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Speaker 3: His way up with angela yee happy? What is it Tuesday? Man?

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Speaker 4: I'm so excited because I have somebody who is, to

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Speaker 5: I'm happy to be here.

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Speaker 4: He does this for a living. So don't let him.

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Speaker 4: Don't let him fool you. But you know, you can

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Speaker 4: watch a lot of his interviews on Salon, but also

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Speaker 4: his books that he's written, Black Boy Smile, which I love.

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Speaker 4: The first one I read, I think was We Speak

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Speaker 4: for Ourselves, which I think is a really important book.

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Speaker 3: And I know you had a lot to say as.

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Speaker 4: We were getting ready for the election and why we

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Speaker 4: you're also from Baltimore, but you know The Wire is

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Speaker 1: A dream coming.

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Speaker 5: That was a dream come true.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, well we're going to get all into

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Speaker 4: your business today any real Carmelo Anthony's memoir. I just

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Speaker 4: The musical umbera way and you also know him by

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Speaker 4: All right, well, let's get this show started with some love,

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Speaker 4: with some positivity because we need it.

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Speaker 3: Eight hundred two nine two fifty one fifty. Call us up.

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Speaker 3: We are gonna shine a light. It's way up.

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Speaker 1: Turn your lights on.

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Speaker 7: Y'all's breading love to those who are doing greatness.

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Speaker 3: It's way up.

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Speaker 4: At Angela, yee, I'm here, my guy d Whykin's is

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Speaker 4: guest hosting today. Pleasure and honor to have you here,

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Speaker 4: pleasures all mine. All right, well, let's shine a light today.

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Speaker 4: Let's shine a light on Angie Martinez because it happens

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Speaker 4: to be Angie Martinez Day. She was given that day

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Speaker 4: by the former mayor Bill de Blasio. And of course

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Speaker 4: My Voice, but she also is making her directorial debut

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Speaker 5: You know, Angie, Yeah, I'm a big fan, A huge fan.

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Speaker 4: All right, Well, shout out to Angie Martinez. We shine

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Speaker 4: a light on you today on Angie Martinez Day. Now,

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Speaker 4: who do you guys want to spread some love to?

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Speaker 4: Who do you want to shine a light on? Eight

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Speaker 8: I would like to shine the light on doctor Friedo

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Speaker 8: and her birthday is tomorrow. She'd give free medical evidence

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Speaker 4: Thank you you used doctor Frieda for some free advice.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate you for Colling. We always need to turn

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Speaker 4: It's way up with Angela yee. And I'm here with

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Speaker 3: Here's what he said, a thousand percent transparency.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I would just pay it, and I would just

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Speaker 10: I'm gonna fight to keep it. I'm gonna shoot, stab,

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Speaker 4: He also did vow that he would provide for his kids,

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Speaker 4: Sometimes you spend more money fighting these things in court

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Speaker 3: What did you do last night?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, No, seriously, there's so many stories that need to

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Speaker 4: All right, Well, thank you for that. That's really interesting

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Speaker 3: We need them, especially now.

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Speaker 4: But when me come back, d Watkins, I want people

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Speaker 4: All right, because you talked about HBO, and I know

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Speaker 6: He was like, you got it right now for Baltimore.

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Speaker 4: We'll talk more about what you have going on, because

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Speaker 3: All right, cool, all right, it's way up, no beg.

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Speaker 1: He you're way up with it, Angela. Please believe that.

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Speaker 3: All right, this way up with Angela.

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Speaker 3: I met you as an author, right, he's just not

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but one of my favorite books that you wrote

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know. The funny thing about that.

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Speaker 6: The guy who acquired the book named Todd. Shout out

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Speaker 6: The book is about how you should really, really really

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Speaker 6: But when I see these people in real life across

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Speaker 4: It's interesting in this day and age too, because I

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Speaker 6: And it's it's a it's a it's an easy fix.

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Speaker 6: We don't need somebody from whatever social media website to

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Speaker 5: We can tell you this is.

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Speaker 4: Because you did write Carmelo Anthony's memoir, write someone's memoir

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Speaker 5: And I think.

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Speaker 6: I think the trust was there just because, like we

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Speaker 3: That's the perfect pairing. You guys too.

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Speaker 5: All the way we were working we're writing the film

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Speaker 3: And Kayane did they announced he's going to Syracuse. That

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Speaker 5: He's going to carry a torch.

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Speaker 1: Kanye.

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Speaker 5: Kanye, we trust.

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Speaker 4: And we have more to talk about because we didn't

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Speaker 4: We'll talk about Jay Cole and he is discussing Kanye

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Speaker 3: It's the way up here. Some of my girl Saizza

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Speaker 7: Sure she's about to blow the lid ab off this,

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Speaker 1: Come and get the tea.

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Speaker 3: It's way up with Angela. Yee. I'm here. My guy

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Speaker 3: Are you a jakof fan?

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Speaker 5: Absolutely?

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Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to his whole audio series that he's doing.

