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and positive reinforcement of Black voices. Also to hear uplifting
news and to focus on the achievements of Black individuals
across the globe. Welcome to the Narrative Podcast. I am
your host, Hall t Allen. Welcome all my narratives. Try
to switch it up a little bit this week. I
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usually wait to a little bit later on in the
segment for an overview. I was just trying it out
to see if it would work. I might try doing
it that way from now on end. But welcome to
the Narrative Podcast. That's just kind of upfront letting you
know what the podcast is all about. You know, for
those that aren't up and familiar with me or my platform,
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it's in All Black platform where we speak about all
black topics, all things black concerning our people, black people,
or as I refer to our people on this platform,
original people who have an original culture. So we're welcome
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to the Narrative Podcast. Got a big show for you today,
got a big show for you every single time that
I upload an episode up the near the podcast. Yeah,
here we are again on this weekend actually August now,
so you know, just from our last episode, we shifted
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straight out of July. I think the last time I
did the upload was Thursday. I believe Tuesday and Thursday
I did for this week and now here we are
on Saturday, which is actually second day of August. But
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welcome to the Narrative Podcast. Yeah, so we are officially
now is the actual We only have like about I
would say, less than two weeks of summer left, so
I hope everybody went on DAYK and had some good
fun and now we're gearing up for fall pretty much,
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you know, I think third week is like the final
month of summer. But anyway, welcome back to the platform,
or welcome to the platform, I said, welcome back. We're
going to dive into the content just a second, so
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I just wanted to get interpresonal with the audience before
doing so. So those areun familiar with me and my
platform is I have, like you know, the way I
present my content. I have a speaking point, and I
break each speaking point you know, down into or excuse me,
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I have an overall speaking point and then I break
it down the sections. Each section has speaking points and
then a timey section. So the main focal point of
the Thereraive podcast to provide the five of the frames
of reference about original people and original people culture. As
a matter of fact, that's the logan of my podcast
and their podcast, changing the one episode at a time
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by destroying negative stereotypes about original people and original culture.
That's entirely you know, pretty much with the podcast is
all about destroying negative stereotypes about our people and our
culture with the content that I present. So how I
kick things off usually is I do a comparison contrast
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of my two presentation for Matt styles, which is the
weekday format style versus my weekend format style. So the
week day has obviously passed, I'll be going into detail
about that and as far as the week end style.
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Like I said, each section, each you know, episode is
broken down the section. Each section has speaking points. I'm
not going to address each and every section because it
is the weekend. I'm going to describe each section as
I come to Then I just want you to just
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pretty much get get a gist of how they differ.
And then after I'm done with my comparison contrast of
my format styles, then I have a promotional portion of
the Narrative Podcast and the purpose of that is I'm
promoting all the projects that generate you know, revenue to
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keep the podcast going. There is a monetary monthly fee
associated with this platform, so all the projects I'm going
to be plugging in that section generate revenue to you know,
fulfilled the monthly maintenance feed. And then after that, I'm
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going to give a broad overview of the Narrative podcast.
And that's just really to contextualize the program for the listeners,
just you know, put it all the way into context
for you and you know, help you digest it better
and ultimately be able to process and apply what I'm
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saying in real time and just making it a better
overall listening experience for you. And then dive on into
the content itself. And that's pretty much, you know, how
I present the Narrative podcast. So getting straight up into
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it with my very first section, the comparison and contrast sections.
So first of all, I broadcast two times during the
weekdays and the weekends. I've and as I said, the
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primary purpose of the Narrative Podcast is to provide positive
frames of reference about our people and our culture. The
positive frame of reference that I focus on during the
weekday is positive news articles. And I focus on delivering
positive news articles during the weekday because all weekday long,
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we're constantly being bombarded and exposed to negative news concerning
our people and our culture. Specifically, the image of our
people's likenesses how widespread is you know, distributed through media outlets,
We're always depicted in a negative light and the adverse
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effect of that being exposed to that all weekday long,
that kind of you know, gets ingrained into our psyches
and on our subconscious level as a people, we tend
to act out those negative stereotypes and stigmas that they
keep on bombarding is with, which is you know, pretty
much on a whole what it's intended for, you know,
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ultimately to lead to our people's demise, because the people
that run the media, they have an agenda. They have
an agenda to eradicate our people, and so you know,
media manipulation is their biggest tool in their arsenal to
do that. So and when I say the media, I'm
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not just referring to just only the news. I mean
like magazines, books, you know, radio, television, movies, you name it,
all forms of media. Our people are. Our people's images
and likenesses are depicted in a negative way. So that's
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just the adverse effects it has on our people. And
then you know how that affects us with interacting with
people outside of our culture. They have a you know,
a distorted view of our people in our culture because
they're only given negative frames of reference about our people
and our culture, and then they associate all of us,
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you know, with these negative stereotypes of stigmas and base
their belief feel around, you know, with their witness and
so this you know, strange relationships on people outside of
our culture, you know, causing them to act in a
certain way and treat us a certain way and engage
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us in a certain way, especially law enforcement, especially law
enforcement in the United States of America, leads to our
demise because upon meeting us, the only frames of reference
that they have to pull from with how to engage
us is the negative frames of reference that they're exposed
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to all weekday long through the media. And so just
to clarify, this platform isn't caring about people outside of
our culture what they think about us, or even looking
to them for any type of validation. It's just to
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you know, bring you know, the accuracy into who we
are as a people, and who we are as and
people as kings and queens, gods and goddesses of the universe.
And that's how our images and likenesses always need to
be depicted across all media platforms. And that's what I
strive to do during the weekdays on the Narrative podcast
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by delivering positive news articles and you know, trying to
help undo that psychological programming and conditioning as well, and
then demonstrating that positive things do actually happen within our
community despite all these negative frames of reference about our
people and our culture being circulated. And then after I'm
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done delivering the positive news articles, I have another section
called my speaking Points section, and what that is is
just current news. I'm discussing, you know, breaking it down
from our our perspective, black people's perspective. Whatever's going on
in the news, breaking news, national news, global news, or
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just things can directly concerning our people and our culture.
Just breaking it down from our perspective whatever's going on
in the world. Because I am a podcaster and that's
typically what podcasters do and deliver commentary, social commentary on
various subjects. The difference between me and most is I'm
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delivering it from the black perspective what it, you know,
means or could potentially mean for our people. But yeah,
that's pretty much my weekday format. So now we're of
course in the weekend, and as I said, I'm not
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going to break down every single section because number one,
it's longer than my weekday edition of the Narrative podcast.
My weekday edition on as the two sections, you know,
the positive news articles and the speaking point so we're
just I'm going to be covering all my other sections
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as I come to then, but I will tell you
my positive frame of reference that I'm focusing on today,
which is business ownership and entrepreneuralism, my focus on delivering
business you know, positive frames about business ownership and entrepreneurialism
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because we're not readily exposed to those frames of references. Uh.
And it's deliberately done by the people to control the
media because they don't want us to have a positive
frames of reference to pull inspiration from. They don't want
us to aspire to be something great. They only want
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to feed us, you know, negativity. They only want us
to embody and embrace these negative stereotypes and stigmas. They
want us to embrace drug culture. They want us to
embrace gang culture. They want us to embrace the degeneracy,
newness a morality. They want us to embrace all these
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things that you know, are suppressing the growth of our
people right now. So that's what they push towards the foreframe.
And then also when the kind to uh you know,
neuralize us. They want to erase our memories because there
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was a time when we did our own our own
companies and had our own businesses, and had our own neighborhoods,
you know, and we were very productive, we were very.
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Happy, and.
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You know, we lived in abundance. We had like any
other neighborhood. Of course, we always had the crime element
and the uh less desirable element as any other you know,
neighborhood and community did. But we flourished and you know,
we sustained life. And they don't want us to ever
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get back into that mindset again. So therefore they're always
pushing the negative stereotypes and the sticknas and they're always
showing us, you know, ah in a bad way rather
than in control, controlling our own resources, solving our own problem,
and not being dependent upon the government, especially those of
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us living in the United States. But I'm pretty sure
it's like that for our brothers and sisters living and
living abroad as well. But yeah, that's why I focus
on delivering the positive frame of reference about business ownership
and entrepreneurism. I call that section my highlight section. What
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I'm doing is I'm highlighting the journey of a business
owner or entrepreneur, you know, just telling us to worry about,
you know, why they decided to go in the business
for themselves, you know, and all the any relevant things,
any relevant skills or life experiences they had along the
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way to you know, end up becoming a business owner,
you know, any relevant skills, training, education which ultimately led
up to them being a business owner. When I can
find the information, because it's the Internet, sometimes that information
is just not readily available. And then also what I'm
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doing in that section is I'm promoting black owned businesses
so we can create our own infrastructure, you know, circulate
our dollars within our own community. And my criteria that
I use to select the businesses that I highlight the
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highlight section of the there the podcast is they must
be black owned. Of course, hire their own definitely, pay
into a nonprofit organization or have their own or do
some type of activism or community outreach that been and
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impacts the community that they're ruty in a positive way.
