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Speaker 2: So I want you guys to make a very very
Speaker 2: warm welcome as we introduced to the stage our three panelists.
Speaker 3: For that discussion.
Speaker 2: We have the co host of Native Lampod. First up,
Speaker 2: Andrew Gillotty.
Speaker 4: Betty, y'all do better than that.
Speaker 3: Talk about berry God because of my hip hop month. Wait,
Speaker 3: it's domastating. Damn you're going gun.
Speaker 2: Next to the stage, we have the lovely Tiffany Cross
Speaker 2: lose me you.
Speaker 3: Know that to tell his mom, tell your Mika issue.
Speaker 3: And last but certainly not Lise my girl Angela.
Speaker 2: Ry Okay, we no st up gun and Nama Shine
Speaker 2: some up bed.
Speaker 4: I know they have real fun.
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Speaker 4: That's better.
Speaker 3: We know you've had a full day.
Speaker 4: We are so excited to be here with you all.
Speaker 5: This evening in New York Andrew Gillim and Tivity Cross.
Speaker 1: Hey y'all doing, Welcome home, y'all. Thank y'all for coming
Speaker 1: out to hear us.
Speaker 4: We so night. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Yes, how many Native Lampard listeners out there?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 6: All right, now, have y'all enjoyed the day so far?
Speaker 6: Been pretty good? Well, we're gonna we're gonna try not
Speaker 6: to overload you with politics. But if anybody's paying attention,
Speaker 6: if you're aware, if you're breathing, you realize that politics
Speaker 6: isn't just something over there that is affecting us every
Speaker 6: single day. Every decision that's being made in Washington and
Speaker 6: in state capitals and city halls around the country way
Speaker 6: on our quality of life and how we get to
Speaker 6: live our lives. So we hope to share with you
Speaker 6: today some of our thoughts on how we may be
Speaker 6: able to live our lives to the fullest so that
Speaker 6: we're not just finding ourselves in a state of survival,
Speaker 6: but rather in a state of thriving.
Speaker 4: Is that all right, yes, sir, it is.
Speaker 5: We'll be your call and response so on that. One
Speaker 5: of the questions that we got back from this audience.
Speaker 5: We got questions submitted earlier today.
Speaker 3: Thank you all so much.
Speaker 5: We hate we didn't get your names and where you're from.
Speaker 5: But if you recognize the question, just wave at us
Speaker 5: so we know it came from y'all. The first question
Speaker 5: we got that we thought would be a great starting
Speaker 5: off point for us today is one more minute, just
Speaker 5: so y'all can follow along.
Speaker 3: We do read as you go, so these questions.
Speaker 5: The first question is there's been a lot of conversation
Speaker 5: lately about who gets to tell our stories? How do
Speaker 5: you all navigate that tension when you see outsiders profiting
Speaker 5: from or misusing black narratives. Story is old as time,
Speaker 5: Tiffany Cross, yep, I got you for all of us.
Speaker 4: Why go on a lot of legacy media.
Speaker 1: I don't think a lot of us are tuning in anymore.
Speaker 1: A lot of people are getting their information off social
Speaker 1: media of outlets like TikTok.
Speaker 4: And there's some danger to that.
Speaker 1: And so when we see people who have an intentional
Speaker 1: effort to lead us with misinformation and disinformation, we have
Speaker 1: a responsibility on Native lamppod to talk about things that
Speaker 1: are happening that are getting overlooked. Just this week, the
Speaker 1: federal government went into a neighborhood under the guise of
Speaker 1: looking for undocumented immigrants that has less than two percent
Speaker 1: of a Latino population in the.
Speaker 4: Chicago and disappeared black people. They were bursting in their homes.
Speaker 1: Zip tying children. You didn't see one story about that
Speaker 1: on Legacy Media. Those are the types of stories that
Speaker 1: we talk about on Native lamp Pod. It can be
Speaker 1: overwhelming when you don't hear about these stories and so
Speaker 1: you just check out. But that is what they're depending
Speaker 1: on for us to get to flood the zone with
Speaker 1: ca ch until chaos feels normal, until quiet feels uncomfortable
Speaker 1: and eerie.
Speaker 4: But a Native Lampid we break it down for you.
Speaker 1: We make it accessible, We make it digestible, to not
Speaker 1: only tell you what's going on, but to charge you
Speaker 1: with all call to action where you can combat us
Speaker 1: being at war and then make it black folks the
Speaker 1: face of the enemy by our own federal government.
