Growth & Grace

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When was the last time, baby? We back. I'm good, I'm good. We back and we back and we back and we back and we back and we back and we back.

Leaha Crawford 0:44
Julian, don't you say nothing. I saw the game on Monday. Don't you open your mouth. I am still an Eagles fan. I don't care what you say.

Julian Rosado 0:53
Wow, but no, it was

Leaha Crawford 0:55
no, it was just one. Did you

Julian Rosado 0:55
see a? It was good though. Press conference though.

Leaha Crawford 0:57
No, I did not see LeBron's press conference, but I am ready for the Knicks and the Sixers when LP game. No, what did he say? He

Julian Rosado 1:04
said, "I did not leave my family to lose in the second round.

Leaha Crawford 1:09
Huh? Go Sixers, Ishiberg. Go Sixers. But it's funny because growing up in Philly, you know, it's a different when you when you grow up in the city where you have the teams and and the teams and the people, and they always say the Philly fans are rough, and they I guess they are.

Julian Rosado 1:26
I heard Boston is worse.

Leaha Crawford 1:28
I can't believe. Okay, so today today's show. Well, again, you know, I am still E A G L E S. Even named a company after him. You know, even named the company. Today, y'all was it's it's election time, Julia. Yes, sir. It is. It's it's that time of year, and these elections are going to be good. And we are just encouraging because Vegas has grown. Clark County, Nevada, has grown a lot over the past two decades, and we've got nothing more efficient and better at our in our process. But just when you're new here, getting people to vote to vote today, I have some special people in the we have some special people in the studio with us. Faith in Action. I have Shonda Johnson, and she's the executive director of Faith in Action Nevada, and a failure, a familiar voice to growth and grace. You know, that's my this my buddy Marcus Allen. He is an entrepreneur, community leader, and a man we previously talked to about purpose, about faith, leadership, and legacy, because he really delves into all those things. But today, Marcus, you know you're here, community engagement, and we talked about that, right?

Marcus Allen 2:36
Most definitely.

Leaha Crawford 2:36
Well, welcome to the show.

Marcus Allen 2:38
Thank you, brother. Thank

Leaha Crawford 2:38
you. All right. Um, when I hear, I mean, faith in action. Tell me personally, what does that mean to you? And I guess Shonda will start with you because Marcus will take us all the way there. He will.

Shaunda Johnson 2:49
Yeah. So for me, faith in action is literally how you put your faith into action. It's there are certain values, mandates that we have as believers, as people who believe in a higher calling, and then there's the work that we have to do in order to make sure that that impact is felt in the world. And so, faith in action is about how do we take those values and actually put them into the way that we live and care for each other. Okay,

Leaha Crawford 3:18
so Marcus, you are a very productive person. I'm not gonna say busy because you're not busy. You're very productive person.

Marcus Allen 3:24
Thank you.

Leaha Crawford 3:25
Why faith in action? Why this organization? Because you could you a lot of people would love to have you around. Why faith in action?

Marcus Allen 3:33
Well, first of all, initially started with you. Don't forget that now. The invite started with you, but then when she came in and explained everything that she was trying to get done, and especially with the connects that I have right here in in Nevada, Las Vegas, Clark County, that the first part of it is faith. So you know it has something to do with God and with God in my heart, in my life. That's the number one steering wheel to me. That's gonna drive me right there. You know what I'm saying? So then, also explain to the work that's actually doing for the community. That's right along with what I do all the time, is trying to help the community understand where we at, and then giving them the power that they need to get to where we need to be. So that aligned with me. So I align with it. So we all together with that right there.

Leaha Crawford 4:16
Well, you want to know what? Thank you for trusting me, because that was trust two years. And again, well, you want to know what we do? Trust each other again and again and again and again, and it keeps on getting better.

Marcus Allen 4:28
Yes.

Leaha Crawford 4:29
Do you have any events going on that are coming up here in Las Vegas?

Shaunda Johnson 4:33
For sure. Okay. And one of the most important ones that we're partnering together with Marcus Ellen on is Souls to the polls?

Leaha Crawford 4:41
Yes. Okay. Yes.

Shaunda Johnson 4:42
Two years ago when I was here, that's what we were talking about.

