WEBVTT - Angela Yee: The Next Chapter

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<v Speaker 1>What's up? Family, it's your girl to make a d

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<v Speaker 1>Mallory and it's your boy and my son, and we

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<v Speaker 1>are your host of street politicians, the places in the

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<v Speaker 1>streets and what's up. How you doing? I'm blessing how

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<v Speaker 1>they favorite, you know, doing God's work outside? You live

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<v Speaker 1>in life? Life is living me? Are you living the soft?

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<v Speaker 1>Life's over? Man? No, let me tell you something. I

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<v Speaker 1>have to be really honest about something that you know.

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<v Speaker 1>I need to share this with you. I didn't. We

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<v Speaker 1>really have not talked about this. You know. It's funny

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<v Speaker 1>because some shows, I'm sure they coordinate things offline and

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<v Speaker 1>they get on a thing and they talk about we

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<v Speaker 1>just be talking about stuff and and you know, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>really sad to say this, but I was in Harlem

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<v Speaker 1>the other day and I was I was getting my

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<v Speaker 1>hair of them. So I went to go get some

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<v Speaker 1>food from a seafood spot that we all love. Right

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<v Speaker 1>I When I'm in Harlem, especially, I don't care if

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<v Speaker 1>I'm in If I'm at the tip by where the

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<v Speaker 1>Polar Grounds projects is in Harlem, right there where brad

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<v Speaker 1>Hurst sort of ends. It's it's some wild things that

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<v Speaker 1>go on over there. I used to be over there

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<v Speaker 1>all the time. If there's food in Harlem anywhere, as

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<v Speaker 1>you know, even in the Bronx, I don't given damn

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<v Speaker 1>where it is. I'm going middle of the night for

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<v Speaker 1>cod on, driving my nice car. I don't care. I

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<v Speaker 1>go anywhere I want in New York City, but in Brooklyn,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't really know Brooklyn and queens like that, So

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<v Speaker 1>of course I'm gonna go with somebody that I know

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<v Speaker 1>from those areas. Those are just like you know, that's

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<v Speaker 1>just the code. If you go to somebody else community

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<v Speaker 1>you don't really know where you're at, you need to

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<v Speaker 1>have somebody from that community move you around. But the

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<v Speaker 1>Bronx and Harlem, I can go anywhere I want. I'm loved,

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<v Speaker 1>I meet my I know how to say things to

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<v Speaker 1>my people to make them, to disarm them. When I

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<v Speaker 1>see a bunch of guys standing outside of a store,

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<v Speaker 1>I walk up, I'm like, what's up, brothers, how y'all doing?

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<v Speaker 1>We get the laughing talking most of the time, they

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<v Speaker 1>get the flur in. I love my city, but I

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<v Speaker 1>ain't gonna lie to you. When I was standing outside

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<v Speaker 1>of Harlem, I went to I was getting my hair done.

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<v Speaker 1>I left and I went to walk to go get food.

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<v Speaker 1>The first thing is I walked down the street through

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<v Speaker 1>this particular place and it's not even addicts. I I've

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<v Speaker 1>been around addicts my entire life. I have been around

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<v Speaker 1>people passing out from hounding, you know, doing the dick

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<v Speaker 1>where they go all the way damn, then down to

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<v Speaker 1>the ground and bounce back up. I have seen addicts

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<v Speaker 1>my entire life. But there is a mental health thing

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<v Speaker 1>that's going on that I'm not used to bro and

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<v Speaker 1>I and I'm not gonna lie between walking down this

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<v Speaker 1>one street and it was it was just like a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of people. They was screaming out and doing all

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<v Speaker 1>of these things. And I felt so bad, like my God,

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<v Speaker 1>like what are we doing? Like what is happening for

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<v Speaker 1>these people? They are suffering with all kinds of mental

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<v Speaker 1>health issues? Is it? So? Security? Um office right around

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<v Speaker 1>the corner where you talking about, so a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>them be going over there. Well, and there's a method

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<v Speaker 1>on clinic somewhere around there too, So that's one thing.

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<v Speaker 1>But then when I got on the avenue and I

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<v Speaker 1>was in the restaurant, first of all, in the restaurant,

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<v Speaker 1>at least two incidents popped off between the people behind

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<v Speaker 1>the counter and the black people who was piste off

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<v Speaker 1>and nanny get treated right or you know, you always

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<v Speaker 1>playing with me when I come in here. So that

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<v Speaker 1>was going on, okay, but you know I can deal

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<v Speaker 1>with that. I understand you stay out the way whatever.

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<v Speaker 1>When I went outside, because you know, nobody really stands

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<v Speaker 1>in the restaurant waiting for the fool to be men,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not gonna lie. I was mad, uncomfortable. It was

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of things going on, people yelling, one guy

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<v Speaker 1>in his car and I and I felt nervous, not

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<v Speaker 1>because anybody's gonna do anything to me. Because by the way,

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<v Speaker 1>there was a lady and her son at the bus stop.

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<v Speaker 1>They noticed me and we started talking and the mother

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<v Speaker 1>was taking pictures and so. But while she's taking pictures,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm watching what's going on because it's six or seven

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<v Speaker 1>different things popping off on different corners and people yelling

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<v Speaker 1>and this going on, and I'm like, yo, outside is

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<v Speaker 1>a little touchy. It's not the same environment out here

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<v Speaker 1>right now. Now. It's it's dangerous. You know. I walked through,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, outside a lot, especially in the area you're

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<v Speaker 1>talking on, and it's it's a lot going on. Like

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<v Speaker 1>its drug addicts, but it's definitely mental mental health is

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<v Speaker 1>a real big thing, like really big thing. You know.

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<v Speaker 1>It's some of them that I see normally every day,

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<v Speaker 1>like I go to the gym and this and that,

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<v Speaker 1>and you just see, especially in the Bronx and Harlem,

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<v Speaker 1>it's a real deeply rooted mental health thing. Even the

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<v Speaker 1>people that are like hustling on the corners, like you know,

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<v Speaker 1>the little they they are dealing with mental health, and

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<v Speaker 1>it's just like it's really crazy. It's it's like I

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<v Speaker 1>never I don't think maybe it was always happening, or

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<v Speaker 1>maybe it wasn't or we just didn't pay attention. But

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<v Speaker 1>I just think I'm way more alert. I don't. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>just saying I'm not because I don't want to know.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know if I'm right around. I wasn't. No,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm telling you, I'm telling you I never had a feeling.

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<v Speaker 1>The other thing I felt away about when I saw

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<v Speaker 1>it was a little thing going on this one kid.

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<v Speaker 1>He was going back and forth with the girl and

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<v Speaker 1>then something and I was worried, like, yo, I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know what could happen right here and how other people around?

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<v Speaker 1>Because God forbid, he starts fighting with this girl. Coming

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<v Speaker 1>from what I come from, and they were younger, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>not gonna stand here and watch him beat this girl

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<v Speaker 1>up like I can't do it, It's not in me.

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<v Speaker 1>So now that's the whole other element of you preaching

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<v Speaker 1>to people. Why are you standing around filming and doing nothing,

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<v Speaker 1>and then when you're put in a situation, how are

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<v Speaker 1>you gonna respond? Because there was a man on the

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<v Speaker 1>train in our new segment, I was gonna talk about it,

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<v Speaker 1>but I might as well bring it up now. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>there was a man on the train who was trying

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<v Speaker 1>to break up a fight between people, and he got

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<v Speaker 1>stabbed just the other day. I don't know if he

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<v Speaker 1>had if he died, I hope not, but I know

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<v Speaker 1>he got stabbed. I turned from the story because I

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<v Speaker 1>couldn't even take it. And I know that they are

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<v Speaker 1>more less and less people who are willing to help you,

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<v Speaker 1>which is why I can't even take the train, because well,

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<v Speaker 1>by the way, the train is a disaster. Every person

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<v Speaker 1>that I know, all of our good friends that take

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<v Speaker 1>the train to work every day, they're talking about the

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<v Speaker 1>amount of penises they see, the women that have no

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<v Speaker 1>underwear note just a T shirt on walking through the

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<v Speaker 1>through over all the people in mental off is on

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<v Speaker 1>the train, they all living down there in the in

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<v Speaker 1>the subway, um masturbating, all kinds of craziness, people snatching food,

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<v Speaker 1>people you know, making you feel uncomfortable. I can't take

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<v Speaker 1>the train for more reasons than one. Obviously, I can't

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<v Speaker 1>just be moving about the city any kind of way.

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<v Speaker 1>But also I don't believe that anyone is gonna help

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<v Speaker 1>me in the event that something happens. I don't think

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<v Speaker 1>that people are gonna help me because look at look

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<v Speaker 1>at the examples of what we've been seeing in this

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<v Speaker 1>man that got stabbed. But here's the last part of

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<v Speaker 1>my little story. So then then, so this is the

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<v Speaker 1>daytime when I'm going and you know, I don't know,

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<v Speaker 1>you don't know a lot about weaves, but it takes

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<v Speaker 1>hours from when they take it out your head, wash

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<v Speaker 1>your hair, treat your hair, brave your hair, and resew

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<v Speaker 1>it in and then style it hours. You can easily

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<v Speaker 1>do five or six hours. So when I started, it

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<v Speaker 1>was hair removed, washed, ready to be braided. So now

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<v Speaker 1>I'm going to the store to get something to eat

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<v Speaker 1>that's processed or all the girls that do this, we know.

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<v Speaker 1>But by the time I'm finished, it's nighttime and I'm

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<v Speaker 1>leaving the salon walking to my car. First thing I

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<v Speaker 1>gotta deal with is rats running everywhere. And that's not

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<v Speaker 1>a Harlem problem, as it's everywhere problem. Okay, it's all

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<v Speaker 1>over New York. If you don't live nowhere, you can't

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<v Speaker 1>live downtown. You can't be on Fifth Avenue and not

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<v Speaker 1>see a rat. It's not gonna it's nowhere that you

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<v Speaker 1>go that you're not gonnaee rats. So I gotta deal

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<v Speaker 1>with that. It's rat That's so that's my first thing.

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<v Speaker 1>It's dark, right, nobody's really around. The people that are

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<v Speaker 1>out there, they're still the same people that's outside. Then

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<v Speaker 1>as I'm going to my car, now it's young people

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<v Speaker 1>out there looking like they're getting ready to get into

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<v Speaker 1>a fight. And I'm worried about straight But so I

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<v Speaker 1>I all I'm saying. And by the way, just so

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<v Speaker 1>everybody knows, because I know they're gonna say, well, you

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<v Speaker 1>want to defund the police. It was cops everywhere. They're

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<v Speaker 1>not doing nothing nothing. Nobody was doing nothing. The cops

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<v Speaker 1>ain't doing nothing. Nobody's helping the mentally ill people. The

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<v Speaker 1>people is over there, the cop cars sitting down here

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<v Speaker 1>here on the phone, he's texting, he's hanging out, he's chilling.

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<v Speaker 1>And the people, the the person that's on the ground,

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<v Speaker 1>uh having an attack, half dressed, no shoes on their feet.

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<v Speaker 1>They're right there. So the cops ain't doing nothing about that.

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<v Speaker 1>The kids that's fighting the cops was right there. There's

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<v Speaker 1>a precinct nearby. All of this stuff that's happening still

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<v Speaker 1>right there and with the police sitting in the middle

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<v Speaker 1>of it, in the community, So that can't possibly be

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<v Speaker 1>the solution. Yeah, it's it's it's really bad, you know.

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<v Speaker 1>And and I don't know why they think giving more

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<v Speaker 1>police like we have to have none to health facilities.

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<v Speaker 1>There needs to be people that are going into these

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<v Speaker 1>training stations, going into certain areas and and you know,

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<v Speaker 1>really interacting and getting these people through services and bringing

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<v Speaker 1>them to the facilities and like figuring out how to

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<v Speaker 1>help these people. Because locking them up and saying get

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<v Speaker 1>out of here so they can go to down the

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<v Speaker 1>block and you know and do whatever it is, it's

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<v Speaker 1>not helping, you know, It's I see what you're saying.

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<v Speaker 1>Trust me. I've watched a lot of mental health situation.

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<v Speaker 1>Is a guy that that goes to the gym, and

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<v Speaker 1>sometimes when he's not at the gym, I just see

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<v Speaker 1>him walking through the hood and he'd just be talking

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<v Speaker 1>to himself and shaking his head and he'd be doing

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<v Speaker 1>this little dance he does. Like he's stopping the middle

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<v Speaker 1>of street and he going to gym and he's talking

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<v Speaker 1>to himself the whole time. He don't say nothing. He's

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<v Speaker 1>kind of brawlic too, and it's just like he's in

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<v Speaker 1>his own world. He doesn't look like he's harming nobody,

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<v Speaker 1>but you definitely know that he's dealing with issues. And

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<v Speaker 1>it's like, where's his home with his people? And he

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<v Speaker 1>looks like, I don't even know he I don't know

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<v Speaker 1>if he has a membership. They just let him in.

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<v Speaker 1>It's just the weirdest thing, man, just watching how these things,

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<v Speaker 1>how you know how certain people are dealing with things

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<v Speaker 1>and our community aren't doing anything that doesn't have anything

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<v Speaker 1>in place to help them. Listen, there's a lot of

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<v Speaker 1>weird things are head and you're right, we don't have enough.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not enough. And I feel like I'm sitting overre

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<v Speaker 1>you know, I'm a big baby. I just want to

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<v Speaker 1>start crying, like in the midst of this damn interview,

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<v Speaker 1>because that's I grew up born and raised in Harlem.

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<v Speaker 1>It's my place, and when I start feeling uncomfortable in

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<v Speaker 1>my place, there's a problem. There's a problem. And I

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<v Speaker 1>guess a part of it is that we have to

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<v Speaker 1>be uncomfortable so we can start read grounding ourselves and

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<v Speaker 1>going back to these places and these experiences and figuring

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<v Speaker 1>out what's next. So it makes me and I've I've

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<v Speaker 1>already done it. I sent several text messages to different

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<v Speaker 1>people in the city like, bro, like what what what

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<v Speaker 1>is going on here? Like? How are we gonna get

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<v Speaker 1>to a better place? We can't just keep saying we're

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<v Speaker 1>working on it. There has to be some actual, like

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<v Speaker 1>real ship to happen. And these people that are out

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<v Speaker 1>there on the streets, I never forget seeing, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>over the years, how many of the people I've watched

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<v Speaker 1>go from the very projects I grew up in to

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<v Speaker 1>those streets looking the same way going you know, drugs,

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<v Speaker 1>mental health, prostitution, all these things. And I know for

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<v Speaker 1>sure that if there was services at the end the projects, right,

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<v Speaker 1>if there were real services, and I'm not talking about

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<v Speaker 1>miss Mary. Then when you go to talk to miss Mary,

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<v Speaker 1>she like, white what you want? I don't know what's

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<v Speaker 1>your problem? Where where is your husband? When where is

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<v Speaker 1>your baby? Father? Or another one got locked up? Because

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<v Speaker 1>that's how they speak to you. Oftentimes, when you go

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<v Speaker 1>to social services, when you go to UH, when you

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<v Speaker 1>go to to any place, the damn precinct, the wherever

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<v Speaker 1>you're trying to get help, the people there treat you

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<v Speaker 1>like you're the problem and like they work they somehow

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<v Speaker 1>you work for them, or you're doing them a disservice

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<v Speaker 1>by coming to them with the problem that they're supposed

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<v Speaker 1>to be fixing. If we have services at the project's level,

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<v Speaker 1>how many of the friends that I've had, all the

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<v Speaker 1>people that I know, would never have made it to

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<v Speaker 1>those streets. And it's like it's such a simple problem

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<v Speaker 1>to address. I'm not saying it's a simple problem to fix,

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<v Speaker 1>but it's a simple problem to address. We know how

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<v Speaker 1>to do it, and we just choose not to. And

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<v Speaker 1>it's just, you know, I'm just I'm over people and

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<v Speaker 1>they're asked me like, oh, why didn't you weigh in

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<v Speaker 1>more on this last election? You didn't do this, and

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<v Speaker 1>you didn't do that. I just ain't feeling it. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>not gonna lie, just I'm not feeling it. And I

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<v Speaker 1>understand Mice, I get it, it's dangerous. I get the

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<v Speaker 1>people that we were up against, I get I get,

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<v Speaker 1>I understand it all. But I'm still I'm struggling with

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<v Speaker 1>looking at these reality of these and trying to go

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<v Speaker 1>vote for people that the same ship continues. So anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>moving along in Texas, speaking of people who are nuts

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<v Speaker 1>in Texas, do you know that they now have a

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<v Speaker 1>DNA test that can be used to test the bodies

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<v Speaker 1>of people in mass shootings? Like yo, bro, Instead of

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<v Speaker 1>getting in since that of figuring out, they gotta a

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<v Speaker 1>DNA test that is, it can be used now to

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<v Speaker 1>find your loved ones in a mass shooting. So instead

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<v Speaker 1>of getting rid of the guns that's too well, not

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<v Speaker 1>getting rid of limiting access to the weapons that are

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<v Speaker 1>used to kill the people, they got a DNA test

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<v Speaker 1>that you can find the people after they die. So

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<v Speaker 1>they figured out a way that they're gonna profit off

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<v Speaker 1>the mass you because the only reason you would need

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<v Speaker 1>that DNA test is if a mass you wouldn't happen.

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<v Speaker 1>So that means that they are actually telling you we're

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<v Speaker 1>gonna make sure that these mass shootings keep going on. No,

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<v Speaker 1>don't say that, that's what What do you mean. They're

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<v Speaker 1>not trying to make sure they keep going on. They

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<v Speaker 1>just ain't trying to do anything about them. Yeah, that's

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<v Speaker 1>what I'm saying. We well, we even if we're not

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<v Speaker 1>gonna make sure, we're not gonna stop them from going on.

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<v Speaker 1>So we know they're gonna continue to go on. So

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<v Speaker 1>we're gonna know we're gonna need these DNA tests, so

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<v Speaker 1>we're gonna accommodate the mask killing, and we're gonna make

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<v Speaker 1>it easier for you to find your loved one. Make

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<v Speaker 1>sure it's easier for you because mass killer is gonna

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<v Speaker 1>keep happening because we ain't gonna do nothing but this gun.

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<v Speaker 1>So we're gonna make sure that when they happen, we

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<v Speaker 1>got you. We make sure you know who's your loved one.

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<v Speaker 1>Amongst the caucus. It's a shame, and it's it's it's

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<v Speaker 1>like he said, day you always say there's so many

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<v Speaker 1>things going on as crazy. It's like you could be

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<v Speaker 1>just like this all day. It's over simulation. That's why

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<v Speaker 1>you can't be being on internet. But and another thing

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<v Speaker 1>is that, um lord and mercy, the b bls, honey,

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<v Speaker 1>the b b LS, the b BL. BBL is a

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<v Speaker 1>big deal, right. And there was a time when a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of people didn't get them because they were killing people.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean really like a lot of people dying. But

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<v Speaker 1>now it's not as much in terms of casualties. They

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<v Speaker 1>get them done. But good work. It's a new problem.

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<v Speaker 1>And and and there's a woman that they've been pasted

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<v Speaker 1>circulating on. Her story has been circulating on social media

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<v Speaker 1>where it's been several weeks now, where she went to

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<v Speaker 1>go get a b b L and they took her kidneys.

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<v Speaker 1>Like yo, bro, I never even thought about that. I've

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<v Speaker 1>never even all about that. Obviously, I've never had a BBL,

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<v Speaker 1>but I have been under the knife for different reasons.

