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Living, Not Just Surviving: A Life Lesson From Philly to Clive Davis · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: The Joys.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
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  Speaker 2: and everybody.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if you don't lie about that, right, Hang y'all,
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  Speaker 1: what's up.
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  Speaker 2: It's Lauren Rosa and this is another episode of the Latest.
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  Speaker 2: To Laura Rosa, this is your daily table on all
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  Speaker 2: things pop culture, entertainment, news, and all of the conversations that.
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  Speaker 1: Shake the room. Baby. So we always.
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  Speaker 2: Kicked the episode off checking in behind the scenes of
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  Speaker 2: the Grind, and I am really so excited to do
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  Speaker 2: so on today's episode because I'm coming off of an
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  Speaker 2: amazing Father's Day weekend. I'm coming off of an amazing
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  Speaker 2: just weekend full of like family, love, all the things
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  Speaker 2: we did Sister struck in Philadelphia this weekend. Shout out
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  Speaker 2: to the team at Power ninety nine w d A
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  Speaker 2: s I just it was. It was just an amazing,
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  Speaker 2: amazing experience. So Frankie Darcel, she you know, heads up,
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  Speaker 2: she is one of the jocks at w das legendary
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  Speaker 2: on the radio.
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  Speaker 1: Mic Okay, I.
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  Speaker 2: Got to be alongside her and Mimi Brown, Lorraine Violert, Morrell,
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  Speaker 2: Patty Jackson, Cappuccino from Para Ninia nine, Roxy Romeo from
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  Speaker 2: Power Nineion nine Johanni from UH one O six' one
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  Speaker 2: Doc B who I grew up listening to on the
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  Speaker 2: radio and wants and sneak it into his parties in DC.
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  Speaker 1: Who is you know, the program director down there for the.
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  Speaker 2: Philly stations, And like, first of all, let me just
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  Speaker 2: take some time to show them love here on the
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  Speaker 2: podcast because it felt like family.
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  Speaker 1: D C was so welcoming. He made sure I had
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  Speaker 1: everything I needed. His team.
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  Speaker 2: Shout out to you know, Stacey who works alongside him.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm saying these names like y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Know these people.
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  Speaker 2: But you guys, if you've ever, you know, listened to
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  Speaker 2: any radio while in Philadelphia, I'm sure that you've listened
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  Speaker 2: to some of these voices, these legendary voices that I'm mentioning.
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  Speaker 2: But we did something called Sisters Struck LA. It's a
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  Speaker 2: three K walk in support of breast cancer that raises
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  Speaker 2: money for breast cancer research. And it was my first
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  Speaker 2: time doing anything like that. Y'all know, I talk so
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  Speaker 2: much about my mom's cancer journey and although she's not
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  Speaker 2: a breast cancer survivor, she is a survivor of brain
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  Speaker 2: and lung cancer. And when I tell you it was
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  Speaker 2: just so nice to be around other people who you know,
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  Speaker 2: were walking in remembrance of people who fought a good fight,
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  Speaker 2: who actually fought the fight themselves and one are currently
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  Speaker 2: going through it and it be.
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  Speaker 1: A positive take on cancer.
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  Speaker 2: I remember when my mom first got diagnosed, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: even want to tell people, and I hated telling people
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  Speaker 2: what was happening because the minute that people hear cancer, they.
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  Speaker 1: Literally react as if your life is over.
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  Speaker 2: Like people will react to me as if my mom
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  Speaker 2: was like not here anymore, and I'm like, my mom
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  Speaker 2: is very much alive, fighting and God got her. And
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  Speaker 2: it it's because cancer is like such a it's like
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  Speaker 2: such a thing that we don't understand a lot of
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  Speaker 2: and you know, there's no cure, it's just all the
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  Speaker 2: things that go with it.
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  Speaker 1: But it was so powerful to just.
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  Speaker 2: Be in a community full of people who were positively
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  Speaker 2: fighting through their journey, their journeys, positively remembering people. Just
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  Speaker 2: it was just so positive, Like it was so like
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  Speaker 2: we're taking life literally, like we're taking control and taking
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  Speaker 2: back our lives.
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  Speaker 1: Like that was the feeling of the morning.
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  Speaker 2: We started really early in Philadelphia Afinity Live and uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Lincoln Financial Field, which is actually where the
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  Speaker 2: the Eagles play for those of you guys who are
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  Speaker 2: not familiar but with Philadelphia, but that's where the Eagles play.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, it was a great It was just I
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  Speaker 1: can't put it into words.
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  Speaker 2: No better than saying that it was an amazing and
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  Speaker 2: positive experience and to be honest with y'all. So I
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  Speaker 2: got a hotel room in Philly Friday night to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that I was there. I was up on time
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  Speaker 2: Saturday morning because we had to be there so early.
