Episode 512 Weekday edition ( Thursday)- The Narrative Podcast

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Dot narrative With the Narrative Podcast Narrative whateverthod a.

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Peace, Peace, Peace, Family. You're now tapped into another edition
of the Mighty Mighty Narrative Podcast. The Narrative Podcast is
the home of original people, Original people, peace, original people, respirosity.
The Narrative Podcast promotes positive frame of positive frames of
reference about original people and original people culture. The Narrative

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Cast provides positive frames of reference about original people and
original people culture. The Narrative Podcast highlights the beauty, strength,
and resilience of the Black community, covering topics such as

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black love, empowerment, unity, and progression. Near The podcast dives
deep into discussions about black health, economic wealth, innovation, and
positive reinforcement of Black voices to their week days and
week ends to hear stories, uplifting news, and to focus
on the black and Black individuals across the globe. Welcome

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to the Narrative Podcast. I am your host, hag Zy Allen.
Welcome all my narrators, Welcome to the Near podcast piece peace.
All right. So yeah, that's pretty much basically what the
Nerik podcast is all about. This and all black platform

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focusing on all Things Black. Just gave you a brief
overview of the podcast. I'll give you a more in
depth one a broad overview later on in the program.

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But welcome to the Merit Podcast.

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Got a good show for you today, got a good
show for you every single day that I broadcast an episode.
But anyway, you know, life is life, and a whole
lot going on, whole lot the process.

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We're gonna attempt.

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To do our best on here on this platform as
it pertains to and relate to you know, our people
and our culture. So you know, welcome to the platform.
So those are familiar with me and my platform. How

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I get things started off? Typically, First of all, my
platform is designed around delivering positive frames of reference about
our people and our culture, so that's what I focus on.
The way I present my content is basically all my

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content is broken down to sections. Each of those sections
has speaking points, and I time each speaking point to
make it the.

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Overall enjoyable, digestible program.

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So how I kick things off is I give you
a comparison contrast between my two times that I broadcast
the Narrative podcast, which is the weekdays and the weekends,
just to give you a feel of how they differed.
Then from that, I have a promotional portion of the

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program and the purpose of that is to promote projects
that generate revenue.

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For the narrative podcast. There is a monthly.

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Maintenance be attached to the program, but these projects helped
generate you know, revenue to keep the podcast going. So
that's why I plugged those. And then after I'm done
plugging my projects and then dive on into the.

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Broad overview of the Narrative podcast.

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And basically that's equipping you with all the knowledge of
all the nuances of the podcast everything you need to
be you know, thoroughly informed about as a listener of
the listener and potential supporter of the platform too, you know,
make the listening experience overall.

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And more enjoyable and you know, easier for you to
die just.

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And then.

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You know, shifted on into the content itself. So anyway
to get things started with the comparison and contrast section.
First of all, I broadcast two times broadcast during the
weekdays on an upward to two to three times a week.

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The reason why just not all week, weekday long is
I deliver positive news articles and sometimes I need my
feeds to refresh so I'm not.

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Recycling the same old articles over and over again.

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But anyway, so I broadcast on the weekdays and then
also broadcast on the weekends as well. So here's my
format style for the weekdays. So, as I just previously stated,
the main objective of the Narrative podcast is to deliver

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positive frames of reference about our people and our culture.
As a matter of fact, that is my smogan the
Narrative Podcast, changing the narrative one episode at the time
by destroying negative stereotypes about original people and.

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Original people culture. How do we destroy the negative stereotypes.

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About our people and our culture by providing positive frames
of reference about our people and our culture. So the
main frame of reference that I focus on during the
week days is providing.

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News articles.

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And the reason why I focus on providing positive news
articles during the week days.

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Which is today Thursday, is to you know, just promote positivity.

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And because all weekday long, we're constantly being bombarded with
negative news that concerns our people's images and likenesses. So
you know, we're constantly being bombarded with something negative about
our people and our culture, and that constant exposure to

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that negativity adversely affects our mental health as a people.
It gets ingrained into our psyches and then on a
subconscious level, we tend to act out these you know,
negative images that were exposed to all weekday long.

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And it doesn't just stop at.

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The news period. It's in all forms and media, you know, movies, television, shows, books, literature, magazines, advertisements, radio,
you know, just it never stops. So you know that

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constant onslaught of you know, negativity coming at us in ways.

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Has an overall devastating effect on our community.

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As I said, against ingrained into our psyches, and you know,
we tend to act it out on the subconscious level.
It's absolutely psychological warfare. Add its finance. So the people
that designed the media, they knew, you know, exactly what
they were doing. They studied our people for thousands of

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years and you know, crafted and designed ways to break us.
But they're most effective method to do so is you know,
the media, and that's the whole purpose of the media
is to wark and control the minds of the masters,
especially our people. Now, the adverse effects that it has

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on people outside of our culture.

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Is that it turns other groups of people against our people.

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Influences their perception of us and dictates how they're going
to engage and interact with us and react to us.
They're only giving negative frames of reference about our people
and our culture. You know, for example, law enforcement. You know,
many of them didn't go to a school with black

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people or as I refer to our people on this platform,
original people didn't go to school with any of us,
didn't grow up in the same neighborhoods.

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All they know about us is what they you know,
hear and see in the media.

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So they have these negative perceptions, and you know, they're
afraid of us on.

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Instincts and.

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Intolerant of us on instinct and so they naturally follow
their instincts when engaging us. And this is why a
lot of us, you know, end up you know, being
brutalized or unlive by law enforcement and just people in

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general outside of our community. So you know, it's bad
business all around for us. You know, the way our
images and likenesses are circulated through the media, This platform
isn't about caring about what people outside of our culture
think about us, or you know, how to view us,

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or you know, seeking validation from them. This platform is
all about putting you know our people and culture into
perspective and telling you know, the nature of who we
are as a people with kings and queens, guys and
guddesses of the universe. And that's how our images and
likenesses always need to be depicted across all platforms. All

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our stories deserve to be told accurately if you're going
to tell them, and so that's why primarily focus on
delivering positive news articles during the weekday to accurately, you know,
tell our stories, undo the psychological programming and conditioning, and

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then also to demonstrate and prove the receipts the positive
things do happen within our community. And after I'm done
delivering bring my positive news articles. I have another section
which I call the high lights section or not part
of me, the speaking point section. The speaking point section

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is basically commentary commentating on current events. I'm a podcaster,
like all podcasters do. They talk about you know what,
you know, the order business of the day, whether the
news be nationally, locally or nationally or globally, or you know,

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something coming directly out of our community. You know, I
just bringing it to focus and speak on it from
our perspective as a people and what I'm doing in
that section is I'm controlling the narrative because the media
has a funny little way of going out of its
way to have its looking and sound and crazy. So

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that's pretty much the weekday format of the Narrative podcast.
Now the weekend format slightly differs. So as I said,
my you know, I specialized in delivering in positive frames
of reference about our people and our culture. Positive frame

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of reference that I focus on during the weekends is
business ownership and entrepreneurialism. The reason why I focus on
that positive frame of references because we're not privy to
that frame of reference as a people. We're not shown
you know, images and likenesses of our people being successful

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selling in life and you know having ownership, you know,
owning our own So it's intentionally done because the same
people that run the media to pump it full of
all these negative stereotypes and stigmas and all this propaganda

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about our people, you know, they you know it purposely
did that to you know, extinguish our flames. They don't
want us to draw from, you know, any source of
inspirations for us to aspire to be something great, So
they don't want to provide us with a whole lot

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of frames of reference. Is that we can you know,
that we can succeed and propel ourselves forward, do for ourselves,
take care of our families and communities, you know, and
have a.

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You know, financial infrastructure, so.

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You know, they'll do anything they can possibly do within
their power to keep on increasing, you know, the wealth
gap between our people and dominated society, which happens.

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To be white, and all other groups of people that
are not white.

