1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:01,000 Speaker 1: Speaks to the planet. 2 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:02,560 Speaker 2: I'll go by the name of Charlamagne Tha God. And 3 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:04,920 Speaker 2: guess what, I can't wait to see y'all at the 4 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:08,319 Speaker 2: third annual Black Effect Podcast Festival. That's right, We're coming 5 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:11,360 Speaker 2: back to Atlanta, Georgia, Saturday, April twenty six at Poeman 6 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 2: Yards and it's hosted by none other than Decisions, Decisions, 7 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 2: Mandy B and Weezy. 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No Chaser 28 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:18,679 Speaker 3: on the Black Effect Podcast Network. iHeartRadio. Make sure you subscribe. 29 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:21,400 Speaker 3: I say it every week, but I gotta keep saying 30 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 3: it over and over. Never know who we have, who 31 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 3: is new listening to us, and we still want to 32 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 3: remind our regular family that listens all the time. Shout 33 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 3: out to the sister. I forgot her name. I just 34 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 3: saw herm live and she's always asking to do the 35 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 3: podcast drapt today, the podcast she always listens on the 36 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 3: way to work. But shout out to you, says, I 37 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 3: appreciate your support. Please make sure you ask ten people 38 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:45,480 Speaker 3: to subscribe to the podcast. This is so so so important. 39 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 3: You know, y'all be crying about black media not being 40 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 3: on and we got to support our own. And we 41 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 3: have to work extra hard, like harder than everybody else, 42 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:57,000 Speaker 3: we really really do. We gotta work harder than your 43 00:01:57,280 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 3: reality shows. We gotta work harder than the rappers, harder 44 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 3: than the singers, harder than the bloggers. Like this is 45 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 3: a lot of work to get people to tap in, 46 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 3: because you know, y'all be protecting y'all piece, and y'all 47 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 3: can't watch the news, and I don't want to be 48 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:12,560 Speaker 3: involved and all that, so I gotta work even twenty 49 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 3: times harder because y'all protecting y'all piece, while you got 50 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 3: my piece sitting up here getting getting tagged on a 51 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 3: daily basis. We want to welcome Jay back. Sheoulver's shaking 52 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 3: her head. One welcome back. She left us hanging. 53 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:26,919 Speaker 1: There's a lot going on. 54 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 4: I had to take a mental health break now I'm joking. 55 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 3: It's been fast news weeks. Look, it has been a 56 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 3: fast news week. Guys, so much going on again, I 57 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 3: get it. I don't know with Jay. While they say 58 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 3: there's just too much for me to keep up with, 59 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:45,400 Speaker 3: but you know what they do keep up with? Though 60 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:49,680 Speaker 3: then reality shows, you know, twelve thirteen seasons, they know 61 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:52,679 Speaker 3: who said what and who didn't say what, and oh 62 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:54,839 Speaker 3: we gotta run the clock back and I remember when 63 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:57,000 Speaker 3: you said it, and oh such and such, no she 64 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:00,160 Speaker 3: line and the reunion. That is one thing they they 65 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 3: don't never. They don't miss a beat. They don't miss 66 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 3: a beat. So screw two's tests. 67 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:08,400 Speaker 4: But also reality shows are very stressful and they come 68 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 4: on at night time. I used to watch like Love 69 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 4: and hip Hop, Basketball, Wives, all of them, right, and 70 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 4: they would come on at night and I would be 71 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:17,640 Speaker 4: so hyph because of all the drama. 72 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 1: It would be hard to kind of calm down. 73 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 4: So I would argue that watching some of those shows 74 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 4: are as stressful, if not more, given all the drama, 75 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 4: than a lot of this political stuff that's goring. 76 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 3: Well, it must be a stress they like, because even 77 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:32,079 Speaker 3: though we're saying we would argue with the numbers show 78 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 3: that they watch. The numbers show that they are into it, 79 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:39,440 Speaker 3: and we don't have those numbers. When it comes to news, 80 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 3: it's just not profitable. But as a side note, we 81 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 3: don't normally get into entertainment commentary. But they did say 82 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:48,560 Speaker 3: that Housewives this week. I do watch it because I'm 83 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 3: in Atlanta now, as you know, I'm here ten days 84 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:55,040 Speaker 3: and go another seaty for five and come back ten. 85 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 3: So I do watch Atlanta Housewives. And they said the 86 00:03:58,120 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 3: numbers was real low. Did you see that? 87 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 1: Yeah? I saw the blogs that talking about how low 88 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 1: the viewership is. 89 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 4: I don't know, people might maybe people like me just 90 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 4: kind of over it, you know, a lot of the 91 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 4: kind of same antics. Yeah, and I you know, it 92 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:15,440 Speaker 4: just maybe just getting a little less interesting. But let's 93 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:17,600 Speaker 4: see what happens now that the blogs have recorded it 94 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 4: reported it that way. Let's see how the reality show 95 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 4: markets to people or whatever they do to kind of 96 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:25,359 Speaker 4: get folks engaged again. 