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Episode 345- The Narrative Podcast

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Duration:: 2h 3m
Broadcast on:: 22 Jul 2024
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The Narrative Podcast promotes positive reinforcements of original people and original people, culture. And also provides positive frames of reference and bouts. Original people and original people, culture. Welcome to The Narrative Podcast. So, welcome all my narrators. How is everybody's weekend? So yeah, I kind of told a little feed. The day kind of got away from me. I did say I was gonna do upload on the weekend, Sundays the weekend. And I did say, if you didn't hear from me on Saturday, on Sunday I would be doing an upload. But, you know, it's late Sunday evening. So I was just, you know, doing family stuff and the day kind of got away from me. But anyway, here I am with some good, good content, some good positive content. So without any further ado, I'm gonna dive right on into this weekend edition of The Narrative Podcast. And yes, even though I'm running late, I actually got time to, you know, give you a brief overview before diving into the content. It's gonna be a little short tonight. I don't have a whole lot to talk about, but I do got the little bit that I have to talk about. It's gonna be pretty good. I think I can wrap it up before my time limit. That's it for myself. So here we go, starting at the top, the tippy, the name, the Narrative Podcast. I named my podcast The Narrative Podcast because I don't like to foster the narrative that the media we use by the original people and the original people culture. I will get to the original people part in a second. So what I want to do to counter that is design a platform where I'm uplifting and edifying my people. Whereas the media intentionally misrepresents us by vilifying us and misappropriating our images and our likenesses to push their agenda. And the way that misappropriating our images and our likenesses is to basically stigmatize us into stereotype us with negative traits, which are associated us with laziness, with violence, with lewdness and degeneracy. They're also just the way they depict this in the media, just like we're very unpleasant to be around. We're the worst people on the planet Earth. So what I want to do is design a platform, highlighting and showcasing this at our best. Showing positive frames and reference about who we are, what we descend from, what we do for each other, what we do for our communities, what we do for our families. So that's what entirely the narrative podcast is dedicated to doing, which is the perfect segue to my tagline, the narrative podcast, changing the narrative, one episode of the time by destroying negative stereotypes about original people and original people coaching. How do I destroy the negative stereotypes about our people and our culture by providing positive frames of reference about our people and our culture, hence the title, the narrative podcast. Also on my platform, what I, in my mission statement, what I'm here for is to bring awareness of why it's important to responsibly utilize your platforms to share positive frames of reference about our people and our culture. And then also to inspire people, the listening audience, people that listen to my podcast, to share positive frames of reference about our people and our culture, whatever platform that they occupy. I'm not here to be the internet police to tell you what you can and what you cannot post. I'm just bringing awareness of these warped skewed images of our people and primarily, why we have always negativity in our communities because they put out these false narratives, these false images of our people and our culture. So, essentially it's up to all of us to change the narrative by posting positive content whenever possible because all the media puts out these negative content and give us and people outside of our culture, negative frames of reference about our people and our culture. So, you know, that's what I'm trying to do here, essentially with my platform. Next thing you need to be aware of on this platform, I refer to my listening audience as my narrators. And I call people, my narrators, just kind of a... It's really just kind of a nod to the times we're living in. We're living in the digital information age and we all share content online. We all create content online and, you know, when we're doing so, whatever digital space you occupy, you know, the goal of sharing information is to basically put out positive frames of reference. Every social media platform, every digital media platform has a brief bio about the content creator. And anybody that, you know, has a digital platform, you know, their goal is to basically put out the best representation of themselves as possible. So when you're uploading content, whether you're a content creator or just, you know, somebody online, like Facebook or Instagram or X or whatever, you know, you're trying to put out imagery of your best life, you're living your best life, you know, you're going, having fun, that's, you know, the pictures that you post. Oh, I got a new outfit. Oh, we're about to go here. We're about to do this. We're about to go here. We're about to do this. About to eat at this restaurant. I just bought a new car. We're about to go on a vacay. You're putting out the best possible references, the best possible images and like images of yourself as possible. You want the world to know you're doing something good. You want the world to know you're doing something positive. Now, the hip hop generation caused that cap. You're cacking, you know, exaggerating, like how good you're actually living. But, you know, as there's another saying, you got to fake it till you make it. So it's a difference between outright lying and exaggerating, like it's all a mind state, you know, keeping a positive mind state, putting your best foot forward. Essentially, what I'm saying is, you know, your digital footprint is your identification to the world these days and these times that we're living in. And so nobody in the right mind, you know, puts out negative content. Nobody in their right mind, you know, post pictures of them living broke or down bad. Nobody does that. There's a few people. There's a few miserable people online. You know, there's exceptions to every rule. There's a few like, you know, woe's me type people. Oh, I'm going through it. You know, pray for me. This happened, like every week, it's pray for me. And this happened. I went to the beginning and said, I didn't get this job. This didn't happen for me. I guess I'd be all right, you know. It is some miserable people online, right? It is. But primarily everybody online shares the best possible version of themselves online. When all their viewers and when all their followers to see them at their best, they never post themselves at their worst, never. And so that's my, you know, reasoning with calling my target listening audience, my narrators. Because like I said, we're living in the digital information age and people, you know, kind of tell or narrate their own stories. And when they're telling or narrating their own stories, they're telling or narrating it from the best possible place they can. And I feel like we need to do that as a people. Put out the best representation of ourselves as possible. And always, you know, show imagery of us winning, of us excelling, of us progressing, of us unifying, of us, you know, making strides in life rather than down bad destitute, engaging in, you know, criminalistic activity, you know, degeneracy, you know, ladies, you tired of seeing it, it's working, you tired of, you know, busting it open for the grand, we want to see like, you know, ladylike behavior, like grown woman business and fellas, we want to see grown man business. We tired of the fellas, we tired of y'all posting up, you know, profile pics with the weapon, with the AK, with the nine, with the black table, full of drugs, we tired of that. Pants setting down to your kneecap. [ Silence ] But anyway, so that's why I call my target listening audience, my narrators, and that's just what I mean, just telling or narrating our own stories. Because if history has taught us anything, it's taught us this, if you don't tell your own story, your story will be told for you, and that's precisely what the powers that shouldn't be are doing is telling our story and the story that they're telling about our people and our culture is a negative one from a skewed word, perception. So, it's up to us to bring it back in focus by telling or narrating our own stories. Next order of business that dare to podcast is a positive space. I don't engage in gossip, any negativity, I don't promote slander, I don't promote name calling, you know, you know, creating the atmosphere of it's like us versus us. So, I'm not into the rumor mill and the gossip and all that. Just know if I bring up a famous person's name, it's never the cloud chase, click bake, or anything like that. It's really just to us and then a point, then I'm-- We all have somewhere we're trying to get to. 