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Wait, wait, wait, wait, pu's up. Your artist is Doug E. Fresh and you're watching We Talk Weekly. You're listening to this right here, all y'all. We talked weeklies after You're talking w PPM P Philadelphia one o six point five film. We talked weeklies after you talk with your boy and. Beautiful classy lady Sparkle in the beautiful and the Beautiful Enisa Henry and. We are definitely in the building. We got a dynamic show for you today. We're gonna talk a couple of stories and few stores, uh, because it's been a dynamic season, has been a dynamic day, it has been a dynamic few weeks. And we're gonna talk a little bit about everything that has been going on. And so I'm super excited about that, and I'm super excited about everyone who has been foulwing. Like in boxing. I just wanted to make put something out there real quick, so we shared on our social media and some action figures they that's made with AI ladies and gentlemen. They are not real, so you can't buy them, unfortunately, but I know Lauren she was doing some digging and probably found out where you could purchase and that's what she does her little research, but you want to talk about the research path? Oh yeah. I was contacted by a friend of mine and they saw the video on our go to our instagram are we talk weekly at we Talk Weekly Instagram page and you can see that our AI images that were created of the dolls of our likeness. And I was contacted by someone who saw the dials and they were like, oh, I want to die on a purchase one. So I was like, oh, yeah, you know that it's not not real. It's just kind of like and I had to put it in the lamest terms because some people don't really understand what artificial intelligence is right now. So it's just like, oh, it's kind of like a cartoon of us. It's not real right now, but it's kind of like a cartoon. I was like, but you know, we are looking and we did look into like possibly getting some dolls made of us, and if we do, I'll let you know how much it costs and you can purchase themselves. That could be in the works, could be she gonna have one a roll here did and all that real talk. But I was little. We was at the Supermarkan on sixty ninth Street, and it was when Princess Diana died and it had the dolls in the market. I walked up to the dow and handed out to my mom. I said, Mom, it's gonna be me one day, I said, watch. This world. Spoken into existence. That's right. So yeah, it's one of those things, all right, y'all. Uh so you already know what we're gonna start. Were you ready to jump right into it? First of all? I got to ask you, how was your day, coach Spark? How was you you? My day was cool? I I did nothing. I just I'm really like with all that food that we buy, I didn't go buy a lot of food though. It's just me. So I just got you know, grip butter. It's you know that the cereal and that's it. But I didn't. I mean, who doing what out there? Y'all? Doing snow angels or sliding? Absolutely not none of that. Yeah, I had enough of that back in the day when. He was like, that's that was my day about you? Y'all? Ever see the episode of Martin when he got to go get his license to his license picked his license renewed or what what is it is? He goes to the DMV and he's there all day. That's what my day was. The DMV. I hate. I hate the DMV. So I spent half the day in the DMV but got some things out the way. And you know, was it crowded. Yeah, it was crowded. It was it was. It was crazy. It was crazy there because of the web. That's exactly what I thought, y'all had to say, right, everybody was thinking the same thing, like, Oh, I'm gonna just get there and you know, get in and out. No you're not. They come giving you that beetle juice slip where you like you like number one million, five hundred thousand, nine hundred ninety nine whatever, and you're like, just what, Like I got a waitness line, Like I wish I had a laptop and some Starbucks and all that. You worked on tickets, I know, right, exactly one hundred dollars, Yes, that. Same ticket an somebody else who just came in. Yes, yes, yeah, crazy. I did my usual Caturday, so one after all day on a Saturday, but probably because I'm getting old and I was recuperating from last night. We celebrated my girlfriend's fortieth birthday. At the party. Well it was like a twelve eighteen hour day. I went to work, I had appointments, and then I had to rush of the party. Uh and then we we ain't seen each other in two years, girlfriends from high school. People was driving up from different states, so you know, we just wanted to be with each other. It was a good time though. We ate good too. It was restaurant we was at. I forgot about that. We definitely was amazing. Yes, yes, restaurant Week is like and I think they pushed restaurant restaurant. I can't say I'm gonna leave that alone, but you know, they pushed it back. They pushed it back a week because of the snow. Yeah, we got almost ten inches. It was a lot of people out last night. I thought it was gonna be lightweight. No, everybody was outside and they first last night they five moves like they was getting so it was it was a movie, exactly what was it. I was parking though, because literally I've been disgusted everywhere I go out city parking is just crazy because of how it's everything's been plowed. So the parking there suck before the snowstorm because it's in a complex where people live and so if you can't find street parking, which is never any anyway, you got to pay for a valet when you get there. So I guess that worked last night. Knowing that I already was gonna have to pay for valet, so often figured I was gonna have a space. But getting it was crazy because the snow stillers and shovel where you couldn't even turn into certain streets or we had to go into the opposing traffic lane because the snow was just still there. Oh no, that's crazy. That's crazy, because it was one day that I was I was leaving work in Chinatown. It was wild. It was just like you know where people would park on the side that was filled halfway with snow, so it was like half of a park. People were halfway parked in it, but then halfway into a la So instead of it being two lanes right there, it was it was one lane and then it was like a park that people were halfway into the second lane. It was just terrible, and it was back in traffic exactly because is right there and Ben Franklin Parkway, it's a highway entrance and exit there. We couldn't get off the highway. People couldn't get on the highway all because of the snow and people trying having to use opposite lanes just to get around people. It was terrible. That's crazy. That stuff like that makes me not want to go anywhere. Oh I ain't want to go. But I was like, well, yeah something like that, Yeah you do have to go. I was I was close though, saying never mind you all. Yes, got got got today. But yeah, other than that, I just would have been in the house chilling because the snow and all that. I've just been. But see, how was your day? Uh? Yeah it was busy? Yeah, yeah, yeah, pretty busy. Yeah. You got something coming up, don't you? Yeah? I have something coming up. No, what got coming up? You're going to Miami? Neither did the Spanish. That's Will Smith. That's yeah, I'm going to So I'm going to Miami. You want to do a panel. I'm gonna talk a little bit about AI. So they reached out. This is a i c I, U S A right and so last so a i c I is Association of Image Consultants International, to which I am a Credited Certified Imaged Consultants right and so through while every two years U S A A, I