Episode 504 - The Narrative Podcast - The Narrative Podcast

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
And and and stop stoe and stop stop stop dot.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
You now.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
With all the Narrative Podcast whatever at a.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Giant peace, peace, peace, family. You're now tapped into another
edition of the mighty Mighty Narrative Podcast. And Narrative Podcast
is home of original people, Original people, Peace, Original People,
respirosity and original People Positivity. Narrative Podcast promote positive frames

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of reference about original people and the original people culture.
The Narrative Podcast provides positive frames of reference about original
people and the original culture. Welcome to the Narrative Podcast. I
am your host, Tolzy Allen. Welcome, all my narrators house,
everybody doing on this sensation of Saturday. Another episode of

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full episode of the Narrative Podcast. Peace piece piece, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome.
So it's been an amazing week for me, and I
pray by the time you hear this broadcast that you
have also had an amazing weekday and are enjoying your weekend.
But if you're not, and you didn't, then you're not well.

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There's always next weekend, weekend. We'll get through it together.
Just hang in there, you know, that's what life is is, peace,
hills and valleys. But welcome to the Narrative Podcast. But
those I'm familiar with me and my platform. This is
all black content platform speaking about all black things black

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and pertain too Black people from the black perspective, as
I refer to our people in our culture on this platform,
original people and original people culture perspective.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
But anyway, welcome to the Narrative Podcast.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
I got a good show for you today and every
single day I upload episodes of the narrat Podcast. Glad
to have y'all here. Thanks for all the people that
have been supporting since the day one. So yeah, we're
gonna get on down to the nitty gritty. Give you

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a brief overview of the Narrative Podcast before I dive
into a more broad description of what I do here.
Narrative Podcast highlights the beauty, strength, and resilience of the
Black cammunity, covering topics such as black love, empowerment, unity,

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and progression. There the podcast dives deep into discussions about
black health, economic wealth, innovation, and positive reinforcement of Black
voices to and in week days and weekends, that's today
to hear uplifting news and a focus on the achievements
of black individuals across the globe. So that's just a snippets,

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a taste scratching the surface about what it is I
do want this platform.

Speaker 4 (04:39):
So you know, typically.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
How I kick things off are typically get things started underway?

Speaker 4 (04:53):
Is I give a brief.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Comparison and contrast between the two times that I deliver
episode uploads. I deliver up episode uploads during the weekdays
and then again on weekends, which is today, And I
just want to briefly compare the two. And then after

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that I dive into you know, a broad overview. Pardon
me skip the set. After that, I have a promotional
portion of the Narrative podcast. And the purpose of the
promotional portion of the podcast basically in this section, it's

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essentially a crowdfunder, a crowdfund or whatever you want to
call it. Basically, these things that I promote in this section,
you know, accumulate revenue, and the revenue that they accumulate
is helped to keep.

Speaker 4 (06:03):
The platform running.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
This platform has a monthly maintenance piece, so you know,
with the support all these projects, it gets funneled back
into you know, the narrative podcast. My ultimate goal is
to transition from audio to video. So with more of
you supporting these projects, you know that could happen as well.

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If I get enough support, I'm definitely prepared to invest
in myself and use my own resources to do so.

Speaker 4 (06:36):
But you know, every little bit helps.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
After I'm done with the promotional portion of the narrative podcast,
I dive on into the content itself, or pardon me,
I'll skip another step. Before I dive into the content,
I have a broad overview of the narra the podcast

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after the promotional portion, and the broad overview is just
to basically provide the listeners, which is you are with
clarity to help you grasp the content better and just really.

Speaker 4 (07:22):
You know, keep up with.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
My overall concept and theme of this podcast, and you know,
just making be aware of where all the dots connect,
and you know, from that you can get more out
of the experience and even apply what I'm saying in
real time, and just you know, basically help us to

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be a tight niched community and get on on the cord.
That's the purpose of the broad overview of the near
of the podcast. And then I dive into the content itself,
so you know, and then FYI, the broad overview is
the longest portion of the program, but it is a

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necessary step to you know, blend everything together and make
everything be cohesive and you know, help you see the
bigger picture. So that's why I do the broad overview
before just diving into the content. So yeah, but before

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we even do all that, we got some.

Speaker 4 (08:32):
Some in house business to address. Like I said, this
is a.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
You know, platform for all black people with a focus
on positive reinforcement of our people and our culture.

Speaker 4 (08:45):
So that means, uh, you know.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
We're all one blood, We're all one united family, and
when something happens to you know, one of us, it
affects all of us. So that's why we're all each
other's business. You know, in our community would like to
mind our own business, but you know you are my business.
So what you're doing, you know, does affect me to

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some capacity, and vice versa.

Speaker 4 (09:15):
So Evin said that.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Said all that to say, unfortunately, in the entertainment industry,
you know that binds us even closer, you know, through
the art form of entertainment, whether it's acting, whether it's music,
because our brothers and sisters are like you know, more

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visually seen and you know, sonically heard. You know, it
could be in a different state or a different country
altogether and still have a connection to an artist or

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a performer or whatever.

Speaker 5 (10:04):
You know.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
But anyway, we have had a passing within our family
and we want to acknowledge his brother right quick before
diving into the content today. Uh So, for those un
familiar with this brother, his name is Robbie Palero F

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I'm pronouncing his last name correctly, correctly. He was formerly
in the group uh City High, discovered and produced by
the Fujis y Cleft Jean Uh. They had a smash
single in the early two thousand. It's called what would

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You Do? And it basically, you know, goes into uh,
you know, musical detail about you know, somebody life. And
you know that's when music was actually kind of music.
The R and B that was put messages in the
music in a good way. So, however, the brother is

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no longer here. He was a member of City High,
and you know, we wanted to just pay respects with
respects his due. You know, without his musical stylings that
you know, time period and music probably would not have happened.
He was a pivotal, you know, pivotal member of the

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group that gave the group his complexity and depth. They
all went on to pursue separate careers, of course, but
in that moment, that group was very powerful and impactful
and delivered a whole lot of good messages through their

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art form. So, you know, we're going to acknowledge his passing.
And it's still unclear or I haven't heard you know,
the cause of death and anything like that, but you know,
one assumed it was just natural causes and it was

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just his time to go. But uh, you know, I'm
going to give a you know, just a brief moment
of silence to his life and legacy people that was
adversely infected by his untimely passing.

Speaker 4 (12:53):
All right, rests well, brethren.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
And narrative podcasts, and its deepest condolence is to the family,
friends and associates and Indian all those that acknowledge him
or was influenced by him, knew him, knew of him,
worked with him, or you.

Speaker 6 (13:15):
Know, was in his presence during his life, and you know,
maybe affected and grieving over his passion. Right now, it'sending
love like healing energy over you right now.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
And now we're going to get on into the very
first section of the NIR podcast. This is the formatt breakdown.
So first and foremost, I have you know, two different
For mat styles, I have a weekday four mets style

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and of course a weekend for a minute style, which
is today, and they immensely differ. So first of all,
my presentation style as far as the delivering the content
that I'm speaking about, you know, I break it down

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the sections. Each section has speaking points and I time
these speaking points. My overall goal is to make this
listening experience time efficient. I know you don't have all
day to spend listening to podcasts, and I definitely don't
want to be all day or take all day to

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deliver the content that I'm setting before you. So you know,
I had to streamline it and you know, help it,
help get to the point quickly. So I'm just here
to deliver the message, not beat you upside the head
with the mess. So i want to make the message
as quickly, inefficiently digestible as possible, so you know, I'm

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just not all over the place with it. That's why
I try to make it really streamline and really to
the point. So having said that's the main purpose of
the Narrative podcast to share positive frames of reference about
our people and our coaching. The name frame of reference

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that I focus on during weekdays is.

Speaker 4 (15:37):
Positive news, harder news.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
And the reason why that's important during the weekdays is
because all weekday long, our people, black people, or as
I refer to our people on this platform, original people.
We're exposed to negativity all weekday long, as it you know,
correlates in response to our people's images and likenesses the

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way they're distributed all throughout all forms of media. It's
all you know, from a negative space in a negative way,
and adversely that has a negative impact within our community.
And it's not you know, it's not a coincidence.

Speaker 4 (16:24):
It's a.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
It's contrived. The people that run the media, they know
exactly what they're doing when they do that. It's a
form of psychological warfare. It's definitely psychological programming and conditioning.

Speaker 4 (16:42):
So it's a.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
Whole lot of mental manipulation behind the way they distribute
our images and likenesses, and how.

Speaker 4 (16:51):
They you know, attach.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
Negative things to our images and likenesses is to push
their agenda.

Speaker 4 (17:03):
You know, they.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
Highlight and focus on all the negative things within our community.
You know, they play up all these negative stereotypes and
stigmas about our people in our culture, and they broadcasted worldwide,
you know, beaming into our heads, into the heads of

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people outside of our culture, you know, and present that
as an accurate, you know, representation of our people in
our culture. So that's why, you know, I really focused
on delivering positive news articles during the week day to

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undo that psychological programming and conditioning, and then to also
demonstrate the positive things do happen within our community, you know,
despite you know, with the media portrays and projects about
our people in our community. And then after I'm done

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delivering the positive news articles during the weekday, on my
weekday edition of the Near podcast, I go into a
section called my speaking point section, and my speaking point
section it's just commentary. All podcasters deliver commentary, you know,

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social topics, you know whatever. You know, the speaking point
is whatever in the news or you know, on the
internet or whatever. Like all podcasters do it, especially audio
podcasters such as myself. You know, that's just the thing,

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that's just something that comes with the territory.

Speaker 4 (18:59):
The difference between them and me.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
Is, like I focus it whatever the topic is, from
the black experience, from the black perspective, you know, what
that does mean to our people in our culture or
could mean to it just from our perspective, because the
media goes out of its way to have its looking
and sound and crazy. So when I deliver my commentary,

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I'm just basically controlling the narrative, you know, cause they
be just like how they frame it up makes us
look all bad, you know, in any scenario. So that's
my weekday format of the Narrative podcast. And now you

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know today the weekend format. First and foremost, the weekend
format has more sections than the weekday So I'm not
going to break down each and every section. I just
want to just demonstrate how they differ. I'm gonna actually
break down each section as I come to them for

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the weekday edition of The Narrative Podcast. But I wanted
to just give you a brief backstory, you know, how
the four Matt styles even took place. So I gotta
kind of give you a little backstory why I started
podcasting in the first place. So when I started this podcast,

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it was in the midst of you know, the pandemic
lockdown or whatever. All we were seeing on TV television
was just all things negative. You know. There was a
social uprising during that summer, you know, especially here in

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the United States. The whole country was just in total disarray.
You know, nothing good was happening. It was having social uprisings,
and it was just it was a lot going on,
a lot to digest. Whole cities were shut down, National
guards were crawling, you know, nothing positive on the news whatsoever,

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but especially about our people and our coaching. So this
is where my podcast stumps into place. Me like the
rest of America, we you know, we were under curfew
and couldn't go outside, went outside, it was going to
be all bad. We were essentially under martial law, social

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distancing because of the you know, the global pandemic, and
so people were just sitting at home, board out of
their minds, doing stuff on the internet. TikTok was really big,
and of course podcasting. Podcasting had slightly started taking off

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before the pandemic lockdown, but then right when it hit,
you know, there was an outlet for a whole you know,
all the nation too, like past the time and then
express themselves at the same time. So that's essentially why

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I started this podcast. When I started, however, I didn't
really have a focal point anything I was going to
particularly speak about. I just know I wanted to just
you know, vent let off some steam. So I was
just trying to figure it out. I think like the

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first two or three I didn't even actually distribute my
first two or three episodes. I was just trying to
you know, a figure out how the platform work and
all the functions and all that and then you know,
what I want to say with my message. So it
took a second, and then I decided to just you know,

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go with the flow, go naturally. I'm black, I'm gonna
talk about black stuff. So that's what I did on
my platform.

Speaker 4 (23:20):
I talked.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
I didn't have a streamline format delivery system.

Speaker 4 (23:27):
I was just talking.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
And so again I took a little bit more time
because I had plenty of time to scare. I streamlined
it and you find it again and I put the
you know, speaking points in place. And then when I
did that, I noticed all my stats people were listening.

Speaker 4 (23:51):
And I redistributed.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
My podcast online and I streamlined it the second time.
I broke it down the sections and then gave the
section speaking points and then time be speaking point is
when I first started my podcast, I just kind of
used to used to hit play and just talk, so
you know, the whole nine They came up with my
theme music. I think I didn't even have theme music

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for like the first ten or fifteen episodes.

Speaker 4 (24:20):
Came up with some theme music. Out your music.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
Kind of mastered all my little sound effects, all the
builds and whistles of the traditional podcasts, and you know what,
he Malcolm made it into what you're listening to right now,
the Narrative podcast. But I only used to broadcast only
on the weekend, so I hadn't done weekdays yet. I

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didn't add weekdays until we started kind of coming out
of the pandemic lockdown, when you know, they were opening
everything back up.

Speaker 4 (24:55):
They had just.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
You know, undid the mass mandate, and then the next stage,
you know.

Speaker 4 (25:07):
They did away with the social distancing.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
That was back to normal, no no more required masked,
no more you know, social distancing mandate. And then finally
they lifted the curfew and then everything was back to normal.
And so all the podcasters that were only podcasting because
of the pandemic lockdown, they all went away and did

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whatever they was doing before it.

Speaker 4 (25:33):
But I'm still doing it.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
So you know, that's pretty much how the Narrative Podcast
came to be and how the weekend edition started and
the weekday edition started. So now and you got that
full background. My main frame of reference that I focused
on during the weekdays or weekend's party is entrepreneurial and

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business ownership. Now focus on that section because you know,
we're not giving.

