Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author, activist, attorney, and the host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126. If you like what you're about to hear, go ahead and give us five stars and then tell everybody that you know. And if you don't like it, just, child, keep it to yourself and pray our strength. Okay? Thank you so much. Also, don't forget to check out my YouTube page, Lurie Daniel Favor's Media, where you should subscribe, like, and share, because then you'll get notified when I post videos from my show, which I do just about every single day and when I go live with my YouTube audience. I feel like today's segment should be called When Evil Goes Wrong. Now, this is a little

bit of a play on Vampire in Brooklyn, which was a film that I referenced extensively in a segment

that I had done a couple of weeks ago called Evil is Good. And in fact, I believe that segment is on

my YouTube channel. So if you want to see this in person or see that segment, just go to the YouTube channel, the Reed Daniel Favor's Media,

and you'll be able to check it out.

But it's a reference to a scene in the film where a pastor is basically trying to

convince the community that evil is okay because the pastor is involved in a whole

bunch of evil and he's a shady pastor.

But this segment today is more about

when evil goes wrong. Let me back up just a little bit. Have you ever had an experience where you're

doing your best to make a thing happen? But because you're trying to control it so much, shout out to

all my control freaks out of there. I'm one of you, so this part is for us.

But you try to control the outcome of a thing so much that you end up making mistakes.

You can end up, you know, perhaps overcompensating.

And if the thing is very important to you and you put a lot of effort into it,

sometimes the most dangerous thing we can do for the

success of that thing is to try to control it, to over control it, because you can overdo it, right?

Here's an example, which should jog some of your memories.

Y'all remember that crazy white woman, Tori Braenum, in the state of Georgia, who basically was a candidate running for office.

She was running for Congress.

And she decided that as part of her campaign, she was going to call ICE on a plant that was being

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