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Uh-huh. It's all s**t. It's all just dumb gay politics. America's gotten kinda white, but we're not gonna let it go down like that because we got a dumb gay podcast, a dumb gay political podcast. We probably don't have all the facts, but we got opinions and we'll probably backtrack. That's why it's a dumb gay podcast, a dumb gay political podcast. Oh, it's all s**t. It's all s**t. Oh, it's all s**t. It's all s**t. I mean, are we gonna die? I don't know. I you're extreme. I am extreme. It's all s**t. Uh-uh. This s**t is bananas. B a a a s. This s**t is Trump a*s. T r u m p a n a n e s. What? I don't know. I don't even know. Hey, everybody. Welcome to our Dumb Gay podcast. I'm Julie. And I'm Brandy. And this is the podcast where we talk about all the dumb gay s**t happening in the world like we're talking about reality TV. Well, no, Mal. The big news this week is that all the Democrats are mad at Chuck Schumer Chuck Shum for passing the Republican budget. Okay? Yeah. But all I really care about is that Donald Trump stood in the driveway of the White House selling the Tesla truck. Okay. Let me go back to Chuck Schumer. Okay. Chuck Schumer. I spoke to my parents. Okay. Doctor Guac. And Fila Ina Gango. Fila Agonte, who are huge, huge, you know, Democrats Right. Liberals. They they voted for for Kamala Harris. Yes. They hate Trump. I mean, when I tell you that Phyllis Right. Hates Trump. Okay? How do they feel about Chuck Schumer, fellow Love Chuck Schumer. Okay. Now because he is in the tribe. He's in the tribe. He's done right by us for years. He He does his best. He cries. He's embarrassing. He's a Jewish grandpa. Cringe for everybody to do to the barbecue? He is cringe. Okay? Now he's cringe, but he also means what? Let's somebody can be cringe and meanwhile, or they can be cringe and be Elon Musk. Like Right. You know what I mean? It was honestly how Hakeem Jeffries did some kind of cringe behavior this week too. They asked him about I mean, the democrat I just I I got I have to just admit. I have to just admit the democrats s**t in the bed this week. I mean, just They took well, they went into bed. They took some sort of huge bucket of Adderall. Yeah. Plax it in. Amphetamine and lax it in. Right. And I don't know what. And they exploded s**t into the bed. Right. I don't understand why. I don't know. I I I it's it's it's it's so embarrassing. I am so irritated. And now I love Chuck Schumer, so I'm trying to have a a loving heart while being mad at him and trying to understand why he did that. Love Chuck Schumer. I like Chuck Schumer. You don't love him like you love Nance Pileau. No. Okay. Well No. But I have nothing but be clear. A good feeling in my heart for him. Like Chuck Schumer, and he's certainly kind Yeah. Would love for him to be my grandpa, the way he talks about his grandma. I want him to ride I wanna ride double bikes with him. Like, in the eighties. And I'm sure his kids and his grandkids are like, oh god. I mean, just like he's he's he yeah. There's nothing Oh, and his lesbian daughter, and she lives in, like, f**king Brooklyn or something. He's just there's nothing unheart there's just nothing. No. There's nothing not to love except for the crunch. Some of the most lovable people are embarrassing. Some of the most lovable people are embarrassing. And if you can't tell the difference between lovable, embarrassing, and, Elon Musk, that's why you voted for Trump. So I don't know what to tell you. There you are. However, what him not and even my parent my my mom after walk. So my mom was truly trying to find she was like, Julie, I don't know. I mean, what was he gonna do? What was he gonna do? And I was like, he's gonna shut the f**king government down is what he's gonna f**king do. We're not f**king playing with them anymore. She's like, well, what that people won't get their Social Security, and he's just trying to You know what? Can I tell you? Yeah. I'm kind of with Phil Ellegonte on this Yeah. Because, one, he wasn't alone. He got 10 people. Yeah. 10 people. And that's why people were also annoyed. Kristen Gillibrand was in there too. Kristen Gillibrand did it. Yeah. And what she said was and this is what got me. Okay. Because we know the government can shut down because Nancy Pelosi did it on Trump's other terms. So we know Phil. But Phil but Phil, you're gonna get your Social Security. But that's the thing. We know that it's can work. Yes. What what Chris and Gillibrand said which resonated with me was that if they let the if they shut the government down, that gives Trump even more power to just do whatever he wants with no budget. Whereas once there's a budget in place and agreed on, that's why he can't say, oh, I'm not sending funding to Ukraine. Or or I can't I'm not gonna do, whatever with the f**king fires or certain things. It's like, congress passed that. Oh, you're mad at you're mad at Right. At Kamala Harris because you got $8. FEMA gave you $8. Congress gave FEMA eight dollars. Right. If there's no congressional budget approved Right. He'll do whatever he wants, and a judge can't stop it. So that's why. She's like, I'm not about to let him run run rough shod. Right. And she's I mean, she's obviously very, very clever and is, like, highly intelligent and and knows. And the problem with the Democrats is messaging, period. Period. It it's an esoteric thing to say, but you just have to understand, like do you know how far I had to dig to even find that factoid out? Well, that's the thing. Why isn't that the first thing on everybody's mouth? Right. Because even talking to my mother, I was like, she's it's softening me to a little, like, you know, I get it. And I was like, I'm okay. I'm not you know, they're worried about it. And I was like, what about, like, fighting back and not letting them do but what Chris and Gillibrand said make the most sense of what anybody has even said one time. And it's buried in a top of a Wall Street Journal article that had I had to pay for you. But that should be the top of the thing, and that would make all the people who are