This is the FCB Podcast Network, The Outlaws Radio Show. Great. This is when they drunk job boot change says time dun. We don't listen to y'all. This coda, We don't listen to y'all. This the old make them scream out Now that sound don cause. The rook is in the crowd. Like U tuned in the Charge for the outdo tune in the church for the Welcome to the Outlaws. This is Darvey O the Kingpin Marrow alongside Robin o' mallley, Dante Brad's and not in Today. Don't forget to lock us on Facebook at facebook dot com, slash the Outlaws Radio, follow us on x and Instagram at the Outlaws or Radio. We have an interview that we gonna get We have an interview that we're going to get to and just. A little bit. But first, miss O'Malley, how are you. I'm okay, DARBYO. I'm okay. Kind of been with some things, but today today I'm good. I'm doing better today. Yeah. I know we're not gonna talk about it, but I know that life life be life and sometimes with you, man. I'm telling you, I think it's like written in the cards or something for me or must be capricorn thing. I don't know, like we were meant to be successful. So life be like yeah, curveball. Right. But I'm all right right now. You know, I'm good today. I'm happy. I'm doing a lot better. I'm doing good. How are you? I'm all right, man, I'm all right. It's been been a long day, a long week. I'm looking forward to the weekend for sure, even though it's supposed to be I don't I haven't seen the forecast lately, so I don't know if it changed or not. But last time I saw. The forecast, the weekend is supposed to be six degrees hotter than hell. So I'm not looking forward to that. Yeah, you know what, And I got an eventful weekend, and so yeah, you know, big old, big old bottle of water, big gallon, big old things. All right, because it's gonna be, like I said, six degrees hotter than the hell. So make sure that y'all stay hydrated and your electrolytes what he said, right, all right, So we have a lot of things to discuss. We have an interview that we're gonna get to right now. All right. We have a very special guest with us today. He is the Cleveland City Councilman of Ward one in the City of Cleveland. Joe Jones, Welcome to the show. How you doing, sir, I'm doing good. How you doing? I'm all right, I'm all right. So we have a lot of stuff to discuss, a lot of things to talk about. But first, before we dive into some of the specific events, talk a little bit about your your time as Ward one councilman, Talk a little bit about your record and all of that good stuff for people who may. Not know well, you know, first, I I haven't. I've been in office for about seven and a half years, serving the Ward one residence, and I enjoyed doing it. It's a joy for me. I'm able to talk about issues that are passionate to me, and we have been able to bring in working with various branches of government, secured more than our office has been able to secure more than three hundred and eighty million dollars a new development for the citizens of Ward one, and that is just in the eight years that I've been here, and when you look at our record or service, we have facilitated the forty two million dollars developments of John F. Kennedy High School. We have been able to bring in a fifteen million dollar development of a new recreational facility, state of the art Frederick Douglas's Park Area that's located over here on Miles Avenue East one hundred and fifty sixth Street, and we have put in infrastructure work on Miles Avenue ten point nine million dollars invested eighty million dollars, facilitated the investment of Trimco Development to create jobs in our community. And this was in my first four years. We signaled to the market markets that we need to have development in our community. When I took over the neighborhood, the banks was giving away homes. I think our highest home sales at that time of twenty eighteen was fifty nine thousand, no more than sixty thousand for a home in our area, and again some homes were at the low end of five thousand dollars. Now today, those same homes that were in that five twenty fifteen thousand dollars are now solidly selling at one hundred and forty five thousand, and we have home sales on average at two hundred thousand dollars in our community. It is a quite of a change in just a matter of eight years. And just here on the projects that we have in front of us. We're working on a one hundred million dollars working with the Bibbs Administration, a new retail development at the Ojohn and Candy site. We are working with the library. We're going to have a new state of the art library located on that location with both senior housing market rate. And affordable living on that site. And that development is in part being developed by Eagles Nest, which is a joint investors Black developers. In addition to the people who built the. Pine Crest development, will be a part of developing this one hundred million dollar project where the Ojohn of Kennedy used to be. And we have also secured fifteen million dollars for the redesign of Lee Road and reservicing of new sewer and water lines. We're going to reimagine and revision that entire intersection. There re border against Shaker. So the Caylaga County is going to make a flawless scene. You won't be able to tell when you're coming into le Row from the city of Cleveland and entering into Shaker Heights. We've also secured twenty million dollars new housing development on East one hundred and sixty seventh Street, which will also be affordable and market rate homes. We have worked with the administration