WEBVTT - Best of Interview TD Jakes and Kamala

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<v Speaker 1>Fifty percent right, spec Yeah, I love you to sit down.

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<v Speaker 1>Didn't become the most prominent form. Wait your ass up

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<v Speaker 1>early in the morning. But they tell me what y'all?

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<v Speaker 1>I said, Oh, hell yeah, I'm getting the choice morning

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<v Speaker 1>shoe people's choice. I got people. I can't believe you

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<v Speaker 1>guys are the basket? Did we know that breakfast club petitions?

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<v Speaker 1>Did your time to get it off your chests, whether

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<v Speaker 1>you're mad or bless so, so you better have the

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<v Speaker 1>same any we want to hear from you on the

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<v Speaker 1>breakfast club? Hello, who's this Richard Friday? Hey? What's up? Broke?

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<v Speaker 1>Get it off your chests. I just don't understand about

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<v Speaker 1>this coronavirus. Man. People get comfortable with you know what

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<v Speaker 1>I'm It's like, you know, they're sending those back out

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<v Speaker 1>there and it's not over with, you know what I mean? Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know about I don't know what's going on either, bro.

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<v Speaker 1>And it's like I just don't understand, man, because people

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<v Speaker 1>trying to name time to be safe, but it's like

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<v Speaker 1>they're getting too comfortable with it. I just don't know, man,

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<v Speaker 1>what to say about it. It's just on my tips

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<v Speaker 1>and I feel like they just staying a little back up.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, I don't know. I'm gonna say it was

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<v Speaker 1>crazy though, if you, um, you know, remember Sylvia Brown.

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<v Speaker 1>Sylvia Brown, she wrote that book when she predicted coronavirus

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<v Speaker 1>in two thousand and twenty, and she said, she said that,

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<v Speaker 1>um and around twenty twentieth, evin pneumonia like illness was

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<v Speaker 1>spread throughout the globe, attacking the lungs and the broncal

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<v Speaker 1>tubes and resisting all known treatments. Almost more baffling than

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<v Speaker 1>the illness itself will be the fact that it will

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<v Speaker 1>suddenly vanish as quickly as it arrived, attack a gatting

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<v Speaker 1>ten years later, and then disappear completely. She wrote that

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<v Speaker 1>in a book back in two thousand and eight. That's scary.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, I appreciate it. I just want to I

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<v Speaker 1>just wanted to get out my tip, all right, brother,

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<v Speaker 1>Ye Hello, who's this? Yeah Chouard from Atlanta, Georgia. What's up? Brother?

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<v Speaker 1>Get it off your chest? Yeah, I'm getting it off

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<v Speaker 1>by us. When I have a problem with the line

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<v Speaker 1>of like black men or black people in general have

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<v Speaker 1>to do better, I'm not feeling that line okay and

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<v Speaker 1>talking all right, coolool, The reason being is when uh

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<v Speaker 1>A Buck thought, when we talk those to these black

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<v Speaker 1>people with a Bucks frills, you didn't have to do

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<v Speaker 1>better when the Chinese people were beating up black women.

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<v Speaker 1>It's like, here's laws. The Chinese didn't have to do better,

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<v Speaker 1>you know what I'm saying. But we don't talk about

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<v Speaker 1>the black man in Chicago that came up and Rex

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<v Speaker 1>Shop was like, yo, y'all, not you messing with the

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<v Speaker 1>sisters here? You know what I mean? What's their windows out?

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<v Speaker 1>Was like, yo, y'all, not messing with the sisters. But

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<v Speaker 1>yet nobody talks about that. They talk about one single

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<v Speaker 1>instident that a black person does that all of us

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<v Speaker 1>a every black person has to be uilty of that

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<v Speaker 1>one thing. And I'm not feeling that. It's almost like

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<v Speaker 1>like like the Adventures movie when you when you when

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<v Speaker 1>he killed that spaceship with Detroit depleted and everybody died.

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<v Speaker 1>All the alias had on the Adventus if you seen

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<v Speaker 1>the movie, We're not connected like that. That was an

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<v Speaker 1>individual that you need to be done with. I think

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<v Speaker 1>that happened in New York. He talking with the skateboard

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<v Speaker 1>that's on him. He's the coward. You're saying all black

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<v Speaker 1>people aren't monolistic, and they need to stop using one

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<v Speaker 1>or two black people to paint the narrative of a whole.

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<v Speaker 1>I think people also didn't like that that whoever was

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<v Speaker 1>filming that laughing at it ain't nobody went to go

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<v Speaker 1>help the girl. I think that was more of the issue. Also,

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<v Speaker 1>it wasn't like he was caught on surveillance and with

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<v Speaker 1>people laughing and joking. So but but what about all

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<v Speaker 1>the brothers that want to kick hi? What all about

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<v Speaker 1>all the brothers that think he's dead wrong and want

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<v Speaker 1>to whip his which I think it's a majority of people.

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<v Speaker 1>Who What about again back to the tiny shop, when

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<v Speaker 1>all the people would beat no more black women, wasn't

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<v Speaker 1>a more persons he wants to proof, you know what

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<v Speaker 1>I'm saying, But they don't have to do. But everybody

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<v Speaker 1>recognized no individuals are doing wrong, and that's it. We're

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<v Speaker 1>not blaming all even if you want to go on

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<v Speaker 1>switch with the Africans ethne the way that just n

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<v Speaker 1>Africans dena We're not and all the time people for that,

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<v Speaker 1>they don't have to do better, you know what I'm saying.

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<v Speaker 1>What you're saying, well, thank you for calling brother Hello,

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<v Speaker 1>who's this all right? This is save how y'all doing

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<v Speaker 1>his warning? What's up? Steed? Get it off her chess brother? Hey? Well,

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<v Speaker 1>first of all, I would just like to say I

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<v Speaker 1>am really supplying supprised that I'm on. I like to

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<v Speaker 1>say good morning to y'all, and UM, I really love

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<v Speaker 1>y'all show. I've been listening to y'all for about five

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<v Speaker 1>five years or so, and I think y'all do a

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<v Speaker 1>great job. But UM, what I would like to say

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<v Speaker 1>is that, UM, I've heard every black leader UM speak

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<v Speaker 1>about what's going on, and I haven't heard um Lewis

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<v Speaker 1>para con it has Has anybody heard him say anything?

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<v Speaker 1>He says he has a word from from God for America.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, he doesn't have the access of social media

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<v Speaker 1>anymore because he was banned from Instagram, so you don't

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<v Speaker 1>see the noble post that he usually would do. Yep,

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<v Speaker 1>they took him off Instagram and took him off Twitter.

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<v Speaker 1>They've been they've been banned him off Instagram and banned

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<v Speaker 1>him Twitter. I will be looking for that and I

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<v Speaker 1>thank you for that, and I think you guys are

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<v Speaker 1>doing a great job. Thank you, and I love y'all

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<v Speaker 1>and y'all have a great day, all right, you get

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<v Speaker 1>it off your chest eight hundred five eight five one

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<v Speaker 1>oh five one. If you need to vent, hit us

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<v Speaker 1>up now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm telling all right, what's you doing of you? If

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<v Speaker 1>this is your time to get it off your chest,

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<v Speaker 1>whether you're mad or blessed? Eight hundred five eighty five

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<v Speaker 1>one oh five one. We want to hear from you

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<v Speaker 1>on the Breakfast Club. Hello. Who's this? Hey? Listen boy,

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<v Speaker 1>get it off your chess? Hey bo Hey, Charlomagne. Oh

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<v Speaker 1>my gosh, Charlomagne, I am a freaking huge fan UM supporter.

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<v Speaker 1>Say how m blessed I am? Because oh yeah, hey,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm telling Mane, I'm ordered your book. Um. I accidentally

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<v Speaker 1>ordered like two or three of them online. I need

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<v Speaker 1>the audio one. Can I get a hard copy? Yeah?

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<v Speaker 1>Which one you want? Black privileges shown, both of them,

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<v Speaker 1>both of them, Levi, Levia. Um, leave your address with

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<v Speaker 1>our producer dance. Okay, all right, So I was okay,

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<v Speaker 1>oh my god, okay, Um. I was calling in to

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<v Speaker 1>say um that I was. I'm so blessed right now

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<v Speaker 1>because I was in an abusive relationship for like um

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<v Speaker 1>over ten years and UM I ended up getting shot

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<v Speaker 1>and beat in my sleep by my ex and yeah yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>and I've been suffering from like severe anxiety and panic

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<v Speaker 1>attacks and everything. And I've been using UM a plant

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<v Speaker 1>from the South specifics that UM the salth specific people

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<v Speaker 1>have been using for over three thousand years. UM, and

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<v Speaker 1>it's been really helping me. It's a calming um herbal supplement.

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<v Speaker 1>And I also sell it. So and I'm and I'm

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<v Speaker 1>trying to start my own business with this. UM. I

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<v Speaker 1>want to send you some samples all the names to

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<v Speaker 1>help with them if if you want to try it. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>let's trade. You said, like I love natural stuff like that.

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<v Speaker 1>So you send you skorgan. Our producer will give you

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<v Speaker 1>the h an address when you hang when you get

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<v Speaker 1>off the phone. Okay. And UM, you can follow me

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<v Speaker 1>on Instagram. So I have a page it's UM I

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<v Speaker 1>sell Gaba. Actually my dad has a Kaba farm in Songa.

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<v Speaker 1>It's um in a South Paciftics and UM. The instagram

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<v Speaker 1>is guests who gava it's k E s New k

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<v Speaker 1>A b A. Okay, UM that's my Instagram. You guys

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<v Speaker 1>follow me. I follow you guys and um. Also, I

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<v Speaker 1>have a website, guessaba dot com where you can order

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<v Speaker 1>and buy kava from there. All right, thank you for you.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know, I think I could be wrong, but

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<v Speaker 1>I think you sell gava. Yeah. Hello, who's this? What's hey?

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<v Speaker 1>What's up? Man? Get it off her chess bro man.

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<v Speaker 1>First of all, I want to just tell y'all I'm

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<v Speaker 1>a fan. I appreciate everything you want to do. Well. Um,

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<v Speaker 1>I was calling just to shout my daughters out. This

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<v Speaker 1>time of quarantine. We've been a start them a lib

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<v Speaker 1>blass line, so I just wanted to shout out they

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<v Speaker 1>live glass line. They names of blair, harmony and lyric.

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<v Speaker 1>Listen to me the lit glass line. Their lib bloss

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<v Speaker 1>line is called musical bliss. Musical bliss. Oh yeah. The

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<v Speaker 1>Instagram is a musical blizz three one three? Are they artists? No,

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<v Speaker 1>there are two one of them two, the others nine

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<v Speaker 1>and one to seven. So I just started something for

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<v Speaker 1>them to do while we've been stuck in the house.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh that's nice, all right, brother, have a go with Hello.

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<v Speaker 1>Who's this? Nicole? Hey? Nicole, get it off your chess morning, Nicole? Hey, Hey,

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<v Speaker 1>Saul Man, Hey, and behavior. I'm a college graduate and

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<v Speaker 1>I'm also a veteran, and I'm upset because I can't

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<v Speaker 1>secure a homelown because I got outside it through the

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<v Speaker 1>long balancing, and they don't want to give me the

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<v Speaker 1>money for the house that I want. And um, I work.

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<v Speaker 1>I still work for the government and I started time

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<v Speaker 1>in the military, and I still don't want to give

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<v Speaker 1>any money, you know. I hate that. I hate that.

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<v Speaker 1>I feel like and I feel like veterans shop like y'all.

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<v Speaker 1>The first college gradul in my family and this is what,

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<v Speaker 1>you know what I did the right thing. I got

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<v Speaker 1>a degree and I started stood here and I still

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<v Speaker 1>continue with education and I still can't get the longer

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<v Speaker 1>I need. What's your credit? What's your credit? My credit

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<v Speaker 1>for as the seven eighty five and I worked hard

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<v Speaker 1>to get it there and they still don't even matter. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>I hate that. I hate. I hate I hate how

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<v Speaker 1>they treat our veterans. Our veterans should get uh, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>free room and board. Our veterans shouldn't have to pay

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<v Speaker 1>any taxes, you know what I mean? And ya should

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<v Speaker 1>get a stimp and ya should get a stipend every month?

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<v Speaker 1>Is this your is this your first time buying a home?

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<v Speaker 1>Is this your first home? Yeah? Oh yeah, now we

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<v Speaker 1>got you. Now how many? Well, yeah, I'm gonna put

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<v Speaker 1>your home. My guy, Matt does mortgages, all right. He's

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<v Speaker 1>been able to make miracles happen, especially if your first

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<v Speaker 1>time home buy it and your veteran. There's so many

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<v Speaker 1>different programs right now. They'll give you down payments for

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<v Speaker 1>your home, and they'll also give you closing calls. So

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<v Speaker 1>there's a bunch of different programs. You hold on and

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<v Speaker 1>I'll give you his number, Matt, the mortgage guys his name,

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<v Speaker 1>all right, all right, thank you, all right, get it

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<v Speaker 1>off your chest. Eight hundred five eight five, one oh

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<v Speaker 1>five one. If you need to vent, hit us up now.

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<v Speaker 1>It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club, The

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<v Speaker 1>Breakfast Club. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the

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<v Speaker 1>guy we are the Breakfast Club was still kicking it

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<v Speaker 1>with Angela Bassett, Charlomagne yee. What excites you nowadays? Creatively?

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<v Speaker 1>M directing Very excited about that. So we'll see the stage.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, every time I come to New York, like

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<v Speaker 1>last night, I was you know, yesterday I was in

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<v Speaker 1>the theater with it was Wednesday, so I got check

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<v Speaker 1>out two shows. You know what we're saying those tickets

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<v Speaker 1>right now because of Corona empty Scott Root show like

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<v Speaker 1>every show on Broadway but his shows. So actually going

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<v Speaker 1>to see West Story to night saw sold your Story

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<v Speaker 1>last night on Broadway? I saw I saw that in

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<v Speaker 1>on Broadway and in London. And what did I see?

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<v Speaker 1>I saw uh intimate apparel, which is you know now

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<v Speaker 1>an opera ful knowledge so Blair David Allen Greer last night.

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<v Speaker 1>So you're not scared to go there? Do you bring

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<v Speaker 1>your wipe? Do you wipe down the chairs? See the

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<v Speaker 1>wood seats? How long stay on fabric on seats? Did I?

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<v Speaker 1>I think I did a little squirt in the hand.

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<v Speaker 1>That's it. And just keep my hands to myself, my

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<v Speaker 1>arms to myself. Are there scared? I love theater two one.

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<v Speaker 1>Are there any movies that you've done in the past

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<v Speaker 1>that you would like to recreate today? As we see

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<v Speaker 1>people recreating or doing part twos? And well I hear that,

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<v Speaker 1>um they're bringing actually um waiting to excel the Broadway. Listen.

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<v Speaker 1>That's amazing because between the soundtrack and the story and

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<v Speaker 1>the plot, I could probably resete that movie where for

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<v Speaker 1>word take get chill and get out. Yeah, yeah, so

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<v Speaker 1>that's come. It'll be it'll be nice to see that.

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<v Speaker 1>How would it like to shed that character afterward? Like,

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<v Speaker 1>because that has to make you feel like, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>how you bring a piece of your character home with

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<v Speaker 1>you afterward? What was it like to live with that

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<v Speaker 1>one too much? I live more with Tina, I think,

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<v Speaker 1>don't you. I mean trying to learn the songs and

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<v Speaker 1>then she inhaling or exhaling, so you you just really

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<v Speaker 1>had to and to laugh and when she spoke, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>trying to get bits of that. So that wouldn't seem

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<v Speaker 1>a couple of months after like you know, laughing like her,

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<v Speaker 1>talking like her kind of strange, but not as much

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<v Speaker 1>for for exhale because maybe because it wasn't based on

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<v Speaker 1>real life, so it's a character I came up with

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<v Speaker 1>or whatever, right, but it was it was cathartic, It

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<v Speaker 1>was nice. Nobody's clothes or anything. No, I didn't although

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<v Speaker 1>some folks didn't do that. Yeah two before never never,

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<v Speaker 1>When you watch What's Love Had to Do It on Broadway?

