WEBVTT - Beyond The Barbecue: The Real Work of Juneteenth 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:00.800 I'm Tamika D. 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:03.159 Mallory and it shit Boy my son in general. 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:05.600 We are your host of TMI. 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:08.920 Tamika and my Son's Information, Truth, motivation and. 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:13.320 Inspiration name new Energy. 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:19.920 What's going on, my son, Lennon, I am feeling groovy today. 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:22.439 Grill Bay Real Bag shout out to save the brand. 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:26.120 You know my man Boom Boom. This is his sweating. 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:26.920 Oh that's cool. 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:31.800 That's y'all new creations that y'all be making up over there. Listen, 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:37.000 are you instructing him at the Culture Gallery? Culture's Gallery? 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:38.200 Yes, the Culture's Gallery. 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:42.040 That's our store in Westchester eighteen fifty seven Westchester Avenue. 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:43.800 Please pull up and. 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:48.760 So at the store, are you guys encouraging boom Boom 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:52.200 and giving him design direction or is he just pumping 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:52.680 out what. 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:56.480 He Boom Boom is a master designer. Just now. 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:59.720 He has his new shades called the Hater Blockers, so 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:03.200 you come get you Hated blockers. He has all types 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:05.560 of shirts, shorts, he has whatever you need. 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:07.479 Boom Boom does he make stuff for girls? 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:09.480 He makes all the stuff. 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.920 No, no way, Bronx Logo never sent me a thing, 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:13.880 so I don't. 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:15.800 Boom Boom is the man. 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:21.200 So for people who are listening and watching. Uh, the 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:26.360 culture's gallery is our friend Bronx Logos store in the 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:30.560 Bronx and Boom Boom is his son, who is becoming 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:36.280 quickly the most I don't know, the highest earning entrepreneur 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:38.520 over there, his brand. 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:42.880 He's the man, he keeps the lights open over there. 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:45.400 I'm the silent partner. I just you know, do the stuff, 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:46.800 but you do. 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:50.080 I would love to hear about the stuff about it, 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:51.680 but I wouldn't know what's I'm just a. 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:53.960 Silent partner that does what he's supposed to do. 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:57.240 What does silent partners do for anybody who wants to 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:01.200 be a silent partner? No, you didn't just put your 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:04.400 hand over your silence. But I want to know what 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:05.560 through silent partners? 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:07.480 What is ther? 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:11.120 But give us some advice if we want to be 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:12.440 a good silent. 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:13.440 What would you do? 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:14.000 Invest? 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:15.760 Invest the. 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:21.560 And oh that's not being a good silent okay, So 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:25.120 then and also promotion because you do do a lot 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:30.080 of the non silent part So are you a silent partner? 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:30.520 Are not? 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:31.920 Oh? 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:33.280 Please forget it? 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:38.040 Tell exactly how this relationship probably works where he's not 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:39.359 sure from day to day. 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:40.800 Are you silent or are you not? 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:42.600 No, I'm definitely a silent part. 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:46.000 Okay, all right, so y'all keeping it going, but I 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:47.320 appreciate that boom boom. 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:50.600 Shout out to you for your sis. I've seen. 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:52.280 Silent. 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:58.080 We have some silent partners. Nelson like people doing. We 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:01.280 got a real business going on. Not for the coaches 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.360 gallery is a dope place. The atmosphere is dope. You know, 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:06.720 we're starting programs for kids and then we were about 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:10.079 to start doing our raising kings one of our days 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:12.919 there where we teach the kids how to be entrepreneurs, 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:16.400 how to use the machines, make their own brands, and 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:19.320 all of those things. Also teaching them by the emotional intelligence. 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:21.240 So we're creating something over there. 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:23.520 Yeah, no, I mean to keep it going for all 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:27.959 this time is certainly admirable. Shout out to Bronx Logo 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:30.000 because this is a young we should have. 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:30.920 We should interview. 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:33.200 We got to bring Logo up here, that's right. 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:35.720 We got we gotta interview him so he could tell 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.480 his story about his life prize. 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:40.840 He's a Bronx Hero too. He just got his Bronx. 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:43.000 Hero Yeah, he got his award which I still need 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:46.560 to post. And uh, he is someone who he had 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:51.320 already created the what was that logo of the Bronx 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:58.080 logo that so for folks, Jose but in the Bronx 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:00.800 logo that he created before going to prison. 