1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:01,680 Speaker 1: Speaks to the planet. I'll go by the name of 2 00:00:01,720 --> 00:00:03,960 Speaker 1: Charlamagne Tha God. And guess what, I can't wait to 3 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:07,320 Speaker 1: see y'all at the third annual Black Effect Podcast Festival. 4 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:10,360 Speaker 1: That's right, We're coming back to Atlanta, Georgia, Saturday, April 5 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:13,120 Speaker 1: twenty six at Poeman Yards and it's hosted by none 6 00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:16,599 Speaker 1: other than Decisions, Decisions, Mandy B and Weezy. Okay, we 7 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,920 Speaker 1: got the R and B Money Podcast with taking Jay Valentine. 8 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:22,520 Speaker 1: You got the Woman of All Podcasts with Saray Jake Roberts. 9 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:25,239 Speaker 1: We got Good Mom's Bad Choices. 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So I'm gonna get a little bit rougher. 20 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 2: I'm here for it those who really believed in the 21 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 2: American process. All of us street shot chase with your 22 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 2: girl tessel figure out on the Black Effect podcast. Networking 23 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:14,040 Speaker 2: was having everybody straight shot, no chaser tesselaing figure out 24 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:20,120 Speaker 2: here with Marcellus and Jade is back. Decided to pull 25 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 2: up and join us. I had, Hey, it's like to 26 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 2: be back. You know, I had to take a mental 27 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:30,560 Speaker 2: health break. That's right, to protect your peace's. 28 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:36,160 Speaker 3: I had to. I said, you know what, let me 29 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 3: just go ahead, and you know, poured the wool over 30 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 3: my eyes. 31 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 2: And that's right, it's nothing like it. And we and 32 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:48,800 Speaker 2: one thing we got down is protecting peace. That's one 33 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 2: thing they. 34 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:51,080 Speaker 4: Ain't got it down here because I ain't got no chance, 35 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 4: no time for it. 36 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:00,559 Speaker 2: I remember Hillary Clinton said, I've always appreciate that quote 37 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 2: when they add when she went through everything she went through, 38 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:05,440 Speaker 2: and they said, how did you keep from losing your mind? 39 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:07,520 Speaker 2: And she said, I didn't have time to lose my mind. 40 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:11,280 Speaker 2: I literally didn't have time on had time. Yeah that's me. 41 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,799 Speaker 3: Too much stuff for me, yea, I wish, but nah, 42 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 3: it's so cool. 43 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 2: You know. Testling is expanding so oh so many moving pieces. 44 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:23,640 Speaker 3: I'm just great yeah, do a lot of that work. 45 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 2: And a couple of times I had other things that 46 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 2: were scheduled doing straight shot in our chat set, so 47 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:30,520 Speaker 2: I was like, dang, I wanted to come in and 48 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:33,840 Speaker 2: especially get a all time it's update from our sellers. 49 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 2: What's going on. So I'm glad to be back. Yeah, No, 50 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:43,240 Speaker 2: I'm glad you're back to you are flawless. Were being 51 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 2: available and doing the work and doing all of that 52 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:50,079 Speaker 2: and that's why you know we're shipping and get it done. 53 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:52,800 Speaker 2: And matter of fact, you know, this is a side note. 54 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:57,079 Speaker 2: This is totally just having casual conversation, like we're not 55 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 2: recording the podcast, but y'all should can do it on 56 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:01,480 Speaker 2: the pot. This is and y'all podcasts. Y'all should just 57 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:03,360 Speaker 2: know y'all just sitting in the living room with us talking. 58 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:06,960 Speaker 2: I'm getting ready to straighten Isaac Hayes on something. You know, 59 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 2: he just I love straightening him every chance I get. 60 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 2: He just made a post about, you know, black journalism 61 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 2: is dead, and you know people need a black journal 62 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 2: need to write their own stories and just copying and pasting, 63 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 2: and you know, I went there Jay and said, well 64 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:22,360 Speaker 2: where's the funding? You know, because it really needs it 65 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:24,080 Speaker 2: to say. You know, I'm saying this because you just 66 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 2: said so many missing many many pieces, no moving parts, 67 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:31,520 Speaker 2: and where's the funding, Isaac? Because it's easy to sit 68 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:33,640 Speaker 2: back and say, well, y'allhould be writing your original stories. 69 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,880 Speaker 2: Black media and black editorial departments, we don't have it 70 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 2: like that to write every single story. Who's going to 71 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:41,880 Speaker 2: do the investigation, who's gonna do the reporting, Who's gonna 72 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 2: do so a lot of times we have to get 73 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 2: our sources. I'm the white sources. So you don't know 74 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 2: what you're talking about, Isaac. Oh no, no, no, they just 75 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:51,880 Speaker 2: copy and past. I said, well, I'm just telling you 76 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 2: based upon the news actually working in a real newsroom 77 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 2: and what the reality is when you are a black newsroom. 78 00:03:58,640 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 2: We just had a meeting to day. Jay was a 79 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 2: part of of actually really trying to pull these stories together. 80 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 2: What can we afford to write? What can we cannot 81 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:11,800 Speaker 2: afford to write? From a funding standpoint? So, Isaac, everybody 82 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 2: don't have ten million dollars whatever he say he raising 83 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 2: on a monthly basis, allegedly, we don't have that. So 84 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:19,679 Speaker 2: we're doing the best that we can. So I will 85 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:22,280 Speaker 2: be I think when I get done recording this, I 86 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:25,839 Speaker 2: think I'm go live and do a little bit of straightening. 87 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 3: Straightening, right, we ain't got it. 88 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:30,720 Speaker 2: We ain't got it Isaac. And when is Isaac gonna? 89 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:33,160 Speaker 2: I still ain't seen him on the list for the 90 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:33,720 Speaker 2: town hall. 91 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 3: Oh okay, he's in Atlanta. 92 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 2: Yes, he's in Atlanta. He's say ask me a million 93 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 2: times to come show up at fan base, show up 94 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:45,040 Speaker 2: and get my three ninety nine to be an investor. 95 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:47,039 Speaker 2: So I'm looking for him at the town hall. 96 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 3: So support is supposed to be neutral. It's a mutual. 97 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:52,240 Speaker 2: Exactly at Isaac. So we're looking, we're looking for you. 98 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 2: I'll be telling people in the car in the comments, 99 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:57,479 Speaker 2: why you ain't over on Fairbass. Now, y'all go over 100 00:04:57,520 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 2: there and tell Isac we ain't gonna get tickets to 101 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 2: the town hall because we meant yep, we ain't seeing 102 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:05,839 Speaker 2: him at town hall. That's right. Feller's literally gonna be 103 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:09,880 Speaker 2: at the door. Marcella's is gonna be taking names at 104 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:14,040 Speaker 2: that door, you know, marceialis Patty, He's gonna take names. 105 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 4: And the time of arrival, all right, don't and don't 106 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 4: say no I came. I ain't seen you don't try 107 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:22,120 Speaker 4: to tell that lie. 108 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:26,920 Speaker 2: That's right that after Cliff, who's in a group chat yesterday, 109 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:29,240 Speaker 2: said something, but I don't care what Marcela said about you. 110 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 2: Marcel said, now, don't get put out for line now 111 00:05:32,240 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 2: before old Cliff, don't play games like that. Don't keep kiing. 