May is Awareness, Loyalty, does it still exist?

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FORCY Radio. Hollelujah and good evening, and welcome to another exciting show of

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sitting it straight with Missus Gray.
Let's pray God, Father, God,

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were just thinking. We praise you. We give you glory for you alone

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are worthy to be praised. We
are your people. We're your daughters of

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Zion. Right now, Lord,
we stand behind the cross. This is

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your show that the audience are your
people. We want to do whatever have

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your way. God, You have
your way. We are nothing compared to

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you. You heal the captives and
set them free. You change the minds

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of people. You renew the trauma
and the turmoil in the minds of the

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people. You give and pass our
unconditional love and grace and mercy abounding.

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Every day. We thank you,
we praise you. Now, Father God,

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you do what you do best,
set your captors free. And Jesus

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name, we pray. Amen and
amen and amen, glory, glory,

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glory, glory, glory to God
and the Highest. You know, this

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is May. Whatever you thought you
were going to do in April, if

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you didn't get it done on Friday, you're done. This is May.

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I didn't even change my calendar.
I'm looking. I say, oh,

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dear, I got to change the
calendar. When I look up, there's

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my calendar. I got to change
the calendar. Whatever you purpose to do

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yesterday, you didn't do it.
You're in a new month. The banks

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were crowded because people got to pay
their bills. The post office was crowded

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because people got the mail off their
bills at uh, what's it? What's

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it called? Am Scott was crowded
because people got to get moneys and get

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loans. The pawn shops, parking
lot as I passed Bible was crowded because

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they're trying to get money and trying
to just make it over. Because this

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is made first, bills are due
and no excuses. Bills are due,

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and let me do let me do
a little sidebar here talking about bills.

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Let me tell you what I learned
over time. The creditors prior to twenty

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twenty. Now I gotta date it
for you. Prior to twenty twenty,

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the creditors were interested in repossessing your
car, taking your house, evicting you,

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cutting your lights off, cutting off
your water. They weren't interest.

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They just wanted to get paid.
When we open up an account, or

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we start a utility account or whatever, you're making a promise to pay on

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time and the amount set over time, I would talk to my creditors.

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I would talk to my creditors,
and I found out they don't want your

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stuff. They don't want it.
They just want to be paid because they

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got to get paid. They got
to pay their staff, So pay your

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stuff. Something coming up with an
excuse call the people. Stop being in

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fear of the creditor. Now they
may be a little different now since twenty

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because one of my pastors that I
mentor, he sent me an email.

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I'm not sure it's a little there's
a store. Stores are closing, people

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of having to go find their jobs. Those who were loyal, and we're

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gonna talk about loyalty tonight. Those
who were loyal and try to hang in

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there with the businesses, the businesses
of trying. They can't. They can't

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stretch it, they can't make They
can't go out there and shake a tree

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and the money will fall. They
can't. They can't do it. They've

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done everything they could, or somebody
has to file for chop the eleven bankruptcy.

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Then they have to turn around on
the next moment and say we're closing,

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and we're closing in a week.
They've done all that they could do.

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They don't they can do. So
you got a mixture of people.

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Some people ain't they signed up the
work. They didn't. They ain't coming

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in the work they you know,
and I think it was somebody had mentioned

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that you have to show up,
um, you know, you have to

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prove the unemployment that you're at least
trying for the job. I think Tray

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you said that last time and stuff
like that. You know, so that

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people are doing that, but I
don't know where they're living off of because

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you ain't clocking in and making no
money, so I don't know what you're

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doing. Scams are going on ridiculously
now through the email ridiculously. Now you're

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spywear and all that. You know, you need to go ahead and update

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that and get to update your information
and you you know, thank god,

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my daughter can look at it and
tell nobody. Don't don't respond to that.

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A lady got on talking about on
Facebook, I can show you how

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to manage monetize your Instagram. She
looked real. She had an accent,

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but she looked real. She said, I'm giving I'm offering this one time

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for free. So I went on, I mean, it's for free.

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Next thing, you know, I
mean? And so I was like,

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wait a minute. The writing looked
weird and you ain't spelling. See that's

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another thing you know about scammers.
They can't spell. We can't spell.

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So you get an emails and it's
misspellings in it. Just deleted, deleted.

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Okay, anyway, I'm sorry.
Can I say something? Yes?

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Please? Please? No, no, no, I just want to sample

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when you said when you said something
about the scammers. Sometimes, like on

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Facebook or something, somebody will comment
from somebody else's page. Check out this

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you you won't regret it. I've
seen that a few times. But there

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there's sometimes if you look at it, look at the comments. If you

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get something that looks funny, look
at the comments, and some people will

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say scam. That's a scam.
So you know, a few times,

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like you said, some of the
stuff looks real and people pop in on

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your time. Nice. I don't
know these people, but they're commenting off

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of somebody else's stuff, and especially
when they say, check this out.

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You won't regret it, you know, stuff like that. You know it's

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kind of funny. You're absolutely right, and it's more happening. So you

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gotta be careful. You've got to
be careful. You can't be answering some

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of that stuff there, that scammer
or I made thirty five thousand this week

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and you need to try this and
all that all on the spiritual folks,

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the profits pages on YouTube, big
time coming up, trying to steer you

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wrong. So I rebuke all of
you. May you catch your fire and

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blow up. That's all I got
to say. There we go, and

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that's just me. That's that warrior
in me. You don't need to be

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amongst us anymore. If you've got
nothing else better to do than to try

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to scam us. Take my money, take the heart of Scare my elderly

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half to death, Scam them out
of their money. Everything you don't need

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to live. You don't need to
take another breath. With everything I am,

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you don't need to take another breath
because who does that? Who does

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that? It's not my fault you
you can't find a job, you don't

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know how to work, and you
can't keep a job. Has nothing to

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do with us. Leave us alone. But I call all of you in

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the name of Jesus by fire in
Jesus name. Now we're gonna talk about

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loyalty. It's February. This is
a month of all types of and kinds

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of celebrations and awarenesses and stuff.
You mean me, say what did I

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say February? There you go.
See, y'all got to just just catch

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me, just catch me. I'm
falling, just catching Just I'm done,

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you know what, I think.
I'm gonna let y'all do this, and

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I'm gonna just be quiet because I
am off on a bad start already.

