WEBVTT - Damson Idris Interview and more

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<v Speaker 1>Don't are just the best of what y'all doing. This platform,

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<v Speaker 1>the reach y'all hat that you earned, make space for

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<v Speaker 1>somebody like me. You guys have a direct line to

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<v Speaker 1>the coaches. Oh my god, I don't want. All I

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<v Speaker 1>do is read about the breakfast Club every morning. Good

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<v Speaker 1>you guys are trending every you know, I dragged my

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<v Speaker 1>house out of that. I'm like, uh, what happened to

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<v Speaker 1>the breakfast Club to that? Good morning? USC? Hey, damn,

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<v Speaker 1>good morning. It is Thursday. Good morning, good morning, good morning,

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<v Speaker 1>good morning. How are you guys feeling? One more day

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<v Speaker 1>to the weekend, one more day to the weekend? Crazy?

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<v Speaker 1>I am tired. How are you feeling? Um? I feel okay,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm feeling a little better. Yes, you was beat? Yeah?

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<v Speaker 1>I think I just was exhausted. I've been doing too much.

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<v Speaker 1>So yesterday, so um, you know, shout out to my wife.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, we have a book coming out April nineteenth.

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<v Speaker 1>So we're planning and we're setting up a book tour. So,

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<v Speaker 1>like I said yesterday, we're traveling to city to city.

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<v Speaker 1>We're going to the mom and pop bookstores, we're going

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<v Speaker 1>to the major bookstores. We just want to meet and

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<v Speaker 1>see the people. It's a relationship book. We break down

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<v Speaker 1>everything that we've been through, hopefully to help people out

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<v Speaker 1>there that's you know, maybe going through similar problems, similar situations,

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<v Speaker 1>don't know how to figure it out, and we just

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<v Speaker 1>try to, you know, tell our story and we're just

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<v Speaker 1>honest and truthful. So it's it's gonna be some some

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<v Speaker 1>crime moments in that book, but it's uh, it was

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<v Speaker 1>therapy to me and my wife because we were able

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<v Speaker 1>to talk a lot of things out from the beginning

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<v Speaker 1>of our relationships and I was pretty cool. So we

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<v Speaker 1>were setting that up. So yesterday, you know, I'm into

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<v Speaker 1>real estate, so I have a property that's about an

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<v Speaker 1>hour away and I went to go check and I

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<v Speaker 1>left my laptop there. Now, yes, no, so my laptop

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<v Speaker 1>is my everything. So that's where I take no matter what.

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<v Speaker 1>When I get out the car and take my laptop,

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<v Speaker 1>that's my life. Like, that's how I make my money.

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<v Speaker 1>That's how I DJ. No no nudes, but just how

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<v Speaker 1>I DJ. So I left the I left yesterday and

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<v Speaker 1>I remembered that I left laptop there. So last night

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<v Speaker 1>I drove back to the property to go get my laptop.

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<v Speaker 1>But they did work on the house. So I was

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<v Speaker 1>so impressed with the work that they did in the

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<v Speaker 1>house on FaceTime and my wife saying, look, I go

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<v Speaker 1>back home. I left the laptop again. What is wrong

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<v Speaker 1>with you? Envy? So I had to get up at

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<v Speaker 1>three o'clock this morning to drive back to the property

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<v Speaker 1>this morning to go get the damn laptop. You are

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<v Speaker 1>really did see? I am. I am a blonde. I

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<v Speaker 1>am very did see this morning. All right, don't blonde shame,

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<v Speaker 1>don't blonde shame. All right, Well, we got a great

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<v Speaker 1>show for you today. We have damnson Dress joining us

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<v Speaker 1>this morning. And yes, that's from the amazing show Snowfall.

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<v Speaker 1>That show is so great. I love man And it's

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<v Speaker 1>crazy because you know, the new season started. They did

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<v Speaker 1>like two episodes back to back, and I had to

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<v Speaker 1>really like go back because I was trying to remember.

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<v Speaker 1>It feels like it's so long in between all these shows. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>that you gotta like recall what happened. I've heard so

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<v Speaker 1>many good things about Snowfall. I just haven't dove into it.

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<v Speaker 1>I haven't seen yet. I just haven't had time rest

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<v Speaker 1>season five. You had time to watch The Bachelor, I do,

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<v Speaker 1>but I fall asleep on a bachelor. That's well, that's

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<v Speaker 1>my wife's show. So you can fall asleep on it's

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<v Speaker 1>like you know, you know, can watch a little bit,

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<v Speaker 1>like I haven't seen Euphoria. What, No, I haven't seen that,

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<v Speaker 1>the Tindless swind Little what's that thing? I haven't seen.

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<v Speaker 1>I've only seen like three episodes of that, Like I've

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<v Speaker 1>been behind behind So but yeah, he stop it, but damnson,

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<v Speaker 1>it just would be joining us and also Erica Alexander

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<v Speaker 1>and Rebecca Howard. They have a new podcast called Finding

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<v Speaker 1>to Mika that focuses on a disappearance and the disappearance

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<v Speaker 1>and murder of Tamika Hudson Houston, Houston. Yeah, so we'll

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<v Speaker 1>be kicking in with them in a little bit as well.

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<v Speaker 1>So a pact show. And let's get the show cracking

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<v Speaker 1>front page news. What we're talking about. Yes, uh, let's

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<v Speaker 1>start it off with I mean, you know what we're

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<v Speaker 1>talking about Ukraine and Russia and now there is a

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<v Speaker 1>bounty on the head of Ladimir Putin. Will tell you

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<v Speaker 1>who plays that bounty? Oh my goodness, all right, we'll

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<v Speaker 1>get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning,

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<v Speaker 1>good morning, everybody is DJ Envy Angela yee, Charlomagne the

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<v Speaker 1>guy we are to breakfast clublet's getting some front page news,

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<v Speaker 1>some new news. What we're starting, all right, Well, let's

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<v Speaker 1>start with the Russian businessman. He has put a one

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<v Speaker 1>million dollar bounty on Vladimir Putin's head. Now, what does

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<v Speaker 1>that mean? Not that he went from killed, but he

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<v Speaker 1>went him arrested as a war criminal. So this investor

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<v Speaker 1>is um saying that he promises to pay one million

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<v Speaker 1>dollars to the officer or officers who, complying with their

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<v Speaker 1>constitutional duty, arrest Putin as a war criminal under Russian

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<v Speaker 1>and international laws. Now, the man who says this is

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<v Speaker 1>a crypto investor. His name is Alex Konaikin. I can't

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<v Speaker 1>even pronounce his last name, kona Anikin, and he posted

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<v Speaker 1>it on Facebook. He said Putin had violated the Russian

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<v Speaker 1>constitution by eliminating free elections and murdering his opponent. He said,

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<v Speaker 1>as an ethnic Russian and a Russian citizen, I see

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<v Speaker 1>it as my moral duty to facilitate the denazification of Russia.

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<v Speaker 1>I will continue my assistance to Ukraine and its heroic

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<v Speaker 1>efforts to withstand the onslaught of Putin's order, so so

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<v Speaker 1>he doesn't want him killed, he just wants to He

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<v Speaker 1>went to arrest as a war criminal. Okay, now let's

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<v Speaker 1>give you guys some updates. There's another round of talks

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<v Speaker 1>that would be taking place today between both delegations for

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<v Speaker 1>Ukraine and for Russia. They said the first round on

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<v Speaker 1>Monday lasted five hours. Now the mayor of the southern

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<v Speaker 1>city of Kashan indicated that they had fallen on Wednesday.

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<v Speaker 1>They said, Ukrainian forces has left, so Russian forces have

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<v Speaker 1>taken over. And this follows several days of heavy fighting.

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<v Speaker 1>A Western intelligence report indicated that Chinese officials in the

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<v Speaker 1>meantime in early February requested that senior Russian officials wait

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<v Speaker 1>until after the Beijian Winter Olympics had finished before they

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<v Speaker 1>started that invasion of Ukraine. So apparently they knew, but

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<v Speaker 1>they were like, let's just wait till after the Olympics

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<v Speaker 1>for you got before you guys do this. Yeah, My

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<v Speaker 1>only thing is my question is this. You know they

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<v Speaker 1>have those conversations. What are they having conversations about? Right,

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<v Speaker 1>if I'm Ukraine, what is they to talk about? Why

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<v Speaker 1>are you invading my country? Well, you're still wanting to

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<v Speaker 1>see if there is any way to get a ceasefire,

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<v Speaker 1>and no matter what, you still would like that. Yeah, absolutely,

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<v Speaker 1>you have to come to the table to try to

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<v Speaker 1>see if you can make that happen. In the United

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<v Speaker 1>States and every country you're still hoping that it happens.

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<v Speaker 1>What do you give up if you're Ukraine, Like what

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<v Speaker 1>conversation do you have? And it's not like you'd be like, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>I'll give you this if you just stopped shooting at me,

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<v Speaker 1>Like what do you have, Like, stop shooting at me,

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<v Speaker 1>stop stop dropping bombs at me. You're killing innocent people,

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<v Speaker 1>Like well, I don't I don't understand what these conversations.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know how they're helping. Now one million people

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<v Speaker 1>have left Ukraine in just a week, according to the UN.

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<v Speaker 1>I did see on the news some people that were

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<v Speaker 1>protesting when the Russian military were coming in. They were

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<v Speaker 1>standing there and they were chanting and yelling and they

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<v Speaker 1>didn't have any weapons or anything on them. So eventually

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<v Speaker 1>the Russians did go past them, but they were standing

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<v Speaker 1>outside protesting saying that they didn't have any weapons, but

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<v Speaker 1>you know, asking them to please leave, and obviously that

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<v Speaker 1>didn't work. Now, the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved

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<v Speaker 1>a bipartisan resolution Wednesday. That resolution expresses support for the

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<v Speaker 1>people of Ukraine. There were only three people who voted

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<v Speaker 1>against the resolution. They were all Republicans. One of them

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<v Speaker 1>said on Twitter that they said, talk to me when

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<v Speaker 1>our border is secure. Another person says that he thought

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<v Speaker 1>the resolution was overly broad and that targeting Russia's economy

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<v Speaker 1>could backfire and cause further economic stress for low income Americans.

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<v Speaker 1>And the third person argued that the US has no

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<v Speaker 1>moral obligation to help either side in the conflict. So

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<v Speaker 1>those are the three people who voted. The vote was

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<v Speaker 1>almost unanimous, four hundred and twenty six to three in

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<v Speaker 1>order to support Ukraine. Now, seven Russian banks have been

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<v Speaker 1>removed from the Swift network. We told you guys about

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<v Speaker 1>that earlier. Those are the banks that are now not

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<v Speaker 1>going to be able to send money, and you know, economically,

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<v Speaker 1>that's where everybody's hitting them right now with all these

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<v Speaker 1>different sanctions. So we'll keep you updated again on what's

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<v Speaker 1>going on in Ukraine and Russia as things keep on happening,

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<v Speaker 1>and that is your front page news. They are saying

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<v Speaker 1>these latest sanctions will in the law term really affect

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<v Speaker 1>Russia as people are figuring out ways to get around

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<v Speaker 1>the oil and gas issue that we're having now with

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<v Speaker 1>the shortage around the world from all these sanctions against Russia. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>they're saying gas prices are going to be one hundred

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<v Speaker 1>and nineteen dollars a barrel, So people like, what does

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<v Speaker 1>that mean? Just think about it. Last year it was

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<v Speaker 1>around eighty eight dollars a barrel, ninety dollars a barrel.

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<v Speaker 1>So the fact that it's going to one nineteen, meaning

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<v Speaker 1>gas prices will probably shoot over five dollars, which is

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<v Speaker 1>going to be very, very very very difficult. Very people

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<v Speaker 1>will be scrambling to try to find alternative supplies. But

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<v Speaker 1>in the long term, do you really want to have

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<v Speaker 1>to rely on Russia for gas and oil? So now

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<v Speaker 1>everybody has to figure out something alternative. Yeah, they're pushing

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<v Speaker 1>electric and I know for some people looking at electric cars,

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<v Speaker 1>because I've been looking at electric cars the last couple

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<v Speaker 1>of days. I know right now, for myself, Tesla looks

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<v Speaker 1>good because Tesla has so many charging stations where you

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<v Speaker 1>can actually charge, and they have the fast charges, a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of them are free, and I know a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of these other manufacturers they have electric cars, but you

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<v Speaker 1>gotta pay to charge your car, so it's kind of

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<v Speaker 1>like getting gas. So just do your homework. I'd rather

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<v Speaker 1>has an electric car. He's so happy. What kind of car? Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>at BMW, I gotta figure it out. I just got

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<v Speaker 1>to ask some more questions about it. But anyway, get

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<v Speaker 1>it off your chest. Eight undred five eight five one

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<v Speaker 1>on five one. If you need to vent phone lines

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<v Speaker 1>a wide open again eight hundred five eight five one

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<v Speaker 1>on five one. It's the breakfast Club, Go morning, the

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<v Speaker 1>breakfast Club. I'm telling, I'm telling what call of you

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<v Speaker 1>if this is your time to get it off your chest,

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<v Speaker 1>whether you're mad or blessed. Eight hundred five eight five

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<v Speaker 1>one five one. We want to hear from you on

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<v Speaker 1>the breakfast Club. Hello, who's this about? Every yo? Travel?

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<v Speaker 1>If I tell you? How many people are really upset

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<v Speaker 1>that you always get through Like they're like, how does

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<v Speaker 1>travel always? We get tagged in posts like how does

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<v Speaker 1>this happen? Oh? Trust you want to tell me? They'd

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<v Speaker 1>be all of my DM's like, oh, you need to

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<v Speaker 1>get a job. And at the mind that didn't used

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<v Speaker 1>to bother me because I used to have a job,

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<v Speaker 1>like for nine years now you're like, I don't think

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<v Speaker 1>a little bit. You know I lost my job. Now

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<v Speaker 1>I'll be thinking a little bit. Yeah you I have

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<v Speaker 1>a while ago. I love my job in December. Ye,

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<v Speaker 1>not a while ago. I ain't been jobbing for a while. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>you need to get a job. Track, go get a job.

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<v Speaker 1>Feel like a long time okay. But God's gods still

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<v Speaker 1>been blessed with me because I got food stamp. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>on unappointment. God is still blessing. Well he do it.

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<v Speaker 1>But now if you got an opportunity, Hey, I'm all here.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm all here. I know that's right. I'm calling because listen. Actually,

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<v Speaker 1>ye I normal way to ask you for something, and

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<v Speaker 1>I would ask you like to have your help and

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<v Speaker 1>and envy if I'm actually just finished the project that

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<v Speaker 1>I'm doing. I've been working on for the last year,

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<v Speaker 1>and I have six sentences three am peace. If you

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<v Speaker 1>guys could help me with my project? What's your project? Um,

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<v Speaker 1>it's a little ep and as well as one of

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<v Speaker 1>you guys like to narrate something for me. And I

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<v Speaker 1>literally had the six sentences written out and it's only

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<v Speaker 1>six sentences. Oh my god, I like that you always

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<v Speaker 1>have an easy ask now it's blind Beauty on the project. Yes, yeah, okay,

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<v Speaker 1>then yes I'll do it. I don't. I don't know.

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<v Speaker 1>We'll help me. I don't know because I'm charging a

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<v Speaker 1>little more. After I did the Queen Naja project. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>my my course went up a little bit. I didn't

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<v Speaker 1>see you in there. I was definitely in there. Mine

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<v Speaker 1>is non profitt and I'm not trying to no money.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm just joking. We got you, man, we got you.

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<v Speaker 1>Let me see n I didn't see you in there.

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<v Speaker 1>I started open, Sure, I start, I started, I start

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<v Speaker 1>the video off for no short on. Hello, who's this?

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<v Speaker 1>This is Jasmine from the Bronx. But I now live

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<v Speaker 1>in Maryland. Jasmine from the Bronx and lives in Maryland.

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<v Speaker 1>What I get it off your chest? Okay? I got

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<v Speaker 1>to get off my chest. So I was gonna um.

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<v Speaker 1>I had talked with a friend. I was gonna go

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<v Speaker 1>to New York to watch my god's son, to watch

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<v Speaker 1>her son. But I um so that she could go

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<v Speaker 1>on a trip on Mother's Day. But I decided to

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<v Speaker 1>change my mind and I told her, like, look, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>going through stuff mentally. I can't I can't go to

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<v Speaker 1>New York, I can't watch him. So long story short,

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<v Speaker 1>we basically got into a disagreement about it, and she said,

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<v Speaker 1>well I won't. I don't want you watching my son

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<v Speaker 1>and you have mental health problems, and that really likes

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<v Speaker 1>it just made me realize, like what is it, Like

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<v Speaker 1>I've watched him before and I have, you know, a

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<v Speaker 1>mental health condition, Like why is it that if I

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<v Speaker 1>changed my mind like all of a sudden, I can't

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<v Speaker 1>watch him because I have mental health problems. So I

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<v Speaker 1>just I don't know, Like I had to get off

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<v Speaker 1>my chest because I'm like, it did stigma like do people?

