Speaker 1: What's up. Family. It's your girl to make a d
Speaker 1: Mallory and it's your boy, my son in the general,
Speaker 1: and we are your host of street politicians, the place
Speaker 1: where the streets and politics. Me, what's going on, mister
Speaker 1: Lenen You know me, I'm blessing Holly Favor. Shout out
Speaker 1: to actively black because I've been black business. They sent
Speaker 1: me this is some fire. Figure out some fire. I
Speaker 1: told him I was gonna get I was gonna buy
Speaker 1: some stuff from them. I need to sit down. And
Speaker 1: the quality on these sweatsuits and these hats is crazy.
Speaker 1: Like the leather, you know, some leopard skin going on. Good.
Speaker 1: It does look nice. It does look nice. I need
Speaker 1: to told him I was going to purchase some things
Speaker 1: from them, and I will. But I'm actually in my
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, the last the last several years, especially
Speaker 1: since um Minnister farica On led the uh the the
Speaker 1: boycott during Black Friday several years ago, when the police
Speaker 1: brutality incidents were, um you know, very visible. Because I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna say that they've calmed down. We know that's
Speaker 1: not the case because we're seeing cases pop up around
Speaker 1: the country every single day. But during that time, um
Speaker 1: you know there was redistribute the pain and it was
Speaker 1: the boycott. Um. You know, of any of the holiday shopping,
Speaker 1: I didn't. I never really went back. I get a
Speaker 1: few things for different individuals who are really special to me,
Speaker 1: people who I'm close to. Um, you know, but but
Speaker 1: the but but I'm I don't. I don't do what
Speaker 1: I used to do prior to that. Christmas has always
Speaker 1: from when I was a young girl. Even though we
Speaker 1: celebrate kwanza I already my parents never maybe the first
Speaker 1: few years of my life, they was doing the saying
Speaker 1: a thing. But we was out of that quick, totally
Speaker 1: out of the sand of these First of all, we
Speaker 1: lived in the project exactly, so we got out of it.
Speaker 1: I don't remember. That was when I was like a
Speaker 1: little girl. But we didn't do Santa um. But we
Speaker 1: did do gift giving. Because you know, all these holidays,
Speaker 1: I think we know the history of them, or ually
Speaker 1: should be teaching the truth to your family members and
Speaker 1: then saying that, as I say all the time, we
Speaker 1: all walk in contradictions because on one hand we can
Speaker 1: say we don't we understand the holidays, but it does
Speaker 1: give you time off work, time to get together with family,
Speaker 1: time you could travel and different things that you can do,
Speaker 1: eat good food. Um. And so I used to spend
Speaker 1: ridiculous money on Christmas gifts and now I don't do
Speaker 1: that anymore. I just don't well let's say this, let
Speaker 1: me say it this way. I don't buy a lot
Speaker 1: of gifts, but I still buy quality gifts for individuals
Speaker 1: that I love. So I'm actually in my don't spend
Speaker 1: money period right now. However, I am going to support
Speaker 1: black owned businesses. What I did do last year, I
Speaker 1: started just picking people randomly from my Instagram comments and
Speaker 1: paying their rent um. I paid I think like three
Speaker 1: or four people's rent last time last year Christmas, and
Speaker 1: then from a lot of my friends joined in and
Speaker 1: picked people as well. And I got that from Miss
Speaker 1: Miami Bling's page. I'll miss Bling Miami her page. She
Speaker 1: was doing it. So then myself and another sister I
Speaker 1: can't remember her name right now, we all just sort
Speaker 1: of picked it up and started doing that. So I
Speaker 1: probably would do that again this year, and then we
Speaker 1: you know, have some other stuff coming up. So I'm
Speaker 1: going to purchase something from actively Black, but I am
Speaker 1: trying to let hold on to my money during the
Speaker 1: season Yeah, I got to hold onto that coin because
Speaker 1: it's tough of him. Man, we in recession. Money is
Speaker 1: you know what they say, are we really in a recession?
Speaker 1: You can just see that money is not going as long. Yeah,
Speaker 1: inflation is is definitely, you know, money is definitely not
Speaker 1: going as far as it used to go. The dollar
Speaker 1: don't mean as much as it used to. So going
Speaker 1: on to your coin, definitely, don't go out there and
Speaker 1: buying no Nike fuck nick dim own Niket fuck Naket. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm like, things are really expensive, you know I and
Speaker 1: I am fortunate that, you know, I have resources, I
Speaker 1: have the means, but I'm looking at things and I'm like, wow,
Speaker 1: this is really expensive. Like there's a lot of things,
Speaker 1: especially with flights. I'm like usually I'm like, if I
Speaker 1: want to go somewhere, if I need to be somewhere,
Speaker 1: I'm out like, there's no you know, I'm gonna pay
Speaker 1: for my flight and go. I also have points, I
Speaker 1: got different things, but but I am even sitting back
Speaker 1: like this is too expensive. And I'm definitely not just
Speaker 1: outright trying to buy first class tickets on most flights
Speaker 1: where I used to fly first class at any time
Speaker 1: I got on the plane and you know that I'm
Speaker 1: definitely was like, I'm a purchase, but I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't do that. I think everybody has to cut back,
Speaker 1: no matter how much money you have. And I was
Speaker 1: talking to a friend of mine who has lots of money,
Speaker 1: at a lot of money, and she was like, even
Speaker 1: in our house, like with money, we're not spending like that.
Speaker 1: You know, we're being very very careful about how we
Speaker 1: spend because money goes so fast that you've got a
Speaker 1: lot lot today and you can have a little little tonight,
Speaker 1: not even tomorrow tonight. It's tough man. So me, my
Speaker 1: money go to everybody else. I think I'm like the bank.
Speaker 1: Everybody thinks something to bank a couple of little fragments.
Speaker 1: I get. I get, you know, I gotta I don't
Speaker 1: get to enjoyed nothing. But I don't really need much
Speaker 1: to me, you know, I think with this whole Nike
Speaker 1: boycott thing, to me, it's made me detach because you know,
Speaker 1: I'm a big sneaker person, Like I love sneakers, and
Speaker 1: even though I'm still getting sneak, but I don't feel
Speaker 1: a touched to it right because I used to have
Speaker 1: to go out and get the new Jordans and a
Speaker 1: new this and that when it came out and now
Speaker 1: I don't. So it's it's making me feel like I
Speaker 1: don't really need none of this ship. So you know,
Speaker 1: I'm being a lot more frugal. I'm just paying attention
Speaker 1: to money. I'm seeing myself saved more money. You know
Speaker 1: it's working for me. Yeah, Mr Mr Footwork who I
Speaker 1: saw today. Shout out to Mr Footwork. If you don't
Speaker 1: know him, you're looking for any sneaker period, you go
Speaker 1: to Mr Footwork on inst work and he will help
Speaker 1: you to find it. Not just sneakers, jackets, chains, anything
Speaker 1: that you want. Mr Footwork is on his speak and
Speaker 1: about that business. So he um is now looking for
Speaker 1: sneakers that have the purple that matches until Freedom but
Speaker 1: that but obviously not Nike. He's doing that work for us,
Speaker 1: that research because I was like, bro, I need sneakers
Speaker 1: with purple in it because I wear that with my
Speaker 1: so Freedom gear. Anyway, a lot of little things, crazy
Speaker 1: things going on around this country. And I promised I
Speaker 1: was gonna say I swear, but I promised, Um, I'm
Speaker 1: committed to some new things going into the new year.
Speaker 1: And one of them is, of course, on the finance side.
Speaker 1: Now I've gotten better with what I spend on and
Speaker 1: how I spend. Now I'm getting better on my paperwork,
Speaker 1: organizing myself and making sure that I, um, you know,
Speaker 1: have all of my documents and paperwork and all of that,
Speaker 1: and trying to get my taxes straighten out. I had
Speaker 1: several years of just taxes being crazy, but now I'm
Speaker 1: trying to tighten all the things. So that's my commitment
Speaker 1: to myself. Um. But the other thing is what I'm
Speaker 1: eating right Like eating out, Dude, we gotta be massive careful.
Speaker 1: You already have changed your eating habits, but we still
Speaker 1: you will still get a piece of fish anywhere like
Speaker 1: your little spots, you'll be going to the ground. And
Speaker 1: we have to be really careful because part of our
Speaker 1: health is not just the food we eat, but the
Speaker 1: cleanliness of it. And so I the last few weeks
Speaker 1: I have been cooking meals in my house. Part of
Speaker 1: it is I want to cook for my family, with
Speaker 1: my grand baby and everybody together. But beyond that, even
Speaker 1: for myself, I cannot eat out at these restaurants every
Speaker 1: single meal of the day. It's just too much Now
Speaker 1: we saw in Detroit at Popeye's all over the takeout orders,
Speaker 1: roaches was crawling everywhere. Or roaches wasn't just on takeout orders,
Speaker 1: it was they were in the straws, the door dash
Speaker 1: um delivery person caught pictures or video or whatever of
Speaker 1: these roaches crawling everywhere. Now, cock roaches or the big
Speaker 1: water bug type of roaches, that's one thing. Those are
Speaker 1: nasty too, But you can have an infestation of them
Speaker 1: and not be dirty. So, for instance, there was an
Speaker 1: infestation of of the water bugs that came into my house.
Speaker 1: My house is not dirty at all, but the water
Speaker 1: bugs came in and they kept, you know, you kept
Speaker 1: seeing them dead. And it was because there was water
Speaker 1: and a leak and the thing and whatever, and it
Speaker 1: had to be fixed and it got under control. But
Speaker 1: once one comes you can see six or seven, because
Speaker 1: in in our house there was like ten or twelve
Speaker 1: of them dead at the same time. When I came
Speaker 1: back from a trip, then I wasn't home. So that
Speaker 1: that's that's an infestation and as nasty as hell. But
Speaker 1: it did not happen because of things because of the
Speaker 1: house being nasty. It happened because there was water that
Speaker 1: they were able to feed on roaches. Roaches, they come,
Speaker 1: they come for the disgusted. That's nasty. It's nasty. It's terrible.
