[00:00.000 --> 00:21.600] ⭐🎙Newz and Trendz with your host Dave and Len.
[00:30.000 --> 00:49.000] Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to Newz and Trendz with Dave and Len. This is one of your hosts with David Coker, proprietor Dave Mark Hink, motor event planner, all-around good guy, just hanging out with my partner Mr. Leonard Young. What's going on, sir?
[00:49.000 --> 01:04.000] Hey, Dave, everything is good. This is Leonard Young, CEO of National Black Guide, DelawareBlack.com, Black Media Specialist, the original good guy hanging with the other good guy, Mr. Coker. What's up? How was your weekend?
[01:04.000 --> 01:28.000] It was good, man. We made it to the month of February, Black History Month. We even get an extra date this year. It's a leap year. So here we are in Black History Month and got a little present at the beginning of the month.
[01:28.000 --> 01:41.000] Uncle Tony Phil came out and said, hey, I'm predicting a short winner this year. So we only got a couple more weeks of spring, according to him, before spring starts.
[01:41.000 --> 01:51.000] So let's see if he's right about that. Even though the weather has been kind of mild lately, I mean, local in the morning, but then it gets a little warmer.
[01:51.000 --> 02:03.000] And they're predicting that we're going to have a couple of 50-degree days coming up soon. So I don't know. Maybe we had that one big bath blast in snow, and that was it.
[02:03.000 --> 02:13.000] I know, you know, it's funny because all fall, I was like, Dave, you know, I hope we get a lot of snow this winter, a lot of snow on the ground, a lot of days off, a lot of days in the house.
[02:14.000 --> 02:22.000] And after that one snow, I kind of feel like I'm good now. Like, I'm ready for spring. I mean, what about you? I'm ready for spring now.
[02:22.000 --> 02:28.000] Yeah, because we, I think we kind of forgotten about how much of a nuisance snow can be.
[02:28.000 --> 02:36.000] And I think that snow kind of reminded us, you know, because reality.
[02:37.000 --> 02:47.000] Yeah, the reality set in, you know, so I'm good. We don't get any more snow. I mean, you know, let's let the spring, let the spring come, you know what I mean?
[02:47.000 --> 02:56.000] So, you know, the time is just kind of flashing before it's anyway. I mean, we already got through January.
[02:57.000 --> 03:06.000] Now, you know, we're going through the second week. We're in the second week of February already. So, you know, so we'll see.
[03:06.000 --> 03:13.000] You know, we'll see how the rest of the winter goes and get ready for cutting grass and all that kind of stuff again.
[03:13.000 --> 03:22.000] You know, so yeah, yeah, so I mean, well, you, you know, of course you have people that cut your grass for you. So, but anyway,
[03:23.000 --> 03:31.000] I'll be cutting grass too, with the long, old weed, well, all that stuff.
[03:31.000 --> 03:36.000] I just want to make sure we set set the record straight on that.
[03:36.000 --> 03:41.000] All right. I'll give you some points on that.
[03:41.000 --> 03:47.000] Thank you. But, but other than that, man, everything else is everything else is good.
[03:47.000 --> 04:05.000] I won't complain and, you know, it is always good to be able to come on and do another show. So, hopefully, we can, you know, give some informative information out to our people today, which we always tried to do.
[04:05.000 --> 04:11.000] So, all right. All right. So, let's get started. Let's get started with the show.
[04:12.000 --> 04:26.000] I wanted to start out with the Dallas Food Truck apologizes as a failing to split a $4,000 tip left by Keith Lee.
[04:26.000 --> 04:29.000] You're familiar with Keith Lee, right? Yeah. Yeah.
[04:29.000 --> 04:39.000] Yeah. You know, for those that may not be familiar with Keith Lee, he is a food critic and, you know, he does a lot of different things.
[04:39.000 --> 04:59.000] He's just an entrepreneur and so forth. And, but he's one of these type of guys that if he eats at your place and the food's good on point, and you get a, you get a recommendation from him and a good review from him, you know, your place is going to be popping from that point on,
[04:59.000 --> 05:09.000] because people really follow him, you know. And so, but this story is an interesting story. And did you hear about this before I talk about it?
[05:09.000 --> 05:11.000] Yeah, I did.
[05:11.000 --> 05:12.000] Okay.
[05:12.000 --> 05:16.000] Me and the wife were talking about it the other day.
[05:16.000 --> 05:17.000] Yeah.
[05:17.000 --> 05:18.000] Okay.
[05:18.000 --> 05:21.000] So, I'm going to read a little bit of it. It says,
[05:21.000 --> 05:31.000] Keith Lee recently visited a sweetly seasoned, a Dallas food truck.
[05:31.000 --> 05:40.000] Now, let's keep in mind, he doesn't only go to restaurants, he goes food trucks in every place, you know, every place that's supposed to be supposed to be hot.
[05:40.000 --> 05:42.000] He's going to check it out.
[05:42.000 --> 05:57.000] After they review, the food influencer gave a tip of $4,000 with the request that the owner divide the money evenly amongst employees, including the barbers outside their establishment.
[05:57.000 --> 06:15.000] Shortly after Lee posted his review, Jonathan, Evelyn Evola, owner of sweetly seasoned has been ripped on social media, keeping the entirety of Keith's tip.
[06:15.000 --> 06:22.000] As a result, the food truck page has been hit with one star reviews.
[06:22.000 --> 06:26.000] Okay. So, you already know people don't play around when it comes to food.
[06:26.000 --> 06:27.000] I know.
[06:27.000 --> 06:38.000] Yeah. So, it says, we live and die by our reviews, and one star review is really damaging, I mean, Evola said.
[06:38.000 --> 06:48.000] Someone who might want us to cater their wedding, if they see a negative review for us, they won't consider hiring us, and I know I wouldn't.
[06:48.000 --> 06:56.000] If Evola added, we are now thinking of shutting down our business, changing the naming because of this, it would be a huge loss.
[06:56.000 --> 07:04.000] It's not just about the money, it's about the time we spent so much time on branding and developing a clientele base.
[07:04.000 --> 07:09.000] Chief Lee hopped on social media to explain his side of the story.
[07:09.000 --> 07:21.000] According to Lee, he was under an impression that the squad at sweetly seasoned included the barber and hare breeder that was outside as well.
[07:21.000 --> 07:29.000] And then there was two workers who was also helping them with cooking and prepping.
[07:29.000 --> 07:42.000] So, he instructed the owner when he gave the tip, he said, I'm giving you this tip, split it up evenly amongst everybody here.
[07:42.000 --> 07:47.000] Well, you know, and, you know, I mean, come on.
[07:47.000 --> 07:52.000] I think you know, and I know, somebody gives them a $4,000 tip.
[07:52.000 --> 07:56.000] You know, it tells you to split it with everybody.
[07:56.000 --> 08:01.000] What's the chances? I'll be honest. Let's keep it real. Let's keep it real, really, really real.
[08:01.000 --> 08:06.000] What's the chances that person is going to give everybody even split it at $4,000?
[08:06.000 --> 08:12.000] I mean, to be honest, you know, I think there's a good chance that a decent person would give it.
[08:12.000 --> 08:19.000] Now, I mean, I think they may keep the majority, but, you know, definitely breaks out everybody off with something.
[08:19.000 --> 08:23.000] Oh, but let's say that's what I'm saying. They would probably keep the majority.
[08:23.000 --> 08:29.000] Excuse me and break off, you know, you know, maybe give them a couple hundred dollars or whatever it takes.
[08:29.000 --> 08:38.000] But that, of course, that money goes towards, I'm sure he was thinking, oh, I can put this money back into the business and, you know, this will help by certain things, you know.
[08:38.000 --> 08:45.000] Or I hate to think that he just pocketed the money and said, hey, I'm going on vacation with this or whatever the case may be.
[08:45.000 --> 09:01.000] But this is Chief Lee, you're not thinking, if you're saying, if you think this is not going to get back to him, you know, because I'm sure to keep Lee probably circled back and said, hey, did you guys get any of that money that I left?
[09:01.000 --> 09:12.000] Because, or if the dude was talking about, he left for $4,000 tip and everybody's saying, hey, I didn't get any of that money.
[09:12.000 --> 09:27.000] Where's my cut? Where's my cut? You know, so, but the fact that, and from what I understand, they did close down. I don't think since this article came out, I think they did shut down.
[09:27.000 --> 09:29.000] Yep, I heard that too.
[09:29.000 --> 09:45.000] Yeah, yeah, and that's how crazy things can turn for you if you do something that, you know, especially in our community, you know, that will turn people off.
[09:45.000 --> 09:58.000] Now, just imagine if this dude had went on and split that money up and got the review that, because apparently, from what I understand, Chief Lee really enjoyed everything that he tasted there.
[09:58.000 --> 09:59.000] Right.
[09:59.000 --> 10:08.000] You know, so you got a good review coming and you messed up because you got greedy and took the money.
[10:08.000 --> 10:19.000] Now you got a one star review and everybody's hating on you and you had to shut down your business and you have to talk about opening under a different name.
[10:19.000 --> 10:22.000] You know, people going to be looking for you from now on.
[10:23.000 --> 10:29.000] And especially depending on how connected that Dallas community is like, you know, everybody gone now.
[10:29.000 --> 10:42.000] Yeah, that's right. That's right. And you know, the food truck business is a very fickle business, because there's so much that goes into having a good food truck.