Speaker 6: So, first of all, y'all just heard the voice of
Speaker 6: Tiffany Cross, who I know some of us are remember
Speaker 6: from MSNBC when she had her show there. But her
Speaker 6: example there, similar to what we saw with Joy Reed,
Speaker 6: is that corporate America at any point in time can
Speaker 6: decide when they want to silence us. And this is
Speaker 6: what's so important about you all being here as creatives
Speaker 6: in this space. A lot of times it's difficult for
Speaker 6: politicians to change culture. It's difficult for politicians. And I
Speaker 6: say this to somebody who ran for the governor of
Speaker 6: Florida and came within point three percent of winning that
Speaker 6: race out of eight million, twelve million vost casts in
Speaker 6: the state of Florida, that as much truth as I
Speaker 6: was speaking in as much as of an agenda I
Speaker 6: wanted to have for all of our community, but particularly
Speaker 6: for the black community, because when we thrive, everybody else thrives.
Speaker 6: When we get when America gets a cold, y'all already know,
Speaker 6: we get COVID loan COVID right, And so creatives, people
Speaker 6: like you all, who get to tell stories and intriguing
Speaker 6: ways and in ways that people can relate to. You
Speaker 6: approach things that my brain cannot really process because I'm
Speaker 6: so technical in so many ways, except your expanded boundaries
Speaker 6: allow you to get at things in a much more
Speaker 6: compelling way. So the stories that we tell and that
Speaker 6: I believe are important, we need your help and repurposing
Speaker 6: those stories, giving it more body, more contours. So that
Speaker 6: the person who thinks that they don't want to hear
Speaker 6: a thing about politics doesn't realize at the end of
Speaker 6: the day that they're hearing politics because you've put your
Speaker 6: spin on it.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 6: If we don't start to transform more people into caring
Speaker 6: about these things, y'all will never ever ever win this race.
Speaker 6: And we've got to win this race because the ancestors
Speaker 6: did too much, laid down too much, sacrifice too much
Speaker 6: for a future that they knew they would never inherit.
Speaker 6: We're their wildest dreams. You know.
Speaker 3: I want to double down here.
Speaker 5: First, I want to shout out and Moni from Culture
Speaker 5: Con if y'all can give it up for Amani, she's
Speaker 5: done amazing.
Speaker 7: Word.
Speaker 5: And I'm saying that because as I sit here looking
Speaker 5: at my sister, my brother, Tiffany, and Andrew, there's a
Speaker 5: sign on the wall right here that says, we are culture.
Speaker 5: And because we are culture, we have always defined culture.
Speaker 5: We've given birth to this culture. We created the mad
Speaker 5: the science that they use to this day, fashion, the.
Speaker 3: Arts, hip hop. We are hip hop. We are culture.
Speaker 5: So of course they want to try to steal it.
Speaker 5: Of course they want to try to silence it. Of
Speaker 5: course they want to have our little flare and pizzazz.
Speaker 5: Of course they want to have Can we still say sweat?
Speaker 5: Can we still say sweat?
Speaker 3: Okay, a little swag? Right, so like, of course that
Speaker 3: is what they want to do.
Speaker 5: But this, this convening, this gathering of black folks, is
Speaker 5: an act of resilience.
Speaker 3: It is an act of defiance.
Speaker 5: It is an act of resistance, It is an act
Speaker 5: of rebellion to say, we are culture, We've been culture,
Speaker 5: we will always be culture. So that's what I think
Speaker 5: we need to lean into right now. So we have
Speaker 5: some questions, Tiffany, I'm gonna come to you first. The
Speaker 5: one question from the audience is sometimes people say representation matters,
Speaker 5: but not all representation is powerful or for us, how
Speaker 5: do you decide which stories or perspectives are worth platforming
Speaker 5: on Native land?
Speaker 3: Pod I like that.
Speaker 1: Well, luckily, we all have different perspectives on what should
Speaker 1: and should not be platform Our key importance, though, is
Speaker 1: what people want to know as well as what people
Speaker 1: need to know. And there are a lot of outlets,
Speaker 1: a lot of outlets, and some of y'all might follow
Speaker 1: that present as being black outlets, but sometimes they're parroting
Speaker 1: conservative talking points. Sometimes these Instagram and TikTok outlets that
Speaker 1: are entertainment news, a lot of the things they posts
Speaker 1: are coming directly from the GOP, directly from right wing
Speaker 1: MAGA extremists, and I see a lot of people sharing them.
