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Druski's Next Big Move Has Hollywood on Notice! · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Let's get, let's get, let's get to it, time to
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  Speaker 1: Hey y'all, what's up?
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  Speaker 2: It's Lauren LaRosa and this is another episode of The
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  Speaker 1: Back on the grind. Hey, y'all. Welcome back.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like we are out of the homecoming stretch,
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  Speaker 2: sort of, kind of, for Delaware State University anyway. Y'all
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  Speaker 2: know I just was at Delaware State University celebrating my homecoming. And,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm back outside doing other homecomings as well, too,
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  Speaker 2: but it's nothing like your home. still then and still
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  Speaker 2: but yes we are back to work back on the
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  Speaker 2: grind and behind the scenes you know I'm just catching
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  Speaker 2: up with all of that um one of the things
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  Speaker 2: that I was really proud of myself about that I
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  Speaker 2: want to tell you guys about that I did over
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  Speaker 2: the weekend um was I got out of my not
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  Speaker 2: got out of but I made I fought back against
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  Speaker 2: my scarcity mentality so I talked to y'all a lot
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  Speaker 2: about feeling as if I'm going to wake up tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: and all of this is just going to be like, boom, gone.
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  Speaker 2: And that goes beyond just like, you know, the imposter
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  Speaker 2: syndrome that I, you know, dealt with.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm coming up out of that as
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  Speaker 1: well too.
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  Speaker 2: But it goes into like, you know, money and how
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  Speaker 2: I spend and like my, I used to hear stories
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  Speaker 2: about people who were like, I hold on to things
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  Speaker 2: and I don't want to spend because, you know, if
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  Speaker 2: it comes back around or if it doesn't and blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 2: And for me, it's not that I don't think it's
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  Speaker 2: going to come back around. I've always been a person
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  Speaker 2: that's able to flip. Like, I've always been a person,
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  Speaker 2: you give me $ 10, I'm going to make it 10K. Like,
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  Speaker 2: that has literally been my nature. Get that from my mama.
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  Speaker 2: But I think now that I'm getting older and I'm
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  Speaker 2: experiencing different things, I am trying to navigate and figure
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  Speaker 2: out what a good foundation is.
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  Speaker 1: Being.
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  Speaker 2: in a situation where you're achieving success and achieving different
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  Speaker 2: things and are doing it at a level where you, like,
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  Speaker 2: you don't have a lot of people. Not that I
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  Speaker 2: don't have a lot of people, because I do. I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to say that. I don't even want to
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  Speaker 2: play a God face like that. I, it's new in
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  Speaker 2: my immediate, like, family, right? To figure out things, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things that I'm figuring out. So, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I've always been taught by my grandmother, put money up
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  Speaker 2: for a rainy day, do different things for a rainy day.
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  Speaker 1: So I know that.
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  Speaker 2: But figuring out what that rainy day number should look like,
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  Speaker 2: what is a long term rainy day look like, what
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  Speaker 2: does a short term rainy day look like? But also
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  Speaker 2: being able to treat myself to not even treat myself,
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  Speaker 2: but being able to invest in myself in the convenience
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  Speaker 2: I need to be able to.
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  Speaker 1: Maneuver and show up the way that I should. It's
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  Speaker 1: very different. And I can't call my mom about that.
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  Speaker 1: She don't understand it.
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  Speaker 2: So over the weekend, I want to give a shout
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  Speaker 2: out to Elegant Chauffeurs. This is a Black-owned chauffeur business.
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  Speaker 2: She does Delaware, Philly, New Jersey, New York. And she
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  Speaker 2: was my chauffeur service to Delaware State University's homecoming and
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  Speaker 2: back from Jersey. And y'all, I'm not going to lie,
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  Speaker 2: I felt guilty about it. I felt really guilty about
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  Speaker 2: doing that I felt like that was money that you
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  Speaker 2: know even though um you know I worked on something
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  Speaker 2: with Delaware State where I was able to um be
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  Speaker 2: compensated for certain things that I was doing um I
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  Speaker 2: just felt like that's money I could be putting up
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  Speaker 2: like you just never know what's going to happen and
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  Speaker 2: I was also thinking to myself like Yeah. But at
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  Speaker 2: the same time, you know, because you've done this homecoming
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  Speaker 2: thing a couple of times that the weekend and all
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  Speaker 2: the getting up and going out and, you know, you're drinking,
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  Speaker 2: you're having a good time.
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  Speaker 1: And don't get me wrong.
