The Love Movement Podcast

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Uh money minded Toory Capri and the Hottae Goddess lady
Z with us, and we have DLD in the house,
Laydon Scott, Wander Wade and d Wade deny it and
uh they're gonna explain to us their program. But before
we get into that, we got a few things we
want to announce. I want to shout out to the
Finley family. God bless you, Uh lost Antoine and that's tough.

(00:24):
That's tough, and uh services will be coming up soon,
so we'll let y'all know when they are.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
And then we want to thank Marda.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Scott apostle, my dear Scott, his love, his love is amazing.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
He did that show.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Matter of fact, they had Fantasia and uh Anthony Hamilton
down at the UNI uh at the Union One Arena
uh last week, so they had some fun. And then
we want to give a shout out to our sponsor,
Station Cafe. Stacey got daily specials yesterday Monday, she had Hamburger's. Yesterday,

(01:01):
she had ribs. Today, she got beef stroking off. I'm
going over there after the show. I'm letting y'all know,
so she gonna have something for the rest of the
week and we'll do that, and then we want to
talk about Dispensary, which have daily specials as well. They
do vapes, they do the flour, they do the juices,

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and they also do the edible so theay you can
eat there too if you want to so at the
end of the day. And then we got to View
View doing the new happy hour thing three o'clock on
starting on Wednesdays, they do a three o'clock happy hour
and then they do special brunches on Saturday and Sunday,
so you might want to stop over there and see

(01:43):
what they're talking.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
About and tasteful.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
They have a different menu, but if you eat there,
the wings are a dollar, so you can eat as
many wings as you want for a dollar. That's a
good special that they have. So we having fun. And
then we got the Blue Note tonight. It's the step
a Night on some Fridays and Sundays they have house music.
And we just had a nine ball tournament. I love

(02:07):
moving nine ball tournament in Mississippi. Mike won and that's
a that's a great thing.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Guys.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
A lot of guys had fun. We had twenty four
players involved and we're gonna continue to do it, uh
and up to andie, he got a nice little piece
of change.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
I should have asked him for some more. What was
the prize money? Cash three?

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yeah, well you should have showed up. We was gonna
give you a stick and let you just be in there.
But he I think he won about three four hundred
something like that. So I saw, Yeah, I had my
referee shirt on and stuff like that. So and we
got a couple of hot topics. I just want to
talk about real quick.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
This one. Lady.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
I don't know if y'all saw it on my page,
but she said that a lot of women nowadays are
in DPS.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Modern day prostitutes. Now I didn't, I mean she said it.
I just and her question was why do.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
Men have to pay for your uh uh rent or
buy you stuff or whatever just to come visit you
or go out or whatever the case might be.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
And she was serious.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
About it, And so Tina Wesley said, she said, we
all been modern day prostitutes.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
So I thought it was kind of funny. What do
you think about that one?

Speaker 3 (03:34):
I'm gonna ask the married woman, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
You want to know what I think about four fingers
from the mic wander four Fingers from the mic.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yes, what do you think about the m D?

Speaker 4 (03:49):
This was before you got married?

Speaker 3 (03:50):
One, let's it was the before.

Speaker 5 (03:52):
Well, she was saying that them.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
That why do uh men have to pay women to
come to their house or datum or whatever the case
might be. And she say, all theyre doing is being
modern day prostitutes.

Speaker 6 (04:07):
So I'm gonna say I don't agree with that. Okay
the first visit, No, they shouldn't have to.

Speaker 5 (04:14):
But if they are.

Speaker 6 (04:15):
Dating, uh, it's companionship. If you're gonna say I'm dating
with you, it's a give and take. So it's really
not the man just giving. It's just an endless cycle
of giving.

Speaker 5 (04:26):
We're giving, you're giving. It's just.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
What you think.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
Oh I thought you was gonna go to Toya today. Yeah,
I don't agree with that. But at the end of
the day she explained to me what she said again, Well.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
She said that why do men have to pay to
be in your company?

Speaker 1 (04:47):
It's basically what she's saying, why do they have to
pay your rent or why do they have to buy?

Speaker 3 (04:52):
She ain't say nothing about no rent? Now up, Okay,
I'm not listening to it.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
And then I wouldn't have to make it up.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
You have too much going on your page. I can't
read and listen to everything you put up. But I
wouldn't say that I'm asking. I don't ever ask a
man for anything at the end of the day, but
I will say for a woman, it takes a lot
for us to prepare to go out on dates at
the time. You want your woman to look nice once
you step out, depending on what the occasion is. Now,

(05:22):
if it's just a regular date, y'all just going to
eat whatever.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
But if you have if you.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
Have actual plans, it's preparation behind that. And for for us,
it costs a lot more than what it costs y'all
to go get a haircut. Y'all can get a haircut
and y'all look like a totally different means. Again, I
never said that that we're asking to pay for anything,
But at the end of the day, I feel like
a gentleman will offer that should be it kind of

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should be part of the date, like, hey, you know,
I'll give you X amount of dollars get yourself dolled up.
But what it makes it fun at the end of
the day, so it's not so much begging. I wouldn't
begging nobody for nothing. They should want to do it,
but they want to.

Speaker 5 (06:05):
And I've done that.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
I've done that, and that's no problem. I can give a.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Dollars tell you what you think.

Speaker 7 (06:23):
I think the sense of entitlement is where I disagree
with that because women. I think that Tod's point, and
I think you make the same point on similar point,
which is it should it just it should come with it,
meaning a gentleman should want to do certain things, not
going to ask. But when women assume that it should

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it should be given or they're entitled to it, that
I do have a problem with because I can't obligate
anybody to do something for me personally, right.