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Also benefit, you know, from the wealth gap as it
relates to our people, especially those of us living here
in the United States. So that's why I primarily focus
on delivering positive frames of reference about business ownership and entrepreneurialism,

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just to kind of get us reacquainted, get our people
reacquainted with the greatness of who we are, especially those
of us living here in the United States of America.

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There was a time period where we had our own businesses.

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It was just a common thing to see before you know,
we integrated, We had our own neighborhoods.

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We had our own establishments.

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It was just the common, you know thing to see
us in ownership roads and being business owners, being supervisor
managers of you know, businesses and institutions. We had our
own schools, retail industries, food industries, and you name it.

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We had our own. So nowadays it's not a common
thing to see us with our own. So that's why,
you know, focus on delivering the positive frame of reference
about business ownership.

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And entrepreneurialism, highlighting and why that's so important. Then also.

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Promoting black economy by making the listener aware of businesses
to support so it can circulate our dollars within our
own communities. And the name of that section, it's called
the high Lights section. So outside of just promoting black

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owned businesses, what I'm doing is I'm highlighting the stories
of you know, business owners and entrepreneurs. I'm giving you
just their background story of how they became a business owner.

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It's basically just like you know, the highlights of their life.

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Story or something you will find in a wiki or something,
all the events, all the key events in their lives
that led up to them owning their own owned businesses.
So the type of information I include about the business owner,
you know, is like you know their hometown, you know

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where they grew up at, how they grew up, any.

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And all.

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Educational experiences they had, you know that helped them along
your journey. You know, whether it's school or some type
of vocational training facility where they acquired the skills that
they needed to start their own businesses, advice, you know, mentorship,

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just whatever play the role into then becoming a business
owner or an entrepreneur or whatever crafted their mindset to
get them on that path. Then also how they wire
the assets to start their own business when applicable, if

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I can find that information, like you know, then also
I give you specific details about the person's business, you know,
whether it's online or brick and mortar location. Everything you
need to know about patronizing online business, you know, the
typical stuff like the actual you know, website, the layout,

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how to order the product, what they specialize in, what
system apart from the competition, you know, just everything you.

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Need to know about a website. You know, do they
have a blog? You know, what their web page looks like,
how to navigate through it for.

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Online if their business is online, or if you know
specific key be to for brick and mortar location such
as where it's located, you know, address, city, state, zip code,

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instruction somehow to get there, a parking ah the decoor,
what looks like inside hours of operation, of course, contact information,

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you know, ordering extructions, you know what's the moves to
order something from the brick and mortar location. If it's
like a eatery or if it's retail, you know what's
the lines like, and you know the customer service, and
you know things of that nature and every thing you

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would need to know about patronizing and brick and mortar location.
So that's what's included in the highlight section of the
narrative podcast and how I select the business owners.

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That I highlight the highlight section goals as followed.

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They must be you know black or as I refer
to our people as original people, so you know they
must be black or establishment must be black on from
the top to the bottom. They hire their own, They
do some type of outreach for the community. They either
have their own nonprofit organization or pay anyone train their own,

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do something positive that impacts the community, that the rooted
is in a positive way. And then, last, but not least,
the business must coincide with my theme and my running
theme is nationally recognized days or now recognized months, So

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the business must coincide and play up play along with
that theme.

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So that's the Highlight section of the Narrative Podcast, the
weekend edition.

Speaker 4 (23:13):
I'm not going to break down all the sections of
the Narrative Podcast weekend edition because it's longer, it has
more sections than the weekday sections. I'm just pointing out
key differences. So that's the Highlight section. That's the main
thing that I focus on during the weekends is promoting

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black owned businesses and business owners and entrepreneurialism. Another section
that I have that's different from my weekday edition of
the Narrative Podcast is a section called.

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The Spotlight section.

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And when I'm attempting to do on the Spotlight section
is to promote positive reinforcement of our people and our
culture by spotlighting, uh, you know, a prominent figure within
our community that impacts our community in a positive way
with their presence, like something you know that they're doing

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or engaging that it is positive, such as like you know,
advocacy work, activism, philanthropy, a nonprofit organization, something impactful and

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powerful and inspired. So it's basically like the highlight section.
Whether whereas the key differences in the Highlight section, I'm
focusing on, you know, business ownership, and our moralism. In

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the spotlight section, you know, I'm focusing on, you know,
just a unique individual, you know, the attributes and the
accomplishments and achievements of the individual.

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You know.

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So usually when I started it, I used to just spotlight.

Speaker 4 (25:22):
Celebrities ranging from you know, everything in the entertainment industry, actors, actresses,
recording artists, comedians, public figures, you know, social media influencers.
But these days, I'm trying to primarily focus on just

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regular people because I want to get away from the
negative stereotype about our people only knowing how to entertain.
So that's what I'm focusing on, you know, It's just
the achievements and contributions of just the average regular person

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from our community. And my thing that I'm trying to
accomplish in that section is I'm trying to normalize being normal.
I'm trying to also prove that all heroes don't wear cakes.
And then I'm also trying to you know, start the

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trend of utilizing your digital space to uplift and edify
our people or rather than tear down and destroy, because
we've been brainwashed and conditioned to believe that in order
for anything that we're working on anything, we're trying to sell,
anything we're trying.

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To promote, we have to center it around negativity.

Speaker 4 (26:57):
We have to use our platforms to tear another brother
and sister down to Gardner clicks and to get traction.

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For whatever we're working on.

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And we should be using this digital space to network
and build rather than destroy and you know, attack each other.
So that's what I'm trying to do in that section.
And again the section is called the Spotlight Section. It's
only featured on the weekend episodes.

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Of The Narrative Podcast.

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And then lastly, I close out on a super positive note,
just a reflective editorial piece.

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I call my wise Word of the Day.

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And the wise word is just a philosophical sentiment designed to,
you know, promote critical thinking and help us ponder the
simple complexities of this thing called life. And that's pretty
much my weekend edition of the Naror Podcast. That's how

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that goes. Like I said, there's more sections, but I'm
not going to go over each and every section of
The Narrative Podcast weekend edition. You just happy tune in
this weekend to hear it in this entirety. I just
wanted you to be aware of the key differences between
my weekdays and my weekends. Now moving on to the

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promotional portion of the Narrative Podcast with the very first
thing I'd like to promote, and the first thing I'd
like to promote is the podcast itself. Obviously, Narrative Podcast
is available on all audio podcasts, streaming sites, or networks.

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It simply go to your favorite audio podcasting site and
listen to episodes of the Narrative Podcast hosted by me,
Halsey Allen. And so that's what you want. That's very key.

Speaker 5 (29:17):
It has to be the episodes hosted by me.

Speaker 4 (29:20):
If you like or enjoy all black content, you want
to support all black content, make sure you're listening to
the Narrative Podcast hosted by Halsey Allen on all audio
podcasts streaming sites.

Speaker 5 (29:35):
And the reason for that is you must go out
of your way to make sure it's hosted by me.

Speaker 4 (29:40):
Is because there are thousands of podcasts out there titled
the Narrative Podcast. It's essentially fair use. Nobody can really
trademark that title. That's why there's so many podcasts titled
the Narrative Podcast. But if you want to hear you know,
you know current news and up to date information with

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the focus on the achievements of you know, black people
and black culture. So you want to make sure you're
listening to the Narrative podcast hosted by me Hawsey Allen
or after you confirmed that you're listening to the correct
narrative podcast. After you're done listening to the episode, we

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should see a download button, you know, on whatever site
that you're on. You want to click that to download
the episode of the Narrative Podcast hosted by Me Hawsey
album and then share or upload the episode of the
Narrative podcast to whatever social media platform that you like

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or enjoy sharing or uploading contents. And that's how you
support the Narrative podcast when listening to it on all
audio podcasts streaming site. The most efficient and effective way
to support the Narrative podcast is to follow me on
X formally Twitter. And the reason why you want to

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do that is because X is sent to this platform,
which means every single time an episode is recorded, it
automatically uploads the X without any you know, interference or
direct effort on my part. It just automatically does it.

