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- Duration:
- 2h 49m
- Broadcast on:
- 11 Aug 2024
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The Narrative Podcast provides positive frames of reference about the original people and the original people culture. Welcome to The Narrative Podcast and I am your host Halsey Allen. Welcome all my narrators. [COUGH] So, pardon me, how is everybody doing this evening on this sensation of Saturday? Well, I hope, yeah, so the weekend has now hit upon us. Everybody's probably like, probably headed out to the club right about now as I'm recording this or getting ready to have evening plans on this Saturday. But, yeah, welcome to another edition of The Narrative Podcast. A whole lot of stuff going on in the world today, got some stuff for you. Some things to talk about today and it's going to be a pretty nice show. But before I get into that, I just got to say, the internet be internet y'all are crazy. Oh, man, what is it, the Australian breakdancing, like every single skit and meme that I've seen about it, just having me dying in tears, oh my God, y'all are crazy. Y'all are absolutely nuts, like every single last one of them spot on though. Oh, wow, man, well, anyway, I could hardly contain myself with that, like the internet be internet sometimes, but anyway, welcome to this edition of The Narrative Podcast. So how I usually start this thing off is I give a brief synopsis of The Narrative Podcast to the new listeners unfamiliar with me and my platform before diving into the content. So let's start at the top tip, be the name, The Narrative Podcast, I name my podcast The Narrative Podcast, because I don't like the false narrative that the media we use about original people and original people culture, hence the title. The Narrative Podcast, my objective one here is to, you know, change the narrative about how our people are perceived in the media and outside of our culture due to the media's misrepresentation of our people and our culture. So that's why, you know, I designed this platform. And my mission statement basically is to bring awareness to the listening audience as well as encourage the listening audience to responsibly utilize their platforms to accurately portray our images and by our images, I mean, original people, images and likenesses, you know, in a positive light on, you know, whatever platform that they occupy. So I think that's a good segue for my tagline. The Narrative Podcast, changing the narrative one episode at a time by destroying negative stereotypes about original people and original people culture. 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. And that's entirely what the Narrative Podcast is all about. I'm here to provide positive frames of reference about original people and original people culture. So the next thing you need to be aware when listening to my podcast is that I refer to my content, or, well, yeah, I guess my target listening audience is my content creators, but I refer to my target listening audience as my narrators. And the purpose of me doing that is just really me acknowledging the times that we're living in, we're living in a digital information age, everybody has some type of digital platform that they occupy and we gather information online, we network, socialize and interact online and all these different mediums in which to interact or, you know, gather information or network and socialize or sell things if you're on your own business and the sale product, we do all this digitally now and every single digital platform, every single page, online page has a bio section and then the bio section, if you're a person, not a business for people just socializing or interacting or gathering information online, you go to the bio section and you get a sense of who this person is or if you're a business, what this business is and what they're about by reading their bio section and then after you read the bio section, you'll notice the content that they upload is kind of, you know, accentuates and plays off their bio section meaning like the content that they upload is kind of, you know, and accompanying them into their bio, they're about section, you know, just like examples of, you know, their hobbies and their interests and what they're into, their turn offs, their you know, it just kind of accentuates the bio section meaning, you know, helps them present the best possible version of themselves or if it's a business, the best possible version of their product, but essentially what I'm saying is set out there to say when people, you know, do anything online, they share the best possible version of themselves or if they're a business, you know, they share the best possible version of their product. Essentially everybody's telling or narrating their own story and they're telling or narrating their own stories from the best possible perspective as possible. So like, nobody gets online and there's an exception to the rule. Some people do it, but generally most people, you know, when they get online, they share the best possible versions of themselves like if they're into athletic activity, they're always, you know, uploading, you know, photos and, you know, things to, you know, play up their hobbies and their interests or their sports interests like, you know, games, they're at the game or they're playing the game. You know, we just came from a whatever game or, you know, they're uploading content to reflect that. If you're a gym rat, you know, you're constantly uploading content that reflects, you know, fitness, a fitness lifestyle, you know, you're working out, eating healthy, going to the gym, like in the gym or, you know, you're uploading content of famous people that are in shape and, you know, what have you or say you're like, maybe you're a foodie. So you're maybe like uploading content, you know, doing reviews if you do reviews or your favorites, commentators that do reviews or longer story short, everybody's sharing the best possible version of themselves, getting online, if they're into having fun, you know, they're always sharing pictures of their friends, having fun, doing fun stuff, doing cool stuff, if they're into the ear quotes, finder things in life, they're showing photographs that reflect the finder things in life, you know, jet, sitting, you know, private jets, five star hotels and restaurants, things of that nature. So everybody shares the best possible versions of themselves. Now, some people exaggerate the best possible versions of themselves, this new generation of hip hop, they call that capping, but, you know, there's even oversaying in that sometimes you got to fake it till you make it. So, but anyway, I digress, so my point being why I refer to my target listening audience as my narrators, everybody, uh, tells or narrates their own stories. And if history hasn't taught us anything, it's taught us this, if you don't tell your own story, your own story will be told for you, and the story that's being told about our people by the median people outside of our culture, they don't understand us as a people, they don't understand our culture, is a negative story, it's a degenerate story, it's a violent story, it's a downtrodden, disenfranchised, ignorant story. So we got to put it back into perspective as narrators by telling the true story of who we are as a people, which is kings and queens, guys and goddesses of the universe, and we need to, you know, always be, um, be picked as such, and the best way to do that, you know, is do it on your own platform, because we can't control, you know, how other people perceive us, how they react to us, and respond to us and interact with us, but we can't control the type of content that we are putting out. So we, and the last thing we need to do as a people is play it up into these negative stereotypes and stigmas that the media places over our people, intentionally I might add, they intentionally do this as a form of psychological programming and conditioning, you know, it's basically psychological warfare, the spineness when they do that. I get into why they do that a little bit later, but yeah, that's essentially why I refer them our people, you know, I target listening audience as, you know, my narrators. Next thing you need to know about the narrative podcast is the narrative podcast is a safe space, it's a positive space for original people, meaning I don't entertain nonsense, I don't entertain the gossip and slander and name-calling, degeneracy, and none of the foolishness about our people and our culture, I don't add on to it, I don't play up beats, I don't take sides when, you know, people within our culture are at odds with one another. I don't promote that on this platform. What I do on this platform is I use it to uplift and edify, you know, my people with positive frames of reference about my people and my culture. So, you know, no funny business, no name-calling, no slander, no he say, she say, and all that, you know, I just keep a super duper positive and, you know, try to promote the positivity. You know, I don't keep a generic in faith, you know, if some people, they are just not likable, we got some, you know, we got some a-hose in our community, but I'm not going to dedicate my platform into airing them out, I'm not going to even give any signs of, you know, these, you know, people within my culture that just are put there to cause havoc, chaos, and confusion. They always got the opposing view, you know, I'm not going to put out no signs that they're living rent free in my head, and I encourage my listening audience to, you know, take up that, the same thing, my philosophy to, you know, we shouldn't be, you know, giving them airtime and giving them our attention when we already know what they're there for. So, you know, why call a plant a plant? But anyway, like I said, this is a positive space, I don't do any name calling, I don't do denigrating, I don't promote that. Just here to uplift and edify my people with facts and just praise us for all the things that we do right and congratulate our people that are progressing and leading the charge in, you know, doing the work and, you know, trying to encourage everybody to be the change. That's what the narrative podcast is all about. So having said that, this is a platform of truth, however, if I do feel somebody in our community is intentionally, you know, using their platform to, you know, make us make a fool out of us, then I will call say individual out, but like I said, it's no finger pointing and name calling and none of that typically on here. So the only way I will, now what I do on my platform, as I do cover current events, whether it's globally, nationally or just something within our community. You know, I speak on that and with the lucky land slots, you can get lucky just about anywhere. 