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Speaker 1: So I'm going to cover some headlines that impact your wallet.

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Speaker 1: I was just listening to Stacy Abrams podcast. Have y'all

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Speaker 1: listened to Assembly Required? I am such a huge fan

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Speaker 1: Stacy girl. You give me so much calm and peace.

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Speaker 1: I'm so grateful that you are one of the ones

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Speaker 1: who has a microphone in an age where everyone has

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Speaker 1: a microphone, but you give me She just calms me down.

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Speaker 1: She makes me feel like there's a grown up in

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Speaker 1: the room to explain stuff to me and to be

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Speaker 1: with it and also find little moments of joy as well,

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Speaker 1: because Stacy can sit here and she can give me

447
00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:12,240
Speaker 1: all the details that you know as I want, on

448
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Speaker 1: what's happening in the Supreme Court right now. She can

449
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Speaker 1: talk about voter access and voter rights and what's happening

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Speaker 1: with voter rights right now. But she can also talk

451
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Speaker 1: about publishing romance novels and how she has her new

452
00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:30,879
Speaker 1: novel shout out to Coded Justice is out right now.

453
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Speaker 1: She is just that girl, and I feel like that

454
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Speaker 1: is so much of what I love to do. And

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Speaker 1: that's what I love about Brown Ambition is that we're

456
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Speaker 1: not just here to talk about how to make more money,

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Speaker 1: how to get more wealth, how to invest in the

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Speaker 1: stock market. We're here to also find moments of joy

459
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Speaker 1: and to bring some reality to a world that feels

460
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Speaker 1: often so disconnected from reality in a lot of ways.

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Speaker 1: But as I was listening to Assembly Required, she was

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Speaker 1: talking about.

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Speaker 2: What was she talking about? Why am I blinking? Oh,

464
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Speaker 2: brain fog?

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Speaker 1: She was talking about the birth rate, And she had

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Speaker 1: some experts on who were just basically explaining this. You

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Speaker 1: know this, the elon musks of the world and the

468
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Speaker 1: Christian Right, and the different methods and philosophies they have

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Speaker 1: and how to strategies they're trying to invoke to help

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Speaker 1: us produce more babies.

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Speaker 2: But not all of us. Specific ones of us.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so the ones who maybe earn enough, the ones

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Speaker 1: who are the right shade, the ones who come from

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Speaker 1: the right types of backgrounds, the ones who have the

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Speaker 1: right genes. You know that Robert Kennedy right now, Yes,

476
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Speaker 1: Robert Kennedy, he is problematic on so many fronts. But

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Speaker 1: I did not realize he has suggested that we should

478
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Speaker 1: create a database of families and kids and parents who

479
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Speaker 1: have autism, which is macking a little bit close to

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Speaker 1: the idea of eugenics. Okay, the idea that we're actually

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Speaker 1: going to track the types of genes that are out

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Speaker 1: there so that we can what block people who have

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Speaker 1: those genes who are on that list from pro creating,

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Speaker 1: from being able to access resources healthcare. You know this

485
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Speaker 1: baby bonus that Trump has been, you know, talking about

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Speaker 1: giving mothers five thousand bucks to for having a baby,

487
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Speaker 1: but only if you meet certain income requirements. Like that's

488
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Speaker 1: just one step away from saying you could only qualify

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Speaker 1: for the baby bonus if you're not on this database

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Speaker 1: of potential carriers for the autism gene or other you know,

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Speaker 1: differently abled genetics. Like that to me is we should

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Speaker 1: be we should be eyes wide the open about that

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Speaker 1: kind of stuff. Okay, but yeah, the US birth rate

494
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Speaker 1: is super low, which is going to stress a lot

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Speaker 1: of I don't know why wealthy white people out, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: why do we care about the fertility rate? So the

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Speaker 1: news is that the new CDC data that was just

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Speaker 1: released shows that America's fertility rate has dropped to an

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Speaker 1: all time low of just under one point six children

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Speaker 1: per woman on average and twenty twenty four. So that

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Speaker 1: means I'm an anomaly. I got two kids, So why

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Speaker 1: do we care? So much about birth rate. Well, we

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Speaker 1: need workers to keep the economy going. As much as

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Speaker 1: we would love to say that AI and robots can

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Speaker 1: do a lot of the work, like, there's still a

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Speaker 1: lot that only humans can do. We also need people

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Speaker 1: to take care of our senior citizens. We need people

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Speaker 1: who can work and pay taxes into social safety net

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Speaker 1: programs like Social Security.

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Speaker 2: That being said, you know, I'm a little.

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Speaker 1: Bit I don't know if it's like I'm older and

512
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Speaker 1: I'm just a bit more cynical, But there's a lot

513
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Speaker 1: of this like alarm bell ringing about social Security?

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Speaker 2: Will it be? Will there be enough?

