S4E126 Parents, Come get your kids! Baltimore....mp3

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Speaker 1 (0s): Okay, bows and bow ties. So I I think it's clear that I'm getting cranky. I mean, not like in a way that I am being mean or anything like that, but things just start to irk me. Okay? Things are starting to, I, me, you know, let me just say this one thing. First of all, I know what it's like to have 5 million kids, And. they want to run and play.

I get that. I get it. But there is a time and a place, right? It is our job to rear our children. What I can't stand is when I'm trying to go to work and your children are playing in the middle of the street waiting for the bus. I need you to get your kids, get your kids. Can you all the way, get your kids. So like, do what you want, but number one, it's not safe. And depending on where you are, like, I know the location where my bus stop is, I just need you to get your children.

Don't, don't let them play the Middle Street. but I see this in other places. Like if for my sporting events and stuff like that, there are people with young children who do not rear their children. They, they, their children have no boundaries. They just run up, run into people, do whatever they wanna do. Now, I think I have enough. RBF, they know not to try that with me. but I see people letting their child, their children run as if they're feral or something. I'm like, oh my gosh. Like, these aren't just, they're not like these untrained animals.

Or maybe they are, I don't know. I'm like, these children are running like, they're feral. Like there's no structure, no boundaries. They're just out there wild. I need you to get your kids I know, I know the son is making it weird for you guys to see me, but I'm on this little bit of a stretch for a couple of minutes. And so I'm just kind of like, get your kids. I don't want you apologizing for your kid to me because you did not do what you needed to do. Get your kid. It's really that simple.

You don't have to let them run around like they're buck wild running into people doing what they wanna do. Now, this situation I was just thinking about was this morning was just kind of weird because I was trying to leave and I'm like, slow rolling it because I don't wanna hit anybody's child. But every time I tried to go, they're trying to run out in the street, run out in the street, run in the street. And I'm like, I don't wanna have to bark at a grown person, but I'm getting ready to say, I need you to get your children. But all always did was just remind me when I am out at, you know, different events, sporting events, whatever.

And people don't wanna get their kids. And I don't know if I was just like really tough on my children, I don't know. But I was like, sit down, sit down. If you wanna play, you can play right here. You don't need to run all over creation terrorizing the rest of the world because they don't wanna be bothered with kids. They are either past that, that, that point in time, or they don't have any, or they just simply have escaped their children. So the last thing they want to do is to be bothered with somebody else's children because I know I don't.

It goes back to my previous video. Now don't ask me about like, like, do you wish? No, I do not. Because see, my kids took it out of me. They all the way, they just took everything from me. I love them dearly. But after having four kids and running around after the kids, I was like, yeah, I'm all the way done. I am so done. There are some people who just have that gift. Well, let me make this clear to all of all of you who are watching this.

I don't have that gift. Don't ask me anything about your children. I can barely take care of myself now because my kids have wor me out now. They're wonderful human beings, but I, don't know I. think I'm just getting cranky and the only thing I could think of is Come, get your kids. Come, get your kids. That, that's, that's all I got. I, I, I'm, that's just where I'm at with it. Come get your kid, come get your kid. all right, I wanna move on to trolling Baltimore for one second.

It really wasn't a, it's not really about trolling Baltimore, it's more about the people who are in love with Baltimore. Now look, let me just say for the record, there are good things about Baltimore, but it is the other things, the bad things that overshadow the good in Baltimore for me. I'm speaking for me, okay? Like I. think what irks me about people who are, someone love Baltimore, probably because they came from there is there's an excuse for everything and it's at all levels.

And some of them are valid. So, you know, I've had people try to convince me why I should just give money to the squeegee kids. I'm like, no, I shouldn't. Although I do, I I try not to go into Baltimore. I haven't seen 'em in a while. I don't even know if they're still out there right now. It's not as hot. But you know, the point I was making was I could not have to have people come up to my window every two seconds if I'm driving through Baltimore for whatever reasons, you know, begging me for a dollar or begging, they, they wanna wash your windows and everything else.

Now I just get the dollar because it's, it's the little hustle. But there's times I don't have it and I shouldn't have to be told off. Well, they haven't told me off. They're like, well, why, why did you wanna gimme money? You're like, they wanna ask you questions. I'm like, so I literally don't even have a dollar to give you today. Like, you know, I shouldn't have to deal with that. like, you got me over stuttering again, like, like I'm stuttering because it is frustrating. And so when you make these comments to people, they look at you as if like, you're the antichrist.

I'm like, no, the problem is systemic. It's higher than me. Me not giving a dollar that day should not be like, oh my goodness, I can't believe you didn't give them a dollar. I'm like, well, I didn't have a free dollar to give that day and I shouldn't have to. I don't want people touching, I'm getting just cranky and older. I don't want you touching my car. But the people who are from Baltimore, you know, I'm, look, I'm gonna be totally petty. Now those people, those people from Baltimore, they're, I've hurt on multiple occasions.

