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Again reminding you.
You know, y'all get your tests and stop reminding us what I got you reminding you. Make sure you subscribe, make sure you click follow. You know they play games, so you want to make sure that you subscribe and follow. And also you know I'm gonna ask people to go ahead and and you know, invite some friends. You know. Don't really push a hard line, you know, I don't ask y'all for much. I sit in the background, y'all do what y'all can do with I'm gonna start pushing the line. I'm gonna start really asking y'all, y'all rock with me, like I'm gonna need your help on some things. Big year coming up twenty twenty five, A lot that's going on, and I need my straight shooters, my co teachers, you know, to be to ride with me because we just got a lot of ground to cover next year with so much going on in different products, different projects that I'm working on, and I want to make sure you guys are writing with me all the way. And speaking of riding with me, we have Jade Horrel here along with Marcella's Marcella's Rowe who again, guys, you see them on everything that I do, so really need no introduction, but I'm glad that they are here helping me with this content. Shout out to them, not only just guys being another person, you know as I go on my soapbox to listen to me ran and interrupt and you know, all that good stuff, but also just behind the scenes, you know, making sure I can't cover every single story. It's impossible, you know, and still we don't even as a team get them all because it's just I mean, you literally have to be watching this all day every day. So I want to thank Jade and Marcellus again. I'm gonna do it every single time to be able to you know, let you guys know that I'm not doing this by myself, and you know we are constantly exchanging information every day, and by the end of the week, it's one hundred plus stories that have come across what Jade calls the news deaths.
And it's just almost impossible.
You know, news moves so fast, Jade, all right, so being able to keep up, and it's gonna move five times faster because one thing for sure, Trump is definitely gonna have a headline on a daily basis.
Yeah, I wish I could see me rolling my eyes right now.
Well, well before you even get into the stories, if you know mine, I want to say congratulations to Test for being the champion of social justice. You definitely deserve that. Don't nobody else deserve it. You definitely deserve it because you definitely put in the work. I appreciate congratulations to you. I appreciate that. I appreciate that man.
So much work that get put in and gonna get put in, and so much more to do. I you know, Mike, Jada's seventeen and she been riding with me this whole time. She'll be eighteen in June, and you know, my baby's been with me every step of the way, and so very proud of her. Going to prayer view this year and for the first time my hustle has been on a five because I've been somewhat limited about you do known't having a kid.
That's just reality.
No, no regrets about it at all, you know, I made I made the choice to have her. Her and my ex husband and by the way, great ex husband who always has said many times, why don't you let her come live with me, you know, a few years for you to go take you know, travel, do take some of these opportunities. I've missed out on a lot of opportunities, you know, go to work for this person, to that person, or uh, you know, go see what you can get accomplished in New York, or see what you can get comes to DC. But I always Marcella's wanted, you know, especially with a girl child. I wanted to raise her, you know daily. I want to be in her life, a daily, daily interaction. And I am proud I did it the hard way, the right way. Not a thousand babysitters, not even a big mama around, you know, always in a city where there was I didn't have my mother or my parents or you know, drop off at the grandmother's, didn't have a brother, sister, my only child, Like I really got this out the mug guys, and nobody put me in this at all. And I'm telling you if I went through it, but I'm so grateful God is always blessed. Did not have to put Jada in danger. Then that's very big, big thing to me, you know, not dropping all the people's house for things to happen to her and boys to do stuff to her and adults to beat on her and all that, and just pushing all the way through, you know, with my baby right with me, organizing, working on the laptop, laying next to me, Like my baby really did ride with her mama. And she's just you know, such a good kid, just a good kid. And I'm not saying and that just saying. I'm saying it like I never had to go to school with any issue. One time I did have to correct them on something, but it wasn't on her, you know, but not a problem child at all, you know, not in trouble, not written up, you know, not tardy, not late, just really just did nothing. Like because my mother stayed at school with me, it was always.
Something to.
I was like Jada in school, just a good kid, you.
Know, like time in middle school for fighting. But that's that's a different story. Just need to hear Nordad, I.
Still remember they we want to hear about it. Don'tbody knows neither. No, let's go back to here and there. I want to know what happened of in the middle school fight.
The people want to know. We was fighting.
A bunch of girls were fighting, and I was one of those young ladies.
When I said about, let's get the whole team. What's it about. I don't I literally don't remember. I think it was it was just neighborhood stuff.