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And you can find Sketchers everywhere, Sketchers.com, a Sketchers store or wherever stylish footwear is sold. When I deliver my commentary, it's basically just to cover whatever's going on in the world as it relates to us from our perspective because the media have us go out of their way to have us all looking and sounding super crazy. So when I deliver my commentary, I basically frame it up in the perspective of the bigger picture perspective, especially as it relates to higher echelon within our community, entertainment industry. So it's not the clownum or finger point or try to use their name to try to garner some type of monetary gain or clout chasing, none of that. It's just basically, like I said, I'm framing it up, whatever negative is going on within. I'm just framing it up from the perspective of the bigger picture and pretty much everything within our community that happens negative in a negative way could be traced back to systemic oppression and psychological programming and conditioning. It's psychologically programless and conditionless with all this negative content. I believe it's called trauma conditioning. They're just exploiting everything our people that has gone, everything that our people has gone through and they're just intensifying, putting into our face, putting all the negative stuff in our face 24 hours a day, seven days a week, it's in television, it's in movies, it's in literature, it's in magazines, it's in advertisements, we can't escape it. You can't unsee it, you can't unhear it. I mean, yes, you can't always keep a positive mind state unless you plan on living under a rock or going off the grid, not being on the internet or having a cellular device or a tablet or nothing like that, you know, which ain't nothing wrong, going off the grid. There's a lot of people go off the grid and they just live a super happy life, they don't worry about anything, but unless you plan on going off the grid, you can't unsee all of this stuff, like as soon as you turn on your television, as soon as you pull out your device, like you're just seeing negativity. As far as our people is concerned, as far as how we're being portrayed, our images and our likenesses are being portrayed, this is just, you know, like I said, it's psychological programming at its best and that's how, you know, I usually frame it up about, you know, anybody within our community that's involved in something negative or something negative happening to them and they're the focus of the news, so that's how I usually frame up my commentary. So like I said, enclosing the narrative podcast is a super positive safe space for original people and then next, it's the time sensitive platform, I try not to exceed one hour per broadcast and the purpose of me doing that is basically to keep my listening audience attentive because this is an all audio platform and the last thing I want to do is bore you guys to sleep and the quickest way to do that is just basically going on tangents and, you know, glorified rents, not having any clear speaking points jumping from subject to subject in being monotonous and redundant and so I try to keep everything fresh, exciting, intellectually stimulating and, you know, just trying to keep you guys attentive and the paying, you know, attentive with the content and, you know, eager to want to listen to the next episode, so I can't do that if I'm just drowning on and on and on and not having a clear starting or stopping point or, you know, no good segues to the next topic, like I said, talking in circles, that's the, like, quickest way to turn somebody off so, you know, that's why I try to time these episodes, I try to time each section and I try not to exceed one hour per broadcast so just keep it, just keep it popping, just keep it moving, I want to inform you and enlighten you and entertain you, you know, all in one foul swoop so that's why I try not to exceed one hour per broadcast and then last but not least, it's very important, I refer to my target listening audience as my narrator, excuse me, I already said that, pardon me, kind of a long day, guys, you know, last but not least, I refer to our people as original people on my platform in reference to us, so I don't call us black or African American or Negro or none of that and the reason why basically for two reasons, one is historically accurate and then two, two, you know, it's an effort to unite us as a people, so on the historical side of it, what I mean is, you know, we were, we were and are the first beings on this planet, we was here before every single body else, not only was we here first, you know, we mother than five or civilization and there's not too much that we didn't discover there's not too much that we didn't invent first or originally, not too much things that we didn't originate, like pretty much everything in the world can be traced back to, you know, our existence, our original existence, that's why I refer to our people as original and so I say this on every single episode I'm going to tack on, you know, this factoid or rather dispelled is false narrative, it keeps on getting replayed and replayed and replayed about our people, you know, history, the powers that shouldn't be, they want to, they want to try to make slavery the most poignant, definitive time in our existence, when in reality, like I just said, was here first, so being the first ones here, there's a not standard reason we existed everywhere, not just one place, see in history they want to try to make all of us come from Africa, and while we can all trace our lineage back to Africa, we didn't all come, get to everywhere in the world that we're residing in via slave boats, who was here thousands of years before everybody does not, did not stand a reason that we inhabited all these different land masses originally, was already there in pretty much every corner of the globe, there was a large concentration of our people existing and thriving every single place you can think of, especially here in the Americas, they want to keep on just perpetuating this nonsensical narrative that we just kept going back to Africa for thousands of years, collecting groups of us from Africa as slaves, what slavery did in fact happen, shadow slavery was real, they just fabricate a whole lot of slavery, they fabricate the time frame, they fabricate the route, how they transported the slaves and all that, it's all a big fabrication, it's all just one big jumbled up lie, it's up to each and every one of us to unravel the lie with the truth, but you know, I don't want to get too long winded, it really irks me that they keep on just perpetuating their false narrative that every single last one of us descended from slavery when the fact of the matter was that we was already indigenously located in every single part of the world you can think of, like, who was already there, existing, thriving, it doesn't even make sense when you really sit down and think about it, like, does it not make more sense, you know, specifically, economically, that the colonizers would rather than go all the way to Africa from, you know, Europe and Spain, that's primarily where the slave trade, the slavers were from, it was from, like, parts of Europe and parts of Spain, right, go all the way to Africa, go get slaves, or since they were travelers, does it not make more sense that they just enslaved the people that were originally inhabiting all the places that they touched down on, don't that make more sense, but meanwhile, yeah, I refer to our people, that's why I refer to our people as original from the historical side of it, and then on the side of it, like I said, we were in our original people of this, you know, of this world was here first before, you know, pretty much everybody, and being here first, like, we are the most diverse group here in the world, like, there's so many different types of us, having from so many different land masses, speaking so many different languages, having so many different, you know, perspectives in life, you know, religious perspectives on spiritual perspectives, political perspectives, anything you can name is separated people, we have that within our community, but in addition to our differences, we also have a lot of commonality, we have a whole lot of spoken bonds, unspoken bonds, pardon me, you know, we all possess high concentrations of carbon, aka melanin, we all have just an unspoken cultural bonds, like, just we can, you know, communicate with each other without actually speaking, we just know certain stuff, culturally, like, as all other cultures do, and then we can all trace our lineage back to the original point of origin for all civilization, so that's what we have in common as the people were all original, and we all got the original recipe, and I ain't talking about the herbs and spices, though some of us do love them, but anyway, I digress, so now that you're caught up with, you know, everything you need to know about the narrative podcast, I'm going to dive right on into the content this evening, this weekend, now, what you need to be aware of is I have two different format styles, I have a weekday format style, and I have a weekend format style, so this is clearly the weekend format style, and on my weekend format style, what I do is I break up the content in sections, each section has a speaking point, I describe each section as I come to them, and, you know, we can just go from there, now, this is a weekend edition, so I'm here, I exist in this platform to