Episode 498 weekend edition (Saturday)- The Narrative Podcast

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And and and.

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Stop stones and stopt.

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Total total.

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Total now rat without the Narrative Podcast. The Narrative Whatever.

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Good at a time, Face Space, Peace, Family were now
tapped into another edition of the Mighty Mighty Narrative Podcast.
The Narrative Podcast is the home of original People, Original People, Peace,
original People, Respaiant City, and Original People Positivity. Narrative Podcast

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promotes positive reinforcement of original people and the risk people culture.
The narrat Podcast provides positive friends of reference about original
people and original people culture. Welcome to the Narrative Podcast.
I am your host, Hall Zick Allen. Welcome all my narrators.
What's good, It's good, it's good. So here we are
for another full edition of the Narrative Podcast. Just left

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you guys yesterday on the fourth of July, literally on
the fourth of July, So today Saturday to day after
July fifth, on this sensational Saturday. But welcome to the
Narrative Podcast, where those unfamiliar with me and my platform.

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It's an all black platform and speaking about all black content,
all things black, all things that pertain to our people
and our culture, with the mission statement to positively reinforce
our people in our culture. Through positive frames of reference
about our people in our culture. The slogan for the

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Narrative podcast is the Near podcast changing the narrative, one
episode at the time by destroying negative stereotypes about original
people and original people culture. How do I destroy the
negative stereotypes about our people in our culture by providing
positive frames of reference about our people in our culture.
And when I'm saying our people, I mean Black people,

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but I refer to our people as original people on
this platform. Like get into more into that little bit
later on in the segment, But welcome to the Narrative Podcast.
I'm gonna hit you with a brief overview of the podcast,
a many breakdown, if you will. The Narrative Podcast highlights

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the beauty and strength and resilience of the Black community,
governing topics such as black love, empowerment, unity, and progression.
Near The podcast dives deep into discussions about black health,
economic wealth, innovation, and positive reinforcement of Black voices, to
and in weekdays and weekends to hear inspiring stories, uplifting news,

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and to focus on the achievements of Black individuals across
the globe. So that's essentially the breakdown of the narrative
podcast is to provide positive frames of reference about our
people and our culture with the podcast content. How I
typically start things off.

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Is I do a.

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Format breakdown. I broadcast during the weekdays and the weekends,
so I'm wanting to break down my format styles for
you know, when I broadcast on the weekdays and the weekends.
And then after that, I have a promotional portion of
my narrative podcast. And with that is basically a crowd funding,

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you know, a portion I have various projects that keep
the podcast on. There is a monthly monetary fee attached
to this platform, and so these projects that I'm plugging
help with that and then also to you know, to

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expand the platform. I'm trying to expand the platform, trying
to make the leap from audio to video. So I'm
trying to get everything lined up in order to have
a good professional podcast set up, start having interviewing guests
and all that. So that's what the promotional portion of

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the Narrative podcast is all about. Then after I'm done
promoting all my projects, then I give a broad overview
of the narrat podcast. Is break down all the nuances
of the podcast to you know, give you the listener
full context of the podcast and make it a better
listening experience for you, help you navigate through the content better,

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and you know, make it makes sense. And then after
I'm done with my broad overview of the their podcast,
I dive into the content of the podcast itself and
then closer outs. So yeah, that's pretty much how I do.
I got a good show for you today, I got
a good show for you every single day I broadcast before.

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But before all of that, you know, the narrative podcast
prize it self into being part.

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Of the.

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You know, united family Black people. We are family united
across you know, all plays, you know, all countries, all
cities and states. You know, we are all one blood,
and no one of us hurts. We all hurt, and

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one of us are going through a tough time. We're
all going through a tough time. And so, having said that,
before I get things started underway, must address a loss
that we just suffered in the musical community. Somebody in
the hip hop industry has recently just passed. There's not

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too much in the way of details about the nature
of the cause of his, you know, untimely demise. So
what I don't do is I don't circulate rumors. I
haven't confirmed or denied, you know, no confirmation on the
actual actual cause of death. But the President for sure

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is not live anymore. And he was a member of
a quintessential member that of a group founded by the
late Tupaca Marshall Cord. The group was called the Outlaws.

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And.

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You know they just lost a member, uh Napoleon of
the Outlaws, my bad family, a thousand pardons. It wasn't
a Napoleon, it was a young noble of the Outlaws.
That was his uh, you know, his group name. He

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was born Rufus Lee Cooper the third and he just
passed away. This fourth is July, on July fourth, So
you know, like I said, there's not a whole lot
of confirmed, actual, solid, concrete reasons for his untimely demise.

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So I'm not going to speculate on that, but I
just do want to acknowledge you know, his life. You know,
leading up to that day, he had four studio albums,

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So yeah, he is definitely appreciated. They also did some
strengthened DVD releases, documentaries, and you know, he stayed relevant
in the hip hop industry long after his mentor Tupac
Shakur died or was pronounced unlive, you know, for those

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to still believe he's not. So, you know, they kept
the show moving as they say, the show must go on.
The show went on, and you know, unfortunately he's no
longer here and that leaves the group with only like
I believe to members left. So the Narrative Podcast will

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acknowledge the passing of young Noble when it just please
join me into given this brother a moment of silence,
all right, So yeah, you know it just is really
one of those eye openers. You know, you know it

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comes for us all you don't have. You know, there's
no expiration date. It's not your expiration date. Isn't sitting
stone again just literally come for you at any given time. So,
but you lived a rich, full life and accomplished a lot,
test a lot of souls with his music, and you
know you will be remembered. Narrative Podcasts in its deepest

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condolences to families, friends, associates, colleague and all those who
are affected in mourning right now at his Transitioning Narrative Podcast,
extending lovelight healing energy to all those affected by his

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transitioning all right, rest well, brother, resting power and something.

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Now we want to keep things moving, getting things started
with the promotional portion of the Narrative Podcast, and the
very first thing I'd like to promote, obviously is the
podcast up. You can support the Narrative Podcast in many ways.
It's available on all audio podcasts streaming platforms. So wherever

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you go to listen to podcasts, the Narrative Podcast is
available on that platform. Just make sure when you're listening
to the podcast. If you want to hear all black content.
If you're looking for all black content, you crazy, you
need it. Make sure you're listening to the Narrative Podcast

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hosted by me Hausey Allen, as I am the only
one currently with that title, with my podcast title, the
Narrator Podcast that you know provides all black content. There
are thousands of podcasts out there titled Narrative Podcast, but

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only one it speaks about all black content, all black,
all things black. So that's what you want to listen to.
Make sure you're listening to that podcast hosted by me
Halsey Allen. So that's first and foremost. It's available on
all audio podcast streaming platforms, so go there, which everyone

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is your favorite look for my podcast, The Narrator Podcast
hosted by me Hawsey Allen. Listen to it. We were
done listening to it. Download it and the download but
it should be like a cloud shaped icon with the
arrow pointing down and the arrow symbolizes the action of

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the downloading process. So download the episode and then share
the episode across all social media platforms, you know, the
ones that you like sharing or uploading content to. And
then another way you can support the Narrative podcast. Probably

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the most efficient way to support the Narrative podcast is
to follow me on X formally Twitter. And the reason
why you want to do that because this platform is
sicked to my ex accounts, which means every single time
I'm done recording an episode of the Narrator podcast, it

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automatically gets uploaded to X. If you see my podcast
content anywhere else on social media while you're scrolling like
Facebook or Instagram or whatever other platform, it's probably because
I had to manually put the link there. But you know,

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X is one of the few places where it just
automatically uploads all by itself. So I follow me on
X and since your emergency would be informed instantaneously every
time a brand new episode of the Narrative podcast debuts
on X, So that's your best bet is to follow

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me on X. My X profile page name is I
Stay Good at Halsey Allen all lowercase spaces, and your
confirmation you're on the correct X page would be a
copy of my book pin to the top of the page,
a black book and the book title. The book. The

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title of the books spin to the top of my
X page is called the Black Cart, which I'll be
promoting momentarily. But yeah, follow me on X for you
know the latest installments of the Narrative podcast. And then
once you're on my X page, click the latest link

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of the Narrative podcast and when you click on the
latest link, it should expand, revealing my podcast logo. And
my podcast logo is a silhouette of a microphone. It
says the Narrative podcast started. And when you see my
podcast logo, what I didn't need you to do. What

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I then need you to do is click on the
light button. And the light button should be located at
the top of the podcast logo and the light button
is in the shape of the heart. To put the
heart shaped light button that's located on top of my
podcast logo. And once you do that, it will cause

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the logo to expand a second time, revealing a whole
new set of options. And you ideally want to do everything.
The more features you, you know, participate in, the more
page clicks and degenerate, and the more a page plaicy
generates more revenue degenerate. So yeah, so the next thing

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you need to do after you click the light button
or yeah, when the podcast logo expands a second time,
click the light button again, except this time and to
be located underneath the podcast logo, and then next to it,
you should see a comic box. Gave me a comment
in the comic box. Comment something positive or negative. Give

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me some type of feedback. You can't take up any
feedback to give me. Just like type your name, type
the letter of an alphabet. If you're not you know,
United States citizen, put your flag in the comment box.
Something you know, some characters, some computer characters, I don't

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know it. Just put something in the comic box. It's
it will help generate page clicks. Then, after you've left
me a comment in the comic box, here's the most
important feature. This generates the most page clicks. Or the
download feature. And to reiterate, the download feature is just

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a cloud shaped icon with an arrow pointed down. So
click on the cloud shaped icon to download that episode
up the Narra the podcast. And then after that you
finished downloading it, click to share, but and share upload
that episode of the Narror the podcast or whatever platform
that you like sharing or uploading content too. And that's

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how you support the Mirror of the podcast. Wouldn't following
me from x form to Twitter. Another way you can
help support the Narror of the podcast is to follow
me on YouTube and my YouTube profile name is just

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Hawsey Allen. And how you support the Narrator podcast will
follow me on YouTube is go to my YouTube page
and go to my videos and like, comment and share.
All the older episodes of the Narra the podcast is
still on YouTube whire. All these episodes of the Narrative

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podcasts are old. It's because YouTube changed their community guidelines
and policies. And when they did that, you know, that
left this platform in non compliance with the new changes
to YouTube. So you know, they didn't want to update

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their software in order to you know, meet the new
YouTube guidelines, so they just dropped YouTube as a you
know distribution partner, so people that use that platform can't
you know, share content to YouTube anymore. It sucks. But

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you know that was like half of my stats was
coming from YouTube, so that that hit me in a
big way. But yeah, but you know, the silver lining
is all my older episodes are still on YouTube, so
all engagement counts. So all that engagement from YouTube still counts,

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and the monetization process. So you know, that's how you
can support the Narrative Podcast from follow me from YouTube.
Still like the comment and share. All those older episodes
of the Narrative Podcast is still available up on YouTube,
and you find them on my page. Halsey Allen go

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to my videos when she should be able to access
with ease has My videos are shared publicly. That's the
only content that I have posted on YouTube currently, so
real easy to find like comment and share and then
remember for the comments in the comment box on YouTube,

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just type something in the comment box.