Speaker 4 (26:06):
A whole lot of frames of reference about what.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
It means for our people to own businesses and be entrepreneurs.
And it's not on accident, it's intentionally you know, designed
that way. They don't want us to have positive frames
of reference to pull inspiration from. They don't want us

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to aspire to be anything great. They want us complicit
with either working nine to five jobs or you know,
making ends meet illegally, you know, unlawfully, either like just
being complicit with the nine to five jobs or resorting

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the crime to make ends meet. So they don't want
us to give us positive frames of reference about people,
you know, being financially affluent within our community and having
thriving businesses and organizations. They just they want us to

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give us these, you know, all these negative frames of
reference about our people in our culture and want you know,
the images to embody these stereotypes that they make up
about our people and our culture. So you know, that's
why I deliver and focus on delivering positive frames of

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reference about business ownership and entrepreneurialism, just to demonstrate that
we do have business owners and entrepreneurs within our culture,
and you know that we are dignified and you know,

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our business oriented and.

Speaker 4 (28:06):
You know, profession They.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
Don't want us to have those images of professional individuals
who take care of theirselves, their families, and their communities.
They don't want us to have their inspirational pullfront because again,

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like I said, psychological programming and conditioning. See, when they
put out those negative frames of reference, those negative frames
of references get stuck in our subconsciousness are psyches, if
you will, and then we subconsciously act out those negative

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stigmas and stereotypes that they, you know, propagate about us.
You know, that's all they like doing, is just putting
out propaganda. So that's how it adversely affects our community.

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And then people outside of our culture, how it adversity
affects them. It gives them a false preconceived notions and
ideas of how to engage us and treat us upon
media us. There's many people outside of our culture. They
never went to school of Black people that don't know
of black people. All they knows of about our people

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and our culture is what they you know, see on television,
what they see in the movies, what they hear in
the music, advertisements, magazines. You know, that's what their opinions
and belief feel is, you know, based on based on

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these negative frames of reference that they're given to them,
you know, by the people that run immediately. So that's
why I primarily focus on delivering positive frames of reference
about business ownership and entrepreneurialism during the weekends. I call

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that section my highlight section, and what I'm basically doing
in that section is I'm highlighting a business owner's journey
into becoming a business owner and the entrepreneur. I'm giving
you all the details surrounding, you know, how they made

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that leap.

Speaker 4 (30:44):
I'm including in that section.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
You know, when I have that information available, you know
what year they were born, hometown they're from, you know,
life experiences, you know, how do they grow up their
early life experiences, if their early life experiences in life,
you know, we're a.

Speaker 4 (31:08):
Part of that journey.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
AH Skills vocations, vocational training, any formal training they ever
received at you know, training institution, vocational training institution.

Speaker 4 (31:26):
Or college, you know, all forms of education.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
If they play the role into them being a business owner,
I include that personal interest in life, hobbies and interests.

Speaker 4 (31:41):
I include that that section.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Basically, anything you would find in the wiki or an
online pages about section is what I include in that section.
I'm basically, like I said, I'm walking you through their life.
You know, from the early stages that you know, ultimately
let up them owning their own business. So I'm just

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giving you the highlights of it. I'm not giving you
their entire life story. I'm just giving you the highlights
of their life story that led up to them being
becoming a business owner. So my qualifying factors that I
use to select the participants that I highlight the Highlight
section of the Narrative podcast Weekend edition.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
They must own their own business.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
You know. First of all, they must they must be
black onwed from the top to the bottom. They got
to hire their own perform some type of philanthropy for
the community. They either have to have their own nonprofit
organization or pay into one, or do some type of
you know, outreach that benefits the community in the positive way.

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And in many cases a lot of these businesses that
I highlight in the highlight section are family owned and operated.
So in that instance, I would be giving you the
positive frame of reference about generational wealth because you know
one generation is passing it down to another one and

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you know they're keeping the business thriving for our community.
So you know, different generations of our people living in
our community can experience their business. And then lastly, the

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business must aligned up with my current theme, and my
current theme is nationally recognized days or nationally recognized months.
The business will have to coincide whatever the national recognized
day or nationally recognized month is. So that's the highlight

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section of the Narrative podcast broken down. And as I said,
all those other sections, I'll break them down when as
I come to them, you know, throughout the podcast. And
then also in that section, I'm also you know, normalizing

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supporting black owned businesses by making you aware of some
businesses to support so we can circulate our dollars within
our own communities and create our own infrastructures like every
other group of people do.

Speaker 4 (34:42):
So that's there you have it.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
That's the weekday format versus the weekend format. Like I said,
there's more sections versus you know, the weekend has more
section versus the weekdays, so you know, as you're listening
to the podcast, you can decide, you know, what do

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is more convenient for you to actively listen to my platform.
I'm hoping you choose weekdays and weekends. But whatever format
style you choose, just support the Narrative Podcast hosted by
me Hawsey Allen. I even have a slogan for my podcast,

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the Narrative Podcast, changing the narrative one episode at a
time by destroying negative stereotypes about original people and original
people culture. How do I destroy the native stereotych about
our people and our culture by providing positive frames of
reference about our people and our culture.

Speaker 4 (35:43):
So there you have it.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
Those are my format styles. And now we're moving on
into the promotional portion of the Narrative Podcast. And the
very first thing I'd like to promote is the podcast
it self, the Narrative Podcast. You can support the Narrative

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Podcast by going to any audio podcast streaming platform. They're
available on all of them. Just make sure you're listening
to the correct narrative podcast podcast show, because all the

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other ones titled the Narrative Podcast, they're not speaking about
the same content I do. So if you want to
listen to content about black people and black people culture,
and make sure you're listening.

Speaker 4 (36:39):
To the one hosted by me Halsey.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
Allen as you might be listening to anything, you know,
with all those other podcasts out there titled the Narrative Podcast,
so my podcast today is the only one that threw
it through speaks about black people and black culture. Was
our for our people and our culture on this platform,

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original people and original people culture. And I'll break that
down a little bit more in the broad overview of
the Narrative Podcast. But you know, we're just focusing on
promoting the Narrative Podcast right now. So it's available on
all audio podcasts streaming platforms, and the way you support

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it is just go to whatever your favorite podcast streaming
platform is, play the episode. Upon playing it, download it.
There should be a download feature on all those podcasts
audio podcast streaming sites. Clip the download button. The download

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button is in the shape of the cloud. To find
a cloud shaped icon on whatever audio podcast streaming site
that you'd like, you know, to enjoy listening to from
down that episode and after the episode is downloaded, then
share or upload the episode to whatever social media platform

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that you like sharing or uploading content too.

Speaker 4 (38:11):
And that's how you support the narrative podcast from.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
Following with me from audio podcast streaming sites. Now, the
next way to support the Narrative podcast is by far
the most efficient way to support it. It's to follow

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me on x formally Twitter. And the reason why you
want to do that is because my ex page is
SyncE to this platform, which means after I'm done recording,
the episode of the Narrative podcast automatically just uploads, uh
to act after I'm done recording. So if you see

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a link to the Narrative Podcast hosted by me Allen
on any other social media site that you're you know,
like scrolling on, I probably had to manually put that
link there, as this one and audio podcasting platforms are
the only you know, places that would appear you know,

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uninterrupted by human humans like you know everywhere else. I
have to like manually put it there. But yeah, that's
the most efficient way to support their podcast. Has followed
me on x formly Twitter in my ex profile names,

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I stay good at Halsey Allen all over case no
spaces in your confirmation that you're on the correct X page.
You should see a book pinned to the top of
my EX page and the name the book pin to
the top of my X page is my book of poetry.

Speaker 4 (40:05):
It's titled The Black Cards.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
So when you see that, that's your confirmation you're on
the correct X page to receive new alerts of the
Narrative podcast. So if you're following me on X you
will be alerted instantaneously every time a brand new episode
of the Narrative podcast debuts.

Speaker 4 (40:29):
Now Here are some instructions.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
After you confirmed you're on the correct X page and
after you got your alert setup, you want to click
on the latest link of the Narrative podcast on my
X page, which is I Stay Good at Ousie Allen.
Click on that link and when you click on it,

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it's the link. The link should expand revealing my podcast logo.
My podcast logo is essentially just to seal whatever microphone
that says the Narrative Podcast on it. And once you
see my podcast logo, then click on the like button
located at the very top of the podcast logo. The

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like button is in the shape of a heart and
supplic the heart chick light button. Please and thank you.
So when you do that, this will cause my podcast
logo to expand a second time. After it expands a
second time, what I then need to do is perform

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all these tasks underneath the podcast logo. Every task you
perform will essentially create page hits, and those page hits,
in turn will create revenue streams for the podcast. So

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try to do everything, please, you know, just engage me.
You know online stuff. It's all about engage me. So
please try to do all these tasks that I'm.

Speaker 4 (42:09):
About the name.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
So first clicked the light button, the heart shake light
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Speaker 4 (42:18):
Click that bong, clicking that.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
The next thing you would want to do is leave
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or there the comed is negative, But just put a
comment in the comic box. You can't think of a

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if you're from a different country, just something in the
comic box. You can literally type the words something and

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put that in the comic box. You put something in
the comic box that'll help generate page Please jah, you
left me a comment in the comic box. The next
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the download feature.

Speaker 4 (43:34):
The download feature is.

Speaker 2 (43:36):
The most you know, the quickest way for me to
generate revenue for the podcast. So while all of them,
all those other features are essential, that's when that generates
the most page hits is the download features. So look

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for that. It's a cloud shaped icon with the arrow
pointing down. The arrow is basically the symbolized the action
up downloading, So click on that to fully download that episode.

Speaker 4 (44:10):
Once the episode is fully downloaded.

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And click on the share button to share or upload
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sharing or uploading episodes. That's how you support the Narrative
podcast and following x formally Twitter, and then finally you
can support it one on another platform on YouTube. There

(44:34):
are older episodes of the Narrative Podcast on YouTube, and
to check those out, go to my YouTube page which
is just Halsey Allen and then go to the video.
Once you're on my YouTube, phace, go to my videos
should be able to access those without subscribing to my

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page to access those older episodes of the Narrative podcast.
And then once you're there, like comment and share all
those older episodes of the Narrative podcast to whatever social
media site that you like. Sharing up loader content too.
And again for the comments, just put something in the

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comment blocks on YouTube, you know, positive or negative, Just
put something in the comment box.

Speaker 4 (45:26):
And then also keep in mind these.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
Are older episodes, like I mean real old, like two
and three years old, So just keep that in mind
when you're listening to them. Yeah, that's pretty much how
you support the Narrative podcast. Will following me from YouTube? Now,

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the reason why these are older episodes is because YouTube
change their I guess software and as an end result,
the software that this uh, the platform that I used
to record episodes of the Near The podcast on are

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using a different variety, so it doesn't it's not compatible
with youtubes and YouTube. You know, it's they're always you know,
changing their policies and community guidelines and so it didn't
match up with their community guidelines. So unable to upload

(46:36):
brand new episodes of the Near The podcast because of that.
So I don't know, but you know, there is hope.
So yeah, you can essentially still support the platform from YouTube, just.

Speaker 4 (46:57):
You know, no new episodes of the new the podcasts.

Speaker 2 (47:01):
They have not deleted all my older episodes, like comment
and share all those episodes it's still on YouTube, and
begin to access those episodes. Go to my YouTube page,
Hall of c Allen, go to my videos like comment
and share all those older Narrative Podcast episodes. All engagement counts,

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So engagement from YouTube that still factors in from my
overall you know CPMs or however it's measured, you know,
all that counts. All engagement of the Narrative Podcast counts.
So engage the Narrative Podcast hosted by me Hawsey Allen

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to keep the platform going wherever the peers like, comment, share, like,
comment and share and also download as well. And that's
how you support the Narrative Podcast when following me from YouTube.
Now on to the next project that I'd like to
promote in this promotional portion of the Narrative Podcast weekend

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edition is my book of poetry and it's titled The
Black Card, written by me Hawsey Allen. The Black Card
is a thirty page book of poetry, The Chronicles and
encompasses the Black experience. Everything we experience as black people
are all chronicled in detailed in that book. If you're

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a mellenated man or woman, the book will automatically resonate
with you and be able to connect with each and
every piece in the book as it relates to, you know,
milestones in our lives. So to purchase it, go over
to a site called Poetizer poetizer dot com to be specific,

(48:54):
to have a virtual online bookstore. Go they're virtual online
bookstore on Poetize and purchase my book of poetry titled
The Black Card, written by me Hausey Allen.

Speaker 4 (49:08):
Now unfamiliar with poetizer.

Speaker 2 (49:13):
Poetizer is essentially a social media platform for people to
enjoy writing, particularly poetry. It's open to all genres of writing,
but they specialize in providing a space for poets to
express themselves and be creative and interact with one another.
So that's what that site's all about.

Speaker 3 (49:36):
You know.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
They got all kinds of social media stuff. Engage each other,
you know, as any other social media site like Facebook
or whatever, you can like meet people, being people, friends,
list all that right on the shut's walls. Give each
other creative feedback. And then they also have daily writing
prompts and contests and games for the participants of that

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social media site. But the most important feature is to
have built in self publishing software which will allow the
users that participate in that site to write their own
books using their building self publishing software which will allow
you to write a bookboard like under one thousand dollars.

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So you know it's good for the novice writers as well.
You always want to write a book, but you know,
just help feel as though you really couldn't afford it,
like that's the perfect place to get your feet wet
and writing books poetizer dot com. So you know, that's

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what their virtual online bookstore is for, is for the
members of that social media site to write a book
and market and sell that book that they create on
that site in their virtual online bookstore. So going over
to poetizer dot com, go the virtual on line bookstore.
Look for my book title The Black Card, and it's

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written by me Hawsey Allen and by the Day. And
now I'm gonna give you a brief overview or a
selling point about the book. The Black Card is a
poetic manifesto or a lyrical tribute to the reality, resilience,

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and richness of the black experience. With both versus the
cut deep in imagery that sores the Black Card, we
claims dignity and the man's respect and honors the legacy
of a people who have turned struggle in the strength
culture into power. More than just poetry, this is a declaration.
Black is royal, Black is unstoppable, Black is everything. So

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head on over to poetizer dot com voth virtual online
bookstore and purchase my book of poetry titled The Black Card.
Purchase The Black Card today will get your Black card
revoked all right, So onto my very last thing I'd

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like to promote this promotional portion of the Narrative podcast.