97 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 3: And they also had some new cast members on the 98 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 3: two and a lot of times, you know, when people 99 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:34,040 Speaker 3: are switching out, it's hard for people to you know, 100 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:37,400 Speaker 3: transition on. But I do know that when it comes 101 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 3: to we even see that in the media, in the 102 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 3: even in our postings that revolt and things like that, 103 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 3: that people are already over Trump. And I get it. 104 00:04:47,320 --> 00:04:51,600 Speaker 3: I feel it because it is every single day, you know, 105 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 3: the story changes three two, three times a day. But 106 00:04:56,680 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 3: it's designed that way for you to not be able 107 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:01,279 Speaker 3: to keep up. You know, we were you and I 108 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:05,320 Speaker 3: were just talking about before we did this podcast. We 109 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 3: were talking about the Department of Education and the layoffs, 110 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:12,160 Speaker 3: and half fifty percent of the department has been let go. 111 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:15,719 Speaker 3: And then now a judge has came forward to say 112 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 3: that no, you can't let them go, but that still 113 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:21,200 Speaker 3: has to go. So people whatever part of the news 114 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 3: they pick up from the either letting them go or 115 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:27,479 Speaker 3: the judge. They'll run with that. A lot of people 116 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 3: are not going to know both of them, you know 117 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 3: that that happened, or even have somebody explained that just 118 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:35,040 Speaker 3: because the judge says it's illegal, don't mean these people 119 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:37,120 Speaker 3: don't still have a job, you know what I mean? 120 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:40,720 Speaker 3: They still as of now they're let go. You know, 121 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 3: they still have to appeal and go through the whole process. 122 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 3: And regardless even if let's say they do temporarily get 123 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:52,920 Speaker 3: a temporary stay, how stressful is that having to wonder 124 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:54,440 Speaker 3: if you're going to have a job or not. I'm 125 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 3: used to it, Jade. In my world, I'm used to it. Contract. 126 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:02,920 Speaker 3: I'm a contract employee. I'm my contract employee, a contract entrepreneur. 127 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:06,040 Speaker 3: I know what it is to wonder if the client's 128 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:09,719 Speaker 3: going to pay monthly, Wonder if this is your last month, 129 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:13,160 Speaker 3: Wonder if they have it, Wonder if I live under 130 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 3: a constant wondering if you know, for seventeen years everybody, 131 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:20,760 Speaker 3: So I could come from a position like, oh, we're 132 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:22,880 Speaker 3: welcome to what we got to go through. Welcome. That's 133 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 3: how it is, because that's where a lot of this 134 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 3: tone is coming from Jaye. A lot of people are saying, 135 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:28,680 Speaker 3: you know what, they got to get out of here 136 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:30,400 Speaker 3: like us, and they got da da da da. And 137 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 3: it's coming from a very I don't want to say evil, 138 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 3: but a very place of hurt. 139 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:42,200 Speaker 4: Yeah. 140 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:45,680 Speaker 3: Despite, Yeah, I think that's the word. I can use 141 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 3: people who have kind of like the misery loves company. 142 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:52,880 Speaker 3: If I've had the struggle and I saw their cousin 143 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 3: with that good government job because you know, be at 144 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:58,279 Speaker 3: in Congress to get fired. And I've saw their cousin 145 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:00,919 Speaker 3: with their good government job, and now now you have 146 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:03,000 Speaker 3: to be out here competing with the rest of us 147 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 3: because the government never gave me an opportunity to get on. 148 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:09,160 Speaker 3: I tried, I applied, but I couldn't get on because 149 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:11,680 Speaker 3: maybe I didn't have the background, maybe there was something whatever, 150 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 3: Maybe I missed the window to get on. And I've 151 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 3: been trying to get on for years and years, like 152 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 3: I tell my mother's stories, try to get off like 153 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 3: a couple of years, and finally got an opportunity. So 154 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:22,920 Speaker 3: it's not always easy. Usually with the government, somebody got 155 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 3: to bring you in, yes, like a referral. And I 156 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 3: think there's something deeper to that jay