present positive frames of reference about our people and our culture, now during the weekday, my first section I start off with is positive news articles, but being, this is a weekend edition of the narrative podcast, the first positive frame of reference I'm going to give you about our people and our culture is the positive frame of reference about business ownership or being an entrepreneur, and the reason why I'm giving these, I'm starting off with these particular frames of reference is because we don't have a lot of frames of reference about, you know, being business owners and doing for self, as a matter of fact, we're greatly discouraged by society, not to be business owners, and to do for self, in fact, we're actually told by the educational system in so many ways that we can't do for self, and that we'll always be reliant on, you know, this system to take care of us, and so that's why I provide the positive frame of reference about business owners, I call this section my highlight section, in this section I'm highlighting original people that own operate their own businesses, and selection criteria that I use to select the people that I highlight in the highlight section falls under these categories, so first and foremost they're all original people, they own operate their own businesses, they hire their own, they give back to the community, they're involved in some type of philanthropy, they either, you know, have their own non-profit organization or they pay into one, and in many cases their family owned and operated, so in that instance the positive frame of reference that I'm giving the listening audience is, you know, when it's a family owned establishment, I'm giving you the positive frame of reference of a generational wealth, next, qualifying criteria is that they align up with my theme, and my theme is, you know, nationally recognized holidays, so having said that I'm going to dive into the highlight section of the narrative podcast, but I think I did glaze over one more thing in my selection process, many of what I'm trying to do here is basically walk you through the day in the life of a business owner, I'm trying to present the listening audience with facts about whatever business that I'm talking about, you know, like, where the business owner would love, you know, where the, you know, how to have fun, any time, anywhere, step one, go to Chumba Casino dot com, Chumba Casino dot com, got it, step two, collect your welcome bonus, come to top of welcome bonus, step three, play hundreds of casino style games for free, that's a lot of games, all for free, step four, unleash your excitement, Chumba Casino has been delivering thrills for over a decade, so claim your free welcome bonus now, and live the Chumba Life, visit Chumba Casino dot com, E.T.W. group, no purchases are employed, prohibited by law, see terms and conditions, E.T. plus, occasional background, in many cases, the business owners that I highlight in the highlight section, they don't necessarily have any expertise in the business that they started, you know, educational background or training, they basically essentially just, you know, stepped out on faith, they want to do something, and they just pursued their passion vigorously and they got it, you know, they acquired their own business and became successful at it, they didn't have adequate money to start, they didn't have business plan, you know, all the things society says is required to be air quotes and quotes, successful, they found a way to just make it work, so you know, that's why I'm doing the highlight section, like I said, for my last qualifying factor, you know, the businesses that I highlight in the highlight section, they usually line up with my theme, my current theme, my current running theme is nationally recognized holiday, so being that it is, you know, the month of August, day 10, nationally recognized holiday is, so it's August the 10th and today is nationally recognized holiday is national bowling day, so I'll be highlighting businesses, original people owned and operated businesses, specialized in bowling, so done, with companies specialized in bowling, obviously, I'll be highlighting original people owned and operated bowling alleys. So up first, the first business that I'm highlighting in the highlight section of the narrative podcast, weekend edition, so it is nationally, national bowling is August 10th of national bowling day, August 10th marks national bowling day, so the businesses I'll be highlighting today on this weekend edition of the narrative podcast is, you know, original people owned and operated bowling alleys, pardon me if I'm repeating myself, I just kind of lost my place in my notes, but the first bowling alley that I'll be highlighting on this weekend edition of the narrative podcast is a bowling alley that goes by the name of the mission, bowling club, now this business started and established, it has actually been two dates and I'll explain why it has two established dates, established in the years of 2012 to 2018 by a sister by the name of Molly Bradshaw, and it has two established dates because in 2012, she had a business partner for the business, but as of 2018, she became the sole owner of Mission Bowling Club, so it's her, she had, you know, she had some help and we all need help sometimes to do things, but the situation worked out where she can take, you know, sole ownership of the business, so the website for a mission bowling is Mission Bowling Club, pardon me, I'm just saying Mission Bowling is, the whole title is Mission Bowling Club, so the website is missionbowlingclub.com and they are located in Fresno, California, San Francisco, pardon me, California had 3,1,7,6, 17th Street, Fresno California, 9410 and the telephone number is 415-863-2698, the operating times is from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, Thursday and Friday, 3 p.m. to midnight, Saturday, 11 a.m. to 12 midnight, Sunday, 11 p.m. to 8 p.m., so her story is like very convoluted, she lived in a whole lot of places in California, she traveled quite a bit, she was raised, her born and she lived a whole different, whole lot of counties before finally settling upon San Francisco, I don't know why I want to keep saying Fresno, what is it about Fresno, I don't know, it's like a little mental block, yep, so she has a very interesting dynamic background, so like staying true to the title of this section, the highlight section, I'm only going to be giving you the highlights of her life, not her entire life story, but like I say, the purpose of the highlight section is to walk you through the entrepreneurs journey, the entrepreneurs journey that I'm highlighting. So first and foremost, our sister, she was born in from pronouncing this right, Yukaya, California, and then she later on went to Medea County, Little River County and then ultimately ended up in Sacramento Citrus Heights area, and then you know, from there as she became an adult, she spent a whole lot of time in the hospitality industry, specifically business and bars, and she did that for like 10 to 15 years, under her belt in college, she earned a master's degree in public health, so you know, what she would brought her back to the hospitality industry as those businesses, you know, that's like the quickest way to get hired, so she needed that income to, you know, pay for her education, so she was like bussing tables and stuff, through college, while she was in college and then like after she graduated, you know, she still got the bill, so obviously she didn't get a job in the healthcare, she didn't become a healthcare professional, she started to go full steam in the hospitality industry, so she pretty much worked her way up, probably was like waitress, and from a waitress probably, you know, did a little cooking, and then from there probably became a kitchen manager, a GM, and then just owner co-owner, and so, and that's precisely what brought her letter to, you know, become, you know, owner, or co-owner of a bowling alley, so after years in the hospitality industry, she became business partners with someone whom she worked with, her colleague, you know, they put their money up, and she was running her own bar for a little bit, but then the opportunity came up, somebody went to present her with an opportunity, something new and exciting in that area of San Francisco that they was located, you know, they would get a whole lot of regulars that would come in and talk about, you know, a whole lot of people from the Midwest that were vacationing, you know, San Francisco, and, you know, it was just basically like banter, the seed, you know, the seed, the starter business kind of just got planted with banter, people would come in and just rave about going bowling, you know, just after years of hearing that the business, her business partner was like, you know, why don't we just, you know, open our own bowling alley, and then that's precisely what they did, because, you know, most of their clientele, we just ran on about, you know, bowling and their memories coming up, growing up in the Midwest, bowling, you know, is something social, and it's crazy because, you know, bowling, they say baseball is the American pastime, but when you really think about it, like, bowling for real is the American pastime, because there's so many, like, social references that we have to bowling, like, the biggest cult classic films is like centered around bowling, because what is that one movie is just like a cinematic legend, the big Lebowski, you know, movies like that, what is the other one with a, what is that guy's name, freakin' Woody Harlson, he had a bowling movie, I can't think of the title now, but even when we was younger, like, in cartoons, bowling, the Flintstones, he was like a pro bowler, so like, when you think about a bowling is really the American pastime, but anyway, that's what prompted her to start her own, her going to business with her business partner to start Mission Bowling Club, so, you know, they created an atmosphere, and that's where she brings to the table, you know, as a bar owner is bringing that socialization factor to it because people go to bars to socialize, not all