WEBVTT - Raise The Age Law 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:08.520 That's what's up. Family, I'm your girl to make a 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:13.000 d Mallory's you, and we're your hosts of Street Politicians, 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:17.680 the place where the streets and politics meet. Yet another 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:21.599 episode of Street Politicians. I'm proud of us, proud of 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:25.520 us doing what we're supposed to be doing, bringing people 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:30.600 good information. That's right. So every week we've been trying 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:36.960 to really bring some real thought out um topics to people, 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:39.839 and I've been getting the feedback from folks seeing them 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:46.640 out at events and in different spaces. Listen, number one, 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:49.040 we got to speak it into existing the number one 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:57.680 podcast in the world, every number one in our hearts. 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:01.880 But it's certainly right into the charts on the charts, 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:04.560 and um, you know. And I'm really proud of it 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:07.440 because I know how we started it was. It was 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:11.760 a dope idea, UM that I was resisting because I 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:15.240 don't like being on camera on a regular basis. I 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:18.200 love my new thing. I've been doing my Facebook audio 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:21.920 things and I just sit there wherever I can have 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:26.240 my bond it on. I can, you know, not have 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:30.959 my face be I can just do me run my 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:34.360 run it because you know, I know how to run 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:37.160 my mouth. I just could have had realized that we 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:39.680 could have had the first podcast. We could have been 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:42.920 like the entrepreneurs a podcast if you would have listened 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.479 to me about three or four years ago. I said, 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:50.480 you did, you said, and I said, because you wanted 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:53.680 me to go to a studio that's in Delaware on 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:55.760 the other side of the town. And then we met 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:59.440 Cat Trig and the entire Cat Skate team and then 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:03.040 we found a median of a place that we could go. Okay, 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:08.080 let's just be clear, but it is um. It is 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:11.160 good to still be in there in the space and look, 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:19.440 even our picture changed. Oh anyway, UM, so lots of 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:25.560 talk about today. We're focusing on um our our now 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:30.480 our brother Dante Mitchell that I'm really so excited, like 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:36.000 we do have two Mitchell's today, and I'm really really 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:39.440 excited for Dante, Like I'm so excited. He's so smart, 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:44.160 very smart kid. That's what That's what really started our connection. 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:47.480 And um, I've just seen him and then he reached 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:50.520 out to me. We started talking and just hearing his energy, 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:54.480 hearing how articulately was knowing that he was gonna come 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:58.320 into society and immediately be a change maker man so 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:00.160 it's gonna be a dope interview with him. And it's 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.920 like one of those stories that it actually worked. The 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:07.320 advocacy of everybody putting his name out into the world 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:13.560 gave the former governor, uh Andrew Cuomo I forgot his name, 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:17.520 gave him you know, and his whoever works on his 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:21.920 clemency packages. They were able to get the information. The 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:25.760 awareness was there because he was advocating inside the walls, 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:29.920 but people outside, we're calling his name, sharing his story, 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:32.280 and so that's how you get on the list, right, 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:35.960 you gotta. It's not they don't just go scouring through 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:39.240 everybody that's in prison and say, oh, you know, it's 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:44.000 usually people's voices are being raised about a particular person. 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:48.040 Folks are writing, people adding you on Instagram, and you 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:49.840 know a lot of a lot of these you know, 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.160 a lot of these government officials have Instagram, they have 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:57.120 they have people that and they said, let me go 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:59.960 see if somebody's talking about you know, and you continue 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:02.600 see that, then you realize that the voice of the 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:05.960 people wants this, you know. And that's what I tell people, man, 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:08.320 we we gotta utilize our voices. And this is one 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:12.360 of those very rare instances where we actually seen the justice. 