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Outside Again: Music, Empowerment & Brooklyn with Maiya The Don · Teach Me Something Hosted By DJ Prostyle & Penny Dellas

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  Speaker 1: Hey, what's up?
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  Speaker 2: This is DJ Pro Style.
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  Speaker 1: And this is Penny Delos.
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  Speaker 2: And this is Teach Me Something.
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  Speaker 1: Brought to you by Berklee College.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, guess what? We
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  Speaker 2: are back, baby. We are back. It is Teach Me
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  Speaker 2: Something presented by Berklee College. I am Pro Style.
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  Speaker 1: I am Penny Delos.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing, Penny?
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing great. You know, look at the white kids
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  Speaker 1: with tans.
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  Speaker 2: They're I just came back from the Dominican Republic, so
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  Speaker 2: I'm a little, you know, I'm still in the red phase.
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  Speaker 1: That's beautiful. I have done a summer tour with the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: I know. I've seen you.
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  Speaker 1: I just finished it off where you were not.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't there.
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  Speaker 1: You were on a boat.
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  Speaker 2: I was at the Dominican Republic. I was on a boat.
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  Speaker 1: You were doing emergency situations. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You have to go to my Instagram to see what
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  Speaker 2: she's talking about.
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  Speaker 1: You guys got to go to the social media and
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  Speaker 1: check it out.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, we have a guest here that's looking at
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  Speaker 2: us talk about our cans. We do.
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  Speaker 1: I'm 10 all year, baby.
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  Speaker 2: Are we going to introduce Maya the Don or what
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  Speaker 2: are we doing?
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  Speaker 3: Let's introduce her, the one and only Maya the Don,
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  Speaker 3: 2024 XXL freshman class in the building.
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  Speaker 1: Hello.
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  Speaker 2: And Maya's like family because I've seen Maya at all
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  Speaker 2: our events for Power. Everything we do for Power, for iHeart,
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  Speaker 2: she's at all the events, so I love it. You
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  Speaker 2: know what I mean? She's like family.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we cousins.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Maya, I don't know. She came in here with snacks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So honestly, the listeners like to know what we're eating.
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  Speaker 1: Maya had some chips earlier. Yeah, I had some chips.
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  Speaker 1: I had a turkey and cheese on a roll.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, the chips you had, those are the
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  Speaker 2: ones I go to all the time also. Those are
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  Speaker 2: my go-to chips.
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  Speaker 1: Those was yummy. I needed that for a second. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, my stomach was touching my back.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I needed to revive myself real quick.
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  Speaker 2: Shout out to Quick Check. I'm going to say that
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  Speaker 2: because every time I stop there, I always get those.
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  Speaker 1: Really? Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Those are the ones. I like the hot chocolate. The
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  Speaker 2: kids get the Funyuns. I get those.
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  Speaker 1: I like their hot chocolates.
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  Speaker 2: Hot chocolate?
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  Speaker 1: For life. They're hot chocolates.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I've only gone on a quick check for gas and
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  Speaker 2: sandwiches and chips. Nope.
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  Speaker 1: Got to do the hot chocolate. Look at us giving
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  Speaker 1: free promo. Anyways.
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  Speaker 2: Shout out to the quick check.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out to the quick check to the iHeartRadio partners.
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  Speaker 1: Quick check. They're the bomb.com. If you're in Jersey, stop
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  Speaker 1: by there.
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  Speaker 2: So Maya was asking, you know, about the podcast. It's
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  Speaker 2: obviously called Teach Me Something. Yes. And I said, you know,
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  Speaker 2: so Maya, you know, it's about you teaching us stuff. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's about learning stuff. So we like to
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  Speaker 2: start with like multiplication questions. We'll go to little The
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  Speaker 2: vision after that. You know what I mean? We're going
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  Speaker 2: to ask you some questions.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really good at math. I'm like, no, this is
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  Speaker 1: right on my ass.
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  Speaker 3: The studio is the classroom.
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  Speaker 1: The whiteboard's about to come down. I'm like, oh, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Let me ask you.
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  Speaker 2: This is a funny question because I see this on
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  Speaker 2: social media all the time since you're good at math. Okay?
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  Speaker 2: And I ask my kids this all the time. We'll
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  Speaker 2: ask Penny, too.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: What is 2 plus 2 times 2? What is the answer? Quickly. 8. 8.
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  Speaker 2: She says 8. What do you say?
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  Speaker 1: 2 plus 2 times 2?
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  Speaker 2: No. 2 plus 2 times 2.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I would say 8, too.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, both of you guys are wrong. This is amazing.
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  Speaker 2: So let me teach you guys something because the rule.
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  Speaker 1: Of mathematics is... No, you just paused. You said 2
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  Speaker 1: plus 2.
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  Speaker 2: You paused. No, 2 plus 2 times 2.
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  Speaker 1: No, you said 2 plus 2 times 2. You paused. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so what's... So 4 times 2 is 8.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So.
