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Speaker 1: Levels to This is an iHeart women's sports production in

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Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, what's going on? It's your girl, Sarrica Fostor Brasby.

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Speaker 3: What up, y'all?

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Speaker 4: Is your girl?

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Speaker 3: Cheryl's swoop hey? And this is the levels to this.

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Speaker 2: This is the show where we talk about all the

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Speaker 2: levels to the ship that women go through.

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Speaker 3: And when I tell you, we've.

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Speaker 2: Been going through some shit over the last couple of weeks,

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Speaker 2: but definitely over the weekend. It's been a lot going on,

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Speaker 2: but I'm excited to be here Cheryl, Like, how how

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Speaker 2: is everything going on with you?

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Speaker 3: We actually got a chance to kick it this week.

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Speaker 2: As you know, how how have things been since I

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Speaker 2: last saw you?

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Speaker 1: Well, listen, I'm always excited to see you, sis, because

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Speaker 1: it's always a good time, great weekend, Good to see

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Speaker 1: you as always.

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Speaker 3: So my weekend was was good.

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Speaker 1: I got to speak on the panel at afro Tech,

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Speaker 1: which was really cool. But my husband decided he wanted

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Speaker 1: to go into the city and so we had a

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Speaker 1: little staycation. You got to you got to meet my man,

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Speaker 1: he got to meet you, and.

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Speaker 3: It was good.

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Speaker 1: But sis, woo, child, dogs are dogs are different.

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Speaker 2: Now, you told me that because the staycation was impromptu,

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Speaker 2: it was you had to put your babies in a

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Speaker 2: in a pet resort. Yeah, which is a beaudiful resort.

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Speaker 3: They like, they love the resort. Well, you know.

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Speaker 1: So he decided on Friday after work, like, let's go

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Speaker 1: And so he said, well, just call the resort. I'm like, great,

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Speaker 3: So uh huh they did.

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Speaker 1: Then she calls me back and says two of their

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Speaker 3: So I'm like, well, so much for that.

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Speaker 1: She called back and said, oh, but they have their

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Speaker 1: raby so you can go to tractor supply, you can

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Speaker 1: on my way home, I'm like, I got to pick

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Speaker 3: So stop by. They gave them a bath. I get my.

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Speaker 3: What are we doing?

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Speaker 1: No, first of all, she didn't want to go, but

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Speaker 3: All mad at me? I get him put him in

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Speaker 1: So two of the ladies who work at the pet resort,

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Speaker 1: She starts running towards them and looks at him like, no,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you could hear in my voice

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Speaker 3: I listen, dog, did they give her? Seriously?

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Speaker 1: I called them, I said, to y'all give my dogs anything.

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Speaker 1: She must know I'm talking about her. That's what it is.

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Speaker 1: That Other than that, I had an amazing weekend. I

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Speaker 1: got to be in the streets with you for a minute,

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Speaker 2: You did you? You did you dig it to be

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Speaker 2: outside with me. So I was in Houston everybody for

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Speaker 2: the National Panelanic Council seventy third Biennial Conference, and it

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Speaker 2: just so happened that it's the same week as Afrotech.

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Speaker 2: So of course when I found out that you would

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Speaker 2: have lunch, dinner, something, We got something. We did all

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Speaker 2: the time, right, and so we had a good time.

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Speaker 2: You know, Halloween is my favorite holiday. So y'all at

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Speaker 2: this conference. I don't care what we got going on,

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Speaker 1: This time out because you destroyed the costume I was.

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Speaker 3: So was Naomi the wrestler for Halloween.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the proceed with caution fit. I had the championship

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Speaker 2: is Trinity Fie too, and Trinity retweeted me, regrammed my

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Speaker 3: Commented on my stuff.

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Speaker 2: I was like, I have the stamp of approval from

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Speaker 1: I was like, oh yeah, yeah, y'all better proceed with

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Speaker 1: I told you this too. I'm just for those of

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Speaker 3: And I told you this in person when I saw

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Speaker 3: Go g o o DT goot.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate compliments, ma'am. I like, are all out here,

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Speaker 2: We are all out here just trying our best. It

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Speaker 2: But you know what, it was needed and necessary because

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Speaker 2: that I am a cigar girl. So I was like,

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Speaker 2: People are losing snap benefits, people are losing health care,

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Speaker 2: and that's what we're going to talk about today.

