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. So do you guys remember that group TLC? you know, Lisa Lepa Lopez, T-Baz, and

Chili amazing hip-hop rap? I guess maybe they're more R&B hip-hopish when you really think about it.

They're really dope group, women group, amazing, very empowering to all of us who were growing

up in the 80s and 90s. But they had this song called What About Your Friends?

In fact, there's actually a lot of songs about friendship when you think about it in our community.

But, you know, the TLC version was like, what about your friends?

Will they stand their ground?

Will they let you down?

Hey, now I don't really have the pipes.

But just imagine three women coming together singing in harmony with a little hip hop, you know, rap going on in the background. It was dope. You know, cross colors type uniform. It was, it was dope. It was a situation. But that song, what about your friends, was one of those songs that kind of asked you to interrogate the quality of your friendships and your relationships.

Oh, by the way, for those of you who are listening to the podcast yesterday or to my show on Sirius XM yesterday, I did say today was going to be all about the economy and we had a whole

lot of news conversations to get to. But can I just be honest? It's Friday. I'm exhausted and I'm

exhausted with the news. Like I'm exhausted primarily with my brain

having to process all of these facts and figures and international deals that aren't really

deals and and versions of assaulting black rights and the rights of humanity. I'm sort of over

it for this week. So what I had intended for this podcast today to be about the economy because actually

there really are some terrible warning signs coming out about the economy. And I mean,

worse than usual. I mean, if you got a job right now, honey, I'm going to need you to stay in that

job as long as you can because people who are not in a job are having a very difficult time

finding one. But to be fair, again, it's Friday. We're going into the weekend.

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