Met Gala Red Carpet & Jeff Bezos Protests, Hantavirus Outbreak Spreads, Philly Renters Crisis

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So I usually, you know, sometimes I will go out and I'll do like my little you know, my little thrift then because that's therapeutic to me and for somebody that you know, you may you know some people deal with PTSD, they deal with anxiety depression and whatever the case is. You know, people find ways to do different types of self care. So you know, mine sometimes my stress, you know, when my stress level gets a little high, my my therapy therapy or my therapeutic time is thrifting. So long story short, I go into a thrift store that I used to go to, but they had moved and they changed names. So now this thrift store is called Thrift and Thrive in Drexel Hill. Yes, and now I wouldn't typically put the name and stuff out, but I'm doing that today because I had a terrible experience walking in there, being surveiled the whole time that I was in there. Ah, so yes, yes, from the time I'm walking in the store right, and you know, and when it was it was in Broom Mall, it was called Nana's Attic. So when I went there, it was nice. You know, it was a lot of older ladies, maybe they were retired, you know, just you know, volunteering their time. They would talk and they'd be like, oh, you know, whatever you picked up? Oh I like what you picked up and all that. So this place is totally different. So I go in there and there's a nine minority that is literally maybe like three feet in front of me. Walking in, so I hear somebody on the side saying, hey, hey, how you doing and all that. So I'm thinking they're talking to me. But then I turn and look and I see that they're greeting the person in front of me. So I'm like, oh, okay, so nobody speak to me. So then I go to the back and I'm looking at books and stuff, and then I looked to the side and the same gentleman is now surveilling me, watching, you know, watch me look through the books. I'm like, why is he follow me around the store? So I go to another place and I'm looking at the dresses, and now he's you know the technique where you're pretending to put something away you just happen to pop up and you're putting something away over there. I'm like, now, you know, this is creepy. This is creepy. So you know, at that point, I was just like, I don't want anything. And there was another lady, you know, not minority, that was back behind the counter with him. She didn't speak. And then you know, there was a non minority lady that came in and she had her children with her. He was nice to her, like, oh way, how you doing, you know, how about you have some free books and all that. But you know I'm the one that's being you know, followed around the store and all that. So just destroyed my experience at the thrift store where I was looking for a good time. So yeah, exactly, so I will not be going back there, very disappointed. Interesting and you have have you have ever had any issues with them before? Not at not at that location. That's actually like my that's actually my second time in there. I think the very first time I went there, you know, it was a little cold in there, like you know, like customer service wise, but you know this that that guy was not there. But you know, this time I came in there, he was there, and it just was giving, like you know, I just was waiting to be padded down, search get up on against the wall, and it was just very intimidating and like traumatizing. So yeah, so yeah, put I got something for them. Hold on, hold on, I got some for them. Let me find people must be idiots? What are you doing? Are you people out of your mind? Are you just so with it? You? People must be idiots? What are you? Yah? They deserve every bit of that. It goes directly to jail. Yeah, because it's like, for for a minute, sometimes you get a chance to forget that you're black in America, but then you're always constantly reminded, you know. So I just want to know what did we do? What? What? What did black folks do? Because I mean, we've been targeted. You know, I'm not even going to get into slavery, right, I'm not going to get into you know that that that part of everything. I just want to talk about today and all of the things that we are faced, all of the rights and privileges that has been taken away from us lately, all of the information that is coming out about redistricting and and voting. Just it's just like, what what what? What did black folks do? What we did was that we voted for Obama and that's what we did. And ever since we voted for Obama, there's been this concerted initiative and you know, effort to I'm going to overturn everything, and not not only overturn it, but then to take everything back at least us sixty years from progress. So it's it's it's strategic, it's intentional, and it's going to continue. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Yeah, so we got to come I hate to say, you know, get on my kumbaya piece, but we got to come together. We need to form like Votron. We need a strategic plan with all of this shout out. The oly said, we did nothing. We didn't do anything. But make progress. But you know. What were we supposed to do? Like what I would love to know from you know my, my, my, you know my white counterparts, you know my. Why? T folks? Right? What what would be a perfect world? What? How do they see a perfect world with black folk? Do you really want the answer to. That? I don't want to know the answer to that. All right, T how how would your day? All right? Mine was was better, but probably because I was outside with my with my cam folks. Folks, I am mixed race. I ain't no shade, but you know I was. I was at a black party and what's filing? And you're black party with what's funeral home in fire Memorial Baptist Church Memorial. Yeah, this was their third year doing it, and they leveled up this year with a stage, NonStop musical entertainment. Dancers already like a host vendors were out there but they was out there. It gets better. They had free food trucks. Okay, the way my stomach is brown food exactly. They had free water, rice, free pressels, and they also gave away free groceries. It was tables and tables to fill with free groceries, free face painting for the kids, free what was that called caricatures, the drawings for anybody who signed up. It was people running around, you know, cheers for you to sit to enjoy the music. People were out there dancing. Even though it was a little chili that turned out was nice. Everybody was in good spirits. The neighbor neighborhood was walking through. People would pull up and get out. It was it was a really good time. I have fun and they'll be doing it again next year. I can't wait to get back. That was awesome. That's awesome. Yeah. I love to see stuff like that for the community, for kids, especially now when people really need like it. It's just people are in such need of hope just to see like good things happening for people in the community, just to see that giving back and just to like, oh yeah, people, you know, know that there's a place that they can go where some somebody or some organization or entity is giving back. So that is just that's awesome. That's interesting that you say that they asked me to take the stage and give a message, and I'm like, well, I gave one last year, but you know, I was running for office last year. It's like, well, I can't talk about that right now, but that said the best time. I'm Ap Preacier's daughter. So I said I could just give everybody a word of encouragement. So I talked about hope and the things that were playing in the community right there in What's Philly with the gang violence and the drug wars and things like that, and just gave them, you