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In this episode, Dr. Jones<\/strong> talks with Michael Crosa<\/strong> (Coordinator, Student Emergency Services) and Asar<\/strong> (aka<\/strong> \u201cUncle Asar\u201d)<\/strong> Alkebulan<\/strong> (Certified Personal Financial Counselor, Texas Financial Wellness) about the importance of emergency preparation, seeking assistance, and how to get back to joy during difficult times. We also learn more about how Michael created Jollyville Radio in response to being separated from family and friends during the pandemic. Be sure to stay tuned to the end of the episode to learn more about how Michael and Uncle Asar created \u201cJollyville Radio<\/a><\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this episode, Dr. Jones talks with Michael Crosa (Coordinator, Student Emergency Services) and Asar (aka \u201cUncle Asar\u201d) Alkebulan (Certified Personal Financial Counselor, Texas Financial Wellness) about the importance of emergency preparation, seeking assistance, and how to get back to joy during difficult times. We also learn more about how Michael created Jollyville Radio in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/24\/2021\/03\/2021-03-12_LIVE-Episode-15_Master.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"61.94M","filesize_raw":"64946846","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":""},"tags":[611,7,615,614,609,610,613,31,616,612,6,583],"series":[2],"class_list":{"0":"post-217","1":"podcast","2":"type-podcast","3":"status-publish","5":"tag-asar","6":"tag-austin","7":"tag-financial-counselor","8":"tag-financial-counsling","9":"tag-jollyville","10":"tag-joy","11":"tag-michael-crosa","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-texas-financial-wellness","14":"tag-uncle-asar","15":"tag-ut","16":"tag-wellness","17":"series-live","18":"entry"},"acf":{"related_episodes":"","hosts":[{"ID":68,"post_author":"39","post_date":"2020-07-20 20:29:28","post_date_gmt":"2020-07-20 20:29:28","post_content":"","post_title":"Dr. Brandon Jones","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"dr-brandon-jones","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2020-07-20 20:33:17","post_modified_gmt":"2020-07-20 20:33:17","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/live\/?post_type=speaker&p=68","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"guests":[{"ID":225,"post_author":"38","post_date":"2021-03-25 16:00:45","post_date_gmt":"2021-03-25 16:00:45","post_content":"\n

Asar Alkebulan (aka Uncle Asar) is a Non profit Youth & Family Services Professional, Writer, and Public Speaker\/Training Facilitator with extensive and sound experience in direct care, senior leadership, entrepreneurial and international capacities with substantial successes designing, managing, and evaluating a broad spectrum of health, development, educational, employability, and enrichment programming for under-served populations in Washington, DC. Currently, he is a grant\/proposal writer, proofreader, editor, and published essayist.

Also, he is a seasoned public speaker having delivered a wide variety of presentations before numerous and diverse audiences. His expertise ranges from group and corporate training facilitation; event hosting; classroom instruction\/tutoring; and cultural performances.

His international experience includes living three years (2013 \u2013 2016) in Lagos, Nigeria where he worked with a Medical Consulting firm as Proposal Writer and Training Developer & Facilitator. Additionally, he has volunteered for two US launched (2010\/2012) and several Nigeria-based medical missions as Logistics and Data Specialist compiling demographic and services information and writing end-of-mission reports. Moreover, while living in Lagos, he was a regular contributing essayist for two online magazines featuring African opinion, arts, and music from across the continent.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Asar Alkebulan","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"asar-alkebulan","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-03-25 16:00:45","post_modified_gmt":"2021-03-25 16:00:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/live\/?post_type=speaker&p=225","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":221,"post_author":"38","post_date":"2021-03-25 15:57:10","post_date_gmt":"2021-03-25 15:57:10","post_content":"\n

Michael Crosa is a Case Manager and Coordinator at the Student Emergency Services Center at the University of Texas at Austin.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Michael Crosa","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"michael-crosa","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-03-25 15:57:10","post_modified_gmt":"2021-03-25 15:57:10","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/live\/?post_type=speaker&p=221","menu_order":0,"post_type":"speaker","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"Transcript":"

[0:00:02 Speaker 0] Mm. Mhm. Welcome to live leadership, Innovation, Ventures and Entrepreneurship. A<\/p>\n

[0:00:14 Speaker 2] podcast that showcases<\/p>\n

[0:00:16 Speaker 0] the talents, skills and abilities of UT faculty, staff and students. I’m your host. Brandon Jones, associate<\/p>\n

[0:00:23 Speaker 2] director for student learning<\/p>\n

[0:00:24 Speaker 0] and development in housing and dining. And we’re excited to have you listening to us. Welcome, everybody to this latest installation of the leadership, Innovation ventures and Entrepreneurship podcast better known as live. I am your host. Brandon Jones, associate director for student learning and development in housing and dining here at UT Austin. And I’m so excited to be back from Snowmageddon at these ice storms here in Austin. So really excited to be back recording live. I gotta warn you in advance these two guests that I have before you today we’re gonna do a lot of laughing. There’s a lot of joy between this group here, and we got a lot to talk about. So first I want to introduce Michael Krosa. Hello? What’s up, Michael? Michael is a coordinator for Student Emergency Services here at UT Austin. And then we’ve got the brother affectionately known as Uncle Asar Al Kabalan, who is a certified personal financial counselor in Texas Financial Wellness How you doing today, man? Doing good. Good to have both of you here on the show. Listen, before we get into the fun and all the good things we’ve got to talk about today, why don’t you all start by telling us a little bit about yourselves? Where you from, where you went to school and what you’re up to here at the University of Texas?<\/p>\n

