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Dollie Parton isn't dying + AI IS TRAUMATIZING families of deceased celebs · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 2: of you know, and what we do over here, we
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Speaker 2: do a little thing called behind the scenes of the
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Speaker 1: Now, behind the scenes of the grind check in.
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Speaker 2: Is when you know, I say, when you're going, going, going,
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Speaker 2: you never stop to ask yourself how.
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Speaker 1: Are you doing, how you feeling?
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Speaker 2: And asking for real, like not just asking just to
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Speaker 2: get through conversation. So if I'm checking it behind the
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Speaker 2: scenes to the grind, you know, today I am a
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Speaker 2: bit exhausted these last couple of weeks. October is always
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Speaker 2: a busy month for me, even though it's just beginning.
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Speaker 2: October is always busy for me because it's HBCU homecoming season.
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Speaker 2: So like, I'm out, I'm about and I'm doing a
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Speaker 2: ton of things. Speaking, we got the Delaware State University
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Speaker 2: homecoming coming up this weekend October tenth, in October eleventh,
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Speaker 2: and I'm hosting a alumni party Friday, October tenth and Womington,
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Speaker 2: and our grown friends. Come out and party with us. Saturday,
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Speaker 2: we're at the Dell State game. You know, we got
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Speaker 2: DeShawn Jackson with the football team. You know, former NFL
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Speaker 2: player Deshaun Jackson. So a lot of people are anticipating
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Speaker 2: homecoming this year and just all the things right, like
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Speaker 2: so much coming up. So I've been running, I've been ripping.
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Speaker 2: I've been running. But I always think about this when
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Speaker 2: I feel like I was saying today, I feel like
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Speaker 2: the day is going.
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Speaker 1: Like boom boom boom boom boom boom, like it's no
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Speaker 1: minute to like slow down and whatever. I feel like that.
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Speaker 2: I get tired because you're not sleeping as much because
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Speaker 2: you're anticipating these heavy days, and it can be overwhelmed.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, it's just the tiredness. The growkiness kicks in.
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Speaker 2: It got pushed through. But I always tell myself, you
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Speaker 2: can't complain about how much food on the how much
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Speaker 2: food it's on the table when the plan was to eat.
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Speaker 2: So I am not complaining, but lord, I can't wait
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Speaker 2: to get home today and rest.
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Speaker 1: This is the first day I'll get home before like
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Speaker 1: six seven o'clock.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So yeah, that is me checking in behind the
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Speaker 2: scenes of the grind Low Riders. I hope y'all are
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Speaker 2: feeling well and doing well out there. I've been meeting
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Speaker 2: a lot of you guys while I've been ripping and running.
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Speaker 2: I've been in Memphis for the podcast Festival. I've been
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Speaker 2: in DC for the third Girl Marshall Leadership Institute full
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Speaker 2: of HBCU students and you know, about to be graduates.
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Speaker 2: I've been some places and I've met a lot of
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Speaker 2: you guys that listen to the podcast. And I love
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Speaker 2: that you guys aren't enjoining the content, So listen. Keep
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Speaker 2: pulling up on me wherever you see that. I'm a
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Speaker 2: bee at Low Rider as I want y'all to be there.
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Speaker 1: Kickoff hosted by me baby.
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Speaker 2: Okay, it's happened in Friday, October tenth. Make sure y'all
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Speaker 2: come out now hopping on into the latest. Speaking of
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Speaker 2: dates and bookings and being everywhere, Dolly Parton country music legend,
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Speaker 2: Dolly Parton has had to cancel some show. So a
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Speaker 2: few days ago, almost about a week ago, now, Dolly
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Speaker 2: Parton came out and told her audience and told us
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Speaker 2: the fans that she would be canceling some live shows
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Speaker 2: she had in Vegas lined up for. Like it was
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Speaker 2: a couple of different days. It's like six or seven
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Speaker 2: dates in Vegas. Tickets were on sale, all the things.
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Speaker 2: People were excited. So Dolly Parton came out September twenty eighth, right,
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Speaker 2: so this was about a week ago, and she said,
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Speaker 2: I want the fans and the public to hear directly
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Speaker 2: from me that unfortunately I would need to postpone my
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Speaker 2: upcoming Las Vegas concerts. As many of you know, I've
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Speaker 2: been dealing with some health issues that has been a
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Speaker 2: topic and a lot of people thought because of those
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Speaker 2: health issues, Dolly Parton was actually gonna like take a
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Speaker 2: step away from music. Because at this point, Dolly Parton
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Speaker 2: ain't got nothing to prove, and you know, at her
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Speaker 2: age and you know everything that like touring and these shows.