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Speaker 3: Like we have just really got to just.

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Speaker 2: a tough conversation. It's a depressing conversation, but it's kind

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Speaker 3: So let's just go ahead and take this to the

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Speaker 2: We came to record this week's episode. We had so

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Speaker 2: many things that we were going to talk about, Like

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Speaker 2: we were going to talk about the NBA gambling situation.

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Speaker 3: We were going to use about.

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Speaker 2: I a't seen on black women yet, right, that's a

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Speaker 2: I mean, of course we are, because this has levels

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Speaker 4: But it doesn't really matter at this moment.

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Speaker 3: Well, because here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: The whole NBA gambling shit is going to be there

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Speaker 1: as long as there's an NBA, in my opinion. But

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Speaker 1: whatever and the hiring, the WNBA hiring coaches and all

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Speaker 1: I told you when I came on, because you were like,

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Speaker 1: how are you? And I know you were in a

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Speaker 1: But I've been on you know, social media and listening

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Speaker 4: Everybody else stop coming in.

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Speaker 3: Like, make that shit make sense.

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Speaker 2: There's no, it doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense,

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Speaker 3: Me too, honey.

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Speaker 4: I passed no judgment, me too.

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Speaker 3: I we were lied on it every monra lied.

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Speaker 2: To every single time, every single time. So every single time.

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Speaker 2: Every single time. And this was before we had them,

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Speaker 4: Damn right, we did. And ain't no shaming our game

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Speaker 4: Tragic twenty five real.

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Speaker 2: But I wonder how many people believed the foolishness that

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Speaker 5: So I do know that they're a part of the plan.

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Speaker 5: It's all a part of the part of the plan.

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Speaker 5: It's a part of the plan. It is a part

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Speaker 2: People are really trying to pull together to bring their

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Speaker 2: Hurricane Category five YEP that has made landfall in the

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Speaker 2: If nothing else, Americans should understand what a category five

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Speaker 1: And Jesus and again, So I'm so glad that we

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Speaker 1: were like, hell no, we ain't talking about no NBA

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Speaker 3: So what they gambling, whatever it is, we'll.

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Speaker 1: Talk about this, talk about that some other time, because

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Speaker 1: right now, what is going on is affecting every single American,

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Speaker 3: Listen, I just my heart just hurts.

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Speaker 1: You know, I've prayed, I've sent thoughts, I've done all

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Speaker 4: Honey, huck that thing.

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Speaker 2: I watched the Hurricane Katrina documentary that was on Netflix.

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Speaker 2: I was just like our government failed us, like they

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Speaker 2: the people in the city of New Orleans, and here

444
00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:46,360
Speaker 2: comes Hurricane Melissa doing something similar. And I just truly

445
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:49,840
Speaker 2: hope that the people in Jamaica because I'm not Jamaica

446
00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:51,359
Speaker 2: and I don't have any family there, but I have

447
00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:54,160
Speaker 2: a lot of friends who are Jamaica and have family

448
00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:57,119
Speaker 2: in Jamaica, and I just truly hope and pray that

449
00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:02,439
Speaker 2: there was proper taken. I was reading something just a

450
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:06,840
Speaker 2: couple of days ago that there were shelters put in

451
00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:10,320
Speaker 2: place and there was housing available, and some people just

452
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:13,440
Speaker 2: had not taken advantage of it. And I just say, please, God,

453
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:16,960
Speaker 2: let these people at some point have wisened up to say,

454
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:19,760
Speaker 2: let me take advantage of these resources that's available, because

455
00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:23,439
Speaker 2: I don't want to see another country or group of

456
00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:26,320
Speaker 2: people or community go through what we saw the people

457
00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:30,160
Speaker 2: in New Orleans go through. After thinking we get hurricanes

458
00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:33,040
Speaker 2: all the time, we'll just ride it out all this

459
00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 2: other stuff like no, And then you also think about again,

460
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:41,720
Speaker 2: Americans being Americans. Usually we're the ones that's able to

461
00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:46,240
Speaker 2: help other countries and other nations whenever there are devastating

462
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:51,240
Speaker 2: and catastrophic natural disasters like this, whether it's the Red Cross,

463
00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:54,720
Speaker 2: whether it's the World Central Kitchen, whether it's you know whomever.