[10:43.000 --> 10:58.000] You know, because, you know, there's always the stigma attached to the food truck as far as the cleanliness and, you know, especially during the pandemic period, you know, people were scared to eat from those type of things because you always got to check the food truck out to make sure
[10:58.000 --> 11:09.000] that, you know, you can see where they're washing their hands and, you know, they got, you know, all kinds of other stuff, you know, sanitary stuff that's got to be done, especially if they're handling meats and so forth.
[11:10.000 --> 11:20.000] So there's a lot that goes on that, you know, will make, you know, that you have to have in place for people to really trust you with food trucks.
[11:20.000 --> 11:30.000] If you've got a good food truck business, man, you can make so much money. It's unbelievable, you know, from having a good food truck business.
[11:30.000 --> 11:45.000] There's people that, um, there was a couple I saw on, um, what is that, um, Guy Fieri shows the driving dives and, you know, the show I'm talking about, right?
[11:45.000 --> 11:46.000] Mm-hmm.
[11:46.000 --> 11:47.000] Yeah.
[11:47.000 --> 11:48.000] Diners drive and dive.
[11:48.000 --> 11:49.000] Yeah.
[11:49.000 --> 11:54.000] He had, he, there was one particular food truck that he went to, and it was in Texas too.
[11:54.000 --> 12:00.000] This guy has like 12 food trucks all over Texas, started with one truck.
[12:00.000 --> 12:04.000] And that's how great his business has grown from this one food truck.
[12:04.000 --> 12:07.000] This is big business here.
[12:07.000 --> 12:13.000] That one review killed this guy's business because you didn't want to pay.
[12:13.000 --> 12:16.000] You didn't want to share the love with the money.
[12:16.000 --> 12:20.000] I bet if he gets back up again, he won't do that again.
[12:21.000 --> 12:22.000] Oh, yeah, I agree.
[12:22.000 --> 12:31.000] Well, you know, I think the other thing that made it so bad is when everything first came out and the person, so I thought the owner was a woman, but I'm not sure.
[12:31.000 --> 12:43.000] But whoever the person was, they were combative to people, you know, kind of questioning why they didn't share the money, which just kind of made them look greedy.
[12:44.000 --> 12:46.000] I know, I know what to call him.
[12:46.000 --> 12:48.000] I didn't know if he wanted to play it enough.
[12:48.000 --> 12:54.000] But I know in that, in that, in the story, I know Keith Lee had his comments there about the story.
[12:54.000 --> 12:56.000] There was a little video about it.
[12:56.000 --> 13:06.000] But he, you know, he showed a little compassion, but you could tell he was upset about the whole thing.
[13:06.000 --> 13:12.000] You know, I mean, this guy, this guy, you know, right now, he's hot.
[13:12.000 --> 13:29.000] And, you know, when, you know, if I see a Keith Lee coming to my establishment, and I'm like, you know, and I'm saying that he's like in my food, whatever he, whatever he says I'm doing, you know, because I know this is money.
[13:29.000 --> 13:33.000] You know, and branding and branding is important these days.
[13:34.000 --> 13:38.000] And, you know, because this guy has shut down some of the top restaurants down.
[13:38.000 --> 13:41.000] Look, I know there was a place down in Atlanta.
[13:41.000 --> 13:45.000] He went in there, a place that had looked, I forget the name of the restaurant.
[13:45.000 --> 13:47.000] He said the place was beautiful.
[13:47.000 --> 13:50.000] Everything looked good, but the food was horrible.
[13:50.000 --> 13:51.000] Damn.
[13:51.000 --> 13:52.000] Yeah.
[13:52.000 --> 13:54.000] He said the decor.
[13:54.000 --> 13:56.000] They had a nice bar.
[13:56.000 --> 13:58.000] I mean, he said the bar was good and everything.
[13:58.000 --> 14:00.000] He said they had a nice bar and everything.
[14:00.000 --> 14:01.000] Their atmosphere was nice.
[14:01.000 --> 14:04.000] But he said the food just wasn't good.
[14:04.000 --> 14:08.000] That place ended up shutting down too.
[14:08.000 --> 14:09.000] Wow.
[14:09.000 --> 14:13.000] Yeah, because once you, you know, and he tried to put it as politely.
[14:13.000 --> 14:16.000] He said, maybe they just need to change their chef or whatever.
[14:16.000 --> 14:18.000] But by that time, that's it.
[14:18.000 --> 14:19.000] Yeah.
[14:19.000 --> 14:21.000] You know, you know, you know.
[14:21.000 --> 14:22.000] Well, yeah.
[14:22.000 --> 14:24.000] So let me ask you this, right?
[14:25.000 --> 14:29.000] Name name a restaurant you like here in Delaware, big or small.
[14:33.000 --> 14:34.000] Big or small.
[14:39.000 --> 14:40.000] I'm trying to think.
[14:40.000 --> 14:41.000] Come on.
[14:41.000 --> 14:43.000] So it's supposed to be a quick question.
[14:43.000 --> 14:48.000] Well, I mean, it's funny because a lot of the restaurants nowadays.
[14:49.000 --> 14:50.000] Come on.
[14:50.000 --> 14:51.000] That's interesting question.
[14:51.000 --> 14:53.000] You tell you get me one first.
[14:53.000 --> 14:54.000] Okay.
[14:54.000 --> 14:56.000] Let's say child's pizza, right?
[14:56.000 --> 14:57.000] Okay.
[14:57.000 --> 14:58.000] Okay.
[14:58.000 --> 15:00.000] So let's say you like child's pizza.
[15:00.000 --> 15:02.000] You go there every once in a while.
[15:02.000 --> 15:06.000] And let's say somebody like Keith Lee goes to the restaurant.
[15:06.000 --> 15:09.000] And he said that their food is garbage.
[15:09.000 --> 15:11.000] Would you keep going there?
[15:11.000 --> 15:14.000] Or because he said it was garbage, would you stop going?
[15:15.000 --> 15:22.000] Well, with him, if he said why he said the food with garbage, not that it was just garbage,
[15:22.000 --> 15:24.000] because I mean, you can't go by everybody's states.
[15:24.000 --> 15:28.000] I mean, if he's from down south, you know, he might have a different, you know, taste
[15:28.000 --> 15:29.000] in there.
[15:29.000 --> 15:31.000] You know, I might, we might have up here.
[15:31.000 --> 15:36.000] But if he gives specific reasons as why the food is why the food is something going on with
[15:36.000 --> 15:38.000] the kitchen or whatever the case may be.
[15:38.000 --> 15:43.000] So, so what if he's, what if he's, you know, what if he's, you know, what if he's, you know,
[15:43.000 --> 15:47.000] what if he said the food has no flavor?
[15:47.000 --> 15:51.000] Well, yeah, what if he just said the food had no flavor?
[15:51.000 --> 15:53.000] Now, now you've been there.
[15:53.000 --> 15:54.000] You like the food.
[15:54.000 --> 15:56.000] Would you keep going back?
[15:56.000 --> 16:01.000] Well, isn't something I'm particular that I like, I would keep going for that particular
[16:01.000 --> 16:03.000] food, for that particular dish.
[16:03.000 --> 16:04.000] Yeah.
[16:04.000 --> 16:06.000] Don't even ask that question because I'm just curious.
[16:06.000 --> 16:12.000] So like if there's restaurants that are already in business and people are going to, you know,
[16:12.000 --> 16:19.000] unless he says something about cleanliness and, you know, maybe undercooked food, I'm surprised
[16:19.000 --> 16:23.000] that people who were always going there would stop going there if they liked it before,
[16:23.000 --> 16:26.000] you know, he went to review it.
[16:26.000 --> 16:32.000] I think what happened with this situation wasn't so much about the food because he liked
[16:32.000 --> 16:33.000] the food.
[16:33.000 --> 16:39.000] It was about the honesty and, and, and it just showed the lack of honesty on the owners part
[16:39.000 --> 16:42.000] of the money was concerned and the intentions of the money.
[16:42.000 --> 16:47.000] So if somebody does something like that, that means, of course, automatically, that means
[16:47.000 --> 16:49.000] your subsidy and so forth.
[16:49.000 --> 16:54.000] And that, you know, people just automatically get that defense mechanism up because they
[16:54.000 --> 16:57.000] don't trust them.
[16:57.000 --> 17:03.000] And I think that's what happened with this situation because they didn't feel they can
[17:03.000 --> 17:05.000] trust them anymore.
[17:05.000 --> 17:13.000] So, but hopefully, I hate to see a business go down though, even after all of that.
[17:13.000 --> 17:18.000] And hopefully they are able to build their business back up somehow.
[17:18.000 --> 17:23.000] Just hopefully they'll just learn from this lesson.
[17:23.000 --> 17:24.000] I'll put it that way.
[17:24.000 --> 17:25.000] Yeah.
[17:25.000 --> 17:30.000] And then the next time I keep looking, look at it, keeping the work wonders back at the
[17:30.000 --> 17:31.000] your place again.
[17:31.000 --> 17:33.000] Just be prepared the next time.
[17:33.000 --> 17:34.000] I know.
[17:34.000 --> 17:38.000] So you better be waiting on them like you were particular.
[17:38.000 --> 17:41.000] All right.
[17:41.000 --> 17:44.000] Moving on to our next story.
[17:44.000 --> 17:45.000] Yep.
