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- 2:00Speaker 1: So that's what my days have been giving these last
- 2:04Speaker 1: like this last week. I've been preparing for this week
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- 2:12Speaker 1: staying up to date with work in the news and
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- 2:25Speaker 1: confirmed for various events. Now getting on into the latest
- 2:30Speaker 1: speaking of you know, just being outside and things and events,
- 2:33Speaker 1: things that are happening.
- 2:34Speaker 2: Sarry Shepherd, we talked about Shery Shepherd's show and the
- 2:38Speaker 2: fact that it was announced that it was canceled after
- 2:41Speaker 2: four seasons. Now at the same time, Kelly Clarkson, who.
- 2:45Speaker 1: You know, has been on air longer than Sherry Shepherd,
- 2:48Speaker 1: she was on air for seven seasons.
- 2:50Speaker 2: It was also announced that her show will no longer
- 2:52Speaker 2: be moving forward. And in a previous episode, you guys
- 2:56Speaker 2: can go back and check that out.
- 2:57Speaker 1: I talk to you guys a bit about the fact
- 3:00Speaker 1: that Kelly Clarkson had mentioned not even mentioned, but there
- 3:04Speaker 1: were reports and it had been ruined and I'd actually
- 3:07Speaker 1: heard some time ago when Kelly Clarkson's ex husband gotten sick.
- 3:12Speaker 1: He got sick from cancer, God bless it. So he
- 3:15Speaker 1: later passed away from cancer. It was the conversation then
- 3:19Speaker 1: that Kelly Clarkson might be taking a step back from
- 3:22Speaker 1: her talk show, and we talked about this at the
- 3:25Speaker 1: time and several times because there were noticeable absences from
- 3:30Speaker 1: the show. So there were reports that like she just
- 3:33Speaker 1: didn't want to do it anymore. There are reports that
- 3:35Speaker 1: like she just wasn't happy with her situation in her show.
- 3:38Speaker 1: And then things came to hit the surface and the
- 3:41Speaker 1: conversation and what was actually confirmed when she talked about
- 3:44Speaker 1: it was the fact that because her ex husband was sick,
- 3:47Speaker 1: who you know, she shares children with, she needed to
- 3:50Speaker 1: kind of like take a step back for a bit
- 3:52Speaker 1: and focus on family, and then she returned to her show. Now,
- 3:56Speaker 1: when Kelly Clarkson's announcement was made about her show, this.
- 4:00Speaker 2: Was in a different tone. She was able to own
- 4:02Speaker 2: it a bit more. You know.
- 4:04Speaker 1: Again, there's already been previous reporting about why she decided
- 4:07Speaker 1: to step back, but she was able to talk about
- 4:09Speaker 1: that as well. With Shary Shepard, it just felt like
- 4:13Speaker 1: we got a blanket variety, you know, something in the trades.
- 4:17Speaker 1: The trades are are the media outlets that announced like
- 4:20Speaker 1: news about.
- 4:21Speaker 2: New shows, deals and business.
- 4:23Speaker 1: Right, all we got was, Okay, the show is going
- 4:26Speaker 1: to be canceled because daytime talk show is going in
- 4:28Speaker 1: a different space. Cherry has been doing this for four seasons.
- 4:32Speaker 1: Here's a company that produces the show. Thank you guys
- 4:34Speaker 1: for tuning in. We'll let you know when the.
- 4:36Speaker 2: Last day is. And that was it.
- 4:40Speaker 1: And I know from you know, doing our research for
- 4:42Speaker 1: another Sherry Shepherd's show. The story that we had did
- 4:45Speaker 1: because there were some conversations around Shary's ratings plumbing months ago,
- 4:50Speaker 1: and when I did some digging and talked to some
- 4:52Speaker 1: folks and you know, just wanted to get, you know,
- 4:55Speaker 1: some information that we could reference while talking about this,
- 4:58Speaker 1: I was told that Sherry Shepard and Timor Hall are
- 5:01Speaker 1: doing amazing in the talk show space ratings wise. So
- 5:05Speaker 1: I was very confused when I saw this news. And
- 5:09Speaker 1: I'm still confused, to be honest, because Shery Shepherd talked
- 5:11Speaker 1: about it on her show today. She just got back
- 5:13Speaker 1: from COVID leave. And still I think that, you know,
- 5:17Speaker 1: there's something missing.
