October 31, 2025 • 20 mins
Roland Martin joins the conversation to break down the politics behind the crisis, calling out the Trump administration’s refusal to tap into a $6 billion emergency fund that could keep SNAP running.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Halloween ain't the same.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
We had the real Halloween.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
These damn kids don't even dress up anymore, do they.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Gru Grud had a sheet throwed over her in a
bottle in my hands.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
Talk about shit the hole they.
Speaker 5 (00:15):
Go, get your ass off on fut.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Big God, dude, we had a real Halloween mask.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Bro.
Speaker 6 (00:34):
Your Halloween costume came in a box with the plastic
on the front. You was cast able to friendly Ghost, Superman, Batman,
Robin Wonder's where power was?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Y'all complained about the COVID mask.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
You just say nothing with them Halloween. You can't breathe
out of them.
Speaker 7 (00:58):
Eg Holy yes, man, woman, Yes, Jariy want to help
you to the tea.
Speaker 8 (01:09):
It's Garantem on the show.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
It is about that time Gary had the tea in
the color the other day.
Speaker 9 (01:15):
Gary, Good morning, Good morning, Rigga, Good morning America, Good
morning the US Friday, Halloween Day. And here's what's happening
in celebrity news, y'all. Fat Joe, y'all, he is at
many of y'all. When he turned forty, y'all, it left
him depressed as he worried about what agent y'all meant
for his career.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Now They said that.
Speaker 9 (01:31):
The rapper, now fifty five, opened up about his previous
fears of getting older in a recent episode of his podcast,
Joined Jayson Now. He said, quote, I've been rapping. I've
been in the game since I was nineteen, and you know,
he explained that, so he said, when I'm about to
turn forty, he said, all I know is standing on
a couchy y'all and poppy box. But that party hit
you like it was different, he said. He said, I
(01:53):
was depressed. His anxiety, y'all stem from years of success
and the pressure to stay relevant, you know, rapidly off
in raps. Seeing now, he admitted those fears grew strongly
after hearing people say that they're never seen a rapper
hit one after after forty years old, he said.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
But thankfully the lean Back artist.
Speaker 9 (02:11):
Had a strong system of support system that helped change
his mind set. Ricky, y'all have y'all being a comedian,
then if you thought about as you get older that
you know you're too old to be a comedian, you
can't tell the same.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Time, I don't think you don't think like that. You
always be a coming, uh you know. Uh, that's why
I stay on stage I always perform or whatever and
I dropped. Yeah, I do it for the joy of it.
I like walking on stage performing and you get to
tell your story. You get to sit down and you
only get to talk for two and a half to
three minutes per break on this radio, but on a
(02:45):
coming stage, you really get to express yourself and your
jokes and your material, have fun, and interact with the audience.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
So you're gonna always do that.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Uh, you know, some give it up, you know, but
I'm a stand up comic forever.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Oh look at Great Red Fox.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah that's true.
Speaker 10 (03:03):
George, Carla, all of them, y'all. Everybody you go until
you give money. Yeah, oh well, congratulations. Then y'alln't have
to be worried about that or what happened.
Speaker 9 (03:11):
So, speaking of age, y'all, Maya Honey, she's opening up
about why, y'all she preferred not to revisit her.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Old DI records. Now, I'm like, we love Maya.
Speaker 9 (03:20):
She was a great singer, but they're saying that the
Grammy winning stat y'all. She's reflecting on the twenty fifth anniversary,
y'all of her Fear of Flight album, and she's keeping
it real by the emotional, y'all, that come with hearing
her old music.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Now, she told people.
Speaker 9 (03:32):
She said, I don't really listen to a lot of
the old music because I like my voice now. She
says it's very cringy to me because I sound like
a kid. And she also added that I get very
emotional when I hear my younger voice because of all
that was endured, she said.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
She went on y'all to describe how being thrust.
Speaker 9 (03:51):
Into the spotlight straight out of high school placed her
in a vulnerable position now, she continued, she said, quote,
I am so enamored, y'all by the journey, because sometime
it takes twenty five, twenty seven, thirty years to come
into who you've been, come and who you're going to
be for the.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Rest of your life. And that's where I am not,
she said.
Speaker 9 (04:08):
I'm still growing and evolving every few years, y'all, every
six months sometimes, she say. But Maya has also been
in a pupularized since the nineties, a successful career yeat
in both music and film. Now, decade later, she's learning
to honor the woman that she's become, wild, showing gratitude
for the journey that shaped her.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I Freez.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Did you ever feel that way?
Speaker 9 (04:29):
I mean, getting older in radio and something, you know,
cause you know how the ages im it's definitely more
of an age of them thing for women as opposed
to men.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Wo to you, Oh you're too old to be doing this,
and blah blah blah.
