WEBVTT - Education is Power 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:00.880 I'm Tamika D. 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:03.160 Mallory and the ship Boy my Son in general. 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:05.240 We are your host of t M I. 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:10.080 Tamika my Son's Information, Truth, motivation and inspiration, New. 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:16.720 Name, New Energy. What's up, my son, Lennon, what's up? 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:17.599 Tmika Mallory? 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:18.799 That's me. 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:21.800 That's who you be. You know, I'm to me. 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:24.720 I'll be making him change that on like checks and 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:27.040 you make sure that D is this because that's my name. 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:30.080 You made sure that you ain't gonna miss the D. 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:34.879 I'm dead to you. I'm just saying, I mean, are 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:36.120 y'all serious about. 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:40.199 It's the thing? People do it? Why? Because it's just 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:42.560 it's a nature. You don't want to get caught saying. 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:45.239 But what if you're a grown person that's gonna be 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:46.559 fifty years old into you. 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:48.840 Grown people is the ones who've been doing it. It's 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:50.080 started with the grown people. 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:53.640 O my god, and Dame das. 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:57.480 Odu style do it right because she's saying it. But 0:00:57.600 --> 0:00:59.880 like I was going to get ice cream, Paul, He's like, 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:02.320 that is not what it's supposed to be. 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:06.040 Useful. That ain't it. I love you, but that ain't it. 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:09.680 Speaking of ice cream, I ain't been eating no ice cream. 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:13.760 You know, my workout like it's gonna be tough this summer. 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.399 You know what I'm saying, because I'm back. I'm tired 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:18.480 of the dad bought. I had the dad buy for 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:22.360 about two three years. I couldn't really see my six pack. Yeah, 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:25.000 my six pack wasn't it wasn't right, you know what 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:28.120 I'm saying. I felt my stomach over my pants. It 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:30.600 was like, nah, this ain't me. So, you know, the 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:33.880 last few months, been getting it right. I see my 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:38.039 six pack again. It's tough. I'm down about ten pounds, 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:42.440 almost eleven pounds. You know, ramadan't helped me get on 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:45.679 that that road. You know what I'm saying, So that 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:50.320 that exercise. Man, y'all be trying to cheat. Everybody want 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:52.840 to cheat the ground. To me, I want to do that. 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:58.320 Don't don't cheat the ground. You don't really cheat. First, 0:01:58.360 --> 0:01:59.360 you have been working out. 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:02.720 I have, and I have curved a lot of my 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:05.080 bad habits in terms of eating. 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:06.680 I need to do better. 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:11.600 I realized that sugar is my addiction like I have really, 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:13.240 I mean, I didn't listen. 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:17.240 I have traded in other addictions. 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:19.920 For sugar and it's serious, Like I now am beginning 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:23.200 to see that if I don't have sugar, or if 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:27.400 if I don't have something sweet, I get agitated, and 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.920 that is a problem. So now apple slices is my 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:34.200 new thing, or you know, some type of fruit to 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:36.240 try to help me. And then you know what I 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:38.160 also eat, y'all know, because I keep them around all 0:02:38.200 --> 0:02:38.560 the time. 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:41.600 Crab babies. Baby. I got to have me a crib baby. 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:44.160 That's my that's my job. I was eating. 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:46.040 Let me tell you, let me tell y'all this story. 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:48.520 So I used to keep a bag of. 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:51.840 Double bubble gum, double bubble. 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:56.000 Yes, the individual double bubble gums. First I used to 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:58.400 have bazooka gum. But them joints just be too stale, 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:00.360 like they I don't maybe people don't eat them as 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:02.720 much as they used to, so they just leave you. 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.280 Just buy you a box of rocks and soil. 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:05.640 You know that. 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:06.600 Come on, can't do that. 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:09.040 By the way, eating gum, I don't think it's healthy anyway, 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:12.880 But eating gum. See, eating gum, that's why this is 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:13.840 how I chew gum. 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:14.440 I eat them. 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:18.840 So then I went to double bubble and I got 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:22.720 somehow I lucked up and out of the CBS store. 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:27.920 I found the bag of double bubble gums, but it 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:31.320 also had the hard ones that you buy from because 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:34.080 I'm one of those people, as you know, because y'all 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:34.560 have seen me. 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:35.320 We could be. 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.600 One time we were in like the back roads of 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:40.800 I don't know where the hell we were, and my 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:44.240 ass was running all around trying to collect twenty five 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:46.400 cent to get one of them gums out of the 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:50.840 You know, that was something we wouldn't talk about here, 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:54.000 but it was like a thing going on in the community, 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:55.840 and they wanted to inform us, but they didn't want 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:58.280 to talk out in public, so we and I'm running 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:00.840 around instead of the meeting, I'm out here trying to 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:03.200 get twenty five cent to get some bubblegum out of 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:05.160 that dirty machine that never gets cleaned. 