Speaker 4 (06:56):
I've always been taught as.

Speaker 7 (06:57):
A woman you make your own way, and if a
man chooses to do something for you, that's great, and
you definitely don't lose points for wanting to do something
for a woman. But I don't obligate anybody to do
anything for me.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
That makes sense, make a lot of sense.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
You gotta pay the play.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
You are MDT whatever they call.

Speaker 7 (07:21):
What I'm saying, and that you have that choice. If
that's your desire, you got to pay the play. That's
your decision if you have a choice, but a man
should not. I don't obligate anybody to do anything for me.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
I understand that. I understand that. Well, hot toctic.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
Is over with you, ain't you ask them? Okay, gentlemen,
what is your thoughts on that? Well?

Speaker 8 (07:50):
My thought is it's reciprocal, all right. You do for
somebody and they do. If I come.

Speaker 4 (07:57):
Over and I give you money, do you make dinner?
Do all that? It's reciprocal, just like going out on
the date. You know, it's reciprocal. It's not just I'm
paying for this.

Speaker 8 (08:06):
Now if if if I'm paying to come over to
see you and we're doing something strictly on that, then
it is an M.

Speaker 4 (08:12):
D P or whatever it is, then that's what it is,
you know.

Speaker 8 (08:15):
But if we're hey, a conversation, I'm gonna come over,
I'm gonna make you then I'm gonna do this, all right,
and I'm gonna bring the wine.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
I'm gonna do it. We both both doing all right.
So that's a fair change.

Speaker 8 (08:25):
That ain't no robbery there, all right, But if you're
paying for it, you're getting robbed right there.

Speaker 9 (08:33):
I think it's to his point, you know, finding that
common ground. I think the biggest part is this something
having truth, so no one's playing no games. If it's
gonna be that, it is that.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
You know, but we.

Speaker 9 (08:44):
Grew up in high school. What's the song. Ain't nothing going.

Speaker 10 (08:48):
On but the rent, they say, But yeah.

Speaker 9 (09:00):
I think lngs there's respect, you know, there's a truth,
and you know you're direct. It is what it is.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah, And she was kind of saying that the Internet
has changed how relationships and stuff go, and you know,
I was like into what she was saying. But some
of the stuff I didn't agree with because I mean
there's an age difference too, as you get older and
you see things a little bit different. The younger people

(09:27):
that's still out here, you know, trying to find their way.
An older person ain't got time for the games. So
it's uh, it's it's fun, but let's get to the
real real deal. D L D one of the I think, Uh,
since I've been doing this and been around organizations and

(09:47):
five oh one c three, you guys are doing some powerful,
incredible stuff. How many kids get an opportunity to learn
how to sell, to learn how to teach them how
to do boating stuff like that? Put gas in a
boat and then you guys are doing trades and tell

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us what this is all about.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
We know that it.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
Came from the uh uh your son being in court
and then you saw a lot of kids that were lost, right.

Speaker 9 (10:16):
Right, so exactly, Well, the first thank you for having
us back again.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
Oh yeah, because you're all doing a marvelous job.

Speaker 9 (10:22):
I think it's great that we have a platform where
we can break bread and you know, share our stories.
But D L D and then we're a team. Everybody's
a team here. We have a platform. We have other
people that are part of our staff that are not here,
but you are jump in as.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
You as you may.

Speaker 9 (10:37):
But D L D dedicating love, determination for you strictly
focusing on our children within our community. It's basically a
reinforcement of going back to the basics, going back to
the basics. You know how it was when we were
coming up and the way you brought your boys up.
It's the same thing. We're in the same thing. We

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had marvelous all of that stuff.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
For the kids.

Speaker 9 (11:02):
And the thing is a diversion program. It's a diversion
program to get down on their level, to listen to them.
And then we have different subjects of different classes, from
disaster training, preparing them for you know, the inevitable emergency.
But the biggest part is the identity, especially with our
young boys, because when they hit the neighborhood, they need

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to be clear that there are hidden land mines where
people want to take you out and everyone's not your friends.
So as we then did well in life, we show
them how to navigate. Uh a couple of classes, I
run right.

Speaker 4 (11:37):
Through you, okay.

Speaker 8 (11:43):
So one of those classes that we did we did
finance classes. All right, we're teaching the kids about financing,
how to budget, how to separate your money, how to
create a bank for yourself. You know, how to invest money,
how to give money, set aside money to help other people.
Your money is yours, but you have to open your

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hand and help other people. If you want something to
come back to, you got to give it out if
you want to come back. So we taught them that.
We did a class automotive class where we took them
and we taught them how to check or on the car,
how to check all the fluids, how to change the tire.
We taught these kids that stuff because all their parents
have cars. Their mother and a lot of our single

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mother kids. So if your mother on Sundays, we told
them Sundays today, you go out, you check your mama's oil,
you know, you check her tires, you make sure her
car is straight for her to drive all week. And
the kids pick up on that, and it's stuff that
nobody's ever showed them. So those are things that when
we were growing up, you know, we were shown these things.
So it kind of gets loss from generation to generation

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because the information isn't passed on the same We assume
that our kids know a lot of things that they
just don't know, and then.

Speaker 9 (12:52):
We upgrade when we look at the STEM classes. We
had STEM classes where the kids are learning how to
build their planes and work in apps through the where
being prepared. Conflict resolution is the big one. To keep
the vilence down, You shut him down. How do you
solve a problem? How do you know, break bread with
your friends so that you don't end up at in
a situation of violence. So we see a deduction in that.

