S2 Episode 2: News From The Past Month

Description of Image: Black & Blue background On the left is an African American female with a white off the shoulder shirt in a wheelchair. Then Queens On A Roll in Gray Letters with a purple outline with a crown on the Q. The word Roll looks like a wheelchair and the word podcast in Gray Letters with a purple outline in all four corners

In this episode Luis & I discuss news from the past month, give our perspective and celebrate Disability Pride Month! Come Roll with Us! Links to pottery barn & NPR below:

1. https://www.potterybarn.com/shop/new/accessible-home/
2. https://www.npr.org/2022/07/13/1111281998/nyc-nuclear-attack-video-psa-eric-adams

Transcript

(Instrumental Music) You got a Dstackz beat

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(Instrumental Music) Yeah, I got a Dstackz beat

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(Instrumental Music)

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(Instrumental Music) Listen to the beat y'all

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(Instrumental Music)

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Come on, Dstackz bring it in.

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(Instrumental Music) & singing Heyyyyyy, heyyy heyyy

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(Instrumental Music) & singing Woooo

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(Instrumental Music) & singing Queens On A Roll

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(Instrumental Music) & singing Woohoo Queens On A Roll

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(Instrumental Music) & singing Powerful Queens On A Roll

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(Instrumental Music) & singing Beautiful Queens, Queens, Queens On A Roll

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(Instrumental Music) & singing We're moving, we're grooving, we're jamming we're slamming

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(Instrumental Music) & singing Queens On A Roll

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(Instrumental Music) & singing We're moving, we're grooving, we're jamming we're slamming

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(Instrumental Music) & singing Queens, Queens, Queens On A Roll

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(Instrumental Music) & singing She's educating and inspiring

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(Instrumental Music) & singing everyone that has challenges.

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(Instrumental Music) & singing Queens, Queens, Queens On A Roll

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(Instrumental Music) & singing She's educating and inspiring everyone and having fun.

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(Instrumental Music) & singing She's Queens On A Roll

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(Instrumental Music) & singing Wooo Queens On A Roll

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(Instrumental Music) & singing Wooohoo Queens On A Roll

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(Instrumental Music) & singing Powerful Queens On A Roll

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(Instrumental Music) & singing Beautiful Queens On A Roll

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(Instrumental Music) & singing Come Roll with Us, woohoo Come Roll with Us

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(Instrumental Music) & singing Come Roll with Us, woohoo Come Roll with Us

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(Instrumental Music) & singing Wooo Queens On A Roll

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(Instrumental Music) & singing Wooo Queens On A Roll

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(Instrumental Music) & singing Queensss, Queensss

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(Bells Chiming) Hey, everyone, and welcome back to

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Queens On A Roll podcast.

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This is Latavia here, and guess

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who I have back with me?

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My very best friend, Luis. Hey, guys. How's it going?

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Glad to be back.

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I'm so glad you're back, Luis.

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So today I brought you on so that we could

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talk about the current events of the past month.

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You ready? Sounds good.

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Let's get into it.

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All right, let's roll.

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(Instrumental Music)

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So, guys, as you know, last

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month was Disability Pride Month. Woot Woot

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Let's go.

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(Cheering sound effect)

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All right, so I love disability pride month, and for

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those who don't know what Disability Pride Month is,

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it's a month where the ably different community celebrates

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us and all our differences and displays how proud

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we are to be a part of the community

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and we support each other. Exactly.

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So we are pretty much the celebrities of that month.

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Be proud of yourself.

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Definitely. Definitely

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So guess what?

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Throughout the whole month, y'all, a

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lot of stuff was going on.

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And Luis and I are going to fill you in. Yes. Yes.

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You want to tell them the first one, Luis?

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Of course I do.

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All right, so last month was

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the 32nd anniversary of the ADA. Wooo!

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So that is the Americans with Disability Act.

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And that law prohibits all public and

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private places from discriminating against us. Yupp

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So they can't discriminate about jobs

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or schools, no transportation, anything.

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We can't be discriminated on.

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We are protected.

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Yes, we definitely are.

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And in honor of that, Governor Kathy

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Hochul came out with a bill.

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Luis, for us on that day.

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It's not for us.

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It's for people that have

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intellectual, developmental, and cognitive disabilities.

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So prior to this law, after the

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age of 18, people with those disabilities

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go straight into guardianship by the court.

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So basically, the court makes the decision for them.

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Well, now, with the new

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law, it's supported decision making.

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So she says that they're able

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to make their own decision.

