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Speaker 1 (00:02):
It became a huge, became huge, became of huge, became
a huge, became a huge, became a huge, became a huge.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Disciples to keep it dis one. Disciples, to keep this
one of.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
You and now listening to the Narrative Podcast with Halsey Allen.
The Narrative Podcast is changing the narrative one episode at
a time.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
Peace, Peace, Peace. She now tapped into another edition of
the Mighty Mighty Narrative Podcast. Narrative Podcast as the home
of original people, original people, Peace, original people, Respirosity, and
original people positivity. Ner podcast promotes positive frames of reference
about original people and original people culture. The Narrative Podcast

(01:43):
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 topic centions black love, power, mints, unity,
and progression. Near The podcast dives deep into discussions about

(02:05):
black health, economic wealth, innovation, and the positive reinforcement of
black voices. Tune in weekdays and weekends to hear inspiring
and uplifting news and to focus on the achievements of
Black individuals across the globe. Welcome to the Narrative Podcast.
I am your host, Haulsey Allen. Welcome all my narrators,
piece piece piece on this fine Friday. All right.

Speaker 5 (02:32):
So yeah, my old theme wasn't theming.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
So fortunately for me, I still had my retro, intro
and outro.

Speaker 5 (02:49):
Programmed into the board.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
But you know I might update it one more time.

Speaker 5 (02:57):
You know, just ended up.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
But welcome to the Narrative Podcast. Got a good show
for you tonight. Got a good show for you every
single time that I broadcast, every time, every single time
that I record an episode up in their podcast. Yeah,
so it's been a really frantic week, a whole lot

(03:23):
coming at us. We've lost a whole lot of great
people within like under a week's time, a month's time,
Like wow, August was not playing around. But you know
we're gonna get through it like we always do. So

(03:43):
I got some stuff to.

Speaker 5 (03:44):
Talk about, and you know we're gonna.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
Get things pumping and jumping on this fantastic Friday. So
those who are unfamiliar with me and my platform, this
is a platform about all black people, all black people issues,
and you know, everything we experience and go through as
a people, that's what this platform is all about. It's

(04:13):
all about the edification, uplifting of our people and our culture.

Speaker 5 (04:18):
But you know, the whole purpose of the narrative podcast
uplifting edify.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
Our people and our culture with this content inspired and
motivating you know, set examples. But anyway, like I said,
welcome to the platform. For those that I'm familiar with
me and my platform, how I typically get things started

(04:48):
off is, you know, I start with the comparison and
contrast section. This is just to compare and contrast my
two format styles, my weekend, my weekday for mass styles.

Speaker 5 (05:03):
Then after I'm done with that, I move on to
a promotional portion.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
Of uh my podcast by promoting projects that generate revenue
for the platform.

Speaker 5 (05:18):
And after that, I'll take.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
A deep dive into a.

Speaker 5 (05:30):
Broad overview of the narrative podcast.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
And then dive right on into the podcast content it self. So,
like I said, I'm gonna get things started a jumping
in right now with the comparison and contrast section. Uh So,

(05:53):
as you know, you know, I broadcast during the weekdays
and the weekend ends, So my podcast you know, is
divided into sections. The section has speaking points and it
all centers around you know, the main positive frame of reference.

(06:18):
So you know, that's what the platform is all about,
providing positive frames of reference about our people in our culture.
As a matter of fact, that's the catchphrase of the podcast,
Narrative podcast, changing the narrative one episode at the time
by destroying negative stereotypes about original people and original people culture.

Speaker 5 (06:39):
How do we destroy the negative stereotypes.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
About our people in our culture by providing positive frames
of reference about our people and our culture.

Speaker 5 (06:46):
So, you know, that's kind of what it's all about.

Speaker 4 (06:52):
So the main positive frame of reference that I focus
on during the week days is delivering positive news articles.

Speaker 5 (07:01):
Focus on that primarily during.

Speaker 4 (07:04):
The weekdays, as all weekday long we're always being bombarded
with negative news.

Speaker 5 (07:10):
But it doesn't really stop at the news.

Speaker 4 (07:14):
You know, all forms of media are negative, you know,
as it pertains to our people's images and likenesses by
our people I mean black or as I refer to
our people on this platform, original people. And I get
more into that a little bit later on in the segment.

(07:35):
So I provide positive frames of reference during the weekdays,
but like I said, it's a primarily not just relegated
to just the news. Our images likeness are depicting in
all forms of media, from television shows to movies, you know, advertisements, commercials,

(08:03):
you name it. Our people's images and likenesses are depicted
in the negative light. So that's kind of why I
focus on delivering positive news articles during the weekday. It
is a form of psychological conditioning and programming. Is psychological
warfare at it spinus, you know, the way they misrepresent
our people in our culture. So that's why I kind

(08:26):
of focus on delivering positive news articles during the weekday
to kind of undo that psychological programming and conditioning, and
then also to demonstrate the positive things do happen within
our community. And then after I'm done delivering my positive
news articles, and then I have a section dedicated towards UH,

(08:55):
dedicated to you know, covering with ever going on, what'sever
going on in the world. I'm a podcaster, like all
podcasters do. We cover current events and you know, speak
on it. The only difference between me and most other

(09:16):
podcasters as I you know, speak on all black topics
and break it down from the black perspective, whether it's
national news or local news or you know, global news
as it pertains to our people and our culture, or
you know, if it doesn't directly pertain to it's how
it may impact this or affect this some type of way.

(09:38):
And then you know, not only that any any and
all things discussed on this platform are discussed from the
you know, bigger picture perspective. So when I'm talking about
anything on this platform, I'm speaking about, you know, things

(10:00):
as far as our people and our culture. Typically when
anything negative is happening within our community, it's because of
systemic oppression or psychological programming and conditioning. And that's how
I pretty much unpack all my speaking points. But you know,
but especially in that section, that's how I frame it up. Yeah,

(10:23):
that's my speaking point section, and I deliver that after
I'm done with the positive news articles. But on rare occasions,
you know, if I feel like there's not anything particularly,
you know, worthy of discussing going on in the world

(10:45):
in the media, I will replace the speaking point section
with a PSA. My PSA is usually our observations I
feel we as the people need to work on, you know,
And when I say we, I mean me too, and

(11:05):
in many cases me especially. But that's pretty much my
weekday format for delivering the narrative podcast content. Now my
weekend episodes of the narrative podcasts are slightly different, particularly
because it has more sections than the weekdays and a

(11:30):
large part because when I first started podcasting, I only
used to broadcast on weekends. I didn't used to broadcast
during the weekdays. You know, When I first started doing this,
it was during the pandemic.

Speaker 6 (11:46):
And.

Speaker 4 (11:47):
I only used to just do it on weekends. And
then when I first started doing it, I didn't really
kind of know what I want to focus on. I
just know I wanted knew I want the event and discussing,
you know, talk about something. Then I shipped to focus
on our people and then streamlined and streamlinded came up

(12:11):
with a Poormatt style. And then later on, after I
became you know, good at it, I had a week days.
This platform that I'm recording these episodes on came with uh,
you know, a live feature. But since then they've done

(12:33):
away with their live features, so now you know, it's
just regular recording. But you know, since they've done away
with their live feature, I now do the you know,
weekdays regularly. Because when I first started doing it, I

(12:55):
just kind of it just kind of became a graduate thing.
I started promoting black owned businesses and then just started
adding different sections and different sections, and then I noticed,
you know, I need the streamline streamlining to make it
more efficient to listen to so it doesn't sound just

(13:16):
like a glorified rant. And you know, that's pretty much
how the narrative podcast came to be. But anyway, you know,
now I'm gonna break down my weekday weekend for a
mat style party.

