Episode 502 - The Narrative Podcast - The Narrative Podcast

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Speaker 1 (00:11):
And and.

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And and.

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Storm and don.

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You with the Narrative Podcast.

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Whatever good a peace, peace, peace, family.

Speaker 5 (01:39):
You're 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, respirosity and original people positivity.
Near The podcast promotes positive frames of reference about.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
Original people and original people.

Speaker 5 (01:59):
Coach The Narrative Podcast provides positive frames of reference about
original people and original people culture. Welcome to the Narrative Podcast.
I am your host, Haulz Allen. Welcome all my narrators.

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So peace, peace, piece, peace, be a bonde.

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All this wonderful Wednesday today, July hump Day. So we
made it through another one weekend right around the corner
weeking at us. So, yeah, these are the last dog

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days of summer, probably like the rest of this month,
and you know, the first two weeks of August chillings
to be going back to school.

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A lot happening in the world, and.

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You know we're gonna attempt to sift through some of
that here on the podcast today, well every single day,
especially as it pertains relates.

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To black people, you know, or as I refer to
our people on this podcast original people, but anyway to
get things started off, just to uh let you notice
an all black podcasts speaking about all black content.

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So anything that pertains.

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Or relates to or about Black people is discussed here
on this platform. From the perspective of positive reinforcement, that's
the whole nature of the Narrative Podcast is to positively
reinforce Black people and Black culture, and to promote positive

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reinforcement of our people and our culture.

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Is in it. And that's pretty much you know.

Speaker 5 (04:05):
The nature of why I, uh you know, exist in
the space. So to give you a quick rundown of
the podcast, just to a brief overview, the Narrative Podcast
highlights the beauty, strength, and resilience of the Black community,

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covering topics that's as black love, empowerments, unity, and progression.
Their podcast dives deep in d uh dives deep into
discussions about black health, economic wealth, innovation, and positive reinforcement
of Black voices. During their week days and week ends

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for inspiring stories, uplifting news, and the focused on the
achievements of Black individuals across the globe. So that's just
scratching the surface on on what I do on the
narrat podcast. And how I typically you know, this is
pretty much how my format style is broken down.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
I break all my content down in the sections. Each
section has.

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Speaking points, and I time these sections to make the
overall listening experience more enjoyable for the listeners. So basically,
I know, you don't have all day to listen to
a podcast, and I don't have all day to you know,
just be gabbing, so I try to make everything short,

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brief and to the point, and connect all the dots efficiently,
so I'm just not yammering away and you know, talking
in circles like some podcasters do. This is an all
audio platforms, so you know, I wanna captivate the audience,
not bored in to sleep. So you know, that's why

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my podcast is broken down like that.

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So here's how typical start things off. I give you.

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My format breakdown broadcast during the weekdays and the weekends.
So I give you, you know, a brief screenshot or a
snippet if you will, of you know, my presentation style
for the weekday and the week versus the weekend, just

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to kind of compare and contrast it too. I don't
go into too deep of a dive describing my weekend
format because again, you know, this content is time. I
try not succeed one hour per broadcast, so I try

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to do everything within my power to you know, make
everything short and sweet. So I just want to I
want you see how the two four main styles different.
Then after that, I have a promotional portion of the
Narrative podcast, and that the nature of that is basically

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a crowdfunding if you will, like, just to you know,
to raise funds to pay for the monthly maintenance of
the podcast.

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These projects that I'm.

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About to promote, you know, generate revenue income streams for
the podcast, so you know, that helps with the monthly
maintenance fee of the podcast. And then after that, after
I'm done promoting all my projects, then I provide a
broad overview of the narrative podcast. The broad overview is

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just to give you a better glimpse into what you're
listening to, you know, just to get you acquainted with
all the nuances of the narrative podcast and you know,
go into a little deeper dive into the speaking points
of the platform and you know, buzz phrases I use

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and everything you should you know, be acquainted with to
you know, emphasize the focus of the overall podcast itself.
So just like it's some broad overviews, just everything you
should know it. It'll help you connect the dots and
make all the material jail better with you. So this

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is what I do with the broad overview of the
narrative podcast, is just to help make the content more
digestible for the listener. And then of course from there
go into the actual content itself and easy peasy, lemon squeeze.

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So here we go.

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Diving into the first section of the narrative podcast before breakdown.

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So first and foremost, as I.

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Said, I broadcast a couple times a few times during
the weekday and then a few times during the weekends.
Are once during the weekend, pardon me, So here's my

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format style breakdown for the weekdays. So the nature of
the Narrative podcast is to share positive frames of reference.

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About our people and our culture.

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And by sharing these positive frames of reference about our
people and our culture, this will help you know, debunk
a lot of you know, negative stigmas and stereotypes about
our people and our culture. As a matter of fact,
I actually have a slogan for my podcast, the Narrative Podcast,

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Changing the narrative one that and sould 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.

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Of reference about our people in our culture.

Speaker 5 (10:14):
And so you know, that's the nature of providing the
positive frames of reference. So during the weekday, the uh
positive frame of reference that I focus on delivering.

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Is positive news articles.

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That's what everything kind of centers around, is the positive
news articles during the weekday. And the reason why I
focus on uh delivering positive uh.

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News articles during the week day is because we're.

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Constantly being bombarded with negative news from all media outlets.
So not just the news itself per se, but uh,
you know, we're exposed to, you know.

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The corruption.

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Of our people's images and our and our likenesses and
all media outlets so like movies, television shows, magazines, books, advertisements,
other podcasts, you know, you name it. All forms of

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media in which our people's images and likenesses are depicted
are skewed in warts and designed to promote degenerously. So basically, essentially,

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it's a spear campaign and outright attack on the character
of our people so you know, that's the nature of
why I deliver positive news articles during the weekday. It
is actually a form of you know, psychological warfare that

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we're exposed to.

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It's an outright attack on our well being, our mental
well being.

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The media attacks us by bombarding us with all this
negative news and as in results of that, this kind
of destroys our self esteem.

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It also, you.

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Know, the message that it sends also kind of gets
embedded into our psyches and we on a subconscious level
act out these negative stereotypes and stigmas. So that's just
the adverse effects of being exposed to negativity a week

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day long has on our people, our people, you know,
outside of our culture. How it affects people outside of
our culture, It results in them having an overall negative
perception of our people and our culture. And you know,

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from the frames of reference that they're given to about
our people and our culture, you know, they make decide
how they want to engage us and interact with us,
or if they want to engage and interact with us
at all. You know, many people outside of our culture

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avoid or try to avoid being around us at all costs,
and when they're around us, they have you know, a
negative overall view of us as a people. So again,
and their view is shape by the media. What they're
seeing in the news outlets, what they're observing and witnessing,

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you know, in movies and television shows, and what they're
hearing in the music. So you know, all that plays,
you know, a crucial element as to why our people
are so poorly received worldwide and why are we so

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abrasively treated in spaces that are not dominated by us. So,
you know, it's a domino effect basically what the media
is doing to our people's images and likenesses. And that's
why I kind of you know, hyper focus on delivering
positive news articles during the weekday is to undo their

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psychological conditioning and programming and then also to demonstrate positive
things do happen within our community. So after I'm done
delivering the positive news articles, then I go on to
a section in which I call my speaking point section.
I speaking point section is basically uh me being a podcaster.

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As all, pretty much all podcasters do. They talk about
current news and current events. The difference between UH my
platform and most other podcasters is, I, uh, you know,
unpacking from the black perspective. You know, us to discuss
you know, uh, you know, world news, uh, national news,

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and things happening specifically within our community, you know, or
whatever I'm speaking about, I just covering from the uh
perspective of how it does or how it may impact
or relate to our people in our culture.

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And the reason why I.

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Do that is because the media, you know, has a
funny way of going out of its way to have
us looking.

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And sound and crazy.

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So and in that section, what I'm doing is I'm
controlling the narrative. So that's the whole point of the
speaking point section is to control the narrative.

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But while I'm at it.

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Pretty much all my speaking points here on the Narrative
podcast the complete focus of my content material, you know,
all my speaking points, everything I talk about, I try
to unpack it from the bigger picture perspective, you know,

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as a correlation relates to our people in our culture,
bringing everything into focus, because pretty much anytime anything negative
is happening within our culture, it can usually stem it
usually does. I don't know why I said, he usually

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it absolutely does stem from systemic oppression and psychological programming
and conditioning.

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This is people outside.

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Of our culture feeding you know, implanting images within our brains.

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And psychologically suggesting to us.

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You know, how we should behave, how we should act,
you know, you know, you know, programming the negative behavior
into this. So you know, we've definitely deviated from the
true nature of who we are as a people via
the media. So this is like our true nature is

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kings and queens, gods and goddess is of the universe.

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Or if wherever recorded acting.

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Anything less than that, it's only because you know, our
minds have been corrupted to do so.

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And that's how I try to under act and deliver everything.

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I know.

Speaker 5 (18:02):
Sometimes you gotta call it spag a spag, Yes, we
do have to, you know, as grown adults individually, you know,
take accountability.

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For our actions. But I bel.

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Trust me, ninety percent of the time, anytime someone from
our culture is acting out of sorts, there's a deeper,
something deeper rooted in that and then just a malgamate
out of nowhere. So while we do have choice people

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within our community by a choice name starts with ends
with a it's not a you know, accurate representation of
our people as a whole. You know, for the majority
of the time, anything negative happening within our culture is

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a direct result of you know, psychological programming and conditioning
and systemic oppression.

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And that's how I try to unpack.

Speaker 5 (19:12):
All my speaking points here on the Narrative Podcast. So
that's my breakdown of my weekday format. Now my weekend
format is slightly different. I have more sections, but you know,
the the positive frame of reference that I focus on

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is entrepreneurship and business ownership. Now, before I get into
why I focus on that, I gotta kind of give
you a backstory of the Narrative Podcast how it came
to be. So, you know, when I first started doing
this podcast, I only used to broadcast on the weekends period.

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When I started doing this, we was in the UH
middle of the uh pandemic lockdown. We was on the
last few stages of it. We were still under quarantined.

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There was.

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You know, still peaceful protesting going on. We were still
pretty much in a you know, there was d uh
pretty much still at uh civil unrest here in the
United States of America due.

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To everything that was happening to us. In that pocket,
you had.

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You know, the George Floyd, you had Breonna Taylor, you
know Ahmad aubury and so many other things, and just
every time he was uh turning on the news, it
was just something.

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Or just like you know, not even the news, just
like it was just you know, our nation.

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It wasn't just total other chaos and shambles, and.

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But especially when it pertain to our people in our culture.
So you know, what I.

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Wanted to do was be the uh voice to you know,
just say hey, it's not all that bad. You know,
good things happen within our community. You know, we're not
the things that you see on the news and in
uh you know most uh movies and television shows.

Speaker 4 (21:26):
That's not a accurate representation for all of us.

Speaker 5 (21:30):
So you know, everybody during the pandemic didmic lockdown, pretty
much had a podcast cau as.

Speaker 4 (21:37):
It was nothing to do. It was still like quarantine.

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It was still you know, social distancing, and you know,
all that stuff was going on, like I said, getting
m bartered with all this negativity, you know, that's just
the social plot.

Speaker 4 (21:53):
Here in America.

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And then it was just all this other stuff. It
was like, you know, things going on with the food.
It's nineteen We even had like natural disasters, fires, murder, hornets,
and just you name it.

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It was just it was just something negative every single day.

Speaker 5 (22:13):
So when I started my podcast, I didn't actually know,
you know, what I wanted to talk about, so I
was just my first few episodes, I was just generally
just speaking, just talking, you know, and then I got
more complex with it. I focused on our people and
our culture, and I would just kind of you know,

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tell you know, black businesses to support and highlight black
you know, achievements and accomplishments within our community and our culture.
But it was just really super long. So then I
streamlined my format style again. I broke you know, out

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of side to have one man speaking for and then
broke all my UH topics down the sections, gave these
sections speaking points for a more streamlined UH effect, and
I think I had like mastered it by the fourth
or the fifth episode up and near the podcast, and
that's pretty much how the UH weekend format came to be.