And then last but not leaks then must coincide with
my theme. And my theme is nationally recognized days or months.
It just you just have to tune in that weekend
to see whether it's the nationally recognized day or the
nationally recognized month. And so that's how I do the
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highlight section of the narrative podcast.
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And as I said.
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Before, I'm wanna, you know, go more into detail on
the other sections as I come to them, and then
some more information about the highlight section. Some other type
of information I try to include is just like the
specifics of their business. So say, if it's an online business,
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everything you would need to know to place and order
with the layout of their web page looks like and
you know, uh, specialists with system apart from the competition
and what they offered, what they specialize in that sort
of thing. Or if there are brick and mortar locations,
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I would have to include everything you need to know
about a brick and patronizing a brick and mortar location,
like you know where neighborhoods are located, in directions and
hours of operations, Uh, you know how big is the building?
You know, do they use their building?
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Uh?
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What for anything else other than you know, the business
that's advertised things of that nature. So that's the highlight
section up in there of the podcast. And as I said,
I'm going to go into more detail about the other
sections as I come to me, but I just wanted
you to be aware of how they differ. You know,
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my weekday format style and my weekend format style. So
onto the promotional portion of the Narrative Podcast. The very
third first thing I'm going to be promoting is the
podcast itself. So the Narrative Podcast is available on all
audio podcasts streaming sites. So wherever you go to listen
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to your podcast, the Narrative Podcast is available on that.
Just remember when you're listening to the Narrative Podcast, if
you want to listen or engage all Black content, you're
listening to the Narrative Podcast hosted by Mee Hawsey Allen.
Because there are thousands of podcasts out there titled the
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Narrative Podcast, but none really you know, touching on or
speaking about the content that I touch you on and
speak on. So you know, make sure you're listening to
the Narrative Podcast hosted by Mee Hawsey Allen if you
want to interact with and engage in all black content.
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you to download the episode, and the download button usually
is in the shape of a cloud, So find the
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and then after you download the episode, share or upload
the episode to whatever social media site that you like
sharing or uploading content too. And that's how you support
the Narrative podcast when listening to me from on all
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the Narrative podcast, or the most efficient way, you know,
more convenient for you as a listener, is to follow
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would want to do that is because X is sent
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done recording the episode, that automatically gets uploaded the X
without any you know, action required on my part. It
just does it automatically. So if you follow me on
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be in the loop of when a brand new episode
of the Narrative podcast debuts immediately. So following me on
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X and my X profile name is I Stay Good
at Hawsey Allen, and then your confirmation you're on the
correct xpage, you should see a book pin to the
top of my page and the title of that book
is called The Black Card, and I wrote that it's
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a book of poetry, but I'll be promoting that momentarily,
but right now we're just focusing on you know what
to do while you're on So after you've confirmed you're
on the correct X page, which is I Stayed Good
at Halsey Allen, look for the latest link of the
Narrative podcast. Click on that and when you click on
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podcast logo is a silhouette of a microphone. It says
the Narrative podcast on it and once you see that,
you know podcast logo. I need you to click on
the like button. The blight button will be located at
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is in the shape of a heart. So click on
the heart shaped blight button and when you do that,
it will look It will cause the podcast logo to
expand a second time. After the podcast logo spans a
second time, I need you to click on the like
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underneath the podcast logo, so click on that again to
help the platform out. And then after you click on
that hardshape light button again, leave me a comment in
the comment box. So comments on you know, whatever you
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would like, any type of feedback, any type of critique
you have about my podcast, what you liked, what you
didn't like, leave it in the comment box, whatever, you know,
whatever strikes your fancy. But just you know, leave me
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a comment in the comment box that you can't think
of a comic to leave me. You can type your
name in, you can put any moji, you can put
some just random characters on the keyboard in the in
the comment box flag. If you're from a different country,
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you can literally just type the word something and that
will help the platform out. But put something in the
comic box. And then after that, go to the download
button again. And just to reiterate the download buttons, a
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cloud shaped icon with an arrow pointing down and assuming
the arrow pointing down is a symbolized the action of downloading.
So find that icon, click on that to download the episode.
After the episode is downloaded, and share and upload that
episode to any and all social media platforms that you'd
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like sharing your uploading contents. And that's how you support
the Narrative podcast or following me from X. The next
way you can support the Narrative Podcast is to follow
me on YouTube that my YouTube channel is Halsey Allen.
I'm pretty much Halsey Island across all social media platforms.
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The only two platforms where I'm not organically Halsey Allen
is Tumblr, and I do got another accounts. It's a
different spelling of it, but let me see. I think
it's another Instagram account where I'm just really dedicated towards
my poetry that I'll be plugging in a second.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
But uh.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Yeah, I got an Instagram account where I'm Hawsey the Poet,
and then I am Rhyme on Tumblr, but across all
other social media platforms on Hawsey Alan. So you know,
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I do that for a specific reason because all the
other accounts to just really dedicated to my poems and
so that's why. But yeah, so my YouTube page is
Halsey Island and then go to my videos, which you
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should be able to access access with ease because you
shared publicly, and the episodes of the Narrative podcasts are
all in chronological order, dating back all the way to
episode number one. And then to support the Narrative podcast
while following me from YouTube, just like comment and share
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all those older episodes of you know, the Narrative podcast
whatever social media platform that you like liking you or
sharing you know, content too. And then on YouTube, you know,
hit that thumbs up or hit thumbs down if you
didn't like it, it still just counts, you know, as
far as analytics go. And then also please please please
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leave me a comment in the comic box. Now be
advised the episodes on YouTube or older episodes of the
narra the podcast. I do not have the ability to
post brand new content of the narrative podcasts to YouTube
on this platform. Anyway, if I want to post on YouTube,
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I'm gonna have to do a whole different podcast platform,
you know, upload content to YouTube, because this platform is
no longer compatible with YouTube. And the reason why is
because you to updated their policies and you know community
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guidelines which rendered this platform and you know, non compliance
with So therefore they could you know, rather than you know,
update their software to be compatible with YouTube, we YouTube's analytics. Rather,
they just decided to remove YouTube as you know, a
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distribution option for people to use their site. So that's
why I don't have any new uh the latest uh
nearrative podcast episodes of on YouTube. But you can still
support the platform from YouTube by you know engaging all
the older episodes. It's still on YouTube. YouTube has not
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deleted all my older episodes up the Narrative Podcast, So
you can go to YouTube, go to my page on YouTube,
Hausey Allen like comments and share all those older episodes
of the Narrative Podcast across all social media platforms. And
that's how you support the Narrative Podcast when following me
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from YouTube. And the next thing I'd like to promote
on the platform is my book of poetry and it's
tiedled The Black Card. It's written by me Hawsey Allen,
and The Black Card is a thirty page book of
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poetry about the black experience. Everything we experience as a people,
both positive and negative. It's chronicled and highlighted in that book.
If you're a melienated man or a melenated woman, you
will automatically be able to relate to each poem post
or written in that book. I was about to say,
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post it written in that book. If you're outside of
our culture, you don't have to feel left out because
if you're an avid reader, if you love poetry, this
book which should still be appealing to you. If you
have an open minded you can use if you're open minded,
you can use it as a reference to it to
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help you better, you know, relate to the black people
you have in your proximity in your life, or you like,
or within your proximity to you know, kind of get
a broader understanding or overstanding where they're coming from. Now
it minds you you will never be, you know, all
the way informed just from reading that book of poetry
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about the black experience. But you know, you'll develop a
healthier relationship to you know, black people in your lives
by reading it. So go check that out. You love it.
You won't regread it. It's titled The Black Card Written
by Me Hawsey Allen. And to purchase it, it's available
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on a platform called Poetizer and the purchase it or
to poetizer dot com. Politizer has a virtual online bookstore,
so goote their virtual online bookstore on politizer dot com.
Pre just my book of poetry, The Black Card Written
by Me Hawsey out. So if you're unfamiliar with Poetizer,
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Poetizer is a social media platform for writers people like
to write, specifically poetry. That's who it caters to. It's
implied in the title Poetizer. It offers pretty much everything
any other social media platform offers, you know, social interaction.
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You can make friends on there, you know, interact with
people socially, you know, introduce yourself BM you know, have
a friend list right on each other's walls blase. Then
you know, far far as the writing part element of it,
they have daily writing prompts, games and contests where the
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people on that site. But the most important feature is
they have built in software publishing software, self publishing software
that will allow the users to write, market and sell
a book. And that's precisely what I did. I wrote
a book and it's on Poetizer. That's why they have
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a Versus online bookstore, so the members of that social
social media platform could sell the books that they create
on that site. So go on over to the poetizer
dot com and purchase my book of poetry titled The
Black Card. And now I'm going to give you just
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a little bit more insight. Insight into the book. What
it's about. A Black Card is more than just poetry.
