WEBVTT - Ep. 73 — Is This Real Life? 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:21.480 Hey, we're back. We're back. We're back, We're back. Maybe snars. 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:24.760 What did you call them? Be a listener? 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:26.480 Oh, but didn't I didn't get I didn't catch a 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:33.159 like d listeners. Hey, guys, thank you for joining us 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:34.720 for another week of Brown Ambition. 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:35.600 Yes. 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:38.279 Is it weird to you when you find out that 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:40.440 random people listen to the show and they're like, oh, hey, 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:42.400 are you I was talking to my friend and she's like, so, 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:43.919 my sister doom't Be wanted me to tell you she 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:47.440 loves the show and I was like, oh God. 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:49.960 Or sometimes when I like someone said something to me, 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:51.720 I'm like, yikes, I did say that on the show. 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:55.440 Yeah, I and your family will. They'll be like, oh, yeah, 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:56.920 so you did this and that, and I'm like, how 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:59.000 did you know? Oh yeah, the show. They know all 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:00.240 about your life before you. 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:02.560 You you know what, Like, luckily my family doesn't really 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:05.200 know I have a podcast, or they probably all in it. 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:08.720 But it'll be weird because somebody will be like, oh, 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:10.440 did you get too man to sign that prena? 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:11.880 I'm like, oh wait. 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:16.160 Because it's so we're really open on this show. I 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:18.280 think that's part of the reason people have can I mean, 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:20.200 I could be wrong, but it seems that people connect 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:22.240 with the personal side. But then sometimes I'm thinking, did 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:24.280 I really talk about that I know? 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:26.800 And I'm like, well, hopefully the people that I love 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:28.720 the most, you know, will try to blind ear to 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:29.920 it all over exposed. 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:31.640 I don't want to be overexposed. But anyway, I shout 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:35.360 out to Doombe's my friend, Toulu's sister and putting on blast. 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:38.119 But how how is your week? 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:42.440 Ben? It's been much? Yeah, it's been good. 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:47.960 So the the Live Richer Academy reopen registration again. 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:50.760 Uh it's been eight months. And I'm not gonna lie. 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:53.440 Have you ever done something or created something and you're like, yeah, 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:55.960 I'm not in love with it. 0:01:55.960 --> 0:02:02.080 Like all the time, and so things right tweets and. 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:04.120 So it sucks because especially like I'm like, I always 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:06.680 like to deliver excellence. So when I first opened the Academy, 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:08.880 it was like the baby that would not go to sleep. 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:11.960 I was like, come on, I'm doing everything possible to 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:14.080 make this thing good, and I just felt like I 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:14.520 could not. 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:17.960 I don't know, it just wasn't doing what I wanted it. 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:20.639 And now, honestly, I love the Academy you have to 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:22.840 come on as an instructor, like as an ASCI expert 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:23.639 on a Sunday night. 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:24.560 But I love it. 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:27.880 It's so dope's it feels good like we're finally at 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:30.280 a place where I'm like, yes, this is what this 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:32.560 is why I started. The academy is exactly what I want. 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.320 And registration has been opened for about a week and 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:37.320 we close Tuesday. 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:39.200 Oh you tell them what it is, though, I don't 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:41.080 think we've really talked about the academy. 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:46.200 So the Literature Academy is a online school that I 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:49.480 created to really help women take their personal finances to 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:53.640 the next level. So I believe that basic financial education 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.840 should be free, like this is how you budget, this 0:02:57.880 --> 0:02:59.440 is how you save, this is how you get out 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:02.560 of debt, stuff like that. But to me, the next level, 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:04.839 you know, because you can't budget your way to wealth 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:08.520 or debt free your way to wealth. So through the Liverature. 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:13.040 Academy, we I invite experts on, sorry, I invite experts 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:18.040 on to come and teach specific courses like investing, like 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:22.960 taxes for small business, like like last night we did 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:27.959 a lesson called your your your mentality, and your wealth, 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:31.280 Like how are those things connected and it was awesome. 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:34.840 And so these experts come on and teach what I 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:39.400 could not teach. And the academy is a monthly fee, 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:40.640 or you can pay for six months, or you can 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:42.480 pay for a year, and so it's been really great 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:45.600 and we close we close the doors for registration. 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:51.000 March seventh's today if you're listening right now, it's today exactly. 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:52.839 So if you're interested, you can always go to Live 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:55.720 Richer Academy dot com and just kind of take a peek. 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:58.600 It's just been like a labor of love, and I'm 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.200 starting to see the transformation. Women are starting businesses, they're 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:04.160 buying homes, and I'm just really proud of it because 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:06.160 it was not that great in the beginning. For those 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:08.800 of you who stuck with us, thank you, But now 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.480 I love it. It's like my beautiful baby, she's all 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:11.960 grown up. 