about the alcoholic drinks, it's just like, you know, being a dog, having adults, entertainments, you know, being around other adults and, you know, still having fun and socializing, and that's the environment that she, that, you know, brand brings to the consumer with system apart from other bowling alleys, the social factor of it, so yeah, that's why, that's how essentially Mission Bowling was born, and then sometime later, her business partner, you know, went to cut her losses and, you know, went to her and said, "Hey, I don't really want to do this no more, I didn't want to buy my half out," and she graciously accepted, became a sole business owner, and it's still thriving today. It's a staple in Fresno, California, they got a world-class kitchen, it specializes in, their staple is like the Mission Burger, they stand by that, they got a vegan and a vegetarian options as well, they got cover patio and indoor dining, they got brunch on Saturdays and Sundays, you can rent out the facility of course, they have all kind of social gatherings and mix, mixers for the community to get the full scope of what they do, you can follow them on Facebook, IG, and X, and the name of it is Mission Bowling Club, to find out, you know, what type of social events and social gatherings they do. So yeah, that was a super brief one today, because usually like I like to walk you through it, like where they went to school and wait, Pacific Town, they, you know, came up in and, you know, and believe me y'all, I'm going to listen to like eight, nine podcasts, read like seven articles and like virtually got none of that, but yeah, I pretty much, you know, that's my intention when I do the highlight section is walk you through a monotonous journey, and just to kind of reinforce my point, we don't have a lot of positive frames of reference about business ownership, because unfortunately they come to us, the very few frames of reference that we do have about business ownership come to us in the form of scripted reality television shows, and all the scripted reality television shows, these scripted reality television show producers, you know, depict the images and the likenesses of the original people that they cast in them shows from the worst possible life they could possibly do, but you know, they catch them in ultra rare form, you know, they catch them belligerently like drunk, or engaging in street narcotics, foreign acating on camera, fighting, you know, just carrying on like nobody attempted to try to raise them, but whole time, they are sophisticated entrepreneurs, you know, they got well established brands, they got like a whole staff, they got 20 or 30, you know, different companies under their umbrella, under their brand umbrella, they send in people's, you know, artists, staffs, children to college, you know, from whatever they do, why ever they're on TV, you know, just from what they're doing, they're feeding families, they're doing for the community, they're doing for their families, but we don't see all that, all we see is the ratchetness, the fighting, and you know, the ignorant, for lack of better words, niggas stuff, that's all we see on the scripted reality television show, we don't see the ambition, we don't see the drive, we don't see the focus, we don't see the motivation, we don't see the giving back to the community, we just see what these Hollywood producers want us to see, which is, you know, the toxicity, which is the degeneracy, which is the ignorance, which is the violence, is all that sells, and that's all they want is the ratings. But anyway, got a little long windy, I just wanted you to know why I do the highlight section, you know, what I'm trying to accomplish when I'm, you know, doing the highlight section, but yeah, that's her story in the nutshell, I think I covered everything, the bowling offer, holly offers, so, you know, there's really nothing else to do but give a warm near it a pie cast round of applause for our sisters. I'm Victoria Cash, thanks for calling the Lucky Land Hotline, if you feel like you do and I'm Victoria Cash, I'm Victoria Cash, I'm Victoria Cash, I'm Victoria Cash, I'm a little bit of Victoria Cash, I'm a little bit of Victoria Cash, I'm a little bit of a bit of Victoria Cash, I'm a little bit of Victoria Cash, I'm a little bit of a little bit of Victoria Cash, all right, next and last business that I will be highlighting, in the highlight section of the narrative podcast is a bowling alley by the name of Skyway Bowl, Sports Bar and Grill, and that's located in Chicago, Illinois, and it was established in '09 by a brother by the name of Johnny Hill and his wife, Johnny is an ex-military vet, he doesn't say, you know, what branch of the military, he served under, but he got his start off, you know, he worked his way up to the top, had different bowling alleys, and so when the opportunity came up, came up, you know, just like the assistant and I just said, to be a sole owner of the establishment, he graciously accepted, and thus Skyward Skyway Sports Bar and Grill was born, it's really kind of self-explanatory, he listed, he listed his story on the website which is Skyway Bowl, Chicago.com, and if you have specific questions about it, you can go to info@skywaybowlchicago.com or call, 773, 73, 45, 33, it's open on Mondays from 12pm to 10pm, Tuesdays from 3pm to 10pm, Wednesdays from 3pm to 10pm, Thursdays from 12pm to 10pm, Fridays 5pm to 10pm, would a note that says get there before 5 or you won't be admitted, in Chicago, so if you know, you know, and then Saturday from 11pm to 10 10th ward in Chicago, physical address is 99915 South Terrace, Chicago, Illinois, yeah, so the zip is 60617 and the address again is 99915 South Torrance, Chicago, Illinois, and then a whole time I think I've been saying it wrong, is Skyway Sports Bar, Skyway Bowl Sports Bar and Grill, the entire title, Skyway Bowl Sports Bar and Grill, I just been saying Skyway Bar and Grill, but it's Skyway Sports Bar and Grill. So like I said, his background was kind of briefing to the point as well, he spent many years in the industry, in the hospitality industry, you know, as a, you know, a bowling employee, he just said in the 90s, he started in the like late 90s, working at a bowling alley, and then he got the opportunity present himself to get his own bowling alley in 2009, so, and it's been a Chicago staple ever since, they do have food and drink as well, that's what sets them apart from the other bowling alley, allies is their food selections, it's catered by Mr. G's catering company, they got some really unique selections, it's basic, it's like basic pub grub, you know, anything cooked on the flat top grill, anything beat fried, not to help you stuff, I don't see a lot of vegan options, you're probably going to get a side salad or a Caesar salad, like this is a grill chicken salad maybe, you ain't there ain't nothing healthy on that menu Jack, but it looks delicious though, if I ate meat, I would probably be like young young, but they got ribs, ribs tips, wings, shrimp, um, Chicago if you know, you know, Dorito taco nachos, that's like a thing in Chicago, they sell them at the stores, polishes, um, the bowling alley itself is kind of a community thing, they have like, you know, they host all kinds of events, they got all kinds of clubs that meet at the bowling alley weekly, they have big, they have bidwiz tournaments, Chicago is the land of the stepers, they have stepping competitions, you know, like different step clubs go to that bowling alley, to do the, you know, step, um, says they also specialize in, you know, they're frozen drink, ices, watermelon ices, can love strawberry, I guess you mean, I've never heard of that, um, yeah, but, uh, it has a whole, um, wide array of enemies that you can choose from, um, you can, uh, reserve a lane, you can reserve the entire, you know, bowling alley, um, they have league tournaments, um, they have, uh, specials Thursday dollar fifty, bow day, bow all day, for a dollar fifty, per game, per person, that's a little confusing, I'm thinking that like saying per person call the dollar fifty per person. They also have live music feature there on certain days, they have, um, jazz musicians. So it seems like a really fun place, um, you know, really community type vibes, um, you know, next time you're in Chicago, Illinois, check that out, and the name is once again, Skyway, bowl, sports bar and grill, established by Johnny Hill. Hello, it is Ryan, and I was on a flight the other day playing one of my favorite social spin slot games on Chumba Casino.com. I looked over the person sitting next to me, and you know what they were doing. They're also playing Chumba Casino, everybody's loving having fun with it. Chumba Casino's home to hundreds of casino style games that you can play for free anytime anywhere. So sign up now at Chumba Casino.com to claim your free welcome bonus, that's Chumba Casino.com and live the Chumba life. Let's put them together and give them a warm air of the podcast and round of applause. Now, usually when I do the highlight section, I have an upwear from, uh, at least three to six businesses that I highlight, I only did two this weekend because, like, those are the only two that stood out and the only two that actually, they're not going to research, like everybody else, they were saying it was black on, but then, you know, look on their page and look at them, I didn't see nobody black or, you know, it was just like, you know, they didn't have a list of them that many of these, and just like call this number and ask, and call that number and ask, they didn't have no clear pricing. So I don't want to send you guys the sketchy spots, but I do want to support the community, but I don't want to send my listening audience to sketchy spots. So that's why I didn't just do, like, about six, you know, black on bowling alleys, and a few of them were closed after I went to the website, so closed forever, like. But, um, anyway, that'll do it for this section, for the highlight section on this weekend edition of the narrative podcast, and on to my next section. This section is called the spot light section, and on this section, what I'm doing is I'm