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Speaker 1: There has been for I feel like my entire career

516
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Speaker 1: when I was starting out as a personal finance journalist,

517
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Speaker 1: and all I can say is like Congress is so dysfunctional.

518
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:03,080
Speaker 1: The current administry is so dysfunctional. I just think they're

519
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Speaker 1: going to be like, never mind, we don't have Social

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Speaker 1: Security anymore, We're just going to start issuing checks to

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Speaker 1: senior citizens, like they'll find the money somewhere, because apparently

522
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Speaker 1: the national debt, the national budget doesn't really mean anything,

523
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:18,920
Speaker 1: Like does anyone else feel like it doesn't mean anything?

524
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Speaker 1: That they have just passed this bill that's going to

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Speaker 1: add trillions of dollars to the national debt. That's happened before,

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Speaker 1: you know, and we spend like America has so much

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00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:31,920
Speaker 1: of its unpaid debts right now, and still like things

528
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Speaker 1: are things are working out here, street lights are working,

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Speaker 1: teachers are getting paid, Federal employees you know, are getting

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Speaker 1: their paychecks. Like we're still getting access to some social

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Speaker 1: safety nets. Yes, they are getting rid of them as

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Speaker 1: you know, as we speak, getting rid of a lot

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Speaker 1: of Medicaid access for millions of Americans over the next decade.

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Speaker 2: But at the same.

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Speaker 1: Time, like I don't want I don't buy this in

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00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:02,159
Speaker 1: the in terms of the fear mongering of y'all need

537
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:04,879
Speaker 1: to go out and make some more babies real fast,

538
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Speaker 1: Like hm nah, I don't think us going out there

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Speaker 1: creating bringing more life into this world that we have

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Speaker 1: no resources, no social safety nets, daycare, childcare, housing, food,

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Speaker 1: living in general is so expensive. We're sending babies to

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Speaker 1: schools where they can get shot up and their pe

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Speaker 1: classes like where mass shootings are happening all the time,

544
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Speaker 1: where childhood anxiety and depression are on the rise, where

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Speaker 1: social media is unhinged and almost damn near unregulated, and

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Speaker 1: we have to protect these children from the Internet. And

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Speaker 1: y'all want me to just put more children into this world.

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Speaker 1: I can now na, na na na. I think we

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00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 1: have to put our own life beests on first, everybody.

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Speaker 1: So I don't think anyone listening to Brown Ambition is

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Speaker 1: gonna let information like this determine your family planning. But

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Speaker 1: I'm ready, Like this is the kind of shit where

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Speaker 1: I think we need to show up on Capitol Hill

554
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 1: and be like, you can't tell us to create more

555
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Speaker 1: life when you are making this country so inhospitable to life.

556
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 1: It's like, how much closer can we get to a

557
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:16,600
Speaker 1: far off distant planet where there's not enough water at

558
00:29:16,680 --> 00:29:21,880
Speaker 1: oxygen to sustain life? Like this is crazy, like the

559
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 1: state of this country and y'all are out here trying

560
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 1: to make us have more babies right like it makes

561
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 1: zero sense. But yeah, everyone's really stressed out about this number.

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Speaker 1: I I'm not by I mean facts are facts, and

563
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 1: shore one point six kids per woman right now is

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Speaker 1: on the lower side. Well okay, cool, Like I'm not

565
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 1: that pressed about it. I'm not that moved. We have

566
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Speaker 1: to keep an eye on that CDC that we have

567
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Speaker 1: to keep an eye on homeboy RFK. Is that his name,

568
00:29:56,840 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 1: RFK Robert Kennedy? Yes, OURFK junior, rather our FK junior.

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Speaker 1: We have to keep an eye on him. And to

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Speaker 1: anyone who's still working at the CDC, like shout outs

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Speaker 1: to y'all. I don't know what it's like over there

572
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 1: working for this man right now, but I just please, please, just.

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Speaker 2: Keep an eye on stuff.

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Speaker 1: And I hope that we have some whistleblowers in cases

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Speaker 1: up to no good trying to move us into the

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Speaker 1: land of to eugenics, and no, we just can't do that. Okay, Oh,

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Speaker 1: this is really sad, y'all. Like, as I'm sitting here,

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Speaker 1: I have a neglected dog over in her crate. Who's

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Speaker 1: that bills have caused me to look up all kinds

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Speaker 1: of home remedies for all of her different ailments. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: Molly moo, but it's not just me. According to the

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Speaker 1: American Pet Products Association, forty nine million households have a

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Speaker 1: cat and sixty eight million households have a dog, but

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Speaker 1: shelters across the country are reporting a surge in owner

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Speaker 1: surrenders as the cost of keeping pets goes up. Americans

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Speaker 1: are on track to drop one hundred and fifty seven

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Speaker 1: billion dollars on their pets. That's sixty two percent more

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Speaker 1: than they spent in twenty nineteen forty three percent, so

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Speaker 1: nearly half of that is going to people sustaining their

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Speaker 1: pets day to day with food and treats. My dog, oh,

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Speaker 1: Molly Moose. So she went through this situation a year

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Speaker 1: or two ago where she had some like back leg

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Speaker 1: pain and they were like, it could be inflammation, she

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Speaker 1: might have torn her acl You know, we could do surgery.