of some animosity, 157 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:34,440 Speaker 3: that people have, some jealousy, that people have, some envy, 158 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:39,120 Speaker 3: that people have that these black people have, you know, 159 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 3: basically been given something and now they're forced to have 160 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:46,120 Speaker 3: to compete with everybody else. And I want to warn 161 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 3: people to be very careful about laughing at people's downfall. Absolutely, 162 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 3: to be very careful about finding joy. Be very careful 163 00:07:57,560 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 3: because a lot of these individuals will now be going 164 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 3: into the profit sector and whatever job you thought you 165 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 3: had secured, they might get definitely, So be careful. Karma 166 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:15,240 Speaker 3: is real, and well you don't have to believe it's real. 167 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:19,160 Speaker 3: Just keep on living, keep thinking that the things that 168 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 3: are done, that you've done to others will never show 169 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 3: up in any way to you. So I think it 170 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:30,080 Speaker 3: is really watch how people are moving with this, really, 171 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:32,679 Speaker 3: watch how people are moving with this, because if you 172 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 3: don't have empathy of people not knowing, especially black people, 173 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:38,280 Speaker 3: and you say you're for the movement, and you have 174 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:42,760 Speaker 3: no empathy for a black person that literally don't know 175 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:44,840 Speaker 3: if they're going to be feed their family when they've 176 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:46,320 Speaker 3: done the right thing to get up and go to 177 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:48,720 Speaker 3: work every day and losing their retirement and losing their 178 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 3: pension and losing their benefits and all that, and you're 179 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:54,080 Speaker 3: finding joy in that just because you don't have benefits, 180 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:55,920 Speaker 3: because you don't have a pension, because you don't advertise 181 00:08:56,160 --> 00:09:00,280 Speaker 3: neither do I Jay, I chose to be an entrepreneur. Yes, 182 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:03,040 Speaker 3: so I know it doesn't come with those things. So 183 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:05,600 Speaker 3: I'm not sitting back mad at you know why he loves, 184 00:09:05,640 --> 00:09:07,560 Speaker 3: you know, I just think it's just real. We gotta 185 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:10,280 Speaker 3: be really careful. And I think the conversation I'm gonna 186 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:12,440 Speaker 3: keep talking about the employees because I'm personally touched by 187 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:15,280 Speaker 3: with my mother, my own personal story, but I also 188 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 3: think a lot is being talked about business, business, business, 189 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:20,280 Speaker 3: and I feel the workers are kind of being left out. 190 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:21,320 Speaker 1: I agree with that. 191 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:24,120 Speaker 4: You know, I've been in conversation today with people who 192 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 4: work for the federal government in really high positions, and 193 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 4: they're literally going into the office, you know, not having 194 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 4: to go into the office for years before this, but 195 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:35,480 Speaker 4: they're going into the office, which is a new experience. 196 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:38,200 Speaker 4: But they're going into the office on pens and needles 197 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:41,080 Speaker 4: every day, not knowing if every day it's going to 198 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 4: be their last day. Going into the offices down here 199 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:47,200 Speaker 4: in the DMV, so that is interesting. Also, I know 200 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:52,920 Speaker 4: that Maryland had a job fare within the DMV this week, 201 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 4: and there will be more job fares for folks who 202 00:09:56,559 --> 00:10:00,400 Speaker 4: have been laid off from the federal government that that 203 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 4: is happening. I do see that certain you know, opportunities 204 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:08,160 Speaker 4: are coming up for some of these laid off people. 205 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:10,560 Speaker 4: And then also a lot of folks are being offered 206 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:13,680 Speaker 4: retirement packages early, so a lot of federal government workers 207 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:16,800 Speaker 4: are going to seminars that are being held and they're 208 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:20,319 Speaker 4: getting information about what the retirement packages would entail. 209 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:21,960 Speaker 1: Before a lot of folks who've put. 210 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:24,959 Speaker 4: Their time in for twenty five years or however long, 211 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:29,760 Speaker 4: it's not going to be enough to supplement their normal salaries. 