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I later on added the weekday format after we kind
of came out of the uh pandemic lockdown. This podcast
recording UH platform that I'm recording these episodes on had
a uh A live stream feature, and so I would
go live during the week days with just positive news articles,

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you know, no speaking point yet, but just kind of
positive news articles. And then I later had added the
speaking point. You know, I don't remember exactly what episode
I started, you know, have uh fine tune my weekday format,
but you know that's essentially how my podcast took on shape.

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It's through the pandemic lockdown and then after everything opened
up and went back to air quotes normal, and all
the podcasters that were doing it just because you know,
we were locked up, they stopped doing theirs. I continue
to do mine and I'm still continuing to this day,
and I ex p uh planned to.

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Expand and you know grow. I am expanding and growing.

Speaker 5 (24:34):
But I'm going to make that leak from audio to
video thanks to you all supporting the nearer the podcast.

Speaker 4 (24:39):
So that's pretty much the backstory of how it came
to be.

Speaker 5 (24:44):
So now I'm gonna break down the nar of the
podcast weekend edition, or as I refer to go. You know,
you know, my weekday edition of the Narrative Podcast my
full episode, and I call it my full episode because
I have more sections, uh you know, then the uh
weekday edition of the Narrative Podcast. Uh, I think I

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have a total of five.

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I'm not gonna break.

Speaker 5 (25:12):
Down all five sections. I'm just gonna break down a
couple probably like you know, three, just to uh to
uh to show you, to demonstrate, pardon me, not show you,
cause it's an all audio platform day. You know, the
two four math styles differ, and then you know, onto

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my promotional.

Speaker 4 (25:37):
Portion of the narrative podcast.

Speaker 5 (25:39):
So anyway, as I said, the main focus of uh,
the positive frame of reference that I focus on during
the weekday for the Narrative podcast is business ownership and entrepreneurialism.

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I focus on that because we're not given a lot
of positive frames of reference about business ownership and entrepreneurialism.
And the reason why we're not is because they don't
want us to aspire to be great in life. They
don't want us to know that we can be great

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in life. They just want to promote, you know, the
low level behavior coming out of our community. They want
to promote the degeneracy, They want to promote.

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The lewdness, the rudeness.

Speaker 5 (26:37):
You know, they want to promote all the negative stereotypes
about our people and our culture. They don't want us
to be held in a pristine lights. They don't want
to know that we can be you know, be dignified and.

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You know, have the quorum about ourselves.

Speaker 5 (26:59):
So they don't want us to know that it is
possible to own our own.

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Business, you know, and that we have, you know, had
at one point in time.

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Here in America and abroad, had you know, flourishing neighborhoods
in businesses proudly owned by us.

Speaker 4 (27:23):
And you know, we had you know.

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A neighborhood in neighborhoods where we was taking care of
our own and supplying the needs of our people our businesses.
So you know, I'm trying to normalize that again because
they want us to just be dependent on you know,
the governments and make fun of us for being in

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the situation to where we've got to be be like
to where we.

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Have to be like that.

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And in reality, you know, our government owes us so
much more. But you know, that's the narrative that they
wanna run with, that we're all lazy, we don't wanna work,
and we're incapable of being independent business owners and entrepreneurs.
So that's you know, the primary reason why I promote

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the you know, business ownership and entrepreneurialism during the weekends
and then also in that same breath, I'm promoting UH
black owned businesses, making you aware of businesses to support
so we can create a our own infrastructure and circulate

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our dollars within our community, you know, so we don't
have to be dependent and reliant on anything other than
our own people like every other group of people does
you know.

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The same ideology.

Speaker 5 (28:54):
You know, when we do it, it's tribalism, but when
everybody else does it, it's just economics. But that's the
primary reason why I focus on business ownership and entrepreneurialism.

Speaker 4 (29:08):
On the weekends. I call that section my highlight section.

Speaker 5 (29:12):
And the reason why I call it my highlight section
cause I'm highlighting, you know, a business owner or an
entrepreneur's journey. I'm just giving you the uh higher points
of their life leading up to, you know, when they
decided they wanted to own their own business. The type
of information that I tried to include in that section

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is just basically a brief UH bio about their life.

Speaker 4 (29:40):
So like anything you might find in the wiki, you
know where they were born, what year they were.

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Born, hometown, any life experiences, educational UH degrees or certifications
or vocational skills, training that they picked up along the
way that play the the help that made of help

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play a role into them owning their own business, you know,
or developing the skills that they need to you know,
run a business. You know, anything that played the instrumental
role into them owning a business. That's why I try
to include, you know, in that section, like the year

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the business was established. If it's an online business, how
to order their product, you know, what's the best selling products,
what sets them apart from the competition, why, you know,
things of that nature.

Speaker 4 (30:45):
That's what I tried to include in that section.

Speaker 5 (30:49):
Well, if they have a brick and mortar like of course,
like the hours of operation and how.

Speaker 4 (30:56):
To place an order at the counter.

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You know, what's the best selling item, whether it's you know,
food or any type of retail.

Speaker 4 (31:05):
Parking directions you know, you know, the daycoor uh.

Speaker 5 (31:18):
Also try to include, like many of the businesses I feature,
their their name holds, the name of their product, holds
the significance, it's like an acronym for something.

Speaker 4 (31:31):
I try to include that in that section.

Speaker 5 (31:32):
So basically, you know, I give you the highlights of
a business owner or entrepreneur's journey into becoming a business
owner or an entrepreneur. My selection process that I use
to select the business owner entrepreneurs that I highlight, and
the highlight section goals as followed. Of course, they're uh,
you know, they're black. You know they're black on from

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the top to the bottom. They hire their own In
many cases, the businesses that I cover our family owned
and operated. So in that instance, I would give be
giving you a positive frame of reference about entrepreneurialism or
part of me generational wealth because their family owned and operated.

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And then you know, they must perform some type of
community outreach, something that impacts the community that they're rooted
in in a positive way. So like something, you know,
some type of way they give back to the community.
They either have to you know, own their own or

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have their own nonprofit organization or you know, pay into
an existing nonprofit organization, or advocate for something positive that
impacts our community in a positive way, you know.

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With their business.

Speaker 5 (33:01):
And it last, but not least, they must coincide with
my uh theme and my theme is nationally recognized days
or nationally recognized months.

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So the business.

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Or their products, whatever they're selling, must coincide with the
nationally recognized day or the nationally recognized month.

Speaker 4 (33:22):
And that's pretty much how the UH Highlight.

Speaker 5 (33:27):
Section and the Narrative Podcast weekend edition works. Another section
that I have that's different, uh from my weekday UH
section uh per weekday experience of the Narrative Podcast, I
have a section called, uh the Spotlight section, and the
Spotlight section, what.

Speaker 4 (33:47):
I'm doing is, I'm.

Speaker 5 (33:50):
You know, I'm reinforcing positive reinforcement of our people and
our culture.

Speaker 4 (33:57):
So yeah, I just uh, I focus on the achievements of.

Speaker 5 (34:10):
Individuals that impact our community in a positive way, either
through their actions or deeds, some type of advocacy they perform,
or you know, just their uh presence that they project
about themselves that uh reflects positively reflect our people in

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a positive light through then through whatever they're doing. So
that's what the UH Spotlight section is all about. I'm
just uh acknowledging someone from our community that's doing something
positive that impacts our community in a positive way, celebrating
their accomplishments and achievements. So it's similar to the highlight section,

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whereas I'm uh specifically focused on uh, you know, high
lighting you know, the attributes of a business owner an entrepreneur.
Highlighting the attributes or spotlighting part me because it's the
spotlight section spotlighting the attributes of the individual from our
community that positively impass our community in a positive way

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and thus reinforcing positive reinforcement of our people and our culture.
Also in that section, I'm trying to normalize using your
platform to build a brother or sister up, not tear
them down with it. As we've been programmed in condition
to use our platforms to tear each other down rather

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than build each other up, you know, cause negativity sales.
And you know, these days we live in the content
creator era, and the quickest way to build content, unfortunately,
is to talk about something negative and talk about it
from a negative space, especially as it protets to our

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people in our culture. So you know, that's like, unfortunately,
one of the quickest ways to the bag is to like,
you know, drag a brother, use your platform the dragon
brother through the mud, you know, slander or turnish the
reputation or you know, if they're getting drugging the media,
hop on the drag train.

Speaker 4 (36:21):
And put your two cents in on. You know, whatever.

Speaker 5 (36:26):
They're going through. You either go viral or you know,
get a whole lot.

Speaker 4 (36:35):
Of views and clicks.

Speaker 5 (36:37):
What's translating the money you know, for negativity, but you
can also you know, get that same traction for positive content.
And that's what I really try to promote also, is
just putting out positive content, especially as it pertains to
our people in our culture, cause we're attach where the

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one the.

Speaker 4 (37:00):
Uh few groups of people that get a.

Speaker 5 (37:01):
Attacked from all sides, Like, we have no allies, we have.

Speaker 4 (37:05):
No people.

Speaker 5 (37:08):
Other, no other group of people that mean our people well,
So we don't need to be our own worst enemies.
We need to use our platforms to uh build each
other up and not tear each other down. And that's
pretty much the nature of the spotlight you know section
in the Narrative podcast weekend edition. And then lastly, how

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you know it's the biggest way that the two uh
plat t t uh two format styles differ is the closing.

Speaker 4 (37:39):
After I'm done during the week days, you know, with my.

Speaker 5 (37:43):
You know, uh speaking points section, I just typically close
out for the day. But after I'm done with my
weekend section, I have a section which I call my
uh wise word of the day. I close on on
a super positive note. We're just a philosophical sentiment, a

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gem and Joel a pearl of wisdom if you will,
just to promote critical thinking and you know, expand your
thoughts process and focus on the simple complexities of this

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thing called life. So that's pretty much the Narrative Podcast
weekend edition format, and.

Speaker 4 (38:35):
That's how they differ.

Speaker 5 (38:37):
And so now we're moving on to the promotional portion
of the Narrative Podcast, and I'm going to be promoting
uh up first. The very first thing I'm going to
promote is the podcast it self, obviously, So there are
many ways to support the platform. The Narrative Podcast is

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available on all audio stream networks, So any are sites,
any site that you would go to to listen to
a podcast, the Narrative Podcast is available on it now.
To support this platform you wanna want to listen to,

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you know, the Narrative podcast hosted by me Hawsey isllen.
Make sure it's the one hosted by me, because there
are thousands of podcasts out there titled the Narrative Podcast.
And I think it's safe to say at this point
it's fair use.

Speaker 4 (39:35):
So there's no like.

Speaker 5 (39:38):
Laws or anything in place to you know, give somebody
the exclusive rights to that title the narrative podcast, so
cause there are too many of them. But to ensure
that you're supporting the correct narrative podcast, this one. You

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know you want to listen to the one hosted by me,
Halsey Allen, especially if you wanna listen to all black content.

Speaker 4 (40:07):
That's what I focus on.

Speaker 5 (40:09):
So if you're a lover of your people and your culture,
you wanna listen to all black content, UH, make sure
you're listening to the narrative podcast hosted by Halsey Allen.
But like I said, it's available on all audio podcasts

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streaming sites, and just listen to the narrat podcast on
all your audio podcast streaming sites. And in addition to that,
on those sites, it usually has a download feature, so
download uh every single episode of the near the podcast
that you listen to on that site, and the download

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icon usually is in the shape of a cloud uh
with an arrow pointed down, So click on that to
download the episode. And then after you're done listening to
it and downloading it, share or upload the episode to
whatever uh social media sites that you enjoy sharing or

(41:16):
uploading content too. And that's how you support the narrative
podcast on uh UH audio podcast streaming sites. Now, the
uh next uh way you can support the Narrative Podcast.
This is probably the most efficient way to support the
platform is to.

