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Speaker 1: You know, one of the most chilling parts of this

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Speaker 2: You have to have like judgment enough to say, let

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Speaker 3: And I always I find it funny because like, these

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Speaker 4: We'll be on the internet distressed and stuff.

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Speaker 3: And I'm like, and they're the same ones now who

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Speaker 1: Be a fam Welcome to brown Ambition. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Nelly s Finale aka must be Helpful. Hey, guys, Hey,

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Speaker 1: how's your summer's going. It's hot. It's hot.

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Speaker 2: It is I feel like I've been traveling NonStop, but

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Speaker 1: And you're really getting a toward day, towards a climate

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Speaker 1: change is what it feels like. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: That's the worst of it. I'll take it. I'll take

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Speaker 1: brother breaking news. Have y'all heard? You know, what's the

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Speaker 1: older brother from the Cosby Show? The actor what's his name? Malcolm? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. My brother just texted that he passed away.

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Speaker 5: No, he's fifty four years old.

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Speaker 3: I was just talking to a friend about one of

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Speaker 5: He died of an apparent accident till drowning.

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Speaker 2: It was named after a woman named Philippa Skuyler who

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Speaker 1: The COSMU show is everything. And I know that Bill

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Speaker 2: I was the one who was up late my mom

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Speaker 5: A different world. I watched all the late night.

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Speaker 1: And go Wader, How did you hide the sound?

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Speaker 1: They wouldn't even know.

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Speaker 3: That's how you do. That's how I watched all of

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Speaker 4: You're awake. That's right.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's so sad. Condolence sister, his family. I don't

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Speaker 1: I forgot about that show. You were thinking of Eddie Griffin.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, Malcolm and Eddie. That was ninety six

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Speaker 4: Everything with fire. Everything's on fire.

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Speaker 1: That's great, literally a dumpster fire. Literally. They were like, hmm,

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Speaker 1: A flaming hot pile of garbage. No, but literally a

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Speaker 5: There's so much to choose for put it all in there.

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Speaker 1: The sad thing is this is not even exaggeration. They

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Speaker 1: anything else in our dumpster fire, you guys, we have to.

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Speaker 1: We got to stop it somewhere. But just some of

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Speaker 1: It's hard because when you're living it, it feels like,

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Speaker 1: why do we want to belabor these points? And just

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Speaker 1: and you know all that, and it's it's helpful in

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Speaker 1: that way. You know. One of the most chilling parts

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Speaker 1: of this report is like the focus on misinformation and censorship,

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Speaker 1: digital censorship, misinformation, how they undermine democracy, the surge and

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Speaker 1: right wing extremist language. You know, Trump has his own

441
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Speaker 1: social media platform. Now, who knows what the hell he gets.

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Speaker 1: I mean, some people are over there apparently, because I

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Speaker 1: saw a headline about how he used an AI generated

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Speaker 1: clip of Obama being taken away in handcuffs and just

445
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Speaker 1: posted that on his his his true social account. And

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Speaker 1: the more conservative our social media platforms get, y'all saw

447
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Speaker 1: all those tech executives social media saw Zuckerberg, you know, now,

448
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Speaker 1: we got Elan, we got Musk, you know, overseeing Twitter now.

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Speaker 1: So the more conservative these channels get, will they start

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Speaker 1: to suppress progressive voices progressive accounts? And I mean shit,

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Speaker 1: I was on YouTube earlier and it was the most

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Speaker 1: convincing AI. I almost believed for a second that Oprah

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Speaker 1: Winfrey was sch was like a shilling for Himalayan pink salt.

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Speaker 1: She was like, hey, guys, like you heard about the

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Speaker 1: Himalayan pink salt diet. I'm like, what is this? I

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Speaker 1: was like, wait a second. I had to look so carefully.

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Speaker 1: It was honestly, it looks so real that I just

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Speaker 1: if I hadn't already intellectually known that this has been

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Speaker 1: happening to celebrities, including like Gail King her friend, and

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Speaker 1: I was like, this can't be right. But it's so

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Speaker 1: hard to trust everything.

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Speaker 2: I know. You have to have like judgment enough to say,

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Speaker 2: let me look up whether this is true or not.

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Speaker 2: And a lot of people don't. Let's be real.

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Speaker 3: Oh there's so many people would just see stuff and

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Speaker 3: be like oh okay. And it's like you can if

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Speaker 3: you looked at it, you could tell it's fake. But

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Speaker 3: like you said, Mandy, it's getting harder and harder. You

469
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Speaker 3: really have to be skeptical. And I always I find

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Speaker 3: it funny because like my parent not my parents are

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Speaker 3: not too bad because my dad barely knows how to

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Speaker 3: use the internet. But my friends, their parents, they'll be

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Speaker 3: like believing stuff is sending it to them and they're like,

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Speaker 3: what are you talking about?

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Speaker 4: This is fake?

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Speaker 3: And I'm like, these are the same people growing up

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Speaker 3: who are like, don't believe everything you see. Yeah, I'll

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Speaker 3: be on the internet distrusted and stuff, and I'm like,

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Speaker 3: and they're the same ones now who are just yeah,

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Speaker 3: everything's real And it's oh.

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Speaker 1: My god, the number of like ridiculous YouTube videos. My

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Speaker 1: dad sent me about how Beyonce is like is demonic

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Speaker 1: and satanic. I'm here in jay Z this man. Ah,

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Speaker 1: He's like, just watch y'all. Don't y'all won't be watching

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Speaker 1: what I'd be sending you. I'm like, Dad, if I

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Speaker 1: see it's from Facebook, I'm not click. The reason why

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Speaker 1: we don't watch it.

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Speaker 4: It's probably like forty five minutes too.

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Speaker 1: Oh Lord, only talk about the decline obviously. In DEI,

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Speaker 1: I was looking, I'm going, I'm gonna be speaking at

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Speaker 1: an event this week, and one of the panelists I

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Speaker 1: know used to be the head of DEI for a

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Speaker 1: big media brand and now her title is just Inclusion Officer. Okay,

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Speaker 1: which is interesting. I guess inclusion's fine.

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Speaker 5: Including everybody, but that's just that's literally what EI means.

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Speaker 5: But okay, exactly, but okay.

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Speaker 1: Well, there is some there are some bright spots in this.

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Speaker 1: They talk about there's been a five percent increase in

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Speaker 1: voter participation in states that have implemented same day voter registration.

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Speaker 1: So they're basically laying out like, if we want more,

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Speaker 1: we want our voices to be heard, we have to

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Speaker 1: we have to focus on yeahs such a good message.

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Speaker 1: We have to focus on voter engagement. So how do

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Speaker 1: we actually get more people to the polls? I know

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Speaker 1: when I had Mickey Kendall on the show a few

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Speaker 1: months back, a couple months back now, she's the author

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Speaker 1: of Hood Feminism, and she's like a scholar and very

508
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Speaker 1: like exceptionally intelligent woman, and she she was theorizing that

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Speaker 1: it wasn't that Black America didn't vote for voted for Trump.

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Speaker 1: It was a lot of people voted for Trump. It

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Speaker 1: was that a lot of people didn't vote period. And

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Speaker 1: being able to increase access to the polls, if we

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Speaker 1: could make it as easy to vote in elections as

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Speaker 1: we did to vote for Nicolandria, Like you saw what

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Speaker 1: Nicolandra and Nation did for Nick and Landriy, y'all saw

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Speaker 1: what we did for them, right, Like we need apps,

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Speaker 1: we need there's the technology is there? That's the sad part,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's you know, our our lawmakers do they

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Speaker 1: have an appetite, and do they have the will? Do

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Speaker 1: they have the fire?

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Speaker 5: The fire tax is so easy, but you can't vote

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Speaker 5: as easily.

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Speaker 1: Make it makes sense.

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Speaker 3: They could be holiday on top of that, Like that's

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Speaker 3: that's just never something that they've done.

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Speaker 1: There, Work's the simplest damn thing, exactly. Thank you for that.

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Speaker 1: Every major voting holiday should be every major voting national election.

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Speaker 1: I would even argue, like at your state level, like

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Speaker 1: mayor mayor mayoral races and gubernatorial races, because local politics

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Speaker 1: is so much more important now.

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Speaker 2: Yes, at the very least a half day, a mandatory

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Speaker 2: half day, like, come on.

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Speaker 4: It would be It would be nothing to make that

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Speaker 4: a thing.

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Speaker 1: But no. So they also say seventy one percent of

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Speaker 1: those who registered online turned out to vote, compared to

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Speaker 1: forty eight percent and fifty two percent of those who

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Speaker 1: registered by mail or through a state state agency. So

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Speaker 1: seventy one percent of those who registered online. So if

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Speaker 1: we could just do more online registrations, we can get

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Speaker 1: more votes out. Twenty two million registered voters could be

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Speaker 1: added to state voter roles in the first year. If

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Speaker 1: every state were to today implement automatic voter registration. We

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Speaker 1: just need like a million on ellies out there saying,

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Speaker 1: like lobbying for these types of changes.

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Speaker 2: And the thing is, it's not that difficult when it

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Speaker 2: comes to the local level, because generally speaking, lawmakers are

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Speaker 2: afraid to not get reelected if their constituents are sending

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Speaker 2: them emails and giving them phone calls saying this needs

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Speaker 2: to happen. So as long as at the local level,

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Speaker 2: you kind of you know, create that like local effect.

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Speaker 2: It's much harder to change things nationally. So I really

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Speaker 2: do feel like there's so much hope hearing that this

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Speaker 2: is at the local level because that is so much

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Speaker 2: easier to address and trying to get federal mandates.

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Speaker 1: That's right. It all comes down to these local elected

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Speaker 1: officials and the decisions they're making for day to day

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Speaker 1: survival versus long term democracy. Like and it's it's quite sad.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I truly do not understand why. Why

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Speaker 2: is same day voter registration not like who who would

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Speaker 2: argue against that? And why what is the argument against

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Speaker 2: same day voter registration? Please make it make sense. The

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Speaker 2: fact that if I can, if I can wake up

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Speaker 2: today and go sign up for the army, why can't

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Speaker 2: I wake up today and go sign up to vote.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't matter that the election is today, It doesn't matter,

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Speaker 2: Like I truly cannot understand what.