It's a poetic manifesto or lyrical tribute to the reality, resilience,
and richness of the black experience versus the cut, deepen, imagery,
be sores. A Black Card reclaims dignity, the man's respecting honors,
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the legacy of the people who have turned struggle into strength,
culture in the power. More than just poetry, this is
a declaration. Black is royal, Black is unstoppable, Black is everything.
So head on over to Poetize, go their virtual online
bookstore and purchase your copy of the Black Card, purchase
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your copy of the Black Card today, or get your
Black Card revote. And that's got to pretty much do
it for the Black Card. And last, but not least,
the last thing I want to promote in the promotional
portion of the narrative podcast is my personal poetry blog
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on blogger dot com and it's called Haws's Poetry Corner.
The link to it is ww dot mister hawses blogs
dot com. And it's just basically, you know, the poems
feature on their just common relatable poems. Pretty much every experience,
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every and any experience one has experienced in life or
at some point a time during their life, there's a
poem on there to commemorate that experience. It plays heavy
into emotion as well, whatever emotion you're currently feeling or
have felt at some point, Uh, at some point of
your life, there's a poem on there to you know,
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play up into that.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
You love it.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
It's just timeless, classic, organic, relatable poetry. As a matter
of fact, I have a slogan for my poetry blog,
Hawsey's Poetry Corner Poetry with a passion, poetry for all occasions.
So go up, head on over to a hauses poetry
corner on blogger dot com at ww dot missus bogs
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dot com and read some fantastic poems today. In the
ways port Haws's Poetry Corner blog is to share the
link to Hawses's Poetry Corner which is ww dot mister
bloss dot com or poem speature on Haws's Poetry Corner
across all social media platforms. And then when you're on
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this site, after you've done that, at the bottom of
each piece, uh, there's a light button, So click on
the light button at the bottom of my poems on
Halls's Poetry Corner, and the light button is in the
shape of a heart, So click on the heart shaped
light button and then next to the heart shaped like
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button should see a comic box. Same rules for the
comic box just put something in the comic box. It
means the world, like literally, it means the world to
me analytic wise, So put something in the comic box.
Please don't just read it and then not comment on
the piece. You know, any type of feedback is welcome.
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And if you can't think of any feedback to leave me,
then just sign your name, uh you know, characters, emojis,
something something in that comic box. And then of course,
you know, like I said, share the link or poems
posting on Hawses Poetry Corner across all social media platforms
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and that's how you support Hawses Poetry Corner, blog, Blogger,
dot com. Another unique thing about the poems posting on there,
they're all spontaneously written in the moments. I didn't premeditate
anything that I, uh, you know, wrote on that poetry blog.
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So particularly, I consider myself a poet. Anytime when I'm
not doing the narrative podcast, I'm pretty much, you know,
in engaging poetry some type of way. I'm writing it
to perform and spoke a word artists. I'm intending a
poetry function. You know, that's a big part, you know,
of my identity as poetry. So That's what I definitely
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was doing before I start doing the narrative podcast. But
my posting is kind of taking the back seat since
I start doing this podcast. But you know, that's just
how my creative process works. I don't, you know, write anything.
I don't think about anything. I write. It just organically
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just happens. That's how I know it's a gift because
none of the poems on there posted I can relate to,
you know, I can't organically say that's what I was feeling,
that's what I experienced, and that's how I view life.
You know, I pretty much believe the universe picked me
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to deliver a message to someone, because everybody the visits
that poetry blog always comes up to me, either in
person or you know, if they come across the link,
you know, shoot me a message. I really dug this
poem that I even the poems uh about our people
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in our culture. I got a lot of I got
a few poems about where our people go through black people.
But again I can't specifically like relate to him. I
can't even specifically relate to some poems that I have
about some loved ones I had lost. I got a
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tribute poem to my aunt, a tribute poem to my mother,
a tribute poem to my husband posted on that site.
And you know, I think it was therapy for other
family members that were missed because I had already found
my piece. I already had found my solids with their departure.
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But go check them out. Hawses Poetry Corner blog on
blogger dot com at ww dot mister Hawses blogs dot com.
And just to give you some further insights into Hawes's
Poetry Corner blog. When you visit the site, prepare to
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step into a world where emotions flow like rivers and
words paint vivid pictures. Hawses's Poetry Corner is your ultimate
destination for captivating poetry that just as Stole. Whether you're
a poetry e fujas or just a casual reader, Hows's
Poetry Corner has something for everyone. Explore all my poems
time as classics and thought provoking versus prepared to nights
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your imagination explored the beauty of language and it's purest
form that celebrate the art of poetry together on Hawsey's
Poetry Corner blog. All right, so check it out. Has
Poetry Corner blogger dot com at ww dots, mister Hawses
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blogs dot com, get some fantastic poems in your life today.
And that's a rap for the promotional portion of the
Narrative Podcast. So in closing, I would just like to
petition all content creators, whatever whatever style of content you produce,
whether you're all audio content creators such as myself or
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a visual content creator, please promote the Narrative podcast on
your content platform You know, you can promote the Hawes
Poetry Corner blog or or the Black Card too, but
you know, if anything, if I have to choose anything,
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please promote the Narrative podcast, you know, on your content platforms.
And when you're promoting the Narrative podcast, you gotta, you know,
you gotta make the distinction that is hosted by me
Hawsey Allen, because like I said, you know, you have
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to be real intentional with it in order for it
to you know, your promotion to make a difference, you
gotta let like, you know, let the audience know that
it's hosted by me Hawsey Allen, because like I said,
there are thousands of podcasts out there titled the narrative podcast.
If you're just saying the narrative, narrative narrative. You know
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that's not I'm gonna get lost and be shuffled. So
you gotta make that clear distinction that you know you're
promoted the narrative podcast hosted by Hawsey Allen. So that's it.
Speaker 5 (44:06):
That to do it for.
Speaker 4 (44:08):
The promotional portion of the narrative podcast. And now we're
going to do a broad overview of the narrative podcast
before diving into the content. So starting at the top
with the name, I was inspired to name my podcast
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the Narrative Podcast by the textbook or Party because I
don't like the false narrative centering around our the depiction
of our people's images and likenesses. So I don't like
the way, you know, how we're represented, you know, globally.
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So that's why I named my podcast and arrative podcast
with that in mind, in an effort to change the
overall perception of our people's images and likenesses with the
content that I'm delivering, thus changing the narrative into the
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title the Narrative Podcast. The very first thing you need
to be aware of when listening to the podcast, probably
like the first nuance is you know why I refer
to my listening audience as narrators. So my inspiration behind
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coining that phrase for my listening audience, I was inspired
by the actual you know, Dictionary definition of the word narrator.
The narrator simply means just one who tells or illustrates
the story or narrates the story or just letting the
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audience know what's going on in the story and just
break the story down and contextualize what the audience, you know,
is experience. So like you know, no matter what form
the story is, what form the story is in, the
narrator's job is just to let the audience know what's
going on, just give them an accurate account of, you know,
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what their witnessing. And that part is that part giving
the audience the accurate account of what they're witnessing is
what I feel, you know, we need to do as
a people and a knowledge I always use. I picked
it up somewhere. I can't really remember where I heard.
Speaker 5 (46:52):
It, but.
Speaker 4 (46:55):
It goes like this, like, if you don't tell your
own story, your own story will be told for you.
And I feel that's what the media is doing as
it relates to our people in our culture and telling
our story for us and telling our story that what
they want to tell it, not how it actually is.
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You know, they're glorifying violence, to glorifying drugs, they're attaching
our images and likenesses to all things degenerate, and you know,
presenting that as an actual accurate depiction of you know,
our people in its entirety, like our life story is
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depicted through a dirty lens. So that's why it's important
for us as a people to tell or narrate our
own stories. Because while we cannot control the narrative that
the media puts out about our people and our culture,
we can control what we choose to share about our
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people in our culture when we you know, post content
any So that's how, as a people we can change
the narrative. And I'm gonna give you some example, more
examples of how to be a narrator. So I coined
the phrase a narrator. I'm obviously a narrator, and I'm
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changing the narrative one episode at a time with my
audio content I'm delivering on this platform. I'm providing positive
frames of reference about our people in our culture. Not
just positive frames of reference about our people in our culture,
positive frames of reference about our people and our culture
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that directly contradicts negative stereotypes about our people in our culture.
So that's how I'm you know, that's how I change
the narrative with my content from changing the from giving
you you know, verbal positive frames of reference as in
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my platforms all in audio content. So every episode, I'm
giving you a positive frame of reference you know, verbally
about our people, about how great are people and our
culture is. So that's how I'm you know, narrating our story.
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So you can narrate the story on your end, one
social media post at the time visually, so you can
put quo posts positive visual frames of reference on your
content platform about us, you know, doing something great that
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directly challenges a negative stereotype about our people and our culture.
