Hosts Dave and Len discuss local events (Afro Foodie Festival, jazz and Caribbean festivals), a complex multi-state surrogacy legal battle over baby Gabriel, declining approval ratings for President Trump amid economic and foreign policy concerns, a Massachusetts woman's hunger strike protesting SNAP cuts, top Black cities to visit list, and a light-hearted riddle segment.
The episode blends community news, national politics, human-interest stories, and cultural recommendations in a conversational format.
00:00:12 --> 00:00:20 All right, y'all, get ready for another edition of News and Trends with your host, Dave and Lynn.
00:00:21 --> 00:00:22 Welcome.
00:00:29 --> 00:00:33 Welcome, welcome to News and Trends with Dave and Lynn. This is one of your
00:00:33 --> 00:00:37 hosts, Mr. Dave Coker, proprietor of Dave Mark Inc., promoter,
00:00:37 --> 00:00:39 event planner, and all-around good guy.
00:00:40 --> 00:00:45 I just wanted to remind everyone that we are part of the MBG Podcast Network.
00:00:45 --> 00:00:49 We can listen to this show and a host of other great shows.
00:00:50 --> 00:00:54 And if you happen to miss us on Tuesdays when we do our show regularly,
00:00:54 --> 00:01:01 you can always catch us on the playback, which is on Saturdays at 10 o'clock,
00:01:01 --> 00:01:07 Eastern time, 10 o'clock AM Eastern time on internet radio, 101.5 The Fever
00:01:08 --> 00:01:10 with DJ Riz and his partner, Mr. Bobby Keys.
00:01:11 --> 00:01:16 And that's again on Saturday mornings at 10 a.m. 101.5 The Fever.
00:01:18 --> 00:01:21 I'm hanging out with my partner, Mr. Leonard Young. What's going on, sir?
00:01:21 --> 00:01:25 Hey, Dave. Everything is good. This is Leonard Young, CEO of National Black
00:01:25 --> 00:01:31 Guide, DelawareBlack.com, black media specialist, all around good guy. How goes it?
00:01:32 --> 00:01:36 Man, I can't call Boy, you know, it's another wonderful day in the neighborhood.
00:01:36 --> 00:01:39 What can you say? You know? All right, Mr. Rogers.
00:01:40 --> 00:01:43 Slash Dash Coker. Yeah, there you go. There you go.
00:01:44 --> 00:01:51 Just, you know, can't call it, man. It's just coming down to the wind down of the summer, right?
00:01:52 --> 00:01:56 Man, it went by so quick. I mean, kids go back to school next week,
00:01:56 --> 00:02:01 and you got some kids already left for school like yours, you know?
00:02:01 --> 00:02:07 And, you know, this is the fledgling moment of the summer ending.
00:02:07 --> 00:02:12 And, man, you know, it's been so much going on over the last couple weeks, man.
00:02:13 --> 00:02:18 You had, you know, we had the Jazz Festival, and then we had the Caribbean Festival,
00:02:18 --> 00:02:24 and you had the Jerome Saunders event that we talked about last week.
00:02:24 --> 00:02:29 They had that in the park on the 15th. It was a very successful event.
00:02:30 --> 00:02:34 I saw a lot of the pictures from there. It looked like a great event.
00:02:34 --> 00:02:37 I didn't get a chance to make it over there, but congratulations on that,
00:02:37 --> 00:02:42 Jerome, and the organization that the Price is Run.
00:02:43 --> 00:02:46 The original Price is Run Boy, it's over there.
00:02:46 --> 00:02:49 But this thing, you know, and then we got August quarterly coming up.
00:02:49 --> 00:02:55 It's just a lot going on, man. And we can't forget about our friend to the show, Aja.
00:02:57 --> 00:03:01 Her festival is this Saturday, the Afro Foodie Festival.
00:03:01 --> 00:03:06 And where's that going to be? Yep. So that's going to be at Rodney Square this Saturday, April 22nd.
00:03:07 --> 00:03:12 And it's going to be a day full of African culture. And when we talk about African,
00:03:12 --> 00:03:14 I'm talking about the motherland.
00:03:14 --> 00:03:19 Yeah. I'm African culture. There's got to be a lot of African food vendors.
00:03:19 --> 00:03:22 There's got to be music performers vendors.
00:03:23 --> 00:03:24 So this is good. And it's free.
00:03:24 --> 00:03:28 And so it's going to be a day of fun at Rodney square.
00:03:28 --> 00:03:32 I'm helping out. I'm going to be her vendor coordinator. So Dave,
00:03:32 --> 00:03:33 I need you to be there at 7.
00:03:33 --> 00:03:40 AM to, to help set up some tables. And I'm already worried. He's the vendor
00:03:40 --> 00:03:43 coordinator folks. I'm already worried don't be don't be,
00:03:46 --> 00:03:50 Yeah, you're gonna be at seven o'clock in the morning Well, I mean,
00:03:50 --> 00:03:55 yeah, I don't got no issue with that Okay, I mean you what time what time does it start?
00:03:56 --> 00:04:02 So it actually it starts at 12 the events 12 to 7 Rodney Square free event and,
00:04:03 --> 00:04:04 How long are you going to be there?
00:04:07 --> 00:04:10 Till one? I'll probably be there for a little bit. I already know I ain't going to make it all day.
00:04:11 --> 00:04:16 But, you know, I would like to experience an event for maybe a couple hours, so maybe two, three.
00:04:16 --> 00:04:20 Well, I hope that you got some good vending because, I mean,
00:04:20 --> 00:04:25 African food, I mean, some of that, that jello, white rice, man.
00:04:25 --> 00:04:26 Oh, man, I can eat that all day.
00:04:27 --> 00:04:30 All right. Well, Dave, what time am I going to see you down there?
00:04:30 --> 00:04:33 Yeah, well, I got to work that day. Okay. What time do you get off? Three o'clock.
00:04:34 --> 00:04:40 I'll wait for you I already know you will not be there when I get off I'll wait
00:04:40 --> 00:04:44 for you, 3.30 I hear you okay,
00:04:47 --> 00:04:51 speaking of events I know that leads right into August.
00:04:54 --> 00:04:58 So we got a lot of things still coming up for the month of August has been an
00:04:58 --> 00:05:03 action-packed month, man, I tell you yeah, so,
00:05:04 --> 00:05:08 Just wanted to shout out, we had recently, over the last couple of weeks,
00:05:08 --> 00:05:12 we had two performers to come on our show, Ms.
00:05:12 --> 00:05:19 Ann Latrice and also Mr. Naboo Fullman, who were doing tribute shows over the
00:05:19 --> 00:05:23 weekend on Saturday, actually had their shows on the same day.
00:05:25 --> 00:05:29 One at Wilson's in New Jersey, and that's where Anne Latrice,
00:05:30 --> 00:05:37 Whitney Houston tribute was, and also Naboo Foreman, who did his tribute,
00:05:37 --> 00:05:40 Luther Vandross tribute at the Queen.
00:05:42 --> 00:05:48 Both events were successful People talking about it all online and everything,
00:05:49 --> 00:05:54 Both of them had great turnouts And the reviews have been fantastic for both
00:05:54 --> 00:05:58 shows I just wanted to make sure we shouted them out And thank you for spending
00:05:58 --> 00:06:03 time with us on News and Trends And glad that the shows were successful,
00:06:04 --> 00:06:08 So we just wanted to give you guys a shout out as far as that I want to shout
00:06:08 --> 00:06:11 out one other person before we get started, too.
