Step into the vibrant conversation between Dave and Len in this latest episode of Newz and Trendz. From the fascinating exploration of black cowboys and the hidden history of the first Memorial Day to the heartwarming story of a tow truck driver's compassion, this episode is packed with intriguing narratives. Dive deep into thought-provoking discussions on music, history, and the ongoing impact of diversity in big retail chains like Target. A must-listen for those who cherish diversity, history, and inspiring real-life stories.
00:00:00 --> 00:00:12 Music.
00:00:12 --> 00:00:18 Another edition of News and Trends with your host, Dave and Lynn.
00:00:27 --> 00:00:30 Welcome, welcome, welcome to News and Trends with Dave and Lynn.
00:00:30 --> 00:00:35 This is one of your hosts, Mr. David Coker, proprietor of Dave Mark Inc.,
00:00:35 --> 00:00:37 promoter, event planner, all around good guy.
00:00:38 --> 00:00:42 I'm hanging out with my partner, Mr. Leonard Young. And before I bring in Mr.
00:00:42 --> 00:00:47 Young on, just wanted to let you know, you can check us out on the MBG Podcast
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00:00:52 --> 00:00:54 And also, you can check us out
00:00:54 --> 00:01:02 on Saturday mornings at 10 o'clock on WPVT Internet Radio with DJ Ribs.
00:01:03 --> 00:01:07 Shout out to DJ Ribs. OK, Mr. Young, how are you doing, sir?
00:01:08 --> 00:01:12 Good, Dave. Everything's good. This is Leonard Young, CEO of National Black
00:01:12 --> 00:01:18 Guide, DelawareBlack.com, Black Media Specialist, all around good guy. How goes it, Dave?
00:01:19 --> 00:01:22 Man, I can't call it. It's a new day. It's a new time.
00:01:23 --> 00:01:29 Let's get it. You know, that's what I'm saying, man. Let's go. Let's go. What is it?
00:01:30 --> 00:01:33 It's officially the summertime, man. Come on. What exactly are you getting?
00:01:33 --> 00:01:38 Just for our viewers. So they, they, um, pollen.
00:01:39 --> 00:01:43 You know water water bottle yeah
00:01:43 --> 00:01:47 i know i won't even talk about that that's a whole other story so but anyway
00:01:47 --> 00:01:54 it's it's you know it is what it is man we're you know we just had a another
00:01:54 --> 00:02:02 memorial day weekend it was it was a good weekend and everything is good in itself,
00:02:03 --> 00:02:10 for those who talked for us in our past and to make sure that we always honor
00:02:10 --> 00:02:14 them and remember everything they did for us.
00:02:15 --> 00:02:20 You got anything to add to that? Yeah, I mean, I definitely agree. Definitely.
00:02:21 --> 00:02:24 Okay. You don't have anything else to say there, Leonard?
00:02:25 --> 00:02:29 I mean, Dave, I think you said it all. Okay, all right. David.
00:02:31 --> 00:02:37 Okay, Leonard. hold on for one moment i think i just lost my volume here so
00:02:37 --> 00:02:44 folks bear with me see this that's what i got to deal with every yeah yeah yeah and by you.
00:02:45 --> 00:02:50 Go ahead and go ahead and carry the conversation for a moment while I get this back on here.
00:02:51 --> 00:02:58 Sure. So, Dave, this weekend, I went to my wife and I, we went to South Carolina to visit her father.
00:02:59 --> 00:03:03 And Dave, have you ever been to a black cowboy festival?
00:03:04 --> 00:03:10 No, I have not. OK, so when we went down, the main reason we went down there
00:03:10 --> 00:03:15 was because my wife's father, she he was judging a black cowboy festival.
00:03:15 --> 00:03:18 He was judging, I guess, the horse, the horses part.
00:03:19 --> 00:03:28 And Dave, when I say black cowboys are real, that Southern soul is real.
00:03:28 --> 00:03:32 They every every lady out there had a fan and they were popping it,
00:03:32 --> 00:03:36 you know, on the beat with, you know, multiple different songs.
00:03:37 --> 00:03:39 But, you know, I thought it was really cool because, you know,
00:03:39 --> 00:03:42 for us being up north in like the Delaware, mid-Atlantic area,
00:03:43 --> 00:03:46 we don't see a lot of this. So just just to kind of give you an example,
00:03:46 --> 00:03:50 the festival was on a black owned farm.
00:03:50 --> 00:03:55 And I think I heard the farm was like 50 to 100 acres large.
00:03:56 --> 00:04:01 And, you know, when we got in line, all the black people were wearing cowboy related.
00:04:01 --> 00:04:06 You know, a lot of them were cowboy hats, boots, you know, the you know,
00:04:06 --> 00:04:10 all the other accessories that, you know, you would you think you would see,
00:04:10 --> 00:04:12 you know, the cut off shirts and all that stuff.
00:04:12 --> 00:04:16 And it was really cool because when you walk in, not only did they have a lot
00:04:16 --> 00:04:18 of black vendors who were selling, you know,
00:04:19 --> 00:04:25 cowboy Western type merchandise and apparel, but there was a big and I just
00:04:25 --> 00:04:28 call like like a horse track slash horse ring.
00:04:29 --> 00:04:35 And Yolanda's father, you know, he he's big into horses. He trains them.
00:04:35 --> 00:04:38 He breeds them. He does all that stuff. I'm not sure if you knew that, Dave, or not.
00:04:39 --> 00:04:47 I think he told me that before. OK, so he was the judge for the horse show. So have you seen on TV?
00:04:47 --> 00:04:52 It always makes me think of Snoop Dogg when he was judging the equestrian.
00:04:52 --> 00:04:56 And you remember he was like, man, like that horse is trip walking.
00:04:56 --> 00:04:59 But you know when the horses do and
00:04:59 --> 00:05:02 and i forget what the name was like the trots are but
00:05:02 --> 00:05:05 one is where it looks like they're side stepping around yeah no
00:05:05 --> 00:05:10 he judged that he was giving information on the horse the breed the training
00:05:10 --> 00:05:16 and then there was another one another event where the horse and it's so weird
00:05:16 --> 00:05:20 like i've never seen the horse do the horse was like high stepping and when
00:05:20 --> 00:05:23 i say Like the horse, it was almost walking.
00:05:24 --> 00:05:30 Its butt was kind of down near the ground and its head was held high.
00:05:30 --> 00:05:34 And it was kind of, you know, of course, there was a ride, a black rider on at the time.
00:05:34 --> 00:05:37 But I mean, it was just really, really interesting. And I mean,
00:05:37 --> 00:05:39 it was really cool because like
00:05:39 --> 00:05:42 when I say Yolanda's father is a wealth of information about the horses.
00:05:42 --> 00:05:47 So, of course, when I say he was judging, he was in the horse ring and he was
00:05:47 --> 00:05:53 commentating during the whole, you know, the two different judging rounds.
00:05:54 --> 00:05:55 I mean, it was pretty cool.
00:05:55 --> 00:05:59 After that. Yep. After that, they did. They had some bucking horses.
00:06:00 --> 00:06:03 Where, you know, the horses were kind of like bucking, almost like how you see
00:06:03 --> 00:06:05 bulls bucking and they had riders.
00:06:06 --> 00:06:11 And so I guess for horse bucking, you have to stay on the horse for eight seconds.
00:06:12 --> 00:06:15 And I guess, you know, they judge you and they give you a point score.
00:06:15 --> 00:06:19 They also had some barrel racing where, you know, there were certain people
00:06:19 --> 00:06:21 who rode out with the horse and you got to go around the barrel.
00:06:22 --> 00:06:25 Yeah. But I mean, you know, Dave, it was really cool because,
00:06:25 --> 00:06:28 you know, that that's not anything we get to see in this area on the regular.
00:06:28 --> 00:06:33 And I'm sure, you know, Texas, I can imagine like the Bill Pickett rodeo and
00:06:33 --> 00:06:35 all that. I'm sure they probably have a huge turnout film.
00:06:35 --> 00:06:39 But, you know, it was really good because and I mean, you know,
00:06:39 --> 00:06:45 there are some white people there, but all of the riders were black.
00:06:45 --> 00:06:49 And they, there are some women out there who are riding their butts off.
