October 30, 2025 • 24 mins
Senator Pastor Raphael Warnock joins the RSMS crew to break down the looming SNAP benefits crisis and government shutdown. He warns that more than 40 million Americans — many of them working parents and children — could see their food aid vanish if Congress doesn’t act. The pastor-senator calls the standoff “organized cruelty” and urges listeners to support food banks and local ministries until the government releases emergency funds.
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She shouldn't have wait.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
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have a dog, on child together and some y'all, but
you don't want to get married. Why do men not
want to get mad? You do everything else. Somebody don't
want to get married.
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I don't want to get married. I just can't believe
that he didn't marry her. She is definitely.
Speaker 8 (02:55):
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So he's like.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
They said, they said, but they said, she realized that
the ring definitely wasn't coming yet. They said, she decided
that it was time, honey, to move on now. They said,
despite the end of their romantic relationship, there's no bad
blood between them, And they said Ja and Sean remain
close friends and loving co parents to theirs.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Such a beautiful couple too, I mean I hate that.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Yeah, they sit there in a great place. They say
it's peaceful. They always say that. Hell that's I mean,
please honey, but bless us spiritual honey.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
But who you gonna be with now?
Speaker 9 (03:37):
If you've been with somebody for ten years and got
a baby and all that, and then you walk away
with nothing, and.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Like you're talking about, she's gorgeous.
Speaker 8 (03:43):
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it now. Sometimes it takes you to leave the situation.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
For a minute. The minute you see her with somebody else.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Is that it'll be too late.
Speaker 9 (03:53):
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that because the new guy she got ten years of
this dude she gotta to get out of her sister.
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That's a lot.
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Are roomors?
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Are roomors, y'all.
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So they say.
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Honey.
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They said at the time, inside of saying baby that
the cup on.
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You want to keep their union private, choosing intimacy and
family over fan fare. They say, neither dal nor Carucci
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Have reportedly been seeing each other quietly for some time.
They have never gone Instagram official and rarely appear together publicly,
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which has only feel speculations about how serious things are
behind the scenes.
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Despite their souves, They're saying.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
The clues keep adding up, and that diamond ring, baby,
they say, isn't doing anything to cool the chatter.
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So, I mean, that'd be nice to.
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Be married her, you know, if they married together. I
mean because you know the I need somebody. I mean
he had trades her no longer together.
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Huh, you need somebody about to be inside.
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They remember that. They were asking. They said, I don't know,
since you've been around he can sick a lot.
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That children children said that.
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for carew under that.
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all real good. She probably got good energy and softness.
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just like like.
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How do you feel when you're around her? Are you
happy with her?
Speaker 7 (06:48):
Did she make you, you know, feel a certain kind
of way and you just look forward to spending quiet,
intimate time together. That kind of stuff right there, make
you want to be with somebody that if she brings
you peace.
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clear diamonds. I remember floors. She had a nice, big
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He can get you a ten care for about four fifty. Yeah,
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Honey dumped the bad bunny because she went back to
Devin Booker.
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Honey.
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like black men, so you know, let her go back
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I didn't hear him. I'm sorry, Ricky. Yeah, yeah, you're
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People are talking?
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Cent in the morning.
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I got.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
I got one of your church members sitting up here,
Gary with the teeth.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
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How you doing? Pastline? I'm good.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
You say, he's one of my church members. And he
paid the size.
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I sure do. And I love it when y'all sitting
the received in for taxes. I like that.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I love you, brother. I'm just giving you a hard time. Man.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
We are so concerned that.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
We're gonna get right into it happy to have you.
Thank you for taking the time, and some of one
knot right now. Millions of Americans, Americans, they're really caught
up in the middle of a government shut down. SNAP
food benefits could be delayed, you know, or even stopped
if Congress does not reach a deal soon, and that
means that people really, you know, going to be struggling
just to keep food on the table. So I just
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really appreciate you coming on and you know, like forty
two million Americans could lose SNAP benefits next month. What
are the latest efforts to keep that funding funding going
and pretty much just give us an overall or what
what's what's going on and what are you experience and seeing?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
Look, this is a serious issue, and as a pastor
who s nerves in the Senate, my heart is really heavy.
As you point out, millions of Americans are their basic
food security is.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
On the line right now.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
But let me be really clear, it's important that your
listeners understand this. We're in the midst of this shut down,
and I know there's a lot of back and forth.
Who's fault is a Democrats Republicans, And I'm happy to
talk about that But here is what's an actual fact.
The SNAP recipients are not a part of this fight.