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<v Speaker 1>Does that is that triggering at all? You know? You

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<v Speaker 1>think you will see something brand new, You're sitting in

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<v Speaker 1>the theater and it was like, oh, that's familiar, that's familiar.

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<v Speaker 1>So it was it was it was an odd experience

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<v Speaker 1>because I think I literally thought I was gonna see

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<v Speaker 1>a different story and then then her life. But her

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<v Speaker 1>life is her life and we covered in the movie.

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<v Speaker 1>So it was interesting. Deja vu, right, very interesting Tina

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<v Speaker 1>and umbro way too. I was like, how was she

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<v Speaker 1>running up and down the stree. I was like, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I saw her backstage in London. It was like, didn't

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<v Speaker 1>expect the reaction. We were both like just crying, just

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<v Speaker 1>just like you know, because when you play that role, right,

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<v Speaker 1>like you talk about the mannerisms of Tina, but you

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<v Speaker 1>had to embody that trauma of abuse as well, so

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<v Speaker 1>that that had be hard to get up right right. Maybe, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>it was especially like the uh, you know the scene,

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<v Speaker 1>the uh the rape scene, you know, the aquarium and

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<v Speaker 1>stuff and or him fighting and dragging you down the hall.

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<v Speaker 1>But it was good to have, um colleague, to have

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<v Speaker 1>that with someone you trust them speaking Lawrence, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>to go through that because you know he really's got you,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, got you emotionally, um and just actor to

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<v Speaker 1>actor because the hours were long. It was extremely physical.

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<v Speaker 1>You actually hurt for thirty straight days, you know, like

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<v Speaker 1>you know, if you're not dancing, your lifting weight so

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<v Speaker 1>elactic acid build up for thirty straight days something. Everything hurt.

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<v Speaker 1>But you had to, you know, go on. Well, thank

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<v Speaker 1>you so much for joining us, Thank you for having

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<v Speaker 1>me back. That's right, Angela Bassett, it's the Breakfast Club.

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<v Speaker 1>Go morning, it's topic time. The phone called eight hundred

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<v Speaker 1>and five eight five one five want to join into

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<v Speaker 1>the discussion with the Breakfast Club talk about it? Wanting

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<v Speaker 1>everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy we

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<v Speaker 1>are to Breakfast Club. Now, this jerk I work with

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<v Speaker 1>is trying to tell people out there that Santa is

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<v Speaker 1>not real. Well, listen, here's the thing. Ps. Three twenty one.

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<v Speaker 1>In Brooklyn, they fired a substitute teacher because he told

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<v Speaker 1>the students in the class that Santa Claus and the

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<v Speaker 1>tooth Fairy is not real. Like this is when you know,

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<v Speaker 1>lies go too far, Like you're gonna fire the man

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<v Speaker 1>for telling the truth. I like, no, I don't. I

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<v Speaker 1>don't have a problem with you know, you wanting to

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<v Speaker 1>teach your kids to just lie you know what I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>But don't fire the man because he told them the truth.

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<v Speaker 1>What's the point? Well, and one of the benefits of

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<v Speaker 1>telling your kids about Santa Claus. I'm sure there's some

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<v Speaker 1>parents out there that the kids believe in Santa and

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<v Speaker 1>he just ruined their world. What great was this again?

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<v Speaker 1>Sixth grade? Yeah, I'm sure he just ruined their world.

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<v Speaker 1>Now do my kids believe in Santa? Yes, they do,

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<v Speaker 1>absolutely positively. Well, what's the benefits it? I love that

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<v Speaker 1>kids look forward to something, they look forward to getting gifts,

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<v Speaker 1>being good, making cookies, baking cookies as a family, decorating

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<v Speaker 1>the tree, and all the things that come with Santa

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<v Speaker 1>and Christmas. And also for a lot of parents out there,

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<v Speaker 1>this is a good way to make your kid right,

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<v Speaker 1>you know around I say, I told what December they

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<v Speaker 1>start acting up? Oh, you will get from Santa. You better.

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<v Speaker 1>You know how Santa always sees who lordy and nice

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<v Speaker 1>kids act straight immediately. I love it. I think it's fun. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>check this out. A little chat a little Tyrone and

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<v Speaker 1>class Chad. Parents got more money than a little Tyrone.

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<v Speaker 1>Tyrone and Chad both right out there that Christmas list

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<v Speaker 1>to this Santa guy. Correct, all right, Chad gets everything

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<v Speaker 1>he wants. Lord Tyrone don't get nothing but some socks.

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<v Speaker 1>How do you explain to little Tyrone that Santa bought

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<v Speaker 1>little Chad everything he wanted, but didn't bring you what

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<v Speaker 1>you wanted? Tyrone, Tyrone, good old yea, Lord, what I'm

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<v Speaker 1>saying exactly that dumbness, that dumbness question, that dumbness you're

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<v Speaker 1>asking the question that's the stupid like, how do you

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<v Speaker 1>how do you explain that? How do you explain that

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<v Speaker 1>Santa bought you what you wanted but didn't bring this

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<v Speaker 1>other little kid what he wanted. Well, you know, Tyrone,

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<v Speaker 1>Santa's helping a lot of kids that don't have this year.

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<v Speaker 1>And since you're a good kid and you understand, he's

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<v Speaker 1>helping those kids that might not understand little Tyrone. Little Tyrone,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm one of those kids that ain't got nothing. Ever, Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>what a lottle Tyrone run on his list? Santa. I

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<v Speaker 1>want you to get my daddy a job for Christmas. Huh, Hey, Santa,

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<v Speaker 1>I want you to help my mama through her team

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<v Speaker 1>over for Christmas. Oh, Santa grants alwayshes though this is

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<v Speaker 1>all just you always get to use just the big

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<v Speaker 1>fact a Laddin. He could do whatever he wants. Well

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<v Speaker 1>for those situations, Little Tyrone, you gotta ask God. See

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<v Speaker 1>what I'm saying? Who God? Listen? Ain't none of these

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<v Speaker 1>coming through? Not God, not Santa? And now what Lord

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<v Speaker 1>Tyrone do? But angry as hell? He mad as hell? Well,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know what. I gotta stop this. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know what. But my kids believe in Santa and I

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<v Speaker 1>love their face. I love the experience Christmas Eve. Every

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<v Speaker 1>year we ring the doorbelt, my kids run to the door,

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<v Speaker 1>the gifts outside. They think that Santa dropped up some

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<v Speaker 1>gifts and coming back. Are you gonna make season? Dress

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<v Speaker 1>up in the Santa Claus? Shut up, man, I'm not

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<v Speaker 1>messed with you. Let's go to the phone line. Hello,

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<v Speaker 1>who's this Hey? What's uping man? We're talking about the

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<v Speaker 1>benefits of parents talking about Santa. When my kids were

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<v Speaker 1>very young, I allowed them to believe that Santa Claus

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<v Speaker 1>was real. Yes, I I went along with the story

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<v Speaker 1>and I and the true story is I believe that

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<v Speaker 1>Santa Claus was real. When I was young, me too,

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<v Speaker 1>But it's got older. I let them discover on their

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<v Speaker 1>own that myth or that you know there was a

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<v Speaker 1>purpose to that, which is, you know, the challenge reality,

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<v Speaker 1>but not for me to destroy their dreams by there

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<v Speaker 1>you go. There they're doing. They're thinking, yep, I agree

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<v Speaker 1>with you, Thank you. Bro. Hello, who's this Reggie? Hey

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<v Speaker 1>we're talking about Santa Bro. Yeah, I know that. But

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<v Speaker 1>then you're sitting up there saying, don't teach your kids

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<v Speaker 1>about Santa and two fairies. But do you teach your

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<v Speaker 1>kids there's no gods? No, I don't teach my kids.

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<v Speaker 1>There's no God. You know what I mean. You're wrong.

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<v Speaker 1>Why would I teach my kids? There's no God. There's

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<v Speaker 1>much more proof that God. There's much more proof that

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<v Speaker 1>God exists as opposed to Santa clause, where's the proof

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<v Speaker 1>of gods? Uh? This planet that that we're on in

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<v Speaker 1>the middle of the sky that's rotate, these trees that

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<v Speaker 1>are growing up out of the ground, these birds that

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<v Speaker 1>are flying in the sky. Hey, this thing you got

0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:09.600
<v Speaker 1>called a body? Okay? No, no, okay, who made it? Then?

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<v Speaker 1>Santa man? The universe is made by itself, Okay, no

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<v Speaker 1>doubt asteroids and everything, damn your history, bro, No doubt

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<v Speaker 1>the universe is made by itself. But there's not a

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<v Speaker 1>baby on this planet. There's not a baby on this

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<v Speaker 1>planet that's made by itself. See, it's still got you

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<v Speaker 1>still gotta take your pietas and put it out of

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<v Speaker 1>the woman and procreate. Something created those children, something created

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<v Speaker 1>this world. But but all that, But I believe in Santa,

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<v Speaker 1>and Santa does exist, and so does the tooth fairy.

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<v Speaker 1>Good morning, Megan, Good morning. What are the benefits of

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<v Speaker 1>parents of telling kids about Santa Um the appreciation that

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<v Speaker 1>comes from the kids when they realized that their parents

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<v Speaker 1>were really Santa all those years? And do your kids

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<v Speaker 1>believe in Santa? I have one that doesn't, one that doesn't. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>how does that work? A house divided cannot stand? How

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<v Speaker 1>does that work? Well? I have a ten year old

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<v Speaker 1>in the five year old and once my ten year

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<v Speaker 1>old sound up, he wasn't real. I just made sure

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<v Speaker 1>that she didn't tell her little sister. So her little sister,

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<v Speaker 1>because how did it ten? Ye'll find out It was

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<v Speaker 1>that one year he didn't get what he wanted. Huh Um,

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<v Speaker 1>kids in school, I'm sure other kids, Yeah, And I didn't.

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<v Speaker 1>I wasn't gonna lie to her. But you know, all

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<v Speaker 1>those years, she never asked me, So I never told her. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>how can caw can parents that he would never lie

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<v Speaker 1>to their kids, But you've been lying to him about

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<v Speaker 1>standing believe life. You know, my son found the elf

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<v Speaker 1>on the shelf this weekend and picked it up. It

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<v Speaker 1>was so mad because if you touch the elf on

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<v Speaker 1>the shelf and loses his magical powers. And he was

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<v Speaker 1>so upset and crying and my daughter had to google

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<v Speaker 1>and if you put centimon around the elf on the shelf,

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<v Speaker 1>he gets his magical powers back. Yeah, I didn't know that,

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<v Speaker 1>but saying it, why are you looking at me like that?

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<v Speaker 1>I think that the daddy, instead of sentiment, is putting

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<v Speaker 1>a little white powder called colcine on the table somewhere

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<v Speaker 1>and he's sniffing it. Because you sound crazy right now?

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<v Speaker 1>All right, well, okay, forget you, Diane. Yeah, how are you?

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<v Speaker 1>How are you? We're talking about saying the okay, yes,

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<v Speaker 1>you know what. Thank you very much for what you did,

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<v Speaker 1>because when I went through my divorce and I had

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<v Speaker 1>my sons, I straight up told them there is no

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<v Speaker 1>Santa Claus. In fact, you better pray to Jesus that

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<v Speaker 1>you get what you want, because I am the real

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<v Speaker 1>Santa Claus. Right. I had to print my baby boy though,

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<v Speaker 1>because about that time he was in kindergarten. But I

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<v Speaker 1>sat him down, told them what was going on. You

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<v Speaker 1>can make your list, but I want you to pray

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<v Speaker 1>to God because I am the real Santa Claus. But

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<v Speaker 1>I told him I can't know what you can't do

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<v Speaker 1>to go to school and tell you look, kindergarten friends,

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<v Speaker 1>there's no Santa Claus because you might upset some children

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<v Speaker 1>in the classroom. And I don't want to teach your

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<v Speaker 1>calling me. But in the meantime and in clean time, no,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm the real Santa I told my mother. I said,

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<v Speaker 1>as a single parent, I said, this is very stressful,

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm telling my kids the truth. Of course, she

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<v Speaker 1>thought it was horrible as a financial thing for you

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<v Speaker 1>if you have been in the financial thing. For everybody,

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<v Speaker 1>it's a believing thing. They got him, all right, Well, listen,

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<v Speaker 1>all you poor kids out there. I want y'all to

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<v Speaker 1>believe that y'all gonna get that Xbox this Christmas, and

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<v Speaker 1>when you don't get it, I want y'all to still

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<v Speaker 1>believe by sitting in front of a TV if you

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<v Speaker 1>got one, playing imaginary Xbox imaginary call of duty. Bun's

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<v Speaker 1>your little kids like this point in the TV what

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<v Speaker 1>they fingered? Stop you, man, It's crue to teach kids

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<v Speaker 1>about Santa Claus if you can't afford to be Santa,

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<v Speaker 1>and you got this kid expecting all this stuff on

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<v Speaker 1>this list, knowing you can't afford it, but you're still

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<v Speaker 1>telling them about Santa. You are checking your kids up

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<v Speaker 1>for failure and you're doing them a grave dis service.

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<v Speaker 1>That'd be good. I believe in Santa. I'm doing okay.

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<v Speaker 1>How do you tell a little poor kid that they

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<v Speaker 1>didn't get what they want on they list? For this

0:22:38.359 --> 0:22:40.199
<v Speaker 1>little boy sitting right next to them in class got

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<v Speaker 1>everything you wanted just because his parents doing a little

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<v Speaker 1>bit better in life. How? How that's not fair? Life?

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<v Speaker 1>Stop fair? You know? Well, you know, I bet you did.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a black Sand, it's a white Santa. If the

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<v Speaker 1>white Sander bring you everything you want, black Sand always

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<v Speaker 1>let you down. The black Santa looks like your daddy

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<v Speaker 1>looking at the bit. All right, we got more all

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<v Speaker 1>coming up next with a breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club Morning.

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<v Speaker 1>Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlemagne, the guy we

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<v Speaker 1>are the breakfast club. We got a special guests in

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<v Speaker 1>the buildings. Indeed, Bishop the Drip Jakes, I'm gonna tell

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<v Speaker 1>you something. There's nobody I would rather talk to this

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<v Speaker 1>morning other than you. Thank you, like like like hearts

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<v Speaker 1>are heavy? You know why the tragic acts accident that

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<v Speaker 1>happened to mister Kobe Bryant, his daughter and all the

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<v Speaker 1>other folks on the plane. Hell, how do you make

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<v Speaker 1>the helicopter? How do you make sense of that? Like?

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<v Speaker 1>How could that have been God's plan? You don't make

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<v Speaker 1>sense of it. You endure it, you survive it, you grieve,

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<v Speaker 1>you go through the process. I think where we get

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<v Speaker 1>in trouble it's when we try to explain and understand

0:23:43.520 --> 0:23:47.120
<v Speaker 1>things that are unexplainable. Right now, we got to survive

0:23:47.200 --> 0:23:50.879
<v Speaker 1>it because our whole nation has taken a blow. The

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<v Speaker 1>family and particular sports fans, other athletes are are grieving

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<v Speaker 1>right now. And I think that to try to explain

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<v Speaker 1>something like you know more than you know, we don't know.