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And I'm using them to kind of illustrate a point, you know, whatever they got going on and lose and usually what it's like from somebody from our community who's, you know, in the higher SMI class, whether they be an entertainer, whether they be a millionaire or a billionaire, they're always in the news for something negative. And, you know, if I ever mentioned their names, it's just basically to, you know, put everything in perspective. Frame everything up from the bigger picture-type scenario, which, like, why we can't blame everything on, you know, the system, you blame a good 89.999% of it on it. So, that's how I frame it up, you know, linking it back to systemic programming and conditioning, which is basically why the media portrays us in a negative, like, you know, psychological warfare. They want us to see negative images of ourselves. So, we'll take root in our psyches. So, we'll subconsciously act out on these images, as well as, you know, people outside of our culture. That's all they have to see of us, you know, they hear it in the music, they see it in movies, they see it in television, you know, they read it in literature, magazines, ads, you know, all negative. So, yeah, it's all about systemic programming and conditioning as far as, you know, how we're perceived here in America and abroad. But especially in America, they're doing a really big number on us in America. But, you know, our brothers and sisters abroad, they're catching it to from the media, like how they're portrayed and how they're perceived. But, anyway, yeah, this is also a platform of truth. So, while I don't try to denigrate my brothers and sisters, I'm just trying to name, call, and drag. Brothers and sisters through the mud, I will however tell the truth if I feel like, you know, a brother or a sister from our community is intentionally, you know, trying to play up negative stereotypes and statements for the bag, like, you know, intentionally just doing some lowdown pandering and just, like, kind of got us all out here looking bad because we're linked. Through them, like, you know, they got a polarizing platform and they're just, like, doing something, like, really superstitious, they got us all looking bad. I will say something about said individual, but other than that, this is a completely positive space and, you know, I'm not having none of it. I don't promote none of it and I feel like, you know, we shouldn't, as a people, we should not engage in it. Because, like I said, the powers that shouldn't be kind of a random media, they have a horrible wicked agenda, but at the end of the day, it's a business. And the first rule of business is supply and demand. So, right now, as it stands, our people are the faces of all things degenerate. And we help fuel that energy by industry, pardon me. We help fuel that industry by partaking in it, by regurgitating it online, by liking it and sharing it and laughing at it. So, you know, the machine, they keep on cranking out more degeneracy. They keep on cranking out more horrible movies. They keep on cranking out more horrible television shows. They keep on cranking out more fiasco's like the BET Awards and, like, all these, like, low vibrational, low energy shows that are supposed to be, you know, entertaining or ended up being, you know, just a glorified platform in which to mock us as a people. So, they're not trying to build this up. They're not trying to uplift this edifies. They're trying to straight up just make fun of us, make fun of our conditions. Mock us, you know, create, create the systems, create the conditions in which we live, and then turn around and laugh at it. And then try to, you know, build a stage for the rest of the world to join in. So, you know. But, however, that's how we sure stop the grind. We stop participating in it and then we can't get portrayed like that and show them, you know, we want to be portrayed as intellectual people. We want to be portrayed as pillars of the community. We want to get portrayed as, you know, a doodleful people. We can't, you know, we want to get portrayed as the inverse of how they're portraying us. So, we want to be portrayed as, you know, progressive people, intellectual people, problem, you know, problem solvers, you know, having a sense of community, having a sense of commitment, honor, respect, decorum, dignity. So, that's how we want to be portrayed. And when we start showing them that they'll quit, you know, creating all these, you know, crappy television shows and quit, you know, creating all these stereotypical people, these stereotypical characters to represent our people and they're just, you know, that's one way to stop it. I mean, at the end of the day, you can't change and made up mine. You know, that's how they perceive us, that's how they perceive us made. You know, while we cannot control how they perceive us, we can control the content we as content creators are posting online. So, that's what I mean when I call my target, listen, I miss my narrators and that's what I mean, you know, with my mission statement, just to point out there is an agenda to, you know, besmirch our reputations and, you know, have us looking a certain type of way to the rest of the world. The next order of business, it's a time sensitive platform. I try not to exceed one hour per broadcast. This is an all audio platform. I try not to go over one hour per broadcast and reason being is because, you know, I want to keep you all guys entertained. I want to keep you attentive and then also, you know, I want to keep you interested. So, like, I can't do that if I'm just drowning on and on and on, boring you to sleep. So, the best way to, you know, keep your, uh, keep you attentive with the content is basically to keep you short, keep you sweet to the point. And, you know, just keep me, uh, keep my content. Fluent, uh, have good segue points, uh, have speaking points to everything I'm saying, uh, you know, that it just prevent me from, like, talking in circles and going off tangents. Because I want my content to be digestible, to be relatable, and most of all, be appliable. Like, after you listen to it, you can be like, okay, you know, go out into the world and, you know, make those, like, my mood changes that I'm speaking about. So, I can't do that if I'm just, like, if I don't have an actual point, I'm just talking to be talking. So, that's why I try to keep you short and sweet into the point. Um, and so last but not least, like you heard me say over and over and over, I refer to our people as original people. The reason why I refer to our people as original people, uh, for two reasons. Number one, uh, the term original, uh, kind of implies, you know, uh, history, the historical, historical accuracy of it. We were here 5,000 years before every single person on the planet. So, you know, we also were the original inventors of everything, especially here in the America, in the Americas, especially here in the United States of America. Pretty much we invented every, not only built everything, invented everything as well, but, uh, they try to, uh, rob us in history, giving the credit to, uh, other people. That's why they invented the patent system. So, they would not have to give us credit for, you know, inventing things. Um, everybody, they, they taught us in school, invented something, didn't actually get it. They had blacks, ladies, and inventing it. But, uh, moreover, I refer to our people as original people here on this platform, is this kind of denoted historical accuracy behind that sentiment. We was here 5,000 years first, uh, you know, nothing, everything pales in comparison to the original, usually. You know, when we're talking about the original copy, you know, when you're trying to prove something, what do you need, the original copy? Everything came from us. Everything can be traced back to us. So, we are original people. Um, one sub point that I want to tack onto that is, um, you know, the false narrative that keeps on getting pushed about our people is, you know, slavery being the most definitive part of our history. And it actually really wasn't, uh, there's so many inaccuracies about it. Number one, you know, like the, the time of the, uh, the path of the transit manslaughter trade, uh, is there so many, there's so many inaccuracies, but the main inaccuracy is that, you know, it was the most poignant, relevant, um, time in our lives. And it wasn't, we had whole identities before the transit had led the slave trades. You know, we pretty much ruled over everything we surveyed. We were kings of queens, guys, and fantasies. All right, before a transit manslaughter trade, um, not only that, like I said, being here first doesn't stand a scientific, uh, scientific reasoning. If we was here first, if we existed first, doesn't, you know, stand to reason that we also existed in many other lands other than Africa, if he was here first. So what I'm saying, like, was already existing on the cotton innovation, was already existing in Europe, was already existed in, like, Australia, the UK, um, you name it, like any global position you can think of, there was already a large concentration of our people possessing African DNA already there, weighed before the slave trade. So we didn't get to all these different places on slave boats, especially here in the Americas, like there's only, you know, less than 70% of us, or, I'll say 85, less than 85% of us, who were African slaves, because it doesn't even make sense when you think about it. They kept on going to Africa, kept getting slaves when, you know, there wasn't even paper currency. When the slave trade started, they was paying slavers in gold deboons, precious diamonds and gems, they don't even, because you're not even going to bring back the amount that they requested, so you can't even sign a property. We all have somewhere we're trying to get to. 