The Narrative Podcast

Episode 371 - The Narrative Podcast

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The Narrative Podcast provides positive frames of reference about original people and original people culture.

The Narrative Podcast: Changing the Narrative one episode at a time by destroying negative stereotypes about original people and original people culture.

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Duration:: 2h 9m
Broadcast on:: 13 Sep 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

This iHeartRadio station is brought to you by Vitamin Water. Thanks for watching! [Music] [Music] You are now listening to the narrative podcast with Halsey Allen. The narrative podcast is changing the narrative one episode at a time. [Music] Hey, Peace family! Welcome to another edition of the narrative podcast. The narrative podcast is the home of original people, original people peace, original people reciprocity, and original people positivity. The narrative podcast promotes positive reinforcement of original people. The narrative podcast provides positive frames of reference about original people and original people culture. Welcome to the narrative podcast. I am your host Halsey Allen. Welcome all my narrators. Welcome to the narrative podcast. All right everybody, so it's been a really interesting week already. Yesterday, you know, was 9/11. I believe the 23rd anniversary of that, if I am not mistaken, of that time of history. I'll be talking a little bit more later on in the segment about 9/11. Also, we had another, you know, passing in our community of a really prominent figure in our community. It seems like we had just lost James Earl Jones, and now it's Frankie Beverly of the group Mays. I believe he was the lead stand-out performer, and the group was Mays. He was Frankie Beverly of course, so it was Frankie Beverly of the Mays. You know, before I let go was a breakout hit, or the hit that they're mostly known for. You know, they had hits on top of hits, so they had some hits in the '72, but, you know, that was unfortunate. So, we gave this a whole lot of years of soulful sounds and good memories. I can't imagine, you know, a cookout, a family gathering, you know, without not hearing before I let go. Like, it was the theme, just like that's our anthem in our community. So, we lost that brother. So, basically how I start this thing off is I promote, you know, everything, all my projects that I got going on right now. And then I give a brief overview of the narrative podcast before diving into the content. The reason why I give a brief synopsis of the narrative podcast before diving into the content is just to provide the listener with full context of my content. So, yeah, that's basically how I do things. My narrators, they already know the demonstration. They already know what my content is all about, but that's how I usually get things started before diving into the content. So, I'm going to give you a promote everything that I got going on right now. And I'm going to give you a brief overview and then diving into the content. But before all that, we're going to pause for the cause and give our brother, Frankie Beverly. And not just our brother, Frankie Beverly, all whom we lost in 9/11. So, you know. All right, Rest in Power, brother, sitting in love like healing energy to his family, friends, associates, colleagues, anybody who's ever, you know, had the opportunity to work with him or witness his shows or, you know, know of him personally, my condolences to you. And definitely the condolences to all, you know, everybody that has family, friends, associates, colleagues, knows of anyone who suffered. You know, losses on 9/11, also to also congratulate and thank all those that helped at ground zero during that time. You know, all the volunteers, everybody that came out to support the efforts to, you know, dig out as many people as they can from that unfortunate tragedy in that time period. All right, so kicking it into full gear. The first thing I would like to promote, obviously, is the podcast itself. And, you know, what you want to do to support the narrative podcast is to follow me on YouTube. This iHeartRadio station is brought to you by Vitamin Water. 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Next, formally Twitter, and the reason why you want to follow me on those two mediums is because this platform that I'm broadcasting on automatically uploads to YouTube and X, formerly known as Twitter. So, to follow me on YouTube, follow me on my name, user handle is Halsey Allen. I don't have a YouTube page specifically designed for the narrative podcast. It's just my user's page, and then once you follow me on there, obviously subscribe to my channel, Halsey Allen. And then click the notification bell. And then also when you see episodes of the narrative podcast loaded on my channel, you want to click the thumbs up like button, comments on the episodes, and also share the episodes of the narrative podcast on whatever platform that you'd like to share. I'd like to share content on. I would just ask all my content creator family who have visual platforms, like upload content via, you know, visually behind the camera. Like, you know, Facebookers, YouTubers, people on Instagram live, even Twitch, you know, anything that you're in front of a camera doing whatever content that it is you do to please shout out the narrative podcast. But otherwise, just, you know, on YouTube, just subscribe to my channel. Leave a comment and then share episodes of the narrative podcast across all digital platforms. And also, I would like to make aware that I broadcast during the weekday and the weekends, and my formats are completely different during the weekday format. I have two sections on the weekends, I have a total of a belief, five sections. So yeah, I just want to make you aware of the differences. But, you know, whichever day that you're, whichever time that you're free to listen to episodes of the narrative podcast. Please join me, whether it's during the weekday or the weekend. Download this episode and I previously recorded episodes of the narrative podcast. So now my following instructions for X is slightly different. You have some more options. So what you will want to do is follow me on X and I'm Halsey Allen on X, H-A-L-L-Z-I-E Allen, A-L-L-E-N, and I stay good at Halsey Allen, or lowercase, no spaces. And the way you know that you have the correct page, you should see a copy of my book of poetry, which I'll plug a little bit later on, titled The Black Card Pinned at the top of my page on X, formerly Twitter. So when you get to X, go to my page and you should see the latest episode of the narrative podcast, click on that link. Once the link is open, you should see the logo to the narrative podcast. And then when you see the logo to the narrative podcast, what you'll want to do is click on the like button and the like button is in the shape of a heart. So click on the heart and then next it'll open it all the way up after you see the logo and then next to the heart. Now you should see a little clock, you want to ignore the clock icon, and then next to that is an icon, you know, that's the comment box. You want to leave me a comment in the comment box, and then next to the comment box, you will see the most important thing you can do for the platform. The download, but it's in the shape of a like a little cloud. And in the cloud is like an arrow pointing down, you want to click on that. And that's the best way to support, you know, episodes of the narrative podcast. And then also of course share it to whatever platform that you want to share it to whatever platform that you like sharing content to share our episodes of the narrative podcast to that platform. And then same thing goes for my visual content creators, shout out episodes of the narrative podcast. And, you know, that's how you will be notified of the latest uploads of the narrative podcast is to follow me on YouTube and X formerly Twitter. And you'll be up to up to date with the latest episode of the narrative podcast. And again, my username on YouTube is Halsey Alan, H-A-L-L-C-I-E Alan. At Halsey H-A-L-L-Z-Y-J, lowercase J-9-I. And then on X, formerly Twitter, Halsey Alan, H-A-L-L-Z-I-E, Alan, A-L-L-E-N, and I stay good at Halsey Alan, all lowercase, no spaces, I stay good. All right, and the next thing I would like to plug is my book of poetry. I wrote a book of poetry. This iHeart Radio Station is brought to you by Vitamin Water. Did you know a 2018 study