spotlighting people within our community that do for our community, they, um, you know, they give back in a positive way, they impact uplift and represent our community in a positive way. So, you know, this section is dedicated to people within our community that impact our community in a positive way. So this section is basically the section of, you know, all heroes don't wear capes, I'm giving someone who is a prominent figure in our community their roses were, you know, doing the work. And the purpose of this section of the narrative podcast lives up to my, you know, second mission statement, which is uplifting edify my people to give positive reinforcement to my people. So this, with this section is all about normalizing positive reinforcement because we've been stigmatized. We think, you know, we've been programmed in condition to believe, you know, giving somebody positive reinforcement is a sign of weakness, or you're trying to act like a clout chaser or a groupie just by, you know, giving credit where credit is due on paying someone a compliment, you know, we've been programmed in condition not to do that anymore in our community. I also do this section just to approve that you can post positive content online and still thrive because we've also been programmed in condition to, you know, believe we can't be successful online unless we're engaging in some type of negativity, some type of name calling, you know, dragging each other through the mud, stabbing each other in the back of our mind. It's been incentivized for our community to do that. Like they paid literally pay people to do that to start, you know, keep up mess and keep up beef and conflict and have it starting. It's like they're making literally a billion dollars a year, you know, off of our people fighting and feuding with each other online and they sitting back laughing at us when we do it. So that's another reason why I do this spotlight section is just basically, you know, to, you know, normalize saying something positive about your brother's sister online instead is something negative, you know, if you got something negative to say, you should just keep it to yourself, you know, this is a safe truth as well. And I know we are, you know, our dear brother, Rodney King, when he passed, you know, he was quoted and saying, can't we all just get along and the answer is no, we can't. There's some people out there that just in any community, all communities, they're just not likeable and just not nice people. But however, what our people need to do starting on is do like all these other communities and keep a united front because you very rarely see fighting and feuding in the Asian community online where very rarely see fighting and feuding between the Italian community online and essential, essential, essential and all these other, you know, nationalities and ethnicities, you don't, you know, you don't see that too much online. They do do it, like, let's not get it twisted. They do, you know, take jazz at each other online too, but, you know, because the powers that shouldn't be, they control the media and, you know, they publicize whenever we do something negative, they publicize, you know, publicize anytime we engage in something negative because it sells, you know, just being super honest, like we are the most interesting people on the planet. They say nobody cares if two white people are fighting, that's born, who cares? Johnny and Billy got in the fight, who cares, nobody cares. Hong Long Lee Jia Wu got in the fight, nobody cares, the leafy and Pedro got in the fight, tomorrow in the league, they're scrappy, oh, everybody's running outside, everybody's running outside, but yeah, that's why I try to normalize, you know, being normal, just, you know, having something nice to say about your brother and sisters, that it's something, you know, something flipped in a mean spirit, you know, it's just a space to uplift and edify our people and just, you know, salute somebody in the community doing something positive for the community, and that's what the narrative podcast is all about, that's what this section is especially about the spotlight session, a spotlighting somebody that deserves the spotlight for all of the good that they do. And in the past, I have reserved my spotlight for, you know, celebrities and public figures, but more, I'm trying to just, more these days, spotlight regular people, because, you know, I don't want to fall into the negative stereotype of all we know how to do is entertain, so I don't want to be, you know, falling into that negative stereotype, because, you know, when I first started doing it, I just used to spotlight athletes, actors, actresses and supporting artists and comedians and religious figures and YouTubers and Tiktakers and, you know, people like that. It's time for today's Lucky Land Horoscope with Victoria Cash. Life's gotten mundane, so shake up the daily routine and be adventurous, with a trip to Lucky Land. You know what they say, your chance to win starts with a spin. So go to LuckyLandslots.com to play over a hundred social casino style games for free for your chance to redeem some serious prizes. Get Lucky today at LuckyLandslots.com. No purchase necessary, VGW Group, void were prohibited by law, 18 plus, terms of condition I'm giving the spotlight away to the person that I want to be focusing on this week. Not for nothing, I started to wave for spotlight because before I added the spotlight section to my podcast, nobody, nobody was spotlighting anybody. So I said again, before I added the spotlight section to my podcast, the narrative podcast that nobody, nobody was spotlighting anybody, now every time you go on YouTube, there will be spotlighting, such and such and such and this section, today on the spotlight, it's a whole buzz phrase now, but it's cool though, because, you know, that kind of makes me feel happy that I started to trend, because the sentiment behind me doing that was to unify our people and to normalize, you know, you know, using positive reinforcement. So if I can start a trend of us, you know, behaving decent towards one another, using our platforms to uplift and edify each other instead of, you know, name call and try to tear each other down, and I'm definitely all right with it, I'm 110% all right with you. Yeah, so the internet makes the world really small, so I know I'm being watched, there's a whole lot of really, really famous, established entertainers that listen to my content and I know they listen to my content, as I know, they know that I know that they know that they listen to my content from them, you know, emulate me from them, you know, kind of incorporating my content into their content, just, you know, saying stuff I say on here and I just saying stuff I say on here, but, you know, all my nuances, like the way I say stuff on here, like that incorporated into their content, some type of way, like a little, you know, wink, wink, listening. So, you know, I just want to say to them that listen to me, I love them, you know, I ain't all here to uh, clout chase or, you know, get validation, I'm here for the people, I'm here for our people, if it was a money thing, I would have been then stopped a long time ago, because it's not much money in this, especially not on the audio platform, like all audio is like real, real, like, you can, like, I got operational feeling, that's what I, I don't got the sponsors in all that, I got operating costs, so I'm able to come back and do another one every week and I've been doing this, it's really the uh, pandemic, so yeah. Proper wise, I, you know, couple of dollars in a year, a couple of little shum, shum shums, you know, ain't named uh, right home about that, you know, there's something, I mean, but anyway, just saying all that to say, you know, I know I'm making an impact, I'm not just spending my will, it's like people are listening and people are following the example that I'm sending, the positive example I'm sending, and you know, that's why I'm here for you. Uh, because we got to cut out the foolishness show and give back a love in each other. We don't have to like each other, is this just impossible for everybody, just to like everybody who is like, and keep it real, just some people who you just can't like, but we got to start the one is keeping the united front as a people because you don't care for someone because someone's not your cup of tea, you shouldn't go running to Facebook or Instagram or wherever to spit venom on somebody you don't like. You don't like them, just stay away from them and keep it pushing. You know, I'm going to use your plan going to air them out. Now, I know you're the exception to every rule. Like you go on, if you're a celebrity, you go on the talk show when you're telling your truth as your business, you know, you're not really talking bad about somebody crusade, you're answering a question that, you know, a talk show asks you with, what is someone so saying, you know, if you just tell them what you said when someone so asked, told you something, you know, you're giving your account, you know, that's not necessarily trying somebody to do that. However, the better option is to be like, you know, just playing like, I don't know, you got to ask them, that's news to me, or, you know, get them with the no comment. But anyway, yeah, I'm glad I started to wear for spotlight. That's what I'm here for. That's what we should all be here for. It's gossip, it's super corny and, you know, you got the whole rest of the world laughing at us. I'm not getting anybody to, you know, who gets their hustle on, entertainment news. It's all good, but like, we just got to get better at taking the gossip factor out of it. You know, it can be entertaining and informative without us taking j's out of it. 