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Speaker 1: And just the hustle bustle takes.
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Speaker 2: It's like, why so people thought she was about to
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Speaker 2: take a set back because she had been, you know,
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Speaker 2: taking a set back a bit. So she says, I've
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Speaker 2: been dealing with some health challenges and my doctors tell
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Speaker 2: me that I must have a few procedures. As I
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Speaker 2: joked with them, it must be time for my one
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Speaker 2: hundredth mile checkup, although it's not just the usual trip
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Speaker 2: to see my plastic surgeon.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Dolly, I know that's right, girl, she said.
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Speaker 2: If it ain't broke, I'm still gonna fix it. I'd
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Speaker 2: be in a plastic surgeon's office every day, know the girl.
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Speaker 1: So she continues, in all.
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Speaker 2: Seriousness, given this, I am not going to be able
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Speaker 2: to rehearse to put together the show that I want
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Speaker 2: you to see in the show that you deserve to see.
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Speaker 2: You pay good money to see me perform, and I
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Speaker 2: want to be at my best for you. While I'll
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Speaker 2: still be able to work on all of my projects
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Speaker 2: from here in Nashville, I just need a little bit
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Speaker 2: more time to get show ready, as they say, and
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Speaker 2: don't worry about me quitting the business, because God hasn't
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Speaker 2: said anything about that or anything about me stopping yet.
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Speaker 2: But I believe He is telling me to slow down
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Speaker 2: right now, Lord Dolly.
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Speaker 1: Yes, please, Okay.
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Speaker 2: I don't think people understand how strenuous it is performing.
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Speaker 2: There is travel, there is long hours because there's hair, makeup,
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Speaker 2: there's rehearsal, there's an actual performance, and then there's recovery
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Speaker 2: from the performance. Like you're on your feet, you're moving,
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Speaker 2: you're grooving for hours at a time when you're performing.
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Speaker 1: Then she doing meet and greets afterword.
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Speaker 2: That takes a lot out of you too, Interacting with
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Speaker 2: all them different people and different energies and the talking
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Speaker 2: and the smiling.
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Speaker 1: For hours after a show.
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Speaker 2: It's a lot, multiple dates, it's a lot to put
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Speaker 2: on her, so she says, But I believe He is
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Speaker 2: telling me to slow down right now so I can
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Speaker 2: be ready for more big adventures with all of you.
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Speaker 2: I love you and thank you for understanding, Dolly. So
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Speaker 2: she posted that, you know about a week ago, and
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Speaker 2: although I think you know, it made fans concerned a bit,
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Speaker 2: but I think she handled this very well. She handled
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Speaker 2: it like any celebrity would any old school celebrity who
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Speaker 2: understands and I'll say old school because of her age.
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Speaker 2: I'm not harping on that. I just mean I think
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Speaker 2: celebrities of a certain fame or like time period understand
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Speaker 2: that if you don't control the narrative, the narrative going
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Speaker 2: to control you. So she said, look, I'm not about
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Speaker 2: to be absent from all these shows and be removed
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Speaker 2: from the road, and people just speculating about my health,
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Speaker 2: especially because she's been doing this for a long time,
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Speaker 2: and that is a conversation wants artists get up there
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Speaker 2: in age anytime they're pulled off of something or whatever.
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Speaker 2: I know, Gladys Knight, there's been conversations around her health
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Speaker 2: and whether she's, you know, healthy enough to be torn
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Speaker 2: weren't on the Queen's Tour that she's doing with Shaka Khan,
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Speaker 2: Pat and LaBelle and Stephanie Mills. It's a conversation that
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Speaker 2: people have, right So she's like, I'm gonna address it myself,
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Speaker 2: which I thought was great.
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Speaker 1: Calm some fans down, even though it alarmed them still,
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Speaker 1: but it was great.
