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Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Selective Ignorance. However,

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Speaker 1: before we get to this week's episode, I want to

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Speaker 1: remind you guys to purchase my book No Holds Barred,

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Speaker 1: a dual manifesto of sexual exploration and power, written by

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Speaker 1: yours truly and my co host of the Decisions Decisions podcasts, Weezy.

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Speaker 1: Make sure y'all get that. Now let's get to this

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Speaker 1: week's episode. This is Mandy Be. Welcome to Selective Ignorance,

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Speaker 1: a production of the Black Effect Podcast Network and Ihart Radio.

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Speaker 1: What's up, y'all? Welcome back to another episode of Selective

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Speaker 1: Ignorance with yours truly, MANDYB. This is, of course, the

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Speaker 1: podcast where the suff you want to keep quiet I

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Speaker 1: actually say out loud, you can't handle the truth. And

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Speaker 1: so here we go before my super producers slide back

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Speaker 1: into the studio with me next week, I'm bringing you

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Speaker 1: guys a freshly up to date episode. I'm here right

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Speaker 1: now in New York City, fresh off seeing family, fresh

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Speaker 1: off hearing way more opinions than I would have liked to,

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Speaker 1: And I'm going to share that later. But my brain

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Speaker 1: has been working overload. Tell me why all these conversations

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Speaker 1: that I had over the last week or two literally

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Speaker 1: kept me up at night thinking, how does a queer person,

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Speaker 1: a person of color, or the child of immigrants look

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Speaker 1: at Trump and say, yeah, that's my guy. I know,

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Speaker 1: I gasped you, And don't worry. This isn't going to

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Speaker 1: be another conversation like the Purple Party with Carla and Ray.

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Speaker 1: If you haven't listened to that episode, make sure you

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Speaker 1: go check that out. Here's the plot to us, however,

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Speaker 1: and you do not want to skip ahead. I actually

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Speaker 1: found an actually logical answer. Okay, so not all of

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Speaker 1: it is ignorance, some of it's a little strategy, some

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Speaker 1: of it's fear. But we're gonna get into it because

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Speaker 1: y'all know my husband chat chat help me out with

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Speaker 1: the shits now, and this is America. I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: make it too politically politically politically this week However, I am,

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Speaker 1: in Mandy fashion, going to break down what is actually

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Speaker 1: happening between the US and Venezuela. If you are not

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Speaker 1: all caught up and the headlines aren't making any sense

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Speaker 1: to you, I'm gonna let you know a real easy

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Speaker 1: way to kind of know what the hell is going on.

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Speaker 1: And also, right before we're done, I am bringing you guys,

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Speaker 1: and am I ignorant? I'm helping somebody find out if

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Speaker 1: they're actually a little bit misinformed or just professionally ignorant.

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Speaker 1: That's what we're getting into today because there is a

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Speaker 1: difference now again. Next week I will be back in

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Speaker 1: the studio with my super producer, a King Jason and

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Speaker 1: the newest name on the call sheet, Jah And of

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Speaker 1: course next week we'll be tapping into all the things culture, politics,

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Speaker 1: mess and meaning. But for now, unclench your jaw. It's

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Speaker 1: me Mandy B. And you're tuned in to selective ignorance.

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Speaker 1: All right, So y'all, I'm actually in New York taping

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Speaker 1: this right now. I will say, boy, should I just

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Speaker 1: have listened to all the people who came to New

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Speaker 1: like popped the one year cherry of relocating back to

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Speaker 1: I actually cannot fucking believe how goddamn expensive it is, y'all.

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Speaker 1: I landed in JFK, I'm staying in Times Square, and

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Speaker 1: That's more than a spirit flight from Atlanta to Orlando.

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Speaker 1: What are we talking about here? I was like, Oh

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Speaker 1: my god, how did I live here for so long?

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Speaker 1: I could have saved so much money had I left earlier.

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Speaker 1: its greatness while moving somewhere else and paying less, y'all. Probably,

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Speaker 1: like the first six months I was in Atlanta, I

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Speaker 1: Getting a Tito's soda lime for seven dollars when that

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Speaker 1: I'm about to share with y'all all the ignorance, actually

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Speaker 1: Year's only, because that's a that's a quick little ketchup.

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Speaker 1: But I was mad at the ignorance that was displayed.