Leaha Crawford 4:46
So you want to know which? We got to bring you back every two years. Just know every two years. Yeah. Every two, and I'll tell my team every two years on this day you're coming back in here because we're going to talk about this voter engagement. Love it. Go ahead.

Shaunda Johnson 4:58
Yeah. But souls to the polls is. Is really how we're rebuilding the culture around voting, so that it's not something that we do in isolation. It shouldn't be a quiet individual thing we do. It should be a community thing that we do. How we take care of each other, how we make sure that we all have what we need, and do it as a collective voice. So, october 24, from 11 to three at Doolittle Community Center.

Leaha Crawford 5:23
Okay, we're

Shaunda Johnson 5:24
we're asking everybody. 1950

Leaha Crawford 5:26
J Street. How about that? Even know the address. Thank you for the plug. We're asking

Shaunda Johnson 5:30
everybody to to come out to vote early, bring a friend, bring family, and then celebrate. But early

Leaha Crawford 5:38
voting starts on october 24.

Shaunda Johnson 5:39
It starts on october 17.

Leaha Crawford 5:41
October early voting starts on October. That's good to know. october 17 because yes, and this is just my two minute plug. I don't understand why anybody in Nevada doesn't vote because you can mail in a ballot. You got early voting when you go to the grocery store. When you go anywhere, you I mean it's early voting all over the place, and then on election day, it's like I you got two weeks.

Shaunda Johnson 6:05
Yeah,

Leaha Crawford 6:06
you can sit in your living room and do it, or you can go on election day. Yeah, no excuses. There's no excuses.

Marcus Allen 6:11
But I think what what actually happens is the misform information that people do not know who to vote for. Yeah, because they need to do their research. Absolutely, you know what I'm saying, and actually, you have time to do your research and see who fits you as a candidate.

Leaha Crawford 6:26
Okay,

Marcus Allen 6:27
so they need to more sort of research, and then also with the soul to the poll, we kind of went outside of the souls to the poll is like is going into souls to the poll, parties at the poll. We got pounding to the pole. That's what the motorcycle clubs all getting together and riding their bikes to go vote. That's a big one right there. And then for the younger generation, we go twerk to the poll. We go twerk to the poll. They like twerk and twerk to the poll. Get a vote in. Whatever it takes to get you to get a vote in. We're gonna do everything. It's going to be a party. It's going to be a party. I like it. No, really, really, it's trap. The twerk was just a joke, but trapped to the polls, though.

Leaha Crawford 7:10
Oh wow, I love it. I got an event on October 2024, so I'm gonna try. I'm gonna work to get over there. I think that is huge. So October 24, Dolittle, and I guess all the things you want to have a lot of stuff going on that day, a big event.

Shaunda Johnson 7:25
Yep, music, free food, entertainment, and just fun fellowship. We gonna have a good time.

Marcus Allen 7:33
And leading up to that, at the One Love Motorcycle Club, we will actually have party at the polls too. We will start as early as early voting for every Tuesday, we'll be engaging people and getting them registered and signed up to vote too. Okay, every Tuesday at One Love.

Leaha Crawford 7:48
845.

Marcus Allen 7:49
845 West Bonanza.

Leaha Crawford 7:51
845 West Bonanza. Talk of the town. Talk of the town. 8910. I love it. So talk of the town. Now let me. So we're talking about the historic West Side.

Marcus Allen 7:59
Yes.

Leaha Crawford 7:59
And are we going into any other parts of town, or we're just still focusing on the historic West Side, just that neighborhood or people? Well, we we

Marcus Allen 8:06
never just focus on the West Side. That's just our community. Okay, but we we we remember we said Las Vegas, we said Clark County, and we said Lavada. So we all that's all together, just not just West Las Vegas, historical West Las Vegas. We want Clark County, we want the city of Las Vegas, and we want Nevada to be engaged into voting.

Leaha Crawford 8:25
Okay,

Marcus Allen 8:26
everyone to be engaged. The thing is, it's not so much you being engaged. This is this is the thing. This the problem that we having. The individual themself is engaged, but now it's time for you to engage someone else.