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:15.680 You know, we've seen something come from our voice. A 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:18.400 lot of times we get deterred and we get jaded 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:22.279 and we get tired because there's so many setbacks and 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:24.400 a lot of not a lot of winds. So this 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:27.400 is a it's a big win. Twenty four years this 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:31.560 young man uh sat inside of a prison, but he 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:34.040 really fall from himself. So shout out to Dante. He's 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.440 gonna be up soon. And then, like you said, it's 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:38.360 the two Mitchell's because we're also going to hear from 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:41.120 our change maker today. But I'm not going to spoil 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:43.599 lit and tell people who it is. I'm just excited 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:49.000 that my my bro is coming up. Yep. So let's see, 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:50.760 this is a lot of stuff happening. The whole world 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:54.400 is bugging as always. That's first of all, the COVID 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:58.360 COVID pandemic. Nobody knows what to do. So that's just 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:02.520 let's just get that out out there that regardless of 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:06.600 whether you're vaccinated unvaccinated, in New York, if you can 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:08.719 go to a restaurant, you can't go to a restaurant. 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:13.640 This pandemic is still a major crisis. And um, how 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:17.600 we're going to get our hands around it. God only knows, 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:20.040 and so I just you know, they're more there are 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:23.000 people who are still dying. Over the last two weeks, 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:27.400 I've been hearing about a number of individuals who have 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:30.560 passed away who are close to folks that I know. 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:33.840 So these are like not distant stories that I just 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:36.760 saw on the news, but people who have actually died. 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:40.560 And just you know, also for for folks who are 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:46.080 listening today, if you've had COVID and since it went away, 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:49.919 you haven't been to the doctor to get yourself checked, 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.840 just to you know, get your regular check up, you 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:56.120 should because there are people who we are now finding 0:05:56.160 --> 0:06:00.080 out that a year later, months later, some of the 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:03.960 symptoms or other conditions are popping up, and people are 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:07.919 are experiencing other things that are as a result of 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:10.880 them having COVID. So it's really something that you've got 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:14.279 to take seriously. And as the guy on Instagram says, 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:18.760 where your mask, We're your mask that you still tell 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:21.080 us all the time. Get some fresh ye at all, 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:23.200 Please get you some fresh year man. We gotta we 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:26.040 just have to be just use common sense, you know, 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:29.480 with anything that you do. I don't advocate for anything. 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:31.440 I don't tell you what to do what not to do, 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:34.359 but just use common sense. You advocate for anything. No, 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:36.839 I mean, I don't advocate any way or anothers You 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:39.039 know this is this is new to us. COVID is 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:42.120 very new to us, and I think we just need 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:44.479 to be getting checkups on the regular as we get 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:48.159 older and you in your forties and late thirties and forties, like, 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:50.680 go get checked up. Something don't feel right. Don't sit 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:52.520 there and say well, I can fight it off. You're 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:55.080 not a kid no more. Your immune system is not 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:58.200 strong as strong as it was. A lot of things 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.120 you're just not fighting off on your own, especially as 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.760 black men. Black men have a problem with going to 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.000 the doctor. That's got to be a show. That's a show. 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:07.400 Actually a production team has been talking about doing a 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:10.200 show or why black men don't get the type of 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:12.320 care that a lot of us don't trust. We just 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:16.960 don't trust that they get plastic surgery. We heard about 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:19.840 that a couple of weeks ago. But they get this 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:24.480 stomachs uh laid down. Dr Michael Jones told us that 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:27.440 they get it sucked out, they get the eyelids straight. 