WEBVTT - Rewind Education is Power 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:00.920 I'm Tamika D. 0:00:01.040 --> 0:00:03.200 Mallory and the ship Boy my Son in general. 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:05.280 We are your host of t M I. 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:10.239 Tamika my Son's Information, Truth, motivation and inspiration. 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:15.960 New Name, New Energy. What's up, my son, Lennon? 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:17.639 What's up? Timika Mallory? 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:18.840 That's me. 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:19.680 That's who you be. 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:23.079 You know to me, I'll be making him change that 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:25.880 on like checks and you make sure that D is 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:27.080 this because that's my name. 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:30.120 You made sure that you ain't gonna miss the D. 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:34.919 I'm dead to you. I'm just saying, I mean, are 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:36.160 y'all serious about. 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:39.040 It's the thing? People do it? Why? 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:41.839 Because it's just it's a nature. You don't want to 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:42.600 get caught saying. 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:45.279 But what if you're a grown person that's gonna be 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:46.600 fifty years old into you? 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:48.880 Grown people is the ones who've been doing it. It's 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:50.120 started with the grown people. 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:51.800 Oh my god. 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:53.680 And Dame das. 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:57.120 Odule styles to do it right because she's saying it. 0:00:57.440 --> 0:00:59.440 But like I was going to get ice cream, Paul, 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:02.400 He's like, that is not what it's supposed to be. 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:03.240 Useful. 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:06.080 That ain't it. I love you, but that ain't it. 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.720 Speaking of ice cream, I ain't been eating no ice cream. 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:13.800 You know, my workout like it's gonna be tough this summer. 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:16.440 You know what I'm saying, because I'm back. I'm tired 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:18.520 of the dad bought. I had the dad buy for 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:22.400 about two three years. I couldn't really see my six pack. Yeah, 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:25.040 my six pack wasn't it wasn't right, you know what 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:28.160 I'm saying. I felt my stomach over my pants. It 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:30.640 was like, nah, this ain't me. So you know, the 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.920 last few months, been getting it right. I see my 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:38.080 six pack again. It's tough. I'm down about ten pounds, 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:42.480 almost eleven pounds. You know, Ramadant helped me get on 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:45.720 that that road. You know what I'm saying, So that 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:50.360 that exercise. Man, y'all be trying to cheat. Everybody want 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:52.680 to cheat the ground to me, like I want to. 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:58.360 Don't don't cheat the ground. You don't really cheat. First, 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:00.920 you have been working out. I have to admit, and. 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:04.120 I have curved a lot of my bad habits in 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:05.120 terms of eating. 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:06.720 I need to do better. 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:11.640 I realized that sugar is my addiction, like I have really, 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:15.760 I mean, I didn't listen. I have traded in other 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:19.440 addictions for sugar. And it's serious, Like I now am 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:23.040 beginning to see that if I don't have sugar, or 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:27.160 if if I don't have something sweet, I get agitated, 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:30.840 and that is a problem. So now apple slices is 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:34.080 my new thing, or you know, some type of fruit 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:35.680 to try to help me. And then you know what 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:38.040 I also eat, y'all know, because I keep them around 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:38.600 all the time. 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:41.640 Crab babies. Baby. I got to have me a crib baby. 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:44.200 That's my that's my job. I was eating. 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:46.080 Let me tell you, Let me tell y'all this story. 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:49.680 So I used to keep a bag of double bubble gum. 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:55.760 Double bubble, yes, the individual double bubble gums. First I 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:57.720 used to have bazooka gum, but them joints to just 0:02:57.720 --> 0:02:59.880 be too stale, like they I don't maybe people don't 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:01.639 eat eat them as much as they used to, so 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:04.080 they just leave you. Just buy you a box of 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:06.640 rocks and soil, you know, come on, can't do that. 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:09.080 By the way, eating gum, I don't think it's healthy anyway, 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:10.760 But eating gum. 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:13.880 See eating gum, that's why this is how I chew gum. 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:17.040 I eat them. So then I went to double bubble 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:18.520 and I. 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:22.760 Got somehow I lucked up and out of the CBS store. 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:27.960 I found a bag of double bubble gums, but it 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:31.359 also had the hard ones that you buy from because 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.120 I'm one of those people, as you know, because y'all 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:34.640 have seen me. 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:35.360 We could be. 