August 5, 2024 • 32 mins
November will be here before we know it and its time to head to the polls! How are you feeling about the 2024 election? Some are nervous, some are excited, some don't know how to feel. Patty and the crew discuss.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
We're including everybody because it's important to have conversation. We've
got vetern broadcaster Uncle Oh joining us today. We're gonna
start with talking politics. Are you I know, but this
is kind of easy. Are you excited about the upcoming election?
We have less than one hundred days and I think
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the battle lines are drawn.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Do we go forward or do we go back? And
I'm talking back in like the fifties and the forties.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
I'll tell you what I'm not. I'm not excited. I'm
never excited about politics. What I am excited about is
that Kamala Harris has taken over and things have progressed
as far as.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Her electability as Joe.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Biden didn't have that. And I wasn't excited about Joe Biden.
I'm happy that she's in. I'm happy that she's taking
a step forward, and I'm happy with her running mate,
but excited, not really excited.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Wow, Well that's interesting how you put that.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
And I do think there is a new found energy
in this campaign, and I think people that were like,
I don't know are just.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Like I could do this.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
There's still some people attacking her people, you know what,
you know what, you know what. I see people attacking
her because she locked people up like it wasn't that
her job. And I see the misinformation out there about
she was using them as slave labor. Well that wasn't
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the case, so let's get that off the table. That
wasn't the case. And when she found out it was happening,
she put a stop to it. So that wasn't on her.
But she found out that was happening, she put a
stop to people using the the prisoners as quote unquote
slave labor. She put a stop to that. So the
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misinformation is that she was the cause of it.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Do you think that.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
People put too much into candidates like Okay, I don't
care whether it's the president or the mayor or the governor.
They're not there to fix like they have a magic
wand and they're going to fix all of your problems.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Well, I think people don't understand who really controls is
the House and the Senate, and so everybody's so hyped
up about this election. Well, the most important election is
going to be two years after this, when the House
and the city is up for grabs and you got
one party in that's control of the narrative. So you
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got to get out a vote in two years. That's
what really matters.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I hope that people take it, don't take it for granted,
realize what they have to do. You've really got to watch.
There's so much misinformation out. But I'm really in shock
at some young people. Oh and rappers. One rapper said
something about what do you say about Trump that he
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preserves women's rights?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
It's like, where have you been? What did you just say?
How do you not know what's going on?
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Well, that's that's that's called wilfully ignorant. Oh, when you're
wilfully ignorant.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
You know, that's not an excuse to.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Get you out of jail. You can't be wilfully ignorant
and say that, And that's your defense when you when
the when the judges said, or sitting in front of you. No,
being wilfully ignorant is not a crime, but it is
also not a defense either. So he he just hasn't
done his homework, and neither has a ton of other people.
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I've had someone tell me that they were going to
vote for Trump because he was on He was the
only one on the Drink or one of those.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Podcasts that they like. I said, you're an idiot. Oh
my gosh. Yeah. Some people it's like, what do you
call it? Wilfully ignorant?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yes, wow, that's gonna be my news saying you are
wilfully ignorant because you don't know what's going on. Author
Kim Reid Optimist always Wins. I couldn't wait to hear
her opinion on this. November is just around the corner,
voting in the presidential election November fifth. Are you enthused, excited, hopeful?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Could be all of the above.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Your feelings on what we're going to face as we
go to the polls in November.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
We have to vote like our life dependent on it, Patty,
it is this is a serious time in our nation.
I am excited about VP Harris's nomination, historic nomination for
the President of the United States. Democracy is at stake.
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You know, I am so happy that she chose her
running mate a teacher, a coach. He is a senior
non commissioned office. And what does all of that have
in common is that is supporting other people. So they
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have this unique dynamic where I hope that over the
next ninety now ninety days, that people see it, feel it,
and understand it. Also, I want people who listen to
us and ends whoever else Patty to read reportral resources
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about who VP here is, is, who the Democratic Party is,
and all of the knowledge that they're going to need
to make the best decision for the nation in November.
People are listening to other people, listening to all of
this rhetoric, and at the end of the day, VP
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Harris will be with our health and support the first
Black and Asian Pacific Islander woman to be president of
the United States. So it's time for change and a
new future and where we stand behind women like VP Harris.
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It's going to be so critical, So I encourage all
of us to commemorate this incredible milestone in pursuit of
the ultimate goal for the United States of America. Patty
I couldn't be more proud to be a black woman
and stand in support of Democratic nominee for President of
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the United States, VP Harris, who is also a member
of my beloved sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Do you think that people put too much expectations when
a person is elected not only president, but mayor and governor,
city council ward leader. There is always a period where
the honeymoon is over and the bashing starts, not from
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the op end from people who may have voted for you, Well.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
They didn't do this, and they didn't do.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
That, And a lot of times it's personal and you
look at them like, what did you expect? Because if
a person is elected to office, it doesn't mean that
your life is just going to miraculously get better, right right.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Right, yeah right?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
And then I'm glad you said that, you know why,
because a lot of people think that they think that
voting for BP Harris or any politician for that matter,
is going to change their life. Someone commented on my
Facebook posts, my public posts and said that, you know,
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VP Harris, if you're going to vote for VP Harris,
she needs to make sure that we have generational wealth.
What she has to Okay, she has to make sure Patty,
she has to make sure that we have generational wealth.