- 5:18Speaker 2: We need some more information. Let's take a listen, Michelle,
- 5:20Speaker 2: this is a.
- 5:20Speaker 3: Hard morning for all of us here, as Sherry and
- 5:24Speaker 3: I know that you have seen the news and I'm
- 5:27Speaker 3: ready to address it. Our show has not been renewed
- 5:30Speaker 3: for another season, and I want to say to y'all everybody,
- 5:36Speaker 3: y'all try not to paint or fall out because healthcare
- 5:38Speaker 3: is expensive and none of us have it anymore, So
- 5:41Speaker 3: y'all don't fall out. But I have to say, you know,
- 5:45Speaker 3: and thinking about it, I'm truly overwhelmed by the outpouring
- 5:48Speaker 3: of love that I have received from all of you,
- 5:55Speaker 3: So from the audience, to everybody on social media, to
- 6:00Speaker 3: people who stop me in the store and still talk
- 6:03Speaker 3: to me despite me not having a wig on, they
- 6:06Speaker 3: still talk to me. From the emails and the text
- 6:10Speaker 3: the messages, I feel every bit of the love that
- 6:13Speaker 3: you've been sending to me, and thank you so much.
- 6:16Speaker 1: And I mean we hear her say like, Okay, this
- 6:20Speaker 1: is gonna look different. We're going into different space, different direction.
- 6:23Speaker 1: And that has been the conversation. It's like, does the
- 6:27Speaker 1: regular everyday podcast format even make money anymore because you
- 6:33Speaker 1: need a full staff and you can do podcasts for
- 6:35Speaker 1: way less and wait, let's overhead, And honestly, you know,
- 6:39Speaker 1: it sounds to me like Sherry maybe is.
- 6:41Speaker 2: Thinking along that lane of things, but we don't know.
- 6:43Speaker 2: We didn't get.
- 6:44Speaker 1: It in that clip in her conversation this morning about
- 6:48Speaker 1: on the show. So there's a lot more questions to
- 6:50Speaker 1: be asked here and a lot more to discover. But
- 6:54Speaker 1: we finally got to hear from Sherry finally, and I thought,
- 6:57Speaker 1: you know, of course, that is worth taking a moment for.
- 7:01Speaker 2: Now.
- 7:01Speaker 1: In other news, speaking of fans and you know, conversations
- 7:05Speaker 1: and shows, Jake Cole was outside with the fans okay,
- 7:10Speaker 1: because he recently dropped what was supposed to be his
- 7:12Speaker 1: last album to fall off. So over the weekend he
- 7:16Speaker 1: was in North Carolina during a listening party and he
- 7:20Speaker 1: announced that he was going to be doing a trunk tour,
- 7:23Speaker 1: which is where he's going to be riding around.
- 7:24Speaker 2: These different places in this Santa Civic.
- 7:27Speaker 1: You know, just going back to like how it all
- 7:28Speaker 1: started for him and selling CDs out of his trunk.
- 7:33Speaker 2: Now, I'm not mad at it.
- 7:35Speaker 1: I felt like for the type of album that Jake
- 7:38Speaker 1: Cole just delivered, where it was very much rooted in
- 7:40Speaker 1: where he was from his roots, his come up after
- 7:44Speaker 1: coming up, his ability to sustain after coming up, his
- 7:48Speaker 1: mental through different phases of the come up, and being
- 7:51Speaker 1: on top and having success but still staying planted in
- 7:55Speaker 1: you know, his roots from the Carolinas. I'm like, this
- 8:00Speaker 1: is a time for him, Like you gotta finish what
- 8:03Speaker 1: you said, like finish as you started. I'm not mad
- 8:05Speaker 1: at that, but I did see people having conversations about
- 8:08Speaker 1: this and about the fact that they felt like he
- 8:10Speaker 1: was like placating to his fans by getting in the
- 8:13Speaker 1: Honda Civic pulling up, and I'm like, what.