Speaker 8 (04:40):
The good thing about radio is nobody can see you,
so my voice is to say, so they don't see
that I'm getting older. So it's whatever you have you.
Speaker 9 (04:50):
Yeah, I mean I sometimes think about all this, Honey,
I'll be like your old honey, your old queen hund
We're gonna get this little young queen hunting and sit
here and do this stuffing.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
You know.
Speaker 9 (04:57):
But I know, honey, if she thinks she could beat
me rocket, she could have my But you better.
Speaker 11 (05:01):
Let them know, let them know, don't.
Speaker 9 (05:07):
Yeah, but it's just something that But I mean, you know,
like you said, you could go on and on. Hell
Walter cronkite them and all them news reported me and
they was in Nate Nights, Huney and they rolled them
out of the news thing or whatever. So you know,
I mean, people speaking out now about how they feared
about age and something whatever. But you know, like people
still say, age is what just the number. So we're
just gonna keep it like that. Yeah, don't bother me.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I just you have to have a certain amount of
security within yourself and have a retirement plan, and do
understand that companies move on sometimes, and you can't ever
get mad at nobody from making a business decision that
that's their business.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
And thank people for the opportunity when it comes to
an end.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
All good things, most good things must at some point
come to an end, so you just try to take
advantage of it and have a good time while you
you know, the mics are still on exactly.
Speaker 9 (05:56):
And my thing is this, I'm like, if life ain't
for ever hundred what made you think this.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Job gonna be forever?
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Yeah? Now, so ye'll do it, do it until you
can't do it no more.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
And when you can feel good about serving the community
and helping people like what we're doing trying to beat
the homeless this week. So that's all that matters. And
what will people say about you when you when the
job is done?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
So yeah, and.
Speaker 9 (06:17):
In my quick free story, y'all, Cardi B she got
a message for y'all. Trus She say, stop criticizing her
pregnant body and let.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Her eat her cakes and peace. Honey, And that's from Cardi.
Speaker 9 (06:27):
B all right, The Colorda Today, Honey is one of
my favorite cludes in on off Halloween The Colorda Today. Guys, Brown,
I mean orange and black on the highend, you say
orange and black and on the lung just say hallo, queen,
that's your color for to day.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
All right, y'all, y'all give it up for Gary with
the team.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Did you see that post?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
People are talking?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Here's what's on the fucking Smiley Morning Show.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
All right, y'all, Rich found them on the show. All right.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Now, millions of Americans who depend on us snap benefits
are facing uncertainty as the deadline looms and the threat
of a government shut down hangs in the air. Now
when it comes to breaking down things, what's really happening
in Washington, there's no better journalists offer and hosts of
rolland Martin and hosts of Roland Martin Unfiltered, the always
(07:19):
outspoken Rolling Martin, Rolling, Good Morning.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Man, Man.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I just did a group text with a lot of
prominent passes all over the country.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Man, Roland, We're gonna do a live broadcast on Monday.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
That's what we're really working on, trying to figure out
how we could make food available for people that are suffering.
And it's a lot of confusion and concerned about the
SNAP deadline. Can you break down what's really going on
and what it means for families relying on these benefits?
Speaker 11 (07:50):
Well, people get SNAP benefits from their state. The money
comes from the federal government, and so with the gold
government shut down, meaning federal government workers are not actually
executing these programs.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Now, there's an emergency.
Speaker 11 (08:07):
Fund that the federal government has, the USDA has for
SNAP that it could bet. It's the six billion dollars.
Donald Trump refuses to use it.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Use it. He can tap it.
Speaker 11 (08:20):
It's the law. They can actually do it. He's made
the choice not to do it. So Democrats have made
it clear that they are not going to give Republicans
the votes they need in the United States Senate to
reopen the federal government until they restored the healthcare substance.
Republicans don't want to do that. And see, you know
what's very interesting right now, as you've got Republicans who
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are trashing abomit, these people who gets.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
That benefit, you got Louisiana.
Speaker 11 (08:47):
Congressman Clay Higgins, who called SNAP beneficiaries crackheads.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Guess what.
Speaker 11 (08:54):
A lot of people on SNAP are in red districts.
Most they're in the Republican districts. See what they've done.
Because what they've done, Ricky, they know that they have
created the perception in America that when we say food stamps,
they think that means black people. In the fact, it's
more white people or receive loose of the benefits. But
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they don't want to actually say that. And so a
lot of these folks in the Red States. I'm sitting
there going, Okay, you're young going.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
To say anything. You're getting screwed.
Speaker 11 (09:24):
You're voting against her own economic interest, and that's being
exposed because the right wing has literally been trashing people.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
No, like one.
Speaker 11 (09:34):
Republican advisor called you off of your fat ghetto asses.
Well again, he was using language that we know. He
was trying to condemn African Americans when the average beneficiary
is a poor white woman.
