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When the Tables Turn! (Jay-Z & Roc Nation Make a Power Move + Kim Kardashian's new book · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 2: So I've been talking to you guys this week about
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  Speaker 2: a three-year-old soccer player down in Florida. His name is
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  Speaker 2: Nevada and he is a soccer phenom. Like he is
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  Speaker 2: amazing at what he does already at three years old.
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  Speaker 2: We broke the story of Nevada's mom responding to a
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  Speaker 2: video that went viral over the weekend. So some days ago,
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  Speaker 2: Nevada's parents posted video on the field at a soccer
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  Speaker 2: game soccer practice now they were working out or Nevada
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  Speaker 2: was working out on the field with a company called
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  Speaker 2: I-9 this company you know they do like the training
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  Speaker 2: development all the things um and the kids are playing
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  Speaker 2: it in these like leagues as they train and build
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  Speaker 2: and and all the you know there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: like little technical small things that come into play when
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  Speaker 2: playing a sport like soccer now Nevada is is somewhat
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  Speaker 2: of like a online soccer influencer. And I only say
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  Speaker 2: that because prior to me reporting on any of, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the allegations that police were called to his soccer game
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  Speaker 2: to remove him and his family and make it where
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  Speaker 2: he could no longer play because he is just too
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  Speaker 2: dang good. And because the I-9 League director that day
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  Speaker 2: alleged that Nevada's mom was making a disturbance because he
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  Speaker 2: was not being allowed to play in what she felt
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  Speaker 2: like was his full capacity. He was already going viral.
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  Speaker 2: I had seen videos online of Nevada, but I didn't
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  Speaker 2: know if it was like this kid is just really
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  Speaker 2: good in this video or this is just what he do.
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  Speaker 1: This is just what he does.
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  Speaker 2: And then when the video went viral of him on
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  Speaker 2: the field and he's running over to his mom and
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  Speaker 2: his dad and they're talking to the police and they're
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  Speaker 2: being asked to leave. It made me look more into him.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, oh, no, he is insanely talented in
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  Speaker 2: this sport. So we did an exclusive interview with Nevada's
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  Speaker 2: mom after that video went viral where, you know, she
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  Speaker 2: was having conversations with us about how it felt to
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  Speaker 2: be asked to leave the game. And we found out
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  Speaker 2: that the game was already over anyway. And just having
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  Speaker 2: police caught on your three-year-old and what trauma looks like
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  Speaker 2: in a situation like that because he's a three-year-old kid
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  Speaker 2: who now has to be told that he can't play
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  Speaker 2: there anymore or made to feel like he doesn't want
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  Speaker 2: to play there anymore when all he did was go
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  Speaker 2: out and.
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  Speaker 1: Play soccer really, really well.
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  Speaker 2: And had a mom that was trying to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that they got number one their money's worth but also
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  Speaker 2: his just due for his talent and with his talent
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  Speaker 2: um so make sure you guys go check out our
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  Speaker 2: previous episode of the latest with ron la rosa where
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  Speaker 2: we did that full interview with her her name is
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  Speaker 2: miss martasia griffin now in the midst of all of
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  Speaker 2: this super super viral moments there have been you know
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  Speaker 2: other soccer players, um, legendary soccer players who have reportedly
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  Speaker 2: reached out to Nevada. I know for a fact, um,
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  Speaker 2: and I mentioned this in my, some of my reporting
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  Speaker 2: as well, that there was beginning to be this like
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  Speaker 2: community surrounding Nevada now because of all this, um, the,
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  Speaker 2: the things that have happened. Um, One of the soccer
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  Speaker 2: players was a guy named Eddie Johnson. He's a retired
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  Speaker 2: World Cup player who, you know, invited Nevada to come
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  Speaker 2: out to a soccer league that he says would help
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  Speaker 2: develop and to train him and do all these things.
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  Speaker 2: And I saw GoFundMe set up for Nevada to just
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  Speaker 2: be able to make sure he can afford to do so.
