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Why do I love the interviews because we get a chance to talk to the good old folk, the people who are really doing those things in those streets right there in them streets and doing the thing right, working for the community, doing the due diligence during the policy stuff, doing the civic stuff, doing everything that we say that you need to be doing right. And you know, I'm very hard on people, even like our candidates and people who come on the show and say, you know, they want to come on the show, get endorsed in everything I'm saying. I don't see you in them streets. I see this young lady in them streets and doing some great work with them babies. Right and so without further do classic lady, who do we have today? Who do we have to date? Tonight? We have Angelie Kilton, a powerhouse and political and community organizing someone dedicated to shaping the next generation of informed voters. As the co founder of pauth Vote Vote and a leader in mobilizing civil engagement through initiatives like My School Votes and when we All Vote, She's making a lasting impact on democracy. Come along as we delve deep into her mission and the power of voter advocacy. Y'all already know what to do. Let's give a warm we talk weekly. Welcome to Angelie. Let's give it a round the re close, yore. How are you? How are you? I'm great, fantastic, fantastic. Now, you know we always start to show, right, we gotta start to show with how are you? How's your day? How are you doing? I'm great? Actually, thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be here and talk with all of you. You know, it's an interesting time for the work I do, so I take it hour by hour, but honestly, I'm excited in the sense that I feel like as all of these new policies are rolling out, it gives us an opportunity to really connect for people, young people in particular, that's who I'm primarily engaging, the importance right of policy and how it impacts you, right, And you know, elections have consequences and whether or not you're participating right, politics is. Going to impact you. And so it really allows us to connect the dots for them to under stand the importance that elections have, voting and holding leaders accountable. Yeah, I like that. You know. One of the things that you know, we say that if you know, if you don't engage, right, if you're not civically engaged, right, then you can't complain later. Right. It's one of those things where you have to you know, show the work, due to work. You know, it's not scary. Some people think it's who's spooky, right, But can. I pause you on that, because I want to be here for the people to say, right that there is a lot of disparity in who is getting access to education around how government works and how policies impact you every single day, and so we are I don't know if you're aware Pennsylvania was ruled unconstitutional by the Commonwealth Court back in twenty twenty three for how they fund public education. And so primarily all of the school districts that are black and brown, right, due to redlining, Right, we're in these communities that have lower property values. As a result, we are grossly underfunded when it comes to our public education. And on top of all of the other things that our students are not getting, Civics is also something else. That they're not giving. And so there's a cycle. Right, they grow up they're not having that education to understand, so then they grow up to be in these communities they're not voting, and because they're not voting, then elected leaders do not feel like they're a fear of a threat to them staying in power, and so they're not being responsive to those communities. And so it's a cycle, which is very much what we're trying to break in the work that we're doing. Absolutely, and I agree with that. I think I think it's a community thing, right, don't I won't place it all on quote unquote leadership, right, I won't place it all on it, But what I will say is that you myself, mom, Dad, the community that's part of the civics, that's part of the engagement or the community. And if we don't do that, then who do we hold accountable? Right? One of the things that you know we have, or one of the questions that we ask, is why no one knows about especially our young our young people. How come they don't know about you know? Who? Who are ward leaders? Are something as simple as that, right? Who are black captains are? Who are city council and state reps? Who are these people? Right, especially during the time of election when they finally want to show themselves right? But who who do we hold accountable to educate the community? Who do we do? So? I think again, I'll go back to it starts with the education you get in school, right, And so when you grow up and you're living in these communities, right, you're not educated about who does what? I was previously the NAACP president in ourstown. Get around the cluss for that answer, Sure. Thank you for And you'd be surprised how many adults don't even understand who does what? That's right, right, because they are tired of participating in a Pross says that never seems to be reflective of or responsive to them, and so we really need to kind of hold all of ourselves accountable. You know, our leaders definitely have a role to play to make sure that there is equitable access to education around all of this, Right, And then we do need to go into our communities and even adults in these communities that have kind of given up on this process, we got to go back and educate them on how especially local elections directly impact them every single day, and they don't really understand that, and it just has a lot to do with the lack of education. And again that cycle that I talked about, Right, I live in Montgomery County, second wealthy is county in the state, right, but you have pockets of great impoverishment like Narstown, which is where I grew up, right, And so all around Narstown there is great wealth, right, mostly white, affluent communities. Right. All of those people are in schools that are very well funded because they are taught how government works, they know how to hold leaders accountable, and so you will see great resources, open spaces, schools well funded. But then you go back to places like Norristown in Pottstown where the black and brown people live, right, not educated about this process because they're not educated, they're not voting. Because they're not. Voting, there is just great impoverishment and disenfranchisement. I'm talking no recreational programming. School district is underfunded, our library is falling apart, which serves as the place where most of our unhoused people live who were giving tends to. And then we're spending a half a billion dollars on a courthouse that just locks up black and brown people right all day long. And again it's tied directly to the fact that they're not educated. They've given up on this system that never really they don't see people that look like them, and they're not responding to them. And so then elected leaders take advantage of that right because it allows them to just focus on the people that they do, you know, who hold them accountable with Sally don't look like most of the people in this room. Yeah, you cooking with grease. You cooking with grease. I just want I mean, I'm trying to find I got Lauren sizzel. I'm trying to find a sizzle right here? Oh, let me find it? Do I got the sizzle? Old? No, she's cooking right now, she's cooking. And so. I want to I'm gonna talk a little bit about civic engagement real quick. You're part of the initiative that we're all a part of every voice, every vote. And there's two questions I want to ask. One, what does how do you define uh being civically engaged? Right? In Two? What is the responsibility you believe you have as a leader in the space to make sure that we continue to educate those about civics. So good questions. I will start with the last one first, right, So I think my role in my responsibility is to come at this very non partisan, right. I am there to educate you, right, to help you understand how this is connected and a source of empowerment right when we participate, but making sure that I'm staying away from the politics and focusing on policy. Right. So that's first. Secondly, civic engagement for us working with young people, and I think wherever you're doing this work right needs to meet the community where they are, right, and it needs to focus every election cycle. So every election cycle we say this is what's on the ballot, right, these are the seats that are up for election, and this is how it is directly, these seats are directly connected to the issues that you have told us you care about. And so young people care very much about racial justice, right, that's one of their issues. Judges are on the ballot this time, so you better believe we're going to make sure they understand the role they play right in getting racial justice right and getting a more equal justice system understanding. In Pennsylvania, we vote, unlike. Some states for judges right, so we make sure that they understand that. So it's about educating, educating, educating because that is critically important and our communities are not getting access to that right. And then it's also meeting them where they are to engage in the way they like to receive information. So young people they love social media, right, So we're doing on social media providing information, pushing it out that way. We're teaching them how to do tiktoks because it's voting right, and we always like to make sure they understand the end right. It's continual engagement that we have to do to get these leaders to be responsive. So we're going to make sure you have all of the non partisan information connecting it to the issues you care about. Right, you're going to vote, and then we're going to make sure. You understand that after these people are in office, there are things we have to do to hold them accountable. So writing op eds, right, testifying to the school board. Right. We're even just wrote curriculum recently on for students to learn how to be part of the budget process, right, how to testify about community investment that you want to see, which you know, we hear a lot about violence, but we don't always hear about the root causes. So community investments, we know there's data that shows that will tamper that down. So teaching them how to directly talk to elected leaders right in constructive ways to advocate for themselves, and that's continual, right, we have to keep doing these things because elected leaders are only going to be as good as we demand them to be sure, and if we're not asking anything right, power can sides nothing without a demand. So we make sure they understand that. And then we do really cool engagement events that like GOOTV and we're trying to get them to vote. So like last year, we did a whole field day at Martin Luther King. It was like a civic theme field day where we. Had them outside, we had a DJ, and we had lots of different stations, all civic theme but also very fun, right, really trying to make sure young people are being engaged in a way that you know it will resonate for them, right, And so all of these communities have to figure out what that looks like, right to be able to send trusted messengers in to meet people where they are and then again provide education and engagement in a way that makes it relevant, right, so it will resonate with them and they will understand that when we're not voting and when we're not holding leaders accountable, we are never going to be the. Priority of people that are in power. So if they ask you the question, what is civics Michigan j league all need to know what does civics mean? What would you tell them? It would be basically helping them understand how government works. Fantastic, right, and the part that we play as citizens in making it work better and making it more responsive to us. So you're saying, and it's my last question as it relates to that, you're saying a lot about we, right, So I want you to amplify your organization and what you do there because that's very important, very prominent and what we like to do here is just amplify those people who's doing a great work. So why don't you talk a little bit about your organization. So pau Vote is a nonpartisan nonprofit. We work year round making sure that young people again are civically engaged, getting that education. Every election we have two every year. We're continually engaging them in ways that are nonpartisan to make sure that they are informed right and able to be educated voters, and then doing the engagement to also make sure that they are turning out and voting and also know how to advocate for themselves and hold leaders accounts accountable to being responsive to the things they want to see in their communities. Right, I was gonna say shout out to Martin Luther King, my alma ma test. Yeah, it was so fun. We actually did. We were actually a