Speaker 1: Ye what you're all being waiting for.
Speaker 2: The way Up with Angela yee oh sorry, yeah, it's
Speaker 2: way up and tea.
Speaker 3: That's right, that's right.
Speaker 4: I'm back.
Speaker 2: I got to remember not to say the full words
Speaker 2: I was, but yes, t K. Kirkland and welcome back.
Speaker 2: I feel like you've been in New York for the
Speaker 2: longest you've stayed here.
Speaker 3: That's so true, isn't it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I left off had to go do an event in
Speaker 5: Vegas for a gentlemen. They roam and then I came
Speaker 5: right back. But it's been just really doing my thing, having.
Speaker 3: A good time.
Speaker 2: Well, it's so good to have you here, guess host.
Speaker 2: I love the fact that you'll hit me up and
Speaker 2: let me know. Usually you give me like a year.
Speaker 3: Year and a half. Ye, this the first time I've
Speaker 3: done you in twice in one year.
Speaker 1: Whoa okay, whoa.
Speaker 3: That's what I love about her hus you don't see
Speaker 3: it coming again.
Speaker 1: Whoa okay. But it is a Wealth.
Speaker 2: Wednesday, thank you, and we are to have the founder
Speaker 2: of Brooklyn Bloke here with us today, Wayne Fortune. Now,
Speaker 2: if you don't know what this brand is, clearly he's
Speaker 2: from London because it's a Brooklyn bloke. He moved to Brooklyn,
Speaker 2: but he actually has a store inside of Grand Central Terminal,
Speaker 2: Is that right? Yeah? And it's amazing how he hustled
Speaker 2: his clothing brand from the streets into a literal brick
Speaker 2: and mortar location and one of the busiest locations here
Speaker 2: in New York City.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: So we'll talk to him about that for Wealth Wednesday.
Speaker 2: But let's shine a light when we come back. Eight
Speaker 2: hundred two nine two fifty one fifty Call us up.
Speaker 2: Let us know who you want to shine a light on.
Speaker 6: Turn your lights on, y'all, light spreading love to those
Speaker 6: who are doing greatness.
Speaker 4: Shine the light on, the shine the light on.
Speaker 7: It's time to shine a light on.
Speaker 2: All right? His way up at Angela, Yee, what's up?
Speaker 2: It's time to shine a light in TK Kirkland. Since
Speaker 2: you're here, I would love for you to spread some love.
Speaker 5: Yes, I would like to spread love to my good
Speaker 5: friend for over thirty years, who is taking care of
Speaker 5: his mom. She's been ill for a long time, she's bedridden,
Speaker 5: watches her take care of her, and he's around her
Speaker 5: twenty for seven and it has inspired me a lot
Speaker 5: to let people know, even more so to take care
Speaker 5: of your health. And because everybody's not gonna have their
Speaker 5: children to take care of them.
Speaker 2: Right or me. I don't even have no kids. What
Speaker 2: happens if something happens my god? Children?
Speaker 1: Do they love me that there?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I don't know, babe.
Speaker 5: So his name is Richard Dirden. So we want your out,
Speaker 5: Richard Dirden in South Jersey. So, Richard Dirdin, we shine
Speaker 5: the light on you. We wish you well with you
Speaker 5: and your mom, and may your payin be champagne.
Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, I love that he's doing that. Just imagine
Speaker 2: we've seen so many horror stories about people's parents. And
Speaker 2: who was stephen Ate Smith's daughter said she's putting him
Speaker 2: in a home, that's what she said.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'm later.
Speaker 5: My mother taught me something years ago. My mom before
Speaker 5: she passed, before she even got sixty to six. When
Speaker 5: I was a kid, she was never going to depend
Speaker 5: on her children to take care of her. So I've
Speaker 5: always applied it to my life. That's why I stayed
Speaker 5: to gym. I try to stay strong because I will
Speaker 5: never want to be in that position to test my children.
Speaker 3: To take care of me.
Speaker 2: But shout out to Richard dirtin because that's a beautiful,
Speaker 2: beautiful thing, and I know his mother appreciates it, and
Speaker 2: I know that he'll have no regrets, you know, later
Speaker 2: in life. All right, now, Amber, who do you want
Speaker 2: to shine a light on?
Speaker 1: I want to shine a right on.
Speaker 6: My mom's teying you.
Speaker 7: She's suffered a stroke.
Speaker 2: She's in the hospital right now, and I just.
Speaker 4: Want to let her know that we love her.
Speaker 8: She's such a beautiful person that has a big car,
Speaker 8: and I know she can.
Speaker 2: She definitely will pull through it. How many brothers and sisters.
Speaker 1: Do you have? I have a brother, Okay, okay.
Speaker 2: So everybody's pulling together at a time like this. Well,
Speaker 2: we are praying for her and Amber, thank you so
Speaker 2: much for Colin. I'm sending your mama prayer right now.
Speaker 2: She's gonna be fine.
Speaker 1: Okay, appreciator, take care, thank you?
Speaker 2: All right that listen, what a coincidence that we were
Speaker 2: just talking about that with a Shina light and then
Speaker 2: Amber called in, all right, well that was shine of
Speaker 2: light eight hundred and two ninety two fifty one fifty call.
Speaker 2: It's up, spread some love. I'm feeling the love. And
Speaker 2: when we come back, we have your e t and ESPN.
Speaker 2: A lot going on there. Will tell you what Cam
Speaker 2: Newton had to say. We'll talk about Stephen A. Smith.
Speaker 2: You know, it's just a lot of discussions about all
Speaker 2: the layoffs at ESPN, and we'll weigh on it as well.
Speaker 3: TK sounds good.
Speaker 1: Way what she on the.
Speaker 6: Tush she came river seats, it's time to spill that et.
Speaker 2: All right? His way up with Angela. Yea, I'm here
Speaker 2: with TK. Kirk Lynch right, what a what a blessings,
Speaker 2: blessing for both of us though. All right now we've
Speaker 2: been talking about these mass layoffs at ESPN. It all
Speaker 2: started with Ryan Clark when we saw that happen, and
Speaker 2: I guess news had leaked that he was going to
Speaker 2: be let go. Well, you know after that, Cam Newton
Speaker 2: found out that he was also getting let go, and
Speaker 2: his response was great.
Speaker 1: Here's what he said, if you.
Speaker 4: Don't owe your old platform, you're going to get overlooked
Speaker 4: and be extup.
Speaker 3: It's unfortunate what happened to Ryan Clark. But what I
Speaker 3: will tell you is this or Clark gonna be okay.
Speaker 9: It's unfortunate what happened to me, some would think, but
Speaker 9: I'm good you can't make me what I've learned.
Speaker 4: It was an internship almost.
