Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Welcome to the latest and greatest episode of the official Dom J radio show. What's good where I hope y'all have been staying blessed. Hope y'all have been staying in the house also because it's still crazy out there in the streets.
On this episode, we'll be celebrating Black History Month in a variety of manners, if you will, checking in with some of my culture correspondence, discussing the latest news and entertainment for your consideration of FYC, giving you the quote of the day, the QOTD, the thought of the day, TOTD, and much more after this brief message. What's good official Dom J radio listeners? It's your boy, Agent Jerry, stopping the body, letting you know Dom, love the podcast, man. So in entertainment news, there's been a great start, if you will, in my estimation, 2021, entertainment versus what we got in 2020.
Really been enjoying a lot of content on a variety of streaming platforms. Just to give y'all a little sample, some of the things on HBO Max, Titans, has been a pretty dope watch. I enjoyed the first season, I think I'm waiting to start the second season. But I like DC shows, more so than DC movies, because I feel like they do a better job getting really, getting dirty, really, showing the gray areas that it isn't just some love story of falling into your super power discovery, then having a revelation of clear cut good and bad, and then making all choices accordingly.
A lot of blurred lines, especially with origin stories. And I think that's one of the strongest elements of the Titan show is the origin story. I think they do a great job of lapping on it in the first season. No spoilers if you haven't already seen it.
I don't know if it just came out last year because I'm just catching up. But definitely worth the show. If you're a comic fan boy, a DC fan boy, or fan girl, of course, for sure. Definitely worth checking out.
And they have some more good stuff dropping on HBO Max too, man. If you're in the documentaries, the Tiger Woods documentary, I get that's a good one. I'm kind of like on some documentaries, I don't really care about the sports of the background. Really feel like I got to see everything Tiger Woods went through to a degree.
Do I want an in-depth lens of interviews of people that were around or in the vicinity of, but not actually Tiger Woods himself? Not really. But just around the corner is something I am really excited about. And you may have seen promos for it if you've been watching TV.
Obviously, Judas and the Black Messiah is dropping exclusively on HBO Max on the 12th of February. So that's a film that I am definitely geeked about. It'll also be streaming in theaters, of course, if you're going out to the movie theaters. Eventually, I'll brother definitely do want to go back to the movie theaters.
I think that's one of my favorite date night options, or if I was rolling solo just to catch something early when I know about it, but old people tell even fell asleep and went into the movie theaters because I was there and it was so quiet and relaxing. But those are the four times, if you will. But I'm definitely excited for this movie, man. Judas and the Black Messiah should be a great story.
And especially during this time, I think, you know, it's probably not ironic that it's dropping in February, but I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it.
I'm looking forward to it. Mortal Kombat. Mortal Kombat. Dropping April 16, also on HBO Max.
Saw some first look posters and pictures from that. I love it, man. I feel like I haven't really seen any real big push on Mortal Kombat, you know, as far as the movies go since that, one that dropped in the 90s, man. Like, way, way, way, way long time ago.
And that was a low-key classic, underrated, I'm sure. Probably not too thrilled from a viewing perspective of your real critic or something like that. But I definitely enjoyed the old Super Mortal Kombat. So when this one drops on April 16, I will be looking forward to it as well.
Switching from one stream and app to another Amazon Prime. American skin, man. What to say, what to say about it. It's hard when you're watching these pieces, right, that are so dynastic in a sense of, they tear at you with the realism.
Things that I like, you know, fantastical movies and TV shows are great, but then the elements of realism, every day, applicability of a film like American Skin, for contrast purposes, just so endearing. Because it speaks to a lot of truth. It speaks to the truth of being a black male in America. It speaks to the truth of trying to raise a black son in this country.
It speaks to the dichotomy when you're in that position of raising them to know who they are, raising them to not have a spirit of fear endowed upon them, but also the realities that, regardless of whether you have that fear endowed upon you, the streets, the police, played by a certain set of rules. And oftentimes, you will be on the losing end of those rules. And by rules, that means often on the losing end of a gun. So in keeping that in mind, man, that movie is very powerful.
I really enjoyed it, you know, produced by Nate Parker, and he's acting in the film as well. So, you know, it was a really moving film. I won't spoil it. I wanted to delve into it even further.