feature on Good Morning America that day. They came out, oh. Wow, nice, nice, well speaking of Martin Luther King. Hi. A lot of kids feel like young people feel like their vote doesn't count, the system is rigged, and they're like, hey, I'm not going to vote because you know, they talk about the electoral votes and all these other things. They feel like their vote doesn't count. What would you tell that young person to tell your vote counts? This is why I will tell them. I worked in the Senate's office, right, one of the state senators, and the first thing we did was figured out who voted. And that is how we determine where our resources are going to go, where our grants are going to go, where our time was going to be spent. And so what political leaders do is they figure out who is voting and who is not. And if your community is not voting, right, you will not be a priority and the things you want to see done in your community will never be urgent to elected leaders. You are not a threat to them staying in power if you're not voting. So it's really when you're not voting, sadly, that your community and the things you want to see won't matter to them because they're going to focus on who is voting, and usually that's you know, let's. Be honest, it's usually older, white right. And so that is why you continue to see this because in less than until communities of colors start reducing that disparity, we're going to continue to see these inequities and inequality. And when you talk about community you're talking about the playgrounds, the schools, and you're talking on local levels as well, not just the presidential election. Now, the local elections matter so much more so all those things that I told you about in Narstown. Right, these kids can go five minutes in any direction where people are voting and they will see all of those things. Right. But because in Narstown continues to be a community that has been so disenfranchised, they've become very disenchanted and not participating, right, it allows leaders to just deep prioritize all of the things that those kids need to see or want to see in their communities. So it's really like they are paying attention. The first thing you do, you if you for those that know how to reach out to their elected leaders, right, the first thing they do is see if you're a voter, and if you're not a voter, you're not going to be a priority. So when we're not voting, and right now we are not voting, right in you anywhere near equitable numbers to other communities, which is why you continue to see elected leaders feeling like they don't need to be respectful or responsive. To our communities. I got one last question. We did a story on the real ID and they're saying, now they're going to have to use the real ID in order to vote. Do you think that that's like something that's making it harder, especially for the elders who don't have a lot of the six points to be able to get that type of documentation to vote. There's yes, that is going to definitely make it a lot harder, especially for black people, people that grew up some of them in the South, women who have been married, right, So that is going to make it much harder. But again, I think what we need to do is we really in this moment it need to figure out how to come together and be very strategic right in making sure our communities are educated about all of these things, to try to provide what we need to ensure we are, you know, registered and ready to vote. Because unless and until we show up and numbers that again may collected leaders understand we will vote them out. Right, they're not gonna they're going to continue to do things that are not going to be in the best interest of our communities. Sure, yeah, since you mentioned educating a lot of our audience are there in tune to the things that we report on and a lot of them are often really engaged in what's going on. So for like the parents that are listening at home and they want to do things for their to support their youth. What are some things you know, based on your experience that you can say parents can do to kind of assist because you know how we always say it starts at home. So what can parents do to like assist their young person when it comes to helping them being you know, be said engaged. So I think a lot of our parents, in all honesty, you need to educate themselves, right, because we don't know how government works. It's not to you know, frown upon us. Right. We have been a community that has been just very disenfranchised by government. And so, like I said, many of us don't really know who does what in government. So it starts with educating yourself, right, and bring the kids along with you, right. And then there are different ways like pau fot send them to you know, come to our website. We have lots of youth you know, focused resources right, every vote, voice, every vote, like we are really there bringing together information, education. But I think it really starts with kind of like all of us really trying to understand what is this thing. Called democracy right? What is it right? And how is it supposed to work for us? And how do. We really understand this system and start to make it work for us, our communities and to make sure that our kids. Because I'm going to tell you as far as education, this inequitable access to education, I believe is the civil rights issue of our time. I am engaging young people primarily. We are very strategic in our work, so we only go into school districts that have large populations of students of color, right, black, brown, underfunded school district. But I have had conversations with students that are in Lower Marion, right, and the disparity between the preparedness is tragic. And when we had COVID, those kids that are out there in the suburbs, in very well funded schools, they went virtual in two days Philadelphia and Naristown. It took months. Many of those kids never came back. And when I tell you, when you're talking about going out and competing for jobs and to get into college, we are grossly unprepared. Because we have decided in Pennsylvania that we're going to and across this country in all honesty, that we're going to fund schools through property taxes. And when you look through again going back to policy, which is my thing, redlining, clustering us in communities with lower property values, right, we can never make up that difference, and it hits our kids in so many ways, and it is tragic what I'm seeing. Yeah, absolutely, yeah, I couldn't test to that because especially with the property taxes. So I have a house in the Poconos, and in the Pokonos you have your property tax and you also have the taxes that you have to pay for the school tax. So it don't matter rather you have children or rather you don't have children, you still have to pay those property tax But even up there, the school system is so different. And one thing stuck out to me. I mean everything that she said stuck out to me, but some specific word accountability. We have to hold each other accountable. We have to hold ourselves accountable. And like you said, if you're not voting, you're not holding those people who are running, you're not holding their feet to the fire. You're not holding them accountable for the communities that they're supposed to be accountable for. So that really stuck out to me. I was sitting over here. My brains kind of exploding when you said that, But I understood, and it just that word alone means so much and it has such a deep definition that if you don't really think about it, you're not going to understand it. But even in life itself, you have to be able to have accountability for everything that you do. To everything. There's a reaction to every action. There's a reaction to every reaction, there's an action. So what you were saying was hidden so close to home, and I think people really need to adhere to what you're saying because they got to understand if you don't take action, if we don't take action in our communities, especially when it comes to the lower. How can you expect something from nothing exactly? And trust me, when we're not in council meetings, we're not in commissioner like I'm in commissioner meeting. You know, if we're not in school board meeting, there are people that are there and they're not looking for the same things that you. Want to see in your community or for your children. And so we need to be in those meetings and we need to be holding those people accountable to being responsive to the things that our children. Need and deserve and to go back really quickly on property taxes in schools. I just want to make sure that people understand this issue not only harms our children, but a lot of older black people, right and people of color lose their homes because they're in these communities that have to keep raising property taxes to try to get enough money to adequately fund schools, which they never will. But you have seniors lose their homes because they cannot make up this difference and they can't afford to pay the property taxes. So it's not just hurting our youngest people, it's hurting our seniors as well. A lot of parents at one point used to now that they got school choice, but you would take your child, you would put a fake address in just so that your child could go to somewhere as for a better school. So just to fill in the gap from what you see as far as legislation, and specifically we'll speak about Philadelphia opposed to Pennsylvania, but Philadelphia being the fifth largest city throughout the country, what would you see or what can you advise for our leadership to do in order to try to fill that gap? Where does that start? Minimum wage. Does that start with, like you said, maybe property taxes, Like what. I mean, I can tell you what young people in Philadelphia have said they care about, right, So they care very much about you know, gun violence. Right, that's an issue that you know plagues them all the time. But we educate them to help them understand how the budget and whether or not there's programming, whether or not you know, they care about youth, you know, employment, they care about mental health supports, right, So they care about a lot of different things. I think overall, it's really to just start with generally making sure that our local government is being more responsive to the community and not these other interests that seem to be out there, right that are are are are funding their campaigns, right, or whatever the case may be. Right, it's really making sure that we have elected leaders. And so that's why we start with sending school students to school board, right, sending them Okay, if this is an issue when you care about you don't feel like there's programming, we're going to teach you how to go to council and testify there, or we're going to write curriculum so you understand how to testify and be you know, as far as the budget which is being you know, that process is in play right now, but really just starting with making sure that these elected leaders start seeing us. And I think and people may not like this comment, but those electives that are in there, they come in there hungry, They come in there doing something, but then something changes and it's like they overpromise and underdeliver. And then when we know where crime is high, guess what, more money come in. So sometimes they don't want that crime rate to go down because they don't want to stop getting the money that's supposed to come in to help with supposed resources. So that's where the voting comes in again, voting to hold these legislatives, to hold these people accountable from a legislative perspective. Yeah, and just it starts with just showing up because when you show up, they know you are watching, and then they're going to make decisions that they know, you know, the community is going to approve of. Right. But if we're never there, right, they kind of have this freedom to just kind of do whatever it is they feel like, you know, they you know, is best for the community, but they're not taking that information from the community because we're not there to provide it right, So holding them accountable it's not always going in and having this contentious conversation. It's saying also sometimes when they're doing the right thing, listen, we like that you did this or whatever right, But we have to be present. We have to stay engaged. And a lot of times we do think the election happens and now. We can just move on. It's a continual process that we have to participate in. So we are making sure that they know we are going to elect you, okay, but then we are also going to hold you accountable and if you don't do your job, we will elect somebody else. So with all of the changes that's coming down the pike, I guess when it comes to the Department. Of Education, where do you see. I guess like the youth at that point, and how does that align with the work that you're doing. Do you feel like there's going to be change and what you have to do or like. Well, what I