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Speaker 5: The argument against it is, because somebody can make it

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Speaker 5: make sense. Please please, they're so good at tracking. Also,

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Speaker 5: like they're so good at tracking when someone turns eighteen,

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Speaker 5: so you can get that, you know, get that, get

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Speaker 5: that check from them for their taxes, and or even

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Speaker 5: before that, when someone's working, you know, when someone's fifteen sixteen,

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Speaker 5: I was having taxes taken out of my you know,

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Speaker 5: my paychecks, and I didn't even know I could get

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Speaker 5: a refund.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, the IRIS is so good about tracking that.

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Speaker 1: Why the hell can't you automatically get a voter registration? Like,

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Speaker 1: why can't you be automatically registered to vote the minute

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Speaker 1: you turn eighteen? It's complete nonsense. It should just be

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Speaker 1: like here's your voter registration. You don't even need a card,

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Speaker 1: but like here's your card, here's your whatever acknowledgment.

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Speaker 2: You're a voter, and they're not taking your choice from

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Speaker 2: you because ultimately the choice to go to decide to

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Speaker 2: get up and go actually vote at a polling place,

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Speaker 2: that's still ultimately your choice. But you're registered, so that you,

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Speaker 2: so you can go like I just don't again, make it.

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Speaker 4: Make sense exactly.

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Speaker 3: I mean, when I turned eighteen, I got one of

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Speaker 3: those what the registration cards for the like the draft

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Speaker 3: registration cards. When I turned eighteen. I didn't feel out

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Speaker 3: a thing, and I think should but they sent to teams.

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Speaker 5: They sent it to you.

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Speaker 1: There you go. Well, we got to also take a

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Speaker 1: moment to just shout out the organization and the representatives

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Speaker 1: who actually are fighting back against all these policy changes,

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Speaker 1: these laws. So NAACP, if you're looking for organization to donate,

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Speaker 1: to become a recurring donor to, I would say NAACP,

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Speaker 1: the a c l U American Civil Civil Liberties Union. Yes. So,

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Speaker 1: NAACP has a lawsuit working its way through the courts

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Speaker 1: right now challenging the defunding and dismantling of the Department

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Speaker 1: of Education. The National Urban League National Urban League itself

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Speaker 1: has sued the Trump administration to challenge executive orders to

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Speaker 1: terminate DEI programs as well as like grants and contracts

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Speaker 1: tied to equity related purposes. So there are also the

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Speaker 1: US or sorry, state's attorneys general. State attorneys general? Which

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Speaker 1: one do you make? Plural attorneys things state attorneys general.

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Speaker 1: I went to a really amazing event that had Tiss

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Speaker 1: James and four other state attorneys general. Why is that

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Speaker 1: so hard from other states? And they were literally on

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Speaker 1: tour to talk about the way that they are trying

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Speaker 1: to protect people civil rights, you know, at the at

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Speaker 1: the state level, and you know they're doing extraordinary work

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Speaker 1: as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's all important because a lot of us are

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Speaker 2: too quick to talk about what is being done to

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Speaker 2: dismantle democracy, but not many of us are aware of

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Speaker 2: what's being done to fight back against that. And I

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Speaker 2: think that they're equally important to talk about. They should

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Speaker 2: be discussed in tandem every time you fix them off

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Speaker 2: to say, oh, and they're coming for the Department of Bay,

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Speaker 2: but also, here's how we're fighting back against that, because

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Speaker 2: otherwise we're spewing the narrative that this is all falling

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Speaker 2: apart and that nobody is fighting up back against it,

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Speaker 2: and that's just not true.

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Speaker 3: Oh I was gonna say, yeah, I A because like,

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Speaker 3: I feel like you don't get those pieces of news together.

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Speaker 3: And so for me when I'm reading the news, you know,

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Speaker 3: you just it caused you, I think, to spiral out because.

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Speaker 4: It feels so hopeless that.

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Speaker 3: You don't normally get both sides simultaneously. It's like maybe

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Speaker 3: a few days later you might hopefully come across something

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Speaker 3: that makes you feel more hopeful about the situation.

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Speaker 1: Yep, yep.

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Speaker 2: That's why journalism is so important, you know, events like NABJ.

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Speaker 2: I just went to NAHJ National Associates for Hispanic Journalists

637
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Speaker 2: last two weeks ago in Chicago. It was amazing, it

638
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Speaker 2: was so incredible. I got to attend two of the

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Speaker 2: sessions before I had to fly to Puerto Rico, CAA's

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Speaker 2: I had a bachelorette and a concert to go to.

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Speaker 1: But it was a brand, very on brand.

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Speaker 2: But I did sit for a panel just where we

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Speaker 2: I was a panelist where we just talked about like

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Speaker 2: what every journalist needs to know about their own personal finances.

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Speaker 2: And that was Yeah, that was put together by CNBC.

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Speaker 2: Sharon Eperson at CNBC. She's incredible, the senior corespondent.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I love my Sharon. Amazing, She's coming on the

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Speaker 1: show next week. It's amazing.

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Speaker 5: Place are I said, Hey, I love her. So I

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Speaker 5: saw her in Chicago.

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Speaker 2: And what I'll tell you after that session was over,

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Speaker 2: it was like the lunch session ended, we did that panel,

653
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Speaker 2: and then I walked into the hallway. There was a

654
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Speaker 2: line of people lining up to talk to us, to

655
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:16,160
Speaker 2: the panelists, and every single person that I spoke with said,

656
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 2: this was the best session. I've been coming to these

657
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 2: events for a decade and I have yet to sit

658
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 2: through a session that focused on what I can do

659
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 2: for my personal financial situation given the journalism industry and

660
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 2: how tough it is because oftentimes you'll say, oh, pick

661
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 2: up a side hustle, but if you're a journalist, you can't.

662
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 2: You know, you're literally pouring your sweat, blood and tears

663
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 2: into these stories where you don't have time to go

664
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 2: pick up side gigs in side hustles, and so a

665
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:42,120
Speaker 2: lot of the tracks and.

666
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 1: You're prevented by your contract typically and a lot of

667
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:48,959
Speaker 1: times your contract, right, So you have these traditional financial

668
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 1: tips and tricks that don't work for journalists a lot

669
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Speaker 1: of times.

670
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Speaker 2: And so we kind of addressed that, and we talked

671
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Speaker 2: about that, and I think just in general, the importance

672
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Speaker 2: of like journalistic work that is truly a unbiased and

673
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 2: be like Chris to your point, really sharing both sides,

674
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 2: both sides of any like give it, you know, give

675
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 2: the perspective and then immediately share. And that takes a

676
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 2: lot of research. It takes digging and really caring intimately

677
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 2: about what you're reporting on. And I feel like that's

678
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Speaker 2: why journalism is so social critical today, even more than before.

679
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:22,000
Speaker 2: I feel like we've always elevated journalistic work, of course,

680
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 2: knowing that it's important, but in the climate that we're

681
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:27,320
Speaker 2: in now, it's even more important. I would argue, M

682
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 2: I agree, And.

683
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Speaker 1: Then sister friend, all right, well, let's leave this dumpster

684
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Speaker 1: fire report to the side. Be a fam you could.

685
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 1: You could find it in the show notes bookmarket, share

686
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 1: it with your families, just let them know that we're

687
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:43,719
Speaker 1: I love that we have like a document. I mean,

688
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:46,239
Speaker 1: there's so much content out there. Sometimes just having an

689
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 1: on plane English on a piece of paper or a

690
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 1: PDF is helpful. I just want to my to my

691
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 1: son's future history teachers, like be prepared to be sick

692
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 1: of me. I will be fact checking everything you sent home.

693
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 1: I will be asking about field trips and supplemental readings.

694
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Speaker 1: And I feel like any school where the pe coach

695
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 1: is the history teacher is like a hard no for me.

696
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Speaker 1: They will not be attending.

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Speaker 5: No, thank you just underfunded, baby, but come on, we

698
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 5: got to do better.

699
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Speaker 1: Yes, all right, Well moving along, I wanted some happy news.

700
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:20,880
Speaker 1: Is JP Morgan chases out with a new report that shows, finally, Americans,

701
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 1: we are getting the picture. We're getting the memo about investing,

702
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 1: and more and more households are starting to shift their

703
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:35,200
Speaker 1: money out of checking and regular savings accounts into investment accounts.

704
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 1: Fighting Meanwhile, my dad's like, how much money do I

705
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 1: have in Vanguard? Can I get some of that? I'm like,

706
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Speaker 1: you better stop listen.

707
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Speaker 2: We a while back during the pandemic, my parents my

708
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 2: dad had just turned sixty five, No, my dad had

709
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 2: just turned seventy, my mom had just turned sixty five,

710
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 2: and we're working with them to just try to like

711
00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 2: shift into like the retirement mindset. And we just had

712
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 2: to put structures in place, systems in place, because it's

713
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Speaker 2: just so First of all, the system is so difficult.

714
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Speaker 2: Like my parents don't speak English, they didn't have bank accounts.

715
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:13,279
Speaker 2: They've always been cash only, immigrant lifestyle. And so I

716
00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 2: first had to tell them that you cannot claim your

717
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 2: Social Security benefits with a paper check in the mail anymore.

718
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 2: And they thought that they could just fill out some

719
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Speaker 2: application and start getting a check in the mail and

720
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Speaker 2: take it to the check cashing place, and I'm like, no,

721
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:28,440
Speaker 2: In case you did not know, the Social Security Administration

722
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:31,279
Speaker 2: does not issue paper checks anymore. That stopped happening like

723
00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:34,239
Speaker 2: back in twenty sixteen. So the only way you can

724
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:36,879
Speaker 2: claim your benefits is if you have a online bank.

725
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:38,359
Speaker 2: If you have a bank account that you can link

726
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 2: it online through your Social Security portal. And then they

727
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:44,359
Speaker 2: direct deposited every month. So we had to open bank

728
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 2: accounts for them both, which they had never done. And

729
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:48,239
Speaker 2: then it was COVID, so we couldn't go in person

730
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Speaker 2: to the banks. So I had to search and find

731
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 2: online banks that would allow me to open accounts for

732
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,840
Speaker 2: my parents or with my parents, And the language barrier was.

733
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Speaker 5: An issue, and it was truly I'm talking.