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Speaker 1: But was I surprised, No, because Florida. So I bring

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Speaker 1: in the New Year with my homegirl, Carla, and she

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Speaker 1: throws a par t. Now before going to our house,

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Speaker 1: I arrive at her house. The party is supposed to

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Speaker 1: Bro the party supposed to start in two hours, so

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Speaker 1: I say hi to everybody who's setting up, and I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 1: They're like, no, we're going home to change. Red flag

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Speaker 1: It's already seven o'clock. I said, the party's supposed to

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Speaker 1: at ten. Wow. In pure fashion, I wake up at

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Speaker 1: to this house. It's empty. Then Carlo's co host pulls up,

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Speaker 1: like I told everybody, ten y'all gets to ten thirty pm,

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Speaker 1: an ethnic party. And when we say ethnic, at this point,

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Speaker 1: because what the fuck do you mean? It's ten minutes

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Speaker 1: to eleven and people ain't here yet. AnyWho, everyone starts

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Speaker 1: my mama and Dexi, Carlo's co host, have already ate

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Speaker 1: our plates. We done already got the itis off the pernial.

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Speaker 1: The adults called gondulas the yuka cause you know, a

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Speaker 1: it going. So fireworks are let off, we count the

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Speaker 1: ball down. It's a good old time. We all come

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Speaker 1: And all I hear for about twenty minutes, y'all is

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Speaker 1: the dingdingdingding thin ding think to the ding thing. Bruh,

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Speaker 1: wear is mask off? Give me some future, give me

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Speaker 1: some like, give me something like at this point, all

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Speaker 1: take not like us. So I go to carl And

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, hey, bruh, like, can I get some

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Speaker 1: English music? Like just a little bit of hip hop? Okay,

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Speaker 1: oh you want me to name an English song? Y'all?

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Speaker 1: I thought I was doing right by the people. I said, ooh, ooh, ooh,

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Speaker 1: it's New Year's. Let me think of the most New

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Speaker 1: So I say, Carla, tell them to play Waiting for

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Speaker 1: Tonight by Jennifer Lopez because that video is reminiscent of me,

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Speaker 1: of like New Year. I know it's like Y two K.

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Speaker 1: But the video is nice. It's you know, waiting for tonight,

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Speaker 1: Let's make the playlist a little more bilingual. Now. By

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Speaker 1: this time, I done took a shroom and I had

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Speaker 1: So I'm also at this point still kind of tired.

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Speaker 1: Didn't get my full win bro on the microphone, and

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Speaker 1: true Orlando, Florida fashion, I hear, why we gotta play English?

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Speaker 1: Like normally everybody here speaks Spanish, So I don't understand

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Speaker 1: why we have to accommodate to play English speaking songs,

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Speaker 1: like that's not normally what happens at these parties. And

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Speaker 1: And in fact, this is Orlando, Florida, where, in fact,

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Speaker 1: to enjoy yourself in certain spaces. Now, yes, I know

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Speaker 1: this probably sounds so ignorant to people, but what the fuck?

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Speaker 1: We can't have English speaking song play at a party

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Speaker 1: where there's some white people, some black people, Like this

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Speaker 1: isn't the typical Puerto Rican party because there's clearly people

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Speaker 1: that don't understand. And the host and asked you to

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Speaker 1: play some songs with English, and so that was my

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Speaker 1: that was my sign to take my ass home, because

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Speaker 1: baby girl, what are we? What are we doing? Baby girl? What?

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Speaker 1: So that kind of pissed me off. It did, Actually,

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Speaker 1: it pissed me off quite a bit. I'm not gonna lie,

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Speaker 1: probably not as much as my family dinner. So y'all,

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Speaker 1: I went to SeaWorld and I'm gonna be making a

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Speaker 1: Patreon again, that's patreon dot com backslash with me to

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Speaker 1: I'll be showing you guys my day at SeaWorld with

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Speaker 1: my mom and my sister. But after that we went

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Speaker 1: me and my mom, my sister, my other's sister, her partner,

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Speaker 1: their kid, and my cousin and her kid. Right, so

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Speaker 1: it's a big party. Now we have plans to go

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Speaker 1: to one crab boil, and right before we load up

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Speaker 1: apparently my cousin went to this crab ooil. Not my cousin,

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Speaker 1: fuck is happening in these motherfucker's brains out here, because

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Speaker 1: make it fucking make sense, Jesus jasus. Now, as y'all know,

