Highly Melanated Podcast
Hosted by PJ, Blair & Red A safe space for you to enjoy every bit of your melanin no matter how "melanated" you are in skin tone, we are ALL Highly Melanated.Come enjoy funny and dynamic conversations that people of color face on a day to day basis with various topics such as loving ourselves, knowing who we are as a people and uplifting each other with a mix of class and rachetness (CLATCHETNESS)
Highly Melanated Podcast
Pre-Election Day Results: Unity in Disarray
Have you ever wondered why we often find success in roles that don't fit the traditional definition of victory? Join us as we reflect on the emotional significance of Kamala Harris's vice-presidency and grapple with the complex choices made by minority voters in America’s recent election cycle. We delve into the perplexities of identity politics and the controversial re-election of certain figures, emphasizing the need for respect and understanding in our political dialogues. Our conversation is steeped in faith and prayer, seeking strength and resilience to push through these challenging times.
Amid the chaos of daily life, we cherish the small joys and personal growth found in our busy schedules. Chris shares the delight of balancing work with quality family time, while PJ, or Phillip James, opens up about his journey of self-discovery and embracing his true identity, shedding past personas. Positivity reigns as we focus on “multiplying the good” in our lives, relinquishing negativity, and celebrating community involvement. Our discussion extends to the holiday season, highlighting the overshadowed importance of Thanksgiving in the flurry of early Christmas festivities and the role of civic engagement in fostering change, regardless of electoral results.
The episode navigates the intricate web of media influence and misinformation that colors our political landscape. We discuss the impact of media bias and the necessity of diverse perspectives, illustrating how misinformation can strain personal relationships and public trust. With a focus on research and political accountability, we stress the importance of critical evaluation and integrity. We close with hopeful reflections on the potential impact of Kamala Harris’s presidency for women and people of color, and a prayer for guidance as we move forward together, embracing gratitude and unity in the face of uncertainty.
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God is sending us a message, you know, and it's a fascinating one-two punch we've had so far. The Lord knows where we're headed, and only God knows where we're headed. So we're being forced to deal with powers higher than ourselves, whether we like it or not. We better open our eyes and look at the reality of what's going on. This is not a joke.
Speaker 3:Hey y'all Okay.
Speaker 3:So I've been an emotional mess since this morning, like it's been a bad breakup, okay, but I wanted to share this word with you Sometimes the victory ain't always in the win.
Speaker 3:It is in the assignment.
Speaker 3:The assignment was for VP to show how far she could go, was to show the possibility of women being in the highest seat in office, to show that when we come together, no matter your race, your color, your creed, we can make change.
Speaker 3:So while on the surface it may not seem like a win, but she has victory in her assignment.
Speaker 3:So for anybody else who's sad like me I'm talking to myself right now the victory don't necessarily have to always be in the win. She did a job well done in that assignment and whenever you read any single history book in America from this point on, you will have to study the assignment. So kudos to you, vp Kamala Harris. Job well done.
Speaker 3:I hope that anybody out there that is just emotionally, just in a weird space like me, just understand that the victory was in the assignment.
Speaker 3:Hey y'all Okay. So I've been an emotional mess since this morning, like it's been a bad breakup, okay, but I wanted to share this word with you Sometimes the victory ain't always in the win. It is in the assignment. The assignment was for VP to show how far she could go, was to show the possibility of women being in the highest seat in office, to show that when we come together, no matter your race, your color, your creeded, we can make change. So while on the surface it may not seem like a win, but she has victory in her assignment. So for anybody else who's sad like me I'm talking to myself right now the victory don't necessarily have to always be in the win. She did a job well done in that assignment and whenever you read any single history book in America from this point on, you will have to study the assignment. So kudos to you, vp Kamala Harris, job well done. I hope that anybody out there that is just emotionally just in a weird space like me just understand that the victory was in the assignment.
Speaker 2:Good morning y'all. America showed us exactly who she is, didn't she? Spitting a block on her ex, the same one that she broke up with before? Right back with him, okay. Locked in for four years, right? Okay, it must be a self-esteem issue. You way too good for him, but you wanted him, so you got him. To those that put it into work, thank you. I love you all. We are still going forward. History still was made. Do you hear me? You can be sad, disappointed, confused, angry, all the things, but not hopeless. We are resilient people. We are still going forward.
Speaker 2:And to those that voted for Trump and people like him, listen to me when I say this I want you to lean in. Don't let this man embolden you to get your ass stumped out. Let's be clear, ok, I don't know what type of time you thought this was, but it's not that. Ok, I want you to keep your racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic tail away from me. Do you hear me? Unless you want your head rocked, that's all I'm saying. We are not those people, okay, not this time, not that time, at any time. We don't talk to each other with respect or you're not going to talk to me at all, do you hear me? Thanks?
Speaker 4:Lord, let us pray. Father God in heaven, jesus Christ almighty, bless your people, put your hand on your people, give us comfort, give us peace, give us a tomorrow we can look forward to. In Jesus name, I pray, amen amen man because I don't know what else to do at this point.
Speaker 5:I just gotta give it to god okay, well, at this point, uh, yesterday, because I don't even know, because people you know not to get into weeds of it, but it's just like you talk to people and it seems like every single person who is voting for Trump cannot articulate why they're voting for them. The worker, one of the workers, this Spanish lady I think she's Mexican.
Speaker 4:Minorities who vote for Trump really perplex me. I don't get it. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5:Well, you know what it is. It's the fact that they want this adjacency to whiteness and they think that that is your guy. But this guy has less stuff in common with you than the next person, in this case Kamala. It's just.
Speaker 4:I don't understand how people can listen to the rhetoric that comes out of his mouth and it's like, yeah, this is what I'm saying that's exactly that is exactly what I'm saying.
Speaker 5:I'm like, how can you?
Speaker 4:justify that and the way he says things and think yeah, he said what I was thinking.
Speaker 5:He's my guy, that's my guy.
Speaker 1:I feel like any Puerto Rican that votes for him. I don't get it. I mean, I'm not just picking on them, but I was talking to someone today. He's like you registered to vote. I was like, of course I'm, I just left the polls, I was in Target. He's like you voted for Trump.
Speaker 4:I was like why would I do that?
Speaker 5:What Like what?
Speaker 4:I just look way, I just look, you think it's a joke yeah, I just looked at him and was like I would seriously if somebody asked me that I'd seriously ask them well, why should I?