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We have a little model, you know, find a friend,
not a fight when they come in, so they socializing.
The cell phones go off, everybody communicating and it's a
good time. I like particularly the aviation program LA one.
If you want to talk about the aviation program or
what we did.

Speaker 6 (13:32):
Okay, So with the aviation program, one of our students,
it was at our graduation ceremony, how you end of
the session, his aunt came and her name is Tiffany Tinni.
She's on social media, but she works for the FAA.

Speaker 5 (13:50):
So you never know who's in your presence.

Speaker 6 (13:53):
So after we finished the graduation, she said, I want
to do a program for you. At the time, I
was just like, I can't. I said, okay, let's talk offline.
But I never knew what program she wanted to do
with us. So a few weeks later we talked about it,
and man, did she bring it? A two day seminar

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with our youth on aviation and share with them the
number of jobs at the airport. If I get it wrong, Tiffany,
forgive me, but I think it's sixteen different jobs before
you get to board your plane. Before you get to
board your plane. You don't need a degree. There's a
program there. So she talked about that.

Speaker 4 (14:36):
So that was really really cool.

Speaker 5 (14:38):
That was really cool.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, I could imagine you guys, and when I see
you on the on the boats and.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
Staring and stuff like that. How did you get into
the boat thing?

Speaker 9 (14:50):
Well, the boat is again exposing them to the thirty first
Street harbor. We have friends that are out there that
have their boats. But you know, we want to get
our children where it's exposure wh and see. And we
generated a program. Now I'm gonna tell you that came
from my wife here of Lauan. She created that program
with some friends.

Speaker 6 (15:06):
So I cannot take credit for that. That was Jerry
and Lawana and they were at a fundraiser for Shuryl
we coll Reine. She has a foundation called wee gen
Z and they went to the fundraiser and Lewana really
really after she heard Huryl's vision, Renee's vision, she said,

(15:30):
I want to introduce you to Wanda from DLD for Youth.
And that's how that connection comes. It takes a village
and that's how that connection came. So our children at
the time they worked five days a week, four hours
a day at fifteen dollars an hour. So the ones
that were fifteen year olds they got work permits. Oh wow,

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at the time, we didn't you know, we didn't have
funding for them to get busing. So I drove them.
I was two shades darker by the end of the summer,
but I would do it all over again because the
first people that I saw with the boat was my
girlfriend Hillary Witherspoon. Theyre ow the Riar Palace and her parents,

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And I'm gonna be honest with you, I grew up
only thinking that white people had home right right. So
when I saw her parents, I was like, I'm taking
them every day. It didn't matter. I wanted them to
have that experience. So that's how the boating came.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
And so how many how many kids do you have
in the program?

Speaker 6 (16:33):
We just finished with twenty five? Just we just finished
the fall class twenty five.

Speaker 9 (16:38):
It was the Academy.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
That was just the academy six week okay, and what
does the academy explain to us?

Speaker 2 (16:45):
How does that work?

Speaker 9 (16:46):
The academy is you want to jump in.

Speaker 8 (16:48):
Here, Well, the Academy is a six week program that
were we every Wednesday we meet and we exposed them
to different topics. Every Wednesday's different topics. We always hit
the foundation. You know of who they are, you know
their manhood and what they stand for, how they protect
their families, what is their job as a young man.

Speaker 4 (17:10):
What is your job in your family?

Speaker 3 (17:11):
All?

Speaker 2 (17:12):
Right?

Speaker 8 (17:12):
Who are you? So we hit that. That's the foundation
every week. Then we go into whatever subject matter that
it is that day. So and that's we roughly run
about two hours.

Speaker 3 (17:22):
And what's the age range with the boys?

Speaker 4 (17:25):
I think the youngest now is what seven?

Speaker 9 (17:27):
Yeah, he's seven.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
You have boys young girls?

Speaker 4 (17:30):
Right how.

Speaker 5 (17:32):
Cayden?

Speaker 6 (17:33):
So the age range for the program is eight to
twenty four. But we have this little one named Cayden
and Cadens show up every week ready, so we're not
going to turn them away.

Speaker 5 (17:46):
And it's just boys. We serve as only young men.

Speaker 9 (17:49):
Yes, it's like three tiers. At the Explorer level ages
eight to twelve. We look at the Pathfinders, which is
thirteen to seventeen. At the end of career, the Career launch,
they're eighteen to twenty four. So it's three different sessions
and we don't have them all together, but we got
them all in their places. Eighteen to twenty four. We're
excited about because now we have some that are in

(18:10):
EMT school and we want to push this first responder
piece where we want to get more police officers, more firefighters.
We want our young men to be employable. The whole
thing we're trying to generate is one hope to a
good education, which is well rounded. It's not just with numbers,
it's just history. It's a whole piece of the educational piece.

(18:34):
And then economical opportunity. You provide an economical opportunity. They
stand off the streets. But it's cap was saying, in
order for them to get into the class session, they
got to recite who they are. So when they ask
the question who are you, they will recite I'm a
leader in the prince and I'm successful. Because we want
them to believe that and understand that that's who you are.
We want to speak life in to our children. And

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the biggest one is the two piece of manhood. What
is manhood? You want to prove and protect. I think
all the brothers here you know that's what we're doing.
We provide it and we're gonna protect it. And at
the end of the day, your goal or your model
far as with life, is to live a life of excellence.
Everything you try to do should be with an excellence
where you're just doing your best, you being your best,

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you're looking your best, you're going for it. So if
you push that into it, the children are the same.
And we've talked about that many times that the children
are the same. It's just the parents. We just need
to feed into them and they follow right in. So
cell phones go off, social media goes off, we go
back to the basics.