to get five point one million dollars secure for a new JFK track and field, state of the art stadium. And we have been able to get three hundred and fifty six thousand opera funds to build a new playground at Adelia Park with ventures and swings. And we have supported and raised funds for a little baseball teams sports teams in our community. We have facilitated eleven new. Homes constructed for the very first time in twenty years in our community new housing. And we're bringing safety closer to home with a new mini police station coming to the Lee Harvard area. And one point one. Million dollars invested in the Mount Pleasant area in terms of resurfacing roads and infrastructure. And I could just keep on going. The last project that we're working on, it's not the last project, but it's a project that we're working on now you've heard me talk about earlier, is the Ring door Bell program. We were able to raise. Three hundred and ten thousand dollars to bring in and install ring door bells for the citizens of War one, and we were branding them away. Three two thousand citizens in War one would be able to get a free ring door bell installed. On their home. We're talking with Cleveland City Councilman Joe Jones, and you just laid out, you know, your record and a lot of the things that you've done in the ward, in your time in politics and your time is in government. Has this particular season been different? This campaign season been different from the other ones that you've experienced. It has, you know, I truly enjoy campaigning, meeting voters at the doorsteps, debates, political. Forms, you know, late nights, early mornings. I love it all. But this political citizen has brought on an onslaught of personal and malicious attacks like you know, I've never seen before. My character and integrity are being and my family is being attacked. It has been very stressful and it has caused actual trauma to me, also resulting on me having this stuff back and not be my authentic self. And these moments, unfortunately, are being amplified in ways that. Don't match the facts. It's an old. Playbook, especially when it comes to black leadership, to take something small or innocent and make it look menacing. You know, I'm not here to attack anyone. I'm only simply here to fight for the citizens of Lee Harvard Ward one to make sure that they get their fair share of city services and that they get the type of investments that we see other communities enjoin. And we want to see an improvement in quality of life for the people who live here. That's why I ramp a bub of office to improve the. Quality of life for the citizens who live in this neighborhood. Right. So one of the one of the issues that have come up, let's kind of address that. So let's talk a little bit about the Cleveland City Council meeting where a staff member accused you of intimidation. Can you walk us through exactly what happened from your p I do. Well. You know, when the presentation was being made by Kevin Comwell, when it began, I was standing at the rear of the chamber of Cleveland City Council. I really could not hear. Any of the remarks from that area because of the acoustics, so I moved forward simply to listen to have to hear exactly what was being said, in addition to enjoying the music that was being played by the younger people who were actually playing the instruments. I did not notice anyone personally, and I certainly had no intention to intimidate anyone. This was a moment driven. Solely by my desire to follow the presentation, not to single out anyone or make them feel uncomfortable. Did you have any prior interactions with the staff member that might explain why they interpret it that way. I've had we had interactions. The prior interactions in the past, which was contentious relationship. However, reported close to. A year now, I've had no interactions with her at all. So if that person were listening now, and they may be, what would you say to them directly? It is unfortunate that our interactions have resulted in misunderstandings, and I would let them know that I have no ill will or malicious intent towards them. My only desire is to serve the citizens and residents of Ward one. We're talking with Cleveland City Councilman Joe Jones. So with that, how can elected officials create spaces where misunderstandings like this are less likely to occur, but while still doing their jobs effectively. I think keeping the communication channels open, being consistent and and your messaging. I think we need to build a cultural and uh. Interpersonal awareness, and we need to mediate misunderstandings as soon as they arise, because I think that's the biggest issue. If someone feels uncomfortable with you or words that you may say to them, are they misinterpret or misunderstand that what you're saying. You know, we're all adults here, so we should have someone to mediate those misunderstandings. When people can't seem to communicate pass what they see maybe as something that is intimidating to them. So you know, we're all adults. We should all communicate. If if if I make you feel uncomfortable, if I say. Something to you that you. Feel was uncomfortable, then you know, than because I was offended by what you had to say, or I didn't like that, or what do you mean? You know, these are clarifying, you know, the things that is one on one to some degree. But and I don't want to look at this and try to. Say that this situation is not serious. I take every allegation seriously that a person makes to me. So I think mediate misunderstandings