Speaker 4 (41:36):
Follow me on X formally Twitter.

Speaker 5 (41:39):
Now.

Speaker 4 (41:39):
The reason why it's more efficient because.

Speaker 5 (41:44):
The recording uh the platform that I'm recording these uh
episodes of the Narrative Podcast on are sent to my
EX account, which means every single time I'm done recording
the episode of the Narrative podcast, they automatically uploaded the X.
So if you follow me on X, you will be

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notified immediately when a new episode of the Narrative Podcast debut,
so you can check your alerts, you know, the uh
your latest alert should be telling you you know when
a uh new episode of.

Speaker 4 (42:19):
The Narrative Podcast debuts. It's that instantaneous.

Speaker 5 (42:25):
So that's why that's the most efficient way to uh,
you know, support the site.

Speaker 4 (42:31):
And then.

Speaker 5 (42:34):
Then my profile name is I stay Good at Halsey Allen.

Speaker 4 (42:38):
That's my profile name on X. That's so then you
go to my.

Speaker 5 (42:48):
EX page and your confirmation that you're on the correct
X page would be when you get to the X page,
you should see I don't have my uh my prof
out picturing any more. I replaced it UH with my
a book of poetry that I've written. But if you

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wanna see my face, you know, you can go to
my LinkedIn page Halsey island on LinkedIn of what I
look like until I get a UH visual UH platform.
Been anyway, getting back to UH promoting the narrative podcast

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on X. So, after you've established you're on the correct
X page, I stay good at Halsey alleny shits you.
UH book pins at the top of my page, and
the title of that book kint at the top of
my page is UH a book titled The Black Card,
and I will be promoting that momentarily. But after you've

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UH confirmed that you're on the correct X page, what
I didn't need you to do is to go to
my or the latest link apart me of the Narrative podcast.
Once you see the letters link up the Narrative podcast,
click on that link, and by clicking on it, this
will cause the UH link to expand, revealing the UH

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podcast logo and the podcast logo. It's just simply a
a silhouette of a microphone that says the Narrative podcast
on it. And once you see the podcast, UH, the
logo What I then need you to do is click
on the podcast logo or not you know part me

(44:36):
jumped ahead of myself. After you see the podcast logo
pop up after you click on the link. What I
then needs you to do is click the play button.
Allow the episode to play for a steal. You don't
have to let it play through its entirety. I mean,
you can listen to it in its entirety, but you know,

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if you to.

Speaker 4 (44:58):
You know, support it immediately.

Speaker 5 (45:00):
Just let a play for a couple seconds, and then
after it's played for a couple seconds, like, let it
play out long enough to uh hear the ad.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (45:13):
I have ad roads on my podcast, so I don't
control uh when you're gonna hear advertisement.

Speaker 4 (45:19):
But that's how I get paid. Click on the light button.
The light button is located at the top of the
podcast logo, and the light button is in the shape
of a heart. So to clip the heart shaped light
button at the top of the podcast logo. When you
do this, it will c uh cause a podcast logo
to expand for a second time.

Speaker 5 (45:42):
Now, when it expands for a second time, uh, there'll
be a different little menu option. UH perform each thing
in the menu option, as it helped generate UH page clicks.
The page clicks generate revenue streams. So you know, perform
all these UH options in the then you bar uh

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starting with the like button. This time, the light button
will be located underneath the podcast logo.

Speaker 4 (46:08):
Same bill's in the shape of a heart. Look on
the heart.

Speaker 5 (46:11):
Shaped like button and then next to the H heart
shaped light button, leave me a comment in the comment box.
There's a comment box right next to the heart shaped
light button. Leave me a comment in the comment box
comments whatever you liked or did not like about the episode.

(46:34):
Any type of feedback you would like to give me
about uh the narrative podcast.

Speaker 4 (46:55):
Uh, give it to me.

Speaker 5 (46:56):
Any feedback you would have to UH give me about
the narrative podcast, positive or negative. You know, let me
have it in the comment split, in the comments and
to generate clicks for the podcast and in turn, you know,
supplying me with the revenue I need to sustain the podcast.

Speaker 4 (47:20):
If you can't think of a comment to.

Speaker 5 (47:21):
Leave me, type your name, you know, your profile name,
whatever you're going through, whatever you're going by at online.
You don't even have to type your profile name. You
can type user, type a letter, of the alphabet.

Speaker 4 (47:41):
If you're from a different country, you can put your flag.

Speaker 5 (47:45):
Emojis just characters on the keyboard, put something in the
comment box. Then after you're done commenting in the comments
section of the Narrative Podcast, then click the.

Speaker 4 (47:59):
Share but.

Speaker 5 (48:01):
And then share or upload this episode of the Narrative
Podcast to whatever platform makes you'd like sharing or.

Speaker 4 (48:09):
Uploading content too.

Speaker 5 (48:11):
And that's how you support the Narrative podcast. From following
me f ks for me Twitter. Now, last but not least,
you can support the Narrative podcast by following me on
uh YouTube and then going in liking, commenting, and sharing

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all the older episodes of the Narrative Podcast that are
uploaded to uh YouTube. Again, make sure they're the ones
hosted by me, Hawsey Allen, and shit.

Speaker 4 (48:42):
See on YouTube it's you.

Speaker 5 (48:43):
Know, it's like just the podcast logo. I think it's
by s uh spreaker.

Speaker 4 (48:54):
And then.

Speaker 5 (48:58):
You know, as I said, like, comment and share those
older episodes of the Narrative podcast.

Speaker 4 (49:04):
That are on YouTube still.

Speaker 5 (49:07):
And now, the reason why I don't have brand new
episodes of the Narrative Podcast on YouTube is because this
software is no longer compatible with YouTube. YouTube upgrade through
software and also community guidelines and policies surrounding sharing content.

Speaker 4 (49:29):
So rather than adhering to YouTube's new.

Speaker 5 (49:34):
Guidelines, this platform just decided to just drop YouTube as
you know, a distribution option, so you know, you can
no longer share content to YouTube from this platform anymore.

Speaker 4 (49:52):
However, YouTube didn't delete all.

Speaker 5 (49:54):
My older episodes of the Narrative podcast and still on it.
Into access those older episodes of the Narrative podcast to
support them, simply go to my YouTube page and go
to my videos and my YouTube p uh profile name
is Halsey Allen. I'm pretty much Halsey Allen on all
social media platforms. I'm Halsey Allen on LinkedIn, I'm halsey

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Isllen on uh x Hawsey Allen on uh Instagram threads. Uh,
you know, pretty much all platforms from Halsey Allen. And
it's the same profile. I need to update my profile picture.
It's either me, you know, trying to be in a

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ultra deep uh uh dramatic pose.

Speaker 4 (50:47):
I got my little my.

Speaker 5 (50:49):
Hand on my forehead and or my I call that
my dramatic pose. And then I got another one just
you know, me rocking the coils. I had just got
a fresh dude. You know, I'm rocking my coils or
twist and whatever you wanna call them. But yeah, that's

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how you support the Narrative Podcast when following me from
YouTube and again like comment and share all the old
episodes of the Narrative Podcast on YouTube to whatever social
media platform that you like. Uh uh sharing or uploading
content too. And remember the same deal with the comments.

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Put something in the comment box with your name. Comment
positive or negative, Just put something in the comment box.
The more functions you do, the mores uh you know,
page clicks or CPMs and generations. The more of that generates,
the more revenue generations. It's like comment and share, like

(52:05):
comment and shit like comment and share. Got it all right,
that's how you support the Narrative Podcast when following me
from YouTube and uh.

Speaker 4 (52:20):
The next thing I like to promote is.

Speaker 5 (52:22):
My personal book of poetry on po on a site
called Poetizer, and you get to a poetizer record one
to uh poetizer dot com. The name of my book
that I like to promote is called The Black Card
and it's written by me, Halsey Allen.

Speaker 4 (52:43):
So while you're on.

Speaker 5 (52:47):
Poetizer or pardon me so more about the book. Uh,
the Black Card is about thirty pages long. Again, it's
a book of poetry, and you.

Speaker 4 (52:59):
Know with the book is about is about the.

Speaker 5 (53:03):
You know, the whole dynamic and experience of you know,
black people. You know, everything we experience as a people,
both positive and negative. All the nuances of our culture
are highlighted in that book of poetry.

Speaker 4 (53:22):
Every single.

Speaker 5 (53:25):
Piece recorded in that book of poetry is guaranteed to
you know, resonate with you on so many levels.

Speaker 4 (53:34):
If you're a r.

Speaker 5 (53:35):
Mellenated man or woman, you're absolutely absolutely lock.

Speaker 4 (53:40):
In and resonate with each piece.

Speaker 5 (53:44):
If you're outside of our culture, if you're not you know.

Speaker 4 (53:48):
An original man or original woman.

Speaker 5 (53:52):
Or black you know, whatever you're comfortable with referring to
our people, African America, whatever, you will definitely gain more
insight into our people in our culture and be able
to relate better to the Black people.

Speaker 4 (54:12):
In your lives.

Speaker 5 (54:13):
You have a more a broader view of our people
in our culture. So while you won't you know, understand
everything about our people and our culture just by reading
the book, it it it'll definitely, uh heighten your awareness
and increase your tolerance level and make you want to

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learn more of our people and our culture by reading.

Speaker 4 (54:38):
The book, or just that you like to read poetry.

Speaker 5 (54:41):
You know, if you're just you know, you know, a
casual reader a love reading poetry, you know, you will
definitely enjoy the book, So check it out. It's on
poetizer dot com. And if you're unfamiliar with poetizer, Poetizers
a social media platform for people that enjoy writing, uh,

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particularly poetry, and it's implied in the title Poetizer, So
go check that out.

Speaker 4 (55:18):
It's a social.

Speaker 5 (55:18):
Media platform for uh you know, poets socially interact with
one another you know a a and as well as
like other activities uh daily writing, props, games, contests, and
then uh of course the social media factor. You can
socially interact with other users. You can like you know,

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write on people's walls and like, you know, comment on
the work they wanna share and uh give each other feedback,
make friends, got a friend list you can be and
people you can send messages like any other social media platform.
But the most important feature they have is uh they

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offer they still the uh ability for users of their
social media platform to actual actually write a a professional.

Speaker 4 (56:18):
You know book. You know, they have built in.

Speaker 5 (56:22):
UH publishing software so they can write, market and sell
a book that they create on that platform. That's why
they have a virtual online bookstore or ro virtual online
bookstore houses books written by people on their social media platform.
So to access my book of poetry written by me

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Harsey Allen, go to Poetizer, look for the title UH
The Black Card, and purchase it today on poetizer dot com.
And a quick little sales pitch for the card the

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Black Card part me I just said. The Card. The
Black Card is a poetic manifesto, a lyrical tribute to
the legality, resilience, and richness of the Black experience with
bold versus the cut, deep and imagery that's swords. The
Black Card reclaims dignity, demands respect, and honors the legacy
of the people who have turned struggle in the strength,

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culture and the power. More than just poetry, this is
a declaration. Black is royal, Black is unstoppable, Black is everything.
Head on over to poetizer dot com today and purchase
your copy of The Black Card or get your Black
Card revots. So head on over to poetizer dot com

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buy a book of poetry for yourself for your neighbor
for anybody, but just by the black card written by
me Halls.

Speaker 4 (58:02):
Don't get your black card remote all right.

Speaker 5 (58:10):
And last, but not least, every last thing I'd like
to promote in the promotional portion of the narrative podcast
is my personal poetry blog on blogger dot com. And
the name of my personal poetry blog on blogger dot
com It's called Hawsey's Poetry Corner.

Speaker 4 (58:31):
And the link to gets to.

