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When Things Don't Go as Planned (Chris Brown vs Usher and Martha Stuart Halloween Costume) · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 4: It's Lauren LaRosa and this is another episode of The
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  Speaker 4: kick off The Latest with Lauren LaRosa checking in behind
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  Speaker 4: the scenes at The Grind, so let's get on to it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do it. Back on the grind. Checking in behind
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  Speaker 1: the scenes of the grind. Today it is.
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  Speaker 4: A Friday and we are headed to some family things.
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  Speaker 4: I'm celebrating my cousin Tasha's birthday this weekend. She is
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  Speaker 4: turning 40. She listens to the podcast. She listens to
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  Speaker 4: The Breakfast Club. She listens to me everywhere I'm at.
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  Speaker 4: She supports me so much. So, you know, I, of course,
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  Speaker 4: am going to show up and show out for her.
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  Speaker 4: I'm really excited about this weekend and spending this weekend
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  Speaker 4: with my family. And y'all are probably like every single
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  Speaker 4: time you talk about spending time with your family, you
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  Speaker 4: always are excited.
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  Speaker 1: But I am.
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  Speaker 4: I come from a great family and I love them.
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  Speaker 4: But I think the most beautiful thing about this, though,
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  Speaker 4: is that I don't have sisters.
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  Speaker 1: I have brothers.
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  Speaker 4: I have an older brother from my dad and a
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  Speaker 4: younger brother from my mom who I grew up with
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  Speaker 4: in the same household, my younger brother. So my cousins
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  Speaker 4: have always been like my sisters. And my cousin Tasha
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  Speaker 4: in particular that I'm talking about has always been the
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  Speaker 4: older sister who has also allowed me to live my life,
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  Speaker 4: make my mistakes, but like it's always like one call away.
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  Speaker 1: Type of thing.
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  Speaker 4: Like she's always been that that person. And, you know,
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  Speaker 4: as as I get older and as I'm navigating life
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  Speaker 4: and career and, you know, all these different spaces and
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  Speaker 4: new people or whatever, I am very, very, very appreciative
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  Speaker 4: of the constants in my life. even more than ever,
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  Speaker 4: like the people who have been, and people say that
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  Speaker 4: whole a one day, one thing, or they say you
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  Speaker 4: can't take everybody with you. What I've learned in, you know,
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  Speaker 4: this last two to three years is yes, you cannot
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  Speaker 4: take everybody with you. What I've also learned is that
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  Speaker 4: when you have people in your life who are there
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  Speaker 4: not to gain anything, um, who are there not to
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  Speaker 4: be brought along, who genuinely are just there in your life,
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  Speaker 4: no matter where you are in your life, um, you
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  Speaker 4: value those people and you show up for those people
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  Speaker 4: in any way that you can. And those people are
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  Speaker 4: the people that like, those are like the low maintenance
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  Speaker 4: relationships because they genuinely don't want anything from you, but you.
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  Speaker 4: And wanting you requires you being okay, you showing up physically, mentally,
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  Speaker 4: you know, every way that you can, the best version
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  Speaker 4: of yourself. And that's what my family has always taught me,
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  Speaker 4: but that's what the constant, my constants, I call them,
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  Speaker 4: in this episode. That's what the constant people in my
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  Speaker 4: life have shown me. Like as I meet people who
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  Speaker 4: have all these, you know, transactional, you know, expectations and
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  Speaker 4: relationships and don't get me wrong in the business that
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  Speaker 4: I work in, I understand that I have to be
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  Speaker 4: transactional at times as well too.
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  Speaker 1: It's a part of it. OK, it comes with the territory.
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  Speaker 4: It's just it's refreshing to be around people who the
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  Speaker 4: transaction doesn't even exist. You're just able to exist and
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  Speaker 4: just be. So I'm really excited. I normally am tired
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  Speaker 4: and exhausted by the week on a Friday. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I haven't been feeling the best. I had like a
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  Speaker 4: little cold and we've been traveling from we were in
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  Speaker 4: Philly with the Breakfast Club doing a live show there. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we've been everywhere. But today, I woke up
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  Speaker 4: feeling so refreshed, so rejuvenated. But that's what constant people
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  Speaker 4: in your life do for you.
