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Speaker 2: Another boy from Monroe who migrated with his parents to

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Speaker 2: the sport. Hey, welcome to the Blackout Tells podcast. Your

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Speaker 2: Celebrating black history, mother black history, and we're here actually

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Speaker 2: It's reading black literature, it's black history celebration, it's public resources,

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Speaker 2: it's our girl, Alisha, the librarian Hi Hi, who we

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Speaker 4: For having I'm so glad that you guys came. This

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Speaker 2: We also had other things we wanted to get into. Guys,

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Speaker 4: into business looking to start your own business. Those are

437
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Speaker 4: some resources that are great to you look at. And

438
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Speaker 4: some other ones that I would like to also highlight

439
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Speaker 4: would be Linda dot com. You can go on there

440
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Speaker 4: to learn about coding and computer science and this is

441
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Speaker 4: all free and taught by experts. Yes, you can't get

442
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Speaker 4: a degree, but you can get that knowledge and if

443
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Speaker 4: you want to go to school to continue your education,

444
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Speaker 4: you'll have that background knowledge. So again that's Linda dot Com.

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Speaker 4: Another favorite resource of mine is Universal class Again, it

446
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Speaker 4: has over like five hundred classes that you can take.

447
00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:42,040
Speaker 4: So if you're interested in maybe accounting or becoming a writer, gardening, yoga,

448
00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:46,240
Speaker 4: it has classes for you, maybe even baking. There's a

449
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Speaker 4: wide range of classes that you can take to learn

450
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Speaker 4: about those resources, and that's universal.

451
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Speaker 2: Class and all the stuff is free.

452
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Speaker 4: It's all free. How y'all make money, right, guys from

453
00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:03,439
Speaker 4: your donations because you love us, because you're here and

454
00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:04,960
Speaker 4: you're supporting our programs.

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Speaker 2: Yes, all right, cool? Well, I feel like we went

456
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Speaker 2: through a lot of the little resources, so I know.

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Speaker 2: The next thing we have is Charlotte Black Trivia. Now,

458
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,240
Speaker 2: now everybody here is from Charlotte.

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Speaker 3: So some of these people take a wild guest.

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Speaker 2: Guys, guys might not might not get it, But did

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Speaker 2: you want to do trivia? You want me to read it?

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Speaker 2: It's whatever you want to do.

463
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Speaker 4: Well, we can take turns if you're like.

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Speaker 2: All right, cool, Well, you know, at least you do

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Speaker 2: the first one and then Kary can do the second

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Speaker 2: one and I'll do third.

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Speaker 4: Okay, that sounds good. All right, So guys, how we'll

468
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Speaker 4: do this is by a raise of hands. So we'll

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Speaker 4: do an audience pull true or false the Good Samaritan

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Speaker 4: Hospital where Blacks is preserved as an historical black site

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Speaker 4: in Charlotte's true or false?

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Speaker 2: Raise your hand. If it's true, you get a prize. Two, three, okay, four?

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Speaker 2: All right? Raising Okay, my dad is also raising all right,

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Speaker 2: so raise your hand if it's false. Okay, So we

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Speaker 2: got a lot of falses in here, raise them high.

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Speaker 2: Is false? Okay, oh you checked. My dad changed his

477
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Speaker 2: mind to false, which I feel like it's heading his back,

478
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Speaker 2: so he's disqualified. You don't count. The correct answer is Alicia,

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Speaker 2: it is false false. We did not preserve that. Now,

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Speaker 2: look unfortunately, Yes, we're on the honor system. Here. We

481
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Speaker 2: have stickers for people who got it right. So you

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Speaker 2: guys were like some stickers. I'm gonna trust everybody passes

483
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Speaker 2: around to just the people that got it right. You

484
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Speaker 2: got it wrong. There will be other opportunities to win stickers.

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Speaker 2: All right, Karen, do.

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Speaker 4: You want to do the second one, the bonus question?

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Speaker 2: Yes, let's see, okay, true or false? True or false?

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Speaker 2: All right? What was built in its place?

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Speaker 5: There? You go?

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Speaker 3: Oh, what was built in this place? This is the

491
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Speaker 3: bonus question?

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Speaker 2: Yes? Uh? Anybody wanna want to guess? Are you is? This?

493
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Speaker 2: Is this your guest? So you saying what you know?

494
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Speaker 2: So you're saying Panthers Stadium was built? Okay? What was

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Speaker 2: built in the place of the Good Samaritan Hospital for Blacks? Okay,

496
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Speaker 2: now he's saying the Panthers stadium, and I didn't call

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Speaker 2: on you, but I'm gonna go ahead and give you

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Speaker 2: credit for the enthusiasm. You get a sticker, that is correct.

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Speaker 2: Cam Newton is playing what oh? There you go? There

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Speaker 2: you go take one sticker, please, thank you? All right,

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Speaker 2: let's see the third question? Was the second Ward High

502
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Speaker 2: the first public high school for blacks?

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Speaker 3: True or false?

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Speaker 2: True of false? Let's get a show of hands. Second

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Speaker 2: Ward High the first public high school for blacks. Okay,

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Speaker 2: a lot of truths in this one, a lot of truths.

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Speaker 5: Okay.

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Speaker 2: Does anyone think or is there any falses? Got cold

509
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Speaker 2: falses here?

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Speaker 5: Okay?

511
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Speaker 2: All right? If you said true, you got it correct.

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Speaker 2: It was the first public high school for blacks. Are

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Speaker 2: we running out stickers here?

514
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Speaker 4: People? You want to add that it opened its doors

515
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Speaker 4: in nineteen twenty three and closed in nineteen sixty nine.

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Speaker 2: Wow, Wow, that was pretty fast. All right, it's you, Alicia.

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Speaker 2: Only take a sticker if you want gos trusting everybody

518
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Speaker 2: in here, that'll be plenty of opportunities for stickers.

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Speaker 4: Okay. So the next question is what can be found

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Speaker 4: at ninety nine twenty Brickleberry Lane and the Thornbury apartments.

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Speaker 6: Is it a Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, b Alexander Slave Cemetery,

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Speaker 6: or C the Excelsior.

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Speaker 3: Club where they used to get down they used to

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Speaker 3: get it down, Yes, which A, B or C?

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00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:26,800
Speaker 2: Who's okay?

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Speaker 4: Raise hand for A for a rich hand.

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Speaker 2: For a nobody? Nobody thinks it was Pleasant Hill Baptist Church,

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Speaker 2: b Alexander Slave Cemetery. Okay, we got a lot of

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Speaker 2: bees and or see the Excelsior Club. Y'all want to

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Speaker 2: see two c's. The correct answer was B. Guys, get

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Speaker 2: yourself a sticker. If are we let me know if

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Speaker 2: we're running out of stickers out there. If so, anybody else,

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Speaker 2: he's a stick all right, Karen, you got the last one.

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Speaker 3: The original mccormier, McCory, I'm sorry, McCory.

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Speaker 2: YMC.

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Speaker 3: A was located at the corner of what streets Uptown, A,

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Speaker 3: third in Cardwell, B E. W. Harris Boulevard and North

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Speaker 3: Trying or C Trade and South trying.

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Speaker 2: All right, So for a raise your hand for what

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Speaker 2: is it? Third and Cardwell? Okay, I got a few.

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Speaker 2: A's up in here all right. B was East W. T.

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Speaker 2: Harris and North Triing nohing, No one felt for that,

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Speaker 2: and c Trade and Trying Street got what in the

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Speaker 2: back there? Okay, we got a man here, my mom.

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Speaker 2: The correct answer and this is the last question, guys.

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Speaker 2: The correct answer is A. It was third and carwell, yeah,

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Speaker 2: third of Callwell, sticker is anybody that did not get

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Speaker 2: their stick stickers?

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Speaker 5: Since we should be everybody got stickers?

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Speaker 2: Yes, all right, well, all right, some people didn't get any, right,

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Speaker 2: but you know what, guys, we are for the people. Yes,

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Speaker 2: you can have a sticker. Okay, pass the stickers around

553
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Speaker 2: everyone to get a sticker, to get a sticker.

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Speaker 4: And I just wanted to add that if you want

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Speaker 4: to learn more about historical black sites, this excuse me.

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Speaker 4: The questions were taken from the Charlotte Observer and this

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Speaker 4: article was written by Mark Rice and the title of

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Speaker 4: the article is Black History Month Charlotte's Vanishing Historical Sites.

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Speaker 4: And this was back in February first, twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 2: Cool. So, Alicia, how long you been working for the

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Speaker 2: library and what was your path to being like a librarian.