Speaker 1: We have to share responsibly, So we want to platform
Speaker 1: voices and stories that get overlooked. Like Angela said, and
Speaker 1: what I know is we are fourteen percent of the
Speaker 1: US population, and where we go, the entire world follows.
Speaker 1: So what we have to put forth is uniquely important.
Speaker 1: And I hope that for the people who don't listen
Speaker 1: to Native Lampod that you start because we lived in.
Speaker 4: Service to you.
Speaker 1: We live in service to black liberation, because when black
Speaker 1: people win, everybody wins.
Speaker 4: So you can catch episodes of Natal Lampod.
Speaker 1: On iHeartRadio or wherever you get your podcasts and on
Speaker 1: YouTube every Thursday, because every week we show up to
Speaker 1: inform you, give you context, and give.
Speaker 4: You a call to action.
Speaker 5: If that was an excellent answer, Andrew, I'm gonna go
Speaker 5: to your question. Andrew cannot see everybody say find your glasses, Andrew.
Speaker 3: He's trying to get him discreetly.
Speaker 5: Right now, I can say, everybody can see him going
Speaker 5: like this, Andrew, we know you can't. Oh look, bless
Speaker 5: your heart, lo Lo shout out our.
Speaker 3: Producer, Lolo, everybody, poor Lolo.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 3: This question is for me, Andrew. You want to ask me?
Speaker 5: No, okay, I'm gonna ask my, I'm gonna ask you.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna ask you.
Speaker 3: This question is for you.
Speaker 5: What does solidarity within the black creative and political community look.
Speaker 3: Like to you right now?
Speaker 5: What kind of collaboration do we need more of?
Speaker 3: Andrew Gillim.
Speaker 6: I mean when I think of collaboration, I think about
Speaker 6: I think about us w look together to tell stories
Speaker 6: that get resonance based off of Frankly, who is the
Speaker 6: person telling the stories. So I know, I'm very clear
Speaker 6: about the fact that I'm not everybody's cup of tea,
Speaker 6: that Tiffany may not be everybody's cup of tea, that
Speaker 6: Angela may not be everybody's cup of tea. We together
Speaker 6: may communicate a compelling story, but it doesn't break through
Speaker 6: to the masses and the way that we need it to.
Speaker 6: So one of the challenges I think I would make
Speaker 6: to this audience it would be that if we can
Speaker 6: get you all, and I'm going to assume that most
Speaker 6: of you stay pretty aware. But if we can get
Speaker 6: you all to frankly lean on some of the trusted voices,
Speaker 6: some of the topics that we might platform, maybe you
Speaker 6: take those and you repurpose them in your own voice
Speaker 6: and get them out there so that we can get
Speaker 6: greater buy in, greater spread, greater information sharing. When I
Speaker 6: ran for governor of Florida, the entire press cord, which
Speaker 6: are the people who write about or talk about on television,
Speaker 6: the race, the people who largely shape the questions that
Speaker 6: are asked and decide what matters and what it doesn't matter,
Speaker 6: and the entire state of Florida, the third largest state
Speaker 6: in all of America. There was not one single black
Speaker 6: political journalist in Florida. So because I got brothers who
Speaker 6: went to jail, who served time for selling drugs, accused
Speaker 6: of selling drugs, reporters would ask me questions and hold
Speaker 6: me responsible for every single step of the actions that
Speaker 6: they may have taken, decisions that they may have made.
Speaker 6: You had white politicians whose fathers were benefiting from state contracting,
Speaker 6: who were making money hand over fists off of votes
Speaker 6: that their brothers, sisters, daughters, sons had taken. In one
Speaker 6: legislature or another, and then they were benefiting from it financially,
Speaker 6: but those issues were never coming up. It seemed to
Speaker 6: me that their actions, no matter how illegal or inappropriate
Speaker 6: or unethical, I thought they were white people who for
Speaker 6: some reason were given grace. White was right, and if
Speaker 6: they were doing these actions, it must be okay. But
Speaker 6: if we were doing it, something the farious, illegal, under
Speaker 6: the table untour took place, and for me would have
Speaker 6: just been so much better to be able to look
Speaker 6: out at an audience of black journalists or journalists of color,
Speaker 6: or journalists with diversified experiences who knows what it means
Speaker 6: to grow up in a poor neighborhood and have relatives
Speaker 6: who went to jail, but also some who went to
Speaker 6: college and graduated, and those who gave back, maybe not
Speaker 6: in money directly to the institution, but by paying the
Speaker 6: tuition for their nephews and nieces as a way of
Speaker 6: giving back to the institution. So I would just say,
Speaker 6: it's helpful to have voices in this space with diverse experience.