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:31.880 Teach his own man if you if you need, do 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:37.800 what you got. And then in other news, um, I 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:41.640 think that Joe Manson, the Senator from Virginia who is 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:48.920 a Democrat supposedly he identifies as a Democrat, I think 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:53.000 he's the president. I really think that Joe Manson runs 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:55.960 this country. And you know that's a thing like if 0:07:55.960 --> 0:08:00.680 you watch these movies that are about politics, and you know, 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:04.520 these these these shows that kind of give you, uh, 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:07.679 like it's like, you know, where they're acting out being 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:13.520 president or being an administration running stuff. These shows always 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:17.320 have people who are within the ranks, whether they be 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:21.640 another elected official or a staff member or just a 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:25.800 rich person and particularly a rich white man, where they 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:30.480 have more power than the president. And to me, Joe 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:34.719 Manchin is the president. He gets to decide because he 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:38.680 is in many ways if if you don't have his support, 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:43.200 you can't use the majority power within the Senate. That's 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:49.360 how narrow the numbers are in terms of having having 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:53.200 the ability to vote in a bill against the Republicans, 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:57.560 you need Joe Manchin's vote, and he sides pretty much 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.200 with the Republicans on a lot of issues. He at 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:04.360 least has very very conservative views and has been very 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.160 very clear that if he is not able to get 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:09.840 or if they are the Democrats are not able to get, 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:13.240 Republicans wayne with us, have not been with us, have 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:17.680 actually been harmful to everything we attempt to get done. 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:20.959 That they that he won't vote for the bill he 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:24.400 wants the Republicans, so he basically is saying, let's give 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:27.640 them what they need so before we can sign bills. 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:30.280 And one of the things that right now is happening, 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:32.920 which you know it's been the last several weeks, so 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:36.880 you know, hopefully this thing will get worked out really soon, 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:41.720 is the the infrastructure bill which is three plug was 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:45.000 I think it's our three point four but it maybe Yeah, 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:46.840 I think it's three point four. I know it's more 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:51.559 than three trillion dollars that's needed to deal with the 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:55.640 number of things in our society, and including making sure 0:09:55.679 --> 0:10:00.560 people get back to work, infrastructure stuff like real infrastructure issues, 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:03.760 bridges and tunnels, things that hadn't been taken care of 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:07.800 because of the pandemic. And there's five point three billion 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:12.959 dollars in that bill for a gun violence intervention and prevention, right, 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:16.960 and so what do you mean you're not I don't 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:19.640 understand what he means he's not going to sign the bill. 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:22.440 He means he's not going to sign the bill. So 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:26.479 the bottom line is we've just been hoodwinked Man and 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:30.920 the government. It's like kangaroo court. It's like a kangaroo court. Right. 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:33.600 So we go and we put all of this energy 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:37.000 into voting for these people, and then they got you know, 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:41.120 they got secret they got their secret agents, double agents. 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:44.880 That's on our side. And when it's our turn to 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:47.240 actually get a vote, they come and say no. I'm like, 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:49.400 I don't. I'm not with that. But whenever it is 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:53.000 the Republican situation, they never signed with us. There's no Republicans. 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:55.840 You know what, I'm holding up the Republicans because I 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:59.439 need to Democrats. Well that's not true. There's like one person, 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:03.480 which is Liz Cheney. Representative Liz Cheney. Um, she has 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:07.280 stood up to Donald Trump and particularly been fighting against 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:11.120 this lie that the election was stolen from him. But 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:16.880 you're right, nobody, I haven't. We're not passing these bills. Well, 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:20.640 I mean, she has been one to advocate to fight 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:23.240 against things that she thinks is wrong. But it's this 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:26.559 one one lady. Really, there's not many of them, now 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:30.320 what I and and sometimes you know I watched them. 