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Happy New Year! In this episode, we discuss Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy and Representative George Santos's trajectory into their positions, details in Prince Harry's new book Spare, the devastations occurring in California, Two Black women helping rescue kidnapped Twin babies, Rapper Fredo Bang assisting a couple in conceiving a child, Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, and Saudi Arabia bending marriage laws for Christiano Ronaldo.
In the Financial Corner segment, Aldwin discusses the necessary steps to create a business plan.
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Disclaimer: The opinion and views expressed on our podcast do not reflect the official stance of the Student National Medical Association.
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AMEC 2023 Overview
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The views expressed on this podcast represent only those of the hosts and do not represent the views of the Student National Medical Association. The annual medical education conference 2023 will be held in person in Hartford, Connecticut at the Connecticut Convention Center from April 5th to April 9th, 2023. AMEC gives attendees several days of innovative programming geared at preparing the next generation of physicians for successful careers in medicine.
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With tons of educational workshops and programs focused on academic and clinical success, professional development, and personal growth, AMEC is a premier experience that catapults attendees toward becoming clinically excellent, culturally competent, and socially conscious physicians. Have you purchased your AMEC tickets yet? If not, we have a surprise for you. SMA Presents the Lounge will be giving away one ticket to one special person. The giveaway is open from January 20th and closes January 27th, 2023.
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What's up, everyone? Happy New Year, and welcome to SNMA Presents the Lounge. Whether you're in the student lounge, doctor's lounge, or just lounging around at home, get ready to join SNMA for meaningful conversations on topics affecting minorities in medicine and groups that often sit at the margins of health care.
New Year's Resolutions of Physicians
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I'm Dr. Aldrin.
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And our question today is, what is one thing you've checked in and checked out for the new year? For myself, I've checked in to self-preservation, protecting my mental health, being diligent, and doing my due diligence to continue to walk in my confidence.
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And I think that this year is going to be one where I'll be battle tested. And I'm ready to be God's strongest warrior this year, like I was last year too. That's okay. Put the burden on me. And I think it's a great time to be alive, to be breathing, to live in my truth. And I'm going to continue doing that. And what I checked out for the new year, man,
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No more running the tabs up. When you're going out with the shorties, you're not running the tabs on this true drink maximum, bro. Last year, I spent way too much bread. I was looking over my financials. I spent way too much bread going out. So I checked out, and now deliberately going to tell you, hey, here's what it is. If you feel type of way, it is what it is. It's a $50 max on the first date. Say what you want. We go to Cafe. We go to Central Park.
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You know what I mean? Hey, I'm struggling out here. I ain't gonna lie. I'm a doctor, but I still gotta make moves for my future. You know what I mean? A lot of people, they not necessarily invested in your future. They invested in taking, but never giving. So not saying all women do that, but I'm just being real. That's what I really checked out. But how about y'all, though? Erica, let us know. What's up?
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What's up everybody again? This is student Dr. Erica Dingle and one thing that I've checked in is becoming more active and pretty much caring about my overall like health. I need to be more active so that is something I'm actively pursuing this year and one thing that I have checked out is
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being overly stressed by situations I cannot control. We hear all the time to control the controllables and the things that you know you really have control over but I don't think we practice that as
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intentionally as we can, but I am making it my business to continue to mind my business, mind the business that pays me, and really to not stress over things I can't control. It's just not worth it. Life is entirely too short.
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Love that. Hey everyone, I'm student Dr. Isabella. Happy New Year once again to our listeners. One thing I have checked in this year. So I have checked in living more intentionally in my overall life. I think
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like with medical school than more recently, thank God, finishing my clerkship year. But before kind of feeling like all of my time, thank you. All of my time wasn't my own and like kind of, you know, making excuses as to why I can't do this or go this place or, you know, do this thing that makes me happy. I think now I'm going to be living like life more intentionally in terms of doing things that make me happy, even if it doesn't necessarily align with like my overall, you know, schedule, just kind of doing it
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without fear. So definitely checking that in for the new year. In terms of what I'm checking out, what am I checking out? I think I'm checking out allowing
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I think wasting time on things that won't matter in the future. So in terms of like wasting time on men who aren't going to do anything for me, like I feel like I was like, you know, going on dates with pointless men who I knew that this is not going to lead to anything or this is not going to like feed my soul in any way or lead to anything that aligns with my goals. It's almost kind of reflective of my
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Oh No, I was whispering them. Oh my gosh, okay Okay, so now that our listeners know that you're self-sabotaged me on this podcast
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Anyway, to just make a long story short, it's like just not wasting time on things that aren't going to eventually to my happiness. It's kind of tied into the checking in part, which is like living intentionally. I'm checking out not living intentionally. Like there are two in the same coin, basically. So yeah, that's it. Good.
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Well, you know, thank you guys for letting the family know and that SMA audience know what's up, how we checked in and checked out. And I hope y'all are checking into your goals and checking out what you don't need in your life. So make sure you sit down, write it down, know your goals, know where you're going. But you know what time it is? It's time to render this.
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for our preclinical students. Running the patient list on awards allows the team to address pressing matters of the day. In this segment of the show, we'll be discussing some recent events in medicine and beyond affecting our communities and the populations we serve.
US Political Climate Discussion
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So our first topic, first topic today is on Mr. Kevin McCarthy. And I'll be honest, I didn't know who this cat was before this last week. And we know what it is with Congress and everything going on. There's a lot of old heads and there's a lot of changes in the political infrastructure. But crazy enough, there's been 15 rounds of voting on Kevin McCarthy. And the last time that they had to be in this position was, I believe in the 1920s and 1930s. So it's been almost 100 years.
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that they had to go through multiple rounds to vote for the Speaker of the House. The 118th Congress convened on Tuesday to vote, but as we mentioned, things didn't go as was planned. They actually took 15 roll call votes, days of negotiations, and several late night pizza deliveries, which is taxpayer money, by the way. I bet. So I'm going to have to talk about that or whatever. Right. Before he was eventually elected,
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Now, why is this a big deal? Until Speaker of the House is elected, new members of Congress can't be officially sworn in and committees couldn't be formed. Speaker of the House is the third most powerful position in the presidential line of succession.
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And as many as 20 far-right Republicans, including Representative Matt Guyatson, Lauren Boebert, who could only afford to lose four votes given the slim majority of the GOP had over the House Democrats, the Democrats were all lockstep behind the man, the guy, the leader, Hakeem. I thought, who would've thought we would've had a Hakeem in Senate and Congress. That's true. Listen.
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You know what I mean? But how y'all feel about this, by the way? I'll let y'all take this over. Like, what y'all think about what's going on in the political infrastructure?
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I mean, the Republicans are going Republican, like at the end of the day, right? Yeah. I think we were all watching and just not surprised, but not shocked. I think that's just the state of American politics in today's age. Like we've seen it for the last however many years before, you know, pre Biden during Trump, post Trump, we've just all been
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in awe, but again, not really shocked by the buffoonery that takes place in our US government. And you mentioned it all when this was such a big deal, excuse me, because they could not swear in new members of Congress until this person
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you know, whoever was going to be was elected. Right. And it's just, you know, it makes you wonder, like, again, these are our government officials, our elected officials, not our, because I don't think anyone on the podcast is. I don't think any of my co-hosts are, you know, voting for any Republicans in office. But it just goes to show like the households
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you know, it's very, very enthralled and intertwined with everything else that needs to occur in the United States. So to hold up government
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because this man couldn't get votes, like days of negotiations. Right. Not a day. It's a days. So. Disgusting. America go America. What can I say? I mean, it's just kind of ironic that we literally have Biden, a whole Democrat in the office, and somehow we brought back a man who like, floridly always supported Trump and everything that he kind of stood for. So I'm just like, like them wiggling themselves back into the political space isn't surprising to me. I mean,
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They always have had this desperate energy about themselves anyway, but I just think that it's just kind of making sure that we don't let whatever their overall objectives or goals are with having him in office kind of.
