KCAA: The Empire Talks Back with Wallace Allen (Sun, 7 Sep, 2025)

KCAA: The Empire Talks Back with Wallace Allen on Sun, 7 Sep, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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The late Ozzy Osbourne will be honored at this year's
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Stop all right, we're on the move.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
We're on the movie.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
This is Empire Talks Back. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening,
whatever time are you're picking up this radio broadcast or podcast.
I am glad to see you, and I hope that
this information will be helpful to you because we are
on a mission. We are here to save the world,
not the planet, the world, our world, because the planet
will save itself, the planet will continue to evolve and

(08:11):
oh man, evict and I don't want to be evicted
off the planet. So we've got some real big issues.
We've got some issues of distraction. We think that the
things that we as people do to each other are
critical and important, and they are. But if we're arguing
in a house that's burning down, the argument really doesn't matter,

(08:33):
does it. Huh. That's what I'm talking about. We're sitting
here arguing about should we put the fire out or
should we just let it burn? But if it burns.
We can't get out of the house, because the house
is earth. If we don't take care of the earth
that we are in. Not that we can destroy the earth,
but that we will tick the earth off to the

(08:54):
extent that it will earthquake us, it will hurricane us,
it will hem it will evict us. Rent not paid,
not cleaning up after yourself. You're letting the driveway get
full of raggedy ass cars. You're letting the roof get
torn up in the leak. You're not taking care of

(09:17):
the planet. Meanwhile, we're inside of the planet arguments screaming
about who should be in charge, and how many people
should be moved over here, and who should live there,
and who should have the right to have food. I mean,
we got a starving world wasting food, and folks, we

(09:37):
have a lot to do. We have a lot to do.
Some of the things that we have done to make
it better are here. I mean, we pay attention to
some aspects of it. But that's what I'm here to do.
I'm here to point out to you that they ain't
no stopping us now. I mean, we can go forward. Indeed,
we can go forward. All we've got to do is

(09:59):
realize that it's it's not just about me, it's not
just about you. It's about us and how we decide
to get along, and it's the choice. So one of
the things that we have a choice for now is
remembering that COVID nineteen hit us really, really hard a
couple of years ago, and there were many many people

(10:22):
who God took mercy on and delivered from the insanity
of this planet. And we miss him, and we're supposed
to because the insanity of the planet. If we were
to recognize the insanity of the planet, it would stop
being so insane. And we all say we want to
go to heaven. Nobody wants to die. All of that

(10:45):
to say that, you know, one end is the beginning
of the other. And there's no taking away the fact
that we love each other enough to fight and raise
hell about each other and to miss each other more
then we love each other at the time we are
able to touch and be with each other. So being

(11:09):
sensitive to all of those things and being sensitive to
the fact that everything we do isn't good, So let's
point out a few things that are good. Our country
created a COVID nineteen funeral Assistance program, where we were
able to help with the final services and final on

(11:30):
Earth memory of our loved ones who die from COVID nineteen.
The issue with that is that on September thirtieth, the
end of this month, that program will stop. If you
have not applied, if you had a need for funeral assistance,
you've got until September thirtieth, and those who've lost loved ones,

(11:52):
this is a pretty important thing. So I'm going to
give you this number now, nine O nine. No, it's
not nine O nine eight four four six eight four
six three three three. If you have lost a loved
one to the COVID nineteen eight four four six eight

(12:15):
four six three three three, call that number, follow instructions,
make an application and you can be assisted up to
several levels, either against nine thousand dollars in one case,
but it's helpful. You know. Some of us have different
ways of acknowledging that death and different ways of creating

(12:40):
the ceremony, but there's expense is going to be involved
either way it goes. So once again, I'm going to
read that number for you, and I want you to
write it down and I'll read it again as we
go through the show. Eight four four six eight four
six three three three. And I'm going to in a
young lady to you who has experienced with that program

(13:04):
because she lost a loved one and she's also an educator.
She's someone here that wants to help make the world
a better place and spreads information. Miss Dea Pool, She's
a long time Inland Empire resident recently lost a family
member to complications from COVID. She completed her master's degree

(13:27):
at cal State San Bernardino, where she conducted research on
the impact of COVID nineteen and how best to communicate
information about the pandemic within the African American community. Especially
Since twenty twenty one, she's been volunteering as a researcher
with the in African American Health Equity Collaborative. In twenty

