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Shiny Toys And One Million Dollar Choices

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Recorded 6-2-2026

Welcome Back And Community Shoutouts

SPEAKER_01

Hello, hello. Welcome back to another episode of The Letters Become Sharper slash Thursday Night Society Podcast. And I'm sitting here with the wonderful Delena.

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Hello, hello.

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Man, I'm sitting here with her. Delena, that's my role dog. And she's so special to me. And I just want everybody to know that when we come on the air and do our podcast, you know, I always try to outline the sincerity and the care of the people that I do the podcast with. And uh, she's definitely one of the ones. Coming back in today, we uh we took a little break, but now we're back. I have a few uh subjects that we want to cover, and we got some guests coming pretty soon that want to accompany us on our journey on this podcast journey. It's something that I've been really, really loving to do. It's been a pleasure, it's been a joy. So we want to come in talking about, we want to give a little recognition to Shay. Shay Wheels. Shay has started a clothing line. It's called Boss Friends.

SPEAKER_02

Hey, boss friends.

SPEAKER_01

Hey, but that's her favorite, that's her favorite saying, right? So she said, Hey, boss friends, and Nina is doing something, doing some powerful things. I'm gonna take her new business ventures. She ain't all the way, she ain't got them all the way up posted yet. So I'm when she gets ready, I'm gonna you know, go on and put hers up. But they they're doing well, they're still a part of the show, they're still a part of my life, they're still a part of the podcast. I love to see my beautiful women doing great things. Delane is doing great things. So Tanisha T is doing great things with her nail sorority. So we are we off and running. We want to come in on this day talking about uh let us become sharper, becoming sharper. You know, that's the goal here, that's the aim of the podcast. We're focusing it around hospitality, CJ's hospitality program, and that's where Unison Meet Unison Union meets beautiful unison. The the the union, the the the 155, they didn't win.

SPEAKER_02

I know. I I actually follow some of I'm friends with some of the people that work, I guess, in their district or whatever, and they posted the winners.

SPEAKER_01

And I was like, but but they were really good people, they are really good people, and and they still they still can uh go for the uh moniker of when we win because them some amazing people. Yes, they are some amazing to everybody who came on the podcast from the 155, you are amazing people, and the impact that you put down is goes farther than those seats, those office, those positions in those in that office. And I'm telling and I'm telling you, man, y'all, y'all are really, really amazing people, sincerely from the bottom of my heart. We wish y'all the best in y'all in the future, y'all endeavors, and y'all always welcome to come back whenever you decide to. Hospitality is union meets beautiful unison. Now we're talking about union. The union comes in where we're talking about affirmations. I want to say positive things to you. And I and I try and I try to all the time. I try to say positive things to you. I try to be as good as I can be to you. That's what I want to do. So when we're talking about you and we're talking about that that portion of it is talking about affirmations, positive statements, and say is I have actually a program set up where affirmations come to your phone or your device. I actually create them. I sit in I sit in a in my own personal world and I create the affirmations, the ones that I see that are needed, and I send them to the people, the selected people. We also have meets, you know, meet the meeting of someone that is that is hand tailor-made to give you a specific affirmation and a specific message of motivation and encouragement. So that's my program that I got set. Uh, we'll like to speak about that. We also want to talk about the Thursday night society raffle exchange. We got the raffle exchange coming up this next Thursday, it's gonna be around eight o'clock. And uh, we got three prizes. I got to, you know, I'm gonna be keeping the champagne on that prize because they've been liking that. I got the uh I got a gify and I got some cash as well. Those are the aspects of the Thursday night raffle exchange, and we have events. We have another event coming up at an undisclosed location. So that's the uh hospitality program, Thursday

Music, Raffle, And Life Updates

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Night Raffle Exchange. We got C's World Volume 2. Now, I want to talk about that for y'all right quick. You know, it's no secret that I got the digital AI album out there. Six tracks, all bangers. They're doing well. We got Cold World. You know, we got You Are Not Allowed. These are just a few highlights that's on there, beautiful chandelier. Got a few little beautiful, nice little tracks for y'all that y'all to listen to, enjoy. No cussing on it. You can listen to it with your family and friends, and uh, we want you to support that. I got it on all platforms Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, title, no matter which one you what you want to do. They got it on YouTube Music. So we need those streams, we need that support. And I got a video for y'all. I'm gonna add that to this podcast, and it's gonna be really, really slick when we take it there. So, Delana.

