March 10, 2024 • 43 mins
Allison Seymour and Marc Clarke have been married for over 24 years and both work in televison. Allison as a morning news anchor in Washington DC and Marc is the CEO of Marc Clarke Media Group. They are married in media!!
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Uh, the past, give thetest of past, and welcome to another
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exciting episode of Alison and Mark podcast, The Married and Media Podcast. Do
you know that the Alison and MediaAlison and Mark and Media Married? Okay,
take Tim, didn't you know thatthe Alison and Mark Podcast Married in
Media? Let me tell you whatit's all about, because I'm sure you're
new. I'm sure we have somany new folks checking us out today.
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So we are two gen X mediapros who have three grown daughters yes oh
loo and uh and two shelter pops. And we talked about everything here from
politics to pop culture, a littlebit of humor, and a whole lot
of love, and a sprinkling ofhistory just because it just because well,
speaking of history, we're gonna getwe had a pack show tonight, bab
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speaking of history, Carl with aK in the building. So, Carl,
you know you. Last week wasthe first time we got a chance
to see you, and you putus to the test and I failed miserably.
Yeah, I'm going to say it. So Carl with the K,
let's go ahead and get a poppingman, give us three questions tonight.
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Let's hop in here and of coursethe chat is willing to chime in as
a as you know, people arejoining us now. So Carl, first
of all, how did we golast week? And thank you Valerie Jones
for sharing tag shared, So that'swhat we need, all right, I'm
sorry what we're saying. Yeah,how'd to go? Man? How did
we go last week? Like youdo sure trivia on Monday? So how
was Monday? How was your MondayTrivia? Last week? Monday was good.
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We concluded our awards awards with doingall movies movies, so I got
a couple of questions from that aswell as some more historical. But since
we're in I want to conclude myawards that night. But since we are
in Women's History Month today, it'sall going to be about women. Love
that. And Carl again, Forpeople who want to follow you, how
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they follow you? You can followme on Facebook, Black Trivia Network,
YouTube, Black Trivia Network, oryou can look under Soul Trivia, which
is the actual name of the gameSold Trivia, Black History game, and
the Black Tributa Network is the umbrellacompany. All right, well let's get
it. Let's get it started,all right. I put the first one
in your box and the chat Box. What cisly Tyson? And what other
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actress were nominated for Best Actress inthe same year. Was it Diane Carroll,
Diana Ross or Ruby D. I'llsay Diana Ross. I'm gonna say
Ruby D. You're gonna say RubyD? Then you should definitely listen to
your wife. Mark In nineteen seventytwo, Diamond loss for Lady Sings the
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Blues Sounder. It happened again almostfifty years later, when Viola Davis and
Andrew Day were both nominated for BestBest Actress. Wow, Andre Dave for
the Billy Holliday thing and so Billyif the bottom line here is if you
played Billy Halliday, you can getnominated exactly. That's exactly, all right,
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Okay, all right? Number twoa little bit of HBCU found it
as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary.Spelman College was renamed after the wife of
what prominent businessman? Was it JohnRockefeller, Andrew Carnegie or JP Morgan Rockefeller
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Morgan? Okay? All right,comedy paste, Okay, So who would
you say? I said Rockefeller?Once again, Mark listened to the wife
I always do before the name changed. The Spellman Seminary in honor of missus
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Laurence Spelman Rockefeller and her parents,who are very involved with activists in the
anti slavery movements. How do youabout that? Well, And I just
looked this up just to see whereall these names come from, because it's
such a huge topic right now,like changing names to reflect the population that
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is current and that it serves today. And so I just happened to know
about Rockefeller. Also Morehouse sort ofa similar thing too. So yeah,
basically named after dominant people who gavemoney and this together, so you know,
Howard and it was named after generalSo yeah, I went to Hampton
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and it was not named after thegeneral who was Chapman. Who was I
think was Chapman Lord, That's myHampton history. So Hampton was the town
instead. So yeah, anyway,right, and last but not least,
we're gonna have a little bit ofsports trivia in what sport did Donna Cheek
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become the first black woman to representthe United States on the national team.
Was it the US equestrian team,the US diving team, or the US
fencing team. I have to say, I'm I'm pretty like good at trivia.
I've never heard this name before.So you you are stumping me tonight,
young man, don che Let mesee what what what would I I'm
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gonna say a question. It'll bea guest for me. I'll say yeah,
I'll say I'll just be contrary.I'll say the fencing. All right,
Mark, you're up one, You'reright. Yeah. Finally eighty one,
she became the first African American tocompete for the United States equestrian team.
She wrecked up a host of honors, including becoming the first equestrian to
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be inducted into the Women's Sports Hallof Distinction in Cincinnati, Ohio. Okay,
so, as you can see,my trivia expands a whole plethora of
topics. Yes, now, Carl, permission to steal that, because on
WUSA nine, I'm writing up likeI made a commitment. One day.
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We started with the first day ofBlack History Month. The fast fact that
what we call the hub or thestation group sent down literally the first one
for the first day was whatever youknow in eighteen sixty was it three or
one? Abraham Lincoln wrote the Emancipationproblem literally did freed the slow And I'm
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like, oh no, no,no, we're not doing this. So
I took it upon myself to adda little context to them. So permission
to steal Donna cheek for tomorrow forWomen's History Month on Channel nine. More
than more than more than welcome.I have, actually I've done I've done
this for every year I'm doing black. I do a women's history trivia.
So I have like about, youknow, a couple hundred questions. Okay,
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baby, got the plug. Youknow, you know, I got
my old boss in there too,so okay, that's right, that's right,
Yeah, girl, Always great seeingyou. Thank you man, Thank
you. Carl is a regular contributoron the podcast, and as it grows,
he will grow too. So makesure you go follow Carl and doing
what you do. That's Karl witha K. By the way, appreciate
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it, Appreciate you. Take careman, and again we have each a
show for wait a minute, okay, Saunder's in the house. Hey,
family, the King, George KingGeorge Virginia is also in the house.
A packed show tonight, Baby,shout out to everybody's checking in. We
had a great event. We wentto a great event at the Point in
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DC and we are going to dothe show from the point. So everybody
get ready. We expect y'all tocome join us at the point we're going
to tell you when. We'll giveyou a couple a couple of weeks and
then maybe a month and then we'regoing to do it. Brandy's in the
house base Hello, girlfriend, HiBrandy and so Babe. We were looking
at some old videos and we didwe had a feature called the Petty Report,
and so I wanted to bring thePetty Report back and we can I
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do the Petty Report. Yes,history was a little light, but you
know so petty Report is. Andagain petty Report the ridiculousness that we see
online or wherever. It's not it'snot serious, it's just having a little
fun, but it is petty.First one I had to laugh at I
saw a J you know, AJfrom whatever group people was in the Backstreet
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Boys. Why did AJ look like? Is AJ from the back Street Boys?
AJ looked like at WIMS and Ihad this, I was like,
what is going on? So ofcourse we talked about this, bab Now
you know, I love me someShannon Sharp. Okay, man, if
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I'm looking for Mark in the house, he is in front of the YouTube
machine looking at either club or whatever. Else. Yeah, so of course
he got dread what's the other onegot club? And also you know on
on I guess traditional television, he'swith Stephen A. Smith. So of
course he got dragged getting out,getting out of the truck heading to a
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sing my man wear a two pieceor so it looked. It looked a
little something like this, the finalstopping the day to the one line started
over there, the last stop ofthe day. We got up early,
have a late night. We don'tdo expose, spare, we just get
the job done. Because this onebeside up, old leg and bow hipped.
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Okay, so Shannon got now youknow what's doing it? You don't
care what none of y'all leaders havingdone a huge outfit, and I would
wear that as well. It's greatand having daughters is so funny. So
a lot of you know, theystarted calling he started calling him gay,
right, so he started calling himgay and babey, I laughed because I
didn't laugh, but I thought itwas interesting to be he's fifty five,
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so he's in our age group,right, yeah, so to be to
be that age, I can imagine, and then my daughters would be cracking
on me on a whole bunch ofstuff, especially if I were tight outfice.
But the part two of it ishe's in the house. He says,
she finally cut the pockets. Yeah. But but but the part two
of it is he's in Great Jakethree fifty five too. But he's also
a fifty five year old man whoplayed in the NFL. So you can
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see the hips and the pigeon toldnessand all that kind of stuff. I
got cracked on. Now this righthere, it looks good people. But
the part that's interesting, I thoughtit almost was. It was funny but
also kind of sad. He's talkingoho and he was like, hey,
man, you know, I don'tcare about you know, calling me gay?