Speaker 4 (52:11):
Promotional section on this weekend edition.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
Is my personal poetry blog on blogger dot com and
the name of my personal blog on blogger dot com
It's called Halls's Poetry Corner.

Speaker 4 (52:25):
I also have a slogan for that.

Speaker 2 (52:28):
Poetry blog, Hause's Poetry Corner Poetry with a passion, poetry
for all occasions. Upon reading the poems posting on Haws's
Poetry Corner, that you will see just exactly how each
poem lives up to that slogan.

Speaker 3 (52:46):
So now.

Speaker 2 (52:51):
Right, as I said, you know, you'll be able to
relate to all the poems on Halls's Poetry Corner blog.
The address to that site is ww dot mister Hall's
blogs dot com. So again, a slogan for my poetry
blog is Halls his poetry for in their poetry or

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a passion poetry for all occasions. And when upon reading
the poems on that blog site, you will see that
all the poems on there.

Speaker 4 (53:22):
Are live up to that slogan because they're all relatable.

Speaker 2 (53:26):
Anybody from any walk of life can relate directly to
one of my poems posted on that poetry blog. And
I do have a whole lot of poems specifically for
my community Black community, as I refer to our community
on this platform original people community. Again, there are relatable poetry.

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You'll be able to relate to the first few lines
of a poem, or a poem in its entirety said,
whatever current emotion you're going through or feeling at this moment,
you'll find a poem on Halls's poetry cointing to relate
to that emotion. Whatever experience that you've ever gone through
in life, have experienced before are currently experiencing. Now you'll

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find a poem on Hause's poetry Puting to commemorate that experience.

Speaker 4 (54:19):
But go check it out.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
On blogger dot com at ww dot mister hoges gloss
dot com. And how you support the phone's posted on
that blog site. You know you can support it like this,
Go to Halles Poetry Pinner ww dot mister dogblows dot com.

Speaker 4 (54:36):
Take the link.

Speaker 2 (54:39):
Which is ww dot mister doges blog dot com. Share
the link to Hall's Poetryporner. Our poems posted on Halls's
Poetryporing across all social platforms. And then when you get
to the site, underneath each piece of poetry, you should
see a light. But click on that light. But to

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like each poem on Hawses Poet, you're forner and the
like button is in the shape of a heart. To
click on the heart shape like button underneath each phone
post it on Halles Poet your corner. And then also
underneath each phone there is a comments box. Leave me
a comment in the comment box. And again the rule

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for leaving the comments is just to leave them. Just
comment something in the comment box, you know, positive or negative,
it really don't matter, just you know, think of it
like you're signing your yearbook or my yearbook.

Speaker 4 (55:36):
Just put your name in the comment box.

Speaker 2 (55:42):
You can literally type the words something and put it
in the comic box, emojis, flash whatever, Just put something
in the comic box.

Speaker 4 (55:55):
Oh and if you want me to respond.

Speaker 2 (55:57):
To your comment, if you have a Gmail or account,
signing with your Gmail account and by doing that, that
will alert me that you commented on one of my
poems on houses Poetry on the blog, and I will
respond to that comedy. And so that's how it supports

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the poetry on Hallses Poetry Coin. The blog loses Poetry
Corner poetry with a passion, poetry for all occasions. And
I'm gonna hit you with, you know, a brief selling point,
a couple brief selling points.

Speaker 4 (56:38):
So when you come to Hallses Poetry Corner, prepare.

Speaker 2 (56:46):
To step into a world where emotions flow like rivers
and the pictures. Hallses Poetry Corner is your ultimate destination
for captivating poetry.

Speaker 4 (56:55):
The touches the soul. Whether you're.

Speaker 2 (56:59):
A poetry us or just a casual reader Hollis's poet,
You're going to have something for everyone. Explore all my poems,
timeless classics and thought provoking verses prepared to ignite your
imagination and explore the beauty of language and its purest form.
Let's celebrate the art of poetry together. Come on over

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to hallses Poetry Corner blog and read some really good poems.
And remember when you get there, like comments, share the
link to Hawsy's Poetry Corner blog ww dot mister blogs
dot com, and poems posted on Hall's Poetry corn to
blog across all social media platforms. And that's how these

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pot Hawses Poetry Corner blog on Blogger dot com. And
that's that to do it for the promotional portion of
the Narrative podcast. So just to reiterate, supports the Narrative
Podcast hosted by Hawsey Allen. Supports the Black Card Written

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by Me on Hawsey's Poach or Black Card Written by
Me Halsey album on politizer dot com. Go They're virtual
online bookstore by bats and Hawsey's Poetry Pinner blog on
Blogger dot com. And last but not least, a message

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to all content creators, whether you're audio content creators such
as myself or a visual content creator.

Speaker 4 (58:41):
To promote.

Speaker 2 (58:45):
The narrative podcast hosted by me Hawsey Allen or Hawsey's
poetry owner you know, on your content platforms, and you
can promote the black card as well, but you know,
please promote, promote and our return to favor if I
hear it.

Speaker 4 (59:05):
So that'll do its. And now we're.

Speaker 2 (59:08):
Onto the broad overview of the Narrative Podcast before diving
into the content itself. So let's starting with the name.
I was aspired to name.

Speaker 4 (59:18):
My podcast the Narrative Podcast.

Speaker 2 (59:23):
Just I had gotten to a point where I was
a sick and tired of this false narrative.

Speaker 4 (59:31):
Surrounding our people and our culture.

Speaker 2 (59:33):
I don't like the way the media depicts us across
all media platforms. So that's with that in mind, that's
why I designed this platform, and that's why I named
it the Narrative Podcast, with the mission statement to change
the ultimate perception of how our people are viewed globally,

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thus changing the narrative into the title the Narrative Podcasts.
The mission statement for the Narrative Podcast is an informed
listening audience of why.

Speaker 4 (01:00:17):
It's so important.

Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
To be very careful when sharing the images and likenesses
of black people in black culture on you know media
platforms and then also encourage listening audience to put out

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positive frames of reference about our people and our culture
across all media platforms. Now, the very first thing you
need to be aware of when listening to the narrative podcast,
as I refer to my listening audience, which is you
are narrators. I was inspired to coin that term by

(01:01:05):
the actual textbook definition of the word narrator, and the narrator,
by definition is just basically a storyteller or they illustrate
a story. You know, they break down what the components
of the story, whatever the story is, and whatever the
story is about, and whatever the format style that the story's.

Speaker 4 (01:01:27):
In to the audience.

Speaker 2 (01:01:30):
You know, they're just letting the audience know what's going
on in the story so that they can keep up
with the components of the story. That's the job of
a narrator. And so you know, that's what led me
to coin that phrase for my listening audience, and to
further break it down, I always use this analogy of

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why this is why a narrator in general is important
and then also why it's impaired that you narrate your
own story. So the saying goes, you know, something like this.
If you don't tell your own story, your own story
will be told for you. And that's exactly what the

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media is doing in reference and concerning concern to our
people in our culture. They're telling our stories for us,
you know, across all media platforms, and the story that
they're telling about us as a negative story, they're highlighting
all the negative stereotypes and stigmas that come along with
our culture. They're ignoring all the positive things you know,

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we bring to the table to you know, you know,
accentuates their agenda to you know, you know, cement all
the nasty, negative things that they believe and think about

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our people in our culture. So, you know, that's why
it's important for us to remedy that by telling or
narrating our own stories. Is why we cannot control with
the media projects about our people in our culture. We

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can control what we decide to you know, post about
our people in our culture. So in that sense, we
can change the narrative on our own media platforms. So
I'm gonna briefly give you example of how to be
an effective narrator. Since I coined the term narrator, I'm

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obviously a narrator. Every episode of the Narrative podcast debuts.
I'm narrating our story with each episode, so I'm changing
narrative on my end one episode at a time. Every

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episode of the Narrative Podcast always features positive frames of
reference about our people and our culture in audio format.
So how you can change the narrative on your end
is to change the narrative one visually, one social media
post at a time. Because pictures are worth a thousand words,

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so you can provide positive visual images on your end,
one social media post at the time the same way
I'm providing positive.

Speaker 4 (01:04:42):
Frames of reference in audio format.

Speaker 3 (01:04:45):
On my end.

Speaker 2 (01:04:46):
So basically, on my podcast, I just counter the negative
stereotypes and stigmas, you know, propagated about our people in
our culture. So you can do the same thing visually,
especially if you're a content creator. So there's a negative

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stereotype about our people always being laid all the time,
so or they call it CPT time. So visually, to
counter that negative stereotype on your end, you'll probably.

Speaker 4 (01:05:25):
Post something you know.

Speaker 2 (01:05:29):
About our people or yourself, you know, keep into a schedule,
being studious and on time about something, if anything, being
early instead of like a negative stereotype our people don't
know how to swim. You can post something visually about

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some sort of you know, record somebody in our communities
broken in regards of swimming, like breaking you know, winning
a swimming a swim meet, coming in first, or you know,
just enjoying the water, competing in swimming, something like that,

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something along the lines of that. Just using your platform
to visually destroy any negative stereotype about our people and
our culture. That's, you know, that's how you be an
effective narrator to put out those visual frames of reference

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about our people and their culture. Because the way the
media we get framed up in the media is, you know,
we're the lowest of the low. They're always pushing drug culture,
pushing gang culture on us, pushing drug culture on us,
prostitution culture, poor culture, pimp culture. That's what they keep

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on pushing on our people. That's what they want us
to embody and represent. They don't want us to embody
and represent greatness. They wanted us to embody and represent
foolishness and degenerous. So that's why it's imperative that we
tell or narrates our own stories. And if you can't

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think of any of those visual frames of reference that
I just named.

Speaker 4 (01:07:30):
One of those most.

Speaker 2 (01:07:32):
Impactful ways you can bring about change on your visual
platform is this to upshow upload you know you enjoying life,
or somebody in your community, or somebody that's close to
you enjoying life, living their best life, you know, being happy,

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just generally happy, generally in the good space with life
and about themselves. Is when you do that, you strike
a huge blow, you know, for the cause, because you
know they don't like us to see us, you know,
happy and enjoying ourselves and being in a good space.
You know, this whole media thing works. They want us

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to be angry all the time or sad or depressed,
and so by us being generally happy and navigated through
life like you know, nothing bothers us or nothing gets
to us, you know, that's throwing their plans all the
way off.

Speaker 4 (01:08:33):
They're like, dang, back to the jawn board. You're gonna
get all these this.

Speaker 2 (01:08:38):
To these people, and they keep on trying thing in
the face of adversity to keep winning.

Speaker 4 (01:08:44):
You can't break.

Speaker 2 (01:08:44):
Them, so you know, that's always good.

Speaker 4 (01:08:56):
Moving forward.

Speaker 2 (01:08:57):
So after that, that's how you've really become a narrator
on your end. So next thing you should be aware
of when listening to the Narrative podcast, as I refer
to our people as original people.

Speaker 4 (01:09:20):
You know, for a whole lot of reasons.

Speaker 2 (01:09:25):
The word original is just to me, from my perspective,
is just more powerful and impactful and more of an
accurate representation of who we are as a people, you know,
because the word original really means unique, one of a kind,

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and also into it being the first, So we're all
of those things. We're unique, We're one of the kind
that we definitely were for first. Historically, we are the
original in every sense of the word. You are the
original builders, You are the original architects, philosophers, doctors, healers.

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We are the original inventors, original explorers, astronomers, astrologiers, scientists, chemists,
you name it, we were the original version of it.
You name any modern day convenience that we currently use
every day today, we originated that. So therefore, that's the

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biggest reasons why I refer to our people as original people.
It's true to that definition, and it's definitely historically accurate
because we were and are the original people of this world.
We were here thousands of years before any other group
of people ever existed. As a matter of fact, all

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groups of people that currently exists are derived from directly
derived from our DNA. So we mothered in fathering civilization.
How about that we are the original tribe of man
And that's on the scientific side of it. So you know,

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that describes our people perfectly. And that's why I refer
to our people as original people on this platform because
of that fact, not feeling fact. So in truth stride
with my program, I dedicate this platform into destroying negative

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or destroying false narratives about our people. And there's no.

Speaker 4 (01:11:54):
Bigger false narrative in the world than this slave narrative.

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
Some big ways that they use a slave narrative as
a means in which to mentally subjugate our people by
keep on, you know, spending falsities about slavery. What they're

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really trying to do, they're trying to sensationalize slavery to
you know, keep us down and also keep us mentally
enslave and not wanting to move forward. They really try
to embellish a whole lot of facts surrounding slavery. So

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whatever is not an exaggeration about the slavery and how
they teach it and how it pertains to our people
in our culture. If it's not in embellishment, it's a
complete live And one of the biggest misnombers about slavery
that they try to you know, pass and get over

(01:13:11):
on us is that we're all, you know, we all
originated as far as slavery goes, as far as slavery goes,
being enslaved people, that we were all enslaved Africans, when
in reality that were majority of us. We already existed

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in all the places that we currently reside, especially those
of us living here in the United States of America.
They want us to just believe that the only reason
why we exist in any other place outside of Africa
is because you know, some Europeans and white Spaniards went

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to the continent of Africa and drug us to different
places in the world all throughout Europe and the UK
and Meso America, Spain, all the Spanish speaking nations, Australia,
the continent of Asia. Like they want us to believe

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that slavery was directly responsible for that. So, like I
just said, we're the original tribe of Man, we are
the original explorers. So don't understand the reason that we
originally explore all these different places we currently exist and

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populate these places, because white people didn't even exist before
slavery before, you know, we was here thousands of years
before then. So while they did enslave some Africans, every

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single last one of us weren't products directly from that
journey from that directly from that Middle Passage, as they
tried to convey. As matter of fact, the only thing
they did get right about the way they teach, you

(01:15:26):
know how slave we started is the barbarous, cruel ways
that the slave masters treated us. That's the only thing
they actually got right about the story. They actually did
cash straight the men, They actually did break the women.