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  Speaker 2: I was, you know, I'm with family and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: got designated drivers there. So it's not a thing of
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  Speaker 2: that either, like whether to drive or not drive under
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  Speaker 2: the influence like we we had that taken care of.
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  Speaker 2: It was just a thing of do I need to
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  Speaker 2: spend this money? on my travel back and forth when
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  Speaker 2: I could drive myself home.
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  Speaker 1: I'm right here.
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  Speaker 2: I moved from the West Coast to be closer to
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  Speaker 2: home to be able to do that. And I started
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  Speaker 2: thinking about it and I started thinking about all of
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  Speaker 2: the things that I could actually do and get done
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  Speaker 2: and just the rest of my body and on my
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  Speaker 2: mind if I wasn't driving from New York to Delaware,
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  Speaker 2: from Delaware back to New York. But I started feeling bad.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, bro, it's two hours and you could save
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  Speaker 2: that money. Like, it's a lot going on out here
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  Speaker 2: right now. Like, You just never know what's coming around
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  Speaker 2: the corner. And I last minute was just like, you
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  Speaker 2: know what? I'm going to just do it. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to invest in the convenience for myself. And that's how
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  Speaker 2: I had to talk myself through it. Like, you're not
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  Speaker 2: just wasting money. You're investing in the convenience for yourself
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  Speaker 2: and you're investing in your rest. Your yes right now
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  Speaker 2: is going to make it where you're able to rest.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm so happy I did it. Coming back into
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  Speaker 2: this week after homecoming was rough only because I just
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  Speaker 2: didn't want to be carefree.
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  Speaker 1: I did.
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  Speaker 2: But I will say Sunday, my travel back after a
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  Speaker 2: full weekend of all the people and the partying and
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  Speaker 2: family and all the things, I was able to rest.
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  Speaker 1: I was able to rest. I conducted my.
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  Speaker 2: Breakfast club meeting from the car on my way back.
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  Speaker 2: It was pouring down raining as well. And It just,
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  Speaker 2: it felt good to wake up the next morning knowing
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  Speaker 2: that I preserved my body and my energy to be
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  Speaker 2: able to do so because physically I have to show
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  Speaker 2: up a lot in my job.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm learning that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm learning to understand that, like, taking care of myself
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  Speaker 2: is an investment as well, too. And sometimes, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you utilize your income to do that. And what I
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  Speaker 2: did was I set a budget. Like, all right, I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to spend more than this this weekend and,
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  Speaker 2: you know, whatever. But I'm happy I did it. I'm
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  Speaker 2: really happy I talked myself out of that, out of
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  Speaker 2: that mental anguish of like, am I doing something wrong
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  Speaker 2: because I'm saying yes to my rest and yes to
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  Speaker 2: my convenience?
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  Speaker 1: But I've worked hard for this. I've worked hard to
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  Speaker 1: be able to do it, not even just for myself.
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  Speaker 2: My mom and my grandmother, I was home this weekend
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  Speaker 2: and y'all know, y'all know my girls, like they take
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  Speaker 2: care of my girls.
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  Speaker 1: My mom was just so grateful this weekend. I'm like, mom,
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  Speaker 1: what is going on?
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  Speaker 2: She was just so grateful for like little small things, like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, having some help around the house, having people that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I get their nails and their toes done.
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  Speaker 2: Shout out to OBC nails or old baby nails.
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  Speaker 1: Her name is OBC, Ola BC.
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  Speaker 2: I went to high school with her, but she has
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  Speaker 2: a company called old baby nails on Instagram and she's
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  Speaker 2: in Delaware and she travels. So she travels to them
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  Speaker 2: and takes care of their nails and their pedicure. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they don't have to get up and go anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: And cause you know, things are just getting a bit
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  Speaker 2: harder for them to do as they get older and,
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  Speaker 2: My mom was so grateful for that. They fought back
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  Speaker 2: against it for a while. Like, no, we don't need
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  Speaker 2: all that. But now they enjoy it. And I felt
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  Speaker 2: bad about being able to do that for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: I felt bad about being able to make a decision
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  Speaker 2: that I did like this weekend for myself.
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  Speaker 1: And this week I've just been thanking.
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  Speaker 2: God that like that moment removed from my head because
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  Speaker 2: it was like me in real time. Like I got
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  Speaker 2: to like run into a wall sometimes, understand things that
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  Speaker 2: are here. God, your girl is hard headed. But it
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  Speaker 2: was me literally in real time being able to be like, boom, okay, God,
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  Speaker 2: I see you. I understand what you're saying to me.