and. Have a system in place where where people can can have a smoother relationship when situations arise. All right, now, let's talk about the conversation with your long term colleague about fixing your computer. What was the nature of your working relationship over the past eight years. I have known this individual. We work closely together, you know, over a decade. We have. Joking report in the past during our conversations about technical issues, I made an offhand joke saying that if he didn't if he did not, I actually did. He was working on my passwords, so I told him. I said, hey, man, don't get my password out, or I'll blow you up on your motorcycle. And that comment was made in the presence of one of my interns. There was no indication of this comfort or fear at that moment, and in fact, there was laughter, and the conversation proceeded. The following day, though this comment came into question by a city council employee and the presence of this gentleman to whom the statement was made, and when asked if he thought my comment was serious, my colleague responded, I guess not. I reinstated that I. Was joking and would never harm you, and that comment was meant in the spirit of long standing friendship, not as a threat, and I immediately apologize to him. The next day, and several days later another issue arose that I needed his assistance. He assisted me with resolving the problem and we spoke on the telephone for more. Than an hour. So, just to be clear, how did the comment about blowing up your motorcycle come about? And what did you mean by it? It was as it was an offhand comment. Made to someone with someone whom I have shared a very cordial relationship with. Over the time here that we have known each other, we have. Frequently discussed many personal personal topics. We talked about our families, So I meant no harm. I don't understand how he took it as that, and I was shocked at he. Took it that way. When the colleague told you that they thought it might have been a threat, what was your response to that, how. Did you respond? Well, First, I want to be clear that the individual never told me that he felt threatned. The description of our intellection was first used by another employee of city Council upon hearing that he felt threatened. I immediately responded and apologized to him. So we've talked on this show before about and I mean me as me and my co host. We've talked about the climate and where how the climate is right now and everything. So what does this incident say about the climate that we're in where words, even put in a joking context, can be viewed or recast in harmful ways. You know, it's it's one of those things where. When you use positively this climate, it should encourage open dialogue about language and its effects on others. This would foster an environment where everyone feels respected and valued. However, when misconstrued and used maliciously, as in my situation, it can lead to tension and what we're seeing now assassination of my character. We're talking with Cleveland City Councilman Joe Jones, and you mentioned earlier about attacks on blackmail leaders, and I know that this has come up before, and this again is something that I've talked about on the show as well. Do you believe that there is a pattern of mischaracterization targeting black male leaders, both locally and nationally. Yeah, it is a troubling trend. You can see that trend here as well as nationally, where black male leaders often face excessive scrutiny and even benign actions or words may you know, be interpreted or portrayed as threatening or malicious. And we see this often that black men are portrayed in a very negative way as historically being viewed as threatening, as criminals, as thugs. We see this constantly played out in our media. It's in front of us every day. We see how we're dealt with, and we see how we black public officials are disproportionately singled out and discredited compared to their white counterparts. So I'm sure that there are some of your residents that are trying to figure out. You know, they don't know what to believe. So what is your response to residents who hear the allegations and aren't sure what to believe? Well, you know, the first and foremost, I welcome the opportunity to speak with them personally. My door is always open and my phone line is always open. And if you want to the truth, ask me, not the rumor. Maills. So I always try to do my best to. Honestly talk to people, explain to them what is happening. We know that we. See the situation of our society where a mode can be made into a mountain, and we see a lot of that politically speaking when it comes to. Black men in our community. But my message simply to my citizens, come and talk to me. I'm your counselor. I'm honored to have the opportunity to serve as a counselor. So obviously you're in the middle of running for reelection and you're still you're the sitting councilman now, so you still have to do your job as counselmen, but you also have to respond to a lot of the allegations and attacks. So how do you balance defending yourself with staying focused on doing the work that you need to do for Ward one? You know, it's simple. Do not become distracted by the lies and the noise, but stay focused on the goal. And that goal right here, right now is serving the residents of War one with vigor and integrity. We can't let distractions take our eyes off the real work making our community a place where. We are all proud to call our homes. And that is my focus, and I try to stay focused there