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:14.840 All that's good to hear. And that's kind of like 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:16.839 the next level. It's a master's course for like the 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:19.400 people who do the challenge right, like the Live Ritual Challenge. 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:22.159 So it's like just the next level because you know, 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:24.440 I just feel like if all you ever do is 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:26.320 like the basics, and that's where you stay you don't 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:27.600 want to be basic. 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:34.160 Basic BA listeners. Yeah, well congrats, that's awesome. 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:37.160 Thanks. So what about you? How's I? You know, you're 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:38.080 coming around the bend. 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:43.160 Oh, just around the wedding bend. So this is the 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:45.400 week when I on my calendar all these red all 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:48.479 these red reminders are popping up saying this vendor's check 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:51.520 is due, this last deposits due. Oh my god, and 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:56.279 someone I need I So I follow the DreamCatcher's Facebook page, 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:59.000 which is you know, obviously Tiffany's page for all people 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:01.440 who are part of the liver Her Challenge. Some of 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:04.520 these women had. One of these women had the audacity 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:08.200 to post a college humor video on how pointless weddings are. 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:12.120 And I sat there and watched this video and I 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:14.360 was like, why am I doing? But then I was like, no, 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.120 it's okay, it's fine to have a wedding. In fact, 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:20.240 when I it was the what basically the video. When 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:22.359 I first got engaged, I went out and got this 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:25.280 book called The Wedding Industrial Complex, which is great. It's 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:29.359 an excellent book. It's about like the industrialization of the 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:31.760 wedding and like how it's been commercialized and how it 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:34.839 didn't even exist one hundred years ago, and the College 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:38.040 Humor video basically did the same thing. And it's like 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:41.400 Nobe even wore white dresses until the nineteen twenties when 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:44.960 Queen Victoria in London, England wore a white dress to 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:47.560 show how rich she was. Like that is how young 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:49.960 that tradition is. And then look what were how much 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:53.800 we're spending now on these white wedding gowns, And I 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:56.080 just wanted people didn't even used to carry bouquets of 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.480 flower I learned flowers in their hands. They used to 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:02.520 carry herbs to ward off evil spirits, like like cilantro, 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:09.520 like the garlic, like a Caesar salad down the aisle. Yeah, 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:12.880 it's funny, but I will say the one thing about 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.000 this wedding that's helping me sleep at night because it's 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:16.800 not cheap, but it's not as expensive as it could 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:19.240 be if it were in New York. And I just 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:21.400 I looked. I was looking at our guest list this 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:24.919 past week and I literally could not I could not 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:27.440 put together a better group of people. And it's just 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:31.000 gonna be the most spectacular, fun weekend with all the 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:34.160 people that we love and like, uh, I really, I'm 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:36.880 proud of that we've been focusing it and focusing on 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:40.080 the people and the love part of things, and not 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:42.640 like we're not like you're not gonna have there's not 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:44.320 gonna be I'm sorry, tiffing. There's not gonna be like 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:47.279 a swan made out of ice. We're not gonna have 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:49.640 like a crazy photo booth. We're not spending like, we're 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:51.479 not spending money on a bunch of junk. We're just 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:54.320 spending it on like everything that matters to us and 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:58.400 that makes me happy. And that's my wedding, my wedding rant. 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:01.480 Well, I can't because you know I'm a bit air. 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:06.960 Just live vicariously through my crazy ass wedding and you'll 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:09.480 have your very simple one and your house, and I'll 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:13.880 have polaroids of my wedding. Yeah, but it's coming up. 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:17.160 I can't believe it's just a month away. But meanwhile, 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:20.880 the world's falling apart, continuing to fall apart. No, I 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:23.560 feel like I'm just gonna have like a permanent handprint 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:27.200 on my forehead, like from all the foolishness. I just 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:29.080 read before before we got on the air, I read 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:35.320 that Ben Carson mister gifted hands himself was giving some 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:39.840 speech and talking about the power of immigrants, and then 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.720 he went on to say, wait, I need to actually 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:44.760 read this quote because you need to know how insane 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.440 it is. He says, that's what America is about, a 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.720 landed dreams and opportunity. There were other immigrants who came 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:53.960 here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:56.720 even harder, for less, but they too had a dream 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:59.960 that one day their sons and daughters would pursue prosperity 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:02.280 in slave ships. He calls them immigrants. 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:04.960 Immigrants. 