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It's just an automatic thing. It automatically uploads to X.
So if you're ever scrolling on Facebook or Instagram or
whatever other platform you like reading and scrolling on outside
of X our most you know, most likely had to

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physically put the link there, but it appears automatically on
X as well as you know all audio podcast streaming sites.
But that's why you want to follow me on X
because when you get your alerts, you will be alerted
to the newest episode of the Narrative podcast when the debut.

Speaker 5 (32:22):
So soon as a brand new episode of the Narrative.

Speaker 4 (32:25):
Podcast drops, you will be alerted of that when following
me on X formly Twitter. So to follow me on
X my ex profile name is I Stayed Good at
Halsey Allen and the confirmation that you're on the correct
X page. And need this confirmation because out here cloning pages,

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you should see a book pin to the top.

Speaker 5 (32:55):
Of my podcast logo my.

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My X page.

Speaker 5 (33:03):
It's a black book.

Speaker 4 (33:04):
In the title of the book, it's called the Black Card,
and that's kin to the top of my EX page.
So that's your confirmation you're on the correct X page
to support the Narrator podcast. So once you have your confirmation,
look for the latest link of the narra the podcast
posting on my X page. Click on that link and

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when you click on that link, the link should expand,
revealing my podcast logo. My podcast logo is just the
silhouette of a microphone that says the Narrator podcast on it.
And once you see my podcast logo, what I then
need you to do is to.

Speaker 5 (33:47):
Click on the like button.

Speaker 4 (33:50):
And the like button should be located at the top
of the podcast logo and it's in in the shape
of a heart. So fine the heart shaped like button
on my podcast logo on X and click on it
and when you do this, they should expand, cause the

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podcast logo to expand the second time. After it has
expanded the second time, what I didn't need you to
do is cik the like button again, only this time
it will be located underneath the podcast logo. So click
on to the second time click the light button, and
then next to that you should see a comment in

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the comment box. Leave me a comment in the comment box.
Comment whatever feedback you would like to give me about
the Narrative podcast, whether the feedback is positive or negative,
just however you feel about the episode, and then any

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you know thing you will want to add to it
or you know, whatever your opinion is put in the comments,
but just leave me a comment in the comment box.
Each action you perform will help generate revenue for the
podcast logo, so like it commenting on it, and then

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after that is the most important feature, which is the
download feature. It works similarly to the download feature on
all audio podcast streaming sites.

Speaker 5 (35:35):
You just look for it.

Speaker 4 (35:37):
It's usually a cloud shaped icon with an arrow pointing down,
so find that and click on it to download the episode.
At the episode it's fully downloaded, then hit the share button.
Share upload that episode of the Narrative podcast to whatever
social media site that you like, sharing your upload the

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content too. Next, another way you can support the Narrative
Podcast is to follow me on YouTube. You actually don't
even need to follow me or subscribe. Just go to
my YouTube page and it's Halsey Allen just on YouTube.

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Also to verify you're on the correct YouTube page, Halsey
Isllen just in case there's another user with that title,
you should see, you know for my profile pick. I
used to have a profile pick, but I replaced it
with you know, my book the Black Card, So that's

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be your confirmation you're on the correct YouTube page, and
then just support the Narrative Podcast from YouTube. Go to
my page Halsey Allen and then go into my videos
that tak mark my videos. Click on that and then
you should be able to see all the episodes of

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the Narrow Podcast. They're all in chronological order now, the
Narrative pop The episodes posted on YouTube are older episodes
of the Narrative Podcast. But you know, just like comment
and share all those older episodes of the Narrative Podcast.
It's still on YouTube to whatever social media platform that

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you'd like sharing uploading content too.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
Now.

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The reason why they're older episodes of the Narrative Podcast
and though not the current episodes, is because YouTube has
updated their community guidelines and protocols for sharing content on
that platform, and so rather than update their software and

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equipment this platform that I'm reporting that these are episodes on,
they just decided to just drop on YouTube as a distributor,
so you can no longer really share content to YouTube
from this platform. And that's why I don't have brand
new episodes of the Narrative Podcast on YouTube anymore. However,

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you can still support the older episodes that's still on
YouTube by going to my YouTube page Hawsey Isllen going
to my videos like comic share all those older episodes
of the Narrative Podcast across all social media sites. And

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that's how you support the Narrative Podcast from following me
from YouTube. Now, the next project I'd like to promote
is my personal book of poetry.

Speaker 5 (38:52):
It is titled The.

Speaker 4 (38:53):
Black Card, and The Black Card is about thirty pages long.
It's a book poetry about the Black experience and its
entirety everything we go through as a people, everything we
experience as a people, positive and negative, you know, just
the story of us.

Speaker 5 (39:15):
Condensed in poetry form. So go check it out.

Speaker 4 (39:20):
It's called The Black Card. If you're a millenated man
or millenated woman, you absolutely love this book. It's a
real journey into our culture.

Speaker 5 (39:34):
Go check it out.

Speaker 4 (39:35):
It's on a platform called Poetizer. To purchase The Black Card,
simply go to poetizer dot com. Uh, they have a
virtual online bookstore, So find a virtual online bookstore on
poetizer dot com. Look for my book of poetry title
The Black Card, and it's written by me Hawsey Allen.

Speaker 5 (39:57):
Poetizer dot com.

Speaker 4 (40:00):
So if you're unfamiliar with Poetizer, Poetizers just essentially a
writing platform, social media platform for people that enjoy to write,
particularly poetry, and it's implied in the title Poetizer and
with that allows you know, the participants of that platform

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to do is is socially interact with one another, make friends, aquaintances, whatever,
like any other social media platform, friend list being people
critique each other's work, writing on each other's walls. Also
have daily writing prompts and games, contests and activities.

Speaker 5 (40:45):
But the most important feature is they have built in.

Speaker 4 (40:48):
Self publishing software which will allow the participants of this
social media platform to write, market and sell books that
they create use their builty and self publishing in software.

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And that's why they have a virtual online bookstore.

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You can create a masterpiece for well under one thousand dollars,
So it's perfect for the novice writer for those of
us who have never written a book before. So checking
out my book of poetry titled The Black Card on
poetizer dot com written by me Hawseyillen and now give

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you more more comprehensive in depth look on with the
description of the book. The Black Card is more than
just poetry. It's a poetic manifesto, a lyrical tribute to
the regality, resilience, and the richness of the black experience

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with bowl versus the cut, deep in imagery, the sores,
The Black Card reclaims dignity, demands respect, and honors the
legacy of a people who have turned struggling distrect culture
and the power more than just poetry. This is a declaration.
Black is royal, Black is unstoppable, Black is everything. So
head on over to poetizer dot.

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Com and enjoy a veritable.

Speaker 4 (42:25):
Feast for the senses and timeless classical literature that speaks
to the heart of our people. On poetizer dot com
The Black Card. Purchase your copy of The Black Card
today or get your Black Card revoked. And then, last

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but not least, my last project I want to promote
here on the Narrative podcast Emotional Portion is my personal
poetry blog on blogger dot com and it's called Hawsey's
Poetry Corner. Hawsey I write poetry makes sense, So go
check that out Hawses Poetry Corner on blogger dot com

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at w W dots mister Hawses blogs dot com. I
even have a slogan for that blog site, Hawses Poetry Corner.
Poetry with a passion poetry for all occasions. When you
go to that site and read the poems post it
on that site, you will see that each poem lives

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up to that slogan. There's literally a poem for every
occasion you can think of in life. You know, my
poetry on that blog site is for you know, ah,
people of all respective background So you know, whatever you

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identify as or you know, whatever your background is your
guarantee to find a poem on there that you can
relate to, either in its entirety or the first few
lines of.

Speaker 5 (44:07):
A poem will just sit right with you.

Speaker 4 (44:10):
On that site.

Speaker 5 (44:11):
You know, it's just relatable, versatile poetry. So go check
it out.

Speaker 4 (44:20):
Haws's Poetry Corner on blogger dot com at ww dot.