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take away all of the work we've done thus far, having the Biden and Kamala Harris administration in power. So let's just kind of see how everything plays out because it's at this point, it's a waiting game. This is how I see it. Oh, go ahead, go ahead.
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Now, as I say, you know, like, it's so disgusting to me that they're taking days to end all of this political landscape and all that. But we got people actually in the streets. We got mothers who can't afford diapers and formula right now. We got people that's trying to get jobs and out and they themselves, they good. Their family is good. They family is fed. But we got people out here that's really struggling to survive. And you're worried about, oh, we don't like this guy. So
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But one week, when we talk about one week in the landscape, y'all doing a job for the people. It's not for yourself. I think that too many egos are involved in that infrastructure that affects so many of us, the people that we can't even get there to get enough representation. So it just annoys me that they're never mindful of the people, but rather their own egos and what they want to accomplish and what they want to befit for whatever the party is doing.
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It's like, I'm honestly not surprised, you know? And like Erica said, America's going America. And we got to continue living through this thing, what we call every daily struggle in America. And that's why I don't necessarily rock with it. You know what I mean?
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Did you guys see it's a there was an image of like in they were like about to fight on the house floor between a Gates and a McCarthy supporter in it. It's like, oh, get the box of gloves. This is how we're behaving. Yeah, I suppose.
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It was low-key reminiscent of, I don't know if y'all ever watched the series, House of Cards, but it was giving. I did not. With Kevin Spacey. Yeah, he was dropped. I actually just saw it on Netflix that like saw it like go through my feet on Netflix. And I like, God, this looks like a good show. Like you guys recommend it? I'm sorry. This is an aside, but I just binged it over the last like month or so. Really? A lot of twists. Oh, wow. But it kind of gives you insight into the inner workings of the government. Right.
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There's just so much craziness that occurs behind the scene. And then even bigger than this, I mean, we remember Forma speaking Nancy Pelosi, and now we can kind of compare and contrast the optics from Nancy Pelosi's time. Elegance class. Yeah. Elegance class. And I almost feel like more respect even from her peers.
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colleagues in those spaces and it makes me kind of question like exactly what will this pretend for our new Congress? Like how exactly, having a leader that people did not support, 15 rounds of voting, now they have to actually trust what this man decides and goes along with, like how exactly will this affect issues that are withstanding within the government?
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Lots of questions that are at hand, but hopefully they can get it together. We'll see. In addition to that, we have another first time congressman, George Santos, who's out here telling nothing but lies in deceit regarding his past. So Speaker, excuse me.
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Speaker Kevin McCarthy needed all the votes he could get from House Republicans and this, which is probably why he has had very little to say about first term Congressman George Santos. So he's a Republican from New York and Santos has been getting flamed in the media since he was exposed for lying about most, if not his entire resume. So a list of the lies, right? He said that he's attended Horace Mann High School. That was determined that it
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Wait, is that, sorry to cut you a horseman in Arkansas? No, it's in the Bronx. It's a private school in the Bronx. Did he pretend to be a civil rights activist? Okay, keep going.
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Okay. Then that he graduated from Baruch, which is also here in New York in 2010 with a degree in economics and finance. With a 3.89 GPA, which was cap. Oh, he talked about the GPA too? He never attended there.
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Additionally, that he worked with Goldman Sachs in Citigroup on Wall Street. Wow. And that he earned an MBA from NYU. So this man is sitting in these hearings, not hearings, but well, are they hearings, whatever. He's in these meetings as if, you know, nothing ever happened and like he belongs. Um,
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I just want to say, if this was a black person, would he have even been a person anymore? You're not going to even smell the first step into the actual Capitol building.
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Like it's crazy how someone literally like he fabricated a whole story about himself and somehow no one did any kind of background check Nothing on this guy. They just believed it because what he was even what is he white or? Are you kidding me
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Most consequentially though, in terms of campaign finance laws, there are questions of where his campaign funds came from, because he reports loaning his campaign $700,000, but really hasn't given a clear answer as to where the money came from.
Royal Family Revelations
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And he's also had donations to his campaign from certain groups of entities that are not registered to be the SEC, the Securities and Exchange Commission. So, y'all. America call America?
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this is a type of buffoonery. Like how do you expect to trust the political system when you got any and anybody that's going getting up to that stage? How do I expect to trust someone to represent my values and thoughts? Right. When you lie and if you could lie about that, then what else can you do? Right.
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If you can't even prove to me that you're trustful enough to let them know, like, all right, this is what my loan, whatever that happens in that degree, then how can I have the expectation that you're going to put on for what I need you to put on for? And if you're doing you're doing a Bronx down bad, bro, like you didn't go to Horace, man, high school, like you lying about your GPA. Like, I'm just wondering, like, like, like, Erica, like you said, like, how do you even get to that position? Like, there's so much work that has to be done. Like these schools aren't checking for a person at that level. You know what I mean?
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Money talks. Yeah. But the way it seems, it all seems like he got bread. I mean, maybe he got bread from other people though. Yeah. Well, that's what I'm saying. Like if these entities are not registered with the SEC, and I mean, this isn't a side, but Bernie Madoff, there's something out of it. I know this has nothing to do with this, but the point I'm trying to prove is this man went
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uh, undisclosed twice with issues, uh, not having the SEC clear finances and the Bernie Madoff, right? Like there was a big scandal with that a few years back. Yeah. So like the SEC is not SEC-ing. Exactly. And the gag is, the gag is that this man, I was reading the CNN article, this man is saying he still plans to represent
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himself in Congress, buddy, what we we have to do is step down, bro. I will say this because being from New York and I'm Nassau County adjacent, they are they will rise up when they need to. And they are calling for him to resign. I know he's saying that he's not, but they will continue to like raise hell if you will. Yeah. Yeah. Wow.
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He was sworn in eventually, right? And during the time of the swearing in, he was allegedly seen giving the white power symbol. What is that? What does that look like? They do this little joint like on the bottom right here, like it's like a little case on.
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Yeah, like one hand is kind of towards the bottom. I'm not sure which side with like, like all been said, an okay looking sign, numbers, number of people have come on social media. Yeah, it's a random gesture to do while you're talking basically, like it doesn't make sense. Okay, son, like you got a delivery thing to do that when I'm talking to publicly speaking, like I
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My hands might be open like you know I'm saying and moving right But the fact that you actually like did the actual signature like a gang it's equivalent to a gang sign essentially I'm not gonna be popping West Coast like this while I'm talking about Like biochem or something like that Right
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It's great. That's crazy. So on the one hand, we have this man full of lies. And on the other hand, we have someone out here who's just spilling the truth. I mean, y'all saw Prince Harry in that book that just came out spare. That is that is just
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a work of the details. Listen, I'm not reading that book, bro. Like, I'm calling him Harry. He ain't no prince. I don't celebrate nobody, nobody, nobody to me or anybody in this world. I don't know why all the tabloids and media call him Prince. Yo, this man is Harry.