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:09.679 Oh my god, yo, honestly, you know what Ben Carsion 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:14.040 reminds me of. So, you know, before reality TV shows, 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:15.760 like you would like look up to celebrities like, oh 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:18.520 my gosh, she seems really smart and cool, and then 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:20.600 reality shows came out, and then celebrities are on them, 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:22.600 You're like, oh my gosh, that person is an idiot. 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:24.560 I wish they would have never. 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:27.800 Because, you know, because when you just see pictures of people, 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:30.720 you know, you can kind of impose upon them how 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:33.240 awesome you think there are, and then when they actually 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:35.400 open their mouth, you're like, oh, well, there goes all 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:38.280 of my hopes and dreams. My father gave me Ben 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:39.760 Carson's gifted hands to read. 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:41.920 I was so impressed. I mean, this man, it's so 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:46.120 weird because, yeah, it's clear that this man is brilliant. 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.839 Obviously a brilliant surgeon, a brilliant ghost writer, right, no, well, 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:50.800 a brilliant surgeon. 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:52.839 You know, like you can't take the fact that he's 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:55.360 a brilliant surgeon away from him, and you're like, where 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:58.080 is he an idiot savant? That's the only that's the 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:02.119 only answer that I have that clearly that his brilliant stops. 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:06.200 He literally leaves it inside the surgery room when he 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:09.200 puts down his his like you know, I don't know, 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:10.360 like scalpel and stuff. 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:12.000 He says, well, here's my brilliance. I'm going to leave 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:14.160 this here and walk into the world foolish. 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:16.319 You need to have a well rounded life, as you 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:18.280 can be speaking those smart kids in school who are 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:21.640 very socially awkward and don't really have well rounded like 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:23.520 like world view. I feel like sometimes if you spend 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:25.840 too much time in the books or inside of bodies 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:28.400 or whatever you don't like, you start thinking things like, yeah, 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:32.160 maybe slaves were immigrants just brave it, Like that's nuts. 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:32.480 I don't. 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:39.200 I if if one more person says like, I didn't 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:41.640 speak to Russia, okay to Russia. 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:45.640 Just cutdang. I forgot just just so weird when they 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:48.600 came over lunch that one time. I forgot. Yeah, And 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:54.800 the foolishness this weekend with with with Voldemort and what 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:57.679 he said about Obama, who does not Obama is like 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:00.240 literally Obama is somewhere right now getting like a foot 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:01.880 massage and. 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:06.240 Just picture recently Michelle and like this cute black outfit. Yo, 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:09.920 he's looking so cool with his leather like butter leather jacket. 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:14.080 They are chilling, chilling, talking about I was wire tapped. 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:17.240 Could you honestly just shut up? Just just shut up, 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:18.920 just shut up. I'm like, what are you talking? The 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:20.440 CIA was like what are you? What? 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:23.400 The FBI everyone, what are you talking about? That doesn't 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:27.559 even make that's a serious allegation, you crazy nincome poop. 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:30.400 But don't worry. He'll be an investigation. He'll be proven right, 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:32.200 is what he was quoted us saying by one of 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:34.960 his friends while he was at mar A Lago resort 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:38.640 for yet another weekend spending millions of dollars of taxpayers 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:42.240 dollar taxpayer money, going to the winter White House where 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.319 he wanted to tweet out this. I mean, even if 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:46.559 it's true, the fact that he would tweet it before, 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:49.080 I mean it's not true. I mean Obama has he 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:51.800 had a pull. I'm just mad. He stole a moment 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:54.560 of peace from Obama's retirement. He deserved some sleep and 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:57.360 you know, relaxation. He had to put out a statement 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:02.160 denying these accusations. But even if in a crazy universe 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:03.960 they were true, the fact that we have a president 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:07.200 who would be tweeting that before it was proven. 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:11.160 Right, like before you go to the actual authority to say, hey, 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:14.400 I think the law was broken, let me tweet to 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:15.160 my peeps. 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:17.319 That's literally what he said. He said, you know what, 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:18.960 I have something to say to my peeps. 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:22.760 Let me tweet, Hey, y'all, somebody seriously broke the law 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:24.000 and committed treason. 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:25.959 What y'all think? Like, what do you say? 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:28.120 I just, honestly, the only thing that gives me any 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:31.480 solace Ballas and all of this is I love lovey 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:34.559 awesomely Love's blog posts, yo, everything. 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:38.319 They are life. They are hilarious and I. 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:40.720 Will read them whenever something crazy comes out Because she 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:45.600 always puts this just delicious, hilarious spin on things that. 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:47.760 Makes me say, Okay, I can live another day. 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:51.360 Yeah, I mean you do have to laugh at it. 