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Speaker 2: So then Dolly Parton's sister posts to Facebook and she
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Speaker 2: scares the hell out of fans. She's asking for prayers
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Speaker 2: for her sister on Facebook, and people instantly just thinks,
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Speaker 2: people instantly from here think that this means everything Dolly
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Speaker 2: Parton just said to us about I'm just letting y'all
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Speaker 2: know first. It ain't nothing too crazy. I just need
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Speaker 2: a little tune up. And when I saw the apology,
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Speaker 2: I'm like, oh my god, are we about to lose
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Speaker 2: Dolly Barton? What is about to happen? And I'm reading
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Speaker 2: it from my phones today Gods because running out of
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Speaker 2: the house late because I woke up late from all
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Speaker 2: of the long hours that we've been putting in forgot
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Speaker 2: my computer at home, but here, so she says on Facebook,
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Speaker 2: this is Dolly part and sister.
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Speaker 1: This is our folks. First post she had to post too,
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Speaker 1: because she had to clear some things up.
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Speaker 2: So in the first post, she says, last night, I
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Speaker 2: was up all night praying for my sister Dolly. Many
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Speaker 2: of you know she hasn't been feeling her best lately,
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Speaker 2: and I truly believe in the power of prayer. I've
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Speaker 2: been led to ask all of the world that loves
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Speaker 2: her to be prayer warriors and pray with me.
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Speaker 1: She's strong, she's loved, and.
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Speaker 2: With all the prayers being lifted for her, I know
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Speaker 2: in my heart she's going to be just fine. Godspeed
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Speaker 2: my sissy, Dolly. We love you with a heart. Man.
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Speaker 2: When I tell you, the headlines were like, Dolly Parton's
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Speaker 2: sister sends extra love and prayers, request extra love and prayers?
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Speaker 2: Is it the last for Dolly part and dundu dum like?
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Speaker 2: It literally sent people into a frenzy. So then her
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Speaker 2: sister had to post and say, I want to clear
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Speaker 2: something up. I didn't mean to scarity want to make
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Speaker 2: it sound so serious with asking for prayers for Dolly.
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Speaker 2: She's been a little under the weather, and I simply
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Speaker 2: ask for prayers because I believe so strongly in the
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Speaker 2: power of prayer. It was nothing more than a little
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Speaker 2: sister asking for prayer for a big sister.
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Speaker 1: Thank you all for uplifting her. Your love truly makes
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Speaker 1: a difference. Baby.
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Speaker 2: They got in on Facebook comments so fast, talking about
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Speaker 2: what's going to happen?
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Speaker 1: Is she okay? Is this the last two ride for
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Speaker 1: Dolly Parton? She told us she was going to be good.
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Speaker 2: Now you're here saying she needs prayers and what is
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Speaker 2: going on, so she had to clear it up. But
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Speaker 2: then Dolly Parton had to come and make a video
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Speaker 2: to further explain that she's going to be good as well,
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Speaker 2: because all these things with her sisters stirred the pot
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Speaker 2: even more so. This video, this is actually breaking. I
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Speaker 2: saw this as I was coming here to the podcast.
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Speaker 2: This video was posted not too long ago. Let's take
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Speaker 2: a listen to Dolly party She says, I'm dead yet, honey,
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Speaker 2: stop playing with me.
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Speaker 3: I know lately everybody thinks that I am sicker than
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Speaker 3: I am, do look sick than you. I'm working hard
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Speaker 3: here anyway. I wanted to put everybody's mind at ease.
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Speaker 3: Those zobies that seemed to be real concern, which I appreciate,
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Speaker 3: And I appreciate your prayers because I'm a person of faith,
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Speaker 3: I can always use the prayers for anything and everything.
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Speaker 3: But I want you to know that I'm okay. I've
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Speaker 3: got some problems. As I mentioned back when my husband
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Speaker 3: Carl was very sick. That was for a long time,
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Speaker 3: and then when he passed, I didn't take care of myself,
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Speaker 3: so I let a lot of things go that I
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Speaker 3: should have been taken care of. So Anyway, when I
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Speaker 3: got around to it, the doctor said, we need to
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Speaker 3: take care of this, we need to take care of that.
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Speaker 3: Nothing major, but I did have to cancel some things
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Speaker 3: so I could be closer to home, closer to Vanderbilt,
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Speaker 3: you know where I'm kind of having a few treatments
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Speaker 3: here and there. But I wanted you to know that
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Speaker 3: I'm not dying. Did you see that those that AI
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Speaker 3: picture reband me? Oh lordy, I mean they had rebad
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Speaker 3: my deathbed, and we both looked like we need to
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Speaker 3: be buried. But now, I thought, my lord, but if
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Speaker 3: I was really dying, I don't think Rebba would be
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Speaker 3: the one at my death man. She would not come
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Speaker 3: visit me earlier. But anyway, there are just a lot
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Speaker 3: of rumors flying around. But I figured if you heard
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Speaker 3: it from me, you'd know that I was.