(01:15:47):
They actually did do horrible, unspeakable things to our infants.
They used our infants as alligator bait. They did do that.
They used our children as bed warmers, put us in
their bed just to warm their feet. There was raping

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our men, raping our women, daily beatings, daily lynchings, just
so many bad things was to derive from slavery. As
far as like torture, the torture element of it, they
got that one hundred and ten percent accurate. That's the

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only thing they got right. Everything else is either you know,
an exaggeration or just a complete lie. It's up to
you to do your own due diligence to find out
where they're lying at. But you know, like I said,
every episode, I want to clear up the misnomer and

(01:16:50):
misconception or the false narrative surround me slavery. And the
reason why I do that because they're trying to, you know,
still to this day, psychologically break us, still to this day,
trying to stoke fears within us and make us feel

(01:17:12):
insecure about who we are as a people, as though
we owe our very existence to slavery. That's what they're
saying with that false slave narrative is we wouldn't be
who we are and what we are had we are
not saved, you guys, from being savages.

Speaker 4 (01:17:30):
Over in Africa.

Speaker 2 (01:17:35):
You know, that's what they're saying by keeping the way
they keep on teaching, you know, slavery and the slave trade,
and you know all what they say about it. They
try to say, we had slaves and we owned our
own slaves, and we didn't.

Speaker 4 (01:17:53):
We never had slaves.

Speaker 2 (01:17:54):
Ever, we had prisoners of war African tribes away which
war against other African tribes as prisoners of war. It's
not slaves. So never, never, once ever did we participate
in the slave trade. We were never ever cannibals either.

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There was no record of cannibalism in Africa. We never
ate people. That was a European practice. And that's what
they did to African slaves that they bought over to America.

Speaker 4 (01:18:32):
They ate them. They wore their.

Speaker 2 (01:18:34):
Flesh, they made accessories out of their flesh, wallets and shoes.
The African diet was mainly a plant based diet. Never
the only proteins we ever ate were animal proteins, like

(01:18:55):
the animals that lived there. Fish, you know, Ripley's, believe
it or not. They got cows there too, gazelle's and
stuff like that. But never people goat a whole lot

(01:19:18):
of goat over there. Never people, though, but they're always
trying to stigmatize us. All in Hollywood. You see African
people depicting the Hollywood with the bone in their nose
and always got a cauldron and some white people tied
to a steak. And that just never ever was a

(01:19:49):
thing ever in any tribe. So I don't even know
how they.

Speaker 4 (01:19:52):
Came up with that.

Speaker 2 (01:19:59):
But there's especially messes over Black Americans over here in America,
you know, with slavery, because the majority of us were
already here. But yet they call a whole other group

(01:20:22):
Native Americans, and give this whole other group that aren't
native to this land all the financial benefits from being
this term that they coin. They give them reservations and

(01:20:44):
like free college and free everything, you know, a monthly check, casinos, hotels,
and they're not even the original indigenous natives of this land.
Our people are their Siberians, yeah, that's where they're from.

(01:21:07):
And the ones that aren't are white people. They had
a term called five dollars Indians. White people were allowed
to change their lineage from white to Native American to
avoid paying taxes for five dollars. But you know, didn't

(01:21:32):
want to get too long winded. I just really wanted
to try my best to break up these false narratives
that they weave about the slave trade, about the Middle Passage,
about transit landing slave trades, and just the whole stigma
behind us, our people being enslave. It's all designed to

(01:21:54):
stoke fear, to make us fearful, and then also take
a you know, a rib shot, you know, trying to
destroy our esteem, how we feel about ourselves, so they
can just bring that out out of our face.

Speaker 4 (01:22:11):
But your people used to be slaves.

Speaker 2 (01:22:13):
They don't have any culture, they don't even know who
they are, you know, that's the whole purpose of the
slave narrative is to spread misinformation, to try to break
us psychologically and then try to you know, insurrect you know,

(01:22:36):
feelings of abandonment, you know, feelings of low self esteem,
like you know, that's what we derived from, was enslaved.
When they skip over everything we were before slavery, that
we were kings and queens, guys and goddess of the universe.

(01:22:58):
Everywhere our people ever exist, all we ever bought with
us was knowledge and enlightenment and bettered you know, civilization.
Everywhere white people ever existed. All they ever bought was war, pestilence,

(01:23:22):
and famine. That's all they ever bought in disease, you know,
that's all they ever bought, death, chaos, and destruction everywhere
they ever resisted in the world. But yet they try
to spend the false narrative of our people being warlike,

(01:23:46):
of our people being savage, of our people, you know,
being Neanderthals, and and it wasn't us. It was never
as So that's just the primary example why they call

(01:24:06):
it history history because it's his story. It's not what
actually happened. But you know, that's just like my little
breakdown of debunking slavery. As I said, you got to
do your own due diligence to find the truth.

Speaker 4 (01:24:27):
But every episode, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:24:29):
I'm always inject something that is not widely taught in
our school systems and you know, general education systems about slavery,
and they keep they hide these facts from us because
they don't want us ever knowing the truth, especially if

(01:24:50):
those of us living here in the United States of
the Europe. So they want to divide us. It's all
about divide and confer. They want divide Black Americans from
Black Africans and you know, cause dissension amongst us to
get us to fight and resent each other while they

(01:25:13):
maintain their position of power. And lastly, the reason why
I refer to our people as original people is to

(01:25:36):
unify us as one people, because while we still need
to keep our rich traditions alive and acknowledge our rich,
proud lineages, we also need to acknowledge that we are
of one blood we all, you know, can trace our

(01:25:57):
lineage back to the original point of origin for our civilizations,
y'all just high concentrations of carbon aka mellanin where we
all face that exact same socioeconomic systemic plight. Anywhere where

(01:26:18):
our people are located, you know, we're treated horribly.

Speaker 4 (01:26:26):
That make all these laws and.

Speaker 2 (01:26:29):
Systems in any plate part of the entire world to
contain our people and prevent our people from living a
prosperous life, to go out of their way to isolate
us and ostracize us from the dominant society of that

(01:26:49):
region of wherever we're located in that part of the world.
We all share that, we all share that unspoken bond.
So therefore, you know, that's the thing that we can all,
you know, gravitate towards as being original people. So that's

(01:27:14):
a universal interchangeable name that we can all you know,
across the border of Grillon. Because we can't agree that
we're all Jamaicans, we can't agree that we're all Asians,
We definitely can't all agree that we're foundational Black Americans,
but we can all agree that we're all we were

(01:27:36):
all here first, we are all original, So you know,
That's why I refer to our people as original people
on this platforms possible as an attempt to unify us
as when people can speak outside of our culture, all
they ever look at any of us and see, they

(01:27:58):
won't know what we are are.

Speaker 4 (01:28:01):
If we don't open our mouths, they'll just call us black.

Speaker 2 (01:28:04):
They don't know that you can speak Spanish, they don't
know you can speak French.

Speaker 4 (01:28:08):
They just know what they see.

Speaker 2 (01:28:25):
So having art said that, now we're getting to the
nitty gritty with the broad overview of the nearer.

Speaker 4 (01:28:31):
The podcast.

Speaker 2 (01:28:34):
Near the podcast is the positive safe space for original people.
It is designed to uplift and edify our culture, to
promote positive reinforcement of our people in our culture and
bring us all together and not separate us and divide
us and tear us apart. All about building is up
and not tearing us down, and not about spreading gossip

(01:28:56):
and rumors and hatred and you know, disarray. This is
all about harmony, all about unity, all about inclusion and togetherness.
That's the vibe of this platform. So there's no name calling, roasting,
put downs anything I do. I am. I poke a

(01:29:17):
little fun at a few things, but it's never from
you know, I just spiteful place. You know, it's a
more laugh to keep him crying type of thing. But
so I do have my fun on here, but never
at the expense of someone else. I do. However, I

(01:29:39):
do tell the very blunt truth, but again never ever
trying to be intentionally mean.

Speaker 4 (01:29:48):
You know, That's what the platform is all about.

Speaker 2 (01:29:57):
Now, when I present all the subject matter here is
from the bigger picture perspective. That's what all the subject
matter you know, s uh, you know rotates around, is
the bigger picture. So, especially when I'm delivering my commentary,
rotates my perception and an analysis on whatever happened is

(01:30:21):
through the bigger picture lens. So usually anything negative happening
in our community usually stems from psychological programming and systemic oppression.
And that's pretty much all my speaking points, you know.
That's how everything rotates around those two very big points,

(01:30:43):
you know, especially in regards to celebrities within our community
whenever they're in the news for something negative. But that's
pretty much everything you need to know as far as
like the nature of the p narrative podcast as there
is one exception to the no put down, no roastering rule,

(01:31:05):
that's for people within our community that you know, denouncers,
leaders in our community that help uplift our community.

Speaker 4 (01:31:16):
And then also.

Speaker 2 (01:31:19):
Those of us that choose the bag over virtue, over
honor overdign you and respect that go, you know, throw
us under the bus and misrepresent intentionally key word intentionally
misrepresent our people in order for monetary gain. Now you

(01:31:42):
can unintentionally misrepresent our people out of ignorance because you
just don't know any better, you know, then that's a
different conversation that you just don't know any better. But
if you know better and you're doing it just exclusively
to boaster your finances or you know, secure a spot

(01:32:04):
in you know, dominant society or being amongst the elite's
elite society, you know, then I gotta get you. But
other than that, this is a positive safe space for
original people, all about uplooking edification of our people and

(01:32:26):
our culture. The last and not least near theive podcast
and time sensitive platform. Like I said, it's broken down
the section section as speaking points my timey section. Try
to be very mindful of my time, my own time,
and definitely my listeners times. Is like I said, I

(01:32:48):
don't want you to have to clear your whole entire
schedule just to listen to one episode and try to
keep it very brief and to the point and make
sure I hit all my marks and you know, everything
lines up properly to the you know, main focus of

(01:33:09):
the podcast. So that's pretty much it the nar the
podcast that's in its entirety, that's the broad overview of it,
and that you're still kind of you know, unsure about,
you know, what it's all about. I'm well over five
hundred episodes in. All you have to do is go

(01:33:29):
through my episode long to bring yourself up to speed.
Just remember to download this episode everything in all previous
episodes of the new podcast wherever you get your podcast
sources from. And now we're going to dive in to
this weekend edition of the Narrative podcast with my very

(01:33:50):
first section. It's titled the Highlights Session. So just to
briefly reiterate the highlights. Actually, what I'm doing in this
section is I'm highlighting an entrepreneur's journey to becoming a
business owner and the qualifying factor, you know, all the

(01:34:14):
businesses that I highlight the highlight section must coincide with
the nationally recognized day or the nationally recognized month, and
today it's a nationally recognized month. And today's nationally recognized

(01:34:35):
month that all the businesses must coincide with is International
Karaoke Day. Today is July nineteenth, International Karaoke Day. Yes,
it's an actual thing. So here's a little backstory on
how that day came to be. It started in Kobay,
Japan in the nineteen seventies after the invention of of course,

(01:35:00):
you guessed it, the karaoke machine. The karaoke machine was
invented to supplement live the live entertainment. Hospitality industry is
very big in Japan. Dining out is an actual event

(01:35:20):
and at every restaurant, especially around that time period that
the karaoke machine was invented, live entertainment was a part
of the dining experience.

Speaker 4 (01:35:32):
So Japan is very uh you know.

Speaker 2 (01:35:35):
It's always been a business oriented town oriented town like
businessmen and women. That's the hub for bustling industry. So
like all the corporate types, they like going out to eat.
That's a big part of their culture. And so like

(01:35:58):
you know, alcohol, So after work lets out, they all
usually meet up to a spot to go grab drinks
and get something to eat, and while they're eating and drinking,
you know, they're enjoying live music orchestra. So a while ago,

(01:36:23):
orchestras were on strike in Japan. So to meet the
demand for live entertainment for the dining experience, the karaoke
machine was inventive. And so the name karaoke is a
play on Japanese words derived from Carrie, which means empty,

(01:36:50):
in Oki, which means orchestra karaoke, which is like, you know,
because orchestras they were on strike at that time, So
karaoke was born. And so all the businesses today that
I'll be highlighting in the Highlights section of the Narrative

(01:37:11):
podcast will specialized or provide something that coincides with today's
nationally recognized day, which is karaoke. All right, So my
first business I'll be highlighting in the Highlights section of
the Narrative podcast.

Speaker 4 (01:37:31):
First business.

Speaker 2 (01:37:34):
Name is the w Highway Lounge in Chicago, Illinois, who
was established in nineteen eighty four by a brother by
the name of Willie Gardner. He was the first generation
and passed it down to his I think great granddaughter,

(01:37:55):
Nakila g And the G stands for Gardener. They have,
of course a karaoke night for their club, and that's
on Tuesdays, and it's like that's what it's known for,

(01:38:16):
you know, it's a karaoke nights. So there's no explicit
details on Willie's background.

Speaker 4 (01:38:25):
That's what the W stands for.

Speaker 2 (01:38:27):
In the W Hideaway Lounge. It also doesn't say, you
know exactly what year that Nikipa tipped over n I

(01:38:50):
K E V. Hey, I guess it's I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:38:56):
You're just gonna have to go to the website and
find out.

Speaker 2 (01:38:59):
They advertise a Facebook and Instagram, So go to Facebook
and Instagram and type in the W Hideaway Lounge in Chicago.
So connecting the dots, he could really just kind of, uh,

(01:39:22):
you know, put together why he created that club. Chicago
has always been a hub for black excellence for black
people in general.

Speaker 4 (01:39:32):
As a matter of fact, the founder or founding person that.