Speaker 8 (09:52):
Well, let me ask you, Roland. You know the Republicans
are blaming the Democrats. The Democrats are blaming their Republicans.
Who should the public be blaming?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Congress?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
The administration are both Republicans at Donald Trump.
Speaker 11 (10:06):
Because when they basically that's what you blaming because when
they pass that big ugly bill, that's where the healthcare
subsidies were taken away.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
So how are they? How are the Democrats?
Speaker 8 (10:18):
Because I feel like this is going to be turned around,
like we know, we know that it's it's Donald Trump's fault,
we know it's the Republican's fault. But I feel like
it's going to be turned on the Democrats and people
are going to go, I'm not being predemned because look what.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
They did with snap.
Speaker 8 (10:31):
How can they make sure that the public knows whose
fault this is?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Well, it's messaging every day. Democratic Leader the House, Democrat Leader.
Speaker 11 (10:40):
Hockking Jeffers has multiple news conferences, Senator Chuck Schumer, They've
been fanning out doing doing radio, television, all different shows
along those lines. And so you look at the polling
datum of people they are blaming Donald Trump as well
as as well as mag Republicans. But it's just a
matter of you got to keep hammering away as to
say whose fault is it?
Speaker 10 (11:02):
So Roland something like this, Uh, I'm going to get
your opinion on how this might be hitting black and
brown communities a little differently, especially the working poor, and
and a lot of people don't seem to grasp that
these people aren't just sitting at home grabbing benefits not
doing anything. These are full time, working families a lot
of times that already might be struggling with some food
(11:24):
and security actor, Like, what do you think the real
effect of this is going to be in the next man?
Speaker 11 (11:28):
Again, I don't I don't care whether whether you're black,
whether you're white, whether you're Tino. You're getting if your
SNAP benefits and you don't get them and miss, it's
going to be a problem. It's going to hurt you.
We're talking about that's food. It's food, you know, that's
that's what it is. But you have to remember, you know,
Republicans slash snap benefits.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
They don't want to help people. They really do believe.
Speaker 11 (11:50):
That people who get SNAP benefits are lazy people. Well
guess what, there's no difference between these snap benefits and
somebody who was a farmer.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Who's being paid not to farm.
Speaker 11 (12:01):
Oh I'm sorry, that's called a farm subsidy as opposed
to welfare.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
You gottunderstand. I was looked at it.
Speaker 11 (12:09):
Listen, corporations, oil companies getment government dollars as well.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
All that's research and development. It's not the same.
Speaker 11 (12:17):
So there is this absolutely disdain for poor people. Listen,
ninety million people did not vote in the last election.
If poor people in this country voted, they could throw
out every single person who is voting against things for
poor people. But we have to we have to educate
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and we have to enlighten. We got to inform, We
got to get those poor folks out vote the Poor
People's Campaign, Bishop William Barber, They've been doing that, but
we need we need more of it.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Again, ninety million sat out and you can't sit out.
Speaker 11 (12:52):
Elections because elections directly impact public policy, whether you think
it Vicid does or not.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Hey, Ronald, we definitely gonna need your help and input
on the big show that we're doing to try to
fill up pantries and let people know.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Where they can locate food.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
And I want to get Bishop William barbera involved as well,
and already spoke to Pastor Bishop Walker and Pastor Keith
Norman out of Memphis, Tennessee. And we're just trying to
figure out, you know, what we're gonna do and how
can we use this platform to help. I really appreciate
you coming on y'all. All right, I was still talking
(13:31):
to journeys Roland Martin. Happy to have you this morning.
Thank you Roland for everything that you do. And I
hope everybody follow you a YouTube channel because you have
a lot of information. Now, yesterday Congress was able to
strip Trump's teriff powers and some Republicans even voted against them.
Do you think that we could, you know, see more
situations like this where his power is being chipped away.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
At well, we hope. So what Republicans have done is
they are advocated.
Speaker 11 (13:59):
There was the congressional oversight and authority to Donald Trump.
He's been cutting things on his own whim as opposed
to these bills that were passed by Congress.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (14:12):
And so what these Republicans Uh, he stilled your leader.
But if they pay any attention, you're going to realize
they're getting screwed. You got you got farmers, ranchers in
America who are now complaining because Trump did a forty
billion of avella of Argentina that is gonna be importing Argentina,
uh beef. Well guess what that's what that's what happens
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when you got crazy Naga back in the White House.
You got these other farmers in Nebraska, Iowa, Iowa is
economy has crazed because of Donald Trump's tears.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
But he did this the.
