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Speaker 1: Well, what's EPs Way up at Angela Yee, I'm Angela Yee,

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Speaker 1: and Jasmine from the Jasmine brand is here, and Roland

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Speaker 1: Martin is here.

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Speaker 2: What's up?

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Speaker 3: And we have the pleasure of welcoming for the first

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Speaker 3: time D Barnes. Hey, D Barnes, what's up?

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Speaker 4: What's up you guys? Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 2: This is awesome in exclusive.

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Speaker 3: And exclusive lusive.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Roland actually broke the news on Way Up at Angela. Ye,

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Speaker 1: let's break it again. If people didn't hear it, that's right.

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Speaker 5: So D and we've launched a new show with her

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Speaker 5: called The Frequency with D Barnes. Right now it's a weekly,

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Speaker 5: but eventually it will be a daily show once he

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Speaker 5: gets your sea legs legs, you know, the frequency of

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Speaker 5: no pun intended. But yeah, So I Uh it was

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Speaker 5: last year when I hit THEE out of the blue

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Speaker 5: on Twitter and I was like, yop, what are you doing?

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Speaker 6: Uh?

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Speaker 2: And then she told me and I was like, well,

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Speaker 2: what do you want to do? Uh?

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Speaker 5: And then uh, I said, hey, I got an idea. Uh,

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Speaker 5: I think you'd be great for it. And then uh,

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Speaker 5: for some reason, she took me about two three weeks

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Speaker 5: to hit me back.

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Speaker 7: I'm like, what the hell you get a marinate on

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Speaker 7: that so long?

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Speaker 5: And so then then she hits me back and she

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Speaker 5: said she wasn't gonna do it. I was like, is

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Speaker 5: she got her mind? Uh? And so precisely, and then

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Speaker 5: so then we had uh. Then I said, okay, fine,

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Speaker 5: and then I was like, no, it's not fine. So

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Speaker 5: then I came back and I was like, let's have

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Speaker 5: another conversation, all right, And it was challenge and we

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Speaker 5: were one of the things that one of the things

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Speaker 5: you precisely but one of these, but one of the

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Speaker 5: things I told you, I said, uh, I said, I

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Speaker 5: am very good at I was afraid, I used, I said,

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Speaker 5: I'm very good at uh.

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Speaker 2: Not not fixing people, I said, but unblocking.

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Speaker 5: Them, Okay, blocking a lot of people who called me

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Speaker 5: for advice and counsel for help.

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Speaker 2: And so I'm like, okay, what's what's blocking.

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Speaker 5: You from doing something?

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Speaker 3: Okay?

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Speaker 5: So we then begin having this conversation and what actually

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Speaker 5: did it?

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Speaker 2: I said, Okay, d here's I think what's going on?

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Speaker 5: Because she was like, I want to focus on getting

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Speaker 5: this documentary done and get my book done.

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Speaker 2: I said, look, those are long term.

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Speaker 3: Project, right, you can still do that.

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Speaker 5: I said, you're somebody trying to swim to that island

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Speaker 5: and I'm in a boat.

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Speaker 2: Yep, you can get to the island a lot faster.

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Speaker 5: D's trying to swim.

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Speaker 2: And she was like and then your response, D, you

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Speaker 2: were like, I was.

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Speaker 1: Like, genius before we even hear your tight Let's talk

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Speaker 1: about some d Barn's history because you actually have experienced hosting, right,

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Speaker 1: and so I want to make sure that people are

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Speaker 1: aware of that.

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Speaker 3: Talk about some of the people you've interviewed.

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Speaker 6: Oh man, you know, my background is in hip hop,

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Speaker 6: as you grew up on that, so everyone in hip

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Speaker 6: hop you can possibly imagine, especially now we're celebrating the

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Speaker 6: hip hop's So you know, I got to start off

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Speaker 6: with the women, of course, Queen Latifa, Mony Love, Salt

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Speaker 6: and Pepper. You know, I made all my favorites, right,

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Speaker 6: and then we move on to Oh, Nikki D. Got

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Speaker 6: a shout out my girl, Nikki D. And then we

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Speaker 6: move on to a lot of the men. Hello, cool

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Speaker 6: J run DMC. I had the honor you know, when

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Speaker 6: jam Master J was here rest in peace. I was

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Speaker 6: just thinking about the Beastie Boys today because you know,

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Speaker 6: it's the anniversary of Adams passing.

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Speaker 3: So I mean, you know, yeah, it was it up.

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Speaker 4: Yes, the show was called Pump It Up. It was

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Speaker 4: on Fox. And this is like pre in Living Color,

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Speaker 4: This is like pre Martin. This is back in the day.

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Speaker 4: All right.

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Speaker 3: So what happens to all that footage now?

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Speaker 1: Because I said they did the video music box documentary,

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Speaker 1: So with all the footage because it was on Fox,

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Speaker 1: were pump it Up?

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Speaker 3: Is there anything that you can.

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Speaker 2: Do with that?