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You know.

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Your name, some characters, I don't know your flag whatever,
just type something in the comedy box on you know,
the Narrative podcast episodes on YouTube, And that's how you

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support the Narrative Podcast from following me from YouTube. Now
the very next thing I'd like to promote is my
personal book of poetry is titled The Black Card. The
Black Card is a thirty page book of poetry chronicling
and encompassing the entire Black experience in poetry form. Pretty

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much everything our people go through, experience as a people,
and all the nuances of our culture are highlighted in
that book. So all the everything we experienced, both positive
and negative, is captured in that book of poetry. So

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go check it out on poetizer dot com and to
purchase it, go to poetizer dot com, go to virtual
online bookstore and look for my book of poetry titled
The Black Card, written by me Paulsey Allen. If you're
unfamiliar with Poetizer, Poetizers just a social media platform for

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people that enjoy writing, particularly poetry, and it's implied in
the title Poetizer. They have just you know, like any
other social media platform, people can meet gathered there, socially
interact with one another, you know, make friends inbox, be

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in each other right on each other's walls. In addition
to that, they have all kinds of games and activities
that will, you know, inspire and motivate people to write, contests,
daily writing prompts for people to like to write poetry.
But their most important feature that they have on that

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site is built in self publishing software, and they're built
in self publishing software allows the users of that social
media platform the ability to right publish, market and sell
books for a fee of course, but you know, a

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modest speed for the novice writer. So you know, that's
what I did on that you know, social media site.
I wrote a book and it's available in poetize dot
COM's virtual online bookstore, So again check it out. The
name of the book is called The Black Card. It's

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written by me Hausey Allen. So I'm gonna hit you
with the sales pitch for the Black Card before moving
on to the next thing I'd like to promote. So, yeah,
The Black Card is a poetic manifesto, a lyrical tribute
to the reality, resilience, and richness of the black experience

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with bold versus to cut deep in imagery that's sores.
The Black Card. Heclaims dignity, the man's respect, and honors
the legacy of the people who have turned struggle in
the strength, culture and the power. More than just poetry,
this is a declaration black as well. Black is unstoppable,
Black is everything. So head on over to poetizer dot

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com and purchase my book of poetry titled The Black Card.
Purchase The Black Card today or get your Black Card revoked.

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Then.

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Last, but not least.

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Is my.

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Personal poetry blog on blogger dot com. Check chick. Okay,
it's still right, all right. So my personal poetry blog
on blogger dot com title Haws's Poetry Corner, and what
that is is just an amalgamation of poems that I've

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written over the years. It's essentially for anybody likes to read,
just to casual to casually read or enjoys, you know,
reading poetry. Anybody from any walk of life can enjoy
the poems posted on that blog site. I have a

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slogan from my blog site, Hallses Poetry Corner Poetry with
a passion, Poetry for all occasions, And upon reading the
poems posting on Hawes's Poetry Corner, you would see that
all the poems live up to that slogan, So go
check them out Hause's Poetry Corner on Haws's Poetry Poinner
blog on blog at ww dot Mister Hollses blogs dot

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com and the way you support Hall's Poetry Corner is
to share the link to Hawses Poetry Corner which is
ww dot mister blogs dot com, as well as poems
posted on Haus's Poetry Corner across all social media platforms.
And then, of course, another way to support the poem's

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posting on Hawses's Poetry Corner is to like all of them.
When you get to the site, you'll know it's under
each piece. You should see a like button and the
like button's in the shape of heart. To click on
the hard shaped like button underneath each piece of poetry
on Haus's Poetry Corner blog. And again it's all about engagement. Engagement, engagement,

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engage me. The more functions you perform, the more page
hits they generate, the more pages they generate, the more
revenue they generate. So click on the like button underneath
each ponem posting on houses Poetry Corner blog when you
get to the site. And then lastly, comments on each poem,

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leave me a comment in the comic box. There is
a comic box underneath each poem as well as the
life button should be really easy to find and you know,
leave me a comment in the comic box. And again,
if you can't think of anything, you know, any type
of comment to leave me, just sign your name. Just

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sign your name, you know, and you can't think of
a comment, hit to leave me a comment, but your name,
a letter in the alphabet ABC, your flag, if you're
from a different country, something, put something in the comic box.
Just don't leave the comic box blank. And if you

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want me to respond to your comment, if you have
a Gmail account, signing with your GM account in the
part with doing this, this will notify me to my
Gmail associated with the poetry blog, and I'll see who's
left me a comment the comic box and I respond

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to that comment as soon as I get my notification.
And that is how he supports Pusey's Poetry Corner blog
on blogger dot com. And now I'm hit you with
the sales pitch for Haws's Poetry Corner or the advertisement

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or whatever you want to say. Pauses Poetry Corner. When
you come to Hallses Poetry Corner, prepared to step into
a world where emotions flow like rivers and words pink
vivid pictures. Haws's Poetry Corner is your ultimate destination for
captivating poetry, to touch it the soul, whether you're just

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a casual reader or a poetry enthusiast, a poetry enthusiast
or just a casual reader part and I had that backwards.
Haws's Poetry Corner has something for everyone. Explore all my poems,
timeless classics and thought provoking verses prepared to night your

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imagination and explore the beauty of language in its purest form.
Let's celebrate the art of poetry together. And some more
selling points for my poetry blog. Each poem posted on
Haws's Poetry Corner is spontaneously written in the moment, which
is a tremendous feat because when you read them, you
know they flow just so intentionally, and so the subject

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matter is so specific. You'd be thrown off to find that,
you know, I just wrote all of them on the fly,
completely off the cuff. It is unbelievable. Is that sounds?
That's just what it is. I didn't, you know, contemplate
on the subject matter. I guarantee you whatever the poem

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was about, that particular subject matter was the furthest thing
away from my mind when I wrote it. But like
I said, you know pauses Poetry Corner blog. You know
it's just about relatable poetry. Anybody from any walk of
life could can't appreciate the poems posted on that blog site. Now,

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I do have a whole lot of poems that deal
with specific things within our community, the black community, and
honors people great people you know in our community as well.
But it's all spontaneously written. All the poems took on
the organic life of their own and just like kind

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of use me as the con with the channel them
into reality. But go check them out on blogger dot
com Haws's Poetry Corner at ww dots mister hawses blogs
dot com Poetry with the passion, poetry for all occasions.

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And that's how you support the Hawsey's Poetry Corner blog.
So like coming and share all those poems and engage me,
engage me and engage me moving right along. So that

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will do it for the promotional portion of the Narrative podcast.
And remember just to reiterate, when you're supporting the narrative podcast,
make sure it's the ones uh Hope me Halsey Allen.
As like I said, there are thousands of podcasts out
there titled the narrative podcast, but only one really speaking

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about all things black, all black content. When to listen
to all Black content, make sure you're listening to the
Narrative Podcast hosted by me Halsey Allen. Moving right along,

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I'm gonna break down my different format styles. So my
week broadcasts during the weekdays and the weekends. So I
just went over the broadcast style last night during my
fourth of July broadcast, but you know, I'm gonna just

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run through it again. So typically, the main purpose of
the Narrative podcast to share positive frames of reference about
our people and our culture, and the main frame of
reference that I focus on during the week days is
positive news articles. Now, the reason why I focus on

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the positive news articles during the weekday is because all
weekday long, we're constantly being bombarded with negative news articles
or negative media period. You know, our people's images and
likenesses are distorted across all media platforms, so you know,
we receive negativity, We're exposed in negativity all weekday long.

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We see our images and likenesses depicted in the most
negative light as possible across all media platforms. So that's
why I focus on positive news articles during the weekday.
This bombardment of negativity is a form of psychological warfare.

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The psychological warfare at its best systemic programming and conditioning.
They're trying to program this into being what they want
us to be, which is nothing. They don't want us
to add any positive frames of reference about our people
in our culture.

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They want us to.

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Embody this. Uh, these negative stereotypes and stigmas that they
project onto us, and uh, you know, impresses upon the
rest of the world that these are accurate depictions of

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our people and our culture. So everybody else outside of
our culture, you know, they think so too. Now with
with us, You know that negativity gets embedded into our
psyches and on a subconscious level, we act out the
negativity and it's effected has on people outside of our culture.

