Speaker 1: It is indeed a great way to start our week.
Speaker 1: She is a meditation instructor, mindfulness teacher, a sound healer
Speaker 1: and sound bath specialist, life coach, astrologer, and numerologist. It
Speaker 1: is time for mindful Mondays with Sahara a Lead.
Speaker 2: Good morning Sahara, Good morning Dominique, and good morning KBLA family.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Mindful Monday, where we get our minds right
Speaker 2: for the week by setting positive intentions to on our
Speaker 2: mind and body through meditation, prayer and affirmation, as we
Speaker 2: step unapologetically into our week, being on purpose with power, wisdom,
Speaker 2: truth and faith. This week, we're still in recovery from
Speaker 2: last week's solar eclips, asking us to say no to
Speaker 2: say yes to ourselves as we get focused, balancing personal
Speaker 2: desires with duties to others, while supporting the cycle of
Speaker 2: self love with marching orders to walk our talk, be
Speaker 2: committed to wholeness and love of self. Most of all,
Speaker 2: manifesting clarity, creating positive change, sell our cup first as
Speaker 2: we step closer into Virgo seasons starting Saturday. The gift
Speaker 2: is all celestial influences are in our favor, aiding us
Speaker 2: to anchor and manifest our dreams. Into reality. Now is
Speaker 2: the time to walk our talk, celebrate personal strength, release
Speaker 2: old belief patterns, yielding emotional Management's time to reconstruct and
Speaker 2: reorganize our conditioned responses, to honor value, to honor and
Speaker 2: value ourselves, to live to our perspectives of our wholeness
Speaker 2: and our lights. We're under very powerful shifts this week
Speaker 2: as we reassess boundaries, embrace reality, engage emotional discernment, enhancing
Speaker 2: personal empowerment. The action plan is to remember our purpose,
Speaker 2: inviting our soul to navigate unapologetically reframing the value of self.
Speaker 2: Are called to action is to take a journey into
Speaker 2: the world behind our eyes today, opening our soul's wisdom
Speaker 2: unapologetically embracing innate truth as we shift our perspective to
Speaker 2: change our minds, to change our lives. So going forward,
Speaker 2: let's lean into our mindful Monday meditation. Pause for a
Speaker 2: moment and take a breath, anchoring your feet to the earth,
Speaker 2: connecting to the root of your purpose. As you open
Speaker 2: yourself to align with your soul's task, just breathe and
Speaker 2: be here and now in this moment, giving your self
Speaker 2: permission to relax. Take a deep breath, mindfully connecting to
Speaker 2: self empowerment. As you breathe, Listen for guidance, Listen for clarity. Relax,
Speaker 2: opening your heart and mind to entner wisdom. Breathe, giving
Speaker 2: your self permission and lean into divine insight. Listen with
Speaker 2: love for clarity. With each breath, relax and let go.
Speaker 2: Breathe in love from the most high, calling on your
Speaker 2: angels and ancestors as you surrender to emotional management, open
Speaker 2: yourself to embrace positive change unfolding in your life here
Speaker 2: and now. Breathe in trust, open to transformation, allowing yourself
Speaker 2: to level up in all partnerships and all endeavors you
Speaker 2: are engaging in at this time. Breathe, relax, traveling that
Speaker 2: warl behind your eyes and visualize happiness, Visualize freedom, Visualize abundant.
Speaker 2: Listen with an open heart, feeling empowered by love and clarity.
Speaker 2: As you relax and be right here, right now, connecting
Speaker 2: to your breath, feeling bold and ready to live your
Speaker 2: best life, promising yourself to be unapologetically grounded and on
Speaker 2: purpose in your power. Breathe, Relax and know all things
Speaker 2: are possible. Give your self permission to fill empowered with
Speaker 2: divine wisdom. Ready to change your mind, to change your life,
Speaker 2: and pick up your power to say no, to say
Speaker 2: yes to your happiness and your purpose. Take a breath,
Speaker 2: connecting here and now, quieting your mind and guiding your
Speaker 2: body to receive our mindful Monday affirmation for the week. Today,
Speaker 2: with grace, I take my power back, celebrating my wholeness
Speaker 2: and light. Today, with grace, I take my power back,
Speaker 2: celebrating my wholeness with light. Breathe, relax, and bring your
Speaker 2: awareness back to present time, giving your self permission with grace,
Speaker 2: to take your power back, celebrating your wholeness and life.
