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God's Timing and Jay-Z Avoids Yankee Stadium Fines · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: George. I'm a homegrowd that knows a little bit about
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Speaker 1: everything and everybody. You know, if you don't lie about that,
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Speaker 1: right Lauri, Hey, y'all, what's up as Lauren Rosa? And
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Speaker 1: this is another episode of the Latest with Laura l Rosa.
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Speaker 1: This is your daily dial on all things pop culture, entertaiment, news,
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Speaker 1: and all of the conversations that shake the room. Baby.
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Speaker 1: So today and every day here at the Latest with
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Speaker 1: Lona Rosa, we are going to kick off with checking
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Speaker 1: in behind the scenes of the Grind. So uh, checking
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Speaker 1: in behind the scenes of the Grind today. I actually
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Speaker 1: did a Bible study. Virtually, it's called a Bible study.
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Speaker 1: But my pastor, Pastor Jerome Lewis, who is at Seeds
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Speaker 1: of Greatness Church in Delaware, all the sermons and the
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Speaker 1: classing about to talk to you guys about our livestream
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Speaker 1: so you can watch it on YouTube. Even if you
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Speaker 1: have never been to Delaware, don't plan to go. I
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Speaker 1: suggested great church, great past or great leadership. But I
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Speaker 1: was actually watching a part of the sermon or the class,
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Speaker 1: I don't know they call it sermon class. It was
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Speaker 1: like it was it was titled it was talking about
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Speaker 1: like personal development, and they were having a conversation about
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Speaker 1: the saying what God has for you is for you,
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Speaker 1: and my pastor always says, and he's the first person
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Speaker 1: that I've ever heard say this, that that saying isn't true.
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Speaker 1: That you can miss what God has for you. And
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Speaker 1: there are like different ways that that can happen, like
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Speaker 1: I will bring it to you, but there are things
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Speaker 1: that you can be doing, whether it's like you're around
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Speaker 1: the wrong people. Tonight he talked a lot about like,
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Speaker 1: you know, just like you're posturing, like you know, not
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Speaker 1: being too prideful, not becoming too like basically not becoming
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Speaker 1: bigger than the program where you're not able to see
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Speaker 1: where God is leading you. And I tweeted out something
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Speaker 1: from the sermon. He said, not every opportunity to increase
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Speaker 1: is God's will for you, And that stuck out to
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Speaker 1: me so much. I think right now in real life,
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Speaker 1: everything day to day for me is really about making
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Speaker 1: decisions and how those decisions go into my discipline and
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Speaker 1: how that discipline brings forth like fruit of seeds that
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Speaker 1: I'm planting daily literally and a lot of times, you know,
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Speaker 1: as I'm figuring out team and figuring out you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm walking into so many new doors, new rooms, meeting people,
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Speaker 1: doing all these things that I've continued, like I've literally
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Speaker 1: been doing uh these things for so long. But now
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Speaker 1: things are a bit different. I mean there's a lot
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Speaker 1: more eyes, there are a lot more doors that are open,
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Speaker 1: you know that I could potentially walk through, and just
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Speaker 1: a lot more coming at me, more faster. And I'm
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Speaker 1: always praying that like God is ordering my steps and
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Speaker 1: that I'm making the right decisions. One of my biggest fears,
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Speaker 1: and I've been trying to figure out if this is
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Speaker 1: trauma or is this me just being really in tune
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Speaker 1: with like wanting to make sure that like I'm being
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Speaker 1: led by God and not led by like my own
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Speaker 1: wants and you know and needs as a human, you know,
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Speaker 1: like they how to talk about of the flesh, right,
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Speaker 1: My biggest fear is that I make one decision, whether
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Speaker 1: it's taking an opportunity or whatever the case may be,
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Speaker 1: like just that there's just one decision that once I
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Speaker 1: take it, once it's done, once it happens, that it
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Speaker 1: just changes everything that I I am always thinking about
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Speaker 1: that constantly. It's like such an anxiety point for me.
