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Speaker 1: Wake up, Wake, come up, Envy Yee and Cholomagne on

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Speaker 1: everybody that anybody comes to the breakfast club. You know,

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Speaker 1: you get voice to people that would be voiceless. Right now,

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Speaker 1: your show has the post of the culture. Yeah, everyone

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Speaker 1: smells successful for y'all that now. Ain't nobody saying I

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Speaker 1: Davy Cholmagne, the guy peace to the planet. In his Friday,

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Speaker 1: Joe black Well, Sunday Sunday is black gay Father's Day

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Speaker 1: happy black gay Caribbean fathers out there. Friday show, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Carl show Father's Day. All that are you letting black

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Speaker 1: this is where their kids or their wives or their

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Speaker 1: What are you doing for Black Caribbean Gay Father's Day? Charlemagne? Uh?

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Speaker 1: Something I talked about later founded wild. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: tasty and tender. Got to congratulate the Golden State Warriors

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Speaker 1: they won the NBA Finals. For the Warrior's easy called

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Speaker 1: congrats to Steph Curry. Come on, man, Steph Cray. I

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Speaker 1: can't I cannot believe it day on ESPN actually having

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Speaker 1: might be top five at the hell are y'all talking

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Speaker 1: about the man revolutionized the game of basketball. And he's

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Speaker 1: first NBA Finals MVP. What are y'all talking about? Is

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Speaker 1: he top ten of all time? And besides that, Drake

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Speaker 1: spending time in Jersey. Because that sounds like a Jersey

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Speaker 1: club album. No, that sounds like that's that's that's Beverly

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Speaker 1: that's Beverly Hills luxury hotel elevating music. That's not. That's like,

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Speaker 1: I I like the vibe Yeah, sticky was very Jersey.

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Speaker 1: to congratulate the Golden State Warriors. They defeated the Boston

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Speaker 1: And you can't even trust it. It's like gambling, like

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Speaker 1: then when it is delayed, that your little thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: all right? And Amy Schumer people are upset at her

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Speaker 1: like you know whatever. And I think women like you

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Speaker 1: take yourself down to be accepted. I don't think Tiff

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Speaker 1: Hattish does that. Tiff it's like, if you've seen her

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Speaker 1: late when she's like, this is what's this success looks like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is not a assume, this is how is that

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Speaker 1: going for her? I loved Tip Tip too. She's incredible,

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Speaker 1: set a huge meteoric rise. I'm wondering if if people

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Speaker 1: are going to get pissed at her. So people were

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Speaker 1: saying it's giving hater the caudacity is tiff worried about,

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Speaker 1: you know, and then somebody said, we don't even like Amy,

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Speaker 1: why is she here? And then somebody said why is

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Speaker 1: she on this platform and she's traumatized by Will Smith. Well,

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Speaker 1: let me be the first to tell you Amy Schumer

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Speaker 1: is not hating. And what Amy Schumer is talking about

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Speaker 1: is the industry because when you are a woman, especially

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Speaker 1: a black woman, who is outspoken, who speaks up for ourselves,

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Speaker 1: they get labeled difficult in this business. I believe that's

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Speaker 1: what she means when she said differently. I did take

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Speaker 1: it as that she was saying, how is that going

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Speaker 1: for her? As far as um is this making people angry?

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Speaker 1: And people she's talking about our industry? Folks like, trust me,

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Speaker 1: it's my pet peeve. I hear it all the time.

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Speaker 1: People will say such and such is difficult, and usually

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Speaker 1: it's black women who are outspoken and speak up for themselves.

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Speaker 1: I hear it all the time. Yeah, So that that's

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Speaker 1: how I took it. But people, of course she's not

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Speaker 1: being specific. She should have said in this business, in

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Speaker 1: this industry, executives will label you difficult if you are

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Speaker 1: a black woman or a woman who speaks up for themselves.

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Speaker 1: I hear that all the time with outspoken black women.

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Speaker 1: First thing, it says, oh, she's difficult. Like how when

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Speaker 1: you say how's it going for somebody? That that's usually

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Speaker 1: a hated term. That's how people said that, even though

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Speaker 1: she probably didn't mean it like that. But when you said, well,

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Speaker 1: how's that going for her? But she should have said

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Speaker 1: how's that going? In the industry because she probably is

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Speaker 1: privy to inside information as well, and she probably his

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Speaker 1: executives say the same thing. I promise you, man, when

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Speaker 1: you are an outspoken black person, especially a black woman

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Speaker 1: in this business, they will label you difficulties. They are

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Speaker 1: cool with each other, so I'm sure they spoken probably

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Speaker 1: told her, so it probably all depends on how Tiffany

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Speaker 1: took it. Really, when somebody says how's that going for you,

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Speaker 1: that's usually a hate Actually, that's seriously what it is.

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Speaker 1: I actually said that to somebody last week. I said,

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Speaker 1: you don't think it's screamed that. You know, every time

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Speaker 1: you come to me and say such and such is difficult.