Speaker 2: Sit with that. Be open to celebrating your wholeness, be
Speaker 2: open to shining your light, and most of all, giving
Speaker 2: your self permission to be empowered, honoring the truth and
Speaker 2: wisdom of your divine purpose. Take a breath, feel centered
Speaker 2: and grounded, bringing your awareness back. Frow your feet to
Speaker 2: the floor, throw yourself in present time. Maybe bring your
Speaker 2: hands to your heart and take a breath and slowly
Speaker 2: open your eyes and remember. As you bring your awareness back,
Speaker 2: give your self permission with grace to take your power back,
Speaker 2: celebrating your wholeness and your light. Thank you, Dominique to
Speaker 2: have a smiling miles in the fifteen to eighty KBLA family,
Speaker 2: have an unapologetic nightfully blessed. Wik Remember when you fill
Speaker 2: yourself with self love, you make better choices. Go with grace,
Speaker 2: take your power back, celebrate your wholeness and your life in.
Speaker 1: The celebrating wholeness and light. I love that you left
Speaker 1: us with light today.
Speaker 3: And it's it's going. We're going.
Speaker 1: We're still in Leo season, which is one of my
Speaker 1: favorites because it's so expansive, but we're going into Virgo season.
Speaker 1: When you know, when we talk about Virgo, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of precision, a lot of critical analysis, let me
Speaker 1: put it that way, and we can I feel like
Speaker 1: this is maybe this is just a me thing. But
Speaker 1: I don't think so that we can turn that highly
Speaker 1: critical I on ourselves.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Sometimes that's healthy, sometimes not so much so? How do
Speaker 1: how do you navigate that? You know, the the inner critic,
Speaker 1: the voice of the inner critic is present every season
Speaker 1: every all Zodie act signs spring, winter, summerfall, and it
Speaker 1: can be quite counterproductive. You know, when we get when
Speaker 1: we let the perfect be the enemy of the good,
Speaker 1: or when we find ourselves stopping our own dreams. So
Speaker 1: how do you suggest we navigate that, particularly under the
Speaker 1: scrutiny of Virgo season, which, as you point out, starts
Speaker 1: on Saturday.
Speaker 2: Well, the gift of Virgo is to help us have
Speaker 2: a critical, discerning perspective. But if we look at like,
Speaker 2: each sign has an opposite reflection. So the opposite reflection
Speaker 2: of Virgo is Pisce beats and so part of the
Speaker 2: reflection of Virgo and Pisces is also to have the
Speaker 2: critical thought but also the faith to execute positive, uplifting,
Speaker 2: spiritual perspective of all things around us. It's not just
Speaker 2: always black and white, and that is part of the
Speaker 2: lesson of the Virgo. It is also a perspective of
Speaker 2: the inner world, the truth, the divine order. Although Virgo
Speaker 2: is like the task master of trying to implement order,
Speaker 2: but there's always a divine order despite the critical perspective
Speaker 2: virgals may take at times. The gift of Virgo is
Speaker 2: to help us be organized. It helps us have critical
Speaker 2: thinking as far as trusting the wisdom within ourselves. The
Speaker 2: other part of that is to also have that inner
Speaker 2: connection with the opposite polarity prices to believe, to believe,
Speaker 2: that there is magic to believe that God's world is
Speaker 2: always being done, and that we don't have to crack
Speaker 2: a whip, that we don't have to be overly critical,
Speaker 2: that we can lean into that clarity we get from
Speaker 2: a Virgo perspective and know that that clarity is part
Speaker 2: of divine order, and to integrate that wisdom of divine
Speaker 2: order and be on point. So Virgo is very necessary.
Speaker 2: But the opposite side of Virgo is the Pithian dynamic,
Speaker 2: and so it's important as we go into Virgo seasons
Speaker 2: not to be hard on ourselves, not to be judgmental
Speaker 2: of other people, but to give ourselves permission to be
Speaker 2: discerning and to look to do a three point sixty
Speaker 2: as opposed to just what's in front of us. Patience
Speaker 2: Patience patients.
Speaker 1: Not to be critical of others, got it, and the
Speaker 1: line between discernment and judgment is an important one.
Speaker 3: We'll continue the conversation. We will not let Sahara Ali
Speaker 3: leave us. Yet. It's a mindful Monday.
Speaker 1: You're always welcome in at eight hundred nine two oh
Speaker 1: fifteen eighty. I'm Dominique Diafrima for KBLA Talk fifteen eight
Speaker 1: right now we're talking with Sahara Ali getting our together.
