November 23, 2025 • 60 mins
“B.A.D.D. 2 BUSINESS” is a podcast segment on the Da Crew Podcast network, hosted by Shynen Saffron with co-host Jazzy Younger. The show stands for “Bring A Diverse Discussion to the Business Table” and features honest conversations about business realities, professional growth, and actionable advice for entrepreneurs. Saffron is the primary host, and Jazzy Younger provides additional insights and perspectives.
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Speaker 1 (01:25):
Laguies and gentlemen, May I have your attention please. The
show starts in ten nine, eight, seven, six, five, four
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three two one.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
God, Oh, there we go.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Hello, Hello, Welcome to another episode of Bad to Business.
I am your host, shining side front. I hope everybody
can hear me. If you can, you know, let me
know in the comments. I don't have my fabulous host
Jazzy to kind of keep me on point. But I've
had a lot of stuff going on this evening, so
I'm trying to get ready. So I hope y'all are
(05:57):
ready too. I got some things I wanted to talk
to you about this evening, so come on in. Usually
I have a little, you know, a little warning about
me coming on stage and stuff, but I am trying
to get everything together. Hello, everybody, come in, Come in.
The welcome Matt has been laid down. Okay, so we
(06:19):
are ready. I have I hope you guys can hear me.
It looks like I'm connected correctly. I have a couple
of things to talk to you guys about today. I
gotta be honest. Today is not one of those times
where I am readily.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Available to deliver this message.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
But you know, I'm always available for God, so when
he makes a way for me to do what I
need to do, I'm here so we can hear you. Sorry, hey, Jazzie,
thanks for checking in. Jessie says she couldn't be here
with us today, but she is checking in, and don't
(07:01):
be sorry that you couldn't be here. One thing about
Jazzy is she is doing some things. I can't wait
to check in on Jazzy on some different things going
on and follow up with her. She will be on
the next episode. But my beautiful co host just is
she's obeying the rules and the laws of her journey
(07:21):
right now. So I salute you, Jazzy, and I can't
wait to follow up with you. And I know you
got a beautiful testimony you want to share with everybody,
so that's coming up. But again, I just want to
welcome everybody in. Go ahead and come on in and
let me get ready to talk to you about some
(07:43):
things that I'm not really ready to talk to you about.
This is going to be after following last episode, the
last episode on that to Business of Patient Procrastinator. In
that episode, I learned a lot about myself, you know,
maybe even gave some excuses and some reasons as to
why we do some things right. But we came to
(08:05):
the realization of it doesn't all that means nothing stop it.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
So while I'm in my stop.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
It transitions, I am learning to hunker down and move
forward with some things that I know I need to
move forward with deliver the delivery of messages and all
those things, and making better with my relationships and maybe
even cutting off some. So no longer am I procrastinating
(08:35):
on those things. If you saw my posts, I'm taking
off those procrastination penny loafers and I'm putting on my
successful stilettos. We are ready to move on and step
on to different type of ground. So today, Hello, hello, everybody,
come on in. I want to talk to you guys
(08:56):
about some different things. As you know, again, welcome to
back to business. And as you know, my podcast is
called Bad to Business, which stands for the BA d
D is bringing all diverse discussions to business. We all
have different povs and different opinions about things, and it's
really this podcast is about whether we feel different ways
(09:19):
about things. There's probably still a common ground we can
come to to try to make some type of a
positive change, right, if we can just try to get
past all of our different opinions and feelings about some things.
And one thing that I continue to share is don't
let your feelings get in the way of your purpose. Right,
So let's get out of those feelings, okay, And definitely
(09:44):
in this episode, we're gonna get out of those feelings
and talk about some things that we really need to
have at hand. So I welcome everybody in and I
want y'all to hear what we have going on tonight.
So I'm going to revamp and say all of those
who are just now joining in, Hello, Welcome to Bad
(10:04):
to Business. I am your host, Shining Saffron, and I
have a wonderful show for you.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Today.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
We do not have our lovely co host, Jazzy, but
she is on a journey and we will be checking
in with her later. But tonight we're going to talk
a little bit about it. And if you followed my
link and all those things that I try to highlight
you guys on and keep you updated on, today we're
going to talk about snapped right by Hunger.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
True crime.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I want to kind of talk about and because we
talk about diverse discussions and stuff, The first topic of
conversation is a big one. I've been getting difference of
opinions and diverse discussion about this, and I want to
talk about how this whole thing surrounding the SNAP benefits
and those who are getting them, those who are not,
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and what's going on. I kind of want to talk
about that, and I did not want to make it
a whole issue, right, a whole conversation, but to be honest,
I found that there are some main povs that come
from this.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
There are some main things that we're not thinking about.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
There are people in certain situations that we just don't consider,
and that's what I'm trying to bring to business. Yes,
we all have a difference of opinion, including myself, but
there are some things that we really need to talk
about that are, you know, maybe causing some type of
division in our culture, in our way of loving each
other and our way of supporting each other, that I
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think that we really need to talk about. So without
further ado, I am going to start the conversation talking
on these snap benefits. So the three povs that I
want to bring to the table are about now. My
POV is I am a working class who has received
some snap benefits or some type of government aid. I
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have a caller who I'm hoping that or I'm sorry,
I had a follower who I'm hoping will be a
caller on tonight and give her POV. She is a
non working class receiving benefits. And then we have the
POV from a working class who does not receive benefits.
So what I've learned in this research is the working
class who is not receiving benefits has a very strong
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opinion about anybody else.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Okay, to be honest.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
So they feel like they contribute the most and get
the least.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Right.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
So I'm contributing, I pay my taxes, I do all
these things, and I'm supporting these people who just want
to sit on their butt and do nothing. I'm putting
into a pot that does not give back to me.
Because why when I go to try to apply for benefits,
I'm told I make too much money. I'm told that
I'm not eligible because whatever I don't follow or fall
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under a certain bracket.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Okay, cool.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
So now not only am I upset that I can't
receive the benefits or reap the seeds that I'm sewing.
If you will but I'm upset that the fact that
I have to forcibly contribute to a pot that helps
other people, right, and the research and discussion that I've
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become a part of.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
I have to say, and I did insert myself in
this because it's just something.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
That I believe worth talking about, is that that working
class feels like, you know, I contribute to a pot
of people that have these needs and they soak it
all up. They don't really have the needs. They could
really get out here and do what I'm doing. And
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I contribute to a pot that have these needs and
they waste them.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Right. They're not doing what they're supposed to do with them.
They're not.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
You know, they're just not doing what they're supposed to do.
They're wasting them. In some instances back in the day,
a couple of you may know of people who were
flipping foods that benefits, which means that they were you know,
getting benefits, but they were selling them.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Right.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
So whatever the case, maybe I won't get into all
the nitty gritty and all the you know things I
know about it, because whatever, however you make your business,
is how you make your business.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
But they weren't using it for what they were supposed
to do.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
And so the working class who contributed to the pot
and didn't get any of it, didn't get any.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Benefits of it felt some type of way.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
You're doing all this and you're still sitting at home,
not doing anything you're supposed to do, get your hair,
your nails done, and you talk about it, and it
did happen like that for some folks. In the instance
I'm talking about, you got people the working class who's
contributing to a pot, folks who.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Are not doing anything.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
And if you follow the last if you follow the podcast,
you heard the last episode excuse me, where we talked
about the patient procrastinator who just sits around and kind
of figures out what they need to do and what
they want to do, and they kind of sent around
and do they can kind of sit around and do that.
So you got the working class who shows up. And
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I thought about this one day and I said, you know,
you'll give money. Now this is my POV. I am
the working class receiving benefits when I need them. As
of this point, I do not own rights to food
stamp benefits.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Let me go ahead and say that, but so I
get it.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
You are contributing to a working class who's not doing
their part. And yet you you know, you don't receive
any benefits off of that. You know that this working
class is sitting around they gloat about how they are
not doing anything.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
They made TikTok be real.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
They made TikTok by being at home, not doing anything,
making jokes and making videos about I ain't got no
job and I'm sitting at home collecting this money. Now,
those are the same people that are collecting money and
benefits off of working class people.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
And I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
The statement I was trying to get to is I
made the statement that you'll give more money to people
who sit and play with money, then you'll give to
people who will stand and work for it. Now that's
just my POV now talking to another follower. And like
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I've told y'all, this podcast is about bringing all diverse
discussions to business. You have a chance here when you
talk in the comments and you you know, participate and
you call in or whatever to either change your point
of view or change mind. I feel most I'm feeling
very strongly about what I believe in and what I've
(17:02):
done research in right so, but talking to this follower
and what she brought to the table.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
She is the non working class receiving benefits.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
And you know, like I said, I really hope she
calls in, but if not, I know how she feels.
We've talked enough about it to the point where I
will give her POV. And I feel like it's a
great one, because yes, I stand strongly in how I feel.
I stand strongly in how I work for, what I
work for, all those things, and then when I go
to the grocery store, I don't get the things that
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I want to get. I don't get the things that
I work for for even the smallest and the simplest
things that I may want to purchase. The stores are
cleaned out, and I think that that's where a lot
of us get really touchy feely when the stores are ransack.
Read right, they've been ransacked and run through, and we
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feel like, yeah, those that's the people who didn't work
for anything, get to just ransack the grocery stores.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
So I stayed on that too, But I since I
cannot stand necessarily just with the people who the working
class that did not receive any benefits but paid into
the pot, I can't just stand with them because I
at a point, was at a time where I was
pregnant with a child and working, but I needed help,
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and I went to receive some benefits or I went
to seek aid for at least, can.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
You help me feed my kids? And I'm working.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
So before anybody wants to take a judgment on you,
just tried to get what you could get.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
I was still putting in the pot when I asked
to receive something from the pot.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
And when I asked to receive something from the pot at.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
That time, I was giving four I was given fourteen
dollars in food stamps, pregnant with a two year old,
and have put money in the pot. I think, matter
of fact, let me, let me be all the way truthful.
I think at that time I had been let go wrongfully,
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let go from a job, and I was applying for
food stamps. But I had never applied for unemployment in
my life. And just to not take y'all through the
whole synopsis, it was more so of I had just
lost my job and was like, what do I do.