00:06:11 --> 00:06:15 Today happened to be my daughter's birthday, so I just want to say happy birthday to her.
00:06:16 --> 00:06:18 Okay. He's down in North Carolina.
00:06:19 --> 00:06:22 47, man. Mm. Yeah.
00:06:23 --> 00:06:29 No, no, that's what I said. So, yeah, so, but I just want to say happy birthday, Davina.
00:06:30 --> 00:06:35 What part of North Carolina is she in? She's down in Greensboro.
00:06:36 --> 00:06:38 Greensboro, North Carolina. So...
00:06:41 --> 00:06:45 Yeah, North Carolina, man, they got a lot going on down there lately.
00:06:45 --> 00:06:50 I've been reading some stuff about stuff going on all over North Carolina. I don't know.
00:06:52 --> 00:06:54 Hopefully they're able to get some of those things resolved, but.
00:06:58 --> 00:07:03 We'll see what happens. But we got a few things that we want to talk about today.
00:07:03 --> 00:07:06 So we're going to go ahead and get into some of these stories.
00:07:07 --> 00:07:09 So I don't know if you, did you hear about this first story,
00:07:09 --> 00:07:14 the legal stakes around the black surrogate mother fight for bodily autonomy?
00:07:14 --> 00:07:15 Have you heard about the story?
00:07:16 --> 00:07:19 I think so. I haven't heard directly. I think my wife was telling me about it. Right.
00:07:20 --> 00:07:25 I kind of heard, maybe want to talk about it because I kind of heard a tidbit
00:07:25 --> 00:07:30 about it a couple of days ago on the radio and I missed part of the story.
00:07:30 --> 00:07:34 So I went and did some research on it. I found this would be a fascinating story.
00:07:34 --> 00:07:37 So I wanted to share it with people. So...
00:07:38 --> 00:07:45 This story is about a surrogacy fight spanning three states and forcing courts
00:07:45 --> 00:07:53 to sort out contracts, heritage, medical decisions, and bodily autonomy.
00:07:53 --> 00:08:00 And what's shaping up to be one of the most complicated bodily autonomy legal battles.
00:08:00 --> 00:08:05 A contract has collided with a pregnancy that didn't go according to plan,
00:08:05 --> 00:08:08 a serious fetal diagnosis,
00:08:09 --> 00:08:15 a disagreement on whether to terminate the pregnancy, and a move across state
00:08:15 --> 00:08:22 lines have turned one family's dispute into a case with potentially much broader implications.
00:08:23 --> 00:08:29 It says McKenna West, an Alaskan mother of two, is the center of all of this
00:08:29 --> 00:08:35 after she gave birth to a child whom she named Gabriel, against the wishes of
00:08:35 --> 00:08:37 his biological parents.
00:08:38 --> 00:08:44 As we previously reported, now we're breaking down the legal states after baby Gabriel's birth.
00:08:45 --> 00:08:51 It says the contract is only the beginning. It says, surrogacy agreements are
00:08:51 --> 00:08:55 designed to establish expectations before pregnancy begins.
00:08:55 --> 00:09:01 They can spell out everything from medical care to compensation and the attended
00:09:01 --> 00:09:03 parent's legal relationship with the child.
00:09:04 --> 00:09:13 But a contract doesn't necessarily settle every question that can arise during pregnancy.
00:09:14 --> 00:09:19 According to NBC News, the dispute began after the doctors determined about
00:09:19 --> 00:09:24 around 20 weeks that the fetus, the hypoplastic left heart syndrome,
00:09:26 --> 00:09:28 the abbreviation is HLHS.
00:09:30 --> 00:09:35 A rare birth defect where the left side of the heart cannot pump blood to the
00:09:35 --> 00:09:38 body properly because it's too small.
00:09:39 --> 00:09:43 The attended parents sought a termination under the terms of the agreement,
00:09:43 --> 00:09:50 but West refused and ultimately traveled to Texas where she gave birth this week.
00:09:51 --> 00:09:57 That leaves courts with a difficult question. What happens when the terms of,
00:09:58 --> 00:10:04 a surrogacy agreement conflicts with a surrogate's decision about her pregnancy,
00:10:04 --> 00:10:05 and how it should proceed?
00:10:06 --> 00:10:11 How the state impacts the case. The case becomes even more complicated because
00:10:11 --> 00:10:13 it involves multiple states.
00:10:13 --> 00:10:18 The attended parents are in California. The surrogate has ties to Alaska.
00:10:19 --> 00:10:24 The child was born in Texas. and each state approves surrogacy and parentage differently.
00:10:25 --> 00:10:31 There is no single national law governing gestational surrogacy.
00:10:32 --> 00:10:38 In the country. Instead, families and courts had to navigate an entire system
00:10:38 --> 00:10:45 of statutes and court decisions, which makes jurisdiction more than legal technically.
00:10:45 --> 00:10:49 Depending on which state laws are applied, the surrogacy agreement could be
00:10:49 --> 00:10:51 interpreted differently.
00:10:53 --> 00:10:56 That would ultimately decide who has the rights over Gabriel.
00:10:56 --> 00:11:00 Now, I'm going to stop right here and say this. Now,
00:11:01 --> 00:11:07 with the story, the way that it was told when I first heard it and what they're
00:11:07 --> 00:11:08 talking about, because once,
00:11:09 --> 00:11:15 the adopting or the parent, the adopting or the surrogate family,
00:11:15 --> 00:11:19 I should say, who was getting the child heard about the heart defect,
00:11:20 --> 00:11:24 they told the girl to terminate the pregnancy because they didn't want to go
00:11:24 --> 00:11:28 through with it because they didn't want to deal with all of that, right? So...
00:11:29 --> 00:11:34 Let me ask the question. If you were in this type of situation and.
00:11:37 --> 00:11:42 You were the surrogate parents who was getting the child and you heard there
00:11:42 --> 00:11:45 was a birth defect that could possibly be a big issue.
00:11:46 --> 00:11:49 I don't want to ask whether you would say terminate the pregnancy,
00:11:49 --> 00:11:56 but what I would say is how big of a concern would that be for you or would
00:11:56 --> 00:11:57 that be a deal breaker for you?
00:11:58 --> 00:12:01 No, I mean, I think it would be a big concern. I can't say it'd be a deal breaker,
00:12:01 --> 00:12:06 but it would be a lot of deliberation and prayer and, you know,
00:12:07 --> 00:12:08 I guess decision making.
00:12:08 --> 00:12:12 I mean, I think it's definitely a serious thing that a lot of parents would
00:12:12 --> 00:12:14 take into serious consideration.
00:12:14 --> 00:12:17 Right. Most parents would, especially when you, and, you know,
00:12:17 --> 00:12:21 and this is one of the rare type of diseases that doesn't happen on a regular basis.
00:12:21 --> 00:12:27 So, you know, now, excuse me, it was something that could be fixed with surgery.
00:12:27 --> 00:12:31 But, of course, you know, when you're talking about a small infant like that,
00:12:31 --> 00:12:33 you know, you don't know how the surgery is going to go.