Some of us gang bangle.
No, no, no, not gang banging, because we don't have gangs like y'all have in the Middle the Middle East school.
Excuse me, I was in the Midwest right in DC.
But it's mostly like by your neighborhood, your block, and a lot of especially when it was a Chocolate city, neighborhoods and blocks were concentrated with your family members, so families really do move as gangs for the most part used to live in the same areas, and so a lot of that stuff was was passed down generationally in terms of beef.
And it was just a group of girls.
That didn't like me and my friends and my parents went up to the school. I got suspended. We all got suspended. And then when I got home, my father was like, you know, you know all, I noticed all your you know you all the pretty girls.
You know, y'all y'all were fighting, you know, the girls like different girls, and you was just trying to make sure I wasn't being a leader this or anything like that.
I don't. I don't think it had anything to do with that, but it probably.
Did be an elite like what like, what the leading? You know, it's pretty and better you know then that you were fighting that. I think that had something that does with pretty and better mean, not fight pretty mean.
So I was a part of a pretty good game. You don't want to.
Say it, I'll say it. I was a part of pretty girl game. All of my girls. Surely we look better than them, but they thought us though. We wasn't like we were trying to fight, if any thinking, it was in defense.
Yes, that's that's exactly what it was.
But I don't see that as elitist. I'm defending myself. It's not like y'all they were trying to bully y'all.
Yeah, for sure, and were fighting and we got something because I.
Need more clearly on that then from your parents, Like, how does that mean I'm defending myself.
No, we just you ain't gonna beat up on me thing because we look any kind of way, we mop your ass at least, that's what what I shut out to Tang Thompson and Tiffany, Tiffany and Marita and all.
I remember all I fight. You don't remember I remember them all.
That was my only high school fight, I mean middle school for like school fight, just something that led to me getting in trouble in school. But everything else was pretty much family related or neighborhood related, and we for all the time because that's just that was the environment.
So you know, you was fighting, just not at the school.
I was, oh yeah, fighting my cousins fighting and we.
Got some school. You know he was out there fighting.
It was it was rough back in the in the crack era on fourteenth Streets growing up.
So you know we made it through Piece and blessing. John Clay the Energy.
Plain watch he's so piece and blazing.
Well I was.
I'm not peace of blessings. I will knock your teeth out, I say, graight up. I want you to know what it is with me like ot A somebody too old? If I who told me fight my honest in US seventies and baby, you want to get it in, we can get it in. It ain't nobody above getting put on the ass.
Now. I don't pick fights, you know, I let stuff roll, you know not? You know like I'm not. I'm not looking for nothing.
I can go anywhere any city and go to the hood and have a good time.
I don't excuse me, baby, can I get through you know nice?
I'm you know you say, y'all know I'm in person like it ain't no problems at all.
But if it's a problem, though.
If you want to, like, if it need to be a problem, it can absolutely be a problem.
Will not be piece and blessing in my way out of.
Yeah, And see what's so funny is I can relate to Tess because I still remember I got I had thirty eight things on my record. I got in trouble from pre k to twelfth grade teachers. I got kicked out of elementary school. But telling the teacher to suck.
It, marce Selli's is a mess. Hey, my mom was the saying, wait, so you was a line pusher. You're an habitual line pusher from.
Day one, pushing the limit, going a little bit further.
Yeah, I went far this time. Let me see how far I can go the next time. Well, may see.
That's why you're tracking the politics. So you know, people that I was saying, it's in it for the right reasons. I don't know about people that did it for career or whatever they read, but but people that are in it because they want to see change.
You gotta have some fighting you like literally usually literally.
