KCAA: The Empire Talks Back with Wallace Allen (Sun, 5 Oct, 2025)

KCAA: The Empire Talks Back with Wallace Allen on Sun, 5 Oct, 2025

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Speaker 4 (09:40):
It is Empire Talks Back. I'm Orland Sally here on
the case on the case for truth justice with the
right information to help improve the situation. But I wish
I could just send out some checks to balance things out,
you know, send everybody probably about a million bucks of
naked even. But we've got ten percent of the population

(10:05):
that controls over two thirds of the wealth. In the
United States of America, ten percent of the people controlled
over sixty six percent of the money. Now, I don't
know what that means to you. Doesn't really mean a
lot to me, because I've never been, you know, a
guy that'll run around and have gobs of money in

(10:26):
the first place. You know, I'm not hungry. You don't
see my ribs. I'm not driving a new car, but
I get where I need to go, and I think
most people are in that situation. But how long you're
going to be able to put gas in that car
is questionable. The economics of our I want to be

(10:46):
king guy, mister Carrott, is one that suggests that he
wants all of the money, or he wants it in
the hands of people who are going to prop their
lips up on his uh. I don't know left side,
right side, and some of them are probably start in
the middle. I don't know. But the point that I
want to make is that I'm not one of those people.

(11:08):
I'm not a rump. I mean, I don't even even
eat rump steak, you know, So I just I don't
understand it, but I and I don't want to stand
under it. But I see it occurring, so it must
be true. There are people who've stood up and said

(11:28):
that they were strong, upright worthy of representing you and
me in Congress. And they went there and the first
thing they did was stick their hold and then their
their head in a cave, a smelly cave, follotball kind
of crazy stuff. And they're stuck there and and they

(11:50):
have decided to not be strong, they have decided to
just acquiesce to the wishes of a wanna be king.
And they are goofing with your money. Now there's a
lot of things you can goof around with, but they
are goofing with your money. They're goofing with your food.

(12:10):
They're goofing with everything that you grew up thinking was true,
the values, the standards of equality, the standards of we
want to be great, not great again, because great again
means we've got to go back to something that we
saw before. And I don't remember being great in the past.

(12:32):
I just don't remember it. I remember trying to be better.
I remember trying to improve. But I don't understand how
anybody can tell me they want to be great and
get great again and then go pull up the statue
of the largest of the biggest treason effector in America's

(12:54):
history and put that statue up and say this is
going to be our hero. Now, how can we take
traders like Robert E. Lee and hold him up and say, well,
he's a hero. Well, he couldn't be no hero for
me and all of the white people that died trying
to get on the right side of God doesn't make sense.

(13:20):
Civil War, white people trying to figure out, you know,
what they're going to do about their guilt in terms
of slavery, in terms of misusing the great land mass
of North America, the great so called find How do
you find something that's already there, that's already occupied, that's

(13:43):
already being used, But you find it, you claim it,
and you say it's great. Well, it was here in
the first place, and what we've done to it and
what we've done with it. Yes, some of it is good,
some of it, but none of it's great. Now we

(14:04):
can get great if we decide that we want to
share it if we decide that we are truly going
to follow the principles that we somehow put together. I
don't know how those guys put together the Constitution. I
don't know what they were able to refer to, because
it wasn't anything that was existing. They had to be
looking into the future, they had to be dealing with

(14:25):
the aspirations, they had to be dealing with. I wish
up on a star because it wasn't there. But they
sat there and they said, I want to be fair,
I want to be equitable. I want things to be even.
I want people to be desires and able to be
their best and do the best they can and help

(14:47):
each other. Kind of paraphrasing. But that's what you and
I grew up with. But meanwhile, we've got a group
of people haulding in the money, bringing it in all
on their side and trying to trying to tell God
to go to Hell. Well, that's not a battle I

(15:07):
want to be in the middle of. So I'm going
to suggest to you that you kind of join this
attitude of liking who likes you, working with the people
who want to work with you, doing something to control
the money that you do have access to so that

(15:30):
it does something to support your quality of life and
the quality of life that you want your community to have.
The science is simple, support those people and things that
support you. So I have today some guests that are
doing things that I think are not great, but they're

(15:54):
great placeholders. They'll hold us together as we move forward.
They'll hold us together there as we set examples of
what we want to do to, you know, make the
world a better place. And so my first person do
I have Miss Gwinn on the line? My first person
is doctor Gwen Rogers, Gwen Dowdy Rogers. Be sure to

(16:15):
keep her mom and dad involved in that. She is
the president of the Arrowhead United Way. There's a lot
of other titles that I could spend the next three
hours describeing, but we want to talk about the Arrowhead
United Way and what they are doing in our community
that makes them worth supporting and how we can support them.

(16:35):
Miss Gwen, how are you this morning?