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Bro, he ain't doing nothing different. I don't give a damn about his story. I'm not reading a book. No. Like, I don't really care. No, I'm just saying, like, it's like so much, like, they give him so much. It's like, yo, you live a luxurious life. It's not going to contribute anything to my life to learn about the fact that your family took trillions of dollars from the Caribbean, from Africa.
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And you have a whole museum filled with items that were stole from India, Africa, the Caribbean. And they have yet to apologize for that. So the fact that, of course, you don't have control of that. It's a side. But the fact that we just get him so much is like getting me tight because it's like, what is he truly accomplishing with this book? You know what I'm saying? Like, what is it truly? What is the value of it for other people?
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I didn't realize I was opening this can of worms. You're very, very proud. You know, I'll say this right for our listeners, for my co-host, everybody, for the makings of this podcast, we will refer to him as Prince Harry because that is the title that he goes by in his public persona. Whether you see him as a prince or you see him as whatever regular, you know, we'll call him Prince Harry for the purpose of this podcast. You bow down to the white man's colonialism. This is not what's happening today.
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All right, so Everyone be sorry. I'm just gonna take the accountability for my co-host right now I didn't realize this is such a sensitive topic for him. But in terms of the book spare I
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It has, you know, become a very fast-selling nonfiction book. It sold already 1.43 million copies on its first day in both the UK, US, and Canada. And he actually details that his previous drafts of the book were two times as long than the actual final version that came out, which is 400 pages. And then he had to actually take out a lot of details because he knew his family was just never going to forgive him after it came out. So basically,
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You know, I haven't gotten to actually read the book in its entirety. I did watch the documentary. I think we talked about the documentary in the last episode, right? About the Prince Harry and whatever. What's her name? Megan?
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Meghan Markle and their document on Netflix. So I watched that in totality. He didn't really mention the book I think in that. But in this in this book that's now came out, this is actually supposed to really give more details about his own personal life things he's encountered as what he what the book is called spare and
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The funny thing is that the title spare actually defines what he's really been known as his whole life, which is a spare to the throne, right? He's not the first heir because he's not the first born. It's his brother, William is the first born. So he's always been identified as the spare child. And I can only imagine what it must feel like to know that your entire existence is just, oh, in case something happens to my older brother,
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I'm gonna matter, but for now, I'm just existing as a regular degler, a kid who just is going to be groomed in the case that I have to become a king or something like that. So that's the reason behind the title, but then on top of that, in the book itself, he kind of goes through all of these things that have happened throughout his life growing up, as his identity as the spare child, as well as into his marriage with Meghan Markle, and then how that caused a lot of riffs in his family, basically.
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So one particular instance that happened which is he talked about how his brother Prince William physically attacked him in a dispute in 2019 and that the once close brothers persuaded their father not to marry to the queen consort Camilla. The 30 year old former soldier Harry also revealed that he killed 25 Taliban during his time in Afghanistan, prompting outrage from military personnel and the Taliban. He even wrote about losing his virginity at 17 to an older woman in a field behind the pub. Like this book,
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details, some details we probably care to know about, some we probably don't really want to know about on all these accounts. He doesn't want to know anything. But at the end of the day, the book is out. And I think that for people who actually follow the royal family and actually care about what they do, I mean, at least we know that in the UK, their existence means everything. It's a part of their heritage and all that stuff outside of the UK.
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You know, there are some countries who actually still very much care about the royal family and what they do. The U.S. probably less so because a lot of Caribbean countries teach about them exclusively in their textbooks and exactly exactly. And I want to say I wasn't trying to get at you as a Bella. I was just OK. I was in a moment and he had a moment so publicly want to say that.
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But in regards to, you know, I mean, I don't got to go into any more detail than I need to say. I mean, I do I do believe people, everybody needs to express their own experiences. And of course, it's going to inspire encourage other people within the UK. There are people that are highly likely to listen to that. I even saw that he had talked about his private parts 14, 15 times in the book. So with that being said,
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Um, this is not a decoration against Harry as individuals, decoration against the empire that they represented, you know what I mean? And his mother Diana did some wonderful things and I feel like everything she's done has
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should be is has not been reflected in what the Empire should be doing. Right. But anyway, regardless of that, I'm happy he got a book. You know, if you're going copy copy, I'm not I'm not antagonizing anybody that wants to get the book. I'm just saying for myself that I'm not going to buy that book and.
00:27:05
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whoever wants to learn from that, his experiences, do what you got to do. And overall, I think that in the larger landscape of things, when we talk about the book and what it means to others, I think that for me as a person of color, it's denigrating, it is
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not responsible. It is taking away from our experiences. And that's my personal opinion. Harry, do you think? And I'm sad that he in the book, like you mentioned, was called Spare. And he also talks about also that one of his nieces or nephews, they're going to be a spare as well with William, his older brother. You know what I mean? So going through that, I can imagine there's some mental health, there's trauma behind that feeling like you're
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you belong, but then you don't belong at the same time. So I could see the perspective of sharing that. And also he said that he didn't share all the details that went on between him, his father and his brother. And I'm sure they had like very exclusive arguments and disagreements and who knows what else, maybe abuse, who knows. I don't know what goes on in that palace at the end of the day. So
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I'm happy. He's able to share his story. But at the same time, I respect that, you know, I'm pro-black and I respect that I got a rep for my ancestors. And what he got going on is not necessarily reflective of what we need to be doing for our own society as a black community and black culture.
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Yeah, I think it's just entertainment at the end of the day. From speaking, I'm Black, so I can speak, I think, from other Black experiences. I just feel like entertainment, whether you feel suppressed or oppressed, entertainment is always going to peak. Right.
00:28:52
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In addition to it being something for entertainment purposes, to your point earlier about the life that he's lived and the trauma he's probably endured, this might be a cathartic moment for him. Just given everything that he's experienced over the last
00:29:09
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However many years it's been since him and Meghan Markle have been together, I think everybody reaches a tipping point at times where it's like, yo, enough is enough. I'm going to live in my truth. And from what I've read, I read not the book. I think I do want to read it, just entertainment purposes. But the New York Times article kind of detailed
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the book, the authors saying, you know, the book is all over the place. It's emotional, like emotionally and physically. And just, yeah, I think it really gives
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Prince Harry an opportunity for people who have probably judged him for the duration of his life and inside look, you know, maybe sparing others and maybe not sparing others that have caused him the trauma that he did deal with.
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And I, you know, like we're in a day where people really want to be able to express themselves and discuss their, you know, the lives that they've lived. It's a royal family, but are they going to make him sound like they should have made them sign an NDA exactly if they didn't want all of this out. And yeah, they sweat. They sweat. Oh, for sure. You know, and they write to your point earlier about the injustices that they've caused so many people.
00:30:33
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like maybe this is you know you reap what you sow like it is what it is and they've caused this man a lot of turmoil personal pain yeah over the last four years so i stand with prince harry speak your truth it may not be mine but i i can empathize with wanting to
00:30:53
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Yeah, have a moment in life where you say enough is enough. Here's what it is. Stop trying to front is if this wasn't the life that you dealt me. Right? Let him let him live. So I support it. 100% chips are gonna fall where they gonna fall. Facts.