Speaker 2 (01:39:38):
Founded Chicago, Illinois was a man by the name of
Jean Baptiste point Besets. He kind of founded that whole
region and that's where like all that black excellence and
culture in Chicago comes from. Behind the spirit of that
all the you know, black politicians and important people in

(01:40:05):
sports and entertainment coming out of Chicago kind of embody,
that rebellion, that ingenuity. So he just basically created this
spot because he wanted to create jobs, forts people and
to also provide them with a very fun, safe space

(01:40:25):
to enjoy themselves. And that's really hard to do in Chicago,
Illinois because it's super violent. I mean outside of the games.
It was the birthplace of you know, organized crime, the
Macia all Day. But anyway, the w hYP Hiaway Lounge.

(01:40:56):
The address is three six five Indium Avenue or Indian Avenue,
Suite one, Chicago, six year O six five three. Telephone
number three one two five five or five seven seven
one nine one seven. Uh. They have weekly drink specials

(01:41:22):
Taco Tuesdays along with Karaoke Night feature live DJ, and
it's every first Tuesday that's Karaoke Night. But that's their
most busiest night is the karaoke night. That's what they're

(01:41:45):
known for, is the karaoke Night. And that's why they
were featured in today's Spotlights or highlight section of the
Narrative Podcast Weekend Ambition. So without any further a dude,
please joint me giving them form Narrative Podcast as Round
of applause to the memory of mister Willie Gardner and

(01:42:06):
who is current and the current owner of the w
Hideaway Lounge in Chicago. Nhiema G. Moving right along onto

(01:42:30):
my second business I'll be highlighting in the Highlight section
of the Narrative podcast. This is a club called The
Genre just simply known as the Genre, and to find
out more about it, go to the Genre Memphis dot com.
It was established in twenty twenty one by two brothers

(01:42:56):
who are actually brothers, biological brothers, Leonard and Bernard Chamber.
Leonard is on the culinary side of it. He handles
all the back of the house details, hiring the staff,
the food, drinks, while his brother Bernard is on the front.

(01:43:23):
He deals with all the corporate stuff, the seeding, bookings, talent,
show talent, you know, staff, managing the books, paying, making
sure everybody gets paid, and of course entertainment for the establishment.

(01:43:46):
He handles that aspect. So their backstory is they were
always kind of in the club scene. They were both
uh hip hop DJs for a club and the area
called lb N. It's don't really say nothing more about it,
but the concept of the Genre was conceived. They wanted

(01:44:15):
to make uh, you know, going out in Memphis, like
because Memphis, Tennessee is perceived as country, so they wanted
to provide refinements.

Speaker 1 (01:44:30):
Two you know.

Speaker 2 (01:44:33):
Club you know, the club atmosphere, and of Memphis, Tennessee.
They wanted to create an outlet. It was like upscale
yet casual. So it's upscale as like a five star restaurant,
but then also as casual assay of the ride. So

(01:44:55):
that's where the g and the genre came from. They
wanted to come buying those two concepts. You know, not
so upscaled that you need to you know, be on
the list to get gain access, but then not so
casual that you don't have to at least like, you know,

(01:45:20):
dressed nice.

Speaker 1 (01:45:21):
To get in.

Speaker 2 (01:45:22):
So they found a happy, happy medium and that's how
the genre is born.

Speaker 4 (01:45:32):
So yeah, go check it out the.

Speaker 2 (01:45:34):
Next time you're in Memphis, Tennessee. And the Genre's address
is two hundred Popular Avenue, Sweep one oh five, Memphis, Tennessee,
three eight one zero three. That also advertise on Facebook
and Instagram. The genre. They have a food truck you

(01:45:57):
can rent out and that can also rent out their
services for private parties. They have taco Tuesdays, that's their
biggest night. And of course on Taco Tuesdays that's when
it features karaoke. And they're open from six to ten

(01:46:21):
pm on Monday, ten to three on Wednesday. Pardon me,
sixty ten on Monday and then ten to three. Yeah,

(01:46:44):
the closed Wednesday. Her partner with sixty ten on Tuesdays
for the Taco Tuesday, I wrote the condo weird, that's
why I've lost my place. So Taco Tuesdays at six pm, yeah,
six pm to ten pm. Then Monday they're ten pm

(01:47:07):
or ten a m To three pm. Closed Wednesdays. They're
open on Saturday for brunch at eleven am to three pm,
then dinner six pm to twelve midnight.

Speaker 4 (01:47:25):
That could go to the site.

Speaker 2 (01:47:26):
As they keep you know, to keep up with new
scheduling times, so the times are subject to change, so
you always need to visit the website. Recalled and yeah,
it's pretty much it for the genre or Memphis, Tennessee.

(01:47:47):
The chamber Brothers Leonard and Bernard. Please give me join
me into given Leonard and Bernard or warm narrative podcast.
Round of applause. All right, moving right along the next business.

(01:48:17):
I'll be highlighting in the highlights section is the Nouveau
Bar and Grill and to find out more about the
Nouveau Bar and Grill, go to Nuva Bar and Grill
dot com. It was established in twenty nineteen by a
sister by the name of Ebony Austin. Ebony was born

(01:48:41):
and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She has a background in
food and hospitality. She always wanted to be in the
hospitality industry. She's also a devout follower of the Christian faith,
so she tries to inject Christian values into you know,
everything she does. Like for me, like it's a nightclub.

(01:49:06):
They serve alcohol, but okay, sorry, I've tried to keep
it seriously, they serve alcohol. Letter established it anyway. She's
a former HBCU grad of Langston University in Oklahoma. She

(01:49:29):
graduated with the BA. She nearly flunked out the stuff
to its. After graduating, she worked at the Diver Chocolates
and One eight hundred Flowers. From there, she launched her
own eatery specializing in grits and seafood. After that, she launched.

Speaker 4 (01:49:59):
New Vague Bar and Grill.

Speaker 2 (01:50:02):
Her mission statement is to build communities through food service
and meaning, meaningful giving. I guess that's the Christian value
part of it. She gives back through her own or
gives back to her own pardon me, I can't read
my handwriting. Sometimes gives back to her own through hiring

(01:50:25):
her own, offering scholar college scholarships, affordable housing workshops, and
she is currently developing a townhouse project which will afford
working class families the option to own a townhouse. Townhouse

(01:50:51):
are very you know, beautiful, but with the prect financial
planning can afford one being working class. She is also
selling her own brand of Stone Brown Bricks online now

(01:51:13):
for the Karaoke Park. Karaoke is like her biggest events,
so out of everything that she offers, it's all about
the ambiance and her most crested venue is the Karaoke
Night that happens on Friday nights. You gotta check the

(01:51:36):
menu for the food in BEV, but they offer a
brunch and that's, you know, according to the site, really fantastic.
The physical address is three seven seventy five Main Street,
College Park, Georgia. My atl family tap in is College

(01:51:56):
Park still technically the a is it is it still
is it is Cottage Park still technically to a where
is on or is is that on the outskirts of Atlanta.
So if you're from the town that you know is
Cottege Park is still technically Atlanta ZI three zero three

(01:52:24):
three seven telephone number four O four three four three
six seven eight five. Closed Monday, Tuesday through Thursday twelve
p m. Twelve in the afternoon to ten pm in

(01:52:45):
the evening. Friday from twelve and afternoon to twelve midnight Saturday.
That's Saturday, Friday and Saturday Sunday eleven a m. To
five pm for brunch and then for dinner six p

(01:53:06):
m To ten pm. And then as always, you know,
check the website, you know, for any changes in scheduling,
the time of you know, hours of operation, or you
know not setting stone and wheel chain. So you always

(01:53:28):
gotta check the website or call up there to make
sure you know you're going at the right time. And
they have two locations outside of College Park. They have
one in Jonesborough, Georgia, and then they have another one
in Dallas, Texas, So you gotta check the website to

(01:53:50):
find out, you know, the hours of operation for their.

Speaker 4 (01:53:53):
Other two locations.

Speaker 2 (01:53:57):
So without any further ado, please join me to give
me our sister Evanie Austin warn Narrative Podcast round of
applause for her karaoke bar, her bar with the Karaoke Night,
Neu Bau Bar and Grill. So it was a little

(01:54:30):
tough when I was doing my research because I was
looking for, you know, a black ed bar that was
exclusively a karaoke bar. But I couldn't really find any.
I just found clubs that have a karaoke night. But
you know, it is what it is. I guess it

(01:54:52):
worked out. You know, We're on to the next part
of the Narrative Podcast Weekend edition. This section is called
the Spotlight section, and this section what I'm doing is
I spot lighting prominent figures within our community that impact

(01:55:15):
our community in a positive way through the positive actions
and positive deeds. Formerly, when I started this section, I
used to exclusively reserve it to just entertainers and celebrities,
so I would only spotlight you know, like recording artists, actors, actresses,

(01:55:38):
comedians and such.

Speaker 4 (01:55:40):
But these days I preserve.

Speaker 2 (01:55:42):
In the spotlight in the Spotlight section on the Narrative
Podcast Weekend audition for regular people. My podcast is all about,
you know, destroying negative stereotypes about our people and our culture.
So I don't want to perpetuate the negative stereotype that
all our people know how to do what's entertained.

Speaker 4 (01:56:02):
So that's why I haven't really been spotlighting entertainers lately.

Speaker 2 (01:56:13):
Also, what this section is designed to do is designed
to promote positive reinforcement of our people and our culture.

Speaker 4 (01:56:27):
So it's designed to.

Speaker 2 (01:56:31):
Promote positive reinforcement of our people in our culture because unfortunately,
like I said, you know, at the beginning of the.

Speaker 4 (01:56:41):
Breakdown of the Narrative.

Speaker 2 (01:56:42):
Podcast, our people, we've had a major number done on
us with.

Speaker 4 (01:56:48):
This development of the media.

Speaker 2 (01:56:51):
We've been psychologically programmed in condition to engage in messing
this online. You know, we've been tricked to believing the
quickest way to the bag is to dedicate your platform
to you know, tearing down your brother and sister instead

(01:57:13):
of building them up. We also, you know, unjustly, been
made to the center and focus of all things negative
on the Internet. Like everybody on the Internet gets messy
to some capacity, everybody engages in some degree of messiness,

(01:57:36):
some degree of dysfunction on the Internet. But the only
difference between everybody else and us is we are the
most interesting people in the entire world.

Speaker 4 (01:57:50):
So you know people that run the internet, you know
that they're the.

Speaker 2 (01:57:57):
Faceless people behind the fortune one and five hundred companies
running the nation. So what sells negativity like sex cells?
Violence cells? Okay, so that's our product. And then how
do we market the product? We market the product with

(01:58:17):
a mascot you want to make? Who should we make
the mascot for degeneracy and negativity?

Speaker 4 (01:58:24):
Black people? Yeah, so we'll always.

Speaker 2 (01:58:29):
Recruit then to do our dirty work for us, and
then we can sit back and you mask a huge
profit from us spreading misinformation and miscommunication amongst their people.
Is when you think about it, you know they profit

(01:58:50):
immensely from black people going back and forth.

Speaker 4 (01:58:53):
Online in the comments or.

Speaker 2 (01:58:58):
You know, on people's pages, especially in the celebrities where
their page is modernized. So they're back and forth, going
back and forth with each other. But the downside is,
especially you know black people in entertainment industry and the
genre of hip hop, some of that back and forth

(01:59:22):
results in loss of freedom or loss of life. But
they don't care as long as they get paid. So
they're gonna keep on promoting the gossip, keep on promoting
the slander and being in the middle of the conflict,
you know, feeding misinformation that both sides that are in

(01:59:43):
I So it's a billion dollar a year industry for
our people to be at odds, whether it's on the
celebrity level or just the regular user of the internet level,
Like do you know how many people, young people within
our commune really lost their lives when the World Star

(02:00:04):
hip Hop first debut. Beefs that started online as simple
as some babies having a disagreement going back with the forth,
going back and forth with each other online ended up
in life loss, ended up in well, if that's how
you feel, then pull up and then they pull up

(02:00:26):
and you know, light like.

Speaker 4 (02:00:31):
I can name all of them.

Speaker 2 (02:00:33):
It was like, the most famous one was the Sharkina
Don't hit it no more is Sharkina. And then you
had the one Incident's incident where the bus driver punched
the young lady that was getting underruly with him on
the bus. He was probably like his last year as
a bus driver. He socked knocked her off the bus

(02:00:55):
and that went viral on World Star Hip Hop and
then just all those other videos RIPQ forty five, But
that was some toxic content and portray us in a
negative light. Tons of videos where mothers, Black mothers were

(02:01:17):
taking their daughters up to the projects to fight a
girl because of something that started online.

Speaker 4 (02:01:29):
So the Internet ain't really been.

Speaker 2 (02:01:34):
A tool for positivity for our community, because we should
be using it as a tool to you know, network
with each other, share resources, and build each other up,
not you know, pick each other apart and dismantle each other.

(02:01:56):
So not saying we're the only group of people that
engage in the negative activity and do the negative things online,
but we're the only marketable group of people to do it.
Like any other people to engage in negativity and go
back and forth on the internet, they're not publicized, it's

(02:02:17):
not well known because their demographic just isn't marketable or
won't draw an audience. Like nobody cares when two white
people disagree with each other. Nobody cares when two Asian
people disagree with each other. Although entertainment is not as
entertainment as two black people, nobody. Well. The only other

(02:02:37):
people that could actually say they might on the drama
side of it as far as toxicity is the Italian community,
because when two Italians they going in on each other,
that's must see TV. But pretty much anything when we're
at it odds on each other, it's must see TV,

(02:03:02):
Like you want to see where this is been to go,
the negativity and the drama, but every other group of people,
part of the pun is just really bland and really dry.

Speaker 4 (02:03:14):
And nobody cares.

Speaker 2 (02:03:21):
So that's why the media targets our people and you know,
popularizes our disagreements that we have with one another time
for time to time. And then they also you know,
incentivize all these other content creators to report, you know,

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on these negative confidicts and disagreements, weigh in on, even.

Speaker 4 (02:03:52):
Has specials and all that.