on that. I try to make sure that I remember the most important thing first. The most important thing first is serving the citizens of this community. So I think you know, people forget sometimes that you know when you're when you're elected official, when you run for public office, when you're in public office, is certain things that you know you've become subject to and it's just kind of part. Of the job. But I asked you we were talking a little bit before the show started, and I wanted to ask you here, how how do you deal with the things that you've had to deal with in this race? How is your family dealing with it? Like? How how are you all processing all of this stuff? It is always. Difficult when you have people say things that are not true and they cast allegations against you, and you're the person left there to try to make explanations out of these allegations, and it is really difficult, and it's hard in taxing on the family. My family has been threatened, and it's really it takes a lot to be in public office and to have to endure. These personal attacks. But we try to do everything we can as a family just to stay spiritually grounded and make sure that you know, we focus in and our strength comes from our love for God. And our family and our friends. All Right, we're talking with Cleveland City Councilman Joe Jones, and we talked a little bit earlier about your record, and you went into detail about a lot of the big projects and things that you've done. Let's drill a little bit on that and talk a little. Bit about some of the times that you've worked closely with seniors, women and vulnerable residents to address their needs specifically. Well, we have done. One of the things I think is really important is as a counselman, we have set up and we have been thankful to have worked with creating lawn and care programs for our senior citizens. We assist them when they need assistants we need my office. We have worked with domestic bolence and awareness and education programs. I have supported the Women's Commission of Cleveland. I am often pagged to be a speaker and supporter of the Women's March of Cleveland, and and we we really make sure that we open ourselves. Up to assisting in helping our our brothers and our sisters in our community. And I'm appreciative to have a lot of great people working to help us and we help them move our community forward. So we work with a number. Of organizations and institutions over the years, especially programs dealing with domestic violence and awareness. Right right, So. With everything, if residents have concerns, how can they reach you directly? Directly is being accessible to your constituents and something that's important to you. Talk a little bit about that. Well, you know, I love my people so much that you know, I publish my personal cell phone. My cell phone is on all of my literature. Not only do I have my. Office phone, but I also have my cell phone there. And I make sure that I try to contact my people back within twelve to twenty four hours that they contact me. So they actually have direct assets to me as it relates to their concerns and issues in the community. And you call your life and safety residents even call me at nighttime. They come to my home. I have if they have problems, I have a Ward office where I'm completely accessible to them to walk in with their issues and situations. And we work tireusly to make sure that we give and we offer direct services through all the sisions. Of Ward one community. So let's talk a little bit about moving forward. We've addressed some of the things that have been said in the allegations and so on. Let's talk a little bit about the future. What is your vision for the future if you're re elected, what's your plan for Ward one and to ensure that War one gets its fair share of resources. Attention, Well, we as you heard earlier, you know, the focus is rebuilding our community. You know we have several multi million dollar projects in place. We're building your homes. My goal is to continue to push for more investments in our community, building more homes, getting more money to fix up our infrastructure, our roads, and repair work in our parks and our public places, in addition to programs to help senior citizens and citizens in general to fix and repair their homes, Programs that will assist our community to grow an age in place. That is my goal. My goal is constantly to work to grind to make sure that we have the kind of investments that we see happening in other parts of the greater Cleveland area. We're talking with Cleveland City Councilman Joe Jones, and as we wind down here, for anybody listening who might have questions or doubts, what's your message? What's your personal message to them? Right now well, I want the voters to remember the accomplishments. I want them to when they get ready to go to the polls. I want them to understand that I have been blessed and fortunate. God has allowed me to bring in over three hundred and eighty million dollars into this to make into this neighborhood. I want them to understand that there is no other neighborhood in community that is giving away two thousand three ring video doorbells that we were able to raise that money for, and it's for keeping our community safe. And if God allows me the opportunity to continue to serve his people, I'm going to continue to get another two thousand ring door bells and another two thousand ring door bells. I want to make sure that our entire community has cameras in it, even enter our businesses, because what we