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Speaker 1: Welcome to jay dot im a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Well Cello, Hi, everybody, welcome to j dot Ilga podcast.

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Speaker 1: My name is Jill Scott. Is my pleasure to be

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Speaker 1: here with my sister friends. Layah safe clap President an

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Speaker 1: age of Graydon dances here like I'd be the smart

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Speaker 1: kids would be like President and here and they'd be

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Speaker 1: that one kid trying to impress everybody that's President. And

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Speaker 1: then it'll be at the asshole kid to be like

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Speaker 1: President like me. I enjoyed President. Actually, I thought that

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Speaker 1: was that was that's cute. She relax. That was a

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Speaker 1: class clown. That's me. I like it. I'm into it.

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Speaker 1: I think I was a good girl, I mean, a

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Speaker 1: little person. I'm pretty sure these things. We really did

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Speaker 1: get four spankings in my life. Oh yeah, I was

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Speaker 1: that kid though I was. I got like two leg pops.

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Speaker 1: Yeah that's you know, I got two legs. I need

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Speaker 1: a poll on this, y'all. I don't know. I didn't

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Speaker 1: get a one fourteen year old backslap though, like and

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Speaker 1: I earned that one. I did too. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I might have to ask. I mean, y'all a parents,

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Speaker 1: So I'm guessing that's true that like the less spankers

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Speaker 1: you got, the better kids you were. But that means

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Speaker 1: I was bad as ship. But I didn't think I was. No,

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Speaker 1: I'm saying I didn't get like I didn't get any

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Speaker 1: behavioral like feedback from school like that was never an issue,

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Speaker 1: never for me. Never you know, you're lying, I am

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Speaker 1: not wait wait wait wait wait? Did it? Was this

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Speaker 1: one time when the sixth grade girl swore I liked

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Speaker 1: this eighth grade boy. I wasn't thinking about that boy.

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Speaker 1: He was long and skinny. It wasn't my thing. I

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Speaker 1: just wasn't attracted to the boy. And I didn't think

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Speaker 1: he was very bright, you know what I mean. But

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Speaker 1: I was in the eighth grade. She was in the

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Speaker 1: sixth grade. But she's as tall as I am. Okay,

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Speaker 1: she's the tall girl. Anyway, she brought her cousin's down

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Speaker 1: from high school girls to fight me what was wrong

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Speaker 1: with her hands? She was in the sixth grade, she was,

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Speaker 1: but she told them that this eighth grade girl was

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Speaker 1: picking on her. I'm like picking on her. So they

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Speaker 1: come down to the school and they're like, you're picking

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Speaker 1: on my cousin. I was like picking on who. They're

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Speaker 1: like whatever, the cat. I know her name, but I'm

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Speaker 1: not gonna say it. And I was like, I don't

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Speaker 1: messing with my cousin. And I had to fight all

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Speaker 1: them big gass girls. One of them had a love ring, right,

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Speaker 1: like a love and hate ring from me. It was

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Speaker 1: just one of them had a love ring. And I

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Speaker 1: remember because I used to I said, really long nails,

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Speaker 1: And I used to do my nails every day. I

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Speaker 1: don't have nothing else to do, but I did my

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Speaker 1: nails every day, different color for every outfit I had.

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Speaker 1: Because I ain't handling, I had to make it work,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Spiking the apolish was a dollar,

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Speaker 1: so I was trying to make it work, you know.

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Speaker 1: And I had dug my nails in this girl's face

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Speaker 1: I thought, I had, you know, really done something, and

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Speaker 1: I did, you know. I took my legs, but I

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Speaker 1: gave him back. But when I got into the mirror

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Speaker 1: of the bathroom and I looked at myself, I saw

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Speaker 1: love on my forehead. I saw love on my mother.

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Speaker 1: And then the principal wanted to suspend me mm hmm

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Speaker 1: forgetting John. Yeah, girl, Guls didn't even go to Earth.

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Speaker 1: These are high school students. I'm in the eighth grade

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Speaker 1: by myself. Miss Joyce say, because I know she marched up,

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Speaker 1: because that's a march. That's a march worthy. So long

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Speaker 1: it's march worthy with them long legs, let's go. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: nobody got suspended. She should have because she was definitely spended.

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Speaker 1: She's a person who had the people coming up there

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Speaker 1: and all of that. That's crazy. What if you had

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Speaker 1: gotten hurt her heard her just then you placed it

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Speaker 1: for a little while. I had a little bruise and

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Speaker 1: then it was like and like see light skin problems.

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Speaker 1: You'll not light skin what you're talking about. That's to

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Speaker 1: episode listeners. I'm just so a lot to you today

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Speaker 1: on the zoom. I'm feeling that we're all looking the

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Speaker 1: same complexion today. So I'm gonna come. I'm gonna I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna pull back on the light skin joke. You mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm simming them. You summon them today? They it's given

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Speaker 1: simming them today. Cute? You know we all yellow? Have you?