Shaunda Johnson 8:38
Absolutely,

Marcus Allen 8:38
it's time for you to engage. Make sure that teenager in your household that's 17 gonna be 18 is eligible to vote or just turned 18. Make sure they know the importance of voting. That friend that you call that y'all talk about Facebook or talk about other people' business and stuff like that. Make sure that y'all talk about voting. That cousin, that auntie, that uncle, that nephew, that niece. Let's go past just oh well I'm gonna vote I voted no let's make us vote not just I let's turn the I to us and turn it to we we win and vote it

Leaha Crawford 9:10
as a family thing

Marcus Allen 9:11
yeah it's a family a community not just a family because it could be a friend be a long a friend a coworker let's get make sure everybody engaged into voting, we just worry about ourselves, and we already engaged. We like, and we already there. We got them votes, but we need the other people to get more, so so we have more of a voice in the system.

Leaha Crawford 9:32
So let me say that Marcus, you've built businesses, you've invested in properties, and yet and still you remain connected to the community. Do you believe that successful people should reach back?

Marcus Allen 9:47
Most definitely. You can't forget where you came from. That's what make you a legend.

Leaha Crawford 9:53
And not simply write a check.

Marcus Allen 9:54
Not just write a check. It's not about money. Did you get past money? It's not about money. Not saying I have a lot. Of money, I need everybody think that I have a lot of passion. I have more passion. I have money, and everything I do, I do it with passion because I I was at one time that little kid in the project, and that's another kid. And it's not we don't have projects too much, but we got a kid in an apartment or homeless that they don't see the future that I now see, and it can be done. If I can do it, they can do it.

Leaha Crawford 10:22
They can do it.

Marcus Allen 10:22
Yes,

Leaha Crawford 10:23
they can do it. But

Marcus Allen 10:24
we also need the right people in the right place, so votes do count.

Leaha Crawford 10:28
Okay. Well, let's let me ask you a hard question, and I want to um, I guess want to push you both a little, because we have churches, we have nonprofits, we have community organizations, and we have elected official, we have businesses and we have activists. Yet many of the same problems have been discussed for decades, for decades. What do you think is the disconnect? Because I mean, we we discussing the same thing over and over again.

Marcus Allen 10:55
I think outreach is to every name that you just name. The outreach is to each other. It's time to go to a for let's reach out outside that shell to a different demographic of individuals that have not been engaged. We got to go to their level to engage. We talking to the average individual, and at a certain age, that you lose the interest in voting because you never knew how important voting was and what people went through to actually to vote.

Leaha Crawford 11:22
Well, you could. I mean, let me say this. So you hear the stories in February, right? So you hear the stories, and and and you might, um, and like my even though my kids vote, they're like, I. I mean, mom, I don't have no, I don't have no connection to what they went through in the 50s and 60s. Right, that's what I'm talking about. I don't feel it. What do you mean? No, boo. You couldn't live here. You couldn't do this. But how do we start to engage those that aren't engaged, or get to those get to those that aren't? Well, because I don't know that you're not engaged. Does that make sense?

Marcus Allen 12:00
Well, you got to understand. So, history tells a story, and then we talking about Black history, and then when you take history and Black history out of some of the schools and some of the books, that they're not educated now. We're not talking about inside the home because it's not a factor no more. Because now we're talking about the future and not what have happened in the past. But sometimes it's time to take your kids or individuals down memory lane to some time or a place that you know you was here, or maybe they was here to understand how we got to this point, to how your vote really count, and what how what's the importance of your vote. They don't know the importance of voting. It's just a it's a sin. It's like oh, it's just a thing. Oh, my vote don't count. It's an option. Again, it don't count. It don't make no difference anyway. If it did make a difference, why would so many people would try to sway you not to take it from you, offer you something for it if it didn't mean nothing? Why?

Leaha Crawford 12:56
So okay, I love that. I love, and the reason why I ask that is we see the you know well this person's coming to town, that person's coming to town, and for the average person, you know, they I mean they can't get in. They don't they don't have the like you are blessed in that over the years you've built the connections. Now when they come to town they look for you,

Marcus Allen 13:18
exactly.

Leaha Crawford 13:18
They want you in the room, but at one point in time, you were you know one of those you had to figure out how to get in the room, right?

Marcus Allen 13:24
Most definitely.

Leaha Crawford 13:25
And what did you do to get in the room?