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  Speaker 2: And my mom loves going to Philly. She loves walking
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  Speaker 2: the Rocky steps and you know over there by like
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  Speaker 2: the Philadelphia Brotherly Love Sign that is infamous as well. This,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the whole conversation is very Philly cold. If
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  Speaker 2: you've never been in Philly, you probably don't know what
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 1: But basically, there are.
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  Speaker 2: Certain areas in Philly that my mom just loves going
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  Speaker 2: to and walking. And it was a great you know weekend.
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  Speaker 2: The weather was amazing, so she was like, I want
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  Speaker 2: to go. So I'm thinking she's gonna come. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we'll do a little, you know, are walking around a bit,
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  Speaker 2: spend time together in the hotel. She'll sleep while I'm
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  Speaker 2: up having to be at this, you know, walk by
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  Speaker 2: like what like eight o'clock in the morning, I come back.
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  Speaker 2: We'll grab food, get to do a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: in Philly before we leave. My eye had a birthday
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  Speaker 2: party this weekend. She turned ninety. My grandmother's assistan her
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  Speaker 2: Happy birthday to my aunt Liz. And it wasn't even that.
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  Speaker 2: My mom woke up that day and was like, I'm
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  Speaker 2: coming with you. And I was like, Mom, the walk
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  Speaker 2: might be too much because she can't do a lot
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  Speaker 2: of walking, you know, ever since you know, coming up
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  Speaker 2: out of everything, but she's still mobile able and doing
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  Speaker 2: all of the things. And she reminded me like, girl,
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  Speaker 2: I am, I'm coming. So we went to the walk.
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  Speaker 2: They actually had like a fitness workout for like the
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  Speaker 2: first hour and a half, and it was so great
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  Speaker 2: to just be up early getting my body moving. My
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  Speaker 2: boyfriend's mom also came as well too, and his cousin
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  Speaker 2: came as well, so we were all there together.
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  Speaker 1: My cousin came as well. It was just a really great.
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  Speaker 2: Community fellowship moment in the name of cancer research and
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  Speaker 2: all of the things. But it felt good to be
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  Speaker 2: like taking care of ourselves, like we were exercising, we
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  Speaker 2: were up early with walking. It's like positive energy, so
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  Speaker 2: we're on ourselves up with that. So yeah, so make
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  Speaker 2: sure you guys go and support and follow Sister strut
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  Speaker 2: s I S T A S T R U T.
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  Speaker 1: They do these walks in various locations.
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  Speaker 2: The Philadelphia one is legendary though, Like people were literally
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  Speaker 2: seeing my T shirt after we left and it was like,
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  Speaker 2: oh my god, how did I miss the walk?
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  Speaker 1: I go every year? Yes, and so shout out to them.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm coming off of that high and that great
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  Speaker 2: positive experience.
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  Speaker 1: And kind of just be very uh appreciative of life.
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, being in those types of situations
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  Speaker 2: and meeting you know, cancer survivors and people that are
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  Speaker 2: figuring it out, and you know, hearing from families and
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  Speaker 2: people that did not figure it out, it makes you
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  Speaker 2: really appreciate life. And then news broke today that Clive Davis,
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  Speaker 2: legendary music executive and you know, icon known for a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the music acts that he brought to the
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  Speaker 2: world and his infamous amy parties, passed away at age
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  Speaker 2: ninety four. If you're not familiar with Clive Davis, he
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  Speaker 2: is responsible for Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Kelly Clarkson, he
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  Speaker 2: found It Bad Boy with Diddy, Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson
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  Speaker 2: not I mean, we know Jennifer Hudson from coming through
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  Speaker 2: the American Idol train. But Clap Davis did a lot
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  Speaker 2: in her career as well. I saw a post that
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  Speaker 2: she put up in remembrance of him today. But it
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  Speaker 2: was announced that he passed away at his home in
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  Speaker 2: New York today, Monday, June twenty second, twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, so there's a ton of in memory
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  Speaker 2: of him happening right now.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: No cause of death has been revealed at this time,
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  Speaker 2: but Clive Davis was recently hospitalized. And that's like what
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  Speaker 2: I mean by you know when I say like you're
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  Speaker 2: reflecting on life and appreciating life and just having gratitude
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  Speaker 2: about things things happen so fat So.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, he was ninety four years old.