Speaker 5 (13:33):
I'm not gonna cover all the sections.

Speaker 4 (13:35):
I'm just gonna show you where they are different at
I think I have a total of five sections during
the weekend. So and then all weekends. You know, I
definitely don't, you know, break down all the sections either.
I just discussed them as I come to them. But anyway,

(13:58):
so during the weekends when I'm brought brodcasting, my main
positive frame of reference that I focus on is business
ownership and entrepreneurialism. Focus on business ownership and entrepreneurialism because
we don't have many of those positive frames of reference
references as far as like owning your own business and

(14:19):
being a business owner. And that's intentionally done because they
don't want us to have those positive frames of reference
to be inspired by the people that run the media.
They only want to promote all negative things coming out
of our community. They don't want us to see what

(14:42):
you know, success looks like, especially those of us living
in the United States of America. They don't ever want
us to be reminded of a time when business ownership
was just a very normal thing, Like we had our
own neighborhoods. Everybody owned their own business. You know, we
all did for self. They don't want us to ever

(15:03):
be you know, influenced or reminded. You know that that's
perfectly normal, and that's perfectly all right. What they want
to do instead is they want to bombard us with
negative stereotypes, of stigmas about our people and our culture,
misrepresent our people in our culture and past that past
that off as an accurate depiction of us. So they

(15:28):
want to promote and normalize things that shouldn't be promoted
and normalized, and want to promote normalized gang culture. That
want to promote normalized drug culture and thought culture and
you know, lewdness and degeneracy. But they don't want to,
you know, promote anything that will inspire us and give

(15:50):
us positive self esteem and you know, give us something
to aspire to be great at. They don't want to,
you know, magnify those images. So that's why I promote
positive Uh, That's why I promote that on this platform.
That's why business ownership and entrepreneurialism is my main positive

(16:14):
frame of reference during the weekday or weekend's pardon me.
And I call that section my high light section because
I'm highlighting a business owner or a entrepreneur. You know,
their journey onto becoming a business owner, everything that happened
in their lives that led up to them owning their

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own business.

Speaker 5 (16:37):
That's why I call it the highlight section.

Speaker 4 (16:39):
I'm just highlighting their life, giving you the high points
of them becoming a business owner. And the types of
information that I include in that section is just like
any relevance, skills, education, or life experience to play the
role into them owning their own business. And then I

(17:01):
can include specific details about the business. So say, for instance,
if their business is online, I would include everything you
need to know to patronize their online business, such as
like the layout of their page. You know how to
order their product online, what their product is, what makes

(17:27):
their product unique and a cut above the competition, and uh,
what to expect, what their layout looks like when you
go online to look for their business, and you know,
things of that nature, their blog section, if they have

(17:48):
a blog section, contact information, you know, where to ask
direct questions to about their product, things of that nature.
And then say if they have a brick and mortar
you know, if their business is a brick and mortar

(18:10):
I would I would tell you you know the size
of the building. You know the maximum occupant see the
building can hold directions on how to get to the business.
You know what they expect when you get inside. The
day cores, the year it was established, the grand opening day.

(18:32):
You know, things like specific details like that about the business.
If it's a brick and mortar location, you know, can
you rent the facility outs? You know, do they host
especially events at it? And things of that nature. And then,

(18:53):
last but not least, the qualifying factors that I use
to highlight businesses in the highlight section has followed. They
must be black owned, of course, that they must hire
their own and they must participate in some type of
community outreach or activism, something that benefits and impacts the

(19:13):
community in a positive way, such as, you know, some
type of philanthropy or outreach them themselves having their own
nonprofit organization or paying into one. And then, last, but
not least, the businesses that highlight the highlight section must

(19:34):
coincide with my overall theme. And my overall theme is
nationally either nationally recognized days or nationally recognized months. So whatever,
you know, the nationally recognized days or the nationally recognized
month is the business that I'm highlighting. The highlight section
must coincide with that. And then another section that I

(19:59):
have it's different from my weekday section, is a section
called the spotlight section. The spotlight section is a section
where I'm normalizing positive reinforcement, and I'm normalizing it by
pretty much spotlighting influential person within our community impacting our

(20:24):
community in a positive way, either through their deeds, their.

Speaker 5 (20:26):
Actions, advocacy, or.

Speaker 4 (20:30):
You know, activism, or just representing us in a positive
way on whatever platform that they occupy. And the purpose
of me doing that is because unfortunately, our people have

(20:51):
been brainwashed and conditioned to believe, you know, we need
to engage in nonsense to pop on the internet, to
you know, go viral whatever. We got to drag each
other through the mud and take cheap shots. And you know,
the internet is pretty much a scary place for us.

(21:14):
You know, the powers that be have corrupted our thinking
into believing, you know, it's normal to dog each other
out on the internet, you know, air out dirty laundry
and expose each other like it's not all that deep.
So I'm just getting us back to basics in this section.

(21:36):
We should be as a people using the internet you know,
for constructive, for being constructive and positive and networking and
you know, finding solutions to all the problems that we
have in our community together instead of being against each other.

(21:58):
So that's why I deliver for the spotlight section, and
again is just to honor somebody within our community that's
doing something positive for our community. Hence the turn spotlight.
You know, just basic information you would find in the
wiki or something about the person. I try to include

(22:19):
the year they were born, their early life experiences are
relevant training and education that play the role into their
activism and any of our projects that they are currently
you know, engaging in and works that they have created,

(22:42):
you know, to impact our community in a positive way,
such as like starting a nonprofit organization or something like that.
And that's pretty much it as far as the spotlight
section goes, and like I said, I have more sections
than that. You just have to tune in in this
weekend or in the over the weekend to hear all

(23:07):
the sections of the Narrative Podcast weekend edition.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
And then.

Speaker 5 (23:17):
Finally I close out on a super positive note with
a section I.

Speaker 4 (23:25):
Call my wise Word of the day. And my wise
word of the day is a jam, as you will,
a jam, a pearl of wisdom, if you will. What
everyone called it, just a philosophical thought designed to spark
critical thinking and you know, help us pontificate upon the

(23:46):
simple complexities of this thing we call life. And that's
pretty much we Narrative podcast we can experience. Now, moving
on to the promotion a portion of the Narrative Podcast
with the very first thing I like to promote, and
that's the podcast itself.

Speaker 5 (24:07):
There are many ways to support the Narrative podcast.