That is, that's not even, that's not even don't even
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sound realistic, right, But to your point, it proves that
people think that politicians people in general, not just politicians,
are responsible for the choices that they make. And so
I think, I do think that it is it is
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intellectually dishonest for us to think that anyone can change
our life trajectory. Period. We have to take accountability for
our own destinies. The politicians and people in place in leadership,
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they are a vessel, and yes a strong vessel, right
because their leader, especially VP Hare's, would be.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
The leader of the free world.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
And we do have expectations. But it is unfair for
them to for people to think that they're going to
change our life, change our financial situation tomorrow. Someone else
says something crazy to me about the student loans. Why
is the body and administration doing this? And then people
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you know, paying off their loans and then people go
get a thirty thousand dollar job and if they have
two hundred thousand dollars in loans, And I said, well,
people make their own choices. Is it guaranteed when you
go to college, Patty, that you're going to get a
new job, You're going to get a high paying, six
figure job. No, it's not. But we all have one
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thing in common. You neither want it or you don't.
So yes, Joe Biden. President Biden has paved the way
for many of us who to kind of expunge, if
you will, our student loans. But those people and responsible
people will do what they need to do to make
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it happen for their lives because of that freedom they
now financial freedom they now have. I just think we
have to be careful as a whole, Patty, to watch
what we say, watch our expectations, and also look in
the mirror. That's going to be very important because Josh,
like Governor Shapiro said last night in that electric room,
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we get shit done.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
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Speaker 7 (12:02):
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Speaker 8 (12:03):
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It is geared toward people between the ages of eighteen
and forty millennials. Gen Z folks who are you know,
really passionate about their city, really passionate about politics, art, culture, music.
It's just a nice little corner of the Internet for us.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Now I'm a baby boomer, I can still check it out.
Speaker 8 (12:31):
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Speaker 7 (12:36):
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Speaker 3 (12:40):
Thank you, Thank you, Whitney.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
The air that was in that room at the Lea
Korus Center, does it make you more hyped about the
upcoming November election?
Speaker 8 (12:54):
So I feel like the last time we spoke, I
told you I had a lot of trepidation around this election.
Not because Vice President Harris hasn't shown herself to be
a capable, brilliant, compassionate leader.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
She absolutely has. It was will America buy in enough.
Speaker 8 (13:10):
For this capable leader who also happens to be a
black South Asian woman.
Speaker 7 (13:16):
Right when I.
Speaker 8 (13:18):
Tell you, sitting in that room with thousands of people
and like the air was electric, you could just feel,
oh my gosh, it was like you got tingles. So
you're sitting next to people who have nothing in common
with you except the fact that they are here and
they are excited for President Harris or speaking into existence
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for this campaign, and it was just it was just
such a beautiful, unifying energy, one that I had not
felt in many, many years.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Mmm. I have another question.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Do you think that people put too much on elected officials,
be it president, governor city count soul. Do you think
a lot of people think, well, I voted for you,
my life is going to drastically change for the vetter.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
And that's not the key is like people who say I.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Want to vote for this person because you know they
gave us twelve hundred dollars. Oh my god, Oh my gosh,
I did I really really?
Speaker 7 (14:21):
You took it there? You took it there?
Speaker 8 (14:24):
No, But seriously, like, first of all, a lot of
those folks are misinformed about how whatever funds.
Speaker 7 (14:30):
They received they received.
Speaker 8 (14:33):
They would be actually very surprised to know that they
were actually going to receive more. But the person that
they're attributing those funds to actually wanted to reduce the funds.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
And got his way. But none, none of that has
to do with this question.
Speaker 8 (14:45):
What the question that you asked me was do too
many people too much forign elected officials? And I would
say absolutely, here's the bottom line. Elected officials are people
that we put up for a job.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
Their job is to govern. What we have to do
as an.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
Empowered body and empowered citizenry is actually to continue to
empower community. So it's not just voting because this one
magical person is going.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
To make things better. No, it's on the off years
where there is no election. What are you doing in
your communities?
Speaker 8 (15:14):
How are you holding these these officials that you voted
into power. How are you holding their feet to the
fire to actually improve you know, violence in our community, hunger, homelessness,
all of the issues that we find ourselves surrounded by.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
How are you an as a person who has the.
Speaker 8 (15:31):
Power to vote but also has the power to engage
your own community.
Speaker 7 (15:35):
How are you engaging these elected officials? That's the bottom line.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
MM very interesting, But I say the look on your face,
the smile that you had in your pictures, we are
ready to as Governor Shapiro says, get you done, get
you done, get it done, get it done. Lexi is
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here that doula mom that I call her a superwoman?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
How are you?
Speaker 7 (16:06):
I am good in you?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
I'm good the upcoming election. Are you looking at it
with anticipation, excitement.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Are you nervous for to be all of the above
because the game has changed?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
You know, it wasn't like this three months ago, but
now there's this renewed energy. And I also want to
ask you, do we put too much expectations on people
that we hire from office, not just resident but the mayor,
the governor, city council people, people who are like, well,
I've voted for you, so my life should just drastically change.
Speaker 9 (16:51):
So one, yes, all of the above. I'm excited.
Speaker 10 (16:54):
I am interested to see how things are going to
turn out. I'm hoping that this reignited people's interests in
making sure one.
Speaker 9 (17:02):
That they vote, because I was a little nervous because people.
Speaker 10 (17:05):
Were like, oh, I'm not voting, I'm not doing this
and that, and so it very much so felt like
you know, many years ago when people were doing the
same thing, and I'm like, no, we don't have the
luxury of not choosing how we want to be involved
in this particular matter. Now, what I will say is
that one of the things I'm interested in seeing is
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how we will continue to address.
Speaker 9 (17:27):
The public health needs at large.
Speaker 10 (17:30):
So the Biden Hairs administration, you know, initially did put
a lot of their focus on maternal health, and of
course that's the.
Speaker 9 (17:36):
Space that I'm move in.
