WEBVTT - Thinking Back & Looking Forward 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:08.080 What's up? Family, it's your girl to meeke A D. Mallory, 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:10.959 it's your boy, my son in general, and we are 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:14.440 your hosts of street politicians, the place for the streets 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:17.599 and politics. What's going on in America? How you doing 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:22.919 to that? God is good? God is good all the time. Yeah, 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:26.560 it's the end of a year, and we have certainly 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:31.440 had a long one, a long but it has gone 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:34.200 It's like a long year and it's going fast because 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:38.600 I swear that December just started and it's already the 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:42.680 last week of this month. It's crazy. Now, I ain't 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:45.120 gonna lie the this year, these last couple of months 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:47.960 have it just speeding pass. Every time you turn around, 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:50.879 is the twenties something? You're like, what it was just 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:54.279 the first and it's the twenties seven. It's almost you know, 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:56.400 So that the year is definitely been going fast. But 0:00:56.960 --> 0:01:00.240 we've had a lot of things going good, a lot 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:02.400 of things going on. Everything. This has been an event 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:07.600 for it has been it's been um, I don't know. 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:11.800 It feels like many years we've come through have been 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:16.840 bitter sweet, you know. Um. And it's like it's almost 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:20.400 like you feel guilty because on one side, from me, 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:23.680 I feel like I'm growing into the woman that I 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:27.240 am destined to be. UM, I've grown so much in 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:32.039 it's actually, I guess somewhere between forty and forty one, 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:35.399 there's literally been sort of a bump, if you will, 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:39.840 in my womanhood and my growth. I see life different. 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:44.560 I'm much more clear about what I am willing to accept, 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:48.280 what I'm not even from myself, the challenges that I 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:52.360 really put on myself to be better, to do better, uh, 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:54.600 and just to be a better me. And so for 0:01:55.040 --> 0:02:00.000 from that perspective, and also recognizing that at some point 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:04.160 around forty years old, it's as if people really truly 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:08.400 do begin to respect and understand UM. You know, your 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:16.320 your expertise, UM, your value, your womanhood, all of those things. 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:19.639 It gets much stronger when you reach your forties. And 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:21.880 and maybe it's the way we walk in that. Maybe 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:23.959 it's the way that you know, I speak, the way 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:27.639 that I carried myself, the level of confidence I have UM. 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:32.680 And as that takes place, I kind of feel that 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.280 you know my success in terms of how I'm growing, 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:41.240 not just as a activists, but as you know, with 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:45.920 many things, just my book writing, writing in general, being 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.600 able to express myself to All those things are happening. 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:53.640 But yet at the same time, is there really success 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:57.040 with the work that we do every day in our movements? Yes, 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:01.560 I believe that overall there is UM, and the success 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:05.360 looks different. It doesn't necessarily look like changing all the 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:09.480 legislation that we want to see changed, UM and stopping 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:13.200 police from killing us. But it does look like bringing 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:17.200 more people into the movement. It does look like encouraging 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:20.840 more young people to pick up the mantle, UM, training 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.400 more young people. You know, there's so many young people 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:26.520 around us, and so many young women and men that 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:30.440 I've been to myself every single day, and so those 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:34.000 things feel good, But there's always this balance, if you will, 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:37.440 a feeling like on one side we're doing well, I'm 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:40.280 doing really well, but on the other side, we still 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:43.360 have so far to go, and so there's it's just 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:47.560 no time to really sit down and celebrate. Yeah, you know, 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:50.880 I go through that same thing and watch yourself grow 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:55.360 understanding who you are becoming, who you're supposed to become. 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:58.080 Is is um, like you said, as a gift and 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:00.360 a curse. You know what you're willing to saying for 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:02.040 you know what you're able to do, you know what 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:05.560 you're not able to do. You understand your strengths, your weaknesses. 