Episode 517 Weekday edition ( Thursday)- The Narrative Podcast

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You are now listening to the Narrative Concast with Halsey Allen.
The Narrative Podcast is changing the narrative one episode at
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Peace, Peace, Peace, Family. You now tap into another edition
of the Mighty Mighty Narrative Podcast. The Narrative Podcast is
the home of original People, Original people, Peace, original people,
respirosity and original people positivity. Near podcast promotes positive frames
of reference about original people and original people culture. The

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Narrative Podcast provides positive frames of reference about original people
and original people culture. Near The podcast highlights the beauty, strength,

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and resilience of the Black community, covering topics such as
Black love, empowerment, unity, and progression. In their podcast dives
deep into discussions of black health, economic wealth, innovation, and
a positive reinforcement of Black voices to and in weekdays

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and weekends, Here's Uplifting Store, inspiring stories, uplifting news, and
a focus on the achievements of Black individuals across the globe.
Welcome to the Mighty Mighty Mirror the podcast. I am
your host, Haulgy Allen. Welcome all my narrators. Peace, Pece, piece.
How's everybody doing all in this fantastic Friday? Wow, just

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a whole lot to unpack, a whole lot of process.
It's just a whole lot. It been a whole lot.
So I'm not going to talk about every single thing,
but we're going to try to, you know, get through
it today. So you know, if those got children. For

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those who are adults and who are students, summer is
officially over. Yeah, classes back for Stride College going on
all grade levels this week and next week moving forward.
So summertime, you know, as far as like free time

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is just officially over. So enjoy these last couple of
days to do whatever you need to do, whatever you
want to do if you are a student. So it's
back to business for students in here in the United States. Know,

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a whole lot going on in the entertainment industry. Ah wow,
who saw that? A man? This seals debates? Just wow,

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they found the right one. I'm gonna just leave it there.
We're not gonna touch on that today, but you know,
we'll save that for another time. But you know, just wow,
if you haven't watched it, go watch it. I've only
watched segments of it. I still haven't watched it in
its entirety, but the segments that I've seen just wow.

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But anyway, welcome to the Narrative Podcast. For those who
do not know, this is an all black platform speak
about all Black content matter, you know, anything, any and
everything that affects the Black community, or as I refer
to our people on this platform, original people and original
people culture. You know, this platform is just basically here

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to inspire, uplift, edify, motivate, you know, our people. As
a matter of fact, I have a slogan for this podcast,
the Narrative Podcast, changing the narrative one episode at the
time by destroying negative stereotypes about original people and original
people culture. How to destroy the negative stereotypes about our

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people and our culture by providing positive frames of reference
about our people in our culture. That's kind of the
focal point of the Narrative Podcast. You know, I discussed
everything on here through the black from the black perspective.
Any and all speaking points that I have on here

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centers and focuses around the bigger picture. Because it's typically
anything that happens within our community is due to two
very big things, systemic oppression and psychological programming, and conditioning
and that's how I frame up all my speaking points,
especially when I'm commentating on current events and the current news.

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But more about that later. You know, how I typically
get things start started off here on the platform is
I open up with the comparison and contrast section as
just bring the listeners up to speed on how I

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deliver my content. My broadcast two times. You know, I
broadcast during the weekdays and the weekends, and I just
want you to, you know, be aware of the format styles,
how they differ. You know, just what I'll be presenting

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on the weekdays and the weekends, just so you can
get a feel so to content and jail better. Then
from there, I have a promotional portion of my program,
and the promotional portion is designed pretty much as a
you know, crowdfunding. There is a monthly fee attached to

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this broadcasting service. So you know, none of these episodes
are free. They're free for me to create. I mean,
they're free for you to listen, but they're not free
for me to create. So that's the nature of the
promotional portion of the podcast, you know, just to promote

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all the projects that generate revenue that that sustains the podcast.
So every one of these things that I'm willing to
be promoting generates revenue, and I use that revenue to
keep the podcast going. And then after I'm done with
my promotional portion of my program, then I give a

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broad overview of the narrative podcast just to break down
all the nuances of my program, just to let, you know,
highlight all the finer points of it, to just fully
contextualize what I'm doing. And this is for the benefit
of you know, those that are listening to the program.

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Just make it more cohesive and you'll be able to
process it and digest it better and really get the
maximum benefit out of listening to it. And that's why
I provide the broad overview, because without it, my content
is really straightforward into the point. So it'll be about

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ten it'll probably about a little over half hour without
the broad overview. But yeah, that's just to break everything
in the full circle. When I when I skip the
broad overview, it really kind of lacks less. You know.
I've had people kind of come up to me and
just like or you know, direct message me, you know,

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for those that don't live in my town. Uh, you know,
they want to just you know, more clarity. So that's
what the broad overview does, just provides more clarity, you
know about what I'm delivering the content itself. And then
so after I'm done with the broad overview of the

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near of the podcast, of course, I deliver the content
itself and you know, wrap it up. So getting things started,
the comparison and contrast section. So, like I just said,
just to reiterate our broadcast during the weekdays and the weekend.
So here's my weekday formatt style. So first and foremost,

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the main focus of the narrative podcast is to provide
positive frames of reference about our people and our culture.
And the main positive frame of reference that I provide
during the week days and I focus on during the
weekdays as positive news articles. Focus on delivering positive news

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articles during the weekdays is because all weekend long are
pardon me, all weekday long, we're constantly being bombarded with
negative news. Now negative news just you know what the
people who control the media does anyway, you know, so

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nobody's exempt from absorbing, hearing, and witnessing negative news. That's
you know, that's how media is sold. They focus on
the negativity, but they especially focused on negativity within our community.

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They especially focus on stories that negatively impact and depict
our people in a negative light all weekday long. You know,
out of all other groups of people, our people get
it the worst. And it doesn't stop just at the

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news period. Our people are depicted in all forms of
media negatively. This goes on to movies, television shows, It's
in the music, advertisements, any form of media you want
to name. Our people's images and likenesses are negatively depected

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and explored, you know, in those forms of media, plays, advertisements, magazines, uh,
you name it. So what that causes within our community
Being exposed to that negativity, having that negativity ingrained into

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our psychees, you know, triggers us to kind of, on
a subconscious level, act out that negativity. We don't have
any you know, positivity or inspiration to pull from, you know,
we just you know, react to what's being shoved down
our throats. So while you do, as a full grown adult,

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have a choice to choose what path in life is
you want to go down, it's folly to believe you
can't cannot unsee what you see and none hear what
you hear. So even if you decided to just go

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off the grid, decide that you're not going to participate.
You're not gonna watch television, You're not going to have
a device. You're just gonna throw your device away. I
don't need a phone call my house phone to get
get at me, you know, because that's what we was
doing before cell phones. House phone gets somebody of your
house number, and you know, they could contact you through

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the landline. No internet, you know, no PC, no internet.
Even if you get all that, your life would still
be adversely affected by people around you that still consume media.

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So that's you know, one reason why I provide positive
news articles, you know, during the weekdays. That's just how
it affects our community. You know, we tend to act
out these negative stereotypes and stigmas that's ingrained into our

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psyches by the media, or rather the people that run
the media that just happen to be white. And then
it grossly affects people outside of our culture as well,
particularly law enforcement. It gives them a negative perception about

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who we are as a people that negatively interacts and
engage us. You know, they only have these frames of
reference about us that the media gives to them. So
like people outside of our culture, say, for instance, like

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foreign shop owners that don't know any of us, they're
relatively new to America. All they have to just gauge
us by is what they witness, you know, what they
watch on the news, the types of movies they watch,

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you know, music that they listen to, How our images
and likenesses are depicted in the media. So this is
why they treated so poorly when we go into their
shops for service, whether it's food, whether it's just convenience products.
You know, just white people in general, as many of

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them didn't go, you know, attend the same school districts
we do, don't know too many in real life. You know,
they're just reacting to what they see in forming opinions,
and you know, I guess it's called prejudice. But still,
you know, the media players a large role in that.

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That's on people outside of our culture, how it negatively impacts,
you know, their view on how they view us and
how they treat us, which is what is was designed
to do. It was designed to separate us from all
other groups of people. Is designed to you know, reinforce

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the wealth gap that we have between all these other
groups of people. But yeah, that's primarily why I focus
on delivering positive news articles during the weekday is just
to undo that psychological programming and conditioning, and then also

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to demonstrate that positive things do happen within our community.
And that's pretty much my week day format of the
Narrative podcast. Well, I skipped apart. After I'm done delivering
the positive news articles, i have another section called the

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speaking point section. And the speaking point section, what I'm
doing is I'm unpacking and delivering you know, current news
whatever's going on in the world where it's on the internet,
whether it's national news, where there's global news, any type
of media related content that directly affects our people or

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indirectly affects our people. I'm unpacking it from our perspective
because of the purpose of me doing that. When I'm
doing that, I'm controlling the narrative because the media has
the propensity to have us, our people looking and sounding crazy.
So I'm bringing it back into a perspective and commentating

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on it from our perspective as a people. Well, you know,
because first and foremost most, I am a podcaster, and
that's what pretty much all podcasters do. They talk about
current events and things shaping you know, their world. And
our world as a people, their audience or whatever. So

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that's why I even do current news in the first place.
But yeah, that's what I'm doing in that section. It's
called the speaking point section. And just to reiterate, pretty
much all my speaking point centers and focuses around the
bigger picture, which is systemic oppression and psychological programming and conditioning.