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Speaker 1: Okay, y'all.
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Speaker 2: I made Dolly Parton get in here and tell y'all
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Speaker 2: she ain't dead.
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Speaker 1: She ain't ready to die yet.
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Speaker 2: AI is insane, y'all know what else going into another
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Speaker 2: story in the latest because okay, so Dolly Parton just
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Speaker 2: had to clip the fact that she's alive. She may
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Speaker 2: not be as well as she nermally is, but she's
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Speaker 2: getting to it and she's still able to move around.
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Speaker 1: She's actually in the studio.
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Speaker 2: For everyone listening to the audio of the podcast who
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Speaker 2: cannot see that video, Dolly Parton is, And I posted
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Speaker 2: to our brown Girl Grinding Instagram if you want to
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Speaker 2: go and check it out. It's brown Girl Grinding all
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Speaker 2: common spelling. Dolly Parton in that video is actually sitting
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Speaker 2: in what looks like almost like a voiceover studio because
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Speaker 2: there was like a green screen behind her and then
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Speaker 2: there's like a mic in a chair, So she's working
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Speaker 2: on something as she said she would be. She said,
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Speaker 2: I'll be home working, just gotta stay close to the home.
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Speaker 2: I just can't get on the road with you. I'm
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Speaker 2: trying to tell you all that travel booking life ain't
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Speaker 2: no joke. And I feel that. And I'm thirty three
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Speaker 2: years old, and after a week or two weeks, I
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Speaker 2: literally schedule a weekend where I don't even let people
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Speaker 2: know I'm home because of how much it takes out
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Speaker 2: of you. I can't imagine, and who am I. Dolly
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Speaker 2: Parton is Dolly Parton, so you can only imagine how
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Speaker 2: grand her travel is, her meet and greets are.
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Speaker 1: All the things.
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Speaker 2: AI is really a mother effort though, because Dolly Parton
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Speaker 2: having to respond to something like this, because I definitely
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Speaker 2: know her sister's Facebook post contributed to the scare. I
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Speaker 2: was gonna say some, but I would say a lot,
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Speaker 2: but also too that AI photo. Now in other news
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Speaker 2: in the latest Martin Luther King's daughter, doctor Bernice King,
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Speaker 2: and Robin William's daughter, Zelda Williams, Robin Williams is the actor.
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Speaker 1: Everyone knows Robin Williams. I don't have to describe who
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Speaker 1: he is. Huge actor.
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Speaker 2: He puts so much joy in our lives for so long,
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Speaker 2: and then he passed away. He died of suicide some
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Speaker 2: years ago. His daughter had to get on Instagram and
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Speaker 2: acts people and fans to stop creating and sending her
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Speaker 2: AI videos of her dad in. Martin Luther King's daughter,
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Speaker 2: doctor Bernice King, recently retweeted a Variety article detailing Robin
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Speaker 2: Williams's daughter asking people to stop sending these videos and said,
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Speaker 2: I concur because you know the same thing she says
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Speaker 2: is happening with her and her father, Doctor Martin Luther King.
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Speaker 2: So Zelda Williams, Robin Williams daughter, posted to her Instagram story.
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Speaker 2: If you've got any decency, just stop doing this to
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Speaker 2: him and to me, to everyone, even full stop.
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Speaker 1: It's dumb.
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Speaker 2: It's a waste of time and energy, and believe me,
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Speaker 2: it's not and not as in all caps.
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Speaker 1: It's not what he'd want. You're not making art.
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Speaker 2: You're making disgusting overprocessed hot dogs out of the lives
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Speaker 2: of human beings, out of the history of art and music,
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Speaker 2: and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll
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Speaker 2: give you a little thumbs up and like it.
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Speaker 1: That's gross.
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Speaker 2: So there was a Variety article, as I mentioned, and
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Speaker 2: you know, the headline of the Variety article says Robin
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Speaker 2: Williams daughter Zelda Tels fans, please just stop sending me
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Speaker 2: AI videos. Doctor Bernice King, who is the daughter of
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Speaker 2: Martin Luther King, retweeted this article this headline on X
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Speaker 2: and she says, I concur concerning my father.
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Speaker 1: Please stop.