So say, for example, like we got the negative stereotype
about our people in our culture that we're all violent,
you know, we're all violent just for no reason. So
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you can post some positive visual images of us engaging
in something peaceful, a peaceful activity or an activity designed
to you know, promote peace, something peaceful, So like it
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could be for example, like a you know, hiking that's
really serene, peaceful, meditating that's peaceful fishing, something like you
know where we're at carn we're at peace, or maybe
a gathering, a large gathering, a concert or a festival
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and everybody's just enjoying themselves, having a good time, no
violence popping off.
Speaker 5 (51:11):
You know.
Speaker 4 (51:13):
You can do that. Or another example would be like
there's a negative stereotype that you know, we all live
in duck hood and what d hood our first? You know,
visual images that come to mind is just like broke
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down the raggedy and you know, just esthetically look bad.
So we can host visual images of us, you know,
beautifying our living spaces and places that we live, like
organizing recycling efforts, painting, doing land escaping, you know, beautifying
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our neighborhood, caring about our surroundings, you know, things of
that nature. If you can't really think of, you know,
any any of the ones close to what I just named,
but surefire one is just to upload visual images of
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us being happy, engaging in life, living our best lives,
living your best life. If it's your content platform, being
at piece, happy, smiling, you know, not bothering nobody, just
being content, because that throws a huge monkey wrench in
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the plans, because you know, the way they're designed, the
way they weaponize the media. They want to have its
signals scramble our brains. They want to see us all
angry all the time. They want to see it's depressed
all the time, you know. Ad But you at peace
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or peaceful settings or just people, our people enjoying themselves.
That's that that disrupts the programming. You know, they walk
away and discussed like damn, you did all this to
these people, and yet they still thrive, They still flourished,
They still you know, exists, so that you know, it's
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back to the jar on board for them when we're
at peace. So yeah, that's pretty much how you become
a narrator. Moving right along, the next thing that you
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should know about the narrative podcast is I refer to
our people, black people on this black platform as original people.
Speaker 5 (54:05):
You know.
Speaker 4 (54:05):
I refer to our people for many as original people.
For many reasons. I just go over a few. First
of all, the textbook definition of the word original, you know,
some whereas has come right off the top of the dome,
is unique, authentic, one of a kind, exceptional. I believe,
although it's words, uh you know, describe our people to
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a team. There's no body, no other group of people
more exceptional, more unique, more distinctive, more influential than our people.
As a matter of fact, we influence the entire world.
The entire world, you know, tries to be like us
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to some capacity, or tries to check in with us
to see, you know what it's cool, and you know,
how do I wear this out? You know, they check out.
They check out our whole vibe, the way we walk,
where we talk. You know, they're just fascinated by us naturally.
People outside of our culture, like when one of us
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is in the room, we command the room. We're in there.
You know, you can feel our presence before you actually
see it. So a lot of times we get angry
and we think people outside of our culture, you know,
we take it as a negative they're looking at us
because we're black, Like, oh, they just looking at me
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because I'm black. We take that in a negative shride
when we should be thinking like, oh, they looking at
me because I'm lad. You know, that's how we should
take it. But you know, that's why I refer to
our people as original people in that sense of the word.
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You know, original also implies being the first and scientifically know,
def fans and busts are about it. Our people was
definitely the original man, original people, original being. We'll here
thousands of years before every any every and any other
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group of people in the entire world. Our people, you
don't have a date of when we start appearing, like
there's you know, there's no record in time that can
trace our origins because there's never been a moment of
time that our people didn't exist. Every other group of
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people they have or origin they but when they started hearing,
when we start seeing this type of people in this
type of region, ours don't. We've always not never not existing.
Were the oldest group of people in the entire world.
Were the first group of people in the entire world,
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which means we also originated pretty much everything in the world.
Every modern day invention, every modern day convenience, we originated
that we were the original architects, were the original scholars,
you know, philosophers, Who was the original explorers, Who was
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the original astronomers, astrologists, who was the original chemists? Sciences?
Who was the original everything? So that's why I refer
to our people as original people to denote the historical
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significance of the word and speaking of history, going right
and stride with the nature of the narrative podcast to
destroy negative stereotypes about our people and our culture of
the false narrative. I gotta dispel every single episode as
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the false narrative of slavery. They want to assign slavery
as the most important, definitive time of our people's existence.
They want to hop scotch over where you know, we
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influence nations. They want to hop scotch over where we
ruled pretty much every place in the world. They want
to hop scotch over us mothering and fathering civilization. But
they want to put the spotlight on slavery. Why they
want to do that? Why do they want to retell
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the story of the time period our people got tortured
and had no free will. So not saying slavery did
not happen, but how they tell us slavery happened is
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totally inaccurate. And that's a part of history. That's why
they call it history. History his story, his accounts with
the people recording that era. You know, through their means,
how they preceived me and wanted to gate all the
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actual real facts surround me. So fact number one, all
of us living in any part of the world we're
currently residing in now, especially those of us living in
the United States of America, didn't get there on a
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slave boat. Because, as I said, we are the original everything.
So having said that, we existed before any other group
of people, we existed before the notion of slavery ever
entered anybody's minds. So therefore we were the original explorers.
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We didn't just sit in one place waiting for a
specific group of people to pardon me, two specific groups
of people Europeans and white Spaniards to come to the
continent of Africa uproot us all for a span of
as they say, hundreds of years, distributing us on all
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these drop off points across the trans Atlantic slave trade.
It just didn't happen like that. It was a mass
migration from Africa. We spread our seed out over every
We populated pretty much all the continents. It was already
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a large or small concentration of our people living everywhere
you could possibly name or think of. But yet through
history they want to attribute our presence on that soil
directly to your opinions and white spanils like you know
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it was, you know, just on the common sense part
of it. Doesn't it make sense for him to just
enslave people that were already there on the lands that
they visited, rather than go all the way to Africa
and get, you know, some Africans and just you know,
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enslaved some people that didn't like the other people. I
think that makes more sense. Fat number two. There are
no remnants of any slave boats. Not saying slavey didn't happen,
but for sure, right all ain't no remniants of slave boats.
They got remnants of, you know, to prove the significance
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of there was a woman they by the name of Cleopatra.
They actually found boats over there in that part of Africa, Egypt,
and now, so that's how they prove at that time
of history actually happened. They have actually actually found the
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arc from the Bible, Noah's Ark, they found remnants of that.
They've found remnants of Viking boats two thousand. They've not
produced one remnant of any slave shit. But yet we
all came from slavery, Yeah, we all came over on
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slave boats. They showed us pictures and illustrations. A picture
and an illustration isn't a remnant. A remnant is like
a piece of the actual boat and or a cell
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the crows ness adore now that was on a boat
a rudder. No slave boat remnants have been produced. They
just showed us a blueprint of a galley in like
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they put the African slaves here in the bow of
the in the bow of the shit they were chained
like this, stacked on the stacked on top of each
other like tuna. And again, like I'm saying, they there
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were African slaves, but all, every single last one of
us didn't come from Africa, especially those of us living
in the United States, and speaking only for the United
States people living here, we were the original indigenous people
of that land, of this land. We are reclassified as
you know, black, put on the plantation with African slaves,
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and then they got the audacity through history to tell
us we don't have any culture. Then they go get
another group of people, Siberians, and call them the Native Americans,
equipped them with all the necessities to live, put them
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on reservations, just to erase our identity. As every explorer
to ever come to these parts describe the natural inhabitants
of this land as a copper skinned people, and none
of the current day, modern day so called Native Americans
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is just that trade. Our first glimpses of Native Americans
was through movies where they showed the pictures of the
long hair and the fair skinned people, not not coppers.
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And then oh, but what about dark black people? Black
people who are dark skinned copper in this unrefined state
is evidy let that sink in. So that's just a
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couple of things that's off about slavery. There's so so
much more. But you know, every episode I try to,
you know, peel back the layers a little bit about
the false narrative of slavery. The reason why what they
want to keep on perpetuating this false narrative is they
benefit immensely from it. They benefit by keeping us disconnected
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with our heritage, causing a division amongst our people. You know,
we got some Africans say ya ain't Africans, ya ain't
beast and dag ya ain't got no coating da da dad,
And we clap back and say, we know our history,
we this and that, and then if it was, and
how the can y'all can't come over here and get us.
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So we got that going on within our culture because
of something that they caused by erasing our identity. And
then the biggest benefit that they have from perpetuating the
slave narrative is the fear factor, you know, the pleasure
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of watching us have low self esteem about that period
of time and the fear that it might happen again.
They leave constant reminders, visual reminders that it happened. All
these statues, monuments, and flags honoring the legacy of former
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slave owners are US currency. Every single resident on it
owned a slave, were slave owners. All the major industrial
brands that are you nationally recognize US brands, they're all
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founded on slave labor. The uh you know, the people
that started those companies were all former slave owners. So
they're protecting the ideals and belief in ideology around slavery,
and that's why they, you know, pushed that false slave
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narrative when in reality, during slavery, our people who was
putting deltas to asses, we resisted the entire time of slavery.
