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Speaker 1: It is indeed a great way to start our week.

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She is a meditation instructor, mindfulness teacher, a sound healer

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and sound bath specialist, life coach, astrologer, and numerologist. It

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is time for mindful Mondays with Sahara a Lead.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Sahara, Good morning Dominique, and good morning KBLA family.

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Welcome to Mindful Monday, where we get our minds right

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for the week by setting positive intentions to on our

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mind and body through meditation, prayer and affirmation, as we

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step unapologetically into our week, being on purpose with power, wisdom,

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truth and faith. This week, we're still in recovery from

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last week's solar eclips, asking us to say no to

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say yes to ourselves as we get focused, balancing personal

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desires with duties to others, while supporting the cycle of

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self love with marching orders to walk our talk, be

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committed to wholeness and love of self. Most of all,

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manifesting clarity, creating positive change, sell our cup first as

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we step closer into Virgo seasons starting Saturday. The gift

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is all celestial influences are in our favor, aiding us

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to anchor and manifest our dreams. Into reality. Now is

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the time to walk our talk, celebrate personal strength, release

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old belief patterns, yielding emotional Management's time to reconstruct and

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reorganize our conditioned responses, to honor value, to honor and

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value ourselves, to live to our perspectives of our wholeness

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and our lights. We're under very powerful shifts this week

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as we reassess boundaries, embrace reality, engage emotional discernment, enhancing

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personal empowerment. The action plan is to remember our purpose,

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inviting our soul to navigate unapologetically reframing the value of self.

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Are called to action is to take a journey into

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the world behind our eyes today, opening our soul's wisdom

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unapologetically embracing innate truth as we shift our perspective to

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change our minds, to change our lives. So going forward,

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let's lean into our mindful Monday meditation. Pause for a

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moment and take a breath, anchoring your feet to the earth,

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connecting to the root of your purpose. As you open

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yourself to align with your soul's task, just breathe and

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be here and now in this moment, giving your self

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permission to relax. Take a deep breath, mindfully connecting to

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self empowerment. As you breathe, Listen for guidance, Listen for clarity. Relax,

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opening your heart and mind to entner wisdom. Breathe, giving

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your self permission and lean into divine insight. Listen with

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love for clarity. With each breath, relax and let go.

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Breathe in love from the most high, calling on your

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angels and ancestors as you surrender to emotional management, open

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yourself to embrace positive change unfolding in your life here

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and now. Breathe in trust, open to transformation, allowing yourself

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to level up in all partnerships and all endeavors you

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are engaging in at this time. Breathe, relax, traveling that

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warl behind your eyes and visualize happiness, Visualize freedom, Visualize abundant.

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Listen with an open heart, feeling empowered by love and clarity.

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As you relax and be right here, right now, connecting

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to your breath, feeling bold and ready to live your

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best life, promising yourself to be unapologetically grounded and on

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purpose in your power. Breathe, Relax and know all things

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are possible. Give your self permission to fill empowered with

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divine wisdom. Ready to change your mind, to change your life,

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and pick up your power to say no, to say

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yes to your happiness and your purpose. Take a breath,

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connecting here and now, quieting your mind and guiding your

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body to receive our mindful Monday affirmation for the week. Today,

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with grace, I take my power back, celebrating my wholeness

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and light. Today, with grace, I take my power back,

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celebrating my wholeness with light. Breathe, relax, and bring your

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awareness back to present time, giving your self permission with grace,

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to take your power back, celebrating your wholeness and life.

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Sit with that. Be open to celebrating your wholeness, be

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open to shining your light, and most of all, giving

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your self permission to be empowered, honoring the truth and

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wisdom of your divine purpose. Take a breath, feel centered

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and grounded, bringing your awareness back. Frow your feet to

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the floor, throw yourself in present time. Maybe bring your

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hands to your heart and take a breath and slowly

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open your eyes and remember. As you bring your awareness back,

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give your self permission with grace to take your power back,

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celebrating your wholeness and your light. Thank you, Dominique to

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have a smiling miles in the fifteen to eighty KBLA family,

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have an unapologetic nightfully blessed. Wik Remember when you fill

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yourself with self love, you make better choices. Go with grace,

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take your power back, celebrate your wholeness and your life in.