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Speaker 4: But on his new audio series Inevitable, he talked about

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Speaker 13: I was an aggressive battle rapper right and I was

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Speaker 13: I didn't sell no drugs, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 13: Like like that my favor it was nothing like my

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Speaker 4: Okay, but it felt like they didn't get along after that,

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Speaker 6: Way he did the way he did, the way J

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Speaker 5: Because Kanye.

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Speaker 6: Like he came through with his Polo shirts and his

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Speaker 5: He gave voice to a lot of people. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, false profits. Let's listen to that.

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Speaker 4: And that's the song in particular right that we talk

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Speaker 4: Genie Mai is accusing Jezi of harassment after his oppressive

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Speaker 4: unrelated custody case and based on a number of lawsuits

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Speaker 4: that have been filed against him by his former employees

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Speaker 4: and associates regarding non payment of debts, it is clear

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Speaker 4: that Jesu's motive in issuing said subpoena was for no

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Speaker 4: other purpose than to harass and intimidate Miss May.

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Speaker 3: They tried to embarrass him with that one. The whole

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Speaker 3: thing is petty, all right.

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Speaker 4: Ryan Garcia is targeting a Jake Paul fight, and he

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Speaker 4: has another fight that's coming up December thirtieth, Is that right?

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Speaker 4: Is that what his fight is, but it's he's currently

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Speaker 4: has a one year suspension. Yeah, it's December thirtieth.

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Speaker 3: This is his next fight.

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Speaker 4: He's fighting a Japanese kickboxer rukaya Onpo. And then he

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Speaker 4: said Jake Paul he wants to fight him in twenty

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Speaker 4: twenty five. That probably will make them money. Yeah, people

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Speaker 4: will see that.

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Speaker 6: I wish we didn't have to call it boxing. I

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Speaker 6: think we should just put this. We should start like

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Speaker 6: something brand new. Yeah, specially it's a spectacle.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: All right, well that is your ut when we come back,

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Speaker 4: we have under the radar. These are the stories that

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Speaker 4: are not necessarily in the headlines. They're flying under the radar,

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Speaker 4: but we definitely want to make sure you know about him,

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Speaker 4: be informed.

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Speaker 1: It's way up this in the news that relates to you.

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Speaker 1: These stories are flying under the radar.

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Speaker 3: All right, it's way yup with Angela Yee.

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Speaker 4: I'm here with my guest co host Dee Watkins today exciting. Now,

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Speaker 4: these are the under the radar stories that we definitely

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Speaker 4: know you need to hear about, even if you haven't.

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Speaker 4: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, he is going to propose

475
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Speaker 4: the next steps in Donald Trump's new York hush money

476
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Speaker 4: case today after these unprecedented circumstances, following his conviction on

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Speaker 4: thirty four felon accounts earlier this year. So his sentencing

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Speaker 4: is tentatively scheduled for November twenty six, but they're trying

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Speaker 4: to get this case dismissed, of course, ahead of Donald

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Speaker 4: Trump's inauguration, so we'll see what's going to happen. Trump's

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Speaker 4: lawyers also argued for a dismissal by citing the Presidential

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Speaker 4: Transition Act of nineteen sixty three, which says that government

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Speaker 4: officers have to take lawful steps to avoid or minimize

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Speaker 4: disruptions to the presidential transition.

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Speaker 3: So that's part of how.

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Speaker 5: Convenient your head, How convenient, that's how that works.

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Speaker 3: So listen, Alvin Brad, you know what to do. You

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Speaker 3: know another thing. And we talked about this off the air.

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Speaker 4: We were talking about the housing crisis that we're having

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Speaker 4: here and Donald Trump's plan of mass, mass deportation, how

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Speaker 4: that's going to affect homes being built.

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Speaker 6: Right a house in Baltimore that would cost four hundred

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Speaker 6: thousand dollars, which would probably be three million dollars in

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Speaker 6: New York. But a four hundred thousand dollars home for

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Speaker 6: a family would cost two million dollars if you expect

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Speaker 6: me to build it.

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Speaker 3: You know, I was reading this article on CNN that's

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Speaker 3: just about that, right.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 4: They're trying to argue that we need more housing because

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Speaker 4: of these undocumented immigrants, but they said an influx of

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Speaker 4: what they're saying is an influx of immigrants document or

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Speaker 4: not as to housing demand, potentially increasing competition for homes.

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Speaker 4: But the truth to the matter is, at least according

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Speaker 4: to the National Association of Homebuilders, at least one point

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Speaker 4: five million homes need to be built to meet growing demand.

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Speaker 4: There's a need for more construction workers as well. Right now,

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Speaker 4: there's about two hundred and eighty two thousand construction jobs

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Speaker 4: open as of September, and according to the CEO of NHB,

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Speaker 4: they said, immigrant labor is really important for our ability

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Speaker 4: to continue to build homes affordably. Similar to what you said,

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Speaker 4: d Watkins, anything that would have an impact on the

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Speaker 4: labor supply, and in this case, the immigrant labor supply

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Speaker 4: does give us concern about our ability to meet the

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Speaker 4: housing needs of the country.