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  Speaker 2: Let me say it again. Two plus two times two.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess if you were going to go,
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  Speaker 1: because you have to do the multiplication first.
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  Speaker 2: First.
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  Speaker 1: And then add two. The answer is six.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Penny's going to take this
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  Speaker 2: out anyway.
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  Speaker 1: For those that are listening to us at home, when
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  Speaker 1: you hear the pause.
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  Speaker 2: That is one of those questions.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to clip this and post it on social.
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  Speaker 2: You should have wrote it. No. Okay, Liam.
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  Speaker 1: Liam's holding up his phone saying he's right.
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  Speaker 2: Two times two.
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  Speaker 1: Can I see that?
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  Speaker 2: If I put this up, what's the answer? She would
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  Speaker 2: have still said eight.
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  Speaker 1: No, Alex, it's the way that you pause in between.
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  Speaker 1: So how would you read this? Because you have to
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  Speaker 1: do the two times two first. Yes, but you're seeing
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  Speaker 1: it there. Really, the correct math question would have parentheses
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  Speaker 1: in there. Let me tell you how that's supposed to be. Okay. Okay. No, no.
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  Speaker 2: No, get out of here with that.
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  Speaker 1: This is how it's supposed to be. Two plus two
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  Speaker 1: is four. Times two.
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  Speaker 2: I'm probably the only one here who went to college.
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  Speaker 2: That's what it is.
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  Speaker 1: I have three degrees.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just playing with you.
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  Speaker 1: It's eight. I was like, wait.
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  Speaker 2: Hold on. Okay, let's talk about these degrees.
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  Speaker 3: For those of you that are at home, we are
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  Speaker 3: drawing this on paper and holding them up.
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  Speaker 1: So you got to go to those socials.
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  Speaker 2: You know why I asked that question, by the way?
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  Speaker 2: I did that the other day because it came up
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  Speaker 2: on social media.
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  Speaker 1: What did the kids say?
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  Speaker 2: They all said, everyone said eight.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: But it was... The guy was asking the question.
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  Speaker 1: I am not smarter than a fifth grader is what
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  Speaker 1: you're saying. Yeah, yeah, basically.
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  Speaker 2: I just wanted her to get it wrong and she did.
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  Speaker 2: So I was hoping you were going to get it right.
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  Speaker 1: It's the way that he paused. We still stuck on
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  Speaker 1: that pause. We're going to be ending the podcast like,
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  Speaker 1: but you know you shouldn't have paused that way.
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  Speaker 3: But what's not a pause is the phenomenal collaboration that
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  Speaker 3: you've done with Brooklyn FC.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Let's talk about it. How did that come about? Um,
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  Speaker 1: they like hit me up and it was like, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you want to come to a game? I was like, sure.
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  Speaker 1: I love women's sports. I love just, yeah. Like women's
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  Speaker 1: basketball is my thing, but I love women in sports.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very adamant about women playing sports better than men.
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  Speaker 1: I'll argue anybody down about that. Um, so I like to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, go and attend the games and support women.
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  Speaker 1: And so I went to the game and then they
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  Speaker 1: brought me the opportunity and it was great. I think also, um,
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  Speaker 1: I did the song for the Liberty song. their walkout
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  Speaker 1: song as well. Let's talk about it. What are the
• 5:11
  Speaker 1: names of the songs? That song is called Frenzy, the remix.
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  Speaker 1: So that was really fun. I worked with them the
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  Speaker 1: year they won the championship. So I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: say it was me, but it was probably me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe like 15% of it. I should
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  Speaker 1: have got a ring, but. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They should give you a ring. They should give you
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  Speaker 2: a ring for sure.
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  Speaker 1: They should give you a ring. That was a really
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  Speaker 1: fun experience. Yeah, I'm really excited about the BKFC thing
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  Speaker 1: because it's like, I'm from Brooklyn. Yeah. It's the Brooklyn team.
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  Speaker 1: It's women in sports. They're really good. Yeah. And, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: What was the process of doing Outside Again? Oh, it
• 5:48
  Speaker 1: was a long process. You have to make sure, like,
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: when you're writing songs for things, It can't be just like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: this is what I want to say. It's like for
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  Speaker 1: this one thing. You have to incorporate. Right. And I
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  Speaker 1: can't always cuss or like I can't always, you know,
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  Speaker 1: say certain things that, you know. So it's kind of strict.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's a line you got to tell. But
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  Speaker 1: it was really, really fun. Like I was in a studio.
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  Speaker 1: I worked for two days just coming up with ideas.
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  Speaker 1: I had some other girls come, like the players.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I had them do some backgrounds for me. It
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: was really fun. That's awesome. They were like... fish out
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  Speaker 1: of water they was like I don't know so it
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  Speaker 1: was like nice to like coach them on something.
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  Speaker 2: But it had to be fun yes it was because.
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  Speaker 1: When I went to the game and I like hung
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  Speaker 1: out with them a little bit and I like raced
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  Speaker 1: them like me racing a soccer player like okay girl
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  Speaker 1: I won though I did win um but it's like
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that and then so it was nice to
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: kind of like have them come and I was like
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  Speaker 1: yeah we're on my turf now so Ooga booga. Ooga booga.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I love Maya's energy. That's fire.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was great. No, it's a good time for sports. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: For female sports.
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  Speaker 2: Especially New York.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're just coming out of the World Cup.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: They're promoting already the Women's World Cup, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's going to be in Brazil. So it's a good time.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And you're very much about female empowerment, body positivity. What
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  Speaker 3: does that mean to you?
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  Speaker 1: I think just... Being a woman and, you know, being
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  Speaker 1: like a public figure or whatever you want to call it,
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  Speaker 1: it's easy to be critiqued for that just because I
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  Speaker 1: am a girl. And our autonomy is our superpower. And
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  Speaker 1: I think having complete control of that and your confidence
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  Speaker 1: and like what you do with that and how you
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  Speaker 1: weaponize that. is a big part of navigating whatever field
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  Speaker 1: you're in, but specifically my own. So I just try
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  Speaker 1: to put out what I want to receive. I want
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  Speaker 1: people to support me because I'm good, not because of
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  Speaker 1: girl power or anything like that. And so I'm just
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  Speaker 1: really adamant about doing it for women because every time
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  Speaker 1: you turn around, there's always somebody trying to humble you,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's a man. For those of you listening at home,
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  Speaker 1: the look she just gave pro-style.
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  Speaker 2: The look I got.
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  Speaker 1: But like, there's always a man trying to humble you. Like,
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  Speaker 1: you know? Girl, what did you do before this interview?
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  Speaker 2: It's definitely not me. It's always somebody.
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  Speaker 1: Even other women trying to humble other women.
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  Speaker 2: This has to do with the question I asked earlier
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  Speaker 2: with the multiplication. This is only because two plus two
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  Speaker 2: times two is not eight.
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  Speaker 1: It was because of that dang question. See, he tried
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  Speaker 1: to humble you with your mask.
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  Speaker 2: You see that?
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  Speaker 1: You see that? Oh, he tries to humble me every week.
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  Speaker 1: I'm cracking up. But, yeah, so that I think it's
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  Speaker 1: important to me to kind of just lead and do
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  Speaker 1: what I want to see. And, you know, it's easy
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  Speaker 1: for me. It comes natural, you know. I love that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so glad. I hope you do that, too.
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  Speaker 3: It's all about aspiring to inspire.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Being the better version of ourselves and empowering those around us.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: And we talk about that. It's a common theme here
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  Speaker 3: on the pod. Everyone comes up and they all say
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  Speaker 3: that their network, right, is their net worth, a version
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  Speaker 3: of that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And it's really about finding your tribe. Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: I think networking and community is going to be your
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  Speaker 1: most valuable currency.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: For sure. Especially in media.
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  Speaker 2: I would say that your networking is great, too, because
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  Speaker 2: like I said, I feel like all our events and
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  Speaker 2: all the station events and everything... on the music side,
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  Speaker 2: you're always involved in. I try to. And that's important
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  Speaker 2: because there's a lot of people who try, like sitting
• 9:37
  Speaker 2: on the other side of the table on the programming side,
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  Speaker 2: I get the phone calls from everybody who wants to
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  Speaker 2: get involved. And unfortunately, sometimes you can't. We don't have
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  Speaker 2: space or whatever, but you're always there, which is awesome.
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  Speaker 1: I try. I really appreciate the DJs. These guys break
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  Speaker 1: records and I exist.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. But it's based on your relationships.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I nurture those relationships because they mean something
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  Speaker 1: to me. you know what I'm saying like you support
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  Speaker 1: me play my song I'll come to wherever you want
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  Speaker 1: I go to birthday parties I go to sweet 16's
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  Speaker 1: for the kids like I do it all because that's
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  Speaker 1: currency that's like valuable to me so when I'm ready
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  Speaker 1: to drop a project and I'm like hey I need
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  Speaker 1: some help hey remember that party I did two years
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  Speaker 1: ago but it's not even like a tip or tat
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  Speaker 1: thing it's just like I know that I'm a show
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  Speaker 1: for you it's a love thing it's a support thing exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely and on the music side obviously you were named
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  Speaker 2: in the 2024 XXL freshman class since then you know
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  Speaker 2: what's been going well first of all how was that
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's a big honor right there when you
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  Speaker 2: got that That announcement, they told you that was happening.
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  Speaker 2: How did that come across? How'd that feel?
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  Speaker 1: It was really fun. I just got the phone call
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  Speaker 1: and they was like, hey, you got in. We're going
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: to do the shoot this week. I was like, what?
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  Speaker 1: And I couldn't tell nobody. It was like a secret.
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  Speaker 1: So I was like, that's probably the one time I've
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  Speaker 1: ever kept a secret. Because I can't water. I can't.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a Pisces.
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  Speaker 2: You couldn't wait, right? You were like, I can't wait
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  Speaker 2: to tell everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Yo, literally, people were like, you deserve this. I hope
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  Speaker 1: you get it. And I was like, what?
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  Speaker 2: Knowing that you got it already.
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: Knowing that I got it. Like you already knew. It
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: was so silly. But that was really fun. Like, shout
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  Speaker 1: out Vanessa, man. Like my whole XXL family. They're so
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  Speaker 1: sweet and they really helped me a lot. And that's
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: like hip hop history, you know?
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  Speaker 2: That's fire.
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  Speaker 1: Someone 10 years when they looking at the, you know,
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  Speaker 1: back at the classes, I'm going to be there. My
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  Speaker 1: big head right in the front.
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  Speaker 2: So what got you? So what got you into music?
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  Speaker 1: Um, music's in me. I love music. I'm from New York.
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  Speaker 1: Like this is where hip hop was birthed. So it's like,
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: I couldn't walk out my house without hearing music, you know,
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: like somebody on the corner playing in and somebody in
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: a car and they loud, loud Honda Civic driving. You
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: get on the bus, somebody put a speaker out loud.
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: Somebody on a bike. Yeah, there's the scary men who
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: walk with the speaker attached to their book bag, like
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  Speaker 1: crazy people, and just play their music out loud like
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  Speaker 1: headphones don't exist.
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  Speaker 2: There's still a lot of people like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yo, why they do that? Like headphones. You don't need them?
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  Speaker 2: Even just now, we were talking about I was in
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  Speaker 2: Dominican Republic. So I'm at a pool, right? We're at
• 12:05
  Speaker 2: the pool in Punta Cana, right? So there's a DJ
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  Speaker 2: playing music. Right. And there's still a guy.
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  Speaker 1: With his own.
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  Speaker 2: There's music being played and there's another guy.
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  Speaker 1: And as a DJ, did you feel like the disrespect?
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  Speaker 2: No, I just remind myself that I'm grateful and blessed
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: that that's just not me. Yeah. I'm not that guy. Yeah.
• 12:23
  Speaker 2: Like walking around blasting my own music really loud.
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: It's crazy, but then also like while somebody's just taking
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: the time to find their own joy and like give
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: themselves joy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's like kind of cool. It's like insane, but I
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  Speaker 1: respect it.
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  Speaker 2: There's a little craziness in it. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, they're just finding joy.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. You know, sometimes I'd be needing to
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: play my song too. Like, girl. I got to just
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: calm down for a second.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. He had a little crazy tone. We're not going
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: to get into that story, but you could just tell.
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: There's something else going on. But shout out to those people.
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: Tell me after.
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: But yeah, that's great. So listen, so obviously we were
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: all born in New York, right? And we all kind
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: of grew up around music and fell in love with
• 13:04
  Speaker 2: it and all that. But at what point did you
• 13:06
  Speaker 2: realize that it's something you could actually do?
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: Um, probably not until I got older, like right before
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: I started actually rapping. Um, I used to always write
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: music when I was young. I wanted to be a singer,
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: but my grandma told me I couldn't sing. So I
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: was like, all right, I'll go to college. Right. I
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: think my grandma was just honest. She was like, girl, stop.
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: Don't know why you wanna hear that all day. I
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: was like, you know what? All right. Like, okay. Um,
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: but then like, yeah, I, I think. I was, I
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: was in school. I had met my manager. And he
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: was like, yo, you should like take this serious. And
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: I think I always say that it just took for
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: him to believe in me, for me to be like, yes,
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: like I can do this actually, you know. I don't
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: think I had felt safe enough to dream so big
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: at the time, you know. But by then I was like,
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: I mean, what do I have to lose? Like I'm
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: almost done with school, so whatever. If it don't work out,
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: I got my degree. I'm going to go figure it out.
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: And then it worked out. So it was really, really cool. Yeah,
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: it's my favorite thing ever. I'm like, wow. So I
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: always say all it takes is for somebody to tell
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: you you can. And that's it. Even if it's yourself
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: that you got to tell yourself you can do this
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: and just believe in that. That belief will take you
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: anywhere you want to go.
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: 100%.
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: Affirmations. Yeah. Every day. Literally. Literally.
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: So you mentioned, you know, if it didn't work out,
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: you had your degrees. And earlier when we were joking
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: around with the mathematical questions I was dropping on you guys,
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: you did mention that you have three degrees.
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I have two associates, like regular stuff. But then
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: I have... Don't do that.
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: Don't brush that off. You have two associate degrees. She's like, yeah,
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: just a little.
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: No, that's a huge accomplishment. Thank you. In what, may
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: I ask? I'm putting my profesora hat on. Okay. The
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: first one I got because I had enough credits. Out
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: of high school. So it's like the regular arts associates.
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: And then I went in business. And I have a
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: bachelor's in clinical and abnormal psych.
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: In what?
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: Clinical and abnormal psych.
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: Okay. Okay.
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: Evaluate pro. I'll wait.
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: It's going to take a second.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: Don't put me on the spot. It's been years. Those
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: are my favorite classes that I took. Really? In college. Psychology.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: Really? Yeah.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: I agree. Abnormal psychology. Phenomenal. I took my first. It's
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: all based on psychology. I took my first psych class
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: in high school, like my college psych class. And that's
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: why I decided to major in that. I was going
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: to major in like music distro or some shit like that.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: Something like that. But I loved my first psych class
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: and I was like, this is what I want to
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: do because I just love the brain. And I like
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: I'm so like. why did you do that? I always
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: want to get to the bottom of something, you know? Like,
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: why did you do that? What made you do that?
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: The inquisitiveness and then the assessment. Exactly. Like, I love,
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: I'm like, mapping it out. Yeah, I'm so diagnostic with it.
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: So you should grab one of those people who walk
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: around playing music.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: No, literally.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: What is it that... Why do you do this?
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: No, but that's what I was saying. Like, I got
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: to understand why you do that.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: How does it make you feel? Like, what is it that.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but there's so much power in music. I think
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: that's what it is. Like, sometimes people just need something
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: to ground them.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: Some of the answers, I'm sure, would be shocking. Yeah.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Sometimes maybe it's... Some people need the sound, the quietness or...
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: made they're not comfortable with that they need to be
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: surrounded you know to block out other sounds you know
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: things like that.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: Like it's you know people it's so much psychology in
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: music it's very psychological like when i want to clean
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: and get things done i put on like music in
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: fast speed like so like anything that's gonna make you
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: anxious so you like i'll be like edm no like
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: you know i'm like the cartoons yeah yeah where something's
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: they're moving really fast like that I'll put that on
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: and my headphones. It really makes you move faster. I
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: swear to God.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: She's looking at me like I'm nuts, but.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: I swear it works.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: So even when you're shopping, everything is based on focus
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: group psychology.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: From where everything is placed on shelves to the ambience,
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: the lighting, the music that is played.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Everything is meant to drive you for sales.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: As a DJ, I can tell you that's 100%. Even restaurants.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: Restaurants. You know it's dark in there because they want
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: to make you sleepy so you hurry up and get out.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: In the gym, for instance, you're not going into a
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: gym and playing. You're not doing slow music. You're not
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: in the gym doing cardio. It's some laid back kind of...
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: It sets the tone for the mood for what you're
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: trying to do, for sure.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Maybe something like in park. Whatever. Exactly. Some Megan. Yes.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Some Aya.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Don't get me started. I love it. So what's next?
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: What is on your vision board? A big fat Grammy.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: There you go. Okay. That's on my vision board. I
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: love that. I just got an Emmy. You want to
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: see it? You have it with you?
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just got it sent to me.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: What you got it for?
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: I feel like I like Penny.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Yep. I think you like Penny. He's making a joke.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: It's a dad joke. I'm cracking up. He swears he's hilarious. What?
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: It looks like an Emmy, right? No, I can't touch it.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: I can't touch it. No, you can, yeah. No, I
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: don't want to. Why? Because. No, you can.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Bad luck or something?
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: No, it's not bad luck. I just. I know.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: It is so nice. You already broke your bracelet. Now
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: you're trying to break my Emmy?
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: It's nice, right? I received that.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: I was saying this how I stretch in the mornings.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Wow, look at you. It's not an Emmy, though, by
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: the way. No, it's our version.
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: It's the Communicator Award of Excellence for the Teach Me
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Something podcast.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Look at that.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Pretty awesome.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: The box is fancy. Here I am like, wow, you
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: really got an Emmy? I pulled it out of the box.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: I said, that's not no damn Emmy, but it's nice.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: It looks like an Emmy, doesn't it? I was like...
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: It's our version. I didn't want to rain on your parade.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: That's funny. I'm taking all this time to put this away.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: All right, guys. He just wanted the flakes. He's like,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: you want to see it? I'll show it to you
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: right now. He was trying to aura farm. He just
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: wanted to show people he got an award.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Look. No, I did that anyway.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I got an award.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: We did that already.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: We did that already.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: This was for motivation, all right?
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Yes. No, you did that for aura.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: This is hopefully leading into your Grammy.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Yes. Yeah. Manifestation. Yeah, I really want a Grammy. I
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: feel like I deserve it.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: If you ask me. I don't know. What's your top reason?
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Because my precious cargo, my project, my precious cargo, my project,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: precious cargo, is so Grammy worthy. It's so good. I
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: just dropped it. And it's incredible. I don't know. That's it.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: That's all I can say. I'm really proud of it.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Well, talk about it a little bit. What could the
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: people who haven't heard it yet expect?
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Um, Precious Cargo is like a coming of age story.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: It's about from the time I dropped my first project
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: to like now, like kind of what's been going on.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: I'm really honest. I'm really vulnerable. Um, and I kind
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: of bear it all. I have complete creative control. It's very, um, traditional.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: I want to say it's also regional. So bare bones
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: hip hop, if that's what you're into. Um, and this
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: is something I'm really proud of. You know, I worked
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: really hard. on it and it's like my baby like
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: I gave birth but I'm really I'm really excited about
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: it I think there's a song for everybody on there
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: I talk about my mom I talk about my journey
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: in the gym. I talk about how I like to read.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I talk about, you know, school. Like, I talk about everything,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: you know? I diss a couple people.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: You diss a couple people?
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: You have a diss track? Yeah. I got a diss
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: track to my mom. This is the most, wow.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: This is a couple people, one of them being her mom.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: My mom, my dad.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: They're getting whooped on there.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to lie. Oh, wow.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Both parents. Combo. Yeah, they getting whooped.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: For those of you listening and not watching, the glow
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: that she had on her face talking about this diss
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: track to her parents.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Very proud of that.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Yes, I'm very proud. I think it's such a great song. Yeah,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: I think it's great. I think I'm saying a lot
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: of things for people who can't. I think I serve
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: as a proxy for others who aren't able to be
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: so passionate about their feelings towards music. their mom or
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: their dad or their best friend or whatever the case
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: may be and I take it very seriously I don't
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: take it for granted so um I'm just using my
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: art to you know do that be a proxy and
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: of course it's my own story but I think I
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: represent so many women like me and I'm really excited
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: about it and I love it and everybody else seems
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: to really love it and yeah Your level of awareness
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: is extremely admirable. Thank you.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: And resonating with your audience is something that you really
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: have to be aware of, of what your target segmentations are.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: For sure. So the fact that you.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: Know your audience, you know what they're going to resonate with,
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: and you have that comfortability to reach them through your craft,
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: that's powerful.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I am my audience. I know that
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: I am a reflection of who listens to me, you know?
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: So if.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: I'm going around and I'm seeing things that don't mean nothing.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to mean nothing to nobody, you know?
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: So there's going to be a little piece of me
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: in every girl, you know, whether it's the fact that
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: I wear my hair braids or the fact that I'm
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: from Brooklyn, the fact that I'm Afro-Latina, the fact that
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I like to read, I went to school. Like there's
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: so many interesting things of me that I can put
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: into my music and that's going to reflect on who listens.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: So a girl going to hear and be like, girl, hey,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: my mom too, turn it up.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm talking about?
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Girl, I like to read this book too.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Turn it up.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Or they're going to say, hey, you know what? I
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: play soccer. Turn this song on. And it's going to
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: be great. So that's always my goal is to connect
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: with my audience because who am I without them? You know? Facts.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: That's beautiful.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: That is all of us.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: How do we become part of this book club? Oh
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: my gosh. I should have bought you a book, Mar.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: How do we integrate ourselves into this book club?
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: I read. Okay. Yes, I'm actually reading the first 90 days.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: I read it every time I start a new project. Really?
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Look at that. It was a gift.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: Shout out to Man City. The head of marketing gifted
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: it to me when I started my new job.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Do you only do, like, self-help?
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: No.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Okay. What do you like to read? Stephen King is
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: one of my favorite authors. Okay. Yeah. Okay, I never
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: read anything about him. Fantasy. Okay.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: How about you? What do you like to read? Yeah.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Tell us some of your favorite books.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't... Like The Shining, all that.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: I can't.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: I don't do nothing scary. The scariest I get... Girl,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: it's good because you can just close the book if
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: it's too scary, you know?
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Then the thoughts are stuck in your head.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Exactly. And now I can't sleep. No, you leave it
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: with the book. You just leave it. You put it there. No,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: not me.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: The team smiling in the background, they know.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: You just set it aside. I'll read until I fall asleep.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: And I read a lot of like urban romance or
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: urban fiction. Oh, interesting. Girl, I'll fall asleep and... I
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: be in a shootout and then I wake up and
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: gotta pee. Girl, I'm telling you. I just told myself, like,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: no more reading before bed. I gotta stop 25 minutes
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: before bed because... I just read a thriller. It was
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: like a whodunit thriller. Oh, those are fun. Right? The
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: ones that you could read from back to front or
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: front to back. Yeah, it was so good. Oh my God.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: I was literally dreaming that it was me who did it.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: I thought I was going to go to jail. I
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: woke up in a cold sweat like, no, don't take
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: me to prison. And I was like, oh wait, I'm
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: in my bed, so it's good.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: No.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: I love your energy. I can't do a word. We're
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: hanging out with Maya.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: For sure.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the fine print, I started it because I was like,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: another thing with my audience, I was like being very
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: vigilant about the types of things that I was posting
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: and seeing on the internet because I want to be
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: intentional about the audience that I'm curating. And I don't
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: want to just be, you know, saying all types of
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: stuff that maybe six years later won't represent who I am.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: I'm not the same person I was 15 minutes ago.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: So I don't want to say something in a year.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: I'm like, why did you do that? You know, we're
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: constantly evolving. Exactly. So I was like, you know, something
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: I will talk about on the Internet or posts or
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: whatever is going to be about these books that I
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: really enjoy. Yeah. And it was just about.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: I think reading in general is such a good thing
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: to push.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: It's a great habit. You were reading a script before
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: we started. You read every day.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, just in general, I think more people
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: need to get into it.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: It needs to be out there in front of you.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Yes. We are in a severe literacy crisis.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: And I love the fact for the younger audience and
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: the younger youth and the people coming up that you're
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: pushing that.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Right. No, it's important.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: When I came up, it wasn't getting pushed.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Like school and things like that when I was young
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: in music and in hip hop weren't something that was
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: being pushed.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: You know, so the fact that it's being pushed now
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: is amazing.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, it's something I'm really passionate about, especially like
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: as someone who went to school and like. You know,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: I just love to read. It's great entertainment. I stopped
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: watching TV. So I was like, I need something to do,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: you know?
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: So I wanted to, you know, build my audience and
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: also platform these authors. Black women specifically are being published
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: at a far less rate than their counterparts. And I
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: don't think it's fair. And I'm like, well, I have
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: this big platform. The least I can do is that,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: you know, because we have to support each other. This
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: is how you, you know. You want to see black
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: women and Afro-Latina and women in stores, in any positioning, right?
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: That's in any form of entertainment. So you want to
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: see them writing movies and acting in movies, in fashion
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: and media, like anything, like we have to put them there.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: So if I want to walk into a Barnes &
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Noble and see, you know, a Jacquel Jay or a
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Casey Mills in the store, then I have to talk
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: about them so that, you know, the publisher who follows
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: me can be like, oh, I never heard about this girl.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Let me go look into her. And the next thing
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: you know, she got a book in store. You know
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying? So, like, that was really important to
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  Speaker 1: me as well. So I started to just talk about it. And, girl,
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  Speaker 1: it's a whole new world. Just like Arielle said. It
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  Speaker 1: is beautiful. It's amazing. And I love them. And I
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  Speaker 1: love all the authors. And they inspire me so, so much. I, like,
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  Speaker 1: read a lot. So, like, these books be so good.
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  Speaker 1: I want to pull my hair out. I be like...
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  Speaker 1: and then it would be like you ever see yourself
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  Speaker 1: writing a book heck yeah oh heck yeah you should
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  Speaker 1: get into it I told myself I was gonna go
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  Speaker 1: and take a creative writing course in school so I
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  Speaker 1: could like be good at it because I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to put no I don't want to put out no
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  Speaker 1: dud you know what I'm saying I'm trying to put
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  Speaker 1: out a New York Times bestseller Oprah's List Reese Witherspoon
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  Speaker 1: book club okay talk about it fine print book club
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  Speaker 1: approved that's what I need that's what I'm working on
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  Speaker 1: now actually I want to figure out how I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: get To Reese Witherspoon. You know how she got the
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: stamp on the book? Yes. I need my stamp. Who
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  Speaker 1: going to be fine print approved? Like, who did that?
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  Speaker 1: Somebody got to let me know who was talking to
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  Speaker 1: Reese and them and Oprah. Two-year research. Find their people. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, I need to find the people who did that.
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  Speaker 1: Because my book club got a lot of members. We
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of members. I have 3,000 members online
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 2: That's great.
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  Speaker 1: Like, active people who are reading the book and we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about books all the time. So, I think that's
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  Speaker 1: a pretty big deal. I don't know. And I just
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  Speaker 1: started it, so.
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  Speaker 2: It's only going to grow.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Reese, call me, girl.
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  Speaker 2: How do people get on it for the people listening
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  Speaker 2: right now?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you can follow her on Instagram at fineprint.collective. And
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: then all the information is up on the page. So
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  Speaker 1: as soon as you go and find it. I need
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: to get a website, too, for the people who don't
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  Speaker 1: got the.
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  Speaker 2: Social media, like the IGs.
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  Speaker 1: The people who think they're cooler than us because they
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  Speaker 1: don't got Instagram. I'm not. I hate those people. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not on IG.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay, whatever, girl.
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  Speaker 1: Like, move. This is the 21st century, girl. Get on it.
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  Speaker 2: But you also have older people who may want to
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  Speaker 2: be involved.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you, I got.
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  Speaker 2: Who don't want to be in social media.
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  Speaker 1: I got a 63-year-old girl in my book club. She
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  Speaker 1: got every type of social media app there is, okay?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, we know. We talk about this.
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  Speaker 1: We know.
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  Speaker 2: Our mothers are all over it.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: My great-grandmother is 76, and she liked to gossip. She
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: always called me, like, girl, guess who won the Olympic?
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  Speaker 1: I'd be like, girl, stop.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's the news for them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, social media hurts. She loves Facebook. Like, I totally stopped.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. My mom still watches the Primera Impacto, but,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to remember, our parents are the ones who kept, like,
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  Speaker 2: newspapers and.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Those kind of things live. No, my granddad, he'd be
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: reading the paper.
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  Speaker 2: They're the ones who, now, all those things are gone.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: So social media is the platform.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. My great-granddad still reads the paper. I'm like, yo,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: your eyes are shot. Like, you can't see that. I
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: know you can't see that. Why are you pretending like
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: you can't? That and wrestling. He keeping them in business.
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  Speaker 3: It was definitely a difference when I switched from tangible
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: newspapers and my subscriptions to then digital.
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  Speaker 1: It's different. Dang, I should get that. I'm like, I
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: don't want to know the news, please. I'm scared. I'm like,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: I told the line between being hypervigilant and like, don't
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  Speaker 1: even tell me, you know? Like, ignorance is blaze. Sometimes
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: you need a break.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. That's why I go into my book world.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: You get over-consumed.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: I literally, that's why you go in the book world.
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  Speaker 1: There's no news in my book. And then it's misinformation.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of different things going on with that.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: Everyone's saying a different story. Depends who you're listening to.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: All different vantage points and perspectives. But you know who
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: don't got that? Kennedy Ryan. I don't got a vote
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: in Kennedy Ryan's book.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: It's not even a real place. And that's what I like. No,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: don't do that, guys.
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  Speaker 3: I love the imagination.
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  Speaker 2: What?
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: The imagination soaring. You're so creative. Yes.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: And so artistic.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, I love watching a movie. I love this. And
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: then I blink and then it's just words on my Kindle. Yeah.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Why are you looking at me like that? You're just
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: so bubbly.
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  Speaker 2: I love it. But that's what being a good reader is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's what Toni Morrison said. Like,
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  Speaker 1: when you can see it, you're reading. Or when you
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: don't know what you're reading, then you're reading. That's what
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: she said. You know, she said if you read some
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: of her nonfiction stuff, she talks about why she writes
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  Speaker 1: the way she does. I don't know if you've ever
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: read a Toni Morrison book, but I can only read
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: three pages at a time. Toni Morrison makes me feel
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: like I'm dyslexic. Like, I don't know what's going on.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: I'd be like, in the beginning, what? I go, hey, girl,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about. I don't know
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: what she be talking about. It takes me 15 minutes
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: to read one page by Soni Morrison. But she said
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: that's reading. And she talks about in her nonfiction that
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: she writes that way to force people to be proactive
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: and to, you know, engage.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Figure the words out and stuff like that.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Oh, she like misspells words and things like that?
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no. It's just written so incredibly.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I got it.
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  Speaker 1: It's so good.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: Do you have a, like, I always have like a
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: notepad on the side to write down words and things
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  Speaker 3: and highlight. And then go back and I look at, stop, bro.
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  Speaker 1: No, you have to. With Toni Morrison, you have to.
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  Speaker 1: I promise you, like, I don't care how smart you
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  Speaker 1: think you are. Toni Morrison going to have you stumped
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  Speaker 1: by eight words in. I'm telling you. You're going to
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: be like, what is she talking about? You know what
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: I mean? What does this paragraph mean? But that's what
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: reading is. Listen, we look forward to having you back
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  Speaker 1: with your book.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: When I start writing.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to be on my sister's ideas.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: I'm going to start DMing you once a month and
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: be like, what's the progress?
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Savannah, slow down.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: You ain't hear me say I just dropped the project, girl.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Wait a minute. No, not yet. I got to wait,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: I got to wait, I got to wait. Not yet,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: but it's coming soon. When I take my creative writing course,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: that's when I'll call you, profesora.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: I'm glad that you're doing it right, though. That's how
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: you know she really wants to do it the right way.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't do anything.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Instead of just randomly saying, I'm going to do it
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: just to do it.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no. I would do it just to do it,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: but I have some integrity. But I would do it
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: for the money. You're wrong. Hey, publishers, if you're listening.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: I'll get the writing tomorrow. I'll get better in time.
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  Speaker 2: We'll figure this out together.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: In true Teach Me Something fashion, if you could describe
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: your legacy in one word, what would that word be?
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: My legacy?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Can I make one first? I'm like.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Just getting started?
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know? I feel like... Yeah, like I'm only 23,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: so I don't. Maybe like my dog? No. Dang, I
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: don't know.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: What do you want people to remember you by?
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: For where you're at right now.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, where you're at right now. Tenacious, I would say.
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  Speaker 1: I like that. I was really tenacious.
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  Speaker 2: Tenacious is good.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Let's just a round of applause for being 23 years
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  Speaker 3: old and everything you have accomplished and what you're continuing
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: to accomplish.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: I know, kind of chic, right?
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: The world is at your palms and we wish you
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: the best of luck in everything that you do.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: You're just getting started.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I appreciate you, friends. I love it. Well,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: thanks for tuning in.
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  Speaker 3: I am Penny Tellis. And you can catch us on
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  Speaker 2: For our all new episode of Teach Me Something.
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