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Speaker 4: I've been working for the library since two thousand and four,

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Speaker 4: and I think I've been at this location for about

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Speaker 4: eight ninety years. And what brought me this way is

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Speaker 4: my love of books and my love of children. I

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Speaker 4: work in children's services, so I love providing youth programs.

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Speaker 4: That's my passion.

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Speaker 2: So it wasn't the sweet library money that not at all,

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Speaker 2: saying libraries might be botherling. I don't know. So was

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Speaker 2: there anything like in school you had to concentrate in

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Speaker 2: or specialize in to get into this field.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so you do need to have a master's degree,

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Speaker 4: which I do not, so I'm like an unofficial librarian.

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Speaker 4: So usually that takes about two years to complete. And

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Speaker 4: there's different programs here and excuse me not Charlotte, but

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Speaker 4: in North Carolina that you can take if you want

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Speaker 4: to get your librarian degree and to work in the library.

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Speaker 4: You don't necessarily have to have a degree. It just

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Speaker 4: depends on what area you want to work in. So

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Speaker 4: you can have degrees, but it could you could use

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Speaker 4: it in different areas of the library.

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Speaker 2: So what's your favorite thing about the job.

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Speaker 4: My favorite thing about the job is connecting with people,

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Speaker 4: working with the youth and providing quality programs. And what's

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Speaker 4: the least favorite thing, Oh, you put me on the spot.

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Speaker 2: I do interviews.

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Speaker 4: Okay, the least favorite thing about the library is probably

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Speaker 4: breaking down after a program. As you can see, we

589
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Speaker 4: have all these chairs in the room and we're gonna

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Speaker 4: have to put them away, So that would probably be it.

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Speaker 2: Do people just like drop their bad kids off and stuff?

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Speaker 4: Oh bad kids and I would call them bad kids,

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Speaker 4: but yeah, sometimes parents they do they leave their kids here.

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Speaker 4: That happens.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I played basketball y and C a during at

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Speaker 2: lunch or something, and like sometimes you can tell the

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Speaker 2: kids that it's just like listen, don't be in the house,

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Speaker 2: so you go to the y. And I was like,

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Speaker 2: you know, the library can kind of be like that,

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Speaker 2: you know.

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Speaker 4: And it could be definitely a safe place. It should

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Speaker 4: be a welcoming environment, and I think for the most

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Speaker 4: part for the people that come to University City Regional

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Speaker 4: Library that they feel welcomed here.

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Speaker 2: And out front. Y'all even have a thing that's a

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Speaker 2: safe place. What does that mean?

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Speaker 4: Yep. So if there's a child that may be in

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Speaker 4: distress or something, they know that this is a place

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Speaker 4: that can help them. We work with that organization so

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Speaker 4: that they can give resources that they need if they

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Speaker 4: need that.

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Speaker 2: Do you guys still use a Dewey decimal system because

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Speaker 2: when I was in schools, I was so confused by

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Speaker 2: the Dewey decimal system. I still don't know it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we still have it. If you walk out in

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Speaker 4: the children's area, you'll see then you'll see it in

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Speaker 4: caps the numbers. We still follow the Dewey decimal system.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely.

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Speaker 2: I don't think that's ever gonna die.

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Speaker 3: Because at the last job that I had, we actually

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Speaker 3: did books for the library, and there was specific people

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Speaker 3: they were probably the librarians. When we sent a library books,

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Speaker 3: the librarian would actually put these books in Dowey decimal

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Speaker 3: order so that when they got there they could just

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Speaker 3: put them up in Doe decimal order. So that's why

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Speaker 3: I said, that's never gonna die.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting because you know, I'm just so used now

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Speaker 2: to just alphabetical order you just search something online or whatever.

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Speaker 2: I feel like I would get lost looking through trying

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Speaker 2: to figure out my remember my Dewey decimal I feel

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Speaker 2: like I would mess it up.

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Speaker 4: But I mean that's why we're here to help you,

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Speaker 4: to guide you along journey to find those resources, those books.

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Speaker 2: Why we need those librarians. Yes, yes, Now, in addition

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Speaker 2: to like dealing with the public and whatnot. You also

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Speaker 2: have these programs. What what is the thing that makes

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Speaker 2: you decide like when to put a program on? Like

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Speaker 2: are y'all doing something every month?

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Speaker 5: Is it?

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Speaker 2: You know, like, what's the impetus for all that? That's

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Speaker 2: a good.

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Speaker 4: Question, I guess. So I don't guess, but I'm inspired

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Speaker 4: by what's happening around me, like current events and yeah,

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Speaker 4: things that are happening that that aspire me. It could

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Speaker 4: be talking, it could be this, you know, this moment

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Speaker 4: right here. Because since you guys are here and people

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Speaker 4: love you, they're here to support you, I thought, you

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Speaker 4: know what, it'd be great to have you guys come back,

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Speaker 4: kind of like an encore. And I was reading recently

651
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Speaker 4: and Charlotte Observer about the twenty like podcasts that you

652
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Speaker 4: should know, and so I was thinking, Wow, that's amazing.

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Speaker 4: It would be great to have a program where we

654
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 4: can invite local podcasters and for people in our community

655
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:32,280
Speaker 4: to come out and meet them and be inspired.

656
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:33,359
Speaker 2: Oh that's do Yeah.

657
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:35,239
Speaker 4: So it's just things like that, you know. I just

658
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 4: I maybe have an experience. I'm like, oh, that would

659
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 4: be cool. Maybe I can do something with that, or

660
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:42,200
Speaker 4: just meeting people.

661
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, and then also like being working for the library,

662
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 2: which is like a public resource, Like how much do

663
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:52,840
Speaker 2: you guys have to pay attention on like politics and

664
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 2: different like bonds that come up and all that type

665
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:57,880
Speaker 2: of stuff, Like how much are y'all effective by that all?

666
00:34:58,080 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 2: Do y'all worry about that stuff or now?

667
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:06,759
Speaker 4: Yeah, we definitely, we definitely, definitely are mindful about what's

668
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:11,360
Speaker 4: happening in our community. Definitely because we get funding, government funding,

669
00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 4: federal funding. So it's important to know what's happening in

670
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 4: our community, in our environment because people out there are

671
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 4: affected by things that are going on. Changes maybe with

672
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 4: the housing market, with low income housing, people not able

673
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 4: to find jobs. So we have to listen to that

674
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 4: because we need to know what the trends are. We

675
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:36,239
Speaker 4: need to know how we can help people, how we

676
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 4: can be a better service, if that makes sense. Yeah,

677
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 4: So definitely we are listening.

678
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:44,880
Speaker 3: Yes, with all the things that are happening, particularly here

679
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 3: in Charlotte. Have y'all seen like an increase of people

680
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:51,839
Speaker 3: actually using the library for the first time, Like an

681
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 3: increase of people that are like, ay, things have changed

682
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:57,640
Speaker 3: in my life. Somebody lost the job, maybe they don't

683
00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:00,200
Speaker 3: have access to the internet or whatever, like some thin

684
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 3: traumatic has happened, and so have y'all seen like a

685
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 3: bump of people using these services that otherwise wouldn't have

686
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:07,280
Speaker 3: looked before.

687
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:10,799
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think we do see an increase of that,

688
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:16,840
Speaker 4: especially with homelessness, with the the housing crisis situation. People

689
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 4: are hurting and people need help. So we try to

690
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 4: connect people with the resources that can help them. Like

691
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:27,360
Speaker 4: we have a job help center at the main library.

692
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 4: I mean, people can go there if they need help

693
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 4: with their resume. They can come here if they need

694
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:36,479
Speaker 4: help with their resume. For immigrants, people that don't speak

695
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 4: English as their first language, they can come here and

696
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 4: learn one on one from a tutor, from a volunteer

697
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:49,160
Speaker 4: that can help them with their English. So you need something,

698
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 4: we have it right, come see us.

699
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think people don't think about it as much

700
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 2: as a resource. Like you'll hear different politicians float these

701
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 2: ideas are like we should privatize libraries, we should make

702
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:03,880
Speaker 2: it where what do we even need libraries for? We

703
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:07,000
Speaker 2: got we all got kindles or whatever, and it's like, well,

704
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 2: what about these other tangible resources in people's communities, you know? So,

705
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 2: like you said, I didn't even know y'all did resume

706
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:17,879
Speaker 2: like help people with resumes. But yeah, well, you don't

707
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:20,279
Speaker 2: have a job, you might not have the money to

708
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 2: have your internet at home, you might not have access

709
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:26,279
Speaker 2: to a printer, you might not have access to you know,

710
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 2: to a professional to help you with a resume or

711
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:31,759
Speaker 2: something like that. So yeah, that's I mean, I'm learning too,

712
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:37,960
Speaker 2: So absolutely, all right, did we have questions from either

713
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,799
Speaker 2: the audience or the questions in the magic box too?

