Introducing Freestyle Fridays: Uniting Voices at The Kickback

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Hello, world. How's everybody doing today?

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This is your boy, the dude here with a check in.

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I know we're running about 30 minutes late, but I just want to let everybody

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know today was actually not going to be a show day.

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I just came on to really introduce everybody to a few new things that we're

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going to have going on here at the kickback.

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So first and foremost, how's everybody day going? I hope it's a beautiful day for everyone.

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Unfortunately, my co-host had some personal business he had to take care of,

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so he's not going to be here with me today.

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So it's just me. So this is going to be a quick show, a quick rundown,

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just to give out a bit of information.

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So here at the kickback we appreciate.

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Everyone that's come in and listened and given us feedback and let us know what

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you think about the show I'd like to say thank you and I appreciate everyone,

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so today we're coming on

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to introduce a new segment that you all should be looking out for it's called

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Freedom Fridays or Freestyle Fridays and what What we're going to do is we're

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going to have a two hour open forum where you can come in and you can talk.

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You can hang out with us and it's going to be at 5 p.m. in the afternoon.

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Same time, same channel.

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Just a new day added to the show's program.

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As you know, we are a small, small channel and we're trying to branch out and do some bigger things.

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And as you can see, we are working hard in the background and I have the joy

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and the pleasure of interviewing.

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A gentleman, a one-of-a-kind native just like me.

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We're called a rare unicorn here in our state of Tennessee in our city of Nashville,

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because if you've ever been to Nashville or if you're from Nashville,

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you know that a lot of people in Nashville are not from Nashville.

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They'll tell you they're from Nashville, but they migrated here from somewhere else.

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But the gentleman that I had the pleasure to interview his name, Jonathan Williamson.

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He is the new president of the Nashville chapter of the NAACP.

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And I had a wonderful interview with him this weekend.

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And so once I finish broadcasting today, I will be publishing that show.

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So everybody, if you are a fan of the kickback, I need you to listen in and

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I need you to get some informative information and understand that the community

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that we live in, we need help.

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Nashville, Tennessee is a very diverse city.

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We got a lot of people moving in from a lot of places. But if you're a native,

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if you've been here long enough to understand and know the dynamics and the

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diversity of our city, then you'll understand the importance of the NAACP and

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what they bring to a community.

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It's social activism at its finest. They are working for people in all branches

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of life. It doesn't matter how much you make.

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It doesn't matter where you live. As long as you live inside of Davidson County,

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the NAACP will help you and they will navigate you through some things that

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you need to navigate through.

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The conversation was so eye-opening and

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it was so amazing that I was amazed to hear all the things that were said and

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what's going on within our city and how the NAACP is trying to bridge the gap

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and figure out a way to have better community structure.

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So, like I said, after the show today, I'm going to release that episode and

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I'm going to be sending it out to the world. Now, here's a disclaimer.

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If you know what a disclaimer means, I was having some technical difficulties

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because I wasn't in the normal studio.

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And so I was recording in a different location and my equipment was not liking

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me that day. When I say it wasn't liking me, it was not liking me that day.

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So the audio on the show is a little iffy and a little off.

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So for the first five, six minutes, you have to bear with me.

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But after that, the interview was amazing.

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And the information that he shared was amazing.

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So check out that show once I finish with this show. Both of them will be live

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on our website OneDude.com

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OneDude.Podbean.com. Again, that is OneDude.Podbean.com.

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If you haven't already been there, there's other episodes there.

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But again, we are here for brothers to come and have an open and honest conversation

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in a space where there's no judgment. There's no camaraderie.

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Hey, I don't know everything.

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You don't know everything. So maybe we can learn from each other and we can

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help each other through this thing called life.

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All I'm saying is the kickback, the kickback is where we're at.

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The kickback is where it's at. So if you can hear me, just leave a comment.

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Let me know what I need to change, what I can do, because I'm always open to

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someone letting me know where I go wrong at because I'm not always right.

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So like I said, Freestyle Fridays, Freedom Fridays, two hours live, two hours live.

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You can come in, you can say hello.

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We can talk about whatever's going on in your day.

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We can talk about what's going on in your week. We can talk about life, children, marriage.

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Men's health and that's a broad spectrum if you're a veteran you can come in

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and we can talk about veteran things if you feel like you just need to vent

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come in and vent we don't mind we're here to listen because we want you to understand

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and know that you're not alone my brother,

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We're here with you. We all go through something. We all bleed red.

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And the interesting fact about me is I'm an O positive so I can give anybody blood.

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So what that means is I'm willing and open to any any conversation with some

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contingencies. We don't talk about everything.

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And there'll be some things that we will have to put off for today. topic Tuesday.

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Tuesday is usually the day we set aside for different interviews and different

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topics that we talk about.

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But Friday, Friday, Friday is going to be Freedom Friday, which is a two-hour

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show where you can come on and you can say whatever you want to.

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We have a call-in feature.

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We also have text where you can text in the show your questions,

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your concerns, or whatever ever you want to.

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Like I said, we'll open up the phone lines. You can call in.

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You can be a part of the panel. You can be a part of the conversation.

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It's up to you.

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I'm just sending out an invitation for all men and all brothers to understand

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that we are here and we have ears and we want to listen and we want to understand

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what's going on in the world today.

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It doesn't matter if you're 18 to 80. If you got ears and you can hear, we want to hear from you.

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So understand we're here. We're brothers. We're fathers. We're uncles. We're men.

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So let's get together and unite as brothers and try to figure out how to better

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the world for the next generation of men, brothers,

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uncles that are coming along in this world that need someone to talk to.

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Because being a man in today's society is hard because today's society says you can't do this.

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You can't do that. You have to look a certain way.

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You have to act a certain way. That's not always true.

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That's not always true when it comes to manhood.

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Manhood is not what society says manhood is.

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So don't believe the hype is all I'm saying. Don't believe the hype.

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Again, this is your host, the dude, my co-host, David.

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He'll be with me on Friday. We'll get this thing rolling. And all we ask for

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you is to come in with some sense of some some common sense.

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Let's say that we don't. The only thing we ask is that you are not racist.

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We do not deal with any form of racism that that is a no toleration. That is a deal breaker.

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We will cut you off the line. We will kick you out of the room.

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We will get you out of the chat So Once again, this is your host The Dude Letting you know.

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Freestyle Friday Is going to be Our new thing Two hours, fellas,

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two hours for you to come in So if you're getting off from work If you're just

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sitting around And you want to hear us You got two hours to come in the room,

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Again, this is the kickback We love everybody

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can't wait to see you on friday today's tuesday so that means what we got three

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more days of friday taco tuesday hey you all have a good one this is the dude

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from the kickback signing out i'll see you guys on friday peace.