phones down and head co hosts are turning on the spotlight now this week on the spotlight remembering the queen of soul aretha franklin known for her soul who passes away at the age of seventy six how will her music and her legacy m pack the new generation for future artists also we're remembering and saluting an american hero as america  unites on a senator john mccain who passed away at the age of eighty one to you are looking back at the life of john mccain and megan mccain honors her father in her own words we are grateful to them because they are grateful to him if you have risen to that fire wait to cast upon them for the truth revealed about their character but my father never cared what they thought and even that small numbers still have the opportunity as long as they draw breath example john mccain millenia and the midterms as the november midterm awards and additional twenty eight twenty six grammy nominations for her recordings throughout her lifetime seeing careers so my question is when you heard about the passing of youth there franklin how did you i was watching it before i came here to the spotlight and i was just saying while i was just so sad and it's amazing that so many people loved her and she was really sad you know so funny was not funny but just based on what you said when i first heard it i thought it was fake i was like this cannot be real oh my goodness i called mom i was actually on the phone my mom and my everything frankly you know of course my grandmother said it of course she would know more than i would you know and you know like you said she's a legend  family plays her my grandmother play her all the so that's how i know her of course respect so huge that's one of my favorite songs but it was it was signed you know because she's a legend she well if anything i would want to give a wreath to franklin like a special thanks to her for everything and throughout her decades as an artist and even as an activist it's like she was part of when and if i remember hearing correctly were around the time of dr martin luther king jr at the march right yes yes yes so kudos to her and you know throughout the par throughout parts of the show this hour we're going to continue to honor aretha franklin and her muse her so music is so and everything else so but you know in addition the wreath of frankly you know who we also lost just right after that same month senator john mccain with american hero who served his country very well he died at the age of eighty one just a few days before his birthday and he was battling brain to the incoming group of republican representatives and was assigned to the house committee on interior affairs his senate career began in january one thousand nine hundred seven after he defeated democratic former state legislator richard kimball by twenty percentage points in the one nine hundred eighty six election you know there's so much a lot of information right i don't want to go on and on and on for this because the slate i mean he's the man you know on a mean and you know and you know who has a tweet about about john john mccain and need twenty the my deepest sympathies or respect go out to the family of senator john mccain our hearts  wrong what you say so this country from he did his best to serve the united states of america and you tell him that he's not a hero just because he was captured by a truck that's somehow  maybe both sleep well and rest in peace we'll be right back with more hot topic they welcome back welcome back you know we're getting closer to the midterm and before you know it's strange that today i'm the only guy at the table women that are not given up until their voice has been heard and we finally twenty nine states step between the unprecedented number of women running for office and the fact that a woman are poised to become the country's most powerful voters real woman everywhere have the potential to not only influence america but to redefine it unquote so i mean and i forty two percent of women do not vote twenty percent say that they are going to vote and take it from me as a young woman here i don't vote i don't and i just recently recently got a letter in my mouth saying like my name on it telling me where to go to vote and my heart dropped like this you know but i remember maybe i was at my job recently and this woman she made me feel good about voting and i think that's why i got to learn and i'm out so i told myself this year i'm going to vote because you have to vote to make a difference you know it's very important to make a difference because i can sit here and complain all day and you know nothing's going to happen  and some people don't even know some people don't know that they're registered or not so they don't have the voice to say oh i'm going to get up and vote and we all could be family we all can be on one house and you can go vote tomorrow right let's say that  and you haven't told her make a you know you want to get up and vote or you'll tell her and she'll be like i'm just going to continue playing my video games you know that's how it is out here where it is not like everybody standing down and standing up each other and say matters you know it i know is sometimes it's like you have this person like wins you actually because even though you voted for the other person because you hear your voice counts but it's like so at the beginning i'm standing here voting for two people or for you don't care about me you know so how am i making a difference if i don't like these two people you know that's going to myself and you know maybe also issue from what you're saying making a difference you're absolutely right you know you might not like both of these views but you have to tell yourself who's going to do better for my country yeah i might not like these two people who is the bigger run up better for me you know what i'm you know what i make of it and then i'm going to live and die in this world don't have a voice you do have a voice you all have a voice whether it's that person wins or not you still have a voice of what you believe in and what change you want as a voice for the country on for around the world don't give up on that ok i mean i did nominate her for some reason because i feel as though it wasn't she probably was a radio wasn't yet qualified yet because it's like i remember reading an article or something that she probably got stuck because she had like the facts all together or whatever the reason was by me give her a chance she's still trying to learn as we go out and her voice matters everyone's voice but is that are because people don't even know the difference between a democratic person and a republican and you know want to get into the political world and you start learning more about me then you start something more comfortable writing about bone and once you fully understand the whole situation of the democrats