#RolandMartinUnfiltered - Diddy on Trial, Trump’s Vietnam Golf Scheme, Pelley Slams Trump & SA White Genocide Response

Episode Date: May 28, 2025

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Martez. The federal trial of Sean Diddy Collins moves into its third week. Join us right now is legal analyst Candace Kelly Candace. What happened today? You know you have heard her name about a dozen times if you've been following

this trial like many people have. Capricorn Clark took the stand. This was a personal assistant who rose up the ranks to be a marketing executives, And there were so many things that she said, let me start off first by saying, she says that when she was on the first day of work with Sean Combs, that Sean Combs and an associate, a bodyguard took her to the park,

and they took her to the park because they said, listen, we know you have had some affiliations with Suge Knight. She did work for Death Row Records. She said that Sean told her that if anything happened to him, that she would have to die. That was on her day one. Also on the stand, she talked about being kidnapped by Sean Combs when he found out that Cassie was dating Kid Cudi. She said that Sean came over to her home knocking on her door with a gun.

With that gun, he told her to come downstairs, get into his car because they were going to go over Kid Cudi's house and he was going to kill Kid Cudi. Now this obviously is corroborated, something that we've heard from Cassie, something that we've heard from Kid Cudi, but now we have someone who isn't a part of, you know, any of the beatings or any of the sexual assault allegations, we have someone who isn't a part of, you know, any of the beatings or any of the sexual assault allegations.

We have someone who was a personal assistant and said that she really, really wanted to work hard for Sean Combs and learn from him. She also said that she saw Sean Combs beating Cassie to a point where she was so concerned when he was kicking her and she got down on the ground and balled up in a fetal position, kicking her in her back, that she called her mother,

Regina Ventura. She already took the stand. She said that she was told by Sean Holmes, you can't call the police. She thought, well, I would call the next person that I thought would call the police if she knew her daughter was being beaten, did so, and said that her mother, Regina Ventura,

said that she would take care of it. She was very scared to call the police. Finally, and this was some really big news in the testimony, she expressed that at one point, three pieces of major jewelry went missing. And she told everybody that everybody needs to be on lockdown. She was concerned, said that she was trying to find out

who stole this jury. She then said that shortly thereafter, she was taken to said that she was trying to find out who stole this jury. She then said that shortly thereafter, she was taken to an empty building. This was a building that was already purchased. It was going to become the headquarters of Bad Boy and other Sean Holmes Enterprises, went into that empty building with one other person, and then the doors were locked behind her,

said that she went up to the sixth floor roll in, and it was greeted by a man that she says was five times bigger than she was sitting at a table, a long table, with a lie detector test, smoking, chain smoking, drinking coffee, something like that, a movie. And she said that for the rest of that day, for the whole afternoon to the end of the workday, she went through various iterations of a lie detector test

and was told if this comes up inconclusive, you're gonna find your body in the East River. So she went on to say, and I'll finish up with this, that not only did this happen one day, that it happened four more days that a lie detector test was given to her. She was brought back, she said, to the same location, five days in a row total.

After this, in terms of going back and forth and working for Sean Combs, because again, she did wanna work with him, said she wanted to learn from him. She was fired, then she came back. She was fired and rehired about three times. Then she said that she was just blackballed and she couldn't get a job and hasn't worked since then. Finally, she said that wages were owed to her.

This is very important for people who understand the RICO statute that we are talking about unfair wages that were given to someone and unfair labor practices. That is part of the RICO charge. She said that she was owed $80,000. Human Resources agreed when she went to Human Resources, it was written up that she was owed $80,000.

And that particular contract, when Sean Combs was called into the office, he ripped up right in front of her face. So here we are. And tomorrow they're gonna bring four more witnesses corroborating her testimony, Cassie's testimony. We're going to be hearing from people from the Los Angeles Fire Department

and Mia, one of Combs's former assistants and an alleged victim that we've heard about from opening statements rolling a lot of information today. A good day, I would say. So when you talk about, again, how are they making this connection, this RICO connection? Explain that for the audience.

So listen, when you have a RICO charge, this means that, let's go back. In 1970, we know that the law was created, many people know because of the mob. It was created in order to kind of circumvent this mob boss loophole where mob bosses were doing things and people were ordering things to do for people below them, but they weren't getting touched. So this loophole was closed with what we know as the RICO statute.

We know that the RICO statute, there are 35 predicate or underlying claims that if you hit those claims, just two of them over a period of 10 years, then you are in violation of the RICO statute. Some of those underlying claims that the prosecutors are trying to make and say are happening, had happened, especially with today's victim was kidnapping, for example, arson, for example,

obstruction of justice. So we have all of these things that we've been hearing about. You just need two of those claims over the period of last 10 years, and you have satisfied the RICO statute, and you are in violation and in control of a criminal enterprise, right?

That being Sean Combs, and saying that he is the mob boss, if we can analogize, that he is responsible for all of these acts below him. He may not have thrown the Molotov cocktail, but they're saying he had the Molotov cocktail, somebody do it for him. So that's where we are.

And one thing to remember about RICO that's very important, and this is how you get people to testify on the stand, is that if you have a witness that say is a security guard, and within this enterprise that the prosecutors are alleging, there have been murders and arson, that security guard, that low-level security guard is equally responsible for the murders and the arson.

And this is how through the statute, the feds get people to talk. And this is why they created this statute to get that mob boss. They're really only worried about Sean Combs. Rico's the Rico statute was actually created for people like Sean Combs close that big mob boss loop in order to get to the head of all of the interactions. So the idea, again, with Rico is that you're not having... Early on, we talked about how, well, the prosecutors keep talking about domestic violence. What they're trying to say is there were a litany of crimes

that it's alleged that Combs either ordered or participated in. So therefore by hitting with a Rico charge and by saying that he is the boss of all of this. So all of these crimes, domestic violence, the cover up, the beating folks up, blowing the car up, up, the beating folks up, blowing the car up, on and on and on. These are all crimes all underneath one RICO charge. They all do have a place within it, but in terms of the 35 underlying crimes that actually

would satisfy RICO, yes, you are looking at the extortion. Think about Regina Ventura's mother, who took out the $20,000 loan. The jury might see that as extortion, many people would. The kidnapping, well, today's witness said that she was kidnapped by gunpoint, that was corroborated by Cassie. Then you have obstruction of justice. Sean Holmes has said several times,

according to witnesses, don't go to the police. If you get to the police, I will get to you and you won't be happy about it. Unfair labor practices. This woman said that she was owed $80,000. He ripped up the contract. The way that people can look at this is this. Even if Cassie was not involved in this and there was no such thing as a free golf, Sean Combs potentially still could be going to jail for racketeering charges. Gotcha. All right, panel. It's a whole lot to unpack. All right, so explain what this prosecutor announced when they're gonna be done.

Listen, I think that they're really making their case, getting through a lot of witnesses quicker than they could. It's gonna be done, I think, in about three weeks as opposed to four weeks. They shaved a week off, is what I'm saying. And it's going to be done closer than we thought. So we just have a few more weeks of this testimony. Of course, we're gonna hear from the defense

and their witnesses. It won't be that many, but we will hear from some. And again, obviously from their perspective, it is the responsibility of the prosecutors to actually lay out the case to say these things were actually committed. All right then, Candace, we certainly appreciate it. Thanks a lot.

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Donald Trump's family announces this multi-billion dollar project in Vietnam. Guess what? The folks in Vietnam put it in a document that they fast-tracked this deal in order to negotiate lower tariffs. Yeah, it's a $1.5 billion deal, and it's between the Trump Organization

and a Vietnamese developer. We're talking folks, golf courses the size of 300 plus football fields, luxury hotels, shopping, all fast-tracked with the help of top Vietnamese officials who admit it admitted the project got quote special attention because of its ties to the Trump family. Now Vietnam wants to avoid US tariffs such as a 46% tax on its exports. Now we all know what's going on here now keep in, this of course is on top of

Trump holding a dinner last week with his La Crypto bros, all right, at Mar-a-Lago. The crazy thing is that the idiots who work for him, Carolyn Leavitt, who is an absolute liar, goes, oh, oh, oh, oh, he's having the dinner on his private time. I'm sorry, so what we're saying now is that you can be corrupt on your private time and as opposed to at any time?

Well, you do know what happened. They also released photos of the event. And oh, my goodness, the presidential seal was actually on the podium where this idiot spoke. And oh, they may say, well, I think you guys are making this things up. It could be that's AI. Nah, the only problem is this video.

This actual video of this as well. Do you now see where we're going with this? Folks, I've said it before. You have someone who is sitting in the Oval Office raping and pillaging this country and this world. He has grown his net worth by 40%. 40% of his net worth is a result. I know a lot of cops and they get asked all the time,

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joining us from DC. I mean, it really is hilarious and shameful to watch all of this, how it plays out, Mustafa, and to listen to these idiots in the White House, as well as right-wing media. Oh, just like, oh, this is no biggie. It's no biggie.