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:09.960 You just start to identify yourself in full capacity. You 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:13.000 know a lot of times that that that's changing. So 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:16.520 you're surroundings changed people that you used to be around. 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:19.200 You know, sometimes you grow apart from the way that 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:21.480 you think. Certain things that you used to do, You 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:24.200 don't do certain things that you haven't done before you 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.640 start to do, you know, So that's I think that's 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:29.600 just part of evolution. You know, as as many women grow, 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:32.800 you evolved into It's like the cocoon in the butterfly, right, 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:35.960 You just you start to metamorphous into who you're supposed 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.080 to be. So I think that's a year when you 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:41.719 get into your early forties, you start to really people 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.560 will take hold of who you are. You start to 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:48.480 identify yourself in full capacity. And what else what else 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:53.040 happens is you don't care about who who does it right, 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.120 Because before when you're in your twenties and even in 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:58.920 your thirties, you're worried about how somebody else is gonna 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:02.200 perceive what you like or what you know, how you think, 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:04.520 or how you show up. You know, when you start 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:07.520 to get forty, I think, what you start to realize 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:10.800 that the main purposes for you to be comfortable and 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.760 happen you to be, you know, living in your true 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:16.919 essence of who you are. You know, so you know 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:19.720 that's that's that's probably what's been going on for us 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:22.839 in these last couple of years, man, I mean especially 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:26.120 in this last year in general, just along with think 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:30.680 COVID and the pandemic rush the process because it forced 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:32.480 a lot of people to have to deal with themselves. 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.400 Right when you when you locked up, and you just 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:37.240 gotta deal with yourself every day and look in the 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:41.160 mirror and make assessments and see things for what they are. 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:44.400 Then you reflect, you know. It was much like my 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:46.960 stamp in prison, even though it wasn't as long. But 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:50.200 in prison, I had to look at myself every day. 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:53.359 I had to make real assessments. I had to really 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:56.360 just because I had to liver myself every day. So 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:58.400 I looked how I was showing up, how people were 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.600 receiving me, how they weren't receiving me, What how I 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:04.479 was progressing, how mentally I was progressing. What did I 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:08.080 learned today? Right? Because when you just have yourself. You 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:11.440 can't lie to yourself right, Like you know what I'm saying. 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:16.120 Outside life can distract you. You can be so distracted 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:18.800 doing nothing that you actually think you did something. You 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:21.839 can be running around when we're not really accomplishing anything, 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:24.520 but you think you all because you're moving, these constant 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:28.160 things going on. But when you don't have that every day, 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:29.760 you're gonna say, Okay, what did I do? But I 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:31.920 don't have nothing to distract me that I work out 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:35.080 and my mentally strong. Did I read something that I 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:37.960 put together some type of plan? Like what accomplishment do 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:41.039 I actually have? And I know I found myself having 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:44.720 those thoughts like early in the morning, I get it's 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:48.360 like a level of anxiety, like you didn't do anything today? Mice, 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:50.320 what what do you what are you gonna accomplish? What 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:52.520 is your plan for the day? What did you do yesterday? 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:55.440 Did you accomplish something? Did something move forward? Did you're 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.240 playing something? You have so many opportunities, there's so many 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:00.760 things to do. What did you do to with these goals? 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:04.720 You know? So I think, listen to you, I definitely 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:09.120 identify and understanding my state man, but we've all overall 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:11.800 I believe we had like a wonderful year, especially with 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:14.520 our podcast with the number one you know what I'm saying, 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:18.200 number one podcasts in the world. Street politicians shout out 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:22.680 to my heart Black Effect Network, from Charles to Charlottagne. 