Speaker 4 (24:11):
It's an all audio podcasts, so it's available on all
audio podcasts streaming sites. So what you want to do,
that's probably the first way and the best way to
support the nar of the podcast. One is to go
to it all whatever your preferred audio podcast streaming site

(24:31):
that you like to listen to, look for my podcast
Narrative Podcast hosted by Hawsey Allen, and I'm making I'm
being really intentional to this be distinctive that you know

(24:54):
this podcast is hosted by me, because there are thousands
of podcasts titled the Narrative Podcast, but only one really
hosted by me obviously, and the only one to my
knowledge that speaks about all black content all things black.
But the podcast name is kind of fair use that's

(25:17):
why there are so many. So just make sure when
you're going to look for the Narrative podcast on the
all audio podcast streaming sites that you're listening to the
one hosted by me hauseyality. So after you have found
the Narrative podcast the correct one, I need you to
listen to it, obviously, and then whatever site that you're

(25:42):
listening to it, there should be like a download button,
and the download button is usually in the shape of
a cloud. So find a download button. When you have
found it, I need you to click on it and
download that episode of the Narrative podcast that you're listen
to on your audio podcast streaming site. And then after

(26:06):
you have downloaded it, then I need you to share
or upload that comment that episode of the Narrative podcast
to whatever social media platform or a site that you
like sharing or uploading content too. And that's how you
support the Narrative podcast. When following me from audio podcast

(26:26):
streaming services. The next way to support the Narrative podcast
this podcast is since to my EX account. So to
go to x formly Twitter and then go to my
profile and my profile name on x is I stay

(26:49):
good at Hawsey Allen. And then your confirmation that you're
on the correct page. You should see a book pin
to the top of my page. And the book pin
to the top of my page my EX page, it's

(27:13):
the title one. It says the black card. So that's
your confirmation you're on the correct X page. And after
you have that confirmation, then I need you to look
for the latest link of the Narrative podcast.

Speaker 5 (27:30):
And then click on it.

Speaker 4 (27:32):
And then when you click on it, it should expand
revealing my podcast logo. And my podcast logo is just
the silhouette of a microphone. It says the Narrative podcast
on it. And once you see that podcast logo, then
I need you to click on the like button. Like
button is in the shape of a heart. It's to

(27:54):
click on the heart shaped like button. And when you
do this, This will cause the podcast logo to.

Speaker 5 (28:01):
Expand the second time.

Speaker 4 (28:03):
When it spands the second time, look for the like
button again. It's time of like when we'll be located
underneath the podcast logo. Click on that heart shaped like
button again. After you've clicked on it, then I'll need
you to find the comment section or the comment box

(28:24):
and then leave me a comment in a comment box.
Every function you perform helps generate page clicks. The page
clicks generates views, The views generate income. So please just
do everything I'm saying to help generate money.

Speaker 5 (28:46):
For the platform.

Speaker 4 (28:47):
This platform comes with a monthly fee attached to it,
and that's why I'm promoting all these projects to help
me pay the monetary fee that it takes the up
run the podcast. And then also my overall goal is
to make that transition from audio to video ultimately my

(29:10):
ultimate goal. But right now, just keeping the podcast maintained.
So yeah, leave me a comment in the comment box.
It doesn't matter what type of comment you leave me,
positive or negative. Just comment something in the comment box.

(29:31):
You can literally type the words something and that to
be acceptable. That to help generate the clicks. You know,
an emoji thumbs up, a flag if you're from a
different country, you know, whatever, just type something in the
comment box is what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (29:50):
And then after you left your comments, then go to
the share button and share.

Speaker 4 (29:58):
Upload the latest episode of the Narrative Podcast to whatever
social media platform that you like sharing uploading content too.
That's how you support the Narrative podcast from following me
from X for me, Twitter.

Speaker 6 (30:13):
And that.

Speaker 4 (30:13):
The last way you can support the Narrative Podcast is
to follow me on YouTube. My YouTube page is Halsey Allen.
That's my viewer page. And you can support the Narrative
Podcast by going to my videos on YouTube. And again,
my profile page is Halsey Allen and all my Narrative

(30:36):
podcast stuff is under my videos. You need to like,
comment and share those to whatever social media platform that
you like sharing uploading content too.

Speaker 5 (30:48):
And that's how he supports the Narrative podcast.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
Will follow me from YouTube and again for the comments,
you know, just type something in the box on YouTube.
And then also we all know the light buttons on
YouTube their thumbs up and the thumbs down. You click
the thumbs down if you didn't like the episode, doesn't
really matter to me. Again, it's just to help generate

(31:13):
the clicks. And then also one more thing. All the
episodes that are on YouTube are all older episodes of
the Narrator Podcast and the reason why they're old episodes
and not new episodes because YouTube updated their community guidelines
and policies and.

Speaker 5 (31:34):
When they did that, that left this platform.

Speaker 4 (31:37):
In non compliance with their new rules that they came
up with in order for you to be able to
share content on YouTube, and rather than upgrade their software
and do everything they needed to do to be in
compliance with YouTube, this platform just decided to drop YouTube

(31:58):
as a place where you can distribute content that you
record on this.

Speaker 5 (32:04):
Platform.

Speaker 4 (32:05):
So that's why there are no new episodes of the
Narrative Podcast on YouTube. However, you can still support the
Narrative Podcast from YouTube by like, commenting and sharing all
the up all the episodes that are on YouTube. YouTube
has not deleted all the older episodes of the Narrative Podcast,
so you know, like comment and share. All the older

(32:28):
episodes of the Narrative Podcast is posted on YouTube, and
again you access them by going to my videos on YouTube.
You don't need to subscribe to my channel because they're
shared publicly, so go to my videos on YouTube, like
comment and share all the older episodes of the Narrative Podcast.
Whatever social media platform is you like like sharing or

(32:51):
uploading content too, and that's how you support the Narrative
Podcast from following me from YouTube. And another project I'd
like to promote is my book of poetry that I've written.
It's a thirty page book of poetry. It's titled The
Black Card, the same book that's pinned to the top

(33:13):
of my ex page. The Black Card is about the
Black experience everything we experience as a people, both positive
and negative. And to purchase The Black Card, it's only
available on one platform medium, and that's a social media
site called Poetizer and Poetizer. To get there, you go

(33:37):
to poetizer dot com and once you're on poetizer dot com,
go to poetizers Virtual online Bookstore and then look for
my book titled The Black Card and it's written by
me Hawsey Allen. And yeah, that's how the support the

(34:01):
book of poetry that I wrote. It's available on Poetizer. Now,
if you're unfamiliar with Poetizer, Poetizer is a social media
platform for people that enjoy writing, particularly poetry, and it's
implied in the title poetizer, it's for poets to you know,

(34:22):
do poetic type stuff, socially interact with each other, make.

Speaker 5 (34:26):
Friends, write on each other's walls.

Speaker 4 (34:29):
Inbox each other DM all that type of social media
type stuff. Then also they have games and write daily
writing prompts and contests for the you know, members of
that social media site. But the most important feature that

(34:49):
they have is built in self publishing software which will
allow the users of that social media platform to write,
market and sell books of books that they create on
that platform. And that's why the platform has a virtual
online bookstore. So again go to poetizer dot com by

(35:12):
my thirty page book of poetry titled The Black Card.
And now to give you a more comprehensive description of
the book, The Black Card, It's more than just poetry.
It's a poetic manifesto or lyrical tribute to the regality, resilience,
and the richness of the black experience. The bolt versus

(35:32):
the cut, deep in imagery, the sores. The Black Card
claims dignity, the man's respect and honors the legacy of
the people will turn struggle in the strength, culture and
the power. More than just poetry, this is a declaration
black as well. Black is unstoppable, Black is everything. So
head on over to poetizer dot com and purchase your

(35:53):
copy of my incredible book of poetry titled The Black Card,
or get your Black Card. Revote all right, And then,
last but not least, the very last thing I'd like
to promote here on the Narrative Podcast promotional section is

(36:17):
my personal poetry blog on blogger dot com and it's
called Halls's Poetry Corner and the address to it is
ww dot mister Halls blogs dot com and it's on
Blogger dot com. Hawses's Poetry Corner blog features just relatable poetry.
Anybody from any walk of life can enjoy the poem's

(36:39):
posted on that site.