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That's how I impact everything and how I frame everything
up that I'm discussing on this platform, but especially in
that section, you know, because we need. What I'm basically
trying to do is get us back into focus, keep

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everything centered around our true nature and who we are
as a people. We are kings and queens, gods and
goddesses of the universe, and that's how we always needed
to be depicted across all forms of media. Not saying
that we're perfect, not saying that we're better. We just
need an accurate depiction of who we are, more accurate depictions,

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not what we're being shown about us. So that's pretty
much my weekday format style of the Narrative podcast. Now
I'm going to describe briefly my weekend style. I'm gonna
try to be as brief as possible. Now. First and foremost,

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my weekend format style has several more sections. I think
about a total of five. I'm not gonna break down
each section. I'm just gonna highlight, you know, key differences.
I'm probably just break down three very important sections of
the Narrative podcast weekend edition. So, first and foremost, my

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main positive frame of reference that I focus on during
the weekends is business ownership and entrepreneurialism. I call that
section my highlight section. I focus on business ownership and
entrepreneurialism during the weekends to really focus on economics. And

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because we don't get we don't have any we don't
have our pardon correct myself, we don't have many positive
frames of reference about you know, what economic wellness looks like,
you know, any positive frames of reference or inspiration to

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pull from as far as being successful well, especially here
in the United States of America. And that's primarily it's
intentionally done. It's primarily because the media frames it up
that way. You know, all we have, all they seem
to promote and sponsor is us behaving foolishly, us engaging

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in some form of degeneracy, living impovershed, you know, being loud,
being boisterous. It just promotes all this propaganda about our
people and our culture, and they turn their back on
the finer things. You know, what we excel at, and

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what what we currently are excelling at is business. There
are a lot of successful people from within our community
that you don't know anything about because the media doesn't
go out of its way to explore their professions, their
respective professions that they're in because, like I said, they

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only want us to see the worst of the worst
within our community. They want to promote things that are
destroying our community. They want to promote degeneracy. They want
to promote drug culture, they want to promote gang culture.
They want to promote lewdness and rude behavior. Those are

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the things that's tearing us apart. They want to promote
gossip and slander and detegrating. They want to promote all
that negativity. But they don't want to focus on you know, creativity.

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Art, and especially economics, especially those of us living here
in the United States that primarily do that, because they
don't want us to ever be reminded of a time
within our culture where it was normal to see someone

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from our community owning their own business.

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Owning their own home, owning their own vehicle, you know,
carrying in carrying and conducting themselves in a dignified manner,
having decorum, you know, having restraints. They don't ever want
us to see that pool inspiration from you know, pool

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inspiration and be inspired by that, you know, because again,
because the media is being weaponized against our people. It's
being used as a tool to stunts and impede our
people's growth socially and economically, but especially particularly economically, there

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is a huge wealth gap between our people and other
groups of people, particularly white people, particularly in the United
States of America, and this is you know, their main
tool they use to strengthen that wealth gap. So that's why,

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you know, focus on delivering positive news articles about you know,
economic wealth in the area of owning your own business
and being a business owner. And again I call that
section my high light section. And what I'm doing in
that section is I'm basically highlighting the finer points you know,

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of their life, you know, as a business owner and
what everything, all the events that led up to them
owning their own business, owning their own business. So I
try to include as far as you know, focus on
focusing on the business owner themselves. You know all the

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important aspects of their life. You know where they grew up,
where they grew up, at their hometown of education and training.
You know what they study in school. You know at
what age that it finally dawn and then that they
want to do something with their life. You know, I

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want to own my own business. I'm interested in this
particular field. I want to do this for a living
for the rest of my life. And so I'm walking
you through their journey, setting it up like that, all
the key points in their life the led up to
them becoming a business owner. And also I try and

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include things like how they acquired their funds to start
their business, who they met along the way that inspired them,
you know, inspirational figures that they pulled inspiration from, sense
of duty, why they start the business, what they hope

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to achieve, their mission statement, and all that good stuff
about the individual. Then I also include specifics about their business. Say,
for instance, if it's an online business, I try to include,
you know, everything you would need to know about patronizing

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an online business, their web address, their contact information, the
layout of the page, the difference hads when you go
online to purchase their product. What says them? What says
their product apart from the competitors. You know what makes

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them so special? Their mission statement on the web page?
You know, Ah, the directory you know what you want
to look under for specific information? Contact info? Uh, you know,
their their life story, their you know about us section?

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Just key information you would need to know when patronizing
an online business. That's what I try to include when
I'm speaking about, you know, a business that's only online
or you know, and then also if they have a
brick and mortar location, everything an individual would need to

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know about patronizing a business that's a brick and mortar
location directions, you know what city and state isn't located in? City? State,
zip code? Contact information, the telephone number, the hours of operation, uh,

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maximum occupancy, how much can the building hold? How big
is the building? Ah? Do they rented out the daycore?
What they expect when you walk into their facility? You
know what they're famous for in that neighborhood. You know,

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why do people come to patronize whatever they're selling? You know, parking,
what's the parking like? Just anything you would need to
know about patronizing a brick and mortar location, and my

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selection process that I use to highlight the business is
in the highlight section of the Narrative Podcast Weekend edition,
goes as follow. First and must be black owned of course,
first and foremost, they must hire their own and they
also must engage in some type of community outreach of activism.

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They either need to you know, pay into a nonprofit
organization or have their very own nonprofit organization, or be
engaged in something that uplifts and edifies the community. You
know I'm talking about, like, well, now it's back to school,

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so back to school drives, you know, feeding the homeless
or giving clothes to the less fortunate and just things
of that nature. And then, last but not least, my
last qualifying factor to highlight the businesses in the highlight
section of the Narrative Podcast Weekend edition, that must coincide

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with my national with my running theme, and my running
theme is nationally recognized days or nationally recognized mons. So
the business that I'm highlighting in the highlight section must
coincide with my you know, running theme, which is either
nationally recognized days or nationally recognized month. So their product

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or service must embody whatever the nationally recognized day is
or nationally recognized month. Is that must you know, focus
on selling or distributing or manufacturing, you know, product that
is indicative of the nationally recognized day or the nationally

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recognized month. So say, for example, it's National plate Day.
So the business that I will be highlighting the highlight section,
you know, they've got to be like a plate manufacturing company,
like this company is black owned. It manufactures and sales plates,

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dining plates, you know, like the type of place. You know,
just for example, you know what I'm saying, Or if
it's the nationally recognized day like today's. You know, you know,
say if it was National T Shirt Day, so the
company will have to focus on selling T shirts. You know,

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That's how I do it. So that's pretty much the
highlight section of the Narrative podcast. We can edi year internetshell.
Another section is different from the weekday section of the

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weekend or weekday edition of the Narrative Podcast is a
section called the spotlight section. Now, what I'm doing in
the spotlight section is I'm just spotlighting individuals rather than companies.

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So it's similar to the highlight section, but with one
key difference. I'm only focusing on an individual rather than
the individual running a company you know, and giving you
specifics about their business. I'm just giving you specifics about
the individual. What that section is designed to do is

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designed to promote positive reinforcement because unfortunately, we've gotten away
from knowing how to engage each other, knowing how to
implement each other. And it's primarily due to being exposed

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to the internet, being overly exposed to the media. And
it's like, and just to reiterate, the media is and
always was weaponized against our people. It's designed to break
our spirits, is divine, designed to cause wedges between us,

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you know, to this band unity, turn us against each other,
have us at odds with each other, and it's incentivized,
you know, to give us incentive to pretty much destroy
each other with the content that we produce on our platforms.

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We're supposed to be using this media as a tool
to network with each other, to share resources and to
build We're not supposed to be using it to be
petty and to take shots at each other. Not that
they we're the only group of people to engage in that,

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but you know, all the things that we have going
on in our lives, everything that all the adversity we
face as a people, last thing we need to do
is be our own ops. And that's precisely what the media,
you know, is a breeding ground for, is for us

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to hate on each other. So that's why I designed
that section. That's what that section is all about, is
just to focus on the accomplishments and the achievements of
someone from our community that impacts our community in a
positive way. And I'm just giving you specifics about that

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particular individual. You know, where they come from, what you're there,
were born, what thing they advocate for, or if they're
an activist, or just whatever positive thing that they're doing
that positively impacts our community in a positive way. You know,

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I'm spotlighting that particular thing. So say, for instance, they
have a nonprofit organization, the year that they start the
nonprofit organization is impact that it has on our community,
you know, their mission statement of that nonprofit organization, or

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if the individual themselves are using their media to you know,
educate us about something to build bridges rather than using
it to tear down and destroy our people. So just
basically proving all heroes don't wear capes and congratu a

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person from our community that's impacting our community in a
positive way with their actions or their deeds. I guess
thedeed is the action. But you know what I'm saying,
that's pretty much the gist of the Spotlight section of
the Narrative Podcast. And then, last but not least, I

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close out on a super positive note with the section
I call the Wise Word of the Day. And my
Wise Word of the Day is just a philosophical sentiment,
you know, a jam at juel, a pearl of wisdom,

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whatever you want to call it, is designed to promote
critical thinking by helping us expound upon and pontificate about
the simple complexities of this thing we call life. And
that's pretty much my weekend edition. Like I said, I

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wasn't gonna break down each and every section. If you
want to know, if you want to listen to it,
you know, the Spotlight section or the Narrative Podcast weekend
edition in its entirety, you just have to tune in

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this weekend to see what I'm talking about, and you know,
see how it differs from the weekday section of the
Narrative Podcast. But that's pretty much my Fourmatt style breakdown.
And now we're off to the promotional portion of the