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.040 And then he did how many years? 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:04.920 Then he did five years, five. 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:09.200 Years, came home, started figuring it out from nothing. He 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:13.120 literally built it all from the dirt. That's like a 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:14.120 very true story. 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:14.320 You know. 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:16.400 Some people say that and they don't mention that their 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:19.599 parents lent them ten thousand or what, or they had 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:22.359 five thousand and the mattress from before they let they 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:25.880 don't mention, but he didn't have that. He really started 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:30.480 with nothing created and took his brand, just the Bronx 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:32.240 logo and started getting that out there. 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:33.640 Then he went to the truck. 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:35.400 No, he went to the car. First. 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:38.080 First he just brought some T shirts. He was selling 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:40.040 the T shirts. Okay, Then he got his car. 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:42.200 Was he pressing them up in his house still at 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:42.560 that time? 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:44.119 Okay? 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:44.400 Cool? 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:46.960 And then at that point he got a car and 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.040 he was selling out the car, and he brought the machine. 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:51.480 Then he started doing his own pressing. And then from 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:54.360 the mission from the car in the machine. He went 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:55.120 to the bus. 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:57.800 The bus the bus was was it hit ye right 0:04:57.839 --> 0:04:59.160 around with the bus. 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:00.680 So things that off the bus. 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:02.480 It's bricking mortar. 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:06.719 Yes, Now there's an actual building. And I'm proud of him. 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:09.000 And he has a job. So this what I'm saying, 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.320 he really needs to be going to put Bronx logo 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:11.480 on it. 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:14.359 Kids don't understand. 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.080 It's nothing wrong with having a job as you still 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:18.520 be an entrepreneur and building. 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:23.200 Somebody that we know very well told me dead to 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.599 my face, y'all want me to have a job. And 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.240 I ain't trying to have no job because I don't 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:29.119 need a job. 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.360 But you need a job. 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:33.960 He said, Well, I'm working on my other stuff, but 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:38.480 you still need a job. Jobs are important until you 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:41.240 can get to the next stays. Now, of course, you 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:43.960 don't want to become complacent, so you have to have 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:47.960 the energy that I refuse to let this job be 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:50.400 my final stop, because that does. 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:52.360 And I'm just too right. 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:56.560 It's making sure that you have a job that doesn't 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:59.400 limit you from chasing whatever it is that you try. 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:01.839 Your archer, no of you, you know you have dreams 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:03.800 of doing things. You get you a night job right, 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:06.119 you get your job, well, you get your parts whatever 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:08.479 it seven to three, Yes, but you got to make 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:12.040 sure that your financial things are taken care of. You 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:14.000 got to make sure that the bills is paid. You 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:16.360 need a phone, you need a place to live, you 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:19.320 need some food like those things, and that's what your 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.520 job should be for. And you should be able to 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:25.760 pay your bills. And then whatever you do outside of 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:27.359 that is everything else. 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:32.160 Yeah, that's facts. So I agree one thousand percent. I 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:35.680 have had a job my whole life, in addition to 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:41.000 my entrepreneurial activities. And yeah, sure there's been times because 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.640 people say balance, and I hear what you're saying. 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:44.840 I think that's important. 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:47.480 Those are the skills that if I knew at the time, 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:50.640 I may have structured my life a little bit differently. 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:54.200 Where I would go to work from seven to three. 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:56.760 My problem was I wouldn't get up early enough to 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:59.080 be out by three o'clock. I'm rolling into the office 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.400 at ten fifteen. So by the time you get there 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:04.320 ten fifteen, you gotta stay till six o'clock six fifteen 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:07.640 in order to fulfill a full day's work. But people 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:12.119 who had that early bird gets the word or the 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:14.840 late night shift and then you work on whatever your 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:19.000 passion is. That's a really smart strategy. But the idea 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:22.960 that a part of your or building your business means 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:26.360 depending on other people to bail you out, or or 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:30.160 just going broke struggling by yourself, especially in this economy, 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:31.120 it's not it's. 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:33.720 Not a good day. It's an And I can. 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:36.280 Come to this because I had this mentality at one point. 