WEBVTT - Ep. 10 — The upsides of being a breadwinning woman 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:11.600 Hey, hey, hey, and we're back Brown Ambition Podcast number ten, 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:12.400 number ten. 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:16.400 I can't believe we hitting ten. I know, it's like 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:18.360 a diamond anniversary. Oh yeah, you know what. 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:20.119 I remember when I turned ten years old. I was like, 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:22.319 I'm officially a decade that's true. 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:25.240 Yeah. Well, thank you guys so much for your support. Yes, 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:27.880 and all your reviews just because you didn't realize. 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:31.160 It's Tiffany and this is Mandy. Yes, and we're back 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:34.839 and episode ten. So and speaking of reviews, today is 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:37.360 the day when we finally announced the winner of our 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:40.559 iTunes review giveaway. We do, we do, but you have 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:42.199 to stay tuned till the end because we haven't picked 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:43.720 it yet and we're gonna do it at the end. Okay, 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:46.880 so stay tuned without further ado, let's start this show. 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:57.000 Chick a boom, chick a boom, chick a boom. So, 0:00:57.120 --> 0:00:58.960 what do you have for buzzworthy? Buzzworthy? 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:00.720 I feel like we just start things out right today, 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:03.480 which is by talking about the meme of the week, okay, 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:05.880 which is Drake's hot bling video. 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:08.760 Yes, I love that song. You used to call me 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:11.440 on myself. I didn't even I don't want to get 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:12.760 what he's saying, like, what is a hot line? 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:15.240 Think it's about a hookup? You know? 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:17.480 You know I just turned thirty six, so you know, 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:20.839 I'm not quite in the I'm not you know, in that. 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:24.000 Little like oh yeah, you're an angel and I'm sure 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:25.200 I'm like hook up? 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:25.400 What? 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:25.680 What? 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:26.440 Never? 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:28.920 What? What's that? Have you seen the video? Yes? 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:31.120 And I love which version because see the thing is, 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.720 I didn't see the regular video. All I saw was 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.759 the memes. I saw Dominican Drake, which is my favorite 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:37.600 in the Merengue. 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:40.360 I liked Haitian Drake. Haitian what's the Haitian video? 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:42.920 It's so like, I guess a popular Haitian song, but 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.240 it just looks so funny because my friend Sophia, Hey, 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:48.680 Sophia Domaville, Artist Extraordinaire, she posted it and she's like, 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:50.640 this is like every light skin Haitian uncle I know. 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.040 And I just thought that was hilarious. He's like an uncle. 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:55.440 He's got like a turtle next sweater, yes, and like 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:57.840 the tight but he's like like a hot uncle. 0:01:58.160 --> 0:01:59.600 Yes. I mean well, it depends. 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:02.760 I feel like with Drake, there's times when I'm like eh, 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:04.840 and there's other times when I'm like, ooh, he's cute. 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:07.760 And I told you my thing about Drake, my little brother. 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:11.800 He's not little. He's twenty three years old. Alex looks 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:16.080 pretty much identical to Drake, but I can't he's cuter. 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:20.000 I'm biased, but so I feel conflicting feelings about thinking 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:21.360 Drake is attractive. 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:22.280 Because I know Alex is cute. 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:24.760 Mandy showed me a picture and I was like, oh, hello, 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:26.639 I mean, I love Superman, but I'm. 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:31.080 Not dead like legit. All my friends in college would say, so, 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:31.880 what's Alex eighteen? 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:32.120 Yet? 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:37.720 Oh my god, he's my number Halloween, You're eighteen. Disgusting. 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:40.960 So yeah, Dominican Drake, that meme is going around. It's 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:42.920 like the dance moves where he's doing. 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:45.639 Like the knee thing. Yes, you know, kudos for trying. Yeah, 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:47.200 he's always on a beat. 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:49.720 Remember they had that whole meme series that Beyonce is 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:52.040 always on beat? Oh really, where they like just this 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:54.320 one video and they put it to all this different 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:56.600 music and she's always on beat, And so Drake is 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:57.320 always on beat. 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:00.680 Did you see speaking of Beyonce, so ty, did you 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:02.720 see the clip of her so stop it? What was 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:05.160 the party where they had. It was a title premiere 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:07.080 or something like that. They had at the Barclay Center, 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:10.080 and there's this amazing video footage of Beyonce in the 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:12.520 red carpet and she's wearing like a dress with several 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:15.360 danger zones, like it's down to the navel and like 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:17.440 the leg is up to her vagina with a slit, 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:19.959 and her assistant is there clearly to like make sure 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:22.720 everything is tuck yep. And then she's like you can 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:25.959 see her mouth the words stop it. She's like smiling 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:28.000 at the same time that she's like stop it. 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:31.280 No, no, it's that's it's literally stop it, like girls, 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:32.400 you don't get your hands off me. 