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Speaker 1: Such as somebody said such and such as difficult as

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Speaker 1: usually a black woman, you don't think that's scrange all right, Well,

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Speaker 1: that is your outspoken black women get labeled as difficult

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Speaker 1: Let's getting some front page news all right. Now. Congratulations

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Speaker 1: to the Golden State Warriors. They beat the Boston Celtics

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Speaker 1: last night. Dropping a clue the Golden State Warriors, easy car,

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Commingo Commingo, the rookie you know, Pool Wiggins. They

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Speaker 1: All right, what else we got? Easy? All right, Well,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about the January sixth hearings. Day three was yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Two witnesses testifie who advised Pence that he did not

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Speaker 1: have the authority to subvert the election, and they talked

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Speaker 1: about how Donald Trump's attorney John Eastman put forward a

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Speaker 1: legal theory that Pence could unilatery block certification of the election,

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Speaker 1: but that was rejected by Trump's White House attorneys and

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Speaker 1: Pence's team. But anyway, Donald Trump still tried to press

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Speaker 1: forward and make that happen. There were a lot of

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Speaker 1: revelations yesterday, but the most important one was that Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump was told repeatedly that his plan for Pence to

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Speaker 1: overturn the election was illegal, but he tried to do

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Speaker 1: it anyway, And in a videotape deposition, Pence's chief of

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Speaker 1: staff Mark Shortz said that Pence advised Trump many times

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Speaker 1: that he did not have the legal or constitutional authority

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Speaker 1: to overturn the results. And even Eastman, who helped devise

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Speaker 1: the scheme and pissed it to Trump in the beginning,

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Speaker 1: admitted in front of Trump that the plan would require

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Speaker 1: Pence to violate federal law. According to a clip of

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Speaker 1: that deposition, now here is Chairman Tho. Thompson talking about

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Speaker 1: Mike Pence and his The former president wanted Pence to

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Speaker 1: reject the votes and either declared Trump the winner or

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Speaker 1: send the votes back to the States to be counted again.

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Speaker 1: Mike Pence said, no, he knew it was illegal, he

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Speaker 1: knew it was wrong. We were fortunate for mister Pence's courage.

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Speaker 1: On January sixth, our democracy came danger slid close to

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Speaker 1: catastrophe when Mike Pence made it clear that he wouldn't

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Speaker 1: give in to Donald Trump's scheme. Donald Trump turned the

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Speaker 1: mob on him, a mob that was chanting hang Mike Pence,

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Speaker 1: a mob that had built a hangman's gallows just outside

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Speaker 1: the Capitol. I hate how they called Mike Pence courage

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Speaker 1: just like he wasn't there co signing Trump for four years.

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Speaker 1: I mean, everybody can change their ways. But guess what,

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Speaker 1: Mike Pence, your co signs for four years led to

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Speaker 1: that situation on January sixth, and it almost cannibalized. You

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Speaker 1: can turn on you at any second, exactly. And former

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Speaker 1: Trump White House attorney Eric Hirschman told the committee that

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Speaker 1: Eastman told him he was willing to accept violence in

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Speaker 1: order to overturn the twenty twenty election, and he described

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Speaker 1: a conversation where he warned Eastman that his strategy, if implemented,

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Speaker 1: was going to cause riots in the streets. And he said,

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Speaker 1: there's been violence in the history of our country in

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Speaker 1: order to protect the democracy or to protect the republic.

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Speaker 1: So he basically knew what was about to happen. And

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Speaker 1: this is what they're trying to show. This is some

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Speaker 1: of the most compelling evidence of what actually went down. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and also acause those riots and how Donald Trump was

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Speaker 1: involved in all of that and making it happen and

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Speaker 1: knew what the results would be. And also with the

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Speaker 1: Mike Pence thing, is just a perfect example off. You

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Speaker 1: want to see how somebody's eventually, you know, going to

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Speaker 1: treat you, watch how they treat other people, because eventually

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Speaker 1: it's going to be your turn. And that's what happened

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Speaker 1: in the case. Exactly what happened. Who happened in the

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Speaker 1: gate of Donald Trump and listen man five days ago

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Speaker 1: to January six panelists said they got enough evidence uncovered

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Speaker 1: to in Dight Trump, what're you going to do a deal? Jay? Okay,

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Speaker 1: it's on them now. They put forward all this stuff

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Speaker 1: we've never heard before. Now here's Aguilar talking about Mike

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Speaker 1: Pence and Donald Trump and how there was a lot

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Speaker 1: of tension and how their relationship had soured. The dispute

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Speaker 1: between the president and the Vice president had grown to

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Speaker 1: the point where the Vice president's chief of staff, Mark Short,

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Speaker 1: was concerned that the President could, and mister Short's words

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Speaker 1: quote lash out at the vice president on January sixth.

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Speaker 1: In fact, mister Short was so concerned about it that

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Speaker 1: he talked with the head of the Vice President's Secret

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Speaker 1: Service detail on January fifth. Here's mister short and service

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Speaker 1: for the Vice President's security, and so I wanted to

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Speaker 1: make sure the head of the Vice presdate Secret Service

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Speaker 1: was aware that that likely, as these disagreements became more public,

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Speaker 1: that the president would lash out in some way. Once again,

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Speaker 1: if you want to see how someone who's gonna eventually

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Speaker 1: treat you, watch how to treat other people. At some

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Speaker 1: point it'll be your turn. You're not special, So don't

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Speaker 1: stand by and you know, watch somebody do a bunch

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Speaker 1: of foul stuff and think that eventually is not gonna

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Speaker 1: happen to you. That's exactly what happened to Mike all

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Speaker 1: Right and Two white men were arrested this week for

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Speaker 1: allegedly attacking a black teenager who was just driving through

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Speaker 1: their neighborhood. The incident took place in Sanford, Florida. That

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Speaker 1: is the same city where Tory By Martin was killed

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Speaker 1: by George Zimmerman more than a decade ago. The teen

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Speaker 1: is identified as sixteen year old Jermaine Jones. He was

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Speaker 1: just driving when the men threw a traffic cone at

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Speaker 1: his car and a large rock through the vehicle's window.