Speaker 2 (16:38):
I'm so well, I think me this morning?

Speaker 4 (16:42):
You are? You sound great? Okay? So what's got you
so excited this morning? Other than that it's Sunday and
it's a great day to emphasize your affection for the Lord.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
That's absolutely, that's first and foremost, and for many of
you all that no, since COVID, I have always posted
an incredible scripture out for everyone on my social media. So, yes,
this is a good day for me to rise and
be here with you who have been doing things in
the community for years and years and years and still

(17:19):
doing this. So I'm just following in the blaze that's
been prevented. And you know a lot about Arrowhead United Way.
For one, most know that we provide health educations and
you know, financial stability is our goal to let people
know that you will run into challenges. But most importantly

(17:40):
right now, we've identified that food and security is a
huge issue among our just recent you know, I'm sure
you recall you've had it out in the news. Our
most recent opening of the first ever National Veteran's Chamber
of Commerce in San Borantino count all things veterans, but

(18:02):
we also work on food insecurity, which is also important
important issue for our veterans and our seniors, and we
are seeing a rise in that and so we are
bringing once again Motown to town, pat musical Motown Motown
to town.

Speaker 4 (18:22):
Yeah, food insecurity is really important. One of the one
of the themes that our country started on. I think
down in Virginia there was a guy who said, if
you don't work, you can't eat. And at that time
he was not politicizing so much as actualized actualizing the situation. Hey,
if you don't work, we're not going to grow anything.

(18:43):
If we don't grow anything, we're not going to eat.
Right right now, we've got a problem in that there's
not always a place for people to work in order
to earn the ends in order to eat. So you've
got some solutions.

Speaker 13 (19:03):
For that, we do.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
I created an initiative three years ago hall Feed the Need,
and that was starting at looking at what was happening,
ironically with our college students, you know, wanting to still
get an education, but at the point of living in
their car and it's going to class coming back between

(19:25):
trying to figure out how to get a million. I
looked at some numbers and heard from some amazing students
at cal State, and I said, wait a minute, you
mean that's an issue as well. And we began to
dig into that and said, well, there's a couple of
things that we could do. We can create this initiative
and how can we support And now we've adopted the

(19:45):
Sanbergino Valley College, which I am a loved eye of,
very proud, a loved gye. They're having their hundredth year
anniversary coming up, and we adopted their food pantry, and
we're grateful to make a donation each year from having
this benefit concert, the Magical Music of Motown, which is
also at Valley College, taking place on October the eighteenth.

(20:09):
Doors open at six thirty and tickets are only fifteen
dollars dollars. It goes towards a great cause. This year
bringing it again for the third year, we're going to
have a special tribute from Michael Jackson Era. So it's
going to be a great night, but it's going towards
a worthy cause, which I believe.

Speaker 4 (20:29):
Now let's let's let me slow slow you down and
straightened out.

Speaker 5 (20:32):
Here.

Speaker 4 (20:32):
There was a guy I had on the radio a
couple of weeks ago that manages a restaurant out in
the Ruberdeaux area, And as I was asking him for
a deal for our readers, for our listeners, I asked
him myself, what can I do to, you know, get
some a deal, And he said, bring Michael Jackson back,

(20:59):
and I don't know. I don't know if your event,
you know, qualifies for actually bringing him back. But you're
you're going to celebrate his time and play. I'm going
to give him a call and hit that qualifies for
a deal for our for our.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
Listeners here, please do Yeah, this is going to be amazing.
But Wallace, did you make it? Have you made it yet?
I know I offered you up every year. Have you
made it out to see?

Speaker 4 (21:26):
Well? I think the fact that nobody's asked me to
sing has probably slowed me down.

Speaker 13 (21:33):
You know.

Speaker 8 (21:33):
I've checked the tapes.

Speaker 4 (21:36):
I've checked the tapes from my shower auditions, and I'm
just really sounded good in there, and and somehow nobody's
asked me to come sing uh my girl or anything
like that.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
So oh that's the one, right then.

Speaker 4 (21:51):
Yeah, I'm telling you, I know what you want to practice?
Uh the dog next door, he's he's in, he's in
on the course line. But anyway, I'll send that tape
to you. Maybe you get me in. But other than that,
I'd probably just be out in the audience, you know,
feeling a little nostalgia and stuff like that. But it's
a very worthy event. It's a very worthy cost. I'm

(22:14):
looking forward to having you come in and talk about
the chamber, your Veterans Chamber. I don't know if that
means we've got you know, we're celebrating veterans that are
in business, or are we trying to get veterans in business.

Speaker 5 (22:28):
It's both.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
It's if they're have businesses, we're supporting them. If they
need services, we're also supporting them. We have a reserved
office in now space for them that do their workshops.
We're doing electric vehicle stations training for veterans as well,
and they have their own private office that they come
in and utilize. So it's all things veterans, and we

(22:49):
have established that and we'll also be looking at housing
for veterans. So within the next couple of weeks, I'll
be going out and speaking with some important partners because
they've attracted to this work and well, it's excited about it.