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So I'm gonna see here and pray
y'all talk and okay, all right,

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thank you. See that's why I
love these ladies. They're not gonna sit

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here and let me cry. Should
burn. They're not gonna do that.

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They uphold him, well, upholded
each other. Tommy had a right to

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do that. That's what I expected
her. Put me in check. That's

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what I expect in love. Go
ahead in love, done done. But

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I trust her. Ever since Tommy
was in my classroom, we god established

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the bond because normally you don't do
that. You know, students go on,

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you graduate, you go on with
your life. Somewhere along the way

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we exchange numbers. We've kept in
touch. Then then I started having dreams

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of her traveling with me in ministry, and she was approached about it.

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She was open to it. Next
thing, you know, my husband passes

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away. I was gonna I just
wanted to have a wait for him.

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And she agreed to be my moderator
that night, that day and she cared

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the program. I mean, we've
been been in touch ever since then.

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The Lord said, okay, I
need you to get on the air again.

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And these are the people you call, and you see the two right

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here. That's loyalty because I think
Tommy knows I would do anything for her.

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There's nothing she cannot ask of me. And if I have to say,

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no, I cannot help you.
She knows from the bottom of my

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heart. Miss Gray really means she
can't. She cannot help in no way,

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but I know she'll pray for her. Trey is the same way we

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met years ago. Years ago.
I didn't even know Trey had left Bomb

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Beach County and then here goes Facebook. And again the only reason why I

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got on Facebook. I just want
to see who who's dead, if who's

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not. That's all I did.
That's that's all. I'm sorry, That's

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why I really. That's what they
said, if you want to see if

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your love was are still alive,
you know, joy us, And that's

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that was for me. So I'm
going through trying to find people and I

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don't know how Trey and I pop
back up and then we talk. I

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was like, Trey, is that
you? And then I think we got

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our numbers, and then here we
are today. Loyalty Were you least expected

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loyalty? Amen. Another couple of
other things. We're teacher National Teacher Appreciation

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Day. There's a day but sometime
in May for that. So for all

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the teachers out there, we thank
you. We want you to know that

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you're never forgotten. When I portrayed
doctor Mary mclaud Bethune at the History Center

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up here, I added a little
piece to my script because there would be

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volunteers that will accompany for the field
trip. So I said, how many

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of y'all remember your favorite teacher.
Just call out the name and what grade.

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I'm talking about older people, old
third grade. Ms Smith a coach,

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tea had this person that person all
over the place. I said,

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now, who's the teacher? And
they said, the kids mean. I

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said, give hall a round of
applause, or give him a round of

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applause, because you don't know what
they do behind closed doors to make sure

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your learning experience is the best,
not just two times or the beginning of

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the school year and at the end. Every single day they do their best

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to give you the best to them
and I will have them clapping. I

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wanted to tell the teachers. I
said, to the teacher, you will

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never be forgotten. You may graduate
each class and they may never say thank

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you, but trust me, one
student will maybe even try to find you

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and say thank you. And you
know so, teachers, you're very important

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to us. We appreciate you.
We know that you can't do this alone.

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You need family, You need the
parents. Parents. We need to

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team up with the teacher. You
don't put the whole burden and the whole

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responsibility of getting your child corrected because
you couldn't do it at the house on

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that teacher. That's not the teacher. They don't have the education for it.

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They don't go to school for it. They don't. They may take

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a psych class, psychology class as
an elective when they're getting their their teacher's

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degree and diplomas and certifications, maybe
they'll take a psych class. But no,

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there's no psychology. There's special education. There's developmental education that that type

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along because of special needs. But
that's as far as it goes. They're

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not social workers. I remember when
my god daughter was on earlier, you

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know this year, you know,
she was talking about I mean I talked

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about it. I mean the child
that brought I said, can you she

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brought a comb, and can you
leave this in your desk, miss Goldwire,

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because if I keep it at home, somebody will breaking. As she

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was doing. The child's here almost
every morning, and teachers have had to

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go outside of that what they know
just to make just to bring the class

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down, just to take that edge
off or what they go back to.

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So happy National Teachers Awareness Year.
We applaud you throughout the year and not

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just today. Yes, ma'am plica, I will just you know, piggybacking

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off what you're said and you know
the appreciation. But I think we need

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to name some other stuff that teachers. Teachers do that people just don't realize

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it because it's you know, people
say, oh, you go to school

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for this, you should be able
to handle this. But let's take you

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on a dream. You have a
classroom of twenty something kids, twenty five

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kids, a fight breaks out.
What do you do? You break it

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up? You're the human instinct,
you probably will. And then if you

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get hurt in the midst of that, then you know, then you probably

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have to take some time off,
you know, if you get injured.

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So those are the hazards people don't
think about. Also, if your kids

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don't have supplies, you know who
pays for that? If your child runs

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out. I've seen teachers go into
their pockets to make sure that kids that

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they have supplies for their bulletin boards
to print out things, you know,

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the pencils and stuff. Because little
Johnny comes to school and doesn't have a

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pencil you want him to do the
work. Sometimes the teachers are the ones

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that come out of pocket for that
time for planning your your your what's that

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to your lesson plans. I don't
know if they give them time in school

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to do that, but those are
some of the things that people don't don't

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realize. And if you got one
child that you have to try to keep

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on tasks while also trying to teach
the other twenty kids, you know,

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people don't take those things into consideration. And I know we go out and

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we say thank you to the teachers, but I just want to kind of

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lay out some things of what teachers
really go I come from a family educator,

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so I've seen the tiredness and you
still have to go home and take

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care of your family after a long
day's work. I see where you have

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to work longer hours ago to the
PTA and sometimes miss your child because you

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have to be obligated to what you
do. And I think it's a thankless

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job. And they do it and
they don't do it for the pain because

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they're not getting paid that much really
for what they do. And so I

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really when we say we appreciate the
teachers. I really want to just folks

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to have emphasis and if you don't
understand where a teacher does, volunteer in