00:06:49 --> 00:06:54 There are some young girls out there who are, you know, teenagers who are riding their butts off.
00:06:55 --> 00:07:00 There were some old, you know, older gentlemen who are out there riding their butts off.
00:07:00 --> 00:07:04 So, I mean, like when I say it was a different world, it was a different world.
00:07:04 --> 00:07:08 And they, when they played Boots on the Ground, you would have thought that
00:07:08 --> 00:07:10 was Beyonce singing that song.
00:07:10 --> 00:07:12 Like, you know, everybody was dancing.
00:07:13 --> 00:07:16 They were all, all the ladies were, you know, hitting the fans.
00:07:17 --> 00:07:20 So, I mean, I mean, it was cool.
00:07:21 --> 00:07:26 I would encourage any of our viewers, listeners, if you have a chance to go
00:07:26 --> 00:07:31 to like a cowboy festival or a Southern Soul Festival or a trail ride,
00:07:31 --> 00:07:32 all of which are very popular.
00:07:33 --> 00:07:36 Please don't think that you're not going to enjoy it and black people don't
00:07:36 --> 00:07:38 do it because black people definitely do it.
00:07:39 --> 00:07:47 Yeah. Well, I always read about the black cowboys and especially down in the Texas area.
00:07:48 --> 00:07:53 I always read about them, you know, because there's a large contingency of them down here. Right.
00:07:53 --> 00:07:57 But, you know, this whole cowboy thing and the Southern Soul thing,
00:07:57 --> 00:08:01 you may have no ideal up this way because it's not something you'll see up here.
00:08:02 --> 00:08:05 But, you know, when you go down south, man, you know, you know,
00:08:05 --> 00:08:09 it's not it's not unusual to see that type of thing down.
00:08:09 --> 00:08:14 And that's the way it should be, because if you think about it,
00:08:14 --> 00:08:16 you know, we've always been there.
00:08:16 --> 00:08:23 You know, we've always, you know, so many things they have erased us from over
00:08:23 --> 00:08:24 the years, you know, in history.
00:08:25 --> 00:08:32 You know, we've always been in the forefront of a lot of the stuff that's always
00:08:32 --> 00:08:33 been. You know what I mean?
00:08:34 --> 00:08:38 Right. You know, we just don't get the credit as to being there.
00:08:38 --> 00:08:43 You know, that's why when you see stuff like the whole story,
00:08:43 --> 00:08:46 when they finally did the movie about the Tuskegee Airmen,
00:08:46 --> 00:08:54 you know, and people were amazed about how we were there in that war during that particular time.
00:08:54 --> 00:08:57 And a lot of people had no idea there were black servicemen.
00:08:57 --> 00:09:01 You know, I mean, it's like they don't know about the black cowboys,
00:09:02 --> 00:09:05 you know, and you, you know, so when you have something like that,
00:09:05 --> 00:09:07 I can only imagine how many people.
00:09:07 --> 00:09:12 And when they did the boots on the ground, how many people do you estimate was
00:09:12 --> 00:09:14 doing the line dance at one time?
00:09:15 --> 00:09:19 Maybe 400. Yeah. There you go.
00:09:20 --> 00:09:23 And Dave, you know, I want to add into, and I think it's something we probably
00:09:23 --> 00:09:25 often hear, but we sometimes forget.
00:09:26 --> 00:09:31 And they, the other thing I liked about, they talked about a lot of black history
00:09:31 --> 00:09:36 related to, you know, cowboys, cattle, ranchers, horse, you know, horses, all that.
00:09:36 --> 00:09:40 So, of course, you know, and I'm sure, you know, we probably all know, maybe I've forgotten.
00:09:41 --> 00:09:48 Black men were the first cowboys. And they say that because they were the ones
00:09:48 --> 00:09:51 who were active in the cattle industry, working as cow hands,
00:09:52 --> 00:09:54 trail cooks, bronco busters.
00:09:55 --> 00:09:58 So, you know, I think traditionally when we think about cowboys,
00:09:58 --> 00:10:00 we think of like John Wayne and, you know, white people.
00:10:00 --> 00:10:05 But black people were actually the first cowboys. That's where it came from.
00:10:06 --> 00:10:11 That's what I was saying. That's what I'm saying. We thought we have always been there.
00:10:11 --> 00:10:14 We you know we were part of we were yeah we
00:10:14 --> 00:10:17 were and keep in mind not only you know
00:10:17 --> 00:10:20 we were the cowboys we were the trainers we we
00:10:20 --> 00:10:26 took care of the horses you know all of that stuff you know even now when you
00:10:26 --> 00:10:32 see the big races like the kentucky derby and all those races if you look around
00:10:32 --> 00:10:37 if you pay close attention the handlers and the trainers a lot of more black yeah you know So,
00:10:38 --> 00:10:42 but it's good that you got a chance to experience that.
00:10:43 --> 00:10:46 I think it is something that everybody should see because I've seen it on TV.
00:10:47 --> 00:10:51 There was a documentary about the Black Cowboy. Oh, yeah, I'm sure.
00:10:52 --> 00:10:58 Yeah, I've seen, you know, a bit about their history.
00:10:58 --> 00:11:05 And, you know, it's really for those who haven't, who didn't know about it or
00:11:05 --> 00:11:11 those who probably feel that they need to go check it out, Google it and do
00:11:11 --> 00:11:13 some reading and check it out.
00:11:15 --> 00:11:19 Okay, well, now that Leonard has gotten his boots from the ground,
00:11:20 --> 00:11:27 and we basically talked about Memorial Day weekend, and, you know,
00:11:27 --> 00:11:29 I just made the comment how we were always there.
00:11:30 --> 00:11:38 Let's go with our first story and talk, and this kind of proves the fact that we were always around.
00:11:38 --> 00:11:49 You know what I mean? So this first story is about Charleston's 1865 Memorial
00:11:49 --> 00:11:51 Day at Bold Remembrance.
00:11:52 --> 00:11:57 Now, a lot of people probably don't know this story. And it seems to me,
00:11:57 --> 00:12:01 I think I heard about this a few years back, but I wanted to bring it up because
00:12:01 --> 00:12:05 I came across it yesterday, actually, on Memorial Day.
00:12:05 --> 00:12:12 It says, the first Memorial Day wasn't created by Congress or a president.
00:12:13 --> 00:12:18 It was born from the determination of newly freed African-Americans,
00:12:19 --> 00:12:22 African-Americans in Charleston, South Carolina.
00:12:23 --> 00:12:25 Ironically, this came from South Carolina, right?
00:12:26 --> 00:12:32 On May 1st, 1865, at the site of a former Confederate prison camp,
00:12:32 --> 00:12:35 black residents organized a powerful tribute
00:12:35 --> 00:12:38 to honor union soldiers who died
00:12:38 --> 00:12:41 for their freedom at the washington race
00:12:41 --> 00:12:44 course where 257 union
00:12:44 --> 00:12:47 soldiers were buried in mass graves did you
00:12:47 --> 00:12:50 see the story they just talked about it on the news too by the
00:12:50 --> 00:12:53 way no i did not yeah they
00:12:53 --> 00:12:56 yeah i saw it on the news last night too two dozen
00:12:56 --> 00:13:04 black volunteers assumed the bodies reburied them properly and enclosed the
00:13:04 --> 00:13:13 site with a with a white picket bearing offense bearing the words martyrs of the race course.
00:13:14 --> 00:13:21 Then, 10 people, mostly formerly enslaved individuals, gathered to commemorate
00:13:21 --> 00:13:26 their sacrifice with parades, speeches, hymns, and flowers.
00:13:26 --> 00:13:31 This remarkable event, described by historian David W.
00:13:31 --> 00:13:38 Blight, is now recognized as many as the true origin of Memorial Day.
00:13:39 --> 00:13:44 While Charleston's 1865 ceremony is widely viewed as the first Memorial Day,
00:13:45 --> 00:13:52 towns like Waterloo, New York, and Columbus, Georgia also claim early commemorations.
00:13:52 --> 00:13:58 The holiday became official in 1868 when Major General John A.
00:13:58 --> 00:14:05 Logan, head of the Grand Army of the Republic, designated May 30th as Decoration Day.