No big deal. I mean, saying nothing. Saying nothing, yet they yelled and screamed over a Hunter Biden piece of art. It's unbelievable. I mean, every administration besides this one, you know, has had to live up to a certain level of ethics, has had to be under the microscope, if you will, and rightly so, because we have laws in place if you are a government official, saying certain things that you can't receive

and certain types of actions that you should not do. But of course, all the rules have been thrown out the window when this administration came in. And the problem that exists is that, as they're moving forward on these types of things, putting the squeeze on Vietnam. So many people are wondering why did he propose such a high tariff level on that country considering that we didn't have a huge amount of business with him. We had business with him, of course, but folks were always curious about why you

would choose the numbers that you did to put that squeeze on folks. And now, of course, it's becoming apparent of what's going on. So we see these dynamics that are going on in relationship to him garnering additional wealth and, of course, the unethical behavior that's going on. But what we often don't pay attention to is all the people who are getting hurt. You know, when you look at the folks who are there in Vietnam who are going to be displaced, I mean, you know, folks just don't pay as much attention to that, but they are going to be removed from their land, often traditional land for many of the people, the familial

ties that exist in that space. And we've seen these types of dynamics play out with black communities in this country when someone decides that they want a piece of land and that they're willing to do anything to be able to get it. So again, where's Congress in speaking out? Where's the Department of Justice in speaking out? Where are the courts in relationship?

If someone brings this forward. So it'll be interesting to see if anybody is willing to speak out. Don't want to hear anything from any of these people ever again, Avis, about ethics, morals, values, principles, honor, decency. I don't wanna hear anything. These people are grossly immoral.

They are shameful, they are despicable, and they will allow this man to get away with anything. They don't care. And they frankly have no credibility with me at all. Absolutely not, and they shouldn't. Look at what they do, not what they say. One thing I will say about Donald Trump is he is the projector in chief. Whatever he accuses someone else of being, he in fact is that thing. So when he talked about the Biden crime family,

let's just know that what he was foretelling, and not even foretelling, what actually has been happening in real time for God knows how many decades, is an actual Trump crime family. And so what we are seeing now is what one would expect a crime family to do. The reality here is that we don't have a democracy. Anyone who's operating on this illusion that we are still holding on and trying to save democracy, let me just tell you, that ship has sailed. This is exactly what autocrats do, right?

They are lawless in their actions. They use their unfettered power to aggrandize their wealth. And so if you have any questions about what we're seeing here, we're seeing a dictatorship solidify in this nation. And we're seeing it because the Republican Party is willing to let him do whatever he chooses to do because they want to see what I'm sure what benefits they can get

from this situation. It is a horrible bastardization of our system of government and it's exactly unfortunately what way too many people voted for. Corruption is stunning and here's what's even worse Cameron. This thug, he has no problem with thieves and liars. Over the weekend, he pardoned a former sheriff in Virginia who was selling badges so people could bypass TSA lines and speed. Oh, it now gets even more so.

Just today, remember those people on the reality show, those wacky Chrisleys, Todd and Julie, who were sentenced for multiple, multiple charges, conspiracy to commit bank fraud, tax evasion, wire fraud. Well, guess what? They, according to prosecutors, they submitted false documents to secure more than $30 million in loans

for their production company. Todd got hit with, don't go there yet, Todd got hit, don't go there yet, Todd got hit with 12 years in prison, Julie got hit with seven years in prison. Well, guess what? Donald Trump says, hey, I'm gonna let y'all go home. Y'all can, you can brazenly commit crimes, you're good.

Well watch this crap. That's a terrible thing, it's a terrible thing, but it's a great thing because your parents are gonna be free and clean and I hope we can do it by tomorrow. Is that okay? We'll try getting it done tomorrow. So give them, I don't know them,

but give them my regards and wish them a — wish them a good life. The Press. Yes. How are you? The Press. Yeah, well, they were given a pretty harsh treatment based on what I'm hearing. Pretty harsh treatment.

Was your brother fighting also for it? They were given pretty harsh treatment! Cameron, they broke the law! And it seems like Trump is breaking the law, too. One thing I wanted to bring to your viewers and so forth as a person who had to work in the White House, the amount of scrutiny and things that we, and the level of ethics that we were held to, to not be able to profit off of anything that we were able to do or

sell secrets, this is a clear pay to play type of administration. I mean, he's putting it right in our face, and he's blatantly breaking the law, I would argue, the Emoluments Clause, which is in the United States Constitution, that he's receiving gifts and enriching himself using his power with the case with Vietnam, kind of using his power there to hopefully get up,

fast track a multi-billion dollar complex, with the case with Vietnam, kind of using this power there to hopefully get up, fast track a multibillion-dollar complex, sending his son out there, and then all of a sudden, mysteriously Vietnam may be exempt from the tariffs. Even when you show just the example you showed right there, everybody's figured out how to play this president. If I find him a way to make some money, whether it's home or abroad, if I find a way to feed into his ego, or if I find a way to get into one of his advisors

who can put anything in front of Trump, and as long as it feeds his ego, gets him a check, it makes him, in his mind, look better, he's signing off on it. He doesn't even know what he's signing half the time. Like, it really disgusts me, and I really don't... I'm really so hurt because we spent four years in the White House, like, trying to hold

the utmost standard of ethics, and any little thing... They have none. And any little thing would come back to haunt us, and now here? Avis, they have none. Look at this here. Trump part in tax cheat after mother attended $1 million dinner. Paul Walzak's part in application

cited his mother's support for the president, including raising millions of dollars in the connection to the plot to publicize the Biden family diary. There you go. Oh, it's no problem. Guess what? Give me money.

I'm good. You're done. You get to get off. This is a picture of him and his mother. Basically, her $1 million, her ticket to that dinner, got him a pardon. That's what this thug does.

This thug simply sells. He sells, sells. he sells the partons, he sells the White House. And this here, you talk about this sheriff, unbelievable, and it goes, oh yes, look at this crap. Sheriff Scott Jenkins, his wife Patricia, and their family have been dragged through hell by corrupt and weaponized Biden DOJ.

In fact, during his trial, when Sheriff Jenkins tried to offer his culpatory evidence to support himself, the Biden judge Robert Ballew refused to allow it, shut him down and then went on a tirade. So the sheriff is a victim of an overzealous Biden Department of Justice. The law does not matter. MAGA, this is what you idiots voted for.

This is what y'all got. Yeah, but the thing is they are gonna believe the narratives that are twisted and told from their perspective. They're gonna believe the lie that you just read, that this was some sort of activist Biden Justice Department that did something unfair and therefore what Trump is doing now is making wrong right. They're going to believe the lies. But here's the broader

thing that really bothers me about this. I mean, we can't just have one political party following the rules. We can't have that. What kind of system is that? That is no system. And what I am seeing right now is that oftentimes you hear people making the argument, well, they need to understand that when the other party gets in power, they could do this stuff too. They're doing it because they don't believe that the Democrats have the balls to do it.

And they're not seeing any evidence that they're being taken to task for doing it. So why pull back? And so they are just operating without any boundaries and without any limits and without any shame whatsoever, because that's who they are. That is their criminal essence. And I will just lastly say that this, he may have found the one business he cannot bankrupt. Okay.

This is going to be the one business he can't bankrupt. Okay. Definitely he can bankrupt this country. Absolutely. But he has found the way, he has found a way that he can make as much money as humanly possible while in this position without having to suffer any consequences. And that's because he is not being kept to task, put to task by anyone. He is literally acting lawlessly. And unless we are able to figure out how can we can get some boundaries onto him through some other sort of cases brought to the courts, because right now the courts are the last thing, it seems like that's the last barrier between him and utter complete 1000% lawlessness.

That's the only thing that's holding what's left of our rule of law together right now, but we all know that's strongly under attack by this administration. I mean, Mustafa, listen to the sheer arrogance and the I don't know of so-called Christian House Speaker Republican Mike Johnson. Big tap or clips or any CNN clips, but this, I got to play this one. You oversaw as speaker a congressional investigation into President Biden's ties to his son Hunter's questionable business dealings to enrich him. You seem to think it was your responsibility to look into this sort of thing then. Yeah, Jake, the big important distinction, the Biden crime family as they were named, earned that title. Why? Because they use shell companies, fake LLCs, series of what appeared to be money laundering operations.

And Hunter Biden, of course, with his difficult past and his corruption in his past, the family on the public dole, or on the president's dole, you know, the president lied about his involvement in the business dealings, all of that. The evidence just piled up. And by the way, at the same time, the evidence of his diminished mental capacity, subject to your book, of course, I wish had been published a year earlier, because everybody saw it. Everybody saw what was happening. He used the auto pen. And by the way, there's investigations right now going on in the House. Jamie Comer and the Oversight Committee will be investigating the use of the auto pen, when the president's mental capacity declined, and whether all those things are even legally valid now,

given the obvious fact that he was not the one making the decisions. It's huge implications from all this. And so I think the American people had reason to doubt, and we had great reason and I think a responsibility to investigate those things. The difference, of course, is that President Trump does everything out in the open.

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that talked to me and Alex Thompson, my co-author, after election day, I sure wish that they had talked to us a year ago. I agree with you on that. But on this matter with the crypto, shouldn't we at least just know who was at the dinner? Wouldn't you want to know that list of people? I guess. I mean, again, I don't know anything about that dinner.

I do know that President Trump is the most transparent president in the most transparent administration probably in history. He has nothing to hide, and he's out there trying to advance America's interests. That's what America First policies are all about, and that's what our big reconciliation bill will deliver for the people. We're really proud of the product. Mr. Speaker, I know you have a lot of military veterans and Gold Star families in your congressional. So that's how we let him answer that. Oh, Trump has nothing to hide. I mean, he's doing out in

the open. Oh, you're right. His corrupt ass, Mustafa is doing right on the open. But to go, Oh, I don't see a thing. I mean, Trump's not creating shell companies. Yes, he is. Michael Cohen, right there shows you how these thugs are just go, me see nothing, me hear nothing. He's Mr. Transpact. Well, you know, there's a lot to unpack there. First, we'll start with the people who are asking the questions of reporters and them not doing their job

when they hear falsehoods being shared and not stopping it right there. Just straight lies. Yeah, but you know that that's a part of the problem, right? You got so many folks who are shook that they won't do their jobs. When we talk about jobs, also the speaker of the house, there have been part of the problem, right? You've got so many folks who are shook that they won't do their jobs. When we talk about jobs, also the Speaker of the House, there have been Speakers of the House in the past when they saw presidents who were not doing the right thing that were willing to speak out and to push and to utilize their power and their responsibility

to do the right thing. And then of course, as we've talked about, the grift is real in relationship to what this administration is doing. But you know, they just gonna continue to stack dollars as long as they are allowed to do so because there's nobody who is pushing back, there's no accountability.