Speaker 1: And they and and the thing is they the way
Speaker 1: they multiplied, the speed that they to ply, and they
Speaker 1: once they get in, they lay eggs and they keep
Speaker 1: on laying eggs. And the poper eyes think. And the
Speaker 1: thing was running out the little hole in the pop
Speaker 1: Eyes box. It was disgusting, like disgusting, disgusting. And and
Speaker 1: y'all and and and on some real we be ordering
Speaker 1: stuff for what we Eats. You don't even know what
Speaker 1: the restaurant looks like that you're ordering from. So you're
Speaker 1: just going online looking for the And by the way, me,
Speaker 1: when I go to What we Eats, I always go
Speaker 1: to the Department of Health for that state and look
Speaker 1: up the restaurant as well. Yeah, y'all don't know. Y'all
Speaker 1: listened to me. But she is a dirt germ of
Speaker 1: fold and she cannot stand roaches, rats, dirt. She can't
Speaker 1: stand none of this stuff. It drives her crazy. She's
Speaker 1: calling the mayor about the rats. She's taking pictures wherever
Speaker 1: she sees. She is not for it at all so
Speaker 1: these more more. Every time these things come on, it
Speaker 1: drives her crazy. Now she's gonna be like, I'm never
Speaker 1: going to Popeye'es, no eat Popeyees no more. After the
Speaker 1: rats was running up the wall, Yo, Popeyes. The only
Speaker 1: way I'm gonna eat Popeye's is if I'm drinking, and
Speaker 1: you know, they bring a box of chicken in the house.
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, but I'm getting to the point, Mice
Speaker 1: where I will go to to pick up something and
Speaker 1: just like I can't, I just can't eat it. I can't.
Speaker 1: I would rather go to a good Jamaican restaurant and
Speaker 1: get me some fried chicken out the the you know,
Speaker 1: when they're be having it under the light. Now I'm
Speaker 1: not even And by the way, I don't even want
Speaker 1: to consider how clean some of those restaurants are either,
Speaker 1: So let's just be clear. But what I do know
Speaker 1: is in New York City we have many, many, many
Speaker 1: cultural restaurants, and you can tell they are very clean,
Speaker 1: like they are trying. They're trying their best any to
Speaker 1: keep it clean, especially like the Golden Crust brand and
Speaker 1: the ones that I've been to, I can see where
Speaker 1: they really are trying to do their job of keeping
Speaker 1: things clean. But anytime you eat out, you're taking a risk.
Speaker 1: So my boys in Detroit, I don't even know that.
Speaker 1: You know, y'all can look it up. They have roaches now.
Speaker 1: They've had to close their doors because they have roaches
Speaker 1: crawling over everything is bad enough. Some of them got rats.
Speaker 1: Probably they got rats and roaches. Do rats and roaches
Speaker 1: have in the same space. I don't know, but I
Speaker 1: am going to They definitely coexist. Or is it mice
Speaker 1: and roaches because rats they do the same. They all
Speaker 1: in the same places. Well, well, no, rats and rats
Speaker 1: and mice don't cohabitate. Rats mice, right, so they don't cohabitate.
Speaker 1: So I anyway, I'm getting ready to join the New
Speaker 1: York City Task Force for rats and clean and something
Speaker 1: that got to do with cleanliness. Speaking of asked the
Speaker 1: something that needs to be uh. I want rats to
Speaker 1: be exterminated, and I also want individuals who prey on
Speaker 1: and rape young people or anybody rapist in general to
Speaker 1: be exterminated. And I mean, I really do mean that, Like,
Speaker 1: if you are out here sleeping with kids and messing
Speaker 1: with people and their children, we put somewhere they need
Speaker 1: to be put down. I guess we can't really say
Speaker 1: put you down because we don't really support I don't
Speaker 1: support the defenitalty. So yeah, I know, but it's like
Speaker 1: you can't have one thing and not the other because
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, it's again, it's a it's
Speaker 1: a difficult thing. But the archdioces in Baltimore. I wonder
Speaker 1: if it was Maryland or Baltimore. It's five Baltimore, it's
Speaker 1: not even Baltimore anyway. I know this happened in Baltimore,
Speaker 1: but it could have been the archdioces of mary and
Speaker 1: I don't know how that works anyway. They failed to
Speaker 1: report um over. No, they failed to report sexual assault
Speaker 1: against many victims. Now there's a criminal investigation that has
Speaker 1: uncovered six hundred people saying that they were victims over
Speaker 1: eighty years. So over eighty years, there are at least
Speaker 1: six hundred people who were young girl young at the
Speaker 1: time growing up in the church and the archdiocese they
Speaker 1: claimed they did their own investigation and then they they
Speaker 1: are banned these priests and others. I'm sure it was priests,
Speaker 1: but there's maybe other members of the church leadership that
Speaker 1: were involved in this. They banned them from being around kids. Now,
Speaker 1: the only way you could be banned from being around
Speaker 1: kids becau Oh but you can be locked up, you
Speaker 1: have to be away, you can you can't be around kids.
Speaker 1: What are we talking about? You going to stay away from?
Speaker 1: So I just don't understand why does why does this
Speaker 1: church constantly have this issue with these kids? Like what
Speaker 1: is going on? But I just never understood, like what
Speaker 1: what is it is? It is? It is something that's
Speaker 1: part of like what is going on? Well, and and
Speaker 1: and so a part of me. It's considering what it
Speaker 1: means to be a part of a village. Right, and
Speaker 1: so if we were in an African village and we
Speaker 1: and it should be the case even in our own communities,
Speaker 1: we don't call the police, we would not call the
Speaker 1: police to deal with our issues, right, I mean that's
Speaker 1: kind of the theory. I'm still but okay, but then
Speaker 1: what is the process? I need to hear it. I
Speaker 1: need the Pope himselves or some damn body to tell
Speaker 1: me what is the process for multiple victims of sexual assault?
Speaker 1: If we're not using the criminal justice system, fine, I
Speaker 1: could even accept that there has to be a mechanism
Speaker 1: for public safety, community safety in your own village. We
Speaker 1: we all need that right, we need that if you're
Speaker 1: a murderer, a dangerous right. So there has to be
Speaker 1: some level of something to address the sickness. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's just a crime. I think it's it's definitely
Speaker 1: a sickness, especially when you look at it because a
Speaker 1: lot of them pray. They they don't just do it
Speaker 1: one time or something like that. It's it's a sickness,
Speaker 1: is a cycle. So I don't know, Like you said,
Speaker 1: I want to know what the process is of you
Speaker 1: addressing it and you know you're doing something because there's
Speaker 1: no accountability, like what what? What are you really doing
Speaker 1: that you're holding these people accountable. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm trying to ask you. It's what I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't have a clue. I don't. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't know what it is there out here doing because
Speaker 1: it ain't working because every we keep hearing the same
Speaker 1: thing in the church, in this cadutry, and I don't
Speaker 1: understand where it's coming from. I don't understand what it
Speaker 1: is that that's something that's prevalent in those churches. So
Speaker 1: then the question becomes is it a sickness or is
Speaker 1: it cultural? Or is it both? I think it might
Speaker 1: be both because we've seen this culture within the same
Speaker 1: church over and over again. It's been so I don't understand,
Speaker 1: you know, is it something that's supposedly accepted in it
Speaker 1: within this church. But I don't understand. Well, I think
Speaker 1: at some point it was like we need to stop
Speaker 1: playing with this conversation. Yeah, I don't know. That's something
Speaker 1: I've never really got into in depth with it and
Speaker 1: understood exactly why, you know, and why why it isn't
Speaker 1: totally frowned upon, you know, and it's constantly happened within
Speaker 1: the church. So I don't I don't understand that. I've
Speaker 1: never got to understand. I just know it was crazy
Speaker 1: and it always a year they said this person was
Speaker 1: doing this in the capulture and fred person was doing
Speaker 1: this to kids, and we just keep hearing it and
Speaker 1: it's like it's not changing. It should has six over
Speaker 1: six hundred victims um a hundred and fifteen abusers, and
Speaker 1: it's all happened over eighty years. So this is going
Speaker 1: on for eighty years. So if you maybe if the
Speaker 1: village dealt with two or three, four, five, and it
Speaker 1: keeps happening. At what point is it a systemic problem
Speaker 1: that has to be addressed on a larger level. I
Speaker 1: don't know, and I think I think it always. I
Speaker 1: think it needs to be addressed on the hut. I
Speaker 1: just think, like I said, rate to me is one
Speaker 1: of those crimes where it should be punishable. But I
Speaker 1: would say death. You're raping kids, But it has to
Speaker 1: be punishing by some level inconceerration, some level of you know, punitive.
Speaker 1: It has to have punitive you know. And when you're
Speaker 1: doing something and you and you're not treating like yourselfing
Speaker 1: to have a punitive, you know, response, then I think
Speaker 1: you're dropping the ball on it and you and you're
Speaker 1: allowing it's a forester and continue to grow because there's
Speaker 1: no real consequence. I'm with you. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't have nothing else I could. This ain't right. That's
Speaker 1: all I can say is that this is wrong. It
Speaker 1: is wrong. It's wrong, and I saw it. I posted
Speaker 1: the story on my page or in my story since
Speaker 1: somebody wrote back to me like, oh well that never
Speaker 1: happened to me. Yeah, if you know what, I never
Speaker 1: God knock on wood or whatever, and please God bless me.
Speaker 1: But I never got struck by lightning. That never happened
Speaker 1: to me. But there's other people that they're struck by lightning.
Speaker 1: So stop trying to make it seem like just because
Speaker 1: the priest in your church did not rape you or
Speaker 1: or molest you or something, that that means it didn't
Speaker 1: happen to first of all, other people in your church,
Speaker 1: but also that it couldn't be maybe just not your priests.
Speaker 1: No nothing, There is no one of anything. So we
Speaker 1: know that there's not a hundred percent of priests that
Speaker 1: have had or abused children. So maybe it missed you,
Speaker 1: and God bless you that it missed you, and and
Speaker 1: maybe you didn't even know what it looked like if
Speaker 1: it did happen to you. But nonetheless, there are many
Speaker 1: people that it has happened to. And this is crazy.
Speaker 1: So I really am trying to understand. For me, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to understand what is their process because I don't
Speaker 1: get it. I don't get it. And they said, oh,
Speaker 1: so they said it's a hundred and fifteen priests, but
Speaker 1: then they said they've been credibly accused. So we're not
Speaker 1: even saying, like ash slashing and half bring only ten
Speaker 1: per or three percent or two percent we're talking about.
Speaker 1: They're saying that these people are credibly abute accusing uh individuals.
Speaker 1: And by the way, forty three more priests have been
Speaker 1: accused as well. But they but they didn't make it
Speaker 1: to the official hundred and fifteen that have received some
Speaker 1: type of reprimand from the church. The reprimand ain't working.
Speaker 1: The reprimand ain't working. And I don't know, this might
Speaker 1: be going too far because I would never see here
Speaker 1: and say that the Muslims should you know, not where
Speaker 1: he jobs. I don't. I think they should have choice, right.