00:14:05 --> 00:14:10 The First National Observance was held at Arlington National Cemetery,
00:14:10 --> 00:14:16 and Memorial Day became a federal holiday in 1889,
00:14:16 --> 00:14:21 moving to the last Monday in May in 1971.
00:14:22 --> 00:14:24 I was wondering how it got changed. Okay.
00:14:25 --> 00:14:33 So Memorial Day became a federal holiday in 1889.
00:14:34 --> 00:14:38 Did you imagine that no crazy i
00:14:38 --> 00:14:41 know you would think that you know you think of yourself okay they
00:14:41 --> 00:14:44 knew the difference between holidays and all that kind of stuff back
00:14:44 --> 00:14:49 then but yeah they made it a federal holiday back then they said despite its
00:14:49 --> 00:14:55 early significance child since memorial day was largely forgotten during the
00:14:55 --> 00:15:00 post reconstruction era white southern groups like the united daughters of the
00:15:00 --> 00:15:03 Confederacy pushed narratives that minimized Black contributions.
00:15:04 --> 00:15:06 Of course, we know this already.
00:15:06 --> 00:15:12 Booked falsely credited white organizers and public memory of the Black-led
00:15:12 --> 00:15:16 1865 event was intentionally erased.
00:15:17 --> 00:15:21 They always... How many times have we talked about our history being erased?
00:15:22 --> 00:15:25 Every week. Didn't we mention it last week? Yeah, I think it was mentioned last
00:15:25 --> 00:15:27 week. I'm sure we did. I don't doubt it.
00:15:28 --> 00:15:32 Let's see. There was a statement here.
00:15:32 --> 00:15:37 It says, but after 1877, with the rise of Jim Crow, Black Memorial Day participation
00:15:37 --> 00:15:39 was pushed to the margins.
00:15:39 --> 00:15:46 White narratives dominated, focusing on reconciliation and romanticizing the Confederacy.
00:15:47 --> 00:15:51 Still, black communities held on in cities like Uniontown, Pennsylvania,
00:15:52 --> 00:15:58 where they protested discriminatory practices with rural towns in Virginia and
00:15:58 --> 00:16:05 elsewhere, maintained their own Decoration Day traditions in black cemeteries.
00:16:06 --> 00:16:09 So I'm going to stop there with the story.
00:16:10 --> 00:16:18 So once again, here's another history lesson, folks, on the whitewashing of our history.
00:16:19 --> 00:16:22 So Memorial Day was something that actually was started by blacks,
00:16:23 --> 00:16:26 though we were not given the rightful credit for it.
00:16:27 --> 00:16:35 You know, the fact that they were able to show that it wasn't their thing,
00:16:35 --> 00:16:39 it was our thing. we still don't get the full credit as usual.
00:16:40 --> 00:16:43 But it's good to know that the history is out there.
00:16:45 --> 00:16:48 You want me to tell you something funny? What's that?
00:16:48 --> 00:16:53 What do you think in 100 years they'll be saying Juneteenth is a white holiday?
00:16:54 --> 00:16:56 In 100 years, there won't be any Juneteenth.
00:16:58 --> 00:17:00 Think about what the president is trying to do right now through it.
00:17:01 --> 00:17:06 I understand. But, you know, I feel like he can't he can stop the federal, but he can't stop.
00:17:07 --> 00:17:11 Because, you know, they we you know, Texas, they were celebrating before it was federal holiday.
00:17:11 --> 00:17:14 Yeah, that's true. That is true.
00:17:14 --> 00:17:17 But I'm just I'm just talking about the whitewashing. You know,
00:17:17 --> 00:17:19 I'm sure slowly over time.
00:17:20 --> 00:17:23 Oh, you said a hundred years? Did you say a hundred years? Yeah,
00:17:23 --> 00:17:27 a hundred years. Try a ten year. Ten. Oh, Lord. Hopefully not.
00:17:28 --> 00:17:32 Yeah. Try a ten year. I mean, because it'll be. I mean, if you think about it,
00:17:33 --> 00:17:36 when you look at all these holidays, you know, I mean, you know,
00:17:36 --> 00:17:40 we talked about how the president wants to bring back Columbus Day. Well,
00:17:41 --> 00:17:46 You know, if we really pay attention to what really Christopher Columbus,
00:17:47 --> 00:17:51 the whole story around Christopher Columbus, why did he deserve a holiday? Right.
00:17:52 --> 00:17:55 Okay. But we had to fight to get Martin Luther King's birthday.
00:17:56 --> 00:17:58 We had to fight to get Juneteenth.
00:18:00 --> 00:18:05 And, you know, even though it's not a holiday, they're still trying to stop
00:18:05 --> 00:18:07 us from celebrating Black History Month.
00:18:08 --> 00:18:13 And they gave us the shortest month of the year. well what on day you remember
00:18:13 --> 00:18:16 we we already did our research we we debunked that.
00:18:18 --> 00:18:27 Okay all right all right okay okay we debunked it okay all right okay but you know.
00:18:29 --> 00:18:33 That we have to be you know
00:18:33 --> 00:18:36 memorial day is a day that has
00:18:36 --> 00:18:40 been kind of confusing to a lot of folks you
00:18:40 --> 00:18:42 know i don't know you i don't know if you saw the
00:18:42 --> 00:18:46 post that i put down i put on facebook yesterday yeah
00:18:46 --> 00:18:49 but you know we have to be real
00:18:49 --> 00:18:52 careful you know because everybody always puts
00:18:52 --> 00:18:56 the word happy in front of memorial day and
00:18:56 --> 00:19:01 it's it's nice to say that because you're wishing somebody a good memorial day
00:19:01 --> 00:19:09 but that's kind of a oxymoron when you look at it because it's really about
00:19:09 --> 00:19:13 those who served those who made it home,
00:19:14 --> 00:19:20 and those who didn't. And when you think about that, even the ones who made
00:19:20 --> 00:19:22 it home, not all of them were okay when they made it home.
00:19:24 --> 00:19:32 And their struggles and everything. So we have to be mindful of what this holiday was really about.
00:19:33 --> 00:19:37 I don't even like calling it a holiday. I like calling it a day of remembrance.
00:19:39 --> 00:19:44 Because it is something that we need to look at. For anybody that's had family
00:19:44 --> 00:19:51 members to serve or anyone who's listening that has served themselves or serving at this time,
00:19:52 --> 00:19:55 we definitely thank you for your service.
00:19:56 --> 00:20:02 And we appreciate all that you did. And that's men and women. Okay.
00:20:03 --> 00:20:05 So, and all that you're doing. Okay.
00:20:06 --> 00:20:10 All right. Moving on to our next story.
00:20:12 --> 00:20:15 Well speaking uh memorial day
00:20:15 --> 00:20:18 and you know we we
00:20:18 --> 00:20:21 always try to we try it doesn't
00:20:21 --> 00:20:24 always happen but we always try to throw in
00:20:24 --> 00:20:27 a good story when we do news and
00:20:27 --> 00:20:32 trends because it's so easy for us to talk about negative stuff every story
00:20:32 --> 00:20:43 but i want leonard to play a video for you so you guys can hear and just you
00:20:43 --> 00:20:46 know this was a feel-good moment okay.
00:20:45 --> 00:20:52 Music.
00:20:55 --> 00:21:02 I only missed one payment he ain't gonna give me no break You got your little girl with you? I do.
00:21:02 --> 00:21:07 Please. Can they give me to Friday? Why they got it? Can my baby graduate in
00:21:07 --> 00:21:08 school? She going to Ohio State.
00:21:09 --> 00:21:12 Can you hear me? Do you want to set it up a little bit for the listeners?
00:21:12 --> 00:21:14 I was going to talk about it.
00:21:15 --> 00:21:22 Why you got to have the baby with you? Oh, my God. Please. Look, she hanging on the car.
00:21:23 --> 00:21:28 I can't take it now. Damn. Oh, my goodness.
00:21:28 --> 00:21:33 Hey, listen. You, you, hey, listen, you lucky. You, hey, listen,
00:21:33 --> 00:21:34 you, today your lucky day.
00:21:35 --> 00:21:37 Today my lucky day? Today your lucky day. Oh, thank God.
00:21:37 --> 00:21:41 I appreciate you. Tell Sweetie to let go of the thing so I can let it down.
00:21:41 --> 00:21:44 Okay. Let it go, babe. So you let it, let it down.