have saw, they have resolved a number of crimes and murders in our neighborhood. And so if every one of our senior citizens have ring rebels, that is the greatest block club, block watch that. You could ever have. So I want them to remember that I'm working hard for. Them, and real quick before we close here, I want to dig into that a little bit more because you are one of the council people that I hear talk a lot about safety and addressing the safety concerns of your residents. Talk a little bit about why that's important to you, and also what you've heard from the residents about their safety needs and what they want to see. It is. You know, at the end of the day, if you don't feel safe in your community, you're going to lead. We want every scene, little citizen in our community to feel safe. That means that we should have. The required amount of police visibility and availability. That means that we have to hold accountable our elected officials from the mayor on down. That means that our citizens need to get involved. We can no longer afford to ignore issues and problems that are happening around us. And if we see something, we have to say something. And as a lifelong resident of our Ward, someone who has raised his family, I've been in this community, I'm committed to advocating for the best community. Safety is important to me. I have been raised up as a child, I'm raising my family and I think that at the end of the day, we should be able to walk up and down our sidewalks, go grocery shopping, come home from work, and not have to worry. About a safety issue. So safety is paramount. It is important I fight tireusly down on city Council to make sure that the men and women of the police department get everything that they ask for at the table. And I've supported every safety. Initiative that I could possibly be engaged and involved with. And that's one of the reasons why again I hate to keep saying it again, but that ring. Door bell getting those installed in our. Neighborhoods will absolutely marketably improve our safety plan and worldwide. Yeah, yeah, that's definitely a very big deal. And so as we as we get ready to close here, I feel for a lot of you know, the average person, the average resident who doesn't really follow this stuff on a regular basis, and they just hear so many different things and there's so many things that are coming at them and they're just trying to figure out what's true and what's not. So, in your view, what would you recommend that voters can do to cut through the noise, and you know people don't know what's true. Well, voters should be able to pick up that phone if they need or they have questions, not to jump to conclusions. Step back, take a look at what you have as it relates to the politics of things, and. Look at the other candidates. There has been no other candidate in the history of this neighborhood that has been fortunate to bring the kind of funds as you talked. About, as you heard me talk about earlier to. This neighborhood in this community. So to cut through the noise, remember. The work that's done, Understand who's. Doing the work, get involved, come through our community meetings, be good neighbors because when residents do that, they truly understand what's actually going on in the neighborhood and it's one of the ways that they can cut through a lot of the noise. Every month, I meil out to every single resident in this community a monthly meeting notice talking about various different issues as subjects and programs that will help them improve their homes, help them to get tax relief, and a multi myriad of other issues and services that we try to constantly and consistently bring to the voters. So just want them to remember when they need to cut through that noise. Step back, take a look at what you have. Let everybody know if they want to get in contact with you, if you have social media, your website, all that good stuff. Yes I do, I got I have Facebook. That's one of our prime areas that we that we're focused on. We have other media outlets that we have. The biggest way to communicate to us and our office is the old way of emails, in addition to picking up the phone and making the phone goll, that's the fastest way you can get me. If you want your counselman, like yesterday, pick up the phone, give me a call. I'm honored to have the opportunity to serve as your counselman. And I'm appreciative of the fact that God has allowed me the opportunity to serve. And as I serve, I try to do everything I can to serve well with integrity. All Right, thank you so much for coming on the show and spend us some time with this consul, and I appreciate it. Thank you very much. I appreciate coming on your show, and this is my first time. I want to be able to have another opportunity. As you, sir. Absolutely stay tuned. We have tea time with Row coming up. Next here yo, what's up bringing the noise right here? Chuck the Republic Enemy number one. You are tuning the Outlaws Radio Show. Welcome true, sir, pray, Welcome back, welcome back, get listening to the Outlaws. And now it's the time of the show that we like to call it t Time with Row. Turn it up, yell. Out the expectations, the latest celebrity news and gossip. You explation. It's tea time with Row on the Outlaws Radio Show. All right, so yah, I got some stuff for y'all. This one's actually pretty funny. If you're brave enough to do this, shout out to you. But like, I'm scared to even go into the airport with a wire in my brawl, let alone with this lady, did okay, because you be setting off