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  Speaker 2: Like I have to show up and there is an
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  Speaker 2: investment that goes into that showing up.
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  Speaker 1: My health physically is a part of that.
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  Speaker 2: I can't worry about everybody else's self and not worry
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  Speaker 2: about my own. And small things, including convenience, add to
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  Speaker 2: that health. So I wanted to share that with y'all
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  Speaker 2: because I think, you know, I have a lot of
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  Speaker 2: friends and we're young and we're building and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're working and we're doing tons of things and, Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: the smallest way that we can pay for convenience or
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  Speaker 2: treat ourselves, we get in our mind about it. We
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  Speaker 2: feel guilty about it because we're always thinking about the
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  Speaker 2: times where we might not be able to. And I
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  Speaker 2: know people are going through so much right now financially.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like, you know, if you've ever been through
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  Speaker 2: a financial, like, struggle, you know, you hold on to
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  Speaker 2: every dollar, okay?
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  Speaker 3: Literally.
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  Speaker 1: Like, I'm like that.
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  Speaker 2: Like, I will spend on things I need to. Anything
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  Speaker 2: I think I can figure out myself, I am not
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  Speaker 2: spending on it. And what I'm realizing is the cost...
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  Speaker 2: of me not taking care of myself or investing in
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  Speaker 2: myself the right way when I can afford to. If
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  Speaker 2: I can't afford to, I just can't. And I have
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  Speaker 2: real honest conversations with myself about that. But when I'm
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  Speaker 2: able to afford to in doing it, it makes it
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  Speaker 2: where I'm able to afford it 10 times over because
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  Speaker 2: I show up the right way, which makes everything multiply. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if y'all are going through that mentally, let
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  Speaker 2: me tell you, let me be the first to tell you,
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  Speaker 2: it's all right.
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  Speaker 1: We all get there.
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  Speaker 2: Put yourself on a budget, but take care of yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Now let's get into the latest.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all, Drewski is reportedly about to host SNL Saturday Night Live,
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  Speaker 2: the infamous institution of Saturday Night Live.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 2: I was looking up the most famous comedians that have
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  Speaker 2: hosted SNL just to see, like, the names that this
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  Speaker 2: is going to put Drewski amongst.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, As a creator myself.
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  Speaker 2: Watching him navigate the independent creator space, yes. It's insane, though,
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  Speaker 2: because it's like if you are a creator and a
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  Speaker 2: person that is, like, hyper-independent, you kind of, you knew.
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  Speaker 2: It's like we didn't know when the shift was going
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  Speaker 2: to happen, but the pandemic was kind of like a
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  Speaker 2: taste of it, a taste of, like, these big stages
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  Speaker 2: and these big systems realizing that, like.
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  Speaker 1: They need us. Like, come. Like, come to us. Y'all
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  Speaker 1: need us.
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  Speaker 2: Partner with us, not just hire us, not take advantage
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  Speaker 2: of our art and our creativity.
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  Speaker 1: Like, come on over here.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a Puck editor, a writer, and he broke
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  Speaker 2: the story late last night that Drewski is supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be hosting SNL on November 7th. Now, this is perfect
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  Speaker 2: timing for Drewski. He has movies he's a part of.
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  Speaker 2: He just covered the Time 100 creators list. They dropped
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  Speaker 2: the movie on Amazon Prime, him, Kevin Hart, and Kai Sinat.
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  Speaker 2: Everything is elevated for Drewski right now. This is the
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  Speaker 2: perfect time. And you know what I'm most excited about?
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  Speaker 2: I'm most excited because I believe that if they are
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  Speaker 2: smart and they've done this with other comedians, Drew's going
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  Speaker 2: to be in that writer's room. He's going to have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of control and say so over how he
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  Speaker 2: does SNL if Lorne Michaels and the team over there
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  Speaker 2: are smart. But also, too, I think, you know, SNL
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  Speaker 2: to me, you know, I love Michael Shea. I really love— well,
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  Speaker 2: I loved when Ego was on there as well, too.
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  Speaker 1: Marcello Hernandez. I've been paying a lot of attention to him.