Speaker 2 (02:03:57):
But that's where my platform kicks in the high gear
and all that negativity takes a backseat in this section
of the Narrative podcast, just reminding of people that we
do positive things within our community and then it actually
feels good to do something impactful, something positive for our

(02:04:17):
community other than cause you know, confusion and turmoil and disarray,
using your platform to actually uplift and edify our people.

Speaker 4 (02:04:30):
So that's the nature of the spotlight section is.

Speaker 2 (02:04:33):
To give us a brief reprieve from the negative back
and forth online and to also proof that you can
use your immedia platforms, you know, for positive things and
still get a following, still earn money, and still be

(02:04:53):
quote unquote relevant to the digital age, and not for nothing.
I kind of popularized I did popularize the term spotlighting
because before I had a spotlight section to my podcast,
The Narrative Podcast, Nobody, nobody was spotlighting anybody. But after

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I add a spotlight section to my podcast pop, you know,
the term spotlighting became very very popular.

Speaker 4 (02:05:37):
Now everybody's spotlighting.

Speaker 2 (02:05:40):
Everybody has a spotlight section or says the words spotlighting,
and you can fact check and do your own diligence,
like it just wasn't as widely used until I started
using it. And you know, to like back my point up,
the Internet make the world really really small, Like you

(02:06:03):
will actually physically run into somebody based on either something
you hear or see on the Internet. Some like like
that content makes you gravitate towards people that uphold the
same ideals and values that you uphold and believe in.

(02:06:25):
That's why the Internet is split up into niches, and
depending on whatever your niche is, you're gonna gravitate towards
your niche.

Speaker 4 (02:06:35):
And it's gonna pop up in your feed. You're gonna
hear it, you want to see it.

Speaker 2 (02:06:41):
You know, during your searches, whether you're searching for something
or not searching for something, you know, depending on who
the content creator is and what the content is, you're
going to be influenced by the content. Said all that
the same, your chances of hearing your seeing content depends

(02:07:06):
on the content creators consistency. I've been consistent, consistently creating
this content ever since i started my podcast. I've never
not done an episode ever since I started. The longest

(02:07:26):
I've ever not, you know, stepped away from it was
a month. I took a month off. I was really
kind of contemplating me just stopping all together some stuff.
What's happening anyway, take about a month off. That's the
longest gap of not producing content. But you know, from

(02:07:53):
my content production, I now know who my audience is
and Ripley's believe it or not, My biggest supporters are
people in the entertainment industry that tune in on a
regular basis to listen to my content to be influenced
by what I'm producing on this platform. Because I know

(02:08:14):
they support the platform, They're silent supporters, but I know
they support and listen to it on an avid weekly
basis because they incorporate my content into their content, not
just what I'm saying, but how I say. They incorporate
my speech pattern into their content as well, So you know,

(02:08:37):
it is what it is. Like I influence like famous
celebrities within our community. They check out my podcast on
a like every time my debut. While they I don't
just get an open endorsement, say you mess with me,
just open me like I love the they're theive podcast
hosts about hallsy Holly.

Speaker 4 (02:08:58):
I don't know, but it's a parent. They're following me.

Speaker 2 (02:09:02):
It's a parent they're listening to me. I guess the
term is trolling, but I don't take that as a
negative thing. You're controlling you're listening to it.

Speaker 4 (02:09:16):
I'm impacting your world.

Speaker 2 (02:09:20):
So if I'm impacting your world, I'm doing something good
because all my content is all positive. Ain't none of
my content negatives. So if I'm impacting celebrities lives to
the point they're listening to me on a regular basis
incorporating my content in their content, you know, I'm definitely

(02:09:41):
doing my part for the cause and that's the whole
nature of my podcast. So, as the old saying goes,
imitation is the best form of flattery. So to hear
so many people at that high of a level, you know,
following my the spotlighting, then.

Speaker 6 (02:10:04):
You know.

Speaker 4 (02:10:07):
I'm serving the purpose.

Speaker 3 (02:10:18):
Now the narrative without the narrative, gast the narrative and whatever,
good had a guy.

Speaker 2 (02:10:31):
In a real way. So without any further ado, now
that you have a pretty good grasp on with the
spotlight session, intels, I'll be spotlighting today's spotlight recipients today.
The spotlight goes to as sister by the name of

(02:10:55):
Gina Clayton Johnson. Gina is equal justice advocate, former attorney, feminists,
and founder of a nonprofit organization called sy Justice Group.

Speaker 4 (02:11:12):
She's an undergrad of.

Speaker 2 (02:11:13):
The University of Southern California. She became a youth organizer
for the NACCP addressing policies, voter registrations and state laws.
She got involved heavily into justice advocacy when somebody she
was involved or seeing at the time got sentence unfairly.

Speaker 4 (02:11:40):
And that's kind of what sparked her activism within.

Speaker 2 (02:11:44):
Herself to want to, you know, do her part to
make sure people receive fair justice or as fair as possible.
She also within her career she gets served as an

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attorney in UH Harlem, New York. She specialized in tenant
land board disputes and ended up forming a another nonprofit
organization called Neighborhood Defending. This was, you know, a nonprofit

(02:12:28):
organization that helped to provide resources for UH landlord attendant
disputes and prevent people from getting unjustly evicted or you know,
essentially the fact back against slumberers. She also holds a

(02:12:52):
BA in American Studies and minored in the education at
the University of Southern cal.

Speaker 4 (02:13:00):
And then also has your jd. Law from Harvard.

Speaker 2 (02:13:07):
Oh yeah, and then she was also born and raised
in LA. If you want to know more about her
nonprofit group, but they're doing what they're specializing, you can
check them out se Justice Group dot org. You can
participate in it. You don't donate it, donate you your money,
time for volunteer. They're always looking for volunteers.

Speaker 4 (02:13:34):
Check it out.

Speaker 2 (02:13:35):
So she is today's spotlight recipient on the Spotlight section
of the Dry podcast. And then another put tidbit about
the spotlight section. I also alternate genders. So one week
I do a male, one week I'll do a female.
I just don't do a male and a female money section,

(02:13:56):
because again trying to make it brief until the point
is possible. If I do it a male and a female,
that will definitely make the podcast fer this y alternate. Yeah,
and it also keeps it there. So I'm just not,
you know, highlighting one gender all times anyway, without any

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further adode, He's joined it to them with our sister
Gina Clayton Johnson one narrative podcast round Up the Bass
for all her justice advocacy in forming the group that's
a justice group. All right, moving right, mom, The next

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section here onto their podcast week in addition as a
section dedicated to health and wellness. As a matter of fact,
it's called the health and Wellness section. You know, what
I'm speaking about is of course health and wellness, total
body health and wellness for my demographic black people or

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as I refer to our people on this platform, original people.
Everything you wipe need to enhance one's lives and help
lead our happy, healthy, prosperous life. So why is you know,
a health and wellness section even the thing? Why would

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you incorporate that into your podcast. Well, unfortunately, you know,
I have to talk about health and wellness because our
health and wellness as a people is adversely affected and
definitely we are always at risk for you know, being

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physically ill or psychologically ill. And that's not again by accident.
This is part of the agenda to get rid of us.
They're attacking our people, the similars and a similarness out
and attacking us because they want to destroy all of this.

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So we're being attacked mentally, physically, and spiritually. So that's
the nature of the health and wellness section of the
Narrative podcast is to give health and wellness tips to
my people, original people how to fortify them selves in
all the areas that we are being attacked. We're being

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attacked mentally, physically, and spiritually. We're also being attacked financially.
But I don't give financial financial tips in the section
because I believe health is wealth.

Speaker 4 (02:16:59):
But you know that's the tips I give in the
health and wealder sections.

Speaker 2 (02:17:05):
So for example, on the you know, physical side of
the way we're being attacked, I usually do give like
the health example, or the health benefits of some type
of food. You can apply topically or eat in jest,

(02:17:26):
or eat to improve your physical health, or some type
of physical exercise you can perform to stay physically fit,
to improve the physical health and well being. On the
mental side of it, we'll be intact mentally, so to

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change your thought process to strengthen you know, your brain,
because it all starts in the mind and total body health,
the wellness, you know, starts in your mind. And this
is why they call many illnesses gets easies, get sick

(02:18:14):
when your mind is at this eases right. So we're
definitely being attacked mentally via the media.

Speaker 4 (02:18:28):
You know, We're constantly.

Speaker 2 (02:18:32):
Being subjected, subjected to this onslaught of negativity in all
forms of media, not just the news, not just you know,
television and movies, all forms of media, especially those of
us living.

Speaker 4 (02:18:49):
In the United States.

Speaker 2 (02:18:50):
As a matter of fact, the United States culture is
one big black trump and removed black trumps of American culture.
You don't have American culture. Your whole culture revolves around
making fun of black people. So yeah, you can imagine

(02:19:17):
what that does to the black people that lives here.
Everywhere they look turn to the left of them or
right of them, and see in homage to the time
period where it was okay to demonbrate us, to make
us feel bad about ourselves, to ostracize us, to manipulate

(02:19:41):
and play these little mind games with us. So this
is why mental health and wellness and mental clarity is
really important in our community. So you have to stay
in strong mind in order to stay in strong body.
Not give heal health and wellness tips on here to

(02:20:02):
teach you how to stay in strong mind, how to
stay mentally strong exercises, and you know other mental exercises
you can do to stay in perfect mental fitness, mental
well being, and spiritually attacked. No matter what you know,

(02:20:26):
spiritual practice and practice, or God you believe in, you
can all come into experience. There are dark forces and
dark entities amongst us, and there are people that know
how to tack entities and projecting, you know, so when
you know how to guard yourself against the spiritual attack,

(02:20:51):
and I do, and I teach you that on here
and tips and techniques. So yeah, that's what the Health
and Golding section of the their podcast it's all about,
you know, just fortify ourselves in all the areas that

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my people are being attacked or literally putting things in
our air and our food again in the media for
our minds. I sonic tones and the things we listen
to you will affect our minds and our mental stake,

(02:21:39):
you know, launching spiritual attacks. That's you know, pretty much
why I dedicated this section too, especially this section of
my people. Like anybody from any walk of life is
more than welcome to listen to my content, but it's

(02:22:02):
you know, it's really directed at towards my people because
you know, we are the.

Speaker 4 (02:22:11):
We're the subject of all attack.

Speaker 2 (02:22:13):
You know, that's where all the attacks is focused on
by our people represent the biggest threat to dominant society,
and they're trying to get rid of us by giving needs,
especially those of us living in the United States of America,
especially those of us who are foundation of Black Americans.
They're really, we're really, really a threat to your way

(02:22:37):
of life. We're trying to eradicate us. So, yeah, that's
essentially what the help and Wellness section is all about.
I think religion has done a horrible job that, you know,

(02:23:02):
making people delusion.

Speaker 4 (02:23:05):
So you're justifying your belief in God, the.

Speaker 2 (02:23:10):
One God, you know, particularly in the Christian faith, by saying, well,
God created us in his image and we're all you know,
we're all brothers and sisteries. But it saying that, But
then there's so many different perceptions and iterations of God

(02:23:30):
and how God is celebrated and talked, you know, it's
all different. There's different denominations of Christianities and the berries
through culture, you know, and upbringing. So like, for example,

(02:23:54):
you got Christian and Baptists, right, Pistolphalian that's just in
the Christian Babe, you got a pistol Falian, Catholic, you know,
Mormon and so on and so forth, that's in the

(02:24:19):
Christians spate. And then you got all these different types
of Muslims. You got soon, you got Shii, you got
uh you know, the list goes on. Everybody practice is
Slam all over the world. Then judy Ism, you know,

(02:24:41):
you got the Orthodoxy j Then you got the different
types of you. You got the Uh considered you, the
Ojakhanagi Russian, and the list goes on.

Speaker 4 (02:24:57):
So like, all these.

Speaker 2 (02:24:58):
Different perceptions ideologies are all culturally different. But yet they
want us to believe it's all one God and we're
all one brother. Than how come you know, religious wars
are the biggest warst part in the world, and how
come everybody just doesn't worship and acknowledge the God in

(02:25:20):
the same way. And it varies culture to culture, you know,
breaking it down on the race thing.

Speaker 4 (02:25:28):
Go to the service at.

Speaker 2 (02:25:30):
A black church, does it matter with denomination? And then
go to a service with the White church and then
sit there with a straight face and say, we're all
creative Guy's.

Speaker 4 (02:25:41):
Image, and we're all brothers and sisters. I dare.

Speaker 2 (02:25:49):
And so while we are all brothers and sisters even
in family, are you the exact same as your biological
brother and sister. No, we all have different, unique genetic makeups.
We all have things that will sustain us culturally. So

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the things that sustain me culturally will harm you culturally.
I can't consume the same things you eat on an
everyday basis and expect to function at a normal level.
I can't watch the things that you watch and absorb

(02:26:32):
your culture and then be okay, and then vice versa.
Can't act like me meet the foods I eat and
things that help my people, and you know, you be
all right. And that's just the way it is. We're
all different varieties despice of life. We're different. We must
acknowledge our differences. We live our separate lives, but acknowledge

(02:26:58):
our differences and respect our difference. But we are different,
and to be honest, you know, that's how you preserve life,
is to be honest, you know. And when people who
suffer from drug addiction, of the first thing that they

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tell the substance abuser is that you must first acknowledge
that you have a problem on your road and recovery.
And that's you know, every religious junkies problem. They can
never acknowledge that we're all different. They want to use

(02:27:41):
the scripture verse to try to justify, you know, something
taken way out of context to make their point. But
we're all different, and it's okay, It's really okay. We're
all different. You need different things to survive. It don't
mean because I'm different from you that I hate you.

(02:28:03):
It just means I'm different from you, and I prefer
to be in this atmosphere that is more conducive to
me and my lifestyle than be in your environment all
the time, to be.

Speaker 4 (02:28:16):
Around you and hurt myself mentally and physical. So that's
all that is.