Speaker 8 (19:31):
And also, society itself is different from when we grew up. Society,
you know, technology is so many different things and so
many different pitfalls that our kids have to maneuver now
that we just didn't have to maneuver. And as the
and we are the seniors now, c be we' the
seniors now and as the elders the seniors, we have

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to understand that it's not the same as.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
It was for us.

Speaker 8 (19:56):
So we have to approach them a little different because
what worked for us though this sard worked for them
all right. And uh, the other thing I want to
add about the programs and things we'd done was last
night we actually had speak a Welch.

Speaker 9 (20:07):
In the house.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
Did awesome job.

Speaker 8 (20:12):
We really really appreciate him coming and talking with the
kids and speaking life into the kids and really seeing
their eyes light up and just really open up when
he was speaking and explaining, and they found out that
he was right here from the community. All that just
really opened their mind up to what they could become.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
Yeah, he was in Channel seven News yesterday to the Welch.
Yeah he was he and he he gave him a
little history. Now, tell us about the scholarships. Tell us
how that how that program worked that you guys have.

Speaker 6 (20:45):
So today we've almost we've probably given almost five thousand
dollars in scholarships for youth to help them further their education.
We are not the end all be all, but we
want to be there to help when we can. So
that's why we boosted the ground for sponsorships, fundraising and

(21:08):
being able to pour back into our youth. But it's
they're graded based upon their attendance, their participation, you know, engagement.
You can't come to class and just sit there. And
as Captain Scott has Leyton said, when Speaker Welch was
there last night, those young men.

Speaker 5 (21:28):
Just kept asking questions.

Speaker 6 (21:30):
They kept asking questions because they know how they're graded
and they're great. So we try to, like I said,
whenever we can, we do, but we really really try
to step in and fill in the gap a little
bit and helping the parents with their child further in
their education.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
Now, are all of the kids rewarded the scholarship or
do they have to apply for discussion?

Speaker 6 (21:56):
So again, not all of the kids, because we can't
even afford it.

Speaker 5 (22:00):
But we do what we can do.

Speaker 6 (22:02):
But they are graded upon the number of years, the
retention in the program, and their engagement in the program,
their attendance, engagement, attendance. Well are you listening to the
Conard and Layton? Are you really really listening? Is it
resonating in your soul? Because it's important for us. We

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want them to take what happens in this classroom outside
of the classroom.

Speaker 5 (22:29):
But not only that.

Speaker 6 (22:31):
We do parent university because they can give them all
the education they want. But if they go home and
we're teaching them, they're teaching them to save and mama
got the LIFs turned off, it defeats the purpose. So
we try to create a family atmosphere and generate a
legacy of positivity.

Speaker 9 (22:52):
And one of our main pillars is to conduct conduct
and decision making that's going to keep them out of trouble.
So I'm on discipline, discipline, being self control, not punitive,
and we teach them how to deal with the stresses
you know, so if that conduct piece is there and
then you're attentive, you're showing up all the time, there's
a stifen that will be rewarded to you, all right,

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And that's basically how life works. You put into work,
you get the rewards and most times, so that's what
you want to kind of gear them towards that path. Hey,
work hard and good things happen.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yeah, we had the Badge program coming up, and we
used to you guys used to assist us and stuff.
And now time is gone. I've been left left there
twenty thirteen. Now, you guys, we need to find Tell
the people who you are, Laton, tell them what you
do and how long you've.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
Been at the fire department.

Speaker 4 (23:47):
Well, I'm a one, a lifelong Maywell resident.

Speaker 8 (23:51):
I've been on the fire department for thirty seven years now.
I am also on districating nine school board. Yeah, as
well as the DoD that I do and other things
that I do throughout the community. You know, I just
try to get in, fit in help where I can.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
And that I mean, that's he's he's being minus right now.
That's okay.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
I get it. I get it because he's been doing
it forever.

Speaker 9 (24:14):
Uh Thenard Way Senior lifelong resident the Villager. Maywood been
with the fire department as a fire captain now for
thirty two years, but actually a little longer because you know,
I used to volunteer back.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
See that's just the funny.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
So they used to have these these uh little little sets.
They had little sessions where they had to roll up the.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
Fire hose and all of that and all of the game.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
He was in high school, and the guys on the
firing partably.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
Couldn't beat here. And that was the funny thing about it.
We would get that call man.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
Then I went over there and told him, boys, man,
the firement be over there. Draw boy, come over here.
So that was the fun part about it. But you
was intuits. I think that's that's that's a plaus to
you because you're.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
Into this program and this program is it's good. Now.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
How about the parents, How did the parents? How do
you work with the parents?

Speaker 9 (25:18):
How do we work with the parents the way we
work with the parents? First of all, like ladies saying,
we're we're in the stage now where we're elders. A
lot of the people we coach back in the days
now they're the head coaches, so we partner with them.
So it's the support. I think one of the biggest things.
You don't just come in hard pointing you need to
do this, you need to do that, you need to
do that now, start by listening on where they're at,

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all right, find that common ground, and then start building
pillars from that. But the end of the day, when
you have parents that are trying to save their sons,
we literally literally have parents come and help me with
my son. He has a behavioral problem. I'm like, okay,
let's you know here everything that you have to say,
but it's important to feel how he feels. So let
us have him for mama, and we're gonna find out

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what's going on. And then we find there's some other
things that take place, and we make those adjustments that
just to be a supplement to the home, because it's
a village, our whole thing. It's about a village, you know,
it's not just we're not the end all be all.
We don't have all the answers with to share those
things that have taken place with me. I have three
grown boy well they're men now, and we just passed