- 8:15Speaker 2: Else do you want from these people?
- 8:18Speaker 1: Now?
- 8:18Speaker 2: One thing that I thought was so fire because I
- 8:21Speaker 2: felt like.
- 8:23Speaker 1: Hbc used and the conversation abound HBCUs there is there
- 8:26Speaker 1: is It's so trendy now, like it is so cool
- 8:29Speaker 1: to be like, Okay, I wrapped this HBCU, I'm a
- 8:32Speaker 1: part of this Greek organization, or for artists to say, hey,
- 8:34Speaker 1: I'm doing something with this HBCU.
- 8:37Speaker 2: But it wasn't always that way.
- 8:38Speaker 1: But I think for artists who really were out here
- 8:41Speaker 1: having to get it out the mud, not just living
- 8:43Speaker 1: off of viral moments and oshead to the viral art
- 8:45Speaker 1: TikTok artists who you know, get it off the gram
- 8:48Speaker 1: or to TikTok. But for artists like j Cole And
- 8:51Speaker 1: I'm gonna mention why Lea, because I remember being at
- 8:56Speaker 1: Delaware State University. I fell in love with artists who
- 9:01Speaker 1: were new first on my college campus, and I used
- 9:04Speaker 1: to I used to go down south a lot to
- 9:07Speaker 1: the Carolina to Benedict because I was dating somebody at
- 9:09Speaker 1: the time that was going to that.
- 9:11Speaker 2: School and just being in those parties and hearing the
- 9:13Speaker 2: music that they were.
- 9:14Speaker 1: Playing at homecoming and even comparing that experience to the
- 9:18Speaker 1: homecoming that I was experiencing in Dover. More up north
- 9:21Speaker 1: where you have New York is a heavy population at
- 9:24Speaker 1: my school, New Jersey, the DMV as well Philadelphia, Like
- 9:29Speaker 1: we really got to see some of these artists in
- 9:32Speaker 1: the birth of what was their greatness because they were
- 9:36Speaker 1: outside on the campuses performing at the I remember Meek
- 9:40Speaker 1: king to Delle State, and this is early meet meal days,
- 9:43Speaker 1: and I'd already been, you know, a meat meal supporter
- 9:46Speaker 1: early on because I'm from Delaware, which is like fifteen
- 9:49Speaker 1: to ten minutes. Ten minutes is crazy. It's like fifteen
- 9:52Speaker 1: to twenty minutes from Delaware. So we've been supporting him
- 9:54Speaker 1: for a very long time. But I remember Meek went
- 9:57Speaker 1: to Dell State and did. Like I think it was
- 10:00Speaker 1: like a dollar concerts, two dollar concerts at the time
- 10:02Speaker 1: for the students. I also remember seeing Meek and going
- 10:06Speaker 1: back to mention in Yla on stage for the first time.
- 10:09Speaker 2: When they were with MGM and MGM MMG, And.
- 10:13Speaker 1: That was the first time that I'd ever seen Wila
- 10:16Speaker 1: like in person, and like I heard of Wala and
- 10:21Speaker 1: heard his music and Lotus flower Bomb was so big
- 10:23Speaker 1: on our campus, but I didn't really know who he was.
- 10:26Speaker 2: I never heard of him.
- 10:27Speaker 1: I didn't really know too much about music from you know,
- 10:30Speaker 1: DC or especially not African music at the time. And
- 10:33Speaker 1: seeing him on stage with Grass and seeing the chemistry
- 10:37Speaker 1: between him and Meek and hearing a song in person
- 10:39Speaker 1: and hearing you know, seeing like even the dancing that
- 10:42Speaker 1: people were doing, what he would perform like the people
- 10:43Speaker 1: from DC just all that culture that was like the
- 10:46Speaker 1: best way to sell an artist or product period for me.
- 10:51Speaker 1: Like I always tell people that are trying to figure
- 10:55Speaker 1: out anything in entertainment, I'm like, yo, are you connected
- 10:58Speaker 1: with the HBC using her area because they make things
- 11:01Speaker 1: hot like hbtus culturally push what's hot, just how like
- 11:08Speaker 1: we talk about like black people and black women.
