Before I even start the podcast and welcome the viewers, the first thing I want to do in honor  of Rivalry Week is diss Alabama A&M every way I can for 10 seconds. The school’s trash, students that go there trash, the school stinks, the teachers stink, the football team stink, the  classes, they probably stink, campus probably got trash on it, dorms dirty. Alabama A&M does not  compare to the Alabama State University in any way possible.

Now let’s get into the podcast.  All right, what’s up Hornet Nation? Welcome back to Hornet’s View Podcast that gets you plugged  into all things Alabama State University. And you know, this week is a bye week, but next week is Rivalry Week and I cannot wait.

We have beat our little brother, our lesser,  I guess you can say, the neighbor next door that’s just always bugging you for years. We’ve  beat them for years and you know, what else can we say? Let’s, you know what, I’m gonna not get  myself riled up and talk about them right now. Let’s get into this podcast about what we gotta  talk about this week.

There was a wonderful men’s mental health panel that had all the leaders of  the respective Divine Nine fraternities there and it was absolutely amazing. Being there was, it was a time and I feel like if you missed it, you really missed out on growing your emotional  intelligence and creating and learning how to create safe spaces for people to express how they  feel because a lot of what the panel was talking about, how black men have the highest suicide  rates and why is that? And that’s because we don’t have safe spaces among our homeboys to talk about,  man, I’m really in a dark place right now. Like, it’s okay for some of your conversations to not  always be ha ha hee hee talking about sports or talking about girls or anything in that aspect.

 It’s okay to tell your homeboy, hey, I’m not doing so well right now. Like, this and this just happened and I’m in a really dark place right now. And just open up because don’t deprive your  homeboys of that chance to be down in the mud with you.

Don’t deprive your homeboys that chance to  grow that, not only grow that connection with you, but not only will it make you feel better,  it’ll make your relationship better. Y’all gain a different level of closeness, right?  It was also talking about how it’s okay to cry. It’s okay to be yourself.

It’s okay to open up.  And I feel like if you missed out on it, you better hope there’s another one. Shout out for  Miss Junior for setting up that whole event and 10 out of 10, I find it completely amazing.

 It was absolutely outstanding. Now let’s move on to our next segment, which is about our little  brothers, lesser components or weaker, whatever you want to call them, about how our Alabama State  Hornet volleyball team took down Alabama A&M 3-2 set. It was a close game, but it was absolutely (3:24) amazing.

Could make sure if you see one of our volleyball players around, congratulate them for  taking down A&M. It was a great win for both. It was a great win for us, but it was a good game.

 Respect to A&M all the way. If you guys weren’t there, you definitely missed out on the time.  The vibes were absolutely electric.

Make sure you guys are going out to all of our student events.  It was absolutely amazing. And be at the next home volleyball game.

You should be at every home game,  matter of fact, but be at the next volleyball game because their games are absolutely electric.  Let’s get into the next topic. Shout out to the Heroes Administration for all the carless people out there.

They then opened up a shuttle service that runs over to that little Walmart area.  Yeah, I know I’m going to be taking a trip over there a couple of times. I’m pretty sure it runs  every Wednesday and Friday.

And just make sure if you need something, there’s a way for you to go now you’re no longer stuck on campus using the ghetto Ubers or even just an Uber. Even though  it’s only available on Wednesday and Friday, it will help you out a lot. So make sure you guys are  using the resources at your hand.

All right, now it’s time for the segment you guys have been  waiting for. Am I the stinger? And let’s get into it. So I, 20 female, have been dating my boyfriend  for about six months.

We’re both in college, but go to different schools about 45 minutes apart.  Every Friday, my friends and I have a standing game night. It’s kind of our tradition, cards,  food, drugs, just chill to end the weekend.

My boyfriend knows about it and usually calls me  after. Last week, he last weekend, he had a rough week, midterms, football practice,  the work, the works, and asked if I could skip game night and come see him instead.  I told him I couldn’t this time because it was my turn to host and everyone was already coming over.

 He said, it’s just one night, you could reschedule. I said, yeah, but it’s not just about me,  it’s our group thing. He got quiet and said I chose my friends over him.

So I didn’t go. I stayed  hosting game night. The next day, he barely texted and later said, I’m not as committed as he is.

I  told him that’s unfair. I’m allowed to keep my own life and friendships. Am I the stinger? Well, first things first, I do want to say I don’t think so and that’s due to my personal belief.

I do  think in a relationship, it is two people living their whole lives together and they each have  their own individual life and they choose to come together and also build something. So it’s really  three lives at once. You have your life, they have their life, and then you guys have the life  you guys are building together.

And I feel like you just set a boundary and if he doesn’t respect  that, then maybe he’s not the one for you. But you set a boundary that you have plans and you’re  going to stick to them no matter what. Now, what you’re also saying is you won’t cancel any plans  for him.

If you have plans with him, that means you can’t cancel those plans no matter what.  Like if you have plans with your boyfriend and your friends are like, hey, let’s just go out. It’s just one night.

You’re always kicking it with your boyfriend. You can’t. Like you can’t do that  because then that would be weird.

That would be weird for you to do that. So I don’t think you’re  the stinger, but just be mindful what you do in the future. And that’s it for today’s podcast.

 Thank you for listening to Hornets View and make sure you guys go shame a bulldog because it is rivalry week coming up. Hashtag hate the bulldogs. Hashtag bulldogs stink.

Hashtag bulldogs are bad.  I’ll see you guys next week.  I am.

I am. I am you.