Speaker 11 (14:48):
Last time, so I don't know what the hell these
farmers thinking was thinking was gonna happen. So the tears
have been uh done, willy nearly. Just you know, it's
all out of the ordinary. It's led to significant uncertainty,
and these people in these red states are now waking
up and realizing, yeah, you're getting screwed by Donald Trump
(15:08):
who's sitting here ripping the country off with his corruption's
crypto money and every along those lines.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
So Roland, what can people do right now?
Speaker 8 (15:17):
You know, just to prepare or to protect themselves if
their benefits are delayed because you know Obamacare, that's what
that's this weekend where you've.
Speaker 11 (15:25):
Got to save money. You gotta say cash at the
end of the day, what you're spending. You've got to
just understand that we don't know how long this is
going to end. You've got to be tapping into local
food banks. Churches are doing a lot of things along
those lines. Nonprofit organizations. That's what you have to do.
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But I'm gonna say this, I don't care as long
as I can Black people. You can't fit your ass
at home or on social media, and why and complaining
about things in this country when then.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
You chose not to vote.
Speaker 11 (16:03):
Voting is one way for you to impact the direction
of the country. And if you don't like the person,
guess what, support somebody else in the primary. But in
majority election, you've got to be involved. Listen, there are
elections taking place on Tuesday in this country. There are
state wide races in New Jersey, state wide races in
(16:25):
Virginia Public Service Commission Alicia Johnson on the show last night,
they regulate utilities. In Georgia, there are two people who
are running. Folks, don't ignore those races. You've got local races,
You've got retention races. Of the Supreme Court in Pennsylvania,
Elon Musk is trying to throw out these three Democrats
(16:46):
because they've been standing here for democracy. So people have
to understand that there are local and national statewide races
happening right now. So we got to stay engaged. And
there's Black participation is simply too low in too many places,
you know, and we should be if I keep saying
the minimum number of black turnout should be seventy percent
(17:09):
in our in our states.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
In these races.
Speaker 11 (17:13):
But when we set out, guess what, we let other
people make decisions for us. Y, that's what we have to.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Do exactly.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
Now.
Speaker 10 (17:23):
Well, Roland, you kind of addressed the question that I
was going to ask, because I was going to ask
you how this moment fits into the conversation about next
year's midterm election.
Speaker 11 (17:31):
You know, but it's not next year. It's not next year.
There are literal elections Texas. There are seventeen constitutional amendments
on the ballot on Tuesday, So people should be saying, hey.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Do I have elections going on right now?
Speaker 11 (17:48):
And they're all over the country on Tuesday, and so
it's happening right before our very eyes. So that's why
I keep saying, we can't wait till next year because Tuesday,
guess what, They're gonna be primaries happening in the spring,
and we're gonna look at that listen, man, that callous
case out of Louisiana that could wipe out twelve to
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thirty members of the Congressional Black Hawkers, And what is
it like, people gonna understand the Supreme Court if they
rule their race cannot be used in the creation of districts,
you're gonna wipe out up with the thirty congressional black
haucas members. You're gonna be wiping out seats all across
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the South that were created hard fought hard.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I mean black people fought in the streets for these seats.
Speaker 11 (18:41):
If they decide because these because these Republicans were pissed off,
they had to create a second black district in Louisiana
and the second one in Alabama. And so the Supreme
Court based upon their questions, you know, a couple of
weeks ago on number fifteenth, Man, listen, they're gonna rule
you can't use race in there in the creation of districts.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
And that is going to wipe.
Speaker 11 (19:02):
Out major black political power all across the South. Man, Listen,
people has got well, this is what happens in twenty sixteen,
or people complained about Hillary and then Trump gets it.
He's now pointed three Supreme Court justices. This is what
happens when they complain, and then who controls the Senate Republicans?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
So now this thing goes on and on and On.
Speaker 11 (19:24):
So I just think people understand there's nothing, there's nothing
that in your life that's not impacted by politics.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Nothing.
Speaker 11 (19:34):
So when we choose to not engage and pout and
set out, then what happens is we lose.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Now it means.
Speaker 11 (19:43):
Holding people accountable who we voted for and say how
are you going to deliver? And if they don't say
we're going to support somebody else will. We cannot set
out of easy elections because the people who do vote,
they're the ones.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Will get addiction to the rest of us. How big
you should be done?
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Daddy is Roland real quick? Let everybody know how you
can be reached.
Speaker 11 (20:05):
Those go to our YouTube, follow our YouTube show, YouTube channel,
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Speaker 2 (20:13):
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Speaker 11 (20:13):
I'm here in Easton and the Afrotech conference. We covered
it for the last three a's and of course I've
rolled This Martin on all social media's you know, support
our show as well.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
We're trying to raise a million bucks between.