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:36.400 Sometimes you'll see different senators and and particularly congressional members 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:40.240 saying like, I think we're going too far, um, you know, 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.800 we won't vote for these bills. There needs to be 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:47.680 some negotiations around changing the terms, but it's never really 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:52.520 in favor of black communities. So to your point, you 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:57.080 don't see Republicans stepping out of line to say I 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:00.520 want to protect black people, but you always issues that 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:05.000 are important or or or or marginalized communities. But you 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:10.000 do see Democrats who, even if it hurts marginalized communities, 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:14.320 they are willing to side with um, with the Republicans 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:17.400 and others just to say, oh, you know, we're working together. 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:20.320 You see Democrats who are like, well, we don't need 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:25.000 uh qualified immunity included in the bill, knowing that that's 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:28.000 one of those things that if we pass qualified and 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:33.400 if we end qualified immunity, we could actually make officers 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:38.280 feel more accountable, which might make them even more conscious 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.400 about how they address and operate within our communities. And 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.480 of course, the reason why they don't want to end 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:46.559 qualified immunity, that's why they're fighting that one because they 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:49.079 know that's one of the most important pieces of the bill. 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.960 So and but yet we'll see, but we'll see Democrats 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:55.000 line up and say, well, you know, maybe we'll just 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:58.120 take that off the table so we could get something done. 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:02.440 So you know, you're right, it's all a bunch of bullshit. 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.400 I just think that Joe Mansion I want. I want 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:08.520 to I want the kind of power that Joe Manson has. 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:10.560 I gotta figure out how to make that happen in 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:14.680 my life. He's definitely, he's definitely leveraged his position. He's 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:17.400 leverage there. He knows he's got that vote. He knows 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:20.400 that his vote is important in order for anything to pass. 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:26.079 So he feels like his his community West Virginians. D 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:29.079 of well, that's why I was getting ready to get 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:36.920 into West Virginians, right. They that, particularly his constituents, they're 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:41.760 more conservative people who vote Democrats, so they're looking for 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:48.200 almost Republican and that's why they claim. Yeah, that's why 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:51.880 they claim that he takes the types of stances that 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:56.400 he takes because his constituents will not vote him in 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:58.800 and so that then the Democrats will say, well, we 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:02.040 don't want to lose the c because there has been 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:05.240 other things that Joe Manchin has voted on in favor 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:07.679 of the Democrats and and you know, in favor of 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:09.840 some of the issues that we care about. So he 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:12.840 hasn't been all the way. I won't say bad, but 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:16.000 he hasn't been all the way against the Democrats either, 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.800 So he's so he fluctuates and fluffs his way through 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:26.960 a lot more towards it today, right, And it's dangerous. 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:31.840 It's very dangerous. And I think you know that advocates 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:34.720 like yourself need to go into West Virginia and help 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:38.400 West Virginians who don't agree with him to figure out 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:41.200 a strategy to get about But you got but the 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:43.160 only way you get people those types of people out 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:45.960 that you gotta vote them out. So I was thinking, 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:57.600 I was watching a few weeks ago the mat gallup, right, 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:03.200 and I was thinking, we should do a show on fashion, right, 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:08.080 but from the perspective of like trends and um and 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:09.760 I guess we could do a lot of different things 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.360 about fashion, But I would like to talk to people 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:17.480 like June Ambrose and other big designers about how they 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:21.280 make these decisions on what people are going to wear 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:24.520 and what the themes are at these events, because at 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:30.600 the met gala, I was a little uh stunned, if 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:33.160 you will, by some of what I saw. I really 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:35.600 saw a lot of mess Like a lot of people 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:38.760 look messy to me. I don't you know? This is 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:42.200 that my section? This is well, but you had opinion 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:47.960 about a few peoples. I'm I'm confused with fashion these days, 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.240 you know what I'm saying, Like, I don't know what 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:53.200 is designed to do. I don't know if it's just 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:57.440 pure shot value, you know, or what is the