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  Speaker 1: I saw this.
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  Speaker 4: Post online that I wanted to share. So I follow
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  Speaker 4: this account. It's called the Mercer Edition. It's a magazine.
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  Speaker 4: It's a magazine geared towards creatives. Their definition or their
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  Speaker 4: bio on their social media account says, a magazine creatives
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  Speaker 4: actually need covering fashion and culture with a New York lens.
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  Speaker 4: And They put up a photo of Sarah Jessica Parker
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  Speaker 4: with some words on it. So I mean, basically, but
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  Speaker 4: it's kind of like this is the way they do
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  Speaker 4: their content. They'll post like, you know, a graphic with
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  Speaker 4: their headline and then they'll break it down more into
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  Speaker 4: a deeper thought. So they posted the new cool is
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  Speaker 4: saying no without feeling like you owe an explanation. You're
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  Speaker 4: allowed to say no without explaining why. Because not everything
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  Speaker 4: needs to be explained.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe the new cool is not falling for that pressure
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  Speaker 1: and realizing we don't owe anyone an explanation if we
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  Speaker 1: choose to not participate in an idea or an event
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  Speaker 1: they suggested. Without boundaries, we are bound to lose our
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  Speaker 1: values and over time, our self-respect.
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  Speaker 4: The people in your life should respect your boundaries without
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  Speaker 4: being asked twice. Saying no without feeling the need to
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  Speaker 4: explain is a boundary.
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  Speaker 1: We all need.
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  Speaker 4: And when we don't have it, we lose ourselves in
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  Speaker 4: the process of building the life we want for ourselves.
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  Speaker 4: And then they go into like a full sub stack.
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  Speaker 4: But I thought that that was so fitting for, you know,
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  Speaker 4: what I'm talking about right now, behind the scenes of
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  Speaker 4: the grind.
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  Speaker 1: The constants, the constant people in your life. What I've
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  Speaker 1: come to realize, those.
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  Speaker 4: People should be these exact people who understand what I
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  Speaker 4: just read to you. Boundaries, the ability to say no,
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  Speaker 4: the ability to really just protect yourself in the way
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  Speaker 4: that you need to be. But also they give you
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  Speaker 4: the ability to not need to feel like you got.
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  Speaker 1: To protect yourself.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm going to go celebrate one of my favorite
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  Speaker 4: one of those people this weekend. So make sure you
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  Speaker 4: guys cherish and value all of the people who do
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  Speaker 4: exactly what I just said in your life. And if
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  Speaker 4: you're looking for a great think piece based Instagram, and
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  Speaker 4: they also do, they have a sub stack as well too,
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  Speaker 4: that keeps you updated with culture, but also like real
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  Speaker 4: deep thoughts, the Mercer edition, the Mercer edition.
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  Speaker 1: I love this page. So go and check them out.
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  Speaker 1: Now let's get on into the latest.
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  Speaker 4: So Chris Brown and Usher kicked off a five-night extravaganza
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  Speaker 4: in Atlanta. You guys know that they are on the legendary, sold-out,
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  Speaker 4: breaking records everywhere they go R & B tour. They
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  Speaker 4: recently extended the tour and were able to add some
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  Speaker 4: more locations and double back the locations they had already
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  Speaker 4: been at. A few of them they had to cancel
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  Speaker 4: because they said that they wanted to be able to
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  Speaker 4: ensure that The teams who are putting on these shows
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  Speaker 4: are getting the accurate rest and recuperation and being able
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  Speaker 4: to show up the best way that they can and
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  Speaker 4: not feeling overworked. But nonetheless, the tour has been extremely successful.