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<v Speaker 1>They're still investigating what happened, whether it's human error or

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<v Speaker 1>whether it was the weather or the climate, all of

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<v Speaker 1>those play a factor, and that we look for somebody

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<v Speaker 1>to blame. How could God allow that to happen? Or

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<v Speaker 1>this or that or the other? But right now, tragic

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<v Speaker 1>things happen in life every day. But this is a

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<v Speaker 1>person that we knew and loved and a part of

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<v Speaker 1>our community. It's okay to be sad, It's okay to grieve,

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<v Speaker 1>It's okay to go through those range of emotions anger

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<v Speaker 1>and being upset and what have you. But at the

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<v Speaker 1>end of the day, we're in a survival mode right now. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>what do you tell somebody who's on a fence with

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<v Speaker 1>religion and believing and they see something like this and

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<v Speaker 1>they say, wow, you know, he had a thirteen year

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<v Speaker 1>old that died, and there was other tweens on that

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<v Speaker 1>plane that died. What do you tell that person for

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<v Speaker 1>faith and how they can continue to believe? Yeah, I

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<v Speaker 1>think it is your faith that gets you through those

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<v Speaker 1>unexplainable moments. And I think you'll have to realize it's

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<v Speaker 1>terrible and as tragic as it was. We're grateful his

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<v Speaker 1>wife wasn't on board. We're grateful the whole family wasn't

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<v Speaker 1>on board. I look for things that are positive in

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<v Speaker 1>the midst of the pain. Not denying the pain, but

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<v Speaker 1>I look for things that are positive. As for trying

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<v Speaker 1>to get somebody to believe who doesn't believe you, really,

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<v Speaker 1>you really can't do that because God can't be explaining.

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<v Speaker 1>He must be revealed and you have to have an

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<v Speaker 1>open heart to allow that to happen in your life. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>and if you believe God does everything for a reason,

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<v Speaker 1>you can't only believe that when the positive things happen, right, absolutely,

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<v Speaker 1>because many times the positive things come out of the

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<v Speaker 1>most horrific things in our lives. I mean, you look

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<v Speaker 1>at your own life. Sometimes the worst tragedies brought you

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<v Speaker 1>into an awareness or sensibility over years that if this

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<v Speaker 1>hadn't happened, that hadn't happened, Time will judge the validity

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<v Speaker 1>of the situation. Right now, we have to endure, and

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<v Speaker 1>you still have to lift up the family members of

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<v Speaker 1>who have lost somebody right now, and the daughters and

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<v Speaker 1>his wife and all the family members of the other

0:25:52.280 --> 0:25:54.600
<v Speaker 1>people who are on the helicopter too, and they lost

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<v Speaker 1>somebody completely different from who we know. When you're famous,

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<v Speaker 1>people know you from what you do, but your family

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<v Speaker 1>knows you from who you are, and it's a much

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<v Speaker 1>deeper loss. It's a it's a greater kind of pain,

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<v Speaker 1>and it's very difficult to get through. I listen to

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<v Speaker 1>a sermon you gave on us at Timber twenty second

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<v Speaker 1>title keep it Moving, and it almost seems like keeping

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<v Speaker 1>it moving after death seems insensitive. So how do you

0:26:19.480 --> 0:26:22.480
<v Speaker 1>keep it moving? You have to keep it moving because

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<v Speaker 1>life keeps moving, because bills keep moving, because illnesses keep moving,

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<v Speaker 1>threats keep moving, problems don't stop because you're in pain,

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<v Speaker 1>and so sometimes the therapy is in keeping it moving.

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<v Speaker 1>But of course when you're the family, you have to

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<v Speaker 1>shut down for a minute and breathe and recalibrate. And

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<v Speaker 1>it may be over the next two years or twenty

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<v Speaker 1>years that you feel that pain. My mother died in

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<v Speaker 1>ninety nine, and if I think about it hard now,

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<v Speaker 1>I'll get emotional. I mean because and I don't even

0:26:50.280 --> 0:26:52.359
<v Speaker 1>want that to go away. I don't even want that

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<v Speaker 1>to go away. Because sometimes the sadness validates the value

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<v Speaker 1>of what you lost. Explain that a little more. With

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<v Speaker 1>the sadness, the sadness, the greater the sadness, it's an

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<v Speaker 1>indication that the greater the love. Some people don't feel

0:27:04.400 --> 0:27:07.000
<v Speaker 1>sadness because they don't feel love. Then if you're a

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<v Speaker 1>great lover. You have great pain when people leave your life,

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<v Speaker 1>and to the degree that we miss and we feel

0:27:12.320 --> 0:27:14.439
<v Speaker 1>that pain, and that pain in many ways is a

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<v Speaker 1>tribute to the significance of that individual in your life.

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<v Speaker 1>Are there times that you question your own faith? And

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<v Speaker 1>is that a common thing for people to do, to

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<v Speaker 1>just question. I used to answer that question and say no,

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<v Speaker 1>and then I went through something in said you, and

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<v Speaker 1>I have to say yes. I have gone through those

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<v Speaker 1>moments where I was in grief and wondered, you know,

0:27:34.600 --> 0:27:36.280
<v Speaker 1>why did you allow this to happen. I was a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit angry with God. I healed, I got over it,

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<v Speaker 1>I was okay. But I have had those moments of challenge.

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<v Speaker 1>We have to remember that faith does not mean the

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<v Speaker 1>absence of doubt. Faith and doubt cohabitated in the same space.

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<v Speaker 1>And to be completely honest about it, that faith is

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<v Speaker 1>something we believe, but what we like to do is no,

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<v Speaker 1>and you cannot know. You have to believed. That's the

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<v Speaker 1>whole premise of being a believer is to believe that

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<v Speaker 1>which you cannot see. And you have to do that

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<v Speaker 1>in the presence of voices of doubt who are telling

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<v Speaker 1>you it's not worth it. It's just like going to work.

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<v Speaker 1>Sometimes you don't want to go, but there's another voice

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<v Speaker 1>says you got to go, and you're conflicted, and yet

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<v Speaker 1>you keep it moving. And I think a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>times people are trying to get out of the conflict.

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<v Speaker 1>But the conflict is a part of life, and we're

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<v Speaker 1>all conflicted from time to time, and yet we find

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<v Speaker 1>a way to keep it moving. That's right. There was

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<v Speaker 1>a time you said you thought about leaving the ministry. Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>I've absolutely been there and went through when I first

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<v Speaker 1>got in, especially national International ministry. All the things that

0:28:39.840 --> 0:28:47.080
<v Speaker 1>come along with that are hard to manage, notoriety, interviews, bloggers,

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<v Speaker 1>or lastly reports. Mine was the Washington Post article and

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<v Speaker 1>I wasn't used to that, and I come from West Virginia.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm a country boy, and I thought, I don't I

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<v Speaker 1>didn't sign up for this. I don't need that. But

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<v Speaker 1>the reality is this one woman came into a book

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<v Speaker 1>signing and changed my life. She had just gotten out

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<v Speaker 1>the hospital. She'd had a tubal pregnancy and the baby

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<v Speaker 1>was dead and she was living with a dead body

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<v Speaker 1>body inside of her, so it almost killed her. She

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<v Speaker 1>was very weak. She got out of the hospital against

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<v Speaker 1>the doctor's request and came to me as if she

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<v Speaker 1>knew what I was thinking, and said, it's for us

0:29:26.680 --> 0:29:28.920
<v Speaker 1>that you do it, it's not for them. And when

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<v Speaker 1>you go through moments of challenge and pain, you have

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<v Speaker 1>to find purpose, and sometimes you forget why you do

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<v Speaker 1>what you do and why you must endure or what

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<v Speaker 1>you endure it. And she she moved me like in

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<v Speaker 1>a major way. If it wasn't for that woman coming

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<v Speaker 1>in that day and talking to me, I don't know

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<v Speaker 1>that I would have been in ministry. Now we'll do.

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<v Speaker 1>The righteous always have to suffer. Everybody sufferers. Everybody sufferers.

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<v Speaker 1>The emblem of Christianity is across. That's a big warning

0:29:57.680 --> 0:29:59.640
<v Speaker 1>that if God's spirit not his son, He's not going

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<v Speaker 1>to you. Everybody goes through suffering, no matter how rich

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<v Speaker 1>ye are, no matter how poor year are, no matter

0:30:04.760 --> 0:30:07.240
<v Speaker 1>how famous you are, no matter whether you're homeless or

0:30:07.240 --> 0:30:10.000
<v Speaker 1>living in a mansion. We were all born and we

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<v Speaker 1>are all going to die. Yeah, death is not discriminated

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<v Speaker 1>at all. It does not discriminated. Would you want to know,

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<v Speaker 1>because that's what we were talking about that this morning.

0:30:17.400 --> 0:30:20.240
<v Speaker 1>I was saying that it's yesterday morning. It was the

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<v Speaker 1>unexpectedness of death. I think that would you would you

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<v Speaker 1>want to know? No? I wouldn't want to know. No.

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<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't want to know. Some people feel differently about it,

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<v Speaker 1>but I wouldn't want to know. I wanted to surprise me.

0:30:32.080 --> 0:30:35.760
<v Speaker 1>I don't want to live waiting on a date to leave.

0:30:35.840 --> 0:30:37.880
<v Speaker 1>I want to live every day to the fullest, not

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<v Speaker 1>with the cloud hanging over my head about a date

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<v Speaker 1>that could be twenty years off, for thirty years off,

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<v Speaker 1>and then to adjust my life to dying. I'd rather

0:30:46.840 --> 0:30:49.440
<v Speaker 1>build my life around living and let death find me

0:30:49.480 --> 0:30:51.520
<v Speaker 1>whenever it does. All right, we got more with Bishop

0:30:51.560 --> 0:30:53.360
<v Speaker 1>td Jakes. When we come back, don't move. It's the

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<v Speaker 1>Breakfast Club, Go Morning Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy angela

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<v Speaker 1>Ye Charlomne the god we all the Breakfast Club was

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<v Speaker 1>still kicking it with Bishop td Jakes. What are your

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<v Speaker 1>feelings towards suicide? Because you hear so many different things

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<v Speaker 1>with suicide. If you're suicide, you'll never make it to heaven.

0:31:08.400 --> 0:31:10.520
<v Speaker 1>If you're suicide, God to look at you. What are

0:31:10.520 --> 0:31:13.080
<v Speaker 1>your thoughts on suicide or so many kids are the

0:31:13.120 --> 0:31:15.080
<v Speaker 1>first thing that popped into my mind when you said

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<v Speaker 1>that it's not whether you go to heaven or not.

0:31:17.360 --> 0:31:20.320
<v Speaker 1>I think we should work harder to stop suicide. I

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<v Speaker 1>think that suicide is epidemic, particularly Amongst African American young people,

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<v Speaker 1>in a way that's reprehensible. One of the reasons that

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<v Speaker 1>I started the foundation that we're going to talk about

0:31:30.600 --> 0:31:33.480
<v Speaker 1>is because of mental health. And mental health is a

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<v Speaker 1>huge issue in our community. And I think you have

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<v Speaker 1>to understand that a lot of people who take their life,

0:31:39.840 --> 0:31:44.040
<v Speaker 1>they really didn't take their life. The sickness did. So

0:31:44.080 --> 0:31:47.560
<v Speaker 1>the person who we say committed suicide is as much

0:31:47.560 --> 0:31:50.360
<v Speaker 1>a victim as if they were a victim of a homicide.

0:31:50.720 --> 0:31:54.640
<v Speaker 1>Because if you have emotional mental health issues, it affects

0:31:54.640 --> 0:31:57.920
<v Speaker 1>your decisions and your judgment and your view of life.

0:31:58.280 --> 0:32:01.760
<v Speaker 1>So to judge that who, I'm not God, so where

0:32:01.800 --> 0:32:04.280
<v Speaker 1>they spend eternity? You, I'm not God. But I do

0:32:04.360 --> 0:32:06.520
<v Speaker 1>think that the person is a victim, and I would

0:32:06.600 --> 0:32:09.959
<v Speaker 1>think that if you're a victim, we just believe that

0:32:10.000 --> 0:32:12.520
<v Speaker 1>they're in a better place. You wanted the first. You know,

0:32:12.680 --> 0:32:16.000
<v Speaker 1>people are the cloth that actually embraced you know, therapy

0:32:16.080 --> 0:32:18.200
<v Speaker 1>and you know, telling people to go out then you know,

0:32:18.240 --> 0:32:19.680
<v Speaker 1>get help for them. Mental health because a lot of

0:32:19.720 --> 0:32:21.240
<v Speaker 1>times we tell a lot of people take it to

0:32:21.240 --> 0:32:23.520
<v Speaker 1>the church, just pray about just pray about it, and

0:32:23.600 --> 0:32:25.360
<v Speaker 1>we don't treat it like it's a sickness. We treat

0:32:25.400 --> 0:32:27.960
<v Speaker 1>it like it's a spiritual issue and it's a health issue.

0:32:28.040 --> 0:32:30.320
<v Speaker 1>And I think you'll have to differentiate one from another. Sure,

0:32:30.360 --> 0:32:32.760
<v Speaker 1>you're going to pray, but you also do everything you

0:32:32.800 --> 0:32:34.720
<v Speaker 1>can do to be at the best that you can be.

0:32:34.720 --> 0:32:36.920
<v Speaker 1>And I do think that prayers are beauty, but it

0:32:37.000 --> 0:32:38.800
<v Speaker 1>is not enough for a lot of people who have

0:32:38.960 --> 0:32:42.440
<v Speaker 1>serious trauma that they've endured and they need to be

0:32:42.480 --> 0:32:44.240
<v Speaker 1>able to talk, they need to be able to heal,

0:32:44.280 --> 0:32:47.480
<v Speaker 1>and sometimes they have chemical imbalances. It causes them to

0:32:47.520 --> 0:32:49.080
<v Speaker 1>be where they are. I got to teach her that says,

0:32:49.120 --> 0:32:52.760
<v Speaker 1>I go to therapy and I pray, absolutely, do it all. Absolutely,

0:32:52.840 --> 0:32:56.280
<v Speaker 1>I take blood pressure medicry to pray over it every day.

0:32:56.040 --> 0:32:59.800
<v Speaker 1>Pray it works, and let it works. Jesus, you are

0:32:59.840 --> 0:33:06.480
<v Speaker 1>not planning to launch on online Jake's Divinity School That yeah, Yeah,

0:33:06.480 --> 0:33:09.560
<v Speaker 1>it has launched. It's up and running. It's everything that

0:33:09.600 --> 0:33:13.480
<v Speaker 1>I'm doing now is about training the next generations. It's

0:33:13.600 --> 0:33:17.040
<v Speaker 1>empowering them to accomplish their dreams to reach their goals.

0:33:17.160 --> 0:33:21.320
<v Speaker 1>I'm leveraging my relationships and academics, and I'm levering my

0:33:21.400 --> 0:33:26.240
<v Speaker 1>relationships with corporate America to create a pipeline because a

0:33:26.280 --> 0:33:28.719
<v Speaker 1>lot of us, the only pipeline we have to the

0:33:28.720 --> 0:33:30.560
<v Speaker 1>world we want to be is the one we see

0:33:30.560 --> 0:33:33.680
<v Speaker 1>on TV. But you'll never watch TV long enough to

0:33:33.720 --> 0:33:36.720
<v Speaker 1>get there. So we have to stop watching our dreams

0:33:37.000 --> 0:33:40.360
<v Speaker 1>and start creating a pathway where we can facilitate our dreams.

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<v Speaker 1>I see more and more young people coming to church.

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<v Speaker 1>Now we see that more or is it slowing down

0:33:45.280 --> 0:33:47.440
<v Speaker 1>a little bit? You know, that's a that's a great question.