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  Speaker 2: And I've, and I noticed how much Kevin Hart has
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  Speaker 2: like leaned into him as well too. Um, but you know, I've,
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  Speaker 2: I've said this before that when Pete Davidson was on
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  Speaker 2: SNL culturally, like pop culture wise, it was just, it
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  Speaker 2: was different. Like it was still looked at as like
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  Speaker 2: that place that was like, so like it was the
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  Speaker 2: center of the conversation in pop culture, um, It's not
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  Speaker 2: always that anymore. Now that really depends on the guests
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  Speaker 2: that they have there. Drewski is going to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Drewski is going to literally transform the world of SNL,
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  Speaker 2: which I know y'all are listening, especially you guys who
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  Speaker 2: have been watching SNL forever. SNL has been on our
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  Speaker 2: screen since October of 1975. It started, you know, just
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  Speaker 2: over at NBC back in 1975. And, you know, they
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  Speaker 2: lean into YouTube and Instagram and all the things, but
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  Speaker 2: the way Drewski's power across the internet and the simplicity
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  Speaker 2: of his sketches and his skits, but also his ability
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  Speaker 2: to make conversation and make news.
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  Speaker 1: This is going to be major for him.
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  Speaker 2: People are going to, if you haven't felt it already,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't know how you haven't, people are going
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  Speaker 2: to really feel the transformative.
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  Speaker 1: Power of good art, good writing. That is Drewski.
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  Speaker 2: But when we talk about the list of comedians that
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  Speaker 2: this puts him with, Eddie, I'm just going to name
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  Speaker 2: a few, Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Tina Fey, Will Ferrell,
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  Speaker 2: Kenan Thompson, Michael Che, Tracy Morgan, Chris Rock. Like, and
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  Speaker 2: which is so fire, too, because Juicy's kind of already
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  Speaker 2: in line with that, like, energy. Like, Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy.
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  Speaker 2: And Chris Rock is a huge fan of Drewski. He
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  Speaker 2: actually talked about Drewski when he was on The Breakfast
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  Speaker 2: Club with us. Because I had been told by Lil
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  Speaker 2: Birdie that When we saw Chris Rock do the SNL,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, saw Chris Rock do the BET Awards promo,
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  Speaker 2: which was a spoof of his promo that he did
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  Speaker 2: the last time he hosted BET Awards a long time ago,
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  Speaker 2: it was because Drewski put in a personal call to
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  Speaker 2: him to do it. Let's take a listen to Chris
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  Speaker 2: Rock doing that BET promo for Drewski.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think of this, man?
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  Speaker 1: Is it The Weeknd? I'm not sure who that is either.
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  Speaker 1: I grew up in the 80s, man.
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  Speaker 2: Who's your favorite BET Award host?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, maybe, uh, well, Stevie Wonder, is he one of
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  Speaker 1: the hosts, maybe?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, Stevie Wonder might be there. Do you know who
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  Speaker 1: this is?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, he and Sinners are, what, the Black Wakanda thing?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's Michael B.
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  Speaker 3: Jordan. That ain't, that's Michael? That's Michael right there?
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  Speaker 1: That's Michael.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I figured that, man. He, uh, he played a
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  Speaker 3: hell of a superhero, man. My daughter loved him. That
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  Speaker 3: Michael Jordan dude, he's good.
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  Speaker 1: Do you find Drewski attractive? Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: Hot. Hot? Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Cheat on your husband hot?
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  Speaker 3: Yes. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: BET Awards.
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  Speaker 3: June 28th. White families will be broken up.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Chris Rock, Dad.
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  Speaker 3: The only Rock I know is Kid Rock. We produced
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  Speaker 3: our own halftime show this year with Kid Rock. With
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  Speaker 3: Kid Rock? Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Is there anybody we'd have to bring to get you there, Dad?
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  Speaker 3: Ah. Y'all got Nelly Furtado coming? Nelly Furtado? God bless
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  Speaker 3: this country and bring.
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  Speaker 1: On the Chiefs! Bring them on, baby!
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  Speaker 3: Woo!
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  Speaker 1: Get back to the race! Woo!
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  Speaker 3: Sunday, June 28th, the BET Awards, hosted by Drew Ski.
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  Speaker 2: This is when Drew Ski hosted the BET Awards, which
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  Speaker 2: was major. All of his skits transcended. Well, there was
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  Speaker 2: the Jay-Z skit that he did. He did the Flying
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  Speaker 2: Pastor skit. He had some really good, you know, audience banter.
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  Speaker 2: He came, you know, with Ray J. I am really
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  Speaker 2: excited for him. I'm also just really excited for the
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  Speaker 2: way that, like, the entertainment industry is shifting in a
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  Speaker 2: point where there's no coming back. Like, if you're a
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  Speaker 2: creator doing what you're supposed to be doing, putting the
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  Speaker 2: points on the board and doing the work, there's no
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  Speaker 2: coming back.