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I believe having so many different beliefs and value systems. But the one thing we all have in common is that we're original people. We can all trace our leanings back to the original point of origin for all civilization. Now the original point for all civilization that's a debate within itself, as many people believe, that it was already here in the United States. But I'm not the platform for the debate, but I'm just saying that's the reason why I refer to our people as original people. We all possess the same DNA. We all have large concentrations of carbon, aka melanin. We all have an unspoken bond. We can all relate to each other no matter where we're at in the world. We all have nuances within our culture. Just something we don't even have to say. We can look at an object and we just know what that means. We're just all vibrating on the same frequency. We don't know each other from a hole in the ground. We can look at each other and tell each other stories. So without any further ado, now that you're kind of up to speed with my platform, I've glazed over anything if you're still kind of mystified about what it is I'm doing or what I'm trying to do. I'm over 300 episodes in. You can download this episode in our previous leave for the episodes of the narrative podcast where we get your podcast information from. But now diving right on into the content on this weekend edition of the narrative podcast. On my weekend editions, they're a little bit different. I have more sections than my weekday sections. And I'm gonna break down what each section is about as I come to them. So starting off with the first section of the narrative podcast. This section is called the highlight section. And what I'm doing is I'm highlighting original people that own and operate their own businesses. And the reason why I'm highlighting original people business owners is kind of staying true to my mission statement which is to provide positive frames of reference about our people and our culture. Business owners, it doesn't get any more positive than that. And the reason why I'm highlighting business owners is because we don't have many frames of references within our community about business owners. We have the limited frames of references that we have of business owners usually come via scripted reality television shows. On these scripted reality television shows, they portray our people in the most negative light as possible. They usually show them fighting, getting their physical fights with each other, usually overindosing in drugs or alcohol on camera. Some type of degenerate lewd crude activity. That's how the producers of that show always do that. To our people, they show them just being really overly loud, overly boisterous, always arguing. Can't solve their conflict without yelling at each other or cussing each other out, have them behaving like they never, nobody attempted to raise them. That's how we're portrayed in these scripted reality television shows. But the problem with that is, is most of the people from our community on these scripted reality television shows are entrepreneurs. They are business owners. They have several lucrative entities under their umbrella. They employ many families. They're sending a whole bunch of families, children through a college off of their brand that they created. Like a lot of them are serial entrepreneurs. But that doesn't get captured on camera. All we see is the dysfunctional violence and degeneracy and lewdness. So we don't get to see that intellectual side of on our camera. Because the producers don't want to showcase that. They want to just, you know, they want to glorify the violence. They want to glorify the drugs. They want to glorify the alcohol. They want to glorify, you know, the boxery, having relations on camera. That's what they want to like glorify and promote from our community. They don't want to promote us, you know, having solutions that our government, for the problems that our government creates. They don't want us, you know, on camera being strategic. The one that's just, you know, be tap dancing and carrying on like we ain't got no scenes. So that's why I'm doing the highlight section. On my podcast is basically kind of a side step that so I'm walking through an entrepreneur's journey and telling you how they came up with their idea. Usually when I have the information available, you know, where they got their education, where they got the training, where they grew up at. You know, I'm trying to walk you through their whole journey, you know, of becoming a business owner because the media have this believing that it's just not possible with the frames of reference that they show us. They just show us like people living should be shared or on some type of public assistance or, you know, nothing powerful. Nothing, you know, groundbreaking, nothing revolutionary. They don't want to show us images of that. So this is why I'm doing the highlight section. On my podcast is to show you the track of the entrepreneur. You know, everything that goes along with it, you know, how they grew up. And most of the people that I covered, you know, they didn't have adequate education. They didn't have adequate finances to start their business. They just, you know, they had an idea, they stepped on on faith and they found a way to make it happen. So other qualifying factors for the highlight section, of course, they're original people owned, operated, they hired their own. You know, they trained their own, they hired their own. They do some type of philanthropy for the community. They give back to the community that they're rooted in. They even have paying to a non-profit organization or have their very own non-profit organization or do something, you know, that helps the community. And then last but not least, they line up with my theme. And my theme is, you know, nationally observed days and holidays. So with that, having said, we're on to the highlight section. I usually have a plethora of businesses to highlight. Today, I'm just one with two. And the reason why I'm one with two is because I've kind of did this, you know, this topic before, actually, it was a while ago, national ice cream debt. When it turns out, the month of July is national ice cream month. So it's not like ice cream all this month. And there's not many days of this month left. So, you know, so said, said art, to say, I've like a lot of original people owned and operated businesses that, you know, specialized in selling ice cream. I did most of them for, you know, national ice cream day, but this is national ice cream month. And I'll be highlighting businesses that specialize in selling ice cream. So my first business, there wasn't a lot of information. This is, he didn't, I couldn't pull up any information on this brother's bio, other than the fact of just him being the only one of his kind in this community. The first business I'll be highlighting in the highlight section on this week, in addition of the narrative podcast, I'll be highlighting a business called Mayako Ice Cream. It was established in the 1940s by our brother name, by the name of Tom Bennett, and we'll assist them apart from the competition. It's ice cream, hand-sharing, served in the old style of ice creamery. So everything, you know, is by hand chocolate syrups, you know, all the toppings and accruitments for ice cream. You know, it's all done in the traditional, you know, ice cream fashion. You also, you know, has a plethora of old throwback candies as well. So here's ice cream slash candy shop. I think they got a few hot items as well, like hot dogs. You know, now everybody's calling them glizzy. But yeah, it's a definitely, it's a staple in San Francisco, California. It's been there since the '40s. Another thing that makes it unique is in the Japanese part of California, like a lot of Asians. It's a hub, you know, in the Asian community to be the one black-owned business in the Asian community. It's like, it's layers