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Narrative Podcast, and the very first thing I'm going to
be promoting is the podcast itself. I want to tell
you all the ways that you can support the Narrative Podcast.
So first and foremost, the podcast is available on all
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Just one distinction, make sure to support the Narrative podcast.
Make sure you're listening to the one hosted by me,
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titled the Narrative Podcast. Now, my content matter is for
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our people and our culture on this platform, original people
and original people culture, you know. So if you want
to listen to all things black, make sure you're listening

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to and tap into the Narrative Podcast by Hawsey Allen.
Because I don't know what all those other podcasts titled
the Narrative Podcast speak about, but I'm keeping the focus
on the accomplishments and achievements of our people and you know,
the higher points of our culture on this platform. So

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I put pin that book to the top of my page,
I used to have a picture of myself. So just
let you know it's not you know, it's not a
bot or nothing like that. I'm not a bot. That's
my actual page. And that's why you need to confirm

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you're on the correct page because they out here cloning pages.
But anyway, so after you've confirmed you're on the correct
X page, look for the latest link of the narrative podcast.
When you see the link on my X page, which

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is I Stay Good at Halsey Allen on X, click
on that link and by clicking on that link, the
link should expand, revealing my podcast logo. My podcast logo
it's in the shape of a heart, so click on

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or my podcast logo. I pardon me I'm just I'm
ahead of the game. So when you click on the link,
it should expand, revealing my podcast logo. My podcast logo
is a silhouette of a microphone. It says the Narrative
podcast on it. So once you see my podcast logo,

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then click on the like button, which is in the
shape of a hearts and typically located at the top
of the podcast logo somewhere when you see it, click
on that, and by clicking on that, that will it
cost my podcast logo to expand the second time. After
expand and say second time, look on the like button again.

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This time the like button will be located underneath the
podcast logo. After you've clicked on that, then leave me
a comment in the comment box. In the comment box
is usually right next to the like button. When you're
commenting on the Narrative podcast, leave me up some type

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of feedback, positive or negative. Just don't leave the comment
box blank. Comment something like an emoji, a thumbs up,
a thumbs down. You know, if you're from a different country,
your flag. You can literally type the word something and

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put that in the comment box. But put something in
the comment box or what that does when you do
when you like, comment and shared on anything in social
media with something called analytics, and analytics is how they
measure you know your progress and decide you know how
big your audience is. It's basically your stats. And if

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your content is monetized, which mind is, that helps generate clicks.
The clicks generate views, the views generate revenue. So the
more you know functions you perform, the light commenting and
the sharing, it helps generate money for the platform. So

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you want to do all of it. Anytime you see
like commedy share, like comedy shar, it helps your pages
visibility and you know all that. So after you left
me a comment in the comment box, then I need

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you to find that download button and the download but
again is usually a cloud shaped icon, so look forward
to cloud shaped icon, click on that to fully download
the episode. After the episode has fully downloaded, then I
need you to hit the share button, share or upload

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the episode to whatever platform that you like sharing your
uploading content too, And that's how you support the Narrative
Podcast when following me from X formally Twitter, and then
the last way you can support the Narrative Podcast is
to go to my YouTube page and my YouTube page

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is just Halsey Allen. It's my viewer page. And then
go to a tab on my YouTube account marked my
videos and should be able to access that tab with
no problem because they're shared. My videos are shared publicly
on YouTube. And look for the next the podcast episodes

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when you find them, like, comment and share all those
Narrative podcast episodes across all form, across all social media platforms.
Like button on YouTube this thumbs up and the don't
like button is the thumbs down. Shouldn't have to tell

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you what the comment box on YouTube is. Everybody like
you know, everybody watches YouTube, the comment on videos, comment
on all my episodes of the Narrative Podcast on YouTube,
and then share, upload those episodes to whatever social media
platform that you're like sharing or uploading content too. And
that's how you support the Narrative podcast when following me

(48:45):
from YouTube, you know. And again to access those Narrative
podcast episodes, go to my videos on YouTube now just
to work the caution. All those episodes are old episodes
of the Narrative podcast. And the reason why those episodes

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are older episodes of the Narrative podcasts and not new
episodes is because YouTube changed their You know, community guidelines,
they kind of you know, start cracking down on the

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type of content you can share on YouTube. And so
you know when they did that, you know, that left
this platform that I'm recording these episodes of the Narrative
podcast in non compliance with the new policies and procedures.

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And so rather than correct it to align the fully
align up with YouTube's new policy changes, this platform just
decided to just drop YouTube as a distributor, you know,
a place where you can distribute this content, your content
that you record on this platform. So that's why no

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newer episodes of the Narrative podcasts are on YouTube. They're
all you know, two to three years old. But the
silver lining is all the older episodes that I recorded
prior to the policy change are still on YouTube. So

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you can still like, comment, and share all those old
episodes across all social media platforms. And that's how you
will ultimately support the Narrative podcast as all and analytics,
all engagement counts on engage. The YouTube episodes of the

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Narrative Podcast hosted by me Hawsey Allen sell it with
up the microphone. That's how you know it's you know,
my version of the narrative podcasts. Like I said, there
are thousands of podcasts titled the narrative podcast, so you
should actually be able to type in the YouTube browser
the narrative podcast, and the shit pop up that way too.

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But anyway, just like Comedy Share, you know, the Narrative
podcast over on YouTube all my old episodes like comic Share,
and again in that comment box, put something in the
comment box. Just don't need the comment box blank. It
helps generate revenue for the platform. So yeah, those are

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all the ways to support the Narrative podcast. And onto
the next thing I'll be promoting in the promotional portion
of the Narrative Podcast. The next thing I'll be promoting
is my book of poetry. It's titled The Black Card,

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and it's written by me, Hawsey Allen. And what the
Black Card is is a thirty page book of poetry.
The highlights and encompasses the Black experience. Pretty much everything
we experience as a people, everything we go through as people,

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both positive and negative, is highlighted and captured and poetry form.
So if you're a millenated man or a mellenated woman,
you will automatically be able to relate to each poem
featured in the book people outside of our culture. You
don't have to feel left out. You can use it

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as a reference guide to better, you know, improve your
relations with the black people you have and in your
life or encounter on a daily basis. Of course, you'll
never know what it's like to be black just simply
by reading the book, but you will help you gain

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some in depth insight into our people in our culture
by reading it. Or if you just like to read poetry,
you know it's a good poetry read, so go check
it out. It's called The Black Card on a platform
called Poetizer. So to go purchase The Black Card, go

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to poetizer dot com and then on poetizer dot com
you want to go to their virtual online bookstore. That's
where the book is and look for my title. Book
title The Black Card and it's written by me Hawsey Allen.
Purchase it today on poetizer dot com. If you're unfamiliar

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with Poetizer, what poetizer is. It's a social media platform
for writers, particularly of the poetry yonder. They cater to
people that like to write poetry. It's open to all
genres of writing. But you know, if centers and focuses
around poets, so that's a place where they can socially

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interact with one another, you know, share each other's work
with people you want to share your work with, build friendships,
message people, DM people, write on people's walls, build a
friend list, you know, like all other social media platforms.
And then the kicker is they have activities for people

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to like to write poetry. They got daily writing promps,
games and activities. But the most important feature that they
have is built in self publishing software, which will allow
the users of that social media platform to write, market
and sell a book that they create on their platform.

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And that's the purpose of why they have a virtual
online bookstore is just to showcase, you know, the books
of the people on that social media platform. And that's
what I did. And my book is available on poetizer
dot com inside their virtual online bookstore look for it.

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Written by me Hawsey Allen and again it's a thirty
page book of poetry highlighting the black experience. And now
I'll give you a more comprehensive detailed description of the book.

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The Black Card is more than just poetry. It's a
poetic manifesto, a lyrical tribute to the reality, resilience and
richness of the black experience with bold versus the cut
deep in imagery that's swords. A Black Card reclaims dignity,
demands respect, and honors the legacy of the people who

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have turned struggle into strength, culture and the power. More
than just poetry, This is a declaration. Black is royalty
or black is royal, Black is unstoppable, Black is everything.
So head on over to poetizer dot com, go to

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their virtual online bookstore and purchase my book of poetry
titled The Black Card. Purchase The Black Card today or
get your Black Card revoked. And now the very last

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thing I want to plug and my promotional portion of
the Narrative podcast is my personal poetry blog on blogger
dot com. And the address is the name of the blog.
It's called Haws's Poetry Corner and the address to get

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to it is ww dot mister Hawses blogs dot com.
The poem is featured on Hawse's Poetry Corner is just
casual poetry, relatable poetry. Poetry from poetry that anybody from
any walk of life can enjoy and relate to. So

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relatable poetry. I even have a slogan for that poetry blog,
Hawse's Poetry Corner, Poetry or the Passion Poetry for All Occasions.
When you read the poems posted on that site, you
will see that the poems live up to that slogan because,
like I said, anybody from any walk of life can enjoy,

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you know, the tone of poetry on that site. Now,
I do have some poems specifically directed towards our people
and our culture, but on the wholes for pretty much
anybody that likes to read poetry, So check it out.