734
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:01,759
Speaker 2: About jumping through hoops and so and now we have

735
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 2: a whole system that works. But thank goodness, at that time,

736
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 2: I convinced my family, my siblings to start saving and

737
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Speaker 2: investing so that in five ten years anytime, my parents

738
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 2: couldn't make, you know, make the difference of their medical

739
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,279
Speaker 2: costs or you know, make the difference for bills that

740
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,439
Speaker 2: we would pull from the savings and investments accounts and

741
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:21,759
Speaker 2: like you know, make up the difference for them. And

742
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 2: now you know, we're starting to see that that coming

743
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 2: to fruition, that like the little bit of like the

744
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:30,279
Speaker 2: fruit from those seedlings that we planted all those years ago,

745
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 2: where like my parents will say, oh, we want to

746
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 2: do this, we want to do that, and I'll be like,

747
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:33,920
Speaker 2: don't worry about it.

748
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Speaker 1: We have it.

749
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 2: We have it in savings, we have it in investments.

750
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Speaker 2: So I'm I'm floored, Like this is amazing to hear

751
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 2: people are starting to shift, even if it's just small percentages,

752
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:45,280
Speaker 2: because it starts to become part of the national conversation,

753
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 2: get national attention and headlines and news pieces and TikTok

754
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:51,920
Speaker 2: you know content where we just start to recognize how

755
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 2: important it is. That being said, I feel like a

756
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:57,719
Speaker 2: lot of these traditional institutions JP Morgan, Chase, all these institutions,

757
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:00,120
Speaker 2: City Bank, Bank of America, Wells Fargo. They love to

758
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 2: put out these reports, but where are the high savings accounts?

759
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:06,720
Speaker 2: They don't offer them, right, They only offer traditional savings

760
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 2: because their banking institutions benefit from giving the super super

761
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 2: lowest possible interest rates they can on savings and yet

762
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 2: maximizing by charging super high interest rates when they borrow

763
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 2: when we borrow money from them to loans. So I yes,

764
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Speaker 2: I love the data. I love the reports. I'm gonna

765
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 2: need y'all to back it up with some action and

766
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 2: shift to a model of there's no such thing as

767
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 2: a traditional savings account anymore.

768
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Speaker 5: It's a thing of the past. It's a relic, it's

769
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:31,360
Speaker 5: a fossil. And now we literally only have Higo savs

770
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Speaker 5: accounts or investment accounts and checking accounts and that's it.

771
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're getting away with it no matter what they

772
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:43,319
Speaker 1: can do. Let me open up. I'm trying to find

773
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:46,920
Speaker 1: an article that's not Dann Paywild. I'm sorry, US News.

774
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:51,759
Speaker 1: I'm not all these I'm like, if the Associated Press,

775
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 1: where is it?

776
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Speaker 4: All? Right?

777
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:56,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, so JP. But the thing about Chase is at

778
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:58,399
Speaker 1: least they have the data, right, So they have four

779
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 1: points seven million households, you especially at a time when

780
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 1: inflation it's under control. But it's just really good. I

781
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 1: mean under control, but it's really it's good to see

782
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 1: that at least we are trending in the right direction.

783
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to find out if they have any information

784
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:17,840
Speaker 1: broken down by race, because y'all know, we believe in

785
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 1: ourselves behind.

786
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a really good one a few years

787
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 2: ago from Aerial Investments under Melody Hobson's leadership, and they

788
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 2: talked a lot about how during the pandemic in twenty

789
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:31,919
Speaker 2: twenty and twenty twenty one particularly, there was a huge

790
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:35,239
Speaker 2: uptaking black investors, and in particular young black investors. So

791
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 2: gen Z millennial investors who were black were pouring money

792
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 2: into the markets. And granted, some of it was for

793
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:43,720
Speaker 2: the wrong reasons because they were chasing some hot stocks

794
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 2: and mean stocks and all that, but the point is

795
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 2: just the fact that they were creating investment accounts is

796
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 2: a huge thing to celebrate.

797
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 5: But yeah, I'm curious to see that demographic breakdown too.

798
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Speaker 1: Wow, stay stand stand by, because it ain't here they did.

799
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 1: We'll circle back to that, all right, Moving right along?

800
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 1: What else is going on?

801
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:06,400
Speaker 4: Oh this?

802
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:12,400
Speaker 1: I have so much hate and disdain for organizations that

803
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 1: try to control what you do in your whole, your

804
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:17,160
Speaker 1: own damn house. And when I saw this headline, the

805
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 1: rage that boiled in my veins. Y'all. Poor this poor

806
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:22,960
Speaker 1: woman me open this up. I think she was in

807
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 1: Atlanta there was a woman, a black woman, who because

808
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 1: she got into a spat with her homeowners association over

809
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:34,360
Speaker 1: a patch of brown grass in her own God damn yard.

810
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:38,840
Speaker 1: I cannot spent a week in jail, a week in

811
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Speaker 1: jail over that dispute. Yes, her name is Irena Green,

812
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,920
Speaker 1: she said, the dispute between her and the homeowners association. Oh,

813
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 1: she lives in Tampa. Okay, y'a, elly, watch out. I

814
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:55,360
Speaker 1: know you don't own a house right in Florida. Do

815
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Speaker 1: y'all have a drought? Or what's going on? A patch

816
00:38:57,440 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 1: of brown grass in the summer?

817
00:38:59,239 --> 00:38:59,479
Speaker 3: Girl?

818
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 1: Just right now, you don't not real grass. I don't understand.

819
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Speaker 4: It is air like water anyways in Florida. How has

820
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:07,919
Speaker 4: anything bad?

821
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 1: It just gets so high it drives up quick. I

822
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 1: don't look look. Yeah, so, Green said, she attributed the

823
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Speaker 1: condition of her grass to a drought, all right, and

824
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Speaker 1: they had also she lived in a place where they

825
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:26,399
Speaker 1: had mandatory county wide watering restrictions, and that her yard

826
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Speaker 1: was not the only one that had that had brown grass.

827
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Speaker 1: They also cited her for mildew on her mailbox, a

828
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 1: dent in her garage. So who the hell is out

829
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 1: there with your magnifying glass, I'm saying, And also, why

830
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:41,960
Speaker 1: does that bother you?

831
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Speaker 2: Well, because look, she was not the only one with

832
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 2: brown grass in front her house, but she was the

833
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:47,759
Speaker 2: only one with brown people inside the house.

834
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Speaker 5: Let's call it what it is.

835
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Speaker 2: Let's call it what it is, right, the fact that

836
00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:53,319
Speaker 2: other people had the same issues as her, but she

837
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:55,799
Speaker 2: was the one being singled out. You know, I really

838
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 2: hope she can get a civil rights attorney or somebody

839
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,279
Speaker 2: on her kid, because this is just getting ridicul this

840
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 2: there was a I mean, this is also like horrible, horrible.

841
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:06,359
Speaker 2: But there was another story that I saw like early

842
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:09,239
Speaker 2: two days ago from Florida as well, which was a

843
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 2: Jacksonville man who was stopped by the police. His name

844
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 2: is William McNeil. He's twenty two years old. Stopped by

845
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:16,920
Speaker 2: the police in Jacksonville. Stopped him talk about how he

846
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 2: was supposed to have his lights on because of inclement weather.

847
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:21,759
Speaker 2: It wasn't rainy, it wasn't foggy, it was four pm

848
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Speaker 2: in the afternoon.

849
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 5: What do you mean an officer? So he was asking

850
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 5: them to show him what law?

851
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:25,840
Speaker 1: What are you talking about?

852
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 5: Like, I don't think I have any reason for you

853
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:28,480
Speaker 5: to stop me.

854
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 2: So they were like, get out the car and get

855
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:30,960
Speaker 2: out the car, and he was like, what can you

856
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:31,920
Speaker 2: call your supervisor?

857
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:36,240
Speaker 5: They broke his window, punched him in the face, opened

858
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:39,360
Speaker 5: his door, took off his seat belt, threw him to

859
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:39,840
Speaker 5: the ground.

860
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Speaker 2: He had to get stitch nine stitches on his face

861
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:44,920
Speaker 2: because his tooth went threw his upper lip. He had

862
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 2: and he had he suffered a concussion and short term

863
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:50,359
Speaker 2: memory lost. This man, it has been put through it

864
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 2: and it's it's July. It's late July. Okay, it's about

865
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:56,200
Speaker 2: to be August. Damn near August of twenty twenty five.

866
00:40:56,239 --> 00:41:00,279
Speaker 2: And this happened in February of twenty twenty five, Like

867
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 2: all of these months go by.

868
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Speaker 5: So we hear stories like this and you're.

869
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 2: Like, come on, can we how can we act like

870
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:09,400
Speaker 2: it's not the fact that these folks are black and brown?

871
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:11,799
Speaker 5: Like I'm at the point where, especially in Florida, we

872
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 5: see so much of these stories and they just they

873
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:15,880
Speaker 5: get brushed up under the rug, they get hidden.

874
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:18,920
Speaker 2: And the crazy thing about that story with William McNeil

875
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 2: was that when you look at the report or the

876
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:23,240
Speaker 2: details about what the police officer wrote in the report,

877
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 2: oh a whole bunch of lies, a whole bunch of

878
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:28,800
Speaker 2: lies talking about the man wasn't wearing his seat belt.

879
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 2: But when you look at his video, he took off

880
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 2: his seat belt to get him out the car.

881
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:34,319
Speaker 5: So, sir, make it make sense.

882
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:36,719
Speaker 1: How did he not even though you know, good and

883
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:38,480
Speaker 1: god damn well, you have a body cam on just

884
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 1: they don't care care.

885
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:42,480
Speaker 5: Hasn't even been released yet.

886
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:45,840
Speaker 2: I'm talking about a cell phone video that William posted

887
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:49,320
Speaker 2: on his social media that Barrau has over two million views,

888
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:49,040
Speaker 2: that he.

889
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 1: Was being arrested, but he managed to take video.

890
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 2: He managed to have his phone on the dash and

891
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:55,720
Speaker 2: he just pressed record. Then goodness that he did, because

892
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:58,840
Speaker 2: you can see the interaction and how ridiculously facet escalated

893
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:02,600
Speaker 2: for no ass reason. And yeah, it was just so ridiculous.