Speaker 2: Okay, I mean, that's definitely a great way to look
Speaker 2: at it. It's definitely they all have their own platforms
Speaker 2: that they're still gonna be doing. He also talked about
Speaker 2: Emmanuel Acho, who has a solid online following with the
Speaker 2: Speak Easy podcast. He was dropped by Fox Sports previously
Speaker 2: and had won a Sports Amy while with the network.
Speaker 2: So people still have their own things going on, and.
Speaker 5: I think we talked about this years ago when AI
Speaker 5: was just coming in and even at iHeartRadio, thousands of
Speaker 5: people's getting laid off, and we're always talking about having.
Speaker 3: Your own things, that you're not dependent on.
Speaker 2: Anybody, having your ducks in a row, so to speak. Now,
Speaker 2: Stephen A. Smith has a great relationship with Ryan Clark,
Speaker 2: and he said he was informed ahead of time and
Speaker 2: really did not want them to let Ryan Clark go.
Speaker 9: Here's what he said was, I asked what I thought,
Speaker 9: what my feelings were.
Speaker 3: Yes, I was, and of course I said, we have
Speaker 3: to keep them.
Speaker 9: But I don't get to make those decisions, and I
Speaker 9: don't get to ignore the fiscal and financial circumstances and
Speaker 9: ultimate ramifications that come with the job.
Speaker 2: He said he thinks that Ryan Clark is arguably the
Speaker 2: best football analysts in the United States, and he let
Speaker 2: his bosses know that too.
Speaker 3: I don't believe that thought I had to say everything
Speaker 3: Steven Steven They Smith think everything runs through him. You know.
Speaker 5: I think he has his platform, he got his check,
Speaker 5: he got a great deal. But they not running stuff
Speaker 5: past Stephen. They smifth like this mother pass Stevens. See
Speaker 5: what he says now, it ain't going down like.
Speaker 2: Because usually that stuff is so under wraps because they
Speaker 2: don't want people to find out.
Speaker 5: Yes, and I love Steve Nason, but don't forget who
Speaker 5: you are, that you really are not on that level
Speaker 5: that they run and stuff asked you And I hate
Speaker 5: to break your bubble like that, but that's me.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: Pat McAfee also had some things to say, because as
Speaker 2: people are saying these cuts happen, they blamed his show
Speaker 2: for that because of the amount of money they're spending
Speaker 2: on him.
Speaker 1: Here's what he has to say.
Speaker 3: Did they keep anybody or is everybody fired to pay you?
Speaker 5: I trying to figure it out.
Speaker 3: How funny. We do not like that. We do not
Speaker 3: appreciate that that is the narrative and I'm certainly taking
Speaker 3: it on the shins.
Speaker 4: The boys and I are very proud of the work
Speaker 4: that we have done.
Speaker 3: Don't be ready or like that.
Speaker 2: Right, And you know, the news had surfaced just weeks
Speaker 2: ago that he was in talks with the worldwide leader
Speaker 2: on a new contract worth about sixty million dollars annually,
Speaker 2: so that's why people were feeling this way.
Speaker 1: But he wanted to make sure.
Speaker 5: People knows he's the one that came in.
Speaker 1: With his own licensing and they're licensing his.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's winning. That's how he is the blueprint on
Speaker 5: what everybody should be doing. Right.
Speaker 2: It's tough though, because a lot of times they want
Speaker 2: to own, you know, and so but if they can
Speaker 2: license something and you still own it, that's always the
Speaker 2: best situation.
Speaker 3: It'll be a great negotiator.
Speaker 2: All right, Well that is your Yet when we come back,
Speaker 2: we have about last night, and like I said, I
Speaker 2: never get to see T. K. Kirkland this many times
Speaker 2: in a month, in a year, in a year, so
Speaker 2: I want to see what it is that you have
Speaker 2: going on and what you've been up to about last night?
Speaker 7: Is next?
Speaker 2: I went down, Yeah, it's with ya By angela.
Speaker 1: Ye, and what a blessing. T. K. Kirkling is here
Speaker 1: with me today.
Speaker 3: I'm glad you realize it's a blessing.
Speaker 2: It is definitely a blessing. I was working all night
Speaker 2: last night. I was filming for a documentary, just as
Speaker 2: a talking head, as somebody who has I can't give
Speaker 2: all the details, but it's a show, a reality show
Speaker 2: that was on TV for quite some time, and they're
Speaker 2: doing a documentary on it.
Speaker 3: So what did you They didn't start fighting on it?
Speaker 1: No, I'm just talking about the past.
Speaker 5: Okay, Okay, nobody started fighting while he was doing there.
Speaker 1: But on that show, yes.
Speaker 2: A lot.
Speaker 3: Okay, Wow, wow, Wow, that's crazy. I'm glad that. Does
Speaker 3: anybody touch you? Let me know.
Speaker 1: I'll let you know.
Speaker 3: Okay, let me know.
Speaker 7: Flying.
Speaker 3: But I went to bed early, like I always do.
Speaker 3: I don't believe you i'd go to early. But I've
Speaker 3: been up since two am.
Speaker 2: Okay, So now I know you have a lot going on,
Speaker 2: so kind of let us know. You're going to Pittsburgh
Speaker 2: after this, Yes, going.
Speaker 5: To Pittsburgh the Big Show this July twenty fifth at
Speaker 5: the world famous City Winery.
Speaker 3: Ladd gentlemen, So oh you.
Speaker 1: Did City Winding be here in New York?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Sold out, And I want to thank the Tri State area.
Speaker 5: The city of New York is sold out both shows.
Speaker 1: I love City Winery shows.
Speaker 5: The thing I like about this because it's on the
Speaker 5: pier and if you got anything romantic about you, if
Speaker 5: you're classy, that's a good spot to go down.
Speaker 1: And you get down.
Speaker 5: Yeah, go by the water, walk around with your girl,
Speaker 5: hold the hand, you know, kiss on the neck, go and.
Speaker 3: Have some wines.
Speaker 2: I love how many shows where you can sit there
Speaker 2: and order good food, good how drinks, have the tear.
Speaker 1: It's comfortable.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 5: Energy is amazing. So we want the same thing for Pittsburgh.
Speaker 5: It's a different type of atmosphere, but the area is amazing.
Speaker 5: The people in Pittsburgh is phenomenal. So July twenty fifth, Saturday,
Speaker 5: everybody's the weekend. Get your tickets. It's only a few
Speaker 5: tickets left. And I told you yesterday went up. I
Speaker 5: said before, get your tickes now because what's I going
Speaker 5: Angelouye is gonna be sold out, So get your tickets.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: Well that's that. You know what else is coming up?
Speaker 2: Tell us a secret.
Speaker 1: It's a secret now y'all got.