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:39.680 It was I was just never gonna work. And and 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:41.680 it's a struggle, right, And if you don't have some 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:43.960 money to invest in what you're doing, or you don't 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:47.440 you haven't built a name or a brand or something, 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.520 you have to figure out how to get financially stable. 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:52.520 And so I had to figure that out. 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:54.960 You have to say, damn, I need to Bill still 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:56.760 got to get paid. I don't care how long working 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:58.520 on my dream when I want to do these, bill 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:00.400 still got to get paid. I got to figure how 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:02.040 do I make enough money. 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:05.680 To sustain Yeah. 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:05.800 A lot of kids, don't. 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:09.240 Please don't get into that I'm not working thing, man, 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:12.400 because everything is a job, and bills are gonna come 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:12.800 every month. 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.600 Yeah they do, they come every month. I agree with you. 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:18.080 I mean, bills come every month. You can't let that 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:21.160 get into your mindset. You do have to be strong 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:24.160 enough to stick to your passion, because you can easily 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:27.040 become complacent and just be like, oh, well, the dream 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:29.960 is not working, so I'm just gonna stick with the job. 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:33.800 But sometimes you find out that maybe you are meant 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:36.120 to have a job because you might not have the 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:39.960 skill set to run a business. A lot of people 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:43.680 think running a business or running an organization. It's people 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:47.000 that do not understand the work that goes into running 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:50.360 the organization. I spent a large part of my morning 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:54.280 today Linda and me on the phone with our financial 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:57.720 advisors and our accountants and you know, all the folks 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:02.559 that handle our financial businesssiness, having a two hour conversation 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:05.080 while I was at the doctor's office, which brings me 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:07.120 in a minute to my thought of the day. But 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:10.520 I was literally in the doctor's office with the thing 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:14.280 in my ear, listening to the back and forth about 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:18.040 how our resources are being spent, where new money is 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:21.640 coming from, looking at all the different line items like. 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:23.120 This is really serious. 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:25.800 So I just say all of that to say to 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:29.439 people that we have to be You gotta especially as 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:32.959 young people, you got to have a both and strategy 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:36.760 and a lot of times going to the work on 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:40.880 the job and learning that discipline of being at work 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:46.000 at a certain time, having to fill out or submit reports, 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:50.960 having assignments, and knowing how to conduct yourself in a 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:54.800 professional space. That's important because part of the reason why 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:58.960 so many people get into business and they're not doing 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:02.959 well from a customer service perspective, they're not managing their 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:08.120 stock and all of their their the products and services 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:11.920 properly is because they have had no training. They woke 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:13.840 up one day and now they got a lip gloss 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:18.240 or a do rag or a restaurant, and they've not 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:21.920 taken the time to work with anybody else who's been 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:24.760 able to teach them those skills. Yes, you can go 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:29.040 to college and courses and you know, trade schools and 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:30.640 all of that and get some of it, but it 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:34.000 is nothing like working in a space where every single 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:37.720 day you are learning the skill set because guess what happens. 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:39.319 You can you can sit. 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:42.000 Around and read a book all day long, but when 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:44.439 that thing hits you in an angle wasn't in the book, 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:46.720 You'll be trying to figure out what the hell am 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:49.440 I supposed to do? With this, and you do need 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:52.240 good mentors to help teach you that, and the best 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.880 way is to watch it while actually while not having 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:59.800 the responsibility of fixing the problem on your owns, right 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:03.040 you know, So that's my suggestion. But you know there'll 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:05.520 be somebody in the comments who's like, oh, no, you're 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:09.000 encouraging people to go get a job instead of focusing 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:11.640 on building for self. Yeah, okay, well you know, I 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:15.440 I mean, if you teach me, most people do not 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:20.760 have the luxury of not of someone that funds your dream. 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:21.439 Right. 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:23.880 If you don't have somebody funding your dream, and you're 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:26.000 a grown man and you got kids and all that, 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:29.120 you realize every day that these bills still they don't 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:32.600 disappear because you're chasing this dream. So that's that that's 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:34.319 something that you have to learn. And a lot of 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:37.120 people don't think that. They think they listen to the 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:39.400 stories and they watch, you know. 