- 11:10Speaker 2: How we you know, we are taste. We push taste,
- 11:13Speaker 2: We let you know what's cool.
- 11:15Speaker 1: And that's why hip hop. I don't care what i'mber
- 11:17Speaker 1: saying when people talk about what's on the chart tonight,
- 11:19Speaker 1: hip hop will always be the leading genre in the
- 11:22Speaker 1: pop And you talk about pop culture, popular culture, because
- 11:26Speaker 1: so much of what is cool, what sounds good, what
- 11:30Speaker 1: other sounds are derived off of, come from us, not
- 11:33Speaker 1: even just hip hop.
- 11:34Speaker 2: I mean us in a pop space, us in the
- 11:36Speaker 2: jazz space. Y'all know, there's a whole look, it's black history. Man,
- 11:39Speaker 2: I ain't gotta give y'all a lesson. But C NJ.
- 11:44Speaker 1: Cole on the campus of North Carolina and T I
- 11:47Speaker 1: was like, man, this is fire. It's fire to see,
- 11:50Speaker 1: and it's fire because I think it's It shows you
- 11:54Speaker 1: how connected to.
- 11:55Speaker 2: His core and to who he is he still is
- 11:59Speaker 2: in it.
- 12:00Speaker 1: Sounds like, you know, like on this project, with this
- 12:03Speaker 1: twenty nine and this thirty nine, because it's broken up
- 12:05Speaker 1: into two parts. One of the things that I think
- 12:08Speaker 1: is so dope to hear him kind of battle between
- 12:11Speaker 1: is like having success, amassing success, but still trying to
- 12:17Speaker 1: figure out who you are within all of it. And
- 12:22Speaker 1: still trying to say connected to like who you were
- 12:25Speaker 1: before all of it, even.
- 12:26Speaker 2: Though a part of you has to die and change.
- 12:28Speaker 2: What does that look like? And how does it change
- 12:31Speaker 2: who you're inspired by? What you're hearing them say? Why
- 12:33Speaker 2: are you hearing them say it? Like?
- 12:35Speaker 1: He talks a lot about like the older artists, and
- 12:37Speaker 1: older artists at this point me into like, I mean
- 12:40Speaker 1: some of them flat out says and some of the
- 12:43Speaker 1: music like some of them have like almost like lost
- 12:46Speaker 1: their way. And you can tell that there is such
- 12:49Speaker 1: a fight for him not to be one of those
- 12:51Speaker 1: artists who is like not understanding that the times are changing,
- 12:54Speaker 1: but not losing their way. And the best way to
- 12:56Speaker 1: do that is to put your feet on the ground
- 12:57Speaker 1: where you're from. Put you literally put your feet in
- 13:00Speaker 1: the grass back at home, and that's what he's doing.
- 13:02Speaker 1: So to see him at North Carolina ante and then
- 13:04Speaker 1: he's talking about one of the first physical copies of
- 13:06Speaker 1: a project he ever sold was on North Carolina Antie's campus.
- 13:11Speaker 2: Oh it was fired.
- 13:11Speaker 1: So I couldn't believe when I was seeing fans complaining
- 13:14Speaker 1: about the way he was going about this rollout, I'm like, yo,
- 13:18Speaker 1: if he was doing anything else right now, it would
- 13:20Speaker 1: so not be Ja Cole, like he is literally like
- 13:23Speaker 1: man of the people, like outside man of the people,
- 13:26Speaker 1: literally on the bike sometimes, especially here in New York.
- 13:29Speaker 1: I've been playing since multiple times, but I've not I
- 13:32Speaker 1: didn't see Jay Cole on the bike. I do know
- 13:33Speaker 1: people who've seen him ride in his bike here in
- 13:35Speaker 1: New York, though, but I've been out whether it's like
- 13:38Speaker 1: lounges or restaurants or even like spots like not like clubs,
- 13:42Speaker 1: but like kind of like lounges, places that would play
- 13:43Speaker 1: music that are like lit shout out to Saint, a
- 13:45Speaker 1: black owned location here in New York, J Cole, I've
- 13:48Speaker 1: seen him frequent that spot a lot of times, and
- 13:51Speaker 1: I think a part of it is, I mean, these
- 13:54Speaker 1: celebrities are human, dug guys. But also it's just I
- 13:58Speaker 1: think for some artists, they're art doesn't work unless their
- 14:02Speaker 1: humanity does too.
