We Talk Weekly End of the Year Wrap Up 2025

Yeah. We talked weeks after the talk with w P p P Philadelphia one O six point five left and we talked weeklies after the talk with your boy Charles Gregnan. A beautiful classic, beautiful. We got some people in the house and the beautiful Sabrino. What's gonna say is your Michael, make sure your your mic is on. I don't hear you, don't hear me. I don't here. We're gonna make sure they say they say she on. Yeah. I just want to make sure I got some I want to make sure that I got to So christ we got listen, check this out. We're gonna make this happen. We got a dynamic show for you. Hope give me shout out for let me see now. She said, hey, hey, hey, there you go. So we talked weeklies after the talk. We got a dynamic show for you today. But right now, because we already tried, this is our wrap up show. We had New Millennia. Yes, this is the wrap up show, and I'm telling you that we're gonna have a dynamic show. But I'm gonna bring them right here. Let me tell you Christina and Eddie is in the bull. Then like they can't f off wrap up show. They have been part of this journey of ours. Right now we're doing something new, right, So Christina, can y'all hear us? Hey? There you go? Can you hear Hope say something home? I want to make sure they can hear you over there? Keep your mic going and you gonna turn it on to Brendan family. Can y'all hear me? Can y'all hear her? There? Ah? There you go, bring and shout up? Okay, they got they saying, hey, you can hear can clear over there, Eddie loud. Loud and clear. So we're want to just go ahead and jump right into it, right into it. So this is off wrap up Show. Shout out to everybody who's watching it. And so I just want to talk to. Y'all real quick. So you know, anytime that we have somebody come on, y'all been here before, right, So you know we want your top five of you know, this is off Wrap Up Show twenty twenty four, right, So y'all have to tell us kind of like your top fives. Now. I wanted from both of y'all, Right, I gotta tell us you'll top five. So I'm going to start. With you want to you want to go ladies first, Eddie, I'll let you do the honest. Thanks. First, we're going to do the queen. Yeah yeah, clean clean. Tell us your top five of twenty twenty four. Oh wow, well you dynamic. So for us our top five, we were able to have our Day of Shade book featured at the Brooklyn Psychology of a partnership with the New York Mets. So that is pretty huge for us. So that's number one. What's number two? It's so much. We we actually gave our book to. Supre Justice Yeah, Brown Jack Hug. We also, yeah, we. Met the mayor, the first black mayor of Maryland, Wes Moore today, so that I. Was pretty cool. Governor, well, we met him before we met him today at the Governor man. Yeah, so many. I think that's far. That's very far. And we were on a book tour Barnes Book Turn this whole summer, so that was pretty cool. So those are I think maybe farms. Yeah, oh wow, that's hot. Meeting the first black mayor of you said Maryland. Governor, Oh nice, nice, and then tell us. You broke up. I didn't hear you. How was the book tour it was great. It was awesome. We were on tour for what two months through Barnes and Noble and north Stroum locations, which was really dope. So we had a partnership with north Strum. They really are partnering to for black businesses and so that was really cool to be able to have that representation in their stories with our books. Fantastic, fantastic. Okay, okay, all. Right, come on, come on, my brother, come on, King, it's on you now. Well, well it had to be like you said, the Book of SoC Holmes. We had the whole stadium full of our book, dere Shay. So we was on the scoreboard, me and Chris, and then my daughter threw up the first pitch. Yeah that that that that started it off. We want ano Award for our film. Yeah, for sure, for sure. Okay. That was the beginning of the year. So you know now streaming on the second platform on three Movies plus, So that was great. Amazon. Yeah. I think another one is giving our book to so many people like James McBride, you know, because he just came off Author of the Year, Book of the Year. So when we saw him and him we changed autograph books. That was great, changing all the graph books for him. James Patterson, who before we started his journey, was like wow, you know he wrote like ninety nine books and right now on my twenty fifth, so you know that was just giving him a book and he was like, hey, take a picture with me. So you know, he wasn't getting anyone, he wasn't taking picture of anybody, but gave it Shane. He said, hey, now take a picture where else good? Another highlight, well, that definitely definitely this year November we did. We helped out with Jim McLean McGill, Jamelia Clain and. Army former Giant fifteenth Year of. Thanksgiving, Giving thanks Diving the dinners to the whole. Yeah, the more So were up there with that. That was great because you know people just came by the table we fed them. So that was definitely high like a five thousand people thousand people can. Oh and last week we had first time we have been on stage. We had. Started telling our story for the n PR on the stoop on stage, so you know we was on stage first time ever, mean her telling our story and it was like crap. So that, yeah, we had a lot of it's just so many going through the head. But yeah, we just finished doing that. Oh man, fantastic. Man. I'm just excited about a lot of the things that you guys are doing. You guys have been working. And so when it comes to you know, just just making sure that we stay connected with a lot of the things that you guys are doing. We want you all to stay in contact with us. But before we let you know, thanks for your you know, your final five. This is a big deal for us and the things that were doing. We always love the work that you guys are doing. So before we let you guys go, we got Diamond Black coming up. Why don't you let everyone know how to get in contact with you some of your latest things that you have coming up and what people need to look out for. Thank you. Well. You can connect with us on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn. We have a partnership with Salvation Army. In Walmart, so we are really trying to encourage people to donate this holiday season. Salvation Army needs. Or donations all year around. They do a lot for our communities to help people are going through eviction, human trafficking. If you need just food, they do lots of insecurity food, insecurity help through the communities, and so that's one of the things we're really encouraging people do. Go to register to Ring dot com and register to volunteer with your local Salvation Army help people in your community directly. The money goes directly to them. So that's something that we're doing. We're partnering for the. Rest of this year. And if you buy our book Engaged on Christmas Eve, any version of our book, if it's the ebook, the paperback or the audiobook, that those proceeds were donating a portion of the proceeds to the Salvation Army. So that's a part of our Holiday Love Holiday Giving Back tour campaign. So if you do that, it's helping give back to the community. Plus we got the Red Cross too, so if you get blood, everyone just go get blood. Fantastic. Can you get them one more time where they can get in contact with you and all that good stuff? Yep. Sledge House Media on Instagram, Facebook, and Sledgehousemedia dot com on our website. And I have one more. I have one more top five being on your show. This year to give it to its being on the show with your earlier this year really helped us too, So yes. Plau watch you spand a little bit. You know, the people are not and the people watching. Really we really enjoyed it. We had people who come to our Instagram and join us and all that stuff, so you. Know, every everything, everything's a win for us. So that was amazing win earlier this year, you know the show and then you actually us to come back on in the in the year. Was ice on the cake for us. So we really appreciate it because you didn't have to do that, but we really appreciate it. Nah, we really appreciate you too. I told you, once you come to the show, you're a friend to the show, so you're always welcome to come back. So we really appreciate you, guys. So we want you to. Have bringing twenty twenty five amazingly, have a great time, and we you know, we wish you my success and we wait for you to schedule back to come back on a show. Absolutely, thank you appreciate it, Thank you much. Yes, absolutely absolutely. There you go, ladies and gentlemen, keep yes, Christina Eddie. Look that's the family right there, you know. There there you're talking about dynamic duo that has always been pushing I remember when they first came on the show and they you know, they were really pretty much starting a lot of the stuff that they We talked about their relationship, we talked about some of the things that they were getting into, and we talked about, you know, a lot of the business moves that they were making. And every time they come back, I'm seeing more books and more things that they were doing. They were expanding. So that was amazing. Month two month book tour is like crazy. That's a lot. To them, for sure, for sure, for sure. So next time we got Diamond Black, Diamond Black, We're gonna pull you right in. How are you? How are you? We don't hear you. My friend looks like, oh no, we don't hear you. Might want to check in. Uh uh he got so he gonna reach back out and come back in. And so we talked weekly after the talk w P p P Philadelphia one O six point five f L. We talked weeklies after the talk with your boy Charles Gregory and. Beautiful and beautiful and so listen, this is all we talked weekly. This is our year in wrap up. And we have two dynamic people that's in here too. You know, they're we're gonna talk a little bit about fashion be five and some of the things. Spark, what are you doing over there? You don't live right. I'm just saying, you know what, Domind Black, Dimond Plane, how are you Domind. Black, Sparky Plane. I'm asking, Yeah, Diamond Black, technical difficulties. We are here doing. Yeah, like we are trying to He's trying to get on there. We don't hear him. We don't hear him. We're gonna make. Sure he get on. Let me see your audio. We're gonna try and work on your audio, dom the Black. You should see something that says settings at the bottom right, and then it's just say audio right, and then once you get the audio, it should say Mike, you just want to define which mic that's attached, and you should be able to get it from there. I know, I know it gets a little challenging sometimes, and so as we so, Domond, I want you to work on your mic. But as we work on a mic, I'm gonna go I'm gonna right, I'm gonna jump right into Spark. Spark, why don't you tell us what's going on? You got some good news? Bad news? I hope so, because you. Know, we said we have so many guests that are on today because this is like our year in review, so everybody is trying to get on a stream. You know. I try to send everybody links and you know, so I'm working because that's when when you were seeing and lady has that they work, they work. Diamond Black, try domind Black real quick, Diamond Black, see if you can unmute your mic and. See No, no, he's still he's still having challenges with his mind. I'm sorry, my brother were trying to get you on because you want to. You want of our family too. Yeah, he did that before. Lock back out right, then log back in, check your MIC's settings and make sure it's patched to the mic that you're on. Sometimes they work out. And so while we wait for Diamond Black to come on, because Donald Black, that's our fan, he said, whole tight, and I want you to once you try to get it just kind of like talking, we'll try to make it happen. But because he family, so we gotta make sure you get in it right. Yeah, you know for sure. So do you want me to yes? Do you want me to tell you about my day? Tell me about your day that we're gonna go because we got some bring help and sparked doing everything. I'm gonna shout out my mom's husband. My mom passed away a year ago and sad because her husband passed away I think fourteen months after she did. Fifteen months. So when they tell you that people passed from a broken heart, it's true. They were together for forty years. My father and my mother were together for twenty two years. Then she met her husband who she was with for forty So that's that's a long time. But I went to his funeral today, Walter Bard, and God bless his soul. Yeah yeah, all right, all. Right, all right, so let's seek. We got domin black. That was sad, spark. We love, we love, it should be, but honestly, bird should be like death. That's true. People don't understand their life. And they're back together. Yeah yeah, so it's like, yes, said, they're back together, so it burst something glass half full Charles. Yeah, that's right, because I love, we love my Duke's black. Let's see we got your audio on. Ah no, we still don't hear you. Oh man, you know what I want you to? Are you on your computer? Try to come on, job, try to come on. So he said, try, no doubt yet, so try to come on this foe and he got it. So we got Sabrina and hopes, what's going on, Sabrina, howbout you day? And that was good, no doubt, no doubt, cool but good. You look amazing by the way. Shout out to Stas. There you go, fast be Fire, shout out to fast Bee five team. Sabrina is kind of like, hey, ahead of that. She she's you know, I mean, she's she's one of. Them, right, and so I'm very fashionable and definitely know her stuff. And we got a dynamic team and we're going to be doing some things here at the Millennium Studios. Yes, definitely one of those things that we're super excited about that. And so how was your day though? Yeah, we need your mind talking to your MC. Yeah sorry if you don't shopping getting ready for the holidays. But good day over, no doubt, no doubt. What about you over, she said me, keep your mic on col. Yes, yes, I was up early as usual. Running errands, post office, picking up packages, a little shopping, lunch, came back, handled some business down. Here there, God, she said, And I'm here and I'm here, and that's what's up? You know? Did we go to the U and lady I stop, Lady start hollering, how was your day? I was My day was good. You'll guess what I did? Sleep, lay in my bed all day. I woke up. I was like, okay, let me looking at it? What ten to forty two of the phone respond a couple of text busses, put it down, roll back over, kept it on solid though, because I wanted to look at it at my leisure and responding stuff at my leisure. I ain't miight, not waking me yep, and I will go up again and like what twelve? And I'm over again? Like two, I said, I guess I could stay up now, but I ain't get. Out of the bed though. That was too much work. Okay, that's why was you so tired. I had a crazy week though, and I've been running around and then I am actually I got I'm working hard in the film and the g So I got a film that's dropping in the spring that I was assistant director on. But right now the prequel, I mean the sequel to that, that's the prequel. So right now the other film is rolling and we've been doing premieres So we've been traveling doing those premieres, and they decided to do a road trip to the premiere in Saint Louis, So which is a pretty long drive. So I was just getting back in the middle of the night last night, so I said, yeah, I'm not getting up until my body. Says get up, right, you know what I mean. So that's a long time in the car. But we had a good time. It was fun. So I'll tell you guys about more of that later. But yes, today my day was good. I got to lay. Around and then come hang out with you good people. So when when on my on my. Part, it's food here too. We got food, we got sweets, we got juice. Here. So that's I'm happy. No doubt, no doubt. So I want to shout out real quick because we are alive at Moon Millennium Moult Studios. When I tell you this dynamic studio, I'm super excited to be here because uh, it's a dynamic studio. We talked we will be here fashionally five will be here. And if you are actually planning a safe for example, podcast, this is the podcast studio that we're in. So if you're plan in. The podcast, this is the best place to be fully stocked. If you have your own equipment, you can bring that too. If you need the equipment which work on is fully stacked, fully beautiful place. So make sure you tune in. Shout out to my god, Millennial studio. So shout out everybody. You had here a new millennial motime media studio. So we got down the black. We're gonna see if you're back and listen, my brother. Can you hear me? Now? My god? So all right, so so everybody knows, So everybody, what do What do you think was the problem? I well, first of all, I am the most technologically in that person. But listen, when I went to sign on, because I was here like fifteen minutes early, it had different speak. So I'm trying all three on the speak for audio like nothing, nothing, nothing. So I went through my email, grabbed the email, sent it didn't work in Chrome, had to put it through some fart. Shout up to domin black. Now, my brother, my brother, how are you man, it's been a while, it's been a while. It's been a while. I'm doing great. I was like, I'm so glad to be back. It's nice to see you all the set is looking on point. I was like, y'all looking good. It's good to be back. It's great to be back. Yeah, I'm fantastic, my brother. So you know you have to you know, this is our year and wrap up and you're already part of the family. And so when you're part of the family, we. Invite you back and you have to tell us your top five of twenty twenty four. You ready for me? I'm ready for it. Okay, all right, hall at me top five to twenty four Okay. So first, we'll be releasing new music that is really just pushed my artistreet boundaries that I really never really thought I could cross, so just the growth. The second would be being on this once but twice. It was my first being on a show that like televised and on the video. I thank you guys so much for that. Number three. I got my song on the radio stations during the years, So that was isn't it incredible? What was that? Was that? Three? Or four? That's three? What was that? That's three? Feel? Number four would be after years I've been going to night school part time in here, and number five would just be alive and well and ready for the new year. Fantastic, fantastic, My brother, man, that's that's a beautiful thing. Now. You know that it's a lot going on in the world today, right, And so for those who don't necessarily know. About who Diamond Black is, why don't you give. Revue one kind of like a little summary of some of the work that you have been doing and some of the things that you do now, Yeah. For sure. Well, for those who may not know my name is, I'm in Black. I'm an artist from philip I believe music so and key to the heart. Music and life inspire and empower. You know, we all have been on this journey of life together and I really am just hoping that my music can accompany you along the. Rock fantastic fantastic. If it was one thing a legacy that you feel like you would like to leave, what would that be? Definitely a legacy of love? I think, yeah, people don't people always remember how you made them feel, you know what I mean? As much as you know I love music and being a musician and doing all these other things, I just think as a leaving a legacy of love is like pretty much one of the most incredible things you could do, just for humanity, I would