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:07.240 And the inside I like bubblegum. 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:09.880 So when I got the bag with the double Bubbles 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:11.040 in it, it had. 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:14.360 The cry Babies was in there too. 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:17.400 It was Crybabies and a few of the little other 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:20.719 hard ones. So then I took the whole bag of 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.000 double bubbles and took it to the hand salon and 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:25.840 say I can't have this no more. Ordered me some 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:29.800 cry Babies and now I'm just loving a bag of crimebait. 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:31.080 I know, I gotta get I. 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:33.599 Know this is a lot. I was told with my 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:35.360 six pack and you went to crabbabies. 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:36.760 Well, I'm just saying sugar. 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:38.240 Sugar is a problem. 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:41.040 Listen, man, Health is wealth for real, you know, and 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:43.800 it's it's and I'm just enjoying my health journey again. 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:49.000 I'm back like inspired with my workout and just being healthy, 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:52.600 eating healthy. Well, I'm still fast and technically because I 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:53.400 do intimate and. 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.080 Faster than anyway you lived like that. 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:57.080 Yeah, you know, and I just feel I feel, I 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:58.880 feel myself being a lot more stronger. 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:02.920 Y'all don't really eat like the girls eat. I'm not 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:06.320 gonna lie like men do not eat like women. Because 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:09.760 being on the road with y'all, Linda and I can 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:10.880 put down. 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:13.359 Some I don't even know how Linda listen to me. 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:18.320 I don't even know where Linda fit the food. She 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:20.760 she gets a plate. See the thing about you is 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:21.479 you pick. 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:21.920 Off your pate. 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:25.680 But I order to me order four plates, four main 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:30.400 plates entrees. She ordered steak, she ordered ribs, and then 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:33.559 she orders shrimp in this and it be with mashed 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:40.240 potatoes on heres on here did she go two spies, 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:41.640 two bites to each of them? 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:44.440 And then she just keep going around and she'll pack 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:44.719 it up. 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:48.520 So don't think people that I don't. 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:53.240 Linda will ordered the whole entree with like to a 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:55.599 double eat the surf and turf? 0:05:56.480 --> 0:06:00.560 What what do the fries and all the stuff? Finish that? 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:02.360 And then start picking on to me get school because 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:04.320 she knows she ain't gonna eat it. And I'd be like, 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.719 how did she eat all that? I couldn't eat all that? 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:10.599 We do eat, but we but we are better and 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:16.440 this is so this behavior ended as of December of 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:20.599 twenty twenty three, and now we're getting two meals, not 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:25.599 four vegetables, not a lot of carbs at all. I 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:27.720 have cut back carbs and it's killing me. I had 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:31.440 carbs today. But they and they say you can still 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:35.080 eat certain things, but you really do have to work out. 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:38.640 It's a lot of people that's out here on the zimpee. 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:40.400 The zimbi, and I'm with them. 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:44.840 I don't zip Harrold they on the ZIMPI I feel you, 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.400 but you have to work out because you're looking a 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:48.360 little weird. 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:50.040 If you ain't still getting that work out. And you 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:51.320 just on that zimpie you. 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:55.360 Looking, you got that look that it's a look got 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:57.440 to work out. So I mean, I literally have had 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:02.560 a full lifestyle change, but I don't drink soda at all, juice, 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:05.880 none of that stuff. So you know, it's a new thing, 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:09.360 but I do. I can't tell the difference. I can 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.920 tell the difference. So anyway, it is. 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:12.360 What it is. 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:13.360 My thought of the day. 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:21.360 I saw Donald Trump Junior and he made a very 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:31.240 very powerful statement. He said, the Republican Party that we 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:36.480 once knew is no longer. He said, the last step 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:41.160 is for MAGA to take over the rn C, which 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:46.480 is the Republican National Convention, where he's talking about going 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:48.520 there and overthrowing the whole joint. 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:51.640 And them taking over right, And he. 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:55.360 Said, once we accomplish that, it is going to be 0:07:55.440 --> 0:08:02.040 the MAGA Party. This man said this himself. So when 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:06.360 people start going back and forth we arguing Republicans versus Democrats, 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:10.559 we're not even really arguing Republicans versus Democrats anymore. We're 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:14.239 arguing Republicans versus I mean, Democrats versus MAGA. 