Speaker 4 (23:04):
Let's look forward to having a special session on you
and the Veterans Chamber of Commerce. But meanwhile, once again,
let's talk about Motown. When it's that event, how much
is that event?

Speaker 2 (23:15):
What do people need to do to row Town? Is
coming to town? On October the eighteenth at San Bernardino
Valley College Auditorium. If you don't have your tickets, you
need to get them. You can go to tick dot
com or Arrowhead Unitedweight dot org. And it is a
flat sea of fifty dollars so you don't even have

(23:36):
that extra service fee that sometimes you know distressed folks. Nope,
one fifty dollars and you will come in and have
a night that will take us back all together and
have a great time when it comes to community.

Speaker 4 (23:51):
Well this what time is showtime?

Speaker 2 (23:54):
Showtime is seven o'clock. Door is open at six point thirty.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
Okay, and folks, I'll have to, you know, admit, I
will not be performing, but I will be there for
those of you who would like to get a special
wet autograph from my shower song. And well, no, there's
actually sixth r Yeah, there's Wallace, that's you know, that's

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still on the planet. There's there's me.

Speaker 8 (24:23):
The fourth, there's fifth.

Speaker 4 (24:25):
And then there's my grandson the sixth, who promises that
once he, you know, gets eligible and qualified to be
a dad, he's gonna name his son the seventh.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
There will be the seventh. Oh my goodness, I have
to see you all at one fine, well you.

Speaker 4 (24:40):
Can't see all seven of us at one time because
because the great granddad and granddad, well I have photos. Well, anyway,
we're that's another show as well. Matter of fact, we've
got quite a few shows that that we owe each other.
So I look forward to that.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
Absolutely. Yes, I want to come to the studio.

Speaker 4 (25:03):
Yes, well, well we're going to have to figure something
out because I know that you are Reverend when Dowdy
Rogers as well.

Speaker 8 (25:12):
So we we have.

Speaker 4 (25:13):
To respect that. But you could come in and do
your sermon familiar with that, that would be.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
That we love it. I know how to cut it down.
I'm not a long winded I promise it.

Speaker 4 (25:22):
Yeah. Well, there's some things, you know that we depend on.
There's some things that we don't. Some things we just
let take place. And I'm not looking for the short
sermon because I hate to be uh over enthusiastic about
partial message. So did I say that? Did I say
that smooth?

Speaker 2 (25:41):
You said that? Absolutely? Well, but you gave me grace.

Speaker 4 (25:46):
Well say that about that card Blnchu. We gotta be
careful anyway, doctor Rogers. I appreciate your time. I appreciate
everything that you're doing. And uh, folks, this is the
type of thing that we need to support. The uh
support that goes to the Arrowhead United Way does not
go into buying miss Quinn a new car. Matter of fact,

(26:09):
she's doing quite well. Matter of fact, I don't know
if between you and your husband, as I talk about
those people that are controlling all of this money in
the world. Uh, if we don't, we may need to
pray for you guys, because you guys are not suffering enough.

Speaker 5 (26:24):
Uh please please, Yes, Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna pray
for you.

Speaker 4 (26:28):
Gonna, I'm gonna pray for you because I just want
God to know that I know your name so that
I get a good reference. You know. That's that's what
we need. You and Arlington. We appreciate you guys very much.
So God bless you, and he has blessed you, and
He's blessed me by knowing you. So I appreciate you.
I look forward to continue to support you and the

(26:49):
things that you do to support our community. So doctor
Gwynn Dowdy Rogers, God bless you. See you later and
if you guys change your mind and you need me
to know, come in and sing a couple of times. Ready,
have your people get in touch with my people and
we'll work it out. All right, This is Empire to

(27:09):
Knocks Back. I want to say, I'm going to take
a short break and when we come back, I'm gonna
introduce you to the Loris Armstead and our good friend
mister Brian Keith Walker is here as well, and they
both got events that we want to talk to you
about and things that you can support, knowing that your

(27:30):
support is going to go full circle and come right
back to your community doing the kind of things that
you will be proud of. Not great, but on the
way and great placeholders until we can get great. God
bless you. Hang on, We'll be right back.