say, amazing. Amazing, My brother, amazing. So why don't you let everyone know how they can get in contact with you, how they can find all of the great things that you're doing. Let everyone know how they can get it. Absolutely, you guys can check out my website send me a message is www dot Diamond black one, liketh number dot com. I'm also on ig at Domino dot com. I got a new song dropping twenty five called Bread and Butter, so I hope you all check that out. And I just wanted to thank you guys. I was like, just for not only for me personally, but for what you do for media, do for black media, and what you do for Philadelphia. It definitely does not go unnoticed. You all are amazing, amazing, amazing. I can you know personally that so thank you for all that you do. Oh man, you know that really means a lot, especially for me because we do this, you know, with the blood, sweat and tears, you know what I mean. And and for us. Being in the community and amplifying voices like yours is really important for us, you know, for you to be able to get you know, to that possibly next level for people to see you who maybe have not been able to see you because you're you know, you're you don't have a different platform or media based platform, right. But for us to be able to say, no, we got you, Domond, we got you you family, you know, it really means a lot for us, man, And so. Thank you for that. Thank you so much, Thank you fantastic. So one more time, how can I get in contact with you? Gonna find out all that little stuff? Totally check out my website www dot Diamond Black one, like the number, well list I'm on I at Domic Black. One before you go, Chris, how you get your name? So my dad has been a jeweler for like thirty five years, So that's how I got. But I wanted to stand out, so I put black, obviously, like the color of my skin. And then the two seeds on the end stand for inclusion. Because whatever I do, whatever I speak, I live my life, I seek to include and incorporate as many people as possible. So the sees at the end bring clusion. Like you see on the email. Dropt right, my god, that was Diamond Black. Make sure you file them, make sure you get all this stuff, support them. Look, that's how we got to fill you right. If we don't support each other, nobody else will. So make sure you support. We talk weekly, will definitely support. Make sure you reach out, make sure you follow them and all that good old stuff. My god, you take care of yourself. Thanks for tuning in my brother all the best. Thank you. So they have it. Ladies and gentlemen. We talked weeklies after the talk with w P P m l P Philadelphia one O six point five f l We talk weeklies after the talk with your boy Charles Greg and beautiful and beautiful and the beautiful. In the beautiful. Keep you all mind going, keep you all mic going, be good. We good, were good last time. I did it all right, So give all right. So I got my top ten stories of the twenty twenty four and y'all please chime in and tell me what y'all think. I'm gonna go from bottom the top. Orry some of us hyper focused for Philly, some of us. You know, throughout the world. So number ten anti vaccine nurse walks. Free in Germany. So this is a shocking case in Germany where they saw a nurse injecting eight thousand, six hundred and elderly patients with salt water instead of. The COVID nineteen vaccine. Despite the outrage, judge didn't give her no jail time, sparking international debate. No, she went to court and he let it go. But initially she was actually, you know, charged, interesting, But no, no. They let her go. So what do y'all think about that? Did the salt water harm? Salt water is like saline. No, she just felt like giving them the COVID the vaccine would be harmful, so she didn't. They tell you don't do no harm. But that wasn't harm. But she wasn't following instructions by the doctors. Mm. Wow by not giving them the vaccine. Yeah. Well, some some people controversially think that the vaccine as an anti vaccer. They feel like that they were putting poison because I don't know if y'all know, but now the National disability or as uh to be disabled you can now get post COVID people have lost their memory and they're having different outcomes because of the vaccination or because of having COVID itself. That people are now filling for disability from COVIDGE. I don't know what the lawyer has said, but yeah, could they Yeah, I think, yeah, right, But as you said, on the other side, if they had got sick, what is you know, they could say, hey. They could have been prevented if they would have got the COVID. All right, that's number ten. Number nine move members demand justice for a twelve year old victim. Ah remember that? Yeah, so members of the Move organization have called the University of Pennsylvania to return the remains of a twelve year old victim of the nineteen eighty five Move bombing. The fire killed eleven people. It remains a painful memory. In Philadelphia, I recall that, all right. Number eight a train platform tragedy in Philadelphia. A disturbing altercation on a train platform and university city resulted in Chaz Wearing being charged with manslaughter after video footage showed him throwing another man on the platform who succumbed to death by the train. Here in Philadelphia. That was number eight. Number seven. Historical mayor mayorial election covered by We Talk. Yeah, we did that. Philadelphia Work welcomed its first woman mayor as the city's one hundredth mayor in twenty four. However, We Talked we made history as the first media outlet to interview every mayorial candidate during that campaign, and that was the highest candidates of the Philadelphia election. They've never had that many candidates fourteen fourteen. Yeah, yeah, ye, just yes, she did, yes, she ye. That that debate was, uh yeah, I have my my different people. I actually I liked the judge. I'm like judge. I like the judge. I was impressed with David Oh as well. See the reason I like David Oh. I see David in the streets. So that's why I like David Oh. So definitely that. But the people spoke in Charrel Parker and he supports the artist and everything everything we do, everything we do. And for our youth. So yeah, that was a big one for me. That stood out for. Me, all right. Hunter Biden's legal battles, Hunter Biden faced accusations of evating one point four million dollars in taxes involving drugs alcohol. Although initially facing fifty years in prison, he was partnered by his father, now President Joe Biden. That was twenty that goes down in history books. He had a question, No, I mean, okay, so let me ask you this real quick. Do you think Biden should have had a partner Trump Trump impart in the soul, So should he have dd it just to say. I agree? But that was the controversial part when in the beginning, if you're going to stand on business, he kept saying, no, I'm gonna let the justice system do what they need to do. Someone was facing fifty years, he said, before I get out of here, y'all saying that, you know, the good guy always let you know what last laugh, yeah, last, last. Yeah. So he said, I'm partnering my son, so he did. Okay. Number five gruesome beheading in Pennsylvania. Man in Pennsylvania horrified the state when he was arrested for beheading his father. The K shock the community. But all these are the. Stories on he don't be paying attention. I don't remember. The k shock the community, but received limited media coverage with brief updates. A disturbing video of a man holding what he claimed was his father's decapitated head. This was in Pennsylvania. What A circulated on YouTube for hours. It was viewed more than five thousand times before it was taken down. Y'all, don't be paying attention to good news. Bad news. They always tell me you have all the bad news that y'all don't be listening. No, that's because we got hold. That's your guests in the house. It's so so listen you remember that story? Actually do there we go. He's the white young man who decided to decapitate his father. Now we don't know why he made a decision to decapitate his father. I'm sure he's seeing some kind of psychiatrists. But people want to know, why, why did you commit such a gruesome act? What was going on? Yeah? Wow, the investigating I guess all of that because it's only one side. Well, let's just say this, when the kid murdered the cop. When you murder any cop, it is national news. They do obstensive background into a cop killer when they can murder the cop. And they found out he was from a wealthy family, and either was it Bucks County or Montgomery County did not go quickly. Yes, it is. So it just depends on who the perpetrator is and how they're portrayed in the news. It depends on their race, the social economic status, what connections their parents may or may not have. M Yeah, all those variables. And this didn't get much media. But I think the psychiatrist part, like you said, that's what we just want to know. There's people who think that. Okay, so I'm angry with you. I could take a toe, I could stab you, I could flap you, I can chow you. I got it. I'm going to behead you. Yeah, the beheading I think was but I still have like when you were talking about the psychiatrists part, I still think it's some type of No. I don't want to say separation, but when kids murder their parents, you know a lot of times I don't necessarily like situations like that, even if I do, you know, live in close proxiity, Am I really in fear that you won't hurt me? Because I feel like that's a really personal that's the act of Yeah, so something like that, I don't necessarily Oh this is the bottom person, like they're just killing people. Know, to kill your parents, that were something really personal and really strong. There if you do that right, right, and then to put it on social media. Your mother or your father, but. Yeah, yeah, they well put it on YouTube stream live. Yeah. And also to just do the head like you got to use a saw or someththing, you. Know what I mean, Like it ain't like a. Really final act so that whatever is going on here can be stopped forever. It's a very final, defiant. A right, right, very definitive. Yeah, what good number is that? That's number fine. Oh that's a good So let's let's pause right there, hope that because. We got that word we got do I call it doctor B because you a doctor to us. You a doctor to us. So let me bring her right on. How are you? How are you? Hi? I'm good? Can you guys hear me? Because you're line and clear. It's good to see you. It's good to see. How have you been? I mean good. I'm sorry. I'm dealing with sciences, but I've been good. That's all right, that's right. A lot of us been dealing with a lot of different things. It's a lot of people stick around lately. Wow. Really this at the end of my two weeks. I even had to go to the hospital. It's been bad. Wow wow, wow, wow Jesus, Well, thank you, thank you for being here, think every move being. Here today, you too, doctor B. So you know we have to jump right into all right, so you know we're doing our top five right. Twenty twenty four. I'm gonna jump right to you. But before we before you do your top five, right, why don't you let everyone know pretty much who you are in your first experience? We talk weekly. I am W. B. Hamilton. I'm a love coach for Mary Women and I've been working with Mary Women. For five years now, so I'm having a great time. A couple of years ago I got with you guys on we talked weekly, and you guys have been awesome. You have really embraced me. I appreciate that and I've enjoyed being on your show. So thank you, well, thank you, thank you so much for being here. So now let's jump right into your top five of twenty twenty four, Hilla Addison. As far as what's going on with me or as far as what's going on with the world. What's going on with the world, what's going on with you? Five moments that you remember that really stood out for you twenty twenty four. Well, one thing that I'm super proud of, and I know this is totally something that nobody would really get for me, but my brother was in prison for seventeen and a half years on death row, i should say, and he was able to get out off of death row, and I had the opportunity to go hear him speak a couple of weeks ago for the first time and talking about what his experience was like on death row and how he. Was with them. He was speaking to a group of lawyers and how horrible death row is and how they need to change death row, like, you know, stop putting people on death row, and especially black and brown men. He is I'm. Originally from Ohio, and so he was in Ohio when he spoke in this group. But I was just so proud of him and just so excited over the fact that not only I had the opportunity to be there to for him, but his daughter, who when he went into prison was only nine months old and she is now nineteen, and she got to see her father speak on a stage and talk about his life experience of being in prison. So that for me this year was huge being able to experience that in seeing my brother, you know, be able to come out of prison and to show up on stage and talk about his story. So that was huge. So far, let me just say that we're twenty twenty four, and that was big for me. Was he generated he. Was not exonerated because he was found that he didn't do it. Number one, that he really was innocent, but the prosecutor would not let him leave without him pleading out because they wanted to Even though they found out that he didn't do it, they still wanted to charge him with something, and if he wouldn't have pleaded out, they would have made him stay in jail for eighteen months to two years while they retried him, and there was no guarantee. So his lawyers told him that he needed to just go ahead and plead out. So he pleaded out. For child endangerment because he was like, well, I was there when it happened, so I'm taking ownership of that. So they just let him go and. He's free to do whatever he wants to do and he's living his life and I'm just so proud and happy for him. And that's just my highlight, you know, to. See my brother, you know, to see him, you know, coming to his own and his lawyer that he had, she was amazing. She is amazing because she could have just shook his hand and said, I got you out, keep it moving, but she's been with him throughout this whole process, taking him from state to state, being able to tell his story. So that's such a proud moment for me. That is huge for this year. Yeah, fantastic. That's you don't need anything else after that. Everything. So how is he doing now? Your brother doing now? He's doing good. He's still trying to find his footing, you know, after being in prison for so long and everything is so new. He trying to find his fitting. He is. He's just focusing on, you know, enjoying himself, being able to be around family again, and learning technology, you know, because none of the stuff that we have today is you know's available, so he's still learning how to do all of that. He has an apartment. You know, he did have a job, but because of where he was at, his knee got messed up, so he had to have knee surgery. So he's healing from that. But he's doing good. He's doing good. He's very excited that he gets to be around the family and get to experience you know, the holidays or whatever, you know, just every day living is what he's happy about. Wow, fantastic, fantastic. Well, doctor b you know we call you doctor me you are doctor you know, why don't you let everyone First of all, I want to say happy holidays and everything you know, and we shoot the best in everything that you do. And you already know once you come to the show, you're a friend to the show, so you always welcome to come back. But you already knew that. But I do want you to tell everyone how they can get in contact with you and how they can find you and all. That little stuff. Yeah, okay, tech me, Oh okay, because he said. He said doctor B. He just said that doctor D. I thought he said be not dead. Sorry, Okay, anyway you can contact me. I have it up here in Instagram, nurture your Love or my website nurture youorlove dot com where you can find out information about me. I did want to bring out the fact that I wrote a book and I finally have a book. Finally, right, I remember you talking about that excellent excellent, right. So you can find me find my book on nurturerlove dot com. I can. It's set up so that you could get a personal sign copy from me, and you can also go to Amazon dot com to uh get a copy of my book. So I'm very proud of my book as well. But you can always contact me at nurture youorlove dot com or nurture your love on Instagram and I'm starting something new in twenty twenty five. I'm going to be working on I'm transitioning from just Merrywomen's just marriedwomen to Black Wives Group. So I'm going to focus. On black women, right, black wives, and it's going to be about us and for us. So hopefully you guys can just go to my website, your love dot com and sign up join my community, and when I get your information, I will be updating you or when all the things that I'll be doing for Black Wives Group will come about. In twenty five. Fantastic, fantastic, well, happy holidays, Happy New Year, and all that good old stuff. We like to always again thank you for coming to we talked, Thanks for support and you know we're always here for you. And so we don't want you guys to go anywhere when we come back, we want to let me probably go back into dynamic guest holds. I want to jump into to. Thanks doctor, doctor DV. You can see her middle name. Is a beat. I know see this is this right here. She's a friend to the social family, so. We know yeah. For that, so all right, thank you know right, thanks doctor, have a good day, have a good evening, finish the Russia evening, Stay healthy, stay and all that. Little guys enjoyed you ash usual take care. Yeah all right, so listen, ladies and gentlemen, we are live a new millennial multimedia studios where listen. When you talk about go ahead, talk about going have gorgeous city, it is it shous? Like oh my god. Look, I can't be a little dramatic, but I'm only dramatic when it needs to be because I was in the same space a couple of years ago, right before was it before COVID after? Yeah, okay, that goes the show because honestly, I don't know for y'all, but life stays still for me. COVID I'll be like, it's five years, like that's what, And I'm like, wait, something was two years ago? It was like, no, that was five years. I'm like, wait what. I feel like we lost two years that I can't recount because of the pandemic. It was just in the house, yes, but it's gorgeous here, the lighting, the everything, everything, So I just I think it's gorgeous. Let's talk a little bit about come on, stay, tell us about the studio. What you think of the studio. Studio. Listen, I'm about to throw Charles under the bus like you do us because the right directions. I did give you the right directions I. Had to get. It took me two miles to get to the because this place it's. Huge, and there's so much other stuff here besides this gorgeous space that we're in. So yeah, New Millennium, y'all gotta come through, ya, gotta check it out. They got everything you need. Let's talk to our special gusts ms. Rob. Listen, this young lady right here, we go way back right here right When you talk about someone who has her pulse to the street when it comes to politics, she's going. To be making some appearances. When we talk weekly, it's not an asks. So how have you made campaign? I'm in charge, So. How have you been? Like yes, just like a lot of other people, I've been under the weather. I'm want like this is