894
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:04,600
Speaker 2: And I just feel like you keep hearing these stories

895
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:07,240
Speaker 2: and coming out of Florida in particular. This is probably

896
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 2: like the third or fourth one that I've heard in

897
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 2: just the past two weeks where it's black families, young

898
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 2: black men, and the officers happened to be the complete opposite,

899
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:20,279
Speaker 2: you know, middle aged white men, and you just like

900
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:22,920
Speaker 2: it just so heartbreaking and granted, this woman. Thank goodness

901
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 2: that she didn't have to deal with, you know, police

902
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,759
Speaker 2: brutality in this specific situation. But the fact that I

903
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:29,799
Speaker 2: read the article is, say she was driving home from

904
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 2: picking up her daughter from cheerleading practice, and the cops

905
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:34,799
Speaker 2: stopped her vehicle and said, did you know that there's

906
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 2: a worn out for your arrest through her in jail?

907
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:39,439
Speaker 2: No bail, no bound, no opportunity for her to come

908
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:41,440
Speaker 2: out and go home to her family until they figured

909
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:43,279
Speaker 2: it out. Nope, she had to sit there in jail

910
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:46,120
Speaker 2: for seven days. And then the judge who was assigned

911
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:49,279
Speaker 2: to her case was like, she needs to go home.

912
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:51,879
Speaker 2: She's been sitting here for seven days in jail over

913
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:54,680
Speaker 2: some patch of brown grass. And then goodness that the

914
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 2: judge she got assign the second judge she got assigned

915
00:42:57,120 --> 00:42:59,719
Speaker 2: and pushed for her to go home because they were

916
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:02,680
Speaker 2: trying to keep her in jail because of this stupid

917
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 2: patch of brown grass and because of the lack of compliance.

918
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:10,440
Speaker 2: Mind you, she specifically said multiple other residences in the

919
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:14,400
Speaker 2: same HOA had similar, if not the exact same issue,

920
00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:15,720
Speaker 2: and they weren't sitting in jail.

921
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:21,440
Speaker 1: The level of stress that I mean, I think we

922
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:23,319
Speaker 1: make a lot of I mean, it's funny to like

923
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 1: to talk about or I guess you have to laugh

924
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:28,120
Speaker 1: at some things, but it's like we make a joke

925
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 1: out of how type A, how aggressive, how insane type

926
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 1: these hoas can be, but the amount of mental strain

927
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:39,239
Speaker 1: it puts on you to not even feel safe in

928
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:42,000
Speaker 1: your own goddamn home that you paid for. Like my

929
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 1: brother has dealt with a really aggressive HOA. One of

930
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:49,000
Speaker 1: my mandy moneymakers couldn't even like had to tell me

931
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:52,640
Speaker 1: she couldn't participate in my coaching program because she has

932
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 1: a neighbor who is aggressively trying to ruin her life,

933
00:43:57,320 --> 00:43:59,880
Speaker 1: who's on and is like and is causing all this

934
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 1: alma for her within her HOA, and like it is

935
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:08,360
Speaker 1: it's it's sad. Those people should be put in jail.

936
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 1: Like I had read yan Ellie that her attorney like,

937
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:14,920
Speaker 1: that's sorry. The hoa's attorney showed up in court and

938
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 1: they're like, no, she needs to stay here.

939
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:19,440
Speaker 5: Yes, okay, that's what we're going to get water, Like

940
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:20,360
Speaker 5: this is bullshit.

941
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 2: Thank goodness that she had a fair judge who was like, oh,

942
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:25,840
Speaker 2: that don't make no damn sense, right, But let it

943
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 2: have been a judge who was like, yeah, okay, yep,

944
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:29,879
Speaker 2: this this administration from the HOA says this, I'm gonna

945
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:32,920
Speaker 2: go ahead and grant that, like thank goodness for her right.

946
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:34,759
Speaker 1: And she was like, what if you're having a hard

947
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:36,680
Speaker 1: time and you can't afford a landscape or you can

948
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:39,239
Speaker 1: or you're disabled all of a sudden and you can't

949
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:41,319
Speaker 1: get out there and water like you used to, Like yep,

950
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:43,880
Speaker 1: so what you're just gonna like these violations are like

951
00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 1: they're inhumane to a certain extent. Whatever happened to like

952
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 1: rolling up your sleeves and going to help your neighbor. Oh,

953
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:51,239
Speaker 1: I pay into this.

954
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 2: H wait, you pay all this money in hi way

955
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:56,399
Speaker 2: fat parts. They can't come around and take a little

956
00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:58,480
Speaker 2: pot of that when and say, hey, if ever there's

957
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:00,920
Speaker 2: a hardship for the sake of us all having you know,

958
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:03,200
Speaker 2: the same beautiful front of our homes, we're gonna come

959
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:04,680
Speaker 2: and create a little hardship fund.

960
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:07,120
Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, We're gonna put you in jail.

961
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 1: I can't.

962
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:11,440
Speaker 2: This is why I don't own no damn property. This

963
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:13,800
Speaker 2: is why I do not own property, especially not in Florida.

964
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:16,440
Speaker 1: But I can't. I don't have an HLA but I

965
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 1: do have really nosy neighbors who will report your ass

966
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:21,320
Speaker 1: if your grass is too high. I can't.

967
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:23,839
Speaker 2: You know Chris's point earlier about how like when you

968
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 2: don't go outside for a long time, you don't see

969
00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 2: other people, you don't talk to people, it's really hard.

970
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:30,920
Speaker 2: That's another reason that has kind of like dissuaded me

971
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:32,759
Speaker 2: from buying a home or from living in a home,

972
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:35,560
Speaker 2: because right now I live in an apartment complex where

973
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:37,759
Speaker 2: like the moment I step outside onto my patio, there's

974
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:39,400
Speaker 2: a bunch of people, There's kids running to them from

975
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:42,640
Speaker 2: the pool, there's families, there's people barbecuing, and that like

976
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 2: environment is just so important for me to just keep

977
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:47,759
Speaker 2: my energy up, to stay socializing, to just you know,

978
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:48,759
Speaker 2: meet greet people when.

979
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 5: I come out.

980
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 2: Imagine, you know, you're in a house, you're already dealing

981
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 2: with who knows what, so many things going on personally freshman,

982
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:57,880
Speaker 2: who knows. I mean, we're in a really bad economy,

983
00:45:58,160 --> 00:46:02,560
Speaker 2: and then you're being villainized in a hacked and jailed

984
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:07,719
Speaker 2: for these tiny, stupid, insignificant little offenses Like I just

985
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:10,040
Speaker 2: it just makes me not want to ever buy a house,

986
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:11,560
Speaker 2: especially not in the state of Florida.

987
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 1: Definitely avoid in h away. Tell me about it if

988
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:19,160
Speaker 1: you can. I need. That's something that as I'm looking

989
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 1: to buy a new house, like, that's something I refuse.

990
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:23,759
Speaker 1: I don't care how nice they are. I don't care

991
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:27,279
Speaker 1: how beautiful it is. Right, And there's this heartbreaking quote

992
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:29,320
Speaker 1: where she's like, it worked hard to put my family

993
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 1: into a nice neighborhood, and it's just sad to me

994
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:34,359
Speaker 1: that the nice neighborhoods don't love us back. I mean,

995
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 1: it's bad, but it's true. But I will say in

996
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:42,160
Speaker 1: my neighborhood, which is majority black and brown, and it

997
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:46,160
Speaker 1: has been for decades, but COVID has been changing that.

998
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:50,279
Speaker 1: And obviously gentrification and like housing prices are insane. But

999
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 1: this was like one of the last affordable neighborhoods in

1000
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:56,359
Speaker 1: my county. And this family moved in across the street

1001
00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:59,600
Speaker 1: from me. I love them there. They lived in Brooklyn. There.

1002
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:02,440
Speaker 1: The woman is California, and she's a white woman. She's

1003
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:06,440
Speaker 1: married to a Japanese American man. We have our That's

1004
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:08,920
Speaker 1: why I do my community garden with They're great, but

1005
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:12,520
Speaker 1: my elders are elder neighbors. From the minute they moved in.

1006
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 1: But they weren't. They weren't having it. They really don't

1007
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:17,480
Speaker 1: like the fact that, you know, young white families are

1008
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:20,279
Speaker 1: moving into these neighborhoods and gentrifying, and you know, there's

1009
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:24,560
Speaker 1: suspicion there, which honestly I understand, like I understand, and

1010
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:26,400
Speaker 1: I think even to a certain extent, my neighbors do,

1011
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:30,600
Speaker 1: like they understand why they are treated with suspicion. But ooh,

1012
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:36,000
Speaker 1: bebe if her grass is a centimeter too high, Ruler,

1013
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:38,400
Speaker 1: she's gonna get a picky on her window saying you

1014
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:40,799
Speaker 1: are in violation of the town code, even if they're

1015
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 1: because they're not. There's no age away, but there's a

1016
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:46,719
Speaker 1: town code, right, So it's just and I feel back

1017
00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:49,399
Speaker 1: because you know, those neighbors, but it's like, hurt people,

1018
00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:52,279
Speaker 1: hurt people, and like, I know that's how it was

1019
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 1: when probably she first moved into the neighborhood a few

1020
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:58,359
Speaker 1: decades ago with her family, and slowly this neighborhood became

1021
00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 1: majority minority, but it wasn't always that way. And I

1022
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:03,839
Speaker 1: just wish we could live and let live, but.

1023
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:06,840
Speaker 2: It's going to take time and healing a lot of

1024
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:08,880
Speaker 2: healing needs to happen because that shit don't.

1025
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:09,480
Speaker 1: Go away overnight.

1026
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 4: No, not at all.

1027
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:14,279
Speaker 1: What's it like for you in s Chris but you're renting.

1028
00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I mean for me, it's it's different. I mean,

1029
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:18,680
Speaker 3: I mean it's San Francisco. It's a much different scenario.

1030
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:20,560
Speaker 3: And there's not a lot of single family homes that there.

1031
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:23,440
Speaker 3: There's a lot of multi unit homes. So like most

1032
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:24,959
Speaker 3: of these places here, it's going to be like two

1033
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 3: to four six units in the building. And you know,

1034
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 3: it's much more like kind of like city life a

1035
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:30,000
Speaker 3: little bit.

1036
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:32,799
Speaker 1: So I have a lot of high rises are there.

1037
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 4: Are there a lot of.