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All right, we are back. This is in part talks
about I'm Wallace Allen on the case for truth and
justice with memories that lead us into visions for the future.
I want to talk to you real quickly about Ruthie's Jewels.
That's my mother's book. My mother, Ruth Stevens. My mother
was well is ninety nine and has lived a very

(29:19):
fruitful life. She grew up in Macomb, Mississippi, actually about
eight miles out of the city, six of which were
dirt roade. Wonderful place to grow up. They had a
farm and they grew food and did a lot of things.
But one of the things that she did do about

(29:42):
twenty twenty was writer book. I kept hearing these great
stories and I said, Mom, you need to write some
of these down. And she said, I already wrote them down.
And I said, well, let's make a book. And I'm
going to give you an example of something that she
wrote about. One of them was her nightmare as a
young girl. We hear about family separations and things of

(30:04):
that sort. Well, a little disclaimer. My grandpa was probably
one of many people who made whiskey in Mississippi a
dry estate, and it was not legal unless you shared
with the sheriff and made things equatable go all the

(30:25):
way around, and you couldn't sell the liquor, obviously to
people who were too young to have it. So pop
was Grandpa made a little whiskey, and he could make
whiskey without other people knowing about it. And one day
while they were all city Mom, my grandpa, grandmother, a
couple of the other siblings were sitting around and there

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was a knock at the door, and it was representative
from the legal department of the county and he wanted
my grandma had to go with him because he swore
that he saw my grandpa selling whiskey. My grandpa was
too smart to ever be seen selling whiskey. Truth was

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that there was another man, white man, who was making
whiskey as well, not as good as Grandpa's, but he
was making it and he got seen and when they
saw him, they asked him, didn't we see you? And
he said, no, that wasn't me, that was that Martin guy. Well,

(31:33):
that was one of the unfortunate aspects of being light skinned.
At that time. Grandpa was light skinned as the white
man was, and they were easy anyway, They took my
grandpa off and they kept him for ninety days. My
mother was miserable, and she tells that story, and it's
in her book Ruthie's Jewels. She also tells the story

(31:57):
of the first time she was called the N word.
It was in a dentist office where the dentists refused
to give her anesthesia because he said in people don't
feel pain. Well, she could have been, you know, hating
people for years behind that, except that my grandfather was

(32:18):
able to take her across the street and find another
dentist who was very white but very humane, who took
care of her. So there are these sweet and sour
stories that she has about growing up in the South
that are represented in her book, Ruthie's Jewels. And I
recommend that you call Amazon order that book, Ruthie's Jewels.

(32:43):
That's Ruthie with Ie, that's my mom. I don't know
if you could see it real close, but if you
ordered the book, you'll see it real close. And I
suggest and ask you and request by that book. Get
some reading and you can make your mind understand why
some people got America used to be great and why

(33:05):
we know that it's still had a long ways to
go and still does, but that we're working on it. Okay,
So God bless you. Check out Ruthie's Jewels. We are
back in our We have another book in here. Absolutely,
mister Brian Walker has his book. You want to tell
us a little bit about your book there, Brian, how

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you doing today?

Speaker 16 (33:26):
I'm very thankful, very thankful to be here, verything to
be in your acquaintance and hearing you so sharp and
so knowledge well as you are. And this book is
dealing with what you were talking about the beginning of
the show, about what's going on against the Constitution and
things of that nature. I won't go along wintered any
rules here like two weeks ago. But this book is

(33:47):
called Bet Mom Bett Elizabeth Freeman, and it's one hundred
and twenty three pages. But as they say, knowledge is power,
and if you've done study and want to know what's
going on with this country politically and so for from
the beginning to now, this book of help. It's not
the ortell all but let us understand a little bit

(34:09):
what's going on now and how we can help ourselves
to get from under. It's called Bet Mum Bett Elizabeth Freeman,
and you can google Mum Bet mu MBT in your
Google search. This book didn't come from Google searching. I
read these. I did the due diligence to read and
to know about what I'm talking about. But now you

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can google the things I put in this book.

Speaker 4 (34:34):
That story takes place in the timeframe of the writing
of the Constitution. Yes, okay, And she was in and
out of the room where they were working on the concert.

Speaker 16 (34:45):
Yes, she was a slave in the home in Sheffield, Massachusetts,
and that's where the first the first Constitution was written.

Speaker 4 (34:54):
And so she was able to hear what they were saying, yes,
because they would say as though she were not around. Yes,
and very interesting book. I've read it and I encourage
people to.

Speaker 16 (35:07):
And you can find it on Amazon, Bonds and Noble
by m U M space Bt like two words. But
if you want to google on her m U M
b e T, you can do a little research or
paragraph or see what I'm talking about. And without knowing
about her, we won't know about the political history of
the country.

Speaker 4 (35:25):
We will continue to educate ourselves as we take advantage
of the information that people have put together in the
past and assembled in books we need to read. We
need to understand that, ah, Google is fine, but it
can be made greater. Indeed, everything can improve and be

(35:45):
made greater. And we need to work on work on
those things. And sitting between Brian and myself is mister
Delores Armstead. Take that microphone and twist it around so
that we can get more. Good morning, and how are
you this morning?