Speaker 6: I like the term representation matters, but more than representation matters,
Speaker 6: diverse find experiences matter because you, oftentimes and they oftentimes
Speaker 6: experience the world through their lens, and oftentimes that lens
Speaker 6: bears no resemblance to our experiences, and so we need
Speaker 6: more of us in more of those spaces. The collaboration
Speaker 6: that I think needs to take places, we've got to
Speaker 6: show up in those environments so that when our people
Speaker 6: are on the line and there are the targets, that
Speaker 6: we've got people who can rationalize, reason and explain those
Speaker 6: narratives in ways that our people can understand.
Speaker 4: Okay, Angela, a question for you.
Speaker 1: Culture con brings together a lot of creative people who
Speaker 1: care about impact but may not see themselves as political.
Speaker 1: Some mean y'all may not see yourselves as political. What
Speaker 1: would you say to folks who may be in this
Speaker 1: room who thinks politics isn't really their lane, or they
Speaker 1: don't do politics, or maybe some of y'all do politics, but.
Speaker 4: You're just tired.
Speaker 5: So I love this question because this gives me an
Speaker 5: opportunity to focus group the audience.
Speaker 3: That's the way for us to pull you.
Speaker 5: How many of you all think that we all deserve
Speaker 5: a safe place to lay our head at night, somewhere
Speaker 5: to live? Okay, how many of you all believe that
Speaker 5: we all deserve to eat, to make sure that our
Speaker 5: family members can eat, and we can eat good food.
Speaker 4: That is healthy for us.
Speaker 3: Raise your hands. Okay. How many of you all believe that.
Speaker 5: We should have access to relatively easily clean drinking water.
Speaker 3: Raise your hands.
Speaker 5: How many of you all believe that we should be
Speaker 5: able to see a doctor, have access to healthcare, be
Speaker 5: able to go to an emergency room, get taken care
Speaker 5: of proactively, to ensure we can live.
Speaker 3: Raise your hands.
Speaker 5: How many of you all believe that black people deserve reparations?
Speaker 3: Raise your hands?
Speaker 4: Okay, all of.
Speaker 3: That is political.
Speaker 5: There is not a single one of us in this
Speaker 5: room that can afford to have our basic needs met
Speaker 5: in this country and.
Speaker 3: Not be political. Your very existence is political.
Speaker 4: There is a.
Speaker 5: Constitution that would have declared you three fifths of a
Speaker 5: human being if you didn't reclaim your full humanity.
Speaker 3: Our existence is political.
Speaker 5: We don't have any choice but to be involved in
Speaker 5: the political process.
Speaker 4: Why because if.
Speaker 3: You opt to sit out, you see what these fools
Speaker 3: is doing. I know this ain't partisan, but I am.
Speaker 5: They will shut down the government on your ass.
Speaker 3: They will send your people home.
Speaker 5: Who said the only way for me to thrive, for
Speaker 5: me to reach the middle class. For me to take
Speaker 5: care of my kids so they can go to college
Speaker 5: is for me to get this what this good government job?
Speaker 5: They're sending our people home from those good government jobs.
Speaker 3: Our existence is political.
Speaker 4: I know y'all are tired.
Speaker 3: You know, I know I'm tired, But I don't have
Speaker 3: a choice.
Speaker 5: I know that if we want to preserve a future
Speaker 5: for upcoming generations, for future generations, this fight is ours.
Speaker 5: It's not because we chose this fight. Some of us
Speaker 5: voted in twenty twenty four in the right way. Oh okay,
Speaker 5: that's my clothes, and I ain't got we're political, get involved.
Speaker 6: So I think my question is to you Tiffany right. Yeah,
Speaker 6: So this question came from an audience member who said,
Speaker 6: I've been following Native Lampod for a.
Speaker 7: Bit, but I love to know what sparked it. That's
Speaker 7: the right question. Yeah, okay, what sparked it? So what
Speaker 7: made you all decide to start this show in the
Speaker 7: first place, and why do we think it's necessary.