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:16.080 That's really what we're talking about. 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:26.480 Independent even some Republicans, some moderate Republicans, because the way 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:32.920 that Marjorie Taylor Green and the rest of those right 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:38.079 wing Republicans it's his name, Mark Gatz, he's from she's 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:41.920 from Georgia, and he's from Florida. The way in which 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:48.520 they are they super maga. They're not even a little maga. 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:53.400 The way that they are pulling, the way that they 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:59.640 are pulling and shifting the Republican Party towards this extremist mindset. 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:03.200 It is not the same Republican Party that you could 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:05.640 play with and be like, oh, we could kind of 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:09.080 possibly work with them. There's no working with them. They 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:11.880 do not They vote against everything that has to do 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:15.320 with us and a little bit of what we deserve. 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:19.160 We can't even get everything that we need from the Democrats, right. 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.920 We don't even have them in there one hundred percent 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:26.040 advocating for like real substantive change. It's only a few 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:28.320 people within the Democratic Party that's going to do that. 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:33.000 These maga folks at every single angle, they are turning 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.559 it down, They are pushing. 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:36.640 Back against anything. 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:39.200 Then in fact, they want to roll it all back, 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.880 and unfortunately our people sit up there and support it. So, 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.240 you know, some of our people, let me be careful 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:48.920 with absolutes. So my thought of the day is that 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:52.439 I hope people understand that we're not sitting up here. 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:56.320 I'm not because you have your own mindset around this. 0:09:56.880 --> 0:10:01.040 I am not arguing that it's the Democrats are better 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:05.400 than the Republicans. I'm saying that I will never support MAGA. 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:10.559 And when Donald Trump's own son says that the Republican 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:14.040 Party is becoming that and that they intend to take 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:17.520 over and make sure that MAGA is the order of 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:22.200 the day, that bullshit make America great again, which ultimately 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:25.240 means going back to a time when black people had 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.520 even less rights than we have now. I can never 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:32.800 align with that. And their party leader is his father, 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.800 Donald Trump. So no, I don't support them. What does 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:39.079 that mean? Does that mean I'm puking on myself about 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:42.040 having to continuously be involved with a party that I 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:45.679 also does not feel like. I also don't feel that 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:51.240 this party deserves my vote, my energy. Absolutely absolutely. It 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:54.000 makes me sick to my stomach. But at the same 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:59.600 time I realize that whatever comes out of not just 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:03.400 this year election, but every single election, you got Congressman 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:10.280 Jamal Bowman and Corey Bush, Congresswoman Corey Bush, Angela Asselbrooks 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:13.079 running for Senate in Maryland. 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:15.960 You have Hill Harper running for office. I mean, you've 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.560 got people that are under attack by. 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:21.840 MAGA and a PAK, which MAGA and APAK are aligned 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:26.679 in many ways. Okay, this is some serious shit, and 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:33.040 I know that my granddaughter's future is directly connected to 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:36.000 the decisions that we made, so we could talk all 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:36.200 of this. 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:40.440 Don't care, don't matter. I get, I hear you, I 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:41.000 feel you. 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:44.240 But I'm just telling you that these people have a 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:50.400 plan and a design and a strategy that includes the courts, 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:55.120 whether they be federal courts, state courts. They try they 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:59.559 are attempting to take back everything that anybody you respect 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:00.160 fought for. 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:01.160 That's a fact. 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:05.040 I can't even That's not even something that's even worth. 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:09.040 I mean, it's even arguable. Nobody can't argue that. The 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:11.040 only thing what they try to say is well, we 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:13.560 don't need that. We don't need Brown Person or the 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:16.080 board edge game, we don't need we don't need Roe 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:18.640 Versus Weight, we don't need de Ei, Like. 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:19.440 It's just stupid. 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:21.320 Look, what do you mean The reason why we got 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:22.559 it is because we needed it. 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.080 Have to fucking the people that you do. 