freaking out and making videos and saying, you know, and AOC and everybody else where it's just like, that makes the most sense. I don't want we don't want Trump to to to have, unlimited power. No. We do not want that. What would have happened because then judges can't talk. There you go. So good. Well, then I get I may have to say then Chuck Schumer did the right thing. Yeah. I mean, what can I tell you? It's the censoring of Al Green. Disgusting. Democrats need to be slapped and all fired and all primaried, whatever that is. Like, you don't even need to be in this party if you stood in there and censored him. I don't even understand that. But we did to Marjorie Taylor Green. It's like But we didn't. Oh, we did it in in the actual house. Right. But we didn't do it in the State of the Union. Oh, no. And she stood up and booed Joe Biden. That's right. And we let her and that other lady you hate with a passion. Lauren Vover. Right. They stood there and screamed like the hooker, w***e monster, garbage trolls they are Yes. And nobody censured them. Yes. And but Democrats Yep. Censured a Democrat? I think You're fired. You're fired. You know what? Trump called, and you're fired. You're fired. I think that that what I'm then what I'm now as I'm readjusting and reframing to the to the government shutdown thing, if that had been the thing and Chris and Gillibrand would be in center front and that would've been the messaging, I would feel like, yeah. Like, there's fire in there and there's fighting in there that makes sense. Right. That thing with Al Green is pure pander. And it's also not just pander, it's part of the f**king problem, which is that we always have to f**king promote this thing where we're above it. Where we're above it. Where we're above it. We're not f**king above it. Okay? No one's above it. No one's above it. It could be anything. We're not above it. Okay? So What is it called, my mom? Just a rate market. K? And then we don't get it out there. No. Because We don't get the message out there. And now all we see and the only person who knows how to message, AOC. She's got the loudest voice. She didn't even go to the f**king State of the Union. She stayed on home and live tweeted it and went on f**king Instagram Live. It was like, I'm gonna just keep to being an influencer, and it's like, okay, girl. And then, you know, Maxine Waters didn't go and then was, like, on the record being like, well, you know I'm not gonna listen to that bulls**t, or I'm not gonna put up with that bulls**t. And I was like, oh god. You're the best. She's the only one, and it is because she's on social media. But, like But that's why what Kirsten Gillibrand's so important. We're all feeling we want fight. We're all feeling we wanna fight back. But the truth of the matter is, yes, it's fun, and it feels good in the moment to go f**k you and suck my f**k and s**t my dick and f**k my hole and blah blah blah blah blue. I'm not gonna and resist, hashtag resist resist resist and f**king blah blah blah. But at the end of the day, the only actual thing that gets done is what gets done in the physical what they're getting done in the house, in the car, in the in the way. Right. And and so for Chris and Gillibrand to be like, here's here's how this is working. Right. Otherwise, he's gonna executive order us into some weird s**t. Yeah. And we don't want And judges can't do s**t. And we don't want that. Nope. So rather than seeing it in the other way, because I keep seeing this video of someone we know who's like, Chuck Schumer needs to be primaried, and this is wrong, and we need to fight. And it's like, no. You someone else who knows politics or knows what's going on, if you if there's something else going on that's more important that's gonna trump that, I guess you can have now you can have a debate. But you can't have a true debate if you don't know how the s**t's working and you're just mad because, you know, it felt like Mike Johnson got what he wanted. You know what I mean? Yeah. We have to have a budget for congress. So And, like anyway, there was that, and then Oh, the Tesla. Was the Tesla. So the Tesla was beyond. The I've been enjoying every meme where it looks at, like, the that Elon that Donald Chuck was sucking Elon Musk's dick in the car. Yeah. That's been completely f**king enjoyable. Like, there's just two get fern gays in the back hiding, sucking the dick, which I loved. Also, some dumb b***h needed to get on Twitter and be like, When Biden did it, it was fine. But when Trump does it, it's not a good but when? I'm gonna tell you. So, basically When he drove his car? So during buy so Biden went and remember when he he got in the Ford Lightning I just now remember that. Drove the truck around. And then on the white and the only reason they're even doing this is because Biden the Biden administration in a sort of umbrella, we should all here's the cool, fun, new, innovative, electric slash hybrid technology cars that are happening. There was a Hummer. I think there was a Ford. There was something else. But he was in a tarmac. He was on the White House. Oh, I thought that thing was on a tarmac. There was a different time with that. So there was the so they did do a thing at the White House, but the difference is none of the people who run Hummer and blah blah blah blah are in Doge, who are working in the White House, who are now working hand in hand to get government contracts, who are now working within to take it's the the level of conflict of interest that they're promoting is is truly not to be believed. And the fact that no one in front of their eyeballs is seeing it and wants to compare it to what Biden did. It's a constant false equivalency. It's un Unreal. Believable. To be fair, did forget that thing about Biden and that and the one I only do remember is the one on the tarmac. But, yeah, you can you know that it was all about, like, let's get into no emissions by 2030 and all that bulls**t that they always talk about, and they were obsessed with the f**king environment, and they were obsessed with electric cars. This is different. This is the