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Puts up, y'allist is Doug E Fresh and you're watching We Talk weekly. You're listening to right here all y'all. We talked weeks after the talk with w PPMO P Philadelphia one on six point five left him. We talked weeks after We Talk with your boy Gregory. And beautiful classy Lady Sparkle. And the beautiful Laurence Sizzle and the beautiful and this is we Talk week. He's after the talk, y'all. And of course we have a dynamic show. But before we do anything, we gotta start with how was y'all day? How is y'all day? I do not I live a peaceful life, not a born life. But I don't have no I don't have nothing special. Today it's just cold. I can hear the wind blowing. I did nothing but eat, sleep, you know, make some noise from my body parts. And if you get with up by jerk, oh good. But I know it's the truth, Blake. That was the excitement of my day, okay man, exciting, exciting moment. Yeah, I had a quiet day. I was doing a lot of work on my computer and just trying to get caught up with a bunch of stuff. But yesterday, I guess was the highlight of my day. For those of you, it is Black History Month, so I had the opportunity to just I just kind of like impromptu, like let me go and do something with this couple hours of free time I have. And I went to the African American Museum, and I haven't been there in so long, but I went there and I was able to see the Ruth E. Carter exhibit and it was beyond phenomenal. I said, this woman is a bad. Mother. Shut your mouth, your mouth she is. She is just phenomenal like you would get And I'm gonna because I took tons of like pictures and videos and all that from just like from Black Panther, from Sinners, from Malcolm Eggs, from just so many different things that she had her hands in when it comes to design, just you would get lost into everything that she did. And I just would encourage like people who are, you know, just into art design and Black history mom just to go just you know, go and see her exhibit and you won't be disappointed, because I really enjoyed myself there. Fantastic, fantastic for those who don't know who she is or don't you give her a little background. Maybe you would give her a little background. I know she's she's a designer. She's won tons of awards. She I think she got probably the most recognition for her winning an Academy Award for her design in Black Panther, designing all of the costumes in Black Panther, And I think now Ryan Coogler is like he has her front and center when he from from the time he starts working on stuff. So everything, all of the costumes that you see in Black Panther one and two and even in centers. That's her. That's her, like all of the all of that is all her. And I was just thinking, like she should have been winning awards, but you know how that goes when it's just like we've arrived to a point where now it's like we start getting recognition, but then you have to think back, like, wait a minute, she should have been getting recognition because like she's just like her her work is just it's on another level. And it's no way that she should should not have been winning awards to that magnitude of an Academy Award, which she now has. I believe too, she should have had that a long time ago from Malcolm X and and all the stuff that she's done. But Ruthie Carter, she's definitely the truth. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Uh costume designer. Uh, she's she's probably she is now, uh the most decorated. Yes, costume designer. This isn't woman, this is period. So shout out to her. She deserves her flowers and she's a sister, and you know she'll be, you know, part of the esteem. Uh you know for us, he's part. She should be on your mount rushmore of costume designer. She should be dead center, right in the front, in front. So uh, yeah, kudos to that. If you haven't seen the exhibit, make sure you go because it's in Philly. Shout out to Philly, and so you're I'm sure to be there for a while, so. Make sure you come down. Philly is about to celebrate two point fifty. Make that a trip. And yeah, Philadelphia is definitely in the building. Yeah, I heard them saying that, not to cut you off, but I heard them saying that Campbell stopped by there, and there was like part of the exhibit where I think they had the Spike Lee movie with her, and they had a few of her pictures up there as part of the exhibit too, so I guess you want to see that. But even that was really nice. Yeah, yeah, and I'm sure there be more celebrities coming once they hear about it, if it's not already out there. Everybody wants to come to Philly anyway, and so that just gives them a reason to come. So shout out to Ruth E. Carter. Yeah for sure, Okay, no doubt. What about you, counselor what. Started off as a busy day with too many things on my list to do. I was supposed to take your dog to the glomor get my hair done, my nails, my petticure, get my lasses touched up? What man down? We had an evacuation at worked this week and I had to climb down thirty flights of stairs and my body is definitely paying for it. I cannot walk right now. So I've just been elevated for like for two days now. Opening it will pass my Funday. Wow, did you check your your feet or your Apple watch? One? Like? I was like, no, that's funny on your checking right now? What to say? Check it? We're doing this live right continue? I know, right, it's still counting. It's still count that's a lot of stuff, man. Yeah, was a drill over a real one. It was a real one. It was something about the pipes, saying it set off the fire alarm that we still had to get out the building. So who was that Thursday? It says I only did five and seventeen steps only. Yeah, that's funny. Wow, that's a lot of steps though. That's still a. Lot of steps, man. But kudos in you. You know, I'm sure you you'll be filling it the next couple of days. Tiggy warm bath for a few days. I just saw all that good old stuff. Yeah, for sure, that's what's up. How did you say the same thing? Yeah? Man, I'm nursing a little you know, cold. I guess it's a cold but same old routine, getting ready for the show. Just happy to be here, happy. To be from somewhere. Tell us about that. Flew back from Miami. Uh, it was actually cold in Miami. And one thing that some of the Miamians will probably need to get used to is buying jackets spying colts, because I don't think they were ready for that. Cool. I could tell you something else that wasn't ready for that cold that came in. Those iguanas wasn't ready for that cold. You know, I didn't see any, but the people I was with were talking about it because most of them were from Miami. Some people flew flew wind, so they wasn't privy to it. But apparently the reason for that is that guanas are uh, cold blooded animals, right cool, and what happens is their blood freezes and they go into a state of hibernation. So when they went into hibernate. They just everything stops, so everything slows down. They're still alive, they just they they're just sleep in a deep sleep, so to speak. They fell out and people were just picking them up off the cramp. I just couldn't believe that was that was really interesting. But it does make sense, and it's generally a cause of. You know, you're talking. About Miami that never gets cold, so they never had to hibernate, all right, so they're always out there. So if someone is watching from Miami and experienced some of this stuff and can tell. Us more, let us know. Let us know in the comments, tell us what's. Going on out they. Doing the mannequin challenge. Basically, you're doing. They're doing more than a mannequin challenge. They becoming tackles for some people. People saying they making time. But a lot of people are pretty excited about it because they are invasive, apparently, not sure what they do. I'm not sure if they you know, are eating you know, or in people backyards, are just becoming a nuisance on the roads or anything. I'm not sure what that problem is why they are invasive, but I think they eat the wild like some of the smaller things that protect the environment or whatever. And I'm sure that you know, gott to lead the bees alone, you know, and you know bees have been disappearing, and so I gotta think for bees for some reason. Don't ask me why, you know, I just got to think for bees. Man, leave them bees alone. Man, They don't mess with you. They protect you know, honey. I like honey. But yeah, apparently you know, they're invasive in people now are like, you know, making tackles out them. There's a place where you can if they fall out the tree, you can take them in there humanely euthanize. Them or something like that. But I haven't heard anyone say, you know, they'll put want to sign till they week back up. They like get rid of them things, you know for sure? Yeah, man, So that was me over the weekend. So you know, I'm ready to go into what's going on with the You already, no are You're ready for me? Class lady? I'm ready, all right? You ready for me? Give it to me early man. All right, no doubt. Y'all know that this is the good news and bad news. And what we do is we really try to focus on a lot of stuffing in the Philadelphia area. So in West Philly, I don't know if you guys knew this, but there is a beloved Negro basket baseball league. They had a mural in West Philly and they were called the Philadelphia Stars, and. That was taken down after word of damage and some. Deterioration from the wall that it was placed on. So the mural was at forty fourth in Park Side and. It was celebrated and one of the greatest black baseball teams in Philadelphia. So locals are saying that it wasn't destroyed, it's just being basically recreated or renovated so that they can that once. One community member said that it's more than just art it's our history and we're bringing it back bigger and better. The project is being led with help from the. Neighborhood groups and aren't organizations to make sure that this piece of Philly, it stays alive. So the Philadelphia Stars was a professional black baseball team that played in the Negro Leagues from nineteen thirty three to nineteen fifty two. They were based in Philly. A lot of games were played in passing Field. I don't know. I ain't ever hear of that passing field. Did y'all ever hear of that part of Philly? No? No, I was like passing field. I don't know. But that's that's the spation that I didn't call them p A S S O N Field in West Philly. I'm saying. That don't even sound familiar with men passing field. So if somebody hears this, and they'll let us, especially the older people, because you know how everything has changed. Like and I'm from I'm from Mount Airy, but they called it uptown, you know, a couple of years back. I wasn't called that, Like, we didn't call. It that twenty twenty five years because of though, you know what I'm saying, Like even. What is that Northern Liberties. We ain't call it Northern Liberties back in the day, right on Northern Liberties. That name came like in the late two thousands, I think, right. Yeah, yeah, that brewery town. I was like, that's part. Now that's different brewerytail since it. Maybe it's got to make it cute. Yeah, yeah, all right. This next story is it's kind of weird because I've never heard this before. So there was a couple who bought a house in about a. Couple three years ago in twenty twenty three in the Beaver County part of Pennsylvania, and they basically thought that they found their dream home until they discovered a large swastik schwasti schwashtika and a German eagle and it was permanently, permanently tiled in the basement floor, hidden under a rug. So when they purchased the house of five hundred and fifty thousand, uh, they said that the seller never told them about it, and now they're suing, so they're claiming that they never bought that they would never have bought