September 8, 2025 • 46 mins
literacy, defined
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Well, good evening, good evening, good evening, and.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Welcome to another fabulous opportunity of dialogue, information fellowship.
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How are you doing? Trey Tray all the way away
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He's doing well.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
It's definitely getting cooler, but you know, I like the
hotter weather, so but I'll take it.
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Okay, you see, Okay, she's got to get back into
the floor. Anyway.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Let's pray, Father God, We just thanking, we praise you,
We give your glory. Lord, You're just so wonderful, You're
just amazing, and we just thank you for your grace,
your mercy, your peace. We thank you for shedding the
blood on the cross. We thank you for just your
mercy and just allowing us to just exist, exist and
to dwell in your presence on another day, the eighth
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day of the month of the ninth month, and we
thank you for all that is to come.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Now.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Lord, we know that folks have suffered losses and every
stay around the world, and we we we have a
moment of silence for them shortly, and you just asked
that you give them peace that passes all the understanding.
That's all I could say. Folks that are being admitted
into hospitals and and and and not looked at after
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and all kinds of things are happening on every end
right now, Father God, please have your way. We know
that the Bible has.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
To be told, it has to roll itself out.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
It's gonna hurt, it's gonna bewildered people, it's gonna confuse people.
But Lord have your way. You know that you're the
author and the finisher of the faith. You're the beginning
and the end, and you do.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
So well with the end between Now, Lord, we get
behind the cross.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
This is your podcast. This is your opportunity to speak
to your people.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
We love you.
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uh uh that has that has had their hands on
this show, on.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
This podcast over these months, over these years. We love
you so much. We forever give you all the praise,
glory and honor and the mighty matchless name of Jesus Christ.
Amen and Amen.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Well.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I pray that everybody's well.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I pray that your Labor day was well, that for
those who could take off that day. That you're always
need to be doing self reflection.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
You always need to be.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Doing some sort of self reflection, looking at where you
are now, looking at where you want to be, and not.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
So much reflecting on yesterday.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
You don't want to get caught looking back for too long,
because then you'll be reminded of yesterday and where there
was no progress, where there was pain, where there was hurt.
You got to look forward now. You got to look
forward now. And I pray that the days of blaming
people it's over. We need to come together as a nation.
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We need to come together as neighborhoods, community. It's just
time out for the ridiculous stuff that's not going to
get you anywhere. It's time out for talking about age,
old history and things like that. Where there was no progress.
We need to look at our world today. Where are
we today? Where do we need to be?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Amen? Where do we need to be? And we need
to be reflecting on that. Amen.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Hey, missy, don't stall. Keep pushing to you exactly. Amen, Misty,
you got to keep walking forward. It is painful, and
sometimes your body is racked with pain, your head is hurting,
your you're like, you know, your bills are not making
ends meet, and you're working all these jobs and you're
not happy and they but you've got to get up
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and make it another day.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
If you're able to see the sun.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Rise on the eighth and you're able to see the
sun go down today, you need to be able to
keep moving. There is hope, There is hope despite what's
going on in the world. And I know that's a
bitter pill to swallow, but we have to keep moving.
We have to keep going. And because over that horizon,
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over that rainbow, God's rainbow, there is hope. There are
more choices, there's opportunities, and you got to hear them
in a stage of.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Thank you, very true, amen, thank you, in a stagia.
You got to keep moving.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I've ran into some people just that, and I can
look at them and I can tell that they're about
to give up, They're about to give up, and I
know it's close. I know it's close. I can only imagine.
I can remember days. But I don't stay back there.
I don't keep running that as a film projector in
my mind of where.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Things used to be, how things used to be, I
don't do that. I build on the Those are.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Stairsteps for me to go on, to encourage me to
be better, to be a better person. I don't know
how many times I've spoke to people this week is
last week about being just a get to your best
you find out who your best you is, And yeah,
that means you have to change. That means that you
have to go get more education, get certifications, whatever.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
It is just just I mean, you've got enough.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
We've got enough tools on between.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Social media, Google AI all that to get you know,
to better yourself. You want to learn something, make it research,
go about doing it, go about doing it.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
I had to talk to several people, especially last week,
about encouraging them. Go get a kid, a teenage bible,
Go get a one year Bible, you know, because you've
got to know this word because what's here, what's unfolding
every day. If you don't have scripture to encourage you,
there's no medication that's gonna do it. There's no group
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of friends. You're losing your friends.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
People are not keeping in touch with you.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
You got to let relationships go because it's a heavy load.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
You gotta keep moving. You gotta be encouraged.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
And we're gonna talk about tonight's We're gonna talk about
tonight's you know, a topic on international literacy, and God's
gonna take it.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
A couple of ways. But we'll get to that in
a minute.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
But I just I did feel this heaviness yesterday and
as I was thinking about the show, and I did
think about it, but I lost time today for some reason.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
But you know, it's just God said, tell.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
My people, you gotta trust me. Tell my people I
have not given up on them. This has to roll out,
it has to happen. I don't know if you've ever
been in calall where he just took an exam, right,
and all of a sudden, a lot of the students
didn't do well on the test. So the teacher's like, well,
I'm gonna have to you know, we're gonna have to do.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I'll have to.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Shift the grade a little bit because most of you
all didn't pass.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
And you're sitting there like what that was easy? And
some of you did pass.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
So then all of a sudden, we all got to
take the hit for it for those who didn't pack.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
And now you got to shift the grade, which makes
my score lower. I'd get a B. I get an
eighty nine, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
But now he's got to recalibrate the grades and my grade,
my number comes there because we got He didn't like
the fact that everybody faked Moost. The majority of the
class exam went to the library on Saturday. Okay, Mickey,
they have programs people could enjoy.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
And we talked about the library last year when we were,
you know, celebrating Library Month and everything Book Week and
all that kind of stuff, and yes, I know here.
You know, go for information. You need to be informed.
You need not to be scared of information. You need
not to be scared of knowledge. The first two three
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chapters of the Book of Psalms or Proverbs talk about
and you're getting get understanding and get knowledge. And you're
getting knowledge, get understanding. You have some people who are
real BookSmart, but you can't have a conversation with them.
You don't know what they say what And they're all
up here and you're like, no, that wasn't the situation.
You know, you need to come down here, need to
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come down here, get grounded. Who are you? What's your next?
And we've been talking about this for years. What is
your next? And don't be afraid to ask God. It
may not come, it may not look like what you want.
He may say, I'm going to enlarge your territory. Years ago,
the Jabaz prayer was gonna enlarge your territory.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Everybody, Oh, I'm gonna get I'm gonna get land.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I'm gonna get my God said, well, I didn't really
specify how I'm gonna enlarge it. But you're thinking you're
gonna get land. You're thinking you're gonna get a marriage
and have a whole bunch of money. You're thinking that
you're gonna have a bunch of kids.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
You're thinking. God said, I, no, I really let me.
Let me check my record.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
You know, and I have to tell somebody you know today,
don't don't tell God how to bless.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
You.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Don't tell God how to bless you get your feelings
hurt God. If you for me, you know you're gonna
you're gonna make sure I get this. I get this
this job interview, I get this job. If you ain't
gossipd well, I really don't think I need you over there.
I really don't think that's for you because it's only
a six month program. It's only a six month job.
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I didn't create you to just be on a temporary basis.
I do have something for you. It's gonna be one
thousand dollars less, and you're not gonna even have an office.
You're gonna be right there in the lobby with everybody else.
But this is what I have for you because of
the lives that you have to reach. So please, as
you're praying.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Put out what you want you need from God, you
could ask him. I was just sharing today. That's one
of the most precious things.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
I had to learn the hard way because I wasn't
you know, I didn't have bad things, but you know,
you get yourself in a situation, financial buying and whatever,
and all of a sudden, I got to go to
God and I got to ask God. I can't get
out of this. I can't work another job. I don't
know what else to do. All my gold is in
the pawn shop. I don't know what else to do.
I hate to come to you.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
He's like, why do you hate to come to me?
That's what I'm here for.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
To relieve you of the burden, to show you what
I have for you. Before your mother's womb knew you
were coming. I've got all of this for you, but
you don't ask me for it. He thrives on that period. No,
but he thrives on his children coming to him and
reaching out to him and crying out to him, travailing
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out to him. I can't do this without your Lord,
I can't do this without you.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
And guess what, I.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Don't want to do it without you because you've already
paid the way. I can't even see it as a parent.
You know, I talked to my kids, I trained my kids.