think is it's going to definitely impact communities like Philadelphia, like Narstown. Of course, we already know black, brown communities are always the most severely harmed when things like this happen, and so we're gonna have to wait and see what because you know, there's a lot of things that get thrown around and then there's reality of what actually sticks, right. And then we will have to be really relying on. Local leadership right to try to address some of these things, whether it's going to be less funding available right, the needs of you know, we have again through that department right there is you know, students with special needs right, like they are taking care of lower income schools. So all of those things we have to see where we end up, and then we will have to look to our more local officials to see how they will then try to you know, fill in some of those gaps. But we don't really know yet because again we have all of these things that are said and then some of them end up being legal, some of them not. And so you know, sadly we're in a position we have to be ready, right, but we have to know now even who many people don't even know who their leaders are. Yeah, right, so start now figuring out like you can go and literally you know, I deal with young people and they are so smart, but I'll sometimes just try to give my you know, Google, like who's my state? You know, who are my elected leaders, right, who is. My council person? Right? Figure that out right, so that when these things happen, we even know who to go to, you know what I mean, because we are going to have to rely on our local officials at the state level, at the very local level to address some of these things as the impact starts to come in to the community. I think we have to make sure the elected officials knows that there's people actually out there doing the work already, and that you know, some some people may come in and thinking they have bright ideas, but it's already people out there in those spaces that's doing things that work right. And I have same time and time again where you have people come in and just kind of ignore what's going on in those spaces, thinking that they already have the answer, right. And so when we talk about accountability, it's important for us to say, hey, slow down. This is working in North Philly. It might not work in South Philly. There's unique needs, right, everyone is. You know, we're not monoleiss right, We work, We work in compartments sometimes and certain things work for certain people. The things that's happening in Kensington, it's different than things that's happening in West Philadelphia. Certain things are the same, a lot of things aren't right, and so when we're trying to combat crime so to speak, it's a lot of things different that's happening, and even northeast that's happening here, right, And so I just like the idea of a full community engagement, right, people coming at the table without the arrogance, so to speak, right, and I know everything and saying this is where we need to go to fix or to have a better Philadelphia. Just talking for Philly right now, right, totally get it. So you. Amazing, amazing. We already passed the time, but you're amazing, and I love the things that you're doing. If you had because one thing that we do here and we talk weekly, we always talk about not just or point the fingers as you know, you're the problem. You're the problem. You're the problem. But what are the solutions? Right? And you named a lot of them, but coming from for someone that's tuning in right and they're saying, what are the five like hot button kind of like topics or action items we should do right now that we potentially can do on the surface right to start to make change. What would that be. So I'd say start with again educating ourselves right. Start there. I'd say make connections right with people in the community that are doing engagement in whatever way, right, Like I have done education after a church you know program, right, I have done them. A fl CIO has. Brought me in when they're doing canvas launches to help educate people. But I think to your point, right, like different things are happening in different places, so we need to be connected to one another, right, and then amplifying, right, what is happening in these different places, and so it's not okay if things are working here and they're not working here, right, So we really have to bring community together to understand, like together we're so much stronger. But then being coordinated right in supporting one another and really again showing up for one another. I think that's another thing, because sometimes like something is going on here and no one is kind of showing up for them, and it doesn't garner the attention. It needs to really be on the radar, right, And so I think really making sure and that's why I love evev is because they are making sure that the community is getting the information. I think we just need to do a better job of one again providing the education about each election cycle, because you get all of this excitement about the presidential right, and I'm like, listen, these local elections matter because all of those things that I just told you about, those are decisions that the commissioners are making in Montgomery County and council is making. Right. The President doesn't have anything to do with how that money is invested in your community, right, or what's happening in your schools. So it's really just trying to make sure that we're connecting one another to the information right and the resources they need to be able again to be educated and informed, right, making sure they understand the importance of voting. And then we are showing up right. Because we get tired and this is a lot, and we have jobs, and we're already right underserved and under resource. But we got to find the energy because other people they have plenty of energy. Right. I go in you know, Montgomery County, some of those meetings and the things people are saying, right, and we're not in that room, and so we have to figure out if you can't make it, somebody's going to be there, right, And then we're going to educate one another on what happened at that meeting, right, and then we're going to follow up. So that's what I would say is really I'm really trying to see if we can't, you know, from a civics perspective, right, And it doesn't have to look like some textbooks, right, it's really connecting the dots for people, between these people and how what they do really impacts you, right, and the importance of knowing who those people are and then how to hold them accountable. But like coming together in a coordinated way, right as a community to make sure that we are going to be empowered, and we are going to be voting, and we are going to be holding leaders accountable, because again, if we continue to have this disparity between us turning out and other communities, we're going to continue to see ourselves and our children and our seniors right all the way to the back of every metric right that you know, I saw a lot when I was the president of the NAACP, and where we end up when it comes to all of these social determinants of health, right, and all of these measurements, Black people still always end up right at the back, at the bottom and so let's make a concerted effort to say, no, we're not going to continue to do that. Right, We're going to educate ourselves, and we're going to educate our neighbor. Right. Start there. Just go and talk to your neighbor. About all this and then you know, go to church wherever it is, because the lesson until we do that, I can promise you nothing is want to change for us. And speaking about your background, you had, was it two decades at Vanguard? Yes, it's amazing, amazing, Yeah, And I tell my kids all the time, education is the next currency, which is what you're talking about. With the resources and being in that type of feel with high network clients. What part of that corporate background has now you know, transferred over those skills to what you're doing now to really say, hey, I've seen what this can do and what it can help because you've already had those examples. So it was interesting because I came from Norristown. I grew up very impoverished, right like low income. I had, you know, underfunded school district, and so here I was. I went and worked at Vanguard, and you know, I ended up working in a ultra high network client facing group. So all of my clients had five million dollars or more wow, right. And it was an asset management services department where they pay you to manage. Their assets, right. And so we created trusts so they could bequeath wealth to their children test right. And we did tax loss harvesting transactions so they could pay less in taxes. And we made exceptions to every rule because they were very wealthy. And so I saw not only in those laws and policies and how that enabled them to bequeath wealth and pay less than taxes, like you know, I also saw that most of the people that I worked with came from more educated you know, more educated backgrounds, more affluent you know, homes right, And so it made me always feel insecure and less then right, culturally was very different than what I came from. And so like I honestly felt like for twenty years I would check my blackness at the door. I worked at Vanguard. I couldn't do it. I did this series sixty six and didn't pass it. Yeah, And I had to pass that when I I think my son was not even a year old. He was an infant. And I had to pass that test and I did. And I worked there for twenty years. I d I ended up getting the highest award that they. Offer, but it was a struggle. But I came out of that after seeing that, knowing I needed to do something more purposeful, right, And so then I did political organizing and again I helped many people where I live get elected, only to find that once they got in office, right, all of these ideas they had that looked like they were going to help the community from which I came change because now we're going to figure out who voted, and that's what we're going to focus on, right. And so that is what drove me to take all of what I've seen and then drive it to the work that I'm doing now to help people understand. You know that all of these inequities inequalities are the result of policy, and that policy got us into the situation and policy is going to have to get us out. I want you to talk a little bit before we let you leave a little bit about Michelle Obama's organization that you participated, and can you talk a little bit about that. So in twenty twenty, after I again I helped these people get elected, and then I realized that we're not going to serve my community. So I couldn't do that anymore. So then I got hired in twenty twenty to work for Michelle Obama's organization. You remember twenty twenty it was. Awful, right, And so I was supposed to go into schools and do voter registration. Right. It was a new initiative called My School Votes that they were launching. Out of when we all vote. And so I think I talked to six teachers before school shut down, and it was interesting. They just wanted to do they do more voter registration. And I think, you know, for a Michelle Obama, right, like the kind of work that we do is very nonpartisan and not political. But I think for her she has to really kind of protect herself because you sometimes people want to say something other than what we're doing. And so it was really just about voter registration. And so I talked to like six different teachers and they were like, I don't need you to do voter registration. I can register my own students. I need you to help me help them understand why they should be voting. And so that is what we then started doing, is connecting young people. Because I had all these political contacts, right, so I would start bringing them on to zoom calls like you're a council person, tell them what you do, tell them how you are supposed to impact their community. And so that was how we started. And then after twenty twenty when my contract ended, we found a PAU vote to provide that why. And so that is what we have been doing since then. Is providing that why and connecting those dots for young people. Some just hit me when you we was just talking about that. Why don't schools have it where you have a council person that you have you know, they have it where you have votes, but they should have it where it's almost like identical to what the local and state voting is. So our schools, going back to the previous conversation, are grossly underfunded. They are grossly under funded. And when I tell you, that means they don't have enough teachers, they don't have enough counsel they don't have any counselors, they don't have their books are outdated. Even stuff like their school sporting You know where you play football, right, your equipment or your workout room is nowhere near what it needs to be and certainly not what they have out like in Central Bucks, and you have to