[17:45.000 --> 17:52.000] So Dave, our next story is this actually happened, of course, in 2020, you know, the
[17:52.000 --> 17:59.000] year, of course, the year of George Floyd and a whole bunch of other racial tension.
[17:59.000 --> 18:05.000] But, um, so this was a story that was on black information network and it says black
[18:05.000 --> 18:11.000] family removed from car at gunpoint and handcuffed by police.
[18:11.000 --> 18:14.000] Get $1.9 million.
[18:14.000 --> 18:20.000] So basically this story happened in a Colorado city called Aurora.
[18:20.000 --> 18:25.000] And I'm not sure, Dave, that you remember Aurora, Colorado.
[18:26.000 --> 18:33.000] Because I believe that was the same city or next to the city where, um, damn, and his
[18:33.000 --> 18:40.000] name Elijah, you remember there was a boy who was, uh, he was walking home and police took
[18:40.000 --> 18:41.000] him down.
[18:41.000 --> 18:43.000] I can't remember what his name is.
[18:43.000 --> 18:44.000] Yeah.
[18:44.000 --> 18:47.000] But I believe I believe this is the same city.
[18:47.000 --> 18:50.000] But basically, um, there was a lady named Brittany Gilliam.
[18:50.000 --> 18:57.000] She was having a Sunday, fun day with her 17 year old sister, her six year old daughter
[18:57.000 --> 19:03.000] and her two nieces when they encountered the Aurora police officers.
[19:03.000 --> 19:05.000] Um, they were driving in a car.
[19:05.000 --> 19:08.000] The officers ordered everyone to get out of the car.
[19:08.000 --> 19:13.000] They, they handcuffed Gilliam and her sister.
[19:13.000 --> 19:17.000] They forced the two nieces to hold their hands above their head.
[19:17.000 --> 19:22.000] Why they laid face down on the pavement because of course there were too little to fit in the
[19:22.000 --> 19:23.000] handcuffs.
[19:23.000 --> 19:32.000] Um, the lawsuit claims that these two, um, this family was held for two hours until a sergeant
[19:32.000 --> 19:33.000] arrived.
[19:33.000 --> 19:40.000] And they found out that the reason why they were pulled over is because the officers thought
[19:40.000 --> 19:46.000] their car was stolen because their license plate matched the license plate.
[19:46.000 --> 19:49.000] The license plate of a stolen motorcycle.
[19:49.000 --> 19:56.000] Now later, it came to be that that stolen motorcycle license plate was actually from
[19:56.000 --> 19:57.000] another state.
[19:57.000 --> 20:01.000] So it actually did not match up to their car.
[20:01.000 --> 20:10.000] And in 2001 Gilliam family filed a lawsuit against the city of Aurora claiming that the, um,
[20:10.000 --> 20:18.000] the accusing officers, um, you know, holding her family at gunpoint without any evidence or any
[20:18.000 --> 20:19.000] probable cause.
[20:19.000 --> 20:22.000] And they believe that they were targeted due to race.
[20:22.000 --> 20:29.000] Um, so just recently, a $1.9 million settlement was reached with the city.
[20:29.000 --> 20:37.000] Um, before I went to trial and, um, one of the statements from the lawyer says Aurora cops need to
[20:37.000 --> 20:42.000] spend less time on the gun range and more time in the law library.
[20:42.000 --> 20:47.000] Our hope is that police officers all over the country learn that law enforcement needs to
[20:47.000 --> 20:51.000] use common sense, especially when dealing with children.
[20:51.000 --> 20:55.000] A robocop mentality will lead to a huge liability.
[20:55.000 --> 21:02.000] So, um, you know, this, you know, luckily nobody was hurt for the Gilliam family.
[21:02.000 --> 21:09.000] And, you know, they did, you know, get that settlement without having to go to trial and, you know, bring the kids up and all that.
[21:09.000 --> 21:12.000] So, you know, this is just the interesting story.
[21:12.000 --> 21:16.000] Oh, Elijah McLean has just popped up to me.
[21:16.000 --> 21:18.000] But of course Elijah McLean.
[21:18.000 --> 21:24.000] And let me just make sure I have all the facts, right?
[21:24.000 --> 21:26.000] But for Elijah McLean.
[21:27.000 --> 21:29.000] Yep, it was also in a row.
[21:29.000 --> 21:39.000] And he was killed as a result of being illegally injected with 500 mega grams of ketamine by
[21:39.000 --> 21:44.000] paramedics after he was forcibly detained by police officers.
[21:44.000 --> 21:47.000] Um, what was Elijah McLean guilty of?
[21:47.000 --> 21:48.000] Nothing.
[21:48.000 --> 21:49.000] He was walking home.
[21:49.000 --> 21:50.000] Yep.
[21:50.000 --> 21:51.000] He was walking home one evening.
[21:51.000 --> 21:55.000] So, um, you know, so they.
[21:56.000 --> 21:58.000] If you ever do make that trip west.
[21:58.000 --> 21:59.000] Colorado.
[21:59.000 --> 22:05.000] Don't go to Aurora because, uh, you know, these were two incidents that.
[22:05.000 --> 22:10.000] Um, so it looks like Elijah McLean's case happened in 2019.
[22:10.000 --> 22:15.000] But it didn't become public until, you know, 2020 where there was a lot of racial unrest.
[22:15.000 --> 22:21.000] But, you know, definitely that's the city that needs some, uh, some racial work.
[22:21.000 --> 22:22.000] What are your thoughts?
[22:23.000 --> 22:24.000] So I'm looking at this birthday.
[22:24.000 --> 22:26.000] Birthday is the day after mine.
[22:26.000 --> 22:27.000] That's a change.
[22:27.000 --> 22:40.000] Um, the, um, well, it's apparently they, they, they figured out the city must have figured
[22:40.000 --> 22:45.000] out, Hey, you know, that's not good at trial because they knew what was about to happen.
[22:45.000 --> 22:46.000] Right.
[22:46.000 --> 22:47.000] And.
[22:48.000 --> 22:52.000] Cause when you look at numbers like 1.9, you know, it seemed like a number, you know,
[22:52.000 --> 22:57.000] and I'd be like, you know, I was like, okay, well, they must have said, okay, these people
[22:57.000 --> 22:59.000] about to get us for a whole bunch of money.
[22:59.000 --> 23:00.000] So.
[23:00.000 --> 23:01.000] Oh, I'm sure.
[23:01.000 --> 23:02.000] Yeah.
[23:02.000 --> 23:06.000] Let's just go to that, you know, a happy medium.
[23:06.000 --> 23:15.000] That's almost like, um, in that movie, uh, with the, uh, with, um, Willie Gary and they had
[23:15.000 --> 23:20.000] a settled over the whole funeral home thing that went on down there.
[23:20.000 --> 23:23.000] And they tried to throw a number out of my little low ball and whatever.
[23:23.000 --> 23:28.000] And you know, they ended up getting a whole bunch, you know, was 80 million or something
[23:28.000 --> 23:29.000] crazy number.
[23:29.000 --> 23:30.000] I forget what it was.
[23:30.000 --> 23:39.000] But, um, this, this whole thing is, you know, we, we've done, since we started this show,
[23:39.000 --> 23:49.000] we've done so many stories, um, that involve racial injustices and, and, and just prejudices,
[23:49.000 --> 23:54.000] um, where people have gotten paid because of it.
[23:54.000 --> 23:59.000] Um, some still living, some not living.
[23:59.000 --> 24:06.000] Um, but you would think we're in the 2020s now.
[24:07.000 --> 24:12.000] And you would think that we wouldn't have as many of these stories as we do.
[24:12.000 --> 24:14.000] But the stories that seem to get worse.
[24:14.000 --> 24:16.000] And, and more.
[24:16.000 --> 24:17.000] Yeah.
[24:17.000 --> 24:18.000] More than more.
[24:18.000 --> 24:19.000] Yeah.
[24:19.000 --> 24:23.000] And, and, and I just don't get it because.
[24:23.000 --> 24:29.000] Well, I think a lot of it has to do with, you know, the politics.
[24:29.000 --> 24:32.000] The, you know, the separation.
[24:33.000 --> 24:41.000] Um, as far as the power is concerned, you know, um, without getting too political, you know,
[24:41.000 --> 24:55.000] when we had our 44th president in office, um, he, he caused a lot of problems, you know,
[24:55.000 --> 25:01.000] and, um, you know, and, and, and, you know, and.
[25:01.000 --> 25:03.000] I know, I know.
[25:03.000 --> 25:04.000] I know.
[25:04.000 --> 25:05.000] I know.
[25:05.000 --> 25:06.000] I know.
[25:06.000 --> 25:07.000] I know.
[25:07.000 --> 25:08.000] I know.
[25:08.000 --> 25:09.000] I know.
[25:09.000 --> 25:10.000] I know.
[25:10.000 --> 25:11.000] I know.
[25:11.000 --> 25:12.000] I know.
[25:12.000 --> 25:13.000] I know.
[25:13.000 --> 25:14.000] I know.
[25:14.000 --> 25:15.000] I know.
[25:15.000 --> 25:16.000] I know.
[25:16.000 --> 25:18.000] I knew where you get.
[25:18.000 --> 25:19.000] I tell.
[25:19.000 --> 25:20.000] I just thought about it.
[25:20.000 --> 25:23.000] Um, but he might be back in office again.