212 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:32,320 Speaker 4: So some people have some really tough decisions to make. 213 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 4: Some folks will have to retire but then pick up 214 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 4: another a part time job, or even another a full 215 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:40,680 Speaker 4: time job, or go into business for themselves on the 216 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:43,400 Speaker 4: side to sort of supplement the salary. So it's just 217 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 4: really interesting to see how entire black families down here 218 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:49,560 Speaker 4: are being impacted. A lot of folks have children in college, 219 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:51,400 Speaker 4: children and who are in high school about to go 220 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:53,760 Speaker 4: to college, and they're trying to figure out what they're 221 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 4: going to do now that they've been laid off. 222 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 3: And what about the healthcare benefits? I mean with this 223 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 3: business for y'all said, like I know, y'all, I'm saying busines, voicelf, 224 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:03,560 Speaker 3: business voice, helf do for self? What about the health care? 225 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:06,920 Speaker 3: Who got that? Where is that at? I'm a due 226 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:09,040 Speaker 3: for self, so where it grows the healthcare? Can you 227 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:10,920 Speaker 3: let me know where to affordable health care is? Because 228 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:12,000 Speaker 3: it's not in or. 229 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 1: Because it's being cut? And guess what test? 230 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:14,440 Speaker 4: You know? 231 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:17,000 Speaker 1: Like you, I am a consultant as well. 232 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:20,200 Speaker 4: I have all of my appointments lined up between now 233 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:23,320 Speaker 4: and whenever my insurance you know, I have to revisit 234 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:25,319 Speaker 4: the insurance. Don't know if the rate's gonna go up 235 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 4: or like what that's gonna look like. But also I 236 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:31,680 Speaker 4: have been thinking about things that I need to cut 237 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:32,440 Speaker 4: from my budget. 238 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:34,440 Speaker 1: Okay, I need this gym member. 239 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:37,120 Speaker 4: Shit, Should I just go ahead and invest in some 240 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:40,400 Speaker 4: home gym equipment so I can eliminate that monthly expense. 241 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:47,199 Speaker 1: I am literally taking a liver clans coalon clan stuff. 242 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:49,760 Speaker 4: I got all of these like supplements that I'm trying 243 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:51,040 Speaker 4: to like get my health in order. 244 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:53,680 Speaker 1: And then also, you know, I. 245 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:55,640 Speaker 3: Have an insurance because I don't even have insurance, but 246 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:57,760 Speaker 3: go ahead, that's a blessing. Go ahead and thank you. 247 00:11:57,800 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 4: It is a blessing. But again, it could get taken away. 248 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:02,679 Speaker 4: It can get taken away. Things can change, Like there 249 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:05,000 Speaker 4: are so many you know, I'm in DC, so there's 250 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:08,200 Speaker 4: a lot of like health care programs and things that 251 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:09,439 Speaker 4: have been funded. 252 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:13,560 Speaker 3: That people that are been taken away. Yeah. 253 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 4: Yeah, that people who work or you know, work for 254 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:18,720 Speaker 4: themselves or whatever are privy to getting. But that's not 255 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:21,360 Speaker 4: indicative of what's happening around the country. There are places 256 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:24,040 Speaker 4: where people literally just don't have access to health care, 257 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 4: and then where health care is available, these things are 258 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:34,240 Speaker 4: getting cut. Also the Department of Education, civil rights, civil 259 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 4: rights divisions within the Department of Education, and you know, 260 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:41,200 Speaker 4: just things for our children with disabilities, like what's going 261 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:43,480 Speaker 4: to happen to them. Like, there's so many things that 262 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:47,240 Speaker 4: are coming up about this government job situation, and it 263 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 4: just really surprises me how a lot of our people 264 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:56,120 Speaker 4: that I'm also seeing online are just apathetic to what's 265 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:59,600 Speaker 4: happening with education, what's happening with business, what's happening with government? 266 00:12:59,679 --> 00:13:02,199 Speaker 4: Jobs because I guess they say that they're living outside 267 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:03,680 Speaker 4: of the system. And these are a lot of my 268 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:07,319 Speaker 4: brothers and sisters in the so called conscious community. They're saying, 269 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:09,920 Speaker 4: we need to have our own schools. Yeah, we need 270 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:12,120 Speaker 4: to have our own schools. Yes, it's going funded, Yeah 271 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 4: we do. But where's the funding coming from? 272 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:14,520 Speaker 3: Right now? 273 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 1: Exactly where's the funding coming from? But then also I 274 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:17,480 Speaker 1: don't know. 275 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:19,439 Speaker 4: I mean, wherever our black children are, I'm going to 276 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:23,680 Speaker 4: consistently be where they are. Right so, the majority of 277 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:26,760 Speaker 4: our kids are in public education, and we need to 278 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:28,880 Speaker 4: make sure that they're good and they're getting what they 279 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:32,840 Speaker 4: need within public education as long as like that's where 280 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:36,360 Speaker 4: they are. So this sort of apathy is I think 281 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:38,400 Speaker 4: it's pretty dangerous. And I'm not sure if it's like 282 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:41,720 Speaker 4: the social media algorithms that are causing people to think 283 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:44,959 Speaker 4: and lean in a particular political direction. 