1038
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:36,920
Speaker 3: High rises and that stuff in the downtown areas sit

1039
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:40,799
Speaker 3: downtown right right over there. But mostly I think because

1040
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:42,720
Speaker 3: most of the city has like an ordinance that prevents

1041
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:44,759
Speaker 3: the height, that limits the height of buildings I think

1042
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:46,520
Speaker 3: three stories and a lot of neighborhoods.

1043
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:47,239
Speaker 4: So it is nice.

1044
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:48,920
Speaker 3: You get like, you get a lot more sunlight, you

1045
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 3: get a lot more openness. But if you do go

1046
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:52,239
Speaker 3: like to like the downtown areas, you get a lot

1047
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:53,800
Speaker 3: more of those like brand new buildings that are popping

1048
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:56,040
Speaker 3: up and it's changing. But it's definitely a lot more

1049
00:48:56,680 --> 00:49:00,120
Speaker 3: community like force community, just because the fact that you

1050
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:02,200
Speaker 3: know there's a bunch of people living in tight proximity

1051
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:02,719
Speaker 3: to each other.

1052
00:49:03,239 --> 00:49:06,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we just need to we need to be kinder.

1053
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:08,080
Speaker 1: And I'm just so glad to shout out to Irene.

1054
00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 1: I hope that you're home. I hope that you get

1055
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:12,759
Speaker 1: to you move to a new area, and I hate

1056
00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:14,759
Speaker 1: that you have to move, but sometimes you gotta go.

1057
00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:19,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, seriously, she deserves an area that people won't treat

1058
00:49:19,320 --> 00:49:19,759
Speaker 2: her like that.

1059
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:21,879
Speaker 1: Or if she had the resources, I would say, start

1060
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:23,960
Speaker 1: to go fund me and counter see their asses, because

1061
00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:29,840
Speaker 1: that is all types of inhumane. Yes, hey, ba, fam,

1062
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:32,400
Speaker 1: we got to take a quick break, pay some bills,

1063
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:38,239
Speaker 1: and we'll be right back. All right, moving along, let's see. Oh,

1064
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:39,640
Speaker 1: I did want to do a quick shout out the

1065
00:49:39,719 --> 00:49:42,120
Speaker 1: WNBAS In the middle of their they go, do y'all

1066
00:49:42,160 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 1: know about sports stuff? I don't know too much about

1067
00:49:44,200 --> 00:49:46,360
Speaker 1: sports stuff, but I do like women to get paid

1068
00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:47,400
Speaker 1: a lot of money.

1069
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:50,360
Speaker 5: That part I don't follow this. I don't follow that

1070
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:51,200
Speaker 5: she was sports stuff.

1071
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:54,400
Speaker 2: But my sister is a huge WNBA fan and was

1072
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:56,760
Speaker 2: like telling me about how they're doing collective bargaining again

1073
00:49:56,840 --> 00:49:59,600
Speaker 2: and like trying to fight for for what my understanding

1074
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:01,440
Speaker 2: is they're not trying to fight for the same pay

1075
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:04,279
Speaker 2: in terms of dollar amounts as the NBA players, but

1076
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:07,280
Speaker 2: they're trying to fight for the same percentage profit share.

1077
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:10,320
Speaker 2: So my understanding is that the NBA has a fifty

1078
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:13,520
Speaker 2: percent profit share model, whereas the WNBA is anywhere between

1079
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:16,080
Speaker 2: like ten and twenty percent, and they're just trying to say, hey,

1080
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:18,280
Speaker 2: can we get that closer to fifty percent? That's literally

1081
00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:20,239
Speaker 2: all they're trying to do, and they're getting pushed back

1082
00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:23,120
Speaker 2: on that, which is wild to me because over the

1083
00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:26,320
Speaker 2: past two years, I feel like the craze around Kayln Clark,

1084
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:30,200
Speaker 2: Andrew Rees, Asia Williams, all these players is like, how

1085
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:33,879
Speaker 2: can we not recognize that the growth has been so

1086
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:38,280
Speaker 2: insane that this deal should model that type of growth,

1087
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 2: Like it should follow suit, they should be aligned.

1088
00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:42,920
Speaker 5: Like I was shocked when I heard this, Like.

1089
00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:45,440
Speaker 2: They wouldn't even increase the percentage profit share. They're not

1090
00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:48,520
Speaker 2: even asking for the same dollar per dollar pay.

1091
00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:50,640
Speaker 4: It's wild because you.

1092
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:52,440
Speaker 3: Even end up with like they started a new team,

1093
00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:54,840
Speaker 3: they expands a team here in San Francisco, the Valkyries,

1094
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:57,480
Speaker 3: and I think not even like a couple months into

1095
00:50:57,520 --> 00:50:59,640
Speaker 3: the season, they already valued is like the most valuable

1096
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:02,200
Speaker 3: NBA team I think at like five hundred million dollars

1097
00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:03,920
Speaker 3: or something like that. So, I mean you're seeing the

1098
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:05,920
Speaker 3: growth and like you said, it's crazy. A'm not asking

1099
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:08,520
Speaker 3: for crazy money to you, ask for a better share

1100
00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:10,680
Speaker 3: because I mean, there would be no product without the

1101
00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:11,680
Speaker 3: players on the creer.

1102
00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:15,960
Speaker 5: I mean, the audience grows, the merch sales, everything has

1103
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:20,680
Speaker 5: boosted like crazy, Viewership is up, attendance to these games

1104
00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:24,520
Speaker 5: is up. I mean, how can you not also then

1105
00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:27,080
Speaker 5: increase the pay like I just I don't know. I

1106
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 5: feel so bad for these ladies having to fight, fight, fight,

1107
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:29,600
Speaker 5: like hell, and.

1108
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:32,279
Speaker 2: This is ages all tails all the time, because this

1109
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:34,080
Speaker 2: is something that has been happening for ages where we

1110
00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:37,919
Speaker 2: constantly see WNBA being tossed little you know, hear low

1111
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:40,160
Speaker 2: peanuts and they're supposed to be happy with that. Some

1112
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:42,719
Speaker 2: basketball players are making millions and millions and millions. These

1113
00:51:42,719 --> 00:51:45,399
Speaker 2: girls are sometimes making seventy k a year, Like, come on,

1114
00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:46,840
Speaker 2: that is wild to me.

1115
00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:49,560
Speaker 1: Wild. They're gonna have to go on strike, right, I

1116
00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:51,719
Speaker 1: mean they have to. They're gonna have to, yeah.

1117
00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:54,600
Speaker 3: Because I mean, they play so much more than the

1118
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:56,879
Speaker 3: men do as well because their season is short, but

1119
00:51:56,960 --> 00:51:59,240
Speaker 3: most of them go overseas and play in other leagues

1120
00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:01,279
Speaker 3: and other countries, so you don't even be going for

1121
00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:04,719
Speaker 3: parts of their season because they make significantly more playing overseas.

1122
00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:06,560
Speaker 3: So it's like, I mean, that's a lot of weird

1123
00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:08,840
Speaker 3: hearing your body. There's a lot of time with your family.

1124
00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:11,440
Speaker 1: So don't give me a segue into Love Island. I

1125
00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 1: could be playing overseas.

1126
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:19,120
Speaker 5: Boy, please, you can't.

1127
00:52:19,480 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 1: I'm not even going to give y'all context. Ba FAM's

1128
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 1: not worth it, all right. Well, I did see the

1129
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:26,879
Speaker 1: T shirts they were wearing. Pay us what you owe us. Yes,

1130
00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:28,680
Speaker 1: we love a coordinated T shirt.

1131
00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:31,680
Speaker 5: Get a T shirt? I need one, Hey them, you

1132
00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:32,320
Speaker 5: need them.

1133
00:52:32,640 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 1: I want to see some good old fashioned protesting. I

1134
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:37,560
Speaker 1: want to see picket signs. I want also the fans.

1135
00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:39,080
Speaker 1: I think the fans should be a part of the

1136
00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:39,799
Speaker 1: protest too.

1137
00:52:40,560 --> 00:52:43,120
Speaker 2: You know, all these girls that show up to the game,

1138
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:45,040
Speaker 2: that look up to them and all that, Like, okay,

1139
00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:48,320
Speaker 2: let's get them involved in understanding what's just and injust

1140
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 2: like that for sure is a really great.

1141
00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:54,520
Speaker 5: Lesson in pay equity and just fair pay. Come on,

1142
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:55,680
Speaker 5: fair pay for fair work.

1143
00:52:56,080 --> 00:53:01,640
Speaker 1: Yep. I literally have no reason like that this doesn't

1144
00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:04,479
Speaker 1: tie into brown ambition at all. It's not about black people.

1145
00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:07,600
Speaker 1: It's not about our economic freedom, it's not about brown people.

1146
00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:10,120
Speaker 1: Even some rich white guy. I was at a Coldplay

1147
00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:14,040
Speaker 1: concert and he was like camera with his mistress, and

1148
00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:17,160
Speaker 1: I love I love it so messy.

1149
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:20,640
Speaker 2: I just feel like we needed that collective experience of

1150
00:53:20,719 --> 00:53:23,759
Speaker 2: juicy gossip together to like just bring us together one

1151
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:26,520
Speaker 2: good time. It felt like everybody and their mama was

1152
00:53:26,520 --> 00:53:28,880
Speaker 2: talking about it from one second to the next.

1153
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:30,800
Speaker 4: It means amazing.

1154
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:34,680
Speaker 3: Have you seen them doing the Coldplay kissed camp at

1155
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:37,160
Speaker 3: other storting events and people posing.

1156
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:40,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, everyone's like, oh, and they're I just kidding, we're married.

1157
00:53:40,719 --> 00:53:44,080
Speaker 1: It's like, it's so funny. It's so funny.

1158
00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:47,959
Speaker 2: There's one hilarious one that my fitness trainer reposted, which

1159
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:50,600
Speaker 2: is like me getting caught on cam with my ninth

1160
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:52,239
Speaker 2: cheat meal this week and he's like.

1161
00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:53,920
Speaker 1: A burger and trick and sold on.

1162
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:56,480
Speaker 2: The camera catches and he's like no, and he ducks

1163
00:53:56,520 --> 00:53:57,799
Speaker 2: with his burger in his hand.

1164
00:53:57,920 --> 00:54:01,360
Speaker 1: I'm dying. That's like, that's like when my kid catches

1165
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:03,440
Speaker 1: me eating something that I told him he couldn't have.