Speaker 2: To show up now because I want to tell you.
Speaker 2: TK had the nerve to ask us, oh, he's real,
Speaker 2: or yes, these are one thousand percent real. Okay, y'all
Speaker 2: are really calling in and everything does not even make
Speaker 2: it on the air. That's how real it is. So
Speaker 2: eight hundred two nine two fifty one fifty. It's a
Speaker 2: no judgment zone.
Speaker 3: Somebody is going to get judged today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I'm here.
Speaker 2: Lloyd, Well, don't judge as harshly as you normally, okay,
Speaker 2: because these people are notymous, so it ain't like you
Speaker 2: could rechoough the phone.
Speaker 3: And do nothing right now. Yeah, I'm a clown, but eight.
Speaker 1: Hundred two nine two fifty one fifty.
Speaker 2: Call us up. Now, get on the air with me
Speaker 2: and TK Kirkland. Tell your secret. It's a no judgment zone,
Speaker 2: and best case scenario, you get that burden lifted off you,
Speaker 2: that she was true getting weighed down by you could
Speaker 2: tell us and then poof it disappears.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred two nine two fifty one fifty. Call us up.
Speaker 7: This is a judgment freeze.
Speaker 3: All tell us the secret.
Speaker 2: Oh man, nobody else I'd rather tell a secret to
Speaker 2: than TK.
Speaker 1: But you know what it is.
Speaker 2: It's a no judgment zone, right, So TK, I know
Speaker 2: it's gonna take everything in you to just.
Speaker 1: Okay and not judge.
Speaker 2: People are anonymous eight hundred and two ninety two fifty
Speaker 2: one fifty Anonymous Color with your secret.
Speaker 7: I've been hitting my boss his wife for about a year.
Speaker 3: Wow, And I feel like t K like raight, I
Speaker 3: heard that?
Speaker 5: Go ahead and hit it off.
Speaker 1: Do you actually like her?
Speaker 3: Nope?
Speaker 4: We're cool, man.
Speaker 3: Yeah you don't like her cool? You don't like getting Yeah,
Speaker 3: and and let me give you some game.
Speaker 5: You ready, that's the one you real slutty with, Like
Speaker 5: you pull a hair, you do all those extra little things.
Speaker 1: Every time you look at Yeah.
Speaker 5: Right, you really if you're going to do that, dude,
Speaker 5: because it's a possibility you can get caughtny, So think
Speaker 5: you're going to do it right. If you're gonna do
Speaker 5: it right, go all the way and listen to me.
Speaker 5: That's play the play of pensive path.
Speaker 3: All right, all right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, these men are demons.
Speaker 3: Thank you for calling God bless king?
Speaker 2: What's eponymous color? That's good? Oh God? I love you too?
Speaker 2: Me and t K Kirkland her here. Let's see how
Speaker 2: much he love you.
Speaker 1: You want to tell us a secret?
Speaker 8: Yes, I was with my husband for eight and a
Speaker 8: half years, and I was with another man for five
Speaker 8: years a man and the other man is still together.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. So you and your husband broke up.
Speaker 2: But your side piece is now your main piece?
Speaker 3: Right, Wow, that's gangs. That's the way to do it. Though.
Speaker 3: I like stuff like that better and my husband that's
Speaker 3: how he normally works out.
Speaker 1: That is wild.
Speaker 2: So you don't have another side piece now it's just you.
Speaker 2: Now you're faithful.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, now I'm faithful.
Speaker 1: Did your ex husband ever find out?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 5: We might know now, but because your voice is distincting
Speaker 5: because you're kind of loud, so he gonna know it's you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he gonna know.
Speaker 5: Is your somebody's gonna say, I heard your ex wife
Speaker 5: on the Let me call from Jersey. I love y'all,
Speaker 5: I love y'all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: Night.
Speaker 1: Let me get off anonymous color. What's your secret?
Speaker 4: My relationship for five years? I ended up having sex
Speaker 4: with her little sister.
Speaker 3: So how old is he she was to do?
Speaker 1: She was told at the time, So how how did
Speaker 1: that even happen?
Speaker 7: Man?
Speaker 5: I guess it was a humble We was jump one
Speaker 5: day and uh, my girls in her sleep.
Speaker 3: I came out, she was came up the bath or was.
Speaker 7: And I'm like, damn, ain't none your business.
Speaker 5: She was like, I would just wonder and I find
Speaker 5: a person like you want.
Speaker 1: She said, yeah, stairs, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 5: Then let me ask you a question. What she saying
Speaker 5: when you was having sex? This ain't right? But she
Speaker 5: kept doing it?
Speaker 3: Right? Isn't that something that that kind of turned you
Speaker 3: on though? Right? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 5: When I was young and I was your age, I
Speaker 5: was sludy like that, so I get it.
Speaker 1: What was it a one time thing or was it
Speaker 1: a continual thing?
Speaker 9: Well, it was the one time thing though, But we
Speaker 9: used to be off there and brush up against each other.
Speaker 7: I might grab you, know what I'm.
Speaker 3: Saying, grab on hers.
Speaker 4: She might grab bat you feel but we know getting
Speaker 4: after that, it was a mistake, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I respected, I regret, but I ain't gonna keep repeating it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: smart man, smart man, I like that.
Speaker 1: That's a mistake.
Speaker 3: It's all we all, all players make mistakes. You feel me,
Speaker 3: But thank.
Speaker 1: You for calling.
Speaker 4: I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Take a king respectable teeter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta have rules, all right, player the player.
Speaker 2: We appreciate you, tid play. I thought you were going
Speaker 2: to judge people. Instead you were.
Speaker 5: See see expecting k be nice, to be nice, to
Speaker 5: keep doing that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the nice shocking when we come back.
Speaker 1: We got your et.
Speaker 2: And Lil Wayne recently he was on the Friends Keep
Speaker 2: Secrets podcast and he talked about a lot of different
Speaker 2: things like recording music while he was at Riker's Island,
Speaker 2: how we managed to do that, and what shows he
Speaker 2: was watching so that time would fly by.
Speaker 1: It's way up from.
Speaker 6: Industry shade to all of us out sending Angela's speeling
Speaker 6: that et.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's way up at Angela yea. And I'm here
Speaker 2: with TK Kirkland yep. And let's get into this et.
Speaker 2: First off, Snoop Dog bio pick is coming August sixth,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty seven, and Jonathan Davis from Outer Banks is
Speaker 2: going to be playing the role of Snoop.
Speaker 1: So I like that they look yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, once she showed it to me, it was a
Speaker 5: no brainer mm hmm.
Speaker 2: And this is the first project under the studio's overall
Speaker 2: deal with Death Row Pictures, so you know they have
Speaker 2: death row pictures.