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Speaker 1: Great baby sim man man like you hate right, you

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Speaker 1: just came from my island I can see it. The moon. Look,

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Speaker 1: the moon is the cancer. The moons did cancer. I'm

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Speaker 1: meant to ask Amber what that means. She said, it

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Speaker 1: just means everybody is deep within the feelings right now

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Speaker 1: in any way in which you are feeling specifically, like,

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Speaker 1: shut up, agent, it's the trophy. Remember Yaba who came

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Speaker 1: on the show, right Yea Yabba hit me yesterday and

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Speaker 1: was like, girl, siste, don't say nothing to nobody. She like,

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Speaker 1: the moon cancel, girl, I don't know. I don't even

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Speaker 1: be knowing. This is just you know how your girlfriends,

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Speaker 1: all your girlfriends be knowing stuff and they just bring

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Speaker 1: things to you and you're just like, okay, I'm I

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Speaker 1: know that, Okay, I know that. But when mercury and

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Speaker 1: retrograde hits, we all like, I'm not signing that. I'm not.

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Speaker 1: It's all it's happening right now. We should be talking

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Speaker 1: to each other. We shouldn't be talking right now. I

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Speaker 1: don't know what. Maybe maybe we shouldn't be talking to

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Speaker 1: each other. Maybe maybe we shouldn't be talking to anybody.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. And thank you so much for listening

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Speaker 1: to Jay dot the podcast and then our pleasure to

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Speaker 1: not talk to you these things you eat, the meat,

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Speaker 1: you throw off the bones. You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: You need the warnings. Uh huh, you just here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: More than don't talk to nobody, be mindful of everybody's feelings.

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Speaker 1: Be mindful of how you talk to folks, Be mindful

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Speaker 1: of your own needs. I feel so bad. I feel

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Speaker 1: like our whole group texting strange today. I was in

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Speaker 1: my feelings like I know, but you might have been in.

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Speaker 1: That's okay, It's it's my to tend to your needs. Well,

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Speaker 1: maybe we shouldn't talk to to other people, but we

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Speaker 1: could talk to ourselves. We could look that seg You know,

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Speaker 1: they don't know what we mean by that. They don't.

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Speaker 1: We decided that we were going to write love letters

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Speaker 1: to ourselves. Yeah, why we you do such a thing.

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Speaker 1: Why would you write a love letter to yourself? Because

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Speaker 1: you know the world is so busy, and because the

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Speaker 1: interweb is what it is. Um, you've got people that

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Speaker 1: you don't know. I saw I saw something on TikTok

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Speaker 1: working out with this woman and he got he you know,

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Speaker 1: he stitched himself. And then later when he comes back,

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Speaker 1: and he's Steven saying that the comments that that he caught,

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Speaker 1: it was just a lot of nasty, hateful, mean spirited comments.

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Speaker 1: So this is one of those opportunities where you know,

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Speaker 1: if you're dealing with anything remotely like that, whether it's

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Speaker 1: or even from from yourself. Mm hm, pick a moment

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Speaker 1: and write a love letter to you. Yeah, so that's

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Speaker 1: what you know. It's interesting because I saw something very

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Speaker 1: similar to happen with Keikey Palmer, who was my big

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Speaker 1: had such a beautiful I don't even want to call

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Speaker 1: the clapback. It was just, h just a moment of clarity, like, honey,

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Speaker 1: like I love myself, Like I'm sorry that you have

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Speaker 1: an issue, and you felt that you had enough power

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Speaker 1: having an issue like that, you know, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of benefits to an exercise like this just in general, Like,

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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It really give you a you know,

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Speaker 1: just be an answer to you know, an existing issue

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Speaker 1: to you like this this for me, Wow, I was

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Speaker 1: You're like, yeah, I feel loved, I feel long, But

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Speaker 1: Nobody has a better perspective on you than you. Nobody

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Speaker 1: it's like it's it's just a good reminder of what

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Speaker 1: There are certain things that I really really enjoyed about

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Speaker 1: myself and I just wrote them. So I'm I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: read mine first. Okay, mm hmm, all right. Love letter

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Speaker 1: to Jill. I remember you from the beginning, when you

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Speaker 1: were small and full of imagination. You played by yourself

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Speaker 1: for hours. You still do. I remember how you read

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Speaker 1: stories to the boys outside. I recall how you kept

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Speaker 1: like your mommy said. I remember feeling proud of you.

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Speaker 1: I remember liking you humming to yourself. You sang to

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Speaker 1: walk to the bus. It felt like a private underbreadth

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Speaker 1: of joy from me to me. I love that you

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Speaker 1: it still lives in you. I love that you remember

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Speaker 1: your grandmother's skin and the feel of her night gown.

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Speaker 1: still love despite jealousy. I have loved you from the beginning.

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Speaker 1: I know your heart. It's been a joy, even through

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Speaker 1: mean that. I love that letter. I mean that, and

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Speaker 1: the thing. You actually are aware. You're aware, you know,

425
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:09,680
Speaker 1: you know it's good. Let it go out there. Look

426
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 1: that on that purple. Write it up. Make you change

427
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 1: the perspective because I shut myself like I usually sometimes

428
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,880
Speaker 1: my father has a tendency to uh, I tease him.