I may come back to it, have some guests, my old lady talk about it as well. So who knows, man, but if you haven't seen American Skin on Amazon Prime, I would definitely recommend it, especially if you part of the culture, put that on your to watch list for this month, all right? And right along with that, one night in Miami. Now I talked about this one on a previous episode.
So obviously following back on that, great film, man. I mean, again, when you have the powerhouses of Sam Cook, Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, and Joe Brown, man, like, come on, man, you're talking, or not Joe Brown, Jim Brown, my bad. You're talking elite elite company, as far as Black metal icons, especially in the late 60s, early 70s there. So that was another great movie.
Amazon Prime really stepping it up with this content. I know next month, like I said, on a previous episode also, but since we're closer to it, you got coming to America too, dropping exclusively right before the boys' birthday. So definitely geek about that as well. Something else on Amazon Prime, just end up getting back into a little bit of a bit of a bit of a show called Flack, and Pac-Man, aka Stack House, if you could follow my true blood people out there, who that is and who said that.
So, okay, so, okay, Stack House. But that's a cool little series, man. Showing her range, if you will. And I think that's one of those good things, watching somebody go through one of those long drawn out dramatic fantastical series and then playing a different role that is more closer to the potential aspects of a real day job, things you might go through trying to succeed in said field, the things that buoy the lines between good and bad.
Right and wrong, and of course, just the choices we all make as human beings on an everyday basis. I ain't gonna spoil that one either. You can check the tagline for that. It's called Flack, also on Amazon Prime.
No, this is not a promo for either HBO Man, or Amazon Prime, but if anyone from either of those companies is listening and wants to cut your boy and check for these reviews and previews, I will gladly accept, all right? Last thing I saw on Amazon Prime, also the little things, man. Denzel, Jared Lado, man's from iRobot, whose name I cannot remember on the top of my head, but you know what I'm talking about? The little things, definitely another piece of film, man, that if you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.
I mean, that's not an Amazon Prime, that's HBO Max, but it's one where, again, blurring lines on certain things, if you will, doing things for good and bad reasons, knowing the outcomes, how they could affect you, how they could affect somebody else. I hate to give any sort of spoiler, so I ain't gonna do that. It's in theaters and streaming exclusively on HBO Max. So Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, Jared Lado, Sophia, Vanessa Leaiva, Natalie Morales, Bradley James.
There's a lot of people in that movement, man. So I mean, I could have probably stopped at Denzel and just told you to go from there, but definitely worth checking out on HBO Max if you haven't seen that, check that out as well. So they're really coming with the content, man, as far as Netflix haven't been watching too much on there since, I guess, Bridgerton, which was a nice little period piece, you know what I'm saying? I'm not the biggest fan of those per se, but that one was entertaining, because of course, you know, that was a Shonda Land production, shout out to Shonda Rhines and whatnot, but a lot of dope content coming out, man.
So if you're streaming and you've got all these streaming services, like myself, go ahead and add these to your watch list, to your queues and all that. So good stuff, drop. What's good official Dom J Radio, this is your boy, AJ J back again. This time for some sports talk.
I'm gonna give you guys a list of young talented NBA teams that are exciting to watch right now. Now, we all know about the teams, you know, the typical teams that are using the two-wise, you know, the next, and the 76ers and the, you know, and the Lakers and black, you know, about those. I'm giving you this is a list of young teams that are exciting to watch is in those types of order, what's okay. But suck list off, I got the hornets, we all know the boys in the game and this man's in the ball all up there.
The host is another team in the East, it's exciting to watch. We got the Knicks, even though the Knicks do lose a lot of games, they are exciting to watch. Don't forget about the Bulls. The Bulls over there live, by Zeko Dee is a nice young team to look out for.
They're actually pretty excited to watch. Now, in the West, we got the veteran lead team, the Suns live by my man CP3. Yes, he's the old guy of the group, but the team itself, the corporate team is young. They're exciting to watch.
The man is recently bled by my men, John and the guy played a wide game. They're young team, they're really big. Shout out to the Brody, agent JJ for coming through to pie, talking sports. And you right man, one of my favorite young teams to watch are the Charlotte Hornets, mostly because of the Mellow Ball, man.