Speaker 1: So one of the beautiful things I love about being
Speaker 1: a co host of Native Lampod is our friendship authentically
Speaker 1: and organically stretches two decades. Okay, when I say two decades,
Speaker 1: I all was supposed to, Well, what two decades? You
Speaker 1: guys were alive two decades ago? I thought you were
Speaker 1: like twenty something. AnyWho we owed y'all real, We've known
Speaker 1: each other organically for more than twenty years, and so
Speaker 1: the conversations that you hear are the conversations you would
Speaker 1: hear whether there were a camera's roland or not, whether
Speaker 1: there was an audience before us or not. These are
Speaker 1: the conversations we have over dinner. And so when Angela
Speaker 1: called and said, hey, I want to do this podcast
Speaker 1: and I want you and Andrew to do it with me,
Speaker 1: it was an immediate yes. The call came months after
Speaker 1: my own show on MSNBC was canceled, and at the
Speaker 1: time it was sure, I'll do it. But looking back,
Speaker 1: I cannot imagine during the grave dangers that we are.
Speaker 4: Facing right now not having this platform.
Speaker 1: This is where we get to cry, where we get
Speaker 1: to express our righteous anger right now, where we get
Speaker 1: to look to each other to be inspired. I'll take
Speaker 1: a brief, shameless promo and just say we covered the
Speaker 1: Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference.
Speaker 4: Thank you. I don't know if you guys.
Speaker 1: Remember Angela gave an amazing acceptance speech.
Speaker 4: She got the Chairman's Award. I really encourage you.
Speaker 1: Please go back and watch that speech, and you will
Speaker 1: see that we get goosebumps from each other. I learned
Speaker 1: from Andrew. I learned from Angela. We fight if y'all listen,
Speaker 1: y'all have heard us fight before. We yell, we scream,
Speaker 1: We fight like siblings. And so it really came together
Speaker 1: to answer the call for a time such as this.
Speaker 1: But I want y'all to hear from my co host
Speaker 1: as well, because each of us had a calling and
Speaker 1: each of us brought something different to the platform. For me,
Speaker 1: my intention is always to inform, to break down things.
Speaker 1: When you hear things like the DLJ or the CBO,
Speaker 1: not everybody knows what those things mean, and you can
Speaker 1: feel like an outsider listening to political conversations. Listen to
Speaker 1: a white run media landscape talk about politics in a
Speaker 1: way that seems so far removed, and I remember watching thinking,
Speaker 1: you're not talking to me for me or about me.
Speaker 4: We are intentional.
Speaker 1: We say welcome home because we want you all to
Speaker 1: feel like you're at home, and a part of this
Speaker 1: conversation you send in a video. You can disagree with us,
Speaker 1: we play your video. If you have a question, we'll
Speaker 1: answer it. So it was really beautiful to be a
Speaker 1: part of building a home. But Andrew, I want to
Speaker 1: know for you what was it for you that you
Speaker 1: feel like you bring and also who's your favorite co host?
Speaker 4: Well, okay, and.
Speaker 5: Before you get to lining to her, since she had
Speaker 5: the mic, Glass, I want you to fold that answer
Speaker 5: into this because I'm going to take a page from
Speaker 5: TIFF's book, which is to get to as many audience
Speaker 5: questions as possible. So your last audience question also was
Speaker 5: if someone in the audience wants to use their platform,
Speaker 5: whether it's our business or content, to make change, what's
Speaker 5: one piece of advice you'd give them to start?
Speaker 6: I would say whatever, the talent is the gift that
Speaker 6: you've been given. And sometimes we have that voice in
Speaker 6: our heads that tells us we're not enough, that we
Speaker 6: don't have as much experience or as background to do something.
Speaker 6: I would say, one, do your very best to silence
Speaker 6: that voice, or rather hear it and then ask it
Speaker 6: to take a seat. Because now oftentimes we'll continue to
Speaker 6: persist in our lives no matter how how we achieve
Speaker 6: how many audiences we've spoken in front of, how many
Speaker 6: positions or titles we've had. That voice is always present.
Speaker 6: It's present with me right now. If my colleagues were
Speaker 6: to be honest, I'm sure they would tell you that
Speaker 6: those voices are present with them. And I would just
Speaker 6: tell you to again acknowledge that voice, tell it to
Speaker 6: have a seat, and you keep going. But the truth
Speaker 6: is is God has granted all of us with gifts.