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Speaker 6: Man, I've been documenting in Angela and I'm telling you,

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Speaker 6: I'm being getting so much rejection.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 6: I think it's you know, just being a woman in

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Speaker 6: this industry, Like they're just not really taking me seriously.

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Speaker 6: And the fact that I was conscious enough to document

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Speaker 6: the history because it was important to me. It was

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Speaker 6: not important Fox. And I documented you know, my three

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Speaker 6: my three years there, and I have.

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Speaker 4: A lot of footage that's just you.

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Speaker 6: Know, waiting waiting to be you know, presented. I've pitched

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Speaker 6: it to a lot of people.

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Speaker 4: We're not gonna mention it on names, and you know

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Speaker 4: it's been you know, back to back.

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Speaker 3: Now it's not like a guard mine to me.

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Speaker 1: Right well, one, it feels like a gold mine and

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Speaker 1: a real brainer to me.

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Speaker 6: I mean, it's history too, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 6: it's it's a lot of history. A lot of these

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Speaker 6: artists aren't here anymore. I get emotional when I think

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Speaker 6: about like Heavy D. You know, I have a lot

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Speaker 6: of footage of Heavy D. I was just talking to you,

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Speaker 6: whiz just you know, throwing on Instagram excuse me? And

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Speaker 6: uh we both got emotional thinking about it because somebody

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Speaker 6: had posted some footage of the first show we did

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Speaker 6: and this was like on the original Fox lot that's

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Speaker 6: not even there anymore.

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Speaker 1: How did that tell that this even make it to

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Speaker 1: facts because, like you said, they didn't really see the

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Speaker 1: value while you were documenting all of this and know

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Speaker 1: what this would turn into. But how did it even

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Speaker 6: Well, you know how most networks do, they take black

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Speaker 6: content to build up their network, and so that's exactly

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Speaker 6: what did They saw the value in the advertisement, you know, dollars,

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Speaker 6: But they didn't see any value in the people in

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Speaker 4: You know, they didn't really even have a clue to

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Speaker 6: So they saw that that advertisement and they got a

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Speaker 6: and then they spread it out to other shows, so

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Speaker 6: you know, it wound up there just because they wanted

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Speaker 4: And money did roll in from that, but they didn't

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Speaker 6: As a matter of fact, the more money that came in,

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Speaker 2: Wow, I want to go back to the No.

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Speaker 5: Here's why this is important because when when Dean and

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Speaker 5: I were talking and she was like, you know, all

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Speaker 5: these people they said they would help with this documentary

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Speaker 5: with his book, and what I said to her, I said,

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Speaker 5: it was something that the late John Ware he was

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Speaker 5: to Tom Hicks's investment fund and John told me, and

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Speaker 5: I would always call John and he would say, rolling,

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Speaker 5: all these ideas are great, he said, but the most

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Speaker 5: important thing you need is a platform. And so I said,

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Speaker 5: d I said, everything that you want to do can happen,

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Speaker 5: And that's why I said, you really should think about

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Speaker 5: doing this show. And I said, because again, there's short

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Speaker 5: that whether short term, there's midterm, then there's what's long term?

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Speaker 5: I said, then once you launched the show. Now you're

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Speaker 5: back in the game. Now you're talking to people now

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Speaker 5: all the things that you used to do. I said,

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Speaker 5: because the reality is I said, there is a I said,

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Speaker 5: this should this should be d Bard's two point zero.

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Speaker 5: I said, your life, your story should not stop with

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Speaker 5: what happened with doctor Dre. This is an opportunity to

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Speaker 5: now now say no, let me let me now go

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Speaker 5: next level. And I said, you do.

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Speaker 2: This all those other things.

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Speaker 5: I said, we don't have to ask others for this

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Speaker 5: because we can do them. I don't have to ask somebody,

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Speaker 5: hey can you do a documentary when we literally can

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Speaker 5: do it. Well, we gotta do this first.

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Speaker 1: No, I feel you and were you familiar right with

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Speaker 1: Roland before he approached you?

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Speaker 3: Did you know him? Did y'all know each other?

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Speaker 6: No, we didn't know each other, but I did know him,

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Speaker 6: and I was very familiar with him and the network

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Speaker 6: as a matter of fact. And it's funny with everything

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Speaker 6: he said. I had a conversation with Fab five Freddy

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Speaker 6: and he reiterated everything.

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Speaker 5: He was like, see because I had a conversation and

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Speaker 5: I was like fail.

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Speaker 6: I was like my brother Fab five Freddy really step restraight.

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Speaker 4: He was like, Yo, holler at.

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Speaker 1: You this well, I said, what was holding you back?

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Speaker 1: Because I can imagine I said this to rolling behind

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Speaker 1: the scenes. It has to be like being jaded from

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Speaker 4: Just a lottery numbers girl. Because you hit it. That

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Speaker 4: was exactly it.