showed half of prenatal vitamins tested had unacceptable levels of heavy metals? I'm Kat, mother of three and founder of Ritual. When I was four months pregnant, I couldn't find a prenatal I could trust. So I created my own. Ours is matraceable, third-party tested for heavy metals and recently earned the purity award from the Clean Label Project. But don't just take my word for it. Get 25% off at ritual.com/preneal. On poleitizer.com, poleitizer.com has a self-publishing feature for that site. To purchase my book, you'll want to go to poleitizer.com. They have a virtual online bookstore. Go to the virtual online bookstore and look for the title of my book. The title of my book is called The Black Card. It's written by me, Halzy Allen, H-A-L-Z-I-E, Allen, A-L-L-E-N. What the book is about is the 30-page book of poetry, chronicling, everything we experience as a people, both positive and negative. So it's like, you know, it's a day in the life of/survivalglide/how-to. So there's a whole lot of things. If an original man or original woman, you will automatically just connect with that book. It'll resonate with your spirit, but it just feels right when you're reading it. You know, it just reminds you of who you are. Now, people outside of our culture, they can enjoy that book of poetry as well. If they're open-minded and like learning about new cultures and new people and new experiences, they can definitely read that book and get a better insight into our world and, you know, be a better friend, co-worker. You know, one or, you know, however you experience our culture, you will be a little bit, you know, I would say more in the loop. You know, you will have a broader, hit a broad in your horizon if you're outside of our culture. You can also use this as a learning tool if you're a parent or an educator. But yeah, go check it out. It's on pollitizer.com and the name of my book is titled "The Black Card." And after unfamiliar with pollitizer.com, it's a social media site for writers to socially interact, share their work, you know, critique each other, you know, socially interact with one another. It's open to all genres of writing, essay writing, short-story writing, novel writing. And then, of course, poetry is implied in the name "pollitizer." That's who it really kind of caters to. And like I said, you know, they have a self-publishing feature for members of that community. They can write a book and sell their book on their website. So go to pollitizer.com, go to their virtual online bookstore, and look for my title, "The Black Card." Purchase your copy of "The Black Card Today," or get your black card revoked. And last but not least, the last thing I would like to promote is my poetry blog on blogger.com. And the name of my poetry blog is called "Hausen's Poetry Corner," "H-A-L-L-Z-I-E," "A-L-L-E-N," or "H-A-L-L-Z-I-E-S," "Poetry Corner," my bad. I'm Hausen Allen across so many platforms. I switch up the spelling from time to time. I got an Instagram page where I spell it with a "why," because they wouldn't let me use the "I-E." But anyway, go to Hausen's Poetry Corner on blogger.com. And what it is, it's basically just a collection of my poetry. It's many moves, many themes, many topics, many subjects. You know, just so versatile. You're guaranteed to connect with a piece of poetry featured on that blog site. Whether it's just the first couple lines of the piece or the piece in this entirety. You're guaranteed to connect with it. Another unique thing about my poetry that I have posted on that blog site, they're all spontaneously written. I didn't, you know, I didn't premeditate the subject matter. I didn't premeditate what I was going to title each piece. You know, it just literally popped into my head and I wrote it. You know, I didn't, you know, I wasn't just sitting down thinking about, "What should I write? What should I write?" Or trying to get the creative juices flowing or anything like that. I just, you know, I just posted it, you know, on that blog site. But yeah, it's on blogger.com. And the address is www.MrHauzesBlogs.com. And the way you can support it is go to the link to the site, which is www.MrHauzesBlogs.com. All lowercase, no spaces. And, you know, click on that link. And then once you're on the site, click the like button, which is in the shape of a heart, so you click the heart shake like button. And then next to that, it's a comment box, each, you know, poetry piece. You know, there's a section at the bottom of the piece where, you know, it's a box, a comment box. You can leave a comment and the best way to do that is sign in with your Gmail. You can leave me comments on Haus's poetry corner. And then, of course, you know, share poems from Haus's poetry corner across all platforms. So click the link, like comment and share episodes or high episodes. But poems from Haus's poetry corner across all platforms. And same deal with my visual content creators. Shout out Haus's poetry corner. Or, you know, the name of the poem that you like on Haus's poetry corner. You know, whatever. You know, just shout out Haus's poetry corner if you're a visual content creator. And that's it. And that's all. That's all the projects that I have to promote. I will keep you informed on any new developments. I am working on a whole lot of projects. I'm working on some merch. I'm working on some, you know, visual content. But yeah, for right now, just support all those projects. Those are, you know, always ongoing. Those are the ones that, you know, that I can produce the quickest. So yeah, go check those out. Support the narrative podcast. Support Haus's poetry corner. And then support my book, The Black Card. And one thing I forgot, I have a tagline. A tagline for Haus's poetry corner. And my tagline is Haus's poetry corner, poetry with a passion. Poetry for all occasions. So go check that out. Alright, so now you're up to speed with all my projects that I have going on. Now I'm going to walk you through, you know, the format of the narrative podcast. Give you a brief overview of it. Before diving into the content on this weekend edition of the narrative podcast. So let's start the top tippy, the name. I name my podcast, the narrative podcast. It's not like the false narrative. If the media weaves about original people and original people culture. So what I wanted to do to counter the way the media falsely, and accurately depicts our images and likenesses across all media platforms, is to design a platform where I'm doing just the opposite of what they're doing. And what they're doing is, you know, vilifying our people. You know, they're reinforcing negative stereotypes about our people and stigmas within our culture. So, you know, I wanted to design a platform where I'm uplifting and edifying our people. And empowering and impacting our people in a positive way with positive frames of reference about our people and our culture. And I think that's a very perfect way to segue the tagline for the narrative podcast. 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. So, yeah, that's basically what the narrative podcast is all about. I'm here to provide positive frames of reference about our people and our culture. Also, to bring awareness to the listening audience of why it's important to responsibly utilize your platforms to share, you know, information about our people and our culture. And also to encourage the listening audience to responsibly utilize their platforms to share positive frames of reference about our people and our culture. Across all media platforms. So the next thing you should be aware of. I call my target listening audience my narrators. And what I mean by that. Why I call my target listening audience my narrators is because, you know, a narrator is a person that, you know, illustrates. Or tells a story. You see. So that's what I mean when I call my target listening audience my narrators. We need to be using our digital platforms to tell or narrate our own stories. Well, how do you use, you know, your digital platforms to tell your own story? Well, pretty much all digital platforms these days have a bio section. And in the bio section, what you do is you tell, you know, the world about yourself. You tell the world whatever you want to know, whatever you want the world to know about yourself. You know, if you're on, you know, a lot. If you're online to socially interact, you know, you tell your hobbies or interest and, you know, just any tidbit information, whatever you want somebody to know about you. You know, as much characters