I know some of the bumps in the road that
they're gonna encounter, I know them. But there are times
I have to be silent and sit there and hold
myself and rock myself and say God, please be with
me as my babies go through, Please help me. You know,
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when they're going off to college, even though we're right
here be Liensia, you see, they don't. They don't want
to hear from the parents unless you have to pay
out a pocket. They separate us at orientation. Parents, you
go there, students, you're over here, and I'm like, well,
I need to hear what you're telling them.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Now. We got you here.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
And if you're if you're paying, you know, if you're
gonna do students Stafford loans, you can sit here. But
if not, you have a nice saying wait a minute,
I drove all the way out here. I need to say.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
No, I'm not gonna we can't together. I'm not going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
So I go and buy me something to eat and
then my baby going through stuff and all this kind
of stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
And a political person uh wrote on her Facebook.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Oh uc F and Valencia are the lowest paid schools.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I said, huh. I had to lean in on that one.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Excuse me, I said, uh no, I have an active
student there and they're messing up her faster for not
giving her her student aid money. So I don't know,
well how they Well, I spoke with the so I
don't even know who the person is. I guess either President,
I don't know who. I spoke with him at breakfast,
and that's what he told me. I said, well, that's
what that's your reality, but mine, our realness is totally different.
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You don't play with folks money.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
Now.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
The kids already, the students already got pressure, they got
to understand. And the teachers and professor's over there. I
don't know what trip they're on, but everybody's going through.
I was listening looking at social or chain chat, and
and and and my my fellow colleagues are they're they're
offering out there. They don't know what to do for
their patients or their clients. They're not getting paid adequately.
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They got families, they got the feed. They don't know
what to do, and I'm looking at them like and
nobody's offering relief. People like, well you got you got
to keep trying. No, can we pray? Do you have
a praying circle? Do you have somebody that can go
in and do prayer with you? And I you know,
I'm disregarded. Oh wait, this is not that type of platform.
Oh okay, I'm right now. But yet you want my membership,
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but you're exiting out my god, but I'm supposed to
pay you to be a member. Had a conversation with
a young lady Blend. I know, I shocked the heck
out of her, and she's like, well, we understand your
membership is due now and we'd just like to see
how we can help you do it. I said, well,
already got it in prayer, I said, before I talk
about me being a minister, before I talk about me
being a chaplain, I talk about me being a social worker.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I am proud to be a social worker. But you
all have done a great disservice to me.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Your mind, your landscape is you know, your portraits are
on a different wavelength. You're concerned about gender issues and stuff.
You're concerned about my a person of faith, so I
was supposed to still pay you to reject me, to
treat me indifferently.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I said, no, I got it up in prayer.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I'll wait to see what he says, but I don't
think he's gonna have me pay a two hundred dollars membership.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
And you're not meeting my needs. And I'm good with that.
I'm fine. I'm not angry, I'm not mad.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
But when you're the president over in an organization, even
when you're the president of a country, you're the governor
of a city, you're over people, whether you like us
or not. You have to listen to their points. You
got to listen to their concerns. When I was a
PTA president, I was thinking about that for for over
fifteen years, twenty years living in Orlando. I didn't necessarily
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like the principles. I didn't like the assistant principal. Some
of the parents got on my nerves. But when we
had a meeting, I had to hear, what are your concerns.
My teachers came to the meeting, what are your concerns.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I don't have to like you.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
You voted me in to do a job and that's
how I look at our elective officials. I voted for you,
So you need to listen to me. You don't have
to like what I'm gonna say, and we don't have
to have lunch.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
But you need to listen. And now you know we're
celebrating it. Boy. Sorry guys, International Literacy Day? What does
that mean? You need to be literate.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
You need to understand community. You need to understand culture.
You need to and culture is not so much diversity ethnicity.
I'm talking about culture. How I raise my children versus
how my sister raised her kid. That's culture. That's family culture.
You have to understand that we're different people. You can't
put us all in one you know, one bag. I
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do things differently from everybody else, based on my experiences,
based on my prayer life, based on the Holy Spirit
guiding me, based on my trauma, based on my being
a therapist, and listening to other folks issues and mistakes
and progress.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
But let me let's go to literacy.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
You don't want to say anything before I move into
talking about international literacy?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Come on that, come on, say something. I know you
got to say.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Something about literacy or just just what you were.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Talking about in general what we were talking about in
general first, and then we're gonna hop into We're gonna
go into literacy real deep.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
I mean, I think you you you pretty much hit
it on the head tonight. So yeah, people are in
a different place right now. So when we move into
the literacy, I think, you know, talking more, you know,
learning about culture and educating yourself. You know, it looks
differently to different people. You know, culture is everywhere, culture
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in the workplace, culture and the community culture at home.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
You know, just like we were talking about with families.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Everything has different values and beliefs and maybe understanding. And
I think if we learn more about each other's culture
to find out what you know, what's working and one
you can share values and you might find out that
you have more in common than not. And I think
that's what's wrong. That's what's wrong with us as a
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country right now. Everyone is afraid based on what they're
hearing and where they're hearing things from, which is making
them afraid? And and I you know, sometimes I want
to task look at your Facebook pages, you know, see
check out your Facebook pages or the platforms that you
have TikTok or Instagram or whatever. And see if there's
any diversity in your followers or people that you are following.
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And if you're following people that just look like you
and have your same beliefs, how are you learning and growing?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
And so I'll wait too.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
So well, that's the age old thing, you know. You
you got to fan out. I mean, depending on what
you're doing. I'm sure in your workspace. I mean there
are situations where they're you know, your colleagues may look
just like you.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
But they're not you.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
You're not you know, you have different beliefs, you have
different things that worked for you, You have different traumas,
you have different experiences, you have different mishaps.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
You have different successes too, you know.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
So anyway, International Literacy Day is the United Nations. United
Nations is responsible for this recognition and it falls on
September eighth to raise people's awareness of and concern for
literacy issues in the world. International Literacy Day highlights the
importance of literacy in areas such as health and education.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
They couldn't get off of that.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
It's all about health and education, understanding and because the
medical world just keeps rolling out different things you just
don't know. And the food industry. You know, now you
shouldn't be eating or drinking soy. You know, no, you
can have two eggs a day now, you know. It's
just it's you know, you're getting all this information based
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on maybe one or two folks having a reaction to stuff.
Then all of a sudden, the world wants to change
everything now like no, find out what works for you.
I thought it was interesting they they promote the day
to underline the significance of literacy for healthy societies, with
a strong emphasis on epidemics and communicable diseases.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Such as HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Well the United States, we don't suffer from malaria, but
that's their third health issue when they talk about adult literacy.
So I thought something. I mean and just literacy as
a whole. But I thought this was interesting.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
The let me get them the uh where did it go? Okay?
Speaker 3 (20:36):
United States? Hang on, guys, let me get that. I
don't know why. Uh oh, the devil is crazy? United States?
No not justice?
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Mmm.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Well, anyway, I thought it was interesting.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
That the United States and immigration folks had a whole different,
uh view of what they expect for Okay, when when
folks are trying to get their their citizenship, and they
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stress the fact that it's in their on their Facebook page.
They stress the fact that we need you to understand.
We're not just giving you the freedom here the benefits.
You've got to come in and promise that you will
learn the culture of America.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
You will learn the language, and you'll be able to
speak it fluently.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
And you will abide by the laws and expectations before
you take this oath.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
And I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
And I'm sorry it's the devil because I had it
all pulled up and everything, and then all of a sudden,
I can't find it on my face and I followed.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Them, so, but yeah, I read that. I read it twice.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I was like, wait a minute, what Wow, this is
what they expect folks to be able to.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
You come in it. You know this, You need to
This is what we expect of you. And and and.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Rightfully, so, you need to understand the language, You need
to understand community, you need to understand our definitions.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
That food pyramid has flipped so much it may as
well be a ball.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Yeah, thank you, mickey. Yeah, because you don't know what
what can we eat today?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
That's all you know.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I'm just can you tell me what we can eat today?
And I won't break out in anything, you know, But
you're right. And then again, we're listening to people, and
we're listening. You know, we were taught, we were raised,
and listen to our elders, those who are in position,
those who are educated, those are who's supposed to, you know,
know this stuff, and make not so much make us
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feel better, but at least be able to communicate to
us what's what's important and what's not. But like I said,
I mean, I went to have an exam done, a
test done to make sure the blood's flowing in my body.
And the technician was so nice, and I said, yeah,
they And we've got to talking about how medical expectations
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have changed over the years because of technology. I said, yeah,
Look at CPR. I was a trainer for the Red
Cross CPR. You had to do ten chess compressions and
two you know, two breaths and you had to count
it out and everything.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Well that's changed now. And she said, now you take
the test.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
You take it four times a year, and it takes
you about fifteen minutes because.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Now they got it.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
The chess cavity on the wall and you're pushing on it,
and they can tell you if you're doing correct chess compressions.
I said, what happened to the little fellow that we
had to get on the floor and almost break his
rib his plastic ribs. No, we don't have that anymore,
I said, Oh my god, but it's been eons of
years and that I did that, and then I even
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needed a CPR card.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Now I'll just tell you I can't help you choking.