His impact on that team, I think it's pretty obvious they're very exciting to watch. One of the highlights from just last night of the night before on a fast break, him with a flashy behind the back pass to Miles Bridges, who then went up for the win mill slam. It was nasty, man. So definitely appreciate you stopping by, dropping it, following my boy on the internet, Autumn, social media, and whatnot.
Now you know, you know what I'm saying? And we'll be back with more sports talk after this brief message. The litter box is toilet exteriors, tubs, and shower walls. Finished hardwoods, sealed red, stainless steels, got a mess, knew 40% thicker cleaning, two times better Clerox disinfecting wipes can get the job done.
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A couple weeks later, Harden has been traded to the Nets. They basically gave up any and everything, but you get a big three of Kevin Durant, James Harden, and Kyrie Irving. So I mean, when those are your big three, I think you're going to win a lot of games, and they've obviously already been doing that. So that's not really even a surprise.
A lot of shootouts, but when you talk about three of the most prolific scores in the league, playing defense, it's probably going to be a secondary thing. But you guys to keep up with those cats on any given night. Two out of the three could get cold, but I mean, KD has got one of the most flawless jump shots, man. He can pull up basically from anywhere, and it's not getting blocked.
He's looking over, you're pulling up, fading back, all of that. So they're a dangerous team. Before the season kicked off, and even before there was any of this James Harden news, I had Lakers versus Nets in the NBA final. So with that addition, I definitely think the Nets are looking even stronger to come out of the East.
And of course, I'm still sticking with my Lakers, because why would I not shout out to the Lakers family, the Lakers show? If you're a Lakers man, get out of me, man. I'm your own Twitter, all them social media, all that good stuff, you know what I'm saying? But we got the Super Bowl and NFL talk right around the corner.
Got the Chiefs, got the Bucks, almost a home game, because the Super Bowl is happening in the Bucks' home stadium. So, you know, that's gotta be comforting. They gotta do no travel. The opposing team's not getting there until two days before the Super Bowl kicks off because of COVID and travel protocols, safety protocols and things of that nature.
So it should be an interesting game, and you got two prolific offenses, two underrated defenses that I think the Bucks stand out, ability is passed rushing mostly before, which is a great benefit if you're having to defend against my homes. Even though Ty Boas will bring Blitz and extra pressure here, that'll be interesting to see how he schemes, because my homes will pick it apart now, the Blitz don't get there. He's gonna be playing behind some backup offensive linemen, so that will be interesting. Anybody that's really ever played, sports are really educated on the subject of football, and sports know whoever wins the battle at the line of scrimmage most likely will win that game.
So, should be interesting to see who leans on, who, and comes out on top from that perspective. Like I said before, man, I'm a Broncos fan. Unfortunately, we got no quarterbacks. I don't spend a whole lot of time talking about them cats.
Do I wanna see Patch in the homes win another Super Bowl as an opposing quarterback? In my division, I do not. But do I wanna root for Ty, Brady? I guess I do.
I got no problem with Ty and Brady now that he's not in the AOC and blocking my team's opportunities for getting to the Super Bowl. So, I got no problem with the Bucks winning. Obviously, Andy Reed is a mastermind, and if the Chiefs did win, I wouldn't be surprised about that icon either way. So really and truly, I just wanna see a good game.
Go ahead and close out the NFL season. Time Brady, man, making a 10th trip to a Super Bowl, man. We're talking something that will most likely stand the test of Ty as far as somebody being able to do that, and especially from the quarterback position, the hardest position in the sport, but he's done it. So long and that's such an elite level, it's really not too surprising.
But again, you gotta get the man props. In a season where they had, you know, to deal with COVID, no off seasons, the man switches teams, switches conferences, switches style upgrades, all the offensive weapons from what he had in New England to what he had down in Tampa. I think it was a clear and obvious great decision, and the man's in the Super Bowl in his first year having beaten Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees, possibly patched him home on his way to another Super Bowl. Man, how could he not be the GOAT?