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  Speaker 4: You're literally watching two icons in R & B and
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  Speaker 4: culture and music and entertainment in general because they spin
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  Speaker 4: beyond just music and influence and fashion. Take the stage
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  Speaker 4: every single night together, right? Now, this morning I woke up. 3,
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  Speaker 4: 3.30 a.m. I'm scrolling through.
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  Speaker 1: I get up.
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  Speaker 4: I say my prayers. God, thank you for waking me up.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for waking up my family this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Cover me today. Cover them.
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  Speaker 4: I do all that first. And I make sure I
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  Speaker 4: do it before I pick up my phone. And then
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  Speaker 4: I pick up my phone. I pick up my phone.
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  Speaker 4: And the first things that I'm seeing when I get
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  Speaker 4: on my ex, my Twitter account, Chris Brown Usher and
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  Speaker 4: not official reports.
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  Speaker 1: These are actual fan reactions.
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  Speaker 4: People who, there were thousands of people who went to
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  Speaker 4: the Chris Brown and Usher concert last night in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 4: And this was night one, the kickoff, you know, Usher
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  Speaker 4: is from Atlanta. Chris Brown is Chris Brown. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: he's just going to deliver regardless. But like, I was
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  Speaker 4: even planning to go to the Atlanta shows. My birthday's
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  Speaker 4: in a few weeks and I haven't been able to
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  Speaker 4: catch the tour and the Atlanta shows.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, okay, I'm gonna do that for my birthday.
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  Speaker 1: It's my birthday month. It'll kick it off.
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  Speaker 4: Child the people have are speaking out about how the
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  Speaker 4: concert went last night the first night of the their
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  Speaker 4: land of five shows and it it is not looking
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  Speaker 4: well people are confused because the the concert time was
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  Speaker 4: cut short it started almost three hours late none of
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  Speaker 4: the the cameos that chris brown and usher do together
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  Speaker 4: on all the other tour stops up until now happened
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  Speaker 4: let's take a listen to some of the fan reactions
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  Speaker 4: i feel.
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  Speaker 2: Like it was shortened i'm actually pissed so No, like,
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  Speaker 2: how does a concert start late and then, like, end
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  Speaker 2: on time?
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  Speaker 1: Can we get a few more.
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  Speaker 3: Minutes?
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  Speaker 1: Or, like, at 12 o'clock?
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  Speaker 3: They shut it down.
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  Speaker 1: Why did it start so late?
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  Speaker 3: I paid $ 1, 200 for this concert. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Well, at least you can still meet and greet, right? No.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I got Mario. Because Chris canceled this.
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  Speaker 3: I paid for Chris.
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm a big fan of Chris Brown. I'm a
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  Speaker 2: big fan of Usher.
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  Speaker 3: Okay? Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Where is the fucking concert that I was waiting for
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  Speaker 2: for my motherfucking birthday? I'm over here with the stripper,
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  Speaker 2: expecting to see her get on the pole, do her thing,
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  Speaker 2: see Usher come over there, you know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: Give me a little selfie or something.
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  Speaker 1: A little something.
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  Speaker 2: These motherfuckers done cut that out the whole motherfucking show.
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  Speaker 2: Come on stage at 10 o'clock. Chris barely was on
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  Speaker 2: the motherfucking stage. T.I. and Drona come out and did
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  Speaker 2: a whole motherfucking mini concert. And it was nice. Kings
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  Speaker 2: of Atlanta, Bankhead, all that kind of shit. But at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the motherfucking day, I came for Chris
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  Speaker 2: and Usher. I don't know what the fuck y'all got
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  Speaker 2: going on. I want to see Brandon and Monica four, five, six, seven, eight, nine.
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  Speaker 3: Ten times.
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  Speaker 2: Had no motherfucking issues. I saw them early in Detroit.
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  Speaker 2: They was good. What the fuck done happened between Detroit
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  Speaker 2: and Atlanta? Y'all come here on that board, shit.