They're being dragged into this fight. The USDA has five
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billion dollars five billions in a contingency fund. There are
other resources that they could make available, and it's just
for this kind of situation, for these circumstances.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
So they have.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Literally decided to drag hungry families and hungry children into
a political fight, pitting sick people against hungry people. I
think that's deeply immoral, and it's the reason why I'm
calling on the Trump administration.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
To release these funds.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
In the meantime, there are those of us, yes, who
are in the faith community, our food banks and others
are getting ready to respond to this impending catastrophe.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
But I just I want to make it clear that
this is unnecessary, organized cruelty.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (11:22):
So I was surprised to see how many children benefit
from SNAP, and I saw in twenty twenty three almost
forty percent of SNAP beneficiaries are children. So I just
want to know how do we get to this point
and what is holding up this agreement in DC to
protect families and children relying on the support.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Well, the fight is about healthcare.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
And you know, right now as I speak, folks who
are on the Affordable Care Act also known as Obamacare,
people who get their healthcare on the exchange because they
can't afford, you know, a plan.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
And that's a lot of people.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Twenty two million Americans, one point two Georgians right now
are on the exchange. And as they're opening up their
premium statements as they go to healthcare.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Dot gov across the country or Georgia Access.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Here's what they're going to see. They're going to see
that come twenty twenty six, the premiums for their healthcare
have doubled. And that's not the exception. I mean, on average,
on average, on average, your healthcare premium if you're on
the exchange, has doubled. It is crazy, and for some
people is tripled and quadrupled.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
So that's what the fight is about.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
We're in the moment where Donald Trump said he's going
to lower your grocery prices. He didn't do that gas prices.
So the price of everything is going up. And then
on top of that, you're telling me you're going to
double and triple and quadruple.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
The costs of health care. That's a non starter.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
That's what this is a out and let us not
forget why are they doing this to give billionaires a
tax cut?
Speaker 3 (13:06):
God?
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Well that was.
Speaker 8 (13:10):
What can Senate Democrats really do to push the issue
at this point regardings that benefits.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Well, we're pushing an issue. And listen, we didn't just start.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
I have voted several times this year to extend these
premium tax credits.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
That's what we need.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
We need these tax credits that will make healthcare affordable.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
And you know, I'm a pastor.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
For me, this is a moral issue, but it's but
it's also a practical issue. It is not in America's
interest to make our workforce uh weaker, sicker and poorer.
We are in a moment where we need the best
and we need everybody at the table.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
And so that's what's at stake in the site.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
As I said, I've voted several times this year to
extend these tax credits.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Republicans blocked it every time.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
And by the way, I voted seven times already to
keep the government open. Let me be really clear, I
hate government shut downs. And the truth of the matter
is that we've been witnessing a slow rolling government shut
down all year.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Right from day one of.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
This administration, through Doge, we started to witness them basically
shutting down the government. And so this is just the
apex of what they've been up to all along. And
these snap recipients are not even a part of the fight.
They're literally dragging them into the fight, pitting hungry people
against sick people. And as a Matthew twenty five Christian,
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my north star is this. I was hungry and you
fed me. Jesus said, you asked Jesus, when were you hungry?
Speaker 3 (14:44):
And as much as you've done it to the least
of these, you've done it also unto me. So I'm
appealing to the.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
Best parts of our nature trying to.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Get us to do the right thing.
Speaker 9 (14:53):
Wow, and Senator one, we know that this shutdown is
really hurting the pockets of It's going to hurt, especially
in the pockets are our parents, other seniors, working folks
that live in paycheck to paycheck. Are there really any
options or any access that people have to any kind
of federal support at this point or should they just
rely on local support and private organizations for help.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Well, I'm going to stay in the fight because again,
these resources are available we suffer not from a poverty
of resources, but of moral imagination. They're centering the politics
rather than the people. But in the meantime, as we
go into this weekend and folks are wondering are there
EBT cards going to be reloaded and renewed, people can
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go to Feeding America dot org and find out where
your local food bank is. You can do that both
to donate to your local food bank and also to
find out where the nearest.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Food bank is where you can receive food.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
And I know that many in the faith community, my
church included, are going to stand up in this moment
and we're going to help as many.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
People as we can. But I'm not naive about this.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
The scale of the need cannot be met by the
fathe community and by the food banks, which by the way,
have also been hit by this administration. Earlier last summer,
five hundred million dollars, which have been voted on on
a bipartisan basis to go to the food banks, was
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clawed back by the Trump administration. And so these food
banks that are already in distress and now being called
upon to respond in this manufactured crisis.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
But again, as a voice for Georgia, and as a
voice for all the people.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
As a pastor in the Senate, I'm going to continue
to try to call on what Lincoln called the angels
in our nature and senative people rather than the politics,
and hopefully get the government open back open, get the
snap recipients the resources that they need, and ensure that
people people don't have their healthcare double triple quadruple.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Who can afford that?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (17:07):
And I have a real, real, real, real important question
to ask the Senator one knock, And I just want
to give me honest opinion because I'm really concerned about
our democracy. Ladies and gentlemen, we have the one and
on the Senator rapt yell war knock joining us this morning.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Hey, we're on with Senator rap Year one knock paston
one knock.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
I want to ask you and and and I know
it's too early to be talking about twenty twenty eight,
do you think that Donald Trump is setting himself up
for a third term? And will they really really just
ignore the United States Constitution?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Would that happen? Would there be a third term? In
your opinion from everything that you see and know.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
No, there's no there's no doubt about where what the
constitution says about this?