So I ain't gonna hate him here to give that man his flowers and do time, patch him home. Even if he doesn't win this year, chances are as long as he, Andy Reed, you know, Kelsey and Tyree Hill stay as a trio, you know, a core players for that team, I'm sure they will be just fine. That man's already had a lot of success in his short seasons at Andy Reed, like I said, man, wherever he goes, the offense puts up numbers. So it should be a hell of a game, hell of a game.
And there you have it, ladies and gentlemen, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are your Super Bowl, 55 champions defeating the Kansas City Chiefs 31 to 9. It was a really pissed four effort, coincidentally from the Kansas City Chiefs on all fronts, man. Definitely shout out to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers coaching staff. Bruce Arians comprised an excellent, excellent staff featuring three minority coaches and two female fours, high coaches and what was a clear, a clearly and decisively, you know, fantastic performance, man.
31 to nine, think about it, one of the most high-powered teams in the offense, in offense, in the NFL, it was a 9.10 of Super Bowl. Reminiscid of the 13 to three Patriots Rams Super Bowl from a couple of years ago, but this is 31 to nine. So we're talking about a really, a complete beat down. If you only score nine points, you can give a damn near 3.5 times that's your opponent.
That's rough. Brady with another MVP, his fifth Super Bowl MVP, with his seventh career Super Bowl, he now has more rings by himself than any other franchise in the NFL. So there's really no discussion who's to go in this, but I will say the system that he has just implemented there, taking the culture that she was a quarterback bring to a franchise that's not winning, to a team that hadn't had success in a substantial amount of time. I think it was like old three since the butts won in Super Bowl versus the Raiders, or whoever they won.
I'm pretty sure it was the Raiders. Somebody has fought to let me know if I was wrong on that. But regardless, it's been like Eon since they've had this sort of relevance. It's been, I think, seven or eight years since they've been in the playoffs.
Jaymises, a nice QB, the Saints picked him up as their back up and possible started for next year, but all he was doing was throwing a whole lot of yards in touchdowns, but a whole lot of turnovers in the process. Tom Brady clearly brought a level of professionalism, a winning culture and mindset and instilled it into the Buccaneers in one year with no offseason due to COVID man, it's highly, highly impressive. Shout out to all the LSU players that got rings last night, Sandout, Sportnet and D White, Devin White, obviously man. I'm always happy to see LSU Cats get their shine on man.
So NFL, LSU, a beautiful night for that. Sorry for the honey badger. A rough night for him, Tom was on him boy. They had a lot of chit chat going back and forth, but if you're a competitor, if you play sports, you know how it is once you're on the field or on the court, you cross those white lines.
You turn into the most vindictive version of yourself as possible to get it going. So that's just people going back and forth there. But what a performance man, Tom Brady, the goat, can you argue distance himself between my homes being the next go, we'll have to wait and see. Cause now with this loss in the Super Bowl in his third year, you just got Brady.
The same thing happened to Russell Wilson. First year starting make the playoffs and lose. Second year starting go with the Super Bowl and win. Third year get Brady'd and it could, who knows man depending upon how the Chiefs continue to build that roster.
I'm sure they'll keep the offense intact. You know, with my homes, Tyree Hill, Travis Kelsey, but a lot of the ancillary pieces that you have around those players, who knows what could happen as far as the cap builds. Now it's estimated to be approximately between 180 M's, 185 NFL salary cap. I'm sure they'll have ways of working through that.
Sort of be interesting to see if the Chiefs get back because I do like some other teams to potentially make more strides and close the gap in the AFC so it doesn't just appear like some cakewalk. But if it's going to be another cakewalk for Kansas City after this sort of defensive performance that Ty Bowles just let everybody see, hey, yes they had a banked up offense line coming into the game but those are still grown in in the trenches. Going at it, you need to be able to bring consistent pressure and bracket coverage on the deadliest players on the Kansas City Chiefs offense. It was a masterful performance by Ty Bowles, who knows that had black man.
Happy for all those people who have been in head coaching positions like himself, didn't get the seemingly flawless transition of success when you were bestowed with it to begin with. And then I fired subsequently. But you know, I'm sure that brother will get what's coming to him in due time if it's another head coaching gig, then so be it. But he's a champion regardless.