714
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 1: Or no?

715
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:45,360
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, cool, So we're opening up for audience

716
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:48,239
Speaker 2: questions now, So do you guys have any questions out

717
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:50,879
Speaker 2: of the audience and if not, then we're gonna wrap

718
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 2: it up.

719
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 4: So I just have a question.

720
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 2: Oh and we're also gonna.

721
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:56,760
Speaker 5: Open it up to Alicia.

722
00:37:57,680 --> 00:37:59,319
Speaker 4: I have to do this. So why did you guys

723
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:01,279
Speaker 4: get into podcas? People want to know?

724
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 2: Oh, I think at the time we were podcast listeners

725
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 2: back when iPhones had uh well they weren't iPhones that

726
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 2: were iPods and they had spinning dials and uh, I

727
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:17,279
Speaker 2: was listening to a podcast called Keith and a Girl,

728
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 2: one of my favorite shows, and uh someone wrote in

729
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 2: to complain about their show and they said, your show

730
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 2: your job is so easy being a podcast. Anyone can

731
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 2: do it, why should anyone listen to you? And they said, well,

732
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:31,279
Speaker 2: if it's so easy, why don't you do it yourself? Now,

733
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:33,759
Speaker 2: I was not on the side of the person I think,

734
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 2: you know, I respected what they did, but I also

735
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 2: did think why don't we do it ourselves? And ten

736
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:42,640
Speaker 2: years ago that just were not a lot of black podcasts.

737
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:45,400
Speaker 2: So we were like, you know, you listen to shows

738
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:47,920
Speaker 2: and you hear I don't know how many. I mean

739
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:49,840
Speaker 2: a lot of these people here they listen to our shows.

740
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:51,880
Speaker 2: So you listening to a show and then you have

741
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:53,960
Speaker 2: your own ideas and you're like, man, I wish they

742
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:55,799
Speaker 2: would have said that, or man, it would be nice

743
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 2: if someone's in the room to like tell them, like,

744
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:00,759
Speaker 2: what about this perspective? And so so I was like,

745
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,840
Speaker 2: why not from perspective? Why can't we be the people talking?

746
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:09,439
Speaker 2: And Karen said, I'll do it with you as long

747
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:10,239
Speaker 2: as you.

748
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 3: Don't find I thought it was a temporary gig.

749
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, she said, if you need to replace me, so

750
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:18,279
Speaker 2: don't worry about putting my name on it and all

751
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:18,760
Speaker 2: this stuff.

752
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:20,640
Speaker 3: That's why it's not called the Rod And Karen.

753
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 2: So maybe it's a better name, but it would have

754
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 2: definitely been called something else.

755
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:27,480
Speaker 3: You know, I think it is a better name because

756
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:30,240
Speaker 3: over the years, because we've been podcast rest were podcast

757
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:32,919
Speaker 3: like ten years. Over the years, we've had so many

758
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,239
Speaker 3: people like the show. I found y'all because I put

759
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 3: in black on whatever platform they had and they was like,

760
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:41,400
Speaker 3: y'all was the first thing to come up. And particularly

761
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 3: with Google, for years.

762
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:45,040
Speaker 2: We fought to get above.

763
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,680
Speaker 3: The Black Little Boy and Hate Arnold. We was like

764
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 3: number two for a very long time on Google Search.

765
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 3: So we finally a head. We're number one where you

766
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:55,239
Speaker 3: type in the black Guy. So I am proud of

767
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 3: that goal.

768
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:01,880
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's how we got started, and you know what,

769
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 2: ten years later, I think it was we did all right.

770
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, so tell us about your experience at the Bloomenthal

771
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:09,280
Speaker 4: That's that's a big time right there.

772
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:17,800
Speaker 3: That was a fun experience. I think that Charlotte is

773
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 3: a home that we love this place. So when we

774
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 3: was trying to pick venues, we decided to do the show.

775
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 3: When we walked in, I was like, this is the spot,

776
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:31,640
Speaker 3: and I am glad that.

777
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 2: We did it.

778
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 3: It was a beautiful moment to share with our fans.

779
00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:39,040
Speaker 3: People came from all over the world. We had people

780
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:42,279
Speaker 3: at the Bloomenthal Place saying that they were surprised. They

781
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:44,640
Speaker 3: was like the furthest we ever had anybody come, you know,

782
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:48,360
Speaker 3: was local. They was like South Carolina. Yeah, So because

783
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:51,400
Speaker 3: we had people come from Australia. We've had people come

784
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:55,399
Speaker 3: from California, we had France. We had people coming from

785
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:59,240
Speaker 3: all over the world to come out Seattle, yeah, Washington,

786
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 3: you know, we had yes, somebody it was somebody came

787
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:08,240
Speaker 3: from Gastonia and they and they said, I told my boss,

788
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 3: I'm getting off. I don't care what y'all doing because

789
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:12,279
Speaker 3: I was hitting eighty five and I was coming to

790
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:16,080
Speaker 3: see y'all. And so it's one of those things where

791
00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 3: when you podcast, initially you don't know who's listening, so

792
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:21,400
Speaker 3: it's almost like you're talking into.

793
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 2: A black void.

794
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:25,680
Speaker 3: But eventually people will come out of the void and

795
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:28,360
Speaker 3: be like, I'm listening, I'm listening, I'm listening. So before

796
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 3: you know it, you realize that people are actually listening,

797
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:32,880
Speaker 3: and you know, you can see like your numbers, like

798
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:35,720
Speaker 3: you know, you get statistics, but there are people behind

799
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:38,319
Speaker 3: the statistics. You don't realize that until you get to

800
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:40,719
Speaker 3: see them face to face until you get to look

801
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 3: them in the eye and they tell you, you know,

802
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:46,359
Speaker 3: you said something that made me change.

803
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:48,279
Speaker 2: The way that I view my wife, or you.

804
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 3: Said something that made me change the way you know,

805
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:55,000
Speaker 3: I view people outside of my race or outside of

806
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:58,799
Speaker 3: my sexuality. You know, when you talk to people and

807
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 3: you know, they tell you that I was sick and

808
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:04,439
Speaker 3: you helped me get through sickness, or my spouse was sick,

809
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 3: or my mother passed, or or I was just going

810
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:11,719
Speaker 3: through depression of sadness and they were saying, like, you know,

811
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 3: you were the one thing that was routine that helped

812
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 3: me get through those moments. Because words are powerful, and

813
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 3: sometimes I don't think people realize how powerful words are

814
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:25,360
Speaker 3: and how words actually touch and reach people in all

815
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 3: types of ways. So we're not perfect, but we try

816
00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 3: to be ourselves on the microphone and reach our audience,

817
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 3: and our audience reach reaches back to us. And I

818
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:39,160
Speaker 3: can't speak for anybody else, but I can truly say

819
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 3: that we have one of the best audiences in the world.

820
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 5: Yeah.

821
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 2: Well, also at Bloomenthal it was just like it to me,

822
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:49,920
Speaker 2: it didn't really feel real until like the day of

823
00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 2: and you see like your name outside, it's like, oh yeah,

824
00:42:55,680 --> 00:43:00,160
Speaker 2: this is about to happen. And then but it was

825
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:02,400
Speaker 2: in like a nerve wracking experience. Really we had a

826
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:05,319
Speaker 2: really good event planner, yes we did. So she made

827
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:07,920
Speaker 2: it like super easy. You just need to show up

828
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:12,239
Speaker 2: record They have very professional staff and just to fill

829
00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:14,319
Speaker 2: all that love in the room and to get to

830
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:16,880
Speaker 2: hang out with all those people. Uh, it was just

831
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:20,440
Speaker 2: a great time, so you know, And and also Bloom

832
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 2: thought performing arts is not as expensive as you would think.

833
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 2: So you know, I think when you hear like that

834
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:28,799
Speaker 2: as a venue, it's like, I know, I ain't got

835
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 2: that much.

836
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:31,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was like the line king down.

837
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:32,440
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah.

838
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 2: It's also like it's also like a public resource, like

839
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:37,800
Speaker 2: much like much like the library, it's also a public resource,

840
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:40,920
Speaker 2: so like you can't run it for free though it's

841
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:43,279
Speaker 2: not like that much like a library. But it's not

842
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:44,160
Speaker 2: as much as you would think.

843
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:49,280
Speaker 4: Awesome, So I'm looking at your equipment here. Can you

844
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:53,280
Speaker 4: tell us what kind of equipment is best for a podcast?