Speaker 1:so I asked him. So I was like um, I didn't, did you? He's like hell, yeah, I really.
Speaker 5:I really think. I think for I was I was gonna say for men, but for men and women, it's the fact that she's a woman. My mother said it, my mother was talking about earlier she's fighting her gender.
Speaker 1:I think that's crazy don't make no sense she's fighting her gender more than she is fighting her ethnic background.
Speaker 5:She's fighting her gender more than she is fighting her ethnic background.
Speaker 1:She's fighting them both. Simultaneously. It's horrible. I hate it, but what have we said before? This is America. I don't know what it is, but I just love being black DJ here.
Speaker 4:What up doe? It's your girl, Blair. You know, Mel Melanin was popping yesterday, it's popping today and it's sure enough gonna be popping tomorrow.
Speaker 5:It's your boy, red, and you're listening to the Highly Melanated Podcast.
Speaker 1:Hey guys, we're just checking on y'all, Y'all. Okay, that's really what it is. Oh, right now for real. Hey guys, hey guys, hey guys. Welcome back to another episode of Highly Melanated Podcast. The safe space to get away from anxiety, get away from all of this election business. Just save space where it's okay to just say you know what Fuck it. We're going to do what we got to do anyway.
Speaker 4:The show must go on.
Speaker 1:The show must go on. We are recording this on election day. We are recording this on Election Day. So, in the spirit of that, pj is going to quote from our former and best president number four, four, 44, number 44.
Speaker 4:I was like what the fourth folded in.
Speaker 1:No, absolutely not, we were still slaves then the 44th slaves. Okay, the 44th president said you wouldn't let your grandparents pick your playlist, so why would you let them pick your representative? Who's going to determine your future PJ?
Speaker 5:Sorry, picking from the 50? All right, I guess I'll put mine I'm going to pick. This is red, by the way. In case y'all forgot, I'm going to pick number 21 from the Miss Ruth Bader Ginsburg, associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time. Red, ruth, red.
Speaker 4:Red Ruth. Come on, Ruth Red. And just because I like to keep it spicy, because my two co-hosts picked people who are naturally inclined in the politics, I'm going to go the comedian route. George Carlin said it best when he said if you don't vote, you lose the right to complain.
Speaker 5:Okay, the end I don't know, what to tell you.
Speaker 4:If you didn't participate, then you don't have the right to participate in the conversation. That's it, mic drop.
Speaker 1:And the full gang is back All three of us. Okay, we're here. I know We've had a little fun with our Melanated Boys Corner. Our Melanated Boys Club Shout out to all you out there who have listened, and all the other guys out there MBC, but we have missed you so much, blair, so much.
Speaker 5:I miss you all the time.
Speaker 1:I'm saying we as the listeners. They have missed you.
Speaker 4:I know that the listeners miss you all the time. Hi guys, they have missed you, we have missed you all.
Speaker 5:I know that the listeners miss you all the time.
Speaker 4:Hey guys, I'm back. The quack attack is back Jack. The quack attack is back Jack. Joshua Jackson, he done got so fine in his elderly years. What the fuck. Sorry, anyway.
Speaker 5:Welcome back.
Speaker 4:Thank you and thank you to the listening audience. Thank you for your grace, thank you for your patience, thank you for I'll be above. I miss you.
Speaker 1:So in the meantime, in between time where you been girl, what you been doing, what happened, what's up, what's good, how you?
Speaker 4:been. We don't even need to get into all that because it's still all going on. It's just it really. October was a very, very, very, very, very jam packed schedule month for me. I had a lot of trips back and forth for work out of state. I was working on a couple of different like projects all at the same time. One of them is still ongoing. I was also my birthday itself ended up becoming a project all in its own, and there was a lot of like lead up to that. It was just a very, very busy time. I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off, doing literally 50 things all at once around like a chicken with my head cut off, doing literally 50 things all at once, and it just was not manageable. I had to be. I had to. I had to make room and I appreciate you guys for um, allowing yourself to be the room that was made, yeah of course, of course, of course.
Speaker 1:Um sidebar can't, can't, can't. Is it possible? Would you let me put a little excerpt of your song here after it's released? Okay, oh, it's gonna be on spotify jimmy told you that shoot.
Speaker 4:No games shoot yes, after we drop the music video ladies and gentlemen, you are in for a treat.
Speaker 1:Okay, one of the things that she was doing while she was, you know, busy, she was in the booth. That's all we can say right now. I tried, I tried, y'all see, I tried, but you know you gotta wait.
Speaker 4:Don't worry, though, stay tuned, the hot fire is coming. Uh, pj, is somebody who has heard the song?
Speaker 1:really let me tell you guys, y'all are in for a treat. It's, it's, it's, it's like a, it's like a throwback with like a 2024 vibe, like it's I'll take it it's, it's, it's everybody's got there. It starts out smooth, but then everybody gets into it like it's it's everybody's got there. It starts out smooth, but everybody gets into it like I love it.
Speaker 5:I want to.
Speaker 4:I want to hear it, chris. I will let you hear it when we're done today y'all heard that guys got me some Blair music.
Speaker 5:And what about you, chris?
Speaker 1:what's been going on with you. How's your week been? Got me some Blair music, Annie. What about you, Chris? What's been going on with you?
Speaker 5:How has your week been? What's been going on this week? Really not Well. I shouldn't say that Really busy at work. But I took a moment to go to my parents' place and they needed some help, like around the house. So I did a lot of cleaning, just you know, outside doing yard work, cutting things down, tying things up, putting things in garbage bags, um, making videos with your family, which did.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I mean, well, you know what it was? Because we, we was. We was out all day just doing stuff. So after a while we decided to like be fun. So my question was are you working hard, are you hardly working? And my answer is yes, okay, because that's how it's always supposed to be. That's, yeah, I mean, that's, that's, that's just that james, oh shit, that stands for pj sidebar, y'all.
Speaker 1:That's yeah, pj is for philip james, that's what it will be. Um, I have actually, you know I'm glad you said that um, I've actually been doing some soul searching and I've come to the realization that PJ Ryan, though he served a really great purpose, it is time that I relinquish him out into the, into the multiverse, and just simply be PJ, which stands for Philip James, which is who I am, stands for philip james, which is who I am. Um, this week has been a little eye-opening and been walking more into how I feel, um, and also like looking back on a lot of things that I've done in the past, um, and seeing where I'm at presently. And I have this thing here which is interesting, because this is what is this? This is something I got from a bank, which is, you see, it's a little glass cleaner.