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:24.960 You know, this has been a wonderful ride, and we 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:27.360 just continuing to grow. We have so much growth to do. 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:30.320 You know, this is this is what has been our 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:34.640 first season with Black Effect Network. So we just got 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:37.600 so much growth, were revamping, were learning things, were learning 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:39.840 things about how we can be better. We're gonna have 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:44.240 more guests, We're gonna have more, more in depth conversations. 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:47.600 You know, we're gonna debate like we usually do because 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:49.760 I don't really agree with most of the stuff he's 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:52.640 saying all the time. But it's gonna be a good podcast, man. 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:54.960 So we just want to think all of you guys 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:59.600 and girls and women and men and everybody who's tuned 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:03.160 in to this show, who's making it, continue to make 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:06.600 it growth, who's challenging us, who's giving us your feedback, 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:09.400 telling us what you love, what you don't love. We 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:12.240 just want to say we appreciate y'all. Yeah, you know, 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:15.840 I I feel that way too, that the podcast has 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:19.760 really caused me also, UM to sit still. It's it's 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:22.120 not just the podcast, but it was the book this year. 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:26.000 The podcast it causes us to sit down and really 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:30.680 focus on developing something UM and giving other people a voice. 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:33.760 And I appreciate so much that we have a mixture 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:37.560 of guests. We've had all types of people on our show. 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:43.839 And so many platforms have been designed to focus only 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:48.280 on celebrities or influencers that can get the numbers up. 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:51.199 And clearly numbers matter, and you do have to have 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:56.800 a show that allows for UM you know that that, 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:00.120 or you have to have a product, a brand that 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:03.079 people are attracted to, and that's gonna come from you 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:06.520 having highlight moments. So I get that. But at the 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:10.760 same time, we never wanted to be so stuck with 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.680 that model that we did not give voice to folks 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:15.760 that have never been heard of. You could be living 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:20.000 anywhere down South, you know, any corner of America, and 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:22.920 we wanted to make sure that if you're doing good work, 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:26.760 that we use the Street Politicians platform to give voice 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:30.199 to those individuals. And I love the fact that, as 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:34.240 you said, the Black Effect Network, UM and My Heart 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:39.120 are giving us that opportunity, allowing us to um, you know, 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:42.240 to use our platform the way we want to. We 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:46.920 never ever receive feedback that changes who we are whatever, 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:50.199 you know, from black effect or from my heart. You know, 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:53.520 what they will say is, hey, it's seeing that people 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.280 love this show, right and again, it could be a 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:59.360 show on any of the topics that we've covered, and 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:02.360 they say, do more of that, or they'll say people 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:05.480 love when you and my son have real conversations, but 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:07.719 they don't say to us where you shouldn't have these 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.160 guests on or every month you need to have three 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:13.439 celebrities or two in order for we never get that 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:16.959 type of feedback. Um, you know. And I think Charlemagne 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:19.040 and what it is that he's trying to create is 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:23.520 a space that allows people to be authentic, authentic to themselves, 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:26.880 authentic to their brand, authentic to the work that we 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.880 all claim to be doing. And so I love um, 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:32.679 you know, And I was really hesitant, as you know, 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:36.679 to do the show. Um And when we started out 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:42.520 Street Politicians, UM was great, it was the best name ever. 