00:12:33 --> 00:12:39 So, this says, continues with says, who gets to be the parent?
00:12:40 --> 00:12:42 Then there's the biggest question at the center of the case,
00:12:42 --> 00:12:45 who is legally recognized as the child's parent?
00:12:45 --> 00:12:50 In typical gas stationals of surrogacy agreements, the intended parent expects,
00:12:51 --> 00:12:55 to assume legal rights after birth, but when the arrangement itself falls apart,
00:12:56 --> 00:12:58 that process can become trickier.
00:12:59 --> 00:13:04 Gabriel's medical condition adds another layer. While the adult's legal claims
00:13:04 --> 00:13:10 are being sorted out, the child needs ongoing medical care, making a question
00:13:10 --> 00:13:13 of decision-making especially urgent.
00:13:13 --> 00:13:16 As of now.
00:13:18 --> 00:13:24 As of now, they're saying Wes is barred from having any contact with Gabriel,
00:13:25 --> 00:13:27 according to the New York Post.
00:13:27 --> 00:13:34 He's in the custody of the state. So the biological mother is now barred from
00:13:34 --> 00:13:41 having any contact with the baby, and the baby has become, you know, a ward of the state.
00:13:43 --> 00:13:49 So this is why there's a big dispute, which goes well beyond the surrogacy agreement.
00:13:50 --> 00:13:56 It says, at its core, the case is how far a contract could reach when it involves
00:13:56 --> 00:14:00 pregnancy and medical decisions and how courts should handle that.
00:14:00 --> 00:14:04 Quest is when the people involved are subject to different state laws.
00:14:05 --> 00:14:09 That's got to be crazy. When you're talking about three different states. Right.
00:14:10 --> 00:14:13 You're talking about a small child with medical issues.
00:14:14 --> 00:14:19 Who is the person making the decisions? Who's responsible for these decisions?
00:14:20 --> 00:14:24 And so forth. Because apparently when the surrogate parents found out that she
00:14:24 --> 00:14:31 didn't abort the child, of course, quite naturally, then they said, well, now they're back.
00:14:31 --> 00:14:34 Like, you know, they're saying, well, especially after they found out that the
00:14:34 --> 00:14:39 child could, you know, that the surgery could fix the situation.
00:14:40 --> 00:14:41 Now they all in again.
00:14:42 --> 00:14:46 So, of course, this has made everything even crazier.
00:14:47 --> 00:14:52 They said that this case could set a precedence as far as surrogacy is concerned,
00:14:53 --> 00:14:57 and who has the proper authority in this case.
00:14:58 --> 00:15:01 It said the parties expected to head to Dallas court this month to continue
00:15:01 --> 00:15:06 the legal battles while Gabriel continues life-saving medical treatment.
00:15:06 --> 00:15:09 So here it is, the babies in the hospital fighting for his life.
00:15:10 --> 00:15:14 And they're trying to determine who's going to take care of him for the rest of the year.
00:15:16 --> 00:15:19 Crazy story, you know, and it's got to be tough.
00:15:19 --> 00:15:27 I mean, I have a friend who went through surrogacy about five years ago,
00:15:27 --> 00:15:35 and they did a simple contract with the parent, the person who gave birth.
00:15:36 --> 00:15:43 It was some cash involved. But one of the main things, one of the main stipulations
00:15:43 --> 00:15:47 was that once the deal was done,
00:15:48 --> 00:15:52 the biological mother could not see the child.
00:15:52 --> 00:15:58 And, oh, and also the biological father, because she was married,
00:15:58 --> 00:16:00 and this was something they chose to do together.
00:16:01 --> 00:16:05 And they were paid, they were paid the money.
00:16:05 --> 00:16:12 And so quite naturally, everything was fine until one day.
00:16:14 --> 00:16:20 About two years after the birth of the child, the biological mother ran into,
00:16:21 --> 00:16:23 the woman who is now the mother.
00:16:25 --> 00:16:29 The surrogate ran into the mother with the baby.
00:16:30 --> 00:16:37 And, of course, saw the baby, saw, could see herself in the baby,
00:16:37 --> 00:16:41 and then decided that she wanted to try to get the child back.
00:16:42 --> 00:16:49 And so they're in court now trying to figure this out, even though she was paid,
00:16:49 --> 00:16:50 even though they were paid.
00:16:51 --> 00:16:54 They said they're willing to give the money back, all of that kind of stuff,
00:16:55 --> 00:16:58 What do you do in that case when you bond with a kid,
00:17:00 --> 00:17:06 and you're raising that kid? And all because of a chance, everything was fine. They said that.
00:17:09 --> 00:17:14 The new parents had not seen or heard from the biological parents in all that
00:17:14 --> 00:17:19 time until that day she ran into her with the baby. And that's when everything started.
00:17:20 --> 00:17:26 So these contra facts and everything, you got to make sure that I guess you
00:17:26 --> 00:17:30 got to make sure you I guess you really got to have a good lawyer to kind of
00:17:30 --> 00:17:32 go through everything to make sure that there's,
00:17:33 --> 00:17:38 you know, people's rights are not violated or that your rights are protected,
00:17:38 --> 00:17:44 whoever, whoever the parent, you know, whatever their situation may be at the time.
00:17:44 --> 00:17:48 But, you know, that's the only thing with surrogacy, man. I mean,
00:17:48 --> 00:17:51 I don't know if I could do it. Do you think you could do something like that?
00:17:52 --> 00:17:56 I mean, I think that would be a last resort, but, you know, I think we're not
00:17:56 --> 00:18:00 women and I know, you know, women feel different ways depending on,
00:18:00 --> 00:18:06 you know, what's going on with them, but it wouldn't be my choice on either side.
00:18:06 --> 00:18:11 Like, you know, whether my wife was carrying a baby for somebody else or somebody
00:18:11 --> 00:18:12 else was carrying a baby for us.
00:18:14 --> 00:18:17 Yeah. Well, first of all, I ain't nobody carrying a baby for us because I'm
00:18:17 --> 00:18:20 not, you know, I just dropped one off at college. I ain't starting over.
00:18:22 --> 00:18:27 Yeah i get it do you think you would adopt,
00:18:28 --> 00:18:34 at my age now no no but i mean but i mean was it something that you would consider
00:18:34 --> 00:18:35 you know if you were younger,
00:18:35 --> 00:18:39 yeah i mean i i would definitely consider it you know i think as a kid i always
00:18:39 --> 00:18:45 wanted like a big family well i guess there's four kids here now so that's big but,
00:18:46 --> 00:18:50 i wouldn't say i wouldn't say i'm opposed to i mean i i definitely like the
00:18:50 --> 00:18:58 idea of adopting i think the hard thing is and i'd probably be with most people i would want them to be,
00:18:58 --> 00:19:03 maybe under a certain age just so they can be more impressionable you know,
00:19:04 --> 00:19:08 right all right have you kind of mold yeah like yeah have you seen the movie
00:19:08 --> 00:19:10 what's that the good son yeah,
00:19:12 --> 00:19:14 yeah i can't remember that's the one but they you know they adopted the kid
00:19:14 --> 00:19:16 and he turned out to be crazy and for,
00:19:17 --> 00:19:21 anyone listening i'm not saying that's that's normal it's probably abnormal
00:19:21 --> 00:19:25 but at the same point you know you want to want somebody you can build memories
00:19:25 --> 00:19:27 with and appreciates you know,
00:19:28 --> 00:19:31 yeah i know you know.
