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Yeah, we're here. We're back. What a day. What a day. I love when we get back on the show. This is we talk weeklies after the talking w P P M l P Philadelphia want O six point five. That's when we talked weeklies after the talk with your boy Charles Gregory and beautiful Lawrence. Oh, let me get this mic right. One more game, Lawrence. There you go. There you go all class league where you at class? One more game? One more again? Class? What market you on? Three? Let's try again Classic. Yeah. I gotta make sure that Mike gets on. That's all that is. And so we talked weeklies after the talk. Man, we're here a dynamic day. We got a dynamics uh interview one with through my in tremendous amount of respect for actually goes back. You know, she's a good friend to the show, and so she's gonna come in and talk a little bit of civics so to speak. Uh. We need that. Yeah, we definitely need that. Some of the things that's going on in the world today. We're gonna talk so politics, Man, if anyone can talk politics, the sister that's coming on a day can definitely talk politics. And we have another young lady coming on. Definitely business person. Uh, we have thought we just have a ch nice show man. We got the sizzle, of course, the Sizzles coming on, and we got good news and bad news. We got some you know, up to the minute news. I get these alerts. I'm gonna start reading some of these alerts that I guess so we can stay on top of the news of the world or news of the day, some of the things that's happening. But in any event, you know how we always start to show. All right, So how was your day? How was your day? I had a good day. I had got some much needed uh you know what they call beauty. Care or whatever. Yeah, it was just relaxing. I just got like a you know, little my eyelash extension touch up, you know, the refill and all that, and just laying on the table and relaxing. And you know, I turned my. The girl that was doing I turned her into wass therapists because I'm in there telling her all my problems and she's talking and she's like, oh, you'll be all writing. So it was it was like therapeutic for me. So you did for women, it is, yes, but I had to give her an extra tip too, because I was like, she just sit here and listen to my problems, and. You know, I had to give her extra tip. Nice. That was nice. That's funny. All right, Well what about your class? Many I relaxed today. I have been on this workout journey that I'm surprised of because I ain't did it in since I was like in my you know, younger twenties. But every day, every day I get up and it's like up like six thirty, and I call it wogging because it's like a walk and a jog, and I do two and a half miles with a thirty pound weighted best and then I take two ten pounds weights and I walk trying to muscles. No, no, I'm just I don't for real, for real at this at this stage. Now, I'm just doing it not physicality because I feel like my health and everything. It's like how SIZZL just said that that care like it really gives me my worship time, my time where I'm at peace, Like I don't know something's going on with me. I just started a garden and now I started it about three weeks ago, yep. And now my cucumbers and my tomatoes are budding. Oh yeah, you got the two wrong things. What because well not they're good, They're they're great vegetables. The problem is just those vines because the to me right, they usually grow up and they're pretty vining. With those cucumbers. Well, I did put like a wire gate because I have it where because I started so late, I want to make sure I can bring them in when it you know, when we get to the frost of the fall. So I put a gate in there where the wires up. Mhm so and yeah, so so uh yeah, so I'm I'm excited outside of that. I did jalapeno peppers, I've done onions, I have different types of herbs, basil, mint time and then but yeah, that's yeah, so it's just and I did broccoli, broccoli. I want to see watermelons. Is the same thing with the vines. So I'm gonna just wait on that because again, I mean, I started late, so I'm doing it a little where I can kind of be in control of it. You just weren't being well control of the vines. Here we go. Did you have a green thumb before that or like, because you know how some people just don't have that green thumb. As a kid, I grew up in Mount Area and I remember my mom We're being out in the front yard and we're just planning and we would plant so much different things. And then when I became grown and I lived in Virginia, me and my girls were planting. So then I think I lost it when life started to life. And yeah, and after that, it wasn't I didn't, I didn't do it. I just I did it. Maybe I did the fire bed maybe once, and then I just stopped. So then I started to just have my plants. And then my money tree, a friend of mine had moved it, and then I realized it was dying and I brought it back and I'm like, I remember this feeling and it felt so good. So I was like, you know what, let me you know, and I'm just loving it. I just I love being in the dirt. I love I just love it. I do. I love it. So that therapeutic. It is, it really is, it really is. So see how is your day, and don't just give us it was busy. Days are always busy. My day is always busy. It's just you know, life be life in us. All I say, uh, dynamic dat though, and uh but you know, you know what, I'm excited for good news. You know, why don't we do this? You know I just got alert too. This is this is some good news. Let's let's do this and so shout out to the us A Olympics swimming team. Team USA wins men's four or five one hundred freestyle relay for first gold of Paris Olympics. And don't get them around for Pauls. Let's say doing anything. Let me read a little bit of this said. This just popped up on my phone. Team USA men's four by one hundred meters freestyle relay team had something noble work to do for metal in Saturday's night final after qualifying fourth earlier in the day. You know, all you have to do is just qualify. You don't necessarily have to win that so that's great. But this right, So they qualified later in the day. Tweaking the lineup between preliums and final sessions at Paris uh Defense Arena, the Americans put on a show in the fastest relay in a pool on their way to gold, the USA first of twenty twenty four Paris Olympics. Shout out to say, I'm excited about that. I'm excited about anything that to the United States. I'm a United States fans, and so i want the United States to win everything. So you're loyal because that's how you are feeling. Yeah, that's how. Yeah, you don't fill out Philly against everybody. That's what they say, shilly against everybody. And how about Simon Bios. Like, oh, she killed it, shelled she got to stand in ovation and something. I got to learn that earlier too, because there's a clip that she's just like, go do we talk weekly Instagram and you have to see this clip. She's just like superhuman. I just love her, Yes, exactly exactly, sister. She's she's a unicorn. She is. She's an unicorn, like you know, that's one of those things that you have to give her. She's she's the goat, like a walking goat, you know, for those who don't know what gold is. Uh, that's the greatest of all times. And just want to make sure that you don't think I'm just calling her goat. You know, some people say, why are you kindly her a goat? No, she is the coat the greatest all times, you know, So shout out to her. Yeah, for sure, you give around another random applause. I like that, all right. And so you want to go into good news and bad news right now? Yeah, I'm ready. All right, that's going to good news and bad news ready for me? Yeap, all right, give it to me early man. All right. So, as we talked about Philly everything, this year, twenty three three thousand Philadelphia students have taken advantage of the summer learning program. Wow, it was compared to fourteen thousand students last year. Now, mind you, I'm not sure if this is just the parents saying like, look, at least you could take your kids somewhere while you either have peace of mind or doing something else. But it kind of doubled. So again, twenty three thousand children Philadelphia students last year compared to the fourteen Twenty three thousand this year compared to the fourteen thousand last year. More than three hundred high school students received credit during the summer school year, and the nearly one hundred and twenty district school buildings across the city have been opened this summer for programs. So they are to me, would sound with this it sounds like they're using the money appropriately right, twenty Philadelphia schools will start year round calendar pilot, getting mourning and aftercare in the fall. Source it says, so beginning in the twenty twenty four five school year, free before and after school care will be provided at twenty schools. Teachers won't be required to change their schedules, and families will have the ability to opt in. So you get, that's fine, that's yeah. Yeah, And when I spoken to. You for a record, that's not how it started though, No, I. Know I think that. But see that's a good thing because when it's like okay, either you know, the mayor the staff, they heard them, you know what I mean. But we have to speak up so our voices could be heard to let them know what we want. And I was going to say in Virginia they had year round school. They just basically broke it up that their vacation times or whatever was longer, which and then they dismissed earlier during the year opposed to later, you know what I mean. So it's still it's still like even not the same way. So all right, our next story is not this is very bad news. So a nation watched in shock as a video was released of a sheriff's deputy fatally shot shooting Sonya Massey. I'm quite sure y'all heard of this correct. She's a thirty six year old black woman who called nine to one one for help in her Illinois home. Sean Gracie, a deputy sheriff for Sangamon County, is being charged with her murder. On July sixth, Massey called nine to one one about a prowler in the neighborhood. So body camera footage shows searching around her home before she opened the door. She was obviously and seemingly confused and frighten him. After a brief interaction in the kitchen, Grayson noticed there was a pot over the flame on the stove, so the sheriff's deputy, seeing her at the stove with the pot, Macy quickly moved the pan towards the sink, but when she unexpectedly, I rebuke you in the name of Jesus, Grayson, feeling threatened, drew his non millimeters pistol and shot Macy while she was still holding the pot. Gracie now faced his first degree murder, aggravated assault, and official misconduct charges, with the possibility of decades in prison. Prison. Macy, a mother of two, was described by her son as a ball of energy. He did say she struggled with mental illness but had strong religious faith. Prosecutors argue that Grayson showed callousness and dismissed his training. While Grayson's background included a brief military stint in multiple short term law enforcement roles, he remains in jail without bond, pleading not guilty to all charges. At no point this defendant showed anything but callousness towards human life, and this was stated by the first Assistant State Attorney, Mary Beth Rogers. What's your take on that, y'all? No, he needed it. They need to put him under the jail. I can't wait till he get to jail because they're going to make sure that he uh yeah, yeah, he gets what he deserved. Period, What do you think? It's just extremely disturbing because you know, I've seen the video of course, and just my my I have I don't know why I often do this, but I'll put myself in the shoes of the person, and like it just was terrifying, and so many mixed feelings about that because when the video starts, he's talking to her, like are you okay today? So people were like he does he have he has he run into her before? And like does he know her? People are saying that this is pre seems premeditated, which it kind of kind of did, because it just seems like he was looking for a reason to, you know, shoot her, right, it seems like he was looking for a reason too. And it's just it's just it's just sad. It's just it's just really sad, and I'm just lost for words. I got two takes on it. The first one is the training that they talked about, what happened to the tasers, you know what I mean, or just just something first prevented if that person doesn't have a gun. And then the second question I have is that with the mental health, because she, you know, the sun says she has mental health, where is that, you know what I mean? Like, where is that trying to have that decernment of understanding what mental health looks like or you know what I mean, even asking they do certain certain tests for you to see if you're intoxicated, you know, like ask her do you suffer from mental health issues or something? You know, if you if you because she did seem a little out of it when she was like coming outside of the you know, of the house when they were talking, she did seem a little bit like I can't describe it, but it looks like, Okay, we need to. Handle this a little differently, right, because she did say to the officer, I'm taking my medication. So it's just And then this officer, he's been to several different police districts. He's I think, I don't know if this was his fourth for fifth or fifth or sixth district that he was he was at, and he also had two d wy's. Yeah. And then there was something that I saw where there were interviewing. I guess, like the. Director at the police district where he was working, and there were incidents internal where he was I guess, wanting to people, wanting to have people act. Misconduct, like, you. Know, things that were inappropriate for police officers to do so. And there was one quote that I saw where they were like he this type They said, this type of person is the type of person that will end up in jail for murdering someone. But it's just, you know, I don't understand why they continue to employ him, seeing as he's had these conflicts with other officers. He's asking police to act unethical. It's just I don't understand. I don't understand. Unfortunately, she woke up that day not knowing she would make the call to her own death. It's horrible. And I think one time we had the conversation where we were talking about this was around George Floyd and we were talking about what needs to happen when it comes to police reform, and we were talking about, well, they need to create the system where it follows the police officer and they know that, you know, this officer has done this X, Y and Z and other police districts where he was employed. And but how many strikes do you need where you're out