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a classroom and see what they do. Or volunteer at a school and see

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what they do. If you don't
believe little Johnny's acting up, don't tell

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little Johnny you're going to come up
there and just peek in the classroom and

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see what he does. And don't
always, you know, think it's the

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teachers trying to pick on your child. Your child comes to school with some

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other stuff that he might not or
she might not show you. But then

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again he and she might show you, and you just disregarded thinking that the

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teacher is equipped to handle this because
they went the schools for education. It

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is not the case. So please, folks, I'm begging you, just

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go and just so you can be
empathetic and sympathetic to some of the things

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that they do. And they do
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You got some people that are doing
it for a paycheck, but trust

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me, the paycheck is not all
that. And I think they do it

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because they want to make a difference
in your child. So it would behool

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people, to partner with the teachers, to be present with your with your

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child's school, to try to make
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make sure your child succeeds, not
to be unsuccess successful. That's my thought,

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and I appreciate that. You're right, Tommy Tracy. There we go,

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y'all going to think the mike,
y'all going to think the mic,

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But you're absolutely right, trade because
it is a thankless job. You don't

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know, We don't know what it
took for that teacher to I have a

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good friend of mine that's a teacher
and a private middle private middle school,

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high school, maybe back home,
and I just happen to call. I'm

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thinking I'll call her on a Saturday, you know, late afternoon. Maybe

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she's you know, gotten some rest
of everything. She's go, no,

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I'm getting ready to my lesson plans, and I'm like, she, don't

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catch your break at all. Don't
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And then they're being they go through
all kinds of things, and then

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they're held accountable and then now all
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depended on merit and how successful that
classroom is and all kinds of nonsense.

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So you're absolutely right. It is
a thankless job. And I think I

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just heard a report last week on
iHeartRadio on one of my shows that I

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listened to, um very low capacity
of teachers going, individuals going to school

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begetting that education, teaching education.
So it's not it's finally hitting us now

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because we got teachers retiring, they're
leaving. But I don't know, I'm

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sorry, go ahead, ohead,
no, no, no, I'll just

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I don't know if y'all saw the
recent video the student attacking the teacher and

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a teacher ends up getting a leg
broken, that we're viral and so now

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the child, the child is charged, and so I just want to kind

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of bring bring up that, you
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the reasons I brought it. And
I'm sorry I'm a little talkative to day,

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but it's just you don't have people
going into that field simply because of

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that, and sometimes you don't have
the backup or your ministrators when you try

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to make a difference because their hands
are tied, you know, not wanting

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to expel or suspend students who have
proven time and time and again to be

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a threat to the school and so
it's it's it's it's it's a it's a

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disconnect somewhere and there's a gap somewhere. And so my thing is, I

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wouldn't go into the teacher. People
say, how do I don't want to

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be a teacher mental health? I
could do that, but education and having

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them put up with some of the
stuff that they have to put up within

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the classroom, it's it's a shame
and it's unfair. And I just know

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I'm trying to navigate for all the
teachers that are out there. I feel

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like, you know, I'm doing
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I'm trying to make a difference.
So I just really want to put

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emphasis on that. And I'm sorry, I'm talking a whole lot about that.

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Stop being sorry, because you you
come in with proof. You're coming

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with evidence based information that they need
to hear. We're not just making this

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up. We're not just going off
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this is what we know. I
know I have educators like you said around

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us and things like that, and
we know go ahead, Tommy. Oh,

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I was just getting ready to say, she's not kidding. The substitute

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teachers are in so high demand because
there's no teachers, and it's and it's

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it's a mess. I did it
for a week and a half and I

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was glad to put in my last
day because those kids were something else.

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And you could tell those that come
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same time, they clown just as
much as the ones that bully, the

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MoMA and the lattitude. So you
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teacher because that is a very hard
position to carry these days, with the

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laws that are in that you can't
send them to the office because of this,

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that and the other, and the
kids, some of them are just

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so disrespectful. It's sad. It's
very sad. And I'm coming where I

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was there, and you can't pay
me to go back, you really can't.

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Then I totally agree with you,
and it's a sad day. It's

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a sad day. And again I
go back. And I've said it before

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and I'll say it again. I
thought twenty twenty would have taught us something

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when you had to deal with your
child in your home and then when they

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were able to try to pivot to
get online, and you saw how Johnny

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Sarah Moshika you know, uh,
Cabossia, all of them. They couldn't

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even they didn't even get with it. There's some people who name their children

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after their favorite beverage. Anyway,
as we don't have anybody called sweet tea,

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you know, we'll be all right, you know, I mean,

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you know lemonade, you know sweet
strawberry, you know break kool aid,

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you know, you know. Okay, so anyway, yeah, we got

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about a man. I'm telling you, boy, that little purple bag you

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know. Yeah, yeah. I
walked into the elementary school and the mother

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was like, well, letnna tell
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Cavosi ain't like that. I said, what you go? I had

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to just go right out go to
my car at Hall of because she wasn't

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in the in the office and it
were like, what'd you call your child?

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Oh yeah, we've um yeah anyway, um, we're not gonna go

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there because I mean to eat,
like Kevin Hart said, uh he and

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uh ice Q was on the show
The Gentleman that has the England Act English

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accent and he said, you know
o'shan. He said, you know we

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were we could be related and excuse
like really, how did you get to

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that, he said, well,
you know your your original name, it's

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got that's an Irish name. He
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Hart said, no, man,
let me tell what black folks do when

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they name their child. His mama
was sitting there eat cereal, read the

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newspaper and somebody said, oh Shane. He said, she going out be

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a good name, but baby,
and that's what his mother named him,

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Oh Shay. He is not Italian, he is not from to so listen

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anywhere else. Cecilia he from No, he said, no, my mama

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named that. And Kevin Hard said, that's how black people name they hear

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something would ever be a good name
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Um, but we're talking about loyalty
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audience, if we got anybody out
there listening to us, you know,

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we would love for you to send
me your comments in. But Lloyd I

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learned this past year about loyalty and
though and you look around sometime when you're

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thinking that somebody would be there,
you know, this person will be there

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for you. That person you're thinking
that they would, and they don't show

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up, they don't check in,
they don't and you're like, okay,

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what did I do? You know, what did I do? And then

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you sit there so as I shared
with you a few weeks ago, God

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to her to let everybody go,
and I did. And you know,

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I've been, you know, just
walking on clouds, right, you know,

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since then. But I'm not picking
up the phone and calling people because

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they're not loyal. And then those
whom I least expect are calling me and

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checking on me or texting me,
hey, he was thinking about you.