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<v Speaker 1>So like if you're going through stuff and you're trying

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<v Speaker 1>to like you know, you know, manage your mental health,

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<v Speaker 1>like you can't baby fit, Like what is that about? Well,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm sure she was probably upset because it was Mother's Day,

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<v Speaker 1>so she probably made plans in the arrange. Yeah, she

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<v Speaker 1>planned the traps. She probably planned the trip or a

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<v Speaker 1>date or whatever it was, and then you canceled on

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<v Speaker 1>her last minute. So she's probably upset and you know,

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<v Speaker 1>hurt people, hurt people. She probably tried to throw a

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<v Speaker 1>stab at you to you know, to dig at you back. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>and I can understand that and I and I do

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<v Speaker 1>understand that concept. But I also feel like this, like

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<v Speaker 1>I'm a person that she knows my heart, like I

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<v Speaker 1>always look out for my gods and when I can,

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<v Speaker 1>you know what I'm saying, Like I always put I

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<v Speaker 1>put a lot of people first. And now that I'm

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<v Speaker 1>not putting people first and I'm finally putting myself first,

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<v Speaker 1>it's a problem. Well that's gonna happen. And she I

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<v Speaker 1>mean it's you know, she had a problem that you

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<v Speaker 1>know that you you you still then you did her

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<v Speaker 1>dirty and you feel a way. So but aside from

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<v Speaker 1>all of that, take care of yourself, you know, take

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<v Speaker 1>care take care of yourself. I mean, that's your child,

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<v Speaker 1>and she cann make whatever decisions that she wants to make.

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<v Speaker 1>But as far as you really take care of yourself, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>that's what I'm working on. I'm just trying to take

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<v Speaker 1>care of myself. And you know, I appreciate y'all things

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<v Speaker 1>for y'all a rights and hopefully, like I said, like

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<v Speaker 1>we got to end this stigma with mental health and

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<v Speaker 1>you know, just children in general, because it's okay to

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<v Speaker 1>go to stuff and be able to pull back and

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<v Speaker 1>say ya, I got to focus on me, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>and and hopefully I will be able to watch him again.

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<v Speaker 1>Like you know, I love my GUIDs, like I want

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<v Speaker 1>to be able to baby sin and stuff. But I'm

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<v Speaker 1>going to do a lot light now. So I just

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<v Speaker 1>hope my friend is understanding and we'll see what happened. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>focus on you, like you said, continue to do that.

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<v Speaker 1>Put yourself first. You've identified you know that you have

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<v Speaker 1>some things you gotta deal with, and so worry about

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<v Speaker 1>that right now and deal with that. Get it off

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<v Speaker 1>your chests eight hundred five eight five one oh five one.

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<v Speaker 1>If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's

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<v Speaker 1>the Breakfast Club. Good morning, the Breakfast Club. This is

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<v Speaker 1>your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're man,

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<v Speaker 1>get from you on the breakfast class. You got something

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<v Speaker 1>on your mind? Hello, who's this? What's going on? It's

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<v Speaker 1>your boy, Chris, Chris without get it off you okay,

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<v Speaker 1>real quick. I just want to make sure that everybody

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<v Speaker 1>knows there's the opportunity for young African American men to

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<v Speaker 1>get a scholarship to attend HBCUs. You guys are familiar

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<v Speaker 1>with me as as in Sam b g as Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>So I'm like all my young African American men attending

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<v Speaker 1>HBCUs to go there as as in Sam b as

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<v Speaker 1>in Victor g as in god As Foundation, got bored

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<v Speaker 1>and get with me? Okay, So all right, anybody wants

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<v Speaker 1>to donate, please also donate. You'll be in the best

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<v Speaker 1>of company like Uncle Charlotte. You there yet? Uncle Charlotte,

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<v Speaker 1>he's not here today. He would he would not be

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<v Speaker 1>there when y'all actually quit me? Do you know we

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<v Speaker 1>all are? Hampton graduate? Shout out to DJ envy Um.

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<v Speaker 1>So check it out once again, Angela, I know you

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<v Speaker 1>got to computer right there at v AS Foundation dot org. Indeed,

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<v Speaker 1>oh dare you hung up on it? I didn't hang

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<v Speaker 1>up on him, Hampton, but definitely check him out and

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<v Speaker 1>see if they're given scholarships and you need help. Definitely

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<v Speaker 1>heat up his organization and I'm definitely gonna donate to

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<v Speaker 1>the organization if they're giving out scholarships to two brothers

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<v Speaker 1>who need it. Hello, who's this? This is duly Man.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm glad that you answered. What's up? What's that? Getting

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<v Speaker 1>off your chests? Getting love my chairs? I think I'm

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<v Speaker 1>my love and my best friend that I had, You know,

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<v Speaker 1>I had talked about like us pursuing three years ago,

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<v Speaker 1>and then I jumped into a relationship. But I love

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<v Speaker 1>the guy too, but I'm just sim in love with him.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm loving the best friend. I might have to make

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<v Speaker 1>this choice, and I am going through like like I

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<v Speaker 1>guess the spiritually in a hard time. You know, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>getting hard. But did you just say you're in love

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<v Speaker 1>with somebody else and with your best friend? You have

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<v Speaker 1>a boyfriend? Turn your radio down. I do have. I

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<v Speaker 1>do have a boyfriend end of three years, a great

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<v Speaker 1>guard and right before I started eating him, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>my boy my best friend, had been a feelings and

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<v Speaker 1>uh you know, it's always been in back of my

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<v Speaker 1>mind and like right now since I've been focusing on myself,

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<v Speaker 1>like stepping back, and I'm just still guilty, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>like you should well you shouldn't feel guilty. But if

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<v Speaker 1>you're not happy in your relationship, I mean, oh your

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<v Speaker 1>love with both, I mean I feel you can be

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<v Speaker 1>like you just did. And I don't know, and I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know what to do in this situation, but I

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<v Speaker 1>know that focusing on myself, I guess we wos like

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<v Speaker 1>you focusing on other people too. I am and maybe

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<v Speaker 1>taking a step back or hell said, wow, but are

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<v Speaker 1>you in love? Are you? And lust? I needs because

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<v Speaker 1>they like the lost just like there's so much more

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<v Speaker 1>to a connection, you know, like there's so much more

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<v Speaker 1>to intimacy. And that's what like I've they've been there

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<v Speaker 1>to the hardest times, you know, like twenty twenty harder

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<v Speaker 1>and everyone you know, like God bless everybody, like everyone

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<v Speaker 1>that's gotten some hardships like since. But you know, now

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<v Speaker 1>I'm focusing on myself. And it's like I totally flashed

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<v Speaker 1>on this guy, like started dating some one the next

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<v Speaker 1>day and then let me ask you this, does he

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<v Speaker 1>love you back? Your best friend? He does? And it's

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<v Speaker 1>just scary though he's a player, he's my best friend,

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<v Speaker 1>I know. Have I seen him you know? But have

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<v Speaker 1>you been sleeping with him already? No? If I hold

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<v Speaker 1>off on And that's okay, And that's what I respect to.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, I've been I've been asking it from post

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<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, man had sex, So I mean, why don't

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<v Speaker 1>you just date him both? Just start dating to tell

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<v Speaker 1>your boyfriend that you just want to date other people

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<v Speaker 1>at him date other people and didn't feel it out

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<v Speaker 1>that it might not be your best friend anymore. If

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<v Speaker 1>you know he's a player and you guys start dating

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<v Speaker 1>and you start cheating on your man with him. I

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<v Speaker 1>didn't say cheat, I said open relation, ship, don't cheat.

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<v Speaker 1>Have the conversation, to have the conversation, have a real

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<v Speaker 1>conversation and see where it goes. Okay, you might end

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<v Speaker 1>up alone, you might have That's what I need. Yeah, maybe, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>but just be honest so that way you ain't gonna

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<v Speaker 1>be hiding and running around and doing stuff that's foul.

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<v Speaker 1>So just be honest and you Lets have a blessed morning,

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<v Speaker 1>good luck, Thank you. I don't think it's gonna work

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<v Speaker 1>out too good for her. Get it off your chests.

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<v Speaker 1>Eight hundred five five, one oh five one. We got

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<v Speaker 1>rooms on the way. Yeah, since we're talking relationships, Kim

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<v Speaker 1>Kardashian is illegally single. We'll tell you all about it,

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<v Speaker 1>all right, we'll get into that next. It's the Breakfast Club.

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<v Speaker 1>Good morning, the breakfast Club. Listen, Oh my gosh, report guys,

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<v Speaker 1>it's breakfast Club. Well this morning on CBS Mornings, you'll

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<v Speaker 1>get to hear Melinda open Melinda Gates opening up about

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<v Speaker 1>what led to her divorce from Bill Gates. Now. She

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<v Speaker 1>sat down with Gil King and she talked about her

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<v Speaker 1>whole healing journey. Did you have moments where you were

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<v Speaker 1>just so angry? Did you have moments that you were

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<v Speaker 1>just in such pain? Well, I think it's really important

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<v Speaker 1>to say. Look, I had a lot of tears for

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<v Speaker 1>many days. I mean days where I'm literally laying on

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<v Speaker 1>the floor in the carpet, you know, this close to me,

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<v Speaker 1>thinking how can this be? How can I get up?

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<v Speaker 1>That's part of the grieving process. You're grieving a loss

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<v Speaker 1>of something you thought you had and thought you had

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<v Speaker 1>for your lifetime. And at the end of the day, though,

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<v Speaker 1>I started on this journey of healing and I feel

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<v Speaker 1>like I'm starting to get to the other side. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>actually really excited about what's to come and life I

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<v Speaker 1>had for me. They were married for twenty seven years,

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<v Speaker 1>and they announced their split in May. They released a

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<v Speaker 1>joint statement that said, we no longer believe we can

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<v Speaker 1>grow together as a couple in this next phase of

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<v Speaker 1>our lives. If you guys recall he had an affair

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<v Speaker 1>with a staffer twenty years ago, which was confirmed by

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<v Speaker 1>a spokesperson for him last May as well. Here's what

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<v Speaker 1>Lilinda Gates said about trust. After the news came out,

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<v Speaker 1>it was revealed that Bill Gates admitted that he had

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<v Speaker 1>had an affair in the marriage. And at that time,

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<v Speaker 1>did you think we're going to work through this? How

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<v Speaker 1>did you handle something like that? Well? I certainly believe

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<v Speaker 1>in forgiveness, so I thought we had worked through some

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<v Speaker 1>of that. It wasn't one moment or one specific thing

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<v Speaker 1>that happened. There just came a point in time where

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<v Speaker 1>there was enough there that I realized just wasn't healthy

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<v Speaker 1>and I couldn't trust what we had. So she forgave that.

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<v Speaker 1>But it was other things that got it to that point. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>And I'm sure we'll hear some of those things in

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<v Speaker 1>that interview this morning. She still worked. She's worth two

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<v Speaker 1>point full a billion, by the way, But I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm sure that's difficult. You start with somebody twenty years

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<v Speaker 1>and twenty seven years, and gaining that trust back is

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<v Speaker 1>one of the most difficult things trying to, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>because it's everything, and you disrespect or you cheat, or

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<v Speaker 1>you you're not honest with You're everything, and then it's

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<v Speaker 1>hard to get that back. All right. Well, Kim Kardashian

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<v Speaker 1>is legally single, So congratulations to her. We know that's

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<v Speaker 1>what she wanted. The judge was like, whoa, Yes, she

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<v Speaker 1>has been granted her motion seeking the legal status, and

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<v Speaker 1>they said the case had stalled for several months but

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<v Speaker 1>there was a lot of progress and he also finalized.

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<v Speaker 1>The judge also finalized dropping West from her name, so

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<v Speaker 1>she is back to Kim Kardashian no longer Kim Kardashian West. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, well, I definitely pray for them. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>this is what she wanted. Hopefully they both get the

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<v Speaker 1>healing that they need. But on another note, a Kanye

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<v Speaker 1>West documentaries are amazing. Yeah, we'll talk about that more too.

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<v Speaker 1>I see. Kanye was also hanging out with Tristan Thompson.

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<v Speaker 1>The two of them were dining at the Satay in

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<v Speaker 1>Miami Beach with a few other dinner guests as well,

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<v Speaker 1>and that's an interesting hook up. Wouldn't be surprised if

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<v Speaker 1>he was trying to hit Yeah what amber Rose again too,

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<v Speaker 1>So we shall see. But he also released a music

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<v Speaker 1>video that was targeting Pete Davidson after his marriage was dissolved,

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<v Speaker 1>and that is for that song Easy of Course that

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<v Speaker 1>he has. Uh if you guys, recall this is the

0:22:16.440 --> 0:22:31.960
<v Speaker 1>song my life was never easy it is. It was

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<v Speaker 1>just because no love showed the shrug. This is by

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<v Speaker 1>the way. Well. He ended the video with two slides

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<v Speaker 1>that said everyone lived happily ever after except skeet you

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<v Speaker 1>know who, and then he said, just kidding, He's fine.

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<v Speaker 1>And so I don't understand why Kanye is so mad

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<v Speaker 1>at that. I was about to say, skeet at Pete Davidson.

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<v Speaker 1>They're not friends. They didn't grow up with each other.

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<v Speaker 1>Also in the video, there's a depiction of him bearing

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<v Speaker 1>a cartoon man that resembles Pete Davidson alive. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know why he's so mad with Pete. Like Pete, he's

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<v Speaker 1>a man. He doesn't know you. He doesn't owe you anything.

0:23:13.040 --> 0:23:16.160
<v Speaker 1>You're having problems with your wife's ex wife now ex wife.

0:23:16.680 --> 0:23:18.879
<v Speaker 1>Him and your ex wife got together, and what he

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't owe you anything. He doesn't owe you loyalty. He's

0:23:21.080 --> 0:23:22.680
<v Speaker 1>not your friend to grow with you. Yeah, you know.

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<v Speaker 1>A source told Entertainment Tonight that Pete Davidson isn't bothered

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<v Speaker 1>by Kanye's attacks on him. He said, Pete finds Kanye's

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<v Speaker 1>lyrics and interviews about him funny and entertaining. He's super

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<v Speaker 1>chill about the situation and doesn't take it too personally,

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<v Speaker 1>but he hates that Kim has to deal with the drama.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, well, that is your front page news, I

0:23:43.160 --> 0:23:45.320
<v Speaker 1>mean your rumor reports. All right, you're right, we got

0:23:45.359 --> 0:23:47.439
<v Speaker 1>front page news. Next, what we're talking about. We are

0:23:47.520 --> 0:23:49.920
<v Speaker 1>going to talk about the guy who was on the

0:23:50.000 --> 0:23:54.119
<v Speaker 1>subway smearing feces on that woman. He was arrested and

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<v Speaker 1>he's back on the streets already. We'll tell you what happened.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, we'll get into that next. It's the breakfast club.

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<v Speaker 1>breakfast club. Let's get in some front page news where

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<v Speaker 1>we're starting you, Well, the guy who semeared his own

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<v Speaker 1>feces on a woman's face. Was freed without bail yesterday

0:24:34.400 --> 0:24:37.720
<v Speaker 1>and he was actually before a judge for the second

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<v Speaker 1>time in two days, this time on charges that he

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<v Speaker 1>spat on a Jewish man and chased him down to

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<v Speaker 1>Brooklyn Street screaming come here, you f and ju I'm

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<v Speaker 1>going to kill you. According to a criminal complaint, they

0:24:49.160 --> 0:24:53.919
<v Speaker 1>said that happened September ninth in Crown Heights. So again

0:24:54.760 --> 0:24:57.000
<v Speaker 1>last week in the Bronx, he was accused of rubbing

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<v Speaker 1>his excrement in a woman's face. He's now t to

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<v Speaker 1>the second degree aggravated harassment as a hate crime, disorderly

0:25:03.280 --> 0:25:06.480
<v Speaker 1>conduct in two counts of menacing, including one as a

0:25:06.560 --> 0:25:09.080
<v Speaker 1>hate crime, but they could not set bail on any

0:25:09.160 --> 0:25:12.320
<v Speaker 1>of those charges because of the state's new bail reform

0:25:12.440 --> 0:25:15.520
<v Speaker 1>laws that nix the cash option for many charges. So

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<v Speaker 1>for that reason, Frank A broke up a broke while

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<v Speaker 1>was released. Yeah, and as they have to fix that,

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<v Speaker 1>and I get it. There's you know, people get arrested

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<v Speaker 1>and they can't afford bailing, and you know, and that's

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<v Speaker 1>what they did it for. But then there's a loophole

0:25:30.720 --> 0:25:34.359
<v Speaker 1>like this gentleman has been arrested forty four times, right,

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<v Speaker 1>he has a felony. He had a felony charge. He

0:25:36.880 --> 0:25:39.280
<v Speaker 1>continues to do this, but because of this new bail,

0:25:39.320 --> 0:25:41.399
<v Speaker 1>he can get arrested and come right back out. So

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<v Speaker 1>when does it stop? And at first he spit on somebody,

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<v Speaker 1>then he smared pooping somebody's face. What's next? Do you

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<v Speaker 1>have to wait till somebody gets cut, somebody gets hurt

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<v Speaker 1>dies before they say, okay, well maybe we should keep

0:25:52.080 --> 0:25:54.440
<v Speaker 1>him because they that's not right. Yeah, forty four times

0:25:54.640 --> 0:25:56.680
<v Speaker 1>for forty sometimes that's not right. And I'm sure he

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<v Speaker 1>feels like he can do whatever he wants with no repercussions. Came,

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<v Speaker 1>yeah he can. He spanned pooping somebody's face and got

0:26:03.520 --> 0:26:05.480
<v Speaker 1>released the next day. Then he's spitting somebody's face and

0:26:05.560 --> 0:26:07.760
<v Speaker 1>chasing down the block and got released next day. Like

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<v Speaker 1>that's not even the next day, the same day, all right? Now,

0:26:12.640 --> 0:26:15.800
<v Speaker 1>a series of unseen sketches by Doctor SEUs will be

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<v Speaker 1>edited by an inclusive group of writers and artists from

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<v Speaker 1>quote diverse racial backgrounds before they are published for the

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<v Speaker 1>first time. And some people are upset there, accusing this

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<v Speaker 1>of being wokewashing, and so Doctor Seus's enterprises, which is

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<v Speaker 1>a company founded by the family of Doctor SEUs well

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<v Speaker 1>as putting this together. So this sketches will serve as

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<v Speaker 1>the basis for a new line of books that will

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<v Speaker 1>be written and illustrated by that group, and it also

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<v Speaker 1>follows his recent cancelation after six of his books his

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<v Speaker 1>kid's books were yank from publication because of alleged racist imagery.