112 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 2: Marcel's bouting no lives and who said this and who 113 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:45,680 Speaker 2: said what the Cliff, I'm like, oh, you don't know, Marcell, 114 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 2: don't really like playing like that. You gotta go find 115 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 2: another joke. Don't get the flying on people's name brand. 116 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:52,039 Speaker 2: We like the seats and all of that. 117 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:55,040 Speaker 4: So you know he he don't have here, but had 118 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 4: something too much to drink that day. 119 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:02,520 Speaker 2: Welcome y'all to the show. We're gonna cover a couple 120 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 2: of and you know s. I've been getting a lot 121 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:09,040 Speaker 2: more lately of people in like them. Uploads don't go 122 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 2: up on time. I've been gettingeople going over the upload. 123 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 2: I ain't got the other white listening. Trying to get 124 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:20,440 Speaker 2: some digital discipline up in there. Then, so shout out 125 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:22,760 Speaker 2: to everybody. I guess maybe after doing this for five years, 126 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 2: maybe somebody listening, you know, got it been and with it. 127 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:38,160 Speaker 2: I'm all right with it. Jay tell us about this 128 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 2: marines and razor bump story. This is a very important 129 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 2: story to Jay that she wanted to bump up at 130 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 2: at the top of the show. Yeah, I wanted to 131 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:55,560 Speaker 2: do this, Okay, So a lot of really fascinating news stories. 132 00:06:55,600 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 2: So today I came across this story that Black Enterprise 133 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:05,839 Speaker 2: put out saying Black marines with razor bumps could be 134 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,720 Speaker 2: kicked out of the military due to a new policy. 135 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 2: And the rules were implemented after the Defense Secretary ordered 136 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 2: a review of military grooming standards. All right, now, razor 137 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:24,239 Speaker 2: bumps are very painful, they're visible, and they're embarrassing enough. 138 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:26,840 Speaker 2: But could you imagine being a US marine going through 139 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 2: all of that rigorous training, taking a vow and an oath, 140 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:34,280 Speaker 2: and putting your life on the line, and a new 141 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:38,680 Speaker 2: policy like this comes across your desk. So, yep, this 142 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 2: new policy that was introduced where marine suffering from pseudo 143 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:50,240 Speaker 2: pholiculitis barbie or PFB for sure, that's the name of 144 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 2: the condition. A painful and scarring tissue. Excuse me, a 145 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:59,240 Speaker 2: painful and scarring skin condition caused by shaving could face 146 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 2: dismissal if the condition does not improve within a specific 147 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 2: time frame, and that time frame is actually ninety days 148 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:08,200 Speaker 2: according to this new policy. 149 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:11,280 Speaker 3: So here's the background on PFB. 150 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 2: Commonly known as razor bomps is an inflammatory reaction of 151 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:20,760 Speaker 2: the hair follicle, primarily causing primarily caused by shaving, and 152 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:26,120 Speaker 2: so this condition disproportionately affects black men, potentially impacting their 153 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:30,120 Speaker 2: presence in the Marines. Right, So, marcellis, I know you 154 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:32,160 Speaker 2: stay going to the barber shop, you stay fresh and 155 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,880 Speaker 2: clean looking. It's always nice. You know, you have a 156 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:39,959 Speaker 2: great skincare regiment, your haircare regiment. I'm just wondering, like, 157 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:42,200 Speaker 2: do you suffer from razor bombs? 158 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 1: Uh? 159 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 3: I would say, yeah, yeah. 160 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:52,240 Speaker 4: I think that's a ridiculous policy. I mean, they put 161 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:55,599 Speaker 4: their life on the line. So I understand what's the 162 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 4: big deal about the razor bubs? Like, how does that 163 00:08:57,520 --> 00:08:59,320 Speaker 4: affecting them putting a life on the line. 164 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 2: It ain't. Again, this is we gotta find ways to 165 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:06,760 Speaker 2: get y'all negro let's just name it. We gotta find 166 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:09,320 Speaker 2: ways to get negroes out of everything. At this point, 167 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 2: as a veteran h they are very particular on grooming. 168 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:19,559 Speaker 2: You know, if people and I'm gonna be and this 169 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:21,440 Speaker 2: is not me. This and the brothers and nothing like that. 170 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:24,000 Speaker 2: So there's two things I want to look at. One 171 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:29,240 Speaker 2: the overall negroes y'all get, because this is the issue 172 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 2: that people just have. It's not even like even I 173 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 2: know people that have a serious problem with it from 174 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:37,680 Speaker 2: a chemical standpoint, you know, not from just in cleaning 175 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 2: good or use alcohol. You know, just some people just 176 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:43,800 Speaker 2: really have it bad. So I want to sit the 177 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:45,960 Speaker 2: conspiracy side apart. I'm gonna deal with that in a minute, 178 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:47,600 Speaker 2: because I do believe it is a part of a 179 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:50,319 Speaker 2: larger thing. But I do want to say, just from 180 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:57,520 Speaker 2: a veteran standpoint on grooming those types of things, I 181 00:09:57,559 --> 00:09:59,559 Speaker 2: don't I know there was no policy as far as 182 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:02,360 Speaker 2: acting on face with those types of things, but your hair, 183 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:06,240 Speaker 2: your hair being up, a clean shade for men, all 184 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:08,960 Speaker 2: of that. And if we're just being honest, I have 185 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 2: seen some people with real bad razor bumps, and I 186 00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:14,520 Speaker 2: don't know if this is their way of trying to 187 00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:18,240 Speaker 2: get people to try to do something about it, to 188 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:22,920 Speaker 2: try to because again, the real bad ones can be 189 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 2: a hygiene issue, you know, not to have bad hygiene. 190 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:31,360 Speaker 2: But you know, I can't I can see where it 191 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:33,880 Speaker 2: can be a issue just because I know how the 192 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:37,240 Speaker 2: military is about wanting everything to be clean, everything to 193 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:39,400 Speaker 2: be uniformed. I don't mean clean like sanitary. I just 194 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:42,440 Speaker 2: mean you know, clean neck, clean shavee, clean neck, you know, 195 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:48,640 Speaker 2: had appropriate looking you know, the marine had the best dress, 196 00:10:48,760 --> 00:10:51,360 Speaker 2: you know, in your best dress. All of that is 197 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:54,040 Speaker 2: an issue, which is why you know, braise the issue. 198 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:56,080 Speaker 2: Hair on the neck is the issue. All of that 199 00:10:56,440 --> 00:11:01,160 Speaker 2: which tends to sometimes conflict with black people, you know, 200 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:04,640 Speaker 2: and what we might be allergic to or issue you know, 201 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 2: like the razor bumps, wearing our hair braided, getting braid, 202 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:13,080 Speaker 2: you know, sweating braids, all of that. So all of 203 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:18,680 Speaker 2: that conflicts with what may be an issue with black people. Now, 204 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:25,560 Speaker 2: with that said, because anything race based, now, whether it's 205 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:28,199 Speaker 2: d I, which again d EI, I need people to 206 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:33,520 Speaker 2: understand that is an ideology. It is not just about contracts. 207 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 2: It is anything that considers diversity, equity and inclusions anything, 208 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:44,240 Speaker 2: whether it is speaking of hair like the Crown Act 209 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 2: or when Jada was trying out for cheerlead cheerleader and 210 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:50,280 Speaker 2: they wanted all the girls to have a high ponytail 211 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:52,520 Speaker 2: and they had to push the issue to say all 212 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:55,440 Speaker 2: Black girls can't have a high ponytail unless they have 213 00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 2: braids or unless they get a ponytail. They wanted the 214 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 2: ponytail at the very top of their like the white girls. 