429
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:24,120
Speaker 1: He compliments himself before I can get to it, and

430
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:25,919
Speaker 1: to a point where, like we we argue about it

431
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,720
Speaker 1: quite frequently, like can I just let me say it before,

432
00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 1: like you say the things and then you before you

433
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:33,120
Speaker 1: even finish. It's like, yeah, I killed that, that was deep,

434
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:37,719
Speaker 1: that was this, and and I go, Daddy, shouldn't and

435
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 1: you let somebody else tell you that though, because like

436
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:41,439
Speaker 1: you say it to me, don't you want to wait

437
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:43,640
Speaker 1: for me to tell you? And I almost feel bad

438
00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:45,679
Speaker 1: in this moment that I had these exchanges with him,

439
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,120
Speaker 1: because no, my daddy is like, I ain't all wait

440
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 1: for nobody, Like I heard it, I said it. I

441
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:55,600
Speaker 1: know it was profound, and who I'm waiting on? Oh?

442
00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:01,960
Speaker 1: I got to apologize to Ron and get y listen.

443
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,439
Speaker 1: I apologize to my mother and the spirit realm on

444
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:11,240
Speaker 1: a consistent basis. Susan, sorry, girl, I'm sorry. I'm sorry

445
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 1: because you had tried to told me you had tried

446
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 1: to say it. But you know, I mean that meant

447
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:22,880
Speaker 1: you got a good person. Yeah, I happens we get older.

448
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,520
Speaker 1: That happens more frequently than we definitely would like it to.

449
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:28,680
Speaker 1: I think, Chuck, you said Asia, whether your parents what

450
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 1: you or not, We're gonna take a quick break and

451
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:47,240
Speaker 1: then we'll be right back. Come on, list, Come on list,

452
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:51,440
Speaker 1: I got, I got I love hard. I like that.

453
00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:55,239
Speaker 1: I like that. I was about to write something like

454
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 1: I love that as loud as I am. I am

455
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:07,360
Speaker 1: as much a listener. True, that definitely, that's where I'm at.

456
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:10,439
Speaker 1: I love my friends and my um. I can't do that.

457
00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 1: I love my friend, Okay, I try. I can't talk much. Okay, Well,

458
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:20,399
Speaker 1: you can love the tribe you chose your tasting friends.

459
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:24,120
Speaker 1: I do love okay. I love my taste and friends.

460
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:29,360
Speaker 1: I'm really good at that. I don't really Okay, So

461
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:32,200
Speaker 1: what else youre talking about? Will she? I wish you

462
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 1: you know, this is one of the few times where

463
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:41,360
Speaker 1: I wish you all could just see the little girl. Yes, yes,

464
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:44,920
Speaker 1: that's why you you write yourself a love letter or

465
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:47,400
Speaker 1: you write down things that you love about yourself, because

466
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 1: it just it doesn't feel like a hug. I want

467
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:52,239
Speaker 1: to do a combo thing like you and Asia, like

468
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 1: I want to come from Asia's perspective, and then I

469
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: want to do jil like I want to do the

470
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 1: little girl thing. But then I liked it what Asia did.

471
00:28:58,000 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 1: The way she was like talking to herself like pep

472
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:03,240
Speaker 1: herself and reminding herself. So yeah, that's why I said.

473
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:06,320
Speaker 1: It's like and apologizing to herself and laughing at herself.

474
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:11,240
Speaker 1: That was so lovely. Yeah, it was love. You just need,

475
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 1: like I need to hear somebody's to hear y'alls. I

476
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 1: was like, wait, so what we do ones that look like?

477
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 1: What does that sound like? We'll look at that. That's

478
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 1: exactly what we're here. I'm glad you were transparing hear it. Yeah,

479
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 1: we're letting you hear it so that you can do

480
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 1: your own I promise you'all. Love my little heart. I

481
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 1: can't believe it still works like it does, but I'm

482
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:35,800
Speaker 1: so glad it does feel great. It does loving all

483
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 1: my parents, I got things. I guess I gotta do it.

484
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:42,280
Speaker 1: Without bringing you gotta do it, but stop making other

485
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 1: people a part of it, like okay, okay, okay, I'm

486
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 1: trying to tell you I deeply appreciate your struggle with

487
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 1: this and I'm so glad you girl. You're a blessing

488
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 1: to these people who are listening, because it isn't as

489
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 1: easy as it looks. It's not as easy as it

490
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 1: And then, yeah, I don't think I made it look easy.

491
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 1: I think I was stuttering and all the things ya

492
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 1: y'all felt a little it was a little cool. But

493
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 1: let me tell y'all why y'all don't think y'all made

494
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:17,120
Speaker 1: it look easy. What you don't because easy would be

495
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 1: too much of a simple word to apply to what

496
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 1: y'all both did. But y'all have a natural way with words,

497
00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 1: and so it does appear. And I I know y'all,

498
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 1: but even to me who knows you, it does appear

499
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 1: that it's easier for it to flow out, for you

500
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 1: to express your feelings, to put word to feeling than

501
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 1: the average person. So yeah, it without offending you, because

502
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:39,720
Speaker 1: I know it ain't easy for y'all, but it does

503
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:44,200
Speaker 1: sound like it flows really pretty, like even when you're

504
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 1: crying and stuttering through it, which Jill, you didn't stutter.

505
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 1: Now It's okay. I why is that in my throat?