Speaker 3 (17:53):
He can't run again? Donald Trump says something ridiculous.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
Edward, how do they stop if you control of the
White House and the Republican that control the Senate and
the Congress, and he has control in the military, how
was he to be stopped from running for.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
A third term?
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Listen, part of what this administration is up to is
flooding the zone. They throw something at us every day.
They are trying to weaponize despair in order to convince
us that they've already won. And this is just one
iteration of that. He'll say a lot of different things,
but what he's really saying to you is no fight,
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We've already won. We've already got this. They're trying to
weaponize despair, and then when you give into that, you
stop fighting, and then they do win. And so what
I want us to do is to straighten our backs.
We're in this fight right now, to try to do
the best we can on the healthcare fight, save these
snap recipients. But I want people to really stay focused
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on the fight that's in front of us. I mean,
he's saying all of these things. You look at the polling,
it's clear that he keeps going, He's taking on.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
More and more water.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
Americans already have sticker shop, they already have buyer's remorse.
And I think he'll say something today, he'll say something tomorrow.
Who knows what Donald Trump is going to say. But
I'm going to stay focused on the people. You know,
in these times, I think often about something that Andy Young.
You know, I live in Atlanta, and so I get
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to walk around these civil rights giants every day, and
they inspired me because they had no reason to believe
that they could win, and they kept fighting a good fight.
Andy Young tells his story. He says, after they passed
the Civil Rights Bill into law present that Martin Luther
King Jr. And his lieutenants went to see President Johnson,
and Johnson was so, you know, excited about the fact
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that he'd passed the civil rights Bill and the law.
Doctor King, without skipping a beat, said I need a
voting rights law, and the President kept saying over and
over again, look, you're right about that, but I just
can't get that done right now. I don't have the
power to do it. I don't have the power to
do it. So they left the meeting that the.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Staff was feeling all demoralize. They said, doctor King, what
are we going to do?
Speaker 6 (20:13):
The President says he doesn't have the power to pass
voting rights. Doctor King, without even skipping a beat, said well,
if the president doesn't have the power, I guess we're
going to have to go and get him some And
so that's what Selman was all about. They went to
get the president some power. So what I'm saying to
you is that as a voice for Georgia, as a
member of the United States Senate, I'm going to fight
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for you every single day. But it's really not about
the people in power. It's about the power that's in
the people. John Lewis understood that. Amelia Boynton, who stood
up on that same bridge and was gassed. We don't
say the women's names often enough. She understood that. Joseah
Williams understood that. I understand it. Stay in the fight.
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And all of your friends who say, well, it doesn't
matter whether you vote or not, because that's the other
thing they're trying to tell you.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
It doesn't matter, your vote won't count. Your vote counts,
and they know it.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
That's why they're busy trying to Jerryman the districts and
do everything they can to discourage it.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
We will not be discouraged.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
We're going to send a love and hope, and we're
going to remember our ancestors who had no reason to
believe that they could win, but they kept fighting a
good fight anyway.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
So let me just ask you.
Speaker 10 (21:22):
It's easy for me to trade in my back, as
you say, because I got good company, insurance, My kids
aren't snap. But these you know, I'm concerned that you know,
Trump thinks and the Republican thinks that the Dems will
cave because you know, we're upset about people not getting
food on the table, not having insurance.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Is it possible that the Dems will cave?