845
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 5: Oh?

846
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:56,440
Speaker 2: Okay, so it depends on what you want to do,

847
00:43:57,160 --> 00:43:59,839
Speaker 2: all right, So, uh, for what we have, we have

848
00:43:59,880 --> 00:44:03,400
Speaker 2: a like essentially you need a mixer it's a USB mixer,

849
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 2: and that's this thing here that my headphones are plugged into.

850
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:09,560
Speaker 2: And what it allows us to do is to play

851
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 2: sound through the show. So back in the day, we

852
00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:17,440
Speaker 2: used to have a USB microphone. Yes, it's called Blue

853
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:20,759
Speaker 2: Snowball by Blue. We still have it then, and you

854
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:22,920
Speaker 2: plug it into your computer and it picks up everything

855
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:25,160
Speaker 2: in the room. That's three different settings you can make it.

856
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:27,760
Speaker 2: You can say I'm just one person, click on that switch,

857
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 2: one person talking to them like a couple of people.

858
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 2: Hit the next switch. If you're gonna be playing like

859
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 2: a music concert, you hit another switch. Right, very rudimentary,

860
00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 2: not that expensive, probably like under one hundred dollars, I

861
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 2: suggested for people who kind of just want to get started.

862
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:44,960
Speaker 2: They don't want they don't want to learn all the

863
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:49,720
Speaker 2: technology and all that stuff. But we, uh, we started

864
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:51,800
Speaker 2: with that. And in order for us to play sound,

865
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:54,879
Speaker 2: so we have a Skype call or something, we want

866
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:57,759
Speaker 2: to play some music, we had to take our PC

867
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:00,640
Speaker 2: speakers and put them next to the microphone.

868
00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:02,360
Speaker 3: Yeah.

869
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:05,000
Speaker 2: So I don't know about the quality of that audio.

870
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:06,640
Speaker 2: I don't know if I can vouch for that, but

871
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 2: it was just it was we started where we were right.

872
00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:11,839
Speaker 2: So that's what we could afford. That's what we could do.

873
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 2: But now, like I said, we have a USB mixer,

874
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:16,480
Speaker 2: so now I can play stuff like I can go

875
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 2: play a clip from YouTube and people can hear all

876
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 2: the audio on it. If we get a phone call,

877
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 2: we can take phone calls now. And this isn't that

878
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 2: expensive relatively speaking, like may it's probably under two hundred

879
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 2: dollars to get the kind of mixer we have. And

880
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 2: then you know you need like studio headphones. You're gonna

881
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:41,480
Speaker 2: need your microphones. We have condenser mics now a little

882
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 2: bit more expensive than the old ones, but you can get.

883
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:47,280
Speaker 2: One thing I will say is this, if you can't

884
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:52,719
Speaker 2: afford like really good equipment, expertise is free, right, but

885
00:45:52,880 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 2: you have to put in the time. So it's like

886
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:58,319
Speaker 2: Malcolm glad Well ten thousand hour theory. You have to like,

887
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:00,719
Speaker 2: if you work with your equipment enough, you'll become an

888
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 2: expert in it. Like we record with a program called Audacity.

889
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:07,879
Speaker 2: It's free, right, and we had the audacity to keep

890
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:12,560
Speaker 2: using it. It's over. It's over two thousand episodes later,

891
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 2: and we still use something that we got off the

892
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:17,879
Speaker 2: internet for free. But I've become very good at using

893
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:20,239
Speaker 2: it to where I'm just like hit a button and

894
00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:22,960
Speaker 2: everything's preset and we can just go ahead and start recording.

895
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:27,320
Speaker 2: So I would just say the best thing for podcast

896
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:33,200
Speaker 2: resources just literally google it, you know, and then start

897
00:46:33,239 --> 00:46:35,160
Speaker 2: from If you don't want to put too much money

898
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 2: into it, start from free and go from there. Because

899
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 2: the average podcast only last about six episodes, so it

900
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:44,840
Speaker 2: may be something you're not going to do for the

901
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:46,719
Speaker 2: rest of your life, so you got to kind of

902
00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:48,880
Speaker 2: plan accordingly. Don't go by two thousand dollars worth of

903
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:51,160
Speaker 2: stuff and it's just sitting in your house. So I

904
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 2: would say start kind of where you're at, and so

905
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:56,839
Speaker 2: you know, Audacity, Blue smoke Ball might see what you're

906
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:58,799
Speaker 2: working with. And then if you want to incorporate some

907
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 2: other things like I want to learn how to put

908
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:03,359
Speaker 2: it sound. Oh last thing. There's also so many new

909
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:06,080
Speaker 2: resources as we started ten years ago, correct, it's really

910
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:08,520
Speaker 2: a booming business. Like now there's websites that are like,

911
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 2: we can make it so you can record your podcast

912
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 2: straight from your laptop onto this website. You know, I

913
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:16,279
Speaker 2: don't know it off the top of my head. I

914
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:20,279
Speaker 2: forget the name, but there's more than one, so you know,

915
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:23,479
Speaker 2: I think matter of fact, Potomatic, the website that helpsed

916
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 2: our podcast, they have a thing now where it's like

917
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:28,680
Speaker 2: the podcast or studio. All you need is your laptop

918
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:31,920
Speaker 2: with a mic. So yeah, there's a lot of stuff

919
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 2: out there. It's not as expensive and it's readily available.

920
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:36,960
Speaker 4: Oh that is awesome. And again I just want to

921
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 4: plug in Linda dot com. You can also go there

922
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:42,920
Speaker 4: to learn how to podcast?

923
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:44,359
Speaker 2: What was it? Linda dot com?

924
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:46,879
Speaker 4: Linda dot com And this is a free resource offer

925
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 4: through the library. If you try to get it on

926
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:51,400
Speaker 4: your own, you would have to pay a subscription for it.

927
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:58,800
Speaker 4: So Linda dot com, okay, l y n DA dot.

928
00:47:58,600 --> 00:47:59,640
Speaker 2: Com, Oh so it's black.

929
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:06,759
Speaker 3: Okay, Yes, have any questions from in the hand so

930
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:11,399
Speaker 3: y'a say why.

931
00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:19,399
Speaker 2: I'm gonna repeat the question though, because they might.

932
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:22,239
Speaker 3: Not be okay. So, because we actually got a live chat,

933
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 3: so with those listening to the chat room, she wanted

934
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 3: to know why does the episode? Why do episodes last six?

935
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:32,520
Speaker 3: Why do podcasts normally last six episodes? She was wondering,

936
00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:34,399
Speaker 3: was it the people? You know what's happening. I'm gonna

937
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:36,799
Speaker 3: tell you right now, it's work like like, I'm like, like,

938
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:38,520
Speaker 3: that's the problem is work, And I don't mean a

939
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 3: problem in a bad way. It's like people when when

940
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,520
Speaker 3: you do something as long as we've had, when you

941
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:48,040
Speaker 3: make something look easy, people assuming that it's easy. That's

942
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:50,520
Speaker 3: because you have learned it so well. You make it

943
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:52,640
Speaker 3: look flawless. You can just go with the flow because

944
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:55,480
Speaker 3: it's almost an extension of you. So people on the

945
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:58,160
Speaker 3: outside looking in they go, well, oh, that's simple because

946
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:00,680
Speaker 3: you make it look easy, but they don't see the

947
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:02,960
Speaker 3: work that goes on the back side of it. They

948
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:05,440
Speaker 3: just see the finished product and they just assume, well,

949
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:07,719
Speaker 3: I want to finished product. Well, it took work to

950
00:49:07,719 --> 00:49:09,840
Speaker 3: get to the finished product. And so for most people

951
00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:12,839
Speaker 3: it's like, oh, let's do a podcast. Wait a minute,

952
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:15,360
Speaker 3: we gotta do this again. Oh we gotta do this again.

953
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:17,560
Speaker 3: Oh I gotta find out what the rs that feed is.

954
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:21,560
Speaker 3: Oh I gotta upload download, like like like, it's a

955
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:24,480
Speaker 3: lot more to it than people think, particularly if you

956
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 3: trying to do it yourself. Now, if you come in

957
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:31,480
Speaker 3: and record, that's completely different because somebody else is doing

958
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:35,279
Speaker 3: a lot of the technical work. If you kind of right,

959
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:37,320
Speaker 3: but that's a trade off. And then it costs money,

960
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:39,839
Speaker 3: you know, but if you're trying to do it yourself,

961
00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:42,440
Speaker 3: they are things that are required that you learn. But

962
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:44,600
Speaker 3: the thing is, once you learn it, nobody can take

963
00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:45,879
Speaker 3: it away from you once.