Right, I don't care about itbecause like my grandmamma said, always
said, why would you chase alot? And and what's the okay?
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And but the part that got methough, he said when his kids and
your kids, because I can imagineyour kids started calling his daughter also is
in med school, It's like theycalled him like, dad, what is
all this gay stuff about? AndHe's like, I don't know, because
a lot of the comedians were callingthat, and you know it's I guess
it's a little tight outfit. Butthis probably I think this one probably is
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the funniest one because you know theirmemes, there's jokes and people have been
replicating it. Yes, this oneI think was probably the funniest one,
if I'm honest. On the hiphops, you know how we do back
hyppy toesdays type of tasting tools.As you know, it's your host with
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the most you know, with bigshade, not the little one. Know
how we do. It's a it'sa beautiful blessed mornings. Uh, we
are blessed. We woke up sowe had nothing uh to be stressed about.
We had total wines and mores.He had to drop off of a
little virtuosos some of our reports thatwe are doing today's we have some fan
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love. We just dropping in puttingsome blessings in your hearts. Also,
you see the drip of green ongreen Uh, the neon, the Nija
turtle, Uh orange can't forget aboutthe bad got a little off. Watch.
Shout out to my go get usout there, Shout out to my
playmakers out there. We always gonnaput on for uh for for for the
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for for the naysails and the hatersout theres. Those who can't do talk,
those who talk, we'll do.So we walk. We were talking,
and we're bossing up every day,you know, late nights, early
mornings. Well, we don't complain. We just don't make excuses. And
you already know we're gonna do onbefore to something new heights, new tratting
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spheres, new atmospheres. Uh youknow what it is, big deuces,
big drip, you see it.Uh you know that's just what we do.
What we do, How you do, how you do it? How
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you doing terrible? And you knowwho the real winner is, right,
Total wine, Total wine, Totalwine is getting all the advertisements. Yeah,
man, okay, so y'all,y'all, I need to playing with
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playing. He's laughing all the wayto the bank. He's fine, and
I love that outfit. And I'msure it costs five thousand dollars. Oh
come on, and so the nowanother Tisaca Tisa. There was a controversy,
Wen, I'm not playing that Clipbatebecause there's a certain show that we
do not play on our show,right, baby, I don't know what
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show. You know the show okay, you know the show that had you
on there years ago? Wrong anyway, So uh this uh was in at
the end of the day. Charlemagneon the show basically called he he did
not call Resa Tisa a big back, which, by the way, I
would not be aware of the commentexcept by having the kids, because that's
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the new new way of calling peoplefat a big back. And so he
said big back behavior. But anyway, it is, that's what he said.
He didn't know just what the messwas telling a story. He didn't
even know. He didn't he hadnever seen her before. Stop. Yeah,
so he just said it sounds likebig back behavior. Anyway, it
spun out and so can it becamea thing. But like you said,
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talk about laughing all the way tothe bank. She mentioned this on the
show. But she just signed withc AA. Okay, signed was gonna
happen. She's an excellent storyteller.She should get everything that's coming to her.
She had she did have to.People were saying, like, you
know, because supposedly the guy,what does she call him again, legion?
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Uh? The ex basically it wasfaking that he had some VP position
and then people were like, well, you should have known, because VP
wouldn't date somebody you look or marrysomebody looked like, you know, come
on, like, what are weeven talking about? So good, get
all your money, sis. AndI think she has a sweet spirit.
I think that's why people really attachthemselves to that. If you're not sure
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what we're talking about. Resa Tisadid a fifty part series on uh what
was it called a TikTok that blewup. Yes, she's been on I
believe she was on with Robin RobertsGood Morning America. She was on with
tamer and Hall. And so it'slike, when we see what's going on
in the social media world, comeon to like this traditional media and everybody's
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trying to get her for these toprated daytime shows and morning shows. So
she's doing it. So whatever,don't ever talk about somebody's weight, period.
That's right, don't ever do it. And so now that was the
petty report being okay, Now inthe serious piece, I wanted to get
your take on this. So RolandMartin was talking about it. Emmitt Smith
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has come out, you know,Florida is getting rid of de e I,
which is diversity, equity and inclusion. Yes, can we go back
to one of the things that yousaid before we get serious, Yes,
because Brandy pointed out that you saidbow legged and bow hipped hipped it on,
Shannon Sharp. Okay, go ahead. Yes, he's getting rid of
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in Florida. Yes, he's gettingrid of diversity, equity inclusion at Florida,
and so obviously all schools, obviouslyin Florida. And so Emmitt Smith,
former star and NFL legend, hadsomething to say. Ball Hall of
Famer Emmitt Smith, the NFL's leadingrusher for his career, UH, dropped
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the bombshell, blasting his alma materfor firing all of their DEI employees.
Now remember the state of Florida bandedDEI across all state institutions. UH and
mm spit was not having any ofit. He dropped this statement right here.
Uh. Emmitt said, quote,come on, guys, come on,
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guys, thank you. I'm utterlydisgusted by UF's decision and the president
that it sets. Without the DEIdepartment, the job falls to the office
of the Provos, who already hastheir hands full to raise money for the
university and continue to advance the academicstudies and athletic program. And so Roland
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goes on to say he hopes thatathletes like em it, Uh, stand
up and and send a message,because you know, these colleges, all
they care about really is the moneyand winning. And so if the if
the if the athletes decide, ifthe parents decide, hey, you're not
going to Florida, You're not goingto play in Florida, these states that
are trying to do this, itcan have a huge impact. Now,
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you know, are we there yetor people do it? I don't know,
but I do. I do lovewhat the Emmitt Smith said, and
it just whatever. The game thatFlorida is playing is very very heartbreaking,
and it's serious times, man.And there was some charaging and uh,
you know it's it's serious times andit's it's really like these programs are under
attack obviously. You know what Iwas thinking about, Babe. I think
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a lot of people, a lotof people don't really understand. I think
how things work, how hiring worksin America, how there are systems in
America. Who talked about this before, I don't think people really understand how
you know, we talk about theseprograms right, programs really run America.
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And so you know, we're thewe're at the age where we remember we
you know, we're not that old, but the generation right before us,
they were the first beneficiary of alot of the EOC programs and also the
DEI programs. And what people don'trealize this diversity equity inclusion. What people
don't realize is if those programs aregoing to in place, most of the
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leadership, African American leadership in corporateAmerica and an education period would not be
there when left when left on,when left on, you know the own
that was there. Basically, ifyou don't force it, Sadly, if
you don't force inclusion, it doesn'thappen. And I hate to say that,
but that's just fact. I think, I think what it is,
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it's just these companies or institutions orwhatever. You have to have a a
conscious conscience. Yes, you knowwhat I mean. Because now what we've
seen is and we only talk abouta little bit of politics on the show
because it's just too much, butwe've seen the Supreme Court strike down any
sort of affirmative action when it comesto college entrants and applications and all and
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all that stuff too, right,And so these DEI offices again, diversity
equity and inclusion. I know youall know what that is. But you
really have to have someone who givesthe damn about it, right, and
that comes in, that comes inall colors, because you know, you
can have you can have people inplace who are in this case, let's
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say Hispanic, but don't really seethe need to. You know, I'm
colorblind. I don't see. Soyou need somebody whoever it is, white,
black, green, purple, whounderstands that diversity is so wonderful for
your companies, for your college campuses, for you need that. And now
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that that's being that's taken away.But I think that right after that ruling,
we saw a lot of these companiesor whatever get rid of the diversal
office because you didn't need it.And let me tell you something, here's
how I feel about it. Weare not that far yet as a society
that we're only we're born in nineteensixty six. We just did the you
know, we're looking at the EdmundPettis Bridge in Selma, Alabama. That
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was like, what was that liketwo years before sixty fourth bloody Sunday.
I need to look at the date, so fact check me if I'm wrong.
I'm at this is two years beforewe are. We're not that far
away from these huge milestones that aretrying to get us to a more inclusive
society. And so I don't understand. I just don't understand why we are
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so impatient as a society. Butwe also say in the same term,
don't forget about the past. Thatwas the past. What be worried about
that was like literally sixty years ago. And sometimes I see legislation or these
cases in nineteen seventy in these placesor whatever, well within our lifetime.
So I just, you know,but you need a conscience, and I
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think that we all need to getout and vote. You need to get
out and vote for people who underand I don't care whatever, you need
to vote for people who understand thatthe sheer numbers of it. You know,
I can speak for the African Americanpopulation around thirteen percent of the nation.
