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
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
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(Instrumental Music) Yeah, I got a Dstackz beat
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(Instrumental Music) Listen to the beat y'all
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Come on, Dstackz bring it in.
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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 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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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so you can learn more about the ably
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different community, get all the different perspectives, and
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so that change can happen.
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I would like to see change come, even if
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it's just like it changes one person's mindset about
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a person who is ably different
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I've met my goal of this whole show, right? Yeah. Right.
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That would mean that we're doing something right.
(23:48.3 - 23:50.7)
This podcast is going in the right direction.
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Any small change would be tremendous, right? Definitely.
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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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