Speaker 11 (20:24):
Now at the end of the year because to travel
around the country holding town halls. I'm gonna be in
Suffolk eleven thirty for a town hall on Monday morning,
and then on Monday night, I'm in Virginia Beach for
another broadcast with cannons are running.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Nan Is y'all
Halloween ain't the same.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
We had the real Halloween.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
These damn kids don't even dress up anymore, do they.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Gru Grud had a sheet throwed over her in a
bottle in my hands.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
Talk about shit the hole they.
Speaker 5 (00:15):
Go, get your ass off on fut.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Big God, dude, we had a real Halloween mask.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Bro.
Speaker 6 (00:34):
Your Halloween costume came in a box with the plastic
on the front. You was cast able to friendly Ghost, Superman, Batman,
Robin Wonder's where power was?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Y'all complained about the COVID mask.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
You just say nothing with them Halloween. You can't breathe
out of them.
Speaker 7 (00:58):
Eg Holy yes, man, woman, Yes, Jariy want to help
you to the tea.
Speaker 8 (01:09):
It's Garantem on the show.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
It is about that time Gary had the tea in
the color the other day.
Speaker 9 (01:15):
Gary, Good morning, Good morning, Rigga, Good morning America, Good
morning the US Friday, Halloween Day. And here's what's happening
in celebrity news, y'all. Fat Joe, y'all, he is at
many of y'all. When he turned forty, y'all, it left
him depressed as he worried about what agent y'all meant
for his career.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Now They said that.
Speaker 9 (01:31):
The rapper, now fifty five, opened up about his previous
fears of getting older in a recent episode of his podcast,
Joined Jayson Now. He said, quote, I've been rapping. I've
been in the game since I was nineteen, and you know,
he explained that, so he said, when I'm about to
turn forty, he said, all I know is standing on
a couchy y'all and poppy box. But that party hit
you like it was different, he said. He said, I
(01:53):
was depressed. His anxiety, y'all stem from years of success
and the pressure to stay relevant, you know, rapidly off
in raps. Seeing now, he admitted those fears grew strongly
after hearing people say that they're never seen a rapper
hit one after after forty years old, he said.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
But thankfully the lean Back artist.
Speaker 9 (02:11):
Had a strong system of support system that helped change
his mind set. Ricky, y'all have y'all being a comedian,
then if you thought about as you get older that
you know you're too old to be a comedian, you
can't tell the same.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Time, I don't think you don't think like that. You
always be a coming, uh you know. Uh, that's why
I stay on stage I always perform or whatever and
I dropped. Yeah, I do it for the joy of it.
I like walking on stage performing and you get to
tell your story. You get to sit down and you
only get to talk for two and a half to
three minutes per break on this radio, but on a
(02:45):
coming stage, you really get to express yourself and your
jokes and your material, have fun, and interact with the audience.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
So you're gonna always do that.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Uh, you know, some give it up, you know, but
I'm a stand up comic forever.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Oh look at Great Red Fox.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah that's true.
Speaker 10 (03:03):
George, Carla, all of them, y'all. Everybody you go until
you give money. Yeah, oh well, congratulations. Then y'alln't have
to be worried about that or what happened.
Speaker 9 (03:11):
So, speaking of age, y'all, Maya Honey, she's opening up
about why, y'all she preferred not to revisit her.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Old DI records. Now, I'm like, we love Maya.
Speaker 9 (03:20):
She was a great singer, but they're saying that the
Grammy winning stat y'all. She's reflecting on the twenty fifth anniversary,
y'all of her Fear of Flight album, and she's keeping
it real by the emotional, y'all, that come with hearing
her old music.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Now, she told people.
Speaker 9 (03:32):
She said, I don't really listen to a lot of
the old music because I like my voice now. She
says it's very cringy to me because I sound like
a kid. And she also added that I get very
emotional when I hear my younger voice because of all
that was endured, she said.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
She went on y'all to describe how being thrust.
Speaker 9 (03:51):
Into the spotlight straight out of high school placed her
in a vulnerable position now, she continued, she said, quote,
I am so enamored, y'all by the journey, because sometime
it takes twenty five, twenty seven, thirty years to come
into who you've been, come and who you're going to
be for the.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Rest of your life. And that's where I am not,
she said.
Speaker 9 (04:08):
I'm still growing and evolving every few years, y'all, every
six months sometimes, she say. But Maya has also been
in a pupularized since the nineties, a successful career yeat
in both music and film. Now, decade later, she's learning
to honor the woman that she's become, wild, showing gratitude
for the journey that shaped her.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I Freez.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Did you ever feel that way?
Speaker 9 (04:29):
I mean, getting older in radio and something, you know,
cause you know how the ages im it's definitely more
of an age of them thing for women as opposed
to men.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Wo to you, Oh you're too old to be doing this,
and blah blah blah.
Speaker 8 (04:40):
The good thing about radio is nobody can see you,
so my voice is to say, so they don't see
that I'm getting older. So it's whatever you have you.