Speaker 6 (21:45):
Look, we're in the fight right now, and I'm on
I'm on the line because I need people to stand
with me and to understand what the fight is all about.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
These these issues are not simple.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
I don't like to see hunger children, but I also
don't like to see people finding their healthcare unaffordable.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
And so I'm going to keep on making the case.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Wow, ah, man, I know it's uh a lot.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
If you could predict and look in a crystal ball,
when do you think that the government shut down would
be over. And do you think that the Republicans will
come to the table like in uh, where's the breaking point.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
In all these I can tell you that they are
feeling the heat because here's the thing, ricky folks are
folks are couching this as a fight between the Democrats
and Republicans.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Here's the irony.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
Guess who needs really needs these ACA tax credits?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Who guess who's on the Affordable.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
Carer More Republicans than Democrats, More Republicans than independents.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Guess who know who needs these these snap benefits.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
They're particularly needed in these rural areas. It's the red
districts in joy Orgia and red districts all across our
country that are being especially hard hit. I know for
a fact that some of my Republican colleagues want to
fix this because they're hearing from their own constituents. And
so I'm going to keep on fighting a good fight.
(23:16):
And look, we know that in politics we don't never
get everything that we want. But the Republicans need to
come to the table. Here we are in the midst
of this fight, and the House hasn't been the work
in six weeks. They've put work requirements on Medicaid recipients.
If they put those same requirements on themselves, they wouldn't
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have healthcare right now because they're refusing to even come
to work, let alone come to the table. Why because
they don't want to vote on the esteem files. They're
more focused on protecting pedophiles than they are on protecting
your health care, more focused on protecting pedophiles than protecting
hungry children who are are being dragged into this fight.
(24:02):
And so again, I'm going to keep centering to people.
I'm going to pray with my h lips as well
as my legs, as an African proverb that says, when
you pray, move your feet, So wherever you are, move
your feet.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Check on your neighbors.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Let's stand together, do everything we can for each other,
and let us not give in to those who are
trying to weaponize to spare. When we fight, we win.
If we don't fight, we don't win. So I'm going
to keep on fighting a good fight.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Ladas a center, y'all giving up a center to rep one.
Hey man, we love you and God bless you, God
love you.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
The funny he says, ken yet know of You know
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who I am?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
I just need the love of another man.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
You have the story of Poliphis says six foot four inch,
two hundred and sixty pounds for a college football player
who comes out the closet to marry his lover and
open a high end store that sells skinny jeans, lightweight sweaters,
and literary sneakers.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Ma'ma understand baby, but your daddy just can't he sit
you damn right.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
On mon exception. You just too mean to be assistant.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Look at you, two hundred city proud, big Bland. You
gotta be playing for the bunch of my ravens. You
know you too big to be assistant. The heartbreaching story
of a man and his searching of the answer. How
big is too big to be assistant?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
What dad gotta keep hiding my baby?
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Dollar suits and tight You gotta sign fourteen foot you
know YouTube you need to be assistant?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
What you take us now?
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Speaker 4 (01:06):
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Speaker 4 (01:10):
You want to help you to the tea.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
It's Gary Gary in the club today. Good morning to you, Gary.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Good morning, Rigga, Good morning America, Good morning Smilla, Good
morning to you. Is Thursday a beautiful, beautifl day in
the neighborhood And here's what's happening in celebrity news, rigg
is a very sad day in the world, y'all. They're
saying that it is definitely oldfish show. According to MTO.
They're saying, y'all that it's offiichy that longtime couple Jannine
Aikiako Aiko.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
And Big Sean are no longer together.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Oh yes, they had been broke up, they say after
nearly a decade. Riki of music, Love and a child,
one of the hip hop's boats Adore duels, has quietly
y'all gone there separate ways, then, honey, they're saying, it's
definitely a very very sad moment.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Honey.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Now so close to Janine told her the MTO that
the breakup didn't come suddenly, they said. It was the
result of multiple ultimatums and longstanding disagreements about marriage. Now,
according to the inside this Chanine truly believe, y'all that
she and Sean were definitely soul made. She wanted marriage, y'all.
She wanted the commitment, the source said, y'all. They say
(02:20):
Sean loves her deeply, but he just never wanted to
take the final step.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Now, a couple of y'all who share a three year old.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Son, have been together, y'all, on and off for years,
collaborating on music and appearing y'all, inseparable to the fans, y'all,
they said, But behind the scenes, the same source said,
y'all that Janine Hunter grew tired y'all of waiting and.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
She shouldn't have wait.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Why, I mean you, they got this woman praying to y'all,
have a dog, on child together and some y'all, but
you don't want to get married. Why do men not
want to get mad? You do everything else. Somebody don't
want to get married.
Speaker 7 (02:51):
I don't want to get married. I just can't believe
that he didn't marry her. She is definitely.