The sheer numbers don't match up.You can't just leave it up to
chance. You can't just leave itup to chance. So I'm sad about
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Florida because I love Florida. Ithink it's just the beautiful state. We've
had so many good times in Florida. But at the end of the day,
I have to think, why amI going to Florida. Oh yeah,
I think right now, right now, Florida, I think right now,
I definitely would. I would notdo anything in Florida, including I
think. So I say a prayerbecause I am I Look, we talk
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about this all the time. Ilove this country. This is my country.
I'm here to make this thing better. This is where my family is,
is where I've been for however manylike I can go back like five
generations whatever, you know what Imean. So I want to see us
be the nation that I know thatwe can be. All the pieces are
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in place, but things keep chippingaway at it. You know. It's
almost like one step forward, chipchip, chip away. Well, and
it's frustrating. So yeah, Iagree. Well, and I'm sorry,
babe, I'm kind of been.I have been just pushing up all this
stuff I want to talk about.I have one more thing. I'm sorry.
No, my man was down here, like you came home today from
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work, came right down into thelab. Now the lab is our basement.
It's our little room in the basement. You can see the green screen
and you were doing your thing.So go ahead, this is this is
your show, y'all. Help mewith this. Because it could fall flat.
Because you know, I'm definitely avery philosophical babe. Right, only
child is sitting around thinking about stuff. Right, So back to Resa Tisa
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Rightatisa for those who pretty much sayaout another talking about the young lady who
did the fifty TikTok episodes, Yesand so, basically talking about who who
and so. So this is whatshe said. I was driving home thinking
about this baby, I said.She said, legion, her husband,
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big name, exploited her, exploitedher once in needs by showing her beautiful
homes, test driving expensive cars,knowing that that was not her lifestyle,
and it seduced and intrigued her,right, And I think, you know,
being I think she was kind ofsaying, coming from where I come
from and being, you know,almost like the kind of girl that I
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am, this is how she felt, right, And I just made me
think about people and the feeling ofgrowing up and feeling like you don't deserve
something, or you haven't or oryou know, you haven't experienced something,
so you don't think it could bepossible for you. And what I thought
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about was, I said, Ididn't grow up with this, but I
did see friends and relatives who hadit coming up. But I have to
say I never felt that I couldnot experience things. Young people say,
well, you know, Barack Obamagave black people that you could be president.
I never felt I could not bepresident. I never felt I could
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not land the most beautiful groun inthe world. You. I never felt
I could not be rich. Butwhat do most people feel though? Is
there do people feel that way?I'm asking you, Chad, did you
grow up feeling like you could notachieve things, or could not have nice
things, or you did not deservenice things. I was curious because I
think this happens to a lot ofwomen, regardless of shape, size,
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whatever. I think being sold thefantasy, being sold this and then almost
like, oh, I didn't thinkI could da da da da da.
So Chad, when I asked youthat, baby, did you ever feel
like you could not have whatever youthought you could want it in your life?
No? But here, here's here'sthe thing. I think that she
she did say that that was atthe last episode for me, and she
wrapped it up and she said thatat the end of the day, he
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was manipulative because he she was like, I was a girl who grew up
on welfare, and and he sawthat. So he dangled these things in
front of me, and that's that'swhat happened, you know what I mean.
And and it was he you know, that's a whole other level.
You know, he has definite issues, but he took pleasure from seeing her
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disappointment at that, knowing that hewas never gonna fulfill that for her.
So yeah, what I loved aboutthe series and why I think it resonates
with so many people, is becauseshe understood that fully about herself. Now
here's a woman who was at thebeginning, she was in her own townhouse,
you know what I mean. Shehad her her jobby job. She
was doing it in Atlanta, andthat's another thing. So she wasn't you
know, saying well, I neverget she had dreams. She knew she
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wanted to go to Paris and London. I think that's what it was.
She wanted to BMW with the youknow, with the Cognac seats. So
she knew that there was something outsideof you know, her block if you
will, or her circumstances. Sothat's what makes her so attractive. But
I think that, yeah, manipulatorsor people who are abusive. They see
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that little crack in that weakness andthey try to pray on that, and
I think that's where a lot ofpeople sadly go wrong. No, that's
not it was not my experience becauseI was gonna say that because it can't.
They can't. As I tell ourdaughters all the time, they can't
exploit it unless you allow them to. And so let's see Calvin, guy's
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the limit, Jerry. I didn'tgrow up this way. My father said,
you can be whatever you want aslong as you work hard. Yeah.
I think that was definitely a themehe took advantage of insecurity. That's
what Cammra's doing. No, butI do believe what I have obtained can
be taken from me. Okay,that seems Mark Raymond always felt I can
get anything I try to get.Randy, Oh Lord, that's me.
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Grew up with so much and nothinghad very traumatic. Okay, it's emotional
as a child, didn't understand whyGod let it have to it phil marriage
and I've mentioned to smile so acookie and always been treated like crap.
So I feel all this and sothat is sadly, Brandy, that is
the recipe for somebody to exploit whenwhen you feel that less than. But
here's the kicker. Here's the kicker, Brandy. You know that, And
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this is this is for Brandy,who I'm who have Again, we talk
about it every week because Brandy isshe's a writer. Brandy be in this
room when we come on, right. But here's the thing. Here's the
thing about you, Brandy, andeverybody who might feel this way, we've
never met. But there's something thatis so pure and loving about your spirit
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that it reached out of this phoneand social media and it reverberated all the
way to wherever I was. Andso I know all your the people who
love you are and this is foreverybody. I'm talking to Brandy, but
this is for everybody. So evenif and Brandy has said this a couple,
I'm not the smartest and this andthat guess what that is? Who
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is first of all, But secondly, that never ever ever was even a
thought in my mind or played intomy mind. It's just your sweet,
loving spirit. So everybody out therewho might be feeling that way and feeling
less than or maybe I really don'tdeserve this love, you know you do.
And I'm here to tell you that, for one, I love you
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so and I'm one person, andso it's just like for everybody out there,
all you can do is be thebest person that you can do and
be rather and don't let anybody canwalk all over you and don't let anybody
tell you what you cannot be anddo and whatever. And that the first
sign that you see that get yourass up out of the air, because
it doesn't get any better. Itdoesn't get any better. And quit saying
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that. Quit saying that, Brandy, and work on you because you are
more than that. You know whatI mean. But it's a feeling.
It's how you feel, and Iget it, and that's how. That's
what I'm saying. And it's notto put Brandy in spart or anything,
but you're just speaking like like Ilike, if Brandy or anybody had said,
yeah, you know, I grewup with this confidence and I knew
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that I was the bomb when Iwalked in and everybody wanted to be my
friend, I would be like,I feel that that could be the narrative
or the other narrative, because howpeople receive you is not sometimes how the
narrative that you've written for yourself,So keep being wonderful given. Since I
grew up a dream, I lookfor opportunities that would provide me the pathway
to success. My level of successwas not mature, but my ability to
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overcome my situation. Yes, yes, it's not what it is. It's
how you deal with it. It'show you get through it. And I
don't like Winston Churchill, but Ilove one of his quotes. He said,
if you're going through hell, justkeep going. So here it is.
It's my journey. I'm in hellright here. What am I gonna
do? I'm i gonna turn around, try to go back. Am I
gonna freeze? I'm gonna keep goingthrough it? So yeah, I love
(31:59):
it. Cookie, Cookie, Andshout out to Cookie. Did we Mayor
for Life's birthday was today or wasit yesterday? Shout out to the Mayor
for Life Mary and Barry, Happyheavenly birthday to you. I saw that
on your on your Instagram. Kindhelps out in places in January's in the
Caribbean. That's an un impressor guy. Okay, Amen, Yeah, therapy
(32:21):
definitely does work. Therapy definitely doeswork. And here's what I my thing
is too. I was talking toone of our girls about this, and
in a wider community too, Andif you feel lonely, if you feel
like whatever, there's always somebody whocan benefit from your time. And just
talking like that, I think thatthere are numbers that you can call or
(32:45):
what this's a whole. I neverknow if it's like a multi level marketing
thing, but just if you needto talk to somebody, there's a phone
number or an app. You canjust talk to somebody sometimes, so you
can always be something to someone elseand it makes you just feel better too.
You should give me some Oh hewould have been eighty eight. Yep,
(33:07):
let me say now. So somy father, Cookie and all my
DC folks. So my dad workedwith Marion Barry back Cookie, yeah,
way way back when we got tod C when I was four years old.