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They don't know any of us, you know, they can
only determine, you know, make up their mind and you know,
judge how they interact with this and engage us based
on the frames of reference they're given too about us,
which is all negative. So therefore they don't, you know,

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have a positive outlook on our people, on our culture.
They don't want to embrace us in a positive way.
They just you know, they see power depicted in on
television shows and in movies and with their reading in
the news about us, and that's what that's how they
make up their mind to engagees based on those frames

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of references. So that's why I provide positive frames of
reference during the weekday. I just want to make one
point very clear. It's not to uh you know, game
acceptance or validation from people outside of our culture. This
is just you know, setting the record straight. You know,

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if you want to tell our story, uh tell who
we tell the real deal. You know, who we are,
our true nature and our true natures. We're kings and queens,
guys and God us at the universe, and that's how
we should be, uh you know, exemplified across all media platforms.
So yeah, that's why I provide the positive frames of

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reference during the weekday, you know, to undo the psychological
programming and conditioning, and then also to demonstrate the positive
things do happen within our community. And then after I
do that, I go into a section, a commentary section.
I commentate on current events. I'm a podcaster, of course,

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so like all podcasters, do you know, I commentate on
you know, all news matters on media anything, it's you know,
any headlines happening in the news that either directly relates
or impacts our people in our community or indirectly you know,
relates to or impacts our community. I unpack it from

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the black perspective, you know, what it does mean or
what it could potentially mean for our people and our culture.
And the reason why I do that is because, you know,
that's me controlling the narrative, because the media have us
have you know, go out of its way to have
us looking and sounding crazy. So I'm just like commentating

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from our perspective on current events. And I call that
section my speaking point section, and that's my weekday format
style for the narrative podcast. Now, keep in mind, when
I'm all my subject matter, not just my commentary. How
I try to frame up the you know, any subject

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that I touch on on this platform is from the
bigger picture perspective because typically anything negative happening within our
community or involving people from our community kind of centers
around systemic oppression and psychological programming and conditioning. Those are

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the two big factors that play a major role in
all negativity, you know, surrounding our people and how'll coature.
So that's how I impact all my content matter on
this platform. Just the heads up. But that's my weekday

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edition of the Narrative podcast. That's my format style. Now
it's for my weekend. It's obviously Saturday, so I'll be
using this format style. I'm not going to break down
each section. What I'm going to do is I'm going
to you know, I'm going to break down each section
as I come to them, but I'm just going to

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point out one major difference. So it's the weekend. My
major frame of reference that I focus on, My major
positive frame of reference that I focus on during the
weekends is business ownership and entrepreneurialism. And why I do
that is because you know, we don't have many frames

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of references to draw upon, you know, as it relates
to owning your own business or being an entrepreneur. And
it's intentionally done because, like I said, the people who
run the media, they want to control know what we see.

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They want to control, you know, the dynamic of our success.
They only want to promote negativity and degeneracy. They don't want,
you know, images of us circulating that are dignified in
promoting decorum and positive reinforcement. They just want to basically

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see us, you know, acting like we don't got no
sense on TV and behaving in a degenerate manner. So
that's why, for one of the reasons why, the most
important reason why, I provide the positive frames of reference
about business ownership and entrepreneurialism. I call that section my

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highlight section. In that section, what I'm doing is I'm
highlighting business owners, entrepreneur business owners journey into becoming an entrepreneur.
So I'm giving you all the background information. It's basically
like a mini bio essentially what you would find on
the wiki page or something like that. You know, I

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try to include the information about you know, most poignant
relevant information about the person running the business, such as
like where they were born, what year they were born,
you know, how they came up with the idea to
open the business, any and all relevant education and training

(41:34):
that play a key role into them starting that business,
why they start the business, their focus of the business.
You know, what are they trying you know, what market
are they trying to reach with their product with what
is their product saying to the community. Things of that
nature is what I try to include in that section

(41:55):
pretty much. Also any type of information you would find
on the web website page about in the about section
on the business, I try to include in that section.
And then also you know, anything about the business special
details like if the business name, the name of their

(42:17):
business holds any significance, like is it an acronym for something?
Why was they inspired to name it? Whatever they named
the business, and then you know how they acquired the
plans to start the business. So you know, I'm just

(42:40):
giving you the tip bits, the highlights. You know, hence
the title the highlights section. I'm not trying to give
you their entire life store, just the highlights of it.
Get it. And then also you know the selection process
that I use to select the businesses highlight the highlight

(43:01):
section of the Narrative podcast highlight section is of course
they're black owned. You know, black people on it and
run it. They hire their own and then they must
do some type of philanthropy or giving back to the community,
either by you know, you know, offering vocational or training

(43:24):
skills to the community, something that will impact the community
in a positive way. And you know, they have to
either have their own nonprofit organization or pay into one
and then last but not least, that must all businesses
must coincide with my theme. And my theme is nationally

(43:45):
recognized days or in some cases like nationally recognized month.
So that's pretty much how the Highlight section of the
Narrative podcast go. You know, that's the main positive frame
of reference that I focus on during the week ends

(44:06):
is business ownership and entrepreneurialism. And that's how the weekday
format and the weekend format differed from one another. Second
way is like, of course it has more sections. My
week day format has only two sections. I think my
weekend section weekend edition of the Narrative podcast has like

(44:28):
five sections. Also, not only is the dividing into sections,
each section has speaking points in that time speaking point
to make the content more efficient to listen to. So
you know, I'm not trying to hold you. You know,
I don't know. You don't got all day to listen
to a podcast. I don't got all day to talk

(44:49):
during the podcast, So you know, I'm trying to make
a short brief end to the point. And those are
my format styles, you know, my breakdown. Like I said,
I'll unpack more about each section as I come to them.
And so now we're going to the overview of the

(45:10):
Narrative podcast before I dive into this weekday edition format.
So one of the main things you need to be
aware of when listening to the Narrative podcast is how
I coined my phrase for the listening audience. So this
is how I greet you are. I said, welcome all
my narrators. I was inspired to coin that term from

(45:34):
the textbook definition of the word narrator. The narrator is
basically just one who breaks down a story, tells you
all about the story, everything you need to know about,
you know, a story in its complexities, like like just
breaking the story down for the audience, everything the audience

(45:57):
needs to know about the story in order to keep
up with said story, whatever format the story is in.
You know, that's the job of a narrator is to
break it down. And how I, you know, equated it
to what I do on this platform is basically, I

(46:17):
use this analogy. If you don't tell your own story,
your own story will be.

Speaker 5 (46:22):
Told for you.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
And that's precisely what the media is doing in concern
and relation to our people. They're telling our story for us,
and they're telling the story they want to tell about us,
which is the story of degeneracy, which is the story
of violence, you know, ignorance, and us being a lost

(46:46):
people and a lost cause. That's how they portray our
people across all media platforms, you know, and they paying
this out in such a way that no other groups
of people will want to be associated with us. So
that's why as essential to tell or narrate our own stories,

(47:07):
because we cannot control the narrative that the media puts
out about our people, but we can't control what we
choose to share on our own platforms, especially if we're
content creators. And so that's why I call my listening
audience my narrators. Now I'm give you examples on how

(47:31):
to be an effective narrator, so I coin the term narrator.
I am changing the narrative one episode at a time.
As a narrator, every time you listen to the Narrative podcast,
I'm giving you audio sound bites of positive frames of
references about our people and our culture in every episode.

(47:56):
So as a narrator on my end, I'm changing the
narrative one episode at the time. So the property be
a narrator on your end and change the narrative on
your end, you gotta change the narrative one social media
post at a time with positive visual frames of reference

(48:20):
about our people and our culture. So you know, you
want to show that positive visual imagery of us engaging
in positive activities that impact our communities in the world
in a positive way. So things that directly challenge a
negative stereotype about our people and our coaching a visual

(48:43):
representation of it. So like, this's a negative stereotype our
people don't know how to swim. You can show visual
imagery on your media platforms about not only our people
knowing how to swim, but breaking swimming records. You know,

(49:06):
it's another uh S negative stereotype about our people being violent,
just prone to violence. You can show visual imagery on
your platform our people uh de escalating violence and having
anti violence rallies and you know, enjoying each other's company,

(49:29):
like at a festival or some type of s community
celebration where no violence is happening and everybody's laughing and
enjoying themselves. You know, things of that nature is how
you can change the narrative. So just positive visual imagery

(49:49):
on your own media platforms. If you can't think of anything.
I just name, uh, one of the most common things
you can share on your platforms just you smiling, enjoying
yourself and being in the good space of your life. Because,
believe it or not, that strikes the biggest blow to
the powers that be is us being happy, because, like

(50:12):
you know, this whole system is the designed to destroy us,
to destroy our happiness and prosperity and our peace of mind.
So by you being happy and enjoying your life and
showing and proving that nothing can get you down and
you were just going to keep on going, you know,

(50:34):
that strikes a huge blow. It's like, uh, we did
everything and destroy these people and nothing's working back to
the daring board. So that's how you can be a
narrator on your end while I'm you know, narrating on
my end. The next thing you need to be aware

(50:57):
of when listening to the Narrative podcast. I refer to
our people black people, as original people as opposed to
just being just black. There's nothing particularly wrong per se
with the word black. You know, definitely not ashamed of
being black at all. I refer to our people as

(51:18):
original people. So, like I said, nothing wrong with the
word black, per se we are black, we are beautiful.
There's all kinds of positive things surrounding the word black,
But I feel, you know, the word original is more
accurate depiction of who we are as a people. It

(51:42):
describes us really well on so many levels. The textbook
definition of the word original hints at being unique, one
of the kind, and the first, and we're all of
those things as a people. We are the most origin
group of people in the entire world. We don't follow trends.

(52:05):
We set trends. Are the trends that we follow. It's
because somebody from our community set that trend to begin with.
So we're original people in that sense, you know, we
marched to the beat of our own drum. We're also

(52:32):
original because we existed thousands of years before any other
group of people. That's a historical accurate depiction of who
we are as as a people. We were here thousands
of years before any other group of people. As a
matter of fact, all other groups of people directly descended

(52:53):
from our people. That's genetic we speaking, They got like
anywhere from two to eight percent of our blood and
then and as original people, we originated everything all forms

(53:23):
of you know, modern conveniences were developed and invented by
our people. There's an ancient form of it. You know,
they might have in history gave the credit to a
palm colored person, but you know, if you dig through,
you know, your history, you will see that there was
already ancient version of whatever they got credit for, and

(53:47):
you know, for the modern day invention of it. You know,
we if we didn't get direct credit for inventing it,
we definitely got the credit for were augmenting that invention,
meaning it wouldn't be what it is today had not
been for our modifications to it. For example, like Lewis

(54:15):
Lattimore did with the supposedly Thomas Edison's light bulb, which
is actually just his invention, and he dude, Thomas Edison
was gonna steal it, so therefore he made it with
design flaws and it wouldn't work properly without the liniment.

(54:43):
But yeah, pardon me, I said lit him and I
meant filament. But anyway, that's pretty much the nature of
our people historically. You know, we just we originated everything.
Everything came from us was original scholars, you know, the

(55:08):
original astronomers, astrologists, scientists, mathematicians, chemists, you know, we originated everything,
so we're original people from the historical perspective. So yeah,

(55:30):
that's one reason why I refer to our people as
original people from the historical perspective. And as long as
we're talking about history, something I do every episode of
the Narrative podcast, I have to dispel the false narrative
surrounding the enslavements of our people because they keep on

(55:51):
pushing and promoting this false narrative, trying to make slavery
the most poignant relevant time of our existence. Like I
just said, we existed thousands of years before any other
group of people, So why would you assign slavery to
uh equate to who we are as a people in

(56:14):
any capacity. That was a dark time that we went through.
They lie about so much of it. The biggest thing
that they lie about is, like, you know, slavery was
the only way that we appeared in other places outside
of Africa, like chattel Slavery and the tragic Atlantic slave

(56:42):
trade was the only way we got to the United
States of America or you know, Middle America, Latin America,
Meso America, all the other continents. You know, that was
directly the reason how we appear, and you know, on
the continent of Asia and the Philippines, and.