Speaker 5 (36:43):
You know, whether it's just a casual reader or.

Speaker 4 (36:46):
You know a poetry enthusiast. Guarantee to find something that
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The like buttons in the shape of a hearts to
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about pretty much everything anybody would experience in life. I

(39:40):
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I've lost my personal life, you know, tribute poems to them.
And then I have poems on there about you know,
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on there. But like the thing all of them have

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in common, they were spontaneously written. And whatever the poem
was about, I guarantee you that was the furthest thing
away from my mind at the time when I wrote it.
So it's just like you know, the universe just beams
these little gems down to me. And like I said,
it uses me as a condo went to uh, you know,

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put it out in the universe for whoever needs it.
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And that'll do it for the promotional portion of the
Narrative Podcast. And now I'm gonna move on to the
broad overview of the Narrative podcast and just you know,

(41:52):
helping you fill in all the blanks. It's for you
your benefit as a listener, to make the content more
digestive and also just you know, highlight everything you need
to know about the podcast to get the maximum enjoyment
out of it. So, starting with the top tippy the name,

(42:14):
I name my podcast the Narrative Podcast because I don't
like the false narrative surrounding the way my people's images
and likenesses are depicted across all podcast all forms of media.
So what I did as I designed this platform with

(42:37):
the intention to change the overall perception of how our
people and our culture are viewed across all you know,
forms of media, changing and altering the perception of our people,
thus changing the narrative. Heins the title the Narrative Podcast. Now,

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moving right along, the first thing you should know about
the podcast.

Speaker 6 (43:10):
Is that.

Speaker 4 (43:15):
I refer to my target listeners. How I coined that
phrase as narrators agree with you. I said, you know,
welcome to the narrative podcast. Welcome all my narrators. And
so that's my you know, catchphrase for the people to
listen to my podcast.

Speaker 5 (43:34):
And I was inspired to.

Speaker 4 (43:35):
Call them that based on the text with definition of
the word narrator, and the narrator is basically one who tells, illustrates,
or you know, narrates a story. And by doing that,
by narrating the story, they're putting the story into perfect
context for you know, the audience, whether the audience be

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the listening audience or viewing audience. The narrator's job is
to you know, fill the audience and fill in all
the blanks for the audience so you know, they can
keep up with the story and you know, keep everything
in alignment and keep everything cohesive and you know, connect

(44:21):
all the dots for the audience. And so ultimately, you know.

Speaker 5 (44:25):
A narrator's job is to tell or narrates.

Speaker 4 (44:31):
The story. And that's with that in mind, that's why
how I goin to a phrase narrator, and I've adapted
you know that too suits my target audience, and my
target audience is my people, black people, as I refer
to our people on this platform, original people. So another

(45:00):
phrase that I often use on here to tell the
importance of why we need narrators is this one. If
you don't tell your own story, your own story will
be told for you. And that's percisely what the media
is doing, you know, in regards to our people and
our cultures.

Speaker 5 (45:17):
They're telling or narrating our stories for us.

Speaker 4 (45:21):
And the story that you know, narrating about our people
and our culture is a negative one or you know,
highlighting all the negative points of our culture, and they're
magnifying it and amplifying it, and you know, undercutting the
positive things that happen within our community, you know, and

(45:44):
all the principles and values that we have as a people,
you know, are not widely shown in broadcast. So that's
why we need to tell or narrates our own stories,
because why we cannot change, you know, with the you know,
the frames of reference that the media is putting you

(46:04):
out about our people and our culture. We can control
what we choose to share and put out about our
people and our culture. So that's what we need to
be doing on our platforms. And now I'm going to
give you some examples on how to be an effective narrator.
I coined the phrase narrator, so I'm obviously a narrator

(46:25):
in my own right sharing positive frames of reference on
this platform the Narrative podcast. It's an all audio podcasts,
So I'm sharing positive frames of reference about our people
and our coach. And not only positive frames of reference,
but the positive frames of reference that I share with

(46:47):
the listening audience that listen to this podcast series. Our
positive frames of reference that directly challenge and contras the
negative stereotypes about our people in our culture.

Speaker 5 (47:05):
So as a.

Speaker 4 (47:06):
Narrator, you know, I'm contradicting the negative stereotypes and stigmas
about our people and our culture with the audio podcast,
our audio content that I'm presenting on this platform now.
So I'm changing the narrative on my end, one episode

(47:28):
at a time. And then, as a narrator, how you
can change the narrative narrative. While I'm changing the narrative
on my end, one episode at the time, you can
change the narrative on your end, one social media posts
at a time by posting positive visual contents that directly challenge,

(47:50):
challenges and and contradicts the negative stereotypes about our people
in our culture. So say, for example, you know there's
a negative stereotype about our people being lazy. So on
your platform, especially if your content creatory, you can share

(48:13):
a positive frame of reference about our people in our
culture that contradicts that negative stereotype. Say, you know, keeping
to a schedule, organizing an event or something like that.
You know, that positive visual image of our people in

(48:33):
our culture. There's another negative stereotype about our people that
we don't care about. You know where we live at
you know, everywhere we live is broke down and raggedy
and rundown. We live in the ghetto in doug hood.
You can share share visual images of us caring about
our environment that we live in. You know, visual content

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reflective of King Dribe or beautifying the landscape in our neighborhoods,
you know, cutting the grass, painting over graffiti. You know,
because people have that ingrain image that they want to
when they come to a neighborhood heavily populated by us,

(49:18):
to want to see burnt down buildings and cars sitting
on cinder blocks and rodents and insects, you know, and
graffiti and trash all in the streets. So you know,
to shed that negative stereotype, you know, post positive visual

(49:39):
images of us, you know, cleaning up and beautifying our
neighborhoods that we live in. If you can't think of
any of those examples that I just named, one of
the most potent ways that you can change in the
narrative as a narrator is just you know, upload visual
content of you being happy, enjoying life, living your best life,

(50:04):
you know, not you know, being unbothered and worried and
you know, at peace and calm. Because when you do that,
that strikes a direct blow to the people controlling the
media because they want to see us depressed and angry
and you know, unsure of what's around the corner. But

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you know, if you show showcase us, you know, be
us or yourself being happy and enjoying life, then that
strikes a huge blow for strikes a huge blow for
the movement. So yeah, now the next thing you need

(50:49):
to know about the narrative podcast. As I refer to
our people, black people as original people on this platform,
I refer to.

Speaker 5 (51:01):
Our people for a whole lot of reasons.

Speaker 4 (51:05):
Some of the most potent and uh poignant relevant reasons
I refer to our people is you know, I feel
as UH describes our people better. So the textbook definition
of the word original or really kind of hintset being unique,
one of a kind, you know, original in that sense

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of the word unique, one of a kind, and genuine
and authentic. We're all of those things. We don't sit,
we don't follow trends, We set trends. The only trends
that we actually follow, it are the trends that we
set as a people.

Speaker 5 (51:49):
So you know, that's why.

Speaker 4 (52:00):
I refer to our people as original in you know,
that sense of the word, you know, being unique, genuine,
and authentic. The word original also hence that being the first,
and historically our people are the first. We were here

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thousands of years before any of the group of people existed.
As a matter of fact, all other groups of people
you know inherently exist because we existed first. So every
other group of people you know was derived from our people.