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Speaker 1: Jermaine's father CJ. Jones shared footage on Facebook, and in

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Speaker 1: the video you can hear the men yelling at him

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Speaker 1: to get out of their neighborhood. That's crazy right here,

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Speaker 1: right right here time what you were doing? Burning out? Neighborhood?

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Speaker 1: Burning out? I'm not in your face. Get out of

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Speaker 1: my neighborhood. I got a gun. Who got the gun?

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Speaker 1: The guy who's got a permit to carry? You're the

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Speaker 1: one that would get gone, sighorhood? Get out of this neighborhood?

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Speaker 1: Window mask. Can you imagine that this part seen year

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Speaker 1: old that has to go through this terrifying experience where

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Speaker 1: these white people that are throwing cones and rocks at

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Speaker 1: his car just because he was driving. Get out of

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Speaker 1: this neighborhood. You don't belong. This is why I was

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Speaker 1: trying to visit his friend. Why I wish I lived

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Speaker 1: Why would he say he was dragging? What they said

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Speaker 1: he was doing, burning out? And how could you even

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Speaker 1: catch up to him if that's pushing the gas and

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Speaker 1: you know the wheel spin out? But like you said,

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Speaker 1: how could they catch up? That's when I would I

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Speaker 1: wish I lived over in that area because I swear

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Speaker 1: as how I would get a hundred of my my

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Speaker 1: little racing buddies boy, and we would drive around that

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Speaker 1: block a hundred times. And you talk about my man

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Speaker 1: what he had, a little Honda Civic. You talk about

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Speaker 1: loud pipes and making noise. I would drive around that

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Speaker 1: block a hundred times. Well, then I thought you were

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Speaker 1: identified the menace. The men were identified as fifty two

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Speaker 1: year old Donald Corsi and sixty one year old Howard Hughes.

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Speaker 1: They were both arrested and charged with damage to property

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Speaker 1: and Corsi was also hit with a weapon defense charge

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Speaker 1: for allegedly throwing the rock, while Hughes is facing an

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Speaker 1: additional misdemean the battery charge for allegedly hitting uh the

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Speaker 1: white team with the traffic comb And then you throw

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Speaker 1: a rock at my son's call. My son is sixteen

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Speaker 1: years old. As a father, one am I supposed to do?

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Speaker 1: I'm not supposed to knock you in the neighborhood. Visit

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Speaker 1: a friend. Fifteen year old Bailey Kennedy. He was in

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Speaker 1: the car till the black team and the white team

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Speaker 1: get out my neighborhood. You throw a rock at my

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Speaker 1: son's called, break his window, and then and then and

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Speaker 1: then pull out a gun and talk about what he hit.

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Speaker 1: The guy had a gun on him, And I'm not

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Speaker 1: supposed to knock on your doing whoop your ass, drag

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Speaker 1: your your white ass all up and down that block.

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Speaker 1: I'm not supposed to, all right. I don't think you

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Speaker 1: I don't think you and that punk ass dog ain't

631
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Speaker 1: doing that way. I playing my family. If you like

632
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 1: me and that punk ass dog would be right on

633
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: there and knock on the door, knock hello. I think

634
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 1: I think you should go over that armed, knowing that

635
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 1: he has a gun. I don't think you should just

636
00:33:54,880 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 1: take the dog and your bike, right. He be a

637
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 1: hundred riders, he said, a hundred bike riders deeper than

638
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 1: little bikers, saying riders out, I say, bikers, you're talking

639
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 1: about bike riders? Talk about that. You're talking about I'm

640
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:14,080
Speaker 1: talking about my cars? You know, how do the rallies

641
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 1: and stuff like? I'm not talking so you thinking you

642
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:19,200
Speaker 1: just want to see you say that you and you're

643
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:21,799
Speaker 1: acting bad. One hundred people on ten speeds don't pull

644
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,799
Speaker 1: out what they punk as dogs, and we pull up

645
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 1: on our bikes too. Why I'm not talking about the bikes.

646
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:27,799
Speaker 1: You just want to see me in a little show

647
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:29,400
Speaker 1: talking about the rid Y're gonna stop and get your

648
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:30,759
Speaker 1: all love days first. When you're listening to the new

649
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 1: Drake album, you're gonna pull up on them. You know what,

650
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 1: every Father's Pride Caribbean poooooooooooooooo, Happy Black gay father Caribbeans day.

651
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:46,480
Speaker 1: You know what, when we come back and see guys,

652
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:48,239
Speaker 1: I don't take nothing serious with you, no more man

653
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,840
Speaker 1: like you. So it's not serious between y'all anymore. We

654
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 1: go together real bad to get a real bad. I

655
00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:59,000
Speaker 1: ate your man. When we come back, the CEO of

656
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:03,400
Speaker 1: Essence will be Wong Guy, so we're gonna talk to

657
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,799
Speaker 1: about the upcoming Esten's Essence Festival and Moss it don't move.

658
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 1: I hate y'all, both of y'all. That's not nice. You too, No,

659
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:14,760
Speaker 1: y'all not nice to me. It's the Breakfast the Breakfast

660
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 1: Club Power one oh five one, the Breakfast Club, Angela

661
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:28,239
Speaker 1: Year and Charlomagne the Guard Villas his night man Man.