[25:23.000 --> 25:24.000] I know it's crazy.
[25:24.000 --> 25:28.000] And, and he's gaining support of a lot of black people.
[25:28.000 --> 25:29.000] All the time.
[25:29.000 --> 25:30.000] You know this?
[25:30.000 --> 25:31.000] And money.
[25:31.000 --> 25:32.000] And money.
[25:32.000 --> 25:33.000] And money.
[25:33.000 --> 25:41.000] So it's, it's, it's, it's, and even with all that he's done, it just tells you where we're
[25:41.000 --> 25:45.000] where we are mentality art, uh, is these days.
[25:45.000 --> 25:51.000] And that's why we have all the situations that we have been talking about over and over again.
[25:51.000 --> 25:57.000] It's because people don't care anymore.
[25:58.000 --> 26:00.000] They really don't.
[26:00.000 --> 26:04.000] Um, you look at somebody wrong these days, you can get shot.
[26:04.000 --> 26:05.000] Yeah.
[26:05.000 --> 26:08.000] You know, you, um,
[26:08.000 --> 26:12.000] you know, I was in, um,
[26:12.000 --> 26:15.000] Home Depot one day and I was,
[26:15.000 --> 26:19.000] there was a guy and I guess it was a son teenager.
[26:19.000 --> 26:22.000] And they had, they were standing in the middle of the aisle.
[26:22.000 --> 26:27.000] So I kind of waited for them to move so I can get past where they were.
[26:27.000 --> 26:29.000] And they didn't move.
[26:29.000 --> 26:30.000] And I said, okay.
[26:30.000 --> 26:32.000] So finally I said, excuse me.
[26:32.000 --> 26:34.000] And I went to go around them.
[26:34.000 --> 26:36.000] The kid barely moved.
[26:36.000 --> 26:39.000] And the father never said anything.
[26:39.000 --> 26:40.000] Right.
[26:40.000 --> 26:46.000] So I had to actually push past the kid to get where I was going.
[26:46.000 --> 26:48.000] And I did not do.
[26:48.000 --> 26:51.000] I did on purpose to move them.
[26:52.000 --> 26:53.000] Right.
[26:53.000 --> 26:56.000] And the father just looked at me and he said that was ignorant.
[26:56.000 --> 26:57.000] He said that to you?
[26:57.000 --> 26:58.000] Yeah.
[26:58.000 --> 26:59.000] Well, he said it as I walked by.
[26:59.000 --> 27:00.000] He just said it directly to me.
[27:00.000 --> 27:03.000] But I heard him say it, you know, you know,
[27:03.000 --> 27:08.000] this ain't about the kid not moving out of my way or him not moving out of my way.
[27:08.000 --> 27:10.000] But I was the ignorant person.
[27:10.000 --> 27:11.000] Yeah.
[27:11.000 --> 27:16.000] So I'll say Dave, you should have gone back in a hip chapter, hip,
[27:16.000 --> 27:18.000] hip check them again.
[27:18.000 --> 27:19.000] No, no, no.
[27:19.000 --> 27:25.000] He probably had about, he probably would have had four guns on, you know, knowing him, you
[27:25.000 --> 27:26.000] know.
[27:26.000 --> 27:33.000] So, but you know, this is just part of the course, but it's always good when you hear, you know,
[27:33.000 --> 27:36.000] that you come out with something.
[27:36.000 --> 27:43.000] Now, of course now is it safe for them to be in a row with all that money now that they
[27:43.000 --> 27:44.000] did one from that town?
[27:44.000 --> 27:45.000] I would move.
[27:45.000 --> 27:47.000] I would get out of there as soon as possible.
[27:47.000 --> 27:48.000] Yeah.
[27:48.000 --> 27:49.000] I can see that.
[27:49.000 --> 27:50.000] Yeah.
[27:50.000 --> 27:51.000] Yeah.
[27:51.000 --> 27:54.000] Because I don't think it would be a good ideal for them to stay there after the city gave
[27:54.000 --> 27:56.000] up all of that money.
[27:56.000 --> 27:59.000] I'm sure the city won't be too happy about it.
[27:59.000 --> 28:04.000] And they'll probably say, you know, they stay there and they determine not to leave.
[28:04.000 --> 28:06.000] I'm sure something might happen.
[28:06.000 --> 28:07.000] So I'm sure.
[28:07.000 --> 28:09.000] But that's good.
[28:09.000 --> 28:16.000] That's a good thing that they were they made good on giving them the money as far as all
[28:16.000 --> 28:18.000] that they went through.
[28:18.000 --> 28:22.000] And hopefully we don't keep hearing about these kind of stories.
[28:22.000 --> 28:25.000] They shouldn't have to come to that point.
[28:25.000 --> 28:27.000] This higher good cops.
[28:27.000 --> 28:33.000] I mean, I don't understand what it is that they don't seem to be screening the cops.
[28:33.000 --> 28:35.000] Or maybe it's just the town.
[28:35.000 --> 28:36.000] I don't know.
[28:36.000 --> 28:37.000] Yeah.
[28:37.000 --> 28:38.000] Maybe it's the towns.
[28:38.000 --> 28:39.000] I don't know.
[28:39.000 --> 28:43.000] But congratulations to that family.
[28:44.000 --> 28:49.000] And good luck in the future because they're probably going to need that, you know, so.
[28:49.000 --> 28:50.000] All right.
[28:50.000 --> 28:53.000] You guys are listening to news and trends with Dave and Len.
[28:53.000 --> 28:56.000] Thank you for tuning in and listening to our show.
[28:56.000 --> 28:58.000] Let me see our next story.
[28:58.000 --> 29:00.000] The Grammys.
[29:00.000 --> 29:03.000] Did you watch any of the Grammys, by the way?
[29:03.000 --> 29:05.000] I saw all the highlights.
[29:05.000 --> 29:06.000] Okay.
[29:06.000 --> 29:07.000] All right.
[29:07.000 --> 29:11.000] Well, there was one particular moment on the Grammy award show.
[29:11.000 --> 29:14.000] It was a good presentation that night.
[29:14.000 --> 29:17.000] A lot of, I mean, the women ruled the night.
[29:17.000 --> 29:20.000] You know, most of the awards were won by women that night.
[29:20.000 --> 29:25.000] But there was a poignant moment that happened during the Grammys.
[29:25.000 --> 29:40.000] And before we talk about the story, I'm going to have you go ahead and play part of Jay-Z speech that took place after he was giving.
[29:41.000 --> 29:43.000] The global.
[29:43.000 --> 29:45.000] State of the city.
[29:45.000 --> 29:49.000] Let me just.
[29:49.000 --> 29:51.000] Because the.
[29:51.000 --> 30:01.000] Yeah, I think he was given the Dr. Dre global impact award.
[30:01.000 --> 30:04.000] That was a special award that was given to him that night.
[30:04.000 --> 30:05.000] Are you ready?
[30:05.000 --> 30:08.000] He's up on stage and he has his daughter Blue Ivy with him.
[30:08.000 --> 30:09.000] And this is what he said.
[30:09.000 --> 30:13.000] How far we've come with Will Smith and them.
[30:13.000 --> 30:18.000] Chazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince went in a first Grammy in 89.
[30:18.000 --> 30:21.000] And boycotting because it wasn't televised.
[30:21.000 --> 30:23.000] And then.
[30:23.000 --> 30:26.000] They went to like a hotel and watched the Grammys.
[30:26.000 --> 30:28.000] I didn't even understand what the.
[30:28.000 --> 30:31.000] Wasn't a great boycott.
[30:32.000 --> 30:35.000] But then 98.
[30:35.000 --> 30:37.000] I took a page out of that book.
[30:37.000 --> 30:40.000] I was nominated for the best rap album.
[30:40.000 --> 30:42.000] And DMX had dropped two albums that year.
[30:42.000 --> 30:43.000] They both were number one.
[30:43.000 --> 30:45.000] Shout out to DMX.
[30:45.000 --> 30:47.000] And he wasn't nominated at all.
[30:47.000 --> 30:49.000] So I boycott it.
[30:49.000 --> 30:53.000] And I watched the Grammys.
[30:53.000 --> 30:56.000] I'm just saying we just we want y'all to get it right.
[30:56.000 --> 30:57.000] We love y'all.
[30:57.000 --> 30:58.000] We love y'all.
[30:58.000 --> 30:59.000] We love y'all.
[30:59.000 --> 31:00.000] We want y'all to get it right.
[31:00.000 --> 31:02.000] At least get it close to right.
[31:02.000 --> 31:03.000] And obviously it's subjective.
[31:03.000 --> 31:05.000] Y'all don't got to clap at everything.
[31:05.000 --> 31:07.000] Obviously it's a.
[31:07.000 --> 31:09.000] Obviously it's subjective because.
[31:09.000 --> 31:12.000] You know it's music and it's opinion based.
[31:12.000 --> 31:14.000] But you know some things.
[31:14.000 --> 31:18.000] You know I don't want to embarrass this young lady but she has more Grammys than everyone.
[31:18.000 --> 31:20.000] And never won album of the year.
[31:20.000 --> 31:25.000] So even by your own metrics that doesn't work.
[31:25.000 --> 31:26.000] Think about that.
[31:27.000 --> 31:29.000] The most Grammys never won album of the year.
[31:29.000 --> 31:30.000] That doesn't work.