Gotta feed my daughter and then I'll try to get
another job. And I applied for food stamps and was
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given fourteen dollars, in which I called that man back,
my representative, and I told him, you can go ahead
and take this fourteen dollars. And I believe I said
the nice words of keep it. If I said anything else,
it's not your business, so I probably shouldn't said it,
but I said you can go ahead and keep it,
because at fourteen dollars that you gave me while I'm
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pregnant with a child and no job, that'll probably be
the money I spend, or the gas money I spend
and even go get the food.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
So I'm really not even getting your assistance. So I
stand in that class of.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
I pay to a pot that I couldn't even benefit from, right,
So that's why I stand on my standce of oh
I pay to a pot. Y'all sit back, get your
hair done, your nails done, You make TikTok videos and
you know you ain't got nothing to do, and you
wave it in my face that the pot that I'm
paying into is providing you this lifestyle. So what I'm
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bringing to you today, though, is I talk to a
viewer who told me that not even a viewer, I'm sorry,
a follower somebody who follows the podcast and kind of
talk to me about it. I see that you get
really strong about your povs, and I just want you
to know that in this particular one, and I kind
of sent it out. If you didn't get it, you
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probably wasn't paying attention. But that's okay.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Follow more.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
You'll get more insight on how you can be a
part of the conversation. But I sent it out and said, look,
this is what I'm about to talk about, and I
need some different povs.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
This is my pov where I stand.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
I've gotten some povs from people of working class who
don't get the benefits, and they tire of y'all.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
I said it.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
And then so I need some of y'all to come
to me and tell me how you feel. I know
some people who did receive benefits. So this particular viewer
came to me and she wrote in my she wrote
in my inbox, and I don't know if she'll be
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able to tap in today. She was going to go
ahead and call in, which would have been a great
way to show you guys, how calling into the dm
pot or the podcast hotline kind of plays into the show.
But we will move on because I've learned resilience with
this wonderful crew podcast. She did express to me how
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she feels, and one of the things she said is
that Shining people feel like it's so easy for me
to take benefits and just receive these benefits and all
these things, and what they don't realize is, for one,
I don't even get the type of benefits that And
at this point, she has a two year old daughter
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going on three, and she said, what they don't realize
is I've tried to look for a job. I've tried
to look for jobs that aren't hiring, and of course
I'm going after jobs that have enough money to pay
for the resources I need, because I don't want to
go after a job that doesn't and I'm still relying
on assistance.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
So I go after the jobs.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
And I've taken the training and I've got the qualifications,
and I go after those jobs that say they're hiring
but aren't. And we've all experienced that they say they're hiring,
but they're not, or they just don't hire you.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
She said, I don't have a car, so of course.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
It's hard to try to get a job that even
if I have some money in my account from whatever
assistance or maybe the father that's helping me or whatever.
I don't have that resource to get a car to
even be more diligent in finding that said job. Okay,
so I don't have a job, I don't have a car,
doesn't mean I'm not looking for a job and I'm
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not looking for resources to get a car. Plus, I
have a two year old daughter who's not yet ready
to go to school, so I'm still teaching her as
a mom. And one thing that she explained to me,
and it's funny, I want everyone to think about this
at some point in your life, even when you get
to a point where you might be at home and
you might.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Have to sit it out, wait it out.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
One thing that she's expressed to me, and I never
really thought about, is she says, see, when the working
class goes to work, you go to work and you're
paid to do one job.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
One job, whether that be now.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
That could consist of Now, I have been an export
agent where I have to my one job that I go.
I clock in as an import agent, right, and I
make these calls and I make these connections, and I
import the freight and I move it to where it
needs to be moved to.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
And that's my job, and that's what I get paid for.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
But that's the one job. It's consistent. One thing she
expressed to me is being in at home mom. I
do multiple jobs, and we have seen means and we
have come to different things about how moms have to
be doctors, and they have to be lawyers at some times,
and they have to be whatever the household or.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
That particular situation calls for.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
So we're talking about even a working class mom who
had to go to work, spend eight hours on a
job doing what they wanted me to do, and come
home and do the fifty.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Jobs that home requires me to do. And she expressed
to me, while.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
People may think that I'm sitting at home and I
don't have I have nothing to do.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
I'm just sitting at home.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
I am not that class of people that just gets
on TikTok talking about I don't have nothing to do.
I am looking for jobs, I'm looking for resources. I'm
teaching my daughter every day so that she can go
to school and out of the house so that I
can do these other things. I'm doing that, but unfortunately
she still gets the rap of the person that is
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not doing anything, she still gets the rap of somebody
who's sitting back and accepting benefits. And what I learned
is that's not fair.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
It's not fair.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
She's sitting back, maybe not sitting back. Let me change that.
She is at home doing fifty jobs for her daughter
or the rest of her children, or whatever she's got
to do for her situation. She is doing fifty jobs
trying to connect this and connect that and get everything
to connect to make something happen for herself, while we
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are going to.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Work doing one job.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
What it comes down to is that they're just different
situations in different scenarios. She is from the POV of
somebody who is trying to make something happen. I am
from the POV who's somewhat making something happen and still
needing help. And then you got the POV from people
who claim or feel like they make everything happen. And
that's not even the case in any of our scenarios.
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This is where we got to bring this to business.
Bring this to business. So what I found is that
this okay. We all feel that it's unfair that we
put into a pot that we can't pull out of.
And one thing that I've stood on and I said
to a couple of coworkers, is you know, you got
to make deposits to make withdraws. So here's the unfair
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part America, that we have made deposits in stuff that
we are not allowed to make withdraws from, or that
we do not withdraw from and get benefits from.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
So let's stop.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Being mad at mothers who are actually trying or families
who are actually trying.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Let's see a need, feel a need.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
But at the same time I get it, are they
are connected to people who take advantage of the system.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
You can't tell the difference.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Apparently neither can I, because I'm putting the same mother
who's trying in the same pot as a mother who's not,
And that's not fair.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
You're also putting the same mother who gives into.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
The pot and only gives gets fourteen dollars worth of
food stamps to feed two children, one coming, one on
the way, and one already here. You're putting me in
the same pot as somebody who's not doing anything. So
when it comes to these snap benefits and you get
all angry and you want to rah ray the one
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who is able to lead and not read. Is allowed
to lead and not read. When you want to rah
rah him and talk about what he's doing. Yes, he's
making some financial move that could benefit That's the best
I can say. You see all my movement to have
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to get that message out.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
So while we're condoning what he's doing, there's still something
else you need to think about.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Your parents did it.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
There are some things and situations that our parents and
families have had to go through when they needed help.
The stuff is not enough, The stuff they give is
not enough.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
And where you want to say, well.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Work harder for it and do what you're supposed to
do for it, it doesn't matter for other people who I
have a two year old at home and I'm trying
to teach her enough to go to school because you know,
they charge extra for kids who go to school that
are not potty trained, don't know their name and cannot
know their don't know their colors, can't name their colors.
So while I'm trying to teach my daughter that every
minute of the day, I'm also looking for jobs that
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are close. Because I don't have a car, I'm looking
for resources where I can get a car with a
little bit of assistance I'm getting while I'm pressing the
system to give me some assistance.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
So that's where it starts. Stop judging people on what
they need.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
It's a process, and everybody started with something that they
needed to have that they didn't have, and somehow they
had to find a resource to get it to get
to the destination. Stop being that on people, And that's
what I'm just trying to get out to people that
even it had to change my POV to listen to
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somebody to tell me that I'm not who you think
I am, even though I have a different POV from
the working class that gets no benefits. She has a
different POV and change my point of view of well,
I look down on people who did need them and
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not trying.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Yeah, she said, And you can think that of other people.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
And that's fine when you see they're not trying, and
they show up on your pictock and they ain't doing
nothing but showing.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Body parts, thank you Lord for better words.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Where they ain't showing nothing but excuse me, body parts
and only fan pages to get money. Where I'm diligently
looking for a job, I'm not on social media. I
may show a picture too. She says, I may get
dressed to feel better about myself, to show my daughter
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that even when you're down, you can be up. I
may do that, But what I don't appreciate is people
like you or anybody else that talks down about people
who are receiving or trying to receive benefits and not
having a job. Because all y'all think about is I
don't have a job, but I'm trying to get benefits.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Do you know the struggle I go through to try
to be better? No, we don't.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
We don't ask because most of us we don't know.
We don't show them, we don't care about what's going
on in the hood. Stop doing this to people. You
have a negative opinion, keep it to yourself. But what
you don't need to do is be workers of iniquity
where you get other people on your bandwagon about how
you feel about something that's not right. And again, this
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is what my podcast is about, bringing all diverse discussions
to business. Yes, I have my own point of view
and I somewhat agree with the people the working class
who is not able to go to the grocery store
and get what they want. But as talking to this follower,
and this diverse discussion I was in, I learned that
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guess what, No, I may not be able to go
on the first, or on the fifth, or even able
to go on the tenth and get what it is
I want and I worked hard for, but I could
probably go on the twelfth. See, we gotta put these
stores in demand. You are feeling the demand of people
who are ransackering your stores, What about the people who
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are paying?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
So feel it if that's the case.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
But with that being said, those people who are receiving
benefits receive them once a month. Some of y'a are
getting paid twice a month or every week. They have
to wait on their benefits. We don't wait on our blessings.
So while you're being so mad about people who sit back,
even those who are sitting back waiting and they think
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they cute, here's the way to not.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Get so mad.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
You waiting on my money whereas I make it and
I can pull from it. Some of y'all got daily pay.
Stop planning. Some of y'all got daily pay. Go pull
your money out and go do what you need to do,
as long as God keeps you from drowning. With that saying, say,
as long as God don't cancel me, I'll be all right.
Worry about you not being canceled. Worry about that your
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household is being okay and everything is good for the
time being. Don't worry worry about how somebody else is
taking from your household, because if you look back, they
really not. It's not happening like that. So as far
as the SNAP benefits, and I told you I like
to talk about different things, I was really passionate about
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that because I had a very passionate conversation with somebody
who had a different POV from mine. And one thing
I tell people is I can agree with you wholeheartedly,
and then I will step outside of the box because
I want to see that if I could agree with you,
but if somebody has a different POV from me, how
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do I handle that.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
I can't just stand in what I say and.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Be so strongly about that that I don't give them
the chance of saying what they need to say, or
give them a chance to express their self.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
So I've learned that.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Even in my POV, as strongly as I believe in
it and I agree with it, and if somebody even
agrees with me, cool, But let me step outside, because
what if somebody approaches either one of us differently? Hey,
what about this? And have you ever thought about that?
And I can't just stand and nine. I ain't think
about that. Nope, that's not what's going on. I thought
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about this. This is the way things should go, you know. Uh,
I guess that's how presidency is run. I didn't think
about this and how things should go. I didn't think
about consideracy of people. I'm thinking about how I will
feel good and sleep at night.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Cool, cool, cool cool.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
If you lived in a world by yourself, that might work,
but that's not how we go.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
We live with other people.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
So I'm just saying, before you judge, just get a
different POV before you just feel like you are the
victim of I make all this money and I give
all this money to the pot and y'all just sitting back,
you lazy.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
That.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
And the third, there are women, men situations that people
are actually reaching out for resources and they just don't
have them. They've tried, and you know, I feel me
coming up short on time.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
I mean to take up all y'all's time, But with
that being said, I want to kind of highlight one
of my friends who is doing something for this cause.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
Her name is Keisha.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
I will be sharing a lot of what she does
and how she does it for her community. But she
is putting on things that where she feeds family, and
she feeds the homeless, and she feeds different She feeds
different situations where there are insecurities, inequities, in equity, excuse me,
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and she just makes sure that things get done for
the community and nobody's left out. So one thing that
I wanted to highlight tonight is her group called Inspire
and it's Inspired Together.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
It's in Riverside, California.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
I'm sorry, Sam Bernardino, California, but she represents Riverside and
she is putting things together where she is getting giving
away food, shower access, clothing, laundry access, nail services, nail
services okay sis, hygiene kits aren't stationary, and more. And
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she puts these things together where you can come out
and you can benefit from it, your famili's friends and everything.