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Speaker 1: The celebrating wholeness and light. I love that you left

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us with light today.

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Speaker 3: And it's it's going. We're going.

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Speaker 1: We're still in Leo season, which is one of my

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favorites because it's so expansive, but we're going into Virgo season.

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When you know, when we talk about Virgo, there's a

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lot of precision, a lot of critical analysis, let me

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put it that way, and we can I feel like

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this is maybe this is just a me thing. But

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I don't think so that we can turn that highly

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critical I on ourselves.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes that's healthy, sometimes not so much so? How do

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how do you navigate that? You know, the the inner critic,

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the voice of the inner critic is present every season

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every all Zodie act signs spring, winter, summerfall, and it

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can be quite counterproductive. You know, when we get when

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we let the perfect be the enemy of the good,

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or when we find ourselves stopping our own dreams. So

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how do you suggest we navigate that, particularly under the

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scrutiny of Virgo season, which, as you point out, starts

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on Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Well, the gift of Virgo is to help us have

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a critical, discerning perspective. But if we look at like,

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each sign has an opposite reflection. So the opposite reflection

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of Virgo is Pisce beats and so part of the

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reflection of Virgo and Pisces is also to have the

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critical thought but also the faith to execute positive, uplifting,

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spiritual perspective of all things around us. It's not just

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always black and white, and that is part of the

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lesson of the Virgo. It is also a perspective of

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the inner world, the truth, the divine order. Although Virgo

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is like the task master of trying to implement order,

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but there's always a divine order despite the critical perspective

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virgals may take at times. The gift of Virgo is

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to help us be organized. It helps us have critical

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thinking as far as trusting the wisdom within ourselves. The

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other part of that is to also have that inner

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connection with the opposite polarity prices to believe, to believe,

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that there is magic to believe that God's world is

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always being done, and that we don't have to crack

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a whip, that we don't have to be overly critical,

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that we can lean into that clarity we get from

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a Virgo perspective and know that that clarity is part

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of divine order, and to integrate that wisdom of divine

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order and be on point. So Virgo is very necessary.

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But the opposite side of Virgo is the Pithian dynamic,

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and so it's important as we go into Virgo seasons

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not to be hard on ourselves, not to be judgmental

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of other people, but to give ourselves permission to be

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discerning and to look to do a three point sixty

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as opposed to just what's in front of us. Patience

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Patience patients.

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Speaker 1: Not to be critical of others, got it, and the

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line between discernment and judgment is an important one.

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Speaker 3: We'll continue the conversation. We will not let Sahara Ali

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leave us. Yet. It's a mindful Monday.

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Speaker 1: You're always welcome in at eight hundred nine two oh

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fifteen eighty. I'm Dominique Diafrima for KBLA Talk fifteen eight

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right now we're talking with Sahara Ali getting our together.

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You mentioned, you know, we're talking about Virgo season, which

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starts Saturday. You mentioned this idea of being self critical

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or judgmental of others, and Molly Bell took it a

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step further to the guilt the G word. She says,

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guilt can be a boog bear. And I think that

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is part of that. You know, when we get into

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that super self critical should it would have could an

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energy And I love that you said in your Mindful

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Monday that part of the call to action is to

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focus on purpose. Is that an antidote to some of

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that or how do you see it?