as the, you know, site allows you to put about yourself in the bio section. And then after you did or done filling out your bio section, generally what's done is you upload visual content to support the information that you entered into your bio section. And when you're doing that, you upload, you know, the most visually appealing pictures to represent the fields that you entered in your bio section. So, like say, if you're, you know, into music, whatever genre, whatever genre music doesn't matter. This iHeart Radio Station is brought to you by Vitamin Water. Well, we got a minute. I'm gonna buy that truck I've been wanting. Wait, don't you need like weeks to shop for a car? I don't. Carvana makes it super convenient to find exactly what I want. Hold up. You're buying a car on your phone? Isn't that more of a laptop thing? You can shop wherever you want. I like to do my research. Read reviews, compare models. Plus, Carvana has thousands of options. How'd you decide on that truck? Because I like it. Oh, that is a great reason. Go to Carvana.com to sell your car the convenient way. You're going to upload visual content to support what you entered in your bio section. And it's going to be the best possible visual representation of yourself or the information or the data that you have entered into your bio section. So you're giving the world the best possible visual representation of yourself through your bio section. So you're telling or narrating the best possible story of you or the best possible story of your love for music. So you're going to be uploading pictures, meeting your favorite bands, meeting your favorite singers, meeting your favorite rappers, nostalgic stuff like records, cassettes, 8 tracks, concerts. You know, if you're in the music, but it's going to be the best possible visual representation of that. And so where I'm going with that, as a narrator, this is what I call my target listening audience, my narrator, you want to upload the best possible visual representation of our people and our culture. And why do you want to do that is because the media, they're uploading the worst possible visual representation of our people and our culture. So 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 that's what the media is doing. They're telling a really bad story about our people. So the way we change that narrative is to upload positive visual images reflecting our images and our likenesses. So, you know, make yourself the star of whatever platform you're on, you know, a good visual representation of your life. You know, if you're working a nine to five job, you know, you're happy when the work, you're uploading those types of pictures. And if you're a family person, you have children, you know, the best possible visual representation of that, you're spending time with your children. You're teaching your children stuff. You know, you guys are a happy family unit, all smiles in the picture, doing something positive in the community. You know, whatever it is, just something positive. It could be like picking up trash, it could be, you know, enjoying your day in the community. Because, you know, the media, they put out visual content that we can't enjoy ourselves in public. So, that's why I call my target listening audience, my narrators is just, when I say that, I just mean, you know, one that tells or narrates their own story. So yeah, that's what we should, and the goal for the narrator is to just basically share a positive story about our people and our culture on their platform. You know, just kind of like what I'm doing. I'm sharing a positive frames of reference about our people and our culture. So, you know, what we should not be doing is embracing these negative stereotypes and stigmas that the media places over us. We shouldn't be embracing, you know, these negative stereotypes and stigmas by regurgitating them online. We shouldn't be regurgitating criminalistic activity. We shouldn't be, you know, regurgitating, you know, drug dealing and drug using. We shouldn't be regurgitating violence of any kind, whether it's, you know, domestic violence, gang violence. Gun violence, like we shouldn't be supporting and promoting that on our platforms. We shouldn't be supporting and promoting this unity on our platforms, arguing and tearing each other down and name calling. We shouldn't be supporting that. We shouldn't be reinforcing the images of the angry black man. We shouldn't be promoting and endorsing the images of the angry black woman. You know, we shouldn't be supporting the pen, the images of the pen. We shouldn't be supporting and embracing the images of the whore. So, you know, basically, what I'm saying in a nutshell about why I call my target listening audience as my narrators is just, we need to be telling our story. And not just telling our story. We need to be telling our story well with positive frames of reference about our people and our culture, that are reflective of our true natures. And what are our true natures? Our true natures is that, you know, the essence of in core being of who we are as a people, which is kings and queens, guys and goddesses at the universe. And that's how we should be, you know, represented and portrayed across all media platforms. Nothing less. Next thing you should be aware of the narrative podcast, the narrative podcast is a positive space. I don't promote indoors, any negativity, gossip, slander, name calling, roasting, none of that goes on in the neck and on the narrative podcast. This is a positive safe space for our people. This is a platform you can listen to to feel good about yourself. This iHeart radio station is brought to you by Vitamin Water. Well, we got a minute. I'm gonna buy that truck I've been wanting. Wait, don't you need like weeks to shop for a car? I don't. Carvana makes it super convenient to find exactly what I want. Hold up. You're buying a car on your phone? Isn't that more of a laptop thing? You can shop wherever you want. I like to do my research. Read reviews, compare models. Plus, Carvana has thousands of options. How'd you decide on that truck? Because I like it. Oh, that is a great reason. Go to Carvana.com to sell your car the convenient way. You just have the alternative to, you know, absorb some positivity. That's what the narrative podcast really is all about. That's what the vibe on here is. It's all about upliftment and edifying our people. Celebrating our accomplishments and everything we're doing right. So I don't like name call or, you know, try to drag brothers and sisters through the mud. I don't promote and endorse that. And I really try to, to my best to discourage against that. You know, we all have, we're all pretty much grown adults if you're online for whatever it is you're online. I can't tell you, you know, what the post, but, you know, as a people, we shouldn't be entertaining in the foolishness. Like, we're just shitting as a people. We shouldn't be entertaining in the type of, you know, foolishness or buffoonery. Any type of, you know, violence or degeneracy, we shouldn't be even, you know, entertaining, entertainment like that. But to each their own, but on the narrative podcast, I definitely don't do that. Don't have a, you know, any time for it. You know, I don't, I don't think it's funny. I think it's interesting to do it. I do, however, I do speak about current events, you know, whatever is going on in the news. So I deliver commentary, you know, it commentary is a part of my content. So I talk about current events, you know, whatever is going on in the world, whether it's, you know, national news or global news or just, you know, something, you know, coming out of our community. Whatever I do, whatever type of topic that I commentate on, you know, if it ever involves someone from our community, I'm just, you know, I'm unpacking the story from our perspective. Because, you know, in the mainstream media, they have us looking and sounding, you know, our types are crazy. And so, you know, whatever is going on in the world, I just try to break it down from our perspective. And I want to involve somebody from our community. You know, I break it down from the bigger picture perspective. And the bigger picture perspective can always be traced back to two things, which is systemic oppression and psychological programming and conditioning. Like typically when, you know, something negative is happening within our community, it can generally be traced back to systemic oppression and psychological programming and conditioning. Meaning, you