Speaker 1: You mentioned, you know, we're talking about Virgo season, which
Speaker 1: starts Saturday. You mentioned this idea of being self critical
Speaker 1: or judgmental of others, and Molly Bell took it a
Speaker 1: step further to the guilt the G word. She says,
Speaker 1: guilt can be a boog bear. And I think that
Speaker 1: is part of that. You know, when we get into
Speaker 1: that super self critical should it would have could an
Speaker 1: energy And I love that you said in your Mindful
Speaker 1: Monday that part of the call to action is to
Speaker 1: focus on purpose. Is that an antidote to some of
Speaker 1: that or how do you see it?
Speaker 2: Well? To focus on purpose, Basically, it's saying stay in
Speaker 2: your name, stay in alignment with the journey of your
Speaker 2: soul and the karma that your soul came here to
Speaker 2: live through good, better and different, and stay at a
Speaker 2: people's business. This is not a time to jump into
Speaker 2: other people's affairs. This is not a time to lose
Speaker 2: sight of the manifestation of your wholeness. This is time
Speaker 2: to build and fill your cup first, because we can't
Speaker 2: give from an empty cup. When we try to give
Speaker 2: to others and our cup is empty, that's chaos. If
Speaker 2: we are in our holness, if we are in our light,
Speaker 2: we can give unconditionally, and we can give with a
Speaker 2: with discernments. If your cup is empty, you probably give
Speaker 2: more of yourself than you're willing to give. And that's,
Speaker 2: you know, part of the Virgo season. It's like we
Speaker 2: can get overly involved in dynamics that don't serve our
Speaker 2: highest good, or we can get caught up in somebody
Speaker 2: else's expectation of who we are as opposed to honoring
Speaker 2: our own light and our own homeness. And again we
Speaker 2: go back to the polarity of Virgo and prices. Ices
Speaker 2: is the dreamer. Virgo is the mental balance between the
Speaker 2: dreamer and reality, and so so in that balance there's clarity,
Speaker 2: and that clarity then comes back to know thyself, honor thyself,
Speaker 2: celebrate thyself. And so this Virgo season is very important
Speaker 2: to stay in your lane and be of service, but
Speaker 2: be of service by filling your cup first. Don't give
Speaker 2: your power away, use discernment before you say yes. Sometimes
Speaker 2: during this time we will have to say no, to
Speaker 2: say yes to ourselves so that we can really perform
Speaker 2: at our best, so that we don't have that Virgo
Speaker 2: critical dynamic judging a half job. We want homeleness. That's
Speaker 2: what Virgo requires, wholeness and clarity and precision. And so
Speaker 2: we find that by understanding the truth of will, we're
Speaker 2: standing have an emotional discernment, emotional management, but most of all,
Speaker 2: understanding what's your intention And every intention there's an expectation.
Speaker 2: In that expectation, there's an acceptance whether or not that
Speaker 2: intention will be fulfilled, and then there's the reality of relief,
Speaker 2: seeing to what is what is truth? What is wisdom?
Speaker 2: What is in front of you? And how can you
Speaker 2: change something if you don't change yourself. Yeah, you can't
Speaker 2: change either people if you don't change yourself.
Speaker 3: I want to pivot a little bit.
Speaker 1: I love that DJ Black nine O nine wrote out
Speaker 1: your affirmation in the chat. I always write it in
Speaker 1: my notebook. Today with grace, I take my power back,
Speaker 1: celebrating my wholeness and light. Thank you, DJ Black nine
Speaker 1: or nine. I want to pivot a little bit. More
Speaker 1: and more and more science is showing that sitting all.
Speaker 3: Day is bad for our bodies. And you're a yoga
Speaker 3: instruct instructor.
Speaker 1: You're one of the most fit people I know in
Speaker 1: a very deep way. Not I mean, you do have muscles,
Speaker 1: but just as far as everything, the body being in
Speaker 1: alignment and flexible and all the stuff we want.
Speaker 3: And a lot of.
Speaker 1: Us do sit all day, whether it's at our jobs
Speaker 1: or you know, just out of force of habits on
Speaker 1: the couch. What is the antidote to that? Because from
Speaker 1: every article I read, it's really breaking down the well
Speaker 1: being of the body, the longevity of the body, and
Speaker 1: the amount of time we can be independent and mobile.
Speaker 2: So if you really think about what happens to stagnant water,
Speaker 2: what happens is your car is stalled. It becomes it's
Speaker 2: like a complacency, like it doesn't move, it's just stuck.