She's one thing, she says, it's not one of those
first come, first.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Serve, We're limited to.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
One thing I know about her is if she runs
out of supply, she'll go and get more.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
Yes, please those who need it.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
So we have Keisha who's doing Inspire together in San Bernardino, California.
If y'all need some stuff. One thing, like I said
about Sis is if you ain't got it, she'll get it.
If she don't already have it, she'll get it. And
that's what we need people like that. I live in
the city of Atlanta, where our mayor has just announced
that he's not going to kick anybody out. He's not
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going to allow anybody to get kicked out in the
month of December and January, even if you fall behind
in bills because you know what's going on with the
whole government shut down.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Nobody's getting their bills paid, stuff like that, and.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
He's doing things of that sort and making sure that
people are going with versus without getting your money up,
because we're already taking things before you get it. Let's
be real, So getting your money up. Then we got
the city or the County of South Fulton itself, who
is also doing things like my friend Lakeisha giving away
free stuff. And you know you have your churches and
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your food banks. I encourage everybody to not feel like
you are above or even beneath but you are equal
to these opportunities that our culture is serving. We are
here to feed and feed other We are here to
be fed and feed other people, is what the word says.
So do not miss up on these opportunities where we
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are actually giving back.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
We should. This is what we should be doing.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
So South Fullton, I salute you for doing the things
all d the I don't know if any of y'all
have all d like some of y'all don't have h
martin You've really got to follow up on these stores.
But because h Mark got some stuff, but all these
is actually lowering their prices for the season past January
so that families can afford groceries and stuff like that.
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This is where we have given so much and paid
so much taxes.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
What are y'all giving back?
Speaker 3 (38:27):
So if you have grocery stores that's not doing that,
maybe those aren't the.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Grocery stores you should be shopping.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Being real, If Walmart ain't lowering their prices and making
it a priority together that they do, then maybe not
shot there. And I'm not finna tell y'all where to
spend your money because I am a tight consumer, right,
I have a time. I have a price limit on
what I spend on shoes. I have a price limit
on what I spent. Man.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
When I go to websites, the first thing I hit
is clearance and sale. It's just what I do.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
So with that being said, though, there are better ways
to stretch your money, and yes, it is hard, even
with talking to the follower about how to stretch even
the little money she gets. Now, when I got fourteen dollars,
I could not stretch fourteen dollars.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
I'm not gonna lie to you. I just couldn't.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
I couldn't even see myself stressing to stretch it. But
for those of y'all that are getting more than that,
one of the things I told her is what might
be fair?
Speaker 4 (39:24):
Let me bring this to a closing too.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
The resolution that might be fair is you might have
to take from the families that are getting nine hundred
dollars a month because they don't need it right, because
they might be flipping or whatever. I don't know since
this knows how to keep status of these people, but
you may have to pull from that family that's getting
nine hundred a month to provide another family with one
hundred dollars a month. Maybe the government needs to go
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ahead and provide everybody of food allowance a month.
Speaker 4 (39:53):
That's where we get angry.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
How dare you provide so and so with nine hundred
a month? That doesn't work, and you got the working
class that gets fourteen dollars. This is where I and
anybody else get angry. And we're not gonna do that.
We're not gonna get angry, but we are gonna think
about a resolution. So this is what it comes to.
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Can we somehow get the government to give everybody an
allowance a month? If you can give again, you give
people money to play with instead of money who to
people who work for it. Maybe we lessen and you
tell them I'm gonna have to lessen your grocery allowance
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this month. This is what we're doing, not even this month.
But you've been you've been receiving nine hundred. You're not
gonna get that. We're gonna lower that down to six hundred.
Well that's three hundred you done took from that family,
which I feel like, I mean, they may be able
to work with six hundred if you call yourself letting
me work with fourteen dollars, But that's three families at
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one hundred dollars apiece that you've given that allowance to
three hundred three families at one hundred dollars a piece.
Come on, government, you can do better. Stop making us
so angry at each other when you could do better.
It ain't just about slicing the families that need it.
It's about having them understand that we are needing to
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share it with other families that need it to so
that we're not so angry with them.
Speaker 4 (41:30):
So let's slice that up right. I'm gonna keep stuff moving.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
So, yes, I did want to talk to you about
those different point of vison and the snaps by hunger
and why we need to come to a actual mutual
agreement bring this to the business tape. Well, it's not
about those receiving benefits that we're mad about. We're really
mad about the government giving it to them so free willing,
and not allowing the people who actually work for it
to get any of it. So the median or the
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common ground bringing all diverse discussion to the business table
is about not about the people who are receiving it
again getting it from somebody the government. It's about how
the government or give it to them and not to
anybody else putting in the pot. Why is it that
the people putting in the pot don't get to pull
from it. I'm a big believer about if you deposit,
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you should be able to withdraw.
Speaker 4 (42:21):
So talk to your local officials about that.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
Okay, moving on, while we're talking about and I'm gonna
get this up ooh, cutting into time. Y'all know, I
get real passionate about stuff. So while we're talking about snapped,
I just want to talk to you all about this
stuff going viral. Okay, this some of these kids have
snapped while they want to snap and jump on parents
and stuff, while they trying to beat kids up at
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the bus stop and all this other stuff. Right, everybody's
been seeing it. If you haven't seen it, you probably
haven't been watching. If you haven't been watching, still salute
to you, because you don't know, you've been missing some
stuff that probably ain't gonna make you feel real well. So,
in the last two weeks I have watched and witnessed
a group of kids jump on a mother and child
or a mother and children at a bus stop or
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at some type of rent stop waiting on a bus,
whatever the case may be.
Speaker 4 (43:10):
And these children have snapped and jumped.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
On these elders as well as their children that they're protecting.
I'm gonna talk real briefly about this because I really
don't want to talk about it, but I really got
a while we're talking on the issue of being snapped
into reality. I've read a lot of comments, and now
it's getting to the point where there are adults that
are saying, please, children, if you're reading this, please don't
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jump on my kids, because like it's gonna get so ugly.
It'll get so ugly. The video I saw in the
last twenty four hours about the mother who showed up
at the bus stop for her daughter and they jumped
on her. Last week it was the mother and her
two kids. Y'all saw that stuff. This week, it was
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a mother who showed up at the bus stop knowing
her daughter was finna get jump and she stood there
and one of the kids said, what you mean I
showed up for nothing? And she said, yes, you did.
You need to go on home, told her daughter get
in the car. If you ain't seeing it listening to
what I'm saying, you know the algorithms to pick it up.
Speaker 4 (44:15):
But what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (44:17):
About this is while y'all kids are snapped and don't
understand that adults have a responsibility to their children because
you videotaping it and want to go live and want
to go viral and be just somebody who is hypening
and videotaping.
Speaker 4 (44:34):
What the heck is going on? You got real people
with real situations. I don't lost my mama and my daddy.
Speaker 3 (44:39):
You think I'm getting ready to lose my kids, and
I just lost both of them in the past five years.
I lost my mama and my daddy in the past
five years, and I still can tell you that. I
tell God I'm not stable enough to handle some you know,
unnecessary stuff. I have two daughters, one in junior high
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and one in high school. So I'm showing up for
my kids like these parents do. And you will not
jump my daughters. It's not gonna happen. So, like these
parents are saying in these comments, children, read this and
read it very well. You will not jump my children.
You will not jump on me, and don't have no retaliation. Now,
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we are fortunate that in these last two videos we've
seen gone viral that children have not been really hurt. Honestly,
is the parents that's been hurt. You ain't gonna see
me in that video like that. I'm just gonna go
ahead and put it out there like that, and I'm
just gonna pray God. I pray on discernment, so God knows,
you know, to let me know. There's things I just
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have to walk away from where he tell me shining, no,
come on, back off of that, and I'll listen to God.
I will because I know when he tell me to
back up off of it. It's some stuff that I
shouldn't even be dealing with. But these children have no
respect and no regarding. All I'm looking for is for
that one child to stand up and say, uh uh,
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we don't do this, we don't uh back up run
because in my day, we don'et all faced being jumped
at the bus stop, somebody waiting on you after school.
We didn't all face that that our mothers and parents
didn't get involved from.
Speaker 4 (46:16):
And I ain't gonna lie. My mama showed up.
Speaker 3 (46:18):
I ain't gonna lie, but and I'm gonna show up
because that's what I learned. But we have been in
situations where we don't have to fight at the bus
stop and fight after school.
Speaker 4 (46:27):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (46:27):
I didn't even been in a situation where I've been
jumped by some girls and had to take my mama
back because my MoMA said, you've been drunk. Oh, we're
not doing that. Took my mama back to the house
with my brother. Those of y'all who were there, you
already know and don't validate it in the comments because
they don't even need to know the whole story. But
I jumped with my God's sister, had to take my
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mama back to the place, and what she had to
let these young girls know is three sisters that jump
me and my God's sister and some dudes that jumped
in whatever. And what my mom said is that I'm
here to get it straight. And I'm pretty sure she
was protected back in the day. I was like probably
by eighteen nineteen, I'm pretty sure she was protected. But
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what she said was, I just want to get it
straight as to why my daughter had to be jumped.
What's going on? And do you know that these three
sisters that jumped on me and my God's sister and
had all these resources to jump on us from because
we at they house thinking everything was good.
Speaker 4 (47:28):
This was family home girls, and they jumped on.
Speaker 3 (47:30):
Us, right, so they explained to my mom, ma'am was
the first line they hit.
Speaker 4 (47:39):
Ma'am.
Speaker 3 (47:40):
Let's be clear, this had nothing to do with your daughter.
It had everything to do with the person that she
was helping. But it was the fact that and even
as I recall that that these three young ladies could
have jumped be we.
Speaker 4 (47:54):
Don't care about you and your daughter, and they could
have squabbled up with me and my mama, but they
didn't do that.
Speaker 3 (48:00):
Nowhere down the line, they were taught better to respect
their elders. And that's where it is where you see
these comments coming in that do you don't jump on
your elders and let your kids know keep their hands
to theyself because they going down if they touch me
in mind, and you may not understand that animosity, and
you may even be given that animosity and don't even
know that your child the one that's gonna get you.
Speaker 4 (48:21):
In that situation. Here's the bottom line.
Speaker 3 (48:24):
If we could see in these videos, and I think
in this second one that we've been seeing go viral,
there was one young man that finally showed up to
the scene and was like, Nah, stop it, squash it,
stop doing that. We need to see at least one
child that stands up and been raised right that says
we do not jump on adults.
Speaker 4 (48:43):
That's not what we do.
Speaker 3 (48:44):
Let her go move nah, and you on video, Nah,
we're not seeing that. So when you see these comments
where they say get your child or else, you gonna
understand that you're gonna be burying your child.