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Speaker 2: Well? To focus on purpose, Basically, it's saying stay in

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your name, stay in alignment with the journey of your

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soul and the karma that your soul came here to

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live through good, better and different, and stay at a

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people's business. This is not a time to jump into

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other people's affairs. This is not a time to lose

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sight of the manifestation of your wholeness. This is time

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to build and fill your cup first, because we can't

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give from an empty cup. When we try to give

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to others and our cup is empty, that's chaos. If

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we are in our holness, if we are in our light,

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we can give unconditionally, and we can give with a

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with discernments. If your cup is empty, you probably give

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more of yourself than you're willing to give. And that's,

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you know, part of the Virgo season. It's like we

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can get overly involved in dynamics that don't serve our

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highest good, or we can get caught up in somebody

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else's expectation of who we are as opposed to honoring

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our own light and our own homeness. And again we

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go back to the polarity of Virgo and prices. Ices

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is the dreamer. Virgo is the mental balance between the

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dreamer and reality, and so so in that balance there's clarity,

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and that clarity then comes back to know thyself, honor thyself,

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celebrate thyself. And so this Virgo season is very important

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to stay in your lane and be of service, but

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be of service by filling your cup first. Don't give

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your power away, use discernment before you say yes. Sometimes

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during this time we will have to say no, to

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say yes to ourselves so that we can really perform

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at our best, so that we don't have that Virgo

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critical dynamic judging a half job. We want homeleness. That's

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what Virgo requires, wholeness and clarity and precision. And so

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we find that by understanding the truth of will, we're

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standing have an emotional discernment, emotional management, but most of all,

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understanding what's your intention And every intention there's an expectation.

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In that expectation, there's an acceptance whether or not that

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intention will be fulfilled, and then there's the reality of relief,

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seeing to what is what is truth? What is wisdom?

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What is in front of you? And how can you

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change something if you don't change yourself. Yeah, you can't

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change either people if you don't change yourself.

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Speaker 3: I want to pivot a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I love that DJ Black nine O nine wrote out

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your affirmation in the chat. I always write it in

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my notebook. Today with grace, I take my power back,

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celebrating my wholeness and light. Thank you, DJ Black nine

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or nine. I want to pivot a little bit. More

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and more and more science is showing that sitting all.

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Speaker 3: Day is bad for our bodies. And you're a yoga

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instruct instructor.

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Speaker 1: You're one of the most fit people I know in

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a very deep way. Not I mean, you do have muscles,

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but just as far as everything, the body being in

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alignment and flexible and all the stuff we want.

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Speaker 3: And a lot of.

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Speaker 1: Us do sit all day, whether it's at our jobs

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or you know, just out of force of habits on

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the couch. What is the antidote to that? Because from

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every article I read, it's really breaking down the well

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being of the body, the longevity of the body, and

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the amount of time we can be independent and mobile.

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Speaker 2: So if you really think about what happens to stagnant water,

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what happens is your car is stalled. It becomes it's

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like a complacency, like it doesn't move, it's just stuck.

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And so movement is so important because movement helps integrate

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our life force energy, even if we walk, even if

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we just stretch our arms. You know, I work with

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a lot of corporations and I bring creative wellness. And

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the first thing in creative wellness is that I have

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people read which sends oxygen through your body. Breathing through meditation,

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you're flowing your life force energy. But movement complements the breath,

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and movement helps to circulate blood. It helps to integrate

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energy throughout the nervous system. But it also facilitates the

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scenobial fluid in our spine that feeds our brain, so

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that we can think clearly, we can talk clearly, and

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we can respond with emotional clarity. So movement is not

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just for movement's sake, but movement is to integrate wholeness

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and to allow the body to function at its ultimate level.

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Even if you just walk for a moment, walk up

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and down the stairs, or walk around the corner, you know,

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or just touch your toes. If you can't touch your toes,

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just hang over for a while. But even lie on

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the bed and do some stretches, pull on your knees,

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to your chest. But most of all, getting that tunobio

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fluid moving in your spine, your brain will have clarity,

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you would have emotional management and discernment, and you'll have

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Speaker 1: So when you're talking about that movement, I'm over here

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in the studio moving my arms. Like she just said,

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even moving your arms, I mean I sit here for

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three hours. I try to run out in the hall

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and do a few squats, or do a forward bend

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or something even if I have on high heels, which

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is probably not good. But the thing is, we it

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sounds like any little bit helps, and that it. You know,

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it's not like either I'm Miss Olympia and I work out,

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I'm Clarissa Shields knocking fools out, or I just sit

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on the couch all day. Like every little bit of

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movement makes a difference.