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Speaker 1: It'll be like twenty five hundred, twenty seven hundred dollars

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Speaker 1: per leg and you'll have to carry her and do

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Speaker 1: one leg at a time. I'll like, oh no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna make her food from scratch. And so I

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00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 1: started to make her food from scratch, and I saw

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Speaker 1: her body come back. She lost weight, she started to

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Speaker 1: feel more lively. But that was so expensive, so I'm

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Speaker 1: not gonna lie.

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Speaker 2: We started.

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Speaker 1: I started to incorporate her salmon dog food back into

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Speaker 1: the mix. I get a big bag of it from BJYS,

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Speaker 1: and I have to get it from BJS because it

607
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Speaker 1: is so expensive to buy dog food right now.

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Speaker 2: So food treats.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I get it, and that's if your pet

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Speaker 1: is healthy, Like let your pet cough the wrong way,

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Speaker 1: let them get a little bit of a rash, you know,

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Speaker 1: feel like they're getting a little bit sick.

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Speaker 2: Even if you have pet.

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Speaker 1: Insurance, it feels like you walk into a vet and

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Speaker 1: the costs are like hundreds of dollars each time. It's

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Speaker 1: extremely expensive. But this was pretty heartbreaking.

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Speaker 2: I know.

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Speaker 1: When I was in Atlanta recently, there was a really

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Speaker 1: sweet woman who knocked on the door and she was

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Speaker 1: with the Atlanta ASPCA ASPCA Atlanta Humane Society. Is that

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Speaker 1: the right acronym, not sure, but Atlanta Humane Society. She

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Speaker 1: knocked on the door and she was looking for recurring

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Speaker 1: donations because she said surrender by owners were going up,

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Speaker 1: just like this report has shown. So it's pretty sad

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Speaker 1: to see that, you know, when it comes to the

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Speaker 1: list of household expenses, like we can hardly maintain our pets.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, this goes perfectly what I was

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Speaker 1: saying before.

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Speaker 2: We can't even.

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Speaker 1: Afford Fidos dog food, and y'all want me to create

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Speaker 1: another hue in life where it's going to cost a

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Speaker 1: two hundred thousand dollars over the cost to raise a

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Speaker 1: child up to the age of eighteen, and that's before

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Speaker 1: college expenses. Hell to then naw, like Fluffy and Fido

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00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:12,720
Speaker 1: are not getting it. Do you think we can really

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Speaker 1: afford to have more children.

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Speaker 2: In this place? Like, come on, get out of here.

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Speaker 1: That being said, if you do have a pet that

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Speaker 1: you are looking to surrender, go to your local animal shelter.

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Speaker 1: I think it's better that we surrender them to a

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Speaker 1: loving space and people who could really care for them

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Speaker 1: and hopefully rehome them. And then I do think it's

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Speaker 1: great to think consider donating to your local animal shelters

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Speaker 1: so that they can provide food, lodging, care for these

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Speaker 1: animals and hopefully rehome them and it doesn't sadly end

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Speaker 1: up in them being euthanized. But yeah, so sad ariba fam.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to take a quick break and come right

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Speaker 1: back with my brown boost or brown break for the week.

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Speaker 1: Be right back, alriba vam. I'm back and I want

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Speaker 1: to do a quick boost positive this week. I had

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Speaker 1: the best damn time at our first Brown Ambition book

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Speaker 1: club meeting. I want to give a huge shout out

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Speaker 1: to the one the only Cebo Campbell, the author of

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Speaker 1: sky Full of Elephants. Y'all, he showed up and showed

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Speaker 1: out for the BA book Club and he didn't have

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Speaker 1: to do all that, and I just think it's amazing

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Speaker 1: that he gave us our time. I was so happy

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Speaker 1: for our BA book Club members Tndra and Amy, who

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Speaker 1: got to ask Sebo questions one on one, even though

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Speaker 1: it meant Tondre, I'm so sorry, girl, I had to

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Speaker 1: put you on. I put you live in the guest

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Speaker 1: hosting seat accidentally because I was still figuring out my

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Speaker 1: live streaming. But it went so great. Sebo dropped so

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Speaker 1: many gems about the book itself. He also gave us

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Speaker 1: a scoop y'all exclusive about his book, sky Full of Elephants,

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Speaker 1: being turned into a movie produced by Laurence Fishburne, like

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Speaker 1: Morpheus is producing his movie. So if y'all want to

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Speaker 1: join the BA book Club, you got to go to

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Speaker 1: the Patreon. I also made the announcement during our book

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Speaker 1: club what our August slash September book Club pick is

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Speaker 1: going to be, and it is drum roll please, that's

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Speaker 1: the worst drum less, the worst drum roll.