215 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 2: That wasn't working for a lot of the girls. If 216 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:06,720 Speaker 2: they got a sew in different things like that, they 217 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:10,680 Speaker 2: couldn't put the ponytail up. Those are the things that 218 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:13,200 Speaker 2: things like the Crown Act, which which is based in 219 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:19,679 Speaker 2: a diversity inclusion, you know, equity meaning consider other diversities, 220 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:23,400 Speaker 2: look at equity. How mistake we have in this? Yeah, 221 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:24,920 Speaker 2: because that was the whole thing that I went with 222 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:27,880 Speaker 2: Jada's school when they made that. I asked, why when 223 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:30,240 Speaker 2: did y'all make that policy? Well, that policy always been 224 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:32,600 Speaker 2: in place. Well, who were y'all basing that policy on. 225 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:38,120 Speaker 2: You could not have had a diverse counsel or committee 226 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:40,719 Speaker 2: that made that came up with that idea, because if 227 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:43,120 Speaker 2: it was diverse, as far as on the committee diverse, 228 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:47,559 Speaker 2: they would have taken this consideration. Black girls, yep, got 229 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:51,600 Speaker 2: graides and beads and and and weaves and all of that. 230 00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 2: You would have taken natural hair into consideration. So you 231 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:57,400 Speaker 2: did not something that the military has not done. So 232 00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 2: diversity talks about that, talks about Okay, how much equity 233 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:05,560 Speaker 2: do we have in this? If you're not considering third 234 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 2: twenty five percent of your cheerleaders may possibly be black, 235 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 2: then don't we don't have equity, you're not considered inclusion, 236 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:16,440 Speaker 2: making sure we're included. So this conversation of diversity, equity 237 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:21,040 Speaker 2: inclusion is directly aligned with anything that we are pushing 238 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:26,199 Speaker 2: for for black liberation, anything at all, whether that's reparations. 239 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:28,880 Speaker 2: When I hear people say give us what you gave them, well, 240 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:32,959 Speaker 2: guess what that means. Equity inclusion yep, whether it is 241 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:37,200 Speaker 2: treat us like you treat everybody else, equity inclusion. Consider 242 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:41,960 Speaker 2: that my issue, the income wealth gap ratio, my issue. 243 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:44,320 Speaker 2: My credit score may be different than yours based on 244 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 2: the circumstances of my life. Diversity, so give some of 245 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:51,680 Speaker 2: us a chance when you talk about that's another one. 246 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 2: I'm gonna wait to see. Be watching for that one, y'all. 247 00:13:54,920 --> 00:13:58,400 Speaker 2: Play close attention. The check the remember to check the 248 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:02,160 Speaker 2: box policy that they just change that many city level 249 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:04,600 Speaker 2: where they removed having to say if you had a 250 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:08,880 Speaker 2: felony or not. Yes, wait to see that. They a 251 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:11,960 Speaker 2: lot of those policies they just removed remove that in 252 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:14,040 Speaker 2: a lot of cities where you don't have to. Orlando 253 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:15,959 Speaker 2: was one where you don't have to say, at least 254 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:20,000 Speaker 2: on the application, the initial chance to go in there 255 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:24,080 Speaker 2: and state your case. They don't ask about your background. 256 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 2: That's called equity and inclusion. Now, eventually I believe you 257 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:30,480 Speaker 2: do it. It does come up, but at least give 258 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 2: me a chance, right, give me a chance to say 259 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:35,200 Speaker 2: I've done this, done that. 260 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:35,320 Speaker 4: This. 261 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:37,320 Speaker 2: A lot of time they just see it, especially with 262 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:39,320 Speaker 2: AI scanning through resumes. 263 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 3: And just kick you out. 264 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:45,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, so all of these things, guys, is in the 265 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:49,880 Speaker 2: larger conversation about diversity, equity and inclusion. 266 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:51,240 Speaker 3: Yeah. 267 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:54,680 Speaker 2: So those who don't like it, those who pushing against 268 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 2: they're not They're very short sighted. And this is where 269 00:14:57,400 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 2: maybe having critical thinking skills, maybe have a degree, will 270 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:02,920 Speaker 2: help so that you can have a larger long term 271 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:07,000 Speaker 2: vision on how these things are going to effect, especially 272 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:14,080 Speaker 2: our most vulnerable in our society. The Walmart greeters. They 273 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:17,520 Speaker 2: get incentives for hiring the elderly, they get incentives for 274 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:20,040 Speaker 2: hiring people this bit. Y'all even noticed that, y'all know 275 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:22,160 Speaker 2: that when y'all go to see mon Walmart greets in 276 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 2: the wheelchairs and things like that. If y'all notice that, Yeah, 277 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:28,640 Speaker 2: that was the first thing I told my friend who's 278 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:32,080 Speaker 2: in a wheelchair, go get a job at Walmart. He 279 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:36,000 Speaker 2: can't stop nothing, so let them be a greeter. They 280 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 2: get incentives for doing that. 281 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:38,040 Speaker 1: D I. 282 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 2: Walmart is done with that. So first y'all say pull 283 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:44,120 Speaker 2: y'all said about booschair, go get a job, do it 284 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:47,640 Speaker 2: for yourself. Stop asking the government. Okay, you done took 285 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:51,320 Speaker 2: that away. Let's be honest. What other incentive will Walmart 286 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:55,800 Speaker 2: have din somebody that's going to be limiting, limited on 287 00:15:55,920 --> 00:15:56,560 Speaker 2: what they can do. 288 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:58,360 Speaker 3: I don't see any other incentive. 289 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 2: There's no other incentive. I'm gonna want to hire the 290 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:03,160 Speaker 2: person that can do a million things like you, Jay, 291 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:06,440 Speaker 2: You do a million things. Marcel is a million things. 292 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 2: I do a million things. Especially right now, people want 293 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:13,360 Speaker 2: to get the most for less. So if I'm gonna 294 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:16,360 Speaker 2: hire somebody that I know can't walk around the store, 295 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 2: can't stop, can't lift, can't this, can't that. But he 296 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:23,320 Speaker 2: still need to make a difference, make up his difference 297 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:28,120 Speaker 2: on his rent. YEA, he still need food. You are 298 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:31,840 Speaker 2: telling these people that they are nothing. That's exactly what 299 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:34,280 Speaker 2: it is. This is I'm telling y'all. 300 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 3: Out of control, and I don't believe that people actually are. 301 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 2: I don't think they give it them. I really don't 302 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:41,920 Speaker 2: think they give it down to want to know, Jay, 303 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:45,760 Speaker 2: because we have gotten to such a point of self 304 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:51,440 Speaker 2: preservation and I'm gonna only worry about me and do 305 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 2: for self. I'm not doing for self. I'm doing for community. 