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And if those people with that type of disability

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need help, then they go to a trusted person

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and the trusted person and them enter into an

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agreement where the person with the disability informs them

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that I'm going to need help at this time,

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this time, and this time to make these decisions.

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So these people with disabilities, they could just

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choose anyone that they want that they trust? Exactly.

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Okay.

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And also in the bill, they got

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rid of the word mentally retarded.

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Thank God. Finally

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I hate that word.

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I do, too.

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And they replaced it with

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intellectually disabled or developmental disability.

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Yes. Finally.

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I'm so happy about that.

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And they also took off the need to reside in New York

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State to be a part of a program that helps us, actually.

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And it's called the New York

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Achieving a Better Life program.

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And she's also putting out public service

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announcements or a bunch of commercials to

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get rid of negative stereotypes about people

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with cognitive, intellectual, or developmental disabilities.

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So big ups to Kathy Hochul for doing that for us.

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(Cheering sound effect)

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That's a great job from her.

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I'm glad there's someone standing up for us.

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I'm glad too.

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But I do have one criticism, and that's the

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fact that a lot of the laws that they

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enact seem to happen around the anniversary a lot.

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I would like to see more done

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not just on the anniversary, but throughout. Yes.

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We should not be forgotten.

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We should not be remembered for only one month.

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Yeah, definitely. Cuz there's a lot that needs to change. So

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and they do need to work on it.

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So I feel like it needs to happen throughout

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the term, not just on that very special day.

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(Delayed Beat Sound effect)

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What else is up, Luis?

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All right, so Vice President Kamala Harris,

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she actually sat down with some disability

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advocates on discussing reproductive health and the rights

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for people with disabilities. Yay.

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Shout out to the VP.

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Kamala Harris. Yes.

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(Cheering sound effect)

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So I think I heard that, like, some Republicans were

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criticizing her because she actually described what she had on

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and said that she was a woman sitting down at

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the table and she was wearing a blue suit, and

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she used pronouns like she and her.

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And some of the Republicans were like, hey, that's the

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left going way too far and being too extreme. Right?

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Am I right? That is true. That is true.

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Isn't that similar to what you do when you post images?

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(Its fun fact time sound effect)

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Yeah.

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So Republicans, what you don't know is she was

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doing that to be way more inclusive because that

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is for people who are visually impaired or blind.

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When you give them a description like that, it allows

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them to have an image of what is going on.

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(Rumble sound effect)

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So boooo Republicans for being not so inclusive.

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(Crowd Boo sound effect)

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Exactly.

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Let's try to be open minded and think about others.

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Definitely. Definitely.

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But thats not all folks

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We got more.

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(Instrumental Music)

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All right.

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Also, there is a company called the Pottery Barn.

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This is a company that

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creates accessible home furniture.

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So they have tables at whatever

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height you want for your wheelchair.

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They have adjustable mirrors and they have open shelves

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Yeah, I think I heard about that Luis, actually.

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Pottery Barn has been around for a while.

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They just been creating furniture for people.

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It's like a home decor place.

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But they have this exclusive

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line now called Accessible Home.

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And the stuff I don't know if you looked

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at the website, Luis, but the stuff looks amazing.

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I have not I'm actually going to look at

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the website right after this because I'm curious.

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I've never even heard of them before.

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Yeah, the stuff looks amazing.

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They have, like, this L shaped table where you could

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roll up underneath, and then they have all the open

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shelves so you don't have to pull out a shelf.

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It's actually open.

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That sounds awesome.

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So I think that's awesome.

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And then they have movable mirrors, like,

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some of the stuff, looks, really, really nice.

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I think I want to put that in my apartment.

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Yeah, definitely.

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I doubt this is the only business that's

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catered to people with disabilities, so I think

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more of these businesses need to be promoted.

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Cuz This is the first time I'm hearing about this.

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Yeah, I definitely do agree.

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There is more companies out there coming out

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with more, like, accessible clothing lines, accessible home

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decor, so I really enjoy that.

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Like I know Zappos has a whole adaptive

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line, too, so I think that's great.

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But I do have one caveat.

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(Dramatic sound effect)

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It is expensive.

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Like, that L shape table I

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was just talking about and describing.

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$2,600.

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Holy smokes.

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Please explain to me why it is that expensive.

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Hold on, Pottery Barn.

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You're a little too expensive.

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This is catered to people with disabilities that

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have wheelchairs made out of gold.

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So, yeah, these prices have to come down some yeah

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because a lot of us can't afford that. Definitely.

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A lot of us can't afford it.

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We don't have the money for it.

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And I don't understand why it's that expensive

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when something that is made for an able

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body person isn't even that expensive.