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Speaker 5: We're having it like there's a shortage right now in

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Speaker 5: the workforce in general.

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Speaker 6: People don't want to be they don't want to be firefighters,

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Speaker 6: they don't want it to go to college like people

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Speaker 6: are seeing it, like you know, the gig economy has

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Speaker 6: already shifted how America works. Now you're gonna just delete

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Speaker 6: the workforce, like our economy will shattered. This would be

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Speaker 6: like one of the biggest nightmares ever.

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Speaker 4: The construction industry already has a hard time finding workers,

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Speaker 4: they said. Surveyed at the end of last year, homebuilders

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Speaker 4: ranked the skilled labor shortage as the top challenge they

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Speaker 4: faced in twenty twenty three and the top expected challenge

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Speaker 4: for twenty twenty four. It's a struggle to find legal

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Speaker 4: employees to fill open roles at his firms. And they

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Speaker 4: do have to rely on immigrant labor, but they need

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Speaker 4: legal labor otherwise. You know, this shortage is gonna get

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Speaker 4: worse and worse, So just anticipate that, all right.

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Speaker 3: That is your under the radar stories.

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Speaker 4: We have the way It Mixed at the top of

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Speaker 4: the hour, plus the star of MJ the musical Oh Brahway,

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Speaker 4: Elijah Johnson is going to be joining us. It's way up,

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Speaker 4: they saysof in the rooms from industry shade.

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Speaker 1: To all of gossip out sad man Angelus spilling that eat.

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Speaker 4: All right, this way up with Angela Yee. I'm here

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Speaker 4: with my guest co host de Watkins today, ready to

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Speaker 4: get into.

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Speaker 3: This et om here all right.

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Speaker 4: Diddy's sons have issued a cease and desist over this

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Speaker 4: Camporter book. Christen and Quincy Combs fired off this letter

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Speaker 4: to Courtney Burgess and his attorney Ariel Mitchell over the

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Speaker 4: Kimporter Tell It All, a book that is sold online

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Speaker 4: under the pseudonym of Jamal Millwood. They said they became

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Speaker 4: the rightful heirs and owners of her intellectual property following

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Speaker 4: her death in November twenty eighteen, and if this is

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Speaker 4: a real thing, a real diary, then that should belong

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Speaker 4: to them.

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Speaker 3: They said.

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Speaker 4: Burgess himself did a bunch of interviews to promote the book,

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Speaker 4: but it was originally an unedited copy of her diary memoir,

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Speaker 4: and he's alleging to have a flash drive from people

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Speaker 4: who were close to Kim and printed it without any

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Speaker 4: edits to produce the book. They're shooting down that narrative.

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Speaker 4: They're saying the whole flash drive tale is false and

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Speaker 4: misleads the public. But if it were true, that flash

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Speaker 4: drive would belong to them.

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Speaker 6: It belongs to the kids. Let that woman rest in peace.

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Speaker 6: You know, she's not here. She can't defend herself. Maybe

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Speaker 6: she wanted it out, maybe she didn't. But let her

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Speaker 6: rest in peace.

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Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, maybe it's real. Maybe we don't even know.

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Speaker 4: But they said there's you have five days to shut

567
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Speaker 4: down the online sale of the book, stopped doing interviews

568
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Speaker 4: making these false claims, turn over any of her possessions

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Speaker 4: that he claims to have, and they want an accounting

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Speaker 4: of any money that he's already made off the book.

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Speaker 3: In other words, lawsuit on the way.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely all right, Now, if you guys recall Quincy and

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Speaker 4: Christian Colmes. Diddy's sons also did get into a little

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Speaker 4: physical altercation with ray J that Chris Brown broke up.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 3: Well, ray J is now saying that they have squashed everything.

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Speaker 3: Here's what he said.

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Speaker 14: As far as Diddy's sons, Yeah, it's been a lot,

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Speaker 14: and I think at this point, you know, we had

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Speaker 14: to all sit down and we had to really figure

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Speaker 14: out what this looks like and what we should do

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Speaker 14: moving forward.

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Speaker 1: And so we've worked out our differences.

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Speaker 4: All right, Well, that's good ray J worked out his

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Speaker 4: differences with Justin Christian and Quincy. You know, there is

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Speaker 4: another person now speaking about Diddy. Now this is a

587
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Speaker 4: very wild claim, but his former bodyguard is saying that

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Speaker 4: he sacrificed I guess a bird in order to get

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Speaker 4: out of the nineteen ninety nine nightclub shooting. He said

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Speaker 4: he had his driver take him to meet a man

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Speaker 4: who had been waiting for him at the park, and

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Speaker 4: then I guess when Puff got close to the guy,

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Speaker 4: he dropped down to his knees. This is according to

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Speaker 4: Rolling Stone. He said, next thing I see is this

595
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Speaker 4: smoke just going back and forth around Puff. I guess

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Speaker 4: it was sage or something like that. And then he

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Speaker 4: alleges that the man this is Gene Deal, that the

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Speaker 4: man holding a Bible began praying and laying his hands

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Speaker 4: on Diddy. And then he said he instructed him to

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Speaker 4: grab a white bird from the cage he had bought

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Speaker 4: and then threw it up in the air and the

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Speaker 4: bird just fell to the ground like it was a brick.

