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“I Left At The Top…” Angela Yee Gets Real About Her Exit · The Baller Alert Show

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  Speaker 1: You don't want to wait until it's like Dany, she
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  Speaker 1: fell off, so she left. I think you want to
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  Speaker 1: leave when you're here and you can, you know, get
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  Speaker 1: the things that you want. And so I had even
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  Speaker 1: before the vangemic, like don't don't everybody quit your job now?
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  Speaker 1: But no, no, or what happened to make it way away?
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  Speaker 1: Angela yet and now you're going to start with But
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  Speaker 1: I think the way that I am, like even I
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  Speaker 1: was as serious for six years before I came over
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  Speaker 1: to iHeart where it was clear channel and the show
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  Speaker 1: was doing really well at the time, I was, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I always think it's good to leave when things are
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  Speaker 1: doing really well and not when they're not. It's just
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  Speaker 1: to put that out there, like, as soon as you're
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  Speaker 1: really comfortable things are doing well, that's the time it is.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to wait until it's like Dany she
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  Speaker 1: fell off, so she left. I think you want to
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  Speaker 1: leave when you're here and you can, you know, get
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  Speaker 1: the things that you want. And so I had even
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  Speaker 1: before the vangemic, like don't when everybody quit your job now,
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  Speaker 1: but no, no, we're smelling for sure. But I had,
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  Speaker 1: even before the pandemic been in conversations about like doing
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  Speaker 1: my own show because I came from having my own
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  Speaker 1: show and then I had lip service, so I always
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  Speaker 1: wanted to go back to having my own show. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest, I hate it getting up so
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  Speaker 1: early in the morning. What times y'all have to wait?
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  Speaker 1: I will make up at four am. And when I
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  Speaker 1: tell you, my life was like miserable just from that.
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  Speaker 1: It was nice to be done with work early, but
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  Speaker 1: it's like just really difficult. And you did that ten years.
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  Speaker 1: I did that for twelve years years. What do you
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  Speaker 1: do like after you get off work? Like what did
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  Speaker 1: what did your day look like? Oh? Man, I mean
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  Speaker 1: and that's when the day starts, right, like when you
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  Speaker 1: get be going back to sleep, Yeah, it's impossible. And
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  Speaker 1: then sometimes like you have to there's stuff you have
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  Speaker 1: to do in the evening or meetings or dinners, so
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  Speaker 1: now you got to go home and come back, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean, And it's really annoying. And so
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  Speaker 1: it was just a It's great because sometimes I'll be like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not doing anything after the show today. I would
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  Speaker 1: like go to the beach and stuff like that in
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  Speaker 1: the summer. But it just was hard and I just
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  Speaker 1: knew that I didn't want to keep on doing that.
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  Speaker 1: So I had already been talking to iHeart about getting
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  Speaker 1: my own show. You know, behind the scenes, we were
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  Speaker 1: having conversations, and I just didn't know what that was
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  Speaker 1: gonna look like. At first, it was like, Okay, maybe
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  Speaker 1: we'll do something. Because the way that I look at
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  Speaker 1: things is if you put me in a position, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna make it work somehow and something more is gonna
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  Speaker 1: come out of it. So I was like, if I
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  Speaker 1: got to stay on the breakfast club and do weekends
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  Speaker 1: and grind it out, I always act like I've never
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  Speaker 1: been here before and I'm starting from scratch, and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, I will grind it out, I'll do weekends,
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  Speaker 1: I'll do not like what y'all need me to do.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to start transitioning into that. And after
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  Speaker 1: the pandemic, well it was kind of during the pandemic.
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  Speaker 1: I sat down with my boss with THEA. Hey them
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  Speaker 1: our boss right right, and she called me and I'll
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  Speaker 1: never forget. Like my agent first was like, look, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk to THEA today, and I just I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna let y'all talk, but just look at this as
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  Speaker 1: a good thing because I also feel like that time slot,
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  Speaker 1: you know, mornings are a big time slot, So moving
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  Speaker 1: from mornings to another time slot, especially like right after,
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  Speaker 1: that's not considered so content heavy. Sometimes people won't look
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  Speaker 1: at that as like a that's not necessarily yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: not like an upward move, but having your own show is,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And so I really wanted something that was
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  Speaker 1: mine that I could curate. And then I think during
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  Speaker 1: the pandemic, people's listening have has changed so much that
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  Speaker 1: it made it something that they wanted to really like
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  Speaker 1: Beef Up and then podcasting. Podcasting change the game a
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  Speaker 1: lot too. A lot of times people will listen to
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  Speaker 1: the podcast but not the show live