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I hope everything's good, and not
trying to be nosy, not trying to

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get into my business, but just
say, hey, you're on my mind.

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And so you know, what is
loyalty? What is loyalty? And

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are you loyal? You know,
are you loyal? Are you loyal to

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yourself? Because a lot of times
we're out there and we're out there for

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everybody else. We're gonna do for
everybody else. I talk to my elders

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all the time. You know,
you need to stop being the bank for

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your great grand your grandchild. That's
that's not your responsibility. You show up

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at Christmas time, that's it,
that's it. You un fixed income.

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You're eight seventy eight eighty years old, you're still working. But if most

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your paycheck going and you got fifty
people in the house, come on,

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nah, come on. And now
it's now it's built up to where in

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the world we got to live as
family, We got to live bunch up

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and grab a couch and grab a
floor and all that kind of stuff.

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Now but we've come to that,
whereas before we didn't need to do that.

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You need to just handle your money
and if you needed, you know,

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go take an adult at class or
how to budget your money. Now

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we don't have a choice. It's
nothing. I mean, your adult kids

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have to stay with you right now
if they don't have any other way of

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doing, you know, doing it, because they cannot afford to be living

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and get their own place right now. So what are your loyalties? What

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this when we say loyalty, what
does that mean to you? What does

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that trigger in your mind? And
hopefully prefectly it's not nothing, you know

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negative Again, I can understand,
you know, because I've I've just been

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through something where I thought that people
would step up as to come through and

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everything, and they did nothing.
They didn't even budge, didn't even budge.

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And you're sitting there and looking back
at all that you've given, not

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to not to get no reciprocation.
Now, I wasn't expecting nothing back,

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no tip for tat. But really, I call this person out of the

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blue because the Lord told me to
call. And she goes, yeah,

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And this is a statement you make
when you don't want to be bothering.

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Hey, how are you doing?
Fine? So what's up? Right there?

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When you say when somebody said,
what's up with you? Get to

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the point, because why are you
calling me? That's what that is.

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And this person has never said that. I was like, okay, well

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you know what you do? You
like me? The go goes done.

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I said, the Lord told me
to give you a call, so you

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know, it's not it's nothing personal. And what however you respond, it's

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boomeranging back to him. It ain't
coming to me. He told me to

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call you. Yeah, so what's
up? And I had to get myself

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together? No, no, no, I just I guess you know.

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And we talked briefly. I said, okay, but let you go.

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You take care to talk about theself
all you know. I'm like done,

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I'm doing You've don't hear from me. I'm good And I'm like God,

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why do you let me call these? He said. I want you to

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see what I see. I want
you to hear what I hear. And

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it's like wow, Wow, go
ahead, guys. I think sometimes just

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when you were talking, I was
thinking about loyalty, and to me,

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it's like no strings attacked. You
know. It's when I say lawyer,

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meaning that it's not like necessarily tick
for attack, but it's consideration as well.

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You know, sometimes you have to
categorize folks in the categorize them in

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your life as far as the purpose. You know, you have your family,

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you have your friends, you have
your associates. You have people that

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you really care about it in your
life, but you just might not talk

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to them every day. You know. I have people right now. I

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could pick up the phone and we
could just talk like where we left of

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life happens. So even though we
might not be in the same marina as

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like former co workers, we might
be doing different jobs. But I have

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fele people and I think maybe I
don't know, I need to think about

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it. But when sometimes if I'm
sending someone a little notice on Facebook or

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something, and I'll say love you, you know, because I do.

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It's it's not. You know,
I have folks that are you know,

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generally love them, you know,
love them for who they are, love

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them for their being. Just you
know that that you know, there's some

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folks that I just not have that
relationship with. But if someone that has

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made an impact of my life,
you know, typically positive, you know,

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I love them, whether relationships,
whether we're related by blood or or

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what the situation may be, and
that that's just my heart. And I

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know that certain folks that I can
reach out to and talk about this and

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certain posts I can reach out to
and talk about that. Some people I

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can reach out to and we just
saying how they're doing and what you're doing,

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and you know, different months.
But you you have to kind of

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know where you'll figure it out where
your places and these people's lives, and

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so you don't have a whole lot
of them to defeat the purpose if you

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had a whole bunch of Oh I
can call people, realistically, probably you

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can't call on one hundred folks whether
they're related to you or not. But

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you but you also know where folks
stand and people might you might not talk

408
00:30:29.960 --> 00:30:33.640
to them family all the time,
but they're there call me anytime. And

409
00:30:33.720 --> 00:30:36.960
I know O care. Yeah,
let me call this particular cousin. Let

410
00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:40.119
me call that particular cousin, even
though I don't talk to them every day,

411
00:30:40.200 --> 00:30:44.200
but the love is still there.
Just I don't know how to I

412
00:30:44.200 --> 00:30:48.400
don't know how to express it.
But it's um you know, it's no

413
00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:52.240
okay, what you need that type
of stuff. You know, if I'm

414
00:30:52.279 --> 00:30:55.599
calling saying hey, you on my
mind, I just need to call you

415
00:30:55.640 --> 00:30:57.960
because I'm trying to do better with
that. When someone comes across my mind

416
00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:02.759
to call them, I'm instead of
weight because time waits for no one.

417
00:31:03.319 --> 00:31:06.640
Tomorrow is my promise, and I
don't want to say I wish I should

418
00:31:06.640 --> 00:31:11.920
have could. So that's just me. So anybody's watching just understand that.

419
00:31:11.359 --> 00:31:15.680
You know, if I'm reaching out
just saying hey, you on my mind,

420
00:31:15.839 --> 00:31:18.799
think about you want to say I
love you. And just like Licia

421
00:31:18.960 --> 00:31:22.240
was saying, I hadn't seen talked
to Licia years and I saw on Facebook.

