Speaker 1: What's up? Family, it's your girl to meeke A D. Mallory,
Speaker 1: it's your boy, my son in general, and we are
Speaker 1: your hosts of street politicians, the place for the streets
Speaker 1: and politics. What's going on in America? How you doing
Speaker 1: to that? God is good? God is good all the time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the end of a year, and we have certainly
Speaker 1: had a long one, a long but it has gone
Speaker 1: It's like a long year and it's going fast because
Speaker 1: I swear that December just started and it's already the
Speaker 1: last week of this month. It's crazy. Now, I ain't
Speaker 1: gonna lie the this year, these last couple of months
Speaker 1: have it just speeding pass. Every time you turn around,
Speaker 1: is the twenties something? You're like, what it was just
Speaker 1: the first and it's the twenties seven. It's almost you know,
Speaker 1: So that the year is definitely been going fast. But
Speaker 1: we've had a lot of things going good, a lot
Speaker 1: of things going on. Everything. This has been an event
Speaker 1: for it has been it's been um, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It feels like many years we've come through have been
Speaker 1: bitter sweet, you know. Um. And it's like it's almost
Speaker 1: like you feel guilty because on one side, from me,
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm growing into the woman that I
Speaker 1: am destined to be. UM, I've grown so much in
Speaker 1: it's actually, I guess somewhere between forty and forty one,
Speaker 1: there's literally been sort of a bump, if you will,
Speaker 1: in my womanhood and my growth. I see life different.
Speaker 1: I'm much more clear about what I am willing to accept,
Speaker 1: what I'm not even from myself, the challenges that I
Speaker 1: really put on myself to be better, to do better, uh,
Speaker 1: and just to be a better me. And so for
Speaker 1: from that perspective, and also recognizing that at some point
Speaker 1: around forty years old, it's as if people really truly
Speaker 1: do begin to respect and understand UM. You know, your
Speaker 1: your expertise, UM, your value, your womanhood, all of those things.
Speaker 1: It gets much stronger when you reach your forties. And
Speaker 1: and maybe it's the way we walk in that. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's the way that you know, I speak, the way
Speaker 1: that I carried myself, the level of confidence I have UM.
Speaker 1: And as that takes place, I kind of feel that
Speaker 1: you know my success in terms of how I'm growing,
Speaker 1: not just as a activists, but as you know, with
Speaker 1: many things, just my book writing, writing in general, being
Speaker 1: able to express myself to All those things are happening.
Speaker 1: But yet at the same time, is there really success
Speaker 1: with the work that we do every day in our movements? Yes,
Speaker 1: I believe that overall there is UM, and the success
Speaker 1: looks different. It doesn't necessarily look like changing all the
Speaker 1: legislation that we want to see changed, UM and stopping
Speaker 1: police from killing us. But it does look like bringing
Speaker 1: more people into the movement. It does look like encouraging
Speaker 1: more young people to pick up the mantle, UM, training
Speaker 1: more young people. You know, there's so many young people
Speaker 1: around us, and so many young women and men that
Speaker 1: I've been to myself every single day, and so those
Speaker 1: things feel good, But there's always this balance, if you will,
Speaker 1: a feeling like on one side we're doing well, I'm
Speaker 1: doing really well, but on the other side, we still
Speaker 1: have so far to go, and so there's it's just
Speaker 1: no time to really sit down and celebrate. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I go through that same thing and watch yourself grow
Speaker 1: understanding who you are becoming, who you're supposed to become.
Speaker 1: Is is um, like you said, as a gift and
Speaker 1: a curse. You know what you're willing to saying for
Speaker 1: you know what you're able to do, you know what
Speaker 1: you're not able to do. You understand your strengths, your weaknesses.
Speaker 1: You just start to identify yourself in full capacity. You
Speaker 1: know a lot of times that that that's changing. So
Speaker 1: you're surroundings changed people that you used to be around.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes you grow apart from the way that
Speaker 1: you think. Certain things that you used to do, You
Speaker 1: don't do certain things that you haven't done before you
Speaker 1: start to do, you know, So that's I think that's
Speaker 1: just part of evolution. You know, as as many women grow,
Speaker 1: you evolved into It's like the cocoon in the butterfly, right,
Speaker 1: You just you start to metamorphous into who you're supposed
Speaker 1: to be. So I think that's a year when you
Speaker 1: get into your early forties, you start to really people
Speaker 1: will take hold of who you are. You start to
Speaker 1: identify yourself in full capacity. And what else what else
Speaker 1: happens is you don't care about who who does it right,
Speaker 1: Because before when you're in your twenties and even in
Speaker 1: your thirties, you're worried about how somebody else is gonna
Speaker 1: perceive what you like or what you know, how you think,
Speaker 1: or how you show up. You know, when you start
Speaker 1: to get forty, I think, what you start to realize
Speaker 1: that the main purposes for you to be comfortable and
Speaker 1: happen you to be, you know, living in your true
Speaker 1: essence of who you are. You know, so you know
Speaker 1: that's that's that's probably what's been going on for us
Speaker 1: in these last couple of years, man, I mean especially
Speaker 1: in this last year in general, just along with think
Speaker 1: COVID and the pandemic rush the process because it forced
Speaker 1: a lot of people to have to deal with themselves.
Speaker 1: Right when you when you locked up, and you just
Speaker 1: gotta deal with yourself every day and look in the
Speaker 1: mirror and make assessments and see things for what they are.
Speaker 1: Then you reflect, you know. It was much like my
Speaker 1: stamp in prison, even though it wasn't as long. But
Speaker 1: in prison, I had to look at myself every day.
Speaker 1: I had to make real assessments. I had to really
Speaker 1: just because I had to liver myself every day. So
Speaker 1: I looked how I was showing up, how people were
Speaker 1: receiving me, how they weren't receiving me, What how I
Speaker 1: was progressing, how mentally I was progressing. What did I
Speaker 1: learned today? Right? Because when you just have yourself. You
Speaker 1: can't lie to yourself right, Like you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Outside life can distract you. You can be so distracted
Speaker 1: doing nothing that you actually think you did something. You
Speaker 1: can be running around when we're not really accomplishing anything,
Speaker 1: but you think you all because you're moving, these constant
Speaker 1: things going on. But when you don't have that every day,
Speaker 1: you're gonna say, Okay, what did I do? But I
Speaker 1: don't have nothing to distract me that I work out
Speaker 1: and my mentally strong. Did I read something that I
Speaker 1: put together some type of plan? Like what accomplishment do
Speaker 1: I actually have? And I know I found myself having
Speaker 1: those thoughts like early in the morning, I get it's
Speaker 1: like a level of anxiety, like you didn't do anything today? Mice,
Speaker 1: what what do you what are you gonna accomplish? What
Speaker 1: is your plan for the day? What did you do yesterday?
Speaker 1: Did you accomplish something? Did something move forward? Did you're
Speaker 1: playing something? You have so many opportunities, there's so many
Speaker 1: things to do. What did you do to with these goals?
Speaker 1: You know? So I think, listen to you, I definitely
Speaker 1: identify and understanding my state man, but we've all overall
Speaker 1: I believe we had like a wonderful year, especially with
Speaker 1: our podcast with the number one you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: number one podcasts in the world. Street politicians shout out
Speaker 1: to my heart Black Effect Network, from Charles to Charlottagne.
Speaker 1: You know, this has been a wonderful ride, and we
Speaker 1: just continuing to grow. We have so much growth to do.
Speaker 1: You know, this is this is what has been our
Speaker 1: first season with Black Effect Network. So we just got
Speaker 1: so much growth, were revamping, were learning things, were learning
Speaker 1: things about how we can be better. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: more guests, We're gonna have more, more in depth conversations.
Speaker 1: You know, we're gonna debate like we usually do because
Speaker 1: I don't really agree with most of the stuff he's
Speaker 1: saying all the time. But it's gonna be a good podcast, man.
Speaker 1: So we just want to think all of you guys
Speaker 1: and girls and women and men and everybody who's tuned
Speaker 1: in to this show, who's making it, continue to make
Speaker 1: it growth, who's challenging us, who's giving us your feedback,
Speaker 1: telling us what you love, what you don't love. We
Speaker 1: just want to say we appreciate y'all. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I I feel that way too, that the podcast has
Speaker 1: really caused me also, UM to sit still. It's it's
Speaker 1: not just the podcast, but it was the book this year.
Speaker 1: The podcast it causes us to sit down and really
Speaker 1: focus on developing something UM and giving other people a voice.
Speaker 1: And I appreciate so much that we have a mixture
Speaker 1: of guests. We've had all types of people on our show.