C I U s A do there annual well BI annual conference and the international organization. Every four years do theirs right. And so I was at first one with the Puna Kana and then I was at Manila. This year we're in Miami. So I'm gonna be talking a little bit about AI, some of the things, some of the tools, how to utilize AI, how to scale your businesses with AI? Do you even need AI? Do you even understand what AI is? So yeah, I'm leaving. Yeah, so it's work. Sounds like you know, I don't. I don't go nowhere. I just I'll go. I probably stay in my room for the for the whole day, wake up, do the presentation, and then get out of there. Uh yeah, I heard that it was kind of chilli. Though. It's not twenty degrees the twenty degrees yesterday. There you go, Ladies and gentlemen. We talked weeklies after the Talking w Uppmo P Philadelphia one o six point five film. We talked weeklies after the Talk with your Boy Charles Gregor and Beautiful and. The Beautiful Sizzle and the Beautiful Tenisa Henry. And we are back, Ladies and gentlemen, and tenise you ready for me? Absolutely, I give me some stories, all right, ladies. Just January twenty twenty six, snowstorm aftermath. I now y'all know how we get down in the city of brotherly Love, City of Mayhem, and you know whatever else. When it comes to our snowstorms and our parking spaces, I have to say, even though I'm an attorney, I'm with the people on this sweat equity is something that we should actually stand by because it's a lot of work getting out there to shovel out your pavements, your steps, your walkways, your cars, and then sometimes having to go and do it three times because of the massive load of so that we're getting. And so I understand what that does, the people breaking people's backs, You're slipping and falling, you're frozen, you might even be on the verge of hypothermia. So I understand all of that. And then they have to go out on the trenches and go to work, or go get your kids or whatever, and come back and now you don't have a place to park. It's not a clock at night, it's colder than it was during the daystime, and you got to drive around for hours or sit there and wait for somebody else to come out, or try to get in a spot that's a complete ice mount and run the risk of bumping in the cars. In front of you or behind you. So I get all that. That being said, let me tell y'all what the Philadelphia City Code is. Chapter twelve, Section thirty one oh one. It says prohibiting the selling, leasing, or reserving of public parking spaces. No person or any other entity other than the city and it's designance, shall lease, sell, or reserve any space located in any street, roadway, or cartway or portioning her up under the city under the control of the city. So you know it's city property and it owns it stand that you can interfere. It also goes on to say to no person, et cetera shall assist or conspire with any person or entitinue to do any of these things. Again, that's selling, leasing, or reserving any space located in any street, roadway, or cartway or portioner of that's under the city control. And then lastly reads that any violation of this section is punishable by a two hundred and fifty dollars fine for each violation each cell. Each lease. Each reservation of any space, or offer to perform such shall constitute a separate violation. Now, I did some digging and just like I know my city would do. We unfortunately have covered some incidents. And there's one video for you all to take if you haven't caught this story yet. Story yet. Yeah, if I could pull that up for you, ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen, take a look at this. Here we go. Please have been putting out warnings trying to prevent heated escalations like this one. Actually the port of Brianna Smith live in Philadelphias. We take the neighborhood tonight with more RATA. Yeah, rick snow is the only thing covering the streets of Philadelphia. They're also dotted with traffic cones like that one, chairs and other items, all to save parking spots. But Philadelphia police are reminding residents that Savesey's is illegal, especially after. That violent altercation earlier today. It's very disturbing. This surveillance video shows the fight over a snow free parking spot that left a forty five year old man in critical condition on Thursday afternoon. It's very dangerous now. The brawl unfolded on the twenty seven hundred block of a street in Kensington around one twenty pm. Philadelphia Police say the forty five year old victim had a knife and a twenty one year old man had a gun. Bolts put down their weapons during the fight. Then they say a thirty six year old woman wrapped a gun and pistol whipped the victim before firing a shot to the ground. That's what man. Wow. They both put their guns down, but the woman picked up. I do want to talk about this artists, So I know this is a bad situation, but I do want to point out the fact that, you know, the crime rate has been crazy. Violent situations have been crazy, Crimes against like people and using weapons has been on the rids. Here slowing down was still bad. But what I appreciate about this group of people, wherever their hearts and minds were, is that while they brung weapons to a fight, they put them down and they went old school. So I at least appreciate the light bulbs going off where this didn't what wasn't an automatic tragedy. I believe the man is still in bad condition, and we know we don't know if he's going to recover. But I did want to give all some Philadelphia kudos to that at least y'all turned y'all thinking caps on in a heated moment, so we do appreciate that. The rest of the story goes on to say that the victim does remain hospitalized with injuries to his head and no one else was injured, that all of the people are in custody, and then you heard what the police had to say. Even though it seems like it's not that series of an issue. Unfortunately, over the years we've seen some really tragic results. Case in point, my cousin two years ago was killed in brought daylight over a parking lot dispute with his neighbor, and it was a dispute that had been going on for years and then it ended in cold violence. Were in gunfire and where the wife intervened and everything, and it did go to try on things like that. But this is happening with and without snow. And then other people were commenting that, you know, some women parked into a parking space even though she shoveled out her own, but she needed a different space by the time she came. I'm guessing hers what's going and somebody left her threatening note, but this is what's going on. Police also advised that if you're trying to save a parking space, you could face the violations like the code that I just read, or in extreme cases, you can get some more serious charges. So I'm going to discuss some of the charges that could come from the depiction that we just looked at. You can get disturbance and nuisance charge just engaging in fighting, things like simple assault, aggravated assault, terroristic threats, firearms violations, attempted murder, manslaughter, and even some of the smaller city code violations. Again, we don't know if this man is going to make it, so whatever the charges may be could escalate by the time this all comes to a resolution. Now, with that being said, I do want to if you guys are participating in the savesease. I understand the culture of the city, so I know people are doing it, but I just want you to take a moment to think about the impact on your future job placements and court cases other court cases not even