Have to have some guts and some you know, ability to speak up and push a line every now and then and be all right with saying it like it is. That's why I be on the homies in the and it's so bad because I know that those same skill sets that you use, the organized hood and the organized stuff doing stuff the wrong way, can be organized to do this. And so our best advocates bet before Malcolm X was Malcolm X, he was read like, so I those those kin type of people that shake it up, you know, to shake up the system, saving need to be said, always gonna advocate, you know, hard to get them to get them in because again I didn't choose politicies, it chose me. So it does give you some fearlessness that you need, especially as we getting ready c because everybody was scared to talk. They don't they got they got MSNBC and a chokeholder or what to say not to say because Trump said they shut everybody down, and you know, so we're just gonna see how it is. And this is where guys, me being objective, let me just say this and then we'll get into the content. This is where I'm excited that my brand it all makes sense now, you know, because I've always been objective. It's never been just one side. And it's gonna be interesting to see how the MSNBC of the worlds are in the MSNBC, who has always, you know, made it a point to be the opposite of Fox, to be very partisan driven, how they're going to navigate navigate this new era because allegedly, you know, Trump, I guess, you know, I don't know what they gonna do try to shut people down if he sees you know, I don't know, I don't know what it's gonna be within his power to do or how, but it's gonna be very interesting to see how people cover this administration. So I'm very proud that I've always, you know, tried to be as objective as I possibly can at the same time being very clear on the policies that I stand for. You know, people think they be catching me, Jay saying she always say that she objected, but she only supports the Democrat stuff. Well, if I'm telling you, as an individual, what what works for me, it don't work for me. Yeah, ninety percent. They are on the liberal side because I care about poor people. But being that doesn't mean that I'm not objective. That doesn't mean I can't call a ball on a strike.
I can't tell you.
When somebody did something right or somebody did something wrong, or you know, be able to say, yo, okay, that was a good part. That was a you know, and I come in Trump on him at least doing what he say he gonna do his people, whether I like it or not. That's still to me being objective. He's keeping his promises. So people need to understand the difference between being objective and having a personal preference. They haven'ten able to do that, though, Jay, because it's so polarizing and the media's turned into pick a side, and so just gonna be interesting to see how things are covered. And I'm just excited that I haven't had to go against my brand and being able to just you know, be consistent, because nobody came to me after the election like they was coming after a whole lot of other people, you know that was pushing one agenda over another, or you know, said they cared about one thing and then flipped it up, switch it up, turned into a shape shifter, and went totally in another direction. So it's been a lot of inconsistencies and so I'm pretty proud that I don't have to shift anything at all. I just keep being tesseling and just you know, saying what it is. And I think that's finally making sense to many that questioned my style you know, many times throughout that.
And also I read a we talked about an article recently where the La Times owner is trying to incorporate an a an AI bias meter to some of the content and that has sparked a lot of controversy, and that just so it just goes to your point about being objective and just seeing the entire bigger picture and just quick context. Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon Seong. He plans to introduce an AI power bias meter on the paper's articles so it can provide provide readers with both sides of a story. And so the meter is a part of a broader strategy to overhaul the editorial board and address what he perceives as mainstream media's failure to separate news from opinion and.
Also to show multiple perspectives.
And so there was once upon a time where you know, there's a lot of focus and pressure that I experienced, says and Marcellus on having to pick a side, right, especially when it comes to politics. And we're seeing that independent thinking and also showing multiple sides of a particular issue and doing research and a story is being valued more and more. And so I want to use this as an opportunity also test to uplift you because the way your mind thinks and how you interact with information, I've got to learn a lot about you know, your process in terms of discerning you know, fact from fiction and just seeing the bigger picture and then knowing when you know information is being disseminated properly or improperly. And so this is just a testament to that and how you're ahead of.
Your time, right, You're welcome.
Yeah, I appreciate you saying it, and again you know it's okay. I just think when people make the clear the clear this is my opinion versus this is the information. This is what it is. I'm not telling you how it should be, but this is what it is. I try to deliver it in a way so you know, and then you know, I repeat it a lot while I'm talking, like guys, I'm not saying this is what I think. I'm not telling you that. I'm just telling you this is what it is. And then you'll see that come. Yeah, but teessy, you should be you're not hearing me. I'm not saying this, you know. So it takes a lot, you know, to get people to understand it. Give an example a couple of weeks ago on Instagram where I was talking about nonprofits and how AOC said that what's the organization that just lost to try that don't receive tax dollars? Let me look it up guys in real time. Sorry for the delay and also for the listeners.
When you consume as much information or not even a daily basis an hourly basis like testing figure out it's you know, it's it's just so.
So much, like it's so much and it's literally at the top of my head and I want to take a moment till we did a whole show on it. I said, the top of my head, and I want to Guy's apologies for the delay, but I want to tie this all up in a button for you ac LU. The ACLU, remember when they said defund the a c l uh that's.
The American Civil Liberties Union.
Right, And at the end up video showing my point I was saying is when I tried to just put it out there with text, people didn't get it, so then I had to literally write it out, you know. So my point what I was just trying to piggyback on is learning how to give information to people. You may have to do it. And you notice being an adult educator too, JA or an educated period, you have to give it different ways. You know, if if this, if this didn't work this post with me saying no, it eventually goes back to the taxpayer, and I saw people were still confused, didn't know what I'm saying.