The New York Jets should be looking at themselves kind of crazy but they also upgraded their coaching position with Robert Salah, first Muslim head coach in the NFL. So a lot of history being made in that capacity. But man, back to the Super Bowl, what a game, what a performance from Tampa Bay and Tom Brady, the GO. What's good on official Dom J Radio, this is your boy AJ, JJ, AKA, AJ, double J back again.
This time I wish everyone happy black history month and for everyone black like myself, who celebrates black history month every day. Happy February. Also, while I'm here, I want to give a shout out to my man. Bye bye, JJ, bye bye, JJ, bye bye, JJ.
Hey, my man started black history month off with a bang, giving courtside caring the business. Courtside caring is lucky Savannah James wasn't there. Or she would have got a double dose of it this that day. What's that be?
Hey, I want to go out there and prosper, especially if you're black. Peace out. So like I said at the top of the show, man, talking to history makers and game changers this episode. And there's been a good bit of history being made this year.
We're in the midst of black history month. So of course, I wanted to highlight some of these standout moments that have been accomplished for the first time in the history of the city of Baton Rouge, a city, you know, me being from Louisiana spent a lot of time there, LSU native go tighters, you know what I'm saying? Right there in Baton Rouge. But for the first time in history in the city of Baton Rouge, a black man, LeMann Co was elected to a full term as mayor pro-tem of the city of Baton Rouge and the parents of East Baton Rouge.
It took 200 years to happen in fullness. And you know, that's a very historical thing because the community, if you've ever been to Baton Rouge, aren't sure if you just look at the demographics in general of the city, there is a high level, obviously, of African Americans. There's also a melting pot, if you will, in the city of Baton Rouge that goes beyond just white and black people. And so I think to have this sort of diverse representation, a first in a history in the deep heart of the South, if you will, is just something that I could not pass up an opportunity to speak on.
So shout out to that brother LeMann Co, full term as mayor pro-tem of the city of Baton Rouge, man. So that's huge. And something that's encouraging, encouraging to hear about. We also have a new sheriff in Fort Bend County, back to my H-town people, shout out to everybody there.
There hasn't been a black sheriff in Fort Bend County in 150 plus years that changed January 1st when Eric Fagan was sworn in. So again, man, again, another forward-thinking county for being county. My wife's family is from there. She's very familiar with this area.
I don't know if she knows him. I probably could have spoke to her about it before I did this piece. But oh, well, these were my thoughts and my highlights. Thank you very much.
But so again, history of being a Fort Bend County in Houston, one of the more, again, progressive places, despite what may be surrounding the greater Texas at large. But if you've been watching, been watching how Texas has been voting, change is coming to Texas and being in positions like this, new sheriffs and town means effective potential changes in police, of people of color, black people in particular. And just in the sense of if you want to repair potentially any damaged relationships with a community by having somebody from the community represented accordingly, I think your chances of making said change increased exponentially. So that's some history in the making, man.
So I just wanted to highlight those moments, places that are near and dear to my heart that are doing things different in 2021. That's the sort of energy we need. That's the sort of energy I'm here to support and champion by all means. In a combination of both black history and sports history being made, Washington, the Washington football team, that is their Jennifer King, will be the first black woman to be a full-time NFL coach.
They're promoting her to a full-time offensive assistant. And that's the first she spent this past season as a full-time intern working with running backs coach Randy Jordan. Washington's running backs received strong production from third down back, J.D. McKissick, who caught a career best 80 passes for like 600 yards, Rush for another almost 400 yards, Rickie Antone, Gibson, Rush Rommel's 800 yards, and 11 touchdowns to T transition from playing mostly receiver in college to running back and produce those numbers.
And here's Rickie, here's so clearly, she was great at her job and has been promoted as such. Love to see this sort of diversity being made for women, women of color, black women, specifically, obviously. And I hope this is the first of many. We've had all female ref games in the National Basketball Association.
Now we're having a historic movement here with the first African-American full-time woman's coach in the NFL. So again, man, kudos to her, shout out to the Washington football team for just recognizing talent as talent, regardless of who you may have preconceived notions about being able to do the job. This woman clearly showed that she can not only do the job, but excel at it and is being rewarded accordingly. I like what they're doing in making this sort of move here.