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<v Speaker 1>Did you read Doctor Seuss books growing up? Of course

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<v Speaker 1>I think every kid did. M I think every kid did. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>I remember the cat in the hat and green eggs

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<v Speaker 1>in here. That's only too. I always remember the cat

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<v Speaker 1>in hand and green eggs in him, and that's crazy.

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<v Speaker 1>That's that's what I read to my kids. You know.

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<v Speaker 1>That's what I read to my kids. Same difference, all right,

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<v Speaker 1>So um, you know they actually President Joe Biden did

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<v Speaker 1>remove mentions of Doctor SEUs from the read across America

0:27:18.119 --> 0:27:20.840
<v Speaker 1>day and he is one of the world's most popular

0:27:21.000 --> 0:27:24.240
<v Speaker 1>children's authors, but his books have come under fire and

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<v Speaker 1>reaching years for how they portray several minority groups. For instance,

0:27:27.840 --> 0:27:31.680
<v Speaker 1>If I Ran the Zoo has depicted Africans as pot

0:27:31.720 --> 0:27:34.879
<v Speaker 1>bellied and thick lift, as one biography of SEUs puts it,

0:27:35.560 --> 0:27:38.040
<v Speaker 1>and so That book was first published in nineteen fifty

0:27:38.119 --> 0:27:40.800
<v Speaker 1>and it also described Asian characters as helpers who all

0:27:40.880 --> 0:27:43.639
<v Speaker 1>wear their eyes at a slant from countries no one

0:27:43.720 --> 0:27:46.360
<v Speaker 1>can spell. Yeah, I mean, it's it's so crazy. These

0:27:46.600 --> 0:27:48.720
<v Speaker 1>are what we've been teaching our kids, reading to our

0:27:48.800 --> 0:27:51.159
<v Speaker 1>kids with this underlying racism in ite. But we just

0:27:51.280 --> 0:27:52.959
<v Speaker 1>need to create more and we need to push our

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<v Speaker 1>own I mean, there's a lot of minority books that's

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<v Speaker 1>written for kids, and we just gotta push them all.

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<v Speaker 1>We just got to get them more out there. Uh.

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<v Speaker 1>And I know sometimes they sent at up here to

0:28:02.480 --> 0:28:03.879
<v Speaker 1>our kids and I read them to my kids all

0:28:03.880 --> 0:28:05.439
<v Speaker 1>the time. But we just have to make those popular,

0:28:05.560 --> 0:28:08.520
<v Speaker 1>make those as big as Doctor Seus's books were, you know, man,

0:28:08.560 --> 0:28:09.960
<v Speaker 1>I was. You know, I was at the New York

0:28:10.000 --> 0:28:15.000
<v Speaker 1>Public Library UM two days ago and there is when

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<v Speaker 1>I tell you, the books they hadn't there. And there

0:28:16.880 --> 0:28:18.359
<v Speaker 1>was also a Black History months, so I know they

0:28:18.400 --> 0:28:20.720
<v Speaker 1>were highlighting a lot of those. I was in the

0:28:21.920 --> 0:28:23.560
<v Speaker 1>I was in the teen center and then also for

0:28:23.600 --> 0:28:26.280
<v Speaker 1>the younger kids, and there are some incredible books that

0:28:26.320 --> 0:28:28.439
<v Speaker 1>I wish I would have had. You know, growing up,

0:28:28.560 --> 0:28:31.480
<v Speaker 1>they had Miles Davis book. They actually have a book

0:28:31.480 --> 0:28:34.280
<v Speaker 1>about Michael B. Jordan as well. Really, but there's so

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<v Speaker 1>many books. And for one of my friends who just

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<v Speaker 1>had a kid, I just sent her a whole bunch

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<v Speaker 1>of books. One of them is about Michelle Obama. It's

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<v Speaker 1>just amazing, like the diversity, and we have to support

0:28:44.360 --> 0:28:48.200
<v Speaker 1>that too. Yeah, and we just gotta those role models encouraging.

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<v Speaker 1>And what I'm seeing on television and whether it's Nickelodeon,

0:28:51.880 --> 0:28:53.880
<v Speaker 1>whether it's the Disney Channel, what my kids watch, it

0:28:54.080 --> 0:28:56.280
<v Speaker 1>is working. The other day. A couple of days ago,

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<v Speaker 1>I should say, my five year old Brooklyn, I hear

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<v Speaker 1>her talking to our brother who's seven, and they were

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<v Speaker 1>talking about Black History Month, and you know, they were talking.

0:29:04.760 --> 0:29:06.440
<v Speaker 1>He was trying to explain to her what Black History

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<v Speaker 1>Month was, and I'm listening because I'm like, this is

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<v Speaker 1>so cute to me. So she comes in the room

0:29:09.920 --> 0:29:11.560
<v Speaker 1>and she was like, mine, what's Black History Month? So

0:29:11.720 --> 0:29:14.720
<v Speaker 1>my wife explains, and you know, and all of a sudden,

0:29:14.720 --> 0:29:17.000
<v Speaker 1>she goes, yeah, I'm black, and then she just runs

0:29:17.040 --> 0:29:19.800
<v Speaker 1>out and then she starts telling everybody what Black History

0:29:19.840 --> 0:29:22.400
<v Speaker 1>Month is. So they are seeing it on Nickelodeon, they're

0:29:22.400 --> 0:29:26.040
<v Speaker 1>seeing it on Disney World, Disney Channel, and it's it's

0:29:26.200 --> 0:29:29.400
<v Speaker 1>encouraging to learn more about their history, which is great

0:29:29.520 --> 0:29:31.480
<v Speaker 1>because if we just explain it, they'd be like, yeah,

0:29:31.600 --> 0:29:33.000
<v Speaker 1>mom and dad. But the fact that it's on their

0:29:33.000 --> 0:29:35.760
<v Speaker 1>favorite cartoons and they're breaking it down and they're explaining

0:29:35.840 --> 0:29:38.280
<v Speaker 1>it and they are giving moments that is wonderful. So

0:29:38.640 --> 0:29:41.760
<v Speaker 1>shout to whoever's doing that in Nickelodeon and Disney Channel.

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<v Speaker 1>I love what you guys are doing. Yeah, I'm looking

0:29:43.680 --> 0:29:45.960
<v Speaker 1>some of these books a fist for Joe Lewis and me,

0:29:47.960 --> 0:29:50.400
<v Speaker 1>Memphis Martin and The Mountaintop and these are kids books

0:29:50.440 --> 0:29:53.320
<v Speaker 1>out to be wells, you know, above the rim. Just

0:29:53.480 --> 0:29:55.960
<v Speaker 1>all these different books that you can see that highlight

0:29:56.880 --> 0:29:59.920
<v Speaker 1>a lot of us. It's really dope. All right, Well

0:30:00.080 --> 0:30:01.880
<v Speaker 1>that is your front page news, all right. When we

0:30:01.960 --> 0:30:04.040
<v Speaker 1>come back, Damnson it will be joining us. You know,

0:30:04.080 --> 0:30:06.880
<v Speaker 1>he's an actor. You might know him from Snowfall. Recently

0:30:06.960 --> 0:30:09.120
<v Speaker 1>he was on the Red Carpet and not him, but

0:30:09.240 --> 0:30:12.800
<v Speaker 1>Denzel Washington was on the Red Carpet and the interview Ebbony.

0:30:12.920 --> 0:30:14.440
<v Speaker 1>She asked, you know, you know, what do you know

0:30:14.440 --> 0:30:16.960
<v Speaker 1>about Damnson? And he didn't had no clue, and it

0:30:17.040 --> 0:30:19.360
<v Speaker 1>went viral. But he will talk about that, addressed all that,

0:30:19.480 --> 0:30:21.400
<v Speaker 1>and we'll talk about Snowfall. I just the breakfast club,

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<v Speaker 1>Go Morning, the breakfast clubs DJ Envy Angela Ye, Charlomagne,

0:30:29.040 --> 0:30:30.960
<v Speaker 1>the guy. We are the breakfast club. We got a

0:30:31.040 --> 0:30:34.480
<v Speaker 1>special guest in the building. You know him from Snowfall

0:30:34.560 --> 0:30:36.920
<v Speaker 1>and a host of other things. His birthday is one

0:30:37.040 --> 0:30:41.160
<v Speaker 1>day before mine. He's a fellow Virgo Damnson. Its welcome

0:30:41.280 --> 0:30:47.320
<v Speaker 1>something welcome, Sir damn Son. I didn't know. I didn't

0:30:47.360 --> 0:30:50.120
<v Speaker 1>know your birthday was the first September, your day before.

0:30:50.760 --> 0:30:53.640
<v Speaker 1>Oh thud, okay, okay. Buddy of mine is the third

0:30:53.680 --> 0:30:58.120
<v Speaker 1>two actually, the show runner of Snowfall, Dave and Buzz

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<v Speaker 1>is the best. You know. Absolutely they had as on

0:31:00.440 --> 0:31:02.320
<v Speaker 1>New Yes, there you go. Now. The first thing you

0:31:02.360 --> 0:31:05.520
<v Speaker 1>said was I love New York because I love Jamaican culture. Yeah.

0:31:05.800 --> 0:31:08.000
<v Speaker 1>What do you love so much about Jamaican culture? What

0:31:08.440 --> 0:31:11.400
<v Speaker 1>what do you love? Obviously the food? Dirt, chicken. Yeah,

0:31:11.840 --> 0:31:15.120
<v Speaker 1>I'm an out guy. You both, Yeah, oxtail. Actually, I

0:31:15.240 --> 0:31:17.360
<v Speaker 1>like to dabble one both. I like to steal food

0:31:17.440 --> 0:31:21.720
<v Speaker 1>from whoever I'm eating with um plantains, do you guys

0:31:21.760 --> 0:31:25.400
<v Speaker 1>say plantain? Or planting. I say planting. I feel like

0:31:25.480 --> 0:31:27.840
<v Speaker 1>that's the right way to say it. Was saying it wrong.

0:31:28.920 --> 0:31:31.400
<v Speaker 1>You had to switch through all different types of ways.

0:31:31.440 --> 0:31:34.320
<v Speaker 1>It's different kinds of ways to say things. So oh yeah, yeah,

0:31:34.320 --> 0:31:37.840
<v Speaker 1>that's that's part of my life, impersonating people. You don't

0:31:37.840 --> 0:31:41.400
<v Speaker 1>have amazing Jamaican restaurants in London or in LA where

0:31:41.400 --> 0:31:44.480
<v Speaker 1>your shoot? No, nah, that's no, man, not at all

0:31:44.680 --> 0:31:48.920
<v Speaker 1>out here. I like missus lilies, missies. Um actually wrote,

0:31:49.200 --> 0:31:51.440
<v Speaker 1>actually wrote on a gramyasells like, oh where could I go?

0:31:51.840 --> 0:31:56.640
<v Speaker 1>People said, um, footprints? Yes, Like, first of all, the

0:31:56.760 --> 0:31:59.280
<v Speaker 1>best Caribbean food is in Berklen. We got foot prans,

0:31:59.480 --> 0:32:03.720
<v Speaker 1>we got Wade, we got Caribbean social we have this

0:32:03.840 --> 0:32:10.840
<v Speaker 1>is New York. We have girl. Yes, number one one called.

0:32:10.880 --> 0:32:13.360
<v Speaker 1>But I'm going to try all of it today. That's impossible.

0:32:15.200 --> 0:32:17.440
<v Speaker 1>I saw you talking about how John Singleton told you

0:32:17.520 --> 0:32:20.760
<v Speaker 1>to stay humble though amongst everything different people. I don't

0:32:20.760 --> 0:32:22.280
<v Speaker 1>know the first time we actually met you. You were

0:32:22.360 --> 0:32:24.840
<v Speaker 1>up here with John Singleton. Yeah he don't remember you though,

0:32:24.840 --> 0:32:33.240
<v Speaker 1>And remember it's like this is the first time. No, no, no.

0:32:33.360 --> 0:32:38.560
<v Speaker 1>There's a couple of asking guys in a dss. Yes.

0:32:38.720 --> 0:32:41.320
<v Speaker 1>How has that been for you though, because obviously Snowfall

0:32:41.400 --> 0:32:42.880
<v Speaker 1>is such a huge show. You guys are in the

0:32:42.960 --> 0:32:46.640
<v Speaker 1>fifth season. We've watched Franklin grow up and he has

0:32:46.680 --> 0:32:48.239
<v Speaker 1>got a lot of big things happening. But in real

0:32:48.320 --> 0:32:50.440
<v Speaker 1>life you've grown up to and your star has grown

0:32:50.520 --> 0:32:54.440
<v Speaker 1>up as well. Yeah. Yeah. It's a testament to John Singleton.

0:32:54.640 --> 0:32:57.320
<v Speaker 1>You know. He really believed in me. And although I

0:32:57.400 --> 0:33:00.680
<v Speaker 1>a thought for the role, like crazy audition like nine times,

0:33:01.400 --> 0:33:04.080
<v Speaker 1>you know, he took me to South Central, opened up

0:33:04.080 --> 0:33:06.040
<v Speaker 1>the car door and said, if you survive, you got

0:33:06.080 --> 0:33:09.600
<v Speaker 1>the role. And I was like walking around, had to

0:33:09.760 --> 0:33:15.720
<v Speaker 1>be in character central, bring that experience, man. So I

0:33:15.840 --> 0:33:19.000
<v Speaker 1>get to John Singleton's office and I think I'm gonna

0:33:19.040 --> 0:33:22.040
<v Speaker 1>read the I'm gonna audition, right, It's like like audition

0:33:22.160 --> 0:33:24.840
<v Speaker 1>number eight or something like that. And then he's like, yeah, no,

0:33:24.920 --> 0:33:26.600
<v Speaker 1>we're not gonna read anything. We're just gonna take a

0:33:26.640 --> 0:33:30.560
<v Speaker 1>walk someone walking around and he's like, don't break character.

0:33:30.920 --> 0:33:34.080
<v Speaker 1>And he's introducing me to people, and you know, Singleton

0:33:34.320 --> 0:33:37.200
<v Speaker 1>was like god in his community. Like people will be

0:33:37.320 --> 0:33:40.080
<v Speaker 1>like yo, John, you know, and then they'd come up

0:33:40.120 --> 0:33:42.400
<v Speaker 1>to me talking to me. They're like Yo, what's up,

0:33:42.440 --> 0:33:45.880
<v Speaker 1>little homie. I'm like, yeah, what's up? So I'm just

0:33:46.000 --> 0:33:48.680
<v Speaker 1>pretending like that I'm from there. Um. And then his

0:33:48.840 --> 0:33:52.000
<v Speaker 1>mom came and you know, I'm British. So I'm saying

0:33:52.000 --> 0:33:54.400
<v Speaker 1>a bunch of British stuff in an American accent. But

0:33:54.480 --> 0:33:56.440
<v Speaker 1>he didn't know you were British, right, Oh no, he knew,

0:33:57.120 --> 0:33:59.280
<v Speaker 1>like he wanted to make What kind of British stuff

0:33:59.320 --> 0:34:01.480
<v Speaker 1>were you saying? Like you guys say like elevator? I

0:34:01.600 --> 0:34:04.080
<v Speaker 1>say lyft? You know you guys say Ben. You guys

0:34:04.120 --> 0:34:09.920
<v Speaker 1>say trash or say Ben exactly. So I'm talking in

0:34:10.480 --> 0:34:12.960
<v Speaker 1>an American accident. And his mom comes like, oh, how

0:34:13.040 --> 0:34:15.160
<v Speaker 1>lovely your hair looks today. I'm just gonna go over

0:34:15.200 --> 0:34:17.239
<v Speaker 1>there and throw something in the bend. And she looks

0:34:17.280 --> 0:34:21.160
<v Speaker 1>over John and she's like, John, he ain't from here, huh.

0:34:21.800 --> 0:34:26.440
<v Speaker 1>I was like, man, Mom just took this und central.

0:34:26.800 --> 0:34:28.520
<v Speaker 1>I was scared. Man. I was with John. You know

0:34:28.560 --> 0:34:30.520
<v Speaker 1>it was my big brother. You know, that was my

0:34:30.600 --> 0:34:33.640
<v Speaker 1>big brother. Now I'm miss him greatly. But as far

0:34:33.760 --> 0:34:36.080
<v Speaker 1>as I get in this, in this industry and on

0:34:36.160 --> 0:34:40.479
<v Speaker 1>this journey, I'm always gonna on a singleton for being

0:34:40.560 --> 0:34:43.400
<v Speaker 1>my foundation. Well, let's talk about the new season. So

0:34:43.480 --> 0:34:46.200
<v Speaker 1>you're also producing. Yeah, on the new season. How did

0:34:46.239 --> 0:34:49.239
<v Speaker 1>that come about? I forced them to take give me

0:34:49.320 --> 0:34:51.840
<v Speaker 1>in for de secret no. Um. You know, when you

0:34:51.960 --> 0:34:54.080
<v Speaker 1>when you've been doing this show for so long, you

0:34:54.480 --> 0:34:57.400
<v Speaker 1>you pick up different traits at the same time, you

0:34:57.480 --> 0:35:02.200
<v Speaker 1>want to be challenged. And my circles um are so

0:35:02.520 --> 0:35:07.880
<v Speaker 1>bossy today that they inspire me to want to be

0:35:08.000 --> 0:35:10.960
<v Speaker 1>more of a leader. That's the truth. It's like if

0:35:11.000 --> 0:35:13.080
<v Speaker 1>you hang around with certain types of people having certain

0:35:13.120 --> 0:35:16.040
<v Speaker 1>types of conversations and they're like, yo, bro, you should

0:35:16.160 --> 0:35:19.360
<v Speaker 1>go in, and then you ask, and they're like, okay,

0:35:20.239 --> 0:35:22.120
<v Speaker 1>you know, I've been watching the a doc you know,

0:35:22.239 --> 0:35:25.520
<v Speaker 1>and Hove is like, you know, clothes mouths don't get fit,

0:35:26.400 --> 0:35:28.959
<v Speaker 1>you know, Like it's true. You know, asking you shall

0:35:29.080 --> 0:35:31.640
<v Speaker 1>receive and and I asked and they gave it to me.