662
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:32,359
Speaker 1: I got a driver and he's the only divide Morning

663
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: everybody c j Envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the Guy. We

664
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 1: are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in

665
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:47,319
Speaker 1: the building, Big CEO, Energy of Essence. You so glad

666
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 1: you made it up here before Essence Festival because I

667
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 1: want you to talk about everything that's happening this year.

668
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: And you guys just DRT the iconic cover with Danny Jackson.

669
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 1: That's a life moment right there, right Like, it's not

670
00:35:59,239 --> 00:36:02,800
Speaker 1: even about an Essence cover with Janet. It's about Janet,

671
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 1: right and what she is and everything that she's been

672
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 1: for community, the things she's fought through that gave a

673
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:10,360
Speaker 1: lot of other artists opportunity to be here. And I

674
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,319
Speaker 1: would say that's exactly what Essence Festival is about. It's

675
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 1: critically important that people understand that it is the place

676
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:19,239
Speaker 1: where we celebrate blackness without having to accommodate everybody else.

677
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,759
Speaker 1: I love that, And so Janet being an icon makes sense.

678
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:24,879
Speaker 1: She's a part of the festival. But it's also about

679
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 1: just being really honest about what blackness is and not

680
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 1: having to feel like you gotta less in it for others,

681
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 1: but letting others be a part of it if they

682
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 1: want to. But it's their job to understand how we

683
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:36,240
Speaker 1: do what we do, So tell us how that started

684
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:38,479
Speaker 1: and when did it start? So the festival is twenty

685
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:41,400
Speaker 1: seven years old. Wow, It's always been in New Orleans,

686
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:44,279
Speaker 1: and I have to reinforce that, because the festival isn't

687
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:46,760
Speaker 1: the festival if it's not in New Orleans. It actually

688
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,080
Speaker 1: has always been in Willans except for three years. Yeah,

689
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:50,560
Speaker 1: I went to one year it was in Houston. After

690
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:56,560
Speaker 1: I didn't like that exactly like it. It doesn't work.

691
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 1: And that's not hate on Houston. That's just about like it.

692
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 1: They were born to together, right. And then the only

693
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 1: other two years it hasn't been there are the two

694
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:04,800
Speaker 1: years of the Penhamic where we did it virtually. It

695
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:07,239
Speaker 1: is also the largest festival in the country by per

696
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 1: day attendance. And then the third piece I'd say is

697
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 1: what's happening right now that I'm even more excited about

698
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 1: is what COVID gave us the opportunity to do virtually,

699
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,320
Speaker 1: was to be able to bring together a broader diaspora

700
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 1: to experience this thing that we have had here in

701
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:23,279
Speaker 1: the US, but is really about global black culture, which

702
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 1: is a part of our mission in this phase of

703
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 1: essence as well. And so in twenty twenty, we had

704
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 1: forty five million views of the virtual Festival in twenty

705
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 1: twenty one we had sixty five million views and twenty

706
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:34,960
Speaker 1: twenty two, for the first time the festival we both

707
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 1: live and virtual with unique and hybrid experiences for all.

708
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 1: So when you think about the momentous moment we're in

709
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 1: right now with what we've been through, this is going

710
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:45,239
Speaker 1: to be the dopest year the festival yet because the

711
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:48,400
Speaker 1: whole fan can be together even if we're not in

712
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:50,320
Speaker 1: the scene. That's one thing I loved about the festival

713
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:53,240
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, and no disrespect to the festival,

714
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:56,440
Speaker 1: it was an older person's festivals. They thought it's skewing

715
00:37:56,600 --> 00:38:00,160
Speaker 1: younger and it was open to everybody. That's definitely you're

716
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:04,920
Speaker 1: just old in that. I will say the movie Girls

717
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 1: even before the movie Girls Trip like for me because

718
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:10,480
Speaker 1: I've been going to Essence Festival for probably like ten

719
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,640
Speaker 1: years and I would tell like my friends, let's all

720
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,319
Speaker 1: go to Essence Festival every year. And then Girls Tip

721
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:18,479
Speaker 1: came out and it's like it is the perfect girls

722
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:20,840
Speaker 1: trip place. So that's that's great, and I'm glad you

723
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 1: guys brought this up because one of the things right like,

724
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,839
Speaker 1: so Essence is the parent company of the festival, right

725
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 1: there's like a whole company. Aside from that, but one

726
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 1: of the things that is really intentional about what we're

727
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 1: trying to drive in the stages, we are, first of all,

728
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,320
Speaker 1: black people are not a monolith, and this festival is

729
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:37,239
Speaker 1: the place where no matter what kind of black you are,

730
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:39,919
Speaker 1: you find something for you. Right. So to your point,

731
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:41,839
Speaker 1: it had a reputation of being not just for old

732
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:43,719
Speaker 1: but for the aunties. That's what people really say. What

733
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:46,840
Speaker 1: did that change? It's been changing for a while, but

734
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:48,840
Speaker 1: we are being even more intentional about it now. So

735
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 1: right now, if you look at the statistics, sixty percent

736
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:53,359
Speaker 1: of the attendees of the festival are eighteen to thirty five,

737
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:56,719
Speaker 1: saying they just may not go to the same things

738
00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 1: right right that other people do. And so our charge became,

739
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:01,479
Speaker 1: how do we make sure that all of the people

740
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:03,880
Speaker 1: that are actually showing up can find something to do?