Speaker 2: And so movement is so important because movement helps integrate
Speaker 2: our life force energy, even if we walk, even if
Speaker 2: we just stretch our arms. You know, I work with
Speaker 2: a lot of corporations and I bring creative wellness. And
Speaker 2: the first thing in creative wellness is that I have
Speaker 2: people read which sends oxygen through your body. Breathing through meditation,
Speaker 2: you're flowing your life force energy. But movement complements the breath,
Speaker 2: and movement helps to circulate blood. It helps to integrate
Speaker 2: energy throughout the nervous system. But it also facilitates the
Speaker 2: scenobial fluid in our spine that feeds our brain, so
Speaker 2: that we can think clearly, we can talk clearly, and
Speaker 2: we can respond with emotional clarity. So movement is not
Speaker 2: just for movement's sake, but movement is to integrate wholeness
Speaker 2: and to allow the body to function at its ultimate level.
Speaker 2: Even if you just walk for a moment, walk up
Speaker 2: and down the stairs, or walk around the corner, you know,
Speaker 2: or just touch your toes. If you can't touch your toes,
Speaker 2: just hang over for a while. But even lie on
Speaker 2: the bed and do some stretches, pull on your knees,
Speaker 2: to your chest. But most of all, getting that tunobio
Speaker 2: fluid moving in your spine, your brain will have clarity,
Speaker 2: you would have emotional management and discernment, and you'll have
Speaker 2: a better mood and it helps fight depression.
Speaker 1: So when you're talking about that movement, I'm over here
Speaker 1: in the studio moving my arms. Like she just said,
Speaker 1: even moving your arms, I mean I sit here for
Speaker 1: three hours. I try to run out in the hall
Speaker 1: and do a few squats, or do a forward bend
Speaker 1: or something even if I have on high heels, which
Speaker 1: is probably not good. But the thing is, we it
Speaker 1: sounds like any little bit helps, and that it. You know,
Speaker 1: it's not like either I'm Miss Olympia and I work out,
Speaker 1: I'm Clarissa Shields knocking fools out, or I just sit
Speaker 1: on the couch all day. Like every little bit of
Speaker 1: movement makes a difference.
Speaker 2: Right, you don't want dust on your mind and your body.
Speaker 3: No dust on your mind. I love that.
Speaker 2: I don't want dust on your mind and your body.
Speaker 2: And the other part is that our heart rate have
Speaker 2: to move up and down, you know, and breath helps that,
Speaker 2: but movement stimulates, you know, a good cardio. I mean,
Speaker 2: what am I trying to say? Cardiac movement your heart,
Speaker 2: get your heart functioning as early. I can't do, do you.
Speaker 1: I mean? So, so let's say I have a job
Speaker 1: where I'm basically sitting six eight ten hours a day.
Speaker 1: Is it there a formula like get up every forty
Speaker 1: five minutes and dance a jig, or every two hours
Speaker 1: I walk up and down the hall.
Speaker 3: And you know, I.
Speaker 2: Would say, take some type of movement every thirty to
Speaker 2: forty minutes. Even if you just walk down the hall,
Speaker 2: and even walking. Maybe take the stairs when you come in,
Speaker 2: take the stairs when you leave. You know, walk and
Speaker 2: you know when you have a chance or something, or
Speaker 2: even just you know, sit in your chair and like
Speaker 2: you said, put some music on, dance a jig, anything
Speaker 2: to get the heart pumping and the blood flowing. That
Speaker 2: your brain is healthy and that you don't fall into
Speaker 2: a depression chair yoga.
Speaker 1: Yes, the mental health aspect of that is really important too.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you mentioned it.
Speaker 1: But even let's say I'm an older American, I'm disabled.
Speaker 1: I know we're almost out of time here, and I
Speaker 1: can only move a little bit. What you're saying is
Speaker 1: that moving a little is more than is better, much
Speaker 1: better for brain and body than not moving at all,
Speaker 1: even if I'm shaking my shoulders in my chair or
Speaker 1: flailing my hands around or whatever, I have capacity to
Speaker 1: do well.