of what that means because it's usually like them in our neighborhood. I mean, essentially it was our neighborhood before gentrification, before the neighborhood got gentrified. But, you know, over time, it became the hub for, like, immigrants. They migrated from different parts of Asia, like Japan, China, Korea, so on and so forth. But his business has stood the test of time and he only named it Miyako to kind of accommodate a large, the growing populace of Asians. So like, it's a part of Asian culture as well as a part of our culture because it's, you know, one of the last black-owned businesses in the area of San Francisco. So, you know, that's why I chose to highlight, you know, his story, the showcase that wherewithal, the showcase, you know, we can stand the test of time being business owners, you know, also the showcase, we can be the lender, not the borrower because they need a service from him. You don't need service from me. And not that I have anything against my Asian brothers and sisters that you know, as well as I know, you know, the rapport we have within our communities isn't the best right now. I don't know where, like, when it started going south. We all have somewhere we're trying to get to. As the largest energy producer in Colorado, Chevron is working to responsibly meet rising energy demand. So everyone can get to where they want to be. You've arrived. That's energy in progress. Visit chevron.com/tankless. 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So like when you watch those old, you know, 40s and 50s movies where they're going to the guys in the fedoras, they're taking the ladies on the date to the ice cream shop because that's kind of all they bid back then. But that's that, that supporter went to that world. But uh, yeah. So without any further ado, we want to give our brother, Mr. Tom Bennett, a warm narrative podcast round of applause for his establishment, Miyako Ice Cream, located in Fresno, California. Oh, wait a minute. I forgot to give you the address. So if you're ever in Fresno, California, uh, visit Miyako, his, uh, you know, children are helping him run the store. He's over 90 right now. So, you know, go see him while you're able to see him at 1470 Fieldmore Street, San Francisco, California, and call them at 941. Hard to look at this stuff and call them at 415-931-5260. All right. This one is a super quick one. It's called hood ice cream. It's ran by, um, well, it registers, you know, on the search for black owned businesses. Um, the thing is this this particular business of parts, uh, is that it's all dairy free. Now, um, it's a pop up. So they're in many places, uh, stationed in, uh, New Orleans. That's all it really has. It's in New Orleans, and you would just have to, um, you know, check online. They got an Instagram and they announced, you know, where they'll be located, but, you know, it's, um, black owned, operated from the top to the bottom hood ice cream. Uh, they hire people, you know, in the neighborhood. If you inquire about a job, they'll hire you. Uh, that's what they're giving back to the community, the way they're giving back to the community is hiring their own. Um, they got all kinds of flavors. Uh, like I said, you know, the biggest thing that says some of the parts is all, you know, non-dairy, it's all vegan. So go check them out if you're ever in New Orleans. It's called hood ice cream. You can also, uh, follow them on, uh, on IG at hood ice cream. No, it's real telephone number or anything listed, but, um, I guess that's what's good about it. What's good. But, um, anyway, join me in the, uh, giving hood ice cream a warm narrative podcast round of applause. Now on to my next section of the narrative podcast. This section is called the spotlight section. And this section, what I'm doing is I'm spotlighting prominent figures within our community, the uplift and edified our community in a positive way. Um, it used to be reserved for people, um, that typically we're entertainers, rappers, uh, you know, recording artists, comedians, uh, you know, public figures, Tiktakers, YouTubers. But since, as of late, I opted, I opted just to, uh, you know, spotlight normal people. The reason why I opted to spotlight normal people is to, you know, break that, uh, stigma that all our people know how to do is entertain. So I just want, um, you know, started, start spotlighting, you know, normal people within our community, just doing great things for our community. And impacting our compute, impacting our community in a positive way. So, yeah, but not for nothing. Your brother calls you out me near the podcast, created the way for spotlight. Because before I added the spotlight section to my podcast, the narrative podcast, nobody, nobody was spotlighting anybody. And now all of a sudden everybody's spotlighting. You know, every time I get to have a guest on the YouTube channel, today we'll be spotlighting, you know, a segment, a special segment, something, uh, today on the spotlight for whatever show. And, you know, nobody was spotlighting nobody. And that kind of makes me feel good. It makes me feel appreciative even though my numbers aren't reflective of it. I know who messes with my platform who don't because, you know, the internet makes the world small is all kind of people, uh, you know, it's just two points to dinner. They incorporate a portion of my content into their content, my nuances, like what I say. You know, my subject matter, like what I said, it's, and not only what I say, how I say my little speaking six I have and nuances, speaking nuances that I have. So, you know, that's how I know I'm making an impact in what I'm doing and as the old saying goes, you know, imitation is the best form of flatter. You saw many people spotlighting, uh, all kinds of like super famous people tuning in on a regular basis, like leaving a trail of breadcrumbs that, you know, they're listening to my platform. It's all good that they don't just, you know, come out and give a stand for the pub or, you know, or the shout out or not. I'm here for the people. I'm here for the people. If I wasn't here for the people, I had to quit a long time ago. But, you know, it's still kind of exciting to know that I'm being that impactful on all audio platform, like you can't even see my face, but my message is getting received and people are acting out on it and realizing, you know, let's, you know, let's use our platform to say something nice about our brother and sister, instead of dragging them through the mud, instead of calling the names and denigrating them, let's, like, build each other up and, you know, celebrate each other, instead of tearing each other down. You know, that's what I'm doing with the spotlight session here on the narrative podcast and encouraging people to, you know, give credit where credit's due and, you know, acknowledge people who are making notable changes for our people and within our community and, you know, and just put proven that we can, you know, celebrate each other and not always have to be in competition and not always have to, you know, be engaging in something messy on mine on the side. But anyway... You are now listening to the narrative podcast with Halsey Allen. The narrative podcast is changing the narrative one episode at a time. In a real way. So anyway, without any further ado, this week, spotlight goes to none other than a Miss Ashley Robinson. And Ashley Robinson is on the spotlight for being the principal at a nonprofit or the institution called the Blue Institute. What this is is a strategy, a corporate-like strategy, training academy to give, you know, it says children underserved community. I really do test that because I feel like that's cold for our community, but, you know, they ship that particular company appeals to all youth, but, you know, especially our youth to give them the business connects that they would need to, you know, get, you know, high-paying jobs and, you know, give them the, you know, the digital, give them the digital skills they need and to teach them how to basically sell themselves and place themselves in high yielding, high, you know, high pay grade type jobs or positions, or if you don't want to do the nine to five, show us how options help the youth start their own like nonprofit organizations and, you know, how to get the sponsorship to do other things. So, you know, that's what the Blue Institute is about. If you want to know more about it, you can follow up. Follow them on Instagram at the Blue Institute and you can get a deeper insight to what that company does, but, you know, trust me when I say this, you know, next level and revolutionary for our people as far as like equipping them with the knowledge to be to access a different tax bracket and, you know, give them a more clear path to, you know, cap financial wealth and kind of, you know, close that wealth gap. So, that's why she's giving the spotlight section, spotlight in the spotlight section today on the narrative podcast weekend edition. So, let's give a more narrative