know, systemically, we're ostracized and cut off from resources. Even when you become independent and wealthy, establish your own independent wealth, you know, they still go to extra mile to make it more difficult for you to own land, own property. Have fully staffed companies that want to double tax you and, you know, do all this trickery to make it more expensive for you versus just anybody else. So that's at play on the systemic oppression side of you. And then on the psychological programming and conditioning, like, you know, we've been psychologically programmed and conditioned as a people to act a certain way to view ourselves a certain way to view our brothers and our sisters a certain way. You know, interact with one another and react to another one another in a certain way and a certain way is a negative way. So we've been programmed in conditions to be, you know, everything that the average white person is afraid of is because they've embedded it into our psyches with, you know, through means of propaganda in the news. Through means of advertisements, through means of, you know, literature, books, magazines, just corrupting our images and our likenesses, distorting our perception of, you know, the world and ourselves. So essentially, we've been programmed in condition to behave like them, the ones that are doing the old pressing. And then when we, you know, act like them, then they turn around and act shocked, like, because we pulled a them on them. When we start behaving like being a wired acting like that, all because you programmed and conditioned us to act like that. That's why. They've programmed and conditioned us to deviate from our true nature as a people. So that's how pretty much I unpack my commentary when it involves somebody from our community, especially, you know, entertainer in our community, if they're going through something. And it's usually something negative if it's going viral, because it's really rare when entertainers in our community are experienced in the news for something positive. And when they are, it's just only for like a brief snippet, you know, if they did something good, it's like it'd be viral for like a day. If it is some negative, it's, you know, it's four or five months of whatever it is that they're in the news for. This iHeartRadio station is brought to you by vitamin water. Did I hear you're shopping for a car? Because I've been at it for ages. Such a time suck, right? Not really. I bought it on Carvana. Super convenient. Then comes all the financing, research, am I right? Well, you can, but I got pre-qualified for a Carvana auto loan in like two minutes. Yeah, but then all the number crunching in terms, right? Nope. I saw real numbers as I shopped, found my dream car, and got it in a couple of days. Wait, like you already have it? Yep. Go to Carvana.com to finance your car the convenient way. Something bad, whether it's like a DUI or, you know, some domestic, something domestic or, you know, aggressive behavior or whatever. But it's never the name call. It's never the, um, you know, try to single them out or talk bad about them. It's just like, you know, I'm a podcaster, content creator. So I do have to talk about, you know, what's going on in the world? What's going on in our community? So I do have to talk. But when I talk, that's the perspective of, you know, how I break it down. Next thing you should know about the narrative podcast is a time system platform. I try not to exceed one hour per broadcast because I try to keep it short sweet. Briefing to the point. I want all my content digestible, easy to follow. And more importantly, I want to keep my listening audience attentive and not bore them to sleep. So that's why I try to keep it short sweet. Briefing to the point. I don't want you to feel like you're listening to a lecture or an angry rant. I'm just, you know, this supposed to be a positive feel good space that I can inform you about what's going on in our world and the world and, you know, celebrate our achievements and accomplishments and inspire people to, you know, want to live good and be good. So that's what the narrative podcast is all about. I can't achieve that goal if I'm boring you to sleep. So, you know, I don't want to just be on here talking and talking and talking without an actual point. So that's why I try to keep all my episodes as brief as I possibly can. I try not to exceed one hour per broadcast. You know, I don't want my content to be redundant. I want to inform you and entertain you at the same time. And then last but not least, I refer to my target listening audience as my narrators. And the reason why I refer to my target listening audience as my narrators is because... My bad. I already said that at the beginning. So last but not least, I refer to our people as original people on the narrative podcast. Sorry, y'all. Had a brain fart. My bad. I refer to our people or black people as original people on the narrative podcast. And the reason why I refer to our people as original people as opposed to black for a couple reasons. Number one is historically accurate. Meaning, you know, it's reflective of our origins, historical origins. We were here first. We came before every nationality, civilization, race, creed, religion, whomever you can think of. You know, we existed first. Not only did we exist first, we also originated everything. Meaning we invented everything. Everything started with us before anything was we were. We were the original blueprint of civilization. We were the first builders. We were the first architects. We were the first physicians. We were the first scientists. We were the first chemists. We were the first philosophers, astronomers, astrologers. We were the first inventors. We were the first travelers. We were the first explorers, the original. So the original was the first. So that's why I refer to our people as original from the historical side of it. We were the first people here and we originated everything. And the subpoint that I want to tackle on to, you know, our people being original is I just wanted to dispel the false narrative of slavery. They keep on trying to cram down our throats and remind us every waking moment of our existence that we were once slaves. First and foremost, we had a whole identity long before slavery. So like I just said, us being here first doesn't not stand a reason if we inhabited this planet first. If we were the first ones here, do you think we were just all huddled in one spot? You think we were just all on Africa forever before slavery and never wanted to say, like, "Hmm, what's over here? What's over here?" Said all that to say, we existed everywhere long before slavery. But the way they tell history is that we were all slaves, but we was already on pretty much every continent you can name before the slave trade. We didn't get there on slave boats. So while slavery did happen and it was a real thing, not all of us got to wherever we're at in the world on a slave boat, especially here in America. Like they just called us black, put us on the plantation, and enslaved us. So when they're talking about, you know, the pilgrims raped the Indians, they're talking about us. We were the original natives. Not all these people on these reservations and doing the rain dancing, "Oh, yeah, they're not the original article. They're not." And I know a whole lot of them get mad when we actual, you know, original indigenous natives to this land remind them of that. They get super mad, but they're not the original natives of this land. They're not. Our government just kind of incentivized them to be. At one point in the time, there was such a thing called five dollar end-beams, like the majority of them, who they descended from, or Mongols, people that came from Siberia. So like Navajo and Hopi and all them guys, they're not, you know, they're not the real deal. But not only just here in America, every Spanish-speaking nation you could think of, the entire continent of Asia, all the European countries, UK, you know, Britain, France, Germany, Finland, Holland, you know, Australia, Canada, was already there. This is my point. Even North and South Pole, there was large concentrations of our people already, originally inhabiting places like that. But yet they want to just keep on pushing slavery down our throats and trying to make us accept the slave narrative. So by me saying that we're not all, you know, products of slavery, meaning like they went and got, you know, us from Africa, and that's how we got to wherever