I can't help you.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
I'll call down one one and I can pray for you,
but I ain't touching you because I am not certified.
But you know it's you need to be. You want
to be well informed. You need to know what's going on.
And that's why on some of my pages I put
out there some of these folks who are talking about
inside information, so you'll know where stuff is coming from.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Some people like to just stay in a hole. They
don't want to learn anything.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
They don't want to learn about technology, they don't want
to learn how to use a computer. They get the
phones because that's the only way people can communicate with them,
but they get they all upset about it. I don't
I don't know how to use this phone. I don't
know where these things are of it, And I'm like, oh, lord, person,
you gotta you know, we got to be able to
reach you, We got to be able to talk to you.
So it's okay, it's not a threat. Knowledge is not
(24:33):
a threat. Do they aldways not work anywhere anymore? And
a station I don't even know, I still say that,
I'm I'm what's that? What's the saying? I'm old school?
And I really mean that. I'm old school on a
lot of things. I'm very much aware of modern technology.
I keep myself informed. I took a survey today for
(24:54):
you you dot gov, and I've been taking surveys with
them for years and and it was about you know,
so how do you how do you keep it formed?
And how often do you do it? Do you do
it on your phone? Do you do it on your computer?
What social media platforms do you use? Yeah, and somebody
go ahead trade for here.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
No, it's interesting you said that because one of the
things is is now now they're moving towards AI, and
so now you can't don't know what I mean. Some
stuff are okay, all right, that's AI. But sometimes some
stuff you just really don't know what to believe. You know,
there are a lot of people scamming folks left and right,
you know, doing If people spend half the time that
(25:38):
they're trying to get over or scam and if they
use their brains for good, we would be in a
lot better place. But too busy trying to hack stuff. Yeah,
and it's scary. So I think people are scared to touch.
Take the CPR with the older way, it's not working anymore.
CPR has changed, so the compressions I think are they're quicker,
(26:02):
they're more rapid, and it's more of them to to breath,
so you don't it's not like it is.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
It's not like it used to be.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
And I think it's I want to say, it's thirty
fast compressions in one breath.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Uh, and then that's repetitive.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
So yeah, it has changed since I remember taking it
as well, but we still use it's not the whole, yes,
it's the little chess thing. And then I think we
do the child CPR that that's different. I don't know
we did that growing up or years ago. But I
remember the adults Annie and hitting you know upside wherever
(26:36):
you hit them, Okay.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
You know, Yeah, it was a lot of a lot of.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Little stuff that you had to kind of Okay, this
feels weird, but I know I got to do it.
So but it's it's it depends on where you get
your your information. And I say that, you know, it's
it's funny, we're talking about literacy. But if you ask
a group of people that watched this particular platform, you
get that answer. If you watch people that watch that
(27:04):
particular platform, you get the other answer. And oddly enough,
if you watch what the reporting on, one of them
leans closer to the truth than the other one. The
other one is I don't know what they leading forwards
and a lot I'm not trying to be funny, but
I said, well, what are people watching?
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Do they do?
Speaker 5 (27:21):
They not know? And a lot of times they don't
know because they don't really want to know, because I
want to see what.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Other people are saying. Whether I like the news station
or not.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
You need to know what people are watching because that's
what makes people afraid when people here. Okay, so if
you've never then I say that I'm jumping all over
the place.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
But say that when you're on the Facebook.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
If I have people on my Facebook, page that look
like me, different nationalities, racist, religions, beliefs, you know, all genders.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
You know, that's what my Facebook circle looks like.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
And so I find myself trying to learn and understand
why people do or their beliefs.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Because I want to understand.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
I don't want to be a literature I don't want
to be afraid walking around of a group of people
that that is scary. But if I understand it, you know,
that's you. You know, if this is your belief, this
is your belief. At the end of the day, God's
gonna judge us all. And so I don't have time
to sit there and judge other people by their beliefs,
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particularly now I might not agree with it, but I.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Still want to know.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
I don't want to be ill informed and be afraid
of people that don't believe in what I believe in. Now,
you know, it's crazy as crazy, as crazy as crazy.
And I'm not talking about mental health phrase, I'm just
talking about crazy crazy, Like where did you get that
thought from?
Speaker 2 (28:51):
You know?
Speaker 5 (28:51):
So I think we need to know more about cultures, races, religions,
and whatever.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Else there needs to know.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
And like I said, I think we will find out
we have more in common than good. If all of
us walked around with a black hood on our face
and couldn't see anything and just had conversations with people.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
I wish we could do that.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
Just make the room dark, you can't see anything, distort
the voices, and just have a conversation about something, have
a topic of conversation about something, and whenever the lights
are turned on and the voices, he said, wow, I
was having a conversation with you. I didn't realize that. Yeah,
because you're too busy trying to look at something that
you think you're seeing and determine this is the just
(29:34):
because they look or saying certain things, this is definitely
or act a certain way, I'm sorry, or beliefs, so
you know that. That's my passion. I just wish we
knew more history. I think people need to know read history,
you know, read it, read about it, read the read.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Good the bad, and yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Read the good the bad, and you might not like it,
but you'll learn something. But don't just try to erase
and say it didn't happen.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
So one best topic of AI. Our professors now want
us to use it more than ever. And I was
confused when I've seen it on my syllabus like use
AI and stuff like don't be afraid to use it,
and I'm like, okay, we're not using our actual knowledge
on certain topics anymore. And I actually would use, like
(30:23):
for one of my math classes or whatever, I used
AI to check my answer because usually I just do
it by myself without any cheating or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
And AI was wrong.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
And it's crazy that a lot of people rely on
and although you know it's they're still working to develop
it and make it better than ever.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
And stuff like that. But although she.
Speaker 6 (30:43):
Was speaking on old ways as far as CPR and
stuff like that, I feel like the old ways is
just much better than the new ways because even when
I'm writing my notes, a lot of my classmates they
use like online apps to like write it on their
iPads and stuff. I need pen and paper to do
stuff because it's like like I'm not gonna I can't
stay at the.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Screen all day and everything like that.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
And literally, as a whole, I just feel like, you know,
these are the knowledge and skills that are needed to
make informed decisions and to secure better future, just being
knowledgeable overall.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
So yeah, that's a good.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
Ooh oh, I got I got something. Oh no, no, no,
I was listening to mistake and when she was.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Saying using the computers, Ms. Gray, do you remember the
times of Cyclopedia? That's all we had. There was nothing
else and the cyclope And.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
If it wasn't that, where else am I supposed to
find this information?
Speaker 4 (31:37):
You know exactly just late at night. You can't get
to the library.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
You know, that's real weak.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
That's what we had out and it was a reference
book and you couldn't take it out of the library.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
You had to sit in there and go through those pages.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
You can't know what you high like nothing, and you
had to sit down there and write your notes and
copy it word for word, you copy it paragraphs or
man your parents born, but they first set up Encyclopedia.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
So I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
Yeah, yeah, it was, it was. It was. It was
not that was different. But I appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
And I never understood what the library to do it
decimal system. I know my sister did, and I know
it was there, but I never truly understand it. But
I remember having to go to the library to the
car five picked the car and try to find that
particular book. It was different, and I think now older
ways are better because you don't do cursive anymore. I
(32:35):
learned cursive in third grade. We started learning cursive in
third grade. And my thing is the other thing is
okay older ways. Oh I had my thought. I lost it,
but I think getting away, we didn't have miss grave.
Remember our toys didn't talk unless we made it talk.
We didn't have battery put.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
In the back up. We had to move the mouth
or backt like we were behind. I make a walk
in aff walk exactly.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
So we had to use creative stuff and and and
the calculator. I think we start. We didn't use a
calculator till later, but I still didn't trust it, like addition,
you know stuff.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
I know you need the calculator with but that general.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
Math, yeah, long math, you know, we we had to
learn that. And right now short because if you asked
me to do a shortcut, I couldn't tell you to
do it. I still have to write it out because
I need to know how I got the answer. So
that's a that's a different way of things, you know. Yeah,
oh we crossed this.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
I said, what are you doing? That's the new math?
I said, how do you do that. I couldn't have boxes,
I said, are the box is going?
Speaker 6 (33:47):
They are so though, because I have my tutor students.
And my student was like, you know, I'm annoy it
with my classes and I'm like why she's in elementary
and she was like, that's cursive and now we're learning.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
I don't know how to write that. You know it's easy.
I said, I did it in school, so you can
do it.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
So taught yourself. Yeah, how are you writing cursor? We
can't understand what you're saying in the cursing.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
And I'm like, man, I couldn't wait to learn cursor.
I couldn't. I was dropping. We were writing that is
the circle stuff. Before I learned how to learn it
just was Yeah, it's an art. I wish. I wish
people would still just pick up.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
It's always good because you're gonna have to sign your checks.