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Hawses Poetry Corner blogger dot com at ww dot mister
Hawes blogs dot com. The way you support the poems
posted on that site is you share the link to
Hawses Poetry Corner, which is ww dot mister has blogs
dot com, share that link across all social media platforms

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or poems on Hallsey's Poetry Corner across all social media platforms,
and then once you get to the site. Also like
all the poems, underneath each poem you should see a
light button. The light button is in the shape of
with hearts to click on the heart shaped like button
underneath each poem on Hars's Poetry Corner blog on Blogger

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dot com. Then also there's a comment box in each
poem on Hars's Poetry Corner. Comment in the comment box,
comment something, you know, comment whatever you like to comment
about whatever on my poems, like I told you like
with the narrative podcast. And you know, your comments help

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generate clicks for the page the analytics, so the more
clicks it generates, the more revenue it generators. So don't
leave the comment box empty. On Halles's Poetry Corner blog.
Put something, put a character, an emoji, a flag, something
you can literally type to word something. But put something

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in the comment box if you would like me to
respond to the comment that you put in the comment box.
If you have a Gmail account, sign it with your
Gmail account and leave me a comment and I will
respond to your comment when I receive my notifications. And
I get instantly notified every time somebody leaves a comment

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on my poetry blog. So yeah, go check it out
Houses's Poetry Corner blog on Blogger dot com at ww
dot Mister Howses blogs dot com Poetry Corner Poetry with
the passion Poets for All Occasions. Another finer points about

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the poem's feature on Hall's Poetry for the blog. They're
all spontaneously written, which is kind of hard to believe
because they're so detailed and specific. But I promise you
right hand, left hand, all hands up to the creator
on the stack of you know, any religious track you

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want me to put it on. I did not premeditate
any uh you know poems that I wrote on that site,
they just literally just came to me. I really believe
it's just like a higher calling to why I even
write poetry, you know, because I believe it's therapy for somebody,

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definitely not me. It's not a coping coping mechanism for me.
It's like everybody reads the poem be like, wow, I
was going through this. How did you just know? Everybody?
All the comments that I've ever received, you know, from
people that visit that site, you know, that's what the

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type of comments I get. You know, I was going
through that, even ones dealing with the loss of my
family members, other relatives that can come up to me
and be like yep, that's them, and you know that
helped me get through that tough time. But you know,

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I had already found my closure with their passions, so
it wasn't therapy for me. So I believe like the
universes kind of uses me as a conduence to expel
these these verses to just get you through it whatever

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it is or going through or you know, affirm that
you're not alone in the universe, like you know, you're
not the only one you know. But go check them
out Horses's Poetry Born the Blog Blogger dot com at
ww dot mister blogs dot com. Share them like, comment

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and share them like comed and share, really really comment.
Don't just leave the comment box blank. You know, if
nothing else signed your name, sign your name in the
comment box, just if you can't think of the comic.
And that's how you support all the poems on Halls's

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Poetry Born the blog when we visit it on blogger
dot com. And now to give you more insightful uh
description of the blog and the poems featured on that site.
So when you come to Hallses Poetry Corner log on
blogger dot com, prepared to step into a world where

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emotions flow like rivers and words paint vivid pictures. Halls'
Poetry Corner is your ultimate destination for captivating poetry that
touches the soul. Whether you're a po poetry enthusiast or
just a casual reader. Haw's Poetry Corner has something for everyone.
Explore all my poems, timeless classics and thought provoking verses

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prepared to ignite your imagination and explore the beauty of
language in its purest form. Let's celebrate the art of
poetry together. You can be a part of the fun
on Halls's Poetry Corner by liking, commenting, and sharing the
poems on Hall's Poetry Corner. So come to like, comment,
and share everything all his poetry Corner, poetry or the

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Passion Poetry for all occasions on Blogger dot com at
ww dot milaws dot com. So experience it today. And
that's pretty much it's before I move away from that.

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I just wanted to say I am emphatically a poets,
so I'm constantly writing, I'm constantly performing spoken word art.
I didn't do an episode my weekend episode last week
of the Narrative podcast because you know, I was working
all my poetry, so just writing and just trying to
get inspired to start posting on the blog side again,

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having posted nothing in quite a while. I at one
point was posting daily because the inspiration was just coming
to me. When I'm not inspired, I don't post, but
you know, I'm constantly writing, I'm constantly performing spoken word pieces,
I'm doing something poetic. I'm either writing, reading, performing, or

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you know, in attendance to a poetic event. You know,
that's just how much poetry encompasses influences my world. The
Narrative podcast is just something I feel, another calling. I
feel that I was called to do, you know, to

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put it into perspective about our people and you know,
to be that balance, you know, to put out the
positive frames of reference about our people and our culture.
But that's just why I just want to make that
very clear that I was doing poetry first before I
start doing the narrative podcast. So yeah, that's why I

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got multiple accounts. So I got one account, you know,
just focused on the narrative podcast stuff, and then I
got another account that focuses on my poetry. But anyway,
go check it out house This poetry corner on blogger

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at ww dot missions blog dot com is Volte Corner
Poach and the Passion Poaching for all occasions. And that
will conclude my promotional portion of the Narrative Podcast. And
in closing I'd like to petition all content creators, whether
in whether you're an all audio content creator such as

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myself or a visual content creator, to endorse and promote
the Narrative Podcasts on your content platforms. Endorse and promote
the black card, Endorse and promote all this vote corner
on your content platforms. Appreciation advance. If you have promoted
me in the past, I must have missed it. I

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all will definitely return to favor when I hear the endorsement,
when I hear the promotion. Just when you're promoting, just
be very clear to make the distinction that this is
the narrative podcast hosted by Hawsey Allen. You gotta make
that clear distinction that is hosted by me. It's like
I said, there are thousands of podcasts titled the Narrative Podcast.

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So to know that you're promoting this one, make that
clear distinction the narrative podcast hosted by Hawsey Allen. So
so then you know, so there will be no mystery
about who you're promoting. But that conclude this episode of
the Narrative Podcast. Appreciate you all that it's been supporting

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and you know it's all it's all up from here
all right, So now that we're done with the promotional
portion of the Narrative Podcast, we're gonna move into the
broad overview of the narrative podcast. So we're gonna kick

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things off by telling you why I name my podcast
and there the podcast name my podcast narrative Podcast because
I don't like the false narrative surrounding the depiction of
our people's images and likenesses across all you know, media outlets.

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So I designed this platform with that in mind. To
where the media is dedicated to destroying our people's images
and likenesses, this platform is dedicated to uplift and edify
and repair our people's reputation with the overall you know

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focus on changing the general perception of how our people
are perceived across all media platforms, thus changing the narrative.
Hence the title the Narrative Podcast. Now the first nuanced
you need to be aware of when listening to the

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Narrative Podcast, as I refer to my listeners that constantly
listen to my platform and engage my content as narrators.
I was inspired to coin that phrase by the textbook
definition of the word narrator and the narrator they're basically
just someone who tells or illustrates the story to fully

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contextualize it for the audience, regardless of what format the
story is in. The narrator's job is just to make
sure everybody understands the assignment. Make sure everybody's clear on
what's going on in the story, plot points, sub points
and key players, you know, and you know the main

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focus of what's going on. And so how I relate
that to what I'm doing on this platform is through
a saying that I always use. I don't know where
I picked the saying up. I heard it somewhere and
it just kind of stuck with me. If you don't
tell your own story, your own story will be told

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for you. So that's precisely as what we need as
a people need to be doing. We need to be
telling our own story because the media is currently telling
our story, and they're telling it from a negative perspective.
They're really put just pushing out propaganda about our people
and our culture. They're promoting all the you know, the

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negative things that happen within our community rather than the
positive things. So they're promoting, you know, death within our community.
They're promoting gang culture, they're promoting drug culture, They're promoting newdness, degeneracy,
and just you know, things that make us look savage

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on the surface. So you know, that's what the media
is doing. That's how they're telling or narrating our story.
As narrators, you know, we can tell living is this
digital information. We can change the narrative by telling our
own story on our own platforms. Is while we cannot

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control the frames of reference that the media puts out
about our people and our culture, we can control what
we choose to share with the world on our own platforms.
So that's why coined the phrase narrator. Now I'm gonna

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give you some examples on how to be a narrator.
So I coined the phrase narrator. I'm obviously a narrator.
This is the Narrative Podcast. Every episode of the Narrative
Podcast features positive frames of reference about our people and
our culture and audio format. Not just a positive frame

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of reference about our people in our culture, but intentional
positive frames of reference. What I mean by an intentional
positive frame of reference a positive frame of reference that
challenges and directly contradicts a negative stereotype about our people
and our culture. So that's what I'm doing on this platform,

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I'm changing the narrative about our people and our culture
one episode at a time. So, while I'm changing the
narrative on my end, one episode at a time, as
a narrator, you can change the narrative on your end,

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one social media post at a time, visually by sharing
positive visual frames of reference about our people and our
culture that directly challenged or contradict a negative stereotype about

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our people and our culture. So, say, for example, there's
a negative stereotype about our people being unintelligent, you can
upload positive visual examples of our people excelling academically, you
yourself excelling academically, or somebody within your community or within

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your family achieving academic excellence or engaging in some type
of intellectual activity. There's a negative stereotype about our people
being uh rude, you can uh upload positive visual imagery

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of us not only being cordial, but being uh you
know effective, you know, providing a service, you know, helping
someone that that's in need of help, helping their specific

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need that they need help with. So that's how you
can destroy the negative stereotype about our people being you know, rude.
There are many other. Uh, you know, all the negative

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stereotypes about our people and our cultures. So just to
uh dispel those falsities, you can just upload positive visual
images that directly challenge and contradict all the negative stereotypes
about our people and our culture. If you can't think
of any of that, I just named one of the