Speaker 1:It's a glass cleaner, right but?
Speaker 4:they're one of us.
Speaker 1:We said again yeah, shout out to Ridgewood Savings Bank. They are not a sponsor of this show, but they could be.
Speaker 1:But they could be. I think it's going to be our new thing, but there's this part on here that I've been really focused on and it says multiply the good, and I've been really trying my best to not think of the bad, as I've always had a tendency to constantly go back to. That's where my depression and anxiety tends to go, especially in days where I feel alone and really start to really focus on the good, and that's where I've been now.
Speaker 1:so, yeah, multiply the good and it's like there's so much and here's the thing about it. There's so much, and here's the thing about it. It's like there's so much actual good that's going on. We, we don't pay attention to the small goods, like the little things you know, like when you're driving down the street and all the lights are your, your turn green as you're going, like these little itty bitty, itty bitty, teeny, weeny sminies.
Speaker 5:Little things.
Speaker 1:I'm also just going to be focusing on that. Anything that's bad, I will not be giving my energy to it any longer. That's where I've been feeling.
Speaker 4:Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative.
Speaker 5:Relinquish. The key word today is relinquish. The key word today is relinquish. Take a sip.
Speaker 4:The password is relinquish.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 4:There's nothing in here.
Speaker 1:She's taking a sip out of an empty cup with the. Did you give that to her, Yo?
Speaker 2:she's taking a sip out of an empty cup with the uh, the oh Aw.
Speaker 5:Melanie the Queen, did you give that to her? I did. Do you want to hear like some sad news though? No, I love how I love wait, wait, wait. Can I? Blair's face was hilarious. She was like I don't. I absolutely do not want to hear any bad, negative news. I really love how you keep that away, but it's not bad. Bad, but it is kind of like aw, I get it. Go ahead, because I saw your mug that you gave her, the mug that you gave me. You know it cracked.
Speaker 1:I knew it was going to be about that Where's the crack? Where the crack and shit.
Speaker 5:Right down the middle and all the way down to the bottom.
Speaker 4:So did it crack or is it like broken apart?
Speaker 5:No, it's cracked. I'm going to you know what my thought is.
Speaker 1:Is this the one that says respect or enjoy the celebrate the journey? Yes, where is okay. Know what my thought is. Is this the one that says respect or enjoy the celebrate the journey? Yes, where is okay?
Speaker 5:so but no, okay, so then this is this is this could be metaphysical.
Speaker 1:Where exactly is this crack? Does it cut right down the middle? Is it? Does it cut down the middle of the journey? I don't know, let me go check go pick it up, go see it, I'll be right back guys, there is this um.
Speaker 4:I just I I was talking about it with a friend the other day there's a japanese um art of fixing like broken objects broken glass everywhere.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, oh, puffy is not allowed here. Jesus Christ, go ahead. Delete.
Speaker 4:Objects with gold. So like yes, is that what you're going to do? It's called kintsugi. I'm sorry if I'm butchering that, but I think it's so lovely and it's so beautiful and it's just such a beautiful way to like like extension, like to not like try to sweet flaws like under the rug, or like try like broken things, but instead like giving it like new life and new purpose and like saying like it can still hold its original purpose, just in a new way, kind of I love it. Is that what?
Speaker 5:you're gonna do that's it, that's it. I'm so glad that, like me, and you have the same mind sometimes. That's exactly what I was going to do, because I was really upset, because I want you to know, pj, that that this has become one of my favorite mugs, like the day that I got it. The day that I got it, I said Because you have a favorite dish for everything.
Speaker 4:I have a favorite plate, I have a favorite mug, I have a favorite spoon. All that shit Did you?
Speaker 5:just call me old. Anyway, we're going to go over that. No, no, I don't want to hear your answer, anyway, but it was really my favorite mug because it meant so much. Hold on a second, hold on Slow down. What does it say? Slow down, savannah.
Speaker 2:Linda.
Speaker 1:Linda, listen, listen, go ahead, go ahead. I'm listening.
Speaker 5:One of my favorite mugs because it just represents how I'm. That's exactly what I'm doing, Just enjoying the journey. It cracked. I thought it was down the middle because it's been so long. It cracked on the. Let me see if I can. It's so bright here. Hold on, there you go, you see.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, we see it.
Speaker 5:So let me tell you how I found out. I had coffee and I sat it down and then there was coffee on the table. I was all like why? And so I. And then there was coffee on the table. I was all like why?
Speaker 4:I will do the tintsugi.
Speaker 1:At least it didn't get down half the journey. You're almost at the end of the journey and it cracked. We're about to crack that journey open and start a new path. See how that works, aha.
Speaker 5:I hope that the moment oh, I'm sorry um question of the week your questions as they pertain to prospectively.
Speaker 1:In introspectively I'm all like intro of it's the same way.
Speaker 5:Go ahead, because I'm looking at the mug and I'm all sad, but so we know that Halloween just passed right. My question of the week is because I've been seeing it more and more lately and I don't know if I should be scared or if it's always been like that. But do we like candy corn?
Speaker 1:Why are you doing?
Speaker 4:this. So my brother, my older brother, growing up, candy corn was his fucking go-to. He loved candy corn.
Speaker 5:Loved it. Did he eat like wax crayons? No, when he was younger.
Speaker 4:No, he ate candy corn, which was enough. I don't dislike it, but I also am not going to be reaching for it.
Speaker 5:Like I can have one and then that will power the entire year. But there's people that just empty the bag into their mouth.
Speaker 4:How do you feel about? Because you know there's two different kinds of candy corn. There's like the white, orange and yellow one, and then there's the white orange and brown one, and the brown is like a little bit of chocolate.
Speaker 5:I think that they all should be gently placed at the bottom of the trash, can you know?
Speaker 1:so I don't know if you've ever tried this, but if you put them in the microwave and you melt them and then like it becomes, and then make one big candy corn. You can like let it get cold and you can mold it into something else and never eat it. Put a put up. You can mold it into something, put a wick in it and burn it and your house smells like candy corn what was the reason?
Speaker 1:to answer your question. Absolutely not like. I used to love it as a kid, um, but you know, like as you get older, your palate changes and matures a little bit. And no, it tastes like lighter fluid.