(13:51):
twenty four, Da received an honorary doctoral agreed doctor degree
for her contributions to the California State University System and
the people of the state of California. So, just before
I introduce her to you and bring her on, I
do want to remind you that I have a solution

(14:11):
for another part of this big problem that we're confronting.
Our president has a lot of people upset. But I've
got a solution for him and you, and I want
you to hang around. We will get to that before
the show is over. And one of the solutions I'm
going to tell you about, and I'm going to get

(14:32):
you started on that right away, because we've all got
to be self sustainable, you know that part. You gotta
do some things that are going to make you feel
better about what you're doing as you are assaulted every
day with the news of our blind driver driving us
on the edges of these cliffs and up and down

(14:53):
these unroaded mountains and scaring the pazuki out of you.
No matter where you are, no matter what you do,
you need to eat. And if you're here in southern California,
you're going to be blessed with the opportunity to eat.
To grow some food on your yard, or you know,
if you're not even with the home, you can probably

(15:14):
find a place to plant a few seeds and grow
some tomatoes, a collared green stalk, some squash. You could
do it in five gallon buckets. But that's my first suggestion.
We've got to start feeding ourselves understanding that, Yeah, it's
great to have a big menu and look at how
much it costs. And I'm not saying to boycott the stores.

(15:36):
I'm simply saying that because of the way our farmers
are being treated, some of the stores simply will not
have enough, and the quality of what they have is
questionable to some people. So once again we'll talk about
that as well. But meanwhile, miss Dealpool, Dia, are you
on the line. I am here, I can hear you well.

(16:00):
I was hoping that we'd be able to see you
this morning, but it turns out that you were decided
that you didn't want to share your luck with us
this morning. I don't understand that. I just don't understand.

Speaker 10 (16:13):
Well, just running on a little bit of a tight schedule,
and that tonight. Thank you, Dia.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you so
much for the good work that you do in the community.
And I really appreciate the fact that we could push
you around a little bit this Sunday morning. I know
you probably have much other, many other things you could
be doing. DM. I mentioned to our audience about the
COVID nineteen program that's about to be ended on the

(16:43):
thirtieth of this month, giving people a phone number where
they could call to participate in that assistance program for
burial for folks who've been had a death in the
family as a result of the COVID nineteen. You volunteered
to speak on this unhappy subject for your your experience

(17:06):
with it, and I appreciate you sharing that. Tell us
a little bit about your experience, tell us a little
bit about why and how you've got involved with the
research on COVID nineteen and especially its effects on the
African American community.

Speaker 10 (17:25):
Well, thank you again, Loless for the invitation, and hello
to all the people there in the Villain Empire. The pandemic,
you know, it just hit our community so hard, and
during the during the pandemic, we were all isolated at home,
and as many of you know, the California State University system,

(17:48):
like others, were shut down and classes were pretty much
online only, And so I took the opportunity to return
to cal State. I had received my undergraduate degree there
many years ago, and so I took the opportunity to
use that time at home during the pandemic to complete
a long time goal, which was finishing the master's degree

(18:08):
in communications studies. And it so happened. This is a
topic for another show. But I don't mind divulging my age.
But once you turn sixty, you have the opportunity to
attend the California State University and get a degree with
your tuition waived. The over sixty program. Like I said,
the topic for another show.

Speaker 3 (18:29):
Well, it might be if we didn't have probably some
people in the audience that are either sixty, approaching sixty
or fifty nine and getting ready to pay the tuition,
and if they were in another six months, I think
it would be in a position to get that wave.
So yeah, it may be for a later show, but
we'll talk about that a little bit too as we
go forward.

Speaker 10 (18:49):
All right, absolutely, So it was during that time that
I was working on communication studies and then you know,
all of the news coming out of the country, but
also be in Empire was how the pandemic was affecting
African Americans because we already had health care epidemic of sorts,
a lack of trust in medical care and often just mistreatment,

(19:13):
a history of mistreatment in the country where healthcare in
African Americans were concerned. So having family members that reside
in Tuskegee and are also alumni at that school, the
experiments that were done in the South was always a
subject that was pretty close to my family, and so

(19:33):
I was just looking a little bit of that interest
carried over to looking at how we were doing as
a community in the Empire, and so I was able
to work with the African American Health Equity Collaborative led
by Deborah Williams and others from a building resilient communities
to look at what was going on, and so that