SPEAKER_02

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_01

Just briefly, tell me something good. Tell me how you've been. I want to know.

SPEAKER_02

I I've been good. I just my niece and my nephew, who are the same age, they both just graduated high school, so it's a big thing. I'm really close with my siblings, so their kids are like my kids. Oh, yes, those are my babies.

SPEAKER_00

You their favorite auntie.

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I don't know.

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You gotta be you know you everybody remember the favorite auntie?

SPEAKER_02

My niece would tell probably all of us this in private. You are my favorite. I I think she would.

SPEAKER_01

You know, you know what's more fun than favorite auntie or favorite uncle? Cousin auntie and cousin uncle. The cousins that are older to be aunties and uncles. So we don't call yeah, I'm one of those two. So we still give them that respect. Those are the most, those are the most fun. So the lady we're coming in today on our podcast, we um I'm really, really happy to have you, you know, that we do this podcast together. I just you know, I'm all smiles. I love that. We want to ask a question today. And you know, our topics are always are always galvanized, our topics are always fit to life's situations, life's endeavors. And they're always enigmatic, they're always the type of topics that we want to that people want to know. Last time we came together, we asked a topic about loyalty. Do you remain loyal even when you're unhappy? And I was very, very disappointed in the answers that you gave, that you were Sabrina gave.

SPEAKER_03

We still talk about this.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I was very disappointed in those answers because I've been thinking about that. Sometimes when I'm driving, I think about say, wow, you really gotta stay on top of your game because these these women will put you down when you do not perform. And you know, we had to we had the show about it, we talked about it, we I get it. But

Can Someone Be Taken Away?

SPEAKER_01

now I want to come in from a different from a different on a different boat here. I want to ask about people. People are funny, human, human nature, human behavior is funny. People get funny, people get real funny stuff. And I want to say something. I want you to people choose people that belong to other people every day, and people want people that belong to other people every day, and people take people from people every day. That's powerful, but I want to know. Can you take somebody from somebody? Or do they have to be a willing participant and leave? Can you come down to later? What I'm saying to you today is can you come down and take the woman from or take the man away from a person, or is this a conscious decision that the person has made? I need to know the answer to this.

SPEAKER_02

I believe it has to be the constant conscious decision that the person has made. They have to be a willing participant.

SPEAKER_01

And why is that?

SPEAKER_02

How can I just take you like, oh, are you five? It's not like I said, pack it, pack your toys up, we're leaving. You're an adult, you can make your own decisions.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, but some people are just so dynamic that when they come and become that willing participant.

SPEAKER_02

See, you're still gonna become a willing participant, whether you in the beginning, you may like, I ain't I ain't going nowhere, but then you see this person, you be like, might as well.

SPEAKER_01

Let's talk about circumstances. Let's talk about circumstances, overwhelming circumstances. There is a so I'm gonna write, I'm I'm rolling with the podcast now. I've been taking notes. I've been coming in with my notes, I can remember everything that we got to cover when we on this mic, when we in this studio. What I'm saying to you is this there is a such thing as overwhelming circumstances. Do you believe that?

SPEAKER_02

Whoo, they got to be they got to really be overwhelming.

SPEAKER_01

They out here, they out here.

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It got to be some, it got to be something.

SPEAKER_01

I believe in overwhelming circumstances. Do overwhelming circumstances does

Overwhelming Circumstances Versus Loyalty

SPEAKER_01

does loyalty and and loyal to the soil, to my day ones, to my people that to the people with you, those core values, how do they fare against overwhelming circumstances? Because that's what I'm talking about. I'm not talking about two people snuck around. I'm talking about overwhelming circumstances come in.

SPEAKER_02

Like this person just comes in and like indecent proposal.