compete against them, and so, you know, there are so many things. And then we're in communities, right. The students that go to our schools are in communities that are under resource again because we're not voting, right, and so they're dealing with the results. Of all of that. And so it's a lot of times it's trauma that's just coming into the schools and you're now in an underresourced school with teachers who are literally having a triage that all day, so taking this on they cannot. So that's why we go in to schools and we provide all of this information. We get funding, we get and we paced student stipends to work with us and learn all of this and they become ambassadors and do peer to peer engagement. Now I will say Philadelphia because I want I love to give probs. Philadelphia has been extremely. Collaborative and really is a model for other places. And so we have a partnership with Philadelphia School District. And so what they do is they actually will pay a teacher in every high school that will work with us, that has a teacher available to do it, you know, to work with us. And partner with us. We create resources, we create curriculum, We go in and do presentations. We will get students that are in those schools to do voter engagement work. We pay them stipends because we pay them stipends for everything they do. So Philadelphia School District and even those events like the field day right, or we do this huge march every year. You guys watch out on National Early Vote Day. One of the things we do is we go in and we do the education right going up to the general election. Then the commit come out because they've also been very good at partnering with us, right, they do the early vote kind of you know conversation because some of these students are going to college, right, or they're going to go to work. So let's teach you about this process because if you go to college and you still want to vote on what's happening in Philadelphia, you can, but you have to use this process anyway. So we do all of that. The commissioners take the applications back, process them, pull them, and then the school district partners with us. We bring all of the kids that we've worked with that school year, the school district buses them down to Love Park and then they shut the streets down around city Hall. We have a drum line and signs and flags and they literally take over the street and walk around. And then we have students vote early on National Early Vote Day, and then it becomes a big party with a purpose. So we had diamond cuts. There, food swag right, and then a lineup of student speakers is speak to the importance of voting right and all so holding those people in city Hall accountable, so they Philadelphia School District has been great, but some of these other school districts just have not been able to do that, like Narnstown, and they're finding other ways to work with us. But to answer your question, these teachers are overwhelmed and they don't have the capacity to do one more thing. I've gone into some of these schools and it is it's a shame. Yeah, what's the legacy you want to leave? I'm sorry, what's the legacy you would like to leave that. I have educated and empowered my community? Right? I like to work with young people. In addition to the work that we're doing around voting right, we are creating young leaders right. We are helping young people, our first students that were in twenty twenty. Going back to that year, right, Cameron was one of our first she worked with us a little bit, she went off to college. Right. She is now our director of programming at twenty four years old. Right. And then we have a student like Zion. Another example, he came with us to twenty twenty so Shy wouldn't even turn his camera on on zoom right. Oh by little though the community, right, he built. So we a lot of what we do in the summertime is we pay them. They get stipends. They go out and do. Tabling at community events, which is so fun because you see him on our social media page. They're line dancing, right, But they're also doing voter engagement with people from the community. So anyway, so Zion started getting really comfortable and confident in that. So we went to college, came back that next year. I said, Okay, you're going to do the press conferences for the organization. So nervous, No, we'll help you. Don't worry. This is the context you have about this much time, write something up, will wordsmith it. So the first one he did that year, he was so nervous, But by the end of the year we ran a full day programming for the Mayor's Office of Youth Engagement, and he had to do a press conference with the Mayor of Philadelphia. When I tell y'all, he walked up there to the front of that room, right, young black guy, he walked up there and walked off like a boss. It was like I was in tears. Now fast forward to today, right, he is now the president of the student body at Penn State Main Campus, Okay, and he has done internships in Japan and Cancun. And it has all to do with the work we do to not only make sure they understand this as a source of empowerment, but also to give them the confidence to know that we have to be able to walk in every room and constructively advocate for ourselves and have the confidence to do that. And so that's a lot of the work, is that we are empowering young people to have that confidence to walk into any room and be able to constructively advocate for themselves in their community. Since one last thing, since you know the primary election is just right around the corner, can you tell our listeners. About the student poll Worker program. Yeah, So basically what it is is Philadelphia, We'll pay students seventeen. You can be seventeen and you can then go in and what you'll do is you'll be trained and and then you will actually work on election day at one of the polling places. They generally they pay us pretty well. I think it was around three hundred. Dollars last election cycle. So they make a point. Commissioner Severe has been a great partner on this to make sure that young people and so you know, it's a really you know, a good way to get young people out there. They're off school anyway, they get paid, they get you know, training, and I think they also make a point to let young people have a preference over where they're going to work too. Yeah, fantastic. We talk We talket weekly after talk with the ppm P Philadelphia. Want O six point five if when we talk weeklies after the talk with your boy Charles Gregen and beautiful beautiful and my guy power. So listen, I just want to thank you for coming to the show. I think what you're doing is amazing and anything you believe, especially as it relates to media, if we can amplify you, let us know, because we do have a young arm would you like to tell her about Washington. Yeah, so we started a pilot program called you Civic News where we had several students who were trained in media literacy, content creation, and civic engagement on the education journalism, and we had a curriculum and all that, and they were able to put together their own content about civic news a lot of the things that were happening in Philadelphia. And that's it was a pilot program, and we want to kind of be able to extend that again, possibly partnering with the school District of Philadelphia and expanding it to where it's throughout the school year. Yeah, I would love to talk to you more about that. Offline we do bring in what we do was we do have some students specifically interested, right. We realized that as a skill for young people to have, and so you know, we're also thinking about that and trying to give them our opportunities, right and a way to contribute the community voice, young people from the community's voice, because I think that's so important. So I would love to talk to you about that offline. Yes, thanks, So how can they get in contact and find some more about you in an organization and all that? Good story? So we are at PA youth vote on all social media platforms. You can reach out at info at paufote dot org is another way again, you know, definitely Instagram. We have young people, so I always like to say if you reach out at DM, they will respond yeah. So yeah, And and I'd like to say anybody that is interested in partnering, collaborating, we have been able to do so much more. I personally believe collaboration is going to save this nation. So anybody that's interested, we have been very creative in the ways we've been able to partner and. So please reach out and talk. Let's talk about it. Fantastic, fantastic, And that's why that's exactly why we do what we do here. We talk we can. We give them platforms, give people like yourself platform so you can say that information and people can see it through our networks and we can expand that reach. And so we'd like to thank you for coming to the show. Thank you so much having me. And so since we have been talking about young people, we're gonna go out to a real quick break with our young young journalist what Load. We'll be right back after this show. Hi, I'm Willow Jordan with you civic news and I'm here with my grandfather, Willie Jordan and Gpat. What brings you out tonight? Well, I'm here to discuss the importance of the election that's coming up and important. The responsibility that we have to do is out, get out the vote. What is your role? I have wear many hats, but one is a community activist, and that means to keep people aware and make them informed on the issues of the day so they can come out and make a real good choice on voting for the right candidates. What are some of the issues you see? Housing, education, transportation. There's a lot of things. Anything that we do in our lives, it has to do with elections. Politicians, elective officials making those decisions. The amount of time that you stay in school and the amount of days you stay in school is based on what some elective official. Came up with. How important? How important is it to vote? It is very important. It's not just important, it's responsible. Voting shit is not a selfish activity. It's a selfless You vote to help others. So as you help others, people help you and be a better world, a better city, a better country to live in. Where do some of your beliefs come from. Well, my belief is based I guess I would first come from my home training. My parents told me the importance of civic responsibility, caring, loving, sharing, being involved, being responsible on your actions. Is there any positive knowledge you would give to the people who don't vote. I would tell them if they can't come up with a reason why they should vote for themselves, come up with a reason why they should vote for someone else, for their parents, for their children, for more street lights, how they want a better community, do it for someone else. I'm Willow Jordan reporting from you Civic News, and I'm here with my grandfather Willie Jordan. Thank you, reporter. Ella presents the new recipes that can help me looking at over to you. Ella, Thanks fellow. Now that follows upon us. It's not a better way to start the fall seasons than an easy and simple rescue. Hopere about. It's the most delicious and easiest food you can for yourself, family and friends in your community. Take a look. I really want to make pumpkin bread, So make sure you screensh out this recipe and let's get started. First, preheat your oven to three fifty degrees in one of your bowls. Mix your flour, baking soda of baking powder, salt, and pumpkin pie. Spice with your fork. Mix Now with your second bowl, mix your sugar, oil and apple sauce with a whisk. Once everything is mixed together, add your pumpkin and mix again. When everything is mixed evenly, combine both mixtures together. Make sure you scrape everything out so nothing is wasted. Now mix evenly until there's no lumps. After that, you want to set that aside and grab your breadpan. Lather some butter all around and add a little flour and spread it around until it looks like this. Now you want to pour the bread batter into the bread pan. Sure you scrape everything out so nothing is wasted. Cut a line in the middle, and it's ready for the oven. Make sure you were up in and let the bread bake for sixty minutes. Once the sixty minutes is up, take it out of the oven and let except for. A few minutes. When the breadpan is safe to touch, use a straight edge to separate. The pan and bread. This stuff is optional, but if you have. Like sliced the bread into thick slices. And it should look something like this, you. Are all done, dig in and enjoy your pumpkin bread. This pumpkin bread is a perfect way to feed your family, friends, and your community. Willa, what did you think about this recipe? I think that this recipe is perfect for the horizon fall weather. Substituting the egg with the apple sauce is a great option for others with an egg allergy. Thanks Wellow. I'm Eli Quanzhan, reporting for Youth Civic News. Back to you, Willow. We talked weekly. Did you talk WPPM or p Philadelphia want six point five? That's when