the two week and my brother passed away on November fourth, the day before the election. And I was listening to you talk to your guests about her top five most pivotal moments in twenty twenty four, and you made me think, and I really thought, and that day. It was the strangest day of my entire life. November four of twenty twenty four, I was up. I couldn't sleep, but I fell back asleep in the morning, and I guess I was like sleep like nine o'clock, ten o'clock, which is crazy. But while I was sleeping, I had a dream. And the dream was so crazy. It was like, if anybody's had this experience, please just say that you have, so I don't feel like I'm crazy. But in the dream, it was like I was stuck between the dream world and reality because it was like I was awake and I knew that this was a dream. But then I was like, well, is it a dream? Because why am I not? Like where's my where's my place? Right? But in the dream something had scary. It happened to my daughter. So I was trying to wake myself up to say, let me call her to make sure she's at work, because this can't be true. This is a dream. So I was stuck between a dream world and reality. And then the phone rang and I woke up and I was out of breath, and I was like, oh God, thank God, that dream is over. That wore me out, and it was a doctor saying, Hi, we have your brother in ICU. So I didn't even have time to decompression that crazy ass dream that wore me out. I was like, what. So that began the day of my brother actually passing away at four o'clock. So as I was walking into the VIP section of the Harris Waltz campaign, you know that big hoorah that was held at the Art Museum. As I was walking into it opened up four o'clock. I was listening to the doctor tell me he's passing away now. So I was like, is this happening, This is happening, what's going on? And everyone else around is like oh, oprah, oh Kamla. And I was in this tiny little world in this big world and there I am crying, like my eyes out and people are looking like, okay, you're not excited to see Kamla, not at all. And then finally someone who knew me said what's going on with you? And it's like, what's wrong with you, Melissa? This is not you? And I'm like, well, my brother just died. They're like what. I'm like, no, he just died. Like so, he held the phone and as he passed away, and I'm the youngest of eleven and that's my second brother. And I really did love my brother. He was like one of my best dides. And we know that everyone has to leave and go on to glory, but you are a human person having a human experience, and you don't know what's going to happen to you until it happens, and you've got to deal with this is this is it. I can't go back to yesterday. This is it now. So how am I? I've been sick every since then because the nieces and nephews flew in from every everywhere. Then we had Thanksgiving, Then we had PA Society, and we actually filmed the show from New York Hilton with not laughing. Nothing's funny about the man being murdered, but the man had just gotten murdered there Brian Thompson, CEO and health Care. So I'm on the two weeks end of being really really really sick and my brother passing away. I tell you all that to say, I thank God for the gift of life. I thank God that I'm here, that I'm I'm I'm breathing, and I'm alive, and I'm excited for whatever our creator has for me like whatever comes between now and when I take my last breath, I'm very excited for that. Fantastic, fantastic. So that's how Melissa is doing. And hi everybody, and thank you for having me here. That's it's all right, it's. What this young lady is. You want. But he said, this is the safe place. You know, nothing good because I didn't bring anybody off the close the place. Thank you all. And by the way, your studio is absolutely gorgeous. It is giving. The only thing that it's missing it's black and white, huge photos of all Hollywood glamor. I love that. The only I think artwork is on its way. There's some big artwork. Yeah, that's right, that's right, that's right. We're here a. New millennium multi mediaduction studios. So if you're interested, make sure you log in, make sure you tune in. You can do your podcast here, you can do an event here. This is an event space. Also, this is a full production studio ladies and gentlemen, So this is a place you definitely want to be at. We talk weekly, will be at fashion We five, will definitely be here. I can't wait to do some stuff. Go ahead, I already know you want something, go ahead. Well when you. Say it's it's like all like facet So if I want to film a movie, that's right here. That's right. If I want to do a. Commercial, it can be here. If I want to stage play, it can be here. If I want to have a woman's workshop, it can be here. It could be if I want to have church, it can be here. And I knew the answer was just so yeah. If you have baby shower, birthdays, corporate events, if you want to do podcasts, anything you want to do, it could be done here. Talking about let's talk a little bit about fascip befive, come on ho now you on a spot talk a little bit about fast be five Nationally five. We have an amazing team. We start out with our podcast. Our goal is to go into expanding the podcast, expanding the TV show, doing research and educating the community. We want to make it interactive, we want to make it timeless. We want to be the go to for fashion, not just in Philadelphia but in the world. And one of our fashion nissas, that's Sabrina is here. When I tell you this, Sabrina is absolutely amazing. Sabrina is amazing. Not only is she a model, she does her like Sabrina is all of that. So I want to pass. This over to Sabrina and ask Sabrina to tell us about your year, because girl, you've been all over the place. That's right. What's your top five? Come on, let's talk. And I'm glad you said that, because actually I did think about out my top five and one of the things that I did not include in my top five was my trip to London. I actually did African Fashion Week in London and the experience say that again, African Fashion Week in London. It was amazing to see all of our beautiful brown people from all over Nigeria, Ghana and the fashions was everything. So that did thank you, because that did make my top five. I didn't include myself. So the rest of my top five number one, and don't beat me up about it, but Renaissance, the Western couture, the Western crossover, the cowboy cuture brought on by Beyonce everything to me. Cowboy had silver cowboy boots. I loved it. So she did my top five. My others, let's see number four with be the passing of Iris. She was a big icon of the fashion industry, and she is one of the people that I looked up to as far as the outrageous colors. I love color, and she exuded color and exuberance and her personality was everything. She lived to be one hundred and two. So I'm rooting for that. I'm shooting for that start too. Let's see what else. Oh, the return of the return of Victoria's Secrets to the run Way after a six year hiatus. So I was happy to see all of the mamas back on the runway. I was especially happy to see Tybra hit the run way. She's a little bigger, she picked up some weight. So cheers and community in. The fashion industry. I think my number one and I don't know if any of you seen it, Tom Brown's Fall to twenty four collection. Yeah, when I tell you, that. Collection gave me goose bumps. It was everything to see that Runway show, it was everything. So Tom Brown has my number one spot for twenty twenty four. I I Tom Brown, Yes, yes, I think so, yeah, Yeah, I like ba Mine though I like Bambin I like as well. But did you see what Tom Brown takes with the that tweet jacket? Number one, He definitely number one. So the same manufacturer that Chanel gets that bouclet and their tweet jackets from the youth, he uses that same manufacturer. However, he took that tweet and he dipped it into black tar and it looked absolutely amazing, amazing, amazing. So yeah, so I gotta, I gotta, I gotta get. Right now, I'm trying to tell you to you so I don't want you all to go anywhere, because that's what we got coming up next. We have someone Committee of seventy. Now, this is like, this is like my sister from another you know, it's usually like this big sister right here. She's so bright, so talented, so amazing, and I want to bring her on right now. Everybody give a round of appat for Tunisha Busy. How are you? How about you? Fee? Thank you so much. I'm blushing from that intro. Thank you. It's great to see you again, right. You know, so since you have been on the show, how have. You been, I've been busy. So for people who don't know, Committee of seventy is a nonpartisan nonprofit here in Philadelphia. We've been around for one hundred and twenty years and we are focused on making sure that elections are free, fair, safe and secure. So I saw you in the midst of being out there trying to make sure that eligible voters felt confident about and knowledgeable about the vote. So we did about one hundred and twenty. Different activities from September up until election day, so just out in these streets trying to promote the satellite election offices. I did about fifty information sessions. We did stuff for a vote early day, like all over the city, North Philly, West Philly Center City. Of course, we had the Sixers come out and help us give out food and information about voting. So just really trying to make sure that people felt like their voices could be heard and knew what was on the ballot. Fantastic, fantastic, And you know, we always love when you jump on the show. As you know, you're a friend. To the show now, so you know every time we'll be reaching out, make sure you. Come on. Absolutely. I mean, we've got some things coming up that like, so of course elections are twice a year. We have the primary, the upcoming primary is May twentieth. The things that are going to be on the ballot, the district attorney is up again our city Controller who does the audist for our budget. So in between the two elections primary and then the general in the fall, we also really want to make sure that every resident, not just voters, but every single person in the city knows how government should work and then. Knows like the part that they can play. And so I'd love to come back and talk about the work that we're doing around how Philly works. We are working with the Welcoming Center. They're nonprofit that's been around, I think since two thousand and three that supports the immigrant. Community here in the city. We already have how Philly Works in English, Spanish, and Chinese, but they're helping us to translate that and other materials into other languages. So that is a huge thing we're doing. We're also partnering with the school district to make sure that young folks know how the city works. And then it's almost budget season for the city, and as people may know, because of everything going on with the arena, our city budget is six point four billion a year, and so a big part of what I do in between the elections is just talk about the city and like how the city budget comes together and then how we can have a say in those activities. So I would love to talk money with you. Let's talk money all the time. Come on, I love talk money. I'm trying to sing. You're the right person to talk to, you know, to talk about it, especially as it relates to you know, how it's affecting, how it can affect the community in Philadelphia specifically, right, And so I think this is an excellent moment to pull you in to talk about your top five moments of twenty twenty four. What are they, Manna top five? I know that I absolutely loved, well one, getting to be in studio with you guys. I was so nervous and you were just so kind. So that felt really good of having like a new way of connecting with people. Then also we like going out into the city and doing these like pop up voter events. We did that with the West Hoalton Drum Squad and so and step and so. We did four events with them, and that was incredible to be able to like go out donate things. Oh, I don't know, I was like, I just did so many like different Oh. I loved being able to coordinate with Temple University. I did a democracy discussion series with them and the amazing deans that work there made the made my sessions kind of mandatory for different student groups. So at one point I was with one hundred and fifty sorority and fraternity members, like at eight o'clock at night because that was a time that worked for them, just going over how they can spread the word and be trusted messengers. Man, So I need to warm more. Oh what else? Oh, I definitely loved. I'm definitely a city girl, but I will go out to the Cola counties and do some things. And so I went out to Delco and did a poll worker session for a chapter of the Akas Sorority and that was just wonderful to be able to make sure that not just Philly, but community amazing community organizations in the color counties too, were able to have access and focus. So that was great. And I'm a poll worker. So election day, despite how anyone may feel about the outcome of the election, I really love being an elected poll worker. I'm a judge of election, so you can volunteer to be a poll worker, but there are three different roles. Judge of election who oversees everything than the two inspectors. They are the people with the e poll books. So when you go in and there the people you tell your name to, those three repositions are elected and they're actually going to be on the ballot again for this upcoming primary. So I really enjoy it's a four year term. I enjoy like being with my neighbors, talking with them. I bring like fruit snacks for the littles. It's just a really great experience. It's a way to like be connected and have an impact, and so I. Always love that, both for primary in general. And we'll be having some sessions if people are interested in not just voluntary randomly, but want to have that like four year commitment twice a year. Those will be in February mid February. We'll be doing those. We need to be. I was going to say, we talk weekly. Has been working with the youth in civics and in voting, and they have been tuning in, and so you would be the perfect person to tell us, well to our kids, like why is it important to vote? Oh? Man, I think it is important to vote because just like anything else, I think I had mentioned this the last time I was on the show, like participating in our community is the way that we make the community reflect like what we want to see, so we have to We can't opt out. We have to participate. Voting is just one of those ways that you participate. And you can even be a pollworker at seventeen, so even before you can vote, you can see what voting looks like and get paid for it. You get two hundred dollars for the day, you get fifty dollars for the training, so it's not a bad day, and you get your check two weeks later, but you get to see the process, right, And it's not about the money, of course, it's about mak making sure that our democracy reflects what we want, and so we have to participate for that to happen. And it's like any other thing that we do. It's you know, it has to become a habit. If you want to be a runner, like you got to put in the time, put in the miles, if you want governments to look the way you want, like you have, you can't opt out, and so you do have to participate. I didn't know you could be seventeen. I didn't know. I know you get paid, but it's also good to put on your resume colleges or. Exactly exactly, and you can get some schools will give you community credit as well, like if you need community service credit so you to get the day off from school. There's a form that you can print out. The next time that we have an election, again, is the primary on the twentieth. It's always a Tuesday, so schools, it'll be towards the end of school, so you'd have to like double check about your finals if you have those. But you print out a form and you have your parent guard and the adult in your life sign it as well as your principal, and then you're excused for the day. And like you said, it looks wonderful and whatever you know, application that you decide to put it. On, fantastic, fantastic. I think what we'll do is, if you don't mind, if you could do me a favor and send me kind of like the schedule, right, and every time there's about to be an election, I want you to come to the show. Yeah, And I. Think that would be good because we have one of our political correspondence here today. Then I'm super excited about Melissa Robinson. She's like a friends so she's like my sister, right, and so I got a whole bunch of sisters. You like my sister. You know so. But when we talk about politics, I think you know, we need a true unbiased position when it comes to holding everyone accountable, and Melissa does that. And I would love for you to come on just to make sure that we continue to amplify that message, and you to talk about a lot of stuff that's going on as release to voting, the need for voting and importance of it, and that it is an election. Of the people don't even know exactly. And the next one, in addition to the district attorney and the city controller, will also have a lot of judges on the ballot. And a lot of people don't understand how the court system works. I mean, we talk about not knowing about how government works, but the court system, which impacts so many of us, people don't understand the different levels of it. How you vote for these judges. And so PA is great in terms of having let allowing justice impact people to still be able to vote. So if you have been convicted of a felony, you can vote like once your home And in my opinion, who better to vote on judges than people who have been impacted by the system. Actually that's for me as always when people are like what does it do for me, and like why would I vote? Like, it's not it doesn't impact me. For me, I think of all the ways it impacts us, whether it's a budget impacting different jobs, whether it is judges who are elected for ten years and then when they need to be retained that's like a yes or no vote, like it is. I cannot wait to get into these things and just to let people know, even if they ultimately choose not to vote, which is everyone's choice, at least they know what they're opting out of. That's right, that's right, that's right. Well, I just want to thank you for coming to the show. You know, you are always a friend to the show, and so you're more than welcome to come back at any time, and we want everyone to Before you leave, why don't you talk a little bit more about the importance of the Committee of seventy. I think they've been doing some amazing work. And then let everyone know how to get get in contact with you. Yeah. Absolutely so. Like I said, the Committee of seventy is committed to making sure that every election throughout Pennsylvania is free, fair, safe, and secure for all eligible voters. We in between the times of the elections are really focused on making sure that every single resident voter or non voter knows how government is supposed to work. So right now we have our how Philly works. We're working on a how wards work. There are sixty seven wards in Philadelphia and so we want people to know what is the ward like, how are ward leaders selected? How can you run for a committee person? So that'll be coming out soon, and ultimately we'll have a how PA works, because state government is so frustrating for people, mostly because they don't know how it works. So those are three really big programs that we're working on Organization WI and then I'll be doing some we'ga ahead of the election