0:33:47.520 --> 0:33:49.840
<v Speaker 1>I think it varies from church to church and from

0:33:49.920 --> 0:33:52.880
<v Speaker 1>region to region. I see a lot of young people

0:33:52.880 --> 0:33:55.640
<v Speaker 1>who are really interested in faith. Many of them are

0:33:55.680 --> 0:33:58.680
<v Speaker 1>coming to church. My demos are swinging younger and younger.

0:33:58.760 --> 0:34:01.840
<v Speaker 1>Fifty percent of my church it's millennials. So I'm seeing

0:34:01.840 --> 0:34:05.160
<v Speaker 1>a huge interest in young people coming to church. But

0:34:05.200 --> 0:34:08.920
<v Speaker 1>I also am seeing a deterioration of attendance because a

0:34:08.920 --> 0:34:14.080
<v Speaker 1>lot of young people yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And

0:34:14.200 --> 0:34:15.719
<v Speaker 1>you want to watch what you want to watch it.

0:34:15.800 --> 0:34:18.280
<v Speaker 1>So we stream twenty four hours a day. We scream

0:34:18.320 --> 0:34:20.920
<v Speaker 1>all week long because young people stay up at night

0:34:20.960 --> 0:34:23.040
<v Speaker 1>and I often sleep late in the morning. Nothing like

0:34:23.080 --> 0:34:25.680
<v Speaker 1>what doing your lundry, watching Bishop TV see what I'm saying,

0:34:25.760 --> 0:34:27.879
<v Speaker 1>or working out in the gym, Yeah, but I do.

0:34:27.960 --> 0:34:29.880
<v Speaker 1>I mean I ride in the morning. I put one

0:34:29.880 --> 0:34:31.759
<v Speaker 1>of your stormers on. Whether this from YouTube or was

0:34:31.800 --> 0:34:35.440
<v Speaker 1>it the podcast? That's how I consume it. But I've

0:34:35.440 --> 0:34:37.239
<v Speaker 1>been to part of house as well. Yes, your head,

0:34:37.280 --> 0:34:39.440
<v Speaker 1>there's nothing like being a part of house. It's different.

0:34:39.480 --> 0:34:41.719
<v Speaker 1>It is different being there from watching it on TV.

0:34:41.840 --> 0:34:44.399
<v Speaker 1>You can get a perception on TV. But I think

0:34:44.440 --> 0:34:46.400
<v Speaker 1>when I was here before, I talked about the difference

0:34:46.440 --> 0:34:49.279
<v Speaker 1>between a picture and an ultrasound. When you actually go

0:34:49.440 --> 0:34:52.239
<v Speaker 1>in it, you see it from a whole different perspective

0:34:52.440 --> 0:34:54.400
<v Speaker 1>than when you're avoid your own louse. I feel like

0:34:54.440 --> 0:34:57.600
<v Speaker 1>a college basketball game, I'm saying. It had that kind

0:34:57.640 --> 0:34:59.680
<v Speaker 1>of energy, like it feels like a college basketball game.

0:35:00.000 --> 0:35:02.400
<v Speaker 1>Any impact from Kanye doing what he's been doing with

0:35:02.480 --> 0:35:05.680
<v Speaker 1>his Sunday services, you know something, I'm thrill anybody who's

0:35:05.719 --> 0:35:09.000
<v Speaker 1>out there who's doing something positive to help change the world,

0:35:09.280 --> 0:35:12.200
<v Speaker 1>I'm thrilled about it. I just hope that while he's

0:35:12.239 --> 0:35:16.000
<v Speaker 1>busy doing that that somebody's taking care of him, because

0:35:16.080 --> 0:35:18.919
<v Speaker 1>the problem with being talented and being gifted and being

0:35:18.960 --> 0:35:22.040
<v Speaker 1>good in intention, and sometimes people are so excited about

0:35:22.040 --> 0:35:25.240
<v Speaker 1>your gift that they take your gift and leave you behind.

0:35:25.800 --> 0:35:29.160
<v Speaker 1>And I think it's very very important for him in

0:35:29.280 --> 0:35:32.560
<v Speaker 1>order to remain stable and remain functional, that he's not

0:35:32.600 --> 0:35:35.440
<v Speaker 1>so busy giving to us that nobody's giving to him.

0:35:35.760 --> 0:35:38.560
<v Speaker 1>But I've seen the music. The music is hot. I've

0:35:38.600 --> 0:35:42.040
<v Speaker 1>seen his performances. I think it's absolutely wonderful. But I

0:35:42.600 --> 0:35:44.920
<v Speaker 1>want somebody There's a scripture in the Bible says no

0:35:45.000 --> 0:35:47.640
<v Speaker 1>man cared for my soul. I want us to care

0:35:47.680 --> 0:35:50.040
<v Speaker 1>for his soul as much as we care for his music.

0:35:50.120 --> 0:35:54.520
<v Speaker 1>Would hold I would definitely consider doing something like that.

0:35:55.000 --> 0:36:00.359
<v Speaker 1>My focus, however, is everybody's hosting him, who's pastoring him. Yeah,

0:36:01.080 --> 0:36:03.279
<v Speaker 1>you understand what I'm saying. And sometimes I don't want

0:36:03.280 --> 0:36:05.759
<v Speaker 1>to be seen as a gig. I don't want to

0:36:05.800 --> 0:36:08.960
<v Speaker 1>be seen as an opportunity. I want to be an

0:36:09.000 --> 0:36:12.560
<v Speaker 1>year sometimes for people who don't have anybody to talk to.

0:36:12.800 --> 0:36:14.120
<v Speaker 1>So I don't want to be in the crowd that

0:36:14.320 --> 0:36:16.919
<v Speaker 1>reaching after him, trying to snatch his gift. I want

0:36:16.920 --> 0:36:19.000
<v Speaker 1>to be the guy who's sitting over in the corner saying, hey,

0:36:19.040 --> 0:36:23.200
<v Speaker 1>are you okay? How are you balanced? How are you emotionally?

0:36:23.400 --> 0:36:26.120
<v Speaker 1>How are you mentally? Because we are seeing too many

0:36:26.120 --> 0:36:31.600
<v Speaker 1>of our artists drift away, be killed, commit suicide. Nobody

0:36:31.680 --> 0:36:34.880
<v Speaker 1>was investing into that mental right, well right, and you

0:36:35.040 --> 0:36:39.640
<v Speaker 1>need somebody around you who doesn't just want you for

0:36:39.760 --> 0:36:43.320
<v Speaker 1>what you do, to say are you okay? Think of

0:36:43.400 --> 0:36:45.920
<v Speaker 1>the culture shock it is to go from being in

0:36:45.960 --> 0:36:49.520
<v Speaker 1>the hood one moment to being a celebrity next moment,

0:36:49.880 --> 0:36:54.440
<v Speaker 1>with no training, no preparation, no therapy, and all of

0:36:54.480 --> 0:36:57.600
<v Speaker 1>a sudden, you step into this world and you can't

0:36:57.680 --> 0:37:01.320
<v Speaker 1>get out. Once you're famous, you can never be anonymous.

0:37:01.400 --> 0:37:06.160
<v Speaker 1>So your success can become your prison. And so if

0:37:06.200 --> 0:37:08.480
<v Speaker 1>you're going to realize that, and you're going to recognize that,

0:37:08.640 --> 0:37:12.040
<v Speaker 1>we have to in our community have to be slow

0:37:12.480 --> 0:37:16.000
<v Speaker 1>to join the bandwagon of stoning people who got into trouble.

0:37:16.560 --> 0:37:18.400
<v Speaker 1>We have to be more on the side of the

0:37:18.480 --> 0:37:21.000
<v Speaker 1>ambulance who rushes to the scene of the crime to

0:37:21.040 --> 0:37:23.440
<v Speaker 1>see what we can do, because we are hurting too.

0:37:23.760 --> 0:37:25.920
<v Speaker 1>We know that you are hurting, and we know how

0:37:25.960 --> 0:37:27.680
<v Speaker 1>to speak the kind of language to get you back

0:37:27.719 --> 0:37:30.480
<v Speaker 1>up one. I like to reduce people to their mistakes

0:37:30.719 --> 0:37:34.560
<v Speaker 1>a lot of time, absolutely, absolutely, while we make our own.

0:37:35.200 --> 0:37:37.480
<v Speaker 1>And so we're all trying to figure out life. In

0:37:37.480 --> 0:37:40.560
<v Speaker 1>the moment you figure it out, it changes. You go

0:37:40.640 --> 0:37:43.880
<v Speaker 1>through stages at different ages, and different ages bring on

0:37:44.000 --> 0:37:48.480
<v Speaker 1>different challenges, and nobody gets it right every turn, because

0:37:48.520 --> 0:37:51.080
<v Speaker 1>every turn is a new experience and you're back to

0:37:51.160 --> 0:37:54.000
<v Speaker 1>one again and you're learning again. As soon as you

0:37:54.040 --> 0:37:56.560
<v Speaker 1>get used to having little kids, they're not little kids.

0:37:56.800 --> 0:37:59.640
<v Speaker 1>As soon as you get used to having teenagers, they've

0:37:59.719 --> 0:38:03.120
<v Speaker 1>left the house. And everything keeps changing on us all

0:38:03.120 --> 0:38:05.360
<v Speaker 1>the time. So you never get to be a master

0:38:05.480 --> 0:38:08.360
<v Speaker 1>at your life because of courses keep changing. You know,

0:38:09.400 --> 0:38:19.120
<v Speaker 1>a ball winning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne

0:38:19.160 --> 0:38:21.640
<v Speaker 1>the God. We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking

0:38:21.640 --> 0:38:24.399
<v Speaker 1>it with Bishop TD Jakes. When young people come to church,

0:38:24.440 --> 0:38:26.560
<v Speaker 1>what are they looking for? You know, when my grandmother

0:38:26.600 --> 0:38:28.440
<v Speaker 1>went to church, you wanted to hope, She wanted to

0:38:28.440 --> 0:38:30.440
<v Speaker 1>make sure that her family was okay, and she had

0:38:30.480 --> 0:38:33.239
<v Speaker 1>an opportunity. So what are people coming to church for now?

0:38:33.239 --> 0:38:35.600
<v Speaker 1>Because it's different now my kids are online. They look

0:38:35.680 --> 0:38:38.760
<v Speaker 1>for certain things they have more questions and require more answers.

0:38:38.800 --> 0:38:40.839
<v Speaker 1>So what are people looking for now when they come

0:38:40.880 --> 0:38:43.120
<v Speaker 1>to church? You know, I think it varies from person

0:38:43.160 --> 0:38:45.840
<v Speaker 1>to person. I think hope has a factor degree and

0:38:45.920 --> 0:38:48.480
<v Speaker 1>it like we're bleeding right now, we're talking about Kobe

0:38:48.840 --> 0:38:51.800
<v Speaker 1>right now. It reminds us of how the brevity of life.

0:38:51.880 --> 0:38:54.480
<v Speaker 1>It reminds us that we don't take time for ourselves.

0:38:54.640 --> 0:38:58.160
<v Speaker 1>It reminds us that there is a life after this life.

0:38:58.160 --> 0:39:01.239
<v Speaker 1>And so people start to think about faith differently. But

0:39:01.280 --> 0:39:04.000
<v Speaker 1>I also think that people come to the Black Church

0:39:04.120 --> 0:39:07.040
<v Speaker 1>differently than they do for other people who come to church.

0:39:07.400 --> 0:39:10.000
<v Speaker 1>They look for our leaders to be involved in the

0:39:10.040 --> 0:39:14.080
<v Speaker 1>community in some way. They look for our levels of

0:39:14.239 --> 0:39:17.799
<v Speaker 1>quantifiable results. How does this help me right now? In

0:39:17.840 --> 0:39:21.560
<v Speaker 1>the here and now, not the sweet by and by inspiration?

0:39:21.920 --> 0:39:24.640
<v Speaker 1>The inspiration. And there's one other thing I want to

0:39:24.640 --> 0:39:26.719
<v Speaker 1>bring up. They call these people to come to church.

0:39:27.360 --> 0:39:30.360
<v Speaker 1>If you come to church consistently, church becomes a family.

0:39:30.680 --> 0:39:32.640
<v Speaker 1>And for many of us, that's something we didn't have.

0:39:33.120 --> 0:39:36.120
<v Speaker 1>Right I learned sometimes it's not so much about pastoring

0:39:36.760 --> 0:39:39.279
<v Speaker 1>our young man, it's about fathering them. I got a

0:39:39.280 --> 0:39:41.320
<v Speaker 1>few more questions. How long can you go without tipping

0:39:41.320 --> 0:39:47.080
<v Speaker 1>the water. Even when I watch you sermons, never been

0:39:47.080 --> 0:39:49.960
<v Speaker 1>answer that question. Incidentally, I don't know. I can go

0:39:50.000 --> 0:39:51.920
<v Speaker 1>a pretty good way. I don't think to go for

0:39:52.000 --> 0:39:55.560
<v Speaker 1>the water. Yeah, when I get to speaking or teaching,

0:39:55.920 --> 0:39:58.520
<v Speaker 1>the only thing I'm thinking about is what I'm doing.

0:39:58.760 --> 0:40:00.520
<v Speaker 1>We had a discussion the other day about when you

0:40:00.560 --> 0:40:03.600
<v Speaker 1>go in the confessional, right if they have a responsibility

0:40:03.840 --> 0:40:06.160
<v Speaker 1>when say, someone commits a crime and they go and

0:40:06.200 --> 0:40:08.319
<v Speaker 1>confess that. Now, if someone comes to you and they

0:40:08.360 --> 0:40:10.680
<v Speaker 1>does something, and they've done something illegal and they tell

0:40:10.719 --> 0:40:14.320
<v Speaker 1>you that, is that something that you feel a responsibility

0:40:14.360 --> 0:40:16.719
<v Speaker 1>to report to the authorities or is that something that

0:40:17.160 --> 0:40:21.719
<v Speaker 1>becomes this was a confidential conversation. Well, you have the

0:40:21.800 --> 0:40:25.520
<v Speaker 1>same kind of privilege, said an attorney does when somebody

0:40:25.560 --> 0:40:28.800
<v Speaker 1>comes and discloses something to you. And that's important because

0:40:28.880 --> 0:40:31.359
<v Speaker 1>nobody's going to come talk to you about something if

0:40:31.400 --> 0:40:33.839
<v Speaker 1>they feel like they're going to get reported. There are

0:40:33.880 --> 0:40:37.160
<v Speaker 1>some exceptions to that. However, when it comes to child abuse,

0:40:37.560 --> 0:40:39.960
<v Speaker 1>you are legally required that if you know it, you

0:40:40.040 --> 0:40:43.440
<v Speaker 1>absolutely have to report it. There are other issues that

0:40:43.440 --> 0:40:45.920
<v Speaker 1>are kind of on the borderline where you have to

0:40:46.000 --> 0:40:48.600
<v Speaker 1>use your best judgment, but it has to be serious

0:40:49.040 --> 0:40:51.719
<v Speaker 1>for you to violate the confidential learder, Like I said,

0:40:51.719 --> 0:40:53.239
<v Speaker 1>if I came in to you sad, I'm gonna shoot

0:40:53.280 --> 0:40:57.839
<v Speaker 1>Charlamagne tomorrow. That's serious. And the very fact, the very

0:40:58.000 --> 0:41:01.680
<v Speaker 1>God wouldn't like that exactly, the very fact that it's

0:41:02.120 --> 0:41:04.759
<v Speaker 1>that it is, and I'm going to I have an

0:41:04.760 --> 0:41:08.759
<v Speaker 1>obligation to prevent that from But if it was already done, yeah,

0:41:08.800 --> 0:41:10.960
<v Speaker 1>then that's what and how long ago was it done?