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  Speaker 2: But then Roc Nation enters the chat as well. So
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  Speaker 2: Nevada's mom and Roc Nation, on behalf of Jay-Z, I
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  Speaker 2: was told and have been confirmed to understand that they
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  Speaker 2: had a conversation, you know, following all of this. Now,
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  Speaker 2: it was already going viral that Roc Nation had posted
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  Speaker 2: just a supportive conversation on behalf of Nevada when everything happened.
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  Speaker 2: I think the world was kind of feeling this. Like,
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  Speaker 2: let's just pour into this three-year-old child because he's three.
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  Speaker 2: And there's no reason why he should be made to
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  Speaker 2: feel like he did anything wrong when he didn't. So,
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  Speaker 2: Roc Nation Sports posted to their Instagram a photo of
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  Speaker 2: Nevada with the text, Nevada, you are a star, a
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  Speaker 2: shining star.
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  Speaker 1: We support you and your amazing talents. Keep being great.
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  Speaker 1: From this, I was then told.
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  Speaker 2: That, you know, once they got on the phone, Jay-Z
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  Speaker 2: and Roc Nation committed to sending Nevada, who was a
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  Speaker 2: three-year-old soccer player, to Spain in December 2017. And they
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  Speaker 2: plan to make this trip really, really impactful and a
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  Speaker 2: trip full of opportunity that, you know, of course, is
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  Speaker 2: going to lend to his athletic experience.
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  Speaker 1: I'm told that Roc Nation here in the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Is working with Roc Nation Sports Division overseas as they
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  Speaker 2: represent a ton of elite soccer players and plan to
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  Speaker 2: create opportunity for Nevada by doing.
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  Speaker 1: All of the above.
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  Speaker 2: Now, the person that I spoke with that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: let me know that all of this was happening told
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  Speaker 2: me that Nevada has like soccer players who are his favorites.
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  Speaker 2: that he watches all the time. And some of them
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  Speaker 2: are actually represented by Roc Nation Sports. So it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a beautiful marrying of his dreams and his
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  Speaker 2: goals and his ambitions at the tender age of three
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  Speaker 2: years old. And the fact that, you know, this story
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  Speaker 2: has motivated people to want to make these things happen
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  Speaker 2: for him even more because of what he went through.
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  Speaker 1: And not just because of what he went through. Let
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  Speaker 1: me not say that.
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  Speaker 2: Because of his talent. His talent is now on a
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  Speaker 2: global stage. And I was telling his mom that when
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  Speaker 2: I talked to him, um miss griffin you know her
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  Speaker 2: her biggest worry was she didn't want the conversation to
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  Speaker 2: drift away from the fact that her son is just
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  Speaker 2: really really dang good at what he does and that
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  Speaker 2: you know there is a real opportunity here for him
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  Speaker 2: to do this in a very major way which and
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  Speaker 2: it's something that he naturally loves that he is just
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  Speaker 2: addicted to doing she said he's addicted to playing soccer
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  Speaker 2: he just loves it he works out and he plays
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  Speaker 2: with his dad and his cousins and At three years old,
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  Speaker 2: it's something that he picked up and he just will
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  Speaker 2: not put it down. So for him to be this
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  Speaker 2: naturally gifted at it and now to be, you know,
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  Speaker 2: on this global world platform where everybody's just wanting to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, wrap their arms around him. I'm seeing so
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  Speaker 2: many stories of other big name soccer players and celebrities
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  Speaker 2: reaching out and just people with resources, teams and training
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  Speaker 2: camps and.
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  Speaker 1: All these things.
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  Speaker 2: That is an amazing silver lining in all of the madness. Now,
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  Speaker 2: in other updates, Kim Kardashian has a book that is
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  Speaker 2: coming out. It's the biography of Kim Kardashian, and it's
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  Speaker 2: titled Citizen Kim, The Woman Who Created the Future. So
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  Speaker 2: this is by Jonathan Van Meter, who is a writer.