we got in the world. We're not, you know, rejecting the mere notion of us being African, we're not saying at all, we're just saying we was already here. We're already here in America, we're already here in all the Spanish-speaking territories. We're already, you know, in all the European countries, we're already in the Mediterranean, you know, Greece, Italy. We're already there, Rome, whatever you want to call it. But the reason why they just keep on, you know, pushing slavery so hard is they want to instill fear in our people. They want to fear, fear condition this. They want to trauma condition this. Slavery was a very traumatic time period for our people. And a lot of our people were scared when they were alive that in those times, because there wasn't a whole lot they could do, they could get unalived at any given time for any given reason. But, you know, the other false narrative is that we were docile during slavery. We were voted the entire time during slavery. There was not one place our people was enslaved that we didn't try to rise up and overthrow the government and the systems and those who were enslaving us. There were uprisings all throughout the South here in the Americas. There was uprisings all, you know, up and through the route through, you know, chattel slavery. And it's documented. It's historically documented that we revolted all through, you know, from the beginning of slavery to the end of it. But yet, they just want us to believe we never tried to get away. Africans never tried to come get us that we betrayed each other. That we sold each other down the river. And, you know, that we owned slaves ourselves when we didn't. We just took prisoners of war. We had indentured servants. So, meaning at some point in time, they got to go free. That in just, we didn't just hold them generation after generation after generation after generation. A lot of them was able to purchase their freedom, like on the indentured servants who, you know, that's what they was doing in Africa. They had indentured servants that didn't have slaves. But, yeah, that's why they just keep on perpetuating, you know, the false narrative of slavery. They want to, you know, fear condition us and trauma condition us every time that subject is bought up. Because they don't think we're going to be smart enough to challenge it. You know, they want to place themselves at the top of the pyramid, you know, make themselves superior over our people. Like, yeah, we once had y'all as slaves, you know. That's why, you know, it's a big flex for the end. And it's highly profitable for them. The slave trade was highly profitable for them. And it still is, because they still make money from slavery. Through these museums, through these guided tours, through these movies and documentaries about slavery, it's still big business more. And they're all lives. So, you know, that's just what I want to dispel about this false narrative of slavery, like our involvement, you know, our location. How we got to, you know, wherever we got to in the world. This iHeart Radio Station is brought to you by Vitamin Water. It can get lonely climbing by McKinley, so to entertain myself, I go to ChummaCasino.com. At ChummaCasino, I can play hundreds of online casino-style games for free, like online slots, bingo, slingo, and more. Plus, I get a daily login bonus. It's just too bad that up here, I don't have anyone to share my excitement with. Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! Live the Tumba Life, anytime, anywhere. Play for free now at ChumbaCasino.com. Each of you room, no purchase necessary, void, prohibited by law, see terms and conditions, 18 plus. You know, in the last reason why I refer to our people as original people, is to unify us as a people. As stated, there's many different types of us. We all come from many different parts of the world. Speak different languages, with different flesh tones, have different, you know, cultural upbringings and religions and spiritual practices. But through all those differences, we all have quite a few things in common with us as well. First thing being, we all have large concentrations of carbon, aka melanin. We can all trace our uhh, you know, lin is back to the original point of origin for all civilization. And then, we all share an unspoken bond. We're just in tune and in sync with each other. No matter where we're at in the world, we're all fighting the same, you know, we're all fighting the same oppressive force. You know, we all got that in common. We are suffering different ways, but we are, you know, we're all still suffering as a people. So, you know, people outside of our culture, when they look at one of us, they just say, they just call us black. Like an Irish guy, they're going to look at somebody with a melanin in their system, they're going to be like the black guy. They ain't going to be like the Jamaican guy, they ain't going to be like the Haitian guy, they ain't going to call you not by your nationality. They ain't going to call you a Trini, they ain't going to call you a Nigerian, they're going to call you black, and be done with this. Italian guy's going to call you black. They're not going to call you by your nationality, they're going to look at you and say black. So, said all that to say, I think, you know, on the unit to unify us as a people, we should just all refer to ourselves as original people, because it's just so empowering and impactful. There's nothing more, you know, important than the original. You can't do nothing without the original, like nothing can exist without an original copy. The original is like the standard for everything else to come after it. We are the standard for all civilization. Civilization anywhere in the world could not exist if we never existed. We were here first, we were original. So, that's where I called our people, original people. So, now you know everything you need to know about the narrative podcast, and if you're still kind of hazy, I'm well over 300 episodes in. Remember to download this episode in our previously recorded episodes of the narrative podcast, wherever you get your podcast source from. And now, without any further ado, we want to dive into this weekday edition of the narrative podcast. And starting things off. I've got a section, well, like I told you at the beginning, I'll have it divided into sections, my content divided into sections. And my first section during the weekday, from my positive frames of reference about our people in our culture, come in the form of news articles. And the reason why I choose news articles during the week for a positive frame of reference about our people in our culture is because all throughout the week, all we're supplied with from the media is negative news throughout our people in our culture. They're bombarding us, you know, online, you know, and these podcasts, YouTube and all that with this negative visual content about our people in our culture. Musically, negative music, negative songs, violence, degeneracy, lewdness, all in the music. Negative advertisements, advertisements, playing up negative stereotypes and stigmas within our community. You know, just all we were just bombarded with negativity all week long. And then attacked on all fronts with negative content during the week. So what I wanted to do to combat this negativity is just basically to show or rather tell or narrate to the listening audience that positive things do happen in our world, in our community. So that's why I share positive news articles during the week day. 'Cause like I said, when the media does it, it's propaganda. It's a form of psychological warfare. They know exactly what they're doing. So to undo their programming, I'm going to share some positive news articles about our people in our culture. In the section I call positive news articles. So my first positive news article for this week, the edition of the narrative podcast, the headline reads, Leonard Lee and Robert Lewis announced call to action for black men at 2024 Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Incorporated Conference. The name of the project is called the I Am a Black Man Project. It's taking place at the 2024 Congressional Black Caucus Foundation in DC. It's going on. 