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:42.280 How they put this person put their lip gloss online 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:43.199 and the pots, and. 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:43.719 They don't see that. 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:45.960 They don't understand that they've been a long process, like 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:47.640 a lot of artists, that people be seeing it. 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:49.600 Oh he did once in a while. 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:51.960 There's something that go overnight, But there's artists that I 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:54.600 see now that I was like, and they tell you, y'all, 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:57.080 I was doing this seven eight years ago, and I 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:59.000 was doing this like the grind that I had to 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:02.400 build to do certain things. It was a long process, 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:02.959 and people just. 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:04.960 Just over and we still grind and were. 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:07.440 Still grinding every day and we're just building up. Just 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:11.040 to build your brand takes time, you know. So I 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:14.120 just I employ everyone to get employed. 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:17.640 That was a good one. 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:22.920 Get employed, be employed. So, speaking of my thought of 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:28.360 the day, women's health. Boy, I had an experience that 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:33.200 really helps me to understand why so many people are 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:37.679 not getting the care that they need for certain illnesses. 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:40.800 And just like your checkups. 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:45.040 And keeping and making sure that you are monitoring your 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:48.000 whole body from head to toe so that if something 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:51.240 comes up, you have the ability to get in front 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:54.800 of an issue rather than to be behind. Right, I 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:58.400 see it and it happened to me because so I 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:01.920 got a mammogram this week, And for anybody who does 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:04.200 not know what a mammogram is, it is when you 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:07.920 get your breast checked for breast cancer, any tumors, or 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.480 any issues that may be happening in your breast. 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:11.520 Your lymph nodes. 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:14.679 So under your arm they give you a full scan, 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:19.600 and it is uncomfortable, very uncomfortable, but very necessary because 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:24.800 predetermination of any issue is better again than finding out later. 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:29.640 So when I first asked for the appointment, I got 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:32.880 back all the documentation, or the first thing before they 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:37.200 sent the documentation, they sent through the mychart system a 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:41.920 bill for fifty dollars, which cool, copey, I know, fifty dollars. 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:45.199 I'm used to paying that. But then a few days 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:48.719 later they sent me a bunch of documents that need 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:51.560 to be signed. If you sign those documents before you 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:55.120 get to the facility, it makes your time in the 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:57.160 waiting area reception shorter. 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:00.480 So no problem, that's a new thing that I actually like. 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:04.000 And then well, okay, let me stick with my point, 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:05.280 because you know, I was getting ready to go off 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:09.960 into something else. But and so, but embedded in this 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:15.280 message wasn't just the documents. It was another two hundred 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:21.680 dollars that I had to pay. Nah, Like, seriously, that's 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:26.400 crazy to me and I and we have great insurance 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:30.160 at until Freedom. I mean, it's expensive, but nonetheless we 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:31.440 have good insurance. 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:33.720 So I'm like, what the heck? 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:37.600 So now I'm clicking stuff, and I open up the 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.560 bill to see exactly one thing they do give you. Now, 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:44.440 back in the days, you did not know the specifics 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:45.800 of the bill, all right. 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:46.720 You had to get the. 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:50.120 Carbon copy at the facility and try to look it 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:52.200 up and read all of these weird words. 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:54.360 They don't do that no more online. 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:57.840 In the march my chart system, it clearly said the 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:04.640 appointment is fifteen hundred. They're covering thirteen and something something something. 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:05.480 And then you got your. 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:07.600 Copay and they added all this stuff up and it 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:11.200 came to a little more than what the insurance was paying, 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:12.560 which was two hundred and fifty dollars. 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:14.440 A matter of fact, that's not a little more. That's 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:15.320 a whole lot more. 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:19.280 And I'm thinking to myself, if I'm somebody who again, 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:23.600 especially in this economy, but just in general, I'm already struggling. 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:24.840 I'm making ends meet. 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:28.440 This two hundred dollars is the difference between me making 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:32.680 my rent payment and or not, or my groceries or 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:36.560 daycare or even my enjoyment whatever it is that I 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:38.680 want to do with my life. Ain't nothing wrong with 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.080 my breast. They're not hurting me, they're not feeling any 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:42.600 kind of way because you know, we get a lot 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:44.240 of ignorant things in our minds. 