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Speaker 1: I also just got back from which, interestingly enough, is

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Speaker 1: one of the islands that are impacted with what's happening

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Speaker 1: between the US and Venezuela. So I got to New

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Speaker 1: York on Sunday, and on my way here I was seeing,

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Speaker 1: actually I think it was Saturday, the day before I left,

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Speaker 1: I saw the news that all of these flights throughout

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Speaker 1: the Caribbean were grounded. And when I say the Caribbean,

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Speaker 1: which even Puerto Rico, Okay, So flights were grounded and

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Speaker 1: flights were canceled going in and out. Now, why this

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Speaker 1: is also kind of a big deal, and I want

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Speaker 1: to share this as well, is if you guys remember

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Speaker 1: earlier this year, Trump actually removed a policy that Biden

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Speaker 1: had put into administration with sorry y'all, with the airspace

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Speaker 1: essentially and airplanes, where at one point air airplane companies

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Speaker 1: had to give riders, flyers a hotel reimbursement, an opportunity

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Speaker 1: to fully refund their tickets if there were certain cancelations

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00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 1: delays beyond a certain time. Now this was removed. Airlines

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00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 1: are no longer needing to do so, which led thousands

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00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 1: of people strainded on islands having to dip into their

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00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 1: savings and charge their credit cards to stay because they

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Speaker 1: could not leave these islands. Now, what the fuck happened?

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna break it down to kind of explain to

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Speaker 1: you what's happening. So basically, Venezuela and the US been

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00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:40,520
Speaker 1: beef in a long time, been beefing like real long,

447
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 1: like not not on know, like we don't followed each other,

448
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 1: but we could be in the same room at the

449
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 1: same time type shit. Like, No, they've been beefing on

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Speaker 1: some like I'm not even coming to Thanksgiving dinner if

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00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 1: they're there type shit. Okay. So the US, in all

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Speaker 1: of its ironic ignorant fashion, pretty much said that Venezuela's

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Speaker 1: government is messi corrupt and not running things right now.

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Speaker 1: As we know, we just taw and talked about Nicki

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Speaker 1: Minaj sitting on the Truth Network discussing what's happening over

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Speaker 1: in Nigeria. Because somehow Trump has been so concerned about

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00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,839
Speaker 1: what's happening with the Christians in Nigeria, he also now

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Speaker 1: has decided to say that Venezuela's government is messi corrupt

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Speaker 1: and not running things right as if we are here now,

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00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:42,080
Speaker 1: Venezuela said, bitch, manya business, stop trying to run what

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00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:44,239
Speaker 1: we got going on over here and worry about what

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00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 1: you got going on in the US, which your motherfucking

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00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:51,960
Speaker 1: fell in running the country ass okay. So basically this

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Speaker 1: led to a political standoff. Now, why did they close

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Speaker 1: the airspace to bitch, they trying to keep us from

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Speaker 1: getting into another world war, because essentially what starts happening

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00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: when people start fighting, they start dropping bombs and shooting

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00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:11,840
Speaker 1: shot out the sky. So closing the airspace was basically

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Speaker 1: them saying, nobody is flying over here until we know

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Speaker 1: that everybody gonna behave themselves. So basically, of course, planes

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Speaker 1: are expensive, people's lives are expensive, and they was like, ooh,

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Speaker 1: let's go ahead and shut down the airspace so that

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Speaker 1: we don't make matters worse. So simple version of it.

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Speaker 1: All us in Venezuela. They're not friends, they don't trust

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Speaker 1: each other, and they shut down the skies to avoid

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Speaker 1: any accidents, escalations or like somebody doing something real stupid.

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Speaker 1: And basically that's where we're at because of course, one

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Speaker 1: bad move, one fucking airplane being shut out the sky bitch,

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Speaker 1: the world gets involved, okay, and we don't want no

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Speaker 1: World War three. Now as of this point, let me

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Speaker 1: see our flights back reinstated. Let's know, let's let's figure

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Speaker 1: this out. Okay, they are being reinstated at this very moment,

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Speaker 1: so it is open again and flights are being reinstated. However,

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Speaker 1: travel disruption still persists as airlines are working through backlogs

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Speaker 1: and limited seats, so real quick, if you're planning travel,

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Speaker 1: check your airline for the latest status. But major airline

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00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 1: carriers like United, Delta, American, Spirit, Frontier, Jet Blue, have

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00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 1: restarted flights back to destinations such as Puerto Rico, the

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Speaker 1: USBI and other Caribbean locations after cancellations over the weekend. Also,

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Speaker 1: if you were one of those stranded, I would say,

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Speaker 1: go ahead, take your shot at seeing if any of

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Speaker 1: those airlines will in fact reimburse you for any thing

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00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,879
Speaker 1: during your stay. If you bought insurance, maybe you could

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00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 1: go through insurance and see, you know if that's an option.