Speaker 5 (44:24):
Mister horses blogs dot com.

Speaker 4 (44:27):
The way you support the poetry on that blog site
is share the link to Horses's Poetry Corner which is
ww dot mister blogs dot com, or a poem posted
on Haus's Poetry Corner across all social media platforms. Then
when you get to the site, when you're on Haus's

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Poetry Corner blog on blogger dot com, you should see
a light button posted directly underneath the poem that you're
eating and the light button is in the shape of
a heart, so click on the heart shaped light button.
And again, the more things you do, the more you

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engage it, you know, the more page clicks it runs up.
So like, comment and share all the poems some houses
poetry Corner blog. You know, each poem has a comment
box underneath it as well, so leave me a comment
in the comment box. Again, the same thing for supporting

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the narrative podcast. Comments are very important to help generate
you know, page clicks, and those page clicks generate revenue,
so you know, do like comedy share and then for commenting,

(45:56):
you know, comment whatever you like about the poem. What
did it for you? We didn't do it for you.
Just put something in the comment box, you know. If
you can't think of a comment to leave me type
of your name, a character on your keyboard, an emoji,
a flag, some type of gesture, just type it in

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the comment box, please and thank you so like comment
and share all the poems posted on pauses poetry Corner too.

Speaker 5 (46:30):
You know, uh support the platform.

Speaker 6 (46:35):
Now.

Speaker 4 (46:35):
Another unique, uh you know, selling point about the platform
is you know, all the poems posting on there are
spontaneously written in the moment. I didn't contemplate on anything
that I wrote about pretty much, you know, the the

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very first thought to pop into my mind was just
what the poem was about, and anything the poem was about.
I guarantee you it's the first was the furthest thing
away from my mind at the time that it was written,
because that's just how my gift works. I'm emphatically a poet.

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Uh you know, I was doing this before I started
the Narrative podcast. So anytime when I'm not you know,
doing an episode of the Narrative Podcast, most likely I am,
you know, writing poetry, a perform me spoken word poetry,

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attending the poetry functioning you know, notebooks or cost of
living expense for me, I can literally legit.

Speaker 5 (47:50):
Turn you know, one of my notepads into a great
book of art.

Speaker 4 (47:58):
So go check that out, you know, see for yourself
how dynamic and compelling my poems are.

Speaker 5 (48:07):
On hawses Poetry Corner on blogger dot com, at.

Speaker 4 (48:13):
Ww dots, mister Hawes blogs dot com and Hallses's Poetry
Corner is poetry with a passion, Poetry for all occasions.
So let me just leave you with the more you
know ah detailed description on what to expect when visiting

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the site. When you come to Hallses Poetry Corner blog
on Blogger dot com, prepared to step into a world
where emotions flow.

Speaker 5 (48:48):
Like rivers and where it's paint vivid pictures.

Speaker 4 (48:50):
Hallses Poetry Corner. It's your ultimate destination for captivating poetry.
The touches the soul. Whether you're a poetry enthusiasts or
just a casual reader, Hallses's Poetry Corner has something for everyone.
Explore all my poems, timeless classics and thought provoking verses.
Prepared tognite your imagination and splore the beauty of language

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and its purest form. That celebrate the art of poetry
together by visiting me at Halls's Poetry Corner on Blogger
dot com at ww dot Missie blogs dot com. Halls's
Poetry Corner is poetry and the passion poetry for all occasions.

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And you know that's how you support Ars Poetry Corner
blog Blogger dot com. And that will conclude the promotional
portion of the Narrative podcast weekday edition. So in closing,
I like to petition all content creators. If you're an

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audio content creators myself or a visual content creator, please
promote the Narrative Podcast on your content platforms. Please and
thank you. And when promoting the Narrative podcast, be very specific,

(50:21):
very intentional by telling your audience the Narrative Podcast hosted
by Harsey Allen.

Speaker 5 (50:30):
You have to accentuate that point because, like I said, there.

Speaker 4 (50:35):
Are thousands of podcasts titled the narrative Podcast. So that's
why it's very important to be you know, to make
that distinction, be very distinctive about that point. And that's it,
and that's all. So now we're moving on to the

(50:58):
broad overview of the narrative podcast. So starting with the
first thing, the name. Why I chose the name the
Narrative Podcasts to name my podcast. I named my podcast
the Narrative Podcast because I don't like the false narratives

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surrounding the circulation and the depiction of our people's images
and likenesses across all media platforms.

Speaker 5 (51:30):
I don't like how we're misrepresented.

Speaker 4 (51:34):
So that's why I decide to do something about it
by designing this platform.

Speaker 5 (51:43):
With the intention of, you know, changing the overall perception.

Speaker 4 (51:54):
Through providing positive enlightening frames of reference about our people
and our ca with you, you know, with the mission
statement to just change how we're proceed across all media platforms,
you know, thus changing the narrative. Against the title the

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Narrative Podcast, the first nuance you need to be equipped
when digesting the Narrative podcast is you know why coined
the term narrator to describe my audience. I was inspired
to call my audience my narrators by the textbook definition

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of the word narrator. So a narrator is just basically
somebody that tells a story and moves the story along.

Speaker 5 (52:54):
For the audience, breaks down.

Speaker 4 (52:58):
And contextualizes every thing that you need to know about
the story to you know, follow it more accurately. And
so that's why, you know, with that in mind, that's
why I refer to my audience as narrators. And narration

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is very important, you know. It's like I would say,
the narration of the story is just as important as
the content of the story itself.

Speaker 5 (53:34):
You need to know, you know what's.

Speaker 4 (53:36):
Going on in the story at all times. This is
why we have commentators and sporting events to let you know,
to keep you up to date with the stats and
let you know what's going on, you know, so the
you know, audience won't be lost. They know exactly what's
going on, and they have a clear perception and an

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accurate an accurate accounts of you know, what they're witnessing
as an audience. So particularly narration is very important for
our people. And as saying that I often use on

(54:17):
here to you know, help that break that down even
further is something that I was exposed to. I can't
remember where I picked this up at, but it's no
saying that goes along the lines if you don't tell
your own story, your own story will be told for you.
And that's precisely what the media is doing as it

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pertains to and relates to our people. They're telling or
narrating our story for us as a people. They're telling
our story. However, through a dirty lens. They're only promoting
you know, negative stigmas and stereotypes about our people, on

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our culture and passing that off as you know, an
accurate and accurate depiction of who we are as a people.
So that's why it's important for us to tell or
narrate our own stories because while we cannot control you know,

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how we're perceived through the media and how the media
portrays us. We can control what we choose to share
and tell, you know, on digital media, so we can
control the narrative and that perspective. So that's why coin

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the term narrator.

Speaker 5 (55:49):
For my listening audience.

Speaker 4 (55:51):
So now I'm gonna give me some you know, quick
snippets of how you can properly be a narrator. Our
coin to term narrator. So usly, I'm a narrator. Every
episode of the Narrative podcast, I'm delivering positive frames of
reference about our people and our culture and audio format,

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so every time you're listening to an episode, you're getting
positive frames of reference about our people and our culture.

Speaker 5 (56:20):
And that's how I narrate our story. Not only.

Speaker 4 (56:27):
Am I delivering positive frames of reference about our people
in our culture, I'm positive frames of reference that I
deliver about our people and our culture.

Speaker 5 (56:36):
Directly undermine.

Speaker 4 (56:44):
And challenge, you know, the negative stereotypes surrounding our people
in our culture. So that's how you how I'm narrating
our story from this space that I occupied.

Speaker 5 (57:01):
So every episode, you know, I'm.

Speaker 4 (57:04):
Changing the narrative as a narrator. So while I'm changing
the narrative on my end, one episode at a time.
You can change the narrative on your end, one social
media time visually. So I'm doing it in the audio format.
And as the old saying goes, pictures are worth a

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thousand words. So you can change the format, you know,
change the narrative visually with visual frames of reference that directly,
you know, contradicts a negative stigma, a stereotype about our people. So,

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for example, as a narrator, you can share, especially if
you're a content creator, positive frames of reference about our
people and our culture that directly contradict the negative stereotype visually.
So there's a negative stereotype about our people being lazy.