podcast around the applause for our sister, Ashley Robinson of Blue Institute. Well, next section here on the narrative podcast is the health and wellness section. And this section is just how it sounds. It's about health and wellness. I'm giving health and wellness tips. So, you know, you can have being total body wellness for our people. We can be in total body wellness, you know, being the sound mind, body and spirit. Because Ripley's believe it or not, you know, our people are being attacked, you know, mentally, physically and spiritually. I mean, everybody really is. They're putting all kinds of harmful things into air, all kinds of harmful things in the food, all kinds of harmful things in our water. And then we already know what they're doing with the media, you know, they're psychologically programming and conditioning us with the, you know, the news, the intranets and all forms of media, you know, just suggesting things to our subconscious, negative things at that. We all have somewhere we're trying to get to. As the largest energy producer in Colorado, Chevron is working to responsibly meet rising energy demand. So everyone can get to where they want to be. You've arrived. That's energy and progress. Visit chevron.com/tankless. With lucky land slots, you can get lucky just about anywhere. Daily Beloved. We're gathered here today. Has anyone seen the bride and groom? Sorry, sorry, we're here. We were getting lucky in the limo when we lost track of time. No, lucky land casino with cash prizes that add up quicker than a guest registry. But in that case, I pronounce you lucky for free at luckyland slots.com. Daily bonuses are waiting. No purchase necessary void. We're prohibited by law 18 plus terms and conditions apply. See website for details. And then, of course, there's some dark spiritual things happening around us. Now, like I said, it adversely affects everybody, but it's specifically geared towards us because there is an inherent agenda to get rid of our people. And whether you want to believe it or not, it really is. You know, we got like over 400 years of receipts to prove it. So that's what the health and wellness section is about to teach original people, my people, my demographic, you know, how to armor up in all the areas that we're being attacked. And I just want to make a quick disclaimer. You know, I'm open-minded and this platform, this podcast is for anybody that's open-minded and considers himself a critical thinker. You don't necessarily have to be an original man or original woman to get something out of, you know, my podcast, but just keep in mind my demographic is original people. Because I feel my people, we need it the most. Especially in, we especially need this section what I'm talking about. And one thing I just absolutely cannot stand with religion and some spiritual practices is like this, we are all one concept. Because, you know, whatever you call yourself, believe in God, Jesus, ally, whatever spiritual discipline you follow. You know, we're not all. We all connect to whatever we call the higher power in a different way. We're all created. You know, variety is a spice of life. We are all created differently for a reason. You know, we all have a different physiology. We all have a different genetic maker. We all have a different internal constitution. We all have different physical, spiritual, and mental needs, you know, to our respective cultures. It's just like we're just all culturally different. And that's just what it is. We're different. We're not all one. So anybody says, you know, we're all one. We're all God's creatures. And that's just the biggest load of crap ever. Because you can see the differences from community, community, for instance, like Christianity. There's different denominations of Christianity. And then there's cultural differences within that. As you go to a black church, and then you go to a white church, and you observe, be, tell me where I went. You go to a mosque. You go to Orthodox Muslim mosque, you go to a FOI temple, or NOI temple and tell me we're all one. Now, dietetically, we're not all one. There's certain things within, you know, my community that we need that we have to have to sustain our nourishment to sustain our bodies. We have to have sunlight, melanating people that is essential for us. We have to, whereas other communities, they can't have too much of sunlight. They can't go outside without sun blocker or they'll peel and they'll flake and they'll get some type of skin cancer. So, we're all different. So, this is, you know, with these health and wellness tips are for my people. And, you know, it is what it is. Like, I'm not trying to exclude anybody, but I just feel my people, you know, like I said, we're under attack the most, mentally, physically, and spiritually, we're just, you know, we have different needs. So, I'm supplying that need, giving tips to help my people armor up in all the areas that we're being attacked. So, like, on the physical side of it, what you will typically hear from me is like, you know, I'm trying to. So, physically, you know, I usually give you the health benefits of a plant or extract fruit vegetable elixir that you can ingest or apply topically to improve your physical health or some type of physical exercise you can perform to prolong your, you know, sustain and prolong your physical health or, you know, some type of then on the mental side of it, you know, keeping your being a sound mind and body, keep particularly your mind as, you know, being an original part of people. We have different emotional triggers. We got different things that we're different stressors. So, you know, we have different things. The weight of the world taxes our minds differently. So, we need to learn how to condition our minds to navigate through all the madness. So, we need to be aware of our emotional triggers. We need to know how to manage our emotions. We need to do things to help our brains grow, to have healthy brain functions. So, those will be my mental tips for my people. And then, like on the spiritual side of it, you know, things to have a healthy spiritual life. And then also, you know, protect yourself, you know, how to protect yourself from spiritual attack, because there's like a lot of dark stuff out there, a lot of dark stuff. So, we definitely need to be vigilant and recognize that. And some tips I would usually give, like, meditation, prayer, and other spiritual type practices, you can incorporate to have a healthy, you know, spiritual life. But today is a physical tip in the health and wellness section. I'm going to be talking about the health benefits of aloe vera. Aloe vera is, you know, a very sustainable plant. It has over a hundred uses. I'll just be highlighting the couple. So, first of all, it has antioxidants and antioxidants. Anything that contains antioxidant. Antioxidants is a natural fat burner. It helps you slim down, trim down. More importantly, it's green. So, you know, melanative people, we need anything green, anything containing chlorophyll for our melanin. We're the only beings on this planet that cools physiology mimics plant life. Nobody else but us. It's antibacterial. Antiviral. So, anytime you're getting sick, you know, you can, you know, if you want some aloe vera, get you some fresh aloe vera juice. Now, what you want to do is you want to steer clear and like just pay attention and read, because the only thing aloe vera juice should have any, don't even grieve the aloe vera, should have any, for any reason, is aloe vera. And there's a whole lot of aloe vera drink out there. They have hardies, chemicals, chloride, magnesium. I don't think aloe vera, true aloe vera juice have any, is aloe vera. And it's very easy to grow. You can buy your own aloe vera. The plant is super sustainable indoor plant. You don't even have to have like own a house to access aloe vera. It's good for your gut health. It keeps you nice and regular, helps you like, you know, unclog the pipes if you're bound to, keeps you, you know, keeps everything flowing like it's supposed to be. And this I didn't know is, you know, it helps ground out radiation. So like, that's a health benefit for people that's not melanating you early with once, you know, rub a little aloe vera on your skin, but like ingesting it. For the anti-radiation properties, that'll help you ground out the heavy metals. We're often, you know, also, you know, we're exposed to UV and RMI that'll help with that. It'll help ground out all that, you know, radiation that you're exposed to on a daily basis. Like I said, I'm not going to go over it. Like it's literally over 100 benefits the aloe vera has. I just highlighted the most important ones, but you know, it's pretty much a super food, very easy to grow, good for your hair, skin, teeth and nails. You can apply it topically where you can ingest it. There's really kind of no wrong way to use it. You know, it's also makes a good cleaning product as well. You also met like if you're a tinkerer, you like fixing stuff, you