Speaker 9 (04:50):
Yeah, I mean I sometimes think about all this, Honey,
I'll be like your old honey, your old queen hund
We're gonna get this little young queen hunting and sit
here and do this stuffing.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
You know.
Speaker 9 (04:57):
But I know, honey, if she thinks she could beat
me rocket, she could have my But you better.
Speaker 11 (05:01):
Let them know, let them know, don't.
Speaker 9 (05:07):
Yeah, but it's just something that But I mean, you know,
like you said, you could go on and on. Hell
Walter cronkite them and all them news reported me and
they was in Nate Nights, Huney and they rolled them
out of the news thing or whatever. So you know,
I mean, people speaking out now about how they feared
about age and something whatever. But you know, like people
still say, age is what just the number. So we're
just gonna keep it like that. Yeah, don't bother me.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I just you have to have a certain amount of
security within yourself and have a retirement plan, and do
understand that companies move on sometimes, and you can't ever
get mad at nobody from making a business decision that
that's their business.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
And thank people for the opportunity when it comes to
an end.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
All good things, most good things must at some point
come to an end, so you just try to take
advantage of it and have a good time while you
you know, the mics are still on exactly.
Speaker 9 (05:56):
And my thing is this, I'm like, if life ain't
for ever hundred what made you think this.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Job gonna be forever?
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Yeah? Now, so ye'll do it, do it until you
can't do it no more.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
And when you can feel good about serving the community
and helping people like what we're doing trying to beat
the homeless this week. So that's all that matters. And
what will people say about you when you when the
job is done?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
So yeah, and.
Speaker 9 (06:17):
In my quick free story, y'all, Cardi B she got
a message for y'all. Trus She say, stop criticizing her
pregnant body and let.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Her eat her cakes and peace. Honey, And that's from Cardi.
Speaker 9 (06:27):
B all right, The Colorda Today, Honey is one of
my favorite cludes in on off Halloween The Colorda Today. Guys, Brown,
I mean orange and black on the highend, you say
orange and black and on the lung just say hallo, queen,
that's your color for to day.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
All right, y'all, y'all give it up for Gary with
the team.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Did you see that post?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
People are talking?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Here's what's on the fucking Smiley Morning Show.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
All right, y'all, Rich found them on the show. All right.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Now, millions of Americans who depend on us snap benefits
are facing uncertainty as the deadline looms and the threat
of a government shut down hangs in the air. Now
when it comes to breaking down things, what's really happening
in Washington, there's no better journalists offer and hosts of
rolland Martin and hosts of Roland Martin Unfiltered, the always
(07:19):
outspoken Rolling Martin, Rolling, Good Morning.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Man, Man.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I just did a group text with a lot of
prominent passes all over the country.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Man, Roland, We're gonna do a live broadcast on Monday.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
That's what we're really working on, trying to figure out
how we could make food available for people that are suffering.
And it's a lot of confusion and concerned about the
SNAP deadline. Can you break down what's really going on
and what it means for families relying on these benefits?
Speaker 11 (07:50):
Well, people get SNAP benefits from their state. The money
comes from the federal government, and so with the gold
government shut down, meaning federal government workers are not actually
executing these programs.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Now, there's an emergency.
Speaker 11 (08:07):
Fund that the federal government has, the USDA has for
SNAP that it could bet. It's the six billion dollars.
Donald Trump refuses to use it.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Use it. He can tap it.
Speaker 11 (08:20):
It's the law. They can actually do it. He's made
the choice not to do it. So Democrats have made
it clear that they are not going to give Republicans
the votes they need in the United States Senate to
reopen the federal government until they restored the healthcare substance.
Republicans don't want to do that. And see, you know
what's very interesting right now, as you've got Republicans who
(08:42):
are trashing abomit, these people who gets.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
That benefit, you got Louisiana.
Speaker 11 (08:47):
Congressman Clay Higgins, who called SNAP beneficiaries crackheads.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Guess what.
Speaker 11 (08:54):
A lot of people on SNAP are in red districts.
Most they're in the Republican districts. See what they've done.
Because what they've done, Ricky, they know that they have
created the perception in America that when we say food stamps,
they think that means black people. In the fact, it's
more white people or receive loose of the benefits. But
(09:15):
they don't want to actually say that. And so a
lot of these folks in the Red States. I'm sitting
there going, Okay, you're young going.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
To say anything. You're getting screwed.
Speaker 11 (09:24):
You're voting against her own economic interest, and that's being
exposed because the right wing has literally been trashing people.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
No, like one.
Speaker 11 (09:34):
Republican advisor called you off of your fat ghetto asses.
Well again, he was using language that we know. He
was trying to condemn African Americans when the average beneficiary
is a poor white woman.
Speaker 8 (09:52):
Well, let me ask you, Roland. You know the Republicans
are blaming the Democrats. The Democrats are blaming their Republicans.