like you're no longer being employed as a police officer. I think that this is and some may not agree with this, but follow the money every time this happens. Make it where they're going to have it come out of their pocket because they're going to think about their you know, not saying that they like, okay, throw away the pension and all of that, but okay, don't throw away the pension. Let it be where the pension goes to the family. Let it be where you know what I'm saying, like, let it be something that they're going to feel that. Now if you do this, you're you're still getting this, but it won't go into your account. It's going to go into the family of whoever, and it's you know, into the investigation. But yeah, all right. So moving on to some lighter news, Chester has some exciting news. The City of Chester is launching there Facade Enhancement Initiative to make their central business district look amazing. So starting in twenty twenty five, and for those that don't know, the City of Chester is right out on the outskirts of Philadelphia. Yeah neighbors, Yeah. Yeah, yeah, our trash goes to Chess. That was a situation, right, all right, So starting in twenty twenty five, they'll be fixing up the storefronts, of grading the signs and adding new paint, better lighting, and more than on more of the four hundred and five hundred blocks of Avenue of the States. They aim to finish by the end of twenty twenty six, and Mayor Stefan Route said that the project will boost community pride and attract new businesses and visitors. Commercial building owner can get up to fifty thousand dollars in grants for improvement. So, for you those that are listening business owners in the City of Chester, a grant, as you may know, means you don't pay it back. So fifty thousand dollars in grants for improvement seems pretty nice. And this is with the priority for minority and women own businesses. Yeah, don't miss out on this. Applications must be in before or by July thirty first, twenty twenty four. Chester is open for business. And for those I've seen some comments on the page where this was also put on their social media and people were like, well, I should be able to get it. I'm not a minority or woman owned. You know if a white male is saying it, and I think what it is is that that is true like a lot of let's just say white males, because women and minority owned businesses are being at the front of the line. It's not saying that white men are not going to get it, but it's just saying that minority and women own have been a press for so long that they've always been at the back of the line. So you don't know it, but either you or your predecessors were at the front of the line. You know what I'm saying. So that's why it's when priority for minority and women's own business. So yeah, so shout out to Chester for fifty thousand dollars up to fifty thousand dollars in grants and improvement that much, your girl, classy lady sparkle with good news and bad news. Almost no I was gonna say, I was gonna tell them about our cash add tell them anywhere. Okay, all right, well if you'll, if y'all listen to this story and then some of this stuff you didn't know. We take our sweat and tears and we investigate things. We fact check them. We sometimes go out and do interviews to get it from you know, the horse's mouth. So all of this is out of our heard o money as well. So we need help from you all to help this initiative. Help. We talk weekly and by doing so, you can go to our cash app with dollar sign We talked weekly, or if you can't you know, financially contribute. We do ask that you follow us, or you share the word, or you comment and you like and you subscribe. You can also go to our website at www dot wetalkweekly dot com. There you go. There you have it, Ladies and gentlemen. We talked weekly after the talking WPPM P Philadelphia one o six point five FM. We talked weeklies after the talk. I had a I got excited because one of my favorite people in the world just walked in my studio. We're gonna talk a little bit because there's a lot going on, you know, but let me just talk to some more news that just popped in fifty two seconds ago. Right part of I ninety five you're watching. It's part of I ninety five closed in Philadelphia after crash. Lee's two injured. So if you're on I ninety five, you gotta be careful. It's as a portion of Interstate ninety five north and southwest Philly is closed due to a crest. So that's close to the airport. So if you in that area, just be you know, just behind ye. There you go. It happened just before six thirty pm on the highway between Bartram what I'll just tell you, between Bartram Avenue and North broad Street. According to police, two people were transported to a local hospital with injuries. There is no word yet on their condition. That's up to the minute, y'all. Yeh, So if you coming back from the airport, if you're around there southwest, just be aware that there's you might experience some delays because of that. Hold on, let me tell you cause you say that. Moment again, Sorr. I was just saying, oh you yeah. Yep, that's right in the say, just before six and so this was that makes sense? Absolutely absolutely so I want you guys to go anywhere when we come back. We got this dynamic and if we're gonna talk a little bit, right so we'll be right back after this year. Hold on, we just want to get a little background as to who the fantastic noises and the noisemakers, if you can let us know, yes, absolutely so, once again, I am fantastic noise. I am the original noisemaker. So no one's gonna make as much noise as to me. Okay, And right here we have the Noisemaker Band. This is only half of it, and the other stuffs are upstairs. The my My, Kevin, Kevin, Lamar, Lannie and Dobbs, who are the actual band members. These are the background singers and we can to make some noise. We can to bring that noise today. So that's that's what we do. That's right. How did you guys get together? Man? So it started with I've been doing this on my own for almost three years now, and man, I've got each of these people. Here have different background stories. Most of us went to the same church together, and we just kept going. This one her, this is my one of my assistants said, one. Of like the my my biggest support of my biggest shit of the hears some assistant. So we just been building and the same thing with upstairs with the band, just meeting through. People kept work and. Kept saying it was just like God or dang bam here we are awesome. Well, could you. Guys do we talked weekly? A favor? Can you give us a drop in a melody type? Way a type? Okay? So we talked weekly. Okay, so we're gonna do something like this. We talk weekly. Come in here us we talk. We we come in here, them we talk. We we come in here, them, we talk. We come in here. Them we talk. We come in here now we talk. We me coming in. Okay, give beautify because you already cord yok. We talked week after they're talking w P p P Philadelphia. Want to six point five? We talked weeklies after talk with your boy Charles Gregory and beautiful and beautiful class ladies. All right, so well, yes, I can't wait. Why don't you let us know? Who do we have today? Who do we have to d today? We have? Kadida Kenner is the founding CEO of the New Pa Project, Education Fund and the New Pennsylvania Project. Advocating for social and economic justice. She has led efforts to stop traditional Jerry Mandarin, raise the minimum wage, and protect court independence. Kadda also co chairs Why Courts Matter Pennsylvania and focusing on traditional independence and voter education and so much more. Y'all already know what to do. Let's give a warm we talk weekly. Welcome to Kadida Kenner. A. How are you? How are you? I'm good? Good to see you again. Ah yeah, you said, always a pleasure. I told you know you're a friend to the show. Make sure I ain't too loud here. You're a friend to the show. So I get excited when you're here because we get to talk some real talk. But first and foremost, you know I love the ex Howard. How are you? Let's start there? How are you, how's your health, all that gooddle stuff. Yeah, thanks for that question. I'm feeling pretty good. I'm feeling pretty energized obviously for someone who leads and voting rights organization. Sunday around one kind of changed our lives. I'm sure, I'm sure. Let's start since I mean, let's since we're there, you know, let's start there. How you know, how was it to hear the news? Uh? When, you know, because because people were just kind of speculating like it could happen, you know, Biden kind of stepped out because that was an issue also, right, a lot of the Democrats felt you know, supporters of the Democrats felt that yo kind of push the president already out, like he didn't say he wanted to step out, so that became an issue, right. But then after that kind of subsided, then it was like, you know, people scratching their head, like there's a possibility that you know, we potentially may have someone in the running to be a president who may just be a woman. Right, And so we had Hillary Clinton kind of sitting there, but you know, people argue she wasn't likable. Right, it seems like the world likes this one right, So let's start there, right with all of that, I'm gonna throw that in your plate. Let's talk a little bit about it. I don't know if we can say the world likes her, right, I'll say because at the end of the day, you know, she's a black woman, she's a multiracial woman, and this is going to be a challenge for her and always. So is is. Let's all right, let's start with do you believe she actually has a chance. I absolutely believe she has a chance. People ask that question all the time. Who's electable? Whoever you vote for is electable. Whoever gets the most votes, even with the electoral college, you know, in mind, whoever gets the most votes is gonna win. Yeah, yeah, it seems pretty this is This isn't a unique time. You know. It's a lot going on from you know, the potential or the turning down just a little bit, the assassination attempt, right that happened, Joe Biden stepping down, that happened, Kamala Harris raising this, you know, crazy amount of money in a few hours, you know, from different you know, organization and groups. It's a curious time, you know, And I can't put my finger on the energy. But it's a little scary. It's a little scary. What's your thoughts on that. The energy is a little scary. Yeah, and it was needed. Yeah, I agree. I mean, I'll say, for me personally, I believe Joe Biden President, Joe Biden was one of the top one, two, three presidents in my lifetime, in others lifetimes, I'm sure as well. So shout out to him. And the last almost four years now of his presidency, he has a he had a record to stand on to re elect Joe Biden. And now Kamala Harris, you know she has that same record to stay because she was with them side by side, So shout out to him. But I'll say that the energy is different. You know. I love seeing the energy that people, especially on social media, who keep popping up with you know, black women for Kamala Harris, white women for Kamala Harris, black gay men for Kamala Harris. I mean it's like everybody and they all want to get together and break zoom, you know, and raise a lot of money. And I love to see that energy. And I'll say, is a you know, organization our primary purposes doing voter registration we were suffering these last six seven months, we've been suffering trying to get Pennsylvanians registered to vote, and Sunday changed. It not really changed the electorate and how they feel on the ground in conversation with us, but it changed my staff. I know we have a staff of fifty five people, and our staff comes from the electorates, so you know, they're a prime example of how the electorate is feeling. And I know that it is energize our staff. We have registered fifty percent more people this week than we did last week. Wow. And we still have today's numbers to come in and tomorrow's numbers to come in. Interesting. Interesting, it's a thing to I want to phrase this right, right, and so votes matter? Right, And that's something that you've been pushing, right, votes matter? Why because we are in this kind of new conversation on the show where we're talking civics, right, and so why why does votes matter? Why do votes matter? And you know people to perform in their civics duty? Why is that important? I'm so glad that you have a platform here to talk about civic education and engagement because it is lacking in our school systems. That's been taken out of a lot of curriculums. So I'm so glad that you're doing this here. This is a public service that is needed. It is so needed in this moment, the civic engagement to talk about why it is that it's important to cast a ballot. We can take to this old argument that you know still works for me. We can talk about our answers all day because I work to honor them. Yes, you do around because absolutely you do that facally, so. You know that's a thing. So honoring ancestors, are knowing the challenges that we've had in this country for citizenship and now also the right, the freedom to vote. So what's important right now? Why should people be voting right now? All the things that we care about, all the freedoms we care about, are all at stake. Every year we say this is the most important election. Of your life. Here it is, this is the most important election of your life. My name is Kadida. I love to see a woman, a. Black woman, Thank you for that. You know my name is Kadida. I'd love to see a black woman named Kaitanji be Supreme Court justice. That's why you need to vote right because the next president the United States is going to be able to appoint to more, probably Supreme War justices. I love to see a black woman named Kamala you know, potential to run, potential to be president of the United States, things I never thought would happen in my life. But when we talk specifically about why we should be voting, it's for what's at stake. You care about autonomy of your body and abortion rights, you need to vote. You care about who's going to sit in the Supreme Court for a lifetime, you need to vote. You care about immigrant rights, you need to vote. You talk about LGBTQ rights, you need to vote. All the things we care about, we need to vote. And it's not just the top of the ticket. So let's not get that confused. It's not just the presidency, you know, Let's start at the bottom of the ballot. Yeah, please start there. Please start talking about that, please please. Yeah. So this election year is not just the president of United States. I mean that guess all the you know sucks all the air out of the room. Your state reps, your state senators. I mean, there's two special elections happening here in Philadelphia on September