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Speaker 2: Right, you don't want dust on your mind and your body.

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Speaker 3: No dust on your mind. I love that.

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Speaker 2: I don't want dust on your mind and your body.

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to move up and down, you know, and breath helps that,

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but movement stimulates, you know, a good cardio. I mean,

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what am I trying to say? Cardiac movement your heart,

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get your heart functioning as early. I can't do, do you.

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Speaker 1: I mean? So, so let's say I have a job

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five minutes and dance a jig, or every two hours

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Speaker 3: And you know, I.

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Speaker 2: Would say, take some type of movement every thirty to

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forty minutes. Even if you just walk down the hall,

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and even walking. Maybe take the stairs when you come in,

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take the stairs when you leave. You know, walk and

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you know when you have a chance or something, or

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even just you know, sit in your chair and like

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you said, put some music on, dance a jig, anything

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to get the heart pumping and the blood flowing. That

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your brain is healthy and that you don't fall into

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a depression chair yoga.

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Speaker 1: Yes, the mental health aspect of that is really important too.

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Speaker 3: I'm glad you mentioned it.

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Speaker 1: But even let's say I'm an older American, I'm disabled.

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can only move a little bit. What you're saying is

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that moving a little is more than is better, much

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better for brain and body than not moving at all,

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even if I'm shaking my shoulders in my chair or

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flailing my hands around or whatever, I have capacity to

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it becomes an aerobic movement because the blood has to

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flow from your heart to your hands and back down

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to your heart. So even if you just lift your

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arms up and down, you're stimulating your heart. You do

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a few twists left and right, stimulating your spine, even

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if you lift one leg or with your hands or

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even by itself, you are getting the blood flowing through

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your body, which is so important because having blood flow

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through your body since oxygen to your brain, and then

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your brain has clarity and again fighting depression, anxiety, flass,

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expectations appearing real. You know, it takes you out of

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a delusional state because you have to breathe, and breath

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is the key to life, and movement is part of

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having the breath move through your body.

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you for that reminder. I'm about to go

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do some some forward bends in the hall. Look, if

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you want an appointment with Sahara, if you want a

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sound bath, a personal sound healing treatment, or some life

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coaching or reading, you can call at least that two

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one three, six, two eight nine seven eight three two

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quick one is your next sound bath Sahara.

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Speaker 2: I'm we have a sound bath on Friday, the soul

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flow after dark with Mahat Yoga, which is a mental

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yoga experience, and that is Friday night, and then I

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have a soundbap at Yoga House on Saturday. So Friday

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is from seven to ten because it's a party type situation.

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We have a DJ, we have yoga movement, we have

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a SOUNDBAP, we have a healing meditation. It's to guide

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us in it.

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Speaker 3: Got it up against the sorry.

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Speaker 2: Okay, and then the sound back at Yoga House. So

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Friday is soul flow after dark with maht Yoga. You

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can go to Instagram and find that, and then also

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at Yoga House on Saturday six to seven thirty pm.

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Speaker 3: Bet you got to get there at five forty five, Sahara.

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Speaker 1: All Lead dot com is where you can find out more. Sahara,

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Thank you for a great start to our Monday morning.

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Speaker 2: Thank you Dominique, Thank you KBLA family. Remember as you think,

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so shall it be? Think about what you want now

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what you don't want?

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Speaker 1: All right, news, traffickings, sports. Then we're back only right here.

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Speaker 3: As per usual.

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Speaker 1: This presidential cycle, I guess we'll call it the news.

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The news cycle is like a spin class. It's going faster,

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faster and faster. If you want to unpack, understand, unboxed,

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or protest, analyze, share, you're always welcome to do so

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here we do what we do.

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Speaker 3: Encourage you.