00:31:15
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And with keeping in the same, I guess, vein of turmoil, unfortunately, our beloved California has been experienced in the same turmoil.
Environmental Challenges and Climate Change
00:31:28
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Unprecedented, right? And California's had times of drought. Now they're seeing severe, like severe heavy rainfalls and storms that have plagued the Golden State for what, the past two weeks.
00:31:45
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First, bringing relief to a state that has experienced, like I mentioned, record droughts for the past several years, but the destruction that's being experienced right now, it's claimed the lives of at least 18 people. Sacramento County specifically has been one of the hardest hit. At least five people have died there, the highest toll anywhere in the state.
00:32:09
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It's so sad, three who died in their cars on a flooded highway, two unhoused people in the capital city by falling trees, and nearly 26 million California residents were under a flood watch late Saturday morning. I'm not sure which Saturday, I'm assuming one of the weeks that this was occurring, according to Andrew Orson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in College Park, Maryland.
00:32:38
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You know, we're really sending you guys all the positive vibes, you know, SNMA is filled with members from all over the United States. So I mean, and there are medical schools in California, maybe not necessarily Sacramento County, but, you know,
00:32:53
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We want you to know we're thinking of you and praying for you if you've been affected, if your family members have been affected. But again, the concerns that I feel like should be on the table of our political leaders, global warming, environmental hazards, here, right in our faces in the beginning of the year.
00:33:16
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Do you guys have any? It's a weird, not a weird question. I feel like we're from the East Coast, but I have some environmental concerns, obviously, as the weather over here even has been so nice lately.
00:33:31
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And it concerns me because, you know, tornadoes, they come when it's like that, that really nice weather and then all of a sudden you feel the cold coming in. And they've been tornadoes recently in Selma, Alabama. So Georgia too. South Georgia, people dying. Griffin, Georgia. Yeah.
00:33:49
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i'm personally scared out tornadoes of touchdown in new york before two like new jersey super king sandy i'll never forget it man i didn't have power i was cold for days i think i was sick during that time too in the hospital didn't even have
00:34:06
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I felt like I was living, it was so insane. I never saw America in that, like I never thought that America could be a place where that could happen, which is a little bit ignorant on my part to say, but like I was young back then. So it was like, you never think that something like that will happen to you when everything in your life thus far, you always had power, you always had, you know, water that was running warm, like, and it's crazy for some people, this is a everyday thing for them. You know what I'm trying to say? Like, it's,
00:34:32
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You really have to be grateful for little things like just having a roof over your head, heat working. Like those things are not something we should be taking for granted because it's not necessarily a guaranteed thing for other people across the world. So, you know, definitely definitely sending prayers and thoughts to California through this time. I got to pay my light bill. But, you know, for real, like. Oh, and it makes so much of his work.
00:35:00
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But you know, yeah, my condolences to everyone experiences. And I think, yeah, climate change is such a huge topic that we just don't look at. You know, we are burning all these gases and we look at even in New York City, pollution rates are so significantly high that you have certain areas like in the Bronx, the cross Bronx.
00:35:18
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was once it was instituted in the Bronx, it increased the race of asthma and a lot of respiratory issues for a lot of children. And you look at things like when we talk about changes in the climate, it also affects your mental health too, because there's things like seasonal affective disorder. When you're used to having hot climate and then the joint just gets completely cold or it starts raining all the time, people's mental health, there's actually a field called climate psychiatry where they deal with that and natural disasters too.
00:35:49
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I feel like, you know, Congress, like this is going to be something that are are progeny, like two, three generations down the line. They're going to have significant issues with this. California is slated by the year of 2050 to be not part of the United States to be.
00:36:05
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along with Miami by 2100 Miami and a lot of the eastern coastal cities and some of New York City concluded they're going to be underwater too so we got to make this change right now and right quick you know Europe they're already on it they got electric you know they got when you when I was like there's a lot of electric vehicles even Cali a lot of electric vehicles because they know what's going on even the train system you know I'm saying is like a run on more so electric you know I'm saying so
00:36:34
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Because it's not affecting us right now, we're not thinking about it. But we're hurting our future. So by taking these decisions, by continuing to pillage Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, the Middle East, and et cetera, for the oil, and then utilizing that oil for what we need, it's killing ourselves slowly but surely. Yes, it's not happening today.
00:36:56
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But we have every action to prevent all of the unnecessary things that could happen in the future. And I think that it shows the level of greed that we have in our society, all in civilization overall today.
00:37:11
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And something that I was thinking about in terms of environmental concerns, when it comes to being a medical school, I don't even think medical students really considered this in the beginning. But for example, I don't want to ever experience a tornado. And I know that tornadoes are kind of primary in the Midwest, southern Midwest, or the south, whatever. But there are other types of environmental differences, for example, in Alaska.
00:37:41
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There's what, there are times when they go without,
00:37:49
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light for X amount of hours a day. But in thinking of those concerns, medical students have to kind of consider these when it's time for residency, because God forbid you have seasonal affective disorder and end up in a state where you got to go to Alaska. Okay. And I will not be doing that.
00:38:15
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Alaska will not be on my list of residency options, I promise you that. Now, there may be 50 states, but I don't need to apply to all of them. I can be selective. There's multiple actually residency programs, even just one state. So the options are endless. But I do think what you state is a very good point that people don't realize that when you apply to residency, the only factor isn't just, oh, how prestigious is the programmer? Oh,
00:38:39
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How much hours do I get off? Also, you have to think of where in the world are you going? Are you going to a place that has sun? Will you come out freezing and need to wear a Canadian goose every day? Those are the things you have to think about. Is there snow, et cetera?
00:38:56
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Exactly. So I mean, we have to realize that in all parts of America, there are different environmental concerns that are going to be specific to the state. So definitely have to keep that in the back of your head when applying to residency. But yeah, you know, once again, we're just sending love to California. I mean, it's it's a rough time that they're going through right now. We hope that you guys will see the end of it soon.
00:39:18
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But I think when it comes to just these environmental concerns, like just situations like this, it's not just a one person job. It's going to take everybody, right? It's going to take other people outside of this place to also care. And that even goes into a situation like that just happened recently too in Indiana, where two black women decided to care about things outside of themselves and actually fix a situation that was affecting a little baby who was literally stolen from his mother right before Christmas.
Heroic Acts in Modern Times
00:39:47
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So.
00:39:47
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Yep. The two women, Cheyenne Del Mar and her cousin Mecha Curry, they're from Indianapolis and they were able to find a lost infant right before Christmas, as I just said. And it was actually five month old twins Kacen and Kyere who had met missing from Columbus, Ohio on December 19th. They were found in the backseat of the family's vehicle when it was just carjacked. And then Kyere was actually left at the Dayton International Airport.
00:40:14
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So basically just to kind of it's crazy because I remember reading this story I think I saw a pop of my Twitter and I'm just like yo like this is like a literal like Modern day like Avengers type like story, you know, like a real super like super hero story because we don't talk about
00:40:31
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you know, just your everyday regular run of the mill black woman doing a heroic act, we usually talk about them in some kind of negative manner. Oh, she embarrassed herself doing this, she was twerking this that the third row saying something negative about a black woman. But we never talk about situations like this. I think it really is important to state it. But
00:40:48
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Just to kind of summarize it, basically Cheyenne Belmar, she was buying toys from a woman who was hanging out at a Northwest Indianapolis gas station on December 20th. Belmar then agreed to give this woman a ride to the store, but she kind of felt that something seemed off. And in quotes, Delmar and Keri, her cousin, said they came up with a plan to take the woman to a store and call the police to arrest her there so they wouldn't be traced as people called her in.