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those traditions down and it's like we're running in the
fire service, right. I'm a product of the community. I
was following y'alls, following Larry. I was following all those
older guys that were teaching us, and they told us,
you need to be better than us, and this is
what we pass on to the youngsters. You need to
be better than us, and this is how you do it.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
We had a lot of little situations, especially with the residency.
A lot of people, you know, that would coming to
the village as a village employee, but they didn't.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
Want to live in the village.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
And at that time we had it was mandatory for
you to live in the village. Well, they kept moving there,
kept changing that, and whatever the case might be. Now
nobody has to live here. So now you don't get
the same thing. But what y'all doing, I command you
because y'all right here and you're saying, okay, this is

(27:16):
our commit and you taking ownership of what you what
you're going through, and it's and it's so positive and
so powerful because you're changing lives. You're not just sitting
here doing nothing. You're changing lives. And you got you
got their attention, You got their attention. And I'm watching everything,
you know, and just to make sure that we do

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what we're supposed to do.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
We got to give people like you a platform so
you can.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
Explain your story, so you could tell your story because
a lot of people don't know this. Now, how do
the kids get involved with dl D?

Speaker 9 (27:52):
That's that's just simple. If they get online, if they
see us in the street, they see us at the school,
were here. We're here and available, you know if that
that's very easy far as well. We're accessible. I think
the work comes in the other party being consistent to
come in and stay on the course.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
You know.

Speaker 9 (28:09):
So we're accessible. We're here.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
Now do you have you say? Every Wednesday?

Speaker 9 (28:14):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (28:15):
What time? What's the time?

Speaker 9 (28:17):
Six d eight at the Mayle Public Library. We're right there,
but I wouldn't be home. I'll be remiss if I
don't mention my wife. You know, this is my high
school sweetheart since nineteen eighty.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Five when they asked about me.

Speaker 9 (28:29):
Because if I leave out of here, you don't say
nothing about me. Right here, this is.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
What Yeah, she was a young woman. I was a
police working at the bank.

Speaker 8 (28:43):
Yes, listen, I can't get in trouble now. I can't
be the one only one.

Speaker 9 (28:47):
In the room in trouble.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
I put you on the spot, and.

Speaker 11 (28:51):
You, my wife backbone, help shout and support a lot
of the things that I do, and I'm able to do.

Speaker 4 (29:01):
It's because she is understanding.

Speaker 8 (29:04):
Because when I'm away from home doing helping other people,
it's taken away.

Speaker 4 (29:08):
From home and so and she supports it.

Speaker 8 (29:11):
So you know, I couldn't be all the places I
am without her supporting it.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
And that when we used to do the Mate with
Police party, Christ's Party, everybody used to come from all over. Man,
We had people come from all over and you guys
were as a couple and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
And then eventually got married.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
It was one of the happy feeling for us for
that day because we gave back to the community and
we did everything with the Bash program. We gave back
to the community, Police night out, we gave back to
the community. Cook we feed everybody you have to want
for nothing or whatever the case might be.

Speaker 2 (29:48):
And you guys are keeping that.

Speaker 9 (29:50):
Tradition going and we salute you. And to your point,
we never really feared the police unless she was doing
something wrong, you know, because they cared for us because
them brothers were for the community with baseball coaches. They
were involved. But if you got out of line, they're
gonna let you know.

Speaker 8 (30:07):
But that's goes to that residency piece. They lived in
the community. Yes, they were your neighbors. They were you know,
your family friends, and they were the people who looked
out for you, would stop you before you got in trouble.

Speaker 4 (30:20):
It was preventing it.

Speaker 8 (30:22):
They were you know, proactive to things what they would see,
not reactive to it. So and that makes a difference.
If you can stop something from happening before it happens,
it's easy to get in trouble and hard to get out.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
Yeah, they say it a lot of lives. Man, Is
there any one.

Speaker 7 (30:39):
Child or young man that you that resonates with you
all as far as the evolution that they've made with
being in the program, Is there one active or one
who's been in the program and now onto other things?

Speaker 5 (30:54):
Is there any come back?

Speaker 9 (30:57):
So we got Brandon is still with the program, We
got Braxton that the moved on.

Speaker 8 (31:01):
Tyree is the one that really really resonates with me
the most because Tyree is a special kid. Okay, Tyree's
about twenty four now twenty five, but he's still in
the program. And Tyree faithfully works in Bellwood. He has
a job, he does all these things, but he still
comes back. He's still whatever we need, he's there. And

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I don't care wherever you go, you're gonna see him.
He is just one of those kids that's always out
and he's a young man. Say kid, he's a young
man now, but he's always around. He's always helpful when
he's always pleasant, very very very nice young man.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
Well, y'all did something to attract him, and you put
a different thought process in his head, and he don't
want to be around that negative, right, He want to
better be around something positive. And since you said that
about the officers living in Maywood, what attracted me to
Maywood when I came here back in late seventies. They

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was a proud town back then. They were very proud. Uh,
they were glad to be for you had, uh mister
folks and Charlie gunn.

Speaker 9 (32:15):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
You had all of those people.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
And when I look at him, they were proud to
live and maybe with a majority black town where they
had the horsemen and they had I remember one of
the guys, Larry Ivy, I think his name was.

Speaker 2 (32:29):
They had the fire next door with the paint.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
Store next door to the horse because he was on
top of the he was on top of the b
horsemen making sure the fire didn't get there.

Speaker 4 (32:40):
He was spreading.