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  Speaker 1: They need you.
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  Speaker 2: Ava DuVernay said that, you know, Hollywood is dead, and
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  Speaker 2: she's been everywhere promoting her film 14th, and... And she
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  Speaker 2: was on stage for a screen talk during the 70th
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  Speaker 2: edition of the BFI London Film Festival. And the conversation
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  Speaker 2: that she was having, I think, is one that People
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  Speaker 2: used to try and run from this. But again, the
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  Speaker 2: pandemic really, really set us in a place where you
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  Speaker 2: can't ignore it.
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  Speaker 1: And if you are ignoring it, you're getting left behind.
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  Speaker 2: So Avery Duvernay was talking about like financing independent films
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  Speaker 2: and how that is like the go to right now
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  Speaker 2: and how there are so many alternative ways to finance
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  Speaker 2: films than how it used to be, where you had
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  Speaker 2: to go through all the studios and and do all
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  Speaker 2: the backflips.
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  Speaker 1: She said Hollywood is over. Did you guys hear that?
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: It's done. They're buying each other. They're collapsing.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: It's all changed. They're selling studio lots. The idea of
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: going to Sundance and getting a three-picture deal from Harvey Weinstein,
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: he's in prison. Everything has changed over the last 10 years,
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: even since I've been making movies and TV shows. It's all,
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: what do we do now? What can we build now?
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: And that's new. That serves more kinds of people and
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: kinds of stories. Y'all, it's up from here.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: The renaissance is here.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: It's been here, honestly, but I think now it's just
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: to the point where even the majors and the headlines,
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: they can't deny it.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: It's up. Congratulations to Drewski. Y'all know we always show
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: him love here. Period.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: Because what he's doing and the model he's following, literally, like,
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: Independent media, independent creators is something that we are paying
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: attention to because anybody that's been in this independent space,
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: like when I decided to leave my job and be
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: independent and figure out how I was going to make
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: a name for myself just as Lauren in the media space,
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: not Lauren attached to a platform.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Before I came to The Breakfast Club.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: My thinking was it has to get to a point
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: where you can't get around me. It literally has to
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: because everything is changing. And I saw that when I
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: was in TMZ's newsroom. Like there were points in the
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: TMZ newsroom where like we would do stories and we
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: would need the celebrity to talk to us and they
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: would need us. They would need TMZ to get their
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: message out. Cardi B was one of the people who really,
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: really changed that. I remember at one point she stopped
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: coming to us with statements and just would post it
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: on her Instagram. And there's a board in the TMZ
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: newsroom where you see all the numbers for that, the
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: headlines and the stories and everything. And literally at that time,
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: literally at that time, I remember one day looking up
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: There was something going on with her offset.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: It was like, you know, one of his like cheating incidents.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: And I reached out for a statement.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Instead of giving me the statement, Cardi B's team, Cardi herself,
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: in charge of her own destiny, posted her statement to Instagram.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: That statement had more views.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: Clicks, and likes on its Instagram than it did across
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: the board, which when you put things on our website,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: they filter it out to every major outlet. I said we, they, they,
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: TMZ now, filter it out to every major outlet. across
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: you just think about it i mean affiliates local news
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: markets uh tv channels um dot coms and her soul
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: instagram was doing more number wise than anything else that
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: we could even think of it's here y'all and that
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: was years ago it's here i am so excited to
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: see i will be tuning in november 7th and we'll
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: be talking about it right here on the latest And
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: shout out to Ava DuVernay too and everything that she's
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: doing with 14th. I've been seeing her so many places
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: having these conversations. She is one of the creators in
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: the film space, the television space, just the, you know,
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: the storytelling space. I was gonna say the black storytelling space,
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: but across storytelling in general, who, you know, she's always
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: been very honest and very straightforward. She's a person that
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: I listen to. I look up to there's people on
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: my list that, It's Ava DuVernay. It's Issa Rae.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Like the way that they maneuver this business in this industry.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: And own it and partner and, you know, like just
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: go through what they need to go through, but also
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: get it done in a way that is very like,
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: y'all not going to run all over me.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: I love it. I love to see it.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Maybe we can get her on the podcast one day.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: I'm putting that on the air. This has been another
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: episode of The Latest with Lauren La Rosa. I tell
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: you guys every single episode. Y'all could be anywhere with
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: any old body, but you choose to be right here
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: with me, my lowriders.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: I appreciate y'all, and I'll catch you on my next one.