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:38.640 One time we were in like the back roads of 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:40.840 I don't know where the hell we were, and my 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:44.280 ass was running all around trying to collect twenty five 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:48.560 cent to get one of them gums out of all you know, 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:51.600 that was something we wouldn't talk about here, but it 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:54.120 was like a thing going on in the community, and 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:55.960 they wanted to inform us, but they didn't want to 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:58.680 talk out in public, so we and I'm running around 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:01.080 instead of the meeting, I'm out here trying to get 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:03.360 twenty five cent to get some bubblegum out of that 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:05.200 dirty machine that never gets cleaned. 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:08.400 And the inside I like bubblegum. So when I got 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:10.840 the bag with the double Bubbles in it, it had 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:14.400 the cry Babies was in there too. 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:17.440 It was Crybabies and a few of the little other 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:20.760 hard ones. So then I took the whole bag of 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.040 double Bubbles and took it to the hand salon and 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:25.880 say I can't have this no more. Ordered me some 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:29.839 cry babies and now I'm just loving a bag of crimebait. 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:32.760 I know, I gotta get I know this is a lot. 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:34.560 I was told with my six pack and you went 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:35.400 to crabbabies. 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:36.800 Well, I'm just saying sugar. 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:38.279 Sugar is a problem. 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:41.080 Listen, man, Health is wealth for real, you know, and 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:43.840 it's it's and I'm just enjoying my health journey again. 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:49.040 I'm back like inspired with my workout and just being healthy, 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:52.640 eating healthy. Well I'm still fast and technically because I 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:53.640 do intimate. 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:55.840 And faster than anyway you lived like that, Yeah, you. 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:57.760 Know, and I just feel I feel, I feel myself 0:04:57.800 --> 0:04:58.920 being a lot more stronger. 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:02.960 Y'all don't really eat like the girls eat. I'm not 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:06.360 gonna lie like men. Do not eat like women. Because 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:09.800 being on the road with y'all, Linda and I can 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:10.920 put down. 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:13.400 Some I don't even know how. Listen to me. 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:18.359 I don't even know where Linda fit the food. She 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:20.800 she gets a plate. See the thing about you is 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:23.680 you pick off your pate. But I order me order 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:28.960 four places, four main plates, entrees. She ordered steak, she 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:32.240 ordered ribs, and then she orders shrimp in this and 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:37.520 it be with mashed potatoes on here. Like vegetables on 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:41.320 here did she goes two spikes, two bites to each 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:44.560 of them, and then she just keep going around and she'll. 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:44.760 Pack it up. 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:48.560 So don't think people that I don't. 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:53.279 Linda will ordered the whole entree with like to a 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:58.160 double eat the surf and turf, what what do the. 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:00.600 Fries and all the stuff? Finish that? 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:02.400 And then start picking on to me get school because 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:04.360 she knows she ain't gonna eat it. And I'd be like, 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:06.760 how did she eat all that? I couldn't eat all that? 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:10.640 We do eat, but we but we are better and 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:16.479 this is so this behavior ended as of December of 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:20.640 twenty twenty three, and now we're getting two meals, not 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:25.600 four vegetables, not a lot of carbs at all. I 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:27.760 have cut back carbs and it's killing me. I had 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:31.480 carbs today. But they and they say you can still 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:35.120 eat certain things, but you really do have to work out. 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:38.640 It's a lot of people that's out here on the zimpee. 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:40.440 The zimbi, and I'm with them. 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:44.880 I don't zip harrold they on the ZIMPI I feel you, 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:47.440 but you have to work out because you're looking a 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:48.400 little weird. 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:50.120 If you ain't still getting that work out of you, 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:51.360 just on that zimpie you. 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:55.400 Looking, you got that look that it's a look got 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:57.480 to work out. So I mean, I literally have had 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:02.599 a full lifestyle change, but I don't drink soda at all, juice, 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.920 none of that stuff. So you know, it's a new thing, 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:09.400 but I do. I can't tell the difference. I can 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:11.960 tell the difference. So anyway, it is. 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:12.400 What it is. 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:13.400 My thought of the day. 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:21.400 I saw Donald Trump Junior and he made a very 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:31.280 very powerful statement. He said, the Republican Party that we 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:36.560 once knew is no longer. He said, the last step 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:41.200 is for MAGA to take over the rn C, which 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:46.280 is the Republican National Convention where he's he's talking about 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:49.400 going there and overthrowing the whole joint and them taking 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:54.680 over right, And he said, once we accomplish that, it 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:57.120 is going to be the MAGA Party. This man said 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:03.800 this himself. So when people start going back and forth 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:07.920 we arguing Republicans versus Democrats, we're not even really arguing 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:12.680 Republicans versus Democrats anymore. We're arguing Republicans versus I mean, 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:14.280 Democrats versus MAGA. 