[0:01:44 Speaker 1] Hello. My name is Michael Krosa. As you’ve already learned, I’ve been at UT for about 2.5 years now. My education background. I got my undergrad in psychology and music at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. That was 2012 and then got masters in Student Affairs Administration of Higher Education at Texas A and M. Uh, that was in 2014, so I worked before I came to u T. I worked at a small college in North Carolina called Warren Wilson College. I did a few different jobs that I did residents life. I did student conduct. I did public safety. And then I saw the dream job opened up here at U T. And here I am<\/p>\n

[0:02:23 Speaker 0] glad to have you, Michael. Appreciate that I knew that what was coming so I and I and I predict another one is coming. So, Uncle Asar, why don’t you tell everybody a little bit about yourself, where you’re from and how you got here to u t. All right. All right, brother. Doctor, I am originally from right down the road and Bryan Texas, not college station. Bryan. I am a proud, deep, maroon bleeding Texas Aggie that might have to mute that out also by way of Washington, D. C. And all points in West Africa. And I’ve been at UT for less than two years. Um, I spent most of my time in working in Washington, D C and non property. The family services, uh, working in east of the river Anacostia Congress Heights area of Washington D. C. Working without people. My education background is in psychology. I won’t give the year that graduated from Texas A and M because it was in the last century, but a PhD and how to make ends meet. Okay. Okay. What? It is okay. Little Richard said that to money, money, money. Jones produced track. Yeah, I got that. I caught that. Well, listen, I told you. It’s gonna be a lot of laughter on this episode and one of the reasons why I thought it was important that we get we get together, uh, and have this conversation is because, you know, we’re in a pandemic and then being in a pandemic, we also had recently here in the south, but specifically here in Texas What’s being affectionately termed Snowmageddon. Uh, and so, you know, there’s a lot of ways to look at that. But one thing I know that’s needed is some joy and some laughter. And so I thought, you know what? After the conversation we all had when we got together just to kind of do some pre show conversation, I’m like, man, I got to have these guys on the show because during the pandemic, you all have been able to come up with something cool and creative that I that I think is amazing. And I think that is a best kept secret in podcasting. And so we’re gonna Hey, listen, we’re gonna get there, we’re gonna talk about that. But first what? I wanted to get both of you all opinions on it and to share with our audience is just, you know, with both with uncle. Sorry, you being a certified personal financial counselor. And it’s being tax season and FAFSA season. And then Michael, with you being over in student emergency services, can you all share just kind of what you all observed over the last couple of weeks and just looking at what our students needs are and just the importance of having an emergency plan both financial and just being a college student in general, Let me jump in real quick and say that, you know, Snowmageddon was actually 2010 when the President President Obama got got bogged down in the snow in D. C. That was and so that their name is already taken breath. No apocalypse, no popular. I think they’re calling it Snow View like Okay, that works. Nobody. Yeah, So I think that’s what I didn’t know what it was. The first time I saw it was like I was like Snow Snow Video. So I think that you know, the same things that students are going through is the same thing that staff and faculty, you know, adults or whatever we’re going through, uh, in my situation, I didn’t have power or water, heat, warmth, anything for, like a week. And I’m trying to deal with that. So I was cooking on the fireplace. Luckily, you know where my living situation? We had a fireplace. I burned down probably four adult trees. You know, I’m sorry for that, but I have to try to keep warm. And then, you know, I had to come upstairs and go to bed, and I just fully closed with my winter coat on under the covers, trying to stay warm. And from what I understand, you know, probably with a young person who is not, you know, who is away from home for the first time. They were dealing with it on a whole. Another level. I couldn’t imagine me as an adult. I deal with the best way I could because I had, you know, some experience under my belt. But Michael has some interesting stories about that, though.<\/p>\n

[0:06:35 Speaker 1] Yeah, Yeah. I mean, I think Well, yeah, part of it is. I mean, this isn’t really what you asked, but it has been interesting going through a crisis like the same. You know, the crisis is affecting all of all of the uh, the city, You know what I mean? In state. So it’s been It’s been interesting being a support, you know, to folks while also going through the same thing myself. But, you know, also, I was without power, water, heat, all that, um, a star actually got, um, got water back before before I did. And, um, my girlfriend and I came over and got a shower. Two stars place, which is just incredible, man. I’ll tell you what, You don’t even realize how much something like a shower means, you know? You know what? I statements. I didn’t realize how important that was until I went a week without one. And then holy smokes. I mean, it’s a game changer, so you know. Thank you, Douglas. Start for that. But yeah. I mean, the real question was about the plan. And on one hand, you know, there was, uh, it’s hard to plan for every exact thing. Um, but you can, you know, you can start to at least have a plan for something. And so, like, one of the things that I was personally inspired you after this is get a little box like a plastic. It’s A It’s a little bit larger than shoebox. Um, I already got it filled with, like, a can opener. Some, you know, matches some basic stuff. And then I’m you know, once stocks at a t. V kind of replenish, I’m gonna be filling it with some just canned or nonperishable foods and just something that’s, you know, I can check once a year. I don’t think that makes me a true disaster, prepper. But you know what? Just having a go kit that no matter what, I know that I can just go and quickly grab food and at least, you know, be set, um, for a period of time. I know. That’s I mean, personally, that’s something I’ve I’ve Yeah.<\/p>\n