And you know, so they're figuring, you know, why not go ahead and do it? It is a bit troublesome when they try to equate the actions that they are doing with what's going on in relationship to the Biden administration, because President Biden did not have a business. He was not caught up in any type of malfeasance. But then when we flip it back to these folks, it's hard to find when they are not doing

something that is unethical or criminal, possibly. So again, you've got to speak out. We've got to hold all these various people accountable, you know, whether it's the folks on Capitol Hill, it's the reporters or others to actually stand up and do their job. Cameron, these are thugs. They are going to, mind you,

we didn't even hit the sixth month. Their whole deal is literally, they're like bank robbers. Yo, take everything. Take the money, take the desk, strip the walls, everything. They see this as a four year crime spree. I agree. I will agree with the speaker in one thing. This is the most transparent president

in history, most transparently criminal president in history. It's to the point that grift is real. The thing that we have to do as American people, the thing we have to do as black folks, the thing we consistently have to do, we wrote Trump a blank check to do all of this last year when the Supreme Court came out and said the the president in any official act has immunity from criminal prosecution. Once we set that up Trump they lined up every single thing they could do like I said from this Vietnam from pay to play. Hey you need a pardon come to a million dollar dinner. I got you, I got you, I got you.

We lined that up, and the Supreme Court lined up Trump in order to allow for this grift to happen. I think the thing that we need to now tie this to is Trump, while he says he may run again, Trump is not gonna be president in the next three years. But what we do need to tie is every single thing that Trump is doing. We need to tie all these griffs, tie all these blatant and one acts of criminality to every governor, to every mayor, and definitely to every member of Congress in every single election.

They only and always should be answering for him, because what the speaker just showed there is that he doesn't care, because he probably doesn't see that affecting him or affecting his office or his position. But when they start seeing real losses, like in Virginia this year, or in other states and cities at the gubernatorial level, the state legislator level, and at the congressional level,

better believe Trump is gonna have some pushback. But we can't go after him, but we need to go after everybody who's supporting him and putting him in power. These people are literal just thugs. That's what they are. And the right is like, nah, we're good, we're good, we're good. No problem, we're just gonna go along with it

and hey, we see nothing. I mean, Jessica Tarloff was on Fox News and she was going off ripping these fools. And like the flat out excuses, and they were just sitting here just laughing like it was no big deal. Like why is she bringing these things up? Like, I mean, watch this.

I'm telling you right now, like you cannot remotely convince me that if Obama, Biden, Harris, Clinton, Carter, LBJ, Kennedy, Truman, FDR, we can keep going. Democrat did this? Stop it. Y'all just y'all just making a big deal out of this here. They Fox News is literally laughing. That's why I don't trust the line network. That's why they got slapped with a 787 million dollar settlement because of over dominion. They they are liars and they support liars watch this. Josh tell my love does op ed and Greg mentioned a staggering level of corruption and I just got a note that the staggering

level of corruption from last night's meme coin dinner. No 40% of Donald Trump's wealth has been accumulated since he became president because of 2 crypto coins. The New York Times did interviews with foreign buyers of hit this cryptocurrency who came over here to have dinner with him a guy from South Korea. This is not even part of the segment. So what you're talking about. Who's corrupt. We can we get the American we try to cover American. I don't think so.

Caroline Levin. You're you're defending an administration is that cover up a dying leader and you're sitting here going but me going. All right. All chance to clean it up real quick. All clean on my side. So all because he's robbing the bank and live streaming it. It's no big deal that doing it privately is doing this publicly. I told you these people they have and I'm so say it again.

Today's Republican Party, these MAGA people, these conservative, these evangelicals, what did I tell Chris Christie? September, 2021. They have no morals, they have no values, they have no principles, they have no ethics, they have no decency, they are lawless thugs, and that's what they are.

They are lawless thugs, and that's what they are. They are hypocrites. And I don't wanna hear them complain about anybody. They acted a fool when Obama wore a tan suit, and Donald Trump is literally raping and pillaging the country. And Fox News, conservative talk radio, digital conservative media, they're like, oh stop it, oh stop it, y'all making a big deal

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We're here. This black girl is at the door with this white guy, black African girl. And she says, oh my god, Vanessa Belle Calloway. And I'm like this, you know me? And come to find out we were at the wrong door. But she said, I'm gonna let you in, just go in here. But I was in Paris, France.

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Ha ha ha. All right, great. All right, folks, this entrepreneur knows all about faith, family and flavor. Richard Kelly may have made a name for himself on the football field. 13 seasons in NFL, but his heart has always been in the kitchen. Born and raised in Aberdeen, Mississippi. Richard group surrounded by love,

lessons and soul food. After hanging up his cleats, he and his wife took the family tradition and turned it into a booming business Cavan Foods named after their kids rooted in the recipes that brought their families together. Joining us right now is the founder of the company. Reggie, how you doing?

I'm doing great, Mr. Martin. How's it going, my friend? Doing great. First off, is it Kavan Kivan? Pronounce it, please. It's Kivan. Kivan Foods. Kivan Foods. So when did you start it? kiving foods kiving foods kind of so I went to start. Well we started the best is in 2011 and you know when I was a kid I grew up next door to my grandmother rolling in my family always told me maybe we could make sure you do with love. So I've always long to pass down to my kids kaila and cave in and to everyone to give that's been passed on to me and

appreciation of the. So what type of food do you all have. We have multiple categories from salsa to barbecue sauce is the seasoning lens to jams and jelly with our honey apple butter. We also have salad dressings as well so we try to focus on multiple categories right and I just has multiple times of different dressings as well. So we try to focus on multiple categories. Right. And our food line just has multiple tons of different flavor options as well.

And how did it come about? How did it start? Like what was the spark to say, you know what, let's do our own thing. Well, you know, first I would like to say, I've had a smooth transition rolling from football to food, or as I like to call it, from the gridiron to the cast iron. You know, when I was a player, I used to throw free football camps for the kids in my hometown

of Aberdeen, Mississippi. I wanted to reward the kids who exemplify great academic excellence. So I wanted the kids to understand that when you work hard and when you do good, expect good and hard work pays off. And so I threw a free football camp for the kids to understand that when you work hard and when you do good, expect good, hard work pays off. And so I threw a free football camp for the kids. I flew my teammates down to reward the kids, gave them free NFL, get free pep in there. And the kids had an absolute blast.

After the football camps were over, and for that matter, after any event in Mississippi, oh, you're gonna have some good food. So my family and my wife's family cooked for all the volunteers. And I tell you, my teammates couldn't stop raving about our family recipes to the point. Well, and one of my teammates wife called my wife

and said, you guys really need to do something with these family recipes. I had no interest in being an entrepreneur, had no interest in the food industry. As a matter of fact, around that time, my head coach, Marvin Lewis, convinced me that my next plan of action should be to be an NFL executive or either the league office in Manhattan or be in

basically the front office of an NFL franchise. So that was the course of action that I wanted to take. But mulling it over and talking to my wife over and over again, we decided to become entrepreneurs and then name this business after our kids. So the word Kivan basically comes from our kids. My daughter, her name is Kyla. My son's name is Kavan. We combined the two to come up with Kivan. So just like any parents, we wanna leave a great legacy

behind to our kids, a tangible legacy behind to our kids. We're definitely trying to do that. What year did you open the business? 2011. 2011, so here we are now in 14 years. Greatest lesson you learned last 14 years. I'm marketing. Obviously, marketing a brand is definitely the life

and it's also definitely can be the depth of a business and you have to make sure that you establish great relationships. Through marketing, we do understand that some of the big brands, the 4,500 companies, they have the working capital, right? Also have the personnel, they have the experience, they have the marketing strategy to ensure

that they're gonna have longevity and sustainability within their company. But one time or ago, one time long ago, they were small companies as well, and they had to figure it out. And so for me, my company, being a well, and they had to figure it out. And so for me, my company, being a small company, we had to figure out the marketing piece. We had to find our hero product.

I liken it to a franchise quarterback. We had to find the actual demographic of people to market our brand to, and then the correct content that's going to encourage consumers to take a chance on our brand. And if we do it right, which we have done it right, it goes to great ROI, customer acquisition, and a high customer retention rate. Now, are you in stores or are you doing direct to consumer? We do both.

So the thing that I really like, the sector that I really like, or the industry that I really like rolling, is the food service industry, where we service a lot of hotels, like the Hilton, High Regency. Our biggest distributors are Cisco and then also US Foods. So that's the sector that I really like shipping our book products to executive chefs.

And then they come up with creative plans to come up with creative menu items using our products, creating masterpieces. I really enjoy that. We also focus on online e-commerce platform. And yes, we do also do business with brick and mortar retailers. Questions from the panel. Let's see here. Avis first. You know, you said something about your origin story,

those after camp good eating that people were having in Mississippi. So I'm just curious, because I know y'all do it right in the Mississippi. So I'm just curious, because I know y'all do it right in the South. So I'm just curious, what's your favorite product that you sell? And what does your family make that you absolutely love? You know, I get that all the time.