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  Speaker 2: He lived an amazing life, was still very you know,
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  Speaker 2: as president as he could be, with showing up to
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  Speaker 2: different industry events and trying to host his events. But
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  Speaker 2: he was just in the hospital over a Memorial Day
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  Speaker 2: weekend that was a few weeks ago, a little bit
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  Speaker 2: almost about a month ago and around the beginning of
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  Speaker 2: this month, around the beginning of June. I think it
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  Speaker 2: was like June fourth or fifth, he was released from
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  Speaker 2: the hospital. Now, when he went to the hospital earlier
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  Speaker 2: this month, a rep four Clive David said that he
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  Speaker 2: was battling a upper respiratory infection. But they said that
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  Speaker 2: he was fine, he was in good spirits, that he
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  Speaker 2: would just be released. You know, within the twenty four
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  Speaker 2: to forty eight hours that he had been taken to
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  Speaker 2: the hospital, that they just took him to the hospital
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  Speaker 2: honestly at the time, just as like a protocol thing.
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  Speaker 2: And here we are a few weeks later talking about
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  Speaker 2: his passing and talking about him and memorandum. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: just if I didn't learn anything from being at that
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  Speaker 2: walk over the weekend, it's like, you literally have to.
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  Speaker 1: Live your life to the fullest.
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  Speaker 2: And that sound so cliche when people say it, But
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  Speaker 2: when I think about Clive Davis, when I heard about
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  Speaker 2: his passing today, I literally was like God ust his soul.
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  Speaker 2: But I thought about the full life that he lived,
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  Speaker 2: the labels he worked at and helped to establish and
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  Speaker 2: put on the map, the careers that he helped to
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  Speaker 2: establish and put on the map the experiences in life,
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  Speaker 2: because he, you know, was not a person just like
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  Speaker 2: let life happen to him.
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  Speaker 1: He made life happen.
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  Speaker 2: All of those things are things that I thought about
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  Speaker 2: when I heard about his passing. And I think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: for all of us, we should, you know, always just
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  Speaker 2: try our best to live and not just survive. And
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm coming up out of that now where
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm not always feeling like I have to
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  Speaker 2: be in survival mode. I am working very hard right
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  Speaker 2: now at this time in my you know, career. You
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  Speaker 2: guys can't hear it in my voice that I barely
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  Speaker 2: have coming out of the weekend that I had. I'm
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  Speaker 2: working very hard right now, for sure, But I have,
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  Speaker 2: you know, been very intentional about Yes, I'm working very hard.
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  Speaker 2: Brown Girl grinding is the moniker, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: But Brown Girl also we gonna live too. We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: enjoy the things that we have.
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  Speaker 1: Worked very hard for.
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  Speaker 2: So I hope that all of you guys are doing
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  Speaker 2: that as well. Again, I think you know the sister
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  Speaker 2: shut the organization that I mentioned, even if you don't
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  Speaker 2: know anyone that is battling any type of cancer has
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  Speaker 2: or you know whatever. And at this point, I feel
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  Speaker 2: like cancer has been so rampant in people's families it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of almost hard to believe that people don't still
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  Speaker 2: a great organization to support because community is everything. I'm
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  Speaker 2: looking at people literally just speak out in remembrance of
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  Speaker 2: Clive Davis, and I'm thinking about community in the way
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  Speaker 2: that you impact people and influence people while you're here
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  Speaker 2: and what in turn, you know that does for people
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  Speaker 2: as they get out and try to learn and survive
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  Speaker 2: and not just not just.
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  Speaker 1: Survive, but actually live. And I think we all should
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  Speaker 1: be thinking about that.
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  Speaker 2: So there's you know, I'm a little reflective in this episode.
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  Speaker 2: I think anytime you with family and you know kind
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  Speaker 2: of you know, doing all the things and in the
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  Speaker 2: community that that is, that's what that's what comes with it.
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  Speaker 1: But I think it's okay to reflect sometimes. I'm learning
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  Speaker 1: how to do that.
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  Speaker 2: We check in behind the scenes at the beginning of
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  Speaker 2: this episode because I literally have to teach myself to
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  Speaker 2: sit still and reflect and remember and check in.
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  Speaker 1: So make sure you guys are doing that too. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Laura La Rosa.
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  Speaker 2: This has been another episode of the Latest with Laura
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  Speaker 2: l Rosa. I'll tell you guys every single episode how
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  Speaker 2: much I appreciate y'all. But if we are reflecting, I'm
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  Speaker 2: thinking about the first week, the first month of this podcast,
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  Speaker 2: when we were new and growing, and we as we
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  Speaker 2: still grow, and as we still newly take up space
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  Speaker 2: guys how much I appreciate you guys, because I think
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  Speaker 2: is a renowned, you know, radio icon in the Philadelphia area.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things that I took from just hearing
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  Speaker 2: her voice in a way it touched me was how
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  Speaker 2: important it is whenever we crackt these mics to make
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  Speaker 2: sure there's things that we were talking about are things
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  Speaker 2: worth you know, being talked about. So yeah, non, Laura
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  Speaker 2: my Rosa, this has been another episode. I hope you
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