0:41:11.200 --> 0:41:14.600
<v Speaker 1>And what can be accomplished by exposing that? It's a

0:41:14.719 --> 0:41:17.480
<v Speaker 1>judgment called Have you ever had to do that? I've

0:41:17.560 --> 0:41:22.040
<v Speaker 1>done everything well and sometimes I have claimed my privilege

0:41:22.120 --> 0:41:26.440
<v Speaker 1>as a clergyman not to testify in a trial. And

0:41:26.920 --> 0:41:30.279
<v Speaker 1>that privilege is only held up in court if it

0:41:30.320 --> 0:41:32.839
<v Speaker 1>is just you and me in the room. If one

0:41:32.840 --> 0:41:35.680
<v Speaker 1>other person is in the room, or if somebody else

0:41:35.760 --> 0:41:38.759
<v Speaker 1>was on the phone, it violates. I didn't lose that

0:41:38.880 --> 0:41:42.040
<v Speaker 1>privilege and that ability not to speak about the issue.

0:41:42.400 --> 0:41:45.520
<v Speaker 1>I heard you on over Super Soul Conversations to your

0:41:45.600 --> 0:41:48.160
<v Speaker 1>latest one to transform your life, and you spoke about

0:41:48.160 --> 0:41:52.000
<v Speaker 1>how to use transformational thinking and moving beyond your limiting belief?

0:41:52.040 --> 0:41:54.880
<v Speaker 1>What does that look like to you? You know, everything

0:41:55.200 --> 0:41:59.160
<v Speaker 1>is about a change of mind. If I change your

0:41:59.320 --> 0:42:02.920
<v Speaker 1>economics status, but I don't change your mentality, your status

0:42:02.920 --> 0:42:08.920
<v Speaker 1>will fall back down to your mindset. Every change, weight, loss, health, changes,

0:42:09.120 --> 0:42:12.319
<v Speaker 1>whatever it is, starts in the way you think. And

0:42:12.440 --> 0:42:15.439
<v Speaker 1>until you begin to deal with the story you tell

0:42:15.520 --> 0:42:19.960
<v Speaker 1>yourself and are willing to challenge your own truth, you

0:42:20.000 --> 0:42:22.799
<v Speaker 1>can't really help a person to move forward when they

0:42:22.840 --> 0:42:25.319
<v Speaker 1>hold to their old story. Well what about when you're

0:42:25.320 --> 0:42:27.920
<v Speaker 1>not ready for that transformation? Because I was thinking this morning,

0:42:28.400 --> 0:42:32.080
<v Speaker 1>how can transformational thinking help you in matters of grief?

0:42:32.120 --> 0:42:34.480
<v Speaker 1>Because when you look at a situation like you know,

0:42:34.520 --> 0:42:37.560
<v Speaker 1>the Brian family, her whole life has been transformed and

0:42:37.640 --> 0:42:40.160
<v Speaker 1>she has to change the way she thinks moving forward.

0:42:40.239 --> 0:42:43.160
<v Speaker 1>But she didn't ask for that. No, you didn't ask

0:42:43.200 --> 0:42:45.680
<v Speaker 1>for it. Nobody wants that sort of thing to happen,

0:42:45.880 --> 0:42:49.240
<v Speaker 1>and it takes time. You don't change your mind overnight

0:42:49.800 --> 0:42:52.960
<v Speaker 1>about anything, whether it's a tragedy or whether it's a

0:42:53.000 --> 0:42:56.560
<v Speaker 1>decision to go back to school. They're the feeling of misplacement.

0:42:56.719 --> 0:42:59.680
<v Speaker 1>Anytime there's a change, a big change in your life,

0:42:59.719 --> 0:43:02.799
<v Speaker 1>and give yourself time to adapt to that change and

0:43:02.880 --> 0:43:06.080
<v Speaker 1>accept that change and then figure out who am I now?

0:43:06.360 --> 0:43:09.880
<v Speaker 1>Without Kobe in my life? Who am I now? Without

0:43:09.920 --> 0:43:12.080
<v Speaker 1>this job? You can have a new year all you

0:43:12.160 --> 0:43:14.920
<v Speaker 1>want to, but until you have a new youth, having

0:43:14.920 --> 0:43:17.920
<v Speaker 1>a new year doesn't matter. I want to tell you too,

0:43:17.960 --> 0:43:21.200
<v Speaker 1>I finally got the worthy man. Really. It hit me

0:43:21.239 --> 0:43:26.759
<v Speaker 1>over the holidays, but I honestly just felt worthy of existing.

0:43:27.520 --> 0:43:30.879
<v Speaker 1>It really did. Yeah, I remember that conversation we had.

0:43:31.400 --> 0:43:36.279
<v Speaker 1>Getting to worthy is difficult when you have been abused

0:43:36.440 --> 0:43:40.719
<v Speaker 1>or traumatized, or be a little degraded, or have some

0:43:40.880 --> 0:43:43.680
<v Speaker 1>issues in your past where you and if you don't

0:43:43.719 --> 0:43:47.520
<v Speaker 1>get to worthy, you self sabotage. You can self sabotage

0:43:47.600 --> 0:43:51.080
<v Speaker 1>opportunities because you say you want them, but then you

0:43:51.160 --> 0:43:54.280
<v Speaker 1>sabotage them because you really don't feel worthy of them.

0:43:54.400 --> 0:43:57.160
<v Speaker 1>The hardest thing in the world is to love somebody

0:43:57.160 --> 0:44:00.960
<v Speaker 1>who doesn't love themselves, because they will reject your love.

0:44:01.000 --> 0:44:03.399
<v Speaker 1>They'll cancel it out every time because they don't feel

0:44:03.400 --> 0:44:05.759
<v Speaker 1>worthy of being loved. I don't believe that you could

0:44:05.800 --> 0:44:08.359
<v Speaker 1>love me because I don't love me, so how could

0:44:08.400 --> 0:44:11.000
<v Speaker 1>you love me? And that happens more times than not

0:44:11.239 --> 0:44:14.840
<v Speaker 1>in relationships, in life and in business. And when I

0:44:14.960 --> 0:44:17.880
<v Speaker 1>challenge you to get to worthy, it is getting to

0:44:17.920 --> 0:44:20.720
<v Speaker 1>the place that you accept the good things that God

0:44:20.719 --> 0:44:23.640
<v Speaker 1>has done in your life and settling as them being

0:44:23.680 --> 0:44:27.160
<v Speaker 1>your reality rather than living the trauma of where you

0:44:27.239 --> 0:44:30.160
<v Speaker 1>came from. Absolutely, well, we appreciate you for joining us

0:44:30.200 --> 0:44:32.680
<v Speaker 1>this morning. Yeah, and he's got the International Leadership Summit

0:44:32.760 --> 0:44:35.440
<v Speaker 1>in Charlotte April thirty of the May second. Yeah, and

0:44:35.440 --> 0:44:37.520
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna invite you right on the hear pulling up.

0:44:37.560 --> 0:44:40.959
<v Speaker 1>I will really, man, I'm pulling up already, had pretty

0:44:41.920 --> 0:44:43.760
<v Speaker 1>you don't make me crowd to you show. I'm seriously

0:44:43.800 --> 0:44:46.440
<v Speaker 1>enough if you would come, that would mean everything to

0:44:46.480 --> 0:44:49.560
<v Speaker 1>me because when I'm this is the most amazing event

0:44:49.680 --> 0:44:53.160
<v Speaker 1>I'm bringing together. I've got Denzel Washington coming, I've got

0:44:53.200 --> 0:44:57.080
<v Speaker 1>Tyler Perry coming. I've got Dave Stewart coming. Dave Stewart,

0:44:57.120 --> 0:45:01.040
<v Speaker 1>it's one of thirteen black billionaires in the world and

0:45:01.080 --> 0:45:03.640
<v Speaker 1>he's also a believer, and he's going to be coming.

0:45:03.680 --> 0:45:07.080
<v Speaker 1>We're gonna be having Christian speakers, pastors that are going

0:45:07.160 --> 0:45:10.239
<v Speaker 1>to be speaking. We've got women who are CEOs and

0:45:10.360 --> 0:45:13.040
<v Speaker 1>executives that are going to be mentoring the young women

0:45:13.080 --> 0:45:16.160
<v Speaker 1>at The Leadership Conference is going to be in Charlotte

0:45:16.160 --> 0:45:18.919
<v Speaker 1>at April twenty eighth through the thirty first, and it's

0:45:18.960 --> 0:45:22.120
<v Speaker 1>just a conglomerate of a lot of different things, because

0:45:22.200 --> 0:45:28.759
<v Speaker 1>I don't want to just be inspirational and not transformational,

0:45:29.360 --> 0:45:32.000
<v Speaker 1>because if I keep inspiring you and it doesn't happen,

0:45:32.640 --> 0:45:34.400
<v Speaker 1>then you get tired of hearing that he's gonna be

0:45:34.480 --> 0:45:37.080
<v Speaker 1>all right. So I want to put the elements in

0:45:37.120 --> 0:45:39.880
<v Speaker 1>the room that cause us that it's gonna be all

0:45:39.960 --> 0:45:43.640
<v Speaker 1>right to happen in your life. People who pull themselves up,

0:45:43.680 --> 0:45:47.360
<v Speaker 1>people who fought back, people who want when you know better,

0:45:47.480 --> 0:45:49.880
<v Speaker 1>you do better. And that's why I'm having the leadership conference.

0:45:49.880 --> 0:45:51.880
<v Speaker 1>But there the mental health and I'm putting myself on it.

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<v Speaker 1>Come right on, OK, I gotta see what day because

0:45:55.200 --> 0:45:57.120
<v Speaker 1>you know, you know so many people heard you and

0:45:57.160 --> 0:45:59.719
<v Speaker 1>I talk about when you did your book and the

0:45:59.719 --> 0:46:02.160
<v Speaker 1>power of your booking, the power of your story. It

0:46:02.320 --> 0:46:04.960
<v Speaker 1>helped a lot of other people to begin to begin

0:46:05.080 --> 0:46:08.799
<v Speaker 1>to be able to talk. You're opening your mouth to

0:46:08.960 --> 0:46:12.560
<v Speaker 1>speak about your life and about your childhood. Became a

0:46:12.640 --> 0:46:16.640
<v Speaker 1>model for many other black men who don't talk enough.

0:46:16.800 --> 0:46:20.040
<v Speaker 1>So I take you very seriously in that spot. I

0:46:20.080 --> 0:46:23.200
<v Speaker 1>admire you very greatly for what you're doing, and having

0:46:23.239 --> 0:46:26.000
<v Speaker 1>the boldness to speak about that, and I look forward

0:46:26.040 --> 0:46:27.480
<v Speaker 1>to doing a lot of things with you that I

0:46:27.520 --> 0:46:30.840
<v Speaker 1>think it's very important. My brother expected Rachel, it's Bishop

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<v Speaker 1>TD Jakes. Thank you for joining us again. It's been

0:46:33.160 --> 0:46:35.520
<v Speaker 1>a real pleasure. Thanks for having me. It's the breakfast Club.

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<v Speaker 1>Go morning. It's don't be a dusty because right now

0:46:37.840 --> 0:46:42.479
<v Speaker 1>you want some. It's time for Donkey of the day.

0:46:42.680 --> 0:46:44.040
<v Speaker 1>So if we ever feel I need to be a

0:46:44.120 --> 0:46:48.440
<v Speaker 1>donk man heed with the heat. Did she get any day? Please? Do?

0:46:49.160 --> 0:46:55.600
<v Speaker 1>I had become Donkey of the days, bitching donk. You

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<v Speaker 1>today called to Mega church pastor and tele evangelist Paula

0:46:59.040 --> 0:47:01.400
<v Speaker 1>White king Eve. In the history of life has a

0:47:01.520 --> 0:47:04.320
<v Speaker 1>last name been more appropriate for a human. See the

0:47:04.360 --> 0:47:07.239
<v Speaker 1>mayonnaise is heavy on this pale skin sandwich. Okay, I

0:47:07.280 --> 0:47:09.560
<v Speaker 1>mean Paula White Cane is a human jar of helmets

0:47:09.560 --> 0:47:12.360
<v Speaker 1>in the flesh. I'm talking the thickest of cold sauces.

0:47:12.440 --> 0:47:15.239
<v Speaker 1>I mean you can't get more of a mix of oil, egg,

0:47:15.320 --> 0:47:18.480
<v Speaker 1>yolk and an acid either vinegarl lemon juice. Why Charlomagne,

0:47:18.600 --> 0:47:21.400
<v Speaker 1>why do you refer to some white people as mannaise

0:47:21.400 --> 0:47:24.600
<v Speaker 1>flavored mammals? Talk to me. Well, it's just simply because

0:47:24.640 --> 0:47:27.479
<v Speaker 1>too much Manna's ruins every dish. You need just enough

0:47:27.520 --> 0:47:30.719
<v Speaker 1>for tuna, just enough for potato salad. Even if you

0:47:30.800 --> 0:47:32.680
<v Speaker 1>want to put it on a sandwich, just put a

0:47:32.719 --> 0:47:35.320
<v Speaker 1>little bit, one little light layer, Okay, keep it simple.

0:47:35.440 --> 0:47:39.680
<v Speaker 1>Too much mayonnaise than anything ruins the dish, and so

0:47:40.080 --> 0:47:43.319
<v Speaker 1>is the same with whiteness. Listen, white people, my name

0:47:43.320 --> 0:47:45.719
<v Speaker 1>is Charlomagne the God Lana McKelvey. I'm going to tell

0:47:45.760 --> 0:47:47.560
<v Speaker 1>you things that nobody else will tell you. Okay, I

0:47:47.640 --> 0:47:50.439
<v Speaker 1>am your people. Everyone knows when you add too much

0:47:50.440 --> 0:47:53.520
<v Speaker 1>whiteness to something, it ruins it. Okay. That's why everybody

0:47:53.560 --> 0:47:56.200
<v Speaker 1>wants diversity, because if you allow too many white people

0:47:56.239 --> 0:47:58.440
<v Speaker 1>to come together and make decisions for the whole of us,

0:47:58.560 --> 0:48:00.640
<v Speaker 1>it will be a lot of people left with a

0:48:00.680 --> 0:48:04.680
<v Speaker 1>bad taste in their mouth aka too much goddamn an.

0:48:06.520 --> 0:48:09.200
<v Speaker 1>So it's not lost on me that Paula's name is

0:48:09.239 --> 0:48:12.319
<v Speaker 1>Paula White Kane. Kane, the firstborn son of Adam and Eve,

0:48:12.400 --> 0:48:15.719
<v Speaker 1>who killed his brother Abel because he was jealous that

0:48:15.840 --> 0:48:20.040
<v Speaker 1>God liked Abel's offering more than his own. Paula White Kane,

0:48:20.040 --> 0:48:22.960
<v Speaker 1>your name just spells out trouble. White Kane like cocaine.

0:48:23.000 --> 0:48:25.160
<v Speaker 1>What do we call white cocaine? That white girl? Do

0:48:25.280 --> 0:48:27.000
<v Speaker 1>we have to play a game a guess what race

0:48:27.040 --> 0:48:28.759
<v Speaker 1>it is? To tell you what Paula White Kane is.

0:48:28.960 --> 0:48:31.640
<v Speaker 1>Have you figured it out already? Okay, now let's proceed.