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Speaker 1: You can call me at eight hundred nine to oh

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fifteen eighty eight hundred nine to oh fifteen eighty and

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uh yeah, let's let's figure it out. It is a

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mindful Monday. We always like to check in on national

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and international politics. So I guess the presidential son in

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law is meeting today with Benjamin Netanyahu, who is obviously

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the Prime Minister of Israel. It just never ceases to

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amaze me. That's somebody who's unelected, not an expert. Uh

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and just yeah, I mean, we don't want to talk

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about DEI. Well it's not even DEI. I guess it's

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more like nepotism. But anyway, he's holding talks with Prime

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Minister Benjamin NETANYAHUO today and reportedly met yesterday with a

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leader of Hamas, and that is rather rich to me.

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Kushner is the one who made the comment that Gaza

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was prime beach property. He also happens to be a

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very conservative Zionist Jewish American whose father is the ambassador

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US ambassador to France, who has made tons of anti

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Muslim comment terry. Nevertheless, that's who the Trump administration decided

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would be a good person to send to talk with

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Hamas and now Netanyahu so well, let's let me put

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it this way. I will hope that a miracle happens

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because the people of Gaza, the Palestinian people, certainly have

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had to bear more than most nations, individuals, ethnicities ever

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will in the course of a lifetime, with the pounding,

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the genocide, the indiscriminate killing of women and children, and

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the total demolition of their infrastructure on the past couple

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of years. So you know, I don't care if Kushner

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can do.

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Speaker 3: It, make it happen.

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Speaker 1: I just.

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Speaker 3: Seems like a stretch.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the President has said that he's ordered the Pentagon

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on Sunday, and the Resident as I typically call him,

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because he does live at the White House most of

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the time when he's not at mar A Lago, that

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he's saying, well, he's ordering them to scale back their

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military exercises with South Korea because he says South Korea

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is not helping enough with the war against Iran, and

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because he has such a good friend and Kim Jong un.

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strange social relationships is that he seems to give them benefits,

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like Putin gets benefits from being his friend. But we

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don't seem to get any benefits from being Putin's friend.

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is my buddy, and y'all are not doing enough against Iran.

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Therefore I have instructed this is a quote Secretary of

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Warte Hegseth, to reduce military joint exercises. Well, okay, I

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mean it is what it is. Actually would lower the

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amount of greenhouse gases by some some degree. So I'll

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take it, even though the logic is stunning. And also

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this morning on the war front, the President is threatening

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to bomb Oman. He said that they are getting in

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the way of US efforts to reopen the Straight of

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Horn moves, They're getting in the way of the peace

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process with Iran, and therefore, if they don't stop, according

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to the President, the Resident.

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Speaker 3: Will bomb Oman.

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Speaker 1: It's just I think dangerous to be hollering about who

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you're gonna bomb, no matter who it is. That's a

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whole problem. And Oman, you know, it's trying to expand

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a war when you really can't even handle the range

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of the scope of the war as it is now.

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The Iranian the spokesman for the Revolutionary Guard, General Houssein

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Mobeihi on Monday said that President Trump is delusional that

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there are no back channel discussions for peace. He says, quote,

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there are no talks taking place between the IRGC and

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the Americans, and this lie by Trump is merely fantasy.

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Fantasy is caused by the delusions and nightmares he has

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suffered as a result of defeat and desperation.

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Speaker 3: In the war.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like negotiations are going swimmingly.

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Speaker 3: Again.

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Speaker 1: I will continue to pray for peace, but doesn't doesn't

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look good right now. Doesn't look good for the United States. Meanwhile,

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you've got these Navy soldiers stuck on the USS Lincoln,

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and even you know, some top military brass under heg

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Seth are saying that there are mental health concerns that

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are a high priority for those those soldiers because of burnout,

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because of the terrible conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.