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  Speaker 1: And rightfully so, people want to know what happened. People
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  Speaker 1: want to know what happened.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Chris Brown and Usher, some years ago, it
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  Speaker 4: was reported and rumored that they'd gotten into a bit
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  Speaker 4: of a disagreement at a private skating party. And we
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  Speaker 4: never really knew all the details around that. We've never really,
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  Speaker 4: you know, found out if that was a thing or not.
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  Speaker 4: But nonetheless, these two icons have come together and they're
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  Speaker 4: doing something amazing on that stage.
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  Speaker 1: And it's generational.
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  Speaker 4: And that is important, especially in our black music generational
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  Speaker 4: and being able to see, you know, OG like Usher
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  Speaker 4: support and, you know, stand next to a icon like
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  Speaker 4: Chris Brown and and their powers join and create this
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  Speaker 4: like mega verse of R & B culture and music.
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  Speaker 4: And you have Tank there, Mario's there, Eric Billings is there.
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  Speaker 4: They're bringing up people on stage.
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  Speaker 2: T.I.
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  Speaker 4: And Young Dro were brought out on stage last night
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  Speaker 4: and they do this every single night that they perform
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  Speaker 4: in various cities.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So it's, it's epic to see. But people ain't got
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  Speaker 1: it to be.
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  Speaker 4: Spending all this money on tickets. Some tickets is not cheap.
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  Speaker 4: To be spending all this money on tickets and not
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  Speaker 4: get what they deserve is a full show. Now, fans
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  Speaker 4: are speculating that there's some sort of issue or tension
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  Speaker 4: between the two gentlemen, unfortunately. And Chris Brown posted super
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  Speaker 4: early this morning on his Instagram, his Insta story, internet cap,
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  Speaker 4: don't fall for it. Now, I don't know what part
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  Speaker 4: of all of this he's responding to, but he's saying
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  Speaker 4: that a lot of what we're seeing on the internet
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  Speaker 4: may not be true. But the reason why people are
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  Speaker 4: speculating so much is because we don't know what happened
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  Speaker 4: and people want to know because they spent their money.
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  Speaker 4: There has been no word from the venue yet on
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  Speaker 4: if people are going to get refunded tickets or whatever,
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  Speaker 4: because at the end of the day, the show did
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  Speaker 4: go on. It just didn't go on the way that
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  Speaker 4: people expected it to. And then people feel like they
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  Speaker 4: didn't get.
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  Speaker 1: A full show.
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  Speaker 4: And let me also mention that this was a legendary
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  Speaker 4: show as well, too, because Chris Brown and Usher as
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  Speaker 4: a tour acts are one of they are they're making
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  Speaker 4: history as the first act to ever do five nights
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  Speaker 4: at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. So it's unfortunate that the first night
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  Speaker 4: kicked off and now this conversation is surrounding, you know,
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  Speaker 4: what did or did not happen. And again, I haven't
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  Speaker 4: been to the show. I do want to go before
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  Speaker 4: the tour ends. Hopefully we still get some more dates.
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  Speaker 4: But from what I'm told, I know a lot of
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  Speaker 4: people who have went to the show when we talked
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  Speaker 4: about it on The Breakfast Club, you know, Envy and
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  Speaker 4: Jess have been multiple times. They talk about how like
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  Speaker 4: it opens up with almost like a battle of the
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  Speaker 4: worlds between Usher and Chris Brown and, you know, that
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  Speaker 4: mega verse of R & B and you get to
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  Speaker 4: see them on stage together, going back and forth and
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  Speaker 4: doing the whole thing. And then Usher does the cherries
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  Speaker 4: that he does. None of that happened at the first
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  Speaker 4: kickoff night in Atlanta. So people were asking questions and
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  Speaker 4: we have not gotten any answers yet. Now I have
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  Speaker 4: reached out to teams on both sides, both Chris Brown
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  Speaker 4: and Usher. And, um, What I was told, Usher's side
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  Speaker 4: came back to me and said, you know, they're looking
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  Speaker 4: into what happened and why the show started late. And
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  Speaker 4: when they get anything, they'll let me know, you know,
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  Speaker 4: what they're told. Now, I have another source who was there,
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  Speaker 4: an industry source close to the situation, who tells me
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  Speaker 4: that there was tension there. And I know that a
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  Speaker 4: lot of people are upset that people are pointing to
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  Speaker 4: there being a personal beef or issue between the two
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  Speaker 4: because of what they represent.
