On their 6th anniversary episode airing on Election Day, hosts Dave Coker and Leonard Young welcome listeners and urge civic participation while summarizing the top stories of the day.
Highlights include a Burger King employee filmed in blackface, a Delaware court ruling ordering Faith Evans to pay $12.5M to The Notorious B.I.G.'s family trust, concerns about salon chemical exposure and a local Halloween shooting. The hosts offer perspective, call for accountability, and encourage listeners to stay informed.
The episode closes with a reminder to vote and tune in next week for more News and Trends.
00:14 --> 00:18 All right, y'all, get ready for another edition of
00:18 --> 00:21 News and Trends with your host Dave
00:22 --> 00:22 and Lynn.
00:32 --> 00:35 Welcome, welcome, welcome to the News and Trends with Dave and Len.
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01:37 --> 01:41 I'm hanging out with my partner Mr. Leonard Young. What's going on, sir? Hey Dave,
01:41 --> 01:45 everything is good. This is Leonard Young, CEO of National Black
01:45 --> 01:48 Guide. Delawareblack.com, Black media
01:49 --> 01:51 specialist, all-around good guy. How goes it, Dave?
01:54 --> 01:57 Uh, it's going, man. You know, uh, it is Election
01:57 --> 02:01 Day, and we hope everybody, if you didn't get a chance to
02:02 --> 02:04 do the early voting, that you got a chance to get out there,
02:05 --> 02:09 uh, and vote today. If you're still out there in
02:09 --> 02:12 these streets trying to get your voting done, that's great. Um,
02:13 --> 02:17 we need every vote possible to count, uh, because we
02:17 --> 02:21 already know the last couple of elections, it's always some mess behind it.
02:21 --> 02:24 So, uh, but we need to make sure this
02:24 --> 02:28 one counts. So, um, so hopefully everybody is
02:28 --> 02:30 out there doing their part if they haven't already done it.
02:33 --> 02:36 Um, also wanted to say— oh, go ahead. Oh, I,
02:36 --> 02:39 I was gonna say, I, I I actually forgot I was going to say,
02:39 --> 02:41 did you vote today? Of course I know you would have, but I forgot.
02:42 --> 02:43 Yeah, I wouldn't have said all of that. I wouldn't have said I didn't do
02:44 --> 02:46 it today. Uh, you know, I got a chance to do it early, so,
02:47 --> 02:50 you know, so, but, um, I'm, you know, I just want
02:51 --> 02:54 to say, people, this is very important because we just got too much
02:55 --> 02:58 craziness going on and we need to fix some things. And this
02:59 --> 03:02 is a chance to get that done for those who want to get it
03:03 --> 03:05 fixed. And everyone should want to get it fixed.
03:06 --> 03:09 So also, this also turns—
03:10 --> 03:14 it turns out to be a dual, um, day to
03:14 --> 03:17 celebrate, hopefully, um, if we get the
03:18 --> 03:21 things done we need to get done later on with the election.
03:22 --> 03:25 Today happens to be the exact day 6 years
03:26 --> 03:29 ago we started this podcast. Get out of here.
03:30 --> 03:33 Yes. So I guess that must have been—
03:34 --> 03:37 there must have been a leap year in there because normally, you know, we would
03:38 --> 03:40 have had to do 7 years to be the exact day because, you know,
03:40 --> 03:44 they switch around the week. Only you would think about that.
03:44 --> 03:47 But anyway, uh, yeah, David,
03:47 --> 03:50 this engineering mind over here. Yeah, I know.
03:51 --> 03:54 There you go. Uh, that's why you're a podcast right
03:55 --> 03:58 now. Uh, so We have,
03:59 --> 04:02 we have survived all this time as we start our 6th
04:02 --> 04:07 year. And so I want to say
04:07 --> 04:10 thank you all who have been faithful listeners and for all the new listeners that
04:10 --> 04:14 we've gotten over the years and supporters and people
04:14 --> 04:17 who, even if you listen just once or a couple of times,
04:17 --> 04:20 you know, you— we appreciate each and every one of you.
04:21 --> 04:24 And, you know, just want to say thank you for, uh,
04:25 --> 04:28 allowing us to bend your ear on some of the things that we
04:29 --> 04:32 talk about and give you our perspective on those things.
04:32 --> 04:35 And, um, you know, we really appreciate it.
04:36 --> 04:40 Len, you want to add anything? No, I mean, you know, Dave, just like
04:40 --> 04:43 we always hear people say, you know, Tuesdays and
04:44 --> 04:47 throughout the week, you can be anywhere listening to anything. There are a lot of
04:47 --> 04:51 distractions— social media, kids, family. So,
04:51 --> 04:54 you know, just taking the effort to tune in to us when you can.
04:55 --> 04:58 You know, we definitely appreciate it. And, you know, hopefully you can
04:59 --> 05:03 ride with us as we go to the next transition.
05:03 --> 05:06 You know, soon I'll be taking over the podcast and it'll just
05:07 --> 05:10 be News with Lynn. No, I'm just joking. But, uh, hopefully you can just,
05:10 --> 05:14 you know, transition with us. And if you ever have any comments or feedback,
05:15 --> 05:18 don't text me because I may not answer, but you can text Dave and he,
05:18 --> 05:21 and he, he will be faithful in his response.
05:22 --> 05:25 Yes, there you go. It's always, uh, yeah,
05:26 --> 05:29 you know, because after all, he is the silent partner. So, you know,
05:30 --> 05:33 he's the one out there winning all the awards while I do all the work.
05:33 --> 05:36 Okay, so I'm just saying, you know, so, but,
05:36 --> 05:39 um, but I wanna once again say thank
05:40 --> 05:43 you. And well, we want to say thank you, and we really appreciate you.
05:43 --> 05:47 So, all right, so We're
05:47 --> 05:51 going to go ahead and get started with show number
05:51 --> 05:54 1 of year number 6. Okay,
05:55 --> 05:58 and I know some of you have probably heard the story by now,
05:58 --> 06:02 um, um, since we just
06:02 --> 06:05 got finished with Halloween. And, um, speaking of Halloween,
06:05 --> 06:08 man, there was a lot of craziness that went on during Halloween,
06:08 --> 06:12 um, all over the United States. You know,
06:12 --> 06:15 we had a lot of things even here in Newark, Delaware.