00:19:32 --> 00:19:36 Things are things are interesting i mean because you know the dynamics of when
00:19:36 --> 00:19:40 you're adopted and so forth i've heard i got friends who have been adopted and,
00:19:41 --> 00:19:44 you know, and have adopted children.
00:19:44 --> 00:19:49 And, you know, of course, the whole key, I guess the whole key to the whole
00:19:49 --> 00:19:52 thing is whether the children know they're adopted or whether they don't.
00:19:54 --> 00:19:59 Or they find out later on in life. And of course, usually that's always leads
00:19:59 --> 00:20:01 to different situations when, when that happens.
00:20:01 --> 00:20:08 So, but, you know, adoption nowadays, I guess, you know, of course the whole
00:20:08 --> 00:20:12 key to that is too, is knowing, knowing the history of the child and making
00:20:12 --> 00:20:15 sure that you're a good match with them, you know?
00:20:15 --> 00:20:20 So, especially nowadays with children, these, the children of the day is not
00:20:20 --> 00:20:24 like the children, you know, when you were coming up or when I was coming up.
00:20:25 --> 00:20:29 You know, so that's a whole different story. Yeah, that's a whole other story.
00:20:30 --> 00:20:34 But I want to keep, I'm definitely going to keep an eye on this case because
00:20:34 --> 00:20:37 I thought it was very interesting because it could change the way,
00:20:37 --> 00:20:42 a lot of this is done going forward, especially when it comes to children that
00:20:42 --> 00:20:46 have medical issues and how,
00:20:47 --> 00:20:52 you know, the courts should deal with, you know, Who the parents should be,
00:20:53 --> 00:20:58 especially in this type of case where baby Gabriel, right now,
00:20:59 --> 00:21:05 fighting for his life and doesn't know who he's going to, if he gets through
00:21:05 --> 00:21:08 everything, who's going to be racist afterwards.
00:21:10 --> 00:21:15 So definitely a story worth following. So I plan on, well, hopefully we'll be
00:21:15 --> 00:21:21 talking about this story again once they decide on who's going to be the legal parents.
00:21:22 --> 00:21:25 So, all right.
00:21:25 --> 00:21:31 Moving on to our next thing. I was watching the news the other day and they
00:21:31 --> 00:21:38 were talking about this. And, you know, we've been doing this show for five years.
00:21:38 --> 00:21:41 Seem like we've been talking about this guy for five years, isn't it?
00:21:42 --> 00:21:45 Darn near. Yeah, yeah. So...
00:21:46 --> 00:21:52 And it just seems like each year, things just get worse and worse for him, you know.
00:21:53 --> 00:21:57 But yet, he's still the President of the United States, and I'm still trying to figure this out.
00:21:58 --> 00:22:05 You know, the latest thing now is that Melania refuses to be seen in public.
00:22:05 --> 00:22:08 Oh, really? Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:22:09 --> 00:22:12 They have been actually counting the days the last time you've seen them two
00:22:12 --> 00:22:15 in public together. Oh, wow. Yeah, so.
00:22:16 --> 00:22:23 People through with this presidency. It's unreal. But this particular thing is about um,
00:22:24 --> 00:22:28 Is Trump's approval rating down?
00:22:29 --> 00:22:33 It says, yes, Donald Trump's approval ratings are going down.
00:22:33 --> 00:22:40 Public support has sharply declined due to widespread voter frustration regarding
00:22:40 --> 00:22:45 the economy, rising inflation, and the ongoing war in Iran.
00:22:46 --> 00:22:51 It says, current standards in national aggregates. It says, recent data from
00:22:51 --> 00:22:57 the major national polling organizations showed that Trump's overall approval
00:22:57 --> 00:23:00 rating is hovering around 32%,
00:23:01 --> 00:23:02 and 40%.
00:23:03 --> 00:23:12 So 32% means that 68%, he has a 68% negative approval rating.
00:23:14 --> 00:23:20 40% means it's a 60% negative. I mean, that's the worst of all time.
00:23:21 --> 00:23:25 Is that the worst of all time? It's the worst of all time. Wow.
00:23:25 --> 00:23:31 Yes. So they're going... Well, Dave, Trump said he was going to be different
00:23:31 --> 00:23:33 than every other president.
00:23:33 --> 00:23:35 Yeah, and his numbers always got to be huge.
00:23:37 --> 00:23:41 His numbers are huge there. So it's that real clear politics.
00:23:41 --> 00:23:45 It says, so they kind of give it a breakdown on what the approval ratings are.
00:23:45 --> 00:23:51 It says real clear politics. His rating is only 39.3% approval.
00:23:51 --> 00:24:00 And let's see. In ballotpedia, meaning his ballot approval is only 39%.
00:24:01 --> 00:24:10 ABC News, Washington Post, Ipsos, it's only 30%, 37%, CNN, SSR,
00:24:12 --> 00:24:16 S, 36%. But what about Fox News? I got to hear the Fox News one.
00:24:20 --> 00:24:23 They don't get Fox. What? No, they don't. Yeah.
00:24:25 --> 00:24:29 See, they get CNN, 36%. They don't get Fox because, you know,
00:24:29 --> 00:24:34 Fox loves it, man. Yeah, but, you know, I was thinking Fox would be like a 68% approval.
00:24:34 --> 00:24:38 Yeah, well, yeah. Well, they'll skew the numbers any way they can.
00:24:39 --> 00:24:42 They said The Economist is 33% approval.
00:24:44 --> 00:24:47 Quinnipiac University is 32%.
00:24:49 --> 00:24:55 They said erosion amongst Republicans. Crucially, the downturn is no longer
00:24:55 --> 00:25:00 just driven by Democrats and independents. Trump is losing significant grounds with his own party.
00:25:01 --> 00:25:06 It says the Financial Times found that his net approval rating among Republicans
00:25:06 --> 00:25:09 dropped by eight percentage points over a single month.
00:25:11 --> 00:25:17 They said the economist also placed his Republican approval rate at 79%,
00:25:18 --> 00:25:23 down 12 points, though, since January of 2025.
00:25:23 --> 00:25:25 The slump is the steepest among
00:25:25 --> 00:25:32 non-MAGA Republicans, whose approval fell 13 points in a single week.
00:25:32 --> 00:25:40 They said key drivers of the decline, the drop in support stems primarily from two main issues.
00:25:41 --> 00:25:44 Economic and inflation grievances, according to the report by Newsweek,
00:25:44 --> 00:25:50 more than 53% of registered voters, including nearly a quarter of Republicans,
00:25:50 --> 00:25:53 feel financially worse off during
00:25:53 --> 00:25:59 Trump's second term due to the higher prices and a drop in real wages.
00:26:00 --> 00:26:05 So this is Republicans talking, okay? And the war in Iran.
00:26:05 --> 00:26:10 The conflict launched in February 2026 remains highly unpopular,
00:26:10 --> 00:26:13 maintaining approval rating below 40%.