SPEAKER_01

That's one of the most do a decent proposal, but that was like that on the lines. Indecent proposal, that movie was like the the poster child for overwhelming circumstances, a million dollars, and we need it, and this guy wants to take a gamble. He liked he like your he like your woman there. So he steps in and says, Listen, I got one million for one night. People do it for free. What do you want to do? So these are overwhelming circumstances, a million dollars cash. These are overwhelming. Do you withhold for those circumstances? Do you have to be a willing participant to say, you know what? I really want. So I'm on jump ship.

SPEAKER_02

Even if, even if your partner don't agree.

SPEAKER_01

That's right. Let me know. That's now I've raised the the the the intensity a little bit.

SPEAKER_02

Even if they don't, you still got you still gotta be willing to do it. I mean, it ain't gonna take much in that in those types of circumstances. It ain't gonna take that much. He's like dangling a steak in front of a hungry life. So what's it? You know, it is it ain't gonna take much for him to come after that stuff.

SPEAKER_01

So, what kind of so what kind of relationship does one have if you could come along with some whimsical mystifying?

SPEAKER_02

It's got to be something outstanding, like something that they're not providing.

SPEAKER_01

See, now the circumstances are dwindling.

SPEAKER_02

Well, it depends on what that provider is circumstances that provider could be this person come along and say, Your car pay for the house pay for now.

SPEAKER_01

In relationships, we talk about, we bring these topics, we talk about relationships, romance, and compatibility on Let Us Become Shopper Podcast. I come this this evening to speak about can people take, can you take somebody from somebody? Is it possible to take the person or do they have to be a willing participant? In my opinion, I believe that people can get taken. I believe that the whole the old theory about the grass being greenery on our side, we've all heard about that. And then you get over there, the grass be brown for sure. It's never green, it's just grass on both sides, it's just grass on both sides, but the allure of looking across at greener grass than what you have, thinking that's better, thinking that it's better, allows people to get took out of already established shiny toys, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Ooh, shiny toys you get over there, yeah. That's the only shiny toy they got, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

That's all they got, the light of those, yes, that's what I'm talking about. I'm talking about taking somebody.

SPEAKER_02

But I still feel like that's a will. I I still feel like you gotta be willing a little bit.

SPEAKER_01

So you're saying you gotta be down to get took to even get took.

SPEAKER_02

You got you got to be down. You get you have you got to be willing to something. There was a crack somewhere. There was a crack somewhere.

SPEAKER_01

Mmm, a chink in the armor.

SPEAKER_02

Mm-hmm. It was there.

SPEAKER_01

I believe every relationship has a chink in armor. All relationships I don't think I don't think no relationship is airtight, but I'm talking about people that's

Social Media And Getting Overpowered

SPEAKER_01

just because it's a lot of that going on. It's a lot of bouncing and bouncing around of people in circles with different people. It's a lot of false, you know, these relationships ain't lasting. I believe that social media has a lot to do with it.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, yes.

SPEAKER_01

What do you think about the effects of social media?

SPEAKER_02

I it has what's the word I'm looking for? It has made us less we don't communicate with each other anymore. Everything is all done uh via social media, people don't have conversations anymore.

SPEAKER_01

Do you think that's healthy for them to come back?

SPEAKER_02

Absolutely. Conversations, yes, texting to even go along with social media. Like, I I'm a talker. I'll call you before I text you.

SPEAKER_01

It I'm the exact opposite.

SPEAKER_02

I will call you before I text you. And my cousin is the complete opposite. She likes text me. Don't call her.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, let me call on my phone.

SPEAKER_02

But I think we we've lost that part of just being human, talking to each other, being around each other, and everything not being social media.

SPEAKER_01

Hmm. That's that's one way to look at it. So the human aspect of the human aspect of life and relationships. I can see that. I my whole thing is social what social media has done is social media has done a twofold. It has, yes, ruined a lot of relationships. It has given false images and false, false interpretations of lifestyles and the way that things should be, right? But it's also a good thing because it fulfills it's fills a lot of time. Like I got, in order for me to see somebody a fly chick, I gotta go all the way to the club, all the way parking, pay to get in the club, buy drinks. I go right on social media, it's gonna see a half nickname. So that's the that's the the the downside of social media, but that's the upside too. You save. But yeah, I'm talking about taking people from people. I was and I was the reason why I'm thinking about this is because you know, I'll tell I always give the reason why I say certain topics. I see and a few cases where people done jump ship on their on their on their thing, on their relationship. And when you ask the reasons, because it's like girls in the locker room, you know, guys in the locker room, we always tell the reasons amongst ourselves and our own intimate conversations. We never tell the reasons too much in the open.