Speaker 1 (36:02):
Great? Thank you for having me.

Speaker 4 (36:04):
We're glad. Listen you if you're lucky, you're getting emails
from Deloris Armstead every day where she's almost every day
where she's upgrading your information flow, letting you know about
various things that are going on in the community. You're
on the board of directors.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
For this is for the Today is for the Northwest
Redevelopment Project Area. We call ourselves the Northwest BACTA.

Speaker 8 (36:31):
You heard her say for today, Yeah, for today, it's.

Speaker 4 (36:36):
The north the Northwest Redevelopment.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
Northwest Redevelopment Project Area complete right. It is a legal
entity because of an eminent domain lawsuit fifty years ago.

Speaker 4 (36:50):
You guys, we guys meet and I haven't been there.
That's why I felt strange saying we guys, I should
be meeting there every second, mon second at six o'clock
in San Bernardino at the New Life.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
Family New Life Family Center at one five zero five
West Highland Avenues, right across from the Highway Patrol.

Speaker 4 (37:13):
Other than the fact that it's right there across from
the Highway patrol, what else makes the meeting attractive? And
you want to be their place?

Speaker 1 (37:22):
Oh man, We bring so much information to the west side.
What we realized more than fifty years ago is a
lot of our residents that don't go downtown and felt
left out. So the Northwest pac was established and we
bring speakers and city representatives to the west side. We

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have PD code enforcement, different agencies talk about their services.
We've had resource fare, home buyer's workshop, grant writing, disaster preparedness,
voter registration, candidate forums. So we tried to bring that
information to the west Side that normally does not come

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to us.

Speaker 9 (38:05):
Well.

Speaker 4 (38:06):
Unfortunately for the city of San Bernardino, a lot of
people don't go downtown. We don't have the we don't
have the commerce downtown that we used to have. It
wasn't great, but it was better than it is we
have now, yes, and so we need to be doing
things to make San Bernardino grow. And part of that

(38:26):
is supposed to is to educate our community members as
to what's going on and what can be going on.
So I understand you have not only the members in
the pack every second Monday, but you have members in
the Pack who attend various cities.

Speaker 1 (38:45):
Various commissions. An important, an important commission is the Planning Commission.
Because every project that's going to get approved in the city,
just about every project gets improved. New project in the
city has to go through the Planning Department and you
have your say, you get to come, you get to

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say yay or nay, and they're supposed to bring the product.
Anything on the west side sixth ward comes to the
Northwest pac and we have made differences. We helped make
sure that got State Street completed. We worked with UH
Kimberly Calvin, council Member Kimberly Calvin. Finally, after how many years,

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we got State Street finished.

Speaker 4 (39:31):
And what that means is that State Street now runs
completely from Baseline all.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
The way to It goes from Highland to UH Baseline.

Speaker 4 (39:41):
Well that was a completed part. Yeah, but if you
used to go from Highland all the it goes from
Highland all the way to UH Foothill University. I mean,
oh it still does.

Speaker 5 (39:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (39:52):
Yeah, no, well that's the that's the whole point. You
can get on State Street now on Baseline and go
all the way to calif State University. And that was
part of what the deal was, you know. So right now,
symbolically you can leave of Royal High School and go
up State Street and go all the way to cal
State University, which is I think the symbolism that is

(40:16):
good for our that's right. So the other thing about
the pack is that it gives people not only the
chance to come and participate, it says a little example
for the rest of the city and that we realize
that if you want to know what's going on with

(40:37):
the city, if you go to the city council meeting,
you're going to be late because all of the things
that are said at the city council meeting and brought
up for approval are set up in the commissions. Correct. Okay,
so the pack sends people to what other commission meeting is.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
That the.

Speaker 1 (40:59):
Arts Commission.

Speaker 11 (41:01):
They definitely the.

Speaker 4 (41:06):
One that has to do with But your your neighborhood
looks like your h your streets, your code and.

Speaker 1 (41:14):
Code enforcement, well, code enforcement is there, colde enforcement is
at our meeting every every month. Code enforcement, PD, parks
and wrecks. Actually the city is doing quite a bit
with park and w reck and we bring it to
the community so that we know what's going on and
to get involved and to attend to any functions we have.

Speaker 4 (41:34):
So you guys meet with the police on your We.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
Have coffee with a cop every month. But I mean
that's separate from the Northwest Pac And they do answer
your questions. Those department has a come Community Development, Economic Development.
They do come and they do answer questions and we
ride them. We have a thing about right now. Our
big goal is lights on highland and baseline bridges. Why

(42:03):
don't we have lights? So we're really writing the city
Community Development give us some lights? Why not.

Speaker 4 (42:12):
Do they? Well? Are you maybe you can bring some
of those people in here as well. But lights, lights,
lights prevent crime. Lights do quite a bit other than
let you see you know, and that's true, right, So
when is your next meeting?