- 14:03Speaker 2: And J Cole is one of those artists.
- 14:05Speaker 1: So I have no problem with the Trump tour. I
- 14:08Speaker 1: think it's fire what he's doing. I saw a really
- 14:11Speaker 1: good first week out number for him with the Spotify streams.
- 14:16Speaker 2: Let me see if I could look it up.
- 14:17Speaker 1: Yeah, so chart data which is a it's an account
- 14:20Speaker 1: that I follow on X they tweet out like first
- 14:23Speaker 1: week sales and stream numbers and things like that.
- 14:27Speaker 2: So two days ago they tweeted j Cole Is.
- 14:29Speaker 1: The fall Off earned thirty five point two million streams
- 14:33Speaker 1: in its first full day of release on Spotify. This
- 14:35Speaker 1: is the second biggest album debut of twenty twenty six
- 14:38Speaker 1: so far, and I think, of course it's because the
- 14:41Speaker 1: music was so long awaited. People wanted to hear it
- 14:45Speaker 1: bad like people wanted to hear j Cole Baden and
- 14:48Speaker 1: hear how he was going out.
- 14:49Speaker 2: Now, whether you love what you hear, you feel like
- 14:52Speaker 2: you know he.
- 14:54Speaker 1: Nailed how he should bow out of this or not,
- 14:57Speaker 1: that's something y'all to argue about. Y'all can get in
- 14:59Speaker 1: the streets, get into tweets and let me hear from
- 15:02Speaker 1: y'all one and the rows everywhere. Do you feel like
- 15:04Speaker 1: this was the best way for Cole to sign off
- 15:07Speaker 1: his pen with the fall Off album? But regardless of
- 15:10Speaker 1: what we think that people are listening, I mean, it's
- 15:12Speaker 1: Jake Cole. I don't white people do it at the
- 15:14Speaker 1: Jake Cole and make it seem like because he decided
- 15:16Speaker 1: not to engage in a rat battle. He's not Ja Cole.
- 15:19Speaker 1: And people do it to Drake too because he didn't
- 15:20Speaker 1: win the rat battle. He's not Drake Man. These artists
- 15:23Speaker 1: have been working for a really long time and have
- 15:25Speaker 1: built a really strong cord and j Cole is is
- 15:28Speaker 1: he one of them and he knows.
- 15:30Speaker 2: Exactly how to touch his people. So please when you're
- 15:32Speaker 2: pulling up in the high to see it, get out
- 15:34Speaker 2: the way.
- 15:34Speaker 1: Oh and what I loved was the natural content that
- 15:38Speaker 1: was coming out of him just being outside.
- 15:41Speaker 2: He was in a parking.
- 15:42Speaker 1: Garage just having a conversation with a fan about Dreamville
- 15:44Speaker 1: Festival and end up telling her Dreamville Festival might not
- 15:47Speaker 1: be over because we were.
- 15:48Speaker 2: That was supposed to be the last year. Last year.
- 15:50Speaker 2: That's take a lot.
- 15:53Speaker 1: So the festival was a lot.
- 15:55Speaker 2: We feel like it was a lot cod an idea,
- 15:58Speaker 2: but it was. It was a lot here around. Yeah, yeah,
- 16:02Speaker 2: we're still staying. It was just what you think about
- 16:10Speaker 2: the name though, like like we were trying to change
- 16:13Speaker 2: the name and he like call us something else or
- 16:16Speaker 2: you feel like it a hit different if it's a
- 16:17Speaker 2: different name. Do you feel it is all right?
- 16:23Speaker 1: I'm Laura Rosa and this has been another episode of
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- 16:38Speaker 2: To be right here with me, my lowriders. I appreciate
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