464
00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:58,240
Speaker 2: But now I'm thinking, Lord, how we're gonna help somebody

465
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Speaker 2: else when we can't even help ourselves here in the

466
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Speaker 2: United States.

467
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:06,679
Speaker 4: No, it's like it's a it's a it's a domino effect. Listen.

468
00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:12,920
Speaker 1: But we meaning this government, they pick and choose who

469
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Speaker 1: they helped. Of course, of course, I'm just saying, how

470
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:23,400
Speaker 1: how how can we girl? How how how can we

471
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:25,960
Speaker 1: send all this money to Argentina?

472
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:27,400
Speaker 3: Am I correct?

473
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:32,080
Speaker 1: But yet our government is shut down and we have

474
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:34,399
Speaker 1: our We're just gonna let our own people starve to

475
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:35,120
Speaker 1: death here.

476
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:38,800
Speaker 3: So we we help who we want to help.

477
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:43,960
Speaker 1: In addition to all of the other crazy nonsense that's

478
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 1: going on in all these different cities and States with

479
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:51,360
Speaker 1: with ice and and the detaining of innocent It's.

480
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Speaker 3: Just it's a lot.

481
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Speaker 1: It's a lot that we're that we're dealing with in

482
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Speaker 1: this country right now. And I still don't think I

483
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 1: still don't.

484
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 4: Think people.

485
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 3: Are really truly paying attention.

486
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,199
Speaker 1: It's all right there in front of our eyes to

487
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 1: see every day. Yeah, so what yeah, what are we

488
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 1: going to do about it? It's just a question that

489
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:27,520
Speaker 1: I that I pose every single day when I see

490
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 1: this stuff happening.

491
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:35,240
Speaker 2: I wonder that myself and I often say, you know,

492
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 2: we started this year saying, like us, we black women specifically,

493
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:41,640
Speaker 2: we were like, we're gonna sit this one out. Yeah,

494
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:48,240
Speaker 2: because we we wei the eighty two percent said we time.

495
00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:50,920
Speaker 2: We've been doing it, We've been saying it. But here

496
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:56,560
Speaker 2: it is October November, election day is right around the corner,

497
00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 2: and we still have to you know, as much as

498
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:03,920
Speaker 2: we said we tad, we've done, we're still the ones

499
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 2: out here leading the charge. I just went in September,

500
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,159
Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks of September, I went to

501
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 2: Congressional Black Caucus in DC. And when I tell you

502
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,919
Speaker 2: a time was had, surel a time was had. But

503
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:19,159
Speaker 2: outside of the time that was had, there were so

504
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:23,880
Speaker 2: many great discussions around what we need to do, how

505
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 2: we can continue to empower and uplift our community, what

506
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:30,560
Speaker 2: legislation and policy we can make impactful change to that

507
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 2: can help. And at the forefront of majority of those conversations,

508
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:38,239
Speaker 2: we're still black women. So it's like, even when we

509
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 2: say we tied, even when we say we're done, even

510
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 2: when the eighty two percent say we got to sit

511
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:46,520
Speaker 2: this one out, we don't know how to sit it

512
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 2: out for real.

513
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:49,560
Speaker 4: We don't know how to sit down for real.

514
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 3: We're not made like that, and we're not built like

515
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:57,280
Speaker 3: we're not made like that. But I'm not.

516
00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:00,680
Speaker 4: Speaking of women and black woman.

517
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 2: You know.

518
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 1: I have this conversation with someone during the elections, and

519
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:12,680
Speaker 1: this person was pro the dude in office now, and

520
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 1: I was pro the woman who's not in office, Kamala.