Speaker 1: Now, okay, all right now.
Speaker 2: Little Wayne recently sat down and did an interview on
Speaker 2: the Friends Keep Secrets pop cast, and he talked about
Speaker 2: a lot of different things. He talked about, basically the
Speaker 2: fact that it's difficult to listen to other rappers because
Speaker 2: he doesn't want it to influence what he's doing.
Speaker 1: Here's what he said.
Speaker 3: I try not to listen too much because I don't
Speaker 3: want it to bleed into my mind.
Speaker 7: I'm not listening. It's how you keep it original.
Speaker 4: You're the godfather of everything I listened to.
Speaker 10: Who are your favorite rappers besides you? My favorite rappers
Speaker 10: Jay Z and Missy Elliott.
Speaker 1: I like that answer.
Speaker 3: Good, good, good listen.
Speaker 1: You said you don't listen to other comedians.
Speaker 3: Really no, no, no, no, no, try not to.
Speaker 5: Sometimes you could a comic or have or something real hilarious,
Speaker 5: and once you hear two things happen like, man, why
Speaker 5: did I think of that? And then two you could
Speaker 5: somewhere in another country whatever.
Speaker 3: If you hear something you know you might want.
Speaker 1: To say subconsciously, yeah, so you know.
Speaker 5: I tried to avoid watching another comic for years unless
Speaker 5: that person is like you could watch a d o
Speaker 5: Huglio Taxasi. He does a lot of political stuff for Godfrey.
Speaker 5: They do a lot of that type stuff and that's
Speaker 5: not my lane.
Speaker 2: Right, And you're like, and it's also interesting to learn
Speaker 2: from their point of view. I love those two all
Speaker 2: right now. He also discussed having his first child at
Speaker 2: the tender age of fourteen and why he did it.
Speaker 10: I was fourteen, were nervous, not because my mom asked
Speaker 10: my last one kid, dad that just got murdered that year,
Speaker 10: the same year all that I blew up. So we
Speaker 10: would go on a tour like I'm lonely, Like my
Speaker 10: husband's gone. Let's have her sit down, lead you and
Speaker 10: tell ya.
Speaker 1: Wow. Can you imagine.
Speaker 2: That's a lot for a fourteen year old to be, Like,
Speaker 2: you know, you lost your father, your mom is lonely,
Speaker 2: You're going on tour, and then you have a kid.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's but it all worked out.
Speaker 2: I mean now when you look back, you could be like, wow,
Speaker 2: that's amazing because you see how great Regene is and
Speaker 2: she's been doing her thing with her airtime show.
Speaker 5: So Lil Wayne was was one of the nicest young
Speaker 5: kids I met at that time when he was fourteen
Speaker 5: sixteen years old, because we used to hang out on
Speaker 5: to set up ball of blocking and I was like
Speaker 5: his big uncle and all that kind of stuff, and
Speaker 5: we really a lot of people don't notice he was.
Speaker 3: He's very hilarious.
Speaker 1: Okay, I see that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he is a comedian for sure. And we used
Speaker 5: to always go at it for years and in a
Speaker 5: fun uncle big brother type way. Okay, shout out to
Speaker 5: a little Wayne. I'm really proud of you. And you
Speaker 5: know how far we go, way back, so since he
Speaker 5: was like fifteen sixteen years old.
Speaker 2: And then lastly he talked about signing Drake and what
Speaker 2: made Drake different.
Speaker 1: When he first heard his music.
Speaker 10: Brake came through from you ever heard of Rap a
Speaker 10: Lot Records?
Speaker 7: Of course, that's boy Drake Chum. When I heard him,
Speaker 7: he was it was all right.
Speaker 10: And then you know that one of those hooks came
Speaker 10: and I was like, who's who's on the hook right,
Speaker 10: and it was like that's him, you know, man, Like
Speaker 10: that's him singing. And I was like, yeah, like why
Speaker 10: he don't do more of this? At that time, there
Speaker 10: was no one doing that.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, good good stories to hear, and he's definitely
Speaker 2: doing it.
Speaker 3: He's doing it. Phenomenal.
Speaker 2: All right, well that is yo. Yet when we come
Speaker 2: back under the radar, these are the stories that are
Speaker 2: not necessarily in the headlines. They're flying under the radar,
Speaker 2: but you definitely need to know about them.
Speaker 1: Nolan Wells's mom has made a move.
Speaker 2: That is going to allow her to file a potential
Speaker 2: lawsuit over her son's death. And we also have some
Speaker 2: information from this independent autopsy that was done and will
Speaker 2: tell you what they're saying.
Speaker 3: It's way out late's to you.
Speaker 7: These stories are flying under the radar.
Speaker 2: All right, it's way up at Angela. Ye, it's me
Speaker 2: and T. K. Kirkland here today. Yes, and let's go
Speaker 2: under the radar with these stories. This Wilt Chamberlain Laker's
Speaker 2: jacket was found by a teenager at a thrift store.
Speaker 2: He paid three dollars for it. And guess how much
Speaker 2: it's so far at an auction eighty nine thousand dollars
Speaker 2: because it was authentic. Can you imagine Do I need
Speaker 2: to start going to thrift stores?
Speaker 3: That's insane?
Speaker 1: What type of luck is that to find something like that?
Speaker 2: And I I feel like part of you would want
Speaker 2: to keep that.
Speaker 5: Too, No, yeah, yeah, yeah, but he must have new
Speaker 5: self though somebody told him, you should, you know, put
Speaker 5: it in an auction.
Speaker 3: It's for real.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's amazing, and I wonder how that even
Speaker 2: I would love the story of how that even ended
Speaker 2: up in an auction.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: Now, Nolan Wells's mom is making a legal move. She's
Speaker 2: laying the groundwork to potentially sue over her son's mysterious death.
Speaker 2: You know, there's so many questions about what could have
Speaker 2: possibly happened to him as he disappeared off this boat
Speaker 2: and was found dead. They said he did not have
Speaker 2: a will, he was never married, didn't have children, and
Speaker 2: so that's what is all in the filing, and so
Speaker 2: that's basically laying down the groundwork so that she can
Speaker 2: actually appoint herself as the administrator, saying the estate's assets
Speaker 2: would consist solely of claims for damages resulting from the
Speaker 2: circumstances surrounding his death. And they did give us these
Speaker 2: preliminary autopsy reports, and so there's still questions because the
Speaker 2: independent autopsy there's.
Speaker 1: Not enough evidence.
Speaker 2: They said he did have a twelve by eight inch
Speaker 2: red discoloration to the back of his head, but his
Speaker 2: cause and manner of death were given as undetermined pending investigation.
Speaker 1: The date of the death. They also have that as unknown.