The biggest reasons that they freed us from slavery because
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the havoc, the sheer havoc, who was unleashing upon the
slave owners foreign slavery us to begin with. But they
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want us to believe you know, they abolished slavery because
like that, it really had something to do with the
North and the South. The North with some devils, in
the South with some devils. Nobody that helped abolished slavery
did it because they felt slavery was wrong. They did
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it for a wicked financial reasons. On the north side
of it, they want to abolish slavery because you know,
they couldn't compete with the South financially. The South wanted
to succeed from the North, so that's why they wanted
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to keep slavery going because they was making money and
over fist. But you know any white person chronicled in
history in the South, for everyone to help us, it
was for financial reasons, is it because they couldn't compete
with the slaves. So they figured that they helped abolished slavery,
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they can get, you know, earn a living. And sure
enough they did after the slave trade, after slavery was over.
So it wasn't because of their Christian values or they
believed slavery was wrong. It was for money on both sides.
It was just financially beneficial for them to ending because
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they was taken and they was taking financial casualty from
all the destruction slavery was causing, you know, all those
plantations getting burned down to the ground. So those, like
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I said, those are just a few false narratives. I
want the slave about the slave trade and slavery and
why they keep on perpetuating me. But the last but
not least reason why I refer to our people as
original people on this platform is an attempt to unify
us as one united people, because, like I said, we
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are all of one blood. But there are many different
types of us scattered out all throughout the globe, ideologies
and images, but we're pretty much essentially the same people,
you know, turned against each other through colonization. But you know,
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people outside of our culture, they just look at us,
they call us black, you know, and be done with it.
But only we want to cling on to our nationalities,
our lineages, you know, on our own unique cultures, as
we should. But at the end of the day, we
steal all of one blood. And just as surely as
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a Korean is different from someone living in Japan, they
still just say their age and be done with it,
you know. So with that mind, we should have that
same universal mindset as a people the word original is
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something that universally applies to all of us. Technically, a
white person can be Jamaican. Technically a Chinese person can
be patient. But nobody can be original except an original man,
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because it wasn't nobody here first before we was. So
that's a universal term applicable to every single melanated man
and woman in the entire world. So that's why refer
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to our people as original people here on this podcast
as an attempt to unify us as a people, to
get us on one quarter. You know, we can still
keep our unique cultures and identities, but you know, when
we want to get on one accord universally as a people,
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this will help us bridge that gap. So yeah, all right,
now moving on. Narrative podcast is a positive, safe space
for original people to express ourselves, to feel pride and inspire,
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uplift and edify our people, not to tear down and
destroy and denegrate. So that's all the content is about
here on this platform, uplifting and edifying our people, and
you know, unifying our people and promoting positive reinforcement of
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our people and our coaching. So no roasting, no put down,
no name calling. This is all positive content. You know,
you can listen to and feel good about our people
and our coaches talking about our issues, you know, through
our you know, from our perspective and on our own time.
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So that's what the bearing of the podcast is all about.
You know, there is an exception to every rule. The
no roasting and put down the name calling rule applies
to people, to people within our community that intentionally goes
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out of their way to misrepresent our people for monetary gains.
So like, if you throw us under the bus for
the bad by embracing a negative stereotype that to have
us all looking and sounding bad, then you know, I'm
not gonna try to, you know, mince my words with
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you if I have to talk about you because you're
in the news for something stereotypical that god all got
us looking bad. So other than that, it's a positive
safe space for original people. Everything I discuss here on
the Narrative Podcast all centers around the bigger picture. Pretty
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much anything negative happening within our community is due to
psychological programming and conditioning and systemic oppression. So that's pretty
much the broader overview of the Narrative Podcast. Everything kind
of centers around that. You know when I'm discussing, especially
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when I'm discussing commentary, that's the perspective that I'm breaking
down whatever's happening, you know in the news as it
relates to our people and our culture, you know, focusing
more on the why rather than the how come, so
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you know. And then last but not least, the narrative
podcasts and the time sets of the platform. And try
not to see one hour per broadcast. When I take
longer than the hour, you will never be able to
notice that by listening to my podcast, because I try
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to make everything brief, short, brief, and to the point.
I want to deliver the message without beating you upside
tohead with the message. So I want to make it
easier to follow. Informative and educational and entertaining all at
the same time. So to do that, I gotta keep
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it real short, really sweet. Really you can, to the
point call a spade a spade, but I ain't gonna
hold you all day. So that's pretty much everything you
need to know about the present station style of the
there the podcast. If you are still kind of like
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really don't get it, you know, well over five hundred
episodes in listen to my episode log. Bring yourself up
to speed download this episode and no previously for the
episodes up the nar the podcast where it beat your
podcast sources from. Now we're going to dive on in
with the very first section of the near podcast section.
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This is the highlight section. And just to reiterate, I
would be highlighting black owned businesses. As I said, all
the businesses that I highlight the highlight section must coincide
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with my theme, and my theme is nationally recognized days
or months. Today the theme is nationally recognized day, and
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today is nationally recognized That actually that all the businesses
I'll be highlighting in the highlights section coincide with the
nationally recognized day. They'll be specializing in the production and
distribution of whatever the nationally recognized day is all about.
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And today it is nationally recognized day. Is National Jamaican
Paddy Day. This happens annually every year on August second.
It also marks Jamaican Independence Day as well for the
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you know, for Jamaica. So the history of Jamaican Paddy
Day was established in twenty fifteen by the Golden Crust
Caribbean Bakery. In twenty fifteen, it was put together to
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celebrate the anniversary of the opening of the factory, which
opened in nineteen eighty nine. And as I said, it's
also to celebrate Jamaican Emancipation Day. So that's you know,
will be highlighting in the highlight section today businesses that
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produce and sell Jamaican patties. All right, So my first
business that I'll be highlighting in the highlight section here
on the Narrative podcast Weekend edition is a business by
the name of Pimento Jamaican Kitchen and Rum Bar. And
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to find out more about that, go to Pimento dot com.
It was established in twenty twelve by our brethren by
the name of Tommy Davis. Davis was born and raised
in Jamaica. Originally immigrated to the United States America to
pursue a career in the corporate world, but he decided
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to go the hospitality route instead. Started out as doing
pop ups, then he gradually gradually opened multiple establishments all
throughout Minnesota. He made his big stride getting his breaking
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more to established when he partnered with a local hip
hop legend, well not a legend, but a hip hop
artist in that area by the name of Yoni Renhard.
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To from pronounce's name correctly. So the duo were also
featured on a Food Network show called Food Court Wars,
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and they were featured on season one. Uh in the
episode was Amento Versus slum Dogs. And that's pretty much
it as far as that company. And uh, you know,
background information is how they became established. There wasn't a
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lot to the story. That's all the information I can find.
But they do meet the you know, community outreach part
of the selection process, you know, for the highlight section.
They either have to pay into a nonprofit organization or
provide some type of community outreach and activistim for the
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community of Routing. So the service that they provide for
the community is a nonprofit called the Pamental Relief Service.
And what they do is they mobilize for community support
to combat systemic racism. They have a plethora of ways
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to give back for that. Education and training and you
know community outreach resources. So it's like job training and
digital literacy and a host of other things. So, without
any further ado, please give it up to our brother
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Tommy c Baby of a Mento Jamaican Kitchen. And if
you want to know about all the locations, you got
to go to thementto dot com for all the locations
in this rounding area and their hours of operation because
they have over like four establishments, and so for my
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time constraint, I'm not going to read all those locations alright,
Moving right along to my second business. I'll be highlighted
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in the highlight section of the Narrative podcast week. In addition,
this restaurant is called Iri Vibes Jamaican restaurant located in
the Brooklyn Center in Minnesota. And it's Irin like Jamaican.
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This iy irine and then Vibes isn't spelled vi iv
easy it's capital letters v y DZ. So I guess
for branding purpose, somebody must have had Vibes branded. That's
usually when people like misspelled stuff. Some probably probably already
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had Vibes trademark. It was established in twenty seventeen by
a brother by the name of Xavion C A v
I O N Bro. There was absolutely no uh information
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on it. They have live entertainments, traditional Caribbean cuisine making
paddies are on the menu. They're most noted for the
jerk chicken, though they feature all you can eat buffe
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on Fridays, The address is six zero five six, Shingle
Creek Center, Minnesota, zip code five five four three zero.
Telephone number is seven six three four nine six eighteen
sixty one. They're open Monday through Friday, eleven thirty to
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eight p m. Saturday three to a pm, Sunday three
to six pm. So since I did those up, I
gotta go backtrack. I forgot, you know, to tell you
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all what you get when you go to the Comento Kitchen.