People will say things like, well, they gotta make money too. I'm what? So they gotta come up to me and ask me to give them money for them to make money. And, they gotta put stuff on my car. Or they'll just start spraying Uhuh, I just got my car clean. I don't need another one. Or maybe I just wanna walk around with a full on dirty windshield. It is my right as an American citizen to have a dirty windshield. And for the record, for the record, I, it doesn't bother me having a dirty windshield.

It bothers my husband whenever he's had to be in the car with me. If he had to take my car for something, which he never likes to take my car, he's like, I don't understand this windshield. I'm like, well see, that's why you have your own car. That's why you never have any windshield wiper fluid because you use it like it is water. Like every two seconds its air hits his windshield. He's like, the stuff is coming out. I'm like, cat, like what is happening right now? Me, I look through the bug smashes, I don't even see them. It's willful ignorance. I don't know. I just look right through it.

I don't care. What I do know is getting back to the squeegee kids, I maybe I just wanna have a dirty windshield or maybe my car has already been cleansed through the rain or whatever. It's, the point I'm making is I should not have to deal with that. And so when people get upset And, they say, no, I don't wanna pay the squeegee kids to touch my car. Look, the people who know me know I don't like stickers on my car. you know how everybody wants to tell you all their business? They're like, look, I ran 8.9 million miles.

I did a super marathon. I have 500 kids. I have a dog. This is the school I went to, blah, blah, blah. They wanna tell you everything. I don't like anything on my vehicles. Nothing, nothing. Don't put anything. I I don't even want your squeezy water. How about that? I just wanna have a dirty windshield. Or maybe my windshield has already been cleansed. The point I'm making is everyone I know I shouldn't say everyone, but I'm saying it just because I'm petty. Everyone I know from Baltimore makes excuses for everything. And I'm like, no, now I don't need to have someone squeezing my windshield.

And the fact that you're gonna look at me sideways because I'm like, no, I'm tired of it. I don't want people walking up to me to my car. Okay, first of all, half the time it's not even safe to have these kids out here on these corners like that And. they look at me like I'm the problem. Like, no, the problem is something systemic in Baltimore, but let's move on. They get upset when I call out the fact about what's going on with their education. They look at it like, but they go, I'm like, yes.

I mean, look, we can still name the problem, right? And then the reasons why there, there may be multiple reasons why the problem exists, but the problem is still the problem. And, they don't wanna hear it. They don't, I don't like what is like what, what kind of mind Every I know I shouldn't say that 'cause it's a family channel. What kind of Jedi mind check has been put on the people of Baltimore where they think it's okay to just be like, well, you know, we know what this, you know, I'm like, I don't even understand what they're saying.

Well we know, you know, I'm like, what does that mean? You know, I just sat there and I made a comment about the only thing I enjoy about Baltimore at this point, even though there's good things that happen at Baltimore, but I just enjoy watching Brandon Scott get tore up by I. think her name is Mackenzie or whatever it is. Because he's always got this weird misshaped afro. He's always like, I Idi Idi that, that's all folks. She tears him up or whoever it is that's interviewing him. I don't understand why Brandon Scott is always on tv.

I think the thing that got next to me so much was, and maybe it was a year ago, I, I'm, I'm losing track of when this, there was a a, there it was on tv. Apparently there were children who were truant from school, right? They were missing from school. They, they left school and when they were leaving school, they were going to like local places like, I wanna say it was like a McDonald's or something or I, I don't know, but we're gonna say it was just McDonald's. Somebody will just have to fact check me on this. I don't remember where they were going, but I think it was like McDonald's and Popeye's or something.

I don't know. But I think they were getting like food or whatever like that. They weren't doing anything as far as I remember anything bad. There were kids who were pushing the envelope. They were pushing the boundaries, right? So they left school, they went, got a little snacky snack, you know, from McDonald's. It got a little burger. I'm surprised. And long story short, Brandon's Scott and all of his lack of brilliance gets on there and he is setting it up on all the local store owners and businesses.

How dare you serve these children, this, that and the other. And I was telling my husband, I was sitting there thinking like, what about this sounds ridiculous, but I, see this is why I can't mess with Baltimore. He would rather get mad at the businesses who, by the way, as far as I know, it is not a crime to serve a customer. I think you're not, right? I'm not talking about alcohol, I'm talking about burgers and fries or whatever it was. Maybe a moral kind of argument. Maybe an ethical argument. But it wasn't illegal what they did, right?

He was more mad at the local businesses taking advantage of the opportunity to earn business than it was the schools not having control of those kids. Those kids leaving school, the parents not having control over their kids. That's what he's more, he's more concerned about the businesses serving the kids who've left school to get a little snacky snack than the kids not being in school learning something. Which is why they're testing poorly. And so everyone always wants to point to all these exceptions. Like, well, you know, little Nook, nook and Dayday, they did great.