[31:30.000 --> 31:33.000] You know some of you.
[31:33.000 --> 31:36.000] Some of you going to go home tonight and feel like you've been robbed.
[31:36.000 --> 31:39.000] Some of you made it wrong.
[31:39.000 --> 31:45.000] Some of you don't belong in the category.
[31:45.000 --> 31:48.000] No no no no.
[31:48.000 --> 31:49.000] No no no.
[31:49.000 --> 31:52.000] When I get nervous I tell the truth.
[31:53.000 --> 31:56.000] But outside of that.
[31:56.000 --> 31:59.000] Outside of that you know we got to keep showing up.
[31:59.000 --> 32:01.000] And forget the Grammys for a second.
[32:01.000 --> 32:03.000] Just in life.
[32:03.000 --> 32:08.000] As my daughter sits instead of me nervous as I am.
[32:08.000 --> 32:11.000] Just in life you got to keep showing up.
[32:11.000 --> 32:12.000] Just keep showing up.
[32:12.000 --> 32:13.000] Forget the Grammys.
[32:13.000 --> 32:15.000] You got to keep showing up.
[32:15.000 --> 32:19.000] Until they give you all those accolades you feel you deserve.
[32:19.000 --> 32:21.000] Until they call you chairman.
[32:21.000 --> 32:23.000] Until they call you a genius.
[32:23.000 --> 32:25.000] Until they call you the greatest of all time.
[32:25.000 --> 32:27.000] You feel me?
[32:27.000 --> 32:28.000] Thank you.
[32:28.000 --> 32:39.000] Okay so Jay-Z got up there and he told the truth.
[32:39.000 --> 32:43.000] And he took a couple of hits for it.
[32:43.000 --> 32:48.000] Some people that had some negative comments that he you know even on the soapbox.
[32:48.000 --> 32:51.000] You know because people don't like to always hear the truth.
[32:51.000 --> 32:52.000] You know what I mean?
[32:52.000 --> 32:53.000] Yeah they don't.
[32:53.000 --> 32:59.000] Yeah and he got up there and he talked about how you know he said this young lady but of course everybody knew who he was talking about.
[32:59.000 --> 33:01.000] He's talking about his wife.
[33:01.000 --> 33:04.000] Who has the most Grammys of all time.
[33:04.000 --> 33:08.000] The nominated four times for album of the year never won.
[33:08.000 --> 33:12.000] When clearly he had the album of the year.
[33:12.000 --> 33:13.000] You know.
[33:14.000 --> 33:24.000] And you know the Grammys always had a lot of problems because you know they will always label you know Grammys so white.
[33:24.000 --> 33:35.000] That was always their moniker you know because they will always you know they will always give Grammys to all the white people.
[33:36.000 --> 33:45.000] It's really they've really tried to do better with the inclusion of black music over the last few years.
[33:45.000 --> 33:56.000] The problem is that some of the black music that they included isn't always the right music.
[33:56.000 --> 33:58.000] I don't know if you follow me or not.
[33:59.000 --> 34:11.000] You know you know they they try to appease us by saying okay this person's black this person's black you know so we gave you what you wanted.
[34:11.000 --> 34:16.000] But that doesn't always mean that the best people are winning.
[34:16.000 --> 34:20.000] Or kind of like he said the appropriate people were in the right category.
[34:20.000 --> 34:21.000] Right.
[34:21.000 --> 34:23.000] Right there you go.
[34:23.000 --> 34:34.000] You know I wanted to read something from in reference to this.
[34:34.000 --> 34:39.000] It says Beyonce is the most decorated artist in Grammy history.
[34:39.000 --> 34:41.000] She has 32 Grammys.
[34:41.000 --> 34:47.000] Securing that title in 2023 after four big wins.
[34:48.000 --> 34:54.000] Including the art the award for best dance electronic album for Renaissance.
[34:54.000 --> 35:03.000] However many fans felt she was slated in the album of the year category for the highly acclaimed project.
[35:03.000 --> 35:09.000] No black woman has earned that award in 25 years.
[35:10.000 --> 35:20.000] So that's interesting that no black woman has earned album of the year in 25 years.
[35:20.000 --> 35:32.000] It says Beyonce has been nominated for the album of the year four times for Renaissance lemonade Beyonce and I am fascist fierce.
[35:33.000 --> 35:43.000] It says that you know since its inception in 1957 the Grammy Awards have been accused of racial bias.
[35:43.000 --> 35:56.000] It's part of the longer history of taking for granted the innovations and contributions that African Americans have made the popular music into its various genres.
[35:57.000 --> 36:14.000] Now if you think about it you know without our influence in a lot of the music over that span of time especially from the 50s on.
[36:15.000 --> 36:17.000] And that's what they're trying to say.
[36:17.000 --> 36:25.000] You know it says here in recent years the show has been tagged Grammy so white and black artists protesting and not attending.
[36:25.000 --> 36:33.000] And many celebrities have called out the award for its mistreatment of black women.
[36:34.000 --> 37:02.000] You know there was a thing here that said black women in the album of the year it was only three black women that had been awarded album of the year since it was first introduced to the Grammy Awards in 1959.
[37:03.000 --> 37:09.000] You want to take a guess on who those three women were?
[37:09.000 --> 37:14.000] Let's see if you did.
[37:14.000 --> 37:15.000] No right.
[37:15.000 --> 37:16.000] That won.
[37:16.000 --> 37:17.000] Oh that won.
[37:17.000 --> 37:19.000] Yeah.
[37:19.000 --> 37:23.000] Only three black women have won.
[37:23.000 --> 37:26.000] And you know all of these names by the way.
[37:26.000 --> 37:28.000] Whitney Houston.
[37:28.000 --> 37:31.000] That's one.
[37:32.000 --> 37:35.000] That was 1990 that was 1994 by the way.
[37:35.000 --> 37:36.000] So so help me out.
[37:36.000 --> 37:39.000] Can you give me the years of all the two that may.
[37:39.000 --> 37:42.000] 1992 and 1999.
[37:42.000 --> 37:44.000] Mariah Carey.
[37:44.000 --> 37:45.000] Nope.
[37:45.000 --> 37:46.000] No.
[37:50.000 --> 37:57.000] Think about a real big big album for particularly young lady.
[37:58.000 --> 38:00.000] Who.
[38:00.000 --> 38:01.000] Killed it.
[38:01.000 --> 38:04.000] I mean I think she won a ton of awards that night.
[38:04.000 --> 38:06.000] Is that 99 or 92?
[38:06.000 --> 38:08.000] Ninety nine.
[38:08.000 --> 38:09.000] Mary.
[38:09.000 --> 38:11.000] I know it wasn't Mary.
[38:11.000 --> 38:12.000] Ninety two.
[38:12.000 --> 38:13.000] Ninety two.
[38:13.000 --> 38:17.000] You might forget about ninety two but ninety nine you should know.
[38:17.000 --> 38:22.000] Ninety nine.
[38:22.000 --> 38:24.000] I don't know Dave.
[38:24.000 --> 38:26.000] You got to tell me.
[38:27.000 --> 38:32.000] And ninety two was Natalie Cole believe it or not.
[38:32.000 --> 38:34.000] Oh never would I guess that.
[38:34.000 --> 38:35.000] Yeah.
[38:35.000 --> 38:36.000] Yeah.
[38:36.000 --> 38:37.000] I know you wouldn't have got that.
[38:37.000 --> 38:38.000] But listen to this.
[38:38.000 --> 38:42.000] It says singer and rapper Lauren Hill was the last black woman to win this
[38:42.000 --> 38:46.000] category in 1999 for her debut solo album the Miss Education on
[38:46.000 --> 38:47.000] Lauren Hill.
[38:47.000 --> 38:51.000] And then it goes on to say despite sixteen black women being nominated
[38:51.000 --> 38:52.000] since.
[38:52.000 --> 38:53.000] Here we go.
[38:54.000 --> 38:56.000] TLC 2000.
[38:56.000 --> 38:59.000] NDI read 2002.
[38:59.000 --> 39:02.000] Missy Elliott 2004.
[39:02.000 --> 39:04.000] Alicia Keys 2005.
[39:04.000 --> 39:06.000] Now keep in with you here.
[39:06.000 --> 39:08.000] I mean they're turning out albums now.
[39:08.000 --> 39:10.000] All in a row.
[39:10.000 --> 39:11.000] Okay.
[39:11.000 --> 39:13.000] 2006.
[39:13.000 --> 39:15.000] Mariah Carey.
[39:15.000 --> 39:22.000] Beyonce 2010 2015 2017 and 2023 those were the four times she
[39:22.000 --> 39:23.000] was nominated.
[39:23.000 --> 39:26.000] Rihanna 2012.
[39:26.000 --> 39:30.000] Brittany Howard with the group Alabama Shake.
[39:30.000 --> 39:31.000] I know who Brittany Howard is.
[39:31.000 --> 39:36.000] These are black women 2016.
[39:36.000 --> 39:41.000] Janelle Monet 2019 2014 was nominated this year.
[39:41.000 --> 39:48.000] Her 2019 2020 2022.
[39:49.000 --> 39:51.000] Cardi B 2019.
[39:51.000 --> 39:54.000] Lizzo 2020 and 2023.
[39:54.000 --> 39:58.000] Janelle Aieco 2021.