know, hope. I did tell them I was an attorney and that will, you know, offer legal advice afterwards. But I was like, if you need legal advice or prayer, come see me. I'll be hanging out. People came for your legal advice. People came for a prayer. It was a good time and get their legal advice. Get that prayer, right, Yeah, sometimes we need both. Of glad we got you want to show out? Yeah, and since we got you want to show you ready for me? Absolutely? Wh wy don't you give it to me early. All right, This week we're talking about housing, the housing crisis in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which has been going on for quite a few years now. Philadelphia faces a housing emergency, with nearly thirty percent of renters spending more than half of their income just to keep a roof over their heads. Nine out of ten of the lowest income residents can't afford both rents and other basic necessities. So investigators and analysts and other groups are calling this a full scale crisis that threatens the economic foundation of our city. As of twenty twenty six, here's some key takeaways or key aspects of the crisis. One of the is called an affordability gap, which just means that home ownership is increasingly out of reach for people who want to purchase homes with the lowest homes of their costs are now surgery at about fifty six percent. The next aspect is what they're calling a rental burton. So over half of Philly renters are rent burton, with forty percent of all households spending more than thirty percent of their income on housing. Y'all know that one third rule about how much you should be spending on of your income on where you live, and it's about thirty percent, but they're saying now that more than half of Philly renters are spending more than that thirty percent of their income on housing. Another aspect is called. A production shortage. So the Philly metro area faced the shortage of nearly eighty thousand housing units as of twenty twenty one, and now that we're in twenty twenty six, the number has gone down and spent some efforts made, but we're still looking at about sixty five thousand housing units short And the last which breaks my heart are the disparities. Black and brown communities face the highest rate of eviction in housing insecurity, which is something about what I talked about today at the festival. Now, in a related story, this just happened this week. So in West Philly, and we're talking neighborhoods Cops Creek, Overbook Palsive Village, Cedar Park, and Walnut Hill, about three thousand tenants are facing an uphill battle to hold on to their rented homes. Some of these people have rented these homes for twenty years. The residents are fearing being displaced if the City of Philadelphia does not intervene to help them, and they got a deadline. Help must arrive before July twenty twenty six, giving them less than sixty days. So here's the issue. Until July twenty twenty six. These homes, which are approximately one thousand homes in total, housing three thousand tenants. They're all backed by tax credits with expiring affordability restrictions. Upon the exploration, these privately owned homes and apartments may no longer be affordable. So as of July, when that deadline hits, the home can be marketed to the general public at the current market rate, which we already know is high and too high, and this translates to higher rents that the current tenants they cannot afford. These homes are all in areas of rising property values, the current tendants will be priced out by the higher market rates, and they all fear being abruptly homeless. So some housing advocates that come in together or have come together in West Philly and they are trying to urge the city to take on the nearly one thousand privately held rental units so they can remain affordable in the future. So the tenants, along with some advocacy groups and city council members are saying that under the Mayor's Home Initiative, which is geared towards affordable housing preservation, so something like this, there's forty six million dollars carved out just for that affordable housing preservation and so the whole hoping that some of those dollars that were set aside for that home initiative will actually be used for those sitiates that are fighting this fight. That was the latest news as of Thursday, just a few days ago, as the Tennis and city officials actually gathered outside curbside on Chester Avenue regarding this. Right now, there's no definitive resolution to this matter. So that is just one example of what we got going on, and it's just this week. I remember years ago when Benjamin Franklin Parkway was littered with people who were displaced and they were all living in tents for the whole summer, but it also spread into the fall, and so I'm hoping we're not looking at another wave of that if these people are priced out of their homes. I get phone calls too about housing referrals, like especially from elderly people who don't have any income or the income is really really low, and they can't keep up with even the rumorantals. It used to be five hundred dollars to run a room in somebody's house, but now even that's about eight hundred dollars, and they simply can't afford it. People are moving back home with their families and higher racing. They used to even people my age, and at some point, you know, family tension leaves the family tension and people have to leave, but they're literally stuck with. Nowhere to go. That's horrible. Absolutely, that just really breaks my heart. And I guess it's funny that you said, you know, just thinking of all of this, and and and I saw something that somebody posted and they were saying, like comparing all of this stuff that's going on now, and they mentioned something about comparing this that's going on now and what's happened and then what we're seeing going on in the economy. And when you know, the Harris administration was saying that they wanted to offer homeowners, I forget what it was a part of the campaign, but they wanted to offer them the assistance or whatever it was for homeowners, first time home homeowners assistance. I forget because it was a while ago, but they were comparing that to what's going on now, and it's just sad. You know, it's like we're going back so far, you know, and there's no progress. And then just to see like I don't know what the homelessness numbers are in the country, but ah, man, it's it's that's very very heartbreaking, absolutely m hmm. Having a place to say it's like basic human need with you know, water and electricity. Yeah, it's terrible that, you know, there's so many people who are lacking that and sometimes it's not sometimes about what somebody did in their life, you know, or addiction or something like that, or gambling. Literally there's not enough money to be made to go around to fight or battle with the high cost of living and it's increasing and increasing and so at this point a lot of this is out of people's hands. Yeah. And then on top of that, what's going on with the snap benefits, you know, even that and well they made all of those changes to it that too, on top of you know, people what you know, the whole story that she just mentioned, it's just it's like a what is it a snowstorm, fire store or whatever. I forget the phrase, the phrase. But yeah, you don't even have people coming. I used to have a lot of people come by the store like you, I'm selling foodstamps. They like I ain't so. A long time keeping musty what you're doing, what's left of the stamps. The good thing about that is I'm seeing community members and sometimes the city officials they have over the last years, especially since COVID and during COVID, where you have these pop up food banks and churches