(19:54):
was the subject that I chose. How do we communicate
with the African American community and other communities of color
about the pandemic, getting this information clarified, giving them sources
where they could go and get reliable information on treatment,
not just vaccines, but other treatments, and then also extending

(20:16):
that to individuals who've had COVID and continued to experience
long term effects from having COVID, which is a work
that continues today with that collaborative.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
I'd like to comment on your point about trust or
distrust with the system, and I don't want people to
think that we're simply anchored in the past looking at
a reason for distrust, the Tuskee experiment and things of
that sort. Right now today in California, Black infants die

(20:49):
at a rate three times that of white infants. And
you know, we don't know how or why, we aren't
able to say exactly what it is. The fact that
it occurs arouses suspicion and concern in the African American
community to the point of where we have to really
push to get our young ladies to go for prenatal

(21:13):
care and postnatal care because we have I mean, if
death seems to be the answer to or the result
of getting doctor care, then people don't want to go
to see the doctor. So we've got several battles to

(21:34):
fight there. Want to assure that our doctors are able
to not only give us care, but give us care
with cultural competence, understanding who we are, how we live,
what we do. Then we have an issue. So I
guess we're calling that gives us another call for that
over sixty person to go on and go to school,

(21:56):
get a master's, maybe get a move toward a nursing degree,
to be able to do something with health as they
look at a career change that may avail itself simply
because you turn sixty years old. So I think it's
appropriate to just look at that educational need that educational

(22:16):
opportunity every time the subject allows itself to be expanded upon.
So before we go forward, let's point out that if
you're over sixty or sixty approaching the California State University System,
cal State San Bernardino in particular, has a program for

(22:36):
you that will allow you to move towards your master's.

Speaker 10 (22:40):
Degree or an undergraduate or undergraduate with a bachelor's program
as well. It's a space available and.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
With the fee. Wait, now, that's an amazing thing to do.
I appreciate them for doing it, but I appreciate the
people who take advantage of it even more. So we'll talk.
I'm sure the subject will come up again, but let's say,
is there something you'd like to say about that specifically
though right now?

Speaker 10 (23:10):
Well, just that it's an amazing program and you know,
as they say, sixty is the new thirty, and so
you're never too old to learn. And I think because
college graduation rates among people of color and the Eland
Empire is low, it's an opportunity for those that you know,
maybe they completed an AA degree at one of our
junior colleges and want to go ahead and complete that

(23:32):
bachelor's degree. So they can move forward and dance in
their career, or maybe you know, it's just a personal goal.
But I encourage everyone to contact the admissions office if
you are, as you said, approaching sixty or over the
age of sixty and really looking to do something new
or complete a personal goal, whatever it is. You know,
take advantage of the tuition waiver and the other services

(23:54):
that they have to offer. Excellent faculty, and you learn
a lot. And as you know, counsel Emergy was really
invested in the community and so you get to put
to work what you're learning right in the community. And yeah,
just following on what you were saying earlier about the
medical mistrust and the input death. You know, we also
experienced a higher number of deaths among people of color

(24:19):
in the Empires from COVID than some other ethnic groups,
and so it's an ongoing situation, and so I just
encourage everyone to be aware of that. And that's kind
of When another friends relative passed away from COVID recently,
I think August last year, she informed me about the

(24:43):
scheme month program to help reimburse funeral costs, and so
I hadn't thought about it. I had forgotten about it.
As many people did, because you know, this is twenty
twenty five, and at that point twenty twenty four, many
people felt that the pandemic was over or were not
still passing away from COVID. And I learned that very

(25:04):
differently this January when my relatives passed away from complications
of COVID there in Riverside. And so I did go
online and looked at the program, and based on the
information that she gave me, you know, was able to
find on the FEMA website that this funeral assistance program

(25:26):
is still ongoing and that the application date isn't it
That the final deadline isn't until September thirtieth, and so
I know it were already on September seventh, but from
those who perhaps incurred costs for a COVID related passing
and encouraged general costs and want to see if they're

(25:46):
eligible for reimbursement, now it's the time to pack these
last couple of weeks to call FEMA and make that application.
And so I'm not speaking for FEMA. I'm not a
representative of FEMA. I'm not representative of the Public House Apartment.
I'm just a person who experienced working with this program
for cost reimbursement, and so it is still there, it

(26:09):
is still working, and I encourage people to look into
filing this application. And I say call them anyway, call
that eight hundred number that WHILEACE provided eight four four
sixty eight four sixty three three three and ask them.
You won't know unless you call an ask And.