Speaker 1: I would never say that the Christians shouldn't have baptism, right.
Speaker 1: I would never say that these things are cultural parts
Speaker 1: of what makes up their religion and our religion. But
Speaker 1: maybe not having sex as a priest is not a
Speaker 1: good thing. I don't really think. I don't think it's
Speaker 1: a natural thing. And I think, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I think sex. Sex is a part of life, and
Speaker 1: it's it's a process. I don't think telling priests to
Speaker 1: abstain is is all the way realistic, you know, for
Speaker 1: for the majority of them, the majority of people don't
Speaker 1: abstain from sex their whole life. It's just not it's
Speaker 1: not a really a thing. So why go to change
Speaker 1: because those are the people that they're around, most of
Speaker 1: the most wonderful you know, they're around. They don't they're
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what to do with this sexual energy.
Speaker 1: It's just it's a lot. It's a lot to unpack.
Speaker 1: Makeup that be wrong, but it's definitely a lot to unpack.
Speaker 1: It is. I mean, I just, yeah, I need to
Speaker 1: learn more. And I'm not in the Catholic church, but
Speaker 1: I went to Catholic school, and I need to understand
Speaker 1: because I'm not any time a bunch of kids. No,
Speaker 1: it's not right. So anyway, speaking of abuse, women, attorney
Speaker 1: Ben Crump has offering he has filed the lawsuit against
Speaker 1: the Department of Corrections in New York because there are
Speaker 1: a number of women who claimed that they have been
Speaker 1: impregnated by correctional officers over several years. Impregnated rates you know,
Speaker 1: great basically sexually because they don't have power to really
Speaker 1: you know, when you exercise and power, they can't really
Speaker 1: say yes, yeah, I mean, you know, and some of
Speaker 1: them might have acted like they was cool with it.
Speaker 1: It helps them probably get some privileges. And but the
Speaker 1: thing is that is elite atomatically automatically rate whenever whenever
Speaker 1: a CEO or officer has sex with a prisoner, it's right.
Speaker 1: There's no consensual sex in that situation, is always right.
Speaker 1: So that's it. So the women are suing again. I
Speaker 1: know that one of the leading cases is around actually
Speaker 1: being impregnated by these officers. And you know what has
Speaker 1: the Department of Correction is done about that. There's so
Speaker 1: many things in our society is just out of control,
Speaker 1: Like everything is just out of control. People just doing
Speaker 1: whatever the hell they want to do. And now you
Speaker 1: have this, you know coming out, which we already know
Speaker 1: that the officers we have. I mean, I hope people
Speaker 1: don't think that some of these officers don't have sex
Speaker 1: with their with the incarcerated individuals. It definitely is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's happening. It's definitely, trust me. I know, I'm just saying.
Speaker 1: So that's another thing going on. So last week I
Speaker 1: attended UH court, the Tory Lanes trial. Um I went
Speaker 1: because I wanted to. I send people ask to me,
Speaker 1: why did I go? Like why did you go? I said?
Speaker 1: Two reasons. So what's the two reasons? Because I felt
Speaker 1: like it, and I go anywhere I want, any time
Speaker 1: I want, and so that's why I went, and too,
Speaker 1: I went because I wanted to see and hear for myself.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to because of the fact if if court,
Speaker 1: if the trial was playing on tv UM or you know,
Speaker 1: if there was actual clips and audio coming out from
Speaker 1: inside the courtroom, I probably would not have gone. Not
Speaker 1: because I still wouldn't have wanted to be there, but
Speaker 1: I had so much going on, Like I literally did
Speaker 1: not sleep all week because I was flying overnight to
Speaker 1: l A, going to the trial, then leaving the trial,
Speaker 1: having to fly out overnight again to get to Orlando
Speaker 1: for the Conference of National Black Churches. They had UM
Speaker 1: their conference going on, and I went there to present
Speaker 1: on a panel about addiction and mental health issues in
Speaker 1: the Black church. Then I left there had to be
Speaker 1: in d C because we were honored by the National
Speaker 1: Coalition of Black Civic Participation and Melanie Campbell. So I
Speaker 1: was literally going crazy. So if I could watch it
Speaker 1: on TV, I would have again because it would have
Speaker 1: worked better for my schedule. But because that was not
Speaker 1: the case, and the only news I was hearing was
Speaker 1: coming from the Instagram reporters, the one you know, the
Speaker 1: Instagram reporters. I was like, I ain't. I want to
Speaker 1: hear exactly what Megan says word for word myself so
Speaker 1: that I can understand more about the nuances. And a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff was uncovered, you know what. I what
Speaker 1: we already discussed the fact that an guil King interview,
Speaker 1: she said she didn't have sex with him. I didn't
Speaker 1: believe that. I didn't believe it just's just the truth.
Speaker 1: And I you know, I love and support Meg, but
Speaker 1: I didn't believe that. And she said she lied about it.
Speaker 1: You know, I know why. And I when she said
Speaker 1: she didn't do it, I know why. I knew why
Speaker 1: she was doing that. You know, it's not an unusual thing,
Speaker 1: especially for women, even women and men to try to
Speaker 1: deny someone they have sex because they don't want their business.
Speaker 1: And I think one of the things about Megan that
Speaker 1: she's going to have to work on is feeling like
Speaker 1: she needs to um uh present a certain way for
Speaker 1: the the the internet, you know, for what people are
Speaker 1: saying about you or what they think. At this point,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter anymore, you know, we all have come
Speaker 1: to our own conclusions in our head, which is not court,
Speaker 1: about what we think happened. Right, We've come to our
Speaker 1: own conclusions and um and and it, and it really
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, Like you don't have to like, oh, I
Speaker 1: didn't do this, not to sleep with this when it
Speaker 1: doesn't really matter, like f who don't like who you
Speaker 1: slept with? So what it's better to just go ahead
Speaker 1: and be straightforward about whatever the issue is so you
Speaker 1: can just you know, in this situation. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: anybody should just be out telling in their business. That's
Speaker 1: not what I'm saying. I'm saying when it comes to
Speaker 1: a situation that you have to deal with it in court,
Speaker 1: and you got the court of public opinion, the court,
Speaker 1: the actual court is at that point trying to do
Speaker 1: the wiggle thing. It doesn't it doesn't work. But it's
Speaker 1: still whether she slept with Tory, Pory, Poopy and Tuopy
Speaker 1: doesn't matter because it's gonna come down to who shot
Speaker 1: her and what does the jury believe. And in listening,
Speaker 1: you know, and in sitting there and listening to her
Speaker 1: and my thought of the day, what came to me
Speaker 1: as I was sitting and listening to the very the
Speaker 1: nuances and the details and what they brought up. Everything
Speaker 1: she tweeted, everything she said, every interview she did, every
Speaker 1: Instagram post, every uh, you know, all the whatever. Everything
Speaker 1: they have it and they bring it up. Sometimes it
Speaker 1: was brought up to support her, right because she has
Speaker 1: a very her story was very consistent about certain things,
Speaker 1: very consistent, and so they brought it up to say,
Speaker 1: this is what she said. Then this is still what
Speaker 1: she's saying now, but they brought up inconsistencies. So any So,
Speaker 1: my thing is, you know, we have to be real
Speaker 1: careful what we do on social media. I tell you
Speaker 1: all the time, emotional response on social because we all
Speaker 1: get emotional. You meet anybody, you get upset, something pisces
Speaker 1: you off, something makes you angry. Sometimes you want to
Speaker 1: kick somebody's ass. All of that stuff. Those things, those
Speaker 1: those are emotions and they happen to us. But Instagram
Speaker 1: and Twitter and Facebook, in any form of social media
Speaker 1: is not the place to go to express that because
Speaker 1: later on it will don't be used either against you
Speaker 1: or sometimes it can work, but more than likely it
Speaker 1: is being used against you. And I think people just
Speaker 1: need to be real careful what they write and what
Speaker 1: they say, especially after they are triggered by something from
Speaker 1: an emotional perspective. I mean, I definitely agree with that.
Speaker 1: And that's why it's called Instagram, because you instantly, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of times I've had to just you know,
Speaker 1: suspend your first reaction. Right. A lot of times you
Speaker 1: see ship and you mad, you want to and you
Speaker 1: have to. And a lot of times what I do
Speaker 1: is I write some ship and just delete it because
Speaker 1: I wrote it, and you know, and and it gives
Speaker 1: me some level level of therapy. But yeah, definitely when
Speaker 1: you're looking, especially in this situation that you know, I think,
Speaker 1: what what's what's going on is there's a court and
Speaker 1: then there's court of public opinion, right, so, and people
Speaker 1: tie you into anything you say. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: and don't matter what you say, and if if, if
Speaker 1: it's anything that conflicts a little, they used that to
Speaker 1: try to destroy your character anything. Oh but you said this,
Speaker 1: They come on my page, Oh, how are you gonna
Speaker 1: be this? But you said this, Well, you said this,
Speaker 1: Oh this is contradicting. Huh. Listen, your your perception of
Speaker 1: what I say or what I do is your perception,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So people try to tie
Speaker 1: you in to something the reason why you did it
Speaker 1: or you only did this because of that, well you
Speaker 1: you know, and that's what social media does. And you
Speaker 1: find yourself trying to punch yourself out of a situation
Speaker 1: that you can't. You can't change people's perspectively, you right,
Speaker 1: you just only thing you can do is be who
Speaker 1: you are, understand your understanding and you you you you
Speaker 1: can utilize social media as something that you you promoting
Speaker 1: things that sometimes you express thoughts that you think you
Speaker 1: know the world should you know before you express them,
Speaker 1: make sure that these thoughts are something that you know
Speaker 1: you want the whole world and know right that after
Speaker 1: the emotions is gone and all that ship, it doesn't
Speaker 1: come back to you. And you're like, damn, I should
Speaker 1: have never said that, because a lot of this is
Speaker 1: what I see. A lot. It's people that I've seen
Speaker 1: on Instagram say ship and be like and I'd be like, wow,
Speaker 1: why would they like why would they say that on Instagram?
Speaker 1: You know, like about their personal life and personal friends
Speaker 1: and this and that you know, and I think you
Speaker 1: know for me, like I've seen I've seen a post
Speaker 1: today and it was, um, it was about twitch and
Speaker 1: it was little Romeo and he said something and you know,
Speaker 1: it was directed to his father and I'm like, damn,
Speaker 1: I didn't know none of this was going on, you know.