Speaker 2: The dynamic is once you raise your arms over your head,
Speaker 2: it becomes an aerobic movement because the blood has to
Speaker 2: flow from your heart to your hands and back down
Speaker 2: to your heart. So even if you just lift your
Speaker 2: arms up and down, you're stimulating your heart. You do
Speaker 2: a few twists left and right, stimulating your spine, even
Speaker 2: if you lift one leg or with your hands or
Speaker 2: even by itself, you are getting the blood flowing through
Speaker 2: your body, which is so important because having blood flow
Speaker 2: through your body since oxygen to your brain, and then
Speaker 2: your brain has clarity and again fighting depression, anxiety, flass,
Speaker 2: expectations appearing real. You know, it takes you out of
Speaker 2: a delusional state because you have to breathe, and breath
Speaker 2: is the key to life, and movement is part of
Speaker 2: having the breath move through your body.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you for that reminder. I'm about to go
Speaker 1: do some some forward bends in the hall. Look, if
Speaker 1: you want an appointment with Sahara, if you want a
Speaker 1: sound bath, a personal sound healing treatment, or some life
Speaker 1: coaching or reading, you can call at least that two
Speaker 1: one three, six, two eight nine seven eight three two
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Speaker 1: quick one is your next sound bath Sahara.
Speaker 2: I'm we have a sound bath on Friday, the soul
Speaker 2: flow after dark with Mahat Yoga, which is a mental
Speaker 2: yoga experience, and that is Friday night, and then I
Speaker 2: have a soundbap at Yoga House on Saturday. So Friday
Speaker 2: is from seven to ten because it's a party type situation.
Speaker 2: We have a DJ, we have yoga movement, we have
Speaker 2: a SOUNDBAP, we have a healing meditation. It's to guide
Speaker 2: us in it.
Speaker 3: Got it up against the sorry.
Speaker 2: Okay, and then the sound back at Yoga House. So
Speaker 2: Friday is soul flow after dark with maht Yoga. You
Speaker 2: can go to Instagram and find that, and then also
Speaker 2: at Yoga House on Saturday six to seven thirty pm.
Speaker 3: Bet you got to get there at five forty five, Sahara.
Speaker 1: All Lead dot com is where you can find out more. Sahara,
Speaker 1: Thank you for a great start to our Monday morning.
Speaker 2: Thank you Dominique, Thank you KBLA family. Remember as you think,
Speaker 2: so shall it be? Think about what you want now
Speaker 2: what you don't want?
Speaker 1: All right, news, traffickings, sports. Then we're back only right here.
Speaker 3: As per usual.
Speaker 1: This presidential cycle, I guess we'll call it the news.
Speaker 1: The news cycle is like a spin class. It's going faster,
Speaker 1: faster and faster. If you want to unpack, understand, unboxed,
Speaker 1: or protest, analyze, share, you're always welcome to do so
Speaker 1: here we do what we do.
Speaker 3: Encourage you.
Speaker 1: You can call me at eight hundred nine to oh
Speaker 1: fifteen eighty eight hundred nine to oh fifteen eighty and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, let's let's figure it out. It is a
Speaker 1: mindful Monday. We always like to check in on national
Speaker 1: and international politics. So I guess the presidential son in
Speaker 1: law is meeting today with Benjamin Netanyahu, who is obviously
Speaker 1: the Prime Minister of Israel. It just never ceases to
Speaker 1: amaze me. That's somebody who's unelected, not an expert. Uh
Speaker 1: and just yeah, I mean, we don't want to talk
Speaker 1: about DEI. Well it's not even DEI. I guess it's
Speaker 1: more like nepotism. But anyway, he's holding talks with Prime
Speaker 1: Minister Benjamin NETANYAHUO today and reportedly met yesterday with a
Speaker 1: leader of Hamas, and that is rather rich to me.
Speaker 1: Kushner is the one who made the comment that Gaza
Speaker 1: was prime beach property. He also happens to be a
Speaker 1: very conservative Zionist Jewish American whose father is the ambassador
Speaker 1: US ambassador to France, who has made tons of anti
Speaker 1: Muslim comment terry. Nevertheless, that's who the Trump administration decided
Speaker 1: would be a good person to send to talk with
Speaker 1: Hamas and now Netanyahu so well, let's let me put
Speaker 1: it this way. I will hope that a miracle happens
Speaker 1: because the people of Gaza, the Palestinian people, certainly have
Speaker 1: had to bear more than most nations, individuals, ethnicities ever
Speaker 1: will in the course of a lifetime, with the pounding,
Speaker 1: the genocide, the indiscriminate killing of women and children, and
Speaker 1: the total demolition of their infrastructure on the past couple
Speaker 1: of years. So you know, I don't care if Kushner
Speaker 1: can do.