related to this. It can affect your custody cases, your DHS cases, if you have a history of stay away orders or protection from abuse orders. This thing will follow you for a long time. And these these crimes like simple assault and aggravate assault and terroristic threats, those are major violent crimes that will impact other cases that you may have, uh, that you may come across in your life. So kind of just think about it. Is it worth it? Is it worth the time? Is it worth the what you could lose in the future. Is it really worth even a life? The law generally preserves life over property, so you're never going to win a fight when the law already set up where life is more valuable on property. So just think people think that's all we're asking. How y'all feel about that? Right? Wow? Yeah, that's crazy. I mean, at the very least one one, you know, I always give flowers. One are not going to give flowers because you're educating the people and giving them the information and that's what we need. And that's if people. Right did more of that, then we will probably have less issues because people are doing certain things that they don't know either will cause consequences or have consequences, or they will get in trouble. I didn't realize that it brought all of that. That said, you know, the culture Philly. Yeah, so you know, if anybody wants would like to avoid the drama, then yeah. No. The culture of philiate cultural competency. That's a true term cultural competency. It may not happen in New York, and it definitely happened in Philly. May not happen in Jersey. Definitely happened in. Philly, especially if you're a fan of Philadelphia, an Eagles fan in Philadelphia. Yeah, you know, things happen in Philadelphia. Now and lighter news. Some Philadelphias turned bad news into good news, but often to become one with the snow. There were several videos circulating social media and major news outlets of people of all ages creating fun times and good memories in the snow. Got another video coming right up? I think God, ladies and gentlemen, take a look at this. M h, I have fun with this. I actually went out there shout out the park, shout out to the drone pilot too. Who did all these capture all of this? I was gonna ask shall They looked like they had a blast. They had too much fun, and. I would have loved to be in one of those. I don't know, because a TV or what doing I'm dressed around the city. I mean that was probably illegal too, but it looked like a bunch of fun. I don't like that, but I would have been outside for that. I'm glad people actually got out, did y'all? See? They had TV boxes, hampers, storage bins, whatever they found. They was getting outside. They have a good time. And those are the things that I love about this city are seen that nowhere else. But I love the way people came together to have some fun. He really has everything, Yes, and people got out the way exactly. Shout out to uh the Art Museum too, because they could have went out there. They already know they have That's why I said Philly is a little different, you know what I mean. So shout out to the Art Museum for letting people have fun because that gave them something to do, you know people, Uh work was canceled for some you know, schools were closed, and it gave it something to do that was constructive. And so that's what people need to be aware. When people are doing something constructive, let him be because it could be they could be robbing you now. Speaking of school closures, the Philadelphia Federation Teachers Posts made a response to the Philadelphia School Districts, resumption of in person learning after one snow day and one virtual day has unlocked a huge debate among parents, teachers, and administrators, and a post they wrote that on behalf of the members, the decision to resume in person learning should have been made if building conditions were acceptable. If your school lacks. Heat, running water available parking, or shoveled sideways and walkways, students and staff are to contact us immediately. And then the masters started pouring in. One teacher commented that hardly anywhere in our building has proper heat. We have pipes bursts over the weekend. Tons of our classrooms are unusable right now. There's huge piles of ice and snow around the school, making it hard for students and teachers to get into the building. The students actually had to be lifted over the snow. One school bus couldn't even make it to the school. We should have stayed virtual. Another school reported that of all of their school buses, only one was actually able to make it to the building. Another posted that these decisions made make no sense y'all In one instance, or I guess throughout the whole city, children were told to report to school, but then an email went out and sent to the parents saying that the in person report card conferences also scheduled that day, are now virtual for safety reasons, so kind of contradictory. Another one said school is freezing, wearing coats inside. I felt four times trying to get into the school, and when I reported it, I was dismissing, Well, you the only person that walks that portion of the school. To what she said, that is not true, as staff and students of both the middle school and high school walked the same path. Others posted that schools were only open for financial reasons. Another posted the doors to the school are frozen shut. Another one reported that they couldn't even get into their own car out of the parking spaces, couldn't couldn't dig it out just so they can get to work. And then in my own real life, I had a colleague who shoveled her car out twice in the car to turn it on and go to work. The car is working, but it's frozen to the ground and she couldn't move it. Days after the snow, she still cannot move her card today. So the city is still majorly impacted by the snow. Did y'all have any trouble. You know what? Before you answer that, I'm want to pull this comment up, Wayne Pears. Wayne Piers is actually my guy. This is my guy. This is probably one like my first friend. He lived right next door to me. He's probably my first friend ever live right next door to me. But Wayne, you watching right, so tell me where you live at See when people say this is not happening around my way, I have to question where do you live? Because if you not in you know, the four areas of Philly, right and then you in the county, that's a little different. If you from Philly. North Philly was one of the worst places right there. Shout out to North Philly, South Philly, some places in South Philly. But what I will say about South Philly is that they have some private organizations and companies that was doing their due diligence clearing out the area. So that had nothing to do with the city. Had everything to do with the organizations who was doing some work. So Wayne, you still watching, make sure you let us know where you live so we know. But it was a young. Lady on uh on Instagram who was uh had some pretty choice words. You know, for you know, the people who run the city up there you go, here, you go, let me put this up see you go. My guy live in Middleton, Middletown, Middletown, Delaware, and so but he said, I don't forget where I came from. Well, then let me tell you a little something, because Fraser Street was still messed up. My god. Yeah, so that's. Where we can That's the black we grew up on, you know for sure, that's right. Absolutely, yeah. So that's it. End you want to talk about trigger warning. Now. In other news, speaking of school the schools the School District of