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So to contradict that, you can share a visual image
of us being active, whether it's physically active moving around
doing something, you know, exercising or you know, on the
job ninety five working something that you know visually represents

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us being active, not lazy, you know, being productive in
some capacity. There's also a negative stereotype about our people
being thieves, stealing, which is laughable because we are people

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who has had everything stolen from us, but you know,
they give us the negative stereotype that we are still,
so you can to counteract that negative stereotype about our people.
You can share visual images of us giving back, you know,

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through a fundraiser or a drive or something that benefits
or impacts the community.

Speaker 5 (59:40):
But just that it's completely opposite of us stealing.

Speaker 4 (59:47):
And if you can't think of any of the examples
that I named, one of the most effective ways to
change the narrative is just by uploading positive visual images
of you, yourself, somebody close to you, or somebody in
your community being happy, smiling, enjoying life, living their best life,

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being at peace, being that calm, being at ease. You know,
because the people that designed the media, one of their
key things that want to do.

Speaker 5 (01:00:22):
Is try to break us.

Speaker 4 (01:00:25):
You know, they always want to see us angry, upset,
you know, disillusion disarrayed, and you know, just having our
lives and shambles. But you know, us being happy and
finding the time to just admire that, you know, the

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sunshine that disrupts the programming that those are huge monkey
wrench in their programs, in their plans. So you know,
if nothing else, just be happy, you know, visual images
of us being happy. That's how you can disrupt the programming.

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And that's how you become an effective narrator. Now, the
next thing you need to be aware of when listening
to the Narrative podcast is I refer to our people,
black people as original people. I refer to our people
as original people for many reasons, but I'll just break

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down a few they stand out. So when you're breaking
down the word original, the textbook definition of the word
original kind of hints at being unique, one of a kind,
you know, original, you know, trend citty, you know, that's

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what kind of the word original by definition hintst you know,
being one of a kind. So I don't believe there's
any other group of the people, any other group of
people that's more original in our people original people. So yeah,

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that's why I refer to our people as original people
in that capacity. Another part of the definition is, you know,
for original people, is that we, you know, historically, are first.
That's what the word original hintset being first. Our people definitely,

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historically we're first. We're the first and are the first
people historically you know, in the in the world was
here thousands of years before any other group of people.

Speaker 5 (01:02:54):
So that is an accurate depiction of who we are
as a people.

Speaker 4 (01:03:02):
So that's another reason why I referred to our people
as original people. We was historically here first. There's not
too many things that we didn't originate as original people.
We were the original everything. We invented.

Speaker 5 (01:03:19):
All forms of.

Speaker 4 (01:03:20):
Education and enlightenment. We originated, you know, the written and
spoke in language. We originated, mathematics, we originated. We're the
original scientists, the original chemists, you know, and anything we

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didn't get credit for in history as inventing it originally
it was through our you know, modifications to the invention
that you know, somebody else got the credit for in
history work properly without our modifications to it. So you know, boom,

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there it is.

Speaker 5 (01:04:07):
We was original everything. We was here first, and we
originated everything.

Speaker 4 (01:04:11):
So that's why I refer to our people as original
people on this platform as often as possible. So now,
you know, keeping it stride with the true, you know
nature of the narrative podcast, which is to destroy you know,

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false narratives about our people and our culture. There's no
bigger false narrative than the false narrative of you know,
slavery just on the whole and not saying slavery didn't
happen and not saying and some African slaves weren't captured

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during slavery, but what's you know, not highly.

Speaker 5 (01:04:59):
Touched.

Speaker 4 (01:04:59):
The on is just you know why slavey happened, and
you know all the influences surrounding it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:11):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:05:12):
How it got abolished, the time of it, the course
you know air quotes, the route they take. It was
just if it's not an exaggeration, this is just an
outright lie. It's primary while they keep on want to
go with this slave narrative is to really just to

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psychologically keep us enslave as a people, turning us against
one another, so causing disunity in our community by putting out,
you know, misinformation about the slave trade, you know, and

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also taking away from all the great things we did before,
you know, slavery. They want to highlight it slavery to
be our most definitive time of our lives. Like you know,
we wouldn't be anything, you know, greats had not been

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for slavery, especially for those of us living in the
United States of the Americas or any other part of
the world outside of Africa. And you know, you know
when the biggest misconception about slavery is not all black
people came on slave boats to get to wherever they're

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located in the world. That's just the biggest croc of
who he ever. So, you know, especially those of us
living in the United States of America, you know, being
the original man and who were here thousands of years
before any other group of people. Doesn't it just make

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sense common sense that we didn't just stay in Africa
at the beginning of time. Doesn't it make sense that
we spread out and moved all over the world before
other groups of people came into existence, especially like palm

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colored people, before they even came to existence, because like
white people haven't even been on the earth.

Speaker 5 (01:07:31):
Over five thousand years. They didn't start appearing until like.

Speaker 4 (01:07:38):
Eleventh or twelfth century, so like, you know, we've never
not been a thing. It just they want to cling
on to this false narrative of slavery of them, you know,

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Europeans and white Spaniards going all the way to Africa
when there's not even a direct route from Europe or
Spain to get there.

Speaker 5 (01:08:13):
Or over here, which later got called the Americas. Like
there wasn't a.

Speaker 4 (01:08:19):
Direct route then there's not a direct route now, So
it don't even make sense for that to go on
hundreds of years. What instead probably happened that they just
when they just when they started, you know, exploring the world.
Because we had already explored the world and charted the

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world and populated all the continents in the world, there's
already large concentrations of our people thriving and existing everywhere
we went. You know, we just didn't feel the need
to document it because we wasn't trying to change the narrative,
wasn't try to make ourselves be at the you know,

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top of the food chain. We was just we did
stuff just because we did it everywhere we existed.

Speaker 5 (01:09:12):
We bought enlightening it everywhere.

Speaker 4 (01:09:17):
Those people that were participating in the slave trade, all
they ever bought was war, pestilence, famine, and suffering everywhere
they existed. So, you know, that's why.

Speaker 5 (01:09:39):
There's a false narrative surround his slavey.

Speaker 4 (01:09:42):
You know, in history, keyword his story, how the person
recording the events beauty.

Speaker 5 (01:09:52):
So of course they want to make themselves.

Speaker 4 (01:09:57):
Be the hero in the book and every body underneath
them be inferior to them. So with better way than
to create a fasse narrative of slavery so that's why
they keep on perpetuating it.

Speaker 5 (01:10:14):
They keep on.

Speaker 4 (01:10:15):
Leaving out all these facts, you know, big gaps in
the history of slavery, physical evidence. We've never seen one
slave shit. We've seen pictures and illustrations of slave boats,
but you to this day can't tell me the name

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of one slave boat. We got actual, hardcore physical evidence
of Viking ships existing. The fleet that Christopher Columbus so
called came to the Americans, I mean opinion, there's remnants

(01:10:59):
of that, you know, of his journey existing, the actual
physical you know, remnants of that shit. But there's no
physical remnants of slave ships that you know, so called
existed for hundreds of years, almost thousands of years. Not one.

Speaker 5 (01:11:30):
They ain't produced, not one.

Speaker 4 (01:11:33):
But there was packed to the guilds with Africans dropping
them off here in the Americas, and you know several
other places. Now, the story of black people in America
we got reclassified the majority of it. Some Africans did
come over here, but the majority of us got reclassified.

Speaker 5 (01:11:56):
We was the original indigenous.

Speaker 4 (01:11:59):
Natives of this and all explorers that ever came here
said the inhabitants of this land was a copper skinned people.
So when you close your eyes and you, you know,
envision the so called air quotes Native American. Are any

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of them, copper skin No? Are any of them to
own these hotels and casinos and live on these reservations?

Speaker 5 (01:12:26):
Copper skin No? And why because they're not even from here.