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most potent things you can do to change the narrative
visually is you know, upload imagery of yourself in a
good space, you know, being happy, you know, living your
best life, being carefree, not bothering anybody, Just you know,

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march into the beat of your own drum, being unfazed, unbothered, unworried.
Because when you do that, that strikes a huge blow
for the culture. You know, that empowers us as a people,
you know, showing our strength, that we're happy, that we're strong,

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we're resilient, we can overcome any obstacle that you sit
in front of it. That's what you know, you being
happy and you being at peace represents. You know, they
can't break us. That's that's the whole thing that they
want to break us. They want to see us angry
all the time, upset all the time, sad all the time,

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you know, just besides ourself with you know, anguish, but
you being happy. And you know, even if it's a
fake smile, you know, must a fact smile, fake it
till you make it, as the old saying goes smile
or keeping crying. But just happy content, you know that

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shut that that that shuts them down in a big way.
Happy content. That's not you know, stereotypical, not out here
just cooning and buffum me. But you know, and aging
and you know happy care free activity, hostsome activity. But

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that's how you effectively be a narrator. On to another
word you need to be acquainted with on this platform, ors.
I refer to our people, black people as original people.
You know, I refer to our people as original people
for many different reasons. I just go over with you

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some of the most important reasons I feel because it's
my platform, as I'm just calling it as I see it,
The word original to cond of hints that you know,
being unique, being one of a kind, being genuine, be authentic,

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and I think all that describes our people to a t.
There's no group of people more authentic and genuine, one
of the kind, and our people, you will find our
people nowhere. Our people are the most impactful people on
the entire planet. We influence every culture you can possibly name.

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Everybody from every walk of life is enamored by our people.
You know, even the people that profess to hate us,
you know, can't think of if they're being honest with theirself,
they can't think of what their lives would be without us,

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despite the fact that they despise us, the fact that
they don't think we're just as good as there, you know,
and I'm not being biased, as just the fact and incorporates,
you know, whole people's culture into your culture. If you

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truly hate it, you're going to try to do the
opposite of what they're doing. You're not going to study
and dictate their trends. You're not going to listen to
their music and enjoy, you know, music from their artists.
If you hate that those people, you're not going to
try to wear your clothes like them. If you hate

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those people, you're not going to try to eat food
that resembles their food. If you hate their people. So
you know, we're the most studied and duplicated people in
the entire world. They try to imitate us. I sitting

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say duplicate. Well, they might be trying to duplicate this
now with all this science, but they definitely imitate this.
We're the most studied and imitated people in the entire world.
So that's why I refer to our people as original
people in that sense of the word original, you know,
also hints at being the first, you know, So original

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is a historically accurate statement when you're describing Black people,
because we were here thousands of years before every other
group of any any other people. As a matter of fact,
all other groups of people directly descended from our people,

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So everybody is a distant relative of our people. We
mothered and fathered civilization. We were here thousands of years
before every other group of people. Not only that, we
originated all modern day conveniences. Every modern day convenience that
we now have is directly attributed to our people and

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our culture. Whether or whether or not the history books
gave us credit for it, for inventing that thing, they
definitely gave us credit for augmenting, you know, an invention
that another you know, inventor got credit for somebody white.

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Just speaking for Black Americans, nearly all the white inventors
in history didn't invent anything. They had black slaves. They
stole the black slaves invention and passed it off as
their own. That's why the patent system was even invented,
just to negate the credit. You know, the ex Us

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out of history, but that's why they call it his story.
But more about the nature, the historical nature or whow
re for our people as a riginal people, like I said,
we were and are the original people you know, of
the world. We existed every place you can possibly think of.

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We originated all modern day conveniences. We're the original you
know educators, your original scholars, the original adventures, the original architects,
the original chemist, the original scientists, original mathematicians, you know,
original engineers, original architects, whatever you want to say, We originated.

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We were the original embodiment of everything. You know, medicine,
original doctors, original healers, you know, with the original everything.
So as not as long as we're talking about history,

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something that I always have to do to stay true
to my content, which is to destroy false narratives. There's
no bigger false narrative than the Falster narrative of slavery.
Not saying slavery did not exist, but it doesn't exist
in how they teach us it existed. There are many

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just gray areas and then straight up lies that get
told about slavery, and this false narrative is kind of
what's holding us back globally as a people. Then inaccurate
depictions and the inaccurate recordings of time the times. One

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of the most devastating effects of the false narrative of
slavery is the notion that all of us, you know,
got to wherever we're currently residing in the world is
because our ancestors were enslaved and you know, bought to

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that corner of the globe on a slave boat, when
in reality, were just already originally located there. Like I said,
if we existed before every other group of people existed,

(01:25:29):
doesn't that mean technically we were every in every region
of the world first, Yes, it does. That's exactly what
that means. That's exactly what that means all ancient civilizations
the original people were. Our people were you know, dark

(01:25:51):
tents of dark hue, you know, the lighter complexed people.
They came later, the palm colored people can later. We
existed everywhere. We are the original tribe of man. That's
why I refer to our people as original people, especially

(01:26:15):
those of us residing in here in the United States
of America. The majority of us were already here. We
got reclassified, we put on got put on plantations. They
did go get some keywords, some African slaves, but it
didn't go on the thousands of years, like people say,

(01:26:40):
it was, like, think of any commercial liner right now.
Can you go to any commercial Is there any commercial
cruises to go to Africa right now? Off the top
of your head without googling, name a current commercial boats boat.

(01:27:03):
I'm not talking about playing, I'm talking about a boats,
a cruise boats that goes to Africa. Do you know
how choppy the sea is just in the Caribbeans. To
go from the America to the Caribbeans, to the Bahamas
to Hawaii, you know how hard it is to sell

(01:27:33):
like that, But then to go all the way to Africa.
That's why there aren't any So again, not saying slavery
didn't exist, not saying they didn't go to Africa and slaves.
Some Africans on boats, some keyword, some not all. They

(01:27:56):
show us all these illustrations, like if you know anything
about sailing, you gotta go get enough you know, in
the early times, they had to pack it full of
supplies enough to get them there. It takes three to
six months to get there, you know, and it's mostly

(01:28:17):
people involved in the slave trade, where Europeans and white Spaniards.
So they're coming from Europe and Spain to go to Africa.
They got load up on these supplies. They got a
crew of like maybe five hundred. By the time they
get there, their crew is cutting half because some of

(01:28:40):
them stayed in whatever port they doted to load up
on supplies and the rest of them, you know, got
sick and died on the way there. So crew five
hundred now they're down to one seventy five by the
time they get there. And then they're they're packing a

(01:29:02):
thousand Africans to their one seventy five crew. Come on, now,
just like little misnumbers like that. They show us these
diagrams and it doesn't even look possible in the diagrams
on how they was packing the slaves. Lock yourself in

(01:29:27):
the bathroom, you know, for a day, use the toilet,
do one and two in the toilet and see how
that works out for you, and just stay in there
for over a day. I don't think you're gonna make it.

(01:29:49):
They're not gonna make it. To this day, we don't
even have any remnants of slave boats anywhere in the world.
We got remnants of Viking with our physical evidence that
Viking existed. There's Viking ships in museums that you can
touch and say the Vikings were on this shit. We

(01:30:13):
got physical pieces, not the whole entire shit of the
arc that was chronicled in the Holy Bible. You know
this must have been a part of the arc. There's
physical pieces of that. There's not one physical piece of
a slave boat. We're in twenty twenty five. We don't

(01:30:35):
even know the names of slave boats. All this technology,
we can read somebody's body heat signature in the whole
different country from your laptop computer. But they can't find
a physical remnant of a slave boat. And then, don't

(01:31:05):
even get me started on Alex Haley's roots. That was
just a propagand a propaganda manual. So again, not slavery,
saying slavery didn't exist, not saying they didn't enslave some Africans.
But the way they teach, you know, slavery is just

(01:31:25):
either an exaggeration or an outright lie, how it started,
how it ended. You know, they try the history tries
to attribute white people to you know, freeing us from slavery,
when they didn't do it out of the kindness of

(01:31:47):
their heart. They did it for money. You know, it
was just financially beneficial for them to do it. You know,
all these white abolitionists, they were just really poor white people.
They couldn't get jobs, and figure that they helped end slavery,
that they would get jobs and when they did, they

(01:32:07):
that's exactly what happened. That's one side of it. Another
reason why Indy is because we were rebelling. That's not
what's recorded in history. You gotta dig and find out
how hard we were rebelling and how hard we were
punishing the people who enslaved us, the horrendous things we

(01:32:28):
were doing to them as much as horrendous things that
were doing to us. We was paying at back times ten.
They don't want us to ever be reminded of that.
They want us just to be secure in the fact
that there was only one heroing something. There was only
one that Turner, when the fact is we rebelled against

(01:32:49):
the entire time slavery happened. Here, all the slavery plantations
that got burned down, all the family these other plant
slave owners that got they found the captating. You know,

(01:33:09):
so we forced our freedom. We played a big role
in the forcing them to free us. You know, about
the only accurate thing they get right is how they
used to torture us, what they used to do to us.

(01:33:32):
You know, they used to eat our flesh, they used
to wear our flesh, used to make us in the
cooking grease like these, to use our babies for alligator bait,
use us to warm their feet, all kinds of just

(01:33:54):
six sadistant stuff that they used to do. This. They
got that one hundred and ten percent right. Everything else
is either an exaggeration or a lie. As far as
us owning slavery, we were prisoners of war. As far
as us owning slaves, we were prisoners of war. Okay,

(01:34:18):
we were prisoners of war. And when were enslave air
quotes enslaving each other, that was just a product of,
you know, prisoners of war. And then when we did
purchase slaves, that was to purchase our family, purchase our relatives.