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Speaker 2: I only have one hand.

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Speaker 1: I can't do it, but maybe we can get some

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Speaker 1: audio of some sonic audio clips to put in here.

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Speaker 1: But the pick for August September is going to be

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Speaker 1: The Ghost of Gwendolen Montgomery, a novel by the Clarence Haynes.

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Speaker 1: So Clarence, you're coming on Brown Ambition. You may not

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Speaker 1: know it yet, your publisher knows it, but now you do,

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Speaker 1: ba fam, go pick up this book. We are going

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Speaker 1: to be meeting at some point in September to talk

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Speaker 1: all about it. In the meantime, get into it. This

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Speaker 1: is a very fun, juicy novel. You may have noticed

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Speaker 1: my first two picks for the Brown Ambition Book Club

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Speaker 1: have been novels. Because it's summertime.

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Speaker 2: I'm out here. I'm trying to find like little Beach Reads.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to find books that make me think, that

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Speaker 1: keep me turning those pages. And I would love y'all's

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Speaker 1: ideas if there's books that y'all think I should include

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Speaker 1: in my next book club pick, Like this book club

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Speaker 1: is four y'all buy, y'all. And I'm just here to

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Speaker 1: be a vessel of what you guys would like. So

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Speaker 1: I hope that you're loving them so far. I look

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Speaker 1: forward to doing some business and finance books, but I

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Speaker 1: want to keep mixing it up. I don't want it

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Speaker 1: to feel like this is the Brown Ambition Book Club.

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Speaker 1: Every month we have a new homework assignment of a

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Speaker 1: book to read. I want it to really feel like

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Speaker 1: we are reading books that are bringing us joy, making

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Speaker 1: us think, and enriching our lives and riching our.

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Speaker 2: Minds all of the above.

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Speaker 1: And what I love most about Sky Full of Elephants

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Speaker 1: and Ghost of Gwendolen Montgomery is that they feature strong

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Speaker 1: female characters. You may not agree with everything they do,

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Speaker 1: you may have something to say about the way that

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Speaker 1: they act, but they're very fascinating, full bodied, well rounded,

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Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty degree characters, and we don't often

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Speaker 1: get that for women of color. So shout out to Clarence.

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Speaker 1: I'm very excited about us picking your book, or me

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Speaker 1: picking your book for the Brown Ambition Book Club. I

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Speaker 1: cannot wait be a fan for y'all to read it,

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Speaker 1: to die to let me know how y'all think. If

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Speaker 1: you were at the Brown Ambition Book Club meeting last

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Speaker 1: week with Cebo, you were I had selected to be

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Speaker 1: a fan members book club members to get a free

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Speaker 1: copy of the book, so those will be coming toward

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Speaker 1: y'all so that you don't have to pay for the

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Speaker 1: books like yay, and I'm just really excited. So there's

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Speaker 1: still time to join the book club if you want.

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Speaker 1: You can also go to the Patreon. Well, go to

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Speaker 1: the Patreon become a free member. That's how you get

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Speaker 1: enrolled in the book club. Then you'll see the full

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Speaker 1: hour long book Club replay with Cebos. You can get

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Speaker 1: all the tea from Sky Full of Elephants and his

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Speaker 1: new film that he's making. You can also get all

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Speaker 1: the updates on how to join us at future.

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Speaker 2: Book Club events.

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Speaker 1: If you become a paid Patreon member, you actually get

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Speaker 1: access to be here live in the audience. Will me

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Speaker 1: record the Brown Table each week. You get a little

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Speaker 1: linky link so check that out as well, and all

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Speaker 1: the other parks and benefits that come with being a

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Speaker 1: member of the Patreon community. Iv A Fam, Until Bill

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Speaker 1: next time. Thank you so much for listening. Take care okay,

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Speaker 1: va fam, thank you so much for listening to this

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Speaker 1: week's show. I want to shout out to our production team, Courtney,

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Speaker 1: our editor Carla, our fearless leader for Idea to launch Productions.

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Speaker 1: I want to shout out my assistant Lauda Escalante and

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Speaker 1: Cameron McNair for helping me put the show together. It

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Speaker 1: is not a one person project, as much as I

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Speaker 1: have tried to make it so these past ten years.

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Speaker 1: I need help, y'all, and thank goodness I've been able

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Speaker 1: to put this team around me to support me on

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Speaker 1: this journey and to y'all bea fam I love you

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