Speaker 4 (48:56):
It's serious.
Speaker 3 (48:59):
It's serious because if you think that I went through
as much as I've gone through as a single mom
to pave the way for my children, I don't wanna
let somebody else drag me and her. That's not finna happen.
That's not gonna happen. And some of y'all parents need
to get with your children instead of hey, yeah yeah,
when I come out, I'm not even finna. I can't
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do it. I'm not gonna impersonate ignorance. What I'm telling
you is teach your child to keep their hands to
they self, keep your child to respect their elders so
that stuff like this don't go viral, and teach and
show our culture.
Speaker 4 (49:36):
The girl who was recording it and one to aim
because she on tape, Aim.
Speaker 3 (49:42):
Now we know who you are. I hope you're charged
as an accomplice.
Speaker 4 (49:48):
I do.
Speaker 3 (49:49):
I hope you are, because how dare you jump on
a mother and her child? You are disrespectful and yo,
mama didn't teach you right, because after these girls jumped
on me, they respected my mama enough. And when my
mama showed up and said, I just want to know
do we have a problem, and.
Speaker 4 (50:09):
They said it didn't have nothing to do with her.
Speaker 3 (50:11):
Mama said, I just want to make sure because if
it is a problem and squash it now, it wasn't her, ma'am.
Is what they said, ma'am. They didn't jump on me
and my mama when I showed up at their house.
And if you watch The Perfect Neighbor, as I'm showing
my daughter about how to do things right, The Perfect
Neighbor on Netflix shows you want to show up at.
Speaker 4 (50:29):
Somebody else unarmed.
Speaker 3 (50:32):
Unfortunately, and I'm not bringing that up to glorify what's
going on and what happened, but unfortunately that mother showed
up in defense to her child and was unable.
Speaker 4 (50:42):
So one thing that my daughter and mom, I know
you ro roth.
Speaker 3 (50:45):
For me, but can you please if I forget something
something happened, don't show up.
Speaker 4 (50:49):
I let her know I'm smart. First of all, I'm
not showing up to somebody's door unprotected. I'm not. Ever,
if you.
Speaker 3 (50:58):
See this face at your door, not unprotected. Okay, first
and foremost. Secondly, if I have to show up to
your door for my child, you better be protected.
Speaker 4 (51:11):
This is crazy. Respect my children, come and talk to me,
and children.
Speaker 3 (51:16):
Respect your elders. Go tell your mama. One thing I
told my daughter is.
Speaker 4 (51:21):
You will not disrespect an elder.
Speaker 3 (51:23):
If you feel intimidated, you feel disrespected, you come and
tell the weight class.
Speaker 4 (51:29):
Because I'm ready to go.
Speaker 3 (51:31):
And I feel really passionate about this because as I'm
watching these videos, y'all don't even know, I'm shedding real
tears about how the other people could feel. The parents
would feel about what I'm gonna do to their children
if they approach me like this, or they approach my
children like this and I'm around, I could I.
Speaker 4 (51:52):
Shed real tears for the parents that say you through
my childhead through a window. I did. I did. I
was threatened, my child was threatened.
Speaker 2 (52:01):
I did.
Speaker 3 (52:03):
I'm not sorry when it comes to protecting me in minds,
when it comes to it pulling a pew pew, I
don't feel bad when I'm protecting me in minds, and
like I explained to somebody, you mad because I'm a pully.
Speaker 4 (52:18):
I'm mad because you're a bully.
Speaker 3 (52:20):
It's just as easy for me to pull something as
it is for you to leave us alone.
Speaker 4 (52:25):
What are you doing? Stay to yourself? And I'm done
with that.
Speaker 3 (52:31):
So again know this, I will protect my children like
these other women and families have protected theirs, And so
it's best for you to like these girls jump on me,
but they knew to respect my mama. Teach your children
how to respect people's mamas. You have to catch them
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on another slide on another day, you catch them on
another squabble up.
Speaker 4 (52:56):
You do not do that in front of their moms.
You don't have enough respect.
Speaker 3 (53:00):
Then you gonna feel it, and your mama needs to
understand that you had to feel it because you was
there that day disrespecting.
Speaker 4 (53:06):
And that is that.
Speaker 3 (53:07):
On that before I get way too emotional about how
I feel on that, please when they say teach your
kids how to keep their hands to theyself, at least
teach them how to respect it. And on the flip
side of that, you know I seen the older sister
of that whole situation that jumped on me and my
guys start seeing her. About two years later, at a
gas station, young lady walked up and tapped on my
car window and apologized to me and told me how
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she realized that that shouldn't have went down like that
that day, and how she's teaching her kids, who were
younger kids at that time. But I'm seeing them hop
out and going to the gas station, that she's teaching
her kids how to make better decisions, and where I
could be like beeling.
Speaker 4 (53:46):
I'm trying not to cus but beeling because.
Speaker 3 (53:49):
You made that no, because she didn't have to see
me apologize to me and even speak them words about
how she making sure that them.
Speaker 4 (53:58):
Kids make better decisions.
Speaker 3 (53:59):
Already know that she know how to respect somebody mama,
because she did it to mine. But if the better
decision is when you got a problem with somebody, you
don't let somebody else feed into it and make you
do some stuff, because that's how it happened. And again,
those who are there and know about the situation, you
ain't got it even validate it for the comments. I mean,
we got receipts, but it was foul. But I can
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salute the young ladies who respected my mother enough to
not jump on me while she was there, not jump
on my brother because one of the things that one
of the other brothers said is, uh, y'all jumped on her.
Speaker 4 (54:33):
Her family's showing up.
Speaker 3 (54:34):
They got a right to be here, That's what I'm
talking about.
Speaker 4 (54:40):
Clock that stuff.
Speaker 3 (54:42):
We had every right to be there because y'all jumped
on me for no reason. And yes, I did bring
my mama back to the seene of the crime, in
which my daughter don't ever want to do that for me,
and I get it because we're not showing up to
somebody's house. That's what I'm teaching my daughter. But it's
about Oh, I knew something was wrong, and my mama
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knew something was wrong, and she said, if there's a problem,
we gonna solve it. Y'all gonna go. Y'all gonna squabble
up on one on one with my daughter. But the
jump in her ain't never gonna happen again. And that's
how that got resolved, for them to respect her enough
to say it wasn't even about her. She jumped in
and she was helping to help whatever the case may be.
And that's what had happened with that. So I'm just saying,
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if your kids had at least enough decency and respect,
they couldnot touch, keep.
Speaker 4 (55:30):
Their hand to theyself.
Speaker 3 (55:31):
And when your kids are defending themselves, understand, man, you
gotta hear the whole story. There's Carmelo and a whole
bunch of other people that are defending themselves, defending not
even standing their ground. It's not your ground, to be real,
God owns it all. You can walk away off that ground.
You can if you can get away, Like Georgia says,
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if you can get away, you're supposed to and that's
how they charge you. Message for those who didn't know
Georgia say, if you can get away and you don't,
even in retaliation or protection, you're still charged. So if
you can get away, that's staying your ground. Ain't ain't
even like come on, like, just be smart. Don't be
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so strategic and trying to take somebody down. Be smart
about how to bring yourself up. That's the bottom line
to that. So again, I'm gonna get off of that.
That was just about touching into that because that has
gone to a viral and I felt so passionate about
it that I just had to talk on that, and
let y'all know that I'm one of them mamas. I
squabble up and I got two daughters in school.
Speaker 4 (56:41):
Please leave them alone.
Speaker 3 (56:43):
They are concentrated, focused, excelling, and I'm pretty sure that
that becomes a target for some of y'all. Don't be
my target, and that's just fair, And that's just fair.
Teach your kids how parents feel, too, hey, And when
I teach my kids the same way, you feel something
about another student when you go to react, understand that
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they may tell their parents.
Speaker 4 (57:06):
So let's talk to a counselor let's try to resolve.
Speaker 3 (57:09):
And they may seem like the punkish way, but I'm
trying to tell you it's the best way to live. Okay,
all right, So last, but not least, And I'm gonna
go ahead and wrap this up because I'm getting ooh,
I gotna pass my time.
Speaker 4 (57:22):
But I hope y'all stuck long enough to hear this.
Speaker 3 (57:25):
And if you didn't hear it, trust and believe I
will reiterate it at another time. I want to go
ahead and let the cat out the bag, since somebody
already let his head out. Unfortunately, I can't even say
unfortunately because I've had a great run. But let's go
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ahead and do this bad to business. We'll no longer
be with the Crew podcast. I was kind of waiting
on that news, but like I said, since the cat
has already been let out the bag, let me go
ahead and let y'all know what's going on. Jazz and
I are starting a new project and doing new things.
Different things coming up. And although I have enjoyed my
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great time at the group podcast, let me tell you
these women, we got a new The Kings of the
Airways Zachary Williams. You're phenomenal. I love the way that
you express yourself and do what you do. The Queens
have really taught me about resilience and how to keep going.
And if you've been following, I lost my dad this year.
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It was really hard. Letting go of him was like
letting go of my mom that passed four years ago,
all over again. I felt like as long as he
was married to her, she was still somewhat alive.
Speaker 4 (58:40):
So when he passed, it was just a whole nother
world for me.
Speaker 3 (58:44):
But if you follow the podcast, go back, see what's
going on and follow me, you know, see what the
journey's been like and so I have been brought to
now this journey and God has told me that the
Crew Podcast has been very good to me and good
for me, but it is time for me to venture
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out into some other things.
Speaker 4 (59:05):
So it's not a bad thing.
Speaker 3 (59:08):
I love what they've done for me, and I hope
that if they have room for me in another season,
I could come back and kind of do some things.
But I know that I could not commit to the
great things that they want to do and how they're
structuring things. And man, y'all stay with the Crew Podcast
as they getting ready to do some phenomenal things. But
this is my time to kind of venture off. I
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hope that everybody can still follow me. Like I said,
I will give links and other things to the things
that you can follow me.
Speaker 2 (59:35):
On, but we will.
Speaker 3 (59:38):
Jazz and I will be doing a departure from the
Crew Podcast, and I hope that you will follow us
on the other adventures we go on.
Speaker 4 (59:45):
So while Jazz is taking her break.
Speaker 3 (59:47):
Away and doing her things to do, I can't wait
to follow up with her, and hopefully the next time
I see you guys, I'll be following up with Jazz
and she tells you all about her fantastic journey and
her wonderful testimony about what God is doing with her
and how he is a god of on time. I
just it's not my story to tell, and it's still unveiling,
so I can't wait for y'all to follow. But like
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I said, I will be sending out the links and
doing all the things that we need to get y'all
to follow up and hopefully support us on what we're doing.
But as for now, I am going to close this
out and I just thank y'all for joining me tonight
and allowing me to be, you know, vulnerable and a
little emotional about things, and this is a part of
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me becoming who I need to be.
Speaker 4 (01:00:36):
Thank you so much for joining me.
Speaker 3 (01:00:38):
I love you all, and I can't wait to see
you on the next episode of Bad Tube Business.