I think the timing adds up atPride and So and the late Marion
(33:29):
Berry there for life. D Cand my dad went to the same high
school right in Memphis, Tennessee,although he was originally from Mississippi. I'm
trying to remember the name of thetown. It's a Beina, I think
Mississippi. And every time I sawMarion Barry through the years. He would
always say, how's your father doing? Yeah? So yeah, so I
(33:50):
have a love for him to myhusband, st Okay, what's that?
What else is on your agenda?That was that was a good question.
Yeah, you gotta. I loveThat's why I love Reesa Tisa. She
stands for so many people who uhyou know, been through it, have
been through it, and I lovethat she's getting her flowers right now.
(34:12):
Oh, let's talk about this deepfake picture before we get out of here.
What time is it? How wedoing on our time today? Okay?
All right, So y'all we needto watch out for these we we
are in we are in deep trainingin the news business right now to spot
these ai deep fake pictures. Sothey wanted to show you the picture and
then and then show it and thenI'll come back and you and well,
(34:35):
because I don't know if you canif you can talk it on this side,
let me see, we'll see ifyou can say if audio. Okay,
so can y'all hear us? Ithink you can hear us? Yes,
So this picture here, Mabe,you were saying, what do you
need to look out for? Thispicture is fake? It's and this this
has been a news story today.So with AI, there's some distinct things
(34:58):
that you can look at to see. Sometimes like AI can't get the errors
right. I want you to lookat my man with the blue top on
up top, like he doesn't havethe bottom half of his ear right.
Also sometimes like they have too manyteeth or what have you. Now,
I want you to look at formerPresident's Trump's left hand. He's missing a
digit on that index finger right there, right. And AI also can't do
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hands right. They're not that advancedit. So there are ways to spot
these images. But I think theaverage person when you see images like this
and do you have the other onetoo, you just think, okay,
all right, that's that's a realimage. Okay, so you know they're
little thing and like these two.Now sometimes teeth look like this. But
the two sisters flanking the former presidentTrump not not not the lady with the
(35:47):
red hat on, but the ladyin the red and the blue. Like,
the teeth don't look right right,So it's a little tells about the
things. Yeah, no digit,So look at the lady right, the
lady in the blue top to theleft of Trump. Look at the man,
he's missing a whole ring finger rightthere. So they're just little things
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and the different expression. These arefake image it right now, it's time
around with this look and looks like, Okay, Nicki Haley dropped out of
the race for the Republican nomination rightfor this present this election coming up in
November, so it looks like it'sgoing to be pretty much Trump versus Biden
again. Right, Yeah, theseare fake Fagan Like. It looks just
(36:36):
like they photoshopped a whole bunch ofpeople in there. But yeah, the
teeth are different see fake videos.Oh boy. So yeah, so this
these are these are artificially intelligent generatedissues, just AI generated issues. So
(36:59):
this is going on right now.But we're laughing about it now. But
so here's the thing. So lasttime around, and again we don't talk
that much politics, but it lookslike we're getting into it. And look,
we're getting into it. The lasttime around, they were saying that
there might have been some interference fromforeign agents, and we were talking about
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Russia back then with the last election. This time, that's not necessarily Trump's
campaign, but it is Trump whateversupporters or groups here in the United States
generating this, trying to court theblack vote. So You know, I
ain't telling you how to vote,but I am saying that these images are
(37:44):
fake. Whenever you see something thistime around, just look at it with
you know, double check the source. Look at it. It's this.
Yeah. So those images are aroundtoday and a lot of articles about them
being falsely generated. Yeah, sothat's Oh, we haven't ask before we
get out of here. Let's doit. We ask Allison before we get
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out of here. All right,haven't had one quite some time. Now,
let's do it, all right,ask Allison. Isn't that crazy?
Random? All right? Dear askAllison. My son is thirty five and
lives at home, can't keep ajob, has very few friends. My
(38:28):
husband insists we should kick him outof the house, but I can't do
it. He is my baby.What should I do? You said he
doesn't have a job, doesn't havea job that many friends. You know.
The funny thing is, now,like that question what remb hold on?
We gotta give you the thank youfor being a friend. Now it's
(38:52):
to ask music. Yeah, Ithink. Now, there's just so many
other factors going on like this.This whole thing is just after COVID.
We're coming up on what is itfor years. On the anniversary of COVID,
like March. One of the girlsjust reminded me, like March thirteenth,
everything kind of shut down. Ithink that did a number on people.
(39:14):
You know, I think that mentalhealth is real. So it's not
just like Okay, you're a deadbeat, blah blah blah. There's so
many more fact factors that come intoit. And I think that like at
thirty five, there's not a wholelot that you can really do. But
it's a grown man. But ifthey need that support or whatever. I'm
not saying financially or I'm not sayingjust let them live in the house.
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What I'm saying is, you know, there's free therapy. Something is not
right, Like I think that aperson normally doesn't want to be with their
parents at thirty five years old.So I know it's a hard it's a
hard dilemma, but I just wouldYeah, it would be hard for me
to have my thirty five year oldAnd is it a gender thing, like
(40:00):
would it be hard for us tohave our daughter here at thirty five?
Not at all, as long asyou want to, honey, right,
So get out of here, right, Because I've learned I was raised by
a single black woman who said,oh, you're going to college because if
not, you're paying rent. AndI'm like, I'm paying rent in this
(40:21):
little ghetto house. And you said, I'm not. I'm going into the
Marines. Didn't you say that?I did say that. Yeah, but
anyway, no, remember when wefirst got to get well anyway, Yes,
I looked at it differently because Icame from a single struggle black woman's
background. At the end of theday, if you didn't have a job,
if you didn't have that, you'reout of the house. You're not
(40:42):
staying in this house. But nowwhat I realized, if you have a
home, and it's not really afinancial burden, really, it's really just
a philosophical expensive Yeah, philosophical burden. It's a different thing. It's you
know, it's almost like it's adifferent thing. And even you know,
dads are gonna say that, butyou even get this house, but it's
almost like there's a part of youinside to be with. My son's thirty
(41:02):
five, and it's not envisious atall. Something's wrong, something right,
And so I think, yeah,I would be point, it'd be hard
to I look at it differently.Than I did. And that's something else
is interesting about life. When youare struggling, you look at everything differently.
We all fighting. If you ain'tfighting, get out, But if
you're not all struggling, you lookat everything every respective change. Things are
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expensive, times are hard. Ithink a lot of people are going through.
Society is kind of in a weirdspot right now. I think that
there's so many things that could comeinto play. My mental mentioned, you
know is there. You know itis a depression. Brandy said, what
about anxiety? These things are realand it's hard. Like it might look
(41:44):
on the surface like, Okay,he's thirty five, get out, And
yes, that's what we all want. We all want our kids to be
out and thriving and doing all this. But really, if it really came
down to it, what I reallysay, you've got to go, I
don't know. I wouldn't. I'ma different man, I wouldn't. I
think so. For the person whoasked that, I think this, I
think you need to really check offthose boxes. And I think that you
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know, the different ideologies. That'shard in the house if you feel one
way and I feel one way.Ultimately, ultimately you want them to launch
but I don't know. I justcouldn't kick my child out of the house.
That's me. That's me. Ron, get us with some now the
vibe. Now come on that,Veronica, come with the vible verse.
Now, yeah, that's the waythe man they give you what not work?
(42:29):
Okay, See it's the old school. It's like we don't work,
don't eat. Well you know whythe person that ain't work and be tearing
up through it? Well there is, but there is something too, like
you got to figure it out,my sweetheart. You gotta what kind of
man is your son? Is hejust like you know, is he just
(42:49):
like well, I'm gonna be herebecause I don't have to pay bills and
do this or that? Then you'rereally not doing a service, you know.
If they refuse to try to goget some sort of evaluation to see,
hey, why I'm not what's up? But the part that scares me
is they don't have any friends,so like what the whole other part too?
So I don't know. That wasnot an answer. And with that
that's a wrap up. Final partyingshots, any final things you want to
(43:13):
say, No, I I II think that's it. Well we love
you guys. Thanks so much forthe support. Is always every Wednesday,
five o'clock, same bat time,same bat station. We will see you.
Oh that's baby. Really don't havenothing else on it. You did
a little peace out signed Okay,I guess we'll do. We'll play the
Thank you all, thank you somuch. We'll see you next week.
Uh, the past, give thetest of past, and welcome to another
(01:30):
exciting episode of Alison and Mark podcast, The Married and Media Podcast. Do
you know that the Alison and MediaAlison and Mark and Media Married? Okay,
take Tim, didn't you know thatthe Alison and Mark Podcast Married in
Media? Let me tell you whatit's all about, because I'm sure you're
new. I'm sure we have somany new folks checking us out today.