Speaker 3: It, make it happen.
Speaker 1: I just.
Speaker 3: Seems like a stretch.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the President has said that he's ordered the Pentagon
Speaker 1: on Sunday, and the Resident as I typically call him,
Speaker 1: because he does live at the White House most of
Speaker 1: the time when he's not at mar A Lago, that
Speaker 1: he's saying, well, he's ordering them to scale back their
Speaker 1: military exercises with South Korea because he says South Korea
Speaker 1: is not helping enough with the war against Iran, and
Speaker 1: because he has such a good friend and Kim Jong un.
Speaker 1: That's a thing about the President and his sort of
Speaker 1: strange social relationships is that he seems to give them benefits,
Speaker 1: like Putin gets benefits from being his friend. But we
Speaker 1: don't seem to get any benefits from being Putin's friend.
Speaker 1: In any case, he's saying, you know, Kim Jong un
Speaker 1: is my buddy, and y'all are not doing enough against Iran.
Speaker 1: Therefore I have instructed this is a quote Secretary of
Speaker 1: Warte Hegseth, to reduce military joint exercises. Well, okay, I
Speaker 1: mean it is what it is. Actually would lower the
Speaker 1: amount of greenhouse gases by some some degree. So I'll
Speaker 1: take it, even though the logic is stunning. And also
Speaker 1: this morning on the war front, the President is threatening
Speaker 1: to bomb Oman. He said that they are getting in
Speaker 1: the way of US efforts to reopen the Straight of
Speaker 1: Horn moves, They're getting in the way of the peace
Speaker 1: process with Iran, and therefore, if they don't stop, according
Speaker 1: to the President, the Resident.
Speaker 3: Will bomb Oman.
Speaker 1: It's just I think dangerous to be hollering about who
Speaker 1: you're gonna bomb, no matter who it is. That's a
Speaker 1: whole problem. And Oman, you know, it's trying to expand
Speaker 1: a war when you really can't even handle the range
Speaker 1: of the scope of the war as it is now.
Speaker 1: The Iranian the spokesman for the Revolutionary Guard, General Houssein
Speaker 1: Mobeihi on Monday said that President Trump is delusional that
Speaker 1: there are no back channel discussions for peace. He says, quote,
Speaker 1: there are no talks taking place between the IRGC and
Speaker 1: the Americans, and this lie by Trump is merely fantasy.
Speaker 1: Fantasy is caused by the delusions and nightmares he has
Speaker 1: suffered as a result of defeat and desperation.
Speaker 3: In the war.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like negotiations are going swimmingly.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 1: I will continue to pray for peace, but doesn't doesn't
Speaker 1: look good right now. Doesn't look good for the United States. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: you've got these Navy soldiers stuck on the USS Lincoln,
Speaker 1: and even you know, some top military brass under heg
Speaker 1: Seth are saying that there are mental health concerns that
Speaker 1: are a high priority for those those soldiers because of burnout,
Speaker 1: because of the terrible conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 1: At the same time, the Secretary of War as he
Speaker 1: likes to call himself, as the position is actually called
Speaker 1: Defense Secretary, he's kind of dismissing this and going, yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you know, some deployments are longer than others. But apparently
Speaker 1: that ship, the USS Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln has had their
Speaker 1: deployment stretched out more than a month over at seven
Speaker 1: month original schedule, which was already long. And there are
Speaker 1: food and supply shortages, water contamination, sewage problems, a couple
Speaker 1: of attempted suicides on the ship. So easy for heg Seth,
Speaker 1: with his powdered face and hair sprayed quoife, to sit
Speaker 1: there and dismiss the concerns of soldiers who are probably
Speaker 1: living among poop, smells, bad food, not enough food, and
Speaker 1: terrible conditions. At least two soldiers have tried to jump overboard,
Speaker 1: and the wife of one of those soldiers said it
Speaker 1: was because he was completely burnt out. But heg Seth says, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, some deployments go longer than others. Meanwhile, they're
Speaker 1: sending another ship over there to relieve them. The George
Speaker 1: Washington is going to relieve the Lincoln, which apparently leaves
Speaker 1: the entire Pacific Ocean side of the US of America
Speaker 1: without a battleship, which is I think very highly unusual,
Speaker 1: uh so not looking really amazing. And you know, I
Speaker 1: don't say that in a celebratory way. I think it's
Speaker 1: terrible for our soldiers, and I don't love that we
Speaker 1: are running through weaponry like some people change their underwear,
Speaker 1: polluting the planet, bombing and killing and all while losing
Speaker 1: all that. I've always been a piece nick y'all know
Speaker 1: that I'm a peace person. I pray for I don't
Speaker 1: even like I don't like the proxy wars. I don't
Speaker 1: like the cold wars, the hot wars. But this is
Speaker 1: what I would call all out worst case scenario, all
Speaker 1: around worst case scenario eight hundred nine two oh fifteen
Speaker 1: eighty eight hundred nine to oh fifteen eighty.
