to
Speaker 5: an event last night. Shout out to angela guie event
Speaker 5: with her. But I go, like, if I have to go,
Speaker 5: you know, I'm not gonna spend money just to go,
Speaker 5: to your point, like for what, you know, just to
Speaker 5: go just to go. I'll be in the office all
Speaker 5: day tomorrow because I got you know, to film. But
Speaker 5: other than that beautiful office too, and I actually enjoy
Speaker 5: sometimes just getting out of the four walls.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, we have to see what's going on with
Speaker 4: this government shut down.
Speaker 2: We know that a spending built like a spending package
Speaker 2: was approved in the House, and so we have to
Speaker 2: see what happens next.
Speaker 4: At this point, if you ask me, things are running like.
Speaker 2: I want to say organized, prim with a mafia, I
Speaker 2: would just say super organized.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Organized.
Speaker 2: And it's very efficient by the way, right, because when
Speaker 2: you have all three branches of government on the same page,
Speaker 2: and they're on the same agenda, and they're answering to
Speaker 2: and they have loyalty to the same person, for the
Speaker 2: most part, things get done.
Speaker 4: Hella hella, hella fast hello.
Speaker 5: Well that and plus they don't give it down, so
Speaker 5: you know, going through the right for you know, the
Speaker 5: we gotta go through Congress, they gotta get approved.
Speaker 3: They got this, it got that.
Speaker 5: Trump is shown you how fast things can happen. But
Speaker 5: it's bruling by his authoritative authority, not authority authority and
Speaker 5: government you know, executive orders just doing you know, that's
Speaker 5: not the way people have wanted to rule, but that's
Speaker 5: the way it got to be moving forward, moving forward
Speaker 5: to Democrats get back in, y'all got executive order, all
Speaker 5: the same shit, and and let tell Congress to catch up.
Speaker 3: You gotta. That's how it's gonna be moving forward definitely,
Speaker 3: so we'll see baby. Well, I don't mean to be
Speaker 3: doom and gloom, you know.
Speaker 5: But I did want people to know, like this is
Speaker 5: for real, guys, and I want you to prepare. Bunker
Speaker 5: down and prepare. I do believe there's a bright side,
Speaker 5: but right now, I just got to look at what's
Speaker 5: in front of us. So if you know people in
Speaker 5: the government jobs, jobs, if you got friends, it's saying
Speaker 5: I'm gonna be fine, it's gonna be all right. Start
Speaker 5: telling them guys to prepare. A lot of these government
Speaker 5: people ja they can't just trans transfer those skills into
Speaker 5: other work environments. That's people don't understand because telling my sister,
Speaker 5: like you almost retirement with a teacher, but being a teacher,
Speaker 5: it's not like home Depot gonna hire you to run
Speaker 5: the HR department. You're literally a teacher, that's all you've done.
Speaker 5: They don't hire you in corporate And you know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying, like you don't so a lot of those
Speaker 5: government jobs a specialist somebody been a specialist for whatever whatever,
Speaker 5: you know, special projects, gs or living, you know whatever.
Speaker 3: Where do they go in the private sector.
Speaker 5: I do know there's some jobs, but it's not like
Speaker 5: you know, those jobs are very specialized jobs.
Speaker 2: And then there's jobs, and some of these skills may
Speaker 2: be transferable to some nonprofit organizations, but even those are
Speaker 2: these our profits.
Speaker 5: They ain't even about to be funded exactly. So you
Speaker 5: can't definitely be going to nonprofit. That's the last place
Speaker 5: hiring you. So you got to go back into the
Speaker 5: public sector and to the corporate sector. And I can't
Speaker 5: tell you right now.
Speaker 3: I've been in.
Speaker 5: Corporate America a long time. The only jobs that are
Speaker 5: halfway secure off anything is the jobs that know how
Speaker 5: to bring money to the table, literally bring money to
Speaker 5: the table.
Speaker 4: You mean, like banking, real estate or whatever, not.
Speaker 3: Even because that's way no customer.
Speaker 5: I'm just saying hustle like whatever it is that you're in,
Speaker 5: like a conversation you and I were having offline, Like
Speaker 5: when I when I'm partnered up with somebody, I'm not
Speaker 5: just partnered up in a you know, a one directional way.