284 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:47,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a big part in it. But also you're 285 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 3: connected to yeah, definitely. So I mean there's a lot 286 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:53,680 Speaker 3: going on. I just we just have to do our 287 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:56,960 Speaker 3: due diligence. I've been also getting involved in a conversation 288 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:00,640 Speaker 3: locally in DC. There are our. 289 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 4: City council members have been on the Hill, and you know, 290 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:07,640 Speaker 4: there's massive costs to action, to lobby, make phone calls 291 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:13,120 Speaker 4: and send letters to senators and you know, folks within 292 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:16,280 Speaker 4: the House of Representatives so that this funding bill does 293 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:19,040 Speaker 4: not cut over a billion dollars in funding from the 294 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:22,800 Speaker 4: District of Columbia. So there is so much to do, 295 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:25,600 Speaker 4: so much to get involved in. But sitting back and 296 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:31,640 Speaker 4: taking the sort of like resigned approach, to me, it's 297 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 4: just really lazy and it just it's not affording to anyone. 298 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:37,720 Speaker 4: Doesn't for you know, black folks that are being heavy 299 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 4: hit by this, and. 300 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:40,240 Speaker 3: A lot of people just don't know what to do, 301 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:42,360 Speaker 3: like the bottom line, don't know what to do too. 302 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:45,200 Speaker 3: So there's some I guess I could say lazy not 303 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:47,280 Speaker 3: trying to get involved with a lot of people. Jay 304 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:49,520 Speaker 3: as we know what the push line train. There's many 305 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:51,240 Speaker 3: people do know what to do, but there are some 306 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 3: people just like I literally don't know what to do, 307 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:55,240 Speaker 3: you know I have it's like tell them what can 308 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 3: I do? And you know, and I've been telling people 309 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:01,520 Speaker 3: we do need the long term but even you could 310 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:03,560 Speaker 3: say short term strategy when you talk about midterms and 311 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:06,760 Speaker 3: different things like that. But right now, I think people 312 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 3: are really trying to self preserve, you know. So I'm 313 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 3: telling people bunker down and build, like, bunker down where 314 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 3: you are is where you are, and build like just 315 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:18,600 Speaker 3: when I say, Bill coming up with different ways. You know, 316 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:21,240 Speaker 3: I've been talking about my three things Save. So funny 317 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:24,680 Speaker 3: because I did the pastor Pastor Brown's podcast, and you 318 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 3: know I do save, shack and strap. He wasn't with 319 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:29,120 Speaker 3: the shack part, but I said, well, you can just 320 00:15:29,120 --> 00:15:32,280 Speaker 3: skip over about about the Mary Couve and I live together, 321 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:37,040 Speaker 3: but roommates. You know, businesses resources combine and if you 322 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:39,120 Speaker 3: got a service, I got a service day, let's bring 323 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 3: it together. This is how we can combine this service. 324 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:44,480 Speaker 3: You know. That's a real thing that we do. The strap, 325 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 3: of course, he don't believe. He believed in non violent. 326 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:49,280 Speaker 3: Of course I believe in violence, you know. And then 327 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 3: I said, then people not having babies. I said, but 328 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:53,160 Speaker 3: I'm not gonna go there, but protect yourself. Make sure 329 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 3: you know they don't have babies. So he likes concept. 330 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:59,239 Speaker 3: But that's just really like where we are, those small things, 331 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 3: small little things that people just need right now in 332 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:05,240 Speaker 3: this moment. You know, we're not talking about or such 333 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:07,960 Speaker 3: and such roll in the book doctor Claude Anderson rode 334 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,120 Speaker 3: in such and such and said, yeah, that sound good, 335 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 3: but that's y'all ain't need it by now. So what 336 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:14,760 Speaker 3: make me think you're gonna have it done by April first? 337 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:17,720 Speaker 3: I'm talking about April first. The three hundred thousand black 338 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:20,240 Speaker 3: people that will be impacted, That's what I'm talking about. 339 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:22,600 Speaker 3: They need to know like what to do, like right now. Literally, 340 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:25,160 Speaker 3: and a lot of these people have never been in 341 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:28,120 Speaker 3: a position to have to figure anything out. Very close 342 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:30,520 Speaker 3: friend of mine, she was talking about moving to Gona, 343 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:32,000 Speaker 3: and I said, do you own your house? Because you've 344 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:33,440 Speaker 3: been in your house twenty five years. She didn't know 345 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:35,400 Speaker 3: she owned the house. So you think you can move 346 00:16:35,440 --> 00:16:37,960 Speaker 3: to Gona, but you don't even own what you have 347 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 3: here in America. So even having conversations amongst each other, 348 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:43,800 Speaker 3: like I've done with my best friends, Hey, which one 349 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:46,840 Speaker 3: of us own the