422
00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:26.759
But she made an impact on me
and I told her a while back,

423
00:31:26.759 --> 00:31:30.079
and me and another friend at the
same conversation when we met at the

424
00:31:30.119 --> 00:31:33.440
same time. She left that impact
and some people just leave that footprint.

425
00:31:33.680 --> 00:31:37.319
It's just something about him. That
just leaves that footprint. And I don't

426
00:31:37.319 --> 00:31:41.799
know if people in the audience realized
Tommy and I met through Lesha. I

427
00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:45.440
just met Tommy, never saw her
in person before in my life, but

428
00:31:47.039 --> 00:31:52.440
Licia was that that link that brought
us together. And I love her like

429
00:31:52.519 --> 00:31:56.640
a sister. So you know,
I wish everybody else could find that same

430
00:31:56.680 --> 00:32:02.079
type of group or support system,
people that they can bond with and share

431
00:32:02.640 --> 00:32:07.880
share common interests, because I tell
you, it just means the world for

432
00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:09.359
me. And if I never say
it again, ladies, you know,

433
00:32:09.400 --> 00:32:13.480
I love y'all like sisters, I
tell you, And I'm glad we got

434
00:32:13.559 --> 00:32:16.480
this going on and I'm looking forward
to our future endeavors, whatever that may

435
00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:25.119
be. Lesia trip, we may
be heading it head in Louisiana and we

436
00:32:25.119 --> 00:32:30.160
could we could tape, We could
tape anywhere. We can go live anywhere,

437
00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:35.880
I promise you, so stay tuned. You never know, you never

438
00:32:35.960 --> 00:32:38.119
know. I'm getting some breaks.
I'm getting some breaks. We may have

439
00:32:38.160 --> 00:32:43.559
to fly to Virginia first, and
Tommy, that's that's Tommy stomach something ground,

440
00:32:43.599 --> 00:32:46.039
so we ain't will be lost alone. And we'll stand in the middle

441
00:32:46.039 --> 00:32:51.119
of highway a boy, the ships
probably when the sailors on yo your name

442
00:32:51.279 --> 00:32:53.440
training and say can you come on? Oh well you can't, dolly,

443
00:32:53.480 --> 00:32:59.119
but I can't stay. Well,
we got bases everywhere, so we've been

444
00:32:59.160 --> 00:33:02.160
surrounded by hey wall, that's the
first thing, the first tour we want

445
00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:07.759
to go on. It's the face
we will ride out. Well, we'll

446
00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:15.119
give your heads up that we're coming
and we'll be there too. Because tat

447
00:33:15.160 --> 00:33:21.000
me like the drive. She liked
the drive. But you know, this

448
00:33:21.079 --> 00:33:24.039
is what this is. This is
when and I really feel that we can

449
00:33:24.119 --> 00:33:29.960
actually go on a cruise, the
three of us, just just for four

450
00:33:30.039 --> 00:33:35.039
days and just kick up our heels
and chill. I don't know if you've

451
00:33:35.039 --> 00:33:38.559
ever been when you've gone someplace for
somebody you thought you knew, you thought

452
00:33:38.599 --> 00:33:43.599
you would have a good time,
But the moment they left their city or

453
00:33:43.720 --> 00:33:47.240
state on their house, boy,
I'm like, who is this? And

454
00:33:47.640 --> 00:33:51.799
what am I? Oh? God? You all right? Yeah, I'm

455
00:33:51.799 --> 00:33:54.720
all right, oh god? Okay, Then there we go. And that's

456
00:33:54.759 --> 00:34:01.079
travel with a lot of people.
Okay, but it's about we're talking about

457
00:34:01.119 --> 00:34:05.839
loyalty, you know. And I
love it that you said that you hit

458
00:34:05.880 --> 00:34:09.519
the head the hammer, the nail
on the head when you said no strings

459
00:34:09.519 --> 00:34:15.920
attached. And I've lived a life
like that, and I didn't expect nothing

460
00:34:15.960 --> 00:34:20.679
back, and I guess it hurt
more when I did get when when I

461
00:34:20.719 --> 00:34:25.239
did get a response, it was
nowhere near what I needed nor what I

462
00:34:25.320 --> 00:34:32.000
expected. And it's like, wow, And see most of y'all, y'all

463
00:34:32.000 --> 00:34:36.039
still have family. I have,
you know, a couple of people here

464
00:34:36.079 --> 00:34:40.280
and there. I don't have much
more family blood related that I can say

465
00:34:40.400 --> 00:34:44.800
I know where they are or whatever. I very few I've talked about.

466
00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:47.079
I t today, had to check
in on her, and she God,

467
00:34:47.239 --> 00:34:51.320
I ain't gonna you know, I'm
a not complaint. You don't complain it

468
00:34:51.320 --> 00:34:52.920
anyway. You put your foot down
to keep walking. You just be like,

469
00:34:52.960 --> 00:34:57.960
well, what did you just say? And she goes, well you

470
00:34:58.119 --> 00:35:00.239
you got that, bloody. I
said, thank you, thank you.

471
00:35:00.599 --> 00:35:06.800
I do. But you know,
so outside people have always been my better

472
00:35:06.800 --> 00:35:09.920
support system. When my mom put
me in private school in fifth grade,

473
00:35:09.960 --> 00:35:14.519
the nuns and priests just took to
me. I don't know what their view

474
00:35:14.639 --> 00:35:16.920
was of me. I never knew
it. They loved me. They took

475
00:35:16.920 --> 00:35:21.119
me under the wing. I went
on to high school a private high school

476
00:35:21.119 --> 00:35:24.159
with nuns and priests. They encouraged
me to We took them to State twice

477
00:35:24.199 --> 00:35:27.559
and all that kind of stuff.
So they wanted me to be singing and

478
00:35:27.760 --> 00:35:30.920
acting, and they were. You
know, I had more support from strangers

479
00:35:31.440 --> 00:35:40.039
than I did from my own family. Go ahead, and Hi what I

480
00:35:40.840 --> 00:35:45.800
go ahead? Since to act?
Oh yeah, oh yeah, I really.