741
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 1: So to start with something like you talked about with

742
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 1: girls Trip, one of the things is we know the

743
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:10,319
Speaker 1: brothers come to festival. The data says it's about thirty

744
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:12,840
Speaker 1: percent of the audience is men. That really smart for

745
00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 1: them to come to. By the way, because there's a

746
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: lot I've never heard a complain about their experience. But

747
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:20,239
Speaker 1: the piece I'm saying that for is the intentionality is

748
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:22,280
Speaker 1: for the first time we have a men's experience designed

749
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:25,439
Speaker 1: for black men at festival. We're calling it in His Zone.

750
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:27,480
Speaker 1: It's designed for black men there. It's not because the

751
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 1: rest of the festival isn't for them, but we see

752
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 1: them and recognize them and want them to feel like

753
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:32,759
Speaker 1: there's a space where they'll be able to do things.

754
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 1: We have a younger generational set of programming behind Girls

755
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:39,280
Speaker 1: United that's really focused on the next generation of Black women.

756
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 1: We are the essence festival of culture, and there's a

757
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:43,840
Speaker 1: lot of other things happening outside of the Superdome, but

758
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 1: even within the Superdome and the concerts, which is what

759
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:48,359
Speaker 1: a lot of people look forward to, there's a lot

760
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:50,319
Speaker 1: of diversity in what we've brought there. So we've got

761
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 1: Nicki minaj on Friday night, We've got Janet on Saturday night,

762
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 1: new Addition on Sunday night as headliners. But in the

763
00:39:57,080 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 1: Nicki Minaje night is Beanie Man Thames is in that

764
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:02,600
Speaker 1: New Addition night. Those are all growing artist by the

765
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:12,680
Speaker 1: right right. And so the point that I'm making is

766
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 1: part of our responsibility as a brand is to make

767
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 1: sure that although we were built on the heels of

768
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:19,800
Speaker 1: black women, are and we are not at all hiding that.

769
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:22,759
Speaker 1: The reason why that's a really important critical community for

770
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:25,279
Speaker 1: all black is because black women are the conductors of

771
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 1: black community right. The way that they look and the

772
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: way that they go and what they influence tends to

773
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 1: be right what a lot of people depend on or

774
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:35,279
Speaker 1: look to to understand right. And so being able to

775
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:37,440
Speaker 1: use the festival and the brand that is Essence to

776
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:40,239
Speaker 1: bring forth what it means for blackness to get back

777
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 1: to the greatness it deserves globally is exactly what we're

778
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 1: trying to do. And that mission is that big, that audacious,

779
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 1: and we will start by making sure that people see

780
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 1: a different kind of festival this year that helps us

781
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:51,760
Speaker 1: into our needs. Now, what about Essence needs. I'm excited.

782
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:54,919
Speaker 1: So SENCTS has always been there. Some of the dope

783
00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 1: stuff that's happening with epens each as we took it

784
00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 1: outside and we're doing the first of our Essence Food

785
00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:01,359
Speaker 1: and Wine festival that will feature food and wine from

786
00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:03,719
Speaker 1: all different black vendors. Everybody may not want to come

787
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:05,560
Speaker 1: to the food festival, so of course the eats will

788
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 1: be there as well, but it is about making sure

789
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 1: that food and Wine Festival is happening, the film festival

790
00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 1: is happening. We have a gospel brunch that we're including

791
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 1: to make sure that people are finding different things to do,

792
00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:17,600
Speaker 1: but that we're also highlighting black entrepreneurs because one of

793
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:20,839
Speaker 1: our big goals is to continue to build black generational wealth.

794
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 1: How does it feel to be back after a two

795
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:26,399
Speaker 1: year hiatus and when you realize, Okay, I think we'd

796
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:28,719
Speaker 1: be able to do this live, yeah, next year, when

797
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:31,400
Speaker 1: did your brain start? Well? The funny thing is I

798
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:33,719
Speaker 1: started this job in the pandemic. So I started this

799
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 1: job right when the twenty twenty Virtual Festival was about

800
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,279
Speaker 1: to air, right, and I, like everybody else, was like,

801
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:41,880
Speaker 1: can we do this? And when we saw what happened

802
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 1: with forty five million views of that festival, I like

803
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 1: I rested quite a bit to say, oh my god, right, Like,

804
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:50,279
Speaker 1: the necessity of this thing goes beyond the fact that

805
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:53,320
Speaker 1: it has to be physical. Our community needs to be together.

806
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 1: And so when we were able to do that in

807
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 1: twenty twenty and then saw us able to do it

808
00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:01,400
Speaker 1: again in twenty twenty one, the thought coming back became

809
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:04,399
Speaker 1: probably bigger and better than it would have been had

810
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 1: the pandemic not happened, which is, look at what we're

811
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 1: now able to do. And we decided to be even

812
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:12,279
Speaker 1: more bold than audacious, and how we choose to offer

813
00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:14,839
Speaker 1: this Life Festival because of what happened. Virtually the first

814
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:17,120
Speaker 1: time I've seen a new edition was actually at Essence

815
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 1: Music Festival. And you know, most people don't know I

816
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:22,480
Speaker 1: do car shows. And my car show got to start

817
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:36,479
Speaker 1: on now he who didn't know? Ye, But most people

818
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:38,760
Speaker 1: don't know that the start. I got my start because

819
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 1: Essence didn't happen. So I actually did my car show

820
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 1: what I found out Essence wasn't doing it. Fourth to July.