Speaker 5 (58:32):
Hawes's Poetry Corner is ww dots mister Hawses blogs dot com.
And what Halls's Poetry Corner features is just relatable poetry
that anybody from any walk of life can relate to,
you know, from the casual reader to the poetry enthusiasts.

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You know, anybody can find something on that blog that
they enjoy reading or can relate to. Now, I do
have a whole lot of poems specifically for you know,
my people, black people, you know, things that we experience
as a people, or only things we can't relate to,

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but on the whole, like typically, you know, it's a
creative outlet for me. I just like to write poetry
outside of doing this podcast. You know, I am an
avid poet. I write poetry every single day. I also
perform a spoken word poetry, so pretty much almost any
time that I'm not doing an episode of In There

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the podcast, I'm doing some type of poetic activity, reading, writing,
or performing it. So yeah, go check it out as
this poetry Corner ww dots mister Hosses blogs dot com.

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I even have a slogan for my poetry ball er,
I said Paul Poetry blog Hollses's poetry Forner Poetry with
a passion, poetry for all occasions.

Speaker 4 (01:00:23):
When you read the poems on Hosses's Poetry.

Speaker 5 (01:00:25):
Corner blog, you'll see kind of how each poem lives
up to that slogan. Let's so go check 'em out
Hollges's Poetry Corner blog at ww dot Mr Hogges blogs
dot com, on blogger dot com. And how you support

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the poetry blog you share the link to Hogses's Poetry
Corner which is ww dotmter Hoses blogs dot.

Speaker 4 (01:00:52):
Com or.

Speaker 5 (01:00:56):
Poems posted on Hogs's Poetry Corner across all social media
play platforms. Another way you can support poems on horses
Poetry for the blog is to comments under each each
poem poetry piece. Just leave you a comment in the
comment section. You know, comment whatever you like about the poem,

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give me any feedback, you even give me some you know,
if you find a grammatical error, if you say that,
you know, just say something in the comments.

Speaker 4 (01:01:29):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:01:30):
If you can't think of anything to say in the comments,
you know, sign in with your profile user name, or
you can just type user.

Speaker 4 (01:01:42):
You can type something.

Speaker 5 (01:01:43):
You can type a letter of the alphabet.

Speaker 4 (01:01:46):
You know, you put your flag an emoji.

Speaker 5 (01:01:53):
But just type something in the comment box. You can
literally type something, the word heard something. Just type something
in the comment box to help generate page flicks for uh,
you know, the page after you left me comment in

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the comment box. Then of course, uh, who I already
told you to share the link and share poems, So
like comment and share on Haus's Poetry Corner blog, and

(01:02:35):
that's how you support the platform. And again, it's relatable poetry.
Anybody from any walk of life can relate to UH
poem's posting on Haus's Poetry Corner blog. You know, pretty much, Uh,
whatever experience that you're currently experiencing right now in your life,

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or have experience at one point in your life, you're
guaranteed to find a poem to you know, capture that moment.
Any type of emotion that you're currently feeling or have
felt at some point in your life will help you, you.

Speaker 4 (01:03:14):
Know, capture that moment.

Speaker 5 (01:03:18):
So again, to reiterate Hotses's Poetry Corner, the UH poem's
posted on hollses quot Poetry Corner blog or re relatable
pieces like anybody from any walk of life can.

Speaker 4 (01:03:30):
Relate to and read and you know resonate with you.

Speaker 5 (01:03:36):
So go check 'em out Holles Poetry Corner blog on
blogger dot com and hits you with a extended UH
description of the experience on blogger dot com. So when
you come to Halls's Poetry Corner blog on Blogger dot com,
UH prepared to step into a world where emotions fl

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like rivers and words paint vivid pictures. Halls's Poetry Corner
is your ow tomate destination for captivating poetry that touches
the soul.

Speaker 4 (01:04:09):
Whether you're a poetry.

Speaker 5 (01:04:10):
Enthusiast or just a casual reader, Halls's Poetry Corner has
something for everyone. Explore all my poems, timeless classics, and
thought provoking verses. Prepare to ignite your imagination and explore,
explore the beauty of language in its purest form. Let's
celebrate the art of poetry together. So go head on

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over to Hawes's Poetry Corner blog, share the link to
Halls's Poetry Corner blog ww dot Miss Holles Blogs dot com,
our poem's post all Hallses Poetry Corner blog across all
social media platforms, as well as liking all my poems,
hit that uh heart shaped like button and then comments

(01:04:54):
on all my poems on Halles's Poetry Corner blog in
the comic box, leave me commic in the comment box. Now,
if you want me to respond to your comments, signing
with your Gmail accounts and by signing in with your
Gmail account, this will alert me that you've left the
comment and then I can respond in kind when I

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will receive an email. So, if you want me to
respond to your comment that you left on Hord's Poetry
Corner blogs, signing with your Gmail account and that'll pretty
much do it for the promotional portion of the narrative podcast.
And this message goes out to all content creators, whether

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you're a visual whether you're an audio podcast just such
as myself, or a visual content creator I'm asking you to, you.

Speaker 4 (01:05:47):
Know, shout out.

Speaker 5 (01:05:51):
The narrative podcast, promote, endorse it, whatever the terminology is,
and uppreciate you in advance. Now moving on to the
broad overview of the narrative podcast before diving into the

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actual content, let's start off with why I name my
podcast the narrative Podcast with significance you know?

Speaker 4 (01:06:26):
Is that so?

Speaker 5 (01:06:28):
I name my podcast the narrative podcast because I don't
like the false narrative surrounding the.

Speaker 4 (01:06:36):
Depiction of my people and my culture.

Speaker 5 (01:06:41):
So as a result of that, that's why I name
my podcast the narrative Podcast. The first nuance of that
she should be acquainted with when listening to the Narrative
Podcast of it's how I greet you.

Speaker 4 (01:07:01):
I greet you as my narrators, and how I coined
that phrase.

Speaker 5 (01:07:08):
It's just basically, you know, I was uh inspired by
the actual textbook definition of the word narrator, cause when
I first started doing this podcast, I didn't, like, you know,
have something to call my listeners, and just kind of
gradually uh tick on the life of its own. I

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was like, you know, I think I call my audience
my narrators. Just I was just like literally just threw
it out there and decided to rock with it again,
inspired by the textbook definition of the word narrator. So
a narrator is just basically one who breaks down a

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story for the audience and make the UH story more
digestible and easier for the audience to follow and provide
full context for the audience or the audience can keep
up with the story no matter what format that the
story's end, whether it's something that you look at sense
as of play or a movie or something you know

(01:08:10):
you listen to, like a radio show announcement, you know,
something like that. A narrator's job is just to make it,
you know, to contextualize the story for the audience. And
why I feel, you know that's important for our people

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is you know, knowledgy that I always use that I
heard before.

Speaker 4 (01:08:35):
And it just kind of, you know, it clicked and
it just made sense.

Speaker 5 (01:08:39):
To h you know, refer to you know, our my
UH audience as narrators. You know a old saying that
I heard a long time ago. I can't remember where
I heard it, but you know it resonated. If you
don't tell your own story, your own story will be
told for you. And you know, that's exactly what I

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feel our people need to do. We need to tell
or narrate our own stories because our stories are being
manipulated by the media. They're telling or narrating our story
from a negative space. They're promoting uh, you know, negative

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stereotypes and pushing negative stigmas and propaganda about our people
on our culture, and as a results, you know, it's
devastating our people. So while we cannot control the messages
that the media puts out about our people on our culture,
we can absolutely a hundred and ten percent control what

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type of messages we wanna send into the world in
regards to our people on our culture. So that's how
I coin the UH you know, the significance of why
I refer to my UH target audience as my narrators,
and now I'm giving you some examples on how to

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be a narrator.

Speaker 4 (01:10:14):
So I coined the phrase narrator.

Speaker 5 (01:10:18):
Every single episode that you're listening to the Narrative Podcast,
I'm narrating our stories with my content, so you're guarantee
to hear a positive frame of reference about our people
and coaching every time you listen to the Narrative Podcast.

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So on my end, I'm changing the narrative one episode
at a time. As a narrator, you can change the
narrative on your end visually, one social media post at
a time, by sharing positive visual frames of reference about

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our people on our culture on your media platform, especially
if you're a content creator, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:11:09):
So some examples of.

Speaker 5 (01:11:12):
How to change the narrative on your social media platforms.
You can post visual images of us excelling and advancing
or engaging in some type of positive activity that impacts
our community in a positive way, particularly activities that dispel

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negative stereotypes contrived about our people and our culture. So say,
for example, like okay, there's a negative stereotype that our
people don't know how to swim. You can post positive
visual content about not only our people swimming, but swimming

(01:11:53):
very well and breaking some type of record or you know,
you know, deep side deep sea scuba diving, or you know,
just any type of thing to you know, break that
negative stereotype. There's a negative stereotype about you know, our
people being you know, prone to criminality, like we're just

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naturally criminalistic by nature.

Speaker 4 (01:12:24):
You can.

Speaker 5 (01:12:26):
Post some visual images of us, you know, being anti criminal,
you know, doing things and clean up our neighborhoods, starting
programs to work with individuals young and old to prevent
crime in the neighborhood, prevent people from going down that path,

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that criminalistic.

Speaker 4 (01:12:50):
Path, you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (01:12:53):
So like a positive program start started to change a
person's trajectory in life, or that they don't choose crime.
You know, just something positive, whether it's a vocational skill
or just something that impacts our community in a positive way,

(01:13:14):
that is the k complete antithesis of something criminalistic in nature.
You know, there's another negative stereotype about our children being
the lost generation or you know, no hope for our youth.
You can uh post visual images of uh our children

(01:13:37):
excelling academically, whether it's children and your family or y
or your child if you have children, you know, excelling
academically inventing something that will revolutionalize not just our neighborhoods,

(01:13:57):
but the entire world can benefit from their invention. Something
of that nature, you know, just anything that impacts our
community in a positive way. Visual the aesthetics, good visual
aesthetics is what we want to see. If you can't
think of any of those, you know, anything close to

(01:14:21):
what I just name far As like a example of
some positive visual imagery to post. One of the most
basic ways you can change the game is just be happy.
You know, create the energy of you being happy or
our people being happy, enjoying their life, living their best life,

(01:14:43):
you know, being happy, being in the good stakes, smiling,
being in good spirits, you know, radiating positivity, you know
through their through their smile. You know, smiles are free.

(01:15:05):
You know you always want to have that good nature
that's you know, smile as often as you possibly can.

Speaker 4 (01:15:11):
Enjoy life, you know, enjoy your best life.

Speaker 5 (01:15:15):
That says the biggest shock wave to the people running
and controlling and manipulating the media, because the way they
designed this system, they designed it to crush our spirits.
They want to see it's angry all the time. They
want to see it's depressed all the time. But when
we're happy and that peace and loving life, living our

(01:15:36):
best life, you know that throws a huge monkey wrench
in their plans.

Speaker 4 (01:15:41):
So yeah, if nothing else, just be happy.

Speaker 5 (01:15:46):
You know, project images of us being happy and enjoying
our best life. So to reiterate us being happy and
enjoying our best life doesn't mean us embarrassing ourselves you know,
engaging in new activity, being so drug we alleviated we
can't even stand up straight, or just you know, looking

(01:16:09):
like we had some choice substances, you know, or twerking
or you know, yeah, making like growth, Like yeah, we
just be selective what you happens.

Speaker 4 (01:16:23):
But you know what I'm saying, but be happy, you know,
have a good order, radiate a good order.

Speaker 5 (01:16:34):
So the next thing you should be aware of when
listening to the Nerve podcast this, I refer to our people,
black people as original people on this platform.

Speaker 4 (01:16:46):
Uh, for many reasons.

Speaker 5 (01:16:48):
Uh, you know, not that I'm ashamed of being black
or you know, thinking something wrong with being black. I
love being black, I have black feel means so. But
the word original, it just resonates deeper it it uh,

(01:17:09):
you know, raises awareness, it promotes strength.