[0:08:28 Speaker 0] I don’t think you go ahead, uncle. So now I was gonna say I have an emergency playing kid. I got some sardines, some incense and, uh, some toilet paper with my kids. That’s about it and all important essentials because, uh, honestly, important essentials, Right? And I think that’s important to note what both of you are we’re talking about. Because how often do you know when when we think about this? I’ve been in conversation with students and then some other administrators just talking about like, man, why don’t we keep salt around? Or like, why is it that we don’t invest in a plow in the city or something like that? And that’s not trying to be negative against the city or anything like that. But it is a question that comes up right about preparation. And so, as we’re you know, when we’re talking about just the different roles we play, you know, are working housing. And, you know, uncle sorry, you’re a cpfc. And then, Michael, you’re over in student emergency services. What are some things that you would like students to or, you know, those families who are preparing to send their students here in the coming year? You know, because decision time is coming in May, uh, we’re gonna be rolling out admissions decisions all over the country for colleges. What advice would you all give to parents and students who are looking at not just our institution, but any institution? What are some preparatory, uh, conversations that you would encourage parents and families to have, especially in light of, uh, this recent crisis covid included? I think Michael hit the nail on the head when he when, you know, tested in your question about a plan. Uh, when I moved when I graduated in Texas and graduated from Texas A and then a few years ago, uh, a friend of mine. I told him I was moving to Washington, D. C. And, uh, he said have a plan. So I think that’s you know what we want to tell students. And it’s basically what we teach in financial world is we’re trying to teach you the tools and and the strategies for managing your money. Not only while you’re a student, but for later in life to establish what we call, you know, financial well being and stability. Uh, this same friend who told me about being providential making a plan. Uh, Michael laughed at this, uh, you know, he was He was pretty tight. When we’re in school, we go over to his apartment and he had a job and at home, and we go to his apartment. He had any heat. He didn’t have any heating the heat in the winter. He didn’t have any any air conditioner a c in the summer. And, uh, he was saving his money so later in life. He’s engineer, so he’s doing really well. Now. He said the guy asked him, You know, Hey, man, why are you so tight? You know, spend your money. And my friend said the the guy said, Well, you can’t take it with you. You can’t take it with you. And my boy said, uh, yeah, but what if I stay so that that’s what we teach in financial wellness, you know, in an accident or something. While you’re young, you end up staying. You know, I’ve stayed on the planet for a while, right? So I needed to manage my money. Well, so that goes into again. What you would tell parents is to plan, you know, a plan for that. Four years. Michael talked about the emergency kit. Yeah, we’re in in, uh, Texas. It doesn’t happen that often, but it can happen. Have food on hand. Have I have cash in my wallet now? I don’t want anybody going to be when I walk out of the studio, but I carried cash and it came in handy. Actually 100 bucks cash during this covid. I mean, it’s, uh, uh, story thing $100 cash because people were bringing the wood to burn and I wanted to pay them. So, you know, have money on hand, have food on hand, uh, and and and have extra clothing on hand. It doesn’t get cold in Texas, But you know what my mother taught me when I was when we were growing up in Texas, would take a trip and, you know, in Texas, whether you know, they say, you know, turned another direction and the weather changes right? Asking my mother, I’m like, Well, it’s not It’s not hot right now. Do I take a coat? And she’s like, uh, it’s wintertime. Take your coat So I took that lesson to D. C. But when it gets cold in D. C, you know, it’s cold forever. And, you know, we’re talking about the snow and the ice, the snow piles and the ice. I was shocked when this happened and the power went out. I lived in D C for like almost 25 years. Never had a problem. Uh, snowstorms every other year, never had a problem. But again, going back to parents, students have a plan. What is the saying? How does the saying go Hope for the best plan for the worst?<\/p>\n

[0:12:43 Speaker 1] Yeah, I think my advice would be, uh even a little bit of planning is<\/p>\n

[0:12:51 Speaker 0] it’s a lot<\/p>\n

[0:12:52 Speaker 1] actually like, you know, uh, to really be prepared for disaster. It’s not that you have to plan for every single thing, every single earthquake, every single, you know? But just don’t just think about it like, well, what might happen if you know whatever And you know, of course, I don’t want to encourage people to be paranoid, but like, just something that I personally do whenever I go, Especially if I go to, like, a concert or a crowded place. I mean, obviously not lately, but is<\/p>\n

[0:13:18 Speaker 0] just Just check<\/p>\n

[0:13:19 Speaker 1] the exits like a movie theater. Just look, just see where they are. And it doesn’t mean that I’m, like, ready to bolt or anything like that. But, I mean, I know that if you know, you know, fire in a theater, right, everybody’s gonna tend to go out the door that they came and kind of panic. But if I’m just aware, Oh, there’s a couple extra doors, right? So a similar thing you don’t have to like plan Super far. But like, Hey, you know what? Just in case, let me make sure that I know where the different, um offices are. Who can help or, you know, just in case. Let me just think through what would happen if you know the power went out for for a while and with the with the power going out for for a while, for example. Like a lot of people, I kind of don’t realize that that affects your refrigerator, because usually the power going out is just like an hour or two. It’s fine, but, you know, as we saw, like, people were losing refrigerators of food and that’s that’s<\/p>\n

[0:14:09 Speaker 0] expensive.<\/p>\n

[0:14:10 Speaker 1] It’s really expensive. And so, um, you know, just little little stuff like that, I think, adds up and goes a long way. Oh, an emergent. I’m sorry. I’m going to cut it and say one more emergency context, um, is is a biggie. And so a lot of times the I mean the university has emergency context for the students might be worth going and check them every now and then. Make sure that, um, that person is still in your life or like you know, whatever. And And also, I mean again, this is me. I I used to work in public safety, so I tend to think about these things. Probably a little bit more than most like on my refrigerator. Um, I have just like a little envelope. It says emergency contacts that way. You know, I don’t know who what happens or what goes wrong, but it’s, let’s say, my apartment management or something. Now they’ve got a list of people that they can call or you know if if you know the worst happens and how is, you know, how would my parents know to get in touch with my work? Or, like, you know, I don’t know, whatever just doesn’t have to be paranoid. It’s just like an extra just just in case, a little step<\/p>\n