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  Speaker 2: It is coming out, or it came out yesterday, October 27th,
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  Speaker 2: under Penguin Random House. Now, this book is all about
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  Speaker 2: Kim's life, like, you know, The marriage, the ups, the downs,
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  Speaker 2: building out as an influencer, career, children, all of the above.
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  Speaker 1: The book description says, we worked on it for five
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  Speaker 1: years together. And when she say we, she's talking about Jonathan.
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  Speaker 2: Now, this is a person, a writer that followed her
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  Speaker 2: around and interviewed her for five years.
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  Speaker 1: This is Kim Kardashian on Jimmy Kimmel.
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  Speaker 3: There's a book. It's about you.
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  Speaker 1: Is it something that you're it's called Citizen Kim. Is
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  Speaker 1: it something that you're participating in?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, so there is a biography that's being written by
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  Speaker 3: Jonathan Van Meter. It comes out in a week or two.
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  Speaker 3: And I agreed to work with this writer to write
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  Speaker 3: a book about me. Do you trust him? I do.
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  Speaker 3: You do, okay. But it's not like, it's a little
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  Speaker 3: scary because it's not my book. So it's not like
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  Speaker 3: I have a say.
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  Speaker 1: No, you don't.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I could contribute and tell him and I
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  Speaker 3: want it to be accurate. I read a copy and like,
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  Speaker 3: I cried after a chapter because I thought it was
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  Speaker 3: told so well in a way that I've never seen
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  Speaker 3: myself or ever noticed that about my life. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 3: I think that was, you know, I think hopefully if
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  Speaker 3: my mom takes the time to read it, she'll.
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  Speaker 1: Get over it.
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  Speaker 2: Anna Wintour, which is that, this is an ironic quote.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you guys why this is ironic
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  Speaker 2: that Anna Wintour is the person giving this quote and
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  Speaker 2: further explain who Anna Wintour is and the connection there
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  Speaker 2: for those of you guys who may not just be
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  Speaker 2: in the fashion realm but I think Anna Wintour is
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  Speaker 2: a name that a lot of people know even if
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  Speaker 2: not in fashion but we'll get to it so Anna
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  Speaker 2: Wintour says Citizen Kim is the kind of intelligent and
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  Speaker 2: incisive book that comes along when a great journalist finds
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  Speaker 2: a perfect subject irresistible now this is ironic and I
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  Speaker 2: think they talk about this in the book as well
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  Speaker 2: too because I've seen some of the reporting on it
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  Speaker 2: This is ironic because Kanye West had always talked openly
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  Speaker 2: about when he began dating and then married Kim Kardashian,
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  Speaker 2: how a lot of the fashion rooms and the fashion
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  Speaker 2: houses would not like they didn't want her around. At
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  Speaker 2: that time, reality TV was looked at as something that
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  Speaker 2: was like super like icky. The reality star was not
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  Speaker 2: what the reality star is today, like how Kim Kardashian
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  Speaker 2: has built such an empire and a business. And her
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  Speaker 2: whole family, honestly, has done it and so many other
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  Speaker 2: reality stars, right? It was way different. I remember when
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  Speaker 2: I first got my job at TMZ and I, because
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  Speaker 2: I'd interned in the fashion magazine space. And I remember
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  Speaker 2: talking to some of the other girls that I'd interned
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  Speaker 2: with just about, you know, what I was doing at
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  Speaker 2: the college.
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  Speaker 1: And they literally, like, when I say they, man, honey, turned.
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  Speaker 2: their nose up about a TMZ, I was called the
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  Speaker 2: girl at the tabloid. And it wasn't like they were
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  Speaker 2: throwing shots or whatever, but they were like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: this is what people thought about reality TV, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the outlets that reported and talked about them. And to
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  Speaker 2: be fair, like, even when I was at TMZ, there
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  Speaker 2: were certain levels of YouTubers and um, reality stars that
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  Speaker 2: it was still very new for Harvey and the team
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  Speaker 2: to accept them as celebrities. Um, like I literally remember
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  Speaker 2: trying to, um, book Cardi B on the TMZ celebrity tour.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't in the newsroom at this point. So I
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  Speaker 2: didn't know that at the same time that I was
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  Speaker 2: trying from the outside, just with the tour bus team.
