David Idemudia serves as MC for the 6th Annual SYT event, welcoming the audience with high energy, recounting the origin story of SYT as a NAMI fundraiser that evolved from a proposed 5K walk into an open mic, and announcing the July 16, 2022 launch of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. He closes with housekeeping logistics and invites Christine from NAMI to the stage.
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[00:40:56] I mean, I guess y’all should be hype.
[00:40:58] Y’all didn’t defeat it deaf.
[00:41:00] That is the reason why you guys should applaud yourselves.
[00:41:02] Get hype, get loud, because this night is important.
[00:41:06] Yeah, yeah, give it up for yourselves.
[00:41:08] More, more, more, more!
[00:41:14] Greeting everybody as they walked in the door.
[00:41:16] Somebody was like, yeah, I almost died.
[00:41:17] I had to stop on the side of the road.
[00:41:18] I’m like, damn, but you made it, though.
[00:41:21] Here you are.
[00:41:22] Barely.
[00:41:24] Barely, yeah, yeah.
[00:41:25] Well, thank you guys again for coming.
[00:41:29] This is year six.
[00:41:30] And if you don’t know, this started six years ago, obviously, right?
[00:41:36] Six years ago as a fundraising event through NAMI.
[00:41:40] Tyler and I were tasked to create a fundraising event from Fred Delp,
[00:41:46] who’s not here at the moment, but he’s here in spirit.
[00:41:51] Yeah.
[00:41:52] But basically, he wanted us to do a five-minute,
[00:41:55] five-K walk.
[00:41:56] He was like, Tyler, David, organize a five-K walk.
[00:41:58] And I was like, Fred, though, everybody’s doing those.
[00:42:02] Like, we can’t, can’t we be a little different?
[00:42:05] Just a little different.
[00:42:07] And Fred was like, okay, whatever you guys want to do.
[00:42:09] And so Tyler and I, same damn time, same damn time, were like,
[00:42:14] let’s do one of those open mics.
[00:42:17] And then it just all started to click together.
[00:42:20] And each year, it fills me with hope.
[00:42:24] It fills me with,
[00:42:25] this is my purpose, this is my passion,
[00:42:28] because of the stories that enter this space
[00:42:31] and the support that comes from all of you out there.
[00:42:34] It makes it happen.
[00:42:36] It does.
[00:42:38] So once again, I’m so glad to have you guys here.
[00:42:41] And yes, we will cuss.
[00:42:43] You know, people cuss out here,
[00:42:44] because that’s an emotional expression.
[00:42:47] Prove it.
[00:42:48] Yeah.
[00:42:49] Oh, you want me to say it?
[00:42:50] Yes.
[00:42:51] Oh, I cuss in therapy.
[00:42:53] Don’t tell my clients.
[00:42:54] But yeah.
[00:42:54] No, fuck.
[00:42:55] That felt good.
[00:43:00] That felt good.
[00:43:01] All right.
[00:43:01] So as Tyler said, July 16th, today is the opening of 988.
[00:43:08] It’s the crisis, international crisis hotline.
[00:43:10] I don’t know if you guys know that logic song.
[00:43:14] I’ve been doing that.
[00:43:15] Right?
[00:43:16] They turn that from a whole 1-800-whatever-number to 988.
[00:43:21] So no matter where you are, you can text, you can call for support,
[00:43:25] or if you’re in a crisis, you can text, you can call for support.
[00:43:25] Or if you’re in a crisis, you can text, you can call for support.
[00:43:25] If you’re in a crisis situation, 988 launches today.
[00:43:29] So get hip.
[00:43:31] That’s what’s up.
[00:43:32] Hey, give it up for that, y’all.
[00:43:33] Give it up for that.
[00:43:37] That’s what’s up.
[00:43:39] So if you guys like what you hear from an artist,
[00:43:41] I mean, you got to show your support.
[00:43:43] Got to show your support.
[00:43:44] So I need you to get the finger snapping, finger snapping.
[00:43:47] I can’t really do it because, you know,
[00:43:49] anybody got some vegetable oil, some Crisco,
[00:43:52] so I can just, please?
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[00:43:56] Who’s next?
[00:43:58] Before we do that real quick, just for anybody,
[00:44:00] just know housekeeping stuff.
[00:44:02] We got cupcakes in the back, in the middle.
[00:44:04] Raise your hand.
[00:44:05] We got cupcakes back there.
[00:44:06] If you need some cupcakes.
[00:44:08] There’s pizza to the right, some chips, some beef jerky,
[00:44:11] some water, some coffee, all to the left.
[00:44:15] And also, if you go out this door and go straight to the room next door,
[00:44:19] there’s also vendors in that room chilling.
[00:44:21] And there’s also like a video that people like sent in
[00:44:24] playing on a loop in there.
[00:44:25] And all that good stuff.
[00:44:27] And hold on, one more thing, one more thing, one more thing.
[00:44:29] Who doesn’t know where the bathrooms are?
[00:44:31] I need to know right now.
[00:44:33] You need to know.
[00:44:34] I need to know right now.
[00:44:35] Bathrooms, because yeah, you may need to know where to go to the bathroom later on.
[00:44:39] If you go out the door you came in to the left, it’s right there.
[00:44:43] You cannot miss it.
[00:44:44] You cannot.
[00:44:45] It’s easy.
[00:44:46] You feel me?
[00:44:47] You got the lady and the man on there, so y’all know.
[00:44:48] Just go in that jump.
[00:44:49] So.
[00:44:50] Misgendering.
[00:44:51] But okay.
[00:44:52] So one quick thing.
[00:44:53] All right.
[00:44:54] So everybody who is just here in the corner there, it’s not really so much that corner
[00:45:01] over there.
[00:45:02] There are markers and a t-shirt there that say SYT 2022.
[00:45:05] I’m going to need some signatures.
[00:45:07] I’m going to need some messages saying that you were here and we rocked the show.
[00:45:12] So take some time to do that whenever you can, but we’re about to get cracking.
[00:45:16] Let’s go.
[00:45:17] Let’s get it.
[00:45:18] And y’all ready to start this?
[00:45:19] Hey.
[00:45:20] I like that.
[00:45:21] You wanted energy.
[00:45:22] They gave you energy.
[00:45:23] All right.
[00:45:24] Let’s do this.
[00:45:25] You go on.
[00:45:26] Do this first person.
[00:45:27] I’m going to do the next and so forth and so forth.
[00:45:28] All right.
[00:45:29] Let’s go.
[00:45:30] All right.
[00:45:31] So we are inviting to the stage.
[00:45:32] Why don’t we have like the stripper song coming to the stage?
[00:45:33] Christine from NAMI.
[00:45:34] Hey.