Speaker 4 (01:00:42):
I am shining Saffron. See you later.
Laguies and gentlemen, May I have your attention please. The
show starts in ten nine, eight, seven, six, five, four
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three two one.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
God, Oh, there we go.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Hello, Hello, Welcome to another episode of Bad to Business.
I am your host, shining side front. I hope everybody
can hear me. If you can, you know, let me
know in the comments. I don't have my fabulous host
Jazzy to kind of keep me on point. But I've
had a lot of stuff going on this evening, so
I'm trying to get ready. So I hope y'all are
(05:57):
ready too. I got some things I wanted to talk
to you about this evening, so come on in. Usually
I have a little, you know, a little warning about
me coming on stage and stuff, but I am trying
to get everything together. Hello, everybody, come in, Come in.
The welcome Matt has been laid down. Okay, so we
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are ready. I have I hope you guys can hear me.
It looks like I'm connected correctly. I have a couple
of things to talk to you guys about today. I
gotta be honest. Today is not one of those times
where I am readily.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Available to deliver this message.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
But you know, I'm always available for God, so when
he makes a way for me to do what I
need to do, I'm here so we can hear you. Sorry, hey, Jazzie,
thanks for checking in. Jessie says she couldn't be here
with us today, but she is checking in, and don't
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be sorry that you couldn't be here. One thing about
Jazzy is she is doing some things. I can't wait
to check in on Jazzy on some different things going
on and follow up with her. She will be on
the next episode. But my beautiful co host just is
she's obeying the rules and the laws of her journey
(07:21):
right now. So I salute you, Jazzy, and I can't
wait to follow up with you. And I know you
got a beautiful testimony you want to share with everybody,
so that's coming up. But again, I just want to
welcome everybody in. Go ahead and come on in and
let me get ready to talk to you about some
(07:43):
things that I'm not really ready to talk to you about.
This is going to be after following last episode, the
last episode on that to Business of Patient Procrastinator. In
that episode, I learned a lot about myself, you know,
maybe even gave some excuses and some reasons as to
why we do some things right. But we came to
(08:05):
the realization of it doesn't all that means nothing stop it.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
So while I'm in my stop.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
It transitions, I am learning to hunker down and move
forward with some things that I know I need to
move forward with deliver the delivery of messages and all
those things, and making better with my relationships and maybe
even cutting off some. So no longer am I procrastinating
(08:35):
on those things. If you saw my posts, I'm taking
off those procrastination penny loafers and I'm putting on my
successful stilettos. We are ready to move on and step
on to different type of ground. So today, Hello, hello, everybody,
come on in. I want to talk to you guys
(08:56):
about some different things. As you know, again, welcome to
back to business. And as you know, my podcast is
called Bad to Business, which stands for the BA d
D is bringing all diverse discussions to business. We all
have different povs and different opinions about things, and it's
really this podcast is about whether we feel different ways
(09:19):
about things. There's probably still a common ground we can
come to to try to make some type of a
positive change, right, if we can just try to get
past all of our different opinions and feelings about some things.
And one thing that I continue to share is don't
let your feelings get in the way of your purpose. Right,
So let's get out of those feelings, okay, And definitely
(09:44):
in this episode, we're gonna get out of those feelings
and talk about some things that we really need to
have at hand. So I welcome everybody in and I
want y'all to hear what we have going on tonight.
So I'm going to revamp and say all of those
who are just now joining in, Hello, Welcome to Bad
(10:04):
to Business. I am your host, Shining Saffron, and I
have a wonderful show for you.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Today.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
We do not have our lovely co host, Jazzy, but
she is on a journey and we will be checking
in with her later. But tonight we're going to talk
a little bit about it. And if you followed my
link and all those things that I try to highlight
you guys on and keep you updated on, today we're
going to talk about snapped right by Hunger.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
True crime.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I want to kind of talk about and because we
talk about diverse discussions and stuff, The first topic of
conversation is a big one. I've been getting difference of
opinions and diverse discussion about this, and I want to
talk about how this whole thing surrounding the SNAP benefits
and those who are getting them, those who are not,
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and what's going on. I kind of want to talk
about that, and I did not want to make it
a whole issue, right, a whole conversation, but to be honest,
I found that there are some main povs that come
from this.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
There are some main things that we're not thinking about.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
There are people in certain situations that we just don't consider,
and that's what I'm trying to bring to business. Yes,
we all have a difference of opinion, including myself, but
there are some things that we really need to talk
about that are, you know, maybe causing some type of
division in our culture, in our way of loving each
other and our way of supporting each other, that I
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think that we really need to talk about. So without
further ado, I am going to start the conversation talking
on these snap benefits. So the three povs that I
want to bring to the table are about now. My
POV is I am a working class who has received
some snap benefits or some type of government aid. I
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have a caller who I'm hoping that or I'm sorry,
I had a follower who I'm hoping will be a
caller on tonight and give her POV. She is a
non working class receiving benefits. And then we have the
POV from a working class who does not receive benefits.
So what I've learned in this research is the working
class who is not receiving benefits has a very strong
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opinion about anybody else.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Okay, to be honest.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
So they feel like they contribute the most and get
the least.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Right.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
So I'm contributing, I pay my taxes, I do all
these things, and I'm supporting these people who just want
to sit on their butt and do nothing. I'm putting
into a pot that does not give back to me.
Because why when I go to try to apply for benefits,
I'm told I make too much money. I'm told that
I'm not eligible because whatever I don't follow or fall
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under a certain bracket.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Okay, cool.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
So now not only am I upset that I can't
receive the benefits or reap the seeds that I'm sewing.
If you will but I'm upset that the fact that
I have to forcibly contribute to a pot that helps
other people, right, and the research and discussion that I've
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become a part of.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
I have to say, and I did insert myself in
this because it's just something.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
That I believe worth talking about, is that that working
class feels like, you know, I contribute to a pot
of people that have these needs and they soak it
all up. They don't really have the needs. They could
really get out here and do what I'm doing. And
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I contribute to a pot that have these needs and
they waste them.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Right. They're not doing what they're supposed to do with them.
They're not.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
You know, they're just not doing what they're supposed to do.
They're wasting them. In some instances back in the day,
a couple of you may know of people who were
flipping foods that benefits, which means that they were you know,
getting benefits, but they were selling them.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Right.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
So whatever the case, maybe I won't get into all
the nitty gritty and all the you know things I
know about it, because whatever, however you make your business,
is how you make your business.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
But they weren't using it for what they were supposed
to do.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
And so the working class who contributed to the pot
and didn't get any of it, didn't get any.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Benefits of it felt some type of way.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
You're doing all this and you're still sitting at home,
not doing anything you're supposed to do, get your hair,
your nails done, and you talk about it, and it
did happen like that for some folks. In the instance
I'm talking about, you got people the working class who's
contributing to a pot, folks who.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Are not doing anything.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
And if you follow the last if you follow the podcast,
you heard the last episode excuse me, where we talked
about the patient procrastinator who just sits around and kind
of figures out what they need to do and what
they want to do, and they kind of sent around
and do they can kind of sit around and do that.
So you got the working class who shows up. And
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I thought about this one day and I said, you know,
you'll give money. Now this is my POV. I am
the working class receiving benefits when I need them. As
of this point, I do not own rights to food
stamp benefits.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Let me go ahead and say that, but so I
get it.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
You are contributing to a working class who's not doing
their part. And yet you you know, you don't receive
any benefits off of that. You know that this working
class is sitting around they gloat about how they are
not doing anything.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
They made TikTok be real.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
They made TikTok by being at home, not doing anything,
making jokes and making videos about I ain't got no
job and I'm sitting at home collecting this money. Now,
those are the same people that are collecting money and
benefits off of working class people.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
And I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
The statement I was trying to get to is I
made the statement that you'll give more money to people
who sit and play with money, then you'll give to
people who will stand and work for it. Now that's
just my POV now talking to another follower. And like
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I've told y'all, this podcast is about bringing all diverse
discussions to business. You have a chance here when you
talk in the comments and you you know, participate and
you call in or whatever to either change your point
of view or change mind. I feel most I'm feeling
very strongly about what I believe in and what I've
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done research in right so, but talking to this follower
and what she brought to the table.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
She is the non working class receiving benefits.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
And you know, like I said, I really hope she
calls in, but if not, I know how she feels.
We've talked enough about it to the point where I
will give her POV. And I feel like it's a
great one, because yes, I stand strongly in how I feel.
I stand strongly in how I work for, what I
work for, all those things, and then when I go
to the grocery store, I don't get the things that
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I want to get. I don't get the things that
I work for for even the smallest and the simplest
things that I may want to purchase. The stores are
cleaned out, and I think that that's where a lot
of us get really touchy feely when the stores are ransack.
Read right, they've been ransacked and run through, and we
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feel like, yeah, those that's the people who didn't work
for anything, get to just ransack the grocery stores.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
So I stayed on that too, But I since I
cannot stand necessarily just with the people who the working
class that did not receive any benefits but paid into
the pot, I can't just stand with them because I
at a point, was at a time where I was
pregnant with a child and working, but I needed help,
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and I went to receive some benefits or I went
to seek aid for at least, can.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
You help me feed my kids? And I'm working.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
So before anybody wants to take a judgment on you,
just tried to get what you could get.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
I was still putting in the pot when I asked
to receive something from the pot.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
And when I asked to receive something from the pot at.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
That time, I was giving four I was given fourteen
dollars in food stamps, pregnant with a two year old,
and have put money in the pot. I think, matter
of fact, let me, let me be all the way truthful.
I think at that time I had been let go wrongfully,
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let go from a job, and I was applying for
food stamps. But I had never applied for unemployment in
my life. And just to not take y'all through the
whole synopsis, it was more so of I had just
lost my job and was like, what do I do.
Gotta feed my daughter and then I'll try to get
another job. And I applied for food stamps and was
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given fourteen dollars, in which I called that man back,
my representative, and I told him, you can go ahead
and take this fourteen dollars. And I believe I said
the nice words of keep it. If I said anything else,
it's not your business, so I probably shouldn't said it,
but I said you can go ahead and keep it,
because at fourteen dollars that you gave me while I'm
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pregnant with a child and no job, that'll probably be
the money I spend, or the gas money I spend
and even go get the food.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
So I'm really not even getting your assistance. So I
stand in that class of.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
I pay to a pot that I couldn't even benefit from, right,
So that's why I stand on my standce of oh
I pay to a pot. Y'all sit back, get your
hair done, your nails done, You make TikTok videos and
you know you ain't got nothing to do, and you
wave it in my face that the pot that I'm
paying into is providing you this lifestyle. So what I'm
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bringing to you today, though, is I talk to a
viewer who told me that not even a viewer, I'm sorry,
a follower somebody who follows the podcast and kind of
talk to me about it. I see that you get
really strong about your povs, and I just want you
to know that in this particular one, and I kind
of sent it out. If you didn't get it, you
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probably wasn't paying attention. But that's okay.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Follow more.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
You'll get more insight on how you can be a
part of the conversation. But I sent it out and said, look,
this is what I'm about to talk about, and I
need some different povs.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
This is my pov where I stand.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
I've gotten some povs from people of working class who
don't get the benefits, and they tire of y'all.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
I said it.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
And then so I need some of y'all to come
to me and tell me how you feel. I know
some people who did receive benefits. So this particular viewer
came to me and she wrote in my she wrote
in my inbox, and I don't know if she'll be
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able to tap in today. She was going to go
ahead and call in, which would have been a great
way to show you guys, how calling into the dm
pot or the podcast hotline kind of plays into the show.