Speaker 1: And he said, you know it's sad. Was when your
Speaker 1: father posts something r I Peter a famous person who's
Speaker 1: going to mental health but stays away from your own
Speaker 1: family members, who's dealing with the same thing. You know, y'all,
Speaker 1: you know y'all role models and this and that. And
Speaker 1: I was like, damn, Like that wasn't for Instagram. That
Speaker 1: was what you call your father on the phone and
Speaker 1: be like, yo, Dad, this is some second ship room boom.
Speaker 1: I'm feeling this way, like regardless of what, that's your father, Like,
Speaker 1: we've watched that man give you opportunity to put you
Speaker 1: in invest positions of your life and you don't have
Speaker 1: to deal with certain things based only I don't know
Speaker 1: what the full you know, the full scope or your
Speaker 1: relationship is, but I just know that you're talking on
Speaker 1: your to your father through Instagram. We're talking bad about
Speaker 1: your father through Instagram, Like that ship don't go away,
Speaker 1: you know, and the ship that they use against both
Speaker 1: of your that they'll use to pick you two against
Speaker 1: each other. And you know, I just think that in
Speaker 1: those instances, we have to be very very careful about
Speaker 1: how we use Instagram. Yeah, now I agree with you.
Speaker 1: I feel that way about Um. I feel that way.
Speaker 1: I felt that way too, Like, you know, maybe maybe
Speaker 1: he feels um that his dad deserved it for some reason.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe uh, you know, maybe he feels like
Speaker 1: his dad deserved it for some reason. I mean obviously
Speaker 1: feels like I'm just saying, but I was going to say,
Speaker 1: maybe he feels that way, and perhaps he does. Perhaps
Speaker 1: it's so bad that he does deserve it, But I
Speaker 1: personally believe he'll regret writing that on social media. It's
Speaker 1: just every day I'm learning the more and more people
Speaker 1: who are starting to step pull back from social media
Speaker 1: because people are seeing the damage that is causing. And
Speaker 1: I am one of those individuals that in fact, I
Speaker 1: was just thinking, like damn, I have so many posts,
Speaker 1: like we go to so many events, were doing this,
Speaker 1: We're being honored, we over here, we over there. I
Speaker 1: have so much stuff going on. If I posted everything
Speaker 1: that I'm doing every day, people might be like, she's
Speaker 1: like crazy, Like this. Something is wrong with the not
Speaker 1: not crazy bad word. You know, we're not supposed to
Speaker 1: say crazy, but um, you know, like like they might
Speaker 1: not they might look at me and be like, it's overkilled, right,
Speaker 1: because I literally have done in the last week to
Speaker 1: First of all, for the whole year, I've been working
Speaker 1: my asshole. I've been here, speaking, here, doing this, doing that.
Speaker 1: I don't post, not even not even had a very
Speaker 1: small portion of my life is on social media. Matter
Speaker 1: of fact, they hope that they say, my private life
Speaker 1: is way more exciting than what people actually get to see.
Speaker 1: And I try to give as much as I can.
Speaker 1: But I realized one, um, I need to I realized
Speaker 1: that number one, I need to protect myself from voters
Speaker 1: and haters and trolls, because I find myself getting ready
Speaker 1: to tell somebody to suck stuff, and I had to
Speaker 1: be careful about that because I know it's not appropriate.
Speaker 1: But then also I just trying to figure out, like
Speaker 1: who am I actually talking to? Because the friends that
Speaker 1: I want to see certain things, some of them are
Speaker 1: present when I'm enjoying these moments or experiencing whatever, the
Speaker 1: ups and the downs and highs and the loads. Then
Speaker 1: also I could text them, I got group chats. It's like,
Speaker 1: why am I everybody else doesn't need to see and
Speaker 1: be a part of everything you're doing all the time.
Speaker 1: And I just and I know, I know there are
Speaker 1: people out here that use social media and it benefits
Speaker 1: them to turn that camera on while they are doing whatever,
Speaker 1: cooking their foods, doing something with their kids, talking about inspiration.
Speaker 1: I know that, And I'm not taking anything away from
Speaker 1: those individuals, but I just hope that we're using how
Speaker 1: people are using it properly and and and using it
Speaker 1: for a benefit, because otherwise it's ways if you regret
Speaker 1: some of the stuff you post, and I do. I
Speaker 1: regret some things that I have posted. Now, I think
Speaker 1: we all have. We regret things every day. We regret
Speaker 1: things we say, you know what I'm saying, We were
Speaker 1: great places, We're like, it's a lot of stuff we regret.
Speaker 1: We just I think, I think as adults and responsible individuals,
Speaker 1: learning how to use social media to your advantage and
Speaker 1: not to let it something that consumes you and you
Speaker 1: wasting time. It's something different, but we definitely need to
Speaker 1: be able to utilize because the amount of people that
Speaker 1: you're able to reach, you know, in such a short
Speaker 1: amount of time, you know, so rapidly, and the impact
Speaker 1: that it can have, right because as as organizers, you know,
Speaker 1: as activists and leaders, we have to be able to
Speaker 1: be in tune with the large amount of people at
Speaker 1: one time to spread messages. You know, the work that
Speaker 1: we don't we do is because people pay attention to
Speaker 1: what we say. So if we don't have, you know,
Speaker 1: platforms in which we can reach mass amount of people's
Speaker 1: and organize and inform people everywhere, then it's it's hard.
Speaker 1: Our work becomes way harder, sure does, it does, so
Speaker 1: you know, it is what it is. But you know,
Speaker 1: just we gotta be careful. That's my that's my thought
Speaker 1: of the day. Be careful on social media, so you know,
Speaker 1: in the spirit of of of giving. It's holiday time.
Speaker 1: I'm always my you know, we've been doing this. We
Speaker 1: talked about it earlier, how we've been picking people online
Speaker 1: and trying to be supportive of folks. You clearly are
Speaker 1: doing so much to try to be supportive of black businesses.
Speaker 1: I heard from one of the businesses that you have
Speaker 1: promoted that their sales are up crazy, especially during this
Speaker 1: holiday time. So it's all I think we can't. We
Speaker 1: certainly reject the pagan side of these holidays. We reject
Speaker 1: the oppression of our people and other communities that has
Speaker 1: I've been as a result of these holidays. That's all
Speaker 1: about supporting capitalism and not telling you the true story
Speaker 1: of like what has you know, what atrocities occurred as
Speaker 1: a result of these holidays. But what we do want
Speaker 1: to always focus on is the spirit of giving. And
Speaker 1: this is our Christmas episode. And I learned that this
Speaker 1: story just scrolling on Instagram. You know, Instagram tells you
Speaker 1: what you're supposed to look at these days, in case
Speaker 1: people don't know. I know, I know, I'm like so
Speaker 1: anti certain things on social media, so I'm gonna try
Speaker 1: to ease up on that. But they do tell you
Speaker 1: what you're supposed to be looking at. And one day,
Speaker 1: I guess because so many of my friends were engaged
Speaker 1: on a particular post of our next guest, um I
Speaker 1: was I was somehow, you know, it came up on
Speaker 1: my feet. I wasn't following her, but this particular day,
Speaker 1: I saw what looked like a young child in serious distress.
Speaker 1: Like the imagery of what I saw was sturving. It
Speaker 1: was very you know, it was pretty much a treatment situation,
Speaker 1: and you could tell the child was in the hospital
Speaker 1: and there was things happening to her that, um, you know,
Speaker 1: just broke my heart. So I started clicking through the page,
Speaker 1: her mother's page, checking out, like what else is going on?
Speaker 1: And I saw previous pictures of her as this beautiful
Speaker 1: young lady, you know, a young virant kid. And then
Speaker 1: of course this this complete like all the way to
Speaker 1: the left difference of her being sick and in the hospital,
Speaker 1: and so I read up about it. I reached out
Speaker 1: to her mom to try to figure out, is that,
Speaker 1: you know, anything that we can do? And you know,
Speaker 1: obviously they were in the hospital and dealing with a lot.
Speaker 1: But when she was released from the hospital and went home,
Speaker 1: I heard back from her mom saying, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: quite frankly, I need help. And so today, um, we
Speaker 1: are in the spirit of giving, we are going to
Speaker 1: use street politicians as an opportunity to raise money for
Speaker 1: this family. After she tells her story, hopefully you whatever
Speaker 1: you are, whether you're sitting, you will feel compelled to
Speaker 1: give to help her. No go fund Me is not
Speaker 1: an insurance policy, but sometimes things happen outside of the
Speaker 1: scope of what our insurance can handle, what our bank
Speaker 1: accounts can handle. And we as a village and as
Speaker 1: a community, we have a responsibility to help our neighbor
Speaker 1: and our brother or sister, our siblings the same way
Speaker 1: that we would want to be helped if we were
Speaker 1: in a similar situation. And I know I don't have
Speaker 1: to beg y'all or preach to y'all, because this story
Speaker 1: is one that if you know, when we get because
Speaker 1: we see the police shot somebody down, we give millions
Speaker 1: of dollars. We give when we see people harm, be
Speaker 1: give when we see compelling stories. This is a compelling
Speaker 1: story that we need to also support. And so I
Speaker 1: would like to welcome today. UM. I don't know if
Speaker 1: maybe you wanted to say something first before I'm saying
Speaker 1: we have to pay for And when I heard about
Speaker 1: this situation, you know, it touched my heart, you know,
Speaker 1: and I felt for the family, and I think we
Speaker 1: should do all that we can and wrap our arms
Speaker 1: around her and her daughter, you know, and and and
Speaker 1: make sure that the village takes care of its own.
Speaker 1: So absolutely, um, And so today I want to introduce
Speaker 1: you all. Some of you already know because I see
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people following her, but a lot
Speaker 1: of you probably don't know. I want to introduce you
Speaker 1: all to Baily's mother, the young lady and the young
Speaker 1: girl in the video. Her name is Daily and she's
Speaker 1: twelve years old, and this is her mother, Nico Taylor.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Nico for joining street politicians and
Speaker 1: just for being so dope and so humble. Um. And
Speaker 1: we want to do all that we can is to
Speaker 1: support you. Say, thank you guys so much. It's definitely good.
Speaker 1: A huge struggle. I'm about to cry right now. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's I know, I know, it's a lot. I
Speaker 1: know it's a lot, you know, just having especially your daughter,
Speaker 1: so young girl doing what she's doing. Quick. Um, so
Speaker 1: give us a kind of understanding of exactly what happened
Speaker 1: to Billy. Um, So Bailey went swimming, and so let's
Speaker 1: just rewind. So Bailey there's really really good in school.