Speaker 5 (57:07):
You know.

Speaker 3 (57:10):
European countries, and like I said, as original people who
was here first, So in all those other regions, who
was already indigenously located there thousands of years before the
slave trade was even conceived in a wet dream, we

(57:30):
had already populated the entire world. There was large concentrations
of US living and residing in every single place you
can possibly name or think about, especially here in the
United States of America. They really, really really try to

(57:50):
sell us on the idea that all of our ancestors
came from Africa when we were already organically originally here.
So the group of people that they say are quotes
are Native Americans are not actually the original indigenous native

(58:15):
people of this land. They're from an entirely different place.
And what they did was they took this land from
the people already living here, enslaved them, put them on
plantations along with enslaved Africans. Then they came up with

(58:40):
this whole classification grouping of people. You know, they came
up with this whole system of race in the Census
Bureau and classified all the originally indigenous people of this
land as black or Negro and put them on plantations

(59:04):
along with the enslaved Africans and assigned other people, these
other people who are not the landlords of this country
a seat at the table. And all other subgroups from

(59:24):
that are just descended from white people. They were called
the five dollars Indians white people to change their lineage
to avoid paying taxes. So the only actual thing that

(59:46):
they get right about slavery is the tremendous suffering, the
inhumane things that they did to our people during slavery.
They got that spot on you name it, they did
it to us. You know, everything from medical experimentation, decapitation, rape,

(01:00:19):
any type of psychological or mental torture you can possibly name,
they did it to us. In the history books. That's
the only accurate thing that they got right about slavery
as the concerns that relates to our people. Everything else
they either exaggerated or completely one hundred and ten percent

(01:00:40):
lied about. And it's up to you to just do
your own due diligence and find the lies. But I
just want to just dispel the false narrative of slavery
they keep on spinning this slave narrative to keep our
minds enslave. They want to keep on taking it back
to a time where our people reportedly didn't fight back,

(01:01:07):
couldn't fight back, had to be subservient to white people,
were afraid to speak their minds, couldn't speak their minds,
punished to speaking their minds, and you know, going along
with the agenda. This is like we was shackled up,

(01:01:29):
you know, and forced to do whatever they told us
to do. And that's the like the slave narrative that
they keep on trying to push as far as like
making slavery the most poignant relevant time of our existence.
They want to skip over the part where we were
kings and queens and we were rulers when we taught
people how to survive, they were dying out in Europe.

(01:01:53):
They were dying of their own bodily filth. You know,
we introduced them to soak in water over there in Europe.
They weren't even bathing before our presence, you know, before
we revealed our presence to them. They were almost extinct

(01:02:16):
before we got over there. That's how uncivilized they were.

(01:02:38):
All our rulers had gold and jewelry, but it wasn't
a sign of opulence. That was because the precious gemstones
and the gold had healing properties. It was the palm
colored people that lusted for it, greedily for and used

(01:02:58):
it for monetary gains. You know, they were so enamored
by how they looked, you know, they started making them
valuable and worth something money. We were just using it
for healing. They turned that into a source of currency.
That's how just next level thinking our people always was,

(01:03:22):
but through history they try to railroad it, you know,
and push that slave narrative. So that's all I want
to say about slavery in general. There are tons of
more inaccurate facts and things that they lie to us about,

(01:03:43):
but I just want to always every episode dispel a
myth of slavery that they tell us and teach us
to instill in stoke fear within us. You know, they're
always telling us to forget about slavery quick bringing up slavery,
But then they keep on protecting the legacy of slavery

(01:04:04):
and remind us with it with these statues and you know,
other mementos that slavery existed. So this is the system
that we're up against. They lie to us and tell
us the truth and the same breath. And lastly, the

(01:04:26):
last reason why our further our people as original people
on this platform is too unify us as a people
because there are so many different types of this spread
out all over the world, speaking different languages, having different
uh you know, religious and spiritual disciplines, political affiliations, you know,

(01:04:53):
cultural differences, culture different cultural upbringings, lineages. You know, we're
all one the same people, but just different variants of
the same people. However, people outside of our culture and
they just group us all into one people. We're the
only ones to make their indifferences. And you know, I

(01:05:17):
think a way to united as a people is to
come up with one common word to describe us as
a people. Like you can keep your own lineage and
your own nationality, but then it still also have a
word that applies to you as well, other than black.

(01:05:40):
And I think that word is original because that applies
to all of us. We can all interchangeably use it.
We can all get on one accord and agree that
we are the original tribe of man and you know,
every other thing in this world, you know, directly descended
from our people. We can be in agreeance to that

(01:06:03):
and still maintain our nationality status, our lineage status as
whatever we you know, call ourselves. But then we're still
all original too, We're still all that family, you know.
And I think the word original applies to all of
us as a people. So that's why I refer to

(01:06:27):
our people as original people in that sense, to unify
us as one international group of people. So and then lastly,

(01:06:48):
the last thing are getting to the nitty gritty. The
Narrative Podcast is a positive safe space for original people.
I don't do any name calling, slandering, put downs, gossip.
I don't gossip about people on here. I don't entertain gossip.
I try to you know, denounced gossip on this platform

(01:07:13):
because gossip is with destroying our community and our people.
There's a space to uplift and edify us as a people,
feel good about ourselves and you know, be righteous in
the righteous state of mind. So that's what the Narrative
Podcast is all about, is promoting positive reinforcement of our

(01:07:34):
people and our culture and get it, getting us back
to basics, you know, loving up on each other rather
than trying to use our platforms to you know, tear
each other apart and do detegrate each other. So having

(01:07:55):
said that, there's an exception to every rule. So the
no roasting to know put down rule, it all goes
to out the window. If somebody in our community is
in the headlines for doing something that hurts our community
intentionally that's the key word, intentionally doing something that they
know will hurt our community and make us look bad

(01:08:19):
as a you know, international group of people, you know,
entertaining the negative stereotypes and stigmas about our people and
our culture just in order to you know, check a
bag for monetary gain. So once you do that, you know,

(01:08:39):
in my eyes, you're no longer one of us, you know.
But other than that, this platform is the uplift and
edify our people. And just to reiterate all the subject
matter that I touch on, you know, on this platform,
I center everything around the big picture, and the bigger

(01:09:01):
picture is you know, systemic oppression and psychological programming and
conditioning as a concerns and relates to our people in
anything negative that we're engaged in or you know, happening
within our community can be traced back to that. So

(01:09:21):
that's us acting out of character due to us being
you know, systemically oppressed and psychologically controlled. So last, but
not least, the narrative podcast or the time sense of

(01:09:44):
the platform. I try not conceive one hour per broadcast,
and when I do exceed the hour, you can't really
tell because it's you know, I just came up with
a formula that make it so efficient you can hardly
notice when I'm you know, going over my li I
can because it's like a timer at the bottom of

(01:10:04):
it to let me know the length of the podcast.
But you know, on the listening side of it, I
guarantee you you won't be able to tell, you know,
that the episode took longer than the hour. Now, the
origin of when I started doing this podcast. I started
doing this like in the wake of the pandemic lockdown,

(01:10:27):
Like in the last stages of it, we were still
you know, had a curfew. They still was doing the
social distancing, but there was announcing everything was about to
get back on track. So everything we slowly started coming
out of it. That's when I started it. When we

(01:10:48):
start slowly coming out of it was still pretty much
a pandemic lockdown, And then they lifted the mass restrictions
on my like ninth or tenth episode. Then they that
took down the barriers for the social distancing. Then they
reopened the government buildings. So that's how long I've been

(01:11:14):
doing this. So my first incarnation of it, when I
had started it, I just used to talk. I didn't
really have a focal point. I just used to talk.
It was just something to do. Like every other person
who had started a podcast in the pandemic lockdown is
doing it out of boredom. And then later I just

(01:11:37):
you know, got those constant reminders every single day, something
negative in the news concerning our people in our culture.

Speaker 5 (01:11:45):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:11:46):
It was in the wake of the George Floyd lamar
Au buried' Breonna Taylor. Just all this stuff happening to us,
back to back and back to back, and they wasn't
like glorifying all the positive things happening within our community.
So it was at that point I decided to be
the voice for that to MyD the world that positive

(01:12:09):
things happen in our community. And I took it one
step further after I you know, signed an overall subject
for my podcast. Then I streamlined it. I broke it
down the sections, and I gave each section the speaking points.
Then I start timing my speaking points, and when I
start doing that, I start seeing more engagement. I started

(01:12:30):
seeing my audience grow, so I kept the format. Initially
I only used to broadcast on the weekends. Later I
added the weekdays. When I added the week days, this
platform used to have a live feature. They did away
with the live features, so I couldn't go live anymore

(01:12:52):
during the week days. But I continued to broadcast on
the weekdays anyway, not live, just in the regular formatt
as I'm doing now. So that's how weak Days came up,
came into a play. But essentially, I just try to

(01:13:12):
keep it short, briefing, to the point. I don't want
to be all day talking the year off. I want
to make my content exciting and refreshing, and I don't
want to, you know, be redundant and board my listening
audience to sleep. So that's why I try to keep
it short, brief and to the point. I want to
deliver the message and not beat you upside the head

(01:13:34):
with the message. So I think I've covered everything you
need to know about the narrative podcast from listening to it,
and if you're still in the dark, I'm nearly five
hundred episodes in you can go through my episode long
and bring yourself up to speed that way, just remember

(01:13:56):
to download every episode listen to download this episode obviously
recorded episodes of The Narrative Podcast wherever each podcast source
is from. And now we're going to dive in on
this weekend edition of The Narrative Podcast with my very
first section, the highlight section. And just to reiterate the

(01:14:17):
highlight section, what I'm doing is I'm highlighting business owners
and entrepreneurialists and entrepreneurialism. So the first and the criteria
behind that is they must coincide with the nationally recognized
day or nationally recognized month. So having said that, today

(01:14:44):
is July fifth, the month of July is National ice
Cream Day, and I'm gonna hit you with the brief
history of National ice Cream Month. Partner, I said day

(01:15:06):
ice National ice Cream Month was the month of July.
So all businesses that will be highlighted today in the
highlight section specialized in the production and selling of the
national national product of the nationally recognized month. So I'm

(01:15:28):
gonna give you a brief history of you know how
National ice Cream Month came to be. National ice Cream
Month was established by the American Dairy Association in conjunction
with Walter D. Huddleson, who was a Senator from Kentucky.