So shout out to that queen, Jennifer King. My father today, T.L.T.D., if you will, is in regard to Black History Month. What is Black History to me? What is Black History Month represent?
To me, it's an additional emphasis on things I'm already aware of. It's an additional grounding and reaching to higher pillars and recognition of some of the above things that I've mentioned as far as inventions, schemes and dreams, any of those, their relations that they said we couldn't achieve, we somehow found a way to be successful endowed for now through eternity. I find Black History to be inspiring for a myriad of reasons. I find it to be an American history that somehow stands out and has its own celebratory fashion because that's just the way people do things around here.
You think you can quantify it or contain it to just one month in particular, but I view that as an opportunity for the emphasis just to be added additionally so, as far as the recognition that again, this is American History. Black History Month in particular, yes, it heightens our awareness from a global perspective, from a national perspective. It definitely can create a certain level of pandering if I'm keeping it above. I hate to sort of see it in some capacities, but you'd be surprised, and maybe not so surprised, by the level of pandering people will do on the internet, especially in moments like these.
So if you're listening to this and you are part of the culture, man, just be aware of that. Don't be out here pandering for attention. Attention is a hell of a drug, and if it's not coming from a place of genuineness, and if it's coming from outside the culture, just be aware of that. Don't just die for these people's adoration when you have your own people who adore you, despite it not being Black History Month.
We appreciate you 365, 12 months, 52 weeks, however you want to look at it. You're appreciated. You are recognized. All the queens out there, thank you for being you, despite the odds, despite the adversities that Black women face in this country, despite the sexism that Black women face in this country, from their peers, from constituents, from Black men, from other Black women.
Just know that you are loved, you are appreciated, you are important, you are special, you are unique. Keep diving within to find that strength that you need to find, that fortitude that we all know we are inundated with. If nothing else, our fortitude and resilience has made us lasting, permanence, is something that we continue to find, seek, and you cannot uproot it. Again, we're endowed with certain strengths, fortitude that come from, again, American history, our ancestral history, what we've overcome to get to this point and what we will accomplish in the next decade, the next century.
Endless and limitless possibilities, we all have them. And those are just some of the things I find to be inspiring, more so than ever before in any month other than this. But this is Black History Month. In political news, we've made history as everyone in this country is aware, Joe Biden was elected the 46 president of the United States and Kamala history, again, keeping up with the history and the making her story, or her story, if you will.
She has made that as the first Black woman, the first woman, the first woman, I believe with Asian background as well, to be the vice president of the United States of America, man. So, you know, if I could give a clap, if you're listening to this a little clap for her, obviously, man, this is a little clap, but a huge moment. Obviously to women in general, to Black women in particular, to her sorority sisters of Alpha Kappa Alpha, I know how important and significant the historical context of this is. And it's just a historical moment to where you can sort of take a sigh of relief, if you will, from what was the craziness of these past four years, to feeling now like there are actual adults in charge, and so we can move accordingly with a sigh of relief, but still our foot's on their necks.
Okay, so it's glad that we got that clown out of office, but now we have to get back to the business of making this country be what it's supposed to be, the embodiment and representation of a vast minority. And I think the Joe Biden administration, the Kamala Harris JB administration has done a good job of obviously making one of the most diverse cabinets. And I talked about that, the historical implications, there, and it just speaks to again understanding the people that helped you get to where you are, you then turn around and help them help those that they represent in the truest sense of it. And even just from day one, man, some of the things that were on the to-do list, pathway to citizenship, reversing the Muslim ban, extended the student loan calls, rejoined the Paris Agreement, a 100 day masking challenge, no evictions or foreclosures, the Keystone pipeline, stopping that, ending the border emergency and rejoining the world health organizations.
So from day one, man, I know Joe Biden got that pen to work, sat here and watch the news for, you know, what seems like forever that day, just watching that executive pen, man, just flying, get to work. So I appreciate that pen maneuvering like he's been maneuvering it. And there have been even more executive orders since he took office on day one, a lot of things addressing climate change. Now he's getting to foreign affairs and foreign relationships, swinging the pen on a number of issues there.