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:28.360 You celebrate our imposition that have been able to change 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:33.280 the future, I mean change and make change and create 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:35.840 a better future for us because they were forced to 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:37.400 put them in. They didn't never want to put us 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:40.000 in a position of power or anything like, they were 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:42.680 forced to do it. So you just giving them the 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:44.959 opportunity to say, you know what, we're just gonna make 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:46.920 this company one hundred percent white again. We're gonna make 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:49.679 sure these schools is one hundred percent white again. You know, 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:52.800 maybe one if you got an IVY League black kid 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:55.400 that grew up that actually had access to wealth, then 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:57.520 maybe we'll get them in. But we don't have to 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:58.320 do none of that shit. 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:03.840 You know what DEI is. D I is women. 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:10.480 Having the opportunity to really make money, to take care 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:14.400 of themselves and their families and create and and and 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:19.520 have businesses. Right, that's de I. You know what else 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:22.600 de I is, let's go back beyond that. Oh, actually 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:25.440 it would be in the same time, voting rights was 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:29.360 de I. That was us having the ability for the 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:33.160 for the voting pool to be diverse where white people 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.120 did not control everything. They might have called it d 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:39.240 I at the time, but that's what the language developed 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:42.559 to be later on. D I is a lot of things. 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:46.480 D I is even our ability to get on certain 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:50.440 college campuses, to get to get the resources that our 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:52.440 schools deserved. 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:54.800 I is so much bigger than this. 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:58.720 Now, this this thing that people keep talking about, it 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:03.280 means that you aren't quite qualified. Like what like, we're 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:07.720 we're more qualified. And I'm gonna keep saying this. We're 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:11.320 more qualified, you know, And I and and and and 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:12.800 the sad part is I and. 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:16.240 I will leave it here. One of the things we 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:17.720 talk about all the time. 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:21.640 And I said this when I was addressing Daniel Cameron 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:27.640 after he did not do justice by Brianna Taylor, her family, 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:31.400 and the community of Louisville, Kentucky, and Kentucky overall and 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:36.440 ultimately America by allowing those offices not to be prosecuted 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.360 for murdering that young beautiful girl. 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:41.800 Okay, I said this to him. 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:45.400 You just like the ones who were a part of 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:51.880 selling us into enslavement, even because you are ignorant, for real, 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:57.080 willfully ignorant whatever they've offered you, you believe that somehow, 0:14:57.400 --> 0:15:01.640 if you align with you have the proximity to whatever 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:06.480 they have their wealth, their power, their whiteness. So you 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:09.480 go get married to them and then try to work 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:13.080 alongside them and throw your own family, your own people away, 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:18.080 You are complicit. So I'm saying that while we sit here. 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:20.160 And and and and and. 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:24.200 Own the talking points of those who want to be 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:28.040 our oppressors, we are in the process of selling ourselves 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:30.800 right back into the same loop that we have fought 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:33.320 so hard to get out of. So I just hope 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:36.800 that black men who hear that know that love me 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:40.200 for real, don't love me just in the bed, don't 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:41.440 love me just you know. 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:44.080 We cool and you you support me? And yes, sis, no, 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.040 our bodies, our rights. 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.880 Everything about us, everything that you claim you love is 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:52.640 under attack. And you out here talking about we were 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:53.880 not qualified. 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:56.200 Enough to get the job. Brothers, Let's be for real. 0:15:57.800 --> 0:15:58.680 That's a word there. 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:00.800 I don't even know what to say, but I feel 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:02.800 a little bad to bring some music after that. 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:05.800 Well, you know, we we deserve the balance of a 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:08.800 little musical, little music by lighting it up. 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:15.040 What you got artist from Philadelphia og like, this is 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:16.440 what I call real og Like. 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:21.520 Somebody sent it to me and it just touched me. 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:25.400 This brother is lyrically dope. His message is really trying 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:27.680 to wake up the youth. Reminds me of pretty much 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:33.280 my message. His name is Saint Basil. He's dope. He's 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:36.000 a dope artist. And he has this song that he 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:39.160 released the video for where he took the Somehow some 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:43.040 Way jay Z and Beanie song. That one of my 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:45.360 favorite songs. He took the beat and he made it 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:48.600 into his own, and it's just it's him schooling these 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:51.000 young boys and just talking to them about the streets 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:54.200 and the reality and just trying to inspire and motivate him. 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:55.600 And it's lyrically crazy. 0:16:55.680 --> 0:17:05.080 Sot Basil, Saint Basil Basil. So it's somebody. It's like 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:05.719 my speed. 