0:35:32.200 --> 0:35:34.840
<v Speaker 1>And you know, above all things, I'm not I'm not

0:35:34.960 --> 0:35:38.040
<v Speaker 1>saying my level of producing is at the level of

0:35:38.200 --> 0:35:42.080
<v Speaker 1>my acting ability. My acting ability is quite horrible. I'm

0:35:42.120 --> 0:35:45.800
<v Speaker 1>just saying. I'm saying I'm being a sponge and I'm

0:35:45.840 --> 0:35:49.960
<v Speaker 1>being given an opportunity to learn so that I could

0:35:50.040 --> 0:35:53.040
<v Speaker 1>use my platform and my brand to create more opportunities.

0:35:53.200 --> 0:35:57.399
<v Speaker 1>Now you play a crack cocaine dealer, right, Um, how

0:35:57.520 --> 0:36:02.120
<v Speaker 1>difficult was that learning that? Because you're young so crack

0:36:02.400 --> 0:36:04.759
<v Speaker 1>it really affected me and ye our age were growing

0:36:04.800 --> 0:36:06.600
<v Speaker 1>up a kids. We would see crack pipes everywhere. We

0:36:06.640 --> 0:36:11.799
<v Speaker 1>would see crack crack pipes and crack viles all over

0:36:11.840 --> 0:36:14.399
<v Speaker 1>the place in Brooklyn. Not all over the place, no, queen,

0:36:14.600 --> 0:36:16.480
<v Speaker 1>It was all over the place. It was very very big,

0:36:16.719 --> 0:36:18.800
<v Speaker 1>very very affective. I got family members affected by it

0:36:18.880 --> 0:36:21.640
<v Speaker 1>and all that. So how did you prepare for learning

0:36:21.719 --> 0:36:25.040
<v Speaker 1>that role? Wow? Well, I'm from Peckham in London, which

0:36:25.160 --> 0:36:29.840
<v Speaker 1>is the South Central equivalent in my opinion. Um, single

0:36:30.560 --> 0:36:35.680
<v Speaker 1>you know, single parents, you know, broken homes, that's in jail. Um,

0:36:36.000 --> 0:36:39.840
<v Speaker 1>police brutality, racism and drugs. You know, drugs was a

0:36:39.960 --> 0:36:44.360
<v Speaker 1>major factor of my upbringing. On my community. Everyone around

0:36:44.440 --> 0:36:55.080
<v Speaker 1>me was involved, So drugs at all. Um, so everybody

0:36:58.640 --> 0:37:04.480
<v Speaker 1>so they went, have you ever know? You haven't but

0:37:04.560 --> 0:37:09.440
<v Speaker 1>no drugs retired police officer, So there was no drugs

0:37:09.520 --> 0:37:11.840
<v Speaker 1>ever coming in my crib. Okay, okay, he would have

0:37:11.880 --> 0:37:16.960
<v Speaker 1>been on you. Yeah. So so so basically I just

0:37:17.280 --> 0:37:20.720
<v Speaker 1>just preparing for the role was interesting. There's so much history,

0:37:21.320 --> 0:37:24.719
<v Speaker 1>you know, on this drug. And the thing I love

0:37:24.760 --> 0:37:27.440
<v Speaker 1>about the show, particularly season five, is I'm not sure

0:37:27.440 --> 0:37:29.560
<v Speaker 1>if you guys are aware about the lem Bias case.

0:37:29.680 --> 0:37:31.239
<v Speaker 1>I was just reading about that because I didn't know

0:37:31.239 --> 0:37:33.480
<v Speaker 1>it was a real person. Oh yeah, yeah. So he

0:37:33.600 --> 0:37:36.759
<v Speaker 1>was a basketballer in Maryland University in nine eighty six

0:37:37.360 --> 0:37:44.200
<v Speaker 1>and essentially his unfortunate overdose created a snowball effect in

0:37:44.320 --> 0:37:47.960
<v Speaker 1>America with the Clinton administration is basically how Clinton even

0:37:48.320 --> 0:37:53.560
<v Speaker 1>became president in the first place. And they introduced mandatory minimums, right,

0:37:53.760 --> 0:37:56.959
<v Speaker 1>so all these mandatory laws of you know them getting

0:37:57.000 --> 0:37:58.880
<v Speaker 1>caught with it like a gram of a graham of

0:37:58.960 --> 0:38:02.000
<v Speaker 1>crack was this same as one hundred grams of cocaine.

0:38:02.400 --> 0:38:05.360
<v Speaker 1>And what that essentially did was it broke up the

0:38:05.480 --> 0:38:08.680
<v Speaker 1>African American household and that's why so many fathers were

0:38:08.719 --> 0:38:10.400
<v Speaker 1>gone and that's why we see what we see today.

0:38:11.040 --> 0:38:15.520
<v Speaker 1>And the show season five starts with that correlating to

0:38:15.800 --> 0:38:19.160
<v Speaker 1>Franklin having there in one hundred million dollars. Now I'm

0:38:19.239 --> 0:38:23.160
<v Speaker 1>living the high life. Beautiful place to live, the penthouse.

0:38:23.760 --> 0:38:27.000
<v Speaker 1>Jerome and Louis are on horses. Leon's like a Franklin

0:38:27.080 --> 0:38:32.040
<v Speaker 1>and his own right and my girlfriend exactly loyal. So

0:38:32.840 --> 0:38:36.160
<v Speaker 1>you're seeing him enjoying this lifestyle like so many people

0:38:36.200 --> 0:38:38.840
<v Speaker 1>in the eighties did. But then you're seeing the demise

0:38:38.960 --> 0:38:41.879
<v Speaker 1>of a community. You're seeing people like one the Bell

0:38:42.600 --> 0:38:46.200
<v Speaker 1>trying to find a sense of redemption after everything that

0:38:46.320 --> 0:38:50.520
<v Speaker 1>she's been through from being addicted to this drug. Singleton

0:38:50.600 --> 0:38:54.319
<v Speaker 1>would say, you know that black people will have been

0:38:54.360 --> 0:38:57.479
<v Speaker 1>affected in many ways, but crack cocaine was the only

0:38:57.560 --> 0:39:03.040
<v Speaker 1>thing that made black mothers leave their children. Wow, So

0:39:03.200 --> 0:39:05.080
<v Speaker 1>that it's a deep thing, man. All Right. We got

0:39:05.160 --> 0:39:07.919
<v Speaker 1>more with Dampson in dress from Snowfall. When we come back.

0:39:08.160 --> 0:39:11.920
<v Speaker 1>It's the Breakfast Club the morning putting. Everybody is DJ Envy,

0:39:12.160 --> 0:39:15.040
<v Speaker 1>Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy we all to Breakfast Club,

0:39:15.080 --> 0:39:17.080
<v Speaker 1>but still kicking it with Damson Idriss, you know him

0:39:17.120 --> 0:39:21.040
<v Speaker 1>from Snowfall. Ye. Now, Franklin's trying to go legit, and

0:39:21.160 --> 0:39:22.920
<v Speaker 1>we know how hard that is to do, especially when

0:39:22.920 --> 0:39:24.560
<v Speaker 1>you have so many things in your past that are

0:39:24.560 --> 0:39:27.200
<v Speaker 1>always going to be catching up to you and having

0:39:27.320 --> 0:39:29.239
<v Speaker 1>a baby on the way too. That's a big deal

0:39:29.280 --> 0:39:31.520
<v Speaker 1>because you have to do anything you can at all

0:39:31.640 --> 0:39:33.840
<v Speaker 1>means possible to make sure that you take care of

0:39:34.360 --> 0:39:36.440
<v Speaker 1>this child that's on the way. You've made a commitment

0:39:37.080 --> 0:39:39.960
<v Speaker 1>to do that with your girlfriend. I was thinking about

0:39:40.000 --> 0:39:41.759
<v Speaker 1>this for some reason. I don't really trust her, and

0:39:41.840 --> 0:39:45.080
<v Speaker 1>I know we're only a few episodes in. He has

0:39:45.160 --> 0:39:48.840
<v Speaker 1>bad experiences. Yeah yeah, and so for that reason, I'm like,

0:39:49.000 --> 0:39:52.960
<v Speaker 1>what is about to happen? Wow? So my backstory with

0:39:53.200 --> 0:39:57.279
<v Speaker 1>very Nice's character is essentially this. You remember in season three,

0:39:57.480 --> 0:39:59.160
<v Speaker 1>Franklin kind of took the most of these out of

0:39:59.239 --> 0:40:03.200
<v Speaker 1>that house. Um. He basically kind of corned this old

0:40:03.280 --> 0:40:06.360
<v Speaker 1>couple out of their Bookstoreum. So he was taken to

0:40:06.480 --> 0:40:10.640
<v Speaker 1>court and the person that was their representative was very unique,

0:40:10.760 --> 0:40:13.120
<v Speaker 1>and they won that case, and he kind of fell

0:40:13.200 --> 0:40:15.640
<v Speaker 1>for her and kind of hired her on his team

0:40:16.080 --> 0:40:18.680
<v Speaker 1>and wanted to build with her. Something led to another

0:40:18.840 --> 0:40:22.040
<v Speaker 1>and then boomed. Now they're together. You know, the show

0:40:22.680 --> 0:40:26.120
<v Speaker 1>is this drug trade is a tricky thing. Um, loyalty

0:40:26.480 --> 0:40:29.200
<v Speaker 1>could could go so quickly when your life is on

0:40:29.280 --> 0:40:31.080
<v Speaker 1>the line, and your life really is on the line.

0:40:31.200 --> 0:40:35.040
<v Speaker 1>Twenty four seven, So um yeah, stick with the show man,

0:40:35.080 --> 0:40:37.120
<v Speaker 1>That's all I can say. Don't trust it. I don't

0:40:37.160 --> 0:40:42.600
<v Speaker 1>know what it is like. Yeah, she's yeah, Keith watching Okay,

0:40:42.640 --> 0:40:44.879
<v Speaker 1>so I might be onto something, you might be onto

0:40:44.920 --> 0:40:47.400
<v Speaker 1>something you might not, but you're a producer, so you

0:40:47.440 --> 0:40:51.080
<v Speaker 1>should be able to know what's about to happen. I've

0:40:51.120 --> 0:40:53.240
<v Speaker 1>seen all. All I can say is I've seen all episodes.

0:40:55.880 --> 0:40:58.680
<v Speaker 1>And then you killed your friend. Yeah. I felt like, okay,

0:40:58.760 --> 0:41:02.800
<v Speaker 1>White rab right, I feel like that wasn't necessary. But

0:41:03.640 --> 0:41:06.120
<v Speaker 1>why do you think it wasn't necessary because people don't

0:41:06.120 --> 0:41:08.359
<v Speaker 1>agree with you? I mean, okay, he was a little

0:41:08.360 --> 0:41:11.800
<v Speaker 1>sloppy and he was telling your business. He told that

0:41:12.040 --> 0:41:15.360
<v Speaker 1>about the CIA. Yeah, yeah, but he could have. I

0:41:15.400 --> 0:41:17.239
<v Speaker 1>don't know. That's your friend from like when you were young.

0:41:17.800 --> 0:41:20.360
<v Speaker 1>Franklin is in a different place now. You know, he

0:41:20.560 --> 0:41:23.920
<v Speaker 1>knows what's important. What's important, it's his family and the

0:41:24.040 --> 0:41:26.080
<v Speaker 1>baby has on the way. And I think a lot

0:41:26.120 --> 0:41:29.359
<v Speaker 1>of people could relate to that making horrible decisions, killing

0:41:29.400 --> 0:41:31.600
<v Speaker 1>your best friend. Maybe he's gonna bring down the horse

0:41:32.400 --> 0:41:34.920
<v Speaker 1>down the empire. Yeah, he would have, he would he

0:41:34.920 --> 0:41:36.360
<v Speaker 1>would have brought down. And I was gonna ask. You

0:41:36.400 --> 0:41:38.320
<v Speaker 1>know a lot of times, in real life and not

0:41:38.440 --> 0:41:41.839
<v Speaker 1>in just movies, you see these drug dealers they make

0:41:42.000 --> 0:41:43.960
<v Speaker 1>enough where they can get out, but they can never

0:41:44.120 --> 0:41:46.520
<v Speaker 1>get out. Yeah, yeah, is that what's gonna happen to

0:41:46.600 --> 0:41:49.640
<v Speaker 1>this character? Like, just never get out because you always

0:41:49.680 --> 0:41:51.279
<v Speaker 1>want to see you want to see the you know,

0:41:51.320 --> 0:41:52.839
<v Speaker 1>what they do to the community. You see the money

0:41:52.880 --> 0:41:54.120
<v Speaker 1>that they make, but you kind of want to see

0:41:54.120 --> 0:41:56.839
<v Speaker 1>them ride off from that white horse. But yeah, it's

0:41:56.880 --> 0:42:00.439
<v Speaker 1>never that white horse. That's the game, man, that's the game.

0:42:00.719 --> 0:42:03.160
<v Speaker 1>And that's what we're trying to preach to these kids.

0:42:03.200 --> 0:42:06.520
<v Speaker 1>It's not preach, but just let them know, man, it's

0:42:06.600 --> 0:42:09.600
<v Speaker 1>not worth it. It really isn't worth it. That's that's

0:42:09.600 --> 0:42:12.400
<v Speaker 1>what this show's teaching me. You know, as if you

0:42:12.520 --> 0:42:16.080
<v Speaker 1>really look at this season, as much money as Franklin makes,

0:42:16.160 --> 0:42:18.640
<v Speaker 1>he's not happy. But what's the point doing something if

0:42:18.719 --> 0:42:21.440
<v Speaker 1>you know, I act because it makes me happy. Correct

0:42:21.480 --> 0:42:23.080
<v Speaker 1>If it didn't make me happy, I wouldn't do it.

0:42:23.600 --> 0:42:27.400
<v Speaker 1>So I think that's hopefully what I hope happens with Franklin,

0:42:27.480 --> 0:42:29.839
<v Speaker 1>as there's a redemptive quality to him. You know, he's

0:42:29.880 --> 0:42:33.400
<v Speaker 1>done some horrible things. I'm hoping by the end of it,

0:42:33.560 --> 0:42:37.279
<v Speaker 1>he realizes that it wasn't worth it, and hopefully he

0:42:37.320 --> 0:42:39.359
<v Speaker 1>can redeem himself in some way. I was gonna ask

0:42:39.400 --> 0:42:42.360
<v Speaker 1>when it comes to American movies, and you know sometimes

0:42:42.440 --> 0:42:44.759
<v Speaker 1>people feel that, you know, actors that don't live in

0:42:44.800 --> 0:42:47.600
<v Speaker 1>America and they take these parts that it's a problem.

0:42:47.800 --> 0:42:49.239
<v Speaker 1>I know when it just elbow comes up in some

0:42:49.280 --> 0:42:52.080
<v Speaker 1>past it was like, well, he's not America or yourself.

0:42:52.160 --> 0:42:55.040
<v Speaker 1>Do you have a what are your thoughts on those things? Man?

0:42:55.719 --> 0:42:58.920
<v Speaker 1>I think it's a beautiful conversation because I think it's

0:42:58.960 --> 0:43:02.320
<v Speaker 1>going to push us full and you can't help but

0:43:02.600 --> 0:43:06.040
<v Speaker 1>acknowledge when a group of people feel the type of way.

0:43:07.160 --> 0:43:11.239
<v Speaker 1>So it's just about listening. Really. I will say, I'm

0:43:11.280 --> 0:43:14.120
<v Speaker 1>an actor and I make believe for a living. So

0:43:14.239 --> 0:43:17.040
<v Speaker 1>the very concept of my job is to pretend to

0:43:17.200 --> 0:43:19.879
<v Speaker 1>be something else. Um well, I do want to see though,

0:43:19.920 --> 0:43:22.480
<v Speaker 1>I want to see more people working in America in

0:43:22.520 --> 0:43:24.400
<v Speaker 1>the UK. You know, I saw Tessa Thompson playing a

0:43:24.440 --> 0:43:27.320
<v Speaker 1>Britain in the past and that was fire. Denzel just

0:43:27.440 --> 0:43:31.600
<v Speaker 1>did Tragedy of My Beth and there's examples of people

0:43:31.640 --> 0:43:33.600
<v Speaker 1>working in the past. So viol is about to do

0:43:33.920 --> 0:43:36.400
<v Speaker 1>a woman king for us where it could play the idiot.

0:43:36.400 --> 0:43:39.400
<v Speaker 1>I mean the Denzel played a Britain for Queen and Country.

0:43:39.520 --> 0:43:42.560
<v Speaker 1>You know, acting is about transformation. I feel like acting,

0:43:42.960 --> 0:43:46.080
<v Speaker 1>who does the best job doesn't matter who you are.

0:43:46.120 --> 0:43:48.520
<v Speaker 1>Like people get caught up in you know, let's say

0:43:48.520 --> 0:43:51.440
<v Speaker 1>you have to pay a handicap person and somebody might say, well,

0:43:51.960 --> 0:43:54.000
<v Speaker 1>there's handicap actors out there that could take that position.

