Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome.

I am Karen Hunter, and I'm awesome because I get to talk to some amazing human beings.

So this year, I got to sit with Dr. Rosemary Mealy.

She was one of the generals in the Black Panther Party.

One of those names that you don't readily hear because they were just rolling up their sleeves

and getting busy, organizing and feeding people and educating people.

And she also was one of the people who introduced Malcolm X to Fidel Castro.

She also knew Asada Shakur. I'm not say less about that, but she knew Asada Shakur when she was in Cuba.

And I got to have a conversation and I invite you to listen take a listen to the

podcast that I did with her a few months back so you can listen to that but during our conversation

I asked her I get up very early and she was up she was like can I call you at such and such time

she was like yes I'm up I'm up every morning so i wanted to know kind of what

her routine is because when i tell you the woman's skin is like vel it's beautiful it is supple

she's of a certain age y'all can google search it if you want to find out but she is full of life

and vibrancy and just oh i was like what like, what's the secret? What do you do?

So she shared with me her routine a little bit and involved, you know, drinking tea, et cetera.

And those of you who have been listening to me on the radio for 12 years at Sirius XM, you know that I don't drink anything.

No soda, no alcohol. And it's not,

you know, I'm not like a religious freak. I'm not drinking. But I just, I realized that I don't

need the sugar. And it has been amazing. I get complimented on my skin sometimes, which I appreciate,

but I don't even think about it because I just drink water and tea all day.

So I somehow know that that's the way forward.

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