are doing them too, and every week on a certain day, just like the one I went to at BI Memorials today. And so those things are necessary when you talk about the benefits being curved where we're talking about people being priced out, and we talk about people are spending more money to live and they also can't afford basic necessities. So these things are helpful. There's a list of them floating around the Internet, floating around Googar. Is very easy to find one in different neighborhoods. They're not asking for ID or the sign. Most of them you don't even have to live in a zip cold to get the free stuff. I've gone to several of them for years. I went and I would pull up in my luxury suv and staying right in the line with everybody else because I was having trouble too. Yeah, and I wasn't the only one pulling up in something nice. So you are really out here struggling. You were working class people. The only downside I would say is that the food banks are always doing hours where you're supposed to be at work. Back then, I had a boss. I knew what I was going through, so she would just let me go. But I can't do that right now. So I feel bad for people who are struggling and they can't, you know, get down there doing those hours, phone a friend, asking neighbor and grab me back to Okay. Yes, yes, and it's nice that it's like no questions asked. You pull up, you know, you get what you need. And that's it, exactly exactly. I'm telling you. I opened up my wilet the other day, like there's nothing in there. What pull up to the pump, and you're just like, I can't even get a full take, to get a quarter take. What's going on? I can't do I'm trying to tell you right out. Here, crazy. Exactly, all right. So then we got two other laws that are being passed through down Now, let me start with what happened in December twenty twenty five, So we kind of came into the new year with these laws that protect tenants when they're applying for housing. So this is about application fees and security deposits. And if you've ever been a renter before, I don't know if you ever had to get that three months rent together just to move into a place. God forbids you what to move again, and they don't give you any money. Bag you got to start completely over to move to the next place. That that's pretty difficult to do. It's been difficult for years, so I can only imagine it's even more difficult now with the higher cost than living when people's wages aren't going up. So with respect to the application fees, landlords must cap application fees to fifty dollars or the actual cost of a background or credit check, whichever of the two of them is less. Right. Landlords must also charge only one application fee for all of their properties. That means, if you're working with a landlord and they got your portfolio together, they cannot keep trying to you every time you want to go to visit a different unit. It's one landlord, one applicant, one fee, and they can only charge you one time and a twelve month period. Mm hmmm. And it's timely, like people need that like right now? Oh yeah sure. Hm. Landlords must also only run credit checks that do not negatively impact your credit score. Soft checks only, guys. They also have to give you there you go. Yep, I'm trying to yes, leave my credit alone as well as bad exactly. Now, they also got to give you a copy of the background check or the credit report that they run. Mm hm hmm. Yep. Yeah, and then I gotta go one step further. If they deny you based upon your background or credit check, they have to tell you Wow, that's right. Yeah exactly. Now this one is about security deposits, and this is all about Philadelphia, y'all. This is a statewide this is just Philly. So landlords must if they're charging you that, you know, first month's last month in security rental deposit, you are now eligible for installment plans. I know. I know those renters like their landlords. Like exactly they are. They went crazy at some city council meeting, yelling custod and everything. Yeah. Absolute, But yeah, if the landlord is charging you the additional two months rent plus the first time, so that's you know, your first month's your last security. You're now eligible for an installment plan. So let me tell you how to installment plan goals, because it didn't go like what I imagine, right, So you have the option to pay the more upfront of course as usual, or the time that you move in and you pay the first months in in security or the last whichever you just choose to. You pay those affront, and the third payment is on an installment plan. And that installment plan starts thirty days after your lease starts, and you have up to ninety days to pay that. So it only kind of cuts off, you know, one of those payments up front. But that's still a win because that's funny to come up with lords hot right exactly you're talking about units is going around two k right now, that's a lot of money to come up with at one time. All right, so let's play devils. Are absolutely I'm. Gonna play devils, ay right. So for the landlords who are small businesses that might have a small unit of weather that they renting out, that could be pretty rough for them. Oh yeah, that's why the landlords are going crazy. Absolutely yeah. But this. They need to go crazy on those who've been slum lords. Oh yes, And. So the problem becomes the reason why this is happening is because there are tons of slum lords, even in apartment buildings, which I like to direct to them, because there's been some apartment buildings that I have been in that are quote unquote. Luxury esque and things are broken. All the time. It's like, while am I spending this much money for this apartment building? Y'all can't even fix hot water exactly like. I shouldn't be having I shouldn't be having any problem. That's right. If I'm paying all this money, I'm never late, none of that. You collect my money on time, make sure everything works and it's fixed. I should have no problems. Absolutely not. Now, speaking of the smaller like landlords who don't have a lot of properties and stuff like that, this protects some of them because these laws only apply to landlords who have two or more more than two units. So that's good or less. Okay, that's good. So someone was thinking. Someone was thinking, like a small business, you know it's going to be hard for you. But look if I got five units, I'm still up to me. I'm still a small landlord, so then you know, I get caught up in this. So if i'm them, I would probably be upset. Yeah yeah, what. You you you you are already in the big league. So yeah, So. This is what landlords also cannot do. Because of the installment plans that they're allowing. Landlords can't get funny with it, so they are not allowed to the charge separate security deposits amounts for those paying and installment installments versus those who are paying in full. So you know, let me tackle on some interests. I gotta wait for the money. No, everybody gets charged, mm hmm. Yeah. And then the last two things, which this was already in place. They can't charge more than two months rent in addition the first so still you know the three month down payment. Wait, who's charging more than two months rent? So legally you can charge up to three So first last in deposits. So oh yeah, got your first lass? Okay, exactly exactly. Now, landlwards are now not able to hold more than one month's rent as a deposit. After your first year, they must return any amount over that one month to you. So make sure them them things are going to escort accounts getting that interest and they got to give it back. So look, so so if you're a landlord out there, I want you to, uh leave a comment, let us know how you feel about this, because you know, I know