964
00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:47,279
Speaker 2: Once, once you know.

965
00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 3: It and you really know it, you can do more

966
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:52,440
Speaker 3: things with it, and you don't have to depend and

967
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:55,600
Speaker 3: outsource and pay these fees for somebody else to do

968
00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:57,960
Speaker 3: something that you've learned how to do yourself. And also

969
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:00,640
Speaker 3: it's a thing life. Some people like I'm record, but

970
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:02,200
Speaker 3: I got a child, I got a baby, I got

971
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:04,680
Speaker 3: another job, like and all of a sudden, you know,

972
00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:08,239
Speaker 3: I can't do it anymore. Inconsistency, because the thing is

973
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:10,440
Speaker 3: you have to be consistent because, like I said, when

974
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:13,279
Speaker 3: you first start, you're talking into a void, which means

975
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:15,839
Speaker 3: you don't really know who's out there. So you're doing

976
00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:17,799
Speaker 3: it and you might not get no feedback for a while.

977
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:20,319
Speaker 3: You might start with three downloads, you might start with five,

978
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 3: particularly if you don't have a built in a machine

979
00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:26,640
Speaker 3: behind you, you don't have a team of people pushing

980
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:30,120
Speaker 3: and promote, and you don't have people automatically throwing you

981
00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 3: to the top of these list. That means you have

982
00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:35,600
Speaker 3: to start from nowhere and if you physically, if you're

983
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:37,200
Speaker 3: not already famous, because a lot of people want to

984
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:39,240
Speaker 3: do they want quote unquote get famous. But you're talking

985
00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:42,200
Speaker 3: about people that have already built a career somewhere else

986
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:44,439
Speaker 3: and then just taking the audience and they just moving

987
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:48,000
Speaker 3: into podcasting. That's completely different than you're kind of starting

988
00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:50,759
Speaker 3: fresh with. The average person is gonna start fresh. Most

989
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:53,480
Speaker 3: people aren't gonna be these megal superstars in podcasting. They're

990
00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:55,400
Speaker 3: gonna be kind of mediocre to average.

991
00:50:55,920 --> 00:50:58,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say, Uh, the main reason that most

992
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:02,560
Speaker 2: things last six episodes on average is the same way

993
00:51:02,640 --> 00:51:05,839
Speaker 2: like a diet last six weeks on average or something like.

994
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:09,440
Speaker 2: You know, you're starting something new, A lot of times

995
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:11,879
Speaker 2: you just want to try it, and so it might

996
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:13,960
Speaker 2: not be for you. You know, it's it's like it's not

997
00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:16,640
Speaker 2: a bad thing to have tried and been like we

998
00:51:16,680 --> 00:51:19,160
Speaker 2: couldn't do it, or I didn't want to do it. It

999
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:21,239
Speaker 2: wasn't as fulfilling as uh as I thought it would be.

1000
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:25,200
Speaker 2: So but but yeah, the average one is like six

1001
00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:28,640
Speaker 2: episodes and then it's like, all right, uh, what we're

1002
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:31,880
Speaker 2: gonna do now? You know, any more questions from the audience,

1003
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:35,360
Speaker 2: you go here.

1004
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:37,400
Speaker 5: The library.

1005
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:39,040
Speaker 2: I know there are some libraries that have like a

1006
00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:41,400
Speaker 2: library of things where.

1007
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:44,080
Speaker 4: You like household items that you don't.

1008
00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:47,720
Speaker 3: Necessarily want to own, like sewing machines or specific tools.

1009
00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:50,760
Speaker 2: Is that something this library or any library?

1010
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:52,880
Speaker 3: If not, is it something that would.

1011
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:56,600
Speaker 4: Consider It's a possibility you could definitely be brought up.

1012
00:51:56,960 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 2: Hold on, let me repeat the question for this. Nos. Okay,

1013
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:03,880
Speaker 2: she was asking what about library resources that aren't just

1014
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:06,840
Speaker 2: like books, Like there's some libraries where you can like

1015
00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:10,120
Speaker 2: rent physical like a storing machine or something like that.

1016
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:13,680
Speaker 2: And so she was wanting to know if this if

1017
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:17,120
Speaker 2: Charlotte had anything like that, or if this particular library

1018
00:52:17,239 --> 00:52:19,080
Speaker 2: University City had anything like that.

1019
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:24,360
Speaker 4: Yes, so at the main library at the job help center,

1020
00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:27,960
Speaker 4: we do have an opportunity for people to come in

1021
00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:31,560
Speaker 4: and get used close or donated clothes that they can

1022
00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:35,720
Speaker 4: use for interviews. Yes, I know that, Yes, I forgot

1023
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:39,640
Speaker 4: about that. Actually, my colleague here, Everett, mentioned that. Thank

1024
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:47,000
Speaker 4: you Everett. Yes, but anonymous.

1025
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:50,080
Speaker 2: Person, any more questions for an artists? Okay, we got

1026
00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:59,279
Speaker 2: one back here.

1027
00:52:52,800 --> 00:53:06,240
Speaker 5: I congratulations, And I wanted to know. I'm an educator

1028
00:53:06,239 --> 00:53:07,480
Speaker 5: as well, so I wish.

1029
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:11,640
Speaker 1: That we would be talking about education more, you know.

1030
00:53:11,600 --> 00:53:12,719
Speaker 2: As the people. M M.

1031
00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:16,520
Speaker 1: That's what I watched my parents, you know in eighteen

1032
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:20,719
Speaker 1: hundreds and early from my grandparents brought us up. I

1033
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:23,759
Speaker 1: think that's to me it's the biggest issue while we

1034
00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 1: keep going in circles people, but why were not.

1035
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:31,200
Speaker 5: Teaching our children how to read before.

1036
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:33,640
Speaker 1: They won two years old, like like we're supposed to.

1037
00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 1: So I was just asking what you know for podcasts

1038
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:41,360
Speaker 1: or whoever out there speaking, if you guys, will you

1039
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:42,160
Speaker 1: know relate to that.

1040
00:53:45,200 --> 00:53:49,320
Speaker 2: So gentlemen, was asking about like education especially like younger

1041
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:51,800
Speaker 2: and earlier with kids, like teaching them how to read,

1042
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:54,799
Speaker 2: and the emphasis of that within black culture, you know.

1043
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:58,040
Speaker 2: I mean my personal experience is obviously, you know, my

1044
00:53:58,040 --> 00:54:01,560
Speaker 2: parents pushed education pretty hard, and I think a lot

1045
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:04,600
Speaker 2: of us do as like a way out quote unquote,

1046
00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:07,600
Speaker 2: you know, it's like you either gotta get be smart

1047
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:10,959
Speaker 2: or really good at sports or entertaining or something like that.

1048
00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:14,839
Speaker 2: But I find like education is one of those things

1049
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:20,080
Speaker 2: where unfortunately it's like a Maslow's hierarchy of needs. So

1050
00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:23,360
Speaker 2: it's like if I'm not being fed, then I'm not

1051
00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:26,120
Speaker 2: thinking about books. If I'm not if I don't feel

1052
00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:29,040
Speaker 2: safe in my neighborhood. I'm not thinking about my education.

1053
00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:32,960
Speaker 2: I know. One of the things, you know, my dad

1054
00:54:33,040 --> 00:54:34,279
Speaker 2: used to tell me when I was a kid, it

1055
00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:37,480
Speaker 2: was like, look, when like to make it to twenty

1056
00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:40,440
Speaker 2: one as a black man in America, you need like

1057
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:45,800
Speaker 2: there's a lot of pitfalls. You know, there's violence, there's incarceration,

1058
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:50,399
Speaker 2: there's drug use, there's a HIV, there's like all these

1059
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:52,800
Speaker 2: different ways. And so I think to a certain extent,

1060
00:54:53,520 --> 00:54:57,160
Speaker 2: our kids become survivors, and once you become a survivor,

1061
00:54:57,200 --> 00:55:00,120
Speaker 2: you're not necessarily thinking about that future in a way

1062
00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:02,360
Speaker 2: that you know some other people may have that privilege

1063
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:06,440
Speaker 2: of doing so. I think, like it is important. We

1064
00:55:06,520 --> 00:55:08,400
Speaker 2: obviously do need to stress it, and I think a

1065
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:10,600
Speaker 2: lot of us do. I went to HBCU, My wife

1066
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:15,160
Speaker 2: went to HBCU, Like we all HBCU people up here,

1067
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:17,560
Speaker 2: so like we do have it within our culture, but

1068
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:20,759
Speaker 2: it's really about the environment, and like what else is

1069
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:24,160
Speaker 2: what's stopping it from from getting to the point where

1070
00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:26,279
Speaker 2: you can feel like I can take this young kid

1071
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:28,440
Speaker 2: aside and say I want you to focus on your education.