00:21:47 --> 00:21:50 This smooth. Oh, you smooth with it.
00:21:51 --> 00:21:59 Thank you, thank you, thank you for helping us. You are the best. Thank you.
00:22:02 --> 00:22:09 Okay, all right. I was going to listen to, let me tell you the story here.
00:22:09 --> 00:22:16 So what happened was there was this toe-tuck driver. He had just put this car on his toe.
00:22:16 --> 00:22:22 So this was a black guy and mother and her little small daughter came out and
00:22:22 --> 00:22:25 was begging with him, please don't take my car.
00:22:25 --> 00:22:29 Please, you know, you heard her talking and, you know, please don't take my
00:22:29 --> 00:22:32 car because I'll make the payment by Friday, this Friday.
00:22:32 --> 00:22:37 Please don't take my car. You know, the guy had a heart because most of these
00:22:37 --> 00:22:39 old drunk drivers don't. I'll tell you that now.
00:22:40 --> 00:22:45 For anybody who's ever had that type of situation, them guys ain't trying to hear anything.
00:22:45 --> 00:22:48 Thing you got to say you know they want to take your vehicle and
00:22:48 --> 00:22:51 they're going to take it you know I mean you know very
00:22:51 --> 00:22:54 few have a heart this guy was like
00:22:54 --> 00:22:59 you know he if it was just her he probably would have took the vehicle but she
00:22:59 --> 00:23:04 had a little girl with her that looked like maybe three or four years old and
00:23:04 --> 00:23:11 the poor little girl was standing there looking at the car and and figured out what he was about to do.
00:23:12 --> 00:23:14 I guess he knew that he was about to take the car.
00:23:15 --> 00:23:21 And she went through the car and just put her hands on the car so he couldn't take it.
00:23:22 --> 00:23:25 And she's holding on to the car. And he's looking at her. He's like,
00:23:25 --> 00:23:28 oh, man. He said, why you got to have a baby with you? You know,
00:23:28 --> 00:23:30 and all that kind of stuff. You heard him say that.
00:23:30 --> 00:23:33 And she's holding on to the car. She didn't want him to take the car.
00:23:34 --> 00:23:37 So the guy had a heart. And he let the car down.
00:23:39 --> 00:23:45 And he didn't tow the car. And, you know, you just don't see stories like this anymore.
00:23:45 --> 00:23:52 You know, where somebody really has a heart and really cares about a situation.
00:23:53 --> 00:23:55 Now the good thing with her is she had that little girl
00:23:55 --> 00:23:58 with her i don't know if he would have been so lenient if
00:23:58 --> 00:24:02 that little girl wasn't with her but just the way she went over and held
00:24:02 --> 00:24:04 on to the car was adorable you saw that right letter
00:24:04 --> 00:24:12 yeah you know you ever seen well i ain't gonna ask you you ever personally had
00:24:12 --> 00:24:17 one taken but you ever seen that type of situation unfold in front of you uh
00:24:17 --> 00:24:21 i think so like there were a couple times when you know nobody was at the car
00:24:21 --> 00:24:23 and when they picked it up, I was like, you know what?
00:24:24 --> 00:24:27 That's probably someone who ain't paid for it. But Dave, I mean,
00:24:27 --> 00:24:38 I could say way back in a former life, I remember I had a car and I was so far behind on the payments.
00:24:38 --> 00:24:42 I used to go look out the window every morning and be like, whew,
00:24:42 --> 00:24:45 still there, still there. Yeah.
00:24:46 --> 00:24:49 I've been there too lately, so I know exactly what you're talking about.
00:24:49 --> 00:24:54 I would park the car away from the house and all types of stuff, man, you know.
00:24:56 --> 00:25:01 It was interesting because you come up, you call yourself being creative.
00:25:01 --> 00:25:05 Then the one day I didn't park away from the house. I parked,
00:25:05 --> 00:25:08 I called my son running in the house for a couple of minutes. Yeah.
00:25:09 --> 00:25:13 The guy's been? Oh, they got you, Dave? The car was born there.
00:25:13 --> 00:25:18 They were waiting on you. I was in the house maybe 10 minutes at the moment.
00:25:18 --> 00:25:24 And I came out, the car was gone. And my neighbor said, yeah, they just told you, man.
00:25:24 --> 00:25:28 And he said, that guy must have been waiting for you because he came flying
00:25:28 --> 00:25:34 from across the street there and pulled up, hurry up and hitched that bad boy up and took off.
00:25:34 --> 00:25:37 Damn. He probably got a bonus. Yeah. Yeah.
00:25:37 --> 00:25:42 So, and all I could do was sit there and laugh. I was like, and I know I was
00:25:42 --> 00:25:47 behind, you know, I was in between jobs at the time.
00:25:47 --> 00:25:49 So I know, I know it's coming. Right. Thank you.
00:25:50 --> 00:25:58 But, you know, but I've also seen where the tow truck driver had a change of heart.
00:25:58 --> 00:26:04 You know, I was in the Wawa one, and there was a tow truck driver hitching a
00:26:04 --> 00:26:07 car up, and I thought the car had stopped.
00:26:07 --> 00:26:11 You know, I thought it was one of those type of situations, and she was getting the tow.
00:26:12 --> 00:26:19 But when she came outside and she saw the car on the hitch, she just started crying and bawling.
00:26:19 --> 00:26:24 And she just said, my mom just died and this and so forth and so forth.
00:26:24 --> 00:26:27 I know I haven't made a payment. I just have a lot going on.
00:26:27 --> 00:26:32 I promise you, if you let me go home, you can follow me to the house.
00:26:32 --> 00:26:34 I'll give you the money as soon as I get to my house.
00:26:35 --> 00:26:39 And the guy said, are you serious, mama? He said, because I ain't got a lot of time.
00:26:39 --> 00:26:42 And he said she said i promise you
00:26:42 --> 00:26:45 you'll get the money i have it at the house
00:26:45 --> 00:26:48 she said i can give it to you she said she said
00:26:48 --> 00:26:52 just follow me home please don't take my car and the
00:26:52 --> 00:26:55 guy said okay you know and everybody oh you
00:26:55 --> 00:26:58 know the group of people said follow her home man she said she got the money
00:26:58 --> 00:27:00 you know so it was funny and the guy so
00:27:00 --> 00:27:05 the guy felt pressured to go in and follow her home and he did he followed her
00:27:05 --> 00:27:09 home i guess he got the money you know we don't know the answer of that but
00:27:09 --> 00:27:12 because he got the money but i just thought this was a cute story because you
00:27:12 --> 00:27:18 don't see stuff like this every day anymore especially in today's society and that poor little girl
00:27:18 --> 00:27:21 she was going to go she's going with the ship letter she.
00:27:22 --> 00:27:25 She held on to that car and then he said he
00:27:25 --> 00:27:28 said okay tell her to let go of the car so i can let the
00:27:28 --> 00:27:31 car down and mom said okay
00:27:31 --> 00:27:36 baby you back away he's gonna let the car down you know she said okay you know
00:27:36 --> 00:27:41 but she wasn't going she was going with that car man she was not she was not
00:27:41 --> 00:27:46 letting the car go yeah well you know it kind of made me think too is like i
00:27:46 --> 00:27:50 wonder how that situation works like okay he finds the car he lets it go,
00:27:51 --> 00:27:54 does he get in trouble? Did he already tell someone he found it?
00:27:54 --> 00:27:57 Is he just going to act like he's still looking for it?
00:27:57 --> 00:28:00 Cause you know, like Dave, well, hold on real quick.
00:28:00 --> 00:28:06 I was going to say it'd be a shame if he told his bosses, like he didn't find it.
00:28:06 --> 00:28:11 And then this video went viral and now, you know, all his, his,
00:28:11 --> 00:28:15 his, his bosses know that he done let the car get away.
00:28:15 --> 00:28:18 And, you know, maybe, maybe the lady sweet talk, you know, she,
00:28:18 --> 00:28:21 she had hit his sympathy with a little girl cling on to the car.
00:28:22 --> 00:28:27 Yeah, I guess that's one of those things that could come back to bite him. Yeah, I'm sure.
00:28:29 --> 00:28:36 And it all depends. It all depends on whether he is a contracted person or whether
00:28:36 --> 00:28:38 he's the owner of his own service.