[0:15:12 Speaker 0] operation. Here’s one other thing. If I may, you know we’re living in the age of technology and everybody has a phone, and I’m still getting used to, you know, I grew up and we just had, you know, landlines. And you put a I remember, man. I remember when when when the pay phone was a dime and then it went up to 50 cents were like, what? It was a quarter when I was a kid, like Okay, Okay. So, um yeah, so you know, everybody’s on the phone, but you know what? I have to battery packs in my briefcase, but rather than briefcase in my satchel Two battery packs that I keep charged and any time that I When I walk into the office, when we were on campus, I plug my phone up. But so many people, even my peers, they’re like, Oh, my phone’s about to die or my phone died so you can’t get in touch with someone, and then they Oh, my phone died. Impossible. So when we’re talking about planning and Michael saying, you know, don’t be paranoid but these are the types of I never ran out of power for my phone during that entire Snowden episode. Get power like maybe an hour, and then it will go out in that hour. If I hadn’t cooked something on the fireplace, I would go into the stove is electric. I cook something real quick, and I plug my phone up and it stayed charged. So again, we’re telling trying to, uh, imbuing young people to be providential to plan to look forward. Not just, you know, I’m living my life in the moment. You know, I’m I’m middle aged brother. You know, I’m I’m living. I’m having fun for tomorrow. We may die, you know? So I’m living, but at the same time, you can have fun, but always be safe. And guess what? That makes the fun even better. Because situation and I’m gonna go back to this financial aid. This financial wellness thing is financial literacy thing. If you have your finances together, you’re in a very good place. You don’t have to worry about bills collectors about running out of money. You don’t have to worry about. I can’t afford this right now. Or how am I going to pay this if you have a budget and you’re sticking to it, that is what we call financial stability and well being. It carries over into what we’re talking about emergency type stuff. Are there any reason because both of you are touching on some very important things. But Uncle Asar specifically for you, Are there any, um, resources that you would want to point especially students to? Because I know I came from a family of people that didn’t know how to manage money, and it took me until I got older to start studying that for myself and getting a better understanding what resources would you point? Especially our first year students are first generation students to, uh, to begin being on that journey to financial literacy and, ultimately, financial freedom. Hopefully, well, the first resource something to point you to is the Texas Financial Wellness website that is financial wellness dot utexas dot e d u. And on their website, we have, you know, resources and information that will help a student. We actually have the presentations that we do that we facilitate. We have a PdF forms, so if you don’t you don’t have the opportunity to attend the presentation or something like that. You can actually go through the presentation on the website and contact us and schedule an appointment through their website for one on one counsel. If you have any questions about the financial situation that you’re going through, one of the some of the resources with the budget calculators on there and I mentioned budget again, you’ll hear me talk about budget all the time because budgeting is the foundation of financial wellness instability. You got money coming in. You got money going out. You have to have a way to keep track of that or you lose track. That’s how we read about so many celebrities and athletes and high profile people going broke in tax trouble because they didn’t have a budget. But if you have a budget, you can maintain what you’re spending and what you knowledge about what you’re spending and what’s coming in, what’s going out. So so yeah, Financial wellness website. Then over a Michael shop, which there, under the dean of students there is beauty outpost, and I let him talk about that real quick shop.<\/p>\n

[0:19:10 Speaker 1] I like that were young to the workshop.<\/p>\n

[0:19:14 Speaker 0] Were you? Yeah,<\/p>\n

[0:19:19 Speaker 1] I think I think a little the difference, uh, is that we student emergency services is we’re set up for short term stuff. Um, that’s kind of our best. There are what we’re designed for, Really? So, um, you know, occasionally we’ll get students who, um, you know, they’ll need help paying for their rent or like something like that, which is very important. It’s kind of a longer term issue then then right now. So that’s That’s usually where I get them connected, Uncle Star, Financial Aid or something like that. But stuff happens, you know, and stuff happens immediately. And whether that’s like a medical thing or like, just you know, something all of a sudden, you know, $300 might be really helpful, like and it might be not just really helpful, but like the difference between staying in school and not, um and so you know, that’s that’s a lot of times where we step in and I mean, just to be transparent. There are, um, some different, just like boundaries and criteria and stuff like that for the student Emergency fund. So I don’t know. I don’t want to, like, kind of paint the picture, that we’re just giving out 300 bucks to anyone who comes in. But you know, like if and and but we I mean we do our best to take care and be like, Hey, look, if for whatever reason I can’t approve this particular request, let me do everything that I can to get you there, or to, you know, to help you through this or get you to another resource. And so we, um it can be kind of a challenge to honestly inside emergency services because we want to define what we do. And yet emergencies are really hard to define. Yeah, and so, you know, that’s kind of what what I’d like to encourage is that, like, if if you don’t know where to go I think you know, I can’t remember if we were on the on the air or not when you said this. But if if students get lost or don’t know where to go to solve a problem like I really want them to stop by student emergency services um, you know, so that we can try to get them connected somewhere.<\/p>\n

[0:21:13 Speaker 0] And I’ll make sure to share some of these links that y’all are referencing in the liner notes because I think it’s important, uh, everything you all have said it’s just been so important. And I think that’s gonna help. Are incoming students are current students are parents and faculty and staff because you have a lot of faculty and staff that listen. But I want to shift gears now because that’s the reason the real reason go ahead. Michael, Go ahead. Oh, yeah. So I’m so<\/p>\n

[0:21:35 Speaker 1] excited to shift gears. And I just thought of two more things that I really want to plug before before we shift gears. Um, something. It’s it’s easy for me to forget about, but student emergency services, we’ve got to to research is that can come in huge handy. One of them is the UT outpost, which is the name for our food, pantry and clothes closet in the<\/p>\n

[0:21:55 Speaker 0] country. And you skip right over it, man, I miss I miss them. Well, here we are. We are. We are. We did not say What did I say? You did all of this. I’m not cutting. Idiot, is that? Leave it. Leave it, Leave it. Um, yeah,<\/p>\n