521
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 1: So we were having just a discussion and she said

522
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:30,479
Speaker 1: to me, she said, well, Kamala is not perfect. I said, well,

523
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:35,320
Speaker 1: that man that you're voting for, absolutely I'm perfect, I said,

524
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 1: but let's just even bring it to a different level.

525
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 3: Are you perfect?

526
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 4: Am I perfect?

527
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:41,480
Speaker 2: No?

528
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 3: To me, there's never been a perfect.

529
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:48,640
Speaker 1: Candidate ever because there's always going to be something that

530
00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 1: somebody's not going to agree with, So you're never going

531
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 1: to have a perfect candidate, right But I to this

532
00:29:55,360 --> 00:30:02,360
Speaker 1: day do believe had Kamala been in office, we wouldn't be.

533
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 3: Going through a lot of this shit we're going through

534
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 3: right now, all.

535
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 1: Because people wouldn't people would not vote for I'm gonna

536
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:12,760
Speaker 1: just say a woman, and then I'm gonna add black

537
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 1: to that, but all because people said, oh, hell no,

538
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:18,959
Speaker 1: we do not want a woman running this country, let

539
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 1: alone a black woman running this country.

540
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 3: And what did that get us?

541
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 2: It's definitely, it's definitely a black woman because people showed

542
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:30,000
Speaker 2: up to vote for that black man.

543
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:33,880
Speaker 4: They showed up to vote for Barack Obama. I was

544
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,960
Speaker 4: one of them. Both, that was two of them, you

545
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:39,560
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. So I can't even vote.

546
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 2: Yes, So at this point, I can't even say, y'all

547
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:47,720
Speaker 2: want to vote for a black candidate, because you absolutely

548
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 2: did multiple times, and I'm with it, but you did

549
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 2: not vote, but you didn't vote.

550
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:56,480
Speaker 4: But you didn't vote for Hillary Clinton either.

551
00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:00,719
Speaker 2: No. I mean, granted, Hillary had her own things that

552
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 2: she could have done differently in certain circumstances, but when

553
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 2: I look at the voting in terms of the numerical

554
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:13,720
Speaker 2: data from twenty sixteen when Hillary loss to twenty twenty four.

555
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:16,480
Speaker 4: Y'all really wasn't trying to vote for that black woman.

556
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 4: Y'all really wasn't at all.

557
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 2: And that is just and mind blowing, all mind blowing

558
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 2: to me, like how many how many white men do

559
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 2: you have to get in this office to fuck? Shut

560
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 2: up before you say maybe maybe maybe difference, maybe maybe

561
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 2: I'm really just maybe now by something different. I don't

562
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 2: mean Steven A.

563
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 4: Smith. Don't y'all go vote for that food?

564
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 3: Can we not say his name on?

565
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 4: Can we not say his name saying I heard you're

566
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 4: trying to make you're trying to make a president.

567
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 3: Anybody vote for that?

568
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 2: Than you know what the end of the day, y'all,

569
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:02,000
Speaker 2: We're not really going to have a super long podcast today, y'all,

570
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 2: because I think this was just more event.

571
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 4: Session it for me. I'm mom, we just needed to

572
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 4: get that out.

573
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 1: But to my my heart hurts right like like I'm

574
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 1: I am a god fearing, spiritual woman without a doubt,

575
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 1: and I put all of my trust in the man above.

576
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 4: But but I'm but I'm also.

577
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:34,400
Speaker 1: Very open to to what my eyes are showing me,

578
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:36,719
Speaker 1: not what I what I hear from people.

579
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 4: I see it what I see, and and it's.

580
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 1: It's a scary time to be an American in this country.

581
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 1: And and and I think what's devastating. I think what

582
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 1: makes it even scarier for me is I don't see

583
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:01,720
Speaker 1: it getting anybody better anytime soon.

584
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 4: Not.

585
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 3: I absolutely say it's getting worse.

586
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 2: And it doesn't have to like I don't think we

587
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 2: and I'm saying we generally speaking, but I really ain't

588
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,800
Speaker 2: referring to me because I know and I know you know,

589
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,600
Speaker 2: but I don't think we realize the power that we

590
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:23,960
Speaker 2: have as people, like we live in a democratic society.