And I would liken it to a parent, right? A lot of people ask me as far as with my food company, what is your favorite product? What is the best product? Well, sometimes, you know, if somebody may ask a parent, who is your favorite product? What is the best product? Well, sometimes, you know, if somebody may ask a parent, who is your favorite child? Well, I'm not D.I. Sanders, I'm not gonna say that. Both of my kids are absolutely my favorite.

So when it comes to my food line, they're my babies too. And they all are my favorite. But I will say this, our mild honey apple salsa is our hero product. That's what we started the brand with. And why don't you just take a trip with me. This product has robust tomatoes, golden honey, crisp apples, beans, garlic, and peppers.

Oh my, we call it our salsa with salt because it would jazz up any meals. Our Honey Apple Salsa is definitely our hero product. It's our franchise product, and it definitely turn heads. Wow, it sounds amazing. Cameron. A pleasure to meet you. My question is being a former athlete, being at the highest level, the discipline, the hours, the behind the scenes work that really goes for you to be able to play in the NFL for so long. What lessons and what lessons did you take

from your football career that you've been able to apply to starting a business and growing it and becoming successful as an entrepreneur, especially in such a tough market like the food industry? Yeah, very simply put, those who succeed on a consistent level, right, those who concede on a high level doing it right and on an upward trajectory, they succeed because they do the small things that those who fail won't do.

Success has always been wrapped around doing the small, tedious, minute things that those who fail either make excuses why they can't do it, or simply too lazy to do it. One of my old teammates, Terrence Mathis, told me this when I was a rookie. He said, listen, rookie, if you do the little things right, the big things will always follow. We always want to look at the masterpiece, the big pictures, but what we fail to realize,

if we just do the small, minute, strenuous things that pull your hair out, as you can see, if you do those things right, the big things are gonna automatically follow. So for me with football, I learned to be extremely disciplined. I learned to do the small things right. They ended up giving me 13 seasons in the NFL. I'm in my 14 year,

I'm in the food and beverage industry as well. And we follow those same guidelines. Being consistent, great customer service, doing what you say you're gonna do, making sure that you are likable, which I think a lot of people miss. People do business with people that they like. So it's important to be likable, be personable.

If you do that, it'll help boost your business well and take you to the upper deck to be out. Mustafa. Well, brother, congratulations on 14 years. I got family in the SIP so I'm curious what makes the food in the SIP different than in Louisiana or Texas? I know Roland gonna have something to say about Texas so I'm just curious what makes your flavor different? You damn right I do. Go ahead. different. You damn right I do. Go ahead. Well, I will say this, you know, we always say we make everything with love and my family, I come from a family of cooks, not from a family of chefs and we stick our feet in the corn, calluses and all. But

here at Caesars Foods, we specialize in innovative and most cases never before seen food products and the kicker is most of our products only use clean natural ingredients. We kettle cook our product in small batches to retain the nutrients, the quality and the flavor. And because of those innovations, we have products like our award-winning honey apple salsa, the first ever sweet potato barbecue sauce.

And we also have our grandmother approved honey apple butter. Because of our innovation, we've been featured on some major platforms like Fork. They gave us an award because of our innovation, Food Network, Cabot Brown, Eat This, Not That, also Sports Illustrated. And I think that our model says it best. One taste, oh, you'll appreciate the goodness.

Normally, the packages, what happened Carol? Normally I have a package to show on the set. Oh, we ain't getting in time. Okay. So, uh, Reggie, that don't do me no good. You holding up. Give me the address. I got your cover, bro. I mean I mean. I just want to talk to me, Fratt. Talk to me, Fratt. There you go. And I'll make sure once we get off the show, make sure you. I know a lot of cops and they get asked all the time. Have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes.

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Send me a little something, some address and I'll make sure I... All right. Because I know, trust me, I know I'm gonna get a text any moment from my daddy watching the show. And yeah, I know that's gonna happen. So yeah, because you're right. See, he's a cook, my brother's executive chef. My mom does cakes. So I grew up, I catered for 23 years, my grandmother's catering business,

so yes, I have a discerning palate. So yes, so we're gonna have to, I'm gonna have to check out these products. And so you see it, you see a Honey Apple Delight, let's see here, and then Gourmet Barbecue Sausage and Rub. Let's see here, and then gourmet barbecue sauces and rubs. So folks, if y'all go to shopblackstarnetwork.com, y'all see the products right here. Again, if I click this here, these gourmet sauces, you see there's a four pack there.

And so certainly good luck with that. Again, we have available on shopblackstarnetwork.com and hopefully our folks will partake. We got Juneteenth coming up. We've got holidays and summers and all kinds of parties, cookouts, get togethers, you name it. And so we hope folk definitely check it out.

And I know Mustafa and plus Mustafa is also an alpha brother. He's on here as well. Cameron, what little youth group you're in? Did you join one of the little youth groups? No, I'm not Greek. Okay, I'll just check it. I'm just making sure. I know you want to, I knew you want alpha, but I wasn't sure you want to know you want to alpha but I wasn't sure you want to know other little youth group. And so of course, Avis here aka so I don't know Avis can cook I never heard Avis talk about cooking ever on the show. Y'all drop a

little third please. I've never heard Avis talk about cooking ever ever ever Reggie. I am looking forward to trying the honey apple salsa, okay? That's gonna inspire me, rolling, okay? Avis, salsa is a dip for a chip. We talking about cooking. That ain't pouring something into a bowl. Ain't cooking, Avis.

I can't mess that up though, hey! You know? It's safe, I can't mess that up. I just put it on the side. Man, at this moment, I'm just feeling Florida from good times. Damn, damn, damn. All right. Reggie, I appreciate it. Thanks a bunch.

And also, I take it Black and Old Gold have also been supportive of your company? Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. We just celebrated our 50th anniversary. The capital of the chapter at Mississippi State University. Customers are always looking. All right, then. Well, I'm looking forward to trying the products.

Good luck, 06, and keep good doing well. Of course, next year you got your 15th anniversary. Absolutely, sounds like a plan. 06, appreciate it, man. I appreciate it, thanks a lot. Again, folks, y'all please check it out. Go to shopblackstartnetwork.com. We have, there are products on there.

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And Tony accidentally went to the loop right behind their been and I saw a side door. And we got off the little bus. I said, we're coming to the Louvre. Let's go to the Louvre. I mean, I'm just like, let's go to the Louvre. Right. We're here.

This black girl is at the door with this white guy, black African girl. And she says, oh my God, Vanessa Belle Calloway. And I'm like this, you know me? And come to find out we were at the wrong door. But she said, I'm gonna let you in. Just go in here. But I was in Paris, France. You know me? And come to find out we were at the wrong door. But she said, I'm gonna just go in here.

But I was in Paris, France. And that shocked me. She knew my name. She knew me. She knew my movie. You know, so it's like, you just gotta, as they say, build and they will come. Get it out there.

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Man, CBS's Scott Pelly went off in a commencement speech at Wake Forest, where he talked about what's happening in this country, and, ooh, my goodness, a little maga world in their feelings. Here's a portion of it. But in this moment, this moment, this morning, our sacred rule of law is under attack. Journalism is under attack. Universities are under attack. Freedom of speech is under attack. And insidious fear is reaching through our schools, our businesses, our homes, and into our private thoughts. The fear to speak in America. Power can rewrite history with grotesque false narratives.

They can make criminals heroes and heroes criminals. Power can change the definition of the words we use to describe reality. Diversity is now described as illegal, equity is to be shunned, inclusion is a dirty word. This is an old playbook, my friends. There's nothing new in this. Well, y'all, you look at Twitter, look at this, way fourth graduates and their families

deserve much better than the ad men choosing Scott Pelley to give a hyper politicized but hurt commencement speech. What a shit show that douchebag was competing with tampon temp for most erratic, illogical, irrational speech this season. Liberals who once controlled speech and the power to censor are now set that a majority of Americans now reject their lies and deception

60 minutes Scott Pelley raged at Trump in angry unhinged commencement address that wait for us as he speaks openly and freely in America and The gaslighting commencement speech of the Year Award goes to Scott Pelley whose hard-hitting investigative reporting remained Definitely silent over the last four years while Americans across the country were suffering unspeakable horrors while the inmates ran the asylum. And these people could use their platforms to effect real change for the American people,

but their neoliberal Marxist ideologies will not permit them. It is very sad that CBS 60 Minutes' Scott Pelley chose one of the happiest days for graduates and their families to display his undeniable case of TDS, Trump Derangement Syndrome. Wake Forest University should be ashamed that it allowed this to take place. He never actually said Donald Trump's name, Mustafa. So, hit dog with Holler. All right. They're just feeling guilty, right? All he did was talk about facts, you know? And you know, we got the receipts for everything that he talked about. And it's just amazing that we allow, you know, groups, these small groups of folks to try and just create all

this disinformation and misinformation and just change everything out. So, you know, I was pleasantly surprised. I mean, when you're a keynote, or excuse me, when you're giving the commencement speech, I've only done it a few times, you know, it's about bringing some humor, but it is also talking about a reflection of what the world looks like in your opportunity

to help it to become better. So, you know, he called out the challenges that are in front, but he also, if you watch everything that he said, talk about our own personal responsibility in this moment to make change happen. So, you know, if you weren't doing negative things, then you wouldn't have anything to worry about. If what he said wasn't true,

you wouldn't have anything to worry about. But, you know, folks know that all he did was bring forward, you know, the truth that we are living with in this particular moment. They are just really, they're really hot and bothered, Cameron. I'm like, I'm sorry he didn't mention your guy. Why are you in your feelings? I mean, they stay in their feelings,

and I think this goes back to some of the previous stories that when their side decides to politicize, decides to do so many different illegal things, but when we just point out, I mean, he was just pointing out facts. He's pointing out history. He's pointing out what we can all see playing out in front of us. I think the right-wing Twitterverse is going to constantly find something up in arms, and the Trump supporters and that MAGA crowd consistently lives in an alternate reality where they don't see what's happening

right in front of them. But I applaud him. I applaud him for utilizing that platform to be able to instill at least hopefully that next generation with some morals because they're not getting it from the White House and they're not getting it from those Twitter trolls that seem to be attacking him. Avis. Absolutely.