Philadelphia, the week before the snowstorm, they put out a publication that they are closing, merging and upgrading twenty schools that are set out to close next within the next year or two. It says the district is way closures in light of under enrollment, outdated facilities, and budget constraints, such that they have a ten year proposal of two point eight billion dollars in facilities planning in January twenty twenty six to close the schools. The zones that are being affected are in the northeast, Northwest, and West Philadelphia, and if this is approved, it's going to go into effect on February twenty. Six of this year. It includes preschools, middle schools, and high schools. Some of their schools are being shut down completely. Some are being given to the city to turn into housing, like what they did with the high school a few years ago. Some of them are merging, so those shut down a school but then to transfer the children over to an existing school. And then some are getting upgrades. And I believe one was reported to be I guess the starter for that one, the year round program that Mayor Parker had talked about implementing in Acilia, Philadelphia. So a lot of people are about to be impacted about with all of these changes if this proposal gets accepted. Now, I did a little bit more research, and uh, the question was posed, like how do we get here. We already know that our school system had had some issues, especially with funding and financing. We can't keep teachers. Then we try to draft teachers from all over the place and give them different packages to kind of make it look like, you know, come here, help us out. And having to balance the violence of the city for people who are not from here and things like that. But this came this process came on the hills of a landmark school funding lawsuit, which found that Pennsylvania school funding system to be unconstitutional, leaving districts in poorer areas under funding. In twenty twenty five, the Philadelphia Schools received two hundred and thirty two million dollars more from the state than the previous year. That's good, but the district remains with considerably less money compared to its suburban counterparts. And so I know we do a lot of complaining about our school system, but we are not the only ones. This prompted a media opposition and concerns from families, educators, in local electional elected officials. I'm not going to quote what they were saying, but y'all is going down there and planning a rally about this to protest what this proposed plan could do. It was actually supposed to happen on the twenty ninth. I think because of the weather, may not have occurred because I don't see any updates, but this is what's happened in the city. I don't have any children, so I'm not really impacted by the deep nuances of this. But how about y'all, Yeah. Same, I just know it's just sad that for the past fifteen years, though we knew that the school systems were starting to spiral down. I just want to put This. Article is from Chalkbeat and it says Philadelphia school closure plan would move hundreds of students to lower performing schools, which is a problem. That's the problem that I have. If you're going to shut down schools, then you need to support them. So if the decision is to shut down these schools, right and say, for example, not that it's mastermin per se, but if you have a higher performing school like Masterman, why would you put them or move them into a school that has that's probably not in the ten percent tile of academic success. It doesn't make sense. It makes sense to them because there but they're doing in a and that it's for failure, it's not for success. So they're doing it methodically because it's like we're saying, it makes no sense. Okay, y'all setting this up for the setup like it's it's it's for failure exactly. No, I agree, I agree, But that's the thing they woke, right, you know what that's about. So it's still not okay, it's not. And the crazy thing is. I was having a conversation with my nephew earlier, and you know, he's he's not in high school anymore, he's graduated. But we were having a conversation and we were talking about a lot of the initiatives that are being set in place that came from Project twenty twenty five to kind of dismantle the Department of Education. And you know, we were having a conversation about that, and we were saying, like what can we do? And this is you know, not just a rhetorical question, this is just something like to think like for communities, back and around communities, to think like what is it that we can do where we can like help these schools, where we can come in and partner with the schools, those who have community organizations, those who you know are able to help or able to kind of partner with the school districtor or the charter schools or whatever. What can we do to help these schools to create programs that will you know, supplement education or kind of like do something to boost their levels. Like what can we do? Cause it's like we can't just sit idly by and like let and just watch it happen. We cannot do that because we're doing a disservice to these these youth, these young people who are supposed to be the next generation. What does the next generation look like if we just sit here and allow this to happen to them? They are you know, we're supposed to be. This is like what we said, it takes a village. Like how can we be in the community of a village and sit and watch It's like we're watching a house burn down, and like, how did they put out fires back in the day, like when there was no no holes and no firefighters and no none of that. How did they put out fires? Like you sitting to watch the house burned down? Like what are we going to do? M hm? That's I mean, that's that was That was just my thinking. It just makes me angry to see this stuff happening. Yet I believe we already are seeing the effects of the poor schooling that has happened. For it already was an issue. Yeah, I mean, not that it's a big deal, but kids can't write in cursive anymore. When they comes to the courthouse and they have to sign documents and will say put your name here and put your signature here, they'll be. Like, I can't. I don't know how to. And I'm like, we understand that. You know, kids weren't after a certain year. It's okay. If you just need to print its twice, that's fine. But then I'm seeing some social skills diminished. You know, some of these kids are parents now and they come through the court system, and when they get in the court to tell their story, they're silent, and I'm like trying to encourage them. You're here, you fought a petition. You obviously have an issue going on. I need you to tell me what it is. And they don't have speech. And it's not that they're nervous, they just don't know how to formulate their words, how to feel, how to tell you what's going on. And then you know, I'm from the inner city, so I'm telling you in your language, I'll understand. Just say what you need to say and it will work from there. But that's that part because a lot of times, a lot of these parents and a lot of them are our young parents, and they think that the school is supposed to teach him. It starts at home. You're supposed to be like, Okay, the school ain't teach you how to writing cursive. I'm know how to writing cursive? Sit down, hold it like chopsticks, Like hold the pencil correctly, like I'm going to follow the dots, remember the dots you would make, and they have to follow it. Why we can look at the schools, but we gotta also look at what's going