Speaker 10 (17:37):
They believed in Doolal workforce development and that made a
major difference. And over these last few years, even the
work that Coco Life has been a part of was
mentioned in the White House Blueprint as far as one
of the ways that they've addressed the maternal health crisis.
Speaker 9 (17:52):
And so I want to see that continue. As it
relates to the.
Speaker 10 (17:56):
Expectations we put on our politicians, I don't think we
put too much expectations on them, don't I think that
we don't put enough expectations on ourselves. Really, So yeah,
we should expect all the things that we say. We
expect them to do what they said they were going
to do, to show up how they said they were
going to show up on their different platforms. Now, where
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we have a responsibility is to make sure that we
do the same. What we can't do is sit back
and be like, all right, I did my job, I voted.
Now I'm done. No no sense, no grow. We still
have work to do. And that's where I think I
see the biggest opportunity is not sitting back on our
hind parts and being like, Okay, well I did my job,
so why isn't this shift changing?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Right?
Speaker 9 (18:39):
So if we want shift to happen, we need to
be a part of the solution just as much as
we expect them to be.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
This is the podcast conversation Patty and the Millennials, and
we're talking politics and the atmosphere is so different from.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
What it was three months ago. We've got less than one.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Hundred days before we go to the polls. We've got
song stress Dasi Neil joining us. We also have LaToya Charleston,
Chocolate Divinity.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
They're joining us.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Ladies, your excitement level? Are you excited? Are your nervous?
How do you feel as we approach approach these days
marching to November the fifth?
Speaker 11 (19:25):
So I am feeling a word that I haven't felt
in a while, hopeful.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
I can't say that I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I can't say you know.
Speaker 11 (19:34):
Now I'm one ten just yet, but I'm feeling a
level of hope that I haven't felt because just to
know that there is someone logical that makes sense on
the ticket, that is honestly that I didn't feel like
was going to croak in two point three seconds let's
be honest.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
No shade on your Joe, but we love you.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
But he was scaring me. But I feel a level
of hope, especially.
Speaker 11 (19:57):
You know, after seeing you know, both of them together
last night and hearing the platform.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
I feel a level of hope that I have and self.
Speaker 11 (20:04):
But if I'm honest, I also feel maybe a spoonful
of fear because when you're able to restore hoping people,
and just because of who Kamala is, I feel like
the magas are going to come for her in a
way that we're not prepared for. So I'm feeling hope,
but I'm also feeling that spoonful of fear.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
But I can't be fearful and pray, so I just
keep praying.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
To a jeez Jesus Christmas. As you said that beautiful angel,
and I have to say I echo your sentiments. Very hopeful.
There is beauty and seeing so many people come together
for a cause of just like you said, a hope
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or a better future. It brings me joy to my
heart to see the masses like, oh no, we are
sick of it. We are not going backwards. So that
does like it just fills my spirit. But I would
I'm hoping that the masses keep the same energy when
it comes to voting outside of this election, and make
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sure that you keep that same energy stand on it
when it comes.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
To the local levels.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
And I don't know if that is going to happen,
but I am hopeful for it. This is the energy
that need, that's needed, and it makes me happy, you know,
to see the possibility of a briter America and most
of us united and for the same cause, and the
majority of us like, no, we are not going backwards
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forward only, So.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
This is this isn't this isn't exciting.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
It's a different time to be in and I'm just
going to stay proceed with caution and we're gonna wait
and see, we wait and see.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
I agree with you, ladies.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
I'm feeling very hopeful because we got to come together
because we cannot go backwards. No, we just cannot go backwards.
It's insane, It's it's crazy. Do you think we put
too much expectations on our politicians?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
We vote, they get in office. I'm talking about all level.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
You know, people think that their lives are going to
change and you're going to do this.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
And.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
That does not necessarily happen.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Oh, it absolutely does not. I don't understand it. This
is what does keep me to hope about this presidential campaign,
because people really need to learn what it is on
a different level. When you are elected in the office,
you do not have a Superman cap on and you're
getting there and going to fix everybody's streams. That is
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not their purpose. Yes, they do represent the community, but
it's even more important for the community to get out
there and show up for them because they cannot really
push anything for you without your involvement. And at the
end of the day, that's what it boils down to
stop acting like we have no real say when at
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the end of the day we are to say, let's
be clear anybody. While I mean now with Trump being
a possible convicted selling I don't know the force from
you no legalities of being you know, being able to
run for public office, but you do not need a
college degree to do that. So I just want I
want people to take away from this, Please get more
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involved locally.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
That's it.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
Yes, you know what I'm feeling.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
So I'm feeling like the pressure that we put is that.
Speaker 11 (23:42):
We remove the normalcy of the person. I'm just thinking
to myself, if I'm honest earlier today, I'm not having
the best day emotionally, like I'm all over the place,
I'm sporadic, and I'm thinking. We have not given people
in public offices the ability to be normal unless it
is of nottch it right, creates a sound bite, or
create something that's gonna do something you know, major in
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and go viral. We've not given people the ability to
be normal because the normal sky is what makes people
feel like, you know, the things that they have to
do for us, or the conversations.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
We can have are attainable.
Speaker 11 (24:16):
We don't feel like being a president is attainable or
running for any office is attainable because there's no normalcy
connected to it. And that's what I miss about my
president and first Lady Barack Obama and magam Obama, because
they added a level of normalcy to office that I
felt like Barack could have got on camera and said,
I'm not feeling the best today, America, but I'm fighting
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for you.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
So I just I hope that we just.