seventeenth, and I bet you most people don't even know that, right, So two special elections happening here because you had two state reps resigned, So special elections happening in September. Reps matter, State centers matter. You know, you want to get your potholes filled, you want to get a stop light, you want to get your passport expedited. That's where you go. You're going to see these folks. They're in your neighborhood. They're engaging you the most. So it's so important that you are electing these folks. And then we have the Row Office, we have our treasurer, we have auditor general, Attorney General. You know, you care about policing reform, you care about cash bail, you care about all these things. You need to vote for these positions. You care about how your tax dollars are being spent, Are they going the wrong ways? Are they going to the wrong people. Then you need to care about your auditor general. You need to care about the treasurer. Wow, you know these. Are all these positions that we minimize because the President gets all the air in the room, but they're so important. US Senate, it's a US Senate. This year, So Bob Casey up for re election. Wow, you know, And it is our US senators who vote for every single federal judge that comes across their desk, right, So even a Senator in Montana is going to vote about a judge that would sit on a bench, a federal bench here in Philadelphia. So the US Senate very important. Congress, you know, We've got the Congress and all of our US representatives up for election this year. All these things matter. I don't even think people knew half of that. I don't think people knew half of that. So because of that, right, what do you think we need to do as a community, as a city, as a state, as a nation to teach that, to give that information because I don't think a lot of people know that those positions even exists, let alone that's up for kind of like election at this point. What do you think we should do? Yeah, and I think a lot of that is by design, right, because an ignorant electorate and can't put folks in office or take folks out office. So I think we need to work on bringing civic education back into schools. There's great organizations that are doing this work on the ground and yeah, we're relying on grassroots orgs and others to do this work. We need to add this back into the curriculum of our public schools. This is really the problem that we're having right now is that the electorate is just they've been unengaged and now they are not receiving the information they need to get out here and do what they need to do. I'll say this, Pennsylvania, we rank in the bottom thirty percentile of all states in the country as it relates to our ease and getting registered to vote and casting a ballot. Here we are a birthplace of American democracy. A few blocks way right, that's right, a few blocks way, and we're in between Mississippi and Arkansas. That's where Pennsylvania falls at ease of being registered to vote and actually casting the ballot. So do you think that's I guess you know, because our platform is solutions based, right, So it's always for me, I'm trying to understand the why that's I always ask that question, why why do you think that is? Like? Is it people do not have the information? Is it privoct to that information? Do you think it's I mean, potentially by design, of course, right, But what do you think that is, because it can't be just by design. If we're low, but you have somebody like DC, it's high so to speak, right, So what do you think it is with Philadelphia specifically? I think it is just that that we have to do more talking about this. I think we're trying to be polite in some ways and we don't want to talk about religion and we want to talk about politics, and then it gets taken off of the table and we need to be discussing that. There's nothing more important this moment. And misinformation and disinformation runs random. So if you're not getting this civic education in schools, what are you hearing in a fifteen second reel? You know? On Instagram? What are you catching right? What are you catching on TikTok for the twenty seconds that you're tuned in? And so if you catch the misinformation and disinformation, then you run with it because that's where you're getting your news and that's how you're understanding what's happening in the world. And this is also by design, and this is what suppresses votes, and this is what disenfranchises people because they're getting not the real by watching reels. Wow Go ahead, I could talk to our days hot. Yeah, you actually answered the question about you know, if people want to change their ticket, and I guess you can tell people how that goes from Democrat to Republican. But pulling a Republican ballot or pulling that lever, it's now is it like a like a domino effect? Now it's not just presidential You have all that stuff that comes underneath of it. Of like you said, the certain judges that are in certain positions and staying on you know that, on that ticket. So can you tell us about like people who are saying, Okay, I don't like Kamala, but I am a Democrat and I basically lean towards more of the Republican policies, and so they're going to pull the lever on the Republican side. Tell us about how that is contradicting and if that can happen when you're changing your ticket. Yeah. So Pennsylvania were closed primary state, right, and so that means that you must choose a major political party Democrats or Republicans in order to cast your ballot in our primary elections. Presidential election years, those are in April. Every other year, that's in May now in Pennsylvania, just because you used to register as a certain political party doesn't mean you have to cast your ballot that way. Just in the last few years, we have taken straight ticket voting off of the ballot. So you can't just hit one button and vote for all Dems or hit one button and vote for all Republicans. You must go down the list and select for each one. And I'll say, you know, Philadelphia, and we're predominant black folks here, We're not a monolith, right, so we're not all believing the same things. Some of us has some conservative values as it relates to other things. Some of us are very liberal as it relates to others. And so we can't pitch it the whole people and assuming that they're going to vote one way just because historically that's how it has happened. And I'll tell you that this information again runs rampant because you know, as we're registering young folks, sixty five percent of those we register to voter under the age of thirty five. And I'll tell you that as we come across them on the ground and outside bodega's or at a basketball you know, basketball courts, and they say to us. You know, well, I'm going to vote this way. You know, they volunteered this stuff. You know, I'm going to vote this way because we got this pandemic check or we got this COVID check from Donald Trump, right, and we have to dispel the misinformation that exists because he signed his name on that on that check, but he didn't work legislatively to make sure people got that check. So you have to recognize who it was that is doing the thing. And we get so upset, you know, we get mad at presidents about you know, potholes, or we get mad at the mayor, you know, about things that have nothing to do with the mayor's position. So we have to really recognize who it is that we need to hold accountable, because it's not always the people we think it is. I like that. I like that, And as you say that, you know, and we can bear some responsibility as a release it at but one can argue that, you know, those in leadership positions can bear a lot of that accountability for you know, educating the citizens to understand why you're in the position that you're in in the first place. Yeah, I mean that's a role of state reps and state senators. That's why their offices are in your neighborhood, so that you can go in there and engage them in any moment. I mean, voting is just the first stop. Now, the next stop is holding elected officials accountable to all the promises they make you. So if you don't do that, then you're waiting on two years or four years to put them in office again or take them out of office. So it's up to us as the electorate to not just think that we stop at voting. It goes beyond just casting the ballot. One thing that I appreciate from you is that you have always pushed for people to exercise their civic duty. Right. You push for that across the board, not necessarily one side or the other. Right, And I'm going to I wanted to put that in context because of the question that I'm about to ask you, Right, what is your position on people who fill that they have a need to push voters a certain type of way just specifically because of who's running. Right, If I'm being transparent, what I'm starting to see is this hyper push for Kamala Harris. Right. There used to be a conversation right before that. You know, Democrats and people saying you just need to vote, register to vote so you can vote, exercise just civic duty. This is what you're supposed to do. Two, you need to vote for Kamala Harris because right, what is your thoughts on that? Is there an argument to be had to say, Hey, it's not your responsibility to tell people who to vote for, but just that they should because of X, Y and zeg. What's your thoughts on that? Right? So, New PA Project Education Fund IRS status because I want to IRS off my back right is a C three IRS status organization non partisan organization, which means the work that we do as new PA Project Education Fund is non partisans I mean we are not endorsing in any particular candidate or particular party. We do just want you to get registered to vote. There are two point one million Pennsylvanians or eligible to vote but currently not registered. Or have not vageda say that number again, two. Point one million eligible to vote and not registered or they haven't voted in so long they're at risk of being dropped off the voter rolls weed they haven't voted in five, six, seven years. Hold on, you can do that can happen I didn't even know that. Yeah, they will drop you off the voter rolls if you have a vote in a certain amount of time. So for us, it's super important to make sure people know that they have the freedom to vote right now still and they should exercise that. And no, we don't push any political party or candidates on folks when we're doing registration. We just want them to get registered because there are so many folks and that kind of turns people off. And I guess that's the that's the beauty of our organization is that we're not a political party. Seeing let's get you registered voting because I want you to give me something. Right, We're knocking on your door, we are seeing you outside you know, Target or wherever you the dollar store. We're outside where you are because we want you to be engaged. And I'll tell you so many people that we have to have long conversations with and say all right, let's talk a minute. Because you know you're not registered to vote. You're thirty years old, you have a registered to vote. What's keeping you out of the electorate? You know, I just don't believe in these elected officials. I don't believe the system works for me, I believe that whoever they want to win is going to win. And we have to talk about the fact that Pennsylvania was won by Joe Biden by eighty thousand votes, you know, just four years ago. That's five votes a precinct. Five votes a precinct. So when people believe my vote doesn't matter, it doesn't count five people changing their vote a different way in each precinct but had a completely different result in that twenty twenty election. So we just want people to get registered to vote, and I and what we say to them when they're on the fence, We'll say, let's just get you registered today. You don't have to vote, but let's get you registered. It's a form of ID. You know, you get your voter registration card, it's a form of ID. You will have the ability that if you wake up on November fifth and you change your mind, then you have the ability to do so. But if you don't have the ability to do so, and you wake up on November fifth, you won't be able to gov. Ladies and gentlemen, or however you identify. I want you to understand it's not about what you say, it's how you said, and what she just said right there, you may be able to register thousands of people to vote just simply by saying it, just like that. I know you have a question. I'm sorry, I just got more one more question before before because I want to stay on this while I remember. Can you just give or shed some light on returning citizens and them being able to vote because there is misinformation disinformation based around that. Can you elaborate and talk a little bit about that. I love this. During our new hire process, you know, we're fifty five people on our team. We need another twenty five to be successful, so we're still hiring well orientation for us, we asked the question of our new hires, when do you feel most powerful when I give my answer on those new higher orientation zooms, I say, it's the moment I register somebody he was formally incarcerated, who thought that they didn't have the right to vote, and I'm able to speak to them and say absolutely, yes you do, yes, yes, And I'll give you the perfect example of this. Two three weeks ago, I was an eerie and I registered a young man, not young, not so young, I'm around my age to get registered to vote. We knocked on his door in eerie, and I'll tell you, most people would have knocked on his door because he had two barking dogs. He had a eight set up outside that didn't like he was super secure. But I'm known to do a little wild things, So I did knock on his door and he came out and he said, I can't get registered to vote. And I knew exactly what he meant when he said I can't get registered to vote. And I said, what do you mean. He said yeah, He's like, I'm a felon, and I was like, well, I'm formerly incarcerated. The moment your feet hit the street, you're eligible to vote. And I'm out here talking to you right now outside of your house, which means you were eligible to vote right now. So let's get you registered. And and this man is Latino, so we had to get through with some of the dialogue, and we finally get this man registered to vote, and he walks back into his house. And he's walking back in his house and he says, Hallelujah, Wow, hallelujah. And we walk down the street to get to the next door, and the man is still in his house saying hallelujah. Hallelujah. And I get chills every time I tell this because this is so real. I mean the amount of folks that we have who are formerly incarcerated, who have been lied to or maybe they got out. They got