the house that they known. That this existed. The homeowner name is Lynn Ray Wentworth, and she told the CBS affiliate k K d K A that she was shocked and mortified when she saw it. The case raised a lot of questions about you know what sellers are supposed to disclose. So now they have a case for about fifty thousand dollars because those are the damages. Well, it's basically basically. The damages that's gonna have to use to replace the basement floor. So now. Go ahead, No, it is the in the couple. Is Popoy purchased the house? Couple? I know? So they black or white? That's all I got to said. They are. I believe they're Caucasian. Interesting, okay, and what they happen to be like our Jewish brother because they they're Jewish, they got more than fifty five thousand dollarge that they should. Be soiling for. Yeah, I'm just saying yeah. And I'm not even an attorney. Uh, we got counselors. But I'm just saying I can confirm. That they are white. Oh, I can confirm that. Interesting, and so I hope that the way more than fifty five thousand. Now it's just for foor for placement. Yeah, I think it's because of the floor. But I think the layers you're talking about is more about what happened in the walls, like what the hous that now we're living in? It is that what you're is basically what you're saying. No, you can continue your story. I'm just saying, period, but no, I'll go ahead, You're good start. But I mean, no, I want to know, like is that because because I wouldn't understand like the judgment, say what is this based on? So I would it'll probably be more of a civil situation. But you're talking about emotional You're talking about something that's like emotionally a record. You can't take that back, especially if it has a history of racist connotation that your family grew up in that God forbid, I don't want to say his name was responsible for tons of people being un alive, right, and you happen to be maybe a descendant of that living in a house that Man, I know, I just almost I'm not an attorney, but I'm sure counselor this people in that. But I'm just saying that I hope that they get more than fifty five thousand dollars if they're of our Jewish brethren. That's all I'm saying. They added it sounds like. Say that one more time, counselor you was breaking up. They could if they attacked on those kind of claims to the meta that's already before the court. But it sounds like for what Sparkle was saying, it's only for the property reconstruction, and so they may not have a relationship to that history to add on those claims or to sue for some kind of emotional. Damage, okay, but they need to. Be doing it, and I think it's a little bit it's a little contradicting because the wife did say that if they knew that was there, they wouldn't have never bought the house. However, they're only they're only suing for the damages to replace the basement floor. So that's it sounds like what you're saying, Charles, But it sounds like they're only going after the replacement for the tiles. But the other thing was is that when they did the walkthrough, there was a rug that was covering it. So that's a little odd, you know what I mean. Like, so it sounded after they pulled a rug off. Or duty to disclose defects property defects or has its within the home and so I guess it's questionable as to whether or not that is a property defect or it has been at home because beauty is and the iron the beholder. It obviously was fine for the last set of owners, but it may not be fine for this one. But it does look like there was some intent there to hide it by putting in rouge over it so they could proceed with the self. So that's right, that's that's my counselor that's what I'm talking so, so basically, spark this is what I would say to them. The story is blowny. You people must be idiots. What are you doing? Are you people out of your mind? Are you just so with it? Yo? I'm telling you it's no defense for that because if it was one piece of carpet rug over that piece come and it sounds like somebody's trying to hide that. That ain't a good look at all. Whether they are are Jewish front run or not, it's just not okay because just the kind of but I mean, she's being she's being okay with or nice about just you know, fix my floor. Okay, but these days fifty five that's not even another to do that. But okay, can I can I say something crazy, you know, you know I could. Well, I haven't been lately, but I always collect like Asian art, and in Asian art, like you see that symbol that the symbol that kind of looks like a swastika, so in you know, I guess Buddhism, that symbol represents like eternity and like infinity, and it's supposed to be prosperity and all good stuff. But it's like, wow, yeah. One hundred no, but that's that's it. I mean, that particular symbol goes way back. If it's turned, I think in the opposite, it's a completely different connotation because it comes from it derives from something different. But I'm saying that specifically. We probably all know. Of course we making assumptions here, you know, but allegedly I'm sure that you know it was something behind that. But wait, let me, can you show the image when we're yeah, sure, hold on, I see it. Yeah, that's clear. It's that you can't get over that. And they had a rug over it. And what was the house built. When? Yeah, I don't know when it was built, but I know they bought it in twenty twenty three. Okay, yeah, I should have the house. It's a nice sized house too square footage. It's in Beaver p a Beaver Beaver County, mm hmm p a nice size house. Yeah. It had like columns in the front and everything. Yeah. And then that that's crazy again I said, And then that that's crazy. Yeah, if you as the current owners or bother buyer and you want to to be redone, I would have been of the heart and mind to like move because I would have would have known what was happening in this hospital history. Yeah, what happened in the house first ding year? Forget my dream home. I'm not living in the history of this now. Was there seances there? Like what was going on in the ennaw I'm cool? Yeah. I mean the argument could be that that happens in a. Lot of houses that you don't know, but because this is what they found. Mm hmm, she knows something going on. So all right, well our next story. I think everybody is going to be getting the relief of this, especially you know, Pennsylvania and Philadelphians. So Pennsylvania Governor Joshapiro unveiled unveiled his fifty three point two billion dollar budget for twenty twenty six through twenty twenty seven. He just did this in Harrisburg, and his goal is on affordable housing and low energy calls. I don't know about y'all, but the electric bill is crazy. So now this plan includes about one billion dollars which will expand housing and infrastructure, so hopefully this will have consumers pay less for their electricity. The governor told lawmakers that the rising housing prices and rent have outpaced the wages, and we need to go big on housing and make a real impact, he says. So supporters say that the budget would help renters and homeowners, but it still has to get approved by the. State legislators before it becomes law. Where they're getting this money from that the money they say they don't have, like Pennsylvania is still specifically Philadelphia is still the city who minimum wage is still the same. But y'all did they come up with money? Come? Especially right. Right before the before elections and all that stuffy I'm like, y'all be coming up with it. So, but I'm curious to see if this will actually go through because Philadelphia by itself has been making a bunch of measures to your towards affordable housing. But even in those measures. We saw them been Franklin Parkway just a few years ago. There were many families living in the little tech community created people be in this place. But there's been some talk that what they have deemed to be affordable housing is still not affordable. And so I'm wondering what this new push from the governor is going to do and if it's actually going to be affordable, because it is true, and it's happened for years now that the income here at least in Philadelphia has been not comparable to what the cost of living is, what it is for food and things like that. So we've been at this for some time now, for a significant time. Even for people like me who are employed, my ends don't justify my means, and so who have less than I'm still very concerned because what has been, you know, said to help sometimes appears not to help. I agree. And if you're doing affordable housing and you're saying, like you said, if the wages aren't adding up, applicant at the buy product and look at what the sources. Because back in our day. It was like, oh, you get a fast food job, that's for a kid to start learning. Guess who will have them? Fast food jobs. Now, people who are taking care of an entire family, paying rent or mortgage car notes like those are not just kid jobs no more. And I'm not talking about the management part of it. I'm talking about literally the front people who are taking your order. And it's not just kids who are doing you know, being a waiter or nothing. The college or the struggling actress or model or artists. Then it's not These are really people who are literally trying to survive. Mm. So that was your good news and your bad news from your girl Classic Lady Sparkle. Interesting, interesting, good news and bad news by Classic Ladies Sparkle. Before we move on, I want to read something that I was doing a little digging. It says this is what the court decided on that particular case. The case turned on whether the swastika floor was a material defect that Pennsylvania real estate seller discloser law requires sellers to disclose. Both the Beaver County Trial Court and later the Pennsylvania Support Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled that the tie the tiled swastika and German eagle, while offensives, did not qualify as material defect in the way that the statute defined structural and safe safety problems. Because of the interpretation, the seller was found not legally obligated to disclose the symbols to the buyers before the cell. So pretty much they could have possibly known and felt like, you know what, I'm not going to say anything because I'm not legally obligated to do so they go further to say that is the more. Is there more history behind a specific floor? Public record describes the floor only as nazi uh in cogno in cognography, tiled into a basement in a Beaver County home. The story the stories do not identify who originally installed it or when. Beyond nothing that it predated the Windsworth twenty twenty three purchase, so there's no other I guess information behind it that would be interesting. Wow. Yeah, I didn't think that was going to go anywhere, and it did it on a pill. So sol the Superior Court confirmed the ruling of the lower court. Up. That's uh, that whole yeah crazy. So I want to say one more thing about out. I let's say one more thing. So there's the story that you did about the African American Negro League portrait, and that's actually for those who watching That particular mural is on the corner of I want to say Park Sign and Bellmont. I think it's on a corner of bell Mount and. Parks Sign or it was I need to go but here and see if it's totally removed or paint it over right now. But there was a person by the name of Jeez. I forgot his name, but he was one of the last surviving players that just passed away. But his daughter, a doctor Maelen Duckett Lee, actually had the opportunity. I had the opportunity to speak with her, and we'll be talking to her, I guess later on during the year. I'm almost positive that she will uh be uh be at that particular closing when they open up and do that. But what I will show real quick because I had the