Speaker 1: She gets like really good. Great. Um, she's like, well
Speaker 1: she was in sports. Um, really family orientated, just a
Speaker 1: spunky young child that you know, it's just a child
Speaker 1: that's just living her little life. And we've never had
Speaker 1: no type of health issues. And my family besides my mother,
Speaker 1: but other than that, nobody else. UM, So don't know
Speaker 1: that it could have stemmed from actually like family. I
Speaker 1: don't think that at all. Um. But so once she
Speaker 1: went swimming, um in a summer program. She was in
Speaker 1: a summer program and she went swimming, and so she
Speaker 1: had been swimming with the Suthern program for about three weeks.
Speaker 1: Nothing was going on and it was just fine. Um.
Speaker 1: One day she came home and she was like, Mom,
Speaker 1: she was like, I really don't feel good. And I'm
Speaker 1: like okay. She was like, today I can't go to practice.
Speaker 1: And I'm like okay, I'm like, well, let's just take
Speaker 1: it off. Let's just take a rest. Maybe doing too
Speaker 1: much or maybe just a lot on you. And so
Speaker 1: she's like okay. So that night she has a fever
Speaker 1: and I'm like, okay, like you're getting sick. Maybe you're
Speaker 1: going to swimming too much. So I'm just trying to understand.
Speaker 1: But I'm trying to understand it on a level that
Speaker 1: I'm not even thinking that is going to get this far.
Speaker 1: I mean, I never thought that it was going to
Speaker 1: be as serious as it was. So she is still
Speaker 1: having the fever. I'm trying to break it with medicine.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to break it with just different avenues to
Speaker 1: help her and hydrate her, but that's not working. So
Speaker 1: the next day, the fever is still here, and I'm like, okay.
Speaker 1: So she stays at home with dad and I go
Speaker 1: to work. But I'm like kind of like, are you
Speaker 1: is a fever breaking? He's putting cold towels on her,
Speaker 1: giving her a bath and cold water. The fever is
Speaker 1: not breaking. So the next following day, she has a
Speaker 1: lump on her forehead and it's like in the middle
Speaker 1: of her forehead, but it's like a slight lump, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, did you get your head
Speaker 1: on something or what did you do? Like how did
Speaker 1: you get this? And so she's just like, mom, I
Speaker 1: do not feel that. She's like, the fever is still here.
Speaker 1: She said, I have a massive headache. I'm like okay.
Speaker 1: So I go to work and um, while I'm at work,
Speaker 1: I can't even work because I'm just worried about her.
Speaker 1: So I get home and I'm like, Bailey, I'm like,
Speaker 1: are you sure you're okay? She's like, Mom, I feel
Speaker 1: really weak right now. She's like I just I just
Speaker 1: can't take it. I'm okay, we're going to spital. So
Speaker 1: we go to the Before we even go to the hospital,
Speaker 1: I'm like I'm taking that. I'm like, you know, let
Speaker 1: me just like relax a little bit. I just had
Speaker 1: got home from work. So I'm like, Okay, we're gonna
Speaker 1: go to the hospital tonight in the middle of the night,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna figure out what's going on. So I
Speaker 1: take her in the middle of the night. Immediately when
Speaker 1: I take her, they take her right in. They they're
Speaker 1: like doing you know, just similar tests. They're doing the
Speaker 1: fever test. They're doing they're noticing how she's acting. They've
Speaker 1: seeing that she's like, you know, jozy and stuff. So
Speaker 1: then after that, um, after they take her right and
Speaker 1: she immediately gets a cask in. So they're like, if
Speaker 1: we see anything on the cask and we're gonna have
Speaker 1: it um and meet you two children's hospitals. So I'm
Speaker 1: like okay, And so the doctor comes back and he's like,
Speaker 1: you have to meet you tonight at children's hospital. He's like,
Speaker 1: there's something, but I don't know what it is. She
Speaker 1: was like, well, we see something on the cask, and
Speaker 1: so I'm like, okay, So, um, after that, we go
Speaker 1: to Children's hospital. Oh and we get there at the
Speaker 1: middle of the night too, so it's like about three
Speaker 1: four o'clock in the more in the morning, and so um,
Speaker 1: we're in the emergency room. So they get us and
Speaker 1: there immediately they put her on five different antibiotics. Leon
Speaker 1: as they put it on five different antibiotics. They get
Speaker 1: us into a room. Soon as they get us into
Speaker 1: a room, they're trying to stabilize the fever. The fever
Speaker 1: is so hard that they think she's gonna have a stroke.
Speaker 1: So they're just like going back and forth, pasting. They're
Speaker 1: trying their best I think I particular signs to just help.
Speaker 1: So after that, Um, two days in, she starts having seizures.
Speaker 1: Now the seizure is a mile seizure in the beginning,
Speaker 1: and they still don't know what's going on. They're just
Speaker 1: saying that it's a brain funk. Is that Um, you know,
Speaker 1: the texts have come back from the cultures and this
Speaker 1: is what we're hearing or this is what we're seeing
Speaker 1: on the cultures, and this is what we're discussing with
Speaker 1: multiple doctors that are specialists. I'm like okay. So I'm
Speaker 1: like a brain funk is hard? Can she get that?
Speaker 1: And I'm explaining to them that she went swimming and stuff.
Speaker 1: So after that, the fever is not breaking, and then
Speaker 1: the communication stops because they're kind of scared too. They
Speaker 1: don't know what's going on. They're like, you don't know
Speaker 1: what this is. We've never seen this before, so we're
Speaker 1: all in like a panic now. So the first season
Speaker 1: starts and it's about like five minutes. We're in the
Speaker 1: room and I'm sitting in the window because they give
Speaker 1: you like a room and you know, in the window
Speaker 1: it's like where the parents can sit down or you
Speaker 1: can actually make it into a bed. So we're sitting
Speaker 1: in the window and so, um, her dad gets up.
Speaker 1: My husband get said and he's like, you know, he's
Speaker 1: like Bailey, He like, um, you know, you're okay and stuff,
Speaker 1: and then she's not responding. So I'm just listening and
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay. I'm like he's like Niko, she's not
Speaker 1: saying nothing, but she's like in a dead stare. She's
Speaker 1: just like went and she's just staring. So when I
Speaker 1: get up, I'm like, Bailey, I'm like, are you okay,
Speaker 1: I'm like, talk to me, talk to me. She's not talking.
Speaker 1: So after that takeing time. So then after that or whatever,
Speaker 1: she was like, so the doctor come. Then even after
Speaker 1: the doctor I'm in, She's like, she has another tejure.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put her on caesure medicine. I'm like, how
Speaker 1: could you put her own caesure medicine and you don't
Speaker 1: even know what's going on. So after that, m me
Speaker 1: and the doctor kind of like discussing really quick. In
Speaker 1: the midst of us discussing, Bailey has another tuture, but
Speaker 1: this one is like about ten minutes. So she's like,
Speaker 1: we have to put her on the sesure medicine. And
Speaker 1: I'm like okay. So I feeling like I had no
Speaker 1: room to kind of do no research. I just had
Speaker 1: to listen. That's the only thing I could do. So
Speaker 1: after they put her on seizure medicine, I'm like, um,
Speaker 1: you know what does this mean? Like, you know what
Speaker 1: is this all about? And so she's like, we have
Speaker 1: to do more tests. We have to do more test
Speaker 1: She's like, I can't give you anything. I can't eat
Speaker 1: a commission. So I'm like, okay, so I'll start researching,
Speaker 1: So I'm knowing that the seizure is coming from the
Speaker 1: brain being swollen and the brain having inflammation in there.
Speaker 1: But when they're saying that it's a brain plunkets, they
Speaker 1: don't know her. It's even that they don't know if
Speaker 1: it's just in the middle. They don't know nothing because
Speaker 1: it's still early on. So I'm like, okay, so now
Speaker 1: I'm starting to do my own research. And so they
Speaker 1: have her own season mans. So they break the first one,
Speaker 1: which is um out of band and capra. So after
Speaker 1: they give her out of banda capra. Those are two
Speaker 1: medications medications that they give her. So after that, Bailey
Speaker 1: is out. I mean, she's like completely as if she
Speaker 1: just didn't have no like she was just sleep like,
Speaker 1: but the medicine makes you go to sleep, so you know,
Speaker 1: I just was still uneased about the situation. I just
Speaker 1: didn't know. So I had a conversation with Dad and
Speaker 1: I'm like, listen, I said, they don't know what's going on.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on, and you don't know
Speaker 1: what's going on. So right now we're gonna do some research.
Speaker 1: But when they come in here, we're gonna be on
Speaker 1: the same page, because I don't want them to tell
Speaker 1: you one thing, tell me one thing. We're gonna be
Speaker 1: on the same page about this whole situation. So when
Speaker 1: they come back, Bailey is completely also it's like the
Speaker 1: next day and so the next day, UM, we're trying
Speaker 1: to like feed her. She's not eating, she's just you know,
Speaker 1: obviously she has um. She's just using the restroom, but
Speaker 1: she's not eating. And so they're getting nervous again because
Speaker 1: the fever is backing out. So now the fever is
Speaker 1: back to like one oh nine. So now we're back
Speaker 1: in the limbo, which is trying to figure out what
Speaker 1: this is. So they're you know, doing more tests or
Speaker 1: doing blood tests. They're doing all types of tests. Some
Speaker 1: of the blood test is coming back, you know, really good,
Speaker 1: so some of some of their positivity is just relying
Speaker 1: on this test on these tests that they're doing. So
Speaker 1: they do UM m R. So they do it m R. I.
Speaker 1: They're like, okay, you know what we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: put you guys into um yeah, yes, yes, yes, So
Speaker 1: we go down there and we're in icy you and
Speaker 1: so they're monitoring her, their monit turning her and why
Speaker 1: their monitoring her. UM. You know, it's just like they
Speaker 1: still just don't know what's going on. So now we're
Speaker 1: going into like, you know, just a time where it's
Speaker 1: going into days and Bailey is just knocked out. She's
Speaker 1: just sleeping, she's just on the medicine. I'm literally like
Speaker 1: trying to stuff like food in her mouth. She's just
Speaker 1: not eating. So they're really really scared at this particular side.
Speaker 1: So when I see you, they're just watching us and stuff. Um,
Speaker 1: obviously they're doing more tests. So I'm communicating with them.