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  Speaker 1: To culture, to music, to black people. I get that.
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  Speaker 4: But my person tells me, and again, this is nothing
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  Speaker 4: that has been confirmed officially by either Usher or Chris
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  Speaker 4: Brown's team, but I'm being told that verbatim, I'm told
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  Speaker 4: you could cut the tension with a knife. sources reporting
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  Speaker 4: to me that they're feuding or and have been for
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  Speaker 4: a while now and it was atlanta chris was not
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  Speaker 4: happy of course usher is excited to be there it's
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  Speaker 4: atlanta so you know he's excited to be there feeling
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  Speaker 4: himself um but it was it was all over the
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  Speaker 4: place uh from start to finish uh from tickets to
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  Speaker 4: organization to a ton of things now i will be
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  Speaker 4: reaching out on these claims um to see what I
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  Speaker 4: can get. I, but again, from what I'm being told,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not being told anything. And that's why people are
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  Speaker 4: speculating the way that they are. Now, speaking of speculation,
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  Speaker 4: one thing we did not have to speculate about Halloween
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  Speaker 4: 2026 is how tone deaf Martha Stewart is.
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  Speaker 1: Um, and a tone deafness just continues.
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  Speaker 4: So Martha Stewart decided to dress up as a hungry
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  Speaker 4: homeless person for Halloween. And of course it's, It pissed
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  Speaker 4: the people off child. She posted a photo. She's dressed
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  Speaker 4: like a homeless person in a flannel. She has a
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  Speaker 4: sign that says that, you know, she was hungry and
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  Speaker 4: she needs, you know, feed her. Whole nine yards. Now
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  Speaker 4: that went viral, of course, for all the wrong reasons.
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  Speaker 4: She then issued several apologies and said that her intent.
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  Speaker 4: And this is what is upsetting me about this. It's
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  Speaker 4: like we get online and we yell, kick and scream
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  Speaker 4: when things happen with about our own people.
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  Speaker 1: Rightfully so.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the people that went to the Chris Brown
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  Speaker 4: Usher concert in Atlanta didn't get the full show.
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  Speaker 1: I would be upset, too. Things are not cheap right now.
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  Speaker 1: Get it.
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  Speaker 4: But people should be yelling, kicking and screaming and calling
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  Speaker 4: out the BS with this Martha Stewart story as well, too.
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  Speaker 1: So in the beginning of all this, I told y'all
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  Speaker 1: she wore the costume. She apologized.
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  Speaker 4: And a part of her apology, she said her intent
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  Speaker 4: was to bring awareness to the homeless issue, you know,
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  Speaker 4: in the world.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Then she apologized again. And she said that she felt
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  Speaker 4: like her apology wasn't loud enough. So she was apologizing
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  Speaker 4: again and wanted people, you know, she wanted people to
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  Speaker 4: know that she was deeply sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Then.
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  Speaker 4: She sat down, she was having a live conversation, and
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  Speaker 4: she blamed the costume on Craig Melvin. Jokingly did it,
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  Speaker 4: but she knew how this was going to pick up.
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  Speaker 4: Craig Melvin is from the Today Show. He's a news
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  Speaker 4: anchor there.
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  Speaker 1: Earlier in the.
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  Speaker 4: Day on Halloween, Craig Melvin, dressed up as Snoop Dogg,
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  Speaker 4: had the whole USA thing going on, and Martha Stewart
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  Speaker 4: was a part of the whole Snoop Dogg, Martha Stewart...
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  Speaker 4: You know, because Snoop Dogg, Martha Stewart, they do a
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  Speaker 4: lot of things together. Snoop Dogg went and hosted the Olympics.