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:52.959 But at the same time, it's like, so he had 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:55.800 a speech last week and everyone was just falling all 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:59.160 over themselves because he didn't sound like a complete like moron. 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:02.200 I'm like, the bar is so low. So he strung 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:04.959 some words together for a solid hour, and we're all 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:08.120 just like, look at you, go, look at you and 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:11.880 your big boy pants making sentences make sense, Like that 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:15.360 can't be the bar for our president. It's just so 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:18.040 sad and this, you know, he's he's done so many 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:21.480 crazy things. It's it's like we've almost what I'm afraid 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:23.240 of is that we're gonna get too used to the 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.839 craziness and that I mean if if so so many 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:29.400 times throughout his campaign and now it's like if it 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:32.160 had been anybody else, you'd have been out anybody else. 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:35.880 But I don't know what what what magic hold he 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:38.720 has over some people, But it's like he is the 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:40.320 cockroach that will not die. 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:42.520 Yeah, no matter how many times you stop on it, 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:45.680 no matter how many times you spray it, it just 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:49.680 flips back over and runs into the Darkness girls. 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:55.040 When they put that over, it's like I got I 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:59.240 was dead, I'm a roach. I'm gonna be here forever. 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:01.800 I love. 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:03.920 Do you watch Jesus and Marrow. Do you know them? 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:07.720 They're the Bodega Boys podcast? Oh you have to. They 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:11.679 are everything. Don't tell my fiance because I tease him 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:13.400 because he loves them so much and I'm like, oh 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:15.960 them again, But uh, they're really for funny as hell. 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:19.680 They're just like these two. They're two guys from the Bronx, 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:22.600 Jesus and Marra who childhood friends. They started a podcast 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:26.679 called the Bodega Boys. Like just really just like they 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:30.240 I can't even describe them, but just just real guys 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:35.199 having conversations about current events and being like like vulgar 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:38.840 and like whatever, but hilarious, like hilarious commentary on everyday things. 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:42.000 And they got a show on Vice actually, and the 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.640 show is doing like amazingly well and they have the 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:49.079 most hilarious takes on They call him Tornpito and they 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:52.760 called Sean Spicer Adobo because he's got spice. They're just 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:54.760 freaking hilarous. Can't even say half of what they say 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:57.880 because it's like extremely vulgar and it sounds stupid coming 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:01.200 from my own mouth, but them, I think they're But 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:03.840 I live for like people like that who can at 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:07.040 least like it's like we're watching Trump and we're staying woke, 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.640 but then you still kind of have to laugh a 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:13.920 little bit at the insanity of what's happening. And I 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:16.880 and yeah, we just need to like keep shining a 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:19.160 light on this foolishness. And Ben Carson used to go 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:20.320 sit down somewhere. 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:22.520 If anybody needs some just like some release. 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.520 There's I don't remember a while ago, maybe it was 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:29.000 like late last year, there was like this comedian that 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:31.440 she was like on Instagram. Her name is a but 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:34.560 she played a character named Shirlene, like the older black woman. 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:36.680 Yeah you talked about her before, Yeah, yeah. 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:37.120 Oh my goodness. 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:38.680 So she has a new video out so if you 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:43.160 just need a giggle her Her Instagram is the Christie 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:46.920 c h R. I s T I Show, The Christie 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:50.040 Show like her videos are so it's clean comedy. So 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:51.520 for those of you whore and not into like cursing. 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:55.960 Whatever she is. I guess she's Christian. Yeah, she's obviously Christian, 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:59.280 but that's not like what her like her stick is like, oh, 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:01.800 even though she a young woman, she dresses up like 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:05.440 an older black woman, like rooted in the church. And 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:09.119 when I say hilarious, oh, like I just can't describe. 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:11.000 So yeah, so if you get a chance, And that's 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:11.320 what I do. 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:13.480 Sometimes when I'm like overwhelmed with like the darkness in 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:15.520 the world and I'm like, I can't take like what 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:18.000 I love you, Carls Cheeto Satan. 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:20.880 I can't say Cheeto Satan, I will go. 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:24.320 To her Instagram page and I will giggle my LifeWay 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.080 and I'm like, thank you Christy aka Miss Shirley, and 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:29.240 you make everything better. So just a little, you know, 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:32.360 just a little, a little time away from all the craziness. 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:35.640 Is there something? Could you maybe come closer to the 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:37.440 mic or something? It sounds like you're a little far away. 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:38.720 Can you hear me? Now? 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:40.520 Speak again? 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:42.040 How does it sound now? 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:43.080 Okay, it's a little bit better. 