SPEAKER_02

No, that's like when people be breaking up on social media, like I'm invested now. I want to know what happened.

SPEAKER_01

The nosiest, the nosiest one at the pack. I knew it, I knew it, but I already knew about you. I know you love it. I know you love it.

SPEAKER_02

I've seen the family vacations, I didn't watch you know, the graduations and prompts, and now y'all not together. I I just want to know what's happening.

SPEAKER_01

I I know yeah, I know, I know you wanted to find no anyhow, pride in the business, find out what really happened. And that's the other round, it's just gossip tabloid type stuff. But you know, when when I when I have had my conversations with sad people, not naming no names, not not identifying nobody, and I'm not, we're not talking nobody up. You know, we're not talking about nobody who's listening right now and they know we're talking about them. I'm just in general, it's always this the answer is always they was just more powerful. They overpower the person and they just leave versus them being a willing participant. I don't know about uh being a willing participant when somebody comes along and shows you something more powerful and more dynamic than what you've seen prior. So people end up getting took and it looks like they jump shell. When in reality, they had no choice.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, they didn't have a choice, they didn't have a choice.

SPEAKER_01

Can your choice be taken away? You didn't have a choice. This person left you with no choice. You had to go.

SPEAKER_02

I'm gonna go back to one of my favorite movies.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, here we go.

SPEAKER_02

Let's go back. Is that how is this how he felt when he called his wife at home and told him he wasn't coming home because sunshine has taken away all of his okay?

SPEAKER_01

So once again, dresses so once again on this podcast, back to the topic. That's what I'm talking about. He called home. He said, He said, put your mama on the phone, baby. Yeah, this Tony, yeah, yeah. I ain't never coming home again. Don't worry about it. Yeah, have a nice life and hung up the phone because he was dealing with who Lady Heroin Sunshine, you showed up in there, showed up in the air and it shine. See, so what choice did he have? So this proves for the record, for the show on this topic, that people can be taken from people without them being a willing participant.

SPEAKER_02

They just get blind. I call that just they just get blindsided, yeah. But by the time they realize what happened, they like, what happened?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, they the the the experience of it, the the the experience, the look you've never seen anything like this before. You ain't got no choice, you gotta go. You've been overpowered. So I don't know about you if you ever been overpowered. I've had it happen to me before. I've been taken, like you don't have a choice, you're going. And I'm like, uh, this ain't no this ain't no good look. This ain't no good look, but I'm going for sure. So to our supporters, everybody that supports the show, we say all cash is verified. We any cash coming in, any cash going out is verified, especially from a monetary standpoint to support the show from a monetary standpoint to support our podcast. We thank you for the people that come in. We'd like to thank the Union uh 155 for coming in and doing two podcasts with us. That was really, really cool. Like I said, when we win, still is still the motto, the mantra. You guys did great. I thank you for anything that comes in. We want to verify it. Also, I'd like to talk about speak to my personal supporters, the people who support CJ Let Us Become Sharper. Personally, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for all of your support, love, and uh all the things that you do and give. I appreciate that. We're sitting here this evening back in the saddle. It feels good to be back doing our show. It feels good. We're gonna chop this one up, put it up there for y'all, let y'all let y'all figure out. Can somebody take somebody? Can you be taken? Or does either party or one of the parties have to be a willing participant? That's our topic for these get us getting us set up for another four or five shows. We're gonna knock out about four or five in a row, back on track. Schedules then cleared up. My schedule actually got a little busy, but schedules have cleared up, and we're coming in plowing through the topic in media world with that topic, taking somebody from somebody or being a willard participant, feeling that the grass is greener. Y'all be safe out there. We want everybody to be safe in the current events. We've been hearing, man, there've been some weird stuff going on in the new world.