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Speaker 3: And he said the bird didn't move, it just died.

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Speaker 3: And then did he moved away from there? Quick?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Wow?

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Speaker 6: Wow, WHOA, Now I have a lot of friends that

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Speaker 6: like in the system, been through the system.

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Speaker 5: We talk about this all of the time. And just

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Speaker 5: like the bird defense is something new.

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Speaker 3: I never heard of such a thing.

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Speaker 5: Now, you know, now we know?

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Speaker 3: All right? Now lip Service. It's a Tuesday.

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Speaker 4: So the newest episode of lip Service is out today

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Speaker 4: and Derek Mlano and Black China are on the latest episode.

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Speaker 3: You know, they are engaged.

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Speaker 4: There are they're gonna be on love and hip Hop together,

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Speaker 4: and so one thing that they talked about the whole

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Speaker 4: episode is basically like they are in love love and

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Speaker 4: when I saw you, Black China got so emotional just

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Speaker 4: talking about their whole relationship, how they got to where

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Speaker 4: they are. Derek Mlinald talks a lot about how initially

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Speaker 4: he didn't even want to date her because he didn't

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Speaker 4: want to mix business with pleasure.

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Speaker 3: He's a music producer.

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Speaker 4: And so here's Black China and Derek Mlinald talking about

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Speaker 4: who said I love you first?

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Speaker 14: Maybe me?

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Speaker 1: I think it might have been you.

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Speaker 6: It's happening.

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Speaker 3: She said I love you, but you both I said

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Speaker 3: love at first sight.

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Speaker 8: Ye said.

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Speaker 3: At first and then that's that is all right?

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Speaker 4: So one year of dating and look now they're engaged. Now,

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Speaker 4: another thing that they talked about, this always comes up.

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Speaker 4: Prenup are not And here's what they said.

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Speaker 5: I'm not against it.

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Speaker 15: I'm not opposed to it, but I mean because she

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Speaker 15: has a lot of stuff already that's hers. I have

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Speaker 15: my stuff that's mine. You know what I'm saying. But

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Speaker 15: I'm not one of those people like, oh, you need

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Speaker 15: to do one.

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Speaker 3: But it's a contract, and you guys are business people,

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Speaker 3: Well that's it.

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Speaker 6: It won't be a prenup.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what I'm saying because I feel like it's

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Speaker 5: one of those things we have.

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Speaker 3: We're not getting divorced.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I ain't gonna tell nobody how to conduct their business.

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Speaker 4: But yes, So you can watch that full episode at

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Speaker 4: six pm. All right, six pm. That will be out

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Speaker 4: on my YouTube channel, but it's also available the audio

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Speaker 4: on iHeart Network. All Right, when we come back, Dee Watkins,

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Speaker 4: we are going to talk to you some more about

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Speaker 4: what you have going on. Earlier, we talked about this

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Speaker 4: whole process of Carmelo Anthony's book. We talked about everything

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Speaker 4: that you have going on, even and I told you

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Speaker 4: about one of my favorite books that you did. We

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Speaker 4: speak for ourselves black Boys smile.

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Speaker 3: You also have that.

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Speaker 4: But I want to talk about this new thing, this

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Speaker 4: new thing that you're embarking on. You were with d

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Speaker 4: Wade for the past year, so we're going to get

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Speaker 4: some little spoilers about that when we come back.

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Speaker 3: It's way up, ye yee, is what you all being

667
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Speaker 3: waiting for.

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Speaker 1: You're tapped in the way up with Angela yee.

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Speaker 3: Yes, this way up with Angela Yee. I'm here with

670
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Speaker 3: my guest co host, Dee Watkins.

671
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Speaker 4: I hate the fact that we just in ye t

672
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Speaker 4: told this Diddy story about the bird and the bird

673
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Speaker 4: and then we ordered popeye'es.

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Speaker 2: What is wrong with us?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 7: Well?

677
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Speaker 3: Anyway, I know, well do you.

678
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Speaker 4: Walk ins here by the way? Editor at large at Salon,

679
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Speaker 4: is that still your title there? I just want to

680
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Speaker 4: make sure I have that right absolutely, Okay, Same and

681
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 4: has done some amazing interviews. I was just talking about

682
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Speaker 4: your interview with you that you did with Andre Day

683
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Speaker 4: and you also interviewed Tyrese recently. But you do amazing

684
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Speaker 4: work and as an author, as a writer for television shows,

685
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Speaker 4: as somebody who helps people write their memoirs as well.

686
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Speaker 4: You just spent a lot of time with d Wade,

687
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Speaker 4: Now tell us what's happening with that.