And I find it very ironic that they're talking about him politicizing a speech. When I happen to remember, I'm old enough to remember, when Trump was standing in front of West Point wearing a Make America Great hat, I happen to remember him just going off ad nauseam about nothing, everything from trophy wives to all sorts of other ridiculous just and didn't stick around and shake their hands like he had to rush back because of some crisis that ended up being him running around on his own damn golf course. Okay.

Yeah. That's who we're talking about. And the last thing I will say super quickly is the fact that, quite frankly, their response made everything that he said, it provided an example of everything that he said in terms of how they make right wrong and wrong right, how they make up lies and just decontextualize things. Exactly what he said in his speech is actually what they proved by their off the rails reaction.

Yeah, I mean, it's truly amazing. Now you watch News Nation, right wing network, y'all. That's what it is. Okay. And they have Leland Vittert, formerly of Fox News on their network. Well, guess what? He had this sister, Tashidi Madia, who was a South African journalist, who, let's just say, she had to gut check all the lies

this fool was saying. I don't think Vitter's even been to South Africa. He damn sure ain't read nothing about South Africa. So if y'all wanna see a fantastic job, and this is all following, of course, the president of South Africa, Cyr if y'all want to see a fantastic job, and this is all following of course the president of South Africa, Saril or Mofosa, coming to the White House and meeting with that idiot Trump who then showed him some videos that was a lie, some photos that were from the Congo, and all

the sort of stuff like that, and he was just straight-up lying. And so she had to check Leland and boy, this was masterful. Roll. Welcome to the program, thank you. Thank you. Were you surprised when you saw that? I'm not necessarily. I was amused by the latest gimmick for sure,

but surprised not so much. I think the South African delegation, South African journalists, they have been talking about it. We knew the president would walk into some sort of trap. It's not surprising. The invite was there. The desire for the conversation to open up the channels between the USA and South Africa are there.

South Africa's been trying by all means to try and open up the doors again. And so no, no one was surprised. Did we expect the lights to be turned off in a visual illustration? No, not that far. That is the new sort of the new reality with Donald Trump. The issue here, I think, is an important one about what is actually happening in South Africa. Is it true that white farmers are being killed in South Africa? It's an interesting way that you've asked that question.

I don't think the issue is what's happening in South Africa. I think the issue is what's being peddled about what's happening in South Africa. If you watch today's engagement... What's the issue? What's happening? Let me get to the point first. If you watch that entire engagement, the recognition, the painful recognition, the startling truth of crime in South Africa, violent crime, was actually acted by everybody there from South Africa.

Is it targeted towards a specific group? Is it an ethnic cleansing? That's the question, right? Based on what's been said about South Africa, the world over, at least people are allowed to go out and eat on mask. That's not a fact. Okay, so we don't deny that there's a lot

of violent crime in South Africa, right? Seven times the murder rate. Across the board. Okay, so the issue is whether or not, I guess, whites are being targeted disproportionately. Is that what you're taking issue with? No, that would be the claim. The issue is that the claim is falsehood.

White people are not being targeted, even. Nobody, crime is experienced by everybody, not just white people. So when Julius Manila was chanting, kill, kill, you have to kill to be part of a revolution on and on, he was talking about killing blacks or killing whites? You need the context of what that song is

because you can't take out the context of what that is. That is actually important. It cannot be that he's giving an instruction when that's not the fact. I think we do need to take into consideration the context. What he's chanting is an anti-apartheid song that was sang by leaders in the lead up to apartheid. The back and forth today about that song

is whether or not it's relevant in modern day South Africa. Should we still be singing that song? If there's a grouping in the country that feels otherwise. How can somebody be defending singing a song that's talking about killing other people? I'm not defending singing the song, I'm saying to you that's the conversation that's going to be in the country. So don't you think white farmers would be scared when they heard that saying to you that's the conversation that's going to be in the country.

So don't you think white farmers would be scared when they heard that song? And that's the question that's been put to Julius Malema. I said to you that conversation is happening. It's put to Julius Malema that when you do this, this is what we worry about. But when you look at how long he's been singing the song and whether it correlates with the numbers of farmers under attack, particularly white people, it's not there.

People are being attacked on the farms. Our farm dwellers and farm workers. That's also a reality that's got to be- If white farmers are not being targeted, or white farmers are not being killed, why are so many who have big land holdings willing to give up their entire lives to come to America? Where are they?

Show them to me. We had them land- Those 49 people are not farmers. There are plenty of reports from South Africa that many of those are not farmers. Those are plenty of reports from South Africa that many of those are not farmers. Those are chances. Please, again, show me the evidence. Those are people taking an opportunity.

America's given them an opportunity. You're just saying, you're saying- They're not farmers. I'm just trying to figure this out. You're saying that your president has not, in any way, targeted whites, even though Elon Musk, who was there, can't get a license for his business.

He was where? In the Oval Office. He was in the Oval Office. He's never been to South Africa. When was the last time Elon Musk, who was there, can't get a license for his business. He was where? In the Oval Office. He was in the Oval Office, he's never been to South Africa. When was the last time Elon Musk was in South Africa? But he can't get a- When was the last time he was in South Africa? His father, Elon Musk's father. I thought that came up when he was there. No, hold on.

I'm sorry, but- I want to also make you understand- The accusation is that many whites cannot get licenses to do business, among them, Elon Musk. That's not true either? So we're being forced to undermine our transformative laws. We must be okay with the South Africa, with the majority that is denied of their own land,

with the majority deprived of access to economic transformations and means of production. We must be okay and not move the needle in any way to try and fix that. We must be okay with South Africa being labeled the most unequal country in the world and not try and do anything to rectify that. Because that's what that argument says. No, but the fact that... There are laws. I know a lot of cops, and they get asked all the time, have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes. But there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no. Across the country, cops call this Taser the revolution.

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But there are none of those. Where are those, Leland? You are calling me as a journalist from South Africa and you're putting those to me. I'm asking you for the proof. Donald Trump today, I'm sorry, I'm going to have to lecture a little bit. Donald Trump today called us in there

saying he's got proof of a genocide. South Africa's gone to the ICJ saying that they believe Israel is committing a genocide in Palestine. Okay, they actually changed a whole other thing. They're the same ones who support Hamas. But they put evidence on the table. They put evidence on the table. South Africa supports Hamas.

A Trump is not proof of genocide. Yes, it is. A private monument with fake crosses and not actual gravesites is not proof of a genocide. I don't believe that I'm being called in here to defend the indefensible. Those things aren't facts. Donald Trump did not put facts on the table. You say that, you say that, we obviously have the president.

Thank you very much, we appreciate it. That's sister, if you work on Leland Vittert's show, if you are an executive at News Nation, you should be utterly embarrassed by what you witnessed. They had no clue. These people are leaving large amounts of land. No, they're not.

Well, we had them at the airport. Who are they? No facts, no nothing. That's the sheer stupidity of mainstream white media, Avis. Well, I don't believe it's stupidity. I think it is intentional misdirection and redirection. What I find very interesting is that all of this concern about this myth of white genocide and the fact that you have a

president who has basically said, if you are of color, the doors are closed. I don't care what's happening in your country. I don't care if your life is in danger. I don't care if you're facing famine, war-torn situations. You can't come here. But these unknown white folk who benefited from damn near half a century of apartheid get to come here. Sight unseen, proof not necessary, they get to come here. And what I find interesting is during apartheid, this country did not give that open door,

that place of receipt in terms of allowing people to escape real murder, oppression, unlawful imprisonment. They didn't provide that to black South Africans who were being oppressed by the white Afrikaners. And so the fact that you have News Nation doing this, which tries to prop itself up as a journalistic enterprise, tells me that it's nothing more than a propaganda engine, not too far removed from Fox News.

If they didn't at least do their due diligence to determine the basic facts that was brought out in that interview. All it was, Mustafa was like, well, Trump said this here. I mean, that's how that idiot Scott Jennings sounded on CNN when he was like, whoa, farmers are being killed. And Abby Phillip goes, how many?

Well, several. Name killed. And Abby Phillip goes, how many? Well, several. Name them. He couldn't. So they're just sitting here. They're like, well, I don't trust the word of the South African government. We don't trust your lying ass or Trump. Right.