1166
00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:07,160
Speaker 1: He's like mommy. I thought, we can only have that

1167
00:54:07,239 --> 00:54:10,520
Speaker 1: with our dinner, not you for the dinner, you baby, you,

1168
00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:11,240
Speaker 1: but not mommy.

1169
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:13,320
Speaker 5: Mommy's follows different rules.

1170
00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:17,080
Speaker 1: H Well, now, because of the freaking Internet, I can't

1171
00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:18,759
Speaker 1: I don't know what's real or not. But I thought

1172
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:23,759
Speaker 1: the wife had posted this like insanely good statement on TikTok.

1173
00:54:24,320 --> 00:54:25,880
Speaker 1: I should have known it was on TikTok, but her

1174
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:30,120
Speaker 1: daughter was posting. Their daughter was posting some some content.

1175
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:33,239
Speaker 1: It's just it's like, it's like the plot of a

1176
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:35,879
Speaker 1: White Lotus episode series kind of thing.

1177
00:54:36,080 --> 00:54:39,920
Speaker 5: You know, somebody post for real, somebody posted that.

1178
00:54:39,960 --> 00:54:42,239
Speaker 2: He that like, they wouldn't be surprised if because no,

1179
00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:45,279
Speaker 2: he stepped down obviously he or got fired. That if

1180
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:47,200
Speaker 2: in a couple of weeks he posted something on LinkedIn

1181
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:49,759
Speaker 2: being like I was caught having an affair. I had

1182
00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:52,000
Speaker 2: a Coldplay concert. Here's what it taught me about B

1183
00:54:52,040 --> 00:54:52,800
Speaker 2: to B sales.

1184
00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:57,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, please, like a homeboy who Leonardo DiCaprio played in

1185
00:54:57,560 --> 00:55:00,280
Speaker 1: that Wolf of Wall Street movie. He's like a really rich,

1186
00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:06,080
Speaker 1: like public speaker, now, motivational speaker. What's his name? Who? Yeah,

1187
00:55:06,120 --> 00:55:08,160
Speaker 1: he'll be fine, he'll be fine. They can take the heat.

1188
00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:13,880
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, yeah, maybe his daughter will be on

1189
00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:15,799
Speaker 1: the next season I'm Dancing with the Stars or something

1190
00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:16,760
Speaker 1: like that. Maybe his wife.

1191
00:55:16,960 --> 00:55:18,880
Speaker 2: It's just like a it's such a good lesson to

1192
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:23,719
Speaker 2: young people to like, when you do something wrong, you

1193
00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:25,800
Speaker 2: that shit is in your bones.

1194
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:27,800
Speaker 5: You know you're not supposed to be doing that, you

1195
00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:28,279
Speaker 5: know what I mean?

1196
00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:30,600
Speaker 2: Because if they had just played it cool, nobody would

1197
00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:31,520
Speaker 2: ever even know who they were.

1198
00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:33,919
Speaker 5: They probably wouldn't, that would never even made it outside.

1199
00:55:33,560 --> 00:55:34,239
Speaker 1: Of the stadium.

1200
00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:36,640
Speaker 5: But the fact that he ducked.

1201
00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:39,319
Speaker 2: Like that and she and she like immediately went to

1202
00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:42,280
Speaker 2: cover her face, It's like, just when you do stuff

1203
00:55:42,280 --> 00:55:43,839
Speaker 2: you know you're supposed to be doing that, shit like

1204
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:46,000
Speaker 2: this is this is what happens, right. So I think

1205
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:47,600
Speaker 2: it is a lesson in a little bit in like

1206
00:55:48,200 --> 00:55:53,120
Speaker 2: you understanding like human behavior. It's very very rare that

1207
00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:55,959
Speaker 2: something like that in the spotlight and your instinct would

1208
00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:57,719
Speaker 2: be just play it cool, no, because you know you

1209
00:55:57,880 --> 00:55:59,560
Speaker 2: wrong and you know what you're doing is wrong and

1210
00:55:59,560 --> 00:56:01,640
Speaker 2: it's in your so just don't do it.

1211
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:05,320
Speaker 1: Don't do it. I needed to be caught Karma, karma

1212
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:07,920
Speaker 1: in action. Thank you for the giggles. I guess it

1213
00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:10,160
Speaker 1: is brown ambition because you gave us something to laugh at,

1214
00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:12,400
Speaker 1: you know, in a world that hates us. So we

1215
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:16,920
Speaker 1: appreciate your service. Very tall white guy, you'll be fine.

1216
00:56:17,120 --> 00:56:19,400
Speaker 1: All right, We're gonna take a quick break. Ba family,

1217
00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:21,520
Speaker 1: We'll be right back. We're gonna do our brown boost

1218
00:56:21,520 --> 00:56:27,560
Speaker 1: brown break all right, y'all, Brown Boost Brown Break time.

1219
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:31,279
Speaker 1: I don't want to go first, so I'm gonna make

1220
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:33,399
Speaker 1: y'all want to go first. Chris, you have a big

1221
00:56:33,440 --> 00:56:35,560
Speaker 1: fat nothing next to your name on this list.

1222
00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:38,680
Speaker 3: I didn't know there was a spot putting stuff in it.

1223
00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:40,680
Speaker 3: I only want to put stuf in it because you

1224
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:42,000
Speaker 3: just veto everything I put in there.

1225
00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:44,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, I need a chance to veto it. That's why

1226
00:56:45,160 --> 00:56:46,160
Speaker 1: exercise our power.

1227
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:50,560
Speaker 2: What's the point of having power if you can't exercise its.

1228
00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:56,839
Speaker 1: Editorial judgment, congrab on your baby nephew. We know he's

1229
00:56:56,840 --> 00:56:59,920
Speaker 1: here in the world now.

1230
00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:01,200
Speaker 3: The world, but you said he cannot be the brown

1231
00:57:01,239 --> 00:57:04,920
Speaker 3: boost anymore. So I picked something else, Thank you very much.

1232
00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 3: Even though new life.

1233
00:57:05,680 --> 00:57:07,440
Speaker 1: You know, when he gets a first investment account, then

1234
00:57:07,440 --> 00:57:08,160
Speaker 1: he can be a boost.

1235
00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:11,560
Speaker 3: We will be working on that five twenty nine plan shortly.

1236
00:57:12,600 --> 00:57:14,880
Speaker 3: But okay, so my brown boost is going to be

1237
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:16,919
Speaker 3: a book because I mean, I think I mentioned before

1238
00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:19,400
Speaker 3: I had like a little impromtu book club here would

1239
00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:22,640
Speaker 3: be that we've been doing. So the book we've recently

1240
00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:26,640
Speaker 3: read I really enjoyed is a Martyr. It's by h

1241
00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:29,760
Speaker 3: I hope I pronounce his name correctly. I think it's

1242
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:34,560
Speaker 3: Cava Akbar. He's an Iranian American poet and writer. And

1243
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 3: this really like it's just beautiful book. It's it's fiction,

1244
00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:41,720
Speaker 3: but it's about a guy dealing with substance of use

1245
00:57:41,840 --> 00:57:44,280
Speaker 3: and his own sexuality and kind of knowing where he

1246
00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:47,439
Speaker 3: stands and trying to find purpose and meaning in life.

1247
00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:50,280
Speaker 3: And he tries to find it through this concept of

1248
00:57:50,280 --> 00:57:52,640
Speaker 3: being a martyr. Even though he doesn't want to necessarily die,

1249
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:55,520
Speaker 3: he feels like his life should mean something because his parents.

1250
00:57:55,520 --> 00:57:57,760
Speaker 3: He felt like his parents died with no meaning, like

1251
00:57:57,760 --> 00:58:01,200
Speaker 3: their death just happened, living these hard lives. And so

1252
00:58:01,280 --> 00:58:05,480
Speaker 3: it's his journey to find like meaning and purpose in

1253
00:58:05,560 --> 00:58:08,479
Speaker 3: his life and through all of his struggles. And it's

1254
00:58:08,520 --> 00:58:10,080
Speaker 3: written as well as books. It's written in such a

1255
00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:12,760
Speaker 3: way that's like it's very like beautiful, like the words

1256
00:58:12,760 --> 00:58:16,000
Speaker 3: he uses, the phrasing, and it's just like so visual.

1257
00:58:16,120 --> 00:58:18,080
Speaker 3: You can really feel everything he's writing. And he does

1258
00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:20,680
Speaker 3: it through these like dreams that the character's having where

1259
00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:22,600
Speaker 3: he like takes these two figures over his mind and

1260
00:58:22,600 --> 00:58:25,920
Speaker 3: they have these like conversations together and then his journey

1261
00:58:25,920 --> 00:58:28,240
Speaker 3: to like, uh, you know, connect and figure out what's

1262
00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:28,480
Speaker 3: going on.

1263
00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:29,560
Speaker 4: So great book.

1264
00:58:29,560 --> 00:58:31,360
Speaker 3: I think he's received a ton of awards at this

1265
00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:36,160
Speaker 3: point in recognition. Our friend Berna, Hey, Berna, she has

1266
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:40,280
Speaker 3: the same ligulal agent as as Copa, and so they

1267
00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:42,240
Speaker 3: she told me she need to get to meet him

1268
00:58:42,240 --> 00:58:44,840
Speaker 3: when they were all doing like their book introductions. So

1269
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:48,640
Speaker 3: it's really really interesting read, really thought provoking, and uh, yeah,

1270
00:58:48,680 --> 00:58:49,880
Speaker 3: that's that's my brown boost.

1271
00:58:50,120 --> 00:58:51,000
Speaker 4: I'm trying to read board.

1272
00:58:51,560 --> 00:58:53,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a New York Times bestseller. Look at that.

1273
00:58:53,640 --> 00:58:55,520
Speaker 5: So many amazing books and I never even heard of.

1274
00:58:55,640 --> 00:58:58,560
Speaker 1: I need to put this one on my list. And

1275
00:58:58,680 --> 00:59:01,360
Speaker 1: I love him. I love memoirs so much. Is it

1276
00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:02,480
Speaker 1: a memoir? What do you know?

1277
00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:02,920
Speaker 4: It's not.

1278
00:59:03,840 --> 00:59:06,120
Speaker 3: There are elements because he is a poet and the

1279
00:59:06,240 --> 00:59:08,520
Speaker 3: character is a poet, and but this is not about

1280
00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:09,480
Speaker 3: his life personally.