alarms and stuff. Okay, Now this lady she is facing felony charges at the DC Airport after she tried to fly with fifty nine pounds of marijuana to Europe to maximize her profits. Girl, I mean a for effort, A for effort. But maybe if she would have like made the bag not as heavy, she might have got she might have got away with it. She might have got away with us. She don't get on a forever. She get a da dummy, Like, what the hell were you thinking? Like you on the airport? Are you crazy? Right? Federal? Like, what's wrong with you? I guess so? I mean she she had packed pretty nicely. I ain't gonna lie to you. She had a packed pretty nicely. It was flat, so did the pictures. They showed a picture. Listen, So how does she have a pack? Describe it all. Right, So it's in this cute, this cute little hardback. I just sent it to you, this hardback suitcase. And on the inside, like the clothes they're like are clothes. So the marijuana is like vacuum sealed inside of this bag. And it just looked really nice and neat. I'm not even gonna lie to you. She had a nice in neat whoever did it right? But it was just a little too heavy. How stupid. So I said, send it to you. I sent it to you on Instagram, Darby. Okay, yeah, but that's absolutely crazy. And here I am. Listen, listen, I've matter of fact, DARVYO. I just listened speaking at airport. Okay, listen, I had running I had a run in with the airport and Florida, by the way, Orlando, f y'all. You always have one. You always have a run in with the No they mama. They came from my mama, and that's where they messed up that. And I was hungry. Oh boy, so you were hungry too. Hey listen, I went off on the TSA and I went off on Homeland Security. Oh my god, Yes I did. Yes, I did. They had it coming. Don't come from my mama. Shut that big head man down too. He shut up? Okay real quick? What did they do? So real quick? So you know how Okay? So here in Ohio, you know they when we get our IDs, we had they start us off with the paper. Well my mama she had the paper copy. Well they was not happy with that in Orlando, but in Cleveland they were like, I don't care, go ahead, go through. So her other ID was expired, her hard copy I d because she did not get her new copy with the star on it. Yet this man at TSA literally screamed out loud to everybody in the airport her h's expired. Her Hi, he's inspired, And I was just like, are you freaking kidding me? Right now? He said, take her over to the podium, take her over to the white podium. And this kid that was pushing my mom in a wheelchair, he was like so he looked scared. He was new working there, and so he takes her over there and the the TSA guy goes. He was like, he told me, aren't you going to go through the metal detector? I said, now, what the hell would I go through the metal detector? And you send my elderly mother. Over there to go get questioned, right, And he was like, oh, okay, whatever, and like this some old lady in line was she was all of her was oh wow, girls, shut up, shut up. But yeah, so that ended up happening like it was a lot more than that. But I went off on him. And then with the Homeland Security they tell my mom because you know, she has early onset dementia and she's also elderly, and they told her, we're going to ask you a sum of questions and if you don't have the answers, you are not a lot of Google it text anybody, call anybody. If you don't know the answers, then we're gonna have to go a different route. I start chuckling, Oh, I can't wait to go home, because listen, I'm listening because you are already know what card. You know, you already know where I went. You already know where I went. But they moved it. Along pretty quickly. We did not miss her plane. But yeah, it was that. That was I will I never ever ever want to take Orlando Airport again ever again. It was it was horrible. But yeah. So so, ladies and gentlemen, we have had a and some of you are new to this show, so you may not know this, we have had a recurring theme on this show. Dante myself both trying to keep Robin out of jail. And I've never been in jail, you guys, I've never I've never been arrested. And we're trying to make sure she doesn't get arrested. And there this isn't the first time she's had an incident at the airport before. Man, because then people in the airport think they somebody listen, they need to watch themselves. Yeah, listen, y'all, I'll tell you what episodes to go back and listen, because then people play in your face and they try to play you like you you being arrested or something, or like it's jail, like you some prisoner or something like they do too much sometimes. Yeah. The last the last incident that she had, it was it was bad. It was, it was bad, and I was I was like, Lord, please don't go to jail. Don't talking about the lady that was like got an attitude and I got smart with her. Yeah, you're talking about security TSA lady. The one you was about to fight. See seeing what I'm saying, Lad, she just said two separate incidents in addition to the one that she's talking about tonight. So the TSA lady last time she wanted to she asked me about my daddy's It was his urn on a necklace and she was like, but does that open? I was like, yes, it opens. Is there anything? Yes, there's something in it, and I ain't opening it. The girl. She was like, I didn't ask you to open it? Well, why were you asking me those stupid questions? Lord, pray pray for her, y'all. Make sure you. Pray for them. They need they need, they need help. They just met their match. Go for the next story, This said. Nah, all right, So