someone I'm like, yeah, you just don't know something, because I do know some tenets. That are trash, absolutely yeah, and so. They need they need to be you know, popped on the backhand too. So uh they're not you know, they're not excluded from the smoke. But some of y'all landlords, y'all, y'all not right, which is the reason why this has come up. So this is a This wasn't anything that someone said, look I just woke up, yon, let's just. Do something to the landlords. That didn't happen like that. It was a lot of complaints and more complaints and more complaints and more complaints. It was some people, I know, a few people were pretty much the roof caved in. And they had to do a makeshift. Roof because the landlord wasn't doing anything. And then and then. On top of that, you know how you have people that's not going to pay rent because of certain stuff like that. The landlord even had a problem issue for them doing that. So they wind up help fixing the roof, and the landlord didn't want to pay for the roof to be I just. Like, look, that's the type of stuff. That's the reason why a lot of you guys in the pickle today. Yeah. Yeah, and and and and then you get you do get those tenants. And I've seen those the ones that they pay all of that money. They pay all of the first, the first what was the first last? And security devisit and then that's all they pay because once they get in, they ain't paying nothing. Uh. They like, I ain't paying nothing else. You got to get me out of here, and they know that takes time. Wow, And you know, I feel bad for those you know, it was a story on I believe one of those blog channels did the story broke the story where uh, someone kind of did that and they started squatting and the lady couldn't get her out the house. They would like change the keys and they would do everything. They brought it up the house. And then what happened with that, The. Sheriff of God on the landlord saying that you can't do that it's like like, yo, you get taken advantage of it. So I get it. I get it. There needs to be some way to make sure a lot of this stuff isn't happening. And I've been hearing a lot lately about squatters, and it makes sense now. Because of the environment that we're in. People are broke. People are not saying that it's right, but I'm seeing a larger wave of incidents of squatters. Yeah, and it's sad for those who you know, you you just happen to fall on hard times, you know, because nobody wants that, nobody plans to you know, have a you know, terminal illness and you know, or something very unfortunate. But for the people that's like that's what they they do in life. And once they get kicked out of one place and then they go to another, and then that's the cycle just continues. Y'all out of pocket and. It does get a little worse, y'all. Yes, there's one. This just happened. This week. So Philly renters just secured some more protections from landlord retaliation. So this came out literally just yesterday. Okay. The legislation expands the city's requirement that landlords have to have good calls for not renewing a tennis lease. So that was already in place, but it was in place only for people who had leases who were at least one year. So now they've expanded a protection where people who got the three months to nine months six months were to month them off, they are now including in this and their landlords have to give them good calls or show good calls for not renewing their lease. That means that regardless of order least terms, they have to stay in writing a legitimate and legally defined reason why they want to terminate their lease or not renew So it makes it even harder for landlords to kind of get out of stuff now with respect to landlord retaliation. And like Charles was saying, something was happening for these laws to come about, so name just come out of nowhere. Where So for tennis who participate in like tenant unions or like investigations of cold violations, they now have some extra protections. Those who allow for the laws now allow for rent relief for tennis if their landlord did not have a valid rental license or did not fix cold violations in a timely manner. So if you had landlord like the story Charles just gave about the roof, if he didn't fix some violations in a timely manner, or if he never even had a rental license or it was expired, if he was already doing he or she doing dirty business, you guys get rent relief. And then the last one is that. The retroactive stuff. Huh Yeah. Now the landlords are now being further penalized for those who accumulate violation. So we talked about slumblers, so we they're now looking at people who got violation at the violation, at the violation, at the violation. Another thing that comes with this is the authorization of ELLENI License and Inspection to create a whole new program that proactively inspects rental units instead of relying on complaints to trigger inspections. So they're going to get ahead of it now and they're gonna go in and investigate. But this does not start untill November. First. It's going to give landlords sometime to comply and come up to the cold and you know, get their licensees and stuff together. But check this out. The landlords have reacted. Okay, a federal lawsuit has been filed to validate this legislation. That they're fighting back or saying that this is unconstitutional and that landlers are going to be put out of business, making it harder for them to remove problem tenants. Especially it'll give them, it will harm them if they're required to give out rental rebase which they're staying there. A lot of them are not in a position to afford. So we put a pin on that there's one a litigation. However, if you are having issues at a renter, please call the Philly Tenant Hotline. That number is two sixty seven four four three twenty five hundred. Two sixty seven four three twenty five hundred. That's the Philly Tenant Hotline. So tenants can speak to live housing counselors at the TURN Network that's the tenant union representative network. They're going to give you free legal information. They may also refer you for free legal advice and representation at any one of the entities that are working with them in Philadelphia. There's also the right to counsel. So this is for specific zip codes low income tenants and zip codes one nine one two one one two four one nine one three one one not one three two one on one three four one I one three nine one not one four to one one not one four four one on one five three and one nine one five four. If you're in this code, you have a right to free representation in eviction cases through a program called Right to Counsel. Other people can just call the Philadelphia Bar Association for loyal referral. That number is two one five, two three eight sixty three three three two one five two three eight six three three three, And when you go to the Bar Association, you can kind of scout for referrals and see if you can get like a free legal console. Many attorneys offer free legal consuls. I've been in positions where I've needed an attorney, and as an attorney or even as a law school student, I will go get the free legal consoles. But this is what I did. Let me let me put you on game. I will go sign up. Yes, I'm telling y'all, hey, y'all better get rid of let's go. I was signed up for as many legal consoles as I could, the free ones, because each one I learned a little bit more information about how my case could advance. I learned a little bit more about the law, a little bit about the arguments that I could make, and I would put those together so I could represent myself. And these lawyers they know it's a thirty minute console, so they purposely are not going to give you the whole landscape, the whole breakdown