Speaker 8 (02:55):
Agaan because basically, why by the cowf you can get
the milk for free. Yeah, but I already got I
already got the year.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
So he's like.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
They said, they said, but they said, she realized that
the ring definitely wasn't coming yet. They said, she decided
that it was time, honey, to move on now. They said,
despite the end of their romantic relationship, there's no bad
blood between them, And they said Ja and Sean remain
close friends and loving co parents to theirs.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Such a beautiful couple too, I mean I hate that.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Yeah, they sit there in a great place. They say
it's peaceful. They always say that. Hell that's I mean,
please honey, but bless us spiritual honey.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
But who you gonna be with now?
Speaker 9 (03:37):
If you've been with somebody for ten years and got
a baby and all that, and then you walk away
with nothing, and.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Like you're talking about, she's gorgeous.
Speaker 8 (03:43):
Yeah, maybe she walks away. He'll put a ring on
it now. Sometimes it takes you to leave the situation.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
For a minute. The minute you see her with somebody else.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Is that it'll be too late.
Speaker 9 (03:53):
But the new guy, I wouldn't want to step into
that because the new guy she got ten years of
this dude she gotta to get out of her sister.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
That's a lot.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Well, I don't know you.
Speaker 8 (04:03):
You know you said it's fifty foy boy, how big
is your Give me all your money and give me
all your residuals. We still haven't got the answer to
any of them questions.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
The ladies want to know, so big Sean, what's up.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
Far?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yes Lord, yes, all right? Then moving on in up
the seven news, y'all. Here they say, rumors, honey are roomors?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Are roomors?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Are roomors, y'all.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
But they're saying the roomor meal is definitely in overdrive, y'all.
They say, and this time is about the wonderful my
friend mister Dion Sanday that miss Caruci train y'all is
being report of, y'all, that there's been whispered out there
for months that the NFL legend and the actress model
secretly y'all tied the night honey earlier this year. And
they say, Honey, there's photos that fans have are definitely
(04:47):
saying that it is definitely true. Now they're saying Carucci
Honey made a stunning appearance hunting recently at the Variety
Power of Women event in Los Angeless. They say she
looked greater than on the red carpet, But they said,
what really caught everyone's attention was she had on like
a ten carriage diamond ring honey on her left hand. Honey,
ten care. That's bigger than all y'all's girls used to
(05:10):
So they say.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
They say, y'all put those two carriacters behind.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Honey.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
They said at the time, inside of saying baby that
the cup on.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
You want to keep their union private, choosing intimacy and
family over fan fare. They say, neither dal nor Carucci
y'all has publicly confirmed all the night the rumors, but
both have remained extremely private about their relationship. Now they're
saying Dean's on the fifty seven and Karuchi is thirty six.
Have reportedly been seeing each other quietly for some time.
They have never gone Instagram official and rarely appear together publicly,
(05:49):
which has only feel speculations about how serious things are
behind the scenes.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Despite their souves, They're saying.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
The clues keep adding up, and that diamond ring, baby,
they say, isn't doing anything to cool the chatter.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
So, I mean, that'd be nice to.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Be married her, you know, if they married together. I
mean because you know the I need somebody. I mean
he had trades her no longer together.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Huh, you need somebody about to be inside.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
You know.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
The kids was asking if she was the one hurting.
Speaker 8 (06:14):
They remember that. They were asking. They said, I don't know,
since you've been around he can sick a lot.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
That children children said that.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
But Ricky, his children said that, I felt so bad
for carew under that.
Speaker 7 (06:26):
But she probably making them happy end and get them
all real good. She probably got good energy and softness.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Ricky, you got me nervous?
Speaker 7 (06:36):
Well no, no, no, yeah that and uh yeah yeah, just
just like like.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
How do you feel when you're around her? Are you
happy with her?
Speaker 7 (06:48):
Did she make you, you know, feel a certain kind
of way and you just look forward to spending quiet,
intimate time together. That kind of stuff right there, make
you want to be with somebody that if she brings
you peace.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
But ten carrots, you just y'all go together?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Real, how much a ten carrot ring coast? It depends
on the clarion one hundred thousand? No, are you crazy?
One hundred in the millions?
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Closer? What ten cares? One hundred thousand? No, that's about
just about a couple of mines. And it depends on
the clarity of the diamond, huntey, because dem buy his
clear diamonds. I remember floors. She had a nice, big
old rock honey on her fan. I connected them all.
He can get you a ten care for about four fifty. Yeah,
well we are talking about We're not talking about yoot.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
We don't want to thing to turn green.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
No, you know, but anyway, congratulations, honey. If she did
the honey and y'a ain't my queen for free story,
he's being reported out there Devin Booker, baby is honey
spoty with miss Kendall Jenner. They say, baby, miss Jilla
Honey dumped the bad bunny because she went back to
Devin Booker.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Honey.