306 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 2: For me. I expect everybody you know, but for me. 307 00:16:57,920 --> 00:16:59,880 Speaker 2: I'm not just working self gonna be cool. I'm gonna 308 00:16:59,880 --> 00:17:05,640 Speaker 2: be cool. This is about everybody else and what could 309 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:11,000 Speaker 2: possibly happen to you. You may not live at the 310 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:13,480 Speaker 2: life you think. You think spun me when he walked 311 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:15,359 Speaker 2: out this house and he was gonna be paralyzed in 312 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:19,359 Speaker 2: a week, right, damn show wasn't a part of the plan. 313 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:24,800 Speaker 2: So people gotta be careful about sitting back talking about 314 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:27,000 Speaker 2: what somebody needs to do and not doing what they 315 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:30,560 Speaker 2: should do. All of that. Man, I'm telling you y'all 316 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:34,800 Speaker 2: better brace y'allself, because God ain't playing. Y'all better brace 317 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:37,439 Speaker 2: y'all self. And these people who are finding joy, and 318 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 2: people losing their job and you know, losing their being, 319 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:44,639 Speaker 2: losing their contract and losing baby. That that's saying about 320 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:47,680 Speaker 2: the grave, you prepare for me, preparing for yourself. That 321 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 2: still applies to you. Laughing at people's douth and you 322 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:56,720 Speaker 2: finding joy. You think you've been dealing with hell. Now 323 00:17:56,760 --> 00:18:01,119 Speaker 2: that got you resentful? Better be real careful how you 324 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:03,080 Speaker 2: treating the list of these y'all. That's why I just 325 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:04,840 Speaker 2: keep pushing that met That's what's on me. I know 326 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:08,480 Speaker 2: everybody else talking about all there, and we're thin, we're stressed, 327 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:10,560 Speaker 2: thinning the movement, so people that actually want to do 328 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:12,879 Speaker 2: the work, So I get it. I don't expect people, 329 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:16,119 Speaker 2: you know, to be on everything, you know, like the 330 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:19,320 Speaker 2: target fast folks. They got their hands in that heavy 331 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:22,520 Speaker 2: you know. So I'm trying to focus on the workers. 332 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:24,920 Speaker 2: I just keep getting drawn to the workers on my 333 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:27,800 Speaker 2: lit The other day I showed I went through just 334 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:30,040 Speaker 2: looking at some old on my Google voice and some 335 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:33,919 Speaker 2: old Texas with my mother and I was telling her, hey, 336 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:38,880 Speaker 2: you should try a Chesapeake Energy. They got a job. 337 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 2: This is twenty eleven. And then she was like, oh, 338 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:43,600 Speaker 2: make sure Jada gets my business card. You know, my 339 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:47,880 Speaker 2: mother always had her businesses always, She's never not had 340 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:50,520 Speaker 2: her business and listens you always say I got ten professions, 341 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:53,239 Speaker 2: and she had all ten, all business cards. That just 342 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:57,879 Speaker 2: made her proud. And she still wanted a job. She 343 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:00,359 Speaker 2: still wanted security, to know what she was to have 344 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:03,719 Speaker 2: every two weeks. She still wanted health care. And that 345 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:08,520 Speaker 2: doesn't make her week, not at all make her week 346 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:24,360 Speaker 2: at So, y'all we self righteousness sentiment is really out 347 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:24,960 Speaker 2: of control. 348 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:30,280 Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, I mean I just went into a charity, 349 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:33,240 Speaker 4: and you know, before they want to help you out, 350 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:34,639 Speaker 4: you know, they want to get all your business. 351 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:34,920 Speaker 2: Right. 352 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 4: So I remember him telling me, the guy, he was like, 353 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:41,600 Speaker 4: you need to find a job that's stable, And I said, 354 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:42,879 Speaker 4: have you not been watching news? 355 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:44,320 Speaker 3: Ain't no job stable. 356 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:46,720 Speaker 2: Even watching news? 357 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:48,440 Speaker 3: Right exactly? 358 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:51,000 Speaker 5: Yeah, he was like, you need to go to Costco. 359 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:54,439 Speaker 5: I said, I'm apply to Costco fifteen million times, right, 360 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 5: and even Costco just let some people go, right, Yeah, 361 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:01,120 Speaker 5: watching right. 362 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:03,640 Speaker 2: That's when I saw somebody on New the other day, y'all, 363 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 2: don't be in a panic. Put your money into the market. 364 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:09,760 Speaker 2: Black women saying that what money? Who is she talking to? 365 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:10,240 Speaker 3: Honey? 366 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:13,080 Speaker 2: And I guess they talking to a different group. That's 367 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:15,080 Speaker 2: why I said, I we gotta build all. I gotta 368 00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:17,439 Speaker 2: build my own triopics. I don't know what, cause I 369 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 2: ain't got it. I ain't got no extra nothing, y'all. 370 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:22,960 Speaker 2: I got twenty five dollars in a teen and t 371 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:24,880 Speaker 2: and I'd be watching it like a hawk and a lie. 372 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:27,119 Speaker 2: I only did that on my cash shap and it's 373 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:29,119 Speaker 2: probably been like a couple of years. Because you know, 374 00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:32,160 Speaker 2: cashap you can invest. They want to put this little 375 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:34,920 Speaker 2: twenty five dollars and see what to do, and every 376 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:36,960 Speaker 2: time they go down, I'll be watching. See that's why 377 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:38,760 Speaker 2: I should have put that twenty five dollars. I ain't 378 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:41,440 Speaker 2: got it like that. So I don't know what y'all loan. 379 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:46,679 Speaker 2: But my cat, I hey, I when Corona hit, I 380 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:48,800 Speaker 2: didn't eat for a year because I saved. I was 381 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:51,760 Speaker 2: able to survive. So I just don't have I can't 382 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:55,360 Speaker 2: afford the risk of putting nothing nowhere, Jade. I don't 383 00:20:55,400 --> 00:21:00,320 Speaker 2: have that extra supply like that. I just don't. Yeah, 384 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:03,160 Speaker 2: and we're talking about jobs. You know, I'm gonna bring 385 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:06,840 Speaker 2: it back to the Marines. That's a very prestigious, very 386 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:11,200 Speaker 2: honorable and stable position. And now so many black men, 387 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:16,680 Speaker 2: for example, are being you know, threatened with possibly losing 388 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:20,520 Speaker 2: their employment at the marine and that's crazy by the way. Yeah, 389 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:23,439 Speaker 2: I'm saying I can from a veteran and I know 390 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:25,840 Speaker 2: how big they are on looks and presenting and all 391 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:26,960 Speaker 2: of that. But I don't agree with this. 392 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:28,400 Speaker 3: I just want to it's not like they said. 393 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:31,959 Speaker 2: This is not like they said, if you also have psoriasis, right, 394 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 2: a lot of white folks get psoriasis. It may look 395 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:38,840 Speaker 2: on the skin or whatever. That's not a policy. They 396 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:41,640 Speaker 2: didn't say if you have canker swords or whatever like 397 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:46,920 Speaker 2: those types of things. It's something very very specific that right. Yeah, 398 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:52,200 Speaker 2: they want your Negroes out of everything. Who wants you out? 399 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:54,760 Speaker 2: Let's go to this other story because they want you out. 400 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:58,840 Speaker 2: These schools, fifty universities are on the federal federal investigation 401 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:03,440 Speaker 2: for saying, hey, y'all was giving away Negro scholarships, y'all 402 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 2: was letting people in based on a mission. Y'all was 403 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:09,040 Speaker 2: doing all that. Let's cut all that out, negro They 404 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:11,160 Speaker 2: are ready to not just take you down a notch, 405 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:14,280 Speaker 2: but about five notches. Negroes don't win and got too 406 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:17,760 Speaker 2: much gotten our militaries too much. You win't gotten access 407 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:20,199 Speaker 2: too many of these schools. We tried to price you 408 00:22:20,240 --> 00:22:22,840 Speaker 2: out and make it ridiculous. But your negroes kept on 409 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:26,360 Speaker 2: going to get loans, and you kept on figuring out 410 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:29,639 Speaker 2: a way to get in. You made you forced us 411 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:31,919 Speaker 2: to let you in based on if you were first time, 412 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 2: because these are all questions on your application, first time 413 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:37,480 Speaker 2: college graduate, first time? Are you the first one that 414 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:39,320 Speaker 2: got a degree from your school? Those are good point 415 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:42,600 Speaker 2: in your family? Are you has anybody ever graduated from 416 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 2: you know, all those things to try to write to 417 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:48,640 Speaker 2: try to balance the system that colleges were looking at, 418 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 2: to say, let's let some folks in here who have 419 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:54,280 Speaker 2: had come from some disadvantaged backgrounds, and then let's let 420 00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:57,120 Speaker 2: them in here and give them scholarship because they don't 421 00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:59,600 Speaker 2: have it because if their parents just graduated high school. 