00:28:39 --> 00:28:49 And he has some type of latitude or longitude to be able to give people an extension if they needed it.
00:28:49 --> 00:28:51 So it all depends on the situation at hand.
00:28:52 --> 00:28:59 You know, I think once he sold the little girl, you heard him,
00:28:59 --> 00:29:01 he said, why are you going to have your little girl with me?
00:29:01 --> 00:29:05 You know, that type of thing, you know, because, you know, that automatically
00:29:05 --> 00:29:09 meant he didn't want to leave her stranded with her child. Right.
00:29:10 --> 00:29:13 So, and obviously he must have been following her because
00:29:13 --> 00:29:16 this didn't happen in front of the house this happened
00:29:16 --> 00:29:23 out you know so he must have been watching her you know the whole time so but
00:29:23 --> 00:29:28 yeah that is a good question on what happens afterwards whether he takes a hit
00:29:28 --> 00:29:34 for that whether he loses money for not taking to taking the car at that time but.
00:29:34 --> 00:29:37 Know it's a good deed and we don't get a
00:29:37 --> 00:29:40 chance to see them too often anymore yeah no i
00:29:40 --> 00:29:43 definitely yeah and hopefully
00:29:43 --> 00:29:46 she's able hopefully she was able to do
00:29:46 --> 00:29:49 what she needs to do in order to get right you
00:29:49 --> 00:29:57 know yeah okay all right so we'll go on to our next story yep so the the next
00:29:57 --> 00:30:03 story oh i'm sorry dave next story your story go ahead sir i i i mean to interrupt
00:30:03 --> 00:30:07 you oh well you know If you want to go ahead and jump to your story, you can go ahead.
00:30:07 --> 00:30:10 All right. Okay. Well, so the next story I'm going to talk about,
00:30:10 --> 00:30:17 Dave, I'm just going to cut your story out the loop, is regarding an incident
00:30:17 --> 00:30:22 that has gone viral from the American Music Award, which I guess, was that last night?
00:30:23 --> 00:30:26 Yeah, it was last night. I didn't watch it. I actually watched it. Oh, did you?
00:30:26 --> 00:30:33 Okay. So Shibuzi, who is a black country music genre singer,
00:30:34 --> 00:30:41 musician, performer, he was giving an award with Megan Maroney.
00:30:42 --> 00:30:49 And right before they presented the award, she stated that a claim that country
00:30:49 --> 00:30:53 music was basically invented by the Carter family.
00:30:54 --> 00:30:57 And Dave, you know, it's so funny because when I heard it, Later,
00:30:57 --> 00:31:01 I'm like, OK, they talk about Beyonce and Jay. You know, I was like,
00:31:01 --> 00:31:02 what were they talking about?
00:31:02 --> 00:31:09 So apparently there is a group that was from the it looks like the 30s,
00:31:09 --> 00:31:11 40s and 50s called the Carters.
00:31:12 --> 00:31:21 And they were what she was referring to as what she believed started country music.
00:31:21 --> 00:31:24 Now when she said that comment shibuzi had
00:31:24 --> 00:31:27 like one of them okay like yeah okay
00:31:27 --> 00:31:31 like whatever he had one of those type of looks and
00:31:31 --> 00:31:34 i mean it was definitely very visible very obvious and
00:31:34 --> 00:31:37 of course that that reaction is going viral
00:31:37 --> 00:31:40 um now did you catch that live
00:31:40 --> 00:31:43 when she said like what were your thoughts when you
00:31:43 --> 00:31:46 heard her say that like did that raise a red flag to you
00:31:46 --> 00:31:51 or anything you know what's so funny is that i heard her say it and the person
00:31:51 --> 00:31:56 that she really zeroed in on when she talked about the carter family was lynn
00:31:56 --> 00:32:01 carter and lynn carter was a very famous country western singer back in the
00:32:01 --> 00:32:04 day and it was her family that she was referring to.
00:32:06 --> 00:32:10 And you know of course country music was around way before the carter family
00:32:10 --> 00:32:12 you know country music is,
00:32:13 --> 00:32:16 around forever and but you know
00:32:16 --> 00:32:19 they were one of the more popular families doing
00:32:19 --> 00:32:24 country music at that right but not the founder so
00:32:24 --> 00:32:28 and she's a country mute and this maroney is
00:32:28 --> 00:32:36 a country music entertainer herself but she's new ones so right and smoothie
00:32:36 --> 00:32:45 is too you know but he knew better to say that because he knew that that's not necessarily true.
00:32:46 --> 00:32:49 Yes, they were very popular. They were very well known.
00:32:49 --> 00:32:54 They were often referred to as the first family or country, but not the founders.
00:32:58 --> 00:33:02 I think he knew better to say that. He kind of had a smirk on his face.
00:33:03 --> 00:33:04 Yeah, he definitely did.
00:33:05 --> 00:33:09 You know, it had one of them looks like, I think you better check your history.
00:33:10 --> 00:33:13 You know yeah so but he
00:33:13 --> 00:33:16 he wasn't falling into that he kind
00:33:16 --> 00:33:18 of he went left you know and he
00:33:18 --> 00:33:23 stayed left you know so you know he was out there on her own with that but that
00:33:23 --> 00:33:29 show last night had a lot of new people on it like a lot of the newer entertainers
00:33:29 --> 00:33:33 the people that's up and coming those that's what that show was basically all
00:33:33 --> 00:33:37 about so the history because they you know they honored Janet Jackson.
00:33:38 --> 00:33:41 Of course, she was well-received. She performed.
00:33:41 --> 00:33:43 She got an Icon Award.
00:33:45 --> 00:33:49 Young people knew her music. Of course, they gave her props.
00:33:49 --> 00:33:50 I will say that and so forth.
00:33:50 --> 00:33:56 They also gave a Legends Award to Rod Stewart. You know who Rod Stewart is?
00:33:57 --> 00:33:59 Rod Stewart. He performed as well.
00:34:01 --> 00:34:06 People gave him his props, but not Janet, because Janet, of course,
00:34:06 --> 00:34:08 is a Jackson, you know, but, but,
00:34:09 --> 00:34:13 Like a lot of them people didn't know who that man was. Yeah, no, I'm sure.
00:34:14 --> 00:34:19 Yeah. So when you're going down these roads, talking about history and all this
00:34:19 --> 00:34:23 kind of stuff, you need to know your history before you say something.
00:34:23 --> 00:34:28 Because it often happens a lot with music nowadays that a lot of the artists
00:34:28 --> 00:34:35 nowadays, you know, there was Kai Sinet was the, you know, the influencer.
00:34:36 --> 00:34:39 And, you know, he's everywhere. He was on the show last night,
00:34:39 --> 00:34:40 as a matter of fact. Yeah.
00:34:41 --> 00:34:45 He's standing there doing an interview with somebody. Oh, no.
00:34:46 --> 00:34:48 He was doing an interview with Babyface.
00:34:48 --> 00:34:53 He said, I know you're somebody famous. Who are you? Oh, wow.
00:34:54 --> 00:35:00 So this is what I'm saying. And Dave, wasn't Babyface disrespected at the last show?
00:35:00 --> 00:35:05 You remember when the lady was skipping over him and then the other lady came
00:35:05 --> 00:35:08 up and they're like, oh. Ran over the chaperone.
00:35:08 --> 00:35:11 Ran over the chaperone because they knew what Chaperone was,
00:35:12 --> 00:35:14 but they barely knew who Babyface was.
00:35:15 --> 00:35:18 Yeah, so, you know, and you hear them go, oh, okay.
00:35:19 --> 00:35:24 You know, so, you know, this is the difference with a lot of these award shows
00:35:24 --> 00:35:28 and so forth because the people, you know, that show last night,
00:35:28 --> 00:35:33 I was like, I don't know what's going on here, but and a lot of the big name stars wasn't there.
00:35:33 --> 00:35:40 Right. But then here we go. and I don't want to sound bitter here since we brought
00:35:40 --> 00:35:48 up the AMAs another whitewashing of music history you know when you think about
00:35:48 --> 00:35:51 the top artists over the last year,
00:35:53 --> 00:35:59 who's the first three people to come to your mind maybe Kendrick Taylor Swift,
00:35:59 --> 00:36:04 Beyonce okay alright none of them won awards left.