we talk weekly. Did you talk with your boy beautiful. Auto pilot, classy ladies. And the beautiful Lawrence and my guy. Yeah, and we're in the building. Hold on one more time, one more get there we go. All right, So check this out, y'all. So that was our nice little young reporters out there doing some great things. Our little young journalists doing some great things out there in the community. You have a young person who is interested in media literacy, is interested in journalism, interested in, you know, understanding how to research stories and do their beats, and want to be on television. This is what we're doing here. We talked weekly for our young folks, and so we U civic news and that's what that is. And so without further ado, ready. I'm ready. I just want to say I really like that interview. I like Angelie, that civic moment, the information that we got right, it's people out here doing and making a difference and not just for the monetary game exactly. So and I love that. Yeah, sorry, we'll give it to me earlier. All right, Well, we talked about just civic engagement. Well, this is something that can kind of be civic. It's a strike at Community College of Philadelphia. They put a stop to it. The College and AFT Local Union twenty twenty six represents twelve hundred faculty and staff. They reached a temporary contract deal literally hours before the strike was set to begin. The agreement includes wage increases, smaller class sizes, more staffing, and free student transportation. Now, we just talked about the importance of voting. So and this is on the college level. The union had been negotiating for about fourteen months. After working with a contract since August of twenty twenty four, SO co president Renaya Chambliss stated, we showed what can happen when faculty staff and students stand in real Soliday classes and activities are continuingly continuing as schedule, and union members will vote on the agreement next week, so stay tuned to that. In other news, Philly honors its own. Did y'all hear about Will Smith being down here? I wanted can we give like whatever your special clapping hands? Can we get that real quick? They clapping the hands? All right? Maybe not? Well? Okay, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah. Philly honors its own Philly. I think Will Smith has talked about this in the past that he didn't really feel like Philly has given him his flowers at times, but they are now. Will Smith now has a street named after him here in his hometown of Philadelphia, so on March twenty sixth, the city renamed a portion of fifty ninth Street to Will Smith Way in honor of the West Philadelphia native and global superstar Will Smith. Smith Way is across the street from Overbrook High School, where Will Smith attended. Smith celebrated with Mayor Cherrelle Parker, his mom, city officials and fans, calling it the honor of a lifetime. The tribute comes just. Days before the release of his first album in twenty years, based on a true story, dropping yesterday, March twenty eighth. It features collaborations with Smith, with Smith's longtime you know collaborator DJ Jesse, Jeff and Tianna Taylor and Jack Ross. Are going to be featured on their Jack Fross. Jack Ross. Ain't a Jack Ross. I think Jack Fross. Yeah, Rick Ross. Which one gotta be Jack? Jack Frost from Philly. Jack Cross, I said, Jack, Okay, Jack. Yes, Charles, Jack Fross in the building, my guy. Yeah, you know, Yeah, that's what's up? All right, all right, Well he need to come on into about the new album. In a heartfelt message, Smith told his fans, Hey, Philly, I love you. I'm yours and you are mine. I will see you on the fourth of July. So the fourth of July part that's that little cliffhanger is because I believe him and Cheryl Parker. He basically promised that they're going to come back for some type of concert for Philly or July fourth. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll show We'll show some of the footage. I actually had the opportunity to get down there and got some good stuff. So well, I'll put out like all those clips if you look on the website, if you look on Facebook, you posted some stuff, right, Yeah, Lawrence was actually pasted a nice little clip of you know that that particular press conference that Will Smith was down there. I mean everyone from the city Council to Charlie mac everyone was down there. Everybody was in the building. He know for sure. Yep. So July fourth, he'll be coming back, and I think we're gonna get a taste of his album that just dropped for the first time in twenty years old. On one second, I just uh, I just want to I just need to put you in jail for one second because I said. You still thinking about what which? Wait? He said? She said, Jack Ross story is blowny. You people must be idiots. What are you doing? Are you people out of your mind? Wow? All right? When he come up here. Goes around me up, He's just only comes from Philly. Come got it? There? It is there is I take accountability. They say women can't. I was about to say that one take it on the chin, all right? This uh, this one is not such good news. There is a tragedy in Georgia. Two twin brothers, nineteen year old twin brothers Carder Malik Lewis and Nicia Raheem Lewis were found dead with gunshot wounds on Bell Mountain. They're pretty much ninety miles from their home. Authorities initially called it a murder suicide, but their family, The Lewis family, strongly disputes that claim, saying that the boys were inseparable, never got into fights, and were not familiar with Bell Mountain, and the family still wonders how they got there. Adding to this heartbreak, forty two year old volunteer firefighter Scott Curlin has been charged with obstruction after he allegedly took pictures at the crime scene and distributed them. I heard this. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says the images circulated among students onto social media. The twins on Samir Brauner said, I'm scared to pick up my phone because I know if I see that picture, I'll have a heart attack. Autopsy reports results are still pending with further forensic testing. I'm glad that you actually reported that. Kudos to you with that, because no one is talking about this. I'm only seeing in it on kind of social media. I'm not hearing it on news heavy. I'm not hearing it anywhere on this should this should be national news. You're talking about twin twin boys, who were you talking about, like valedictorians, good students, good students, and they were really good boys, and no one is talking about it. And so when you say that, you think about, okay, are they looking at mental health? The family is saying that that wasn't a part of it. They got along extremely well. And then they were they were coming out of the airport and they were somewhere found that they never even knew about. And they were close with their family, so things that when you're when you have a close knit with your family, you kind of know vicinities and stuff on where you're familiar with and they said they weren't familiar with that. So yeah, so absolutely all right, this little section I call it Philly's spark New So it's frustrating about this story because Philly has so many amazing things like historic landmarks, arts and community projects, but yet some people just can't resist damaging them. Well, the Philadelphia Portal faced vandalism and then yeah again they had it offline. Well it's it's back up now. So the portal faced vandalism and had a brief delay of being offline, the Philadelphia portal has been repaired and now once again, can you say again again right, connecting locals with the cities. Around the world. So at eight thirty am this past Friday, the live streaming device came back to life, allowing Philadelphians to greet Dublin with a wave and a hello. Now its current location is it's currently at Love Park, but it won't be there for long. Portal organizers confirmed it will stay in Philly for at least two more years, but they have three potential new locations that are being under consideration, and twenty twenty six, the portal may move closer to Independence Hall for the nation's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. Portal director Joseph Callahan says, I encourage everyone to love the portal, respect the portal, share the portal, and join us in connecting the world as one, without borders, without labels, and without prejudice. I like that. But that's that's honestly, Sadly, that's socially yeah, but maybe well I don't know it's but I think that if they do take it and get it closer to where, you know, the tours attractions are it's going to be less vandalism because more cameras and more people are you know, they know that more people are. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I just don't like the idea of putting it where all the tourus is because that take it away from Philadelphia. You need to put it in a place where it's truly Philadelphian's. That's and then let's getting vandalized, which that. Which is unfortunate, but it is what it is. Yeah, kind of both of y'all kind of got a point because yeah, tourism, but yeah, we need to keep you Philly like we need to, We need we need that to be where people like Love Park is a big thing in Philly. Let's bring let's keep everybody into the Love Well. Then that's why it keeps getting vandalized. So does anybody know where else like this portal is, Like it's in Dublin, the one only one that we know. I think they have a lot of them across I'm not sure where else, but where we're connected to. Like if we're saying hi, people in Dublin are saying high back, okay, so and it's live. So I think that's kind. Of cool, but I mean if you keep on busting it up. And so no other states, like in the United States have this portal. Yeah they do. They do. Other states have it, and I think that they connect to other parts of the in the world. Okay, but ours specifically is duble a sorry man's yeah, and they're saying that they're going to be moving it soon. So I just hey, if anybody has any tips on the vandalism, I don't need the tips. Just tell the person like, hey, this is Philly, this is our home, you know, and and don't ruin things, you know, Let's take care of what's ours. Yeah, I'll check this out. I'm gonna read you a little finish your story. Well, we don't it, okay, So let me let me give you a little a little fact about the portals because we were talking about where they were. It says the Portals project initiated by portals dot org. So that's where you can find it at. It's a global network of interactive art installations that connect cities worldwide through live stream and technology. Here are some of the locations where these portals are currently active or planned. Philadelphia, of course, we here shout out to Philly located, they say, his Love Park. The portal connect to Dublin, Ireland. What's Villinius never heard of that? Then, Villinius, I never heard of that before, Lithuania and Lubland, Poland. It will soon include connections in other cities like Brazil and then uh, let's see. Yeah, yeah, so those are the ones New York City US say, although the portal was temporary relocated to philadelph So the one that was in that one that's in Philadelphia was in New York. Yeah yeah, yeah, So to Sizzle's point, they move on New York as well. New York. The one in New York is now in Philadelphia, so it's ours. So we have it for two more years, yeah, okay, and then they're. Going to move it. Yeah. So let me see. So we have uh in Ethiopia planned for future integration through specific details are not yet available portals dot org and to expand a network further creating a global bridge between cultures and cities. And so if you want to know anything about those, yeah right, that. Was y'all, Philly spark Noe. That was your good news and bad news, your girl classical sparkle, good news and. Bad news classically Sparkle, uh Pole, what's your thoughts on olds. What's your thoughts on some of the things that Sparkle did in her report? Well, well, well, well, I mean I like them, especially the portal idea. I believe that the portal. We definitely need to be more connected through different communities across the world, across the countries. And I think more connection allows us to understand each other a lot more. And I think that's one of the things that we may be lacking. We may be lacking understanding, yeah, exposure, understanding, accountability. And I believe if we know more about each other, we know or not more about each other. If we understand everyone's not from the same background, everyone's not grown you know, has not grown up the same way. Right you be black, white, Hispanic, whatever it is. But I believe that connection we can we can all realize that we all have something in common. Everything starts from the baseline. Everybody learns something you're not. You don't just become a certain way. You are taught that as you grow up. So I think as older individuals, even as younger than the individual individuals, I believe that the connection is