Speaker 4 (01:17:15):
You know, there's just something.

Speaker 5 (01:17:21):
You know, defining about being original, you know, character definding,
Like when your original, you know, you're sitting trends, you
marched to the beat of your own drum.

Speaker 4 (01:17:35):
You're not following the crowd. The crowd follows you.

Speaker 5 (01:17:40):
And I think that word kind of embodies the nature
of our people, Like we are original people in that sense,
we originate we dictate trends, we.

Speaker 4 (01:17:52):
Don't follow them. The only trends we follow is.

Speaker 5 (01:17:54):
The wines that we set as a people. You know,
in the world follows us, you know, from our clothing
to the way we speak to whatever. You know, we're
original in that regard. We're also original. You know, the

(01:18:14):
word original also hints at the first and we definitely
are that. We are the original beings. We existed thousands
of years before any other group of people. As a
matter of fact, all other group of people directly descend

(01:18:34):
from our people. Scientifically, you know, this is this is
a fact. We were here thousands of years before anybody.
We mothered in father to civilization. We populated every corner

(01:18:55):
of the globe we can think about. We were the
original everything. Your original architects, We were the original you know, explorers,
We were the original chemists, scientists, you know, mathematicians. We

(01:19:22):
were the original.

Speaker 4 (01:19:25):
Everything.

Speaker 5 (01:19:26):
You know, everything, all modern day inventions and everything you
know that modes and shape society as we know it
today stems from our creation or invention of it, or
discovering it. You know, we discovered everything, contrary to what

(01:19:49):
all history leads us to believe. That's why they call
it history. It's his story. It's not what actually happened.
It's just the people that we was recording that moment
of time, you know, that wanted to capture it through
their lens, you know, especially you know, in regards to

(01:20:12):
our people and our culture.

Speaker 4 (01:20:13):
The funny thing about history is like you know, the.

Speaker 5 (01:20:17):
True origins of the history always shine through when you dig,
dig a little deeper.

Speaker 4 (01:20:26):
And our people we always shine through.

Speaker 5 (01:20:28):
We always pop up in every you know, time period,
our presence always no matter how you know deeply they
trying to hide it from the rest of the world.

Speaker 4 (01:20:40):
You know, when you do your d due.

Speaker 5 (01:20:42):
Diligence and really steady, steady study, you will see our
presence in every part of the world. And when I
say every part, I mean every part. You know, our
people we never bought anything but innovation, U s civilization

(01:21:04):
and taught people how to be civilized and you know, enlightenment.
That's all we ever brought to the table people that
did not look like us. All that ever bought was
problems and bought war, pestilence, famine, suffering.

Speaker 4 (01:21:23):
Not our people.

Speaker 5 (01:21:24):
Everywhere we existed, you know, life, we improved the quality
of life for everybody. We never tried to forcefully impart
or impose our will on anybody, y'all. All we ever
ever did was just uplift and uh nurture.

Speaker 4 (01:21:47):
And provide for other people that didn't.

Speaker 5 (01:21:50):
Look like us in this documented So we're original in
that sense, historically just historically accurate, we are the original
tribe of man. Now, having said that, every single episode

(01:22:16):
because with the narrative podcast also is dedicated to towards
is dispelling false narratives. So every episode I try to
dispel an aspects of the false narrative surrounding slavery. Now,
I've been working on my timing cause I got the
propensity to ramble and rant. But you know, there's a

(01:22:40):
lot of false narratives surrounding slavery. One of the biggest
false narratives about slavery in general is the you know,
geography surrounding slavery.

Speaker 4 (01:22:56):
They want us to believe from.

Speaker 5 (01:22:58):
History, the facts they pros from history that all of us.

Speaker 4 (01:23:05):
You know, descend from Africa. Like why it's true.

Speaker 5 (01:23:11):
It's not true, you know, without going overboard, you know,
like I said, were the original people from history. They
want us to believe that the only way the only
reason why we're currently living in the places that we're

(01:23:33):
currently residing now, whether it's here in the United States
of America or met throughout Meso America, or you know,
any continent in the world, is because a slave boat.

Speaker 4 (01:23:45):
Came and.

Speaker 5 (01:23:53):
Picked us up from Africa and you know, just casually
dropped us off and all these different places.

Speaker 4 (01:24:02):
Of the world.

Speaker 5 (01:24:04):
That's the only way we exist in on the continent
of Asia, that's the only way we exist in in
you know, Europe and the UK and here in the
United States of America. It's just because we were all
in s we were all enslaved Africans, and you know,
they just picked us up and scattered us all over

(01:24:27):
these different points of origin.

Speaker 4 (01:24:30):
And again keyword origin original.

Speaker 5 (01:24:34):
We was already originally located everywhere. Who was originally here first?
And we existed before all other beings. Doesn't that not
equal to us already existing in all those places as well?
That we didn't just ex know, we just stayed in
one spot, said hey, we're just gonna stay here and

(01:24:57):
wait for you know, pale palm colored people to evolve
in intelligence to where they can.

Speaker 4 (01:25:06):
Explore and see stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:25:09):
Like we was building whole citadels and civilizations making like
you know, advancements and strides thousands of years before our people,
some of our people became enslaved. Cause this is like
I said, it's a fostermarity that lie about the stand

(01:25:31):
of slavery. You know, as far as like going over
to African uh taking people by forest, that lie about
how long they went on you know, you know what
more like more of a uh just a common sense
not even science, if you just common sensically think about

(01:25:52):
boat travel, you know, and what you know about what
little you know about boats. If he's taking stack a
thousand people just like whatever they.

Speaker 4 (01:26:06):
Want us to believe, they they s.

Speaker 5 (01:26:08):
They pack African slaves stacked on top of each other.
And again this is a time where no there's no refrigeration,
no homogenization. You know, they gotta uh stop at each port,
pack up enough supplies to last them for a trip.

(01:26:28):
But they're coming from Europe and Spain to come get
African slaves, and they get there to pack up all
these slaves.

Speaker 4 (01:26:38):
They don't feed 'em.

Speaker 5 (01:26:40):
So the smell alone's going to un life from that
long duration of.

Speaker 4 (01:26:46):
The trick.

Speaker 5 (01:26:49):
I came from the hot African jungle, the stack 'em
on top of each other, shack on the chains.

Speaker 4 (01:26:54):
People is relieving themselves.

Speaker 5 (01:26:57):
So there's urine and feces, plus oh y rodents on
the boat.

Speaker 4 (01:27:06):
And they did this for hundreds of years, or don't
it make more sense? They just enslaved the.

Speaker 5 (01:27:14):
Original people living already living in wherever they explored, whatever
territory they charted and explored, and took those people back,
you know, through the trans Atlantic slave trade and chattel
slavery route. Don't that make more sense than just like

(01:27:36):
for hundreds of years they kept going back to Africa.
Point being, is where original who is already located in
all these places that they tell us in history books.
The only reason why we're there is be through you know, slavery,
Nah who was already here, Especially if I'm talking to

(01:27:57):
the United States of America that it's super dirty. The
called us black, put us on plantation with enslaved Africans.

Speaker 4 (01:28:07):
While they did get some slaves.

Speaker 5 (01:28:09):
From Africa, it w it just you know, the majority
of us was already here. The call it is black,
put us on plantations. Then they brought in another group
of people who are not.

Speaker 4 (01:28:22):
The Native Americans. They from Siberia.

Speaker 5 (01:28:26):
You know, all explorer said the people of this land
was a copper.

Speaker 4 (01:28:33):
You know, complexed people.

Speaker 5 (01:28:35):
So if you think the imagery of Native Americans, all
those casinos, in those hotels, all those reservations, are any
of them copper skinn Just think about that. Look at
the job application. When you go to most job application,

(01:28:55):
it says got a little group. It says Asian, Pacific Islander, Polynesian, Filipino,
Native American.

Speaker 4 (01:29:20):
The lump all that into one category because they are
the same people, you see.

Speaker 5 (01:29:34):
So they robbed our identity of us like three times
here in America. But that's just one you know, false
narrative that I wanna debunk. The ji uh geography surrounding slavery,

(01:29:58):
this false narrative that they keep pushing about slavery. The
reason why they pushed the Parson narrative of slavery is
because all it's all about white supremacy. They want to say,
you know, y, you know, your people were slaves, and
they want us to relive a time where we.

Speaker 4 (01:30:17):
Could not.

Speaker 5 (01:30:19):
You know, defend ourselves, where we weren't treated human humane,
where where we was openly uh you know, robbed of
our dignity uh, and had any like people had dominance
over us. They want to skip the part where we
dominated civilization.

Speaker 4 (01:30:41):
By building, by.

Speaker 5 (01:30:43):
Ruling, invncing. They want to skip over all that to
get to the park, you know, where we didn't have
any rights. We didn't where we weren't even considered human.
That's the one thing about slavery that they did get
right is the an humane ways that they treat enslave

(01:31:06):
our enslaved ancestors. They did absolutely decapitating. They did absolutely
eat them and wear their flesh. They did absolutely cash
straight them. They did absolutely crategorize the rooms that did
absolutely brand them like livestock.

Speaker 4 (01:31:28):
They did absolutely you know, feed.

Speaker 5 (01:31:32):
Them scraps, you know, inedible scraps. They had to skillfully
invent ways to make these inedible scraps that weren't fit
for hum uh human conception, fit.

Speaker 4 (01:31:48):
For human conception.

Speaker 5 (01:31:51):
They absolutely you know, robbed this stuff our dignity, raped
our women, raped our men. They got that a hundred
and ten percent right. But what they leave out is
the revolution. You know, they don't want us to know.
They want they don't want, you know, it to reflect

(01:32:11):
from history that we dished it out just as good
as we gave e ay that j just as good
as they gave it to us. We dished it out,
you know, we disched out our own justice. They want
us to believe through history that there was only one
nat Turner, there was only one Hero Tundy, when there
were thousands of Nat Turners and Harriet Tudys that tipped

(01:32:33):
the US skills, you know, in our favor. They also
want us to believe just white people were responsible before
releasing us from slavery, and the white people that did
ate us during slave times, that they did it through
the kindness of their heart, when in reality, it was

(01:32:56):
just financially beneficient for them to do it.

Speaker 4 (01:33:00):
You know, all the white evolutionists that.

Speaker 5 (01:33:04):
Lobby to abolished slavery, they didn't do without the kindness
of their heart cause they felt.

Speaker 4 (01:33:08):
Slavery was wrong.

Speaker 5 (01:33:09):
They did it because it was financially beneficial for them.

Speaker 4 (01:33:13):
To do it.

Speaker 5 (01:33:15):
Uh, they released us from slavery cause it was financially
beneficial for them to do it and had nothing to
do with morality as they try to teach it in history,
and it still continues today. Hasn't really gone anywhere. It
just changed forms. So we're still enslaves, just minus the whips. Alright, so.

Speaker 4 (01:33:50):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:33:53):
Now that we had our brief history moment. The last
reason why I further our people as original people po
and to unify us as a people because there are
so many different type of us heiling.

Speaker 4 (01:34:07):
From so many different regions.

Speaker 5 (01:34:08):
While we should definitely uphold our own unique individual cultures
and customs and UH lineages and ethnicities and be proud
of that, we asso should acknowledge that we are all
one people, as we're all lunked into one category by

(01:34:30):
people outside of our culture. So I think one universal
term that we can all use as a people. It's
interchangeable that we can all you know, relate to and
use and applies to all of us no matter you
know what you know, continent that we're located on, or
you know country we come from. We're all we're all

(01:34:52):
original people. We're all the first. We offers just high
concentration of carbon aka melon, the most UH precious resources
in the entire world.

Speaker 4 (01:35:06):
And we all have the same universal plight.