1072
00:55:28,520 --> 00:55:31,200
Speaker 2: I'm not, you know, not just on if you're gonna

1073
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:33,160
Speaker 2: eat today, or not. You know, so I think there's

1074
00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:34,720
Speaker 2: a lot of things that have to be met before

1075
00:55:34,760 --> 00:55:37,320
Speaker 2: we can just get to only that focus on education.

1076
00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:40,280
Speaker 2: But once again, like I said, I had the privilege

1077
00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:43,520
Speaker 2: of having people that could push that for me. You

1078
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:45,759
Speaker 2: know that that was like, this is that way out,

1079
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:47,600
Speaker 2: this is that thing you need to do. You can

1080
00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:49,800
Speaker 2: at least be smart and push it outside of school,

1081
00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:53,520
Speaker 2: because just school, like school is the baseline, right, like

1082
00:55:53,680 --> 00:55:56,040
Speaker 2: school is everybody's like, oh, just graduate from high school

1083
00:55:56,120 --> 00:55:58,279
Speaker 2: or whatever. It's like, that's that's good if you can

1084
00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:00,680
Speaker 2: do it, I'm not knocking it. But you don't even

1085
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:03,560
Speaker 2: we don't learn enough in school, you know, and especially

1086
00:56:03,560 --> 00:56:06,400
Speaker 2: if you're talking about African American, like you're definitely not

1087
00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:08,799
Speaker 2: gonna learn a lot about your culture. You know. They're

1088
00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:10,279
Speaker 2: trying to some of the stuff. They're trying to take

1089
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:12,879
Speaker 2: black history out of school. You know, people, I don't

1090
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:15,319
Speaker 2: feel comfortable learning about this. What about the other kids?

1091
00:56:15,360 --> 00:56:18,680
Speaker 2: You know. So it's a fight on every single level

1092
00:56:18,719 --> 00:56:21,200
Speaker 2: of it. And you need like you need like older people,

1093
00:56:21,280 --> 00:56:23,799
Speaker 2: you need parents, you need mentors, you need all these

1094
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:25,439
Speaker 2: people to be fighting for you as a kid, because

1095
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:28,000
Speaker 2: kids can't do it themselves. And we can't just put

1096
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:38,400
Speaker 2: it out there by themselves. Another question, Yeah, he go armist, Wow, wow,

1097
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:42,840
Speaker 2: got to infiltrator up in here. Well you can't. You

1098
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:46,920
Speaker 2: can't go to Arby's because there's no line you can

1099
00:56:46,960 --> 00:56:54,319
Speaker 2: go right now, do you feel like you're absolutely We

1100
00:56:54,360 --> 00:56:57,920
Speaker 2: are planning to do on soon. But uh yeah, it's

1101
00:56:57,920 --> 00:57:01,120
Speaker 2: in the planning stages. But like calls been made stuff

1102
00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:03,920
Speaker 2: like that, So I don't know if it might not

1103
00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:05,799
Speaker 2: be at the Bloemuthal So I don't know if it'll

1104
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:07,680
Speaker 2: be as many chairs. So you know, when we say

1105
00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:09,480
Speaker 2: go get the tickets, y'all need to like get on

1106
00:57:10,880 --> 00:57:13,719
Speaker 2: all right? Uh, anyone else got one over here?

1107
00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:18,920
Speaker 7: I appreciate the topics around politics lately so that whenever

1108
00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:22,240
Speaker 7: I'm listening to what's going on on mainstream media, I

1109
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:25,080
Speaker 7: can come to the podcast and listen to okay.

1110
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:28,000
Speaker 3: What is on it?

1111
00:57:28,240 --> 00:57:30,800
Speaker 7: And so when you talk about current events, is that

1112
00:57:30,840 --> 00:57:33,640
Speaker 7: from your perspective, like the stuff do you want to

1113
00:57:33,680 --> 00:57:36,480
Speaker 7: talk about? Or are you listening to your your listeners

1114
00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:37,680
Speaker 7: and your followers.

1115
00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:38,520
Speaker 4: Or are they telling.

1116
00:57:38,280 --> 00:57:39,720
Speaker 3: You this is what we want to hear about.

1117
00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:41,080
Speaker 5: How do you know the topic?

1118
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:43,920
Speaker 2: Okay, So she's asking, how do we come up with topics,

1119
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:46,720
Speaker 2: especially current events and like politics and stuff like that,

1120
00:57:47,800 --> 00:57:50,120
Speaker 2: and do we get it through our listeners or do

1121
00:57:50,200 --> 00:57:51,720
Speaker 2: we just kind of come up with it on our own.

1122
00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:57,000
Speaker 2: It's a little bit of a combination of both. One

1123
00:57:57,440 --> 00:57:59,920
Speaker 2: is what I say first and foremost is what we

1124
00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:03,400
Speaker 2: talk about. So like on our show, we stopped really

1125
00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:05,920
Speaker 2: talking about Trump that often because it was driving us crazy.

1126
00:58:06,240 --> 00:58:09,000
Speaker 2: So so we would talk about that when we felt

1127
00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:10,960
Speaker 2: like it, you know, and we made it into like

1128
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:13,520
Speaker 2: a little bit of a game it's, you know, and

1129
00:58:13,560 --> 00:58:15,680
Speaker 2: then other things are just things that like are nearing

1130
00:58:15,720 --> 00:58:18,400
Speaker 2: did at our hearts. And I think it's hard to

1131
00:58:19,560 --> 00:58:22,880
Speaker 2: do a show. Like some people think comedy is the

1132
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:25,920
Speaker 2: absence of reality, and I don't. I don't think that,

1133
00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:28,400
Speaker 2: you know, I don't think. I think, as black people

1134
00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:32,160
Speaker 2: with our like kind of gallows humor, it's the opposite, right,

1135
00:58:32,200 --> 00:58:35,120
Speaker 2: it's reality, and then we make it observed, like we

1136
00:58:35,160 --> 00:58:39,200
Speaker 2: talk about what's absurd about reality, And so for us,

1137
00:58:38,600 --> 00:58:42,280
Speaker 2: it's it's really generated by like what's in the zeitgeis

1138
00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:47,280
Speaker 2: what's going on. So if Kobe Bryant passes, we're gonna

1139
00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:49,640
Speaker 2: talk about it instead of being like, well, I don't

1140
00:58:49,640 --> 00:58:51,479
Speaker 2: want to make everybody sad. We're going to talk about

1141
00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:54,479
Speaker 2: this thing. It sucks, No, let's talk about it. Maybe

1142
00:58:54,520 --> 00:58:56,480
Speaker 2: we'll find some joy in that. Maybe we'll find some

1143
00:58:56,560 --> 00:58:58,680
Speaker 2: light in his life and how he lived it as

1144
00:58:58,680 --> 00:59:01,960
Speaker 2: opposed to just turning it into like good times. Well

1145
00:59:02,160 --> 00:59:06,240
Speaker 2: people like good times. So I hate sorry y'all, but

1146
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:09,160
Speaker 2: turned into like a sad situation. Like so in a

1147
00:59:09,160 --> 00:59:13,120
Speaker 2: lot of cases, it's really and sometimes also like Karen

1148
00:59:13,120 --> 00:59:15,480
Speaker 2: will just kind of go solo and be like, I

1149
00:59:15,560 --> 00:59:18,000
Speaker 2: want to talk about blank, and so then we're talking

1150
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:21,440
Speaker 2: about blank because she want to talk about So it's really,

1151
00:59:21,640 --> 00:59:24,240
Speaker 2: uh kind of like improv every time we do the show.

1152
00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:28,400
Speaker 2: It's it's jazz, you know, anyone else for questions? Okay,

1153
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:29,320
Speaker 2: my dad has a question.

1154
00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:34,919
Speaker 6: When you first started the podcast, you know the span

1155
00:59:35,080 --> 00:59:38,520
Speaker 6: to the now, has your format changed, like you have

1156
00:59:38,600 --> 00:59:42,560
Speaker 6: a set format.

1157
00:59:39,920 --> 00:59:42,919
Speaker 2: You right, and things like that.

1158
00:59:43,200 --> 00:59:45,760
Speaker 1: Has that format changed from the time you started to

1159
00:59:45,840 --> 00:59:46,800
Speaker 1: the set format that.

1160
00:59:46,760 --> 00:59:47,360
Speaker 4: You have now?