Okay, let me do a visual.
Then let me write this out so you can literally see how it goes back to the tax how ultimately taxpayers we compensate for everything. It's no such thing as it doesn't touch the taxpayer. No, it might not directly come from taxpayer, but indirectly it does. And then if that don't work, then I need to rap about it that don't work. I need to sing about it that don't work. You know. I use analogies all the time, metaphors all the time. So there's a real effort in my point I'm making and trying to get people to consume information. And so when people only give it one way and they're not willing to say no, let's go a little bit longer till we get this. Let's go a little bit longer, unpack this, let's make sure. Okay, let me do a metaphor. Then does this work?
That work? You know?
Then it's a real effort. And so it's going to be interesting to see how the media, how we move and how they're going to move. That's why our little podcast, long extended classroom style breaking information down.
That's just not how people consume.
They want a one minute or two minute video, and so it's going to be a challenge with how do you get information in one minute a one minute clip and get people to understand it. So those who are teachers and want to really educate, I gotta work twenty times harder to try to figure out ways, you know, to get this information. The people say that they're actually learning, and that's what That's gonna be a challenge. That's gonna be a challenge because although yes, objective news is starting to be appreciated, but objective news sometimes can be born, sometimes cannot be what people watch because sometimes can be it's not entertaining, and as we know, when it comes to numbers, it matters. Numbers matter, and so when people are not watching, like in MISNBC, and they don't have the viewers, there is no MESSBC, you know what I mean. So it's gonna be very interesting to see how we balance the entertainment, the information, and the object and being objective. I try to do all three. I try to do all three. Little Joe every now and then keep you engaged in the conversation but still trying to give it information, pausing go in a little soapbox.
Being old. She's long winded.
Yeah, I'm long winding because I'm giving information, you know, so it's gonna be a challenge day. But I hope my style can continue to add some value, you know, as as we move forward.
Absolutely, and it will continue to add value because it's definitely added value to my life and Marcellius's and everyone help push the line and all of your hard work does not go I noticed and broadcast you were mentioning Jada, and I would love I always love hearing you talk about stories of you're going out there organizing and doing the work with.
The baby on your head.
On her head, like, oh, you know.
This is this is this is definitely definitely very inspiring.
So you haven't been easy, and you're about to see my hustle, ma'am. I'm gonna try to do it the next year what many have not done in the last ten you know. So and I'll just say this, guys in you know, this episode got a little bit of information, but more you know, personal. Just a little chat every now and then, guys, everything on be hard news thirty minutes straight, you know, just a little chat, but a lot is going on next year. I'll just use the last few minutes to just kind of tell you, guys what I want you to kind of be be aware of what's happening.
We finally got everything together for a tour.
So very excited about the.
Tetl Perago town Hall Live, town Hall.
Yes, yes, yes, they can't hear you clap, marcellf you remember you on the podcast. Y'all gotta get loud when y'all say when 'all y'all, I can't hear none of y'all. It must be I don't know y'all mute or what, but I can hear you everybody. Marcella's wascared and now we can't yet. Marcelle's was clapping. So I'm excited about the tour.
Let's go waiting.
Yes, I've been waiting to find somebody they can put it together, that has the receipts. You know, I believe in receipts, knowing that you can actually do it, and so I am excited about it. The first one will be in April in Houston, and then we're doing Atlanta, of course, Detroit, Chicago, possibly New York possibly, but definitely for sure Houston, Atlanta, and Detroit. And what's fun about this is again kind of going back to what it's it a little bit of entertainment, a little bit of information, you know. You know, my goal is to do to Push the Line training, so this will be an opportunity to do to come back and do the training by having the town hall. So the idea is we have a town hall, but you know it's gonna be fun. Tequila shots, straight shot, no chaser, your little mission covers, you know, your shots. We got gift bags, sponsors being you know, local vendors that may you know, may have products, not a lot, you know, maybe like ten of people that may have product that they want to sell to the folks, but music open bard like, we're gonna have a good time. So it's more of a party style, you know, town hall to kind of talk about, you know, in Atlanta, in Houston, what are some of the issues you know that you have. And then the goal is, you know, I've been trying to figure out how do I get these trainers, how do I get the budget, how do I And so I came up with this, like, okay, maybe the tour the proceeds from you know, the tickets that people buy, which will be us a nonprofit. By the way, Push the Line is in process now becoming a nonprofits on the site about that. I did not want to do that, but that's the only way that I can figure out how to make this work. So we'll take those proceeds and then we'll double back and come back, you know, and do a training specifically on the issues that they talked about.