Speaker 3: If you want to weigh in on any of this,
Speaker 3: Stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith declaring war on the National Association of Black Journalists,
Speaker 1: tell you why when we come forward on KBLA Talk
Speaker 1: fifteen eighty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, Stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith says they're about to feel his wrath the National
Speaker 1: Association of Black Journalists. He says he's been holding back,
Speaker 1: but now it is on. And why does he say that?
Speaker 1: Why does Stephen A. Smith, cultural critic and famed anti
Speaker 1: black black man have his sight set on the National
Speaker 1: Association of Black Journalists. Well, Saturday night they had their
Speaker 1: Excellent Excellence in Black Journalism Awards gala, and they started
Speaker 1: something new, UH the thumbs Down Award. They gave thumbs
Speaker 1: down award to a number of individuals and organizations, among
Speaker 1: them ESPN. They call them a personality.
Speaker 3: Is that what that is? Personality? Stephen A. Smith.
Speaker 1: They he got the thumbs down award along with the
Speaker 1: Washington Post, CBS News, uh FCC chairman Brendan Carr, which
Speaker 1: I thought was rather bold but also true of them,
Speaker 1: and the media executive UH Dewan McCoy, who I'm not
Speaker 1: as familiar with. In any case, these were thumbs down awards.
Speaker 3: Stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith one got one, and he was pretty mad. The
Speaker 1: president of the na b J, the National President, Aaron Haynes, said, look,
Speaker 1: we are confronting people in systems whose choices make your
Speaker 1: jobs harder, and it's not just a thumbs down, but
Speaker 1: they're calling on them to do better. Well Stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith's he didn't take it lightly. He said that he
Speaker 1: has been keeping the gloves off and that now it's on.
Speaker 3: He's about to go after the NABJ.
Speaker 1: And one of the reasons the NABJ called him out
Speaker 1: for the thumb down a world word in the first place,
Speaker 1: is that they say he has a pattern in his
Speaker 1: public commentary specifically of attacking black women, which you know
Speaker 1: you don't need an AI scrape to figure that out.
Speaker 1: In fact, he does talk smack about black women all
Speaker 1: the time. It's I don't listen to him all the time,
Speaker 1: but I hear it so much that I'm like, Oh,
Speaker 1: who hurts you? I mean, that's really what it's giving.
Speaker 1: It's giving who hurts you? They say he has an
Speaker 1: established he has established a recurring pattern of disparaging commentary
Speaker 1: directed at prominent Black women across politics.
Speaker 3: Arts, and media.
Speaker 1: Well, Stephen as not having it. He says he's coming
Speaker 1: for them, and I think it is pretty funny because
Speaker 1: you know, when did he not come for them? When
Speaker 1: has he supported the NABJ, When has he been supportive
Speaker 1: of black anybody?
Speaker 3: There must be somebody, But.
Speaker 1: Mostly what I hear him doing is attacking and disparaging
Speaker 1: Black people, black women, African American leadership, and organizations like
Speaker 1: the NABJ. So I'm not sure why they would be
Speaker 1: afraid and cower when he's basically saying he is going
Speaker 1: to keep doing what he always does, which is unfairly
Speaker 1: and harshly criticizing Black people, black women, black in institutions,
Speaker 1: and so I mean, it'll be interesting to watch. If anything,
Speaker 1: I think I will end up bringing more attention to
Speaker 1: the National Association a Black Journalist, just as Trump did
Speaker 1: when he went in on them. But I you know,
Speaker 1: I just think it's delusional for this man to think
Speaker 1: he's been holding his tongue. Yogi Fish says, I don't
Speaker 1: know why my sister Allison did that at the NABJ,
Speaker 1: Probably because if we don't Yogi Fish, if we don't
Speaker 1: call these folks out, we normalize it like it's regular,
Speaker 1: normal and acceptable for one of the most black, prominent
Speaker 1: and well listened to black men in America to be
Speaker 1: constantly disparaging black women. If we just give him a pass,
Speaker 1: give him an award, Oh, don't take notice. I feel
Speaker 1: like we normalize that, and that's not what we want
Speaker 1: to do. It's just the same reason that I'm always
Speaker 1: calling out the prevarications aka untruth aka lies of this
Speaker 1: current resident, because if we kind of just go along
Speaker 1: with it and close our eyes, close our ears and
Speaker 1: hope it just will stop in another two years, can
Speaker 1: just hold on for two and a quarter or more years,
Speaker 1: everything will be okay. But that's not how it works.