know, it's good for like lubrication, kind of like a replacement for the WD-40, a natural one. But yeah, which is some aloe vera in your life. That's the health and wellness tip this week on the narrative podcast. Next topic on the next section on the narrative podcast is the speaking points. Speaking point is just basically current news either happening globally, nationally, or something out of our community. And the purpose of me doing that is just covering whatever's happening in the news from our perspective, because the media will have us, you know, looking down bad and they'll put out the worst possible frames of reference that can possibly put out of us, you know, reacting to whatever's going on in the world in the country or, you know, whatever's going on in our community. So, you know, by me covering current events, I would just be covering, you know, telling our story from our perspective. So that's the purpose of me doing, you know, current events. There's a whole lot going on in the world. So as we already know, Biden then dropped out. We just had, you know, the internet crash that happened. It's all kind of stuff going on in the world, but I'm just really only going to be focusing on one, just following up with a story that I covered on my weekday edition of the narrative podcast. When I heard the story, it's been some new developments in the Devonté Mitchell case. And if you don't know who Devonté Mitchell is, he's a brother that got strangled at a hotel in Wisconsin. So basically this happened in, I said, Wisconsin, my bad, it was Milwaukee. This happened at the Hike Regency in downtown Milwaukee. So allegedly, this all stems from him going into the ladies' restaurant at the hotel. Okay, cool. That's not cool. It's never cool for a man to be in the ladies' restaurant, so I'm not even going to act like that's cool. It's not cool. If I ever got a dude doing something weird like that, it might be action stations. You know, because it's like little girls and babies and everything, you know, if he was up in there pulling his Johnson out in the ladies' bathroom, that's not good. But, you know, it's like over a month, no females have, you know, come to say, you know, he was in the ladies' bathroom. So it's allegation. That's why you got to say allegedly, is we don't know that to be true. There was no video footage has surfaced of him exiting the ladies' restroom or being, you know, escorted out by hotel staff from, you know, the ladies' restroom. There's also been no audio, you know, no walkie-talkie chatter surfacing, saying, hey, there's a guy in the ladies' room. So I don't know. I don't know what the, what, what if any truth to him being in the ladies' room is, but if he was, it wasn't cool, but still, it's not a reason to underlive him. So, allegedly, he was in the ladies' restroom. And, you know, he was confronted by security. He was ejected from the hotel. So he was already ejected from the hotel. So he's standing out there, you know, I'm guessing he's waiting for his ride. And they're rushing, they're rushing, they're apprehending, they pin him down and start beating him. It's like he got, there was over like five employees. You know, one employee got his feet. And then you got another employee on his left arm. You got another employee on his right arm. So it was like, whole torso is pinned down and they're beating him, not retaining him for the police. They're physically wailing on him, beating him, like all up in the face punching him, got him in a stranglehold. And these are not law enforcement officers. These are just people to work at the hotel. Now, what they're supposed to do when they come in contact with the unruly guests that don't want to leave the present premises, they're supposed to call the police. That's what they're supposed to do. If they don't want to comply with the hotel rules, you call the police immediately. And the police supposed to come to the scene. What's the problem? Hey, they're saying this. Hey, you need to leave. If you don't leave, if you don't leave, I'm going to take you to jail. That's how that's supposed to go. You don't sit up there and take it upon yourself to be judged, jury, and execution. Because that's what they did. They passed sentence, they passed judgment. They said he was in the lady's restroom and they beat him down like a pervert, you know, but that's not their job to judge him like that. They're just supposed to get him out of the hotel and get him off the premises of the hotel like, you know, not even get them off if he ain't leaving from in front of the hotel. They posted call the police. They're not supposed to just beat the snot out of him. So yeah, that's essentially what happened to the bond say there's been a new development. One of the employees has come forward and fortunately, he's a brother that came forward and he's released a statement to the media and it was a tearful apology. I really sincerely believe it. I don't think the brother was capping. He said he held, he was on camera, he was the one remember when I said, you know, there was holding them down. So they called this brother, he was on his break. And so the chief security guard called him to, you know, hold him down, hold the body down, hold his feet down. And then the other ones was on, you know, his arms and then there was somebody and there was a couple just beating them in the face and punching them in the stomach while it was pinned pinned down like, you know, it was almost like, you know, air garner all over again, but that was punching instead of choking. His mother has also, she came forward and said he has some severe mental health issues. And, you know, from what she said, like, if the bathroom allegation was true, you know, he was having a mental health episode. If he was in the ladies restroom, he would, you know, so it's just like, damn, we can't, our people, we can't have mental health issues ever, like, with something ain't right. It can't never be a mental health episode. People don't approach us with compassion, like, what's going on? What's the day? Can I help you? Are you going, are you taking some medicine? Did you have your medicine today? We can't ever get that sympathy. But every time we see online all the time, every time a white person bugged out all that was having a mental health episode, there was a young lady online, you know, she having a mental health episode. She walking through a crowd calling, saying, inward, hard art, you know, she's just walking through town, saying, calling everybody, you know, even people, there wasn't blank calling, just like, worn down the block, yelling inward. During the pandemic, they had a lady in Target. She said, I hate all in words. If I didn't think I would go to jail, I would kill every last inward, hard art, you know, that's a mental health episode. Nobody said that mental health episode. They talked about mental health episode, you know, they, they'd be tambered. And she's like, oh, you know, let me go. I promise I'll leave, I promise I'll leave, let me go. But, you know, she didn't, she didn't get underlined after her, after they apprehended her. She left intact with her dignity in her life and what was left of her dignity. Now, I'm gonna play something for you because I can't remember the guy's name. I don't own the rights to this, but I want you to hear it straight out the horse's mouth. Sir, investigating the death of a black man who was pinned to the ground outside a Hyatt Regency last month, a video captures the moment. 43 year old Devonta Mitchell is held down on the hotel's driveway by four security guards. We want to warn you the footage that we are about to show is disturbing. And we should note that CBS News cannot independently confirm the source of this video. It appears to show the guards hitting Mitchell in the head while he said, oh, this is what happens when you go into the ladies room. It all happened after Milwaukee police say that he caused the disturbance, fought with security, and then he was escorted outside in a separate video taken by another bystander. You can see first responders surrounding Mitchell. When they arrived, Mitchell was no one wants to find themselves taking you on a shoot video of your loved ones, of your pets, not something like this. Extremely traumatic. How are you doing right now? How are you feeling? I'm still a little numb. I still have a question myself. Give me a sense of what happened that day. What made you decide to come over to the hotel? What made you decide to pull out your phone? So, I was over at the dorm visiting my son who does music, and he did some cleanness applied, so I was welcome to walk raised. And when I came out the dorm, I heard a screaming. When you said you heard screaming, what were you hearing? Please, please, I heard him screaming from him too. So, you walk up and what's the first thing you think about the scene that you're witnessing? Well, initially, I was speaking with the witnesses that were outside, and they were telling me that this guy ran into the women's