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This year's call to action, they want black men nationwide to pledge. They will bring ten people with them to the polls to vote for Kamala Harris. In a special Zoom meeting on 9/18/24, 7 p.m. Eastern Time, the Zoom IB, if you would like to participate, is 8808-7770-5530, capital H, lowercase X, 1/8, capital L, lowercase Q, no spaces. And if you would like to know even more about the project, you can call one of the directors directly. You can call Leonard Lewis at 857 or 1-857-2027, or 2-0-7, my bad, I can't read my own handwriting some size, 1-857-207-2736, or you can call Robert Lewis at 851-857-210-8315. And if you have any questions about how you can get involved or what the project is about, you can hit them up at IAM, capital I, lowercase m.a.manxii@gmail.com. So yeah, the brothers are doing something positive, and that's the reason why I shared this positive news articles. I like the premise behind, you know, why they're organizing the events. I just don't agree with their selection of the person that they're promoting, they're promoting Kamala Harris. And I do not believe she is the best candidate to represent our people. She's not the only choice, you know. Kamala Harris has not dropped out of the race, he's still running. She hasn't said anything at all about our issues, especially reparations. She hasn't uttered one word about reparations in any issues we have as a community. You know, she hasn't even done small things for just America in general. When Biden was exiting office before, you know, before he stepped down, his whole thing, he had one thing. He had one job. He said, you know, cancel student loan debt. Never sent the executive orders for the student loan debt before he stepped down. She's in power right now, acting as the president in his absence until election. She can do that right now, put the executive orders out right now. As acting commander in chief, she is the acting commander in chief because Biden has stepped down. So, you know, other than that, and a whole lot more things she could be doing right now. And she is the acting commander in chief. So, other than that, though, I support this article, everything, these brothers. I like that energy. I love that energy, actually, that, you know, getting involved, getting active because, you know, we do. Brothers, we do got to step it up. We do have to be the example. We do have to take our communities back. We do have to protect our women. We do have to mentor our children. It's our duties. Anywhere where, you know, our children are failing. Anywhere. Our women is being disrespected. Anytime assistant leaves. You know, us, for another persuasion, we failed. We failed. So, it is on us. We are providers. We are men. So, I love that energy, you know, surrounding their movement. I mean, I just don't like their political candidate, their backing. And I'm sorry to anybody in our community that's passionate about backing Kamala Harris. Passionate about, you know, her period. 'Cause she's done nothing for our community. She speaks. This iHeart radio station is brought to you by Vitamin Water. It is Ryan C. Crest here. People always say it's good to unwind, but that's easier said than done. The exception, Chumba Casino. They actually make it easier done than said, or at least the same. Chumba Casino is an online social casino with hundreds of casino-style games like Slots and Blackjack. Play for fun, play for free, for your chance to redeem some serious prizes. Sign up now, collect your free welcome bonus at ChumbaCasino.com. Sponsored by Chumba Casino. No purchase necessary. VGW Group. Void we're prohibited by law. 18+ terms and conditions apply. She hasn't spoken on any of our issues. Quite frankly, she's an embarrassment to all of us. She embraces and exemplifies and personifies all these negative stereotypes and stigmas about our people. And then more importantly, she's not one of us to begin with. So, you know, I just, I can't get jiggy with it. I respect your, um, anybody that's back in there from our community, I respect you. I respect your mind. I'm not going to, you know, argue with the bet with you. I'm not, you know, if that's who you want to bet, if that's who you like. But, she ain't it, fam. She is not it. She is not being win. I don't know why y'all love her so much. But, um, anyway, like I said, I love that energy. Surrounding their movement. I love the, uh, unity aspect of it. I love the, um, you know, the taking back our communities part of it. But I just, I'm not digging who they're choosing to back for, you know, who they're choosing to back politically. But anyway, it was definitely worthy to be shared to each their own. Those gentlemen went to back Kamala Harris. If you're listening right now and went to back Kamala Harris, that's entirely up to you. That's your choice. I'm not trying to dissuade you or discourage you. You could do whatever you want to do. But, um, yeah. Gave you all the information on how to be a part of their movement. Uh, join me into giving Leonard Lee and Robert Lewis. And I am a black man project for warm narrative rap. I don't know. A warm narrative podcast round of applause. [Applause] All right, dad. Got some time. All right. Next article, the headline reads founder of black on massage therapy in spy celebrates 13 years of wellness for the community. And the brother's name is Cameron Richards. Cameron's a licensed massage therapist with over 15 years of experience. And the name of his massage parlor is called the somatic massage therapy in spy. They have a team of seven massage therapists and institutions with 12 years of experience between me with over 12 years of experience. Not like, like only one of them, like, all together. They got 12 years. Each one of the seven has 12 years. So if I said it messed up, my bad. But, um, they specialize in deep tissue massages that's people suffering from, you know, muscle soreness and chronic pain. Maybe a sports related injury that might be for you. They have prenatal for, you know, mothers expecting. Uh, they also specialize in lymphatic massages. That's like if you're trying to detox. And, um, could ecology massage? I can get that's something to do like if you're, um, experiencing cancer, any stage of it. So that will, you know, soothe that, be soothing because I'm told, like, people in different stages of cancer and, uh, are usually like, in chronic pain, having chronic body aches. Um, so they're hours of operation. They're closed Sundays. They're open 10 to eight Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 10 to six on Thursday. And also 10 to six on Saturday. And their physical address is one, one, three. Jericho turn pipe. Floral Parkway in New York. And, uh, look at the full list of all the services that they offer. You can go to, uh, Semitic. Massage.pc.com. And if you want to know specific questions with one of us, you know, get a specific question answered, just general questions, you can go to info@semiticmassagepc.com. And then you can also follow them on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook and X. Let's give a warm there to podcast round of applause for our brother, Mr. Cameron Richards, and his massage therapy clinic practice. Semitic massage therapy and spa. [applause] So this next article, we didn't really have any, um, any specifics about it. It really was just an article or just a headline. There was no other, you know, supporting details, but, uh, I thought it was pretty great. Um, headline reads, Morehouse alum James Chester makes history as first black creative director of Ralph Lauren. And there's really nothing else until a year and what, you know, projects he will be overseeing. Why is that, while he's, uh, working at Ralph Lauren, or at the name of his line or nothing like that, so I don't know, but I thought that was pretty dope. So let's give a warm there to the podcast round of applause for our brother, just James Chester. [applause] Last article of this evening on this week's The Edition of the Married Podcast, the headline reads, 14-year-old hired as an animator on Spider-Man across the Spider-Verse. And the young man's name is Preston. Um, I believe he's Nigerian. I don't know if I said his last name, right? M-U-T-A-N-G. If you know, you know, I don't know, but, uh, the young man is from, uh, Toronto, Canada. Um, so we copy film producers' attention by recreating a trailer of the film using Lego blocks. They were so impressed with that, they incorporated in the film, so if you see, uh, you know, that Spider-Man will be back, you know, the Spider-Verse, across the Spider-Verse, whatever it's called. You will notice a scene in there where they're, um, using some artwork, and it's like block style. It looks just like square, cubic style that was inspired. This young