481
00:35:45.880 --> 00:35:46.840
Let me tell you now, I
really wanted to go to the convent

482
00:35:46.920 --> 00:35:50.679
before they made that movie, and
I really did. I thought about it,

483
00:35:50.679 --> 00:35:53.400
but I saw that the Catholic people
don't move and they sing amazing Grace

484
00:35:53.440 --> 00:35:58.440
and it's real slow. So I
said right then and there no convents.

485
00:35:58.840 --> 00:36:01.079
The reverend mother would not have whoopee. She played a good part, but

486
00:36:01.440 --> 00:36:05.519
that what I could. I could
do that role very easily because the reber

487
00:36:05.599 --> 00:36:07.320
mother would be like, uh,
miss Crag, sister Grag, come here,

488
00:36:07.559 --> 00:36:10.559
come here. I can't give up
everything. No, no, because

489
00:36:10.559 --> 00:36:13.440
I'd be like, we need to
rock. Come on, you know,

490
00:36:13.519 --> 00:36:15.199
man, it's grace, come on, and they'd be like what is she

491
00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:19.320
doing. I'm like, okay,
fine, and then they then they punish

492
00:36:19.320 --> 00:36:22.920
you and said go to ten Hill
Mary's and I'll be like with this rosary.

493
00:36:22.320 --> 00:36:27.119
Is this furtke cary? Goal is
this it's a rock? What's what?

494
00:36:27.119 --> 00:36:29.480
What? What's this made up?
You know? So though, yeah,

495
00:36:29.599 --> 00:36:32.639
I quickly let that idea go.
So, but I was headed to

496
00:36:32.679 --> 00:36:36.320
the combat. Was my sense of
humor. Can't you imagine? They don't

497
00:36:36.320 --> 00:36:38.000
smile over that, they don't laugh, they don't do nothing. No,

498
00:36:38.079 --> 00:36:42.039
I'd be like, no, let
me out, let me out, let

499
00:36:42.039 --> 00:36:45.320
me find it done. That's a
comment act. We need to put on

500
00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:53.880
the role for real, for real
Jesus. And she don't even change when

501
00:36:53.920 --> 00:37:02.559
she in the classroom. Is what
you can and that is shore. Some

502
00:37:02.679 --> 00:37:06.760
students have scared me. I like, you are you breathing? Because I

503
00:37:06.880 --> 00:37:10.079
mean, I can't you And I'm
like, excuse me, y'all, can

504
00:37:10.159 --> 00:37:14.639
you breathe for me for just a
minute? I should? I said,

505
00:37:14.639 --> 00:37:16.679
no, no, no, no, you you gotta breathe because you are

506
00:37:16.800 --> 00:37:21.559
right. Here's a whole gang.
I'm like, you should you go around

507
00:37:21.639 --> 00:37:29.480
looking like now, I'm sorry a
little maraicorp doing the training. When I

508
00:37:29.559 --> 00:37:32.079
went to were Slate, I think
I shared with y'all one time with our

509
00:37:32.159 --> 00:37:37.440
team was allowed to go to Texas
to the national convention, and I was

510
00:37:37.519 --> 00:37:42.880
doing um humor. I think they
came hearing me the humor in the workplace,

511
00:37:44.079 --> 00:37:45.639
and so I said, any questions
or anything, you know, we

512
00:37:45.639 --> 00:37:49.760
were laughing and stuff. But but
humor is there is a time and place

513
00:37:49.800 --> 00:37:53.719
for everything, you know. And
so this young lady in a lime green

514
00:37:54.559 --> 00:38:01.199
running suit, it had to be. She was a little plus size,

515
00:38:02.559 --> 00:38:07.039
and I think she just this is
when the locks started first came out.

516
00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:09.840
So your hair was really you know, pinched up, and it was burgundy,

517
00:38:09.960 --> 00:38:15.039
her hair, her head, her
scalp was burgundy. So she raised

518
00:38:15.079 --> 00:38:16.480
her hand. She said, yes, I need to know how I could

519
00:38:16.480 --> 00:38:22.559
come out. I need to come
out. I just I can't express myself.

520
00:38:22.880 --> 00:38:24.960
I need to be able to express
myself. I said, And you're

521
00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:30.519
asking for my heart? You sure? And she go yes, yes,

522
00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:31.480
because I know you can help me, because I could be like you.

523
00:38:31.559 --> 00:38:34.920
No no, no, you can't
be like me. No no, no.

524
00:38:35.760 --> 00:38:38.519
But how far out you need to
come? You in a live greed

525
00:38:39.000 --> 00:38:45.079
running suit with burgundy hair, How
everybody loves us? I said, I

526
00:38:45.199 --> 00:38:46.800
just like, how far you need
to go? She said, thank you?

527
00:38:46.960 --> 00:38:50.320
I'm free. I said, there
you go, next, any more

528
00:38:50.440 --> 00:38:52.880
questions, because we gotta go.
I gotta fig out how to get out

529
00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:58.280
of here, because I can see
I can see you sitting in front of

530
00:38:58.400 --> 00:39:01.239
audience in a chair with a glass
of water, just looking around and coming

531
00:39:01.280 --> 00:39:07.480
up with some stuff. I just
I just can see it. Nobody has

532
00:39:07.480 --> 00:39:13.039
a sad word. I think once
you bruise the the audience, you come

533
00:39:13.119 --> 00:39:16.239
up with something. I know that
impron Nobody will go to the improv with

534
00:39:16.320 --> 00:39:19.199
man. I want to go to
the improv. They just want to try

535
00:39:19.199 --> 00:39:22.639
it one time. But I can't
invite people because I'm talking about brother talking

536
00:39:22.639 --> 00:39:28.639
about them. You know, I
can't. That's fun. That's where she

537
00:39:28.800 --> 00:39:37.360
got nicking that cup and do's water
decided I don't do that Zephra Hills stuff

538
00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:39.280
yet. Even though Zeffra Hills,
Florida is here, I wonder if that's

539
00:39:39.280 --> 00:39:43.400
where they're making water. I'm really
I really want to go buy and Steve

540
00:39:43.519 --> 00:39:47.480
that is that the capital of the
water. Nobody talks about that and nobody

541
00:39:47.519 --> 00:39:52.079
goes there. So where does Zephyra
Hills comfortable? We got zupper Hills,

542
00:39:52.079 --> 00:39:55.000
Florida right here. I'm just curious, but nobody ride with because it's a

543
00:39:55.039 --> 00:40:00.519
little shit okay anyway, Yeah,
yeah, they classes past they were.