Speaker 11 (24:40):
Provide some normalcy so that we can be we can
we'll believe more if they act more more normal.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
We got to take that pressure off.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
Come on, a super future city council member, right, come on,
I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Re Screen is a senior at Saint Joe's University and
he's representing gen Z.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
That's the right, ja. Yes, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
There's a lot of genders agendas, and I always have
to ask. I really love this young man's voice and
love having conversation with you, and I hope that when
you go back to school you will continue to you know,
buzz me, o me, and we can talk.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
We're talking polity. Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
The atmosphere is so different today than it was three
months ago. How do you feel about the upcoming election.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
I'm loving it. I'm genuinely loving it.
Speaker 12 (25:37):
Last night when I watched the the rally with Tim
Waltz and Vice President Kamala Harris, like, it was amazing
just seeing the energy. Like I don't know if you
noticed it, but people, especially people of us, our color,
they're walking around with smiles, They're feeling happy, like this
is the one time we have hope. I'm reading comments
where people are like, I haven't felt like this since Brock,
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Like and I actually believe it and I feel it,
and but this is something that we gotta keep on going.
This doesn't mean automatically assume that she's gonna win, doesn't
mean don't vote, you know what I mean. But this
definitely does breathe new life and energy that this nation needed.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
I gotta tell you something, we can't take it for granted, like, well,
I'm not voting because she gonna win. No, because they're
gonna throw every thing to block her.
Speaker 12 (26:24):
Way, exactly, and it's gonna get bad. It's gonna get bad.
It is is that they're gonna be sick. Cause here's
the thing. They don't have anything real to attack her.
So you know what people do they lead to just
coming at the way she looks, coming the way she talks.
Oh she's not black, you know what I mean. It's
just corny little stuff. And they're gonna try and it's
gonna get bad, and we're just gonna have to keep
on fighting it.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Do you think that we put too much on politicians,
not just presidents, governor, mayor, city council, township leaders. A
lot of people think, well, I voted for you, my life,
she just get dramatically better.
Speaker 12 (27:00):
You see, And then that shows me you're voting for
the wrong reason, like, that's not how the voting system
works unfortunately. And your point on do we put too
much on them? I actually don't think so. I think
we put too less on them because here's the thing.
We're voting for people with just a name and not
seeing what they do, and then you wonder why things
are happening. No, vote for the person that you actually
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believe in the same beliefs that they have, and then
push them to do it, and then they will.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
But that's the thing.
Speaker 12 (27:26):
People are just voting without really knowing everything that the
candidate is for and stuff. And this is why we
have thost types of people.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
This is the podcast conversation Patty and the Millennials and
Deck Stucky is the one who puts all of this together.
We're talking politics again, but from this angle, the mood
of many people, say three months ago, very different from
the mood that it's happening right now. What are your
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feelings as we approach this election?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Are you nervous? Are you excited?
Speaker 13 (28:05):
I would say all of the above. There's some times
when I'm very nervous about like what's next, and then
there's a lot of times where I'm very excited, like
I mean seeing what happened with Kamala Harris and like
how people have been able to mobilize and support of her.
It's very inspiring.
Speaker 9 (28:22):
I like it.
Speaker 13 (28:22):
It is exciting, I think though. What makes me nervous though,
is that, like for every positive thing that I see
going on, there's a lot of negativity too, and like
I don't like to see that. I don't I get
the muzzling in between politicians, but I don't really like
to see it on social media, and I think it's
gotten out of hand now. I will say that I
love seeing people, like you know, support their candidate of choice,
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one more than the other.
Speaker 7 (28:47):
I like to see that, but I just don't.
Speaker 9 (28:49):
Like it when it gets negative.
Speaker 13 (28:50):
Like you can support who you like without being so
nasty against the other side.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
You do got to block out the nooids and know
some people are uncle O said, they're willfully ignorant.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
There are people, yeah, like they're talking crazy. Well, I'm
voting for.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
This one knowing that you don't even know what this
man stands for, but you're voting for him thinking that
they're going to protect women's rights When they're going to
do anything but protect women's rights.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
You are willfully ignorant.
Speaker 13 (29:31):
Willfully ignorant is actually like really funny.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
I like that.
Speaker 13 (29:35):
Waka Flaka comes to mind when you say that he
put out there you know that he's a proponent of
women's rights. I actually think he has a daughter or
a stepchild who is a part of the lgbt qi
A community and he said that like he wants someone
to stand up for them and all these things. And
it's just like Donald Trump does none of these things,
and you're saying you're voting for him because he does
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this stuff and he absolutely does not. You should be
in formed, like what are you talking about? And I'd
like that people on the internet call him out, but
it's not enough.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
You know, Tim Walls, he's like the cousin. It's like
you can come to the cookie out come on.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Yeah. Do you think we put too much expectations on
politicians that we may vote into office, not just on
a presidential level, but let's talk about city council, governor,
mayor a lot of people think, well, I voted for you,
so my life is going to get miraculously better.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Now.
Speaker 13 (30:38):
I don't think that anyone gets into office and immediately
is going to change your life at all. But I
do think though, like in the process of getting people
to vote, like there are a lot of promises made
and like there's a big push to vote, and like,
I think it's kind of I don't know, I think
it kind of does a disservice to say, like, well,
you know your life isn't going to change, like this
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is going to be automatic change. But then we're like,
if you don't vote against a problem, So like, yeah,
I can understand why a person feels like some changes
have to be made in their lives. But at the
same time, though, like I think you also have to
be involved in not just a presidential election, but like
across the board. You got to get into these local
elections as well, and then make your voice heard and
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tell people what you need and what you want for
yourself and your community. But I do I don't fought
people for having expectations. I do think that having expectations
is a good thing. You just got to make sure
they're realistic.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
Ones.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Conversation is important. It really is whether you agree disagree.
But the political season is a different feeling, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
What are you prepared to do this November?
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start with talking politics. Are you I know, but this
is kind of easy. Are you excited about the upcoming election?