Speaker 5: I'm looking at sales. I'm looking at marketing, I'm looking
Speaker 5: at pr I'm looking at you know, what do you
Speaker 5: bring to the table. You know, in addition you know
Speaker 5: that that where's your value at? Are you growing the
Speaker 5: company's bottom line in one way or the other. So,
Speaker 5: whether it's banking, marketing, really whatever, you know, do you
Speaker 5: need workers? Everybody doesn't do that. But if I gotta,
Speaker 5: if I gotta keeping employee, and I got one that
Speaker 5: does a great job, and one to do a great
Speaker 5: job but also adds other value, other things, you know,
Speaker 5: other things that can either help me make money or
Speaker 5: they bring me money if I can secure more just
Speaker 5: some a small but you know, we talk about this
Speaker 5: all the time, just on a small business. If you
Speaker 5: on my team allows me to bring in three, four,
Speaker 5: five contracts, you are now a more a more attractive
Speaker 5: candidate than somebody that just can do what they do,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. So you have to there's
Speaker 5: a way I gotta be able to look at you,
Speaker 5: Jade and say does this person increase my bottom line?
Speaker 2: Mm hm?
Speaker 5: Because you're standing around, sitting around and you and you're
Speaker 5: not doing enough that I can either either you bringing
Speaker 5: money in or I can go get money because of you.
Speaker 5: Those are the people that that's gonna survive. And even
Speaker 5: then we're still gonna be underpaid and overworked, definitely. So
Speaker 5: when people say what they ain't gonna do and I
Speaker 5: ain't gonna be able to do it all that, well,
Speaker 5: guess what it's gonna be ten people behind you that
Speaker 5: will because the market is gonna be flooded with unemployed people.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: Well, a lot of folks in media are now unemployed.
Speaker 3: That's the right.
Speaker 2: Make sure folks subscribe to Straight Shot and No Chaser
Speaker 2: and make sure they support. Sure you support. We got
Speaker 2: forty eight episodes, so we good for forty eight episodes.
Speaker 2: But after that, I don't know what it's gonna be.
Speaker 2: But I know what's gonna be with me because I'm
Speaker 2: already playing in my transition. Hey, y'all don't want to
Speaker 2: support media.
Speaker 3: I'm just keeping a real jay.
Speaker 5: Like y'all want to support media, y'all want to get
Speaker 5: behind black media, y'all want. Hey, I'm working on playing,
Speaker 5: but like that's just what it is.
Speaker 3: You got us.
Speaker 5: You gotta start. What's the next plan, what's the next move?
Speaker 5: You and I are in education, So worst case, I
Speaker 5: guess we can go teach fifth grade. Is it gonna
Speaker 5: be a fifth grade though?
Speaker 4: Oh man, it's probably hot days a week.
Speaker 3: That's wild. You're rid of the Department of Education. Are
Speaker 3: y'all hearing this?
Speaker 4: That's wild?
Speaker 2: Shout out some of all my babies out there with
Speaker 2: i EPs and you know, special accommodations. We gotta really
Speaker 2: make sure we're advocating for them too. They can't get
Speaker 2: lost in this conversation about getting the having the Department
Speaker 2: of Education shut down.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Jade, this is a mess. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's a mess.
Speaker 4: It's topian horrific.
Speaker 3: It's gonna get words before it get better. Guys.
Speaker 5: So I don't know, I don't know. Well that was
Speaker 5: kind of a sad episode. I guess I'll go drink
Speaker 5: some wine. But keep your head up, guys. I'm just
Speaker 5: I gotta give y'all the real deal.
Speaker 3: I really really do. Town Hall March thirtieth in Atlanta, Georgia.
Speaker 5: If you're in Atlanta, the goal of this is for
Speaker 5: you to be in the room, not with just buy
Speaker 5: the forty five dollar ticket.
Speaker 3: Every last dollar is going to somebody in that room.
Speaker 3: Just so y'all know.
Speaker 5: Two comedians DJ the publicist, my staff, the business, the
Speaker 5: shots I'm paying for, you have nowhere. It's not going
Speaker 5: to some mystery, you know, pocket whatever. It's literally I
Speaker 5: don't know anything else to do, J, but to try
Speaker 5: to micro organize, meaning get one hundred people in the
Speaker 5: room and let's try to take care. We know we're
Speaker 5: taking care of five people in the room.