Speaker 5 (07:52):
So congratulations because they said, you know, bad bunny. I
guess he was a bad bunny, Miss Jiller, Honey, she
like black men, so you know, let her go back
to what she like, honey. So don't make that girna
be stealing with no bad money. Bad bunny was not
her type. And you know he's gonna do all this
mess now with the super Bowl and stuff. You don't
want to mess up the brand for the Kardashian Jenners.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
So, oh, you say, don't the bad bunny have a
clothing stow in them all? Yeah, we got cycle bunny.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
The colauna dam is.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
One of my favorite cold pigeon heat.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
On the hand, you say pigeon heat and on the
lunch just say beautiful.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Yell.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
I'm sorry. The producer said, did I tell you the dough?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Damn it?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I didn't hear him. I'm sorry, Ricky. Yeah, yeah, you're
just talking to me. But y'all give it up a game.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Did you see that post?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
People are talking?
Speaker 8 (08:39):
Here's on the Lucky Smiley Morning Show.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Cent in the morning.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I got.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
I got one of your church members sitting up here,
Gary with the teeth.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Good morning, passer, Good morning, how are you? I'm doing fine?
How you doing? Pastline? I'm good.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
You say, he's one of my church members. And he
paid the size.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Oh I paid my time every Sunday. I'm passionate. Way, yes, sir,
I sure do. And I love it when y'all sitting
the received in for taxes. I like that.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I love you, brother. I'm just giving you a hard time. Man.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
We are so concerned that.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
We're gonna get right into it happy to have you.
Thank you for taking the time, and some of one
knot right now. Millions of Americans, Americans, they're really caught
up in the middle of a government shut down. SNAP
food benefits could be delayed, you know, or even stopped
if Congress does not reach a deal soon, and that
means that people really, you know, going to be struggling
just to keep food on the table. So I just
(09:36):
really appreciate you coming on and you know, like forty
two million Americans could lose SNAP benefits next month. What
are the latest efforts to keep that funding funding going
and pretty much just give us an overall or what
what's what's going on and what are you experience and seeing?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
Look, this is a serious issue, and as a pastor
who s nerves in the Senate, my heart is really heavy.
As you point out, millions of Americans are their basic
food security is.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
On the line right now.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
But let me be really clear, it's important that your
listeners understand this. We're in the midst of this shut down,
and I know there's a lot of back and forth.
Who's fault is a Democrats Republicans, And I'm happy to
talk about that But here is what's an actual fact.
The SNAP recipients are not a part of this fight.
They're being dragged into this fight. The USDA has five
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billion dollars five billions in a contingency fund. There are
other resources that they could make available, and it's just
for this kind of situation, for these circumstances.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
So they have.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Literally decided to drag hungry families and hungry children into
a political fight, pitting sick people against hungry people. I
think that's deeply immoral, and it's the reason why I'm
calling on the Trump administration.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
To release these funds.
Speaker 6 (11:06):
In the meantime, there are those of us, yes, who
are in the faith community, our food banks and others
are getting ready to respond to this impending catastrophe.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
But I just I want to make it clear that
this is unnecessary, organized cruelty.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (11:22):
So I was surprised to see how many children benefit
from SNAP, and I saw in twenty twenty three almost
forty percent of SNAP beneficiaries are children. So I just
want to know how do we get to this point
and what is holding up this agreement in DC to
protect families and children relying on the support.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Well, the fight is about healthcare.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
And you know, right now as I speak, folks who
are on the Affordable Care Act also known as Obamacare,
people who get their healthcare on the exchange because they
can't afford, you know, a plan.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
And that's a lot of people.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Twenty two million Americans, one point two Georgians right now
are on the exchange. And as they're opening up their
premium statements as they go to healthcare.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Dot gov across the country or Georgia Access.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Here's what they're going to see. They're going to see
that come twenty twenty six, the premiums for their healthcare
have doubled. And that's not the exception. I mean, on average,
on average, on average, your healthcare premium if you're on
the exchange, has doubled. It is crazy, and for some
people is tripled and quadrupled.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
So that's what the fight is about.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
We're in the moment where Donald Trump said he's going
to lower your grocery prices. He didn't do that gas prices.
So the price of everything is going up. And then
on top of that, you're telling me you're going to
double and triple and quadruple.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
The costs of health care. That's a non starter.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
That's what this is a out and let us not
forget why are they doing this to give billionaires a
tax cut?
Speaker 3 (13:06):
God?
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Well that was.