We have less than one hundred days and I think
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the battle lines are drawn.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Do we go forward or do we go back? And
I'm talking back in like the fifties and the forties.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
I'll tell you what I'm not. I'm not excited. I'm
never excited about politics. What I am excited about is
that Kamala Harris has taken over and things have progressed
as far as.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Her electability as Joe.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Biden didn't have that. And I wasn't excited about Joe Biden.
I'm happy that she's in. I'm happy that she's taking
a step forward, and I'm happy with her running mate,
but excited, not really excited.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Wow, Well that's interesting how you put that.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
And I do think there is a new found energy
in this campaign, and I think people that were like,
I don't know are just.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Like I could do this.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
There's still some people attacking her people, you know what,
you know what, you know what. I see people attacking
her because she locked people up like it wasn't that
her job. And I see the misinformation out there about
she was using them as slave labor. Well that wasn't
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the case, so let's get that off the table. That
wasn't the case. And when she found out it was happening,
she put a stop to it. So that wasn't on her.
But she found out that was happening, she put a
stop to people using the the prisoners as quote unquote
slave labor. She put a stop to that. So the
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misinformation is that she was the cause of it.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Do you think that.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
People put too much into candidates like Okay, I don't
care whether it's the president or the mayor or the governor.
They're not there to fix like they have a magic
wand and they're going to fix all of your problems.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Well, I think people don't understand who really controls is
the House and the Senate, and so everybody's so hyped
up about this election. Well, the most important election is
going to be two years after this, when the House
and the city is up for grabs and you got
one party in that's control of the narrative. So you
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got to get out a vote in two years. That's
what really matters.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
I hope that people take it, don't take it for granted,
realize what they have to do. You've really got to watch.
There's so much misinformation out. But I'm really in shock
at some young people. Oh and rappers. One rapper said
something about what do you say about Trump that he
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preserves women's rights?
Speaker 3 (03:52):
It's like, where have you been? What did you just say?
How do you not know what's going on?
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Well, that's that's that's called wilfully ignorant. Oh, when you're
wilfully ignorant.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
You know, that's not an excuse to.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Get you out of jail. You can't be wilfully ignorant
and say that, And that's your defense when you when
the when the judges said, or sitting in front of you. No,
being wilfully ignorant is not a crime, but it is
also not a defense either. So he he just hasn't
done his homework, and neither has a ton of other people.
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I've had someone tell me that they were going to
vote for Trump because he was on He was the
only one on the Drink or one of those.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Podcasts that they like. I said, you're an idiot. Oh
my gosh. Yeah. Some people it's like, what do you
call it? Wilfully ignorant?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yes, wow, that's gonna be my news saying you are
wilfully ignorant because you don't know what's going on. Author
Kim Reid Optimist always Wins. I couldn't wait to hear
her opinion on this. November is just around the corner,
voting in the presidential election November fifth. Are you enthused, excited, hopeful?
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Could be all of the above.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Your feelings on what we're going to face as we
go to the polls in November.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
We have to vote like our life dependent on it, Patty,
it is this is a serious time in our nation.
I am excited about VP Harris's nomination, historic nomination for
the President of the United States. Democracy is at stake.
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You know, I am so happy that she chose her
running mate a teacher, a coach. He is a senior
non commissioned office. And what does all of that have
in common is that is supporting other people. So they
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have this unique dynamic where I hope that over the
next ninety now ninety days, that people see it, feel it,
and understand it. Also, I want people who listen to
us and ends whoever else Patty to read reportral resources
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about who VP here is, is, who the Democratic Party is,
and all of the knowledge that they're going to need
to make the best decision for the nation in November.
People are listening to other people, listening to all of
this rhetoric, and at the end of the day, VP
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Harris will be with our health and support the first
Black and Asian Pacific Islander woman to be president of
the United States. So it's time for change and a
new future and where we stand behind women like VP Harris.
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It's going to be so critical, So I encourage all
of us to commemorate this incredible milestone in pursuit of
the ultimate goal for the United States of America. Patty
I couldn't be more proud to be a black woman
and stand in support of Democratic nominee for President of
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the United States, VP Harris, who is also a member
of my beloved sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Do you think that people put too much expectations when
a person is elected not only president, but mayor and governor,
city council ward leader. There is always a period where
the honeymoon is over and the bashing starts, not from
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the op end from people who may have voted for you, Well.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
They didn't do this, and they didn't do.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
That, And a lot of times it's personal and you
look at them like, what did you expect? Because if
a person is elected to office, it doesn't mean that
your life is just going to miraculously get better, right right.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Right, yeah right?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
And then I'm glad you said that, you know why,
because a lot of people think that they think that
voting for BP Harris or any politician for that matter,
is going to change their life. Someone commented on my
Facebook posts, my public posts and said that, you know,
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VP Harris, if you're going to vote for VP Harris,
she needs to make sure that we have generational wealth.
What she has to Okay, she has to make sure Patty,
she has to make sure that we have generational wealth.
That is, that's not even, that's not even don't even
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sound realistic, right, But to your point, it proves that
people think that politicians people in general, not just politicians,
are responsible for the choices that they make. And so
I think, I do think that it is it is
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intellectually dishonest for us to think that anyone can change
our life trajectory. Period. We have to take accountability for
our own destinies. The politicians and people in place in leadership,
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they are a vessel, and yes a strong vessel, right
because their leader, especially VP Hare's, would be.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
The leader of the free world.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
And we do have expectations. But it is unfair for
them to for people to think that they're going to
change our life, change our financial situation tomorrow. Someone else
says something crazy to me about the student loans. Why
is the body and administration doing this? And then people
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you know, paying off their loans and then people go
get a thirty thousand dollar job and if they have
two hundred thousand dollars in loans, And I said, well,
people make their own choices. Is it guaranteed when you
go to college, Patty, that you're going to get a
new job, You're going to get a high paying, six
figure job. No, it's not. But we all have one
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thing in common. You neither want it or you don't.