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Speaker 1: All right, now, this is gonna be a short episode

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Speaker 1: until I get back into the studio with my superproducers.

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Speaker 1: They are still on vacation and I'm trying to be

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Speaker 1: thoughtful and considerate over here, and was like, you know what,

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Speaker 1: I got this, I'm an hold down the fort for

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Speaker 1: the first actual episode of the year, and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: get y'all back in studio like we never left, and

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00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:36,399
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll have all the things to talk about.

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Speaker 1: So if you are in the discord, which means you're patron,

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00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:42,840
Speaker 1: head on over to the discord and let me know

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00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 1: what over the last two three weeks has been happening

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Speaker 1: that you really want us to talk into. And of course,

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00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:51,799
Speaker 1: over this next week I'll be writing the list down

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00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 1: we are doing our pre production when I get back

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00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 1: to to the A. And so we are back in studio,

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00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:00,760
Speaker 1: you guys can get back to here hearing me debate

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00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:05,800
Speaker 1: or sound super ignorant next to my lovely journalist Jason,

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Speaker 1: my podcast og A King, and my other kind of

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00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 1: journalist og Jah. So let's get into it before we

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Speaker 1: wrap up. I'm getting into an am I ignorant scenario?

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Speaker 1: And y'all this this was sent in and I was like, bitch,

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Speaker 1: this is me. This happened to me, And so I

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00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:33,800
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm gonna call myself ignorant in this

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Speaker 1: this moment or if I'm just gonna talk it out

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00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 1: here we go. So, first week back after holiday break,

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Speaker 1: we had a planned meeting with leadership, and one of

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00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 1: my coworkers who's black, led part of the presentation. Afterward,

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Speaker 1: I messaged him privately and said, great job. You're so

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Speaker 1: articulate and professional. You really know how to speak. He

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00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:06,279
Speaker 1: replied thanks, I think, which I thought was weird because

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Speaker 1: it was clearly a compliment. Later that day, another coworker

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Speaker 1: told me that calling a black person articulate can be

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Speaker 1: ignorant because it implies that you didn't expect them to

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00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:22,399
Speaker 1: be that honestly, wasn't what I meant. I call people

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Speaker 1: articulate all the time when they present well, But now

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Speaker 1: I'm worried I accidentally said something loaded without realizing it.

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Speaker 1: At the same time, I'm like, damn, are we not

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Speaker 1: allowed to compliment people anymore? Am I ignorant? Boy? So

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Speaker 1: before we get into this, let me tell y'all how

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00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 1: we had a live show in Atlanta, Georgia, and bitch,

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Speaker 1: I got called out for the same goddamn thing in

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Speaker 1: front up of a crowd of out a three hundred

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00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 1: plus people. Bitch, So Weezy goes down into the audience.

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Speaker 1: We're at Plaza Theater in Atlanta, and I'm I'm in

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Speaker 1: my first year of work. But a woman stands up

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Speaker 1: and is either asking a question or is sharing something

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Speaker 1: about her that we should know. And after she's done

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Speaker 1: explaining herself, I say, you speak so well, and bitch,

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Speaker 1: she reads me for filth. She brings up where I'm from,

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Speaker 1: she brings up that she's fucking educated, that she got

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Speaker 1: multiple degrees, and saying, you know that she speaks well?

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00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,520
Speaker 1: What was making her a shit to say? And I

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00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:58,440
Speaker 1: responded the same way, like Witch. That was a compliment.

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Speaker 1: Mind you, we're in the South, mind you. I'm also

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Speaker 1: someone who has spoken a lot about how insecure I

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Speaker 1: am at the way sometimes that I express myself and

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00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:15,879
Speaker 1: how I express my feelings and how I jumble words

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00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 1: together or don't know big words. So to me, when

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00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:25,320
Speaker 1: I hear someone who can eloquently express themselves, it's like, Wow,

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00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:27,960
Speaker 1: it's a thing, because there's so many people that cannot.