All their entrees featured coconut rice, plant tings, an island
slough with your choice of sauce. That's for the meno
uh Jamaican Kitchen. But as far as I re Vibes,
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that's pretty much all the information I have. You can
see the aesthetics for IRA Vibes by going to their
Instagram page, I Revibes Entertainment, I Revive e n T,
I g AT, I re Vibes Underscore Eats, and they
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got all kinds of pictures. So they're selling an experience. Basically,
it's like hip hop like nightclub vibe. It's just like
every time we're gonna go into that establish is gonna
be a party. So yeah, and again both establishments coincide
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with the nationally recognized day which is National Jamaican Patty Day,
and both establishments sell Jamaican patties. So without any further ado,
please give me, join me into given ire vibes and
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a mental Jamaican kitchen and rum bar a warm Narrative
Podcast round of applause. Moving right along the next section
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here on the Narrative Podcast Weekday edition, this is a
section called the Spotlight section, and the Spotlight section, what
I'm doing is I'm promoting positive reinforce of our people
and our culture because, as I said, you know, we've
been programmed, being conditioned by you know, over consumption of
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the media to use our media platforms irresponsible. We're using
it to tear each other down, not build each other up.
So it's all right to you know, not have the
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same opinion as your brother and assistant. It's all right
to be slightly competitive depending on what you're on the
internet for. It's okay to uh, you know, the trash
talk if you want to say you're the best, or
you're you're whatever, ain't got nothing on mind. It's all
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right provided in me trash talking, I'm not trash talking you.
Speaker 5 (01:31:01):
So what the.
Speaker 4 (01:31:05):
Spotlight is designed to do is to uplift and edify
our people and our culture through means of positive reinforcement,
congratulating someone from our culture for using their platform or
using their presence to uplift and impact our community in
a positive way. Because, like I said, you know, through
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the media, we've been programmed and condition to turn on
each other and fight each other, use our platforms to
try to destroy each other. So what I want to
do in this section is to you know, promote positivity,
to promote peace, promote unity, you know, get us back
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to basics. Because it's cloud chase social media era where
people will just get on you know, saying crazy stuff,
taking cheap shots at somebody in the effort to you know,
catch their attention, to make them do a response video
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so they can go back and forth to run up
the analytics. You know, it's getting ridiculous. But they primarily
do this and target our people to do this because
out of every other group of people, our people are
the most influential. That's the only thing that's different. When
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we get messy online, we're more influential. Like and two
white people get into it online, nobody cares is born
you know, it's not exciting to watch, say, I can
go all on down line Asian Spanish like, you know,
but when we are at odds with one another, then
it's musty TV because you want to see, you know,
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how it plays out from you. And these faceless corporations
and entities they make money hand over fist, fanning the
flames to start conflict between our people. So they do things,
they put out false and misinformation, and you know, they
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work and twist the narrative. This person said that, and
that person said this, and by the time it gets
back to them, it looks all crazy, and by the
times to get back to the other person, it looks
all crazy. When it really is, they blow it up
and make it be bigger than what it actually was,
and when it's just a simple misunderstanding. But that's primarily
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the nature of the spotlight section is just to you know,
celebrate the accomplishments and achievements of someone from our community
doing something to impact our community in a positive way
and to get us back in the basics and normalized
being normal. So yeah, that's the spotlight section, and not
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for nothing. I think I created the waves for spotlighting
because before I added the spotlight section to my programmed
The Narrative podcast. Nobody nobody with spotlighting anybody. But now
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ever since I started spotlighting on my platform, has become
really widely used. I'm not going to go as far
as I coined the phrase spotlighting, but I definitely, you know, popularized.
It was just it wasn't the whole thing until I
started doing it. Now it was just the phrase is
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really commonly heard. Now you can go fact check, go
through my episode. Long got that type of time cross
reference and all that really easy to do live in
a digital era. Nobody was just really you know, widely
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using that until I started doing it. You think I'm
tripping or you think I'm reaching. Like the Internet makes
the world small. Like the Internet makes the world really small.
You can connect, inter connect with people from different countries.
Like somebody in different country can consume your product, whatever
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content you're sharing on the Internet. Somebody from a different
country can see that. If you're a visual content creator,
or if you're like me, you're an audio content creator,
somebody can hear that. So if you're constantly producing content,
somebody's constantly observing. And the people who are constant observing
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me just happened to be celebrities be in my community,
famous people within in my community. And I know they're
constantly observing me because they're constantly incorporating my content into
their content, not just what I say, but how I say.
What I say that incorporating the nuances of my speech
pattern into their content. So you know that makes me
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feel good in that retrospect is because I'm here to
uplift and edify my people. So that see so many
people following suit, so many famous influential people following suit
with the content that I'm sharing on my platform. You
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know that's all really the validation I really need. Sure,
I want you to shout the mirror the podcast I
was sure. I want a famous person to be like,
oh I listened to as But it's not a requirement.
Just the fact that they're emulating what I'm doing. That's
kind of you know, that speaks volumes, So for not
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not for nothing, I popularize, you know, spotlight.
Speaker 3 (01:37:28):
Without narrative.
Speaker 4 (01:37:32):
Whatever in a real way. All right, So without any
further ado, we want to get it right on up
into it with today's spotlight or this week's spotlight sitting
just some quick couple more things about the Spotlight. When
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I originally started this section, I relegated it to just
celebrities and entertainers as of yet, I've been really striving
to spotlight just regular people within our community because I
want to get rid of the negative stereotype that all
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our people know how to do is just entertained. So
I used to spotlight like recording artists, comedians, actors, actresses,
you know, the whole nine. But you know, I've really
been trying to hyper focus on just regular people doing
extraordinary things and impacting our community in a positive way. So,
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without any further ado, today's I'm want to dive on
into the Spotlight section on this weekend edition of The
Near The podcast and today Spotlight Recipients is assisted by
the name of Malika Redman. Leika was born and raised
in Patterson, Pennsylvania, and she is the CEO and co
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founder of Women Engage in this particular nonprofit organizations and
nonprofit five oh one C three organization. It specializes in
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reproductive justice, advocacy, civic engagement, leadership development for black women
and youth. If you want to find out more about it,
go to women Engage dot org. So they primarily focus
on black women's human rights and civic engagements. Teaches them
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how to be you know, how to engage the system
pretty much basically, how to you know, develop leadership and
advocacy and change things in the community. Also other women
type stuff, you know, self care and mental health type
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stuff that they teach them that in that space, and
that's you know, that is most definitely impactful for our
systems to have that type of outlet, you know, that
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type of safe space that they can be outspoken without
you know, getting critique, that's having an attitude or being aggressive,
so you know, you can have your you know, you
can form your opinion and without really falling into the
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negative stereotype that black women are unmanageable. So it's just
that organization, you know, teaches them how to express themselves
in a productive manner and you know, teaches them, you know,
the true speaking points of speaking, not just rolling your
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neck and you know what I'm saying. Like, so that
that is most definitely a good tool for our sisters
to have. And you know, they focus on young people
and that's definitely where that needs to start. Also teaches
our young sisters etiquette, how to conduct themselves as women,
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you know, not coming out the South House all halfnked
and all that. So I'm off for the only questionable
thing is for me, uh, the the the autonomy part,
the reproductive part of it, and the reproductive part of it,
(01:41:53):
because it's just like it's not really our issue because
sisters just really get abortions and stuff. You know, the
only time they do is when they're like, you know,
victims of rape, unlike other groups of women, like white women,
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they just if they're not feeling the god that they
were dating. But other than that, it's a solid nonprofit
organization and she's definitely doing the work, doing the advocacy,
definitely deserves to be spotlighted and appreciated, and you know,
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she's impacting our community in a positive way and influencing
you know, a whole generation of young ladies. So, without
any further ado, please give our jointment to giving our
system look Redmond Warm Narrative Podcast. Round of applause. Al Right,
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So moving right along with the next section of the
Narrative podcast. This section is called the health and Wellness section.
In this section, I'll be speaking about you guessed it,
health and wellness. It's really self explanatory The reason why
I feel this section is necessary for our people and
our culture is because unfortunately, our people are under attack,
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and we're being attacked, and our health is being attacked.
You know, we're being attacked mentally, physically, and spiritually. We're
also being attacked financially. But I don't give you know,
financial tips because I believe health is well So some
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examples of the way that our people are being attacked
and putting things in our air, in the food, in
the water that harm our people psychologically. Like I've said,
you know, they've weaponized the media against us, and so
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this section is dedicated to, you know, provide preventative measures
and help us to fortify ourselves in all the areas
that we're being intact, which is mentally, physically, and spiritually.
So the types of you know, health and wellness tips
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that I give, say, for example, like physical you know,
what you'll probably be hearing is, you know, the physical
health benefits you would one would derive from incorporating some
type of food to their diet, so like the health
benefits of apple or a physical exercise you can perform
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to sustain yourself physically. And then on the mental side
of it, mental exercises you can do to incorporate to
stay in good mental health and keep all your mental
faculties intact and keep from going insane spiritually, regardless of
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your spiritual discipline, religion, you know, ideology, we can all
agree that dark entities and deities do exist and for
sure right on, especially those of us living in the
United States, you better know those people here in our
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government then know how to tap in and project these
dark forces at people. So you need to know how
to protect yourself. So that's what the health and wellness
section is all about, just providing solutions, giving tips to
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lead a happy, healthy, productive life for original people. So
one minor thing I want to go over before I
dive into today's health and wellness tips near the podcast
does not exclude anybody. Anybody from any welcome life is
more than more than welcome to listen to the platform. However,
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I do my niche as they say online, my target
audience is my people, black people, or as I further,
my people on this platform, original people. That's who all
the content is, you know, centered around and focused on
the uplift, achievement and advancement, Russian and edification of our people.