So yes, Joe Biden. President Biden has paved the way
for many of us who to kind of expunge, if
you will, our student loans. But those people and responsible
people will do what they need to do to make
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it happen for their lives because of that freedom they
now financial freedom they now have. I just think we
have to be careful as a whole, Patty, to watch
what we say, watch our expectations, and also look in
the mirror. That's going to be very important because Josh,
like Governor Shapiro said last night in that electric room,
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we get shit done.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
We have Whitney Roberts and she is the senior editor
of Philly Download tell us about your amazing position.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
So I'm really.
Speaker 8 (12:03):
Really like privileged and excited about this publication.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
It is heavy on the Philly It is very very black.
Speaker 8 (12:10):
It is geared toward people between the ages of eighteen
and forty millennials. Gen Z folks who are you know,
really passionate about their city, really passionate about politics, art, culture, music.
It's just a nice little corner of the Internet for us.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Now I'm a baby boomer, I can still check it out.
Speaker 8 (12:31):
Right, You absolutely are welcome to come and check some
stuff out, But if you need an explainer.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
Or two about some of the lingo we got you,
we are here to support.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Thank you, Thank you, Whitney.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
The air that was in that room at the Lea
Korus Center, does it make you more hyped about the
upcoming November election?
Speaker 8 (12:54):
So I feel like the last time we spoke, I
told you I had a lot of trepidation around this election.
Not because Vice President Harris hasn't shown herself to be
a capable, brilliant, compassionate leader.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
She absolutely has. It was will America buy in enough.
Speaker 8 (13:10):
For this capable leader who also happens to be a
black South Asian woman.
Speaker 7 (13:16):
Right when I.
Speaker 8 (13:18):
Tell you, sitting in that room with thousands of people
and like the air was electric, you could just feel,
oh my gosh, it was like you got tingles. So
you're sitting next to people who have nothing in common
with you except the fact that they are here and
they are excited for President Harris or speaking into existence
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for this campaign, and it was just it was just
such a beautiful, unifying energy, one that I had not
felt in many, many years.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Mmm. I have another question.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Do you think that people put too much on elected officials,
be it president, governor city count soul. Do you think
a lot of people think, well, I voted for you,
my life is going to drastically change for the vetter.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
And that's not the key is like people who say I.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Want to vote for this person because you know they
gave us twelve hundred dollars. Oh my god, Oh my gosh,
I did I really really?
Speaker 7 (14:21):
You took it there? You took it there?
Speaker 8 (14:24):
No, But seriously, like, first of all, a lot of
those folks are misinformed about how whatever funds.
Speaker 7 (14:30):
They received they received.
Speaker 8 (14:33):
They would be actually very surprised to know that they
were actually going to receive more. But the person that
they're attributing those funds to actually wanted to reduce the funds.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
And got his way. But none, none of that has
to do with this question.
Speaker 8 (14:45):
What the question that you asked me was do too
many people too much forign elected officials? And I would
say absolutely, here's the bottom line. Elected officials are people
that we put up for a job.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
Their job is to govern. What we have to do
as an.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
Empowered body and empowered citizenry is actually to continue to
empower community. So it's not just voting because this one
magical person is going.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
To make things better. No, it's on the off years
where there is no election. What are you doing in
your communities?
Speaker 8 (15:14):
How are you holding these these officials that you voted
into power. How are you holding their feet to the
fire to actually improve you know, violence in our community, hunger, homelessness,
all of the issues that we find ourselves surrounded by.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
How are you an as a person who has the.
Speaker 8 (15:31):
Power to vote but also has the power to engage
your own community.
Speaker 7 (15:35):
How are you engaging these elected officials? That's the bottom line.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
MM very interesting, But I say the look on your face,
the smile that you had in your pictures, we are
ready to as Governor Shapiro says, get you done, get
you done, get it done, get it done. Lexi is
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here that doula mom that I call her a superwoman?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
How are you?
Speaker 7 (16:06):
I am good in you?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
I'm good the upcoming election. Are you looking at it
with anticipation, excitement.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Are you nervous for to be all of the above
because the game has changed?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
You know, it wasn't like this three months ago, but
now there's this renewed energy. And I also want to
ask you, do we put too much expectations on people
that we hire from office, not just resident but the mayor,
the governor, city council people, people who are like, well,
I've voted for you, so my life should just drastically change.
Speaker 9 (16:51):
So one, yes, all of the above. I'm excited.
Speaker 10 (16:54):
I am interested to see how things are going to
turn out. I'm hoping that this reignited people's interests in
making sure one.
Speaker 9 (17:02):
That they vote, because I was a little nervous because people.
Speaker 10 (17:05):
Were like, oh, I'm not voting, I'm not doing this
and that, and so it very much so felt like
you know, many years ago when people were doing the
same thing, and I'm like, no, we don't have the
luxury of not choosing how we want to be involved
in this particular matter. Now, what I will say is
that one of the things I'm interested in seeing is
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how we will continue to address.
Speaker 9 (17:27):
The public health needs at large.
Speaker 10 (17:30):
So the Biden Hairs administration, you know, initially did put
a lot of their focus on maternal health, and of
course that's the.
Speaker 9 (17:36):
Space that I'm move in.
Speaker 10 (17:37):
They believed in Doolal workforce development and that made a
major difference. And over these last few years, even the
work that Coco Life has been a part of was
mentioned in the White House Blueprint as far as one
of the ways that they've addressed the maternal health crisis.