SPEAKER_02

Yes, humans are crazy.

SPEAKER_01

Humans are crazy. And you know, the I just want to speak. I just want to speak for a minute. Use the last couple minutes of our podcast to speak about this. Everybody out there, you know, smoke over the topic as far as uh someone taking someone a willing participant. We like that. But I want to say this. I very, very rarely get specific to, I know keep my topics open.

Men Suffering In Silence And Support

SPEAKER_01

I normally like to keep my statements open to everybody, but I want to talk specifically to the men now. Listen, man, I want y'all to ride with me. I got the hospitality program. I appreciate the support of the hospitality program. We call it HPRO. I appreciate that. But I want to talk to y'all also about suffering in silence. Now, the women go through this as well. You go through this. Suffering in silence. They go through it too. But the problem is the men when we suffer in silence, it becomes because we are we are contracted as providers. Would you agree? We are contracted as providers, we're contracted as protectors. And when we suffer, don't nobody want to hear it. We got to do something about it. We got guys out here, it's called crashing out. This wasn't a statement umpteen years ago, but now they got new statements. It's called crashing out. So many dudes is out here crashing out over the women, over relationships, over finance. Yes, we know you're broke. I know, I understand, I get it. But you're crashing out is no way to resolve or help situations or solve any of these issues. But what outlet do they have? We're gonna provide an outlet for them. So, and it's gonna be a safe space in a safe environment, guaranteed. But there needs to be some type of outreach, there needs to be some type of address, somebody has to address the situation. I am one who suffers in silence. I just don't suffer so silently, not do I?

SPEAKER_02

You know, I do want to say one thing really quick uh about that. There is a therapist, she's actually located out of Southfield and she does walk-in whether you have insurance or not.

SPEAKER_03

What?

SPEAKER_02

Yes, she's on social. I don't have I don't I can't remember her name. She well, you have to. We gotta get her. Okay, well, yeah, she's on Northwestern Highway, but yeah, she she takes walk-ins, and and the goal is all these people who are suffering in silence. We she's trying to help. Wow, yes, amazing.

SPEAKER_01

I didn't know that. So, okay, so we have so help us. So, so listen, listeners, everybody that's tuned in to us, help is on the way, but the suffering silence thing is something I had to address. And I just can't believe the arrogance of people these days, where I'll say a statement like this, and a million millions of hands were raised. All of those suffering in silence, raise your hand, and the person next to them will say, You ain't suffering in no silence. I didn't even know that.

SPEAKER_02

You that's what the silence part is.

SPEAKER_01

We don't know. Exactly. So we want to get so I wanted to take this time to address that aspect of the suffering and silence aspect. I wanted to do that, and I also want to uh make sure that we get that information about that resource of the young lady that's that therapist that is helping people with said probably. Maybe we can end up getting her on the show.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, that'd be real nice.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, well, you know, that's what that's what this is for. This is becoming sharper, and that just don't mean getting sharp to a certain point and saying, okay, that's sharp enough. No such thing. We'll be sharpen until we dare never stop. We're never stopping. So becoming sharper, becoming sharper each day. And hopefully we can get her, and even if there is a guy out there, we can get him in on the show and have them address the issue of suffering and silence and other and other

Final Takeaways And Safety Reminders

SPEAKER_01

helpful things for therapy to help those that need it. So we're out of here. We're gonna go. It's uh it's kind of hot today. So we're sitting under the air right now.

SPEAKER_03

We could up out there.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, he's not there is a good thing. Yeah, so we we're gonna we're gonna step up out of here, man. We're gonna come back again a week from now with another great topic. Hopefully, we can locate our guests to come in and speak further about that type of therapy, that type of treatment. And we'll be holding it down until then. So to the next time, stay safe out there, keep your head on the swivel. Make sure that you're observing and always safe in your surroundings. Don't be nowhere where you ain't supposed to be. You know, be be cognizant and conscious of your surroundings and stay safe. Stay dangerous too, but for the most part, stay in safe places and stay safe scenarios, and we can do much better. We out of here, let us become sharper.