out fifteen twenty years ago. When in Pennsylvania you could not be registered to vote. You had to wait five years. But that's no longer. So the moment your feet hit the street, you are eligible to vote. If you're currently incarcerated waiting on sentencing or conviction, you're also still eligible to vote. Wow, if you are in jail for a misdemeanor, you are eligible to vote. What yes? So this is so many people have no idea about this because they've been misled and they believe they don't have the freedom to vote, and they do. And the only only a difference are those who cannot are those who are incarcerated based upon some kind of voting right fraud and they have to wait five years. Or if you are in a half way house and part of your sentencing has you in a half way house, then technically you're still incarcerated, so you don't have the freedom to vote. But when you're living on your own and you're doing our own thing. I don't care if you paid your fines or freeze or you talk to your po None of that matters. You have the right to vote, So go ahead and get registered to vote. And some people, you know, we come across and they'll say now, and we want to say to them, you know, what is the reason. No one's gonna really offer up. I'm formerly incarcerated. Right, people don't usually just offer that up, and so trying to you know, in a slide way, you don't mention this. Well, just so you know, you know, formerly incarcerated here in Pennsylvania. This is where we are progressive as a state, as the Commonwealth. The moment your free hit the street, girls to vote again, read. The comments that someone's putting up. Oh I'm so, I'm so stuck in. I'm sorry, listen, I am gonna I'm good, I am gonna read those comments in. I just want to say, this is why we do the show. Right. We talk about solutions, we talk about giving information, we talk about our duty right, we talk about our accountability, and this is something that we are very hard on, our accountability and giving platforms for those who voices need to be amplified. Because what the sister just said, a lot of people did not know or have that information. So when we talk about misinformation or disinformation, a lot of people feel, especially I have. It's dear to my heart of my people who's in those bins right now, right who's locked up in those bins, who are not getting the adequate care, and who's being abused in thoseselves, and who are feeling like they're being forgotten. I ain't forget you. I didn't forget you, and so this is important to me. So all right, I'm gonna read some of this stuff. I'm sorry Liberty to Oh. He was on here last time. He said, we don't need felons to vote. They're bad people. That's one. Felons vote for laws and people who are soft on crime, all right, to that harm society their ability to vote. The last thing we need is for bad people to have anything to do with choosing representatives or policies. I want you to dress all this. I'm just kind of giving you because he's been, you know, posting all this, and this is something else that I do, right, I don't care what side you're on. We don't pick a side, right, we're here just to get an information. That's it. So if you Democrat, kudos to you. If you Republican, kudos to you. We're not gonna wag our fingers to say, oh, you're bad for whatever side that you want. Last two comments that Liberty put he said, it sounds to me like you care less about innocent and the victims than you do about criminals. And last, but not least, he says, sounds like you don't care about the victims of those who are locked up in bends. What are your thoughts? Says this person. His name is Liberty Twitcher. He's on Twitch. He's a new kind of viewer, which I'm you know, okay, that's what's up. He's been very active and you know, we ay. Well, I'm loving the opportunity to have some you know, some conversation about this right now. And I hope he's able to continue to comment. So I'll say this, liberty, We want people to have liberty, and that is those that were formally incarcerated as well. And I will tell you we live in a society where mass incarceration is a thing, right, and there have been people incarcerated for convicted and incarcerated for not doing any crimes. Right, we have folks that are incarcerated for various reasons. Some of them these are victimless crimes that people are incarcerated for and that really should not matter. And I always talk about those closest to the opinion should be closest to the power. And if you are incarcerated, let's say, for possession of weed or are selling weed, I mean, there's people making millions of dollars off of selling weed right now. So why should someone such as that lose their franchise for a lifetime. All these things happen because of history. I'm a history buff. So we go back to history. We go back to the black codes. You know, we're here. We are freedom, emancipation from chattel slavery. Black codes put us back into jails for flagrancy, just for standing on the corner, but put you back in jail, and then once you get in jail, then you lose your franchise. This is all done on purpose, with purpose. So yes, there are some folks that are, you know, incarcerated for various felonies, various reasons. You know, we're not here to not say victims don't have the right to vote. But once you are released from incarceration, you have the freedom to vote again. You are returning citizen, is what these folks are called. And so I think that's really important to recognize. And I don't want to discount your feeling. You know, there are folks out here that are victims to those who have committed felonies, and I don't I think that it's uh, it's it's not fair to say that those who are formerly incarcerated are going to vote a certain way. I mean, I think about the fact that we have someone running for the presidency of the United States who is also now convicted felling. That was heavy. One of the things I do want to give I want to shed light on this heat Liberty did say I'm against telling people for victimless crimes. So got you, uh, and so one of the things that uh I wanted to I'm sorry, go ahead, I've just been talking, talking, talking, I'm sorry, this is go ahead. Well, I had a. Couple of questions, but one question I was going to say, absentee voters for those that are like going away to college and they still want to vote, But how do they go about, I guess registering or getting a mail in ballot or whatever the case is. I love that question. So, yes, I think about young folks who need to be registered to who are already registered to vote, who need to cast their ballot. I think about my fellow Temple ows right on campus. I think about my fellow Temple ows who are on campus, and maybe they actually live in New Jersey when they're not in school. Maybe they live in Delaware or New York. Well, maybe because they live a good amount of their time of the year in Philadelphia, we should get them reregistered to vote and registered to vote here in Philadelphia because it's the state representatives that are deciding what their tuition cost here in Pennsylvania, not in New Jersey. Right, it is the state's representatives here or the mayor or council who would determine whether how safe they are on campus. Right, So maybe you need to get reregistered to vote here in Pennsylvania. For those students. Well, let's talk about maybe someone who goes to Temple who is from Erie. Right, Well, where are you going to be on November fifth? November fifth, most likely you're going to be in class. It's a Tuesday, So you're not going home to Erie on that Tuesday. So let's get you a vote by mail ballot so that you can vote by mail. And if you don't want to do that, then let's get you registered to vote here in Philadelphia instead of an erie because you live here now, right, So if you want to get a vote by mail ballot, I just encourage you to go to the Department of State website. It's a vote dot Pa and go ahead and request a mail in value. You can go to our website, New Pa Project, New Pa Project dot org and also there's a spot there to get you to go to the Department of State to get you a vote by mail ballot. So yeah, I think that's important. And that's the question we ask of young folks who were doing voter registration all move in Day, which is coming up soon on these campuses where you're going to be on November fifth, Let's jog your memory here, right, you have Tuesday classes. You're not going back home, you know, to Pittsburgh. You're not going back home to Lackawana, you know county. You're going to be right here. So let's get you registered to vote for here, or let's get you a vote by mail ballot, which I will say is still safe and security. Great way to vote newpaproject dot org. Newpaproject dot org. Okay. I just wanted to put this up so people as we're talking, they kind of know new paproject dot org. Okay, great, and so oh go ahead. I'm sorry you had another question. So I do have another question for you. You what you do the courts right? Why do the understanding of courts right? How does that play with voting? A lot of people didn't quite understand how necessary it was for someone like Trump to place people in like the Supreme Court. I want you just to talk a little bit about that to enlighten folks about the importance it is to understand judges in them being as it relates to the court. Here. All right, let's go back to tenth grade for a moment. Here we learned about federalism. So there are state courts and there's federal courts. So our federal courts, you know, they're important when you think about the US Constitution and protect our rights via the US Constitution, super important. And we think about the lawsuits and the cases that have just come out of the United States Supreme Court in the last three four years. We talk about the overturning of Rov Wade and the DABS decision that has made it very difficult for women to have access to abortion now, and that decisions have gone down to the states and down to the state courts, which make the state courts now important because if the federal courts have punted cases down to the states, then it's important that you vote for your state judges. So let's get into state judges for a second. Pennsylvania one of only seven states in the entire country. We vote for all of our judges in elected in partisan elections. This is very rare. We're only one of seven states. So when you vote for a state judge here in Pennsylvania, municipal judges, magisterial judges, common pleas, Superior Commonwealth, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, these are all in partisan elections. You're going to see an R or a D behind this judge's name. And now we also say that justice should be blind and it shouldn't really matter which your political party is. In penn you're going to know what their party is the first time you elect them into that judge ship. And so this is super important for people to recognize is that you have the power to put a judge on the bench or take a judge off of a bench. Let's go meet Mills, judge I was go ahead, right, So much pressure was put onto her to not run again that she decided not to be retained. She decided to drop out, to not seek retention because there are people that were going to run a campaign to you know, possibly remove her from the bench by not voting to put her keep her there for another ten years. Right, So that is the poswer heavy that you have as individual voters. And that's not just you voting, but that's just the thought of you about to go vote what was going to happen. So imagine you, you know, Pennsylvania, you have the right to decide who's going to cast personal you know, justice on you on your best or worst day in your life. Right, And so it's so important that we vote for these judges because they're making decisions about our lives and our freedom. Ladies and gentlemen, you just got a master and the importance of voting, especially as it relates to courts. I mean, this sister has been dropping bombs. I mean you literally you gave a civics class and like this full conversation. And this is the reason why I like to bring you on, because you know, we like the professionals to come up with. You know, I'll shout at people all day. I share at shout at people all day, you know, our point fingers all day. You know, I'm really hard on our leadership because I believe that someone needs to hold them accountable. That has a platform. That's pretty loud. Right, that's not Uh, we're not retained by anyone, We're not sponsored by anyone, so to speak. Right. Uh, we don't have anyone who invested in invested in us because of interests. Right. We say what we want to say and we do what we want to do, right. And I always say this, I don't care who you are, if you're in a leadership position, I'm for whoever Republican, Democrat and dependent who I see in on streets. That's doing great for the people. Period. It is that simple. It's that simple. And so you giving context to the importance of just voting, period, it gets or it sheds new light on well, I just need to get registered, just simply just because I can make a difference. I can make a change. What do you say with that said that in context? What do you say to the person who which you kind of already answered it, But this is a strict question to you. What do you say to people who may say to you, a young person, why should I register the vote because my vote don't count or my vote don't matter. What would you say to that person? Yeah, we have to remind people that your vote does matter, and if it didn't matter, people wouldn't work so hard to try to take your right to vote away, right, I mean, devoting changed to eighteen from twenty one based upon the fact that during the Vietnam War, we were sending kids over to a foreign land to die in a war, and they didn't even have the ability to vote to decide whether or not they'd be going over there to die in a foreign land because they weren't twenty one years old at the time. So it was a constitutional amendment that changed the voting age to eighteen. You have to vote because in the end of the day, some of these things are going to come back to what you care about. And I said earlier precincts five votes in each precinct determined who was the president of the United States, and you know America waited on Pennsylvania in twenty twenty and what we were going to do here in Pennsylvania. So your vote does count. And I'll say this, you might see elected officials on your block. And why do you see elect officials on your block? Because your block is probably registered to vote and your block is voting. You don't see elected officials on your block. It's because your block is not registered to vote and your block is not voting. This is just what it is. When you called elected officials office to ask for