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Speaker 2: Good morning.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Ricky. It's Tuesday, August 25th. Here's what's going
Speaker 3: on in the news.
Speaker 4: The Trump administration is turning up the pressure on Iran,
Speaker 4: this time through its wallet.
Speaker 3: Treasury Secretary Scott Besant.
Speaker 4: Announced Operation Economic Outcast, which is an aggressive.
Speaker 3: Sanctions campaign against Iran.
Speaker 4: Aimed at cutting off Iran's oil sales, trade, and financial
Speaker 4: connections worldwide. But as that pressure builds overseas, there could
Speaker 4: be a leadership shakeup at home. The Wall Street Journal
Speaker 4: reports Army Secretary Dan Driscoll may step down by year's
Speaker 4: end after months of tension with Defense Secretary Pete Hegsath.
Speaker 3: Okay, listen, Ricky, you ready for Halloween? I know you
Speaker 3: do the most.
Speaker 2: Oh, you already know.
Speaker 3: I know you do the most. But guess what? Target
Speaker 3: is not.
Speaker 4: Target is pulling a Halloween costume after people called it
Speaker 4: offensive and hurtful to the black community. Target did not
Speaker 4: name the costume in his statement, but reports say it
Speaker 4: was the kids' glow-under-black-light circus clown outfit. Target says removing
Speaker 4: it is only the first step, and now the company
Speaker 4: is trying to figure out how it made it into
Speaker 4: shelves in the first place and what needs to change
Speaker 4: so that something like this does not happen again. You
Speaker 4: would think Target would be careful about stuff when it
Speaker 4: comes to.
Speaker 2: Black people right now. They just don't get it. They
Speaker 2: don't get it. That's why I haven't been.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 3: So, Ricky, I got some good news, especially for me
Speaker 3: and you.
Speaker 4: Emory University student Malia Wakashajwang turned her own struggle with
Speaker 4: ADHD into something that could help thousands of students. Her
Speaker 4: new AI-powered app called Asoma pulls together school assignments, picks
Speaker 4: the three biggest priorities, and breaks overwhelming projects into smaller,
Speaker 4: doable steps. I could use this in my everyday life.
Speaker 4: I know you could, too, Ricky. Now, she built it
Speaker 4: using lessons from her own life, her psychology studies, and
Speaker 4: techniques her mother taught her.
Speaker 3: Man, if we had this in high school, we might
Speaker 3: be the president of the United States.
Speaker 6: Come on now. And we got our cousin Kurt Franklin
Speaker 6: sitting up here. I know you got ADHD, too. Boy,
Speaker 6: I know I got bad.
Speaker 2: I got bad.
Speaker 4: Do you think it makes you a better performer on
Speaker 4: stage because you can juggle a million things at once?
Speaker 7: Yes, I think that the pluses and minuses with just
Speaker 7: a lot of things are always that— It's kind of
Speaker 7: that yin and yang to life.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 7: You know, like when you when you have ADHD, you're
Speaker 7: very impulsive.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And so you can do things on the spot. But
Speaker 7: then when it's time to sit down and pay attention
Speaker 7: and try to be engaged. It takes a little bit
Speaker 7: of work. And I didn't do well in school. And then,
Speaker 7: you know, coming up in the 80s, they just called
Speaker 7: you stupid.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: Busybody.
Speaker 2: They did. They just called you stupid. Straight down. They
Speaker 2: didn't give you. Hey, Kurt. They don't even have a
Speaker 2: special name. They put an extra teacher.
Speaker 6: In the room.
Speaker 2: All the way down to the hall. I didn't go
Speaker 2: down to the hallway, but no.
Speaker 6: You didn't go to the hallway.
Speaker 2: That was something else going on. I'm so dumb. That
Speaker 2: boy dumb.
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Speaker 2: We weren't on the bus. We weren't on the bus.
Speaker 2: We weren't on the little short bus. Hey, Kurt, somebody
Speaker 2: told me y'all went to lunch at 930. Y.T., the
Speaker 2: sports genius, is in the building. Hey, Kurt. Hey, Kurt. Hey, Kurt.
Speaker 2: They went to lunch at 930 because they got out
Speaker 2: at 12. This is.
Speaker 8: Awful.
Speaker 2: Just awful, guys. That ain't the ADHD kids. That's something else.
Speaker 2: That's what's dumb.
Speaker 4: He's trying to lump us in.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh, man. Oh, flat chest. They just like our 20s.
Speaker 2: Kurt just said you're so short you can sit on
Speaker 2: a dime and swing your legs. Now what is going
Speaker 2: on here?
Speaker 3: What has this turned into?
Speaker 2: What's going on? Oh, Kurt. Oh, my God. Dumb.
Speaker 6: No. You're going to do sports right there, Kurt. Kurt's
Speaker 6: going to get us fired.
Speaker 8: All right, so the Cleveland Browns, man, they named Deshaun
Speaker 8: Watson as the starting quarterback to start the season.