1161
00:59:47,760 --> 00:59:50,920
Speaker 1: How did you make that transition to decide what you know,

1162
00:59:50,960 --> 00:59:52,400
Speaker 1: what your focus would be in each show?

1163
00:59:53,600 --> 00:59:54,360
Speaker 2: We need the question and.

1164
00:59:56,120 --> 00:59:59,080
Speaker 3: Rod's daddy asks, how has like the format of the

1165
00:59:59,200 --> 01:00:01,439
Speaker 3: show changed like over the years, or has it changed

1166
01:00:01,480 --> 01:00:01,760
Speaker 3: at all.

1167
01:00:02,480 --> 01:00:12,720
Speaker 2: It's just dad, not Daddy, but father father. The format

1168
01:00:12,720 --> 01:00:15,919
Speaker 2: of the show has changed as much as we change.

1169
01:00:16,080 --> 01:00:21,600
Speaker 2: And then as a creative, like it's it's almost inexplicable,

1170
01:00:21,600 --> 01:00:24,280
Speaker 2: but sometimes you just have like these moments where you're

1171
01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:27,040
Speaker 2: like this is over for me, like I got I

1172
01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:29,360
Speaker 2: gleaned everything I could off the bone of this thing,

1173
01:00:29,440 --> 01:00:32,480
Speaker 2: and I don't feel the creativity being fed with that.

1174
01:00:32,760 --> 01:00:36,280
Speaker 2: So for example that we used to have a segment

1175
01:00:36,320 --> 01:00:39,640
Speaker 2: on the show and well, me and my me and

1176
01:00:39,760 --> 01:00:42,200
Speaker 2: my friend Justin we had a show where we called

1177
01:00:42,200 --> 01:00:46,920
Speaker 2: it the Real House Husbands of Charlotte, and so it

1178
01:00:47,000 --> 01:00:49,320
Speaker 2: was a mock reality show, right. It was a lot

1179
01:00:49,360 --> 01:00:51,240
Speaker 2: of work, Like we do the show. I had to

1180
01:00:51,280 --> 01:00:54,720
Speaker 2: do all this editing, put music in, We had fake confessionals,

1181
01:00:54,800 --> 01:00:57,680
Speaker 2: and you know, so it's like we'd have a scene

1182
01:00:57,720 --> 01:01:00,000
Speaker 2: together where we were talking and then after the scene

1183
01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:02,160
Speaker 2: it's like us talking trash about each other like we're

1184
01:01:02,160 --> 01:01:04,320
Speaker 2: not in the room, kind of like reality shows. And

1185
01:01:04,360 --> 01:01:06,120
Speaker 2: I think we did eight episodes of that, and it

1186
01:01:06,200 --> 01:01:08,640
Speaker 2: was a lot of work, and I felt like the

1187
01:01:08,760 --> 01:01:11,240
Speaker 2: last few it got kind of redundant, and I said,

1188
01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:13,000
Speaker 2: you know what, let's stop doing it. He was like,

1189
01:01:13,560 --> 01:01:15,640
Speaker 2: but we're having fun people listening to it. I was like,

1190
01:01:15,760 --> 01:01:18,600
Speaker 2: I know, but I don't want to do this thing

1191
01:01:18,680 --> 01:01:20,600
Speaker 2: until it's not fun. I want to do this thing

1192
01:01:20,600 --> 01:01:23,280
Speaker 2: and people will always remember how fun it was, right,

1193
01:01:23,640 --> 01:01:25,360
Speaker 2: And so the show is like that too.

1194
01:01:25,320 --> 01:01:25,480
Speaker 6: Like.

1195
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:30,440
Speaker 2: We'll have segments where like we used to talk to

1196
01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:33,880
Speaker 2: have a segment call Baller Alert and were we play

1197
01:01:34,440 --> 01:01:39,480
Speaker 2: these we read these stories about like groupies and stuff

1198
01:01:39,480 --> 01:01:42,520
Speaker 2: that like slept with ballers like these famous people, and

1199
01:01:42,600 --> 01:01:44,640
Speaker 2: it was fun. But then at some point you run

1200
01:01:44,680 --> 01:01:47,320
Speaker 2: out and you're like, Okay, that was it. That was

1201
01:01:47,360 --> 01:01:50,120
Speaker 2: all the fun we got out of that, and that's it.

1202
01:01:50,240 --> 01:01:50,480
Speaker 3: You know.

1203
01:01:50,560 --> 01:01:53,200
Speaker 2: With Trump, it was we were covering him every day.

1204
01:01:54,160 --> 01:01:58,280
Speaker 2: It's frustrating. You find yourself getting upset every single episode.

1205
01:01:58,560 --> 01:02:01,680
Speaker 2: And I said, I gotta find a way to compartmentalize this,

1206
01:02:02,120 --> 01:02:05,080
Speaker 2: not just for the audience but for us. You know,

1207
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:06,880
Speaker 2: I don't want to like get off of every episode

1208
01:02:06,920 --> 01:02:08,840
Speaker 2: of me and Karen talking another hour like and then

1209
01:02:08,880 --> 01:02:13,600
Speaker 2: he said, you know, so part of part of what

1210
01:02:13,640 --> 01:02:17,320
Speaker 2: we do is creative. So you know, we're always modifying

1211
01:02:17,360 --> 01:02:20,280
Speaker 2: the show today. You know, we didn't know exactly what

1212
01:02:20,360 --> 01:02:22,560
Speaker 2: kind of episode this would be, but we were like,

1213
01:02:22,600 --> 01:02:24,080
Speaker 2: we want to be here at the library. We want

1214
01:02:24,080 --> 01:02:26,600
Speaker 2: to use you know, we want to like publicize their resources.

1215
01:02:26,600 --> 01:02:29,280
Speaker 2: We want to make this into something. So it ends

1216
01:02:29,360 --> 01:02:31,760
Speaker 2: up being on the fly, you know, questions for the

1217
01:02:31,800 --> 01:02:37,440
Speaker 2: audience whatever, you know, are any more questions? Okay? With

1218
01:02:37,520 --> 01:02:45,080
Speaker 2: the Rockets trade compeller, I think, okay, so this is

1219
01:02:45,080 --> 01:02:50,800
Speaker 2: about the Rockets trade and Clint Capella and and and

1220
01:02:50,920 --> 01:02:54,439
Speaker 2: now they're going to be starting a six foot seven

1221
01:02:54,520 --> 01:02:56,720
Speaker 2: center for the rest of the season. Now, they did

1222
01:02:56,760 --> 01:03:00,040
Speaker 2: just beat the Lakers in their first game together, so,

1223
01:03:00,320 --> 01:03:02,400
Speaker 2: but they shot like forty six percent from three, so

1224
01:03:02,720 --> 01:03:04,400
Speaker 2: that's not gonna happen for the rest of the season.

1225
01:03:05,360 --> 01:03:07,920
Speaker 2: I don't think it's necessarily sustainable, to be honest. I

1226
01:03:07,920 --> 01:03:11,240
Speaker 2: think the spacing on the floor will like help them

1227
01:03:11,240 --> 01:03:13,280
Speaker 2: on offense. But I just think once they play like

1228
01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:17,520
Speaker 2: a dominant center or even just a big man, like

1229
01:03:17,560 --> 01:03:20,600
Speaker 2: I mean, Lebron's bigger than six seven, So once they

1230
01:03:20,600 --> 01:03:23,240
Speaker 2: play somebody that got some size, they can also like

1231
01:03:23,600 --> 01:03:25,840
Speaker 2: score in the paint and as well as outside. I

1232
01:03:25,840 --> 01:03:28,439
Speaker 2: feel like it's gonna be over So, but they needed

1233
01:03:28,440 --> 01:03:31,760
Speaker 2: to try something because what they had wasn't gonna work.

1234
01:03:31,760 --> 01:03:33,640
Speaker 2: And I don't think watching James Harden dribble the ball

1235
01:03:33,680 --> 01:03:37,160
Speaker 2: for twenty five seconds every play is not good basketball.

1236
01:03:37,320 --> 01:03:41,800
Speaker 2: So that was definitely a curve ball question. But ready

1237
01:03:41,800 --> 01:03:54,280
Speaker 2: for everything, all right, anyone, So we have a show caller.