Speaker 1: And so many platforms have been designed to focus only
Speaker 1: on celebrities or influencers that can get the numbers up.
Speaker 1: And clearly numbers matter, and you do have to have
Speaker 1: a show that allows for UM you know that that,
Speaker 1: or you have to have a product, a brand that
Speaker 1: people are attracted to, and that's gonna come from you
Speaker 1: having highlight moments. So I get that. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, we never wanted to be so stuck with
Speaker 1: that model that we did not give voice to folks
Speaker 1: that have never been heard of. You could be living
Speaker 1: anywhere down South, you know, any corner of America, and
Speaker 1: we wanted to make sure that if you're doing good work,
Speaker 1: that we use the Street Politicians platform to give voice
Speaker 1: to those individuals. And I love the fact that, as
Speaker 1: you said, the Black Effect Network, UM and My Heart
Speaker 1: are giving us that opportunity, allowing us to um, you know,
Speaker 1: to use our platform the way we want to. We
Speaker 1: never ever receive feedback that changes who we are whatever,
Speaker 1: you know, from black effect or from my heart. You know,
Speaker 1: what they will say is, hey, it's seeing that people
Speaker 1: love this show, right and again, it could be a
Speaker 1: show on any of the topics that we've covered, and
Speaker 1: they say, do more of that, or they'll say people
Speaker 1: love when you and my son have real conversations, but
Speaker 1: they don't say to us where you shouldn't have these
Speaker 1: guests on or every month you need to have three
Speaker 1: celebrities or two in order for we never get that
Speaker 1: type of feedback. Um, you know. And I think Charlemagne
Speaker 1: and what it is that he's trying to create is
Speaker 1: a space that allows people to be authentic, authentic to themselves,
Speaker 1: authentic to their brand, authentic to the work that we
Speaker 1: all claim to be doing. And so I love um,
Speaker 1: you know, And I was really hesitant, as you know,
Speaker 1: to do the show. Um And when we started out
Speaker 1: Street Politicians, UM was great, it was the best name ever.
Speaker 1: But I still was hesitant about the whole process, hesitant
Speaker 1: about being vulnerable before the camera. You know, I hate
Speaker 1: being on camera. I dislike I'm trying to take the
Speaker 1: word hate out of my vocabulary, or at least not
Speaker 1: use it um as frequently as I do. But I
Speaker 1: dislike the camera. It's not my most comfortable space. And
Speaker 1: you know, when it's all set and done, that vulnerability
Speaker 1: has helped me grow. So it's been great, and it's
Speaker 1: also been great to learn from so many people because
Speaker 1: I feel like every show I walk away smarter, I
Speaker 1: got I have something that I can go Google learn
Speaker 1: more about and figure out how to to incorporate it
Speaker 1: in my teachings to the world, so it becomes like
Speaker 1: each one teach one. So I think Street Politicians is educational.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we're gonna stick with the name
Speaker 1: Street Politicians forever. I think we there's we've been talking
Speaker 1: about whether or not we have evolved and want to
Speaker 1: come up with a different way to um really make
Speaker 1: sure that people know it's us and it's our brand
Speaker 1: and it's not just like something in the world. UM.
Speaker 1: But you know, I'm grateful that you continue to stay
Speaker 1: on me about the fact that we needed to bring
Speaker 1: our perspective and have our own representation online where people
Speaker 1: can hear directly from us how we feel and you know,
Speaker 1: and and what our opinions is or are what our
Speaker 1: opinions are on issues. So Mr, today we're doing a
Speaker 1: what about h the Leaders of the Culture. Okay, no,
Speaker 1: because the problem is that not true Culture Leaders now?
Speaker 1: Because first of all, there's already a culture show which
Speaker 1: is our revote and yes still there it would be
Speaker 1: you know, culture leaders is two different things than for
Speaker 1: the Culture Puff will bring it back. But here here
Speaker 1: is what I'm saying. I'm completely fine Leaders of the
Speaker 1: Culture in the dope name. I'm gonna tell you why.
Speaker 1: I am completely fine with the street Politicians as the name,
Speaker 1: unless we are changing it to something that makes sure
Speaker 1: people know it's to me get my son. Otherwise, the
Speaker 1: name we have is fine. The only reason, the only
Speaker 1: reason culture leaders now. But I don't like that at all.
Speaker 1: But we should. Maybe we can open it up and
Speaker 1: do a pole and allow people after this show to
Speaker 1: give their input on what we should be in our
Speaker 1: new year, like the name to stay with it, huh?
Speaker 1: Or or if they like the name, do we stay
Speaker 1: with it? That's a good point, we'll see. So that's
Speaker 1: that's something we've got to kick back to our production team.
Speaker 1: Even we have to make sure that as this year closes,
Speaker 1: we give a lot of love to cat Scape Productions,
Speaker 1: um our sister, Janice, Assistic, Cat trigg Um, and all
Speaker 1: the other folks that work every single day, not just
Speaker 1: every week, but they work every single day on making
Speaker 1: street politicians what it is. Um. The level of commitment
Speaker 1: that Cat Scape has had and the belief in us
Speaker 1: prior to us getting a deal with Black Effect Network
Speaker 1: is incredible. So we've had, we've been we've been ordained
Speaker 1: to do this show. That her name is Janice for
Speaker 1: the so people will not start calling that beautiful out
Speaker 1: of her because her name is not Janese people. So
Speaker 1: let's just be clear about that. Because when she's in
Speaker 1: business meetings and other places like to as a woman,
Speaker 1: be called by her name, which is Janice. That is
Speaker 1: my son's nickname that he calls her, which is wonderful.
Speaker 1: They laugh about it. But her name is Janice, thank you. Okay.
Speaker 1: So the shows, though, it's been a lot of people.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know when we were doing this review
Speaker 1: of the shows, I had no idea what we did.
Speaker 1: As many shows as we've had, we had a lot
Speaker 1: of shows. Yeah, We've done a lot of shows, and
Speaker 1: that's what we're gonna talk about to today. Since it's
Speaker 1: the end of the year, We're gonna do a recap
Speaker 1: or some of our favorite shows, some of our favorite guests.
Speaker 1: You know, like Jamika said, we always give platform to
Speaker 1: those who wouldn't normally get platforms. But we also have
Speaker 1: some friends that are kind of famous that have shot
Speaker 1: by some some dope interviews. Man. So what we're gonna
Speaker 1: do is talk about some of our favorite interviews. Man,
Speaker 1: some about people that came up. You know, they laughed,
Speaker 1: made us laugh, made us almost cry, or they just
Speaker 1: informed us about something we didn't know about, you know,
Speaker 1: so we did cry. I know I cried because specifically
Speaker 1: during the Hill Harper interview, I cry. But let's go,
Speaker 1: let's go. Let's go to that episode since you've mentioned it.
Speaker 1: Hill Harper. Hill Harper was one of my best episodes because,
Speaker 1: first of all, he said something, you know, he's Hill Harper.
Speaker 1: He said some incredible things. But he was a really
Speaker 1: strong episode because I sat next to you and watched
Speaker 1: how the two of you connected and how how emotional
Speaker 1: it made you as you listen to him speak about things.
Speaker 1: That is just so dang on important for black men.
Speaker 1: So that was like really really empowering episode that that
Speaker 1: I think we've had. So let's go to the clip
Speaker 1: from that episode. The mental health of black men is
Speaker 1: something that we never discuss. It's something that's stigmatized. It's
Speaker 1: stigmatized from when you're very young, people say, just get
Speaker 1: up to you tough, you're tough, you got this, come on.
Speaker 1: And it's also stigmatized from the standpoint of even the
Speaker 1: black church system. It's like, no, no, don't go to therapy,
Speaker 1: you know, come come, just pray it out, pray it out,
Speaker 1: and church right and um and and so so many men,
Speaker 1: black men, so many of us are living inside our
Speaker 1: own heads and feel like that we can actually communicate
Speaker 1: it even to each other, because we'll be seeing as soft.
Speaker 1: We'll be seen is as as as as not so
Speaker 1: called strong black men, and it eats you up from
Speaker 1: the inside. And so we have to have these discussions.
Speaker 1: We have to say it's okay to cry, it's okay
Speaker 1: to feel, it's okay to open your heart and and
Speaker 1: and and feel the pain. It's okay to feel fear.
Speaker 1: We never talked about fear right, And it's okay to
Speaker 1: be a raid as a black man, knowing that the
Speaker 1: world is trying to come at you. Shout out to
Speaker 1: Hill Harper, like you said, one of the most powerful interviews.