0:43:54.400 --> 0:43:56.560
<v Speaker 1>But in my thing is who does the best job

0:43:56.680 --> 0:44:00.680
<v Speaker 1>at the part. If they're from Britain, if they're from Africa,

0:44:00.719 --> 0:44:02.719
<v Speaker 1>it doesn't matter whoever does the best jot because you're acting.

0:44:02.760 --> 0:44:05.279
<v Speaker 1>It's a part. Yeah, you know, yeah, yeah, and you

0:44:05.360 --> 0:44:08.359
<v Speaker 1>know it's a story. At the end of the day,

0:44:08.680 --> 0:44:11.120
<v Speaker 1>the most important thing is that the story is being told.

0:44:11.239 --> 0:44:15.319
<v Speaker 1>Representation is very key. I'm not saying representation isn't key,

0:44:15.400 --> 0:44:18.719
<v Speaker 1>it's very key. But we must realize that so much

0:44:18.840 --> 0:44:22.520
<v Speaker 1>goes into making movies. This is the movie business. It's

0:44:22.560 --> 0:44:26.200
<v Speaker 1>not the movie play. You have to make money, you know.

0:44:26.400 --> 0:44:30.319
<v Speaker 1>And and what's happening now is we're giving people opportunities

0:44:30.600 --> 0:44:34.200
<v Speaker 1>so that they can raise their platform. So say you

0:44:34.280 --> 0:44:36.719
<v Speaker 1>are a handicap actor or transject the actor or whatever,

0:44:36.800 --> 0:44:39.080
<v Speaker 1>you're able to raise your platform so that you can

0:44:39.239 --> 0:44:41.200
<v Speaker 1>be in a position to green light movies in the future.

0:44:41.560 --> 0:44:43.640
<v Speaker 1>That's what we're working at today in the industry, which

0:44:43.680 --> 0:44:47.040
<v Speaker 1>I think is brilliant, but right now, if a movie's

0:44:47.040 --> 0:44:49.920
<v Speaker 1>ready and a movie's ready to go now and you

0:44:50.000 --> 0:44:54.000
<v Speaker 1>want to cast someone and John and for Majors isn't available,

0:44:54.040 --> 0:44:57.160
<v Speaker 1>and the Keith Stanfield isn't available, and those guys have

0:44:57.320 --> 0:45:00.200
<v Speaker 1>green light power, but this brit actor or this an

0:45:00.239 --> 0:45:02.600
<v Speaker 1>actor has green light power too, and they could get

0:45:02.800 --> 0:45:05.200
<v Speaker 1>bombs on the seat you're gonna cost that person. That's

0:45:05.200 --> 0:45:08.160
<v Speaker 1>how That's how it works. At the top. I like

0:45:08.280 --> 0:45:12.560
<v Speaker 1>to say, we're playing at the NBA level of acting.

0:45:12.680 --> 0:45:16.759
<v Speaker 1>You know, no shade too, you know, smaller projects, but

0:45:17.120 --> 0:45:19.799
<v Speaker 1>when it gets up there, the field and the net

0:45:19.960 --> 0:45:22.320
<v Speaker 1>is a lot wider and people are from different places.

0:45:22.840 --> 0:45:24.919
<v Speaker 1>It's the same in sports. You know, that's like saying

0:45:25.000 --> 0:45:28.520
<v Speaker 1>Jannas shouldn't be playing right because he's He's not. Like

0:45:28.600 --> 0:45:31.520
<v Speaker 1>it's you know, at that level, and you need to

0:45:31.600 --> 0:45:33.319
<v Speaker 1>work to get to that level. You know, you need

0:45:33.360 --> 0:45:35.200
<v Speaker 1>to put in the ten thousand hours, and so many

0:45:35.239 --> 0:45:39.040
<v Speaker 1>actors have. And what I'm realizing is, you know, it's

0:45:39.080 --> 0:45:43.280
<v Speaker 1>the arrow is being thrown at actors who have found success,

0:45:43.480 --> 0:45:45.399
<v Speaker 1>But the reason they found success because they've been working

0:45:45.440 --> 0:45:47.640
<v Speaker 1>for so long absolutely behind it, and you know that

0:45:47.719 --> 0:45:50.080
<v Speaker 1>they're finally at a place where they're able to benefit

0:45:50.200 --> 0:45:54.319
<v Speaker 1>from it. But with me personally, UM, I'm just here

0:45:54.400 --> 0:45:56.320
<v Speaker 1>to to to do what makes me happy and to

0:45:56.400 --> 0:45:58.879
<v Speaker 1>me my mom, I'm proud man and I've done those things.

0:45:59.280 --> 0:46:03.400
<v Speaker 1>Everything else a bonus. UM. I always tell people, you know,

0:46:03.480 --> 0:46:05.680
<v Speaker 1>if you if you don't want to watch the Suckers,

0:46:05.840 --> 0:46:08.200
<v Speaker 1>you know, buy tickets for another show. You know, it's

0:46:08.239 --> 0:46:12.880
<v Speaker 1>no shade. There's millions of people who love what I do. Um,

0:46:13.160 --> 0:46:16.200
<v Speaker 1>there's millions of people who this is a small thing.

0:46:16.280 --> 0:46:18.640
<v Speaker 1>But you know, this guy's in jail who hit me.

0:46:18.680 --> 0:46:21.040
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, yo, bro, you got me through my sentence.

0:46:21.680 --> 0:46:23.600
<v Speaker 1>I'm supposed to stop what I'm doing, which is why

0:46:23.640 --> 0:46:27.200
<v Speaker 1>you do it. It's exactly why I do it. All right.

0:46:27.239 --> 0:46:29.600
<v Speaker 1>We got more with Damson Dress when we come back,

0:46:29.600 --> 0:46:31.839
<v Speaker 1>you know from Snowfall. And don't forget, Charlomagne's out today.

0:46:31.840 --> 0:46:33.200
<v Speaker 1>So if you want to give donkey to day to

0:46:33.280 --> 0:46:35.920
<v Speaker 1>somebody eight hundred five eight five one oh five one,

0:46:36.360 --> 0:46:38.000
<v Speaker 1>call us up right now. It's a breakfast club. Good

0:46:38.000 --> 0:46:41.800
<v Speaker 1>morning e j Envy Angela Yee. Charlomagne the guy. We

0:46:41.880 --> 0:46:44.520
<v Speaker 1>are the breakfast club, still kicking it with Damson address

0:46:44.560 --> 0:46:47.279
<v Speaker 1>you know him from Snowfall? Ye, I used still take

0:46:47.320 --> 0:46:51.680
<v Speaker 1>a piano lestands who So let's let's break this down.

0:46:51.719 --> 0:46:53.640
<v Speaker 1>Where were you taking pan? Where do we see him

0:46:53.640 --> 0:46:59.800
<v Speaker 1>playing piano? I don't know, Juliard, No, no playing piano. You.

0:47:00.800 --> 0:47:02.399
<v Speaker 1>I'm just asking. I said you would take a piano

0:47:02.480 --> 0:47:05.960
<v Speaker 1>lessons or something like that. Oh damn, I did see

0:47:06.000 --> 0:47:07.840
<v Speaker 1>a video of it. Looked like you were good with

0:47:07.920 --> 0:47:13.040
<v Speaker 1>your hands. Oh my lord, wow, I don't know. No, no,

0:47:13.160 --> 0:47:20.239
<v Speaker 1>no no, um me and me and that I'm not

0:47:21.760 --> 0:47:24.480
<v Speaker 1>no no me and that that that queen. Um are

0:47:24.600 --> 0:47:29.080
<v Speaker 1>just friends. Um. She's a great don't you guys? Were

0:47:29.120 --> 0:47:31.399
<v Speaker 1>I was asking about the piano lessons? Yeah, yeah, yeah,

0:47:31.440 --> 0:47:34.640
<v Speaker 1>she's a great piano player. And and I didn't know

0:47:35.000 --> 0:47:37.120
<v Speaker 1>she could play piano. I didn't even think the world knew.

0:47:37.320 --> 0:47:39.320
<v Speaker 1>So I was like, oh, this is cool moment I

0:47:39.400 --> 0:47:42.520
<v Speaker 1>just posted. But like people ask question, like, you know,

0:47:42.840 --> 0:47:44.319
<v Speaker 1>I don't know if angel you could play the piano,

0:47:44.360 --> 0:47:47.480
<v Speaker 1>because I'm not her actually to learn. I don't know

0:47:47.520 --> 0:47:49.520
<v Speaker 1>if Taylor, who's over here, I producer knows, you know,

0:47:49.560 --> 0:47:50.800
<v Speaker 1>I don't know if she could play a piano. So,

0:47:51.239 --> 0:47:53.440
<v Speaker 1>you know, how did you get to Sweetie's house to

0:47:53.520 --> 0:47:56.239
<v Speaker 1>see that she can actually play the piano. So she's

0:47:56.239 --> 0:48:00.000
<v Speaker 1>a huge Snowfall fan, right, And that day we were

0:48:00.000 --> 0:48:02.200
<v Speaker 1>were at lunch, I think, talking about how we could

0:48:02.239 --> 0:48:05.320
<v Speaker 1>collaborate because we actually wanted to get before. No, it

0:48:05.440 --> 0:48:10.239
<v Speaker 1>wasn't a days and talking about collaborator. Guys and girls

0:48:10.280 --> 0:48:12.880
<v Speaker 1>could be friends. Yeah, absolutely, yeah, I agree with you.

0:48:13.000 --> 0:48:16.640
<v Speaker 1>That's exactly what me and and DR we were friends. Okay,

0:48:16.800 --> 0:48:18.440
<v Speaker 1>all right, so go ahead. So y'all you're on a

0:48:18.520 --> 0:48:24.320
<v Speaker 1>day eating oh my god, eating lunch. Yeah. But so

0:48:24.520 --> 0:48:28.440
<v Speaker 1>we're having lunch, um, and then uh, she wanted to

0:48:28.520 --> 0:48:32.560
<v Speaker 1>show me her new place because I love CB two

0:48:33.040 --> 0:48:35.040
<v Speaker 1>and I was going to give us some ideas about

0:48:35.080 --> 0:48:38.600
<v Speaker 1>furniture and all. And then boom we went and then

0:48:38.640 --> 0:48:40.000
<v Speaker 1>she was playing piano. That's it. I was in it

0:48:40.080 --> 0:48:43.279
<v Speaker 1>for like five minutes, and I dipped out, like she's

0:48:43.320 --> 0:48:45.719
<v Speaker 1>a friend, she's a friend of mine. That I mean.

0:48:45.800 --> 0:48:47.160
<v Speaker 1>Of course, you guys knew that was going to make

0:48:47.160 --> 0:48:50.520
<v Speaker 1>the Internet go crazy though, yeah, like also like they

0:48:50.520 --> 0:48:54.000
<v Speaker 1>would be such a cute couple, those people cute couple.

0:48:55.200 --> 0:48:57.080
<v Speaker 1>But she she yeah she's but you were in a

0:48:57.120 --> 0:49:00.400
<v Speaker 1>long term relationship prior to that, right, Yeah, yeah, what

0:49:00.560 --> 0:49:07.360
<v Speaker 1>happened with that? Oh boy, this is whoa, Oh my god,

0:49:08.239 --> 0:49:14.919
<v Speaker 1>this is what um. Um, we're still really close, really

0:49:14.960 --> 0:49:17.560
<v Speaker 1>good friends. Um. I was with her for for a

0:49:17.680 --> 0:49:19.280
<v Speaker 1>very long time. I met her when I was eighteen

0:49:19.360 --> 0:49:22.480
<v Speaker 1>years old. Um. Who knows, man, who knows what could

0:49:22.480 --> 0:49:24.600
<v Speaker 1>happen in the future. You know, she's very much still

0:49:24.640 --> 0:49:28.640
<v Speaker 1>in my life. We talked like every single day. It's

0:49:28.640 --> 0:49:33.719
<v Speaker 1>so funny. You know, people struggle to um keep relationships

0:49:33.760 --> 0:49:36.560
<v Speaker 1>with their exes. But I am at a place in

0:49:36.640 --> 0:49:40.160
<v Speaker 1>my life now where I everyone I meet, I want

0:49:40.200 --> 0:49:43.440
<v Speaker 1>them to be in my life forever because I realized

0:49:43.600 --> 0:49:46.720
<v Speaker 1>so many people are coming into my life, taking my energy,

0:49:46.960 --> 0:49:51.399
<v Speaker 1>hearing my dreams, hearing my stories, and then they're gone

0:49:51.520 --> 0:49:54.320
<v Speaker 1>and now they're telling that to the wall. Um. So

0:49:54.480 --> 0:49:55.800
<v Speaker 1>I want people to stay in my life so I

0:49:55.840 --> 0:49:58.640
<v Speaker 1>can keep that loyalty. And I made that decision with her,

0:49:58.920 --> 0:50:01.399
<v Speaker 1>you know, and I know that's a woman that I'm

0:50:01.440 --> 0:50:05.160
<v Speaker 1>gonna know I'm forever. So regardless of what happens in

0:50:05.239 --> 0:50:08.600
<v Speaker 1>my love life, every relationship just has to deal with that.

0:50:08.800 --> 0:50:11.800
<v Speaker 1>Did she call you and say, hey, oh word, sweeties,

0:50:11.840 --> 0:50:14.439
<v Speaker 1>piano dot dot dot did you get that text? Yeah?

0:50:16.600 --> 0:50:20.480
<v Speaker 1>But like like, we know that's she's she's cool. She's

0:50:20.480 --> 0:50:23.839
<v Speaker 1>an amazing woman. She's cool, she understands. You also talked

0:50:23.840 --> 0:50:26.960
<v Speaker 1>about that Denzel is your idol as far as acting.

0:50:27.239 --> 0:50:29.560
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, so when you see I don't I don't,

0:50:29.600 --> 0:50:31.239
<v Speaker 1>I don't mess up the young lady's name. But when

0:50:31.239 --> 0:50:34.080
<v Speaker 1>you see a young lady interview in Denzel and she

0:50:34.200 --> 0:50:36.920
<v Speaker 1>mentioned your name and he didn't know who you were,

0:50:37.400 --> 0:50:39.080
<v Speaker 1>break that down when you've seen it and how you

0:50:39.160 --> 0:50:41.040
<v Speaker 1>felt like you watch the TV be like, oh, Denzel

0:50:41.280 --> 0:50:42.920
<v Speaker 1>and he was like, who that is? And then he

0:50:42.960 --> 0:50:45.439
<v Speaker 1>asked the white guy guy, Oh, I don't. I don't

0:50:45.480 --> 0:50:48.040
<v Speaker 1>know who that is. No, it was it was insane.

0:50:48.080 --> 0:50:50.680
<v Speaker 1>I saw I was at home. Um on my phone,

0:50:50.920 --> 0:50:59.040
<v Speaker 1>she's at your house. Wow, at my house? Okay yea,

0:50:59.280 --> 0:51:03.600
<v Speaker 1>so my house by myself, by myself. Yeah, by myself,

0:51:03.760 --> 0:51:06.120
<v Speaker 1>and my phone's like blowing up and it's like a

0:51:07.080 --> 0:51:09.319
<v Speaker 1>bunch of articles and stuff like that, and people are

0:51:09.360 --> 0:51:12.200
<v Speaker 1>calling me and I was like yo. Then I was

0:51:12.200 --> 0:51:13.960
<v Speaker 1>like talking about you. I'm like, oh my god, this

0:51:14.160 --> 0:51:18.239
<v Speaker 1>is crazy. Like so then, um, yeah, that he didn't

0:51:18.280 --> 0:51:23.120
<v Speaker 1>know who I was, he couldn't address. But that was

0:51:23.200 --> 0:51:26.439
<v Speaker 1>funny though. That was funny. But hey, man, like it's

0:51:26.480 --> 0:51:29.719
<v Speaker 1>a new day. You know, Um, it's a new day,

0:51:29.920 --> 0:51:33.759
<v Speaker 1>and you know you could bash uh, you know, get

0:51:33.840 --> 0:51:37.040
<v Speaker 1>a notoriety through social media. I'm not gonna lie, like,

0:51:37.160 --> 0:51:40.279
<v Speaker 1>there's a lot of my kind of existence has been

0:51:40.360 --> 0:51:44.239
<v Speaker 1>on that through my work and just through just being me. Um.

0:51:45.440 --> 0:51:49.759
<v Speaker 1>And some people from the past still don't respect that. Um,

0:51:50.520 --> 0:51:52.520
<v Speaker 1>But look what social media has done for so many

0:51:52.560 --> 0:51:56.480
<v Speaker 1>people today. We have to start moving in the direction

0:51:56.560 --> 0:51:59.720
<v Speaker 1>of the future. But above all things and all of that, noise,

0:52:00.320 --> 0:52:05.319
<v Speaker 1>Denzel Washington is my idol. He's like a god to me, UM,

0:52:05.760 --> 0:52:08.040
<v Speaker 1>and I will never have anything bad to ever say

0:52:08.080 --> 0:52:11.000
<v Speaker 1>about him. Did you ever get up with him after that?