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But you know, mostly in this part, especially in this part,
because our health is deteriorating at a rapid rate and
we need solutions. So that's why this part is especially
important out of all my other sections on the Narrative podcast.
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And I think religion does a really, really disservice to
our people, especially our people Black people, with you know,
that silly notion that we're all created equal and we're
all you know, God's people, and you know there is
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no color, We're all just of one blood, and that
just couldn't be further from the truth. And if God
create it all in its image and likeness, then how
can we have so many texts on who and what
God is? And it varies culturally, it varies culturally, so
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everybody got a different perception and practice the way they
practice it, whether it's Christianity or whether it's Islam, And
those are the two biggest in our communities. Christian and
Islam got all these different types of Muslims, You got
all these different types of Christians. So God created in
all one image. Then why is it so you know, broad,
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Why is it not just universal across the board? Why
would white Jesus don't see white Jesus in every church,
and it's Christian right. Going to an Asian church, you
see Asian Jesus. Go into a Spanish church, you see
Spanish Jesus. Going to a black church, you see white Jesus. Yeah,
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I know, I said white Jesus and the black church
because we've been trick. But I'm saying though, it's just
like got to get away from that notion that we're
all of one blood. We're all you know, God created
in his own image and likenesses. There's all these different
variants and variables regard religion and spirituality. We' all practicing different.
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We all have cultural needs. So the things that would
sustain me culturally would destroy you. Like you couldn't consume
my diet and survived as and vice versa. I can't
pray to your God and you know the same manner
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in the way you pray and worship your God, and
you know, keep myself intact spiritually and vice versa. So
you know, just for example, your services and as white
service night and day. So that so we're all different,
we all have different needs. It's not wrong to be different,
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you know, just because we're acknowledging the difference. Doesn't mean
we hate another group of people. This is just playing
into what my people specifically needs. So not to hate
or excrew any other group of people is acknowledging the
difference and you know, providing answers because we're different. So
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that's what the health and wellness section is all about,
just to clear up any misconceptions. So I'm not stealing
no hate speech, not I don't hate any other group
of people, but I'm just pro my people, all right,
especially in this section. All right, So today's health and
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wellness benefits is the health and wellness the health benefits
one may receive from doing something very common and if
you're you know, at the age of four, you should
be able to know how to do.
Speaker 2 (01:51:14):
It.
Speaker 4 (01:51:14):
Is reading. Reading is fundamental. Reading is fun for the mental,
your mind. You expand your mind when you read. Why well,
now people are going to chime in, well, how is
that just only good for black people? No, it's not
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only good for black people. It's especially good for my
people because a lot of atrocities that happen to my
people is from lack of knowledge. For our people are
destroyed to lack of knowledge because we don't read, not
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because we can't read because we don't. So here are
some health benefits that one would obtain from reading. Reading
improves brain function and regulates reading strength, brain connections ak
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i e. The neural pathways, so your brain is consistently
growing when the only organs in your body never stops growing.
It's always picking up new information. So there's you know,
neural pathways always form me more neural pathways forms the
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broader you're learning, the broader you're understanding, the better you
can assess information with. The more neural pathways you possess.
Reading slows cognitive define i e. Dementia alls timers more
(01:53:12):
reading improper diet because when you develop, you know those
things through improper diet. But if you read more, got
to take a less toad on your mind. And it's
very important because your brain is the strongest muscle in
the body that we hardly ever condition everything. Everything, everything
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in life starts in your mind and you see it
in your mind's eye and manifest into reality. Especially in
the medical world. This is why we call illnesses this
easies because your body becomes under the rest when your
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mind is at this ease. Right. Reading also enhances focus
and concentration deep reading encourages and sustains attention and reduces
(01:54:25):
mental distractions over time. So yeah, so people just say, well,
I can't focus. I got a hyper add and HDDD,
and you know I get distracted when I see shiny objects.
Read Braid Negger. You'll learn how to focus more through reading.
(01:54:48):
You gotta overly stimulated child, make them read. Reading reduces stress.
Just reading for up to six minutes can reduce sixty
percent of stress levels. Reading also improved sleep. Reading helps
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you fight depression and anxiety. So read something read. You're
not an app they got. It's too many. There's too
much technology out for you not be reading avidly, for
you not to be reading something every single day. There's
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books on tapes. I mean like there's like audio books now.
Now they got an app where you can just take
a picture of the book, scan them u qr co,
and it'll download the entire book for you. If you're
a swiper, you can like literally the whole book. No
(01:56:02):
excuse not to read something read if it ain't nothing
but the back of a damn box of cereal. A
matter of fact, if you're still eating cereal and you're
living here in the United States, you better be reading
circling all those words that are too difficult to pronounce,
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because that's a chemical that is probably destroying it. So
today's health and wellness tip is read. All right, onto
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the next section of the Narrative Podcast. This section is
called my speaking point section, and just to re iterate
my speaking point section is, you know, whatever's going on
in the news from our perspective. You know, if it's
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directly or indirectly affecting or relating to our people, I'm
discussing it from our perspective. And all my speaking points
here are the Narrative podcast center around the bigger picture,
the overall view, you know. And the reason why I
do this section is because you know, the media go
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out of this way to have us looking and sounding crazy.
So that's when I chime in to bring everything into
focus about our people and our culture. So, yeah, what
I'm doing in this section as I'm controlling the narrative
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because like I said, the media have us looking and
sound and crazy.
Speaker 1 (01:58:02):
And then.
Speaker 4 (01:58:04):
You know, every so often, you know, if I don't
have anything to speak about or feel anything that's happening
in the news is worth discussing, worth speaking about. I
replaced that with a PSA section. In my PSA sections
are basically just observations that I've made about our people
(01:58:31):
and our culture that you know, I've assessed and I
feel we need to work on as a people to
get better at. When I say we, I mean me too,
and in many cases me especially. But I actually do
have you know, a hot topic that's kind of sweeping
the internet, and you know, a whole lot of size
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are divided, and you know, we're gonna talk the centers
around a belovedineteen nineties sitcom that we all loved from
a guy we all love as an entertainer who you know,
gave life to a whole lot of new nuances in
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sitcom culture that didn't exist before you know, this sitcom existed.
Also gave work to a lot of newcomers in industry.
We buy a whole lot of careers of people who
hadn't done anything in a while before they was on
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that show, you know, gave revamped their careers who you know,
people you ain't seen it since the nineteen seventies or
the early eighties before this nineteen nineties you know sitcom.
They and the show that I'm speaking about is none other,
(02:00:00):
and then the unforgettable Fox sitcom featuring actor comedian Martin
Lawrence Martin, so the you know, the Internet is a blaze.
There is a young lady. It took the TikTok and said,
(02:00:22):
she feels traumatized behind the jokes centered around the banter,
the comedic banter between Martin's character where he played himself, well,
his last name is, Lawrence's character his name is Payne.
But Martin Martin not too deep deep up a deviation
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between his character and Tooshinna Arnold's character Pam, and she feels,
you know, his jokes weren't jokes. He was actually attacking
and black women. So let's dive into it. You know,
my assessment behind the psychology of what she may be
(02:01:14):
talking about in this series. She feels like all the snaps,
you know, the banter back and forth between her to
she and Arnold's character Pam and Martin were all you know,
angry black woman trokes, she said, you know, she he
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was always comparing her to animals, and you know, and
just trying to pick her apart and dehumanize her. And
you know, everybody's entitled to their opinion. I keep an
open mind and I assist, and I can go back
(02:01:58):
and you know, see a few episodes where she may
have come into her you know, assessment of it. But overall,
you know, it was it was universal across the board.
It was mutual snaps. There was a circle of friends,
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and when you have friends, that's how you test your friendship.
You know, can I be honest with you? If I
can't be honest with you, we probably can't be friends
because I'm gonna say something, you know, if your breath
ain't too fresh, like, hey, you know you need some
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of the older I'm gonna say something. If we're friends.