(01:53):
So we are two gen X mediapros who have three grown daughters yes oh
loo and uh and two shelter pops. And we talked about everything here from
politics to pop culture, a littlebit of humor, and a whole lot
of love, and a sprinkling ofhistory just because it just because well,
speaking of history, we're gonna getwe had a pack show tonight, bab
(02:15):
speaking of history, Carl with aK in the building. So, Carl,
you know you. Last week wasthe first time we got a chance
to see you, and you putus to the test and I failed miserably.
Yeah, I'm going to say it. So Carl with the K,
let's go ahead and get a poppingman, give us three questions tonight.
(02:37):
Let's hop in here and of coursethe chat is willing to chime in as
a as you know, people arejoining us now. So Carl, first
of all, how did we golast week? And thank you Valerie Jones
for sharing tag shared, So that'swhat we need, all right, I'm
sorry what we're saying. Yeah,how'd to go? Man? How did
we go last week? Like youdo sure trivia on Monday? So how
was Monday? How was your MondayTrivia? Last week? Monday was good.
(03:00):
We concluded our awards awards with doingall movies movies, so I got
a couple of questions from that aswell as some more historical. But since
we're in I want to conclude myawards that night. But since we are
in Women's History Month today, it'sall going to be about women. Love
that. And Carl again, Forpeople who want to follow you, how
(03:22):
they follow you? You can followme on Facebook, Black Trivia Network,
YouTube, Black Trivia Network, oryou can look under Soul Trivia, which
is the actual name of the gameSold Trivia, Black History game, and
the Black Tributa Network is the umbrellacompany. All right, well let's get
it. Let's get it started,all right. I put the first one
in your box and the chat Box. What cisly Tyson? And what other
(03:46):
actress were nominated for Best Actress inthe same year. Was it Diane Carroll,
Diana Ross or Ruby D. I'llsay Diana Ross. I'm gonna say
Ruby D. You're gonna say RubyD? Then you should definitely listen to
your wife. Mark In nineteen seventytwo, Diamond loss for Lady Sings the
(04:13):
Blues Sounder. It happened again almostfifty years later, when Viola Davis and
Andrew Day were both nominated for BestBest Actress. Wow, Andre Dave for
the Billy Holliday thing and so Billyif the bottom line here is if you
played Billy Halliday, you can getnominated exactly. That's exactly, all right,
(04:40):
Okay, all right? Number twoa little bit of HBCU found it
as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary.Spelman College was renamed after the wife of
what prominent businessman? Was it JohnRockefeller, Andrew Carnegie or JP Morgan Rockefeller
(05:02):
Morgan? Okay? All right,comedy paste, Okay, So who would
you say? I said Rockefeller?Once again, Mark listened to the wife
I always do before the name changed. The Spellman Seminary in honor of missus
(05:26):
Laurence Spelman Rockefeller and her parents,who are very involved with activists in the
anti slavery movements. How do youabout that? Well, And I just
looked this up just to see whereall these names come from, because it's
such a huge topic right now,like changing names to reflect the population that
(05:47):
is current and that it serves today. And so I just happened to know
about Rockefeller. Also Morehouse sort ofa similar thing too. So yeah,
basically named after dominant people who gavemoney and this together, so you know,
Howard and it was named after generalSo yeah, I went to Hampton
(06:11):
and it was not named after thegeneral who was Chapman. Who was I
think was Chapman Lord, That's myHampton history. So Hampton was the town
instead. So yeah, anyway,right, and last but not least,
we're gonna have a little bit ofsports trivia in what sport did Donna Cheek
(06:33):
become the first black woman to representthe United States on the national team.
Was it the US equestrian team,the US diving team, or the US
fencing team. I have to say, I'm I'm pretty like good at trivia.
I've never heard this name before.So you you are stumping me tonight,
young man, don che Let mesee what what what would I I'm
(06:56):
gonna say a question. It'll bea guest for me. I'll say yeah,
I'll say I'll just be contrary.I'll say the fencing. All right,
Mark, you're up one, You'reright. Yeah. Finally eighty one,
she became the first African American tocompete for the United States equestrian team.
She wrecked up a host of honors, including becoming the first equestrian to
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be inducted into the Women's Sports Hallof Distinction in Cincinnati, Ohio. Okay,
so, as you can see,my trivia expands a whole plethora of
topics. Yes, now, Carl, permission to steal that, because on
WUSA nine, I'm writing up likeI made a commitment. One day.
(07:39):
We started with the first day ofBlack History Month. The fast fact that
what we call the hub or thestation group sent down literally the first one
for the first day was whatever youknow in eighteen sixty was it three or
one? Abraham Lincoln wrote the Emancipationproblem literally did freed the slow And I'm
(08:00):
like, oh no, no,no, we're not doing this. So
I took it upon myself to adda little context to them. So permission
to steal Donna cheek for tomorrow forWomen's History Month on Channel nine. More
than more than more than welcome.I have, actually I've done I've done
this for every year I'm doing black. I do a women's history trivia.
So I have like about, youknow, a couple hundred questions. Okay,
(08:24):
baby, got the plug. Youknow, you know, I got
my old boss in there too,so okay, that's right, that's right,
Yeah, girl, Always great seeingyou. Thank you man, Thank
you. Carl is a regular contributoron the podcast, and as it grows,
he will grow too. So makesure you go follow Carl and doing
what you do. That's Karl witha K. By the way, appreciate
(08:45):
it, Appreciate you. Take careman, and again we have each a
show for wait a minute, okay, Saunder's in the house. Hey,
family, the King, George KingGeorge Virginia is also in the house.
A packed show tonight, Baby,shout out to everybody's checking in. We
had a great event. We wentto a great event at the Point in
(09:07):
DC and we are going to dothe show from the point. So everybody
get ready. We expect y'all tocome join us at the point we're going
to tell you when. We'll giveyou a couple a couple of weeks and
then maybe a month and then we'regoing to do it. Brandy's in the
house base Hello, girlfriend, HiBrandy and so Babe. We were looking
at some old videos and we didwe had a feature called the Petty Report,
and so I wanted to bring thePetty Report back and we can I
(09:28):
do the Petty Report. Yes,history was a little light, but you
know so petty Report is. Andagain petty Report the ridiculousness that we see
online or wherever. It's not it'snot serious, it's just having a little
fun, but it is petty.First one I had to laugh at I
saw a J you know, AJfrom whatever group people was in the Backstreet
(09:50):
Boys. Why did AJ look like? Is AJ from the back Street Boys?
AJ looked like at WIMS and Ihad this, I was like,
what is going on? So ofcourse we talked about this, bab Now
you know, I love me someShannon Sharp. Okay, man, if
(10:11):
I'm looking for Mark in the house, he is in front of the YouTube
machine looking at either club or whatever. Else. Yeah, so of course
he got dread what's the other onegot club? And also you know on
on I guess traditional television, he'swith Stephen A. Smith. So of
course he got dragged getting out,getting out of the truck heading to a
(10:35):
sing my man wear a two pieceor so it looked. It looked a
little something like this, the finalstopping the day to the one line started
over there, the last stop ofthe day. We got up early,
have a late night. We don'tdo expose, spare, we just get
the job done. Because this onebeside up, old leg and bow hipped.
(11:03):
Okay, so Shannon got now youknow what's doing it? You don't
care what none of y'all leaders havingdone a huge outfit, and I would
wear that as well. It's greatand having daughters is so funny. So
a lot of you know, theystarted calling he started calling him gay,
right, so he started calling himgay and babey, I laughed because I
didn't laugh, but I thought itwas interesting to be he's fifty five,
(11:24):
so he's in our age group,right, yeah, so to be to
be that age, I can imagine, and then my daughters would be cracking
on me on a whole bunch ofstuff, especially if I were tight outfice.
But the part two of it ishe's in the house. He says,
she finally cut the pockets. Yeah. But but but the part two
of it is he's in Great Jakethree fifty five too. But he's also
a fifty five year old man whoplayed in the NFL. So you can
(11:45):
see the hips and the pigeon toldnessand all that kind of stuff. I
got cracked on. Now this righthere, it looks good people. But
the part that's interesting, I thoughtit almost was. It was funny but
also kind of sad. He's talkingoho and he was like, hey,
man, you know, I don'tcare about you know, calling me gay?
Right, I don't care about itbecause like my grandmamma said, always
said, why would you chase alot? And and what's the okay?