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:34.240 But she's smiling the whole time though, Yeah, well that's 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:36.040 because pictures are going there is no video. You would 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:37.280 never have never known. 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:39.320 That is like I love that because you can see 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:41.800 that's like that's how Beyonce ticks. It's like all the 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.920 all here, outward facing is beautiful. Like behind the scenes, 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:45.600 she is the boss. 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:49.480 Yes, that was just hilarious. Everybody's been like stop it hashtags, stop. 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:53.920 It, stop it, stop it? So what else? What else? 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:54.200 Oh? 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:57.680 Okay, so real quick, we talked about Raven last week 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.000 and I don't want to talk at her anymore. However, 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:05.560 someone actually my boyfriend's cousin, messaged me on Twitter. He's like, look, 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:09.360 Ann Culter, just like read Raven on the view, and 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:11.080 I'm like, when you watch. 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:13.240 This, and for those of you all who are unfamiliar 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:15.640 with who Anne culture, she is like honestly hand. 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:17.200 Jealous of you for being ignorant about her. 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:19.880 Yes, because she's literally, hands out probably the most racist 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:21.240 woman I have ever. 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:24.559 The most xenophobic piece of trash. She's like the worst 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:26.480 or worst, like you know, she's the. 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:29.200 Master of like manipulating the media and like getting us 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.320 to write about her. And what better way than to 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:35.040 have one racist cenophobe call out another culture. 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:35.440 Yeah. 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:36.040 Racist. 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.280 And I forget exactly what she said, but I think 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:40.279 Raven was coming at her for saying, like, oh, for 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:41.560 saying something mean or something. 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:43.000 Here's what Raven was like. 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:44.880 So I don't know, I don't know what Anne said 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:48.520 to like provoke this, but she said, you know, when 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:50.680 I was growing up, my mother taught me, do you 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:53.080 have nothing nice to say, then don't say anything at all. 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.240 So An Culter, where do you get off saying this thing? 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:58.960 And Anne is like, well, I'm sorry, I'm talking to 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:00.880 someone who last week that they want to hire someone 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:02.719 based on their name being Watermelondrea. 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:06.240 Yeah, And Raven starts to stutter, and she's and said, 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:08.000 at least I'm talking about things that are important. You're 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:10.680 talking about not hiring someone based on their name. And 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:13.880 Raven starts to stutter and then puts her head down 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:15.400 in shame and silence, and. 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:17.400 That was just her facial she starts. 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:20.240 She's like, she raises her finger and just like starts 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:24.520 to say something and she's like mm hmmm, just nodding. 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:27.080 And it was just like, like I said, if you 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:29.560 knew an culter, like just google her. She is like 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:32.599 literally the worst on worst and for her to be 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.000 able to check you says something about your life. You 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:37.760 need to speak to yo Jesus, yes, because but she 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:39.840 needed to be checked cause Raven is just ridiculous. I mean, 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:42.919 I think she went on to Twitter or whatever to 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.600 take back her words, but obviously you know. 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:47.799 Why she did that though, because it's fucking illegal. Sorry, 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:48.920 it's illegal what she said. 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:51.800 You can't discriminate based on someone's name, and like she 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:53.120 maybe is an employer. 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.440 Maybe she hasn't. I mean, you could get I'm sure 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:56.400 people anyone. 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.800 Who's ever been employed by the business of Raven has 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.480 been like looking back, like could I to herb deny 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:05.040 me an opportunity because my name sounds meanwhile Raven simone, 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:05.640 Come on now. 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:08.040 Yeah the fake accent anyway. 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:10.200 So I mean, I guess what I said is like 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:12.040 two wrongs don't make a right in this situation that 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:14.400 they're both crazy. I'm you know, they should just if 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:16.200 they could just like go and like just just join, 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:18.680 just put them on an island together, let them destroy 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:19.040 each other. 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:23.120 Maybe that would be helpful for America. So what I 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:26.680 wanted to talk about, so who remembers hero mom? There? 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.680 Of course we all remember the Baltimore Riots, and there 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:31.680 was this young boy who was kind of like participating 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:35.080 in this his mom and like yellow swoops in and 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:36.279 starts beating him. 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.520 This was the Baltimore Riots for after the wrongful arrest 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:40.640 the death of Freddie Gray. 