on in the household and then go from there. Dude, what's is? Lean on me? Remember when he took a little keisha, what's he was? They went to the mine house and he was like, this is how y'all living? Know? We gotta make this better because it. Starts with school. I mean it starts at home. If the kid is going to sleep and the last thing they had was Tacki's and cheese doodles. And and and roaman. Uh. The they how they're gonna concentrate their work? I mean at home, I mean in school, like they don't even have them clean clothes. Like it's so much deeper if you pull back the layers, it's just not school. So that's it. That's that's. The beautiful, beautiful Lawrence. And the beautiful Henry. And this is we talked week after the talking the w P p M on P Philadelphia one O six point five. That's when we talked week after talk with Charlesburg and beautiful. Classically beautiful, Laurence, beautiful, Henry. You ready for me? Yes again, I'm ready for it, arguing to me early. All right now, I'm just going piggyback off of a lot of stuff that Tanisha was just talking about. This might be something that's going to help with the school district. So Philly is now facing a projective shortage of two thousand teachers, and city leaders are doing their best to help. So Philadelphia Citywide Talent Coalition just launched a two hundred thousand dollars. Called Teach PHL Recruitment. Campaign to boost hiring in public charter schools for twenty twenty six to twenty twenty seven. So this effort is bringing together fifty plus organizations and using digital platforms like TikTok and Instagram to spotlight teacher careers and certification pathways. As coalition leaders, they say that they must fill the vacancies today while building the next generation of education educators. So how do you find this information? So you could go directly to www. Dot Teach p h L. That's t e A c h PHL dot org or you can contact the School District of Philadelphia and offer and go to talent support. Their number is two one five for zero zero four six zero zero. Look, look at all this information here, your news and information here. But it is said that we're, you know, a shortage of two thousand teachers. Well why because they're closing down the schools. Like like you said, make it make sense. But now here's two hundred thousand dollars push to get teacher recruitment they need. Well they did that. I forgot where where else they did that. They were actually trying to pay teachers to come back. And yeah, but they shouldn't have to do that. Teachers should already have an income that sustains them in the schools. Teachers are making it taking their own money to buy some us. They have been doing that way too long. Yeah, and Philly have some of the greatest teachers on the planet. I'm gonna tell you, I still remember some of my teachers when I was in elementary school, and so. A lot of these teachers are getting burnt out. I just saw. An amazing Now this was a basketball coach of I want to say, Franklin Benjamin Franklin. They did especially on him. This brother was buying sneakers for his whole team. Yus, wow, and no one knows, no one knows things. Like that, right, And he says that it was some of the players who actually didn't have sneakers. So he was like, no, my players are going to play have sneakers and all of us are going to look the same, right, And so that wasn't amazing, But that. Was a story. Benjamin Franklin right neck right across the street from Franklin Learner Center, right in the same building as it's another charter school that's in the building of Benjamin Franklin. I forgot what it is, but yeah, shout out to all the teachers, Shout out to all the you know, the coaches. The coaches are father figures, Yes, our father figures. To these boys who need direction. Man, y'all need to amplify this stuff. So it's kudos to all these people who are. Doing a great work, the fantastic. Work out there. Yeah, yeah, all right. Well, our next story, y'all, y'all know I covered this one about the CEO with United Healthcare. So federal judge has ruled that prosecutors cannot seek the death penalty against Luigi Menaggio. He is the killer up or alleged killer of the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. So the judge tossed the federal murder charge arch that made capital punishment possible, calling it legally flawed, but left serious charges in place, which still carry a potential life sentence. The court did allow key evidence, including a gun and a notebook allegedly describing plans to whack the insurance executive. As the judge put it, the law must be the court's only concerned. Prosecutors do have thirty days to decide whether they will appeal. So I went here from legal. Topic is one of an ongoing great debate about whether or not people with society should have cases where they end in the electric chair or things like that. That's pretty brutal. There are other means and measures like a life term, like time sentence, and that usually people will try to if they can go for that and find a way to do that, they'll out for that. But I believe it's still legal in some states, definitely at the federal level, and it's going to take some judges like him or some changes. To the law where that's no longer an option. I understand that a lot of people feel that sometimes will really heinous crimes that that people deserve that, especially when there's been murders or serial murderers and senseless things. So I understand that sometimes it's a balancing act of what's going to justify society's feelings and victims feelings on it versus what the law should do. Life sentence used to be twenty five years back in the day, right, if you get a life sentence, it was twenty five years, but. Then I don't know what year changed that. Now it's natural. Life is life when they give you life life. But at one time it was, right, I don't remember that. The reason I say that is also I was watching Malcolm Max and him and Spike Lee was getting sentenced to life, and Spike Lee's character fegnted and he was like, y'all, you don't know, but that's. Just twenty five. And then I think they did change it years after all. Right, Well, this is something else that Esquire talked about. So Philly did just have a major storm, right, it dropped about nine point three inches of snow, and this is the most they've had since twenty sixteen. So city crews have been plowing, hauling, even melting some of the snow that they're that they're trying to figure out what to do with it. Mayor Cherrelle Parker is saying that she wants to work on residentials first and ensure that people cars are not blocked. However, they just. Lifted the They just lifted the state snow emergency. So people were parking their cars where they were left on emergency routes, but that was lifted on January twenty seven. So if your car got told and you don't know where it is, I got a number you could call. You could dial two one five six eight six SNOW. That's two one five six eighty six snow to find didn't retrieve where your vehicle may be, So that's great information. One more again, that's two one five six A six s n o W. Again, people were parking in the emergency routes and they were not getting ticketed because we were in a state of a snow emergency. But that was lifted on January twenty seventh, and now uh towing has started. So if you don't know where your vehicle is that might be a number you can start. Well, you said towing has started, they just started towing. Or yeah they lived once they lifted it on the twenty seventh they start. That's when they started. Then, yeah, they