Speaker 3 (26:28):
How smooth was that program for you? Did you have
to wait in line, you know, twenty four hours to
get you know, get a call back, or didn't move
fairly smoothly for you? Because I see that you know
there the qualifications are that you'd be a US citizen,

(26:50):
non citizen, national, or qualified non citizen. I don't know
what that means, and if you know, If you don't,
I'd say give them a call. If you are a
citizen or non citizen, national, or qualified non citizen, that's
pretty pretty nebulous. There, the deaths occurred, that the death

(27:11):
occurred in the United States, including US territories and the
District of Columbia, and that the death was attributed to
COVID nineteen. And you are the one responsible and for
the eligible funeral expenses, including on or after January twentieth,

(27:32):
twenty twenty. So that's that's an important part of it.
But as is saying you need to give them a
call double check, I'm not super sure about that. So
the question for you again is was it pretty smooth?

Speaker 4 (27:50):
Good day?

Speaker 10 (27:50):
What it was? While it's very smooth, I simply call
that number. And I believe the times that they have
posted is Monday through Friday night am to nine pm
Eastern time, so you want to be aware of the
time zone different. And I called, and if I recollecttion
serves me correctly. A human being, a person answers the phone.

(28:13):
And the thing about this process is you do not
start this application process online or something like that. It
must be started on the phone with a FEMA representative
from this program. And so they did answer the phone
right away, and they took my application right there on
the phone, the FEMA representative did, And so I was

(28:36):
just asked a couple of basic questions to get started.
And then once I provided that information, you know, my
contact information and just a little bit about the person
who had passed away, and they initiated the application process.
And there's a portal on that they put on the

(29:01):
famous site where you can you will be receiving messages
back and forth from them. So once they created the application,
you get that application, it will pop up on the website,
and then from there you have the opportunity to upload
any documentation that they ask you for, and that's required
for the application. You upload it right to that website.

(29:24):
So I never did have to leave my home. I
didn't have to go anywhere. If I had any questions
about the documentation that they were asking for, I simply
call that eight hundred number backs someone would answer and
talk with me and answer my questions and then could
assist me with any assistance I needed in getting the
documents uploaded or clarification about the documents. Receives all of that.

(29:49):
So that's how that process works, the initial part of it,
and so.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
On any callback, did you have a problem getting them
to relate to your specific case or was that necessary
in terms of the question she said you were asking.

Speaker 10 (30:02):
I did not experience any difficult any difficulty getting them
to relate to my specific issue.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
That's that's great because I can call the phone company
and you know, have an issue, and I talked to
someone and explain everything, and you know, then they switched
me to someone else. And they want me to start
all over again now.

Speaker 10 (30:24):
And the thing about this number, this number was specifically
to the COVID Funeral Assistance program that eight hundred numbers.
So I was not transferred around FEMA. Listen, I didn't
have to go to the hurricane desk or I thought
to someone who could assist me with this issue.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
After I talked with you guys a couple of weeks ago,
I was trying to get a representative from FEMA to
come and speak with us. And so I was just
calling on Saturday to see what would happen, and someone
picked up the phone. And I could tell that this
person was working at home because I could hear their
children over my grandchildren's voices. So and they, you know,

(31:07):
went into a quiet room, but they were at home,
and they talked to me, and they explained that, you know,
they weren't the ones I needed to talk to, but
they were very cordial and kind and informative at that time.
And I was quite impressed to hear that FEMA personnel
was working as efficiently as they were, especially under the

(31:29):
assault that the agencies under now in terms of you know,
the policies and money movement and our people president trying
to destroy it. Apparently I see that they are actually
the money. It will help with funeral services, for cremation,
for internment, any costs associated with producing the death certificate,

(31:54):
costs due to local or state government laws or ordinances,
Transportation up to two people, to identify the person who passed,
transfer of remains, casket or earn burial plot marker or headstone, clergy,
funeral ceremony, funeral home equipment or staff. That's that's that's amazing.

(32:19):
Eight four four six eight four six three three three.
That's a that's a phone call that can give you
an ability to spend more time with your grieving than
the be to be grieving about the process itself. And
then that's that's important.