591
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 2: That's for a reason we don't live in an authoritarian society,

592
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 2: even though it feels like we're going that way. We

593
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 2: have so much power. The democracy was meant to be

594
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 2: for the people, and we can make the change when

595
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:39,920
Speaker 2: we have to do our part to do that, which means,

596
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 2: come November fourth, no matter where you are, no matter

597
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 2: what you got going on, you need to take your

598
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 2: ass to the polls and it cares to vote for

599
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 2: the people who will truly make a change and a

600
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 2: difference in your community. It means in twenty twenty six,

601
00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:58,960
Speaker 2: when these midterm seats are available, don't.

602
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 4: Sit there in say that there's nothing.

603
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 2: Your vote don't count, there's no get your ass up

604
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 2: and go out there and educate yourself because education is

605
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:13,360
Speaker 2: free ninety nine, so that you can literally put the

606
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 2: people in position who are going to do better, who

607
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:19,319
Speaker 2: are going to stand up for you. Y'all got a

608
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:21,360
Speaker 2: lot to say about my girl Jazz and Crockett, but

609
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:23,680
Speaker 2: the bottom line is she'd be holding a doubt for

610
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 2: her constituents wants. She gets down for what she says

611
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 2: she gets down for, and you have got to love

612
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 2: and respect.

613
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 3: That's fact.

614
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:34,280
Speaker 2: We can't just be sitting here talking about it's nothing

615
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:34,759
Speaker 2: we could do.

616
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:35,920
Speaker 4: It is what it is.

617
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 2: I'm gonna just ride out until twenty twenty because because

618
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:43,360
Speaker 2: if you following along, if you're paying attention, riding it

619
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 2: out until twenty twenty eight might be a problem because

620
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 2: the way that these people are moving, they're trying to

621
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 2: make it legal for people to continue terms after serving

622
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:56,399
Speaker 2: a second consecutive term.

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Speaker 1: If you're paying attention, well, we better wake up or

624
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:01,719
Speaker 1: y'all better wake up, because I am.

625
00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:03,799
Speaker 2: They're trying to they're trying. They're trying to That's what

626
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 2: I'm saying, like I ain't. I'm saying we but I

627
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 2: really ain't speaking to Tarika and Cheryl because we know

628
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:12,040
Speaker 2: what's I'm really speaking to everybody out there that's like

629
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:15,040
Speaker 2: trying to pretend like this shit ain't happening for real.

630
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:16,799
Speaker 4: You've ever seen a Handmaid's Tale.

631
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:20,399
Speaker 2: I used to joke years ago that the Handmaid's Seal,

632
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,239
Speaker 2: this whole dystopian universe is gonna fuck around and come

633
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:24,840
Speaker 2: to the US if we didn't get.

634
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:25,360
Speaker 4: Our ship together.

635
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:28,759
Speaker 2: And I used to say that jokingly, and now it

636
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:29,840
Speaker 2: ain't so funny.

637
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 3: It's real. It's not so funny.

638
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:38,239
Speaker 2: Because it's every other day there's a different law, a

639
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:41,800
Speaker 2: different policy that's repealing something that was put in place

640
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:44,800
Speaker 2: to help us improve and get better and progress. Every

641
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:50,320
Speaker 2: other day there's something different that's being repealed, recalled, overturned.

642
00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 2: Every other day it's something new. Every other day is

643
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 2: something new. Now y'all got now, y'all got? The National

644
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 2: Guard just popping up in random cities. I feel bad

645
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:02,959
Speaker 2: for the city of Detroit because it's only a matter

646
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 2: of time. It's only a matter of time before the

647
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 2: National Guard pop in town. Mytown has one of the

648
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:11,880
Speaker 2: largest Arabic populations in the country.

649
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,200
Speaker 4: All of the people, all of the Chaldeans.