(52:44):
Not only was we here first in Mother and Mother
and the Father civilization, we also originated all modern day conveniences,
everything you can think of, we originated it. We were
there original educators. We were the original everything. We were
the original architects, we were the original farmers. We're the

(53:08):
original chemists, we were original botanists. We were the original healers, doctors,
you know, explorers, you name it, we did it first.
So we're original historically. So in every episode, also staying

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true to my mission statement of the Narrative Podcast, which
is to destroy the negative stereotypes about our people and
our culture, a negative thing about you know, our people
in our culture as far you know, as a false narrative.
There's no bigger false narrative than the false narrative of

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slavery as it pertains to our people and our culture.
The people you know writing history. That's why they call
it his story, because it's history. It's not how it
actually happened. They want to unFocus.

Speaker 5 (54:19):
And attach.

Speaker 4 (54:21):
The livelihood of our people and our culture around, you know,
the myth of slavery. So not saying a myth as
you know, it didn't happen. You know, it didn't happen
the way they said it happened. They lie about so
much about it, particularly you know, when we're looking at origins.

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They want us to believe the only reason why we're
currently living at wherever we're currently residing in the world
right now is because some slave ships picked us up
from Africa and dropped us off all these little you know,
places along the diaspora and shadow slavery and all that.

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We hold our entire existence to slavery. We don't want
to jump over a time where we enlightened civilization. Everywhere
we touched that in the world, we bought enlightenment. We
taught people how to survive, We educated people, We bought spirituality,

(55:33):
we bought religion, and then of course you know modern
day inventions. You know, everywhere our presence, everywhere we existed
in the world, we changed it for the better. We
don't have a history of being thieves. We don't have

(55:55):
a history of being rapist. We don't have the history
of being robbers. You know, that's another group of people.
We don't have the history of being aggressive. If they
want to twist and manipulate the narrative to make us
hostile and.

Speaker 5 (56:14):
Hostile for no reason.

Speaker 4 (56:16):
We don't have a history of being conquerors. The only
time we fought is to defend ourselves. We might have
fought each other, you know, different tribes in Africa waging
war on each other.

Speaker 5 (56:35):
But outside of that, we're always.

Speaker 4 (56:38):
A pieceful people. But like again, like I said, with
the foss and narrative and slavery, they want to have
us believing that, you know, all of us got to
wherever we're currently residing at is because a slave and shit,
you know, put us there, when in reality, us being

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the original man, we already explored all the continents of
the world, and there was already a large concentration of
our people living in any place you can possibly name,
any place you can possibly fathen we was already there.
All parts of Europe, all parts of Asia, every island

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you can name the list, All in the Mediterranean, our
people already existed, we live in existed.

Speaker 5 (57:33):
In the North and South Pole before slavery existed.

Speaker 4 (57:41):
Voluntarily freely on our own will, especially in those of
us living in the United States of America. We got
the majority of us were already here, and we got
reclassified our government, we classified us. They put us on plantations.

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So while slavery did happen and they did go get
some that's the key word, some Africans. We're on plantations
with enslaved Africans, but people always want to try to
tell us, we don't know our culture.

Speaker 5 (58:16):
We don't have an identity, we don't have a history,
we don't have a culture.

Speaker 4 (58:21):
We have one. Y'all just started in the race. You
got another group of people and assigned them our lineage.
You appointed them the natives of this land. We got
some people from Siberia and appointed them the Native Americans
of this land.

Speaker 7 (58:46):
And then.

Speaker 4 (58:48):
Put us on the plantation with some Africans that you
enslaved and your bredish like animals, and torture us with
some more false narratives about slavery. They want us to
believe slavery ended because the goodness of white people, particularly

(59:14):
you know Abraham Lincoln, are the goodness of his hearts,
and you know, all the white abolitionists and white nationalists
to help about slavery because of their help, when in
reality it was all about money. You know, the North

(59:36):
was feuded with the South, and basically the North couldn't
keep up because the South, they were excelling in industry.
They were excelling in building, in the industry steam engines,
modern day technology of that time, and that era textiles

(59:56):
and such, while the South was excelling in agriculture, mainly cotton,
but they are so you know, you know, flourished in
sugar cane as well, and many other natural resources that
weren't that the North that weren't didn't have and weren't

(01:00:17):
privy to. And so the North was like, Yo, you're
gonna let them slaves go because we can't keep up,
you know, without making no money up here, y'all you're not,
you know, product quicker than we can you know, build factories.
And you know, the South was like, oh no, we're not.

Speaker 5 (01:00:40):
The slaves are the reason why we're able to turn
out all this product.

Speaker 4 (01:00:44):
So not only are we not going.

Speaker 5 (01:00:45):
To let the slaves go, we're going to succeed from me.

Speaker 4 (01:00:49):
How you like that? And so that's how the Civil
War being had nothing to do with you know, the
kindness of white people. It was just about money. And
the white people that did down South that did help

(01:01:09):
black people, they only helped because they believed, in their minds,
if they helped in slavery, they could actually earn a
decent living because they couldn't compete with slave labor. All
the jobs you know, for white people were at that
time occupied by slaves. Because people to own plantations and

(01:01:34):
other you know, large farms and businesses you know in
the rural South. They found it cheaper to use slave
labor than the higher just regular white people and immigrants.
So that's why they were helping the slaves escape, not

(01:01:56):
because you know, they just believed, you know, it was
adw was you know, against God and all that that
they try to teach us in school. And then another
thing that you know, another false narrative, another thing to
play to row into our freedom.

Speaker 1 (01:02:17):
Is uh, you know, the.

Speaker 4 (01:02:20):
Slaves we were rebelling. We were rebelling the whole time
of slavery. There are thousands of burnt down plantations all
in the South. Body stacking up whole plantation, all the
white people, he's the capetat.

Speaker 5 (01:02:36):
It was the slaves revolted and it was starting to
spread up north.

Speaker 4 (01:02:50):
So you know, that's my spell about the false narrative
of slavery that primarily you know, push that false narrative
to stoke and instill an ingrain fears and to keep
our minds programmed as slaves so that we can't ever

(01:03:12):
like move past that time period. They also want to,
you know, try to destroy our self esteem, like all
yalldy sent from slaves, and you don't have your you know, know,
have any knowledge yourself. You all know who you are,
and you have no culture, and this and that and
the third and you know all that's either a complete

(01:03:34):
lie or an exaggeration. You know, that's the false narrative
of slavery. And then lastly, our forer to our people
as original people as an attempt to unify us as
a people, because, like I said, since we're here first,

(01:03:55):
there are thousands of us, you know, millions, hundreds of
millions of us spread out all of the world, you know,
speaking different languages, having different perspectives, views, ideologies, and things
of that nature, to you know, divide us as a
people whatever divis a people as a people, like we

(01:04:16):
got that within our community for sure, But people outside
of our culture, all they look at us, you know,
they don't know you speak Spanish until you.

Speaker 5 (01:04:26):
Open your mouth.

Speaker 4 (01:04:27):
They don't know you speak French till you open your mouth.
You know, people outside of our culture, when they look
at us, all they see is black. That's all they're
gonna call us. Well, we you know, we're referring to
ourselves as our nationalities, as our lineages. But you know,
people outside of our culture, they just be like, you know,

(01:04:48):
you guys are black, you know so and true to
the the fact we all are, but there's different levels
of it, you know, I'm about the same type of
black or somebody who is from the Islands, and then

(01:05:09):
vice versa. So that's why I refer to our people
as original people as far as the unity of it,
because I feel that's all inclusive, you know, term that

(01:05:30):
includes all of us, no matter where we held from
in the world, no matter what language we speak, no
matter what our political affiliation needs if we have one.
We were all born first, you know, we're all here first.
We all possess high concentrations of Carton aka Melanni.