is on purpose. They want you to come back and they want you to pay. So I had to be two steps ahead of them and be smarter because I couldn't afford the attorney. So I went over on and got every single free legal console, and I went ahead and represented myself and one. And one. That was the part I know. That's right. You get a million dollars dollars worth of game. Yeah, wow, yeah, that's awesome that. There was a lot of information. So look, this is what I'm gonna do because that was a great story. I want to show y'all something I want y'all to If you go to this is this is what I'm gonna do so you guys can get some more information and some help. So if you go to our website right, let me share the screen real quick. If you go to our page when we talk weekly dot com, let me share my screen and you'll see the news right here, the top stories right here the news. If you scroll a few stories back, you'll see Philadelphia town Hall highlights urgent housing needs. Right And so we had the opportunity to go to one of the mayor tom town halls, produced ores supported by what was her name, Purple, and it was a really great informational session. So it was the Mayor's Action Center. And this is a sixty one to fifty Seedter Avenue and recent Philadelphia Community town Hall brought residents, housing advocates, and civic leaders together for an honest conversation about housing security, affordability, and urgent need for resource across our city. Hosted in participation with community organizations and made possible through the Every Voice, Every Vote initiative, the town hall created space for real talk on issues that impact every day Philadelphians, from keeping families in their homes to assessing assessing programs that can turn renters into homeowners. Now I'm gonna play. This little clique before we go to our next story. But I thought it was definitely something to know, something to hear, because we actually have the story. So if you go to wee talkwekly dot com, go to the news story scroll over a little bit and you'll see the housing story and it's a long video, but this is a thirty second clip that talks a little bit about some of the resources that's available for you guys. Even your landlord. So don't be too worried about it. So you got some support, So take a let's so that is. Our mental improvement fund. The rooms can go up to one hundred thousand dollars for the properties. Okay, high Overviews just want you to know. So if you are a small landlord, you can use this. This moan is used to help with things to keep the property healthy and safe for your tenants, such as upgrading and electrical system storm doors and windows, new heaters, lead abatement, hard wires, sprinkler systems, those kinds of things. That's what you can use this for. There you go. So there is some funds out there that sport renners. There's some funds out there to support people, some of the landlords out there that. Needs to fix some things. And so if you are faced with challenges with a tenant because you're not fixing something, the city has resources to support you to fix those issues. And so there's really no excuse at that point. It's sometimes people just don't know the information or don't know what resources there are out there to fix some of this stuff. But I am glad that there are resources out there to support some of the tenants. And the landlord's out there, because oh, landlords ain't bad. I mean there has been landlords that literally it was a story I believe in New York, and somebody in New York can correct me if I'm wrong. But it was an older lady who has been living in this high rise building. It was purchased by a gentleman and all the rent went up. The person who purchased it. Understood that this lady has been in there pretty much. Since it was built. But she was an older lady, you know, it was one of our you know, seniors out there are people of wisdom, right. The landlord said she doesn't have to worry about rent for the rest of her life pretty much. Wow, he'll take care of it. He knows that she's been in there since since pretty much it has been built. He didn't want to displace her, so he said that he'll secure the costs. And that was amazing. And it's a lot of stories out there. I want to say New York. I think the story I heard that from was in New York and so, and you already know what rent is like, absolutely, so I thought that was an amazing story. And if you guys know any more stories like that, let me know, let us know, because I want to share. Those likes stories because all landlords aren't bad. I know a few people who have units, you know, that that are renting out and doing that's working with people, you know, because everyone right now, I mean, some people can't even get tenants in places because they can't afford it, and so that has been an issue also that I've been hearing. So look, man, you know, the community has to come together and try to see what we can do. There's a lot of issue challenges that's out there right now, and we just have to find some solutions to a lot of the things that's out there. And so if any of you guys got any solutions, let us know. I don't want to point in the fingers at anyone because every I think all of us have a part to play, but we do need to find some solutions to some of these challenges. This out there. Yeah, yeah, I think it's important that you know people, you know, make sure that the information is out there when it comes to these resources. There's a couple community organizations that are here in the city. There's organizations that I know them that they are you know, sharing these resources. They're creating list of resources and they put those out. So we have some resources that are available on our site. If you do we talk weekly dot com, you can see those. But yeah, absolutely, we need to make sure that you know, we're we're supporting those and people in the community, you know, because there's people out here that want to keep that information hidden, you know, and it's it's sad that that's going on. Well, we're going to get a game all the time. We're going to get a game, We're going to talk to the community all the time. So one more time I'm gonna share this number one time that uh To kind of mentioned for the Philly Tenant Hotline two six seven four four three two five zero zero is that extension. Three plus three? Yeah, yeah, extension three uh in the Philly Tenant Hotline six seven four four three twenty five hundred two sixty seven four four three twenty five hundred, or you can go to Wwwphilly Tenant dot organ, you know, for those who are listening across season and other countries who listen to We Talk weekly. This is specific to Philly. However, every city, every country, every location does have some similar support. So I would say, just kind of Google in your area, tenant hotlines or tenant supports or something along that line, because there's some things out there, and oftentimes the resources are not available because we don't know or we don't have the Yeah, we don't feel like we had the access to it. And I've been learning that about Philly because I'm hard on Philly. But I remember saying, well, we need X, Y and Z, and somebody TechEd me on the show to Charles Green, you know. They got that. I was like, what, Oh my bad, my bad, I was wrong. They do have a resource for that. So there's a lot of resource out there. Sometimes it's just a matter of a quick Google, or sometimes it's just a matter of that's crazy. See they're listening to me as soon as I did. I gotta stop saying, look what just happened to perfectly yeah, oh geeesh, I don't know what that is about. Jemina Gemini, stop it. That's crazy. And they're always being listening to. And so, uh, that threw me a little bit. So just ask