00:41:12
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First, the cousins called the Columbus Police, who then told them to call the Annapolis Metropolitan Police Department. When they called the Indianapolis Police, the women just struggled to get the point across that they believed that Jackson, the woman who had sold this child, was in their car. They got frustrated, they hung up, and then they took the woman to just several more stores, hoping that she would probably shoplift and then draw the attention of the authorities. They worried that taking her to a police station might cause her to run. And so basically,
00:41:40
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Curry, the cousin, said that throughout the shopping trip, she made calls to detectives trying to relay all the information she received from her cousin about the belief that, quote, made what the woman called herself was a suspected kidnapper. But basically, in the end, they were able to get their car, the police was able to track them down where they were, stop the car,
00:41:58
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and it made Mae kind of like get a little bit antsy and everything like that. And I think they ended up taking her into custody, right? But at the end of the day, they still didn't have this baby. So how they ended up finding a baby was that they the woman left a clue in the car, she left like a bus, like a bus route map or something like that in the car. So they said, Okay, how about we just go like drive through all the bus stops and see if we can find the car that you know, because they knew that the car based on the description of
00:42:25
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where the baby was carjacked, they knew what the car's make and model was and kind of like the color and stuff like that. So they said, okay, if we find that car at one of these bus stops, that most likely is where the baby's going to be. So they ended up like just when they were about to give up, like when they thought, okay, you know, this is a bus, they ended up seeing like a car covered in snow that looked kind of like the color of the car and the make of the model.
00:42:45
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and they go to the back of the car they see a baby like little legs moving in the back where it was like i had chills bro reading this story like and it ended up being the baby and like they notified the police and mind you the police was across the street at blaze pizza uh getting pizza didn't even you know how they do was you know how pizza do
00:43:05
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Right under their nose, the baby was right there. They didn't even, they couldn't even solve the mystery. A whole two black women did a whole FBI investigation and solved it themselves and simple police couldn't even do it. So kudos to Delmar and Curry for really like, you know, finding this baby literally on their own with really little help from the authorities, honestly speaking.
00:43:22
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Tyler Perry better pick this up. This will be a good movie. I mean, there's so many ways you can see this and actually make it into, if not a movie, maybe like a two-part series. Right, right. Something because, my goodness, it just goes to show, like, you put our brilliant and creative minds, because they ended up accounting these events in a 16-part thread on TikTok.
00:43:48
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Right. That's a fact. Take those and develop them into some screenplay. Right. Seriously. Telling you, man. Shout out to them. It's crazy. Like just when I was seeing I can't imagine how the parents were feeling like right before Christmas, you're losing your child. Right. Your precious everything that and that those babies, I don't even think they were a year old. So they probably experienced their first Christmas yet.
00:44:12
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So for that family, this is some special time that we are missed of this thing that we gave to the world that we are contributing to their growth. And I'm very happy that everything was settled and able to get the baby back. But I was just reading to that story, because we know abduction is real in this country, bro. Exactly. Like babies, even human beings getting abducted,
00:44:40
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Like it's, it's not that, I mean, I'm not trying to like advocate for, but it's not that hard for someone to abduct the baby. You know, the great part about it is that there's so many cases of this happening, but the media don't portray it, but it happens every day. Like, you know, you go to true crime and you watch all those videos missing 17 year old, 10 year old, 10 month old, missing
00:45:00
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it's 2006 and we know probably what happened to them like we can kind of guess and I hate thinking about that that there's evil and the moral people but these situations happen and so um I'm just happy that you know this you know this transpired in a positive way and I think it says a lot to us like we aspire to be future parents and whatnot like just
00:45:22
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Be mindful, be careful. Don't leave your kid like this. So many situations I see people leave their kids in the car, right? Kids in the car and they go in a gas station. They go to the store. And it's like, bro, what are you doing? Like bringing to you? Why are you that lazy that you can't bring your child with you?
00:45:38
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And I know you, it might be a mom, whatever, they might be heavy, but whatever, you gotta keep them safe. That is your prized possession. And for me, I would do anything for my kid. I would not, I don't even have a child right now. I would die for my kid. You know what I'm saying? Like I'll ensure, I'll jump off a cliff, whatever the case may be, to make sure that they have the ability to live the life that they deserve. So I love the story of how this transpired, you know what I mean? And speaking to babies, we know we seen Frito Bang, a popular rapper,
00:46:08
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How about a couple conceive of baby, you know what I mean? And there's been a lot of controversy about what happened. It was actually a lesbian couple who extremely was like strictly not, you know, I'm not gonna complete the word, but
00:46:24
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at the end of the day. Thanks for catching yourself, Aldi. Because we know it's a G-rated podcast, right? It's a G-rated podcast, so you got to be careful. But, yeah, Frito-Bank, apparently he met this lesbian couple at Miami, and they formed a personal relationship. And the controversy was that basically,
00:46:47
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you know, like, how are you able to interact and engage, you know, in a sexual manner with these two women that are lesbian, like, yeah, lie and says IVF and this and that, but they had to go in Shade Room and confirm their first baby, Parker, was born by IVF and then the second baby was born through the rapper who they have a personal relationship
00:47:07
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with and so they do they things as well and what is beautiful about is is that he is coming announced that I'm happy to be a father to this child and also which is super rare super rare he's claimed the older child who's not related to him by blood by any means but it's like that's my child too oh wow and I'm happy to be a father for that child too Wow
00:47:32
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Okay. Yeah, so I love that. Shout out to him because a lot of men, I can't say I would do that. Like, my child is my child. I wonder the tie of their connection. Like, this is interesting. I don't think I've seen this kind of relationship before. A lesbian couple and a straight male rapper. Here you go. You know, like, I don't know. This is an interesting dynamic. And it's like, do they have actual real feelings for this man? Nah, they got to have feelings. The fact that they...
00:48:01
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like did their lesbian and their fact that they, you know, they are intimate and what's the incentive for him? What's the incentive for him? The what does he gain from knowing that he wants to be a father? Like he said it in an interview, he says, I'm happy. I've always wanted to be a father, but some people, they got to find the right person.
00:48:19
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I was gonna say, but why a lesbian couple? Why not a single woman? Like, I mean, I'm just wondering where this, you know, like, it's an interesting way to want to be a dad, like, I guess, from the kind of man, how he identifies as what I'm saying. I just, I'm surprised, you know, but shout out to him for helping these women. And at the same time, I guess, like, fulfilling a goal of his to be a dad. That's interesting.
00:48:42
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Interesting way to do it. You know, you see something new in this country every day. Just to put it lightly. They have a multi-parent household. I was going to say this, that's a three-parent household. Yeah, that's interesting. I know, you know, we talk so much about how children should be raised and
00:49:01
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they should come from a two parent married family and you know the child is going to be loved and cared for then why do we care like no that's that's valid yeah we have so much so much not we but the world has so much to say with regards to Kiki Palmer and her boyfriend you know becoming parents and
00:49:22
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face so much criticism regarding not being a non-traditional black family and just be happy. It's wonderful news. Children are blessings, especially when they can be taken care of and they're well supported.