help. The first thing to do is make sure that you're a constituent of theirs, right, and then they're gonna find out if you're a voter or not. I'm gonna help people who are gonna put me in office or take or could possibly take me out of office. And again, voting is just the first step. That's just the first thing you do, cast that ballot. The next thing you do is hold these elected officials accountable to the promises that they make us so that we elect them. So I like when you said that, you know, voting for things that you care about, and with so many people saying like I've been seeing people saying that I don't like either candidate, so I'm not gonna vote for either one. Can you, and I'm sure you're familiar with Projects twenty twenty five, can you share your thoughts on it? And what are the repercussions if people decide they're not gonna vote Because I'm hearing that, you know it's gonna be between Donald Trump and the couch. So what what are your thoughts on Project twenty five and the repercussions. Not voting is allowing someone else to have the power to vote for you, right, Not voting. Is a vote. Not voting is a vote if you've given somebody else the power to make decisions in your life. So I will say this around Project twenty twenty five, we should be very concerned about that. That is their agenda, conservative agenda for what the next four years could look like in this country. The elimination of the Department of Education, How does that work? The elimination of government jobs that put black folks into the middle class, elimination of so many of the departments that we rely on as a nation to run smoothly. It is just disruption of democracy at its heart. Project twenty twenty five is dangerous for so many reasons, and I encourage people to go out and simply google this. You can google it, you can go to the website and find out what they mean. It is all there in black and white. And I'm going to shout out to rogp hens In in this moment because if it wasn't for her and her shout out during the BET Awards, I don't know if we really be talking about Project twenty twenty five in the way that we have, using her platform that she had in that moment to bring light to how destructive Project twenty twenty five could be. That's the agenda, that's the conservative agenda, and that would disrupt so many laws, particularly those in Philadelphia. Wow, my sister, go ahead. No, that she answered my question. I'm glad that Cincil aks that question. I was actually what I had to ask. I'm gonna pull cause I I'll put your links up here. I put let me. Let me make sure I just copy it and paste all these links, cause I want people to know how they can find you. So i'm'a just read some stuff off you. Let me know if it's accurate or not. Uh your website, Uh new newpaproject dot org. Let me see, And we got new PA Project Education Fund dot org. Yes, and the shortened version you can just do nppe F dot org for that one too. Got you Twitter to uh New Pennsylvania yes, y uh? And Facebook New Pennsylvania Project. Yes, I don't see the Instagram. Instagram wasn't on as well. Okay, great? Great, because I want people to be able to access this information and find you and get all of this great information. Look, I can have you on here all day. Because I think the problem that we have I'm gonna put this back up newpaproject dot org. I think the problem that we're having is a people is the constant we we tend to get our news and information from ig and TikTok and all the social media platforms. Right, is that a bad good thing? A bad thing? I mean sixty one hen and a half a dozen and the other right, Because I have seen some dynamic platforms and organizations give great news to try to combat fake news using Instagram and TikTok, right, we do it. You know, we try our best to stay away. You know, sizzor won't make sure that you know the research is there and we get that information out right. But I think there is an argument to be said people are moving away from the old ways of thinking and the old ways of retaining and the old ways of getting their information right. So there is an argument to be said that, you know, social media platforms, you know, are important for new generation because that's where they check in, that's where they plug in. And if you're not meeting them where they plug in, then the people who are meeting them where they plug in might not be the good people that they need to hear from. So you gotta plug in, and you have to plug in. So if you have legacy organizations that are against these new ways of marketing and promotion and engaging, what do you say to them if they if they feel burnt or hurt or upset because you know, they they feel that their platform isn't where people are going. And I say that because you have this idea that, oh that social media isn't isn't prestige enough, you need to come to our hard platform. So to legacy platforms, what's your thoughts on you know, engaging people where they are. You know, I got another question because I want you to shit on that, and I say that just in context, because we say that we talk weekly. Our platform is easy to understand, right. I think the problem in what I have heard with people who check into our platform, they feel that a lot of these legacy organizations, they are being talked at, not talked to. Right, The conversation is over their heads. Right. These are academics on these platforms. That's talking to other academics, and it's kind of like, how are you telling me I'm supposed to do something. I don't even know what you're talking about. I feel like you're just trying to show how smart you are, right, And so we try to make sure that you know, we engage the people. That's you know, trying to truly understanding the easy and the easy manner. So all that in context, what's your thought on, you know, just the academic and these prestigious organizations that feel like certain means of getting the information out shouldn't be done. It should be quote unquote the old way. This is the standard way, and this is how journalism is supposed to be. So this is how you should take it. Simple grad journalists. Yeah, that's my degree in broadcast journalism. And so I'll say this, you have to evolve or get left behind. And this is where folks are getting their news right now. And that's why we were on all of those social media platforms because we need to make sure that we're countering the disinformation or misinformation people may get by only getting their news that way. Talking about speaking to the choir, I mean those who watching it INSNBC or CNN or Fox News, they're already in their bubble right, so they're speaking to each other. This is part of the success of Sarah Palin. Ifhear, oh, yeah, you're maverick, I'm a maverick. Yeah, you know, she was able to speak to folks on the level where they understood, and that's appreciated. And we can't overtalk or out talk or you know, we are we trying to show how smart we are. Are we trying to get this thing right right, and so I think it's really important for us to make sure that we're speaking to folks on in a level which they're going to understand and and so that's going to touch their heart because that's what's gonna get them to come out and cast a ballot. But yeah, we have to be on all these platforms because this is where. People are now, I love it, I love it. I love it. Wow, ladies question. So pa battle around state, what is your organization doing to ensure that more people are getting out to the polls. So right now we're doing until that two week deadline. So October twenty first is the last day to get registered to vote October twenty first, So our organization will be on the ground doing voter registration up until the last moment. Then we will flip a switch and then beginning on the twenty second, we will start knocking on the doors of the folks we registered to vote to get them to come out and addotally. You know, we had a really good experience in the city of Chester. You know, two years ago, we had registered somebody to vote and we actually knocked on their door right ahead of the election, and they had the sticker that we gave them on the day we registered them to vote on their front door, and it is the permanent sticker. Now there's a permanent sticker on their front door. And so we knew that this was impactful for us. So not only did we register them to vote, then we knocked on their front door and and we made sure they got out and cast a balance. So we're gonna mobilize people to the polls. We're gonna do it by knocking on the doors. We're gonna do it digitally as well. You know. We'll do some radio ads, you know, we'll do things on social media. We'll host events, We'll make it exciting, make it a party. We'll have some DJs at the polls. All the things that are going to get younger folks, particularly particularly to show out to the polls. Yeah, let us know. We'll come out. Anything you're doing like that that's trying to, you know, get people out there, and you need a platform, we'll come out. We'll do something live. Well, we got you. We're gonna support you on it. You know I'm holding that No, no, for sure, we're gonna do that. We want to definitely make it happen. Your friend to the show. I always say that once you come on the show, you're a friend to the show and you always welcome to come back. I actually want you to kind of commit to coming back a few times prior to we start to vote, because I think people need to hear and start to engage and start to hear more about you, how they can contact you. And how they can register. I think I want that to be like our civic duty to kind of not necessarily promote you, but to make sure people understand where they need to go, the information that's out there, and I think you're vital to what what's needed today is that. I commit to coming back because Philadelphia is important. I commit to coming back. Philadelphia is super important. And turnout has not been all that great in Philadelphia the last few years. It can be much better. And we need to have everyone that is eligible to vote to come out and vote this year. And I'll see this as well. For those listeners out there. We opened up our brand new Philadelphia office. We're at twenty ninth and see so be more. Yeah right there, Brewery Town, Strawberry Mansion right there on the border. That's right. And for young folks that are looking for some work, we started twenty dollars an hour, A nice right if you want to if you want to do what we're doing, which is talk to our communities, hang out in your own community, get people registered to vote. We started twenty dollars an hour. We also have full time positions. It get you a hundred percent of your health care paid for and all those things, So please stop buy theirs. We'll be open on a daily basis starting on Monday. Ladies and gentlemen, we listen, we're getting you some jobs. We just trying to get you some jobs out there. That is that fantastic. So new paproject dot org find out more. Is that information hype? Yes, and you can find out more about all the jobs that we have available. Perfect perfect newpaproject dot org. We look this sar civic duty. We're going to continue to talk about this, continue to amplify those voices that need to be heard and people need to hell this information. And so I'd like to thank you for coming on the show. Thank you for committing to comeback so we can talk to these people and talk to my folks that they got locked up in those pins. We need you, we hear you, we understand, we know, we know, we got you. We want you to get the information. And so thank you for coming on the show. Is it anything before we let you leave that you would like to say to the people. Yeah, the last thing I'm gonna say is please talk to the young people in your life. Because here in Philadelphia, only fifteen percent of high school seniors who are eligible to vote or registered to vote. So you got a classroom of one hundred and only fifteen of those students or who are eligible to vote are registered. And that number, you know, decreases another place in the city of Chester, that's six percent. So you get a classroom of one hundred and only six of those students or registered to vote. So please don't assume that everybody in your life is registered to vote. Talk to the young folks in your life, because only one in four state wide number is actually registered to vote. And don't assume the older folks in your life are registered to vote as well. As an organization, we have registered two one hundred year old women to vote. I was going to tell you, yes, yes, yep, that's right. We have registered two one hundred year old women to vote. And one said when asked why she had never registered to vote before, she said, because no one had ever asked asked. I remember, yes, I remember that story. And ladies and gentlemen, we actually had that on camera. She told that story, So find her interview. It's when we talked weekly and you can hear the story of her and how it touched you. I remember that and that was I never forgot that story, never forgot that story, and you heard it first here and we talked weekly, you know. And so thanks again for coming on the show. Yeah, so I don't want you guys to go nowhere. We have Ralpha. I gotta apologize to the sister who've been waiting patiently waiting to come on because we was waiting for her to come on all So don't go nowhere. We'll be right back. This is we talked weeklies after the Talk of the w P P m P Philadelphia one six point five les when we talked weeklies after they Talk with your boy Charge Gregory and Beautiful Laurence and the Beautiful and beautiful And we'll be right back after this show. Hello, we just want to. Get a little background as to who are Fantastic Noises and the Noisemakers if you can let us know. Yes, absolutely so, once again, I am Fantastic Noise. I am the original noisemaker. So no one's gonna make as much noise as to me. Okay, And right here we have the Noisemaker Band. This is only half of it. The other stuffs are upstairs. The Mike, Kevin, Kevin Lamar Lannie and Dobs, who are all the actual band members. These are the background singers, and we can't some noise. We came to bring that noise today. So that's that's what which would do. That's that's right. How did you guys get together? Man? So it started with I've been doing this on my own for almost three years now, and man, I guess each of these people here have different background stories. Most of us went to the same church together, and we just kept going. This one her, this is my one of my. Assistants, said, one of like the my my biggest support of my biggest suitary here, she's assistant. So we just been building and the same thing with upstairs with the band, just meeting through people kept networking, kept seeing them. It