bathroom and the security caught in, and that's what was going on. But I heard the sound of me being here, and as I approached this young lady, started filming, and I watched as the security officer struggling with a flashlight or some object, and we stopped him from striking him, but they never got off of him. So, you run over, because you can hear Devontay screaming. You can hear the confrontation, and are you there the entire time until the paramedics come? I was there until they removed the body. At some point, do you recall when we no longer heard screaming? Maybe four to four minutes after I arrived, and I was there seven to ten minutes before police came. Now, I want to stress that this is still under investigation. We don't know what the disturbance was that the security... All right, that was the eyewitness statement. A guy filming, I wanted to play the actual employee, so I got that now. Negation. I now fired Bellhop, telling us he was forced to restrain Devontay and Mitchell by a manager. Mitchell's death is now getting national attention, as many believe it mirrors the death of George Floyd back in 2020. Rio Jones joins us here in studio with an interview you will only see on Fox six. Ben said this worker says he was fired just two days ago after only three months on the job as a Bellman. He says he learned while watching Fox six he could soon be criminally charged in a situation. He says he was forced to participate in by management and security. I never saw nobody die in front of me. Herbert Williamson is living with regret. I can't eat, I can't sleep. Here he is in graphic self-on-video obtained by Fox six, restraining 43-year-old Devontay Mitchell, who died after an altercation with hotel security at the Iate Regency. Now he fears he could be one of four people to face a felony murder charge and Mitchell's death. "I'm destroying this. This man did not have to lose his life." Williamson was working as a Bellhop at the hotel when he says he and a front desk associate were pulled into the incident on June 30th by manager. "I saw all this commotion going on and the security guard was wrestling with the customer." He says he was told Mitchell had locked himself in the women's bathroom. He says two security officers captured in the video escalated the situation, one going overboard. "He was striking Mr. Mitchell in the head with the wait of a time." He said, "Get back on him, get back on him." So I got back on him, but I didn't want to. I was in fear that I was going to lose my job. "What do you say to those people who say you had an opportunity to get up and to stop this entire situation from escalating?" "Honey, what can I say?" Williamson says the next day, AIM Bridge Hospitality, the operator of the hotel, placed him on paid leave and told him to avoid off. We all have somewhere we're trying to get to. As the largest energy producer in Colorado, Chevron is working to responsibly meet rising energy demand so everyone can get to where they want to be. You've arrived. That's Energy in Progress. Visit chevron.com/tankless. It's time for today's Lucky Land Horoscope with Victoria Cash. 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That was the employee that was there, and I told you about. So this brother had, you know, his feet restrained. So yeah, it is unfortunate. So the silver lining is, he's been wrongfully terminated. If he doesn't end up going to jail for the, you know, the unaliving of the Vante because they're not saying anything about, you know, his white superiors of the job. He was just a bellhop. So what are you doing asking the bellhop to detain a guest? That's a security job. He's a bellhop. You can't make him detain. His job is just to take luggage, transport luggage, you know, from the room or load luggage into the car as they're leaving. That's all bellhops supposed to do. They're not supposed to get into security type problems. That was a security issue. And that absolutely lines up with prompt determination. Absolutely lines up with, you know, whistle blowing. You know, the employer can't make you do something illegal or unethical. I mean, they can, but, you know, if they make you do something illegal or unethical and threatened to fire you. And the man said he believes he there was going to fire him if he didn't restrain the Vante. And so that's what they often do. In cases like this, they're often, you know, they're you if it was like, okay, say this was a retail. Like if it was a retail sales, if there was like a store, what they usually do is use the brother or the sister and then make it appear. Well, no, it's not a racial thing. Like they might be way in the back room, in the folding room, in the dressing room. But they suspect a black person is in the store stealing. And then they'll go like have another, you know, black sales associate to kind of run interference to kind of like negate racism. If they want to claim racism, they there was a racially profiling the in the store. I thought I was going to steal something they usually have just a black person. Go out and tell the brother or the sister in the store, you know, well, you got to leave or whatever or we'll do it. So what I'm saying is like, businesses will often use us to deflect the racism. So you see, like, oh, it's not racism. Black guy was pinning him down. He was in the lady's bathroom. And so we're used to having nothing to do with it. You know, that do stuff like that to negate, you know, what they were trying to do, which was like really hassle him because he was black. So again, it's all an allegation. There hasn't been any actual video footage surface of Devontay in the lady's restaurant nor leaving the lady's restaurant. That's just them saying he was in the lady's restaurant. And no, you know, statements have surfaced saying the security guards was responding to a call of a man in the lady's restaurant at their hotel. You see, they just crafted this whole thing to well on a brother to be a brother. So it's bad business on all sides. Like, and unfortunately, the witness statement, the witness who was there, the brother that was working there, he's probably, if anybody's going to get the blame, somehow he's going to get the time. If there's any jail time to be handed out of this, somehow he's going to get looped in. The only way he won't is if the family goes up the bat for him. That'll be the only way he won't get dragged into is if the family goes up the bat for him. Because I believe, you know, I listened to what y'all list, I let y'all listen to it. I believe the brother was a seared. I didn't think he, you know, thought it was going to swing like that. But, you know, that's also, it comes a certain time though, part of my language, you got to put your bars on the table. Because these and fours, they don't care nothing about you. When you go into an interview, they already know in the interview how long they're going to keep you on the job, no matter. All the team work you do, the team player, be the team player. When they get ready to get ready, you don't matter. So, you know, I'm not saying don't try to excel at work and don't try to always bring your A game. But at the end of the day, these employers that don't care, it's a faceless corporation. You know, when it's time to trim the fat, you're probably going to be the piece of the fat anyway. So, like, why knock yourself out? In that scenario, no, we should not have done that. No, we should have not restrained him. He's a bellhop. What are you doing asking the bellhop to do a security job? And then he was no longer a threat to the hotel because he was outside of the hotel. You rejected him from the hotel. You told him to leave, you allege, if the allegation is true, if he was in the ladies bathroom, rejected him from the ladies bathroom, rejected him from the hotel, would not allow him to come back to get his stuff, even if he has stuff in the room. He's gone. Why are you pinning him down, beating the crap out of him? That's nowhere in your job description that gives you the power to beat a guest, like ex-guests for no reason. He didn't swing on you. He was leaving. Why was you pinning to the ground? Why are you sitting up here? Why are you pinning to the ground, punching him in the face like a coward? So, you know, I mean, like, what more can I really say in that scenario? Y'all heard it. You got sometimes it's got to call a spade to spade. You know what it is. It's not never going to get no better till we start getting our own hotels because these air quotes, you know, luxury brand, anything, these luxury brand hotels, these high-end retail associate places that don't want us to keep showing us, showing us, showing us that don't want our patron image. Don't end like we're under this spell. You know, we think just because we earning, you know, six figures, just because we are like millionaires, just because we can afford, you know, these big exotic hotels that exemplifies us from that type of treatment. They didn't want him in the hotel anyway. So, how did it not been the ladies