00:49:38
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Shout out to everybody becoming parents, which right now we've learned that our Beloved tennis player the new I don't want to say the news new Serena Williams Yeah
00:49:54
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Not even so much that Serena started off as you know People kind of looking at her like is she really gonna be the top tier player that she is today So I don't want to give Naomi Serena's identity. I want her to surpass that so right, right Naomi Osaka stands on her own right and she and her boyfriend Corday are pregnant she announced this and
00:50:18
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I was gonna recently, like right before she withdrew from another tennis tournament. They were about to kind of get it popping and she made this announcement on social media. So we're happy for her. I was surprised to be honest, but you know, it's just a little squirrel.
00:50:41
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i guess i was surprised but you know like i think something i'm learning especially as i continue to get older is that like these celebrities like prominent figures in our society they also have dreams and goals outside of what we know them to be you know when they're as whatever they do at the as their core career so she's a tennis player we know her as a tennis player but
00:51:01
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what says that she like what says that she doesn't also have the ability and the desire to be a mom you know like and that's something that she's now also fulfilling as well so I think that's a beautiful thing for her to be experiencing and I'm super happy that she's going to be undergoing this new chapter. This was not expected for her uh this pregnancy but I love that you know she was conscientious enough for her and her body and
00:51:25
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the man that you would, Corday, who's an amazing man, who's been on TED Talks, who I've listened to podcasts with him, discussing his intellectual property and his artistry and who he is as a man. And I'm very happy. And we could liken this to a Kiki Palmer situation, A$AP Rocky and Rihanna situation.
00:51:49
Speaker
And people, they get so enamored with, oh, they should be married. They should do this and that. But I'd rather have a two-parent household and them not be married, but them are there fulfilling their love and able to feel that same love with their child than me in a married household where there's domestic abuse, where the child is not genuine, where they're not supported. And so I love this because they made a decision together.
00:52:15
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When I see them, I see love. Like, Corday's always put it on. Like, you see on IG, same thing with her. He's at her games. Every time she's playing tennis and she's at his concerts, like, they are not without each other. You know what I mean? Right. And so there's a greater meaning to this. And the fact that they were able to make that decision and move forward and say, hey, I think this is a great time to do this. And even despite, she's pretty young in her career. I mean, it could affect, you know, the trajectory of her career, but
00:52:45
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motherhood, like having the opportunity to be a mother and be a parent, that's probably one of the most beautiful things you could do on this journey. She's already had so many accolades at this point. Yeah. Like, what are you really sweating about me? You could say that, oh, I could still do this. I could still do that. But then like you've, there's so much that like you could potentially do in life, but that doesn't mean that having a child is going to necessarily like take you off that
00:53:08
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path completely. She could still find time, maybe a couple years when the child is older, to go back and win more awards if that is her desire. Maybe she says she's done and she's happy with what she has. Regardless what her situation is, we should support her either way because it's her life and we all have our own autonomy and they deserve their autonomy too. So yeah, I totally agree.
00:53:30
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Yeah. Yeah. Well, when you said it a couple of minutes or a couple of seconds ago, rather, in terms of like how things are kind of changing relationship wise, like as opposed to having a child in a two family, two parent married household, some people are choosing
00:53:50
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not to get married at this point, but it doesn't mean that they love each other any less, and that the children will be loved any less. There are a lot of people kind of following in that, I guess, on that path, if you will, of kind of staying with each other, but not getting married.
00:54:08
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And it's interesting to see if this will kind of take root in other areas, other places like abroad. For example, we have Cristiano Ronaldo, a soccer player, and his girlfriend, I believe, of five years, Georgina Rodriguez.
00:54:23
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And they are now living in Saudi Arabia. And Saudi Arabia has bended the marriage laws for them to kind of coexist. So Christiano is arguably the most famous soccer or football player in the world. And he signed a multimillion dollar contract with Saudi Arabian football club Al Nasser.
00:54:45
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And part of the deal is that Ronaldo will be able to live with his longtime partner, Georgina Rodriguez, who told y'all she has her own reality show on Netflix and will be able to live together. Now, it's been reported that the laws in the kingdom, quote unquote, prohibit cohabitation without a marriage contract. But the Saudi authorities will reportedly, quote, turn a blind eye to Ronaldo's living arrangements. So, correct.
00:55:13
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It's going to be interesting, like I said, to see the trajectory of how other countries will determine. Some of these countries are strict, like you can't cohabitate. You can't. You know, it's amazing what a little bit of money and power can do when it comes to, when it comes to turning the blind. It's amazing how much eyesight can just go, just go, hey, man, but you bringing in millions. I mean,
00:55:42
Speaker
But this was tragic if that's going to be the sole reason. So because I contribute to your country, that's the reason y'all don't just want to kind of go with the times and actually see how life is being lived and make necessary changes for everybody. So we're just going to amend the rich at this point. OK, cool.
00:56:01
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Exactly. Like, you know, as Abella said, Ronaldo, you know, he's been with this woman since 2016. I believe they have three children together. And this is like almost 200 million dollar contract for like two years or something like that. And for them, like it's really a money game. It's a revenue game, you know. And Saudi Arabia is probably one of the strictest places that you could go. And when we talk about women like, you know,
00:56:29
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Like we, I think it was like 2017, 2018 was the first year that they allowed Saudi Arabian woman to be able to drive, like have driver licenses. You know what I'm saying? That's not serious. I remember reading an article and I was like, wow, this is mind blowing. So the fact that they're bending the law to allow Cristiano Ronaldo and his wife, all right.
00:56:50
Speaker
fiance or whatever the case may be. Girlfriend. Girlfriend. That's brilliant. That's it. Girlfriend. We don't got to add more to it. It is what it is. Let's not. They offered Messi, who's the greatest player right now. They offered Messi, well, it's arguable. Me and Jared, we could talk about it.
00:57:09
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Why is it going to be a you and Jared thing? What's wrong with talking about it with me? What's your code? What's your lovely female? No, because I was going to assume Jared's going to say something different. I'm sorry. Messy. But they offer him also like over 200 plus contract, mill contract for him to get over there. So I'm like, well, Saudi Arabia got mad bread. They got a lot of oil. But this is like another topic. I'm just thinking Saudi Arabia also has a lot of
00:57:37
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oppression and we talk about in terms of poverty, too. You got so much money, but then you got so much impoverished people there. So it's just crazy when you see these articles. Yeah, we're giving millions and millions of dollars. What about your own people that's suffering in the streets out there? Right. Can't even get access to food. People living on five, ten dollars a day. But that's the side at the end of the day. You know what I mean? So here's what it is.
00:58:02
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Yeah, I don't think that to Isabel's earlier point about having money, like I think those are going to be the people that will enjoy the impacts of, you know, having a blind eye turn to their whatever it is. Exactly. I personally do not think that there will be anything socially liberal coming out of these strict countries for people who cannot pay.
00:58:27
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That's something, you know, it's like an almost like an investment. You want to live well. Well, here's what you have to do. Right. So yeah, money and make the world cream. Cash rules, everything around me.
00:58:40
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And that's it. Get the money. You know, this is a medical podcast.