Speaker 9 (32:43):
The whole block and so and it.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
Was a proud town.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
And we used to go and Pete would serve us
and stuff like that that the horseman after work and
they were talking I got a chance to talk to
Grady Rivers about he cried one day. He was talking
about how guard Glenn substituted for guard when they was
playing for Provisois because Gar was a good basketball player himself,

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and they were proud and then you couldn't get in
the gym, understanding if you don't get there by halftime
of the sophomore game, it was over with.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
And those was back in the day, very proud town.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
Glenn tells a story that they had a race riot
and the police was on both sides of the streets
and the Blacks was on one side, whites was on
the other side. This was in nineteen sixty nine, and
what brought them back together is they won the state championship.
And you know, those stories are told and I'm just

(33:46):
sitting there, man, I was just like whoa. We This
is good news because where I come from, we had
a neighborhood, but we didn't.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
Have a community. Maybwood has always been a community because.

Speaker 1 (33:59):
Every body, everybody was involved. So that's one of the
things that attracted me to Maywood. And I'm saluting you
guys because you're still here and you're still doing but
you know some.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
Of us used to do.

Speaker 1 (34:12):
I just switched it up a little bit, got get
a platform to bring other people in and say, hey, man,
what you doing.

Speaker 4 (34:19):
Well, I always say, stay in the fight. Yeah, we're
still in the fight.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
There.

Speaker 8 (34:23):
You gonna stay in the fight. And you just hey,
you're just fighting a different way. You're still in the fight.
So yeah, you have to evolve. You can't keep doing
what you've been doing, right, you have to do something different.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
You're wrong.

Speaker 8 (34:32):
So now your voice is in the air, it's on
the neck worldwide.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
Yeah, I think I feel.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
About the evolution now, I mean Maywood is I feel
like it's getting back to what you guys have just explained.
So how do you feel about the new changes?

Speaker 9 (34:50):
And I feel good about the changes. We're moving in
the right direction where we're tracking and it's an everybody effort.
Everybody has to be involved. That's the big piece. And
then you have to bring that positive energy. Then I'm
big on truth. It is what it is. If there's
a problem, we need to adjust it. If there's something good,
let's keep repeating the process and keep growing and developing.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
Well, you guys lucky because you got a young man
that's very intelligent. And I told him when he came in,
I said, listen, they can challenge your age, but they
can't challenge your knowledge. Absolutely, he's very intelligent. He's very smart.
He's making some good moves. He's gonna hit some bumps
in the road. That's being in the game. We gonna

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hit bumps in the road being in the game.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
So but it's very.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
Important that that that that people understand that you guys
are serious about what you're doing. And just to show
you you you got full circle. Now you having a
big program coming up there and this is I was like,
I was lucky to be there last year.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
I was like, yeah, man, we're finna do it.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
So tell us how we got into the program. What
tell us what happened.

Speaker 12 (36:00):
For you to start the what happened for us to
start or it's a part of the journey when you
have a five oh one C three and this mandatory
that you fundraised.

Speaker 6 (36:16):
If you're going and you're applying for grants, what are
you doing? This is your why, this is your mission.
So even these two they came out work me with
this deal. I don't play about it, especially because.

Speaker 5 (36:33):
It was my son in that courtroom.

Speaker 6 (36:36):
It was me that saw all of you know women
are emotional, that's me and all of those young men
that I saw going in and out of court. And
we made a vow a pack that we would make
a difference. Now, once we made that pack, I told God,
I will work to the end to serve you, to

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make a difference.

Speaker 5 (36:58):
So that's how that starts.

Speaker 2 (37:00):
Heard it.

Speaker 6 (37:00):
But man, you got a fundraise, So that's where this
came in.

Speaker 5 (37:04):
And this year is our big fifth.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
Okay, okay, so tell us about it.

Speaker 6 (37:16):
This year, this is what you up against. You are
up against. It's a day party, it's not at night.
We changed the time, uh new venue the Carlisle Banquet
Hall and Lombard.

Speaker 5 (37:30):
Open bar, open bar.

Speaker 6 (37:37):
But more importantly you will get a chance to meet
the youth and the parents. This year we celebrating, but
we always it's nothing like really seeing the impact this
program is making. So after we hear all that, we're
gonna celebrate. But there is a big announcement that will

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come out.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
You know, y'all, y'all always having a wet We got.

Speaker 6 (38:03):
A big announcement that will come out at the pre
holiday party with the Purpose, and if you're there, purchase
your ticket you'll get.

Speaker 5 (38:13):
A chance to see it. But there's a huge announcement.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
But that's awesome. That's awesome. So it's on November twenty.

Speaker 6 (38:20):
Yes, November to twenty second, from two pm to seven
pm again at the Carlist Banquet Hall and Lumbard right across.

Speaker 5 (38:29):
From by myur ladies.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
Very nice.

Speaker 6 (38:31):
We already know what that is. The tickets are one
hundred and twenty five dollars. Now I share with you
we have a new venue, a new time, we have
open bar.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
This year.

Speaker 6 (38:42):
Our prices did not increase. Well that was huge for me.
I just didn't have it in me. And when we
finished with the party with the Purpose last year that
probably that Monday, I was already out searching for a
venue to keep the price that would give us more,
even more but the same price.

Speaker 5 (39:03):
But man, I totally forgot.

Speaker 6 (39:07):
Y'all know Simon Green, Oh yeah, come on now, y'all
see her.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
At thee when she first.

Speaker 5 (39:13):
Started the fifteenth Walbash.

Speaker 6 (39:18):
Simon Green has been with us since the beginning. She
called me, am I there this year?

Speaker 5 (39:24):
Yes, you is? Have you all seen her body? Have
you seen her.