opportunity to talk to her, this is something that. Is it just you and froze for like five. Minutes, yeah, going, oh there you go. Myself? You doing the man again. About Yeah. It was like you know how you want to be president at the meeting, but go somewhere else. You was just talking, but it was like it was you, Oh. That's funny, but let me pull this up real quick. This is something that she had shared with me. This was created so sat you Paige Oscar. So these were some of the Negro players and this is her dad right here. Uh my, my, my home. Duck it This guy in a wheelchair that's actually one of the last well he just passed away, not just it was a few years ago, but he passed away. And he was one that was on the team Philadelphia Negro League team. So it was good to see this and it was also good to hear from her, to which I'm in communication with pretty often. So this is a that's the actual picture. The Mirror Philadelphia Stars, a tribute to the Negro League Baseball is located on Belmont YEP Belmont Avenue, directly across from Memorial Park in was Philadelphia, right across the street from this lies of statue. Hopefully they didn't take that down. That's still there. But I was actually at the unveiling of this when they put it out. And so this was a week a weekly thing that we actually covered before or got the footage that I have to try my best to find it. But yeah, one of the things that they said about the Negro League is they didn't play them or didn't want to play them because they were black? Right? What do you think the reason they didn't want to play them? We know they were too good. They were stellar. Would they say chef's kiss? Yeah? And so it was good that you brought that up and uh to share that information, and I'm glad that you did. Yeah, but we that's why they don't want us to be a part of anything. Yeah. Yeah, there's not one sport that I don't believe that we didn't start, even genres of music. I mean, that's why a lot of stuff is getting or trying to get, you know, erased. Mm hm what did Wayne say? Oh? You know what he said? Richard Richard Dolland? Hold on, Hey, Wayne, I appreciate you joining thew What Richard Alland? What? What's uh? Maybe is that the part I forgot, which uh, I've just seen a so I was able to bring him up. If you're on, Wayne, why don't you let us know what you mean about Richard Aland? But yeah, Richard Allen, that's another one out of Philadelphia that needs to be acknowledged and talk about. Sunny Hill is another one. This is all black history Philadelphia, black history that no one tends to talk about the gentleman. I forgot the other gentleman that who uh oh I see is named after him. You know, another gentleman out of Philadelphia. It's a lot of people that came out of phillid You know. Martin Luther King Jr. Used to be in Philadelphia a lot. Oh there you go. He played for the Phillies in Negro League. Just honored recently. Oh that's what's up. I need to find find out. But that Richard Allen, that's what's you know what. I didn't even know that interesting. I was. Yeah, that's dope. I appreciate you, my guy. That's my guy right there. But no good, y'all, spark appreciate. That, no problem. That was your good news and bad news from Classic Lady Sparkle. So that was your good news and bad news by Classy Lady Sparkle. The boy Charles Gregor. You't the beautiful Classy Lady Sparkle. And beautiful Laurence and the beautiful Tenisa Henry. And we'll be right back after this with we're gonna talk a little bit about you know, our ass quiet. 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Here's where you left off in the latest episode. Olivia Jade, Red Table talk, Kevin Hart, backlash for Netflix special No Fgiven, and more. Ladies and gentlemen, Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to we talk weekly. After the talk and see, I told you it's not that hard. Ladies and gentlemen. All you have to do is ask the. Right person, ask Alexi. I'm out here. Thanks for watching, keep supporting, keep describing, to keep telling people to Johnny, we're out here like last year, and you go, we talked weekly. Is definitely in the building. Man, I'm your boy. Charles Gregory, the. Beautiful Classic Lady Sparko, look beautiful, Laurence Sizel, look beautiful, Tanisia Henry and Tannisia Henry. You have something for me? Yes, I do. High let me early, so we're gonna do some legal tea with tea. Today, we've entered the month of February, where many choose to celebrate love, whether it's the love of self, love of others, or even the love of Black history. Now Valentine's Day seven days on a countdown, is one of the top, if not the single, most popular days for marriage proposals in the United States. It acts as a major peak within the engagement season, which typically spans from Thanksgiving to Valentine's Day. So estimates suggests that while December, the entire month of December has the highest overall volume for engagement. It is Valentine's date specifically that is often ranked as the busiest single day for proposals. That also indicates that approximately two hundred and twenty thousand proposals take place on this day. That's almost a quarter of a million people getting engaged every year in the United States on this day. That's amazing, But that does not mean that two hundred and twenty thousand people or couples make it to the altar afterwards. So what happens if for some reason, after you exchange your bling bling and got your pretty thing, that for some reason the engagement is broken off in marriage is off the table? What happens to the ring? Does the recipient get to keep it? Which y'all think before I tell y'all. Is a it's a it's a gift. Well, it's a contract kind of right from a legal standpoint, isn't it like a contract? Because like you give you give the ring in exchange for the marriage, and it's like, you know, will you marry me? And it's like a it's like a it's like a it's legally binding kind of like a contract, like here's the ring. If you're going to marry me, and if you're not going to marry me, then you know you should be giving the ring back. It's not necessarily a gift like a gift is I hear you know? Happy birthday? Here is a ring for you. That's my team. M hmm. I would say, don't do it on a day that is compromising. So if you're going to do it, because either one could like argue with that, it's a gift. So if it's a birthday, if it's Valentine's Day, don't propose anything outside of. A day of a gift. Then it's a bonding contract. So if it's on a day that is your birthday. Something symbolizing a milestone, don't propose because now it could be considered a gift. But if you do it outside of that, it's a binding contract. That's my take. Okay, Charles, what. You got well? I just asked that question one more again. Ask it again. What happens to the ring if people don't make it, damn out the engagement ring? I give that back. Man. If I'm giving you a ring to propose and we don't, then to propose, we off, give me the ring. I gave you the ring because I'm proposing and the ideas that we're getting married. If we don't, then look, get that back. I don't care what happened. The ring come back, all right. So let me tell you I was in my mind. This is this in my mind because I'm a human being before I'm an attorney, right, So that's how I think. Yes, I ultimately I'm a follower of law, but this these are my sentiments. So in my mind, if I have dealt with you for her other law, five, ten, fifteen, twenty years, and I just happen to have given you my best years, my twenties and my thirties, my most fertile years, you know, for reproduction. Maybe I've moved across the state lines for you, or took a job within your consideration, or even refused the job considering you, shared my friends and family with you, or even elevated your life in any way. I earned that during ring. Okay, it's my. Hey, ten years is common law? Yeah, only two years. I had to lock you up with that one because that's what the seats. So what you what? The picture you painted gives the impression that nothing else happened outside of the ring. I mean time back, that's the most valuable currency on earth. You're gonna give me these diamonds. But I thought engagement is like a two year You're like, did you build? I don't think you built nothing yet? And wait, like a year and a half. So what if he gave you dominant ear rings before he gave you the ring? All right, that's all right. So what if he gave you, you know, a domin necklace prior to the ring. That's considerable too. Okay, So let's get back to the ring now. So let's get into the law on this. An engagement ring falls in two categories. It is property. We call this movable property. The old common law old property law word is called a chattel, and it is still in your textbooks. It's still in the law. It's still refer to it as a chattel. The other category that the engagement ring falls into is a gift. Now, laws around gifts typically require that you do not have to give gifts back. So once you have it, it's yours, ain't no let me head it back, typically with a gift. But engagement rings, just like miss Suzzle said, they are conditional gifts, so it's its own category. They are given with the expectation that marriage will result from it. Pennsylvania courts have long help that an engagement ring, or for people who don't like diamonds or jewelry and they choose to give another symbolic gift, those things are given in the contemplation of marriage is a conditional gift that does not vest with the receiver until the contemplated marriage actually occurs. So if there's no marriage, the engagement ring or whatever the gift was must be returned to the sender or the giverver Now, I don't know if y'all remember it was a joke, but remember when Tiffany Haddish was dating Comment. And she was like, don't give me no ring. I went to deeds on a property complex apartment complex as my exchange, because you know, some people just don't do rings. But in these situations, doesn't matter who broke off the engagement. No, he's right. In the case the Lynn versus Sermon, they established what's called in Pennsylvania the no fault rule, so if either party breaks off the engagement, the ring must still return to the giver. So it really doesn't matter whose fault it is, the ring has to be returned. You can only keep it. You can only keep the ring if the giver explicitly tells you that you can keep it, or in the twenty twenty three case, the Campbell versus Tang. This case established that if the giver of the ring was already legally married to someone else and that marriage never ever ever ended in divorce, or that the giver had no legal right in the first place to even propose. Them run oh wow, sat one more time. So this is established just in twenty twenty three that if the giver of a ring was already legally married to someone else and that marriage that they're in never ended into in a divorce or never ended in death, that giver never had the legal right to even propose a marriage to you. So you get to keep the ring in that distance real quick. So if CARTI, if Stephan Diggs proposed to car and give her a ring and she's not technically divorced from what is it offset, then he cannot be like, give me back the ring if something happened right, because because he knows oh wow, I did not know that. Oh wow? Is that PA state law? Yes, maya, howy. He said, not happening. No one who will give that back unless it is used as a projectile. Don't have any expectation for it to be returned. Man. The reasoning behind that is that there's no condition of marriage to be met because you can't in Pennsyvania. You can't have two legal sponsors that one time, so you'll never get to that. So the joke is on that person who decided to go ahead and try to engage you or propose to you and try to marry you when they already weren't legally able. To do