(01:34:39):
And we definitely didn't whip and beats. The so called
air quote slaves that we purchased. It was more of
a it was more of an indenture servitude. This is like,
purchase my family and friends and get them straight, teach
them to skill trade, teach them how to get on
their own after they learn their skill trade, how to

(01:35:02):
earn income and money. You know, the death squared off
going about your business. That's what that was when we
hear quotes purchased slaves. So yeah, you know that's just

(01:35:29):
the fu many that's just a few many false narratives
about the slave trade. I try to dispell that, make
that a stable in every episode, because the false narrative
of slavery that destroys our people. They keep constantly telling
us when we bring up slavery, you know, don't mention it.

(01:35:50):
It happened all them thousands of years ago. But then
y'all won't let us forget it because you keep on,
you won't destroy all these trumpes of slave especially here
in the United States of America. Got all these monuments,
building statues and flags honoring slave owners, but then tell
us in a single breath to forget slavery. Then also

(01:36:13):
slavery it separates us as of people, as you got
our immigrant brothers and sisters, you know, versus you know,
the descendants of slaves or foundational Black Americans with the
card now and so now that's a little kind of
a riff because of the misinformation and false narrative behind slavery.

(01:36:39):
So you know, it's it's a divide and conquered type situation.
But yeah, it's a very dangerous false narrative that they
keep on, you know, keep on posing and propagating. So

(01:37:02):
just trying to set that right the best way I
can in every episode. You know, I'm just not trying
to expand upon them, just scratching the surface. You gotta
do your own due diligence to see where they was
lying at. But they got over on us big time
with that fasse narrative slavey. Yeah. And then last but

(01:37:26):
not least, the reason I refer to our people as
original people on this platform is to unify us as
a platform, to get us on one accord. You know what,
have us moving in solidarity, which now there is a
conversation of should we delineate from certain groups of people

(01:37:47):
who try to uh undermine out us. So you know,
I'm not gonna need to touch on that, but I
will eventually touch on it, and I'm having to have
to have a space episode of that. But primarily what
I try to do is I try to bring us
all together because we are all of one blood. We

(01:38:08):
all speak different languages relocated different parts of the world,
but you know, through the eyes of other people, we're
just all black. You know, they don't know, you know,
you speak French until you open your mouth to say something.
They don't know you speak Spanish Spanish as your you know,
main language, your native tongue, until you start speaking Spanish.

(01:38:31):
They don't know that upon looking at you, that you're Spanish,
and so on and so forth. You got all these
different things that divide us as a people, you know, land, mass, nationality, lineage,
all these things are separate and divide us. Whereas people

(01:38:56):
outside of our culture they just look at all of
us and her black. Now how that affects like, just
for example, Asian people. There are all these different type
of Asian people, but all Asian people just say they're Asian.
There's Polynesians, there's Filipinos, there's Chinese, Korean, Taiwanese, all the Kneses.

(01:39:23):
But all these Asian people when they get into a gathering,
they just say they're Asian and be done with it.
They'll be like, yeah, I'm Chinese, but I'm Asian, you
know what I'm saying. And that's weird. How a Japanese
and a Chinese person can sit down and find a
common ground and not hate each other, you know, and

(01:39:47):
just at the end of the day they're Asian. That's weird.
How somebody's Spanish or a Hispanic or whatever you want
to call it, like Puerto Rican and the Mexican that
can sit down and have enough you know, words similar
in dialect, they can communicate and they can find a

(01:40:08):
common ground. Somebody Dominican and uh out Salvadorian or going
to miland they can sit down and talk and find
the common ground and they Spanish. You know what I'm saying.
But we black people, you know, we gotta have we

(01:40:31):
have to you know, carry the very thing that separate us.
We gotta you know, I'm patient. I'm you know, from
Ghana this and that we're so proud we we're kind
of anti you know, we're so proud to the fact
we're anti anything else. But this when people outside of

(01:40:53):
our culture, all they see is that, you know what
I'm saying, you know, without getting to but I feel
the term original people is a universal way we can
all identify ourselves and applies to all of us. Because technically,
a white person can say they're Egyptian, a white person

(01:41:17):
can say they're African and not be lying. The Chinese
person can say they're from the Caribbeans and not be lying,
they're Caribbean, they're Jamaican and not be lying. If we're
talking nationalitis, you know what I'm saying, a Dutch person
can say they're they're African and not be lying. But nobody,

(01:41:39):
no other group of people in the entire world other
than us, can say we're original people. Nobody, because it's
scientifically it's a scientifically proven fact that we were here first.
Nobody can take that away from us, that we were

(01:42:01):
here first. We either original people. No other group of
people can say that they were here first. So that's
why I refer to our people as original people from
a historical perspective, and to unify us as a people,
you know, get us all on one accord. Yes, I

(01:42:23):
believe we should all celebrate our respective differences. We should
be proud of our nationalities, we should be proud of
our lineages, our rich cultures and traditions and everything that
makes us us. And at the same time, you know,
we all have the same enemy, this holding us back,

(01:42:46):
this holding us down. So you know, that's why all
these other people, groups of people kind of flourish and
vanquishing that enemy, you know, on the financial side of it,
more than we do. Because they don't let that trivial differences,

(01:43:06):
you know, hold them back, their lineage and their you know,
nationality and whatever hold them back. They all put all
that aside in like, let's get this back and put
all that aside, you know, for the greater good. I'm
sure behind closed doors they pop, they ish, you know,

(01:43:34):
but it's a healthy competition type of thing. With other
groups of people, it's just alike, they laugh it off
and like, you know, but us, it's like it cuts deep.
We cut each other deep with So that's all. The

(01:43:56):
next thing about the Narrative podcast is a positive safe
space for original people. This platform is designed to uplift, edify, motivate,
and inspire original people. So it's a positive safe space
for original people. I focus on the accomplishments and achievements
of our people and try to focus on bringing us

(01:44:19):
together and finding common ground and using our platforms to
network and build rather than to destroy each other. So
I don't focus on gossip, negativity, slander, denigration of any kind.
Feel gossip is what's destroying our people. It's a positive.

(01:44:42):
So I try to dedicate this into making it a
positive safe space for our people to feel good, to
feel good about ourselves, and to you know, spread unity.
So no name calling, no roasting, no put downs. You know,

(01:45:04):
it's just all about uplifting edification of our people, with
the focus on you know the bigger picture, which is
you know, systemical pressure, psychological programming. That's the you know,
main talking points about all the content. And then you know,

(01:45:28):
there is an exception to every rule. And since I
deliver commentary current events, whatever's going on in the world,
I talk about it from our perspective. If I have
to talk about somebody within our community for intentionally doing

(01:45:49):
something stereotypical to garner monetary gain, you know, throw us
under the bus for a bag, I'm not going to
be so nice when I'm commentating on that. Other than that,
it's a positive safe space for our people, you know.
And the last, but not least it's the time efficient platform.

(01:46:13):
The broad overview of this platform is the longest, you know,
section of the podcast. Everything else is really brief to
the point. I take my time with the broad overview,
so I don't leave out any gray areas and you know,
to make the content more cohesive and you know, contextualize

(01:46:38):
it better. But I really try to be time efficient
because I don't have all time all day to speak.
I know you don't have all day to listen. So
I want to just make this really compelling, impactful and

(01:47:00):
informative and entertaining, all in the same breath. And I
can't do that if I'm boring you to sleep. So
that's why I even devise my format, you know, pretty
much the overall main positive frame of reference, and then
breaking down the sections, each section as speaking points, and

(01:47:23):
then I time each one of those speaking points just
to prevent me from getting along winded and od and
going down rabbit holes and talking about things that don't
need to be discussed. So just to make all my
points considric and easy to follow, that's why I just
focus on really trying to get time nficions. So I

(01:47:47):
think I covered everything you need to know about my platform,
and if you're still in the gray area, I'm well
over five hundred episodes in. Just remember to download this
episode no previously recorded episodes of the Narrative podcast wherever
you where everage podcast sources from. And now we're going
to dive into this weekday edition of the Nerik Podcast

(01:48:09):
with the very first positive news article, very first positive
news article this week on this weekday episode of the
Nerik Podcast. The headline reads just a second still kind

(01:48:42):
of fumbling my first positive news article. The headline says, uh,
HBCU grads create app that helps people so expunge their
records and file petitions without an attorney. And the name

(01:49:07):
of it is called expungement Ai. This is the brainchild
of two brothers HBC brads from Howard Lawrence Blackman and
Roger Raymond. It's live in Mississippi and they have plans
to expand nationwide in the next eighteen months. They achieved

(01:49:34):
this through their startup company called legal Ease. So follow
at legal Ease on ig or go to their website
expungement dot ai to find out more how about how
it works and so just a sidebar quick you know,

(01:49:55):
we're living in the information age. Where you're in, information
is easily retrievable. They have this thing called the dark Web.
You can go there. You can get information on anybody. Technically,
if you want to ruin somebody's life, all you need
is their telephone level. These days, you don't even need

(01:50:20):
nobody's email, a trust you need. All you need is
their phone. Bam dade, what's your phone? That's all you need?
But nah, seriously, though, true story. I was a victim

(01:50:41):
of you know, identity theft, and these SAP suckers they
did all kinds of stuff they were trying to sell.
They trying to put that yeah in the yeah, sell
that yeah they got doing it and had a petty