time bomb. Dumbest one on the planet and put it there. Oh, the red the red one. No. Just the Cybertruck at all. Oh, the so but but they also had another one. Oh, what was that? They had the regular one. Oh, I didn't see the And Ted Cruz is in front of it going, that's the coolest thing I've ever seen. Oh, god. It's like odd. They're in the red Tesla, and they're showing also the sunburn. The level that Elon Musk is such a whiny Stop making fun of my company. Stop making fun of my company. I'm going to show you guy I can't even do his accent. It's so gross. So Nan so bizarre. The reason they have the f**king Teslas on there to begin with is that people are f**king getting rid of their Teslas and are boycotting Tesla and are pissed at Elon Musk specifically. And the only way that these people know the only power the only freedom freedom freedom freedom that they have is to go f**k you. I'm getting rid of my Tesla. However Also, wait. I did think that I didn't research this, but supposedly Elon Musk, like, got in a fight with, like, the secretary of transportation Oh, yes. And perhaps treasury. They got into a thing, and I thought maybe I thought a % what you're saying, a %, that Tesla stock dropped. People are making fun of them. People are vandalizing them. Oh, they're left and right. Swastikas all over the place. And his mother to the point where his mommy has to come out and be like, stop making fun of my son. Stop now making fun of my it's like, stop making fun of my Exactly. He he he lost some leverage and some power within Well, I don't know if it was inside the explosive meeting where Trump officials clashed with Elon Musk. Yeah. Simmering anger at the billionaire's unchecked power spilled out in a remarkable cabinet room meeting. The president quickly moved to rein in mister Musk. Yeah. So I think I think he stood out there, sold his Tesla. He's like, I've he probably said to Trump, I put my company on the line, and now my stocks dropped. Literally, Trump literally goes, I'm gonna go buy a Tesla tomorrow. I know. Like, you're gonna go buy a Tesla tomorrow. In addition to many, many, many, much, much, much Tesla stock. Oh, and the funny thing is is that they all love gas so much. They love gas so much. You literally stood in front of us. Again, this is why this podcast is terrible. But, one of the MAGA, we have to get back to fossil fuels. We have to get back to fossil fuels. Let's get back to lead paint too, shall we? Yeah. We should put mercury back in all of the fish. Definitely. Let's do I mean And it's ironic that Ted Cruz stood in front of an electric car knowing full g*****n well his power grid's gonna freeze freeze right over in Texas. How you gonna charge your car, b***h? I mean, they're they're they know no shame. None. They know no they don't know integrity. They don't know shame. Well, before we get get to the next segment, my mom, let's sell our Patreon. It's we we it's how we make our living. It's how we do this podcast. Go to julie and brandy dot com. We got a bunch of free episodes for you to try out. Mhmm. We got some Christmas cards from Patreon members. I mean, I'm still this I'm I'm ending out the Christmas cards today if it's the last thing I do. So The last day of the Christmas cards. From Julianne. Julianne. Okay. Julianne. Julianne Weiss. Oh, look at this nice big family. It's got a big family. It looks like a lot of daughters, which I love. A lot of daughters. A lot of daughters. Everyone is like all sons or all daughters. We especially love all daughters. Yep. Happiest of holidays to you and your family. It's Craig and Julianne forever young. Olivia, twenty one, Gwyneth, nineteen, Margaret, sixteen, Vivian, eleven, and the fellas, Trey twenty two and Ethan twenty. So Julianne is married to a Craig. Yep. We got another Craig. You know her solid. Craig and Craig. Does she have all daughters the same way Craig does? Olivia, Gwyneth, Margaret, Vivian. Well, we know Julianne likes to fight. Yeah. God, Julianne. Do Craig's really get people pregnant? Yes. I mean, get a job, Craig. Jesus. He has a job. A full size job. He has an insemination job. Let let Lydia know her mother's a w***e. I mean, we've got then the fellas are Trey and Ethan. So Trey is 22. He's the oldest. Dear Julie and Brandy, thank you for the light, levity, and education you bring in my life. I constantly tell people I don't need your notes, babe, and it's freeing. These people I love the phrase these people. These people are my husband Craig and my four daughters and the two oldest boyfriends. Oh, yeah. Oh. I had a feeling. These Craig's, man, how now Craigie or or Craig Craig, he has I just need to say five Yeah. Daughters. So this is these are four girls. What's cute about this and the reason I thought they were their sons is because they're all wearing the same sweatshirt. So these boys must be into these girls because they're in the family pick wearing the family sweater. Well, the girls are young, but I so I assume they're not married to the fellas. Boyfriends. Okay. They're a little too young to get married, Julianne. Yeah. These were just kinda and the two oldest boyfriends, we call them the fellas. Happy thriving twenty fiving. Love, Julianne Weiss of Nebraska. Family is gorgeous. Yeah. Like, nice, perfect fella. And we love how Julianne is a big slut in the bedroom. Julianne is a f**king nice slut. Doing it doggy style. She made all four of her daughters doggy style. Okay. So, we will be putting that on the drug down bulletin board. Okay. So now this is from Stephanie. Now I never know. Is it NADIG or is it I think it's NADIG, but it might be NYDIG. But, anyway, we love Stephanie. She's the Lesbo. I mean, I don't know if she's ever told me, but I just assume. But I'm hoping ma'am, I have not looked at this, but I'm hoping that Anton and Scalia are still thriving in Thrive twenty five. Hey, guys. I wanna try to let Brandy know that I'm not dead. Unlike Biden, we decided to expand the court here in Texas. Uh-oh. That sounds good for Antonin Scalia. Yeah. Last January, I bought a camera and started stalking a Siamese mixed cat that was