Speaker 1: I'm asking them questions, um, you know, just trying to
Speaker 1: see what's going on, and they don't really know. So
Speaker 1: at this particular side, I started according to conversations because
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on, and I'm like, listen,
Speaker 1: you know, like I'm gonna be in a world full
Speaker 1: of trouble and I'm not gonna know how to handle
Speaker 1: this whole situation, and I'm going to need to get
Speaker 1: some help where I'm going to need some type of
Speaker 1: outside help. So I reached out to UM. One of
Speaker 1: my friends. Her mother is UM. She's an l v N.
Speaker 1: So I reached out to her, and so she reaches
Speaker 1: out to another doctor, and so he's trying to explain
Speaker 1: to me they need to do a spinal test, they
Speaker 1: need to these amount of tests. So now I'm reformed.
Speaker 1: I'm um, you know, giving the doctors all the information
Speaker 1: that I have. So they're trying to do more tests,
Speaker 1: but they're saying like, no, we don't think that tests
Speaker 1: a word. Okay, well we could do this test, but
Speaker 1: we've done this test. So we're all kind of going
Speaker 1: back and forth about this all along. Bailey still have
Speaker 1: these seizures. So now the seizures have sped up to
Speaker 1: forty five minutes, So the next one that she has
Speaker 1: every forty five minutes, she would have a seizure or
Speaker 1: their daily. But it's like, let's say today she had
Speaker 1: a seizure, be forty five minutes. So now they have
Speaker 1: her on capra, they have her on at a band,
Speaker 1: but they're overly medicating her. They're they're putting a lot
Speaker 1: of medication into her. So she's out. So now she
Speaker 1: has a seizure and I called my pastor and I'm
Speaker 1: talking to my pastor, and my pastor is praying a
Speaker 1: whole entire time. She's just praying her behind off like
Speaker 1: it was just really intense. Like so, but these seizures
Speaker 1: that she's now having, it's two hour long there two
Speaker 1: hours now they really can't breaking to where they're overly
Speaker 1: medicating Mary. When I say that, I'm saying she's on Bempact,
Speaker 1: she's on Capra, and she's on the um Capra Bempact
Speaker 1: and she's on at a band, but there's medicating her
Speaker 1: so much that she just falls asleep out of the seizure.
Speaker 1: So now they're putting the kgs on her head because
Speaker 1: now I need to monitor when the seizures are coming.
Speaker 1: When they put these on her head, they still are
Speaker 1: not mond turning like as fast as rapid. And I'm
Speaker 1: not lee sure why because it's like, you know, I
Speaker 1: can see the monitor. They can see the monitor too,
Speaker 1: but it's like when the seizure happens, it's like almost
Speaker 1: out of their control, like they just don't know. Okay, wait,
Speaker 1: let me just because you said a lot of things
Speaker 1: that that I know, I would have been beyond terrified.
Speaker 1: Beyond terrified. It is not a good word, Like that's
Speaker 1: not an adequate word to describe what I feel sitting
Speaker 1: here right now. And it's not even my situation you
Speaker 1: know wow, who wow, I don't know what it looks like.
Speaker 1: What does a two hour seizure look like? So she
Speaker 1: doesn't have these seizures where she is you know, shaking
Speaker 1: or um showing a lot of emotion in the seizure.
Speaker 1: She doesn't have that. Bailey's having the seizure where the
Speaker 1: whole body is limp and she can hear you, but
Speaker 1: she can't say anything. So if you raise her hand,
Speaker 1: her hand is just dropped. And if you're talking to her,
Speaker 1: if you're trying to shake her, she just can't say nothing.
Speaker 1: She's just like in a dance, they're like just she's
Speaker 1: just there, like she can hear, but she just that's it.
Speaker 1: So when she wakes up off the seazure and your
Speaker 1: accedent questions, all she can say is I can hear you,
Speaker 1: but I cannot do anything. I don't even I mean
Speaker 1: an accident like okay, do you feel when the teacher
Speaker 1: is about to happen. She's saying no, like, Mama, just
Speaker 1: can hear you guys, but I can't do anything. So
Speaker 1: she's just there. Wow, this is so so so what's
Speaker 1: happening now? What? What? What? What stages like? Did have
Speaker 1: they fully done. Mostly do they know exactly they haven't
Speaker 1: fully diagnosed. I just found out yesterday that UM, in
Speaker 1: order to go to another hospital, we have to find
Speaker 1: some insurance that can cover that hospital because at the
Speaker 1: time we have insurance. So UM I've applied for insurance,
Speaker 1: and the insurance that we have it's not their only
Speaker 1: contracted with this one children's hospital. So in order for
Speaker 1: me to get a second opinion, I only can go
Speaker 1: to them, which is you know, obviously not something that
Speaker 1: is okay for us to do when we know that
Speaker 1: they don't know what's going on. Every paper that has
Speaker 1: come to the house I said something different. UM. It
Speaker 1: was a paper that came in and it said like
Speaker 1: she had a party pot tumor. I researched it, like
Speaker 1: seventeen people in the world have this. The next paper
Speaker 1: that comes in and saying that she has a sinus infection.
Speaker 1: The next paperwork it says no diagnosis, And the the next
Speaker 1: one that comes in it says brain infection. It's just
Speaker 1: like all this type of stuff, but they just don't know.
Speaker 1: The next one that's coming and says the brain bacteria.
Speaker 1: It's honestly all over the place, and we still don't
Speaker 1: know what really has When I saw the tube in
Speaker 1: her forehead, what were they doing? So she went through
Speaker 1: surgery and they cut the forehead to drain it, to
Speaker 1: drain um from the brain. So they went in through
Speaker 1: her nostrils, and so our guess when they went in,
Speaker 1: because that's still unclear. So but they're saying when they
Speaker 1: went in, they went inside, they cleaned out the forehead
Speaker 1: and then they put the drain in there to drain
Speaker 1: out whatever else was in there. But it wasn't just
Speaker 1: right there. It was it's on the last side of
Speaker 1: her brain. It's in the middle of her brain, and
Speaker 1: it's um. It's on the last side of her brain,
Speaker 1: in the middle of her brain, and then it's like
Speaker 1: in the like on the sides of her brain. Basically,
Speaker 1: you all are living your life, you and your husband
Speaker 1: and your daughter, UM, you have a son to um.
Speaker 1: You all living regular lives. She's going to school, playing sports,
Speaker 1: doing all her activities. She started swimming. Next thing, you know,
Speaker 1: gets this fungus or something happens where we believe as
Speaker 1: a fungus or you believe is some kind of fungus
Speaker 1: or something like that, and then this nightmare of hers
Speaker 1: and over in just like a week's time, from day
Speaker 1: to day to day, getting worse and worse and worse
Speaker 1: and worse, to the point that she ended up in
Speaker 1: the hospital again to your point with the blank stare,
Speaker 1: with her brain having to be drained. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: with all of this, all of this stuff that's going on,
Speaker 1: so obviously expenses are mounting because the insurance that you have,
Speaker 1: even I don't, they don't have insurance anymore. Used to
Speaker 1: be that you get really good insurance. Um most people anyway,
Speaker 1: it used to be that you get some really good
Speaker 1: insurance that will cover a lot of things. But today
Speaker 1: they're doing everything they can to say, well, we can't
Speaker 1: cover this, and we can't cover that, and you're not
Speaker 1: able to work anymore. At this point, right while this
Speaker 1: is going on, you have to stop working completely. Yes,
Speaker 1: so it happened in July. Um we're in December and
Speaker 1: I am trying to pick back up work. Um, Bailey
Speaker 1: is homeschool. She cannot be in school right now. Um,
Speaker 1: so right now I'm trying to but I just can't.
Speaker 1: So initially, I'm a hair stylus, and so all the
Speaker 1: clients that I've had and I don't I don't you know.
Speaker 1: I'm not concerned that they have left their they have
Speaker 1: party ways on me or anything, but it's just gonna
Speaker 1: be hard to pick back up life in so many
Speaker 1: different aspects. Well you know, um since July, you know,
Speaker 1: just listening to it, I don't you know, being a
Speaker 1: I don't even know how I would deal with this.
Speaker 1: How How was your husband taking this? How was he
Speaker 1: was taking it extremely hard? He was crying with me.
Speaker 1: It was It's like we were yelling. It was so
Speaker 1: much going on that we just couldn't believe it. And
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, we just never expected something like this,
Speaker 1: Like honestly, like I can't even tell you how we
Speaker 1: got to that because I'm not gonna like you. It
Speaker 1: was death was on the line. It was letting us
Speaker 1: know there was like okay, listen, you know, it's out
Speaker 1: of our control, and you know she might you know,
Speaker 1: and I'm like nah, like m m hmm. I just
Speaker 1: kept thinking, like camp Be can't be because she why
Speaker 1: she gonna lead us the world because she wanted to
Speaker 1: slimen not. So she was released from the hospital, which
Speaker 1: is a good thing. Yes, all your family were there.
Speaker 1: How did you get to that point? Mm? Hmm. So
Speaker 1: Bailey started progressing, and so she started progressing. I started
Speaker 1: cooking in the hospital and stuff, and I started making
Speaker 1: natural foods. I just started doing a whole lot of
Speaker 1: research that could put everything, all the nutrients back in
Speaker 1: her body so that it couldn't help fight the disease too.
Speaker 1: Instead of us just eating at the hospital, I was
Speaker 1: really trying different methods. So she really really started progressing. UM.
Speaker 1: I started giving her sea moss every day. I started
Speaker 1: a lot of great things that I still do for
Speaker 1: her today. She still has to eat a certain kind
Speaker 1: of way. She cannot just go on and be like
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna eat whatever, Like, no, you cannot, because
Speaker 1: her condition it's still unknown. And I don't want to
Speaker 1: be in a situation where I'm just letting her get
Speaker 1: right back into like and there's something that kicks it
Speaker 1: back up, because she'd be left with the infectionate so
Speaker 1: she still has the infection. UM. She once she started progressing,
Speaker 1: you know, we spoke with the doctors and stuff, and
Speaker 1: they're like, okay, listen, we're gonna you know, release you guys,
Speaker 1: and you know, if anything happens, you guys can come back.
Speaker 1: But you know, like she had like a fever or anything. So, um,
Speaker 1: we got released. We have to go to the hotel
Speaker 1: because she couldn't be around no family, like nobody. So
Speaker 1: we were in a hotel for about a month since
Speaker 1: we had been released. So we got released. That's what
Speaker 1: we have to do. After that. Um, we just allowed
Speaker 1: like her immediate family to see her. She still hasn't
Speaker 1: had like contact with a lot of people, and it's
Speaker 1: not because I don't want her to, but I think
Speaker 1: mentally she cannot handle the conversation. I think mentally it's
Speaker 1: a lot on her. She's definitely expressed that to us. Um,
Speaker 1: she's still worries about like when she's in the hospital.