Speaker 4 (01:12:31):
They went and got some people way over in Siberia
to you know, give them all these land grants and
benefits and short changes, like they put us on plantations
along with enslaved Africans, and to this day they try
to mock us and tell us we don't have any culture.
We don't know our identity, we don't know our ancestry.

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But yeah, that's just why. Briefly, I want to address
the you know, false narratives around the slavery.

Speaker 5 (01:13:08):
I do it every episode.

Speaker 4 (01:13:10):
I try to, you know, drop a new nugget about
it every episode. But I don't want to hold you
too long, you know. I just want to tell you
the historical reason why I refer to our people as
original people. And then lastly, I refer to our people
on this platform as original people to it in an

(01:13:32):
attempt to unify us as a people, because we are
all of one blood. But there's so many different types
of us refer to ourselves as different things and spread
out all throughout, you know, the world, while you know,
view the world differently, speak different languages, have different religions,

(01:13:57):
political affiliations, ideology, these philosophies, whatever. You know, we're really
widespread and divided as a people, you know. But people
outside of our culture they just look at us and
call us black. But the term black doesn't really, you know,

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apply to all of us, and there's different levels too black.
I'm not the same kind of black as you, you know,
but I think the term, I know, the term original
applies to all of us. And not only does it
apply to all of us, it applies only to us

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because only our people, millenated people can lay claim that
we were here first. No other group of people can
say they inhabited.

Speaker 5 (01:14:54):
The world first.

Speaker 4 (01:14:55):
So no matter what you know, corner of the globe
we held, whatever our nationality is, whatever our lineage is,
we can all say, you know, unequivocally, scientifically that we
are original people, you know, and all that other stuff

(01:15:17):
is secondary. So you know, we can all universally say
we're original people. That's in term. It applies to all
of us, you know, nationality and lineage doesn't apply to everybody.

(01:15:38):
It's just as far as lineage, it's not a forgiving surface.
You just are or you're not, and that's just what
it is. But the term original applies to all black people.

(01:16:05):
So moving right along, Yeah, so I think that term
will unify us as a people.

Speaker 5 (01:16:19):
Moving right along.

Speaker 4 (01:16:21):
The Narrative Podcast is a positive, safe space for original people.
I don't engage in any negativity, gossip, slander, anything that
detegrates or makes our people look or sound bad.

Speaker 1 (01:16:35):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:16:36):
I just want to highlight the beauty of our people,
showcase us at our best, and play up our strengths.
That's what the Narrative Podcast is all about, is just
playing up our strengths, showing the beauty of our people.

Speaker 5 (01:16:52):
And it's in all our.

Speaker 4 (01:16:54):
Glory, you know, feeling good about ourselves, being have something
to feel prideful about, and you know, coming together as one.
That's what you know. The Narrative Podcast prize itself on
being you know, the center of you know. If anything,
I want to discourage against gossip. I feel gossip is

(01:17:18):
what's destroying our community. So no cheap shots, no roasting,
no talking bad about people on here.

Speaker 5 (01:17:26):
It's all about.

Speaker 4 (01:17:31):
Uplifting and edification of our people.

Speaker 5 (01:17:34):
That's what it's all about. But you know, as every rule,
there's always.

Speaker 4 (01:17:45):
An exception to the rule, and the rule is uh,
you know, as far as upholding us and uplifting us,
I don't uphold traders. So if somebody intentionally misrepresents our

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people and they're in the news or I'm in the
situation as a podcast or where I have to talk
about this situation because they're intentionally misrepresenting our people for
monetary gang like they know exactly what they're doing. They're
just like acting like that to get a bag, then

(01:18:32):
you know, I'm not going to be so nice and
delivering my commentary about that situation. Other than that, it's
a positive, safe space for original people celebrate our accomplishments
and achievements and then inspire and motivate us to be great.
That's the you know, intention of the narrative podcast.

Speaker 5 (01:18:53):
And lastly, it's a time efficient platform.

Speaker 4 (01:18:56):
As I said, ive efficiently come up with a or
mat to streamline the experience. You know, break my content
up into sections. Each section speaking points, I try to
time each speaking point. I don't have all day to
speak I know you don't have all day to listen,
so I just want to deliver the message, and I

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beat you upside here with the message. I want this
to be informative, educational, and entertaining all at the same time.
They can't do that if I'm boring you to sleep.
So I got a short amount of time to keep
you captivated, to keep.

Speaker 5 (01:19:32):
You in tuned and attentive with my content that I'm delivering.

Speaker 4 (01:19:41):
So there you go. That's the Narrative Podcast. Everything you
need to know about it to make your listening experience
more enjoyable and more you know efficient. You know I
did that for you. That's the broad overview of the

(01:20:03):
Narrative Podcast. Hope that answers any and all questions. If
it doesn't. Well, over five hundred episodes in you can
go through my episode long to bring yourself up to speed.

Speaker 5 (01:20:14):
Just make sure you download this.

Speaker 4 (01:20:16):
Episode and our previously recorded episodes of The Narrow the
Podcast one last little tippit. So pretty much all my
speaking points on this platform revolve around the bigger picture.

Speaker 5 (01:20:30):
Pretty much.

Speaker 4 (01:20:30):
Any time our people it is in the news for
something negative or you know, there's some type of negativeism
surrounding our people's name or something.

Speaker 5 (01:20:47):
That's due to.

Speaker 4 (01:20:50):
Two very big pick two very big pillars systemic oppression,
psychological program and conditioning. That's kind of the center and
focus around all my speaking points here on the Narrative
podcast as.

Speaker 5 (01:21:09):
It relates to our people.

Speaker 4 (01:21:11):
You know, that's how I try to bring everything into
focus that I'm speaking about. I interweave everything around that
ideology about systemic the big picture about how systemic oppression
and psychological programming and conditioning plays a role into the

(01:21:35):
you know, global circumstance regarding our people and culture. Like
you know, how we're perceived and why negative things happen
within our community. When we strip down the umulators, you
can it can all be traced back to systemic oppression

(01:21:57):
and psychological programming and conditioning.

Speaker 5 (01:22:01):
So we're programmed and conditioned to act a certain way.

Speaker 1 (01:22:03):
And then.

Speaker 5 (01:22:05):
You know, a far as the systemic oppression, the wealth gap, and.

Speaker 4 (01:22:11):
You know, other systematic ways to isolate us and to
ostracize us from you know, tangibles that will propel us
forward in life, to help us achieve a balance and

(01:22:32):
of life you know is not readily afforded to it,
so we have to fight for it. You know tooth
and nail to get a small little piece and hold
their small little piece. But that's pretty much what I
center and focus all my speaking points around. Now we're
going to dive into this weekday edition of the Narrative Podcast.

(01:22:56):
And as I said, if you're still in the gray
are not quite sure where I'm going with it, go
through my episode log, listen to all the episodes, download
this episode, and I previously recorded episodes of the Nerd
Podcast wherever each podcasts or is from. Now we're going
to dive into this weekday edition of the Narrative Podcast
with my very first positive news article. In the headline

(01:23:18):
reads black team becomes first student in Texas to complete
plumbing program and pass this date exams. And this is
a young brother by the name of Carmelo Castle. He's
straight out of Woodville, Texas. He entered the workforce immediately

(01:23:42):
after graduating. He passed the state licensing exam at only
eighteen on the first try. Now he's the second year
tradesman for a Local sixty for for Local sixty eight

(01:24:03):
plumbing company. That's the name of it. Now its said
the stats to be a licensed plumber is forty five.
He's eighteen and apprenticeships. You know, people graduating from a
plumbers apprenticeship program that's you know, the average age of

(01:24:27):
that is thirty four, so he's already off to a
good start. The trade skills are highly highly underestimated, especially
in the climate that we're living in today. So like
even with the advancements of AI technology and robot you know,

(01:24:51):
AI robots, they're still going to need plumbers, still going
to need roofers, They're still going to need welders, still
going to need people to know how to operate heavy machines.
You know, do construction, do facility maintenance, brick carpentry, you know,

(01:25:21):
all these vocational skills are still relevant and still will
always be in demand by humans no matter how.