Speaker 5 (32:39):
Uh.

Speaker 10 (32:40):
Let me say also, let me say also while ice
about that list of that you just read of things
that were covered. It says on the website expenses such
as but they also tell you when you get your
confirmation a letter on your portal that that your application
has has the process that started for you, they will
tell you to indian all of the expenses that you incurred,

(33:04):
even if it is not in that short list. Okay,
because it's actually up to the representatives to look at
the expenses the breath of what you incurred. Everyone is
not going to incur the exact same expenses, and so
they will make a determination on what you've spenned in
as to whether they can reimburse those particular expenses. So

(33:26):
I just want to encourage people, if it wasn't in
that short list of what you see on the website
that you just read, please submit them anyway, submit the
expenses you incurred and let them tell you whether or
not that particular expense associated with the person's passing in
general is qualified well.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
Now, usually with the funeral, and you know there's scheduling issues,
and you know timing at certain things requires you know
that there's not too much of an overlap or delay
in order to get things occurred. How fast did they
operate in terms of providing you the the expenses the

(34:07):
money that that was that was needed. Did it how
did that happen? Did it take you know? Were you?
I guess I don't know how to say it. Well,
I guess I do, but I don't want to say
it that way. Were you? Did you were you reimbursed?
Or did you did you have to put money up
front or were you able to get the money prior

(34:31):
to the actual delivery of any of it or was
it a total reimbursement.

Speaker 10 (34:37):
It was a full reimbursement. Okay, so you yeah, I
unfortunately I can't answer your question of whether or not
you can be you know, you can proactively receive the
money before the burial. It appears to me that it
is you know, expenses that you have incurred related to

(35:02):
the the the burial.

Speaker 3 (35:05):
Yeah. Now that may be you know, creative or allowing
you know, people to still have to go through some pains. Otherwise, Uh.
I fortunately am not recently aware of, you know, the
needs involved in burying anyone. So I don't know.

Speaker 10 (35:24):
Uh, well, I'll tell you they are. They are wide ranging,
and you know, there's there's a lot of things associated
with it. And so I was encouraged by the fact
that they told me, you know, if you if you
encourage the expense, submit it and uh and they did
not limit me to submitting just what was in that list.

(35:48):
And I'll make another two more comments and remind me
of I forget anything. One is about the death certificate,
which kind of you do need a death certificate, so
you have to go through that precess, but then also
just making sure that the documentation you do send is

(36:10):
completely legible, meaning they can read it. And one of
the things I think that laid me just a little
bit was that some of the contracts and invoices, you know,
by the time I scanned them, some of them were
already faint, and so then you know, I scan them
and uploaded and then just think they have to read that.
On the other end, some of the things were light,

(36:31):
and so I did have to go back and contact
some folks and say, you know, they can't read the
handwriting on the invoice you wrote or submitted, and so
I need you to type it or print it in
darker print or something so that I can submit it
and it be legible. And I'll also say that you
don't have to upload everything. You can certainly mail in

(36:56):
your receipts. And I found that very helpful. For those
items that were not so legible, I just made a
dark version of the photocopy and I nailed those ins
so that those could be received and I didn't have
to worry about them disintegrating, you know, when they were
right right with sand and loaded up. But you can
also back with your information. So you have free ways

(37:18):
you get uploaded to the web, you can fax it,
or you can nail it in very good all of
those options.

Speaker 3 (37:24):
Dear, We're going to take a short break. This is
impowed talks back. I'm Wallace Allen speaking with Ms Deapool
about the special FEMA program that assists with any burial
requirements expenses for people who have been affected by the
COVID nineteen with the death in the family. This is
empowered talks back. I'm Wallace Allen. We'll be back right

(37:46):
after this short break and a couple of great messages
for you.

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Speaker 3 (39:51):
It says Empire talks back on Wallas Alan. Just remind
you that FEMA has given two point eight billion dollars
US to eligible applicants for COVID nineteen funeral assistance. If
you're covering the cost for COVID nineteen funeral. FEMA may
be able to help you. They can pay up to

(40:12):
nine thousand dollars in some cases for that for that service.
So you want, you want to stay in touch with them,
Miss miss Ida, could you give them that phone number again,
that eight four to four.

Speaker 10 (40:25):
Certainly, certainly that number I called was eight four four
six eight four sixty three three three And according to
the website, it's Monday through Friday, nine am to nine
pm Eastern time.