Speaker 6 (39:29):
Catting up? She has lost weight, She looks phenomenal and
she is ready to bring it. And we have DJ
big Woo. Y'all know, wool.

Speaker 5 (39:40):
Y'all family.

Speaker 1 (39:48):
We didn had about all y'all family on the wage
for some reason or another, y'all doing some phenomenal things.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
We really appreciated.

Speaker 3 (39:59):
IG so many ways. I didn't know who I was
supposed to be. I had boxes like you got be
Is this a song that you speak of?

Speaker 2 (40:09):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (40:10):
That was these that mom? They tagged me. But I'm
sharing the post, but I know they meant it for Dad.

Speaker 5 (40:19):
So respectful though.

Speaker 9 (40:20):
I appreciate. But we just want to have this, you know,
a wonderful environment. Our seniors, they they're rooting for so
it's more accessible for them during the day. And it's
just a switch. It's a switch of time about your sings.

Speaker 3 (40:32):
That's good for me.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
And your your your your staff. Do they make it
easy for you?

Speaker 4 (40:41):
Absolutely not do any of this without a staff.

Speaker 8 (40:48):
Now we do me and do not do the easy
part to me dealing with the kids, and that that's easy.
All the other stuff they do, man, all the things
that happened behind the scenes. People just you wouldn't be
able to imagine all the stuff that goes on. And
if we didn't have a team, we couldn't do it.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
With shout out to you.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
Staff share their names with us.

Speaker 6 (41:13):
All right, let me let me just start because it's
it's long, because you wouldn't believe it, and this is
where you truly.

Speaker 5 (41:19):
Know we can't do it all.

Speaker 6 (41:21):
So I'm gonna start with and some of them when
the staff volunteers in here too. Dinard Waite, the second Korean, Wade,
Darius Wade, Ashley Wade, Demetrious Way. We have Natalie Pettigrew,
we have Stacy Kroud, we have Nova Mindes, we have
Mony Cudson. We have I said Natalie pettro Grew. We

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have June Scott. We have Alan Adies. He's in he
comes back from time to time too, but he's in
EMT school. And did I said Nova? I said Poo
Mony Cudson, Mony Cudson, let me Tammy Wade.

Speaker 5 (42:01):
So did you all hear all of that?

Speaker 6 (42:03):
And I'm telling you everybody plays a role. And I'm
even saying my mother is trying to put stamps on
Envalope envelopes.

Speaker 5 (42:12):
Let me know what I gotta do that it takes.
It's a lot of us.

Speaker 6 (42:17):
We come in the tribe and we come strong to
be able to reach everybody with excellent.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
Your own program too, with the volleyball.

Speaker 5 (42:26):
And correct Destiny.

Speaker 12 (42:27):
Yes we're gonna have them on the show too, Yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 9 (42:33):
But with team the acronym together, everyone achieves more. If
we work on that platform of working together like a
line dance sequence, it's a beautiful, eloquent thing. So that's
that's what we do. We all work together. It's a team.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
You did. This is your program.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
And I just think it's because I get I get
excited when I see people doing positive stuff.

Speaker 9 (43:01):
But it kind of salute you. Come on, man, you
got your boys to come in here. You don't, you
don't work with the Maywoop PD man. You in influence
a lot of people out there, CV, and you know.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
That I appreciate you.

Speaker 9 (43:14):
Save lives bro a lot of lot of lives and
you want on the basis of you know, law enforcement
nowadays they want to lock up brothers left and right.

Speaker 2 (43:24):
Not.

Speaker 9 (43:24):
You sit them down, he'll talk to them and get
in them. You straighten them out, and they'll come and
tell you they think them all the time.

Speaker 1 (43:31):
You know.

Speaker 9 (43:31):
We started hanging out the certain blocks over there, the
six hundred block.

Speaker 1 (43:36):
Yeah. See, you know when we when I came up,
I came up on the West side of Chicago, and
it was a different element. So when I tell y'all
that this is a community, maybe it's a community. That's
what I mean. I lived in the neighborhood. We was
on the block, and we didn't have a community of
positive things because seventy five percent of the people where
I lived there was in some kind of drugs or

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whatever the case might be, alcohol, we cocaine, whatever they
were doing and that's just that's how we live. When
I came out here, it was you had that element too,
but it was not like that.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
Yeah. So but uh and I.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
Appreciate it because this listen, Mayweard gave me my ex wife,
gave me my job, my livelihood.

Speaker 2 (44:25):
I had four boys that was in Maywood.

Speaker 1 (44:28):
Two of them played baseball and then they eventually went
with their mother to Donalds Grove and the Shannon and Sterling
born raised everything right here.

Speaker 9 (44:38):
Everything.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
So they went to school, graduated scholarship. Seem I'm a
blessed man because I couldn't afford where they went to school.
They would have been over it, Triton or somewhere like
that or somewhere else. But you go to Michigan State
and you go to SMU and uh there's challenges even
in that, you know, uh, life after basketball, yes, so

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there's challenges into that. So you never stopped being a father.
You never stopped being a father. And with their challenges
or whatever the case might be, we still sit down
and talk.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
That's right, you know, and you gotta work it out.
You gotta figure it out.

Speaker 9 (45:15):
Figured out.

Speaker 1 (45:16):
I did my part and it's your term, so you know,
just being that. But I love Maywood man because Maywood
gave me more life.

Speaker 2 (45:23):
Man.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
Really, I mean, you don't get you don't get that
like that. You I mean, somebody thought enough of me.
Uh what was the old man, Henry Henry?