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Like, good case in point.

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I'll give you an example.

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My mom and I took a trip to Florida last year. Right?

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And When we went on the trip to Florida,

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we had to take Amtrak on an accessible train.

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Now, the ride was hell, guys,

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but that's neither here nor there.

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The ride was hell, but we had

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to get an accessible sleeper car.

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That accessible sleeper car was over $2,000. That's crazy

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When we looked at regular sleeper cars, it was

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under that it was like $1,000 or something.

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Why is it that hotel rooms, Amtrak rooms, why

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is everything so much more expensive for a person that's

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disabled than a person that is able body?

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I need to understand that.

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Yeah, that makes absolutely no sense.

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You would think it's the actual opposite.

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There's no reason why for us to be

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accommodated, we have to shell out even more

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money than an able body person.

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Yeah, I was like, mom, what are they giving us in

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that room that's different from a person that's able bodied?

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What we got that was different?

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I'll tell you what we got that was different.

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Exhaust fumes.

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We were in the back of the car, train

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car inhaling exhaust fumes for the whole ride.

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I actually have video of it, guys,

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and I'm going to put it up.

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The room was the size of a box.

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I could not fit my chair in there.

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It was horrible.

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And we smoked exhaust fumes the whole way home.

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I felt sick the entire time.

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Did you feel accommodated?

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No, definitely not.

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You couldn't even lay the two couches out because the two

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couches that were there, they lay out into a bed.

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I couldn't even lay it out to sleep comfortably

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because my chair was way bigger than the room.

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The room is the size of a box, literally a box that

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you would put maybe a dog in a puppy to sleep in.

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That's how small it was.

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That's inexcusable, I said

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Wait, is this the room?

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Okay, guys, I'm exaggerating on the side of

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the room, but still it was seriously uncomfortable.

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That's crazy.

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They should have accommodated you much, much better that's uncalled for

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My mom felt sick

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and she was like, you know what?

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I think we need to get off the train ride.

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The conductor was like, well, we

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could let you off in Georgia.

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She was like, okay, so does that

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mean I'm gonna to get my car?

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Because it's one of those trains where

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you could put your car on.

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Does that mean I'm gonna get my car in Georgia too?

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He was like, no, it's gonna

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go all the way back to Virginia.

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Because we had to drive from Virginia

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when we got off to New York.

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What sense does that make?

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That's exactly what my mom said.

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My mom was like, you know what? Forget it.

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I have a disabled child.

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Like, how am I going to get her from Georgia to Virginia,

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or even to New York for that matter, without my car?

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So we'll just have to make do with whatever we have.

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But it was a horrible, horrible trip.

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And I'm sorry, guys, but that

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is my story time for today.

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I just need to let that off my chest.

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I just hate that everything is so expensive

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for us, especially when we can't afford it.

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It's hard to afford that stuff.

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And honestly, I'm going to give you my theory on it.

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My theory is that because it's a big business, right,

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and you can make money off of it, people just

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find a way to profit and make money.

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And because they know that people are actually going to

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use it, they feel like they can do it anyway.

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Yeah, they feel like they can up

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charge you, but it's definitely, definitely not fair.

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(Cartoon Ascending Stairs Sound Effect)

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Okay, so last but not least for the month

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of July, buckle up your seatbelt, guys, because this

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is gonna be a crazy, crazy wild one.

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You guys ready for this?

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Are you ready?

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(Buckle and get ready sound effect)

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So there was a PSA about a nuclear attack in New York.

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So Mayor Adams put out this PSA because he said he

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wanted us to be prepared for if anything like this should

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happen in New York and make sure that we're okay.

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So in the PSA, they tell you the steps

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to do in case of a nuclear attack.

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Guys, when I heard that, I was like, what?

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Do they know something we don't know?

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Because that's really scary.

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Now, guys, do you think when they came up with these

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steps that they had a person with a disability in mind?

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Definitely not.

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I'm gonna say that definitely not cuz

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I'm about to give you the steps.

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So here's step one.

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Step one is get inside fast.

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Get into a building and move away from the window.

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That's step one.

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Step two, stay inside, shut the doors, shut the

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windows and stay in the middle of the building.

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Remove your clothes, clean yourself up

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immediately with soap and shampoo.

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And then step three, listen to the

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media or radio for more information.

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Now, if we're outside and, you know, we got some big

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wheelchairs and the closest thing to us is a building with

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a whole bunch of stairs, what are the steps for us?

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That's exactly what I said.

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So I actually heard about this public service announcement one

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day when I was listening to the radio on WBLS

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and they played the public service announcement and wanted to

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know what their listener's reactions to it was.