wandering the neighborhood. I named her O'Connor and would yell at her on my runs and look like a crazy person. By April, she decided my house would be hers even though I later found out that two of my neighbors also were feeding her. I truly laughed and related to Julie's obsession with Dudley, and I'm so happy to hear he got a fabulous new life. Your political podcast podcast is the only place I can deal with any Trump news since the election. I've screamed with you, laughed with you, and cried with you. Thank you for all you do. I'm in a world full of Trump flags still up for Christmas. I look forward to escaping with you four times a week. Happy New Year from one of the original 14. Proud mom of Anton Anton, Scalia, Ruthie, and O'Connor. So now we've got O'Connor. Oh, good. Now first of all, just like a little cat. A little, you know, backstory for anyone who hasn't isn't one of the original 14. One of the reasons this was called dumb gay politics is because I was so dumb. I thought that Anton and Scalia were two people that were partners on the supreme court named Anton and Scalia. Then and I am thinking, oh, but you've learned so much now that you've done this for seven years. I can also tell you guys this, and I've told Maumau in confidence, but I've never said it here. But I'm gonna say it in honor of Stephanie. It wasn't until well into the podcast, and I'm talking about 2020 or 2021, that I didn't know that judge Lance Ito wasn't the judge from the OJ trial wasn't on the supreme court because that's Samuel Alito. When I tell you, I have thought the judge from the OJ trial was on the Supreme Court since the nineties. Okay? And I mean, it does make sense. It does fit. It's Samuel Alito. It does fit. And, so, you know, Stephanie, the next cat we're getting, Lance Lance Alito. We can combine Samuel Alito and judge Lance Ito. Good one. Perfect. And now it's time for our newest inductee into our icon series. Motherf**king legend. Motherf**king legend. Even if I die, living legend. Living legend. Look at my reflection. Ain't no second guessing. Always be a legend. A motherf**king legend. Motherf**king legend. You ready to have some fun? Let's do it. We are so excited because today we're adding another name to our Dumb Gay Politics icon series. Since the inception of this show, we have talked to quite a few influential people. But today, we're talking to someone who we consider to be an icon. Yes. We are beyond excited and humbled to have this woman on our dumbass podcast. She is larger than life, and she uses her iconic powers to do good in the world in a creative and beautiful way. When we heard about her and her organization, Move In Day Mafia, we knew we had to have her on the podcast. Yeah. This is a copy and paste directly from her bio, and we don't normally do that, but it's so perfectly written. We said, f**k it. So, quote, as a as a proud alumna of Howard University, she's the godfather of Move In Day Mafia, a nonprofit initiative she founded to provide dorm room makeovers and monthly care packages for four years for HBCU students who have aged out of foster care, are unhoused, or grapple with financial hardships. I defy you guys to go to the website moveindaymafia.org and not cry your whole damn eyes out. The whole thing is so touching and uplifting, but it's hard to put into words. And the thing is is I've been we've been trying to articulate it, but it's like this idea. It's it's such a creative and fun way to support young people who need it. Yep. And, honestly, the second y'all hear her voice, you're gonna understand how a concept like this can only come from this person's mind. So here to tell us all about Move In Day Mafia and how she became known as the world's greatest hugger, please welcome our newest dumb gay podcast icon, TJ Mercer. Hey, TJ. I was trying my best to stay silent, but you guys had me rolling. I was trying my best, but I couldn't help but just crack up laughing. Thank you so much for having me. The godfather herself. Yes. Yeah. Godfather. Now okay. Thank you for doing this. Yep. I mean, we you don't need to thank us. We we gave the cliff notes from your bio, but explain to our 14 listeners what Move In Day Mafia is. So Move In Day Mafia is an initiative that I had founded right after, maybe about a couple years after I moved to Atlanta. I moved to Atlanta a few days before the lockdown. And you may not be able to tell, but I'm an extrovert. And, you know, I know most people miss that. What? But, yeah, I'm I'm a big extrovert. And so to be stuck in a city, a brand new city, where I couldn't do anything, that was crippling for me. And I'm also a woman of faith. So I, you know, I can't be authentic of who I am without bringing my faith walk into this. And so I was pretty upset with God, because I moved to Atlanta on his divine instruction. And so I'm like, dude, you I could have stayed in LA and written this thing out, you know, if you were gonna do this to me. But then also, I had to have a come to Jesus moment, if you will, and say, like, well, if you really are the God of the universe, then it must mean you knew this was coming and you have me here for a purpose. And so what that led to creating was a virtual bingo game that took off. It blew my mind. We were supposed to just do one night, one you know, series of 10 games. I was gonna get a give away a hundred dollars. Fast forward six weeks later, we are still playing bingo. Oh. And around that time, we saw the graduation start getting canceled. And being a product of a HBCU, historically black college and university, I knew that these kids had crawled to the finish line, and now they weren't going to celebrate. So I transformed that virtual bingo into HBCU bingo, and, y'all, we raised over a million dollars in cash and prizes in less than four weeks. And we gave it away in a series of epic bingo games that I would produce just like, you know, as a TV producer, I would produce it just like, you know, one of those. And because it started getting national traction, CBS Evening News with Nora O'Donnell, interviewed us, and that's where I met the young