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:08.800 It's you love it, the old speed, you love it. 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:12.560 You know who I like as an artist, Lola Brook. 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:16.280 Lola shout out the way she come out. Lola is 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:20.240 shout out to my main eighty, who is she signed to? 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:23.520 Eighty is one of the main those best friends. And 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:27.480 eighty got shot a while ago. He's been in the wheelchair, 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:30.400 but he's always been like my heart, and he started 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:33.760 his own company. He signed Lola and they've been doing anything. 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:36.800 So shout out to eighty. Shout out to Lola, you know, 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:39.600 the first time, Like I've always been a fan of HRS. 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:42.320 When I first met her at Yankee Stadium when they 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:44.040 did the concert, she gave me a. 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:45.800 Big hugs, like, yo, all love it? What do you do? So? 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:47.159 And her energy. 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:52.120 She came out on the stage for the uh what 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:54.760 was it? She's a cold concert? Oh my god. 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:56.880 And scarlet scarlet. I love Scarlet. 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:00.080 I happened to see her not long ago, and I 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.760 was and she was with og Bar at Brooklyn chop 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:06.320 House one night. And in Brooklyn Chophouse is a black 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:09.399 man's restaurant that is in the middle of Times Square 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:12.480 and it's several floors and it's very fabulous. 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:15.280 And she don pooh, that's right. 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:18.040 And she was at a table sitting down with og Barr, 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:19.560 who's like the uncle to us all. 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:21.880 And you know you could tell O g was. 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:25.200 You know, yes, you know, he was schooling U, telling 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:27.520 them what it is. And I just walked over to him. 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:30.640 I was like, you are beautiful. Don't letting anybody make 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:33.280 you feel like you have to defend your beauty. You 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:37.080 just beautiful. And she was so beautiful in person, just 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:41.040 a beautiful spirit, so sweet and kind, but that Internet 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:43.040 has you feeling like you gotta get on there and 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:45.800 be like stop stop saying how I look, and stop 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:47.480 saying you know, because she was going through that for 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:47.840 a while. 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:49.679 But it looks like the. 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:52.280 Bar probably sat down and say, don't get there, explain 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:59.600 yourself another get well, listen, don't fuck our kids. Okay, 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:01.120 don't fuck go over our children. 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:01.560 Okay. 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:05.080 We're about to talk about education in New York State, 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:08.119 which should be what we're going to talk about today, 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:11.800 needs to be all over the nation and ultimately all 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:12.360 over the world. 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:16.119 Yes, a brother's doing something very revolutionary, so stay tuned. 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:16.879 Let's bring him on. 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:20.040 So today our. 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:24.240 Guest is a friend of mine, another friend, you know, 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:27.040 a brother that for the last couple of years that 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:30.640 I've worked closely with, watched him do so many things, 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:33.240 you know, within the educational system and just in the 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:38.199 community period, like just watching him be very hands on 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:42.680 and supporting everybody that's doing anything from hip hop artists 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:47.320 to elected officials, and also inside education because that's where 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:50.560 his background is. You know, my brother, Dennis Makizi is 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:54.880 an experienced educator who's worked every level of education from 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:58.520 daycare to college and most recently because people will say 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:01.600 think that this all he's done, But most recently he 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:05.639 is the founder of OSG, which is short for off 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:09.200 school Grounds, you know, and it's a revolutionary organization. 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:12.520 And I want to thank you and welcome you to 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:12.920 the show. 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:17.080 My pleasure, family, my pleasure. Yes, yes, yes, I appreciate that. 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:18.200 It's an honor to be here. 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:20.600 You know. Obviously my brother might sign up known for what. 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:24.080 And it's funny to me, I've been meeting I've been 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:26.760 wanting to meet you, or to at least talk to 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:29.320 you for so long because we we we have you know, 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:30.320 mutual friends like. 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:33.800 Jamility Davis of course, and you know this is truly. 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:37.040 Davis is all my friend's friends exactly exactly. 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:38.280 So it's honor to be here. 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:40.800 Most certainly, thank you so much for joining us. 0:20:41.240 --> 0:20:45.080 So give us a background, let us know what it 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:47.680 is you're doing. Because serial educated from daykid all the 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:49.560 way to come. That's a life, So give us like 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:50.200 a background. 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:54.119 My entire family we're postal workers, right, so my grandfather, 0:20:54.440 --> 0:20:58.680