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:16.120 That's really what we're talking about. 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:26.559 Independent even some Republicans, some moderate Republicans, because the way 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:32.959 that Marjorie Taylor Green and the rest of those right 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:38.120 wing Republicans it's his name, Mark Gatz, he's from she's 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:41.960 from Georgia, and he's from Florida. The way in which 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:48.560 they are they super maga. They're not even a little maga. 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:53.440 The way that they are pulling, the way that they 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:59.680 are pulling and shifting the Republican Party towards this extremist mindset. 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.240 It is not the same Republican Party that you could 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:05.679 play with and be like, oh, we could kind of 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:09.120 possibly work with them. There's no working with them. They 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:11.920 do not They vote against everything that has to do 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:15.360 with us and a little bit of what we deserve. 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:19.200 We can't even get everything that we need from the Democrats, right, 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.960 we don't even have them in there one hundred percent 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:26.080 advocating for like real substantive change. It's only a few 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:28.360 people within the Democratic Party that's going to do that. 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:33.040 These maga folks at every single angle, they are turning 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:35.599 it down, They are pushing. 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:36.680 Back against anything. 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:39.240 Then in fact, they want to roll it all back, 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.920 and unfortunately our people sit up there and support it. So, 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:45.280 you know, some of our people. Let me be careful 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:48.960 with absolutes. So my thought of the day is that 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:52.480 I hope people understand that we're not sitting up here. 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:56.360 I'm not because you have your own mindset around this. 0:09:56.920 --> 0:10:01.080 I am not arguing that it's the Democrats are better 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:05.439 than the Republicans. I'm saying that I will never support MAGA. 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:10.599 And when Donald Trump's own son says that the Republican 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:14.080 Party is becoming that and that they intend to take 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:17.560 over and make sure that MAGA is the order of 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:22.240 the day, that bullshit make America great again, which ultimately 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.280 means going back to a time when black people had 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:28.560 even less rights than we have now. I can never 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:32.840 align with that. And their party leader is his father, 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:36.800 Donald Trump. So no, I don't support them. What does 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:39.120 that mean? Does that mean I'm puking on myself about 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:42.080 having to continuously be involved with a party that I 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:45.719 also does not feel like. I also don't feel that 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:51.280 this party deserves my vote, my energy. Absolutely, absolutely. It 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:54.520 makes me sick to my stomach. But at the same time, 0:10:55.960 --> 0:11:00.400 I realize that whatever comes out of not just this election, 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:06.760 but every single election, you got Congressman Jamal Bowman and 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:11.600 Corey Bush, Congresswoman Corey Bush, Angela Asselbrooks running for Senate 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:13.120 in Maryland. 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:15.440 You have Hill Harper running for office. 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:18.439 I mean, you've got people that are under attack by 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:21.880 MAGA and a PAK, which MAGA and APAK are aligned 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:26.720 in many ways. Okay, this is some serious shit, and 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:33.080 I know that my granddaughter's future is directly connected to 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:36.040 the decisions that we made, so we could talk all 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:36.240 of this. 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:40.280 Don't care, don't matter. I'm not I get I hear you, 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:41.040 I feel you. 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:44.280 But I'm just telling you that these people have a 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:50.439 plan and a design and a strategy that includes the courts, 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:54.160 whether they be federal courts, state courts. They try they 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:59.719 are attempting to take back everything that anybody you respect for. 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:01.200 For that's a fact. 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:05.079 I can't even that's not even something that's even worth 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:09.120 I mean, it's even arguable. Nobody can't argue that. The 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:11.080 only thing what they try to say is well, we 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:13.600 don't need that. We don't need Brown Personal or the 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:16.120 Boyd Edge Game. We don't need we don't need Roe 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:19.719 versus Weight, we don't need de Ei Like it's just stupid. Look, 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:21.520 what do you mean the reason why we got it? 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.600 Is because we needed it, have to fucking the people 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.559 that you do. You celebrate our imposition that have been 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:32.080 able to change the future, I mean change and make 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:35.199 change and create a better future for us because they 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:37.040 were forced to put them in. They didn't never want 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:39.640 to put us in a position of power or anything like, 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:42.480 they were forced to do it. So you just giving 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:44.600 them the opportunity to say, you know what, We're just 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:46.640 gonna make this company one hundred percent white again. We're 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:49.240 gonna make sure these schools is one hundred percent white again. 