Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and those who don't identify as either.

You are listening to Ratchet and Respectable.

After last week's episode was published, I had to hit up my friends that work in social

justice.

The folks that be on the front line trying to, you know, get rights for black folks and

women folks and trans folks and, you know, folks, I had to hit them up and be like, yo,

you deserve every vacation that you've ever taken.

You deserve every cocktail that you've ever had before 5 p.m.

You deserve every midday nap and every Sunday brunch.

The shit they put nutwood on a daily, I can't do this on a regular basis.

I do a podcast primarily about, cause you listen, you're here, you know what it is, about

pop culture and entertainment, current events, if it's a big news story, we'll talk about

it.

I also realized I got this big ass platform, I can't just use it for dumb shit.

But it must be put towards purpose at some point.

The way folks have cursed me the fuck out for the last 72 hours, I thought it was bad

talking about relationships and anti-sexism and feminism, y'all.

Trying to talk about inclusion, I ain't never been cursed out like this before.

This lady told me she came in the comments on social media.

We had a back and forth.

We didn't agree, but it didn't get disrespectful in any way.

And then like two days later, she came in my inbox and was like, I just want you to know,

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