00:26:14 --> 00:26:19 Compounding this, voters are pushing back against associated gas prices surges,
00:26:20 --> 00:26:23 which has risen above $4 a gallon.
00:26:23 --> 00:26:30 With the 2026 midterm election Approaching these shifting numbers,
00:26:30 --> 00:26:38 Have put Democrats ahead In generic Congressional polling With a 44% to 39%
00:26:38 --> 00:26:40 Lead over Republicans So.
00:26:41 --> 00:26:48 Okay If the proof is in the pudding Like this is saying With everything that's
00:26:48 --> 00:26:53 going on How can this man still be president In the United States Thank you.
00:26:54 --> 00:27:00 Tell me. Because he has half of the Senate, half of Congress,
00:27:00 --> 00:27:03 and more than half of the Supreme Court judges on his side.
00:27:04 --> 00:27:11 That's the only reason. And a certain black man that we know that always talks
00:27:11 --> 00:27:12 about him all the time. But anyway.
00:27:16 --> 00:27:20 It's just unreal because we know, and you were being nice just then,
00:27:21 --> 00:27:26 because we know if this was Obama, President Obama, I should say,
00:27:27 --> 00:27:29 or any other black man or a black woman,
00:27:30 --> 00:27:32 do you think this would have went on a year?
00:27:32 --> 00:27:35 No. Somebody probably would have tried to assassinate him.
00:27:36 --> 00:27:44 Yeah. Yeah. The first year. I mean, well, remember, it was attempted twice. Mm-hmm.
00:27:44 --> 00:27:49 You know, it was well acted out. You know, they made it look real.
00:27:50 --> 00:27:52 But it's...
00:27:53 --> 00:27:59 It just tells you a lot. I mean, look, the elephant is definitely in the room.
00:28:00 --> 00:28:05 You know, and we can see it clearly. We know if this was a black man,
00:28:05 --> 00:28:06 that this wouldn't be happening.
00:28:07 --> 00:28:10 Or if this was a black president, I should say, this would not be happening.
00:28:11 --> 00:28:15 Do you think Kamala would have been able to last this long if her approval rating
00:28:15 --> 00:28:19 was over 60%? Negative 60%?
00:28:20 --> 00:28:24 No. She would have been called every type of N-word, hard, R that,
00:28:24 --> 00:28:30 you know, we could think of. And that was happening before she even got the
00:28:30 --> 00:28:32 nomination. Right. You know, so.
00:28:34 --> 00:28:39 It just tells you about the double standard. It tells you a lot about what's
00:28:39 --> 00:28:40 going on in the world today.
00:28:41 --> 00:28:44 That war is ridiculous. It really is.
00:28:45 --> 00:28:52 The money that has been spent it definitely tells you that that's more about
00:28:52 --> 00:28:55 the money than it is about what they're fighting for.
00:28:55 --> 00:28:59 You know, trying to control the money, the gas, I mean the oil,
00:28:59 --> 00:29:02 all of that stuff. And people are getting rich.
00:29:03 --> 00:29:07 It almost reminds me of somebody, you know, these guys you know,
00:29:07 --> 00:29:11 you go into a room you see all these guys fussing and fighting.
00:29:11 --> 00:29:16 And then all of a sudden you see everybody break up and you'll see a couple
00:29:16 --> 00:29:19 people disappear. They go on the back door and then they're counting their money.
00:29:19 --> 00:29:25 Right. You know, that's what it seems like to me. You know, you have any other comments on that?
00:29:26 --> 00:29:31 No. I mean, I think it's, you know, I think I'm pretty sure he will go down.
00:29:31 --> 00:29:34 I can't wait to get out of office so we can really hear all the,
00:29:35 --> 00:29:39 I'm sure a lot of time now people are just scared to speak, but I'm sure he'll
00:29:39 --> 00:29:42 go down as the worst president in U.S. history.
00:29:43 --> 00:29:48 I don't doubt that. Yeah. Except he'll be singing his own praises saying,
00:29:48 --> 00:29:54 I was the best president they ever had. Because he says that now anyway. You know, so, you know.
00:29:54 --> 00:29:58 Well, I don't know. They said the numbers don't lie, right?
00:29:59 --> 00:30:04 And that's what they say. Okay. All right. Well, folks, you just heard the numbers.
00:30:05 --> 00:30:09 You can tell us what you think about what's going on with the president of the
00:30:09 --> 00:30:12 United States and whether he should still be the president. We've still got
00:30:12 --> 00:30:15 a couple more years of this guy. We do.
00:30:15 --> 00:30:20 Yeah. So, unbelievable. So, all right.
00:30:20 --> 00:30:26 Enough about him in that particular vein. Anyway, what you got for us?
00:30:26 --> 00:30:30 Yeah, so Dave, our next story is one that I found, and it's titled,
00:30:30 --> 00:30:36 Black Woman Had Not Eaten in More Than Two Weeks to Protest Trump's Food Stamp Cuts.
00:30:37 --> 00:30:43 So Dave, how long do you think you would go without eating to protest something you really believed in?
00:30:44 --> 00:30:47 About 20 minutes. Oh, Lord. Okay.
00:30:48 --> 00:30:53 Wait, wait, wait. Say, the faith is weak. Well, it all depends on whether there's
00:30:53 --> 00:30:56 food around me or not. You know, food is in the house.
00:30:56 --> 00:31:00 It's going to be hard. I'm going to tell you that now. So, you know. You gotcha. Yeah.
00:31:00 --> 00:31:05 But I would give it the college try, though. Okay. I get it.
00:31:05 --> 00:31:09 What do you say? Maybe a good sleep overnight? Night?
00:31:11 --> 00:31:17 Maybe. Okay. All right. So there's a lady named Liz Willis O'Givley,
00:31:17 --> 00:31:19 and she's in Springfield, Massachusetts.
00:31:19 --> 00:31:24 Massachusetts, she has currently, or at the time of this publication,
00:31:25 --> 00:31:30 she has gone 15 days without food to protest cuts to food assistance.
00:31:31 --> 00:31:36 She is urging the governor of Massachusetts to increase SNAP funding because
00:31:36 --> 00:31:39 last year, I'm sure you remember, and our audience remembers,
00:31:39 --> 00:31:45 Trump did a lot. Oh, Dave, I know you know because you work for the Department of the State.
00:31:46 --> 00:31:51 So she's asking the governor of Massachusetts to increase food stamp funding
00:31:51 --> 00:31:58 since it was cut last year. She's hoping that the benefits will increase and
00:31:58 --> 00:32:00 that grocery prices will start to lower.
00:32:01 --> 00:32:06 So she's not just a random person. She also leads the Springfield Food Policy
00:32:06 --> 00:32:12 Council and the Food Justice Group Gardening in the Community.
00:32:13 --> 00:32:18 So basically her plight is to have the governor of Massachusetts kind of increase,
00:32:19 --> 00:32:20 the, you know, the spending.
00:32:21 --> 00:32:27 And so she was also recently this summer was appointed to the state's anti-hunger task force.
00:32:28 --> 00:32:33 And she's, you know, working with the trying to work with the governor or to
00:32:33 --> 00:32:36 the governor to address some of these programs.
00:32:37 --> 00:32:44 Now, Dave, what makes her situation unique is she's not just fighting hunger. She also.