It's a you know, I know that we're moving away
from doing that, but there is a time where you
might have to sign a check and you need to
have something that's different than nobody else can duplicate.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
You know. It's people just understand. In the take free
book section of the Hey Ky, you should have just
taken on because they're ancient.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Now those are antiques you could have got, so you
could have gone, man, it should have taken over. Yeah,
I mean those it's just it's just amazing how far
were coming. We appreciate technology, We appreciate it. You know,
God created those scientists and those creativity people, those IT people.
(35:17):
He created them to have that interest in learning more.
But it gets perverted, it gets it gets you make
it dark now because I mean, now you got people
who totally depending, who are totally addicted to AI. Now
you've got people making relationships out of AI robots and
all that kind of stuff and don't want to there's
a group now, there's a whole group of them now
(35:39):
that just this is my boyfriend and he's a robot.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
And I'm like, okay, and I'm not touching.
Speaker 6 (35:44):
I'm glad.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
I'm retiring from therapy. I'm three months going on now.
Nobody has called me for that, Thank you Jesus, because
I will not deal with that. I don't wouldn't even
know how to deal with somebody coming in who's addicted
to their robot, who's addicted to their computer, who's addicted
to a I you know, and and and and just
like with everything is to enhance, it's to make you
(36:06):
get better and to be better. But it's not for
you to idolize it. It's not that hey, okay, yes,
the cyclopedia. We need School House Rock.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
Yes, really, I love school. I love school. Grandma's not
your grammars your grammar.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Yes, yes, yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
And we need street back were not with perverted people,
but we need Sesame Street bag, you know, and you
tell me how to get how to get to Sesame Street.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
That's a whole different.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
It was and it was engaging. It wasn't something that
was being thrown at the kids. And okay, you entertain
It wasn't entertainment. It was creativity time. You're gonna learn this.
You're gonna learn how to how Oscar the grouching and
and Ernie and all those folks got along and you know,
community and how everybody was different.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
You learn things you know you just didn't. It wasn't
just thrown at people. And I think that this technology
now has taken away the creativity piece in the sense
that you're not allowing me to sit and say, now,
how can I use this? How can I use this?
And and and why is it like that.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
And I'm sure you all have been on Microsoft, I
mean on social on Facebook, and you see Microsoft made
a big announcement of about a week ago.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
We've been we found matter. We've been working with it
for over a year. So we can control it. These
are their words.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
Now we can control it, and we're gonna place it
on a chip and we're gonna put in a computer
and it's going to out Max are supercomputers that are
in different countries. Now, they tell me the supercomputers are
as long as what fifty school forty to fifty school
buses lined up, And I do know that there's one
in Australia that's the super Compute. So they found something.
(37:53):
They don't open up a wormhole somewhere. And then now
you're talking and I said this the other person to
a person the other day. I said, you've opened up
a hole somewhere. You reached in there and you got something,
but you've forgotten to close the whole back. Now we
got people walking around here saying they singing aliens and stuff.
And you know, I've watched enough Star Trek, I'm watching
(38:13):
up Galaxy stuff. I know you open up a hole,
you don't close it something coming through. That's all I'm
gonna say. That's all I'm going to say. But now
you're gonna take this matter, whatever this is, whatever this
gunk is, now you can control it. Those are their words.
This is Microsoft. I even know Microsoft is still around making.
I know it's associated with Gates and all those boys.
(38:36):
But as no one watched the movie Terminator or goodness.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Thank you, thank you, I just I.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Just binge watched dark Fate Terminator yesterday. I'm sitting there
like whoa, and it gets good every time because you know,
I just loved it.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
But yeah, and even though.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
You're gonna make these robots, I robot, You're absolutely right,
what do they do? They eventually want turn on each other.
They'll turn on you, and they're gonna turn on each other.
So if you don't want to believe that, fine, but
now you're gonna every household is gonna be able to
have a robot.
Speaker 4 (39:09):
I don't want to see a robot ms kay in.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Your industry, shampool and hair. Perhaps the people here you're
not doing that. I can't see that.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
I can't see a robot, uh sitting across from somebody
and counseling them. But their creators just said, no, they
can outthink humans. Okay, well you're gonna be the first's
go turn on.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Thank you. Look at Godzilla and and and King Kong.
Okay watch those movies.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
Now watch those movies, and you make a mechanical Godzilla.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Oh okay, whether they do it came after the creator.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
So you need to be informed. Don't be afraid of knowledge.
You need to peek your head in on this AI stuff.
Peek your head in just to see what.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
It's talking about. Now you can.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
I can look at some of the stuff that's generated
text whether eat and I look at it and it's
not it's not looking right. It don't look like a
normal human being wrote it. So I immediately deleted. I
immediately deleted. And now you know in Facebook to me
is not catching these thieves.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
Who are they'll offer a situation.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
My daughter, I was looking at something how to become
an AI consultant. That's the newest one now, So I
was gonna just go and pop my head and see
what they're talking about. And my baby said to me,
how did they present that to you?
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Even her brother.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
Said, well, yeah, what what is that all about? How
you go on zoom to do it?
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Did they you know?
Speaker 3 (40:36):
And I'm like, okay, if these two starts questioning it,
I'm out.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
And thank god I couldn't make the meeting.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
I deleted everything I followed, unsubscribed everything it was on Facebook.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
Though.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Can you imagine a robot twisting a pear rock, you
know in the station, Okay, take it and mixing up
the perm stuff that they canna put it on your
head with what the spatula?
Speaker 2 (41:04):
It's crazy.
Speaker 6 (41:06):
A lot of jobs on indeed, as far as AI stuff,
so like different AI technicians and stuff like that, Like
it's like a lot of them. I seen and I
was like, wow, everything's like going AI based where people
want you to work with AI or it's like a
it's similar to like counseling AAR or like helping it
(41:29):
develop more. It was like one of the Yeah, they
want input and it's crazy human it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (41:35):
Yeah, it's a sad day that we're headed. But how
is it gonna eradicate homelessness? A bunch of robots gonna
pick a bill houses for the homeless. They're gonna go
and sit and quilt and make quilts and make you know,
and where's my quilting group.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
Where's my cruche group out there? Y'all buy some robots
and thenigna do your child. I think that y'all got to.
Speaker 3 (41:59):
Get all out up in the little you know, between
this stuff. I mean, you know, and I know we're
laughing about it, but this is a serious hour. This
is a serious hour. And we've got enemies out there,
you know, and everything. Oh no, oh no, yeah, but
our kids. I watched kids and the little boy was
(42:19):
upset because the mother wouldn't let him see her phone.
Speaker 2 (42:22):
He couldn't.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
The kids are bringing in their little iPads so they
could keep calm and keep quiet. No, I didn't have
a toy. I didn't bring a toy out outside of
my house. I didn't put a toy in my mother's
car when we were going to the store, going to
visit people. No, we were engaged. The kids went outside
and played with each other. I went in their rooms
(42:43):
and played. No, we didn't sit down and want and
we watched some TV. But it was all cartoons. It
was all you know, and we're laughing and everything else. No,
I watch parents now. I love the people.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
Watch now.
Speaker 3 (42:56):
And I'll stop and just I'll stop right in the
middle of the store and said, now I'm going to
see how this is this.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
Going to pan out. People are angry.
Speaker 3 (43:04):
Couples are walking together and they're angry, and you can
tell they don't.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
Want to get that. Get that. I'm like, y'all came
out the house like this and you don't hear that.
Speaker 3 (43:15):
We are looking at y'all you don't care. So you
still need to be informed. You still need to be literate.
You still need to gain understanding and knowledge. You still
need to do that to survive, to live, to be
a monkst to move around me. I just found the
definition or their mission statements the US Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
We must ensure all aliens.
Speaker 3 (43:40):
Applying for citizenship understand the rights and privileges of becoming
a US citizen, adequately understand the English language, and ultimately
demonstrate an attachment to the Constitution of the United States.
So before you take that, everyone walking around with their
face and their self, Oh.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
My god, do you know how many people I had this?
Tell look up, look up, look up, you're about to
hit me all ages. A lady I watched that public.
Speaker 3 (44:06):
She walked from her car on the phone talking to somebody,
walked into the store, grabbed her basket, still talking to somebody.
I'll have a brother in Germany if I can't I
And I know that's gonna be an hour call because
he's calling me on his landline.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
From his landline, I'm not gonna I'm about to go
in the store. I'm not gonna get on the phone
with him. He knows, Okay. I quickly let it go
to voicemail. He knows.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
And guess what, He'll call me back later to make
sure I'm home. This lady walked around in publics today,
still on the phone.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
I'm like, that is that what we come to? Now?