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Speaker 2: Over the weekend, I saw there was a AI video
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Speaker 2: of Kobe and he was like, you know, in this
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Speaker 2: AI video, he's like streaming and like playing like one
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Speaker 2: of those like in some game he was playing on
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Speaker 2: like either like a PS five. He was gaming in
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Speaker 2: some way like playing a video game, and he was
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Speaker 2: streaming in this AI video and I saw people on
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Speaker 2: X having a conversation about how insane it must be
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Speaker 2: to see your loved one being placed in like a
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Speaker 2: who's passed away, being placed in like a real setting
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Speaker 2: of today, as if they're here, and that just like
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Speaker 2: randomly pops up on your timeline, Like how traumatizing and
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Speaker 2: like gut wrenching that must be for a person who
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Speaker 2: has had to deal with not being able to see
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Speaker 2: the person that they love in real time anymore, or
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Speaker 2: hear their voice, or see their mannerisms or just you know,
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Speaker 2: certain things in your life that are happening today just
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Speaker 2: not be able to share it with them because they're
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Speaker 2: not here. And then all of a sudden, something is
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Speaker 2: created where now you can place those people, their mannerisms,
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Speaker 2: their likeness, their voice into something real time, just for
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Speaker 2: fans to see. And you know, I mean, I guess
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Speaker 2: there are some people that enjoyed that. And there was
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Speaker 2: a whole you know, back and forth a discourse on
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Speaker 2: X about is it helpful or harmful to do that
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Speaker 2: with big celebrities, because you know, the conversation that I
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Speaker 2: saw was the whole point of you know, because these
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Speaker 2: people were so well beloved. It's kind of like the
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Speaker 2: Tupac hologram is how they tried to compare it. Because
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Speaker 2: these people are so well beloved. People of the future
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Speaker 2: are people now right, People today who may not have
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Speaker 2: gotten to experience them in real life when they were alive,
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Speaker 2: want to still experience them. And that's where AI comes
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Speaker 2: in as a tech, you know, resource to be able
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Speaker 2: to do that. And on the other side, the common
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Speaker 2: sense thought is, but there are real people who really
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Speaker 2: did experience these people, who lived their everyday life with
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Speaker 2: these people. Their lives depended on these people like Kobe
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Speaker 2: Bryant's daughters and his wife who's who you know, Vanessa
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Speaker 2: who no longer have him, doctor Bernice A King and
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Speaker 2: you know her brother Martin Luther King the third, and
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Speaker 2: just so many other people, Robin Williams's daughter and their
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Speaker 2: family that I have to look at this and be like,
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Speaker 2: we didn't ask for this.
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Speaker 1: Though now and people.
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Speaker 2: Talk about AI and everything that it will do and
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Speaker 2: how it will help. I think these are the moments
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Speaker 2: where you're able to have the conversation that a lot
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Speaker 2: of people who don't think that AI is helpful try
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Speaker 2: and have where they're like, but AI and anything tech
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Speaker 2: like that that just goes that is just trained to
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Speaker 2: do something because of a push of a button or
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Speaker 2: HTML code or whatever it is that you do the
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Speaker 2: program AI is to sensitized like a human being, I
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Speaker 2: would hope. I mean, because you got to think about it, right,
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Speaker 2: Like there is a human behind the AI at some point.
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Speaker 2: But it's easier to stand behind an AI release of
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Speaker 2: something versus having to stand next to something that you've
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Speaker 2: said or done yourself as a human. And I think
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Speaker 2: a human being would be more sensitized to things like
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Speaker 2: this like okay, does their family want to see this?
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Speaker 2: And when I say a human being, because again, like
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Speaker 2: I said, when you talk about AI, there is a
18:12
Speaker 2: human there, Like someone has to create the idea that
18:17
Speaker 2: is then executed into an AI version. So there's someone
18:22
Speaker 2: somewhere that is like, oh, this would be a good
18:24
Speaker 2: idea and then they make it into AI, and AI
18:27
Speaker 2: is what the world gets. But it's completely different if
18:31
Speaker 2: you're a person that is standing on the platform or
18:34
Speaker 2: more you know, if you were if you're taunting a
18:38
Speaker 2: person's legacy in any way as a real human and
18:41
Speaker 2: not an AI or a bot or whatever. It's so
18:45
Speaker 2: different than if you're able to hide behind technology, is
18:47
Speaker 2: my point. And I think that's the scare that a
18:51
Speaker 2: lot of people have when it comes to AI in
18:54
Speaker 2: every genre, in every.