00:36:06 --> 00:36:08 No so so how can that
00:36:08 --> 00:36:11 be and that's going to be the three that probably comes
00:36:11 --> 00:36:15 off of everybody's first right tell taylor
00:36:15 --> 00:36:19 beyonce and ketrick okay you
00:36:19 --> 00:36:25 can even throw a drink in there now billy eilish won entertainer of the year
00:36:25 --> 00:36:32 okay beating out taylor and beyonce and a couple other no yeah Beyonce and a
00:36:32 --> 00:36:38 couple other people but and Eilish I know she's very popular people love her but,
00:36:39 --> 00:36:45 those three people not winning awards when they've been had the top tours the top selling,
00:36:46 --> 00:36:53 albums I mean come on now but one person did win I told you scissor won a couple
00:36:53 --> 00:36:58 awards and it's kind of hard to keep her out so they had a remarkable year right now.
00:37:00 --> 00:37:03 But those top three that you name are usually the three people that usually
00:37:03 --> 00:37:07 come up. And not one black person won an award last night.
00:37:08 --> 00:37:10 Not one black person performed last night.
00:37:11 --> 00:37:17 How can you do a music show without one black person performing or winning an award? Right.
00:37:18 --> 00:37:21 With all the music that we put out there last year. Okay.
00:37:22 --> 00:37:23 Maybe it's just me. Okay.
00:37:25 --> 00:37:29 Anyway. All right. You got more to say about your story there?
00:37:29 --> 00:37:31 No, I mean, that was about it.
00:37:31 --> 00:37:35 So, of course, well, the last thing I do want to say, so Shibuzi did make a
00:37:35 --> 00:37:43 comment and he gave credit to the influence of a lot of original black country music influencers.
00:37:44 --> 00:37:48 I think he said Johnny Mathis and a couple other people.
00:37:48 --> 00:37:52 Well, no. So he was referring to some black people. So he.
00:37:54 --> 00:37:58 Johnny Mathis. Okay, that right there is way before my time.
00:37:58 --> 00:38:03 But he also mentioned Leslie Riddle, as well as Rufus T.
00:38:03 --> 00:38:07 Tot, Payne, August Cannon, and B. Ford Bailey.
00:38:08 --> 00:38:15 All of them who he said played foundational roles in shaping country music as African Americans.
00:38:15 --> 00:38:19 So that was kind of good that he kind of gave that information because a lot
00:38:19 --> 00:38:25 of people are not and were not familiar with some of those names. I can tell you for sure.
00:38:26 --> 00:38:29 None of them people there knew any of them. Oh, yeah, I'm sure.
00:38:30 --> 00:38:34 None of them. I can guarantee you. It lasted with somebody.
00:38:34 --> 00:38:37 Well, there were a few old his there, but even those old his,
00:38:37 --> 00:38:41 but it definitely had to know their history in order to know any of them.
00:38:42 --> 00:38:45 Okay. Like I said, Johnny Mathis, you didn't.
00:38:45 --> 00:38:48 Johnny Mathis, Charlie Pryde, you ever heard of either one of them?
00:38:49 --> 00:38:50 Charlie Pryde sounds familiar.
00:38:52 --> 00:38:53 Okay. All right. Anyway.
00:38:56 --> 00:38:58 Okay. All right. That wasn't Leonard. That wasn't me.
00:38:59 --> 00:39:05 Well, Dave, you got to understand. I'm a young man, so I can do my research,
00:39:06 --> 00:39:09 but I ain't lived through all this.
00:39:09 --> 00:39:11 A young 50. I'm a young man.
00:39:15 --> 00:39:18 I'll tell you these young bucks, man. I'll tell you. You got to teach them.
00:39:19 --> 00:39:21 You got to teach them. Okay. All right.
00:39:23 --> 00:39:29 I just wanted to read this story and say, okay, folks, it's working.
00:39:29 --> 00:39:31 I want to let you know it's working.
00:39:32 --> 00:39:41 So, Target admits that the DEI rollback and boycotts contributed to sales decline.
00:39:42 --> 00:39:49 So, remember, you know, a couple months ago, and it's been going on, you know, it's ongoing.
00:39:49 --> 00:39:55 People were encouraged to not shop at Target anymore because of all of the DEI
00:39:55 --> 00:39:59 things, you know, exclusions and all that stuff that they were doing.
00:40:00 --> 00:40:07 So it says here, not like Target Boycott is working after all.
00:40:07 --> 00:40:12 Or did the finance fund on the earnings call with investors.
00:40:13 --> 00:40:18 Target CEO, Brian Cornell, acknowledges that the stores'.
00:40:19 --> 00:40:24 First-ported sales decline were at least in part because the consumer's reaction
00:40:24 --> 00:40:29 to the announcement rolled back up to the diversity, equity,
00:40:30 --> 00:40:33 and inclusion, which is the DEI initiative in January.
00:40:34 --> 00:40:40 That reaction was a call from the various organizations to boycott the retailer.
00:40:41 --> 00:40:43 They had a sluggish first quarter.
00:40:44 --> 00:40:52 And while they believe that the protests had a big factor in that,
00:40:52 --> 00:40:55 in the role of the parents of the first quarter,
00:40:56 --> 00:41:02 they can't rely on the investment and the impacts each block separately.
00:41:02 --> 00:41:07 Said Target, along with other retailers like Amazon, Walmart.
00:41:09 --> 00:41:15 Announced I have to change course when it comes to DEA, but Target seems to be the only company in.
00:41:16 --> 00:41:21 The hardest part, the decision, through the first week of March,
00:41:22 --> 00:41:26 Target's foot traffic was down 7% compared to a year.
00:41:26 --> 00:41:31 That's going to have a hand doubled down on their commitment to DEA's messages
00:41:31 --> 00:41:36 that traffic has increased by 7% over the last year.
00:41:38 --> 00:41:47 Boycott of Target or Target FAST spirited by many organizations have adopted Jamal Bryant .
00:41:48 --> 00:42:00 The result of the FAST was Target CEO sent a meeting to figure out what the retailer could do to end,
00:42:01 --> 00:42:03 the boycott after the meeting.
00:42:04 --> 00:42:11 No call to end the boycott was made and now the website for TargetFast even sells merchandise.
00:42:13 --> 00:42:20 It is safe to say there's no end in sight for the decline in Target sells due to consumers.
00:42:21 --> 00:42:24 It has the website that has TargetFast on it.
00:42:25 --> 00:42:30 Now they even sell merchandise on it, so that could become a pretty big thing.
00:42:33 --> 00:42:37 I don't know if we ever discussed this. Were you a Target shopper? Not really.
00:42:37 --> 00:42:39 I mean, it might have been for convenience, but I wasn't like,
00:42:40 --> 00:42:42 oh, I got to go to Target. Target is my store.
00:42:42 --> 00:42:46 It was just like, okay, where's the closest place I can get some undershirts?
00:42:47 --> 00:42:51 You said that word. It was convenient. I always felt Walmart was more convenient
00:42:51 --> 00:42:53 than Target as far as location.
00:42:54 --> 00:43:00 Target, when you look at here in Delaware, where the Targets are located, I mean,
00:43:00 --> 00:43:07 even though they did eventually put one in near where we live for a long time,
00:43:07 --> 00:43:10 the closest target was way up on 202, right?
00:43:11 --> 00:43:19 Yeah, so they're not conveniently they're not in a very convenient place until
00:43:19 --> 00:43:24 recently I mean, the one that's near us now is only, what, 10 minutes away? Yeah, or less.
00:43:25 --> 00:43:30 Yeah, but I was never really a target saying,
00:43:30 --> 00:43:37 or you know, we all kid in the African American community, we like to call it
00:43:37 --> 00:43:42 Tarte because it was you know, the bougie Walmart.
00:43:43 --> 00:43:44 We call it the bougie Walmart.
00:43:45 --> 00:43:48 But we'd rather go to Walmart because of the prices.
00:43:48 --> 00:43:54 Walmart had better prices for the same thing. But you can go to a Walmart because
00:43:54 --> 00:43:56 they were kind of everywhere.
00:43:57 --> 00:44:04 But And once they started doing this with the DEI stuff, they really upset a lot of people.