Speaker 5 (01:35:09):
Anywhere where our people are located, we're always at the
bottom of the UH pyramid. We're always at the bottom
of the totem pole. Anywhere where there's uh, structurized system
in place, you know, the system of government, system of rules,

(01:35:32):
you know, of order, all the laws, rules are projected
to suppress our people. We all experience that same that
exact same isolation from the general population. You know, it's

(01:35:57):
like open war on our people. We all experience that
same uh feeling of resentment and feeling of fear and
hatred projected at our people. So we can all you know,
unite and rally around that as original people. And so

(01:36:22):
that's why I refer to our people as original people
on this platform.

Speaker 4 (01:36:26):
To unify us as a people as well.

Speaker 5 (01:36:29):
So, uh, the next thing you should know about the
Narrative podcast is positive safe space for original people. I
don't engage in any gossip, negativity, slander. All the content
on this platform is designed to uplift and edify our
people and to normalize uh, using our uh platforms to
build each other up and I tear each other down.

Speaker 4 (01:36:52):
You know, this is a positive, safe.

Speaker 5 (01:36:54):
Space for original people to celebrate our accomplishments and achievements
and to inspire us too, you know, revert back to
our true nature, which is kings and queens.

Speaker 4 (01:37:04):
Gods, God, It's at the universe.

Speaker 5 (01:37:08):
Absolutely, Uh we cannot all get along absolutely, you know,
in this liberation thing. Everybody can come, you know, along
for the ride, cause everybody just don't want that.

Speaker 4 (01:37:19):
You know. For those that don't want that, we need,
definitely need to separate ourselves from the people that.

Speaker 5 (01:37:24):
Don't want that and let leave them alone to their
own devices.

Speaker 4 (01:37:34):
But you know, for those.

Speaker 5 (01:37:36):
That's with it, this is what this platform is for
to uplift and edify and you know, instill you know,
that virtue and that valor to people that want the liberation.

(01:37:58):
So no name calling, no roasting, no slan s uh slandering,
you know, you know, talking down on our people and
our culture on this platform.

Speaker 4 (01:38:09):
It's all about uplifting and edifying our.

Speaker 5 (01:38:11):
People, with the primary focus of positive reinforcing.

Speaker 4 (01:38:14):
Of our people in our culture.

Speaker 5 (01:38:15):
I really try to go out of my UH way
to normalize. That's the only exception to that rules of
no name calling and no put down rule is to
cause if UH somebody from our culture UH outs themselves
as an enemy to our culture by engaging intentionally engaging

(01:38:39):
in things that make our UH people on culture look
bad or very intentionally using their platform to play into
the negative stigmas and stereotypes about our people and our culture.
Then absolutely, I you know, I can't rock with them.
I can't you know, handle them with kid gloves, like

(01:39:00):
if they're antics make all of us look bad as
if people, then you know, I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:39:07):
I won't.

Speaker 5 (01:39:10):
You know, if I'm forced to, you know, deliver commentary
on something that they're doing or done and they intentionally
tarnish our people's reputation, then I'm not gonna be nice
about that on this platform.

Speaker 4 (01:39:23):
But other than that, this.

Speaker 5 (01:39:25):
Is a positive safe space for our people in our culture,
designed to inspire positive reinforcement of our people in our culture.
That's the nature of the near the podcast. And you know,
again just to reiterate all my speaking points centered around
and near the podcast is signed the uplift and edifire
people and our culture to the highest extents. All you know,

(01:39:51):
speaking points and commentary centers around the bigger picture exposing
you know, the negativity and why the negativity within our
community exists, which is when you peel back the muon layers,
you will see how systemic oppression and psychological programming plays

(01:40:11):
a role in that. That's how I center all my
speaking points around that. Not to say you know, I
won't point out personal accountability when personal accountability applies in
the situation when I'm delivering my commentary. But you know,
for the most part, it's all built and centered around
the bigger picture. Last thing, last, and not least the narrative.

(01:40:37):
Podcast is time platform.

Speaker 4 (01:40:41):
I try not to see.

Speaker 5 (01:40:42):
One hour per broadcast. I want to make this very
efficient to listen to. I want to make all my
subject matter cohesive and make my transitions clearly. When I'm
done speaking about a subject, I'm transitioning into a new topic,
and I'm not just all over the place with my

(01:41:03):
content rambling or ranting. Everything is you know, built you know,
into a system, streamline, so.

Speaker 4 (01:41:11):
It's easy to listen to.

Speaker 5 (01:41:13):
You don't have to clear your entire schedule to listen
to an episode, and I don't want to bore you
to sleep. I wanted to keep you attentive and up
with the content and you know, dowt in as they say,
and tapped in. So I can't do that if I'm
just like you know, sporadic and all over the place.

(01:41:37):
So I try to be very concise and to the point.
And that's why I try to time each episode and
when I do broadcast over an hour.

Speaker 4 (01:41:46):
It's very hard to tell.

Speaker 5 (01:41:50):
Because as I deliver my content, you know, it's really
very straightforward into the point.

Speaker 4 (01:41:56):
The broad overview of the Narrative Podcast.

Speaker 5 (01:42:00):
You know, that's the longest uh sec section of the
uh episode. You know, like I said, my format breakdown
that was real quick, uh.

Speaker 4 (01:42:13):
Promotional portion, very quick.

Speaker 5 (01:42:16):
It's the broad overview that's the longest portion of the
podcast or the izzy sence you s uh you know,
to help the viewer or the listener partner viewer coming
soon though to a breakdown and uh digest the content better.
So you know, that's why I do the broad overview

(01:42:38):
on the episode. It's without it, it really lacks lester.
But you know, I think I've covered all the significant
points of the Narrative Podcast. And if you're still kind of,
you know, not quite sure about what I'm talking about,
definitely over five hundred episodes in so just go through
my episode log to bring yourself up to speed. Download

(01:43:02):
this episode and all previously requorded episodes of the Narrative
Podcast wherever you get your podcast sources from. And now
we're going to dive into this weekday edition of the
Narrative Podcast with my very first section called the Positive
News Article section and the first positive news article of
this weekday.

Speaker 4 (01:43:21):
Edition of The Narrative Podcast.

Speaker 5 (01:43:24):
The headline reads, wrongfully convicted man graduated college after spending
five years on death road.

Speaker 4 (01:43:40):
The brother's name is Ryan Matthew. He was seventeen when.

Speaker 5 (01:43:44):
He was arrested, found guilty of murder, sentenced to death row.
After DNA evidence provided or approved his innocence, he was released.

Speaker 4 (01:43:55):
And earned his degree. And that's really kind of it.
That's all to the article.

Speaker 5 (01:44:01):
I didn't bother, you know, doing my googles to see,
you know, what was the depth of his case, where
was his exact charge and how how many years they
kept him? But you know, uh, the brother finally got
exonerated and doing.

Speaker 4 (01:44:21):
Well in life and picking up right where he left off.

Speaker 5 (01:44:24):
And only greatness from will follow from here if he
stays on that path. So join me into you know,
acknowledging him try and think in the face of adversity.

Speaker 4 (01:44:39):
So please join me and to given our.

Speaker 5 (01:44:41):
Brother Ryan Uh Matthews of Warm Narrative Podcast.

Speaker 4 (01:44:48):
Round of applause.

Speaker 5 (01:45:02):
But yeah, I do have to go on a brief
tangent with this because you know, the system is not
designed to be fear. So this is the systemic oppression
part you know, of my speaking point section. Remember how
I said, I tried to design all my speaking points around.

Speaker 4 (01:45:24):
The bigger picture.

Speaker 5 (01:45:27):
And the bigger picture, you know, the systemic oppression, psychological
programming and conditioning. The way they designed this system here
in America, they designed it to not afford our people anymities,
to not afford our people equal education, equal housing, equal anything.

Speaker 4 (01:45:49):
And never saw us as their.

Speaker 5 (01:45:51):
Equals, that never wanted us to be and acknowledge us
as their equals.

Speaker 4 (01:45:55):
Who was doing our own thing?

Speaker 5 (01:45:58):
Said, okay, they separated who was living separate from them.
They came into our neighborhoods, disturbed me our peace, burned
down our neighborhoods, our whole, you know, townships.

Speaker 4 (01:46:14):
Either burned them down or flooded them.

Speaker 5 (01:46:18):
Destroyed our businesses, broke up our whole, you know, socio
economic infrastructure to incorporate us back into the society. So
they don't want us, but they need our money.

Speaker 4 (01:46:36):
You see what I'm saying. When it was doing for self,
you know, who was a threat to them.

Speaker 5 (01:46:45):
And so like that's essentially while they designed the penal
system here in America is to in an effort to
contain us and to suppress our growth. You know, they
did not want us to flourish and have our own
and they still don't want us to flourish and have

(01:47:07):
our own So that's why they make up all these
laws and rules and tax codes. And you know, they
don't want to bridge that wealth gap between them and us.
So the penal system, you know, is their biggest weapon

(01:47:28):
they have in their arsenal to make sure that the
wealth gap never gets bridged because they intend to.

Speaker 4 (01:47:35):
Feel, you know, all.

Speaker 5 (01:47:39):
The jails, the state penitentiaries and county jails with our
people to uphold the ideals and beliefs surrounding white supremacy
keywords supremacy. They want them to be, you know, at
the top of the hierarchy here in this country, you.

Speaker 4 (01:48:02):
Know, because they know our people are impactful.

Speaker 5 (01:48:05):
And people follow our lead and start waking up when
all of us start waking up or unify and.

Speaker 4 (01:48:13):
Revolt against this system.

Speaker 5 (01:48:15):
Designed to keep not just our people, but everybody really
broke and brainwashed. And then you also gotta remember, banking
systems run this country.

Speaker 4 (01:48:28):
And that's why they build all these you know, Keno institutions.

Speaker 5 (01:48:38):
As a way to contain and then out the herd
and to keep the rich in power.

Speaker 4 (01:48:47):
So they want to you know, throw in as much.

Speaker 5 (01:48:53):
Minorities as they possibly can in the penitential system, so
they don't wanna bridge that wealth gap.

Speaker 4 (01:49:04):
This is why you know jails exist. I just didn't.
I don't.

Speaker 5 (01:49:08):
That's the only reason why I went on that side, tangent,
just to expose you know, the bigger pictures surrounding this
story and why they framed him in the first place.

Speaker 4 (01:49:20):
It's just well on his way as living a positive life. Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:49:24):
The manipulated evidence to you know, strip him of his
freedom to put him in the UH system.

Speaker 4 (01:49:36):
To begin with. So moving right along to my second
positive news article.

Speaker 5 (01:49:52):
Second positive news article on this week day edition of
The Narrative podcast.

Speaker 4 (01:49:57):
The headline reads, black scholar.

Speaker 5 (01:50:00):
In wheelchair for eighteen years, learned to walk again and
will soon earn his third degree.

Speaker 4 (01:50:09):
The brother's name is Rodney C. Flowers. He's a scholar
from southern.

Speaker 5 (01:50:16):
Maryland and also a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, and
his fraternity brothers affectionately named him Professor X. If you
follow graphic novels, don't she dare call him. Comic books,
Professor X is the leader of the X Men, and

(01:50:38):
he's confined to a wheelchair, but also the most powerful
excellent as well.

Speaker 4 (01:50:47):
So he's a doctorial candidate.

Speaker 5 (01:50:52):
And in trans personal psychology in the Power Spring two
thousand and two initiative of Alpha Phi Alpha who also
created the framework.

Speaker 4 (01:51:07):
Of an initiative called Lead Like a Lion.

Speaker 5 (01:51:11):
Lead Like a Lion initiative and powers individuals in organizations
to unlock their full potential and leave with purpose. The
initiative priored me, I lost my place. The initiative extends

(01:51:37):
an invitation to individuals and organizations to join Lion's pride
and find their roar. So basically, like that's the narrative
he's going with.

Speaker 4 (01:51:52):
The lion is the king of the jungle.