506
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:58,840
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm feeling at my thought it comes

507
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 1: and this cause it's a side aim. It comes at

508
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:06,040
Speaker 1: such a great time because I have so much on

509
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 1: my plate and so many things to look forward to

510
00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 1: that easily, I know me, I can't get anxious. You know,

511
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 1: fear exists. I try to fight that mother sucker, but

512
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 1: nonetheless it exists, and I can feel overwhelmed, you know,

513
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 1: by all the things that are coming my way. And

514
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 1: I writing that reminded me of the little girl who

515
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 1: just did it because it felt good period, Because it

516
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 1: feels good period, like I feel such a release. Sometimes

517
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,280
Speaker 1: you gotta get some permission to feel good, like thank

518
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 1: you for giving us permission. And I think, like I said,

519
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 1: as you were doing it, as much as I was

520
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 1: listening to you, I was thinking about, like, dang, what

521
00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 1: did I what did I love about myself as a

522
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 1: little person, as a young person. I remember recently a

523
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 1: friend of mine was like, do you remember what you

524
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 1: said to me when we first met. I was like, child, no,

525
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 1: I don't remember, and you, like you was like, hey,

526
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 1: my name is Adria, and you should get to know

527
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 1: me because I'm gonna be famous one day. How old

528
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 1: were you do you remember? Like fifteen or sixteen? I

529
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 1: don't know, just being goofy, you know what I mean?

530
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 1: Like I was like it. The thing about it is

531
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 1: when you're young and that fear hasn't crush you or

532
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 1: try to crush you. Yet it happens earlier now if

533
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:45,960
Speaker 1: you ask, it does. And I think I think I

534
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:49,040
Speaker 1: love that about myself. I love that I was always

535
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 1: the first of my hand like I didn't care. I

536
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: was always the first kid to raise my hands. I

537
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 1: wanted to read out loud out, I wanted to take

538
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 1: on a challenge. I loved that about myself. My daughter

539
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 1: was having an issue with she's a drama major, and

540
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 1: she was having an issue with it with something she

541
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 1: was having to play. And I remember being twelve years

542
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 1: old and wanting so bad too. I was doing a

543
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 1: Shakespeare thing and wanting so bad to be Catherine from

544
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 1: the Taming of the True, but I couldn't because they

545
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 1: cast somebody else. So my teacher, who was brilliant at

546
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 1: the time, she said, well, you know, in Shakespeare's time,

547
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 1: women weren't allowed in the theater. She was like, so

548
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 1: all the men had to play the women's roles. She

549
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:39,960
Speaker 1: was like, well, how about we just do that with

550
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: you and just flip it around and you could be Petruchio.

551
00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 1: And I was like, and I was. I was petru

552
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 1: And he was like one of the only all black

553
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 1: troops in this thing that we came out to perform for.

554
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 1: And me and my best friend were Catherine and Petruchio.

555
00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 1: And I was like the only black girl that had

556
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:02,959
Speaker 1: done a gender been enrolling the whole thing. So it

557
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:05,880
Speaker 1: was just like really cool, Like I love that. That

558
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:10,360
Speaker 1: wasn't I wasn't fearful of that. I see some kids

559
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:14,800
Speaker 1: twelve in the thirteen age group, you know, and they're

560
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 1: like forty five, forty two, twenty three. I mean that

561
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 1: fear gets strong as you get older. Yeah, you just

562
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:27,560
Speaker 1: take the first person to shoot you down, and then

563
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 1: another one and another one and another one. Oh am,

564
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:34,440
Speaker 1: I gonna get up that. The first fear, the first

565
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:40,200
Speaker 1: real fear was was Mr Lovitt's in math. I know

566
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 1: I told you guys about him because I still talk

567
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 1: about him in therapy. Yeah, that man, he said, you

568
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:52,880
Speaker 1: are so ugly. I don't know how anyone could bear

569
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 1: to look at it. You are so stupid you should

570
00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:01,880
Speaker 1: just face the wall. What. Oh, Mr I was in

571
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 1: the seventh grade. Why a teacher like that? Wow, it's amazing,

572
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:16,880
Speaker 1: big fat Mr love it. He gave me a big fat,

573
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:21,279
Speaker 1: juicy f wow. Because once my mom came to the

574
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 1: school and talked to him the next day, he was like,

575
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 1: so I'm mean to you. That's the way he reacted.

576
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 1: That's the way he reacted. No, No, he didn't get fired.

577
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:38,920
Speaker 1: When you know teachers back when we was kids, they

578
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:42,360
Speaker 1: got away with a lot, a lot. That's why I said.

579
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:44,520
Speaker 1: That's why I apologized to y'all. When we were talking.

580
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:45,880
Speaker 1: I don't know if we were talking to something Mitchell

581
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,759
Speaker 1: or somebody, and I had a whole like regurgitation of Mr.