[0:22:10 Speaker 1] yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So the u T. I posted its basic groceries and and, uh, in pre pandemic times is more of a shopping model where students can come and it feels like you’re in a small grocery store. You can pick out literally what you want, and it’s and it’s free, and there’s it’s it’s usually about like, you imagine an HDB bag, and you stuck that as full as you can get it. That’s you once a month is that’s kind of the general allotment. Um, they also have It’s been a little bit different in in the quarantine, but they also have professional clothes. So it’s like, you know, what? If I if I have a job interview coming up and I I need some clothes because all I’ve got is, you know, ratty T shirts right now I can stop by. I can get an outfit. Um, I mean, I say I am a staff member. I’m technically not eligible, but, um, you know, a student can stop by and and get freshened up before going to their interviews. So the other one, this really helpful is we also have legal services for students. Um, and so it’s it’s a it’s a free lawyer. Lawyers are expensive. Uh, what? Most of what he does is landlord Tennant stuff. And especially after snow bid. Is that what we decided? Snow bid? Uh, yeah, especially after Snowden. There’s been a lot of like, landlord tenant issues. He can help be a free lawyer for students in that regard, Um, and other stuff like he can help with If somebody wants to start a business If somebody wants to just review a contract, anything like that? Um, you know, free lawyer.<\/p>\n

[0:23:38 Speaker 0] So two things you said. Okay, I know they have a clothing boutique. That’s what I seems like, You know, it’s fly. Then it’s a clothing boutique, you know, professional clothing. I was, you know, because Uncle Softwares dashiki man. So they got, you know, a tire in there. If I mean, you know, I’m just saying, But thing is, I want to reiterate, go back to the whole cash thing, and I’m not trying to put myself out there, but it’s very important. And, uh, it’s a good management money management tool if students keep some cash on you. I know, I know. There are incidents. You know, the, uh what is the U T p. D. Puts out alerts when people are costed on campus and this type of thing, you don’t have to carry as much cash as isn’t gonna saw, but, um, have some money in your We’re banking on line with banking on the phone. We have debit cards, you know, Still, we try to, uh, dissuade students from using credit cards, but there may come a come there may come a situation where you need some cash. Keep $20 in your sock. I’m sounding like I’m gonna start right now, Right, old man? Right in your sock. You in your underwear? You know what I’m saying? Put it in your shoe. If you If you think you know, you don’t say have $20 cash on you because you may not, Your phone may go dead. Then you can’t call uber. You can’t get a scooter. You may have to take a taxi, and they are not going to do it on credit. You can say, Well, wait till I get to the house. I got some money that they ain’t going for that you put $20 on your person. You know what I’m saying? Plan for that. So, yeah, man, that’s good. I mean, that’s good planning that sound strategy and those are good resources. And those are things to think about. Especially given our context, because we are, you know, in Austin, Texas, and you know, if we’re choosing an institution that’s in a in a city where cab services are, you know, that is a good resource to have. I didn’t. I grew up where? You know, cabs were extremely rare in little little town, East Texas, where I’m It’s like a cab, Like good luck, but but my father would always say the same thing. It’s like, Hey, man, always keep a little, keep a little cash somewhere. So, uh, definitely choose your locations and and, you know, keep So I agree with that. Now we go. Let me go. Old school. Brother. Doctor, let me go. Old school real quick, and I hope not me, but, uh, you know, my mother always said a man supposed to have money in his pocket. I know. That’s what is it? What do you call it? Gender. Gender? What is it? Something, you know, a specific. Yeah. Man always has. Should have money in his pocket. And then for the young ladies or whoever. You go out with it on a date, put money in pocket cause you may have an argument, and then you ain’t got a ride home. Mm. What I’m saying, it’s talking about still sound advice. Okay, everybody, it’s still sound Advice. Please don’t title nine bu. I don’t even worry about it. Don’t even worry about it. So what I want to do now is shift gears real quick. Yes, you all have done something that I found amazing. First of all, at the end of this episode, Uncle Assad has a rap that Michael produced that I think everybody needs to listen to. And it tells the story of this project that I want to give Michael and Uncle Asare a chance to talk about, because during the pandemic, you all got together and created a podcast and the show called Jolly Ville Radio. Now, I had heard about this, but I had I heard about it because I just I just We’re gonna have Justin on the show at some point to Justin. Carter told me about it, and I’m like, I got to check this out. And I started hearing like I mentioned it to somebody else on campus, and they they said that I said that I mentioned it out of context. They were like, No, no, no. Jolly ville does this? You mean you need another show for what you were talking about? And I’m like, Okay, I gotta talk to these guys about Jolly Ville. So what? I want to give you all a chance to do Michael. Uncle Assad. Talk to us about just what? What is jolly ville rate? Tell the art this is your chance to plug it. What is jolly ville radio? And how did it come to be? And you’ll also hear the rap at the end of the episode because I promised Uncle Asana and Michael that I was going to plug it. So please, please tell Tell us about Jolly Ville.<\/p>\n

[0:28:01 Speaker 1] What is Jolly Ville? No. Okay, so Jolly Ville radio for one Jolly Ville is a real part of Austin, but that’s a side comments. So, John radio? Yeah, yeah,<\/p>\n

[0:28:13 Speaker 0] I have to get out there, but that’s<\/p>\n

[0:28:16 Speaker 1] what it is. It’s a great name and you know what I mean? Quarantine has been really hard, and so this was kind of my way of and, you know, it’s working, and emergency services is hard and heavy. So this is this is kind of my way of, um, creating something happy and fun and uplifting. And so what? It is what it has come to be. It’s a fiction. We call it, uh either fiction or a semi fiction podcast. It’s about 20 or 30 minutes along comes out every Wednesday. And, uh, we The first part of the show is this kind of scripted, goofy show. And we have, You know, we have about a dozen or so people. So you always hear different voices and stuff, and we make it sound like it’s like a public radio broadcast from the small town of Jolly Ville. Um, we do different skits and different, you know, running. There’s different running jokes and all this kind of stuff, and it’s a lot of fun. And then, um, at the end one of my favorite kind of things about it. That, like, just sets it apart is that we do a feature called Community B and Uncle Asar, um, is the host of that particular segment. So we we we end every bit with this community beat segment. He interviewed somebody who’s doing some real community building work, um, out in the real world. And it’s been just a lot of fun to work on, and I guess I’ll let uncle started talk a little bit. So<\/p>\n