0:52:11.080 --> 0:52:12.759
<v Speaker 1>Did you ever speak? Because I'm sure people tried. I'm

0:52:12.800 --> 0:52:14.480
<v Speaker 1>sure people try to put your again. I'm sure there's

0:52:14.480 --> 0:52:16.880
<v Speaker 1>people like he knows that you know there was Like, no,

0:52:17.200 --> 0:52:19.600
<v Speaker 1>I'm not I haven't seen him, but I like to

0:52:19.680 --> 0:52:22.640
<v Speaker 1>fantasize that he's at home watching snowfall. Let me find

0:52:22.680 --> 0:52:26.040
<v Speaker 1>oh that boy good. Yeah, because of how much people

0:52:26.040 --> 0:52:27.680
<v Speaker 1>talked about it, I'm sure it made him feel like, damn,

0:52:27.680 --> 0:52:30.000
<v Speaker 1>I should know who he is, hopefully because it was

0:52:30.120 --> 0:52:33.840
<v Speaker 1>it was crazy. I will say though. You know, to journalists,

0:52:34.120 --> 0:52:37.280
<v Speaker 1>when you present a new actor or a new musician

0:52:37.360 --> 0:52:41.320
<v Speaker 1>or someone you like, like to some of these these giants,

0:52:42.200 --> 0:52:44.680
<v Speaker 1>please present them in the right way. She presented me

0:52:44.840 --> 0:52:47.080
<v Speaker 1>like I will all day. I'm in my living room

0:52:47.120 --> 0:52:52.160
<v Speaker 1>topless like so he's like, social media is cute, but

0:52:52.280 --> 0:52:57.440
<v Speaker 1>do the work I'm like been doing, but for just

0:52:57.719 --> 0:52:59.480
<v Speaker 1>just to you know, so he knows. I remember when

0:52:59.480 --> 0:53:02.080
<v Speaker 1>a little way we're never asking a little Wayne about

0:53:02.120 --> 0:53:04.120
<v Speaker 1>new artists. A little with Wayne was like, I don't

0:53:04.160 --> 0:53:05.839
<v Speaker 1>know who that is, and people are getting on him

0:53:05.840 --> 0:53:07.480
<v Speaker 1>like he's one of the biggest artsts. Little Wyne was like, yo,

0:53:07.520 --> 0:53:09.799
<v Speaker 1>I'm in my own bubble. Yeah, in my own world yea.

0:53:10.120 --> 0:53:11.560
<v Speaker 1>And people got on him and it could be the

0:53:11.600 --> 0:53:13.320
<v Speaker 1>same thing. He could be in his own world. And

0:53:13.400 --> 0:53:14.880
<v Speaker 1>like you said, he doesn't know, but I'm sure he

0:53:14.920 --> 0:53:16.880
<v Speaker 1>knows that. I'm sure after this he did his homework.

0:53:16.960 --> 0:53:19.960
<v Speaker 1>He had to. Yeah, man, I would hope so. And

0:53:20.840 --> 0:53:23.920
<v Speaker 1>like I said, man, he he is just fantastic. You know.

0:53:24.040 --> 0:53:28.920
<v Speaker 1>He's a great example of class, good taste, prestige. Uh.

0:53:29.000 --> 0:53:35.000
<v Speaker 1>And that's the that's the essence before never met him.

0:53:35.360 --> 0:53:37.279
<v Speaker 1>Know what's next for you? What is it? What is

0:53:37.400 --> 0:53:40.279
<v Speaker 1>some roles that you want to do. Wow, it's something

0:53:40.320 --> 0:53:41.920
<v Speaker 1>that you like, I would love to do that role. Like,

0:53:42.000 --> 0:53:44.799
<v Speaker 1>that's my dream role? Is it an action figure? Something music?

0:53:46.280 --> 0:53:48.879
<v Speaker 1>I love playing real people, so I'd love to play

0:53:49.400 --> 0:53:56.160
<v Speaker 1>Eddie Murphy, h Sidney Poitier fellow cut Um. I'm actually

0:53:56.719 --> 0:53:58.759
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I don't know. I allowed to say,

0:54:00.400 --> 0:54:02.719
<v Speaker 1>do you know who rich Pool is? Yeah? Yeah, I'm

0:54:02.719 --> 0:54:06.200
<v Speaker 1>about to play Richpool, really really rich Paul the Agent. Yeah,

0:54:07.760 --> 0:54:11.680
<v Speaker 1>I know who. He has a show something about him

0:54:11.680 --> 0:54:13.480
<v Speaker 1>coming out or it's in something where Rich Paul is

0:54:13.480 --> 0:54:17.080
<v Speaker 1>a character. No, does he No? I'm asking you it's

0:54:17.120 --> 0:54:22.799
<v Speaker 1>something where he's does he No, don't. I don't think

0:54:22.840 --> 0:54:24.919
<v Speaker 1>he has a show coming out. But he's a really

0:54:24.960 --> 0:54:28.480
<v Speaker 1>good friend of mine. And there's people behind this window

0:54:28.600 --> 0:54:31.680
<v Speaker 1>like why did you say that? But he called me.

0:54:31.760 --> 0:54:34.399
<v Speaker 1>He was like, tell the world, and I think we should.

0:54:34.440 --> 0:54:39.800
<v Speaker 1>It's time we start cherishing black moguls and rich is

0:54:39.880 --> 0:54:43.680
<v Speaker 1>someone that people need to know. This guy has completely

0:54:43.800 --> 0:54:47.440
<v Speaker 1>changed the game. I'm happy and fortunate to call him

0:54:47.480 --> 0:54:50.040
<v Speaker 1>a big brother and I can't wait to honor his story.

0:54:50.400 --> 0:54:52.640
<v Speaker 1>That's great. He actually right here approached Lebron in the

0:54:52.680 --> 0:54:57.759
<v Speaker 1>airport selling Jersey history and that's how they met each other. Yeah. Yeah,

0:54:57.840 --> 0:55:00.720
<v Speaker 1>and he's like and then he's as a black sports agent,

0:55:00.920 --> 0:55:03.160
<v Speaker 1>he gets looked at in a completely different way of

0:55:03.200 --> 0:55:05.000
<v Speaker 1>the white sports agents were so angry that he was

0:55:05.040 --> 0:55:09.239
<v Speaker 1>able to come in and get like the biggest NBA player. Yeah. Story,

0:55:09.400 --> 0:55:12.719
<v Speaker 1>it's gonna be amazing, man, And you should start telling

0:55:12.719 --> 0:55:15.759
<v Speaker 1>the stories now while they were alive. And I just

0:55:15.840 --> 0:55:17.840
<v Speaker 1>hate sometimes when we wait till somebody passes away to

0:55:17.920 --> 0:55:19.520
<v Speaker 1>tell that story. Yeah, like you want to give him

0:55:19.520 --> 0:55:21.840
<v Speaker 1>their flowers now, and what he's done for how he's changed,

0:55:21.840 --> 0:55:24.040
<v Speaker 1>like you said, the NBA and the sports agencies is

0:55:24.080 --> 0:55:26.960
<v Speaker 1>just really amazing. Yeah. Yeah. Remember they had to make

0:55:27.000 --> 0:55:29.279
<v Speaker 1>it so that you had to be um like a

0:55:29.360 --> 0:55:33.279
<v Speaker 1>certain amount of classes. Yeah yeah, yeah, you need because

0:55:33.320 --> 0:55:35.160
<v Speaker 1>and it was really based on him. Yeah. And with

0:55:35.320 --> 0:55:38.040
<v Speaker 1>him to have the power, he had completely transformed the game.

0:55:38.560 --> 0:55:41.320
<v Speaker 1>And it's funny. I was at the Super Bowl. I

0:55:41.440 --> 0:55:45.800
<v Speaker 1>was jumping from sweet to sweet um oh yeah. And

0:55:46.600 --> 0:55:50.279
<v Speaker 1>I was with him Kevin and Brawn too, And you know,

0:55:50.360 --> 0:55:53.719
<v Speaker 1>I'm just completely inspired by those people. Like I say,

0:55:54.160 --> 0:55:56.360
<v Speaker 1>I'm fortunate to be in some really good circles. Man,

0:55:56.360 --> 0:55:59.160
<v Speaker 1>I'm learning, but Damns has to leave me. Oh man,

0:55:59.360 --> 0:56:00.920
<v Speaker 1>all right. I would try to get a couple of

0:56:00.960 --> 0:56:03.359
<v Speaker 1>spoilers out of you, but I know you're really good though.

0:56:03.600 --> 0:56:05.719
<v Speaker 1>But I think I did well. But we appreciate you

0:56:05.760 --> 0:56:09.120
<v Speaker 1>for joining us. Brother. Now we really do yes with everything. Man.

0:56:09.360 --> 0:56:11.399
<v Speaker 1>I love the fact that you're producing. I can't wait

0:56:11.440 --> 0:56:14.120
<v Speaker 1>to see what else you have coming up, just because

0:56:14.719 --> 0:56:16.640
<v Speaker 1>we met you so like a few years ago, and

0:56:16.680 --> 0:56:18.400
<v Speaker 1>I think it's just amazing to see where you are

0:56:18.480 --> 0:56:20.160
<v Speaker 1>and where the show is now and a large part

0:56:20.239 --> 0:56:22.799
<v Speaker 1>of that is because of you. Oh man. That means

0:56:22.840 --> 0:56:24.560
<v Speaker 1>so much. Man, thank you, thank you so much for

0:56:24.640 --> 0:56:27.239
<v Speaker 1>having me. Well, it's Damson in dress, It's the Breakfast Club.

0:56:27.520 --> 0:56:36.480
<v Speaker 1>Good morning, Whoa. This is the Rule of Report with

0:56:36.719 --> 0:56:45.879
<v Speaker 1>Angela ye Well. Laverne Cox co hosted the e Red

0:56:45.920 --> 0:56:48.600
<v Speaker 1>Carpet ahead of the SAG Awards that happened on Sunday,

0:56:49.160 --> 0:56:52.759
<v Speaker 1>and people were upset about this question that she asked

0:56:52.840 --> 0:56:55.120
<v Speaker 1>Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith on the Red carpet,

0:56:55.680 --> 0:56:57.839
<v Speaker 1>Thank you for all the years of joy you've brought ass.

0:56:58.120 --> 0:57:00.800
<v Speaker 1>Thank you. We can't wait for our red table talk

0:57:00.920 --> 0:57:09.799
<v Speaker 1>and more more entanglements. No, my entanglements, No, my entanglements. Now,

0:57:09.920 --> 0:57:12.279
<v Speaker 1>people were saying that it was tacky that you would

0:57:12.280 --> 0:57:14.440
<v Speaker 1>ask that on the red carpet and say that to

0:57:14.600 --> 0:57:18.160
<v Speaker 1>them and tell that type of joke. And here's how

0:57:18.200 --> 0:57:21.280
<v Speaker 1>she responded on her Instagram Live. So I've been thinking

0:57:21.320 --> 0:57:23.480
<v Speaker 1>about it, and I've been you know, I'm like, Okay,

0:57:23.720 --> 0:57:27.840
<v Speaker 1>let's if no one is above, no one is above critique.

0:57:28.040 --> 0:57:31.120
<v Speaker 1>I like to hold myself accountable. So the thing is

0:57:31.280 --> 0:57:34.080
<v Speaker 1>for me. I love red table talk. I love red

0:57:34.120 --> 0:57:37.800
<v Speaker 1>table talking. I love what the Smiths have done with

0:57:38.000 --> 0:57:41.360
<v Speaker 1>red table talk. And I think my error is that

0:57:42.520 --> 0:57:44.640
<v Speaker 1>I had so many things I wanted to say to

0:57:44.720 --> 0:57:46.960
<v Speaker 1>the Smiths and we didn't have time. There was some

0:57:47.040 --> 0:57:48.959
<v Speaker 1>probably someone in my ear, saying we needed to wrap

0:57:49.320 --> 0:57:52.040
<v Speaker 1>you know. My intent was not to mock or make

0:57:52.160 --> 0:57:55.160
<v Speaker 1>fun of but obviously I understand there's a difference between

0:57:55.160 --> 0:58:00.360
<v Speaker 1>intent and impact. There's nothing but love, though, So she said,

0:58:00.400 --> 0:58:02.520
<v Speaker 1>it's not an apology. She said, if the Smiths need

0:58:02.600 --> 0:58:05.040
<v Speaker 1>an apology for me, I'll do it privately. I mean,

0:58:05.120 --> 0:58:08.400
<v Speaker 1>I love I love this. I love when celebrities interview

0:58:08.440 --> 0:58:10.920
<v Speaker 1>celebrities and they get into this. But what Laverne, why

0:58:10.920 --> 0:58:12.960
<v Speaker 1>do you love that hey, because what she did wasn't wrong.

0:58:13.400 --> 0:58:16.000
<v Speaker 1>Like she is an interviewing and something popped up and

0:58:16.080 --> 0:58:17.560
<v Speaker 1>she can talk about it, she can make about it,

0:58:17.560 --> 0:58:20.240
<v Speaker 1>a joke about it. But Laverne Cox also has to

0:58:20.360 --> 0:58:22.280
<v Speaker 1>understand when people do the same to her. She has

0:58:22.280 --> 0:58:24.560
<v Speaker 1>to understand where it comes from as well. But I

0:58:24.560 --> 0:58:26.120
<v Speaker 1>don't see a problem with it she did. I mean

0:58:26.160 --> 0:58:28.120
<v Speaker 1>it was funny, it got viral. Is nothing wrong with it.

0:58:28.240 --> 0:58:31.800
<v Speaker 1>But we don't know if they were offended by it

0:58:31.880 --> 0:58:33.600
<v Speaker 1>or not. But I would say Red Carpet is different

0:58:33.680 --> 0:58:35.640
<v Speaker 1>from other interviews because it is supposed to be all

0:58:35.760 --> 0:58:38.000
<v Speaker 1>like fun and upbeat as people are going to celebrate.

0:58:38.040 --> 0:58:40.680
<v Speaker 1>They always tell you they don't be negative or don't

0:58:40.720 --> 0:58:43.680
<v Speaker 1>do anything you know on the Red carpet that could

0:58:43.960 --> 0:58:46.320
<v Speaker 1>kind of mess up the move. Correct. Yeah, the questions

0:58:46.360 --> 0:58:47.880
<v Speaker 1>I asked we asked here at the breakfast love is

0:58:47.880 --> 0:58:50.160
<v Speaker 1>not the same questions you do sit down interview. It's

0:58:50.160 --> 0:58:53.040
<v Speaker 1>definitely different than being on the Red Carpet. But as

0:58:53.080 --> 0:58:55.320
<v Speaker 1>a celebrity, when you go to do these interviews, sometimes

0:58:55.360 --> 0:58:57.400
<v Speaker 1>you never know what somebody's gonna say. And you got accepted.

0:58:57.480 --> 0:58:59.040
<v Speaker 1>You you know, this is your life. You put your

0:58:59.080 --> 0:59:01.200
<v Speaker 1>life out there, so people the right to ask the joke,

0:59:01.280 --> 0:59:04.000
<v Speaker 1>to make a funny it doesn't matter. Yeah, but red

0:59:04.000 --> 0:59:06.720
<v Speaker 1>carpet etiquette is just different than other things. It's quick

0:59:07.040 --> 0:59:10.280
<v Speaker 1>and it's fun, are all right? Mary J. Blige is

0:59:10.480 --> 0:59:15.800
<v Speaker 1>executive producing Real Love and to Real Love inspired Lifetime movie,

0:59:15.800 --> 0:59:18.880
<v Speaker 1>So I am so excited for that. So as we

0:59:19.000 --> 0:59:21.400
<v Speaker 1>all know, Real Love was a song from nineteen ninety two,

0:59:21.480 --> 0:59:23.200
<v Speaker 1>Can you believe it was that long ago? From the

0:59:23.320 --> 0:59:25.800
<v Speaker 1>What's the four? One one album? One of my favorite

0:59:25.840 --> 0:59:29.280
<v Speaker 1>songs and according to the Lifetime, the project is a

0:59:29.320 --> 0:59:32.600
<v Speaker 1>coming of age romantic drama where Kendrick sets off on

0:59:32.680 --> 0:59:34.560
<v Speaker 1>her own for the first time to a college and

0:59:34.680 --> 0:59:37.600
<v Speaker 1>upstate New York, determined to focus on her studies, but

0:59:37.720 --> 0:59:40.720
<v Speaker 1>when she meets her film class partner Ben, she tries

0:59:40.760 --> 0:59:48.080
<v Speaker 1>her hardest despite disapproving parents' financial hardship and competition for

0:59:48.200 --> 0:59:51.040
<v Speaker 1>the top spot in class. Can Dre and Ben find

0:59:51.120 --> 0:59:54.560
<v Speaker 1>themselves falling hard for each other? All right? Ultimately learned

0:59:54.600 --> 0:59:59.240
<v Speaker 1>the meaning of real Love. I can't wait to see

0:59:59.280 --> 1:00:01.200
<v Speaker 1>it and shout out to our girl, A Shanna. She's

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<v Speaker 1>one of the producers for it too. Shout to a Shanna.

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<v Speaker 1>Shanna gets busy. He Shanna hit me the other day. Up, Shana,

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<v Speaker 1>did you hit your heart? No deserve it? Now she

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<v Speaker 1>needed all my kids to do something for Nickelodeon, and

1:00:12.440 --> 1:00:14.520
<v Speaker 1>she was reaching out to make sure that they were straight.

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<v Speaker 1>So shout to Shanna and Natina. All right, well that

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<v Speaker 1>is your rumor reports, all right. Now up next, Donkey

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<v Speaker 1>of the Day. Charlemagne is out. So if you want

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<v Speaker 1>to give somebody Donkey of the Day eight five eight

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<v Speaker 1>five one oh five one, you can give him Donkey

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<v Speaker 1>the Day up next to the b Everybody saying we

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<v Speaker 1>deserve it. I don't know why are we deserving all right?

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<v Speaker 1>It's the breakfast club, God morning, the breakfast club. Your

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<v Speaker 1>mornings will never be the same as the largest black

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<v Speaker 1>owned bank. One United Bank knows you. They have your

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<v Speaker 1>back with two day early pay, unapologetically black deezer debit

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<v Speaker 1>cards with no monthly fee and a highly rated mobile app.

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<v Speaker 1>Joined one United Bank at one United dot com today

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<v Speaker 1>and spread duels. Don't be out here acting like a donkey.