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Speaker 1: And yeah, I've been trying to figure out like whether
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Speaker 1: that's like a scarcity mindset thing of feeling like, you know, opportunities. Well,
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Speaker 1: first of all, like you know what I'm doing every
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Speaker 1: single day. I'm literally getting up every single day and
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Speaker 1: wanting to leave and not wanting but I'm actively living
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Speaker 1: one of my wildest dreams. So because of that, sometimes
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Speaker 1: I wake up and I'm like, Yo, it's no way
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Speaker 1: that like all of this worked out like this, like
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Speaker 1: and continues to like, Man, when I tell y'all, God
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Speaker 1: is so good, I actually need to sit down and
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Speaker 1: kind of like map out what I want my next
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Speaker 1: six months to look like, my next year to look like,
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Speaker 1: my next five years to look like. Because a lot
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Speaker 1: of things that I wanted to accomplish the last time
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Speaker 1: I sat down and did that whole five year plan,
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Speaker 1: I've been able to do within these last night two years.
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Speaker 1: So much has happened for me within these last couple
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Speaker 1: of years. It's been kind of like scary. Not that
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Speaker 1: it's been easy at all. There's a lot of hard work.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of long days, long nights, sacrifice, you know,
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Speaker 1: not spending as much time with family, and just different things.
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Speaker 1: So it's not that it's come too easy, and that's
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Speaker 1: why I think like that, it's just like I really
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Speaker 1: sit and just look at things sometimes when I'm like,
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Speaker 1: there's no way, like this is crazy. And I don't
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Speaker 1: even just mean career opportunities and things that I'm getting
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Speaker 1: to experience. I mean like there are sometimes things with
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Speaker 1: like my family, like just you know, people will literally
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Speaker 1: ask me all the time, how's your mom, how's your grandmother?
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Speaker 1: Because I kind of document it well with my mom,
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Speaker 1: not with my grandmother, but with my mom. I was
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Speaker 1: documenting so much of her hell journey that there are
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Speaker 1: a lot of people that you know, because of that
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Speaker 1: feel connected to it, and I talk about it a lot,
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Speaker 1: and I talk about them a lot, but there are
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Speaker 1: sometimes where I sit with them and I'm just like, God,
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Speaker 1: there's no way, like you delivered us from so much,
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Speaker 1: Like they have been through so much that they have
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Speaker 1: had to continuously be very strong through, persevere through, and
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Speaker 1: have like a very like fighter mentality and spirit. Because
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Speaker 1: there were times where, like you know, especially when my
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Speaker 1: mom's going through a cancer journey, where I was just like, man,
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Speaker 1: I don't know what's about to happen, And now I
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Speaker 1: look back on those times, and I'm like, the way
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Speaker 1: that I look at my faith in God and what
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Speaker 1: he's able to do and what he's able to walk
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Speaker 1: me through is like so unmatched. And so when I'm
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Speaker 1: looking at opportunities and looking at different things that have
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Speaker 1: happened in my life and things that I've gotten through
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Speaker 1: and just how you know, I mean things, I'm even
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Speaker 1: scared to say it right now. That's why I keep saying,
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Speaker 1: like I want I'm trying to figure out if this
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Speaker 1: is trauma. I'm scared to say when I look at
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Speaker 1: how good things are right now, sometimes I'm just like
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Speaker 1: I'm scared to acknowledge it. I'm scared to talk about it,
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Speaker 1: get to lean into it because I don't want anything
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Speaker 1: to jeopardize it, like at all. So I just I
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Speaker 1: enjoy it and I live it like I experience it
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Speaker 1: in real life and I'm in it and I'm experiencing
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Speaker 1: the joy in real life, like I'm not running from that.
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Speaker 1: But like I don't even like talking about it sometimes
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Speaker 1: because I'm like, y'all, what if I'm gonna wake up
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Speaker 1: to myrow this is all gonna be different? Like I
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Speaker 1: am so used to fighting to survive that, Like, I
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Speaker 1: am really trying to like talk myself into being okay
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Speaker 1: with now living and not surviving. So when my pastor
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Speaker 1: said this today, not every opportunity to increase is God's
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Speaker 1: will for you, it really put me at ease a bit.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of decisions that I'm making, you know,
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Speaker 1: personally on a day to day where sometimes you feel like,
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Speaker 1: you know, if you walk away from something or if
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Speaker 1: you you know, not even just walk away, but if
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Speaker 1: certain things are not even presented to you because and
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Speaker 1: you feel like you should be getting them, that it's
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Speaker 1: going to change that trajectory that you're on. It's gonna
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Speaker 1: take away from that happiness or that life is good
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Speaker 1: feeling that you're on. And when he said that today,
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Speaker 1: I was like, that was God talking to me about
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Speaker 1: not making decisions and worry and fret and a scarcity.