(01:15:52):
This was during the Reagan administration, so Ronald Reagan was
behind it too. There's no clear reason as to why
other than just appreciating ice cream. And so that's what
this month is all about, just the appreciation of the
invention of ice cream and be celebrated by, of course,

(01:16:16):
purchasing ice cream. So the first business I'll be highlighting
in the highlight section of the Narrative Podcast Highlight section
on this weekend edition of The Narrative Podcast, there's a
business by the name of cloud Cups. Cloud Cups you

(01:16:41):
can find out more about that at cloudcupsgelato dot com.
It was established in betweenty years of twenty eighteen and
twenty nineteen by a brother by the name of Chef
Golden or uh, pardon me, Golden Thomas, if I put

(01:17:10):
his name right. Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting.
I think his name is Golden, Golden, Golden Thomas. All right, y'all,

(01:17:31):
pardon me. The brother's name is Galen Thomas. Galen. Like
I said, sometimes I can't read my notes when I'll
be taking my notes down. I just I get the
jotting real fast and not writing very neatly. But anyway, So,

(01:17:54):
the brother's name is Galen Thomas. It was established between
the years of twenty eighteen to twenty nineteen. Galen grew
up in Philadelphia's West Oak Lane. He DJed at thirteen
years old, and twenty thirteen he launched a CBB infused

(01:18:18):
gelato concept. He trained at Frozen Dessert University in North Carolina. So, yes,
there's a Frozen Dessert University in North Carolina, ain't that something?

Speaker 5 (01:18:36):
And then.

Speaker 3 (01:18:41):
And I believe it's pronounced Carponali Gelato University in Illinois.
And after his training in gelato production, he built cloud
cups from mobile to brick and mortar. He added over

(01:19:04):
he added over one hundred and fifty flavors that he
developed over time. He collaborates with black owned businesses, black
women owned businesses, and his community centered workshops. So his

(01:19:27):
flagship opened in twenty nineteen, his brick and water. So
in twenty eighteen he was just basically doing pop ups,
all right. So to fully understand, you know his concept,
you have to know the difference between gelatto versus regular

(01:19:51):
old ice cream. So gelato is typically uses more milk
and less cream than ice cream, so it's thicker and
more dense than regular ice cream. It also takes longer
to make because the churning process is longer. So while

(01:20:13):
ice cream, and it's the traditional way that it's made,
everything is by you know, machines these days. But essentially
ice cream takes less time and it's churned you know, quicker,
you freeze it quicker, and there's an end result. Ice
Cream in its natural state before you know all these machines,

(01:20:35):
was fluffier in texture than gelato. And in restaurants, gelato's
usually served at a warmer temperature than ice cream. Gelato

(01:20:58):
also doesn't contain yolks, whereas ice cream does. Gelato is
also stored and served in metal tins with flat metal utensils,
while ice cream is typically scoop with a traditional ice
cream scoop. So those are the key differences between ice

(01:21:18):
cream and gelato. And like I said, the brother specializes
in gelatto, but that's pretty much all about his business.
So please, without any further ado, please join in to
given Galen Thomas a warm narrative podcast round of applause

(01:21:41):
for his business called cloud Clups Gelato. Oh yeah, I

(01:22:05):
forgot to give out the physical address in the hours
of operation, So cloud Cup's Gelato. The address in Pennsylvania
is located at two three one one Frankfurt Avenue, Philadelphia,

(01:22:26):
nine one two five. Hours of operation are Thursday four
pm to nine pm, Friday, four pm to ten pm Saturday,
and Sunday one pm to ten pm. Monday through Wednesday
they are closed, and then they have another location on

(01:22:58):
Kingston h three two five or three five two five Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Wednesday through Sunday they're open at the same hours one

(01:23:19):
pm to eight pm Wednesday through Sunday at the at
the Kingston location. So that to do it for cloud
Cups in Philly. All right, moving right along with my

(01:23:50):
seconds business, I'll be high business. I'll be highlighting in
the Highlights section weekend edition of the New York Podcast.
The second business is a business by the name of
Sweet Dreams ice Cream, and this particular ice cream specializes

(01:24:10):
in rolled ice cream. It was established in twenty twenty
one twenty twenty two. The first year that they were
open was just mobile pop ups and then they got
their brick and mortar in twenty twenty two. It was
established by two people assisted by the name of Centaria

(01:24:34):
Terra for short, Jones and Lynn Davidson. So they both
basically met in high school. They were high school sweethearts.
They both grew up in Decatur, Georgia. One day when

(01:24:57):
they were out on a business they were introduced to
rolled ice cream in Tennessee into a I forget which
part I didn't right now what part of Tennessee. But
they went to an ice cream shop in Tennessee. They
were saving rolled ice cream and they were inspired by
that experience to bring that sensation back home now to

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start their business. Essentially, they pitched their idea to Kroger.
There was an empty space attached to Kroger Supermarket and
they want to use that for a brick and mortar location.
Of course, Kroger denied their first Big Terror appealed their decision,

(01:25:53):
appealed the denial, and was awarded the amount that they
were seeking to open the rick and mortar. They also used,
you know, money from their four oh one k from
their four oh one ks, and she Terror had a

(01:26:16):
really good job. They didn't say what Leah was doing
when I was doing my research.

Speaker 5 (01:26:22):
She was.

Speaker 3 (01:26:25):
Formerly a psychometricist. And what they are is just basically
that's a fancy word for a lab teic for psychologists.
They you know, they processed the notes from the psychiatrist
gives you, uh neurology, you know, if they do a
brain scan on you and any type of psychiatric notes.

(01:26:49):
If the psychologists takes a takes on you know, they
process and file those. They make really really good money
and she cashed in her four oh one k from
doing that. So their top flavors most requested flavors are

(01:27:12):
cinnamon toast, strawberry cheesecake, Oriole, brownie blast, and donuts. Ruin
my vibe. Get it because it got donuts in it,
So don't ruin my vibe. Donuts it has not actually donuts,

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but honey buns. And then they also have vegan options
as well. They only have just playing vanilla ice cream,
you know, non dairy ice cream for the vegan ice
cream rods. But it's something if you're a vegan. Also,
I learned Sherbert is vegan too. They don't use dairy

(01:28:00):
milk and Sherbert and many find that dining establishments offer
Sherbet ice cream and Sherberts is like a palate palate cleanser.
This is something they use on those really exquisite dinners
when they got them like five and six course dinners,

(01:28:23):
they'll serve some Sherbert. They'll call it an inter mitso
or a palate cleanser. It's is so you can like
taste the food. But Sherbert is like non dairy two
if you ever want an option. So yeah, that's pretty

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much how they funded the organization. Those are the flavors
that they offer are their most popular flavors of ice
cream that they offer. In addition to all of that,
they focus on. Their mission statement is to provide jobs
for the community, specifically young people, to hire local teams,

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use and provide job training, so like there would be
franchise opportunities as well as just working beer as they
plan to expand to different parts of the world. So
their flagship for their playing business is located at forty

(01:29:31):
nine to nineteen Flat Shows Parkway, Sweet one O seven B, Decatur,
Georgia three to three or three zero zero three four
telephone number four seven zero two ninety nine five zero
two seven and once again the name of the business

(01:29:52):
is called Sweet Dreams ice cream and they specialize in
the roll ice cream. So join men to give me
the owners Tara and Leah Cynthia cent Teria said, Tara

(01:30:14):
Jones and Leah Lynn david I keep want saying Leah.
His name is Lynn Davidson. A worn narrative podcast Round
of applause. All right, moving right along, next section of

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the narrative podcast week. In addition, this is called the
Spotlight section. This section, what I'm doing is I'm spotlighting
prominent people within our community that's impacting our community in
a positive way. And essentially what I'm doing is I'm
promoting positive reinforcement, celebrating the accomplishments and achievements of a

(01:31:06):
person in our community that's doing something positive that impacts
our community in a positive way. So yeah, the reason
why I'm driven to do this section of my podcast
is because, you know, we when the Internet kind of

(01:31:26):
came out and people start to use the Internet to
promote various projects, somehow we got suckered into using it
to inflict harm or trying to destroy one another. Now,
you know, negativity just sells. You know, it's just proving

(01:31:50):
in all formulas for marketing and selling products. You know,
we're talking movies. The action movies they outsell the rom
com So people want to see the you know, they
want to see violence, they want to see danger. They
want to see violence. That's what packs the other seats

(01:32:13):
in the movie theaters. Same same way in reality. You know,
we're drama junkies here in America. We love seeing dramas.
So how can what's the quickest way to sell drama
use the most impactful people in the world to do it,

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us black people. So, you know, all these faceless corporations
promoting and monetizing all these different social media platforms and
social media presences and influencers and people who get really
big numbers on social media are financed by these faceless corporations.

(01:32:59):
And these face this corporations, they infiltrate their camps, they
start beefs, they start miscommunications, they start misquoting people intentionally
to cause friction between two top people is getting really
big numbers online, whether they're like rappers, whether they're singers,

(01:33:27):
whether they're you know, whatever genre of entertainment they're in.
But then it also has trickled down in the just
regular people you know, in the world star hip hop.
When that at first first to merge. Do you have
any idea the number of our youths that lost their

(01:33:53):
lives due to something that started on social media media
back and forth and uploading and sharing something really embarrassing
that happened in their personal life on a world star
and they did it for views and likes to check

(01:34:15):
a quick bag, and now they're not here anymore. Can
some jerk want to follow you around the camera and
catch you, you know, engage in something really embarrassing. So

(01:34:36):
set all that to say, you know, that's why dedicated
this portion of my podcast to you know, get us
back to basics and uplifting and edify each other on
our platforms rather than tear each other down and destroy
each other on our platforms, because there's always an entity

(01:35:00):
in the middle profiting off the chaos within our community.
So having said that, when I first started this section,
I used to just focus on entertainers, people that were athletes,

(01:35:25):
recording artists, comedians, public figures, religious people. These days, I'm
really trying to focus on just regular people because I
don't want to play up the negative stereotype of all
our people know how to do is entertained. So I've

(01:35:48):
been really trying to focus on spotlighting just regular people. Also,
in the spotlight section, I alternate genders, so like one week,
I spotlight a male, in the following week, I spotlight
a female. Now, the reason why I just don't spotlight
a male and a female in one, you know, in

(01:36:10):
one week, is because I'm trying to honor my time
limit that I set for myself to present my content.
So it's just like, you know, it takes too long
to do too many bios for two different people, you
know what I'm saying, So just do one person rather
than two people. And then I keep it fair. I

(01:36:39):
alternate gender so it ain't seem like I'm just always,
you know, highlighting in bail and it's sisters out here
doing really good jobs, you know, sounding off for the
other cars too. So you know, that's why I alternate genders.