650
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:21,440
Speaker 2: Folks from Yemen, Bangladesh, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Honey, be worried

651
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:23,880
Speaker 2: because y'all are flourishing, and y'all are doing whatever it

652
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 2: is that y'all doing in your arib American community in

653
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 2: the state of Michigan. It is only a matter of

654
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:32,759
Speaker 2: time before forty seven get pissed off about something and

655
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 2: send the National Guard to Detroit to start messing with

656
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 2: them who ain't dead nothing to nobody.

657
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:40,399
Speaker 4: It's only a matter of time.

658
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 1: It's only a matter of time before it's happening in

659
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:44,480
Speaker 1: every city.

660
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 3: That is part of the plan.

661
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:52,240
Speaker 1: When people can't when people don't get their food stamps

662
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:55,319
Speaker 1: on November first, they gotta eat.

663
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:58,799
Speaker 3: So what do they mean, What does that look like?

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Speaker 3: What happens?

665
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Speaker 1: So now there's all these riots, there's all this stuff

666
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:05,440
Speaker 1: going on in all these cities, and now he can

667
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 1: call martial law and send.

668
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 3: Like it's all part of the plan. This is this

669
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 3: is me thinking.

670
00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:16,720
Speaker 4: November November just right around the corner.

671
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 3: What is that?

672
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:20,759
Speaker 2: Which is which is it is not todays. It's not

673
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 2: even that it's around the corner. It's just that what

674
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 2: holiday happens in November.

675
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, you got Christmas?

676
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,319
Speaker 1: Girl, I ain't even thought about no holidays. I just

677
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:35,919
Speaker 1: I don't know how. Seriously, I don't know how any

678
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:40,920
Speaker 1: of us right now could be like ooh making all

679
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 1: these plans for Thanksgiving, and first of all, that's.

680
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 4: A whole nother conversation. But yeah, and Christmas, I'm definitely.

681
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:50,440
Speaker 3: Your money, your package.

682
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:53,879
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, yeah, I'm definitely trying to go see

683
00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 2: my mother and I as you should. But I might

684
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 2: end up driving. I was gonna fly, but I might

685
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:02,800
Speaker 2: end up driving. And it's a nine and a half

686
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:06,879
Speaker 2: to ten hour drive. It depends on traffic with time

687
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 2: I leave, and if I go through Canada or if

688
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:11,359
Speaker 2: I just stay in the States, because that can take

689
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 2: a good thirty to forty five minutes off the drive.

690
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:17,880
Speaker 4: But I'm going to go see my parents are older.

691
00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, And for those moistters out there who may not

692
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 2: know my parents are older, I was raised by my

693
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:27,360
Speaker 2: great grandmother. She's ninety five years old and she lives

694
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Speaker 2: with her daughter, who is my grandmother, who just turned

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Speaker 2: seventy nine this year.

696
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 3: Wow.

697
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:38,840
Speaker 2: And so so they're both they're both two older elderly

698
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,279
Speaker 2: women who live together take care of each other.

699
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Speaker 3: I love that.

700
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 4: I'm blessed.

701
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:46,839
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, my grandmothers still they're still getting around, they're

702
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 2: still doing what they're doing. She's still like, still doing

703
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 2: what they're doing. Right, But it's a little difficult being

704
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:58,879
Speaker 2: in Connecticut and my parents are in Michigan. So I've

705
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 2: had to hook up the Alexas so that I can, you know,

706
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 2: visually drop in and see what they're doing and talk

707
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:07,759
Speaker 2: to them in that way. But my parents are also

708
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 2: on Social Security. They get Social Security to survive, they

709
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 2: get Medicare, Medicaid.

710
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:16,480
Speaker 4: Like all of these resources and programs.

711
00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:22,280
Speaker 2: There's a food like a food pantry of food give place,

712
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:25,319
Speaker 2: food share place in Michigan called Focused Hope, and they

713
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 2: give food to.

714
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:27,880
Speaker 4: The kids and they get food to the elderly.

715
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:29,840
Speaker 2: And so once a month, my mom gets a box

716
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 2: from Focus Hope that adds bread and milk and all

717
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 2: types of stuff and most of the time it's way

718
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:37,200
Speaker 2: more stuff than she needs, and so she will give

719
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 2: it away to the people in her neighborhood. Right.

720
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 4: But the point is all of these resources While.