Now that he's done his executive parts, it's time for Congress and the Senate to do their parts. And that I think, I think, if it were me, should start with ensuring everybody who needs it, get their stimulus checks, man. We're still in the midst of a pandemic. You still have people without jobs.
You still have people who cannot see the loved ones who are suffering from ramifications of this play to give you will that's killed some odd 400,000 people in less than a year. We need some sort of relief, man. We got the 600, like Jen Psaki, the press secretary said, you add 1400 to that, that's the two grand perfectly fine with that, let's make sure we get that passed and done as swiftly as possible. Congress between the Senate and the House, Dems got them both.
So I'm gonna need to see, regardless of what Republicans feel, what they think, we don't got time to be trying to repair relations with these people if they don't want to help the greater American people at large immediately. So I want to see continued executive actions being done by Joe and then the House and Senate Congress making sure that they do their job too. Let's keep our foot on the neck, people. We're just getting started.
Cash rules, everything around me, cream, get the money. Dalla, Dalla, bill y'all. Yeah, man, money, money. Wall Street, shout out to Wu-Tang, obviously Wu-Tang, for ever.
It's been some crazy business happening, man, with the non-one percentsors, if you will, the non-wall streeters taking over and taking money from said one percents via the internet. It's been interesting to see Reddit subgroups with some inside people on there providing just regular people, man. Chances and opportunities to elevate their income in the midst of a pandemic. You had billionaires fortifying themselves, making hundreds of millions in the midst of a pandemic.
What's one of the ways people not in that position can do so with help, you know, via memes and stock acquisition going and betting essentially against Wall Street vets to make some profits. Now, I'm not gonna sit here, like some financial experts and tell you where to spend your money and how to spend it, but if you're trying to obviously build upon the regular income you have, if you will, presumably you want to diversify portfolio, stocks, bonds, the whole nine, now whether you get into the minutia of day trading, you know, stock dumping and things of that nature for short gains, that's your own personal business, but I would recommend everybody at least take a look at it. Now I'd say more than ever, we have apps that are doing a way better job of illustrating it, making it simple and easy to use. So again, man, I recommend if you haven't been paying attention to what's going on, starting out if you're using services like PayPal or cash app or even Acorns, you can read the different the vesti portfolio information they have available, they give you, you know, the overviews of how stock, any stock really that you may be interested in, whether it's business, healthcare related, tech related anything, give you an overview of what it's done a day, a week, a month, a year, all time, just so you can get a better interest.
I'd say everybody start with a dollar here that man, if there are some things you want to get interested in, obviously, you know, you can have your own personal interests or their companies you want to back because you just are convicted and back in those companies, hey, take a dollar here, there, put it in there five if you will, so on and so forth. But always be looking to diversify that portfolio. These are the times to dip your toes in, obviously, only doing it with what you can't afford to lose and if you're trying to make short gains, amen, you miss all the shots you don't take, so shoot or shoot. Up next, one of my favorite people you've heard or featured on the show before, we talk education like History Month, my sister-in-law, somebody near and dear to me, Ms.
Meghan Bearden, up next on the official Don J Radio Show. I am so honored to be back with you and discussing the state of education. And right now, the virtual learning education is really being redefined on what is possible for our students and our families and our teachers and our staff, et cetera, so this is an exciting time, it's a challenging time, but it's still very much so exciting. The biggest thing about virtual learning is getting the students to be bought in to being on their computer all day, because whether they're on an actual live classroom or doing an activity on their own self-died it, it's still behind a screen.
So really figuring out ways to get students invested and their input and just celebrating the successes that they are able to accomplish is a very big push in this virtual setting. The downfall of virtual learning is really dependent on students to be independent. There's a certain fight in eagerness that you have to have in you to be focused enough to do this on your own and usually developmentally, students are there around the college senior year time, but we're asking for kindergartners and fifth graders and ninth graders to have the same capability and desire that we would see in a college environment. And that's hard, that is really, really hard.
It's hard for parents because they don't know always what to do, and it's hard for students because they feel defeated and it's hard for teachers because you don't know how to support your kids because you don't have any work to see. Right now with all of that, we have to be certain that we are doing our very best. So we can't get stuck in this is hard and it's impossible. The challenge as an educator right now is to figure out a way to make it impossible possible.