1281
00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:12,080
Speaker 1: Nice okay, but it.

1282
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:13,960
Speaker 4: Almost feels like a memoir to some degree. But it's not.

1283
00:59:15,160 --> 00:59:17,520
Speaker 1: I am stressed. I have to pick a book club

1284
00:59:17,560 --> 00:59:21,480
Speaker 1: pick for August and it is July twenty. First, I can't.

1285
00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:24,120
Speaker 4: Decide, James, did you read that one?

1286
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:27,400
Speaker 1: I did read, James.

1287
00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:29,040
Speaker 4: It was good.

1288
00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:32,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, I read it. But is it a book club pick?

1289
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:34,920
Speaker 1: I don't think so. You know, I'm really I'm this

1290
00:59:35,040 --> 00:59:39,160
Speaker 1: close to picking it. Kennedy Ryan romance novel. I really

1291
00:59:39,160 --> 00:59:41,880
Speaker 1: want some kind of sexy and fun because I don't

1292
00:59:41,880 --> 00:59:44,040
Speaker 1: want to have a book club that's just like really

1293
00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:49,640
Speaker 1: hard to read true literature, you know, Kennedy Ryan's amazing

1294
00:59:49,960 --> 00:59:53,280
Speaker 1: they do. And I didn't love like the last book

1295
00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:55,440
Speaker 1: I read of hers, But I think this one that

1296
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Speaker 1: I'm in the middle of can't get enough that it's

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Speaker 1: a little bit and I like it better. I don't know, though,

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Speaker 1: Stay tu it is. I think I'm in like a

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Speaker 1: fun summer mood. Then tell me why. When I checked

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01:00:08,560 --> 01:00:10,280
Speaker 1: out books from the library this week, it was like

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01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:13,400
Speaker 1: I heard this author who wrote a book called Color

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01:00:13,480 --> 01:00:17,800
Speaker 1: Television dan Zia something. She was on NPR. I heard

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01:00:17,800 --> 01:00:21,360
Speaker 1: her and it's not a very fun read, but it's

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Speaker 1: a good one.

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Speaker 5: I mean, you know what that that will that will

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Speaker 5: take me to my brown Boost.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of summer vibes, I had the incredible experience of

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Speaker 2: attending Benito.

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01:00:34,560 --> 01:00:39,200
Speaker 5: Martinez Porcasio concert. It was amazing. I went to Bad

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Speaker 5: Bunny's concert in Puerto Rico.

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Speaker 1: So if y'all didn't know he has as his name,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, that's a really long, incredibly name. I did

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Speaker 1: not know his full name, I know, but.

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Speaker 2: He is doing thirty concerts in Puerto Rico, in his hometown,

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Speaker 2: right And the whole thing about it is that there's

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Speaker 2: really no other thing that kind of compares to this this.

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01:01:06,000 --> 01:01:08,080
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess like Vegas residencies. I guess you

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01:01:08,120 --> 01:01:10,960
Speaker 2: could say, like, you know, but like he's going to

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01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:12,680
Speaker 2: his hometown. It's not in Vegas, you know, and that

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01:01:12,760 --> 01:01:13,960
Speaker 2: is so special because of that.

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Speaker 5: The only way you can.

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01:01:15,440 --> 01:01:18,880
Speaker 2: Experience about Bunny concert from his world tour in the

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Speaker 2: United States is by going to Puerto Rico.

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Speaker 5: And I happened to be.

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Speaker 2: There with some friends for a girl one of my

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01:01:25,520 --> 01:01:28,600
Speaker 2: close friends bachelorette party in Puerto Rico. I went straight

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Speaker 2: from Chicago from n EHJ to Puerto Rico for the bacherette,

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01:01:32,880 --> 01:01:34,600
Speaker 2: and then the Saturday night while we were there, we

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Speaker 2: went to the concert, and it was amazing. When I

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01:01:37,200 --> 01:01:41,960
Speaker 2: tell you three hours of NonStop I heard, Oh my goodness,

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01:01:41,960 --> 01:01:43,800
Speaker 2: when I tell you this man played all the hits,

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01:01:43,840 --> 01:01:46,800
Speaker 2: all the throwbacks, the current album of course, but then

1333
01:01:46,800 --> 01:01:49,000
Speaker 2: he did something amazing where he took some of his

1334
01:01:49,240 --> 01:01:53,840
Speaker 2: Regadon songs and had a live, full ass salsa band

1335
01:01:54,160 --> 01:01:55,520
Speaker 2: turned them into salsa.

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01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:58,400
Speaker 5: So then he's singing the words to Regaton song, but

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01:01:58,560 --> 01:02:01,120
Speaker 5: it Sasa music. It was a amazing I was like,

1338
01:02:01,200 --> 01:02:03,000
Speaker 5: oh my goodness, this is so incredible.

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01:02:03,680 --> 01:02:06,480
Speaker 2: And the energy in there was amazing because after the concert,

1340
01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:08,720
Speaker 2: people were singing the entire way down the stairs all

1341
01:02:08,720 --> 01:02:10,880
Speaker 2: the way out the concert venue, and they.

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01:02:10,800 --> 01:02:12,360
Speaker 5: Put so much attention to detail.

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01:02:12,400 --> 01:02:15,360
Speaker 2: Before the concert even happened, there were these like instagrammable

1344
01:02:15,400 --> 01:02:19,160
Speaker 2: little stations, food vendors, Domino's playing, like all this stuff happening.

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01:02:19,320 --> 01:02:21,320
Speaker 2: That was like a whole vibe before you even get

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01:02:21,360 --> 01:02:24,560
Speaker 2: into the stadium. And the reason it's a Brown boost,

1347
01:02:24,560 --> 01:02:26,880
Speaker 2: I will say, is because a lot of people talked

1348
01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:31,440
Speaker 2: about Beyonce level and Taylor Swift level economic boost to

1349
01:02:31,840 --> 01:02:34,800
Speaker 2: economies during rough times. Puerto Rico had such a rough

1350
01:02:34,800 --> 01:02:36,680
Speaker 2: economy this year. They didn't know if they were going

1351
01:02:36,720 --> 01:02:39,320
Speaker 2: to be able to balance the budget, and Bad Bunnies

1352
01:02:39,680 --> 01:02:43,880
Speaker 2: single handedly brought two hundred million dollars of an economic

1353
01:02:43,920 --> 01:02:46,680
Speaker 2: boost to Puerto Rico, so much so that they will

1354
01:02:46,720 --> 01:02:48,760
Speaker 2: not have to end in the red this year on

1355
01:02:48,800 --> 01:02:51,720
Speaker 2: their with their with their budgets, so that it's just

1356
01:02:51,840 --> 01:02:53,720
Speaker 2: amazing and the energy is amazing.

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01:02:53,720 --> 01:02:55,720
Speaker 1: There's so much positivity, you know.

1358
01:02:55,920 --> 01:02:58,400
Speaker 2: And I'm just you know, I'm Dominican, so I'm putting them,

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01:02:58,400 --> 01:02:59,720
Speaker 2: I'm putting the Dominican Puerto.

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Speaker 5: Rican b I'm squashing that right now. We love bad

1361
01:03:02,840 --> 01:03:04,080
Speaker 5: but because.

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01:03:03,960 --> 01:03:06,560
Speaker 1: Bad Bunny is so dr coded sometimes.

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01:03:06,040 --> 01:03:10,120
Speaker 5: Like there's so much is he said it in multiple interviews.

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01:03:09,760 --> 01:03:11,800
Speaker 1: But he loved me, didn't. He do a whole video

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01:03:11,800 --> 01:03:12,600
Speaker 1: in dr.

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01:03:13,080 --> 01:03:16,960
Speaker 2: The album The Umber, which was last summer, he did

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01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:20,120
Speaker 2: a whole thing about how Dominican Republic was the first

1368
01:03:20,120 --> 01:03:22,160
Speaker 2: place that he truly felt like a celebrity, that he

1369
01:03:22,200 --> 01:03:25,840
Speaker 2: felt famous there because we immediately just accepted him, we

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01:03:26,200 --> 01:03:29,280
Speaker 2: raised him, we celebrated him, and that the type of

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01:03:29,400 --> 01:03:31,720
Speaker 2: music that we have in the Dominican Republic is slightly

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01:03:31,720 --> 01:03:34,840
Speaker 2: different from Puerto Rican and other Latin American music because

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01:03:34,840 --> 01:03:37,200
Speaker 2: we have something called pedical crepo, which is a specific

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01:03:37,240 --> 01:03:40,080
Speaker 2: type of medan ga tipico that uses African you know,

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01:03:40,080 --> 01:03:43,400
Speaker 2: African influence, Africa coaming, and so he talked about how

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01:03:43,440 --> 01:03:46,560
Speaker 2: that influenced him to write which is a medan ge

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01:03:46,600 --> 01:03:47,800
Speaker 2: tipical very much.

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say, like I've heard maderga in his yes,

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01:03:51,040 --> 01:03:53,120
Speaker 1: in his music. I'm not as expert as you are,

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01:03:53,160 --> 01:03:53,920
Speaker 1: but that now.

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01:03:53,960 --> 01:03:55,880
Speaker 2: Obviously, if you listen to Puerto Rican music, they also

1382
01:03:55,880 --> 01:03:58,240
Speaker 2: have midaninge, but it's not the same type of medane.

1383
01:03:58,320 --> 01:04:01,040
Speaker 2: The undertones of the music is not like as African

1384
01:04:01,200 --> 01:04:06,080
Speaker 2: for medenghe as tipico. So he definitely loves Dominican Republic,

1385
01:04:06,120 --> 01:04:08,280
Speaker 2: the people, the culture of the place. But I feel like,

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01:04:08,320 --> 01:04:10,240
Speaker 2: you know, growing up in New York City and especially

1387
01:04:10,280 --> 01:04:12,560
Speaker 2: in Brooklyn, there's always been Dominican Puerto Rican beef in

1388
01:04:12,600 --> 01:04:15,280
Speaker 2: New York. But I feel like Bad Bunny single handedly

1389
01:04:15,280 --> 01:04:17,720
Speaker 2: squashed that beef when he put out on Beranocinthi, and

1390
01:04:17,800 --> 01:04:20,240
Speaker 2: so I'm here to say it's officially squashed. We love

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01:04:20,320 --> 01:04:23,040
Speaker 2: him and his concert was incredible and the tickets were

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01:04:23,160 --> 01:04:26,120
Speaker 2: probably now maybe two three thousand dollars for seats that

1393
01:04:26,160 --> 01:04:27,640
Speaker 2: are close to the floor of her it's.