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Speaker 1: You know, I fight or flight mole like I've always
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Speaker 1: been having to do, like especially career wise, but just
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Speaker 1: knowing and resting in what I feel and what my
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Speaker 1: gut is telling me to do and doing it and
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Speaker 1: being okay with it. So I really, you know, if
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Speaker 1: you guys are looking to go and hear that sermon
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Speaker 1: and hear some of it going over sees the Greatness
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Speaker 1: three or two sees the Greatness Church on YouTube and
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Speaker 1: take a list to the passage Jerome Lewis. The sermon
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Speaker 1: was Wednesday to Lie fifteenth. It was the personal development class.
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Speaker 1: I don't know I was that has been sitting on me,
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Speaker 1: so I wanted to share with you guys. And now
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Speaker 1: we can get on into the Latest because speaking of
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Speaker 1: making decisions, jay Z made a decision with that Yankee
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Speaker 1: Stadium show Sunday night, the last show, the Extra Inning show.
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Speaker 1: He decided to not start the show until as many
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Speaker 1: people as possible were able to get into the stadium.
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Speaker 1: After thousands of fans rushed the doors, a lot of
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Speaker 1: them without tickets, you know, people that just were there
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Speaker 1: trying to see the sights and got into the show
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Speaker 1: for free, but pushed the show back three to four hours.
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Speaker 1: We didn't leave that show until two thirty three am
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Speaker 1: in the morning. And there has been some conversations, I mean,
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Speaker 1: even here in the Latest with Lona Rosa. We've been
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Speaker 1: trying to figure out was jay Z going to be
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Speaker 1: fine for this because normally there's noise ordinances in the city,
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Speaker 1: so you know, like certain noises can't go past a
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Speaker 1: certain time, and that's why concerts and at a certain
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Speaker 1: time stadium, you know, events and at certain times, and
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Speaker 1: y'all know how that goes, like clubs shut down at
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Speaker 1: a certain time, especially because Yankee Stadium is in a
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Speaker 1: residential areas in the Bronx, like you walk across the street,
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Speaker 1: his houses, its people, you know. But I was actually
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Speaker 1: told officially by a rep for the Yankee Stadium that
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Speaker 1: there has been no agency that has reached out to
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Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium about any fines or penalties for the amount
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Speaker 1: of time that that show went over its original ending
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Speaker 1: time on Sunday, July twelfth, So we can put this
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Speaker 1: to rest. I've been seeing a lot of reporting around
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Speaker 1: like people honestly are just doing reports right now asking
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Speaker 1: the question, will he even be fine? I saw some
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Speaker 1: loose reporting that there was no fines earlier in the
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Speaker 1: week after the show happened. But now I can officially
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Speaker 1: tell you, guys, according to reps at Yankee Stadium, as
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Speaker 1: of right now, no, and probably won't happen now. I
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Speaker 1: did follow back up or circle back to that rep
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Speaker 1: that I was speaking to to asks why just to
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Speaker 1: you know, clarify what I'd been able to find just
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Speaker 1: in my research on Google, because according to Google, you know,
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Speaker 1: New York City doesn't set a hard legal stop time,
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Speaker 1: but outdoor events at the stadium Yankee Stadium are generally
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Speaker 1: expected to wrap up by or just before midnight. Now
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Speaker 1: mind you guys, Friday and Saturday night with jay Z's concerts,
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Speaker 1: he did that, so it's expected to wrap around or
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Speaker 1: before midnight out of courtesy to the surround the neighborhood. Because
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Speaker 1: I told y'all, like Yankee Stadium for those of you
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Speaker 1: guys who've never been here to New York or have
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Speaker 1: never been to Bronx, where Yankee Stadium is in a
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Speaker 1: solid stadium and where it sits tons of houses a
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Speaker 1: residential area around the stadium. However, there was an exception
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Speaker 1: obviously made for this concert. So what I'm trying to
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Speaker 1: get more information on is how that exception was communicated
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Speaker 1: to jay Z. We know that they were dealing with
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Speaker 1: deser Ray Perez, who is you know, one of the
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Speaker 1: lead CEOs of Rock Nation. I told you guys the story,
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Speaker 1: and go back and listen to a previous episode about