Who should the public be blaming?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Congress?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
The administration are both Republicans at Donald Trump.
Speaker 11 (10:06):
Because when they basically that's what you blaming because when
they pass that big ugly bill, that's where the healthcare
subsidies were taken away.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
So how are they? How are the Democrats?
Speaker 8 (10:18):
Because I feel like this is going to be turned around,
like we know, we know that it's it's Donald Trump's fault,
we know it's the Republican's fault. But I feel like
it's going to be turned on the Democrats and people
are going to go, I'm not being predemned because look what.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
They did with snap.
Speaker 8 (10:31):
How can they make sure that the public knows whose
fault this is?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Well, it's messaging every day. Democratic Leader the House, Democrat Leader.
Speaker 11 (10:40):
Hockking Jeffers has multiple news conferences, Senator Chuck Schumer, They've
been fanning out doing doing radio, television, all different shows
along those lines. And so you look at the polling
datum of people they are blaming Donald Trump as well
as as well as mag Republicans. But it's just a
matter of you got to keep hammering away as to
say whose fault is it?
Speaker 10 (11:02):
So Roland something like this, Uh, I'm going to get
your opinion on how this might be hitting black and
brown communities a little differently, especially the working poor, and
and a lot of people don't seem to grasp that
these people aren't just sitting at home grabbing benefits not
doing anything. These are full time, working families a lot
of times that already might be struggling with some food
(11:24):
and security actor, Like, what do you think the real
effect of this is going to be in the next man?
Speaker 11 (11:28):
Again, I don't I don't care whether whether you're black,
whether you're white, whether you're Tino. You're getting if your
SNAP benefits and you don't get them and miss, it's
going to be a problem. It's going to hurt you.
We're talking about that's food. It's food, you know, that's
that's what it is. But you have to remember, you know,
Republicans slash snap benefits.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
They don't want to help people. They really do believe.
Speaker 11 (11:50):
That people who get SNAP benefits are lazy people. Well
guess what, there's no difference between these snap benefits and
somebody who was a farmer.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Who's being paid not to farm.
Speaker 11 (12:01):
Oh I'm sorry, that's called a farm subsidy as opposed
to welfare.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
You gottunderstand. I was looked at it.
Speaker 11 (12:09):
Listen, corporations, oil companies getment government dollars as well.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
All that's research and development. It's not the same.
Speaker 11 (12:17):
So there is this absolutely disdain for poor people. Listen,
ninety million people did not vote in the last election.
If poor people in this country voted, they could throw
out every single person who is voting against things for
poor people. But we have to we have to educate
(12:38):
and we have to enlighten. We got to inform, We
got to get those poor folks out vote the Poor
People's Campaign, Bishop William Barber, They've been doing that, but
we need we need more of it.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Again, ninety million sat out and you can't sit out.
Speaker 11 (12:52):
Elections because elections directly impact public policy, whether you think
it Vicid does or not.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Hey, Ronald, we definitely gonna need your help and input
on the big show that we're doing to try to
fill up pantries and let people know.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Where they can locate food.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
And I want to get Bishop William barbera involved as well,
and already spoke to Pastor Bishop Walker and Pastor Keith
Norman out of Memphis, Tennessee. And we're just trying to
figure out, you know, what we're gonna do and how
can we use this platform to help. I really appreciate
you coming on y'all. All right, I was still talking
(13:31):
to journeys Roland Martin. Happy to have you this morning.
Thank you Roland for everything that you do. And I
hope everybody follow you a YouTube channel because you have
a lot of information. Now, yesterday Congress was able to
strip Trump's teriff powers and some Republicans even voted against them.
Do you think that we could, you know, see more
situations like this where his power is being chipped away.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
At well, we hope. So what Republicans have done is
they are advocated.
Speaker 11 (13:59):
There was the congressional oversight and authority to Donald Trump.
He's been cutting things on his own whim as opposed
to these bills that were passed by Congress.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (14:12):
And so what these Republicans Uh, he stilled your leader.
But if they pay any attention, you're going to realize
they're getting screwed. You got you got farmers, ranchers in
America who are now complaining because Trump did a forty
billion of avella of Argentina that is gonna be importing Argentina,
uh beef. Well guess what that's what that's what happens
(14:35):
when you got crazy Naga back in the White House.
You got these other farmers in Nebraska, Iowa, Iowa is
economy has crazed because of Donald Trump's tears.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
But he did this the.
Speaker 11 (14:48):
Last time, so I don't know what the hell these
farmers thinking was thinking was gonna happen. So the tears
have been uh done, willy nearly. Just you know, it's
all out of the ordinary. It's led to significant uncertainty,
and these people in these red states are now waking
up and realizing, yeah, you're getting screwed by Donald Trump
(15:08):
who's sitting here ripping the country off with his corruption's
crypto money and every along those lines.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
So Roland, what can people do right now?