But we will move on because I've learned resilience with
this wonderful crew podcast. She did express to me how
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she feels, and one of the things she said is
that Shining people feel like it's so easy for me
to take benefits and just receive these benefits and all
these things, and what they don't realize is, for one,
I don't even get the type of benefits that And
at this point, she has a two year old daughter
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going on three, and she said, what they don't realize
is I've tried to look for a job. I've tried
to look for jobs that aren't hiring, and of course
I'm going after jobs that have enough money to pay
for the resources I need, because I don't want to
go after a job that doesn't and I'm still relying
on assistance.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
So I go after the jobs.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
And I've taken the training and I've got the qualifications,
and I go after those jobs that say they're hiring
but aren't. And we've all experienced that they say they're hiring,
but they're not, or they just don't hire you.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
She said, I don't have a car, so of course.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
It's hard to try to get a job that even
if I have some money in my account from whatever
assistance or maybe the father that's helping me or whatever.
I don't have that resource to get a car to
even be more diligent in finding that said job. Okay,
so I don't have a job, I don't have a car,
doesn't mean I'm not looking for a job and I'm
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not looking for resources to get a car. Plus, I
have a two year old daughter who's not yet ready
to go to school, so I'm still teaching her as
a mom. And one thing that she explained to me,
and it's funny, I want everyone to think about this
at some point in your life, even when you get
to a point where you might be at home and
you might.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Have to sit it out, wait it out.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
One thing that she's expressed to me, and I never
really thought about, is she says, see, when the working
class goes to work, you go to work and you're
paid to do one job.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
One job, whether that be now.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
That could consist of Now, I have been an export
agent where I have to my one job that I go.
I clock in as an import agent, right, and I
make these calls and I make these connections, and I
import the freight and I move it to where it
needs to be moved to.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
And that's my job, and that's what I get paid for.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
But that's the one job. It's consistent. One thing she
expressed to me is being in at home mom. I
do multiple jobs, and we have seen means and we
have come to different things about how moms have to
be doctors, and they have to be lawyers at some times,
and they have to be whatever the household or.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
That particular situation calls for.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
So we're talking about even a working class mom who
had to go to work, spend eight hours on a
job doing what they wanted me to do, and come
home and do the fifty.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Jobs that home requires me to do. And she expressed
to me, while.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
People may think that I'm sitting at home and I
don't have I have nothing to do.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
I'm just sitting at home.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
I am not that class of people that just gets
on TikTok talking about I don't have nothing to do.
I am looking for jobs, I'm looking for resources. I'm
teaching my daughter every day so that she can go
to school and out of the house so that I
can do these other things. I'm doing that, but unfortunately
she still gets the rap of the person that is
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not doing anything, she still gets the rap of somebody
who's sitting back and accepting benefits. And what I learned
is that's not fair.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
It's not fair.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
She's sitting back, maybe not sitting back. Let me change that.
She is at home doing fifty jobs for her daughter
or the rest of her children, or whatever she's got
to do for her situation. She is doing fifty jobs
trying to connect this and connect that and get everything
to connect to make something happen for herself, while we
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are going to.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Work doing one job.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
What it comes down to is that they're just different
situations in different scenarios. She is from the POV of
somebody who is trying to make something happen. I am
from the POV who's somewhat making something happen and still
needing help. And then you got the POV from people
who claim or feel like they make everything happen. And
that's not even the case in any of our scenarios.
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This is where we got to bring this to business.
Bring this to business. So what I found is that
this okay. We all feel that it's unfair that we
put into a pot that we can't pull out of.
And one thing that I've stood on and I said
to a couple of coworkers, is you know, you got
to make deposits to make withdraws. So here's the unfair
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part America, that we have made deposits in stuff that
we are not allowed to make withdraws from, or that
we do not withdraw from and get benefits from.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
So let's stop.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Being mad at mothers who are actually trying or families
who are actually trying.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Let's see a need, feel a need.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
But at the same time I get it, are they
are connected to people who take advantage of the system.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
You can't tell the difference.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Apparently neither can I, because I'm putting the same mother
who's trying in the same pot as a mother who's not,
And that's not fair.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
You're also putting the same mother who gives into.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
The pot and only gives gets fourteen dollars worth of
food stamps to feed two children, one coming, one on
the way, and one already here. You're putting me in
the same pot as somebody who's not doing anything. So
when it comes to these snap benefits and you get
all angry and you want to rah ray the one
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who is able to lead and not read. Is allowed
to lead and not read. When you want to rah
rah him and talk about what he's doing. Yes, he's
making some financial move that could benefit That's the best
I can say. You see all my movement to have
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to get that message out.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
So while we're condoning what he's doing, there's still something
else you need to think about.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Your parents did it.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
There are some things and situations that our parents and
families have had to go through when they needed help.
The stuff is not enough, The stuff they give is
not enough.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
And where you want to say, well.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Work harder for it and do what you're supposed to
do for it, it doesn't matter for other people who I
have a two year old at home and I'm trying
to teach her enough to go to school because you know,
they charge extra for kids who go to school that
are not potty trained, don't know their name and cannot
know their don't know their colors, can't name their colors.
So while I'm trying to teach my daughter that every
minute of the day, I'm also looking for jobs that
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are close. Because I don't have a car, I'm looking
for resources where I can get a car with a
little bit of assistance I'm getting while I'm pressing the
system to give me some assistance.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
So that's where it starts. Stop judging people on what
they need.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
It's a process, and everybody started with something that they
needed to have that they didn't have, and somehow they
had to find a resource to get it to get
to the destination. Stop being that on people, And that's
what I'm just trying to get out to people that
even it had to change my POV to listen to
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somebody to tell me that I'm not who you think
I am, even though I have a different POV from
the working class that gets no benefits. She has a
different POV and change my point of view of well,
I look down on people who did need them and
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not trying.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Yeah, she said, And you can think that of other people.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
And that's fine when you see they're not trying, and
they show up on your pictock and they ain't doing
nothing but showing.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Body parts, thank you Lord for better words.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Where they ain't showing nothing but excuse me, body parts
and only fan pages to get money. Where I'm diligently
looking for a job, I'm not on social media. I
may show a picture too. She says, I may get
dressed to feel better about myself, to show my daughter
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that even when you're down, you can be up. I
may do that, But what I don't appreciate is people
like you or anybody else that talks down about people
who are receiving or trying to receive benefits and not
having a job. Because all y'all think about is I
don't have a job, but I'm trying to get benefits.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Do you know the struggle I go through to try
to be better? No, we don't.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
We don't ask because most of us we don't know.
We don't show them, we don't care about what's going
on in the hood. Stop doing this to people. You
have a negative opinion, keep it to yourself. But what
you don't need to do is be workers of iniquity
where you get other people on your bandwagon about how
you feel about something that's not right. And again, this
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is what my podcast is about, bringing all diverse discussions
to business. Yes, I have my own point of view
and I somewhat agree with the people the working class
who is not able to go to the grocery store
and get what they want. But as talking to this follower,
and this diverse discussion I was in, I learned that
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guess what, No, I may not be able to go
on the first, or on the fifth, or even able
to go on the tenth and get what it is
I want and I worked hard for, but I could
probably go on the twelfth. See, we gotta put these
stores in demand. You are feeling the demand of people
who are ransackering your stores, What about the people who
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are paying?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
So feel it if that's the case.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
But with that being said, those people who are receiving
benefits receive them once a month. Some of y'a are
getting paid twice a month or every week. They have
to wait on their benefits. We don't wait on our blessings.
So while you're being so mad about people who sit back,
even those who are sitting back waiting and they think
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they cute, here's the way to not.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
Get so mad.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
You waiting on my money whereas I make it and
I can pull from it. Some of y'all got daily pay.
Stop planning. Some of y'all got daily pay. Go pull
your money out and go do what you need to do,
as long as God keeps you from drowning. With that saying, say,
as long as God don't cancel me, I'll be all right.
Worry about you not being canceled. Worry about that your
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household is being okay and everything is good for the
time being. Don't worry worry about how somebody else is
taking from your household, because if you look back, they
really not. It's not happening like that. So as far
as the SNAP benefits, and I told you I like
to talk about different things, I was really passionate about
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that because I had a very passionate conversation with somebody
who had a different POV from mine. And one thing
I tell people is I can agree with you wholeheartedly,
and then I will step outside of the box because
I want to see that if I could agree with you,
but if somebody has a different POV from me, how
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do I handle that.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
I can't just stand in what I say and.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Be so strongly about that that I don't give them
the chance of saying what they need to say, or
give them a chance to express their self.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
So I've learned that.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Even in my POV, as strongly as I believe in
it and I agree with it, and if somebody even
agrees with me, cool, But let me step outside, because
what if somebody approaches either one of us differently? Hey,
what about this? And have you ever thought about that?
And I can't just stand and nine. I ain't think
about that. Nope, that's not what's going on. I thought
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about this. This is the way things should go, you know. Uh,
I guess that's how presidency is run. I didn't think
about this and how things should go. I didn't think
about consideracy of people. I'm thinking about how I will
feel good and sleep at night.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Cool, cool, cool cool.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
If you lived in a world by yourself, that might work,
but that's not how we go.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
We live with other people.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
So I'm just saying, before you judge, just get a
different POV before you just feel like you are the
victim of I make all this money and I give
all this money to the pot and y'all just sitting back,
you lazy.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
That.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
And the third, there are women, men situations that people
are actually reaching out for resources and they just don't
have them. They've tried, and you know, I feel me
coming up short on time.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
I mean to take up all y'all's time, But with
that being said, I want to kind of highlight one
of my friends who is doing something for this cause.
Speaker 4 (35:13):
Her name is Keisha.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
I will be sharing a lot of what she does
and how she does it for her community. But she
is putting on things that where she feeds family, and
she feeds the homeless, and she feeds different She feeds
different situations where there are insecurities, inequities, in equity, excuse me,
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and she just makes sure that things get done for
the community and nobody's left out. So one thing that
I wanted to highlight tonight is her group called Inspire
and it's Inspired Together.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
It's in Riverside, California.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
I'm sorry, Sam Bernardino, California, but she represents Riverside and
she is putting things together where she is getting giving
away food, shower access, clothing, laundry access, nail services, nail
services okay sis, hygiene kits aren't stationary, and more. And
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she puts these things together where you can come out
and you can benefit from it, your famili's friends and everything.