00:44:05 --> 00:44:11 Matter of fact, really, the only thing that they really still have a lot of
00:44:11 --> 00:44:15 us, you know, of our merchandising, I should say.
00:44:15 --> 00:44:19 But now they still have quite a few black authors on their bookshelves.
00:44:19 --> 00:44:26 But a lot of the personalized things that black entrepreneurs have done and
00:44:26 --> 00:44:34 make and sell, they don't have on the shelf anymore, or they're a very limited amount of it.
00:44:36 --> 00:44:42 It's good to know that we can, at once we put our heads to something that we can make a change.
00:44:42 --> 00:44:49 So that seven percent drop in foot traffic may not be a big thing to a lot of
00:44:49 --> 00:44:58 people because that seven percent doesn't sound like a big number but it's a big number to target um,
00:44:59 --> 00:45:03 And believe me, in dollars, it's a big number to Costco.
00:45:03 --> 00:45:08 They increased it because they got the foot traffic, you know.
00:45:08 --> 00:45:10 So it makes a big difference.
00:45:11 --> 00:45:15 Yeah, I mean, I kind of feel like Target's old news now.
00:45:15 --> 00:45:21 And I just say that in terms of, you know, where before I might have gone there for convenience.
00:45:22 --> 00:45:26 Now Target doesn't even cross my mind. And if I see, like my daughter said something
00:45:26 --> 00:45:29 about going to Target, I was like, no, you can't go there. and she's like,
00:45:30 --> 00:45:32 why not? And then I had to have that conversation with her.
00:45:32 --> 00:45:38 But I think a lot of people, it's almost like dieting.
00:45:38 --> 00:45:42 When you start dieting and you start not having a certain things,
00:45:43 --> 00:45:46 there's something you realize you didn't need as much as you thought you need them.
00:45:47 --> 00:45:54 So to even hear my wife, who was a faithful Target shopper, say that she's kind
00:45:54 --> 00:45:55 of out of that Target mode.
00:45:56 --> 00:45:59 I think it's just one of those things that once we start going without You know,
00:45:59 --> 00:46:02 we realized, well, shoot, you know, we don't need Target.
00:46:02 --> 00:46:06 And to be honest, I'm okay if Target runs all the way into the ground because
00:46:06 --> 00:46:08 I feel like we have to prove a point.
00:46:09 --> 00:46:13 And if they do turn around on the DEI, it's not because they wanted to,
00:46:13 --> 00:46:19 you know, like they're only doing it to save themselves. So it's almost like
00:46:19 --> 00:46:21 somebody calling you the N word.
00:46:21 --> 00:46:26 And then before they go to jail, they want to apologize, you know,
00:46:26 --> 00:46:28 just to save them from going to jail.
00:46:28 --> 00:46:32 But, you know, in all retrospect, if it wasn't for them going to jail,
00:46:32 --> 00:46:34 they wouldn't apologize. They don't mean it. So.
00:46:35 --> 00:46:38 So, I mean, that's kind of how I feel about Target now. Like,
00:46:38 --> 00:46:43 they made that decision and I'm OK letting them lie in it as long as,
00:46:43 --> 00:46:46 you know, whatever it is.
00:46:47 --> 00:46:53 Yeah, it's very interesting. I mean, people seem to be a lot more lenient towards
00:46:53 --> 00:46:56 Walmart and, of course, Amazon.
00:46:56 --> 00:47:00 It's hard to keep people from shopping on Amazon, but that's a whole other story.
00:47:01 --> 00:47:11 But the Walmart thing, people tend to still mess with Walmart because Walmart has always been there.
00:47:11 --> 00:47:15 You know what I mean? Target kind of came in and kind of stole some of their
00:47:15 --> 00:47:18 thunder, you know, when they started opening their stores.
00:47:18 --> 00:47:25 But they never really, always felt Target was never really for us anyway. You know what I mean?
00:47:27 --> 00:47:32 I can tell you the last time I had been in a Target store was probably,
00:47:32 --> 00:47:35 my youngest son is 30 now.
00:47:36 --> 00:47:41 So he was probably 10 years old the last time I was in a Target store.
00:47:41 --> 00:47:47 Oh, wow. so 20 years ago yeah i have no reason to go in there so so you never
00:47:47 --> 00:47:51 been to this target at the mall i've never been in that target okay.
00:47:52 --> 00:47:56 So I had no reason to go again. I mean, as far as I'm concerned.
00:47:57 --> 00:48:01 So basically, you were boycotting before the boycott. I was boycotting before,
00:48:01 --> 00:48:02 yeah, because I just didn't.
00:48:02 --> 00:48:07 My last time in there, the reason that it's been that long, because the last
00:48:07 --> 00:48:12 time I was in there, I had a bad experience in the store, and I didn't like the way I was treated.
00:48:13 --> 00:48:17 And if it wasn't my son's birthday, I would have left.
00:48:18 --> 00:48:21 I bought a game system there,
00:48:21 --> 00:48:25 a gaming system there, because they had it on sale if
00:48:25 --> 00:48:28 it wasn't for the sale and it was my son's birthday i probably
00:48:28 --> 00:48:31 would have left everything right there but they they
00:48:31 --> 00:48:34 may be you know i felt targeted that
00:48:34 --> 00:48:43 day well targeted okay excuse me very sunny day well i did there i seen there
00:48:43 --> 00:48:49 yeah i felt but i did feel that way and i said to myself then i said i'll never
00:48:49 --> 00:48:52 go back in another target and i've never been back in one.
00:48:53 --> 00:48:58 Never. Even though we had that one so close to it, I have no reason to go in there.
00:49:00 --> 00:49:04 Look, I can get everything I need from other stores other than there.
00:49:04 --> 00:49:08 Well, since Target's not a struggle for you, then I'm going to urge you to cut out Walmart.
00:49:09 --> 00:49:15 I don't do a lot of Walmart shopping either. I haven't been in a Walmart in
00:49:15 --> 00:49:17 about five years, four or five years.
00:49:18 --> 00:49:21 Okay, well, next is Amazon. But if I was going between the two,
00:49:21 --> 00:49:25 I'd be I'd be honest with between those two stores, though, if I had to get
00:49:25 --> 00:49:28 something, I'm going to Walmart, Amazon.
00:49:29 --> 00:49:35 And I can't say that about Amazon, you know, Amazon, you know, Amazon is Amazon.
00:49:35 --> 00:49:37 You know, the convenience of it is this.
00:49:39 --> 00:49:42 It's unfortunately ridiculous and easy, you know.
00:49:43 --> 00:49:48 So, you know, all of us, all of us probably would have to quit cold turkey to
00:49:48 --> 00:49:52 be able to do that, you know. So, but anyway.
00:49:53 --> 00:49:56 You know, guys, give us your thoughts on the whole target.
00:49:57 --> 00:50:01 You know, have you found yourselves not going to target because of everything
00:50:01 --> 00:50:06 that's been going on with the DEI stuff or any of the other stores that we mentioned?
00:50:07 --> 00:50:11 Did you get a membership to Costco because, or did you already have one and
00:50:11 --> 00:50:14 you started using Costco more that would be interesting to know.
00:50:15 --> 00:50:17 So let us know how you feel about that.
00:50:18 --> 00:50:25 Okay. All right. Well, that brings us to Leonard's favorite part of the show, which is Dave's Corner.
00:50:26 --> 00:50:30 Everybody, you know, he, you know, I tell you every week he gets thrilled to
00:50:30 --> 00:50:32 hear what I have to say on Dave's Corner.
00:50:33 --> 00:50:37 So, anyway, today's question is this.
00:50:37 --> 00:50:41 One million dollars is given to you to spend.
00:50:42 --> 00:50:49 There is a catch. The catch that comes with it is that you have to use it for
00:50:49 --> 00:50:54 something good for people other than yourself to uplift them.
00:50:55 --> 00:51:03 Who would you target? Another pun there, excuse it. and what would you do for them?
00:51:04 --> 00:51:07 So you got a million dollars. Can't spend it on yourself.
00:51:08 --> 00:51:12 You need to find somebody, a group of people to spend it on.
00:51:13 --> 00:51:16 So you're basically almost like a charity type situation.
00:51:18 --> 00:51:24 Who would be the people that you would give the money to and what would you do for them?