Speaker 1: But having me a little teary eyed, but I told
Speaker 1: you we had history. Me and Hill had a lot
Speaker 1: of history. Man, I was at when his first movies.
Speaker 1: He almost forgot about it. So shout out to him. Man,
Speaker 1: that's how we are there. So you know, it was
Speaker 1: one of my favorite episodes. And I guess it's because
Speaker 1: you know, we had so much history. I think Sean
Speaker 1: was one of my favorite episodes, just watching him come home,
Speaker 1: knowing when we had history. I have a lot of
Speaker 1: history in this game, this hip hop game, you know,
Speaker 1: and just understanding his plight our plights being similar, and
Speaker 1: just getting to get one of his first interviews from
Speaker 1: coming home and being in the United States. I think
Speaker 1: that's one of my favorites. Let's go to Sean. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter because I'm still helping people. So whether I
Speaker 1: get elected or not, you know, I'm blessing people, so
Speaker 1: you know, I'll be okay, it's on about getting elected.
Speaker 1: I'd like to because then I could, you know, take
Speaker 1: my actions and put it into policy and put it
Speaker 1: into legislation and create a system. See, for me, I
Speaker 1: don't want it to be I don't want to be
Speaker 1: a neo colonial master, you know. I don't want people,
Speaker 1: my people to be dependent on me or any politician.
Speaker 1: So I want to create systematic change so you don't
Speaker 1: need to go to a politician. Sean was a good interview.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think in the new year, we gotta
Speaker 1: have Shane back. I think if there's so much and
Speaker 1: there's many guests that could come back and talk because
Speaker 1: there's so much that UM. He knows, so much that
Speaker 1: he's learned, and so many different historical moments that has
Speaker 1: happened that he speaks to, and he speaks really well
Speaker 1: on all these topics, and so you know, I I
Speaker 1: really appreciated that interview. And that's yet another one of
Speaker 1: those moments where I feel like I was able to
Speaker 1: see right before my eyes the two of you really connecting,
Speaker 1: you know, and that so always really really special for me.
Speaker 1: You know how much I love and appreciate so much
Speaker 1: when black men like connect and come together around different issues.
Speaker 1: So that for me was one of my favorite UM
Speaker 1: episodes as well. I also kind of feel like the
Speaker 1: women get a lot of love on Street Politicians because
Speaker 1: women are doing so many powerful things. But we do
Speaker 1: have many episodes where women are are being elevated, and
Speaker 1: you know, and we have all different types of people.
Speaker 1: For me, if it almost is like we are, we've
Speaker 1: really really been intentional about showing people that we come
Speaker 1: from all different walks of life and different spaces and
Speaker 1: we think differently. It's not just one way of thinking.
Speaker 1: And so for me, a good episode would have been
Speaker 1: Betty Smiths, right. I think I thought that Bebby while
Speaker 1: she was her normal Bebby, she also brought a different flavor,
Speaker 1: like she showed people a different side of herself at
Speaker 1: writing her book but also talking about her failures and
Speaker 1: things that she went through in her career. So we
Speaker 1: should watch this episode at least a clip of Betty,
Speaker 1: and I think she's another one mice. We gotta have
Speaker 1: Betty come back. How do you continue to reinvent yourself? Like,
Speaker 1: what is the secret sauce? The secret sauce is really
Speaker 1: not ever being complacent, complacent, never resting on your laurels,
Speaker 1: and you know, always being up for the challenge and
Speaker 1: always you wanted to experience something new, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Like, I think that one of the saddest
Speaker 1: things is that, you know, so many times in our
Speaker 1: community we don't even dare to dream. We stifle all dreams.
Speaker 1: And it's not our fault really, it's that that's that
Speaker 1: kind of been and bred in us a lot of
Speaker 1: times to um, you know, have dreams, but make sure
Speaker 1: dis sensible, right. So you can have a dream to
Speaker 1: be a lawyer or a doctor, but you can't have
Speaker 1: a dream to be an all there or to be
Speaker 1: a TV personality or you know what I mean. And
Speaker 1: so a lot of times they put a cap on
Speaker 1: our dreams. Also, we're not giving the exposure even though
Speaker 1: like when I was a kid, I came up through
Speaker 1: advertising and I started as a receptionist and it was
Speaker 1: only working in the environment that I learned about becoming
Speaker 1: a media director, which is what I did in my twenties.
Speaker 1: And I started this career in fashion advertising. But I
Speaker 1: didn't know that as a little girl growing up in
Speaker 1: the hood, that I could even have a career and advertising,
Speaker 1: and certainly not in fashion. Do you so are you
Speaker 1: a big mentor yes, you know that, I know you
Speaker 1: have a bunch of babies, and I have a bunch
Speaker 1: of babies. That's the mother part of the book. You know,
Speaker 1: it really does come from my l G B t Q.
Speaker 1: I A family that called me mother. That that um
Speaker 1: Derek J and MS Lawrence and my co host from
Speaker 1: Bravo's Fashion Queens, they started calling me mother on set
Speaker 1: and then it just kind of carried on. And then
Speaker 1: the auntie part is really about the young women. And
Speaker 1: I will say young under forty, the forty really under
Speaker 1: thirty five. I might give y'all something like your thirty
Speaker 1: six and thirty seven. And you've seen you on TV
Speaker 1: and you think of me as your cool aunt here
Speaker 1: you think of me as often times I get the
Speaker 1: rich aunto you. And then also the best departy is
Speaker 1: for me and my girlfriends to contempor reveris you know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna been through some things. We know a few things.
Speaker 1: We're gonna we're gonna share war stories over cocktails and
Speaker 1: battenless trips, and you don't doing the things and the
Speaker 1: things shout out to very man. That was a dope interview.
Speaker 1: Bebies always heard energetic raw self. Man, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, like you can't take nothing from Bebby. She's
Speaker 1: the same person. I promise you. It ain't just for TV.
Speaker 1: This is Beby every day, all day. So it's definitely
Speaker 1: was one of my favorite episodes. But since we on
Speaker 1: the topic of being your same self, authentic and energy,
Speaker 1: another one of my my episodes that I really liked
Speaker 1: was my brother willow to six seven Man. While it
Speaker 1: is brother that I met on the internet, just watching
Speaker 1: him on the street corners, just giving words of encouragement
Speaker 1: and doing push ups in the rain, and you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, and then when you meet him, just
Speaker 1: like Betty, it's the same exact energy. He's always positive,
Speaker 1: he always shows you the same love, you know. So
Speaker 1: interviewing him and just having a real personal relationship brother
Speaker 1: that I call up all the time that calls me.
Speaker 1: Just the other day, he just called me in the
Speaker 1: middle of day, was like, I love you and I
Speaker 1: appreciate what you're doing. You know. We had like a
Speaker 1: real deep conversation. So just watching his evolution into who
Speaker 1: he is and being able to interview him on our platforms,
Speaker 1: there was a special for me. So let's go to wild.
Speaker 1: I was in it. One of the reasons that I
Speaker 1: thought about my When I was young, I had people
Speaker 1: that was in my life, my grandmama, different people, owed,
Speaker 1: some older guys in the community that was always trying
Speaker 1: to get me right. But one thing that that that
Speaker 1: the region they couldn't they couldn't they couldn't get into
Speaker 1: me my mind because they was outnumbered with it was
Speaker 1: too many people in the street. So I said, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring I'm gonna grab your attention on social media,
Speaker 1: and when I'm gonna do I'm gonna show you all
Speaker 1: some ship that y'all never seen. I'm gonna make it
Speaker 1: popular to do right and you still could be cool,
Speaker 1: You still could be thorough. I didn't been able to
Speaker 1: do things since I've been home to show you all,
Speaker 1: not just being righteous is cool, not just doing right
Speaker 1: is cool. I'm able to. I made a shipload of
Speaker 1: money off of being right. Willow is hilarious. That is
Speaker 1: what Willow is. He's hilarious. You all just saw. He's
Speaker 1: so funny. He talks so fast, but he keeps it
Speaker 1: a thousand all the time. And I love me some Willow.
Speaker 1: He always shows me so much love. So shout out
Speaker 1: to Wallow wherever he is, and you're not following him,
Speaker 1: you should because he drops a word of encouragement every
Speaker 1: single day. Um when just want, yeah, a few words,
Speaker 1: so let me see while then who would that bring
Speaker 1: me to? You know, who would okay, Rhapsity, that would
Speaker 1: make me think about what we had Rhapsody on. That's
Speaker 1: another very encouraging person. I don't even think people get
Speaker 1: to see online how encouraging Rhapsody is. And just like
Speaker 1: she's so flied, just so dope, that is one of
Speaker 1: the hardest rappers ever not and I'm not just saying that,
Speaker 1: but she wraps her assholes. He absolutely does. And she
Speaker 1: and I talked in this episode about trying to find
Speaker 1: us a man and and being old ladyes sitting on
Speaker 1: the beach. So let's listen to a little bit of Rhapsody.