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At the same time, the Secretary of War as he

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likes to call himself, as the position is actually called

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Defense Secretary, he's kind of dismissing this and going, yeah, well,

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you know, some deployments are longer than others. But apparently

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that ship, the USS Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln has had their

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deployment stretched out more than a month over at seven

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month original schedule, which was already long. And there are

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food and supply shortages, water contamination, sewage problems, a couple

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of attempted suicides on the ship. So easy for heg Seth,

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with his powdered face and hair sprayed quoife, to sit

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there and dismiss the concerns of soldiers who are probably

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living among poop, smells, bad food, not enough food, and

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terrible conditions. At least two soldiers have tried to jump overboard,

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and the wife of one of those soldiers said it

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was because he was completely burnt out. But heg Seth says, oh,

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you know, some deployments go longer than others. Meanwhile, they're

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sending another ship over there to relieve them. The George

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Washington is going to relieve the Lincoln, which apparently leaves

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the entire Pacific Ocean side of the US of America

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without a battleship, which is I think very highly unusual,

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uh so not looking really amazing. And you know, I

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don't say that in a celebratory way. I think it's

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terrible for our soldiers, and I don't love that we

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are running through weaponry like some people change their underwear,

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polluting the planet, bombing and killing and all while losing

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all that. I've always been a piece nick y'all know

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that I'm a peace person. I pray for I don't

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even like I don't like the proxy wars. I don't

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like the cold wars, the hot wars. But this is

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what I would call all out worst case scenario, all

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around worst case scenario eight hundred nine two oh fifteen

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eighty eight hundred nine to oh fifteen eighty.

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Speaker 3: If you want to weigh in on any of this,

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Stephen A.

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Speaker 1: Smith declaring war on the National Association of Black Journalists,

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tell you why when we come forward on KBLA Talk

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fifteen eighty.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, Stephen A.

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Speaker 1: Smith says they're about to feel his wrath the National

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Association of Black Journalists. He says he's been holding back,

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but now it is on. And why does he say that?

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Why does Stephen A. Smith, cultural critic and famed anti

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black black man have his sight set on the National

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Association of Black Journalists. Well, Saturday night they had their

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Excellent Excellence in Black Journalism Awards gala, and they started

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something new, UH the thumbs Down Award. They gave thumbs

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down award to a number of individuals and organizations, among

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them ESPN. They call them a personality.

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Speaker 3: Is that what that is? Personality? Stephen A. Smith.

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Washington Post, CBS News, uh FCC chairman Brendan Carr, which

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I thought was rather bold but also true of them,

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and the media executive UH Dewan McCoy, who I'm not

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as familiar with. In any case, these were thumbs down awards.

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Speaker 3: Stephen A.

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Speaker 1: Smith one got one, and he was pretty mad. The

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president of the na b J, the National President, Aaron Haynes, said, look,

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we are confronting people in systems whose choices make your

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jobs harder, and it's not just a thumbs down, but

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they're calling on them to do better. Well Stephen A.

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Smith's he didn't take it lightly. He said that he

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has been keeping the gloves off and that now it's on.

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Speaker 3: He's about to go after the NABJ.

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Speaker 1: And one of the reasons the NABJ called him out

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for the thumb down a world word in the first place,

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is that they say he has a pattern in his

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public commentary specifically of attacking black women, which you know

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you don't need an AI scrape to figure that out.

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In fact, he does talk smack about black women all

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the time. It's I don't listen to him all the time,

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but I hear it so much that I'm like, Oh,

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who hurts you? I mean, that's really what it's giving.

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It's giving who hurts you? They say he has an

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established he has established a recurring pattern of disparaging commentary

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directed at prominent Black women across politics.

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Speaker 3: Arts, and media.

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Speaker 1: Well, Stephen as not having it. He says he's coming

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for them, and I think it is pretty funny because

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you know, when did he not come for them? When

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has he supported the NABJ, When has he been supportive

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of black anybody?

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Speaker 3: There must be somebody, But.