[39:58.000 --> 40:03.000] Dozycat 2022 and Mary J. Blige 2023.
[40:03.000 --> 40:07.000] You can't you trying to tell me none of them can win that award?
[40:07.000 --> 40:10.000] Well, we know Grammy so white.
[40:10.000 --> 40:12.000] So are we really surprised?
[40:12.000 --> 40:17.000] Yeah, but now we now.
[40:17.000 --> 40:24.000] There was a certain artist that just set the record for her fourth album of the year.
[40:24.000 --> 40:31.000] Miss Taylor Swift.
[40:31.000 --> 40:34.000] Well, I think we know what's going on there.
[40:34.000 --> 40:36.000] I mean, now don't get me wrong.
[40:36.000 --> 40:38.000] Taylor is an excellent performer.
[40:38.000 --> 40:41.000] She's excellent songwriter.
[40:41.000 --> 40:43.000] People love her.
[40:44.000 --> 40:51.000] I think Beyonce is probably the two biggest entertainers out there right now.
[40:51.000 --> 40:54.000] But.
[40:54.000 --> 40:57.000] Taylor.
[40:57.000 --> 41:03.000] Is Taylor really albums really that much better than Beyonce's album?
[41:03.000 --> 41:06.000] Well, they Grammy so white.
[41:06.000 --> 41:11.000] I mean, we already know.
[41:11.000 --> 41:19.000] Taylor, it was so embarrassing when the award was announced for album of the year and I was watching.
[41:19.000 --> 41:22.000] And it was this it was this competition in that category.
[41:22.000 --> 41:23.000] It was eight albums.
[41:23.000 --> 41:26.000] I think that was nominated.
[41:26.000 --> 41:28.000] And Taylor won.
[41:28.000 --> 41:37.000] And you already people were mouthing Taylor Swift's name before the announcement was made because everybody already knew she was going to win.
[41:37.000 --> 41:40.000] She gets up there act like a complete full man.
[41:40.000 --> 41:42.000] She is tore up man.
[41:42.000 --> 41:45.000] She I mean, you know.
[41:45.000 --> 41:47.000] It was it was bad.
[41:47.000 --> 41:48.000] It was bad.
[41:48.000 --> 41:53.000] And I'm just like, this is who this is who they want.
[41:53.000 --> 41:54.000] You know, they want to win.
[41:54.000 --> 42:01.000] Taylor can go up there and put up put up a very average album and still get this kind of coverage and still win.
[42:01.000 --> 42:03.000] And she's hot right now.
[42:03.000 --> 42:12.000] Because she's she's hot on two two that need to two reasons that her her tour and she Jason Jason Kelsey's girlfriend.
[42:12.000 --> 42:13.000] Yeah.
[42:13.000 --> 42:27.000] So anyway, I was sitting there fuming watching the awards, you know, even though, you know, they were a lot of blacks the one that night, but even still, you know, Jay Z, I think kept it real.
[42:27.000 --> 42:30.000] He said what he had to say, I'm not mad at him.
[42:30.000 --> 42:33.000] And hopefully the Academy is listening.
[42:33.000 --> 42:43.000] The guy who's leading the Academy now is a white is a black guy and he's very tuned into a lot of the black music and he's worked with a lot of great black artists.
[42:43.000 --> 42:47.000] So hopefully he'll change some things, you know, that's going on.
[42:47.000 --> 42:52.000] And you could tell with that show, they have more black performance than they normally do.
[42:52.000 --> 42:56.000] They even had Travis Scott performing and I was like Travis Scott.
[42:56.000 --> 43:00.000] You know, so that's what I'm saying.
[43:00.000 --> 43:03.000] You know, so hopefully they'll get it right.
[43:03.000 --> 43:12.000] Like Jay Z says, and maybe we'll have a black woman or a black male because it's been a while since the black male is one too.
[43:12.000 --> 43:15.000] So, you know, so see what happens.
[43:15.000 --> 43:17.000] So I just thought I bring that up.
[43:17.000 --> 43:18.000] It is black.
[43:18.000 --> 43:19.000] It's three months.
[43:19.000 --> 43:20.000] You know.
[43:21.000 --> 43:22.000] We have to pay attention.
[43:22.000 --> 43:25.000] We have to stay woke on these kind of things.
[43:25.000 --> 43:26.000] Okay.
[43:26.000 --> 43:29.000] All right.
[43:29.000 --> 43:35.000] Moving on to our next story.
[43:35.000 --> 43:44.000] Me being in social services as a social service person that deals with.
[43:44.000 --> 43:51.000] We're providing help for those who are in need in different types of way.
[43:51.000 --> 43:57.000] You know, when I see a story like this, it really makes me shake my head and scratch my head at the same time.
[43:57.000 --> 44:05.000] So there's a story about.
[44:05.000 --> 44:13.000] Well, 50 cent, 50 cent kind of brought attention to the story because, you know, 50 cent is probably the greatest troll on social media that we all know.
[44:13.000 --> 44:17.000] But you always got something to say about something.
[44:17.000 --> 44:26.000] 50 cents, 50 cents reacts to New York City, given immigrants prepaid debit cards.
[44:26.000 --> 44:31.000] And then he says, maybe Trump is the answer.
[44:31.000 --> 44:32.000] You know, okay.
[44:32.000 --> 44:37.000] Let me kind of fill you guys in on what this is.
[44:37.000 --> 44:43.000] Is that as hardworking Americans struggle to make ends meet in Joe Biden's economy.
[44:43.000 --> 44:51.000] New York mayor Eric Adams was a black man and now plans to distribute.
[44:51.000 --> 44:56.000] 53 million to city immigrants on prepaid credit cards.
[44:56.000 --> 45:03.000] The Daily Mail reports that recipients must sign an affidavit.
[45:03.000 --> 45:09.000] Promising to use the card for food and baby supplies.
[45:09.000 --> 45:17.000] The cards can only be used at Bodega grocery stores, supermarkets and convenience stores.
[45:17.000 --> 45:24.000] A family of four will get a card loaded with $1,000 a month.
[45:24.000 --> 45:32.000] The New York Post reports cards get refilled every 28 days.
[45:33.000 --> 45:38.000] A company called Mo Ka Ka Phi.
[45:38.000 --> 45:42.000] Founded by former Wall Street financier.
[45:42.000 --> 45:47.000] Wole Coxiom is running the program.
[45:47.000 --> 45:59.000] They're looking forward to partnering with New York City to disperse funds for asylum seekers to purchase fresh hot food.
[45:59.000 --> 46:14.000] They said the goal is to expand access to financial resources for individuals excluded from banking such as asylum seekers while helping the local economy.
[46:14.000 --> 46:25.000] Not only will this provide families with the ability to purchase fresh food for their culturally relevant diets and the baby supplies of their choosing.
[46:25.000 --> 46:35.000] The pilot program is expected to save New York City more than $600,000 per month or more than $7.2 million annually.
[46:35.000 --> 46:46.000] Now get this over the past 70, I mean over the past year, 70 migrants have been bused or flown to New York City.
[46:46.000 --> 46:58.000] According to reports, the immigrants are housed at the Roosevelt Hotel and will be among the first to receive prepaid cards.
[46:58.000 --> 47:03.000] You know anything about the Roosevelt Hotel Hotel?
[47:03.000 --> 47:05.000] I know you were just up there recently.
[47:05.000 --> 47:08.000] You didn't see it in New York.
[47:09.000 --> 47:11.000] It's downtown.
[47:11.000 --> 47:13.000] It's a very prominent hotel.
[47:13.000 --> 47:23.000] Well, it was, but it's old and it's an old building, but it was very like a lot of celebrities and everything used to stay there when they would come to New York and everything.
[47:23.000 --> 47:27.000] But now it houses these immigrants.
[47:27.000 --> 47:29.000] Yeah, how about that?
[47:29.000 --> 47:31.000] Yeah, it's crazy.
[47:32.000 --> 47:39.000] Meanwhile, rapper 50 cents hit up Instagram side of the blaster program, the post reports.
[47:39.000 --> 47:43.000] He said, WTF, Mayor Adams, call on call my phone.
[47:43.000 --> 47:45.000] I don't understand how this works.
[47:45.000 --> 47:53.000] Somebody explained he wrote along with a screenshot of the post report about the debit cards can explain this.
[47:53.000 --> 47:55.000] I'm stuck.
[47:55.000 --> 48:00.000] Maybe Trump is the answer.
[48:00.000 --> 48:05.000] You know, Trump is gaining a lot of support from a lot of very important black people right now.
[48:05.000 --> 48:17.000] And when you hear about stuff like this, you can almost see why that's happening.
[48:17.000 --> 48:21.000] Fifty three million dollars been allocated.
[48:21.000 --> 48:25.000] Now, I'm all for helping people.
[48:25.000 --> 48:27.000] Don't get me wrong.
[48:27.000 --> 48:33.000] Okay, and we even have people who are immigrants to work in our office.
[48:33.000 --> 48:38.000] Social services that even think this is crazy.
[48:38.000 --> 48:44.000] We, you know, the United States has always tried to help the world always.
[48:44.000 --> 48:53.000] But sometimes you got to take, you got to take a lesson from some of these other countries, like doing a pandemic.
[48:53.000 --> 48:58.000] You wasn't getting in the Canada because Canada said, you can't come over here.