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  Speaker 2: Cause I used to be on the buses riding around,
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  Speaker 2: giving the tours in Hollywood and, Van Lathan was actually
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  Speaker 2: working on it from the inside, trying in the newsroom.
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  Speaker 2: And we both had the same, like, when I hear
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  Speaker 2: him tell his story, I'm like, that's crazy because I
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  Speaker 2: was trying it just from the tour bus side. Like,
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  Speaker 2: my friend Patience, Patience Foster, who still works with Cardi
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  Speaker 2: B to this day, literally was, like, we were just
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  Speaker 2: trying to make it where Cardi could run into the
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  Speaker 2: bus and get cited on the bus just to be
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  Speaker 2: able to have TMZ have the conversation about her and
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  Speaker 2: everything that was about to happen with her and Love &
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  Speaker 2: Hip Hop. Van was trying it from the inside with
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  Speaker 2: the newsroom, and they were not biting.
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  Speaker 1: They did not care.
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  Speaker 2: She was just the girl from Instagram that was about
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  Speaker 2: to get on Love & Hip Hop, a reality show,
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  Speaker 2: and that was it. And then, boom, everything took off.
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  Speaker 2: And Cardi B is one of the biggest celebrities now.
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  Speaker 2: And Kim Kardashian, I mean, she was around. Like, Kim
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  Speaker 2: Kardashian worked hard. You know, the famous story, she worked
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  Speaker 2: with Brandy. That's how she met, you know, there's Ray J,
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  Speaker 2: that whole situation. And she was, you know, working as
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  Speaker 2: like in some sort of assistant role. And then she
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  Speaker 2: was Paris Hilton's like right hand man running around Hollywood,
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  Speaker 2: just trying to figure it out, just trying to get
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  Speaker 2: put on. And when the marriage to Kanye West happened,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think that that was like such a
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  Speaker 2: major explosion point for her. Not just because of all
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  Speaker 2: the crazy headlines about, you know, the relationship and the,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the mental health and mental awareness of it all.
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  Speaker 2: But because Kanye West is and was Kanye West. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, she credits him openly for the impact on
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  Speaker 2: her career that he had. I know that this is
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  Speaker 2: talked about in this book as well, too. But Kanye
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  Speaker 2: has said that the fashion, they didn't want her in there.
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  Speaker 2: There was shows that he literally... turned down and did
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  Speaker 2: not go to because she wasn't allowed to come with him,
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  Speaker 2: or he got uninvited to once it was announced that
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  Speaker 2: they were together. And I remember the first time we
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  Speaker 2: saw Kim Kardashian, I remember the first time I saw
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  Speaker 2: Kim Kardashian at one of the couture shows. I don't
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  Speaker 2: remember what designer it was, but I just remember the
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  Speaker 2: silhouette of the outfit she was wearing. It was like
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  Speaker 2: the cinched waist with the round, kind of like the
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  Speaker 2: Coca-Cola bottle shaped, like that was the shape of the outfit.
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  Speaker 1: And She was in conversation with Anna Wintour. She was
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  Speaker 1: sitting front row.
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  Speaker 2: And people to this day will say that Kim at
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  Speaker 2: that show, the outfit she wore, you know, just all
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  Speaker 2: of that changed what went on the runway, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in following seasons. Now, again, this is just conversation that
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  Speaker 2: people have, but obviously Kim Kardashian went on to be
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  Speaker 2: very influential in fashion, whether, you know, there's always an
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  Speaker 2: argument of like where it all centralizes from, like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the black girl effect of it all. But I think
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  Speaker 2: that the real conversation here is just. Kim has had
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  Speaker 2: a lot of life and for someone to have followed
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  Speaker 2: her around for five years and not to be put
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  Speaker 2: in a book about it, which is authorized by her.