And that's what the circle of friends on that you
know sitcom was all about. That was being openly honest
and you know, snaping on each other every time. It's
not the hurt feelings, it's just like you know, it
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provided comedic relief and levity to the show. I mean,
it wasn't commony sitcom, but the snapping it gave it
a heightened depth, especially the ones between Martin and to
Sena Arnold's character Pan, So that was kind of the
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highlight of the show. But she would respond in kind,
her character will respond in kind. She would dish it
out just as good as she would give it. And
now far as you know, the young lady feeling he
singled to Shana out because she was dark skinned, I
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don't really think she has a whole weight, you know,
a leg to stand on by that argument. Because he
had just as many jokes to his you know, his
love interests of the show, Tisha Campbell, who was Gina,
he had just as many. You know, I believe he
(02:04:16):
called her baige in a couple episodes, you know, he
snapped on her. You know, I think he actually did
his character. There's a few episodes where he called her
baige or something like that. He never, you know, when
I'm watching it, he never made any reference to Pam's
(02:04:37):
character being dark skinned. You know, he would have said
something like under the bed or you know, midnight or
something like that. Or bar none. That's what we used
to say in school. We would snap on the shovel,
see somebody dark skin, shut have bar none. But you know,
(02:05:09):
going back a little further, how the dozens were even
created within our culture. You know, it goes back to
slave times and they like just like right after it
was air quotes emancipated, they kind of created this system
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of you know, developing tough skin. This is how the
Dozens were born in the first place, to develop tough skin,
because when you know, you go out to the real world,
you know, the white people were going to talk bad
about you, talk bad about your mom, talk bad about
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your parents, your clothes, your nose, all your black features,
they was gonna talk bad about. This is to mentally
prepare you for the hardest treatment that you was gonna get.
That's why we even played The Dozens to begin with anyway.
But in this particular show, it was a group of
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friends and there was this jones in on each other,
and everybody went in on each other and everybody clowned
each other. Everybody laughed, and you know, their characters never
took a personally because within the show they stay friends.
So that's just kind of something friends do. They snap
on each other, you know, and if they're never not okay,
(02:06:35):
and these days it's hey, I wasn't okay with that,
Oh my bad, you know, So I will say in
this generation, the dialogue is better, so you can sustain
your friendship circle better because now these days you know
who's your real friend, who's not as opposed to back
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in the day. Oh, that's just you know, that person personality.
So now with these days, with this, you know, this
mental health revolution, you can kind of, you know, you
can kind of tune in a little better for who's
really got you and who's pretending to be your friends
(02:07:20):
just so they have an opportunity to tear you down.
So she does have a semi point, but I think
it was a deep, deep, deep reach. And we live
in the content creator generation, and I think this is
just something to create content, because the things that she
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says she's offended by is just like, it's not even relevant.
It's not I don't nobody living in the early nineties
part of it like that. Nobody you know who was
watching the reruns in the late nineties thought about that.
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Nobody's in the early two thousands of you know, looked
at it like that. But in twenty twenty five, this
young lady gets on the internet and she watched the series,
and by the way she's assessing it, I think she
did probably take some psych classes in college, in some
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African American studies classes, and did kind of, you know,
just nitpick and find things to align up with what
she learned. Far as like, you know, clinical psychology, but
it ain't real rap. I don't think you was, you know,
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trying to single her character out just because she was
dark skinned. It was just chemistry, I think, and it
was just like that gave the audience what it wanted
to see because I think it just turned into something.
They just did it once and you know, you know,
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the people loved it, and they just made an ongoing
thing in the series, and that's what made the series
so great. The interaction Martin had with.
Speaker 5 (02:09:34):
So she and the.
Speaker 4 (02:09:35):
Arnold's character pan. He wasn't singling her out just because
she was dark skinned. He definitely wasn't attacking women in general.
Speaker 5 (02:09:46):
You know.
Speaker 4 (02:09:48):
She asserted that like he was, he hated women, his
character hated women in general, like she man. She dissecting episodes, well,
you know the pregnancy episode when we was interacting with
all those like this is how in depth this lady
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don't win, Like she don't watch every single episode of
The Martin Show to come up with this, you know,
analysis of him being his character being a woman hater
and especially dark skinned black women. This is with this
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lady online is presuming. So my assessment of her assessment
is that it's like it's it's clock chasing. She created
a whole online controversy to get some clicks because it
ain't really all that deep now, it's it's you know,
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it's sparking some really controversial conversations. But you know it's
ah like she should have she should like she should
have tore a meniscus. This is how hard she's reached,
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trying to just find something negative. That was a show
that inspired us to laugh at a time, you know,
the early nineties was super political for black people, especially
those of us living in the United States. Like the
game is just something to just forget about, you know,
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politics for a minute and just have a good, hearty
a deep laugh without being too cerebru. Because when you
go further back, like look at the look at the
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interaction on All in the Family between uh, you know,
look at the interaction between Carol O'Connor's character Archie Bunker
and Sherman him as the character George Jefferson. I don't
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think they used George Sherman on the Hall in the Family.
They use somebody else, I think for the very for
the first couple of them, but uh, they use the
same line up. But anyway getting off putting, Like look
at how all the racial snaps that they went back
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and forth. You know nobody didn't dissect that. You know,
this is the offended area. Everybody's so offensive, Like you know,
watch people start coming forward, overweight, people start coming for it, like, oh,
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I was offended at.
Speaker 3 (02:13:11):
You know.
Speaker 4 (02:13:15):
What's happening all those fat jokes that they used to
do on Rebrand. You know what I'm saying, that's the
direction This new generation is one. They're gonna just nitpick
and dissect stuff twenty thirty, forty fifty years ago to
feel some type of way, some type of way about
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it now, like it's cooked, bro. Like, if it's that
offensive to you, don't watch it. Don't watch it if
you offend it, if that hurts your feeling so bad?
Because so, what did you do the video for? You
want an apology from Martin Lawrence and the writers of
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that show, Like what was the end goal for it?
You know what I'm saying. Did you want to Shina
Arnold to come forward and be like as a dark
skinned woman? And I never thought about that when I
was on the show, but your video showed me the light.
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And now I too, am offended, Like, now I know
what old timers used to be like when they like,
you make my asshch This lady makes my hash stitch
with this foolish less if you don't get off the internet, lady, Like,
if you want to do something really productive, like go,
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do you know a video on systemic oppression?
Speaker 5 (02:14:48):
Go?
Speaker 4 (02:14:48):
Do you know some videos how dark skinned women in
America are ostracized and treated in real life? You know,
in the job world, in career. Wise do that instead
of picking on sitcoms. It's not even on the air
no more. But that's where I'm land my plane.
Speaker 5 (02:15:18):
You know.
Speaker 4 (02:15:19):
Everybody's entitled to their opinion. And she sees it like that,
you know, I can't call it my spallly and she
like it. I love it. But anyway, thanks for listening.
Oh wait, I was about to end the prematurely that
to be doing for this section. I got one more
section then we wrap it up. Last section here on
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the Narrative podcast. This section is called my Wise Word
of the Day. My wise word of the Day is
a philosophical sentiment, a gem joel, a pearl of wisdom,
if you will, designed to promote critical thinking by helping
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us ponder the simple complexities of this thing we call life.
In today's Wise word of the day is desire. This
snary design defines desire as the feeling of wanting to
have something, or wishing for something, or wishing something will happen.
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An instance, an instance of feeling she had a lifelong
desire to visit China. Sexual appetite, passion. So what do
you desire now these days? Desire is more like the
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last one, a sexual appetite. Your imagination is only bound
by your desires, So you have to make sure you
desire things beneficial to your life. You can't lust after
things that will harm you. Mom My Mama always used
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to say everything look good too, you ain't good for you.
And that's what our problem. People's problem is a lot
of people in our community. They desire things that they're
not equipped to handle. We see these little rap videos
and we want what the rappers have. We want the
big old stacks of money and with that shiny jewelry,
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and want that luxurious motor vehicle. You know, we want
the We want the private jet experience, the first class experience,
the five star motel, five star hotel experience.
Speaker 5 (02:18:04):
You know, we.
Speaker 4 (02:18:09):
Desire that, But does your desire a line up with
your goal, with your path in life? Intend to desire
things that will harm us. Everything looks good to you
and good for you. You can lust and desire you
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know a person going these little online dating sits and
be like, who we she look good to me, or
if you're a woman, she'd be like, I need him
in my life. And then you build up this little
image in your head and you're going off your desire
by what your eyes see. Then when you meet the
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person in life, they end up not being worth all
the time you spent with them to get close enough
to them, because again, you know, you didn't discipline your desires.
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We gotta learn how to condition ourselves to desire things
that will be advantageous to us, not harmful to towards us.
So it's okay to desire to desire something, but it's
not okay to succumb to your desires. Let that sink in.
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I took a very I took a long dramatic pause
as I wanted to really drive home that point. Desire
to desire things that will help you have to take
time out and create healthy habits. Feed your ambition, feed
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your passion, feed your drive, feed your desire, not your lust,
not your cravings, not your impotion, not your compotion. Desire,
my friend, the word of the wise, word of the
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day is desire, and I desire for all of y'all
to join me next weekend with another full edition of
The Narrative Podcast. This is Halsey Allen reminding all my
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do everything within your power to uplift an uphold Black
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culture or as I refer to our culture on this platform,
original people coaching. Well, that's it, and that's all. Were
out of here. Like last year, I'm Halsey Allen, and
I'm changing the narrative one episode at a time. I'm
asking you to help me change the narrative by becoming
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a narrator or I'm changing the narrative on my end
one episode at a time as a narrator, you can
help me change the narrative on your in one social
media post at a time. Till next time. Halsey Allen
and The Narrative podcast signing off. And it's like that,
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