06:15 --> 06:19 Everywhere. So they're still finding— I heard they found a
06:19 --> 06:23 7th person today that was injured in this shooting down on Main Street.
06:24 --> 06:27 So, um, you know, prayers go
06:27 --> 06:31 out to those, um, who were, you know,
06:32 --> 06:35 who were victims in that situation. I know there was one life
06:36 --> 06:39 lost and there's another one in serious condition. Uh,
06:40 --> 06:44 um, Um, I'm in critical condition and one in serious condition.
06:45 --> 06:47 So just prayers out to those people. And, um,
06:48 --> 06:52 you know, we got to figure out how to get a handle on
06:52 --> 06:57 this violence that's going on, you know. So, but going
06:57 --> 07:01 back to the story, uh, so there
07:02 --> 07:05 was this— the story was about a blackface
07:06 --> 07:09 costume is not acceptable. And I know some of you
07:10 --> 07:13 people probably have heard this story, but for those of you that haven't,
07:13 --> 07:15 this is what is— what the story is all about.
07:16 --> 07:20 Said Burger King is under fire after employee
07:20 --> 07:24 wore blatant blackface while working the drive-through on
07:24 --> 07:28 Halloween, and now the fast food chain is speaking
07:28 --> 07:34 out. The video player is currently playing
07:34 --> 07:38 an ad. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm ad-libbing
07:38 --> 07:41 there. Well, matter of fact, yeah, I know I'm, I'm talking
07:41 --> 07:45 ahead of myself. Matter of fact, I want you to play the video and
07:45 --> 07:48 so people— and you guys can hear the audio, what happened.
07:51 --> 07:54 Yo, I just asked this lady what she was today. Can you tell them what
07:54 --> 07:58 you told me? I'm just watching it. And I asked you what You
07:59 --> 08:01 said, did I think it was okay? And what was your response? As long as
08:01 --> 08:04 you have a good heart. And so your intentions is good, so that means
08:05 --> 08:07 you, you what, Black Lives Matter?
08:09 --> 08:12 Well, no, I just want to be Black. Why would you want
08:13 --> 08:15 to be Black? Do you know the struggles that we go through as Black people?
08:18 --> 08:20 All right, sorry, you make me laugh. Sorry. No, yes, yes I do. Oh,
08:20 --> 08:22 I mean, no I don't. No I don't. No I don't.
08:26 --> 08:29 Unbelievable. So what was going
08:29 --> 08:32 on there? There was a lady who came through the drive-through, a Black lady.
08:33 --> 08:37 The person who was working the drive-through was a white woman,
08:37 --> 08:40 and she had on Black makeup,
08:40 --> 08:44 brown— well, it was really like brownish color all
08:44 --> 08:48 over her face. And that's when the
08:48 --> 08:51 conversation happened that you just heard.
08:52 --> 08:56 Um, so, um, and she
08:56 --> 09:00 didn't really seem to understand. If you listen to the video, you can tell that
09:00 --> 09:03 she wasn't really cognizant
09:03 --> 09:07 of everything that was going on with the costume that she chose
09:07 --> 09:10 to wear and so forth. Um,
09:12 --> 09:16 so Burger King is
09:17 --> 09:20 now responding to online outrage over the clip,
09:21 --> 09:25 the video that went viral, saying in a
09:25 --> 09:30 statement, we are aware of the video and the matter was
09:30 --> 09:33 very serious. The statement continues
09:33 --> 09:35 that the franchise of this location,
09:37 --> 09:41 uh, the franchisee I should say, of this
09:41 --> 09:44 location is addressing the situation with his team
09:44 --> 09:48 his manager and team members to ensure everyone involved
09:49 --> 09:52 understands why this is not acceptable and won't happen again.
09:52 --> 09:56 So Burger King hasn't confirmed the location where it is or where it
09:56 --> 10:00 happened, but it was somewhere in Minnesota, um, in a town
10:00 --> 10:04 in Minnesota. And it's unclear if the employee faced
10:05 --> 10:07 disciplinary action. Now,
10:09 --> 10:13 what's so crazy is that when you look at this
10:13 --> 10:16 video, the girl didn't
10:17 --> 10:20 seem to be fazed by the fact that she
10:20 --> 10:24 was doing something that she shouldn't have been doing. And I don't think she knows
10:24 --> 10:27 the history around blackface.
10:28 --> 10:32 And that's all she had. It was just like back in the minstrel shows with
10:32 --> 10:35 the blackface. That's all she had. She had the Burger King outfit on, but she
10:36 --> 10:40 just had her face painting.
10:41 --> 10:44 Um, and then to respond the way she did, saying that she wanted
10:45 --> 10:48 to be Black, is really crazy because,
10:49 --> 10:52 you know, um, putting blackface
10:53 --> 10:56 on your face doesn't make you that way. Um,
10:57 --> 11:01 with all that's going on in the world today, and she was
11:01 --> 11:04 not I mean, she didn't look like she was super, super, super young.
11:05 --> 11:07 I mean, I'm sure she was. I know she was young, but I mean,
11:07 --> 11:10 it seemed like she should have known better. Or the fact that
11:11 --> 11:14 Burger King employers who employ
11:14 --> 11:18 her allowed her to work the drive-through window
11:18 --> 11:21 where everybody can see her with that makeup on. First of all,
11:22 --> 11:25 first of all, she should have been sent home as soon as she walked in
11:25 --> 11:29 there with that on. So what does that say about
11:29 --> 11:33 everything that's going on there? What do you think
11:33 --> 11:36 about all of this? So Dave, you know, when I saw the video, I'm not
11:37 --> 11:40 gonna lie, she was giving me special needs.