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<v Speaker 1>And I can tell you that, um I never thought

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<v Speaker 1>that about when I go to sleep, could they take

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<v Speaker 1>my organ? That's crazy? They only took one. They said

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<v Speaker 1>they took one kid. Okay, well they took one of

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<v Speaker 1>her kidney, well ship one? Oh well thanks, you know what.

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<v Speaker 1>That was nice of them. They left her with one kid.

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<v Speaker 1>But Oregon Oregan, what is it like stealing? That's not

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<v Speaker 1>the word, it's an actual term for it. But oregon harvesting,

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<v Speaker 1>oregan harvesting, illegal organ harvesting is it's massive, Like there's

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<v Speaker 1>a whole lot of money in people getting people's organs.

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<v Speaker 1>I watched a movie one time about it with this

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<v Speaker 1>woman like her husband found her heart, but and she

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<v Speaker 1>was all kind of like the whole time, She's like, bro, like,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know where you got this hard from. I've

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<v Speaker 1>been on the list now for you know, ten years

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<v Speaker 1>or whatever time, and all of a sudden, you pop

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<v Speaker 1>up with this heart. Come to find out, a woman

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<v Speaker 1>in their same community went missing, and when they finally

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<v Speaker 1>found her, her heart had been removed, and the lady

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<v Speaker 1>ended up connecting it and figured out that her husband

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<v Speaker 1>paid these people to go take the lady's heart, to

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<v Speaker 1>kill the lady and steal her heart to save his wife.

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<v Speaker 1>That it's like, it's a real thing. It's a real thing.

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<v Speaker 1>So anyway, people need to be real careful and and

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gladden it this supposedly happened in the Dominican Republic.

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<v Speaker 1>But it's good for those stories to come out because

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<v Speaker 1>it makes you think twice, like are you sure that

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<v Speaker 1>this is something that you have to do for whatever reason,

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<v Speaker 1>because these things can happen to you. It's like I said,

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<v Speaker 1>may not be dying as much, but these bad jobs

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<v Speaker 1>and these oversized asses. Who yo. I was walking and

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<v Speaker 1>the supermarket one day and the lady walked asked me,

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<v Speaker 1>and her ass was so big, her back looked like

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<v Speaker 1>it was falling down on the ground. Her ask was crazy,

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<v Speaker 1>but she had all kinds of shots. Her lips were

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<v Speaker 1>stretched it. I said, this is really it's tough out here. Man.

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<v Speaker 1>They out here that though y'all love them, that's why

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<v Speaker 1>they get done as we don't. That's not that's not

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<v Speaker 1>actual factual. And we're trying to we've been trying to

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<v Speaker 1>tell women. There's a lot of men out here saying

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<v Speaker 1>is you're going too far, you're doing too much. It's

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<v Speaker 1>not working. It doesn't look good. If you've got two

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<v Speaker 1>basketballs as an ass and your your legs look like

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<v Speaker 1>you know, number two pencils is not working. You look

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<v Speaker 1>like a man. You know. If you're out here and

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<v Speaker 1>your eyelashes from here to here is you look like

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<v Speaker 1>you know. But they're doing it because somebody likes doing it.

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<v Speaker 1>Because they're confused. There's a confused like I don't know

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<v Speaker 1>what you like they are. I mean their jobs they

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<v Speaker 1>are bbls that certain women good and they were, oh

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<v Speaker 1>sh this should look good. It's proportionate, you know, it's voluptuous.

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<v Speaker 1>It works. But there's certain ones that you don't even

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<v Speaker 1>know what they think is what's going on in their

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<v Speaker 1>minds and you gotta act you don't even I don't

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<v Speaker 1>even know the dude that is sitting there like yeah

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<v Speaker 1>that should when you show them, like this's what I'm

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<v Speaker 1>getting there, like yeah, that's get that one, like I

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<v Speaker 1>want to know to do that's sitting there that's authorizing

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<v Speaker 1>some of these works. Now, that's like make it big.

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<v Speaker 1>They like big booties. The surgeries I'm saying, some of

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<v Speaker 1>these surgeries don't even look like they paid for. They

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<v Speaker 1>look like somebody volunteered. Like they're going to the volatiers.

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<v Speaker 1>They're going to the volunteer on the job training. They're like,

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<v Speaker 1>you're listening, you know how you can do certain things,

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<v Speaker 1>and they're like, we're gonna have the needs do things,

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<v Speaker 1>so they give it to you for free. It's certain

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<v Speaker 1>things that you know, haircuts and all that you can

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<v Speaker 1>go to certain to get free haircuts because they got

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<v Speaker 1>to do the experiment on you, and you just gotta

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<v Speaker 1>take what he gets, so you can't be mad. So

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<v Speaker 1>I think a lot of these bbls is in those services.

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<v Speaker 1>Like the dude he trying to become a surgeon. He

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<v Speaker 1>never did nothing. He said, Yo, you signed over a

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<v Speaker 1>waiver if you die. You know, just understand, this is

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<v Speaker 1>fresh new people, and they're giving bbls to people something

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<v Speaker 1>in the US. Not in the US when they go

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<v Speaker 1>out of the country, that's true. But in the US

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<v Speaker 1>you gotta kind of have Simpsons. George Simpson, he just

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<v Speaker 1>came up with the streets. He was smoking weed. He's like,

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<v Speaker 1>you know what, I want to be a doctor. And

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<v Speaker 1>he's taking the online course and some of these changes

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<v Speaker 1>in volatiers to let George said Simpson, when they were

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<v Speaker 1>letting those women in their basements give them them shots.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm trying to tell you, bazy though, like wow, Like

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<v Speaker 1>I get it, I get it. We also look good.

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<v Speaker 1>We wanna, you know, look good, but you look So

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<v Speaker 1>that's what I'm saying. That's why you defeating the purpose,

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<v Speaker 1>because you actually want to look good and that's what

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<v Speaker 1>you want to do. Then this ain't it anyway, we've

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<v Speaker 1>got a guess, A good guess, so guess for the ages.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm so because I've been interviewed by her so many

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<v Speaker 1>times and admire her. She's a good friend of mine.

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<v Speaker 1>Now I get to ask some questions I'm trying to

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<v Speaker 1>give my you know, let's get into it right now.

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<v Speaker 1>That's so, here we go again, Mr Lennon, with our friends. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, this is a special friend though, for for us,

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<v Speaker 1>for me, I remember some time ago, years ago, now,

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<v Speaker 1>you were like, now gotta get connected with Angela Yeed.

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<v Speaker 1>It was a few people that you were like, no,

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<v Speaker 1>these are these are the folks that you need to

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<v Speaker 1>be talking to. And the friendship that we've developed over time,

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<v Speaker 1>all of us together has been like a Family's so

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<v Speaker 1>important to have people, your people out here, um, that

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<v Speaker 1>you can call on and and and work with. And

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<v Speaker 1>so today our friend is joining us on Street Politicians

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<v Speaker 1>and she's never been a guest, and I don't know

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<v Speaker 1>how that happened, but I'm super, super, super duper excited

0:23:10.080 --> 0:23:12.960
<v Speaker 1>to have Angela Yee, who's a co host on The

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<v Speaker 1>Breakfast Club. She's one of the co hosts and I

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<v Speaker 1>guess it's actually her show. Lip Service which I'm expecting

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<v Speaker 1>that to go super super global, because it's already something

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<v Speaker 1>that I it's my little it's my little, dirty, little

0:23:26.520 --> 0:23:30.120
<v Speaker 1>secret entertainment that I have to watch. This is a

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<v Speaker 1>social entrepreneur. The woman is in real estate, your juice bars,

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<v Speaker 1>coffee shops, all types of businesses, and and it's also

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<v Speaker 1>a mentor to even people like me who are trying

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<v Speaker 1>to learn how to get into the business of real estate.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you so much, Angela Ye, our family, our sister,

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<v Speaker 1>our friend. Thanks for being a guest on Street Politician.

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<v Speaker 1>What an amazing introduction. Thank you. I would never listen

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<v Speaker 1>me and to Mika our friends, I'm definitely not her into.

0:24:00.240 --> 0:24:02.119
<v Speaker 1>I looked at her like to see what's going on.

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<v Speaker 1>And I appreciate when you guys, both you and my

0:24:05.119 --> 0:24:09.040
<v Speaker 1>son pulled me into things and conversations that are important.

0:24:09.080 --> 0:24:12.320
<v Speaker 1>So I look to y'all for that. Yeah, well listen, man,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, I've known you for years and just admired

0:24:15.359 --> 0:24:18.280
<v Speaker 1>your growth from you know, I remember doing a lip

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<v Speaker 1>service years ago. I'm just watching before Breakfast Club, before

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<v Speaker 1>all these things, and you know, just watching you just

0:24:25.359 --> 0:24:28.800
<v Speaker 1>mature into just badass. You know what I'm saying, Just

0:24:28.880 --> 0:24:30.639
<v Speaker 1>doing all the things that you're doing. So I just

0:24:30.680 --> 0:24:33.159
<v Speaker 1>want to say that I'm proud of you and I

0:24:33.280 --> 0:24:36.000
<v Speaker 1>love what you've evolved into. So I want to say

0:24:36.040 --> 0:24:40.359
<v Speaker 1>that first, well, thank you all you guys. So you

0:24:40.440 --> 0:24:44.440
<v Speaker 1>are definitely badass. And when I say the mentorship thing,

0:24:44.520 --> 0:24:47.320
<v Speaker 1>like you were the first person that started telling me,

0:24:47.520 --> 0:24:50.159
<v Speaker 1>listen to this, like bags and shoes is cool, but

0:24:50.280 --> 0:24:54.600
<v Speaker 1>we need to buy real estate. You've gotta get investments.

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<v Speaker 1>And while I have not necessarily gotten into real estate

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<v Speaker 1>like the way that I want to, I've been investing

0:25:03.119 --> 0:25:07.399
<v Speaker 1>in things like plays um and just other important moves

0:25:07.400 --> 0:25:10.040
<v Speaker 1>that I'm trying to make. But you helped me to see,

0:25:10.080 --> 0:25:14.760
<v Speaker 1>like there is a whole financial literacy side that us

0:25:15.280 --> 0:25:18.119
<v Speaker 1>fool girls have to be focused on. It's not just

0:25:18.240 --> 0:25:20.159
<v Speaker 1>what's on us. It's like, you know what's in our

0:25:20.200 --> 0:25:24.439
<v Speaker 1>bank accounts, what we're putting into our minds, investing in ourselves,

0:25:24.520 --> 0:25:26.639
<v Speaker 1>and you really want the first people to start talking

0:25:26.640 --> 0:25:29.320
<v Speaker 1>to me about it. So that is mentorship. And it's

0:25:29.359 --> 0:25:32.440
<v Speaker 1>nothing wrong with the fact that in life, each one

0:25:32.520 --> 0:25:35.879
<v Speaker 1>of us we take moments when we bring our skill stuff.

0:25:35.880 --> 0:25:38.520
<v Speaker 1>That's what friendships are about. And I always say, we

0:25:38.680 --> 0:25:42.040
<v Speaker 1>have this statement. If you can't be used, you're useless, right, Like,

0:25:42.880 --> 0:25:46.480
<v Speaker 1>you're useless, right, Like everybody needs to be able to

0:25:46.560 --> 0:25:49.440
<v Speaker 1>use their friends, but in a positive way and give back.

0:25:49.520 --> 0:25:52.399
<v Speaker 1>And that's the problem. So many people want. I'm sure

0:25:52.440 --> 0:25:55.679
<v Speaker 1>you have people around you that want, but then they

0:25:55.720 --> 0:25:59.000
<v Speaker 1>don't want to pour back in. Yeah, and at some

0:25:59.040 --> 0:26:01.879
<v Speaker 1>point you gotta take a spectability for who you're around too,

0:26:02.200 --> 0:26:04.879
<v Speaker 1>because you know, as that whole for me one shame

0:26:04.880 --> 0:26:08.320
<v Speaker 1>on you, for me twice shame on me type of situation, right,

0:26:08.840 --> 0:26:10.760
<v Speaker 1>And I do say that too. I feel like when

0:26:10.800 --> 0:26:13.080
<v Speaker 1>it comes to friendships, I need to have people around

0:26:13.080 --> 0:26:15.320
<v Speaker 1>me who are smarter than me at other things. So

0:26:15.359 --> 0:26:17.159
<v Speaker 1>it might be things that I bring to the table,

0:26:17.680 --> 0:26:19.960
<v Speaker 1>but then there's things that somebody else brings to the table.

0:26:20.000 --> 0:26:22.080
<v Speaker 1>Then I'm like, well, I never thought about that. And

0:26:22.119 --> 0:26:24.960
<v Speaker 1>also people who aren't like, oh, you shouldn't do that,

0:26:24.960 --> 0:26:26.960
<v Speaker 1>that's not gonna work, or let's figure out how we

0:26:27.000 --> 0:26:28.720
<v Speaker 1>can make this work, or let me introduce you to

0:26:28.760 --> 0:26:31.640
<v Speaker 1>this person. And I feel like sometimes and I never

0:26:31.720 --> 0:26:34.679
<v Speaker 1>used to think this until recently, but friendships do have

0:26:34.760 --> 0:26:38.520
<v Speaker 1>to be sometimes intentional, right, where you meet somebody or

0:26:38.560 --> 0:26:40.920
<v Speaker 1>you see somebody and You're like, that looks like an

0:26:40.800 --> 0:26:43.240
<v Speaker 1>amazing person that I should know and I would like

0:26:43.280 --> 0:26:45.720
<v Speaker 1>to get to know better because I feel like and

0:26:45.960 --> 0:26:47.840
<v Speaker 1>you know, I don't know. Sometimes it's not a friendship

0:26:47.880 --> 0:26:51.080
<v Speaker 1>but more like a relationship that you feel like this

0:26:51.160 --> 0:26:53.760
<v Speaker 1>is something that could mutually benefit both of us. But

0:26:54.240 --> 0:26:56.920
<v Speaker 1>you know that is something that I feel like I've

0:26:57.000 --> 0:26:59.280
<v Speaker 1>learned later in life is important because a lot of

0:26:59.320 --> 0:27:05.119
<v Speaker 1>times we feel really an obligation to stay around the

0:27:05.160 --> 0:27:07.399
<v Speaker 1>same people that we've been around. You don't want to

0:27:07.400 --> 0:27:10.360
<v Speaker 1>feel like you changed up. You want to say, Okay,

0:27:10.440 --> 0:27:13.120
<v Speaker 1>I know this person for X y Z, even if

0:27:13.160 --> 0:27:16.400
<v Speaker 1>they're not growing away that you're growing, or even if

0:27:16.440 --> 0:27:18.880
<v Speaker 1>they're a negative part of your life and every time

0:27:18.880 --> 0:27:20.760
<v Speaker 1>you're talking to them it's like, oh, that's just dragging

0:27:20.800 --> 0:27:23.240
<v Speaker 1>me down. You still feel this obligation where you don't

0:27:23.240 --> 0:27:25.879
<v Speaker 1>want to feel like you're leaving somebody behind. But sometimes

0:27:26.240 --> 0:27:28.400
<v Speaker 1>for your own sanity, if that person is not good

0:27:28.440 --> 0:27:30.720
<v Speaker 1>for you, then you don't need to be around them.

0:27:30.720 --> 0:27:35.680
<v Speaker 1>You can be cool from a distance. Wow. So I mean,

0:27:35.760 --> 0:27:38.480
<v Speaker 1>I know so much about just being around you and

0:27:38.560 --> 0:27:40.480
<v Speaker 1>knowing about your career and just seeing it, but I

0:27:40.480 --> 0:27:43.720
<v Speaker 1>don't I don't think I've ever really heard like the beginning,

0:27:43.920 --> 0:27:46.439
<v Speaker 1>like what was where did you start? Where did you

0:27:46.560 --> 0:27:49.040
<v Speaker 1>come from? Like I want to get a little background.

0:27:49.040 --> 0:27:51.560
<v Speaker 1>I want to interview you because you're used the interviewing

0:27:51.600 --> 0:27:54.440
<v Speaker 1>everybody else asking the good questions and the top one.

0:27:54.480 --> 0:27:55.840
<v Speaker 1>So I want to know that, like where did you

0:27:55.920 --> 0:28:00.240
<v Speaker 1>stomp as a little girl? Like, give me a little background. Well,

0:28:00.280 --> 0:28:03.639
<v Speaker 1>I'm from Brooklyn. I'm from flat Bush, and so my

0:28:03.800 --> 0:28:07.159
<v Speaker 1>parents growing up, they were married from when I you know,

0:28:07.200 --> 0:28:10.919
<v Speaker 1>they got married, they had my brother. Um, my mom

0:28:11.040 --> 0:28:13.600
<v Speaker 1>was actually pregnant when they got married, and then they

0:28:13.640 --> 0:28:15.600
<v Speaker 1>had me right after. So my brothers like a year

0:28:15.680 --> 0:28:17.479
<v Speaker 1>and three months older than me, So they had us

0:28:17.720 --> 0:28:20.119
<v Speaker 1>kind of back to back. And we grew up in

0:28:20.160 --> 0:28:23.919
<v Speaker 1>flat Bush to family house. My grandparents lived downstairs. My

0:28:24.000 --> 0:28:27.800
<v Speaker 1>grandparents are from the island montrat and my mom, my brother,

0:28:27.840 --> 0:28:31.159
<v Speaker 1>and I, UM, and my dad lived upstairs. And so

0:28:31.200 --> 0:28:32.760
<v Speaker 1>I grew up like having to go to church in

0:28:32.840 --> 0:28:35.680
<v Speaker 1>Harlem every single week because my grandfather and my grandmother

0:28:35.720 --> 0:28:39.560
<v Speaker 1>were super religious. Um, they moved back to the West Indies,

0:28:39.720 --> 0:28:41.800
<v Speaker 1>left the house from my mom and my dad and

0:28:41.880 --> 0:28:44.600
<v Speaker 1>me and my brother, so we ended up staying there

0:28:44.880 --> 0:28:48.280
<v Speaker 1>and the reason why we moved out of Brooklyn to

0:28:48.560 --> 0:28:51.600
<v Speaker 1>New Jersey to Southarns when I was fifteen years old

0:28:51.720 --> 0:28:54.240
<v Speaker 1>was because somebody tried to rob my dad at gunpoint

0:28:54.320 --> 0:28:57.400
<v Speaker 1>while he was walking a dog, and so he was like,

0:28:57.400 --> 0:28:59.520
<v Speaker 1>we gotta get out of here, and so we ended

0:28:59.600 --> 0:29:02.200
<v Speaker 1>up moving to New Jersey and I was like so depressed.

0:29:03.040 --> 0:29:05.840
<v Speaker 1>But um, that's you know. I grew up going to

0:29:05.880 --> 0:29:09.080
<v Speaker 1>public school from kindergarten to sixth grade PS. Two thirty

0:29:09.080 --> 0:29:12.320
<v Speaker 1>five in Broklyn, Learning is Alive. And then I ended

0:29:12.400 --> 0:29:14.720
<v Speaker 1>up going to private school. I went to Polly Prep

0:29:14.880 --> 0:29:17.440
<v Speaker 1>because my mom went to Erasmus and she really didn't

0:29:17.440 --> 0:29:20.040
<v Speaker 1>want me going to Erasmus. So they put me in

0:29:20.040 --> 0:29:24.680
<v Speaker 1>this program for underprivileged kids that were really smart and

0:29:24.720 --> 0:29:26.400
<v Speaker 1>we had to take like all these tests to get

0:29:26.440 --> 0:29:30.200
<v Speaker 1>in and then they sent me to private school. M hm,

0:29:30.720 --> 0:29:33.160
<v Speaker 1>to private school. Yeah, so you you I went to

0:29:33.200 --> 0:29:36.320
<v Speaker 1>private school as well. Do you and so you lived

0:29:36.360 --> 0:29:38.320
<v Speaker 1>in the community or do you feel like you lived

0:29:38.320 --> 0:29:40.120
<v Speaker 1>so like on the outskirl or did you live like

0:29:40.200 --> 0:29:44.360
<v Speaker 1>in the urban areas where the ship was going down?