(01:37:13):
So moving right along, now that you know what the
spotlight section is all about, I do want to take
this little brief time off to just you know, put
it out there that I popularize the time spotlighting. Because
before I add the spotlight section to my podcast, The

(01:37:34):
Narrative Podcast, Nobody Nobody with spotlighting anybody. Now, every time
you turn around, you're hearing the phrase spotlight and you
wasn't hearing it as much until I started doing it.
And you might think I'm capping or reaching, but you can,

(01:37:57):
you know, you can dig into my episode log and
do you know, cross reference and cross check, use whatever
digital device you can to kind of fact check what
I'm saying. But it just wasn't as popular, popularly used,
and widely used as it is now until I started,

(01:38:19):
you know, incorporating into into my you know, lexicon for
what I do. And now it's just like a real
common phrase that you hear all the time, and nobody
was doing it before I started it. So that means
that this platform, it's very, very impactful when I'm reaching

(01:38:42):
a whole lot of people, specifically people from our community,
the black community, because like, I know who I'm influencing.
I influenced the influences. Like you know, I know who
listens to my play, I know how they're listening to

(01:39:03):
me to it, because they incorporate my content into their content,
not just what I'm saying on this platform, but how
I say what I'm saying, incorporate the nuances of my
speech pattern into their content as well. So I'm like
the most imitated guy on social media, all the nuances

(01:39:28):
of my speech pattern, my social tics, you know, like
so many people mimicking that mirroring that it ain't even
funny long pauses that I take sometimes, So you know,

(01:39:50):
I don't take it personal. I didn't do this for validation.
I'm not seeking validation. I'm seeking to reach the people.
I'm seeking to uplifted to fire people with this content.
But just you know, it blows my mind to so
many people at that level of entertainment, it's taking time
out to listen to my little humble platform. So that

(01:40:14):
makes me feel really, really good. And as the old
saying goes, imitation is the best form of flattery. So
I'm extremely flattered that so many people are now spotlighting.
And the whole nature of the Spotlight section is to
just really focus on the positive achievements from people from

(01:40:37):
our community, impacking our community in a positive way. And
your brother got that bar row me in a real way. So,

(01:41:06):
without any further ado, going to dive into this Weekday
Weekend Partner Weekend edition of the Narrative podcast Spotlight edition.
In this week's Spotlight recipient, Spotlight goes to Assistan by
the name of Cassandra Prior Soadra Pryor is a public speaker,

(01:41:32):
a philanthropist, author, and a mentor. She is born and
raised in the Bronx, New York. Started a program called
Dear Black Girl Incorporated. Cassandra has had a rough life.

(01:41:54):
She got pregnant at an early age, temporarily incarcerated, and
you know, experienced death of a former partner. She was
facing twenty two years in prison. The judge ordered her to,

(01:42:15):
you know, do community service or serve you know, for
twenty two years sentence. The community service please. So you know,
that impact helping people left such a high impact garner.
She wanted to make, you know, helping people her life's work,

(01:42:36):
particularly young people. So you know, she started her nonprofit
organization in her living room with another person that would
just like teach the young girls self care and you know,
positive self esteem and just other things like young ladies

(01:42:57):
should know addiction and manner as an etiquette, all that
type of good stuff. So from Young Black Girl, She's
also created some other programs as well, the Key Literation Project,
which is a book club promoting reading, financial literacy, and

(01:43:22):
self care and then virtual reading Village with Supports, which
is a supportive community of literacy and for girls between
the ages of twelve to eighteen. And Heal hip Hop,
which is a free dance therapy addressing anxiety, depression, and

(01:43:51):
emotional health through movements. So basically like it's a hip
hop dance splass. So she got so many things, uh,
you know, programs that positively impact and change the trajectory
of young sisters in our community. And that's really our

(01:44:16):
breath of fresh air, especially now that we're living in
the bad be era. And the bad be era is
young ladies coming out of the house with you know,
little to nothing on going to social media basically just
seeking attention, you know, trying to make some money, showing

(01:44:41):
their body parts, you know, starting to only fans.

Speaker 5 (01:44:46):
And and and.

Speaker 3 (01:44:48):
You know, doing the can And now, if you're a
grown woman, that's that's one thing that's nobody has a
right to judge you if that's how you make your money.
But it's a problem because many of these they don't
check on these sites. It's home. You got a lot
of young ladies doing this, like young girls between the

(01:45:09):
ages of fourteen to seventeen on these little sites and
they're following the examples that they see in hip hop.
They not only see they hear it in the lyrics
and the rhymes. So they're pairinging me back, thinking like,
that's what I gotta do to navigate through life. That's
what I gotta do to be a bad d. You know,

(01:45:32):
I gotta leave out the house showing, you know, all
my parts, putting all my parts out there, you know,
getting surgery, getting them BBLS implants or stuffing it or
intra straight up implants and do the botox injections now

(01:45:55):
aren't in the lips. Remember when you was a little
kid lunchtime and you would get the orange slices and
then what would you do with the orange slices? You
put them in your mouth and make that little face.
That's what these little young girls look like now getting

(01:46:16):
that botox injections in their face. The little orange slices
that we used to stuff in our mouths is killing.
That's what they're running around looking like now, following the
examples of what they see on Instagram and these hip
hop videos. But like I said, her programs are a

(01:46:39):
breath of fresh air. They teach the young ladies etiquette
and how to be a proper you know, young lady,
not a thought or a houchi mama or whatever. And
so like, after you get grown and you want to
be that, that's your business. But between the ages of

(01:47:01):
like you know, eleven and on up, you know, somebody
gotta train you, you know, the proper etiquette of how
to be a respectable lady. And so that's how I
always see it. Like a sophisticated woman will always win.

(01:47:26):
This is how you know. It's the difference between a
woman and the bitch part of my language. But a
sophisticated woman will always win if she carries and conducts
yourself like a lady, and all times, in all situations,
she'll win. You know, she can never ever feel disrespected,

(01:47:50):
She can never feel you know, rejected, she can never
feel used because she knows how to love herself, to
carry and conduct yourself in a manner that exudes elegance.
Like somebody. There's always a demand for what she brings

(01:48:11):
to the table. You know, she got that self confidence.
She walks and glides in her confidence and gives her truth.
She don't got to show her whole body to the
whole world to get some attention. She don't have to

(01:48:31):
roll her neck and try to talk over people and
try to over talk people to get her point across.
She can have an intellectual, stimulating conversation, you know, and
maintain her femininity at the same time. So like women

(01:48:55):
out here arguing with dudes getting it all up in
the face, we see it all online. It's a common
thing now putting their finger all up in the man's
face like they do with the man. You know. Obviously
somebody men train her how to be a lady. If
you become be a lady in all situation, you can't

(01:49:18):
lose because the man of correct itself by nature, he's
a real man. So without any further ado, give it

(01:49:49):
up to look joy men to give them a warm
narrative podcast round of applause to our sister. The signs
of prior or creating change in young ladies lives all
over the nation, particularly black young ladies. Just hoping that

(01:50:10):
you know, young ladies of all backgrounds. But they she
special in her programs, is catered to our community. But
you know, she doesn't reject anybody. So you can go
to the websites to find out more about alreadly lost
my plaace Deer Black Girls Incorporated. And I think to

(01:50:34):
find out more about it, you go to Deer Black
Girls Incorporated dot bard. Yeah, Dear Black Girls Incorporated dot org.

(01:51:06):
You can also follow them on Instagram as well, Dear
Black Girl sixteen on Instagram. They got a Facebook page
two Dear Black Girls Incorporated. Then once again, it's a
five oh one c three nonprofit organization to uplift and

(01:51:26):
change the trajectory of young black girls through mentoring and
vocational skills training and teaching them self esteem and self care.

(01:52:00):
All right, moving right along. The next section of the
Narrative podcast is called my Health and Wellness section. And
in this section I'm speaking about health and wellness is
very you know, self explanatory. And the reason why I'm

(01:52:21):
talking about health and wellness, unfortunately, is because our people,
black people, we are suffering in a big way. Our
health and wellness is at risk and more at risk
than any other group in the entire world, especially of
those of us living in the United States of America.

(01:52:43):
There isn't a hair agenda to get rid of each
and every last one of us. They're putting things in
the air, putting things in the food, putting things in
the water that will halt, you know, our existence, you know,

(01:53:04):
either rewrite our DNA or destroy it completely or unlib
ust you know, air, water, food, even fabrics in our clothing,
common things that we use every single day, is making
us sick mentally. I already told you that way. Psychological

(01:53:29):
war on us through the media, bombarding us with all
this negativity about our people and our culture. Using the media,
they're also attacking us spiritually, also attacking us financially. However,
I don't give financial tips in this section because I

(01:53:52):
believe health is wealth. But that's essentially with the health
and wellness section of the Near podcast is all about
providing our people, the original people health tips that will
help you know, it's still your life in all those

(01:54:14):
areas that we're being attacked in. So, for example, you know,
the types of tips that I give in the health
the wellness sections say, on the physical side of it,
it's usually the health benefits of some type of food
you can eat or apply topically, you know, like the

(01:54:35):
health benefits of an apple, like you know, vitamins, minerals
and nutrients and all the good things that to do
to your body at the consuming on a regular basis,
or some type of physical exercise you can conform to
improve your overall physical health. Then on the mental side

(01:55:04):
of it, you know techniques and lifestyle choices you can
make to improve your mental clarity, to keep yourself sane,
to stay centered, to stay grounded mentally, to me make

(01:55:25):
emotionally intelligent decisions, things that keep you in a good
mental state of clarity. And basically, like mind exercises you
can incorporate on a daily basis to keep yourself mentally strong.