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Speaker 1: Like I tell you guys all the time, like I

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00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:32,960
Speaker 1: love how Van Lathan speaks. I love Rachel Lindsay, I

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00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:37,400
Speaker 1: love listening to higher learning. I love Antonette. When Antonette

558
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 1: and Shanti get into their shit over and around the

559
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 1: way curls, I'm like moved by their ability to break

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00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:49,920
Speaker 1: down what they're thinking, feelings, draw in personal experiences, and

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00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:54,800
Speaker 1: then tell people why they disagree or agree or align

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00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 1: or don't align. And I find it to be a

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Speaker 1: fucking skill. And so I get the part of you

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00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:09,239
Speaker 1: being black and that raising like, oh you thought I

565
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 1: wasn't gonna know how to speak because I'm black. I'm

566
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:18,000
Speaker 1: actually amazed by anyone who does it. So again, I

567
00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:23,560
Speaker 1: just spoke of my peers. But baby mel Robbins, Jay

568
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 1: shetty even in his most ignorant sentiments. THEO Vaughn who

569
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 1: sits and can can can do an episode like this.

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00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:36,759
Speaker 1: This is one of the hardest episodes, y'all to sit

571
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:41,799
Speaker 1: and just talk and speak through your thoughts and storytelling

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00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 1: a way that the audience can still still go with you,

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00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 1: can still roll with you. They're not listening to two

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00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:53,719
Speaker 1: people debate a topic. They're listening to one voice structure

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00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:57,040
Speaker 1: their thoughts and emotions and feelings and relaying that information

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Speaker 1: in a way that someone listening can actually take it in.

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Speaker 1: And so this is a difficult one because, yes, being

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Speaker 1: telling someone that they're articulate and professional and maybe you're white,

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Speaker 1: you left that out, but you did say that another

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Speaker 1: coworker came up and told you that you can't say

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Speaker 1: this to a black person, which makes me think that

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Speaker 1: you were not black. And the coworker who came up

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Speaker 1: to you and told you is either black or a

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00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:35,120
Speaker 1: little bit more woke. I don't know. I do understand

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00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 1: that sentiment. I do understand how it could come off

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00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:49,919
Speaker 1: as a slight. However, look at the goddamn statistics. Black

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00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 1: women specifically are out here being more educated than probably

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Speaker 1: any other group. Right now, we have the goddamn government

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Speaker 1: pretty much trying to tell us, and when I say

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Speaker 1: us black folk, I feel like they do it to us,

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00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 1: telling us that certain professions are now not professional degrees

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Speaker 1: so that it limits the amount of financial aid you're

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Speaker 1: able to get, and a lot of those professions lean

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Speaker 1: heavily towards the Black community. They're also trying to throw

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Speaker 1: away the importance of a bachelor's degree, as if too

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00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 1: many of us now have it. So the idea that

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00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 1: people just think that black people don't know how to talk,

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00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a black thing. Geographical possibly, but eh.

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Speaker 1: And so I know a lot of us, and especially me,

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00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 1: I walk around with these insecurities, right, and so I

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00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 1: think the thanks, I think is a way that I

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00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:03,960
Speaker 1: would probably respond as well. And it's only because of

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00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:08,879
Speaker 1: me projecting my own insecurities and walking into a room

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Speaker 1: and feeling as though, dang, am I sound a little

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00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 1: too urban? Did I use too much slang? And these

606
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 1: are things that I felt when I worked in corporate.

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00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:21,880
Speaker 1: I don't feel as much that way anymore at all.

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Speaker 1: And I'm super blessed and privileged to be able to

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Speaker 1: make a living and be myself on this microphone and

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Speaker 1: in any room I walk into now, But there were

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Speaker 1: so many moments where I felt insecure about how I

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Speaker 1: was presenting myself, or if I did sound professional enough,

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Speaker 1: or if they heard, you know, a little bit of

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Speaker 1: my Florida come out. And so here's what I'll say.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that it's ignorant when we lead with

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Speaker 1: our insecurities. I don't think it's ignorant when there are

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Speaker 1: some people that would respond away to this and there

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Speaker 1: are some that would not. I do think that it

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Speaker 1: being a compliment can come from, and this is where

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Speaker 1: I'm leaning into my insecurities. This person, let's say they

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Speaker 1: were white, probably looked at him and was so amazed

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Speaker 1: at his ability to present and articulate himself, because maybe

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Speaker 1: he feels like he couldn't have done that, and so

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Speaker 1: his compliment comes from a place of damn, you ate

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Speaker 1: that tea, and not from a place of you're block

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Speaker 1: and did it? Can't believe it? You know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: And so this is a tough one because I've actually

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Speaker 1: been on both sides of this, right and so I

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Speaker 1: don't think it's ignorant. I think it's something that may

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00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:53,759
Speaker 1: just need a conversation because he said thanks dot dot dot.