Speaker 2: You know. Part of the issue is that there was
Speaker 2: already an autopsy done, so there's already things that were
Speaker 2: removed and damaged, and so it's kind of hard to
Speaker 2: do one now.
Speaker 5: But let's just speak the lissen to African Americas and
Speaker 5: anybody when you hang with more than one white person,
Speaker 5: let people know where you are, and always carry a fold.
Speaker 2: And chair because the Montgomery brawl absolutely, you know, and
Speaker 2: it's not that his parents didn't know where he was.
Speaker 2: I guess these are kids that you know, he's hung
Speaker 2: out where the kids do this. There's so many questions about,
Speaker 2: like what happened to his phone? If he decided to
Speaker 2: stay behind on the island, why wouldn't he have his
Speaker 2: phone with him.
Speaker 3: There's no black guy leaving his phone.
Speaker 1: There's no teenager right.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, you ain't leaving your phone.
Speaker 2: But they couldn't examine his lungs or stomach for their
Speaker 2: contents like signs of drowning because investigators already dissected those
Speaker 2: organs wow and removed his throat structures as part of
Speaker 2: the official investigation, which was standard according to who Reports.
Speaker 2: So they want to know. The questions now is how
Speaker 2: he went into the water before being found on the
Speaker 2: beach of what his body's position was when it was found,
Speaker 2: did he have water in his airway? And was there
Speaker 2: any evidence of injuries to his neck? So these are
Speaker 2: the remaining key questions. And his attorney Ben Crump top reporters.
Speaker 2: We will persist, persist, persist in finding answers.
Speaker 3: I wish to families the best me too.
Speaker 1: I hope they get the.
Speaker 3: Answers, especially when you have kids.
Speaker 2: You know, all right, Well, we do have the way
Speaker 2: it mixed for you at the top of the hour,
Speaker 2: and it is a Wealth Wednesday.
Speaker 1: So Wayne Fortune, the founder of Brooklyn Bloke.
Speaker 2: It's a clothing store that is actually inside of Grand
Speaker 2: Central Terminal. He's going to be joining us today to
Speaker 2: talk about how he went from slinging clothes on the.
Speaker 1: Streets to having his own brick and mortar location.
Speaker 6: It's way up noms to famous women in radio audio.
Speaker 7: We're talking about angela Ye. You're way up with angela Ye.
Speaker 7: Please believe that?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: His way up with Angela yee.
Speaker 2: And ya know, I've been rocking with TK Kirkland all
Speaker 2: all day to day.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 3: It's been an honor, baby.
Speaker 2: And you know it's a blessing because you are always
Speaker 2: booked and busy. I always say that you haven't been home,
Speaker 2: and I don't know how long it's.
Speaker 3: Been a long time. You sent me a different April and.
Speaker 1: You still have.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because you know how I got my coffee company,
Speaker 2: coffee uplifts people. We sent you a coffee machine courtesy
Speaker 2: of Delongi, and I sent you some coffee.
Speaker 5: Sure, I saw the bag in the cabinet and I
Speaker 5: haven't been back since.
Speaker 2: But you are going to be in Atlanta, one of
Speaker 2: my favorite places to visits.
Speaker 5: Yes, that's going to be August twenty first to the
Speaker 5: twenty third. Atlanta's really one of my probably my fifth
Speaker 5: home when.
Speaker 3: I go, because I go around there to go through
Speaker 3: there so much.
Speaker 5: But I want everybody to make sure you come through
Speaker 5: the Uptown Atlanta Comedy Theater there and no Cross.
Speaker 3: That's going to be August twenty first and twenty third.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want I've been to many a TK Kirklan show,
Speaker 2: so I want to say, please come out and experience.
Speaker 2: And you are also quite interacted with the audience. But
Speaker 2: here's a warning.
Speaker 3: I need you just gonna do that.
Speaker 1: Don't get em and go to the bathroom.
Speaker 3: That's right. Angela is such a sister.
Speaker 5: I checked somebody so bad, Angela, I saik.
Speaker 3: That is that nice.
Speaker 5: I almost almost apologize to them because Angela said, you
Speaker 5: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: But your shirt says rude, so we get it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, I love this girl. She's so funny. And then
Speaker 5: this Saturday, Starry Fifth, Who's gonna be in Pittsburgh a
Speaker 5: city winery. Lady gentlemen, please get your tickets.
Speaker 3: It's going to be an experience.
Speaker 5: Like angel said, of a magnitude that you when you leave,
Speaker 5: you're gonna tell somebody who knows somebody to go seek.
Speaker 2: It's a fun so I do mind. I had a
Speaker 2: girl's night out when I came to see you. Yes,
Speaker 2: both times, and it is really a fun time. Like
Speaker 2: I talked, do I feel like you're very male friendly
Speaker 2: with your comedy?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think, but you like listen on social media T K.
Speaker 1: Kirk when people look at.
Speaker 2: You as like a yeah, relationship expert guru. Some of
Speaker 2: the game that you give you know, you on tell
Speaker 2: us a secret today we're doing a lot of player
Speaker 2: to player stuff.
Speaker 3: You use that to how it is.
Speaker 2: But you've also been so instrumental with a lot of
Speaker 2: people's careers who are also really well known comics, who
Speaker 2: also give you your credit and your flowers for mentoring
Speaker 2: them and helping them early on. And that's something that
Speaker 2: I think is important for you as a human being.
Speaker 2: But whoever that lady was, I just want to apologize
Speaker 2: on his behalf and when she went up to go
Speaker 2: to the bathroom when he roasted her.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, that's all I have to say. And
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Speaker 1: Okay, that's a Manny Haley production. Shout out.
Speaker 3: Shout out to Manny and real quick though. We get
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Speaker 1: I love it.
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna come out.
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Speaker 1: But that's a whole other thing. When we come back,
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Speaker 2: Doing you, t okay, just making sure yes we do
Speaker 2: have yut when we come back. Victoria Money just put
Speaker 2: out a new song, like literally just put it out
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Speaker 1: It's way up.
Speaker 3: That's phenomenal.
Speaker 2: It's like to talk like they Jane like they and
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Speaker 7: She's spilling it all. This is Yeaki.
Speaker 1: All right as way up by Angela Yee and T. K.
Speaker 2: Kirkley. Good times and we got your yet. So first up,
Speaker 2: let's talk about our girl, Victoria Mone. She put out
Speaker 2: a new song literally a half an hour ago, and
Speaker 2: a video. It's called to reach Out and here it is. Okay,
Speaker 2: shout out to Victoria. I love you some Victoria answ's
Speaker 2: a chef now like literally went to culinary school.
Speaker 3: Okay, good, good, good man.
Speaker 2: Here's some breaking news. Alandria and Nick from Love Island
Speaker 2: have broken up after one year they were season seven couple.