11:42 --> 11:46 You know, like something, something didn't seem right. And I'm thinking she
11:47 --> 11:50 came in there— I mean, this is my hypothesis— she
11:51 --> 11:55 either came in there special needs or she came in there And I
11:55 --> 11:59 think people kind of, um, played her up
11:59 --> 12:02 to do what she did, the blackface, to kind
12:03 --> 12:06 of, you know, laugh and chuckle about. Because even when she was answering the questions,
12:06 --> 12:09 like, she just didn't seem like she was in her right mind. I mean,
12:10 --> 12:13 I'm, I'm, I'm not sure, you know, we only saw a little clip
12:14 --> 12:17 of it, but she just didn't seem like she knew what
12:18 --> 12:20 she was doing or saying, to be honest, to me.
12:23 --> 12:26 Yes, no. Um, okay, do I know?
12:26 --> 12:29 Yes, no, I, I don't, but I do, you know what I mean? I don't
12:29 --> 12:33 know, it's just weird. Do you get the feeling that it could have
12:33 --> 12:36 been a possibility that the people who worked there put her up to it?
12:36 --> 12:40 Yeah, yeah, that, that— I mean, not for sure, but yes. Could I see
12:40 --> 12:44 something like that happening? Yeah, because I mean, Dave, think about it,
12:44 --> 12:47 even if she went in there with blackface, right?
12:50 --> 12:54 Dave, she's working the drive-through, you know. It's not like she's back there making the
12:54 --> 12:59 fries. Yeah, she's working the drive-through. So everybody
12:59 --> 13:03 working in that restaurant at the time would
13:04 --> 13:06 have to know, you know what I mean? So like, you know, it's not like
13:06 --> 13:10 she snuck by and she's a janitor and she working in the back behind the
13:10 --> 13:12 scenes. She's public-facing.
13:13 --> 13:17 And so, I mean, I— with that said, I put the onus on everybody
13:17 --> 13:21 in that restaurant. So that's why I'm like, okay, how, you know,
13:21 --> 13:24 how could they let her do this? And that's
13:24 --> 13:28 why in my mind I feel like she's special needs, because just the way she
13:28 --> 13:31 answered the questions didn't give me fully, fully aware.
13:34 --> 13:38 Um, do you think that, um, maybe this
13:38 --> 13:41 town where this place was Do you
13:42 --> 13:45 think maybe it might have been a rural area that they don't
13:46 --> 13:50 deal with a lot of Black people? Maybe that, that could even happen. Or do
13:51 --> 13:54 you think that these people that probably work with her, like you said,
13:54 --> 13:58 maybe put her up to it and then wanted
13:58 --> 14:02 to see the reaction that was going to happen with her working that window?
14:02 --> 14:06 Because that woman obviously was Black that pulled up
14:06 --> 14:10 and Thank God it wasn't, you know, a sister sister,
14:10 --> 14:13 a sister girl, you know, meaning that they weren't gonna pull her through
14:14 --> 14:18 the drive-through, you know, because that could have
14:18 --> 14:21 possibly happened with the wrong person, you know what I mean?
14:22 --> 14:25 Yeah, I mean, because we know how that goes. Yeah, I mean, to be honest,
14:25 --> 14:29 I, I think she's not right, and I think she was taken advantage of.
14:30 --> 14:33 I mean, that, you know, I mean, we'll, we'll never know.
14:36 --> 14:37 Yeah, well, um,
14:40 --> 14:43 and then what— and another reason it makes me think that it was a rural
14:43 --> 14:46 area and that, you know, maybe it was— and I could
14:46 --> 14:49 be wrong— a predominantly white area,
14:50 --> 14:52 because what did they not say happened?
14:54 --> 14:56 She got— she— they didn't say she got fired.
14:58 --> 15:02 So They just said that they were going to talk to everybody
15:03 --> 15:06 and so forth and so forth, but nobody got fired over
15:07 --> 15:10 it apparently. And, and, um, and I
15:11 --> 15:15 know I kind of checked on the story as recent as this morning and
15:15 --> 15:19 I still hadn't seen anybody been fired, you know. Now if
15:19 --> 15:23 anybody should be fired, it should start from the top. The managers
15:23 --> 15:26 should be fired. Yeah, I agree with that. Okay. And,
15:26 --> 15:30 and then who— of course the, the person that did it
15:30 --> 15:34 should have been fired. And there's a number of people that should have
15:34 --> 15:38 been fired. Whoever was working that shift that day should have been questioned to
15:38 --> 15:41 find out what— why they let that girl go to that window like that.
15:41 --> 15:44 Yeah, okay, okay. So,
15:45 --> 15:48 but, uh, and, you know, um,
15:50 --> 15:53 they also have to worry about lawsuits because, you know,
15:53 --> 15:56 you know, somebody— you know, people are quick to
15:56 --> 16:00 file lawsuits nowadays for all types of reasons. All somebody
16:00 --> 16:04 has to do is do something to say it's an insensitivity type lawsuit
16:05 --> 16:08 and somebody could get some money out of it. Yeah, you know, so,
16:09 --> 16:12 so, but I'm sure the story is not over with.
16:12 --> 16:15 I'm sure we'll hear more about it, but I just thought
16:16 --> 16:19 it was interesting because Halloween is,
16:19 --> 16:23 is really different now. Um, it's not about
16:23 --> 16:26 kids going out and getting candy from the neighbors and going
16:27 --> 16:30 around asking, saying trick-or-treat, because Did you guys
16:30 --> 16:34 give out candy? No, because, you know, I— we had that part
16:34 --> 16:38 with Halloween party at the campground. Oh yeah, right. And a lot of people said
16:38 --> 16:41 they didn't give out candy this year, and then the candy was very expensive,
16:41 --> 16:45 you know. Uh, they said a bag of candy, the big bag
16:45 --> 16:49 of candy that you would have paid $12 for last year was $25
16:49 --> 16:53 this year. Damn. Yeah, so yeah,
16:54 --> 16:57 so that makes all the difference in the world. So, um,
16:57 --> 16:59 nowadays, you know, um,
17:02 --> 17:05 you're only going to have certain areas that are going to give out candy and
17:05 --> 17:09 be successful at it. And, and, you know, the kids
17:09 --> 17:12 aren't even worried about the trick-or-treating aspect of it really anymore,
17:13 --> 17:17 you know. So it's going to be interesting,
17:17 --> 17:21 um, to see how this story plays out. So just wanted to bring
17:21 --> 17:25 that particular story up. Okay, we're gonna move on to our next story.