Speaker 6 (01:05:51):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:05:55):
Therefore, that term applies to all of us. Not only
does a all of us, it applies to only us.
Scientifically proven fact, nobody existed before we do. We're the
only group of people that don't have you know, where

(01:06:17):
they you know, they don't have it in the you
know what I mean.

Speaker 6 (01:06:24):
And so like.

Speaker 4 (01:06:26):
That's why I refer to our people as original people
in that you know sense of the word, you know,
because we can all relate to it and it applies
as strictly only us, you know, because technically somebody Asian
can't say they're Jamaican and not be lying. Somebody white

(01:06:49):
can say they're African American and not be often that system,
but nobody other than our people can say we're originally.
So that's why I refer to our people on this
platform as original people to unify us as a people.

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Moving right along nearing the podcast, positive space space for
original people, original people, peace, original people, respirosity, ideas, beliefs
and values of original people are expressed on this platform
at all times. The focal point is positive reinforcement of
our people in our culture. You know, it's all about edification,

(01:07:33):
uplifting my tearing down, my name, calling, put downs, and roasting.
It's all no gossip, no slander, you know, no demigration
of any kind. It's all about uplifting and edifying our people.
So it's a positive space space for original people. But

(01:07:59):
there is an exception to every rule, and the exception
to that rule is you know your your you know,
you're free to have your own opinion. But we don't

(01:08:20):
have to be dedicating our platforms to ripping each other
down and tearing each other apart, you know. So that's
the reason why I try to make this a positive
safe space for our people and keep a devoid of
gossip the slander, because I feel gossip the slander's tearing

(01:08:41):
our community apart. But like I said, there's an exception
to every rule, the exception of the no name calling
the rule and putting down rules that you are of
our community and you intentionally betray our community for personal
game for the bad, then, you know, if I have

(01:09:06):
to be in a position where I'm talking about you
because you in viral, you know, I'm not gonna be
generous in my assessment of you, you know, or like
you know, I'm gonna call it what it is.

Speaker 5 (01:09:23):
I might call you a.

Speaker 4 (01:09:24):
Couple of choice names if you intentionally out here misrepresenting
our people intentionally, that's the key word, if you're intentionally misrepresentatives.
But other than that, it's a positive safe space for
original people that's not least in their podcast and time

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system the platform.

Speaker 1 (01:09:45):
I'm trying not to.

Speaker 4 (01:09:46):
See what our per broadcast. When I do, it's never
really that measurable. Yeah, But getting back to it, Sorry,

(01:10:14):
I took that very long pauses getting kind of late. Yeah,
I try to just wrap it up conveniently and nicely
package all my content. I don't have all day to speak,
and you guys don't have all day to listen, so,
you know, try to make it convenient as possible for

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the listener.

Speaker 5 (01:10:37):
You know, I'm just here to deliver the message I
beat you outside the head with it.

Speaker 4 (01:10:42):
So I try to keep everything just really forward and
straightforward to the point, you know. And I think I've
covered everything you need to know about the Nerork podcast.
If you're missing any key details or still not quite
sure about what the podcast is about, just download this

(01:11:04):
episode and I previously recorded episodes of the Nerror Podcast
and bring yourself up to speed.

Speaker 5 (01:11:09):
But without any further ADOD want to dive.

Speaker 4 (01:11:12):
On into this weekday edition of the Narrative Podcast while
it still is a weekday hunt because it's like lately
evening now, but it should be shaped back to the
cert Us Social at a reasonable time. So my very
first section of the Narrative Podcast weekday edition Friday, we're

(01:11:38):
gonna start off with positive news articles. In my first
positive news article for this weekday edition of The Narrative
Podcast Friday edition, the headline reads black couple wrote poetry
in early nineteen hundred Chicago. Now their work powers as

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a double album and the person that is responsible for
this is a brother by the name of Will Liverman.
And Will Liverman is an opera singer and his range
is baritone. He's known for his powerful voice and emotional debt.

(01:12:23):
He's most recently completed in entire set of our Pardon
Me entire opera sit in the South Side barbershop, The
factor Um, which premiered in two thousand and three at Lyric.

(01:12:51):
He's currently working on two album projects called the dunbar
More Sessions. Was hired by.

Speaker 5 (01:13:02):
The poetry.

Speaker 4 (01:13:05):
Of of married writers Paul Lawrence Dunbar and his wife
Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson. That's what maiden name is, Nelson,
But pardon Me My Notes is kind of hitting away

(01:13:29):
from me. Paul was an.

Speaker 5 (01:13:34):
Activist in the early nineteen hundreds.

Speaker 4 (01:13:38):
He used his art his art form to write and
publicly speak on racism of his people. And he was
originally moved from Chicago to seek work at the World Sphere.
And he was also a good friend with Frederick Douglas.

(01:14:02):
Now his wife was also an activist. Alice was also
an activist.

Speaker 6 (01:14:07):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:14:09):
She was a poet and she wrote an anthology called
Violets and Other Tales, and she also advocated for uh
anti lynching laws against women and girls. So that's what

(01:14:32):
his entire work was inspired around. Some more stuff he did.

Speaker 5 (01:14:41):
Uh uh premiered at the Met Opera in two thousand.

Speaker 4 (01:14:47):
Uh one Up Up My Boxes, the first opera ever
written by our black composer. So that's pretty much the article.

Speaker 5 (01:15:07):
And I definitely am you know, I'll definitely be checking online.
I might give it a review when I hear it.
I can't really say I'm an opera buff.

Speaker 4 (01:15:18):
I listen to all. I am a music aficionado. There's
not too much I don't listen to.

Speaker 5 (01:15:24):
I'm not gonna lie.

Speaker 4 (01:15:25):
Just I never really got into opera. That's one of
my very few things. I didn't listen to you. I
don't listen to you. I'm trying to, you know, broadening,
expand my horizons and give everything a chance. It's like

(01:15:46):
there's a whole lot of amazing opera singers from our community.
I just I can't make hiss or tails of it.
I don't know what all that it's about. It might
help if I spoken different language as most operas are Italian.

(01:16:07):
But uh yeah, please join into giving a warm narrative
podcast round of applause to our brother Will de Liverman.

Speaker 5 (01:16:47):
All right for the second positive news article on this week.

Speaker 4 (01:16:51):
The edition of the Narrator podcast. The headline read's black
mom and son grocery store on US raising funds for
forty youth training farm near Chicago. The mother's name is

(01:17:14):
Evany Jones. The article did not miss the sun's names
and I did not feel like doing like Google's to
find his name. But they are the founders of a
nonprofit organization called Roots and Vines Cafe and micro grocery

(01:17:37):
chain dedicated to competing food, apartheid, and understanding in underserved
Community's apartment. Currently, she's rallying to support for support to
purchase twenty acres of farmland just thirty five minutes out

(01:18:02):
of Chicago. She's doing it through her nonprofit called Green
Table Talk, and if you want to know more about
her organization, go to green tabletalk dot org. It's born.

(01:18:23):
The project that she's working on is going to be
a youth focused agricultural training and retreat farm and that
creating career pathways in farming, food production and land stoward

(01:18:44):
ship for youth and families and historically.

Speaker 5 (01:18:50):
Exacterbated communities. You can contribute to the nonprofit organization in

(01:19:10):
two ways. You can purchase.