Speaker 3 (40:39):
Very good. We're going to ask Miss Pool to give us,
you know, a little wrap up on that program and
introduce again the concept of the sixty year old waiver,
the waiver that's available for sixty year olds at cal
State San Bernardino. And then we're going to let her go,
and I'm going to give you, guys that solution that

(41:00):
I've been promising you about what to do in regard
to the situation with our Lion president. I should. I mean,
some people think I said lyeon l ion, No, I
said lying. The bending of the truth, the assault on

(41:21):
reality that we are all under. But we are all
under it, so we've all got to deal with it
and deal with it in a real, real way. But
can't stop us now. I ain't no stopping us now.
So our future is going to be as bright as
you decide to let tomorrow be. And part of that

(41:42):
is educating yourself. And if you are fifty nine, approaching
sixty or sixty and above, there's a special circumstance for
you at California State University, San Bernardino, Miss Deapool, tell
us a little bit more about that.

Speaker 10 (42:00):
Again, whiles I'm not a representative of the university. Again,
I'm just speaking on my experience.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
Yeah, this is we'll call this a free promo. I'm
not either, but at the same time, it's somebody. You know.
We make our bones by giving good information to our community.
We deserve to be paid for it, but our basic
pay is to see our people participate and grow and
help to make their quality of life better. So we're

(42:28):
not ashamed to do things for free.

Speaker 10 (42:31):
Great, and I know that it would be probably very
easy to have a representative from the university right there
in town to come on your program and talk about it.
But basically, it's called the over sixty Programs, and it's
a program that exists within the entire California State University
system all twenty three campuses, but it just don't happens

(42:52):
at California State University, San Bordardino is a program that
has routinely and consistently participants and made openings for participants
to attend those classes with the tuition waves. I personally
only paid the health fee, and there were a couple
of a very very small fees, but the tuition was

(43:15):
completely waived for the entirety of my master's degree program.
And so I encourage you if you're looking to change careers,
meet a personal goal. Upgrade your associate's degree, upgrade a
get a bachelor's degree, upgrade a baskeltor's degree. Please contact
California State University, the opposite of missions. There google it.

(43:36):
You can find a number for them and ask for
the over sixty program, and I guarantee you they will
be helpful to you. And they were really welcomed my experience.
I thought, you know, I don't know how it's going
to be going back to school. You know folks who
are very very young, some of them just finishing a
bachelor's degree for the first time. But you'd be surprised.

(43:56):
They really value your life experience. Both faculty and the
students value your life experience, and you are a welcome
addition to the classes. So I don't want anybody to
have any fear of returning to school because many of
the students at California State University, as Ambordino, are, you know,
adults who are in a career, already working, and so

(44:18):
you'll really have a good time. You'll feel welcomed, and
the learning and what you gain from the faculty and
the other students can be under value.

Speaker 3 (44:26):
Gosh. One of the most welcoming things they could do
if you to give you financial assistance. Well they do
that by waving the fees. But is there another level
of financial assistance possibly available or do you know?

Speaker 10 (44:40):
No, I don't know while that's exactly what's available. But again,
putting a call to the admissions office, tell them you're
interested in going to count State San Bernardino, and they
will put you in touch with the resources. And I
also mentioned there is a center at cal State San Bernardino.
It's called the Adult re Entry Center, and there are

(45:01):
wonderful people there in the Adult re Entry that can
help you just you know, provide resources and information to you.
If you are, like me, an adult returning to school.
So please make sure you talk to admissions, but also
reach out to the adult re Entry center and take
advantage of the resources they have there.

Speaker 3 (45:23):
You are a tremendous resource. I appreciate you us sharing
time with us. Is there anything else that you would
like to share with us that we may have missed out?
Do you happen to know the Lotter number, for instance,
because coming out.

Speaker 10 (45:36):
No, I don't, and I just even get any tickets.
But yeah, but it's one last thing I want to share,
and it's about the death certificate. In my case, the
death certificate. When they were listing the contributing causes of death,
they talked about the respiratory failure and heart failure, but
they did not specifically say, put you know COVID nineteen.