17:27 --> 17:30 This has become a pretty big story. Uh, I know
17:31 --> 17:35 you had it on your Delaware Black website as well.
17:37 --> 17:39 Um, you know, I came across the story yesterday.
17:40 --> 17:44 Um, and this is
17:45 --> 17:49 Faith Evans loses battle and now owes $12.5
17:49 --> 17:53 million to rapper Biggie's mom's estate.
17:54 --> 17:58 It's a singer, Faith Evans, who was once married to the late rapper The
17:59 --> 18:02 Notorious B.I.G., has lost a legal battle
18:03 --> 18:06 over $12.5 million in unpaid
18:07 --> 18:11 distributions owed to his mother's trust. A Delaware
18:12 --> 18:15 judge— oh, you know what, I did not realize it was a Delaware
18:16 --> 18:19 judge. Yeah, that, that's why I was on. So you didn't even take a look
18:19 --> 18:22 at our post, Dave? Yeah, because I read something else and
18:23 --> 18:27 I didn't, I didn't see that part. Okay. Ruled that the Valetta Wallace,
18:28 --> 18:31 um, revoke— I can't,
18:31 --> 18:34 I can't read all this stuff, but I can't get that word out.
18:36 --> 18:39 The Valetta Wallace— what
18:39 --> 18:42 is— how's that pronounced? Valetta Wallace? What you mean?
18:43 --> 18:43 Um,
18:43 --> 18:46 R-E-V-O-C-A-B-L-E.
18:47 --> 18:51 Revocable. Revocable. I've never— I don't
18:51 --> 18:54 think I've ever seen that word. Anyway, trust. Okay,
18:54 --> 18:59 y'all got me on that one. Okay, it's entitled to the
19:00 --> 19:04 full amount plus interest.
19:07 --> 19:10 Um, says rejecting Evans' attempt to withhold most of
19:11 --> 19:14 the money while a separate family dispute continues.
19:15 --> 19:17 In October 27th decision,
19:18 --> 19:21 Delaware Court of Chancery Judge Kathleen St.
19:21 --> 19:26 McCormick ordered Notorious B.I.G. LLC to
19:26 --> 19:29 pay the trust of $12.
19:35 --> 19:39 Um, Evans manages
19:39 --> 19:42 the company which controls the intellectual property
19:43 --> 19:46 rights to Biggie's music and other assets. Let me
19:47 --> 19:50 stop here. It's funny that everything was here,
19:50 --> 19:54 you know, and that there was a, you know, there's a company
19:54 --> 19:57 here with the trust and so forth. Do you know Delaware?
19:58 --> 20:01 How many, how many, how many businesses do you think Delaware
20:01 --> 20:05 has? Oh, hundreds of thousands. This is
20:05 --> 20:09 the craziest thing, you know, and it's the— I
20:10 --> 20:13 think it's the, the number one state when it comes to that, you know.
20:14 --> 20:17 So all of them set up here, I guess, because of the
20:18 --> 20:21 tax situation. Well, that's what most of them do it for anyway.
20:23 --> 20:26 It said Evans manages the company which controls
20:26 --> 20:30 the intellectual property rights to to Biggie's music
20:30 --> 20:34 and other aspects. Uh, according to Complex,
20:36 --> 20:39 the judge also ruled that interest must be added to
20:40 --> 20:44 the unpaid distributions dating back to when each payment
20:44 --> 20:48 was originally made. The dispute follows the death of Aletta Wallace
20:49 --> 20:52 in February, uh, of 2025.
20:56 --> 21:00 Her will left her estate to Evans,
21:00 --> 21:03 refused to recognize the trust as a member of the
21:03 --> 21:06 LLC entitled to receive distributions.
21:07 --> 21:11 Wayne Burroughs, representing the trust, filed a lawsuit to recover the
21:11 --> 21:15 money. Although the trust did not officially become a member of the company until December
21:15 --> 21:19 2025, the judge ruled that it was still entitled to
21:19 --> 21:22 the distributing distributions dating back to Wallace's death.
21:23 --> 21:24 Um,
21:27 --> 21:28 they said that, uh,
21:31 --> 21:33 Teyana Wallace and Christopher Jordan Wallace,
21:35 --> 21:38 who is also known as CJ, which is Biggie's,
21:38 --> 21:42 um, daughter and son, um, that arrangement
21:43 --> 21:47 gave each of the 4 parties, uh, a 25% share
21:47 --> 21:50 of the company's distribution. So The 4
21:50 --> 21:54 of them were to split those shares. The financial dispute
21:54 --> 21:58 gained attention when Primary Wave struck
21:59 --> 22:02 a 2025 deal for a stake in Biggie's
22:02 --> 22:05 music catalog and relate— and related rights,
22:05 --> 22:08 bringing additional proceeds into question.
22:09 --> 22:15 Evans and the company argued that the trust should receive only $48
22:15 --> 22:19 for now Because a separate Pennsylvania case challenged
22:19 --> 22:25 Borrow's authority as a state sole executioner
22:25 --> 22:26 and trustee.
22:30 --> 22:34 They said they asked the Delaware court to hold the remaining funds
22:34 --> 22:36 until the family dispute was resolved.
22:38 --> 22:41 However, Judge McCormick rejected both requests. She pointed out
22:42 --> 22:45 that Borrow had received official letters and test,
22:45 --> 22:47 uh, testimonials on,
22:48 --> 22:52 um, April 21st, 2025, making the state authorize
22:53 --> 22:55 him as state's authorized executioner.