(01:55:55):
And then spiritual practices you can incorporate to repel spiritual attacks.
Because whatever denomination you know of religion that you practice
or spirituality, you know, whatever you believe in, we can
all come into agreeance that if there are dark forces,
dark entities, demons, if you will, they do exist, and

(01:56:18):
people know how to tap into that energy and project
that energy. So you need to know how to defend
yourself against that energy. And that's what I do. I
give you tips on how to do that on the
spiritual side of it. So that's pretty much what the

(01:56:40):
health and wellness section is all about. So a quick
little disclaimer of my podcast is more open platform for
anybody to listen to. Anybody that has an open mind,
if they want to know more about original people, that
want to relate more to the Black people in their lives.
If they're outside of our culture, they're more than welcome

(01:57:00):
to listen to the platform. But while listening, just keep
in mind that all things discussed on on this platform
is designed and tailored for specifically for original people. So
while you're all free to listen to it, you know,

(01:57:21):
all the helpful stuff, the most people that can derive
from the content that I'm presenting is original people. But
it's especially true in this section because I want my
people to be you know, in a state of willness
into total body wellness. And you know, that's the tips

(01:57:45):
I'm giving. I'm giving the tips from the black experience.
What is the most you know, healthy benefit, you know,
the most benefits we can derive as a people as
it relates to our our unique genetic code in our
mental well being and you know, the way we think

(01:58:06):
and the type of nutrients and minerals we require to
sustain our lives. So everybody's different, everybody's culturally different, everybody's
spiritually different, and it varies you know culturally. You know,
religion does a really horrible job. It's saying we're all

(01:58:29):
one people, We're all God's people, God loves us, are
the same. If that was true, then why did he
make us all different? Why is there a different perception
of who God is and the Higher Power is? If
we were all the same, if we're all one blood,
how come everybody taps into it different? You know why?

(01:58:50):
Because we're different. Just assure us everything on the planet
is different. You got different species of animals, same geno family,
but different species. They have different physical attributes. You know,
plants too, So everything's different. So what you know makes

(01:59:11):
keeps me healthy and well will destroy you, And what
keeps you healthy and well will destroy me. So we
have to like go culturally what would sustain me culturally
as an original man? So those are the tips that

(01:59:34):
I focus on and giving this portion of the narrative podcast.
I know when you listen to it, you say, well,
how's that different for just for black people? How is
that different? How do you guys derive the most benefits
from this? And I usually explain how it's more beneficial

(01:59:57):
for our people to engage in these benefits than any
other group of people. So that's how I get over
that hunh. But trust me when I say this section
is especially.

Speaker 6 (02:00:08):
For my people.

Speaker 3 (02:00:11):
So without any further ado, we're going to get on
into the health and wellness section of the Narrative podcast
with the health and wellness tip for this week. And
this is kind of a simple sounding one. It's something
that we should all do. And this is you know,

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it's eeters between mental health and physical health. It's both.
It's actually a combination, you know, the best of both worlds.
Is something that we have to do and something that
we do do or we feel a shamed when we
do it. But this is extremely healthy for you and necessary.

(02:00:55):
I saw many type of levels, but we often suppress this,
especially if we're men. Men especially, we're talking to suppress
this thing that's perfectly natural and it's loaded with health
benefits to sustain your life, to sustain not only your

(02:01:19):
physical life, but your mental clarity. I'm gonna talk about
the health benefits of crying. That's right. The most hardened
criminals in the world, you know why they're currently incarcerated

(02:01:40):
because they were taught to not cry, to hold it
in bottle within and it exploded and now they're locked up.
They do that in our community, you know, especially you
know males. We can't show our motions and call us

(02:02:01):
a punk or a bitch ass nigga part of my language,
but that's what we say. You know, it's automatically assumed
that you're soft if you shed a tear. You know,
when you're daity a woman, if you show her your
vulnerability around her, she will not respect you. She'll try

(02:02:24):
to test you and run over you. But you know,
crime is something that we have to do. We have
to release it, and it cleanses you on so many levels.

(02:02:48):
Crime releases stress hormones like cortisol, helping you feel calmer,
to activates the parasit UH paracephatic nerve or p n S,

(02:03:09):
which helps the body rest and recover. Tears contain endorphins
in oxytocin. It also helps the body de toxified. It
helps the body to expel stress related toxins like a

(02:03:31):
c t H a stress hormone. Tears are essential essential
to reduce pain. Crime can increase pain tolerance. Crime increases
UH eye health. The tears help lubricate the eye, crying age,

(02:04:01):
and sleep. So if you have a you know, hard
time sleeping, it's probably because you ain't had a good
crime a while. So those are some of the health
benefits of crying. So fellas, don't bottle it up, you know,

(02:04:26):
get you a nice little corner in your house and
let it out. You know, if you're in a relationship,
if you're married, that's what the kind, that's what the ladies,
that's what the man k is all about. Sometimes he
ain't in there with the fellas. Sometimes he ain't in

(02:04:47):
there just with you know, a cold one watching the
football game. Sometimes he's letting out them pressed memories and
things that hurt in the past. So when he's in
and his man cave, don't disturb him. And you know

(02:05:14):
who really kind of advocates for that. It's a brother
by the name I think his name is Bona Wilson.
He's an older brother. He's a martial artist, and you
know the way he connects with young people, he kind
of like really good with dealing with the youth and senses,

(02:05:36):
like when they've been holding in a repressed memory, something
very traumatic, it's troubling him. And he like he got
a video that's scoring viral. You know, he's teaching this
young man martial arts and he's having a hard time

(02:05:57):
executing the movies, and then he could just kind of
picks up on his emotions and consense that he's been
repressing something very traumatic. And then he instructs the young
man just to let it out. You know, that thing
is choking you, it's cutting off the circulation. You gotta

(02:06:21):
let it go. And then immediately the young man starts weeping,
and he says, that's what life's want to do to you.
If you don't let that go, you gonna feel like
that all the time, and not to be ashamed or
embarrassed of your tears. As a brother that did radio

(02:06:44):
as well. I think his name is Michael Basden. He
wrote a book called Men Cry in the Dark. But
crying is essential. It doesn't make you soft, it doesn't
make you a punk. You gotta do it. We just
all gotta do it. We gotta have a good one.

(02:07:05):
So get you in a good space, you know, turn
out the lights, get real intimate, just let them flow,
get it out there, and so many good health benefits
will come your way. And you know, like, let's normalize that.
It don't make me soft, it don't make you a sucker.

(02:07:27):
Like we all got to do it. Man, we're human beings,
like we can't walk around repressing our emotions because it
causes other health problems. It causes your hypertension, it causes
your high blood pressure, it causes your diabetes. So everything
starts in your mind. When your mind's out of whack,

(02:07:49):
your body follows. This is why they call illnesses disease,
because your mind is at this ease. So therefore, you know,
we have to do and take that emotional maintenance. You

(02:08:10):
gotta properly maintain your mind and your body. You can't
wait until it's too late, you know. So set all
that to say, you know, be your own therapist. You
just gotta just you know, get get into a space
and just let it, let it out, let it, let
it go, shout if you need to shout, whatever you

(02:08:37):
need to do, but you know, let them tears out,
and you know, cleanse yourself mentally. And so that's the
health benefit of today, the health benefits of crying. And

(02:09:03):
I'll tell my next section, my next section here in
the Narrative podcast week. In addition is something just to
reiterate my commentary section. This section is called my speaking
point section, and I'm just commented commentating on things that

(02:09:24):
happened all over the world. You know, as a podcaster,
that's I'm kind of obligated to do kind of tackle
hot button issues, you know, breaking news and things of
that nature, whether it's you know, national global things directly

(02:09:44):
or indirectly relating to our people and our culture. But
whatever I unpacked, I unpack it from our perspective as
a relations as it relates or it potentially pertains to us,
because the media go out of its way to have
us looking and sound and crazy. So when I'm delivering
my commentary, I'm just basically controlling the narrative. In a

(02:10:11):
rare event that I don't have any dudes to commentate on.
What I do, in its place is just replace it
with a PSA. And my PSA is usually are just
the observation or something I've noticed that we need to
work on as a people. And when I say we,
I mean me too, and in many cases it's me especially.

(02:10:33):
So I do have something that, you know, the kind
of caught my attention. It is to dig down a
whole lot. Now it's not a big deal, but something
that this lady does is never not a big deal.
So I'm gonna get her right on into it. A
few weeks ago now, during her epic icon of tour

(02:10:59):
for her country music album, Beyonce Knowles Carter came underfire
for a T shirt that she was wearing honoring the
Buffalo Soldiers. So the outrage was in the air quotes

(02:11:21):
Native American, you know community. They were outraged because the
Buffalo Soldiers were in charge of underliving a whole lot
of so called Native Americans in that time period. However,

(02:11:45):
the Buffalo Soldiers were also used for reconnaissance during those
times and scouting missions as well, and their success rate
was very high. So every mission that they sent, you know,
the US government sent the Buffalo Soldiers on, they would

(02:12:05):
successfully execute. So essentially they were just soldiers following orders.
But the outrage came from the Native American community and
air quotes. I'm using Native American loosely because you see

(02:12:26):
the people who are displaying the outrage, they're not the
original indigenous Native people of this land. The original native
Indigenous people of this land is closer to Beyonce's complexion.