so. Well, someone could argue, I'm asking you, counselor because someone argued, then they can potentially sue you for the property back because they proposed to you under the impression that you were truthful in being able to be married. So let's a little bit of that go ahead. Oh yeah, no, because otherwise you're you misleaded me and I probably wouldn't be with you in the first place. Well, in Pennsylvania, this is known as bigamy. When you're married to a person and you try to contract or purport to contract another person in marriage. This is a crime. It's a misdemeanor of the second degree, for which you can face up to two years in prison. Now for the other party, because I think your question was more about the other party. If the other party, the person who was receiving the ring or whatever or contracted for marriage, if they'd marry someone who they know is already married, they too can be charged with bigamy. You want to no five questions? So if what happens if you live in the state of PA, but you go and get married in Vegas, does these conditions still apply to you? Or like you get engaged, didn't get married all in one in Vegas? Like how would that work if you reside in like PA or something like that. So I believe that the state that you're married and those are the laws that governing your marriage. Those are those who keep a record marriage and have the certificated marriage. And I believe that's also where you would have to go to foul for a divorce wars. I will say that the stuff that they have structured in Vegas around marriage I think is very different, and it might be some exceptions and stuff somewhere that I'm not quite aware about. So I'm not too sure about that. Can I add something to this story. So one of the Govan sisters from the reality show her ex husband, I think it was Lauren, her ex husband or ex fiance, the father of her children. He gave her like a four hundred thousand dollars rain proposed to her, and then they broke up and he befriended her and made her think they would get back together just so he could get the ring and switch it out for a fake one. So he switched the four. Hundred thousand dollars ring out and then she found out and tried to sue him to get the original four hundred thousand dollars ring that he proposed to her, and the judge said, no. Ma'am, he think crazy. I think I. Think he had. Cam Newton was talking about a four hundred thousand dollars ring. Yes, he proposed that was real, and then they started you know, it starts spiraling down and he was like, nah, you ain't keeping that ring. So he act like he wanted to get back with her, got back with her, switched it out for a phony one, and then wound up telling her that it was the he switched. It out, but she she lost. He won. That that that ring something else. So what he could have did was what I was going to tell y'all. When you're in a situation where the engagement is broken off and don't want to give you the ring back or refuse to or whatever, you can actually sue them in a simple claims court and force them to give the ring back. It's called a replevin action and another old property term that's thrown the books and we still use, and basically it's a lawsuit that recovers property. So you can get the ring back in the situation. Oh wow, they refuse to do it. His way was easier, and it might have been. That she didn't catch on to it and then go sue him instead. So yeah, but that's cool. No, I was going to ask then if she if if she even caught on and suit and he sued her for it, he could then sue her for not only the ring, but also the legal costs. Right, So now paying. Action, it's only for property. It's not for money. It was money, Okay, I got This is specifically limited to movable property, which we know ring is, or some other kind of property that you have a rightfle ownership to and that you can get back. So When you file an action, you follow a complaint, but oftentimes you can also follow with your complaints something else. It's called a writ to seize, a writ to see property, and that writ goes to the court with the complaint, but it results in a judgment before the actual judgment, so it's for immediate repossession of whatever the item is in this case, the engagement ring before the case is even over, So it's immediately order for you to go get your stuff back as long as you can prove to show the rifle owner of it, or that you're entitled to immediate possession. How do you prove that? Y'all keep them receipts. Them, videos of the engagement, them photos and engagement and the aerial views that y'all. Got going with the what is the drunk stuff? Keep all that. That's your evidence to prove that show the rifle owner and you're entitled to possession. However, the statute of limitation. On a lot of However, man, you got me, ain't no. Let me wait sixty twelve months to get to an attorney. You kind of want to get to one quickly so that you can find your action within a two year time frame. Two years from the day of the broken engagement and the failure to return the property. Wow, but for that people claims it's two years. So you got two years to do that. Okay, yep. Interesting, that's that now. I had. I had a ring given to me proposed and didn't accept the proposal. I gave the ring back because I was just like, it's the right thing to do. But the person told me I could have it absolutely. Yeah, So I was like, yeah, that's that's where that broke the contract again. It becomes a gift. So look, so what happens in the event that you know, no black folks, Oh, I don't got it no more? I sold it? Then what happened? So they can still file that replevered action to repossess the item. But in your discovery phase with that, you'll go through with the court and your attorney. You can determine where the ring is or whether it's still exists and things like that. Should there have been something that actually happened to the ring and it is no longer discoverable, or they really did do something or turn it into some type of money, then a different action will have to be fouled. That's when you file for damages or recovery the amount of the value of the ring. So that's why I think Gilbert Arenas that's his name, went and did what he did to get that ring from long Van. Yeah, because he said four hundred and all. She gonna say, oh, I sold it and just put it on my tab nah. And oftentimes when you resell jewelry, you're not actually getting the amount that you paid for initially, so usually a loss there. Yeah, he said, miscounselor are you licensing Delaware? I am not license in Delaware. However, I do get a lot of people who call me from all over the country for legal advice, and I always tell them that I'm not licensing your state. However, states generally follow the federal law, so I'll do the research on the federal law offer as much information as I can. But with that I will always either put you to connect you to an attorney that practices law in your state or those agencies that do it, like want to sign and scale for free, so that you can get actual information from someone who has a license there. I'll even do the research on your particular matter myself under your state laws to help you along your way, because I don't want to leave people hanging. But no, I do not have this outside of Pennsylvania. Amazing, amazing. How can I get in contact with you? Then? So my name Tanisha Henry. Can I see it on the screen? Yep? So t A N I E like pie. Just remember pie, y'all that it comes before the E. Tanisa Henri at gmail dot com. That's my email address. I check my email every morning. I'm also on LinkedIn under Tanisha Henry. I'm also on social media outlets as Tanisha. Henry Fantastic and Ladies and gentlemen. All you have to do is make sure you like and subscribe this. Once this video goes out, you already get to learn what you can rewind and listen to the things that's going on. This is understand, ladies and gentlemen. This is you know, this is the information that that's being given out right. This is Look, we're not charging anybody for this. This is just content that people are watching and making sure that we do what we do for the community because we love to give news and information. That's what we talk weekly is we give news and information fantastic, So you know what one last one last comment about that right. If if what would be what what tip would you give to someone? Then if that's a possibility or that's something that's rampant, right that someone can say, you know, or be mischievous when it comes to you know, you know, engagements, potentially that someone might keep a ring. What would you give a tip to someone to make sure that they don't get god for a potential ring, especially when we talk about hundreds of thousand dollars for an engagement ring. So you know how your rings typically come with certifications, whether it's CIA certified, et cetera. Also with the receis and stuff. I would keep that information. It's paper, right, so paper can fade, you can lose it, it can be burned a fire, you can. Get water on it. I would scan those things in putting in a service somewhere, email it to myself. Most of the times you can recollect your email. But you'll need that kind of proof to show that yes, this belonged to me, Yes I made the purchase. But then you can also use the other kinds of evidence in addition to that, because in court we use the best evidence rule. So the best evidence rule would be the original receipt it would. Be the GIA. But if something happens, if you can have a best backup mod like you know, skin of it in and things like that, having it digitized, the court will also consider that version as the second best piece of evidence. But keep that photo, keep that video and things like that so you can happen on this day. This is what I exchanged. This is the contract that I made with this person. Verbally, this was the response, and things like that. All of that is gonna could essentially be evidence if you find yourself in this position. Now, if you slick like. My man with the Golovin chick and you get that in there. I mean, that was clever. I don't know what it was kind of established, but it was also clever and it could have worked. But you know, she's two instead, but he still won ultimately. But also know who you're engaging. Like in Sparkle situation, she was a recipient, but she was told that she could have it. That that happens too. That's not uncommon that people say, you know, and probably because of what I said, you know, my sweat equity in this relationship, I earned that ring. But maybe you know, in situations like that, people can express that you know we're good. From here, you can have it. I would take it a step further because I am an attorney. I need you to put that on righting. I just want you to tell that to me in case you do get in your feelingss leader and you want this thing back. I got a question, and I mentioned it earlier. What if it's given on a milestone, What if it's given on your birthday? What if it's given on Valentine's Day. That's why I said, if you do do it, don't do it on those days because then it's contradicting of a gift or a body contry. So people try to do that. But so the difference with this. And plenty of people do you engage on birthdays and Christmases and Thanksgiving and things like that, But this one is different because it comes with the verbal condition I'm giving you this ring for your hand in marriage, so you're expected to do something in return. So it doesn't matter which day is on. If that's the condition that the item is presented to you, and then that's it. Now, if it's just a regular ring that you're given on a birthday or as a gift for Christmas. That falls under the regular gift laws. Once you release that thing to this recipient, that's it. It's legally there. And that's why I think, counsel is that I'm saying