0:29:44.760 --> 0:29:47.200
<v Speaker 1>Oh it was going down. I mean I lived in Flappwershs,

0:29:47.280 --> 0:29:49.760
<v Speaker 1>like two blocks him serious to anybody who knows that

0:29:49.840 --> 0:29:53.960
<v Speaker 1>neighborhood in Brooklyn Um, it was definitely going. It was

0:29:54.040 --> 0:29:58.080
<v Speaker 1>like block parties on the block every year, so much fun.

0:29:58.160 --> 0:30:01.000
<v Speaker 1>But you know, gunshots at night, you to hear them.

0:30:01.040 --> 0:30:04.080
<v Speaker 1>You know, fireworks random times all the time. But I

0:30:04.120 --> 0:30:06.200
<v Speaker 1>grew up there, so you don't think of things as

0:30:06.320 --> 0:30:08.320
<v Speaker 1>like this is not a good neighborhood or a good

0:30:08.320 --> 0:30:10.920
<v Speaker 1>place to be. This is all you know, and so

0:30:11.320 --> 0:30:13.160
<v Speaker 1>when I was growing up, it really was all I knew.

0:30:13.200 --> 0:30:14.640
<v Speaker 1>And then people would be there, you that where you

0:30:14.680 --> 0:30:17.040
<v Speaker 1>grew up, where they couldn't believe it, but it was

0:30:18.160 --> 0:30:20.640
<v Speaker 1>I had the same experience because it was like, you know,

0:30:20.760 --> 0:30:24.200
<v Speaker 1>going to Catholic school and doing all of these things

0:30:24.240 --> 0:30:26.760
<v Speaker 1>outside of the community. When I would come back, do

0:30:26.840 --> 0:30:29.960
<v Speaker 1>you feel like people did you get picked on or

0:30:30.080 --> 0:30:32.760
<v Speaker 1>did you feel awkward because you were getting these to

0:30:32.920 --> 0:30:37.680
<v Speaker 1>this sort of dual experience. I would say that growing up,

0:30:37.720 --> 0:30:40.880
<v Speaker 1>I was perfectly finding my neighbor It wasn't until I

0:30:40.960 --> 0:30:43.800
<v Speaker 1>left to go to private school that I felt awkward.

0:30:44.000 --> 0:30:46.640
<v Speaker 1>When I was in seventh grade and I went from

0:30:46.680 --> 0:30:49.360
<v Speaker 1>an experience of being in a community with all black

0:30:49.400 --> 0:30:52.360
<v Speaker 1>people a lot of Caribbean culture. There you know Haitian

0:30:52.920 --> 0:30:57.000
<v Speaker 1>Guyanese trainage and making all of that around us. And

0:30:57.040 --> 0:31:00.880
<v Speaker 1>then I moved. Well, no, then I would to private school,

0:31:01.080 --> 0:31:03.400
<v Speaker 1>and I had never I really did not. I knew

0:31:03.440 --> 0:31:07.640
<v Speaker 1>two white people before that, besides my teachers. They were

0:31:07.640 --> 0:31:09.840
<v Speaker 1>twins and their mom was a teacher at the school.

0:31:10.480 --> 0:31:12.960
<v Speaker 1>And other than that, I did not know any white

0:31:13.040 --> 0:31:15.360
<v Speaker 1>kids until I went to private school. And these were

0:31:15.400 --> 0:31:19.520
<v Speaker 1>not just like regularly. These were kind of rich and

0:31:19.680 --> 0:31:23.120
<v Speaker 1>they rich and you have to think that neighborhood is like,

0:31:23.400 --> 0:31:25.880
<v Speaker 1>you know, there's a lot of Italian people. It was

0:31:25.920 --> 0:31:28.760
<v Speaker 1>all like Italian Jewish. There was some Greek students and

0:31:28.760 --> 0:31:31.760
<v Speaker 1>and so it was definitely a culture shock for me.

0:31:31.840 --> 0:31:34.239
<v Speaker 1>And they weren't used to us either. So there's a

0:31:34.240 --> 0:31:38.960
<v Speaker 1>handful of black kids. It's a small school, and it

0:31:39.080 --> 0:31:41.360
<v Speaker 1>was just it was a weird experience for me. I

0:31:41.440 --> 0:31:43.800
<v Speaker 1>actually only went there. I went there from seventh grade

0:31:43.800 --> 0:31:45.760
<v Speaker 1>to ninth grade, and I was like, I can't do

0:31:45.800 --> 0:31:49.600
<v Speaker 1>this anymore. It was really bad. And I as a

0:31:49.640 --> 0:31:51.680
<v Speaker 1>question real quick one you said, if you had a baby,

0:31:51.680 --> 0:31:53.840
<v Speaker 1>would you do the same thing that your parents did

0:31:53.840 --> 0:31:57.880
<v Speaker 1>with you in terms of education. I would want my

0:31:58.000 --> 0:32:01.440
<v Speaker 1>kids to go to a school that's more diverse, you know.

0:32:01.680 --> 0:32:04.680
<v Speaker 1>I feel like it had its benefits as far as

0:32:04.720 --> 0:32:08.280
<v Speaker 1>smaller classes and then sports. Polly Prep had a great

0:32:08.320 --> 0:32:11.320
<v Speaker 1>sports program. I mean we had tennis courts, we had

0:32:11.480 --> 0:32:14.840
<v Speaker 1>you know, squash courts, we had soccer field. I played

0:32:14.840 --> 0:32:17.480
<v Speaker 1>field hockey, I ran track, I played basketball. I did

0:32:17.480 --> 0:32:19.959
<v Speaker 1>the long jump, the triple jump, the high jump, and

0:32:20.000 --> 0:32:22.440
<v Speaker 1>so all of that physical activity was great because I

0:32:22.480 --> 0:32:25.120
<v Speaker 1>don't feel like I was encouraged to do that when

0:32:25.120 --> 0:32:28.120
<v Speaker 1>I was in public school, but I feel like they were.

0:32:28.120 --> 0:32:30.600
<v Speaker 1>So we had to play a sport. It was no choice,

0:32:30.840 --> 0:32:34.360
<v Speaker 1>you had to. And so I got really into sports

0:32:34.400 --> 0:32:36.800
<v Speaker 1>and I enjoyed and I appreciated that. I appreciated the

0:32:36.840 --> 0:32:40.160
<v Speaker 1>smaller classes and the electives and the attention that the

0:32:40.200 --> 0:32:43.520
<v Speaker 1>teachers gave you, because I feel like in public school

0:32:43.560 --> 0:32:46.080
<v Speaker 1>I had most of the teachers that I had were

0:32:46.120 --> 0:32:49.120
<v Speaker 1>not amazing. I had a few that stood out, but

0:32:50.080 --> 0:32:52.480
<v Speaker 1>I had teachers who told me I wasn't gonna be shipped,

0:32:52.760 --> 0:32:55.000
<v Speaker 1>you know, when I was and that didn't really happen

0:32:55.040 --> 0:32:57.600
<v Speaker 1>in private school. I had one teacher that was like,

0:32:57.680 --> 0:33:00.280
<v Speaker 1>you think when I was in the program, she was like,

0:33:00.320 --> 0:33:02.480
<v Speaker 1>you think you're so special because you're in this program,

0:33:02.520 --> 0:33:05.840
<v Speaker 1>You're not gonna be anything. And I really feel like

0:33:06.800 --> 0:33:10.520
<v Speaker 1>it has to be a balance though, because culturally it

0:33:10.560 --> 0:33:12.720
<v Speaker 1>was tough. I think about some of the black kids

0:33:12.720 --> 0:33:15.640
<v Speaker 1>that went to my high school that never went to

0:33:15.720 --> 0:33:18.680
<v Speaker 1>public school or we're not around a lot of kids

0:33:18.720 --> 0:33:22.240
<v Speaker 1>that look like them, and just how sheltered that life

0:33:22.320 --> 0:33:24.320
<v Speaker 1>was and how different it can be. And so I

0:33:24.360 --> 0:33:27.960
<v Speaker 1>do think it's important. I always say, a lot of

0:33:27.960 --> 0:33:31.760
<v Speaker 1>people will be like super pro black, but then they

0:33:31.800 --> 0:33:33.760
<v Speaker 1>send their kids to school where the kids are the

0:33:33.800 --> 0:33:36.440
<v Speaker 1>only black kids in the whole school, And I don't

0:33:36.440 --> 0:33:38.360
<v Speaker 1>know who you think your kids are gonna wind up

0:33:38.440 --> 0:33:41.560
<v Speaker 1>being with later in life if they're never exposed, you know,

0:33:41.600 --> 0:33:43.200
<v Speaker 1>to anything else. So there's just got to be some

0:33:43.280 --> 0:33:46.200
<v Speaker 1>type of balance. I think that you can find schools

0:33:46.200 --> 0:33:48.040
<v Speaker 1>that are more diverse and it doesn't have to be

0:33:48.120 --> 0:33:50.120
<v Speaker 1>like because we were in the middle of Bay Ridge

0:33:50.200 --> 0:33:52.479
<v Speaker 1>and it was a lot of racist things. I mean

0:33:52.560 --> 0:33:54.640
<v Speaker 1>a lot of it came out in the news, but

0:33:54.720 --> 0:33:57.000
<v Speaker 1>a lot of racist things happened, and it was a

0:33:57.000 --> 0:33:59.760
<v Speaker 1>tough environment to be in. I think I was fortunate

0:33:59.800 --> 0:34:01.560
<v Speaker 1>that I had the background that I had, where I

0:34:01.640 --> 0:34:04.080
<v Speaker 1>knew who I was and how I grew up and

0:34:04.120 --> 0:34:05.920
<v Speaker 1>I had my own friends outside of that. But if

0:34:05.960 --> 0:34:08.120
<v Speaker 1>I would have just grew up in that bubble. I

0:34:08.160 --> 0:34:10.439
<v Speaker 1>remember one of the white girls at school telling me,

0:34:11.280 --> 0:34:13.160
<v Speaker 1>you know, she said something racist in the locker room,

0:34:13.160 --> 0:34:14.920
<v Speaker 1>and I was like, well, you know, I'm black, and

0:34:15.040 --> 0:34:17.960
<v Speaker 1>she was like, well, yeah, but you're not like them.

0:34:17.960 --> 0:34:20.080
<v Speaker 1>And I just after that, I was like, I gotta

0:34:20.120 --> 0:34:23.760
<v Speaker 1>get out of here. There must have been an experienced.

0:34:23.760 --> 0:34:25.640
<v Speaker 1>So you went, you left that school, and then you

0:34:25.680 --> 0:34:29.240
<v Speaker 1>went towards school. So then I went to public school.

0:34:29.480 --> 0:34:31.640
<v Speaker 1>I went back to public school in Jersey. I went

0:34:31.680 --> 0:34:37.160
<v Speaker 1>to Columbia High School in Maplewood, and I was Jennifer Williams. Yes,

0:34:38.840 --> 0:34:44.080
<v Speaker 1>you know, so I moved there in tenth grade and

0:34:44.120 --> 0:34:46.040
<v Speaker 1>so yeah, we have a mutual friend Jennifer. You don't

0:34:46.040 --> 0:34:49.000
<v Speaker 1>know her from basketball wives. So when I moved to

0:34:49.080 --> 0:34:51.480
<v Speaker 1>New Jersey, and it was I'm gonna tell you, when

0:34:51.520 --> 0:34:53.800
<v Speaker 1>I moved there, I did not know now one person.

0:34:54.480 --> 0:34:57.359
<v Speaker 1>And so I remember the Davy moved. I walked around

0:34:57.400 --> 0:34:58.759
<v Speaker 1>the neighborhood and I was in the park. I just

0:34:58.800 --> 0:35:02.160
<v Speaker 1>started crying. I was so sad and depressed, like where

0:35:02.200 --> 0:35:04.360
<v Speaker 1>am I didn't have any idea how far it was.

0:35:04.800 --> 0:35:07.440
<v Speaker 1>I really had never other than going to visit my

0:35:07.440 --> 0:35:10.560
<v Speaker 1>grandparents in the West indiast, I had never really left Brooklyn,

0:35:11.320 --> 0:35:13.399
<v Speaker 1>you know, so I didn't know. I don't even think

0:35:13.400 --> 0:35:16.759
<v Speaker 1>I knew anything about New Jersey. I didn't comprehend like

0:35:16.880 --> 0:35:18.640
<v Speaker 1>I could get on the train and go right back

0:35:19.120 --> 0:35:21.719
<v Speaker 1>to Brooklyn. I just thought I was cut off from

0:35:21.760 --> 0:35:25.000
<v Speaker 1>everything and everybody. And so the first day of school,

0:35:25.200 --> 0:35:27.799
<v Speaker 1>I didn't know the teachers were on strike, and so

0:35:27.840 --> 0:35:30.840
<v Speaker 1>I get to the school, all the teachers are outside picketing,

0:35:31.280 --> 0:35:33.560
<v Speaker 1>so I can't even like register for classes. So they

0:35:33.600 --> 0:35:38.200
<v Speaker 1>had us all sitting in the auditorium watching roots all day.

0:35:38.600 --> 0:35:42.200
<v Speaker 1>That was my first day in school. Yeah, nothing got done.

0:35:42.280 --> 0:35:43.839
<v Speaker 1>And then they just put me in a random home

0:35:43.880 --> 0:35:45.560
<v Speaker 1>room and we just sat in home room all day.

0:35:45.760 --> 0:35:48.160
<v Speaker 1>And that was the beginning of my school year. And

0:35:48.200 --> 0:35:50.960
<v Speaker 1>then that's how I met all Like I really kind

0:35:50.960 --> 0:35:52.680
<v Speaker 1>of met all of my friends who I'm still friends

0:35:52.719 --> 0:35:54.479
<v Speaker 1>and to this day kind of been that first week

0:35:54.520 --> 0:35:59.160
<v Speaker 1>of you know, non school. Jennifer was one of them. Wow,

0:36:00.080 --> 0:36:03.520
<v Speaker 1>that's what made you? How did you get to do

0:36:03.600 --> 0:36:05.160
<v Speaker 1>what you do and say I want to be a host,

0:36:05.200 --> 0:36:08.080
<v Speaker 1>I want to do radio, Like, what inspired you to

0:36:08.120 --> 0:36:14.520
<v Speaker 1>do that? Well, I actually never thought I would be

0:36:14.560 --> 0:36:16.800
<v Speaker 1>doing this. I was always more of a background type

0:36:16.800 --> 0:36:20.000
<v Speaker 1>of person. So I wanted to be a writer. I

0:36:20.080 --> 0:36:23.239
<v Speaker 1>wanted to I was doing marketing at the time, so

0:36:23.320 --> 0:36:27.200
<v Speaker 1>I was doing freelance marketing for different companies, and then

0:36:27.239 --> 0:36:30.160
<v Speaker 1>I started working for Eminem's clothing line and I was

0:36:30.239 --> 0:36:34.360
<v Speaker 1>doing marketing for that and then I saw that, Um

0:36:34.400 --> 0:36:36.040
<v Speaker 1>one day, I was just like, let me look at

0:36:36.080 --> 0:36:38.840
<v Speaker 1>this jobs listing because I had to figure out what

0:36:38.880 --> 0:36:40.960
<v Speaker 1>I needed to do. I had to get like a

0:36:41.080 --> 0:36:44.400
<v Speaker 1>stable situation to make money to pay my bills, and

0:36:44.440 --> 0:36:46.000
<v Speaker 1>so I was like, let me figure out what I

0:36:46.040 --> 0:36:47.879
<v Speaker 1>want to do. So I look at all these job

0:36:47.920 --> 0:36:50.520
<v Speaker 1>listings and I see Serious has a job opening in

0:36:50.520 --> 0:36:54.120
<v Speaker 1>the marketing department, and so I called Paul Rosenberg as

0:36:54.160 --> 0:36:57.200
<v Speaker 1>manager and I'm like, hey, I really want to, um,

0:36:57.239 --> 0:36:59.239
<v Speaker 1>you know, try to get an interview. Can you just

0:36:59.320 --> 0:37:01.000
<v Speaker 1>link me up with the interview? And he was like,

0:37:01.360 --> 0:37:03.879
<v Speaker 1>have you ever thought about being a radio personality. They're

0:37:03.880 --> 0:37:06.279
<v Speaker 1>looking for a co host on Cide the Sounds morning show,

0:37:06.920 --> 0:37:09.520
<v Speaker 1>and he was like, you can audition for that if

0:37:09.560 --> 0:37:13.880
<v Speaker 1>you're interested. And that's really how it happened. So you

0:37:13.920 --> 0:37:17.799
<v Speaker 1>were going for a marketing job and then oh, I

0:37:17.840 --> 0:37:20.320
<v Speaker 1>thought you were like very intentional about being a host.

0:37:20.920 --> 0:37:24.480
<v Speaker 1>So that was it just happened. And I, when I

0:37:24.520 --> 0:37:27.040
<v Speaker 1>tell you, I knew not a thing. I walked in

0:37:27.120 --> 0:37:30.279
<v Speaker 1>there first. Cype for Sounds had no idea what was

0:37:30.320 --> 0:37:32.120
<v Speaker 1>going on. He was kind of blindsided to when I

0:37:32.160 --> 0:37:34.080
<v Speaker 1>just showed up, like he was like, who is what?

0:37:34.560 --> 0:37:36.960
<v Speaker 1>He knew me? You know, because I actually had a

0:37:36.960 --> 0:37:39.719
<v Speaker 1>lot of great relationships. I had worked for Woutang, Like

0:37:39.760 --> 0:37:42.200
<v Speaker 1>I said, I had been working for Eminem. I was

0:37:42.280 --> 0:37:46.000
<v Speaker 1>doing marketing for different brands like UM, the marketing company

0:37:46.040 --> 0:37:49.040
<v Speaker 1>I was at. They did marketing for aver Rex, for Sprint,

0:37:49.680 --> 0:37:54.000
<v Speaker 1>UM Wireless, for the New York Liberty, for Heineken. So

0:37:54.120 --> 0:37:56.680
<v Speaker 1>I was familiar with so many people in the industry.

0:37:56.680 --> 0:37:58.600
<v Speaker 1>And I was also like a party kid growing up.

0:37:58.640 --> 0:38:00.840
<v Speaker 1>So I was always at the tunnel. I was always

0:38:00.880 --> 0:38:03.680
<v Speaker 1>at the palladium, I was at grants, tomb, I was

0:38:03.760 --> 0:38:07.960
<v Speaker 1>at all of the events in this so listen, I

0:38:08.080 --> 0:38:12.719
<v Speaker 1>was no Now, I was super outside. I was like

0:38:12.800 --> 0:38:15.120
<v Speaker 1>I had an itinerary, you know what I'm saying, Like

0:38:15.600 --> 0:38:18.840
<v Speaker 1>the night here, Ursday night here, Friday night here, Saturday

0:38:18.880 --> 0:38:21.840
<v Speaker 1>and I was outside and they all knew me in

0:38:21.880 --> 0:38:23.600
<v Speaker 1>the clubs, like I didn't have to wait on any lines,

0:38:23.640 --> 0:38:25.680
<v Speaker 1>and I was young. It wasn't like I had any

0:38:25.719 --> 0:38:28.920
<v Speaker 1>real whatever. But you know, jess A c Rosse and

0:38:28.960 --> 0:38:32.240
<v Speaker 1>Bloom knew me, and so anything she did, she was like, Angela,

0:38:32.640 --> 0:38:36.080
<v Speaker 1>come to this. We're having something for you know, biggie thing.