22:57 --> 23:02 Uh, I mean, I said executioner—
23:02 --> 23:11 executor. Okay. Um, so Apparently
23:11 --> 23:15 this ruling went into effect and the judge McCormick
23:15 --> 23:16 said that,
23:16 --> 23:21 um, they gave Borrowed
23:21 --> 23:25 20, uh, 20 days to submit a final order reflecting the decision
23:25 --> 23:28 in the court previous rulings. So it looks like she's gonna have to
23:29 --> 23:31 come up with this money. Um,
23:31 --> 23:35 $12.5 million, that's a lot
23:39 --> 23:42 Um, what's your thoughts on this whole story? I mean,
23:42 --> 23:46 to be honest, it sounds like she owes it, you know. Not,
23:46 --> 23:50 uh, not, not much to say. But I wonder, I wonder
23:50 --> 23:54 what the kids are saying about this though, you know. I mean, the grandmother died
23:54 --> 23:59 back in '25, and of course he had been the executor
23:59 --> 24:03 of everything all this time. And then when she passed, now I
24:03 --> 24:06 guess, you know, the kids— everything was going to the kids.
24:07 --> 24:10 But I wonder how they feel about all of this,
24:10 --> 24:12 especially with, um,
24:14 --> 24:18 you know, them fighting over this money. And apparently there's
24:18 --> 24:21 other things they're fighting over as well. Yeah, I'm sure.
24:22 --> 24:26 The way you say, more money, more problems. Well, they— yeah,
24:26 --> 24:30 man, how about that? The song, they, they know all about it.
24:30 --> 24:34 You know, so, um, it's a shame when you have these type of situations,
24:35 --> 24:38 especially when it comes to celebrities. Apparently we know
24:39 --> 24:43 Faith hasn't really been doing all that well. They said that
24:43 --> 24:45 she's had her issues.
24:46 --> 24:50 Um, I'm sure I'd be
24:50 --> 24:54 shocked if she has all this money, I'll be honest with
24:55 --> 24:57 you. Um, You know,
24:58 --> 25:02 and normally when you hear these kind of rulings or whatever, you always wonder if
25:02 --> 25:05 the— you
25:06 --> 25:10 Mhm.
25:11 --> 25:15 He, you know, he's so talkative at times, people. I'm sorry.
25:15 --> 25:19 You know, I mean, I think it just come down to, you know, they owe
25:19 --> 25:22 the money, and the question is Did she spend
25:22 --> 25:26 the money, or is that a company that holds,
25:26 --> 25:29 um, you know, the license to the music? Are they just
25:30 --> 25:33 holding on to it, you know? Or did she give it
25:33 --> 25:37 to Stevie? Or did she give it to Stevie? You know,
25:37 --> 25:41 Stevie J. Yeah, I'm sure they spent some money
25:41 --> 25:45 because, uh, you know, you know, she of course had her little issues over
25:45 --> 25:50 the years. So, um, the money may be out there and
25:50 --> 25:51 Um, but it's gonna, you know, it's a big story. It's all over the place
25:52 --> 25:55 right now. And of course, Biggie is still, you know,
25:56 --> 25:59 somebody that people still identify with over the, you know,
25:59 --> 26:03 even after he's been, you know, after his death all these years ago.
26:03 --> 26:07 Um, people still, you know, want him to win, you know, and they want,
26:07 --> 26:11 you know, even though his kids are grown now, you know, want them to
26:11 --> 26:14 have the things that they're supposed to have as well. So, you know,
26:15 --> 26:18 After all, he made a way for all of them.
26:19 --> 26:23 So we'll be keeping an eye on this story and
26:23 --> 26:24 see what happens.
26:27 --> 26:31 Hopefully justice will be served
26:31 --> 26:32 the way it should be.
26:35 --> 26:37 Okay, we're going to move into our next story.
26:41 --> 26:44 You know, we've talked about these type of stories over the years,
26:44 --> 26:46 and here's another one. And I,
26:49 --> 26:52 from a slightly different perspective, and I just wanted to bring
26:52 --> 26:55 this story up. Black former hairstylist
26:56 --> 26:59 is now battling lung cancer after decades of
26:59 --> 27:03 exposure to salon chemicals.
27:03 --> 27:07 And you and I have talked about, you know, this kind of stuff
27:07 --> 27:12 in the past on a number of occasions. Um, said Georgie
27:12 --> 27:16 Golden, an African-American woman from Richmond,
27:16 --> 27:19 Virginia, who spent 35 years working
27:19 --> 27:23 as a hairstylist and nail tech, is now
27:23 --> 27:28 battling lung cancer after decades of
27:28 --> 27:31 exposure to salon chemicals. Diagnosed in
27:32 --> 27:35 April 2024, she is now questioning whether the products
27:35 --> 27:39 she handled daily contributed to her health problems.
27:40 --> 27:43 She says beauty professionals receive little information
27:44 --> 27:47 about the potential dangers of these chemicals during her career.
27:48 --> 27:51 Golden entered the beauty industry in the late '70s or
27:51 --> 27:55 early '80s. Over the years, she built close
27:56 --> 28:00 relationships with clients who often treated
28:00 --> 28:05 their salon visits as opportunities
28:06 --> 28:09 to share personal struggles. She typically styled
28:10 --> 28:13 at least 10 clients a day using chemical relaxers, hair dyes,
28:14 --> 28:18 and other treatments. She also provided nail salon services,
28:18 --> 28:21 which exposed her to additional products and chemicals.
28:22 --> 28:25 Although she spent, spent decades helping clients look
28:26 --> 28:29 and feel their best, she said the workers received few warnings about the
28:30 --> 28:32 possible health risks. Associated with their jobs,
28:33 --> 28:37 according to WLBT. At the time,
28:37 --> 28:42 salon workers were often told to wear gloves when handling certain relaxers
28:42 --> 28:47 containing lye, but Golden said that they received little
28:47 --> 28:50 guidance about inhaling chemical fumes, fumes,
28:51 --> 28:55 or using other protective equipment. You know what's interesting about
28:55 --> 28:58 that statement right there? Is now with everything that goes on,
28:58 --> 29:02 especially since COVID and so forth, and, you know,
29:02 --> 29:06 they have us, you know, wearing masks, and people will still put on a mask
29:06 --> 29:08 when they know they're sick, or, you know, there's stuff in the air.