[48:58.000 --> 49:05.000] You know, there were other places that you couldn't go into during the pandemic because they wasn't going to let you in.
[49:05.000 --> 49:09.000] Okay.
[49:09.000 --> 49:19.000] Why, why do we feel we have to be the savior of the world when we have people dying on the street to every day?
[49:19.000 --> 49:21.000] Because they are homeless.
[49:21.000 --> 49:24.000] They don't have food. They don't have shelter.
[49:24.000 --> 49:29.000] We don't have enough shelters as a moment for our own people.
[49:29.000 --> 49:38.000] I get there trying to help, but why didn't, why, why not do this for Americans if you're going to.
[49:38.000 --> 49:48.000] Leonard, if you're, if you're a person, if you're what they call, what they call a refugee, you can come into the United States as a refugees here in Delaware.
[49:48.000 --> 49:53.000] You can get food benefits, cash, a place to stay.
[49:53.000 --> 49:55.000] All of this stuff right away.
[49:55.000 --> 49:59.000] Soon as you walk in, if you're a refugee from another country.
[49:59.000 --> 50:00.000] That's crazy.
[50:00.000 --> 50:05.000] And Dave, and you know all the refugees they talk about are not dark skin or brown skin.
[50:05.000 --> 50:06.000] No, they're not.
[50:06.000 --> 50:07.000] They're all different.
[50:07.000 --> 50:10.000] I mean, you know, and it's, it's, it's crazy.
[50:10.000 --> 50:12.000] And then you got it.
[50:12.000 --> 50:16.000] You roll out this program in New York City.
[50:17.000 --> 50:22.000] I don't get it.
[50:22.000 --> 50:25.000] So, so, so these are my thoughts.
[50:25.000 --> 50:29.000] If they're giving out cash money like that, they need to get out of reparations.
[50:29.000 --> 50:33.000] You know, everyone talking about, they don't got no, and they, I not keep on harvesting it.
[50:33.000 --> 50:34.000] I want my reparations.
[50:34.000 --> 50:35.000] I want my 48.
[50:35.000 --> 50:40.000] I want my mules and, you know, anything, my great grandparents were supposed to have.
[50:41.000 --> 50:48.000] But, you know, my thoughts on this is instead of, instead of giving them money.
[50:48.000 --> 50:53.000] Why don't they give them job training and something up with jobs?
[50:53.000 --> 50:55.000] You know what I mean?
[50:55.000 --> 51:04.000] Like, I mean, that to me makes more sense rather than just giving them money and saying it has to be used for housing and food.
[51:04.000 --> 51:05.000] I don't know.
[51:05.000 --> 51:07.000] But, you know, I don't know.
[51:08.000 --> 51:09.000] I don't know.
[51:09.000 --> 51:28.000] It's frustrating when you think about it because, yeah, the down training and setting them up for jobs, making sure they have the proper skills and so forth, getting them, you know, where they can actually come in and make some money or earn or living or whatever the case.
[51:28.000 --> 51:30.000] Yeah, that's, that's fine.
[51:30.000 --> 51:36.000] But they also have to do that for the, for the people here too, because, you know, I mean,
[51:36.000 --> 51:38.000] that's what's the best.
[51:38.000 --> 51:42.000] You figure a family of four, you get a thousand dollars for a family of four.
[51:42.000 --> 51:45.000] That's a nice piece of change.
[51:45.000 --> 51:46.000] Yeah.
[51:46.000 --> 51:55.000] Well, you know, the, the, the, I wonder who was sitting around the table and like gave a unanimous approval.
[51:55.000 --> 52:02.000] I mean, like, I was just saying, like, I just can't think of being Republican or Democrat and so on saying, Hey, Dave,
[52:03.000 --> 52:04.000] they're a bunch of roughly.
[52:04.000 --> 52:07.000] In fact, they are these rep, no, these aren't even refugees.
[52:07.000 --> 52:08.000] These are immigrants.
[52:08.000 --> 52:09.000] No, these are immigrants.
[52:09.000 --> 52:10.000] Yeah.
[52:10.000 --> 52:15.000] I can imagine someone saying, Hey, we have a whole bunch of immigrants here.
[52:15.000 --> 52:16.000] Let's give them this.
[52:16.000 --> 52:22.000] Let's give them this with really no firm commitment on what they're going to do.
[52:22.000 --> 52:23.000] Like.
[52:23.000 --> 52:25.000] Who was there on that meeting?
[52:25.000 --> 52:27.000] Who was sitting there at that table?
[52:27.000 --> 52:28.000] Yeah.
[52:28.000 --> 52:31.000] So real quick, when you talk about people voting for Trump.
[52:31.000 --> 52:37.000] I mean, I feel like it's because the Democrats are just messing up or, you know, these, these
[52:37.000 --> 52:41.000] people who are against Trump are making, you know, people can sit otherwise.
[52:41.000 --> 52:42.000] So.
[52:42.000 --> 52:44.000] It is what it is.
[52:44.000 --> 52:52.000] And of course I'm waiting to see if anything comes out of the Biden administration about this,
[52:52.000 --> 52:56.000] or is this the Biden administration that's setting this up?
[52:57.000 --> 52:58.000] I don't know.
[52:58.000 --> 53:04.000] I mean, I feel like if they were, they should be shooting their cells in the foot.
[53:04.000 --> 53:05.000] Unbelievable.
[53:05.000 --> 53:08.000] But I can get, I can get almost guaranteed.
[53:08.000 --> 53:12.000] I mean, I think a mayor Adams will be a one term mayor.
[53:12.000 --> 53:16.000] That's, yeah, that's going to make a break in right there.
[53:16.000 --> 53:24.000] I mean, and if you are catering to $70,000, I mean, 70,000 immigrants over your own people.
[53:25.000 --> 53:27.000] That is not going to go well for your career.
[53:27.000 --> 53:34.000] I can tell you that now, you know, and, and, and, and don't get, don't get me wrong.
[53:34.000 --> 53:37.000] And I'm sure don't get my partner wrong folks that are listening.
[53:37.000 --> 53:44.000] We're not upset about, you know, it's not about the immigrants in this case.
[53:44.000 --> 53:50.000] It's about the principle of everything with so much is going on in this country alone with
[53:50.000 --> 53:57.000] homelessness and, and, and all the issues that are needed here in the United States.
[53:57.000 --> 54:07.000] And we're up there talking about giving $1,000 every 28 days to immigrants.
[54:07.000 --> 54:08.000] Wow.
[54:08.000 --> 54:12.000] There's something, there's something not right there.
[54:12.000 --> 54:17.000] I mean, you know, I hate to, I hate to put it that way, but that's just the way I feel about
[54:17.000 --> 54:18.000] it.
[54:18.000 --> 54:23.000] I mean, you would, I don't have to go through all my job every day in trying to help people
[54:23.000 --> 54:26.000] with getting benefits and so forth.
[54:26.000 --> 54:35.000] And, you know, having to close people's benefits, if they're a dollar over the amount that they're,
[54:35.000 --> 54:40.000] they're not, you know, that makes them not eligible or whatever, but yet you can turn around
[54:40.000 --> 54:46.000] and get people $1,000 and tell them to go shop.
[54:46.000 --> 54:51.000] And they're not from here.
[54:51.000 --> 54:54.000] I don't know, something wrong, something wrong.
[54:54.000 --> 54:55.000] Yeah.
[54:55.000 --> 55:01.000] Anyway, anyway, I just, that's something, that's a story that definitely, I'm definitely going
[55:01.000 --> 55:03.000] to be following and keeping an eye on.
[55:03.000 --> 55:06.000] I know when I, I come, when I saw the story, I shared it with some of my co-workers there
[55:06.000 --> 55:08.000] and they were all the Paul over the old thing.
[55:08.000 --> 55:10.000] They really were.
[55:10.000 --> 55:12.000] So we'll see what happens.
[55:12.000 --> 55:14.000] Okay, with that.
[55:14.000 --> 55:16.000] All right.
[55:16.000 --> 55:17.000] Moving on.
[55:17.000 --> 55:24.000] It is Black History Month and I just wanted to, you know, when we last talked and said
[55:24.000 --> 55:29.000] we're going to share some Black History facts throughout the month as we go through the
[55:29.000 --> 55:30.000] month.
[55:30.000 --> 55:36.000] So I just wanted to share a couple of things before we got today's corner.
[55:36.000 --> 55:43.000] In 1992, John Singleton became the first African American director to be nominated for a
[55:43.000 --> 55:48.000] Academy Award for best direction for his film Boys in the Hood.
[55:48.000 --> 55:53.000] Was that one of your favorite films back in the day, man?
[55:53.000 --> 55:55.000] Yeah, it was a classic.
[55:55.000 --> 55:57.000] Yeah, it was.
[55:57.000 --> 55:58.000] It was.
[55:58.000 --> 56:06.000] So he became the first African American to ever be nominated for the, for that directing,
[56:06.000 --> 56:08.000] for directing that film.
[56:09.000 --> 56:20.000] In 1945, singer Bob Marley was born on today's date, February, February 6th.
[56:20.000 --> 56:25.000] And of course, you know, this is a big Bob Marley movie coming out and, you know, everybody's
[56:25.000 --> 56:26.000] just fighting to see that.
[56:26.000 --> 56:30.000] I just saw the day they confirmed it's going to be some scenes from Wilmington, Delaware in
[56:30.000 --> 56:31.000] there.