1238
01:03:54,520 --> 01:03:57,640
Speaker 2: She asked about like local like the violence in Charlotte,

1239
01:03:58,000 --> 01:04:00,560
Speaker 2: because I think the murder rate is like higher this

1240
01:04:00,640 --> 01:04:03,720
Speaker 2: year than it's been like, oh, it was higher last year,

1241
01:04:04,040 --> 01:04:08,000
Speaker 2: then it's been like a long time. But we talk

1242
01:04:08,040 --> 01:04:10,200
Speaker 2: about it on this chow called the pregame, and it's

1243
01:04:10,280 --> 01:04:12,160
Speaker 2: like me and Justin and Cam we just kind of

1244
01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:15,640
Speaker 2: talk about like local stuff, things that we're going through life, work,

1245
01:04:15,760 --> 01:04:18,920
Speaker 2: and we talk about local politics, policing, things of that nature.

1246
01:04:18,960 --> 01:04:21,200
Speaker 2: So yeah, we definitely do talk about it. You know,

1247
01:04:21,320 --> 01:04:25,320
Speaker 2: I try, and like with crime is it's so hard because,

1248
01:04:25,360 --> 01:04:28,640
Speaker 2: like you said, it can be depressing to only talk

1249
01:04:28,680 --> 01:04:31,000
Speaker 2: about that all the time. But at the same time,

1250
01:04:31,600 --> 01:04:33,880
Speaker 2: especially when it comes to like black lives being taken,

1251
01:04:34,280 --> 01:04:36,600
Speaker 2: we're the only ones that care sometimes, so it's like

1252
01:04:36,720 --> 01:04:38,840
Speaker 2: if we don't talk about it, nobody's gonna talk about it.

1253
01:04:38,880 --> 01:04:41,440
Speaker 2: So yeah, we do, all right, anyone.

1254
01:04:41,240 --> 01:04:48,680
Speaker 4: Else, Okay, what's going on.

1255
01:04:50,640 --> 01:04:56,760
Speaker 3: Today?

1256
01:04:57,440 --> 01:05:05,760
Speaker 2: Oh then then the the question though, I'm sure.

1257
01:05:05,800 --> 01:05:08,680
Speaker 3: I'm sure, y'all. So basically, Chris, it was like, how

1258
01:05:08,720 --> 01:05:11,680
Speaker 3: do we kind of get the names for the episodes

1259
01:05:11,680 --> 01:05:15,240
Speaker 3: on kind of topics and the topics normally I work,

1260
01:05:15,360 --> 01:05:18,120
Speaker 3: So normally Roger is like the topic person. He's the

1261
01:05:18,160 --> 01:05:20,400
Speaker 3: person you know, calmbing the Internet and all that stuff.

1262
01:05:20,640 --> 01:05:22,400
Speaker 3: As far as the name of the episodes, We normally

1263
01:05:22,480 --> 01:05:25,080
Speaker 3: do the show and then we think about what has

1264
01:05:25,120 --> 01:05:28,400
Speaker 3: happened through the course of the show, which actually determines

1265
01:05:28,640 --> 01:05:31,479
Speaker 3: what is going to be. Sometimes it might be a joke,

1266
01:05:31,720 --> 01:05:33,760
Speaker 3: we said, sometimes it might be a joke when we

1267
01:05:33,800 --> 01:05:37,040
Speaker 3: have the feedback show, a joke that that somebody wrote

1268
01:05:37,040 --> 01:05:38,640
Speaker 3: in and said, So it could be it could be

1269
01:05:38,680 --> 01:05:40,560
Speaker 3: a song, it could be a little bit of anything.

1270
01:05:40,960 --> 01:05:43,120
Speaker 3: So that's why the titles of the show are kind

1271
01:05:43,120 --> 01:05:45,360
Speaker 3: of all over the place, and.

1272
01:05:45,440 --> 01:05:49,360
Speaker 2: Same with the topics to its random anyone else, oh.

1273
01:05:51,080 --> 01:05:56,960
Speaker 5: So everything, But do y'all have any.

1274
01:05:59,320 --> 01:06:09,000
Speaker 2: And then after so any savements or shows that we

1275
01:06:09,000 --> 01:06:11,360
Speaker 2: thought about but we just ended up not doing. I

1276
01:06:11,400 --> 01:06:13,360
Speaker 2: only I have one idea that I feel like, it's

1277
01:06:13,400 --> 01:06:15,400
Speaker 2: like a really great idea, but I don't I would

1278
01:06:15,400 --> 01:06:17,880
Speaker 2: never tell anybody the idea or do it cause I

1279
01:06:17,880 --> 01:06:20,560
Speaker 2: wanna do it myself. But I but that's the only

1280
01:06:20,600 --> 01:06:23,920
Speaker 2: thing that we really like wanted to do that we

1281
01:06:24,040 --> 01:06:26,120
Speaker 2: haven't done yet, and it wud It's a little bit

1282
01:06:26,160 --> 01:06:29,080
Speaker 2: of work, but that's the only thing.

1283
01:06:29,640 --> 01:06:31,600
Speaker 3: And I guess because we've been doing this for so long,

1284
01:06:32,080 --> 01:06:35,040
Speaker 3: whenever if we flesh out an idea, we really think

1285
01:06:35,040 --> 01:06:36,760
Speaker 3: about it. Because if you put it out there, it's

1286
01:06:36,800 --> 01:06:38,600
Speaker 3: going to be an audience. So I'm thinking, if I

1287
01:06:38,640 --> 01:06:41,000
Speaker 3: put it out there, am I going to be dedicated

1288
01:06:41,120 --> 01:06:43,960
Speaker 3: enough to actually dedicate myself too? And the number from

1289
01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:46,640
Speaker 3: not I don't want, I won't do it.

1290
01:06:47,000 --> 01:06:59,720
Speaker 2: So I uh, well more sorry wrong Spotify control m

1291
01:07:01,320 --> 01:07:04,640
Speaker 2: for ten years job wonderful.

1292
01:07:07,040 --> 01:07:12,200
Speaker 4: Would you ever think about going to larger network that

1293
01:07:12,400 --> 01:07:13,320
Speaker 4: you could keep.

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Speaker 2: Your creative control? Okay, so the question is what we

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Speaker 2: ever think about going to like a larger platform, larger

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Speaker 2: podcast network if we could keep our creative control? Uh? Absolutely,

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Speaker 2: if the money was right. I mean I'm not.

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Speaker 3: About to say the money with the money, but it

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Speaker 3: would have to be since Zros and some I mean.

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Speaker 2: I do love not having a boss. I do love

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Speaker 2: having like our audience is the number one supporter of

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Speaker 2: us it's definitely it gives us freedom. You know, sometimes

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Speaker 2: you see other shows that have like networks and stuff,

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Speaker 2: and you can tell they don't really have the freedom

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Speaker 2: to really be frank. So, you know, even today, I

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Speaker 2: brought up Trump several times. There's gotta be shows out

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Speaker 2: there that's like some editors somewhere it's like, can you

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Speaker 2: not say anything? And so I like that we can

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Speaker 2: just kind of say and just talk about what we

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Speaker 2: want to. But if we were to lose some of

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Speaker 2: that freedom and get paid for it, depending on the check,

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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm definitely gonna listen. I mean, it's definitely

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Speaker 2: better than than the opposite losing your freedom and not

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Speaker 2: getting the money. So it really just depends on what

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Speaker 2: the situation is. But Spotify, I listen to some of

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Speaker 2: their podcast and they do seem pretty like open to

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Speaker 2: like Jamel Hills there, so they seem pretty open to

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Speaker 2: like letting people talk about what they want to. So

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Speaker 2: it would just depend on the money and what we

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Speaker 2: have to give up. Like I want to keep our name.

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Speaker 2: I want to control like let's say it doesn't work out,

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Speaker 2: I want to be able to go back to what

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Speaker 2: we were doing. So there's a lot of variables in

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Speaker 2: there to consider. All right, anyone else before you get

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Speaker 2: out here? Cool? All right, Well that's all the questions. Alicia.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, you're so welcome. Thank you so much for coming.

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Speaker 4: This is awesome. You guys are amazing.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, you're amazing. And we appreciate the library and

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Speaker 2: the resources and the hospitality and all the fans.

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Speaker 3: As it came out, ya, shout out to y'allah, exclude my.

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Speaker 2: Mom and dad. I see some faces here that i've

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Speaker 2: seen before you. There'll be a meet and greet when

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Speaker 2: we get fished. Yeah, we'll take selfies and stuff when

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Speaker 2: we leave, before we pack our stuff.

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Speaker 3: Up, and shout out to the chat room and shout

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Speaker 3: out to the chat room.

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Speaker 2: The chat room came. They were live here at the

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Speaker 2: library with us, So thank you. And people that listen

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Speaker 2: later on the podcast will edit this and put it out.

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Speaker 2: So until next time, I love you. I love you too,

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Speaker 2: My