Speaker 1: She doesn't want to hear about it. So to avoid
Speaker 1: all of it, I just keep her really really close,
Speaker 1: and that's the best thing we could do. But I
Speaker 1: do invite people to church. So I'm like, if you
Speaker 1: guys want to see her, guys to come to church
Speaker 1: on Sunday or something. But we're not gonna have like
Speaker 1: a welcome home party or anything like that because this
Speaker 1: is such a serious situation that we can't risk her
Speaker 1: so and anything could be risked at this with sicure time,
Speaker 1: So we just keep her close and when she's seen
Speaker 1: her family with that's her aunties, her grandmother and her
Speaker 1: uncle and just her cousins. That literally we lived really
Speaker 1: close and we're close knitted as a family. Well, well
Speaker 1: you're in my prayers, Billies, in my prayers, the whole
Speaker 1: families in my pres and hopefully we can do something,
Speaker 1: you know, amplify your voice and then and let the
Speaker 1: world know the situation. And hopefully, you know, the world
Speaker 1: pour into and help you with these fees and you know,
Speaker 1: and and she'll get back to where she should be. Man.
Speaker 1: So I just want you to know that so much,
Speaker 1: like seriously, it's a struggle, and it's still a struggle. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I just try to be strong as possible. Sometimes I'm
Speaker 1: always tune like dang, like how do you stare strength
Speaker 1: in their face? Like you just gotta just you just
Speaker 1: gotta be shocked. You just gotta figure it out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, your strength is her strength, and you give up,
Speaker 1: she gives up. So your strength is her strength. Dad,
Speaker 1: strength is her strength. Um And and and I agree
Speaker 1: with my son, I know that there are you and
Speaker 1: you didn't ask me to help you from a financial perspective.
Speaker 1: You said you wanted to look into what was happening
Speaker 1: at the hospital to see if you were you know,
Speaker 1: if things were if things were going right. You just
Speaker 1: wanted to have a support system of people to help
Speaker 1: I think through what is going on and make sure
Speaker 1: that all your legal options, your hospital optionally you want
Speaker 1: to send her somewhere else. Trying to get the instruments
Speaker 1: to cooperate. And then I started asking you about how
Speaker 1: you were financially surviving, and you were like, Oh, that's
Speaker 1: like a real that's not a good situation right now.
Speaker 1: Like it's it's hard. You know, your husband is working
Speaker 1: and he's trying to do what he's got to do. Right,
Speaker 1: did you taught me at you? So during this whole time,
Speaker 1: he wasn't working either, so he was going to school
Speaker 1: for real estate, and so he eventually passed the test,
Speaker 1: but during the whole entire time, he was like trying
Speaker 1: to go you know, like let's say Bailey was toping
Speaker 1: to day He's like, Okay, I'm gonna trying to schedule
Speaker 1: my test and I'm gonna trying to take it. But
Speaker 1: he felt the test most of the times because of
Speaker 1: their pressure. So he recently just got the license but
Speaker 1: it's still a struggle because they haven't even set the
Speaker 1: license out or anything like that. So right now at
Speaker 1: this was a good time. It's just as just figuring
Speaker 1: it out and trying to just wiggle through life. Honestly, Well, listen, man,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do all we can try to help you
Speaker 1: figure it out and just try to amplify you know.
Speaker 1: I'm definitely gonna donate and try to get everybody that
Speaker 1: I know for doing it, because this is serious. Man. Listen, listen,
Speaker 1: folks who are listening. In five dollars is a lot.
Speaker 1: Five dollars is a lot to go find. The information
Speaker 1: is in our bio as street politicians pod, it's in
Speaker 1: my bio at t make a de mallory it is.
Speaker 1: You can see it here. We're going to share it
Speaker 1: as much as possible during this holiday season. You've heard
Speaker 1: the story, and I told you all, once you heard
Speaker 1: the story, there was no question to what this is.
Speaker 1: This is not well, how do he get arrested? And
Speaker 1: what did she do? And it's none of those things
Speaker 1: where we're now questioning. Your young baby got sick. Her
Speaker 1: parents have been doing all that they can to support
Speaker 1: her and to work through this. You, and I know,
Speaker 1: and I understand that there are probably people out here
Speaker 1: who say, well, I might, I would still have to
Speaker 1: go to work. You're lying. If your baby was in
Speaker 1: the situation like this, you your life would probably be
Speaker 1: a complete disaster because it's impossible to just leave your
Speaker 1: child at the hospital and try to go focus on
Speaker 1: a job when your baby doesn't. If it's cancer and
Speaker 1: it's a certain time, you've got bukemia, you've got this,
Speaker 1: you've got that, maybe you can figure it because at
Speaker 1: this point you have a regiment, you understand what's going on,
Speaker 1: you know what to look forward to, even though it's traumatizing.
Speaker 1: But in this situation, they don't even know. Y'all don't
Speaker 1: even know anything, don't know what's going on on, how
Speaker 1: she got it, don't know what. However, I want I
Speaker 1: want to started to um, excuse me, UM, I mean
Speaker 1: to interrupt, but UM, I want to bring light to
Speaker 1: this too. I want people to do a lot of
Speaker 1: research when your child is in the situation, or yourself
Speaker 1: is in a situation, or your family, or your husband,
Speaker 1: or your grandmother. Because they tried to force surgery on
Speaker 1: this multiple times. Um. And when I say they try
Speaker 1: to enforce it. I'm saying in a sense of some
Speaker 1: surgeries are mixed, you how to have them. So I
Speaker 1: understand that. But in this particular situation, if you do
Speaker 1: not know what's going on, the doctors cannot tell you
Speaker 1: what's going on. Please do not just listen to what
Speaker 1: the situation may look like. Because it definitely was an
Speaker 1: ugly situation, and for them, they felt like, if we
Speaker 1: do this surgery right now, they wanted to cut my
Speaker 1: daughter ear to ear, pull down her skin, saw down
Speaker 1: the brain, open up, I mean, saw down the skull,
Speaker 1: open up the skull, just to rents her brain off.
Speaker 1: My daughter would have had way more complications than when
Speaker 1: we discussing today. It had I been in there, been
Speaker 1: a young parent and said, you know what, okay, fine,
Speaker 1: they said, surgery right now, we have to do it
Speaker 1: right now. No, I want people to do research. I
Speaker 1: want people to understand that, yes, the situation may look ugly,
Speaker 1: it may not look to your liking, but if you
Speaker 1: do a little bit of research and you actually try
Speaker 1: your best to get some second opinions, please do that.
Speaker 1: Please do not just allow yourself to be in a
Speaker 1: situation and just make it impostive. Decision. I do want
Speaker 1: to like bring light to that when when you are afraid,
Speaker 1: when you're afraid and you think you're not an expert,
Speaker 1: you don't know right, and you think other people have
Speaker 1: to know better than you, you will listen to what
Speaker 1: you're being told. Sometimes it's a gamble. You might need
Speaker 1: to listen. But to your point, you have to do
Speaker 1: research and eating well, eating better is what we're learning,
Speaker 1: especially as African people, because we forget that we are
Speaker 1: African people. We are not um we are we have
Speaker 1: been Americanized, but we come from a place where as
Speaker 1: my son and I we talked about all the time
Speaker 1: while we were in Ghana, we learned that every single
Speaker 1: thing you need to survive, every illness you have, every
Speaker 1: ailment problem, there there is literal things off the ground
Speaker 1: that you can take that helps to heal those things.
Speaker 1: So we learned, I mean everything, anesthesia in the plant,
Speaker 1: everything you need, it was right there. And with that
Speaker 1: being said, we're gonna let you go. But again, I
Speaker 1: just want to make the appeal that to deal with
Speaker 1: this situation is it's gonna take support, and we as
Speaker 1: a village need to be here. Of course, I'm going
Speaker 1: to give my own resources. This is my holiday focus,
Speaker 1: and I'm asking all of you five dollars, two dollars,
Speaker 1: ten dollars. As my son always says, all you have
Speaker 1: is all we need. All you got is ten dollars
Speaker 1: that you can offer to this family. Please please please
Speaker 1: click the link give and support baby Bailey twelve years old.
Speaker 1: She's doing better, but she's not out of the woods
Speaker 1: and still needs help. She still has infection in her
Speaker 1: body and she still needs to get to us a
Speaker 1: different hospital, which we need to work on. But beyond that,
Speaker 1: her family needs food, water, just like all of the
Speaker 1: rest of us. Whatever we can do to be helpful.
Speaker 1: I'm asking you as a personal not favor to me,
Speaker 1: but as a personal solidarity moment with us, my son
Speaker 1: and me, and street politicians and our entire family. Please
Speaker 1: support Bailey through her mom and her dad. Um. We
Speaker 1: want you to be we want you to be made
Speaker 1: hold Nko in any way that we can. Yeah, thank
Speaker 1: you guys so much. Thank you. Oh man, that that
Speaker 1: was touching. You know, you know I've seen the video
Speaker 1: and heard the story, but hear and Nico break that
Speaker 1: down and just describe how it just went from zero
Speaker 1: to a hundred one day her daughter was fine, healthy,
Speaker 1: you know, Joe, real young child, and then next thing
Speaker 1: you know, she's just in the hospital with tumors and
Speaker 1: having seizures. Like I don't even know how you you
Speaker 1: deal with something like that. It wasn't and it wasn't
Speaker 1: like a gradual city. It just was like boom, boom boom.
Speaker 1: That must that must have been the trauma and the
Speaker 1: stress that as a parent, you know, knowing being being
Speaker 1: a parent, knowing that you can't do something to help
Speaker 1: your child, because that's what you're supposed to do. You're
Speaker 1: supposed to take care of your children, and you're supposed
Speaker 1: to be able to help them. You're supposed to have
Speaker 1: the answers. And watching your child suffered to that degree
Speaker 1: and not being able to help them must be. It
Speaker 1: must be the most stressful and most traumatizing thing you
Speaker 1: can actually ever deal with. Because I know what, my
Speaker 1: son has a little fever, and you know, just watching
Speaker 1: him and his little sickness and make it gives me
Speaker 1: this feeling like I'm helpless. So that must have been
Speaker 1: watching your daughter have a two hour seizure, like, Lord,
Speaker 1: have mercy, I don't, I don't even know, man, but
Speaker 1: there in my prayers, and once again, anybody please reach
Speaker 1: out to them, help them. She needs resources. You know,
Speaker 1: she wants to be helped, she wants to help, she
Speaker 1: wants knowledge, she wants to give knowledge. So please, Yeah,
Speaker 1: she wants to help people. She's starting a podcast. Now,
Speaker 1: we didn't have a chance to get into more of
Speaker 1: their personal story. I think we ought to bring them back. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, want to acknowledge those people who have supported
Speaker 1: because I know everybody is gonna do it, but you know,
Speaker 1: beyond that, oh God, like you said, I can't imagine.