00:51:25 --> 00:51:30 So I don't know if I would give it to anybody. But what I would what I would
00:51:30 --> 00:51:39 use it for is I would go to one of these small towns where you can practically buy a city or buy a town.
00:51:41 --> 00:51:47 And I would allow I just look now real quick to make sure my numbers were right.
00:51:47 --> 00:51:50 But I see a place nine hundred thousand.
00:51:51 --> 00:51:55 You can pretty much buy all the buildings in Buford, Wyoming.
00:51:56 --> 00:52:00 But you know yeah yeah but you
00:52:00 --> 00:52:04 know i'd probably try to buy a small area and you
00:52:04 --> 00:52:09 know well my goal would be to have kind of like a black wall street so you know
00:52:09 --> 00:52:13 let people work in those businesses let them work in that community let them
00:52:13 --> 00:52:18 kind of kind of run that town so i mean that that would be something i think
00:52:18 --> 00:52:22 would be cool and i think it would uplift a lot of people give people motivation.
00:52:22 --> 00:52:25 And of course, you know, once it catches on, you know, there's going to be more
00:52:25 --> 00:52:29 and more black people who want to move their businesses, consumers,
00:52:29 --> 00:52:32 trade, skilled labor, you know, all that stuff.
00:52:33 --> 00:52:35 Or, I mean, it can be.
00:52:40 --> 00:52:43 It's funny. I never thought about that, though, that you could buy a town.
00:52:43 --> 00:52:47 Yeah. Well, now you can't buy the government part of the town.
00:52:47 --> 00:52:53 But as far as like the buildings and pretty much kind of owning the town, you know.
00:52:55 --> 00:53:01 Okay, that's interesting. Have a little black Wyoming Wall Street.
00:53:03 --> 00:53:07 Yeah, believe me, it will be little because you're going to have the five people
00:53:07 --> 00:53:11 that you get forced, I mean, to come from Wyoming.
00:53:12 --> 00:53:15 So, I'm sure they had some black cowboys there, too.
00:53:17 --> 00:53:23 I'm sure. Or, Dave, if they don't, we just import them. Yeah, there you go. Yeah.
00:53:25 --> 00:53:30 Well, if it was me, if I had a million dollars, I was fine.
00:53:30 --> 00:53:39 I would gather a group of senior citizens who are living on fixed incomes,
00:53:39 --> 00:53:44 who want to have a community of their own.
00:53:46 --> 00:53:50 We have the 55 and older communities, but they're not cheap.
00:53:51 --> 00:53:56 A lot of them cost a decent amount of money. I would like to get a set price
00:53:56 --> 00:54:04 for everybody who has an income below, and I would set the figure, below a certain figure.
00:54:04 --> 00:54:07 They would be able to live in this community.
00:54:08 --> 00:54:14 Everybody's rent would be the same. Okay? Make sure they were the apartment
00:54:14 --> 00:54:18 or the housing was up to their specifications.
00:54:18 --> 00:54:25 Meaning, if they're a person that needed to have everything arranged in their
00:54:25 --> 00:54:30 place that they're staying in a certain way, I would make sure that each person,
00:54:30 --> 00:54:33 based on what they needed, each person.
00:54:34 --> 00:54:40 Living quarters was set up exactly how they needed it to be set up so that there
00:54:40 --> 00:54:43 would be no issues for them getting around in their place.
00:54:43 --> 00:54:48 If they're a person in a wheelchair, I would make it everything roomy enough
00:54:48 --> 00:54:53 for them to be able to get in and out of the doorways and to be able to get
00:54:53 --> 00:54:57 into their bathrooms and do what they need to do in there.
00:54:57 --> 00:55:01 So those types of things, if they had to have a ramp to get in and out of their
00:55:01 --> 00:55:03 apartment, that would be cool.
00:55:03 --> 00:55:09 So I would set everything based on what they needed, how, and how they needed
00:55:09 --> 00:55:11 everything to be in their place.
00:55:12 --> 00:55:18 And it would be very affordable, you know, based on what their income is, you know?
00:55:18 --> 00:55:25 So, and if I can, you know, and I would try to build as many units as that million
00:55:25 --> 00:55:28 dollars will allow me to build. Gotcha. Okay.
00:55:29 --> 00:55:32 You know, because believe me, I hear it all the time.
00:55:32 --> 00:55:35 You know, there's a lot of people living on fixed incomes that,
00:55:36 --> 00:55:41 you know, can't afford, you know, to to live in some of the places they live
00:55:41 --> 00:55:45 in because, you know, that that check won't go but so far.
00:55:46 --> 00:55:52 And especially now that, you know, the guy that, you know, is running down in
00:55:52 --> 00:55:56 D.C., as people call it, is talking about cutting Social Security and all this
00:55:56 --> 00:55:59 other stuff. So we'll see. Yeah.
00:56:00 --> 00:56:05 So, you know, so if the Brinks are, you know, we get a Brinks armored car truck
00:56:05 --> 00:56:07 that just happens to drop some money in front of us.
00:56:08 --> 00:56:13 Okay. If you don't see money from a Brinks armored car, it's not me, it's Leonard.
00:56:13 --> 00:56:16 I'm letting you know, but you know, it's okay, man. You can share.
00:56:17 --> 00:56:19 Okay. You can share. All right.
00:56:20 --> 00:56:25 Anyway, well, that's, that's basically everything. That's our show for today.
00:56:26 --> 00:56:32 We definitely thank everybody for taking the time to join us today and tune
00:56:32 --> 00:56:35 in. Hopefully, we'll get some feedback from you.
00:56:35 --> 00:56:41 Len, you got anything you want to add? Oh, we didn't talk about the big event coming up.
00:56:42 --> 00:56:47 Oh, here we go. That's a guy. He's a guy that's happening at his place.
00:56:47 --> 00:56:49 And of course, he's not going to say anything. Okay.
00:56:49 --> 00:56:54 So at the DNR campground, June 7th, just remember the Black Music Festival.
00:56:55 --> 00:56:57 This is going to be one of the biggest events of the summer,
00:56:58 --> 00:57:01 people. So if you're looking for something to do, definitely.
00:57:02 --> 00:57:05 You heard our guest last week, Mr. Sam Bailey, talking about it.
00:57:06 --> 00:57:10 Definitely come on down to the DNR campground on June the 7th.
00:57:10 --> 00:57:13 Basically you're going to have all types of
00:57:13 --> 00:57:17 performances from gospel to r&b and
00:57:17 --> 00:57:21 southern soul we got three different three
00:57:21 --> 00:57:26 three different djs i think three different djs including our our god dj tim
00:57:26 --> 00:57:32 dog so definitely come on down starting early in the morning you know get there
00:57:32 --> 00:57:38 early because and get your spot picked out you know last year i think we had
00:57:38 --> 00:57:40 over 600 people there last year,
00:57:41 --> 00:57:43 right, Leonard? Yeah, about.
00:57:43 --> 00:57:48 Yeah, and I think that number is going to be even bigger this year.
00:57:48 --> 00:57:51 So definitely, if you're looking for a good day and fun time,
00:57:52 --> 00:57:57 come on down to the Black Music Festival ran by the Wilmington gentleman of
00:57:57 --> 00:57:59 distinction, Mr. Sam Bailey.
00:58:00 --> 00:58:05 And, you know, you can always reach out. We have information on the GNR campground
00:58:05 --> 00:58:12 site. You can go to Slam Belly's pages and be able to still get tickets and
00:58:12 --> 00:58:14 everything. So definitely check it out.
00:58:15 --> 00:58:19 All right. I guess that's everything, right? Yep. Sounds good,
00:58:20 --> 00:58:21 Dave. You did a great job.
00:58:22 --> 00:58:24 Remind me to pay you later. Yeah.
00:58:25 --> 00:58:28 Never mind. It's a person that owns the place where it's going to be taking
00:58:28 --> 00:58:31 care of. I mean, where the place is going to be taking place.
00:58:32 --> 00:58:37 Anyway, thank you guys for listening. and we always appreciate the time that you spend with us.
00:58:38 --> 00:58:42 We will definitely catch up with you again next week. Okay. Have a good night.
00:58:48 --> 00:58:55 Join us next week for another edition of News and Trends with your host, Dave and Lynn.
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