I'm like, but that's not en mass. That's not en mass. These are exceptions. This isn't like commonplace. Most of these children are not like when they put their stats up on the education, it was within the last year about how they were testing in mathematics and stuff like that. It was awful. It was just awful. Like most of them weren't even like basically proficient. Very few of them were, and I'm going by percentage, very few of them were even testing above basic French proficiency and stuff like that, right?

So that's not to say that there aren't kids who aren't doing that, but it was so abysmal, like on a large scale. And people get mad when I call that kind of stuff out. I'm like, it's so hard to even shift paradigms of thought because everyone wants to continue to just wallow in the fact that, that they have all these, these, these challenges. I'm like, okay, name the challenges and then address the challenges so that we can address the systemic problems.

But to just sit there and say, oh, well because of this, this is what it is. And it's just kind of like, let's just sit on our hands. And I'm like, so now let me just say this. I'm gonna call out my hypocrisy because my level of frustration is so high with Baltimore, okay? I was just kind of like, I'm over it. you know, it's your city. I remember I wanted to invest in a black bank. I kid you not, I gotta look up what the name of this bank is and it's out of Baltimore. I don't know if it's First Nations or I don't know what the name of the bank I was thinking, you know what, I wanna invest in a put some money in a bank.

Like it wasn't gonna be a lot of money. It was gonna be about 3 cents. Right? you know, 'cause I'm a mom of four children and a diva cat and a husband, so we gotta, you know, survive too, right? but I wanted to put some money in a bank because I understand Mon Banks can invest in local projects and stuff if they have money, right? And so they lend that same dollar out. Was it 19 times or something like that? I can't remember. So I called up the bank, this is supposedly a black bank and I cannot remember the name of this bank.

And I just wanted to talk to somebody about like, what are you doing? Like what are the projects? Are you invested in? Like what, what is your plan for the community as a black bank? you know? Because I understand that at the end of the day, banks are around to make money. They're around to make money. So they're not, all their projects are gonna be black projects, right? Because the fact of the matter is where are you gonna get the most of your money? So they're gonna get their money from probably a lot of non-black sources or something like that. They'll, they'll, they'll probably give them attractive rates for things or whatever so that they can have their money sitting in this bank.

But just trying to get some information. I never, about the information, it was just kind of like I was sent like over the river, went through the woods like, and I never got any answers. I'm calling a lady and she seemed like she was shell shocked. I mean, when I called at the bank, I'm like, who can I talk to? She didn't wanna gimme a, like, she barely went gimme a name. And like I was like, so I just wanna know like, what are you, what are you investing in? Because I'm like, I wanna know where this is going, right? And, and if I wanna call out my hypocrisy, to be fair, I don't do this with all banks, right?

I don't do this with all banks, so I'm gonna call out my own hypocrisy. However, comm, they have a long standing hi long longstanding history and the evidence points to whatever. But with a black bank, there's not many black institutions in banks and that type of thing. So it's like, well let me find out what they're doing. I can't even get any information. I was like, this is why I can't mess with Baltimore. I don't know what it is, but it is frustrating But. anyway, I just wanted to say that I think I'm getting just cranky because I'm getting older and people are, are just getting on my nerves.

I'm like, get your kids. And I want all the people who live in Baltimore who make all these excuses to stop making excuses and, and, and cosigning all the bad behavior. I'm like all of their freaking local government is so sus they're so annoying. Who, who, who's the p lady? PUGH. She was the one that went to jail for I. think the weird contracts for her, her children's books or how she, I forgot how she came across the money, but whatever it was, she basically took money that she shouldn't have been taking for her children's books thing or some contract or something.

So it's just scuzzy. You got the lady who's got the mortgage, the mortgage controversy going on where she, she, she miss miss something with the mortgages, like how either it was like or something like that. And so granted it's like, okay, that's what she's getting hemmed up on. You know, you see all these people, they do a lot work, but so a politician, you can get hemmed up on some mortgage fraud, but nevertheless you see all the local politicians in Baltimore getting hemmed up on so many things, you know?

And then he's not the only one. There's so much corruption and I think for me, and although politicians, I would just say across the board have a bad reputation, but this truly is the case for Baltimore. It's like you can't even trust the local government. Like so many people, just so many corrupt things. Collect police department, the jacked up local government, it's just a mess. So, you know, I'm done with Baltimore. This is why I don't go to Baltimore. 'cause Baltimore is clowning out there in these streets. They do too much.

They do too much. I cannot get around. This truck is taking up so much space, but this other lane won't let me through either. Like, I can't get around this truck. It's so annoying. But. anyway, those are my thoughts. Parents. Get your kids. And I'm over Baltimore. all right? Subscribe to my channel because I'm amazing in every way and can practically do no wrong.

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