that. It could be his word against hers or whomever to say I was under the impression that this was a gift for me for my birthday. You didn't make it sound you know what I'm saying. Oh my goodness, keep them videos, keep your right. Yeah, yeah, yes, everybody showing up didn't make the court. Yeah, yeah, no doubt. All right, counselor, I'm gonna put you on a spot. I want you to give me a closer argument for that in thirty seconds and go. Well, you're honor As you know, the statements of the statements by both parties alleged they both agreed that they have been dating for approximately two years, and that they both contemplated contemplated marriage, and at such time as the Valentine's Day, two years into the relationship, there was an oral contract created between the two of them with the demonstration of a gift exchange for such a such a ring value at this amount. Six months later, bo as you can tell by both testimony, the relationship did fail, and upon request of receipt to receive the engagement item, it was not returned. We are down two and a half years from that and the ring has not been returned. So we have rightfully fouled a replectant action for immediate repossession of the ring. You can tell by discovery that she does still have this in her possession, so we request a judgment in our favorite for immediate return. You know what, Let's give her a rail of the little plum. Amazing, amazing that sometime I do that. Put you on spot. That's going to be your thing. Give me your close an argument. I love it, I love it. I love it. Not the roaldo of aplause for that, give a round, not the round of applause. Right there and. You amaze, look as smart. Let's go, let's go, all right, no doubt, all right, ladies and gentlemen. So so there you go, ladies and gentlemen, your boy Charans Greg with the. Beautiful classy lady sparkle in, the beautiful Lawrence and the beautiful Tanisia Henry. All right, so there you. Have, ladies and gentlemen. We talk weeklies. After the talk with w PP I'm a p Philadelphia one O six point five film. We talked Weeklies After the Talk with your boy Charles Greg. And beautiful Spark Spark froze, Spark froze. You gotta lead the brother, be the President out your mouth sparked, because that's probably what's happening right now. You can't know my s I was not frozen on my end. Am I frozen now? No? No, you know I'm messing with you know. Uh, you're not frozen now, but you're good now. No doubt, Monica, Yeah, no doubt. In the beautiful Lawrence in the Beautiful Tanisia Henry and Monica said, great show. Thanks, no proud Monica. This is what we do, all right, Sizzel you're ready for. Yeah, no doubt. Give it to me early, all right. So, if you want to support journalism with We Talk Weekly news by subscribing and following us on all social media and major podcast platforms, you can do so so that you can stay informed and connected. And if you want to expand want to help us expand our community centered solutions based reporting, you can make a donation be a cash app to dollar sign We Talk Weekly, or securely through PayPal at we talkwekly dot com, and no donation is too great or too small. Every contribution makes a huge impact. All right. So the sixty eighth Annual Grammys Award kicked off on February first on CBS. According to Nielsen's ratings, the network raked in only fourteen point four million viewers, which is a six point five decline from twenty twenty five. So Trevor Noah hosted the Grammys for what he announced would be his last time hosting the Grammys. So he's been doing it every year since twenty twenty one, and in his opening monologue, it included jabs at Bill Clinton, Diddy, Nicki Minaj, and Trump Share. She clumsily returned to the Grammy stage for eighteen years to accept the Lifetime Achievement Award. She was supposed to present reward of the Record of the Year, but before leaving the stage. At the end of her. Speech, she said, I'm supposed to walk off now. So she turns and she's walking off the stage and gets always to the n and then she starts being ushered back on the stage by a producer while Trevor Noah says on the mic, could we get you to announce the nominees. She was supposed to announce the nominees to the winner of the Best Record of the Year. She accepted her Lifetime Achievement Award speech. So it says she said, when she starts announcing it, and so it's another little thing she messed up. But she starts announcing it and she's like, oh. The Grammy goes to Luthor Van. Draws, So really the album was Luthor, you know, Kendrick Lamar. But then she says Luther Van Draws, and everybody's like what. But Kendrick does get up and then he comes to the stage because he knew it. Was him, but Kendrick Lamar. He was the biggest winner of the night, snagging five Grammy Awards for the Record of the Year Luthor with Sizza. He also had big Best Rap Album GNX, Best Melodic Rap Performance Luthor with Sizza, Best Rap Song tv OFF, Best Rap Performance Changs and Whips with the Clips, and Kendrick's Grammy haul this year clinches the spot as most awarded rapper in Grammy history with twenty seven Grammys, and he surpasses they Z with his twenty five Grammy record and Justin Bieber, he made a Grammy comeback after a four year hiatus. His stripped down performance included him wearing his living room best outfit, nothing but boxes and socks, while he played a guitar and singing. He sang his best his nominated song Yukon. Although he was nominated in four different categories, Justin Bieber unfortunately left if they handed so he will be headlining the twenty twenty six Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in April. So sadly he was not able to take any awards with him. So there was a nice little Grammy's finale. Well, it was a nice little Gray finale. This wasn't my Grand finale, but the Grammys finale was the twenty twenty six Grandammis. Was Bad Bunny, Bad Bunny winning the. Album of the Year award for his David David terrar My Photos deb Photos. I was trying to get my little Spanish together. I know Charles just mentioned in Bahaman language. Just does he speak better? Get back to my duo lingo because my Spanish is getting a little rusty. YA was practicing. But he is the first artist with a Spanish language album to win his win this award, and Bad Bunny gave a powerful speech, mostly addressing Ice. He said, before I say thanks to God, I gotta say Ice out. He said, We're not savage, We're not animals, we're not aliens. We are humans, we are Americans. And unfortunately, Bad Bunny was not able to perform at the Grammys this year due to his Super Bowl halftime performance contractual obligation. And so I thought it was really cool how Trevor Noah when he was hosting, he came up to Bad Bunny and he was like kind of like singing the lyrics to his song, knowing that Bad Bunny really couldn't sing because he has his contract to sing at the halftime performance, so he wasn't able to perform there. So Trevor Noah like, has this band come out? He started seeing, goes over to him, he sits down to sits down with him, many hands in the mic, like puts the mic in his space, and he's singing the lyrics and then he's like bring the band out or something he says, and then the band comes out playing his song. I thought that was pretty cool, but you know, he couldn't sing because he has a contract. If you want to see him, check him out at the Super Bowl halftime performance, which is going to be coming up next Sunday. Oh wait or is it this Sunday? Wait? I'm off the super Bowl right before. Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm like this February is going so fast it doesn't even seem like. Yeah, tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow. So if you want to see him, you can tell about tomorrow. And finally, the legendary Lauren Hill, whose last she last performed at the Grammys in nineteen ninety nine. She returned to the Grammy stage after twenty seven years to give a powerful and emotional tribute to ROVERTA. Flack and D'Angelo. So D'Angelo was featured on the song nothing Even Matters if you remember back then from our iconic album Miseducation of Lauren Hill. So at the nineteen ninety nine Grammys, Lauren's album was nominated for ten Grammys then, and she made history as the first woman to win five awards in one night, the first rap artist to win Album of the Year. So, I guess you don't improve upon perfection rank, So I guess there was This is why there was only one out? Well, Anyway, during her twenty twenty six. Grammy's performance tribute to Bangelo, she sang part of her duet with Bangelo and nothing even matters, But this just was like really really star studied. I thought it was phenomenal. So he brought out so many different artists to come out and sing parts of Bangelo's songs, and then she also in the second part of the tribute. First it was like R and B artist nothing day. He sang a snippet of brown Sugar. Rafael Sadek sang Lady Leon Thomas, Anthony Hamilton Blaau and John Baptiste came out and they sang little snips of the Angelo songs. You know, how does it do? Doubles pie all that? Lauren Hill she also paid a tribute. The second half of the tribute part was ROBERTA. Flack, and then she was singing her hits. You know the first time ever I saw your face, killing me softly, so I get to you, Where's the love? And then bringing out legends Layla Hathaway, John Legend Sha Ka Khan and y Club John. And then the big close out was the performance with the Fuji's version of killing Me Softly? Wow of John. And while they were singing that part, they at the back they still had the pictures of Angie Stone, Dwayne Wiggins from Tonya, Tony Tony who also passed away, John Forte from the Refugees, he passed away recently. And then they the icing on the cake was when they sang the amen ending to the song total praise by Richard swa Smallwood, who recently passed away on December thirty. So for me, that was the grand finale to the Grammys. So did anybody catch the Grammys this pass on February First, No, No, I. Love Lauren Hill. Yes, she looked beautiful. She looked beautiful. Her her performance was stunning, Like if you could see, like at the end, the band was awesome. You know, people were just singing and. Dancing along and and you know, everybody was singing the lyrics. And I thought, bloud when he sang. How does it feel? Oh my gosh, he sounded just like D'Angelo. I was like, wow, he blew me. Away with it. It was just it was just phenomenal, and it was amazing when Whye Cleft came out and he just looked awesome. He looked really really good. She could kind look good. They all everybody sounded amazing. It was it just was like a top tier performance, and you know, I. Just couldn't go. I love me some more in Hill. I'm telling me, like Lauren was. Gonna watch it, But did anybody do, Like have they missed prize a little bit? Because the whole Fujis wasn't there and I know that he was recently arrested. We ain't gonna talk about the rest of the food is the we good? We good? Got there. They're gonna be like. Where is you know? Good? It didn't. I mean, I guess it's obvious that he is missing, but it's like. You you didn't really miss him, you know what I mean. Like it's obvious because he's a part of the few foodies, but it was just. Like what he was. Everyone forgot about him anyway. It was was about Lauren hood was. Huge, and it's like she's just so informant herself. Like yeah, I agree, but how we want not talk about the elephant in the room. Like if I don't bring it, I guess I'm the person to be like I'm the general generational uh, you know, the person who stops the generational courage like you, oh see, you won't put that. I'll put you in jail for second. Part. Let them live for a second, let them live, let this moment right there. And I think because it was a tribute, nobody really thought about him. I'm not gonna say nobody thought