about how the city budget works, so that will start the end of January. The Mayor's budget address always comes out in March, so I'll be doing some work ahead of it. We'll be doing some work after it to break down what the mayor says, and then be teaching people how they can get involved to have their voices heard in front of city council. Ahead of the budget. Fantastic Sam, We'll get into it to know where you can reach us. We are the number seventy dot org. You can reach out to us there. We're on all the socials again, just our name at seventy. Fantastic, Fantastic. Well, thank you for coming to the show. Thank you for coming to the show. You already go your friend to the show, so you always welcome to come back. And we want to say to you happy holidays. Holidays, very much, Happy holidays to you. Take care of God. We'll be right there y'all. Gonna take a little break. And we'll be right back y'all after this. Let me this is this is the one that sparked, don't 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 My, My, Kevin, Kevin Lamar and Lannie and Dobs, who are all the actual band members. These are the background singers and we can make some noise. We can to bring that noise today. So that's that's what we 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 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 shuitar. Be hear, 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. Well could you guys do we talked weekly? A favor? Can you give us a drop in a melody type way? Type way? Okay? So we talked weekly. Okay, So we're gonna do something like the. Wig 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. We come in here them we talk. We come in here. Now we talk. We we coming give you Yo, I write. My Jesus game. Yo. I told you like spark. I'm telling you that's probably my favorite clip, but we talked weekly word. And it's your favorite. I'm in the middle of it. You was to just break down in. The end. That's the front part though. That's so funny. She did that, like I mean, impromptu. She just came up with it and it was good. And like I said, sometimes I just show my love in a very loud way. That's all it was. I loved it in that moment. Yeah, play that party. Funny. So we're back. Y'all were talking after the talking about Philadelphia. One six point five that we talk after they talk with your boy is breaking the beautiful ladies, beautiful beautiful. I ain't going to just say, y'all beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Understand the assignment, and I want to bring Melissa back on real quick. We're live. This is our year in wrap up. Super excited new millennium, multi media. Studios and listen, production, media, sound, any and everything. Yeah, we definitely got We're gonna do a live tour though. Sparks people down. You go. Said, let's let's do it together. What happens, what can happen here? I'm in front too, so you might not get the same thing. We'll get some money. You want to get married, that's right, you can do it here. That's right. Everything else you want to, like. I said, you want to do a stage plus, that's right. You could come here. That's right. You want to have church, you could come here. That's right. You want to take your d you could come here. You can come here for all of the things that you know. So we had we've been talking about voting. I think it's only right to bring one of our corresponds on listen. I know you had a few updates. I would you give a few updates as relates to you know, some vote one, the importance of voting, and some updates because I know you shared some potential updates as it relates to voting. Yeah. Well, it's always good to have an organization, a nonprofit organization that is nonpartisan, because you're getting actual information that's non biased. Right. The Committee of seventy is one of the oldest organizations. It's historically been an all white, male conservative organization. It's only recently, over the past couple of years that we begin to see black faces like Tannisha and a couple of black faces here. But historically it has been an extremely republican, conservative, white male organization, and I guess they realize this is not sustainable. Who's going to pay attention to us if we don't even see the community or part of the community that we're trying to serve. And I think it's really important to know that who these people are when when these people are coming on the shows and their nonprofits. It's important to know the history because a lot of people out there are like, oh, I've never heard of them. Say who they are, Say what you stand for. Transparency is critical. So one of the things there's an election every six months, every six months, it must be a way of life. Why is voting important? Well, how did you get the right to vote? The nineteen sixty five Voter's Right to Act. In order to get that act passed and sign people had to die a lot of violence, right, just like we had an insurrection on January sixth on Capitol Hill because there, you know, obviously was some questions about a transfer of power. Well guess what people had to do things that they would not ordinarily do to say, we are working American citizens. Our ancestors helped to construct this country from the ground up. We are going to have our right to vote. And it took a lot of blood, sweat and tears from our ancestors. So for people to be willing nilly about their ability to vote. There's a reason why civics is not mandatory in Philadelphia. You outside of Philadelphia City is mandated. It was mandatory in the Great Estate of Maryland, where I was educated. Ever since I was four years old, I learned about government. Ever since I was four years old, I learned every year more and more about government. So why are our children, or the children who make up Philadelphia County, why are they not learning about civics. Well, if you educate people, you empower them, right, But if you under educate them, you make them controllable. You turn people like that into worker bees. You don't teach them to earn, you don't teach them to lead. So it's incumbent upon us to do it for our own children. You don't send your course kid off to school and think the school's gonna teach your child to be great. Greatness comes from inside that household. I comes from mom and dad. So the elections, right, guess what, who's going to oversee the resources in your district in Philadelphia. It's slight correction. There are sixty nine counties, okay, sixty six county, I mean sixty six wards. Out of the sixty six wards, three are so large they're considered amb So you have thirty five A and B, which is in South Philly, which is Trump territory. They vote Trump. Then you have a Ward forty which is A and B that's in southwest Philadelphia. And then you have Ward sixty six is in the greater northeast, the furthest north that you can go is sixty six A and B, which is all Trump territory. So that gives us a total of sixty nine wards in the city of Philadelphia. And another correction about voting in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. You get your right to restore it after you serve after you're convicted of a felony. While you're in prison serving time for a felony, that is the only time that you cannot vote. If you commit a crime and you're on state road, you have not been tried, nor have you been convicted. You're considered pre trial. Your voting rights are you're eligible to vote right the only time, and I mean the only time that you cannot vote is when you are serving time for a felony. The day that you walk out, your rights have been restored before you are convicted of any crime. Your right to vote is there. You can send a mail in ballot from state road. Don't wow. Goes back to education is power? Why would I not come to We talk weekly and share information that I have because in me, sharing information empowers other people, just like people share information with me and empowers me. You know. So this is critical that we're giving accurate information to our people because right here and right now, we're about to watch huge well transfers. Right we're talking about people are dying off, so they have to transfer their wealth. Right, is your stuff in order? Does your family have stuff in order? And big Mond passed away or Auntie or uncle pass away? Do you know where their deeds are? Do they have life insurance? Do you want their property to be retied up in probate court and pay those astronomical fees? Nobody wants to talk about death, but you you gotta get up out of here. Ain't nobody getting up out of here alive. So have those tough conversations with your family about who actually owns the property whose name is on the d We don't want to hear about Auntie say when I passed the house is mine? Mm hmm. Go go pull the deed, go ahead and transfer get a will, get that going. Don't be arguing at the gravesite, and don't be arguing that the repass had that conversation before. I love, what's going to glory wealth? Can we lose wealth when we don't have those conversations. And also even with the banks, you could become a beneficiary on their bank account, so that is something happened. Now you can even get the funds that are in there because guess what, you can't get that if there's nothing that says it's frozen. Yes, then the state gets empled. So I know I came here to talk about politics, but I do a radio show on Word Radio on Friday, the Black Women's Leadership Council, And on that show, I talk about the importance of entrepreneurship. I talk about ownership. I talk about switching your mind from a consumer mindset to an ownership and teaching your children. If you give your children a little iPad, why would you not drop gems to your child? Why would you not plant seeds at four about entrepreneurship and ownership? Why would you not do that? Because at this point in time, we see what's happening. We see our country being rob blind. We see case in point. I'm gonna tell you that, right, most people did not pay attention to this, right, this is how you people are robbed of your wealth and playing sight all because you don't know. So listen, all those people who are invested into cryptocurrency bitcoins, right, they could not that money was not backed, right, So people say it's not real you got so much of it. Well it's not backed, right. Guess what a maga Republican is backing a piece of legislation to go to Trump's desk to have cryptocurrency backed by what one hundred billion dollars from Fort Knox concussion? But who has the vast majority of the crypto Who's gonna be in charge of the Department of Governmental Efficiency? DOJ? Was that? Doji? That's a point. That's like they're doing it in your phase, in your phase. So I say all this to say it is time. I don't care who this offense, and I do sincerely mean this. Black people need to create your own ecosystem, right, because that no point in time in American history has this government ever respected us, supported us, gave us any kind of financial backing. If anything, it's been taken from us. So create your own ecosystem. Because doctor King said children before he died during a poor People's campaign, he said, children, I'm afraid we're walking into a burning house. Wow, I mean think about Noah, I hear you. So that's that's the important thing. So get educated pretty much information. I definitely want that information about the duage coin. And I'm saying, that's why they. Teaching how to read. That's our money. That's what I'm trying to tell you. That is our money that's being taken from us, right, and that's why it was against the law for a black person to read. How many of y'all got kids in school right now? Is not being talk curse of writing? Everybody? That's crazy. Can you not teach a child how to sign this signature and you can't read it? And the Constitution is written? How how do you know if you're right to being trampled on if you can't even read your that's right, that's right now. I did hear there being back in. That's where I say, parents, look, just leave the bar. Get out of those lines. No I can on your should let's yes, dad asked, Get out of line, standing waiting for the sneaks to drop. Parents, that's for your kids. Get out of line, waiting for the next game. Stop it, get out from the bar, get your bag, cut it out and go home and get a book and sit down with your one year old, your two year old. Teach them heavy now. And it's the grandparents saying that they kids not doing and for the other kids. Because grandparents is like at thirty something years old, they need to tell them. Listen, we're gonna sit down because it's generational. But it doesn't need any such. You don't know, so you think about it. You said grandparents are thirty seven. Now, how many of those grandparents actually know what she's talking? You gotta start somewhere. You gotta start somewhere because I didn't know what I didn't know, but I knew one thing. I wanted my children to do better than what I did. So guess what if you don't know such and such a girlfriend, auntie, you say she's a teacher, call miss such and such down here and see if she can have Saturday sessions. What I'm trying to say is we can no longer conduct business as usual. We are living in a different world. Things that used to be funny are not funny anymore. Things that I may that you may say to me, and I used to just a quick key key no no, because it has consequences now. And the thing of it is is we do not know what will happen to us beyond twenty twenty five. Soul Korea, their president just called martial law like this is like it was unheard of, and it was unheard of. Literally it happened, though. So what I'm saying is you cannot be caught out here saying things like, oh, nothing like this ever happened. No, no, no, no, no no. You know something's coming down the pipeline and it ain't nice. And maga make America great again? Black people, what's wrong with you? What's wrong with you? They trying to tell you to your face, They telling you to your face, We're gonna make America great again. When you were subjugated and my white superiority was I could slap you, I could spit on you, I could call you a boy, I could call you a girl, they tell you black jobs like what actually has to happen. It has to be written on the wall for you to understand that your presence isn't welcome here. Listen, ladies, and I mean you already said, look, we keep it real, right weekly we're talking and were keeping facts, we're talking wills, and this is I believe what's missing in media right now, right, I believe what's missing in media is when we talk hyper local news, right, when we talk about how that affects us, or if we think about like foreign policy, right, we think about foreign policy, we think in national news, but what we don't talk about is how both affects well us locally. Right, make America great again? And she just said it, right, but we in Philly, how does that affect us locally? And how does it trickle down? Right? Because remember when we talk about media, right, if we think about how America was great. There was no black media, right, So how would that. Affect us as it relates to making sure that our people has the information that they need. That's why platforms like we talk wekly is very important, absolutely, and we're going to continue doing it all right, So that's. It, So go ahead, why don't you smart give it to me my commercial? All right? So number four we got the Baltimore bridge collapse, A major bridge in y'all remember that a major bridge in Baltimore collapse. Have to be instruck by a cargo ship that lost power. The infrastructure disaster highlighted growing concerns about bridge safety in the US. Recently, the Maryland Transportation Authority Board has approved seventy three million dollar contract to. Rebuild the project. I just me personally, I say, there's the states always say they don't have any money, and then and there's they find the money. They found the money, right right, Like my daddy used to say. They burn money and print money every day. They'll find it if they need it, all right. Number three Alan Iverson was honored in Camden, Philadelphia. Basketball legend at AI unveiled a statue in Camden, New Jersey. Known for his revolutionary style. And resilience, Iverson's career includes being an eleven time NBA All Time All Star and a Hall of Famer. After photos and videos of Iris imposing with the sculpture reached social media, there was some controversy about. The size of the statue. Did y'all see the signs? Yeah, yeah, the statue was kind of small. It was it was very small, but yeah, it. Was tiny, it was yeah. Yeah, it was. Other statue like. He's feet so he's a small statue. Yeah. But let me tell you who was madder than anyone else in the world. My mother. And I'm gonna tell you because my mother has this. Thing with I know, this city is known for Rocky, right, but my mom always says it was a movie. He wasn't real, very true, he wasn't real. And we've had other heroes that were real statue but they took so that's a Samoan and put a full bodies that his statue is probably bigger than his actual body and put it down at the Art Museum and its lines for days over there taking pictures with this character that's not real, right, and then someone like that. Statues are usually larger than the person, right, statue. Yeah, So when that happened, I knew I was about to hear I know, I'll go to hear about Rocket again. When that came out, I said, I'm my mom going. Well, Iverson is the ten seventy six er to receive a statue on the Legends Walk located in front of the train the team's training complex in Camden, New Jersey. All right, Number two, It was a lot of them, but I try to condense it for stories that I covered. Number two, one hundred and ten. Million dollars settlement in Philly for. The opioid crisis. Y'all heard of this. Walgreens agreed to pay Philadelphia one hundred and ten million dollars in settlement addressing the opioid crisis, which opioids devastated the communities like Kensington section of Philadelphia. The funds will support addiction, recovery and prevention initiatives. So for the correct did you expect that part? WHOA not expecting them to But it just goes to show where we are, just goes to show you where we are now in society. As you was just saying, they would have never done it for us. This is the thing, right all right? So you know how you say your mother is. It drives me insane when white America reminds us that we are not valued, we black people on American soil. I mean, you'll get this around the world when you travel, but in America, we black people are constantly reminded your life is not more important than this wife like white life. So when I heard about the settlement, I'm just sitting here like, okay, so what are you going to do about it? It's one thing for us to have a comment about it, but what are we going to do about it? Right? We are we electing a black or conscious Attorney general to say, hey, how many black families were impacted by the crack cocaine epidemic versus this heroin opioid? It's heroin. You're getting high on heroin. They want to clean it up, Crack crack, crack instead of crystallized cocaine. Can come up with a variety of things to say, right, but language matters. Right, it was crack cocaine versus the opioid they're getting high on heroin, poppy. That's what it is, right? Right? Is that the truth? Did you expect anybody to say, black families gather realm? We know that we did you wrong. We destroyed generations of people and we left children addicted to crack cocaine. Here is the compensation. We didn't get anything for reparations. Are you serious? Yea, Even with