deed? Yeah, I'm the single one 350 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:48,680 Speaker 3: and I own the deed. I'm the only one owned 351 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:50,760 Speaker 3: the deed to my But how do we how do 352 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:52,960 Speaker 3: we make sure? Okay, who raise your hand and we 353 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 3: actually own a house? Okay, if she get tough, we 354 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:57,880 Speaker 3: can go to Teseslim's house. Okay, Jade, if you gonna 355 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:00,240 Speaker 3: buy water, if you're gonna stack up on water, I'm 356 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:02,800 Speaker 3: gonna stack up on fruit, you know, fruit can fruit 357 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:06,119 Speaker 3: or something or somebody else, stack up on toilet paper, somebody, 358 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:10,199 Speaker 3: so that it's not all, you know, just one person 359 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:12,439 Speaker 3: sharing the load. So if it all go down and 360 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:13,960 Speaker 3: we got to be in the house together, we gotta 361 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,959 Speaker 3: figure it out. That's right, you know. That's what I'm 362 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:28,440 Speaker 3: trying to get people as real tools. And then, Jade, 363 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:30,359 Speaker 3: I want to roll out after we get done with 364 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:35,560 Speaker 3: the town hall in Atlanta virtually, I want to, you know, 365 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:42,639 Speaker 3: provide resume tips, interview tips, transferable skills, what those transferable 366 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:45,720 Speaker 3: skills can transfer to those kind of things. I can't 367 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 3: do everything for free, I'm telling you now, I can't. 368 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:50,240 Speaker 3: I'm bringing in other folks. We run a whole business, 369 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:53,080 Speaker 3: so guys, I'm not trying to take advantage of anybody 370 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 3: on anything or nothing like that. But I also have 371 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 3: to make sure that our team paid for so nothing 372 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:03,639 Speaker 3: in expensing, maybe twenty twenty five bucks something like that. 373 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:06,520 Speaker 3: It's certainly not the h did I see many others 374 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:09,199 Speaker 3: five hundred dollars seminars thousand, dollars. You know, it's not 375 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:12,159 Speaker 3: that at all, but we have to you know, be 376 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:16,760 Speaker 3: able to compensate folks, you know, to give their skills 377 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 3: to provide. You know, you do a lot of training. 378 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:21,440 Speaker 3: I do a lot of training, Chrissy does a lot 379 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:25,200 Speaker 3: of training, Michelle, you know, my whole team. We gotta 380 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:27,920 Speaker 3: be able because again y'all say do for self, So 381 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,480 Speaker 3: we got to be able to you know, offer these seminars, 382 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 3: you know, these webinars to people, and I can't do 383 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:36,800 Speaker 3: them all. So I'm looking. You know, I've always talked 384 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:39,560 Speaker 3: about the virtual thing and building up my training division, 385 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:42,520 Speaker 3: and it's always something I you know, said Okay, I 386 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:44,280 Speaker 3: need to spend more time doing it, and just happened 387 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:46,400 Speaker 3: to half the chance. But now I have to make it. 388 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:49,920 Speaker 3: I have to make it a priority because trying to 389 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 3: get a hundred and plus one hundred so people in 390 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:55,680 Speaker 3: the room has definitely been a task. Atlanta has been 391 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:57,879 Speaker 3: very supportive to me. I know we will sell out. 392 00:18:57,920 --> 00:18:59,800 Speaker 3: I think we've got fifteen tickets left and we got 393 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:02,080 Speaker 3: see sixteen days, so that's a ticket every day, so 394 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:04,439 Speaker 3: I know we will sell out. But I know it 395 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:08,720 Speaker 3: also took me ninety days all ninety days, you know, 396 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:14,520 Speaker 3: to sell every single ticket. And I remember Michelle, Michelle 397 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:16,440 Speaker 3: be a publicists working on me, and she's like, oh yeah, 398 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:17,800 Speaker 3: you got plenty of time to like, No, you don't 399 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:21,159 Speaker 3: understand movement work is different. It's not. Even though I 400 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:23,760 Speaker 3: added into comedians, you know, so that it could be 401 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 3: you know, people could feel like they're getting something average 402 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:30,159 Speaker 3: comedy shows forty bucks you get into comedians. I've added 403 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:32,879 Speaker 3: in a free shot all those things. And even still 404 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:35,800 Speaker 3: trying to gather people for community, for the business of community, 405 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 3: It's just not easy. It's just not and it requires 406 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:42,520 Speaker 3: every single you know, I'm on live several times a 407 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:45,000 Speaker 3: day talking about it. I've asked people to share it, 408 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 3: people have shared it. I've reached out of people asking 409 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:49,160 Speaker 3: the text all of that. Like, it is a hustle, 410 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:53,320 Speaker 3: a grind. So I'm not sure. Well I'm not gonna 411 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:55,359 Speaker 3: say not sure. I know I can't do another in 412 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 3: person one in the immediate future. I just can't. It 413 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:01,080 Speaker 3: just it's too much. People say yea, hey, yeah, I 414 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:02,880 Speaker 3: MA help, help, help, and it just don't work that way, 415 00:20:03,040 --> 00:20:05,919 Speaker 3: as you know, it falls on me. So virtual is 416 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:09,320 Speaker 3: something that you know is more feasible people can get 417 00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:12,879 Speaker 3: on wherever they want, twenty five thirty people on. That's fine. 418 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:15,040 Speaker 3: You know, we don't have to because you don't want 419 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:18,280 Speaker 3: to go to nobody's restaurant Jay without them patronizing the restaurant. 