Marcus Allen 13:27
Start being in the place. I mean, I got myself engaged into things that like they have public hearings and things like that, and you and you get you start to be a familiar place in the public hearings. That's like for anyone.

Shaunda Johnson 13:37
Okay.

Marcus Allen 13:38
And then a familiar Facebook with a familiar name, and then like this one time I was with you and we was up north we was up north

Leaha Crawford 13:44
yeah we were

Marcus Allen 13:44
and we was in um senator in the senator's office

Leaha Crawford 13:49
right

Marcus Allen 13:50
and she told me it's not what you know is who is it's not what you know is who you know and I said yeah yeah that's right I heard that she said no that's not right. It's who know you.

Leaha Crawford 14:02
Who know you? Well, true story is when I met Marcus Allen. Marcus Allen wasn't really feeling us, right?

Marcus Allen 14:11
Oh yeah, we he wasn't really. Oh yeah, he wasn't.

Leaha Crawford 14:14
He wasn't. And and this is, but this is when and I think people need to hear that because he wasn't feeling my the person I was working for, and I wasn't. I was like, I don't. I knew of him, and knew his reputation. I was like, Yeah, we're not playing with you, but we were smart enough to say, let's sit down and let's talk about your your issue. Let's communicate. Let's talk about it, and we talked about it. That was six years ago.

Marcus Allen 14:43
That was a big breaking point. That was a

Leaha Crawford 14:45
huge breaking point because he was moving in spaces. I was moving in spaces, and it was like, can you do this? Yeah, I can do that. Can you like, like we said, we again and again and again and again, and he ended up being her biggest cheer.

Marcus Allen 15:00
Yes,

Leaha Crawford 15:01
because he understood. Okay, you want to know what? Maybe this you saw this this way. I'm seeing this this way, and maybe together, it's a better way.

Speaker 1 15:12
Yeah,

Marcus Allen 15:13
and I hate to say this, I didn't like that woman.

Leaha Crawford 15:15
I know you didn't.

Marcus Allen 15:16
I didn't like her for real. And she knew I didn't like her. I didn't care if she was a sitting senator or whatever. I didn't like her, and she knew I didn't like her. And I showed her every time I see her. And

Leaha Crawford 15:25
your face was, but then you every time she's a former officer,

Marcus Allen 15:28
so we both was like, I'm an officer too. I'm officer of the streets. She a general. I was a general on the streets, so we was bumping heads. They was bumping, but it was so funny

Leaha Crawford 15:37
because it became probably one of the best relationships. I mean, it became a real good relationship.

Marcus Allen 15:42
Almost definitely

Leaha Crawford 15:43
after they were able to talk it out, but they had a different interest and find well common interest, right? It was yeah, it was huge. I just wanted you know, but let's

Marcus Allen 15:52
get clear. That was NRS 643. Anything have to do with governing the practice of barbering in the state of Nevada, I have a big issue with.

Leaha Crawford 16:00
And when I when I tell y'all, he watch it to the point I know mine is NRS 628. How about that? Because he told me one day he was like, "You don't know your NRS. I was like, "You right, but I'ma learn it. Yeah, I'ma learn. I

Julian Rosado 16:16
think that's the major thing is educating kids and seeing telling them that you may not be interested, it may not thrive you in voting, but it impacts every single thing. Like you may play, like well, all I do is play video games. Well, this impacts all the legislation that allows you to play video games, and I think just educating that on on that level helps a lot.

Shaunda Johnson 16:39
Yeah, well, you're bringing up something that I wanted to piggyback onto what Marcus was saying. If the only reason why we tell younger folks that they need to vote is because of what was done in the past, they're not going to realize how it's impacting them today. Yeah. Right now, the grocery store prices, right, are affected by who we vote for. The gas prices are affected by who we vote for. It is impacting our right now today, and it's not something that's just tied to what was fought for in the past. But we do need to honor that, right? That was something that was hard fought for, hard fought for, and the people who are a part of that are still alive today. Some of them aren't. But we also need to give or help young folks understand how politics works in their day to day right now. So you want to know how I got them at middle school because they passed a law where they had to put their phones in pouches, and they were upset. I said, y'all know if y'all parents would have voted for somebody different, they might not have put them out. you go. There you go.