688
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Speaker 6: So this is an article that I've been working on

689
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Speaker 6: a profile for a little over a year. And you know,

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Speaker 6: one thing about about athletes, especially you know, ones that

691
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Speaker 6: are public facing like way.

692
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Speaker 5: You know, we look at the business, we look at

693
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Speaker 5: the sports, we look at what.

694
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Speaker 6: Is put out through the internet, social media and all

695
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Speaker 6: of that, but we don't really get an opportunity to

696
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Speaker 6: go deeper to see the family man, to see the

697
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Speaker 6: person who is extremely grateful for what they accomplished, to

698
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Speaker 6: see a person so confident bring up stories where they

699
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 6: weren't always as confident, you know, And it was you know,

700
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Speaker 6: the story comes out at the top of next year.

701
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Speaker 5: But what I will say is that it's some it's

702
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 5: some beautiful scenes in that article.

703
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Speaker 6: We went back to his childhood home on fifty Knife

704
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Speaker 6: and Perry in Chicago, and he jumped out the truck

705
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Speaker 6: like a kid, you know, because he hasn't he hasn't

706
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Speaker 6: been in that neighborhood in a long time. So it

707
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Speaker 6: was like emotional and nostalgic for him. And then I

708
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Speaker 6: got a chance to see the statue.

709
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Speaker 3: That everybody was talking about.

710
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Speaker 6: Everybody was talking about a couple of times before it

711
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Speaker 6: was done, so I got a chance to to just

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Speaker 6: capture that whole process, which is also, you know, a

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Speaker 6: story within itself.

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Speaker 4: I do most people because I don't hear of you're

715
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Speaker 4: doing this article. It's a whole profile. This feels like

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Speaker 4: more than an article.

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Speaker 6: I feel like it's gonna be transformative for how people

718
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Speaker 6: look at athlete and how people look at black men

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Speaker 6: and our ability to be vulnerable to fail. I think

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Speaker 6: still two and twenty four. You know, a lot of

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Speaker 6: times it's black people we arrived of the ability to feel.

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Speaker 6: You know, people think we're so strong, we're so resilient,

723
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Speaker 6: we can just push through. And I think when you

724
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Speaker 6: treat people like that, it's easy for you to destroy them,

725
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Speaker 6: to write them off, to forget about them, and and

726
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Speaker 6: I think this is going to help transform that. So

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Speaker 6: I feel like it's more than an article. But I'm

728
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Speaker 6: also biased because of the person that's right there.

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Speaker 4: No, But I mean, I feel like it's going to

730
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Speaker 4: be more than this because I don't hear of people

731
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Speaker 4: spending a year with someone to do a profile piece.

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Speaker 3: Right, we don't hear that as much anymore.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we don't. I mean a lot of you know,

734
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Speaker 5: a lot of.

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Speaker 6: Magazines they you know, they just they don't really have

736
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Speaker 6: the resources to do that. And we're also we're living

737
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Speaker 6: in a twenty four hour news cycle, and as you see,

738
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Speaker 6: stories come in and they go and I think I'm

739
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Speaker 6: at my best when I get a chance to pull

740
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Speaker 6: back and really look at culture, look at society. Understand that.

741
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Speaker 6: You know, Dwayne Wade, we're a man bag. Fifteen years

742
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:19,959
Speaker 6: ago and it was it was a joke. And then

743
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Speaker 6: now you know, like the same people who made the

744
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Speaker 6: jokes are walking around like, yo, you make my product.

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Speaker 5: You see this goal go yard, you know, you know

746
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Speaker 5: what I mean. So it's like looking at all of

747
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Speaker 5: that and.

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Speaker 6: Looking at the impact on culture and then like bringing

749
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Speaker 6: it back to what really matters. And I think I

750
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Speaker 6: think his family matters to him more than anything, and

751
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Speaker 6: I think I think people just people need to see

752
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Speaker 6: that too.

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Speaker 3: All Right, we'll talk about this more in the meantime.

754
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Speaker 4: We do have to ask ye when we come back

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Speaker 4: eight hundred and two ninety two fifty one fifty Dee

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Speaker 4: Watkins is here.

757
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Speaker 3: It's a good time to get some advice.

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Speaker 4: And I do want to encourage people to go and

759
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Speaker 4: look at when he was on the Breakfast Club and

760
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Speaker 4: see that interview because we talked a lot about what

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Speaker 4: you had been working on at that time.

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Speaker 5: You know as well.

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Speaker 3: Hundred two ninety two fifty one fifty. Call us up,

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Speaker 3: ask yee.

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Speaker 7: Is next and everybody since whether it's relationship with career advice,

766
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Speaker 7: Angela's dropping facts.

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Speaker 1: So you sho you should know. This is ask gee?

768
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Speaker 1: What's up?

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Speaker 3: Is way ye? But Angela Ye.