(45:57):
And apparently that was not unusual because because the California
Department of Public Health also has a phone number and
an amendment section for people who need their death certificate
amended to show COVID nineteen, specifically steal viv DASH nineteen
as a cause of death or a contributing cause. And

(46:19):
so I had to get an amended death certificate. And
there is an office at the California Department of public
health vital records for people who need to get their
death certificate amended in short order to use for the
theme of COVID Funeral Reimbursement program. And I'm going to
give you that phone number that was given to me

(46:42):
just so folks in case that us your situation, and
that customer service number was nine one six four four
five to six eighty four.

Speaker 3 (46:51):
Could you give that again, please.

Speaker 10 (46:53):
Nine six four four five two six eight four. If
you need a death certificate amended because you're applying specifically
for this COVID Funeral Reimbursement program, give them a call
and follow the prompt for amendments death and death from

(47:15):
two thousand and five forward. There's a couple of prompts
on the website. It says first prompt five, then to
then too, So you're calling the phone number nine one
six four four five two six eight four prompt five
four amendments trus two for death and then two again
for death occurring from two thousand and five to present.

(47:37):
And they were very very helpful in expediting that death
certificate for me, that amendment so that I could apply
for the femal program. And I provided them with the
doctor's statements establishing COVID as a contributing cause of death,
and then they took it from there and got that
to me very quickly. The last thing I'll say, once

(47:59):
the FEMA application was approved, I got an email appointing
me to the website. There was a letter there indicating
my application was approved, and it was only a matter
of days, maybe two days before the funds were deposited
in the bank. So once your application is approved and
all your documentation is deemed sufficient, it was very very
quickly those funds were deposited in the bank. So kudos

(48:24):
to them for continuing to press on and service the
people of the country during the time when, as you know,
FEMA has been having some challenge.

Speaker 3 (48:32):
Kudos to you. Some of us do well. That means
we're helping ourselves. Some of us do good. That means
we're helping others. Miss Pool, you have done some good
this morning. I'm sure you do it every day, but
today we appreciate that you've done it. Here on Empire
talks back and mister Waller Allen appreciates it very much.

(48:54):
We'll see you next time. We look forward to talking
to you in the near future. Miss diapool. Thank you
for your cooperation and input for the betterment of our world,
and we appreciate you.

Speaker 10 (49:06):
Thank you so much well, and thanks everyone for listening.
I appreciate it having break good.

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There's so many topics there it's important. One of the
things that we've just left with the miss Pool talking
about the COVID is that sometimes with the death certificate,
sometimes you know you die because of something or you

(50:36):
die with something you could. You know, if you've got
congenital heart failure and you catch COVID, chances are it's
going to kill you. Uh, and that you know which
which do you blame. So that's that's where the contributing
factor comes in. Uh. Sometimes you can die of bad

(50:57):
politics or because of bad policy, or it's a contributing
factor in terms of why you die. Bad policy may
cost you your job, cost you your family, cost you
your home, cost you your position of self esteem that
allows you to feel comfortable enough to continue fighting to live,
and you decide to die. There's so many apparent topics,

(51:20):
but most is as serious as they seem. Our distractions
from the president's quest to stay in power or out
of jail. My question, what are we doing to prepare
for Trump utilizing fake emergencies to justify the military presence
on our streets, that presence on our streets in order

(51:41):
to provide a violent or to provoke a violent response
that he, mister Trump would describe as insurrection, providing him
with the cover to declare martial law and cancel the
twenty twenty six elections. Cancel the twenty twenty six elections.
I'm sure you're hearing people talk about that now. And

(52:03):
if he president Trump, we're not who he is, having
done what he's done. I'd go along with some of
those people's response that says, oh, he wouldn't do that,
he can't do that. But Trump is who he is,
a shameless liar, a tremendously charismatic con man, and he's
bolstered by his amazing audacity, which appears to increase daily.

(52:28):
He should be impeached. He should be fired. That's our
only possibility. He controls the military and is demonstrating that
he'll use it unconstitutionally to scare people, to throw us off,
to have us have to provide papers to walk the streets.

(52:51):
He seduced our congressional and Senate members into swallowing the
cruel aid, and they are now doing as he commands.
He should be impeached, He should be fired. Many of
those congressional people should be impeached and fired too, but
they're protected. You can't even recall those knuckleheads the Supreme Court.