room who probably would have been, you know, ejected? Like, are you staying here, sir? And, you know, matter of fact, who is it? Like, I think it was about five, six months ago, Mark Curry got surrounded by hotel security. And he was like on the road on a comedy gig, and they surrounded him, and ejected him out of a hotel. He was staying here. So, you know, money does not make you exempt from that type of treatment. And the only way to combat it is to have our own and us, like, you know, it is what it is. Condonuses to Debante's family, anybody new to brother, work with them, family, friends, and associate condonuses. And like, you know, where all the things are happening in the news, we need to keep on focusing on this story. So, it won't fall through the cracks. This is my second time to talk about it. And I'm going to talk about every single opportunity I have until justice isn't ministered. Ben crumps on the case. So, you know, he will get some type of justice. But the guarantee he gets justice, like, we need to keep on putting in our timelines and just, like, don't let the conversation die down. Because all this stuff happening in the world, like, you got the election coming up. Oh, boy, done pulled out, dropped out, Camilla stepped up, like, we got so much stuff happening. We got to just always keep stuff like this, you know, in the front, in the front, like, in the driver's side window, like, we always got to keep that stuff in front. Because if we don't, it'll fall through the cracks and we won't hear nothing about it. And, you know, yeah, we got to make a big uproar every time stuff happens like that. But anyway, that's all I really had to say about it. On to my next section, which is my last section of the narrative podcast, "Weekend Edition." Technically, it's a Monday, but I started broadcasting late, but this is the Sunday edition. I'll be more timely next weekend. I just, I don't know. I need to prioritize better. I don't really got to excuse. It was just me this weekend. But anyway, final word of the day, with my final word of the day, or wise word of the day, just like I was saying, I say a final word. Because I was calling the final word, but, you know, I think wise word of the day just has a better ring to it. So, I'm just slide out a wise word of the day. So, the wise word of the day is fear. Fear is a double-edged sword. It can be your biggest stumbling block, or it can be your greatest motivation. It's all in how you perceive it. As people can be so afraid, they can literally be paralyzed with fear, can't move, can't react. But sometimes fear is a good thing. Sometimes fear is a motivator. If you're a religious person, what do they usually say, "I'm God-fearing." So, I fear, not fear, like I'm afraid, God is going to, you know, do something bad. So, I fear, fear him as in respect. You fear your parents, you fear the wrath, you know, of your parents, usually, depending on if you can, from the two-parent household, or just, you know, a parent with some type of strong values. Somebody, whoever was rearing you, you know, we all have somewhere we're trying to get to. As the largest energy producer in Colorado, Chevron is working to responsibly meet rising energy demand. So, everyone can get to where they want to be. You've arrived. That's energy and progress. Visit chevron.com/tankless. Lucky land casino asking people what's the weirdest place you've gotten lucky. Lucky? In line at the deli, I guess? 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We can't admit we're fearful. We can't admit we're sad. We can't admit we're depressed. We have to, whatever happens, we just have to man up, suck it up, but, you know, you have to acknowledge your fear is what I'm saying. You have to acknowledge your fear. You have to acknowledge it's there. You know, can't ever be afraid to say you're afraid. And I think when we don't acknowledge fear, that's when we tend to get in the most trouble. Because everybody, everybody, everybody got something that kind of keeps them up at night, something deep down in the pit of this study, something that sends chills up, you know, the back of their neck every time they think about it. We all get anxious about something. We all got us something that, you know, we're not all right with it. But whatever it is, then we're fearful of we got to acknowledge the fear and then confine it head on and get over it. But if you never acknowledge it to begin with, you're already on the path of destruction. 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A little arrow pointing down when you follow me on X, click the link. Yeah. But yeah, next order of businesses, I have a poetry blog on blogger.com. It's a very unique poem featured on that blog. What makes me stand out is like I spontaneously wrote every single poem on that blog. I didn't contemplate on anything. I didn't contemplate on the content of the piece that I wrote. Pieces I wrote, pardon me. I didn't contemplate on what I was going to title each piece. It was just like just completely spontaneous, completely off the cuff. The pieces themselves are so well written and intentional. And she would think that I wrote it down before I posted it. But that's just quite the contrary. I didn't contemplate. Like I said, I didn't contemplate the poems. I didn't contemplate what I was going to title each one of them. I just wrote them. And you know, another cool thing that makes it cool is everybody can relate to it no matter what your ethnic background is, what your preference is, like whatever background you're from, whatever walk of life you're from, you definitely, one of my poems is definitely guaranteed to resonate with you either a portion of it or the whole poem in this entirety. You can definitely resonate with it. Like I said, it's for everybody. I got like a dozen or so there's poems that's just specifically for my community but for the bulk of it, anybody can relate to them. So go check that out. The name of my blog is called Hause's Poetry Corner on vlogger.com and www.MrHause'sBlogs.com. And the way you support it is go to my poetry blog on vlogger, Hause's Poetry Corner, www.MrHauseBlogs.com and share either the link to the poetry blog or a poem featured on the poetry blog across all platforms, whatever platform that you occupy, digital platform that you occupy, just share it. And definitely when you come to the earth site for God's sakes, put a comment, give me some feedback, get a human with me. Let me know that she's like one of my pieces and just, you know, they don't got to be known super long and be like, "Hey, I like this," or, "This is dope," or whatever, or "Hi, my name's Wubble Wu," whatever. But I'm just leaving a comment on one of my poems on Hause's Poetry Corner vlog. Hause's Poetry Corner. Poetry vlog. Last but not least, the tagline for that blog is Hause's Poetry Corner. Poetry with a passion. Poetry for all occasions. And my poems, I really do got a poem for every single occasion you could think of, like, on that blog. So yeah, go check those out today. Last but not least, I have written a book of poetry, and that's available on a site called Poetizer. If you're unfamiliar with Poetizer, Poetizer is basically a novice, a writing community for people who are novice writers. It's basically hobbyists. They can go to this site and home their craft. It accommodates all writing genres, but it specializes with poets. People would like to write poetry, because it's in the name, Poetizer, but they accommodate all genres of writing, you know, novels. People would like to write novels. People would like to write short stories, even essays, journal writing is welcome. And what they have is a feature which will allow people in their community to turn their work into an actual book. So that's what I did. I turned my work into an actual book. It's 30 poems. It's titled The Black Heart. And what my book is about is it's basically chronically the experience of our people, you know, our entire Black experience. It's like, you know, it's really creative, witty, and insightful, basically captures a day in the life of our people, positive and negative, things that we go through and all the nuances of our culture, just like, you know, if you're an original man or original woman, you will respect it immediately. You can identify it with it immediately. But if you're outside of our culture, don't feel left out if you have, if you consider yourself open-minded person, a progressive person, you can definitely read that book and, you know, learn something. If you're a person likes to learn about different cultures, we'll definitely like that book. So go check, head over to poetizer.com, check it out now, poetizer.com has a virtual online book store. So what you want to do when you go over there is go to the book store and type in my title, The Black Heart, and purchase you a copy to dead, or be sure Black Heart will vote. So that's all I got to plug for. That's all the projects I got to plug so far. 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