Speaker 1: Support means putting dollars behind the work that we're doing.
Speaker 1: And you sign with them, and I'm just I want
Speaker 1: to know when you talk about support, how different does
Speaker 1: it feel to be with a company and organization that
Speaker 1: cares about everything that Rhapsity stands for, not just your music,
Speaker 1: but also your concerns and community. And they're involved in
Speaker 1: just so many philanthropic efforts. What is that like for you, man,
Speaker 1: that's that's so fulfilling. Um. You know, it feels like family.
Speaker 1: It feels like you're part of something that's bigger in business.
Speaker 1: I've had a few emails with jay Z and we
Speaker 1: talked about here. He'll say, this ain't a business. It's
Speaker 1: just culture for me, and that's that's what I want
Speaker 1: to be attached to. I don't want to be attached to,
Speaker 1: you know, a business that's just empty and it's all
Speaker 1: about money, money, money. You get with an organization like
Speaker 1: rock Nation, you know that that care about the culture
Speaker 1: that people in it. You know, it's not just about
Speaker 1: the bottom line. It's like, you know, how can we
Speaker 1: help and enriched not only our artists but our people
Speaker 1: At the same time, shout out to Rhapsody my system
Speaker 1: and love Rhapsody, Love me some Rhapsody, Like Rhapsody is
Speaker 1: one of the most authentic people you will ever meet,
Speaker 1: Flyo Dope to Spiritous on a thousand Man, It's just
Speaker 1: it's crazy that somebody who's that humble, is that raw
Speaker 1: of a wrapper and that confident at the same time,
Speaker 1: and so shout out to Rhapsody. Since we're on the
Speaker 1: top of Adult Woman you know, one of my favorite
Speaker 1: episodes also was when we had the Mothers of the
Speaker 1: Movement or it was an utual time, but all of
Speaker 1: those mothers who came up there, you know, are people
Speaker 1: that I've grown to be like family with, you know,
Speaker 1: just understanding their struggles, understanding what they've been through, how
Speaker 1: we've been with them in these trenches, you know, crying
Speaker 1: with them sometimes sometimes, smiling, happy with them, just seeing
Speaker 1: them in so many different phases of their lives. You know,
Speaker 1: being able to interview them and have them on our
Speaker 1: platform was just like a blessing for me. So that's
Speaker 1: definitely one of my favorite episodes. To George Floyd's family. UM,
Speaker 1: I just want to say, hanging there, um, it's it
Speaker 1: looks really really dark right now because you are sitting
Speaker 1: in the courtroom and going through a really really extremely
Speaker 1: um dark time in your life. And UM, I can't
Speaker 1: say say right now if things are going to improve
Speaker 1: as as far as the trial is concerned. But but
Speaker 1: you have to keep your head up, you have to
Speaker 1: be prayerful, you have to be hopeful and and and
Speaker 1: that's what's going to keep them, you know, clinging onto
Speaker 1: one another. Um. And and we just gotta be hopeful
Speaker 1: that that things. You know, people will see things for
Speaker 1: what they truly are and not what these laws say
Speaker 1: and not what this policy say and these things. A
Speaker 1: life was taken, and I want to remind people a
Speaker 1: life was taken and you can't bring it back. You
Speaker 1: can't bring that life back. Um. We can get jobs,
Speaker 1: another job, you know, they can get another car. You
Speaker 1: can't buy another life. And so we just gotta be
Speaker 1: mindful of that, of how severe that was for him
Speaker 1: to have a knee on his neck. I just can't
Speaker 1: get that visual out of my head. Um. For Tamka Palmer, Um,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be seeing you real soon. And you know
Speaker 1: you're gonna be surrounded by love. You're gonna be surrounded
Speaker 1: by support. Um, And just know that you are not alone.
Speaker 1: You are not in this thing alone. And and and
Speaker 1: once you leave there, it's not a miracle conference, it's
Speaker 1: not a miracle retreat. But it's certainly you're gonna leave
Speaker 1: differently from the way you came. I can guarantee you that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Mothers of the Movement was really a powerful moment
Speaker 1: because they all came on and they were very very
Speaker 1: clear about why they came on because they wanted the
Speaker 1: world to know that of the people that I actually
Speaker 1: know that we have actually worked with, they appreciate support me. Uh,
Speaker 1: they support us, they support our work. We've not in
Speaker 1: any way made them feel like their children were exploited
Speaker 1: or that we've done anything to harm them. Um. Instead,
Speaker 1: we've been an asset to them and their families. Uh.
Speaker 1: And that type of support is what you need because
Speaker 1: there are many people who would in those moments run
Speaker 1: and we've had that happen where people would say, well,
Speaker 1: you know, the missiles are out. I don't want to
Speaker 1: get caught in it, so I'm gonna stand back. But
Speaker 1: those mothers um, and you know, they came together to
Speaker 1: make sure that it was clear to the world that
Speaker 1: those people who you know, they didn't leave any doubt
Speaker 1: or questions. You know, some people would say, okay, well
Speaker 1: I hear you saying that you may not have done
Speaker 1: this thing, but where is your support? And all of them,
Speaker 1: including Sabrina Fulton, um, you know, of course Trayvon Martin's
Speaker 1: mother and to Meka Palmer, they were two of those
Speaker 1: to lead and saying we want to make sure that
Speaker 1: folks know what you meant to us, folks. You really know,
Speaker 1: folks that you my son Until Freedom have actually worked
Speaker 1: with UM and so I thought that was it was
Speaker 1: just powerful. UM. And you know, we continue to work
Speaker 1: with them, We continue to talk to them every single
Speaker 1: day and we will always pop definitely man shout out
Speaker 1: to them. Nothing would love. So Monique islet um Our
Speaker 1: the chairwoman of Until Freedom's board, but she also she's
Speaker 1: so much more than that, and so and so many
Speaker 1: people do not understand what this black woman is trying
Speaker 1: to create. What she's creating, she's not even trying doing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's working alongside another black woman and and they are
Speaker 1: literally creating a institution to support women owned businesses, black
Speaker 1: owned businesses UM through funding literally funding from seed money
Speaker 1: all the way to UH. She she has all these
Speaker 1: classifications and UM series one and three and I'm learning
Speaker 1: them all. I'm getting into my investment game UM and
Speaker 1: and I'm learning thanks to her, thanks to Monique, and
Speaker 1: she came on and talked about black wealth UM and
Speaker 1: I think folks really need to learn more about who
Speaker 1: she is and UM and more about what it is
Speaker 1: the movement that she is creating that will really extend
Speaker 1: beyond her. This is about setting up legacy and wealth
Speaker 1: for our children. So let's listen to Moni guidement. When
Speaker 1: Discovery Channel asked you to be of a part of
Speaker 1: a participant on Undercover Billionaires, I'm sure they put the
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars in your hand just being just knowing
Speaker 1: you would not be able to do it. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you Discovery has actually been so they've been
Speaker 1: super super supportive. Um and really they actually wanted inclusion
Speaker 1: and diversity because they know it matters, It actually matters.
Speaker 1: It is the difference. You know, you can't you can't
Speaker 1: actually talk about change and impact and inclusion if you're
Speaker 1: not actually showing it and and helping your audience experience it.
Speaker 1: And so for them it was important. For me, it's important.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, I think that this was the most
Speaker 1: difficult thing that I have ever ever done. And from
Speaker 1: day one, before I stepped into that city, before I
Speaker 1: knew where I was going, I had one mission, and
Speaker 1: that was to represent black and brown people so that
Speaker 1: we could actually know and that others could know that
Speaker 1: we're more than just you know, an athlete and entertainer
Speaker 1: were business too, we're human beings and for me that
Speaker 1: narrative was so important, and then I just wanted to
Speaker 1: represent the underdog. Nick. You can't listen. I don't even
Speaker 1: know what they're saying about Monique. She's just so dope
Speaker 1: in so many different fastons. She's a beautiful woman, she's educated.
Speaker 1: I've watched her controller room like is there's nobody like Monique.
Speaker 1: That woman is a boss in every sense of the
Speaker 1: word man, so definitely, and she's beautiful. And that's just
Speaker 1: that's just an added part, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It just happens to be not too not to um.