420 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:19,240 Speaker 1: You absolutely. 421 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:22,520 Speaker 3: Bankhead is not open on Sundays, so they're opening for us, 422 00:20:22,760 --> 00:20:24,960 Speaker 3: you know, four to eight. We want to make sure 423 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:28,440 Speaker 3: people are buying food, you know, buying they prepare food, 424 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:31,560 Speaker 3: you know, at least a small menu, you know, buying drink. 425 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:34,359 Speaker 3: We want them to lead saying okay, we circulated the 426 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:37,960 Speaker 3: dollar within this room. You know. So that's important to 427 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:39,440 Speaker 3: me too. It's not a matter of just having a 428 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:41,560 Speaker 3: bunch of people showing up in a room. We can 429 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:44,400 Speaker 3: do that virtually. It's a matter of how are we 430 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:47,440 Speaker 3: moving this money forward? And how can we show that 431 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:49,320 Speaker 3: with this dupe for self that y'all be talking about. 432 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:51,720 Speaker 3: How can we make sure that everybody in the room. 433 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:54,640 Speaker 3: You know, the comedians got it, the DJ got it, 434 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:56,719 Speaker 3: the play the Patriot, you know, they got their money 435 00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:00,480 Speaker 3: for your thirty dollars thirty five forty dollars sacrifice? What 436 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 3: does that look like in real time? So I don't 437 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:07,280 Speaker 3: think I'll be doing another one in person for a minute. 438 00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 3: But I am very excited about this one. It's gonna 439 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:12,640 Speaker 3: be dope. We probably could do it once a quarter maybe, 440 00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:15,560 Speaker 3: But then again, I don't know because it takes me 441 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 3: ninety days just to hustle it, so I. 442 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:21,760 Speaker 4: Before I can spand that. And also the economy is 443 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:22,560 Speaker 4: shifting as well. 444 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:27,120 Speaker 3: So yeah, but people find it to do the other stuff. 445 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:30,280 Speaker 3: It's just again, community is hard. It's hard. 446 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 4: It just is. 447 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:34,960 Speaker 3: This is not easy, guys, which is why my training. 448 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:37,440 Speaker 3: I give you the real deal so you know exactly 449 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:41,320 Speaker 3: what it is. You know. So guys of the Department 450 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:45,080 Speaker 3: of Education laid off again fifty percent of their folks. 451 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:48,400 Speaker 3: I'm concerned because the Civil Rights Division. I think it's 452 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:49,960 Speaker 3: only a few of them left. I think it's five JD. 453 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:53,159 Speaker 3: If I'm correct, only five are left. Do you have 454 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:57,120 Speaker 3: those cities by chance? This city that where it just left, 455 00:21:57,119 --> 00:21:58,760 Speaker 3: because I know it's in that article that we pulled, 456 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:04,880 Speaker 3: but cities that still have their Civil Rights division? Atlanta 457 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:06,840 Speaker 3: popped out to me because I was excited to see 458 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:11,919 Speaker 3: that because the Small Business Administration just decided to relocate 459 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:15,760 Speaker 3: from Atlanta. Yes, when people say, oh, it only have 460 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:19,560 Speaker 3: white women, that's true. But in Atlanta, the Small Business Association, 461 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:21,960 Speaker 3: based on the numbers, helped a lot of black folks too, 462 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:23,960 Speaker 3: So I get it. I know we have to push 463 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,359 Speaker 3: for more. I know we can't just be satisfied with 464 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:28,399 Speaker 3: the crumbs because it helped more white women. But we 465 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:30,240 Speaker 3: also can't ignore that it didn't help a lot of 466 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:32,960 Speaker 3: black folks too. We have to That has to be 467 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:37,240 Speaker 3: a part of the conversation. But yeah, civil Rights Division 468 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:43,680 Speaker 3: was a part of that cut, which means children, anybody 469 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 3: discriminated against. If you've ever been in a school situation 470 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:49,280 Speaker 3: and feel like you discriminated against, that's the leading thing. 471 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:51,840 Speaker 3: So to take that out, that's where you decide to 472 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 3: cut costs. Come on, guys, this is very clear, very strategic. 473 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:59,439 Speaker 3: They are sick of the lawsuits. They are sick of 474 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:03,080 Speaker 3: the the being crumps of the world. They are sick 475 00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:06,000 Speaker 3: of cities having the pay for in justice. They're over 476 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:07,320 Speaker 3: and so they're shutting down. 477 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:10,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're shutting down quick. 