721
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 2: Tarrika's household may not need them, my mother's my mother does,

722
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 2: and I'm not near her to get her what she needs.

723
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:56,439
Speaker 2: So dave I care because, like you give what I'm saying.

724
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:59,799
Speaker 2: I care because it may not affect me, but it's

725
00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:02,839
Speaker 2: so even affects my family, and it certainly affects the

726
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:04,760
Speaker 2: livelihood of my parents.

727
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,840
Speaker 4: My mama can't pay her bills without her social Security.

728
00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:11,279
Speaker 2: So it's like, like people really got to wake up

729
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 2: and realize I've worked my ass off for forty damn years.

730
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:17,359
Speaker 3: It feels like and y'all telling me that I might not.

731
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 2: Even have Social Security when I'm doing ye, Like, these

732
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 2: are things that matter and things that people pay attention to,

733
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:26,400
Speaker 2: so it do matter. Yeah, I definitely, I'm definitely gonna

734
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 2: gonna go home and visit my mom for Thanksgiving.

735
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:31,280
Speaker 4: But I need to see how this shit is gonna.

736
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 2: Shake, because because some tough conversations don't have to have

737
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:38,560
Speaker 2: to be had if shit don't shake, Like I can't

738
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:40,839
Speaker 2: have Ma Mama living in Michigan by herself now, ran

739
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:41,920
Speaker 2: my grandma myself.

740
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:43,919
Speaker 4: I mean, if stuff ain't happening.

741
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:46,880
Speaker 1: Tea, and this is it's like a trickle down effect right, like,

742
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:53,800
Speaker 1: although it may not affect you directly, somewhere down the line,

743
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 1: it does, right, And as you said, just as a

744
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 1: human being, like we care, we care about people that

745
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:12,359
Speaker 1: are being affected behind the dumb shit this government is doing.

746
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 3: And I don't know.

747
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:22,040
Speaker 1: I wish I could come on here today and just

748
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:26,880
Speaker 1: give y'all some words of encouragement and be like, y'all,

749
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:29,839
Speaker 1: it's gonna be all right, Like I want to believe that,

750
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 1: but right now I need I need.

751
00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 3: Somebody to give me some words of encouragement because.

752
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 1: Just it, don't it just this is just not not

753
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:46,839
Speaker 1: the America I I.

754
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:52,360
Speaker 3: Remember not saying that about has always been perfect.

755
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:57,360
Speaker 4: But yes, that part not the ones my nces to

756
00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:58,680
Speaker 4: spotful that part.

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00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, before we get out of here, like I said, y'all,

758
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 2: I want everybody out there who might be dealing with

759
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:10,640
Speaker 2: being furloughed from the government shut down. Maybe you don't

760
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 2: have working, a working check coming in right now. There

761
00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:21,280
Speaker 2: are different states that have unemployment benefits that are available

762
00:42:21,280 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 2: for furloughed employees, So definitely check out to see if

763
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:31,279
Speaker 2: your government offers grants, loans, things that you can do,

764
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:36,719
Speaker 2: layoff resources, hardship resources. Check with your utility companies and

765
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 2: your credit card companies. A lot of them offer different

766
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 2: types of extensions and resources for people who have been

767
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:48,280
Speaker 2: furloughed or laid off and can't make the payments timely.

768
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:50,280
Speaker 4: Mortgage companies are the same.

769
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 2: Definitely don't want to hear anybody losing their home because

770
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 2: they're unable to make their mortgage payments. And that's a

771
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:59,120
Speaker 2: real thing that people are facing. So please check with

772
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:02,719
Speaker 2: your mortgage company to see if they're offering hardship benefits.

773
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:05,239
Speaker 2: I want you guys to walk away from this podcast

774
00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:08,279
Speaker 2: knowing that we feel you and we understand. But there

775
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:11,319
Speaker 2: is help available. You just have to go to the

776
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:14,520
Speaker 2: right places to find it. So check your state government,

777
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 2: local government. There's a website called fee fee a dot

778
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 2: org and it also has a bunch of different information

779
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:28,000
Speaker 2: for resources for people who have been furloughed or laid off.