a friend, maybe a friend of a neighbor. Partner might let you know. But if you're in any type of government agency, you can usually ask them if they know something because they all have partners and they're all affiliated, so they can say, oh, yeah, you know, this department has X, Y, and Z, so just ask them. There's also resources out there for landlords, so this is one sided. What I found which was very interesting in my research is while Philadelphia City, Philadelphia County is tenant fly, the state of Pennsylvania is a landward friendly. So it depends on where you are. But I'm certain that you can also find resource to help you progressing your cases. Ah, y'all, y'all know where to move? Then? All right, y'all know. Where to move these y'all go somewhere in Pennsylvania. Y'all have that brook serious? All right? All right, So don't go on the real when we come back, what we got, we're gonna talk a little bit about what we're gonna talk about. We'll talk, we'll talk some some news, we. Won't talk some news. All right, don't go nowhere. Let me see what we got here. We'll be right back after this show. Club say that. Again, mamair Club. Mama there, it's a hard word, mamonere can you say. That the mamoner Club. I started the mamon Air Club when I was pregnant with my son. I was learning so much and I didn't realize how many options that we had. Like growing up in the hood, you don't options not really presented to you. You just feel like you gotta follow suit or whatever people say you gotta do. And as I started to do my research, I'm like, Okay, a lot of people could benefit from this information that I'm researching. So I would just share all of the information that I was learning so other people can't realize that. Got they got options. It don't matter where you're from, it don't matter what your income level is, you got options. So describe what the mam and Air Club is. 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Nobody ain't tell me that you have to figure that out. I'm sure you can figure this business out, you know. I know that's right. We talked week these after they talk on wpp L Pete Philadelphia one o six point five FM. We talked weeklies after they talk with your Boychsberger and beautiful and yeah, that was Milano Rugs from Philadelphia, Dynamic designer for the most part design streetwear, and so I thought it was fitting to play her because We're gonna talk a little bit about some stuff right now. You ready for me? Oh yeah, because we get it ready to get into some fashion. So I don't know how many people got a chance to get into well a chance to see this met Gala. So the met Gala was very, very interesting. So I have titled this met GALAIX Recap. I've titled it from red cap from red carpet fits and dresses to backstage drama and hot messes. So we'll get right into this little teap all right. So this year's MET Gala, it was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Artif Fifth Avenue. Is the. Is the this is long, you can keep it, keep it rolling because it's long. So so it was at the at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and on Fifth Avenue you had Beyonce, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams, and an Anna Winter. They were the co chairs. The gala host committee was co chaired by Zoe Kravitz and Anthony Vaccarello. And then you had some other committee members that included Sabrina Carpenter, Doja Cast, Sam Smith, Tianna Taylor, Asia Wilson, and Angela Bassett. And then Bill billionaire Jeff Bezos and his wife Lauren Sanchez. They were honorary chairs for the event. So what you're seeing now are just some of Lauren Sizzle's favorite picks for the Matt gala. So you have Heidi Klume, she was wearing. Her outfit was she was dressed up like a statue, and you the idea of it. The theme was fashionist art and according to the Mets event Press, and that was just Lilah Anthony that we saw she was hosting the Met gala. I thought she did an awesome job. Here we have Janelle Monnet. She understood the assignment. And what I loved about Janelle Monne's outfit is that it was completely art. Like it or love it. I thought it was awesome. Naomi Osaka, she tore it up. Okay, she came, and she came not to play. She had on a white ensemble. That hat was everything. She took it off and she had on a red dress. Nicole Kidman, one of the co chairs. She came with her daughter. She had a pretty red dress. You know, the Chanelle glimmering, shining all up and down. That was awesome too. And then you had you know, Rihanna, of course Rihanna and asat Rocky, they stole the show. She her it was to look like a clam so she understood the assignment fashionist art, you know, like it, I love it or whatever. So you had the quarters, the quartus. They came and they did not come to play. Beyonce was serving, you see. She had the skeleton outfit, skeleton dress, and that train was everything. That train was everything that trained was training because when she went up the steps, that train went it was just but it never ended. It was a never ending story. It was just so beautiful and she looked really, really pretty. She was one of the co chairs. She had two dresses, the black dress that you saw a little a little bit before. So then we come to Jeff Bezos and Laurence Sanchez. Now Jeff Bezos and Laurence Sanchez. There was a huge protest that went on. Okay, so with this protest, they were under fire by several activist groups including Everyone Hates Eli Musk who posted boycott the Bezos met galap flyers all around the museum. They also projected this huge protests of video of the Bezos, I mean on the Bezos million million dollar penthouse apartment. So the protesters had gathered outside accusing the event of kind of glamorizing billionaire wealth and corporate power. But most of the backlash had centered mainly on Jeff Bezos and Laurence Stanchez. So the activists they used these demonstrations, these projections and labor rights messages to spotlight concerns about worker treatment, wealth inequality, and corporate influence in American culture. And what I also was told was that some of the protesters had these little bottles that they had hid around the museum, and they used the bottles, they put liquid or something that looked like urin inside the bottles, and they hid them around the museum. And and that was to represent how Amazon workers are not able to go to the bathroom, so they beat in urine bottles and and and keep on working. Yeah, that's the part the people. I guess, like wherever. I don't know if it's at the warehouse or or I don't know if this is like in America, because it doesn't even seem like it's here. But that was a part of like their protests and things that they're protesting. Again. Yeah, so they they they had the protests was pretty massive, but they the organizers defended the gala of course, as you know, these fundraisers are calling it the support of the arts, but the protesters were turning against fashion and they you know this is they raised I forget. I believe it was like forty two million, which is the biggest that I believe that it raised. And Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez had reportedly donated at minimum ten million dollars to the med gala, so that's why they were honorary co chairs and all that. So yeah, these I don't know, it was just kind of whispers of like yeah, you know behind the scenes that like people, even the celebrities kind of like didn't really want to be there. They were just kind of like, I guess, just like moving along, like their publicists were like moving them along because it was just a different climate and a different you know, because Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez were the big you know, the honorary co chairs, and they had