this, I'm curious as to how the money is going to be distributed. How are they going to do that? I guess we'll see in the news when another politician gets uh on. Tal But I just go back to something really quick. I said something attorney general elections. Who knows what the attorney general does in the state, Who knows what that office is supposed to be used for versus what it is. But we just had a black woman running for attorney general, and I'm telling you a whole lot of leaders did not support her. She is a boss. She's actually coming on the show the Hope give it. She's coming on to the show. So we'll ask that question when she gets. Well. The thing of it is, if you're going to have her here, you better advertise that far and wide. So she's a brilliant woman. Absolutely, all right. Number one. Four, I got this. Oh no, I don't know. Why you right? Donald Trump convicted yet he becomes president. Donald Trump, convicted on three felon accounts, shocked the world by being elected as the forty seventh president of the United States. The unpresidented situation has sparked intense debates about democracy and accountability. What do y'all think about that I saw on I don't know. Here, Here's what I was going to say, and then we could talk about that on a job application. Now should they ask about they should? Should? Okay you I didn't even say yes, go ahead, go ahead? Should not? What he's a convicted or he's a criminal. Right, so if you he has a criminal background, so how can he run for president and get voted in? But you have black men who have been incarcerated and have come out of the system who cannot apply for jobs because they asked you, do you have a criminal history? I'm on a job application. It should be removed. Okay, all right? And going back to you what you said, Lady Scott and Melissa, are you shocked? Are we shocked? He's a thug, He's a criminal. He enagled his way out of you know, going off to war bones furs. He already demonstrated to you once before that his life is quite different. He already told you that he can murder someone on Fifth Avenue. This white man told you, I'm a white man with German blood. I can do whatever I want when the rules don't apply to me, I change the rules. When the people who make the decisions don't do what I do. I change them. So what this country is telling us, red blooded white American Anglo Saxon men are God. So if you hear my voice right now, challenge people, push back. You tell me I'm coming out of prison. I got to tell you that I served a crime. Negative push back, start running for office, Educate yourself, inform yourself. Whatever America tells us. We don't like this policy, change it just like they do. You got you. I don't even take that off. That all. I'm gonna drop the mic from listen. And that was your good news and bad news. Uh. Top ten for twenty twenty four for the stories I covered. Can we open the door? Just you want to tell everybody and that it feels like oven in here? Go ahead a second, I think pull me back up. There we go. I think it's a great time, pull me back up real quick. I think it's a good time to bring up some of these comments. And so mem wanted to congratulate Christina Eddie, who was here. He said, so proud of you of scaled pr shout out. Leslie said, y'all have y'all having y'all having too much fun in there. I need to be there. Make sure you come on down. If you out, make sure you come on down. We're here for a couple more hours. Right. We got food, we got you definitely got some food, right. Michael said, good stuff. Let's He also said great show. Eli said, wow, didn't hear about this, the wellness the Walgreen story. I don't remember that either. I covered that. I haven't. She also said, uh, I agree, they should remove They should remove it. Then it has to be fair access, uh for the board. Hold on, I'm sorry, I can't even read. Hold on. It gotta be fair across the board, not just those in the White House. Okay, I agree to that too. Charles on the drunk, It's not like want to come. This is not our usual thing. But we still. We talked. We have to talk about the w P P and P Philadelphia want six five. We talked, have. To talk with your boy Gregory and beautiful and beautiful and the beautiful there you go in the beautiful. Hope and the beautiful She understood, the stilly there you go. And so we are what time is We at the top of the next hour. Tend to be a little bit bit past it. But we have some vimendic guests, Diamond Black, Yes, Tisha doctor Bing. You know, we had a few people on here right now, so I think, oh yeah, I forgot about them. Yes, he started off with them, started off with them and some people doing some amazing things out there in the community. Right. So I think it's important and it's just something that we're doing. We talk weekly. We feel like it's truly and very important to amplify those those hidden voices, those voices who you don't necessarily hear. Right, we can talk all day. About the A listers, right, some of the things they're doing, But what about Miss Johnson? What about Miss Johnson on the end of the block. Right. We hear people talking about creating. Policies, the inviolence and crime and this, that and the other. But Miss Johnson walked to the end of her block, and everybody on into the block respect Miss Johnson. Those are the people that I like to bring on the show. That's the real change makers, the real people who are doing some true work out there, and so that's what I like to bring. I agree because I think the Miss Johnson's are the big mamas, the mothers who if if. Young men are out there and he got a gun or something. He's not going to come to Miss Johnson with the same heavy heart of ready to you know. Shoot him up. She's gonna say, young man, I've known you since. She was a baby. Yeah. So now I'm not going to say that. Tomorrow will be something else, and he probably won't, you know, he'll forget what Miss Johnson said. But in that moment, he's he's going to listen. And it's not as high percentage as it was with the code back in the day, but it's still it's still there. It's still there. Eli giving you a shot out Hope. She said, Hey, Hope is in the building. Hey Hope, what's going on? Hope? And yeah, So that's one of the things I think it's important that, you know, we continue to amplify that and show the importance of this hyper local news man. We are, we are in. The street, and you know, and fulfilly though there's a lot of Melissa is saying, there's a lot of nonprofit organizations out there, there's a lot of people out there that are trying to make a difference in the city. That we were born and bred, but they don't have a lot of. The resources or the financial you know, the financial revenue to to do what they really want to do or need to do. At times. There's a lot of people that I know personally that are in them streets. You got Eli and Lou right here. They with the youth though, and they're reaching out to the youth because it starts from there. They're the ones that you know, the children are in the future, that's who That's where it starts. So we you know, hopefully it will be to a point where Philadelphia can start to get more money that they can actually not put into the politicians all the time, but put into the the different organizations such as we tell Weekly, you know, Film Factor, we told Weekly we're out there. There are organizations out there that are helping the youth to stay off the streets. That's right, that's right. We in the building. We in a building. So I want to gentleal with switch gears real quick. All right, So, Brian, I'm coming back to you. What's one of the biggest trends that you see right now and what's one of the trends that you hope that can be thrown out the window for twenty twenty four. One of the biggest trends. Unfortunately, I'm not very big one this at leisure. I'm not into all of ties, the Lululemon, all that kind of stuff. I do understand why it's happening, and it's happening because there are a lot of women out here who are now getting worked onto their bodies and regular closed the cotton don't fit the way they used to fit, so they need to make material stretchy, and that's why there's this big uptick and I don't like it at all. Interesting. So if we think about now, I'm going into my consultant bag, right, I'm going into my image bag. One of the things that we hear a lot of people say, especially women as it relates to them going into just work, is the idea of feeling and wanting to be comfortable. When we think of a leaded at leisure, where that's one of the I guess looks or clothing that is probably the most comfortable. Right, So if that has a context, can we say that there's a place for it, Yeah, the gym. I say that is because even though it's comfortable, especially to the extent that these women are getting their bodies done, it's not professional or it doesn't come off professional to me. It's it's too tight, it's too form fitish, like I just think it sends the wrong message. And again that's me personally, that's just how I feel. But I think it belongs in the gym where it started. Fantastic, so one of the fairy asolutely, I totally agree with. I totally to interviews. That okay, the athletic stuff, yeah, and wearing the views everywhere. They'll put them on with a blazer and grab a briefcase and then they're doing something. No, now, real quick before you move. Do you think it's a celebrity influencer like. Which is okay? Absolutely, I'm a little I'm a little dated with it. Which celebrity is a lot of celebrities getting into it because it's money. It's it's fast fashion. Which I don't have a problem with fast fashion because they got some nice stuff about They got some real nice stuff out there. But like the Kardashians they have they have a couple of lines out there now where their skims is making leisure where they have fbs Like, it's just it's too much. I would like to see them get back to real fashion. That's not it sure, Okay, I just want to jump in here because like when you made the comment, you said it's not professional. That's a big thing for me and I like fast fashion is good. We like all those things. But everything is not for everywhere. So when you're looking at the influencer and you're looking at the Kardashians, and you're looking at all these celebrities, please understand their life. It's not like yours. Okay, So what they're. Wearing I said all the time, and I'll see the young girls they want to wear with you know what, you know the the the singers or the rappers are wearing. And then y'all in in. These outfits that you've seen Meg the Stallion And guess what, Meg the Stallion job is on stage. Meg thee Stallion is a performer. You see what I'm saying. You can't wear that outfit to the supermarket. You can't. You shouldn't have that outfit on when you pushing your stroller through the park with your kids. So every hour fit this is not is not for every occasion. So no, you should not be wearing these tood job interviews because if you're going the job you're applying for it's not what they do. That part too, see, because the parents are confused, the kids are confused. So in the work that I do, aside from Fashionly five, when we bring kids in to prepare them and pour into them with workforce development, we have to go through and and tap into people like mister Charles Gregory to speak to them about their image and show slides and say maybe I'm sorry that you can't wear the you know, the the gym outfit. The gym outfit is not going to work for the interview. It's not going to work for you to go to work, So you know, it's it's I guess it goes back to kind of like what Melissa was saying with educating, educating, educating and those generation right because the generation that you're working on right now, like you said, you have to talk to the parents. But guess who the parents of those parents were, the ones who were about a crack epidemic. Absolutely Okay, so they weren't there, so they didn't get taught. So this is what their kids look like exactly. So so so what would you say to someone that would say, to a degree, well, why should. Why should. My clothes or what I have on be that important when it's my skill set right, This is I'm. Smart enough to do the job. Right. What would you tell the person I'm smart enough to do the job. Why are you worried about what I have on as they go into doing an interview the job? But you're not smart enough to make the decision to come to work looking like you can do the job. Perception is one, regardless of what people think. Perception is everything. When you go to a job interview, they can make a decision. And people have made decisions as soon as you step your foot in that office based off on how you look, which is unfortunate. But you don't even give yourself a chance to get them to see your skill set because of the way you showed up. Now, I want to make a comment just for good radio, not that I disagree with y'all, but just for the viewers that other people to you from the other side. The generation coming up are the generations that are the gatekeepers to the techie world, the techi world of the Googles, the you know, the Yahoo, all of that, and they are coming to work relaxed. They are making the lobbies very relaxed. People are sitting on stability balls. So they're like, hey, we're not coming with high heels or suits. We're coming in with our athletic war. We're tearing our laptops to the park, you know what I mean. So it feels like there is. A shift in the You know that you have. The silencers who are now there in eighty nineties. You got the baby boomers who are now passing on on the tour. You got the generation accident now becoming the elders. And then you got the gen z who's like, no, this is now a new world for us that we're looking at it to say we're wearing heated vest. Agree with her, because the whole time you were talking about perception, I thought to myself, you got a kid, for example, at Temple University, there's a kid I was talking to. He was at the IT desk, twenty one years old, glasses, spiky hair, T shirt, holy jeans. He told me, oh, yeah, I just scored a job. Starts me off at one hundred and eight thousand. And to look at him and these people, like when I'm on Zooms, I look at the people and where they're at. They're sitting there with their cat monsters who knows what these people are doing. All I'm saying is the days of going in with a suit and thinking that you know the way. No, they don't care. At the end of the day, they want to know, do you produce, what do you deliver? How can you catapult this organization experiencety? And I think I sit somewhere in the middle of that because of where I am in terms of generation. It depends on who you are a female male, definitely, it definitely does. And so the information that I would share when I would hear when I get backlash from, you know, the younger generation, I would say, well, I need you to understand that every job has a uniform, even if it's not a uniform uniform. Right, you know, you're a basketball player. That's what you were on the court. You're a football player. You wed that on the court. You understand so And for me, yes, perception is a thing. So when it comes to me making big deals and I'm about to hand my money to somebody, I'm real, Yeah, how you show up when I'm about to hand you a whole lot of my money If you look a certain way, I'm not gonna want to give you my money now. So that is not it is my perception, but that's also probably it plays a lot to do with you know what I've been exposed to, and you know where I come from, and you know, sometimes it could be a trust thing or whatever it is. But yeah, I've had one. Of those corporate relaxed jobs where I don't have to show up in a suit. But guess what, when I went to the interview, I got it in the suit. So that's not how you had to come to work every day, but that was how I got it, you know. So yeah, and the reason I also brought it up because I have all I still have my kids in there, but I got four adult kids thirty nine twenty three grandkids. But when they were younger, I was at hands on mom. So in order for them to do things, you had to write a check. When we go to your doctor's office, you write the check for the cope. They told me, Mom, by the time I checks will be not even there'll be obsolete. They gonna not even be around. But you know what my mindset was, as long as you know, you'll know how to still balance this check book. You'll still know the financial literacy. Of what you to be and what is now. You can do a contrast and compare all you want as you get older, but you'll still have that foundation. And that's what I think. Where as far as perception, what you just said. Let them know my youngest daughter, thank you. She's she graduated with her nursing degree and they just offered her a job. I won't say the hospital, but she's making six figures and she's twenty three, and I'm just like, she's on her debit card. They says she's been a member with the bank since she was like six years old. But at that time, if you want your allowance, you had to learn how to go to the bank, You had to learn how to write your things to do list. It was all of these things initially when she went to that interview. You're gonna wear a blue navy suit. You wear a pinstripe under button suit, you wear your flats, you have your portfolio, you have your resume, even if they got a copy handed to the lady, have your questions ready, like we went through each one and each kid. But it was because I took the old school approach to say, even if it do change, I don't care how they want you to come. This is how you're going to come and present yourself. So even going back to what you said, Melissa, it starts from what Big Mama says with Big Papa. Saying what are you doing at. Home or your circle, your village of what people are teaching you? And I say, do your research depends on what job you're a prying for, where you're going, what the company is, do the research of what that looks like or what their expectations are. Because maybe you can just go, you know, to that interviewer and your genes or whatever. So just do the research. But if you get a flyer for a party you want to go to, when they say it's all black party, it's all white. But you're going to address the court at least for that. You know what I'm saying. So just accordingly to get your money. Fantastic, fantastic where there you have it. So that's the thing, right, So a lot of I think just to put a period on it or exclamation point. This is a generational thing, right, and times is changing, right, So what we have to do is start to think about are we going to concede with the change of time the times, or are we going to run in place per se, not necessarily that that's a bad thing, right, But are we going to continue to stand strong stand in our own business with the perception of what we know is professional or the idea of professional right, Because what's happening is there is this pedagogy that is changing professionalism in terms of look does not translate the same to people who may work at Twitter, who may work in a media company or a marketing company, versus someone who will work in quote unquote corporate America. Right. And so I think it's about us understanding that there's a time and place, there's an understanding of the people that you're around, the environment that you in, and dressing the part of that. And so if you know where you go, yes, right, do your research exactly. That's the point that I'm getting to. That's the point that I'm going to your audience. So does language or articulation have a part of that. Well, that's what we only talking about