582
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 1: Tyson calling me a bumbling idiot and telling my friends

583
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:54,799
Speaker 1: not to hang out with me. M And to this day,

584
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 1: Mr Typson he's still around. He ain't that old. And

585
00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:59,759
Speaker 1: some of my classmates go out to dinner with him

586
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:02,240
Speaker 1: every year because that's my favorite teacher. And I'd be like, really,

587
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: I guess for y'all, ye parents have to come up

588
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:12,040
Speaker 1: for that one. To Jim yea, I wish you would

589
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 1: have gave me an because remote bot out that, like,

590
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 1: let me tell you something. I took that F I

591
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,839
Speaker 1: took it. My grade still still with all the rest

592
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 1: of the grazing on my report guard, I still had

593
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:28,319
Speaker 1: a B average. So it didn't destroy you. So I

594
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 1: let the fuck go. But from that on, that moment on,

595
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 1: every time I got to a math class, I felt

596
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,360
Speaker 1: like my heart with race and I would you know,

597
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 1: because I didn't know what this meant? Is this another

598
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:46,279
Speaker 1: moment where because I was behind the math, I was

599
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:50,360
Speaker 1: how was you in high school? And math struggled? Struggle

600
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 1: my ass off, I struggled. But you know again, you

601
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:57,360
Speaker 1: know I was at girls high so school. You know

602
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 1: when I didn't pass math, I didn't get to walk

603
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:05,400
Speaker 1: m M meant dad. And I attribute some of that

604
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,520
Speaker 1: to my early education. And I contribute that to Mr

605
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: Lovitt because when I because I went to summer school

606
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:14,839
Speaker 1: every year, every year, faithfully, and every year, I got

607
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: an a trauma. That's math trauma. That's what that is.

608
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:23,279
Speaker 1: But you know, side note, a lot of girls and

609
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:27,360
Speaker 1: also specifically and especially black girls, have a lot of

610
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:31,439
Speaker 1: trauma around math. Me too, Joe I have a lot,

611
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:34,399
Speaker 1: have a lot. I want to give a moment a little,

612
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:39,360
Speaker 1: a little shout out to Grassroots Community Foundation and had

613
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 1: a program specifically addressing this that was spearheaded by one

614
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: of their young super girls, Amina, who came up with

615
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:51,480
Speaker 1: a program to address this issue with young middle school

616
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:55,360
Speaker 1: black girls. That's when it starts. That's interested. It definitely

617
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 1: starts a little school that is that's deep. I didn't

618
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:00,839
Speaker 1: know that it was a trying. I didn't. I didn't

619
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 1: know that it is a real thing, it's a real being.

620
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: I want to also take this moment side note to

621
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 1: appreciate those teachers who are out here not inflicting trauma

622
00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 1: on young people, because as you can see, this stays

623
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 1: with us. Right, I'm a shout out Brent Elementary School,

624
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: with which I know I've always I've done already on

625
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 1: this podcast before at some point I'm sure Brent Elementary School,

626
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:31,879
Speaker 1: Roberty Brent, Washington, d C. Circa eighties. I would say

627
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:36,080
Speaker 1: between eighty two and eighty seven for me, But I

628
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 1: just want to shout them out. Every single solitary teacher

629
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 1: from kindergarten to sixth grade was a black woman, including science,

630
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:53,760
Speaker 1: including music, including Jim, including our school counselor and our principle.

631
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:59,759
Speaker 1: Shout out to Dr Francis Plumber. Listen, Dr, I know

632
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:01,279
Speaker 1: we was raised in d C, y'all, which I don't

633
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 1: understand what agents saying. This is really still a big deal.

634
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 1: And we wanted to the DC ist, the blacktiest black

635
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Speaker 1: that is black. He had. We had every single one

636
00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:13,720
Speaker 1: of my teachers and my gifted and talented teacher whose

637
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 1: idea it was for me to gender be in that role.

638
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:21,960
Speaker 1: Msminton shout out. You know what I'm saying. These women

639
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 1: shaped and molded me as a person from kindergarten to

640
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,400
Speaker 1: sixth grade. I was taught by a black woman, and

641
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:31,920
Speaker 1: many of them had advanced degrees. And I think now

642
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:34,400
Speaker 1: that I know what I know about how they hired

643
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:38,799
Speaker 1: teachers and how principles are are responsible for this. Now

644
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 1: I know that this was intentional and this was done

645
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:44,840
Speaker 1: by a black woman. Dr Plumber who hired these women

646
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 1: who no doubt many of them went to DC Teachers College.

647
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 1: So shout out to to to that school that later

648
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 1: one became U d C. So I just want y'all

649
00:39:54,000 --> 00:40:02,280
Speaker 1: to know, so thank thank you to our little people.

650
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 1: Thank you Missia Warren shout out. I want to shout

651
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:13,840
Speaker 1: out Dana Miller, who happened to be um Jets math tutor.

652
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 1: And it was a rough go for a while, but

653
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:23,840
Speaker 1: miss Dana has she's out of Philadelphia and I'm gonna

654
00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:25,800
Speaker 1: send you know, make sure I send you a link

655
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:28,360
Speaker 1: um to where you can reach her if you're in

656
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:31,800
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia area and you're you're struggling where your child

657
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:35,760
Speaker 1: is struggling in math, because she has a way. There's

658
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:40,399
Speaker 1: always a giggle, there's there's always um some level of

659
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 1: fun which I can't you know, like all fun math

660
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:50,320
Speaker 1: fun fun math. There's fun math. Math is fun. Yeah.