start towing people's vehicles. So if you don't, if you, if you, if you haven't gotten it, now how much it costs? Right? Hopefully and you already know how Philly do you see there one day? That's right? Yeah, Oh my gosh, that's crazy. Yeah, that's crazy. So all right, this next story is a good news. This story is uh spotlighting on black men. So in Philly this waaaa hold on, hold. On black men. Wait wait, wait wait, I. Just need a moment of silence real quick. Would you like to say that, my brother, spotlight is on black men? Thank you, thank you, thank you very much, thank you very much. So in Philly, the spotlight is on black men and mental health in leadership. The city's Department of Behavior Health hosted a powerful panel called The Weight of the Crown, exploring how black men and leader lead under constant pressure without losing themselves in the process. So speakers talk openly about stress and the unspoken expectation to always be strong as one leader, as am I strong enough in the moment to lift that weight. The understanding of that statement was clear that leadership shouldn't mean suffering in silence, and even those who wear the crown need support to keep it straight. So if you want more information on the on this group, you can call or email the Engaging Males of Color that's e m o C. They're direct number is two one five six eight five four seven two six. Again that's two one five six eight five four seven two six. Or you can visit them or email them at e m o C at Philly dot gov. That's e m o C stands for Engaging Males of Color at Phyla dot Gov. To them, black. Men, I love my black men though, my family, my cousins, my brothers, my father. Black men are just amazing species. Y'all. Thank you telling somebody y'all sisters. That I do. They say the same thing, the group. But y'all got flaws. There's some there's some things they Yeah. You don't just half flaws though, is the fend We all have flaws, We just. Don't have all flaws. That's the difference. Yes, yes, yeah, but y'all y'all definitely are good, good, good black men. All right, this last story, it came long enough. So after twenty seven years, Philly Bourne rapper Eve has finally been awarded officially awarded a Grammy for her uncredited verse on You Got Me by the Roots, the nineteen ninety nine hit that helped define an era of hip hop, hip hop and neo soul. The track originally won Best Rap Performance by a Duo Group at the two thousand Grammys, but he wasn't recognized at that time because she wasn't credited on the release Real Quick Short Story eighty D's Coming Over. I actually I knew the Roots, but one of them I knew, particularly because we were in the same class. I graduated from Martin Luther King High and he's been like, Spark, I'm in the studio. M okay. He'd be like, Yo, I'm in the studio. You know, everybody back in the nineties was in the studio. Everybody. Then they did the video and was asking like all their classmates the very first one to come through, and I was like, yo, he really was in the studio. South and Roots is Roots is the Roots? They really you know, they the renowned in the staple of Philly was black, all of them. So shout out to the roots. Yes, all right, we'll getting back to the story. Eve wasn't recognized at the time because she wasn't credited on the release. So last week at the Recording Academy Honors they presented by the Black Music Collective, the Academy corrected the oversight and they finally gave her the. Trophy she deserved. As Eve said while accepting this award, she said, this is actually for the little Eve from Philly, the little girl who love to write rams and just wanted to be in the business. It's a long it's long overdue win. But the mini fans and fellow are artists. Better late than never. That's good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, she's telling them. Y'all, I don't really need this. Y'all ain't doing that much for me. But I'm gonna give it to the little girl who grew up in Philly that one day loved to be in the business and the right and rhyme and all that stuff. Because it was kind of a distance. Was she like, thanks. Years people dead and gone and this, but okay, that was your good news and your bad news from Park. Good News, Spark. I'm your Charles Berger, the beautiful classy lady Spark, Beautiful, beautiful Henry. This is we talked talk p Philadelphia one six point five. That's when we talked weekly. After the talking, you already know what we got coming up next. We got the system more news news. All right, guys, make sure you support independent journalism. Work for Today is independent journalism when we talk weekly news by subscribing to all major podcast platforms and follow us on all social media pop social media platforms and stay informed and connected. And if you want to jump on this wave and help us expand our news our solutions based reporting, you can make a donation via cash app to dollar sign we talk weekly, or securely through PayPal at weetalkweekly dot com. And every contribution makes a huge impact. All Right, So y'all ready for this. It's like it's like I'm I'm I'm tired of this already, but I feel like we're gonna keep were just gonna keep hearing about this and it's not gonna go away because I feel like this is this is just gonna be a part. This is a part of a campaign, and it's just going to continue to keep going on for a while. But Nicki Minaj so, while some American celebrities like Rosie O'donnald Jonathan Majors, Meghan good and George and Amai Clooney, they have either obtained dual citizenship or abandoned the States altogether, Nicki Minaj has joined an elite group of individuals gaining access to citizenship under Trump administration terms. So Nicki Minaj has rebuilt a photo on X of a Trump gold card with the caption that read welp, and then she followed up this post with another post that read residency residency, The cope is coping, finalizing that citizenship paperwork as we speak, as per my wonderful, gracious, charming President. And ironically, in twenty eighteen, Nikki posted a picture of children being held in an ice holding facility along with the caption I came to this country as an illegal immigrant at five years old. I can't imagine the horror of being in a strange place and having my parents stripped away from me at the age of five. This is so scary to me. Please stop this. Can you try to imagine the terror and panic these kids feel right now? So it's funny that people are jumping right back into their Facebook post that she posted in twenty eighteen and they're like comment, like, what's up Nikki today? Yes, like these people today are some forensic analysts. Like they need to be getting paid because it's people out here to do that work as forensics forensic. Curators. Yeah. Yeah, they're like forensic analysts social media. Yeah, you know, they work in law enforcement and they go in forensic stuff and they go through people's social media's and they find stuff. So is she documented or she is? Now I don't understand. This is what she's a part of what she's trying to do from the looks of it. So what she's saying now is that she has her Trump Gold Card, so you can go to Trump Gooldcard dot gov, which is crazy, and it says that applicants should submit their online They give you instructions on what you could do and how you can fast track your way into US citizenship. So they're saying on the website applicants should submit their online Gold Card application and initial processing fees through the website. The Department of Homeland Security will then begin the applicants