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Speaker 6: That was I felt like I had wanted it for

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Speaker 6: so long and it didn't happen that I had moved on,

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Speaker 6: I moved on from it. I just was like it

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Speaker 6: was like something like I felt like I grew even

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Speaker 6: though I think I was really suppressing it. And when

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Speaker 6: I met uh Jackie Jackie doctor doctor Jackie Martin, she

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Speaker 6: really set me straight and helped me get balanced. And

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Speaker 6: you know, her show was called a Balance Life and man,

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Speaker 6: she mentored me so well, so smoothly too, that it

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Speaker 6: really it helped finished unblocking me.

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Speaker 7: Basically, what's the biggest thing that you've learned in terms

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Speaker 4: I called it doctor jack Yes, it's jack Jackie Martin.

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Speaker 7: She revert, she doctor, Well, what has been what's the

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Speaker 7: most helpful thing that she that she kind of helped

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Speaker 7: you on block.

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Speaker 6: The biggest thing she helped me on block was you

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Speaker 6: know that that uh imposter syndrome you've heard, Yes, we

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Speaker 6: we we worked through that.

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Speaker 4: And she did it indirectly.

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Speaker 6: It's it's hard to explain she did it indirectly, but

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Speaker 6: she gave me some tips and some points and some

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Speaker 6: things to to to to really marinate on and think about.

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Speaker 6: So we would talk and then I would think about

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Speaker 6: everything she said and come.

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Speaker 4: Back like you were right this, that and the other thing.

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Speaker 6: So I can't really get get into all the because

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Speaker 6: it was very, very emotional for me.

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Speaker 4: She helped me get through it.

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Speaker 5: And the other thing is we're working Joe Cheatwood, is

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Speaker 5: that initially D was like sol locked in the hip

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Speaker 5: hop and I needed to her he understand and I

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Speaker 5: got it. I totally got it. I said, but D,

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Speaker 5: this is not a hip hop show. So I need

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Speaker 5: you to expand your your perspective horizon because your story

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Speaker 5: you can talk about again economics and dealing with hard

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Speaker 6: That's Roland has given me the opportunity to have to

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Speaker 6: It's like it's like my favorite poetry by Sony Sanchez,

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Speaker 2: I had listen.

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Speaker 6: Frequency is about raising a vibration. You got a lot

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Speaker 5: No, it's I mean it it was a Friday. It

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Speaker 1: And now what about you and fab five Freddy's relationship.

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Speaker 1: Now. Your first guest on Frequency is Alicia Garza. Right,

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Speaker 6: You know, while I was going through the whole uh

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Speaker 4: I'm back outside.

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Speaker 7: Were outside, baby.

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Speaker 6: Outside, And I love it and I'm so happy to

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Speaker 3: I love that, I always have, I would love to.

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Speaker 1: I've always admired Roland and all the work that he's done,

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Speaker 4: Right right, I'm just loving it and counting my blesses

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Speaker 6: Roland just really he sent me that that life, that

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Speaker 5: I was like, getting the boat, d stop swimming getting

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Speaker 4: He was like, what you're gonna do drown getting.

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Speaker 3: The boat now, Rowland can't even swim at all. You

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 3: So how often is this show?

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Speaker 5: It'll be a weekly show for the first couple of months.

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Speaker 5: I think y'all got six eight shows in the can.

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Speaker 5: Okay, Tim, I told you so. So Joe cheat Win

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Speaker 5: And my I did buy September one. Uh, then it's

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Speaker 5: And and that was and I was conscious of that, uh,

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Speaker 5: knowing full well how you have to build towards that,

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Speaker 5: because we've we've had these been a board.

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Speaker 2: Now I think nine months now.

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Speaker 5: So we've been in development, just just working on her again,

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Speaker 5: her stuff with Jackie or stuff with Joe, just working on.

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Speaker 2: All that other stuff because you can't get to the

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Speaker 2: show less you.

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Speaker 6: Do all that.

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, we level.

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Speaker 1: It's so great to see you back behind the mic again,

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Speaker 1: and I'm happy for you and we'll be supporting you

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Speaker 1: and paying attention. If there's any clips you want to send,

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Speaker 1: You're like, make sure you talk about this.

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Speaker 3: This happened. We're here for it.

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Speaker 6: Congratulations, right, thank you so much, you guys. I really

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Speaker 6: appreciate your support and I.

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Speaker 4: Love you guys. I admire you so much. And it's like,

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Speaker 4: I'm just like, I'm over here fangirl in a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I just love it now I am. And next time

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Speaker 1: you're in New York, come see us.

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Speaker 4: Oh for sure, I'm coming through.

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, thank you so much.

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Speaker 6: Frequency watch it every Thursday.

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Speaker 4: Start network, y'all.

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Speaker 3: Let's go.

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Speaker 4: Where are you going? Stretch?

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Speaker 7: You gotta catch a flight. I'm sorry, I'm just gonna

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Speaker 7: get up.

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: It's all good the.

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Speaker 6: Last thing, and then she started, good, sorry, thank you,

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Speaker 6: thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: She's gonna find a coach.

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Speaker 7: Back to find a coach bag and.

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Speaker 3: Fly coach the coach all right, thank you

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Speaker 4: One