18:55
Speaker 1: Facet, in every facet of life.
18:57
Speaker 2: It's like, if you're able to hide behind technology of
19:02
Speaker 2: this sort, where does a human factor come in? And
19:05
Speaker 2: do we consider the human factor? And that's a little
19:08
Speaker 2: bit scary that you have to think about.
19:10
Speaker 1: I don't know.
19:11
Speaker 2: I think this is one of the things where you
19:13
Speaker 2: take it to the streets and the tweets, and I mean,
19:15
Speaker 2: I want to know how you guys feel outside, we outside,
19:19
Speaker 2: we outside, outside every page I think. I mean, I
19:24
Speaker 2: can't imagine if it was me. I can't imagine if
19:26
Speaker 2: it was me. And I'm getting on my timeline and
19:28
Speaker 2: I'm reliving someone's being in their existence and I didn't
19:32
Speaker 2: actually do it. And you know, like I think too,
19:35
Speaker 2: like with family of celebrities, they have it, they have
19:39
Speaker 2: it rough. And I think for me in the space
19:42
Speaker 2: that I sit in, because I remember all of the
19:45
Speaker 2: flat that and you know, I'm talking about just human
19:49
Speaker 2: error now, not AI era.
19:51
Speaker 1: Human error are human.
19:53
Speaker 2: Actions that can be perceived as insensitive or error. I
19:57
Speaker 2: remember being at TMZ when we did the Kobe Bryant
20:01
Speaker 2: death story, and there were a lot of people who
20:04
Speaker 2: were upset that the story was even covered because the
20:08
Speaker 2: way that it came out in news other places, you
20:13
Speaker 2: know later was that Kobe Bryant's family had not been
20:16
Speaker 2: given a heads up or just had the time to
20:19
Speaker 2: deal with the news of Kobe Bryant and his daughter
20:23
Speaker 2: GG crashing and not making it, you know, and dying
20:28
Speaker 2: in that helicopter crash.
20:30
Speaker 1: But TMC had posted the story, and I remember.
20:36
Speaker 2: Everywhere that I went for about two months, that's all
20:40
Speaker 2: everybody wanted to ask about it, is like, is it
20:43
Speaker 2: true that you guys didn't give his family a heads up?
20:46
Speaker 1: How do you feel about like stuff like that?
20:47
Speaker 2: And when you're working there and you're a part of
20:50
Speaker 2: a brand, it's kind of like, you know, I don't
20:53
Speaker 2: even think it's just because of where you work. I
20:55
Speaker 2: think in this world of content, in being able to
21:03
Speaker 2: post and upload and update or control someone's emotions from
21:07
Speaker 2: a piece of content that you're doing, whether it's a story,
21:09
Speaker 2: an exclusive, a report, or an AI version of video
21:14
Speaker 2: that now family members asking you to take down.
21:17
Speaker 1: I think what I learned in that.
21:18
Speaker 2: Moment from the Kobe Bryant situation was that the covering
21:22
Speaker 2: of the story. And you know, that's a lot different
21:25
Speaker 2: because I also know how the newsroom works, so I
21:28
Speaker 2: know that there is no story that doesn't go unalerted.
21:33
Speaker 2: Typically that's the rule of thumb like something like that.
21:37
Speaker 2: Especially because of who it was, you of course have
21:42
Speaker 2: to reach out, you know, work with you know his team,
21:46
Speaker 2: and you know all the things right. And I think
21:49
Speaker 2: at the same time, in a situation like that, it's
21:53
Speaker 2: like people are so caught up in celebrity and you know,
22:00
Speaker 2: things being mundane and things just becoming a job that
22:04
Speaker 2: the human factor sometimes it just like it disappears. And
22:10
Speaker 2: I think when you live in that world where that's
22:12
Speaker 2: what you're doing every single day, it's kind of tough.
22:16
Speaker 2: It's like, you know, you're in a space where it's
22:18
Speaker 2: like you have a job. But at the same time,
22:22
Speaker 2: now removed from the situation, and you know, outside of
22:26
Speaker 2: that outlet, number one, if I'm being honest, I don't
22:31
Speaker 2: know a news outlet that would have held that story.
22:36
Speaker 2: But number two, now that I'm where I'm at and
22:38
Speaker 2: I'm able to like kind of look from the outside end.