0:48:31.840 --> 0:48:34.760
<v Speaker 1>Paula White Kane delivered a pryance service which was screamed

0:48:34.800 --> 0:48:38.920
<v Speaker 1>on Facebook Live. And what was her prayer about? There

0:48:39.000 --> 0:48:42.799
<v Speaker 1>was an effort to secure one term impeached president, the

0:48:42.880 --> 0:48:46.120
<v Speaker 1>celebrity in chief, Donald J. Trump's reelection. You can't make

0:48:46.120 --> 0:48:48.600
<v Speaker 1>this kind of stuff up. God is the best Noah

0:48:48.640 --> 0:48:51.759
<v Speaker 1>and planner and apparently comedy scriptwriter. Would you like to

0:48:51.800 --> 0:48:55.719
<v Speaker 1>hear Paula White Kane calling on the African ancestor to

0:48:55.719 --> 0:48:58.040
<v Speaker 1>deliver Donald Trump a second term in the White House.

0:48:58.120 --> 0:49:09.799
<v Speaker 1>Let's go. Angels are being dispatched right now, Hamanda. Her

0:49:09.840 --> 0:49:13.280
<v Speaker 1>angels have even depended, dispatched from Africa, right now, Africa,

0:49:13.360 --> 0:49:16.279
<v Speaker 1>right now, Africa, right now, from Africa, right now, They're

0:49:16.280 --> 0:49:19.200
<v Speaker 1>coming here in the name of Jesus, from South America.

0:49:19.400 --> 0:49:24.440
<v Speaker 1>They're coming here. Angelic reinforcement, Angelic reinforcement, angelic reinforcement. I

0:49:24.520 --> 0:49:27.280
<v Speaker 1>feel the need to remind y'all. Right, now that Satan

0:49:27.320 --> 0:49:29.480
<v Speaker 1>has a kingdom too, I also feel the need to

0:49:29.520 --> 0:49:31.640
<v Speaker 1>remind y'all I don't like the waste God's time. I

0:49:31.680 --> 0:49:35.080
<v Speaker 1>pray for the basics, good physical and mental health, divine

0:49:35.120 --> 0:49:38.160
<v Speaker 1>protection of myself and those I love, and constant discernment.

0:49:38.200 --> 0:49:40.959
<v Speaker 1>That's all I want, Okay, everything else I can handle.

0:49:41.000 --> 0:49:43.560
<v Speaker 1>And even when things aren't going my way, I look

0:49:43.640 --> 0:49:47.080
<v Speaker 1>for the lesson what God is attempting to show me. Okay,

0:49:47.280 --> 0:49:50.560
<v Speaker 1>not Paula White king. She thinks she can go caring

0:49:50.680 --> 0:49:54.040
<v Speaker 1>on God. Okay, she thinks going caring on God is

0:49:54.040 --> 0:49:56.160
<v Speaker 1>gonna get Trump in the White House. God is not

0:49:56.200 --> 0:49:58.799
<v Speaker 1>the police, Paula, He's the God. Don't have to listen

0:49:58.800 --> 0:50:01.720
<v Speaker 1>to you now, tell listen to wait a minute, one second.

0:50:01.800 --> 0:50:04.239
<v Speaker 1>Is there more to the prayer? Wait? Is there more

0:50:04.280 --> 0:50:06.360
<v Speaker 1>to the actual prayer, not the prayer with the sauce

0:50:06.440 --> 0:50:08.440
<v Speaker 1>on it? Is there more to the actual prayer? Oh

0:50:08.560 --> 0:50:12.680
<v Speaker 1>that ye strike and strike and strike and strike until

0:50:12.760 --> 0:50:15.480
<v Speaker 1>you have victory for every enemy that is aligned that

0:50:15.520 --> 0:50:18.440
<v Speaker 1>can shoot. Let there be that we would strike the

0:50:18.520 --> 0:50:21.080
<v Speaker 1>ground for you will give us victory. God, I hear

0:50:21.120 --> 0:50:24.000
<v Speaker 1>a sound of abundance of rain. I hear a sound

0:50:24.040 --> 0:50:27.240
<v Speaker 1>of victory. I hear a sound of shouting and singing.

0:50:27.360 --> 0:50:30.560
<v Speaker 1>I hear a sound of victory the Lord because it

0:50:30.640 --> 0:50:35.480
<v Speaker 1>is done now, I'm telling you, right now, God, Jesus,

0:50:35.680 --> 0:50:38.960
<v Speaker 1>the Holy Ghost, and Beyonce all think that prayer to

0:50:39.000 --> 0:50:41.759
<v Speaker 1>the spam fold is okay. There's a virus attached to

0:50:41.760 --> 0:50:44.879
<v Speaker 1>that prayer, and the virus is called Mayo nineteen. No

0:50:45.040 --> 0:50:47.760
<v Speaker 1>math can prevent the transmission of it, and it's literally

0:50:47.840 --> 0:50:50.800
<v Speaker 1>killed millions. There's only one way to keep Mayo nineteen

0:50:50.840 --> 0:50:53.480
<v Speaker 1>from effecting us all, and that's by adding that sauce.

0:50:53.520 --> 0:50:55.960
<v Speaker 1>He as a sauce that black people have that makes

0:50:56.000 --> 0:50:58.399
<v Speaker 1>everything better. Listen to what happens when we add some

0:50:58.520 --> 0:51:14.520
<v Speaker 1>sauce the paula white tongue. Just listen. That's that sauce

0:51:14.840 --> 0:51:17.960
<v Speaker 1>dropping clues b for that black people's sauce. Okay, See,

0:51:17.960 --> 0:51:20.759
<v Speaker 1>it's the sauce that black people have that makes the

0:51:20.840 --> 0:51:23.600
<v Speaker 1>canes of the world end be those of us who

0:51:23.640 --> 0:51:26.240
<v Speaker 1>are able. Do you hear me? I said? The canes

0:51:26.360 --> 0:51:29.319
<v Speaker 1>of the world are jealous and envy those of us

0:51:29.360 --> 0:51:31.759
<v Speaker 1>who are able to do the things they are not,

0:51:31.960 --> 0:51:34.960
<v Speaker 1>so much so they would rather kill their black brothers

0:51:34.960 --> 0:51:37.120
<v Speaker 1>and sisters by praying to re elect someone who is

0:51:37.160 --> 0:51:39.799
<v Speaker 1>a direct threat to our very lives. Now, Paula King

0:51:39.880 --> 0:51:43.600
<v Speaker 1>White understands the sauce. Okay, don't think she doesn't. Because

0:51:43.600 --> 0:51:46.800
<v Speaker 1>Miss Billy Graham Cracker called on the ancestors from Africa

0:51:46.840 --> 0:51:49.560
<v Speaker 1>to helped Trump. She called on the spirits from Africa

0:51:49.600 --> 0:51:52.040
<v Speaker 1>and South America to helped. But what she doesn't understand

0:51:52.320 --> 0:51:56.560
<v Speaker 1>is the spirits I've already intervened. See, there is a message,

0:51:56.560 --> 0:52:00.279
<v Speaker 1>and it signs all around us. Okay, sending the Kamala

0:52:00.360 --> 0:52:02.200
<v Speaker 1>Harris and Joe Biden. That's how I worried, because I

0:52:02.320 --> 0:52:03.919
<v Speaker 1>voted for sending to Harris, not Joe Biden, but sending

0:52:03.920 --> 0:52:06.319
<v Speaker 1>to Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. It looks like they're

0:52:06.360 --> 0:52:09.120
<v Speaker 1>gonna flip George. You know why because there is a

0:52:09.160 --> 0:52:11.600
<v Speaker 1>spirit who is buried in Atlanta, who called Atlanta home,

0:52:11.640 --> 0:52:14.480
<v Speaker 1>who is already causing good trouble up in heaven, and

0:52:14.480 --> 0:52:16.760
<v Speaker 1>he has reminded us of the power of the vote,

0:52:16.920 --> 0:52:20.400
<v Speaker 1>even from the grave. Listen to your ancestor mind. Dear friends,

0:52:21.040 --> 0:52:26.000
<v Speaker 1>your vote is precious, all most sacred. It is the

0:52:26.080 --> 0:52:30.080
<v Speaker 1>most powerful, non violun tool we have to create a

0:52:30.239 --> 0:52:35.520
<v Speaker 1>more perfect union. It's not too long ago people stood

0:52:35.600 --> 0:52:39.040
<v Speaker 1>in unmovable lines. They had to pass a so called

0:52:39.080 --> 0:52:43.000
<v Speaker 1>literacy tests. He a poll tax. On one occasion, a

0:52:43.080 --> 0:52:45.600
<v Speaker 1>man was asked to cut the number above us in

0:52:45.680 --> 0:52:49.360
<v Speaker 1>a law. So on another occasion, one was asked to

0:52:49.520 --> 0:52:52.839
<v Speaker 1>cut the jelly beans on a job, all to keep

0:52:52.880 --> 0:52:57.360
<v Speaker 1>down from casting that ballot. Today, it is unbelievable that

0:52:57.520 --> 0:53:00.880
<v Speaker 1>there are Republican officials are trying I ain't to stop

0:53:01.480 --> 0:53:06.080
<v Speaker 1>some people from voting. Listen, let'sen dropping the clues bombs.

0:53:06.400 --> 0:53:11.600
<v Speaker 1>John Lewis, you made your ancest to the proud everybody

0:53:11.640 --> 0:53:14.319
<v Speaker 1>who went out there and voted in massive numbers. And listen,

0:53:14.360 --> 0:53:16.600
<v Speaker 1>it doesn't stop there. He senda to Kamala Harris and

0:53:16.680 --> 0:53:19.719
<v Speaker 1>Joe Biden. Looks like they're gonna flip Arizona too, to

0:53:19.760 --> 0:53:22.080
<v Speaker 1>adopt a home of an American patriot, a man who

0:53:22.200 --> 0:53:25.480
<v Speaker 1>you said, who you said, it's not a war hero.

0:53:25.920 --> 0:53:28.000
<v Speaker 1>You said he's not a war hero because he was captured.

0:53:28.239 --> 0:53:30.080
<v Speaker 1>You said, I like people who weren't captured. What that

0:53:30.120 --> 0:53:32.320
<v Speaker 1>man has a message to you and all your followers.

0:53:32.360 --> 0:53:34.400
<v Speaker 1>If you don't think this is God talking to you

0:53:34.560 --> 0:53:37.400
<v Speaker 1>right now, Paula Kain White and President Donald Trump. Then

0:53:37.480 --> 0:53:40.760
<v Speaker 1>you don't know God. Listen, American people did their civic

0:53:40.880 --> 0:53:44.680
<v Speaker 1>duty and chose a new president. I congratulate the President elect,

0:53:45.000 --> 0:53:46.759
<v Speaker 1>and I will do all in my power to help

0:53:46.840 --> 0:53:49.880
<v Speaker 1>him lead us through the many challenges confronting our nation.

0:53:50.360 --> 0:53:52.960
<v Speaker 1>And I know there are many Americans who were disappointed

0:53:53.080 --> 0:53:56.520
<v Speaker 1>on election night. The better America is one in which

0:53:56.560 --> 0:53:59.920
<v Speaker 1>we never forget that whatever our differences, we're all America.

0:54:00.719 --> 0:54:04.640
<v Speaker 1>We must respect our common citizenship by treating each other

0:54:04.760 --> 0:54:08.239
<v Speaker 1>with respect. That's why I've been so disturbed by reports

0:54:08.320 --> 0:54:13.280
<v Speaker 1>of increased acts of intimidation, harassment, and even violence directed

0:54:13.320 --> 0:54:17.360
<v Speaker 1>at minority, racial, and religious groups in the aftermath of

0:54:17.440 --> 0:54:21.560
<v Speaker 1>this election. Sound like he's speaking from that grave. Look here,

0:54:21.600 --> 0:54:24.640
<v Speaker 1>miss Bishop td Snowflake, and I want you to remember this.

0:54:24.760 --> 0:54:27.520
<v Speaker 1>When God decided to bless you, God will cause situations

0:54:27.560 --> 0:54:31.080
<v Speaker 1>to come together in your favor. No matter what does

0:54:31.120 --> 0:54:34.760
<v Speaker 1>this try to do, God in voters have already blessed

0:54:34.760 --> 0:54:37.279
<v Speaker 1>this year's election. Things have clearly come together in the

0:54:37.320 --> 0:54:40.560
<v Speaker 1>favor of the Harris Biden ticket, and there's nothing Miss

0:54:40.719 --> 0:54:43.920
<v Speaker 1>Jimmy Swagglers can do about it. Please let Chelsea Handler

0:54:44.040 --> 0:54:47.440
<v Speaker 1>give Paula Kane White the biggest he haw heehaw heehaw.

0:54:47.840 --> 0:54:50.520
<v Speaker 1>That is way too much, dan Manna Paula White King,

0:54:51.320 --> 0:54:53.879
<v Speaker 1>Kane White, Paula White King something. It's the solid thing

0:54:54.600 --> 0:54:58.560
<v Speaker 1>at all. Right, Well, thank you for that. Do okay today? Yes, man,

0:54:58.760 --> 0:55:00.560
<v Speaker 1>keep it like. We have more coming up next. It's

0:55:00.560 --> 0:55:07.399
<v Speaker 1>the Breakfast Club, The Breakfast Club. You're looking for the best,

0:55:07.760 --> 0:55:10.239
<v Speaker 1>best of the best. The Breakfast Club is back with

0:55:10.400 --> 0:55:15.279
<v Speaker 1>another memorable interview. Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy and Angela Yee,

0:55:15.400 --> 0:55:17.600
<v Speaker 1>Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. We have

0:55:17.680 --> 0:55:19.719
<v Speaker 1>a special guest in the building. Yes she went to

0:55:19.840 --> 0:55:28.040
<v Speaker 1>the other h you, but we're got a slide this morning.

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<v Speaker 1>Kamala Harris, US, Senator of California field the next President

0:55:33.440 --> 0:55:37.240
<v Speaker 1>of the United States of America. The run ms Kamala

0:55:37.320 --> 0:55:41.440
<v Speaker 1>has good boy, I am so happy and honored to

0:55:41.520 --> 0:55:43.880
<v Speaker 1>be here. You're gonna listen. Let him just Howard like

0:55:44.000 --> 0:55:47.440
<v Speaker 1>absolutely not so who beat you? N L. V. Hampton

0:55:47.560 --> 0:55:51.719
<v Speaker 1>or Howard? It was Howard? Thank you? Who has the

0:55:51.840 --> 0:55:57.080
<v Speaker 1>best homecoming in the world every year? Hampton? Howard Hampton,

0:55:58.080 --> 0:56:03.320
<v Speaker 1>who produced third Goood Marshall Howard Howard, You got a

0:56:03.360 --> 0:56:08.000
<v Speaker 1>couple of who produced the Black Panther We did you

0:56:08.040 --> 0:56:10.800
<v Speaker 1>know we did the costol you know we did the

0:56:10.880 --> 0:56:13.440
<v Speaker 1>costume black out with you. I'm gonna share the level.

0:56:14.120 --> 0:56:16.080
<v Speaker 1>I didn't go to college, but if I was, you

0:56:16.160 --> 0:56:18.480
<v Speaker 1>about to say, well, who was stealing from the financial

0:56:18.560 --> 0:56:29.480
<v Speaker 1>a department dementall got bad food over that slide? Were welcome?

0:56:29.640 --> 0:56:32.400
<v Speaker 1>Yes here, not for those who may not know. Let

0:56:32.480 --> 0:56:34.759
<v Speaker 1>us know a little about yourself. You're from the big area, right.