Speaker 2: They are, according to sources, still close friends and they
Speaker 2: will always support one another, but the distance between them
Speaker 2: and their busy schedules made it challenging to maintain their connection.
Speaker 2: They share a deep love and respect for each other
Speaker 2: and will always support one another whenever possible.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's nice, respectful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, listen Alandria out here popping though. I want to say,
Speaker 2: she is one of the real like success stories. So
Speaker 2: I'm coming off a reality show like Love Island and
Speaker 2: she's gotten all kinds of modeling deals and endorsements and
Speaker 2: all of that.
Speaker 1: So that's how you do it.
Speaker 3: That's how you do it.
Speaker 2: Congratulations Love all right, now, now let's discuss Nivia. She
Speaker 2: recently did Cadillact Chronicles and that's where you drive around
Speaker 2: the city and she performed do a mess with my man.
Speaker 1: That's my song. But another thing that she did was.
Speaker 2: She talked about her health battles that she's been having,
Speaker 2: and here's what she said.
Speaker 8: I was diagnosed with leukemia earlier this year, and I'm
Speaker 8: so grateful to God. I'm been going through treatment and
Speaker 8: everything is going great so far, and I expected to
Speaker 8: continue a man.
Speaker 2: Amen.
Speaker 8: Amen, And I'm just grateful for everything. Like I'm doing
Speaker 8: things I want to do. I'm back into my music.
Speaker 8: I'm going to school for audio engineering, loving all my
Speaker 8: children and just being grateful and taking every opportunity that
Speaker 8: comes my way.
Speaker 1: That's a good positive outlook.
Speaker 3: You better believe it. And that's why I always talking
Speaker 3: about health as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, health as well, you know.
Speaker 3: In your health, because it's not one day you will.
Speaker 2: Have you ever met Nibya No, she's she's funny, she's
Speaker 2: a hilarious person.
Speaker 1: She might be you know, she has a child with
Speaker 1: Lil Wayne to.
Speaker 3: H Nybia.
Speaker 2: All right, Tiana Taylor is looking for dancers for her
Speaker 2: feature directorial debut. So she went on Instagram stories and
Speaker 2: she says, you're looking for dancers for get light and
Speaker 2: she wants dancers particularly from Harlem.
Speaker 1: That's her hometown.
Speaker 2: So she put up an open call post looking for
Speaker 2: exceptional talent and people with a brand of energy and
Speaker 2: style that can fully represent New York. And so they
Speaker 2: announced this back in March of last year. Earlier this
Speaker 2: year they dated the film for a theatrical release, and
Speaker 2: I guess now it's really going and it's going to
Speaker 2: come out in the spring next year.
Speaker 3: I love that. Take care of your people.
Speaker 2: Right, So go look online if you want to.
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Speaker 3: Can you tell I'm going to the hosp.
Speaker 1: What's going on the hallway?
Speaker 3: Get emergency up here.
Speaker 2: And shout out to Travis Scott by the way. He's
Speaker 2: on the cover of Variety right now. He's in the Odyssey,
Speaker 2: by the way, so he talks about that. He's got
Speaker 2: a new album on the way also, and he's got
Speaker 2: a first look deal with Paramount Pictures. So he said
Speaker 2: he wants to bring back amazing films, pictures and just creative,
Speaker 2: good ideas.
Speaker 3: Awesome.
Speaker 2: All right, Well that is your yet when we come back,
Speaker 2: ask ye eight hundred and two ninety two fifty one
Speaker 2: fifty any question, Me and T. K.
Speaker 1: Kirkland are here to help you out.
Speaker 6: It's way up, all right, sense whether it's relationship or
Speaker 6: Korea advice. Angela's dropping facts.
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Speaker 2: What's up his way up? At Angela? He and me
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Speaker 1: Is here with me today?
Speaker 4: T K.
Speaker 2: Kirkland and we have Heaven on the line for ask
Speaker 2: ye and her question is she's dating this guy and
Speaker 2: there's a couple of red flags.
Speaker 8: I've been talking for the rest, right, you want to
Speaker 8: make it a picture until mers this little dog, but
Speaker 8: he's like baby.
Speaker 2: He sat a long dog.
Speaker 8: I found out that it's really a dog that he
Speaker 8: talked to his eggs.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: I believe that when you snoop, you get what you deserve.
Speaker 5: So the pain that you're going through now, you gotta
Speaker 5: choose with the pain you want Champagne. Yeah, So either
Speaker 5: you're gonna give him a pass and deal with it,
Speaker 5: or you're gonna cut him off.
Speaker 2: Okay, I disagree. Okay, I want to say this. First
Speaker 2: of all, we are allowed to snoop if it's online
Speaker 2: and open, right, and you just and you just happened
Speaker 2: to see that excuse you're.
Speaker 3: Giving you the game from a real name.
Speaker 2: Your exes, because whenever you're dating somebody, you are gonna
Speaker 2: go look at their excess page.
Speaker 3: No, I totally agree.
Speaker 5: So what I'm trying to say is, now that she
Speaker 5: found out the truth, let them go and get somebody else.
Speaker 3: Protect your peace. Why I live with that pain? Is
Speaker 3: what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Does he know that you know who his ex is?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I was, you know, I'm like, okay, let me just
Speaker 1: screw up the fine line.
Speaker 5: See who.
Speaker 1: I scrolled down.
Speaker 2: I'll find that that he's still.
Speaker 3: But she's but she knows that he's with you though,
Speaker 3: right I would?
Speaker 1: I thought so, But now at this point I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's wild.
Speaker 3: Why that means he knows when he's with her? He's
Speaker 3: lying both, y'all.
Speaker 1: He's a liar.
Speaker 3: He's lying, y'all.
Speaker 2: Once you're looking through somebody's phone and things like kind
Speaker 2: of yeah.
Speaker 4: You already locked in?
Speaker 3: No, no, not locked in, it's already over. Like why
Speaker 3: I deal with the pain.
Speaker 2: Yeah, at that point it's on you, like yeah, yes,
Speaker 2: whatever you stay with somebody, you could be mad, you
Speaker 2: could be for them. It's on you. If you say now,
Speaker 2: I would if I were you tell him, I would
Speaker 2: be like, I just want to let you know that
Speaker 2: I did see that you've been lying to me about
Speaker 2: the dog, and I on that to be weird. And
Speaker 2: I also did see when I was looking at you,
Speaker 2: you know, looking on your phone for whatever.
Speaker 1: You didn't have your.
Speaker 2: Phone, but I did see that you still are sharing
Speaker 2: locations with your ex.
Speaker 1: And so to me, it feels like you're just honest.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's a chapter of your life that you're not
Speaker 2: willing to close, but I'm not comfortable with that.