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Speaker 1: I think with the question mark, I think this calls

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Speaker 1: for you to actually just explain yourself and maybe lean

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Speaker 1: into your own insecurity. It's like, nah, listen, like I

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Speaker 1: who you are at all, just the way you presented

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Speaker 1: it made me look, made me want to do better,

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Speaker 1: and it had nothing else to do with anything outside

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Speaker 1: of you fucking killed that shit. And I can only

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Speaker 1: hope that the next time I have the opportunity or

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Speaker 1: that I do it like that, cause you fucking ate.

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Speaker 1: And so that's another thing too. We receive compliments differently

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Speaker 1: within our community. Like you tell somebody they ate something

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Speaker 1: they're taking that you tell them, oh my god, you

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Speaker 1: articulated that so well and so professional. Because of stereotypes

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Speaker 1: and because of how you perceive someone to be giving

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Speaker 1: you that compliment, you internalize it as a microaggression. Now,

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Speaker 1: let's be very clear, there are strong micrograms, but not

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Speaker 1: everything is. And we have to understand that white people,

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Speaker 1: latinas Asians, Indians, all of the people they have insecurities too,

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Speaker 1: and this isn't like an All Lives Matter take here, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I promise you it's not. But sometimes we should just

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Speaker 1: as the racist, as the person who thinks black people

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Speaker 1: wall you got vocabulary on you that, like, you know,

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Speaker 1: I just I just think that there's a way that

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Speaker 1: we internalize things, and there's a way that we should

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Speaker 1: think before we react. And no, this is not me

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Speaker 1: inviting grace. This is not me telling you to give

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Speaker 1: grace to the folks. It's just saying to think about

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Speaker 1: it just a little bit. Just think about it, because

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Speaker 1: it may not be the negativity that you think it is.

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Speaker 1: And I think in twenty twenty six, that's what I

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Speaker 1: hope more from us. I hope that we lean into

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Speaker 1: the positive first. I want us to be in a

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Speaker 1: place where we actually believe that there is a little

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Speaker 1: bit of good left in people, just a little bit,

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Speaker 1: just a little bit. Anyways, guys, I am really excited

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Speaker 1: to get back into the studio with my guys next week.

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Speaker 1: I am also currently building out the set. Y'all. Selective

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Speaker 1: Ignorance is getting its own set and we are sprucing

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Speaker 1: up the video content and also bringing a whole new

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Speaker 1: show to the Patreon. So I'm really excited. This should

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Speaker 1: launch next month in February. I couldn't be more excited

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Speaker 1: about all the things, and y'all are just gonna see

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Speaker 1: this set grow and become better and my team, I'm

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Speaker 1: really excited about what's to come. So guys, thank you,

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Speaker 1: so so so so so so so so so Betty

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Speaker 1: Vetty very much for listening to another episode of Selective Ignorance,

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Speaker 1: where controversy thrives, hold on controversy, conversations and maybe chaos,

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Speaker 1: where chaos thrives. God damn it. See Jay normally puts

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Speaker 1: it at the end of my goddamn outline so I

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Speaker 1: can see what's going on. Controversy lives, which where conversations matter.

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Speaker 1: Damn it. We're coming back. All of my superproducers are

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Speaker 1: me right here in twenty twenty six, cause baby, were

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Speaker 1: gonna keep it a little ignorant, all right, y'all, see

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Speaker 1: y'all Friday for the bonus drop. Bye. Selective Ignorance, a

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Speaker 1: production of the Black Effect Podcast Network. For more podcasts

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Speaker 2: Thanks for tuning in the Selective Ignorance of Mandy B.

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Speaker 2: Selective Ignorance. It's executive produced to buy Mandy B. And

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Speaker 2: it's a Full Court Media studio production with lead producers

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Speaker 2: Jason Mondriguez.

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