about him, but like because it was a tribute and it. Was more so about D'Angelo and ROBERTA. Flack, like just saying homage to them, and like the other ones, you know, the greats that we lost as well, like Andy Stone and you know John par Taite just passed away like literally weeks ago. It was. It was I guess it was just such a moment, you know that you didn't even had time that you can really think about him. But and the mis education, the mis education of Lauren Hill. I don't every song I listened to, but people don't know that. Was because some of those. Songs were her originals that Lauren actually redid. Hold On said that again, Uh, some of the songs that Lauren Hill did were originals, like they were from ROBERTA flat on the mis education. Yeah, so that's where the paying homage higher as well. Was done. Yeah, Yeah, I think that was one of her one of her idols, but like that that album itself is like it's I don't want to say it's very few unskippable albums, but that's definitely on the list of unskippable albums where you've been listening from like where they used to say, what was it cover to cover her or like start to finish, like and not skip one song? Absolutely like hands down, legendary. Legend mount Rushmore. Absolutely absolutely, yes, yeah, yes, yes, yes, yes. I like what Monica said about Share. Yeah. Let me pull up the comments. I mean like, yeah, that's. What I said that you can't Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you was. I thought you were saying saying the singer Monica. Oh no, Monica making her uh her best hat. And it's like that's true. Yep, because because Susan was like, oh yeah, they said. Something to her about yeah, you know when they interviewed her afterwards, they were like, yeah, did you did you hear Share? She said, Luca Van. Draws and says, it was like, oh yeah, chare is queen, and so I like how she kind of was just like, yeah, leave Share long. Yeah there, it don't matter what she. Has here in so long. So, I mean that's the queen. Like you, just right like you, right, that's right, yeah, yeah, the shout out this is for having a I mean that was the media culture moment, right. Yeah. She handled it with grace, and so you're trying to get the. Props exactly exactly, all right. So, just six days into Black History months, while we're all commemorating our heritage, we're drinking our water and minding our business. The forty seventh president is refusing to apologize for a social media posts to his true social account depicting a meme of former President Barack Obama and former President former First Lady for show Obama as primates in the Jungle. So White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt said, this is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from The Lion King. Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public. So if you've seen The Lion King, then you know there are no apes of gorillas in The Lion King. So this sixty second video remained posted for twelve hours on Trump's true social account. So both Democrats and Republicans. They condemned the post and called for it to be removed. Publican Republican Senator Tim Scott said, praying it was fake because it's the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House. The President should remove it, and then House Minority Leader Hai King Jeffries said, this is this disgusting video posted by the so called president has done. Was done intentionally f Donald Trump and his vole racist and malignant behavior he did. You know, he went on and on, he says some other things. But you know a lot of people have spoken out against this, a lot of celebrities and you know, politicians are speaking out about it. And after bipartisan backlash, Trump finally removed the posts and blamed it on the White House staffer. A White House official said a White House staffer erroneously made the post. It has been taken down. Trump claimed he did not see the whole video where the meme of the Obama's appears to appears at the end, but this video promotes fake allegations of voting machines helping to steal the twenty twenty election. So Trump he refuses to admit admit any wrongdoing or apologize. A spokesperson for the Obama stated, they have no they have no comment. This isn't the first time Trump has a tag former President Obama. When Obama was in office, Trump accused him of not being born in Hawaii and being born in Kenya instead. So this post plays on a long history of racist tropes against black people, comparing them to primates. So a lot of people were saying, like, why isn't this White House staffer that posted this, why hasn't this person been fired? Well, Trump might have to fire anybody that he don't want to fire, and I my thing is one. Al Sharper said if he has, if that person is fired, Trump would have to walk himself out. Well, just like I said, I'm not surprised of anything that happens, the amount of stuff that has been happening. I'm not all that this happened. I'm more surprised that I didn't hear a comment from you know, the Obamas. I mean this, if it was anything that should have been at the very least acknowledged and said like yo, it was deplorable and it shouldn't have happened, and it. Was racist or whatever, and cool. I see most of us more mad than anything. And it's just it's very it's very it was just very disrespectful. But I'll say this, I think that was a distraction because it's other stuff that's happening out there right now that has been tearing up the you know, my timeline, and everybody just automatically stopped talking about that for a minute because it is But I'm gonna just say, stay warped and leave it at that. Well, yeah, I think that number one we do know was a distraction because if you look at the sixty set in video, they are it's trying to accuse the twenty twenty is trying to show like, oh, these voting machines are they were designed to pretty much steal the election. And then once you get to the end, there's like two seconds of this meme. So the whole thing is all that voting stuff, and then you get to the very end as it's going out, it's two seconds of this mean. So I mean, clearly, I mean, I'm just saying that this is just me speaking, not the reflection of we talk weekly. But I'm just saying like it seemed like it is just like a you know, it's a distraction. You know, do not be distracted. I agree with that part. Don't be distracted by, you know, from all the other stuff that's going on, everything else that's important. You know, we're still waiting on the rest of the Epstein files and everything that's going on there. It's a lot of stuff that that you need to pay attention to. Number one. The other part too, is that I don't feel like the Obamas have to make a comment because I would be like, I'm offended, Like you're not gonna apologize to me. What what do I have to. Say, Like I'm not what you just said, because. I feel like they could be they could be hurt, they could be offended, they could be being attacked and bullied on social media because a lot of this this ignites and reignites rhetoric and stuff like people that target people. And not only that, I didn't I don't know if this has anything to do with this, but I did see something else on social media where now it's like encouraging this type of behavior towards just average. Black person, which is the reason why I felt or I feel that they should say something, and it's it becomes a matter of because at this point is rage baiton to me, that's what I see, and I believe that, you know. Sometimes you have a responsibility to. You're going to have people that looks like me that's going to be super upset, right and may do something that they shouldn't be doing. And since the Obamas are kind of like the first family to people who look like me, they probably need to say, look, we know what's going on. Don't get excited, don't get it's okay, we understand it's nonsense, and kind of like turn face or about face or whatever they want to do. But I do think they have a responsibility to address it. Otherwise, people which I have already heard people like, well they not mad? Or wat should I right? And so? Which is? Which? Is another conversation, and I think it's nuance and it has more layers. But I do think that there's some type of responsibility for those that may be rage baited into doing something that you know, the other people are hoping that they do. So now they can retaliate and say say that type of thing, So, well, who are said? If they're not mad and so am I, then they could just stay silent. That's true. You don't have to say nothing. But but at the same time too, if the Obama's addressed everybody that called you. How many times. Former First Lady Michelle Obama has been called that? If she said, you're addressed every time that somebody called her a primate or disrespected her, she'd be all day responding to nonsense, like. One hundred percent. I don't really feel like I mean, it's just like you know what I mean, times Obama has been called something, and like things have been said or done to them over the years, for like the last almost ten years, Like I don't I'm not surprised that they didn't jump out the window to like defend themselves. I'm thinking, you know, when they go low, we go high, and that she doesn't think to justify that with any response. And if she's anything like me, I don't argue with fools and I don't negotiate with demons. So okay, yeah that too, yep, I got yeah. I think everyone. I think everyone has an opinion. That's I mean, two things could be true, you know, two things could be true. And you know, to to that last point, Lauren, you know I agree with you too. I will say that. All of those derogatory statements that was made about the First Lady, which was horrible. They never came from their peers. Technically, the president of the United States is the past president's peer, and so that never came from the White House like that. And so to say another president off his pretty much Instagram or whatever social media account, come from his page to say you are or this is a reflection of you. To me, that's a problem. I mean, but that's just me. I agree with you. I think two things could be true. I'm not saying anything is wrong. I'm just saying certain things need to be I think that that's something that should be addressed. There are populations of our society where a response from those they look to in love, respect and people want gude us from where if you don't address it, then people can pre can. I do believe that there's a. Second of our population that once that feels that they're old at and deserves that, and it would be wise to say something or do something. So in my head, I'm just expecting like a family photo shoot to come out door Black History Month showing that they are the end all be all in there, and I'm expecting like that silent and subtle but okay, how about this. Yeah, And I like the support that's been going forward from like just every so many different people that that have been just like sharing just pictures of the Obamas to their social media's and just you know, showing love. I think that that speaks volumes without saying really saying anything, you just you know, posting posting the picture just to show your support. Because I think the blatant, the blatanty of the president. If you're the you're the commander in chief of the United States. If you're saying that your stafford made the mistake, but you're not going to apologize, that's that does it out of everything. Okay, it was put out there. You didn't see because I think he claims that because it was at the end, he didn't start, and you know, whatever. The excuse is. So if it wasn't intentional to say, to apologize, like to have the quorum and integrity behind something that you know wasn't intentional, or it does not sit well with. Me, apologize anybody. Not