Speaker 2 (45:34):
Uh, he thought enough of me to put me to
tell me take the test.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
Take the test, and then when the test came up,
I flunk, so I had to take the tests again again.
I can't take mister Henry's name, but he led on thirteenth.

Speaker 2 (45:57):
Yeah, twelve, Yeah, hear me playing.

Speaker 1 (46:01):
He gave me that opportunity, him and uh Trusty mckinna
at that time, and then they was on the police board.
So I got an opportunity, and I'm grateful. But what
makes me more grateful.

Speaker 9 (46:12):
Is y'all still doing it, man, You still.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
I mean we Larry Conner, Corey Cooper, all of them,
you know, they laid the foundation because we had those kids.
We had almost one hundred kids, and we had them
in different gyms, have them doing different things, half of
them outside playing football, the other three and they all
occupant all three gyms.

Speaker 9 (46:35):
So I remember Tenth Park when you brought you didn't
just have your sons. You had those that what you
had de Brown, you had all of them.

Speaker 6 (46:44):
Can I can I just stop in and say something
because she is kind of we spoke about people on
the team, though she is not on a team. I
would be remiss to not mention her name is Cassandra
Res and she will step in and help she's nursing school,
but she helps with the tutoring on the EMT and

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so I didn't want to forget about her because though
she's behind the scenes, it's a lot of people that
you don't see up front, but she steps into health
from time to time.

Speaker 5 (47:14):
When she can.

Speaker 1 (47:15):
All right, So November twenty second, November Carlole Lombard, Yes, sir,
two to seven, good times, great, great day up with
day party I'll be good about So I love a
good day party. So anything else, y'all want to lead

(47:35):
the people with anything that you want to say to
encourage your kids to come here out on Wednesday nights.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
From sixty eight.

Speaker 8 (47:44):
Okay, well, I think we need to start off with
we are actually that Wednesday night session.

Speaker 6 (47:51):
Is ending, but they can still go onto DLD for
Youth and DOT or d l D the number four
Youth DOT or the sign up because we do have
a waiting list so to get in for the next session.

Speaker 8 (48:08):
No, no, that was that's okay, because I was gonna say,
because we're preparing for this party with a purpose. So
right now we're getting ready to focus. We got what
the graduation. Let's talk about this graduation we got coming up.

Speaker 6 (48:18):
So we on Sunday for our students, it's very important
that we celebrate them. So this Sunday TMJJ, we're celebrating
our students going through this, and we celebrate them after
every class session, every because it's nothing like recognition and
it makes them feel proud, and Dinard and Layton make

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them feel proud, and you know, so that's what we're doing.
That's our little ceremony for them that we have after such.
That's this Sunday, and that's at it's from two to five.
It's private, but you want to show up, y'all, come
on in and see what is see what.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
We really really gonna come in there on Wednesday night
one day.

Speaker 5 (49:06):
Come on in.

Speaker 9 (49:08):
I think we're gonna have a field trip. We got
to talk to them offline.

Speaker 4 (49:13):
I Maywood.

Speaker 8 (49:15):
You brought up a point about Maywood and talking about
how it was and what's going on now. We're talking
about what's going on now. And one of the things
that I noticed is that there was a point in
time in Maywood, like the people that were there, like
you mean, from the seventies, sixty seventies on, we saw
it when it was way up. We saw it when
it went down and hit the bottom right and now
it's going back up. But there's a lot of negative

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connotations with Maywood and people do it because for some reason,
people on the outside don't want to see us grow.
But we've been at the bottom and were on the
way up and there's nothing you can do about it.

Speaker 4 (49:50):
But what I don't like is when.

Speaker 8 (49:52):
People always, when we got some positive going on, somebody
always has to throw in something negative and old, you know,
and not really pay attentions what's going on now. You
can always talk about how bad it got and how
bad it was, but are we trying to be a
part of the problem or part of the solutions, you know,
And it's all about just hacks you and everything that
went on.

Speaker 4 (50:11):
You got nothing positive to say.

Speaker 8 (50:14):
You know what the streets used to be to k
but you're looking at them being fixed now, but you
still want to complain about but they.

Speaker 2 (50:19):
Was toe up.

Speaker 4 (50:20):
Come on, you know, think about your town.

Speaker 8 (50:23):
If you love the town, then say speak something positive
out of your mouth if you love the town.

Speaker 4 (50:28):
If you don't, then keep your negativity going. But the
good positive spirit.

Speaker 8 (50:32):
Is gonna always win, and we're gonna show people in
the next few years, how much this changes, how good
this town is going to get back to and everybody
gonna come flocking back, and we're gonna welcome you anyway.

Speaker 1 (50:47):
And that you said in mouth food right there, I
think we could close on that because that makes so
much sense. I mean, even opening the gym when I
used to open it Lexidon, and then you y'all could
continue it over Irving and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
We gave we had, We gave the kids a place.

Speaker 1 (51:04):
To be where they could be safe, right and y'all
still doing the same things.

Speaker 2 (51:09):
So I want to salute you guys for for what
you're doing.

Speaker 1 (51:13):
And we really appreciate you guys inviting us to the party,
and we're gonna be there too. And uh, I just
want to say thank you, thank you from the Love
Movement and we appreciate you. And Earl, thank you for
being the best engineer in town.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
And we appreciate you.

Speaker 1 (51:36):
And as we leave, we always say to the kids
and to our fans and to the people out there,
treat people the way you want to be treated and
never give.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
Up the love. Mo, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 8 (51:54):
Just got dressed, need to get into pretty girl day.

Speaker 4 (52:00):
She just want to have fun too, I don't want
a real wand define me how to come through