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:46.559 But I still was hesitant about the whole process, hesitant 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:50.320 about being vulnerable before the camera. You know, I hate 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:53.439 being on camera. I dislike I'm trying to take the 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:56.839 word hate out of my vocabulary, or at least not 0:10:57.120 --> 0:11:00.199 use it um as frequently as I do. But I 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:04.520 dislike the camera. It's not my most comfortable space. And 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:11.880 you know, when it's all set and done, that vulnerability 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:16.400 has helped me grow. So it's been great, and it's 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.480 also been great to learn from so many people because 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:24.360 I feel like every show I walk away smarter, I 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:28.320 got I have something that I can go Google learn 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:32.719 more about and figure out how to to incorporate it 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:35.480 in my teachings to the world, so it becomes like 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:39.480 each one teach one. So I think Street Politicians is educational. 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:41.440 I don't know if we're gonna stick with the name 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:45.720 Street Politicians forever. I think we there's we've been talking 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:49.079 about whether or not we have evolved and want to 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:53.040 come up with a different way to um really make 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:56.160 sure that people know it's us and it's our brand 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:59.240 and it's not just like something in the world. UM. 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:03.640 But you know, I'm grateful that you continue to stay 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:06.760 on me about the fact that we needed to bring 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:10.760 our perspective and have our own representation online where people 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:14.319 can hear directly from us how we feel and you know, 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:19.240 and and what our opinions is or are what our 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:25.319 opinions are on issues. So Mr, today we're doing a 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:35.559 what about h the Leaders of the Culture. Okay, no, 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:41.720 because the problem is that not true Culture Leaders now? 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:44.320 Because first of all, there's already a culture show which 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:51.079 is our revote and yes still there it would be 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:55.679 you know, culture leaders is two different things than for 0:12:55.800 --> 0:13:00.280 the Culture Puff will bring it back. But here here 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:06.240 is what I'm saying. I'm completely fine Leaders of the 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:09.960 Culture in the dope name. I'm gonna tell you why. 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:16.520 I am completely fine with the street Politicians as the name, 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:21.040 unless we are changing it to something that makes sure 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:23.959 people know it's to me get my son. Otherwise, the 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:28.520 name we have is fine. The only reason, the only 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:33.959 reason culture leaders now. But I don't like that at all. 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:37.319 But we should. Maybe we can open it up and 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:41.319 do a pole and allow people after this show to 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:45.360 give their input on what we should be in our 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:49.000 new year, like the name to stay with it, huh? 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:52.880 Or or if they like the name, do we stay 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:56.120 with it? That's a good point, we'll see. So that's 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:59.960 that's something we've got to kick back to our production team. 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:03.400 Even we have to make sure that as this year closes, 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:06.760 we give a lot of love to cat Scape Productions, 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:11.760 um our sister, Janice, Assistic, Cat trigg Um, and all 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:15.400 the other folks that work every single day, not just 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:18.520 every week, but they work every single day on making 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:23.640 street politicians what it is. Um. The level of commitment 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:26.760 that Cat Scape has had and the belief in us 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:31.040 prior to us getting a deal with Black Effect Network 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:37.160 is incredible. So we've had, we've been we've been ordained 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:43.640 to do this show. That her name is Janice for 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:47.520 the so people will not start calling that beautiful out 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:53.880 of her because her name is not Janese people. So 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:56.760 let's just be clear about that. Because when she's in 0:14:56.960 --> 0:15:01.960 business meetings and other places like to as a woman, 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:06.200 be called by her name, which is Janice. That is 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:10.360 my son's nickname that he calls her, which is wonderful. 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:15.040 They laugh about it. But her name is Janice, thank you. Okay. 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:21.160 So the shows, though, it's been a lot of people. 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:23.320 I didn't even know when we were doing this review 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.920 of the shows, I had no idea what we did. 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:30.160 As many shows as we've had, we had a lot 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:34.640 of shows. Yeah, We've done a lot of shows, and 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:38.000 that's what we're gonna talk about to today. Since it's 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:39.840 the end of the year, We're gonna do a recap 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:42.880 or some of our favorite shows, some of our favorite guests. 