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:52.160 You know, maybe one if you got an Ivy League 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:55.160 black kid that grew up that actually had access to wealth, 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:57.400 then maybe we'll get them in. But we don't have 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:58.360 to do none of that shit. 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:03.880 You know what DEI is. D I is women. 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:10.520 Having the opportunity to really make money, to take care 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:14.439 of themselves and their families and create and and and 0:13:14.679 --> 0:13:19.560 have businesses. Right, that's de I. You know what else 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:22.640 de I is, let's go back beyond that. Oh, actually 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.480 it would be in the same time, voting rights was 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:29.400 de I. That was us having the ability for the 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:33.199 for the voting pool to be diverse, where white people 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:36.160 did not control everything. They might have called it d 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:39.280 I at the time, but that's what the language developed 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:40.360 to be later on. 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:42.640 D I is a lot of things. 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:46.520 D I is even our ability to get on certain 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:50.520 college campuses, to get to get the resources that our 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:52.480 schools deserved. 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:54.840 I is so much bigger than this. 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:58.760 Now, this this thing that people keep talking about, it 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:03.680 means that you aren't qualified. Like what like, we're we're 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:09.280 more qualified. And I'm gonna keep saying this. We're more qualified, 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:11.880 you know, And I and and and and the sad 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:12.839 part is and I and. 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:16.280 I will leave it here. One of the things we 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:17.760 talk about all the time. 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:21.680 And I said this when I was addressing Daniel Cameron 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:27.680 after he did not do justice by Brianna Taylor, her family, 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:31.440 and the community of Louisville, Kentucky, and Kentucky overall and 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:36.479 ultimately America by allowing those offices not to be prosecuted 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:41.480 for murdering that young beautiful girl. Okay, I said this 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:44.920 to him, You just like the ones who were a 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:51.480 part of selling us into enslavement, even because you are ignorant, 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:56.000 for real, willfully ignorant whatever they've offered you, you believe 0:14:56.200 --> 0:15:01.080 that somehow, if you align with you have the proximity 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:06.240 to whatever they have, their wealth, their power, their whiteness. 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:09.040 So you go get married to them and then try 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:12.160 to work alongside them and throw your own family, your 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:16.880 own people away, You are complicit. So I'm saying that 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:18.120 while we sit here. 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:20.200 And and and and and. 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:24.240 Own the talking points of those who want to be 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:28.080 our oppressors, we are in the process of selling ourselves 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:30.840 right back into the same loop that we have fought 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:33.360 so hard to get out of. So I just hope 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:36.840 that black men who hear that know that love me 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:40.240 for real, don't love me just in the bed, don't 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:41.480 love me just you know. 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:43.200 We cool and you you support me? 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:48.040 And yeah, sis, No, our bodies, our rights, everything about us, 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:51.080 everything that you claim you love is under attack. And 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:53.720 you out here talking about we were not qualified enough 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:54.360 to get the job. 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:56.280 Brothers. Let's be for real. 0:15:57.840 --> 0:15:58.720 That's a word there. 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:00.840 I don't even know what this is, but I feel 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:02.840 a little bad to bring some music after that. 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:05.840 Well, you know, we we deserve the balance of a 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:08.840 little musical Little music might lighten it up. 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:15.080 What you got artist from Philadelphia og like, this is 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:17.880 what I call real og Like somebody sent it to 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:23.560 me and it just touched me. This brother is lyrically dope. 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:26.200 His message is really trying to wake up the youth. 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:30.440 Reminds me of pretty much my message. His name is 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:34.240 Saint Basil. He's dope. He's a dope artist. And he 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:37.320 has this song that he released the video for where 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:42.160 he took the Somehow some Way jay Z and Beanie 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:44.080 song that one of my favorite songs. He took the 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:46.800 beat and he made it into his own, and it's 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.880 just it's him schooling these young boys and just talking 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:52.320 to them about the streets and the reality and just 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:54.240 trying to inspire and motivate him. 0:16:54.360 --> 0:16:55.640 And it's lyrically crazy. 0:16:55.720 --> 0:17:05.119 Sot Basil, Saint Basil Basil. So it's somebody. It's like 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:08.399 my speed. It's you love it, the old speed, you 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:11.080 love it. You know who I like as an artist, 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:12.560 Lola Brook. 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:16.320 Lola shout out the way she come out. Lola is 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:20.280 shout out to my main eighty, who is she signed to? 