(01:51:05):
theft and something else they did. And so longer story short,
I went to court and pretty much contested it was
not me how they got there. This is like way
back in the late nineties, early two thousands. They did

(01:51:26):
just went on a spree doing stuff with the ignorant asses.
You know, I still kind of didn't get it all
the way handled. And this can mess up opportunities for
you if you have something on your record that you
did not do. You know, so a service like that

(01:51:46):
is definitely definitely noteworthy. Clear up any and all things
criminal backgrounds is definitely if you want to travel, you
don't want to have nothing on your record, especially stuff
you didn't do. You know. That's why this service is

(01:52:08):
really good. You know, that'll open your doors, especially not
just forgetting jobs, for houses, owning vehicles. You know, you
want to have a clean background, owning property, buying, you know,
getting loans from the back. You know, that's why you

(01:52:31):
want to have a clean background. That's why that service
is very, very important. So I said to everybody, do
your owner's apps where you can check your own background,
type in your name and see if you got any
pending charges or something. You know, it's more serious than

(01:52:53):
a mister meter. You want to get that cleared up immediately,
you know, because you definitely don't want the you know,
want them putting their little funky wing tips on your door,
knocking looking for you for something you ain't even did,

(01:53:17):
pulling you over something for you something you haven't done.
So you always have need to know the status of
your background. Clear up anything that's you know, that could
present present a potential problem moving forward. Yeah, so that's

(01:53:47):
just on my little side commentary. But without any further
adode en showing me giving a warm mirror to podcast.
Round of applause to the creators of this act, brother
Lawrence Blackman and Roger Raymond for expungement. AI all right.

(01:54:19):
Second positive news article on this weekday edition of The
Narrative podcast. The headline reads, twenty three year old land
six figure engineering job at Exxon Mobile and the sister's

(01:54:39):
name is Joy or Jay McCall sharing the BS and
mechanical engineering with the minor in computer science and secure
the sixth figure job right after graduating. How many of
us living in this country can say that that you
actually getting poyed into the field that you went to

(01:55:03):
school throughout. So she's out of the student loan deck
on her first page, check might drop, all right, then

(01:55:30):
wrapping it up. So see, I told you the broad
overview is the longest part of the program. So once
you get through that, through that broad overview, the rest
is downhill. Now some articles are a little bit longer.
I didn't have, you know, a lot of information on
that last one. I dug up and still didn't find

(01:55:53):
out like what years she went to school, and you
know what school she attended and all that and didn't up,
So that's why that wasn't more in depth. I just
had to put just what the article said. Anyway, the
very last positive news article on this weekday edition of

(01:56:16):
The Narrative podcast, the headline reads new book tells the
story of Black World Champions of Pro Wrestling and the
name of the book is Pro Wrestlings Pro Wrestlings Black
World Champions. Written Brier Brother by the name of David L. Shabaz,

(01:56:42):
the book offers a comprehensive overview of the historical contemporary
Black professionals of wrestling champions. The showcases prominent female wrestlers
in it as well, such as the likes of Mercedes, Monnette, Bianca,

(01:57:06):
De Lair, j Cargo, and Naomi. The book is available
on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. If you want to
know more about the book, visit the writer of the
book's personal website, David L. Schabbaz at David L. Shabaz

(01:57:32):
dot com or email him directly at David dot Chapez
three sixty at gmail dot com. All lowercase, no spaces,

(01:57:53):
So go check that book out. Don't know about y'all.
I was a huge professional wrestling fan like oh Man
back in the days like the eighties were the time
to be alive for a professional wrestling. We would get
so highth watching wrestling. Me and my cousins. We would
do our own little uh you know, when their in

(01:58:15):
locker room doing their promos, we would do that. We
would act it out and be like, yeah, brother, when
we get in the ring, we're gonna do this. We're
gonna do that to him. We would just be like
wrestling these invisible guys and then sometimes we get bored
and wrestling each other. But you know, that's just how
you was a professional wrestling fan. I am. I was

(01:58:37):
back in the day when I was like in my youth. Yeah,
you know, wrestling super impactful. While it is choreographed, it's choreographed.
People misconstrued they say it's fake. No, it's a choreograph.
The movements are choreographed. They already know who's going to

(01:58:58):
win the match. But it's not fact. They really be
punching each other in the face. They really be body
slamming each other. They really hit each other with folding chairs.
It really hurts. They really have scars, stitches, bruises every
single match. So they really be effing each other up.

(01:59:18):
It's not fake. It is choreograph. It is choreographed, but
it is not fake. That's why there are so many
deaths in wrestling every single year. All that you know,
all the years, all that blunts force trauma that wrestlers
indoor that catches up with them when they get older.

(01:59:44):
Like fore, just imagine getting hit upside the head with
a chair for like five to ten years straight. Eventually
on that third or fourth year, you're gonna have problems.
Are the concussions they you like a sustain. All the

(02:00:06):
cracked ribs, all the fractured wrists, all the broken fingers,
all the broken toes, all the shattered shin bones and
broken torn rotator cuts that pro wrestlers sustain. It is
not fake. It is. It is choreographed, but it is

(02:00:27):
not fake. So, without any further ado, please join me
into giving our brother David L. Shambas of One Narrative
podcast around the Clause or It's compelling book chronically and

(02:00:49):
highlighting the lives of influential professional black wrestlers. All right,

(02:01:12):
So wrapping it up on my very last section here
on the Narrative Podcast week Day edition is my final
section called my speaking point section and just to briefly reiterate,
my speaking point section is just a section where I'm
talking about current events, current news, whatever it's trending and

(02:01:33):
going on in the world. You know, I just give
my spiel on it from the black perspective, And in
this section, what I'm doing is our controlling the meat
narrative because the media usually has us looking and sounding crazy.
So I'm bringing it back into focus from my perspective
as best as I can. And in many cases, like

(02:01:58):
sometimes I might have a name where I feel it's
a slow news week or there's nothing pointing or relevant
worth discussing, you know, or if it's something major going on,
I might be still taking notes and trying to absorb

(02:02:19):
and let it jail before I deliver my commentary, trying
to get all the angles and all the facts so
I can come up with a like a non biased
sounding way to unpack it. But you know, on the
rare occasions when you know, I just feel don't feel

(02:02:39):
like talking about news, I replaced that section with a PSA.
And my PSA it's just an observation, you know that
I feel our people need to work on getting better
as a people. When I say we I mean me too,
and in many cases me, especially when I'm just talking
out loud, and if you can relate, you can relate.

(02:03:04):
But today I do actually have a news related speaking
points trending all up and down social media seems the
CEO of Targets, Brian Cornwell, is stepping down. The same
is stepping down due to the protests of Target. Target

(02:03:32):
was of many companies who abandoned their DEI hiring policies
and it was that and the stocks dropping tremendously. So
nobody's you know, all the shareholders are not making money.

(02:03:53):
You're claiming that the protests, the get blackout is what's
doing it. And it's turning into you know, a wild
storm online. It's it's seeming on the surface like a
tremendous win for the coach. Now here's the part where

(02:04:27):
I crap in your coin flex I do that just
a second, so some more news on it. The person
that's gonna be replacing him as a guy named Michael
Fidelki if I'm pronouncing his rock uh last name correctly

(02:04:49):
f I D E l k I m hm. He's
from Iowa. Uh. He'll be replacing him. But you know,
so while boycotting is definitely a good strategy, economic strategy.

(02:05:16):
That's pretty much how you know buses became integrated, you know,
the Montgomery at uh but bus boycott was the most
famous boycott and it was engineered by our people to
impact you know, the money. And that's when you're when

(02:05:36):
you're dealing with white supremacy, that's what you want to face, uh,
focus on, you know, deal with the money. So I
don't call it white supremacy. I personally call it white
delusionism because the delusional if they think they're supreme or

(02:05:58):
superior to anyone. Because if you were superior, you wouldn't
need to resort to such cowardly trickery. You can just
match somebody on an equal playing field. You wouldn't have
to have all these subtert views to create a wealth
gap and to do all these cowardly things to like

(02:06:19):
not approve people for loans to you know, start their
own businesses and you know, buy their own houses, buy
their own property to match you resource for resource and
then the better man win. But no, you gotta resort
to all this trickery. So you're not superior, you're not supreme,

(02:06:42):
your delusion, but you know, well, let's talk a little
bit about race. Race is kind of a you know,
it's a it's a it's a theory really, you know,

(02:07:07):
it's a social experiment, if you will. It's just the
biden up classes, the biden up resources, and when you
break it down, it is a race to acquire you know, tangibles,
a race, you know, and people misconstrue it. They get
emotions attached with it. Now, the emotions is biggot treat

(02:07:30):
and prejudice. That's the emotional thing, you know, prejudging somebody
based on things you heard about their people and their culture,
things that may be slightly true or things not you
at all, or you know, things that don't represent there
the entirety of their people. They're just like looking at

(02:07:53):
the you know, the negative stuff and thinking that's true
for every single person and in that group of people.
That's prejudice and then bigotry. It's similar to that, that's
emotionally grooty. The race is really about economics, it's about money,
it's about power. Now, the people that designed race, they

(02:08:16):
just happen to be palm complexed, and the nature of
their people is to conquest in the They want to be.
They want to be winners, and they want to solidify
their win and so that's how they structure their economic
base to make sure that they win financially at all costs.