422 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,120 Speaker 2: Contrary to popular belief, even everybody in the common say, 423 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:05,360 Speaker 2: you don't need it, you can make it with high school. Well, 424 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 2: the reality of it is, it's few and far between 425 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:12,280 Speaker 2: jobs that's gonna pay you in the upper middle class 426 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 2: without some type of higher education. That's just the bottom line. 427 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:20,520 Speaker 2: So all of these things were on college applications. I 428 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 2: feel that one last month for another school I'm trying 429 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:28,600 Speaker 2: to go to and I tell y'all the truth race 430 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:30,680 Speaker 2: was on there one week. I went back the next 431 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:36,600 Speaker 2: week and it says suppressed, surprised, suppressed meaning on the application, 432 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:40,159 Speaker 2: meaning they're taking it off the application. Interesting, Yeah, not 433 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:44,040 Speaker 2: me being suppressed, but they suppressed the data, gotcha. Yeah, 434 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:47,600 Speaker 2: it was showing black before. Not no more, no more. 435 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:51,280 Speaker 2: You've this application going in based on merit with that. 436 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:55,800 Speaker 2: But our race is a part of our merriage. That's 437 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:58,120 Speaker 2: a part of my story. That's a part of who 438 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:01,119 Speaker 2: I am. That's a part of it. My GPA is 439 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:04,959 Speaker 2: not as high as it should be. Let's talk about why. Yeah, 440 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:07,879 Speaker 2: let's talk about all of the challenges I was dealing 441 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:10,800 Speaker 2: with at that time to maintain that GPA, To maintain that, 442 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:14,719 Speaker 2: that's a part of my merit. This is why we 443 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,679 Speaker 2: fought for these things that they say don't matter, you know, 444 00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:20,040 Speaker 2: civil rights and law. They say don't matter, don't matter. 445 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:23,000 Speaker 2: You gonna see in real time. And the almost vulnerable 446 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 2: ones were backgrounds, felonies. Mister me, oh baby, wait and 447 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:34,240 Speaker 2: see what they got for you. But this is a thing, 448 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:37,080 Speaker 2: I mean, this goes back into this is just a 449 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:40,200 Speaker 2: new iteration of the black codes, which were restrictive laws 450 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,920 Speaker 2: that weren't acted in Southern states after the Civil War, 451 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:46,440 Speaker 2: and it were specifically designed to limit the freedom and 452 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:52,600 Speaker 2: economic opportunities of newly freed blacks from and with the 453 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:56,920 Speaker 2: intention of re enslaving them m things like vagrancy laws, 454 00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:02,520 Speaker 2: labor contracts, restrictions on property ownership and movement right, the 455 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,160 Speaker 2: right to travel, and those things like that. And then 456 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:08,399 Speaker 2: also we know about Jim Crow and Jim Crow laws. 457 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:12,040 Speaker 2: With the system of racial segregation that enforced separation of 458 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:14,080 Speaker 2: black and white people in the United States from the 459 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:17,800 Speaker 2: eighteen eighties until the nineteen sixties, we are effected unfortunately, 460 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:21,520 Speaker 2: going back into that system. We're looking at what's happening 461 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:24,480 Speaker 2: with education, who's getting funding, who isn't getting funding, who's 462 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:27,600 Speaker 2: getting access, who isn't getting access, and how. 463 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:30,680 Speaker 3: Many black people will suffer. 464 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:41,000 Speaker 2: In particularly our most vulnerable, which means the poor, the 465 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:45,760 Speaker 2: under educated. Anybody saying you don't you can read a 466 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:49,120 Speaker 2: million books, you can be smart as hell, but we're 467 00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:54,000 Speaker 2: talking about America's a hierarchy. They require some boxes to 468 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:55,919 Speaker 2: be checked. The boxes were set up to keep you 469 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,720 Speaker 2: out the box. Yes, the boxes were set up. I 470 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:00,600 Speaker 2: got a girlfriend on the job. Smart as a whip. 471 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:02,399 Speaker 2: You know everybody in the department. But she doesn't have 472 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:05,119 Speaker 2: a degree. She cannot promote to that job because it 473 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:06,439 Speaker 2: says you have to have a degree. I don't give 474 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:07,680 Speaker 2: it down what it's in. It just got to be 475 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 2: a degree. It's set up to keep her out of 476 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,800 Speaker 2: that supervisor position. No matter how good she is, you 477 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:19,399 Speaker 2: have to have it. So they are setting up a 478 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:26,040 Speaker 2: system to make sure that the boxes that we check. 479 00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:28,240 Speaker 2: It's like I tell people, they say, you don't just 480 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:30,280 Speaker 2: need no degree, you need experience. Hold on, why y'all 481 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:32,960 Speaker 2: think people with degrees don't have experience. You can have both. 482 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:41,200 Speaker 2: I'm trying to check all the boxes. Certification, licenses, trade education, 483 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:46,359 Speaker 2: who you know, grind, hustle, you need it all, and 484 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:50,159 Speaker 2: even with it all, you still they still find a 485 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:56,160 Speaker 2: way to keep you out. So the black middle class 486 00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:00,760 Speaker 2: that's keeping as a community afloat community. I'm not talking 487 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:03,680 Speaker 2: about just individuals, a few folks who may be doing 488 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,000 Speaker 2: well and all that. I'm talking about the black middle 489 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:11,160 Speaker 2: class that has kept the black community afloat because it's 490 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,920 Speaker 2: not enough outliers, you know that can help the community. 491 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,679 Speaker 2: The middle class as a whole, the median income, like 492 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:21,359 Speaker 2: if we just use Maryland for example, PG County eighty thousand, two, 493 00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:23,840 Speaker 2: one hundred thousand. These are the ones that are buying 494 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,280 Speaker 2: the homes. These are the ones that are investing back, 495 00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:28,520 Speaker 2: that's paying the tax, These are the ones that's giving, 496 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:30,639 Speaker 2: you know, that got the extra money to give to 497 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,520 Speaker 2: the nonprofits, to do the donations, to pay to the church. 