22:41
Speaker 2: I don't know if me personally right now, like if
22:44
Speaker 2: I had gotten that story first right now on the
22:47
Speaker 2: Latest with Laura the Rosa, whether we were here on
22:49
Speaker 2: the podcast or at the breakfast club, I don't know
22:51
Speaker 2: if I would have done that story not first anyway,
22:55
Speaker 2: not until I was able to, like you know, like
22:58
Speaker 2: speak to I would have to be in a okay
23:01
Speaker 2: place about being a person to talk about that, and
23:03
Speaker 2: I just don't know where I'm at now I.
23:05
Speaker 1: Could have done that. And I'm not saying this to
23:07
Speaker 1: like say that.
23:08
Speaker 2: You know, I feel like TMZ did anything maliciously or
23:12
Speaker 2: like you know, it was just like f his family.
23:15
Speaker 2: I know in that situation that wasn't the case, even
23:18
Speaker 2: though it's not. It hasn't ever been presented that way.
23:22
Speaker 2: But I do know even if you call and you
23:24
Speaker 2: give a family a heads up or or whatever was done,
23:27
Speaker 2: because I you know, heard that the proper measures were taken,
23:31
Speaker 2: which is giving heads up to like.
23:32
Speaker 1: You know, different people on his team or whatever.
23:36
Speaker 2: And then of course you got people on the outside
23:37
Speaker 2: saying that is not what happened.
23:40
Speaker 1: I wasn't my story. I can say that, right, but
23:43
Speaker 1: what I will say is.
23:46
Speaker 2: We're getting to a place now and content in reporting
23:49
Speaker 2: and just so many other things that I feel like
23:53
Speaker 2: being human again is kind of leading a bit like people,
23:56
Speaker 2: because there's so much of the other stuff out there,
24:00
Speaker 2: like AI videos and people who are not even with
24:03
Speaker 2: us anymore, that people make just to get views on
24:06
Speaker 2: a YouTube channel to be able to monetize something.
24:10
Speaker 1: Things like that.
24:11
Speaker 2: Like I think, because you're seeing stuff like that, people
24:14
Speaker 2: want things that make them feel human. And I don't
24:18
Speaker 2: know what that balance is between the things that made
24:21
Speaker 2: people feel human, it made people feel good and all
24:25
Speaker 2: the other stuff that sometimes happen when you're working for
24:28
Speaker 2: a media outlet, like when you get a story, you
24:37
Speaker 2: have to follow that story and you have to put
24:39
Speaker 2: that story out.
24:41
Speaker 1: The balance between that.
24:44
Speaker 2: And I think the AI situation and conversation is a
24:46
Speaker 2: bit different too, because as a you know, like as
24:50
Speaker 2: a as a RANDO person who just creates an AI
24:54
Speaker 2: video because you're a fan, that's one thing, especially like
24:58
Speaker 2: I see a lot of these things on like TikTok too,
25:00
Speaker 2: or like they're using these videos to like sell product,
25:04
Speaker 2: Like you'll create an AI version of like a random
25:06
Speaker 2: celebrity dead or live to just like sell a product
25:10
Speaker 2: and get someone's attention.
25:12
Speaker 1: I think that is a bit different because as.
25:15
Speaker 2: A journalist there's supposed to be a responsibility of like
25:17
Speaker 2: a why are you telling this story?
25:19
Speaker 1: And sometimes it is just to inform. But I don't know.
25:22
Speaker 3: I just.
25:24
Speaker 2: I think that the tide is changing. I think that
25:26
Speaker 2: there are more people who want to wait and not
25:30
Speaker 2: be first, but be a person, be factu at the
25:34
Speaker 2: same time, and yeah, like everybody and what I do
25:37
Speaker 2: want to lead conversation. I want to lead conversation, right,
25:40
Speaker 2: That's the tagline for this podcast is exclusives. But in
25:43
Speaker 2: where I sit now, a lot of times I'm thinking,
25:46
Speaker 2: like when things are like when you just you run
25:49
Speaker 2: and you put things out, whether you've proven it to
25:51
Speaker 2: be true or not. At the end of the day,
25:56
Speaker 2: there's other people on the side of that content, is
25:59
Speaker 2: what I'm trying to get to. So when you think
26:00
Speaker 2: about Dolly Parton and her sister, even though her sister
26:03
Speaker 2: did not mean no harm, Dolly Parton's on the other
26:06
Speaker 2: side of that content, and her fans are going crazy
26:09
Speaker 2: thinking something happened to her when she talked about that
26:12
Speaker 2: AI photo of her and Riba McIntire, Reba McIntyre is
26:16
Speaker 2: like at her bedside and she's dying. There's other people
26:20
Speaker 2: on the side of that content, Dolly Parton's family who
26:22
Speaker 2: was probably already super protective over her because of her age,
26:27
Speaker 2: and just you know, things just are sensitive as you
26:30
Speaker 2: get up there and you know you're a big superstar
26:32
Speaker 2: who doesn't get the time to take care of yourself
26:34
Speaker 2: the way you need to. There's other people on the
26:37
Speaker 2: side of that, so or other side of that, I
26:40
Speaker 2: don't know. I just think I feel like the tide
26:45
Speaker 2: is changing, but it could also be me and my
26:48
Speaker 2: mental and what I want to take changing as well too.