was just like God or dang bab here we are awesome. Yeah, Well, could you guys do we talked weekly? A favor? Can you give us a drop in a melody type way? A type way? Okay? So we talked weekly. Okay, So we're gonna do something like the stuff. We talk weekly. Come in here with us, we talk. We we come in here, them we talk. We we come in here them we talk. Come in here, we talk. We deep come. Made me. Beautified already, yo, ain't. Yeah? Man, what a show, What a show she was cooking with Grease Man. You know, shout out to all my all my you know, all my folks out there. You know, like I said, we hear you. We we ain't forget about you. We know, I got a couple my folks are still in there, and some of my family members are still in there. And some people who I know was falsely accused of stealing the pins and stuff like that, and so you know, it's it's really dear to me to make sure that you know their voices are heard and that when we talk about prison reform that uh, it's not forgotten, you know. And so with that said, I'm your boy, Charles greg with the beautiful. Laurence Sizzel, the beautiful. Classy Lady Sparkle, And so who we have today? Who do we have to day? So we have the. Amazing Queen Raphaela, a dynamic BBC radio correspondent, model and philanthropists. As an ambrovert, she finds joy in both the simple comforts of life and the glamorous world of entertainment. Queen Raphaela's impressive journey, which began with a short film role at age sixteen and led to her esteemed position at the BBC showcases her talent for curating fashion, interviewing top names and music and entertainment, and connecting with like minded individuals. So you guys, put your hands together and give it up. Give a warm we talk weekly. Welcome for Ms Queen Rafaela. Hi, guys, thank you. I must say I don't know about the mobile club. I don't know. I don't know where that comes from. I got to thank my publicist for that because I don't do no modeling. You sure look like you can. Yeah, well, we know that the fashion is undeniable. Girl, I'm having a bad head day. That's the real truth, isn't I was out all day and I thought that house staying on. Oh well, I'm glad you wore the head because it's it's making a statement. So much. How are you, guys? We're doing amazing. How are you? How's your you know, because there's so much going on right now, how is your mental health? And how are you? You know, the self care and all that, which is very important. How's that going for you? I'm someone that always keeps it a hundred. This year has probably been one of the most testing, challenging years that I've had in a very long time. But you know what, all of it for a reason, So I'm good now. But yeah, you know, we go through life strives and struggles and we get through them. So yeah, all good now, All good now. Yeah, And I think that's so important because it's like, especially us, the ones that are like working hard, and because you started out at sixteen, so the ones that are like working hard and you're you're making a mark for. Yourself, just like we go through the hardest times. Definitely, And I think, you know, I'm someone that was raised by a man. I was raised by my dad solely, and so I always grew up with this work ethic and this mindset that you must work hard, work hard, and that's all I did. But I think as I've got older, and as I've sort of matured more into myself and in my career, I've realized also just being a woman is a lot. You know, how incredible we are and what we deal with and what we do on a day to day. I'm pretty already. And yeah, and I just feel like I'm someone that was always very wary of women and very cautious just because I was raised around all men, and I couldn't have such an incredible I couldn't have met such incredible women throughout my journey and throughout this journey and being a woman in this industry as tough as it is also. So, yeah, you know. You mentioned that you know your journey and it started at a very young age. Tell us more about that, and how you got into any of the short film roles in the acting. Tell us more about that. Yeah, So I. Was never really the academic type in school. I was always just interested in performance in media, in music, and my dad really championed that in me, and I just went on to study it. And I was in school and they were casting for a short film, and I just thought, well, why not go for the casting. I went, I went for the audition, and I remember in that audition throwing I'd already lived like nine lives. I've lived so many different lives, and even though I was sixteen, I just threw everything that I had gone through throughout those sixteen years into this audition. And that was the start for me. That was almost like it. It was very cathartic reacting because it was it was like therapy. It's really me tapping into, you know, anything that I just needed to heal or work on and on also just feel you know. So yeah, so that's so that was my journey, and that's how I started off, and then from there I was unstoppable. I just I'm someone that likes to learn my craft inside out. So I I work behind the scenes. I studied. I shot commercials for five years, teaching models how to act on set, which I absolutely hated the actress, I know. And yeah, and that was sort of the journey for me. But I've always been someone that's like to study my craft, you know, even in radio now, I started from the very bottom. I started at what we call the reception front of house, and I networked and I worked my way up. And then as soon as I got into radio, I was running around making the t's and I was assisting, and I was learning, and I was watching the presenters. And I'm a big believer in, you know, learning your craft and also learning the people around you and the characters and the type of people that you deal with, because especially in a corporate world, when you work in the for the BBC, for example, in radio, you're going to come across so many different people. So I just studied. I studied everyone and studied everything, and that so led me to where I got to. Awesome. Now you mentioned BBC Radio. What was one of your your I guess one of your most challenging interviews you've had. I'm shall I really out this person. Or if without alding them, just tell us how that experience was. Okay, you know what, I'm gonna say it because I've kind of got over it. Now. We had. Mistake I on the show. I absolutely love I love his voice. I was always a big, big fan. And I don't know if this guy just woke up from a nap or he had I don't know, I've been spoken something. I have no idea, right, let's just say he he was like half asleep. He literally responded with every question as that's googleble, that's also googleble. And it was like, and obviously you're doing a live show on air. I'm so excited. You know. You know they say don't meet your idols, Well I learned that one and yeah, and so it was pretty interesting. And then my co host at the time just thought, I'm just gonna go so left with this interview and she literally just said, say, we're on a date right now, you know what food are you cooking me? And it just went so left and I was like, wait, oh my god. And he loved it and then he perked up and he was great. But yeah, if you had some characters over the years, but that was one that always stood out to me because I thought, I. Don't know if I can interview him again. So yeah, oh that was awesome. And that's the is that the soccer player mistake? O? No, he's the singer. So he he's very well known for his song to do Let Me Not, Let Me Not. But you'll know the song if you hear him. One of my funniest interviews was with Dame Dash Okay, yeah, he was probably our longest interview ever. That man can talk, and I remember, yeah exactly, I remember him. I remember actually calling him a naughty boy live on air because boy, like if he does that, because he swore, and yes, you can't swear live on the BBC. I'm sure you can't swear anywhere in radio. And and I was like I had to stop the interview right away and say, I just want to apologize to anyone that was offended. We have to shut it down. And he was like, what did I say? And I said, you just said so, yeah, we've had some fun over the years. We have had some fun, for sure. How do you navigate in such a male dominated field? I mean, and I think as a as a journalist, it's tough out here, and a lot of the parts of the industry is so cut through it. And and I know you said you're probably strong, so it's probably okay for you. I mean, does it get intimidating at times? So I've done a panel talk the other day. I was always one of those people because I go back to my childhood. I go back to my father, and my father in my upbringing was very much you haven't got a hopeing heck of doing this, just try your best. So his thing was always never took raised me too high. So I just sort of spent my life going I'm going to prove you wrong. I'm going to get into that drama school, I'm going to get on the BBC. And that was sort of my drive. And then it got to a point in my life where I was like, I no longer need to prove anything to you, because everything I said I was going to do I did. But on this panel the other day, I really much spoke about the importance of earning your value within the workplace, knowing your place when you first enter, and earning your value to the point where people can't turn around and say, well, she's not good enough for this because she hasn't been able to do it. But yeah, I totally hear you. At times it's frustrating. And also the. Longer you spend in a place, you know, who I am now when I walk into work is exactly who I am. You know. That's taken me a long time to get to that, because I've spent many years not being afraid to speak up because I was. Scared, you know, to speak up within this workplace because I valued my job and I loved what I did. But I think you've got to get to a point where you stay true to you and if that no longer serves you and you don't feel like you're being hurt. We live in a time now where we can create our own I got so many no's throughout my life. There was another radio station that I wanted so bad and I never got it. I still never got it till this day. Or what I decided to do was become their competition. I thought, you're not going to let me in or. Let me go and use my network and allah. And at the time, I wasn't trying to become a competition because they were huge, They had a much bigger listenership than my station. They were national and I was local. And I remember getting. Lenny Yes watching on and this is all I spent years just networking and working with you know, just building my network in the States, traveling on my own, and people couldn't understand how I knew all these people and I was getting them on this little platform at the time. And I remember the head of the big station coming to me and saying, how are you getting rock national? Because I was thinking behind the scenes. I wasn't going straight to the artists. I was thinking of the people that were running these labels. And. Yeah, I think that just sort of perked a thing with them. And then it became a thing where I got a shanty's only UK interview. And I remember a couple of months ago one of the producers pulled me to one side and he said, you've become our competition. Till this day, I still never put a station. And he said, you've become our competition because we were the only station that were getting a huge artists on the shows. And you're doing this all yourself. And these guys have producers, they have people setting up shows, and yeah and so and so when it comes to that, I just. I don't know. I always feel like the clean hearted. Always win for one and you got to earn your value in this game. You gotta work hard and just trust yourself. And I'm so sorry because I talked to England. Hey listen, you're on. We talked weekly, so you can talk all you want, all right, And so so I want to jump I want to jump a little bit into that because I want to know what gave you your grit, right, because you're very outspoken, uh you you you do really well with presenting who you are. And you mentioned earlier that you know pretty much your daddy's girl. You know what I'm saying, Like you had to you know, your dad was there, and you know, did he inspire you in any way to be to kind of like say stand tall? Like how influential were your dad in the You know what You're doing right now in media and even your modeling and some of the things that you're doing now. He was extremely influential. Honestly, I say to this day, if he didn't support my madness and he didn't support what it is that I enjoyed doing, because he still says to this day, you were never going to be a scientist, you were never going to be a. I would walk. I was that girl that would walk into science and get sent out as soon as I walked in. You know, I was trouble, but when it came to music and media and creative things, I was just all in. I would listen. That was my thing, and he championed that, and honestly, if he didn't, then God knows what I'd be doing. But I say all of that, and I've had so many jobs. You know, I've done the worst kind of jobs. I've done everything. You know. I haven't just had it easy. Nothing. I was working from young. But that's something key instilled in me, the importance of hard work. And I think, yeah, if I didn't have that one parent or that one person in my life, it said, you know what, you may not get any. Of this, but just try. That was all I needed. I love that. I love that and I appreciate you bringing him up, you know, as a as a guy. Right on a platform like this, oftentimes you hear coming from everyone how you know, detrimental some time, and then how male dominated we don't give you know, access, we don't give you know, And to hear that, you know your dad was there to kind of uplift and amplify. I think we need to hear more of those stories. You need to hear more of those stories. Definitely. I totally agree with you. I think just having a male figure in your life. Yeah, period is so important. I mean I say that because I didn't have a strong female you know, and that's where I but my relationships with women in later life, like my best friends and incredible sisters that I call my family, my chosen family. I'm so grateful for because they have taught me so much now. So you know what, in life, there's ying and there's yang that's right and yeah, and I think just having that even if it's even if it's your mother, you know, just having that person, whether it's a teacher, whether it's someone that's saying you know what I believe in. You just try your best. It's everything. That's it some of us. That's all we need to hear is I see you, I hear you, I support you. That that's all some of us need to hear absolutely to keep moving. And so we hear you, we