Julian Rosado 17:45
That's a law,

Leaha Crawford 17:46
right? Yeah, no, it was it was it was self. So several of the um so several it it was a few things that happened with them, and they were like, "Well, why? I said, "This is NRS, and y'all need to understand that the stuff that goes on in that school, in the school district, NRS. It's our NRS that's governing governing that,

Shaunda Johnson 18:06
right? And a lot of people know. Let's let a lot

Marcus Allen 18:08
of people on this right is Lavada revised by statute. So anywhere you see NRS, we want to let you guys know that. Well,

Leaha Crawford 18:14
and I'll say this, and to think about how it impacts you, just drive around and all the stuff you see, NRS here, NRS there, and I'm sitting there. I'm like, y'all all over those. Y'all got a rule. Y'all got a law for everything. Everything. Everything. Everything. That'd be

Marcus Allen 18:32
a whole nother show too. Just explaining NRS and how it worked, NACs how it worked, and how it all comes. How it become a law. Where it started at. You know what I'm saying? Start with a constituent that actually go to a candidate and say, "Hey, take it here. That'd be a whole nother show. It is because a lot of people don't understand how that really, really, or how it starts. Yeah,

Leaha Crawford 18:51
yeah, how the whole thing. But I will say that Nevada has one of the best educational models for it. If you go to the Nevada Legislature, and they give out a book every year. I'm sure after the election they'll have their book that comes out, and it lists all the all the elected officials. It lists Nellis to go to Nellis, so you can. That's the tracker. Yeah, and then it goes into all of that. But no matter if you're willing to do the research, yes, that's the point. Yeah, yeah, that's the part. It's there, but no, I got one

Marcus Allen 19:22
serious question, and I've been waiting to ask, and I'm tell everyone, I I need help with this right here.

Shaunda Johnson 19:28
Come on,

Marcus Allen 19:29
and I need help from the community with this question. How do you engage younger people and get their attention on voting?

Julian Rosado 19:39
Well, it's just you say come to their level,

Marcus Allen 19:41
and you said video games. She said everybody don't play video games. She said gas, food, and the rise of teenagers. They don't even want to drive cars right now. They just Uber, so they're not even tripping about the gas price.

Julian Rosado 19:56
No, you should show them. But isn't

Leaha Crawford 20:00
your Uber price going? Yeah, but they're not

Marcus Allen 20:03
paying for the Uber anyway, so they they don't really really care about that Uber like that. You know, it's a card that your parent gave you. You use that card to get. She said, "Hey, use this card, but use it as you need to, and that's to get the Uber there. But how? Because back, and what I mean by that, see, back in the day when Obama was running, that we had rocked the votes, and everybody was like, "Hey, like it was a party, it was a thing to do. Everybody wanted to vote in because it rocked the vote. So how and he won

Leaha Crawford 20:30
because they didn't count those votes when they because no for real because they know that that population doesn't vote, they weren't counting. He had a whole bunch of people voting that that normally don't vote in the polls. Exactly. Yeah. Exactly. So now,

Marcus Allen 20:43
how do we get the end? And this, this for everybody. Anybody can inbox me, DM me any way you contact me. Answer to how we get the younger folks engaged now, like they was then. They used rock to vote then. They made it seem like it was a big old. They rocking all the way to the. So you thought

Leaha Crawford 21:00
so? That's 2007. So

Marcus Allen 21:03
they lost interest since then. So

Leaha Crawford 21:04
the people that were okay. So the 2007 21 year olds are now

Julian Rosado 21:09
41 years old. Yeah, that that's dependent upon the candidate. So that is right. Well, we're not gonna say that. No,

Leaha Crawford 21:16
I wouldn't say the candidate. Not against us. But how do you know? How do you just get people because Marcus, I'm hearing you. So, like, how do we get? Because they'll go to a Jill Scott concert.

Marcus Allen 21:28
Yes,

Leaha Crawford 21:29
there are. I mean, they're going to basketball. They're at the Running Rebels basketball games. How do we get them to vote?

Marcus Allen 21:38
That's the biggest question. That's a huge

Leaha Crawford 21:39
question.