Speaker 4 (01:19:15):
The Botanical Butter Bundle pack, which features an assortment of
body butters, or by directly donating to the cause on
the give sind Goo at and when you get to

(01:19:43):
the go give go send that go.

Speaker 5 (01:19:48):
To Chicago Training Farm, Green.

Speaker 4 (01:19:50):
Table Talks and for more information about you know how
to give, just go to green table talk dot org.
So without any further a dude, please junk in to
giving them the one Narritive podcast Browne la flause to

(01:20:12):
our sister Ebony Jones and her son, I think I
got one more positive us. What that might have been?

Speaker 6 (01:20:37):
It? M hmmm.

Speaker 4 (01:21:23):
So my first, my very first pop or very last
positive news article. On this weekday edition of The Narrative podcast,
the headline reads win gift cards, free groceries at the
grand opening. And this is a grocery store called Grocery

(01:21:50):
Outlet Bargain Market, which is a California grocery. It's black
owned and independent. It's out in California. I believe in

(01:22:11):
the Bay Area and has expanded to the East coast,
New Jersey in Gibbstown, and they had a free food
giveaway yesterday. They had DJ's Food trucks gave a thousand

(01:22:35):
dollars of free groceries away at the Gibbstown location in
New Jersey. And then they also had another one slap
to open at four o one Harmony Road on September twelfth.

(01:23:00):
I do not know who is who started the chain,
but if you know, you know the grocery outlets, maybe
I can look it up right with. I think I
got enough time for that check check chick check chick

(01:23:22):
chick check chack.

Speaker 5 (01:23:25):
All right, I'm still here. Let me see.

Speaker 4 (01:23:39):
So pardon me.

Speaker 5 (01:23:41):
So that grocery store, it was listed as a black owned.

Speaker 4 (01:23:46):
Mark. So I don't know why, but you know, all
my black feeds it says it's black owned, but it's
not black owned. But it was, you know, rooted out
in the south South Francisco on the west coast, and
now they're moving into like on the east coast in
New Jersey. But for some of my reason, it's listed

(01:24:09):
as black ONWED So I don't know, but I thought
that was pretty noteworthy. I guess it got like a
lot of training initiatives and incentives that catered to the
black community. So I guess that's plus it's not black on.
I don't know why it's listed as black on. When
you dig your researching up all the articles say it's

(01:24:33):
black on. Every other you know media outlet that I've
researched it's black on, but I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:24:42):
Google and Chat says it's not.

Speaker 6 (01:24:44):
So I.

Speaker 5 (01:24:46):
Sometimes I get it right, sometimes I get it wrong.

Speaker 6 (01:24:48):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:24:49):
But anyway, that.

Speaker 4 (01:24:51):
Was some good news that there was given free groceries away,
and I think that deserves a round of applause.

Speaker 5 (01:25:10):
All right, So, last but not least, it's my.

Speaker 4 (01:25:17):
Speaking point section, And just to reiterate, my speaking point
section is just you know, current breaking news, whatever's going
on in the world as it pertains or relates to
our people and our culture, either directly or indirectly. And
on the off chance that I don't, you know, I

(01:25:39):
can't find anything to commentate about in the news, I
will replace it with the PSA. And my PSAs are
just basically, uh, you know, observations that I make about
our people that I feel like we need to work

(01:25:59):
on as the people together. You know, when I say we,
I mean me too in in many cases me especially.
But without any further ado onna uh you know, move
forward with.

Speaker 1 (01:26:16):
You know, the.

Speaker 4 (01:26:20):
Speaking point section, and I actually do have something I
would very want to very briefly touch on. So you know,
there's been an updates in the William McNeil Jr.

Speaker 5 (01:26:38):
Case.

Speaker 4 (01:26:40):
And for those who can't remember or don't or haven't
heard it, just a few weeks ago, William McNeill Jr.
Went viral or the footage of him went viral. It
was a routine traffic stop in which the arresting officer

(01:27:01):
assaulted him. They knocked punched his window out and then
after he broke this window, he punched him in the
face repeatedly, like a couple of times, like two or
three times before you know, they drug him out of
his vehicle, and then the officers on the scene was

(01:27:25):
subdued him and allowed you know, black officers, you know,
subdued him and allowed the white officers pretty much to
continue to you know, beat on him. And so the
latest development of it was that the UH trial the

(01:27:49):
prosecution prosecutors and decided not to pursue criminal charges against UH.
The the officers. They feel they was justified for punching him,
so they said they're going with the he used. They used,

(01:28:11):
you know, necessary force, and we saw play out in
front of us. He was almost compliant. So about the
only thing I said, said it once and I said again.
The only thing he did wrong, And that's scenario is
he kep on trying to question the officers. He already said,

(01:28:33):
you know you're under arrest. After they say you're under arrest,
you can't talk to your their supervisor. I mean technically
you can, but if you're black, when they say you're
under arrest.

Speaker 5 (01:28:44):
It's a rat.

Speaker 4 (01:28:44):
You don't say nothing else. I don't say anything else.
After they say you're under arrest, don't say nothing else.
Can I talk to your supervisor? You can't, can't do
none of that. So when they stopped him, they originally
stopped him for not having his headlights on during the daytime,

(01:29:07):
which is stupid. That's why they told them he was
being stopped. He said, am I being detained or being arrested?
They said, you're under arrest, and that's where it went left.
He asked, then can I speak with your supervisor? And
then the supervisor they didn't. They didn't make it to

(01:29:28):
the supervisor. And then budd he said you're under arrest.
So after you know, the police say you under arrest,
it's a rat. You know, you can't tell them what
you're not going to do, what you don't feel comfortable doing.
After they say you're under arrest, let them arrest you.
Be as compliant as possible and that's it. And then

(01:29:52):
you let the lawyers figure it out from there. But don't,
you know, go.

Speaker 5 (01:29:57):
Back and forth with him after they say you're under arrest,
you stopped.

Speaker 4 (01:30:01):
If you're in the vehicle, have all your stuff where
you can see it, having in your visor, have your
license registration tags, all that, everything up to date when
you're in your vehicle, so they don't have no reason
to stop you over, have that in your you know,
ready to go handle it to them, your ID, all that.

(01:30:23):
Once you see them cherries, get everything, Place your hands
on top of the dashboard because now they can see
all the way in your vehicle and you don't. You
don't oppose any threats in you you know you're you know,
make sure your safety belts on, so you got your

(01:30:44):
safety belt on, you got your hand on the dash
you don't present no threat. Now, if they don't say
you're under arrest, the questions you can ask what am
I being stopped for?

Speaker 5 (01:30:56):
Am I being detained? Or am I being arrested?

Speaker 4 (01:31:01):
You know, if they say you're detained, and when asked
you can you search the vehicle and stuff? You say, no,
you can't search nothing? Well, can we ask you? I don't.

Speaker 5 (01:31:10):
I don't you know.

Speaker 4 (01:31:11):
I don't answer questions. I don't answer questions. I exercised
my rights to remain silent. And then they're gonna say
we're not under arrests, but we need for you to
tell you I exercised my right to remain silent. I
don't answer any questions, all due respect, officer. I don't

(01:31:32):
answer questions. Am I free to go? And I can
I go on my way?

Speaker 5 (01:31:38):
Now? I'm not answering no questions. I will accommodate you.