Speaker 2: Shocking. Shocked the sports world.
Speaker 8: Shocked the Cleveland Browns fans. I'm not so sure if
Speaker 8: this is a football decision based off performance because I
Speaker 8: watched the two preseason games, and I think Shador Sanders
Speaker 8: won the spot. But here's what Deshaun said. to the
Speaker 8: Browns fans a couple days ago.
Speaker 5: I think the whole world knows it has nothing to
Speaker 5: do about the performance. It's a little bit personal than that,
Speaker 5: so I think that's a disrespectful thing. Last time I
Speaker 5: played on this field, I tore my Achilles. And that
Speaker 5: same fan base, they cheered when I got hurt. It's
Speaker 5: a mental battle every day. I feel like I get
Speaker 5: more love on road games than I do home games, so..
Speaker 2: So, look, here's the deal, man, real quick. I'm rooting.
Speaker 2: I want people to win. I want people to win.
Speaker 8: I hope Deshaun get out there, and I hope he
Speaker 8: has an all-pro season. But at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: But he under a lot of pressure. He got a
Speaker 1: lot of pressure. And the fans don't like it. The
Speaker 1: fans boo him every time he hit the fence. They
Speaker 1: shouldn't boo him, man. That's not cool. You know, the
Speaker 1: coaches have a right to make the decision or whatever.
Speaker 6: But I think Shadua is really setting himself up to
Speaker 6: win because if he don't perform, then they're going to
Speaker 6: put Shadua in.
Speaker 2: And it's just going to go from there. Because, you know, would.
Speaker 6: You rather, you know what I'm saying? You don't want
Speaker 6: him to have all that pressure because to do it
Speaker 6: is only going into his second season. So, you know
Speaker 6: what I'm saying? The best quarterbacks were backup quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: The best. Ask Tom Brady. Look at every single great
Speaker 2: quarterback they were backup. Yes, indeed. So we're going to
Speaker 2: see what happens, man. But Cleveland Browns, boy, they're going
Speaker 2: to have a tough season.
Speaker 6: I mean, look at Kirk Franklin. He was the backup
Speaker 6: for Alvin and the Chipmunks. Hey, let me tell y'all something.
Speaker 6: I'm so tired. I've been attacked this morning by Erykah
Speaker 6: Badu and Kirk Franklin. Hey, this is what we do.
Speaker 6: This is what we do. We don't do nothing but roast.
Speaker 6: We don't take nothing serious. Y'all better be glad John P.
Speaker 6: Key ain't on here because it would have been worse.
Speaker 6: It would have been worse. All right, what you got, Brett?
Speaker 9: He'd be singing about sugar don't go on grits, Lord.
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Speaker 9: Well, y'all, Jafar Jackson is speaking out about the sequel
Speaker 9: to Michael. He says the upcoming sequel to the biopic
Speaker 9: will address the sexual child abuse allegations and provide insight.
Speaker 2: From his late uncle's perspective.
Speaker 9: And he explains that the family's main issue has been
Speaker 9: that Michael's own voice was.
Speaker 3: Never truly heard as it relates to the allegations.
Speaker 9: Now, Jafar also reflected on Michael's character during his later years,
Speaker 9: saying he never stopped treating people with kindness. And I
Speaker 9: hope that that is felt in the second movie. Lionsgate
Speaker 9: is reportedly starting production at the end of this year
Speaker 9: or at the beginning of 2027. What do y'all want
Speaker 9: to see about these allegations in the movie? Anything or
Speaker 9: how Michael Jackson felt or whatever?
Speaker 7: I really don't want to see it. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 7: want to see it. Let's let the movie end. It
Speaker 7: don't even need to come back. I'm shocked that it's
Speaker 7: coming back because when you've hit all the highlights like
Speaker 7: the Motown event, the thriller, you know, in my humble
Speaker 7: opinion now, Brett just said something that I didn't know.
Speaker 7: I didn't know that Lionsgate is already greenlit. You know,
Speaker 7: it's because, you know... It made so much money.
Speaker 2: Right. Highlighted all the good positivity.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know how that script is
Speaker 2: going to really pan out, so we'll see.
Speaker 9: Well, I think because his family and his son is
Speaker 9: a part of it, hopefully they keep things, well, lighthearted,
Speaker 9: and it's going to be from, I guess, how Michael
Speaker 9: Jackson felt since his family feels like they wanted the
Speaker 9: world to know how he felt from his perspective.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 9: Hopefully they hit it good and they do a great
Speaker 9: job because I don't want to see nothing else negative
Speaker 9: about Michael Jackson. I don't. I'm sick of it. I
Speaker 9: love them, point blank, period. I will ride or die
Speaker 9: for them. I got his tattoo on my full right leg.
Speaker 9: Is that the one next to mine?
Speaker 6: Oh, Lord, Lord, Lord.
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