Malcolm McFadden (aka Justice the Genius Child) and David Idemudia open the 7th annual Speak Your Truth! event as co-emcees, welcoming the audience to a safe and supportive space for people facing mental health challenges, introducing themselves, and laying out ground rules including a five-minute speaker limit, food and vendor logistics, and a note that authentic self-expression — including strong language — is welcome.
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[00:45:35] Check, check, check, check.
[00:45:36] Hey.
[00:45:37] How y’all doing today?
[00:45:39] Hey, what’s good?
[00:45:40] Y’all look great out there.
[00:45:43] Hello, hello, hello.
[00:45:45] All right.
[00:45:46] How’s everybody tonight?
[00:45:49] Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
[00:45:51] Y’all can get a little hyper than that.
[00:45:53] That’s a good amount of us in here.
[00:45:54] Y’all can be louder than that.
[00:45:55] How y’all doing tonight?
[00:45:58] Hey.
[00:45:59] That’s what I like to hear.
[00:46:00] Thank you.
[00:46:00] Thank you.
[00:46:01] That’s what I like to hear.
[00:46:02] Thank you.
[00:46:02] Thank you.
[00:46:03] Wow.
[00:46:04] Like, this wasn’t how it was last year.
[00:46:07] There’s these colorful lights and…
[00:46:09] Bigger stage.
[00:46:10] …new faces.
[00:46:11] The stage is propped up.
[00:46:12] I feel like I might, you know, do something a little risque.
[00:46:15] But, nope.
[00:46:16] We are out here to just be a part of this space that I think is powerful for…
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[00:46:27] …getting everybody together that is struggling with some sort of challenge, mental health
[00:46:33] issue, and some of these folks have been discarded, you know, not listened to, and
[00:46:42] looked over, and this is a space, a very welcome and open space for everyone to just,
[00:46:48] you know, speak their truth, and for everyone to be supported here.
[00:46:52] And so, you will hear some cussing tonight.
[00:46:54] You know, Tyler didn’t give…
[00:46:55] warning that he was going to drop all these bombs all over the place but he sure did all right so
[00:47:01] part of speaking your truth is very much expressing yourself in the words that you know
[00:47:08] beat your soul so thank you guys for coming out here and i’m you know happy to be here
[00:47:14] emceeing again we forgot to introduce ourselves bro oh okay yeah all right so uh everybody this
[00:47:23] is malcolm it’s good everybody i’m malcolm aka aka justice the genius child yeah you call him
[00:47:31] malcolm when you call me justice either or okay okay all right new father new father thank you
[00:47:39] thank you thank you round of applause thank you i i saw the little one when you were uh talking
[00:47:45] about comics oh it’s true i had him under my wing yeah yeah i thought you were going to give us an
[00:47:50] introduction of him but you know no no no you know
[00:47:53] he was chilling he didn’t want to get an introduction yet yeah okay but we also
[00:47:57] have david give it up for david since you dropping news he just recently got engaged hey yeah thank
[00:48:10] you thank you thank you yeah that’s what’s up to that wonderful person in the back that’s been
[00:48:15] handing you guys snacks all evening stacy
[00:48:22] we just twinning
[00:48:23] all night you know cool so welcome to speak your truth we will be your emcees for the entire night
[00:48:29] we’ll be bringing up all your speakers for the night and so who is our first speaker let’s just
[00:48:34] get this started before we do that i feel like we need to lay down some ground rules still there’s
[00:48:38] a five minute speaking time i don’t know if you guys caught that when you signed up but please
[00:48:43] stay within the five minutes so that everybody has a chance and opportunity to speak their truth
[00:48:48] true okay anything else also we have food in the
[00:48:53] back yes we do to the left we have doobie’s next level catering give it up for dude
[00:49:00] yes he has food in the back so if you get hungry throughout the night you know
[00:49:04] please go back there and see him get some food and also don’t forget we have vendors in the room
[00:49:09] right over here to the side we have a lot of vendors over there that you can check out
[00:49:13] throughout the night too okay absolutely absolutely and of course the bathrooms are over there
[00:49:18] when you the bathrooms are when you go out the door you came in to the
[00:49:23] you’ll see the bathrooms they right there what he said yeah yeah so shall we let’s get it let’s
[00:49:31] get it started y’all ready for the start of the show yeah yeah that was better that was better
[00:49:37] this time i like it all right you got the ipad my friend what you gonna do oh the ipad
[00:49:42] don’t got the list on it dang i’m controlling the sound oh yeah
[00:49:50] oh
[00:49:53] so nami here not here
[00:49:59] i guess we’ll be nami today but uh nami is first on the list we’ll save them for last um
[00:50:08] sarom
[00:50:12] is our next speaker can we get a round of applause yes let’s get it