republicans i think also some people probably don't vote is because probably in a don't really stopped why she almost stopped making her makeup tutorial videos on you tube she talks about the complexity of a mixed race and how she identifies with both mexican and black sides of the family take a look my mom is mexican and black and my dad is black part of the mix is being costly told me you have to pick either being one of your reese's or the other both cultures have you for their own ways and i love being able to identify with your comments either in person or on line pressuring me to somehow prove which side identify with more i think in a way it's made me unable to fully identify with either and i'm really tired of it growing up i was even aware of the texture i had i kind of thought that everyone had the same hair texture until i was doing one of my friends here in high school and i was going to the same style as do myself so i would be easy and i really completely different and sometimes when i made videos like centered around my natural hair i've got comments saying that it's not right for me to me that's kind of videos because i don't have a certain hair texture i got a few comments same like pretty much like why she make these kind of videos her hair texture she can really like the struggles of having natural hair and that kind of thing it's something you know for darker skinned women well you think i mean she has a she has a i mean look she has a point i mean you can't you can't just let someone stop you because someone make coach told you this or that or defend the on what your race is your right right right course not like you still have to keep going a lot of people is going to talk about you but that doesn't give you a reason to stop but you don't write you still have to lie continue known to do what she was called for to do it like if you know if that's where she's going to and that's what she loved on the here and everything don't let nobody like put you down for that you go and show them that you could do it and you could do it better and just for that i'm bag the most confident person gets scared and nervous national i had slipped was all the time sam hardy was nervous when he get off get off stage you know i mean so there's always a first for everything so i agree absolutely with what you said you know she if you're watching please come on this show we like to talk to you about this issue that you know with us because we cover this issue and it's always good to have hear from your side of this is we have questions that we want to ask you and we're ready they're skew all right when when you come so if you're watching please come this is a show right well well out here to tell your story voice your opinion you know and that's ok and you can see my face and in the rarest at the rear into you see what is going on here because this is the thing here about were the wall street journal magazine out there we go in the rarest of the rare interviews with the wall street own partners she has her boyfriend i have mines but we take care of each other we're like each other left and right hand and that's how you supposed to be in a relationship where sisterhood when you're in a relationship you're supposed to be close you're not going to each other's heads and you guys both each other back up that's who we are when we don't have our other house to talk to we are each other or the house you know what i mean and use we used to be like oh i used to be like you know homo normal for everything but then it's just like if we know they're we're not like that we just we've done how much we love each other you know so it's people would take the sexual out of it and realize the word partnership you know marriage you hear you know when you're married you put some money and you're going to be sexually active but just take the sexual part out and just think of what marriage have to do with it you know what i mean same thing as being best friends with somebody so they're probably pertaining  to their best friends i agree but i feel like i see what you're saying but i still feel like they shouldn't say like always like a marriage like i don't know i just feel like that is going a little bit too far understanding is this is you know ok i like your sisters i understand that you have a very close but she's demanding respect as a woman as a black woman you know it's important that we get that and we know that we deserve it because that's the only was going to come to a lot of her gospel music which i love and i'm doing grew up on and especially during the strong pretty much like the smallest component because it takes so much they put more time and effort into putting lights together and giving this our writing hidden camera shots and so once you come to the table and because everything is more solo it's on a story and in i when i got to college i got into acting because initially the program i wanted to go to it was like i felt like it was just a little too expensive ok so but ensemble at the end of the day and being professional and holding up your part and doing your part it's extremely important  even know you haven't met her in person but i mean if you listen to her music what is your perspective about aretha franklin one thing about her she definitely saying from this she she was coined the queen of  go and respect go to the family of senator john mccain our hearts and prayers are with you now i really don't think he really meant that but what you really think about this like oh  but up until you know he got older that's when some of his his policies and how he felt about certain issues started to shift so but initially like you musicians we are so open till music in general and studying music that dates back from the fifteenth hundreds up to current i could say this tons of names we could pull out and i think the overwhelming to give you guys that moment that i think overall i think the idea is basically just finding music that goes it's your heart and soul and really provide that emotion out of you and i think for me one of my biggest as i said pete solo argentin ahead you guys have any on projects coming up like have you guys travel as well actually just you know we just recorded an album or because i love the way you   we really enjoy your music and this is one of the things stat you yes is one of the albums i encourage you to listen to that this is their album sketch is that you got to check out here and i promise you you'll be the last in no time yeah but it's like a little music musical relaxation here if you're in like me whatever mood you're in you know as you just want to just listen to the music or if you want something to like say you got a comeback and i just wish we had more time but you know they're sticking around for the after show check our social media pages has your performance on the social media check it out here