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Speaker 4: I'm here with my guest co host Dee Watkins, enjoying

771
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Speaker 4: this today and it's time for you guys to ask

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Speaker 4: any question you went to either one of us, for

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Speaker 4: both of us and ask yee. Eight hundred two ninety

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Speaker 4: two fifty one fifty. We have Ariana on the line.

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Speaker 3: What's up? Ariana?

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Speaker 6: Hi?

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Speaker 12: Angela? How are you?

778
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:32,080
Speaker 3: I'm good? How you feeling I'm feeling good.

779
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,360
Speaker 12: I'm feeling good. Excited to talk to you today.

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Speaker 3: All right, Well, it's me and d Watkins. What's your

781
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 3: question for us?

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Speaker 8: Hi?

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Speaker 12: D wakans. So I've been going to therapy for about

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Speaker 12: a year now, and I wanted to know how I

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Speaker 12: can get my boyfriend to start therapy as well. I

786
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Speaker 12: know there's like a huge stigma around men in therapy,

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Speaker 12: and I think that it would definitely support him and

788
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Speaker 12: his growth and also support us as a couple if

789
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Speaker 12: we're both working on ourselves. He had a rough childhood,

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Speaker 12: you know, with his parents and upbringing, so I just

791
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:07,279
Speaker 12: needed a little advice on how I can support him

792
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Speaker 12: to make that decision and ultimately start therapy for himself.

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Speaker 3: Oh do you wacken? This is as good? Do you

794
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Speaker 3: do therapy?

795
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Speaker 6: Not as much as I should, But however, I believe

796
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 6: in therapy. It's transformed. My wife is transformed, My father

797
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:27,359
Speaker 6: has transformed so many people. And what I will say

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Speaker 6: is for a person who who has some apprehension and

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Speaker 6: they're feeling like it may not be for them, I

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Speaker 6: think he should maybe like write down all of the

801
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 6: things that bother him, and then you should just take

802
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 6: the opportunity to talk about him and just start there.

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Speaker 5: I think the key into.

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Speaker 6: Getting someone to want to take that journey is first

805
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Speaker 6: making sure they have a safe space where they can

806
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 6: just freely talk, because it seems like if it doesn't happen,

807
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:56,840
Speaker 6: you're confronted with a different situation.

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Speaker 5: Do you want to get healed or do you want

809
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Speaker 5: to be single?

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Speaker 6: If my wife put her foot down and said, look,

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Speaker 6: you know you work all the time. You need to

812
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Speaker 6: take two hours, whatever hour a week to go see

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Speaker 6: a therapist. Then I value my relationship so much that

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Speaker 6: I would try. I would go horder And I.

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Speaker 3: Think one of the great way to approach it is

816
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Speaker 3: it's not going to hurt. And so worst case.

817
00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:23,040
Speaker 4: Scenario, you're like, oh, this isn't for me, I don't

818
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:25,880
Speaker 4: want to do this anymore. That's fine, but let's at

819
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Speaker 4: least make an effort to try something new because maybe

820
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Speaker 4: you'll love it.

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Speaker 3: That's the best case scenario. But at the worst case,

822
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Speaker 3: it's not going to hurt.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, that makes sense for sure. I mean, you know,

824
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Speaker 12: I think it's hard for people to open up and

825
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Speaker 12: kind of face.

826
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Speaker 3: Some of their trauma. But it's only going to help.

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Speaker 5: You get better.

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Speaker 3: But you love it. But if you don't love it,

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Speaker 3: you don't have to do it.

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Speaker 6: His exercise, maybe he should make a list on every

831
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Speaker 6: reason why he should go and every reason why he

832
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Speaker 6: shouldn't go, and then maybe you guys could talk about

833
00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 6: it over like a glass and wine or something like that.

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Speaker 3: I love that. O.

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Speaker 4: Thank you all right, Well, good luck, Ariana, And hopefully

836
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 4: he'll say, okay, I have no problem you know, trying it,

837
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:08,520
Speaker 4: and if not just for himself, he could do it

838
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 4: for you, yes, yeah, and then and then you trick

839
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Speaker 4: him into doing it for himself.

840
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Speaker 3: All all right, well, thank you so much for calling.

841
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 4: You know, people are sometimes scared to do something that's

842
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 4: in a space where they're not comfortable, and I understand that.

843
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 6: What I fear is I'm an artist. I don't feel

844
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 6: like the world doesn't want a balanced artist.

845
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Speaker 3: They don't want to heal I don't.

846
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:36,759
Speaker 5: I feel like I pull for that pain and I

847
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Speaker 5: sell it the publisher that that works.

848
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Speaker 4: But you know what, it'll be just maybe a different

849
00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 4: type of understanding of yourself and that might pull from

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Speaker 4: somewhere else. I'm working on it, okay, all right, See, look,

851
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Speaker 4: Ariana just convinced you also.

852
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:54,319
Speaker 5: Maybe I'm gonna go where her boyfriend goes. We're gonna

853
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 5: gonna okay, So.