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:43.560 So she comes in and starts beating him, and the 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:46.240 cameras pick it up and she becomes like this hero 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:50.920 mom and especially for the right conservative and just like, oh, 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:54.280 you know, here's a mom who recognizes that you know 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:56.680 her son shouldn't be doing this, and they flew her 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:57.520 all around the country. 0:06:57.560 --> 0:06:59.200 She was on like every show possible. 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:02.120 And the word has come out that she is now 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:05.520 facing eviction and people were like, wow, you know, you 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:08.240 were flown all over the place and you can't pay 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:10.560 your rent. You would thought that that would have led 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:12.120 that I thought. I guess she thought it would have 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:14.320 led to some sort of like lucrative deal or something, 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:16.960 and it has not. They used her basically for ratings 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:19.000 and sent her back to her regular life. 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:19.520 Of course. 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.480 I mean she's like the quintessential sassy black woman that 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:25.520 media loves to like, you know, put on blast and 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:27.600 like put up there like oh look, how hilarious and 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.520 awesome on this tree. You know this like this rare 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.400 animal is in the wild exactly. Actually give her no 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:36.000 resources or help in any way. So what's what's what's 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:37.360 her deal today? She's facing eviction. 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:39.800 But yeah, she owes about like she owes about like 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.280 fourteen hundred dollars and so for a living, what she 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:45.840 does is that she drives addicts from haway halfway houses 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:49.440 to treatment centers and it's just really not paying very much. 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:52.560 This is what she does and she I guess they were. 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:54.480 Doing some sort of follow up interview and she pulled 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:56.640 out an a eviction notice showing that she owed one thousand, 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.600 three hundred and eighty one dollars and fifty cents and 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.080 she makes ten dollars an hour, So she's struggling. 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:04.160 And you would think like there would be there would been. 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:06.000 Some sort of like resources set up for her after 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:08.760 all of this, or maybe a book deal or something, 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:10.600 but no, nothing. So it just goes to show you 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:11.960 that the media doesn't really care about you. 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:14.080 I mean, Baltimore could have taken care of for too. 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:16.320 Exactly that you hold up as a hero mom, but 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:20.800 she's struggling and nobody cares because she's not a story anymore. 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:23.040 So it's just kind of like a cautionary tale of 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:25.680 you know that people can applaud you, but it doesn't 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:26.640 mean they really support you. 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:29.600 Yeah, and I think anytime that I mean, just anyone 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:32.160 who's out there. If you ever, I mean, you can 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:33.719 talk about it a bit later, but I mean part 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:36.160 of my job I talk to people who have been 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:39.440 wronged by businesses and corporations, and they're often low income 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:42.240 and the way these people are preyed upon is really sad, 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:44.040 and I always have to take them in too account 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:46.680 when I'm interviewing them, and I want to be sure 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:49.320 that they know that I'm not just talking to them 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:51.920 because I want the really sad, sob story, you know, 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:53.720 to draw people in. And I feel like the media 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:55.920 has to be more and this is a good this 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:57.679 is a good way. I love this story and that 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.040 they're going back. Not only are they going back and 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:02.280 talking to women again, like six seven months later, but 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:04.280 they're also bringing more attention to the fact that there's 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:07.000 still these issues in Baltimore, like we can't forget exactly. 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:08.679 There's a line in the story that I really like 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:11.640 it said she became a vehicle for others to advance 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:15.120 their own social agendas that you know, basically they used her, 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:17.480 and now that she needs help, there's no one there 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:18.000 to help. 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:19.760 The same way as like Mike co couldee going to 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:21.959 the rally for Kim Davis, that woman who wanted to 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:25.599 give marriage licenses to gay people, like he made that 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:26.360 about himself. 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:26.760 Yeah. 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:28.719 Well, speaking of Freddie Gray, did you read that his 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:32.679 mom comed attempted suicide. No, Yeah, that's really sad. I 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:34.880 think she, like I think she was either being she 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:36.360 was at a hospital, or she was taken to a 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:39.120 hospital and there she slit her wrists, or I don't 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.200 know the exact circumstances. They said that she was found 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:43.280 with marks on her arms, so I feel like she 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:44.200 might have slit her wrists. 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:45.360 But that's that's really sad. 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:48.720 That's yeah, I don't know what's happening with that case 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:51.199 right now. The last thing I heard was that all 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:54.120 six people, the six cops or police officers who were 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:57.960 on trial, were denied whatever motion they tried to get 0:09:58.040 --> 0:09:59.920 to get the case dropped, Okay, which I guess. 