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  Speaker 1: Big deal.
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  Speaker 2: Now in this book, one of the excerpts that is
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  Speaker 2: circulating currently, Kim Kardashian, speaking of Kanye West, talks about
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  Speaker 2: just the way that they lock down their household whenever,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they're trying to protect the kids. Kim Kardashian
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  Speaker 2: shares children with Kanye West.
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  Speaker 1: And she talks about, you know, just.
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  Speaker 2: Having this big burden of trying to protect their children
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  Speaker 2: while also at some point trying to protect their marriage,
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  Speaker 2: while also trying to protect Kanye from the outside world,
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  Speaker 2: while they navigated trying to figure out what help would
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  Speaker 2: look like for him. Now, they say she gets really
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  Speaker 2: candid about the complicated dynamic about just co-parenting in general.
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  Speaker 2: She says, you know, I worry about Kanye all day,
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  Speaker 2: all the time. As a father of my kids, I
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  Speaker 2: would never not worry about him. She says, and that's
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  Speaker 2: a big burden. Kim, Kim Kardashian says, and that's a
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  Speaker 2: big burden of having kids with someone who you don't
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  Speaker 2: necessarily get along with.
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  Speaker 1: My kids would never know that. And even though they've
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  Speaker 1: had like issues in.
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  Speaker 2: The past and she's been very open about his mental
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  Speaker 2: health struggles and what her and her family tried to
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  Speaker 2: do in helping him with that. I think people really
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  Speaker 2: unfairly throw the blame on the Kardashian family for a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the things that we saw Kanye West go through.
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  Speaker 2: And again, I know that conversation has always centered in
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  Speaker 2: like if he were with a black woman, would it
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  Speaker 2: have been the same? Regardless of who he was with,
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  Speaker 2: it's really tough. You know, like that we're not watching
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  Speaker 2: someone go through something that is like very like surface level,
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  Speaker 2: one dimensional.
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  Speaker 1: It's very tough. It's very deep.
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  Speaker 2: There's different layers to the struggle that Kanye West has
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  Speaker 2: been open about. And she says, you know, despite their
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  Speaker 2: past issues that we've seen publicly, it's been pretty smooth
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  Speaker 2: as far as co-parenting for a while. She says, I
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  Speaker 2: guess because we don't talk that much. But when we
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  Speaker 2: see each other, we give each other a hug. And
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  Speaker 2: she also talks about how she wants her children to
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  Speaker 2: have a strong relationship with their father.
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  Speaker 1: She says, I want them to think that their dad
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  Speaker 1: is the greatest.
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  Speaker 2: And she says that there's always an open door policy,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so he can even come and spend time
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  Speaker 2: with the kids at her home. And you guys know,
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  Speaker 2: or maybe you don't, because I just always think that
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  Speaker 2: people are in people's business the way that I be.
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  Speaker 2: Kim Kardashian is in a very serious relationship right now
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  Speaker 2: with Lewis Hamilton, who is the British Formula One race
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  Speaker 2: car driver, super successful race car driver. And they've been
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  Speaker 2: dating for some time now. He recently talked about buying
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  Speaker 2: Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's kids a dog. It's a
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  Speaker 2: golden retriever for the house.
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  Speaker 1: So like that is like the new extension to their family.
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  Speaker 1: So it's pretty serious.