Speaker 5 (01:25:30):
Far AI technology advances.

Speaker 4 (01:25:33):
And the reason why is because, you know, technology is
not infallible.

Speaker 5 (01:25:42):
Man is not made infallible.

Speaker 4 (01:25:45):
So if man's making robots, those robots will glitch at
some point, just like your device glitches from time to time,
just like your computer glitch from time to time. Robots
are going to glitcher and have little glitches and make
errors and mess the whole things up, whereas like an

(01:26:09):
actual physical human being can discern not only follow instructions,
but they can discern and decipher, you know, the next
pattern and next course of action that need to take.
So while you know, a robot can just in theory,

(01:26:31):
just work all day with no breaks and no union
breaks and you know, no workplace, you know, things that
you go through, you still need that human touch.

Speaker 5 (01:26:44):
You know, you still need that soul.

Speaker 4 (01:26:48):
Because you can tell when something's being constructed by human
hands it has a soul in it. It's not sterile,
it's not you know, just for example, the buildings in
New York hundreds of years brick. Somebody built that by hand.

(01:27:10):
It tells a story. You can feel that vibration, you
know what I'm saying that past generations built that you
ain't gonna get the same with robots. So far as
plumbing goes, you definitely want to need humans because you know,

(01:27:32):
as far as checking the water pressure, you know, smelling
you know, to find the blockage, you know, or what
the problem might be. Far as like what's down up
in the pipes and what's in the drains, A lot

(01:27:54):
of that can be interpreted by smell. You know, is
there like a you know, tree limb going through the pipes,
causing the blockage?

Speaker 5 (01:28:05):
Is it that?

Speaker 4 (01:28:08):
But plumbing is a very useful skill. You're always going
to need a plumber. You know, all modern houses have
indoor plumbing, so you're going to need somebody knows how
to you know, fix the pipes, inspect the pipes, septic
tank and all that. These trade skills are very highly

(01:28:34):
paid paying fields as well. So the fact that he's eighteen,
he's already a licensed plumber, so that that's a unionized trade.

Speaker 5 (01:28:46):
I believe it is.

Speaker 4 (01:28:47):
Plumbing a unionized trade. So yeah, plumbing is a unionized trade.
The United States Association of Journey and Apprenticeships of the
Plumbing and the Pipe fitting industry. So for all unionized trade,

(01:29:11):
full benefits you know, medical, dental, you know, thirty thousand
dollars a year just to start, very lucrative, you know

(01:29:35):
what I'm saying, Just all the person benefits. So all
you know, vocational trade skills that are unionized, they're never
not going to be employed. So even when they don't,
you know, work for a company that can be you know,

(01:29:55):
going to business for theirselves. So he's eighteen, by the
time he's like thirty or twenty five, he can go
into business for himself build the empire.

Speaker 3 (01:30:08):
You know, with his.

Speaker 4 (01:30:11):
Background is educational background and plumbing, you know he can
go into business for hisself at twenty five because that's
years in hands on experience. You know, it's all the
ins and outs of the industry got him a little

(01:30:32):
bread put up in a five year time span. So
you know, that's why I chose to share that positive
news articles just to inspire and motivate, demonstrate positive things
do happen within our community. But yeah, so without any

(01:30:56):
further ado, please join me into giving our brother Carmelo
Castle a warm narrative podcast. Round of applause, and then

(01:31:20):
just pointing out the broad overview of the narrative podcast
is the longest portion of the program, so you see
the content itself is relatively short. I'm nearly complete. I
got two more articles and then we're diving into the

(01:31:41):
last section.

Speaker 5 (01:31:44):
So if I ever go over an.

Speaker 4 (01:31:46):
Hour, you'll never be able to tell simply by listening
to the content itself. It's an all audio platform. And
when I do go over hours, never by much. Second article,
the headline read's black author releases new children's book about

(01:32:08):
friendship and the name of the book is Have you
Seen My Hat? Have You Seen My Hat? Is available
on Amazon Books, and it's written by a sister by
the name of written by a name sister by the

(01:32:28):
name of Lady Warfield, Ladies of Kentucky. Native born and
raised in Kentucky, She's a mother, former healthcare worker with
over twenty years of experience, and the CEO and founder
of a nonprofit organization called Lady Presents. And it's not

(01:32:54):
spelled with an s's spelled presents with a z.

Speaker 6 (01:33:00):
H.

Speaker 4 (01:33:01):
To find out more about that nonprofit organization, visit that
at ww dot. The Lady Presents dot org now presents
dot org that's stilled with its but it I don't
know how that works. Check check kah, pardon me, this

(01:33:58):
Lady Presents with the Z that Lady presents dot org.
Sorry for that long pause as well. I was still
trying to thumb through the article. But anyway, it's designed

(01:34:18):
to give emotional support and resource of the adolescents who
have lost their parents due to cancer related illnesses. And again,
to find out more about a nonprofit organization, go to
Lady Presents with the Z dot org.

Speaker 5 (01:34:39):
Now back to the book, Have You Seen My Hats?

Speaker 4 (01:34:43):
Have you seen My hat is for children's between the
age of four and eight. It's about friendship, creativity, community,
sitting against the backdrop of the Kentucky Derby and again.
The book is available on Amazon dot com. So go
to Amazon to copy the book and check it out

(01:35:08):
about any further a dude, please join me Kim with
our sister missed Lady Warfield a Warren Narrative Podcast round
of applause. All right, moving right along the very last

(01:35:32):
positive news article on this weekday edition of Narrative Podcast.
The headline reads new online special library with the focus
on the Black experience. It's called the Quiet House Library.
He has launched a book series that focuses on the
black experience kind of like the Narrative Podcast. Okay. The

(01:35:58):
reason why they launched this book series because of lack
of representation. The need for realistic, interesting and validating literature

(01:36:20):
is still evading the black community. The Quiet House book
collection focuses on children and young adults between ages of
four and seventeen years old. Genres of books you know

(01:36:44):
that they focusing on is intellectual thought, creativity, fiction and nonfiction.
And to find out more about the Quiet Library, simply
visit them at the Quietlibrary dot Com. So yes, you know,

(01:37:05):
literature is very important. A book is how you can
connect with life. So if you don't, you're not connecting,
you know, with yourself through the pages of a book.

Speaker 5 (01:37:19):
And what are you connecting to?

Speaker 4 (01:37:20):
So this is why it's important for our children to
have books that you know, encapsulates their images and likenesses
and you know, shares.

Speaker 5 (01:37:32):
Them and depicts them accurately.

Speaker 4 (01:37:42):
All right, So, without any further ado, please you join
me to giving the Quiet Library or the Quiet House
Library party a warm air to podcasts. Round of applause.

(01:38:09):
All right. Now we're wrapping it up with the last
section of the Narrative Podcast weekday edition. This section is
called the Speaking Point section. And just to reiterate, already
broke it down at the beginning, but the Speaking Point
section is just basically a commentary on current events, whether

(01:38:30):
it's global news or national ness, you know, as it
pertains to our people and the culture, if it deals
directly to us or you know, may impact this some
type of way. I'm unpacking whatever's going on in the world,
you know, from our perspective, because the media go out

(01:38:53):
of its way to have its looking and sounded crazy.
So by me delivering the speaking point section, I'm controlling
the narrative. So that's the purpose of the speaking point section.
You know, in instances where I feel nothing is really

(01:39:13):
needs where they're worth discussing, sometimes I replace this section
with a PSA, And my PSA is just basically, you know,
observation on you know, what I feel about our people,
you know, things that I feel we need as a
people need to work on. And when I say we,

(01:39:35):
I mean me too. It's most cases it's me especially,
but today I actually do have something to you know, discuss,
you know, so as you know what's been born all

(01:39:57):
around the blog spirits media, the b Et Show Awards
and the Soul Tread Awards has been indefinitely.