Or the United Nations or our intelligence folks, there are plenty of folks, I'm sure, who have shared with them that there is no white genocide happening in South Africa. Let's say it again so everybody understands there is no genocide happening in South Africa to white folks. And because, you know, so there's two different dynamics that are here. One, either though the president has received terrible information and whoever gave it to him should be fired,

or he intentionally is lying to the American people. I'll let folks decide for themselves which one of those is the dynamic. If he truly wanted to talk about South Africa as Doc was just talking about, you would understand that through the history, whether it's the Sharpeville massacre that went on, black folks were the ones that were being killed there, or the Soweto uprisings, it was black folks that were being killed underneath of the apartheid government that

was going on there. You went to the townships or other locations where there were people who were being killed, or Stephen Biko, who was killed as well. So we can go through a laundry list of massacres that have happened in South Africa underneath of an oppressive regime. So if he truly wanted to talk about the fullness of what has happened there and wanted to actually be someone who helps the healing, then he shouldn't tell things that are untrue

or things that are just straight out lies. So I'll let folks figure out for themselves which one that they feel is going on there. But everybody has a responsibility also, because when somebody insults your intelligence and you continue to allow them to do that day after day after day, then it also says something about the individuals

who continue to receive that information and trust that information, and therefore don't act on the things that actually need to happen. So I appreciate the reporter who made sure that she shared what the truth is. And she actually gave a great example about how you don't let people pull you away from so the anchoring of the facts, because that's what the other individual is trying to continually do. Cameron? Yeah, I applaud her coming to the table with facts,

but I would argue that News Nation, and they throw that word news in their title, given that they have no journalistic standards or even adherence to the truth or facts. News Nation is kind of reveling in this right now because everybody talking about it gets more eyeballs there. They have an agenda. It's very clear.

I won't let people figure it out for themselves. There is no genocide happening in South Africa, and News Nation is peddling these, like I said, these falsehoods or at least these false premises, it feels that. And how he responded and looked to pivot and go back to either the Trump talking points, Elon Musk was there, implying he was in South Africa. No, Elon Musk was in the Oval Office. I think this entire story and this entire falsehood and farce is probably just a byproduct

of Elon Musk, who's a former South African or originally from South Africa, kind of looking and bringing something to Trump's attention that, with all his support, he's been focused on trying to get Trump to rectify there. But it kind of disgusts me with the NewsNation report there, but I applaud that sister and I applaud her for standing on those facts and consistently not letting herself be cut off but allowing to center that conversation in fact. I'm gonna go to a quick break. We come back. Wait till I show y'all how they got owned by a Texas state representative over the Ten

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It's about us being here on Saturday? Is that ironic or what? So what does it mean to keep the Sabbath holy? Well I think it's, you want to get into theology here? I'd love to if you'd like to. I think it's really important that we take a day of rest. I think God who founded the world didn't need rest, and yet he took a day of rest after he did creation,

and I think he was a good example to us to take a day of rest. And that is enshrined in our rules and our Constitution where it says accepting Sunday in our very early documents as a nation. And so part of keeping the Sabbath holy is not working on the Sabbath? That is, yeah. And what is the Ten Commandments come from Judaism?

What day is the Jewish Sabbath? It is on Saturday. And what day is it today? It is Saturday. Here we are. The Christian Sabbath is what day? Sunday in honor of the day that Jesus rose from the dead. And we're scheduled to give this bill a final vote on what day of the week? That's ironic, isn't it? Would you be willing to postpone your bill so that the ten commandments. I would have rather have followed the ten commandments than follow it yourself. I would have rather have had this bill passed on the day of the week.

That's ironic isn' t it? Would you be willing to postpone your bill so we' re not breaking the ten commandments by working on the Jewish or Christian Sabbath? I love that you said that

because if we had not had your point of order the other day we would have actually have had this bill passed the other day when it was time. And you know, that's really sad that we are under such a crunch in time now with the end of session. Our Texas forefathers only gave us 160 days to pass bills and that's where we are in this session. We as a legislature have to force... with the end of session. Our Texas forefathers only gave us 160 days to pass bills, and that's where we are in this session. We as a legislature are about to force. 140, I'm sorry, correction.

Thank you. We as a legislature are about to force every teacher in the state to post the Ten Commandments in their classrooms. If they are donating. Do members of the Texas legislature follow the Ten Commandments? It's not about the bill.

Is that about the bill? Your bill is about the Ten Commandments? Is that about the bill? Your bill is about the Ten Commandments. Yes, it is. I'm asking, do members of this legislature follow the Ten Commandments? So again, this bill is about honoring our historical, educational, and judicial heritage with the displaying of the Ten Commandments. The Ninth Commandment is, is thou shall not bear false witness. Are you aware of any legislators who have lied about anything?

That is, you know, you know, there there might be one coming up in a minute if you keep talking. We'll see. The Seventh Commandment is thou shall not commit adultery. Yes. Seventh commandment is thou shall not commit adultery. Yes. Do you think that members of the legislature should focus more on trying to follow the Ten Commandments rather than telling others to follow them?

Maybe they didn't have them posted. I am. You know, it is incumbent on all of us to follow God's law. And I think that we would be better off if we did. That's a great segue to my next question, which is, do you think our public schools are missing God? Yes. Again, we are talking about historically what our founding fathers believed.

I have a lot of quotes from our founding fathers, if you want me to go there. And I would like to ask you to go to the next slide. what our founding fathers believed. I have a lot of quotes from our founding fathers if you want me to go there. And I would love to do that if you would like me to. Well, you just mentioned God's law. So I was just asking if you think our public schools are missing God's law. In some instances, yeah.

I would not, I think that there's some amazing teachers out there that are showing an awful lot of Christian behavior and love and concern to their students. So I'm not going to paint that broad of a brush like you just did. Do you think that seeing the Ten Commandments in a classroom might make a student feel closer to God? I know a lot of cops, and they get asked all the time, have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes.

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will see the foundation that our forefathers used when they learned to read and write. In the committee hearing for this bill, you said that students should see the Ten Commandments I think that's a good question. I think that's a good question. I think that's a good question. I think that's a good question. I think that's a good question. I think that's a good question. I think that's a good question. I think that's a good question. I think that's a good question.

I think that's a good question. I think that's a good question. I think that's a good question. I think that's a good question. I think not recall that. You said it in response to a question from Representative Bryant in the Public Education Committee. You don't recall that? No, obviously you do though. You know, that was like 4.30 in the morning.

So, we were all pretty sleep deprived. I don't remember in what response that was, if indeed that was a response. I do however believe. The lady's time has expired. Boy I bet she was really happy her time was up. Cameron. It's funny how the right and especially in Texas I've got a lot of experience working in Texas working for the the late, great former Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, how they promulgate being a Christian and Christian values, but

they consistently find as many ways to go against, whether it be the Ten Commandments, the Beatitudes. Look at this bill they just passed this past week, kind of taken from the poor. It never holds up. It never holds up. It's, they like to shape it and twist it and use it when it when it seems convenient. I loved, I loved the questioner and how he stayed calm, how he stayed focused, how he stayed on facts. And it was a pretty embarrassing moment for her. But I always challenge Republicans when they say they're the party that focuses on Christian faith, like has your leader, has any of these leaders been breaking, whether it be the Ten Commandments or any other Christian tenets.. Thank you. Mustafa, I have a question.

What did you take from that? Being around so many different folks on the right and seeing so much of that happen, like I said, she was there defending this legislation, but obviously he was able to call her to task on all the ways she wasn't following those same commitments He won't they won on the walls Yeah, no, I mean first of all, I think you hit it on the head But the other part of it is you know when you start actually unpacking the ten commandments You kind of pull the air out of the room for a whole bunch of these folks. So you talk about

stealing and lying and a number of other things, we see that continually from the top all the way down that you're not living those particular sets of values. Now everybody has the opportunity to grow and evolve, but if you wanna put that forward on folks, then you should actually be living up to that. The other thing too is everybody remembers

the second part of that that talks about false idols and we see how people continue to create these idols every day. But we can move past sort of the theoretical conversation and actually talk about what the First Amendment talks about whether it's no school sponsored prayer or no mandatory religious instructions or also when they're talking about

no religious symbols and endorsements. So if you're talking about putting the 10 commandments up on the wall in a public school, then you're going against what the law has actually said. And there are all kinds of Supreme Court cases. And folks will be like, well, those are just woke cases. You can go all the way back to 1960 with Engel versus Vitale, or you can look at 63 when you had Arlington versus Schimp.

All these cases were actually building law around, you know, no school-sponsored prayer or banning mandatory Bible readings. All these things were making sure that there truly was a separation between church and state. And Dr. Aviswood, your thoughts? Yeah, I mean, I was about to go exactly where Mustafa left off. And where is the separation of church and state here? It is, you know, it makes me think just in practicalities what this would be like. Having the Ten Commandments in a classroom, how does

that feel to the student in that classroom who may be Muslim, who may be Jewish, who may be agnostic, who may be atheist? Believe it or not, this is not a Christian nation. In fact, ironically, to hear the storybooks tell it, it was founded by people who were running away from religious prosecution, as much as they were looking to get away from a king, right? And so to have the Republican Party in its typical hypocritical way,

which they seem to live their lives in every way humanly possible is do what I say, not what I do. This is another example of it where they are once again, sitting here in real time as was brought out through that conversation, working during the Sabbath at a point in which they wanted to say, hey, we want to elevate the 10 commandments that says,

don't work through the Sabbath. And the others, the way that that questioner really teased out the other contradictions around lying, around adultery. I mean, he could have been very petty with that, but you could tell with his allusion to it. In her response to it, she knew that people in that room were guilty

of all the things that he was pointing out. And so once again, it's a banner and hypocrisy, but at the same time, just in terms of practically how it would show up at the lives of those teachers and of the students in those classrooms. It actually and very clearly elevates one religion over the other, which is specifically something that our constitution prohibits.