very important in today's world. Especially with what I call the false societal norms that come up through the Internet. Like she said, everything is Internet, interet and Internet, and nowadays people will take everything from the Internet and that'll be like the rock of what it is, right, the holy grail of truth, when it's not really a holy grade of truth. It's what you put out there. And a lot of times you have what they call it. What they call it a generation Z or millennials. You have too many people that take what they see or hear from the Internet and make that a normah. So, and I believe that's that's a it's a big problem today. So I feel that's really important. I love the ideas of the portals. I haven't been to it yet, but I love the idea. It's no sound though, it's just kind of like, yeah. Just visit. That's not bad. I just want to see one of the one of their like something we don't have, Like in Philly. I'm used to seeing squirrels, So squirrels don't scare me, but people who you So. I'm wondering girls I saw scare me. I think. Squirrels they still candy and everything. That's true, that's true, but you know, how every little city has their own thing. I'm wondering what's over there that they have that even we don't have audio, but they can show us that. That they have that only they have. Yeah, interesting in Poland. Yeah it's Poland. Cold. Poland is cool, right, I think? So what do you think about the Will Smith story? Do you think it's about time that Philly has like they made a mural of him? But I don't know that have has Philly shown enough love to Will Smith specifically for me? I believe so. I mean we always show Will Smith love. Yeah, I believe so. And I believe, you know, for something like that, for someone so big, I believe it's time. You know, everything comes in. Absolutely because Kevin Hart got his flowers, got his stuff. I mean, I say, we gotta get big up to anybody who's making it our afhilia who's doing things. And that's from Philly, just like everybody from New York. I mean, you you know how New York. Everybody in New York, they go all out, and we the same. I mean, I'm pretty sure y'all heard it. Philadelphia. We are the most passionate, so you know, so it's it's about time when we need to have some passion about that too, you know for sure. I mean, you know they say Philly versus averybody, right, and I think that you know, Philly need to. I mean, we're known as this crab in a basket city, right, But I think, uh, slowly but surely a lot of that is changing. And I think we're showing a lot of connectedness, a lot of community. And that's what you know. For me, we talk weekly, That's what we love. Everybody, right, you you doing something, We bringing you to the show. But this guy right here, he's not telling you. He's not telling you the whole thing. I knew this guy for over twenty years and I'm gonna tell you him. Back in the day, back in the Temple days, he was the one to pull everybody together, like he was the one to get everybody when he had to. Hey man, come on, let's go. He pulled everybody together. And he will make you think about certain different things. That's why I was like, wait a minute, you I want to say something. Let me let me say something. Then he said come up here. I was like, what, come on down? Like the price is right, you want to talk, let's go. Yeah, I call it the way I see it. But that even alone is speaking highly of one. You accepting the invitation, but you extended the invitation, you know what I mean, just to say, how how much community that showed to say, hey, you know what, brother, I see that you've always commented. I know who you are. Come on and be a part of this conversation. So that that that's at my boy as well. You got something, you just gonna say something, you want to say something. Something to say. You always got Yeah, I got let me do it, let. Me do. See. You got some sound effects too, right, But what I. Got to say is that no, no, the ones, the ones you do with your mouth, you always know what something be boxing. What I wanted to say is that if y'all like the stories tonight, the conversation, then y'all can definitely support This is independent media. We don't always ask for money, but if you like to give that, you can go to our cash app at money sign we Talk Weekly, or if you can't do that, then go to our website. You go to w w W dot we Talk weekly, dot com, go to any one of our social media platforms that we talk weekly, subscribe, share, comment, all that and that's it, Like, that's the way you give back. I like that little transition you made. That was a good one. Smooth, smooth. Should see my DJ skills? Man, Uh, Lawrence, is you ready for us? Don't look like our guests coming on our next guest? So I mean we got some time or you just want to talk a little bit more. You can talk. We can talk about well. What's this the work on that? I can you? Are you ready? You could go ahead? No, I was going to talk about. I must is he selling? Did he sell Twitter? Did y'all hear about that? Fat checking? Yeah? I think he's either selling Twitter and it's it's going to be something about ai X almost. Like a check g b T. But Twitter is what I. Think I saw. I know you're doing something. And he sold it for like thirty three billions? Wow? Okay, yeahady sold Yeah? Wait, hold up, give me give me my give. Me that, give me my cooking, give me my cooking. Give me my Okay, all right. Go ahead, go ahead with your fat checking me. So he already sold. It, Yeah, he already sold it, all right, y'all. So if y'all know flash right coming. In hot, Yeah, go ahead, talk about it it's. Coming in hot, all right. So so the question was did he I must sell to it because we didn't know, right, and so formerly Twitter formally X now I don't know what is going to be called now. So Elon Musk has sold his social media platform x formerly known as Twitter, to his artificial intelligence company X. Well, it's still his to his company, come a right, So he just pitted and y'all he moving around some money. That's what that is in an all stock deal value at thirty three billion. The announcement was made a stock deal. Y'all heard that, right, an all stock deal valued at thirty three billion. The announcement was made on the March twenty eight, twenty twenty five. I didn't hear that this transaction effectively shifts ownership from x Corps investors to those of XAI, raising xai's valuation to eighty billion. What I said, right, So we're pivot, we're moving some things around, and because of stocks, the first evaluation right now is an eighty billion valuation. Must emphasize is that the integration of x and XAID would come buyd their data, computational resources and talent to deliver enhance users experience and further their shared mission of advanced knowledge and truth. Although Musk originally purchased Twitter at forty four billion twenty twenty two, the current valuation represents a significant recovery from its low point in late twenty twenty four, when the platform was estimated to be worth only about twenty percent of its original cost. The interesting thing about that is that's a quick lesson in why you should have your companies right, because you can move around things in companies because typically is not X is it elon Musk? Right? X is its own corporation, right, and so he has another corporation to which he just literally thought over there to another corporation, right, and so which was estimated at a valuation of thirty three billion, now valuation to eighty billion. That's a that's a master class. And how you move this money around and how well see that reminds me of the game. You know, how you get how you used to see the game? You know, they got the ball and they got the cups and they moved around. And the balls. That's that's all he's doing. All he's doing is strategically moving money around. And all he's doing is diverting attention to something else, so you can't see the other hand behind. His back of what he's doing. See, this is what I thought. This is why I say we need to be critical thinkers. If you think critically, you'll see that and be like like, like, you see how that was. A big news. But if you're a critical thinker, you're not You're not just going to think about that. You're going to think about, Okay, what is he really doing? That's right, because look at what everything that he's doing with the government. I mean I'm not really I don't really go and you know, too deep into the political but if you look at the things that he's doing, he's trying to move things around. You know, if you heard about what's happening to Tesla and everything, and how he was begging people not to sell, that's a power move to sell to himself so that way he can increase his profit margin and try to maintain some of his wealth. That's all it is. He's just switching it around and holding one hand behind his back, so we can't see what's going on in front of us. That's like a person waving like this in front of you, but you don't see them. Like I did. Security for almost like twenty three twenty four years bodyguard work. When you on stage, imagine everybody with a color purple on. It's just one person with that color purple, with the same color, but that color. Sticks out a little bit more than the other. But if you're a critical thinking you could see that color that's sticking out. You see what I'm saying. So that's all it is. He's just moving money around and HoTT in his hands, so you can't see what he's going to do. That's all that is. And creating a diversion. That's why such a big you know how you say it's a big topic, but really it's not a big topic. It's just moving money around, that's what That's. What billionaires do. Yeah, yeah, know for sure. That's generation of wealth. Yeah, I talk about it all the time there you go all the time. I believe our people need to think more about generational wealth. Yes, it's monetary, but you can't have generation I mean, for me, I just feel like you can't have one without the others. If you wanna have generational wealth, you gotta try to monetarily get it up, but you have to also have the generational wealth and the knowledge to get to the monetary value, m to increase the monetary value, and then that way you could pass it on, pass it on, passing on, passing on through generations. I mean that's what it's all about, because we don't I mean, who wants to work for the rest of your life? Yeah, Like we was just talking before, I said, I ain't trying to work for the rest of my life. I'm trying to just sit back and watch my money grow. I know that's right, I know that's right. We talk week these after the talk with WPPMP you Philadelphia one O six point five FM. We talk week these after the talk with your boy Charles, Beautiful. Class Beautiful Laurenzel and my. Guy Power in the building. Uh, SiZ you ready for me? Yeah? I'm ready. I'm ready. Oh good? Not just shit there? All right? So make sure you guys subscribe to We Talk Weekly on all social media and major podcast platforms. Support us even further. Make a donation on cash app to dollar sign We Talk Weekly, and you can also go to our Weetalkweekly dot com and you can donate via PayPal. All right, So, Power Couple, where's my music? Oh? My bad? I forgot about let me. Thank you, thank you. So power couple jay Z and Beyonce are considering taking legal action against Kanye West amid his recent rant that included a horrendous attack against their own children, their twin children. So Kanye West, once again he goes on his rants. He is posted a series of tweets on x attacking several celebrities, including ex wife Kim Kardashian, Playboy Card Cardi, Iggy Azela, and Kendrick Lamar before turning his Twitter fingers on jay Z and Beyonce. So jay Z. Posted, and I'm you know, it's literally disgusting that he would even stoop this low and what he's attacking their children? But he's he posted, he said, wait, has anyone ever seen jay Z and Beyonce's younger kids? They are I'm not gonna use the word because he used the R word when it comes to a mental disability. They are that like literally, He's saying, they they're blank, No, like literally, And this is why artificial insemination is such a blessing. Having blank children is a choice. So then he immediately posts a follow up tweet saying I need everyone to know that I took the post about Jay Z and Beyonce's family down and Jerry Lorenzo's family down because there is a possibility of my Twitter being canceled, not because I'm a good person. I took it down, like down syndrome. Get it? Am I right? Am I right? Just out of pocket? Out of pocket? Yes. So. Page six reports that a source close to Jay and B stated that Jay Z and Beyonce are aware the post Kanye has since deleted and are discussing how they want to handle this situation, whether it be privately and or in a legal matter. And then you know, Mama Tina Knowles shared a video on Instagram of her famous corny joke she said, so on the set. In the video, she saying, so, I'm on the set up a photo shoot today for my book, and I wanted to tell you a corny