821
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:46,960
Speaker 1: I did my car show fourth to July in Atlanta.

822
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 1: And usually you know our culture, black people, they want

823
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:53,680
Speaker 1: something to do, and because they couldn't go to New Orleans,

824
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 1: I had twenty thousand people at Atlanta, which made me

825
00:42:57,120 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 1: do the car shows from market to market to market.

826
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 1: All right. We had more about Caroline Wanga, the CEO

827
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:05,800
Speaker 1: of Essence, coming up next, but right now New Drake

828
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 1: out today featuring twenty when Savage here is Jimmy Cooks.

829
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:15,239
Speaker 1: Every envy Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy we are the

830
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 1: Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with the CEO of Essence.

831
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 1: She's talking about the Essence Festival and more. We have

832
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:24,960
Speaker 1: Caroline Wanga. Is it difficult for you guys to get sponsors,

833
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:27,320
Speaker 1: because I know a lot of times corporate white world,

834
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:30,879
Speaker 1: it's hard to get sponsors. They don't they'll sponsor everything else,

835
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 1: but when it comes to us, it's very difficult. It's

836
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:35,000
Speaker 1: it difficult. So we're gonna have that conversation. So first

837
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:36,239
Speaker 1: of all, here's what you need to know. I am

838
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:38,440
Speaker 1: in corporate recovery. So I worked at the Target Corporation

839
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 1: for fifteen years, right, so I know both sides of

840
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:42,960
Speaker 1: the conversation. One of the things that will be true

841
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 1: in this new era of the Essence brand overall is

842
00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:47,960
Speaker 1: we're gonna be really picky about who gets to be

843
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:50,759
Speaker 1: in partnership with us. I think that this brand has

844
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 1: been through a lot of things over its fifty years,

845
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 1: and there was a time when it was so malnourished

846
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 1: by the organization that sat within that it had to

847
00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:58,800
Speaker 1: take what it could get to stay alive. As I

848
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 1: came into role and partnered with Rich Dennis, who is

849
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:03,960
Speaker 1: the family that put this company back in black owned hands.

850
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:07,040
Speaker 1: What became extremely important to both of us was one

851
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 1: changing the way that the value of what we do

852
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:12,799
Speaker 1: as a brand is looked at festival. Included number two

853
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:16,440
Speaker 1: demanding that if you want to be in relationship with

854
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:21,040
Speaker 1: this brand, you have to be about black economic impact period.

855
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 1: If you're not about that, we will happily help you

856
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:25,440
Speaker 1: put your check somewhere else. And the fact that we

857
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,320
Speaker 1: were unapologetic about that and we're willing to walk away

858
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:30,960
Speaker 1: if partners didn't want to be about that led to

859
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:34,720
Speaker 1: us being able to have record level partnership dollars happening

860
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 1: coming into the twenty twenty two festival. But what's more

861
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:41,160
Speaker 1: important is as we engaged with those partners, what we

862
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:44,160
Speaker 1: said is it isn't just about us getting the dollars

863
00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:47,000
Speaker 1: to be able to put this together. We mandated in

864
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:50,279
Speaker 1: a lot of those relationships that they are using black

865
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:53,360
Speaker 1: owned businesses to drive the way they show up at festival,

866
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:56,480
Speaker 1: and may that be in the contracts. That's not dollars

867
00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:58,520
Speaker 1: that comes to essence to put this on. That's the

868
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:01,839
Speaker 1: people that will be set up activations and selling food

869
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:03,920
Speaker 1: and all these things that each of our partners do. There,

870
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:06,359
Speaker 1: we ask that that is also going to black owned

871
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 1: businesses and try to make sure that that happens because

872
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:12,920
Speaker 1: for us, we don't want any partner that doesn't understand

873
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:16,080
Speaker 1: that their role with us is to continue to bring

874
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:18,879
Speaker 1: forth what it takes to do black generational wealth. Let's

875
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:21,400
Speaker 1: stay there for a second. YEA, how can these corporations

876
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:25,279
Speaker 1: start to be more inclusive? Well, I wouldn't use the

877
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: word inclusive. I know what you mean by the question

878
00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:30,640
Speaker 1: we're about black. I want to be really clear about that.

879
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:34,239
Speaker 1: I was a former corporate chief diversity officer, right, so

880
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:37,200
Speaker 1: I know what the word inclusion means. I understand what

881
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:40,560
Speaker 1: the diversity work is. I don't want to view you up.

882
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 1: What do you mean in corporate America? It means that

883
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:47,800
Speaker 1: we make sure that all parties have equal and equitable presence.

884
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,239
Speaker 1: But the thing that comes with that is it is all.

885
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:54,160
Speaker 1: So I couldn't just focus on black, right, I had

886
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:56,640
Speaker 1: to make sure that women and Asian and right like

887
00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 1: you have to make sure it's not the paths are different.