661
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 1: I could hear my child laughing any other room and

662
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:59,880
Speaker 1: I was like, wow, that's impressive. And slowly but steady

663
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:04,920
Speaker 1: league his confidence grew MA and um, I just want

664
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 1: to let you guys know that there's somebody out there

665
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 1: who has a gentle way and extreme knowledge of mathematics

666
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:18,839
Speaker 1: and it's definitely invested in getting your child or yourself

667
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 1: to another level. Man roots link in there too, because

668
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 1: they just a wealth of resources. And also too, when

669
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 1: I did homeschool with my my kids, y'all know, like

670
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:35,400
Speaker 1: I said, math again, not my ministry either so oursourced

671
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:39,400
Speaker 1: to Melanie Young, who is amazing also out of Philadelphia,

672
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: out of University of Pennsylvania, amazing black woman, works with

673
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:49,240
Speaker 1: black family, all kinds of families, but um, she definitely

674
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: worked with my family and my kids and when they

675
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:57,400
Speaker 1: had their homeschool graduation, she came to support them. So again,

676
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:00,840
Speaker 1: this to me, that pouring of love into young people

677
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 1: and particularly you know, around things that we comment like

678
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:10,279
Speaker 1: traumas that we share that it stays with us, the

679
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 1: love and the trauma. But we thank God for the

680
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:15,799
Speaker 1: love because we're able to kind of talk about it

681
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:18,839
Speaker 1: now and share that and and not repeat those same

682
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:21,800
Speaker 1: cycles and paying attention to those things for our own kids.

683
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:23,800
Speaker 1: But if you can't come home and tell you somebody

684
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 1: that says some wild ship, believe them because they don't

685
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 1: get saying wild things. Please, especially when it's coming from

686
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:37,240
Speaker 1: a teacher. Baby, when your kid is saying that a teacher,

687
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 1: that was like, seriously, some of the many things I

688
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:44,359
Speaker 1: and I did. I did. I faced the wall. It's

689
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:46,800
Speaker 1: like it's under the rest of the year. But guess

690
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 1: what I did. I wrote the whole time, I wrote

691
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 1: the whole time. I wrote a little plays. I wrote stories,

692
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 1: I wrote poetry, I wrote, I wrote the whole time,

693
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:00,879
Speaker 1: so that I just started looking forward to that little

694
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 1: part because I knew he wouldn't think about me at all.

695
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:06,360
Speaker 1: He didn't. He never even said hello that I was

696
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:08,960
Speaker 1: in a room. Nothing from that point on was my

697
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:11,160
Speaker 1: mother came to the school. He never spoke to me again.

698
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:15,520
Speaker 1: And I was happy because I didn't want I didn't

699
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:33,520
Speaker 1: want no parts more conversation. After the break, you know,

700
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:36,800
Speaker 1: I was reading, um, it's like a young person's book,

701
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:42,439
Speaker 1: but it's a biography on Octavia Butler, and some years ago,

702
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:46,319
Speaker 1: like her notebooks were discovered and people talked about how

703
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:51,319
Speaker 1: she had manifested and written all of these things that

704
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:56,799
Speaker 1: she wanted to become, being a bestseller, what money she

705
00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:00,120
Speaker 1: wanted to make, the impact she wanted to make, and

706
00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:02,600
Speaker 1: thinking of her as a little girl, and reading about

707
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:04,360
Speaker 1: her as a little girl, you said, you know what

708
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:07,200
Speaker 1: I did. I wrote everywhere she wents used to bring

709
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 1: a pink notebook, and she published her first story when

710
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:16,480
Speaker 1: she was ten. But she got you know, rejected a

711
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:19,160
Speaker 1: lot of times too, so like lots of rejection because

712
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 1: she was writing science fiction, and you know, people didn't

713
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:24,920
Speaker 1: want to hear that from her. Um. But what's interesting

714
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:28,480
Speaker 1: about her story was just you could see the little

715
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 1: girl part. So when you told me about when you were, like,

716
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:34,280
Speaker 1: you know what I did. She was. She was lonely.

717
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:38,160
Speaker 1: She was a bit of an eyeball, and two combat

718
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 1: the loneliness. She wrote. She wrote stories to entertain herself.

719
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 1: She would read stories and they would be trash, and

720
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:46,920
Speaker 1: she would write a story because she would say, you know,

721
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:49,319
Speaker 1: I think I could probably write a better story than

722
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 1: this trash of reading. And I love that. I love

723
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 1: that because it gets into Tony Morrison who said, hey,

724
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 1: if there's a book you haven't read yet, write it mhm.

725
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:02,440
Speaker 1: And I just love that. I love the thought of

726
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:07,480
Speaker 1: that it can turn out okay, that that that painful experience,

727
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:10,400
Speaker 1: that thing that makes that's supposed to make you not

728
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:14,360
Speaker 1: love yourself mm hmm. It doesn't have to be the

729
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:16,600
Speaker 1: end of the story for you. You can you can

730
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:19,799
Speaker 1: take that moment and shifted ship. I'm like, thirty years later,

731
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 1: I just realized my teacher that was calling me a

732
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 1: bumbling idiot didn't even acknowledge that I was two years

733
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:27,880
Speaker 1: ahead of everybody in the school. How am I idiot?