whole 0:15:57.520 --> 0:15:59.520 theme of it? Like you were just having a conversation 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:03.480 and you know what I've seen, you know, this kill thing, 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:07.720 and I don't I'm trying to get to what the 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:12.760 fascist Like, why is every time that a man decides 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:17.080 to culte this this big fashion statement and celebration of it, Like, 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:21.400 what what is that? Actually? What is it signified in 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:24.320 the fashion world? What is it actually? Well? I mean, well, 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:27.520 first of all, the history of kilts in general, that 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:30.240 I also am noticing a lot of people are not 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:35.760 aware of, is that men wore kilts all throughout First 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:39.520 of all, have been wearing kilts all throughout history, right, 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:41.440 And I get your point. It's like Okay, if a 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:44.600 man wears a kilt, it seems to be so like 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:47.920 exciting to a lot of folks. But I think if 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:50.520 you see a man in a banging suit and he's 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:54.000 super sexy, that is is celebrated as well because you 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:57.040 see men post like the best picture and everybody's like, 0:16:57.040 --> 0:17:00.240 oh my god, look how good he looks that I 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:02.800 see it? Well, maybe because you're not looking for it, 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.840 and it's also what might be like you see it, 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:14.360 it's like, why is everybody on the well? But well, 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:17.720 I think whether or not it's just a soup mice. 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:24.160 I think people fashion moves because it is all publicized. 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:27.879 Right jay Z takes off the jerseys, puts on a 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:31.480 different type of shirt. It moves, everybody sees it. It 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:35.080 gets shared. Now everybody's wearing these types of shirts. You 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:39.280 say integrity over income. You put that hat on the internet. 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:42.240 Next thing you know, everybody people are buying it from you, 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:45.919 They're sharing it. I think fashion moves in general, and 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:48.399 I also think that there is an element we can't 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:53.280 deny that there's a gender conversation that comes up, and 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:57.359 so it becomes, you know, it becomes something more to 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:00.800 be discussed because people are like, you know, what does 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:03.280 this mean, and what's the agenda? And all these different 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:06.760 things that those conversations constantly come up. I think if 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:08.960 people just let people do whatever hell and wear whatever 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:10.879 the hell they want to wear, it doesn't have to 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:13.359 be that much because you can't stop people from win 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:17.640 with it. Right, So when you wh when you do anything, 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:21.000 you're subject to someone else's opinion and that's just part 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:24.040 of life. So for me, you know, I don't everybody 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:27.600 should be able and willing to do whatever where, whatever 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:29.440 you want to wear. I'm just trying to I'm really 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:33.040 just trying to figure out the fascin nation. I think 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:37.879 it's just a resurgence of fashion. So the bell bottoms 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.800 come back every now and then wide legged pants, the 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:45.800 you know whatever it's there's a resurgence of that and 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:50.480 the simple it's Another example was like Chloe Bailey comes out, 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:55.080 it's tight as short, it's sexy, and everybody's going crazy. 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:59.800 Lizzo walks out, she's half naked with her body and 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:04.600 know her being an oversized woman. Hey, everybody's talking about it. 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:08.520 I think it's just people just you know, people are 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:13.160 attracted to different they want to see something different. They 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:16.360 want to see something that makes them feel like seeing right, 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:19.960 because as a as a man or a woman or whatever, 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:22.399 they might be like, Okay, I don't like to dress 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:25.560 with the norm of exactly what they say I'm supposed 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:27.879 to wear, because that's what makes me a man or 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:30.720 a woman. So I'm gonna put this other thing on 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:33.840 that will, like you said, provide some shock value, show 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:37.119 my that I'm different. I'm not like everybody else, and 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:40.239 yet I'm still whoever I am. But that but and 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:42.400 that's a good conversation, and we should talk about that. 