0:38:36.200 --> 0:38:38.920
<v Speaker 1>His mom is putting together the foundation, like come, and

0:38:38.960 --> 0:38:42.080
<v Speaker 1>so they would just invite me to everything. And already

0:38:42.800 --> 0:38:45.000
<v Speaker 1>you was tapped into the culture. So it's not like

0:38:45.080 --> 0:38:48.960
<v Speaker 1>it was this new phase, but radio was different. Tell

0:38:49.040 --> 0:38:51.320
<v Speaker 1>me something though, when you say you were doing marketing,

0:38:51.400 --> 0:38:55.520
<v Speaker 1>what did marketing look like at that time? And you know,

0:38:55.640 --> 0:38:58.399
<v Speaker 1>you go around, Yeah, you're laughing because you know, like

0:38:58.880 --> 0:39:01.799
<v Speaker 1>what did it look like? What were you doing? Well,

0:39:01.840 --> 0:39:04.239
<v Speaker 1>depending on what the client was. So let's just say

0:39:04.320 --> 0:39:06.760
<v Speaker 1>I did marketing for a couple of clothing rot lines,

0:39:07.120 --> 0:39:11.440
<v Speaker 1>Varsity and Shot Brothers, and then also um Shady Limited.

0:39:11.560 --> 0:39:14.520
<v Speaker 1>Eminem's line was one of my clients, and so basically

0:39:14.520 --> 0:39:17.000
<v Speaker 1>that consisted of a lot of product placement because everybody

0:39:17.040 --> 0:39:19.920
<v Speaker 1>wanted to get their stuff like in magazine shoots and

0:39:20.040 --> 0:39:22.480
<v Speaker 1>videos just to get people wearing it. If you were

0:39:22.480 --> 0:39:25.080
<v Speaker 1>going on tour, I might send you a package, try

0:39:25.120 --> 0:39:27.760
<v Speaker 1>to get you to you know, get photographed in the clothing.

0:39:28.200 --> 0:39:29.759
<v Speaker 1>And so that was a huge part of it, was

0:39:29.840 --> 0:39:32.040
<v Speaker 1>the product placement. But then it would be like ads,

0:39:32.480 --> 0:39:34.200
<v Speaker 1>you know, and how are we gonna get write ups

0:39:34.239 --> 0:39:36.760
<v Speaker 1>about this? So it was it just kind of involved everything.

0:39:37.280 --> 0:39:39.759
<v Speaker 1>And then now Rogers he had a distribution label, so

0:39:39.800 --> 0:39:42.399
<v Speaker 1>I was doing marketing for there. He had this one

0:39:42.480 --> 0:39:44.480
<v Speaker 1>hip hop group that he wanted me to help him with,

0:39:44.880 --> 0:39:47.200
<v Speaker 1>and so that was a matter of getting them, like

0:39:47.239 --> 0:39:49.480
<v Speaker 1>they wanted me to get them into events, get them none,

0:39:49.600 --> 0:39:52.920
<v Speaker 1>get them some link ups with some journalists. So it

0:39:53.000 --> 0:39:55.960
<v Speaker 1>was things like that, and so I think nowadays it's

0:39:56.000 --> 0:39:59.279
<v Speaker 1>completely different. It's very different. It's very that was the

0:39:59.360 --> 0:40:03.879
<v Speaker 1>real mark didn't work you were doing, Yes, you had

0:40:03.920 --> 0:40:06.759
<v Speaker 1>to have relationships, dream just have to be on the

0:40:06.760 --> 0:40:09.600
<v Speaker 1>internet and just send some music that was already gone.

0:40:09.680 --> 0:40:13.319
<v Speaker 1>You had to really create it. So you went from

0:40:13.440 --> 0:40:15.680
<v Speaker 1>you started working with Cyper Sounds and then when did

0:40:15.760 --> 0:40:17.960
<v Speaker 1>you start doing little service? How did that come up?

0:40:18.760 --> 0:40:22.520
<v Speaker 1>So I used to have this segment on on Cypher

0:40:22.600 --> 0:40:25.480
<v Speaker 1>Sounds show. It was every Wednesday. So what I would

0:40:25.520 --> 0:40:27.360
<v Speaker 1>do is I would record it once a month and

0:40:27.360 --> 0:40:29.080
<v Speaker 1>it would be like a group of girls, you know.

0:40:29.120 --> 0:40:31.520
<v Speaker 1>One of them was a receptionist, one of them was

0:40:31.560 --> 0:40:33.880
<v Speaker 1>a lawyer, and I would just get like different girls.

0:40:33.920 --> 0:40:36.279
<v Speaker 1>We had Buffy the Body on there, we had had

0:40:36.320 --> 0:40:39.280
<v Speaker 1>the Hunter, and we would just kind of talk about sex.

0:40:39.320 --> 0:40:41.359
<v Speaker 1>And it was called let It Out. It was a

0:40:41.360 --> 0:40:45.080
<v Speaker 1>segment once a week. But I had a reason, you know,

0:40:45.239 --> 0:40:48.239
<v Speaker 1>for that name, like you know, have some like It

0:40:48.320 --> 0:40:51.600
<v Speaker 1>was kind of like the thought was that a lot

0:40:51.600 --> 0:40:55.000
<v Speaker 1>of times guys think that women are supposed to act

0:40:55.040 --> 0:40:57.680
<v Speaker 1>a certain way and not talk about things, but the

0:40:57.719 --> 0:40:59.799
<v Speaker 1>way we are behind closed doors with each other and

0:40:59.840 --> 0:41:02.759
<v Speaker 1>the conversations that we have are really just open, and

0:41:02.800 --> 0:41:05.880
<v Speaker 1>we're so vocal about things. I think women talk about

0:41:05.960 --> 0:41:09.600
<v Speaker 1>their experiences in a different way than men speak to

0:41:09.640 --> 0:41:12.560
<v Speaker 1>each other. Y'all might not even talk about it like that,

0:41:12.640 --> 0:41:15.160
<v Speaker 1>but I think for women, like when you're with a

0:41:15.200 --> 0:41:18.680
<v Speaker 1>guy and whatever happens, you'll call your friends to be like, girl,

0:41:18.760 --> 0:41:20.600
<v Speaker 1>so let me tell you what he did and I

0:41:20.600 --> 0:41:22.480
<v Speaker 1>don't like that he did this, and then he did that.

0:41:22.520 --> 0:41:24.600
<v Speaker 1>But so it was kind of the goal of the

0:41:24.640 --> 0:41:27.400
<v Speaker 1>show was for us to have these open conversations about

0:41:27.400 --> 0:41:31.600
<v Speaker 1>sex and sexuality no judgment, and I called it let

0:41:31.600 --> 0:41:33.120
<v Speaker 1>it Out because I was like, these guys don't know

0:41:33.120 --> 0:41:35.040
<v Speaker 1>they're getting slut it out. So that was kind of

0:41:35.080 --> 0:41:38.480
<v Speaker 1>the purpose of it. No offense, my son, but you know,

0:41:38.520 --> 0:41:44.080
<v Speaker 1>I'm kidding. But the segment got so popular that um

0:41:44.120 --> 0:41:47.320
<v Speaker 1>you know, Sorious came to me and they were like, listen, Angela,

0:41:47.440 --> 0:41:49.680
<v Speaker 1>we think you should make this like a standalone show.

0:41:49.719 --> 0:41:51.239
<v Speaker 1>We want to give you a weekly show. And that's

0:41:51.239 --> 0:41:53.240
<v Speaker 1>how it had happened, and we named the Lip Service

0:41:53.680 --> 0:41:56.080
<v Speaker 1>and my first co host was um Lea Rose. She

0:41:56.239 --> 0:41:58.800
<v Speaker 1>was the music editor at Double X out and so

0:41:59.000 --> 0:42:01.319
<v Speaker 1>she was great at helping book guests and she was

0:42:01.360 --> 0:42:04.239
<v Speaker 1>really smart and she had great questions and people had

0:42:04.280 --> 0:42:08.080
<v Speaker 1>good relationships with her already. Well, so what year was that.

0:42:08.120 --> 0:42:11.799
<v Speaker 1>What year did the start? I don't even know. Let

0:42:11.800 --> 0:42:16.520
<v Speaker 1>me see, I worked at Serious for six years and

0:42:16.680 --> 0:42:21.920
<v Speaker 1>so uh it was company like around two thousand six

0:42:22.040 --> 0:42:26.120
<v Speaker 1>or seven. That's yeah, I remember, because I think I

0:42:26.200 --> 0:42:28.680
<v Speaker 1>came up there like two thousand and eight, two thousand

0:42:28.800 --> 0:42:31.560
<v Speaker 1>nine were Lad That was like the first song that

0:42:31.600 --> 0:42:34.759
<v Speaker 1>I went there. So I feel like I put I

0:42:34.760 --> 0:42:38.359
<v Speaker 1>did last first interview on the radio ever. Remember where

0:42:38.440 --> 0:42:43.000
<v Speaker 1>Yeah it was you did the first interview. So then

0:42:43.360 --> 0:42:45.759
<v Speaker 1>so now we're going were at the breakfast club? Did

0:42:45.760 --> 0:42:50.640
<v Speaker 1>we get there yet? Okay, so what happened before the

0:42:50.719 --> 0:42:55.640
<v Speaker 1>breakfast club? So I think serious was really good for me,

0:42:55.760 --> 0:42:59.759
<v Speaker 1>just as far as establishing myself. Um, Like my son

0:42:59.800 --> 0:43:01.600
<v Speaker 1>said that I met him, he was you know, he

0:43:01.680 --> 0:43:04.279
<v Speaker 1>was working with Black probably met you before that, but

0:43:04.400 --> 0:43:06.560
<v Speaker 1>I did last first interviewer, and I was the type

0:43:06.600 --> 0:43:09.480
<v Speaker 1>of person like something would happen because that was around

0:43:09.480 --> 0:43:11.759
<v Speaker 1>the time he had the beef with Rick Ross, you know,

0:43:11.920 --> 0:43:14.839
<v Speaker 1>and then he had some issues, and I think I

0:43:14.920 --> 0:43:17.680
<v Speaker 1>was just so like doing whatever at that time. I

0:43:17.680 --> 0:43:19.359
<v Speaker 1>would do stuff like glad here. I'd be like, well,

0:43:19.400 --> 0:43:22.279
<v Speaker 1>we got Joe Button on the phone, and it would

0:43:22.320 --> 0:43:26.359
<v Speaker 1>be and he would be like what totally caught up

0:43:26.400 --> 0:43:33.000
<v Speaker 1>like the time. Yeah. So I was very uncensored back then,

0:43:33.080 --> 0:43:35.319
<v Speaker 1>but it got a lot of attention. And one thing

0:43:35.360 --> 0:43:38.200
<v Speaker 1>I also did do early on, I was really um

0:43:38.360 --> 0:43:40.880
<v Speaker 1>cool with Q from world Star, who owned world Star.

0:43:40.880 --> 0:43:43.480
<v Speaker 1>Rest in peace to Q, and so I had he

0:43:43.520 --> 0:43:45.560
<v Speaker 1>would put a lot of my videos on World Star,

0:43:46.000 --> 0:43:48.720
<v Speaker 1>so I would I had um. One of the guys

0:43:48.719 --> 0:43:51.279
<v Speaker 1>that worked with us, Sean, he would film. I bought

0:43:51.280 --> 0:43:54.799
<v Speaker 1>my own camcorder and so he would film when we

0:43:54.840 --> 0:43:57.200
<v Speaker 1>did interviews. That Serious was so mad about it. They

0:43:57.239 --> 0:44:00.120
<v Speaker 1>send out like a company wide email like knowing us

0:44:00.160 --> 0:44:02.840
<v Speaker 1>to put out any content or whatever. They shut it

0:44:02.880 --> 0:44:04.800
<v Speaker 1>down because they didn't like that I was giving away

0:44:04.880 --> 0:44:07.799
<v Speaker 1>content for free. I looked at it like, these are

0:44:07.840 --> 0:44:10.040
<v Speaker 1>just little parts of the show that will make people

0:44:10.080 --> 0:44:12.799
<v Speaker 1>want to subscribe to me. It was like, in my

0:44:12.880 --> 0:44:16.040
<v Speaker 1>marketing bag, I'm thinking, this is great marketing for the show.

0:44:16.160 --> 0:44:18.600
<v Speaker 1>This is just you know, thirty minutes out of a

0:44:18.640 --> 0:44:21.120
<v Speaker 1>four hour show. You should want this to go out.

0:44:21.160 --> 0:44:23.799
<v Speaker 1>And it was getting picked up everywhere, you know, And

0:44:23.880 --> 0:44:25.960
<v Speaker 1>so that's what really got me a lot of attention.

0:44:28.640 --> 0:44:31.520
<v Speaker 1>So okay, so that doctor known, So how what's the

0:44:31.680 --> 0:44:34.400
<v Speaker 1>what is the process of getting to a big show

0:44:34.480 --> 0:44:37.399
<v Speaker 1>like the Breakfast Club? Like, how does that work when

0:44:37.440 --> 0:44:40.239
<v Speaker 1>you interview? You know, did you know that the show

0:44:40.400 --> 0:44:43.000
<v Speaker 1>was coming or did they build the show around y'all?

0:44:43.040 --> 0:44:47.440
<v Speaker 1>How did they start? So what happened was, um, I

0:44:47.480 --> 0:44:50.759
<v Speaker 1>was getting a lot of other authors like Philly Atlanta.

0:44:50.960 --> 0:44:54.320
<v Speaker 1>People wanted me. And after after everything that was happening

0:44:54.400 --> 0:44:57.800
<v Speaker 1>as Serious, I got a lot of attention from other places,

0:44:57.840 --> 0:44:59.960
<v Speaker 1>and one person who hit me up was Jee Spen

0:45:00.080 --> 0:45:02.359
<v Speaker 1>at the time worked at Power one oh five now

0:45:02.400 --> 0:45:04.320
<v Speaker 1>at the time, he tried to get me to come

0:45:04.960 --> 0:45:08.479
<v Speaker 1>to Power just to do like weekends and to fill

0:45:08.520 --> 0:45:11.000
<v Speaker 1>in for people, like if somebody was out, you know,

0:45:11.040 --> 0:45:13.960
<v Speaker 1>you could fill in, and Serious shut me down. And

0:45:14.000 --> 0:45:16.640
<v Speaker 1>I was so mad. I was like, everyone else is

0:45:16.719 --> 0:45:19.360
<v Speaker 1>working at other stations while you know, they were like,

0:45:19.400 --> 0:45:22.359
<v Speaker 1>oh well they got grandfathered in and you can't do it.

0:45:22.400 --> 0:45:24.520
<v Speaker 1>And I thought it was so unfair. So I told

0:45:24.560 --> 0:45:26.840
<v Speaker 1>g Spin, Look, if there's an opportunity for me to

0:45:26.880 --> 0:45:29.640
<v Speaker 1>get a full time job, don't think that I feel

0:45:29.640 --> 0:45:31.960
<v Speaker 1>like I have to stay as serious, Like I'm willing

0:45:32.000 --> 0:45:35.680
<v Speaker 1>to leave and do something else. And so, you know,

0:45:35.760 --> 0:45:38.360
<v Speaker 1>there was an opportunity, and they didn't tell us what

0:45:38.440 --> 0:45:40.360
<v Speaker 1>it was. At first, they knew they wanted to hire me,

0:45:40.400 --> 0:45:42.880
<v Speaker 1>they just didn't know in what capacity, Like were they

0:45:42.880 --> 0:45:44.759
<v Speaker 1>gonna put me on a day show and give me

0:45:44.800 --> 0:45:47.359
<v Speaker 1>a show then? But then when they realized they were

0:45:47.360 --> 0:45:50.359
<v Speaker 1>going to redo the whole morning show, they called me

0:45:50.400 --> 0:45:53.319
<v Speaker 1>and being Charlotte Magne in together for a meeting. They

0:45:53.320 --> 0:45:55.640
<v Speaker 1>had to talk to each of us individually, and then

0:45:55.640 --> 0:45:57.600
<v Speaker 1>they called us in together to let us know that

0:45:57.640 --> 0:45:59.000
<v Speaker 1>we were going to do the new morning show, and

0:45:59.040 --> 0:46:02.239
<v Speaker 1>I literally had to sign a contract like that same day,

0:46:02.719 --> 0:46:04.680
<v Speaker 1>and that's how it happened. So I had to have

0:46:04.760 --> 0:46:06.520
<v Speaker 1>my lawyer look at it. I didn't sign. I was

0:46:06.560 --> 0:46:08.839
<v Speaker 1>the last one to sign because I was like, I'm

0:46:08.840 --> 0:46:10.759
<v Speaker 1>not just signing this, you know, And I had to

0:46:10.800 --> 0:46:12.680
<v Speaker 1>have my lawyer look at it. And then I didn't

0:46:12.680 --> 0:46:15.719
<v Speaker 1>get everything back until the evening. And so when the

0:46:15.800 --> 0:46:18.480
<v Speaker 1>evening came and I had, you know, some responses, a

0:46:18.480 --> 0:46:20.760
<v Speaker 1>little bit of back and forth, and then I finally

0:46:20.920 --> 0:46:24.080
<v Speaker 1>um ended up signing. So you made sure that business

0:46:24.080 --> 0:46:31.160
<v Speaker 1>was straight I will always do. You're very much business oriented,

0:46:31.320 --> 0:46:34.799
<v Speaker 1>like that's and and and you said that, like you

0:46:34.840 --> 0:46:39.560
<v Speaker 1>don't let these things stop you from moving, but you

0:46:39.680 --> 0:46:42.879
<v Speaker 1>still are very very conscious of doing the business as well.

0:46:42.880 --> 0:46:44.799
<v Speaker 1>Where did you you get that? You think that that

0:46:44.880 --> 0:46:48.279
<v Speaker 1>came from your upbringing in terms of where you know,

0:46:48.320 --> 0:46:52.000
<v Speaker 1>how you've been educated. I think it's me just seeing

0:46:52.080 --> 0:46:54.520
<v Speaker 1>other people signed me step deals and feeling like I

0:46:54.520 --> 0:46:57.200
<v Speaker 1>didn't want to do that, and so you know, it

0:46:57.360 --> 0:47:00.000
<v Speaker 1>was easier for me to learn from the mistakes of others.