lady that inspired Mafia. Turns out she had aged out when she was driven to her HBCU by her social worker. The social worker drove her to campus, pulled up to the curb, let her load what little she had, and then just left her. Let that sink in. That's so intense. That's so And I had never considered that population of students because that was not my experience going into Howard. You know? My mom had shot for months, and I had everything I need perfectly coordinated. You know? And that transition to college is already tough. Yep. You know, on any student, but to these students. And so Wow. I asked God, can you show me what I can do so that this never happens? And move in day mafia was born. I can't even imagine. I mean That was the thing about that it that it's it's such a good idea. It's so creative, and it's so positive. Yep. That's why I want people to go to the website for a million reasons, but it's like to see what we saw because it's not because first of all, watching anyone go get an education is already inspiring. Yeah. Like, oh my god. Are you like, it's that's already so cool. And then to think about people who maybe, yeah, didn't didn't have anyone or that's and and then also that could be the end of their road. Yeah. So, basically, you know, for this person or these these kids that go who don't have homes or families or whatever, they're dropped off at the schools, and then there's no one to check-in on them? There's no one that they're like, that's it. Then from there on, they're just on their own? Well, let me let me even, you know, make that even more plain for you. So 70% of the statistics according to the National Foster Care Institute. The statistics are seventy percent of kids who age out of foster care excuse me. Seventy percent of kids in foster care dream of going to college, yet only three percent go Oh my god. And one percent graduate. Now let me make let me drill that down a little further. So, you know, because we are focused on the HBCU community, 46,000 applicants were, you know, sent in to my alma mater, Howard University, for two thousand spots. Our kids are getting those spots. At Clark Atlanta, last year, they had 42,000 applicants, I think, for, like, 1,700 spots. No. Kids are getting those spots. These kids have a resilience and a perseverance that we have to help them get to the finish line. If they're already beating the odds by going to college in the first place and then they're getting into their dream schools. Yes, we've got to get them to the finish line. And us getting them to the finish line is the difference between making sure they've got deodorant, detergent, and toothpaste and not academics. They got the academics down. They need help with their basic needs. Shower caddy. Flip flop. Yes. Well, I and also the hug. I mean, at the end of the day, one of the scariest things, you know, for me, I can only speak for myself, I guess. And I same thing. I got everything I needed and my parents and I you know, I'm privileged to have gone to you know, obviously, it was a performing arts school, so no one didn't need much of an education. However, I was scared, and I was felt alone. And I felt lonely, and I felt like I didn't I felt lost. And so to go there without anybody there for you just must be crippling. So what you guys are doing, I just feel, is is not just the shower caddy and the thing. It's giving Yeah. It's giving a light at during during a journey where one would feel there's there's no light while while you're walking. It's like you're alone at night, and you're giving them some light. So let me let me just show you what I just read while I was waiting on you guys to call me. So we're in the middle of adopt a scholar week. Right? That's where we put out wish lists from Amazon of all of our scholars' needs. Every you do we do it every month from the fourteenth to twenty first. So, movingdaymafia.org/adopta scholar. Everything needs to be bought by the twenty first. But what I posted in one of our groups and this woman who apparently is our volunteer for this particular HBCU, she wrote under the post, I love package drop off days. I can tell my assigned student is so thankful to get her delivery, and I love playing a small part of her story. Yeah. So to your point, it's more than just about the tangible, things that we do. It's a reciprocity also between our volunteers and our kids and they're always gonna be my kids. I know they're young, you know, young adults, but these are my babies. And so, there's this reciprocity that happens and you've not really, there's nothing I can do to really describe it unless you're boots on the ground and you see that when we do a big dorm room reveal because all of our rooms are custom designed by Nikki Kluge Design Group. So we really pay attention to what they want. And so when you see that we do this big design reveal and they look around this room and they see things that were specifically designed with them in mind, there's no greater feeling. So, like, if it were Julie, she would have, like, Melissa Etheridge posters type of vibe. Yes. No. No. Come on. Or cats. Come on. We do ask them those kinds of we do ask them those kinds of things on their form. You know? And for many of these kids, this is the first time that someone has asked them what do they want in their space. That's that's what's so powerful, I think, about the whole thing. Yeah. Is that I I can only imagine, you know, when you're saying the the they've clawed and and worked so hard to be in a in the to, in the system or out of the system to get into any college is a huge it's it's my those are prestigious universities. Yeah. That's mind boggling. I have, so many questions, but I'd wanna just do, like, a quick offshoot really quick about HBCUs. Number one, I wanna acknowledge vice president Harris Yes. Because in her first in the first debate Yeah. To to be the Democratic primary nominee or whatever, the president Yes. She mentioned HBCUs, and I had to Google it. And that's why why and when was that? I mean, that would have been '20, like, '18, maybe? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So So let's let's take a moment and let's educate. First of all, there are a hundred and seven HBCUs recognized by the US Department of Education. It they it came into play this HBCU designation came into play simply because after slavery, white people didn't want to go to school with us. That is just that's those are the facts. Mhmm. So HBCU started popping up and educating 50%, I believe the the number is 50% of black doctors, black, attorneys are educated out of an HBCU, and 100% of our nation's women vice president has been educated by an HBCU. Vice president Kamala was a graduate of my alma mater, the one, the only, the Howard University. And if you'll notice in HBCU culture, no matter what HBCU you go to, you're they're pretty much gonna always introduce their HBCU as the Howard University, the Florida A and M. So, we are very, very boujee, if you will, when it comes to our HBCUs. But HBCUs historically have always been underfunded. And I get the the question all the time. I've gotten racist, you know, asking me why do you only take care of the n word, you know, as opposed to other students. So I'm I'm used to this. Why we focus on HBCUs is because I know the culture. I came out of the culture. My mom came out of the culture. My uncle came out of the culture. My grand my, my brother. We are a an HBCU family. And because HBCUs are already historically underfunded, we wanted to come beside the work that they do in educating so many black professionals to make sure that the next Supreme Court Justice, who the first black Supreme Court Justice of The United States, Bergen Marshall, came out of Howard. So there's so many firsts in the HBCU community that we wanna make sure that these kids are not slipping through the cracks. Amazing. Well, I wanted to say, additionally, that's why representation matters. Because if it wasn't for her on that stage saying that and me googling it, and then it has never stopped being something that we cared about. I went to Texas Tech University, and we have Mhmm. We have, like, the national black fraternities and sororities there. So I feel really, like, grateful to have experienced that and to have been in any way and been out of school with it. Do HBCUs let white people in? Because looking back, I probably would rather have gone to one. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for asking that question. Just like Because Why did I not go to Howard? Yeah. Thank you. Thank you for asking that question. Because the racist comments that we get either in our email or, on social media, it's so very ignorant because they always want to frame it as though we're only helping black students. And our criteria is not black students. Our criteria is HBCUs, and they are all types of people that attend HBCUs. In fact, we had a we moved in quite a bit of Hispanics at our very first HBCU because it was Paul Quinn in Dallas, and they have a huge Hispanic population. I couldn't care less of who these students are. I just care that they came out of foster care. They are beating the odds to go through an HBCU. But, yes. I'm glad so close. Maybe the ignorance on this can stop and the racist part of this can stop because we are anybody can go to an HBCU. But you have to remember why we were founded in the first place. White people didn't wanna go to school with us. Yeah. Well, I think that's the thing. It's like that listen. You don't know something until you know it. You know? And I do appreciate you answering the question and being able to ask the question because Yeah. We can't we can't learn unless we are open to giving and receiving, being educated, or educate educating or being educated. You know what I mean? And instead of assuming, ask me. Yes, ma'am. That's the point that I really wanted to drive home. All of these inflammatory comments as opposed to you just asking. Yeah. Yeah. Asking. That's good. It's quite simple. And I'm like, I love it. Less what race these kids are. I just wanna get them to the finish line of their dream. Okay. I have one more question about the HBCUs because you said there's over a hundred. I didn't know that. Do you do There's a hundred and seven that are designated a fish like, for instance, there can never be a brand new HBCU. It is a federal designation that how long it's gonna be, I don't know Yeah. Exactly. With everything that's happening. Yeah. But it is a federal designation to be a historically black college and university. There are a hundred and one remaining. Six schools have closed. Typically, schools that were founded in the eighteen hundreds from the eighteen hundreds to, I think, 1958, but don't quote me on that. What you have to be required to have the the designation. So my question is twofold. Do move does Move In Day Mafia work with all hundred and seven? We want to expand and have a chapter on every campus, but right now, you know, we we have made this thing look good. Let me let me just say that. But we're still brand new. We we've kicked off in 2022 because I have people thinking, like, wow. You have Amazon. You have Best Buy. You have, you know, Cisco. We have been really blessed with media and getting exposure and getting our message out there. So we're still very, very new. We are not even three years old. The goal is to be at all 101 remaining HBCUs. We have so far moved in 84 students at 21 HBCUs. So we are starting, you know, for many, we were too good to be true. So they weren't believing us when we were reaching out to them. However, now that we have, you know, podcast interviews and whatnot, our credibility is growing because h b HBCUs are seeing the good work and the intention of what we are setting out to do. Are they making an effort to, like, work with you? Or look or not just with Move In Day Mafia, but look for kids who came from, you know, backgrounds where they struggled, or do they or or do they not? Schools so some schools that's a great question. Some schools, like the Texas schools, are required to have a person that is specifically assigned for this population. But it goes back to HBCUs are underfunded. So not every school