Speaker 1: She have you on the eyes. That brings us to
Speaker 1: another one of you know people that we love, you know,
Speaker 1: shout out to my brother trade Man. Trade is another
Speaker 1: one of those people that whenever we call, you know,
Speaker 1: we don't even call Trade. Beat Trade, beat us to it.
Speaker 1: There's something going on. Trade like where you need to
Speaker 1: come in with my plane coming? Tell me where to come?
Speaker 1: I beat it. You know what I'm saying. Trade is
Speaker 1: a superhero in the truest sense of the word, not
Speaker 1: like what you see on TV with the real life
Speaker 1: one that he's there. You put the bad signal up
Speaker 1: these days, My brother shout out to an album if
Speaker 1: you're scared, Stay Inside, one of my favorite albums that
Speaker 1: I've made. We did in actually two days, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So a day, y'all was acting like
Speaker 1: y'all were working, but it turns out he really was doing.
Speaker 1: We really doing And she said, you're acting like work,
Speaker 1: you ain't really doing the work. Yeah you heard that.
Speaker 1: I was going out going out at night talking about
Speaker 1: we're going to shoot videos and do I'm like, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: they're going out the town, painting the town. Now we've
Speaker 1: painting the town with that album. And it's a good album.
Speaker 1: I mean, people need to really really, if you scared,
Speaker 1: stay inside downloaded and check out our brother Trey. What
Speaker 1: made you start the relief Gang? How long has it
Speaker 1: been in existence? And what's the what's the goal of
Speaker 1: your organization? Um? So, the the actual organization is Angel
Speaker 1: by Nature, which is another meaning for a being because
Speaker 1: you know, the real me and the a being is
Speaker 1: on the street side. So everybody wanted to be part
Speaker 1: of so I have to find a chapter in that
Speaker 1: that people could be u part of us. So I
Speaker 1: started the nonprofit Angel by Nature Relief Game really started
Speaker 1: heavily during Harvey. But the crazy thing about thea Herricane Harvey.
Speaker 1: So everybody who in Texas already knew me, knew me
Speaker 1: for doing this work period. It's just what happened is
Speaker 1: during Harvey. You know, social media is the easiest way
Speaker 1: to spread the word across the world. So it was
Speaker 1: just a different type of magnifying glass because I've been
Speaker 1: doing this. If you look back at Hurricane Ikes and
Speaker 1: and the hurricanes has been eight to ten years ago,
Speaker 1: you'll see pictures of me still out there doing the
Speaker 1: exact same thing. I think now it's us the way
Speaker 1: that the world could see it up close and feel
Speaker 1: like more personal with it. So during Harvey is when
Speaker 1: it really started just explode. So speaking of Trey being
Speaker 1: on the issues, we've had a number of individual a
Speaker 1: number of issues that we've talked about on the show
Speaker 1: as well. Um, you know, I remember one day we
Speaker 1: were talking about how to rent is too damn high.
Speaker 1: And we've had folks to come on and cover all
Speaker 1: of like how expensive it is to survive in this world.
Speaker 1: But we've covered some some other really important issues. Julius
Speaker 1: Jones Um having our sister Tiffany Loften, which we should,
Speaker 1: we should allow Tiffany's voice to be a part of
Speaker 1: the show because she is on the cutting edge of
Speaker 1: what this new movement will look like as a leader.
Speaker 1: UM and so I'd love to hear from from Tiffany
Speaker 1: and also our brother Earth who brought us and the
Speaker 1: awareness about Julius Jones. And we used the street politicians
Speaker 1: platform and all of our individual connections to help UM
Speaker 1: those individuals, sister CC and others who worked on trying
Speaker 1: to get Julius off of death row, and God bless
Speaker 1: he's not on death row, but he's not happy about
Speaker 1: being locked up either. Let's hear from the entire team
Speaker 1: of Julius Jones that you know, really worked to try
Speaker 1: to save his life. So we go to trial these
Speaker 1: two particular public defenders. Guess what, it's their first ever
Speaker 1: death row case, no experience. One was straight out of
Speaker 1: law school. Right. So now you've got the highest profile
Speaker 1: case in Oklahoma County in probably twenty years, and we
Speaker 1: have rookies as our as our defense. Would it be
Speaker 1: just in a few weeks that he would actually be executed.
Speaker 1: If he gets denied, then he'll have an opportunity what
Speaker 1: we call it clemency hearing, which would take place about
Speaker 1: twenty days once an execution today is confirmed. It has
Speaker 1: taken everybody at every level, every level. It's taken what
Speaker 1: we would consider the small voices, then the medium sized voices,
Speaker 1: then the big voices with the big platforms. It has
Speaker 1: taken every single group of people from every single place
Speaker 1: to build what I call a human chain to pull
Speaker 1: Julius Jones out of Oklahoma's criminal justice system. They issued
Speaker 1: two executions through lethal injection, but the cocktail of the
Speaker 1: lethal injection didn't work and so people suffered before they died,
Speaker 1: so Oklahoma stopped the executions. Julius is one of seven people.
Speaker 1: Julius Jones is one of seven people who is now
Speaker 1: scheduled on death row to be executed between now, which
Speaker 1: was supposed to be today, with the first being John,
Speaker 1: a gentleman named John Grant, until March of next year.
Speaker 1: There are seven people on that list in that roster.
Speaker 1: The state of Oklahoma is now saying we're just going
Speaker 1: to continue these executions. Nothing has happened since until now.
Speaker 1: They're just saying we want to continue them. But they
Speaker 1: went to these seven people on death row and said
Speaker 1: to them, if we can't do the leasable injection because
Speaker 1: it doesn't work. How else do you want to be killed?
Speaker 1: Mhm wow. Six out of the seven of them said,
Speaker 1: I you you're not going to make me choose my
Speaker 1: way to commit suicide. And it is actually against my
Speaker 1: religious beliefs to commit suicide. So I'm not giving you
Speaker 1: that that that that easy way out. On September, the
Speaker 1: Pardoning Parole Board, who are people appointed by the governor
Speaker 1: and the governor is selected by the people. They passed
Speaker 1: a decision and recommendation to the governor basically saying, keep
Speaker 1: Julius alive with the possibility of parole, don't kill him.
Speaker 1: We have evidence that that proves that he could be innocent. Now,
Speaker 1: the pardner of role Board is not a court or jury.
Speaker 1: It's just the pardner of Parole Board. So only power
Speaker 1: that they the only power that they happen is to
Speaker 1: issue a recommendation to the governor. The governor looked that
Speaker 1: recommendation and said, I'm not going to make this decision.
Speaker 1: Y'all go back and have an entire hearing and do
Speaker 1: it again. Shout out to everybody on his team, his family, Tiffany,
Speaker 1: you know Tiffany. It was Tiffany Crutcher. Tiffany. That's right,
Speaker 1: the Tiffany's his whole family, everybody that came and supported him. Man.
Speaker 1: You know, it was a blessing that we were able
Speaker 1: to make sure that demand was execute and now we
Speaker 1: get a chance to fight for his freedom. Man, So
Speaker 1: shout out to him. That's so. On a light of note,
Speaker 1: we had a lot of serious We've been talking about
Speaker 1: a lot of serious things, you know, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tak it. I'm gonna take a minute to do my
Speaker 1: own little my own little thing, you know, my birthday episode. Man,
Speaker 1: what you seem to set up? Y'all set up pretty good. Man.
Speaker 1: Had some of my favorite people, people that I love.
Speaker 1: Thank you to making for that. It was a good,
Speaker 1: good little situation. Man. We had a couple of my
Speaker 1: brother is that I love and it came up on
Speaker 1: the end, shut out to I'm fat Joe did he
Speaker 1: who came and dropped some happy birthdays on me? Man?
Speaker 1: It made me feel a little good man. People to
Speaker 1: know that people that you respect, you love, that actually
Speaker 1: have motivated you, just within hip hop, within the culture,
Speaker 1: just within life. You know, I had a level of
Speaker 1: respect and love for you to come on and get
Speaker 1: a shut up. So let's go to that episode you
Speaker 1: got locked up. Um, you know, but you know before
Speaker 1: that you was you was like your mind was just
Speaker 1: always so deep, you know, and and always so right there.