[0:29:33 Speaker 0] this this story I like to tell the story every chance I get. I got involved in Jolly ville. Right?<\/p>\n

[0:29:40 Speaker 1] I know it’s coming.<\/p>\n

[0:29:41 Speaker 0] So I’m in Texas. But that you well, does. Michael’s in student emergency services. So we collaborate a lot to our unit, and there is what I said, right? So Michael and I would end up on the team’s call, you know, with video. And we’re talking about a student or something. And we got into he found out he was he was a musician. And then I told him I was a poet and a writer, and then we just, you know, start kicking it every time. You know, every once in a while we get on, get on a video, and it’s like, How you doing, man? You know, I’m good, you know? How you doing? All right. All right. So then he tells me, Yo, man, I’m trying to start this this podcast thing, and so it describes it to me. So now you know, I’m at a stage in my life where I’m like, Okay, well, I’m coming out of my comfort zone. I’m gonna try to do new things, but I want to do things that I’m comfortable with out of my comfort zone, right? But which defeats the purpose. So Michael was like, I’m doing this podcast. Do you want to be a part of it? I’m like, you know, I’m trying to, you know, shine him on or whatever I’m like. Yeah, man, you know, I’ll do it. So it was a minute, then he came back to him, and he was like, So what do you What would you want to do with the podcast? And I was like, Well, you know, I write a little bit, you know, I got some stuff online, but, you know, I’ve never written the skin or anything like that, but I’m really trying to get him off me, right, Because I really don’t want to do it right. So then he’s like, he’s like, What do you want to do? I said, uh, I threw my Pan Africanist hat in the ring, and I was like, anything I do bro is gonna be a social activism. He was like, Ok, okay, So he left, came back to him. He was like, Well, what if we do? You know, we leave the fixture stuff and we do. We come into the real world and talk about, you know, people doing nonprofit work, community building type stuff. And I’m like, okay, but I still don’t want to do it. But that’s up my alley, right? Because I ain’t comfortable, you know? It’s out of my comfort zone, and I’m like, Yeah, OK, so he was like, What do you want to call it? I said, Well, there’s this, uh, radio drive time radio show in D. C. I think it’s not Howard University radio. Wh you are. And it’s called, uh, the Daily Drum. And I was like, Man, that’s too that’s too that’s too black for him. So I’m gonna tell him a community beat and he you know, he ain’t gonna go for that. I said So I said community, but it’s called the community being He was like Okay, yeah, I was like, Oh, man, how I’m getting deeper and deeper in this day it So then, you know, it was like, Well, what is the What is he gonna be? We’re gonna shine the spotlight on people, people doing community work in the real world, you know, I have to tag line or whatever, and then at the end, I was like no one can do everything. But everyone can do something peace through that piece. And I put them from Gil Scott Heron. You know, record. Back in the nineties, I was like, He ain’t gonna go for this. And the dude was like, Yeah, and the most the most popular part of the community be is that tag line It was like I’m trying to get out of it. The more I tried to get out of it, the deeper I got any man. The thing that I love about this and we were joking about this, uh, on the pre show was that I was jokingly calling Michael like George Lucas and Mr Rogers, because what he’s done with this show, when you all get a chance to listen to it is he’s created this universe and is this fictional space. But they’ve they’ve got characters, they’ve got voices. And when you listen to the rap, what I love about what this did was that one. You created this during the pandemic. And as everybody knows that during the pandemic, it was hard to see our friends. It was hard to see our loved ones and you get tired of just getting on zoom calls during happy hours. You get tired of just checking in on family doing the face time, right? And so, Michael, you What you’ve done is created this space for you to see your friends. And it’s like, Hey, instead of just doing the usual stuff that everybody else is doing, let’s just pretend, let’s let’s go back to what gave us joyous kids and pretend it. And what I love about it is like I listened to an episode today while I was working, and I just sat there laughing, going he really create like they really did this. And you convince your friends your free. I told y’all we’re gonna laugh a lot today convinced your friends to come get on a zoom meeting and just be random and just just go and play these characters for free. You can’t leave that out And you created this universe, Uh, in this space where it’s funny, it’s humorous. And then Uncle Assad comes in at the end with the serious beating like it’s a little bit of the unlikely duo You got Michael over and Jolly Bill, you got your pan Africanist uncle, uh, over here, You know coming together, These two people who would otherwise probably not have ever come together doing this fun collaboration and to me doing something that’s creating joy people we get to laugh. And I think that during the pandemic we forgot to laugh at moments because everything is so serious. And so that’s why again, I wanted y’all on the show during this time because I think we need to get back to joy. That’s probably gonna be the title of this episode. Get Get back to what I tell everybody about, like what you all have been able to see in doing this because I love it. I think it’s Oh,<\/p>\n