can have a person that is specifically for that population. It will be nice, but that's exactly why our resources go to let's get directly try to get directly to the students who need us and get the application in their hands. But like I said, because of, you know, the credibility that podcasts like yourself and other media are giving us, schools are paying attention and coming to knock on our door. So in that case, they can send the application directly to their scholars. But otherwise, we've leveraged social media, word-of-mouth, and we've done really well. Like, you know, last year, I think we had a 50 applications for 44 slots. So that's why we need, you know, partners, and we need partners. If you're listening, we need partners who understand that this is a journey with us. You know, this is not we move them in and we leave them. These kids get personalized, customized, of their choosing care packages every single month for four years. So we need long term donors who recognize the importance of freshman year to graduation, corporate partners who want to actually have a tangible impact on this next generation that are going to be early loyal potential customers on the way to then the work pipeline. So it's not just, you know, about detergent and deodorant. It really is having a long term impact. Our kids are getting one of them went bragged to me on a check-in the other last month, and I was asking him about summer plans. And he said, well, auntie because they all call me auntie TJ. Well, auntie, I'm entertaining offers, up on Capitol Hill. Wait. What? Amazing. Amazing. And so Wow. Does a donor do they send notes? Do you get to meet them, know them? Like, is there any sort of relationship like that or no? You there could be as long as the donor applies to be on the student support team, clears a background check, and we have to make sure, you know, that their intentions are pure. You can read between the lines. And, you know, that they really have the scholars best interest. We want to expand to, you know, there be a writing campaign where we send, affirmation cards and, you know, everything every week to them so that they know that there's always some kind of touch. But, you know, these are ideas that take, you know, people and funding to put into place. And so that's why we we definitely, have to I have to personally keep in mind, like, you're only two years old, Tish. Even though we've done three move in seasons, we're technically still not even three years old. We've accomplished, you know, a lot, but there's so much more that I want to implement. So, for example, we have being a TV producer, there's the Move In Day Mafia dorm room makeover show. I shot the episode. So we're going to be looking for partners to be the sponsor to actually go into post production. So this thing, you know, is sustainable. It's generations of, you know, kids that we can help as long as we have partners that believe in the mission and are willing to put their money and their time where their mouth is. I was on the Emmy winning team for Homemade Simple. And in the last part of my career, all I did now I see why. But all I did was transformational, you know, unscripted television. Now I understand because I know that formula. I know what makes a great show. So, of course, you know, we shot it from the first, you know, season of move ins. So it's just, you know, now we're moving into post production, but the mission always has to come first. So all the funding has been going towards the mission of Mafia. Has anyone graduated yet? So we have because we don't just, take in freshmen because I realized that sometimes we are the difference between them getting to graduation or having to, you know, step out, sit out a semester, what have you. So we did have our first graduate last year. She went on to become, she's in in grad school now. Yay. And this is a kid that had been in foster care her entire life. She has nine siblings that she doesn't know where they are. Her dream is to find her siblings and help them get an education. This is a kid that, when we revealed her room, she loved the room. But guess what made her cry? Oh. When we opened up the cabinet and she saw that we had bought her favorite maxi pad. Oh my god. Maxi pad. I can't. That's so crazy. That every woman need. That is so sad. For granted of going into Costco. And our mom's doing that. Exactly. That's so sad. Yep. That is You know? Like, your mom is gonna get you the exact one you want to take care of you when you're experienced. Exactly. Okay. Well, let me just get into you for a sec. One, I'm, like, really curious why did you move to Atlanta? I wasn't lying at the very beginning. It really, you know, was a divine order that my time in television and in LA, as I knew it, was coming to an end and there was more for me to do, and I was instructed to move to Atlanta. It it's really not deeper than that. I didn't I loved LA. You know? I had, worked on as behind the scenes producer for a few films while in Atlanta, but I had no intention of ever leaving LA. So it was definitely a divine instruction to move here, and I knew it was something about the HBCU community. I just had no idea what. Well, as two people who have really considered moving to Atlanta, I mean, we get it. And now after the pandemic, you're or you're thriving? I love Atlanta. I have to apologize to God for being such a little pet and a spoiled brat because I love Atlanta. I love the community. There are four HBCUs here. It makes sense that if I was building something for HBCUs the furthest HBCU is in, Oklahoma, Langston. And so there's HBCUs in it in Alabama, in North Carolina. So now it makes sense. And I'm, you know, I'm very happy, and I love what I do. I am absolutely thriving. I've gotten more into my speaking career, delivering keynotes. So it it has been a a great transition. You almost think that there was a reason that God is omniscient. You know? He he got that thing, you know, on lock. So, he knew what he was doing when he instructed me to come here. Two more things before we go. We're gonna have to walk us through