(53:13):
It has exposed its corruption by taking gifts from the
rich and shots at the poor while supporting Trump's dismantling
of America's legal, educational, and health care infrastructure. Trump should
be impeached. He should be fired. Trump has cozied up

(53:33):
to Russia in North Korea, turned his back on European allies.
He's unfriended close trade partners. He's costing you money, costing
me money, but he's making himself a lot of money.
He should be impeached. He should be fired. He has
enriched himself and his family by self dealing, investing in

(53:57):
companies to which his governmental power plies insure economic gain.
He should be impeached. He should be fired. His family
made four billion dollars last week on coin on coins,
on virtual money, on a promise to do well when

(54:22):
he was inaugurated. Before he could be inaugurated. The first time,
he had to pay students back that he had jipped
out of their money. He had frauded students. That's not
even on his big record of fraud, but he had
frauded students had to give him their tuition bag. Now

(54:42):
he's terrorizing brown and black people by using Jim Crow
tactics disguised as immigration policy. He's unleashed masked gunmen in
unmarked cars to harass, arrest, and deport folks of color,
some of which are legal residents and even citizens. He
should be impeached. He should be fired. He wants to ignore,

(55:07):
erase the terrors of America's original sin, slavery, and of
the African American contribution made to America by enslaved Africans,
contributions made despite the cruelty and terror of slavery. He
is now doing everything he can to reduce your and

(55:28):
my access to voting. He should be impeached. He should
be fired. I can go on and on discussing this
problem and the implications of others. But there is a solution,
a solution that, as simple as it is, you nor
I can make it happen. However, our cruel aid drinking

(55:51):
Republican Congressional and Senate members have the power. They can
stop the madness immediately. We can't impeach him, but we
can demand that our elected congressional Incdate members do so.
We can call them, we can write them. We've got
to let them know it's time to dump Trump. It's

(56:15):
time to dump Trump. We cannot wait until we die
of trump Ism, nor can we wait until we die
of contributing factors of trumpsm He's broken enough flaws. Self
dealing for sure, misuse of the constitution, ignoring the Constitution.

(56:37):
He just shot a boat, up, shot a boat from
in the Venezuelan area of the Caribbean. Kill those people
on the boat. Told us that they've got and they
got drugs. Listen, my mom told me a long time ago.
If I catch you in one lie, I can only
wonder how many I missed you in. How can we

(56:58):
continue to believe the lies? Oh, he did create a
situation where we have a COVID vaccine that was good,
but now he doesn't even claim that because it's doing good.
The reason he came up with it was because there
is even a broken clockage right twice a day, by accident,

(57:23):
by intention, I don't know. I'm sure he's got an
angel on his shoulders, just like we all do. But
he continues to listen to the devil side. He continues
to self deal. He continues to look forward to life
for him and his family, as though they don't need
the rest of us. And I don't know, maybe they're

(57:44):
maybe they're robot freaks. I don't know. Have no idea
how they can be so satisfied with the continued lie.
And the people who accept the lie, how can they
continue to be our representatives? Listen to the lie and
I know they know the lie. I know they know

(58:07):
that they are being lied to. Well, we have to
remember who we are, folks. You have to lean on
the knowledge of what our ancestors have come through, not
just surviving, but thriving despite slavery, despite Jim Crow, despite
the klu Klux Klan, despite institutional racism, despite police violence.

(58:31):
Those things are taking place now, and he set us
up to enter that realm of police and military violence
on our population, the educational and health care disparity. Through
it all, we have woven some of the most beautiful

(58:51):
and outstanding threads into amazingly impressive, dynamic images on America's
historic fabric. Folks, we have to keep on keeping on.
We have to regard every obstacle as an opportunity to
express our brilliance. Keep on keeping on. Walk together, children,

(59:11):
don't you get weary. Remember we are all created equal
in God's eye. The disparity takes place as we as
individuals try to interpret the presence of each other. Treat
each other the way we want to be treated. I'm
sure that that is one of the solutions. Talk to
somebody that you disagree with. As a matter of fact,

(59:34):
if you know someone that disagrees with me, give them
my number, have them give us a call. I love
to have them on the show nine on nine nine
seven nine two two. Give me a call and join
us on Empire Talks Back. I look forward to seeing
you guys next week under two circumstances. One, if the
Good Lord's willing too, if they creaked all rise. Remember, folks,

(59:57):
it's time to dump Trump up, trump Doc, trump.

Speaker 8 (01:00:01):
Doc trumps Sandburg of you know, won't you

Speaker 3 (01:00:08):
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