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<v Speaker 1>It's time for Donkey the Day. I'm a big boy.

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<v Speaker 1>I could take it if you feel I deserve it.

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<v Speaker 1>Ain't no big deal, I know. Charlotte MANI guys go

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<v Speaker 1>out and funny sleep. You gotta say something you may

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<v Speaker 1>not agree with doesn't mean I need we're getting that donkey,

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<v Speaker 1>that donkey that don't don't don't don't donkey other day

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<v Speaker 1>right there, the breakfast club bitches, you can call me

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<v Speaker 1>the donkey of the day, but like I mean, no harm. Hello,

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<v Speaker 1>who's this this? Leturally? How are yo? Hey? Leslie? Good morning?

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<v Speaker 1>Who's yes, ma'am? Well, I'm sorry, but I want to

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<v Speaker 1>give the Breakfast Club the donkey of the day. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>yea gave us a donkey of the day. What we

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<v Speaker 1>do because y'all try to sift that family up that

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<v Speaker 1>five thousand dollars for that change for change. Oh see,

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<v Speaker 1>this is the thing I've seen that yesterday. I had

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<v Speaker 1>no idea what they'll talk about. So I guess they

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<v Speaker 1>don't change for change. Let me explain how change for change.

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<v Speaker 1>I'll take the donkey. I mean, I'll work for the station,

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<v Speaker 1>so we'll do the change for change. So change for change.

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<v Speaker 1>People call up and they ask, you know, they submit

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<v Speaker 1>why they want, you know, why they need help. And

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<v Speaker 1>then the people not the Recklace Club, people that work

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<v Speaker 1>here at my heart, they go through each one and

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<v Speaker 1>they find out the different people that they want to

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<v Speaker 1>give money to it. I believe that guy was picking

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<v Speaker 1>was chose to give five thousand dollars correct, yes, right,

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<v Speaker 1>And I guess he was chosen and he never got

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<v Speaker 1>his five thousand dollars. You was mitche to edge, I know,

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<v Speaker 1>but I don't know what happened. I'm hearing this, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>so yeah, no, I don't know. I'll take a deep

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<v Speaker 1>dive and find out where that man's five thousand dollars is.

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<v Speaker 1>He got it? Oh so I don't because he had

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<v Speaker 1>to get the news station on, y'all. That's why that's crazy.

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<v Speaker 1>But you know, well, that's embarrassing. Had nothing to do

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<v Speaker 1>with it. It's very embarrassing. But I'm glad he did

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<v Speaker 1>get that. We don't even touch that money. We don't

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<v Speaker 1>even touch it's not like we get the money that

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<v Speaker 1>we break it down. No, that goals corporate. But I

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<v Speaker 1>love y'all anywhere. I listened to y'all every morning that

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<v Speaker 1>somebody hit me yester. I had no idea what they

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<v Speaker 1>were talking about. Listen. All I know is and he

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<v Speaker 1>probably bought a house with that somewhere. You know, we

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<v Speaker 1>didn't get that money. Google it, so look up. Everybody

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<v Speaker 1>was like, yo, I flip that money. Hello? Who's this? Hello? Hey?

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<v Speaker 1>Good morning? Who's this? Good morning? Yes, I'm calling me.

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<v Speaker 1>Give donkey to day? Yes man, who you wanna give

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<v Speaker 1>donkey today too? Unfortunately, Envy, I gotta give donkey to

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<v Speaker 1>to day to you? And give Louie? Why why is

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<v Speaker 1>it louiyee biggie? Who's lou yee? Little? Okay, okay, why

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<v Speaker 1>do you wanna give us donkey? Mama? Okay, I'm sorry, Angela,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna go for you. I love you guys. First off,

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<v Speaker 1>let me get that out there. I would listen to

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<v Speaker 1>you every day. But Angela white boy rob had to

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<v Speaker 1>go one um now for you are heartless, so you

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<v Speaker 1>would kill your friend from childhood childhood friend, the boy

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<v Speaker 1>turned into a cracking but he's selling crack. Do whatever

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<v Speaker 1>he was doing. He was ahead, he was a fiend,

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<v Speaker 1>but black. Imagine Franklin out here heading up the largest

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<v Speaker 1>crack cocaine distribution, and you're gonna kill your friend for

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<v Speaker 1>getting hooked on the same stuff you're selling because he's

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<v Speaker 1>gonna bring us down. He's gonna bring us down. He's

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<v Speaker 1>got to go because he's gonna choose that over me.

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<v Speaker 1>Let me tell you something. You are hurtless and ruthless.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm giving you Donkey of the day. No, no, noake

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<v Speaker 1>my donkey the next donkey DJ. I'm sorry I have

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<v Speaker 1>to run with Charlomagne on it. That was some bag

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<v Speaker 1>Boogie is talking about all. My dad's a police officer.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not around any of that drugs. No, I said,

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<v Speaker 1>my dad's a police officer. I never sold drugs. I

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<v Speaker 1>never sold little drugs. That's even better reason to sell drugs,

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<v Speaker 1>you said, Go back to the take. You said, I

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<v Speaker 1>was never really around on your back. That wasn't the point?

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<v Speaker 1>Is my dad in the area I live in. My

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<v Speaker 1>dad was one of the first black police offices in

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<v Speaker 1>our neighborhood. We have a lot of credibility, yes, I

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<v Speaker 1>know what. However, in our family, my dad didn't allow it.

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<v Speaker 1>Thing went down, probably because he was a pretty police

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<v Speaker 1>officer to make it right. But I probably a being

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<v Speaker 1>the youngest, I probably saw more stuff than I was

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<v Speaker 1>supposed to because my dad was I just wanted to

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<v Speaker 1>put that out here. But I do love you guys,

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<v Speaker 1>I love you too. Now I'm just saying my dad's

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<v Speaker 1>a police officers. So my dad used to check my drawers,

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<v Speaker 1>He used to check my under the bed, my cars. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>you should have had a stash back to put it in.

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<v Speaker 1>You would have got up your dad police. That's even

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<v Speaker 1>a better reason you and your dad could You and

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<v Speaker 1>your dad could have been just because nobody's coming to

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<v Speaker 1>look over here, right, You could have been running it's

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<v Speaker 1>with your dad and Queen's. My dad wasn't playing that.

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<v Speaker 1>My dad would have locked me up if I was

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<v Speaker 1>selling drugs. You could have been the kingpin, of course,

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<v Speaker 1>of course, thank you so much. All right, all right,

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<v Speaker 1>don't here today five one. I'm watching this seven or

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<v Speaker 1>you bess you're calling I'm watching this seven on your side. WHOA.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm glad he got his money, though they had nothing

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<v Speaker 1>to do with me. They said they tried to contact

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<v Speaker 1>him three times. M don't do to day both things.

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<v Speaker 1>Eight hundred five eight five one on five one. When

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<v Speaker 1>we come back, Erica Alexander and Rebecca Howard will be

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<v Speaker 1>joining us. They have a new podcast, Finding Tamika to

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<v Speaker 1>tell us all about it. It's The Breakfast Club. Good Morning,

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<v Speaker 1>The Breakfast Club Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy Angela Yee

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<v Speaker 1>Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club. Usually we

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<v Speaker 1>do ask ye here, but today we got some special

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<v Speaker 1>guests joining us. We have Erica Alexander and Rebecca Howard.

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<v Speaker 1>Now they have a new podcast called Finding to Mika out.

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<v Speaker 1>Good morning ladies, Good morning, morning morning. What I love

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<v Speaker 1>about Erica is that you're doing big things, but you

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<v Speaker 1>came in and congratulate us and what we have going on. Absolutely,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm trying to keep up with y'all setting the world

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<v Speaker 1>on fire all the things that you've accomplished. But also

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<v Speaker 1>you know, being in the Hall of Fame the radio,

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<v Speaker 1>that's a big deal. And to have done it so

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<v Speaker 1>young and keep doing things, especially for the community and

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<v Speaker 1>all that you represent. I say thank you because it's

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<v Speaker 1>really a phenomenal thing to watch. Thank you and us

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<v Speaker 1>being young as subjective. You know, Hey, it's all good

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<v Speaker 1>and you guys are healthy, so that's good. Well, y'all

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<v Speaker 1>are here to talk finding Tamika. Yeah, what what is?

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<v Speaker 1>What is Finding Tamika? When we have the great Rebecca

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<v Speaker 1>Howard here and she'll tell you why Finding Tamika matters.

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<v Speaker 1>But Finding Tamika is an audible original series produced by

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<v Speaker 1>SBH Productions. That's you and Kevin Hart and Color Farm Media,

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<v Speaker 1>that's me and Rebecca and David Persons, Ben Arnon and

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<v Speaker 1>Molten Hearts, James T. Green. It's about Tamika Houston. Tamika

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<v Speaker 1>Houston went missing in Spartanburg, South Carolina in two thousand

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<v Speaker 1>and four. She was nearly twenty five years old. What's

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<v Speaker 1>unique about her story is she became the poster child

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<v Speaker 1>for what Gweneifel calls missing White Women's syndrome. Why because

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<v Speaker 1>at the time, Rebecca Howard, who is her aunt and

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<v Speaker 1>also has a background and skill set in publicity, could

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<v Speaker 1>not get the national publicity that she deserved for her

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<v Speaker 1>her niece, and she made stink about it. And she

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<v Speaker 1>basically also the two women who started the Black and

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<v Speaker 1>Missing Foundation, one of them came from Spartanburgh, and so

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<v Speaker 1>she became not only the poster child, but I think

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<v Speaker 1>the reason why things started to change on what the

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<v Speaker 1>black community could do about it. Yeah, I readiness that

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<v Speaker 1>and it was nuts to meet Rebecca and you can

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<v Speaker 1>speak to it is that thirty percent of people missing

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<v Speaker 1>are of color, and only seven percent received media coverage. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>it's it's incredible. It's like if you were to just

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<v Speaker 1>watch the coverage that we've seen over the years, you

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<v Speaker 1>would think there was like an epidemic of missing, young,

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<v Speaker 1>missing white women in this country. And I think a

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<v Speaker 1>number of years, they, particularly the cable networks, they found

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<v Speaker 1>a formula that worked and they saw when they covered

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<v Speaker 1>these cases like a Natalie Holloway or Alaci Peterson, and

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<v Speaker 1>we saw it really recently with Gabby Petito, when they

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<v Speaker 1>covered these cases like they were soap operas with constant

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<v Speaker 1>updates and little twists and turns, they saw, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>people were engaging online, people were tuning into these stories.

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<v Speaker 1>So that worked for them and they kept doing it,

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<v Speaker 1>which is you know, I always say those women, their

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<v Speaker 1>families miss them and love them just as much as

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<v Speaker 1>I love Tamica. They certainly deserved their stories to be told,

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<v Speaker 1>but not to the exclusion of my niece and other

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<v Speaker 1>women and girls who looked like Tamica. And that's the

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<v Speaker 1>roadblock that I, you know, ran into. And I think

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<v Speaker 1>there was a naivete on my part where my beautiful

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<v Speaker 1>niece went missing. And I knew that my background is

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<v Speaker 1>in PR, I had the media contacts, I had the

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<v Speaker 1>skill set, I knew what to do, but I was

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<v Speaker 1>met with silence and I wasn't getting any phone calls back,

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<v Speaker 1>Like I was shocked again. I think I was naive

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<v Speaker 1>and thinking like, hey, I see these stories out here.

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<v Speaker 1>Surely my nieces, you know, to mek a story is

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<v Speaker 1>just as engaging and people will care. But they did not.

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<v Speaker 1>And it really wasn't until you know, several months of me,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, doing this and doing this, and I think

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<v Speaker 1>the only responses that I was getting was from black media.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, the time rustpar Mourning Show, and these are

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<v Speaker 1>people because I had relationships without that Time Joiner, Black

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<v Speaker 1>America Webb, you know, like they they were they were

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<v Speaker 1>covering it. But beyond that, outside of our community, I

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<v Speaker 1>couldn't get anything. But would the policing, because I always

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<v Speaker 1>hear stories about had They're like, oh, well maybe she

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<v Speaker 1>ran away or maybe this, Yeah right, I know that's

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<v Speaker 1>that's very common that I think that happens a lot,

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<v Speaker 1>particularly more so in the black community. I think that

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<v Speaker 1>there is unfortunately with police oftentimes there is some sort

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<v Speaker 1>of preconceived notion that they've you know, they may be

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<v Speaker 1>involved in criminal activity or you know, certainly is like

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<v Speaker 1>runaway problem. I would say, I think I was fortunate

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<v Speaker 1>with the police in Spartanburg. After initially I would say

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<v Speaker 1>maybe the first couple of phone calls, there was kind

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<v Speaker 1>of that hesitancy. But I got on a plane. I

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<v Speaker 1>live in Miami. I got in a plane, flew to

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<v Speaker 1>South Carolina, and I went and sat in their office.

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<v Speaker 1>I was like, I'm not leaving until I get a

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<v Speaker 1>media release put out by you all. Because the media,

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<v Speaker 1>even local media, didn't want to hear it from me.

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<v Speaker 1>They wanted to make sure that it was an act

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<v Speaker 1>of police investigation. So I was fortunate in that my

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<v Speaker 1>persistence I think paid off. But also just I think

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<v Speaker 1>I was blessed with investigators who were sympathetic to this

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<v Speaker 1>case and did do right by us in Tamika, in

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<v Speaker 1>our family. And that's not, I know, always the case.

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<v Speaker 1>I know you said black media played a big role.

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<v Speaker 1>I was reading that MSNBC's Tiffany Cross played a big

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<v Speaker 1>role as well. It's wild because again, America's Most Wanted

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<v Speaker 1>was one of my first targets, and I was writing,

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<v Speaker 1>I wasn't even faxing this is about you know, this

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<v Speaker 1>is two thousand and four, We're still using fax machines.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm faxing not getting anywhere with the executive producer of

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<v Speaker 1>the show. And somehow or another, I didn't know Tiffany,

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<v Speaker 1>but it came across you know, her desk, and it

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<v Speaker 1>resonated with her. Again. Tiffany will say, you know, Tamka,

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<v Speaker 1>I look at her picture. She looks like me. She

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<v Speaker 1>looks you know, she could be me. She could be

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<v Speaker 1>one of my cousins. And that's another thing why representation

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<v Speaker 1>and media is so important. And she told, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>her producer, senior producer, Hey, this story matters. Let me

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<v Speaker 1>do this story. Let me go to Spartanburg, let me,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, tell tomka story. And she did. And you know,

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<v Speaker 1>she was a young field producer at the time, and

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<v Speaker 1>I really was thankful for her because actually getting Tamka's

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<v Speaker 1>case on America's Most One it led to one of

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<v Speaker 1>the biggest breaks that we had in the case. We

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<v Speaker 1>got a phone call in from a young woman who

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<v Speaker 1>happened to see it and she could describe the room

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<v Speaker 1>in which to make it was was killed. Yeah, she

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<v Speaker 1>was like put two and two together. She had you know,

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<v Speaker 1>been in that space and she called to tell them

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<v Speaker 1>that they had dressed it roll. Yeah, it wasn't like

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<v Speaker 1>that at all. Really, yes, yeah, she's basically like, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>the way you looked out, yeah in the that series.

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<v Speaker 1>She's also fifteen years old, so yeah yeah, why would

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<v Speaker 1>she know? Yeah, So it matters. It's not just the face,

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<v Speaker 1>it's not as loved ones of the missing. We just

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<v Speaker 1>I don't want a tension on myself. I don't. You know.

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<v Speaker 1>This is not anything that you'd wish on your worst enemy.

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<v Speaker 1>But it matters because these not only do you get,

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<v Speaker 1>you may get tips that we got. Um. It also

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<v Speaker 1>puts pressure on the police who are investigating. If you

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<v Speaker 1>have CNN, MSNBC calling, if you have national reporters calling

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<v Speaker 1>you to ask where the where the status is on

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<v Speaker 1>that case. Not only in the investigators. The investigators feel

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<v Speaker 1>the pressure, but their bosses, you know, the chief of

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<v Speaker 1>the police department. There is pressure put you know, brought

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<v Speaker 1>to bear, and we've seen that recently in many cases.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, when some media gets involved and there's you know,

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<v Speaker 1>now with social media, if if if people care and

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<v Speaker 1>they feel as though they have something greater to answer to,

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<v Speaker 1>it matters. That's one of the reasons why social media

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<v Speaker 1>has been a benefit. I would say it's level of

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<v Speaker 1>the playing field. Somewhere. I do think so I didn't

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<v Speaker 1>have that, you know, in two thousand and four, we weren't.

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<v Speaker 1>We had none of that. But I absolutely agree. It's

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<v Speaker 1>so much easier, I think, to kind of get traction,

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<v Speaker 1>you know nowadays. Yeah, that stuff is kind of a

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<v Speaker 1>narcotic you think about it. There are people who dig,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, the blood and guts of this type of thing.

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<v Speaker 1>But if you put a white, blonde face on it,

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<v Speaker 1>especially young, like they did with John Bana Ramsey. Twenty

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<v Speaker 1>years we've been dealing with that addiction to that little

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<v Speaker 1>girl's death. But that's just a sympt of a larger problem,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, the damns on distress and people who are vulnerable,

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<v Speaker 1>the most vulnerable are not often portrayed as black or

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<v Speaker 1>people of color, and you're seeing that with the indigenous people.

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<v Speaker 1>That's a that's a huge issue. All Right. We got

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<v Speaker 1>more with Erica Alexander and Rebecca Howard when we come back.

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<v Speaker 1>Is the Breakfast Club, Good Morning Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy,

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<v Speaker 1>Angela Yee, Charlomagne the guy. We are the Breakfast Club.

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<v Speaker 1>We're still kicking it with Erica Alexander and Rebecca Howard.