0:46:59.880 --> 0:47:02.719
<v Speaker 1>And I've signed deals that I mean, I could think

0:47:02.760 --> 0:47:04.879
<v Speaker 1>of one in particular that I never should have done,

0:47:04.880 --> 0:47:07.279
<v Speaker 1>but sometimes you don't know what you don't know. But

0:47:07.360 --> 0:47:09.200
<v Speaker 1>I'm also the type of person that will honor a

0:47:09.239 --> 0:47:11.920
<v Speaker 1>deal that I signed. So if I did sign this deal,

0:47:12.520 --> 0:47:14.239
<v Speaker 1>I honor it. And I always try to get like

0:47:14.320 --> 0:47:17.080
<v Speaker 1>the shortest deal possible because I think when you have

0:47:17.120 --> 0:47:19.680
<v Speaker 1>a lot of confidence in yourself and you know that okay,

0:47:19.760 --> 0:47:22.840
<v Speaker 1>I'm not wanting to feel tied into something, then you

0:47:22.880 --> 0:47:25.319
<v Speaker 1>know that a shorter deal is better because then it's

0:47:25.480 --> 0:47:28.480
<v Speaker 1>you can renegotiate when it's time. And so I've always

0:47:28.520 --> 0:47:30.279
<v Speaker 1>had a band of doing like a short Some people

0:47:30.360 --> 0:47:33.080
<v Speaker 1>like longer deals for the stability of it, but I've

0:47:33.120 --> 0:47:36.160
<v Speaker 1>always felt like I've laid down the groundwork that I

0:47:36.160 --> 0:47:38.480
<v Speaker 1>could leave and I don't feel like I have to

0:47:38.480 --> 0:47:40.400
<v Speaker 1>rely on any one thing, And I think that's an

0:47:40.400 --> 0:47:42.839
<v Speaker 1>important way to feel. I never want to feel. Even

0:47:42.880 --> 0:47:44.600
<v Speaker 1>if things wouldn't have worked out for me to go

0:47:44.680 --> 0:47:47.960
<v Speaker 1>over to, you know, the breakfast club, I still had

0:47:48.000 --> 0:47:50.520
<v Speaker 1>a job. It wasn't like I was, you know, didn't

0:47:50.520 --> 0:47:53.799
<v Speaker 1>have anything or didn't have other opportunities. I had other

0:47:53.840 --> 0:47:56.080
<v Speaker 1>places that I could have went. That was just the

0:47:56.080 --> 0:47:59.120
<v Speaker 1>best one for me, and so I think it's good

0:47:59.120 --> 0:48:01.279
<v Speaker 1>to feel like you have options and never feel like

0:48:01.719 --> 0:48:05.680
<v Speaker 1>I have to do this or nothing. Ll So my question,

0:48:05.800 --> 0:48:08.400
<v Speaker 1>like Breakfast Club is probably like one of the biggest

0:48:08.400 --> 0:48:13.360
<v Speaker 1>shows in history in the world, Like has it always?

0:48:13.600 --> 0:48:16.399
<v Speaker 1>Has it been fun? Hasn't been ups and downs? Like

0:48:16.760 --> 0:48:19.040
<v Speaker 1>because when people look at it just from the outside looking,

0:48:19.080 --> 0:48:20.759
<v Speaker 1>it's like, oh, well, look think I just think it show.

0:48:20.800 --> 0:48:23.759
<v Speaker 1>They just don't like, what is your perspective? Has it been?

0:48:23.760 --> 0:48:26.200
<v Speaker 1>Because it hasn't always been like the top show that

0:48:26.520 --> 0:48:28.759
<v Speaker 1>was there turn more to relate that this show you

0:48:28.840 --> 0:48:32.120
<v Speaker 1>ain't doing the numbers, like what is the behind the

0:48:32.200 --> 0:48:35.400
<v Speaker 1>scenes kind of Oh it was awful at first. It

0:48:35.480 --> 0:48:38.160
<v Speaker 1>almost didn't last. They didn't think that we were going

0:48:38.200 --> 0:48:41.080
<v Speaker 1>to make it past like the year two, and so

0:48:41.840 --> 0:48:43.960
<v Speaker 1>sometimes you do have to give things a chance and

0:48:44.040 --> 0:48:45.480
<v Speaker 1>let it get over the hump. And we did have

0:48:45.520 --> 0:48:47.880
<v Speaker 1>some people that believed in us. I think our online

0:48:47.880 --> 0:48:50.120
<v Speaker 1>presence is what saved us too. We were really ahead

0:48:50.160 --> 0:48:53.000
<v Speaker 1>of everything when it came to putting content online. We

0:48:53.080 --> 0:48:56.560
<v Speaker 1>would do these little skits and so it really set

0:48:56.560 --> 0:48:59.200
<v Speaker 1>the tone for us to also be syndicated because we

0:48:59.200 --> 0:49:01.440
<v Speaker 1>were doing these It's so even if you weren't in

0:49:01.480 --> 0:49:03.560
<v Speaker 1>New York, you were able to see what was happening.

0:49:04.080 --> 0:49:06.000
<v Speaker 1>And things are different back then. It's not like we

0:49:06.080 --> 0:49:09.600
<v Speaker 1>had streaming services. It's not like we had aps like

0:49:09.680 --> 0:49:11.440
<v Speaker 1>we have them now. So if you weren't here, you

0:49:11.480 --> 0:49:15.400
<v Speaker 1>just weren't gonna hear it. And so early on it

0:49:15.520 --> 0:49:17.200
<v Speaker 1>was just people who did not think it was gonna

0:49:17.200 --> 0:49:19.920
<v Speaker 1>work because it took a little while to find that

0:49:20.000 --> 0:49:23.840
<v Speaker 1>rhythm to get the strike going. And I mean definitely

0:49:23.920 --> 0:49:26.040
<v Speaker 1>being with people every single day. We did that show

0:49:26.080 --> 0:49:29.840
<v Speaker 1>for twelve years, and they definitely were some ups and

0:49:29.920 --> 0:49:33.320
<v Speaker 1>downs on everybody's behalf of people like not getting along

0:49:33.360 --> 0:49:35.960
<v Speaker 1>with each other, and even not just the host, but

0:49:36.040 --> 0:49:39.520
<v Speaker 1>also people behind the scenes. Um, you know, things have

0:49:39.640 --> 0:49:43.640
<v Speaker 1>happened life. It was real life happening work. I mean

0:49:43.680 --> 0:49:46.359
<v Speaker 1>there were times every and even nothing to do with us,

0:49:46.400 --> 0:49:48.920
<v Speaker 1>but personally a lot of people have gone through things,

0:49:49.440 --> 0:49:51.400
<v Speaker 1>you know where I mean at one point and he

0:49:51.440 --> 0:49:52.840
<v Speaker 1>didn't think he was going to come back to the

0:49:52.840 --> 0:49:55.080
<v Speaker 1>show at all while he was trying to deal with things,

0:49:55.280 --> 0:49:59.080
<v Speaker 1>you know, in his home life, and so, um, you know,

0:49:59.239 --> 0:50:02.320
<v Speaker 1>definitely a that we've gone through. But I also feel

0:50:02.360 --> 0:50:07.520
<v Speaker 1>like as we all grow and change and hopefully become

0:50:07.760 --> 0:50:11.000
<v Speaker 1>more mature and spread out into other businesses and things,

0:50:11.840 --> 0:50:14.239
<v Speaker 1>work becomes the place where we see each other, not

0:50:14.320 --> 0:50:17.480
<v Speaker 1>really outside of work. So sometimes that does help. You

0:50:17.520 --> 0:50:19.359
<v Speaker 1>just have to figure out what's best, because I think

0:50:19.360 --> 0:50:22.840
<v Speaker 1>it's an issue when I've had jobs when I was

0:50:22.880 --> 0:50:25.440
<v Speaker 1>as serious where people hung out outside of that all

0:50:25.440 --> 0:50:28.320
<v Speaker 1>the time, and sometimes that's not a good thing because

0:50:28.640 --> 0:50:32.799
<v Speaker 1>then there's not that separation of work and you know,

0:50:33.360 --> 0:50:37.239
<v Speaker 1>outside pleasure like life, and so sometimes you don't want that.

0:50:37.360 --> 0:50:40.239
<v Speaker 1>Sometimes you want to feel like you're the producer. You

0:50:40.320 --> 0:50:43.000
<v Speaker 1>tell us what to do, and I'm doing this, and

0:50:43.040 --> 0:50:44.560
<v Speaker 1>I want to be able to speak up and not

0:50:44.800 --> 0:50:47.719
<v Speaker 1>be in my feelings about the fact that we was

0:50:47.760 --> 0:50:49.640
<v Speaker 1>all just hanging out last night. Now I gotta come

0:50:49.680 --> 0:50:52.239
<v Speaker 1>here and switch up my role. And so I think

0:50:52.239 --> 0:50:55.919
<v Speaker 1>that in certain situations, is it is a better thing

0:50:56.000 --> 0:50:59.800
<v Speaker 1>to not have to be all friendly, chummy chumming with people.

0:51:00.960 --> 0:51:06.439
<v Speaker 1>You have to stop established business boundaries, and it does.

0:51:06.520 --> 0:51:10.560
<v Speaker 1>It makes it uncomfortable, you know, to speak up about

0:51:10.600 --> 0:51:12.759
<v Speaker 1>business when you feel like you have a friendship with someone,

0:51:12.800 --> 0:51:14.919
<v Speaker 1>because you don't want to hurt their feelings. You don't

0:51:14.920 --> 0:51:18.000
<v Speaker 1>want to come home some way, so okay, And sometimes

0:51:18.040 --> 0:51:20.160
<v Speaker 1>people take advantage of you too if they feel like

0:51:20.200 --> 0:51:22.360
<v Speaker 1>we're friends, and so you'd be like, yo, I'm not

0:51:22.400 --> 0:51:24.799
<v Speaker 1>coming covered from me, like just act like this, and

0:51:24.800 --> 0:51:28.560
<v Speaker 1>you're like, damn, this messes everybody else up. And you know,

0:51:28.600 --> 0:51:30.799
<v Speaker 1>so sometimes things just happened like that, because I've seen

0:51:30.840 --> 0:51:33.120
<v Speaker 1>it happen in other jobs, even me being a business

0:51:33.120 --> 0:51:35.719
<v Speaker 1>owner and seeing the issues that I have with some

0:51:35.760 --> 0:51:39.040
<v Speaker 1>employees that get all friendly and hang out outside of work,

0:51:39.040 --> 0:51:42.839
<v Speaker 1>and then how that affects the workplace environment. Sometimes it's

0:51:42.880 --> 0:51:45.360
<v Speaker 1>not a good thing. That's why sometimes they'll tell you also,

0:51:45.880 --> 0:51:50.920
<v Speaker 1>workplace relationships can be prohibited for whatever reason. So I

0:51:51.080 --> 0:51:55.759
<v Speaker 1>have two questions, where did you develop this conflict? Being

0:51:55.800 --> 0:51:59.239
<v Speaker 1>in on the radio requires you to have some confidence,

0:51:59.440 --> 0:52:03.200
<v Speaker 1>you know, and and and even just doing this podcast,

0:52:03.440 --> 0:52:05.919
<v Speaker 1>some days I'm like, Lord, did I say that right?

0:52:06.320 --> 0:52:08.600
<v Speaker 1>You know, you can't go back and change it. It

0:52:08.680 --> 0:52:12.160
<v Speaker 1>just is what it is. You might not know all

0:52:12.200 --> 0:52:15.160
<v Speaker 1>the words you want to say. And and I'm embracing

0:52:15.560 --> 0:52:17.400
<v Speaker 1>we're on this show. Would be like, what's the word?

0:52:17.760 --> 0:52:19.600
<v Speaker 1>Let me figure out, Let me go figure it out.

0:52:19.800 --> 0:52:22.279
<v Speaker 1>I used to think you had to know now I

0:52:22.320 --> 0:52:25.240
<v Speaker 1>know that everything is a journey. We all learning together.

0:52:25.400 --> 0:52:27.600
<v Speaker 1>We mess up, we fix it, we figure it out,

0:52:28.000 --> 0:52:30.279
<v Speaker 1>and that's it. But but I didn't want to do

0:52:30.640 --> 0:52:34.440
<v Speaker 1>street Politicians because I didn't want to put my um

0:52:35.520 --> 0:52:38.600
<v Speaker 1>imperfections on display. Now I don't care, but at the

0:52:38.640 --> 0:52:41.040
<v Speaker 1>time I really didn't want to do that. So that's

0:52:41.120 --> 0:52:43.719
<v Speaker 1>one thing is where did you develop that confidence? And

0:52:43.800 --> 0:52:46.160
<v Speaker 1>you feel like you just you have it now or

0:52:46.280 --> 0:52:49.040
<v Speaker 1>is it still in process? And then the other thing

0:52:49.200 --> 0:52:53.840
<v Speaker 1>is we all know that there's been challenges, challenges between

0:52:53.840 --> 0:52:55.560
<v Speaker 1>you and Lenar. You know, I still quote I call

0:52:55.640 --> 0:52:59.080
<v Speaker 1>him Lenard, but Charlemagne, you know issues on the show.

0:52:59.560 --> 0:53:01.799
<v Speaker 1>How did it feel having to get up and go

0:53:01.880 --> 0:53:06.440
<v Speaker 1>to work every day, especially prior to him apologize and

0:53:06.520 --> 0:53:10.000
<v Speaker 1>to you publicly, and and you having to go there

0:53:10.080 --> 0:53:13.200
<v Speaker 1>and be in the midst of that pain or whatever

0:53:13.239 --> 0:53:15.520
<v Speaker 1>you felt. I don't want to, you know, give you words.

0:53:15.880 --> 0:53:19.600
<v Speaker 1>How did you do that every day? Um So the

0:53:19.640 --> 0:53:22.520
<v Speaker 1>first part of your question, I say that it was

0:53:22.680 --> 0:53:24.640
<v Speaker 1>hard for me at first to do radio and not

0:53:24.880 --> 0:53:27.920
<v Speaker 1>know things because you feel like I'm supposed to know everything,

0:53:27.960 --> 0:53:30.239
<v Speaker 1>and it does take a while to figure out that.

0:53:30.360 --> 0:53:33.160
<v Speaker 1>It makes you know, it's relatable. Everybody doesn't know everything,

0:53:33.200 --> 0:53:35.040
<v Speaker 1>no matter what's your job. There's no person in the

0:53:35.080 --> 0:53:37.480
<v Speaker 1>world that does. And sometimes you mess up. The best

0:53:37.520 --> 0:53:39.319
<v Speaker 1>thing to do is acknowledge that you mess up, or

0:53:39.320 --> 0:53:41.719
<v Speaker 1>even just say I don't know. Sometimes it's hard for

0:53:41.800 --> 0:53:43.959
<v Speaker 1>us to just say I don't know. And I even

0:53:43.960 --> 0:53:45.960
<v Speaker 1>felt like still to this day, people expect me to

0:53:46.040 --> 0:53:49.000
<v Speaker 1>know everything just because I'm the one that's doing the

0:53:49.000 --> 0:53:50.920
<v Speaker 1>news or I'm the one that's doing the rumors. But

0:53:50.960 --> 0:53:53.799
<v Speaker 1>I don't know everything. It's like fifty stories a day

0:53:53.800 --> 0:53:56.160
<v Speaker 1>that I'm reading, so sometimes some of the details I

0:53:56.239 --> 0:53:58.879
<v Speaker 1>don't have. And so even if Charlottegne or Envy asked

0:53:58.880 --> 0:54:00.759
<v Speaker 1>me a question, I'm like, well, y'all can also look

0:54:00.760 --> 0:54:03.520
<v Speaker 1>stuff up too, because we get the same no. So

0:54:03.600 --> 0:54:07.160
<v Speaker 1>I shouldn't have to know everything, like and so, But

0:54:07.200 --> 0:54:09.520
<v Speaker 1>people don't acknowledge that, Like they'll be like, oh, Angela

0:54:09.560 --> 0:54:11.200
<v Speaker 1>didn't know this this morning. I'm like, well, not that

0:54:11.400 --> 0:54:12.960
<v Speaker 1>the other two guys in the room. Why is it

0:54:13.040 --> 0:54:15.480
<v Speaker 1>just me? You know? And so I feel like a

0:54:15.480 --> 0:54:18.719
<v Speaker 1>lot comes on you and that's the responsibility that you

0:54:18.840 --> 0:54:20.840
<v Speaker 1>end up having to take because of the role that

0:54:20.920 --> 0:54:24.080
<v Speaker 1>you have on the show. But I have realized now

0:54:24.120 --> 0:54:26.400
<v Speaker 1>that there's just certain things out of your control and

0:54:26.440 --> 0:54:28.719
<v Speaker 1>you just have to be like, I don't know, you know.

0:54:28.840 --> 0:54:32.759
<v Speaker 1>And then as far as far as the challenges, yeah,

0:54:32.760 --> 0:54:35.719
<v Speaker 1>it was definitely some challenging times for me. I made

0:54:35.760 --> 0:54:38.640
<v Speaker 1>sure that I, you know, vocalized how I felt, and

0:54:38.680 --> 0:54:40.759
<v Speaker 1>then I moved past it because another thing that I

0:54:40.840 --> 0:54:43.640
<v Speaker 1>realized is that people don't really care, right Like, if

0:54:43.680 --> 0:54:45.919
<v Speaker 1>you want to talk about something you say at one

0:54:45.920 --> 0:54:47.920
<v Speaker 1>time and move on. The more you talk about it,

0:54:48.080 --> 0:54:50.080
<v Speaker 1>that people were like, oh, you dragging it. They also

0:54:50.160 --> 0:54:52.360
<v Speaker 1>don't know all the details and ins and out of

0:54:52.440 --> 0:54:55.120
<v Speaker 1>everything that happened. And I feel like sometimes the more

0:54:55.160 --> 0:54:57.880
<v Speaker 1>you say about something, the more it takes on a

0:54:57.960 --> 0:55:00.160
<v Speaker 1>life of its own. So part of me, yeah, us

0:55:00.200 --> 0:55:02.040
<v Speaker 1>waking up in the morning not being sure what I

0:55:02.040 --> 0:55:03.880
<v Speaker 1>wanted to do, it did make me come up with

0:55:03.920 --> 0:55:08.240
<v Speaker 1>the longer term plan of of knowing that I needed

0:55:08.239 --> 0:55:11.120
<v Speaker 1>to do my own thing. And so even me getting

0:55:11.160 --> 0:55:14.600
<v Speaker 1>my own show, We're up with Angela yee. That's something

0:55:14.680 --> 0:55:18.640
<v Speaker 1>that I've been talking about even during those most challenging times.

0:55:18.680 --> 0:55:22.120
<v Speaker 1>I was very vocal at work, you know, with our

0:55:22.200 --> 0:55:24.719
<v Speaker 1>executives about the fact that I want to do my

0:55:24.800 --> 0:55:27.799
<v Speaker 1>own thing, and how can we make this happen? And

0:55:27.960 --> 0:55:30.919
<v Speaker 1>you know, at first it was we're gonna give you

0:55:30.719 --> 0:55:33.920
<v Speaker 1>your own show, but we want you to stay on

0:55:33.920 --> 0:55:37.360
<v Speaker 1>the Breakfast Club. And in my head the way that

0:55:37.440 --> 0:55:39.719
<v Speaker 1>I think, I was like, I'll write that out for

0:55:39.760 --> 0:55:41.960
<v Speaker 1>a little while, but I'm gonna do so great on

0:55:42.000 --> 0:55:44.200
<v Speaker 1>my own show that they'll want me to focus on that.

0:55:44.200 --> 0:55:47.080
<v Speaker 1>That's what I was thinking. But the unfortunately they came

0:55:47.120 --> 0:55:49.839
<v Speaker 1>at me and said, look, uh, we're just gonna give

0:55:49.840 --> 0:55:53.960
<v Speaker 1>you your whole own show, nationally syndicated. It's a huge,

0:55:54.480 --> 0:55:57.640
<v Speaker 1>huge honor things that we believe you, um, we trust

0:55:57.680 --> 0:55:59.319
<v Speaker 1>in you, We see the work that you put in.

0:55:59.360 --> 0:56:01.160
<v Speaker 1>We know you're gonna do an amazing job and you

0:56:01.239 --> 0:56:04.120
<v Speaker 1>deserve it. And so I was so relieved that I

0:56:04.120 --> 0:56:05.919
<v Speaker 1>would be able to just focus on one thing, because

0:56:05.920 --> 0:56:07.919
<v Speaker 1>I was also like, I'm about to have to bust

0:56:07.960 --> 0:56:11.239
<v Speaker 1>my ass doing two shows and I'm not even gonna

0:56:11.239 --> 0:56:13.600
<v Speaker 1>be able to enjoy my life. And so for me,

0:56:14.120 --> 0:56:17.160
<v Speaker 1>this was just the ultimate best thing that could have happened.