I think the other point of this showcase is especially in a place like Texas. Oh, I'm sorry. Did we get you, Roba? The Texas. Oh, I'm sorry. Did we get you, Roba? Theocracy. They want a theocracy. That's what they actually want.

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Deshawn Smith, our driver, was traveling back back from essence and this guy was playing a road game swirled in front of our Sprinter it rolled seven times And it was completely totaled the Sean walked out of the Walked out of the front window Praise the Lord that he was not seriously injured. Aches and pains, a few scratches, but that's what happened. So for almost the last three years, man, we have been going back and forth trying to get

a replacement vehicle. We were working with a black-owned company, encountered some major issues. I'm going to tell you about those details. Let's just say some action is being taken right now. So I'm going to let y'all know when that is all finalized. And so we work with another company out of Pennsylvania, LGE Coachworks. And we chose, we did not get a Sprinter this time because we knew what our needs are. They were much larger.

And so this is a Ford F550 vehicle here. It is a 35 foot vehicle. And if you might remember, the Sprinter we had, it actually had a fiberglass trunk. And we were talking with the folks with Mercedes and other engineers, they thought that that weight may have thrown off the weight of the vehicle. So what we did was we wanted everything to be self-contained in this vehicle. So this is a 48 inch trunk space allows us to carry a significant amount of our gear when we are traveling around the country. And so again all all different things that we need,

we're gonna be able to have our gear in here as well. Again, there's a lot of stuff that we care, people don't realize this, but there's a lot of stuff that we're able to do. And so we have this here. And so let me go ahead and close this here. And so then our cabin space is important because you gotta understand in terms of how

we broadcast. So for instance, when we did the we went Tulsa for the 100th anniversary of the race riot, we were broadcasting a march and so we actually had cameras mounted on the outside of the vehicle that was connected to our setup on the inside. That's how we would do that. And so now with some new technology, we're able to do some different stuff with the technology. And so let's go inside so you can understand what now we're able to do. And so we've got now, we've got a couple of cameras on here. I'm gonna be working with another camera.

We're gonna have cameras installed on the outside. So if that accident happens again, we'll be able to record exactly what happened. And so once we then, we're going to go inside the vehicle here again, which allows us to be able to, so we come in, we're going to come in here. And so let's see, go ahead, go that way. I'm going to close this. So I'm having this, I'm going to have, come on. There's a button I'm actually having added, which allows us to be able to close this right here. So let me just close that. It allowed piercing. So

when we're in here, y'all, so I'm going to come back here and we'll turn the lights on. And so just so you can understand, this is a larger vehicle than what we had last time. And so the way we did it this way is that the ability for us to be able to actually do interviews from inside of here and then when we're actually broadcasting, we can do one-on-one interview. We can put our show logo up here in the television as well. We've got a second TV right here. We can actually mount cameras on both sides of me right here.

We can have a camera in front. We have also railing up here and here as well. So obviously when the vehicle is moving, we can actually mount cameras up there as well so you have that particular shot. Then it also gives us, the lighting is also different. So right now you say, let's just kill that light, kill both of these lights.

So no, no, no, no, turn your light off on top of the camera. So kill that light too, turn it off, turn it off completely. So allows us to set the mood. So this is how it looks in here, just natural lighting. And so we killed this light right here then all of a sudden you have this is called overhead lighting that's what this lighting right here is and then we have what is called I'm gonna kill that light called mood lighting so you see how allows us to be able to light all the

lighting down down here then we have what is called the next lighting here. I can kill that one. So now you see how we can now change the lighting in here to suit our needs. Then if we want to have indirect lighting, so that's the lighting basically on the outside right here. Then of course, if we really want to get creative and then we want complete color in here then we're able to change the lighting. So again depending upon what we're shooting, what we're working on, we can change all of the

lighting we have here. And so this is what the vehicle allows us to do. We got Bluetooth here. We can control air conditioning right here. We can control heat right here. We have lots of connections here, HDMI, USB. So what can happen is we can actually sit here and we can actually connect, turn lights back on. We can actually connect different items here, allow us to be able to play some TV as well. And so let's say there's somebody we're interviewing and they've

got a music video, they've got something along those lines, then we have the ability to actually then connect in here and broadcast right there onto the television. This has this picks up obviously, Wi Fi. Remember in Tulsa, when President Biden was speaking, they actually didn't have any camera, didn't have any monitors and audio outside. And so people were actually crowded around our vehicle watching him speak and watching him also present to the public. Obviously, we're on the road. So down here, what you have, you got coolers down here. You got, down here what you have you got coolers down here you got stay right there you got water coolers down

here then of course we've got a refrigerator right here then we've got microwave right here and then listen we're on the road I'm not trying to stop and so that's why what we're able to do is we've got just like, I've got our bathroom right here as well. And so, it allows us again, to keep it moving. A lot of times when we're broadcasting, we're sitting somewhere for four, five, six, sometimes 10 hours. And so it's a whole lot when you're out.

And obviously when that light is on, occupied. So that's right there. So we're able to, again again do everything that we need. Seating in here is about 11 and so we have those two captain's chairs back here and so one of the reasons why I had designed this way, again we operate totally different because we have cargo as well as people and so what happens is when we're traveling,

we don't, let's say we also we load back there. So we have our tents, we've got all kinds of stuff we carry. So we actually place our stuff, this is protecting my cowboy hat. We actually place our stuff inside of the vehicle along the seats and then we're able to hold that stuff down. So we place stuff on the seats, both sides on the floor as well.

So we go heavy with our gear, we'll pack all our stuff in here, we get to our destination, unload all of our stuff, and then now this becomes a passenger vehicle for us to be able to actually broadcast. And so we also, of course, have the ability to communicate, partition up. So we want to sit here for conditions down right now.

We actually want to take it up. Driver up front has privacy. So again, if he's doing something, if we're back here recording something like that, we have the ability to do all of that. And so listen, this is, I can't tell you, let's swing over here, I can't tell you how hugely important this is when we're broadcasting

because a lot of times we're on the road and we're having a hit from city to city. So, massive amount of costs when it comes of costs when it comes to your luggage, when it comes to all of that sort of stuff. And so again, this is just one of the things that we do. And again, we convert this in a different way. In fact, I'm going to sit here. So to the control room, I'm going to sit here and send you

all this video. Because if you want to understand how we do this Again, we think a lot different. We think multi-use With the vehicle we think different ways in which we are to broadcast and so the video to the control room y'all check Y'all check group me videos uploading. So what happens is when we're broadcasting, we can actually set up car table in here. We can actually set up our equipment. We can run our cables through the emergency exit right here. So we actually mount cameras on the outside of this vehicle where we can run cabling along

all of a sudden. So all of a sudden this becomes, in essence, broadcast central. And so what then happens is we can broadcast from inside of here, everything is controlled in here, and then once we're done, then we simply pack it up and then put away, and then now we can travel. And so that's just sort of how we operate. Again, our donors made this possible. They created the opportunity for us to do this here.

A lot of people were really upset when our vehicle got totaled. I really wish we could have caught the person who did it. But again, and yeah, let me explain to you, this has paid off. We're not leasing this, we're not financing this. And I'm very upfront with our audience. This is $276,000.

We needed a much larger vehicle than the Sprinter. We wanted absolute safety, so you got the seat belt, you got all of that. And so all of that stuff is in here, has a great sound system in here. But again, everything that we need when we hit the road, this allows for us to be able to do. And so it's pretty cool.

It looks great. Got that new car smell. But again, this is really going to give us the opportunity when we travel. Because look, we got some stuff coming up. We're going to be traveling different cities, broadcasting in Virginia. We've got some shows in Atlanta. And so this really, really puts us in a position to really do some great things. And nobody else in black media is rolling like this here.

The ability for us to be able to broadcast remotely, for us to be able to broadcast full-scale shows, but also from here is flat out incredible. Y'all might remember when we did the voting rights march, when we did the voting rights march with Reverend Barber in Austin, one of the things that we did when we were broadcasted, I'm going to drop this link in here so y'all can actually see, again, how we think and how we approach this. My man, Mark Thompson, was working with us. And y'all go ahead and roll that video. So the video you're seeing right now, Henry was live switching. Anthony was on a remote camera, like where they were giving speeches. I was flying the drone. And so pull the audio up as I'm explaining how we get that broadcast. Play it.

You see we got that television monitor that's back there. We got a television monitor that's up here. And then we're able to have our multi view shot. I got it. I back there. We got a television monitor that's up here. And then we're able to have our multi-view shot. I got it, I got it. We got a multi-view shot right here. And so he was able to see up to eight cameras. So when we were live streaming the march, we had the cameras on the back, we had the drone, and we had Anthony's camera all going through.

Henry was able to switch right here the entire time, monitoring the audio feeds and going back. So you see right there, we just lost our feed right there. So I'll be right back folks. So again, that's that video. If y'all are the link I just dropped y'all if y'all pull that up, you'll see when we were in Austin, I was actually the state capital Mark Thompson was in the vehicle. That vehicle was set up differently, but we actually had a camera that was here. Mark was sitting in the seat.

He was actually broadcasting, and we were live switching from me and the state capitol, and he was in the processional, and we had the camera on the back showing that processional. And so y'all pull that link up, y'all actually see that. And so again, it's just, we try to be way more creative. We try to maximize our use for the things that we're working on. And that's why we do this here. And so it's a lot different than what other folks are doing. And I'm going to my pal now. This is also why we fight hard

for black owned media dollars. You know, Cameron, it was a whole bunch of these old simple Simons we're talking about. Man, you got $350,000 in average, from the Kamala Harris campaign. Yeah, white media also gets advertising dollars. Here's the reality. If we don't get advertising dollars from political campaigns, if we don't get it from major companies,

then we can't do this. When I say the cost is real, the insurance on this vehicle alone is $20,000 a year. It costs $276,000. So people need to understand, we ain't running around here on iPhones and bicycles trying to do broadcasts. We are trying to give our people top notch. Cameron? I applaud you, Roland.