29:09 --> 29:13 You would have thought— and I don't think I
29:13 --> 29:16 ever went into a salon, and I've been
29:17 --> 29:20 in a few of them over the years— where I seen
29:20 --> 29:24 people wearing masks, right? And I know
29:25 --> 29:28 if they think about it now, you probably
29:28 --> 29:32 would have seen all of the hairstylists and salon
29:32 --> 29:36 workers wearing masks, especially what they know now,
29:37 --> 29:40 because that was not something you saw. And yes, the chemicals were very
29:41 --> 29:44 strong in those places. You could smell them as soon as you walked in
29:44 --> 29:48 the door. You knew when somebody got their hair done, especially when the the
29:48 --> 29:52 waves and, um, and Jheri curls and all that stuff came
29:52 --> 29:55 out. That stuff was strong when they first— when you first
29:56 --> 29:58 got it done, you always knew somebody just got their hair done because of the
29:58 --> 30:03 way their hair smelled. So yeah, you know the smell I'm talking about,
30:03 --> 30:07 right? Yeah. So yeah, it says here her
30:07 --> 30:10 lung cancer diagnosis left her searching for answers,
30:11 --> 30:13 particularly because she had never smoked.
30:14 --> 30:18 She eventually began questioning whether years of salon work had affected
30:18 --> 30:23 her health. Formaldehyde, as a known carcinogen,
30:24 --> 30:28 has been found in certain hair products and can cause respiratory
30:28 --> 30:33 problems. However, there is no established evidence
30:33 --> 30:38 that salon chemical exposure caused her specific
30:38 --> 30:42 cancer diagnosis. She also recalled
30:42 --> 30:48 undergoing a hysterectomy at
30:48 --> 30:52 age 26. Wow, that's young. After experiencing
30:52 --> 30:55 severe pain and passing out at work,
30:56 --> 31:00 doctors found polyps, but she said she
31:00 --> 31:04 did not tell her that she had
31:04 --> 31:08 cancer. Research has raised additional concerns about the possible
31:08 --> 31:11 health effects of chemical exposures in the beauty industry.
31:13 --> 31:17 National Institute of Health study known as the Sister
31:17 --> 31:20 Study followed approximately 33
31:21 --> 31:24 women for 11 years and reported an association
31:24 --> 31:28 between formaldehyde exposure and uterine cancer.
31:29 --> 31:32 Researchers have also investigated the potential risks of
31:32 --> 31:37 chemical hair straighteners, which have been widely used
31:38 --> 31:42 by Black women. Golden said that she began looking more closely
31:42 --> 31:49 at these concerns after learning that other women who
31:49 --> 31:54 worked in the front lines
31:55 --> 31:59 had developed serious
31:59 --> 32:03 illnesses. Stressful connections
32:03 --> 32:06 are not always recognized. Um,
32:06 --> 32:10 complaints filed with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration,
32:10 --> 32:14 which is OSHA, have also highlighted
32:15 --> 32:17 safety concerns in the salons across the country.
32:18 --> 32:18 So,
32:23 --> 32:26 oh, let me read this. It said now retired Golden hopes other
32:27 --> 32:30 beauty professionals will prioritize their health using appropriate
32:31 --> 32:35 protective equipment and seeking medical attention when something
32:36 --> 32:39 feels wrong. She says women often spend so
32:40 --> 32:43 much time caring for others that they neglect their own well-being.
32:46 --> 32:49 Like I said, you and I have done a number of stories about this.
32:53 --> 32:57 When you think about it and, you know, you're married, and of course,
32:57 --> 33:01 you know, I know I was married at one time and I know My
33:01 --> 33:04 wife has used relaxers, my ex-wife has used relaxers, and so
33:05 --> 33:09 forth. And she has had a cancer scare herself.
33:11 --> 33:14 And, um, you know, it's, um, it's really
33:14 --> 33:18 interesting that, you know, apparently there's
33:18 --> 33:22 evidence that this, this stuff has caused
33:23 --> 33:27 problems, you know, especially when it comes to uterine cancer and
33:27 --> 33:28 ovary, uh,
33:30 --> 33:34 So forth and so forth. What, what's your
33:34 --> 33:37 whole thoughts about how these
33:37 --> 33:41 products were pushed to us for so many years and
33:42 --> 33:44 how we handled it? Because like I said,
33:45 --> 33:49 I've been in many salons over
33:49 --> 33:53 the years, you know, and I don't remember ever seeing anybody
33:53 --> 33:56 wearing a mask. Right. So,
33:56 --> 34:01 you know, you would think that would be something that—
34:03 --> 34:06 yeah, so I mean, I, I really think— go ahead. Yep. I really think
34:07 --> 34:10 it's twofold, where one,
34:12 --> 34:15 you know, of course we've been exposed and we're not protecting ourselves,
34:16 --> 34:20 and then two, do we really care?
34:21 --> 34:24 And I only say that because, I mean, think of all the other stuff like
34:24 --> 34:27 cigarettes. I mean, you know, people know cigarettes cause lung
34:27 --> 34:31 cancer, know they're not healthy, but people,
34:31 --> 34:35 you know, people do it. You know, alcohol, people do it.
34:35 --> 34:39 And I mean, those are maybe more addictive, but even think about
34:39 --> 34:42 people eating all these processed foods. You know, like,
34:42 --> 34:45 we, like, we know all these processed foods aren't great.
34:46 --> 34:49 So I mean, I agree. I think it's twofold where,
34:51 --> 34:55 you know, there are a lot of chemicals and there are a lot of risks.