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Speaker 1: Mostly what I hear him doing is attacking and disparaging

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Black people, black women, African American leadership, and organizations like

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the NABJ. So I'm not sure why they would be

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afraid and cower when he's basically saying he is going

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to keep doing what he always does, which is unfairly

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and harshly criticizing Black people, black women, black in institutions,

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and so I mean, it'll be interesting to watch. If anything,

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I think I will end up bringing more attention to

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the National Association a Black Journalist, just as Trump did

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when he went in on them. But I you know,

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I just think it's delusional for this man to think

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he's been holding his tongue. Yogi Fish says, I don't

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know why my sister Allison did that at the NABJ,

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Probably because if we don't Yogi Fish, if we don't

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call these folks out, we normalize it like it's regular,

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normal and acceptable for one of the most black, prominent

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and well listened to black men in America to be

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constantly disparaging black women. If we just give him a pass,

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give him an award, Oh, don't take notice. I feel

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like we normalize that, and that's not what we want

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to do. It's just the same reason that I'm always

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calling out the prevarications aka untruth aka lies of this

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current resident, because if we kind of just go along

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with it and close our eyes, close our ears and

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hope it just will stop in another two years, can

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just hold on for two and a quarter or more years,

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everything will be okay. But that's not how it works.

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We have to call it out of the wise, it

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becomes normalized, and the next level of evil demons just

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builds on top of that level of evil demons. We

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have to chip away at the disrespect, the untruths and

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all of the bs. I feel like we have to,

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and you know, and so I commend them for doing that.

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And I do believe that even though he's threatening people

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and saying, well, now I'm gonna really tear you down.

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Speaker 3: Stephen A.

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Speaker 1: Smith may end up unwittingly helping the cause, unwittingly.

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Speaker 3: Helping to.

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Speaker 1: Bring attention to his own stupidity by organizations and individuals

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who who undermine and disparage us all the time. And

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you know, honestly, that makes me want to join the NABJ. Actually,

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I already promised, I already promised shar Jozelle that I

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would and I will, girl, I will, and I'm gonna

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do it real quick because I know your presidency is

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almost over here in La Juwan McCoy is the owner

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and president of Circle City Broadcasting, which is owns this

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Indianapolis TV station called Wish TV. He got the thumbs down.

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I wasn't familiar with him, but what they're saying is

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that he consistently mistreats black journalists. And if that's the criteria,

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we could add a long list of thumbs down awards.

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But they're talking about workplace equity, newsroom, cultural and culture,

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and professional accountability. And of course there are tons of

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corporations that have this problem also. But keep in mind

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that the National Association of Black Journalisms is specifically focused

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on journalism, as they should be. Washington Post getting called

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out for what they call a reorganization of their newsroom,

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which really amounted to cutting massive numbers of reporters, particularly

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those reporters who do investigative journalism and reporters covering race identity,

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white supremacy extremism protests. This appears to be the flexing

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of the broligarchy. As we know Jeff Bezos, the billionaire

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who spent fifty five million on his own wedding last

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year but cannot pay decent wages to his warehouse workers.

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That guy owns it. He has cut back on reporters

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covering what they call the public interest beats and cut

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back on journalists of color and black reporters. So that's

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why they got the thumbs down. And again this makes

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me want to cancel my subscription. They do still have

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some good reporters and good journalism. That's one of the

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reasons I haven't done it yet, but the NABJ call

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out does make me think perhaps it's time again. If

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we don't say anything, if we don't do the call outs,

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who will. And that is why I am one hundred

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percent behind them. CBS again the same thing. The changes

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in the newsroom, putting this Bari Weiss person who is

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a far right wing conservative with no kind of experience,

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ruining and trashing sixty minutes and paying off the president

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all need to be called out. Brendan Carr, the activist

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republican right wing Trump supporter who is now over the

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Federal Communications Commission and going after journalists who speak their

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mind and do their job. These callouts are important because

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otherwise we normalize this sort of authoritarian state sponsored journalism,

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censorship and the purchasing of purchasing, in control of the

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news apparatus by these broligarchs, these billionaire tech bros who

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are currently have our federal government block Let's not normalize that.

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All right, Comedian del Harrison is here and we are

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going to do a big old pivot.

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Speaker 3: We're talking. We'll get a little mess you.

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Speaker 1: We're going to talk about celibacy, a choice or a punishment.

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That's next on KBLA Talk fifteen to eighty