478 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 3: Immediately. 479 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:15,880 Speaker 4: I just don't know what to say. I am looking 480 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:18,120 Speaker 4: for those cities while while we're. 481 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:19,160 Speaker 1: On because. 482 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 4: All of the offices were impacted. That's thirteen hundred people. 483 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:33,760 Speaker 4: Hubs in New York Chicago, Dallas were affected as well as. 484 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:35,320 Speaker 1: DC. 485 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:39,119 Speaker 4: But yeah, roughly two hundred and forty in the Department's 486 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:44,800 Speaker 4: Office for Civil Rights. So that is really, really, really 487 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:50,400 Speaker 4: really terrible. Seven of the civil rights agencies, twelve regional 488 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:54,840 Speaker 4: offices were entirely laid off, right, and again the busiest 489 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,440 Speaker 4: hubs were in New York, Chicago, and Dallas. 490 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:05,879 Speaker 3: Yeah, well, yuays, we are in for more. Uh, this 491 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 3: is not a scare atag that this is real. We 492 00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:11,560 Speaker 3: are in for more. There's more to come. The tariffs 493 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:14,320 Speaker 3: were still following that to see what that retaliation will be, 494 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:16,800 Speaker 3: to see, you know, what's that gonna look like in 495 00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:19,879 Speaker 3: real time. Canada said they ain't playing no games, or 496 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:22,040 Speaker 3: they said they will be putting a tear right on back. 497 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:25,439 Speaker 3: And Trump has even immediately said, you know that it 498 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:28,200 Speaker 3: will be an inconvenience. He calls it inconvenience. So we'll 499 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:30,359 Speaker 3: just see how many can afford that inconvenience. 500 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:35,320 Speaker 4: Jake, Well, I know that the new new Prime Minister 501 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:37,720 Speaker 4: of Canada says that the US needs to put some 502 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:40,119 Speaker 4: respect on their name and they're tired of the disrespect. 503 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:45,080 Speaker 4: So the new guy came in swinging after Trudeau. You know, 504 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:49,720 Speaker 4: transitioned out of his role, and they're retaliatory tariffs happening 505 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 4: all the time. So yeah, I just I mean, there's 506 00:24:56,480 --> 00:25:02,000 Speaker 4: there's terriffsment still in aluminum. I know Canada was talking 507 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:06,160 Speaker 4: about cutting off some electricity to several US states that 508 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:11,040 Speaker 4: it provides the US electricity to near the Canadian border, 509 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:15,240 Speaker 4: so energy is also gonna go up in certain places. 510 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:21,399 Speaker 3: Well, guys, we are in uh for more. I know 511 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:23,199 Speaker 3: they say, oh, democrats are scared take and all. It 512 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:25,640 Speaker 3: is actually a real policy and I'm not a democrat. 513 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:27,480 Speaker 3: I'm just telling you what it is. And I'm concerned 514 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:30,680 Speaker 3: for those who barely had money were complaining about inflation 515 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,280 Speaker 3: what that's gonna look like in real time. So make 516 00:25:33,320 --> 00:25:35,639 Speaker 3: sure you stay locked in on a straight shot, no chaser. 517 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:37,440 Speaker 3: We're doing our best to keep up with it every 518 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:39,639 Speaker 3: single day. Please follow me on all things revote as 519 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:43,760 Speaker 3: well weekly commentary. We are stretching ourselves thin like thin 520 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:46,399 Speaker 3: thing thing thin. You know, We're trying to consume as 521 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:48,720 Speaker 3: much information as possible. Since y'all say y'all want to 522 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:50,719 Speaker 3: consume as y'all protecting y'all peace, I guess y'all it's 523 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:53,520 Speaker 3: gonna let me lose my piece. So at least at 524 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:56,399 Speaker 3: the bare minimum, check in with the podcast once a week, 525 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 3: you know, to kind of get an update the top 526 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:00,760 Speaker 3: lines of the things you need to know. We can't 527 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:02,720 Speaker 3: cover it all day, but we can continue to do 528 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:06,000 Speaker 3: our best. I do want to thank you guys for 529 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,879 Speaker 3: being committed, being supportive. We want to start doing the 530 00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:13,520 Speaker 3: show a live show. Hopefully we can start that next 531 00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:15,800 Speaker 3: week where people can hop in on the zoom and 532 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:18,920 Speaker 3: we can make this a live show because people really 533 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:21,200 Speaker 3: need to talk, they need to discuss, they have questions 534 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:23,720 Speaker 3: and opposed to just listening to me, we want to 535 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:25,800 Speaker 3: open it up, you know, for everybody else. So hopefully 536 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,680 Speaker 3: we'll be able to do that Sunday's at seven pm. 537 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:31,040 Speaker 3: Sometimes I travel, so we may not always be able 538 00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 3: to do it, but the goal is Sunday, seven pm 539 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:36,399 Speaker 3: Eastern Standard time, go live. We'll have the zoom. You 540 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:38,280 Speaker 3: guys need to hop on the zoom. 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