498 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:35,199 Speaker 2: And you know what I'm saying. That's what I mean 499 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 2: when I say the black middle class that's holding it down, 500 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,879 Speaker 2: that's been that's been somewhat of a safety net for 501 00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:49,000 Speaker 2: our most vulnerable citizens. If that fails, if that one 502 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:53,000 Speaker 2: cousin that everybody know can depend on because you know 503 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,600 Speaker 2: she got that good job where you know such and 504 00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 2: such work at debate where you know such and such, 505 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:03,359 Speaker 2: I'm their cousin in my family. I'm that one. Three 506 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:06,800 Speaker 2: weeks ago, I literally got a request from four different people. 507 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:12,320 Speaker 2: One was two hundred, one was three, one was six hundred, 508 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:16,399 Speaker 2: one was two thousand. You can spare it, if you 509 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:17,760 Speaker 2: can spare it. If you can spare it, if you 510 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:21,119 Speaker 2: can spare it. That's a real story, like they say 511 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:25,240 Speaker 2: in the hood, oh my mama. Yeah, So if I break, 512 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:29,960 Speaker 2: what happens to them and so forth, and so that's 513 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:31,399 Speaker 2: how you have to look at it. And I know 514 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:32,920 Speaker 2: it's very easy to sit back and say, well, they 515 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:34,159 Speaker 2: just need to figure it out. Yeah, I know they 516 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:35,480 Speaker 2: need to figure it out. But I'm trying to paint 517 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,200 Speaker 2: the picture on. Imagine how many cousins are like that, 518 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:42,360 Speaker 2: and how people are gonna be suffering as a result 519 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:49,960 Speaker 2: of that. Those little those dollars matter. You can count. 520 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:51,520 Speaker 2: Know if I get a couple of hundred over here, 521 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:54,280 Speaker 2: fifty dollars over here, the hums over there, I break? 522 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,160 Speaker 2: Would I circulate to y'all don't count? And so forth 523 00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:01,640 Speaker 2: and so on. This is a real trickle down effect, guys. Yes, 524 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:03,960 Speaker 2: So we can sit up here and act like it 525 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:06,719 Speaker 2: ain't no big deal if you want to, but this 526 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:09,320 Speaker 2: shit is real as hell, y'all, and y'all gotta pay attention, 527 00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:11,760 Speaker 2: and you have to understand that we need I'm gonna 528 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:14,800 Speaker 2: say this every time. This is all all this year, guys, 529 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,560 Speaker 2: all these podcasts gonna be centered on this, like bringing 530 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:19,720 Speaker 2: it back to what you need to be doing, bringing 531 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,560 Speaker 2: it back to reminding you we need each other. And 532 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:24,600 Speaker 2: I'm not talking about forty six million. I'm talking about 533 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:26,320 Speaker 2: in your family. You better sit out and do an 534 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:31,160 Speaker 2: assessment in your family. Who owns what? Who can stay with? 535 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:31,440 Speaker 4: Who? 536 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,320 Speaker 2: Who can chip in? Who can do what? Who can 537 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,400 Speaker 2: like this? This is the time. And if if you 538 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:39,720 Speaker 2: don't have the family, because I don't have a big family, 539 00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:41,720 Speaker 2: all my family pastor majority of my famly passed away, 540 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,560 Speaker 2: then you better build a tribe. I'm doing. This is 541 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,600 Speaker 2: about try building. This ain't about who cousin, who ain't 542 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:49,720 Speaker 2: blood and all that and all Marcella's Hey, I know 543 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:51,560 Speaker 2: I can count on Marcel do x y Z. Can 544 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:53,400 Speaker 2: we go get this? I know I count on my say, 545 00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:56,960 Speaker 2: can I put my resource together, my talent, Jay talent, 546 00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:00,920 Speaker 2: Marcella's talent, whoever, Michhall, whatever talent. Let's package this up, 547 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,080 Speaker 2: Let's sell it to a client. Let's get it done. 548 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:08,160 Speaker 2: This is how you have to be moving, guys. You 549 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:13,720 Speaker 2: better figure it out. And the good news is we're 550 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:16,280 Speaker 2: still gonna be okay. I don't doubt that at all. 551 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:21,920 Speaker 2: Black people are resilient as we are. But you better 552 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:25,440 Speaker 2: be positioning yourself. It's not just about praying. I'm just 553 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:29,120 Speaker 2: gonna pray about it, no tink about it, prophesize it, 554 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:32,800 Speaker 2: speak that thing and the truth make sure I remember 555 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:34,920 Speaker 2: to say that, because that's my new thing. May say 556 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,880 Speaker 2: that at the town hall, pray about it, prophesize about it. 557 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:43,360 Speaker 2: But also position must be in position. You must be 558 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:50,440 Speaker 2: in the room us to get the information, to know 559 00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:53,600 Speaker 2: what you need to know, to find out who do 560 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,840 Speaker 2: I need to meet? And I can't help everybody, so 561 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,640 Speaker 2: go ask somebody else in the room. I don't just 562 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,720 Speaker 2: come to me. Tell him, can you did? No, I'm 563 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:14,680 Speaker 2: giving everything I had to get, So guys, we appreciate 564 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:19,640 Speaker 2: you tapping in. We are, I am saying, sold out 565 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:24,200 Speaker 2: with the town hall because we're literally five tickets away. 566 00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:26,880 Speaker 2: But still if to try to get the tickets, if 567 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:30,960 Speaker 2: you can, I know I can fit in another thirty 568 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,640 Speaker 2: people or so. But I'll try to be real mindful 569 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:36,960 Speaker 2: because if you purse the ticket, you're guaranteed entry. And 570 00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:39,400 Speaker 2: you know, Bankcad is small. They did say we can 571 00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:42,320 Speaker 2: use the patio, but you know, maybe raining, something may 572 00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,680 Speaker 2: be going on that day. It's just an organizing tip, 573 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:47,640 Speaker 2: just you know, for y'all to know. If they tell 574 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:49,920 Speaker 2: you all the capacity is one hundred and fifty, you 575 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:51,800 Speaker 2: know I always shave some of that off, you know, 576 00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:53,959 Speaker 2: don't try to be greedy and do it up to copascit. 577 00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,320 Speaker 2: You know, you always want to give room in case 578 00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:00,719 Speaker 2: the space is not you know, not comfortable for folks, right, 579 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,920 Speaker 2: and then also want to give room for people to 580 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,640 Speaker 2: show up, as you know we like to do on 581 00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:10,160 Speaker 2: day off. Good Wait, tes, I know that you were 582 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:16,680 Speaker 2: saying that Atlantis infamous for these lists the loves and 583 00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,040 Speaker 2: Marcella's gonna love it. He gonna love looking on the list. Nope, 584 00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:21,840 Speaker 2: it ain't on the list, you know, so don't love list. 585 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:27,000 Speaker 2: You know it's all about the list. But people can't 586 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,640 Speaker 2: pay at the door. But I just I sold guaranteed 587 00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:32,479 Speaker 2: tickets because one we want to make sure we had 588 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:35,440 Speaker 2: a crowd they could patronize the restaurant. Want to make 589 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,560 Speaker 2: sure they're opening up just for us. So it's important 590 00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:40,200 Speaker 2: to me to know, Okay, we're gonna at least have 591 00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:43,040 Speaker 2: one hundred people you know in the room that's going 592 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,800 Speaker 2: to hopefully get a drink. I'm getting the first shot 593 00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:49,120 Speaker 2: for him, but you know, hopefully get a drink, get 594 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,760 Speaker 2: some of the food that they're gonna have prepared, small 595 00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:55,440 Speaker 2: appetizer menu for purchase. Nothing you know, ridiculously expensive anything 596 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:59,080 Speaker 2: like that. Enjoy the comedy, you know, things like that. 597 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:01,800 Speaker 2: So I did leave room for others to show up, 598 00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:05,200 Speaker 2: but it's still sold out as far as guaranteed admission. 