Speaker 4:So I have a question that's somewhat related, not related.
Speaker 1:OK.
Speaker 4:Get into the topic. I'm just very curious. So, as Chris has stated, halloween has just passed. As Chris has stated, halloween has just passed and it's become increasingly more prominent in social media. The certain presence, a one mega singer has come November 1. Oh Lord Jesus. Now my question to y'all is are you the type of people who start putting up Christmas decorations on November 1st, or do you start putting up Christmas decorations after Thanksgiving?
Speaker 5:December 24th Ding ding, ding, ding, ding ding. Correct December 24th Wow.
Speaker 4:Now me and we're talking about we were talking before about being like empath and whatnot and whatnot. Um, my little super sensitive over sensitive ass, I'd be like, well, I want every holiday to have its time and I just feel so bad for thanksgiving because it just gets so overlooked it gets over.
Speaker 1:You know what it is because uh thanks thanksgiving is such a traumatic time, friendsgiving is where it's at.
Speaker 4:I mean mean it's fine too. Yes, friendsgiving, but just the Thanksgiving. Friendsgiving season gets completely overshadowed by Christmas and I just feel so bad for the holiday, like it deserves its time. It's supposed to be November. They only ask for one little month, that's it. Not even the month they ask for, maybe like for two weeks at the most, the week before and the week during. And they can't even get that because here comes Miss Carrie talking about it's time and everybody overlooks Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1:Okay, so here's my thing, as I like battle it out with whatever is flying around in here.
Speaker 5:I am more susceptible to lean toward what you were saying, that every holiday season deserves its time. So, like, right, like, if we're going to decorate and like it's Thanksgiving, then it should be Thanksgiving stuff Until after Thanksgiving, then you can start the Christmas stuff, not before. I have a serious aversion to people who are like it's June, now we can put up Christmas decorations June. There's people out there.
Speaker 2:There's people out there.
Speaker 5:They're an interesting.
Speaker 1:There's a lady across the street from me. She has a christmas tree up. She's had it up since july, since after the fourth, but that's my other.
Speaker 5:Go ahead, finish, chris no, no, I was just gonna say I just have an aversion to it because I've worked retail for so long and that's how retail operates. Yeah, and so it'll be. It's triggering August and here it is a whole aisle of Halloween decorations and candy and it just upsets my soul because we're listening to, you know, christmas music and it's not even September yet. I can't be bothered with that, sorry.
Speaker 4:The only time when that makes sense is in, I feel, like in the world of like fashion, because, like for me, like one of the clients that I work for, we shot all of our December, holiday, christmas season type stuff in July. But you have to shoot it early because you know that's just the way the timeline of things work. You know that's just the way the timeline of things work.
Speaker 5:So it was very funny to me because you know, shooting holiday stuff in the middle of July, I mean. But at least that has some rhyme or reason. The only rhyme or reason when it comes to that with retail is that they're trying to get ahead of two things. They're trying to get ahead of putting in your mind so that you start thinking about it, because then it's set in your mind that you have to get these things, it's set in your mind that this is where you'll get the candy, the decorations or whatever. But then also they're trying to get ahead of the logistical warehouse part of it. Right, because a lot of the holidays are close together.
Speaker 5:They can't ship all that stuff out all at once. They have to kind of get it out in advance. And people start planning that way. But when I tell you I have no, I have no problem with Christmas songs or holiday songs or anything like that. It's just that they run you into the ground with it. I'm sitting in during an eight hour shift in retail. I'm sitting there and I've done listen to my iCarry like 12 times already. I am ready to freaking fight someone.
Speaker 4:But I will say, though, that song has been making her a bag for quite some time. Oh, absolutely, absolutely For quite some time, for a long time actually yeah, it's a forever b time. For a long time actually. It's a forever bop. It's a forever bop.
Speaker 1:Forever Forever so, like that, you know. Here's the thing, just like you said. It's about working in retail, right, and we're constantly hearing the Christmas music, whether even it's the Halloween music. There is no thanksgiving music. Um, it's, it, it's, uh, it becomes too much, but for the longest. Um, I think it's only good for like the first five times you hear it, but after a while I don't want to hear mariah anymore.
Speaker 1:Um, that day and you know it's just like where do we go from here? How do we? How do we? Where do we go from here? Like we're recording this episode on election day? Um, hopefully, you guys, as our listeners, uh, you have taken the time to, whether you sent your s&t ballot in, uh, whether you did your early voting or you voted today. Hopefully, every last one of y'all voted. We've said this time and time again.
Speaker 4:I don't want to hear boo from you, boo okay, but we're doing this pre, we're not.
Speaker 1:This is not an election episode, obviously, because we don't know who the winner is, but the idea is, no matter who the winner is I think you were saying this earlier, chris no matter who the winner is, we have to figure out as a country how we're going to move forward regardless. So go ahead.
Speaker 5:Yeah, I know I was going to say just to kind of recap what I was mentioning. I think with Americans, we have a very hard habit, bad habit, of saying that we're going to do something and then, whatever the outcome was, whether Kamala wins or whether Trump wins, or whether whoever does what we go oh damn, that's not what I want. Or yay, that's what I wanted, and then there's nothing else to that. There's no follow-up, and one of the things that I posted recently in one of my posts on Instagram, there was two things that I wanted people to understand.
Speaker 5:One is that change doesn't happen overnight. Hello, correct, you know, you want all these things done in your community. You want all these changes. It doesn't happen overnight. Hello, correct, you know you, you want all these things done in your community. You want all these changes. It doesn't happen overnight, which is why I picked the 21 with Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But the other thing is um, the other thing is is that it's a lifestyle to be so involved with your, the voting process, the election process, with community. It's a lifestyle. So if Kamala was to win tonight, what are we now doing to support her, to make sure that she's getting everything done the way that it needs to be done.
Speaker 1:I'm so sorry. I'm going to cut you off right there. If who was to win.
Speaker 5:Kamala, it's okay, we like well.
Speaker 1:I'm so sorry president, listen to be president, it's okay, but when you say her name, you say it correctly.
Speaker 5:When you meet each other, um continue, but, but, but, um, madam president, um know how are we going to support you in everything that you do? When there's a local election, are you going to your local election? Do you know who's involved? Do you know who's your councilman? Do you know who's a part of the House of Rep or who's in Senate or whatever the case may be, and it doesn't happen overnight. House of Rep or who's in Senate or whatever the case may be, and it doesn't happen overnight. So I don't expect you to study hard and then, come tomorrow, know everything about the House of Reps, about Senate, about the way that bills and laws are passed, but it's cumulative.