Speaker 3 (44:42):
Everybody carries their phone. Women, they have their handbags, they
have their maternity bag, the baby bag, and they still
carry the phone.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (44:53):
And people are driving even though it's against the law
to driving. People don't driving. And I can tell when
they're arguing, they're upset. They're doing this on the road.
They're not paying attention. One lady was coming up behind
me and she's looking over this way. In the Cars
Fail movie, I'm like, I'm trying to move out the way.
What you're doing, Go hit me, Go hit somebody else.
Go inconvenience somebody else. Thank you, lak I saw yeahs.
(45:19):
You gotta just open yourself up to your surroundings. Okay,
what am I doing here? How am I you know?
Speaker 2 (45:26):
Okay? Why am I here? And looking at my time? Okay?
Speaker 3 (45:29):
How much time I have here? And oh we are
we're landing on time. Speaking of time, that's it for us, guys.
We're gonna see you next week, Save Time, Save Station.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
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Speaker 2 (04:02):
You always need to be.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Doing some sort of self reflection, looking at where you
are now, looking at where you want to be, and not.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
So much reflecting on yesterday.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
You don't want to get caught looking back for too long,
because then you'll be reminded of yesterday and where there
was no progress, where there was pain, where there was hurt.
You got to look forward now. You got to look
forward now. And I pray that the days of blaming
people it's over. We need to come together as a nation.
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We need to come together as neighborhoods, community. It's just
time out for the ridiculous stuff that's not going to
get you anywhere. It's time out for talking about age,
old history and things like that. Where there was no progress.
We need to look at our world today. Where are
we today? Where do we need to be?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Amen? Where do we need to be? And we need
to be reflecting on that. Amen.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Hey, missy, don't stall. Keep pushing to you exactly. Amen, Misty,
you got to keep walking forward. It is painful, and
sometimes your body is racked with pain, your head is hurting,
your you're like, you know, your bills are not making
ends meet, and you're working all these jobs and you're
not happy and they but you've got to get up
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and make it another day.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
If you're able to see the sun.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Rise on the eighth and you're able to see the
sun go down today, you need to be able to
keep moving. There is hope, There is hope despite what's
going on in the world. And I know that's a
bitter pill to swallow, but we have to keep moving.
We have to keep going. And because over that horizon,
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over that rainbow, God's rainbow, there is hope. There are
more choices, there's opportunities, and you got to hear them
in a stage of.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Thank you, very true, amen, thank you, in a stagia.
You got to keep moving.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I've ran into some people just that, and I can
look at them and I can tell that they're about
to give up, They're about to give up, and I
know it's close. I know it's close. I can only imagine.
I can remember days. But I don't stay back there.
I don't keep running that as a film projector in
my mind of where.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Things used to be, how things used to be, I
don't do that. I build on the Those are.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Stairsteps for me to go on, to encourage me to
be better, to be a better person. I don't know
how many times I've spoke to people this week is
last week about being just a get to your best
you find out who your best you is, And yeah,
that means you have to change. That means that you
have to go get more education, get certifications, whatever.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
It is just just I mean, you've got enough.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
We've got enough tools on between.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Social media, Google AI all that to get you know,
to better yourself. You want to learn something, make it research,
go about doing it, go about doing it.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
I had to talk to several people, especially last week,
about encouraging them. Go get a kid, a teenage bible,
Go get a one year Bible, you know, because you've
got to know this word because what's here, what's unfolding
every day. If you don't have scripture to encourage you,
there's no medication that's gonna do it. There's no group
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of friends. You're losing your friends.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
People are not keeping in touch with you.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
You got to let relationships go because it's a heavy load.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
You gotta keep moving. You gotta be encouraged.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
And we're gonna talk about tonight's We're gonna talk about
tonight's you know, a topic on international literacy, and God's
gonna take it.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
A couple of ways. But we'll get to that in
a minute.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
But I just I did feel this heaviness yesterday and
as I was thinking about the show, and I did
think about it, but I lost time today for some reason.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
But you know, it's just God said, tell.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
My people, you gotta trust me. Tell my people I
have not given up on them. This has to roll out,
it has to happen. I don't know if you've ever
been in calall where he just took an exam, right,
and all of a sudden, a lot of the students
didn't do well on the test. So the teacher's like, well,
I'm gonna have to you know, we're gonna have to do.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I'll have to.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Shift the grade a little bit because most of you
all didn't pass.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
And you're sitting there like what that was easy? And
some of you did pass.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
So then all of a sudden, we all got to
take the hit for it for those who didn't pack.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
And now you got to shift the grade, which makes
my score lower. I'd get a B. I get an
eighty nine, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
But now he's got to recalibrate the grades and my grade,
my number comes there because we got He didn't like
the fact that everybody faked Moost. The majority of the
class exam went to the library on Saturday. Okay, Mickey,
they have programs people could enjoy.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
And we talked about the library last year when we were,
you know, celebrating Library Month and everything Book Week and
all that kind of stuff, and yes, I know here.
You know, go for information. You need to be informed.
You need not to be scared of information. You need
not to be scared of knowledge. The first two three
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chapters of the Book of Psalms or Proverbs talk about
and you're getting get understanding and get knowledge. And you're
getting knowledge, get understanding. You have some people who are
real BookSmart, but you can't have a conversation with them.
You don't know what they say what And they're all
up here and you're like, no, that wasn't the situation.
You know, you need to come down here, need to
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come down here, get grounded. Who are you? What's your next?
And we've been talking about this for years. What is
your next? And don't be afraid to ask God. It
may not come, it may not look like what you want.
He may say, I'm going to enlarge your territory. Years ago,
the Jabaz prayer was gonna enlarge your territory.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Everybody, Oh, I'm gonna get I'm gonna get land.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
I'm gonna get my God said, well, I didn't really
specify how I'm gonna enlarge it. But you're thinking you're
gonna get land. You're thinking you're gonna get a marriage
and have a whole bunch of money. You're thinking that
you're gonna have a bunch of kids.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
You're thinking. God said, I, no, I really let me.
Let me check my record.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
You know, and I have to tell somebody you know today,
don't don't tell God how to bless.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
You.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Don't tell God how to bless you get your feelings
hurt God. If you for me, you know you're gonna
you're gonna make sure I get this. I get this
this job interview, I get this job. If you ain't
gossipd well, I really don't think I need you over there.
I really don't think that's for you because it's only
a six month program. It's only a six month job.
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I didn't create you to just be on a temporary basis.
I do have something for you. It's gonna be one
thousand dollars less, and you're not gonna even have an office.
You're gonna be right there in the lobby with everybody else.
But this is what I have for you because of
the lives that you have to reach. So please, as
you're praying.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Put out what you want you need from God, you
could ask him. I was just sharing today. That's one
of the most precious things.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
I had to learn the hard way because I wasn't
you know, I didn't have bad things, but you know,
you get yourself in a situation, financial buying and whatever,
and all of a sudden, I got to go to
God and I got to ask God. I can't get
out of this. I can't work another job. I don't
know what else to do. All my gold is in
the pawn shop. I don't know what else to do.
I hate to come to you.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
He's like, why do you hate to come to me?
That's what I'm here for.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
To relieve you of the burden, to show you what
I have for you. Before your mother's womb knew you
were coming. I've got all of this for you, but
you don't ask me for it. He thrives on that period. No,
but he thrives on his children coming to him and
reaching out to him and crying out to him, travailing
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out to him. I can't do this without your Lord,
I can't do this without you.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
And guess what, I.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Don't want to do it without you because you've already
paid the way. I can't even see it as a parent.
You know, I talked to my kids, I trained my kids.
I know some of the bumps in the road that
they're gonna encounter, I know them. But there are times
I have to be silent and sit there and hold
myself and rock myself and say God, please be with
me as my babies go through, Please help me. You know,
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when they're going off to college, even though we're right
here be Liensia, you see, they don't. They don't want
to hear from the parents unless you have to pay
out a pocket. They separate us at orientation. Parents, you
go there, students, you're over here, and I'm like, well,
I need to hear what you're telling them.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Now. We got you here.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
And if you're if you're paying, you know, if you're
gonna do students Stafford loans, you can sit here. But
if not, you have a nice saying wait a minute,
I drove all the way out here. I need to say.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
No, I'm not gonna we can't together. I'm not going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
So I go and buy me something to eat and
then my baby going through stuff and all this kind
of stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
And a political person uh wrote on her Facebook.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Oh uc F and Valencia are the lowest paid schools.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I said, huh. I had to lean in on that one.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Excuse me, I said, uh no, I have an active
student there and they're messing up her faster for not
giving her her student aid money. So I don't know,
well how they Well, I spoke with the so I
don't even know who the person is. I guess either President,
I don't know who. I spoke with him at breakfast,
and that's what he told me. I said, well, that's
what that's your reality, but mine, our realness is totally different.
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You don't play with folks money.