734
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:32,440
Speaker 1: I'm younger than everybody in my class, in my grade,

735
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 1: and you get paid now to give your opinion on

736
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:38,279
Speaker 1: a wealth of different things. Yeah, you know, I don't

737
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:41,279
Speaker 1: call me where girl was was on something and I

738
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:45,279
Speaker 1: you know, I'm a big fan of her. And she

739
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 1: said something I'm paraphrasing. When somebody is jealous, there's something

740
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 1: that you can't even give them. It's not even like

741
00:45:53,719 --> 00:45:57,279
Speaker 1: it's a purse or a necklace. You can't even give

742
00:45:57,440 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 1: them what they're jealous of. It's something you know that's

743
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:06,719
Speaker 1: innate to you. She said. She was like, when I

744
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 1: walk into a room by light of the room, you

745
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:14,360
Speaker 1: you dark in the room. Bitch, what what can you?

746
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:17,839
Speaker 1: What can you do about that? Nothing? But but you

747
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:21,319
Speaker 1: can damn. Somebody's like, that's what they try. They can't

748
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:22,799
Speaker 1: they try. I want to I want to take this

749
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:26,000
Speaker 1: moment also to say I'm sorry that that happened. I'm

750
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 1: sorry that he did that. You didn't deserve that. You

751
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:35,040
Speaker 1: He should never have been allowed to speak to you

752
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 1: that way. And even though those people still associate themselves

753
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:43,880
Speaker 1: with him, and I know that that's painful again because

754
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:48,480
Speaker 1: they were ended up working on Wall Street and being doctors,

755
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:52,120
Speaker 1: it's like five Wall Street doctors, lawyers. You know, they're

756
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:53,719
Speaker 1: gonna have dinner with him. I'm sorry. He didn't care

757
00:46:53,719 --> 00:46:55,800
Speaker 1: about any of that. He didn't care about that, that

758
00:46:55,920 --> 00:47:00,080
Speaker 1: wasn't your path at all. So he just completely miss

759
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:06,080
Speaker 1: understood a student, misunderstood. He chose to misunderstand the student

760
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:11,360
Speaker 1: he chose. He just he chose violence in a way

761
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:18,759
Speaker 1: that was absolutely unnecess unnecessary, harmful, purposeful in all the

762
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:22,320
Speaker 1: ways that a person can be harmful. It's like people

763
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:25,359
Speaker 1: talking about language. Language can cut just as much as

764
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:29,760
Speaker 1: any kind of physical violence. And you know, I really

765
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:33,360
Speaker 1: I hate that that happened to you, and you didn't

766
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:35,960
Speaker 1: deserve that. And I just want to tell you right now,

767
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:39,280
Speaker 1: like you know, whatever you feel about it is valid.

768
00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:41,719
Speaker 1: I just I just say it once and I'm done.

769
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:45,799
Speaker 1: I said it. Yeah, we're gonna punch this ass out

770
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:49,080
Speaker 1: hout out, Like you said, it's far too many good

771
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:52,279
Speaker 1: teachers and great teacher experiences to let him win in

772
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:57,640
Speaker 1: that situation. And say what you're saying with Mr. Somebody

773
00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:01,200
Speaker 1: on here know where these teachers weren't good. Neither of

774
00:48:01,280 --> 00:48:06,040
Speaker 1: them won anything that part. They didn't win. They didn't

775
00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:10,080
Speaker 1: win at all. The worst way possible. You all blossom.

776
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 1: I'm talking about in their lives. I'm talking about an hour.

777
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:18,479
Speaker 1: They didn't win at all, not even the slightest, Mr Levin,

778
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:24,920
Speaker 1: do you even know? Do you even know? It's ugly?

779
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:29,720
Speaker 1: Could never? Do you know what they say about me today?

780
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:35,799
Speaker 1: You know what they say? Don't they sprints all to

781
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:41,759
Speaker 1: which I caused? Honey, But a mere smile, minkle in

782
00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:48,879
Speaker 1: the eye, bitch down, Take the people down. All they

783
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:51,279
Speaker 1: need to see is the smile that they know is me? Sir?

784
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:57,319
Speaker 1: Do they know what you do? Does they want you? Good? Bye?

785
00:48:57,480 --> 00:49:00,400
Speaker 1: Mr Leat. I'm gonna try my best not to mention

786
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:03,160
Speaker 1: him anymore, but it may come up. It may come

787
00:49:03,239 --> 00:49:07,759
Speaker 1: up that man to which we should I'll not name, yes,

788
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:11,160
Speaker 1: which we shall not name, because we don't name them.

789
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:17,839
Speaker 1: We name people to give power them. Yeah, shout out

790
00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:25,839
Speaker 1: the good one. But I like your thinking them. Take

791
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:28,759
Speaker 1: a deep breath, letten, take a deep breath. Man in

792
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:32,080
Speaker 1: this life right here? Y, it's a thing, is it not?

793
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:36,040
Speaker 1: It's a thing. It is a thing. Oh, I'm so

794
00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:40,239
Speaker 1: grateful for age. Some people didn't make it. Yeah, yeah,

795
00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:42,879
Speaker 1: I know. It's funny. My boyfriend always gets mad because

796
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 1: I say it's been a long life, and he's like,

797
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:46,759
Speaker 1: why do you act like it's about the end. I'm like, no,

798
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:48,719
Speaker 1: I'm not acting like it's about the end. But you

799
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:53,440
Speaker 1: gotta understand, like, these first four decades, it's been a

800
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:56,600
Speaker 1: doing me. We'd have done some things. It's been a

801
00:49:56,719 --> 00:50:03,080
Speaker 1: whole story, a whole story's many chapters in this book.