Speaker 1 (42:29):
Our meeting is every second Monday of the month October
because it's a holiday, is Indigenous People's Day. We won't
meet in October, but it's typically every second Monday of
the month at six o'clock.

Speaker 4 (42:41):
It is tomorrow a second Monday.

Speaker 1 (42:43):
No following Tomorrow's the first Monday.

Speaker 4 (42:45):
I'll have to have to learn how to count.

Speaker 1 (42:47):
Then it's the thirteenth.

Speaker 4 (42:52):
And how do you guys pay for yourselves?

Speaker 1 (42:57):
It's all volunteer. We take donations if you'd like to,
but it's all volunteered. Is a nonprofit, but we all
volunteer time.

Speaker 4 (43:04):
People associate nonprofit with don't need no.

Speaker 1 (43:07):
Money, No, we need money. The board does pay dues.
We do have a board and we all pay our dues.

Speaker 4 (43:13):
And but you have to have some money. You have
to do fun.

Speaker 1 (43:18):
There's some basic things we do, and we're looking at
a resource fair or another small fundraiser we're gonna put
together for the first of the year. We need a
little bit.

Speaker 4 (43:28):
Okay, let's take another short break, and when we come back,
we're gonna give Brian a chance to tell us about
his big show on the seventeenth and how that can
benefit our community. And laughter is a very important, very
important part of our mental health, So we'll be right
back after this short message.

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Speaker 4 (44:43):
Yeah, that's nice. Music makes me feel like singing a
little bit. But my agent said I shouldn't do that
right now, said my voice show wrong gender. Okay, what
we gotta do? Hey, I was, I was going through
my my Yahoo news this morning and I saw something

(45:04):
that I should probably be able to give you the
specifics on, but I think the generalities are probably even
more important. But it was a statement about a reverse
vending machine that they were going to place on a
couple of college campuses on a temporary basis for Seahard works,

(45:25):
And I said, reverse vending machine? What do they mean?
Reverse vending machine?

Speaker 13 (45:29):
How's that?

Speaker 4 (45:30):
What it is is a recycling machine where the students
will be able to take their soda cans, their aluminum
cans and I guess that's the only thing at this point,
and plastic bottles and return them to the vending machine
and get credit that they're able to go back to

(45:50):
their student union or student offices and get paid for.

Speaker 16 (45:56):
That's interesting because when it first came out, when they
were taking the money for CRV, when you purchased, they
had a place where you could get that money back
right But then all of a sudden they changed it
to back to recycling, and they corrected that by you
could do fifty eems the day to get your exact
money back, but there's no way to put it through
the hole and get it back.

Speaker 4 (46:17):
Right away, which suggests that and I think most of
us are reading that recycling isn't really working at all
the way we thought it would be working or should
be working, and that many of us are saying that
if I could buy it at your store, I should
be able to redeem my cans and plastic bottles at

(46:38):
your store. And then I guess we had the situation
where people from other states that don't pay as much
as California, we're bringing collecting bottles and can and bringing
them to California to collect, which I don't know. It
seems like we could standardize that. Now they're standardizing hate.
Seems like they ought to hit the standard.

Speaker 5 (47:01):
Well.

Speaker 16 (47:01):
I really thought that you talk about at the beginning
because I was out there with the people. I'm seeing
what the frustration was. But when I bring it to
other intellectuals, they were like, what are you talking about?
So my point we're just sharing is they had a
hole next to the recycling where you can get your
exact money back. Yeah, and they take that away now
and now you're in the recycling.

Speaker 4 (47:20):
Area right, So I understand, and it's very discouraging if.

Speaker 16 (47:27):
None they're doing bags again where they're taking away the
plastic hats stayed with the different places and you're paying
for the paper bag.

Speaker 4 (47:33):
Now you're playing for the paying for the paper bag.
And I'll say this, we're all paying for the plastic bag,
whether we use it or not. Because the plastic bag
doesn't go anywhere. It collects in the ocean, it collects,
in the landfills, it collects, but it does not say
this back at all. It doesn't disintegrate. And matter of fact,

(47:56):
they say that we've got evidence of little plastic in
our brain, in our in our blood flow, in our
in our bodies, because I don't know, maybe it was
there before we had even invented plastic. I don't know.
That's not something that we are able to tell if
they except they are now at a point where they

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can find it and identify that plastic is in our bodies.
They didn't have the technology before the check for that,
or didn't even know to check for that. So we
are assuming that it's because of the plastic industry that
we created.

Speaker 16 (48:34):
We being people, I didn't get look for it. Well,
they said that. I remember them saying they're saving the dolphins.
Was them plastic, But I think they've just saved my money.
I put it dined and dined with plastic bags, and
it didn't save the dolphins.