0:56:35.000 --> 0:56:38.319
<v Speaker 1>I was born in Oakland, okay Um, and I went

0:56:38.400 --> 0:56:42.360
<v Speaker 1>to Howard. I went out of Howard to law school

0:56:42.400 --> 0:56:45.880
<v Speaker 1>in California. I started my career in the DA's office

0:56:45.920 --> 0:56:49.399
<v Speaker 1>in Oakland, California, and then I was elected the first

0:56:49.440 --> 0:56:51.920
<v Speaker 1>black woman to be elected a district attorney in the

0:56:52.000 --> 0:56:54.719
<v Speaker 1>state of California in San Francisco. I was there for

0:56:54.800 --> 0:56:58.400
<v Speaker 1>two terms, and then I was elected Attorney General of California,

0:56:58.480 --> 0:57:01.200
<v Speaker 1>making me the first woman and the first African American

0:57:01.239 --> 0:57:09.560
<v Speaker 1>ever elected as an attorney channel. So did you grew

0:57:09.600 --> 0:57:12.920
<v Speaker 1>up an Ara the Black Panthers? Yes, the Deviny influence

0:57:12.960 --> 0:57:15.839
<v Speaker 1>on you are oh absolutely. I mean my parents, look

0:57:15.880 --> 0:57:17.560
<v Speaker 1>my sister and I joke we grew up surrounded by

0:57:17.560 --> 0:57:19.320
<v Speaker 1>a bunch of adults have spent full time marching and

0:57:19.360 --> 0:57:22.360
<v Speaker 1>shouting Wow, justice right. So they my parents actually met

0:57:22.400 --> 0:57:25.120
<v Speaker 1>when they were active in the civil rights movement. My godmother,

0:57:25.200 --> 0:57:27.760
<v Speaker 1>my aunt Mary, was one of the founders of the

0:57:27.840 --> 0:57:30.320
<v Speaker 1>Black Studies department at San Francisco State, which was the

0:57:30.440 --> 0:57:33.360
<v Speaker 1>first black studies department in the country. So they were

0:57:33.400 --> 0:57:37.440
<v Speaker 1>active and they were vocal and aking and civil rights activists.

0:57:37.440 --> 0:57:42.520
<v Speaker 1>I'm surprised you got an inside voice. Howard trains you

0:57:42.600 --> 0:57:47.720
<v Speaker 1>to do things like that. But what got you into politics?

0:57:47.800 --> 0:57:49.800
<v Speaker 1>Because you did go to Howard that's a party school,

0:57:49.840 --> 0:57:56.200
<v Speaker 1>So we figured you, really, what got you into politics?

0:57:56.280 --> 0:57:58.000
<v Speaker 1>What made you want to say this is the route

0:57:58.000 --> 0:57:59.600
<v Speaker 1>I want to go. You know, I grew up in

0:57:59.680 --> 0:58:01.560
<v Speaker 1>a unity of folks, like I said, who are marching

0:58:01.600 --> 0:58:03.880
<v Speaker 1>and shouting? And I said, you know, yes, there is

0:58:03.880 --> 0:58:07.480
<v Speaker 1>an important role to play on the outside, banging down

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<v Speaker 1>the door on bended knee, trying to change the systems.

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<v Speaker 1>But we also have to be inside the room where

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<v Speaker 1>the decisions are being made. And I ran for district

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<v Speaker 1>attorney because I wanted to be the one who was

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<v Speaker 1>making decisions about what we were going to do with

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<v Speaker 1>criminal justice policy and In fact, I wrote a book

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<v Speaker 1>back in two thousand and eight based on my belief

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<v Speaker 1>about what we need to do to reform the criminal

0:58:26.880 --> 0:58:28.880
<v Speaker 1>justice system in here and here's how I think about it.

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<v Speaker 1>Criminal justice policy. We have been offered a false choice,

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<v Speaker 1>the choice suggesting that you're either soft on crime or

0:58:35.280 --> 0:58:38.040
<v Speaker 1>you're tough on crime, instead of asking are we smart

0:58:38.120 --> 0:58:42.440
<v Speaker 1>on crime? Right? And by that I mean recognizing that,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, the public health model tells us if you

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<v Speaker 1>want to deal with a health epidemic, smartest, most effective,

0:58:47.600 --> 0:58:49.800
<v Speaker 1>and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.

0:58:50.520 --> 0:58:52.480
<v Speaker 1>If you're dealing with it in the emergency room or

0:58:52.520 --> 0:58:55.200
<v Speaker 1>the prison system, it's too late and it's too expensive.

0:58:55.640 --> 0:58:58.280
<v Speaker 1>So let's be smart on crime. And that means let's

0:58:58.320 --> 0:59:00.880
<v Speaker 1>be smart in knowing that if we really want to

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<v Speaker 1>have public safety, let's prevent crime from happening in the

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<v Speaker 1>first place, which means focusing on communities that we know

0:59:08.360 --> 0:59:12.040
<v Speaker 1>need more economic support, need more pathways to economic health

0:59:12.080 --> 0:59:14.920
<v Speaker 1>and success, doing what we need to do to recognize

0:59:15.120 --> 0:59:17.600
<v Speaker 1>that there is a direct connection between public education and

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<v Speaker 1>public safety. So let's prioritize public education and instead of

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<v Speaker 1>just being only concerned about public safety because there's a

0:59:25.720 --> 0:59:29.160
<v Speaker 1>real connection, and it's actually cheaper to focus on educating

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<v Speaker 1>young people than it is on incarcerating whole communities of people. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>that's one of the first things I saw you do

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<v Speaker 1>that I was extremely impressed with. If it was the

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<v Speaker 1>Back on Track program, that's right, what's that all about?

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<v Speaker 1>So Back on Track is a program that I started

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<v Speaker 1>years ago. I focused on the eighteenth through twenty four

0:59:47.560 --> 0:59:51.280
<v Speaker 1>year old young you know, drug sales offender. And the

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<v Speaker 1>reason I focused on that population is because they're just

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of them. And I also focused on that

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<v Speaker 1>population because whether we were at Hampton or Howard when

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<v Speaker 1>we were in college, we were eighteen through twenty four,

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<v Speaker 1>and we were called college kids. When you turn eighteen

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<v Speaker 1>and you're in the system, you're considered an adult, period,

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<v Speaker 1>regardless of the fact that we know that's the very

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<v Speaker 1>phase of life in which we have invested billions of

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<v Speaker 1>dollars in this world, in these places called colleges and universities,

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<v Speaker 1>knowing that that's the prime phase of life where you

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<v Speaker 1>can mold somebody to be a productive, an accomplished adult.

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<v Speaker 1>And so I focused on that population also understanding that

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<v Speaker 1>when they pick up that first offense, they will be

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<v Speaker 1>designated a felon for life. And so what we did

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<v Speaker 1>is essentially I created a program focused on them and

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<v Speaker 1>basically getting them job counseling. A lot of the young

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<v Speaker 1>men are fathers, getting them support for what they naturally

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<v Speaker 1>want to do, which is parent their children, but may

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<v Speaker 1>not have the skills or the resources. We focused on

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<v Speaker 1>what to do around housing and a just wrap around,

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<v Speaker 1>and we ended up as a result of doing that

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<v Speaker 1>and then when they would graduate the program dismissed their charges.

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<v Speaker 1>But what we also ended up doing is reducing their

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<v Speaker 1>likelihood of reoffending by a huge percentage. And that was

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<v Speaker 1>a model of what ended up later by the Justice

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<v Speaker 1>Department being designated as a model of innovation and law

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<v Speaker 1>enforcement in the country. What do we do with so

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<v Speaker 1>many with drugs being legalized, I should say, marijuana being

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<v Speaker 1>legalized in so many different states, and a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>these kids, like you said, are in jail for that

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<v Speaker 1>same legalized crime. Now we need to decriminalize marijuana. We

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<v Speaker 1>have a problem with the mass incarceration in our country.

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<v Speaker 1>And let's be clear, the war on drugs was a

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<v Speaker 1>failed war. It was misdirected in essence, and you know,

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<v Speaker 1>we're now more people are understanding when we talk about

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<v Speaker 1>the opioid epidemic that when you're talking about substancecies, that's

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<v Speaker 1>a public health matter that should not be thought of

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<v Speaker 1>as a criminal justice matter. And so what we need

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<v Speaker 1>to do is recognize that we have to get people

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<v Speaker 1>into treatment where that is appropriate. But as it relates

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<v Speaker 1>to incarcerating people well for marijuana, I think it is

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<v Speaker 1>long overdue that we recognize we need to change the

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<v Speaker 1>system absolutely. Or I want to go back to the

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<v Speaker 1>Oakland days for a minute, because you said the Black

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<v Speaker 1>Panthers had an influence on you, and it's this whole

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<v Speaker 1>conversation we've been having about how do we improve relations

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<v Speaker 1>between police and the communities, and Black Panthers were an

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<v Speaker 1>organization that actually policed the police. Do you think that

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<v Speaker 1>an organization like that could exist now in twenty eighteen.

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<v Speaker 1>I think that one of the greatest advances in the

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<v Speaker 1>fight for civil rights has been the smartphone. Oh okay.

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<v Speaker 1>People would come out to me coma, what all of

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<v Speaker 1>a sudden is going on with all these cases of

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<v Speaker 1>police misconduct? What's going on? And I'd look at people

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<v Speaker 1>and say, you know, you sound like a colonist. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>are you calling him a coloni? Right? Right, right, right,

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<v Speaker 1>fair enow. But the point being, you know what colonists do.

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<v Speaker 1>They go to a place that's been existing that way

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<v Speaker 1>for thousands of years, and because they're seeing it for

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<v Speaker 1>the first time, they think they've discovered. So the great

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<v Speaker 1>thing about the smartphone has been that now it is

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<v Speaker 1>undeniable when it happens, there is evidence sometimes playing for

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<v Speaker 1>us in real time as we know. It is audio,

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<v Speaker 1>it is visual, and it is highlighting a need to

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<v Speaker 1>reform the criminal justice system about around recognizing that we

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<v Speaker 1>need to do a better job of training police officers,

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<v Speaker 1>around bias, around use of force, around the necessity to

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<v Speaker 1>de escalate a situation instead of using force as the

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<v Speaker 1>first option as though it is the only option. And

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<v Speaker 1>more people are now involved in this discussion than ever

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<v Speaker 1>before because it is not just us who is experiencing it.

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<v Speaker 1>Now everyone is experiencing it, at least in terms of

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<v Speaker 1>seeing it happen. And I think this is part of

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<v Speaker 1>what has led to the reforms that are starting to

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<v Speaker 1>take place, But there's still a lot more to do

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<v Speaker 1>on the pather is Remember, one of the biggest contributions

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<v Speaker 1>that the Panthers made was their breakfast program. Absolutely, they

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<v Speaker 1>were feeding the community and protecting the community in that way.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, we have more we Senator Kamala Harris, when

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<v Speaker 1>we come back, don't move. It's to breakfast club. Good morning, wipe.

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<v Speaker 1>But I don't won't never sell my soul and I

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<v Speaker 1>could take that and I ain't wanna know morning. Everybody

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<v Speaker 1>is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the guy. We all

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<v Speaker 1>the breakfast club. We have Kamala Harris in the building.

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<v Speaker 1>But let's talk about these schools and these shootings. I

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<v Speaker 1>mean it's scary. Well, first of all, you know, we

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<v Speaker 1>have many, many communities where our six and seven year

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<v Speaker 1>olds are going to sleep at night here in gunfire.

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<v Speaker 1>Absolutely they are experiencing such trauma that is undiagnosed and untreated.

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<v Speaker 1>Babies of our community who have regularly attended funerals of

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<v Speaker 1>somebody who was killed as a result of gun violence,

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<v Speaker 1>having families members. It may have even happened in front

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<v Speaker 1>of them. So we have enough trauma in our community

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<v Speaker 1>that we need to deal with without expecting that our

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<v Speaker 1>second grader is going to now go to school and

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<v Speaker 1>look up in the front of the class of their

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<v Speaker 1>teacher and she's strapping a gun. That doesn't make any

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<v Speaker 1>sense when we're talking about school safety. There are things

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<v Speaker 1>that we need to address that include thinking about why

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<v Speaker 1>is this an issue? And part of it is that

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<v Speaker 1>we have not passed meaningful smart gun safety laws in

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<v Speaker 1>this country. Let's talk about that. Let's talk about how

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<v Speaker 1>the NRA has grabbed people by that there they and

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<v Speaker 1>and has has has caused people to have a lack

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<v Speaker 1>of courage to address the fact. Again another false choice.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm in favor of the Second Amendment, and I also

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<v Speaker 1>want I want smart on safety laws. Assault weapons shouldn't

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<v Speaker 1>be walking the streets of a civilized country. We should

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<v Speaker 1>have universal background checks. It makes sense. It's just practical

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<v Speaker 1>that you might want to know before someone can buy

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<v Speaker 1>a gun that they've been found by a court to

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<v Speaker 1>be mentally unstable. You just might want to know that.

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<v Speaker 1>That's smart about The missing ingredient to get something done

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<v Speaker 1>is for Congress to have the courage to act. Bottom line,

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<v Speaker 1>And that's where I would say, Okay, so then what

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<v Speaker 1>can we as people who want to encourage Congress to

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<v Speaker 1>act do? What can we do? Let's focus on the

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<v Speaker 1>twenty eighteen elections. Let's focus on electing people who will

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<v Speaker 1>have the courage and getting rid of people who don't. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, even with that said, you know, when everybody

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<v Speaker 1>saw the police shootings happening, Barack Obama was in office,

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<v Speaker 1>why didn't he have the courage to act to implement

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<v Speaker 1>something to where a police ye weren't so gun hole. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>I think that it's one of his big regrets that

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<v Speaker 1>he was not able to get smart gun safety laws passed.

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<v Speaker 1>In terms of the reforms, listen, Eric Holder, who was

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<v Speaker 1>appointed by Barack Obama to be the US Attorney General

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<v Speaker 1>and the United States Department of Justice under Barack Obama

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<v Speaker 1>did some really good work. They started opening pattern and

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<v Speaker 1>practice investigations investigating various police departments around the country who

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<v Speaker 1>had a pattern and practice of racial discrimination and excessive force.

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<v Speaker 1>And you know what's going on now under this guy,

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<v Speaker 1>Jeff Sessions. You've been on his ass, by the way, yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>And under him, they're closing those pattern and practice investigations.

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<v Speaker 1>Under the previous administration, there were consent decrees where there

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<v Speaker 1>had been a finding of misconduct. The court kicked in

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<v Speaker 1>and said you have to act a certain way, and

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<v Speaker 1>we're gonna watch that. They're shutting down all of those,

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<v Speaker 1>they're reviving the war on drugs, they're reviving mandatory minimum sentences.

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<v Speaker 1>And you know, again, that's why we have got to

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<v Speaker 1>be vigilant at this moment in time, because we are

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<v Speaker 1>looking at an administration that is rolling back the clock

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<v Speaker 1>in a profound, profound way. Why is Jeff Sessions doing

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<v Speaker 1>that though? Like, is it really just uh, Donald Trump

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<v Speaker 1>trying to erase everything Barack Obama did? Or is that

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<v Speaker 1>what they really really want, like they want to take

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<v Speaker 1>take us backwards, so to speak. Listen, I think this

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<v Speaker 1>has been on Jeff sessions agenda for a very long time.

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<v Speaker 1>Don't forget Kreta. Scott King spoke out against Jeff Sessions

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<v Speaker 1>when he was up years and years and years ago

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<v Speaker 1>for an appointment. This is part of who he is.

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<v Speaker 1>This is his history, this is his mission. He is

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<v Speaker 1>silently and maybe not so silently, carrying it out right

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<v Speaker 1>before us. Why aren't you afraid to speak out against him?