Speaker 1: And then to see you come back and when you
Speaker 1: came out and he was like, you know, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm out here for for the people right now. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, we're gonna see how long it's gonna lae,
Speaker 1: And you didn't stop. I saw your front of the
Speaker 1: Capital building. I literally, you know what I'm saying, like
Speaker 1: shut a tear because I'm like, man, look look, look,
Speaker 1: look at what's possible. Or look at this, you know,
Speaker 1: look at this king sticking to his word and really
Speaker 1: just you know, you know, devoting his life to what's
Speaker 1: going on and really being able to reach your kids
Speaker 1: and everything. I want you to smell your flowers to today,
Speaker 1: uh and thank you for what you're doing for the community,
Speaker 1: because we need strong leaders like you who look from
Speaker 1: a lens like you, who come from where you come
Speaker 1: from and know the pain of the people, in the
Speaker 1: passion of the people. And that's what I respect Bosts
Speaker 1: about you. Also you're nice as hell with the lyrics
Speaker 1: down for hip hoop, sleep on that, don't sleep on that.
Speaker 1: And in the prophetic words of the Great Reverend Doctor
Speaker 1: Fat Joe, Yesterday's price is not today. That's right. That's right.
Speaker 1: So I guess some of the last ones that we've
Speaker 1: got to talk about you said on the light of
Speaker 1: note and wow it is. It was certainly lighter because
Speaker 1: it's my sister who's on TV and what have you.
Speaker 1: But what Porsche talked about on our show was real,
Speaker 1: talking about this idea that people feel like you're sacrificing
Speaker 1: yourself and you're doing it for cloud, not understanding that
Speaker 1: sitting in jail cells is no joke. Right. The last
Speaker 1: time we got arrested in Louisville, Kentucky, they kept Porsche
Speaker 1: almost the longest. Uh so this is not like, this
Speaker 1: is not fun. And first of all, it wasn't weak
Speaker 1: because I didn't even go in. I wasn't feeling well
Speaker 1: and I didn't get arrested that day, but all of
Speaker 1: y'all did, and Porsche and Reverend Stephen Green ended up
Speaker 1: being in there for hours. They really did all they
Speaker 1: could to try to break them. Um, and I'm talking
Speaker 1: about eighteen hours, not you know, four hours, five hours,
Speaker 1: but eighteen hours. And I could tell you which you know,
Speaker 1: as you're sitting in that cell and people started leaving
Speaker 1: and the numbers started getting lower and lower and lower,
Speaker 1: and you're in near by yourself or getting close to
Speaker 1: being by yourself. It's real, it feels real. Porsche's position
Speaker 1: is like I'm on TV every day. I don't need
Speaker 1: the movement to get me on TV. If anything, being
Speaker 1: a part of this work in this movement and being
Speaker 1: out there calling out white supremacy and corporations and you know,
Speaker 1: all of that could get me thrown off of some
Speaker 1: of the shows and out of some of the spaces
Speaker 1: that I'm in. So Porsche was a great interview. Let's
Speaker 1: hear from her. It's just a matter of doing what
Speaker 1: I feel I'm supposed to be doing. Like why else?
Speaker 1: You know, it's a lot of times you have your
Speaker 1: you're in certain places in your life and you wonder,
Speaker 1: you know, why am I giving this opportunity? Or like
Speaker 1: even for me, it's like, wow, I got six million
Speaker 1: people who follow me on Instagram? What am I? What
Speaker 1: have I been talking about? What is all of this for?
Speaker 1: What is all of this amounted to and what was
Speaker 1: it building up to? And for me, it hit me
Speaker 1: in that moment it was for a time like this.
Speaker 1: It was for me to come in contact with Tamika.
Speaker 1: It was for me to find out what she was
Speaker 1: doing and until freedom was being a part of You
Speaker 1: all had your entire organization to Kentucky. UM. You have
Speaker 1: brought so much attention and awareness to into detail into
Speaker 1: Brianna Taylor's story that it made me say, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: that is so inspiring. Let me lend this platform that
Speaker 1: I've been blessed with. You know this, I've been on
Speaker 1: here saying so many other things. Why not say Brianna
Speaker 1: Taylor's name. If it could even bring UM one other
Speaker 1: official UM and and bring attention to what's happening to her,
Speaker 1: if it could help even a little bit, it just
Speaker 1: felt like a natural duty that I needed to do.
Speaker 1: Shout out to porsche Man don't interview. And since we
Speaker 1: on the topic of sacrifice, another one of my favorite
Speaker 1: crushes since I was a kid from Fresh Prince Tatiana Ali.
Speaker 1: You know, she's moved into this different space and she
Speaker 1: was able to bring us the story of sign Tire
Speaker 1: lost their children the Child Protective Services for something that
Speaker 1: was horrendous, that didn't even make sense, and she, you know,
Speaker 1: she notified you and had its own calls and really
Speaker 1: did a lot of work to ensure that these these
Speaker 1: people got their children back. So let's go to that
Speaker 1: episode with Tatiana Ali, one of my favorites. It isn't new.
Speaker 1: This country has a long history of um that. This
Speaker 1: is why I draw the parallels to to what's happened
Speaker 1: in the last couple of years with people protesting and
Speaker 1: and and with police reform or and and policing in
Speaker 1: our neighborhoods. This also has a very very long history
Speaker 1: people's belief um, the powerful people, their belief that we
Speaker 1: are not trustworthy with our children that we are, which
Speaker 1: is so interesting because we're trustworthy to take care of
Speaker 1: their children absolutely, but we're not trust We we don't
Speaker 1: have the right to our own we don't have the
Speaker 1: right to to ask questions about care, about medical care.
Speaker 1: So Tatiana Ali um the way that she found me,
Speaker 1: She literally tracked me down by every single person Twitter, everything,
Speaker 1: and let it be known that this is not a request,
Speaker 1: it's a demand for folks to learn about what is
Speaker 1: happening with child protective Services and to get involved in
Speaker 1: helping to advocate for these families side um Si and
Speaker 1: and tie Uh. They lost baby raw and their daughter
Speaker 1: a newborn baby within days. It was so traumatizing and
Speaker 1: the way that Tatiana continue to make sure that she
Speaker 1: used her platform to bring everybody involved. She was she
Speaker 1: was just like that young girl like you said on
Speaker 1: the Fresh Pancabelia, who was not afraid, very confident speaking
Speaker 1: up and she speaks so softly and she's so sweet,
Speaker 1: but yet she is a powerhouse. So shout out to
Speaker 1: Tatiana ali Um and you know thinking about the issue
Speaker 1: a k a. My son's childhood crush Ashley Banks. But
Speaker 1: speaking of you know when you just understanding what's happening
Speaker 1: with children being taken from their parents, I mean the
Speaker 1: things that we learned as folks have heard and hopefully
Speaker 1: people will download um that episode specifically so that you
Speaker 1: can learn more about this idea of of of kidnapping,
Speaker 1: kidnapping children literally from the hospital and or taking kids
Speaker 1: out of their home, as you said, for things that
Speaker 1: we should be helping them to be better parents in
Speaker 1: certain areas. Not to say that science I were bad parents,
Speaker 1: and I don't think they were at all, but they
Speaker 1: were trying to feed their baby a natural diet. And
Speaker 1: as a result of that, sometimes there are different things
Speaker 1: that have to be tweaked. You have to find ways
Speaker 1: to make sure you get more protein, more you know, whatever, vitamins,
Speaker 1: different things, but there is you should not be penalized
Speaker 1: for trying to give your child a healthy life and
Speaker 1: so um. You know, just that episode alone taught me
Speaker 1: so much, but it also taught me so much about
Speaker 1: what is lacking within our goverver meant and we every
Speaker 1: week recover some of the issues happening within the government
Speaker 1: and with all of our elected officials. But we've had
Speaker 1: some real ones on this show. We've had the Public
Speaker 1: Advocate of New York City, Jamanni Williams, who is also
Speaker 1: running for governor of New York State. I am personally
Speaker 1: supported him, um, and you are too, even though he
Speaker 1: wants these four mandates, UM, the COVID mandates in New York,
Speaker 1: and that's gonna be a point of contention. However, I
Speaker 1: still we're not gonna agree on every issue, but overall,
Speaker 1: I know that Jamanni Williams is for our communities. We've
Speaker 1: had Congressman Andre Carson and on. We've had Congresswoman Yvette Clark.
Speaker 1: We've had Congressman Jamal Bowman, and I'm probably forgetting folks,
Speaker 1: but we've had a number of progressive UM elected officials
Speaker 1: to come on this show. We've also had Reverend Jesse
Speaker 1: Jackson on this show, which is which was great. He
Speaker 1: was in in Leo Alexander's office when we were talking
Speaker 1: about rebuilding Tulsa, Oklahoma and UM and and and and
Speaker 1: rebuilding the Black Wall Street, and he came in and
Speaker 1: just took over the interview. So that was a great moment.