888
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:02,880
Speaker 1: But no matter what in the corporate diversity world, everybody

889
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:05,440
Speaker 1: still swivels a little different in their chair when you

890
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:08,719
Speaker 1: talk about black, and so part of what we're being

891
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 1: really clear about this isn't about being inclusive, This isn't

892
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:14,880
Speaker 1: about investing in diversity. This is about black and we

893
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 1: are not going to dilute that. You need to be

894
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:21,359
Speaker 1: unafraid to say black, do black, invest with black, preserved black,

895
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 1: defend black, hay black, do black all black. Absolutely, we

896
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:28,800
Speaker 1: are about making sure that blackness is returned to greatness,

897
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 1: and the first step in that is not allowing anybody

898
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:33,080
Speaker 1: to come in and engage with us if they are

899
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 1: not going to participate in the hard, difficult, no room

900
00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:40,960
Speaker 1: for self preservation work of standing in the gap for

901
00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:43,279
Speaker 1: those of us that are black, not because we can't

902
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:45,239
Speaker 1: stand in the gap for ourselves, but because they're the

903
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:46,799
Speaker 1: ones in the gap and we need them to get

904
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 1: out of the way so we can get to what

905
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:53,719
Speaker 1: we're supposed to do. You know, I think that it's

906
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:56,160
Speaker 1: really important for us to also talk about you personally

907
00:46:56,280 --> 00:46:58,800
Speaker 1: and your background, because you did bring up your fifteen

908
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 1: years at Target. You started it off as an intern there,

909
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:03,239
Speaker 1: and so I just want you to talk a little

910
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:06,239
Speaker 1: bit about your journey even coming in to essence, what

911
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:09,399
Speaker 1: made you leave Target to come to Essence and then

912
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:13,239
Speaker 1: being interim CEO and then becoming the CEO. So I

913
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 1: just want you to give us a little background on you,

914
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:16,759
Speaker 1: just so people know who I can I can't. So

915
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:18,320
Speaker 1: the first thing that's most important say is I'm a

916
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 1: Kenyan girl born in Kenya came to the US. Um So,

917
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:24,680
Speaker 1: I was born in Kisuma, but I lived in Nairobe.

918
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:28,399
Speaker 1: My parents professors at Kenyanta University. I just left. Look

919
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 1: at you see it, and you see it. Look at you.

920
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:34,600
Speaker 1: He's a little writer. But I am not Dominican. I'm black,

921
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:36,920
Speaker 1: he says in Dominicans, I'm like, and I'm black. Well,

922
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:44,080
Speaker 1: you could be all black American. I'm black. So so

923
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:46,400
Speaker 1: I'm a Kenyan girl. Came to the US because my

924
00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:48,760
Speaker 1: dad wanted to do his PhD. Ended up in Minnesota.

925
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:52,120
Speaker 1: Topic for another day. And so after I graduated from

926
00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:55,759
Speaker 1: high school, I became a mom and y seventeen years old,

927
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:58,359
Speaker 1: and you can imagine, just like any other parent would

928
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 1: feel there was concerned. So I went to an HBCU

929
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:04,360
Speaker 1: down in Texas that had a single parent program to

930
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:08,920
Speaker 1: get my degree, a Texas college. It's very small, but

931
00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:11,279
Speaker 1: it was a school that had done a single parent

932
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:14,319
Speaker 1: program where they subsidized the cost of your child living

933
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:16,360
Speaker 1: in the dorm with you, your child eating in the

934
00:48:16,440 --> 00:48:18,320
Speaker 1: cafeteria so you could go to school. And that's what

935
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:21,400
Speaker 1: HBCUs are right. They solved the problems that society doesn't

936
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:22,960
Speaker 1: solve so that we can get to what we're supposed

937
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:25,760
Speaker 1: to do. I'm not here without that school and that program,

938
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:28,040
Speaker 1: full stop. That's why I started with Target. So I

939
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:31,760
Speaker 1: started as an intern in their distribution center in Tyler, Texas.

940
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:33,680
Speaker 1: I decided to sell out and become a corporate drone

941
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:34,960
Speaker 1: so I could take care of this baby and make

942
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 1: sure she could pay for college. And then I ended

943
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:39,000
Speaker 1: up coming to headquarters in Minnesota. So that brought me

944
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 1: back to Minnesota, and I did a number of different

945
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:45,160
Speaker 1: roles in engineering from a distribution perspective, I was over

946
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:48,360
Speaker 1: in business intelligence. I did some roles in HR. I

947
00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:51,280
Speaker 1: had my last role in that fifteen years was Chief Diversity,

948
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:54,800
Speaker 1: Inclusion and Culture Officer for the organization. I was definitely

949
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:56,440
Speaker 1: one of those people that because I had been a

950
00:48:56,520 --> 00:48:59,080
Speaker 1: mom that long, I had lost sight of who I was,

951
00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:02,320
Speaker 1: and so I was open to what other opportunities could be.

952
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:04,279
Speaker 1: I was talking to people within Target. I was talking

953
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:06,520
Speaker 1: to people outside of Target. And even though rich Lu

954
00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:08,839
Speaker 1: Dennis and the Dennis family had the Shave Moister brand

955
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:10,440
Speaker 1: that had worked with Target for fifteen years, he and

956
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:13,320
Speaker 1: I had never met. We met at the twenty nineteen festival.

957
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:16,279
Speaker 1: I was asked to come and host a panel and

958
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:18,840
Speaker 1: when he asked about this opportunity to come to Essence,

959
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 1: it was because of the way that I lived my

960
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:22,799
Speaker 1: life that he wanted me to come and help leave

961
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:26,239
Speaker 1: this brand. Why did I take it? It was a

962
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:29,000
Speaker 1: journey and recompense. And here's what I mean by that.

963
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:33,040
Speaker 1: Two very important things happened that made this the absolute

964
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:35,440
Speaker 1: right thing at the absolute right time. I had the

965
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:38,960
Speaker 1: opportunity to join a group of people that went to Ghana.