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:46.280 You know, like Jamika said, we always give platform to 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:50.040 those who wouldn't normally get platforms. But we also have 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:52.680 some friends that are kind of famous that have shot 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:56.280 by some some dope interviews. Man. So what we're gonna 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:59.440 do is talk about some of our favorite interviews. Man, 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:03.400 some about people that came up. You know, they laughed, 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:06.600 made us laugh, made us almost cry, or they just 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:09.200 informed us about something we didn't know about, you know, 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:14.040 so we did cry. I know I cried because specifically 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:18.360 during the Hill Harper interview, I cry. But let's go, 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:21.760 let's go. Let's go to that episode since you've mentioned it. 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:29.880 Hill Harper. Hill Harper was one of my best episodes because, 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:31.960 first of all, he said something, you know, he's Hill Harper. 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:34.680 He said some incredible things. But he was a really 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:38.200 strong episode because I sat next to you and watched 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:42.400 how the two of you connected and how how emotional 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:46.720 it made you as you listen to him speak about things. 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:49.840 That is just so dang on important for black men. 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:55.080 So that was like really really empowering episode that that 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:58.880 I think we've had. So let's go to the clip 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:04.240 from that episode. The mental health of black men is 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:09.160 something that we never discuss. It's something that's stigmatized. It's 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:11.840 stigmatized from when you're very young, people say, just get 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.040 up to you tough, you're tough, you got this, come on. 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:18.040 And it's also stigmatized from the standpoint of even the 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:20.480 black church system. It's like, no, no, don't go to therapy, 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:22.879 you know, come come, just pray it out, pray it out, 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:27.880 and church right and um and and so so many men, 0:17:28.200 --> 0:17:31.560 black men, so many of us are living inside our 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.800 own heads and feel like that we can actually communicate 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:38.159 it even to each other, because we'll be seeing as soft. 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:41.639 We'll be seen is as as as as not so 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.679 called strong black men, and it eats you up from 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:47.520 the inside. And so we have to have these discussions. 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:50.760 We have to say it's okay to cry, it's okay 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:53.960 to feel, it's okay to open your heart and and 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:57.000 and and feel the pain. It's okay to feel fear. 0:17:57.240 --> 0:17:59.600 We never talked about fear right, And it's okay to 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:02.080 be a raid as a black man, knowing that the 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:05.680 world is trying to come at you. Shout out to 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:09.040 Hill Harper, like you said, one of the most powerful interviews. 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:11.880 But having me a little teary eyed, but I told 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:13.600 you we had history. Me and Hill had a lot 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:15.879 of history. Man, I was at when his first movies. 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:18.879 He almost forgot about it. So shout out to him. Man, 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:23.480 that's how we are there. So you know, it was 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.560 one of my favorite episodes. And I guess it's because 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:29.600 you know, we had so much history. I think Sean 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:32.560 was one of my favorite episodes, just watching him come home, 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:34.240 knowing when we had history. I have a lot of 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:37.080 history in this game, this hip hop game, you know, 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:41.080 and just understanding his plight our plights being similar, and 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:44.280 just getting to get one of his first interviews from 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:46.640 coming home and being in the United States. I think 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:51.040 that's one of my favorites. Let's go to Sean. It 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:54.359 doesn't matter because I'm still helping people. So whether I 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:58.080 get elected or not, you know, I'm blessing people, so 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:01.320 you know, I'll be okay, it's on about getting elected. 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:04.240 I'd like to because then I could, you know, take 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:07.040 my actions and put it into policy and put it 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:10.800 into legislation and create a system. See, for me, I 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:12.720 don't want it to be I don't want to be 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:17.040 a neo colonial master, you know. I don't want people, 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:19.879 my people to be dependent on me or any politician. 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:23.200 So I want to create systematic change so you don't 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:27.480 need to go to a politician. Sean was a good interview. 