[0:34:47 Speaker 1] thank you, man. Thank you. And you know what? As much as I absolutely love that flattery, I really can’t take credit for for everything then because, well, I mean over the course of this thing, I mean, we have a like a writer’s. We call it a writer’s room. We’ve got, um, you know, four or five people, at least that you know, have really committed to this for a long time. And, um, you know, like, for example, a friend of mine, Emily and scenic from, uh, men are in graduate school. We, you know, I mean, we have a grad school cohort list, that kind of cut in a, you know, just reached out to that group. And, um, and now I get to reconnect with my friend Emily and same thing. It was another friend, Lizzie, also from grad school. Like I hadn’t talked, you know, hadn’t really talked to them in ages. And, um, you know, then I get some some work people rolled into it, and then, um Colleyville it’s a whole story. For another time, we actually started as a brass quintet fan. So we got some, like, random people from Nebraska Tet that are are still involved, Brian And, you know, and just like all these people and for me, it’s been really if there’s a line in the in the rap that says everybody separated by one degree, it’s like I’m the one degree, but it’s so it’s kind of fun to have all these friends from different parts of my life getting together and meeting each other, and and that’s that’s been a lot of fun. And then, as far as like, voices because you know the writer’s room is a certain size, and then the voices is, uh I mean, over the past six or seven months, we’ve probably easily had 20 or so people at some point giving voices and<\/p>\n

[0:36:18 Speaker 0] for free. Yeah,<\/p>\n

[0:36:21 Speaker 1] and some of these, I mean, and it’s across time zones. I mean, we’ve got all four, you know, the contiguous time zones and then, um, are represented. And then the the community beat segment has been kind of fun to because I’ve just met people and made friends through that, like maybe legitimate friends that I just like cold called and been like, Hey, you seem like a cool organization. Can we interview you? And then next thing you know, like now this person is like coming up regularly to do you know, the to do voices and that, you know, it’s fun. It’s been, you know, again for me just because talking about myself is fun. I didn’t even realize that I was going to make those friendships and continue those friendships and literally meet people who I consider close friends Now that only through podcasting, um, which has been wild<\/p>\n

[0:37:17 Speaker 0] with the Jolly Ville part. You know, I do. I do I do. I do a voice and I do myself. And then I do have a voice. I have a character, but then I mainly do community beat and that’s that’s every episode, the voices and stuff. It’s like every once in a while you here Uncle saw her do a, uh,<\/p>\n

[0:37:34 Speaker 1] a<\/p>\n

[0:37:34 Speaker 0] shout out and, you know, yeah, different stuff like that. But the community, the thing I mean, we could like you said we get to meet people from all over the country. We’ve even had people on community beat this cat from Hawaii and I had an interview from a cat in in New Zealand at the zoo at the end of the interview, he takes us outside on the laptop and shows us around the zoo. So I mean, and I give I give Michael, uh, props all the time because I’ll sit back and I don’t think, and I’m like, Oh, wow, I actually did that. And I’m like, Dude, do you understand? And I’m glad you you you likened it to Mr Rogers. I had never seen it, you know, in my pain, that way, dude is like jolly ville neighbourhood, so yeah, get my man, The thing The other thing I always sees him about until lately. You know, we got a new cast member is that It’s like I’m the only black cat in Jolly Ville. So I have a position of prestige. You’re trying to integrate, Diversify, diversify, diversify. All right, so we got another brother now, which is just a car. That’s how you heard from? Yeah, my man Just a car. So yeah, we’re gonna We’re gonna We’re gonna We’re gonna start a community and have little jolly will keep, you know? Well,<\/p>\n

[0:38:54 Speaker 1] you know, I mean, since we’re since we’re talking about it, I really enjoyed back in, uh, December. I guess we did a Kwanza episode. Um, And I that was another one. That was like, Man, I had no idea that that that would be a like, possible and and like, I I learned so much. I mean, go figure a white guy doesn’t know much about Kwanza. And so then going into it I mean, I think we that was our fastest episode. Creation s are mentioned. This idea I think we we kind of loosely talked about actually, my boss mentioned so we were decorating the office. And my boss said like Hey, make sure you get Kwan’s up there and I think I know Uncle Sam was gonna know about Kwanza. So you know, I was asking about Kwanza and and he said, Do we should do an episode like 48 hours later, we had an episode made, uh, we got Justin Carter and desert across the board<\/p>\n

[0:39:46 Speaker 0] representing,<\/p>\n

[0:39:47 Speaker 1] uh, love Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, from being FSA and and then, uh, myself and my girlfriend who just, you know, just to white people that didn’t know anything about Kwanza and just got to, like all of us, just kind of learned from uncles are And it was a man that was a blast.<\/p>\n