0:56:17.440 --> 0:56:20.160
<v Speaker 1>I'm glad that I was very professional about things and

0:56:20.200 --> 0:56:22.560
<v Speaker 1>that I still was able to go to work, even

0:56:22.560 --> 0:56:25.359
<v Speaker 1>though sometimes it can be challenging, but to still show

0:56:25.480 --> 0:56:28.360
<v Speaker 1>up and do what I have to do. And you know,

0:56:28.400 --> 0:56:30.160
<v Speaker 1>I think a lot of people, if you pay attention,

0:56:30.239 --> 0:56:33.040
<v Speaker 1>you'll be like Angel doesn't seem like herself or and

0:56:33.080 --> 0:56:36.799
<v Speaker 1>I was feeling that way. Yeah, yeah, I was definitely

0:56:36.920 --> 0:56:40.640
<v Speaker 1>feeling that way also. But I also never went to

0:56:40.760 --> 0:56:44.799
<v Speaker 1>let anybody feel like, you know, they got me to

0:56:45.440 --> 0:56:47.719
<v Speaker 1>uh be like you know how you don't want to

0:56:47.719 --> 0:56:51.520
<v Speaker 1>feel like somebody won or you got defeated in anything.

0:56:52.000 --> 0:56:54.520
<v Speaker 1>And so for me, I always have to represent myself

0:56:54.600 --> 0:56:57.360
<v Speaker 1>and the best way possible, and that was being a

0:56:57.440 --> 0:56:59.880
<v Speaker 1>professional and knowing what my goals are and knowing that

0:57:00.560 --> 0:57:03.160
<v Speaker 1>I have a longer term goal because I'm not a

0:57:03.320 --> 0:57:06.319
<v Speaker 1>rash decision maker where I'm gonna just be like I'm

0:57:06.320 --> 0:57:08.360
<v Speaker 1>not doing this anymore, I'm out of here. It was

0:57:08.400 --> 0:57:10.440
<v Speaker 1>never gonna be that for me because I've done too

0:57:10.480 --> 0:57:13.279
<v Speaker 1>much and worked too hard to not be able to

0:57:13.280 --> 0:57:15.200
<v Speaker 1>reap the benefits of all the work I put in.

0:57:16.160 --> 0:57:19.920
<v Speaker 1>I just You've just always been a consonant professional, like

0:57:19.960 --> 0:57:21.920
<v Speaker 1>you know, even in those times like you know, I

0:57:21.960 --> 0:57:23.880
<v Speaker 1>know you so and I know all of you guys,

0:57:23.920 --> 0:57:25.840
<v Speaker 1>so I'm able to sense since like, yes, I don't

0:57:25.920 --> 0:57:28.959
<v Speaker 1>really right here, but you always still did your job,

0:57:29.040 --> 0:57:31.600
<v Speaker 1>You came to work, you did things. You know, even

0:57:32.000 --> 0:57:35.000
<v Speaker 1>I and I admitted, like when I understood what she

0:57:35.120 --> 0:57:37.320
<v Speaker 1>was going through because my diftain things, I was like,

0:57:37.360 --> 0:57:39.920
<v Speaker 1>n that ain't okare with me? And I had conversations

0:57:39.960 --> 0:57:42.480
<v Speaker 1>like now you probably shouldn't did that off off, you know,

0:57:42.520 --> 0:57:45.320
<v Speaker 1>off camera and all of that. So I understood what

0:57:45.360 --> 0:57:47.600
<v Speaker 1>you was going through. But watching you just continuously move

0:57:47.680 --> 0:57:50.600
<v Speaker 1>through those things and just grow it just it gave

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<v Speaker 1>me just an understanding, like a deeper understanding what it

0:57:54.240 --> 0:57:56.680
<v Speaker 1>takes to be in this business, you know. And so

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<v Speaker 1>I just wanted once again employed you for being a profess.

0:58:00.280 --> 0:58:02.200
<v Speaker 1>When I know your show is gonna be dope, So

0:58:02.240 --> 0:58:04.800
<v Speaker 1>what is it gonna Is it gonna comprise of like

0:58:04.960 --> 0:58:08.040
<v Speaker 1>kind of what you do at the breakfast club with

0:58:08.320 --> 0:58:11.680
<v Speaker 1>lip service? Like what is the show gonna the format

0:58:11.720 --> 0:58:14.840
<v Speaker 1>gonna be? You know? So I was just coming from

0:58:14.840 --> 0:58:17.080
<v Speaker 1>a meeting yet another one about my show, and I

0:58:17.120 --> 0:58:19.400
<v Speaker 1>have a lot of different segments that are planned out.

0:58:19.640 --> 0:58:21.400
<v Speaker 1>I have so many segments I have to cut some

0:58:21.440 --> 0:58:24.720
<v Speaker 1>of them out because it's like they're like all right, Angela,

0:58:25.080 --> 0:58:28.560
<v Speaker 1>but they're excited because I have so many ideas so um,

0:58:28.600 --> 0:58:30.160
<v Speaker 1>certain things I want to do. I definitely want to

0:58:30.160 --> 0:58:32.240
<v Speaker 1>be more tapped in with the community and the average

0:58:32.280 --> 0:58:36.720
<v Speaker 1>everyday person. So it'll definitely obviously we'll have those interviews,

0:58:36.960 --> 0:58:39.800
<v Speaker 1>um with celebrities and things like that, but I also

0:58:39.840 --> 0:58:42.640
<v Speaker 1>want to make sure that I'm doing things with uh,

0:58:42.680 --> 0:58:44.520
<v Speaker 1>you know, I have a segment that I'm planning with

0:58:44.640 --> 0:58:47.040
<v Speaker 1>high schoolers that I'm gonna be doing so we get

0:58:47.080 --> 0:58:49.680
<v Speaker 1>to hear from them and get their input because we care.

0:58:49.760 --> 0:58:52.080
<v Speaker 1>We need to listen to what the kids are saying

0:58:52.160 --> 0:58:55.920
<v Speaker 1>now too in the next generation. And so there's something

0:58:55.960 --> 0:58:58.080
<v Speaker 1>special I have planned for that. You know, there's a

0:58:58.120 --> 0:59:01.360
<v Speaker 1>round table discussions based on issues that and I know

0:59:01.440 --> 0:59:02.680
<v Speaker 1>both of you all gonna end up being on the

0:59:02.680 --> 0:59:06.240
<v Speaker 1>show a lot, but you know, really important things that

0:59:06.240 --> 0:59:09.880
<v Speaker 1>I want to discuss. Entrepreneurship, financial wellness. Those are really

0:59:09.920 --> 0:59:13.080
<v Speaker 1>important things to me. And so any type of information

0:59:13.120 --> 0:59:15.480
<v Speaker 1>that I can bring to people and that people can

0:59:15.520 --> 0:59:17.520
<v Speaker 1>bring to me that I feel like we need to

0:59:17.560 --> 0:59:20.440
<v Speaker 1>have this on the show. Women's issues. Obviously, I care

0:59:20.480 --> 0:59:22.280
<v Speaker 1>a lot about being a black woman. A lot of

0:59:22.320 --> 0:59:26.280
<v Speaker 1>what we just even talked about is something that's relatable

0:59:26.360 --> 0:59:28.480
<v Speaker 1>to a lot of black women, you know, being in

0:59:28.520 --> 0:59:31.480
<v Speaker 1>the office or being in a workspace and feeling like

0:59:31.520 --> 0:59:34.200
<v Speaker 1>you're not being heard, or feeling like you have to

0:59:34.240 --> 0:59:36.840
<v Speaker 1>go to work and fight every day just to be

0:59:36.960 --> 0:59:40.200
<v Speaker 1>seen and understood and all of those things, and so

0:59:40.360 --> 0:59:42.600
<v Speaker 1>being able to bring light to that in a real way,

0:59:43.040 --> 0:59:45.680
<v Speaker 1>I'm excited for um you know. I know right now

0:59:45.680 --> 0:59:47.640
<v Speaker 1>I do front page news, but on the news show,

0:59:48.080 --> 0:59:51.040
<v Speaker 1>I really want to do more stories that don't have

0:59:51.120 --> 0:59:54.479
<v Speaker 1>to be the headline stories. And so I'm just trying

0:59:54.480 --> 0:59:59.080
<v Speaker 1>to make things a little more um me because right

0:59:59.080 --> 1:00:01.000
<v Speaker 1>now I'm part of a collect if. So everything's not

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<v Speaker 1>what Angela wants to do, but this is gonna be

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<v Speaker 1>more like, Okay, I see that this is something that

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<v Speaker 1>Angela came up with, and it's gonna be fun. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>there'll be a lot of fun happening, and it's and

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<v Speaker 1>it's it's also not just what three individuals want. There's

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of pressure on your show because it's so big.

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<v Speaker 1>So once something grows to be so big, there's advertisers,

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<v Speaker 1>their expectations, and I don't think people understand the ins

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<v Speaker 1>and outs and they just want you. Why can't you

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<v Speaker 1>know people call me every other day, get me on

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<v Speaker 1>the Breakfast Club. It's like, it's not that, it's that.

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<v Speaker 1>It's like, it's it's not like that. You know what

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, It's not that kind of environment. I can't.

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<v Speaker 1>You can't. It's I get your point, but you're talking

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<v Speaker 1>about something that you're doing in a small town in

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<v Speaker 1>you know, Connecticut somewhere and not saying that that's not important.

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<v Speaker 1>I get it. The issue is important. Maybe somebody will

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<v Speaker 1>do alive with you, but to bring you to this

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<v Speaker 1>national platform and have you on the show, it might

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<v Speaker 1>not work out with all the other things they have

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<v Speaker 1>going on, but people do not understand that. So thankfully

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<v Speaker 1>you've got another It's still gonna be national right nationally,

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<v Speaker 1>it's nationally syndicated. I'll be on after the Breakfast Club.

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<v Speaker 1>So literally they're my opening act. That's good, of course, man,

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<v Speaker 1>that I wanted it just and I know it's time

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<v Speaker 1>for you to go. We can sit here and talk

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<v Speaker 1>for all day, just learning more about your story and

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<v Speaker 1>just how you think. Um, you know you when you

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<v Speaker 1>talked about being a professional and how you said nobody

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<v Speaker 1>really cares. That's such a powerful point point because people

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<v Speaker 1>think going to social media complaining about all their problems

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<v Speaker 1>or doing a million interviews trying to make you know,

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<v Speaker 1>to talk about who did you wrong or whatever that

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<v Speaker 1>that is going to make them feel better, and instead

1:02:03.840 --> 1:02:06.960
<v Speaker 1>the Internet tears back at you. That's just the way

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<v Speaker 1>it works. They take no matter who did what, they

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<v Speaker 1>still will find fault and even the person who's trying

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<v Speaker 1>to express how they got harmed, and it just doesn't work.

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<v Speaker 1>And the professional piece is so important because no matter

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<v Speaker 1>where you go, even if Okay, Tamika did mice aren't wrong,

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<v Speaker 1>or Tamika did Angelie you wrong, they still don't want

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<v Speaker 1>you to be problematic. Nobody wants to work with a

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<v Speaker 1>person that's whining and complain that. They just don't want

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<v Speaker 1>to do it. And it's messed up that the world

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<v Speaker 1>is like that. But I'm sure you learned along the way.

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<v Speaker 1>Nobody cares. Yeah, and you know what the flip side

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<v Speaker 1>of nobody cares. And when I say, like, you can

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<v Speaker 1>go complain and do all this and people are like,

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<v Speaker 1>shut up, who asked you? Nobody cares? I got bigger problems.

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<v Speaker 1>The flip side of nobody cares is nobody cares as

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<v Speaker 1>much as you do. So something might be the worst,

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<v Speaker 1>biggest thing in the world to you, but it's not

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<v Speaker 1>that big a deal, and the grand scheme of things

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<v Speaker 1>on the flip side, you don't realize in two days

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<v Speaker 1>it's all will blow over and no one really will

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<v Speaker 1>care anymore. So just leave it alone because the worst

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<v Speaker 1>thing that you could do is blow something up into

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<v Speaker 1>an even bigger situation than it had to be. And

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<v Speaker 1>so there is two sides to the whole. Nobody cares.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, it sucks because if you're going to social

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<v Speaker 1>media to get some type of sympathy or empathy, it's

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<v Speaker 1>not the right place for that to happen. It never works.

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<v Speaker 1>I've tried it and I'm telling you, and I've watched

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<v Speaker 1>other people do it, and then it ends up being

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<v Speaker 1>you become the problem somehow. It's like it's just it's

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<v Speaker 1>it's a nasty world out here. So that's the last

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<v Speaker 1>thing I want to ask, and I know my probers

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<v Speaker 1>to it, Okay, things, Yeah, I want to ask is

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<v Speaker 1>what is like You've done so many different interviews, like

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<v Speaker 1>so I've seen you know, you've got historical interviews like

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<v Speaker 1>what is your favorite and what was your work? And

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<v Speaker 1>the second question is have you done an interview that

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<v Speaker 1>you regretted. It was like, I probably shouldn't have or

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<v Speaker 1>lost a relationship based on an interview or anything like that,

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<v Speaker 1>things that you might regretted. Um, I'm trying to think.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think I've ever lost a relationship based on

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<v Speaker 1>an interview necessary and not somebody that I cared about

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<v Speaker 1>that I was like, you know, that was my friend

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<v Speaker 1>before this, and now they don't ask me anymore. Because

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<v Speaker 1>I also, i'd never have like a malicious intention when

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<v Speaker 1>I do any interviews, and anybody who really is my

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<v Speaker 1>friend and knows that knows that about me, So I

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<v Speaker 1>wouldn't say I've lost any relationships. And I also, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>it's interesting like I was doing Black Entrepreneurs Day and

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<v Speaker 1>and I See was there. He came up to me

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<v Speaker 1>and he was like, you know, congratulations on your show.

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<v Speaker 1>And I know, I see, but I don't know that well.

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<v Speaker 1>But I've interviewed him a couple of times. He doesn't

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<v Speaker 1>do like a whole lot of interviews now, And he

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<v Speaker 1>was like, you know, I just wanna say that. If

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<v Speaker 1>you need me, let me know. He was like, I

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<v Speaker 1>don't do a lot of stuff now, but I know

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<v Speaker 1>you don't have bad intentions when you do. And it

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<v Speaker 1>meant a lot to me because now that I do

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<v Speaker 1>have my own show, I know some people like to

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<v Speaker 1>be like shocking and quote unquote say whatever's on their mind.

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<v Speaker 1>And I don't always think that that's the best approach

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<v Speaker 1>if you're thinking about longevity, you know, because I've learned

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<v Speaker 1>a long time ago from my own experiences that people

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<v Speaker 1>are human beings and nobody wants to be dragged or

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<v Speaker 1>talked about in a degrading way. And so I've learned

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<v Speaker 1>that a long time ago, and so I'm really conscious

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<v Speaker 1>about how I speak about people and how I speak

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<v Speaker 1>to them as well, especially with artists who are like

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<v Speaker 1>pouring their heart into their work and their business and

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<v Speaker 1>this is what they do for a living. I never

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<v Speaker 1>want to beat up on anybody that is really working

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<v Speaker 1>hard at trying to accomplish something. I applaud you are

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<v Speaker 1>ready for being able to put yourself out there like that. Okay, Now,

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<v Speaker 1>whether or not I like it, it's a whole another story.

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<v Speaker 1>But that's something that a lot of people don't even

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<v Speaker 1>try to do, and so that's the approach. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>even think evil thoughts about people that what I'm saying

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<v Speaker 1>when people will be like, oh, well you, why didn't

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<v Speaker 1>you do this? Or I would have said this, But

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<v Speaker 1>these are real humans, and I think sometimes people don't

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<v Speaker 1>look at other people, like especially celebrities, like they're human

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<v Speaker 1>beings that were feelings, and they could have a terrible

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<v Speaker 1>day after you say something unnecessarily nasty to them for

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<v Speaker 1>no reason other than sometimes to try to be funny

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<v Speaker 1>or make yourself feel better. And so I've always been

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<v Speaker 1>really conscious of that. But as far as favorite interviews,

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<v Speaker 1>um um, I mean, there's been interviews that have really

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<v Speaker 1>been impactful to me. Uh interfew in East Ray. I

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<v Speaker 1>loves Ray and so she's always yeah, one of my favorites. Um. Obviously,

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<v Speaker 1>when I did the August I've seen in an interview

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<v Speaker 1>that was an amazing one because I was in the

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<v Speaker 1>middle of the pandemic, nobody was doing things in person,

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<v Speaker 1>and other than even just what you know, the bomb

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<v Speaker 1>about Jada Pinkett and all of that, he said a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of other great things in that interview and revealed

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<v Speaker 1>a lot about himself that I thought was really um

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<v Speaker 1>that people don't even tell about, you know, because everything

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<v Speaker 1>else was just so uh so got City Newsworthy so

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<v Speaker 1>I just feel like that was one of my favorites

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<v Speaker 1>that I ever did too. M hm. And that's one,

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<v Speaker 1>and it's one of my least favorites that you've done

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<v Speaker 1>because of the fact that I'm so close to the Smiths.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's like, you know, but but that's life. You

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<v Speaker 1>just you know, you you have moments when you can't

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<v Speaker 1>control what's gonna come out. And that's another side of

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<v Speaker 1>being a public figure, is you can't control moments that

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<v Speaker 1>can happen in the second and it just it hits,

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<v Speaker 1>and then you gotta deal with whatever it is that

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<v Speaker 1>you know comes from that. And it's funny because to

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<v Speaker 1>your point about trying not to hurt or harm people,

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<v Speaker 1>you could work so hard on that every single day

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<v Speaker 1>of your life and really be intentional about it, and

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<v Speaker 1>then something will happen and you can't. It's like you

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<v Speaker 1>can't bottle it back up or try to fix it.

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<v Speaker 1>It's like life is just so unpredictable, man. And I

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<v Speaker 1>learned over time that you don't want something happens. It

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<v Speaker 1>just is what it is, right if something is not intentional,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, I think some people intentionally are like I'm

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<v Speaker 1>gonna make this person, Yeah, I don't like this person,

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<v Speaker 1>so I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna put this story out,

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<v Speaker 1>and I don't I'm not into that now. I get that.

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<v Speaker 1>Like and a lot of times, if I report something,

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<v Speaker 1>if everyone else is reporting it, I felt like, that's fine.

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<v Speaker 1>But if I know something that's in confidence that other

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<v Speaker 1>people don't know, then I'm not gonna do that. You

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<v Speaker 1>know what I'm saying. And so that's just kind of

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<v Speaker 1>some of the codes that I live by. If you

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<v Speaker 1>do something in front of me and I'm like, damn,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, should I'm not gonna go back right unless

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<v Speaker 1>it's something If it's something positive, yeah, but if if

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<v Speaker 1>something crazy happens, I'm not gonna go on the air

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<v Speaker 1>and be like yo, so guess what I've seen, whatever, whatever.

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<v Speaker 1>And if there is something that is questionable, I'll ask you, like, listen,

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<v Speaker 1>do you mind if I report this or how would

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<v Speaker 1>you like me to you know, do you want to

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<v Speaker 1>give me some more insight because I am going to

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<v Speaker 1>report this story. But if everybody's doing it and it's

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<v Speaker 1>on all the blogs and all of that, then it

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<v Speaker 1>is a rumor reporting. Yeah, it's very gating game. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>listen to it's I mean, it's so much that's wrapped

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<v Speaker 1>up in you and this little bitty package and Angela,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, we're so teeny, our little self. And know

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<v Speaker 1>I was gonna say, I know you're not talking about

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<v Speaker 1>a little bit of grandmother now a little ten grandma

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<v Speaker 1>is my name, grandma' t But we are so powerful

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<v Speaker 1>like in our own right these you know, and and

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<v Speaker 1>and we've come from and have had to overcome so

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<v Speaker 1>much to get into the places where we are, which

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<v Speaker 1>is why I don't play. We don't play about us,

1:09:49.720 --> 1:09:52.400
<v Speaker 1>like don't play with me because I know what I've

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<v Speaker 1>had to do. And and that's the thing I wanted

1:09:54.560 --> 1:09:57.840
<v Speaker 1>to say on the you know, as you go back

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<v Speaker 1>to your day, Um, what do you what would you

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<v Speaker 1>say to people who believe that it's the pop up thing,

1:10:06.800 --> 1:10:10.240
<v Speaker 1>Like I'm just gonna become successful overnight because I'm cute.