(12:09):
And but the part that got methough, he said when his kids and
your kids, because I can imagineyour kids started calling his daughter also is
in med school, It's like theycalled him like, dad, what is
all this gay stuff about? AndHe's like, I don't know, because
a lot of the comedians were callingthat, and you know it's I guess
it's a little tight outfit. Butthis probably I think this one probably is
(12:30):
the funniest one because you know theirmemes, there's jokes and people have been
replicating it. Yes, this oneI think was probably the funniest one,
if I'm honest. On the hiphops, you know how we do back
hyppy toesdays type of tasting tools.As you know, it's your host with
(12:54):
the most you know, with bigshade, not the little one. Know
how we do. It's a it'sa beautiful blessed mornings. Uh, we
are blessed. We woke up sowe had nothing uh to be stressed about.
We had total wines and mores.He had to drop off of a
little virtuosos some of our reports thatwe are doing today's we have some fan
(13:18):
love. We just dropping in puttingsome blessings in your hearts. Also,
you see the drip of green ongreen Uh, the neon, the Nija
turtle, Uh orange can't forget aboutthe bad got a little off. Watch.
Shout out to my go get usout there, Shout out to my
playmakers out there. We always gonnaput on for uh for for for the
(13:41):
for for the naysails and the hatersout theres. Those who can't do talk,
those who talk, we'll do.So we walk. We were talking,
and we're bossing up every day,you know, late nights, early
mornings. Well, we don't complain. We just don't make excuses. And
you already know we're gonna do onbefore to something new heights, new tratting
(14:01):
spheres, new atmospheres. Uh youknow what it is, big deuces,
big drip, you see it.Uh you know that's just what we do.
What we do, How you do, how you do it? How
(14:28):
you doing terrible? And you knowwho the real winner is, right,
Total wine, Total wine, Totalwine is getting all the advertisements. Yeah,
man, okay, so y'all,y'all, I need to playing with
(14:50):
playing. He's laughing all the wayto the bank. He's fine, and
I love that outfit. And I'msure it costs five thousand dollars. Oh
come on, and so the nowanother Tisaca Tisa. There was a controversy,
Wen, I'm not playing that Clipbatebecause there's a certain show that we
do not play on our show,right, baby, I don't know what
(15:13):
show. You know the show okay, you know the show that had you
on there years ago? Wrong anyway, So uh this uh was in at
the end of the day. Charlemagneon the show basically called he he did
not call Resa Tisa a big back, which, by the way, I
would not be aware of the commentexcept by having the kids, because that's
(15:35):
the new new way of calling peoplefat a big back. And so he
said big back behavior. But anyway, it is, that's what he said.
He didn't know just what the messwas telling a story. He didn't
even know. He didn't he hadnever seen her before. Stop. Yeah,
so he just said it sounds likebig back behavior. Anyway, it
spun out and so can it becamea thing. But like you said,
(16:00):
talk about laughing all the way tothe bank. She mentioned this on the
show. But she just signed withc AA. Okay, signed was gonna
happen. She's an excellent storyteller.She should get everything that's coming to her.
She had she did have to.People were saying, like, you
know, because supposedly the guy,what does she call him again, legion?
(16:21):
Uh? The ex basically it wasfaking that he had some VP position
and then people were like, well, you should have known, because VP
wouldn't date somebody you look or marrysomebody looked like, you know, come
on, like, what are weeven talking about? So good, get
all your money, sis. AndI think she has a sweet spirit.
I think that's why people really attachthemselves to that. If you're not sure
(16:42):
what we're talking about. Resa Tisadid a fifty part series on uh what
was it called a TikTok that blewup. Yes, she's been on I
believe she was on with Robin RobertsGood Morning America. She was on with
tamer and Hall. And so it'slike, when we see what's going on
in the social media world, comeon to like this traditional media and everybody's
(17:03):
trying to get her for these toprated daytime shows and morning shows. So
she's doing it. So whatever,don't ever talk about somebody's weight, period.
That's right, don't ever do it. And so now that was the
petty report being okay, Now inthe serious piece, I wanted to get
your take on this. So RolandMartin was talking about it. Emmitt Smith
(17:26):
has come out, you know,Florida is getting rid of de e I,
which is diversity, equity and inclusion. Yes, can we go back
to one of the things that yousaid before we get serious, Yes,
because Brandy pointed out that you saidbow legged and bow hipped hipped it on,
Shannon Sharp. Okay, go ahead. Yes, he's getting rid of
(17:48):
in Florida. Yes, he's gettingrid of diversity, equity inclusion at Florida,
and so obviously all schools, obviouslyin Florida. And so Emmitt Smith,
former star and NFL legend, hadsomething to say. Ball Hall of
Famer Emmitt Smith, the NFL's leadingrusher for his career, UH, dropped
(18:08):
the bombshell, blasting his alma materfor firing all of their DEI employees.
Now remember the state of Florida bandedDEI across all state institutions. UH and
mm spit was not having any ofit. He dropped this statement right here.
Uh. Emmitt said, quote,come on, guys, come on,
(18:30):
guys, thank you. I'm utterlydisgusted by UF's decision and the president
that it sets. Without the DEIdepartment, the job falls to the office
of the Provos, who already hastheir hands full to raise money for the
university and continue to advance the academicstudies and athletic program. And so Roland
(18:51):
goes on to say he hopes thatathletes like em it, Uh, stand
up and and send a message,because you know, these colleges, all
they care about really is the moneyand winning. And so if the if
the if the athletes decide, ifthe parents decide, hey, you're not
going to Florida, You're not goingto play in Florida, these states that
are trying to do this, itcan have a huge impact. Now,
(19:14):
you know, are we there yetor people do it? I don't know,
but I do. I do lovewhat the Emmitt Smith said, and
it just whatever. The game thatFlorida is playing is very very heartbreaking,
and it's serious times, man.And there was some charaging and uh,
you know it's it's serious times andit's it's really like these programs are under
attack obviously. You know what Iwas thinking about, Babe. I think
(19:37):
a lot of people, a lotof people don't really understand. I think
how things work, how hiring worksin America, how there are systems in
America. Who talked about this before, I don't think people really understand how
you know, we talk about theseprograms right, programs really run America.
(19:59):
And so you know, we're thewe're at the age where we remember we
you know, we're not that old, but the generation right before us,
they were the first beneficiary of alot of the EOC programs and also the
DEI programs. And what people don'trealize this diversity equity inclusion. What people
don't realize is if those programs aregoing to in place, most of the
(20:22):
leadership, African American leadership in corporateAmerica and an education period would not be
there when left when left on,when left on, you know the own
that was there. Basically, ifyou don't force it, Sadly, if
you don't force inclusion, it doesn'thappen. And I hate to say that,
but that's just fact. I think, I think what it is,
(20:44):
it's just these companies or institutions orwhatever. You have to have a a
conscious conscience. Yes, you knowwhat I mean. Because now what we've
seen is and we only talk abouta little bit of politics on the show
because it's just too much, butwe've seen the Supreme Court strike down any
sort of affirmative action when it comesto college entrants and applications and all and
(21:07):
all that stuff too, right,And so these DEI offices again, diversity
equity and inclusion. I know youall know what that is. But you
really have to have someone who givesthe damn about it, right, and
that comes in, that comes inall colors, because you know, you
can have you can have people inplace who are in this case, let's
(21:30):
say Hispanic, but don't really seethe need to. You know, I'm
colorblind. I don't see. Soyou need somebody whoever it is, white,
black, green, purple, whounderstands that diversity is so wonderful for
your companies, for your college campuses, for you need that. And now
(21:51):
that that's being that's taken away.But I think that right after that ruling,
we saw a lot of these companiesor whatever get rid of the diversal
office because you didn't need it.And let me tell you something, here's
how I feel about it. Weare not that far yet as a society
that we're only we're born in nineteensixty six. We just did the you
know, we're looking at the EdmundPettis Bridge in Selma, Alabama. That
(22:14):
was like, what was that liketwo years before sixty fourth bloody Sunday.
I need to look at the date, so fact check me if I'm wrong.
I'm at this is two years beforewe are. We're not that far
away from these huge milestones that aretrying to get us to a more inclusive
society. And so I don't understand. I just don't understand why we are
(22:37):
so impatient as a society. Butwe also say in the same term,
don't forget about the past. Thatwas the past. What be worried about
that was like literally sixty years ago. And sometimes I see legislation or these
cases in nineteen seventy in these placesor whatever, well within our lifetime.
So I just, you know,but you need a conscience, and I
(22:59):
think that we all need to getout and vote. You need to get
out and vote for people who underand I don't care whatever, you need
to vote for people who understand thatthe sheer numbers of it. You know,
I can speak for the African Americanpopulation around thirteen percent of the nation.