Speaker 8 (15:17):
You know, just to prepare or to protect themselves if
their benefits are delayed because you know Obamacare, that's what
that's this weekend where you've.
Speaker 11 (15:25):
Got to save money. You gotta say cash at the
end of the day, what you're spending. You've got to
just understand that we don't know how long this is
going to end. You've got to be tapping into local
food banks. Churches are doing a lot of things along
those lines. Nonprofit organizations. That's what you have to do.
(15:46):
But I'm gonna say this, I don't care as long
as I can Black people. You can't fit your ass
at home or on social media, and why and complaining
about things in this country when then.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
You chose not to vote.
Speaker 11 (16:03):
Voting is one way for you to impact the direction
of the country. And if you don't like the person,
guess what, support somebody else in the primary. But in
majority election, you've got to be involved. Listen, there are
elections taking place on Tuesday in this country. There are
state wide races in New Jersey, state wide races in
(16:25):
Virginia Public Service Commission Alicia Johnson on the show last night,
they regulate utilities. In Georgia, there are two people who
are running. Folks, don't ignore those races. You've got local races,
You've got retention races. Of the Supreme Court in Pennsylvania,
Elon Musk is trying to throw out these three Democrats
(16:46):
because they've been standing here for democracy. So people have
to understand that there are local and national statewide races
happening right now. So we got to stay engaged. And
there's Black participation is simply too low in too many places,
you know, and we should be if I keep saying
the minimum number of black turnout should be seventy percent
(17:09):
in our in our states.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
In these races.
Speaker 11 (17:13):
But when we set out, guess what, we let other
people make decisions for us. Y, that's what we have to.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Do exactly.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
Now.
Speaker 10 (17:23):
Well, Roland, you kind of addressed the question that I
was going to ask, because I was going to ask
you how this moment fits into the conversation about next
year's midterm election.
Speaker 11 (17:31):
You know, but it's not next year. It's not next year.
There are literal elections Texas. There are seventeen constitutional amendments
on the ballot on Tuesday, So people should be saying, hey.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Do I have elections going on right now?
Speaker 11 (17:48):
And they're all over the country on Tuesday, and so
it's happening right before our very eyes. So that's why
I keep saying, we can't wait till next year because Tuesday,
guess what, They're gonna be primaries happening in the spring,
and we're gonna look at that listen, man, that callous
case out of Louisiana that could wipe out twelve to
(18:11):
thirty members of the Congressional Black Hawkers, And what is
it like, people gonna understand the Supreme Court if they
rule their race cannot be used in the creation of districts,
you're gonna wipe out up with the thirty congressional black
haucas members. You're gonna be wiping out seats all across
(18:31):
the South that were created hard fought hard.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I mean black people fought in the streets for these seats.
Speaker 11 (18:41):
If they decide because these because these Republicans were pissed off,
they had to create a second black district in Louisiana
and the second one in Alabama. And so the Supreme
Court based upon their questions, you know, a couple of
weeks ago on number fifteenth, Man, listen, they're gonna rule
you can't use race in there in the creation of districts.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
And that is going to wipe.
Speaker 11 (19:02):
Out major black political power all across the South. Man, Listen,
people has got well, this is what happens in twenty sixteen,
or people complained about Hillary and then Trump gets it.
He's now pointed three Supreme Court justices. This is what
happens when they complain, and then who controls the Senate Republicans?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
So now this thing goes on and on and On.
Speaker 11 (19:24):
So I just think people understand there's nothing, there's nothing
that in your life that's not impacted by politics.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Nothing.
Speaker 11 (19:34):
So when we choose to not engage and pout and
set out, then what happens is we lose.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Now it means.
Speaker 11 (19:43):
Holding people accountable who we voted for and say how
are you going to deliver? And if they don't say
we're going to support somebody else will. We cannot set
out of easy elections because the people who do vote,
they're the ones.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Will get addiction to the rest of us. How big
you should be done?
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Daddy is Roland real quick? Let everybody know how you
can be reached.
Speaker 11 (20:05):
Those go to our YouTube, follow our YouTube show, YouTube channel,
YouTube dot com, Force Last Roll This Martin will live
every night six to apm.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
East Jo.
Speaker 11 (20:13):
I'm here in Easton and the Afrotech conference. We covered
it for the last three a's and of course I've
rolled This Martin on all social media's you know, support
our show as well.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
We're trying to raise a million bucks between.
Speaker 11 (20:24):
Now at the end of the year because to travel
around the country holding town halls. I'm gonna be in
Suffolk eleven thirty for a town hall on Monday morning,
and then on Monday night, I'm in Virginia Beach for
another broadcast with cannons are running.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
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