780
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 2: But don't give up, y'all, Like, don't give up, don't

781
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:34,800
Speaker 2: let this government get you down. Don't let what's happening

782
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 2: right now get you down. Continue to fight, continue to

783
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:42,719
Speaker 2: find ways to better yourselves and educate yourselves. And when

784
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 2: it's time to cast your vote in the ballot box,

785
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:47,760
Speaker 2: do what meet stand on business, y'all.

786
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:50,200
Speaker 4: That's where we can make a difference. That's where we

787
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:54,240
Speaker 4: can make a difference, stand on business. Yeah, all right, y'all.

788
00:43:54,239 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 4: We will be right back after this, all right, cheryls.

789
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 2: So I'm just happy that we were able to get

790
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:14,680
Speaker 2: that out, get all of that off our chests, feel

791
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:18,680
Speaker 2: a little bit better about moving into these next because

792
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:20,920
Speaker 2: you know what's crazy, twenty twenty five is about to

793
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:25,120
Speaker 2: be over right, Like, I don't know how we got

794
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 2: here so quickly, but this year is literally there's literally

795
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 2: a month of some change.

796
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:30,319
Speaker 3: Lest yeah, this year.

797
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 1: And my thing is, yes, let's please get out of

798
00:44:33,239 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. But there's a part of me that's like, damn,

799
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:38,719
Speaker 1: what is twenty twenty six?

800
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:41,920
Speaker 3: Gona bring crul? What that shifting to look like? What

801
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:42,759
Speaker 3: that shifting look like?

802
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:45,839
Speaker 1: But you know, Tea, I just hoof geez, you got

803
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:50,400
Speaker 1: me crying all over again, just a real conversation. And

804
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:52,839
Speaker 1: I think there's so many people out there that are

805
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:56,640
Speaker 1: that are feeling it like they're feeling the way we're feeling,

806
00:44:56,920 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 1: if not worse. And sometimes you just got to talk

807
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 1: about shit and get it out. And like we said,

808
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 1: no judgment here because I get it.

809
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:09,920
Speaker 3: I totally get it. So yeah, it's a mess.

810
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:12,480
Speaker 2: It is a mess, but you know what I know.

811
00:45:12,600 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 2: But you know what, it's all right though we got

812
00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 2: it out.

813
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:15,720
Speaker 4: It's a safe space.

814
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:17,480
Speaker 2: This is always going to be a safe space for

815
00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 2: people to come and hear the real and feel the

816
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:22,759
Speaker 2: real and be vulnerable and where they are, and we

817
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 2: are always going to leave them with some positive, uplifting

818
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:27,960
Speaker 2: words to help them get through what they need to

819
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:28,440
Speaker 2: get through.

820
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 3: So go ahead and level us up.

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00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:34,839
Speaker 1: Sure, this is a it's actually more about I ain't

822
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:39,959
Speaker 1: even gonna explain it because I'm hoping this will help somebody.

823
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 3: Because I know it helps me.

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00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:45,760
Speaker 1: And it's Mark five seven twenty eight and it says,

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00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 1: just when you are hanging on by a thread, make

826
00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:52,440
Speaker 1: sure it's the hem of his garment.

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00:45:56,239 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 3: Self explanatory. Yeah, y'all, we I said this before. We

828
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:05,960
Speaker 3: will get through this. And just know you're not alone,

829
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 3: whoever you are. And just I know it's hard.

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00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:13,800
Speaker 1: I know it's difficult, but we gotta we gotta find

831
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 1: a way to keep the faith and make sure that

832
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:17,440
Speaker 1: we're taking care of each.

833
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:22,560
Speaker 2: Other absolutely, And if you do need somebody to lean on,

834
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:24,839
Speaker 2: as the quote says, just make sure it's the hem

835
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:27,720
Speaker 2: of his garment and that that that is always enough.

836
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:29,960
Speaker 2: And so with that, we just want to thank you

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00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:32,280
Speaker 2: guys for continuing to rock out with us and listening

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00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:35,600
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839
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Speaker 2: I say every single week, this is not just our show,

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