Marcus Allen 21:39
I usually have an answer to just about every question, and that's something you. Yes, it

Leaha Crawford 21:45
is. Okay, well, let's start. Well, let's start with your barbers, because barbers touch a lot of heads. Yeah, are they engaging their clientele? I'm the service industry. So your barbers, your beauticians, nail techs. No. Okay.

Marcus Allen 22:00
They're done.

I'm be honest, and I'm speaking for more than one barber shop. I'm speaking for many some beauty salons and everyone. I teach it how heavily inside the school, but in the barber shop is like as long as it's not affecting that client right then while they're in the chair, they really don't care. But how you get them to care, how you get these younger generation engaged? What would would be the the go to to say okay this right here

Leaha Crawford 22:28
is everybody's in the it's more so in silos now. So you got to think when you look around nowadays and you look at the kids going to school. Everybody's like this.

Marcus Allen 22:36
Yes.

Shaunda Johnson 22:37
So every I mean if something happens to these the phones, then it's a big, you know, it's a big deal. But how? I mean, how do you? Because they're, it's like they're in silos. Sounds like we need to create community. Yeah, like we literally need to have more opportunities where multi generations are in the same room together, talking, sharing the stories, actually knowing, right? Like what's going on as a family unit, not as individuals, right? I, I, not that I disagree. I think that our younger population is much more informed than we ever were.

Leaha Crawford 23:14
Okay,

Shaunda Johnson 23:14
they have access to information in ways that we never had access to information. I think it's what they're choosing to do with that information is what we need to actually have a conversation about. Yeah. So what do you do? Because and you're right. Because we, if I had yeah,

Marcus Allen 23:34
both of you guys was right.

Leaha Crawford 23:36
You're right.

Marcus Allen 23:37
She said the cell phone, and they get the information from the cell phone, so both of y'all is right, but the cell phone, they run ads and all this on the cell phone. But yeah, still though, they will stroll past that and get to something else. I

Julian Rosado 23:50
think that the because you're 41, so you're in that age group.

Leaha Crawford 23:54
No, because he's in that. They want to go younger than 41. No, no, no, no. Your your example was rock. So they were they he was that age. Okay, but

Marcus Allen 24:04
watch this here. What I'm talking about that what got him engaged. So rock the vote got him engaged when he was that age. So what can get that individual is now his age that what where he was when he started, not where he's at. That what what got him started was the rock the vote back there when he was that age. Now what we go back to that person that now he's not there, but the person he was prior to where he's at now.

Julian Rosado 24:27
Yeah, how we get

Marcus Allen 24:28
that person, that young young individual involved, rock the vote, got his head going like, "Ooh, I'm a rock the vote. I'm a vote. My vote count. It means something. Now, how we go that generation that took his place? I

Julian Rosado 24:38
think it's both. I think it's the people, and also the person who's running, and so I think it's that the person who's running has to have a has to have some sort of he's gonna do something, some sort of legislation like that will actually impact the youth. Like this is not nothing like you know he's gonna. Prove gas prices or nothing. Something because that's not going to help the kids. Yeah, the kids don't care about the state. We really don't care about something that's going to impact them. That they oh he he said he's going to do do this something like that, and then you can have all the other type of things to to help build upon that. But how about community accountability? Not to cut you off, but you

Marcus Allen 25:22
understand though when when that year that that era we talked about they did not say something that impacted you. Social media was

Julian Rosado 25:30
not around. It wasn't around, but yeah, still though there was nothing

Marcus Allen 25:32
for to impact you. But no no no no, they didn't say. They just say hey, it's a party. This party is gonna be we gonna vote. It's a party. Let's rock the polls. Let's rock, and that's what he was looking for. And he's like, "Oh yeah, I'm a vote. This it wasn't nothing that they kind of came and said that, "Hey, I'm gonna make this better for you in your life.

Julian Rosado 25:50
Yeah, he made

Marcus Allen 25:51
it. They made him feel like it was about to be a party. Yeah,

Julian Rosado 25:53
but it's also because of all what happened. 911 happened, and all that. So we were all built like a large community, and we were like, "Oh, we're gonna do this. We're gonna do this. But you coming? Are you coming to that? Yeah, you gotta come into that 911. So

Leaha Crawford 26:05
911 was 2001, and that rocked the vote was like

Marcus Allen 26:12
like six, seven years later.