see you when we got you right there, you know one of those things, right. I want to jump in too, because we didn't talk too much about it, because this is kind of like my sector and this is what I love right here. Right, Let's talk a little bit about your fashion, right and you creating and curating kind of fashion visuals and things of that nature. Right. And I say that because I'm gonna pull up some pictures for the. World to see, all right, looking like that now. No, it's all though, you look amazing, right, And so let's talk a little bit about you know, your your fashion, the fashion genre and the scope that you're in right now on some of the things that you're doing, because I think people don't know too much about that side of you, right, and so I want to amplify that. Right now, Let's talk a little bit about that. Let's talk some fashion. Do you know what. I have a best friend that he's an actual stylist, the celebrity stylist, and when I got out with her, I don't feel like I'm fashionable at all because. We are so different in our styles. But she's the girl, she's dressing everyone. I am very I'm either loud or not so loud, like I really rest on my mood. Like honestly, I sometimes go to my studio looking homeless, like there's no in between. I am like extremely gamorous or extremely toned down, and you wouldn't recognize me, but sometimes I can be. I guess that's the ambervert in. Me, you know. That's I like animal printers, you can see. I like things that are striking, that stand out. But I'm also quite sophisticated. I like a shirt and a blazer, and I never show too much. I've always been mindful. Of that as well. That's that's something that. I love that yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. So what's one of the styles right now? One of the trends right now? Now we talk the fashion, right, we talk a little fashion with you? Is that all right with you? You can try? I mean. It's all right. What's one of the styles and trends right now that's going on that you absolutely love? In one of the styles and trends right now that you not too fond of. Well, I'm loving this summer look right now that everyone's rocking with the linen. I love that the back everything loose and flowy and cheek. I'm a big fan of the sort of chic style where you look like you just threw it on, but it's still a little bit glama. What else I like summer stuff I love. I love a summer dress. I love that kind of bohemian chic what's the word, kind. Of hippie vibe. I like to out with different kind of patterns. And I love Zara. I can say brands Zara is this is Zara. Everything I wear is Zara. Yeah, me too. I love n too. I think affordable fashion. I'm not against it at all. I'm all about high street fashion, and I think it's about making it. You own the clos you know, you make it look the way you want it. Yeah, if you let's talk a little bit about you getting up in the morning. When you get up in the morning, right, what's the first thing that you do? Not necessarily anything as it relates to fashion, right, but you know, it's a lot of people who don't have the energy to get up, right, I'm kind of switching gears right now. They don't have the energy to get up. They don't, you know, sometimes they feel uninspired. Right. What the first thing you think about, or the first thing you do when you wake up is what let's walk through Rapella's day? Right, a day? Oh, let's walk through that day. When you wake up, what's the first thing you do. It's so funny you asked this question because a friend of mine who I met earlier, I was telling her I've got into this terrible habit of checking my phone as soon as I wake up. I know. I don't do that, and you know what, before you move forward with that, right, it's interesting. It's interesting that you said that, right, because we literally just had someone on the show last week that talked a lot about us being addicted and if you do one thing in the morning every day, the same thing, if it's checking your phone, you might have an addiction. So literally, I think the world has an addiction to their phone at this point. Well, it's like I was just saying to my purposis before I came in, I said, technology is a blessing and a curse, because honestly, social media. How we navigate that relationships. Oh, it's a lot. But yeah, I have a bad habit of checking my phone and I'll be a real with you. Sometimes that dictates my morning. You know. It's not good. Yeah, it depends. I like to I'm one of them people if I'm getting up early and I have to set like five alarms because I will sleep through them and alarm in my dream. So yeah, and I don't like to just jump out of bed. I am the lazy one. I like to just rest and great and gather my thoughts and then I'll get up and I have my breakfast and yeah, but you know what, I go through phases. I'm one of them people that you know, I'll be on this thing where I'm like, gim cold showers, that's it, ready and raring to go, and then some days. I'm like, no, I'm staying in bed all day chilling. That's right. Yeah. Tell us more about the philanthropic efforts that you've been doing and the passion behind that. What stands out in particular? Uh, Well, as a philanthropist, you were, you do philanthropy correct, Yeah, so. We so I've worked with all sorts, so we do like Panels. I do lots of work with young people. I've brought a lot of young people into the station in terms of how I can help them and sort of build them and give them the tools that I once thought I needed. As for events, various things. To be honest, awesome, awesome. We had a guest prior to you coming on and and you're you're over in the Where are you live? Where you in London? So have you? I know, you've heard about the presidential things that are going on over here in the States, and we were basically talking about the getting out the votes and having the young people come out and vote more. Although you're over out of the States, what's your take on the whole presidential candidates that we have over here in the US And what are others saying outside of the US about that. To be honest with you, I haven't had many a conversation with anyone here UK wise. It's crazy, to be honest. I mean, sometimes I look at politics here in the UK and I, you know, without saying too much, I just think this can't be real life. This is you know, it's a scary time what I've seen between two previous presidents. I'm like flabbergasted. I'm like, is this a movie? Because what I see on CNN, it's just not real. I mean, I still believe that there's hope and you know, hopefully Kamala does well, don't know if I can say that. And yeah, I'll be honest with you. I went through a. Phase in life where having to come up through radio, I had to do hard journalistic stuff. Now I have nothing to do with it. Because there was a time in London where there was so many knife stabbings going on and I hosted this roundtable. We had people that just had come from all types of backgrounds and it was very heavy and I was working on this show with this presenter who was covering all of these really dark stories, and it really affected me. I'm an EmPATH, and as much as I have helped and covered these stories, it got to a point where I was scared to walk home at. Night and it was affecting my mental health and so I switched off from all news. And to be totally honest with you, I am a little bit ignorant to what is going on so much so in the world, only because it helped me deal with my everyday life better. So The joke in my studio in my office is if they're break news, don't come to me because I ain't going to know what to say. Don't but listen breaking news. I can break it, but don't expect me to go. On about it. Good for you. Yeah, it's just you know, it's awful. I hear about all these things that's going on in the world and it's scary. It really really is. And I don't mean to sound ignorant when I say that, but yeah, I just working for the BBC and covering some of the stories that I have over the years, and speaking to victims and speaking to all these people. I just had to switch off from it because it was just really affecting me. So now I'm just like entertainment through and through good vibes, helping as many people as I can. When I get amazing people on my show, I want to talk about their journey. I want to talk about how they got through. Where they are. And how we can inspire the next generation, because I think that's important giving people hope. You know, what is the legacy you want to leave? Oh, that's a good question. Here I come with a story. So during Lockdown, I really questioned why I was doing what I was doing, and I had I came up with three words, and that was I want to inform, inspire, and entertain. And those three words were the reason that I am still doing what I do because I was at a truss roads in my life where I genuinely thought enough is enough. Doors aren't opening for me. I have my show, yes, but there was just so many blocks in the way, and those three words gave me such strength that I thought, Well, if I'm informing, inspiring, and entertaining, then I'm doing all kinds of work. So if I continue that throughout my life, then I I feel like I'd be happy with that as my legacy. I love that. Ye. So on a positive note, we just we just came off of a year which was a really really huge year for hip hop, the fifty of anniversary of hip hop? What does how? How is hip hop over in London and where you are? And is it as big as it was over here in the States, Because it was just like all year long there was a celebration of the fifty of anniversary of hip hop? Like how was that over there? Do you know what? One thing in particular that I said to my producer, my co host, to the people that are on my team is we have to go big. We have to really celebrate this. Because hip hop was my first love in life. Many people wouldn't know it. I traveled to New York. I shot a documentary on the evolution of hip hop. I've been in the South Bronx. Oh can see how smooth like. I'm old school hip hop ahead, old gip of head. And so for me, it was so important for the BBC to champion that. And so during that time, we spent the month celebrating hip hop's fiftieth anniversary. I had ghost Face Killer on. I had Joe Conzo, who shot he was the first photographer of hip hop when it was first born in the South Bronx. He I think he shot Big Daddy Kane. He got this beautiful picture of him that's on the street wrap him. Joe is an incredible person. He's a Puerto Rican. His grandmother was an incredible advocate for the South Bronx community. And yeah, I just wanted to talk about the birth of hip hop and where it came from and where it's at. And yeah, we really celebrated it, and we celebrated it with a lot of UK artists because I think a lot of our UK artists, the majority of them happened in five by hip hop and when and the birth of it? So yeah, we went big. So who's who's in your Who's in your top three? Like your top three? Okay, so I'll give you a top five. I'm gonna say top five because sometimes it's harder. Now went down to three and it. Changes a lot. But I must say Kendrick Lamar has definitely improved himself this year. The Kendricks in my top five? Jay Z. Smalls no particular. Oh, I guess so hard. I get so stuck glass. Yes, and there's someone else? Who else is there? You know what? It changed? Changed quite a lot, z. I haven't been asked this question in so long. Oh who is there? I play about with the fifth one? I say, sometimes it can be common. I know that's crazy to just love people. I love current lyrics? Who else is there? What's my brain? That's great? Yeah, yeah, that's a great list. If I was to ask you right, I usually though towards the end of the interview, First and foremost, you gotta promise that you'll come back. I think I'm gonna talk to I think you're on your quote unquote one of our label mats now. Right. So one thing that I want Leslie to make sure that she kind of talks to you about is our New Year's wrap up show and so we do like our top five kind of like top stories that happen in the world. Right. I want you to be a co host on our show during that time, and so we have a lot of people that kind of do the show. It's a three hour three we do three hour, we do three hours, so we want you to come on and be a part of that show. But uh, I want to know, right, and this is this is a little curveball to you. I want you to dig deep in your purse, right, and I want you to think of the one thing that no one else knows about ral Feller that you can tell us today. So you gotta dig deep all those secrets. That you have tough a top secret. Let's go, let's go tlight. A top secret. This is in London Station. Okay, it's a top secret. So we can't put this highlight. I mean it's gonna be out there. So I'm actually seven months pregnant. I need to see the I want to see the bump. I need to see the bump. Oh my god. You guys heard it here. First, I want congratulations so much so I know you're exhausted. I'm having my first baby. That is soulations America. He's half American. Rush off of my politics. You need you need to take a quick vacation when you have them in America from the Philly. That is so. She froze something. We got so excited. America said no, you ain't coming away, ruh man. And she she she froze a little bit. Ah man, Lestenie, you're gonna have to tell her the call back in. Oh she froze. Yeah, wow, that was excellent news too. Ah well, at least we got that little I know. Right, and she is so wonderful. Yes, we gotta try to get it back on. We talked weekly after You're talking w ppm P Philadelphia one o six point five film. We talked weekly after they talk with your boy Trus Greg and. Beautiful Laurence, the beautiful class especially. Jump right into the sizzle. And if she jumped back on, we're gonna have her come back on because this is our show. We can do what we want to do, right, So why don't you go with the sizzle? You ready for me? Yes? All right, holler at me early. All right, So make sure you guys subscribe to we Talk weekly on all social media and major podcast platforms. You want to support us even further, you can make a donation. You can go to cash app and do dollar dollar we Don't weekly, or you can go to we talkwekly dot com and there is an option to donate because everything that you donate goes to one hundred percent. Supports what we do, so we can give back to you guys. All right, So. And we we kind of talked about this a little earlier. But uh, Cardi d but she has slammed conservative commentator Candace Owens for her comments that Candace made about the murder of Sonya Massey on an episode of her Candas talk show. So during a recent episode of Candace, Candace said police officers are human beings. They are there are mistakes that happen. The idea that now you're going to use the situation to then