Speaker 1: So we've had some strong political conversations and we want
Speaker 1: to continue to do that. But I think it's time
Speaker 1: for us in the new year to start talking to
Speaker 1: some people that we don't necessarily agree with. You've been
Speaker 1: saying that I just hate to give those people on
Speaker 1: our platform, but I can see that there is some
Speaker 1: debate that is important, especially when it can be done
Speaker 1: with respect. When when you work nine to five, you've
Speaker 1: got three kids, you gotta pick the baby up, you
Speaker 1: gotta come home, you gotta take care of kids, you've
Speaker 1: got two jaw, I'm not the only person that you're
Speaker 1: gonna see is the person that's that's making sure that
Speaker 1: you see them. So how do how do you tell
Speaker 1: somebody who's dealing with those issues that they should know
Speaker 1: that that's a fact. So we got to find a
Speaker 1: way to help educate those folks. I think ranked choice
Speaker 1: voting pushes that. And now the other four candidates sleeper,
Speaker 1: I really got a shot. Maybe if I double up
Speaker 1: my outreach efforts. Maybe if I double up this effort,
Speaker 1: combined with the fact that I have uh the ability
Speaker 1: to get matching funds, I can now give my who
Speaker 1: I am to these folks, and then I can make
Speaker 1: a choice, and now you can go on yellow. Let
Speaker 1: me see who these people are real quick, even if
Speaker 1: it's just a couple of moments before you go in,
Speaker 1: let me read through it and see what Yo, this
Speaker 1: dude did do that? So I think it helps set
Speaker 1: a stage where the problems that you're talking about, UM
Speaker 1: won't go away. But perhaps this encourages people one to
Speaker 1: our reach more and to to learn more because their
Speaker 1: vote is now magnified. If we can view it as
Speaker 1: that as that I have magnified your vote from what
Speaker 1: it was, I think that's empowering. But what I just
Speaker 1: don't want to keep pushing back. Is none of the
Speaker 1: systems have been delivering what we want to deliver. I
Speaker 1: believe that this system has the ability to deliver more.
Speaker 1: And if you look at how people do even um polls,
Speaker 1: if you ask somebody if they're happy or sad, you
Speaker 1: will not get an accurate assessment. That's why they break
Speaker 1: it down and be like, are you so much sad?
Speaker 1: Are you somewhat happy? Something? They have to do those
Speaker 1: things because people will answer in a spectrum real And
Speaker 1: what kind of weight does this impeachment piece hold? Well?
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it holds a lot of weight.
Speaker 1: You know, these impeachments obviously they have a lot of
Speaker 1: symbolic value, and symbols matter right now. Um, I think
Speaker 1: it also has some some teeth. I think one hoping
Speaker 1: that the president doesn't try to run again. Now, the
Speaker 1: social media platforms, I commend them for blocking him, but
Speaker 1: one wonders is it is it too much too late?
Speaker 1: He's the way out now? You want to get bold
Speaker 1: when you're partly responsible for creating this monster who is
Speaker 1: Donald Trump? But not but you know, Donald Trump was
Speaker 1: able to leverage his celebrity. He was able to use
Speaker 1: the platform of the White House. I think that he
Speaker 1: gravely endangered the security of the United States. He threatened
Speaker 1: the integrity I think of the democratic system. He he
Speaker 1: interfered with the peaceful transition of power. I think that
Speaker 1: he effectively imperiled, in many ways, a co equal branch
Speaker 1: of government. He really betrayed his most fundamental trust as
Speaker 1: a president. And I think that alone warrants impeachment. I
Speaker 1: think it warrants a trial. I think it even warrants
Speaker 1: removal from office. I mean, it's almost it's really too late, effectively,
Speaker 1: but it's certainly meets the test that is qualify him
Speaker 1: to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or
Speaker 1: even profit under the US. The the myth of bipartisanship,
Speaker 1: now all things being equal, all things considered, Like you know,
Speaker 1: if Republicans were Kosha and things were like they if
Speaker 1: they were principal Republicans that just felt like, we want
Speaker 1: the same thing, but we want to go about it differently. Um,
Speaker 1: that would be one thing. But that's that's that's what
Speaker 1: I'm gone. Like it was gone, it's been gone for
Speaker 1: a while, but Trump made it worse. Where like it's
Speaker 1: not it's a it's a party of Trump, and it's
Speaker 1: Trump is UM. So they just want to obstruct, obstruct, cobstruct, delay,
Speaker 1: delayed delay. So knowing that going into it with them
Speaker 1: as if there was gonna be some bipartian solution of
Speaker 1: this was was we were misguided in that. And right now,
Speaker 1: bipartisanship is a myth. You design and invented more than
Speaker 1: we know. Um that things we're probably using every day
Speaker 1: that you would never be able to tell us that
Speaker 1: you actually were involved in. From two thousand and from
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine to now, I've developed two D
Speaker 1: eighteen unique electronic products that plug into a wall a
Speaker 1: companies that I'm still under gag order about speaking. Right Uh.
Speaker 1: Some would say that every five minutes, you're gonna interact
Speaker 1: with something that I've uh, something that either has our
Speaker 1: kernel technology embedded in it or something that I personally designed.
Speaker 1: This is the black history and the black present we
Speaker 1: should be talking about. We're supposed to be celebrating brothers
Speaker 1: like yourself. Well yet we don't even know that this
Speaker 1: is happening, you know, So I just want to applaud
Speaker 1: you and said, you know, give your flowers now and
Speaker 1: said that we truly appreciate, you know, your contributions just
Speaker 1: to culture and just to our living. The living that
Speaker 1: we exist in right now is a result of a
Speaker 1: lot of things that you've done. And I just want
Speaker 1: to ask this. You know, you said that you you
Speaker 1: went to Tulsa because you wanted to recreate, that you
Speaker 1: wanted to build. That It was sunonymous with you know, innovation,
Speaker 1: It was anonymous with you know, black people building and growing.
Speaker 1: What do you think it's gonna take to actually rebuild that?
Speaker 1: Look at Reverence. Before I answer that question, I gotta
Speaker 1: get my I gotta get my guy in here, all right?
Speaker 1: Is that okay? And you know how much we love you?
Speaker 1: How are you doing? Genius? Yeah, man, he is a genius.
Speaker 1: You know, we didn't know about him, Reverend, and we're learning,
Speaker 1: you know now about this this gentleman, Mr Alexander. That
Speaker 1: it should be you know, we should all be applaud
Speaker 1: in his work and supporting him, helping him. And I'm
Speaker 1: sure you're there trying to figure out how you can help. Right.
Speaker 1: It was basically linked to civilizations communications, So we must
Speaker 1: know who he is and tell our sorry, coach, it
Speaker 1: defies all the racist like recism and suer that one
Speaker 1: one the inferior, but the interior part of it, the
Speaker 1: reasonably on scientific. It's not true. Yeah, listen the advice
Speaker 1: and economic explosion. God ever made somebody black challenge the
Speaker 1: garden and himself and justifies all that foods. That's that's powerful.
Speaker 1: The last time we saw you, it was where my
Speaker 1: son and uh, that's how we've seen the Reverend was
Speaker 1: at Um when we cried together when we got the conviction.
Speaker 1: Uh and um Chauvin cakes the Chauvin trial and me
Speaker 1: you him shocked in and we cried as he and
Speaker 1: he looked at me and said we we He actually
Speaker 1: lived to see a man get charged for killing the
Speaker 1: black man. That's when you get when you when you
Speaker 1: make lynching a fellow crime, which is not that's touched
Speaker 1: out when you make blacks hate crime. Jews and Asians, now,
Speaker 1: let's touch that really as a national application problem, not
Speaker 1: just local. You know. So, I just want to end
Speaker 1: this show. And probably one of my favorite, the favorite,
Speaker 1: it was probably the favorite of my favorite people. You
Speaker 1: know that Premy is like assistant to me. Pat is
Speaker 1: one of my favorite artists, you know, one of the
Speaker 1: in just few industry, individuals that I met in this
Speaker 1: industry that have levels of integrity that I feel match mind. So,
Speaker 1: you know, last, but not least, let's go to the
Speaker 1: black Love episode with Remy and Pat Poos Mackie. Black
Speaker 1: love means so many, so many different things. It takes
Speaker 1: on so many meanings, but um, it's about first and foremost.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just say, black out all negativity and show love. Um.