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  Speaker 4: So they were dressed up in very USA Olympics, Martha Stewart,
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  Speaker 4: Snoop Dogg. They were like wingmen for Halloween.
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  Speaker 1: Now, during the live broadcast.
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  Speaker 4: That NBC's The Today Show did, they did a special
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  Speaker 4: 100th anniversary with some of their iconic looks, right? And
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  Speaker 4: these are iconic looks of different things that have aired
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  Speaker 4: across NBC, right? Now, during the broadcast, there was something
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  Speaker 4: that was spilled on Martha Stewart's sweater by Craig Melvin,
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  Speaker 4: which is what she references in this open conversation that
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  Speaker 4: she had where she blamed him.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take a look. What's his name on the Today Show?
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  Speaker 3: Craig Craig, who played Snoop on the Today Show on Friday.
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  Speaker 3: He spilled chocolate all over my white sweater, which I
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  Speaker 3: was going to wear on Halloween night. And so when
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  Speaker 3: I picked up the sweater, I said, oh, God, it's
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  Speaker 3: so dirty.
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  Speaker 1: I only have 10 minutes to get dressed for this
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  Speaker 1: Halloween party. So the easiest costume is to get dressed
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  Speaker 1: up as a bum. I mean, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: So now keep up with me y'all. So now the
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  Speaker 1: story has moved from, it was last minute.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't have anything.
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  Speaker 4: Planned to where I, And I wanted to bring awareness
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  Speaker 4: to homelessness, too. Someone spilled something on my sweater. I
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  Speaker 4: didn't have time.
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  Speaker 1: So I just thought that this was just easy to do.
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  Speaker 1: And I did it. But I didn't mean any harm.
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  Speaker 1: But I understand why I harmed people.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: So then Martha Stewart comes back on The Today Show
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  Speaker 4: because then the story picks up. Craig Melvin is the
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  Speaker 4: reason why. And even if jokingly, that story picks up
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  Speaker 4: in the headlines. So she comes back to The Today
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  Speaker 4: Show and sits down, Martha Stewart with Craig Melvin. And
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  Speaker 4: Craig Melvin's like, why my name in it?
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  Speaker 1: Let's take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: Clear the air because there have been a number of
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  Speaker 3: different versions of the story. Walk us through what happened. OK, well,
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  Speaker 3: it was Saturday and it was Halloween and I was
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  Speaker 3: invited to a party and I was very busy all
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  Speaker 3: day doing a lot of gardening. We're planting lots of trees.
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  Speaker 1: Up at the farm.
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  Speaker 3: And I really hadn't planned a Halloween costume this year. Usually,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I'm a very elaborate Halloween costumer. I've had
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  Speaker 3: the most beautiful costumes over the years.
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  Speaker 1: And they're all online.
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  Speaker 3: You can look at them. But I didn't have a
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  Speaker 3: costume because you had spilled some chocolate on my white sweater.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't blame you at all. It was a
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  Speaker 3: joke that I said I blamed you. It was stupid.
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  Speaker 1: And then I.
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  Speaker 3: Tone deaf or whatever I was, according to my grandson,
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  Speaker 3: I was tone deaf. I dressed up.
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  Speaker 1: Well, not just your grandson.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, no, no. But he saw the picture first.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Because I sent it to him. And I said, what
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  Speaker 3: do you think? Tone deaf, he said. And I was
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  Speaker 3: just stupid. And I apologize because I was not making
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  Speaker 3: fun of anybody or making light of the great problems
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  Speaker 3: that face our country. And I certainly hope our new administration... Oh,
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  Speaker 3: it takes big steps to repair a lot of the
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  Speaker 3: damage that's being done, and the poor and the hungry
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  Speaker 3: and everyone else is taken care of better.