34:56 --> 35:00 And then 2, you know, I think we have just become so
35:01 --> 35:04 accustomed to kind of doing what we want and, and kind of being okay
35:05 --> 35:08 with it, you know. So I mean, I, I don't know about you, but a
35:09 --> 35:12 lot— because, um, unfortunately I eat out a lot. So, you know, I always think
35:12 --> 35:16 about, okay, all these chemicals and the fast foods and the
35:16 --> 35:20 grease and the, you know, the, the dyes and
35:21 --> 35:23 all that. But it's kind of like, you know, at the same point you want
35:24 --> 35:27 to enjoy yourself and kind of, you know, live like you want to
35:27 --> 35:31 live. So, um, I do understand. And of course, you know,
35:31 --> 35:35 we don't know for sure 100% that it's
35:35 --> 35:39 the exposure to the salon chemicals, but we know that's a could
35:39 --> 35:41 definitely be a major cause. So,
35:43 --> 35:46 but I mean, you are correct. Like, when I go in salons and
35:47 --> 35:50 stuff like that, I do not see— I
35:51 --> 35:54 mean, if ever, it's very rare that I see somebody,
35:55 --> 35:58 um, you know, wearing something like that.
36:01 --> 36:04 Well, you know, and I guess now, you know,
36:05 --> 36:08 in the last 5, 6 years. If you're going to see it, you would probably
36:09 --> 36:13 see it within the last 5 to 6 years because everything that's happened
36:13 --> 36:16 with COVID and everything. But I know in the past,
36:16 --> 36:19 prior to the pandemic,
36:20 --> 36:23 I never saw anybody with a mask on in those places. I used
36:24 --> 36:27 to go to a salon, um, to get my haircut. I went to
36:28 --> 36:31 a couple salons to get my haircut. Um, matter of fact, uh,
36:32 --> 36:35 You remember Sadie's? Sadie's was one of the places I used to go to,
36:36 --> 36:39 um, and another salon that I used to go to in Wilmington.
36:41 --> 36:44 And no, I mean, it was, you know, they— I
36:45 --> 36:48 never saw anybody with masks on when I would go in those places. So,
36:50 --> 36:53 but I wonder now with everything that's been said about
36:54 --> 36:57 the hair industry, especially the Black hair industry, with all
36:57 --> 37:00 that we've endured with some relaxers and,
37:00 --> 37:03 and straighteners and all of that kind of stuff,
37:04 --> 37:09 um, will we see masks in
37:09 --> 37:12 a lot of these places now? Knowing— and it would probably have
37:13 --> 37:16 to be the N95 masks to keep, you know, they would be the most protective
37:16 --> 37:19 ones to have, I guess, you know.
37:19 --> 37:23 So, um, well, I know they— I was gonna
37:24 --> 37:27 say, even with that I'm always surprised now when I'll
37:27 --> 37:31 go random places and I'll see people with masks on. For instance,
37:31 --> 37:34 I was at the grocery store the other day and the cashier had a mask
37:34 --> 37:37 on. And I mean, I definitely understand,
37:37 --> 37:41 but you know, I'm always surprised to see people
37:41 --> 37:44 wearing— still wearing masks, which to be honest is a good thing because they're kind
37:45 --> 37:48 of protecting themselves. Yeah, well, especially in a job like— especially in a
37:49 --> 37:52 job like that because you got people coming by you're, you know, coming across your
37:53 --> 37:56 face on a regular basis. And, you know, you got people with all kinds
37:57 --> 38:00 of things coming through, the germs and everything. And I, you know,
38:00 --> 38:04 I, I guess that's the way to protect yourself, you know, because I still see
38:04 --> 38:08 people from, you know, I'm at the Hudson Center, you know, and,
38:08 --> 38:12 and, you know, we got all types of people. We got a tuberculosis clinic
38:12 --> 38:15 in there and we got all kinds of stuff in there. So, you know,
38:15 --> 38:17 you don't know what people are dealing with when they walk through that door.
38:18 --> 38:21 Right, you know, and you know, now a lot
38:22 --> 38:25 of us will wear a mask if we got a cold or something, you know,
38:25 --> 38:28 because we don't want to spread the germ or whatever. But when you talk about
38:29 --> 38:32 other stuff, you know, all right, I think
38:33 --> 38:37 it's totally insensitive of people if
38:37 --> 38:40 you know you have something serious going on with you that you don't
38:41 --> 38:44 want to spread to come into a place without a mask
38:45 --> 38:48 on. Yeah, or even gloves as far as I'm
38:49 --> 38:54 concerned, you know. That's a responsibility.
38:54 --> 38:57 Do you think people really care? Like, like, do you think people who are
38:58 --> 39:01 sick are like, hey, let me put a mask on, let me
39:02 --> 39:06 put gloves on? You want to think so. I mean,
39:06 --> 39:10 I mean, really, you— I mean, but you know, we, we We're
39:11 --> 39:14 in such a bad, bad state with the way that people think these
39:14 --> 39:17 days. No, I mean,
39:18 --> 39:22 well, you know, we talked about it, you know, prior to the show
39:23 --> 39:26 about what happened on Halloween. Um, you know,
39:26 --> 39:30 um, well, early part of the show, what happened on Halloween
39:30 --> 39:34 and all the different shootings and so forth that happened. And most of those shootings
39:34 --> 39:38 involve people under 21 years old. Yeah, you know,
39:38 --> 39:38 and,
39:42 --> 39:45 and so people just have a different
39:46 --> 39:49 way of thinking these days,
39:50 --> 39:53 and a lot of them do not care anymore. They really don't.
39:54 --> 39:57 And it's really sad. Um, we need to— we,
39:58 --> 40:00 you know, and I think a lot of it has to do with the— and,
40:00 --> 40:04 you know, I, I hate to say it, but I mean You look at
40:05 --> 40:08 the leadership in the country right now, we know he doesn't care, right?
40:09 --> 40:13 You know, uh, he only cares about making money and getting people
40:13 --> 40:17 and then being a, you know, a dictator basically,
40:18 --> 40:22 you know. So that's why today is a very important
40:22 --> 40:26 day, folks, leading back to Election Day. And, you know,
40:26 --> 40:29 we want to make sure that we are at those polls all the way up
40:29 --> 40:33 until the time it closes, um, to make
40:33 --> 40:37 sure that our voice is heard and that for those that want change,
40:38 --> 40:41 let's make a change. Because we know there's a lot that don't
40:42 --> 40:44 want change. You know,
40:46 --> 40:49 I had to say this before I move on. I had somebody sitting
40:49 --> 40:51 in my office the other day, um,
40:54 --> 40:54 and they were Hispanic.