vetting process. Upon successful betting the applicant will be asked to submit a gift to the United States to demonstrate his or her ability to provide a substantial benefit to the United States. Following the approval of an EB one or an EB two visa, an applicant can obtain legal status as a permanent resident in the United States. To ensure time be processing, applicants should be on the lookout for further instructions from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services once they submit their online Gold Card applications via email. USCIS will instruct applicants to create a my uscis dot gov account. USCIS and the US Department of State may also require additional information to be submitted as necessary. So the cost, which a lot of people already know, is one million or two million dollars gift payment, depending on type of applicant. So if you're a selectelebrity, if you're somebody that's rich, you got money, you know what your gift is going to be one or two million dollars, depending on what tax bracket you're in. So upon receiving an email after vetting is complete, applicants or their corporate sponsors should instruct their banks to use an AH debit or swift wire transfer US and international bank accounts according to the instructions provided at that time. That's crazy. So what I'm guessing is that she is going through that process right now and. Say we can't buy our way out of freedom. Well look at here, yes, yes, yeah, So what's your thoughts, you know, esquire on this process? What I remember from low school about the whole visa process and getting citizenship and so it's different mechanisms that they can use and then for certain timeframes and things like that. So what I think is going on here, he didn't added this to it, and now it's it's a buying, a buying for citizenship. Just just saying the words out of my mouth sounds insane. But honestly, if we contrast that with the way he's getting people out of the country, but now he's making a way for only the rich, only the one percent, only the entitled to come into the country, that's wild. But at least he's letting people in. It's all I can say about. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And it's crazy because I got. Their criminal history, if any violent crimes, so I don't understand their vetting. But you can't tell me for one million or two million overlook. Nothing exactly exactly, And where does that money go? Hmm okay, yeah, that's the question of the day. Yeah, okay, where does that money go? To feel a whole of her deficit, they'll say. Exactly, whatever happened to douge that loan? But oh yeah, they were supposed to investigate government waste and for aud and like, we're all right. So former former CNN anchor turned independent journalist Don Lemon. He is among four others who were arrested by federal agents in connection with an anti ice demonstration held at a Minnesota church. And Don Lemon was charged with entering a church and filming an anti immigration enforcement protests as protesters disrupt the Sunday services. So well, let me just finish reading this. There was also there were four other journalists, and Don Lemon's attorney, Abe Lowell, released a statement saying that Don Lemmon was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles, where he was covering the Grammy Awards. Donna has been a journalist for thirty years and has constitutionally protected work in Minneapolis and Wait and his constitutionally protected work in Minneapolis was no different than what he has all what he has always done. The First Amendment exists to protect journalists whose role it is to shine light on the truth and hold those in power accountable. There is no more important time for people like Don to be doing this work. Instead of investigating the federal agents who kill two peaceful Minnesota protesters, the Trump administration department is devoting its time, attention, and resources to this arrest. And that is the real indictment of wrongdoing in this case. This unprecedented attack on the First Amendment and transparent attack attempt to distract attention from the many crisis facing this administration will not stand. Don will fight these charges vigorously and thoroughly in court. So Don Lemon was arraigned and released hours later. I believe it was less than twenty four hours. But then upon release, Don held a brief press conference stating that I will not be silenced. He've also continue doing independent journalism and covering news. So he's had tons and tons of people speaking out. People like Hakeem Jeffries, the National Association of Black Journalists, Roland Martin, and so many others have come out and condemned these actions. We know the Project twenty twenty five lays out a roadmap for suppressing media. Many are calling this an attack on First Amendment rights. Independent media and journalists are being attacked in Minneapolis for the twenty four to seven coverage of illegal ice raids. And you know, this is my question to. You. See, we have covered many protests here, you know, in Philadelphia and including the George George Floyd protests and No King's protest, So this could have been one of us locked up. So I cover everything I'm out in the streets. You know, I would have. I just would have known, y'all just would have had. I'm calling my. Lawyer exactly exactly, exactly. Yeah, So we got to keep her on retainer because it's like, what what do you do at this point when it's like and and there's uh, I've been seeing so many And let me give a shout out to an ab J because you know we'll be speaking there at their annual I mean they're they're monthly there, monthly members meeting this next Tuesday coming up about black media, independent black media, and the importance of black media because there's an attack obviously on independent black media, independent journalists, black journalists. There's an attack right now, an effort to keep us silent exactly exactly. And and I heard people saying like, if Don Lemon was still with CNN, would they have been able to arrest him because he's under an organization Now that he's an independent journalist, he's his own pretty much entity product. I don't think they have any I don't think they have any guard rules of any. I don't have been trying to arrest them on his own, that's true. And and I did watch his live coverage of what he would out there doing on January eighteen, when he was out in Minnesota, Minnesota, and he was covering the protest there after Renee Good was killed by an ICE agent and Alex Pretty. So wait a minute, I don't even think Alex was that before? Wait when was Alex Preddy? I'm trying to remember dates. Everything is so going so fast. I don't mean, I can't even believe it's January thirty first already. So I don't know if I don't think Alex Pretty had been do you remember what day he was killed on because he might not. That was January eighteen, So when was Alex Preddy? It was Alex pretty killed. I don't think he was killed yet yet. I think it was just Renee Good at that time. Was it January's twenty four? It might have been, Yeah, because we came here last wasn't last weekend, and we were that had just happened earlier in the day. We were here last Saturday, and it had just happened earlier in the day, and we didn't even get because it was breaking news. We didn't even get a chance to address it. Oh no, no, no, we had we were we were virtual last week because of the weather. Ye. Yeah, see, that didn't even happen yet. But so he went there to cover the protests in there because of Renee Good, and that's