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, I'm just going to let you all in, who is occupying the spot this week on this weekend edition of the narrative podcast. And today's spot light goes to a brother by the name of Chewell Leon, if I'm pronouncing the brother's name right. So, well, Leon was born Joel L Daniels. And he's from he is from the Bronx. He is a, wow, he's so much. He's a poet. He's a writer. He's a storyteller author. He does TED talks motivational speeches. He's a social media content creator. He's a social media influencer. And so many other hats. I guess, you know, longer story short, I guess the best way to describe the brother is he is a Renaissance man. He's one of them people that can just do it off. And, you know, he's great at doing it off. And he does it off for our people. He's highly intelligent, very, very dynamic, very articulate. He uses his art form to uplift, you know, our people, everything, all of his books, all of his poetry, all of his, you know, stories. It's all about, you know, the liberation movement. It's all about our people, how we've been, you know, affected by oppression. And he's using his platform to basically herald the cause. Like, you know, I feel like he's kind of something similar to me. I know he probably been doing it longer than I've been doing it. And at a higher level, most definitely. But, I feel very like similar to him because, you know, I write poetry too. You know, I'm kind of, you know, something like a storyteller in a good way, because, you know, down south when they say you're telling the story that means you lying. But, anyway. But, yeah, so the brother is super intelligent. He uses his platform to reach the people. I saw a whole lot of interviews with him on other people's podcast, and he's basically, you know, telling him he's using his gifts. We all have, you know, unique, specific gifts. We all have a stake in this liberation thing. Y'all can change the landscape of what's going on with our people if we just properly use our gifts. Now, some people might be, you know, their gifts might be somebody might be a painter, somebody might be an architect, somebody might be, you know, something that heavy machine industry, somebody might, you know, have the gift beyond the tech side of it and do computers. You know, and then we got brothers and sisters, it's on the financial side of it. They, you know, they're really good at investments inside hustles and building wealth. But, like, you know, we all got, we're all a little jigsaw piece, you understand? We all got to, you know, fit our piece into complete the bigger picture and the bigger picture is us, you know, having abundant field lives, peace, prosperity, you know, living in harmony and, you know, just being better versions of ourselves than we was like, you know, being yesterday and loving each other and elevating and networking and building and, you know, standing together in, you know, unity. And that's where his artwork reflects. So if you, you know, do your googles and see his body of work in all the places, all the spaces that he speaks and, you know, how he, you know, crafts his gifts to give back to all of us, you know, to like, distribute that energy with that, with the passion that he has for, you know, what we're going through right now, you know, just basically like shining the light on it from the artistic perspective, like he's doing it like really abstract. Because it's like, you know, the picture that they show on the media like, oh my God, what is this? But then the way he says it up, he says, oh, that's what that is. Oh, I never thought about it like that. I never saw it like that. You know, that's where people outside of our culture will say when they hear this brother speak and when they, you know, read or listen to his poetry or read one of his books or hear him speak in the interview, they get it as opposed to the textbook. All they do is complain. They're so violent, they're so lazy. So, you know, that's how he's, you know, helping our people progress because we, you know, we are a nation of, you know, philosophers and artists and writers and, you know, of course in the entertainment industry, you know, actors and actresses and, you know, like our very essence is art. You know, our just, our, our, our just, you know, unique, genetic being is art. Everything we do is art. So, you know, that's, you know, what his art work symbolizes. His artwork symbolizes our essence as a people. So, that's his gift to the world, to give to the world and his contribution to the movement. And so, we need, like, unique individuals like that to, you know, bring this thing for a circle. So, that is why our brother, Jill, well, Leon, occupies a spot like this week here on the narrative podcast. Join me in giving our brother warm there at a podcast round of applause for his unique brand and his unique approach to deliberation movements. And, you know, as another one of my favorite poems, poets, pardon me, said, and I quote, the telling the lift, the movement will not be televised. Yeah, I misspoke. I said the movement, the revolution will not be televised. I can't believe I fumbled that one, but anyway, on to my next section here on the narrative podcast weekend edition. This section is called the health and wellness section. And in this section, it's pretty self-explanatory. What I'm doing is I'm giving health and wellness tips. And the reason why I'm giving health and wellness tips, because I want my people, original people, to be healthy and well. Why do I want us to be healthy and well is because, you know, our people is very sick. People are very sick because we're, you know, we're under attack. We're being attacked physically, mentally, and spiritually. So the tips that I give here in the health and wellness section of the narrative podcast will help my people, original people, fortify themselves in all the areas that they're being attacked, which is mentally, spiritually and physically. We're also being attacked financially as well. But I don't give out financial advice because my philosophy, I believe, health is well. You can have a billion dollars, but if you got to, if you're not in a good shape, you want to spend all the Bitcoin and back and forth to the hospital. And on meds, so, you know, health is well. You can't ever spend that. But anyway, yeah, so that's why I'm doing the health and wellness section. Here on the narrative podcast is to help my people be healthy and well. So a disclaimer I want to make before I get into, you know, the health and wellness tips this week here on the narrative podcast, you know, my content is for anybody from any background to listen to and like and take notes and, you know, partake in. But, you know, all my content is directed at my people, original people. That's my... Okay, round two. Name something that's not boring. Laundry, a book club, computer solitaire, huh? Ah, sorry. We were looking for Chumba Casino. That's right. ChumbaCasino.com has over 100 casino-style games, join today and play for free for your chance to redeem some serious prizes. ChumbaCasino.com. No per possessive. Over with it by law, 80 plus strategic edition apply. See what type of details? Target, listening audience, my niche, my demographic. So having said that, this area, you know, especially is focused on my people. And for one specific reason is because, you know, I don't know how other way to say it, like, we're not all the same. You know, I feel like this is the beach is not Fred Kenzo, Lamar, right now. They not like this. Like, we're not all the same. We've been, you know, brainwashed, by religion to have this, like, Kumbaya, this Kumbaya disposition, meaning, like, we're all one, and, you know, we're all one, brother, and, you know, if that was the truth, I mean, technically, yeah, but realistically, no, we're not. We all, we all have a different, unique, biological signature. We all have different compositions. We are different culturally. We're different mentally. We have all have, you know, different unique, physiology, physiology. You know, we think different things. We need different things. Our bodies need, you know, different dietetic things spiritually. If we're looking at religion, now, how many different, you know, religions like different denominations of Christianity, different approaches and perspectives of Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, all the isms, they're all practiced differently. We're different in every way. So we'll keep you healthy. We'll keep your culture healthy and thriving. We'll harm another culture. They can't live like the way you live. Like, our people can't live the way your people live. Your people can't live the way our people live and expect to be, you know, in control of all their faculties. So for that, you know, we're all different and, you know, we all have different needs and I accommodate my people's needs. So not to say I'm insensitive to your people's needs. It's just that my people have suffered so much, endured so much. You know, we need some TLC. We need some special attention. And so that's what this section is designed to do to be, you know, therapy for my people, original people. You're more than welcome to listen and take notes and partake, silently partake. But, you know, I'm unapologetic about, you know, anything I'm mentioning in this section. But anyway, so the types of tips that I give here and the health and wellness section of the narrative podcast, you know, like I said, things that affect our people mentally, physically, and spiritually, like they're putting things in the air, putting things in our food, putting things in the water. They're destroying us mentally with the media. They're destroying us mentally or spiritually with religion. And the entertainment industry. Yeah, it's some dark, demonic forces around that. There are some evil, wicked entities thriving in that place. It's all around this. So I'm just giving tips on how to stay healthy, you know, in all scenarios. So on the physical side of it, the types of tips you would generally hear from me on the physical side is like some type of the health benefits of a fruit, vegetable, herb, extract, elixir, root, that you can ingest or apply topically to increase your physical health or some type of physical exercise you can do to keep your body operating at peak, optimal peak efficiency. On the mental side, as I said, we all have different, you know, mental triggers. So like I'm giving tips to our people to help maintain a healthy mental mind state is at all, everything, your core of your