Speaker 5 (01:51:54):
The line is supposed to represent strength, So he's using
all these lion like analogies to you know, break down
his program. So everything has a lion theme to it,
you know, kind of like the Wiz. Remember that the
Wiz a line, You're a line. So we wants to

(01:52:19):
everybody to find their inner lion. So that's why he
invented the Lion framework. Uh, the name of His UH
program is called UH the Lion framework or Lead like

(01:52:41):
a Lion.

Speaker 4 (01:52:44):
Mission to Sorry I lost my place again. UH. So
Lead like a Lion.

Speaker 5 (01:52:54):
Had is broken down the sections so their vision it's
all Lead like a Lion and it's basically the outline
to the line framework. These are you know, he breaks
this whole UH program into sections.

Speaker 4 (01:53:11):
Each tier you learn a different skill set to.

Speaker 5 (01:53:18):
You know, empower you and change your trajectory in life.
So the first tier it's called UH Lead UH Lead
like a Lion, and then the second tier would be
to find your Roar program and the rarer program includes

(01:53:41):
a workbook to provide actionable steps the individuals to cultivate strength.
And then your last step will be joined the Pride.
Your Pride is basically a com a community support group
you know, for everybody to get together exchange ideas is
network with each other UH to get your UH holistic

(01:54:06):
UH wellness as a group like a group therapy type thing.
And to find out more about the program in depth,
you can follow UH Rodney see Flowers on LinkedIn or
go to his personal UH website Rodneyseflowers dot com. So

(01:54:27):
please join me to giving our brother Rodney seaflowers a
warm narrative podcast round of applause. So there is just
like so many layers to his story. You know, he

(01:54:53):
never gave up. Although you know he is in a
wheels confined to a wheelchair, he still you know, did
not let that deter him and off. Once again, it's
all about your mindset. It all starts and begins in
your mind. So you know, you're not handicapped until you
believe you're handicapped. And that's exactly what the system again

(01:55:21):
pointing out the systemic row our system system UH plays
into uh warping and conditioning our minds to believe that
we can't do something.

Speaker 4 (01:55:34):
There was a mean.

Speaker 5 (01:55:36):
Online I follow a lot of UH pro black stuff
online and I'll remember which page I was following, but
there was a picture.

Speaker 4 (01:55:49):
Of a donkey.

Speaker 5 (01:55:52):
And it was tied to a launchier and the donkey
we just kind of sit there. It's like a little
flimsy votable old school launcher and then uh, the caption
read would stopped him him.

Speaker 4 (01:56:13):
You see how deep that cuts? You know, So the.

Speaker 5 (01:56:17):
Obstacle that you believe is the obstacle isn't actually obstacle.

Speaker 4 (01:56:22):
You're your only obstacle.

Speaker 5 (01:56:24):
Because a donkey because easily, just like you know, run away,
he signed to a launcher. Launcher doesn't have any weight.
But he's just he's standing still. And that's what a
lot of us are doing.

Speaker 4 (01:56:40):
We standing still.

Speaker 5 (01:56:45):
Because we don't believe in our minds that we can
break free.

Speaker 4 (01:56:50):
And do what we want to do.

Speaker 5 (01:56:56):
So we like we're in the uh you know, of
our minds is where I'm going with that. But yeah,
that was a deep, powerful moving story that he.

Speaker 4 (01:57:11):
Never gave up.

Speaker 5 (01:57:14):
And on to the very last positive news article on
this weekday edition of The Narrative podcast. The headline reads,
Black Nurse of twenty four Black nurse of twenty four years,

(01:57:38):
Part me It's sorry for me to rebound handwriting symptimes.
Black nurse of twenty four years combat's Black maternal health
crisis finds her own platforms to empower birth workers and
this is a story of the system. By the name
of our Nie Smith our Niche is a four armer

(01:58:00):
UH labor and delivery nurse and founder and CEO of
Kindred Connects.

Speaker 4 (01:58:08):
Kindred connect is.

Speaker 5 (01:58:09):
A digital ecosystem for expecting mothers. Kindred connect offers resources
such as birth awareness do the support uplift child education
and maternal professionals that are trained to meet the needs

(01:58:30):
of Black families Kindred Kindred Connections is affordable, easy to use.
They offer flexible payment plans. They have online UH directory

(01:58:52):
to connects expecting mothers to resources and UH trained professionals,
to UH coach trained professionals and coaches and infant care specialists,

(01:59:15):
or to connect Partner to connect UH users with trained
professionals and UH clinical specialists, and also offers UH year
round AI community support using cutting eddy AI technology to

(01:59:38):
connect users.

Speaker 4 (01:59:39):
So like it's basically a.

Speaker 5 (01:59:42):
UH again a UH community support type situation. You can
use AI to reach out and connect to other expecting
mothers and you know, y'all can build a community and
like plan to UH you know, be in each other's
lives or like I don't know, exchange experience through the

(02:00:07):
UH birthing process. But to find out more about it,
go to kinderconnect dot io and if you have specific
questions direct them to Anisha at kinderconnect dot io. So,

(02:00:30):
without any further ADO, please give our sister Anisia Smith
a warm dirative podcast for founding such an innovative solution
to birthcare with.

Speaker 4 (02:00:43):
Uh Kindred connects, so that we'll do it for this

(02:01:04):
today's positive news articles.

Speaker 5 (02:01:08):
And we're moving on to the very last section of
the narrative podcast now, which is my uh.

Speaker 4 (02:01:18):
You know, speaking point section.

Speaker 5 (02:01:22):
And just to uh reiterate briefly, my speaking point section
is just like uh, you know, current events, whatever's going
on in the world, but through from our perspective, the
black perspective or as I refer to our people on
this platform, original people perspective, whether the news is like

(02:01:45):
you know again, national or global or on the internet,
just unpacking it from our perspective and the effort to
control the narrative because the media go out of its
way to have us looking and sounded crazy as a people.

Speaker 4 (02:01:58):
So that's just me bringing it back into focus.

Speaker 5 (02:02:01):
And then again to reiterate, I always focus on the
bigger pictures, what's surrounding that, which is systemical pressing, psychological programming,
and conditioning.

Speaker 4 (02:02:15):
In the event, in the rare event that I don't
have anything to touch on or.

Speaker 5 (02:02:21):
Talk about that I feel is newsworthy or worth my
time or your time to discuss, I will replace you know,
that section with the PSA and my PSA is usually
involved just my personal observations things I feel we need
to work on as a people together to get stronger.

Speaker 4 (02:02:43):
And by we, I mean me.

Speaker 5 (02:02:44):
Too, and in many cases we especially. But today I
actually do have something in the news worth discussing, you know,
tragically discussing and effects and impacts our community directly. And
you know, I'm just gonna try to unpack it from

(02:03:06):
the systemic oppression part of it, the media's role that
they played in all of.

Speaker 4 (02:03:11):
This to get to this point.

Speaker 5 (02:03:13):
While there is some personal accountability, it does need to
be taken for the perpetrator of this.

Speaker 4 (02:03:24):
Particular incident.

Speaker 5 (02:03:25):
I'm trying to gonna try to do my best to
unpack it from the psychological effects of being exposed to
negative media does to our people and probably why that
built up to you know, this event, all right, So

(02:03:47):
I'm gonna dive into it. This is some tragic news
to happen in our community. This is the stabbing death
of an East Point, Michigan McDonald's worker by the name
of Jennifer Harris.

Speaker 4 (02:04:05):
So she was stabbed to death.

Speaker 5 (02:04:07):
By an employ uh uh employee for sending them home.
So the more tragic part of this is the employee.
There's a video circulating to have not released the name
of the employee.

Speaker 4 (02:04:28):
I haven't backtrack where the video is coming.

Speaker 5 (02:04:32):
From, but they was doing like tiktoks or whatever in
lieu of the stabbing. So, you know, the person that
stabbed there was online complaining about you know, Jennifer, you know,
being reprimanded by her doing tiktoks while in the McDonald uniform.

Speaker 4 (02:04:56):
In her car.

Speaker 5 (02:04:58):
And you know, as a story goes, she came back,
she was on duty. So in the video, she was
complaining about getting getting reprimanded. You know, she didn't like
getting reprimanded. She felt like her accomplishments weren't being acknowledged, she.

Speaker 4 (02:05:18):
Wasn't getting seen as.

Speaker 5 (02:05:20):
An equal employee, and she felt like Jennifer was using
her authority to talk down on her and belittle and
beret her.

Speaker 4 (02:05:28):
In the video.

Speaker 5 (02:05:29):
This is what the young lady was saying in the video.
And you know, so she was very like distraught, not
she didn't look mentally stable in the video.

Speaker 4 (02:05:43):
It's unclear whether.

Speaker 5 (02:05:44):
She's a sister or not. That her you know, identity
has not been released. It's it's not been released and
it's not being released until they're done with their investigation.
They're investigating the stabbing. It happened Thursday of last week,

(02:06:04):
so it's it's it's.

Speaker 4 (02:06:07):
Like still pretty fresh.

Speaker 5 (02:06:09):
But uh, there is a video of the young lady
circulating around that's supposed to be the attacker in the incident.
She came to the video and again again, her ethnicity
has not been released.

Speaker 4 (02:06:25):
Along with her name either, so we don't know.

Speaker 5 (02:06:30):
From my perspective, she looks like she could possibly be
like Asian.

Speaker 4 (02:06:36):
She could possibly be like either.

Speaker 5 (02:06:40):
Like Chinese or Filipino something like that. I don't know
if she's a sister. She doesn't look like a sister
from my perspective, from like looking at her features in
her car. It's kind of hard to tell, you know,

(02:07:06):
So I'm breaking it down from again the bigger picture
perspective of how being exposed to negative media all day
kind of.

Speaker 4 (02:07:18):
Warps your mind.

Speaker 5 (02:07:22):
This is like a plot and agenda of the people
to run the media to uh brainwash us into being
what they want us to be, which is nothing. See,
when you're exposed to negative things all day long, it
resides into your subconscious. When it resides into your subconscious,

(02:07:46):
it manifests into reality.

Speaker 4 (02:07:48):
This is why it's.

Speaker 5 (02:07:49):
Very important to always get alone time with yourself. And
by a long time, I mean think, not the well.
There's a difference between thinking and dwelling. When you get
a long time up to yourself and think you know,

(02:08:10):
then you can plan your responses accordingly, you can manage
your emotions effectively, you can make decisions.

Speaker 4 (02:08:24):
In a clear, conscious state of mind.

Speaker 5 (02:08:29):
And then all this is playing the factor into So
the working at McDonald's, she's eating McDonald's most likely, so
she's eating the food.

Speaker 4 (02:08:38):
She's exposed to.

Speaker 5 (02:08:39):
The negative media. She's listening to trap music while she
was recording her video was led up to the untimely
demise of the manager. So poor diet, imbalanced mental state

(02:09:01):
due to being prolonged exposure of negativity of our people
in our culture. So if persistent, so if the young
lady in the video is not of our community, she
is basing her attitude and her identity around what she

(02:09:25):
perceives our people is supposed to act like like they're
not supposed to come to work in an orderly manner.
They're not supposed to respect our people, you know, they're
supposed to have this stand or a visceron against our people,
especially those of our people who are in.

Speaker 4 (02:09:45):
A position of authority. They don't have to respect our authority.

Speaker 5 (02:09:49):
They can respect every other manager, but except somebody who
is black, they don't have.

Speaker 4 (02:09:55):
To respect them.

Speaker 5 (02:09:56):
They can disrespect the hell out of a black manager,
but you know, they only have to respect white managers
and agent managers. Anybody respect anybody, but any anybody except
somebody black. This is the general senses of the programming
and conditioning. You know that the media does as it

(02:10:19):
pertains our people in culture. We're never you know, visually
represented with authority and respect. We're never visually represented with
the korum and dignity. There's always like ratchetness involved, always
degeneracy attached to our images and likenesses.