00:32:46 --> 00:32:53 Because of her eating, because of the hunger strike, she's not able to drive anymore.
00:32:53 --> 00:32:57 She has continued meeting with state lawmakers from her home,
00:32:57 --> 00:33:03 but she also battles lupus and hypoglycemia, glycemia.
00:33:03 --> 00:33:08 So but despite all that, she still plans to, you know, continue this hunger
00:33:08 --> 00:33:13 strike. And pretty much her slogan is that she cannot let her people down.
00:33:15 --> 00:33:18 Wow. Yeah. So she's,
00:33:18 --> 00:33:22 I would say, putting her money where her mouth is, but she's not putting any
00:33:22 --> 00:33:27 food where her mouth is, you know, trying to fight for people who are not able
00:33:27 --> 00:33:30 to afford food or whose assistance has been limited.
00:33:33 --> 00:33:38 That's pretty dope. Now, does he have people supporting her?
00:33:39 --> 00:33:43 So I'm assuming so because it says she can't drive anymore. So I'm sure she
00:33:43 --> 00:33:48 probably has rides, but it made it seem like she does a majority of stuff from her house.
00:33:48 --> 00:33:53 And even though she's not eating food, it didn't say what, you know, liquids she may be.
00:33:53 --> 00:33:59 Yeah, I'm sure she's got to have some kind of supplement or whatever because lupus ain't no joke.
00:33:59 --> 00:34:04 So she's got to have something to, you know, I'm sure she's taking medication,
00:34:04 --> 00:34:09 but I'm sure that there's something that she's doing to kind of make sure that
00:34:09 --> 00:34:11 her body stays nourished and so forth.
00:34:12 --> 00:34:14 Because otherwise she's going to find herself in the hospital.
00:34:14 --> 00:34:19 So, but I mean, it's a noble cause. People are doing all kinds of things, man.
00:34:19 --> 00:34:26 And I'm telling you, my office has been crazy busy because of the new laws that
00:34:26 --> 00:34:29 are about to happen over the next six months.
00:34:30 --> 00:34:39 That's around not only food, but Medicaid and also child care as well.
00:34:39 --> 00:34:44 And things are going to get real, man. They are really changing a lot.
00:34:45 --> 00:34:52 And where something, you know, the program that was probably the easiest program
00:34:52 --> 00:34:58 to get with, you know, as far as benefits is concerned, it's Medicaid.
00:34:58 --> 00:35:01 Well, they're going to make that harder for you to have now,
00:35:01 --> 00:35:04 too, without certain parameters around it.
00:35:05 --> 00:35:09 The government, you know, because they're feeling as they...
00:35:11 --> 00:35:16 They're targeting certain people with this, but the people that they're targeting
00:35:16 --> 00:35:18 are not the people it's affecting.
00:35:18 --> 00:35:21 Right. If you follow what I'm saying. I do.
00:35:21 --> 00:35:25 Okay. So, and that's what's so interesting because we kind of,
00:35:26 --> 00:35:29 we pay attention in the offices and we'd be like,
00:35:30 --> 00:35:38 if you all, if you all, if you walk into our lobby and what you would expect
00:35:38 --> 00:35:40 to see would be people that look like us.
00:35:41 --> 00:35:48 But it's not, you know, it's, it's, it's people who look like them and they're
00:35:48 --> 00:35:52 the ones who are having the hardest time, you know?
00:35:53 --> 00:35:57 So it's, it's really, it's, it's really a shame. I mean, we've been in,
00:35:57 --> 00:36:03 we've been going through all these different trainings and all to prepare ourselves
00:36:03 --> 00:36:07 for what's about to come. and, man, it's going to be rough.
00:36:08 --> 00:36:11 I'm going to tell you, a lot of these people, and I really feel bad for the
00:36:11 --> 00:36:15 people who truly, truly need it because we have a lot of people.
00:36:16 --> 00:36:21 Who like to play games and think they're smarter than we are,
00:36:21 --> 00:36:27 you know, and, you know, those people are going to be in Fort Root Awakening.
00:36:28 --> 00:36:35 Oh yeah. Okay. So, so that's, you know, so my hat's off to the,
00:36:35 --> 00:36:40 to the young lady that's, that's doing this and give me her name again.
00:36:40 --> 00:36:46 Yep. So her name is Liz Willis dash O'Givley.
00:36:46 --> 00:36:53 Or Gilby. Gilby. Okay. I'm going to have to look her up and kind of keep an
00:36:53 --> 00:37:00 eye on what she's doing. Okay. Dave, you might want to join her in the struggle. Yeah. Mm-hmm.
00:37:00 --> 00:37:05 Yeah, I'll do about five hours. Oh, my goodness.
00:37:06 --> 00:37:12 So, okay. But, no, that's really no, and especially considering that she has
00:37:12 --> 00:37:16 the, you know, She has the medical condition that she does.
00:37:16 --> 00:37:18 Yeah, that's showing dedication.
00:37:19 --> 00:37:26 But hopefully people are paying attention because the right people are paying
00:37:26 --> 00:37:30 attention because we got, you know, you do something like that and,
00:37:32 --> 00:37:35 the people who need to see it, or they do see it, but they ain't going to pay
00:37:35 --> 00:37:37 attention to you. Right. Yeah.
00:37:38 --> 00:37:45 So, but hopefully her people, her, her, her politicians and council people and
00:37:45 --> 00:37:50 so forth for paying attention to what she's doing. So, okay.
00:37:51 --> 00:37:54 All right. Moving on to our next story.
00:37:56 --> 00:38:00 I came across this list and I wanted to see if anything, you know,
00:38:00 --> 00:38:03 if anything's really changed or whatever.
00:38:03 --> 00:38:06 But the top 10 black cities to visit,
00:38:07 --> 00:38:10 you're a person that travels a lot and,
00:38:11 --> 00:38:16 you know, you go, you know, and then you have, you know, you had the black guy
00:38:16 --> 00:38:20 and you had the culture check, you know, so you, you, and you're Delaware black,
00:38:21 --> 00:38:23 you know, so, you know, so.
00:38:23 --> 00:38:28 And you had multiple Delaware Black in different cities at one time.
00:38:29 --> 00:38:34 So if you had to name your top 10 cities before I even give you the list that
00:38:34 --> 00:38:37 they give, what would be your top 10 cities?
00:38:37 --> 00:38:44 So what's the criteria? Black. Well, no, that's known as places that there's a lot of.
00:38:45 --> 00:38:49 Black people? You know, well, you know that they're rich in black culture,
00:38:49 --> 00:38:54 black people, civil rights, history, food, entertainment, you know,
00:38:54 --> 00:38:59 those type of things are known to be a part of those cities as well.
00:39:00 --> 00:39:03 All right. So I go with, I mean, there's so many.
00:39:04 --> 00:39:10 I know, but I'm going to check off the ones that are on this list as you say them, if you say them.
00:39:10 --> 00:39:12 Okay, so I'm going to start at the top.
00:39:13 --> 00:39:22 I'm going to go New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, D.C., Charlotte, Atlanta.
00:39:24 --> 00:39:27 I'm going to skip Florida for a minute, and then I'm going to go to the west,
00:39:28 --> 00:39:31 and I'm going to go with Houston.