Speaker 9 (17:52):
And so I want to see that continue. As it
relates to the.
Speaker 10 (17:56):
Expectations we put on our politicians, I don't think we
put too much expectations on them, don't I think that
we don't put enough expectations on ourselves. Really, So yeah,
we should expect all the things that we say. We
expect them to do what they said they were going
to do, to show up how they said they were
going to show up on their different platforms. Now, where
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we have a responsibility is to make sure that we
do the same. What we can't do is sit back
and be like, all right, I did my job, I voted.
Now I'm done. No no sense, no grow. We still
have work to do. And that's where I think I
see the biggest opportunity is not sitting back on our
hind parts and being like, Okay, well I did my job,
so why isn't this shift changing?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Right?
Speaker 9 (18:39):
So if we want shift to happen, we need to
be a part of the solution just as much as
we expect them to be.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
This is the podcast conversation Patty and the Millennials, and
we're talking politics and the atmosphere is so different from.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
What it was three months ago. We've got less than one.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Hundred days before we go to the polls. We've got
song stress Dasi Neil joining us. We also have LaToya Charleston,
Chocolate Divinity.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
They're joining us.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Ladies, your excitement level? Are you excited? Are your nervous?
How do you feel as we approach approach these days
marching to November the fifth?
Speaker 11 (19:25):
So I am feeling a word that I haven't felt
in a while, hopeful.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
I can't say that I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I can't say you know.
Speaker 11 (19:34):
Now I'm one ten just yet, but I'm feeling a
level of hope that I haven't felt because just to
know that there is someone logical that makes sense on
the ticket, that is honestly that I didn't feel like
was going to croak in two point three seconds let's
be honest.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
No shade on your Joe, but we love you.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
But he was scaring me. But I feel a level
of hope, especially.
Speaker 11 (19:57):
You know, after seeing you know, both of them together
last night and hearing the platform.
Speaker 7 (20:02):
I feel a level of hope that I have and self.
Speaker 11 (20:04):
But if I'm honest, I also feel maybe a spoonful
of fear because when you're able to restore hoping people,
and just because of who Kamala is, I feel like
the magas are going to come for her in a
way that we're not prepared for. So I'm feeling hope,
but I'm also feeling that spoonful of fear.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
But I can't be fearful and pray, so I just
keep praying.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
To a jeez Jesus Christmas. As you said that beautiful angel,
and I have to say I echo your sentiments. Very hopeful.
There is beauty and seeing so many people come together
for a cause of just like you said, a hope
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or a better future. It brings me joy to my
heart to see the masses like, oh no, we are
sick of it. We are not going backwards. So that
does like it just fills my spirit. But I would
I'm hoping that the masses keep the same energy when
it comes to voting outside of this election, and make
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sure that you keep that same energy stand on it
when it comes.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
To the local levels.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
And I don't know if that is going to happen,
but I am hopeful for it. This is the energy
that need, that's needed, and it makes me happy, you know,
to see the possibility of a briter America and most
of us united and for the same cause, and the
majority of us like, no, we are not going backwards
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forward only, So.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
This is this isn't this isn't exciting.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
It's a different time to be in and I'm just
going to stay proceed with caution and we're gonna wait
and see, we wait and see.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
I agree with you, ladies.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
I'm feeling very hopeful because we got to come together
because we cannot go backwards. No, we just cannot go backwards.
It's insane, It's it's crazy. Do you think we put
too much expectations on our politicians?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
We vote, they get in office. I'm talking about all level.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
You know, people think that their lives are going to
change and you're going to do this.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
And.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
That does not necessarily happen.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Oh, it absolutely does not. I don't understand it. This
is what does keep me to hope about this presidential campaign,
because people really need to learn what it is on
a different level. When you are elected in the office,
you do not have a Superman cap on and you're
getting there and going to fix everybody's streams. That is
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not their purpose. Yes, they do represent the community, but
it's even more important for the community to get out
there and show up for them because they cannot really
push anything for you without your involvement. And at the
end of the day, that's what it boils down to
stop acting like we have no real say when at
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the end of the day we are to say, let's
be clear anybody. While I mean now with Trump being
a possible convicted selling I don't know the force from
you no legalities of being you know, being able to
run for public office, but you do not need a
college degree to do that. So I just want I
want people to take away from this, Please get more
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involved locally.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
That's it.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
Yes, you know what I'm feeling.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
So I'm feeling like the pressure that we put is that.
Speaker 11 (23:42):
We remove the normalcy of the person. I'm just thinking
to myself, if I'm honest earlier today, I'm not having
the best day emotionally, like I'm all over the place,
I'm sporadic, and I'm thinking. We have not given people
in public offices the ability to be normal unless it
is of nottch it right, creates a sound bite, or
create something that's gonna do something you know, major in
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and go viral. We've not given people the ability to
be normal because the normal sky is what makes people
feel like, you know, the things that they have to
do for us, or the conversations.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
We can have are attainable.
Speaker 11 (24:16):
We don't feel like being a president is attainable or
running for any office is attainable because there's no normalcy
connected to it. And that's what I miss about my
president and first Lady Barack Obama and magam Obama, because
they added a level of normalcy to office that I
felt like Barack could have got on camera and said,
I'm not feeling the best today, America, but I'm fighting
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for you.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
So I just I hope that we just.
Speaker 11 (24:40):
Provide some normalcy so that we can be we can
we'll believe more if they act more more normal.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
We got to take that pressure off.