joke. What happens when a snowman throws a tantrum? He has a melkdown. Know that's funny that, you know, Mama Tina. So, But she also wrote it's hard to remain positive and classy in the face of ignorance and evil. But I know that no weapon formed against me or my family shall prosper. Yes, So yeah, hopefully they get their just due because that is just insane, that is crazy, just attacking those and it's the kids. No, no, because Karma. You heard what happened with Lebron. Speaking of which, yes, yes, the Ali you all right, So let's get into this uncle versus nephew beef going mad and so. This beef is getting uglier and uglier. Stephen A. Smith has been a harsh critic of Lebron James. But LA Lakers superstar Lebron James sat down for an interview on the Pat McAfee Show when he was asked about his beef. With Stephen A. Smith. So, for those of you who have not seen, video went viral of Lebron James approaching Stephen A Smith, who was sitting courtside at the March sixth Lakers versus New York Knicks game. So previously Lebron has asked Stephen A Smith to stop criticizing his son. Well, Bron let him have it courtside. And if you see the video, you could see that it's pretty heated. It's pretty heated, and it's just like Lebron is towering over Stephen A Smith. So Stephen A Smith did reflect later on his ESPN's first take, he said, I really understood where he was coming from. He was very, very upset. I could tell. But he could have called me. He had he have came to see Wait, I have came to see him. The way it's written is how he's saying it. So it's just. I'd have come. I'd have had a conversation with him. He could have been just as upset face to face, man the man, as opposed to being courtside at the game. I had no idea that everybody saw it until I woke up this morning. But it is what it is in the end. Like I said, as a father, I get it. I'm not offended. I'm not insulted. I don't have any animosity or animus towards lebron James for this. Nothing like that. Well, these two can't seem to keep each other's names out their mouths. Some people are saying Lebron one and some are saying there are no winners. So let's just take a look at the beef highlights between these two contenders. So Steven A Smith, he's been calling Lebron a liar. He states that he talked about Bronnie James not being ready for the NBA, but he directs his comments more towards Lebron due to him pulling strings to get his son drafted. Onto the Lakers. And then Steven A. Smith claims he gave Lebron props about him being a good player, father and philanthropists, but he's not the goat and he will always have him listed as number two to Michael Jordan and Stephen A. Smith said that he would have gotten his butt kicked because if Lebron would have put his hands on him, he would have swung on him. Oh my gosh, so so Lebron James Lebron James Lebron talked about his son, Bronnie James in his interview with Pat McAfee talked about his son, Bronnie James call it cardiac cardiac arrest and according to statistics, while sudden cardiac arrests and young athletes is rare, it's estimated that approximately one in forty thousand to one and eighty thousand youth athletes died. From it each year. So as a parent, you know, from a parental perspective, yeah, Lebron seems like he's over protective of his son because of this. Also, Lebron James posted a clip on Instagram of Steven A. Smith boxing. Kevin Hart was talking about that. Was crazy, yes, and then he followed it up with the want want want. Yes. But I mean one thing is for sure. After an offer made by our friend Celebrity Boxing founder and CEO Damon Feldman, both Lebron James and Stephan Stephen, both Lebron James and Steven A. Smith can't settle their beef in the boxing ring. Oh you already know how that's gonna go, even with Smith needs to s need to sit down. So who won this? Who won this? Coming ahead and knocked the head to his. Come in the head. Yeah, but you gotta see how he pulled up on him in that boxing video. Boxing yo, he yeah, Stephen A Smith, he just said, yeah, that video looked bad. It's like, what can you say about it? You know, I just found out he can't even play no game or nothing. He got so much to say. It's like, bro, you're like you It's it's like you're talking about track and field, but you call on me walk at warp slow speed? What are you doing? Yes? All right? The celebrity Sizzle Award of the Week. Go soon, Kyler Perry, he is he always getting no award, but he is once again stepping up. No, yes, another one. He's once again stepping up in a big way to provide opportunities for filmmakers with his Tyler Perry Studios. Dream Collective Program. So the program is designed to identify, cultivate, and elevate the next wave of dynamic filmmakers with an eye on historically underrepresented, underrecognized voices. So their three tiered initiative brings together new and emerging directorial voices and seasoned professionals in film and television, placing emphasis on practical training, mentorship, and career stability. So five filmmakers will receive thirty thousand dollars to shoot a short film in Greater Atlanta, Georgia. So as far as the program, they have the calls for submissions, which is going to take place from April seventeenth to May first, so you have between that time to get your application. In the world. Yes, and they have three rounds. So in the first round on one thousand submissions of passwork and a company accompanying materials that best articulate the filmmaker's vision will be accepted through the submission process. One hundred primary finalists will be selected and notified in May twenty five. So in the round two, one hundred finalists will next participate in the virtual sessions. And this is the four week virtual sessions that are designed to educate, inspire, and cultivate a lasting community. The sessions will include the opportunity to meet with the director and creative collaborat creative collaborators covering topics that include career origin, the art of collaboration, and case studies of trials and triumphs on and off the set. And then in the final round, the one hundred finalists will be invited to submit their short film scripts and accompanying materials to that best articulate the filmmaker's vision. After evaluation of the short film submissions, the ten winners will be selected and announced in July twenty twenty five. So I kind of like this program because although it's gonna start with a lot of people each with each round you do have an opportunity to get something from the program. So that's dope, absolutely, and we need more film out here, especially when you talk about you know, filmmakers of color, they're producing content from their experiences. Like this morning, I. Was reading something on Instagram actually about it was Tyler Perry's Kat Williams and it was fifty cent. They're all opening. Cat Williams bought. A base what used to be a base, and he's turned that into the studios. And fifty cent also did the same thing. So, but the most important one is Tyler Perry because I believe that space. That he bought used to be white owned. Yeah. Yeah, so he took that and. He's rewriting the history of that so and creating and you know, black once again black excellence, creating more opportunities as far as people, but once again accountability. We have to go out and get it exactly. You can't just sit and wait for this. So I you know, I thank you for that one again. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, is that that's it? Yeah, I'm your girl, Lawrencezzel And that was the. Ladies and gentlemen, your boy charged great with the beautiful and beautiful Laurence and my guy power in the building. Yes, So without further ado, uh someone throm have a tremendous amount of respect for you know, I love these interviews. Why because we interview these people that's really doing some things, man, and uh, we gonna make sure that we do it right. And so, without further do a classical lady, who do we have to date? And who do we have to date? Today we have the lovely Deneen Hatfield. She was born in Philadelphia with roots stretching from Coatsville, PA, to the Turks and Keiko's Island. She's a woman of many talent. She's an actress and author. A former TV reporter whose journey has taken us from the set of Law and Order SVU to the stage of the Walnut Theater. She's a passion storyteller, empowering minds through her novel Journey to Wholeness. Let's dig deep into her incredible journey. Y'all already know what to do. Let's give a warm wee talk weekly Welcome to Denise Hatfield. Hellay, hello, hello, hello, thank you for having me, Thank you for being here. Did you have some little technical problems getting on? I did I believe I was on the wrong link? Just hanging out? Oh, well you're here now, yes, awesome. Well, you know one thing that we always ask when you come on, We want to know how was your day, How did it start and how is it going? My day is going good. I took my daughter, she's six years so I took her to see snow White. So it was a good day. She got what she wanted to do today and relaxing. Yeah, that was nice. Shout out to you and having attended our well, our our Modern Temple University. Were you at Klein? I was at Edinburgh, Oh, client College of Oh when did you year? Yeah, because it was a right but it was a different name, I think at that point. I think, Yeah, I came out two thousand and three. I did Temple Update, their health news anchor. At that time, it was very competitive to get on Temple Update. I had an audition twice. But yeah, Urgh school that was my that was my main school there. Wow, I didn't know it was that you know, competitive getting on there. Mm hmmm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a news program and it does air in Atlantic City, so they take it very seriously. Yeah. Yeah, they do some really great work there because I know now they're expanding, they're creating this whole enterprise now that's including you know, broadcast radio and the community as well. I forget the name of what they're creating now, but they're they're working on a building that kind of housed all of the programs that they have. So that's awesome. Great. Well, speaking of your Temple days and going back into how you had to, you know, audition a few times, what got you started in the I'll just say the whole media, because if I try to itemize everything, and you wear a lot of hats. So from that media perspective, what put that. Fire into your feet to to get you started? Well, even in high school, I went to Coatesville Area Senior High School, Shadow Too Cash, and I always envisioned myself doing something in media. I did something in high school. It was called WHS, So I always seen myself in front of the camera in some way or some capacity. But after high school, I went to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and they just did not have a program for broadcast journalism. So I applied to Temple and from there that's where I was really able to nurture those dreams of becoming a TV reporter at that time. So you did reporting in Turks and Caicos. I did. Yeah, can you tell us a little bit about that. Well, my father is born and raised in Turks and Caicos. That's where he lived currently. And when I went out there to do my internship back in I'm aging myself a little bit. Now. You don't have to give years. I when I went to intern there some years back when I was in college at Temple, because I did an internship at Fox News and I also did an internship at WHYY, but I also interned in Turks and Caicos at their TV station, And upon graduation, I had planned on moving to Turks and Caicos back then, but some things kind of fell apart and it just didn't happen. But twenty seventeen is when I took the leap of faith. I had some connections with the person that owned his TV station on the island, and I went out there. They hired me on the spot and I just moved everything, just uprooted my life and moved to the to the Caribbean. Wowesome, So what would I guess what as far as like reporting and the information, what differences do you find between like reporting there and the work that you did here in the. States compared to being But first of all, being on the island, a lot of things are a lot slower. The pace is slower, and I didn't do any l live news per se. Everything was taped, so I had a lot more time to get my stories together and I didn't have anything to go out and rush to cover anything live. So it was a lot more slower pace. That's the main thing that I could compare to. And then the other part too was I also did weather. I did the weather, but I am not a meteorologist, so I would the copy with there for me to read, So that was the other part. I was a weather reporter, I was a TV reporter, and I was a weekly host, so I wore many hats there at that station at that time. Wow, how's that transition from acting to kind of like journalism? How is you know the transition from that? Was that a big shift? It wasn't really such a big shift because all through college I did acting classes alongside