try to make Blackamarans black Americans believe that this happened simply because she was black is pointedly ridiculous. So you know we classy. Lady Sparkle talked about uh on your Massy's murder by former Sheriff's deputy Shawn Grayson in her Springfield home. So I won't belabor that, but Cardi B commented on her x space's account, she said, for you to sit here and say that, oh, not everything is racial. I know that this is sad, but this is not something But this is not something racial. She continued, She said, you don't feel one little bit of empathy, a little bit of a sympathy of how this woman died. There was no argument, there was no conflict, there was no raised voice, and she got shot. He knew in the back of his head, because she was a black woman, that he was going to get away with it. So Cardi B. She actually alluded to a larger issue with Candas's statements during During that same episode where Candace Owens is talking about Sonia Massy, Candace actually leads into the topic by giving a bad story of George Floyd's murder and how there is always a story targeted to Black America around election time which is supposed to stir black people up, get them fired up, and consequently vote a specific way. So then Candice shows the police footage that we've all seen of Sonya Massi's deadly encounter with police. But Candice explained after the video, she explained the incident and then told Black America's quote, do not take this bait. So a lot of people were just coming for her because they're like, is she really just genuinely talking about, you know, trying to you know, shed light or highlight Sonya Massey's murder or is she trying to come up with this just to have a way to say, Oh, Black Americans don't take. The bait of the media. And you know, I guess the left trying to use this because she also did include that, and I didn't put this in my story, but she also did include that Biden tweeted about it, and she's trying to say, like, oh, the Democrats are using this like they did with George Floyd, so don't take the bait. So was this important taste back for her to For Candace, I sometimes. Agree with her, even though that sounds controversial. I think sometimes she makes valid points. I think I don't think that it was I don't agree with her with the racist thing. I think that he it wasn't really maybe in my opinion, not a black or white thing. I feel as though when he looks at black people, it's some type of fear there, so we're weaponized against that. So I feel like he did it based on a fear of her being a black woman. Had she been a white woman, he may have not had that same fear. Does that make sense? Yes, So I'm not necessarily saying he did it because she's black. I'm saying because of her. I guess it is saying that, but her being a black woman put more fear in his heart. Had it been a white woman that he felt like, I don't know if he felt like she was going to throw the pot on him or whatever his thought was. He felt more threatened by her as a black woman. So I do believe race was I believe race was in there indicated it. So what's your thoughts? Says her? You know, her little bringing this up and then trying to make it seem like she's, uh, you know, concerned about Sonya Massey's murder, but mainly trying to use it to notifyed Black America, like, don't fall. For this, you know. I think one thing we had to remember, right. I'm not necessarily a fan of hers, right, but we have to remember that Candace is still black, right, and so she does still have some empathy when it comes to black folks. I mean, I'm sure, I mean, all black folks ain't skinful. We can say that, we can say that I unfortunately, I won't say unfortunately. It's certain things that she said that I agree with, right, And it's just like I think that she gets it right. I think a lot of the things she say, however, is for entertainment. I think she trolls a lot. Candace owns is too smart. She's way too smart to be saying certain things like she don't understand the context behind it, right, and so a lot of stuff I would just say, kind of take with it grain and salt, and I think she's just doing it for entertainment, entertainment value. That said, I don't I think the police going in there was a racist thing. But I do believe that if she was white, she wouldn't have been shot. Mm hmm, pard full stop. Right, right, And you know, my I guess my sentiments on that is that I kind of like, you know, I agree that candas owns is really really smart. I agree that she makes valid points, but what I thought was in poor taste was that you're gonna use the the murder of this woman to say, hey, don't fall for the bait that the Democrats are trying to say. Why can't I mean, even if Biden did tweet about it, why can't he just be he still is a sitting president. Why can't he just be concerned about that, because you know, another part of the argument was that he doesn't that Candace says that he doesn't talk about a white person that's smart. Maybe he might not have been aware of it, but I just thought it was important taste that she's just like, oh, well, black people don't fall for that, trying to get you all riled up. She said, don't go out and burn down, say something about it. I think she may have. I think she may have, but I don't see a bunch of Democratic Democratic Democrat politicians running around trying to use this as. I don't know I think that, but I think that Candice mentioned it because receipts show historically that that is sometimes a ploy that is used in order to gain black votes. So she's probably going off of that although I can under she's saying it because of receipts historically, but as a sitting president, as the commander in chief of the US, how could you not speak on something that was such a horrific incident like this. So yeah, because it's getting really big, So for him to not say anything, I think would be a little insensitive. Yeah. I well, I would think that someone like Kamala Harris would mention something like this, And I just I haven't heard anything. I mean, she could. I just fact checked it, and she did call them Friday. Kamala Harris called the family yep of. So no, I said, did she make a statement like. She spoke with the family. No, Okay, she needs to make a statement, you know. But whatever, real quick, real quick. I hate the pivot on that story, real quick. Raphella, raphella. If Rafella come back on, we'll bring her on because she was uh subsequently, I don't know, she froze for some reason. So if she's watching, then she calls back and we'll bring her in right after the Sizzle. But I want Sizzle to finish her stories and uh, but no, back to your point, I think that it would probably be good for Kamala to make a statement based around that you got me. I don't know. It's unfortunate. Any situation like this is unfortunate, and we have to sometimes we have to have that hard conversation about it. Otherwise it's so many accusations and conspiracy theories and all of these speculations that people are going to come up with if you don't say anything. And that's a problem, and that's how a lot of stuff spur out of control because no one want to come out and say anything. And I'll leave it at that, Yeah, I mean, and the fact that you did bring it up, I mean, I think it was good to highlight that. But then sometimes you go into comments and you just like, oh, why did I come here? Because it gives an opportunity for people who had have far whatever side you want to say, to be able to comment and say something negative. So I just hate that part, all right. So, if you thought the fiftieth anniversary we were just talking about this, but if you thought the fiftieth anniversary of hip hop, hip hop commemorated why the genre was a force to be reckoned with Today, for some audiences, hip hop may still have some work to do during the episode of Celebrity Family Few, they surveyed one hundred people about one and they surveyed them about one of the most controversial questions in hip hop, and it said top and Steve said top eight answers on the board who is the greatest. Rapper of all time? So the celebrity contestants who are musicians in their own right, they gave answers like j Cole, Kendrick Lamar, Lil Wayne nas Drake. Well, the people that they surveyed had their own little idea of who hip hop who was the greatest artist in hip hop? So here's what they you know, when the survey was all read and everything, here's what they came up with, Number eight, jay Z, number seven, fifty Cent, number six, the Notorious. B I G. Number five, L COOLJ, number four, Doctor Dre, number three, Eminem number two, Tupac, and number one Snoop Dogg. So ultimately Steve Harvey said, I want to apologize to the entire hip hop community. Then he said jay Z's last. What in the world, So what are your thoughts, because we, I mean, it's everybody always has this little debate about who's the top, But like. Is this accurate. Part this, you know what I I actually, that's what I was just pulling up. Right now, let me see if I could share this because I want I want people to see this in real time. Because I was I said, where where where are they getting this stuff? I mean, so I went on Reddit, right, let me share this real quick. And I don't know if you can see this. Just let me see if I could make this bigger? And so pretty much they said, if you can see this, They said, I'm on Reddit and you guys can look this up. And I just simply typed in, Uh, does Family few actually asks one hundred people? Or this is what somebody else said? But I looked up who does Family few? Pole? Right? And someone asks similar question? Does Family few actually asks one hundred people for their responses to the question? Or do they just make up a number that sounds like it could be true? But someone responded it said. The show uses a polling firm called Applied Research West. The firm calls people randomly to ask them the questions. To keep the process discreet, the callers don't tell the people they speak to that they're collecting responses for Family Few, and in about three weeks. Those questions are used on the show. So what I'm thinking, right, what I'm thinking is that more than likely they probably that sounds like, if I want to be frank, kind of like stay at home white moms right, commercialize you because I mean Snoop I was about to say, they watched they love Martha Stewart. Snoop Dogg is on there. They know that he raps, So most of them probably don't even know what other rappers are out there, what other hip hop artists out there. So the first thing that comes to mind, Oh the god Snoop Doggy Dog Snoop Doggy Dog. He raps, so he must be my favorite rep. So in theirs lens, he's probably they're they're, you know, their greatest rapper and uh and you know, like people know. The Cops show. Yeah, he on the Cops. Most people know Beyonce husband, you know, they know a few different things, and so it's kind of one of those things. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I feel like those are the ones that's kind of like they've gone beyond just the scope of you know, remaining in hip hop. They've delved into different areas like movies and you know, and and acting, and and all that type of stuff. And Snoop has truly rebranded him himself time. It's almost Olympics and commercial They've made him a lot softer. So it's just yeah, and it's it's similar to like Shaq. People didn't know who Shaq was, but now based on all the commercials and the rebranding of who Shaquille O'Neill is. I think it's that same concept, absolutely absolutely. But I would love to hear with some of these folk who are considered in the top and didn't make it what their thoughts are, you know, some of these ares, but probably won't ever hear that. Uh. The Celebrity Sizzle Award of the Week goes to. I'm Getting Everything, Carmelo, Anthony, Dwayne Wade, and Chris Paul. They have announced a two hundred and thirty thousand grant dollar grant for their through their nonprofit, the Social Social Change I Can't Talk the Social Change Fund United. 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So shout out to these three brothers right here, Carmello, Anthony Duwayne Wade and Chris Paul. That's how you do it, that's how you support Social Change You. So, I'm your girl, Laurence Sizzle and that was the sizzle, and that was. The cizzl ladies and gentlemen, I'm your boy, Gregory, the beautiful. Laurence, beautiful classic ladies Parker. And that your boy Charles Gregory and real quick. I want to pull this up because her publicist Forrella publicist posted this. She said she sends her love to everyone. She wasn't able to connect something was going on with her internet, but RAF had a fantastic time. Thank you for having on the show. Great interview. I want to I want to read this real quick before we and because this news just came out and this is from the Hill. Kelly emerges as top contender for Harris's VP pick. Senator Mark Kelly d Arizona has risen to near the top of the list of possible running mates as Vice President Harris considers who she wants to run alongside her. And I'll just leave it at that. Y'all can do your research on that. That was from the Hill. Yeah, and so name. It's kind of I was kind of hoping. I don't want to say I'm disappointed, because the choices that are close in the running are all good choices, but I was kind of hoping for Josh Shapiro. You know, he's PA. It's like he's done a lot of work here. He's doing some phenomenal things like classy Lady Sparkle talked about last week the Act forty four, something which I know a lot of as you know, working in law enforcement. You know, on the side, I have to. Start making some changes when it comes to Act forty four. So and not only that, I believe he does have a and this is something I saw that he has a nice amount. Of supporters and voters on both. Sides and not that's somebody that you know, you need an office that's going to get the work done, that that is for both sides and not just one, because when it comes down to it, you know, the American people should come first, regardless of party. It also looks like he was a former astronaut. I did see something like that. Yeah, yeah, I think he got his own agenda. He like, look, I don't want no part of it over here, you know. So I'm going after this is done, I'm gonna run myself probably. I think I think he'll probably run in the next four years. Yeah, definitely. So there you go. Ahead. There you have, ladies and gentlemen, such a dynamic shure. Thank you for tuning in. Make sure you like sharing, subscribe, make sure if you feel as if you want to support independent media, and make sure you drop us a little, you know, a little cash little dollar song. We talked weekly in cash Up. We appreciate you, but we gotta go. 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