man's, um, Lego block, uh, recreation of the trailer. So there was a sequence in the film inspired by his, um, Legos. Fun fact, I didn't know. I didn't really pay attention to it all like that. I did see it, but it was so long ago, I couldn't even remember it. So this article obviously is old 'cause, like, uh, across the Spider-Verse came out what year, like, came out last year, didn't it? I don't know, like I said, that was just like blinking, you missed it. But, um, yeah, that's still a fantastic effort. So we're going to, uh, put, give our young brother a warm narrative podcast round of applause. Let's put them together for, uh, Preston. I might be wanting to try to pronounce his last name again. [applause] All right, so moving on right along. That was all my positive news articles this week, or, uh, this evening, I said this week. Um, it might be this week because I'm trying to do three episodes per week. I didn't go on, uh, yesterday, which is Wednesday, because, um, you know, 9/11 and a whole bunch of other stuff that was happening. So I just kind of didn't do a upload yesterday. As I tried to, uh, you know, avoid doing, I do my four episodes on the weekend. I try to avoid, you know, doing a weekday episode followed by a weekend episode. I try to avoid, you know, back to back. But we'll see how that works. I'm going to try for Friday and don't hold me to it. But this might be, you know, the last weekday upload of the narrative podcast for this week. We'll see how it goes. But, um, anyway, we want to, uh, get into the next section of the narrative podcast, which is my commentary section. I call my commentary section, um, my speaking point section. And then what I, uh, discuss on here is just current events, what's happening. You know, around the world or on the internet or, you know, breaking news. And the purpose of me doing that is basically to, um, reclaim the narrative. Because the media have us all looking and sounding are type of crazy. So just whatever is happening, this breaking news, I'm, you know, putting it in, in perspective from our perspective. So diving into my speaking point section is a whole lot going on, um, in the world. But there's a whole lot, lot that I don't feel is actually worth addressing. But we want to address what I feel like is worth addressing. So, you know, um, the first thing I want to talk about is 9/11. Um, we had a lot of casualties in our community. You know, people that were working at the Twin Towers, um, people volunteering for, you know, in the excavation efforts, um, you know, it was a sad day. So I remember, uh, the day that happened, I was, I had just got a gig. I just got out of trade school. My first gig out of trade school was GAP. So like, I was at the GAP old Navy actually. And they shut the whole mall down. It was crazy. Like right when that happened. But anyway, um, this iHeart radio station is brought to you by Vitamin Water. It can get lonely climbing Mount McKinley. So to entertain myself, I go to Chumbukasino.com. At Chumbukasino, I can play hundreds of online casino-style games for free. Like online slots, bingo, slingo and more. Plus, I get a daily login bonus. It's just too bad that up here, I don't have anyone to share my excitement with. Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! Live the Tumba Life anytime, anywhere. Play for free now at Chumbukasino.com. P-W-room, no purchase necessary. Avoid prohibited by law. See terms of conditions, 18 plus. Sad day. But I think it's just a whole lot of, uh, things coming to light now so many years after the fact, uh, you know, just being bought. Fourth, about that particular time period within American culture. Particularly about America's involvement in why they, you know, committed that extreme act. Also, there's like a whole lot of, um, different camera angles about the plane not striking. But, um, I'm not going to get into the whole conspiracy thing of it. I'm just getting into the facts of it about our country. You know, how they use the media to push and promote propaganda and how they just straight up just lie about stuff. Like, like I said, I'm extremely sad for all the people that lost loved ones in 9/11, but it wasn't a complete, unwarranted attack. For years, America had been born over there just taking their resources, looting from people like the citizens, you know, of that region. So they have, you know, built up a great disdain for America. And in that moment, we didn't understand why they was burning the American flag and why they seemed happy when the towers went down. But if we really knew what we was over there doing to them, then, you know, um, we wouldn't have, you know, we wouldn't have really been tripping as hard as what I'm saying. A lot of our air quotes, patriotism is actually just white supremacy. Because the biggest people that, you know, wanted to all of a sudden be, uh, Mr. America, Mr. and Miss America is like people that don't like our people. But we're Americans. Are we Americans, are Americans where the original indigenous Americans? But they hate us. But they're American. This is their country. That's the first thing that ever comes out of their mouth when anything like that happens. I'm American. I support America. I love America. I love America. You know, they're, you know, the draper itself and the American flag. And like I said, when it happened, I was up. You know, um, working at Old Navy, that next, uh, like, I think later on in that week, you know, we had, you know, the American flag merch just flying off the shelves. Like we were selling out, uh, anything with the American flag on it. Like in under, like we was having, like, truck loads. Like every other week was unpacking the truck with American merch with the American flag. And it was selling out, like, like, as soon as we got it onto the sales floor. But, um, yeah. Said all that to say, we just kind of, are we allowed certain people to be visively, loosely, throw around the word American, we want to let people try to subjugate other people under the guise of air quotes being American, meaning, like, they can say they're American, but they won't say black people, original people, we're not Americans. You see, we're only American when it suits them. So I'm not American enough if I live in the deep, deep, deep south. If I'm going, you know, down the country road or walk, walk and pass your house, you're going to pull a gun on me because I'm not American and say, get off my property or get off in front of my house. You definitely don't want to say, uh, somebody Asian is an American after that I'm past their, uh, citizenship test or been, uh, worse than that. Born and raised over here. Can't speak a, like, a Chinese or Japanese or Vietnamese. They can't speak their own, can't speak any of their languages. They born and raised over here. They just as American as you were, I, but, um, yeah, that day was very tragic. I'm just really bringing it up because just to point out the hypocrisy of this nation. Um, the racism within this country and the, you know, the way, the divisive way. So-called patriots of, of this land isolate and cause division amongst all of us. Cause only they seem to be able to be patriotic. Only they seem to be able to be capable of loving America. And by day, I mean like white people like, yeah, only they're capable of loving America. Like we got relatives serving in the armed forces too. You know, people in our community, they done, uh, died for this country too. 