Speaker 5 (01:40:13):
Canceled.

Speaker 4 (01:40:14):
So indefinitely means for sure, they haven't given a time
date for how long the cancelation is, you know, going on.
But the organizer of the event of both events for

(01:40:37):
all the years that they've been going on, and they've
been going on since the eighties and mid eighties.

Speaker 5 (01:40:46):
Was a brother by the name of Scott Mills. So
you know, we're gonna get.

Speaker 4 (01:40:53):
Right to it. It's not necessarily a bad thing since
Mediacom hasking our Viacom pardon me, has taken control over BT.
The quality of programming has gone way down here. You know,

(01:41:15):
BT was the hub for black greatness, for Black excellence
for many years. When you would watch award shows on BET,
you would automatically feel a connection, the closeness of oneness
to your people who was hold held in the prestigious light.

(01:41:41):
Even the hip Hop Awards and hip Hop Awards has
always been casual and laid back, so the artists come
in in tracksuits and jeans and T shirts, you know,
being comfortable in their own skins, not having to wear
succeedos and all that. That was the allure of the BT,

(01:42:02):
just casual entertainment for our people, you know, all while
maintaining our dignity.

Speaker 5 (01:42:11):
And exemplifying excellence.

Speaker 4 (01:42:14):
But but.

Speaker 5 (01:42:20):
Like I said, since the purchase of BT, since they were.

Speaker 4 (01:42:24):
Bought off by Viacom, those award shows have gone drastically down.

Speaker 5 (01:42:30):
So really promoting black tropes.

Speaker 4 (01:42:34):
And don't even get me started about our sisters on
that red carpet at you know, the BET hip Hop
Awards and you know the BT Awards. You know, that's
not necessarily a bad thing. That it's been canceled because

(01:42:57):
the decline of the Shenanic the increase sub the Shenanigans.
It's just was that an all time high, just really
sickened and discussed and aparted me, like every single year
since they took over, and I never checked for it.
I wasn't checking for it anyway, as most of all

(01:43:17):
of us, they got a grain of sense, wasn't entertained
by that display of whatever it was on our screens.
So that being canceled is not a bad thing. But
we do need an awards show because we know when

(01:43:41):
we integrate into the mainstream awards, you know, nobody out
entertains our people. That's just what it is. We sing better,
we dance better, we rap better, and yeah, at these
mainstream awards were always undercut and never get our just
us and never have a night dedicated towards us or

(01:44:03):
catered to us in any capacity. We're just up there,
you know, in these looking uncomfortable in these for in
this for more tire, just smiling, looking at the teleprompter
and you know, wasting.

Speaker 5 (01:44:20):
Our time basically.

Speaker 4 (01:44:22):
Because we know we ain't winning no awards, We're only
getting nominated.

Speaker 5 (01:44:30):
Whereas at you know, our own functions.

Speaker 4 (01:44:33):
At least we will win because it ain't nothing but
us in there. So you know, somebody Black is winning
at the BET Awards, but you know that wasn't happening
actually after viacom uh took over. So like other people
was winning the BET Awards even nominated in the b

(01:44:54):
ET Awards, the other man was. So the answer obviously
is we need our own platform, We need our own
streaming service, We need our own streaming services and you know,
and we need to keep it organically hours. So that's

(01:45:17):
the problem within our community is we throw all our
integrity out the window for some money, and you know,
it makes us lose hindsight of you know, moving forward.
So when they sold BT too Byacom, you know they

(01:45:38):
had was like they put a billion dollars of the table.
But you can't put a price tag on the culture
and the influence and the impact with that billion dollars
that you sold BT for because that's destroyed our community.
Whereas you know that programming when it was under all

(01:45:59):
black ownership, there was original programming. They had TV game
shows on BT, they had series after series. They had
the b ET news news, not just entertainment news. It
was just regular news and it was all done you know,

(01:46:23):
through the lens of dignity. It didn't cringe and make
you feel embarrassed watching the show on BT. This is
back when the sitcoms were good. You know, it was
a time at BT when in this prominence, when black

(01:46:44):
sitcoms were getting killed in the ratings on network television,
they would go to BT, you know, transferred BT that
an executive will reach out to that show that wasn't
doing too good and they can at least get a
full season.

Speaker 5 (01:47:02):
Inn on BT.

Speaker 4 (01:47:03):
They can like leave ABC or NBC or CBS or
wherever it was at and go over to BT and flourish,
whereas they would only get whereas you know, and the
major networks that would get canceled after just one season
CW or WB, they had a few Black shows, but

(01:47:26):
then that didn't work out so hot when they changed
over to CW, Like Black shows was getting canceled left
and right, but then they was also carrying the network.
So I still to this day don't understand how the
Wayne's Brothers didn't get a final episode on CW and

(01:47:48):
they carried the network when it was WB all the way.

Speaker 5 (01:47:51):
Up until the transition of CW.

Speaker 4 (01:47:56):
But you know, that's just primarily why we need our
own to support our own and you know, don't look
for nothing else if it's not coming from our people.

(01:48:17):
But again, it's like, you know, we get so distracted.
We take the shortcut that money and you know, and
just forget like future generations coming after us. We're just

(01:48:37):
worried about eating now. We could structure up our finances
and our infrastructure to eat for eternity. And that's what
other groups of people got over on us. They get
that we don't. We we're just you know, we want

(01:49:00):
instant gratification and anything enjoyable in life. It takes a
little while, it takes time, but we don't. We can
definitely definitely shift the tide with our money, as we
do it all the time. Like when the movie Black

(01:49:24):
Panther came out, it was our dollars that made that
a box office smash. All the great movies about our
people in Hollywood, it was our dollars and magic smash.
It's our dollars to really kind of keep the American

(01:49:47):
economy focused and you know, moving forward, because we're the
biggest consumers in America and in the world. Period where
we choose to spend it with people outside of our
own community. We want to try to assimilate and fit

(01:50:12):
in places and going spaces we don't belong. We're not celebrated,
we're not welcome where we run to go spend our
money over there in those spaces when we should be
creating our own spaces and gate keeping our culture. When
we don't, we try to open up and try to

(01:50:32):
embrace and everybody in. But nobody embraces us unless then
us in their spaces. And that's why, you know, I
think this is happening. You know, they just integrated and
interwoke their so into a space that was ours, designed
to you know, influence us and you know, give us

(01:50:57):
a positive frame of reference about our people and culture
and you know, depict us in a positive way. So
all throughout history they've been doing this success though. Every
time we break away do our own thing, they destroy it.

(01:51:18):
You know, when we had our own black townships, they
either flooded them or they burned them to the ground.
Every time we have successful flourishing industries, they find a
way to destroy them. They find a way when people
start rising to the level of greatness, and you know,

(01:51:43):
getting into a position where they can help other people
to help narrow that wealth gain. You know, they find
a way to destroy them, Like what's commonly happening right
now is black men. They're targeting black men and penning
these essays on them because they get you know, thousands,

(01:52:08):
millions of dollars, almost billions, and then you know, they
find their achilles heel, the women seeing a woman after
him collapse, their whole infrastructure. He raped me. You know,
that's the new way to destroy us. That's where I'm

(01:52:39):
ana land by plane. You know, we ain't worried about
them canceling the BT and UH Show Soul Train Awards
because they had started misrepresenting our people. The things we
were seeing on that red carpet, the actual the content

(01:53:02):
of the show, the energy levels, just everything has been
off for quite a while, so you know, this might
not be a bad thing. This is time we should
be looking at this at a time to focus and
produce some award shows worthy of you know, our people.

(01:53:28):
You know, something that symbolizes us and immortalizes us in
a positive way. That's what we should be creating and
looking at and experiencing. So that'll do it for this

(01:53:49):
week the edition of the Narrative Podcast. Make sure to
tune in this weekend for another full edition of the
Narrative Podcast weekend edition. Tune in next week for weekday
uploads of the Narrative podcasts. I'm Halsey Allen reminding you

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you to help me change the narrative by becoming the narrator.
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