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.120 Good. Yeah, I hope the hope. I mean, I'm sure 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:04.520 we're still going to be covering this case. 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:08.000 But this, this whole situation, the death of Freddy Gray, 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:10.520 the fact that the police officers have been charged with 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:14.040 like what is it, like second degree murder or something 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:17.559 like that, or involuntary something. It'll be interesting to see 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:18.040 how it all. 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:18.520 Plays out. 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:23.640 On that. And I'm like, do you have anything light 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:24.559 to end buzzworthy? 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:26.880 I don't have anything light to end buzzworthy, but I 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:29.000 would be remiss because this is this is really like 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:29.880 weighing heavily on me. 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:32.640 This whole situation with a Rush card. Okay, ah, yes, 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:34.400 oh well yeah, we can't end well, we're just going 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:35.640 to end with We're just gonna end it on this. 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:38.160 We have to we have to have to. 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:41.000 So Russell Simmons first of all, is like this business magnate. 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:43.160 I mean, obviously a hip hop star, but he's he 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:46.200 had fat farm mm hmm. What's little known about him 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:48.600 unless you watch like bet or whatever is that? Twelve 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:51.480 years ago he launched a company called Una Rush which 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:54.280 has a has a product called the Rush Card. This 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.280 is a prepaid debit card. And for those of you 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.079 who don't understand what that is, a prepaid debit card is. 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:01.520 Essentially it's not a bank it's not a bank account, 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:03.600 but it looks like a debit card and it works 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:06.439 like one, and you load money onto it and that's 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:09.120 the money you have to spend. And it's you know, 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:11.559 marketed as being a budgeting tool. And if you know, 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:13.880 a lot of people out there don't realize this, but 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:16.920 if you have a bad banking history, banks can stop 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.520 opening allowing you to open checking accounts. So a lot 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.000 of people who are low income and maybe have overdrafted 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:24.280 their accounts for you know, in the past, or have 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:26.280 had to open and close checking accounts because they ran 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:29.480 into trouble, you know, can't access the traditional banking system. 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:31.959 So they use these prepaid cards as a way of like, 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:35.160 you know, looking like everyone else and having their debit 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:38.600 card or whatever. Unfortunately, the thing about prepaid debit cards 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:40.839 is that a lot of them have crazy fees and 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:43.320 they can be quite expensive for people to use. 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:44.400 So let's go over some of the fees. 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:46.920 You can actually have a fee to load the card up, yep, 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:49.000 A fee to check how much money. 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:56.120 You have, a fee one second, we're getting a call caller. 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:56.680 Are you there? 0:11:57.240 --> 0:12:01.520 Okay, that's funny, but like right, A fee to load 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:03.200 the card up, a fee to actually check to see 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:05.880 what your balance is. There's a fee sometimes for using 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:10.160 your card. Monthly fee, a monthly fee, activation fee. 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:14.240 Activation fee, som fees I mean fees on fees on fees. 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:17.040 Yes, basically fees on fees on fees. And so the 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:17.640 Rush card. 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:20.120 You know what's crazy about this whole situation, So just 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:24.160 real quick, what happened is starting October tenth, people went 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:26.800 to access their Rush card and they were denied. I 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:28.920 spoke to one woman who was at Denny's with her husband, 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:31.520 card was declined. She spent two and a half hours 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:33.959 on the film with customer service sitting outside the Dennis 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:38.160 mortified could not get through. Something was clearly going wrong, 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:40.760 but the company was like radio silent about everything. It 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:44.160 wasn't until about a week into the problems that they 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:47.520 finally acknowledged that some customers had just lost access to 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:50.880 their money, like their money that they've had deposited onto 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:52.800 their cards. Like, can you imagine if you just like 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:55.560 and this is everyone's worst fear, The apocalypse is coming. 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:56.800 Banks are closed down. 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:58.319 You can't access your own money. 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:00.440 Paycheck because a lot of people have their paychecks onto 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:02.800 the card automatically. So just imagine, Oh, this is the 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:06.080 money that you used to pay your your rent, with groceries, 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:08.640 child care services, all of these things, and then all 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.400 of a sudden, not for an hour, not. 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:15.320 For a day, but for more than a week, no apter. 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:18.679 Two weeks now, today is October twenty fifth. This all 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:22.160 started happening October tenth, two weeks and I've been following 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:24.559 it closely. I've written a couple of stories about this. 