Ep. 105 The Empire is Crumbling
A Little Juju Podcast
Juju Bae
5 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Ep. 105 The Empire is Crumbling is here! In this episode of @alittlejujupodcast let’s talk about how we are literally witnessing the crumble of the American empire…cue in Divine Feminine jargon, money matters, and the decline. Whew LAWD, is there a spell for this???
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Host/Head Witch: Juju Bae @itsjujubae
Executive Producer: Kenya Denise @kenya_digg_it from Domino Sound @dominosoundco
Associate Producer, Archival Producer & Social Producer: Oreoluwa Akinyode @beyondthisvessel
Sound Designer/Editor: Kobe Guilford @alookthroughmylense
with production support from Alexandra diPalma @lsdipalma from Domino Sound
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| 0:00.0 | We have to really question this idea of what success looks like. |
| 0:05.0 | It's often very rooted in being rich and being wealthy and aligning with really Westernized Americanized ideas of success. |
| 0:18.0 | And a lot of people get left out of what it means to be excellent. |
| 0:21.1 | Excellence is not always about I did this thing and now I'm |
| 0:25.4 | rich and now I'm excellent. Like excellence can happen on the street corner. |
| 0:32.3 | I would like to start happen on the street corner. |
| 0:39.3 | I would like to start this episode off by issuing a trigger warning because we will be discussing the crumbling of the American Empire. |
| 0:42.0 | Listen to their discretion is vast. |
| 0:45.0 | Hey y'all, how's it going? |
| 0:48.0 | I hope you all are having a beautiful, cute little spring, |
| 0:52.0 | cute little April. Today I'm feeling good. I've been dealing with a New York |
| 0:58.4 | landlord so big things about money are coming up for me, stress, annoyance, prayers to those of us in this city, like, wow, the prices, the price gouging wowsers. |
| 1:14.4 | We are really witnessing just a lot going on. |
| 1:17.8 | I've been having this conversation about this rapid decline |
| 1:21.0 | that we're seeing around us in the world. |
| 1:23.2 | The spiritual aspects of that, of course. |
| 1:26.3 | I promised myself that I wouldn't talk too much about America |
| 1:31.6 | in this episode because we know what's happening in America. |
| 1:35.0 | The headline for Stacey Patton's 2014 op-ed in the Washington Post was Stark. |
| 1:41.0 | In America, black children don't get to be children. I was reminded of this |
| 1:46.6 | after hearing about what happened to Ralph Yaro, the 16-year-old honor student in Kansas City |
| 1:52.1 | whose mother sent him on a big brother |
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