Speaker 6 (13:42):
Now.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
The kids already, the students already got pressure, they got
to understand. And the teachers and professor's over there. I
don't know what trip they're on, but everybody's going through.
I was listening looking at social or chain chat, and
and and and my my fellow colleagues are they're they're
offering out there. They don't know what to do for
their patients or their clients. They're not getting paid adequately.
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They got families, they got the feed. They don't know
what to do, and I'm looking at them like and
nobody's offering relief. People like, well you got you got
to keep trying. No, can we pray? Do you have
a praying circle? Do you have somebody that can go
in and do prayer with you? And I you know,
I'm disregarded. Oh wait, this is not that type of platform.
Oh okay, I'm right now. But yet you want my membership,
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but you're exiting out my god, but I'm supposed to
pay you to be a member. Had a conversation with
a young lady Blend. I know, I shocked the heck
out of her, and she's like, well, we understand your
membership is due now and we'd just like to see
how we can help you do it. I said, well,
already got it in prayer, I said, before I talk
about me being a minister, before I talk about me
being a chaplain, I talk about me being a social worker.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I am proud to be a social worker. But you
all have done a great disservice to me.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Your mind, your landscape is you know, your portraits are
on a different wavelength. You're concerned about gender issues and stuff.
You're concerned about my a person of faith, so I
was supposed to still pay you to reject me, to
treat me indifferently.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I said, no, I got it up in prayer.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I'll wait to see what he says, but I don't
think he's gonna have me pay a two hundred dollars membership.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
And you're not meeting my needs. And I'm good with that.
I'm fine. I'm not angry, I'm not mad.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
But when you're the president over in an organization, even
when you're the president of a country, you're the governor
of a city, you're over people, whether you like us
or not. You have to listen to their points. You
got to listen to their concerns. When I was a
PTA president, I was thinking about that for for over
fifteen years, twenty years living in Orlando. I didn't necessarily
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like the principles. I didn't like the assistant principal. Some
of the parents got on my nerves. But when we
had a meeting, I had to hear, what are your concerns.
My teachers came to the meeting, what are your concerns.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I don't have to like you.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
You voted me in to do a job and that's
how I look at our elective officials. I voted for you,
So you need to listen to me. You don't have
to like what I'm gonna say, and we don't have
to have lunch.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
But you need to listen. And now you know we're
celebrating it. Boy. Sorry guys, International Literacy Day? What does
that mean? You need to be literate.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
You need to understand community. You need to understand culture.
You need to and culture is not so much diversity ethnicity.
I'm talking about culture. How I raise my children versus
how my sister raised her kid. That's culture. That's family culture.
You have to understand that we're different people. You can't
put us all in one you know, one bag. I
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do things differently from everybody else, based on my experiences,
based on my prayer life, based on the Holy Spirit
guiding me, based on my trauma, based on my being
a therapist, and listening to other folks issues and mistakes
and progress.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
But let me let's go to literacy.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
You don't want to say anything before I move into
talking about international literacy?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Come on that, come on, say something. I know you
got to say.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Something about literacy or just just what you were.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Talking about in general what we were talking about in
general first, and then we're gonna hop into We're gonna
go into literacy real deep.
Speaker 5 (17:19):
I mean, I think you you you pretty much hit
it on the head tonight. So yeah, people are in
a different place right now. So when we move into
the literacy, I think, you know, talking more, you know,
learning about culture and educating yourself. You know, it looks
differently to different people. You know, culture is everywhere, culture
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in the workplace, culture and the community culture at home.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
You know, just like we were talking about with families.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Everything has different values and beliefs and maybe understanding. And
I think if we learn more about each other's culture
to find out what you know, what's working and one
you can share values and you might find out that
you have more in common than not. And I think
that's what's wrong. That's what's wrong with us as a
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country right now. Everyone is afraid based on what they're
hearing and where they're hearing things from, which is making
them afraid? And and I you know, sometimes I want
to task look at your Facebook pages, you know, see
check out your Facebook pages or the platforms that you
have TikTok or Instagram or whatever. And see if there's
any diversity in your followers or people that you are following.
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And if you're following people that just look like you
and have your same beliefs, how are you learning and growing?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
And so I'll wait too.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
So well, that's the age old thing, you know. You
you got to fan out. I mean, depending on what
you're doing. I'm sure in your workspace. I mean there
are situations where they're you know, your colleagues may look
just like you.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
But they're not you.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
You're not you know, you have different beliefs, you have
different things that worked for you, You have different traumas,
you have different experiences, you have different mishaps.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
You have different successes too, you know.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
So anyway, International Literacy Day is the United Nations. United
Nations is responsible for this recognition and it falls on
September eighth to raise people's awareness of and concern for
literacy issues in the world. International Literacy Day highlights the
importance of literacy in areas such as health and education.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
They couldn't get off of that.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
It's all about health and education, understanding and because the
medical world just keeps rolling out different things you just
don't know. And the food industry. You know, now you
shouldn't be eating or drinking soy. You know, no, you
can have two eggs a day now, you know. It's
just it's you know, you're getting all this information based
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on maybe one or two folks having a reaction to stuff.
Then all of a sudden, the world wants to change
everything now like no, find out what works for you.
I thought it was interesting they they promote the day
to underline the significance of literacy for healthy societies, with
a strong emphasis on epidemics and communicable diseases.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Such as HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Well the United States, we don't suffer from malaria, but
that's their third health issue when they talk about adult literacy.
So I thought something. I mean and just literacy as
a whole. But I thought this was interesting.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
The let me get them the uh where did it go? Okay?
Speaker 3 (20:36):
United States? Hang on, guys, let me get that. I
don't know why. Uh oh, the devil is crazy? United States?
No not justice?
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Mmm.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Well, anyway, I thought it was interesting.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
That the United States and immigration folks had a whole different,
uh view of what they expect for Okay, when when
folks are trying to get their their citizenship, and they
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stress the fact that it's in their on their Facebook page.
They stress the fact that we need you to understand.
We're not just giving you the freedom here the benefits.
You've got to come in and promise that you will
learn the culture of America.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
You will learn the language, and you'll be able to
speak it fluently.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
And you will abide by the laws and expectations before
you take this oath.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
And I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
And I'm sorry it's the devil because I had it
all pulled up and everything, and then all of a sudden,
I can't find it on my face and I followed.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Them, so, but yeah, I read that. I read it twice.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I was like, wait a minute, what Wow, this is
what they expect folks to be able to.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
You come in it. You know this, You need to
This is what we expect of you. And and and.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Rightfully, so, you need to understand the language, You need
to understand community, you need to understand our definitions.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
That food pyramid has flipped so much it may as
well be a ball.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Yeah, thank you, mickey. Yeah, because you don't know what
what can we eat today?
Speaker 2 (22:16):
That's all you know.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I'm just can you tell me what we can eat today?
And I won't break out in anything, you know, But
you're right. And then again, we're listening to people, and
we're listening. You know, we were taught, we were raised,
and listen to our elders, those who are in position,
those who are educated, those are who's supposed to, you know,
know this stuff, and make not so much make us
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feel better, but at least be able to communicate to
us what's what's important and what's not. But like I said,
I mean, I went to have an exam done, a
test done to make sure the blood's flowing in my body.
And the technician was so nice, and I said, yeah,
they And we've got to talking about how medical expectations
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have changed over the years because of technology. I said, yeah,
Look at CPR. I was a trainer for the Red
Cross CPR. You had to do ten chess compressions and
two you know, two breaths and you had to count
it out and everything.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Well that's changed now. And she said, now you take
the test.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
You take it four times a year, and it takes
you about fifteen minutes because.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Now they got it.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
The chess cavity on the wall and you're pushing on it,
and they can tell you if you're doing correct chess compressions.
I said, what happened to the little fellow that we
had to get on the floor and almost break his
rib his plastic ribs. No, we don't have that anymore,
I said, Oh my god, but it's been eons of
years and that I did that, and then I even
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needed a CPR card.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Now I'll just tell you I can't help you choking.
I can't help you.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
I'll call down one one and I can pray for you,
but I ain't touching you because I am not certified.
But you know it's you need to be. You want
to be well informed. You need to know what's going on.
And that's why on some of my pages I put
out there some of these folks who are talking about
inside information, so you'll know where stuff is coming from.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Some people like to just stay in a hole. They
don't want to learn anything.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
They don't want to learn about technology, they don't want
to learn how to use a computer. They get the
phones because that's the only way people can communicate with them,
but they get they all upset about it. I don't
I don't know how to use this phone. I don't
know where these things are of it, And I'm like, oh, lord, person,
you gotta you know, we got to be able to
reach you, We got to be able to talk to you.
So it's okay, it's not a threat. Knowledge is not
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a threat. Do they aldways not work anywhere anymore? And
a station I don't even know, I still say that,
I'm I'm what's that? What's the saying? I'm old school?