599 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,080 Speaker 2: And so that's an organizing tip guys that we'll get 600 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:11,360 Speaker 2: more into when we start our virtual training, because directly 601 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:14,400 Speaker 2: after this we're going all virtual. I would love to 602 00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,800 Speaker 2: do a in person thing, but it really does take 603 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:20,000 Speaker 2: a lot of work, and y'all know, I don't like failing. 604 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:22,640 Speaker 2: People got to be in the room. So I hustle hard, 605 00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:25,280 Speaker 2: you know, to get people in the room. And the 606 00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:27,080 Speaker 2: girl I don't take no elves. Yeah, I don't like 607 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,880 Speaker 2: taking no els. To all the influencers that saw the 608 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:32,320 Speaker 2: flyer and did not share it, you know, I appreciate 609 00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:35,479 Speaker 2: it because I love when people know we did this 610 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:37,360 Speaker 2: on our own, you know, when I would go live 611 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,200 Speaker 2: every day and tell people, can't you share it? Can't 612 00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:41,360 Speaker 2: share it whether you live in Atlanta or not. Yeah, baby, 613 00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:45,200 Speaker 2: we did this. My so called celebrity friends didn't share 614 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:46,960 Speaker 2: it at all, except the exception of Killer Mike and 615 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,640 Speaker 2: his wife obviously, but everybody else y'all saw it, and 616 00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:52,520 Speaker 2: y'all didn't share it, and I want to thank you 617 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:54,840 Speaker 2: for it. I really do want to thank you for it. 618 00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:55,080 Speaker 4: People. 619 00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:58,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, we know where everybody stand at, and more importantly, 620 00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:01,080 Speaker 2: we know us the people. We know where we stand at, 621 00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:03,760 Speaker 2: which means we really can do it without y'all for real. 622 00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:06,440 Speaker 2: My campaign in twenty twelve was called do it for 623 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:08,400 Speaker 2: I said in twenty twelve, So I love it. I 624 00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,920 Speaker 2: love people knowing it. Yeah, I appreciate y'all not sharing 625 00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:13,839 Speaker 2: and acting like y'all didn't see it. I really do, 626 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,719 Speaker 2: I really really do. No big media. I was gonna 627 00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:18,520 Speaker 2: go in the Brothers Club, but I was like, well, 628 00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:20,640 Speaker 2: wasn't no point in you know, going over there just 629 00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:22,959 Speaker 2: to do Atlanta if I wasn't gonna roll out a full tour. 630 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:25,000 Speaker 2: So I didn't want to go over there and talk 631 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:27,719 Speaker 2: to eight me and people about no one location. So 632 00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:29,480 Speaker 2: I am going to go back and talk about the virtual. 633 00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:32,320 Speaker 2: But after this, we're doing virtual, you know, virtual only, 634 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:36,239 Speaker 2: because then it's not a matter of because people say, oh, test, 635 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:37,760 Speaker 2: you know, you can have it over here for free. 636 00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:39,920 Speaker 2: It's not about for free. If we're do in person. 637 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,600 Speaker 2: We want to patronize a restaurant, you know, we want 638 00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:45,759 Speaker 2: to have entertainment, We want to have a d you know, 639 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:47,319 Speaker 2: we want to put money in a couple of different 640 00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:52,080 Speaker 2: people's pocket and echosystem. You know that people can actually 641 00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:54,319 Speaker 2: benefit from. It's not about just showing up. You know, 642 00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:59,399 Speaker 2: That's not what it's about. So the next after this, 643 00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:01,719 Speaker 2: I will be rolling out, of course, after we get 644 00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:05,799 Speaker 2: the highlight video, because you know I love receipts. So yeah, 645 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,359 Speaker 2: they got to see the highlight video. After we get 646 00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:13,080 Speaker 2: the highlight video, we'll start rolling out the virtual. Hey, 647 00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:15,040 Speaker 2: remember the guys are tell me before I wasn't gonna do virtual, 648 00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:16,480 Speaker 2: but I am gonna do virtual. Now we're in a 649 00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:19,359 Speaker 2: different time than three years ago. Like people really need 650 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:21,879 Speaker 2: to know these bunker down strategies. They need help. They 651 00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:24,560 Speaker 2: need help with job transition tips, they need help with 652 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:29,000 Speaker 2: resonate tips, interview tips, how to start a business, how 653 00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:31,920 Speaker 2: to market beyond just the running for office. You know 654 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:34,479 Speaker 2: I love doing that, but this I'm doing this very 655 00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:38,399 Speaker 2: different this time around, Like this is bunker down one 656 00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:40,480 Speaker 2: on one and not just me, you know, bringing in 657 00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:43,520 Speaker 2: other folks, other experts as well. You know they can 658 00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:45,920 Speaker 2: speak to certain topics. People gotta pay something, Jade, it 659 00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:48,680 Speaker 2: can't be completely free. Got we are running a business 660 00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:52,600 Speaker 2: contrary to pop belief. But by doing it virtual, I 661 00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:54,600 Speaker 2: don't have to charge I know, nothing would be over 662 00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:57,279 Speaker 2: fifty dollars for two hours, nothing at also about twenty 663 00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:00,000 Speaker 2: five dollars an hour. I think that's more than fair. 664 00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:03,360 Speaker 2: And I can do it with just a few people. 665 00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:05,440 Speaker 2: I don't have to have thousands of people. You know, 666 00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,400 Speaker 2: just got enough to cover the time and what we 667 00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:10,520 Speaker 2: have to pay for the service, and you know, whatever 668 00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:13,000 Speaker 2: guess we have, we're good to go. So I'm gonna 669 00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,080 Speaker 2: start doing that and I'm excited about that, and I 670 00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:18,040 Speaker 2: think there's a it's a market for it. And this 671 00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:23,719 Speaker 2: is not a praying upon people who like a lot 672 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:28,399 Speaker 2: of these podcasts are. This is about really providing real solutions, 673 00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:30,719 Speaker 2: and I'm not seeing a lot of that. I'm hearing 674 00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:32,640 Speaker 2: a lot of what we need to do in five 675 00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,759 Speaker 2: and ten years. But these three hundred thousand people that's 676 00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:37,680 Speaker 2: about to be laid off, they need to know. How 677 00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:40,320 Speaker 2: do I rewrite my resume right now? You know what 678 00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:44,360 Speaker 2: I mean? How do I sell my transferable skills that 679 00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:46,480 Speaker 2: I had wrote on the resume one way? How do 680 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:48,480 Speaker 2: I put it this way? You know? How do I 681 00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:51,120 Speaker 2: how do I hustle? You know? So that's what I'm 682 00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:53,440 Speaker 2: gonna be doing. Y'all stay in prayer for that straight 683 00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:56,439 Speaker 2: shot family, please tap in for that. But again, we're 684 00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:58,480 Speaker 2: not pushing. I'm not. It's not a volume thing, and 685 00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:00,920 Speaker 2: say whoever needs it. We got enough people in the 686 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:04,160 Speaker 2: room that hosts the classroom virtually, then we're good to go. 687 00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,000 Speaker 2: So I'm excited about it. Guys, Thank you so much 688 00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:11,359 Speaker 2: for joining us. Thank you Marcellos, thank you Jay. Don't 689 00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:13,640 Speaker 2: keep hustling. That sound like a good idea, y'all. The 690 00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:16,759 Speaker 2: virtual Ye, it was great. I want't ay man and 691 00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:27,480 Speaker 2: so I wasn't hear no amen show up? Okay, and 692 00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:29,879 Speaker 2: we might do another in personally, but it just can't 693 00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:33,879 Speaker 2: be as often as I as I thought, right, because 694 00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,319 Speaker 2: it's just a lot. Like I hustle every day, you 695 00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:38,480 Speaker 2: know what I mean, it's a lot to get them tickets. 