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:46.000 But I'm trying to figure out why people wear such 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:50.240 ugly clothes. Now. See, that's a different whole conversation because 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:52.000 there was some stuff that I saw on that Red 0:19:52.000 --> 0:19:56.879 Carson Because right when you look at how ugly it is, 0:19:57.000 --> 0:20:00.440 or in your perception of ugly, right, it makes people talk. 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:03.320 It's for shock value. I'm different, I'm I can wear 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:07.480 the least attractive thing and get attention in it, right. 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:10.200 I think that's where it's comes. Some people don't get 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:16.560 no attention today, there was a lot of and they've 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:18.840 got the attention regardless of worse. People like, what the 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:21.760 hell is this? Somebody's talking about it, and I think 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:26.080 we've come to a stage in our culture with that 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:29.000 is that is a marketing strategy. Right to go so 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:33.680 far left, to go so far disaccording to whatever normalized 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:37.160 as acceptable or it looks like beauty or whatever. It's 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:40.200 just to go so far from that that people talk 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:44.160 about you, well, hey, look how Prince used to dress 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:47.639 like That was a big conversation. Friends came out. He 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:51.280 had multiple things going on in one Look, you know, 0:20:51.520 --> 0:20:54.800 Michael Jackson the same thing. Like I guess there's always 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:59.880 been that fashion forward mindset that you know, I could 0:20:59.880 --> 0:21:03.800 be different, but I wanted to talk to the experts. 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:06.600 Like first of all, June Ambrose at the met gal. 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:08.520 If you have not, you should go to her page 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:11.240 and check out you know what what she wore. She 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:18.480 looked amazing, Okay, Mary J. Blige amazing, Little Baby fabulous, 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:24.720 Mega Stallion fabulous. And these are also people Sierra amazing, 0:21:24.920 --> 0:21:28.080 and I could go on, but these are also people 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:30.920 that we know them well enough to know that they 0:21:31.000 --> 0:21:34.879 just like classic looks. I don't know what the theme was. 0:21:35.080 --> 0:21:37.240 I I don't know where people was going, but I 0:21:37.720 --> 0:21:40.600 I just I saw some some some stuff that was 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:44.840 It's very different. It was very divery different. So that's 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:48.000 what I was thinking about. We have to have a show. Understand. 0:21:48.080 --> 0:21:51.439 I don't even understand a set Rocky in Rihanna. I 0:21:51.440 --> 0:21:54.080 looked at it. I didn't I didn't know what was 0:21:54.119 --> 0:21:57.439 he in a quilt? Like I think they said it 0:21:57.480 --> 0:22:00.399 was Valenciaga. I don't care what the name to what 0:22:00.520 --> 0:22:03.600 it was. Well, the theme was supposed to be something 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:10.760 about American like like like old American classics. So that's 0:22:10.760 --> 0:22:13.560 why Sierra had on the football jersey because that's an 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:20.280 American classic. Yeah, so that's why we have to invite 0:22:20.280 --> 0:22:24.440 people like Julie Ambrose here so we can expla they know, 0:22:23.680 --> 0:22:27.640 because because while she may have had while June's look 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:33.120 may have been very you know, beautiful classic look, she's able. 0:22:33.280 --> 0:22:35.600 I'm sure she dressed some of those other people and 0:22:35.640 --> 0:22:40.679 she can explain her and others why, and other stylists 0:22:40.720 --> 0:22:45.080 can explain the difference. I don't know even our stylists. 0:22:45.080 --> 0:22:47.439 We need to ask Ladden and Mia. We need some 0:22:47.480 --> 0:22:55.919 answers because we got some questions. So today we have 0:22:56.320 --> 0:22:59.560 you know, a very special guest, um a brother that 0:23:00.080 --> 0:23:02.359 I met through the struggle, you know, um a few 0:23:02.400 --> 0:23:06.480 months ago, I was introduced to this brother struggled through 0:23:06.720 --> 0:23:11.440 social media. I came across now what video talking about 0:23:11.440 --> 0:23:14.639 his situation, how he had been incarcerated since he was 0:23:14.720 --> 0:23:19.000 seventeen for a crime that didn't involve any violence, but 0:23:19.040 --> 0:23:22.639 he was in jail for twenty four years at that point. 0:23:22.680 --> 0:23:26.600 He was sentenced to seventy years originally. And you know, 0:23:26.680 --> 0:23:29.480 it really was something that really touched me, you know, 0:23:29.680 --> 0:23:33.919 so I decided to repost and and and somehow the 0:23:33.960 --> 0:23:36.480 brother reached out to me, you know, he got connected 0:23:36.520 --> 0:23:40.240 with me, and um, I took personal his struggle, his struggle, 0:23:40.280 --> 0:23:43.600 and then we realized that I was actually incarcerated with him. 0:23:43.640 --> 0:23:46.680 You know, when I was in Sing sing in nine nine, 0:23:47.280 --> 0:23:50.240 he was actually on the same block as me. I 0:23:50.359 --> 0:23:52.480 was younger than Yeah, we we figured that out. He 0:23:52.520 --> 0:23:53.960 told me, like, yeah, he was in sing sing with me. 0:23:54.000 --> 0:23:56.200 You know, so there was always like, you know, these 0:23:56.640 --> 0:23:59.440 small degrees of separation. So, you know, I was inclined 0:23:59.640 --> 0:24:02.960 to do ever can for the brother, and so, um, 0:24:02.960 --> 0:24:06.159 he was just recently released, you know, after he was 0:24:06.200 --> 0:24:10.160 granted clemency. And this is a brother that I'm happy 0:24:10.240 --> 0:24:12.520 to see here on the other side of the wall. 0:24:13.000 --> 0:24:17.200 No more prison calls, you know, no more lone nights 0:24:17.320 --> 0:24:19.639 of him just trying to figure out how because this 0:24:19.680 --> 0:24:24.280 man really took serious his freedom and he called me daily, 0:24:24.720 --> 0:24:27.560 you know, checking up on people, sometimes bugging them and 0:24:27.560 --> 0:24:29.800 I'm like, calm down, we got this. But you know, 0:24:29.880 --> 0:24:32.320 his his passion was really drew me to him. So 0:24:32.600 --> 0:24:35.280 I just want to welcome home my brother Dante and 0:24:35.440 --> 0:24:38.040