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You know, going up there to the excavation attempts. You know, it was like, it was just a real sad time. We're seeing people jump out the, you know, building like way at the top. Um, you know, there was jumping all the way from the top of the tower when the plane hit. Trying to, it was crazy, man. So, you know, if he was alive back then. So, my next topic I want to speak about in the speaking point section is, uh, your girl. Kimmy. Camomala. Madam VP. Oh, no, no. She ain't madam VP. No more. It's just that, man. Now she's madam president. So, I want to make sure I'm calling her by her proper title. Madam president. Madam president has been accused. Of having. A listening device. On her latest debate. So, she was accused of having earpiece. Uh, some Nova H1 audio earrings. So, she's wearing, um, uh, pearl earrings. And they said the device looks just like the Nova's. And they put up, you know, a course split screen comparisons. Um, she said she got her, uh, um, pearl earrings from Tiffany and has had them for years. And it was just like, uh, a course is supposed to be a conspiracy theory, uh, comprised of the, uh, of the right. So, they tried to say the right wingers was, uh, just making it all up and da da da da da. But I just want to say they all do it. Do you think these presidential elections are real? It's all a farce. Cause Donald Trump was handing her behind in that debate. You think a guy like him can intellectually debate anybody? She got one. He got one. All our presidents had them. Brock had one. They all, it's like, it's all smoke and mirrors, bro. But yeah, I do believe she had it. And like I said, she's running cause she knows she's going to lose. And when she loses, she gets to do what she gets to keep any money that they didn't use in the campaign. And then she can get more on the next election. You even get to keep it when you drop out the election. That's why a whole lot of people run for a presidential office, just so they can keep the campaign money. Cause if anybody even knows anything remotely about this country, you know that number one, we're not an actual country where conglomerate, where company. But the foundation of America, the fabric that would, that's what keeps our country going. The United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, both articles were crafted to keep the white man in power. I said again, to keep the white man in power. Any feminist will tell you that. During her one feminist come out and back Kamala Harris, who they know is a white woman. So that's how we already know she ain't going to win anyway. Her or any other women that ran for president of the United States ain't going to win. She got it on literally on beatball cause old dirty Joe just don't look good no more. He can't keep the act up no more. He was sitting over there tripping over his own feet, having senior citizens in moments in the middle of debates, losing control over his bodily functions. And the list goes on. I don't know why people automatically say conspiracy theory when you're thinking critically. That's a critical thought. How's it a conspiracy? But they say this iHeartRadio station is brought to you by vitamin water. Every day when you log in to chumbacassino.com, the ultimate online social casino, you get a free daily bonus. Imagine if you got daily bonuses in other parts of your life. I chose french fries over loaded french fries. I asked steward from accounting about his weekend, even though I don't care. I updated my operating system without having to call tech support. Collect your free daily bonus at chumbacassino.com now. Live the Chumba Life. The bunk back myth and it was just, you know, it was fake news. They're basically saying it's fake news. I kind of think it's the truth though. You know, she can't hold it together, man. She's really bad at it. She's really bad at selling it. She just has zero credibility. There's nothing like she can't. I don't even know how she even has constituents. She's not convincing at all. She can't even sell the illusion. That's what all the presidency is. Anyways, just selling an illusion. Just be like, "Who? Look at this hand over here." It's a slight of hand trick. But she's not even good at selling the illusion. Donald Trump isn't either, but I gotta give it to him. He's consistent. I'll say that. He's consistent. I give it to him for consistency. She is not consistent at all. But yeah, I believe it was a device. They all wear him at the Secret Service wears earpieces. Why wouldn't the President of the United States wear earpiece? Huh? If people, if reporters in the press conference, if they got on earpieces, why wouldn't the politicians be betting each other wear earpieces too? Come on, man. I don't know why that sounds weird to people. I do think there's a lot of content creators trying to do their little videos and spend it for some internet clout and a couple of colleagues, but it ain't nothing new under the sun. I don't know why it's so shocking. Like, you know, that it's beyond any President or former President to have been wearing a device be wired for sound. All right, so my last topic I want to talk about, I don't want to talk about it, but then I got to talk about it because it happened. Because like I said, I don't talk about gossip and slander. And this teeter's around gossip and slander, but, you know, got to address the elephant in the room. All right, so like I said, I don't gossip and slander. I'm not touching that with a ten foot pause. I'm just commenting on the after effects. I don't think you should have gotten in trouble with ESPN. Because he wasn't. He wasn't representing ESPN when that was taking place. He wasn't like, I didn't have nothing to do, they shouldn't be. It shouldn't have been threatening his job or nothing else. It shouldn't have been threatening his job or nothing else. Like, they didn't have nothing to do with ESPN if it wasn't real. I don't know, like I said, I'll be trying to gossip and slander. I'm just on that side of it. You never notice when a brother starts getting traction, starts becoming highly successful. They try to exert some form of control over them. They threaten to take something away or try to make an example out of them in some form or facet. So, ESPN coming for his anchor job and like always trying to make somebody apologize for something. I don't have nothing to do with sports entertainment. Instagram didn't delete his account because that's the type of stuff that gets your account deleted and violates the guidelines. But they didn't delete his Instagram account or whoever renders his Instagram account. So, why y'all tripping? Why y'all trying to fire him from ESPN? Now, like I said, I kind of don't even know. Because it's just like a whole thing, bro. When you do the Instagram live, I'm not too proficient at IG live, that's what I'm doing. What little I do know about it is like, yeah, I go to the app, then they ask you do you want to go live, then you got to confirm that you want to go live. And then lastly, you got to upload your live content and provide it that you don't have technical difficulties. Now, his response is that, you know, he pocket did it, you know, he just went off. And I think all of us have pocket dialed somebody. I think all of us have pocket sent a picture before. I don't know nobody that a pocket did a video. Now, a while ago, Cardi B, she pocketed, you know, her gallery. She just, you know, did her TV. Oopsie, she had a oopsie. There ain't nobody pocket doing those videos, man. She's their own, like, I don't know what, I don't know why I started by sliding that clip. I'm not convinced it was, you know, I'm not convinced it was real. All right, let me get together. I'm trying to keep it together. This is like every time I think about it, like, it's beyond me, bro. Like, but I'm just a little outrage on ESPN stance about the way they're trying to handle the situation. That's your first instinct to fire somebody or try to find them or fire them, like force them to apologize. And, like, all sports centers, not, you know, the NFL, like, y'all dirty foul, corrupt mofos. Y'all is the dirtiest, filthiest, foulest form of media in the world. Y'all got the audacity to always try to discipline a brother, like find a brother some money. Like, back in the '90s, they used to find NBA players for not wearing three pre-suits in a press junkie. And the black people was always the franchise player. You want to find a franchise player some money for not wearing a suit? The hell? The franchise players is the one to get the asses in to see the Saudi event. Shoot, they used to find, in the NBA, they used to find Allen Iverson for wearing diamond earrings. And I think they find them for wearing braids, for his French braids, for his trademark French braids. That's how he even got the endorsement deals, with his French, with his cornrows. They find them for that. They're always trying to find somebody, fire somebody, or discipline somebody, some type of way. And, like, don't even get me started on calling the Kaepernick. Because why he still ain't playing football? Well, yeah, that's crazy, like... Like I said, I don't know if it was real or if it wasn't real, but I just didn't like the after effect of it. Just that looming presence of the overseer, they so quick they always try to tell us what we can and can't do. And he's the whole reason why the people was even watching y'all. Wasn't nobody watching y'all show before he went over there? But, you know, it is what it is. 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