696 00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:41,799 Speaker 2: So I'm excited about it. Guys. The weather getting back 697 00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:44,080 Speaker 2: pretty and all that in Atlanta, so we're gonna be 698 00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:45,799 Speaker 2: good to go. So all right, y'all, make sure y'all 699 00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:47,600 Speaker 2: tap me in a straight shot no chase every week. 700 00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:51,560 Speaker 2: Please ask ten people beg them. Start off with begging 701 00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:53,040 Speaker 2: them and they don't do it. Tell them You're not gonna 702 00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:57,239 Speaker 2: be their friend no more. We need the Marcella's do 703 00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:58,000 Speaker 2: it right. 704 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:04,840 Speaker 4: He wouldn't lose your friends because I damn Churelawson and 705 00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:05,440 Speaker 4: I don't give it. 706 00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:05,680 Speaker 1: Naw. 707 00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:09,480 Speaker 2: That's where we have with it, y'all. We need you 708 00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:12,239 Speaker 2: to follow so we can keep the numbers up. Shout 709 00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:16,400 Speaker 2: out the Black Effect podcast network. One billion streams, one billion, 710 00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:21,600 Speaker 2: congratulations collective. Yes at all our creators can bind. They 711 00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:23,799 Speaker 2: said they want to say about Charlemagne, but he got 712 00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:27,279 Speaker 2: to figure it out. You know somebody that one of 713 00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:30,520 Speaker 2: his biggest critics that also started a podcast network. We 714 00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:34,800 Speaker 2: heard from him since. But they talked about how Charlemagne 715 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:36,320 Speaker 2: did it. Oh he did it with Our Heart he 716 00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:39,719 Speaker 2: did and that Yeah, Our Heart's the largest audio platform 717 00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:42,600 Speaker 2: in the country. Uh. He was able to get them 718 00:38:42,640 --> 00:38:44,880 Speaker 2: to carve out a space a piece of a pie 719 00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:47,320 Speaker 2: for black creators. And I think last time I checked it, 720 00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:53,520 Speaker 2: about twenty of us and combine all of us Cambine 721 00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:56,000 Speaker 2: have reached a billion. And so they take that and 722 00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:58,160 Speaker 2: now they can go market that to the advertising and 723 00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:00,840 Speaker 2: we know what that does. It allows wrong for podcasts 724 00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:03,879 Speaker 2: like me. I'm the only one on there that's all politics, 725 00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:07,600 Speaker 2: Tamika masn they have one. They do politics obviously community, 726 00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,400 Speaker 2: but we are the only two. Everything else is entertainment. 727 00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:10,480 Speaker 4: Now. 728 00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:13,400 Speaker 2: I'm sure others, you know, tap into politics because you 729 00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:15,319 Speaker 2: know it's just the thing to do now. But this 730 00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:17,880 Speaker 2: is the only show that, with the exception of Tomika, 731 00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:20,640 Speaker 2: that's all politics. If we just had to do this 732 00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:24,560 Speaker 2: show just all politics by ourselves, without black effect, without 733 00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:27,080 Speaker 2: our heart, we wouldn't be in business. They're plain and simple. 734 00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:30,360 Speaker 2: It's not enough people interested in it, right, So because 735 00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:33,319 Speaker 2: great they mean they it's just a lot for a 736 00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:37,160 Speaker 2: lot of people. Test it's a lot. So shout out 737 00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:41,520 Speaker 2: to Charlemagne for having the vision, because without that we 738 00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:43,480 Speaker 2: wouldn't have a piece of the same thing. With Revolt, 739 00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:46,720 Speaker 2: they center themselves on entertainment, but at least they carved 740 00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:50,200 Speaker 2: out a little bit for the news. Oh we shouldn't 741 00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:52,000 Speaker 2: have to take the crumbs. That's how it is, guys. 742 00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:55,960 Speaker 2: Until y'all get more engaged, until we get the digital discipline, 743 00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:59,719 Speaker 2: until people are want to know this information besides jade 744 00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:02,040 Speaker 2: and mar sellers, this is what it's gonna be. I 745 00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:03,719 Speaker 2: got a feeling though, y'all gonna be circling in the 746 00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:07,680 Speaker 2: background next year, though, I got a feeling, Yeah, I 747 00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:09,719 Speaker 2: got a feeling people gonna want to hear this about 748 00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:11,680 Speaker 2: next year, So don't worry about it. We're gonna still 749 00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:14,400 Speaker 2: be right here like we was the last five years straight, 750 00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:19,160 Speaker 2: every week dropping episode because people are hungry for the information. 751 00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:22,080 Speaker 2: And by next year, it's gonna be clear who's been 752 00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:26,560 Speaker 2: feeding bullshit, who been on bullshit, who ain't been consistent, 753 00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:30,480 Speaker 2: who's just throwing red meat without real solutions? And your 754 00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:33,480 Speaker 2: homegirl gonna be right here, consistent, ready to give you 755 00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:36,799 Speaker 2: the information. So we look forward to seeing you now 756 00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:39,480 Speaker 2: and also next year, guys, so please make sure you subscribe. 757 00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:43,440 Speaker 2: Ask ten friends, please subscribe. I've been hustling hard with 758 00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:47,000 Speaker 2: this podcast. I did Black Information News this week. I 759 00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:52,600 Speaker 2: did ninety six point one in Atlanta. I'm everywhere in Atlanta, 760 00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:56,600 Speaker 2: like all the invites, you know, just really trying to 761 00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:58,759 Speaker 2: be outside, have a good time. Might gonna lie about that, 762 00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:02,279 Speaker 2: but number two, you know, trying to put both my 763 00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:05,560 Speaker 2: black companies and my black job, you know, my black 764 00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:08,960 Speaker 2: partners put that with just saying I'm contracted with Revolt 765 00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:12,640 Speaker 2: and with Black Effect, and I appreciate my partners, and 766 00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:16,480 Speaker 2: I know that I'm overworked and underpaid and not what 767 00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:19,760 Speaker 2: I could get at MSNBC. But I choose us first 768 00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:24,480 Speaker 2: and will always will. So leader's work is important. So 769 00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:26,879 Speaker 2: we do need y'all help, though. We need y'all to help, 770 00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:31,480 Speaker 2: supporting the town hall, supporting, the virtuals, supporting I'm trying 771 00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:35,359 Speaker 2: to build a company I want. I want Jade marcellis 772 00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:38,799 Speaker 2: full time, but I can't just prophesize that. We gotta 773 00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:43,480 Speaker 2: make it real. They need income, so got to get 774 00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:46,240 Speaker 2: the business going, and I believe that they will be done. 775 00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:49,719 Speaker 2: I do so right. All right, y'all, y'all have a 776 00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:54,520 Speaker 2: good week. Thank y'all, tap in next week. Peace. If 777 00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:56,920 Speaker 2: you like what you heard on straight Shop No Chaser, 778 00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:59,480 Speaker 2: please subscribe and drop a five star review and tell 779 00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:01,840 Speaker 2: a friend. Straight Shot No Chaser is a production of 780 00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:05,359 Speaker 2: the Black Effect podcast Network in iHeartRadio on Teslin figure Out, 781 00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:08,400 Speaker 2: and I like to thank our producer editor mixer Dwayne 782 00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:12,120 Speaker 2: Crawford and our executive producer charlottagnea God. For more podcasts 783 00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:16,760 Speaker 2: from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever 784 00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:17,880 Speaker 2: you get your podcasts.