1:10:10.439 --> 1:10:13.120
<v Speaker 1>I got my good BBL. We're gonna talked about that

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<v Speaker 1>early on the show. Honey. The BBL is wow, Like

1:10:17.400 --> 1:10:21.000
<v Speaker 1>people are really doing the most, like the most on

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<v Speaker 1>the plane with their face on the seat and they

1:10:23.720 --> 1:10:25.960
<v Speaker 1>gotta like be on their knees on the floor and

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<v Speaker 1>the whole flight. I'm like, I can't do it. People

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<v Speaker 1>are risking their life the Halloween concert with a little baby,

1:10:34.880 --> 1:10:37.800
<v Speaker 1>like we were just talking about that earlier in the show.

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<v Speaker 1>Just this whole thing with BBLS, Like, I get it.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not trying to tell anybody not to get a

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<v Speaker 1>nick in a tuck and do whatever you wanna do,

1:10:44.640 --> 1:10:47.360
<v Speaker 1>take care of yourself, make yourself feel good. But we're

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<v Speaker 1>at the point where social media, the Internet has made

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<v Speaker 1>us believe that we gotta have like all this other

1:10:55.040 --> 1:10:58.040
<v Speaker 1>stuff and body in order to I don't even know

1:10:58.080 --> 1:11:01.000
<v Speaker 1>what we're trying to accomplish, but I do know that

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<v Speaker 1>there are a lot of folks. I have a friend

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<v Speaker 1>who said, oh, I gotta get my b v L

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<v Speaker 1>because it's gonna put me in a good position. It's

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<v Speaker 1>the hard work part, it doesn't It seems like that

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<v Speaker 1>has missed people all these steps, you know, So I

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<v Speaker 1>just want to want you to drop some gems about

1:11:19.720 --> 1:11:22.880
<v Speaker 1>that today, the hard work and the process to get

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<v Speaker 1>towards where you are in this moment, and and the

1:11:26.120 --> 1:11:31.200
<v Speaker 1>fact that not an overnight success. I actually am glad

1:11:31.320 --> 1:11:34.280
<v Speaker 1>that things didn't come from me so quickly and so easily,

1:11:34.360 --> 1:11:36.360
<v Speaker 1>because I feel like I appreciate it so much more

1:11:36.400 --> 1:11:39.080
<v Speaker 1>right now. I feel like I'm so much more responsible

1:11:39.560 --> 1:11:41.439
<v Speaker 1>being that I work so hard to get to where

1:11:41.439 --> 1:11:44.360
<v Speaker 1>I am when it comes to my finances, when it

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<v Speaker 1>comes to how I treat other people, I think sometimes

1:11:47.280 --> 1:11:51.160
<v Speaker 1>people who are getting it too fast are kind of

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<v Speaker 1>throwing things away and and not acting the way that

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<v Speaker 1>I think later on in life they'll be proud of

1:11:58.080 --> 1:12:01.200
<v Speaker 1>or not making decisions now out that they would have

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<v Speaker 1>made if they would have had that slower grind to

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<v Speaker 1>get to where they are. Because when you get that

1:12:05.800 --> 1:12:08.599
<v Speaker 1>fast money, that money goes fast too. You think it's

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<v Speaker 1>always gonna happen, and you don't know what it's like

1:12:10.760 --> 1:12:14.440
<v Speaker 1>when it's not fair. And so I just am appreciative

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<v Speaker 1>of that. And also I feel like, um, all this

1:12:19.360 --> 1:12:21.760
<v Speaker 1>hard work that I put in has laid down a

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<v Speaker 1>great foundation for me. Like I said earlier, I feel

1:12:24.880 --> 1:12:27.000
<v Speaker 1>like I could go anywhere and do anything, and I'm

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<v Speaker 1>still making mistakes and I'm still learning, but I'm open

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<v Speaker 1>to all of those things. Even when it comes to

1:12:32.439 --> 1:12:34.880
<v Speaker 1>opening businesses. There's so many mistakes that I made in

1:12:34.920 --> 1:12:37.719
<v Speaker 1>my first business that I've opened that every single time

1:12:37.760 --> 1:12:40.880
<v Speaker 1>I learned, I learned a whole lot more. And I've also,

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<v Speaker 1>like I said, been going to people now that are

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<v Speaker 1>doing the things that I admire and that I want

1:12:45.800 --> 1:12:47.920
<v Speaker 1>to be able to do and asking for help and

1:12:48.000 --> 1:12:50.200
<v Speaker 1>being able to do that. And then at the same

1:12:50.240 --> 1:12:52.320
<v Speaker 1>time as we're asking for help and helping others that

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<v Speaker 1>are in a position that we were in a few

1:12:54.560 --> 1:12:59.000
<v Speaker 1>years prior. But I just think that, you know, like

1:12:59.080 --> 1:13:01.280
<v Speaker 1>I said before, if you're not putting in that work.

1:13:01.320 --> 1:13:03.599
<v Speaker 1>If you ever read that Buck Mastery by Robert Green,

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<v Speaker 1>he talks about the amount of hours and hours that

1:13:06.520 --> 1:13:10.240
<v Speaker 1>it takes in years and decades to master anything. And

1:13:10.280 --> 1:13:12.479
<v Speaker 1>if you are not trying to be great. It's one

1:13:12.520 --> 1:13:15.559
<v Speaker 1>thing to be an artists put out a song and pops.

1:13:15.600 --> 1:13:17.559
<v Speaker 1>You don't want to be a one hit wonder though, right.

1:13:17.800 --> 1:13:20.280
<v Speaker 1>You want to make sure that you're constantly working, that

1:13:20.320 --> 1:13:22.760
<v Speaker 1>you're always in the studio, that you're connecting with the

1:13:22.840 --> 1:13:26.000
<v Speaker 1>right people, that you're doing those collaborations, that you have

1:13:26.080 --> 1:13:29.400
<v Speaker 1>a great producer, that you're always growing, whether you're going

1:13:29.439 --> 1:13:31.439
<v Speaker 1>to be independent or sign a deal, at least you

1:13:31.479 --> 1:13:33.920
<v Speaker 1>know all of the ins and outs of the business

1:13:33.920 --> 1:13:36.439
<v Speaker 1>so that you can make the right decisions. And I

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<v Speaker 1>think sometimes if we don't have um have that history

1:13:40.280 --> 1:13:43.160
<v Speaker 1>or have those mistakes that we've made and then come

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<v Speaker 1>through on the other side, then it's harder to make

1:13:45.680 --> 1:13:48.519
<v Speaker 1>the better decisions. Sometimes you're just living for the moment,

1:13:49.120 --> 1:13:57.479
<v Speaker 1>and so be a professional professional. This is this is

1:13:57.520 --> 1:14:02.200
<v Speaker 1>an interview that that epitomized as professional listen. You know.

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<v Speaker 1>So we first, well, we want to say thank you

1:14:04.720 --> 1:14:07.479
<v Speaker 1>for spending an hour out your day with us. You know,

1:14:07.600 --> 1:14:10.000
<v Speaker 1>you could have been doing so much other things. You're

1:14:10.080 --> 1:14:15.040
<v Speaker 1>serial entrepreneur and you've got all mutual many businesses, just

1:14:15.120 --> 1:14:18.040
<v Speaker 1>finished doing, you know, interviews with the radio and everything.

1:14:18.120 --> 1:14:19.960
<v Speaker 1>So we want to say thank you for that. I

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<v Speaker 1>want to wish you all the best. I already know

1:14:22.439 --> 1:14:24.600
<v Speaker 1>this show is gonna be amazing, and I'm gonna have

1:14:24.640 --> 1:14:27.000
<v Speaker 1>probably about two or three segments that I gotta listen

1:14:27.040 --> 1:14:31.639
<v Speaker 1>to every day to tune in. You got I'm gonna

1:14:31.640 --> 1:14:35.519
<v Speaker 1>be in. I'm definitely gonna gonna be on the show.

1:14:35.720 --> 1:14:40.120
<v Speaker 1>Let's definitely. But I just want to continue success. Man,

1:14:40.120 --> 1:14:42.439
<v Speaker 1>you one of those people that deserve it. You always

1:14:42.439 --> 1:14:44.680
<v Speaker 1>have a smile, even when you're not happy, you got

1:14:44.800 --> 1:14:47.760
<v Speaker 1>a smile on your face. So you wanted your spirits,

1:14:47.840 --> 1:14:50.120
<v Speaker 1>you know, it's certain people. I was somebody. I just

1:14:50.160 --> 1:14:53.240
<v Speaker 1>seem like a little clip that Kevin Hall put up

1:14:53.640 --> 1:14:57.519
<v Speaker 1>about certain people's spirit just deserve good things, you know.

1:14:57.920 --> 1:14:59.840
<v Speaker 1>And so ever since I met you always had a

1:15:00.000 --> 1:15:02.920
<v Speaker 1>beutiful spirit, you know. So you are definitely one of

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<v Speaker 1>God's people who have been ordained to do this work

1:15:06.960 --> 1:15:09.920
<v Speaker 1>and bring joy into people's lives. So continue to do

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<v Speaker 1>what you're doing. I see you have. Is this a

1:15:11.840 --> 1:15:16.200
<v Speaker 1>sent you hustle? Shoot you good do? Oh yeah, oh wow.

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<v Speaker 1>Shout out to Harry Yoho who still hasn't given me mind,

1:15:19.280 --> 1:15:24.280
<v Speaker 1>you know, but I'm go my child, for instance, well

1:15:24.439 --> 1:15:26.360
<v Speaker 1>ten years old, I still haven't got mine. But you know,

1:15:26.560 --> 1:15:35.040
<v Speaker 1>we're yeah, I would like to have my hope did

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<v Speaker 1>so you know, listen, we gotta give our shameless plugs.

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<v Speaker 1>Well listen, you don't have to get up at We

1:15:41.240 --> 1:15:43.479
<v Speaker 1>didn't get to ask you about that, but now you

1:15:43.479 --> 1:15:45.240
<v Speaker 1>don't have to get up at the crack of dawn

1:15:45.439 --> 1:15:49.080
<v Speaker 1>every day. You can sleep later in the morning. So

1:15:49.160 --> 1:15:52.120
<v Speaker 1>that is listen, that's a good I have to train

1:15:52.200 --> 1:15:54.080
<v Speaker 1>the work though, because that's like rush hour. I don't

1:15:54.080 --> 1:15:59.280
<v Speaker 1>know what's gonna happen straight through. Wait, Angela before you go,

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<v Speaker 1>the rats still outside your building, your house, or are

1:16:03.800 --> 1:16:07.280
<v Speaker 1>we better now? It's not even just that it's walk

1:16:07.320 --> 1:16:10.880
<v Speaker 1>into my car. It's like I have to walk outside

1:16:11.120 --> 1:16:13.760
<v Speaker 1>and just be really loud because I do not want

1:16:13.800 --> 1:16:17.400
<v Speaker 1>them to be scurrying around. There are rats everywhere in Brooklyn. Okay,

1:16:17.400 --> 1:16:21.560
<v Speaker 1>it is not a game. It's the Manhattan. They're everywhere.

1:16:21.560 --> 1:16:24.280
<v Speaker 1>There's nowhere to go. And just for context with people

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<v Speaker 1>probably like, what the hell are you asking about the rats?

1:16:27.120 --> 1:16:30.880
<v Speaker 1>I heard, let's say, on the radio that in the morning,

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<v Speaker 1>she was tracked in her house, scared to go outside

1:16:33.880 --> 1:16:36.400
<v Speaker 1>because when she went to go out there she saw

1:16:36.560 --> 1:16:39.559
<v Speaker 1>in the street they were scarrying, and so she almost

1:16:39.600 --> 1:16:44.240
<v Speaker 1>was late. And I immediately hit up my people that

1:16:44.360 --> 1:16:46.840
<v Speaker 1>work in the mayor's office and was like, yo, y'all

1:16:46.880 --> 1:16:49.040
<v Speaker 1>got Angela. You trapped to her house? Here? Like what

1:16:49.080 --> 1:16:51.200
<v Speaker 1>are we doing to come on them about rats? All

1:16:51.240 --> 1:16:55.320
<v Speaker 1>the time my saw over them. I report the rats

1:16:55.400 --> 1:16:59.600
<v Speaker 1>the street, the corner, the time, I take pictures. I

1:16:59.720 --> 1:17:03.000
<v Speaker 1>am a rat finder in New York. You here, I'm

1:17:03.040 --> 1:17:06.720
<v Speaker 1>like the book. It's me and my neighbor. We were

1:17:06.800 --> 1:17:09.040
<v Speaker 1>just talking about it just yesterday, right, because I have

1:17:09.160 --> 1:17:12.000
<v Speaker 1>a neighbor on the other side, and there's like too

1:17:12.080 --> 1:17:14.719
<v Speaker 1>much going on in that house. It's disgusting, it's dirty.

1:17:15.160 --> 1:17:17.360
<v Speaker 1>And she said the exterminator came in. Was like until

1:17:17.400 --> 1:17:20.040
<v Speaker 1>that house on the corner they do something about that.

1:17:20.120 --> 1:17:22.559
<v Speaker 1>Those rats aren't going anywhere as that house on the corner.

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<v Speaker 1>And I mean, just text me on the low the

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<v Speaker 1>address to the house and come to and go knock

1:17:32.520 --> 1:17:36.799
<v Speaker 1>on the door. Because yo, I can't. I can't. I can't,

1:17:36.840 --> 1:17:41.000
<v Speaker 1>I can't, I can't, I can't not live. I cannot

1:17:41.120 --> 1:17:44.559
<v Speaker 1>let you. I saw the woman king and I walked

1:17:44.560 --> 1:17:47.120
<v Speaker 1>out of there, and I felt like, I can't let

1:17:47.160 --> 1:17:53.600
<v Speaker 1>these rats beat me. I just seen I would you

1:17:53.640 --> 1:17:59.160
<v Speaker 1>know you are crazy? You was like, nah, but I

1:17:59.240 --> 1:18:01.439
<v Speaker 1>bet you. I've bet you one thing. You can talk

1:18:01.560 --> 1:18:03.400
<v Speaker 1>that junk or you want bet You're not going to

1:18:03.479 --> 1:18:09.400
<v Speaker 1>fight the rats outside. I'd rather go to war. Send

1:18:09.479 --> 1:18:17.240
<v Speaker 1>me away. I'm not thank you so much. Looking forward,

1:18:17.240 --> 1:18:29.720
<v Speaker 1>it's a way up with ye ye ye. That was

1:18:30.040 --> 1:18:32.559
<v Speaker 1>friend Angela ye man. You know, I wanted to, always

1:18:32.560 --> 1:18:34.519
<v Speaker 1>wanted to. I'm always used to her interview with me

1:18:35.320 --> 1:18:37.680
<v Speaker 1>asking me questions, so to be able to ask her

1:18:37.760 --> 1:18:40.880
<v Speaker 1>some questions. The icon that she is you know, she's

1:18:40.920 --> 1:18:44.240
<v Speaker 1>our comic, like she worked with Wou Tang, like she was.

1:18:45.160 --> 1:18:47.559
<v Speaker 1>She's worked so many different places, and a lot of

1:18:47.560 --> 1:18:49.280
<v Speaker 1>people never knew that. So that's why I wanted to

1:18:49.320 --> 1:18:52.280
<v Speaker 1>ask a couple of questions about that. But she's a

1:18:52.360 --> 1:18:55.680
<v Speaker 1>secret weapon, oh yeah, but she ain't really that much

1:18:55.680 --> 1:18:58.400
<v Speaker 1>of a secret. She's just a weapon. No. But the

1:18:58.439 --> 1:19:02.800
<v Speaker 1>way in different areas, the way she moves around, she's

1:19:02.920 --> 1:19:08.040
<v Speaker 1>not loud and boisterous, you don't, you know, It's not

1:19:08.080 --> 1:19:11.120
<v Speaker 1>like when she's in the room, everybody's like, oh, here

1:19:11.160 --> 1:19:15.120
<v Speaker 1>comes Angela. She slips in and then her presence is

1:19:15.200 --> 1:19:18.000
<v Speaker 1>just felt and known. And I like that about her.

1:19:18.200 --> 1:19:20.479
<v Speaker 1>I think that's what, you know, even though I know

1:19:20.600 --> 1:19:22.840
<v Speaker 1>I talk a lot and I am loud and all

1:19:22.880 --> 1:19:26.479
<v Speaker 1>of that, but still I try to approach rooms and

1:19:26.600 --> 1:19:30.080
<v Speaker 1>spaces the same. And I can imagine that she and

1:19:30.120 --> 1:19:33.160
<v Speaker 1>I have a similar thing around me, you know, not

1:19:33.320 --> 1:19:36.880
<v Speaker 1>like calling everybody for tickets and you know, trying to

1:19:36.960 --> 1:19:39.320
<v Speaker 1>be the one in the space, even though she gets

1:19:39.360 --> 1:19:43.920
<v Speaker 1>way more invitations. Absolutely, but and she should because she's

1:19:43.960 --> 1:19:48.000
<v Speaker 1>in the culture and really connected like that. But you know,

1:19:48.080 --> 1:19:50.920
<v Speaker 1>I just have never known her to be pretentious and

1:19:50.960 --> 1:19:55.160
<v Speaker 1>I tried to also have that about me, that humbleness

1:19:55.200 --> 1:19:57.599
<v Speaker 1>that we don't have to always show up and and

1:19:57.600 --> 1:20:01.120
<v Speaker 1>and you know and suck all out the room, even

1:20:01.160 --> 1:20:03.080
<v Speaker 1>though we do because we cute. But you know that's

1:20:03.080 --> 1:20:09.200
<v Speaker 1>another thing. Okay, well listen dope interview, you know, and

1:20:10.680 --> 1:20:13.200
<v Speaker 1>that gives me a little because it's not really much

1:20:13.200 --> 1:20:16.720
<v Speaker 1>of a leeway because it's completely different, you know, topics.

1:20:16.760 --> 1:20:24.000
<v Speaker 1>But my um, I don't get it today. So I

1:20:24.040 --> 1:20:27.320
<v Speaker 1>know everybody's been watching this, this something Jeffrey Dahmer thing,

1:20:29.160 --> 1:20:32.479
<v Speaker 1>and you know, there's been a lot of different views.

1:20:32.560 --> 1:20:35.240
<v Speaker 1>I mean, I started watching I haven't finished watching it

1:20:35.479 --> 1:20:38.000
<v Speaker 1>because you know, I don't really have enough time to

1:20:38.080 --> 1:20:41.360
<v Speaker 1>just be sitting around watching doma. So there was this article.