Speaker 5:So you do 10 minutes and you listen to something here and there you go oh, that really interests me, and maybe you might find something that's really important to you or that you hold really near and dear to you. I know for me. I have always been interested in the sciences and energy, so does that mean that I'm going to be now somebody that's a key person that deals with how we look at energy in our communities? That's how key person that deals with how we, you know look at energy in our communities? Like that's how it all begins. But if you just sit down and say I'm not going to go do anything, then ain't nothing going to happen, and I don't want to hear you saying nothing.
Speaker 1:So I'll say this right now I remember, ok. So remember when, when the Jesus Christ, when the Cheeto won that year, I was leaving your house, remember, and I remember getting on the train and the train was so solemn. It was just like coming from Harlem all the way back to Brooklyn. It was just like it was a mist. It was a sad, sad day in New York and I remember waking up the next day thinking, okay, what's the next step? What's the next step? To still make sure that we're doing whatever we need to do in our community. Um, and I'm not sitting here saying that I hit the ground running, but I now knowing what I knew then, what I didn't know then, but now knowing what I know now, uh, forgive me y'all, I've had a sip or two, maybe a couple of, maybe an edible, a half an edible I didn't you know, so, but no, I'm still being able, don't worry, I can say words this time.
Speaker 1:But okay, so back to what I was saying knowing what I should have known then and knowing now, especially being more involved with within community. I think now, especially being more involved with within community, I think, as we ask ourselves what, what's? The next step is really ask ourselves, what are we individually going to do? Let's say that he does win, right, okay, great, fantastic, not great, no great. Let me finish my thought, nigga sorry great, fantastic.
Speaker 1:The american government system has once again failed us as as as a country. Okay, um, the the people keep saying our vote doesn't matter. And now we see it people who voted, and you know how, before hillary won the popular vote, but then trump, trump, that tramp trump ran and won the electoral vote and I'm praying that that doesn't happen again. Right, how do we start doing? This is what I'm gonna start teaching actually tomorrow. This is giving me an idea for my students for tomorrow.
Speaker 4:Um, hold on the train is still here.
Speaker 1:Hold on hold on bitch if she wins right, fucking fantastic. Yes, all of us, all of us have stood together and we did what we were supposed to do what are?
Speaker 1:we gonna do to avoid another january 6th happening, like there's so many different, like little itty bitty bits of it, because now we're already starting to see the racism of the country already showing itself. And you know, guys, this episode is not gonna be a whole serious episode, as you can tell, um, but the idea is like we need to start asking ourselves these questions. Like I, I really hope that when this episode comes out, we will have a unified country and not just the states of america. It'll be back to united states of america somewhere down the road, the road.
Speaker 2:Let me get some water.
Speaker 4:Lord have mercy. So the way I kind of look at it when we're talking about what's next is no matter what the results of the election are, the problems that we had yesterday are still going to exist tomorrow. So it's more so a plan of we have to address X, y and Z issue, and the plan really is the plan of attack for how to address these issues are really formulated by of attack for how to address these issues are really formulated by whoever's in office, because you have to think about, like, okay, this is what we need to get done. If we have this candidate in office, these, this approach is going to be the best way to get the result that we need. If we have this candidate in office, we're going to have to think about X, y and Z way to get the results that we need. So it's really more so just about being able to tailor what the original plan was based to whoever's in office, because the issues that we had yesterday are aren't going anywhere. They still exist.
Speaker 5:We just have to figure out who can tailor the plan to that particular person as best we can so I think, um, I'm actually, um, I think I'm really good with things like this because, annoying enough as it is, um, one of the things that I do is that I always ask oh my god, I sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off.
Speaker 1:I actually just turned the television on and see numbers. I'm turning this shit off, Go ahead continue.
Speaker 5:I don't even know why you even turned it on. I didn't see that. Oh, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1:Proceed. I'm sorry, I'm not even cutting this shit out, y'all. I happen to turn on the TV in a moment as we're recording and it's 30 Harris, 105 Trump. As far as electoral votes continue.
Speaker 5:I mean it's still early, though I know it's gonna be too close to call all night, hopefully, but we haven't counted the big states.
Speaker 1:Oh I'm sorry, go ahead, I'm turning this shit off. Look at all three. All of us now haven't counted the big states. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm turning this shit off. Look at all three. All of us now Proceed.
Speaker 5:I lost my train of thought.
Speaker 1:See what that orange motherfucker does to us. No, he divides the podcast and the country.
Speaker 4:Not the podcast and the country, not the podcast and the country. You were saying, chris, that we're of a similar mindset with how to approach whatever the issue is.
Speaker 5:Oh, that's what I'm saying. I was saying that I asked. One of the things that a lot of people don't like about me is that a lot of people want just whatever the surface level solution is going to be for a particular problem, and it's never that, it's always the why it happened in the first place. So what is going on with that? And I think, to start, I think we need to ask the why's. Yes, we need to have the right people in the right place, but, truth be told, we're still human At the end of the day.
Speaker 5:We can have all in good intentions, all in good intentions of having a person that we think would be good, and they flop out for whatever reason. You know they're having personal problems or they just don't have a good staff around them. So I think it's trying to figure out, like why certain things aren't happening, and figuring out like what is that? What is the knowledge behind that? If that, if that kind of, if that even makes any sense. I just don't think that people do that and just whether it be politics or just common everyday practice, they'll sit down and say, oh, I cleaned up the water off the ground and so like, why was there water on the ground? I don't know. I just cleaned up the water. Meanwhile you didn't take care of the leak.
Speaker 4:That's the part, like you can't, you have to think about, like how the issues of today became the issues of today, because if you just go about solving them, that's one thing, but what's to stop them from just regenerating because you didn't address, like, what the original root cause of the issues were. Yeah, which is which is the why, which is exactly what you're saying.
Speaker 1:In this moment I'm reminding myself that California has, I think, 47 or 45 to 47 electoral votes. I'm doing math in my head. Why did I turn this shit on?
Speaker 4:I don't know why you did.
Speaker 5:Listen, I'm looking at it right now.
Speaker 4:I think yeah. The polls aren't even closed yet.