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:29.680 I mean, I think in the new year, we gotta 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:32.399 have Shane back. I think if there's so much and 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:35.359 there's many guests that could come back and talk because 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:38.480 there's so much that UM. He knows, so much that 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:42.440 he's learned, and so many different historical moments that has 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:45.560 happened that he speaks to, and he speaks really well 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:49.200 on all these topics, and so you know, I I 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:52.040 really appreciated that interview. And that's yet another one of 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:54.520 those moments where I feel like I was able to 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:59.199 see right before my eyes the two of you really connecting, 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:01.600 you know, and that so always really really special for me. 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:04.200 You know how much I love and appreciate so much 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:08.159 when black men like connect and come together around different issues. 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:11.679 So that for me was one of my favorite UM 0:20:11.960 --> 0:20:14.800 episodes as well. I also kind of feel like the 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:18.560 women get a lot of love on Street Politicians because 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:21.240 women are doing so many powerful things. But we do 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:28.359 have many episodes where women are are being elevated, and 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:31.600 you know, and we have all different types of people. 0:20:32.640 --> 0:20:35.920 For me, if it almost is like we are, we've 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:39.720 really really been intentional about showing people that we come 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:43.920 from all different walks of life and different spaces and 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:48.359 we think differently. It's not just one way of thinking. 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:51.600 And so for me, a good episode would have been 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:55.840 Betty Smiths, right. I think I thought that Bebby while 0:20:56.000 --> 0:21:00.760 she was her normal Bebby, she also brought a different flavor, 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:04.399 like she showed people a different side of herself at 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:07.680 writing her book but also talking about her failures and 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:10.320 things that she went through in her career. So we 0:21:10.359 --> 0:21:14.200 should watch this episode at least a clip of Betty, 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:16.760 and I think she's another one mice. We gotta have 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:21.480 Betty come back. How do you continue to reinvent yourself? Like, 0:21:21.560 --> 0:21:25.000 what is the secret sauce? The secret sauce is really 0:21:25.119 --> 0:21:29.480 not ever being complacent, complacent, never resting on your laurels, 0:21:29.800 --> 0:21:32.639 and you know, always being up for the challenge and 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:34.720 always you wanted to experience something new, you know what 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:36.920 I mean. Like, I think that one of the saddest 0:21:36.960 --> 0:21:39.399 things is that, you know, so many times in our 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:44.240 community we don't even dare to dream. We stifle all dreams. 0:21:44.720 --> 0:21:47.680 And it's not our fault really, it's that that's that 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:50.760 kind of been and bred in us a lot of 0:21:50.880 --> 0:21:53.880 times to um, you know, have dreams, but make sure 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:56.560 dis sensible, right. So you can have a dream to 0:21:56.640 --> 0:21:58.399 be a lawyer or a doctor, but you can't have 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:00.639 a dream to be an all there or to be 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:03.280 a TV personality or you know what I mean. And 0:22:03.440 --> 0:22:05.639 so a lot of times they put a cap on 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:09.239 our dreams. Also, we're not giving the exposure even though 0:22:09.359 --> 0:22:10.919 like when I was a kid, I came up through 0:22:10.960 --> 0:22:14.040 advertising and I started as a receptionist and it was 0:22:14.080 --> 0:22:17.560 only working in the environment that I learned about becoming 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:20.160 a media director, which is what I did in my twenties. 0:22:20.480 --> 0:22:24.080 And I started this career in fashion advertising. But I 0:22:24.200 --> 0:22:25.680 didn't know that as a little girl growing up in 0:22:25.680 --> 0:22:28.199 the hood, that I could even have a career and advertising, 0:22:28.280 --> 0:22:31.080 and certainly not in fashion. Do you so are you 0:22:31.240 --> 0:22:34.600 a big mentor yes, you know that, I know you 0:22:34.720 --> 0:22:37.040 have a bunch of babies, and I have a bunch 0:22:37.080 --> 0:22:39.440 of babies. That's the mother part of the book. You know, 0:22:39.560 --> 0:22:41.639 it really does come from my l G B t Q. 0:22:41.880 --> 0:22:44.879 I A family that called me mother. That that um 0:22:45.320 --> 0:22:48.120 Derek J and MS Lawrence and my co host from 0:22:48.240 --> 0:22:51.359 Bravo's Fashion Queens, they started calling me mother on set 0:22:51.760 --> 0:22:53.879 and then it just kind of carried on. And then 0:22:53.920 --> 0:22:56.359 the auntie part is really about the young women. And 0:22:56.440 --> 0:23:01.040 I will say young under forty, the forty really under 0:23:01.080 --> 0:23:03.200 thirty five. I might give y'all something like your thirty 0:23:03.240 --> 0:23:06.280 six and thirty seven. And you've seen you on TV 0:23:06.800 --> 0:23:08.320 and you think of me as your cool aunt here 0:23:08.359 --> 0:23:10.280 you think of me as often times I get the 0:23:10.359 --> 0:23:13.480 rich aunto you. And then also the best departy is 0:23:13.520 --> 0:23:15.720 for me and my girlfriends to contempor reveris you know, 0:23:16.040 --> 0:23:18.960 we're gonna been through some things. We know a few things. 0:23:19.560 --> 0:23:23.040 We're gonna we're gonna share war stories over cocktails and 0:23:23.119 --> 0:23:25.080 battenless trips, and you don't doing the things and the 0:23:25.160 --> 0:23:29.800 things shout out to very man. That was a dope interview. 0:23:29.920 --> 0:23:35.840