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Speaker 1: Deav's literally being outside on the ground and being the
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Speaker 1: person that was leading the charge a lot in working
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Speaker 1: with NYPD Brass, which is the Yankee Stadium's highest level
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Speaker 1: of security, to get everybody in as many people as
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Speaker 1: they could to keep everybody safe. So yeah, as of
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Speaker 1: right now, that that is the official report. There are
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Speaker 1: some reports too by Billboard right now that jay Z's
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Speaker 1: Reasonable Doubt and Blueprint albums have seen an immense increase
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Speaker 1: in streams following these shows, and I'm sure it's because
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Speaker 1: you know, everybody's listening to it getting ready. According to Lumine,
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Speaker 1: which is a portfolio that does a lot of the
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Speaker 1: like New Merrick data collection across music platforms, they're saying
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Speaker 1: that Reasonable Doubt, which was jay Z's debut album, it's
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Speaker 1: up ninety four percent, putting it at two point zero
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Speaker 1: seventy five million official streams over the first four days
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Speaker 1: of that weekend that he did so, from July tenth
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Speaker 1: to July thirteenth, the streams for a Reasonable Doubt jumped
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Speaker 1: ninety four percent. Now, according to Billboard and lumin It,
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Speaker 1: they're saying that this accounts for all three sold out
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Speaker 1: nights of jay z Yankee Stadium. And of course we
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Speaker 1: know that he dedicated. Each night did something different. So
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Speaker 1: the first night was dedicated to reasonable doubt, second night
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Speaker 1: was dedicated to the blueprint, the third night was extra
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Speaker 1: in it. So you got a little bit of both
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Speaker 1: and a little bit of things that had nothing to
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Speaker 1: do with either. Too. Now for the Blueprint, according to Luminant,
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Speaker 1: as reported by Billboard, they're saying that the week of
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Speaker 1: July tenth through thirteenth, or that weekend, which was jay
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Speaker 1: Z weekend here in New York, streams catapulted. They went crazy.
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Speaker 1: They went up one hundred and eighteen percent, So that
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Speaker 1: is over two point four million official streams in three days.
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Speaker 1: And my job, jay Z still has shows in Paris, London,
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Speaker 1: in LA So more music is going to go crazy.
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Speaker 1: There's gonna be a lot more news to come from
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Speaker 1: all of this, because I think the fact that Beyonce
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Speaker 1: dropped that Morning Dude Dunk song officially on July fourth,
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Speaker 1: and hit the stage with jay Z twice during this
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Speaker 1: past weekend in New York, and they're headed to Paris,
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Speaker 1: which is a very special place for them. They talk about,
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Speaker 1: you know, how Blue Ivy was conceived, and you know
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Speaker 1: all these things, right, I don't know. I think We're
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Speaker 1: about to see something with them, potentially, that's my prediction.
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Speaker 1: She's celebrating twenty five years of B Day, which was,
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Speaker 1: you know, one of her legacy albums. He's celebrating thirty
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Speaker 1: years of Reasonable Without, twenty five years of the Blue.
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Speaker 1: I think something to cooking, y'all. A cooking Who I
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Speaker 1: sound like a country aunt? A cooking ya. I am
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Speaker 1: exhausted by the day off, y'all cannot tell like I
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Speaker 1: literally barely have a voice. I have not yet to
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Speaker 1: even recover from the freaking Yankee Stadium shows. Okay, now
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Speaker 1: that has been another episode of the Latest with Lauren
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Speaker 1: the Rosa, the podcast. I wanted to just bring you
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Speaker 1: guys that quick update. Y'all know, I get y'all things
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Speaker 1: first because the Latest, the podcast, the Low Riders, y'all
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Speaker 1: are so important to me. Make sure I'm hearing from
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Speaker 1: you guys on a line. Okay, I'm Laura the Rosa.
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Speaker 1: Everywhere l O R E N l O R O
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Speaker 1: s A get outside in the streets, in the tweets
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Speaker 1: for the outside, we outside, we outside every other. I
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Speaker 1: saw a video going viral from Yankee Stadium of days
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Speaker 1: outside of the concert manning look man in the ground,
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Speaker 1: like I told y'all, but I also saw a lot
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Speaker 1: of on the ground reporters out there as well too,
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Speaker 1: reporting things, doing different interviews with people because everybody was
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Speaker 1: stuck outside. Celebrities, journalists, people just there for the concert.