Speaker 8 (13:10):
What can Senate Democrats really do to push the issue
at this point regardings that benefits.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Well, we're pushing an issue. And listen, we didn't just start.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
I have voted several times this year to extend these
premium tax credits.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
That's what we need.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
We need these tax credits that will make healthcare affordable.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
And you know, I'm a pastor.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
For me, this is a moral issue, but it's but
it's also a practical issue. It is not in America's
interest to make our workforce uh weaker, sicker and poorer.
We are in a moment where we need the best
and we need everybody at the table.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
And so that's what's at stake in the site.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
As I said, I've voted several times this year to
extend these tax credits.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Republicans blocked it every time.
Speaker 6 (14:00):
And by the way, I voted seven times already to
keep the government open. Let me be really clear, I
hate government shut downs. And the truth of the matter
is that we've been witnessing a slow rolling government shut
down all year.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Right from day one of.
Speaker 6 (14:15):
This administration, through Doge, we started to witness them basically
shutting down the government. And so this is just the
apex of what they've been up to all along. And
these snap recipients are not even a part of the fight.
They're literally dragging them into the fight, pitting hungry people
against sick people. And as a Matthew twenty five Christian,
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my north star is this. I was hungry and you
fed me. Jesus said, you asked Jesus, when were you hungry?
Speaker 3 (14:44):
And as much as you've done it to the least
of these, you've done it also unto me. So I'm
appealing to the.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
Best parts of our nature trying to.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Get us to do the right thing.
Speaker 9 (14:53):
Wow, and Senator one, we know that this shutdown is
really hurting the pockets of It's going to hurt, especially
in the pockets are our parents, other seniors, working folks
that live in paycheck to paycheck. Are there really any
options or any access that people have to any kind
of federal support at this point or should they just
rely on local support and private organizations for help.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
Well, I'm going to stay in the fight because again,
these resources are available we suffer not from a poverty
of resources, but of moral imagination. They're centering the politics
rather than the people. But in the meantime, as we
go into this weekend and folks are wondering are there
EBT cards going to be reloaded and renewed, people can
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go to Feeding America dot org and find out where
your local food bank is. You can do that both
to donate to your local food bank and also to
find out where the nearest.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Food bank is where you can receive food.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
And I know that many in the faith community, my
church included, are going to stand up in this moment
and we're going to help as many.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
People as we can. But I'm not naive about this.
Speaker 6 (16:01):
The scale of the need cannot be met by the
fathe community and by the food banks, which by the way,
have also been hit by this administration. Earlier last summer,
five hundred million dollars, which have been voted on on
a bipartisan basis to go to the food banks, was
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clawed back by the Trump administration. And so these food
banks that are already in distress and now being called
upon to respond in this manufactured crisis.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
But again, as a voice for Georgia, and as a
voice for all the people.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
As a pastor in the Senate, I'm going to continue
to try to call on what Lincoln called the angels
in our nature and senative people rather than the politics,
and hopefully get the government open back open, get the
snap recipients the resources that they need, and ensure that
people people don't have their healthcare double triple quadruple.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Who can afford that?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (17:07):
And I have a real, real, real, real important question
to ask the Senator one knock, And I just want
to give me honest opinion because I'm really concerned about
our democracy. Ladies and gentlemen, we have the one and
on the Senator rapt yell war knock joining us this morning.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Hey, we're on with Senator rap Year one knock paston
one knock.
Speaker 7 (17:29):
I want to ask you and and and I know
it's too early to be talking about twenty twenty eight,
do you think that Donald Trump is setting himself up
for a third term? And will they really really just
ignore the United States Constitution?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Would that happen? Would there be a third term? In
your opinion from everything that you see and know.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
No, there's no there's no doubt about where what the
constitution says about this?
Speaker 3 (17:53):
He can't run again? Donald Trump says something ridiculous.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
Edward, how do they stop if you control of the
White House and the Republican that control the Senate and
the Congress, and he has control in the military, how
was he to be stopped from running for.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
A third term?
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Listen, part of what this administration is up to is
flooding the zone. They throw something at us every day.
They are trying to weaponize despair in order to convince
us that they've already won. And this is just one
iteration of that. He'll say a lot of different things,
but what he's really saying to you is no fight,
(18:33):
We've already won. We've already got this. They're trying to
weaponize despair, and then when you give into that, you
stop fighting, and then they do win. And so what
I want us to do is to straighten our backs.
We're in this fight right now, to try to do
the best we can on the healthcare fight, save these
snap recipients. But I want people to really stay focused
(18:57):
on the fight that's in front of us. I mean,
he's saying all of these things. You look at the polling,
it's clear that he keeps going, He's taking on.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
More and more water.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
Americans already have sticker shop, they already have buyer's remorse.