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So of course I called in and I said to

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them, that's great and all for able body people, but

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what are the ably different communities supposed to do?

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Because a lot of the

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places are not handicapped accessible.

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You can get in, but you can't move around.

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What are we supposed to do?

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Where am I supposed to go?

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This is really scary.

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And literally all the show host gasps & said I never thought about that.

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Do you by any chance have the link?

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I do, and I will put it on our social media pages.

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Awesome. Awesome.

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Yeah, because, I don't know, mayor Adams has to put

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out another PSA for us people with mobility issues.

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Yeah.

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And I think that's one of like

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my major gripes with all this.

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I love to see that we're

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moving forward and things are progressing. Right.

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People are actually taking us into consideration.

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But at the same time, even when Kamala Harris sat

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down to speak about reproductive rights for the ably different

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community, she spoke to advocates, which is great.

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Don't get me wrong, I love the advocates out here.

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You guys are doing a great job, but why

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not sit down with actual people who have different

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disabilities and ask us what we need?

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That's a good point. Yeah, definitely.

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That way she could understand more of

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what we have to go through. Yeah.

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And you have first hand knowledge of things that

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we need, things that need to change, what you

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need to see, because it's nothing better than coming

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from the actual person who's living with it every

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day and knows the struggle.

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So I would much rather see a lot

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more of that, of you asking the community

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within itself, what do you guys need?

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What do you need to see?

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Because even though the ADA allows us to not

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be discriminated against because of our disabilities and jobs

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and places like that, that still happens, right?

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All the time. All the time.

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We're still being discriminated on.

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There's still a lot of places that are

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not accessible as we want them to be.

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There still needs to be a lot more progress.

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And definitely, like we talked about the train

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station last time, it's going to take them,

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what, 35 years, we said, to do that?

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That should have been done 35 years ago. Right.

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And there's so much technology out here today.

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Why can't you bring some of that technology

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into the workforce so that you can see

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more of us working outside in the community? You know

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Yes, yes absolutely correct. So

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Even though I think all of this is

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great, there's

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still so much more work that needs to be done.

(20:56.6 - 20:59.0)

And one of the things that kind of frustrates

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me a bit is a lot of people will

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say, we came up with these laws.

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Lawmakers will say, should I say we came up

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with these laws because stuff needs to change.

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They're definitely right.

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But then the rebuttal as to why things

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haven't moved quicker is like I remember a

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time when we didn't have the ADA. Right? Yes.

(21:19.3 - 21:21.6)

I'm so glad you can remember a time when we didn't

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have the ADA and life was hard for us, but it's

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still not where it should be in the 21st century.

(21:28.2 - 21:29.2)

That's absolutely right.

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We need more added to the

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ADA or more laws accommodating us.

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We want the same rights as able bodied people.

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We should be able to go anywhere where they

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can go or do anything that they can do. Right.

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Without any limitations, without anything

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or any restrictions at all.

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Because we are a part of the community. Definitely.

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Most, most definitely

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(Instrumental Music)

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So it is time for the quote of the episode.

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So, Luis, since you are my guest, it is up

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to you to come up with a profound quote. Are you ready?

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I am ready. Go ahead. All right.

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So the quote that I'd like to

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tell you guys comes from Zig.

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Ziggler quote is, if you are not willing

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to learn, no one can help you.

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If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.

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Oh, my goodness.

(23:10.1 - 23:11.3)

That's such a great quote.

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And I actually love that quote, because

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that actually encompasses the whole episode, right?

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Exactly. Pretty much.

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Change is needed, and people just need to

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learn more about us and accommodate us. Right.

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And that's why this podcast is here, guys,

(23:26.2 - 23:29.2)

so you can learn more about the ably

(23:29.2 - 23:32.8)

different community, get all the different perspectives, and

(23:32.8 - 23:34.4)

so that change can happen.

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I would like to see change come, even if

(23:37.3 - 23:40.4)

it's just like it changes one person's mindset about

(23:40.5 - 23:42.0)

a person who is ably different

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I've met my goal of this whole show, right? Yeah. Right.

(23:45.9 - 23:48.2)

That would mean that we're doing something right.

(23:48.3 - 23:50.7)

This podcast is going in the right direction.

(23:50.8 - 23:55.7)

Any small change would be tremendous, right? Definitely.

(23:55.7 - 23:58.0)

And all of the information you heard in

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today's episode is courtesy of NPR.com Disability Scoop, adatta.org

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the New York State Senate.gov.

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So that is all we have for you today, folks.

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