854
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Speaker 4: We're really relying on We're really relying on him now,

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Speaker 4: all right, Well that was asking y E nine two

856
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Speaker 4: fifty one fifty if you couldn't get through. And when

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Speaker 4: we come back, the star of MJ the Musical, Elijah

858
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Speaker 4: Johnson is going to be joining us listen. He's at

859
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Speaker 4: a long road to get to where he is right now,

860
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Speaker 4: but he's right where he's supposed to be. He can't

861
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 4: wait for you guys to hear him talk about it.

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00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:16,360
Speaker 3: It's way up. What you want to know?

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Speaker 1: My name way up with angela ye.

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Speaker 4: What's up is way up with angela ye. And it's

865
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Speaker 4: definitely way up in the room today. Elijah Johnson is here,

866
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Speaker 4: and if you have seen MJ the musical, you know

867
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 4: him as playing MJ on Broadway, such a big deal.

868
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:35,359
Speaker 4: Before you came in here, we were talking about how

869
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Speaker 4: that is like the dream role for anybody who wants

870
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Speaker 4: to be on Broadway.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean just being beformer in general. He's the blueprints.

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00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:43,399
Speaker 11: So I just feel really likely to be even part

873
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Speaker 11: of his leg in any type of way in our show.

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Speaker 3: You did the workshops for a middle Michael before this, so.

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Speaker 11: I've kind of grown with the role in a way

876
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Speaker 11: which is like really cool.

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00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 4: That was back in twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, and you

878
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 4: are actually from a place that is well known for

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Speaker 4: its musical history, Detroit, Detroit Motown. Yes is Detroit. Did

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00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 4: you know a lot of that growing up? Like, was

881
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:03,400
Speaker 4: that type of history ingrained in you.

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00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:05,839
Speaker 11: Yeah, Michael and the Jackson Fire specifically is how why

883
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:07,440
Speaker 11: I started performing. When I was like eight, One of

884
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Speaker 11: the first dance moves I learned was the walk. So

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Speaker 11: that's like my blueprint for me to perform even when.

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Speaker 3: You were young, from a very like nine years old,

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Speaker 3: you were doing the Lion King.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Also that was like my first thing I.

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Speaker 4: Did as a young Simba. What made you even audition

891
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Speaker 4: for that? Like what was the role of your parents

892
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Speaker 4: or your family.

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Speaker 1: And what it is that you do now?

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Speaker 11: My father and like my dad's side of family is

895
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Speaker 11: like sports oriented. My mom's side it's like education. So

896
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Speaker 11: like this was not really like you know what I mean,

897
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Speaker 11: I want to say, yeah, Like it's not like he

898
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Speaker 11: was just like doing stuff like that. But I think

899
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Speaker 11: they saw that it was fun for me, that I

900
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Speaker 11: want to do it. But I wasn't afraid to go

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Speaker 11: up on stage perform. I performed The Dancer, Thriller and

902
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Speaker 11: my Talent Show when I was in middle school, and

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Speaker 11: then the next year I did Dance Machine, So I

904
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Speaker 11: sang and dance and I was just I would just

905
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Speaker 11: do it.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 11: I think they asked me, like, do you want to

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Speaker 11: do this, and I was like, sure, I was eight,

909
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Speaker 11: so like, you know, like it's a bit, you know,

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Speaker 11: but I think I had that passion for it, and

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Speaker 11: I'm really glad that it all worked out because I

912
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Speaker 11: think this is truly what I'm meant to do. But

913
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Speaker 11: I truly didn't fall into it. It wasn't like a

914
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Speaker 11: narrow like, oh, this is exactly how I'm going to

915
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Speaker 11: get into this thing.

916
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Speaker 4: Right now, I'm talking to young actor, singer, performer Elijah Johnson.

917
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Speaker 4: You know him as MJ on Broadway but also as

918
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Speaker 4: a former member of Mindless Behavior.

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Speaker 3: So were you like the lead in all the school plays?

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Speaker 5: No, not even like that, not even I.

921
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Speaker 1: Think I did a school play.

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Speaker 5: It truly was like it was a long time.

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Speaker 11: Chris Brown came out and I was like, he's an amaze,

924
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Speaker 11: Like I was just amazed by him.

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Speaker 5: My dad like he's very good. You should also watch

926
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Speaker 5: Michael Jackson.

927
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Speaker 11: I don't know if we really like I listened to music,

928
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Speaker 11: but I don't know if you really like understand And

929
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Speaker 11: then like that watching the Michael Jackson short films and

930
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Speaker 11: music videos and Jackson five performances, I was cooked. And

931
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Speaker 11: then like in ten, I plot linking in Las Vegas,

932
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Speaker 11: and then like I had to move to Las Vegas.

933
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Speaker 11: Like it was just say, I've kind of been working

934
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Speaker 11: since then, I think. So then everybody had to move

935
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Speaker 11: to Vegas or somebody I moved my dad, Yeah, my dad,

936
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Speaker 11: my mom stayed home, my little brother and so like

937
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Speaker 11: it it was like a sacrifice for all of us.