Speaker 4 (48:50):
No, it didn't save the dolphins. And it just well,
there's so much going on that isn't right that once
again I have to point out that, Okay, there are
some things that are good that go full circle, that
will not only work for us at an individual level,
but also work for us at a collective level. You're

(49:12):
putting on an event on the seventeenth of October, Yes,
that will have a full circle effect for us.

Speaker 16 (49:19):
I'm hoping to. I'm bringing out the Pickgarfunny dot Com.
It's a new site that if you go there to
pick your Funny dot.

Speaker 5 (49:27):
Com, Pick your Funny dot Com. It's Brian and Friends.

Speaker 16 (49:31):
So there's comedians that are registering and you can select
those and our hosts to show that you want to bring.
And it's starting October seventeenth. I have a vent Tuilicus
named wood Doctor and Roscoe here.

Speaker 4 (49:43):
It's funny. He's funny.

Speaker 16 (49:44):
And also I have the witty Nikki Simone. She's sharp
and very professional. She'll be opening's will and also honest
John if you've seen this comedy. And we have also
a buffet, so the sooner we register to get account,
we can know how to serve, okay, and so also
we have a band, live band.

Speaker 4 (50:04):
Yeah, I understand that my move Master and his band
is going to be their.

Speaker 16 (50:07):
Performer indeed, so we're looking forward to bringing quality just
quality funny to the community where we can all be
the lords will safe. It's over at the Orange Show
Event Center. If you're not familiar, Google it is that security,
plenty of parking, and a place where we can then

(50:28):
just sit down and enjoy without going too far and
paying all this extra to see a show.

Speaker 4 (50:34):
Now, that's on arrow ahead. Yes, that's at the south
end of the Orange Show. Yes, and that's just north
of what is that Orange Show Road? Okay, so you've
got it's an easy place to find, and you've got
plenty of parking. And the program is twenty five dollars.

Speaker 16 (50:53):
I believe us twenty dollars. Now, as it gets closer
to the date, it'll go up. But right now, if
you go to pick your funny, you can purchase a
ticket for twenty dollars.

Speaker 4 (51:02):
And with that ticket for twenty dollars, you also get
the buffet.

Speaker 16 (51:06):
No, the buffet is fifteen dollars, okay, and they also
have some other items advertisers, so forth, it's not on
the buffet that you can choose, Okay, if you don't
like the buffet.

Speaker 4 (51:15):
Okay, So thirty five dollars. I can come and laugh
and drink and.

Speaker 16 (51:20):
Have a dinner, a show on Friday night, show for
and that's a Friday night yes.

Speaker 4 (51:25):
Okay, very good.

Speaker 5 (51:26):
And the doors open at the seven.

Speaker 16 (51:28):
There's an open micro service from seven thirty to eight thirty,
and the show starts properly at eight thirty, and we'll
be out of there about ten. So I don't want
to hold your hostage, but I just want you to
enjoy and hopefully come back for more.

Speaker 4 (51:39):
Okay. So I'm not gonna spend time talking about how
that fits into my bedtime.

Speaker 5 (51:46):
You know.

Speaker 4 (51:47):
That's those are good hours. I like that.

Speaker 5 (51:50):
I like that I'm on the same hours. I believe,
so good.

Speaker 4 (51:55):
Now, are you a comedian?

Speaker 5 (51:57):
Yes?

Speaker 16 (51:58):
I love to make people laugh, okay. I love to
heal the broken hearted, you know, and those that need
a little break from the monotony.

Speaker 4 (52:04):
So well, that's a good thing because for our mental
health and the things that we are going through as
a unit. You know, it used to be that, you know,
you could kind of pick your friends, you know, pick
you know who you're going to be classified with. But
now this assault on our economy groups us, and it

(52:26):
kind of put us into two groups, the haves and
have nonsense. That's what it looks like the people who
work for the government are getting fired. The people who
work for federal government are being fired, they're being laid off.
And with this government shut down, we're sure it was
a way to call it a shut up instead of

(52:47):
a shut down. But we're still talking about things that
are ridiculous. We're talking about taking away health care, we're
talking about taking away all of the structure that supports consumers.
We are turning it over to the wild West. And
maybe that's what they mean when they say it us
great again, because but that's conflictuous, because the wild West

(53:09):
suggests that everybody's got a gun and they do with
it what they want to, and the news shows us
that that seemed to be taking place. But then we
don't like to be talking about people getting shot, and
when they do get shot, I don't know. We just

(53:31):
and I'm not afraid to talk about Charlie Kirk. There
was a man who advocated for guns. There was a
man who advocated for white supremacy. He advocated in the
name of Christianity and our good Christians, except for my friend,
my brother Leo, Pope Leo, many of the Christians are

(53:53):
trying to make it great again going back to slavery
and reason them. I'm concerned about that.