what he was covering. He was going out and he was speaking to people. And I did watch part of it, but it was almost seven hours of live coverage, so it was really too long to watch. But when he I did see when he went to the church, I did see how he went in there. He was not he distance himself from the protests. You could see when you when he went inside the church. You could see, you could see people, You could see the protesters come in, you could see the congregation sitting down and worshiping. You could hear you know, the church music and all that going on. You could hear the pastor speaking and all that, and the protesters were challenging, chanting, ice out, ice out, ice out, And this went on for maybe about ten or fifteen minutes or longer. But he was on one side, the protesters were in the middle. He was recording. He never chanted anything. So from my perspective, he was acting as a journalist and he was covering it. He did go around and asked attendees there how they felt about the protests and all that. He did speak with the pastor and what from what they were say saying. The reason that those protesters went to that church and interrupted the service was because the pastor was supposed to be an ICE agent. He was an ICE officer and he was also the pastor of that church. So that's why that protest was organized to go there and interrupt that service. Wow, so he spoke to you know, the picture that you put up, the second picture that was him interview in the past got you. And then while he was talking to the pastor, he was asking him a question and he was like, wait, don't push me. So the pastor. I don't know what happened there, but Don said he was asking a question. He was like, don't push me so. Interesting. Well, I know, uh yeah, I would have been locked up because for me. I mean you talking about somebody who with a long history of advocating for those who are uh who are vulnerable in any situation. I mean it's been times I got up out of the house because, you know, we one of the interviews that we did in some important community was one where sex on was it sex or I believe it was sex on? Lauren Teller's Lord tell. Us fired a whole bunch of women. It's like seven women, without question, without any explanation, and no one will go up. There and support them. Guess what I did, Me and the camera out there talking to these sisters. Right, what's up? What can we do? Right? And that was something that kind of went viral with you know, just supporting. But I'm known for that, like I have, I'm very unapologetic about supporting these vulnerable communities, so much so that we did I remember Trayvon Martin, you know, say his name, We did a die and quote unquote dying. I was on the news and everything you know, I was there supporting that. But it's about amplifying certain things that need to be seen. You know, if it's injustice, if it'sn't justice here, some justice everywhere, right, because it circulates, right, it becomes bigger because if you let something go, they think, oh, let's see how much. Further we can go with it. Right. That's why you know, when it comes to this ice thing, I like, and I probably shouldn't say that, but I appreciate the pushback that's happening. They're not just being quiet and letting people just get murdered and kidnapt because that's essentially what's happening. They're getting unlived and they get in kidnapt'. That's it's something wrong there that no one is talking about. It's not okay, it's not okay. And you can't even see these guys, you can't even see them if all their faces are covered. It's something wrong hair. And if we don't say anything, if people don't say anything in report on it, then then they're going to continue to do it. Now that said, if something's wrong is wrong. You know, if someone if someone is illegal, they need to go through the proper resources or situational process to get legal That doesn't that doesn't warrant someone to be unopped in, kidnapped, just isn't It just isn't right. And that's where Yeah, and I think you know Tanisha can speak to this also when when and even somebody that does enter the country illegally, there's still a due process. That's my point. And it's like through the process, right exactly, allow them to go through the processes some of them. I had spoke to someone who said they didn't or was just unaware of how to even. Start the process. It's not like it's signs there as soon as you come up, this is how you become a citizen of the US. It's nothing like that. So at the very least, right, give them the tools so they can utilize them to do what you want and need them to do. Right, It is not rocket science. Yeah, yeah, and I think I know there's there's something going on here now that the City Is City Council is working on initiative for I believe it's I forget what the name of the bill that they're trying to do, introduce ice out or something like that. Yeah, they they're working on that now. Too, and they're trying to come up with the plan because it's like it can't be you know, we can't trust their process, you know what I mean with what they're doing. And it's like, kudos to the people over in Minnesota and their fight for democracy and their fight again and the pushback that they're giving over there. You know, it takes a lot, and they're really working together and just seeing how that they're how they're supporting their immigrant community, you know, and just trying to help, you know. And kudos to the Philly leadership is getting together to do something. I know we talk a lot of trash about our leadership as a culture, but it was nice to see that they're actually working on things. So y'all give them some grace on them work it out. Yeah. Yeah, But the call because there are some things that are going on here. We may not see it all out in the street where it's like in Chicago and you know, Minneapolis and some of the other states, but it's it's stopped going on here. Too, and we need to report and talk about it because if we don't, then it's people thinking nothing it's happened, right, And so that's the responsibility that we have, but that's set. They have some accountability to say, this is what we're doing, us the information and if we need to come and talk talk about it, when is your show, because we'll come and talk about it. As simple as that. All right, rock Science, Yeah, exactly, exactly, So the Celebrity Sizzle Award goes to Asap Rocky. Asap Rocky is slated to receive the Vanguard Award for a Fashion at this year's fifty seven n DOUBLEACP Image Awards Fashion Show. So the ceremony is going to take place at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on February twenty eighth. Earon On BT and CBS BT executive Connie Orlando said in a statement, his influence extends far beyond fashion. He has reshaped how culture, music, art, and personal expression intersects on a global stage. The naac P honoring him with the Vanguard Awards celebrations not only his style, but his vision, leadership and lasting impact on the next generation of creators and asat Rocky, He's been doing a lot this past year. He co chaired the twenty twenty five met Gala, which celebrated black dandyism, and he was featured on the May twenty twenty five cover of Booge. And then he's he's been being a great dad, like I just I've been enjoying seeing it. So I'm your girl, Lawrence is. And that was a sizzle. That was ladies and gentlemen, beautiful and beautiful Lawrence Sels and beautiful Tennyseh, Henry, Hey, this. Is my seeing. If we cannot be complete unless you listen to or why should we talk with Belie