And I think he'll say something today, he'll say something tomorrow.
Who knows what Donald Trump is going to say. But
I'm going to stay focused on the people. You know,
in these times, I think often about something that Andy Young.
You know, I live in Atlanta, and so I get
(19:30):
to walk around these civil rights giants every day, and
they inspired me because they had no reason to believe
that they could win, and they kept fighting a good fight.
Andy Young tells his story. He says, after they passed
the Civil Rights Bill into law present that Martin Luther
King Jr. And his lieutenants went to see President Johnson,
and Johnson was so, you know, excited about the fact
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that he'd passed the civil rights Bill and the law.
Doctor King, without skipping a beat, said I need a
voting rights law, and the President kept saying over and
over again, look, you're right about that, but I just
can't get that done right now. I don't have the
power to do it. I don't have the power to
do it. So they left the meeting that the.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Staff was feeling all demoralize. They said, doctor King, what
are we going to do?
Speaker 6 (20:13):
The President says he doesn't have the power to pass
voting rights. Doctor King, without even skipping a beat, said well,
if the president doesn't have the power, I guess we're
going to have to go and get him some And
so that's what Selman was all about. They went to
get the president some power. So what I'm saying to
you is that as a voice for Georgia, as a
member of the United States Senate, I'm going to fight
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for you every single day. But it's really not about
the people in power. It's about the power that's in
the people. John Lewis understood that. Amelia Boynton, who stood
up on that same bridge and was gassed. We don't
say the women's names often enough. She understood that. Joseah
Williams understood that. I understand it. Stay in the fight.
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And all of your friends who say, well, it doesn't
matter whether you vote or not, because that's the other
thing they're trying to tell you.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
It doesn't matter, your vote won't count. Your vote counts,
and they know it.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
That's why they're busy trying to Jerryman the districts and
do everything they can to discourage it.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
We will not be discouraged.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
We're going to send a love and hope, and we're
going to remember our ancestors who had no reason to
believe that they could win, but they kept fighting a
good fight anyway.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
So let me just ask you.
Speaker 10 (21:22):
It's easy for me to trade in my back, as
you say, because I got good company, insurance, My kids
aren't snap. But these you know, I'm concerned that you know,
Trump thinks and the Republican thinks that the Dems will
cave because you know, we're upset about people not getting
food on the table, not having insurance.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Is it possible that the Dems will cave?
Speaker 6 (21:45):
Look, we're in the fight right now, and I'm on
I'm on the line because I need people to stand
with me and to understand what the fight is all about.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
These these issues are not simple.
Speaker 6 (21:58):
I don't like to see hunger children, but I also
don't like to see people finding their healthcare unaffordable.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
And so I'm going to keep on making the case.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Wow, ah, man, I know it's uh a lot.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
If you could predict and look in a crystal ball,
when do you think that the government shut down would
be over. And do you think that the Republicans will
come to the table like in uh, where's the breaking point.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
In all these I can tell you that they are
feeling the heat because here's the thing, ricky folks are
folks are couching this as a fight between the Democrats
and Republicans.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Here's the irony.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
Guess who needs really needs these ACA tax credits?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Who guess who's on the Affordable.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
Carer More Republicans than Democrats, More Republicans than independents.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Guess who know who needs these these snap benefits.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
They're particularly needed in these rural areas. It's the red
districts in joy Orgia and red districts all across our
country that are being especially hard hit. I know for
a fact that some of my Republican colleagues want to
fix this because they're hearing from their own constituents. And
so I'm going to keep on fighting a good fight.
(23:16):
And look, we know that in politics we don't never
get everything that we want. But the Republicans need to
come to the table. Here we are in the midst
of this fight, and the House hasn't been the work
in six weeks. They've put work requirements on Medicaid recipients.
If they put those same requirements on themselves, they wouldn't
(23:38):
have healthcare right now because they're refusing to even come
to work, let alone come to the table. Why because
they don't want to vote on the esteem files. They're
more focused on protecting pedophiles than they are on protecting
your health care, more focused on protecting pedophiles than protecting
hungry children who are are being dragged into this fight.
(24:02):
And so again, I'm going to keep centering to people.
I'm going to pray with my h lips as well
as my legs, as an African proverb that says, when
you pray, move your feet, So wherever you are, move
your feet.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Check on your neighbors.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Let's stand together, do everything we can for each other,
and let us not give in to those who are
trying to weaponize to spare. When we fight, we win.
If we don't fight, we don't win. So I'm going
to keep on fighting a good fight.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Ladas a center, y'all giving up a center to rep one.
Hey man, we love you and God bless you, God
love you.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Up something about it
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