Speaker 5:I'm turning it off, I'm looking at it right now you still haven't had a big.
Speaker 1:The polls aren't even closed yet. I'm turning it off. I said I wasn't going to turn it off and I was, and I didn't, but I turned it off, and right now Pennsylvania is blue. We like that, we love that, but I really would love us to when we talk about how we're going to move the country forward in general, no matter who wins. I wish it would just stop being red or blue and just be one united thing, and I just don't know how that would happen.
Speaker 5:I think you have to talk to a lot of ideologies.
Speaker 1:So the lesson I plan on having my students tomorrow, which will, which is going to talk about community what things will we change within our community? What, when it comes to gun violence? How are we going to affect it? But, like, what's the? What's the root cause? What's a pos, a bunch of possible solutions, and what can each one of us do? Um, the division this country is is, it's not just racism itself, but it's classicism, classicism, classicism, classicism. The edible is kicking in it's classicism.
Speaker 4:That means it's time to wind it down, right.
Speaker 1:We'll be wrapping this up soon. It's classicism. This will be an early, quick episode. It's classicism. It's gender it's everything that separates us as a country. Yeah.
Speaker 5:Well, I mean. So I mean I'll jump on and add to that. This is something that I've been thinking about for a long time. It seems like there's a large, there's two things that people aren't doing. One, people are not getting the information that they need Right, so they're getting a lot of misinformation. And then two, um, people are not listening to each other.
Speaker 5:If you look at the majority of how people speak to each other about topics that are really heated and really, like you know, in the trenches, and they, they, they, they're, they feel very close to um, no one's, no one's sitting down and saying, okay, I hear you. No, like, no one is doing that. And when, when I was thinking about a skit that I was going to do, I had asked somebody that is actually into politics, um, and I asked them like, what, what like, what do you say to people who are undecided or people who are not voting for you know, kamala, and what are we saying to them? And he said to me it's not what you say to them, because they feel a lot of people feel unheard, and I would challenge you to tell your students that you know how are we listening to people effectively so that way we can not only make them feel, make the moment feel, disingenuous, but also so that we can actually come up with a solution that is a middle ground.
Speaker 5:A lot of people are not listening to each other. This is why a lot of people don't want to speak, talk politics, because it ends. It ends relationships, it. You know people don't talk to each other. It causes, oh my God.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, I was walking. I was after earlier with the guy who asked me if I voted and whatever. I was walking down the street with my bag from Target and it was a couple who was going in and she was saying did you vote? And he said, yeah, I voted. And she said, who did you vote for? And he said, the fuck, I voted for Trump. And she stopped, turned the other way and went to the car and just sat in the car. She said I'm not fucking talking to you right now, like it divided the relationship, like number one. You should probably be really having these conversations. If you're going to get a relationship, you should know who you're, your partner what their morals are.
Speaker 4:You saw the.
Speaker 1:It was just weird, go ahead.
Speaker 4:I forget where it was, but it was like the whole. It was a commercial or something where it was like the whole. It was a commercial or something where it was like wives voting behind their husband's backs for for Kamala, instead of saying that they were voting for Trump, and then when they get in the polls, like they're winking at each other and really voting for for Kamala. I would love to see that. I got, I got to find it, I'll send it to you. And then the I don't know if it was Fox or cnn or whatever, because I I stay so far away from all of this like I I can't, I I really can't stand the rhetoric and people talking about what other people? I mean, I guess we're doing it too, but, like um, I choose not to spend my time and energy watching that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4:But I did see a clip where they did have kind of like a roundtable and he was talking about like how enraged he was by that and just like how. Like I can't believe it. It's the same as cheating, it's the same as adultery and how he was saying like this is like the kind of thing that could like end a marriage. You know you're lying to me about and it was intense and I was like, wow, like first of all, what? What is it about that relationship or that marriage where that woman doesn't feel safe enough to be able to express her true feelings to you? She feels like she has to hide it from you and lie to you about it. Maybe that's the issue, but nobody wants to talk about that.
Speaker 1:Okay, there's a I've seen well, one of the things that I follow and I watch you know my Marvel YouTube stuff one of their sponsors is and I'm trying to find it is this news outlet or this news website that it shows you all the news that's being showed across the country, but it also shows you what article it is and which way it leans. So there's like articles that lean more right or lean more left or more centered and where those articles are being distributed. So, like a lot of people, like I was saying last time, like my mother is a trump supporter and you know she and I differ on almost every everything, you know when it comes to things, and a lot of the articles, a lot of the new stuff that she see, that she's she's bred, is all stuff that leans so far right that that's the way she sees it, because that's the only the stuff that's getting to her well, it's exactly.
Speaker 4:it's what, what you're taking in, it's what's your brain and your mind and your environment is absorbing.
Speaker 1:So my, so, my. So my question then becomes like the path forward Right, we're going back to the original question. The path forward really comes to finding out exactly where, where is your information coming from? Like, I'm tired of hearing people say like, say, even that whole Janet Jackson thing that happened with Kamala and she heard this and that's because her brother said this as far as Kamala's background and she put her foot in her mouth and tried to backpedal it, but then her management quickly backpedaled that If you didn't know what I'm talking about, either one of you know what I'm talking about. Nope, so there was a. Okay, so I'll pull it up, I'll share it. In the chat.
Speaker 1:There was something that happened where, back when Trump was talking about how she's not black, so Janet was saying, yeah, she's not black, her father's white, and it was because her brother, randy, had been telling her these things and she just went along with it. And then she apologized because she saw all the backlash that she was getting you know, I'm team Janet all day, every day and she apologized and then her management her brother, because her brother is managing her said absolutely not, we do not apologize. Um, and it was just, it was weird. It was just like you know, but it's just like this. This is, this is. I bring this up to be an as an example of where we're getting our information from. So the path moving forward is doing our own fucking research.
Speaker 4:I bring this up as a example of you know you got to be careful who you put on your team.
Speaker 5:Well, you know, that was something else that I was thinking about as well to the people in this room right now to just do your research, because we have some type of experience on how to do that research. Some people think that their research is Wikipedia or TikTok Wikipedia that you can edit yourself. Listen, but people ain't thinking like that.
Speaker 4:They're not.