Speaker 3: Nothing else.
Speaker 5: The DJ, the two comedian, you know, buying some chicken nuggets,
Speaker 5: the catfish nuggets at the restaurant, buying some shot. You know,
Speaker 5: we know where that's going. And then who in that room?
Speaker 5: Can you turn to the left and right that you
Speaker 5: need to build a tribe. Everybody don't have a tribe.
Speaker 5: Everybody don't have parents. Everybody don't have a family. Some
Speaker 5: people in their family, like me, I'm the one they
Speaker 5: call on. Who is the other Teslims that I can
Speaker 5: connect with? How can we make this work on a
Speaker 5: local level. I cannot get forty six million people on
Speaker 5: the same page, J.
Speaker 3: I cannot.
Speaker 5: What I can do is try to get smaller, mic
Speaker 5: pro organizing and try to really push that people need
Speaker 5: to be doing that in their own community, Like you
Speaker 5: really got to get down to the small fifty people
Speaker 5: twenty five people in the rooms. That is that are
Speaker 5: going to commit to looking out for each other. And
Speaker 5: what I mean by that is, who know how to
Speaker 5: fix a car?
Speaker 3: You know? Who know how to braid?
Speaker 1: Here?
Speaker 5: Hey, such and such a short on the rent? Can
Speaker 5: you come leave to sleep on my couch? Can we
Speaker 5: do a rent part? You know what I'm saying, like
Speaker 5: very intentional, these twenty five people. Yep, we have to
Speaker 5: be very very mindful of how we're moving. I met
Speaker 5: a charter school yesterday. The first person I thought of Christie,
Speaker 5: our girl Christy with the black history program, Like, okay,
Speaker 5: I need to connect them. Can we get people to
Speaker 5: pay twenty five dollars of family for her black history program?
Speaker 5: How can they go back use she's losing funding? So
Speaker 5: can we get Can this be another thing you offer
Speaker 5: at the charter school? But how they gonna get their fun?
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, Like all of that has
Speaker 5: to girl. I'm telling you, Jay, we have to look
Speaker 5: at a very I think trying to bite you know,
Speaker 5: Elephant Overnight is too much of people. It's been coming
Speaker 5: to overwhelm me. So I'm just trying because it feels
Speaker 5: unwhelming to me. So I'm just trying to get people
Speaker 5: in a mindset of can you get twenty five people?
Speaker 5: If you don't trust your church. I understand that because
Speaker 5: religion has let us down. But if you have one
Speaker 5: that you can connect to, fine, if it's a sorority,
Speaker 5: a fraternity, whatever, find if you're creating your own sorority.
Speaker 5: You don't just link in with somebody off the internet
Speaker 5: and get someone on one FaceTime interaction of saying we
Speaker 5: are going to figure it out.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's why I came to Atlanta. I have to
Speaker 3: get community.
Speaker 5: I have to Last night is different than being on
Speaker 5: the internet than face to face you know, interaction and
Speaker 5: saying how can we figure this out? How can if
Speaker 5: we're all motivated to win, how can we figure it out?
Speaker 5: So that's what I'm encouraging people to do. Because if NAJA, depression, anxiety, suicide,
Speaker 5: all of that is, watch those numbers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I bet now that they've even changed.
Speaker 5: Definitely alcoholism, drugs, rehab, all of that. So guys, please
Speaker 5: wrap your arm around somebody and let's figure it out.
Speaker 5: Make sure you even listening straight shot, no chase of guys,
Speaker 5: please subscribe to the podcast. Cannot say it enough I'm
Speaker 5: gonna keep giving you as much information as I probably
Speaker 5: possibly can. Black Effect is FCC regulated, you know, so
Speaker 5: one day they can shut us down.
Speaker 3: We don't know.
Speaker 5: So we we truly don't know what we're walking into
Speaker 5: in this season. We really really don't. So while you
Speaker 5: have the information, share it, subscribe it.
Speaker 3: I'll be here.
Speaker 5: I'm not going nowhere. I've been called for this work.
Speaker 5: I'll be here until i can't be here no more. So,
Speaker 5: thank you so much, Jay for your partnership. Thank you
Speaker 5: so much for everything you do that. Just keep things
Speaker 5: going guys, and we'll check you can get you next time.
Speaker 3: All right, y'all? Peace peace.
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