[56:31.000 --> 56:32.000] Okay.
[56:32.000 --> 56:33.000] So that's cool.
[56:33.000 --> 56:35.000] They can't tell that story without having something in there.
[56:36.000 --> 56:42.000] Because I used to watch him play soccer myself on Sundays.
[56:42.000 --> 56:45.000] His mom lives right across the street from the field.
[56:45.000 --> 56:48.000] I mean, you know, he was always here, man.
[56:48.000 --> 56:49.000] He was always here.
[56:49.000 --> 56:54.000] Whenever he wasn't performing or whatever, he was here and he'd be out there with his kids.
[56:54.000 --> 56:58.000] People forget that, you know, he was only 36 years old when he died.
[56:58.000 --> 57:04.000] He seemed like he was so much older than that, you know, but his, his, you know, you talking
[57:04.000 --> 57:09.000] about somebody that had like, uh, that was like a folk lore type person.
[57:09.000 --> 57:13.000] That was Bob Marley, you know, because he didn't see like he was around forever.
[57:13.000 --> 57:22.000] You know, but he wasn't, you know, so also born on this day in 1950 was Natalie Cole.
[57:22.000 --> 57:29.000] So, um, so happy birthday to heavily birthday to the both of them.
[57:29.000 --> 57:35.000] And, you know, that was today's, uh, little known history fact about John
[57:35.000 --> 57:42.000] Singleton and the two birthday people, Mr. Bob Marley and Ms. Natalie Cole.
[57:42.000 --> 57:43.000] Okay.
[57:43.000 --> 57:50.000] So, um, moving on to Dave's corner.
[57:50.000 --> 57:55.000] I thought this was a good question.
[57:55.000 --> 57:57.000] I'm going to see how you handle this question.
[57:57.000 --> 57:58.000] Okay.
[57:58.000 --> 58:02.000] Well, they already know my answer because we, we talked about it before.
[58:02.000 --> 58:03.000] Something.
[58:03.000 --> 58:04.000] Okay.
[58:04.000 --> 58:05.000] Well, okay.
[58:05.000 --> 58:11.000] Now, the, the repurfaces is saying this can't be in this case.
[58:11.000 --> 58:15.000] You can't, this can't be anything religious.
[58:15.000 --> 58:18.000] And you want to stay away from family members.
[58:18.000 --> 58:19.000] Okay.
[58:19.000 --> 58:20.000] Okay.
[58:20.000 --> 58:21.000] All right.
[58:21.000 --> 58:25.000] So folks, Dave's corner Leonard's favorite part of the show.
[58:25.000 --> 58:26.000] We finally got to it.
[58:26.000 --> 58:27.000] You couldn't wait to get to it.
[58:27.000 --> 58:30.000] Um, here is the question.
[58:30.000 --> 58:37.000] If you had the chance to ask a question to someone past the present.
[58:37.000 --> 58:41.000] That mankind has always wondered about.
[58:41.000 --> 58:44.000] Who would you ask that question to?
[58:44.000 --> 58:52.000] And what would the question be?
[58:52.000 --> 58:53.000] Yep.
[58:53.000 --> 58:55.000] So my question.
[58:55.000 --> 58:58.000] Is I would want to ask.
[58:58.000 --> 59:02.000] King Tut.
[59:02.000 --> 59:07.000] Who built the pyramids.
[59:07.000 --> 59:10.000] Okay.
[59:10.000 --> 59:12.000] What do you think?
[59:12.000 --> 59:19.000] What do you think he would tell you?
[59:19.000 --> 59:21.000] I don't know.
[59:21.000 --> 59:22.000] Well, you know, it's funny.
[59:22.000 --> 59:25.000] Like, what do they tell us now?
[59:25.000 --> 59:28.000] Well, they said that, you know,
[59:28.000 --> 59:29.000] I'm of everything.
[59:29.000 --> 59:32.000] But the slaves, you know, pulled and pride.
[59:32.000 --> 59:35.000] First of all, some stones and everything.
[59:35.000 --> 59:38.000] I still don't see how they move those stones without crazy.
[59:38.000 --> 59:39.000] I know.
[59:39.000 --> 59:40.000] You know.
[59:40.000 --> 59:43.000] And I mean, even if they are using leverage and all that,
[59:43.000 --> 59:48.000] how do you get that top piece up a, um, like a triangle.
[59:49.000 --> 59:50.000] Yeah.
[59:50.000 --> 59:51.000] Yeah.
[59:51.000 --> 59:53.000] The whole thing is crazy.
[59:53.000 --> 59:56.000] I mean, but they did it somehow.
[59:56.000 --> 59:57.000] They did it somehow.
[59:57.000 --> 59:59.000] You know.
[59:59.000 --> 01:00:01.000] That's a good question though.
[01:00:01] I mean, that's a good answer and question that you would ask.
[01:00:07] Hmm.
[01:00:10] I'm thinking of myself.
[01:00:12] I was trying to figure out there were so many places I wanted to go with this.
[01:00:16] It's for myself.
[01:00:17] But I think, um,
[01:00:24] I think mine would be.
[01:00:32] What?
[01:00:34] Dr. King.
[01:00:37] Did you say you were asked, Dr. King?
[01:00:40] Yeah.
[01:00:41] Yeah.
[01:00:42] What Dr. King, do you think, what did you think, um, you were going to witness the day that
[01:00:53] you did your, I have a dream speech that you think it would go according to plan?
[01:01:01] Because keep in mind, he changed the speech when he got up there.
[01:01:09] And he decided to go all different directions after being prided by a couple of different
[01:01:16] people.
[01:01:17] And my hell, your dad said, tell him about the dream.
[01:01:23] So I would like to know after he did the speech, you know, what made you change the speech and
[01:01:33] go in the direction that you did.
[01:01:36] And just having a conversation about that.
[01:01:39] Because I'm pretty sure that was probably something to hear.
[01:01:45] You know, um,
[01:01:49] they still said it's probably the most famous speech of all time.
[01:01:52] Um, I'm sure.
[01:01:54] Yeah, yeah.
[01:01:55] So, um, so that's probably what I think that would be who I would ask the question of and
[01:02:04] just to pick his brain and just to see what he had to say about that.
[01:02:09] Because for somebody who went up there and, you know, had another speech in his mind to do and
[01:02:16] then went on to do the greatest speech ever heard.
[01:02:21] That was, that was crazy.
[01:02:23] You know, so, yeah.
[01:02:25] Yeah.
[01:02:26] Well Dave, you know, I always feel like, um,
[01:02:30] I would think it was crazy if he wasn't already a pastor, because you, you know,
[01:02:35] I feel like pastors can always get up there and, you know, they, they, they,
[01:02:39] they pull it off.
[01:02:40] They can pull it off.
[01:02:41] You know, they, they must around see something in the audience.
[01:02:44] And then the whole sermon goes another direction about, you know,
[01:02:48] that's true.
[01:02:49] That's true.
[01:02:50] Yeah.
[01:02:51] Yeah.
[01:02:52] I mean, you know, well, we know he was a great orator and, you know,
[01:02:55] he was a very smart guy.
[01:02:57] And just like you were talking about Bob Marley, very young.
[01:03:02] Very young.
[01:03:03] Yeah.
[01:03:04] Also in his 30s when he died, you know, some, I mean,
[01:03:07] when you think about all the prominent people that died in their 30s over the
[01:03:10] history, it all started with Jesus Christ.
[01:03:13] He was, he was only 33 years old, you know, I mean, you know,
[01:03:16] and these people seem like they were around forever.
[01:03:19] You know, but they live short lives.
[01:03:23] They're, they're, they're legends.
[01:03:28] Stayed around forever.
[01:03:29] You know what I mean?
[01:03:31] You know, Kennedy was what?
[01:03:33] In his 40s, right?
[01:03:35] When we were here in Fairleigh, yeah.
[01:03:37] Yeah.
[01:03:38] Even young.
[01:03:39] And his brother was in his 30s.
[01:03:41] I mean, you know, so when you think about these people, yeah,
[01:03:44] they, yeah, it's interesting.
[01:03:46] It really is.
[01:03:47] It really is.
[01:03:48] So.
[01:03:50] But there you have it, folks.
[01:03:53] And that question is out there for you guys to answer as well.
[01:03:58] Tell me who you would like to ask that question to.
[01:04:03] And what would be the question that you would ask?
[01:04:06] You know, you can leave it in our chat or, you know, send me a text or,
[01:04:10] you know, go to newsintrends.com and you can go there.
[01:04:15] And, you know, but we'd like to hear what you guys have to say.
[01:04:18] All right.
[01:04:19] All right.
[01:04:20] So that's it for our show tonight.
[01:04:23] Len, you got anything you want to add before we check out?
[01:04:27] Nope.
[01:04:28] I'm all, I'm all tapped out on this.
[01:04:30] February black history month.
[01:04:34] Yeah.
[01:04:35] Yeah.
[01:04:36] How about that?
[01:04:37] Now we got a lot more black history to go, folks.
[01:04:40] So, you know, every day we should be making some type of black history
[01:04:44] anyway.
[01:04:45] So, but thank you for taking the time to listen to us.
[01:04:49] We really appreciate it.
[01:04:51] And we will talk to you guys soon.
[01:04:54] Join us next week for another edition of moves and trends with your host,
[01:05:06] Dave and Len.
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