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:45.160 You know what I'm gonna do. 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:47.680 I'm gonna just rub around myself the way that they 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:50.160 teach you, because they do teach you at the gyanacologist 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:53.320 office that if you need to be checking, don't wait 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:55.920 for the next year. Just make sure if you feel 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:58.320 anything sore, if you feel any lumps, you need to 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:01.680 say something. So imagine somebody that knows those things. That's 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:04.880 gonna be like, I'm not paying two hundred more dollars 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:08.320 after you already paid fifty. That's two hundred and fifty 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:11.520 dollars that I paid to go get checked for something 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:14.400 that this country should be giving you for free, because 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.520 we should be making sure that people do not have 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:21.560 breast cancer and other sicknesses because that's what weighs on 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:23.040 our medical system. 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:24.239 Uh duh. 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:29.480 It's just to Once I saw that, I just started 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:31.760 to I just and I know there are all these 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:36.560 programs that give mammograms two folks for free once a year, 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:38.440 maybe even twice a year. 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.600 They have all these facilities. 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:43.360 That you can go to in programs. But your but 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:47.720 but it's I just it begs the question in this country, 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:51.960 and this is not a Democrat versus Republican or this 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:55.600 person versus that person. This is just for us as 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:58.560 a nation. What in the hell are we doing when 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:02.080 a woman has to spend two hundred and fifty dollars 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:04.720 to go get something that should just be a basic 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:08.040 right that we just want to make sure your breast 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:12.359 are good because if you get cancer there, right, and 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:15.440 understanding that black women are number one, We're number one 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:20.280 in every damn thing that is harming and killing people, right, 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:24.160 We're number one killing women. So I would just think 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:28.480 that we would want that to be a service, knowing 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:31.080 that breast cancer is something it gets in your body 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:33.880 and it can spread, and it really kills so. 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:36.399 Many women, like so many people. 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:38.960 Why the hell are people paying two hundred and fifty 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:41.320 dollars to get their breast checked it? 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:46.440 It is a microcosm of what's going wrong with America 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:49.080 right now, right when we look at just the political 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:53.240 stance and we look at just how everything and what 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:55.480 we should be focusing on is health, right, like that 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:58.720 should be the main thing. It's no way that people 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:02.040 should have to pay to be healthy. There's no way 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:04.480 people should have to pay to be educated, right, And 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:07.280 America is supposed to be this great place, and we 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:10.560 have people here that tell us that that shouldn't be a. 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:11.119 Luxury, right. 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:14.280 That the outside of America, people have free. 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:16.440 Health care, some of them, someplace, some places. 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:18.800 I'm saying I'm not saying everywhere, but there are places 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:21.840 in the world where people have free health care and 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:24.479 they have free education, and those should be things that 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:26.920 if we want of the greatest nations in the world, 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:29.280 why would we not want to make sure that everyone 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:30.720 is healthy and everyone is. 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:34.640 Educated, right, and the facilities that they have in other 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:41.080 nations where there is free health care, the places are 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:43.040 not shithold no where. 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:45.120 When you go there, you know. 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:49.320 People talking to you crazy, and the place is half dirty, 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:53.600 and you know it's it's unkept. I just don't I 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:57.560 don't know. America just needs a whole reset because I 0:18:57.600 --> 0:19:00.119 didn't pay two hundred and fifty dollars last year, so 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:02.040 I don't know, and I don't want to speculate because 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:05.320 I haven't had time to do some research on why 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:08.320 this is now a cost. I paid fifty dollars copay 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:11.399 last year. Now I'm up to two hundred and fifty dollars. 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:13.600 I need somebody to explain to me. But what I 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:18.480 was going to say, in addition, is that one thing 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:22.119 about my chart that I appreciate this time is that 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:26.359 I was able to read all of those consent forms 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:30.399 that when you are sitting in the doctor's office and 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:32.199 you got to hurry up because you're trying to go 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:35.040