26:53
Speaker 2: I still follow all the brands and this is not again,
26:55
Speaker 2: this is not a not the TMZ because like I said,
26:58
Speaker 2: I don't know any outlet that would have had that
27:00
Speaker 2: story and wouldn't have and had it factual and you know,
27:05
Speaker 2: one hundred percent ready to go and wouldn't have broke
27:08
Speaker 2: that story. But I think that's always the question for
27:13
Speaker 2: me now in the space that I'm in, and it
27:16
Speaker 2: should be the question for anybody online because at this point,
27:18
Speaker 2: you don't even got to be in a certain position
27:21
Speaker 2: to be able to affect people with your content. You
27:23
Speaker 2: could just turn on your phone and create a TikTok account.
27:28
Speaker 2: So what are we really getting out of this? What's
27:31
Speaker 2: the you know, what does that look like to the
27:35
Speaker 2: other person on the side of that content? Is what
27:38
Speaker 2: I ask myself a lot now. It's a tough space
27:41
Speaker 2: to be in. I don't know if there's ever really
27:42
Speaker 2: answer to that, especially what I do as far as journalism.
27:45
Speaker 2: And you know, even if shoot interviews, y'ash, what's on
27:53
Speaker 2: the other side of it and isn't worth it?
27:56
Speaker 1: Is the question.
27:56
Speaker 2: I'll see you guys in the streets and the tweets
28:00
Speaker 2: because I want to hear from y'all. You know, do
28:02
Speaker 2: you guys, you know, at any point in time do
28:05
Speaker 2: you think creators, whether it's media outlets, people on social whatever,
28:12
Speaker 2: do you think we'll ever get to a point where
28:14
Speaker 2: people fully stop in their tracks and say, but who
28:17
Speaker 2: do I affect on the other side of this?
28:18
Speaker 1: And are they okay? Before I do this? Y'all think
28:21
Speaker 1: we'll get there. I don't know if we'll get there.
28:23
Speaker 2: I feel like we salacious cells too much like how
28:27
Speaker 2: sex sells. Salacious things sell too much for us to
28:30
Speaker 2: ever do that. But let me know what y'all think
28:32
Speaker 2: I'm learning, I'm growing. I'm here with y'all, and I
28:34
Speaker 2: don't know how we got to the roundabout. We just
28:36
Speaker 2: got to and closing out this show. But it made
28:38
Speaker 2: me think of that and how I felt having to
28:40
Speaker 2: answer those questions about yeah, you know, being at the
28:46
Speaker 2: TMZ at that time, and feeling as a person like
28:51
Speaker 2: man his family has to deal with that, and but
28:53
Speaker 2: then feeling like, I mean, but what outlet would have
28:56
Speaker 2: held that story? And then looking at you know, doctor
28:59
Speaker 2: Bernice King and seeing her response to all of these things,
29:03
Speaker 2: and things about the torture that Robin Williams's daughter must
29:06
Speaker 2: be going through. We didn't make Dolly Parton get online
29:08
Speaker 2: and post a video. She is Dolly Parton. She you know,
29:12
Speaker 2: she got other things to worry about.
29:14
Speaker 1: I'm sure.
29:16
Speaker 2: But now we're here, let me know what y'all think.
29:18
Speaker 2: Will we ever get there? It's the Ladies with Laura
29:20
Speaker 2: l Rosa. At the end of the day, you guys
29:22
Speaker 2: could be with anybody anywhere, but you choose to be
29:24
Speaker 2: right here with me. I am so appreciative of that,
29:27
Speaker 2: my Lowriders. I will see you guys in my next episode.