the for for our 14 listeners, the process of, like, sponsoring or donating. We are excited that in a in a more tangible immediate way, though, is we are having our very first in person fundraiser where we're taking it back to our roots. HBCU bingo. We're calling it the HBCU bingo, the bougie bingo party with a purpose. And we want those people in the building. Think of it as a gala meets, HBCU homecoming with a bingo twist. If I don't know anything else, I know how to put on a great bingo game. There's a reason why our tagline is this ain't your grandmama's bingo. So we've if you, you know, the Atlanta community wants to have a tangible immediate impact, please be at the bingo, 07/12/2025. Okay. So tell us how before you go, tell us how I know all of our listeners are gonna go to to the website. Yeah. What do you want them to do? The second they get to your website, what do they do? So the second you get to the website, hit that donate button. There you go. Because we need money. And set it up as a monthly contribution. We need predictable income because that is how we can tell how many students we can take in every single year. So my first and foremost is please set up a monthly contribution. I don't care if it's $4. I don't care if it's $400. I don't care if it's 4,000. Whatever your budget can handle, please set it up as a monthly basis. However, if that's not what you're wanting to do right now, the fourteenth through the twenty first of every month, we do the Amazon Wishlist. If you want to just buy directly for a styler campaign, the fourteenth through the twenty first. But if you hate shopping and still wanna contribute, the best way is to just donate. And then do you take volunteers? Absolutely. The volunteers and everything is tax deductible. Let me just, you know, make sure that's understood. But with the volunteers, the volunteers are way more active during move in season because, like, last year, we moved in 40 students at 19 HBCUs. So that was a lot. So we need boots on the ground. If you have corporations that have, employees in the different cities that we will end up being in, Have them show up. That's how Amazon got on board. Best Buy got on board with us. Sysco got on board with us because of the volunteer aspect. During the course of the year, what we wanna build out is a pipeline of career guidance, mentorship, and things like that. That's not completely flushed out just yet, but that is the goal is to actually have, an amazing student support system that builds a pipeline into various careers. But volunteers will definitely be activated for move in season when we've had people fly in to different schools to volunteer. So you don't have to be here. If your budget I mean, you don't have to be living in the city. If your budget can handle you flying in, baby, fly in. I got all the hugs for you. Please. Because it really is an experience to see you really get to see how much of an impact you're having when a scholar, totally ignores the room that was designed for him. This kid he was at Lane College. He totally ignored the room. You know what he's zoned in on? It's the Costco size box of Pringles that we had bought him. That's Those were his favorites. Sweet. Before again before before before we let you go. For July 12, are there can you buy tickets online? Yes. The early bird tickets are going on sale March 23. Okay. And there will only be 52 available at this point at that point. And 52 in honor of that's how many days we built the first mafia move in in. So Much too. We're making it 52 tickets, for the early bird. There will be general admission as well as two levels of VIP being one will be the Goodfellas, and the top level is the Godfather level. Yes. Oh, and we already oh, I'm glad you asked that again because I totally zoned in on this. Sherry Shepherd, who who played for us on Celebrity Jeopardy and who played for us on Family Feud, has agreed to be the honorary chair of the the bingo, and she will be in the building as part of the as the the godfather package of the bingo. Well, I don't wanna excite everyone, but, like, I'm already looking on Delta for flight. She's like mouthing a she's mouthing across the table, like, I wanna go. Like, I think we should go. That's what she's telling me. She's like dying to go. So if Yes. If we do, we're gonna have to do a live podcast, and we'll have to have a representative or something even though Oh my god. That would be so fun. I'm telling you, you have not seen Bingo the way we do it. The first the first year, those kids didn't know which way we were coming. We had celebrity pop ins. We had Beyonce's keyboarder. Keyboard is judging, the popular song dance off of at the time, it was, Megan Megan Thee Stallion's, Savage, and she had just dropped the remix with Beyonce. So we had her keyboardist. We had a Grammy winner deliver the commencement, Grammy nominator nominated, deliver the commencement address. We had, Grammy winner songwriters actually give sessions of writing the song. Like, you have not done bingo unless you've done it the TJ way. I believe it. I'm like At a gala, Nola. At a gala? I need I need all of it. Let's all go. Let's all go. Let's go. Let's go. TJ. Go. We are inspired by you. We're we love every second talking to you, and we wanna help you in any way that we can. And thank you for coming on our stupid podcast. You're an icon. Y'all it was such a refreshing blast of joy to come play with you today. I I cannot tell you how excited, I was. And one of my best friends, he was more excited than than I was because he's familiar with you guys. Oh. So when I told him, he was like, oh my god. You have to say yes. Oh my god. You have to say yes. You must make time for this. Not one of our 14 listeners. Can't take it. What? Unreal. Tell people I mean, we said moveindaymafia.org, but, like Mhmm. They're probably gonna wanna follow your I don't know if you give out your personal Instagram or Yeah. So move in day mafia has its own social media, but I am t j Mercer everywhere. So that's t e e j Mercer, m e r c e r. 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