being, everything, everything, it all starts in the mind, especially within our religion, our people's, you know, how we're put together, you know what I mean? So we got to be really in charge of our minds, because we're having our minds being taken from us, we're having our minds being twisted in words on a daily basis. So we need to be, you know, in control of it. And I'm going to be telling you tips on how to, you know, stay in good mental health. So I'll be teaching like, you know, vision, visions, like visualization, department, breathing, meditation, emotional intelligence, clarity, focus, remote viewing, just really trying to go into like how to unlock your mind's full potential, and how to control your thoughts, and how to discipline your thoughts. You know, that's the type of tips I'll be giving on the mental side of it. And then on the spiritual side of it, so I'm going to be telling you all about, you know, the spiritual realm, how to recognize when spirits are around you, you know, how to build up a defense from, you know, how to ward off spiritual attacks, because it is spiritual warfare as well. You're under attacks, you know, you're being attacked spiritually. How to develop your senses in the spirit. Well, I'll be, you know, telling you that, those type of things. And then every once in a blue moon, you know, I'll be talking about something esoteric, you know, manifestation, you know, that type of stuff, quantum law, divine law, law of consequence, you know, and just anything that make you ponder, I think, critically. I just hit you with a little curveball every once in a blue moon in a health and wellness section. But this week, we're going to be focusing on the physical side of it. And I want to be talking about, you know, the health benefits of a fruit that can get you right. And today I'll be talking about the health benefits of health benefits of the prickly pain. So for starters, so the health benefits of the prickly pear fruits, for starters, you know, starting off with the name is, you know, the scientific name is the Oh, functions. Ficus in Bicus, you know, that's the scientific classification that we also refer to as the paddle, the paddle cactus in the Nepal or Tuna. It's rich in magnesium, rich in vitamin C, rich in potassium, rich in calcium. It's rich in antioxidants. So as we all know, antioxidants is a fat burner. It's also anti inflammatory. And yes, we also know from Dr. Sevi, the inflammation is the root cause of all diseases in the body. Once inflammation occurs in the body, sickness is very soon to follow. So you always want to incorporate anything with anti inflammatory properties. So that it helped with swelling, that it helped with, you know, the gout that it helped with the body aches, cramps, anything anti inflammatory, that's what you always want to incorporate, you know, into your diet. Helps to control the blood sugar, regulates the blood sugar, you know, the hypoglycemic index. So, you know, they keep their prevention sugar levels from spiking. You know, when you eat, if you're a chronic eater, if you eat more than one time a day, they should help, you know, keep you at normal. This is also good for your gut health because it's rich in fiber. So it'll help you feel full and then also keep you regular. You know, it agrees to be is to get the goods gone. If you know what I'm saying, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop. It'll help you with your foot, foot, foot, foot foods, your foot foods. We'll have a good foot foot to eat that full foot. Good for your cardiovascular system, it'll, you know, help, you know, circulate the blood it'll get delivered blood flow and everywhere you need the blood flowing, like your legs, your arms. If you're a man, you know, you're male organ, your brain, also for like everybody, but you know, I'm just talking about our men in the men. For women, it helps with those fibroids. It also helps prevent cancer, and it's also good. It promotes healthy brain functions. This says it has neuro, neuro protective effects. Basically the shield, your brain from RMI. This is like a whole lot of radiation and, you know, basically distortions and all that. Keep you for, uh, prevents you from like developing brain fog. So you won't be forgetting things and, you know, acting like you got symptoms of dementia. You know what I mean? Can't recall long or turn, long or short-term memory or have cognitive thoughts. So that'll help for that. Essentially, like this is basically like a home. A super food is very hydrating as well as all, you know, cactuses are, you know, you can cook it, of course. Definitely in Spanish culture, they cook cactus. They call them the parlays. Now this is the fruit of the cactus, so it is very, very sweet. It has a lot of seeds. I'm getting like, when I, when I eat them, it's, it's me. Maybe it's just my taste, but it tastes kind of like a plum. It looked like kind of like a tart, like the texture-wise, like a plum, and um, it's kind of like a plum and a pear mixed. It's kind of like, you know, it's kind of tardy, tardy's a word. I mean, not tardy, like his and late, but tart-like and then like sweet at the same time. So it's like this weakness hits you first and then the tartness kicks in. But it's very refreshing, kind of, um, some similar, you know, hydrates yourselves, kind of something similar to water mums does. Highly sustainable fruit, good and heat, of course, and it's best for combating the heat regulating your body temperature heat. If you live like somewhere really hot, so to have you feeling cool, you can eat it straight up raw, you can make smoothies, you can freeze it, make, you know, like a slushy type deal. So kind of ways you can enjoy. You just have to be creative and find a way to work for you. Me, myself, I just like eating straight up raw, very good. Like two or three, like two or three of them and get you right for the whole day. Your energy levels that go through the roof. You know, definitely there's no study showing that it helps with mood, but I don't know too many people to get angry after eating some prickly pear. Like, you know, to me, it's like, you know, in our culture, when you get the kick in your feet, when you taste something good, when I eat prickly pear, like, you know, has me kicking my feet. So yeah, prickly pear is all good, incorporated into your diet, research it, and see if it's right for you. We're all different, but it definitely gets you on the path to being more physically fit, rich in H3O2, all fruits are, but prickly pear is definitely like a superfood and very cheap, very affordable, and pretty much available all year round and highly sustainable. It's not really nothing too much bad about it. If, you know, it boils down to a preference, your taste buds, like, what do you like, what's good to you, but I always, like, count, balance that out if, like, if you drink alcohol, you eat fruit. If you smoke weed, you eat fruit. 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And on to my next section of the narrative podcast section, or the narrative podcast week day edition, I'm getting a little tired job. This section is basically my current event section. I call this section my speaking points. Basically, I'm addressing anything going on in the news. Whether it's globally, nationally, or just something going on within our community. Purposeing me doing that is basically just letting you know you're not imagining it. Yeah, they're trying to play us out for our people. And then also, basically to control the narrative. Like I said before earlier, like a history hasn't taught us anything, it's taught us this. If you don't tell your own story, your story will be told for you because the media is always trying to play us out. So, you know, the purpose of me doing this section is just breaking down whatever's happening in the world, in the news from our perspective. Now, there are some rare occasions where I just don't have anything to talk about or like a farm. I don't feel there's anything pointy or relevant in the, you know, news to speak about. I just, in that instance, I just make an observation, you know, like a PSA type of deal, things that notice about our people. We should probably work on. I might do that. But today, I'm going to talk a little bit about, you know, the thing. This shut us down and changed our lives forever. Then you really still can't sit on the internet. So I'm going to say C19. Not that I'm modernized anyway, but, you know, C19, because maybe somebody listening to my podcast is, so I don't let them get no whatever penalties for sharing my content on their platform. But C19, and I'm kind of going somewhere with this. Now, my, my, my logic behind me, some people might accuse me of being a conspiracy theorist. But, you know, when you connect the dots, it makes kind of sense. So C19, people just released out here acting like, you know, it, it unlept. It's just like, it's just gone. Now, check this out. So, oh boy, dirty Joe, Jim Crow Joe, he drops out of the election because he contracts C19. And then Madam Vice President steps up to run in the upcoming elections for the Democratic Party. But the plot thickens. After he did that, C19 starts spiking, more outbreaks start spiking all over America. Hmm, isn't that suspicious? Then just recently, our brother, Noah Lyles, he was running in a race, came third place, passed out after he hit the wind finish line, because he had C19. Where am I going with this? Noah Lyles has many, many, many mental health problems. Noah Lyles is an advocate for mental health. Just recently, our sister, Sonia Massey, was gunned down in front of our faces. She didn't have it though. She didn't have to see C19. But she did have severe mental health issues. Uh oh, this is where it gets deep. Noah Lyles is an advocate for mental health. Now, where is the biggest platform in the world to advocate for causes? The Olympics. Now, he was not diagnosed before he ran the race. Where did he get it from? Where did he get it from? Where did he contract it from? He didn't have it before he went over to Paris. Oh, they don't just be injecting people with it. They don't just be dispersing it in the air, because when it first came out, what