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  Speaker 1: And why was I dragged into it?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, no, I was making a joke. I was giving
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  Speaker 3: a talk, and I just made a joke that you
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  Speaker 3: would spill chocolate on me, and so I couldn't wear
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  Speaker 3: that costume, which I had planned to wear on Halloween
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  Speaker 3: night to this party. And that became part of the story. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and of course he picked up on that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That you're you. Yes, but I did apologize. For what?
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  Speaker 3: For spilling the chocolate. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And we moved on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I moved on now. But to be clear,
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  Speaker 1: there was no connection between that and the costume later.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, no. Okay. Oh, no, no, no. What lessons did you...
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  Speaker 3: And it wasn't your fault about the chocolate. Sorry. It
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  Speaker 3: goes on and on. Lessons learned. Pay closer attention to
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  Speaker 3: social issues.
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  Speaker 1: Be aware.
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  Speaker 3: I'm aware of all those social issues, as you can imagine.
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  Speaker 3: And I care desperately about all the problems facing us.
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  Speaker 3: But I made a mistake. I mean, I was.
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  Speaker 1: Stupid.
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  Speaker 3: What else can I say? What else can I say?
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  Speaker 3: I'm so sorry, and I hope that my followers and
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  Speaker 3: my fans and the rest of America forgives me for
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: doing something that was not right. mentioned any way to
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  Speaker 3: be a bad.
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  Speaker 4: Y'all this is such BS and I think she tried
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  Speaker 4: to like correct herself in this conversation with Craig Melvin
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  Speaker 4: where she's like you know basically like she was unaware
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  Speaker 4: like she needs to pay more attention to homelessness in.
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  Speaker 1: In the world Like you can walk outside of your,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, maybe not. That's the problem. She is so rich.
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  Speaker 4: She doesn't walk outside of her house and see people
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  Speaker 4: starving and hungry, actually begging for money.
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  Speaker 1: Is that the problem?
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  Speaker 4: Because if that is a problem, I'm confused. Where did
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  Speaker 4: the inspo come from? How are you unaware of the
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  Speaker 4: homeless problem, the hungry, the food impoverishment problem, the food
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  Speaker 4: desert problem? People are so rich and living in their
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: own bubble. And I thought that at one point I
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  Speaker 4: was like, well, maybe it's her age. And that's why
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  Speaker 4: she's just so like, whoopsie. I don't even think it's
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  Speaker 4: her age. I think she is just very, very white
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  Speaker 4: and very, very, very, very rich and very, very tone deaf.
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  Speaker 4: And the fact that she can even jokingly talk about
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  Speaker 4: it again, like to Craig Melvin, like, oh, well, it
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  Speaker 4: was a joke.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't, you know, I threw you in there, but
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  Speaker 1: it was a joke.
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  Speaker 4: And my, my grandson says I'm tone deaf, but, You know,
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  Speaker 4: and even I felt like she was, like, sarcastically saying that.
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  Speaker 1: Like, I don't know. Watching this interview pissed me off.
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  Speaker 4: If I was her, I would go back to my
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  Speaker 4: home where homelessness doesn't exist and just sit down and
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  Speaker 4: take some time and reflect. I would stop talking, though. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, what's crazy is, like, I love Martha Stewart.
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  Speaker 4: I've loved her. You know, I'm like, oh, it's so cool.
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  Speaker 1: You know, she's so cool. She's so hip. You know,
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  Speaker 1: she be with Snoop Dogg, and she rolling up with
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Snoop Dogg. But now I'm like, girl.
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  Speaker 4: You dress up like a homeless person and hold a
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  Speaker 4: sign saying that you're homeless and you need help and
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  Speaker 4: post it online and use it to.
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  Speaker 1: Promote your candle collection.
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  Speaker 4: And have no idea as to why that is not
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  Speaker 4: okay and then continue to talk about it as if
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  Speaker 4: you were so clueless and now you just were enlightened
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  Speaker 4: and you're sorry. Who knows what else you done and
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: said behind the scenes? Snoop Dogg, if she didn't drop
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: the N-word, just blink twice. I'm Lorna Rosa. This has
• 22:04
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• 22:07
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• 22:10
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