April 2nd Us - Marvin, Martin & Maya - RUN OF SHOW
Dennis: Welcome to the Side Jawn - I am your host.......intro Sharon the Chocolate Girrrrrrrrrrrrrl! Say it right!!!! LOL!
Sharon: Says hello to the people, talk about the week a little, throws it back to Dennis.
Dennis: Got a great show today, no guests, just me and the Chocolate Girl and we calling today's show Marvin, Martin and Maya. So let's get it.
-First, we have an announcement, we are finally starting a wellness segment, and we're calling it "More Bounce" and it's going to be about ways we can get more bounce in our lives, feel better, think better, show up better so we walk with more swag and show up like a boss. Good stuff coming.
-We have our 1 year anniversary coming up June 19th! Yep our first show was June 19th last year. Gonna come up with something special to celebrate.
Dennis: April starts an interesting month.
-4/1/84 Marvin Gaye was shot and killed by his father Marvin Gay Sr in his home after an argument. Dennis talk about how he heard about it and Marvin Gaye as an artist.
Sharon - fill in some info below:
Marvin had just won a Grammy and notoriety for "Sexual Healing" and then spun off into depression and drugs so he moved back in with his parents. His dad was a dysfunctional preacher, a drunk and also was known to cross dress while maintaining a strict moral code for his kids. So he hated Marvin's song, they got in an argument one day about his drugging and womanizing, and his father grabbed a gun and shot him. Marvin Gaye’s brother, Frankie, who lived next door, and who held the legendary singer during his final minutes, later wrote in his memoir that Marvin Gaye’s final, disturbing statement was, “I got what I wanted….I couldn’t do it myself, so I made him do it.”
Dennis: Monday is April 4th, on that day
-MLK Jr assassination 4/04/68 - what happened? Why should we remember? Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. At 6:05 p.m. on Thursday, 4 April 1968, Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN. One day after giving what Sharon believes was his greatest speech of all time when he spoke to striking Memphis sanitation workers. What did MLKJr mean to you? Celebrating his birthday.
Dennis: one of the people who started getting involved as an activist in the Civil Rights Movement was
Maya Angelou - poet, actress, singer, writer, producer, teacher, musician and activist. She was also a friend to MLKJR. When he was assassinated,
Maya was celebrating her 40th birthday. After he was killed she went on to write "I know Why the Caged Bird Sings" one of her most famous works. Her most famous poem and her favorite was "Still I Rise" which speaks to the spirit of Black people triumphing over racism and adversity. Ask Sharon how she feels about Maya and what she meant to her.
Dennis then says what he knows about Maya.
Dennis -Also, April begins tornado season. And Sharon you have a personal connection to this time of year. Tell the people about it. Sharon talks about Respect the weather y'all.
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Dennis, what else is going on:
-The House has voted to federally decriminalize marijuana but it's not expected to clear the 60-vote threshold for passage in the Senate so it may die. Do we care about this? Why?
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