40:58 --> 41:01 And they were there because there's new immigration
41:03 --> 41:07 laws now that will restrict people based
41:07 --> 41:10 on their status as far as getting food benefits and Medicaid.
41:13 --> 41:17 Some of the laws went into effect in October, and,
41:17 --> 41:21 and there's new laws going into effect in January. So a
41:22 --> 41:26 lot of people who are not citizens are
41:27 --> 41:30 really concerned because they're worried about their benefits getting cut off.
41:32 --> 41:35 So this couple that was in my office,
41:37 --> 41:40 probably in their 40s, Hispanic— one
41:41 --> 41:44 was a citizen, the other one wasn't. The one that
41:45 --> 41:48 wasn't was saying, you know,
41:51 --> 41:55 this is, this is not what he said would happen.
41:55 --> 41:59 I said, who? And he said,
41:59 --> 42:03 President Trump. He said if we voted for him that he
42:03 --> 42:06 would take care of us. I said, where did you read that?
42:06 --> 42:10 Right. And he said
42:10 --> 42:16 that his brother got a letter that was supposedly from the president
42:16 --> 42:19 that said that, you know, that he would
42:19 --> 42:22 always take care of him
42:23 --> 42:26 and his family. I said, you believe that letter was real?
42:27 --> 42:30 I said, where's your brother now? And the wife
42:31 --> 42:33 put her head down. The brother got deported.
42:37 --> 42:40 I said, so This is the
42:40 --> 42:44 direct result of people like you who
42:44 --> 42:48 didn't understand what happened, what was happening with
42:48 --> 42:52 the last election. Hopefully you understand this time around
42:53 --> 42:56 what you need to do. I can't tell you who to vote for, but hopefully
42:56 --> 43:00 you'll get it. You'll, you'll, you'll do all the research that you need
43:00 --> 43:03 to do before you make your selection this time, if you haven't already made it.
43:05 --> 43:08 And he started laughing. He said, oh, I know now, you know.
43:09 --> 43:11 So sure, you know. So, but anyway,
43:13 --> 43:15 well, speaking of that, that leads us into Dave's Corner.
43:16 --> 43:20 And so, and this is perfect caveat
43:20 --> 43:24 in going into Dave's Corner today, um, and this
43:25 --> 43:28 is the question for today: what's
43:28 --> 43:32 your prediction on tonight's election result? What do you think is going
43:32 --> 43:35 to happen? Um, Leonard, do you think the Democrats will be
43:36 --> 43:39 in power by the time everything is counted?
43:40 --> 43:44 Yeah, definitely. You, you really feel confident
43:44 --> 43:47 with that? Yeah, because I mean, there's just been so much up— like, you know,
43:47 --> 43:50 they— even Republicans are pissed off right now.
43:51 --> 43:54 So, you know, I think everybody's wanting changes in
43:54 --> 43:58 these first 2 years. We see that Promises made
43:58 --> 44:02 were not promises upheld. And, you know, I think
44:02 --> 44:03 people want— people want to change.
44:06 --> 44:09 Do you think that, um, even with the little things that have been
44:10 --> 44:13 happening over the last month or two, like with the whole
44:13 --> 44:16 thing with the, uh, with the,
44:17 --> 44:20 um, uh, what's the name, um, jumping,
44:21 --> 44:24 jumping parties, um Uh, well, voting for the Republican.
44:24 --> 44:27 Um, Hillary— what's,
44:27 --> 44:31 what's the, what's the lady's name that, that's the, that just switched
44:31 --> 44:35 parties? I was voting for the Republican because she didn't like
44:36 --> 44:40 the other guy who, who, um, was talking about it. They said he— she
44:40 --> 44:43 called him anti-Semitic. Yeah, I'm not sure.
44:46 --> 44:49 Oh, uh, man, that's crazy. I cannot think of her name. But anyway,
44:50 --> 44:53 we got a lot of strange things happening at the moment.
44:53 --> 44:57 And, um, you know, and with
44:57 --> 45:00 them trying to line everything to work in their favor, but it's
45:01 --> 45:02 not going to work this time. I don't feel it's going to work either,
45:02 --> 45:06 Larry. I think, you know,
45:06 --> 45:09 the people are too upset. People are too upset.
45:09 --> 45:13 We've seen too many unbroken— I mean, we've seen too many broken promises
45:14 --> 45:17 and Not that he can deliver
45:18 --> 45:21 on them all anyway. And, you know, he's too busy
45:21 --> 45:25 trying to put his name on everything, right, as opposed
45:25 --> 45:28 to fixing the things that we have the problems with, you know. So,
45:29 --> 45:30 so everyone,
45:32 --> 45:34 if you haven't voted, you still have some time.
45:36 --> 45:39 Let's get it done. Let's hope for change.
45:40 --> 45:44 And let's truly make America
45:44 --> 45:48 great again, as opposed to this mess that we've been dealing
45:48 --> 45:54 with. Okay? Because this is not what
45:54 --> 45:58 we wanted to see. This is not what we feel is
45:58 --> 46:02 a— we're right now, we're not a great country. We're being laughed at by everybody
46:02 --> 46:06 right now. We got people leaving this country to
46:06 --> 46:10 go move to other places because they don't want to be here. Right,
46:10 --> 46:13 that's crazy. So, and that is crazy.
46:14 --> 46:15 That is crazy.
46:18 --> 46:19 So, um,
46:25 --> 46:28 that's everything we got for you tonight.
46:30 --> 46:34 We want to get
46:35 --> 46:38 given us 5 full great years. And here we're
46:38 --> 46:41 going into getting through this next year,
46:42 --> 46:45 giving you the information that we've always given you. And,
46:46 --> 46:50 um, trying to say have a good night and
46:50 --> 46:51 we'll talk to you next Tuesday.
47:02 --> 47:05 Tune in next week, ladies and gentlemen, for another edition of News and
47:06 --> 47:08 Trends with your hosts Dave and Lynn.