And so it's an exciting time, even though it's challenging to redefine what school could be. And it's also exciting to see students that struggle in the building are now thriving remotely. And so like is there a life in which students can now decide if they want to be remote or if they want to be in person or a combination hybrid of both? So I think it's an exciting, I think we can do a lot with virtual learning.
It's on us now to define what is possible. Megan, you definitely make some great points about the importance of accountability and independence. Even in my own career field, that's something I'm working with my instructors on building with students because again, with the learning being virtual, there's really no foreseeable end to it in sight. So making the best out of it is a continued battle on a weekly and even daily basis in some situations.
So I think the adaptability that both educators and families have had to show obviously is a point of celebration and something that we have to continue to build on because we know if we don't take it into our own hands that there will be kids left behind. And I saw I think, like you said, making them accountability and building their ability to be independent, building their confidence in their skills while their skills are still growing. I think these are the sort of challenges I know I work with in my own field and I know you can probably share in the late two in that aspect as well. So I think you're dead on with that.
And with no seemingly no end in sight to it to be with this hybrid or virtual learning, I think it's just a continued battle that we have to take and strive, realize obviously Rome's not gonna be built in a day. We're not gonna have all the definitive answers and best methods right away. But our earnest efforts will end up eventually helping the children achieve more than they might have expected to achieve and even some of the parents. And I always find that to be one of the best moments when students excel beyond even what their parents have imagined, especially given the circumstances.
So thank you. Thank you for speaking on it. Now, Black History Month is a super special time anytime you're in a building because usually you have some kind of show or performance. Either students are just doing their own personal talents or you have a play for families and students to engage in.
There's so many things you can do. We understand that Black History is not just one dimensional thing, there are layers to it. And at my particular campus, we are taking a couple of different approaches to both celebrate, but also educate Black History and our students and staff about the different components of that. Some of those things that we're doing is we have like some self-paced things that students can do on their own.
So they can do trivia, maybe internets or raffle. We have a near-pot activity where students can like go at their own pace and just see and hear different experiences and stories about things that have happened in Black culture. And then we also are gonna have a Black Excellence Award Show. Now this award show is a tradition at my campus.
However, this year we're going to incorporate a real life virtual experience for our students. Like it would be an actual award show with videos, introductions, music, et cetera. It's a lot more that we can do virtually than we could do in a building. So we're taking every advantage of that.
The final thing is that in our actual classrooms, we have encouraged our staff to find ways to infuse Black History into their learning, into the learning that the scholars are going through. So for example, in our algebra one class, we are doing things that happen on this particular day in Black History, which is a different thing like these random like people that we're talking about. It's like actually events or like people that has some kind of special impact on the world on this day of February to kind of give some connection. Other teachers are doing things that are related to the content and how it applies.
So for example, in our history classes, they're talking about Black America and the impacts of COVID-19. So there's all kinds of things that we're doing to infuse Black History. And the reason why we're using this multilayered approach is because there's things that will spark our students. They might hear something, they might not have learned, they might learn something new, that they didn't know about their own history.
And our whole goal is to use this month to propel them to be curious about where they come from and what could they possibly add to our history instead of these typical stories that they know back and forth and kind of tune out at this point in their high school journey. We're on a challenge now to say like, this was what Black History was. What will then you do to make Black History for the next generation? I love it, I love it, I love it.
I think anytime you can cultivate that curiosity and that ingenuity in students, you have to leap in that opportunity and really hold it until they sort of really just take stock on their own, especially if you're working with high schools. I think them having their own vision and understanding, this is the history we have behind us and this is the history that we want to make moving forward. I think that's a hell of an exciting venture to be on and I'm happy to hear that that's something that's going on in your area and in the New York area in general with the schools there. So that is something exciting.
I'll definitely be following up with you on that because I'm sure there are going to be some amazing surprises as to how this next generation sees and interprets history and how they choose to then become a part of it moving forward. That's some good stuff right there. Black History Month, y'all, shout out to kids. And there you have it, history in the making, episode 24 of the official Dom J radio show, special guests.
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