Leaha Crawford 26:13
That was like seven years later. So it was it was seven years later. I'm

Julian Rosado 26:16
saying about that that that was like we we want a complete change. Like you know what I mean. That that that's what that was about. Yeah, I mean,

Shaunda Johnson 26:25
and there was hope in the candidate at the time that made us believe. Yeah, yeah, and then something different. And was like, oh man, we

Julian Rosado 26:33
all going to that. Like, yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's still in the

Shaunda Johnson 26:36
story.

Julian Rosado 26:36
Yeah, it's all

Leaha Crawford 26:38
it's all out of stories. Yeah, so yeah,

Julian Rosado 26:40
that's what I'm saying. The candidate has to propose something, and

Shaunda Johnson 26:44
or represent something that yeah,

Julian Rosado 26:46
yeah, yeah, better than just gas prices or something like that. You know, yeah, yeah. That that is that is just the best way.

Shaunda Johnson 26:53
Student debt forgiveness. Yeah, that. Well, they didn't talk, but they just not even. But let me say this though, and let's talk about this.

Julian Rosado 27:00
They don't think that far ahead. Oh, I'm talking about your current. Oh, yeah. No, but the thing about you're 41, you still can. You gotta,

Leaha Crawford 27:09
but you have to understand though, understanding what the office can do. Absolutely, right? Because you gotta understand what the office can do, right? And your student loan debt is federal, so your county commissioner has nothing to do with nothing at

Marcus Allen 27:22
all. Yeah, you know that's why that's another show.

Leaha Crawford 27:24
But it is another show because, and that's because sometimes when I sit there and I'm like you know, and and I hear people say I'm gonna go there and I'm gonna talk to them. I'm just like, but you know that they don't handle that. Yeah. Okay, because they don't know. Again, you're right. Another show, another, or even you want to know how about an online series or something that people can go to and watch, and we can just talk, just nonpartisan, no different parties, but why you need to know what you need to know.

Marcus Allen 27:53
And we gotta understand. I never try to tell anybody who to vote for. Okay.

I never try to coerce who to vote. Now you're gonna ask me, and I give you my opinion.

Leaha Crawford 28:01
Okay.

Marcus Allen 28:02
But the main important thing about this right here is just get out and vote. Touch the

Leaha Crawford 28:07
buttons.

Marcus Allen 28:08
They sit back and watch and make sure the demographics of who voting, who's not voting, and that's what I'm trying to inform my people. Hey, if we not part of this demographic, we don't mean nothing.

Leaha Crawford 28:17
But you wanna know what's so funny? We in Vegas. You know, people like to touch the buttons. You go in here, just touch the buttons. It's a touch button exercise. Touch all the buttons. Yes, it's a touch button exercise. Y'all like to go into push the button. Push the button. Push the button. That's a good one

Marcus Allen 28:30
right there. Push the button. That's a good one right there. Well,

Leaha Crawford 28:32
you know, BTH is well started from the bottom. Now you hear. So start from the bottom when you're voting. You know, don't skip me. Start from the bottom. Damn ballot races. All right, y'all. Well, we have to go. Like I said, I'm putting you on the calendar every other because I do want to continue to have these things. And when you have stuff that happens in Nevada, can you please let me know?

Shaunda Johnson 28:52
Absolutely. And so that we can

Leaha Crawford 28:53
promote it, and then I want to talk about another organization possibly working with you.

Shaunda Johnson 28:57
Thank you for the opportunity. Yep.

Leaha Crawford 28:58
So very welcome. All right. So week watching games this weekend. Okay, here we go. How about them Raiders? Them Raiders, though. Las Vegas.

Marcus Allen 29:08
Wait, wait. Don't get it twisted. Las Vegas Raiders. Las Vegas Raiders. That's what we talking about. Las Vegas Raiders. Not the.

Leaha Crawford 29:14
Not you want to know what you funny. I'm not gonna tell you what other people say. Until next week. Until next week. Peace and blessings, y'all. Remember, growth happens all the time. Grace is how you deal with it. My name is Leah Crawford.

Julian Rosado 29:27
This is Julie Rosano, and

Leaha Crawford 29:29
we will see you next week. Peace and blessings. Bye.

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