And I really mean that. I'm old school on a
lot of things. I'm very much aware of modern technology.
I keep myself informed. I took a survey today for
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you you dot gov, and I've been taking surveys with
them for years and and it was about you know,
so how do you how do you keep it formed?
And how often do you do it? Do you do
it on your phone? Do you do it on your computer?
What social media platforms do you use? Yeah, and somebody
go ahead trade for here.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
No, it's interesting you said that because one of the
things is is now now they're moving towards AI, and
so now you can't don't know what I mean. Some
stuff are okay, all right, that's AI. But sometimes some
stuff you just really don't know what to believe. You know,
there are a lot of people scamming folks left and right,
you know, doing If people spend half the time that
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they're trying to get over or scam and if they
use their brains for good, we would be in a
lot better place. But too busy trying to hack stuff. Yeah,
and it's scary. So I think people are scared to touch.
Take the CPR with the older way, it's not working anymore.
CPR has changed, so the compressions I think are they're quicker,
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they're more rapid, and it's more of them to to breath,
so you don't it's not like it is.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
It's not like it used to be.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
And I think it's I want to say, it's thirty
fast compressions in one breath.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Uh, and then that's repetitive.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
So yeah, it has changed since I remember taking it
as well, but we still use it's not the whole, yes,
it's the little chess thing. And then I think we
do the child CPR that that's different. I don't know
we did that growing up or years ago. But I
remember the adults Annie and hitting you know upside wherever
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you hit them, Okay.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
You know, Yeah, it was a lot of a lot of.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Little stuff that you had to kind of Okay, this
feels weird, but I know I got to do it.
So but it's it's it depends on where you get
your your information. And I say that, you know, it's
it's funny, we're talking about literacy. But if you ask
a group of people that watched this particular platform, you
get that answer. If you watch people that watch that
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particular platform, you get the other answer. And oddly enough,
if you watch what the reporting on, one of them
leans closer to the truth than the other one. The
other one is I don't know what they leading forwards
and a lot I'm not trying to be funny, but
I said, well, what are people watching?
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Do they do?
Speaker 5 (27:21):
They not know? And a lot of times they don't
know because they don't really want to know, because I
want to see what.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Other people are saying. Whether I like the news station
or not.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
You need to know what people are watching because that's
what makes people afraid when people here. Okay, so if
you've never then I say that I'm jumping all over
the place.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
But say that when you're on the Facebook.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
If I have people on my Facebook, page that look
like me, different nationalities, racist, religions, beliefs, you know, all genders.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
You know, that's what my Facebook circle looks like.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
And so I find myself trying to learn and understand
why people do or their beliefs.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Because I want to understand.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
I don't want to be a literature I don't want
to be afraid walking around of a group of people
that that is scary. But if I understand it, you know,
that's you. You know, if this is your belief, this
is your belief. At the end of the day, God's
gonna judge us all. And so I don't have time
to sit there and judge other people by their beliefs,
(28:30):
particularly now I might not agree with it, but I.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Still want to know.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
I don't want to be ill informed and be afraid
of people that don't believe in what I believe in. Now,
you know, it's crazy as crazy, as crazy as crazy.
And I'm not talking about mental health phrase, I'm just
talking about crazy crazy, Like where did you get that
thought from?
Speaker 2 (28:51):
You know?
Speaker 5 (28:51):
So I think we need to know more about cultures, races, religions,
and whatever.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Else there needs to know.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
And like I said, I think we will find out
we have more in common than good. If all of
us walked around with a black hood on our face
and couldn't see anything and just had conversations with people.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
I wish we could do that.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
Just make the room dark, you can't see anything, distort
the voices, and just have a conversation about something, have
a topic of conversation about something, and whenever the lights
are turned on and the voices, he said, wow, I
was having a conversation with you. I didn't realize that. Yeah,
because you're too busy trying to look at something that
you think you're seeing and determine this is the just
(29:34):
because they look or saying certain things, this is definitely
or act a certain way, I'm sorry, or beliefs, so
you know that. That's my passion. I just wish we
knew more history. I think people need to know read history,
you know, read it, read about it, read the read.
Speaker 4 (29:51):
Good the bad, and yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Read the good the bad, and you might not like it,
but you'll learn something. But don't just try to erase
and say it didn't happen.
Speaker 6 (30:02):
So one best topic of AI. Our professors now want
us to use it more than ever. And I was
confused when I've seen it on my syllabus like use
AI and stuff like don't be afraid to use it,
and I'm like, okay, we're not using our actual knowledge
on certain topics anymore. And I actually would use, like
(30:23):
for one of my math classes or whatever, I used
AI to check my answer because usually I just do
it by myself without any cheating or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
And AI was wrong.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
And it's crazy that a lot of people rely on
and although you know it's they're still working to develop
it and make it better than ever.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
And stuff like that. But although she.
Speaker 6 (30:43):
Was speaking on old ways as far as CPR and
stuff like that, I feel like the old ways is
just much better than the new ways because even when
I'm writing my notes, a lot of my classmates they
use like online apps to like write it on their
iPads and stuff. I need pen and paper to do
stuff because it's like like I'm not gonna I can't
stay at the.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Screen all day and everything like that.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
And literally, as a whole, I just feel like, you know,
these are the knowledge and skills that are needed to
make informed decisions and to secure better future, just being
knowledgeable overall.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
So yeah, that's a good.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
Ooh oh, I got I got something. Oh no, no, no,
I was listening to mistake and when she was.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Saying using the computers, Ms. Gray, do you remember the
times of Cyclopedia? That's all we had. There was nothing
else and the cyclope And.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
If it wasn't that, where else am I supposed to
find this information?
Speaker 4 (31:37):
You know exactly just late at night. You can't get
to the library.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
You know, that's real weak.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
That's what we had out and it was a reference
book and you couldn't take it out of the library.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
You had to sit in there and go through those pages.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
You can't know what you high like nothing, and you
had to sit down there and write your notes and
copy it word for word, you copy it paragraphs or
man your parents born, but they first set up Encyclopedia.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
So I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
Yeah, yeah, it was, it was. It was. It was
not that was different. But I appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
And I never understood what the library to do it
decimal system. I know my sister did, and I know
it was there, but I never truly understand it. But
I remember having to go to the library to the
car five picked the car and try to find that
particular book. It was different, and I think now older
ways are better because you don't do cursive anymore. I
(32:35):
learned cursive in third grade. We started learning cursive in
third grade. And my thing is the other thing is
okay older ways. Oh I had my thought. I lost it,
but I think getting away, we didn't have miss grave.
Remember our toys didn't talk unless we made it talk.
We didn't have battery put.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
In the back up. We had to move the mouth
or backt like we were behind. I make a walk
in aff walk exactly.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
So we had to use creative stuff and and and
the calculator. I think we start. We didn't use a
calculator till later, but I still didn't trust it, like addition,
you know stuff.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
I know you need the calculator with but that general.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
Math, yeah, long math, you know, we we had to
learn that. And right now short because if you asked
me to do a shortcut, I couldn't tell you to
do it. I still have to write it out because
I need to know how I got the answer. So
that's a that's a different way of things, you know. Yeah,
oh we crossed this.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
I said, what are you doing? That's the new math?
I said, how do you do that. I couldn't have boxes,
I said, are the box is going?
Speaker 6 (33:47):
They are so though, because I have my tutor students.
And my student was like, you know, I'm annoy it
with my classes and I'm like why she's in elementary
and she was like, that's cursive and now we're learning.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
I don't know how to write that. You know it's easy.
I said, I did it in school, so you can
do it.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
So taught yourself. Yeah, how are you writing cursor? We
can't understand what you're saying in the cursing.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
And I'm like, man, I couldn't wait to learn cursor.
I couldn't. I was dropping. We were writing that is
the circle stuff. Before I learned how to learn it
just was Yeah, it's an art. I wish. I wish
people would still just pick up.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
It's always good because you're gonna have to sign your checks.
It's a you know, I know that we're moving away
from doing that, but there is a time where you
might have to sign a check and you need to
have something that's different than nobody else can duplicate.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
You know. It's people just understand. In the take free
book section of the Hey Ky, you should have just
taken on because they're ancient.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Now those are antiques you could have got, so you
could have gone, man, it should have taken over. Yeah,
I mean those it's just it's just amazing how far
were coming. We appreciate technology, We appreciate it. You know,
God created those scientists and those creativity people, those IT people.
(35:17):
He created them to have that interest in learning more.
But it gets perverted, it gets it gets you make
it dark now because I mean, now you got people
who totally depending, who are totally addicted to AI. Now
you've got people making relationships out of AI robots and
all that kind of stuff and don't want to there's
a group now, there's a whole group of them now
(35:39):
that just this is my boyfriend and he's a robot.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
And I'm like, okay, and I'm not touching.