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<v Speaker 1>They have a new podcast called Finding Tamika. It focuses

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<v Speaker 1>on the disappearance and murder of Tamika Houston. What are

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<v Speaker 1>the positive emotions that a project like this does get

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<v Speaker 1>to be on the Breakfast club and talk to a

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<v Speaker 1>whole mess of people who this has probably happened to.

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<v Speaker 1>And I know there's been a lot of talking projects

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<v Speaker 1>lately about it, and I'm glad for it. There can't

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<v Speaker 1>be enough of them. The truth is there are a

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<v Speaker 1>lot of people out there suffering that don't know what

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<v Speaker 1>to do, and they need to know that they're not

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<v Speaker 1>only not alone. If there are ore foundations now and

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<v Speaker 1>resources in place, and they're getting better at it, but

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<v Speaker 1>we all need to support it. That's one thing to

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<v Speaker 1>talk about. The other thing is it tells on us.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a warning for us all. If we don't do

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<v Speaker 1>anything about this, all of us, everyone that's not a

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<v Speaker 1>white and black thing, that's not a gender thing, we're doomed.

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<v Speaker 1>Because I believe great civilizations are. I think how you're

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<v Speaker 1>judge is your ability to protect the most vulnerable, and

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<v Speaker 1>that's often women and children, but that's also trans it's

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<v Speaker 1>anybody that's vulnerable, and if you don't doesn't mean that

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<v Speaker 1>you're just under distress. I think your demise and your

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<v Speaker 1>destruction is near. If you cannot do that, then you

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<v Speaker 1>cannot be a so called empire. How the project, which

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<v Speaker 1>a positive emotion just brings out of you. One of

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<v Speaker 1>the things we talk about in the series is to

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<v Speaker 1>make us presence is still around, it's still felt, and

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<v Speaker 1>it's very much that, you know the case. And I

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<v Speaker 1>think through doing this it made me feel her again

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<v Speaker 1>in a way that I don't think that I felt

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<v Speaker 1>that presence probably from you know, around the time she

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<v Speaker 1>was you know, when she was still missing. It was

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<v Speaker 1>a fifteen month long period, and then she was very

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<v Speaker 1>present shortly thereafter, like I became pregnant with twins, and

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<v Speaker 1>she was very much like present then. So, but it

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<v Speaker 1>had been very several years kind of since I felt that,

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<v Speaker 1>and I felt it again and that felt good, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>because I think over time, you know, memories start to

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<v Speaker 1>fade a little bit, or it just becomes, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>more and more distant when you lose someone like that.

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<v Speaker 1>But it just felt good to have her kind of

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<v Speaker 1>like around again. That's how Tamika is. She's very present

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<v Speaker 1>and she kind of I feel like she straddles between

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<v Speaker 1>these worlds and with messages with but she very much

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<v Speaker 1>had her hand. I think on this project almost definitely

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<v Speaker 1>that Unfortunately, that scared the living daylights out of me. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm listen, my father was a preacher. I'm not particularly

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<v Speaker 1>religious myself, and very spiritual. I believe that there are

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<v Speaker 1>many things you cannot explain, and after we did the interviews,

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<v Speaker 1>I was frightened to death, not only with the overwhelming issue. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>I wanted to be responsible toward the family, and when

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<v Speaker 1>you really have empathy for somebody, you want to make

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<v Speaker 1>sure you do it right. You don't you say all

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<v Speaker 1>the whatever's happened, and you realize that you're stepping into

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<v Speaker 1>something that's not just a bunch of interviews, and you're

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<v Speaker 1>gathering things. You're now part of it, and you're accepting

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<v Speaker 1>that burden. And to accept it means to also acknowledge that.

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<v Speaker 1>I could feel the presence of Tamika still in this space.

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<v Speaker 1>But I asked her. I said, look, you're probably here

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<v Speaker 1>and that's fine. Please don't reveal any more of yourself

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<v Speaker 1>to me, because I've got a job to do and

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<v Speaker 1>I can't be overwhelmed with that. Because I'm a person

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<v Speaker 1>who that will distract. And I was just telling her

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<v Speaker 1>that I had a limit, and I think that we

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<v Speaker 1>had a cool thing. I mean, yeah, I went and

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<v Speaker 1>got some crystals. I called Reverend Barber. I said, Reverend Barber,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm feeling a certain kind of way. He counseled me.

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<v Speaker 1>He told me what he thought about this and how

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<v Speaker 1>to handle it. And then James T. Green, who was

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<v Speaker 1>the sound and executive producer on this and the co writer,

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<v Speaker 1>he said sometimes he would feel Tamika's hands on his shoulder,

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<v Speaker 1>just on his shoulder. He happened to have a cousin, Genisia,

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<v Speaker 1>who passed away I wouldn't say passed away, disappeared, And

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<v Speaker 1>so he was doing it for to say her name.

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<v Speaker 1>But he said, Erica, I sometimes feel Tamika on my shoulder.

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<v Speaker 1>But he was all right with that. I said, I

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<v Speaker 1>know she could be there, but please don't put don't

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<v Speaker 1>massage me. And I'm good, you know, And truly she

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<v Speaker 1>was a ghost that was talking to these people and

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<v Speaker 1>telling them things. Well, I would have to assume, Rebecca,

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<v Speaker 1>she's done that for you as well. Like a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of times, when you know you decided to pick up

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<v Speaker 1>the phone to call certain people, you might have about

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<v Speaker 1>the guiding forces. It's interesting because Tamika actually sometimes I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know if some people are more receptive to receiving

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<v Speaker 1>those types of messages because I feel things, but I

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<v Speaker 1>think I'm very a rational like thinker, and I doubt

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<v Speaker 1>it a lot. So i may hear something in my head,

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<v Speaker 1>but I'm like, maybe that's me willing. You know, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>trying to make a conversation happen, so I'm less inclined

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<v Speaker 1>to believe that it's actually her. Tamika actually took and

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<v Speaker 1>we talked about this in the series, took to getting

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<v Speaker 1>messages through to a complete stranger, an older, retired woman

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<v Speaker 1>in you know, South Carolina, never met her in her life.

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<v Speaker 1>She started giving this woman messages not only for the

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<v Speaker 1>police to help with the investigation, but eventually after we

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<v Speaker 1>found Tamika, and you know, I think like the case

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<v Speaker 1>was getting her murderer was getting ready to go to trial,

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<v Speaker 1>she started giving me personal messages about my solve about

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<v Speaker 1>you know, my pregnancy was a difficult pregnancy, and so forth.

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<v Speaker 1>It messages that no one would have the you know, no,

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<v Speaker 1>this woman was a stranger, had no reasons. Now, so

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<v Speaker 1>I think she she'll get through to you the way

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<v Speaker 1>that she can get through to you, so because it

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<v Speaker 1>wasn't coming through directly, so you know if that makes sense.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's interesting, Yeah, she did, and she had something

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<v Speaker 1>more to say. It wasn't about the murder and the death.

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<v Speaker 1>It was about her life, which is really what this is.

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<v Speaker 1>And we don't see it as a celebration of just

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<v Speaker 1>her life. We see it also as telling her story,

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<v Speaker 1>the truth of who she was. She was a complicated individual,

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<v Speaker 1>three dimensional with flaws and everything, as we all are.

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<v Speaker 1>The thing is the problem is if you make a

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<v Speaker 1>person three dimensional, they may not look for them because

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<v Speaker 1>they'll say, well look if they deserve it, that type

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<v Speaker 1>of thing. So you try to put them in the

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<v Speaker 1>best like it's possible. You see, as black people and

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<v Speaker 1>brown were always trying to find the best picture because

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<v Speaker 1>they'll find the worst pictures of them. You have all

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<v Speaker 1>that look she was, so we're always trying to navigate

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<v Speaker 1>how we see and how we're portrayed. The thing is

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<v Speaker 1>that she very clearly I felt, was like tell them everything,

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<v Speaker 1>tell them as well as you can everything so on

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<v Speaker 1>three dimensional, but I also can I think she wanted

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<v Speaker 1>to speak to her responsibility and accountability and having gotten

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<v Speaker 1>herself in that position, and I thought that was brave.

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<v Speaker 1>Finding Tamika is available right now on Audible. It's narrated

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<v Speaker 1>by the beautiful voice you've been hearing in here for

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<v Speaker 1>the past forty minutes of Miss Erica Alexander Rebecca. Thank

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<v Speaker 1>you for coming and just thank you for thank you

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<v Speaker 1>so much, thank you for for not stopping the fight,

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<v Speaker 1>thank you for continuing the fight. Thank you, thank you

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<v Speaker 1>very much, thank you. It's the Breakfast Club. The Breakfast

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<v Speaker 1>Club feel I hate you, I hate you, damn and

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<v Speaker 1>me relaxed the song I Hate you heay, it just sounds,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, aggressive. All right, morning, everybody is j mvy,

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<v Speaker 1>Angela Ye Charlomagne the God. We all to Breakfast Club.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's get to the rumors. Let's talk Candy. It's about

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<v Speaker 1>Angela Yee on the Breakfast Club. Well, let's get ready

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<v Speaker 1>for Candy Burrus's new show, Candy and the Gang, that's

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<v Speaker 1>coming on this Sunday at nine pm Eastern. But in

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<v Speaker 1>the meantime, she's been doing press around her new show,

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<v Speaker 1>and she's been talking about the Real Housewives of Atlanta,

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<v Speaker 1>of course, and she had hinted before that, she had

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<v Speaker 1>issues with somebody in class with someone on the show.

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<v Speaker 1>She didn't say who it was, but on Daily Blast Live,

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<v Speaker 1>here's what she had to say. Marlow and I we

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<v Speaker 1>had some real serious beef that happened this year. It

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<v Speaker 1>was crazy. I wasn't expecting it because I was really

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<v Speaker 1>one of the main people who were, you know, reading

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<v Speaker 1>rooting for her to get her peach and I did

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<v Speaker 1>not think that we would have that type of both

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<v Speaker 1>falling out. But we weren't able to fix this. You know.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't want to say, you know, it's not like

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<v Speaker 1>we're still in a bad place, but at that time,

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<v Speaker 1>I wasn't sure if we were going to come back

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<v Speaker 1>from it, you know. All Right, something to look forward

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<v Speaker 1>to on Real Housewives of Atlanta. Now, Jennifer Hudson is

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<v Speaker 1>going to be hosting a daytime talk show on Fox stations,

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<v Speaker 1>and that is going to start and fall of twenty

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<v Speaker 1>twenty two. She said, I've experienced so much in my life.

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<v Speaker 1>I've seen the highest of the highs, the lowest of

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<v Speaker 1>the lows, and just about everything in between. But as

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<v Speaker 1>my mother always told me, once you think you've seen

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<v Speaker 1>it all, just keep on living. People from around the world.

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<v Speaker 1>Have been a part of my journey from the beginning

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<v Speaker 1>twenty years ago, and I'm so ready to join their

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<v Speaker 1>journey as if we sit down and talk about the

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<v Speaker 1>things and inspire and move us. All Okay, congratulations to huh.

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<v Speaker 1>It first went into development last November, so it will

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<v Speaker 1>debut not long after the Ellen Degenerous Show signs off

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<v Speaker 1>in the spring. All right. BT has announced a Murder Inc.

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<v Speaker 1>Documentary series. It's a five part television event called Murder Inc.

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<v Speaker 1>And it will explore the untold tale of the rise, fall,

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<v Speaker 1>and redemption of one of hip hop's most iconic labels

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<v Speaker 1>and its founder and CEO, IRV Gotties. So that will

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<v Speaker 1>premiere this summer. That's gonna be interesting. I mean, they

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<v Speaker 1>got stories. I mean, if they get into it, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>the court case, all the artists, how they broke their artists,

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<v Speaker 1>all the stuff that ERVs produce. I mean, it's gonna

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<v Speaker 1>be interesting. All right. Now, speaking of documentaries, they are

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<v Speaker 1>going to be doing Gifted and Black and that is

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<v Speaker 1>going to follow the journey of Verses, So get ready

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<v Speaker 1>for that. Amazon Studios and Helm and Grab Productions and

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<v Speaker 1>Good Trouble Studios are partnering for this feature left documentary,

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<v Speaker 1>and as you know, Lena Waite is Helm and Grab Productions,

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<v Speaker 1>so she'll be producing under that alongside Swizz and Timberland.

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<v Speaker 1>Deserved they well deserved, all right. And Dame Dash is

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<v Speaker 1>doing a paid in full sequel and that will be

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<v Speaker 1>a franchise with multiple series. Also a documentary, also a

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<v Speaker 1>car show. Here's what he had to say. Yeah, I'm

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<v Speaker 1>casting the cars right now, you know, so I link

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<v Speaker 1>you know, the BBS boys. They're actually running around the

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<v Speaker 1>world selecting the best Ellis Paving full mobiles. And then

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<v Speaker 1>I'm interviewing everybody from different perspectives, and mine is one

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<v Speaker 1>of them because I was there, right, I mean, but

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<v Speaker 1>you know there's Loose Simmons perspective from the lunch mob.

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<v Speaker 1>We grew up together, we were close, paused, and then

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<v Speaker 1>there's Jay Black's perspective, who was in my immediacool the

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<v Speaker 1>best stout. But he was you know, Richard Lieutenant, so

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<v Speaker 1>you know he was right there. Why do you have

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<v Speaker 1>to pause when you say we were close? That's just day.

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<v Speaker 1>That's just some hard thing, all right. But shout out

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<v Speaker 1>to the Jasmine brand. Um, Jasmine actually did that interview

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<v Speaker 1>exclusively on her site. She also has a baby now,

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<v Speaker 1>So congrats on that, Jasmine. Congrats to huh. They shout

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<v Speaker 1>to the BBS boys. BBS boys. They come to all

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<v Speaker 1>my car shows. They're pretty big in that in that era,

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<v Speaker 1>that eighty eight, that eighty to ninety era. Cause whether

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<v Speaker 1>it's the BMW, Suzuki, Samurai's, the old Benzes, they're pretty

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<v Speaker 1>big in an. I got a couple of calls that

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<v Speaker 1>as well. So they always come to my show. Shout

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<v Speaker 1>to them, Go ahead out, I'm a support all right. Now.

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<v Speaker 1>The Wendy Williams Show has announced new guest hosts for

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<v Speaker 1>the final season. It's coming to an end, as you know,

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<v Speaker 1>after fourteen seasons on the air, so they're gonna air

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<v Speaker 1>live shows with rotating guest hosts That will include Remy

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<v Speaker 1>Ma Fat, Joe, Kim Whitley, Finesse, Mitchell, Carson Cresley, and

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<v Speaker 1>Vivica A. Fox. All of them will trade off their

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<v Speaker 1>hosting duties from Mark seventh through April first, and then

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<v Speaker 1>Sherry Shephard is going to be replacing that time slot

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<v Speaker 1>with her own talk show called Sherry Okay, and she'll

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<v Speaker 1>also continue on as a guest host as well. Up

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<v Speaker 1>next to the People's Choice makes get your requesting, it's

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<v Speaker 1>the breakfast Club. Good morning, So Breakfast Club, your mornings

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<v Speaker 1>An insurance agency Nashville, Tennessee. Some restrictions of the Breakfast Club. So,

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<v Speaker 1>Angela Yee, somebody just brought in a dress, a red

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<v Speaker 1>dress for Angela Yee with a note that says I

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<v Speaker 1>want to see you in this later on. That is

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<v Speaker 1>not what it says is going on? Yee? This is

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<v Speaker 1>spicy up here. Who what's going on? Yee? I'm a bride'smaid.

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<v Speaker 1>In notories, somebody saying you a bride? What is going Oh?

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<v Speaker 1>You know what's funny? So she had her bridal shower

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<v Speaker 1>the other day, and you know, I was reposting some

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<v Speaker 1>of the stories and then one of my exits hit

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<v Speaker 1>me like, you're getting married now? My junitory is wearing

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<v Speaker 1>all white and she's gone on like it's clearly she's

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<v Speaker 1>the bride to be And I was like, yeah, I am,

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<v Speaker 1>and he was like, I hope I'm invited to the wedding.

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<v Speaker 1>Imagine me inviting my ex that was my wedding. No,

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<v Speaker 1>that would be foul. So so the dresses for your

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<v Speaker 1>brides made. So why they sending the dress a pair?

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<v Speaker 1>Because I don't like sending stuff to my home because

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<v Speaker 1>people still Okay, I don't know if you get packages stolen,

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<v Speaker 1>but you know they steal from me all the time.

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<v Speaker 1>And my package would be sitting outside and I think,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, I just come and take it. It makes sense.

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<v Speaker 1>It would be cute to see a bunch of Brooklyn

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<v Speaker 1>and I watch it Red Dress, and I watched it

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<v Speaker 1>on camera. Goodness gracious? All right. Well, also shout out

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<v Speaker 1>to damns It for joining us this morning from Snowfall.

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<v Speaker 1>Of course. Yes, are you gonna watch the show? Finally? Yes?

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<v Speaker 1>I am all right, Yes, I am. Do they have

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<v Speaker 1>it on a plane. Everybody's DJ Envy Angela, Yee, Charlomagne,

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<v Speaker 1>the guy we are the breakfast club? Now, um, you

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<v Speaker 1>got a positive note? Yes, And for everybody out there

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<v Speaker 1>who is cynical, who is negative? I want to quote

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<v Speaker 1>the late great Biggie Smalls, damn writer, like the life

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<v Speaker 1>I live because I went from negative to positive and

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<v Speaker 1>it's all good. And if you don't know, now you know.

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<v Speaker 1>So the power of positive thinking. Let's implement that right away.

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<v Speaker 1>Change your thoughts, because your thoughts become things, breakfast club bits.

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<v Speaker 1>You'll finish what y'all dune