[0:40:02 Speaker 0] And that’s what I love about the show man like you’re having fun. You’re teaching your reconnecting, you’re smiling, you’re laughing And at the end of the day, it’s just like, yo, I got together. If nothing else, you get to say, at the end of every episode, I got to hang out with my friends. We did something random. Um, it’s gonna take a little bit of work, but it’s out there, and this universe is going to exist and people can come and check that out at their leisure. And the thing that I loved about the show that continues to amaze me is just you just keep doing it. You keep doing it. It gets more like if you’re looking for, like, sequential or anything like that don’t do that. Just come and enjoy the show because the art major in me was like they just having fun. I want to have fun. And so that’s what we were talking the other day. I’m like, Yo, I got to come do me a jolly ville episode just because you get your passport job your passport Get your I’m with it because it just sounds so much fun. And I think that when I’m with our students, but I’m always trying to tell them, like, get out of this linear mindset that everything has to, like, make sense and it has to follow this particular rhythm, and it has to go from point A to point B and what you’ve done Michael and Uncle Asari, to a degree, What y’all have done is you have come together and you brought people together across as you said time zones, cultural barriers and backgrounds. And you’ve used a technology that’s been around forever to make the most of this situation that we’re in. And for a few minutes, if I’m being honest for a few minutes, you kind of forget about the pandemic. And you’re just in Jolly ville. You’re there. You’re in the story old school, twenties and thirties radio style in this. And that’s what I love about that. Go ahead. Michael wants He’s going to tell you about how people they sometimes they can’t distinguish between. It’s not what I want to talk about is what you said having fun. This cat has brought me out of my comfort zone. I was talking about being comfortable voices in the episode man. I’m dude, I’m that cool. Dude, You know what I’m saying? Back in the day, I’m you know, I’m not at the party, You know? I’m the cat Stand on the wall, Kool and the gang. How you gonna do it? You really don’t want to dance by standing on the wall and get you back up. Up? That’s me, right? This dude, I mean making funny voices. We have a bloopers real Just so Uncle Assault. Oh, man can’t be published on air like this ever We have a blue for real just for me But let me get let me get serious for for just a second And we’re talking about, you know, making jokes about no black people in Hollywood and that kind of thing. So we welcome you, but, uh, in addition to working with Michael on Jolly Ville, let me say that, uh, let me say I’m a sensitive brother. So I may get emotional for a second. You know, in our community and I struggle, especially after the George Floyd thing. People are talking about difficult conversations between black and white and and and all but in between, Michael deals with me on Jolly Ville. And like I said, I’m you know, I’m at a point in life where I just want to chill. So he has to pretty much work around my schedule. And I don’t do that as a pre Madonna. It’s just my You know, how I’m feeling at the time. It’s like, you know, man, I want to watch some TV. I want to relax the company so he deals with that But not only does he deal with that, we have those difficult conversations away from me. He will ask me questions saying, and then he will listen to and absorb what I’m saying the time. So when we talk about in our community, we talk about a commitment as opposed to a contribution. I feel like this cat this white cat has committed to. You know what he’s doing? He’s talking about the quants episode. That wasn’t my idea. I was talking to him about Kwanzaa and DFS A doing seven days of Kwanza Those little you know, Then you have too many things that we did on the YouTube, the YouTube. He said to me, Do you want to do something? I was like, Dude, really? And he put it together and like we put published in 48 hours, I wouldn’t have done that. I might have gone to the street corner corner, started yelling at white people about Kwanza. But I wouldn’t have sat down and pull people together and then edited it and then published it in that type of thing. So I want to give him props. You know publicly for that all you know I’m taking the opportunity because I’m I’m I’m a disciple of Malcolm X and Malcolm. There was a young white girl that came to Malcolm one time. I wanted to know how to get the white people and the Muslims together. And he was like, You know, what can I do? He said nothing. So he later regretted that. And in a conversation with Gordon Parks, he said he he told him he regretted it, and he wished he could have talked to her. And this is an important lesson in our struggle is that we need committed allies. You didn’t say we need committed allies, because who will Listen, you know what I’m saying? They’re in a position to to, uh, advance our position, advance our message and for this brother. And I told him I told him on several occasions, So they say nothing to him. He’s and he’s one of those people. And I want to thank him publicly publicly. For that. Told you we’re gonna We’re gonna We’re gonna be emotional. This that man, you’re looking at each other on camera like you’re trying right now. I told you to stop me, bro. When I go to I think what you said that was so important. I want to give Michael a chance. Michael, I don’t know if you had anything you wanted to say, but I’m speechless. Uh, good. And the. And the reason why the reason why I feel like that message is important One getting in spaces like this and one laughing together, seeking understanding from one another. You know, that’s that’s That’s the message that we, you know, in the division of Student Affairs we talk about intercultural competency, that ability to communicate across differences and commonalities building that bridge. Right? And I agree with you, Uncle Asar, we do need to, um we do need allies that listen, especially anybody from any oppressed or marginalized community. We do need allies to come together and listen and talk to one another. And I do think that Jolly Ville is that space is a space that you know, uses humor. But also the community B is like these are real people addressing real issues here, too. And so you kind of you kind of take the approach of the activists that do TV, you know, or the ones that do comedy shows to lure people in and then hit him with a message that they didn’t even know it. I love that approach, and that’s what really draws me in. You know, Justin invited me to listen to the show a while back, and I only got a chance to do so recently and what I loved about that in prepping for this show. It’s just how I’m like they really you really leveraged in existing technology to bring people together to address difference? But then also to talk about the things we have in common to and do it in a way that’s just funny, Like it’s hilarious. Y’all like Michael. I’ve only met Michael recently, but I’m like I can’t wait to talk to Michael again. I’m like I can’t wait to win. The next conversation is going to be, you know, Uncle Asar. I see all the time. Y’all just Some of y’all are probably wondering, like, Why in the world do we call him Uncle Asar? Just know everybody calls him that. It’s not just me trying to be Brandon Jones giving people nicknames, because I do that, but and it’s not just Dolly Ville, not yet. It’s not just in Jolly Bill. Everybody at UT calls him Uncle Asar President. Hard to almost dead. But he stopped himself in the state of black ut he was like, It’s really hard to follow, uncle. I mean, it’s hard to follow, Asad. So I’m telling you like that That’s the community that we have here at u T. And I just want to say, as we wrap up here, I really do appreciate both of you, So stick around as we get ready to close, but any final parting thoughts here because we got some post show stuff to talk about, but I want to give you all the chance to say anything to the audience that you hadn’t had a chance to say.<\/p>\n

[0:48:20 Speaker 1] Uh,<\/p>\n

[0:48:22 Speaker 0] yeah, I heard something, but I forgot. Yeah, we’ll come back and we’ll come back and shoot. Shoot some like Zack Snyder with the Justice League. We’ll come back and do some reshoots or something.<\/p>\n

[0:48:34 Speaker 1] Yeah, man, I would love to have you in Colleyville, dude.<\/p>\n

[0:48:39 Speaker 0] Hey, listen, it ain’t saying nothing but the word I get to go beat my authentic silly self. Hey, sounds like my kind of place. So listen, y’all stick you to stick around. We got more to talk about. But everybody else Listen, thank you all for listening to this episode of Live looking forward to reconnecting with you all again. Just checking us out on all the platforms Spotify, apple podcasts, stitcher and on the liberal arts Instructional technology studio website. So take care. Have a good one.<\/p>\n

[0:49:11 Speaker 2] Mhm<\/p>\n

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