was the first thing they said? They said we couldn't get it. And then a week later, thousands of us start dying from it. And now he got it. An advocate for mental health. Huh? Why none of the women get it? Because they're not threatened by the women. They're threatened by men. They don't want men speaking up and opening our eyes for something right in front of us. They scared of that. I'm tripping. Okay, let's go back in time. Our brother, who was now an advocate for the jab, contracted it, fell out on stage. B.L. Hughby went back, both feet back, fell out on stage. And now he's advocating for the jab. What makes me think that they gave it to him, his platform, where he's actively always speaking out on our social issues. And so before he contracted it, he was speaking out against it. Then he goes out. Does his set, falls back, both feet back, six, like two or three months later, he's advocating for the jab. Another strong mind, will person in our family or in our community that contracted it. It speaks out on social issues. Somebody out of the same class of comedic stylings as him, outspoken. Always speaking his mind whether you like it or not. Also, ended up catching it. He kind of so bad it almost took his life. He's on love, huh? Think they won't inject it in you? Think they won't introduce it into the air to get their message across or to silence you? So said all that to say, quick, acting like it's a joke. You don't got to go outside with your uh, you know, face masks on and live in fear. But like, I've been saying, been saying and saying it, stop acting like it's a joke. Stop acting like history can't repeat itself. Our commander in chief dropped out of the race because he had seen 19. He probably had it the whole time that he had been running because he's sitting up on camera having senior citizen moments, done fail missing the podium, having shortness of breath, exhibiting and displaying all the symptoms of it. And now it's spreading all over in America again. And what happened the last time during the election, like right after uh, election time was coming up. We went into a full shutdown. But wait, more stuff before the election, we start having all these weird things going on in our community. We had a ma, our bird, it was three months before. Then we had, um, our brother, George Floyd, then we had Brianna Taylor. That's three. It comes in threes right for our, all our spiritual people. Angel numbers, it comes in threes, don't it? Then we start having all these weird, weird things in nature happening, stuff happening with the animals in all these weird, you know, fires and floods, insects. Huh? So what we done had this year in 24, we done had earthquakes where there was never no earthquakes before. We've seen mutations in nature in the animals. They're doing something every day with our food. Something new every day every time we turn on the TV is something in the meat, is something in the produce. And it's only in our country. So said all that to say, stops like staying stuck on a stooping, keep your eyes open, start stocking up food, start disciplining your body, because we are not like, we're just at the eye of the swimmer. We're just at like, it's some bull, bull miss coming. It's some bull miss coming. They on that, man. So I don't know, y'all might call me conspiracy theorists. I call it being observance. And noticing trends, knowing our government, knowing other people's government. So that's all I'm saying, like C-19 is spiking all over the nation right now as we speak. We've already had been, have done, had natural disasters. We're not even in 25 yet. We've had over four natural disasters. We've had over a dozen mutations and things happening with the animals. Just like last time before we went into the lockdown, all that stuff was happening. And oh yeah, we've had an alliance in our community from the police and civilians. So final word, final word for my speaking point of the day, wait for it, wait for it. That's my final word. I'm gonna just put it out there. You can do what you want to with it. But like, y'all think about it. Makes sense when you think about it. What it's like. Got one more section in this episode of the narrative podcast is officially a wrap. And my final section of the narrative podcast section, all right, the narrative podcast is wise word of the day. And the wise word of the day is just a jam, a pearl of wisdom. Something to reflect upon, think critically about. Something that will resonate with you. And this had a lot of evolutions, but I'm sticking with wise word of the day when I first started doing it, it was a final thought, and then a final word. So I was just going to wait, wise word of the day. You just got to better ring to me. So wise word of the day is progress. Progress is really kind of funny. It's because like, it's literally what you make of you. Anything we want to, anything we do, we want to progress. That's just our incendiary nature as beings. We're here to get better. No matter what walk of life you come from, no matter what background you come from, we're all here for something. We're not just here to just to be here. We all got gifts, we all got talents. We got all have innate abilities within us. We all have a path. And we will get up, we all wake up with conviction. Now some of us are a little bit more dedicated than most, more driven than most, and they yield more results than most. They progress. Well, hold on. Here's the mic drop. You're progressing too. You progress in everything you do as well, but you can't see your natural progression. As you two worried about somebody else's, you're trying to measure your progress off of somebody else's life. Instead of just focusing on your path. It's like when you're working out, and you just, you know, you're going every day. And it's like when you stand in the mirror, you can't see any progress. When you leave the house, you know, people, I'm Victoria Cash, and I want to invite you to a place called Lucky Land, where you can play over a hundred social casino style games for free for your chance to redeem some serious prizes. So what are you waiting for? The best way to discover your luck is to spin. So go to luckylandslots.com, that's luckylandslots.com, and get lucky today at Lucky Land. 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Trying to use some Olympic acknowledges right now. We want us to sit out there and stand on the up podium and get our gold medal all the time. But the name like that all the time, it ain't like that. We showed up, we competed. We ain't going to get that gold medal all the time. We ain't going to get that silver medal all the time. We ain't going to get that bronze medal all the time. But what you are going to get all the time without fail is progress. Progress. You're better than you was when you started it. And that's really all that matters. Validation don't matter. You don't need somebody to tell you you're doing a good job. You don't need somebody to tell you keep it up. The proof's in the pudding. The proof's in the pudding. Only you determine your progress. If I'm down bad, you will never know is our progress. You know, like people, content creators, I know they go through with the most because they're always checking all their little medias. They're always checking their stats and well, dang, this is saying I'm not reaching nobody. The algorithm, I ain't getting no clicks and I ain't went viral yet. They're looking for that viral moment. They want to go viral. They want to go viral. They want to go viral. They don't think they're doing them. They think they're just spinning their wheels. But then they go check their email and it's flooded with people that subscribe to their content. Thank you. And they're going through, they're sifting, they're reading the comments. Positive and negative. You know, somebody's watching you. You're making the difference. You're making progress. You're impacting somebody's life. You progress. So I think the biggest thing that we get wrong with progress, we want to get we get finishing and progressing like we get an entertainment. Just because you finish something doesn't mean you progress. Sometimes when you finish something, it just means you're done with that phase of you. It's like, okay, when to school, you're graduating. You're done. For now, you can go back if you want to, but you made progress while you was there. Even if you flunked out, you made progress. Even if you flunked out, you made progress. Assuming like, at least you went and got your GED. And if you got your GED, you made progress, right? We all progress. We all progress in all areas of life. It's just we can't see it because we so busy looking for textbook signs that we're progressing. We want to see the results. And you can't see your own results all the time. Sometimes it just, it comes in different ways. It might come in money. It might come in compliments. It might come in just, you know, the journey, the path. Resources just might, you know, a whole new world is just might start opening up around you from doing your everyday routine. You progress. Working a nine to five job. Well, on the first life that gave you a week, you only had one day of training. You four months in, now you're trying to other people. You progress. You know, even one farther up, you start to job, you quit your job, you started your own business, made progress. We all progress in different levels, even when you fail, you're progressing because you're learning from your mistake. But oh, I've never do that again. Or if that happens to me, now I know what to do. You know, we all change. You're like old me, new me. Who's the same them that they was five years ago? Who's the same them that, like from just yesterday? We all progress. Animal Kingdom, they progress. It's called evolution. So why is word of the day is progress? Don't charge a progress. Be your progress. Let that marinate. All right, that's it and that's all. This episode of the narrative podcast is officially a wrap. Download this episode in our previously recorded episodes of the narrative podcast, wherever you get your podcast information from. 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