nonverbal at this point, right, because the perception is you you are qualified for whatever job, however you speak right, diction or whatever, right, But the nonverbal is how you look. So a showing up with or at whatever potential job career opportunity that you have the first thing that they see as appearance, right, and so how you show up there, it's kind of like the vision position that we're at. But the conversation piece of how you speak, that's another conversation that we potentially go through, you know, have a discussion about because just because someone did not, how can I take you this execute the queen's speech. That isn't necessarily mean that they don't know. How to execute the particular job that they're going into. But I think what you said as far as changing with the times, I think you have to. I think you have to absolutely absolutely agree and. You and we've seen it just and remember Alan Arison get fined when he wasn't playing, and they wanted when he wasn't playing and he had to be on the bench, they want him in the bench on the suit. He didn't want to wear a suit, so he would get fined every time he was hurt or wasn't planning and he wouldn't be in that suit. But because he was the trailblazer for. That, Yeah, but they find him a lot for doing it. But now that's not a rule anymore. Yeah, but this is a good question. Let me let me bring it in here. It says there's definitely a shift. My question is for anyone who would like to attack this, my question is, can everyone get away with dressing however they feel in the workplace, et cetera, as long as it applies to everyone? Somehow, I feel that's not the case, and you won't want to take that. Well, I listened to what you said, and you said as long as it applies to everyone. Now, let's talk public and private. Right. If we're working for a public entity, that applies as long as it applies to everyone, right, because then you have grounds for discrimination suits. Right. But if it's a private entity, you know what it is. This is an at will work statements. So if I come to work and I don't like you and this is my company, you're fired. Don't ask me why this is an at will work state and go and sue me. No one cares. This is my private company. What are you going to do legally? Absolutely nothing, And that's just the way it is. So it just depends on who your employer is. If you're smart, you'll work for yourself. And a lot of a lot of companies now have done the employee handbook. So they're telling you from the beginning like oh no rip jeans or no, yeah with the T shirts. Yeah, so they're there now. I guess you know, because of that, they're having it where they they're setting rules up so people can you know, exclusive. So that's good. I was just gonna say, there's this movement and I've encountered it where people want to come to work and be their authentic self. Right, So it's like, you know, your authentic self doesn't necessarily fit this particular place, right. You can be your authentic self over there. You can be your authentic self on Saturday, maybe on a Friday, you can be your authentic self, but. Not every day. Like so, it's one of those things where it doesn't necessarily apply. And it's like, you have a lot of people where in their mind they feel entitled. They feel like it's their right to be able to come to work look in any type of way as long as they are being their authentic self like that, the employer must adjust and bend to them. And that's that's not the case. Yeah, No, I totally agree with that. Listen, you got hired for your skill. You didn't get hired for what you're wearing right. And so if I'm telling you, uh, this is the blueprint that you have to work within, You're not going to come and put your feet on my table if. You want this job. This is how you have to show what It's just as simple as that. You might not like it. You might not want to wear a suit every day. Well, in order to be in. This particular environment, I will allow you into the house. You're just not going to put your feet on my table. So you don't make the rules in my house, right, And so that's pretty much the bottom lie. And so we have it looks like, yeah, by your own house, get your own hot But that goes to the point. Of what the list is said, Oh, then you need to be put entrepreneur on your own business. Then if you have a problem with my rules, then you need to open your own stuff. And make your rules. And the crazy thing is you make you become an entrepreneur. Exactly, exactly exactly. And so hopefully lou that answered your question. If anyone is watching and you have a question, just send it in and we'll make sure that we'll try our best to answer that. Looks like we have, Lauren, that just popped in and what's going on? Lauren Sheason? I don't know if you can hear it, look like you're on mute. Hey everybody, I've been listening, great conference conversation. What's up? Hey? Everyone? It sounds look you sound pretty good. We're gonna keep you on for a while if you if you don't mind, because I want you to hold type because it looked like we. Have a lead monument on and leave you there. I'm gonna bring you on. And yeah, he looks like he let me bring you on right now? How are you link? Yeah, yeah, I'm neck. Can y'all hear me? Yeah? I can hear you, but we can't see you. My brother. Oh man, all I see is black. All you see is black. Well, let's just get you to the topic. Man, I know. That's right there. You go, all right, So let's jump right into it. Then, So why don't you give us your top five of twenty twenty four. Top twenty twenty four. Man. Definitely to push for the election to get people out to vote. Okay, that that kind of like spired in so many different ways because we're hoping that we're hoping that our youth don't get discouraged because of what we were pushing for. That agenda didn't go through, and we're just hoping that we can still keep that motivation up when it's time for young people to not just young people, just people in general to vote. So I think that that was like super super important. Gun violence, Uh, still something that we're dealing with. Mm hm. The numbers, the numbers on the gun violence, and. We were just having this conversation another day, and I don't want to go too tooper far into it, but the numbers are somewhat a lot similar from the nineties. The difference is what would people are losing their lives over. That's that's the that's the huge that's a. Real big difference. Friend of mine had lost their life two days ago out in Southwest for not too much news coverage on it, but had got into some type of argument. Forty eight old man shot four shot three four times in his chest, another two or three times and it hit over nothing, over. Our men, you know what I mean. So I mean that's kind of like that's the only difference that those that's the only difference within the actual murders is just the actual situation. That's a whole another topic. But I mean it's probably like that's probably like the two top things that stick out of my head that I was thinking about. I didn't actually come up with five. It was like the top. There was like the two top things that I was taking a walk through. No, no, no, that's what. No, that's cool. That's cool. So if that's your if that's your top, tell me what you believe or what would you like to see coming into the new year. Then you know, you talked a lot about you know, crime and you know, just the violence that's in the city. What would you like to see different in twenty twenty five or something that you would like to see you spearhead in twenty twenty five? More accountability from more accountability from are men from within the inner city? M hmm. What does that mean? I ain't just with perception of yourself, because you know, I mean, I know that you're an advocate of speaking up and in a platform that you present for other people to speak going. But what that means is to me is that have you ever had a conversation with another individual and they want to say and they want to tell you all the things that young people are doing wrong. Yeah. Yeah, then you say, hey, well, actual sol what are you what what is it that you're doing to try to help them to do right? A lot of times they don't have the answer, So you know what I mean. That's why I say, just more accountability, just even even if you just if you want to, if you on the block, and when I say a block a city an actual city block or your near neighborhood, the young people that you're coming and you interact with on a regular basis, So who are those young people getting to know them? Stead of just walcome past them. Man, I ain't speaking, then they blowing weed or whatever like, speak to them sometimes and then speak to you brother relationship you can you can have good conversations with them, letting them know about their future and better choices and things of that sort. You don't always have to turn around and open up a nonprofit and things that just conversations, you know what I mean. So that's what I mean, just like just a little. Bit more accountability from our from our men that that are able to speak to the young people instead of just anoring them. Because that's a lot a lot that's really the vibe with us within our age we're like, man, I ain't messing with young people. And then we got to kind of like get away from that. Mm hmmm. I think you make it excellent. I think you make an excellent point, right. Uh. I just want to I want to push back on those uh men who may possibly because I heard this before too, who. May feel a little. Detached to a agree where they're not necessarily scared, right, but they're a little nervous because they don't know. One if. The response that they may get may warrant some type of physical interaction, right, because they it may be taken wrong or it may not be taken to a degree in a positive. Manner as it relates to the youth. Right. And so what would you say to a you know, the men in taking accountability? What would you say to them in how to approach these these young men without feeling either intimidated or feeling. That they need to approach it with the heavy hand, so to speak. If that makes sense. I mean, if we don't do anything, then we lose that we can possibly lose a large we have a larger loss within that actual age group. I just kind of feel like we have to have more of that approach that that that our folks had within the sixties, there was a lot of fear and things if you spoke up, But now the fear ourselves. Before it was you didn't want to say anything to a certain group of people or a certain race, or or police and things of that sort, you know what I mean, But now it's it's a fear amongst ourselves. But our people faced way more retaliation in the sixties. So that that I kind of feel like that attitude, that that drive, that ambition, I kind of feel like that needs to come back. But faras before as just being realistic, Okay, well what can we do right now? And I hear you on that, but what can we do right now? What what can make you? Just looking at just looking at young people, just looking at all people as yourself, looking at that as your sign not. Just really feel if you come. I just really feel if you come at any human being with for open heart, I kind of feel a lot of times the response would be positive. Every once in a while, yeah you're gonna you're gonna get somebody who has other issues that's going on. But I really young people are approachable. We we just had to approach them in a way that that's on a level that they are saying. That's right, that's right. I agree with you one hundred percent, my brother, I think and I appreciate you for saying that. I think that, and you hit the nut one the head in terms of just approaching because what all we do here we talk about solutions. Right, we can point at point fingers at. The U fall day and say, oh gosh, they doing this, they're doing that, They're in trouble, they're causing this, they're causing that. But if we don't, I mean you, you you're in my age break there. So you came up when I came up. And one of the things that what of this saying that. We came up with was you don't blame you, You blame your old head. Right, It's like you always you respect the old heads. So if the old heads is teaching you wrong, then it's not their fault as yours. And so so when it comes to you know, you know, doing or making change, I. Think you you you you. Gave some excellent advice and saying that we have to take responsibility and we have to make the move because. Technically or they won't do it. Yeah, go ahead, I remember that quote word for word. I don't blame you. I blame you for not giving you proper guidance. That's right, that's right, word for word. Yeah, yeah, I can't remember what my keys is at. It's not that. That's right, My god, my god. But I just want to say I appreciate you for coming in and it's good to hear you, know, a strong male voice and saying what we need to do in the community and taking responsibility with that. But before I let you leave, I want you to say, let everyone know some of the things you're doing now on how they can get in contact with you. Uhe. So name of the business is Lee Miaming Company. We offer we actually had two different businesses services that we offer. The first is awards and recognitions all different types of glass crystal custom engraving. The second what we're known for for the past twenty five years, what we have the most timing is actual building of headstones. We built headstones, mazolanes. We also saw earns, so we specialize the memorial products. We also have a nonprofit that my wife and I and a couple of my fem members work on, which is called the Lee Monument Foundation. That's lmc dash foundation dot org. That foundation provides headstones for children from the age of infant up to twelve years old that live in Philadelphia area or ten miles outside of Philadelphia that die. From an active violence. So we would buy a free headstone for children, and we are very active with that. It's it's it's uh, it's some sometimes some just sometimes it. Really hurts my heart to be able. It's kind of like, I'm happy that we have this foundation, but then. It hurts me. It hurts my heart and that we have to have something. Like this, you know what I mean. But the one that we have to be within our community is better prepared because things happen in other communities and they're prepared and they and they and they have the resources to be able to help situations very fast. So just taking. Just just looking at other communities and looking at their approach on what they do. Some sometimes it's not really all that bad to you know, a lot of times we look at other communities but like, yeah, well they have and they have that. It's like, okay, well let us do the same thing. They provided the model on how to do it. Let's do it for ourselves. So that's pretty much what we're done with the foundation. Fantastic, My brother, Well, really appreciate you. Man. Well you already know you've been on the show, so once you come to the show, you're a friend of the show. So you always welcome to come back. And I always appreciate you for keeping it a buck because that's important, especially when it comes to hearing voices from the men, which I have and you know, which I'm there to because oftentimes they don't hear a lot. Of voices from us unless they. Are position it, positioning it to be negative, right, and so we have a lot of positive, a lot of positive voices that's coming out that are geared to solutions and making some changes within the community. So I want to thank you for the work that you're doing, and I appreciate you for coming on. I appreciate y'all. Take care, man, pay care. So there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. Was the lead monument in the building managed. We talked weekly after talking w PPM I P Philadelphia one o six point five film. We talket weekly, acted talk and we're here. Listen. I'm excited about where we are because we are at you want to go against. Yes, yes, and then everybody else tell you yeah, what they see and the experience. Here, Yeah, no doubt. We're live for this. Yeah, we're in wrap up new millennial multi media studios. We're super excited for being I'm gonna. Throw it right away here, Miss Melissa Robbins, tell us, tell us about the studio that you win right now. How are you seeing this? As I walked into the studio, I was pleasantly surprised, because when you walk through the building, you're weaving your way. But I came into a space that's beautiful, very colorful, and situated to a point of where you know that you're coming into a podcast space. Everyone is comfortable. You feel very comfortable to sit down and just start having conversations. So someone's interested in creating their own platform and they need a space, I definitely would urge them because I really really am impressed by what I'm seeing. Fantastic. I have a question for you, though, sure. For all of you in here, we're in this beautiful new studio. How do you feel about thirteen mysterious drones with the wingspan of eight feet hovering thirteen at once over your space? Do you feel secure you know. The funny thing is, right, I just heard about it. I just heard about this drone thing. So I'm trying to understand what's actually going on with it. I haven't heard them. I haven't seen them. I haven't, but I've been hearing a lot of people talking about. New Jersey, New Jersey come off the ocean. Ocean County, one sheriff was smart enough to say, hey, the Homeland Security is not giving us answers. The federal government is not giving answers. Governors are saying, you know, of course they're supposed to say you're safe, have no fear, but they don't have valid explanation. So one sheriff over in Ocean County, New Jersey, he said about thirteen came off of the ocean. Now, listen, think about a drone. He said. These were industrial sized drones with a wingspan up up to eight feet. In other words, these drones were the size of a vehicle. No, not an ayah, a huge jo enormous, right, And typically any kind of vehicle gives off heat, right, these drones gave off no heat. So he said he took his own industrial size of drone up to follow it. He said they were so fast and so swift, they were out able to outmaneuver him and get away from him. He said, let me tell you something. One, if this is our federal government using these drones, they need to tell us now because if it's not, we're in a world of trouble. So jeez, now thirteen at once. Wow. Interesting? So wow, So I got so many questions right because now I'm wondering if in fact this. Is uh, if this is if this is government, if this is. You know how we talk about you know, ellien extraterrestrial. More an insurrection inside of our country by someone else. Yes, that's where. Let me tell you something. Governor Kathy Hochel out of the Great State of New York, she had to shut down airports and upstate New York because drones came close to Yeah, the so they had to issue no flies on. But they're demanding Washington. They're demanding that the Biden administration lead on a new piece of legislation that comes from the f not the what's what's the agency called no FAA that oversees all of the airports. And what they're asking for is states to have the ability. So if they have the situation. They can issue their own alerts, they can shut down airspace because there's a law in place that does that prohibits states from making these executive decisions. And it's not at the federal level. The airports have had to get shut down, and Governor Murphy from the Great State of New Jersey and Governor Hanchel from uh New York, they