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  Speaker 2: But I think I think, you know, it seems like
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  Speaker 2: Kanye West has been doing the work on himself to
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  Speaker 2: try and make sure he's in a good place. And
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: that matters a lot for his kids, especially because like even,
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: you know, watching Northwest, like Northwest, who's their oldest daughter,
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: she is older now.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: She's on TikTok.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: She's online. She has her friends. She's also an artist herself.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: She seems like a pretty creative and expressive young girl.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: And The things that happen to her parents are going
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: to directly affect all of the children, but especially the
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: older children because they're old enough to get asked questions
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: by their friends, to see things in the news, in
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: the media, all of the stuff. Now, talk about seeing
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: things in the press, especially as the kids get older.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: So Kim Kardashian in this book also reveals how she
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: goes about protecting her four kids with Kanye from any
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: potentially upsetting news stories about her or Kanye West.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: And she uses this code. It's a household code. It's
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: a household code.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: It's a household code word to limit the exposure of
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: like different things that are happening in the public because
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: she doesn't want them to be affected internally. So in
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: this book, Jonathan Van Meter writes that she has a
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: code word that she uses called lockdown. Now, when she
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: says lockdown, this activates a plan that switches off television
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: and radio broadcasts. So Kim Kardashian says, my whole household
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: knows what a lockdown means if I text it like
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: we're on lockdown. No TVs, just movies. No radio, just
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: plugging a phone for music in the car. Not even
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: Sirius XM because they talk about current events in real time.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: It's like they don't have to be a party to this.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: She said that these measures, you know, the intention behind
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: them is to prevent the children from becoming involved in
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: anything that is like a negative public discussion about their parents.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: I thought that this was admirable because, I mean, they're
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: in a good space now, but You know, I think
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: the Kardashians have always, again, gotten, you know, some public
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: hits for the blame of what we saw Kanye West
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: go through in the public eye when dealing with his
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: mental health and some of his, like, rants and his
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: fire routes and things. We also know that the Kardashians
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: are a family that heavily protects their image and their
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: business that they've built, as they should. And I think
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: the fact that they are doing it for themselves, right? Like,
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Kim says she does it for herself, but she extends
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: that to Kanye West as her children's father. It just
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: shows you how much of a bigger, like, picture it
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: is in all of this. And y'all are probably listening like, well, duh, Lauren,
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: they're parents. But I'm going to be honest with you.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Kanye and Kim's, like, the ending of their relationship, like,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: them last couple years, they weren't the prettiest. She talks
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: about in this book as well, too. And y'all, there's
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: so many episodes out at this point. That's how I
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: know so much. I haven't read the book. But she
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: talks about in this book, too, that... she's done her
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: best to just forgive him for everything. Like, you know,
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: he's got online and called them names, talked about her mom,
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: so many things. But again, I think a lot of
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: it is, it's like the struggles and the things that
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: he was dealing with and currently still is dealing with,
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: they're bigger than him.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: And she's been able to see that. So I just
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: think as much as.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: We talk about, you know, the Kardashians, good, bad, or indifferent,
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: you got to say that family has always been such
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: a central point that they don't play about. You see
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Khloe Kardashian getting dragged through the mud because she still maintains,
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: you know, such a close relationship with Tristan Thompson, who
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: was the father of her children. You see, you know,
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Travis Scott, who has, a you know a baby babies
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: with kylie at the events and at the house and
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: and you know the ex ex is staying over the
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: houses and kim said that she has extended that offer
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: to kanye like hey you know it's christmas come on
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: over be with the kids come over have dinner But
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: I think it's all about prioritizing family. When done the
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: right way, when boundaries are set up, it's all about
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: trying to be healthy and prioritizing family. And if you
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: can get to that point with each other, significant others too,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: because that's another big point of it as well. Once
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: people move on and are in other relationships, it makes
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: a lot of things a bit easier.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: So if you can get to that.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Good boundary point at their big old age, like these
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: are grown parents. Kanye and Kim Kardashian, these are big
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: grown ages. Seeing them be able to figure it out
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: is what I think everybody would have wanted, especially because
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: they have so many kids who are in the middle
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: of this and getting older at the same time. This
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: has been another episode of The Latest with Lauren La Rosa.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: I tell you guys all the time, y'all could be
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: anywhere with any old body talking about all of the things,
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: but you guys choose to be right here with me,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: my lowriders.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys. I'll catch you in my next episode.