Speaker 5:If I go online and type something in and find the first thing that comes up Then that's fact Right. They're not. They don't know nothing about that. And I feel bad because this kind of goes back to the original conversation that I was having with you guys about how there's people who are these supporters, and you ask some questions why are you supporting Trump? And then nobody's able to articulate it. They'll tell you oh, because of X, y and Z. And then there's somebody right there that will fact check it and be like that's not true. And it's just like deer in the headlights, like what do you mean? That's not true. I heard her on. Where did you hear from? Oh, from Instagram, instagram.
Speaker 4:That's the source of information for people. That's the soldier boy voice. Because, it's quick and it's easy.
Speaker 4:And people have this again. It's this trust that people have built up from online presence. Like they think that, like because somebody is saying this information to me, why would they lie to me? Like, why would they, you know, knowingly lie to me, you know, as the target audience, like you know. So, yeah, it is. It is on each and every single one of us as individuals to to do the research. But then, even then, when you do get people who say that they're doing the research, again it's all very it can be skewed one way or the other, like somebody can be doing research, but their mind is already like bent to like one side, and so then everything that they're looking up and they're researching and they're finding, you know, they they still find a way to be able to like have it lean towards the answer that they want, as opposed to what is actually like straight and narrow, factual so I, I, it's so funny.
Speaker 1:It was not funny. Um, I was looking up something and I was trying to remind myself of a quote of someone. Someone said something and I couldn't think of it, and then I realized who it was. And also, um, today we, we lost a legend in music. Uh, quincy jones has passed away and I I remember this quote. And his quote was once a task has begun, never leave it till it's undone. Be the labor great or small, do it well or not at all. And I I reminded myself of this because my father used to say something very similar, but it's in reference to like, if you're going to look something up, if you're going to do some research, do it well, just don't stop at the first answer. You see, don't stop at the first person who tells you yes, this is the case. Do multiple, keep looking up more. The edible is doing its thing. Words are now starting to like together.
Speaker 5:Yeah, take it away guys.
Speaker 5:No, well, I was going to help you out, you out, because I was like, okay, that's 48 words, um, no, I was gonna say that. Um, I, I think that was part of the message that I had, because I I I don't want to tell people who they should vote for, because it comes off once again, it comes off disingenuous, that I just want you to just vote for my party and, despite the fact that you don't know anything, I'm going to tell you what you should be doing in my favor. But what I will also say is you're going to keep doing the research and constantly question it. Every time that you come across information, you should be questioning it again. You should be weighing it against the, I guess, the facts that you have and whatever is logical and whatever is moral in your mind, because those things change. New information comes up, new evidence comes up and if it doesn't make sense to you in your mind, then you should be asking yourself well, I actually stand with this or I'm for that, like.
Speaker 5:One of the problems that I have with people is just if I'm going to vote you in as a political anything, whatever your position is, I want the integrity to be there, to be there. You can't possibly go on stage and lie bold face, because what that tells to me is that, right off the bat not that you're a strategist, not that you're I mean, because two things can be true, right, not that you're trying to just win it all, but you are manipulating people. You are manipulating people and then that means that you don't have other people's interests, best interest, at heart. It's only for the. It's kind of like the the goose is good for the gander.
Speaker 1:It's only for the win but that's what politics is in general. No, no, no. But I mean and I say this in a way of just saying that that's the game of politics yeah, we can try. We can trust our politicians to do what they say they're going to do and, you know, we can hope that they're going to follow through. Hello, we have a mayor of this goddamn city who is, who is under investigation.
Speaker 5:So there is. There is always give and take. I'm not saying I get the politics of it Right, because even though they're saying this and they don't do that, or whatever the case may be, we actually don't know everything right, especially on the level of the presidency. They got to take care of the country and there's things that are classified and all this other mess right. I'm not saying that there's not a give and take there, but boldface lie with everything. It can't, it can't be like that.
Speaker 1:I would say that I'm sorry, I keep cutting you off.
Speaker 5:I mean because then what, what are you? What are you actually going to do? Nothing that you do is real Nothing.
Speaker 1:I really would suggest that people and listening. I would assume that our listeners, you know those who've been rocking with us for the past seven years.
Speaker 1:No, we have ingrained in you how important it is to vote for your local, please, but I really, I really hope that they would also understand the idea of like once you vote for them. That's the end. They get in office, the job isn't done, and the job the job just really gets. The job isn't done on our part isn't done, and the job the job just really gets. The job isn't done on our part. All right. We still have to stay on their necks, on top of knowing that there are three branches of government and the president is responsible for one thing and the legislative is responsible for another and the judicial is part for another, and this is how it works, and you cannot expect everything. Like they used to say, obama didn't do anything for black folks, and that's another conversation.
Speaker 1:We're not getting that deep into this today, but understand how this country works in ways that you make sense when you try to make an argument on why you voted for said person and said person is, is or is not doing what they said they would do.
Speaker 5:Does that make sense? No, it does make sense. I'm glad that you said no, like how many branches of the government that they are. Because there's, you know, because that's the simplest way to to kind of put it like know your stuff, you know no, no, no, no, the basic stuff, because there's people that are out there that think that there's two branches of government. There's people that are out there that think that there's ten branches of government.
Speaker 4:There's not Right right. There's people out there that are asking what's a branch?
Speaker 5:Right, you mean my local Chase branch. Like no you, you mean like a tree branch like outside Nigga nigga.
Speaker 4:Lord, help us. Which brings us back to where we first started, before we even started recording. For all of those who are spiritually inclined, who follow the blood of Jesus, I'd like to pray for us. If you don't and you'd like to have a conversation about Jesus, feel free to message me. I'm happy to talk. Come on, disciple. I'm happy to talk. Come on, disciple.
Speaker 1:Go ahead but.
Speaker 4:I'm also never going to you know like I know him. I know him. If you don't know him, I would suggest you ask questions Correct.
Speaker 4:That's all the way. Father, god in heaven, we ask that you just continue to bless us, bless your people, put your hand on your people, give us grace, give us patience, will, and we know that you want nothing but the best for us, and we will trust in your vision. And we know that everything happens for a reason, um. We pray that there is no um tragic fallout. These events, aka we don't need a january 6th, please, god, no um. We just ask that you just continue to bless us, keep us safe, uh, keep us um together and help us work towards becoming, as chris said before, a more united state of america. In jesus name, we pray amen, hallelujah, hallelujah ha she amen.