don't know and did not know. And this was because of the drones. They shut down because of the. Drums, because they flew in airspace. They're flying. But yeah, and you know, so, so I have a drone license, right, and so when when I hear that they were around there, they they can actually disable the ability for drones to go within the airspace because one of the things that you have to acknowledge is that that's one of the best parts that's. An airspace that you are not allowed to go. In when you're operating your drone. When you come close, it tells you. That's my point, you are, but that's my point. So the point that I'm making is this can't be right just a citizen's drone. It's not because it doesn't have heat. So that's where I'm like, is it extraterrestrial or like you said, it is, is it, you know, someone else occupying for an insurrection? But this has to be this not this is not the typical person to just be able to go and purchase a drone. So this this is government. This is government or something bigger. But we have enough intelligence in this country to be able to identify where these drones are coming from. You can go out if they're coming off the ocean, you can go out and see where the ships are that they're coming off of. If they're coming off of a ship, you have the n s A, you have the intelligence at the Pentagon, you have all the branches of the government. I mean even just go out. To wool Of Grove, go up to to go up, yeah, go yeah, go out there, s yeah. I mean we have so much stuff that's just like right here, go up to MacGuire Air Force Bace Andrews you have. I mean, there's so much that's right here that we can touch out you know that we can touch you know, that's within our reach, that's really close to us where we can get the answers. I personally think they know. That's say they know they know and yeah, it's the size of the school bus. How it's no different than nine to eleven, the nine to eleven in text that we suffered. They knew in advanced, they were told in advanced. They thought people were playing or you know, it's like, oh, you know, so it's like, okay, we're gonna call her bluff, right, So when when you hear that, it's like, well, how come you didn't you know? And right now, even if they don't have all the answers, they know enough. But it's that thing where it's like, don't get the masses and an uproar, So they don't want to tell us anything yet, but they always know or they're in the process of normals that they don't. They're not gonna information. There's the risk benefit, there's the risks outweigh the benefits. The benefits outweigh the risks. Right, those decisions are being made at a level that most Americans would never ever imagine. And they always, you know, calculate casualties. I'm going to say, they calculate casualty. So they're gonna so they have to protect the government, they have to protect all these other things. So if they have to do that at the risk of a million casualties. That's what's gonna happen. That's what they have to that's they're gonna risk. This is to your point, it is no trust is that information is not going to be disseminated immediately, and they'll determine how much is disseminated and how it's disseminated, because right now you're being left in the dark. For a The thing about it, even with the media, they know when they want to put fear in you, you know what I mean, Like it's almost like very strategic. It's almost like how you see billboards or you hear certain music and you're like, oh, I want a hot dog or I want a McDonald's berger. No, no, no, you've already been hypnotized on your journey home that you've seen the commercial you saw. So it's the same thing when they want to entice us with fear, Oh, they'll do it, they'll do it. So I feel like they already know, but they're like, we don't want to alert them just yet, because that's not a part of the strategy. Part of the strategy though, could be we that we never know. We're never gonna know the full truth of what. No, we never that's what everything that's even from slavery, like they they're not going to ever do that. But I'm saying that when they feel like they want to tell us, if they tell us or whatever they're doing, they already know for us to say, oh, we don't hear they're not telling us. Maybe at the governor level they. Don't know, but the powers to be they absolutely When they first talked about the size of that drone, the first thing that came to my mind was the movie Interstellar. To anybody see. That Interstellar, that was really good. Yeah, yeah, with. Matthew McConaughey. But there was like this really really huge. Drone that and he was like kind of chasing it, just kind of see where, and he had like some of the computers and stuff. He was doing something somehow he was going to take control of it and have it land. And it was pretty huge. But when you talk about the details of it and the heat versus no heat and all these things, like you said, we Depentagon and all the intelligence that we have, including NASA, Come on, I know they've put things together. It's no way they're not looking into this. Look at our two thirty five bombers, right, those stealth bombers they fly there, they're not detected. They're so fast. I mean they're designed in a way to be able to fly forty four hours straight, NonStop, no refuel right. I mean these they're designed in a way so that they can be undetected all over the world. They know exactly why these drones are here. They know who's responsible, and they know the mission of the drones. Know whether it's data being collected, who knows, who absolutely knows. But think about it. What's the significance of Pennsylvania and Jersey. Think about the significance of what states are spotting them? Like, ask yourself, Like, I mean, you know what I'm saying. If you want to solve a problem, solve it backwards right there are They're like, you know about. All those things? This is so weird to me. I just so. From a solution based perspective, I just want to hear what everyone's insight is on what would. You do or what do you s think you should do? Like for some they say, hey, I have you know, I got Christ, I got my religion, I have whatever I'm not, I don't. I'm not scared, you know, but I want to know, like some people will say, hey, I think I need to get a bunker. Yeah, what do people think? What do people think they need to start doing to prepare for whatever it is? I mean it is overthinking. It is theory based, conspiracy or whatever. But if you had to sit and say, okay, this is what I should do. Next, what would that be? Something? I feel like something that's huge is that I don't think there's any It's not going to be anything that we can get away from. That's what I said. There isn't anything personally and I can say I can do that would save me from whatever that is about that? So is that earth or is that just here? You know what I mean? You know when I say earth, though, I mean is it this country or is it other countries? Some people would say, hey, I'm out of here. This is what's happening in Gaza right now. Drones are being used to kill people. The palestinding into being mowed down by drones. So it's you know, so it's escaping as far as yeah. So and to add it's to injury. Our billionaires and multi millionaires have been building bunkers. So again they have access to information that common man or woman do not have. So what's going to be is going to be when your day comes that you have to exit the earth, you're out of here. So I wouldn't worry, not at all. There's no need to worry because what's going to be. So Jeff Bezil and Musker. Listen. I don't know where they're going. I don't know where he's going. He's got the doing donuts and the sky as he's up there. Getting trying to get to his new next plane or whatever. But I think about things like that because even just think about like the nine to eleven, back to airspace, back to something coming to us from up top, from above us, you know what I mean? How you how can you control that? Me being like I said, me being having a license as a drone pilot. Airspace is very important, and that's one of the number one things like airspace, airspace, airspace, and you need permission with some airspace and some airspace you can't even get permission for. Well, that's why it's so it's not surprising that we don't know that. We know they know it's an airspace, and it's so regulated. It's not like you know what I mean, it's how can they have how can they get domain over a space that is so regulated that we're going to say. Oh, no, one knows what's going on. That's one of the reports that that none of the drones went into restricted. See when you say that, when you say that, that's that's a citizen. That sounds like a regular See, that's one of those one of those nuggets. Did That's why the airport was closed in Upstate New York. So it did actually happen. One did go into air And. Think about the mat, think about the United States. Mean you look at it on the mat. They're coming off the ocean over here on the West coast, So they could be coming over from another country one of the lying over they came over the Atlantic. And came over the Atlantic. So I mean, I'm just saying, look at like where you know, if you look at the map and kind of like where we see that. But the thing of it is, with the. Satellites that we have American, the easiest route to fly from North America to Europe is over the Atlantic Ocean. Yeah, that's an extremely protected and regulated space because of the winds that come across that come off of the Atlantic Ocean. There's a specific route that planes fly back and forth from America to Europe. I mean, think about I ninety five. It's a very busy route flying over over the Atlantic because you can only fly in a certain space over the Atlantic because the winds are so dangerous. So what I'm trying to tell you is anything coming across the Atlantic Ocean is is identified immediately because that is a highly regulated and protected airspace. So nothing coming over the Atlantic is going to be surprising. So right, so coming off of the ocean, are they flying them low closer to the water. It's what I'm trying to say is it's impossible for you to go undetected. It's impossible. Really. It's like your security camera when you put that red light or whatever in the vicinity you wanted to go off of. If it feels an animal passing or an ant, it's. Going the motion, Yes, it's gonna pick it up. It's gonna pick it up. So I just I don't know for me, and I don't think I shared it. But for me, but both my parents are gone, and I look and say to myself, with them both being gone, honestly, there's no fear. I mean, even though I have a legacy of my own. But I'm at a point now where there's no no fear for me as far as where I am with my spirituality. So I mean, being prepared is one thing, and I'm going to, you know, be cautious as a serpent, innocent as a dove. But I wouldn't. I don't have a fear. So I just I already know what the I'm not surprised what the United States is doing at all. And I'm surprised. Mankind people. All right, we talked weekly after we talk to w P P E m P Philadelphia, WANTO six point five. The film a new Millennials media in production studios as one the full beautiful space and we now want Tom bringing Lawrence Scissel in the building. How are you. I'm good. I'm good, having a good night listening to you all with your amazing conversations, very thought provoken. Now I'm like thinking about where am I going to hide? Like should I go and start buying cases of water can goods? And where am I going to go? First thing? Yes, I'm going to get right into my top five entertainment of the year. Yep, I'm not even Oh, I'm sorry, I'm not even gonna say it was kind of hard narrowing narrowing this down because there was so much stuff going on all over twenty twenty four. But you know, I'm kind of starting with in a little somber note, but then you know, we're coming out with a little bang. So Number one Seawan Diddy Combs is arrested on federal charges of racketeering and sex trafficking. I know we are like super tired of hearing about I don't know about y'all, but me, I'm tired of hearing about Diddy and these charges. But you know, the rest came months after a twenty sixteen video of Diddy physically assaulting then girlfriend Cassie Ventura's surface and that went viral. So a lot has happened up between that and now, and Diddy is still being held without bail as dozens of alleged victims have come out and filed lawsuits against him. So number two, and this is actually a part two of number one, is the the recent allegations of sexual assault fouled against jay Z, and this has rocked the name and leaving many people in a state of shock. So jay Z, whose real name is Sean Carter was accused of being involved in a sexual assault against a thirteen year old girl in two thousand. So the woman who's identified as Jane Doll, states that she was driven to an MTV Video Music Awards after party where Diddy and jay Z are alleged to have been in attendance. Because there's stuff still coming coming out about this now, but the woman, who is now thirty eight years old, she claims that she was giving a drink at the party and she started feeling funny. She claims that she went to lay down in an empty bedroom, and she is alleging that Diddy, jay Z and a celebrity woman later entered the room and they Diddy and jay Z both sexually assaulted her. So jay Z, those are all allegations in this civil lawsuit. But jay Z released a lengthy statement via mentally denying those allegations. And she supposedly ran out from the party after the assault and ran to a gas station and called her father to come get our So there's a lot coming out about that right now, because jay Z called the girl out and he was saying like, if you're gonna be trying to assue me and and basically destroying my legacy. We need to know who you are, so I'm sure that's gonna be spilling over in twenty twenty five. Number three. So just some of the biggest celebrities that we lost the world lost this year. There were so many of them, and they all kind of hit. Us in different ways. Uh, but rich Homie Kwan, we lost rich Homie Kwan. We lost One Direction's Liam Payne. We lost Todd Tony Todd Candy Man, we lost nine on two one Old Shannon Doherty. We lost Richard Simmons. And I heard y'all talking about Rocky earlier. We lost Apollo Cree, Carl Weathers, and we lost Philly. Now this hit Philly real hard. We lost Philly's own legendary Frank Frankie Beverly of Beverly and man, oh man, that was that one was tough right there. And then we lost one of Black America's favorite dads, Good Times, John Amos. And these last two. Oh my gosh, the these these were some really really tough ones because they did so much. James Earl Jones and Quincy Jones. Ah Man, just the rest in peace of them. It was so hard losing them and all the stuff that they did it just. And just recently. Oh go ahead, sorry, were you finished with that part? Okay? With the people who passed away? Yeah, I didn't want to give away Nicki Giovanni. Yes, yes, Oh my god, that one is like so fresh, Nikki gives me my gosh, like m that legacy alone is just oh man, that's a heavy one too. Yeah. And number four, So during the episode of Celebrity Family Feud and if you guys, you guys still remember this, they surveyed one hundred people and one of the most controversial questions that they asked in hip hop and this is something that we talk about people in hip hop that listen to hip hop music all the time and talk about who is the greatest rapper of all time? So, you know, they had the celebrity contestants on there, who are musicians in their own right. They were calling out for the top eight answers. They were calling out things like Jay called Kendrick Lamar, Lil Wayne Drake and all you heard was an and and and well. According to the Family Feud audience, this was their list from number eight to number one. So number eight, they had j Z at number eight. Number seven was fifty Cents. Number six was the notorious. B I G. Number five was l J, number four, Doctor Dre, number three, Eminem, number two, Tupac, and number one Snoop dog So you know, Steve had the issue and apology to the whole hip hop community because he was like, he said. No, not right, number one, number one, right, Yes, Okay, it's all about the crossover. So let's think about the new audience and who. And and who and the one hundred people that they were really asking because but Martha Stewart and Snoop Snoop Doggs and the whole cross over him and Martha Stewart, Martha. Stewart, White America does not get to have an opinion about who the greatest hip hop rappers. That's not. And I'm gonna tell you why hip hop came from what a grill that came from our ancestors in Africa telling stories. We didn't have books, we didn't have writing and reading. But Grio's retained the stories and passed them on, right, and they use the art of storytelling to talk about our pain. So white America once again, this is a situation where you're gonna have to understand the importance of reading the room. This is not a room that you should be in, and surely if you end up in the room, you should not be saying no, no, no, because some people would say Melissa Robbins is rude, she's mean, she's a racist. No, Melissa Robbins is telling the truth. This is a room that it's not for you. You have no business being near the room or the building period. But if by chance you're walking down the hallway and you come in the room, be silent. You should have nothing to say. Nothing to say is if you hit. This button, don't hit that one, hit another one. But that's a drop, Mike. People tell the truth the first time. They care about who responds to them and who's on their side. But when you're telling the truth, it don't matter who on your side because the truth is the truth. The truth. The truth is like water, it finds its way. Yeah. Yeah. So the fact that so I'm gonna say shout out to Steve Hobby for his apology to the community. And putting that list in the right order. Absolutely, I'm crying. I'm great. So number one. So number five, you remember rock Nation and Apple Music, They made a highly anticipated atment about the artists selected to headline the twenty twenty five NFL Super Bowl halftime. Well, unfortunately, the news that Kendrick Lamar was slated to headline the Super Bowl halftime wasn't met with celebrations from everyone. If y'all remember Nicki Minaj, you know she was trying to stand Tinto's down for Lol Wayne, and she crashed out when she went on one of her tweeting tangents, staying in several consecutive tweets, one ninja took a new the other ninja took the bag. He gonna get you ninjas in line every time I tried to tell y'all, but y'all wanted brunch. So other celebrities also kind of chimed in in support of Lord Wayne. Birdman was saying, I'll make these ninjas respect us. On Gladys Boozy said it's a smack in the face to every hip hop legend from Louisiana. Master P posted a shout out to Kendrick Lamar, saying it's well deserved and he's one of the hottest music artists in the world right now, but he has to agree with the fans that LOLd Wayne should be a part of the celebration, and he also said that he's one of the greatest hip hop artists alive, still relevant in a New Orleans native. So how the hold Kendrick Glare and the Wayne thing came about? Because he made a comment in some song and then loll'd Wayne posted and was like like, I'm over here, mind of my business while y'all talking about me, And now it will be a whole thing between them too. That's the reason. I'm sure I do it. That Can I ask the question? Yeah, ayea, does anybody in this