Speaker 1: So good luck to y'all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and another way, next time you have sex.
Speaker 2: With him, she's not going to anymore.
Speaker 5: If you have sex with him and you're laying in
Speaker 5: bed and he's feeling good, he's rubbing in your ear
Speaker 5: and you just say, baby, I love you, I love
Speaker 5: you too, and he said, you know what, I checked
Speaker 5: your location.
Speaker 3: I know that you still are dealing with that, young lady.
Speaker 5: You got a day to end it or I'm done, okay,
Speaker 5: ultimatom that's some fly stuff listen to that's playing to play.
Speaker 2: Punk depends and you can say and by the way,
Speaker 2: don't bring that dog over here again.
Speaker 3: Yep, that's right. Do it that way.
Speaker 1: Well, that's her day.
Speaker 3: Give me a dog. Are you gonna give you that dog?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 1: Good luck Heaven. You know you deserve but that you
Speaker 1: know what it.
Speaker 3: Is, Yeah, you know what it is. If you don't
Speaker 3: like it, then get find somebody in New.
Speaker 2: Love O the Redflex. It's been two months since y'all
Speaker 2: have been official. It's too much, yeah, and it's too
Speaker 2: it's too soon though.
Speaker 5: Ooh see. You see now you got to hit the agenda,
Speaker 5: you see. And women who have a hitting agenda, this
Speaker 5: is what you get. Let go yard first, you Sol,
Speaker 5: you sold your.
Speaker 3: Soul, You sol your soul, soul. This is the results.
Speaker 1: Good luck Heaven.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 5: Y'all.
Speaker 2: That was ask Yee eight hundred and two ninety two
Speaker 2: fifty one fifty dest in case you couldn't get through.
Speaker 1: Thank you. T. K.
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Speaker 2: on this Wealth Wednesday, we have Wayne Fortune, the founder
Speaker 2: of Brooklyn Bloke, joining us find out how he went
Speaker 2: from selling clothes on the street and also from being
Speaker 2: an artist, a music artist that was signed to BMG,
Speaker 2: becoming a clothing entrepreneur with the store inside of Grand
Speaker 2: Central Terminal.
Speaker 1: It's way up, get.
Speaker 6: You straight financially, mentally and physically. This is Wealth Wednesday
Speaker 6: on Way Up with Angela ye.
Speaker 2: What's up? This way up with Angela Yee? And you know,
Speaker 2: I'm excited. This is a fun Wealth Wednesday for me.
Speaker 2: Stacy tisday is here and happy Wealth Wednesdays.
Speaker 11: Everybody there's cool and then they're super cool, and then
Speaker 11: they're super dope, and they we are super dope.
Speaker 2: The one and only Wayne Fortune aka the Brooklyn Bloke.
Speaker 4: Well, thank you very much, thank you, thank you for
Speaker 4: having me very cool.
Speaker 1: What can I say about Wayne?
Speaker 11: He had just a music career that so many artists
Speaker 11: just dream of.
Speaker 2: His first band Another.
Speaker 11: Level, their first single featured jay Z that led to
Speaker 11: a tour with Janet.
Speaker 1: Jackson, but he walked away from all that.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Well, the music business is the music business. I
Speaker 9: just got to a point where I wasn't enjoying what
Speaker 9: I was doing, like creatively and just decided it wasn't
Speaker 9: for me.
Speaker 2: So your brand, Brooklyn Bloke started as a T shirt.
Speaker 2: Can you talk to me about how your marketing journey started.
Speaker 4: Bloke is old British slang for a man a fellow, and.
Speaker 9: We were thinking about community, and we were thinking about
Speaker 9: connection and started to play around with some ideas and
Speaker 9: I came up with the Brooklyn Bloke logo and the identity,
Speaker 9: and then I started to include the definition of a
Speaker 9: bloke and that really started to catch on.
Speaker 4: And I just finished producing these T shirts.
Speaker 9: So I brought the suitcase out, you know, I just
Speaker 9: unlocked it on the block and I just started giving
Speaker 9: them out to everybody.
Speaker 4: And then after that I ended up at Tom Dick
Speaker 4: and Harris.
Speaker 3: They gave me a break there and.
Speaker 9: I was able to invite those kids from the block
Speaker 9: to Tom D's and you know, we had a nice event.
Speaker 9: I did, like an install presentation, and that was really
Speaker 9: when I started to kind of get some traction in
Speaker 9: the neighborhood, in the local community, and started to get
Speaker 9: people to understand.
Speaker 4: What I was doing, what Bloke meant, what.
Speaker 9: My intentions were, and having all of these conversations that
Speaker 9: started connecting the community to the branch.
Speaker 2: Right now, the founder and owner of Brooklyn Bloke, Wayne Fortune,
Speaker 2: is here with us. That's right. He went from London
Speaker 2: and got his roots in Brooklyn, and that kind of
Speaker 2: initiated the pop up ideas.
Speaker 9: Yes, yes, yes, So I had no place to sell this,
Speaker 9: so after tom Dy's, the shout out to tom Dy's,
Speaker 9: they would literally cash me out, like in the summer,
Speaker 9: Like I could just go there, all right, we'll take this, this, this, this, this,
Speaker 9: And after we did it.
Speaker 4: In store presentation, that was great.
Speaker 9: But then I started to realize that my product wasn't
Speaker 9: being positioned the way I liked. I'm from London, I
Speaker 9: have a slightly different aesthetic, so I wanted to position
Speaker 9: it myself, but I couldn't afford renting any of these stores.
Speaker 9: So I took it to the streets, flipped the table.
Speaker 9: Everybody kind of liked it immediately, and a few people
Speaker 9: were like, why don't you try and get the store,
Speaker 9: And I was like, I'm not really in the market
Speaker 9: for a store, but they kept saying it to me,
Speaker 9: which was sending me a direct message, we want this
Speaker 9: in our neighborhood, we want this in our community. We
Speaker 9: understand it. If you're amazing to have something like this here.
Speaker 2: All right. The founder and owner of Brooklyn Bloke. Wayne
Speaker 2: Fortune is here with us today. Find out more about
Speaker 2: his story on Wealth Wednesday. How he went from being
Speaker 2: a recording artist to selling t shirts on the street
Speaker 2: to having his own brick and mortar inside of Grand
Speaker 2: Central Station.
Speaker 1: We have more when we come back.
Speaker 6: It's Way Up and my Wealth Dog getting you straight financially,
Speaker 6: mentally and physically.
Speaker 7: This is Wealth Wednesday on Way Up with Angela Ye.