The sheer numbers don't match up.You can't just leave it up to
chance. You can't just leave itup to chance. So I'm sad about
(23:22):
Florida because I love Florida. Ithink it's just the beautiful state. We've
had so many good times in Florida. But at the end of the day,
I have to think, why amI going to Florida. Oh yeah,
I think right now, right now, Florida, I think right now,
I definitely would. I would notdo anything in Florida, including I
think. So I say a prayerbecause I am I Look, we talk
(23:45):
about this all the time. Ilove this country. This is my country.
I'm here to make this thing better. This is where my family is,
is where I've been for however manylike I can go back like five
generations whatever, you know what Imean. So I want to see us
be the nation that I know thatwe can be. All the pieces are
(24:06):
in place, but things keep chippingaway at it. You know. It's
almost like one step forward, chipchip, chip away. Well, and
it's frustrating. So yeah, Iagree. Well, and I'm sorry,
babe, I'm kind of been.I have been just pushing up all this
stuff I want to talk about.I have one more thing. I'm sorry.
No, my man was down here, like you came home today from
(24:26):
work, came right down into thelab. Now the lab is our basement.
It's our little room in the basement. You can see the green screen
and you were doing your thing.So go ahead, this is this is
your show, y'all. Help mewith this. Because it could fall flat.
Because you know, I'm definitely avery philosophical babe. Right, only
child is sitting around thinking about stuff. Right, So back to Resa Tisa
(24:49):
Rightatisa for those who pretty much sayaout another talking about the young lady who
did the fifty TikTok episodes, Yesand so, basically talking about who who
and so. So this is whatshe said. I was driving home thinking
about this baby, I said.She said, legion, her husband,
(25:15):
big name, exploited her, exploitedher once in needs by showing her beautiful
homes, test driving expensive cars,knowing that that was not her lifestyle,
and it seduced and intrigued her,right, And I think, you know,
being I think she was kind ofsaying, coming from where I come
from and being, you know,almost like the kind of girl that I
(25:36):
am, this is how she felt, right, And I just made me
think about people and the feeling ofgrowing up and feeling like you don't deserve
something, or you haven't or oryou know, you haven't experienced something,
so you don't think it could bepossible for you. And what I thought
(25:56):
about was, I said, Ididn't grow up with this, but I
did see friends and relatives who hadit coming up. But I have to
say I never felt that I couldnot experience things. Young people say,
well, you know, Barack Obamagave black people that you could be president.
I never felt I could not bepresident. I never felt I could
(26:18):
not land the most beautiful groun inthe world. You. I never felt
I could not be rich. Butwhat do most people feel though? Is
there do people feel that way?I'm asking you, Chad, did you
grow up feeling like you could notachieve things, or could not have nice
things, or you did not deservenice things. I was curious because I
think this happens to a lot ofwomen, regardless of shape, size,
(26:44):
whatever. I think being sold thefantasy, being sold this and then almost
like, oh, I didn't thinkI could da da da da da.
So Chad, when I asked youthat, baby, did you ever feel
like you could not have whatever youthought you could want it in your life?
No? But here, here's here'sthe thing. I think that she
she did say that that was atthe last episode for me, and she
wrapped it up and she said thatat the end of the day, he
(27:07):
was manipulative because he she was like, I was a girl who grew up
on welfare, and and he sawthat. So he dangled these things in
front of me, and that's that'swhat happened, you know what I mean.
And and it was he you know, that's a whole other level.
You know, he has definite issues, but he took pleasure from seeing her
(27:29):
disappointment at that, knowing that hewas never gonna fulfill that for her.
So yeah, what I loved aboutthe series and why I think it resonates
with so many people, is becauseshe understood that fully about herself. Now
here's a woman who was at thebeginning, she was in her own townhouse,
you know what I mean. Shehad her her jobby job. She
was doing it in Atlanta, andthat's another thing. So she wasn't you
know, saying well, I neverget she had dreams. She knew she
(27:52):
wanted to go to Paris and London. I think that's what it was.
She wanted to BMW with the youknow, with the Cognac seats. So
she knew that there was something outsideof you know, her block if you
will, or her circumstances. Sothat's what makes her so attractive. But
I think that, yeah, manipulatorsor people who are abusive. They see
(28:12):
that little crack in that weakness andthey try to pray on that, and
I think that's where a lot ofpeople sadly go wrong. No, that's
not it was not my experience becauseI was gonna say that because it can't.
They can't. As I tell ourdaughters all the time, they can't
exploit it unless you allow them to. And so let's see Calvin, guy's
(28:33):
the limit, Jerry. I didn'tgrow up this way. My father said,
you can be whatever you want aslong as you work hard. Yeah.
I think that was definitely a themehe took advantage of insecurity. That's
what Cammra's doing. No, butI do believe what I have obtained can
be taken from me. Okay,that seems Mark Raymond always felt I can
get anything I try to get.Randy, Oh Lord, that's me.
(28:56):
Grew up with so much and nothinghad very traumatic. Okay, it's emotional
as a child, didn't understand whyGod let it have to it phil marriage
and I've mentioned to smile so acookie and always been treated like crap.
So I feel all this and sothat is sadly, Brandy, that is
the recipe for somebody to exploit whenwhen you feel that less than. But
here's the kicker. Here's the kicker, Brandy. You know that, And
(29:18):
this is this is for Brandy,who I'm who have Again, we talk
about it every week because Brandy isshe's a writer. Brandy be in this
room when we come on, right. But here's the thing. Here's the
thing about you, Brandy, andeverybody who might feel this way, we've
never met. But there's something thatis so pure and loving about your spirit
(29:41):
that it reached out of this phoneand social media and it reverberated all the
way to wherever I was. Andso I know all your the people who
love you are and this is foreverybody. I'm talking to Brandy, but
this is for everybody. So evenif and Brandy has said this a couple,
I'm not the smartest and this andthat guess what that is? Who
(30:04):
is first of all, But secondly, that never ever ever was even a
thought in my mind or played intomy mind. It's just your sweet,
loving spirit. So everybody out therewho might be feeling that way and feeling
less than or maybe I really don'tdeserve this love, you know you do.
And I'm here to tell you that, for one, I love you
(30:29):
so and I'm one person, andso it's just like for everybody out there,
all you can do is be thebest person that you can do and
be rather and don't let anybody canwalk all over you and don't let anybody
tell you what you cannot be anddo and whatever. And that the first
sign that you see that get yourass up out of the air, because
it doesn't get any better. Itdoesn't get any better. And quit saying
(30:53):
that. Quit saying that, Brandy, and work on you because you are
more than that. You know whatI mean. But it's a feeling.
It's how you feel, and Iget it, and that's how. That's
what I'm saying. And it's notto put Brandy in spart or anything,
but you're just speaking like like Ilike, if Brandy or anybody had said,
yeah, you know, I grewup with this confidence and I knew
(31:15):
that I was the bomb when Iwalked in and everybody wanted to be my
friend, I would be like,I feel that that could be the narrative
or the other narrative, because howpeople receive you is not sometimes how the
narrative that you've written for yourself,So keep being wonderful given. Since I
grew up a dream, I lookfor opportunities that would provide me the pathway
to success. My level of successwas not mature, but my ability to
(31:37):
overcome my situation. Yes, yes, it's not what it is. It's
how you deal with it. It'show you get through it. And I
don't like Winston Churchill, but Ilove one of his quotes. He said,
if you're going through hell, justkeep going. So here it is.
It's my journey. I'm in hellright here. What am I gonna
do? I'm i gonna turn around, try to go back. Am I
gonna freeze? I'm gonna keep goingthrough it? So yeah, I love
(31:59):
it. Cookie, Cookie, Andshout out to Cookie. Did we Mayor
for Life's birthday was today or wasit yesterday? Shout out to the Mayor
for Life Mary and Barry, Happyheavenly birthday to you. I saw that
on your on your Instagram. Kindhelps out in places in January's in the
Caribbean. That's an un impressor guy. Okay, Amen, Yeah, therapy
(32:21):
definitely does work. Therapy definitely doeswork. And here's what I my thing
is too. I was talking toone of our girls about this, and
in a wider community too, Andif you feel lonely, if you feel
like whatever, there's always somebody whocan benefit from your time. And just
talking like that, I think thatthere are numbers that you can call or
(32:45):
what this's a whole. I neverknow if it's like a multi level marketing
thing, but just if you needto talk to somebody, there's a phone
number or an app. You canjust talk to somebody sometimes, so you
can always be something to someone elseand it makes you just feel better too.