space see the elephant in the room? Because there's an elephant in the room, charging does anyone see it? Take your minds back to the nineties to Pac and Biggie. Was that beef manufactured? Oh? Okay, So let me just give you a little quick synopsis. White men who are the music exacts, white men who make the decisions over the Super Bowl, white men who bought jay Z jay Z, and white men who knew if they got Kendrick Lamar there would create some kind of rip. So now we have a beef that never existed between Wayne and Kendrick Lamar. Now you have the hip hop community being divided. Now you got white men sitting back with cigars, laughing. They're the puppet puppeteers here, we're the puppets falling for your fall for it every single time you fall for What should have happened is if they chose Kendrick Lamar and a conversation should have been had, should have been had that nobody knew about. And in the middle of that show, Kendrick Lamar should have stepped back and Wayne should have took the stage, torn out the frame like we know that he could do. Kendrick Lamar should have went on and continue with the show. Boom the jokes on you because you try to put us against each other, and now look at all of us. That is what should have happened. We fall for it every time, divide and conquer, and then moron sit back and laugh at us. I said, I said that all the time. I say it with everything I say, especially with sports. I said, think about back in the day when you know they had the black face and they got us out there doing all this, right, I said, for their entertainment, But. I actually thought it hasn't happened yet in Super Bowl. But I thought, I think that that may see what happens, right, because I seen when they did dre Eminem's Snoop fifty, like they all did like a rendition of everybody on the stage at the same time. So hopefully that they come to some type of agreement to see if they're able to because it's just a headliner, so I'm sure that they're going to bring other people out. The question is will it be Little Wayne? Right? Yeah, but the. Social media is something else happened because I'm sitting because I even said about Kender Glamar, I'm like, well, what are you talking about Wayne? For? For what mag Because Drake can't respond to your last thing, so now you got to pick on somebody else. Because it's all manufactured. Rappers haven't died lately between Beef and major ones. Right, think about what happened, y'all. We lost two, We lost two great. Think about what Tupac was saying. Just pause. Tupac's mom a Phoenix chakuor think about how he was raised. Think about how they had to get this man off this planet because he had too much power and now it was fear bliss. You put him on any stage, any microphone, and he would see white America out the frame and everything that he was saying was correct. So create a beef, Create a beef, and they're. Doing it again. What I'm trying to tell you is this, each and every time, there is a pathway to your soul. What's the pathway to your soul? Because that's what they want. They want your soul and they take them, They snatch them. Money, cars, Julie Luk a Berman Bernman got so much money. Why did you do that to your teeth? He didn't even know what to do with the money. He just went and bought cars, tattooed himself his teeth. It's corrosive, it's toxic, and you have to You gotta be one of those people that's born in the world with your third eye wide open. You gotta see it from the rip. When you like a little kid, you in a room listening to a dog talking. You the kid to pull your mom by the r and be like, yeah, Mom, I just want to tell you that person right there, that person right there. You gotta be for them little kids, right You see it from the gate. And certain people come around you and like, I can't play with that one because they know what time it is. Right, you see this stuff, am all away? Or those say that person's crazy, do listen to that crazy person. That person be telling you the truth. But the masters don't want you to notice. Right, who took over the music industry? Who took it over? Who had it before? Certain people became the master. There was a time that there was a place for a common right, a loop, a fiasco. Right, But now you gotta call your black women bees. You gotta talk about violence, You gotta talk about blood. Take the head off, chop it this, chop it. A who controls the content controls the mind. And we are black people, and y'all know we was not raised to talk to each other like that and treat each other like that. But give us some money and we'll do it. We will elevate these females, and we will treat our females like the scum of the earth. There goes a family. All I'm saying is this, wake up, wake up the loves. Like I said, not money, because people don't say the people don't say the full phrase. Money is not the root. The love. Money you can only serve one master. I always say, money don't change you. It reveals you, I mean, honestly, and and it goes so many layers. It's like peeling the onion. Like what you're saying about the music industry. It happened with the people around you. Absolutely, it happened, even with Section eight. It happened with the welfare system, and it happened right. It's so many layers of how it happened with the project. That's how they build the projects on top of each other. It's so many layers to it. It gets to the point where you are the person that's appeared crazy because you see what other people don't see the over there eye and they're like, oh, you just said this and that, and it's like you do get to unfortunately where you're like, you know what, I'm just gonna just do this to my mouth. Because I was that kid that was, oh, she's she talks too much. I was a very shy kid, but I was very articulate at a very young age. And it's like you. Because you you you, and you you speaking like a grown folk. Now go no, go in there. But it's like, no, these ain't doing what they're supposed to do, you know what I mean? So you speaking up too much, but I definitely hear you. While you you're a prophetistant. She was the first ones that I ever heard talk about the projects. I used to ask people this question when I was a teenager, even to my adult years, I used to say, when you hear the word project, what does that mean to you? Swear to guy, people will be like, oh ability where poor people? I said, try again, what's the project? A project is an experiment. Again, when people are doing things to you, the ethist way to get away with doing something to you is to do it in your face, because you would say, there's no way, all. Guys, that's what and that's what Trunk does. Do it in your faith and you're hide and plain. SI. It even started, and I know we could go on and on, but it started even when they brought the drugs over. When they first brought the drugs over, they said, you know, New jak City tried to do a rendition of it and in some of their parts, but it's like, hey, this is what we're going to do, like breaking up the black families, you know, the sister empowerment. The media is pushing it for the black women and say, oh, I don't need a black man on my own. Yes, no, honey, if you don't have a masculine and a femininity raising these kids, there's going to be a lot thereof So there's so many. It's so it's the the amount of layers that it is. Like I said, section eight, all that man. You know, who ever watched with Diane Carroll? What was that Caroline with the kids with? Yeah? I know, yeah, they had all the kids. Well when the social worker come and says, oh, well, did you got. Man shoes in here? You can't have a man in here. You got all these kids, but there's no man. But guess what you're gonna fit? Your welfare gonna stop if you don't have if you have a man in here, if he buy you something. So all of these things. By design, say social and economic design, to do what. So when people talk about anything happening to black people in America, I'm gonna challenge you. I'm gonna say, what did you think was going to happen? We are there are always forces day and night working against us. And if you think for one second, you know, I'm gonna tell you something. I look at some people and they think we're an opposed to racism. Society. You moron. I want to throat punch you. Wake up. Did you ever think there was gonna be a time in America where someone would say, oh, black woman thrive, You'll be the CEO. Black woman thrive, You'll be the president. No, this country was made for white men. Understand that law was that a black person, you're owned. You are owned. This is written down that you are the property of a white master, and you have to look at the world in a way that says this is law. This is law. I think we'll get into another conversation. I'm like, we're. Sorry so much. It's levels to it, you know, even when you think about the hip hop and even the oppression and how they create these beefs and all that. So yeah, I mean that's very important, but I was almost undone just had a bonus from that one was that Kendrick Lamar won what many have deemed the greatest rap beef of all time and his few with Drake. So yeah. So this came after their alternating this songs came out from both artists clapping back. I'm just saying, get him up. But you had k dot dropped like that, and in response to Drake and k Joe's Kate j Cole's First Person Shooter, and then j Cole dropped seven Minute Drill for what he Then he later apologized to Kendrick Lamark about that Kendrick Lamar about that, and then Drake dropped push Ups and Taylor made Freestyle, k Got dropped Euphoria and six sixteen in La and then Drake came back with Family Manners. Then Kado dropped Meet the Grams, and then he followed it up with the Nail and the Coffin Dish track not Like Us, and Drake responded with Heart Part six to novel. Because the public had already pretty much given the crown to Kenjick Lamar, but the caliber of music that came out of this Red Beef just caused people to call it, you know, to give it the goat status. Part of the reason for that is it's like it hasn't been well. You know. I'm not a Drake fan, but what I will say is part of the reason why that best deemed to be one of the greatest battle is because the amount of music that came out of how many records that came out for the Beef. So even with like You know, uh, it was like two albums and that was that. You know, you got no I'm talking about in terms of beef, it would be a track versus a track. This was like four albums, five albums. This is another five six albums. This is the first time and so yeah, but that was so they could sell records and then that was. What they can make money. But that's not the context of what she's saying. The context the what was the greatest I guess you know, so saying that. I'm sticking with min because guess what, you stick to it because I'm a I'm a straight shooter. I'm a person that you ain't got to figure out what I'm saying. I ain't no beating around the bush. Ain't gonna take me long to get there. You're gotta figure out who I'm talking about. What's one of the everybody's names. Is this and this is what you're doing? Is what you're doing. First of all, First of all, he came in like that, no doubt that that was the ship. That was. Charles Gray with the beautiful ladies, beautiful beautiful Sabrina and beautiful Hope and. A beautiful and beautiful. Susans and the first, right, the best last, so so, ladies and gentlemen. That was actually we pretty much right on time. That was like hearing wrapper. Talk hours. About got me listen, talk about the food I'm talking about. That's the funny thing around with. Yeah, that's the funny thing, right. And so that's so. Okay. I got a little smart talk, I got that spark talking. It's all. So we're gonna cool around. You know. We got five minutes, and I want everyone to kind of share their last word for this is twenty twenty four. Next time you're on this twenty mom, and I'm saying, so let's start with me, Melissa, come on, let's give us give us. Some My last words for twenty twenty five is if it was ever a year, I believe that this was a year of truth for most people, maybe truth for yourself. You to learn about yourself, you to learn about loved ones and significant ones. But moving forward, we don't know what's going to happen with the incoming administration. We don't know what's going on with these drones. As Sparkle said, food, housing, education, public safety, re entry, environmental healthcare, all these issues matter to you and your family. What I'm going to say to you is very important. Starts with self. How you provide for yourself, how you take care of your mind, your body, and your soul. That's number one. Your cup has to be full in order for it to run over to provide for others. After you take care of yourself, look at your family. Get your family together, pull your family in, whole healed families, create whole healed communities. Black people, take a look in the mirror and then look at your families. Take care of yourself. Around close that. Ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen. All right, hope Ho'll let me hope? Can you hear me? Wow? Stay fashionable? Yes, doing this. I'm definitely gonna gonna go for what Melissa said with self care. You definitely want to take care of yourself, take care of your family. Twenty twenty four was a year of many surprises. It was a year that was very shocking. But I would say going into twenty twenty five, think about all those nuggets we shared today and think about how we can all come together and work together. Right, So you want to maybe, you know, go back grassroots, right, Maybe we can go back old school and start with our blocks, block by block, with educating you know, our neighbors and educating the community, and then we can can truly impact and effect change. So start with yourself and then figure out how we can all work together. Fantastic, All bring all that is. Okay for me twenty twenty five, I'm going to do a lot of self reflection for twenty twenty five. I recently lost my mom, someone I was the caregiver for for twenty nine years. So for me, I am starting to kind of like come into my own because I don't have her to take care of. So twenty twenty five is going to be a big year of me pouring back into myself and just assisting the people in my life. I am a big giver and I'm a big supporter of our people, and that's where I want to put my focus in twenty twenty five. Fantastic, fantastic, And you know, all our prayers and goes to you and your family's friend and we all lost them, all lost, all right, come on, I'll let me. I'm going to reiterate number one, which is a self care and I don't think any of us can say it enough because there's so much going on in the world with you know, mental health, and it's stemming from so many different places, whether it's history, childhood, social media, you know, everything from what we've been through to where we're trying to go is contributing to our mental health. So definitely take care of yourself. Parents, Get your kids, okay, because. No matter how many programs we come up with, you know, I'm an advocate for the youth. You know, the children are our future. Whatever the schools is doing, whatever the systems the school system is doing, whatever you know programs are programming is doing, we cannot do it without you parents, with your support. Even with this program that I'm in where I'm teaching film to youth, you know, we even have had situations to where, you know, a grandparents trying to get the kid there, the parent doesn't want the kid to come. You know, So whatever your child wants to do, whatever they're dreaming of, even if it wasn't something that was part of your upbringing, nurture it, listen to. Them, especially anything to not have them in the street, right, nurture it. Just support your kids. Get your kids because we can't do everything. And knowing where your kids are because a lot of it is neglect. So we can't do it without you. Last, but not definitely, not least, Melissa Robinson for president. See me, I'm running her campaign. I was vote for because I'm used to it with see seeing this as a wrap up, and sometimes I'm like dag afterwards, I should have said this. I wanted to share that, so I wrote it down. Embrace your power, Embrace that whatever that is. Embrace your your purpose and your potential. This year, break. Barriers, foster communities. Whether we're fighting for equity, building businesses, shaping young minds, or standing in our truth, we each have a role to play and create and creating a brighter future. I have my cannabis license, I have my cannabis delivery license. I had a health and wellness store. I had death, I had verbs. All of that came and I was just like, this is life and I'm embracing it. I'm embracing it. I don't regret any of the decisions I've made. I just said, you know what, God, I'll wait and see as what's next. They say when you plan, God lasts, so all I mean, I'm I'm just following with that yellow brick road. I'm just following. So remember, challenges will come, but so will the victories during bigger act bolder and shine brighter and live intentionally, love unapologetically, and leaving a legacy that matters. That's my twent fantastic one more before you go, see, I just wanted to finish what you start. Finish what you start. You will feel good about yourself and you will feel productive. Doubt I'll bring Lauren back up, come on long. So I guess what I would say is that I just feel like twenty twenty five, although we don't know what's going to happen, it's going to be. I just feel like it's going to be the year of awareness and a year that people need to persevere no matter what happens. So I'm really big on like vision boards, you know, write the vision and make it plain. So I just feel like, make your vision board for twenty twenty five, focus on what you're going to do because life is short. So I just feel like people need to live life to the fullest, live life like it's every day is like your last day, and just make sure that you're pushing yourself to do things like one thing I said I'm gonna do is I try to avoid things that I guess make me uncomfortable, and sometimes you have to be You have to get comfortable with being uncomfortable. So just say yes to things that you would normally say no to those things that it would help you reach your goals. I'm just, you know, strictly talking about goals, but I just feel like, you know, change is going to happen. But remember that we the people, we have the power and we you know we are we have to fight for democracy, little deep, we have to fight for democracy. So just remember that. Just be prepared, educate yourself, focus on your goals, focus on your self care. Dun dump. Everybody has some one things. I'm gonna just say, twenty twenty five is a year building in scale and scaling and be unapologetic about yourself period. It's about you now. You've been living long enough to be worried about everybody else. It's about you now, So scale, dig deep, and think about you self. Love, and that's I'm gonna leave like that. This we talk weekly, y'all. This is twenty twenty five, twenty twenty five. It's all ye in the back and we're just super excited and we're unapologetic about the work that we do. We're gonna keep on doing it, and uh, we're unapologetic about it. And those people who have those voices and that we think, you know, need to be amplified and in those streets, we're gonna amplify those voices and continue to support the community. We do unapologetically. So this is we talk weekly, y'all. Twenty twenty four. We see you in twenty twenty five when we out here. Man, that's right.