Speaker 6 (35:44):
I'm glad.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
I'm retiring from therapy. I'm three months going on now.
Nobody has called me for that, Thank you Jesus, because
I will not deal with that. I don't wouldn't even
know how to deal with somebody coming in who's addicted
to their robot, who's addicted to their computer, who's addicted
to a I you know, and and and and just
like with everything is to enhance, it's to make you
(36:06):
get better and to be better. But it's not for
you to idolize it. It's not that hey, okay, yes,
the cyclopedia. We need School House Rock.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
Yes, really, I love school. I love school. Grandma's not
your grammars your grammar.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Yes, yes, yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
And we need street back were not with perverted people,
but we need Sesame Street bag, you know, and you
tell me how to get how to get to Sesame Street.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
That's a whole different.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
It was and it was engaging. It wasn't something that
was being thrown at the kids. And okay, you entertain
It wasn't entertainment. It was creativity time. You're gonna learn this.
You're gonna learn how to how Oscar the grouching and
and Ernie and all those folks got along and you know,
community and how everybody was different.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
You learn things you know you just didn't. It wasn't
just thrown at people. And I think that this technology
now has taken away the creativity piece in the sense
that you're not allowing me to sit and say, now,
how can I use this? How can I use this?
And and and why is it like that.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
And I'm sure you all have been on Microsoft, I
mean on social on Facebook, and you see Microsoft made
a big announcement of about a week ago.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
We've been we found matter. We've been working with it
for over a year. So we can control it. These
are their words.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
Now we can control it, and we're gonna place it
on a chip and we're gonna put in a computer
and it's going to out Max are supercomputers that are
in different countries. Now, they tell me the supercomputers are
as long as what fifty school forty to fifty school
buses lined up, And I do know that there's one
in Australia that's the super Compute. So they found something.
(37:53):
They don't open up a wormhole somewhere. And then now
you're talking and I said this the other person to
a person the other day. I said, you've opened up
a hole somewhere. You reached in there and you got something,
but you've forgotten to close the whole back. Now we
got people walking around here saying they singing aliens and stuff.
And you know, I've watched enough Star Trek, I'm watching
(38:13):
up Galaxy stuff. I know you open up a hole,
you don't close it something coming through. That's all I'm
gonna say. That's all I'm going to say. But now
you're gonna take this matter, whatever this is, whatever this
gunk is, now you can control it. Those are their words.
This is Microsoft. I even know Microsoft is still around making.
I know it's associated with Gates and all those boys.
(38:36):
But as no one watched the movie Terminator or goodness.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Thank you, thank you, I just I.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Just binge watched dark Fate Terminator yesterday. I'm sitting there
like whoa, and it gets good every time because you know,
I just loved it.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
But yeah, and even though.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
You're gonna make these robots, I robot, You're absolutely right,
what do they do? They eventually want turn on each other.
They'll turn on you, and they're gonna turn on each other.
So if you don't want to believe that, fine, but
now you're gonna every household is gonna be able to
have a robot.
Speaker 4 (39:09):
I don't want to see a robot ms kay in.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Your industry, shampool and hair. Perhaps the people here you're
not doing that. I can't see that.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
I can't see a robot, uh sitting across from somebody
and counseling them. But their creators just said, no, they
can outthink humans. Okay, well you're gonna be the first's
go turn on.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Thank you. Look at Godzilla and and and King Kong.
Okay watch those movies.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
Now watch those movies, and you make a mechanical Godzilla.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Oh okay, whether they do it came after the creator.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
So you need to be informed. Don't be afraid of knowledge.
You need to peek your head in on this AI stuff.
Peek your head in just to see what.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
It's talking about. Now you can.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
I can look at some of the stuff that's generated
text whether eat and I look at it and it's
not it's not looking right. It don't look like a
normal human being wrote it. So I immediately deleted. I
immediately deleted. And now you know in Facebook to me
is not catching these thieves.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
Who are they'll offer a situation.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
My daughter, I was looking at something how to become
an AI consultant. That's the newest one now, So I
was gonna just go and pop my head and see
what they're talking about. And my baby said to me,
how did they present that to you?
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Even her brother.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
Said, well, yeah, what what is that all about? How
you go on zoom to do it?
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Did they you know?
Speaker 3 (40:36):
And I'm like, okay, if these two starts questioning it,
I'm out.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
And thank god I couldn't make the meeting.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
I deleted everything I followed, unsubscribed everything it was on Facebook.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
Though.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Can you imagine a robot twisting a pear rock, you
know in the station, Okay, take it and mixing up
the perm stuff that they canna put it on your
head with what the spatula?
Speaker 2 (41:04):
It's crazy.
Speaker 6 (41:06):
A lot of jobs on indeed, as far as AI stuff,
so like different AI technicians and stuff like that, Like
it's like a lot of them. I seen and I
was like, wow, everything's like going AI based where people
want you to work with AI or it's like a
it's similar to like counseling AAR or like helping it
(41:29):
develop more. It was like one of the Yeah, they
want input and it's crazy human it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (41:35):
Yeah, it's a sad day that we're headed. But how
is it gonna eradicate homelessness? A bunch of robots gonna
pick a bill houses for the homeless. They're gonna go
and sit and quilt and make quilts and make you know,
and where's my quilting group.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
Where's my cruche group out there? Y'all buy some robots
and thenigna do your child. I think that y'all got to.
Speaker 3 (41:59):
Get all out up in the little you know, between
this stuff. I mean, you know, and I know we're
laughing about it, but this is a serious hour. This
is a serious hour. And we've got enemies out there,
you know, and everything. Oh no, oh no, yeah, but
our kids. I watched kids and the little boy was
(42:19):
upset because the mother wouldn't let him see her phone.
Speaker 2 (42:22):
He couldn't.
Speaker 3 (42:23):
The kids are bringing in their little iPads so they
could keep calm and keep quiet. No, I didn't have
a toy. I didn't bring a toy out outside of
my house. I didn't put a toy in my mother's
car when we were going to the store, going to
visit people. No, we were engaged. The kids went outside
and played with each other. I went in their rooms
(42:43):
and played. No, we didn't sit down and want and
we watched some TV. But it was all cartoons. It
was all you know, and we're laughing and everything else. No,
I watch parents now. I love the people.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
Watch now.
Speaker 3 (42:56):
And I'll stop and just I'll stop right in the
middle of the store and said, now I'm going to
see how this is this.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
Going to pan out. People are angry.
Speaker 3 (43:04):
Couples are walking together and they're angry, and you can
tell they don't.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
Want to get that. Get that. I'm like, y'all came
out the house like this and you don't hear that.
Speaker 3 (43:15):
We are looking at y'all you don't care. So you
still need to be informed. You still need to be literate.
You still need to gain understanding and knowledge. You still
need to do that to survive, to live, to be
a monkst to move around me. I just found the
definition or their mission statements the US Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
We must ensure all aliens.
Speaker 3 (43:40):
Applying for citizenship understand the rights and privileges of becoming
a US citizen, adequately understand the English language, and ultimately
demonstrate an attachment to the Constitution of the United States.
So before you take that, everyone walking around with their
face and their self, Oh.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
My god, do you know how many people I had this?
Tell look up, look up, look up, you're about to
hit me all ages. A lady I watched that public.
Speaker 3 (44:06):
She walked from her car on the phone talking to somebody,
walked into the store, grabbed her basket, still talking to somebody.
I'll have a brother in Germany if I can't I
And I know that's gonna be an hour call because
he's calling me on his landline.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
From his landline, I'm not gonna I'm about to go
in the store. I'm not gonna get on the phone
with him. He knows, Okay. I quickly let it go
to voicemail. He knows.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
And guess what, He'll call me back later to make
sure I'm home. This lady walked around in publics today,
still on the phone.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
I'm like, that is that what we come to? Now?
Speaker 3 (44:42):
Everybody carries their phone. Women, they have their handbags, they
have their maternity bag, the baby bag, and they still
carry the phone.
Speaker 2 (44:51):
What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (44:53):
And people are driving even though it's against the law
to driving. People don't driving. And I can tell when
they're arguing, they're upset. They're doing this on the road.
They're not paying attention. One lady was coming up behind
me and she's looking over this way. In the Cars
Fail movie, I'm like, I'm trying to move out the way.
What you're doing, Go hit me, Go hit somebody else.
Go inconvenience somebody else. Thank you, lak I saw yeahs.
(45:19):
You gotta just open yourself up to your surroundings. Okay,
what am I doing here? How am I you know?
Speaker 2 (45:26):
Okay? Why am I here? And looking at my time? Okay?
Speaker 3 (45:29):
How much time I have here? And oh we are
we're landing on time. Speaking of time, that's it for us, guys.
We're gonna see you next week, Save Time, Save Station.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
We love you all. Stay safe, Nay in the games
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