my broadcast journalism classes. After college, I even moved to New York where I had an agent at the time, where I was traveling to auditions, and at that time, I wasn't focused on broadcast news at that time, but when it was time to get on camera to follow or to cover a story, I was ready to do that because I was trained to do that at Temple. It's such a wonderful program at Temple really does prepare you to do their real world work as a journalist. Yeah. Yeah, I was in their master's program there in twenty twenty twenty one to twenty twenty two. It wasn't it was. It was a great program, but they kind of like tailored it to fit post pandemic restrictions, so we weren't it. Yeah. I was a little sad we weren't able to do a lot of the things that they had, like when I was applying and I heard about you know, I was just a little disappointed that we couldn't go to like different stations and be able to do like a lot of that stuff. But it was a you know, great program nonetheless. Yeah. So can you talk a little bit. About your your fiction novel, Journey to Wholeness. Yes. My fiction novel was published in twenty thirteen. It is a book loosely based on my life as a teenager who struggled with self esteem. And I was really still passionate about the book because I would go into high schools to speak to teenagers about self esteem. The importance of loving yourself. And I was fortunate enough to have the book translated into a stage play at the Wannut Street Theater in twenty fifteen, so I plan on having another play there since COVID I was then able to get that same intimate theater that I had last time, So I hope to have another play there sometime next year. Awesome. So what was some you know, impag from the novel and your travels to speak at high schools and the play. What would you say was like some impact or maybe some you know feedback that some of the students gave you based on their experience. Well, after my talk, I had one young lady in Louisiana, I went to speak at a school in Bastor High School and she came up to me and said that her boyfriend was abusive towards her because during my talk, I'm talking about loving yourself and really demonstrating the difference between what royalty is and what someone who may not treat you as being royal or someone of quality, because a lot of teenagers everything is done or if they're looked at at the exterior, but on the inside, they're dying on the inside and so really unpacking what love is and what loving yourself looks like. And so that led her to tell me something so intimate that she was going through physical abuse at home with the boyfriend in high school. So just the seeds of being planted U what it means to love yourself and not being in situations like that that would harm you. So that was really the biggest impact for me. Wow, that's awesome, And I think that's like really like a pivotal time, and this is just me, you know, personally, I think that's a pivotal time to kind of reach somebody that's dealing with those types of issues. It's young to go through domestic violence as a teen. That's really young. That's really young. But like, you know, being able to have someone you know come and talk to them, and you know, having your books and your play as a resource, I think that's awesome and it's a great opportunity to reach you young teens that are going through that. Yeah. So I heard you say that when you were younger, that you were insecure, and a lot of times there's a famous saying that it says you have to live life forward to understand it backwards. And I feel like sometimes we are placed in those situations where we feel insecure to become adults to say, Hey, I'm that voice for that other little girl or that other person that I need to pour into. From your bio. You have a daughter, So what would you tell your daughter that you would have even told yourself then that you didn't get the same advice that gave you the motivation to start writing, to start acting, to start living in your your truth. Yeah, well, my daughter she's six now. But by the time, when my daughter's name is Harmony, by the way, when Harmony I was three, I would tell her I'm taking her to daycare, and as I'm driving her to daycare, I would get her to chant her affirmations at three years old, even though she didn't know what they meant all the time, but she would say, I am a leader, I am not a follower, I am loved my mommy left me. I mean, we would go through a couple of different chants and she still does it till this day at six years old. She knows what it means when she says, I love myself and now we're working on expressing myself. Because she's at the age now where if she cries, she'll try to hold it in, and I'm now really focusing on and teaching her it's okay to cry. I think that. Growing up during my life, the time that I grew up in that era, it was don't cry, stop crying? What are you crying about? But it's okay to cry. And when you cry, you need to express to me why you're crying. And so I'm focusing on that as well with her because that's a part of her self esteem and I never want her to grow up as an adult woman holding those feelings in, holding the pain in, let it out, but explain to me what it is. Yeah. So That's where I'm at with her, and that's what I'm working on with her currently. Also, that's beautiful. I you know, grew up with low self esteem as well, and a lot of that those affirmations I had to learn as an adult, so it would have been nice to learn those things when I was young. So I just think that's amazing that you're, you know, instilling those values and those things in your daughter, because if you know, just just imagine like a child when they grow up with that and learning all that versus a child who doesn't and the things that you think you can, that you know you can be as a child with those affirmations versus someone who grew up and did not. So, Yes, I got a question because you mentioned affirmations and you once your daughter was brought up, you smiled from ear to ears, So I know that's your heart right there. Yeah. When when we think of the things that was traumatic to us as as young people, what was one of those experiences that stood out for you that makes you want to make sure that you instill those you know, affirming principles to your daughter. You know, the books that you write, the things that you do, the mission that you you know pushed through right now, what was one of those moments that truly stood out for you to say, you know what, I need to make sure that you know, my baby don't go through things like this. Wow. I would say for me, well, two things. One being in high school. Being high school was very hard for me. On the outside looking in, I think people judge the exterior again of what a person looks like, but on the inside of it struggling. I never felt like I fit in in really any clique. I felt very lonely most of my high school career. But I always had a plan that I was. Going to go to college. I was in the back of my mind always knew I wanted more. But for my daughter now, at her age, I want her to feel at home in her body, meaning I want her to feel selfish, sorre where she doesn't need to have the friends. It's nice to have them, but I want her to feel whole. And that's why I wrote the book. It's a journey to wholeness. We're not going to get there overnight, and I didn't have that as a teenager. I didn't feel whole. I also. Really seek for love outside of me, and my relationship with God has shown me that love has always been on the inside of you, and I've always been here guiding you. But I didn't learn that years later. So I would if I if I could do anything, is if I could leave that with her. I got my job to teach her that love is already inside of her and God is love fantastic. What what things that you have coming up? I mean you have done some plays and real quick, I want to notice because you're not uh shah to the stage. You're not you know, foreign to the stage. Do you have a monologue that most people who act has like their perfect monologue. Do you have a monologue that you remember that someone asked you to doing? You just do right off the cuff, you. Know what I used to. That's a good question, That's a really good question. I took my daughter to an audition just two weeks ago, and I memorized her serial monologue because I'm trying to get her into acting next time, next time, because I used to have a really dramatic monologue that I would do all the time. So how did the serial monologue go? Oh, my gosh, where are my Coren Pops? Where are my Kellogg's corn Pops commercial? That is so fun? And so what do you have coming up? You know next that you know the world should know about you and some of the things that you're doing. Yeah, and where they could. Get your book? Yes, Well, I'm working on my website currently. I'll put out my Instagram and my email address, so for those who would like to pre purchase my book, I'll put out my email address. But I'm working on another book called Deer Dreams, which would be a sequel to Journey to Hollness, and I will also plan I have another stage play in the next probably first quarter up next year, but my email address I could put that up right now. Okay, awesome. Also, you was on a set of Law and Order, and I believe you were next to greats like the Samuel L. Jackson. Do you have any. Stories or memories from that that you can tell us and share about you know, I guess what segment y'all did. For the Law and Order SVU I was. I remember doing background and I was a pedestrian and iced tea was probably a foot away from me. It was cold, it was in the winter time, and as an actress has me never doing the same thing over and over and over again. So I wasn't in conversation with him or anything. It was really trying to get the scene done. And same with Freedom Land. That was the movie that it was back then with Samuel Jackson. Also, what's the legacy you want to leave by? The legacy that I would want to leave behind is wanting every not just teenage girls but also boys to love themselves and really have a relationship with God and seeking God for their God given purpose. That's the legacy that she loved herself. She had her journey to wholeness, and I would love my daughter to also following in those footsteps of just loving herself and seeking God as well. Fantastic, fantastic. Uh. I'm gonna put this up because you put it in the chat and I want everyone to see. Does this look accurate? Yes? There you go, so they can contact you at with JT W Productions one two seven at gmail dot com. And you g go ahead, y'all sliding her, slaughtering her in box. Man, you got you at D E N N E A N underscore hand field, all right, So make sure you reach out to her anything that you need. Is it anything else that you know? What about the little girls like say, for example, a young lady by the age of six, all right, is looking at this video. What would you tell that young lady? I would tell her that. You are beautiful. I would tell her to look in the mirror every day, you are beautiful and say I am beautiful, I am loved, and I have purpose. God loves me. God has a plan for my life. I would tell her to start saying those things because it would start to plant the seats early on, and as she gets older, her life would reflect that as long as she's pouring those positive affirmations in her life that she's already loved. Amazing, amazing, amazing. That's also listen. Well, we want to tell you here we talk weekly. Well, we love you. We're hugging you and all that stuff because that's what we do here because you are important. You are loved, all right, So we're telling you that right here. We talk weekly. Right, so we want to thank you for coming on the show. To anything else that you know, we didn't get to that you would love for anyone who's watching to know. No, thank you for having me. I would love to come back once I get the second book I'm completed, and I'll of course have my other books ready to purchase. And then the play. I would love to share news on that when that is released as well. Fantastic yea, all right, there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. Look, I want to give you a round the clause to you. Thanks for coming on the show. And one thing that we say on the show is once you come on a show, you are more than welcome to come back because this is what we do. You're a friend to the show now, so reach out and come back on the show. You promise you do that. Yes, thank you so much. You're welcome. All right, y'all, so I don't want you to go anywhere. Actually, that saw our show, ladies and gentlemen, so we want to sign out, So why don't you start with us first? So I like to thank everyone for tuning into the show, and the start with you. Diana will tell everybody give a. Thank you for tuning into the show. And we talked weekly. Ready, that's what's up. That's what's up. I'm the boy Charles Gregg with a. Beautiful lady Sparkle and a beautiful Laurence. And my guy power. And this is we talked weekly, y'all. We out here like last year. Pease. Thanks