directly. Yeah, I've heard. Be but apology is not even it's for you're you're the commander in chief, so you're the leader, you're the coach. So if you're football makes something that you're coaching, then as a leader, you take on whatever was wrong. So even your your mission. Is that your staff did this and he was the staff member were all then as a leader you're supposed to say, okay, I have to take that and apologize behind what the mishap was. And I don't know. I think I really think that Trump has dementia. I think he's going through neurological problems and allegedly, but I really think that as someone in healthcare who can see the signs and symptoms of someone who has sundowning or early signs of being demented or senile, he fits that allegedly, but he fits the symptoms. That's it. Can I ask this question. With and I'm trying to be serious and accent medical manically related question, And I know you can't diagnose necessarily by proxy from afar, but with your assessment, there is that like a nice way of ignoring the diagnosis that he is a textbook diagnosed narcissist. And then this is what these behaviors are, and this is what people are saying. I'm not making a diagnosis. I don't know, I ain't treated the man so well. I'm not a medical doctor, nor h you know, psychotherapists or psychiatrist, but if you textbook and look at some of those obvious signs that he has, then I you know, I would definitely say that there are symptoms that he demonstrates that are textbook facts, that is, with a textbook diagnosis and demonstrates. Yeah, he displays certain characteristics. Interesting, that's like when you're doing bipolarism or schizophrenia, and these are different symptoms and signs that happen. It's it's very very on par with that. But I also think, because this is his you know, he can't run again, I feel like I think he's being reckless because there's that he doesn't care. He might find a way. You never know, uh, you know, so I'll just say to my people, to my people, relax, it's you know, the Obamas probably had something on the on the horizon, but relax. We we we already see see through it. That's all, see through. It all right. That calls for a beat like that. We needed a pause after all of that. Yeah, because because I'm I'm like, yeah, we we can. We could still be diligent. But at the same time. We can take our time out and dress like dressed stuff called the spade a spade. Yeah, I think, yeah. Yeah, yeah, because I mean, I don't know, we keep people certain people keep getting passes, and they, you know, the more passes they get because they feel like, oh, I'm I can just go unchecked, you know, because I have unchecked power, I can do what I want. And then people this will just blow over and nobody's gonna say nothing. They will leave me alone and whatever. And it's just not cool because the stuff that it affects is a marginalized group of people or or a select group of people, which it's just not cool. I agree. I think we need to start thinking about strategy. I've been saying this since we heard about Project twenty twenty five. I said, how come we don't have a project. We need to be strategizing and put some things in order that one it needs to be that's what we need to be talking about, like how can we Yeah, let's make let's let's make this thing happen. Sure, Yeah, I think more more people need to just like I said, you just gotta I mean, we got to get the word out there that there is work that needs to be done to get the word out of what those plans are. All right, So the celebrity Sizzle of the week goes to Big Sean and Usher. They are investing one million into a Detroit youth Innovation Incubator Incubator hub inside the Michigan Central Boys and Girls Club. So the fifteen thousand square foot state of the arc facility, decked out with media studios, podcasts, and fashion design rooms, is geared towards supporting young adults ages fourteen to twenty four and music, filming, text so they can pursue these careers without having to relocate. So President and CEO of the Boys and Girls Club of Southeastern Michigan, Sean H. Wilson said in a statement, we're transforming talent into capital, and we're transforming talent into capital and creative and creativity into journal into generational wealth. And then Big Sean said his mission has always been to make sure the next generational dreamers and innovators, has innovators from my city had the access, tools and mentorship to do the same. And then he says the Innovation Incubator is about showing young people that they don't have to leave Detroit to chase opportunity. They can build. It right here, and then Usher said, I've always been a true believer in igniting a spark in the next generation to be better and have access to things we didn't. It takes just one person to believe in your success, and I'm honored to be one of many in this partnership to help make that happen. So kudos to Big Sean Usher and the CEO president of the Boys and Girls Club of Southeastern Michigan. And you know, it's just exciting time for these these you to have opportunity to know music, film and tech. I'm a girl, Lawrence Sizzel and that was a sizzle. There was a sizzle, ladies and gentlemen, I'm your boy, Charles Gregor. With the beautiful, classy ladies spark, the beautiful Lawrence Sizzle, Beautiful Henry Missus. We talked week after the talk on WPPM LP Philadelphia on a six point five film. We talked weekly after the talk. I want to good stories, Lauren. I want to pull this up because this is exactly what I was talking about. Monica says, even the midterms, it's not a strategy. What happens after that how do we get people to care about elections as well? And that's the thing. We don't have any strategy. We have a lot of people on you know, different points, different sectors of community, doing their own things, talking about what they're doing on their ends, not what do we do as a collective. Because I know the church have this many people. That's a collective over there. I know the messged, you know the emails has you know a collective over here. I know that the Catholic churches has there, Like, how can we get together and say this is what we're going to do. I don't see it. Don't see. That's because the way you just said all of that, No. I just that's that was only on a religious sector, right, that was only religious sector. But I'm saying that broadly and saying that we still don't have people. I mean, we had just this past selection for the mayor. I mean we literally had eight nine people maybe twelve running for the mayor. Fourteen running. Familiar. Yeah, problem, But you just described go ahead, well finished. No. I was just gonna say to me, that's a problem, especially when for five of those people was on city council agreeing to the same policies. None of that makes sense to me. None of that makes sense to me. And so if y'all can't come and say, you know what, I think this is the strongest people or the strongest person that should run. Let's come together, and I think everybody is in it for theirself run this. And you can respond at this part, but she says, this is how we keep losing as people, no collective. See literally, this is exactly what I'm talking about, and this is what I'm hearing from the people. We talk weekly. Is in those streets, we listen to the people and what they're saying. We're at these town you will see we talk weekly at most of these events when they allow us to get in. And I'm being transparent on that because sometimes they'll stop us or say that we're not big enough to be in there. You know, there are some gatekeepers and so they get called out right. But what I will say is, you know, I listen to the people and what they're saying, and a lot of the commentary that I give is from the perspective of that maybe not exactly what I think, but it's what the people think, and so I like to give that information out go sport. Just echoing what you said. I mean, I was just going to say, like, there's a saying that a house divide, So if everybody has division, but also to your point, will come and still we want all the same outcomes, So why are we divided? Everybody wants best, but yet and still there's so much division. So that's where the strategy she needs to be. Where what is the what's the common denominator, what's the overall outcome that everybody wants and go for that, because even with all those. That we're running from, Mayor, it was like, why are we Why are all of y'all. Running when some people should team up to use their skill set in order to make another person strong enough for putting out the message and you know, amplifying it that way. It's yeah, I don't know, that's that's I see the way you're saying. It's like, why is it? Why is it so much division? We've even had that on the presidential level, Like when a bunch of people want to run for president, is it's kind of hard to, you know, tell somebody who's passionate about running that they can't run. I don't, I don't, I don't know. What I mean, I guess there is a way that that that probably would work, like if they if they could work together as like all right, I'll put you in my administration and then like you form a team or something like that, and like if I if I'm the best candidate, just like you know, what's his name? I can't think it's first name, but I don't know if it's Jason, but i'll I'll read how he stepped out of the race to let Jazz mccrockett run. That's yeah, like I guess he felt like maybe she might have had more of a better chance than he did. But then it's like if that person you know, steps down, put that person in your cabinet, I mean, and your you know, on your staff, so that like it has to be some type of plan, you know what I mean. No, and and but that's but that's the problem. Like someone should say, you know what, let me step aside. What happens is you got gatekeepers who want to stay in the position or get their friends in there. So people who. May not even be qualified or somebody that's in their camp, they're like, no, I'm putting you in position to run. And what happens people who literally have the ability to run or need to be or verified to run, they get outsted or not out it because they're not in, but they get blocked, get kept and can't even get in. And that happens a lot, especially in Philadelphia, and that's a problem. Monica candidate, I know we're aware of Christian campassion. I think that's the one that Ernst ernest Owns is moderating. And I believe that we supposed to Lauren, that's the one that they was talking about. I think so Monica, you probably know, but about ernest Owns if he's moderating that. But we're supposed to be at a few. But if we're not at this one, we'll definitely make sure that we try to get there. And yeah, we. Will make sure that we get this filment and make sure that the people get an opportunity to see it and amplify that this is what's happening, because some times people don't even know about these right. Also, she says, I. Point blank, I point blank excuse me, asks one of the candidates, why wasn't there a black backdoor meeting? Uh, chose one person and everyone put their back in. But yeah, that's the thing. Oh no, no, that's Joanne's but Clinton. Hold on, I'm gonna come back to that. But she just answered me, No, that's Johanna Mclinton and Jordan Harris a lottery. Okay, so we'll be at that on too, then, no, no doubt. I appreciate that we'll be at that one too. If you had something to do with that, let me know in box me. But uh yeah, she says, she points blank acts someone like, why don't y'all get together and put somebody in. There, like just do just do it? People don't. They like, no, I want this, or I was here first, or I just don't get it. People don't want to pass it. But times sometimes it's just yo. Sometimes we need younger people in spaces to lead the charge, and