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:23.040 Eighty is one of to main, of those best friends. 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:26.960 And eighty got shot a while ago. He's been in 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:29.760 the wheelchair, but he's always been like my heart. And 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:33.160 he started his own company. He signed Lola and they've 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:35.840 been doing anything, So shout out to eighty, Shout out 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:38.520 to Lola, you know the first time, like I've always 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:40.679 been a fan of HRS. When I first met her 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:43.800 at Yankee Stadium when they did the concert, she gave 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:44.080 me a. 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:45.760 Big hugs, like, yo, all love it? What do you do? 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:47.240 So her and her energy. 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:52.160 She came out on the stage for the uh what 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:54.800 was it? She's a cold concert? Oh my god. 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:56.920 And scarlet scarlet. I love scarlet. 0:17:57.160 --> 0:18:00.080 I happened to see her not long ago, and I 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:03.080 was she was with og Bar at Brooklyn chop House 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:06.760 one night. And in Brooklyn Chophouse is a black man's 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:09.639 restaurant that is in the middle of Times Square and 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:12.520 it's several floors and it's very fabulous. 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:15.360 And she don pooh, that's right. 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:18.080 And she was at a table sitting down with og Barr, 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:20.600 who's like the uncle to us all. And you know 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:23.840 you could tell O g was you know, yes, you know, 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:26.320 he was schooling U, telling them what it is. And 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:28.280 I just walked over to him. I was like, you 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:31.480 are beautiful. Don't letting anybody make you feel like you 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:34.639 have to defend your beauty. You just beautiful. And she 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:39.160 was so beautiful in person, just a beautiful spirit, so 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:42.080 sweet and kind. But that Internet has you feeling like 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:44.160 you gotta get on there and be like stop stop 0:18:44.240 --> 0:18:46.480 saying how I look, and stop saying you know, because 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:47.880 she was going through that for a while. 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:49.720 But it looks like the. 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:52.320 Bar probably sat down and say, don't get there, explain 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:59.639 yourself another get well, listen, don't fuck our kids, Okay, 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:01.160 don't over our children. 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:01.600 Okay. 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:05.160 We're about to talk about education in New York State, 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:08.160 which should be what we're going to talk about today, 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:11.840 needs to be all over the nation and ultimately all 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:12.440 over the world. 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:16.119 Yes, a brother's doing something very revolutionary, so stay tuned. 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:17.000 Let's bring him on. 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:23.800 So today our guests is a friend of mine, another friend, 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:26.639 you know, a brother that for the last couple of 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:29.800 years that I've worked closely with, watched him do so 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:33.040 many things, you know, within the educational system and just 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:37.000 in the community period, like just watching him be very 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:41.920 hands on and supporting everybody that's doing anything from hip 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:47.000 hop artists to elected officials, and also inside education because 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:49.639 that's where his background is. You know, my brother, Dennis 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:54.080 Makizi is an experienced educator who's worked every level of 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:58.120 education from daycare to college and most recently because people 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:00.520 will say think that this all he's done, but most 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:05.040 recently he is the founder of OSG, which is short 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:09.240 for off school Grounds, you know, and it's a revolutionary organization. 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:12.560 And I want to thank you and welcome you to 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:12.960 the show. 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:17.119 My pleasure, family, my pleasure. Yes, yes, yes, I appreciate that. 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:18.240 It's an honor to be here. 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:18.560 You know. 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:20.639 Obviously my brother might sign up known for what. 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:24.120 And it's funny to me, I've been meeting I've been 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:26.800 wanting to meet you, or to at least talk to 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:29.359 you for so long because we we we have, you know, 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:31.720 mutual friends like Jamility Davis. 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:33.840 Of course, and you know this is truly. 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:37.080 Davis is all my friend's friends exactly exactly. 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:38.400 So it's honor to be here. 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:40.840 Most certainly, thank you so much for joining us. 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:45.119 So give us a background, let us know what it 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:47.720 is you're doing. Because serial educated from daykid all the 0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:50.240 way to that's a life. So give us like a background. 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:54.159 My entire family we're postal workers, right, So my grandfather, 0:20:54.480 --> 0:20:58.720 my mother, my father, my sister, my twin brother and 0:20:58.800 --> 0:21:01.200 I all worked at the post office at one time 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:04.760 or another. And you know, just getting up every night 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:06.920 going to work. Man, it just you know, to make 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:09.760 a dollar. It just wasn't fulfilling enough for me. And 0:21:09.800 --> 0:21:11.560