Speaker 2: What's up his way Up with Angela Yee and the
Speaker 2: story is from London to Grand Central. How Wayne Fortune
Speaker 2: built a Brooklyn Bloke into a movement. It's a black
Speaker 2: owned contemporary streetwear and lifestyle brand. And we have Wayne
Speaker 2: Fortune here with us today. How important is authenticity when
Speaker 2: it comes to your brand?
Speaker 9: When you buy something from Brooklyn blokecus, it's not what
Speaker 9: you pay for or what you buy, is actually what
Speaker 9: you get back in return, which is a piece of
Speaker 9: this journey of resilience and character. And that's not to
Speaker 9: toot my own home, but literally I've lived this on
Speaker 9: the street corners, wanting to quit. And I think everything
Speaker 9: that people talk about when they come to the story
Speaker 9: is how much they love the energy, how much they
Speaker 9: love the presentation. And I was that meticulous on the street.
Speaker 9: People used to mock me because because of how many
Speaker 9: times I'd fold a T shirt.
Speaker 4: And that's the type of pride, you know, my values.
Speaker 9: You know, the reason why I stopped being in the
Speaker 9: music business is in the brand self reliance or you know,
Speaker 9: real bleed and bleeding talk.
Speaker 11: About what you mean by bleeding. It was a fascinating
Speaker 11: I just got part of our conversation.
Speaker 9: Well, I think you know, when we talk about entrepreneurialism,
Speaker 9: we always go to success or failure, but in the
Speaker 9: middle there's just a lot of bleeding us like how
Speaker 9: much can you take?
Speaker 4: And as we know, a lot of people just fall
Speaker 4: out because.
Speaker 9: Out you know what I mean, you know, all of
Speaker 9: a sudden, you know you don't want to do it anymore,
Speaker 9: you know, And we all say, you know, you could
Speaker 9: be just around the corner from that. And a friend
Speaker 9: of mine said to me, damn man, it's like you
Speaker 9: just won't stops. Like you're impossible to kill. And I
Speaker 9: really believe. I believe that as an entrepreneur, if you're
Speaker 9: really serious about what you're doing, you need to be
Speaker 9: impossible to kill.
Speaker 2: Right now, Founder and owner of Brooklyn Bloke, Wayne Fortune
Speaker 2: is here with us. That's right.
Speaker 1: He went from London and got his roots in Brooklyn.
Speaker 11: You really made me rethink retail because when I asked you,
Speaker 11: I'm like, do you want the call to action of
Speaker 11: your interview to be for people to go buy your
Speaker 11: products online?
Speaker 1: You really took me to school on that.
Speaker 4: Listen, everybody's situation is different.
Speaker 9: You know, the internet is a huge place everybody's selling.
Speaker 9: It's huge for commerce, but it lacks personal connection experience.
Speaker 9: And we have just noticed that Brooklyn Bloke, that people
Speaker 9: like to be around us, they like to be in
Speaker 9: our stores. So we've just been thinking, you know that
Speaker 9: we don't necessarily need to have such a large presence
Speaker 9: for e commerce, and we actually are intentionally strategically moving offline.
Speaker 1: That is like the opposite of what the average person
Speaker 1: is doing.
Speaker 11: Yeah, but what's interesting if you're talking about a trend
Speaker 11: you mentioned Nike, what the difference between that.
Speaker 9: If you look at Nike and you look at all
Speaker 9: of these big brands, they're pulling product out of all
Speaker 9: of these at a store, and they're creating unique experiences
Speaker 9: for Nike and for the Nike consumer. I've seen a
Speaker 9: huge benefit and really getting to know my consumer.
Speaker 4: Our repeat business is incredible.
Speaker 9: If I could just for a minute speak about how
Speaker 9: we define success. Most of the time we're thinking about money.
Speaker 9: I think sometimes we should pay more attention to that.
Speaker 9: You know, what affect our brand or our business or
Speaker 9: our purpose is actually having on the marketplace and all
Speaker 9: people sort of thing, and that's something that is more
Speaker 9: valuable to of course, I've got to make money. I
Speaker 9: like to stay fresh like everybody else. You know, I've
Speaker 9: got things I like and you know, our family, all
Speaker 9: of that sort of stuff. But in marketplace results, I
Speaker 9: think is really underestimated. And I think for the young entrepreneur,
Speaker 9: for the startup, for people who are coming up in
Speaker 9: a game, don't underestimate the impact that you can have
Speaker 9: on the environment that you're in.
Speaker 4: And I'm really really proud of that.
Speaker 1: All right again, Happy with Wednesday.
Speaker 2: Everybody, make sure you check out that for an interview
Speaker 2: with Wayne Fortune, the founder of Brooklyn Bloke on my
Speaker 2: YouTube channel Way Up at the Year and when we
Speaker 2: come it's your show, so you have the last.
Speaker 6: Word to get your voice heard with the word he
Speaker 6: is the last word on Way Up with Angela.
Speaker 1: Ye, what's up his Way Up at Angela yee.
Speaker 7: T K.
Speaker 1: Kirkling, thank you so much for hanging out with me today.
Speaker 5: Always a pleasure, my queen. I think you're amazing. Every
Speaker 5: time I see you, you get more beautiful each time.
Speaker 3: That is so that's awesome.
Speaker 5: I love that you're a good business woman and you've
Speaker 5: got things going on, and I just love you.
Speaker 2: You always bring me flowers. What should I bring you?
Speaker 3: Just a hug? I just want hugg all right.
Speaker 2: Well, it's also a Wealth Wednesday, so thank you again
Speaker 2: to our guy Wayne Fortune for joining us. Brooklyn Bloke
Speaker 2: watched that for interview on my YouTube channel. But check
Speaker 2: out his e commerce store or if you ever make
Speaker 2: it to Grand Central Station here in New York.
Speaker 1: City there, yeah, you would like it, and.
Speaker 2: Make sure you see T. K. Kirkland. Where can people
Speaker 2: find you online?
Speaker 5: This weekend, let's start with this fifth Pittsburgh Lady Jeb
Speaker 5: City Winery.
Speaker 3: Listen, there's only a few tickets left.
Speaker 5: Then come check me out September, I mean August six
Speaker 5: in Chicago City, Watery and Jackson, Mississippi, Mark Curry, Tony Roberts, T. K.
Speaker 3: Kirkland at Thalya Mara Hall.
Speaker 5: Then September fourth to the sixth, check me out Pleasanton, California, MA.
Speaker 5: She writes this down.
Speaker 1: He's doing all this stuff the top of his head.
Speaker 5: And then on September sixteenth, Nashville, Tennessee City Waterery, the
Speaker 5: list goes on.
Speaker 3: Lady DWNE and she'll tell you I'm literally booked. You
Speaker 3: will have a tame the next twelve years.
Speaker 1: You will have a time. We'll see you here next year.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: All right, this is your show, so you have the
Speaker 1: last word.