966
00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:41,799
Speaker 1: I had talked with my dad about being excited about

967
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:43,960
Speaker 1: going because I knew my Kenyan heritage. I'd known it

968
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:46,200
Speaker 1: from the beginning. My dad told me all those stories

969
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:49,400
Speaker 1: right it was undisrupted by the slave trade on the

970
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:51,959
Speaker 1: eastern coast. I was excited to go to Ghana because

971
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 1: the remnants on the coast there of the transatlantic slave

972
00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:57,239
Speaker 1: trade was something I didn't see in Kenya, and I

973
00:49:57,360 --> 00:49:59,279
Speaker 1: was excited to see that so I was talking about that,

974
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:02,080
Speaker 1: and he paused. He said, well, there was another slave

975
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:04,320
Speaker 1: trade that happened on the eastern coast of Africa that

976
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:06,400
Speaker 1: doesn't have a lot of history behind it because it

977
00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 1: took slaves to Asia, but they weren't allowed to procreate,

978
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 1: and so it didn't last as long. He said, So

979
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:17,040
Speaker 1: our heritage did interact with slavery in Kenya and I

980
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:20,440
Speaker 1: was like, well, Dad, you said it wasn't disrupted. And

981
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:22,040
Speaker 1: he says, well, the wongest did what they had to

982
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:25,279
Speaker 1: do to survive, which meant participate in the ensavement of

983
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:29,239
Speaker 1: other Kenyans. I can't lie to you about how heavy

984
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:32,319
Speaker 1: that sat on my spirit. And I just remember saying

985
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:35,239
Speaker 1: over and over, I'm going to fix this. So when

986
00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:40,080
Speaker 1: I arrived in Ghana and spent time at the slave dungeons,

987
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:43,560
Speaker 1: I had a complete total meltdown a few months later,

988
00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:46,000
Speaker 1: and I remember going back to Target and I was

989
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:48,279
Speaker 1: talking to the CEO there and I said I had

990
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:51,080
Speaker 1: to fix this. I told him this story. When Rich

991
00:50:51,239 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 1: called a couple months later, this was the fix this.

992
00:50:55,719 --> 00:50:58,560
Speaker 1: I have benefited from that story all the way up

993
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:01,520
Speaker 1: through my corporate career, from people who came before me

994
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:04,399
Speaker 1: that looked like me that sacrifice that fought that did.

995
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:09,279
Speaker 1: I can't not do what I'm supposed to do to

996
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:12,239
Speaker 1: continue to maintain one of the catalysts of that, which

997
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:15,040
Speaker 1: is this brand. And so between where I was in

998
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:17,880
Speaker 1: my life where I was really embracing who is Caroline

999
00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:22,920
Speaker 1: and a moment where I understood something different about my heritage.

1000
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:27,040
Speaker 1: Accepting this role as an act of service. It's recompense

1001
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:30,040
Speaker 1: for those that fought before for me to be able

1002
00:51:30,080 --> 00:51:31,640
Speaker 1: to get to where I got to incorporate, and then

1003
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:33,759
Speaker 1: to have another opportunity to do this with one of

1004
00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:37,960
Speaker 1: the biggest global black media brands. But also it is

1005
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:40,279
Speaker 1: to give the opportunity for I owe, my niece and

1006
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:42,920
Speaker 1: all the kids coming after to have another place that

1007
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:45,160
Speaker 1: will tell them how great they are. I'm here out

1008
00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:48,400
Speaker 1: of service, not out of a job. Wow wow, I

1009
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:51,120
Speaker 1: love that. Well. Definitely head out there if you can.

1010
00:51:51,239 --> 00:51:54,760
Speaker 1: I'll bet moisture. I think I'm DJing for shame moisture.

1011
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:56,759
Speaker 1: Me and my wife, a son, and books, our new book,

1012
00:51:56,920 --> 00:52:00,560
Speaker 1: and the shame moisture that you have a book we do.

1013
00:52:00,719 --> 00:52:03,320
Speaker 1: We have essence authors, so they'll be space there for

1014
00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 1: essence authors. We've got global black Economic Forum. We've got

1015
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:08,560
Speaker 1: all kinds of different things going on essence fest dot com.

1016
00:52:08,680 --> 00:52:10,480
Speaker 1: If you don't know what you want to do, go

1017
00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:12,239
Speaker 1: down there. We'll show you the whole schedule and we

1018
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:15,320
Speaker 1: look forward to see everybody. Everybody. Partner I Need a

1019
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:17,719
Speaker 1: Copax is gonna be there with her Bookshallow Waters. Yes,

1020
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:20,760
Speaker 1: and we want to continue to highlight as many folks

1021
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:22,759
Speaker 1: as we can through this festival. So folks that have

1022
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:24,960
Speaker 1: interest in this, even if you didn't get on this timing,

1023
00:52:25,239 --> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 1: please continue to stay in contact with us. We continue

1024
00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:29,560
Speaker 1: to try to make sure that everybody gets an opportunity

1025
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 1: to show what they're doing at this thing we call

1026
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:33,520
Speaker 1: the festival. Man, I'll be there Wednesday to Monday. I'm

1027
00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:36,120
Speaker 1: gonna be yeah. Before start. Some people took thirty days

1028
00:52:36,160 --> 00:52:37,800
Speaker 1: off for their job and claimed it was a holiday.

1029
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:41,840
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna bust none of them out. Thank you,

1030
00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:46,719
Speaker 1: thank you, Caroline one God, I say right, you did,

1031
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:48,839
Speaker 1: all right? Well, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning,