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Professionally Outside ( Cardi B Sophmore album delayed, Diddy Trial update, Death of George Floyd Anniversary) · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
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Speaker 1: and everybody.
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Speaker 2: You know, if you don't lie about that, right, la.
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Speaker 1: Hey, y'all, it's Lauren Lo Rosa and this is the
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Speaker 1: Latest with Lauren le Rosa, your daily dig on all things.
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Speaker 2: Pop culture, breaking, trending, and exclusive news.
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Speaker 1: But y'all know, we get into the conversations that shake
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Speaker 1: the room.
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Speaker 2: Now, speaking of the room.
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Speaker 1: For those of you guys that have been following me
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Speaker 1: on social media, y'all know, I've spent on World Day
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Speaker 1: weekend in the Dominican Republic. Shout out to Memorial Day Getaway.
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Speaker 1: Be yet, men, I didn't even know what to expect.
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Speaker 1: This is my first time in the Dominican Republic, this
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Speaker 1: is my first time working with Memorial Day get Away.
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Speaker 1: They're a travel group and they celebrate HBCU and Black alumni.
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Speaker 1: So if you went to HBCU or if you're a
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Speaker 1: black alumni from a college, we get together, we have
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Speaker 1: a good time, and we just honestly just take a
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Speaker 1: break from life and work for the Memorial Day weekend.
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Speaker 1: And I tell y'all, we had a good time. Okay, Freddie,
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Speaker 1: did we have a good time? We had so much fun.
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Speaker 1: My two friends were here with me, and then Freddio,
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Speaker 1: who's also shooting the podcast here with Me today, was
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Speaker 1: here with me for the full weekend and it was
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Speaker 1: just a great weekend to like disconnect. I think what
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Speaker 1: I'm learning how to do more of is disconnect. This weekend,
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Speaker 1: I was kind of freaking out because I didn't really
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Speaker 1: know what was going on in the world, and one
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Speaker 1: of my friends was like, it's okay, and I was like,
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Speaker 1: let me just real quick, go on Twitter, see what's trending.
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Speaker 1: And I was like, I'm gonna get off. And then
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Speaker 1: I posted pictures in like a swimsuit, and I posted
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Speaker 1: pictures in a halter top.
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Speaker 2: And people like they ain't never seen natural boobies before.
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Speaker 1: Child. The people went crazy, Like I was getting text
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Speaker 1: about I shouldn't post photos and bikinis because of my career,
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Speaker 1: and I'm like, it's a swimsuit, it's a halter top.
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Speaker 1: My body is here. What am I supposed to do?
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Speaker 1: I can't help the fact that I'm in a hundred
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Speaker 1: degree weather and I don't want to be here in
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Speaker 1: a freaking cardigan.
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Speaker 2: But I didn't let that stop me. I didn't care.
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Speaker 2: We still had a good time.
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Speaker 1: I just thought it was kind of crazy to see
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Speaker 1: people reacting that way. But hey, I'll make sure you
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Speaker 1: guys check out my YouTube channel along the Roads of TV.
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Speaker 1: Some of the behind the scenes videos will be there.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do a wrap up blog once we're finished
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Speaker 1: shooting this podcast. So when we talk about the check in,
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Speaker 1: because we do a behind the scenes of the grind
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Speaker 1: check in here on the podcast, I would say, right.
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Speaker 2: Now, I am feeling rejuvenated pheel.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I physically am tired, and I can't wait
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Speaker 1: to just like sleep, But I feel rejuvenated already just
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Speaker 1: because I just got to do nothing but be a person,
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Speaker 1: be a girl in her thirties having a good time
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Speaker 1: and enjoying the fruits of my labor while making money
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Speaker 1: to do it and making money to be here. So
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Speaker 1: shout out to Memorial they get away and just me
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Speaker 1: and being an HBCU graduate has, when I say, it,
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Speaker 1: has opened up so many doors for me. I've been
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Speaker 1: able to make so much money being an alumni of
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Speaker 1: an HBCU. I've been able to meet so many amazing people,
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Speaker 1: work with so many amids and people. My heart is
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Speaker 1: just always so full when things come back full circle
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Speaker 1: because I always remember being told like, if you go
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Speaker 1: to a HBCU, you won't have a good career. I
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Speaker 1: don't know what happened to you after college. People don't
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Speaker 1: respect HBCU graduates and their degrees.
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Speaker 2: And now look at me.
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Speaker 1: I'm an HBCU grad who got to come to dr
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Speaker 1: and experiences with my friends. They have a good time
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Speaker 1: just because I'm black and I went to a black college,
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Speaker 1: and I understand, you know, just the blessing that is.
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Speaker 1: We had a really good time this weekend. I'm so
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Speaker 1: I don't know if y'a could feel it, but I'm
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Speaker 1: just so full of like, man, God is so good.
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Speaker 1: So that's how I'm feeling. That's my check in. But
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Speaker 1: y'all know, even in disconnecting, it's still kind of hard
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Speaker 1: for me to ever fully disconnect because I do get
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Speaker 1: news alert. So taking y'all into the latest. At the
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Speaker 1: top of the list, Cardi B. So, Cardi B announced
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Speaker 1: that she is pushing her album again, and when I
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Speaker 1: saw it, I'm like, at this point, it can't be her.
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Speaker 1: Like the Cardi B that we've grown to know and
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Speaker 1: love has such a work ethic and she puts out
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Speaker 1: such quality work. I mean her rollouts are normally like
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Speaker 1: super tight in planned right every day, from the photo
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Speaker 1: shoots to how we when she's popping out outside, how
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Speaker 1: she looks, where we see her, the visuals, everything that
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Speaker 1: goes with it.
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Speaker 2: So I'm like, well, what is the issue? Is it
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Speaker 2: her label? Is it?
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Speaker 1: Like?
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Speaker 2: What is happening?
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Speaker 1: Because at this point, I think it's added pressure on
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Speaker 1: herself to keep having to have the conversation about pushing
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Speaker 1: an album back. So for those of you guys who
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Speaker 1: do not know, rap star Cardi B was also you know,
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Speaker 1: television star as well too, but rap star Cardi B
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Speaker 1: has been supposed to deliver her sophomore album following her
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Speaker 1: first very successful album, Invasion of Privacy, for years now. Originally,
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Speaker 1: Cardi B's album was supposed to come out this Her
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Speaker 1: sophomore album was supposed to come out in twenty three,
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Speaker 1: and then it was pushed. Then it was supposed to
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Speaker 1: come out in twenty four, and then she finally made
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Speaker 1: an announcement toward the end of twenty four.
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Speaker 2: That like it would happen at the top of twenty five.
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Speaker 2: It is twenty five.
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Speaker 1: What more are we It's like March April it's may
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Speaker 1: because the more that he gets May this is not
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Speaker 1: even given top of twenty five anymore. And I think
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Speaker 1: at this point, as a fan of Cardi B, I'm
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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm still holding out for the music and
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Speaker 1: I still feel like the music is going to be good.
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Speaker 1: I just want her to like put it out and
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Speaker 1: do it and like stop the world, to kind of
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Speaker 1: shut people up. People give her so much shit, like
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Speaker 1: it's kind of unfortunate because I think the beauty of
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Speaker 1: Cardi B and what we've known to love from her
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Speaker 1: is her being able to just like be a regular person,
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Speaker 1: even though she's not a regular person anymore, but be
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Speaker 1: able to be honest about like, here's what's happening with
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Speaker 1: my album, Here's why it'start coming out. Originally she was honest.
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Speaker 1: She's like, I feel like things are missing. I'm nervous
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Speaker 1: about you know, is my sound right? If I'm coming,
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Speaker 1: I gotta come harder this time. It got like, I
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Speaker 1: gotta it has to make sense this time around because
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Speaker 1: they've been waiting so long, and that's pressure. I also
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Speaker 1: feel like there's an element with her a lot of
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Speaker 1: times now because of the pressure that she has on
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Speaker 1: her that she's not able to be her full self
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Speaker 1: in a sense of like a lot of what we've
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Speaker 1: seen her experience in her life since Invasion of Privacy,
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Speaker 1: she has to be so careful how she talks about
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Speaker 1: it because everything is news. Would Cardi be now when
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Speaker 1: Invasion of Privacy dropped? The whole narrative and concept around
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Speaker 1: that album. The reason why it was called Invasion of
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Speaker 1: Privacy be is because there was something beautiful happening at
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Speaker 1: that time Macarti b where we were watching her celebrity
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Speaker 1: in her star rise, and she in real time was
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Speaker 1: getting used to not having privacy and having to talk
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Speaker 1: about certain things and going through relationship things and revealing
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Speaker 1: the fact that she was expecting her first child and
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Speaker 1: trying to hide that and not being able to hide
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Speaker 1: that for us so long, right, and now it's a
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Speaker 1: point where like it's full blown, Like she's kids, in.
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Speaker 2: Divorces filed, she has a new boyfriend.
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Speaker 1: We've witnessed a lot publicly, her offset going back and forth,
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Speaker 1: you know, just her growing as a mother and as
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Speaker 1: a woman, and and a lot of it she gets
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Speaker 1: online and she talks about all the time. But I
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Speaker 1: think being able to throw all of that into one
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Speaker 1: body of work, picking and choosing what you're not gonna
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Speaker 1: talk about, because whatever you talk about becomes the story
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Speaker 1: that you now have to Cause Cardi B gonna one
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Speaker 1: thing she's gonna do. Cardi B Gonna get online. Okay,
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Speaker 1: she gonna get online. She gonna argue back and forth.
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Speaker 1: So picking and choosing is important because whatever she throws
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Speaker 1: out there, we invaded her space and she's given it
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Speaker 1: to us. The do you know what I mean, as
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Speaker 1: entertainers do. But I think what I'm saying is that
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Speaker 1: it's a different ball game once the star begins to rise,
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Speaker 1: once the people are, you know, cling to you and
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Speaker 1: your brand and your story and they want to know
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Speaker 1: more and they want to be your business. Me prior
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Speaker 1: to being in the role that I'm in now, I
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Speaker 1: would have been disappointed by Cardi Be coming back out
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Speaker 1: again and saying the album's not coming because of bundles.
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Speaker 1: And for those of you guys who don't understand why
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Speaker 1: bundles are important for artists, When you bundle things like
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Speaker 1: hard copies of the.
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Speaker 2: Album or vinyls or merch, it helps.
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Speaker 1: It can add to album selves, It can add to
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Speaker 1: your album salves and your units but also too, it's
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Speaker 1: a fan experience as well, Like you want. Beyonce does
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Speaker 1: it very well. She drops the merch, she has the visuals,
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Speaker 1: she has the vinyls. You want your fans to be
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Speaker 1: able to like do more than just listen to music.
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Speaker 1: The fan experience is so important, especially for artists at
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Speaker 1: Cardy B because again, like I mentioned, she's taking us
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Speaker 1: with her along this ride every step of the way.
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Speaker 1: So I get it. If the business ain't right, you
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Speaker 1: don't want to put it out. But as a fan
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Speaker 1: who didn't understand people being in your business and being
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Speaker 1: in your mess, I would have been very disappointed. I
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Speaker 1: wouldn't have been wanting to hear nothing about no bundle packages.
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Speaker 1: It's like, girl drop the album at this point?
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Speaker 2: Are you scared?
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Speaker 1: But me now and me now it is different because
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Speaker 1: I'm looking at it like, no, I get it.
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Speaker 2: She want things to be right, cause if not, she
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Speaker 2: gotta hear it from y'all.
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Speaker 1: It's no winning in that situation. A fan is gonna
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Speaker 1: be a fan, a hater gonna be a hater. Y'all
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Speaker 1: either gonna like it or y'all not. She gonna hear regardless, right.
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Speaker 1: But she's also gonna hear the great things about it too,
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Speaker 1: and the things that people love. You pick and choose
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Speaker 1: what you want to entertain, so you can't get around that.
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Speaker 1: But as a person putting out this artwork, she wants
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Speaker 1: to make sure everything is right. But hey, I mean,
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Speaker 1: thanks for the update, Cardi, but we want the music,
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Speaker 1: since we do. I really want the music because I
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Speaker 1: really want to, I pray, and I hope that she
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Speaker 1: actually explores a lot of what we've gotten to see
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Speaker 1: play out in the media because Cardi has always been
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Speaker 1: that and I really, you know, and being in this
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Speaker 1: new space, I understand the difficulty of of being able
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Speaker 1: to stay there and still have your peace of mind.
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Speaker 1: I do think that there's a balance, there's a way
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Speaker 1: that you can do it, and I'm very interested to
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Speaker 1: see on this sophomore album how Cardi does that, how
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Speaker 1: she still remains her relatable bear at all Take you
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Speaker 1: on My Journey with Me Cardi that we loved in
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Speaker 1: her first album, Invasion of Privacy, but like it's heightened
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Speaker 1: now Cardi b is a superstar at this point now,
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Speaker 1: so I'm interested in this kind of see how she
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean, finds that middle point. But
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Speaker 1: also in the latest y'all know, leaving tr and leaving
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Speaker 1: vacation means that I'm taking y'all back to court.
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Speaker 2: Let it take y'all. Diddy is back in court again
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Speaker 2: this week.
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Speaker 1: Leaving dr means we're going back into court with Puff
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Speaker 1: and this week is going to be an explosive week
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Speaker 1: in my opinion.
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Speaker 2: First up, Capricorn Clark will be the first.
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Speaker 1: Witness that is going to take the stan this week
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Speaker 1: in the Diddy trial.
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Speaker 2: So that'll be the day after Memorial Day.
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Speaker 1: And for those of you guys who do not know
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Speaker 1: who Capriclorn Clark is, she is a former personal assistant
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Speaker 1: of Diddy. Capricorn Clark is the is the woman who
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Speaker 1: kid Cutty testified called her from outside of his home
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Speaker 1: while she was in the car, allegedly with Ditty, saying hey,
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Speaker 1: there at your house. Capricorn Clark is the woman that
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Speaker 1: Cassie testified was almost kind of like a friend and
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Speaker 1: a confidant to her to a certain extent, and a
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Speaker 1: lot of what she was going through as she was
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Speaker 1: going through even though she worked for Ditty. We've heard
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Speaker 1: Capricorn Clark's name so much almost every day at this
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Speaker 1: point in this case, I believe her testimony and what
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Speaker 1: will come out of her testimony is going to be revealed.
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Speaker 1: The prosecution has been like laying things out, and it's
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Speaker 1: been very like subtle and very slowly that they've been
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Speaker 1: laying things out. But the more that I'm in court
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Speaker 1: and I'm watching how they go about this, I'm seeing that, like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: they might question one witness about something over here and
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Speaker 1: really not close the loop, so you're like, why did
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Speaker 1: they bring that up? And then they bring another witness
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Speaker 1: who kind of closes that loop a bit, and now
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Speaker 1: you're hearing it from multiple people, so it kind of
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Speaker 1: verifies it on the prosecutor side, right, I think Capricorn
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Speaker 1: Clark for the prosecution is going to be that she
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Speaker 1: experienced and worked with Diddy through so many different things. Allegedly,
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Speaker 1: she's going to be able to tie up a lot
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Speaker 1: and put a bow on a lot of things from
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Speaker 1: the you know everything with Kikuddie, you know, the hotel
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Speaker 1: setups versus not the escorts, because she, you know what
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Speaker 1: I mean, she was involved in so much stuff. This
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Speaker 1: is gonna be a huge witness for the prosecution. But
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Speaker 1: I'm always interested to see how the defence handles witnesses
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Speaker 1: like this because this witness, Capricorn Clark, is obviously not
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Speaker 1: coming to because there was another witness on the sand,
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Speaker 1: George Kaplan, another previous personal assistant of Ditty's, who made
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Speaker 1: it very clear, I still love Ditty. I still think
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Speaker 1: that there's a great person inside of there. He just
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Speaker 1: has to mess up things. This is a complicated relationship
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Speaker 1: that me and him had because as much as I
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Speaker 1: feel like that, I couldn't stand beside him and watch
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Speaker 1: him physically abuse Cassie and some of the other things
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Speaker 1: that this assistant claimed. He also brought up Capricorn Clark
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Speaker 1: as well too, because he worked so closely with her.
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Speaker 1: But that witness made it clear too that he didn't
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Speaker 1: want to be there.
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Speaker 2: He was subpoena. He didn't have a choice.
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Speaker 1: I believe a witness like caprilcorn Clark, even if she
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Speaker 1: doesn't want to be there, it's going to have to
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Speaker 1: draw a really hard line in the sand because if not,
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Speaker 1: and when I say that, I mean, you're either here
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Speaker 1: to tell it all and kind of stake your claim
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Speaker 1: of what you believe. Do you believe by your testimony?
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Speaker 1: By her testimony, we will understand whether she believes did
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Speaker 1: he deserves to be in jail? Did he deserves to
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Speaker 1: be locked up for the things that he's allegedly done,
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Speaker 1: or not. It'll be very clear by how her testimony
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Speaker 1: is angled from the prosecution, how she handles Diddy's team,
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Speaker 1: and you know, everything they bring back around her way
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Speaker 1: because she was involved in a lot and what they've
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Speaker 1: been doing, what Diddy's legal team has been doing with
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Speaker 1: people who have been involved in a lot of this stuff,
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Speaker 1: they've been leaning heavily in on. But you're not in
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Speaker 1: this in either, and it's kind of been to their
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Speaker 1: detriment with some people. I will say, is it was
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Speaker 1: to their detriment with Cassie only because the physical violence
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Speaker 1: that we've seen from Diddy, It's like, you don't get
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Speaker 1: that out of your mind, So the two don't match up.
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Speaker 2: So I'm just interested to see kind of how.
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Speaker 1: This is going to play out, you know, with the
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Speaker 1: defense and the prosecutor's ping ponging, you know, with this witness.
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Speaker 2: Would I definitely would say that Cap Clark is another
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Speaker 2: star witness. So I'll be bringing you.
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Speaker 1: Guys update on what her testimony was, and you know,
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Speaker 1: just my opinion on it.
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Speaker 2: But also this weekend too. It's Memorial Day weekend.
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Speaker 1: I you know, just even being here, I'm like, man,
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Speaker 1: this is a different life for Diddy. Memorial Day weekends
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Speaker 1: used to mean yachts and you know what I mean,
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Speaker 1: the sexy clothes and the Sarrak and the Delhion and
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And y'all remember the videos
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Speaker 1: that he would post from the boats Delion owned by
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Speaker 1: black Man, and you know all of those things. This day,
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Speaker 1: not this Memorial Day weekend, he is behind bars. There
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Speaker 1: was a story that came out. There was a report
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Speaker 1: that came out that talked about what his weekend, Memorial
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Speaker 1: Day weekend would look like behind bars and mentioned him
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Speaker 1: being able to have barbecue chicken, play spades, play dominoes,
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Speaker 1: you know, with other people in the yard. I doubt
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Speaker 1: he's out just enjoying his time while there. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I don't know that for certain, but it got a
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Speaker 1: lot on his mind right now. I wouldn't be shocked
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Speaker 1: if he wasn't just there trying to enjoy himself. It's
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Speaker 1: not you know what I mean, But it's just very
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Speaker 1: different life. And one thing I will say too, I
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Speaker 1: always think about the kids in this situation because they
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Speaker 1: didn't make the decisions for their dad, whether he did
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Speaker 1: these things that are alleged to him or he did not.
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Speaker 1: They did not make the decision to do any of
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Speaker 1: these things. But they're having to suffer as well. Dad
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Speaker 1: not at graduation. Seems like the men in the family,
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Speaker 1: you know, justin Christian and Quincy, his sons did he
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Speaker 1: sons have stepped up, and you know that's a natural
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Speaker 1: thing because they're older in the family and they're the
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Speaker 1: god the boys and the family. But they're just thinking
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Speaker 1: about how unfortunate it is that now you have these
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Speaker 1: kids who have to deal with all of this. It's
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Speaker 1: ther graduation weekend and people are recapping your father being,
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Speaker 1: you know, called a allegedly a sex trafficker and you know,
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Speaker 1: an abuser and like all of these things allegedly. Right,
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Speaker 1: But we back in court this week, y'all, so I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna keep y'all updated.
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Speaker 2: Taking it to the.
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Speaker 1: Streets outside we outside, we outside, okay, really quick, before
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Speaker 1: we get out of here, I do want to acknowledge that,
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Speaker 1: you know, with it being on More Day weekend, we
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Speaker 1: are now five years since George Floyd passed away. George
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Speaker 1: Floyd is trending right now, as he should be. And
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Speaker 1: one of the things I thought about was, I remember
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Speaker 1: the actual moment when everything happened and George Floyd's video
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Speaker 1: and viral, and you know just how it felt and
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Speaker 1: what the shift was like in the world for that moment,
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Speaker 1: at least what it felt like.
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Speaker 2: And I reposted this article. I believe it was from NBC.
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Speaker 1: It was either NBC or New York Times, but I
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Speaker 1: reposted this article where the outlet was having a conversation
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Speaker 1: of and this is the conversation I've been seeing online.
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Speaker 1: Do we really progress from George Floyd? Like where are
16:39
Speaker 1: we now five years later? Felt like in the moment
16:43
Speaker 1: when George Floyd passed away, there was a lot of
16:46
Speaker 1: like hold on, let me check myself from people all
16:50
Speaker 1: over the world, no matter what color, anything right, People
16:53
Speaker 1: wanted to be educated on like race and racism and
16:57
Speaker 1: all of these things, and people were, you know, very
17:01
Speaker 1: considerate of each other, and you know, like that was
17:04
Speaker 1: just a regard for human life.
17:05
Speaker 2: It wasn't about the color of your skin.
17:06
Speaker 1: It was just the fact that you're a human with
17:09
Speaker 1: a family and people you're supposed to go home to,
17:11
Speaker 1: and you know, George Floyd.
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Speaker 2: Had a daughter right today.
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Speaker 1: I don't know it just it feels like a lot
17:17
Speaker 1: of that space and working and for me as a
17:19
Speaker 1: black woman working in this media space and not even
17:23
Speaker 1: like outside of my job, just being a black woman
17:25
Speaker 1: navigating life every single day and trying to figure things out.
17:28
Speaker 1: If I'm being honest, I feel like that who the
17:30
Speaker 1: moment when everything happened with George Floyd, you know, these
17:34
Speaker 1: five years ago to where we are right now, it
17:37
Speaker 1: does feel like for me as speaking for myself as
17:40
Speaker 1: a black woman, what happened with George Floyd and what
17:43
Speaker 1: the world had to watch on camera, that was a
17:45
Speaker 1: reality for me before the world had to watch it
17:48
Speaker 1: on camera. So it was something that as sad as
17:51
Speaker 1: this is gonna sound, I was conditioned to understand, to
17:56
Speaker 1: try and know how to prevent happening to myself or
17:59
Speaker 1: people I love from the time that I was born.
18:02
Speaker 1: And then the world caught wind of it and it
18:04
Speaker 1: was like, my god, this happens, this is a thing.
18:05
Speaker 2: Let us help.
18:06
Speaker 1: We want to figure out how we can help you guys,
18:08
Speaker 1: as in black people, make sure this isn't happening, because
18:11
Speaker 1: this isn't okay, and it was like, yeah, dud, this
18:13
Speaker 1: isn't okay. And now I feel like we're back at
18:16
Speaker 1: the point where it's like, well, I mean, you guys
18:19
Speaker 1: can figure it out.
18:20
Speaker 2: Every man for.
18:20
Speaker 1: Themselves, Like it just doesn't feel like that, Hey, we
18:24
Speaker 1: want to be allies. It doesn't feel like that anymore.
18:27
Speaker 1: And I'm not disappointed by it. And the reason why
18:30
Speaker 1: I'm not disappointed by it is because I'm not shocked.