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01:04:27,560 --> 01:04:29,280
Speaker 1: Just about to ask what ticket prices were.

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01:04:29,240 --> 01:04:31,040
Speaker 2: Like, but we got lucky. We got them for seven

1396
01:04:31,080 --> 01:04:33,800
Speaker 2: hundred bucks, which is still expensive. Let's not lie, but

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01:04:34,960 --> 01:04:38,080
Speaker 2: we got him really last minute, three seats together, super

1398
01:04:38,080 --> 01:04:40,800
Speaker 2: close to the little casita where he performed separately from

1399
01:04:40,800 --> 01:04:42,920
Speaker 2: the stage, so there were kind of two stages, one

1400
01:04:42,960 --> 01:04:44,520
Speaker 2: in the front and one in the back or center,

1401
01:04:44,560 --> 01:04:46,960
Speaker 2: which was a house at actual physical house in the

1402
01:04:47,000 --> 01:04:51,160
Speaker 2: stadium with couches inside, TVs inside, a bar inside, people inside,

1403
01:04:51,160 --> 01:04:52,720
Speaker 2: and he was performing on the rooftop.

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01:04:53,000 --> 01:04:54,560
Speaker 5: So it was just ough.

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01:04:54,800 --> 01:04:56,560
Speaker 1: I mean, I cannot I'll take at my phone back.

1406
01:04:56,600 --> 01:04:58,560
Speaker 1: I need to train the TikTok algorithm and to serve

1407
01:04:58,680 --> 01:05:01,919
Speaker 1: me clips correct. I only get clips of Cardig Cowway Carter.

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01:05:02,600 --> 01:05:06,000
Speaker 5: I get get the Cowboy Carter to I get the

1409
01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:06,520
Speaker 5: Cardboard Carter.

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01:05:07,840 --> 01:05:10,880
Speaker 2: But Benito killed it, and he it's just I mean,

1411
01:05:10,880 --> 01:05:12,280
Speaker 2: everybody is so proud of him.

1412
01:05:12,280 --> 01:05:14,160
Speaker 5: He's a kid who came from the slums, you guys.

1413
01:05:14,200 --> 01:05:16,439
Speaker 2: He came from the slums, and he just literally took

1414
01:05:16,440 --> 01:05:18,880
Speaker 2: a chance and posted his music on SoundCloud back in

1415
01:05:18,880 --> 01:05:21,960
Speaker 2: twenty twelve, twenty thirteen, thinking nobody would hear it, and

1416
01:05:22,000 --> 01:05:23,640
Speaker 2: this one DJ found it and was like, Wow, this

1417
01:05:23,720 --> 01:05:26,880
Speaker 2: kid's pretty good and now he's freaking Bad Bunny like, so,

1418
01:05:26,960 --> 01:05:28,560
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just it's it's one of those things

1419
01:05:28,560 --> 01:05:30,200
Speaker 2: that inspires you through to your bones.

1420
01:05:30,240 --> 01:05:32,720
Speaker 5: And the guy loves his craft. He loves music.

1421
01:05:32,760 --> 01:05:35,480
Speaker 2: Every single one of his songs sounds different, sounds unique.

1422
01:05:35,480 --> 01:05:37,880
Speaker 2: He blends genres in a way that is just masterful.

1423
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:40,560
Speaker 2: So I loved it, and I'm so proud of him

1424
01:05:40,560 --> 01:05:43,640
Speaker 2: for bringing two hundred million to Puerto Rico. It's definitely

1425
01:05:43,760 --> 01:05:45,880
Speaker 2: an island that has been struggling and they need it,

1426
01:05:45,960 --> 01:05:48,240
Speaker 2: so you gotta give props words due.

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01:05:49,400 --> 01:05:52,360
Speaker 1: I think it's so beautiful when artists, sorry, go ahead, Chris, No,

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01:05:53,080 --> 01:05:55,439
Speaker 1: go for it. Ma I think it's so beautiful about

1429
01:05:55,520 --> 01:05:57,720
Speaker 1: artists who are That's what I think about Beyonce and

1430
01:05:58,440 --> 01:06:01,439
Speaker 1: Bad Bunny have in common, is like the audience they

1431
01:06:01,480 --> 01:06:04,000
Speaker 1: make them feel so good, Like Beyonce makes me so

1432
01:06:04,320 --> 01:06:06,520
Speaker 1: proud to be a black woman and loved being a

1433
01:06:06,520 --> 01:06:08,440
Speaker 1: black woman. And I feel like Bad Bunny, it feels

1434
01:06:08,480 --> 01:06:10,880
Speaker 1: like like just hearing y'all talk about him that he

1435
01:06:10,920 --> 01:06:14,040
Speaker 1: makes y'all feel so proud to be Latino, to be

1436
01:06:14,040 --> 01:06:18,120
Speaker 1: Puerto Rican, and you know, like all that, and and

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01:06:18,160 --> 01:06:19,840
Speaker 1: but at the same time, I don't feel any less

1438
01:06:19,880 --> 01:06:22,280
Speaker 1: isolated from listening and enjoying his music. It's just like

1439
01:06:23,080 --> 01:06:25,280
Speaker 1: and I probably no to for Beyonce, and it's just

1440
01:06:25,320 --> 01:06:27,600
Speaker 1: that's that's the kind of artistry that we need. It's

1441
01:06:27,600 --> 01:06:30,560
Speaker 1: like such a good, such a good example of just

1442
01:06:30,600 --> 01:06:33,720
Speaker 1: like lean into who you are and serving your audience.

1443
01:06:33,920 --> 01:06:36,280
Speaker 1: And it really can be universal.

1444
01:06:36,040 --> 01:06:39,080
Speaker 2: Yes, especially when your music has meaning, right like Beyonce's

1445
01:06:39,160 --> 01:06:42,160
Speaker 2: music is constantly uplifting the black struggle and paying homage

1446
01:06:42,200 --> 01:06:45,760
Speaker 2: to black history and Bad Bunny's whole entire residency is

1447
01:06:45,760 --> 01:06:47,840
Speaker 2: called no Michkeiro Yacki, which means I don't want to

1448
01:06:47,920 --> 01:06:51,400
Speaker 2: leave here, which is literally him saying Puerto Rico is

1449
01:06:51,400 --> 01:06:53,760
Speaker 2: getting gentrified and they're kicking us out of our own home,

1450
01:06:53,800 --> 01:06:55,400
Speaker 2: and we don't want to leave. We want to stay here.

1451
01:06:55,400 --> 01:06:57,920
Speaker 2: In his entire album, Showcase In highlights the plight of

1452
01:06:57,960 --> 01:07:00,600
Speaker 2: Puerto Rican people trying really hard to stay there while

1453
01:07:00,640 --> 01:07:04,320
Speaker 2: gentrification is coming in and regulation and policies are putting

1454
01:07:04,320 --> 01:07:07,080
Speaker 2: preference on outsiders coming in, giving them tax benefits that

1455
01:07:07,160 --> 01:07:10,320
Speaker 2: locals don't get. He's really highlighting these real issues in

1456
01:07:10,320 --> 01:07:11,920
Speaker 2: a way that just you know, got to give them.

1457
01:07:11,920 --> 01:07:15,440
Speaker 1: Man props have We talked about that on the show,

1458
01:07:15,680 --> 01:07:18,840
Speaker 1: about some financial some financial influencers moving to Puerto Rico,

1459
01:07:18,880 --> 01:07:21,840
Speaker 1: and for that reason, where.

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01:07:21,680 --> 01:07:24,240
Speaker 2: We could do a whole episode about that. Because if

1461
01:07:24,280 --> 01:07:26,040
Speaker 2: it's not great though, it's real estate. If it's not

1462
01:07:26,120 --> 01:07:27,920
Speaker 2: that his investments, listen, it's.

1463
01:07:27,800 --> 01:07:32,400
Speaker 1: Yeh, it's messy, mental mark, mental Bookmark. Well, thank y'all

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Speaker 1: for joining me at the brown Table. RBA fan, We're

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Speaker 1: gonna close out the show. What do I have to say?

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Speaker 1: Don't forget to join the Patreon. Also, I have Cebo

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Speaker 1: Campbell confirmed he is joining BA fam. He's going to

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Speaker 1: be on the show, or sorry, not on the show.

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Speaker 1: The author of sky Full of Elephants our June July

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Speaker 1: book Club pick. We are doing a Q and A

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Speaker 1: with him this coming Friday, so stay tuned to that.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to put the link to register in the

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Speaker 1: show notes so that you'll all can be there. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna be Friday. I'm gonna be in Miami. My yan Ellie.

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Speaker 1: By the way, I'll be there for two days. Hit

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Speaker 1: me out Thursday Friday, and I will be excited to

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Speaker 1: see you. And while I'm there, Cibo will be doing

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Speaker 1: a virtually but he and I are both randomly going

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Speaker 1: to be in Florida, so check tune in for that

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Speaker 1: ba Fam, and I promise I'm gonna have something to

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Speaker 1: share with y'all that day about our August September book

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Speaker 1: Club pick. I don't know, we'll find out time. It's hard.

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01:08:30,280 --> 01:08:33,160
Speaker 1: How did piano people pick this every month? I'm doing

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01:08:33,200 --> 01:08:35,960
Speaker 1: it every other month and it's already stressing me out.

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Speaker 1: But we'll get there, all right, ba Fam. Goodbye. We'll

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Speaker 1: see y'all on Friday for the ba QA. Thank you

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Speaker 1: on Ellie and Chris for joining me as always. Bye,

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

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Speaker 1: this week's show. I want to shout out to our

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Speaker 1: production team, Courtney, our editor, Carla, our fearless leader for

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Speaker 1: idea to LAUNCHS. I want to shout out my assistant

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Speaker 1: Lauda Escalante and Cameron McNair for helping me put the

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Speaker 1: show together. It is not a one person project, as

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Speaker 1: much as I have tried to make it so these

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Speaker 1: past ten years, I need help, y'all, and thank goodness

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Speaker 1: I've been able to put this team around me to

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Speaker 1: support me on this journey. And to y'all bea fam.

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