(02:08:42):
So that's race broken down slightly. It's a little bit
more complex than not broken down. But race plays a
big factor in this whole DEEI think there is an
inherent wealth gap in our country here in the United
States of America. They do not want our people to

(02:09:03):
be you know, equal to them financially. They don't want
us to have the same privileges that they have. They
don't want us living next door to them. They don't
want us to us to like, you know, interact with them.

(02:09:24):
They want to you know, be the higher echelont because
we're just so naturally impactful, our presences is so naturally commanding,
and they don't want to be reminded of, you know,
just how bland and drab and boring they are, so
they go out of their way to create this system

(02:09:46):
and systemic institutions that will solidify them winning. The air
quotes race. Now, our people, by nature, we're not in

(02:10:06):
competition because we just you know, we just that dynamic
and impactful, you know, We just know things are magnetically
drawn to us. People try to act like us and
be like us and assimilate, you know, us into them.
So we ain't never worried about trying to be the best.

(02:10:29):
We know we damn good and we the ish and
that's that. But when it comes to this, uh, you
know talk of d I guess our people needed. Did
our people benefit directly from it?

Speaker 1 (02:10:48):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:10:50):
So who are we helping? Who are we helping with
the boycotts? What is the boycott to do? And definitely
growth and steady themselves the need. But here's the thing
they're not going to It's not going to go the
direction that people think it's going to go. Ah, So

(02:11:15):
here's what's going to happen. So Target is just want
to merge with a stronger corporation. Two keep theirselves financially afloat,
because everybody needs a Target Supercenter. It's Target Supercenter is

(02:11:35):
a very one convenient, one stop shop. You can get everything,
you get, food, electronics, household items. It's just all in
there and it's on you know, it's at a decent
affordable price. You don't gotta break break the bank. The
shop at Target. And that's why everybody's drawn to it,

(02:11:59):
and everybody loves That's why everybody's drawn to and loves Walmart.
Same deal. It's funny how everybody is talking about target taking,
but Walmart sales were not affected by the DEI protests,
So which leads to me to believe that maybe Walmart

(02:12:22):
engineered the whole thing to begin with. Because Walmart is
like a giant. It's a giant corporation that everybody knows
that they don't pay their employees worth of damn. They
don't care about their employees at all. It's just like
it's just all about turning over a product, turning over revenue.
They don't have any workplace culture. You know, they don't

(02:12:47):
have any pillars. They don't focus on, you know, the
employee at all at Walmart. It's a faceless corporation. They're
all about just in the product and overturning the product.
And Walmart is still afloat. In fact, Walmart stocks have

(02:13:09):
shot up and you know there's more Walmarts on the
rise since the DEI protests. So the DEI protests didn't
do anything to Walmart. This would be an opportunity, opportune
time for Walmart to merge with Target and making them

(02:13:31):
the part of the Walmart family. Not saying that's how
it will exactly go. But if Walmart doesn't seize control
of Target, some other entity, corporate entity, what'll sees control
of Target? You know, and they'll still float and they

(02:13:56):
still won't, you know, change their policies. They still won't
hire blacks or foundational Black Americans. You know, they'll hire
anybody but us. They still won't have our products on
their shelves anymore. And you know, they still continue to

(02:14:20):
thrive and flourished despite the dropping stock, despite you know,
all the problems that they're having. They're not going to
cater to us. So what is the solution, Halsey. The
solution is rather than boycott, then by into them. Because
tell the truth, some of y'all wasn't supporting the boycott anyway.

(02:14:43):
Some of y'alls kept going over there, and then we
kept on having the boycott undermined by the US government
because they kept on giving all these immigrants and migrants
money and vouchers to go shop with it. So this

(02:15:03):
is why there's a big division within our community. Because
when the immigrants and migrants come over here and see
something going on. Let's say, oh that ain't got nothing
to do with me. That's black Americas. I'm Haitian, I'm Jamaican.
Ain't my fight. I'm gonna go here and get this product.
You know, I'm smaller than I don't care. But yeah,

(02:15:36):
so it's not you know, we got all these celebrities
and cheering and saying our dollars can make a difference.
We sticking it to them. You know, keep the throttle on,
keep applying pressure, Keep applying pressure. And here's the part
where I'm crapping in your core flex. We didn't apply
no pressure, y'all. We didn't apply no pressure. This is

(02:16:00):
this was a stage theme. And they always use our
people to be the face of the fuckery. They always
try to use our people to sell product. This was
a staged you know, corporate takeover. Another entity is moving

(02:16:23):
into position to take over the target brand. Target brand
was already suffering other financial scenes before the DEI before
they drop their DEI policies behind closed doors, and this
is another way for them to recoup their losses by
letting the new entity that's going to take over Target,

(02:16:47):
you know, getting position to do so. So this was
all stage like, you know, our dollars can make a difference,
all right, dollars has made a difference, But in this scenario,

(02:17:07):
you know, it's it's something bigger going on to what
we're seeing. You know, on the surface, it looked like,
oh they you know, we changed something. We didn't change that, y'all,
add all, not even slightly a little bit, because when
it's all said and done, another entity is gonna come

(02:17:28):
in there. You're still not going to have black you know,
people creating black product not gonna be on the shelves anymore.
If it is, it's gonna push it way back. You
can't find it. They're only gonna cater on the black holidays,
which would be like Juneteenth and Black History Month. That's

(02:17:50):
when they're gonna have a black product on the shelves,
you know. And it's still just business as usual key
word business, not personally. Was just business. So when they
drop their DEI pop hiring policy, it was a business move,
not nothing personally. It was business. And that's why our people,

(02:18:15):
black people, particularly Black Americans, we can't get changed in
this country because we don't want to adopt the business
minds when we select these politicians, we vote out of emotions.
We're not voting from a business mindset. That's why our
votes don't count because we don't know how to barter

(02:18:36):
it as businessmen and business women. So set all that
to say about this, you know, this Target situation. Instead
of boycotting, what we should have done is pull our
resources and bought stock into the company into Target. All

(02:18:58):
these churches, all these black churches we got, y'all could
start an investment club instead of just pouring money into
the offering, play and purchase stock in all these companies
that discriminate against your people, because now we own it.
You know what I'm saying. If they're not gonna let

(02:19:18):
us build our own companies, get controlling stock in companies
pre existing companies, buy pieces of that. That's how we
stick it to them. We buy pieces of their company.
We don't buy the Jordans. We buy stock in Jordans,

(02:19:39):
you see. We don't buy the new ports. We buy
stock in tobacco. We don't buy the alcohol, We buy
the stock into alcohol. All these things that they put
in our community to destroy us, we buy stocking it,

(02:20:03):
we see, instead of buying the actual product itself. That's
how you maneuver your piece around the board, strategically outthink
the ops, not far directly into their hands, because that's
how they always get us. They get us they play

(02:20:23):
on and manipulate our emotions. We move in and operating
all emotions, not clicking in on the bigger picture, and
we keep on missing the dollar. We see the bag
right in front of us. We don't take the bag.
We get the dumby sack. The dumbye sack got the
emotions in it. We go for the emotions. We reach
over to the table and grab the emotion bag when

(02:20:46):
we need to be grabbing the financial bag. Understand me.
So the artist was designed to stoke our emotions. They
get these black churches because a black church, that's where
the campaign step trail always starts in the black church.

(02:21:08):
These white politicians, though, these black churches get its on
the little black babies, make all these promises to the
black community that they know them well, they ain't gonna deliver.
They put a choir robe on the white politician to
get down, pray with the black church members and don't
nothing in the black community change. That's what this whole

(02:21:29):
little boycott is representing with just the outward you know,
manifestation of that that little Black church syndrome. You know,
the only way to really change things economically, Like, while
boy boycotting is a good tool to send the message,
a better message is to buy stock into the people.

(02:21:54):
They got, they got their foot on your neck. Financially,
that's a better message. Match them dollar for dollars. You
don't want my business, Okay, I'm gonna buy your business,
not your product, your business. I can't buy your business.
I'm gonna buy the property that your business sets on.

(02:22:17):
I'm gonna buy that open land that you're building on.
Your business is setting on. And so now I'm the
landlord and you can't meet you. See what I'm saying.
That's how we gotta do by stock into the company.
Get out of your emotions. In fact, strategically, when these

(02:22:50):
police aren't alive us we thinking emotionally. It does emotionally hurt,
but we're not thinking business because you can almost like
set your it. We go, you know, they unlive one
of us, and then we go, you know, have a
lawsuit against the department, and then they settle out for

(02:23:13):
like one point two one point three you know, good
two hundred two, three hundred thousand of that is going
to therapy, you know, to deal with the loss of
the loved one that they lost, and then you know
they're having a hard time for the rest of the
year when the money runs out. So the more strategic

(02:23:36):
thing would be to do to go after their business,
their pockets. The people that are ensuring the police, they're
for one K policies. That's what you where you go after.
We've got to follow the money. We're going to the emotions,

(02:23:56):
go to the money. That's the only real way you
can strike a blow to these white supremacists that go
after their money by stocking to these companies. By stocking
the Carnival cruise lines a few months ago or a
few weeks ago, is the Carnival cruise lines. You know,

(02:24:20):
don't get mad, you just stopped growing by stocking the
Carnival cruise lines by stocking the Delta. Everything's for sale.
You just gotta know what to buy. And all we
as a people are doing. We tend to buy problems,
not buy solutions. And that's where I'm gonna land my

(02:24:43):
plane and you can connect the dots from there. Thanks
you for tuning in for this episode of the Narrative podcast.
I think that'll do it for this week. I don't
think I'm gonna drop another episode this week. Definitely tune
in this weekend. I will be here this weekend with

(02:25:03):
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