Speaker 16 (53:59):
I'm just charing, and once again about the book mum
Bet was explained all those things. I'm just sharing is
the people that started the country were the word they
used as abolitionists, but they didn't use that word in
that time, and those men and women were beating just
like our use it as an example Black Wall Street
were familiarized ourselves with. But the people that did that

(54:20):
upon Black Wall Street are the same people that took
over the country from whites that believe we were all equal.

Speaker 4 (54:25):
So if I'm understanding right, your position is that the
white people who came to America came here actually seeking freedom,
came here actually seeking equality and things of that sort.

Speaker 5 (54:38):
I'm not saying they came here with that.

Speaker 16 (54:39):
I'm saying is that slavery existed for fifteen hundreds, sixteen hundreds,
and in the seventeen hundreds. I'm saying that in seventeen
seventy seventy seven they made a constitution that wanted to
effect from Massachusetts. Once that wanted to effect, it freed
slavery in the North. That's why you have to read
Bet mun Bet. Yeah, So I'm just sharing is that

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that happened. So once you see that, you will see
that they were all make created equals. That's where that
came from from Massachusetts, and it was written into the
federal Constitution later well you know when they got together.
But I'm sharing is the South became part of the Union,
the thirteen colonies, and they had state rights to keep
slavery in the South, but in the North they start
freeing slaves. And if you look around you and the

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twelve years of slaves, the man was free before he
went to South and was twelve years of slave there
until they came.

Speaker 5 (55:30):
And got him.

Speaker 16 (55:31):
I'm saying that it's in your writing around you, but
to understand it, try to read this book to add
it to what you already know.

Speaker 5 (55:37):
So I'm just sharing is that these people was taken over.

Speaker 16 (55:40):
That's why you have so many different different political parties
now because they've been suffered. There's a Charles Sumner you
can google. There's all types of names that you can
see that have been beaten and whooped, and so if
you look at it to what is that I'm just
using these examples. What is the movie The Help? If
you look at the part where she's taking that. Excuse me,

(56:01):
but Blue boopied to the lady. There's the voice over
that's telling you that you couldn't say that black and
white were equal, or they'll run you out of town.
That's different thing. It'll all make created equal. So that
it fought against that since the beginning, and that's what
we're dealing with today without knowing it. That's why you
have the people going against the Constitution. Now I've said
this before before Obama was in office. The only thing

(56:22):
they didn't take was the Constitution when they took the
country over after Abraham Lincoln was shot. So you have
the Republican Party that used to be colored and everybody
working together defeated Abraham Lincoln bought it, not him by itself,
but the Whig Party brought it back in eighteen fifty four.

Speaker 5 (56:39):
Not started it, they brought it back.

Speaker 4 (56:41):
I think we can kind of trace trace the followed
the money. Right as we followed the money, we will
see that there has always been one side that is
trying to control the money by controlling the people and
keeping the people away from the money that are working

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hard to make the country be what it could be.
Yes thought they left England with the idea that they
didn't want a king. They did not separate the idea
of having two groups of people, people who had money
and people who don't. Our country started with the idea,

(57:24):
and the vote was for white men who owned property.
This is who was eligible to vote. These were the
people most respected. These were the people who were expected
to lead this country as it is now. This is
the direction that some people are going when they say
great again. They want no women in the military, they

(57:48):
want no women making big decisions. They certainly don't want
us to appreciate what people who are not white have
done to support and build this country. And they do
this based on of what appears to be racism. But
when we get down to it, they are just as
anxious to send white people back into the coal mines,

(58:10):
as though that was a place to be, instead of
bringing them into the future with wind power, with solar power,
with wave power, with understanding how to become modern and
efficient as opposed to old days, great old days. They
me buzz and dick zieve blah blah. We don't want

(58:33):
to go backwards to that. And when we paid close attention,
we'll find that white men who are in control, want
to stay in control as white men only. No women,
no minorities. No, I say minorities. I can't say that
because non white people are more in supplied than white people.

(58:58):
And I also say this, white people have, white people
have been as involved in making and fighting for freedom
as anyone. And I heard something you said the last
time we talked about how white people are arguing with
white people exactly about this circumstance. This is a continuum

(59:22):
of the Civil War before that.

Speaker 16 (59:25):
Does anybody good with John Quincy Adams go back to
that time in eighteen twenty four, Well he was treated
worst than Obama.

Speaker 4 (59:32):
Well we can get today. We get into the specifics,
and that's what leaves us with our arguments. But if
we stay with the generalities and look at the idea
that white supremacy is the lingering curse, the lingering curse,
that makes it bad for all of us. So we
need to understand that there's some good and some bad

(59:59):
on both eyes, but mostly uh not. This is the
improd talks back, keep get keep with us. We'll see
you next week. Thank you, and continue our quest to