18:33
Speaker 2: Like, if you're not a person who has had.
18:35
Speaker 1: To experience certain things or live certain ways or whatever,
18:38
Speaker 1: You're never gonna really understand it. So it the privilege
18:43
Speaker 1: of not being afraid that what happened to a man
18:46
Speaker 1: like George Floyd can happen to you is really a privilege.
18:50
Speaker 1: And I think I realized a long time ago that
18:52
Speaker 1: privilege provides a certain opportunity for people to pick up
18:57
Speaker 1: and put down certain things. So when it was trendy,
19:00
Speaker 1: when it was a conversation to have, when being a
19:03
Speaker 1: good person and just caring about a human was like
19:06
Speaker 1: the march on the world, did it when it became
19:10
Speaker 1: not trendy, when the headlines didn't get the clicks anymore.
19:13
Speaker 1: I mean, there are still some good people out there
19:14
Speaker 1: who have hopefully learned from what they saw on that video.
19:17
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that, but I don't know. It just
19:19
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like the world it is moving in that
19:21
Speaker 1: way anymore. And I want to say that I'm disappointed,
19:24
Speaker 1: but I'm not because it's it's just the world that
19:26
Speaker 1: we live in. It's it's the world I've been living
19:27
Speaker 1: in all thirty three years in my life. So I
19:29
Speaker 1: say this to say anybody out there that is feeling like, Okay,
19:33
Speaker 1: it's five years later, and what else has happened? Like
19:37
Speaker 1: what have we done? Where have we gotten? Don't be discouraged.
19:40
Speaker 1: Do not be discouraged. We've been living in this space
19:43
Speaker 1: for a very long time and prevailing and being able
19:46
Speaker 1: to change things and being able to grow things. And
19:49
Speaker 1: I think as generations come we'll be able to do that.
19:52
Speaker 2: We will.
19:53
Speaker 1: It's gonna take some time, and it's gonna take us
19:55
Speaker 1: understanding that there is this very loud privilege out there
19:58
Speaker 1: that we don't have. But we can't let that stop us.
20:01
Speaker 1: We gotta let go of that, we can't let that
20:03
Speaker 1: stop us. We gotta keep you know what I mean,
20:05
Speaker 1: And shout out to people who have like still been
20:07
Speaker 1: ten toes down and all these things, like people like
20:09
Speaker 1: Tamika d. Mallory and you know, Angela Rye, Like they
20:13
Speaker 1: got loud when things happened, but they've been loud every
20:16
Speaker 1: day since, not just when the black squares were posted.
20:19
Speaker 1: So shout out to those women. And there are so
20:21
Speaker 1: many more people like those are just too top of mind.
20:24
Speaker 1: You know, people that I follow closely and that you know,
20:26
Speaker 1: I've actually gotten to meet and learned to love, and
20:29
Speaker 1: you know, had the privilege to be like guided by
20:31
Speaker 1: a bit. So yeah, I just wanted to end with that, like,
20:33
Speaker 1: you know, just put that in the world of Like
20:36
Speaker 1: they're having a lot of conversation online right now.
20:38
Speaker 2: About what's not happening since George Floyd.
20:41
Speaker 1: But I say, if you see what's not happening, figure
20:44
Speaker 1: out a way, you know, within your own space, to
20:47
Speaker 1: make it happen or to support people who are making
20:49
Speaker 1: it happen, Like we was giving money to these different
20:52
Speaker 1: criminal justice organizations and doing so many different things. When
20:55
Speaker 1: you know everything happened with George Floyd in the beginning,
20:58
Speaker 1: you can still do that.
20:59
Speaker 2: You you can take.
21:00
Speaker 1: Your own moment and make your own moment in time,
21:02
Speaker 1: not just be a moment.
21:03
Speaker 2: So let's do it.
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Speaker 1: That is my challenge to you guys as we sit
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Speaker 1: here five years later after the tragic killing of George Floyd.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be a moment, but that starts
21:13
Speaker 1: with you and you choosing to not just make it
21:15
Speaker 1: a moment.
21:16
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21:27
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21:29
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21:31
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21:34
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21:37
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21:40
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