00:39:31 --> 00:39:33 I'm going to skip Dallas.
00:39:34 --> 00:39:37 I'm going to go, then I'm going to go up north a little bit.
00:39:37 --> 00:39:41 I'm going to go Chicago, Detroit, and then I'm going to go to L.A.
00:39:42 --> 00:39:43 How many was that that I named?
00:39:46 --> 00:39:51 I was hoping to keep track of it. It don't matter. But I'm going to tell you
00:39:51 --> 00:39:53 how many I checked off that you named. Okay.
00:39:56 --> 00:40:01 I got one, two, three, four, five, six.
00:40:01 --> 00:40:04 You got six of them that I took off on this list.
00:40:05 --> 00:40:12 Yeah. Now, if we go with civil rights, then I got to go with like Birmingham, Selma, Montgomery.
00:40:13 --> 00:40:18 Where are the other civil rights places? I don't know. I feel like Alabama really.
00:40:19 --> 00:40:24 Alabama, that's a state. Yeah, I know. But I'm just saying Alabama has the civil,
00:40:24 --> 00:40:26 like Birmingham, Montgomery, Selma.
00:40:26 --> 00:40:31 You said Birmingham. Yeah, I know. No, but what I was saying is Alabama has
00:40:31 --> 00:40:35 the civil rights places, which is Birmingham, Montgomery, Selma.
00:40:35 --> 00:40:39 All the popular places. Yeah, like when I think of civil rights,
00:40:39 --> 00:40:41 I kind of think of all those places.
00:40:44 --> 00:40:48 Did those three add any to that list? No, Birmingham was one.
00:40:48 --> 00:40:50 Okay. So you're up to seven.
00:40:50 --> 00:40:54 So you did pretty good. Yeah. I don't think you're going to guess.
00:40:55 --> 00:40:56 Wait, what are you missing?
00:40:57 --> 00:41:01 One of them was obvious that you did not say. Was it Tulsa?
00:41:02 --> 00:41:05 No, no, no, no, no. What state?
00:41:06 --> 00:41:08 If I tell you a state, you're going to know what I'm talking about.
00:41:08 --> 00:41:12 Okay, well, I mean, that's okay. No, no. All right, well, here,
00:41:12 --> 00:41:14 tell me one of the civil, oh, Memphis.
00:41:14 --> 00:41:19 Yes, that's one, okay. But that's not the one I'm talking about, though. Okay.
00:41:19 --> 00:41:24 You got eight of them. All right, well, here, I mean, tell me something that
00:41:24 --> 00:41:26 happened there, Or a landmark or...
00:41:26 --> 00:41:29 No, I can't tell you. Either one of those give you...
00:41:30 --> 00:41:32 They're both down south. I will give you that.
00:41:33 --> 00:41:36 It's funny because nothing up here in New York was not on the list,
00:41:36 --> 00:41:40 by the way. Philadelphia was not on the list, by the way. Oh, wow. Okay.
00:41:41 --> 00:41:46 I'm a little surprised about Philly. Oh, I know it's not. Is it Jackson,
00:41:46 --> 00:41:48 Mississippi? I know that's a super black.
00:41:48 --> 00:41:53 No, no. Okay. Is there any of the other places like Rosewood, Greenwood?
00:41:54 --> 00:41:59 Nope. You're going to be mad when you hear one of these places because it's
00:41:59 --> 00:42:01 obvious that you just missed it.
00:42:02 --> 00:42:05 Okay. Well, I'm glad to be mad, Dave. Okay. All right. Well,
00:42:05 --> 00:42:07 let me go through the list then.
00:42:08 --> 00:42:14 It says, you know, like I said, they based their criteria on the black culture,
00:42:14 --> 00:42:18 civil rights, history, food, and entertainment.
00:42:18 --> 00:42:22 So they go through and they list, okay, Atlanta, Georgia, known as the capital
00:42:22 --> 00:42:24 of black culture, featuring the
00:42:24 --> 00:42:29 Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park. Did you ever go there?
00:42:30 --> 00:42:35 No. Okay. All right. Or not that I remember, definitely.
00:42:36 --> 00:42:41 Yes. Washington, D.C., home of the National Museum of African American History.
00:42:42 --> 00:42:46 Here's the one that was obvious that you missed. New Orleans.
00:42:47 --> 00:42:53 You know, how would I say New Orleans, but okay. Celebrated for its deep Creole
00:42:53 --> 00:42:58 heritage and historic jazz roots and unmatched festivals.
00:42:58 --> 00:43:03 Memphis, featuring a powerful National Civil Rights Museum.
00:43:04 --> 00:43:09 Detroit, offers rich musical history and Motown Museum.
00:43:10 --> 00:43:18 Houston, a massive hub for Black entrepreneurship and arts and renowned Southern and Tex-Mex foods.
00:43:20 --> 00:43:25 Baltimore, known for its rich community traditions, African-American museums,
00:43:25 --> 00:43:28 and events like the annual CIAAA tournament.
00:43:29 --> 00:43:35 Birmingham, steep in civil rights history, features the historic 15th Street
00:43:35 --> 00:43:38 Baptist Church in Birmingham Civil Rights District.
00:43:39 --> 00:43:42 Yeah, I have been there. Very nice museum.
00:43:43 --> 00:43:46 And the museum is right across the street from the church. So as you're reading
00:43:46 --> 00:43:52 about the church bombing, you can look out the window and see the church.
00:43:53 --> 00:43:57 Man, that's got to be surreal. Yeah. Especially after knowing about what happened
00:43:57 --> 00:44:00 there. So, yeah, that's crazy.
00:44:02 --> 00:44:09 Charlotte. A fast-growing southern city with a thriving Black professional community.
00:44:10 --> 00:44:13 This is the other one that you didn't get. Savannah, Georgia. Oh, wow.
00:44:13 --> 00:44:19 Offers historic tours highlighting gula gichi culture uh,
00:44:20 --> 00:44:24 and yeah that was the last one savannah so,
00:44:25 --> 00:44:28 you wouldn't think of savannah that you know it's not one that comes to mind
00:44:28 --> 00:44:32 but then when you think about it is something that's always it's one of those
00:44:32 --> 00:44:36 kind of cities that gets mentioned a lot but you just don't focus on it you know what i mean,
00:44:37 --> 00:44:42 yeah but um but now you know some of the other cities that you've mentioned.
00:44:42 --> 00:44:46 Of course, they got quite a few blacks.
00:44:46 --> 00:44:48 I'm a little surprised about Philadelphia though.
00:44:49 --> 00:44:54 You would think Philly would be on that list. Go ahead. New York is kind of a smorgasbord.
00:44:55 --> 00:44:59 Can't think of anywhere else. I'm trying to think if there's anywhere else that would.
00:45:00 --> 00:45:06 I mean, you said Tulsa, but is Tulsa like that now?
00:45:06 --> 00:45:08 I don't know. Yeah.
00:45:09 --> 00:45:12 As far as one of the bigger cities, you know, girls, um.
00:45:16 --> 00:45:21 Florida, it's in Florida, but what's the blackest area in Florida that you get to go?
00:45:21 --> 00:45:24 I know, that's what I was trying to say. Is it Miami? Is it Tampa?