Speaker 4 (02:10:43):
We can never be valued.

Speaker 5 (02:10:46):
And no pristine images of us circulating around.

Speaker 4 (02:10:51):
Therefore you don't feel the need.

Speaker 5 (02:10:54):
To extend the proper respects. So I'm pretty sure the
person that got stabbed, Miss Jane Harris, was just doing
her job and in accordance with McDonald's you know, policies
and procedures that they trained her to deal with in

(02:11:19):
I rates of you know, subordinate, which is to send.

Speaker 4 (02:11:25):
Them home because they're if there.

Speaker 5 (02:11:27):
Don't want to follow directions. If they're being insubordinate, then
they are a danger to not only they're co workers,
are a danger to UH just average customers.

Speaker 4 (02:11:44):
So when you're dealing with employees in a UH.

Speaker 5 (02:11:49):
In any service industry that's exhibiting and displaying in supporting,
in supporting insubordinate's part me in supporting in actions, you
gotta respond in kind by enforcing.

Speaker 4 (02:12:07):
The rules and policies.

Speaker 5 (02:12:08):
And if they don't want to buy by the rules
and policies, then you got to, you know, go through
the disciplinary actions, which is you know, verbal rep is
pretty much everywhere in any industry, not just only service

(02:12:29):
industry pretty much. It extends to corporate and UH general
labor and all that all industries. You go through like
uh a process. You gotta let them know that you're
in trouble, what they're in trouble for, giving them.

Speaker 4 (02:12:43):
The verbal warning, then to give them are written.

Speaker 5 (02:12:50):
The verbal warning, then the actual write up, and then
just dismissing them totally. You know, it's a progression that
stages to dismiss him an employee, So they gotta know
what they're in trouble for then, and then you go
through the you know you go through it.

Speaker 4 (02:13:12):
You know what I'm saying now? In at will states,
they can just let you go for any reason.

Speaker 5 (02:13:19):
They don't have to tell you a reason. It can
just like it's nine to five job stuff. It's it's
hit and missed. They don't In some states they don't
have to tell you nothing. You can just not be
an employee in that. You walk in there, can't punch
in or walk in there and there's a security guard.

Speaker 4 (02:13:40):
Uh we need to see you in your office? Or
can we see your name in bad right now? Uh what? Okay, Yeah,
you don't work here anymore? Why? Uh, you just don't.
And they don't gotta expand on it.

Speaker 5 (02:13:54):
They don't gotta tell you why if it's a uh
at will state.

Speaker 4 (02:14:05):
So you know, but to again.

Speaker 5 (02:14:11):
Reiterate how the media's presence, probably most likely precipitated or
untimely demise, is all where ever shown on how to
deal with any and all conflict that arises within our community.

(02:14:33):
We are aggressive, you know, are you know always shown
about our people in in our cultures like we like
to fight. We don't resolve anything with words. We're incapable
of uh conscious logical reasoning. We can't discuss it. You know,

(02:14:53):
we gotta go straight to the uh fisticuffs. We gotta
go straight to the violence.

Speaker 7 (02:14:59):
You know.

Speaker 5 (02:15:00):
That's how they portray us, Like we wake up and
uh leave the door choosing violence, Like that's our go to.
How we're uh portrayed and shown into me is always violence, violence, violence.
So they're programming us. They're suddenly programming and conditioning our
minds to be violent, not only to be violent, but

(02:15:23):
to be desensitized by violence. Like nothing violence bothers us.
If we see somebody's brains being blown out, we'll just
step over the lifeless courts and go on and proceed
about our day. Won't call for help, you know, won't

(02:15:44):
be like, oh shoot, somebody just got shot. You know,
It's just like we shrug it off. This is what
they do with the media, with the programming and conditioning
within our people and within our culture.

Speaker 4 (02:16:01):
And again, a whole lot.

Speaker 5 (02:16:03):
Of details surrounding this incident has not been released, But like,
you know, that's the perspective that I'm unpacking it. It's
from the bigger picture perspective. I don't know this young
lady what her mental mind state was. You know, how
mature in the mind she was to handle this job,

(02:16:26):
this QSR job.

Speaker 4 (02:16:28):
And you know, it's also a stigma in America.

Speaker 5 (02:16:33):
To denigrate QSR workers. It is it's just you know,
literally in America, and this is the only country that
does it, that people would detegrate QSR workers like you
go and talk super crazy to somebody handling your food.

(02:16:57):
And if you got a degreement, this disagreement part me
or you know, getting raids with them. The first thing
we'll pull out of our arsenal is shut your broke
ass up. You work at McDonald's, you work at wherever
the establishment is, Okay, they work there, but you're dining here.

(02:17:19):
So then that means you can't have too much money
then then because if you did, why are you at
a QSR restaurant. Why ain't you at a five star
restaurant ordering filat Meon's and whatever? Why you at a
coit serve if you make so much more money, you
know what I'm saying. So there's a stigma attached to
disrespecting QSR employees in America.

Speaker 4 (02:17:45):
So there's that on the table as well.

Speaker 5 (02:17:48):
And it doesn't just be relegated to our community like
all Americans, you know, feel the needs to go into
a quick serve restaurant with this superiority complex, like you're

(02:18:09):
better than the person responsible for taking your order, and then.

Speaker 4 (02:18:15):
When they receive when you receive poor service in these.

Speaker 5 (02:18:20):
Institutions, you gotta realize the work ethic surrounding it. So
no proper training. They show them a video when they
do their application. It's like a little two three minute
video and then they just like it's just whatever, you
can do the job or you can't at quick serve.

Speaker 4 (02:18:42):
This is why they don't get paid a lot.

Speaker 5 (02:18:44):
Okay, their work ungodly hours just to make ends meet.
Most of them don't have high school or GEDs. They'll
work at places like that. So that's another factor that
nobody considers before they snap off and pop off at
UH somebody working at a QSR. So they don't have UH,

(02:19:11):
they don't have interpersonal soft skills. They didn't have any
inter personal soft skills training. They don't provide the employees
with interpersonal soft skills, so they don't know how to
speak to customers. They don't know how to, you know,
properly get you what you want or what you're asking for.

(02:19:32):
So that's one thing. People also have to keep in
mind when they're placing their orders at places like that,
So always be kind and courteous to the people handling
your food. You don't know what they had to go through,
what they're currently going through working at.

Speaker 4 (02:19:51):
A place like that.

Speaker 5 (02:19:52):
There's no there's no safety net, you know, safety standards
are not enforced at QSRs. They can get into a
physical altercation with a coworker at the drop of a button.
You don't know what they went through when leaving their home,
what they're going through at home. All you know is

(02:20:13):
they better not talk to you crazy as a as
a customer. So you go in there with your superior
attitude looking down on them because they work there, and
you know.

Speaker 4 (02:20:25):
This can trigger this chain of events.

Speaker 5 (02:20:28):
So just there's there's a lot of lessons here in
this particular situation. But you know, the main culprit I
feel is the media. How our people are portrayed in
the media. And when I said the media, I don't
just mean the news.

Speaker 4 (02:20:47):
I mean all forms of media.

Speaker 5 (02:20:49):
I mean movies, television, shows, literature, advertisements, you name it.

Speaker 4 (02:20:55):
You know we're not you know, caps in a positive light.

Speaker 5 (02:21:02):
You know, we're shown from the worst dynamic as possible,
And like I said, it's a form of psychological programming
and conditioning to warp our minds and to.

Speaker 4 (02:21:13):
Poison other groups of people against our people. So they
already have.

Speaker 5 (02:21:18):
A mental image of us and how to engage.

Speaker 4 (02:21:21):
Us, how to talk to us, how to how to
speak to.

Speaker 5 (02:21:25):
Us, you know, and it's all centered around the media,
our perception, our presence, how the.

Speaker 4 (02:21:34):
Media perceives us, and.

Speaker 5 (02:21:38):
You know, projects our images and likenesses across all media platforms.
So this is like again twenty four hours of all negativity.

Speaker 4 (02:21:50):
You know, this is what built up to.

Speaker 5 (02:21:52):
That conflict of being exposed to our culture from a
negative perspective. All you hearing is track music, All you
seeing is all these ghetto ratchet movies and television shows
depicting our images and likenesses in a negative way, all
this toxic imagery. That's what was the culprit at here,

(02:22:17):
what builds up to this you know, unfortunate incident. So
you know, that's just the you know perspective that I'm
unpacking this incident from as it's you know, the investigation

(02:22:41):
is ongoing. I feel so sorry for her children. I
don't know the mental state of the young lady that
you know did distab me. So reportedly she went in
there with a mask, you know, a good samaritan, probably
not up. Our community is again mentally conditioned. Within our community,

(02:23:05):
we mind our own business that we don't have that
compassion within our community.

Speaker 4 (02:23:12):
To you know, do something when we see something like that.

Speaker 5 (02:23:20):
So when in there stabbed that lady up and now
she's you know, her children, I'm guessing she was the
backbone of their family. I'm guessing she is probably working
double shifts at minimum pay to take care of her children.
And now she's gone, and so like, what's gonna happen.

Speaker 4 (02:23:39):
To her children?

Speaker 2 (02:23:40):
Now?

Speaker 5 (02:23:41):
Are because you know of the way we're portrayed and
shown in the media. You see the programming and conditioning,
the psychological programming and conditioning that they play in representing
our people or representing our people's images.

Speaker 4 (02:24:00):
And likeness is rather.

Speaker 5 (02:24:02):
To get portrayed as animals, you see. And so therefore this.

Speaker 4 (02:24:09):
Animalistic nature.

Speaker 5 (02:24:17):
Is attached to our images and our likenesses, and therefore
anybody encountering us feels they have to meet us with aggression,
that we have to be aggressive. See, they're changing and
rewriting the nature of our.

Speaker 4 (02:24:32):
People through the media is what I'm getting at. So
that's where I'm a stick a pin in it for today.
Join me again.

Speaker 5 (02:24:45):
Either tomorrow or Friday for another weekday.

Speaker 4 (02:24:50):
Edition of the Narra the Podcast.

Speaker 5 (02:24:52):
I'm going to download this episode in all previously recorded
episodes of the Narra the Podcast where it gets your
podcast sources from, and definitely join me this weekend for
a full edition of The Narrative Podcast.

Speaker 4 (02:25:07):
So I'm Halsey Allen.

Speaker 5 (02:25:10):
And I'm reminding you to amplify black voices, to promote
endorse share, patronize, and uh participate with positive Black media.

(02:25:35):
Promotes endorse share, shout out, positive Black content, promote endorse share,
shout out the Narrative Podcast hosted by Halsey Allen, amplify

(02:25:58):
Black voices, and to support positive Black podcast and positive
Black podcast ss. So that's that'll do it for this

(02:26:19):
episode of the Narrative Podcast. I'm Halsey Allen. I'm changing
the narrative one episode at a time. I'm inviting you
to help me on my quest to change the narrative
by becoming a narrator while I'm changing the narrative on
my end one episode at a time.

Speaker 4 (02:26:37):
As a narrator.

Speaker 5 (02:26:38):
You can help me change the narrative on your end,
one social media post at a time.

Speaker 4 (02:26:45):
But you continue support.

Speaker 5 (02:26:49):
And patronage of the Narrative Podcast. Together we will change
the narrative. Until next time. Halsey Allen and the Narrative
Podcast signing off.

Speaker 2 (02:27:01):
And it's like that.

Speaker 4 (02:27:13):
Now, Narrative past, whatever had a dime.

Speaker 7 (02:27:33):
Jack Jack Jack at my Huntin loved Jack Jack Jack
at the Huntin is Jack Jack and Jack John.

Speaker 4 (02:27:51):
Is genuine.

Speaker 2 (02:27:56):
Us genuine.

Speaker 1 (02:28:00):
Check log lo log log log log log log

Speaker 7 (02:28:21):
Chack Jack Jack

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