She's one thing, she says, it's not one of those
first come, first.
Speaker 4 (36:28):
Serve, We're limited to.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
One thing I know about her is if she runs
out of supply, she'll go and get more.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
Yes, please those who need it.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
So we have Keisha who's doing Inspire together in San Bernardino, California.
If y'all need some stuff. One thing, like I said
about Sis is if you ain't got it, she'll get it.
If she don't already have it, she'll get it. And
that's what we need people like that. I live in
the city of Atlanta, where our mayor has just announced
that he's not going to kick anybody out. He's not
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going to allow anybody to get kicked out in the
month of December and January, even if you fall behind
in bills because you know what's going on with the
whole government shut down.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Nobody's getting their bills paid, stuff like that, and.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
He's doing things of that sort and making sure that
people are going with versus without getting your money up,
because we're already taking things before you get it. Let's
be real, So getting your money up. Then we got
the city or the County of South Fulton itself, who
is also doing things like my friend Lakeisha giving away
free stuff. And you know you have your churches and
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your food banks. I encourage everybody to not feel like
you are above or even beneath but you are equal
to these opportunities that our culture is serving. We are
here to feed and feed other We are here to
be fed and feed other people, is what the word says.
So do not miss up on these opportunities where we
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are actually giving back.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
We should. This is what we should be doing.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
So South Fullton, I salute you for doing the things
all d the I don't know if any of y'all
have all d like some of y'all don't have h
martin You've really got to follow up on these stores.
But because h Mark got some stuff, but all these
is actually lowering their prices for the season past January
so that families can afford groceries and stuff like that.
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This is where we have given so much and paid
so much taxes.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
What are y'all giving back?
Speaker 3 (38:27):
So if you have grocery stores that's not doing that,
maybe those aren't the.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Grocery stores you should be shopping.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Being real, If Walmart ain't lowering their prices and making
it a priority together that they do, then maybe not
shot there. And I'm not finna tell y'all where to
spend your money because I am a tight consumer, right,
I have a time. I have a price limit on
what I spend on shoes. I have a price limit
on what I spent. Man.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
When I go to websites, the first thing I hit
is clearance and sale. It's just what I do.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
So with that being said, though, there are better ways
to stretch your money, and yes, it is hard, even
with talking to the follower about how to stretch even
the little money she gets. Now, when I got fourteen dollars,
I could not stretch fourteen dollars.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
I'm not gonna lie to you. I just couldn't.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
I couldn't even see myself stressing to stretch it. But
for those of y'all that are getting more than that,
one of the things I told her is what might
be fair?
Speaker 4 (39:24):
Let me bring this to a closing too.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
The resolution that might be fair is you might have
to take from the families that are getting nine hundred
dollars a month because they don't need it right, because
they might be flipping or whatever. I don't know since
this knows how to keep status of these people, but
you may have to pull from that family that's getting
nine hundred a month to provide another family with one
hundred dollars a month. Maybe the government needs to go
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ahead and provide everybody of food allowance a month.
Speaker 4 (39:53):
That's where we get angry.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
How dare you provide so and so with nine hundred
a month? That doesn't work, and you got the working
class that gets fourteen dollars. This is where I and
anybody else get angry. And we're not gonna do that.
We're not gonna get angry, but we are gonna think
about a resolution. So this is what it comes to.
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Can we somehow get the government to give everybody an
allowance a month? If you can give again, you give
people money to play with instead of money who to
people who work for it. Maybe we lessen and you
tell them I'm gonna have to lessen your grocery allowance
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this month. This is what we're doing, not even this month.
But you've been you've been receiving nine hundred. You're not
gonna get that. We're gonna lower that down to six hundred.
Well that's three hundred you done took from that family,
which I feel like, I mean, they may be able
to work with six hundred if you call yourself letting
me work with fourteen dollars, But that's three families at
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one hundred dollars apiece that you've given that allowance to
three hundred three families at one hundred dollars a piece.
Come on, government, you can do better. Stop making us
so angry at each other when you could do better.
It ain't just about slicing the families that need it.
It's about having them understand that we are needing to
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share it with other families that need it to so
that we're not so angry with them.
Speaker 4 (41:30):
So let's slice that up right. I'm gonna keep stuff moving.
Speaker 3 (41:33):
So, yes, I did want to talk to you about
those different point of vison and the snaps by hunger
and why we need to come to a actual mutual
agreement bring this to the business tape. Well, it's not
about those receiving benefits that we're mad about. We're really
mad about the government giving it to them so free willing,
and not allowing the people who actually work for it
to get any of it. So the median or the
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common ground bringing all diverse discussion to the business table
is about not about the people who are receiving it
again getting it from somebody the government. It's about how
the government or give it to them and not to
anybody else putting in the pot. Why is it that
the people putting in the pot don't get to pull
from it. I'm a big believer about if you deposit,
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you should be able to withdraw.
Speaker 4 (42:21):
So talk to your local officials about that.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
Okay, moving on, while we're talking about and I'm gonna
get this up ooh, cutting into time. Y'all know, I
get real passionate about stuff. So while we're talking about snapped,
I just want to talk to you all about this
stuff going viral. Okay, this some of these kids have
snapped while they want to snap and jump on parents
and stuff, while they trying to beat kids up at
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the bus stop and all this other stuff. Right, everybody's
been seeing it. If you haven't seen it, you probably
haven't been watching. If you haven't been watching, still salute
to you, because you don't know, you've been missing some
stuff that probably ain't gonna make you feel real well. So,
in the last two weeks I have watched and witnessed
a group of kids jump on a mother and child
or a mother and children at a bus stop or
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at some type of rent stop waiting on a bus,
whatever the case may be.
Speaker 4 (43:10):
And these children have snapped and jumped.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
On these elders as well as their children that they're protecting.
I'm gonna talk real briefly about this because I really
don't want to talk about it, but I really got
a while we're talking on the issue of being snapped
into reality. I've read a lot of comments, and now
it's getting to the point where there are adults that
are saying, please, children, if you're reading this, please don't
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jump on my kids, because like it's gonna get so ugly.
It'll get so ugly. The video I saw in the
last twenty four hours about the mother who showed up
at the bus stop for her daughter and they jumped
on her. Last week it was the mother and her
two kids. Y'all saw that stuff. This week, it was
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a mother who showed up at the bus stop knowing
her daughter was finna get jump and she stood there
and one of the kids said, what you mean I
showed up for nothing? And she said, yes, you did.
You need to go on home, told her daughter get
in the car. If you ain't seeing it listening to
what I'm saying, you know the algorithms to pick it up.
Speaker 4 (44:15):
But what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (44:17):
About this is while y'all kids are snapped and don't
understand that adults have a responsibility to their children because
you videotaping it and want to go live and want
to go viral and be just somebody who is hypening
and videotaping.
Speaker 4 (44:34):
What the heck is going on? You got real people
with real situations. I don't lost my mama and my daddy.
Speaker 3 (44:39):
You think I'm getting ready to lose my kids, and
I just lost both of them in the past five years.
I lost my mama and my daddy in the past
five years, and I still can tell you that. I
tell God I'm not stable enough to handle some you know,
unnecessary stuff. I have two daughters, one in junior high
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and one in high school. So I'm showing up for
my kids like these parents do. And you will not
jump my daughters. It's not gonna happen. So, like these
parents are saying in these comments, children, read this and
read it very well. You will not jump my children.
You will not jump on me, and don't have no retaliation. Now,
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we are fortunate that in these last two videos we've
seen gone viral that children have not been really hurt. Honestly,
is the parents that's been hurt. You ain't gonna see
me in that video like that. I'm just gonna go
ahead and put it out there like that, and I'm
just gonna pray God. I pray on discernment, so God knows,
you know, to let me know. There's things I just
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have to walk away from where he tell me shining, no,
come on, back off of that, and I'll listen to God.
I will because I know when he tell me to
back up off of it. It's some stuff that I
shouldn't even be dealing with. But these children have no
respect and no regarding. All I'm looking for is for
that one child to stand up and say, uh uh,
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we don't do this, we don't uh back up run
because in my day, we don'et all faced being jumped
at the bus stop, somebody waiting on you after school.
We didn't all face that that our mothers and parents
didn't get involved from.
Speaker 4 (46:16):
And I ain't gonna lie. My mama showed up.
Speaker 3 (46:18):
I ain't gonna lie, but and I'm gonna show up
because that's what I learned. But we have been in
situations where we don't have to fight at the bus
stop and fight after school.
Speaker 4 (46:27):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (46:27):
I didn't even been in a situation where I've been
jumped by some girls and had to take my mama
back because my MoMA said, you've been drunk. Oh, we're
not doing that. Took my mama back to the house
with my brother. Those of y'all who were there, you
already know and don't validate it in the comments because
they don't even need to know the whole story. But
I jumped with my God's sister, had to take my
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mama back to the place, and what she had to
let these young girls know is three sisters that jump
me and my God's sister and some dudes that jumped
in whatever. And what my mom said is that I'm
here to get it straight. And I'm pretty sure she
was protected back in the day. I was like probably
by eighteen nineteen, I'm pretty sure she was protected. But
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what she said was, I just want to get it
straight as to why my daughter had to be jumped.
What's going on? And do you know that these three
sisters that jumped on me and my God's sister and
had all these resources to jump on us from because
we at they house thinking everything was good.
Speaker 4 (47:28):
This was family home girls, and they jumped on.
Speaker 3 (47:30):
Us, right, so they explained to my mom, ma'am was
the first line they hit.
Speaker 4 (47:39):
Ma'am.
Speaker 3 (47:40):
Let's be clear, this had nothing to do with your daughter.
It had everything to do with the person that she
was helping. But it was the fact that and even
as I recall that that these three young ladies could
have jumped be we.
Speaker 4 (47:54):
Don't care about you and your daughter, and they could
have squabbled up with me and my mama, but they
didn't do that.
Speaker 3 (48:00):
Nowhere down the line, they were taught better to respect
their elders. And that's where it is where you see
these comments coming in that do you don't jump on
your elders and let your kids know keep their hands
to theyself because they going down if they touch me
in mind, and you may not understand that animosity, and
you may even be given that animosity and don't even
know that your child the one that's gonna get you.
Speaker 4 (48:21):
In that situation. Here's the bottom line.
Speaker 3 (48:24):
If we could see in these videos, and I think
in this second one that we've been seeing go viral,
there was one young man that finally showed up to
the scene and was like, Nah, stop it, squash it,
stop doing that. We need to see at least one
child that stands up and been raised right that says
we do not jump on adults.
Speaker 4 (48:43):
That's not what we do.
Speaker 3 (48:44):
Let her go move nah, and you on video, Nah,
we're not seeing that. So when you see these comments
where they say get your child or else, you gonna
understand that you're gonna be burying your child.
Speaker 4 (48:56):
It's serious.
Speaker 3 (48:59):
It's serious because if you think that I went through
as much as I've gone through as a single mom
to pave the way for my children, I don't wanna
let somebody else drag me and her. That's not finna happen.