Speaker 1:State of America. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen, hallelujah, hallelujah, haché, amen. Let's stop. Stop there, before I start going way too far. I was like where are you going? Okay? All right, so like for the next five minutes. Okay, we're going to shift it just really quickly. What would it mean to each individual, each one of you, if Kamala did become president?
Speaker 4:I think it really would be a sign of a new era and underappreciated in this country and just not well taken care of, and to have a one, a woman, two, a woman of color in the highest ranking office in our country really, really says something. It's incredibly significant and it is definitely the kind of thing that you tell future generations about. You know I was there when kind of thing. So tell you know future generations about you know I was there when kind of thing.
Speaker 5:So I I think it would be extremely exciting um, if she wins, I I am going to be very excited for all the little young girls that are out there, like I immediately start thinking about my niece, because I think that they you know, we all need figures of people that are doing good and are doing right by our community and are talented and are in good places, and so I'm excited to see that.
Speaker 5:I'm also excited to maybe hopefully this will be the beginning of really galvanizing people around topics that are like kind of like nonsense. I shouldn't say that topics are nonsense, but maybe the way that we go about doing them. I'm interested and excited for maybe a new perspective, because the perspective of a woman is very different than us, than the perspective of a man, and I'm curious to see if that might possibly fill in gaps that we've always had. You know, because a guy it's funny, I'm not, I won't, I won't, I won't put him on blast, but uh, one of one of the one of the one of my actor friends that I used to do a couple of things with um he, what was his character in the last thing you did?
Speaker 1:what was?
Speaker 5:no, no, no, no. But he, he no, go, go, go go. But he had said something about it. He was just talking about something pertaining to some woman and he was going on this rant and then he came back later on he was like, oh well, I can understand why she is not doing X, y and Z because men are creeps. And, okay, I retract everything I said. And so I told him. I said, bro, I was like it's okay that you said that, but then caught yourself.
Speaker 5:I said because we don't live that world, and if you don't live that world us being men and them, or her being a woman I said there's always going to be gaps, but it's always for us to have that introspective moment to be all like. All right, let me dial it back. What is she thinking? How is she feeling? What can we do to support her? And that's how I feel about Kamala, and I always like make a point to say it, but I, I, that's what I feel about her that she might take a fresh, new perspective and she might seriously fill out, fill a lot of gaps.
Speaker 1:So I'm excited you know there are two things, three things actually. Um, I'm glad you mentioned nieces. Do all of us have nieces? Right, I don't have any daughters, but all I have is a bunch of nieces, and to see, to think that they can look and see themselves the same way a lot of young black boys looked and saw themselves when Obama became president, and see the same thing for them touches my heart. It makes me want to cry when I think about it, because I already heard this from my little niece Ava. Want to cry each and when I when I think about it, because I already heard this from my little niece ava. Um, she didn't think that it was possible, but now she sees a woman can do, a girl can do it. Maybe she might want to do something like that. She says she doesn't, but there's the opportunity for her. She's, and she's 16, you know um another thing is.
Speaker 1:Truth of the matter is it's the thumbs up, the zoom. For me, truth of the matter is the woman is the backbone of every family and without and okay when I say every family, because there are families that do just have a father, father figure and not a mother figure in the home, but there is something about a maternal figure they are the ones who have fixed, who have done the unthinkable, who have made a way out of no way and have tried their hardest. Especially and this is not even just black women, this is just women in general are stronger than most men. Women tend to think, regardless of what most men think, more logical than men, do you know? So men think more on ego women really in. In my opinion, pj's opinion, the thoughts and the opinions are expressed of pj and pj alone, um, so don't y'all come at them too. If you guys don't agree, just don't agree with me um okay, um, women have they?
Speaker 1:they, they break things down more like you know you get.
Speaker 1:You get caught in the lie more by a woman than you do by a man, because you know y'all are the natural born investigators and find out, okay, what was the reason sorry I don't mean to be yelling in y'all ear, but, most importantly, how obama brought hope it in it, from from what I gather and from what she has projected, is that she genuinely cares for people. Trump doesn't care about people, from what I gather and from what I see. He only cares about himself. And again, this is not about him. This is about having someone who is fit to run the country, who cares about its constituents, and that's what it would mean to me. If she became president, I would love to sit down and have a conversation with her. If he became president, I would have nothing to say to that motherfucker.
Speaker 1:I and this is a I said I wasn't gonna do an edible, but it's election day and it just needed it. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, um, but that's what it would mean to me. It would mean it would mean that I would actually probably come to my door and ask what my situation is and actually act and show that they care versus. Show that they care versus yeah. So who are you? What do you want? Why should I do it? Yeah, okay, whatever, you know, that's what matters to me Someone who cares.
Speaker 5:Genuinely cares, because have him tell you, I care so much, very much.
Speaker 1:No one cares much as I do.
Speaker 5:You know Heck, yeah, so much, very much. No one cares Much as I do. I can't Side note for those that you can't hear. We all did the finger thing going back and forth like trying to.
Speaker 3:Horizontal fingers.
Speaker 1:It's crazy because he does all this stuff and he's doing these horizontal fingers and he's throwing up the Zeta sign and he's not even Greek.
Speaker 5:That was real red. What the fuck.
Speaker 4:You're dead.
Speaker 1:On that note, guys, thank you so much for taking the time to listen to another episode of Highly Motherfucking, melanated. The safe space where it is okay to shit? No, it's not. It is a safe space to shit. No, it's not. It is a safe space to shit just in the toilet. But it is the safe space to go back to your roots, go back to your morals, go back to why you make these decisions. And then also, it is a safe space to do your own research. It's a safe space to follow up. It's a safe space to do your own research. It's a safe space to follow up. It's a safe space to keep going. It's a safe space to not get determined or be deterred by whatever may happen. Of course, by the time this episode releases, it will be the day after Election Day. That's all I can say.
Speaker 5:That's all that any of us can say.
Speaker 1:I mean, I think us as a nation, thus us as a nation, in the melanated office, in the melanated manner, those of you who are sitting on our front lawn right now and having y'all cook out and just make sure y'all save me some mac and cheese.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Because that is the dinner, that is the plate that is important for Thanksgiving. I'm wrapping up. It's here.
Speaker 5:It has arrived.
Speaker 4:Peace, love and happy election day.
Speaker 1:Peace, love. And where do we go from here?
Speaker 5:Yeah, yeah, peace, love and go to sleep To wake up tomorrow. Thank you, bye.