1:20:41.439 --> 1:20:43.919
<v Speaker 1>I can't find it right now, but I will hopefully

1:20:43.920 --> 1:20:48.400
<v Speaker 1>they'll show it. And it was saying how fans of

1:20:48.479 --> 1:20:52.040
<v Speaker 1>Jeffrey Dahmo went to his father's house and they were

1:20:52.160 --> 1:20:57.559
<v Speaker 1>throwing panties at the father's house. But how did you

1:20:57.640 --> 1:21:03.000
<v Speaker 1>become a fan of Jeffrey Dahmer. That's but that was

1:21:03.040 --> 1:21:05.080
<v Speaker 1>the whole thing. That was the whole premise, like the

1:21:05.080 --> 1:21:07.160
<v Speaker 1>whole premise to me, because I'm still looking for because

1:21:07.360 --> 1:21:08.880
<v Speaker 1>I don't want people to just think I'll be just

1:21:08.920 --> 1:21:13.519
<v Speaker 1>making stuff up. But I could not believe. And I said, fans, like,

1:21:13.640 --> 1:21:20.400
<v Speaker 1>what does that look like? No, it said Jeffrey Dahma.

1:21:20.479 --> 1:21:23.360
<v Speaker 1>Fans allegedly showed up at his dad's home and through

1:21:23.439 --> 1:21:27.720
<v Speaker 1>panties onto his driveway. When did we get to the

1:21:27.880 --> 1:21:32.720
<v Speaker 1>point where we are fans of a serial killer who

1:21:32.800 --> 1:21:36.559
<v Speaker 1>cut in eight people? Like we celebrate that this is

1:21:36.600 --> 1:21:39.880
<v Speaker 1>the person that we that we follow, and and it's

1:21:41.320 --> 1:21:44.960
<v Speaker 1>it's very telling about the times that we are, you know,

1:21:45.200 --> 1:21:49.320
<v Speaker 1>Like we were talked about idols, you know, people idol worship,

1:21:50.120 --> 1:21:52.759
<v Speaker 1>you know, and it don't matter what you do, people

1:21:52.880 --> 1:21:56.840
<v Speaker 1>find some level of genius or positivity in the most

1:21:57.120 --> 1:22:00.799
<v Speaker 1>dumbest in negative ship. And I just I I can't

1:22:01.120 --> 1:22:04.679
<v Speaker 1>wrap my mind around it, you know, don't matter how

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<v Speaker 1>hard I tried. You know how people idolize and they

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<v Speaker 1>have respect for people and things that don't even deserve respect.

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<v Speaker 1>And it's it's such a and and it's not and

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<v Speaker 1>you when you say these things, they say you're hating. Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>you're just mad, and it's not it's not really not

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<v Speaker 1>just mad. I'm really confused. You know, I've never been

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<v Speaker 1>one for me, for you, for me to follow you,

1:22:27.320 --> 1:22:28.720
<v Speaker 1>for me to look up to you, for me to

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<v Speaker 1>have respect for you. There are criterias, right, There are

1:22:32.640 --> 1:22:36.000
<v Speaker 1>certain criterias that you have to meet and and and

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<v Speaker 1>and none of them about the money that you have,

1:22:39.439 --> 1:22:42.080
<v Speaker 1>in the fame you have, those are those are not

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<v Speaker 1>criterias that puts you in an elite space in my

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<v Speaker 1>mind and my heart for me to think that you,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, that you deserve some level of you know,

1:22:54.160 --> 1:22:58.519
<v Speaker 1>hierarchy or you know, praise, and and we're in a

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<v Speaker 1>time with those the main things you actually anything. You know,

1:23:03.400 --> 1:23:06.400
<v Speaker 1>people say you're I don't deal with morals. You know

1:23:06.479 --> 1:23:09.000
<v Speaker 1>that's they don't have nothing to do. That's too much,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, well, you can't really judge if you come

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<v Speaker 1>from a moral standpoint. Is everybody is floored, you know what.

1:23:16.000 --> 1:23:19.479
<v Speaker 1>Everybody is floored, but some people are intentional about trying

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<v Speaker 1>not to be floored. Morally. We all make mistakes, we

1:23:22.280 --> 1:23:24.800
<v Speaker 1>all do things, and we all can be judged. But

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<v Speaker 1>when you are intentionally doing things that are morally wrong

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<v Speaker 1>on a consistent basis, when you're intentionally playing on the emotions,

1:23:33.880 --> 1:23:37.479
<v Speaker 1>when you're intentionally doing these things, you know, there should

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<v Speaker 1>be a consequence for that, Like I think, I don't.

1:23:42.520 --> 1:23:44.879
<v Speaker 1>I think the word I said this to you before.

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<v Speaker 1>I think using the word moral is very, very sticky

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<v Speaker 1>because none of us live morally pure. We all fall

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<v Speaker 1>short of the glory of God, every single one of us.

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<v Speaker 1>And I think when you use the word moral, people

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<v Speaker 1>are triggered because they know that that is a two

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<v Speaker 1>that's too high of a standard for man to define

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<v Speaker 1>people's moral standings. That's God's job. I think though, that

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<v Speaker 1>what we can talk about is a level of righteousness

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<v Speaker 1>and also call things that we see happening that's dangerous

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<v Speaker 1>to our people, ourselves, our community, or whatever it is.

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<v Speaker 1>Because righteousness is a moral, it's it's very to me

1:24:39.960 --> 1:24:46.280
<v Speaker 1>when I hear morals, morals it is too. It is

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<v Speaker 1>defining a lot more than just a person doing something

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<v Speaker 1>wrong today or acting out or saying something wrong. It's like,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, I'm not gonna say and say that my

1:25:01.160 --> 1:25:04.280
<v Speaker 1>parents they didn't do everything right with me as they

1:25:04.360 --> 1:25:07.160
<v Speaker 1>raised me right. There was things that that didn't go right,

1:25:07.240 --> 1:25:09.920
<v Speaker 1>and there's things that my father didn't do well in

1:25:10.000 --> 1:25:13.000
<v Speaker 1>his marriage to my mother early on. But I don't

1:25:13.040 --> 1:25:16.520
<v Speaker 1>think that takes away from his morals. I think it

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<v Speaker 1>means that he did some wrong ship and I'm we

1:25:19.640 --> 1:25:23.240
<v Speaker 1>need to say mistakes. I would say he did some

1:25:23.520 --> 1:25:28.800
<v Speaker 1>he made some choices that rapport well. I think when

1:25:28.800 --> 1:25:33.280
<v Speaker 1>we start talking about morals, it goes to a place

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<v Speaker 1>that none of us could actually stand up to, none

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<v Speaker 1>of us, because if you peel back the layers and

1:25:39.080 --> 1:25:42.000
<v Speaker 1>the onions of all of our lives, from what we've

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<v Speaker 1>done to what we do to what we will do.

1:25:45.560 --> 1:25:47.720
<v Speaker 1>But then I think that's what it is, right. I

1:25:47.760 --> 1:25:52.679
<v Speaker 1>think it's your own moral compass. Right. So if because

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<v Speaker 1>the thing is this, it's like it's like you saying

1:25:55.320 --> 1:25:58.759
<v Speaker 1>it's like a person saying, yo, we both we both

1:25:58.800 --> 1:26:01.040
<v Speaker 1>had sex with somebody else, but you had sex with

1:26:01.080 --> 1:26:04.559
<v Speaker 1>a fourteen yeod and I had six year old, right,

1:26:04.920 --> 1:26:06.800
<v Speaker 1>And people said, well, it doesn't matter, we both have.

1:26:08.120 --> 1:26:10.080
<v Speaker 1>But that's what I'm trying to explain to you, because

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<v Speaker 1>the reality is in your mind there's no comparison. No, no,

1:26:15.160 --> 1:26:21.680
<v Speaker 1>it's not it's no, no, no. I think that is.

1:26:22.000 --> 1:26:25.720
<v Speaker 1>I think the only way you can make that this

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<v Speaker 1>is my The example that I would have used to

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<v Speaker 1>describe what you're saying is to say that you know

1:26:33.760 --> 1:26:37.639
<v Speaker 1>I cheated once, you cheated five times, and I could

1:26:37.640 --> 1:26:41.439
<v Speaker 1>see him say, well, once is okay, but five times

1:26:41.560 --> 1:26:46.160
<v Speaker 1>was too much. Or I cheated for two years because

1:26:46.400 --> 1:26:49.840
<v Speaker 1>one night you can't help. Let me just finish. But

1:26:50.840 --> 1:26:55.280
<v Speaker 1>sleeping with a child as a grown man, it's a

1:26:55.400 --> 1:27:01.439
<v Speaker 1>whole different thing that is predatory. You're not because olds

1:27:02.520 --> 1:27:06.400
<v Speaker 1>not even the same. But but you're not listening. That's

1:27:06.439 --> 1:27:09.559
<v Speaker 1>what my whole thing is. You're seeing exactly what I'm

1:27:09.600 --> 1:27:12.519
<v Speaker 1>trying to say. Right, I'm saying when I'm talking about

1:27:12.520 --> 1:27:16.800
<v Speaker 1>my moral compass, right, I'm not perfect. Right, And it's

1:27:16.800 --> 1:27:19.599
<v Speaker 1>certain ships that I've done that the average person. I

1:27:19.640 --> 1:27:21.599
<v Speaker 1>think the average person has done the ship that I've

1:27:21.600 --> 1:27:25.800
<v Speaker 1>done right. But there's certain ship that people who are

1:27:25.800 --> 1:27:30.120
<v Speaker 1>innately or intentionally trying to be evil intentionally don't have

1:27:30.240 --> 1:27:35.000
<v Speaker 1>good natures. They do differently. Right. The ship that we do,

1:27:35.520 --> 1:27:39.440
<v Speaker 1>that that most of us make, falls short upon. Everybody's

1:27:39.439 --> 1:27:41.280
<v Speaker 1>not gonna tell the truth for all the time. Some

1:27:41.360 --> 1:27:44.360
<v Speaker 1>people might have infidelity, certain ships like that. These are

1:27:44.560 --> 1:27:49.680
<v Speaker 1>age old things that of the culture has dealt with

1:27:50.439 --> 1:27:54.280
<v Speaker 1>in one way, of the world, not just the coach

1:27:54.400 --> 1:27:55.960
<v Speaker 1>of the world. Of the world has deal with. So

1:27:56.000 --> 1:27:58.400
<v Speaker 1>this is these are relatable things that we can all

1:27:58.439 --> 1:28:02.360
<v Speaker 1>look at a sent But okay, I mean, I don't

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<v Speaker 1>I get your point that a lot of people have

1:28:05.080 --> 1:28:07.840
<v Speaker 1>experienced the same issues and some of the things that

1:28:07.880 --> 1:28:11.719
<v Speaker 1>you're talking about are things that's really detrimental. And that's fine,

1:28:11.840 --> 1:28:16.320
<v Speaker 1>I get it. I'm still saying, huh, and that's exactly

1:28:16.360 --> 1:28:18.880
<v Speaker 1>what I'm saying. So the things that I'm trying to understand, yeah,

1:28:19.080 --> 1:28:23.200
<v Speaker 1>I understand what you're saying. I'm just only trying to

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<v Speaker 1>be cautious myself of you know, I just think morality

1:28:31.520 --> 1:28:35.720
<v Speaker 1>is a very high call. It's a very high call.

1:28:35.920 --> 1:28:39.360
<v Speaker 1>So that's all I'm saying. And so therefore, when you

1:28:39.400 --> 1:28:42.840
<v Speaker 1>know the art of communication, and we've learned this, we

1:28:42.920 --> 1:28:46.799
<v Speaker 1>have this same discussion amongst ourselves about our business deals,

1:28:46.840 --> 1:28:50.160
<v Speaker 1>all the things that we do together, where we have

1:28:50.320 --> 1:28:54.400
<v Speaker 1>to sometimes check the level of our communication levels so

1:28:54.479 --> 1:28:59.840
<v Speaker 1>that we understand when you're talking to another person, it's

1:28:59.840 --> 1:29:02.559
<v Speaker 1>not out about you, but it's about what you're trying

1:29:02.600 --> 1:29:07.000
<v Speaker 1>to communicate to them and how they receive information. So

1:29:07.080 --> 1:29:10.439
<v Speaker 1>I already know over time, like I know that when

1:29:10.439 --> 1:29:15.280
<v Speaker 1>I'm talking to Angelo um or you know, when I'm

1:29:15.360 --> 1:29:19.720
<v Speaker 1>when I'm talking to you, especially you. I can't necessary,

1:29:19.720 --> 1:29:24.080
<v Speaker 1>I can't approach the conversation accusatory. I have to approach

1:29:24.120 --> 1:29:26.960
<v Speaker 1>the conversation by being like, hey, I want us to

1:29:27.000 --> 1:29:29.680
<v Speaker 1>examine this situation and figure out what do we do

1:29:29.800 --> 1:29:31.599
<v Speaker 1>to get better. Now. I'm not good at that all

1:29:31.600 --> 1:29:34.320
<v Speaker 1>the time. Sometimes I do come to the conversation like

1:29:34.720 --> 1:29:36.880
<v Speaker 1>you did this, and you did it, and that's and

1:29:36.920 --> 1:29:41.200
<v Speaker 1>that and that automat I can see the wall come up, right.

1:29:41.760 --> 1:29:46.280
<v Speaker 1>So when you're trying to communicate with people as my son,

1:29:46.840 --> 1:29:53.120
<v Speaker 1>and you start talking about morals, it it impacts the

1:29:53.160 --> 1:29:56.919
<v Speaker 1>people you're communicating with a certain way because they That's

1:29:56.960 --> 1:29:59.240
<v Speaker 1>where it seems like you think you're sitting on this

1:29:59.400 --> 1:30:01.840
<v Speaker 1>high hord. No, but it's not even that. Is that

1:30:01.880 --> 1:30:05.559
<v Speaker 1>we all have that our own moral compass and and

1:30:05.600 --> 1:30:09.760
<v Speaker 1>that's each individual should have. That you should have for you.

1:30:10.479 --> 1:30:13.880
<v Speaker 1>What it is, I would say standard, That's what I'm saying,

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<v Speaker 1>is the same thing. It's you you able to to

1:30:17.920 --> 1:30:21.080
<v Speaker 1>weigh and figure out what is for you, like because

1:30:21.160 --> 1:30:23.280
<v Speaker 1>you can't say, yo, yo, you need to hang out

1:30:23.320 --> 1:30:25.000
<v Speaker 1>with me because you went to jail before, and I

1:30:25.000 --> 1:30:26.880
<v Speaker 1>went to jail before. Now we went to jail for

1:30:26.960 --> 1:30:28.920
<v Speaker 1>different things, and the ship that you went to jail for,

1:30:29.280 --> 1:30:31.840
<v Speaker 1>I would never do so. Just because we shared the

1:30:31.880 --> 1:30:35.320
<v Speaker 1>same space both or convicted feelings, doesn't mean that we

1:30:35.360 --> 1:30:37.599
<v Speaker 1>are on the same that we are on the same level.

1:30:37.760 --> 1:30:40.439
<v Speaker 1>I mean to me, you might you might think it's

1:30:40.439 --> 1:30:43.320
<v Speaker 1>okay ship, that you think it's okay. It's not okay

1:30:43.360 --> 1:30:47.479
<v Speaker 1>for me and I have that. I just think words matter,

1:30:47.600 --> 1:30:50.599
<v Speaker 1>That's all I'm saying. So anyway, it is what it is.

1:30:50.920 --> 1:30:54.240
<v Speaker 1>The point is that Jeffrey Dahm ain't no goddamn person,

1:30:54.320 --> 1:30:58.759
<v Speaker 1>but nobody will be making a fan killing people, praying

1:30:58.800 --> 1:31:02.840
<v Speaker 1>on people, drugging people, raping people, and doing all kinds

1:31:02.840 --> 1:31:05.800
<v Speaker 1>of crazy ship. And if you if that's if you're

1:31:05.800 --> 1:31:08.360
<v Speaker 1>a fan of his, you need some help. You should

1:31:08.360 --> 1:31:11.920
<v Speaker 1>probably talk. It is really crazy for you to follow

1:31:12.040 --> 1:31:16.200
<v Speaker 1>Jeffrey down, like the do Kenny's Like, so what do

1:31:16.240 --> 1:31:18.240
<v Speaker 1>you want him to do? Eat you alive? Like what

1:31:18.439 --> 1:31:21.120
<v Speaker 1>is the goal they might have doing here? Sexy? Let

1:31:21.120 --> 1:31:23.760
<v Speaker 1>me tell you something. You will be surprised about the

1:31:23.840 --> 1:31:28.439
<v Speaker 1>things that turn people on. Because even in porn, like

1:31:28.520 --> 1:31:30.680
<v Speaker 1>in the in the porn world, which we should do

1:31:30.720 --> 1:31:33.320
<v Speaker 1>a show one poorn, but even because you know I

1:31:33.600 --> 1:31:37.160
<v Speaker 1>was gonna know we should because I heard I didn't

1:31:37.200 --> 1:31:41.479
<v Speaker 1>get to ask Angela about a conversation that she was

1:31:41.560 --> 1:31:46.160
<v Speaker 1>having with Spice Girl on lip Service. I think it

1:31:46.200 --> 1:31:49.960
<v Speaker 1>was spice Girl, yeah, where she said that, Um, she

1:31:50.120 --> 1:31:53.840
<v Speaker 1>doesn't she she thinks that if you masturbate right, that

1:31:54.000 --> 1:31:57.200
<v Speaker 1>it would be it's like an evil demon or something

1:31:58.439 --> 1:32:02.880
<v Speaker 1>sexy demon exact actual. But you know, people some people

1:32:03.800 --> 1:32:07.479
<v Speaker 1>that's the same scenario spills over into other areas, like

1:32:07.600 --> 1:32:10.599
<v Speaker 1>you know, watching porn and all of that. So I

1:32:10.680 --> 1:32:13.000
<v Speaker 1>just think that it's a it's a conversation because a

1:32:13.000 --> 1:32:16.479
<v Speaker 1>lot of people are a lot of people seem to

1:32:16.520 --> 1:32:18.760
<v Speaker 1>be interested, and let's just put it that way. But

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<v Speaker 1>the reason why I brought that up is because even

1:32:21.280 --> 1:32:24.599
<v Speaker 1>within the porn industry, not because I know for sure,

1:32:24.640 --> 1:32:28.920
<v Speaker 1>it's just you know, just I read about it, there

1:32:29.000 --> 1:32:36.160
<v Speaker 1>happens to be different types of different um genres in

1:32:36.200 --> 1:32:41.000
<v Speaker 1>the industry exactly. So there's different fetishes. So maybe somebody

1:32:41.040 --> 1:32:49.519
<v Speaker 1>has rolled playing murder, kidnapping, um, all kinds of crazy

1:32:49.680 --> 1:32:52.840
<v Speaker 1>freak ship that people are into, and they might have

1:32:52.840 --> 1:32:55.320
<v Speaker 1>been turned on when they watched Domma eating but ship.

1:32:55.800 --> 1:32:58.479
<v Speaker 1>He was doing it and he was turned on by it,

1:32:58.600 --> 1:33:00.720
<v Speaker 1>so it must be another nut that's out here that

1:33:00.800 --> 1:33:06.160
<v Speaker 1>likes that ship too. Yeah for nothing, definitely enough. And

1:33:06.240 --> 1:33:10.000
<v Speaker 1>with that said, we are gonna come to the end

1:33:10.000 --> 1:33:12.200
<v Speaker 1>of this show. Shout out to Angela for the a

1:33:12.280 --> 1:33:15.599
<v Speaker 1>dope interview. Make sure that you're tuned in for Way

1:33:15.680 --> 1:33:19.880
<v Speaker 1>Up with Ye It's gonna be an amazing show. She said,

1:33:20.400 --> 1:33:24.800
<v Speaker 1>Oh Angela, Okay, Way Up with Angela. She's you know,

1:33:25.280 --> 1:33:28.040
<v Speaker 1>so I look forward to that. Um, thank you all

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