Speaker 2 (02:28:22):
It is especially true in this section here on the
Narrative podcast so now that you've got it, you know,
we don't hate anybody on this platform. We don't think
we're superior see anybody on this platform. We're just catering
and loving our own people. Catering to and loving our

(02:28:43):
own people. No disrespect, no intolerance or indifference to anybody else.
But that's my means, that's my focal point. But it's
especially true in this section in the Health the World
in section here on the Marrative podcast, maybe further ado,
we're going to get into today's health and wellness tick.

(02:29:05):
So today's health and wellness, Dick is on the mental
side of it. So, like you know, we're focusing on
the mind. It's actually a kind of PSA. Actually we're

(02:29:26):
going to be talking very very briefly about the dangers
of stored emotions in the human body. So our bodies
are like computers, a store and process information. And the
information is biological, and we store and process it and

(02:29:52):
deliver it apporting you like our.

Speaker 4 (02:29:55):
Minds is to see you.

Speaker 2 (02:29:58):
You know the same thing it sends messages in the computer.
That's essentially how the human body works. The mind since
all these signals, you know, the brain, since all these
electronical impulses and synapses all through the body and magnifies

(02:30:20):
and amplifies thought ways.

Speaker 4 (02:30:23):
And sometimes.

Speaker 2 (02:30:27):
Especially a well trained, a well disciplined mind can project
these thought waves from outside of the body, you know,
in and around it, magnify, amplified the thought ways.

Speaker 4 (02:30:47):
But it's a downside to everything.

Speaker 6 (02:30:52):
You know.

Speaker 4 (02:30:53):
You're going to talk about.

Speaker 2 (02:30:56):
The dangers of stored emotions. When your body stores emotions,
usually when you're storing anger, it will you know, accumulate

(02:31:16):
in the chest area. This is your hypertension, this is
your high blood pressure that's in the heart. When we
get our feelings hurt, that's the first thing we do.
We grab our chest, even though our heart isn't in
the middle of our chest. You hurt me to my

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heart with dad, you know, a breakup, They broke my heart.
But we grab our chest because that's where the emotions
is at. In the chest, your body stores up negative emotions.
Disgust when you're absolutely disgusted with something disgusting in your

(02:32:03):
nasal cavity distinct. Also another place where we store disgust
is in the mouth, also chest, anxiety and chest in
your gut, and then fatigue we store it in our joints.

(02:32:27):
When we're just weary, when we don't know, we don't
have an answer, we can't process or deal with something.
It's often stored in.

Speaker 4 (02:32:36):
Our hip, flexers, our back, our joints.

Speaker 2 (02:32:43):
So your mind is a big, pleasant, very big role
into your overall health. So while exercising and diet is
a great way to still healthy, you must also continuously

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condition your mind to be healthy and to create healthy
habits to keep your mind running on off cylinders and
being in an environment that is conducive to your mental health.

Speaker 4 (02:33:24):
Nowadays, living in this modern age.

Speaker 2 (02:33:27):
If you're working a nine to five job, you can
put that nine to five job and then still draw
you know, financial compensation. If you can build a strong
case say why did you quit? It wasn't conducive to

(02:33:51):
my mental health. They provided a toxic work environment. If
you can prove that in the court of law, you
would get paid to file for unemployment. That's how strong
and important your mind is. This is how we sent you.

Speaker 5 (02:34:12):
It is.

Speaker 2 (02:34:13):
And then I know when you're listening to all this well,
hausey like, that's beneficial for that's beneficial knowledge and information
for everybody.

Speaker 4 (02:34:23):
How does this especially affect.

Speaker 2 (02:34:25):
Just your people. Well, I'm glad you asked me that,
because just my people are being targeted, and how do
they target us? The easiest way they target us is
to manipulate our minds, target.

Speaker 4 (02:34:43):
Us through the media.

Speaker 2 (02:34:45):
Bombardists with negativity, amplify and project negative thought waves onto
our people, especially those of us living in the United
States of America. We're all being mentally and psychologically attacked.
So that's why it's thing in good mental health is

(02:35:08):
especially important for our people. So you want to try
to uh some steps you can take to repel to

(02:35:29):
get rid of negative storage emotions within your body. You
can do exercise, anything that promotes cardio vascular health, especially
things that make you sweat.

Speaker 4 (02:35:47):
You want to do a lot of that.

Speaker 2 (02:35:49):
Get those toxins out of your body that's stored through
those negative emotions that haven't come out yet. That's on
the physical side. What you can do how to get
all the old story emotions out of the swimming, bike, riding, yoga,

(02:36:13):
that's a real good way because yoga.

Speaker 4 (02:36:15):
Is like you know, that's on the mental side of the.

Speaker 2 (02:36:25):
And breathing, and so it's like cleansing yourselves and then
you're also gaining Claire Boyants through the poses insights. Some
people say they even get like future visions like that
show the Raven Simms in.

Speaker 4 (02:36:43):
That's a raven.

Speaker 2 (02:36:44):
Get the little they get that level of Claire Bryants
doing exercises. They can see something coming before it guns opening.
I guess what's fared the third eye. But you know,
I ain't for breathing exercises, your dillag and slow find
mindful breathing exercises, displenses and purges. You know, your thought waves,

(02:37:13):
your thought your thought waves the the path that you're
neural transmitters takes to escape the brain. So your neurological
thought wave pattern, the way it travels through your body.

Speaker 4 (02:37:32):
You need to, you know, research that. And everybody's just different.

Speaker 2 (02:37:38):
So you gotta find I figure out the way you
individually process information, how you store it.

Speaker 4 (02:37:46):
So you're gonna have to probably go online and take
a learning test.

Speaker 2 (02:37:50):
You can find them anywhere to see how you process
and perceive things, how you take your information, What type
of learner you are?

Speaker 4 (02:38:00):
Different types. There's like a kink aesthetic learn there.

Speaker 2 (02:38:03):
And there was a I forget all the different names
of the types, but find out what type of learner
you are, how you you know, proceed information and then
from there build your first line of mental agstans. You
gotta learn how your brain operates to keep your mind

(02:38:25):
in clarity, full clarity, to release all these negative emotions,
store it up in your brain, I mean stored up
in your body, partner, because that's what we're trying to do.

Speaker 4 (02:38:38):
We're trying to purage all these negative emotions of body.

Speaker 2 (02:38:42):
It's just lay endorment in your body causing all these problems,
causing this information, causing this discomfort, and this this ease
you see. So another good exercise, I said it. I

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think a few weeks to go a good old fashioned cry.
It's a nice little quiet area. Most men they cry
break down in the showers, believe it or not, because
you don't hear them. The water's running. That's where they
get it out. In society, won't let a man show

(02:39:27):
their vulnerability, especially a black man in public? USAFT you're punk,
you would the JJ, I said the JJ, But they
really say the people where you will you know, start
crying or show your vulnerable in any capacity.

Speaker 4 (02:39:56):
So there's that.

Speaker 2 (02:39:58):
Mindful breathing, take inventory on your emotions, just you know,
a little tablet because sometimes when things happen, you're not
sure how to process and I don't know how to
feel about that.

Speaker 4 (02:40:13):
Let me take a little note and look at that
later and decide how.

Speaker 2 (02:40:19):
I feel about that particular incident, whatever happened. And there
are so many things that affect your mental well being
and it can change rapidly and without warning. And it

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also your mental state again is affected by the people
that you hang around, the conversations that you have, the
rooms and spaces that you enter all play a fact
factor into your mental well being.

Speaker 4 (02:40:56):
So you gotta be careful and guard against your own.

Speaker 2 (02:40:58):
Mental space to well being. Because people, as old saying,
who make you sick, some people really do make you sick.
So you just gotta be really, really conscientious and find

(02:41:21):
out how your brain works and how you process data information,
and be you know, conscientious on identifying your emotions. What
triggers your emotions. You gotta write down what triggers your angry,
what makes you mad, what makes you sad? You know,

(02:41:43):
what makes you depressed, what has you you know, makes
you feel thoughtful, make you go deep in the thought,
what triggers you, what triggers your anxiety? So that's where

(02:42:06):
I'm gonna stick a pin in it. So today we
reiterate was the dangers of having tracked emotions in the
human body. All right, moving right along to the next
section of the narrative podcast week the additioned this is

(02:42:29):
called my speaking point section. In this section, what I'm
talking about its current events, just to reiterate whatever's going
on in the news, whatever's going on in.

Speaker 4 (02:42:40):
Our culture, black culture.

Speaker 2 (02:42:42):
Or original people culture on the internet, retaining to about us,
how we directly perceive it, how it directly relates to it,
or how it could potentially indirectly impact this or have
some type of you know, impact on us on our

(02:43:04):
community indirectly, so however it goes, I'm just breaking down
news as a podcast or how you know, we see
through our eyes. And the purpose of me doing that is,
you know, to control the narrative because that they have
us looking and sound and crazy.

Speaker 1 (02:43:21):
And then.

Speaker 2 (02:43:23):
You know, so just me speaking about whatever's going on
media from our perspective. But sometimes everyone's in the blue moon.

(02:43:44):
I won't have anything that I feel is like pointing
and relevant in the news worth discussing.

Speaker 4 (02:43:50):
And then those times what I do instead of just
not doing the section.

Speaker 2 (02:43:57):
Is I replace it with a PSA and my PSAs
and involved just a personal observation, something I'm personally observing
about our people, something that we should strive to work
on as a people. And when I say we, I
mean me too. And in many cases it's meat especially,

(02:44:20):
But yeah, that's essentially what my speaking points section is
all about. It's just whatever's going on in the news
from our perspective. And I actually do have a news
related article. It's not really viral per se. It's only
viral within our community. It's not like, you know, super

(02:44:43):
duper important and like I got a whole bunch of
urgency behind it, but everybody got an opinion and a
mixed review and some feedback to interject on what happened.
It's about, you know, it's reacting to a video clip
that somebody from our community who's at the famous level

(02:45:06):
or celebrity status level, made talking about speaking his opinion.

Speaker 4 (02:45:13):
He were his opinion.

Speaker 2 (02:45:15):
About, you know, the state of America under the Trump
administration and what that could potentially mean for our people,
specifically black Americans. And we're gonna jump dive right on

(02:45:39):
into you know, the news article. I just there ain't
no way to tip toe around it, so we're just
gonna get right to it. This involves a recent post
made by iconic veteran comedian, actor slash radio hosts Ricky Smiley.

(02:46:07):
He voiced his concerns about the Trump administration. What's happening,
you know in these ice rays and.

Speaker 3 (02:46:18):
You know the.

Speaker 2 (02:46:20):
You know, how the country has gone downhill since Donald
Trump has been in you know, office, and you know,
he's just airing out his opinions what he feels, and
he's getting a whole lot of backlash within the community

(02:46:41):
political you know backlash like like, you know, we got
Republicans in our community, but you know, even the Democrats
has given him backlash as well. For his post about
it wasn't so much what he was saying, but how

(02:47:03):
he was saying it, the tone that he was saying
in he was coming from a space of fear. And
you know, everybody had got their opinion. Everybody's entitled to
their opinion. He got his opinion. You know what I'm saying,
That's how he feels, That's how he's calling it. In

(02:47:25):
his gut, he feels like, you know, the country's going
to crack, and you know, he feels it's going to
get worse bad for our people, so bad that we
may in the back on the plantation in shackles and
chains and going or like they're doing our Latin brothers

(02:47:47):
and sisters, putting them in concentration camps and doing whatever.
And you know that's his opinion again, key word opinion.
It's not a fact. How he feels his state and
how he feels and how he perceives what's going on
here in America. And you know, he been getting the

(02:48:09):
business online, you know, from the black community, from our community,
and unfortunately, I think Ricky Harris, Ricky Smiley is a
pretty alright comedian, Like he's one of my favorites, Like,
you know, even after you know, Kat Williams went in

(02:48:31):
on him on Shay Sheha, you know, said what he
said about him. I always kind of like Ricky Smiley
was all right, I love this little my landlove Darryl Skitz.
And you know, I can't relate to all his comedy
because most of it was centers around him being in

(02:48:53):
a fraternity and I can't get jiggy with that.

Speaker 4 (02:48:58):
I didn't did that far, Kylie.

Speaker 2 (02:49:02):
I don't not know brothers and sisters that ever pledged,
you know, went to traditional four year colleges and pledged.
So I actually get the significance of pledging because you know,
people say, well, how the hell you want to be
a black Greek when it's reality, the people that was

(02:49:23):
in them sororities that created those fraternities and fraternities and
sororities that were black had the ancestral knowledge that the
Greeks stole from our culture. That was our way of
reclaiming our identity, wearing the Greek letters.

Speaker 4 (02:49:42):
That was something we originated in the first place.

Speaker 2 (02:49:45):
So don't ever judge harshly judge you know, people that
pledge and think they're out of the loop as far
as like being conscious, because they're probably more conscious than
you give them it for. And you realize because you know,
the whole Greek culture stole from our culture. They went

(02:50:08):
to h and Chemmick and studied in our libraries. So
you know, black fraternity culture is an omage to that
them having the knowledge that the Greek, the Greeks stole
our culture. So you know, that's a good way to

(02:50:31):
look at it. But I just can't particularly relate to
that brand of comedy where he's been galing his tales
of being a cat dog or whatever whatever. However, though
I don't know, I don't keep up with the fraternities
and all that. I just watched him do the steps.
You know, I got relatives and family, I got relatives

(02:50:54):
and friends that were replaced that stuff.

Speaker 4 (02:50:58):
It just stops at the step shows, like you know,
it is what it is.

Speaker 2 (02:51:10):
But yeah, so I'm not gonna just say all everything
you were saying parbatim, but it was it was coming
from a place of fear, and you know, pretty pretty
much people was giving them the business online for sound

(02:51:33):
and scary, and I gotta like kind of agree. I
usually have the opposing view on situations like that, but
I gotta go along with the I gotta go along
with the consensus.

Speaker 4 (02:51:49):
I gotta go along with the majority on this one
of these, like.