Speaker 4 (01:31:41):
I'll give you my ID, I'll give you anything with
you want to see, but I'm not answering any questions. No,
you cannot search me or my vehicle. If I'm after
being detained, you can say that if you're being to
the same But as soon as they say you're under arrest,

(01:32:04):
the conversation is over. It's over from there. You completely comply.
You don't say a word, You do whatever they tell
you to do. After they say you're under arrest, you
don't get you don't raise your voice.

Speaker 5 (01:32:23):
Or do anything, because anything will.

Speaker 4 (01:32:26):
Trigger these crazy nutballs to pull a firearm and pop
a cap in you.

Speaker 5 (01:32:37):
So that's not letting them punk you. That's just I
got stuff to do. I got stuff to do.

Speaker 4 (01:32:43):
Man, I'm being as compliant as possible. I ain't trying
to argue with you. Huh right, if you won't write
me a ticket, write me a ticket if that makes
you feel good about yourself.

Speaker 5 (01:32:56):
Yep, yep, all that. Yep, yes, officer.

Speaker 4 (01:33:00):
Yeah, I ain't gonna call your bitch ass sir, but
I'm gonna say yes officer. Yeah yeah, man, am I
free to go? Every time I say yes? So like

(01:33:21):
and you want to say yes and everything they say
because that means you're cooperating. So every time they say something,
say yes, nod your head up and down, demonstrate you
understand what they're saying. And you know mentally you can

(01:33:41):
be like f you, f you, but say whatever you
need to say to get up away from them. People
and that's the only thing that young man did is
he kept on talking after he said you're under arrest.
When they say you're under arrest, it's over. You want

(01:34:02):
to ask for the supervisor. You want to start quoting law.
Don't ever ever get the quote law to a police officer,
even if you know forwards, backwards, side to side, even
if you are a lawyer, don't quote law to a
police officer. Because they don't teach police officers law in

(01:34:26):
the police academy. They teach them tactical driving, they teach
them take down techniques. They teach them how to shoot
different firearms on the range, and how to you know,
properly maintain their firearms. That's it. That's all they're teaching.

(01:34:48):
Anything else they pick up while they're on the beat.
That's why they get assigned partners for their first six
months on the forest, and their partner don't know nothing.
His partner didn't know nothing, so they're literally just on
the job training. They do not teach the police officers law,

(01:35:12):
which is the dumbest thing ever, Like that's the whole problem.
It's actually war on How are you going to enforce
something that you don't know anything about? That's your job
to enforce the law. But you don't know the law.
So how are you enforcing the something that you don't know?

(01:35:36):
But you know it could have been worse. It could
have been worse. We have definitely seen worse. So that
brother got off light. I think, you know, being crumped,
took the case, so I don't think you know it's
going to go down without a fight, some type of way.
He's going to get a judgment. I wholeheartedly believe that,

(01:36:00):
you know, because don't miss. You don't even bother taking
the case if you don't think you can win. So
the fact that he took it, you know he's going
to get awarded something. You know, he didn't just get
his job punching for nothing. He's gonna get some type
of money, some type of reimbursement. But you know, more

(01:36:24):
of the story is after they say you're under arrest,
don't say anything back. You got it. You got a homie,
all right. That's where I'm ana land my playing this evening.
I don't believe I'm going to do an episode this weekend.

Speaker 5 (01:36:44):
Usually I do episodes weekend episodes on Saturday.

Speaker 4 (01:36:48):
I don't believe I'm.

Speaker 5 (01:36:49):
Going to do an episode Saturday.

Speaker 4 (01:36:53):
As you heard in my intro, you know, I had
to switch up my theme music, so I'm trying to
get it back. You got some stuff going on, trying
to work out some technical difficulties. I also, you know,

(01:37:13):
want to devote some more time to my poetry. I
feel like I've been neglecting my art form. So I'm
gonna take the weekend to do that, because whenever I'm
not you know, doing episodes of Narrative Podcast, I'm an
active poet. If you didn't know, I'm always writing, I'm
always performinging, I'm always engaging reading or being in attendance

(01:37:34):
at a poetry event. So guess what I was doing
before I started doing this podcast. So you know, I
might take the day off to do that, But stay
tuned for weekday episodes of the Narrator Podcast. You know,

(01:37:58):
stay tuned. Thanks for all the love and support for
people that love and support the platform. Want to see
that I want to see or hear that black power,
that black frequency, you know, that original people energy that
you know, original people, piece, original people, respirosity of the

(01:38:22):
Narrative Podcast that only I can bring Hawsey Island. So
also in closing you know, I want to say to
all my content creators, I usually say that at the beginning,
to promote the Narrative Podcast on your content platforms, promote

(01:38:48):
the Black card on your content platforms, and promotes Halls's poetry.

Speaker 5 (01:38:56):
Pinner on your content platforms.

Speaker 4 (01:38:59):
Uh, just when you're promoting the Narrative podcast, make sure
you make that clear distinction the Narrative podcast hosted by
Halsey Allen, so people know who you're talking about. Because,
like I said, there are thousands of podcasts titled the
Narrative Podcast. So you got to make that very crystal
clear distinction that you mean the Narrative Podcast hosted by

(01:39:22):
Hawsey Allen. When you're promoting, I appreciate you in advance.
I return to favor if I hear the promotion. You know,
got to reach one, teach one for this liberation thing.
So I'm Halsey Allen. I want to remind you to

(01:39:42):
promote black owned businesses, promote positive black media and black content,
black comment, and share positive black media, positive black content. Uh.

(01:40:04):
Definitely promotes engage in participate supports, patronize the narrative podcasts,
Endorse the Narrative podcast, Endorse black owned businesses, endorse positive

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Black content and positive Black content. Positive Black media, endorsed
positive Black content, endorse positive Black media, amplify positive Black voices,
promote positive Black podcasts, and what your continued patronage and

(01:40:56):
support of the Narrative Podcast. Together, we will change the narrative.
I'm Halsey Allen. I'm changing the narrative one episode at
a time. As a narrator.

Speaker 5 (01:41:07):
You can help me change the narrative.

Speaker 4 (01:41:11):
Or you can help me run that back, run that back,
all right, getting Lake people. I'm Halsey Allen. I'm changing
the narrative one episode at a time as a narrator.
You can help me change the narrative by becoming the narrator.
While I'm changing the narrative on my end one episode
at a time, you can help me change the narrative

(01:41:32):
on your in one social media.

Speaker 5 (01:41:35):
Post at a time.

Speaker 4 (01:41:36):
Until next time, Halsey Allen and the Narrative Podcast signing off.

Speaker 6 (01:41:41):
And it's like that.

Speaker 7 (01:42:04):
Between I'm making frut, I'm making fer.

Speaker 1 (01:42:08):
I'm making fer. I'm banking br I making Bern.

Speaker 7 (01:42:12):
I'm not making fer.

Speaker 6 (01:42:14):
I'm making frut.

Speaker 1 (01:42:15):
I don't think it dir.

Speaker 7 (01:42:17):
I'm making bernfrom here and I'm making Trut. I'm making Turtle.

(01:42:41):
I'm making Trut. Buma, make it dirt. I'm gonna make
it Trut.

Speaker 6 (01:42:45):
I'm I'm making dirt.

Speaker 7 (01:42:47):
I'm making Fruto. I'm make it dir, I'm making dirt.
Make for Grut, I'm making dirt.

Speaker 1 (01:42:54):
I'm banking be.

Speaker 3 (01:43:00):
You are now listening to The Narrative Podcast with Halsey Allen.
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