given the most money make these appearances. Yeah, exactly, exactly, And you know, there were a lot of celebrities who normally attend and they were visibly absent, one of them being sent there. So you know Zinda is always there, you know, like to dress her like she always looks phenomenal on the red carpet. About her there and her dressing and stuff, well. They always I know that they always get on her about her hair and go ahead. Is shout out to her stylist. But the scoop is is that Christian Dior and Guhi and all of those major labels didn't want to dress her when she first came out. So that's why a lot of times she won't where their. Particular uh, their outfits and stuff like that. So it's one of those things, yeah, yeah, shout out. Yeah, yeah. And you know, I think even though you know, you have some people on one end saying, oh yeah, this night was a success and all that, you got people on the other end that were just like it's just kind of like tone death at a time right now where you you know, you have so many people that are like just suffering and you know they can't even put food on the table, or people are losing their homes. Like we just had a whole conversation about housing and all affordable housing and people not being able to you know, live in their homes and having to go and stay with other family members. So you know, they're just saying that, like this protest, which is so important because it reflects just the growing public frustration with the influence of how these billionaires are just infiltrating into so many different sectors of the you know, different sectors in in society when it comes to entertainment, fashion, media and and all that, and and yeah, it's just it's just they they're saying that this is just a bad time. So he has India Mom, Donnie, he will say he said he was not gonna attend. Yeah, and another one and I'm not sure she was in there. I liked Venus' outfit. I liked her dress, and she had her necklace. She had a Swarowski dress, and her outfits symbolized symbol symbolized her portrait at the National Portrait Gallery, with the neck piece being the Venus rose water dish folded in half, I guess. And then it was the wimbled and trophy designed with images of her mom and dad, and then it was it also represented culture, her culture in West Africa, and then the Watts Tower in southern California. So I thought that was very impressive and artistic. Yeah, yeah, so hers was awesome. You know, Lila looked great too. There was so many other There were so many people that just look awesome. Even Coleman do Mingo, he looked, he looked great too. There's somebody else that who's the guy that had on the all white I loved him. I can't think of his name right now, but he had on the all white. Doja cat looked great. You know. There was people that were saying like they, you know, the the Kardashians and missed the mark this year. The only one that kind of, you know, kind of pulled it off was was Kylie. They liked her outfit and the other ones they you know, they had these these boost the air type dresses with the nipple and print, you know, with yeah. Like that's so and that has been done so many times. Yeah, what you mean, Charles is not something that always stands. That's yeah. Yeah. Also, what's her name, angel Reies? She looked she looked really pretty. You know the sports, the women in sports, they look good too. Oh. I saw I showed Sam Smith. I liked everything. I wasn't filling the hat though, you know, the hat was I thought it was a little bit too over the top, but you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, shout out to the met Galla. Yeah. So I'm gonna read you the story. So this is the story I found it. So I'm going to give you all some kind with what I brought up. So Zenda a longtime stylist. So her stylis is Laroche. Shout out to LaRouche. Amazing, Amazing stylist has backlisted, has blacklisted the Big five fashion houses from Challenge from Challengers Star Wardrobe after they initially refused to dress his fashion soul met early in her career, and he kept all of the receipts. On an episode of fashion podcast The Cutting Room Floor, Roach forty five recalled Hole, Chanel, Dior, Gucci, Volentino, and Saint Laurent would all say no to Sinziah twenty seven, telling him to try again next year and calling her to Green, said the HOLLYO Report. When I said, if you say no, it'll be a no forever. That rang trueth for a long long time, said Roach, who's been styling the Doune actress since she was just fourteen years old. By the time she had got an American Vogue got to American Vogue, she still had never wore any of those designers. She still hasn't, he added, clarifying that in editorial she has occasionally wore one of the sworn off labels. She still has never warned Your on a carpet, and she still has never worn Chanel on a carpet. She has still never worn Gucci on a carpet, any press, any appearance, never, never, continued, who says he still has receipts from the days of rejection. The first time she wore Volentino on public is when she had a contract, and so I just wanted to give You can see that full story on the New York Posts, and a few other sites has similar, you know, similar posts or editorials about what had happened with Lirochs and Dad. But you know, I think some of these designers, you know, they they want to put themselves in this disposition of we're elite and we're only. Going to go after certain you know. Certain aid lists, actresses or actors, right, which is a problem because what that does is kind of boxes out those who might have the potential likes in day which in day and now is the golden child pretty much of style and fashion, right thanks to her stylist Laroche, and so I would just say when I hear those big designers complain about Faish, I don't care. I don't try to. I don't care how they feel because they don't care about the little people. They knocked off a lot of people too. I'm not going to go down there. You're talking to somebody who understands the industry and know what has been happening. But shout out to Dafferdan, you know, shout out to a lot of the styles out there who has been putting in the work, and the designers out there who was taken advantage of by major designers. Like that, right, and so shout out. That's why the day is one of my favorites. Yes, yeah, yeah. And if you think about like how far she's come, it's like you have so many like just designers fighting to put stuff on her, and the fact that they did that, it's just it's crazy. And that's good because now you have the ability to have room for new designers. That's just as great. Shout out to all the designers out there. If you're a dynamic designer, like the style or put your clothes ones in there, you let us know in the comments. I would yeah, yeah, absolutely, absolutely, that's it. You want to go to one more, Let's do one more. We can do one one. More because our guess is here, so let's do one more. All right, all right? So I don't know if people are getting ready for summertime travel, but you know, this is putting a little bit of damper, a little bit of a damper on it. This cruise ship Hondias, and let's see if we can pull the Yeah, I just slipped it right on in there. But yeah, this cruise ship and be Hondias has been docked for the past four weeks after the setting fell for Argentina on what was supposed to be a dream cruise of a lifetime. So it's estimated that three passengers have died from hantavirus, with at least three other people expected to have contracted fac So the Andy strain of the hantavirus is the strain that can be passed from person to person. Now you know this isn't a part of the story, but if you remember coronavirus, remember how it had these different strains and all that, and this