802
00:50:04,040 --> 00:50:10,480
Speaker 1: Who many think about that? Listen, I don't know wherever

803
00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:13,000
Speaker 1: you are. I don't I don't know exactly what you're

804
00:50:13,040 --> 00:50:15,880
Speaker 1: doing except for listening to Jay dot Ilda podcasts, and

805
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:20,360
Speaker 1: we really thank you for that. I would love to

806
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:23,279
Speaker 1: share this poem about love. You ain't done that in

807
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:24,920
Speaker 1: a while. Come on, Jim, we like it when you

808
00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:29,680
Speaker 1: do that. Man. This is This is written by Philadelphia

809
00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:36,920
Speaker 1: poet Laureat Ursula Rucker. She writes, on this day, there

810
00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 1: will be no talk of war or politic or disaster

811
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:45,480
Speaker 1: or death. Love is alive today, so we will speak

812
00:50:45,560 --> 00:50:50,560
Speaker 1: only of love. There will be only love on tom

813
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:54,359
Speaker 1: and up and in heart and thought. And it won't

814
00:50:54,400 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 1: be that Hollywood type of love, not TV love, not

815
00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:04,440
Speaker 1: dime store novel love, and certainly not mainstream music love. Love, love,

816
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:11,120
Speaker 1: you know love, love that has been worked on love

817
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:17,840
Speaker 1: like gardens and term papers. Love that has been nurtured,

818
00:51:17,920 --> 00:51:24,400
Speaker 1: like children, and well like children. Love that falls, crashes,

819
00:51:24,480 --> 00:51:30,880
Speaker 1: even burns, but dusts off, fixes up and rises, rises

820
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:35,759
Speaker 1: more brilliant than before. Phoenix love, Yeah, phoenix love. So

821
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:40,319
Speaker 1: let us speak only of love, healing love, No herbal

822
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:46,280
Speaker 1: or over the counsel, love, m real healing, love like God,

823
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:51,840
Speaker 1: love like mother's love, lovers love, child's love, like best friend.

824
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:57,879
Speaker 1: Love and change the world love, human love, humans love, love,

825
00:51:58,080 --> 00:52:04,960
Speaker 1: soft love, heart word, but just love, enjoyed the new garden.

826
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:13,200
Speaker 1: Work on it together. Ursula Rucker. M m mmm mm hmmm,

827
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:21,400
Speaker 1: she said, no herbal or, over the counter, lover real healing,

828
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:26,719
Speaker 1: the combination of which cannot take the combination of her

829
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:29,440
Speaker 1: words and your voice. It's too much. It was just

830
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:35,319
Speaker 1: the words, the words. Fucking I love you, Ursula. We

831
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:45,880
Speaker 1: love you, Ursula in the words words, the words. Some

832
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:50,279
Speaker 1: people just have an understanding. M hm. And so we

833
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 1: thank God, thank God, and we send love to the artists,

834
00:52:55,160 --> 00:53:02,800
Speaker 1: to the poets, songwriters. Thank you all for the word makers, makers,

835
00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:11,120
Speaker 1: the painters, the sculptors, thank you, We thank you. The dancers.

836
00:53:12,840 --> 00:53:18,160
Speaker 1: Come on, all that evoke in of emotion the musicians listen.

837
00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:22,399
Speaker 1: Thank you all for teaching us how to love mm

838
00:53:22,520 --> 00:53:27,800
Speaker 1: hmm had the birds maybe that the actions, but you

839
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:32,319
Speaker 1: knew how to say it. Yeah, we want, she said,

840
00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 1: because some of them may live in we're talking about

841
00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:43,440
Speaker 1: the were talking about. We're talking about the art. Love

842
00:53:43,560 --> 00:53:52,200
Speaker 1: this show. Deep breaths. Take a moment and love yourself today. Okay,

843
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:58,359
Speaker 1: take fifty moments, take a thousand bucket, going to love

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Speaker 1: yourself all day, all night. You're worth it and so deserving.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening to Jay dot Ilga podcast.

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Speaker 1: It is always our pleasure to have conversation that sparks conversation,

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Speaker 1: love and light, y'all, how do you eat an elephant?

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Speaker 1: One by it kind? Hello, dear listeners, it's Amber the

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Speaker 1: we love ourselves, I really do. And we're finishing it

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Speaker 1: out with Layah's completed assignments. Hey y'all, it's Laia and yes,

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Speaker 1: I have reluctantly written my top five things that I

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Speaker 1: go in no particular order. Number five, I am a

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Speaker 1: conscious work in progress. I love that about me. Number four.

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Speaker 1: I love that I try to consider all in most situations.

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Speaker 1: Number three. I love that I refused to give up,

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Speaker 1: what I'm laying. Number two, I love that I am

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Speaker 1: Number one, I love how hard I love, no matter

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Speaker 1: What really for me? Because this is about me. I

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Speaker 1: love the complexities of my tight walp okay and now

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Speaker 1: challenge y'all see it's not easy, all right, you do it? Love,

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Speaker 1: y'all see it the next show. Hi, you have comments

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Speaker 1: a future episode. Thank you for listening to Jill Scott

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