Speaker 1: They write this narrative that we can't have a strong
Speaker 1: family foundation, and that's not really true. You know, a
Speaker 1: lot of the pictures that are painted through movies and
Speaker 1: do music do different things. They talk about the hardships
Speaker 1: of the ghetto, but there are also some good times
Speaker 1: growing up and you know, being very family orientated and
Speaker 1: just showing that strong family foundation, that unity, you know,
Speaker 1: being loyal to your family and black love it really
Speaker 1: does exist. So to me, black love just means loyalty,
Speaker 1: you know, being faithful, and um, showing and love to
Speaker 1: your to your love most is a major part of
Speaker 1: it to me, because you know, it's easy to love
Speaker 1: somebody and to be there for them and being part
Speaker 1: of it when everything is great and everything is fine,
Speaker 1: and you know, unfortunately you know, when it comes to
Speaker 1: the black family dynamic, that there seems to be way
Speaker 1: more hardships and our structure than than other um and
Speaker 1: other households. And we are able to endure that whether incarceerration, UM, unemployment,
Speaker 1: you know, poverty, UM, single family homes. All of these
Speaker 1: things that we've been has been pretty much thrown at
Speaker 1: us and we've been born into and we're still here
Speaker 1: and just to to thrive and and and love and
Speaker 1: be happy and have good times. Like all the stuff
Speaker 1: you've been through, you would think we we as a
Speaker 1: people who just walk around suppressed all day. Okay, So
Speaker 1: I know that was supposed to be the last one,
Speaker 1: and that was a great episode, I can I mean,
Speaker 1: it was one of our best, one of our highest
Speaker 1: watcher viewed episodes. People downloaded it everywhere. And and of
Speaker 1: course I love Remy and Path. Everywhere we see them,
Speaker 1: it's nothing but love, and they have so much that
Speaker 1: I feel like we can learn from. I looked at
Speaker 1: Remy and and I'm like, you know, she found a
Speaker 1: great man. But as my mother would say, that's because
Speaker 1: she's a great woman. So sassy bon Sill Mallory says
Speaker 1: all the time, your daddy's a good in because I'm
Speaker 1: a good woman. So there's that, uh, And I love
Speaker 1: that episode. But another great another great episode, and it's like,
Speaker 1: we can't we try to end it and just say that,
Speaker 1: but there's so many people that we've had on in
Speaker 1: styuse P and Ajua. But you know why I thought
Speaker 1: that episode was different from Remy and past. We were
Speaker 1: talking about black love with the two of them, and
Speaker 1: they certainly exemplify that. But what we learned from stouse
Speaker 1: P and Adua was about two people coming together to
Speaker 1: build businesses and to you know, black black economic empowerment
Speaker 1: and how a couple can be a powerhouse in the
Speaker 1: business world even coming out of being you know, in
Speaker 1: entertainment all of that, but still they were able to
Speaker 1: flip it and get into something that wasn't just a
Speaker 1: money maker, but it's actually healthy for our community. With
Speaker 1: their juice bars that they have around the city. They're very, very,
Speaker 1: very knowledge sible about building black wealth and so I
Speaker 1: felt like that, for me, was one of my highest favorites.
Speaker 1: All of them are my favorite, but that was one
Speaker 1: of my best. That's definitely one of those dudes. Another
Speaker 1: two people that I respect and always have love for
Speaker 1: and always support and have always supported me. So definitely,
Speaker 1: let's tune into that. People also think you have to
Speaker 1: have a lot of money in order to if you're
Speaker 1: listening and you're black and your brown and you're paying
Speaker 1: attention right now, and then my brothers and sisters just
Speaker 1: brought up a great question, and you know, but we
Speaker 1: don't say that ship about Jordan's. We don't say that
Speaker 1: ship about the new eyePhone. If you got the newest Jordan's,
Speaker 1: you've got the newest night texture, you've got the newest sneakers,
Speaker 1: you gotta rolly, you got an eyePhone, watch you everything,
Speaker 1: you got all of that. Don't stop complaining about the
Speaker 1: ship that's gonna save your life, about the ship you
Speaker 1: gotta spend that's gonna save your life. If you ain't
Speaker 1: complaining about the ship that you're spending, that ain't gonna
Speaker 1: save your life. You understand what I'm saying. So that's
Speaker 1: some ship we're do in the community where it's like cool,
Speaker 1: Like when people tell me, I be I struck some
Speaker 1: strap funk out of here with that dog. Look at
Speaker 1: your sneakers, dog, You've got the new retro ships on right, right.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying that how much the snap
Speaker 1: back courts? How much you fitted that course? Yeah, the
Speaker 1: real ones right, Like, so we don't hear that expensive ship.
Speaker 1: You gotta start doing your whole work, be diligent and
Speaker 1: give the funk about it about yourself enough to say,
Speaker 1: all right, let me spend my money at least on
Speaker 1: some ship that's gonna benefit myself. Because how the fund
Speaker 1: is a Gucci man bag. I'm helping and my worst
Speaker 1: best because it's still a good episode. Was you Billy
Speaker 1: a Ron and Brother Q and whatever mess mostly all
Speaker 1: the tu my que was right, y'all. The rest of
Speaker 1: y'all was wrong. But anyway, I digress. We're just talking
Speaker 1: to facts. Man. Appreciate my brothers, man, brothers that I've
Speaker 1: known for a long time, and and and one that
Speaker 1: I met that gave me some good insight. Man, So
Speaker 1: shout out to them. Man. And with that said, you know,
Speaker 1: we've had a beautiful year man, and it's it's more episodes.
Speaker 1: Please make sure that you go and look up the
Speaker 1: episodes that we told you about. Well, only gave you
Speaker 1: some clips, but go look up the four episodes and
Speaker 1: you'll see that there's so much jewelry and so many
Speaker 1: jewels inside of these episodes, so many dope people that
Speaker 1: we've interviewed. Some of them have not been celebrities. Some
Speaker 1: of the just entrepreneurs and people that are on the
Speaker 1: cusp of being celebrities. So you might discover that somebody
Speaker 1: that's the next person to follow. So listen, man, make
Speaker 1: sure that you go look. Just go ahead, go bene
Speaker 1: watch all of the Street Politicians episodes for the last
Speaker 1: few years. Man, you're gonna find you something in there.
Speaker 1: Once again, we want to say thank you all for
Speaker 1: supporting us. Man, this has been a dope year. We
Speaker 1: hope that you have a New Year's resolution that you're
Speaker 1: gonna follow this year. You know, everybody got to new me,
Speaker 1: New year, knew me. Make sure as a new you
Speaker 1: this year, make sure that you're doing something positive and
Speaker 1: make sure that you're growing. You know, and if you
Speaker 1: didn't have a good year, to make sure this year
Speaker 1: is better. If you didn't have a good year, make
Speaker 1: sure that that's even better than it was this year. Man,
Speaker 1: Just continue to grow. We want to send you all
Speaker 1: holidays cheers. You want to make sure that you and
Speaker 1: your family are safe and healthy. Hug your family, love
Speaker 1: up on your people, you know, buy some presents, you know,
Speaker 1: drink some presidents for what, for everything? For the new
Speaker 1: people gifts you should be quanza. This is the quick
Speaker 1: and so we should be into buying different gifts. You know,
Speaker 1: you're supposed to give your loved ones a gift for
Speaker 1: every day of Klanza. Now those gifts are not like
Speaker 1: you know, Louis Vatton bags, unless it fits into whatever
Speaker 1: the specific um day that we're in at that time.
Speaker 1: Because the theme of the day, it's supposed to have
Speaker 1: something that you will offer as a gift to your
Speaker 1: loved ones. That's actually a part of the Klans of Principles,
Speaker 1: but we're just trying to get people to learn THECIP
Speaker 1: the principles in general and to try to follow them
Speaker 1: every day. We'll add the gifts part later on. But anyway,
Speaker 1: you definitely have been wrong all season, so as long
Speaker 1: as everybody knows and I have been right for sure
Speaker 1: as always want to flip the tables on it. Okay,
Speaker 1: the new year, the new year to us coaching leaders.
Speaker 1: Street politicians, y'all choose the name. If street politicians is
Speaker 1: the name it is. But we just want to say
Speaker 1: thank you a man, truly from our hearts, from for
Speaker 1: listening to us, for putting up with our ship, for
Speaker 1: listening to me to curse me out all day. Like
Speaker 1: y'all got some real good attention spans that you could
Speaker 1: deal with this, because I'd be almost going crazy listening
Speaker 1: to this lady all day. We want to say thank
Speaker 1: you all man. Have a happy new year. We love you.
Speaker 1: May next year be better, hey. Listen to Street Politicians
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