Speaker 6 (24:47):
Come on, a super future city council member, right, come on,
I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Re Screen is a senior at Saint Joe's University and
he's representing gen Z.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
That's the right, ja. Yes, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
There's a lot of genders agendas, and I always have
to ask. I really love this young man's voice and
love having conversation with you, and I hope that when
you go back to school you will continue to you know,
buzz me, o me, and we can talk.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
We're talking polity. Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
The atmosphere is so different today than it was three
months ago. How do you feel about the upcoming election.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
I'm loving it. I'm genuinely loving it.
Speaker 12 (25:37):
Last night when I watched the the rally with Tim
Waltz and Vice President Kamala Harris, like, it was amazing
just seeing the energy. Like I don't know if you
noticed it, but people, especially people of us, our color,
they're walking around with smiles, They're feeling happy, like this
is the one time we have hope. I'm reading comments
where people are like, I haven't felt like this since Brock,
(25:59):
Like and I actually believe it and I feel it,
and but this is something that we gotta keep on going.
This doesn't mean automatically assume that she's gonna win, doesn't
mean don't vote, you know what I mean. But this
definitely does breathe new life and energy that this nation needed.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
I gotta tell you something, we can't take it for granted, like, well,
I'm not voting because she gonna win. No, because they're
gonna throw every thing to block her.
Speaker 12 (26:24):
Way, exactly, and it's gonna get bad. It's gonna get bad.
It is is that they're gonna be sick. Cause here's
the thing. They don't have anything real to attack her.
So you know what people do they lead to just
coming at the way she looks, coming the way she talks.
Oh she's not black, you know what I mean. It's
just corny little stuff. And they're gonna try and it's
gonna get bad, and we're just gonna have to keep
on fighting it.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Do you think that we put too much on politicians,
not just presidents, governor, mayor, city council, township leaders. A
lot of people think, well, I voted for you, my life,
she just get dramatically better.
Speaker 12 (27:00):
You see, And then that shows me you're voting for
the wrong reason, like, that's not how the voting system
works unfortunately. And your point on do we put too
much on them? I actually don't think so. I think
we put too less on them because here's the thing.
We're voting for people with just a name and not
seeing what they do, and then you wonder why things
are happening. No, vote for the person that you actually
(27:21):
believe in the same beliefs that they have, and then
push them to do it, and then they will.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
But that's the thing.
Speaker 12 (27:26):
People are just voting without really knowing everything that the
candidate is for and stuff. And this is why we
have thost types of people.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
This is the podcast conversation Patty and the Millennials and
Deck Stucky is the one who puts all of this together.
We're talking politics again, but from this angle, the mood
of many people, say three months ago, very different from
the mood that it's happening right now. What are your
(27:56):
feelings as we approach this election?
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Are you nervous? Are you excited?
Speaker 13 (28:05):
I would say all of the above. There's some times
when I'm very nervous about like what's next, and then
there's a lot of times where I'm very excited, like
I mean seeing what happened with Kamala Harris and like
how people have been able to mobilize and support of her.
It's very inspiring.
Speaker 9 (28:22):
I like it.
Speaker 13 (28:22):
It is exciting, I think though. What makes me nervous though,
is that, like for every positive thing that I see
going on, there's a lot of negativity too, and like
I don't like to see that. I don't I get
the muzzling in between politicians, but I don't really like
to see it on social media, and I think it's
gotten out of hand now. I will say that I
love seeing people, like you know, support their candidate of choice,
(28:46):
one more than the other.
Speaker 7 (28:47):
I like to see that, but I just don't.
Speaker 9 (28:49):
Like it when it gets negative.
Speaker 13 (28:50):
Like you can support who you like without being so
nasty against the other side.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
You do got to block out the nooids and know
some people are uncle O said, they're willfully ignorant.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
There are people, yeah, like they're talking crazy. Well, I'm
voting for.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
This one knowing that you don't even know what this
man stands for, but you're voting for him thinking that
they're going to protect women's rights When they're going to
do anything but protect women's rights.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
You are willfully ignorant.
Speaker 13 (29:31):
Willfully ignorant is actually like really funny.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
I like that.
Speaker 13 (29:35):
Waka Flaka comes to mind when you say that he
put out there you know that he's a proponent of
women's rights. I actually think he has a daughter or
a stepchild who is a part of the lgbt qi
A community and he said that like he wants someone
to stand up for them and all these things. And
it's just like Donald Trump does none of these things,
and you're saying you're voting for him because he does
(29:57):
this stuff and he absolutely does not. You should be
in formed, like what are you talking about? And I'd
like that people on the internet call him out, but
it's not enough.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
You know, Tim Walls, he's like the cousin. It's like
you can come to the cookie out come on.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Yeah. Do you think we put too much expectations on
politicians that we may vote into office, not just on
a presidential level, but let's talk about city council, governor,
mayor a lot of people think, well, I voted for you,
so my life is going to get miraculously better.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Now.
Speaker 13 (30:38):
I don't think that anyone gets into office and immediately
is going to change your life at all. But I
do think though, like in the process of getting people
to vote, like there are a lot of promises made
and like there's a big push to vote, and like,
I think it's kind of I don't know, I think
it kind of does a disservice to say, like, well,
you know your life isn't going to change, like this
(30:59):
is going to be automatic change. But then we're like,
if you don't vote against a problem, So like, yeah,
I can understand why a person feels like some changes
have to be made in their lives. But at the
same time, though, like I think you also have to
be involved in not just a presidential election, but like
across the board. You got to get into these local
elections as well, and then make your voice heard and
(31:20):
tell people what you need and what you want for
yourself and your community. But I do I don't fought
people for having expectations. I do think that having expectations
is a good thing. You just got to make sure
they're realistic.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
Ones.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Conversation is important. It really is whether you agree disagree.
But the political season is a different feeling, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
What are you prepared to do this November?
Speaker 2 (31:49):
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