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Speaker 1: Everybody was stuck outside. And I think that's why we're
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Speaker 1: getting so much content still. I mean, what we are
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Speaker 1: now almost two to three days out from the concert,
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Speaker 1: and still we're getting so much content from it. I
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Speaker 1: think that's why. Because you had a ton of people,
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Speaker 1: we had hours, we had time. I saw Gail King
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Speaker 1: talk about how late she was to work that day.
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Speaker 2: Thousands of fans had to wait for hours for the
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Speaker 2: show to start last night because people bum rushed the
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Speaker 2: door very bad, but the excitement stayed very high during
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Speaker 2: the delay. I de scided, you know, I would check
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Speaker 2: in with other concert goers to see what they were thinking.
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Speaker 2: Very close to midnight.
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Speaker 1: Why are we still here?
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Speaker 2: I have no idea.
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Speaker 1: I wish if I knew, I would tell you I
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Speaker 1: could off what I have.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Shemira, is this show gonna happen?
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Speaker 1: And he said, heaven they had? I had, man, We've
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Speaker 1: been waiting out here for hours.
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Speaker 2: We got the beautiful.
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Speaker 1: Surround on the audience, hoties, people in your hands, you
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Speaker 1: don't tasty.
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Speaker 2: Even just ready to go starting night and you say, what.
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Speaker 1: Right here, I've been waiting all day. It's gonna happen.
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Speaker 1: It's now eleven thirty eight.
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Speaker 2: Yes, okay, what are you thinking? I'm just saying this history.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got to look at it the positive everything, and.
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Speaker 2: This is history. This is so legendary. There's so much love.
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Speaker 1: Everybody want to come see this show?
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Speaker 2: This is the third night. Did you come back? I
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Speaker 2: seen you last night? Right, yes, I was here last night.
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Speaker 2: Energy last night. Yes, I got cooked on jay Z
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Speaker 2: because of will you know that song? Gave me that sweet,
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Speaker 2: that gooscy stuff. He was playing it at nine. I go,
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Speaker 2: what are you listening to? You can't listen to that?
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Speaker 2: Fast forward to me and Will Diamond's up give me that.
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Speaker 2: Me and Will side by side. Will knows every song
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Speaker 2: he said, go into the concert made him feel like
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Speaker 2: he was in middle school. Will is lovely wife, look
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Speaker 2: at that please? And Kirby's best friend Erica. Then Officer
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Speaker 2: Smith was someone who was escorting me around when we
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Speaker 2: were walking through the venue, and I said, I can't
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Speaker 2: believe that I'm still here. Either either were uh dedicated
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Speaker 2: or crazy, he goes, but maybe you're a little bit
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Speaker 2: of both. I think that's true. A lot of famous
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Speaker 2: people in the crowd yesterday that showed up because they
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Speaker 2: wanted to support jay Z. Look, there's Carl Anthony town
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Speaker 2: Tatum's partner, Camille, Okay.
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Speaker 1: That one.
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Speaker 2: There's Travis Travis Scott. It was but Pete were dragging
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Speaker 2: me or ragging on me saying Gail, no. Not everybody
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Speaker 2: had a good time. Some people left early, very few
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Speaker 2: people Alvin Patrick.
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Speaker 1: Talking to Alvin Patrick, who works here at CBS, got
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Speaker 1: very few people left early.
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Speaker 2: Most people stayed because you're thinking, you've invested all this time,
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Speaker 2: and you kept hearing he's coming, he's coming, He's coming.
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Speaker 2: What time did you did you say? I'm embarrassed to
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Speaker 2: tell you.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the ladyest y'all. I tell y'all every single episode,
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Speaker 1: y'all could be any where with anybody talking about all
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Speaker 1: of these things. But the fact that y'all choose to
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Speaker 1: be right here with me, my lowriders, y'all know, I
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Speaker 1: appreciate it. I'll catch you guys in my next episode.
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Speaker 1: I mighta get some rest. Finally, I'm gonna get some rest.
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Speaker 1: I'll be back tomorrow. We'll get into some other things.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate y'all.