Speaker 6: He's given us a thing. He's given you a thing
Speaker 6: that only you can do that particular way for this
Speaker 6: particular time, this particular moment, and if you don't do
Speaker 6: that particular thing, then it will never be done. Believe
Speaker 6: that God is that intentional in your life to purpose
Speaker 6: you to have impact in your own way. And so
Speaker 6: I would simply say is I oftentimes would often find
Speaker 6: the people who were the best at the game and
Speaker 6: then think, compare myself to oh what do I need
Speaker 6: to do? And movement building. Maybe the question out of
Speaker 6: be what can I do right now that might make
Speaker 6: something come out different, might change the outcome of a thing.
Speaker 6: Most of our greatest movements didn't start with a person believing, oh,
Speaker 6: we'll start a Montgomery bus boycott and all of a
Speaker 6: sudden or one hundred plus for over a year, black
Speaker 6: people will restrain from being on the bus and will
Speaker 6: change the trajectory of the South and black accommodations by
Speaker 6: doing this. They didn't start that way. It started by
Speaker 6: saying I don't want to sit in the back of
Speaker 6: the bus and give my seat up to a white
Speaker 6: kid just because I happened to be black, and that
Speaker 6: one thing then transformed to something else. So I would
Speaker 6: simply say, don't start with the goal of changing the world.
Speaker 6: Maybe the world being changed will eventually come start changing
Speaker 6: on your block, on your street, and your neighborhood and
Speaker 6: your city, county, state, and see if that won't then
Speaker 6: lead to something that creates just the most incredible opening
Speaker 6: that nobody ever saw, including you. That's how God works.
Speaker 6: He takes the little things, the little people, puts them
Speaker 6: in the right places and the right moments and the
Speaker 6: right circumstances to blow it up so that all of
Speaker 6: us know that he's still possible that he could take
Speaker 6: a little thing and make it a big thing. So
Speaker 6: my advice is simply start where you are, do what
Speaker 6: you can, and then make the difference.
Speaker 5: Okay, Tiff is gonna ask me this last question sooners
Speaker 5: she finds it.
Speaker 4: Well, was the one I just asked Andrew? Yup. No,
Speaker 4: it's about why did we come together? Like why did
Speaker 4: Native Land come together?
Speaker 3: Okay, so we've not answered my question? Well, how was
Speaker 3: your question?
Speaker 7: It was?
Speaker 5: It was for those of us in this room who
Speaker 5: want to build something that has purpose?
Speaker 1: Okay, Oh, for those of us in this room, I
Speaker 1: want to build something to have purpose.
Speaker 4: But what do you think? And also how did we
Speaker 4: come together as Native Lampop?
Speaker 3: Okay, well I'm gonna I'm gonna start with this.
Speaker 5: To build something that has purpose, you need to be
Speaker 5: building with people you admire, people you.
Speaker 3: Can grow from, people you respect, people you can teach.
Speaker 4: And I'll tell you this.
Speaker 5: We might be the people you see on camera and
Speaker 5: whose voices you hear when you tune into the show,
Speaker 5: but there's an army behind us. Some of you all
Speaker 5: who listen to the show are the army. But we
Speaker 5: also have some of those army members in the audience today.
Speaker 5: And so you already saw Lolo run up here with
Speaker 5: Andrews glasses loo and waived everybody. This is Lolo Smith,
Speaker 5: our producer utility player. For those of you are old
Speaker 5: enough who know who Charles Barkley is. This is our
Speaker 5: Barkley on the squad. Bree is helping us with press
Speaker 5: right now, Bri stand up and just wave. Brief is
Speaker 5: doing our pre r And then Chloe Pusche is. If
Speaker 5: you see any thumbnail that's beautiful, any of the graphics, y'all.
Speaker 5: She is also a creator, a brilliant creator, super dope artist.
Speaker 5: Chloe Puschet right here also looks like a supermodel. But
Speaker 5: we are so thankful to our team who's here, Nick
Speaker 5: and Lauren who aren't here, our iHeart family, Leonard and
Speaker 5: Chris Marrol who helped us to create Reason Choice. Oh sorry,
Speaker 5: Tiff always Lenard is Charlemagne la God who also is
Speaker 5: one of our co founders a Reason Choice. With the
Speaker 5: thirty five seconds I have left, I will just say this.
Speaker 5: The name of the show comes from that last stanza
Speaker 5: in the last verse of lift every voice and sing
Speaker 5: the Black National Anthem, the Holy National Anthem, I will sing,
Speaker 5: they say.
Speaker 3: James Weldon Johnson wrote, true to our God, true to
Speaker 3: our native land, and.
Speaker 5: In a space where that land is being challenged on
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