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<v Speaker 1>I do speak. You're afraid because we have to speak truth, Charlemagne,

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<v Speaker 1>We have to speak truth. You know what, this is

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<v Speaker 1>a moment in time that's actually requiring all of us

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<v Speaker 1>to check ourselves about whether we're gonna have the courage

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<v Speaker 1>to speak and to speak truth, no matter how uncomfortable

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<v Speaker 1>it makes some people feel, no matter how much it

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<v Speaker 1>may visit upon us criticism or expose us to attacks,

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<v Speaker 1>We've got to speak truth. We've got to speak truth

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<v Speaker 1>about what is happening with this administration. Also because as leaders,

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<v Speaker 1>the people know, they know, they know in their hearts,

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<v Speaker 1>they know intuitively, instinctively that things are wrong, and we

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<v Speaker 1>need to put the label on it when we see

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<v Speaker 1>what it's actually happening from the inside. And so that's

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<v Speaker 1>part of why I do it, because I believe that

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<v Speaker 1>people have a right to know what their government is

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<v Speaker 1>doing for them and to them. And you know, come

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<v Speaker 1>what may, in terms of any response, how do we

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<v Speaker 1>get our country back in order? Though it just seems

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<v Speaker 1>like ever since Trump came in office, it just seems

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<v Speaker 1>like it's just been an outspurt of racism going on,

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<v Speaker 1>and it seems like it's her our kids more than

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<v Speaker 1>anything else out there. So I travel around the country

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<v Speaker 1>and I will tell you that I'm not buying the

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<v Speaker 1>suggestion that we are divided as a country. And here's

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<v Speaker 1>why I say that. You know, when you wake up

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<v Speaker 1>in the middle of the night with that thought that's

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<v Speaker 1>been weighing on you. Maybe you know some people call

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<v Speaker 1>it the witching hour at three o'clock in the morning,

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<v Speaker 1>when you wake up in a close sleet with that

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<v Speaker 1>thing that's been worrying you. It is never through the

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<v Speaker 1>lens of the party with which you're registered to vote,

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<v Speaker 1>or you know, the demographic upholster put you in. And

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<v Speaker 1>for the vast majority of us, that thought has to

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<v Speaker 1>do with one of just a very few things our

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<v Speaker 1>personal health, the health of our children or our parents.

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<v Speaker 1>Can I get a job, keep a job, pay the

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<v Speaker 1>bills by the end of the month. For so many

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<v Speaker 1>of our students, can I pay off their students? Can

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<v Speaker 1>they pay off their student loans? The vast majority of

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<v Speaker 1>us have so much more uncommon than what separates us.

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<v Speaker 1>And we've got to hold on to that in this

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<v Speaker 1>fight right now, and then look to twenty eighteen, frankly,

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<v Speaker 1>and the elections that are coming up in almost two

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<v Speaker 1>hundred days as an opportunity to act. What I love

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<v Speaker 1>about this moment with this administration and power is people

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<v Speaker 1>are acting. Look back to the Women's March, look it too,

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<v Speaker 1>the March for our lives, the March for science because

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<v Speaker 1>also this administration is putting forward policies that basically say

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<v Speaker 1>science should not be the basis of public policy, which

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<v Speaker 1>is ridiculous. But people are taken to the streets in

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<v Speaker 1>a way they never have and in that way, our

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<v Speaker 1>democracy is working. Now. We just got to take to

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<v Speaker 1>the streets and then walk those streets to the polling

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<v Speaker 1>place and vote. Because they used to say we couldn't vote. Legally,

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<v Speaker 1>we weren't allowed to vote. Now they say we won't.

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<v Speaker 1>We need to get out and vote because voting. US

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<v Speaker 1>voting is connected to every one of the other issues.

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<v Speaker 1>US voting is connected to who's going to be in

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<v Speaker 1>office and how they think about criminal justice policy. Who's

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<v Speaker 1>going to be office and pay attention to something like

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<v Speaker 1>the rate of black babies and infant mortality. Who's going

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<v Speaker 1>to pay attention to the fact that young black men

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<v Speaker 1>are are still at the bottom of the economic ladder

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<v Speaker 1>in terms of opportunity, much less success in the economic health.

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<v Speaker 1>Who's in office is going to make a difference. All right,

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<v Speaker 1>we have more with Senator Kamala Harris when we come back,

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<v Speaker 1>don't move. It's the breakfast club. Good morning, the Breakfast

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<v Speaker 1>Club A shoot and I know the fun I tell

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<v Speaker 1>you morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy.

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<v Speaker 1>We are the Breakfast Club. We have sent it a

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<v Speaker 1>kamala Harris, still in the building, Charlemagne, And I know,

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<v Speaker 1>of course you just mentioned me too in Times of

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<v Speaker 1>your big supporter today. But you're also a too short fan.

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<v Speaker 1>Yes I am too short, Yes, Harris, what's my favorite?

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not doing that. I'm not doing that. I'm not

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<v Speaker 1>doing that. Two shorts right from Oakland. But you can,

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<v Speaker 1>you can, you can? You can like both? Right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>of course I love music. Now they call you the

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<v Speaker 1>female Barack Obama. That's what I've seen when I got on.

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<v Speaker 1>By the way, Now, now are you are you considering

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<v Speaker 1>and do or do you see yourself possibly running for president?

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<v Speaker 1>Is that right now? I'm just focused on what's in

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<v Speaker 1>front of me. You know, I've seen too many people

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<v Speaker 1>focus on that thing out there and they trip over

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<v Speaker 1>the thing right in front of them. So I was

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<v Speaker 1>just in Detroit last weekend campaigning and talking to folks

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<v Speaker 1>about the need to get out and vote. Um, I'll

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<v Speaker 1>be all over this, all over many states, I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 1>be in Chicago, I'm gonna be in Wisconsin, I'll be

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<v Speaker 1>in Florida, probably go to Philly. We really have to

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<v Speaker 1>turn out it. Look what happened in Alabama. Everybody should

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<v Speaker 1>really see and remember what happened just in a recent

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<v Speaker 1>election where Doug Jones, a white dumb mcrat The math

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<v Speaker 1>is that a white Democrat one in the South because

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<v Speaker 1>of black women. So our boat really matters when we

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<v Speaker 1>get out. It was over ninety percent of black men

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<v Speaker 1>two week we came out of this. Yeah, and that's right,

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<v Speaker 1>And that's right, that's true, that's exactly right, that's exactly right.

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<v Speaker 1>You was on the debate team in college. I was

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<v Speaker 1>how does that help you on your line of work?

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<v Speaker 1>First of all, it taught you how to um, to

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<v Speaker 1>come back from an argument. You know. It teaches you

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<v Speaker 1>how to stand in front of a room of people

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<v Speaker 1>and express your point and then and then when your

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<v Speaker 1>point is being attacked, to come back and respond. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>It teaches you how to think quickly, and it gives

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<v Speaker 1>you confidence in the fact that you can stand in

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<v Speaker 1>front of a room of people in state a position

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<v Speaker 1>and defend it because sometimes for so many of us

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<v Speaker 1>we're the only one who is like us in a room.

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<v Speaker 1>And when you're the only one like you in a room,

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<v Speaker 1>there is a natural tendency to want to just kind

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<v Speaker 1>of blend in. But what you learn during debate, or

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<v Speaker 1>what you learn at an HBCU, or if you have

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<v Speaker 1>the blessing of having a family or a community that

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<v Speaker 1>teaches you, um, you learn instead that when you're in

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<v Speaker 1>that room, you got to speak up, and you've got

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<v Speaker 1>to acquire the skills to know how to do that

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<v Speaker 1>and to have the confidence to do it. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>I mentor a lot of people, and I always tell

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<v Speaker 1>them your entire life, you will have many experiences where

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<v Speaker 1>you're the only one like you in that room, the

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<v Speaker 1>only one looks like you, the only one who's had

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<v Speaker 1>the experiences you've had. And when you sit in that room,

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<v Speaker 1>you have to remember we are all in that room

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<v Speaker 1>with you. There was the Minangelo quote, I'm not alone

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<v Speaker 1>because I stand with ten. Yeah. Yeah, it's funny because

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<v Speaker 1>I put my kids in debate class because of that,

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<v Speaker 1>to be able to use their words to fight back

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<v Speaker 1>and not have to use their hands and still hurt

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<v Speaker 1>just the same. And you got to objectively see both

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<v Speaker 1>sides right. And also and to your point, also, the

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<v Speaker 1>great thing about learning debate is that you learn there

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<v Speaker 1>are rules of debate, right, you know, because also to

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<v Speaker 1>your point, when you argue, some people would suggest that's

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<v Speaker 1>pure emotion and that if you're getting in an argument

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<v Speaker 1>with somebody, you're just emotional and unreasonable. What debate teaches

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<v Speaker 1>you is no, it's actually quite civilized to stand up

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<v Speaker 1>and disagree with someone, and there are rules about how

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<v Speaker 1>you do it, because that is what is done among

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<v Speaker 1>thinking people. You do debate. I mean, you can go

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<v Speaker 1>back to history in different forms of debate the dozens. Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>that doesn't tell you didn't like what they said and

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<v Speaker 1>you just keep it right. But that's that was debate.

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<v Speaker 1>Your question, you know, you mentioned, of course we went

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<v Speaker 1>to HBCUs. How important is the HBCU because we got

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<v Speaker 1>away from it a couple of years ago and I'm

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<v Speaker 1>looking at a lot of the colleges and attendance and

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<v Speaker 1>enrollment is low. So how important is HBCU to you

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<v Speaker 1>and especially black families? Let me tell you, I am

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<v Speaker 1>who I am today for two reasons because of my

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<v Speaker 1>mother and the family I was raising, and Howard University

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<v Speaker 1>an HBCU. What you and I know when we walked

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<v Speaker 1>onto that campus for the first time, we were surrounded

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<v Speaker 1>by people that look like us all everywhere. Everybody you

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<v Speaker 1>walk onto and I'll just speak about Howard, but I

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<v Speaker 1>know Hampton is the same. You walk onto that campus,

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<v Speaker 1>you can look over on one area and you will

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<v Speaker 1>see a bunch of young African Americans who are students

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<v Speaker 1>who are in the business school walking around with briefcases.

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<v Speaker 1>You look over at another area and they're walking around

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<v Speaker 1>in leotards because they're in the School of Fine Arts.

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<v Speaker 1>The football captain and star, and the homecoming queen and

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<v Speaker 1>the debate team, and there are sororities and fraternity and

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<v Speaker 1>what you learn at an HBCU is you do not

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<v Speaker 1>have to fit into somebody's limited prospective on what it

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<v Speaker 1>means to be young, gifted, in black. You can be

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<v Speaker 1>all those things. When I was at Howard, I pledged

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<v Speaker 1>a sorority, I was on the debate team, I was

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<v Speaker 1>the chair of the Economic Society when to my share

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<v Speaker 1>parties too, And you didn't have to choose. You could

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<v Speaker 1>be fully actualized. And there was such beauty to that

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<v Speaker 1>because this country still has such a limited view of

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<v Speaker 1>what it means for a person to be young and

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<v Speaker 1>smart and black. And so at those years when you're

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<v Speaker 1>learning your identity to be in that environment where basically

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<v Speaker 1>everybody just says to you can be whatever you want

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<v Speaker 1>to be, and by the way, and if you don't,

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<v Speaker 1>it's because you need to work harder, right, Because that's

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<v Speaker 1>the other thing that happens. You can't walk away and say, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>it's because of my skin color that I didn't get that. Nope, Nope,

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<v Speaker 1>that's not it. So it's a wonderful it's a wonderful

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<v Speaker 1>place to learn who you are and to be proud

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<v Speaker 1>of who you are and to leave them with the

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<v Speaker 1>confidence of walking into the world also knowing one other thing.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, people from time to time will come up

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<v Speaker 1>to you and they'll say, oh, you're special, you're unique.

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<v Speaker 1>And I tell people, don't let it, don't let anybody

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<v Speaker 1>tell you that, because there is there is something about

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<v Speaker 1>being told that that also suggests you're the only one

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<v Speaker 1>like you, which means you're alone. And what an HBCU

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<v Speaker 1>SEU reminds us of. No, we come with people, We

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<v Speaker 1>got people. There are a lot of us. We're not alone. Right,

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<v Speaker 1>Well made, you want to go to HBCU with a

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<v Speaker 1>different world. No, I have family members that went to Howard.

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<v Speaker 1>I wanted to go to Howard. Yeah, gots she has

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<v Speaker 1>to go. So one last one, brother, I saw you

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<v Speaker 1>talking about corporate donations. Yeah, and you said you would

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<v Speaker 1>depend It depends whether you would take them or not.

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<v Speaker 1>I think that money has had such an outside influence

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<v Speaker 1>on politics, and especially with the Supreme Court determining Citizens United,

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<v Speaker 1>which basically means that big corporations can spend unlimited amounts

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<v Speaker 1>of money influencing a campaign. Right, We're all supposed to

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<v Speaker 1>have an equal vote, but money has now really tip

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<v Speaker 1>the balance between an individual having equal power in an

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<v Speaker 1>election to a corporation. So I've actually made a decision

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<v Speaker 1>since I had that conversation that I'm not going to

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<v Speaker 1>accept corporate pack checks. Wow, Um, I just I'm not.

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<v Speaker 1>You're gonna raise money for campaigns and stuff? Well, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>I've raised so far this year three million dollars for

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<v Speaker 1>my colleagues for the twenty eighteen election cycle, and most

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<v Speaker 1>of that money has been like an eighteen dollars twenty

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<v Speaker 1>dollars increments. People are turning out. What's the website? Yeah? Um,

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<v Speaker 1>go to Kamala Harris dot org and you will find it. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>a m La Harris h. If you decide to run

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<v Speaker 1>for president in twenty twenty, we'll do a fundraiser before you,

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<v Speaker 1>right here on the radio. Noah, we definitely will. We

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<v Speaker 1>did one last year for Harry Belafonte's organization, Change for Change.

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<v Speaker 1>We can get you a million of two. Okay, if

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<v Speaker 1>you decide, Have I ever been a dream of yours?

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<v Speaker 1>Have you ever thought about it? I had so many dreams,

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<v Speaker 1>I had so many I do, I really do. I

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<v Speaker 1>do see the beauty of you know, everything that you

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<v Speaker 1>raised in terms of the reaction and the other side

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<v Speaker 1>of the tragedy of what's happening, and that gives me

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<v Speaker 1>a great sense of optimism about our future. And in

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<v Speaker 1>the history of our people. We march, we shout, we sing,

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<v Speaker 1>we dance. Right, look at who just got the pulletzer prise,

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<v Speaker 1>but look at that. We look at Beyonce and what

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<v Speaker 1>she did at coach Alla. Right. It has always been

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<v Speaker 1>as part of our history that our artists, everybody is

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<v Speaker 1>part of the movement. Everyone understands that it's about the

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<v Speaker 1>expression of feeling and and we can do that with

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<v Speaker 1>joy and with with conviction and with purpose. Great. I

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<v Speaker 1>think God is setting us up for a woman of

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<v Speaker 1>color president in Mala Harris. I think she's our future president.

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<v Speaker 1>And I hope she hope God puts his hands on

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<v Speaker 1>her and says, you know what, I want you to do.

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<v Speaker 1>This as God's plan. Put that on your playlist. Two

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<v Speaker 1>by Drill. We thank you for joining us. Thank you guys,

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<v Speaker 1>it's honor to be with you. Thank you for coming.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning morning. Everybody

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<v Speaker 1>is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We all

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<v Speaker 1>the Breakfast Club. It's time for your positive note gives

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<v Speaker 1>some positivity. Positive note for this beautiful Christmas day. Man

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<v Speaker 1>is always to remember that the best of all gifts

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<v Speaker 1>around any Christmas tree is the presence of a happy family,

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<v Speaker 1>all wrapped up in each other. Breakfast Club. You don't

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<v Speaker 1>finish her, y'all dumb