Cervical Cancer Awareness and Prevention
00:58:45
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So it wouldn't be around the list if we didn't talk about our Awareness Month, which this month is cervical Awareness Month. So cancer of the uterine cervix is actually the third most common gynecologic cancer diagnosis and cause of death among gynecologic
00:59:01
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cancers in the United States. It actually, in 2020, accounted for an estimated 604,000 new cancer cases and 342,000 deaths worldwide, and was the most fourth common cancer among females. And usually, actually, these cases arise from resource-limited regions. So in those countries, that was actually the second most common type of cancer
00:59:24
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And the third most common cause of cancer mortality, especially on the continent of Africa and in Central America, cervical cancer is actually the leading cause of cancer related mortality among females. And at least one study actually suggests that the incidence of cervical cancer has been increasing in some parts of Africa since the early 2000s.
00:59:40
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And so, us at medicine, we know kind of risk factors of cervical cancer, biggest risk factor being HPV infection, which, you know, is from early or at least in terms of what makes somebody infected with HPV, that includes just early onset of sexual activity or having multiple sexual partners, a history of having STI slash STDs, being immunosuppressed or just smoking, you know, cigarettes.
01:00:05
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These are all things that can lead to HPV infection, but the funny thing is that like most, if not everybody, actually has been exposed to an HPV infection at least once in their lifetime. It's just the fact that the older you get, the harder it is to clear off, right? So when you're younger, usually if you're infected with HPV,
01:00:24
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it can with time could eventually clear off versus if you're older, sometimes it won't be able to clear off as easily and then it could not progress the cancer, which is what makes it something that can be detrimental if you are not vaccinated against HPV. So as
01:00:39
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Now, in terms of vaccination guidelines, the recommendation is to vaccinate 11 to 12-year-olds to protect them long before they're ever exposed. And so they actually recommend a two-dose schedule, and for people who get the first dose, it should be before their 15th birthday. I will say for myself, I didn't know about the importance of HPV vaccination coming from a Nigerian household. They're like, what is HPV? You shouldn't even be open up your legs to begin with, so what are you going to get?
01:01:07
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The funny thing is I think you can even get it from like, can't you get it from like kissing or something? Like, I don't know. I think you can get it from kissing too. So it's like, or saliva or something like that. So it's like, there's so many ways it can be infected. So you don't have to necessarily be probably even be sexually active to have been exposed to it. I was going to say, that's the thing in terms of the infection. Yeah, you can contract HPV in other ways, but in terms of the cervical cancer portion of
01:01:36
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the like you need to have sexual intercourse in order for that. Yeah, exactly. But I mean, in today's day, where people just seem to be way more
01:01:52
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I don't know. It's not educated. It definitely is educated. I think they're just way more inundated with information because we're in the age of the internet, like times 50 and people don't always know what to do with the information they receive. They just, they latch onto everything. I wonder what rates of vaccination will be like, what that trend will look like.
01:02:16
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years to come because, you know, we've talked about it till we're blue in the face on the podcast about the mistrust of black people with regards to the medical community. And we've talked about the Tuskegee.
01:02:31
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it's a sneaky incident where, you know, the vaccinations occurred and they were given syphilis and people don't trust the medical community because of that. So now we have the COVID pandemic, right? And we have all these vaccinations that people go get your first one, go get your booster, go get this. And then
01:02:51
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I've seen lately people linking the COVID vaccine to cardiac arrest, for example. There's so many hypotheses and conspiracy theories, right?
01:03:07
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And the people that are the most, in my opinion, the people that talk about it the most are like people who are about to become parents or who are parents now of children who will be teenagers soon. So it'll really be interesting and possibly sad to see, you know, how they'll be educated and what they will do with that education to help prevent. Cause we know beyond a shadow of a doubt, these is an HPV seven and 13. I want to say are the,
01:03:36
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I remember sketching. Yeah, I was going to say six. Sixteen and eighteen, I believe, are the ones that are... Thank you. She remembers one. It's just because I'm currently in that life right now of, like, step... Well, I didn't start to step one study just yet, but I'm studying, you know, kind of preliminarily. So this kind of information is still somewhat fresh in my brain. How you, how you, how you.
01:03:59
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for the review, but we know that those types, like they beyond a shadow of a doubt will cause or can cause cervical cancer. So I don't know, people just need to take the information and try to work prevention into their lives as best that they can.
01:04:14
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And I think an important point actually forgot to mention to like what I was saying is that I didn't wasn't privy to the importance of the vaccination if I told later. So like I actually just got funny enough. It's like we're talking about it on the podcast, but I literally just got my last dose of the Gardasil yesterday.
01:04:32
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And that's just because after I took over Joanne, I said, yep, it's not going to be me. And I scheduled my Gardasil three-dose vaccine. And actually, in terms of people who actually don't get it before their 15th birthday, those who are 15 and older, they actually recommend a three-dose schedule, which is what I got. And in general, they actually recommend to be vaccinated against HPV for anyone who's 26 years older under. So for me, I guess it was still a recommended age for me to get it because I finished 6.
01:05:01
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Yeah, I just turned 25 like a like a week. Yeah, so we don't have to talk about you know.
01:05:12
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This is just for the listeners, for you guys, own education. If you feel like it's too late for you, it's not most likely probably instant. And even if you probably are older, 26, you probably could still benefit from the vaccine too. I'm getting mine. I don't care what you're still talking about. I think men, I don't think they recommend it for men. That's funny. That's a funny thing. I think they say for men, it's less likely for them to. Speaking to that, so I had an ex-girlfriend whose son was, I think, 11 or 12. And she was debating. Because it's not, it's not recommended.
01:05:41
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You don't have to get it. But she was like talking to me about like, should I get it? Should he get it or not? Like making that decision? Because it's kind of like an optional thing. And I just educated her, like educated her on like, you know, like anorectal carcinoma. Right. You know, and also it may not affect him, but it may affect if he has other sexual partners, if he contracts it from someone and can spread it to other women. So that's true. I recommended that.
01:06:07
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He does have it, but in terms of men themselves, they may not necessarily have significant severe symptoms. You're not going to get cervical cancer. Cervical cancer could be... That significant kills, unfortunately, a lot of black women disproportionately.
01:06:22
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So with that being said, like even when I was in high school, that vaccination wasn't out. It's kind of recent, like within the last 10 years that the HPV vaccine has really come out. And I think that it's definitely helped with like decreasing like the transmission and things of that nature. And again, it goes to education in our community, mistrust.
01:06:45
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Erica said it best, we hear so much of this information, but what does it mean? What does it mean to our health? What does it mean for our relationship? What does it mean for moving forward with our lives and the way that we behave? And we have the onus on us to continue to have these discussions with our children, with ourselves, with our family, with the people that were in relationships with
01:07:06
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in terms of what are the repercussions in moving recklessly. And if you can protect yourself, I'm like, why not protect yourself? Take the next step. Like there's things that you could walk, I could walk outside. I'm in my house right now. I could walk outside right now. A helicopter could just fly and drop on me. You know what I mean?
01:07:24
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Yeah, no, we hear you all the there's there's so much, so much possibilities that could happen from from this. And I think it is good that you want to prevent spread. And with that, you know, we hope all of our listeners takes this into account in terms of how you want to take ownership of your health and for anybody else who you know could benefit from this vaccine. Nice.