544
00:40:00.840 --> 00:40:05.239
The professor asked us, so if
somebody she gave us scenario. She said,

545
00:40:05.280 --> 00:40:10.960
if somebody um came to work in
clothing attire that was not appropriate for

546
00:40:12.039 --> 00:40:15.000
the setting, and everybody, what
would you say to him? So everybody

547
00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:22.400
just sat there like, So,
I'm like, I wonder what y'all know,

548
00:40:22.440 --> 00:40:24.199
what y'all gonna? I ain't saying
nothing. I'm just watching because see

549
00:40:24.280 --> 00:40:28.599
I got the sense of humor and
most of the time I am speaking the

550
00:40:28.639 --> 00:40:30.719
truth, but it just sounds funny. But you know, it's okay.

551
00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:34.280
So I'm I'm like, and they
ain't saying nothing. And one said,

552
00:40:34.320 --> 00:40:38.039
oh, well, um, I
would maybe remind her of or him or

553
00:40:38.079 --> 00:40:45.280
maybe her um that the policy will
send out an email to everybody about the

554
00:40:45.400 --> 00:40:49.159
uniform, the dress code policy.
I said, okay. So I sat

555
00:40:49.239 --> 00:40:53.400
back in my chair like, okay, anybody else got so she's the teachers

556
00:40:53.400 --> 00:40:58.920
like anybody else, and that well, you know, um, well we

557
00:40:58.960 --> 00:41:00.920
can maybe you know, pulled them
do a group you know, and and

558
00:41:00.920 --> 00:41:04.960
and you know with the staff and
and so the other other students said,

559
00:41:04.960 --> 00:41:07.360
well why would we the staff got
to be Well, one student who don't

560
00:41:07.360 --> 00:41:13.440
talk at all, she don't say
nothing hardly, Well, why would uh

561
00:41:13.440 --> 00:41:15.440
we need to be in a meeting
and it has nothing to do with it.

562
00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:19.159
I was like, well, whoa, let me check my volume because

563
00:41:19.199 --> 00:41:22.360
you you kind of you speaking into
a microphone or something. I'm thinking that

564
00:41:22.599 --> 00:41:27.480
I was looking at my I said, she said, so the Professor's like,

565
00:41:27.519 --> 00:41:29.719
yeah, yeah, you're right about
that, you know yeah, And

566
00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:35.920
I'm like, and nobody was saying. Nobody was saying. You walk in

567
00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:40.440
my organization, you don't go off
the orientation. Now you got the handbu

568
00:41:40.599 --> 00:41:45.199
you got ninety one days to get
it right. On the third day,

569
00:41:45.320 --> 00:41:54.000
you go walk in then with cleavage, undersized bra and a skirt that comes

570
00:41:54.280 --> 00:42:00.559
above your knee and you sit at
a desk that has no covering. So

571
00:42:00.639 --> 00:42:07.599
you did come on in, Go
get some coffee. I'm watching you.

572
00:42:08.239 --> 00:42:14.239
I ain't saying to you nothing.
I'm saying you come in meet me in

573
00:42:14.239 --> 00:42:16.960
my office. No you know what, but let's go outside because I don't

574
00:42:16.960 --> 00:42:22.320
want nobody to hear this. Get
your dad, get your bag. Yeah,

575
00:42:22.320 --> 00:42:30.559
bring your purse and your keys with
you. You don't think nothing's wrong

576
00:42:30.639 --> 00:42:37.840
with how you dressed today? What
did the lights go on for? Bad

577
00:42:37.960 --> 00:42:42.000
day? You didn't make it by
the house. No, No, this

578
00:42:42.079 --> 00:42:45.960
is what is this all? What? Well? You know, we got

579
00:42:45.320 --> 00:42:49.480
a lot of men that come in
and out of here and they all they

580
00:42:49.639 --> 00:42:52.760
all the stuff, They detox it
all the time. What did you think

581
00:42:52.760 --> 00:42:58.679
you were hoping to achieve today?
Now? I want I'm gonna be nice.

582
00:42:58.719 --> 00:43:00.719
I mean, because if she's able
to tell me, this is all

583
00:43:00.760 --> 00:43:06.639
that I have. Okay, I
got you, I got you, so

584
00:43:07.159 --> 00:43:10.840
we will have a clothing patriot tomorrow. I got you, no problem,

585
00:43:10.960 --> 00:43:15.400
tell me that this is all I
got. I'm wearing the best I got.

586
00:43:15.039 --> 00:43:17.440
Not a problem. I'll shut it
down right there. I'll say,

587
00:43:17.480 --> 00:43:21.280
you know what, I don't need
you just to maybe be in the back

588
00:43:21.360 --> 00:43:24.079
somewhere for right now, because it's
it's to it, you know, to

589
00:43:24.239 --> 00:43:29.079
be revealing. If you don't mind
tell me that. But if you come

590
00:43:29.079 --> 00:43:31.400
home saying, well, ain't nothing
wrong with it? Oh yeah, there's

591
00:43:31.440 --> 00:43:36.679
something wrong with that. And we
don't uh, we don't need that kind

592
00:43:36.679 --> 00:43:39.800
of attention. You try to get
attention today. You fell off the bed

593
00:43:39.880 --> 00:43:44.719
or something, had a nightmare,
You grab what you could, your househo

594
00:43:44.719 --> 00:43:46.559
gonna find you what happened. And
most of the time they said, this

595
00:43:46.639 --> 00:43:49.440
is Greare you're so funny? No, no, I'm dead serious. I

596
00:43:49.480 --> 00:43:51.519
want to know why are you coming
in looking like that? You know?