strain was worse than the other one, and it was just like you know, it was this we just got out of exactly. So this Andy strain, because the the hantavirus itself is is not there's one that isn't passable or able to be passed from I guess animal to human, But this Andy strain is, so. Yes, can give it to owners man, Yeah. And animals through that strain. So this is the same disease that killed actor Gene Hackman's wife, supposedly, so it's It's also being theorized that a couple on a cruise ship on the Cruise Strip ship contracted the disease in Argentina before boarding after being exposed to the disease during a bird watching tour that included a stop at a landfield. So of the one hundred and fifty people aboard the ship, seventeen Americans are included included so passengers are confined to their cruise ship rooms for quarantining. According to the CDC, they are working. They are working with the US State Department and other US government partners to get Americans on the ship home as quickly and safely as possible. So today, no cases of Andy's virus have been reported in the United States. As a result of this outbreak and at the time, the overall risks to travelers and the American public remains extremely low. Routine travel can and this is reports that the CDC is giving, so you can go to the CDC website and find this information. They're saying that routine travel can continue as normal. And these virus, the type of hantavirus involved in these infections, can cause hantavirus pulmonary syndrome HPS, and this is a severe and potentially deadly disease that affects the lungs. So hansivirus is often fatal respiratory or renal disease transmitted by rodents, causing pulmonary edema. So I don't know, I'm not a huge medical terminology person, but it's fluid in the lungs or hemorrhagic hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome HFRS, and it causes leaky blood vessels leading to respiratory failure or shock, with HPS having a forty percent fatality rates. So early symptoms are going to include fever, muscle ache, and fatigue, appearing one to six weeks after exposure, So you're gonna want to monitor those symptoms if you've ever been exposed to hantavirus, the Andy strain. So these seventeen Americans, once they're able to get them off of the ship, they're going to quarantine them in Nebraska. Yeah. So, and then the other others that are on the the one fifty that are on the ship or because well three of them passed, so they're going to quarantine them in different areas. And I believe they're still kind of working that part out. But the CDC is saying that, you know, it's safe to travel. I don't know if it's you want to go ahead and pull those masks back out, you know, start back with the pp people. Was it PPP and the handwashing that? How much did they say that kills diseases and all that. That's you know, I would say, get back on that. Yeah. Yeah. Did you see the side stories that was coming out about how some of the people had already gotten off the ship before it? Yes, I saw that. They were like, oh yeah, the people that were actually recording from the ship and they said one guy was like, yeah, somebody came on the I think was it the the captain. I can't remember if he said I was a captain but somebody came on and said that, yeah, a person died, and then they didn't like say that it was connected to this virus at first, and then some people had apparently started getting off the ship. I'm trying to figure. Right exactly exactly whoever it was that was getting off the ship. They had some inside information. They had to, because once they heard that announcement, they probably were like, yo, I was just talking to that person. So they died. They said they were sick, and we stuck on this ship. I'm getting out of here. I just want them to find those people and also check them or quarantine them for. However long you know, yell, and I saw something that the quarantine period could be two months. It's very long. It could be, yeah, because you have to wait for what is it, an incubation period, and then you gotta wait after that, and there's another waiting period, and it's just it's crazy. It's crazy. And then you have to think, like these people took off for the amount of time that they were going to be on vacation, and then it's like after that, you got a quarantine for two to four months. And now you're talking about the temporary unemployment and all that that. Is wild like they did before, would have everybody stay home. And they're saying that they yeah, they don't. They're saying it's not that serious. But they also said the coronavirus. They don't want to cause alarm, so they'll they'll drop some new stuff later on. And that and that there is the people must be idiots. What are you doing? Are you people out of your mind? Are you have everybody just dropping dropping off on the block, like what's going on? Everybody? Yeah? Yeah, And the thing is, if you have any planning trips that are just like literally you're pulling off because Memorial Day is, you know, weeks away, just you know, protect yourself, playing that extra you know, hand sanitizer, to take your mask with you, wash your hands, you know, before and after you eat, don't touch your eyes, your mouth, your nose, you you know, you're just you just gotta stay super precautious because who knows, who knows what this can turn into and hopefully it's And then on top of that, you have our you know, health, our administration now you know it's in charge of our Why can't I think of it? Robert Robert Kennedy, Yeah, oh, we have that going on to ka like the anti vaccination. Yeah yeah, I mean everybody be at work just falling up, They're going to lunch and never coming back. Yeah. So m hmm, Okay, that's it. All right cool, I'm a girl, Laurence sizzling. That was I haven't I had another minute mini story, but we can do that later. You want to jump into jump into all right? Cool? So I want you guys to go anywhere when we come back. We got a dynamic interview. I've been waiting to talk to this young lady and so we're gonna talk a little bit about, you know, how we can make sure we keep those you know, we can amplify certain voices that oftentimes don't necessarily get heard. But I'm going to play this clip when we had the opportunity to work with an organization called Trusting News, and we were talking a little bit about AI and deep fix and how to spot deep fix. And it's getting harder and harder. It's starting to fool me sometimes and I'm dug in, I'm I'm. Hashtag AI a a f you know, and so one of those things, you know, it's it's going to get better and better and so we got to be vigilant about what we see in our knee jerk responses to things that we see that might trigger some things. So take a look at this and we'll be right back, y'all. Okay, let's talk about something that's becoming a real problem for journalism right now. AI deep fakes. For me. Keep your hands directly see. We're gonna get him the help. Right On the evening of May twelfth, at Greenfield Police Station in Wayne County, Michigan, a shocking incident unfolded that has left the community outraged. A nine year old boy named Samuel Carter wandered into the station after losing his way home from a nearby playground. Instead of receiving help, Samuel was subjected to excessive force by officers who misinterpreted his behavior. AI can now create videos, audio, and images that look completely real, people saying things in ever said, doing things they never did, and honestly, most people wouldn't even know the difference. For journalists, that's dangerous. Defects make it harder to tell fact from fiction, especially dorm breaking news, and they seriously chip away a public trust. 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