01:07:48
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So yeah, I know what time it is. It is the financial corner, corner, corner. Hey. Hey. Wait, yo, me and Jeffrey, we got the beats dropping. So we're going to have our bars and everything. So stay tuned, family. You know what I mean? But today, we're going to be talking about how to write a business plan. And a business plan, essentially, because I think number one is
01:08:15
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For a lot of us that's listening, you may not want to be a business owner today, but you might want to be a business owner later on in the future. A lot of the people that make family, they are going to be future physicians, and they may want to own their own practice. But even outside of that, you may want to own your own skincare line. You may brand your own Instagram page, social media, et cetera.
01:08:37
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So a business plan allows you to actually advocate for the product that you're promoting out there. You know what I'm saying? And every plan is different. And typically a business plan is usually 15 to 25 pages long. So one of the main things that you want to do, the first thing is create an executive summary. So in this section, what happens is that you communicate why your business is unique and what does it have to offer to your potential customers.
01:09:02
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So for me, I've actually created my own business plan because I have a lotion. I have a name and all that. I met with cosmetic chemists and all this kind of stuff. Yeah, stay tuned. Go ahead. All of you making money moves. Okay. Got the book coming out. That is so amazing. I saw that. Oh, yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate that. Is it already out?
01:09:29
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Uh, it's coming out January 29th. Okay. All right. I'll be watching out. I got to support. I got to support my CBJ. So you want to, you want to summarize the advantages of your business. So for instance, if you're in the skincare or like in the, you know, in the industry of, you know, beauty, why is your line?
01:09:53
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going to be promoted in other skin care lines. You know what I'm saying? Is there something about the smells? Is there something about what is it adding, exfoliating to the skin? Is there something about rejuvenating, et cetera, et cetera? So you want to be able to promote that. And there's ways you can do that, especially with social media and Instagram. And use research and data to support your IDs as well. We are in the age where Google, Google is one of the most important tools. YouTube, YouTube is one of the most important. You can learn how to build a whole house off of YouTube. You know what I'm saying?
01:10:22
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You can learn how to be a sanitation worker from YouTube. So use YouTube to learn about the industry that you're in and then help execute your plan. Next, learn about the description of your company. So what is your company going to be like? You know what I'm saying? So what type of company structure? So it could be LLC,
01:10:41
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S corporation, the C corporation, I could get into that, but those are different forms of businesses that, you know, you could actually integrate into that. You know what I mean? You can include information about the size. So I'm saying, as I say, like thinking about the trajectory of your company, how big did you want it to be? So a company, for instance, if you open up a lounge, there's probably going to be way more employees than if you're starting a business where it's online and you're going to be marketing, you know, like a lotion line.
01:11:07
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You're gonna have, it might be one or two versus like, I don't know, 15, 20 employees. Right. I mean, so give a description and then a description of your products and services, you know what I mean?
01:11:19
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So in the operations section, you got to talk about where are you at? You know what I'm saying? In terms of like, have you, for instance, met with other investors? Have you found a venue where you want to sell this, where you want to actually have your business at? Are there any other collaborators that you're working with? And what the day-to-day will be like? So when are you going to open shop?
01:11:41
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It's gonna be nine to five, it's gonna be 24 hours. Like you look at Planet Fitness, they're a 24 hour business. So the operations are 24 hours. Other things are, outline any risks with the businesses as well. So things like with Planet Fitness, for instance, a risk that they gotta take is someone get injured at the actual while working out, right? You might have like a popliteal tear or you might have like a biceps, you know, some information of your biceps or biceps or whatever the case may be.
01:12:11
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So how do you navigate that? So you're going to have to do your research on the background and say, how do I protect myself against those kind of things? Because you're building an asset and you don't want to be a liability. So you have things like insurance, etc, etc. Right. Right.
01:12:24
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Uh, analysis. So competitive analysis. So look at your competition. What is your competition looking like? Right. Cool. So Planet Fitness, LA Fitness, or, you know, for instance, you look at McDonald's, they're in competition with Burger King. They're in competition with crystals or in New York and in Northeast, which is, um, uh, which we call it white castle. What are the differences? What are, what, what is a product that you're bringing that makes it so different that you're like, people got to pull up to you rather than pull up to the other spots.
01:12:53
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What are you bringing that they feel more comfortable, right? It may be discounts, it may be, oh, your prices is cheaper and the food is way better at the end of the day, you know, and explain how you're going to adapt your business to successfully compete against the other businesses. You know what I mean? How do you interact with the market that you're reaching for? And then last thing about like an analyzing the market that you're in.
01:13:16
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I mean, so look at like an avatar. Same thing goes with podcasts, too. You got to know, like, what is your target? Like, are you looking at African-Americans that are from the ages of 18 to 30?
01:13:28
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Are you looking at, you know, like for instance, like I wanna own a neuropsychiatry practice. So it's probably gonna be majority, my target audience is gonna be people from the ages of 55 and older that are white women and men because that's the majority of people that get some form of dementia or neuropsych or neurocognitive diseases. So looking at that and how you're gonna target your focus of your business to those specific individuals at the end of the day.
01:13:55
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A quick question Alden but in terms of like if you know once you make this business plan and then all the steps you've already talked about that you should you know make sure to fulfill to have a good business plan who is the first person you're going to with this business plan to like execute it and kind of analyze that this fulfills everything that you just talked about is it a bank is it
01:14:17
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A financial advisor, like what, who exactly? All of those, bank, financial advisor, other people, OPM is other people's money, people that are willing to invest in a business that you're talking about. It could be even your family member. That might be someone that might consider looking into your business and helping you out. They might be the person that's on the front desk at the reception.
01:14:39
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It could be any of those people. It could be even a random person you meet on the street too. Because you never know who you meet and who you come across. So those are some of the tenets. And we could go into more, but I just wanted to break down the fact of the matter is that having a business plan, if you have a business, and I want everybody, remember, if you have only one stream income, then it's
01:15:00
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one more than zero-street income. So being able to cultivate that, that allows you to be diverse. You don't have to rely on just being a physician and being in the hospital. You'll be like, yo, I got like Torah, I got my car rental business, or I got my online
01:15:18
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coaching business or you know I'm saying like I got my you know like event space business where people come to my house and co-host events right so there's different ways to navigate that you gotta know and then utilize your skills you know so if you know that you're good with hair people tell you good with hair
01:15:36
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have a salon in your spot. You know what I mean? They don't gotta be extravagant. People can just pull up and you do it at your leisure. That's side bread that you owe. If you know you're doing really well in school, especially for my med students, that's tutoring. You could tutor outside of med school. You could have your own tutoring. One of my boys is a cardiologist out here in Atlanta. He has his own tutoring business. And he was like, I was able to help pay for my down payment for a crib out here in Decatur, all for doing that. You know what I mean?
01:16:04
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So I mean, he'd be working mad hard, but still like it's still side money, you know. And for us, we don't make a lot of money. The average resident makes sixty thousand dollars a year in residency. So being able to have those skills and learn about that early on for my med school student folks, even you've got Uber, whatever the case may be, do something that it creates additive value. You know, you can't build more money unless you have some money. Right up. So that's what it is, Mike.
01:16:34
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We love that. Another Financial Corner by Dr. Aldwin himself. That's it. So, you know, that's our show. We appreciate y'all joining us for the episode of SNMA Presents the Lounge. And let us know your thoughts about the discussions we had today or access a question for a chance to be featured on the show by emailing us at podcast at snma.org.
01:17:01
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