That's not gonna happen. And some of y'all parents need
to get with your children instead of hey, yeah yeah,
when I come out, I'm not even finna. I can't
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do it. I'm not gonna impersonate ignorance. What I'm telling
you is teach your child to keep their hands to
they self, keep your child to respect their elders so
that stuff like this don't go viral, and teach and
show our culture.
Speaker 4 (49:36):
The girl who was recording it and one to aim
because she on tape, Aim.
Speaker 3 (49:42):
Now we know who you are. I hope you're charged
as an accomplice.
Speaker 4 (49:48):
I do.
Speaker 3 (49:49):
I hope you are, because how dare you jump on
a mother and her child? You are disrespectful and yo,
mama didn't teach you right, because after these girls jumped
on me, they respected my mama enough. And when my
mama showed up and said, I just want to know
do we have a problem, and.
Speaker 4 (50:09):
They said it didn't have nothing to do with her.
Speaker 3 (50:11):
Mama said, I just want to make sure because if
it is a problem and squash it now, it wasn't her, ma'am.
Is what they said, ma'am. They didn't jump on me
and my mama when I showed up at their house.
And if you watch The Perfect Neighbor, as I'm showing
my daughter about how to do things right, The Perfect
Neighbor on Netflix shows you want to show up at.
Speaker 4 (50:29):
Somebody else unarmed.
Speaker 3 (50:32):
Unfortunately, and I'm not bringing that up to glorify what's
going on and what happened, but unfortunately that mother showed
up in defense to her child and was unable.
Speaker 4 (50:42):
So one thing that my daughter and mom, I know
you ro roth.
Speaker 3 (50:45):
For me, but can you please if I forget something
something happened, don't show up.
Speaker 4 (50:49):
I let her know I'm smart. First of all, I'm
not showing up to somebody's door unprotected. I'm not. Ever,
if you.
Speaker 3 (50:58):
See this face at your door, not unprotected. Okay, first
and foremost. Secondly, if I have to show up to
your door for my child, you better be protected.
Speaker 4 (51:11):
This is crazy. Respect my children, come and talk to me,
and children.
Speaker 3 (51:16):
Respect your elders. Go tell your mama. One thing I
told my daughter is.
Speaker 4 (51:21):
You will not disrespect an elder.
Speaker 3 (51:23):
If you feel intimidated, you feel disrespected, you come and
tell the weight class.
Speaker 4 (51:29):
Because I'm ready to go.
Speaker 3 (51:31):
And I feel really passionate about this because as I'm
watching these videos, y'all don't even know, I'm shedding real
tears about how the other people could feel. The parents
would feel about what I'm gonna do to their children
if they approach me like this, or they approach my
children like this and I'm around, I could I.
Speaker 4 (51:52):
Shed real tears for the parents that say you through
my childhead through a window. I did. I did. I
was threatened, my child was threatened.
Speaker 2 (52:01):
I did.
Speaker 3 (52:03):
I'm not sorry when it comes to protecting me in minds,
when it comes to it pulling a pew pew, I
don't feel bad when I'm protecting me in minds, and
like I explained to somebody, you mad because I'm a pully.
Speaker 4 (52:18):
I'm mad because you're a bully.
Speaker 3 (52:20):
It's just as easy for me to pull something as
it is for you to leave us alone.
Speaker 4 (52:25):
What are you doing? Stay to yourself? And I'm done
with that.
Speaker 3 (52:31):
So again know this, I will protect my children like
these other women and families have protected theirs, And so
it's best for you to like these girls jump on me,
but they knew to respect my mama. Teach your children
how to respect people's mamas. You have to catch them
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on another slide on another day, you catch them on
another squabble up.
Speaker 4 (52:56):
You do not do that in front of their moms.
You don't have enough respect.
Speaker 3 (53:00):
Then you gonna feel it, and your mama needs to
understand that you had to feel it because you was
there that day disrespecting.
Speaker 4 (53:06):
And that is that.
Speaker 3 (53:07):
On that before I get way too emotional about how
I feel on that, please when they say teach your
kids how to keep their hands to theyself, at least
teach them how to respect it. And on the flip
side of that, you know I seen the older sister
of that whole situation that jumped on me and my
guys start seeing her. About two years later, at a
gas station, young lady walked up and tapped on my
car window and apologized to me and told me how
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she realized that that shouldn't have went down like that
that day, and how she's teaching her kids, who were
younger kids at that time. But I'm seeing them hop
out and going to the gas station, that she's teaching
her kids how to make better decisions, and where I
could be like beeling.
Speaker 4 (53:46):
I'm trying not to cus but beeling because.
Speaker 3 (53:49):
You made that no, because she didn't have to see
me apologize to me and even speak them words about
how she making sure that them.
Speaker 4 (53:58):
Kids make better decisions.
Speaker 3 (53:59):
Already know that she know how to respect somebody mama,
because she did it to mine. But if the better
decision is when you got a problem with somebody, you
don't let somebody else feed into it and make you
do some stuff, because that's how it happened. And again,
those who are there and know about the situation, you
ain't got it even validate it for the comments. I mean,
we got receipts, but it was foul. But I can
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salute the young ladies who respected my mother enough to
not jump on me while she was there, not jump
on my brother because one of the things that one
of the other brothers said is, uh, y'all jumped on her.
Speaker 4 (54:33):
Her family's showing up.
Speaker 3 (54:34):
They got a right to be here, That's what I'm
talking about.
Speaker 4 (54:40):
Clock that stuff.
Speaker 3 (54:42):
We had every right to be there because y'all jumped
on me for no reason. And yes, I did bring
my mama back to the seene of the crime, in
which my daughter don't ever want to do that for me,
and I get it because we're not showing up to
somebody's house. That's what I'm teaching my daughter. But it's
about Oh, I knew something was wrong, and my mama
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knew something was wrong, and she said, if there's a problem,
we gonna solve it. Y'all gonna go. Y'all gonna squabble
up on one on one with my daughter. But the
jump in her ain't never gonna happen again. And that's
how that got resolved, for them to respect her enough
to say it wasn't even about her. She jumped in
and she was helping to help whatever the case may be.
And that's what had happened with that. So I'm just saying,
(55:23):
if your kids had at least enough decency and respect,
they couldnot touch, keep.
Speaker 4 (55:30):
Their hand to theyself.
Speaker 3 (55:31):
And when your kids are defending themselves, understand, man, you
gotta hear the whole story. There's Carmelo and a whole
bunch of other people that are defending themselves, defending not
even standing their ground. It's not your ground, to be real,
God owns it all. You can walk away off that ground.
You can if you can get away, Like Georgia says,
(55:52):
if you can get away, you're supposed to and that's
how they charge you. Message for those who didn't know
Georgia say, if you can get away and you don't,
even in retaliation or protection, you're still charged. So if
you can get away, that's staying your ground. Ain't ain't
even like come on, like, just be smart. Don't be
(56:14):
so strategic and trying to take somebody down. Be smart
about how to bring yourself up. That's the bottom line
to that. So again, I'm gonna get off of that.
That was just about touching into that because that has
gone to a viral and I felt so passionate about
it that I just had to talk on that, and
let y'all know that I'm one of them mamas. I
squabble up and I got two daughters in school.
Speaker 4 (56:41):
Please leave them alone.
Speaker 3 (56:43):
They are concentrated, focused, excelling, and I'm pretty sure that
that becomes a target for some of y'all. Don't be
my target, and that's just fair, And that's just fair.
Teach your kids how parents feel, too, hey, And when
I teach my kids the same way, you feel something
about another student when you go to react, understand that
(57:05):
they may tell their parents.
Speaker 4 (57:06):
So let's talk to a counselor let's try to resolve.
Speaker 3 (57:09):
And they may seem like the punkish way, but I'm
trying to tell you it's the best way to live. Okay,
all right, So last, but not least, And I'm gonna
go ahead and wrap this up because I'm getting ooh,
I gotna pass my time.
Speaker 4 (57:22):
But I hope y'all stuck long enough to hear this.
Speaker 3 (57:25):
And if you didn't hear it, trust and believe I
will reiterate it at another time. I want to go
ahead and let the cat out the bag, since somebody
already let his head out. Unfortunately, I can't even say
unfortunately because I've had a great run. But let's go
(57:46):
ahead and do this bad to business. We'll no longer
be with the Crew podcast. I was kind of waiting
on that news, but like I said, since the cat
has already been let out the bag, let me go
ahead and let y'all know what's going on. Jazz and
I are starting a new project and doing new things.
Different things coming up. And although I have enjoyed my
(58:08):
great time at the group podcast, let me tell you
these women, we got a new The Kings of the
Airways Zachary Williams. You're phenomenal. I love the way that
you express yourself and do what you do. The Queens
have really taught me about resilience and how to keep going.
And if you've been following, I lost my dad this year.
(58:30):
It was really hard. Letting go of him was like
letting go of my mom that passed four years ago,
all over again. I felt like as long as he
was married to her, she was still somewhat alive.
Speaker 4 (58:40):
So when he passed, it was just a whole nother
world for me.
Speaker 3 (58:44):
But if you follow the podcast, go back, see what's
going on and follow me, you know, see what the
journey's been like and so I have been brought to
now this journey and God has told me that the
Crew Podcast has been very good to me and good
for me, but it is time for me to venture
(59:04):
out into some other things.
Speaker 4 (59:05):
So it's not a bad thing.
Speaker 3 (59:08):
I love what they've done for me, and I hope
that if they have room for me in another season,
I could come back and kind of do some things.
But I know that I could not commit to the
great things that they want to do and how they're
structuring things. And man, y'all stay with the Crew Podcast
as they getting ready to do some phenomenal things. But
this is my time to kind of venture off. I
(59:29):
hope that everybody can still follow me. Like I said,
I will give links and other things to the things
that you can follow me.
Speaker 2 (59:35):
On, but we will.
Speaker 3 (59:38):
Jazz and I will be doing a departure from the
Crew Podcast, and I hope that you will follow us
on the other adventures we go on.
Speaker 4 (59:45):
So while Jazz is taking her break.
Speaker 3 (59:47):
Away and doing her things to do, I can't wait
to follow up with her, and hopefully the next time
I see you guys, I'll be following up with Jazz
and she tells you all about her fantastic journey and
her wonderful testimony about what God is doing with her
and how he is a god of on time. I
just it's not my story to tell, and it's still unveiling,
so I can't wait for y'all to follow. But like
(01:00:10):
I said, I will be sending out the links and
doing all the things that we need to get y'all
to follow up and hopefully support us on what we're doing.
But as for now, I am going to close this
out and I just thank y'all for joining me tonight
and allowing me to be, you know, vulnerable and a
little emotional about things, and this is a part of
(01:00:31):
me becoming who I need to be.
Speaker 4 (01:00:36):
Thank you so much for joining me.
Speaker 3 (01:00:38):
I love you all, and I can't wait to see
you on the next episode of Bad Tube Business.
Speaker 4 (01:00:42):
I am shining Saffron. See you later.
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