938
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Speaker 5: But it was like a big learning curve.

939
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Speaker 11: Thankfully it worked out, you know, but it's it's deep.

940
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Speaker 11: It's insane now because in our show, we have a

941
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Speaker 11: little and so a lot of them are young simbls

942
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Speaker 11: that come from the Lion King.

943
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Speaker 4: Kids are so impressive. I went to go see MJ

944
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Speaker 4: the Music and even the Lion King. Seeing how those

945
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Speaker 4: kids can like remember their lines, know those dance moves

946
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Speaker 4: and hit it spot on is fascinating.

947
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Speaker 5: It's insane, and.

948
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Speaker 11: Especially like because I'm like, well I was that at

949
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Speaker 11: some point, like I'm adunlt know, I'm looking back and

950
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Speaker 11: like it's crazy because like they're so professional, so good,

951
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:24,200
Speaker 11: they are still kids, and I'm like I remember that,

952
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Speaker 11: Like you don't understand the magnitude of like, oh, you're

953
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Speaker 11: leading like a lion King, Like you're a lead of

954
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:31,880
Speaker 11: you don't understand you like you're really fully understand that

955
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Speaker 11: being now as adult, I think it's just like very

956
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Speaker 11: crazy that that was somewhat of my experience and to

957
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Speaker 11: still be doing it now and still find a like

958
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Speaker 11: joy And I'm really thankful that, like it's still a

959
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:43,040
Speaker 11: warring thing for me because the enertry is really hard.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you seem very normal. Yeah that's good.

961
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Speaker 5: Yeah that's hopefully. I'm good. Like I do.

962
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Speaker 3: I have a weird story, but like yeah, I'm like,

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Speaker 3: you know, like it's it's yeah.

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Speaker 1: What.

965
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Speaker 3: Congratulations to you, and thank you so much for coming.

966
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Speaker 4: Everybody, make sure you go see Elijah in MJ the

967
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Speaker 4: Musical honestly, and I'm gonna know you will not be disappointed.

968
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Speaker 4: You're going to go back and see it again. You're

969
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Speaker 4: going to spread the word. But thank you so much

970
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Speaker 4: for having thanks well to serve all of your success, all.

971
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Speaker 3: Of your hard work.

972
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Speaker 5: Thanks so much, appreciate.

973
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Speaker 4: You can watch that full interview on my YouTube channel

974
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Speaker 4: Way Up with ye And when we come back, of course,

975
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Speaker 4: you guys have the last.

976
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Speaker 1: Word tapping against your voice heard what the word is?

977
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Speaker 1: He is the last word on Way Up with Angela.

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Speaker 4: Yee, what's up this way up with Angela Yee, I'm

979
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Speaker 4: here and d Watkins guest hosted today.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 5: I'm so happy to be anytime listen.

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Speaker 3: Don't hold me to that.

983
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 4: Make sure you check out everything that he's doing at

984
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Speaker 4: Salon editor at Lard you've been.

985
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Speaker 3: There for how long now?

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Speaker 5: Ten years?

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Speaker 10: Mold?

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 4: Well again, make sure you check out all of that.

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Speaker 4: Make sure you buy all of his books. Oh and

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Speaker 4: we didn't even talk about the HBO series. We also

992
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Speaker 4: didn't talk about the Mike Africa book. Just plug that

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Speaker 4: real fast.

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Speaker 6: Oh please, please please check out Mike Africa's book on

995
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Speaker 6: the Move. That is one of the most important stories

996
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Speaker 6: in the history of America. Philadelphia Police Department blew up

997
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Speaker 6: a black neighborhood, killing a black family eleven people, six

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Speaker 6: with children. Got to know your history or be doomed

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Speaker 6: to repeat it.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, so you guys, make sure you check that out.

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Speaker 3: But again, you know what can I say? Like you're

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Speaker 3: a legend.

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Speaker 4: I can't even run down all the things you've done,

1004
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:14,439
Speaker 4: but you got to come back every time. We'll drop

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Speaker 4: some more gems.

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Speaker 5: I'm here, I'm here.

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Speaker 4: All right, well again, Thank you also to Elijah Johnson

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Speaker 4: for joining us, and make sure you see MJ the

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Speaker 4: Musical on Broadway if you haven't had a chance to

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Speaker 4: see it yet. And I'm looking at you, I'm gonna

1011
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 4: get you and your wife tickets ready to go to

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Speaker 4: Broadway and check that out. And for you guys, thank

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Speaker 4: you guys for joining us. Like I always say, this

1014
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Speaker 4: is your show, so you have the last word.

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Speaker 2: I would love to sign a light on my son

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Speaker 2: Samar Brown, who is embarking on his military career for

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Speaker 2: the Air Force. He is actually leaving today, sending him peace,

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Speaker 2: love and blessings, and I pray, pray, pray that's the

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Speaker 2: Good Lord continues to watch over him and keep him faith.

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Speaker 1: A little way up, Angela Yee is way up.