597
00:43:51.760 --> 00:43:57.119
So I realized on Saturday that not
everybody has my assist so that they really

598
00:43:57.280 --> 00:44:01.079
they struggled with that answer, with
the up with that question. They struggle

599
00:44:01.159 --> 00:44:06.400
with that. No, I shouldn't
be a struggle. Thank you. Go

600
00:44:06.559 --> 00:44:09.800
right to the goat, go through
the throat, dolling you're not dressed well

601
00:44:09.880 --> 00:44:13.599
right, we can't do we can't
have this like this. And I ain't

602
00:44:13.599 --> 00:44:15.599
sitting you know, email because you
missed it the last time. You ain't

603
00:44:15.599 --> 00:44:21.079
reading no email, you know.
So Yeah, my humor, Um,

604
00:44:21.719 --> 00:44:25.599
it never got me in trouble,
but um, it served this purpose.

605
00:44:28.360 --> 00:44:30.360
It served this purpose. Um.
I had a student I thought I told

606
00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:34.960
you about. Didn't even gonna wind
it up here, but um he was

607
00:44:35.039 --> 00:44:38.400
a majoring in biblical studies and he
would get in the class. He was

608
00:44:38.400 --> 00:44:43.159
taking my sociology class as an elective. So he and I can tell the

609
00:44:43.159 --> 00:44:45.840
other students didn't like him because they
didn't sitting near him. For some reason.

610
00:44:45.880 --> 00:44:46.960
He came in with the boat tie
and all that kind of stuff.

611
00:44:46.960 --> 00:44:51.320
All guys of the coat and jacket
and stuff, and he's like yes,

612
00:44:51.400 --> 00:44:53.400
And you know, he was always
very pious and talked about you know,

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I'm I'm a I'm you know,
I'm I'm a pastor and I'm gonna you

614
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know, I'm gonna do this and
I'm gonna do that. And I can

615
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see the students there like rolling their
eyes and everything, and I'm like,

616
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okay. So I asked the question. I said, um, you know,

617
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I was asking some Bible questions and
stuff and thank you, and you

618
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know, he was being smart,
lucky and stuff like that. And I

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said, well, he said well, and he made the mistake of saying,

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well, I'm gonna be more like
Jesus. I said, oh,

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well, I'm glad you brought him
up. Now look at them. Would

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you agree that there were no flyers
going around, no pigeons telling people with

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Jesus was going to show up next, right? No, of course not.

624
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I't okay, no hanging in that
way. Don't don't put you don't

625
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put your butt on your shoulders tonight. Son, don't do that tonight because

626
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if I'm not correct me, if
I'm wrong, But did anybody did anybody

627
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go? They? Uh? People
was always looking for Jesus. Right,

628
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they were always trying to go they
believe their home. They would forget to

629
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eat several times Jesus and feed these
people. Let's they think I called the

630
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fast? And then so he said, yes, that's right, that's right,

631
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that's right, that's right. I
said, Well, who looking for

632
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you? Somebody? You got a
flyer? Where are you gonna be speaking

633
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next? When you where you're gonna
do, where you're gonna do your servant,

634
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you're orientating, you know, your
sermon, your first sermon. Where

635
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you're gonna do that at well,
that hasn't been decided. Oh why?

636
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Everybody was like, I said,
no, I want to know why,

637
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because I'm not gonna go looking for
you. When you graduate from bell Haven,

638
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You're going to the seminary, right
right, I said, so you

639
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can learn more about the Bible,
okay, and that's where we'll find you

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next, you know. And he
never said a mumbling word. Is the

641
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Baptist will say he never said a
mumbling word? So anyway, um,

642
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yeah, so that my humor it
gets yeah, because you can just kind

643
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of just go there sometimes and and
I don't know if you remember Stephanie,

644
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Tommy, Stephanie always laughed. Stephanie
fell off her chair all the time in

645
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my classroom. She's just miss Graves. Graves great and she just fall off

646
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the chair. Um. And I've
been in touch with her to today today

647
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as a matter of fact, that
she still does. She just laughs.

648
00:47:10.639 --> 00:47:14.199
She she just miss Gray. You
ain't changed a bit, No, man,

649
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I ain't changing. I mean that
twice came back. Here we go,

650
00:47:19.159 --> 00:47:21.559
here we go. All right,
let's end this thing really good.

651
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Guys, y'all come on and our
mutant talk about loyalty, and then,

652
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um, we're gonna say Happy Mother's
Day. As a possibility we will not

653
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be live next week, so we
want to say Happy Mother's Day to all

654
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the mothers. And then when we
come back, we will talk about Mother's

655
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Day and biological mothers and spiritual mothers
and all that. I want to we

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want to have a conversation about that. But ladies in the show, with

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your final thoughts, Tommy, you
ain't saying much on loyalty, hey kid,

658
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Oh my gosh, oh God is
good. You know. Lloyd is

659
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very close to me. And that's
if if I meet you, that's the

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first thing I'm gonna give you is
loyalty. Until you break that bond with

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me. And it's easy to be
loyal, and it's okay to be loyal,

662
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but you just have to be mindful
of who you've been loyal too.

663
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And I think there's different levels of
loyalty, such as just people you're socialize

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with and you're always nice and assisting
them, helping them in ways you can.

665
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But at the end of the day, your true loyalty, which I

666
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have, I can't help because my
heart is in a servant mode, so

667
00:48:51.920 --> 00:48:58.159
I will serve those around me,
and I serve it with a humble and

668
00:48:59.079 --> 00:49:05.199
a grateful heart. Right, But
at the end of the day, um,

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it comes easy to me. So
I can't really tell you. Right,

670
00:49:09.119 --> 00:49:13.639
you get the life you live,
that life that's that is a part

671
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of me. Well, we can
talk about this all the day long,

672
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and we may pick it back up
when we come back and join you guys,

673
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But thank you for listening in and
any comments please feel free were what

674
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we go back with feedback all the
time. You all be blessed. Please

675
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be safe, Please be safe out
here. We'll see you soon, same

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station, same time, By y'all. H M.