the next story. This is crazy, you guys, so our childhood. Anybody that grew up in the nineties two thousands. This is our childhood, like we we lived for this. Okay, b E t b ET suspends the Soul Train and the Hip Hop Awards indefinitely. Oh that hurts. That hurts because, like I don't know about you, DARVYO, but like I grew up watching a lot of these awards, the music awards, and so just knowing that like this is like the end of an era. Yeah. I used to watch them religiously, like I would live live, tweet them or live Facebook sometimes, like just watch it religiously, and particularly. The Soul Train Awards. The Soule Train Awards was my favorite awards show that anybody did period. Like I loved the Soul Train Awards. I used to watch the BT hip Hop Awards. I kind of fell out of love with the Hip Hop Awards because you know, some of the music started being whack and so that made the performances whax. So it wasn't fun to watch no more. But the Soul Train Awards, man, that was man. I will watch that, you know, every chance I had, And it's unfortunate. I know, the CEO said that they were looking at you know, re examining ways that they can like new I forget exactly how you said it, but like new ways that they could reimagine that's the corporate word, reimagine what. It looks like in the future. Maybe they put it on streaming or something like that, but I hope they bring it back because I do think that that is that's a definite blow to the culture to not have that, especially. The Soul Train Awards, Like the Soul Train Awards. Is the last, you know, continual thing left from the legacy of Soul Train. And there's a lot of us, a lot of us who wouldn't be here if it wasn't for what Don Cornelius did in the creation of Soul Train, being the first, the first black man to you know, have his name at the end of a show as executive producer, to own the show, to own the the trademark, to own the production. Like all of that, there's all of. Us me included are people who benefit to this day from you know what, what Don Cornelius built in the Soul Trained era. So the Soul Train Awards in particular, like it's I think it sucks that both of them are postponing, definitely, but particularly the Soul Train Awards. Like that that sucks, That really sucks. That's all right. So the next one, this one is going to blow a lot of people's minds. This is actually crazy. So when I read this, I was like, dang, like that baby would be almost like that would be like almost our generation? Yes, would that be? So let's see. So a child has been born from an embryo frozen in nineteen ninety four, making it the quote unquote oldest baby ever. Now, let me tell you what. Let me try me, let me try to pronounce this baby's name. Oh, Daddius dadeus. I don't know. I don't know how to say it. It sounds like some rich the prince's name. I don't really know. That is proud. That is that? Okay? That is Daniel Pierce. Oh yeah, that sounds like original name. Absolutely yeah. So it says the embryo was one of four created. One became her daughter now thirty while hold on, wait what while the others were frozen for over thirty years. So the one she ended up having, right, But then her siblings weren't born for thirty years. So my question is like, so how old? First of all, how old is the baby, and then too, like I wonder like if there's any physical impacts to that, right because the baby is a baby, but the DNA is from nineteen ninety four, so like I'm really curious about Like I was soon A said I was born A seven A ninety ninety one two three, I was seven years old. So like this when you said, like, yeah, that child the embryo was in our age group, it was, he'd be if that baby was born in ninety four, he'd be an older millennial right now. Like he'd like completely skipped out on all the crap that we had to endure, like all that everything, all all thething in the history books. He was frozen thirty one. I think maybe like thirty thirty one. So ah, man, I don't know. I have so many questions, and I definitely want to know, like physically what that means for that baby. You know what I'm saying, Like, oh my god, that's just And then. Look it says his name Fatius peaked in popularity in nineteen eighteen, ranking three hundred and seventh and was eight hundred and fiftieth in twenty twenty four, giving it as old fashioned charm. So you got an old baby with an old name. Hey, but I'll tell you what, Darviio. That baby is set for life. Oh he is going to be set for life. You cannot tell me otherwise. I don't know if he is or not. But just by his story, oh yeah, he gonna be in headlines on the front covers. And yeah, and for something like that. His mama probably ain't broke either. So did they have did a surrogate? Uh? So? It says that it was conceived through IVF by Linda archerd. The embryo was one of four blah blah blah, while the others were frozen. After her divorce, Archer chose embryo adoption, selecting Lindsey and Tim Pierrece, so she had the baby. The transfer was overseen by doctor John Gordon at a faith based fertility clinic. And that's really all it ever says. Wow, yeah, okay, that's crazy to me. Yeah, you don't say that every day, that's for sure, all right. I don't know how to follow you. Yes, follow me on Instagram at real Robin O'Malley, Facebook at Robin O'Malley and I'm actually like on TikTok a lot too, so real, Robin O'Malley, and you. Can follow me at DI to King Penn everywhere, or like I like to say, every where, d T H. E K I N G p I N. All Right, we are out of here, See you next week. This was produced by f C Y