Speaker 1: I can't Oh man, I mean just out of nowhere,
Speaker 1: out of no where. If you you know, you find
Speaker 1: out your child has a sickness and then there's a process.
Speaker 1: But this right here is crazy. And I know they
Speaker 1: probably I saw where she was holding back from saying
Speaker 1: that they were come into them saying it's possible. She's
Speaker 1: not gonna make it. That's that's tough. It's really tough.
Speaker 1: So we should have a bag to talk about some
Speaker 1: of the things that they're doing. But she is building
Speaker 1: a podcast with her husband where they're going to talk
Speaker 1: about the experience, what the research looked like. But the
Speaker 1: natural foods have done on on and on. So that's great. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's great. We can continue on their journey with him.
Speaker 1: But thank god Bailey is from yes, thank god, and
Speaker 1: she's doing a lot better man. So so on another note,
Speaker 1: you know, my my don't get it. Today is on
Speaker 1: a lighter note than that, but it's still serious. Last
Speaker 1: week sometimes Gonna Donna Donna Gunna was released from prison. Um,
Speaker 1: he was in jail, right, Yeah, he was in the
Speaker 1: hold of silly So, yeah, he was. He's not he's
Speaker 1: not actually in prison. He was released from jail because
Speaker 1: he's he's still fighting this case. So he was released
Speaker 1: from jail the other day, excuse me. And immediately when
Speaker 1: he was released, he put out a statement and said,
Speaker 1: I did not make a statement against anything. I did
Speaker 1: not make any statements at all. So this that in
Speaker 1: the third five minutes later they had a a video
Speaker 1: of him giving the state. So I'm so confused now,
Speaker 1: you know, being being from the streets, being knowing some legalities,
Speaker 1: understanding criminal law, understanding and there's a lot of people
Speaker 1: throwing out the term rat and snitching all that. So
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't actually know, you know, the
Speaker 1: details of all of their cases. They might there might
Speaker 1: be a situation where they've all decided, Okay, you take this,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take this, we're gonna do this. That might
Speaker 1: be something that's happened, right, So I can't say that
Speaker 1: the man snitch. I don't know what what the you know,
Speaker 1: what their agreement is. But what I do know is
Speaker 1: when you make a statement, because what they what they
Speaker 1: wanted to do with Ysel is classified as a game. Right.
Speaker 1: It has always been a hip hop and a group
Speaker 1: that they used to wrap, but they wanted to classify
Speaker 1: as a game. And knowing that young thug is facing
Speaker 1: you know, a rico which is serious, you know that
Speaker 1: has everything for racketeering and murdered or everything. If his
Speaker 1: right hand person that's with him saying that he acknowledges
Speaker 1: as a game. Right, and then there's they found a
Speaker 1: car with a gun and all that and he acknowledges
Speaker 1: that it's not his. He says that it wasn't his.
Speaker 1: There's only one other person in the car. So I
Speaker 1: don't know if that because that was a question earlier
Speaker 1: I saw people saying was there one person in the car?
Speaker 1: Was there more? Well? I don't The thing is this
Speaker 1: are more, were they more what the thing is? Once
Speaker 1: you whatever it is, Once you eliminate, eliminate what is you,
Speaker 1: you make it seem like they they gotta narrow it
Speaker 1: down to whoever it is, and you take yourself out.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot easier to prove the less people
Speaker 1: that we're trying to put one gun on right if
Speaker 1: if nobody is taking in case, they can't put it
Speaker 1: on anybody, So that that that that makes it, it
Speaker 1: makes it a lot harder. I know from a perspective,
Speaker 1: if I'm not copying out, and I don't plan to
Speaker 1: cop out, and I'm fighting these things, I understand that
Speaker 1: what the statement that was made is not in the
Speaker 1: best interest of young Doug. I know that for a fact,
Speaker 1: unless young Thug might feel like it. There's too much
Speaker 1: I'm dealing with this. I don't want you to do this.
Speaker 1: You take this, you can just say what you want.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take this. I'm gonna hold onto that. And
Speaker 1: that might be the agreement, but I'm definitely that is
Speaker 1: definitely a statement, and and and the government can definitely
Speaker 1: utilize that statement too to piece together and and and
Speaker 1: pretty much identified and determine that this is a game,
Speaker 1: and if they could determine it as a gang and
Speaker 1: Young Thug was the either of that gag, then that's
Speaker 1: where they get the rico charge. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just didn't really get what you for
Speaker 1: him to come on and say I didn't make a statement,
Speaker 1: and then five minutes later, all over the internet there's
Speaker 1: a statement. It just didn't really didn't make sense at
Speaker 1: old to me. So so I went and I did
Speaker 1: some reading on this because I saw a lot of
Speaker 1: people talking about it. And you know, I've been interested
Speaker 1: in this case since the beginning, but I don't know enough.
Speaker 1: So I have to be, you know, be careful because
Speaker 1: I don't really know right and so but I've listened
Speaker 1: and I've heard people, and I watched folks saying free Gunna,
Speaker 1: free gunna, free gunner. And I watched people say free
Speaker 1: gunner who never said free young Thugs. So that also,
Speaker 1: to me is a sim as a sign of something.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it means again, not that close
Speaker 1: to it, but I do know that today Young Thugs
Speaker 1: sister posted a video where she says, y'all please stop
Speaker 1: calling that man a rat or a snitch. None of
Speaker 1: this is making it any better for my brother. So
Speaker 1: the snitching part like that in and of itself creates
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of other issues, like him being him
Speaker 1: being classified in that way. But beyond that, to your point,
Speaker 1: the statement that he made it definitely incriminates y a
Speaker 1: sell as a game, period point blank. I think that
Speaker 1: you and we don't know ship because we can't talk
Speaker 1: to these people. We don't know them or anything. But
Speaker 1: I think you're right. And I was talking to some
Speaker 1: of our other friends who are a little closer to
Speaker 1: the situation, and they said, it seems like there's an agreement,
Speaker 1: and the agreement was we I don't I don't see
Speaker 1: any situation or any circumstance where young Thug is gonna
Speaker 1: be cleared up all the charges because even because by
Speaker 1: the way, even Gunna has not been cleared of all
Speaker 1: the charges, he still had to eat something, right, so
Speaker 1: he's gonna have these charges on him. This is this
Speaker 1: is so I don't see a situation where he's gonna
Speaker 1: be young Thug will be free of all charges. How
Speaker 1: bad it can get, whatever, we'll see. But this statement
Speaker 1: certainly classifies it as a game. And to be quite honest,
Speaker 1: I think that they probably knew this already, right, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I can I cannot confirm nor tod not.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, I don't know anything about
Speaker 1: the agreement. I don't know what's known. I haven't seen
Speaker 1: their paperwork. I don't I don't haven't seen it. I
Speaker 1: don't know any of these things. But I know my
Speaker 1: my understanding being incocerated before, you know, dealing with jail
Speaker 1: house lawyers and actually studying lawyer, trying to figure out
Speaker 1: my own appeals and all of these things. Um, I
Speaker 1: understand about statements. Understand how the government utilizes something to
Speaker 1: connect you know, they they're able to They're able to say, okay,
Speaker 1: we we we gotta find a way to make this
Speaker 1: a game. Nobody don't say it's a game. They could
Speaker 1: keep saying that it's just a probable and it's never been,
Speaker 1: you know, identified as a game. Nobody has has given
Speaker 1: clear indication to say yes, it's a game. That's the
Speaker 1: first step to establish an RICO. That's the first step
Speaker 1: to being able to establish that RICA. So, you know,
Speaker 1: we just gotta see what happened. And I don't use
Speaker 1: the term snitch unless I know, you know, unless paperwork.
Speaker 1: We watch you sit up there and tell somebody you know,
Speaker 1: and and the other person has to identify and said, yeah,
Speaker 1: that wasn't part of our agreement, you know, because a
Speaker 1: lot of times sometimes you eat the charge. You'll be like, yo,
Speaker 1: now I'm gonna take that because that's mines. You know,
Speaker 1: that's my already know, I already know what it is.
Speaker 1: We gotta see what that is, so right, and and
Speaker 1: I and I did see someone say that, like there
Speaker 1: were some legal experts talking about how you have to
Speaker 1: admit to something, so it seems like they figured out
Speaker 1: what that admittance is. And he's saying that he doesn't
Speaker 1: intend to go to court to say like, oh I
Speaker 1: saw him with a gun, and I saw this one
Speaker 1: killed this one and that one. The question also, these
Speaker 1: are very you gotta really be very your discernment has
Speaker 1: to be very, very good, because they asked, are you
Speaker 1: aware of crimes that have been committed by yr cell members?
Speaker 1: And he says yes, well, of course yes, because there
Speaker 1: are other people who probably have been arrested and convicted
Speaker 1: of ship that was associated with Y herself. That does
Speaker 1: not mean that he is saying that young thug did
Speaker 1: something or that he's about to tell of new crimes
Speaker 1: or crimes that have not been confirmed and people haven't
Speaker 1: been indicted and convicted of or convicted of. But but
Speaker 1: it's like saying, do I know that in my family
Speaker 1: people have committed crimes? Yeah, it was Ole Tommy, because
Speaker 1: people I might be able to say, Timmy jail exactly.
Speaker 1: You already know Uncle Tommy, shot Lee Roy. We know
Speaker 1: about it already, so you know, so you know, discernment.
Speaker 1: But we'll see, will see. You definitely got to see. Well,
Speaker 1: that wraps up another show. Um. Prayers go out to Bailly,
Speaker 1: healing energy to b and her family, Nicole and father.
Speaker 1: We didn't even get the father's name, but we were
Speaker 1: sending all our prayers out to that family and healing energy.
Speaker 1: Make sure that you'll donate to their go fund me
Speaker 1: because they definitely need those resources. Billy is she's doing
Speaker 1: a lot better, but she's not all the way out
Speaker 1: the woods, and she needs a specialist to really identify
Speaker 1: what's going on. So that brings us to the end
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