Those trainings will be.
Small, you know, maybe forty fifty people, you know, something like that, but I figure that was the best way to kind of come in and you know, we were listening, see what the issues are, and hopefully take those and those people in that room and then give them the training customize on the issues that they mentioned. So I thought that was a great way you know, to get that get it popping. You know, folks love drinking, love hanging out. So basically I got to lure y'all in with the alcohol. That's the bottom line. Got Loawyer y'all in with alcohol. So I'm excited about it. We already got the space in Houston. It's definitely happening. I'm gonna go do full media coverage on this because what I don't want to do is to hype all this up and then we don't, you know, sell the place out and we don't need a lot. We're talking about one hundred and fiftywo hundred people, so this is not it's a lot a lot. But by the time I make my rounds and you know, do some real good media coverage a couple of times and ask y'all to please come and bring somebody else, think we'll do okay. I think, I think, I'm I think I got a decent enough platform to be able to say one hundred people will come, you know, to at least each one. But let's starting early, guys, like hustling early, not last minute, like January one. We're kicking it off because what I don't want to do is cancel it. So I'll be asking you guys for your partnership and leadership on that, you know, to make sure that we fun because this is basically bottom line, you know, trying to get this training going. And I have, as you guys know, Jade Marcellus, I've just really been trying to figure out how can I get this training going. You know, nobody's gonna come in and save us, so I figured the best way get people to come in, donate, actually talk about the issues, see what's important, and hope those same people.
People will come back for the training. So that's the goal.
A couple other things that I am excited to announce we cannot announce as of it, but big moves popping next year, guys.
But that for sure, getting the tour done. I'm very excited.
I've been waiting on that, and so guys, we hope that I don't I did those cities because those are one of the top cities that follow me Instagram. So that's it, guys, Gonna have a tour and many many other things gonna be busy again. Without Marcello's and Jay, none of this will be popular, be possible, and it's certainly gonna be possible with that Black Effect four years strong. Charle Mayne obviously had got it right with the vision of podcasts, as we can see what happened in this last election. I'ma take some of the credit for because I pushed him on the butt anyway, like Jay said it, neither hear the credit. But you know it was his vision, his partnership him with our heart, like straight up I did was always in this er like you need to do something, you know, kind of like young Turks and all you know, they have their own thing, and so I'm just glad that he did exactly, whether it's me and many other people, his wife and everybody, you know, whatever it was, he seems like he got this right because many other people started podcast networks and we ain't heard nothing from So we still we're still going strong in a space that's dominated by white people because black people we love visuals and YouTube and all that. Seventy percent of people listening upon podcasts are white. But I think this last election show that it is necessary. It is necessary to have an outlet that you can, you know, teach and engage and stay in form year round. And I'm glad that you know our space and at least some of the Black Effect podcast network has been holding its own. Out of all of the creators, I think we have fifteen or sixteen, it's only two of us that are only consistently talking about this type of stuff. And that's me to Miga, Mallory and my son with their past with their their podcasts. And I've been doing this without a host the whole time. You know, Jaye popped in and helped starting since the summer, but I've been holding this down for four years by myself and that's not easy either. Guys, like one person, that's not easy. Most people have a co host, which is shit. Eventually, why I got one, you know, it's just easy to kind of share the load, you know. Uh. But for the first four years, four and a half years, I did it by myself. And so I'm excited to see what else we can do, what more we can accomplish, because it will be a busy year in twenty twenty five. And I hope Marcellus and Jay's you're here to ride along with me.
Yes, ma'am, Yes, I'm riding with my love.
Point.
My guys, you've been listening to push them. I was going to be listening to push the last that's right, straight shot. Don't chaser guys. Make sure you stay tapped in. Invite a friend. I really need you to invite a friend. Want to get our numbers up. And lost half the numbers when we had the glitch with Apple, so it's very, very disappointing. So guys, I need to go back and find them people and come get them people. And if we don't ever find them, then I need you guys to ask the friends so we can double our numbers and make twenty twenty five, A strong year.
Guys. All right, peace peace.
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