Speaker 1: We have to call it out of the wise, it
Speaker 1: becomes normalized, and the next level of evil demons just
Speaker 1: builds on top of that level of evil demons. We
Speaker 1: have to chip away at the disrespect, the untruths and
Speaker 1: all of the bs. I feel like we have to,
Speaker 1: and you know, and so I commend them for doing that.
Speaker 1: And I do believe that even though he's threatening people
Speaker 1: and saying, well, now I'm gonna really tear you down.
Speaker 3: Stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith may end up unwittingly helping the cause, unwittingly.
Speaker 3: Helping to.
Speaker 1: Bring attention to his own stupidity by organizations and individuals
Speaker 1: who who undermine and disparage us all the time. And
Speaker 1: you know, honestly, that makes me want to join the NABJ. Actually,
Speaker 1: I already promised, I already promised shar Jozelle that I
Speaker 1: would and I will, girl, I will, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do it real quick because I know your presidency is
Speaker 1: almost over here in La Juwan McCoy is the owner
Speaker 1: and president of Circle City Broadcasting, which is owns this
Speaker 1: Indianapolis TV station called Wish TV. He got the thumbs down.
Speaker 1: I wasn't familiar with him, but what they're saying is
Speaker 1: that he consistently mistreats black journalists. And if that's the criteria,
Speaker 1: we could add a long list of thumbs down awards.
Speaker 1: But they're talking about workplace equity, newsroom, cultural and culture,
Speaker 1: and professional accountability. And of course there are tons of
Speaker 1: corporations that have this problem also. But keep in mind
Speaker 1: that the National Association of Black Journalisms is specifically focused
Speaker 1: on journalism, as they should be. Washington Post getting called
Speaker 1: out for what they call a reorganization of their newsroom,
Speaker 1: which really amounted to cutting massive numbers of reporters, particularly
Speaker 1: those reporters who do investigative journalism and reporters covering race identity,
Speaker 1: white supremacy extremism protests. This appears to be the flexing
Speaker 1: of the broligarchy. As we know Jeff Bezos, the billionaire
Speaker 1: who spent fifty five million on his own wedding last
Speaker 1: year but cannot pay decent wages to his warehouse workers.
Speaker 1: That guy owns it. He has cut back on reporters
Speaker 1: covering what they call the public interest beats and cut
Speaker 1: back on journalists of color and black reporters. So that's
Speaker 1: why they got the thumbs down. And again this makes
Speaker 1: me want to cancel my subscription. They do still have
Speaker 1: some good reporters and good journalism. That's one of the
Speaker 1: reasons I haven't done it yet, but the NABJ call
Speaker 1: out does make me think perhaps it's time again. If
Speaker 1: we don't say anything, if we don't do the call outs,
Speaker 1: who will. And that is why I am one hundred
Speaker 1: percent behind them. CBS again the same thing. The changes
Speaker 1: in the newsroom, putting this Bari Weiss person who is
Speaker 1: a far right wing conservative with no kind of experience,
Speaker 1: ruining and trashing sixty minutes and paying off the president
Speaker 1: all need to be called out. Brendan Carr, the activist
Speaker 1: republican right wing Trump supporter who is now over the
Speaker 1: Federal Communications Commission and going after journalists who speak their
Speaker 1: mind and do their job. These callouts are important because
Speaker 1: otherwise we normalize this sort of authoritarian state sponsored journalism,
Speaker 1: censorship and the purchasing of purchasing, in control of the
Speaker 1: news apparatus by these broligarchs, these billionaire tech bros who
Speaker 1: are currently have our federal government block Let's not normalize that.
Speaker 1: All right, Comedian del Harrison is here and we are
Speaker 1: going to do a big old pivot.
Speaker 3: We're talking. We'll get a little mess you.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about celibacy, a choice or a punishment.
Speaker 1: That's next on KBLA Talk fifteen to eighty