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:46.440 Yeah, okay, let me put I'm gonna pop it up. 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:50.400 Hold on, So it's a little bit closen to my man. 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:52.000 All right. 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:55.160 I have to say I was just I was just 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:57.200 browsing in the New York Times headline right now, the 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.960 main story is that the Republicans finally unveiled their replace 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:03.520 span for Obamacare, and I am trying to read. So 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:05.760 what was expected for them to replace it with was, 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:08.720 you know how on the Obamacare, the Healthcare Exchange right 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:12.200 now you get tax subsidies that lower the cost of 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:15.800 your health plan. Essentially, what they're doing is they're removing 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:18.520 the mandatory part of the bill, which the mandate, which 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:20.680 says that everyone has to have healthcare or face a 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:25.880 tax penalty. And it looks like they are going to 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.520 give income wait, let me see. It looks like they're 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:31.880 going to do tax credits that would completely replace everything else. 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:33.840 So instead of requiring you to have health insurance, they're 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:35.760 going to say, if you do get health insurance, will 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:40.280 give you tax credits. And they're going to get bigger 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:43.280 with age. And the idea behind that is that as 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:47.640 you age, coverage gets more expensive. But it's happening, y'all, 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:49.240 it's happening. Stay woke. 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:53.480 So I mean, so they're basically keeping it except for 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:56.000 they're going to give tax credits. 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:57.760 I haven't read the entire thing. This is a very 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.640 short article. This new is like just came out, so 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:02.160 I don't want to. I don't want to misspeak. There' 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:05.680 probably be more information and more analysis tomorrow. But yeah, 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:07.359 that was one of the things that they were that 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:10.560 the individual mandate from the very beginning was a huge 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:13.320 point of contention for the law, and I knew they 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:15.920 were always going to try and get rid of. That's 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:18.280 what this doesn't with. This article doesn't say yet is 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:20.600 whether or not Trump always said he would try and 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:26.120 keep the pre existing condition coverage for people. Not clear 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:27.639 from this article if he's doing that or not. But 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:29.920 if you have Obamacare, you rely on it. Definitely pay 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:33.080 attention to the news right now for sure. And this 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:35.320 plan is just a plan. It hasn't been voted on, 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:38.680 nothing like that. It's just finally, it's like finally, for 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:41.760 months and years they've been talking about, you know, Obamacare 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.200 being a piece of crap, but never had anything better. 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:46.840 So yeah, no, But if they're like to me, I 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:49.159 don't like, you know, the getting rid of the mandate, 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:52.639 I mean, I can't say financially, you know, for the 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:55.520 economy what that means, but I can see that being like, oh, okay, 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:59.000 and then you know tax credit, that's that's a good thing. 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:00.879 But I'm like, really, so Baitically, I'm like, y'all just 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:01.880 gonna keep the same plan. 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:04.760 Look at you because you don't have any plan. But anyway, 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:06.399 we'll see the biggest. 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:08.399 Thing with the with the plan is that it's just 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:11.760 it's a little bit too unrealistic and and all the 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:13.560 sort of analysis of its plan has said it would 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:16.320 cost the government. I think that one of the I 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:18.480 went on of the gosh. I can't remember if it 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:20.879 was billion or trillion. That's a big that's a big difference. 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:23.560 I don't want to misspeak, but it was like five 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:27.040 billion or trillion dollars it was going to cost over 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:30.240 the next like ten years. If if Trump's campaign version 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:33.840 of of of tax and health care changes, what's going 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:36.360 to an effect. So I don't know what it'll cost, 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:39.840 but it does feel like his in his magical world 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:43.640 of lollipops and and golf courses. It's like everyone gets 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:46.520 tax breaks, but who's where's the money coming from? And 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:48.720 by the way, we're spending like twenty billion dollars on 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:53.160 a wall on our on the Mexican border, and I'm 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:55.840 like and raising our defense fund and we're already one 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:58.680 of the countries that spends more than like all the 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:02.760 biggest stations combined on defend spending. I just I was like, 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:05.400 as a budgeting person, as you can imagine, I'm sure 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:08.399 you're just like, this ain't lining up, yeah. 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:10.600 Because you're like, so, you know, money doesn't just poof, 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:13.520 unto real life look like thin air, like if you take, 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:17.800 if someone is receiving, someone is losing. That's just the way, like, 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:21.080 you know, things go out. Yeah, I guess we'll see. 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:25.119 I mean, yeah, I guess we'll see. You don't have 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:28.119 to just you look up and you sigh, like you know, 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:30.080