(02:12:47):
When you dig into history. This is why you have
to know your history. There's a Bible verse in the
Good Book Jose for six when my people are destroyed
for lack of knowledge. You must do the knowledge before

(02:13:13):
you come to a conclusion. So if you knew the
true nature and the true origin of the Native people
in this land, you could never feel outraged about it.
Because the people you know that was expressing their outrage
online offended about the Buffalo soldiers. Guess what. Many of

(02:13:38):
the Buffalo soldiers were black Cherokees. That was all black
Indo indigenous tribe. Nearly all tribes are from you know,
black people. If you do your and your research and

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that these people are exhibiting it expressing the outrage, they're
not the original Natives. They are Siberians, They're not from
this country. They Mongols. They got appointed as Native Americans
by the US government. Many of them own black slaves

(02:14:23):
and tortured them worse than the white people. Many of
them lobby with the Confederacy to keep slavery alive so
that they can own slaves. Do your research on the

(02:14:50):
Trail of Tears, do your research on Chief Crazy Horse.
Go to the Library of Congress before they delete all
the information. They're in the process. They're deleting all the
information about the original tribes of America. They tell you

(02:15:10):
in that who it was originally here when this land
was settled. It's kind of funny to me. Now every

(02:15:33):
other group can get offended from people in our community. Meanwhile,
we can't express our offense to about people that you know,
just overtly offenders go out of their way to say

(02:15:53):
something offensive or do something offensive to our people. You know,
it gets disregarded. You know this is like, oh, you're
mad about that. Oh well, ooh cry about you. You're
mad about that I just said this word. Ooh black things,

(02:16:16):
ooh cry about it. You know that's their attitude towards
us when we feel offended. But when the shoes on
the other foot, did we do or say something that
another group finds offensive, Not only are we forced to apologize,

(02:16:38):
it also comes with heavy financial finds. We gotta pay
some money for offending that group of people, but nobody
has to pass a dime or even apologize for offending us.

(02:17:03):
So I'm gonna land my playing real uh right here,
you know, teena nose and Matt knows real good job
take about folks, y'all, raise y'all's children, well, y'all taughts,

(02:17:26):
and instill that fb a lineage into both of their
their children. Solange and Beyonce are very pro Black, specifically
very pro black, foundational Black Americans. They use their art
form to express it. Every single one of Beyonce's performances

(02:17:51):
through any time period you want to name, she incorporates,
you know, the renaissance of Black America into all of
her artwork. You know, her formation when she did it
in the Super Bowl formation, you know, Mike Drop moment,

(02:18:13):
mic Drop moment, at the mic Drop moment for a
foundational Black Americans, you know, personified through her art form,
and I think her parents instilled that in her so launch.
She's very pro black too. She supports black businesses, she
promotes black businesses, specifically Black American businesses. They have an

(02:18:39):
affinity for their Black American lineage, and has never ever,
within the history of her being an entertainer, ever apologized
for acknowledging her foundation no Black American roots. So glad

(02:19:03):
for that. I think people, you know, misconstrued, like take
her beauty for like a weakness, think, you know, like

(02:19:24):
she's real goodsy and she doesn't know her history just
because she's like physically attractive. They just think there's nothing upstairs.
But you know the way she moves and carries and
conducts conducts herself. She's very knowledgeable about who she is
as a black woman and exudes it and has never

(02:19:45):
shied away or been ashamed and embarrassed by She knows.
When white men pay her attention, it's just you know,
a fetish. They want something that they can't have. She know,
for many years, her black features they call ugly. And

(02:20:05):
what does she do? She puts her black features all
up in their face. I do, I am a little
you know. These days her skin complexion is getting lighter.
I don't know what beauty products she's using, but she's
looking like real European right now. But other than that,

(02:20:27):
far as representing FBA, she like she's doing it.

Speaker 4 (02:20:33):
Man.

Speaker 3 (02:20:34):
She is unapologetic, unapologetically representing. She ain't bowing down and
buck dancing, you know, to earn a spot at their table.

(02:20:54):
And it's a darn shame. And female got more testicles
than half of these black male entertainers. So that's where
I'm laying on my plane with the Buffalo soldier. You know,

(02:21:18):
backlash that she received, and also immediately following there was
a Native American, a so called native American guy. They
tried to say, you know, we owe you know, they
invented sofu. They was eating college greens on the plantation

(02:21:38):
and it was a part of their diet. So again,
they're not the original indigenous natives of this land. And
some of them owned slaves, so that they got introduced
into college greens. To guess what it was the slaves
they owned on that reservation introduced into it. Then second,

(02:22:01):
many of the explorers that reconnoitered the land of America,
all of them, and all of their journals, you know,
journal injuries about what the natives of this land looked like.
They all said there was copper skin, copper skin tone people.

(02:22:25):
For all these people that's complaining and feeling outraged about
the soul situation, is any one of them close to
being copper completed? Pull out a penny. If you're black
living in America, you know, if your lineage is right
here in America, your parents and your grandparents were born

(02:22:48):
in America, enslaved, whether they came from Africa or not.
Take out a penny and match that penny to your
flesh and see how close of a match it is.
Then mentally envision these people living on these reservations doing

(02:23:14):
the rain dance. And you know all these people that
they show us in Hollywood, that's supposed to be the
physical depiction of what air quotes Native American is supposed
to look like. And ask yourself, are they copper complexting?
Are any of them close to being copper complexed? No,

(02:23:38):
they're not, because they're not from here. They're not the
indigenous natives of this land we are. Do your research,
do your due diligence, find out how we got here.
All of us didn't descend from slavery. We are the
original tribe of man. There's not one owner of the globe.

(02:24:01):
Our people didn't already exist, but especially here in the
United States of America. And for the ones that are
not Siberians, they are descendants of white people because there

(02:24:22):
was a time in history when white people was allowed
to change their lineage to avoid paying taxes. They were
allowed to call themselves Indians to avoid paying taxes. They
were called five dollars Indians. Okay, on paper, they're Native American,

(02:24:47):
but they're not. Actually, you know nothing close to you
just plan Old George plan old till so let that marinate,
let that seek in, do your knowledge, do your research,

(02:25:11):
you know, find out about your people, find out how
we got here. And I guarantee you all of us
didn't get here on slave boats. You know, we're here
thousands of years before the slave trade even began. What

(02:25:43):
they did is they put us on the plantation with
enslaved Africans. That's what they did for the people already here.
So every time, you know, we're reliving history. And they said,

(02:26:05):
the pilgrim stole the land from the Indians, raped and
slaughtered the Indians. They talking about you, how about that?
So they jerked us three times. Half of us came
from Africa, half of us was already here, took the

(02:26:35):
land and raped the people that was already here and
enslaved them and called them something else. Then went back
and got some Africans and put them on plantations too,
So they they triple jerked us. And yet and still

(02:26:56):
they always quick to say Black Americans don't don't know
their history, they don't know their ancestry, they have no culture.
Black Americans are the damn coaching. We're the reasons for
all seasons. So no disrespect to our African brothers and sisters.
No disrespect to our brothers and sisters from the Caribbeans

(02:27:21):
and all other islands. But when it comes to this revolution.

Speaker 7 (02:27:26):
Stuff, nobody, nobody, nobody can cold a candle to foundational
Black Americans. Everything we put down indoor and overcame nobody.
We are uncheckable, hear me, So we don't never got

(02:27:49):
to feel bad about nothing. We can always openly express
in ourselves and speak our minds.

Speaker 3 (02:27:57):
And we don't owe nobody an apology. We don't owe
nobody nothing. We're the only group of people that they
never did nothing to nobody except ourselves. We created all

(02:28:19):
forms of music. Every genre of contemporary music you could name,
we created it. We created rock and roll, we created jazz, bebop, funk,
you know, country, Western swing, Kentucky bluegrass, like every form

(02:28:53):
of American music you could ever think of, folk pop,
all of it, swing, choir, all came from foundational Black Americans.

(02:29:18):
Don't get it started on fumes in Hollywood. The Oscars
was named after a black man, a foundational Black American
black man, Oscar Machad. The little gold statue that they
cramming them seats and where are that former attire to
receive a black man by the name of Oscar matchad

(02:29:40):
inspired that don't play with us, don't play with us.
We are the sauce. So that's where I'm gonna land
my playing with that. She don't owe in the oology.

(02:30:00):
We don't owe an apology. We don't apologize with the original.
You guys are the dukes, the knockoffs. And now we

(02:30:29):
want to close this thing out with my very last
section of the Narrative podcast. This is my wise word
of the day. My Wise word of the day is declare.

(02:30:51):
The dictionary says when you declare something, you make it
formally or officially known, to proclaim, to state, emphatically or authoritatively, affirm,
to refel, or manifest, or to show. And I think

(02:31:14):
this next piece of where I'm going is most appropriately
most appropriate because we just got through celebrating the fourth
of July. So everything here in the United States of
America started with the Declaration, the Declaration of Independence. This

(02:31:36):
was our nation declaring its sovereignty. They were declaring their
ideals and beliefs to be a separate entity apart from
the British colonized rule that was, you know, dominating this

(02:31:58):
portion of the world. So they came up with this
little piece of paper called the Declaration of Independence, which
subsequently does not include foundational Black Americas, never have and
never will. But you know, that's where all the laws
of the man were derived from, from this little piece

(02:32:21):
of paper where they were declaring their sovereignty. So where
am I going with my wise word of the day.
If you want change in your life, you must declare it.
You want to make a declaration. You want your finances
to improve, you declare and decree that you will have

(02:32:46):
you know, exceedingly abundant amount of money, the amount that
will sustain and elevate you in life and make all
your dreams come into fruition enough to be able to
be useful to yourself, your family, and your community. You
must declare your prosterity. You must declare your peace of mind.

(02:33:13):
You must declare your love. When you're dating with somebody, feelings,
when you're about to ask the woman to marry her,
to marry her?

Speaker 2 (02:33:23):
What you do?

Speaker 3 (02:33:24):
You get on one knee and you declare your love
for that woman. You have to declare your virtue, your valor,
your honor. You have to declare your courage, that's right.

(02:33:52):
You have to declare your strength, your virtue. You have
to declare your own self worth and independence. Make the
declaration today, declare this is your day, and every single
day after today, let it be that. Let it be

(02:34:13):
so for the rest of your life. And I am
declaring on this platform this day that we will, together
as a people, change this narrative. I declare also that

(02:34:39):
I'll be doing another full episode next weekend of the
Narrative Podcast and weekday uploads of the Narrative Podcast during
out throughout the week. So but your continued patronage and
support of the platform the Narrative Podcast, together, we will

(02:35:02):
change the narrative. I'm Harsey Allen, and I'm changing the
narrative one episode at a time. I'm asking you to
help me change the narrative by becoming a narrator. While
I'm changing narrative on my end, one episode at a time,
you can help me change the narrative on your end,

(02:35:24):
one social media post at a time. So, in closing,
endorse support and promote positive black media. Endorse support, share

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positive black content, endororse support, promote the Narrative Podcast. MHM,
so peace, family, I'm a body here Until next time.
Hawsey Allen and The Narrative Podcast signing off, and it's like.

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Speaker 6 (02:36:27):
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Speaker 6 (02:37:12):
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