00:45:25 --> 00:45:30 I don't know, because both of them places have quite a few whites there and,
00:45:31 --> 00:45:33 other nationalities there.
00:45:35 --> 00:45:43 I think that list is a good list of places that people can go and check out.
00:45:45 --> 00:45:46 Like I said, for the culture, for the food.
00:45:47 --> 00:45:55 Now, some of them, Memphis is one of those places you got to choose your spots.
00:45:57 --> 00:45:59 Some of these places, you definitely got to choose a spot. Baltimore is like
00:45:59 --> 00:46:05 that too. But there's still places that have a lot of rich history. Yeah, definitely.
00:46:07 --> 00:46:13 Okay. All right. That brings us to Leonard's favorite part of the show.
00:46:14 --> 00:46:17 And, you know, I was listening, again, listening to the radio,
00:46:17 --> 00:46:21 and I heard a person do a couple of these. And I said, oh, I'm going to see
00:46:21 --> 00:46:23 if Leonard can figure these out. These are easy, too.
00:46:23 --> 00:46:28 These are easy, too. I made it easy for me. I'm going to give you a chance.
00:46:29 --> 00:46:33 This is what I'm going to do. So this is Riddle Me This. I'm going to read something.
00:46:34 --> 00:46:40 I'm going to give you a chance to answer it without giving you a clue.
00:46:41 --> 00:46:48 If you, and I got two of them, if you need a clue, I'll give you a multiple
00:46:48 --> 00:46:52 choice so you can pick one of the multiple choice answers. Okay.
00:46:52 --> 00:46:55 I'll try to see if you can figure it out without me doing that first.
00:46:56 --> 00:47:02 Okay. It says, I can be broken without being touched.
00:47:03 --> 00:47:06 I can be given without being held.
00:47:07 --> 00:47:13 And once I'm lost, I can be very hard to get back. What am I?
00:47:14 --> 00:47:18 Okay, say it again a little quicker. I'm going to say it again.
00:47:18 --> 00:47:24 I can be broken without being touched. I can be given without being held.
00:47:25 --> 00:47:30 And once I'm lost, I can be very hard to get back. A woman.
00:47:31 --> 00:47:36 Okay, that's your final answer. Do you want a clue? Give me a clue.
00:47:36 --> 00:47:41 Okay, I'm going to give you three choices here. You tell me which one you think
00:47:41 --> 00:47:43 it is. Okay, yep, give me the first one, then the second one,
00:47:43 --> 00:47:47 then the third one, and I'll tell you. Okay, a promise. A promise.
00:47:48 --> 00:47:53 A heart? Promise. Okay. You didn't want to hear it?
00:47:53 --> 00:47:58 Okay. All right. You think it's a promise, huh? Yeah, I think so. Okay.
00:47:59 --> 00:48:05 Well, you're wrong. It was actually the next one I was going to say, which is trust. Hmm.
00:48:06 --> 00:48:10 And it says you can break someone's trust without physically touching anything.
00:48:11 --> 00:48:15 Give someone your trust without handing them an object.
00:48:15 --> 00:48:20 And once trust is lost, it can be very difficult to regain.
00:48:21 --> 00:48:27 Okay. All right. I got it. Okay. All right. All right. All right. Here's another one.
00:48:27 --> 00:48:31 The more you take from me, the bigger I become.
00:48:31 --> 00:48:35 I have no weight, but I can grow very large.
00:48:36 --> 00:48:41 It's not that, by the way, Leonard. What am I? All right. Give me my choices.
00:48:43 --> 00:48:47 Okay. You go right to the choices. Okay. A, a hole.
00:48:47 --> 00:48:51 B, a shadow. C, a secret.
00:48:53 --> 00:48:57 And the question again, what is the origin of the question?
00:48:58 --> 00:49:01 What is the origin of the question? What do you mean, what is the origin of
00:49:01 --> 00:49:04 the question? Dave, that's what they say on Jeopardy.
00:49:04 --> 00:49:08 I know, I know. But let me read it one more time since you have the answers
00:49:08 --> 00:49:09 now. You think you slick, but anyway.
00:49:10 --> 00:49:14 The more you take from me, the bigger I become. I have no weight,
00:49:15 --> 00:49:18 but I can grow very large. What am I?
00:49:18 --> 00:49:21 And what were the three options again? Here we go again. Okay,
00:49:21 --> 00:49:26 a hole, a shadow, a secret. A hole.
00:49:27 --> 00:49:31 Care you actually got that one right you don't even know why you got it right
00:49:31 --> 00:49:36 i bet you know so it says the more the more you take out of a hole the bigger the hole becomes.
00:49:39 --> 00:49:44 Let's start already a hole then you can't take anything out of it so but anyway
00:49:45 --> 00:49:49 but that's so i said i said but these are simple i said i heard i heard these
00:49:49 --> 00:49:53 the other day i said well let me see So he got, you got one out of two.
00:49:53 --> 00:49:55 Okay, so, all right, there you go.
00:49:56 --> 00:50:00 I wonder if- Hey, Dave, I'm doing better than Trump.
00:50:00 --> 00:50:04 So that's all that matters. Your approval rating is 50%. There you go.
00:50:05 --> 00:50:09 Yeah, so, all right. Well, hopefully you guys were able to follow along with
00:50:09 --> 00:50:13 that and tell me if you got those answers or whether you thought it was something
00:50:13 --> 00:50:16 else yourself. So, all right.
00:50:17 --> 00:50:19 Anything you want to add before we sign off?
00:50:20 --> 00:50:25 I might just remind everybody about our friend to the show, Aja's Afro Foodie Festival.
00:50:25 --> 00:50:31 It's a free event taking place on this coming Saturday, April 22nd,
00:50:31 --> 00:50:37 Wilmington, Delaware, Rodney Square, between the hours of 12 and 7 p.m.
00:50:37 --> 00:50:42 And it's going to be a celebration of African culture and food.
00:50:42 --> 00:50:46 So hopefully anyone who has time available, come check it out.
00:50:47 --> 00:50:52 So do you have a flyer posted on your page or do you? I have it on my Instagram
00:50:52 --> 00:50:54 page. I will forward it to you.
00:50:55 --> 00:50:57 Okay. All right. Okay.
00:50:57 --> 00:51:01 All right. All right, folks. There you have it. Still more exciting stuff going
00:51:01 --> 00:51:06 on in Delaware, man. I tell you, it's been hot here, man.
00:51:06 --> 00:51:10 I tell you, it's been a lot going on, man. Yeah, so I mean, definitely for the
00:51:10 --> 00:51:12 people who say there's nothing going on in Delaware.
00:51:13 --> 00:51:18 It's stuff to do all of a sudden. There's a lot going on. So let's pay attention.
00:51:18 --> 00:51:22 The summer has been, I think this has been like one of the busiest summers of
00:51:22 --> 00:51:24 all time. Really has been.
00:51:26 --> 00:51:29 So there you have it. That's our story. We're sticking to it.
00:51:30 --> 00:51:34 We want to thank you guys once again for joining us and hanging out with us.
00:51:34 --> 00:51:36 We'll see you again and talk with you.
00:51:49 --> 00:51:53 Tune in next week, ladies and gentlemen, for another edition of News and Trends
00:51:53 --> 00:51:55 with your hosts, Dave and Lynn.