we support those voices. We don't do that. We don't, especially in Philadelphia, we don't do that. And what happens is you have people who have these old perspectives, old views, and if they're not older, right, we have people who just put them in there and they still follow in there, but they become beanie babies of those who've been in office, right, And that's a problem. We need new blood in there. With fresh perspectives that has their heir to the streets because you're not gonna tell you're not going to be a leader who has been around since the rotary telephone telling me how to operate a our phone. It doesn't work. It doesn't work. New perspectives. These kids don't even know what. I just literally watched, which was interesting, a video of about eight now these were eight eight kids in high school. They put a rotary phone and said, how do you dial that? They literally picked it up and started doing this. That's These are people in high school. These weren't elementary kids. And these you know which the elementary kids probably would have figured that out because they've become smarter. They probably would have googled it or something like that. But these kids. Don't know right what's going on, or have that bridge to an older community. It needs to be an older community bridging that gap for younger people to lead a new generation to lead. That's it. We need. We need new voices in offices to lead these charges. It's a problem here. The connection becomes with the support that we can look up and say thank you because we need the wisdom. That's community. I don't know what's going on here. We got this thing mixed up in Philadelphia, and that's a problem, which is why we're having so many issues today. And that's that's that's what I got and I don't care who's man at that. That's what we do. We talk, We keep it a buck here. We in those streets, we see what's going on. It's the institutional knowledge that we have been seeing that y'all keep promising all these stupid promises that we see and it's fake and it's false. Y'all not doing it right, and we have a problem with it. We interview ninety percent of the candidates that come through. We do that. You can look and research the videos. We hear the same stuff. We hear the same Please to vote, make sure you vote. It's important to vote. Vote, vote, because the ancestors died for you to vote. If you don't vote, your voice don't care. We heard it all literally, We was part of initiative Every Voice, Every Vote, and all of the people that would say certain things, we see them later and they don't follow up. And it's everyone everyone in leadership, even at the top. Sad things don't fault. But someone can say, Okay, that's politics. I'm on my soap box, right man, I'm about the I would just say that it's very important that you find candidates that's eager, that's true to their word, you seem more than it's just time to be elected, and that's important not just when their campaign and you see them on the road before. It's time for election. And that's where I met my best spark. Go ahead, well, Charles, I think that you make a great point, and I think that it's something that people are afraid to admit. I think we have an issue with pride amongst people in general, but leadership where the elders who have been, you know, on top in control, had all the knowledge and was an end all be all up until this time. I think there's a fear there to relinquish that control. I think there's a fear there to slide to the background. You'll hear stories that when people hear retirement, they feared retirement because they feel that they'll they'll soon perish or pass away, and so they're refusing to pass off this the time, not recognizing or their pride won't allowed them to recognize that there's still a place in the position for them. But it's more behind the scenes. That wisdom and knowledge is still needed, but it needs to be deposited in that changing of the guards and changing of the time into the next generations. So there's still room for you. There's still there's room for everybody, but they can't acknowledge that. They can't accept that. And I feel like there's fear and pride in blockage. But it's doing major damage to our climate into the generations that are here and to come ahead of us. That's what happens. That's what happens. And then once younger, like when we have a safe example in I mean this is not to support anyone, but when you have safe example a Catherine Gilmore Richardson or Isaiah Thomas and or you know some of the youngest, when younger ones just on there, where you have people like that and they're eager and they don't include someone is kind of like, how. You mad you wasn't supporting them. I seen Isaiah run three times, three times, and we cover them all. A lot of people ain't want to support them because he was young. That's a problem. Instead of saying, you know what, let me just be on your cabinet or something, you know what, you know what a younger person that may be running, or someone that may just be you know, a little green, why don't you just be be a counselor consult It's so many different things. You just don't have. To say no, you can't do that shit. Look minic because she's spitting part now, she said. And you only see them in the community until they want something from the community. That's I'm telling you, she preaching. Uh, they should be mentoring. Yes, these offices the same way we mentor children. When I'm gonna leave this one up where there are no youth, it means the community is period, period. It's no question. You know. It's also hypocritical because a lot of these people, you know how we have hold over tenants, people who stay in houses past their term, but we have holdover people and even in the church world, in a secular world, in all forms of leadership. And it's hypocritical to not want to support a young person because you've had these positions for forty and fifty years. You were young when you did. This too, So what gives you the right It is that a young person following your same exact what's and start off young? Yeah, and I agree with you, Tanisha. They have senior advisors, like the president has a say like, these are actual roles that they can play that are still a very high you know ranking. A senior advisor means through them to get that information. So that's right, that's right. And again I'm not even just talking age too. I'm just talking about in in kind of politics. They're young in the space, they have new views. Just give them the opportunity say you know what, I think. You know, we're gonna get behind you. I see that you you know, I don't feel like doing this anymore. It's people that has been running for that has been in office over ten years. Man, that's end there that I mean, for me, that's a problem when it's other people that's coming behind you that you can literally mentor I'm talking about ten fifteen years that has been in the same space. I mean, let me stop for I start getting calls or whatever. But I'm gonna just say this, if Philadelphia needs to truly think about the future of Philadelphia, because what's happening, Philadelphia is losing itself. What we know Philadelphia to be, it isn't anymore. One can argue that, well, that's kind of like the argument you're making about the new versus ah main thing. But what I will say is that the future of Philadelphia is bleak and if we don't get new ideas, we will fall in old ways, which is the point. So start thinking about what we can do as a community, as a city. Because you know, we say Philadelphia, we say we are city in steep, But what can we do as Philadelphia to be better in solving a lot of the issues, some of the issues that we've been having for years, and stop stop gatekeeping initiatives, Stop gatekeeper initiatives and people that have been doing the work that has the answers. And just because you've been in those spaces such a long time, you feel like you want to come in and change it something that's already working. Maybe you need to look in the mirror because it's something wrong with you. And I'm gonna leave it at that and lead this last comment. We've been up here so long, we should have been off right now, Monica says, and this would be the last common Thanks MANA. First of all, I want to say thank you for being so active and engaged in this conversation. I know you in your house flipping chairs and tables right now, Monica, Monica has also been Monica has been very active in the community, from early education to policy, to politics to community activism. Monica Monica has been doing the work. So she totally gets in the understanding. She knows exactly what I'm talking about. She knows the things that I'm referring to. Right But anyway, the comment says, and the senior folks have the network that younger folks need exactly so we need. As a community. Anyway, I don't get why we are mentoring those younger people to run for office. Even as committee people, we have similar issues, right, So thanks Monica in boxing anyway, we need to be in touch. We need to talk about some things. But yeah, so, ladies and gentlemen people in Philadelphia, continue to do the work, continue advocating for the community. Continue advocating for your community. Thank miss Johnson down the block, because believe it or not, the Senator can't come on your block and stop a gang war. But I bet you Miss Johnson can come down and be like y'all better sit y'all butt down. I know all y'all moms. I have seen it happen. I have seen it happen, and that's the type of community that needs to continue to happen. These days, you can't even knock on your next door neighbor and ask for a loaf. Of bread or a piece of bread. Can't do it. You don't even know your next door neighbor. This is what's happening now. Community isn't there anymore? What can we do to do better? Sometimes it's not about national policy. Sometimes it's about what's happening locally. Start thinking about the judges. Start thinking about why your cousin dayDay is getting roofed, getting fifty years over something small. Well, guess what you didn't do when it was time for election? Judges was there? You ain't feel like voting, or you ain't feel like going, I ain't sitting, I don't feel like doing some service today. Right, You gotta start thinking about little things. Start talking to the people, Start communicating with the people, Start supporting the people, the people that's next to you. And that's my fault, Sparkle, Look like you want something to say before I end this? You good? I concur with everything. Get y'all said, yeah, And hopefully somebody's watching this that is saying you know what, as one of those people who are gatekeeping, they're going to be advocate and try to make a change. No doubt, no doubt. Go ahead, Sizzel, you have something to say before we end. No, just do your research. Vote, vote for the candidates that are doing the work you want. You know, stay connected and that's what's important. Stay engaged. That's right, that's right. Counselor, you got something to say before I end the show. I have to collect my thoughts, no doubt. No doubts. Uh so, yeah, yes, stay stay engaged. Ladies and gentlemen. We talk weekly, will always keep you in the loop as much as we can. What keeps us continuing to do our job is to support also, so make sure you subscribe and doing it if you can. We talk, we catch up and we talk weekly, or just tell a friend a share like a subscribe. You could do that. That costs you nothing, right, and so there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your boy, Tcharansgregor with the beautiful. Classic Lady Sparkle, the beautiful Florence, Beautiful Tanisa Henry. I'm the boy Charles Gregor and were out here like last year y'all. Piers absolute, y'all. Hey, this is my saying. 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