I applaud you. You know I know what it costs. And for you to be able to be able to be mobile, because so many people want you and look to the Black Star Network, look to Roland Martin, to cover their various different events that happened in the culture,

you gotta be mobile, you gotta move your team around. So I applaud you, my brother, to be able to see that. I can't wait to knock on the van. And now that I know you're mobile, when I'm pitching some of my clients, now, I don't need any more excuses about getting some of my interviews. They can hop right in one of those captain chairs. hop right in one of those captain chairs. Yeah, I mean, that's and again, that's really, Avis, what the thought process is, even we're in DC, I remember when I did

MSNBC, they sent a van to my house, I stepped into the van, I did Lawrence O'Donnell show and then when I was done, I stepped back out, went to my crib. Well, the reality is, if something happening, and let's say we don't, let's say we're not able to be able to just, because it takes us about four hours to set up our remote broadcast. It's our back, our chairs and our equipment and everything. Well, we can actually equip this here. We've got a portable live, which is actually in the briefcase. We got cameras mounted. We could send this to places in DC, other places, and literally do interviews or do

full scale shows from just inside of here, run guests in and out right there on the ground. So we're broadcasting somewhere and it's raining like it's been raining all day. Hey, guess what? We're now not screwed. all day, hey, guess what? We're now not screwed. That's exactly what we need. We need to be able to have our news covered by organizations that we trust, by individuals that we know will tell us the truth, and we need to be able to be wherever those

things that we care about is happening. And so I'm excited to see that you've been able to replace, not just replace what you had, you've been able to upgrade yourself, right? To something even bigger, even more agile, to be able to meet the needs that you have now and the needs that you're gonna have in the future. And that's something that's gonna benefit,

not only you, it's gonna benefit the entire community, all of the viewers that rely on your truth telling as they seek to get their information that impact their lives. A lot of people were obviously shocked when our sprinter got totaled, Mustafa, and folks were contributing and listen, you know, this show is not possible without 35,000 individual donors and the money we generate from YouTube and views and things along those lines. But this really is about putting us in a position to do more. And we covered that when the brother was killed in Lisbon City, New York, Lisbon City, North Carolina. Guess

what? All of you don't realize, you know, CNN was there, MSNBC, all the networks are there. So were we. We were broadcasting from there. We actually were in our Sprinter. We were covering all those different, we were covering, I remember that was a March, Bishop Barber, Reverend Jackson, we broadcast that. You can't do that if you don't have power. You can't do that if you don't have a central location. And so this absolutely expands our capability of being able to broadcast.

You know, my auntie, she has this quote. She says, show up where you are needed, when you are needed, that's purpose unfolding. So, you know, through those donations that people have made, you know, it has been the unfolding of being able to, you know, make these investments. And then these investments are for our people, they're for our communities, they're to make And then these investments are for our people. They're for our communities. They're to make sure that our stories are being told.

So, you know, but it also takes vision. And, you know, you had a vision of being able to get something that would provide the opportunity for you to be in places that I've seen you in in North Carolina or showing up in all these other states when others often, you know, bypass them or think that the stories that are happening in our communities, whether it's the stories of impact or as equally important, the stories of opportunity and how we're changing the game in many instances are being told. So now you have that ability to make sure that those types of things are happening

in real time. So congratulations to you, but also congratulations to everybody who continues to invest into the Black Star Network because you're investing in culture, you're investing in our people, and you're investing in our future. So again, so one of the reasons why I am so transparent with what we do with our dollars is because people need to actually see what's real. Listen, what's on Terrell's back is a live view unit, LU 800. That is a top of the live, live streaming unit. Every network, every local station, they have that same one. There's not one better.

If it is, we would have have it we own two of those Those are twenty thousand dollars each plus you're paying a monthly fee for For the the wireless coverage to be able to be able to broadcast and so when you talk about our studio We're doing right now $40,000 IT upgrade in our studio. We're doing a $70,000 IT upgrade in our studio. We're doing a $70,000 lighting upgrade in our studio as well. We just signed a new eight-year lease where we're located. And guess what? That rent's going up $7,000 per month.

And so expenses are real. But I say this because when people contribute, when people are sending $ dollar, $5, $10, $25, $50, I've had some people send $100 every single month since we launched. We had a woman in January who sent us $10, $1,000 money orders. The smallest donation we've gotten is a dollar. The largest donation we've gotten is $30,000. We don't have millionaires and billionaires cutting us checks. And so when y'all hear me talk about Black- on media and what it is needed for us to be able to

Compete in the marketplace for us to be able to cover events When people always say man, I wish we had a black CNN or I wish we had black on media other New York Times Well, actually that takes money So we're knocking down these barriers with urban edge Network and targeting these ad agencies like Group M and Publicis and Horizon and WPP and Omnicom and OMD and all these people. We're doing that because this cannot happen. We should have five of these. We want to be able to have crews all over the country centrally located to cover different things. That is what is required. Unfortunately, we're not seeing that and we're begging somebody else to cover our story. I don't

want us to be in that position. Listen, there's an office located that has been empty right next door to me. Okay, I would love to be able to hire eight writers and put them in that office in two editors. Okay, I would love to be able to hire eight writers and put them in that office and two editors. Okay? But that's going to be another two and a half, three million dollars a year to pay for all of that staff. And so when y'all see us call these companies out and these ad agencies out, this is why, this right here is why we're doing it. Because you can't spend $300,000 on something like this here and then still be operating every I know a lot of cops, and they get asked all the time, have you ever been to a cop station? They're already live. We're going to send y'all to them over there. But I wanted to show y'all the next. I know a lot of cops, and they get asked all the time,

have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes. But there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no. Across the country, cops call this Taser the revolution. But not everyone was convinced it was that simple. No. Across the country, cops called this Taser the revolution. But not everyone was convinced it was that simple. Cops believed everything that Taser told them.

From Lava for Good and the team that brought you Bone Valley comes a story about what happened when a multi-billion dollar company dedicated itself to one visionary mission. This is Absolute Season 1, Taser Incorporated. I get right back there and it's bad. It's really, really, really bad. Listen to new episodes of Absolute Season 1, Taser Incorporated, on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Binge episodes one, two, and three on May 21st, and episodes four, five, and six on June 4th. Add free at Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. I'm Clayton English.

I'm Greg Glod. And this is season two of the We're on Drugs podcast. We are back. In a big way. In a very big way. Real people, real perspectives. This is kind of star-studded a little bit, man. We got Ricky Williams, NFL player, Heisman Trophy winner.

It's just a compassionate choice to allow players all reasonable means to care for themselves. Music stars Marcus King, John Osborne from Brothers Osborne. We have this misunderstanding of what this quote unquote drug band. Benny the Butcher. Brent Smith from Shinedown. Be Real from Cypress Hill. NHL Enforcer Riley Cote. Marine Corvette. MMA fighter Liz Caramouche. What we're doing now isn't working and we need to change things.

Stories matter and it brings a face to them. It makes it real. It really does. It makes it real. Listen to new episodes of the War on Drugs podcast season two. On the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts are wherever you get your podcasts. And to hear episodes one week early and ad free with exclusive content, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcast. We asked parents who adopted teens to share their journey. We just kind of knew from the beginning that we were family. They showcased a sense of love that I never had before.

I mean, he's not only my parent, like he's like my best friend. At the end of the day, it's all been worth it. I wouldn't change a thing about our lives. Learn about adopting a teen from foster care. Visit adoptUSkids.org to learn more. Brought to you by AdoptUSKids, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the Ad Council. The next phase of the Black Star Network and what we're doing, we shot a business pilot show a couple of weeks ago. We're looking at a health show. So we're really looking to expand. So by our seventh anniversary of September 4th, 2018, we don't want to look

anything how we look when we actually started. And so we appreciate every single one of y'all who gave money to make us personally this vehicle possible. We absolutely appreciate it. Let me thank Cameron. Let me thank Avis. Let me thank Mustafa. I appreciate y'all Don't forget if you are not a don't to the black star network If you don't support this show then then when you say well, well, why don't we have this and have that well because you know Support listen you get magazine subscriptions. You got Netflix subscription. You got Apple music subscriptions You can't Spotify every single month, you're paying for cable, this stuff is not free.

I'm specifically telling y'all what this stuff costs for a reason because you need to be aware. Staff is not free. Okay? Equipment not free. Light not free. Our fiber in our office costs us almost $2,500 a month. That ain't no regular WiFi, y'all.

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Sending you all over to True Talks. It's airing right now on the Black Star Network. I'll see y'all tomorrow. Holla! Oh, no punches! There's a real revolution there right now.. and something like CNN. You can't be black on media and be scared. It's time to be smart. Bring your eyeballs home, ya dig? I know a lot of cops and they get asked all the time, have you ever had to shoot your gun?

Sometimes the answer is yes. But there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no. This is Absolute Season One, Taser Incorporated. I get right back there and it's bad. Listen to Absolute Season One, Taser Incorporated on the iHeart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Clayton English. I'm Greg Glott. And this is Season Two of the World on Drugs podcast. Last year, a lot of the problems of the drug war this year, a lot of the biggest names in music and sports.

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