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:29.480 The Consumer Federal Protection Bureau just came out Friday that 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.120 afternoon with the statement saying they're going to be investigating 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:36.240 rush Card, Russell Simmons himself and the company's CEO, because 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:38.760 Russell's basically the face of the company. He was a founder, 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:41.280 but he doesn't actually run it, like there's a whole other, 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:43.920 obviously executive team running it. They've come out and said, 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:46.600 you know, largely most of the issues have been fixed. 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:49.719 Russell Simmons was on Twitter yesterday tweeting about this, and 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.360 I meanwhile, I'm on Twitter, I'm on my email. I'm 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:55.520 still getting emails from people saying, hey, I can't access 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:57.240 all my money. I only got one hundred bucks back. 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.640 I'm still owed three to fifty. I talked to a 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:02.840 woman and her name's Jasmine. She lives in actually from 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.320 New Jersey, Beverly. Okay, this is what happened to her, 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.280 and this is why, this is why this story is 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:11.080 like so hard. She at the beginning of October, after 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:13.079 waiting two years, she was on the waiting list for 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.360 low income assisted housing in New Jersey. And she has 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:19.520 two children, a six year old and a seven month old, 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.120 and they've been homeless largely for the last year. They've 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:25.440 been kind of living like from friend's couch to friend's couch, 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:28.480 most recently at her mother's house, but her mother is 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:29.160 still taking. 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:29.920 Care of her siblings. 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:33.960 Jasmine's only twenty six years old, and so for finally 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.440 the past year, she's been like semi homeless, saving up 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:39.240 money in you know, finally getting approved for this low 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.680 income housing, moving into a two bedroom apartment. 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:43.920 She just moved in the beginning of October. 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.520 She bought a bed for her daughter and couldn't buy 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:50.560 a crib for her baby because her Rush card was empty, 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:53.360 completely empty, And she's one of the ones you had 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.960 there in her entire paycheck. She was onto the card 0:14:57.440 --> 0:14:59.560 and let me just dispel myths about people who live 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:01.640 in assis living or not as a living but low 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:04.760 income housing. She has a full time job. She works 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:07.640 nine to five. She's also going to school for a 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:11.080 degree in sociology. She works for a nonprofit helping poor 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:15.160 people get access to different services. And she's like, I 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:18.920 can't believe that my job is helping people get access 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:22.720 to services. Meanwhile, I can't even buy groceries from my children. Wow, 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:24.960 she had just moved in, and she's like, I thought 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:27.680 I was getting a fresh start, and now I feel like, 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:29.720 I have nothing, absolutely zero, And she. 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:30.960 Still hasn't gotten her money, so. 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:33.360 As of I spoke with her on Friday. As of Friday, 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:35.640 she had gotten half of one of her direct deposits. 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:39.000 She's missing two paychecks, and she also was due a 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:41.280 refund check from her student loans. You know, if you pay, 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:44.000 she's due like four thousand dollars from her student loans, 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:45.240 which is going to be the money that she was 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:47.760 going to use to furnish her apartment because these some 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:49.680 of these this is her apartment in particular, didn't come 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.640 with a fridge or utilities like like a fridge and 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:55.040 appliances and stuff, so she had to buy that. And 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:57.600 she's like, we're all sleeping on my daughter's bed. You know, 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:00.760 I've been fixing her PEB and J's because we can afford. 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:03.520 This is just so crazy. And then you know, I just, 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:05.880 first of all, what I think is so crazy. It's 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.000 like I guess it was all due to what like 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:10.200 some sort of like they said it was a software 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:13.080 glitch or systems updated. They were updating the system. Now, 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:15.080 I mean, why not do this. 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.200 In waves just in case something like this? 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:20.080 Maybe they did, They're not being like they haven't said 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:21.440 maybe they did it in a wave and that just 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:23.720 happened to be the one that screwed up. They haven't 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:26.640 said exactly how many people are affected. They haven't said, 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:28.920 but I mean I've been saying thousands. Media has been 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:31.040 saying thousands, because you can go to their Facebook page. 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:33.240 This is where people have had to resource to complaining 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:35.720 because the customer service lines, I guess have been inundated 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.040 and people can't get through. So you look at Facebook 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:39.800 and there are just tens of thousands of comments. 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:41.960 Wow, So you're just assuming, well, these are thousands of 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:44.680 people complaining, so it must be thousands of people affected, right, 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:45.800