You should give me some Oh hewould have been eighty eight. Yep,
(33:07):
let me say now. So somy father, Cookie and all my
DC folks. So my dad workedwith Marion Barry back Cookie, yeah,
way way back when we got tod C when I was four years old.
I think the timing adds up atPride and So and the late Marion
(33:29):
Berry there for life. D Cand my dad went to the same high
school right in Memphis, Tennessee,although he was originally from Mississippi. I'm
trying to remember the name of thetown. It's a Beina, I think
Mississippi. And every time I sawMarion Barry through the years. He would
always say, how's your father doing? Yeah? So yeah, so I
(33:50):
have a love for him to myhusband, st Okay, what's that?
What else is on your agenda?That was that was a good question.
Yeah, you gotta. I loveThat's why I love Reesa Tisa. She
stands for so many people who uhyou know, been through it, have
been through it, and I lovethat she's getting her flowers right now.
(34:12):
Oh, let's talk about this deepfake picture before we get out of here.
What time is it? How wedoing on our time today? Okay?
All right, So y'all we needto watch out for these we we
are in we are in deep trainingin the news business right now to spot
these ai deep fake pictures. Sothey wanted to show you the picture and
then and then show it and thenI'll come back and you and well,
(34:35):
because I don't know if you canif you can talk it on this side,
let me see, we'll see ifyou can say if audio. Okay,
so can y'all hear us? Ithink you can hear us? Yes,
So this picture here, Mabe,you were saying, what do you
need to look out for? Thispicture is fake? It's and this this
has been a news story today.So with AI, there's some distinct things
(34:58):
that you can look at to see. Sometimes like AI can't get the errors
right. I want you to lookat my man with the blue top on
up top, like he doesn't havethe bottom half of his ear right.
Also sometimes like they have too manyteeth or what have you. Now,
I want you to look at formerPresident's Trump's left hand. He's missing a
digit on that index finger right there, right. And AI also can't do
(35:22):
hands right. They're not that advancedit. So there are ways to spot
these images. But I think theaverage person when you see images like this
and do you have the other onetoo, you just think, okay,
all right, that's that's a realimage. Okay, so you know they're
little thing and like these two.Now sometimes teeth look like this. But
the two sisters flanking the former presidentTrump not not not the lady with the
(35:47):
red hat on, but the ladyin the red and the blue. Like,
the teeth don't look right right,So it's a little tells about the
things. Yeah, no digit,So look at the lady right, the
lady in the blue top to theleft of Trump. Look at the man,
he's missing a whole ring finger rightthere. So they're just little things
(36:10):
and the different expression. These arefake image it right now, it's time
around with this look and looks like, Okay, Nicki Haley dropped out of
the race for the Republican nomination rightfor this present this election coming up in
November, so it looks like it'sgoing to be pretty much Trump versus Biden
again. Right, Yeah, theseare fake Fagan Like. It looks just
(36:36):
like they photoshopped a whole bunch ofpeople in there. But yeah, the
teeth are different see fake videos.Oh boy. So yeah, so this
these are these are artificially intelligent generatedissues, just AI generated issues. So
(36:59):
this is going on right now.But we're laughing about it now. But
so here's the thing. So lasttime around, and again we don't talk
that much politics, but it lookslike we're getting into it. And look,
we're getting into it. The lasttime around, they were saying that
there might have been some interference fromforeign agents, and we were talking about
(37:20):
Russia back then with the last election. This time, that's not necessarily Trump's
campaign, but it is Trump whateversupporters or groups here in the United States
generating this, trying to court theblack vote. So You know, I
ain't telling you how to vote,but I am saying that these images are
(37:44):
fake. Whenever you see something thistime around, just look at it with
you know, double check the source. Look at it. It's this.
Yeah. So those images are aroundtoday and a lot of articles about them
being falsely generated. Yeah, sothat's Oh, we haven't ask before we
get out of here. Let's doit. We ask Allison before we get
(38:07):
out of here. All right,haven't had one quite some time. Now,
let's do it, all right,ask Allison. Isn't that crazy?
Random? All right? Dear askAllison. My son is thirty five and
lives at home, can't keep ajob, has very few friends. My
(38:28):
husband insists we should kick him outof the house, but I can't do
it. He is my baby.What should I do? You said he
doesn't have a job, doesn't havea job that many friends. You know.
The funny thing is, now,like that question what remb hold on?
We gotta give you the thank youfor being a friend. Now it's
(38:52):
to ask music. Yeah, Ithink. Now, there's just so many
other factors going on like this.This whole thing is just after COVID.
We're coming up on what is itfor years. On the anniversary of COVID,
like March. One of the girlsjust reminded me, like March thirteenth,
everything kind of shut down. Ithink that did a number on people.
(39:14):
You know, I think that mentalhealth is real. So it's not
just like Okay, you're a deadbeat, blah blah blah. There's so
many more fact factors that come intoit. And I think that like at
thirty five, there's not a wholelot that you can really do. But
it's a grown man. But ifthey need that support or whatever. I'm
not saying financially or I'm not sayingjust let them live in the house.
(39:37):
What I'm saying is, you know, there's free therapy. Something is not
right, Like I think that aperson normally doesn't want to be with their
parents at thirty five years old.So I know it's a hard it's a
hard dilemma, but I just wouldYeah, it would be hard for me
to have my thirty five year oldAnd is it a gender thing, like
(40:00):
would it be hard for us tohave our daughter here at thirty five?
Not at all, as long asyou want to, honey, right,
So get out of here, right, Because I've learned I was raised by
a single black woman who said,oh, you're going to college because if
not, you're paying rent. AndI'm like, I'm paying rent in this
(40:21):
little ghetto house. And you said, I'm not. I'm going into the
Marines. Didn't you say that?I did say that. Yeah, but
anyway, no, remember when wefirst got to get well anyway, Yes,
I looked at it differently because Icame from a single struggle black woman's
background. At the end of theday, if you didn't have a job,
if you didn't have that, you'reout of the house. You're not
(40:42):
staying in this house. But nowwhat I realized, if you have a
home, and it's not really afinancial burden, really, it's really just
a philosophical expensive Yeah, philosophical burden. It's a different thing. It's you
know, it's almost like it's adifferent thing. And even you know,
dads are gonna say that, butyou even get this house, but it's
almost like there's a part of youinside to be with. My son's thirty
(41:02):
five, and it's not envisious atall. Something's wrong, something right,
And so I think, yeah,I would be point, it'd be hard
to I look at it differently.Than I did. And that's something else
is interesting about life. When youare struggling, you look at everything differently.
We all fighting. If you ain'tfighting, get out, But if
you're not all struggling, you lookat everything every respective change. Things are
(41:23):
expensive, times are hard. Ithink a lot of people are going through.
Society is kind of in a weirdspot right now. I think that
there's so many things that could comeinto play. My mental mentioned, you
know is there. You know itis a depression. Brandy said, what
about anxiety? These things are realand it's hard. Like it might look
(41:44):
on the surface like, Okay,he's thirty five, get out, And
yes, that's what we all want. We all want our kids to be
out and thriving and doing all this. But really, if it really came
down to it, what I reallysay, you've got to go, I
don't know. I wouldn't. I'ma different man, I wouldn't. I
think so. For the person whoasked that, I think this, I
think you need to really check offthose boxes. And I think that you
(42:06):
know, the different ideologies. That'shard in the house if you feel one
way and I feel one way.Ultimately, ultimately you want them to launch
but I don't know. I justcouldn't kick my child out of the house.
That's me. That's me. Ron, get us with some now the
vibe. Now come on that,Veronica, come with the vible verse.
Now, yeah, that's the waythe man they give you what not work?
(42:29):
Okay, See it's the old school. It's like we don't work,
don't eat. Well you know whythe person that ain't work and be tearing
up through it? Well there is, but there is something too, like
you got to figure it out,my sweetheart. You gotta what kind of
man is your son? Is hejust like you know, is he just
(42:49):
like well, I'm gonna be herebecause I don't have to pay bills and
do this or that? Then you'rereally not doing a service, you know.
If they refuse to try to goget some sort of evaluation to see,
hey, why I'm not what's up? But the part that scares me
is they don't have any friends,so like what the whole other part too?
So I don't know. That wasnot an answer. And with that
that's a wrap up. Final partyingshots, any final things you want to
(43:13):
say, No, I I II think that's it. Well we love
you guys. Thanks so much forthe support. Is always every Wednesday,
five o'clock, same bat time,same bat station. We will see you.
Oh that's baby. Really don't havenothing else on it. You did
a little peace out signed Okay,I guess we'll do. We'll play the
Thank you all, thank you somuch. We'll see you next week.
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