Speaker 2 (02:51:55):
Just being you know, excessively fearful for no reason. So,
first of all, I don't believe in politics period. I
believe that they are all devils, the Republican Party, the
Democratic Party, the Independent Party, and even the so called

(02:52:19):
grassroots party that they started as supposed to be exclusively
for us, like that's our choice, for our community. They're
all devils, they're all liars, they all harbor anti black agendas.
They're never going to you know, have our people in

(02:52:43):
mind as far as this country goes, as far as
this corporation goes, like it ain't even no country. It's
a corporation. And there's so much knowledge out there to
prove that this is a corporation. And when you start
thinking with the shrewd business mind, you excel further in

(02:53:05):
the corporation and get your raise that you're do aka
or ie the reparations. When we shed our feelings, get
out of our emotions and start thinking like shrewd businessmen
and business women and learning how to negotiate the deal,

(02:53:30):
then we'll get what we want as a people when
we be operating out of emotion, out of these you know,
off this election, because first of all, we get so
caught up, like if you paid attention in government class,
all the promises you the president people are running further

(02:53:53):
offices is things they can't deliver because they can't do
those things as prey. It says the function like you
can google it right now. You can go to chat GPT,
google it and read out loud what is the functions
of the United States, and then they tell you what
they can and cannot do.

Speaker 4 (02:54:15):
And the only things that they can do, really, all
they got is the.

Speaker 2 (02:54:20):
You know, the push war and the file executive orders,
and the House and the Senate it they can block
the executive orders. So while we mad, why are we mad?
Why we be spending so many times blaming presidents for
something we can control. It literally says in the preambles

(02:54:41):
of the Constitution. It starts off, we the people, not
we the president, not we the governor, not we the Senate.
It says, we the people. So every bad thing in
America that happens is because we the people can't get

(02:55:04):
on one accord as the people in govern and rule
over ourselves. As it says in that damn piece of paper,
were sitting up over here fighting and debating on politics.

(02:55:31):
But anyway, pardon me, I'm on my mace today. You
got me munching on some populark. Yeah, he's just really
coming from a place of being fearful and looking at

(02:55:53):
that situation that can't happen to us. It can't happen
to us because you know, number one, there's never been
a time period in history where our people wasn't targeted
in the United States. So that's one reason why it
can't happen, because you know, they've never not come for us.

Speaker 4 (02:56:17):
Two.

Speaker 2 (02:56:19):
About eighty percent not AGA would say about seventy five
percent of the military, the Armed Forces, special forces units,
they're black. So you think if they put out the
order to across all black people in the United States,

(02:56:41):
start importing black people, you think they're really going to
just stand.

Speaker 4 (02:56:46):
In formation and listen to orders.

Speaker 2 (02:56:48):
And they're black. Hello, they're black too. I know there's
a few Sambo Negroes in the military, but the majority,
you're not going to just sit up there and follow
those type of orders. Stupid I'm not calling him stupid,

(02:57:09):
but like, no, it's just it's not gonna happen, and
not running us out of the United States, to not
be porting us out of the states the United States.
And then the other factor is we just we're two
down tired. Now we're at the state as a people
where we wish they would, we wish they would were

(02:57:34):
looking for a reason to pop off.

Speaker 4 (02:57:36):
You see how we do each other. You see how
we do each.

Speaker 2 (02:57:39):
Other, how like callously and brutally we underlive each other.
We do it for nothing, for no reason. So all
we ever been looking for as a people is a reason.

Speaker 1 (02:57:58):
We all.

Speaker 2 (02:57:58):
That's all we want, That's our reason. We wish they would.
We wish they would. We wish they would. Got black
people working everywhere, got black people working in the ir rest,

(02:58:20):
we got black people working all forms branches of government,
in the military. We wish the hell they would. And
they know better. That's why they did it yet because
they know better. But the Trump administration actually is a

(02:58:58):
really good thing because for it's finally opening black people's eyes.
If you see somebody like Candice Owen's out of all people,
finally waking up smelling the Java, I personally think she
was capping the whole time anyway, but finally getting into
us space where she can be open to honest, what

(02:59:23):
do you think's gonna happen? Like they're not.

Speaker 4 (02:59:26):
Finna do nothing to us, bro. And I know he
done went through a lot, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (02:59:33):
And I lost a loved one and I don't know
where he's at mentally, but he just he overly worried
about nothing. The thing I hate about this administration they
keep on trying to rile us up as a people.
They try to get us. They're always trying to get

(02:59:55):
us to worry about things that don't directly concern us.
They try to get recruit us to worry about things
that don't benefit us or to directly concern us in
in the leagues, to try to get us, you know, involved,
and want to use our voices for the ice protests.

(03:00:19):
They wanted to try to get us when they was
doing the when they dropped the DEI, they're like, oh yeah,
we gotta revok, we gotta, we gotta we ain't got
to do nothing.

Speaker 4 (03:00:30):
We ain't gotta do nothing.

Speaker 2 (03:00:31):
But mind our own business. That every all these other
groups that offended about something and you know, in their
feelings about this administration, Welcome to our world. This is
what we feel like every single day. So the things
y'all call y'allself mad at in a set this in

(03:00:54):
our lives. Every single administration since you know, we ever
had a government, we've never gotten what we wanted. So
welcome to our world. You think we about to get
mad and get out of character and use our platforms
and talk about things that don't concern or directly relate

(03:01:17):
to us, No, Nah, we're chilling, we chilling, were chilling,
be we chilling, not doing nothing, YO. The only thing

(03:01:40):
we're concerned is running that bag for reparations and running
that bag to the blacks that deserve the reparation foundationally
American blacks. That's all we worried about misadministration.

Speaker 4 (03:01:55):
What do we get?

Speaker 2 (03:01:57):
Where's our slice of the pot? All that other stuff
y'all talking about it, just all that other stuff. We
don't care about nothing else. We're not going to care
about nothing else. We can't make us care about anything else.
We're not gonna be fearful.

Speaker 5 (03:02:12):
We're not going to be angry, we're not going to
be upset, we're not going to be said, going to
be conducting and living our lives comfortably like we've been
doing since our ancestors.

Speaker 4 (03:02:25):
We're enslaved on this continent.

Speaker 2 (03:02:30):
So we're trying to recruit us to be upset over
book crap that don't got nothing to do with us,
because we don't care. Y'all didn't care about us. We
don't care about y'all. Sorry, you're not going to roll
us up in this administration. The only way we're going
to get riled up is if y'all go there and

(03:02:52):
try to mess with us, And like I said, we
wish y'all would y'all done ran our last damn nerd
with your for that was our last nerve, that was
the last straw. That was literally the straw that broke
the camel's back when we saw how that played out
in front of all our eyes. So if you ever
want to relive that ever again, try us again, and

(03:03:15):
it'd be a million times worse. I promise you that
I don't advocate violence. I just tell the truth. Black
people in this country are overly done. We're done. We
have nothing else to lose. Try us, So that's what

(03:04:02):
we're doing. We're chilling, We're not getting upset, not marching
ba demonstrating. I mean, for those there's a few of
us still on that marching and demonstrating and boycotting tip
if you want to keep on continuing and doing that,
God bless your heart. But the majority of us, we're done.

(03:04:22):
We want to take actionable steps to move us along
and progress us further in the process. We don't want
to go to know, damn, what do you call it?
All right? I I'm so flestered right now. We wish

(03:04:43):
they would mess with us. We don't want to go
and listen be in a room with should have, could
have would. We want actionable results. We want a network
with people that's actually doing something, actually producing results. We
don't we need a soapbox. We don't need you know,

(03:05:04):
flowery sounding good in theory. We need reality. We need
stuff that's actually working. We pushing the line with people
that's actually doing something out that actually got their boots
in the soil, actually got the organizations and the resources

(03:05:26):
to implement things. We ain't got no time to be
wasting on being fearful. We done being fearful. We wish
they would, We wish they would. So I don't know
why they want to keep on trying to invoke our
raft while they keep on just poking the bear as

(03:05:48):
they couldn't handle it the first time. They got all
scared when we showed them that side of us, But
they keep on trying to push our buttons. So you know, unfortunately,

(03:06:14):
I'm gonna land by plane all the pushback and backlash
our brother Ricky Smiley is getting online. It's all warranty,
like he took a fearful stance over something that ain't
even really all that serious for our people, because like,

(03:06:34):
when have you ever been on the absolute winning side
of it? We haven't been on the winning side of
it since we owned our own neighborhoods, our own businesses,
before we integrated in the white society. We ain't been
on the winning side of it since. So I don't
even know. You know, he got some unwarninged fears whatever

(03:06:57):
he's psychologically going through. I hope you got the dispensable
income to get therapy for that. But brother, Ricky, you bugging, you,
bugging brother, But talking about leaving the country and all that,
it ain't even all that deep, honey, ain't even all
that deep. Homy literally making a mountain out of Mohill.

(03:07:35):
So that's my speaking point of the day. That's where
I'm laying on my plane. And now we're gonna wrap
this thing up with the final.

Speaker 4 (03:07:46):
Section of the Nearer the podcast. This section is called.

Speaker 2 (03:07:54):
My Wise Word of the Day. My Wise word of
the Day is just a philosophical sentiment, a gym, a jewel,
a pearl, wisdom, whatever you want to call it, just
something designed to help you think, critically, expand your thoughts,

(03:08:19):
and ponder the simple complexities of this thing we call life.
So I kind of already hinted at it in the
speaking point, but I'm gonna bring it all the way
home with my wise word of the day.

Speaker 4 (03:08:40):
Today's wise Word of the day is fear.

Speaker 2 (03:08:50):
The Dictionary defines fear as an unpleasant, often strong emotion
caused by anticipation or awareness of dagger.

Speaker 4 (03:09:04):
One an instance.

Speaker 2 (03:09:08):
This emotion to a stake marked by this emotion anxious concerns.
So so listen to profound reference and awe, especially towards God,

(03:09:37):
to be afraid frightened. So you know, fear is you know, ominous,
fear is scary, but fear is necessary. You know, all

(03:10:00):
emotions are necessary. But I kind of think people underestimates.

Speaker 4 (03:10:08):
The power of fear. There's been stories.

Speaker 2 (03:10:13):
Where a mother has become so strong in the traumatic
incidents where her child was in danger that she took
on like superhuman strength to save the child and flipped

(03:10:36):
over cars.

Speaker 4 (03:10:38):
You know, nobody knows where you got the strength to
do that.

Speaker 2 (03:10:44):
Child pinned under a car to MoMA raised up a
car to get her baby out without the jaws of life.

Speaker 4 (03:10:51):
Your big instances of that's.

Speaker 2 (03:10:55):
Fathers walking into a burning building to get they babies
offer that adrenaline off their fear that they might lose
they baby, and coming out without one single burn, not
even sports. The only thing burning is they close because

(03:11:17):
that fear of losing their baby kept them going. And
sometimes you need fear instill in you to bring about
greatness within you.

Speaker 4 (03:11:31):
So there's good fear and there's bad fear.

Speaker 2 (03:11:37):
But I think we have the two fears mixed up
because some believe it's the fear of failure that hinders people.
People get scared, so scared to fail, so afraid that
people will laugh at them or not think their idea
is a good idea, that they won't pres do it.

(03:12:00):
But in reality, a bigger fear than that is the
fear of success. We're too afraid to succeed. We'll sabotage
ourselves because we sit up there in plots in our minds,
scenarios that haven't even happened yet, and say, well, if

(03:12:23):
I do this, then I have to do that, and
then I gotta do this, and I gotta get that
I just won't do it at all. You see, on
a subconscious level, sabotaging ourselves, being fearful of succeeding.

Speaker 4 (03:12:41):
But we actually.

Speaker 2 (03:12:43):
Fearful. We're afraid to succeed, and our failure, or a
fear of success outweighs our fear of failure. We become
so afraid to be this success that we have deeply

(03:13:04):
wounded inside of us. There's a God in all of this,
especially our people, and we deprive it the nutrients.

Speaker 4 (03:13:17):
To get it to come out.

Speaker 2 (03:13:20):
Because we're so afraid to embrace our destiny. We all
got destiny, we all here for a greater purpose, but
we too fearful to take our destiny head on. A
lot of us die without ever fulfilling our destiny because

(03:13:43):
we were too fearful to go out and claim it,
were too fearful.

Speaker 4 (03:13:54):
To proclaim it like it's already happened.

Speaker 2 (03:13:59):
Is here. You know all the resources there to do it,
but you talk yourself out of it because you don't
want to get all do all the extra steps to
go with it. You don't want to sacrifice you know
what's weighing you down. You don't want to throw away
the thing that's weighing you down, because that's comfortable to

(03:14:22):
hold that rather than two to grab your halo, you see,
to elevate, ind that God that you are because you're
letting fear supersede or you know, render you powerless. You're

(03:14:44):
letting that fear sabotage our career. There's artists, there's established
artists right now. It won't write that song or perform
with an artist, another artist who they've been admiring a
long time because they're so afraid that their audience won't

(03:15:06):
get it, and then they won't be able to, you know,
make new music because people can't get over how bad
that flop because they work with that artist, and so
they won't do it. Or in the acting community, you know,

(03:15:26):
actor or actress, they've always wanted to try this, but
they want to play it safe and not offend their audience,
so they won't take that role. Then when they get
the easy check, I'm gonna just do roads with you know,

(03:15:47):
get the people what they want to see me in
or better yet, even being a director, you got the
intellect the direct and call the shots, but you would
rather just act to get you a.

Speaker 4 (03:16:09):
Consistent check. You don't want to take.

Speaker 2 (03:16:12):
You too fearful to take the risk to being a
director or a producer, and you got the acute acquired
knowledge to do so, but you want to be and
stand the comfortable line. So wise word of the day

(03:16:40):
is fear. Don't be ashamed by your fear. Acknowledge, acknowledge
your fear. That's the only way you can ever overcome
it is acknowledge it in the first place. And then
after you acknowledge your fears, then confront it and then
you can overcome me. So don't be fearful. Join me

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