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The Breakfast Club BEST OF - Zen - Erykah Badu, Stephanie Okafor, Devi Brown + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: In Usa yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo
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  Speaker 1: yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo
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  Speaker 1: yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo.
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  Speaker 2: Yo yo Jesse Hilarry as Semarinie.
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  Speaker 3: It's Thursday in today's show is all about exenting. So Charlamagne,
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  Speaker 3: light up the poly santos.
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  Speaker 4: I do every morning and my candles. We have pray
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  Speaker 4: and I meditate for file.
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  Speaker 5: We'll leave the house. That's right.
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  Speaker 3: When we have some special people joining us.
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  Speaker 6: Today.
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  Speaker 3: We have Debbie Brown.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, that's my good system.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 4: Make sure you subscribe to the Deeply Well podcast on
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  Speaker 4: the Black Effect. iHeart radio podcast network. Man, that's my
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  Speaker 4: family for over twenty well damn near twenty year.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Also Stephanie okafor she'll be joining us.
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  Speaker 5: Love Stephanie.
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  Speaker 4: She is a prophet and when she was here, she
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  Speaker 4: definitely spoke a word into us.
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  Speaker 5: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: And also I'm not sure if you know this person.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe many people might maybe maybe not. Erica Baddu she'll
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  Speaker 3: be joining.
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  Speaker 5: Us as well. Come on down. See note, see you
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  Speaker 5: talking about people that I love.
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  Speaker 4: You ain't talking about people that I just respecting like
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  Speaker 4: you're talking about people that I love and worship that's right,
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  Speaker 4: Luther Debbie Browns and Luther Eric Abod Duke.
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  Speaker 5: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna kick it with them and little bits and
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  Speaker 3: don't go anywhere. As to the breakfast Tucable.
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  Speaker 7: Is your time to get it off your jask whether
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  Speaker 7: you're mad or blass.
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  Speaker 1: So we got out of the same imagery.
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  Speaker 7: We want to hear from you on the breakfast clubs.
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  Speaker 1: Hello, man, yo, what's good?
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  Speaker 5: Envious?
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  Speaker 4: Out of sight?
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  Speaker 1: Good morning? What's up? How you doing? Charlamagne?
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  Speaker 5: He's out of sight? You blind?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a blind brother. Man your I've been listening
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  Speaker 1: to yours, to this your first came on the air.
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  Speaker 1: I've been rocking out with your ever since twenty and
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  Speaker 1: ten six.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you for fourteen years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, definitely it got me through a lot
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  Speaker 1: of hard times, you know, listening to your but to
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  Speaker 1: the topic of the morning though, with being blind and
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  Speaker 1: dealing with you know, this insurance situation in the medical insurance.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you something that's crazy. Independence is one of
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  Speaker 1: the most important things to me is being independent. And
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  Speaker 1: my insurance would rather pay somebody to come to my
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  Speaker 1: house as a home health pay and spend all that
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  Speaker 1: money to do that when I could just get a
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  Speaker 1: simple device and put it on my glasses and be
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  Speaker 1: able to be independent and move around freely.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, it's called it's called the ORCM my Eye Pro.
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  Speaker 1: That's O r C A M my eye Pro. Right,
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  Speaker 1: it's an arm, it's a it's a gadget that my
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  Speaker 1: insurance won't pay for, but they'll pay more money to
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  Speaker 1: have a stranger come in my house. You can't cook me,
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  Speaker 1: I add. You know what I'm saying, my house and
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  Speaker 1: mess up my food and everything that I that I
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  Speaker 1: paid pay for my money for.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So you know I've been a little you listener to
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  Speaker 1: your and I would love it if y'all will help
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  Speaker 1: me get that device so I could be more independent
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  Speaker 1: and move around more. You get hit me up podcast shadow.
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  Speaker 5: How much is the device?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. It's like a couple of thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 1: It's called the ORCM my Eye Pro r C A
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  Speaker 1: M pro my ipro.
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  Speaker 5: We'll put your cash out about there.
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  Speaker 1: Brother, it's dollar sign blind Faith one four four as
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  Speaker 1: dollar sign blind Faith one four four and my my
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  Speaker 1: my government name ends.
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  Speaker 5: With two Z.
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  Speaker 1: So you know it's me and I'm one fat You
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  Speaker 1: see my video Baby Mama Salute. I came in and
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  Speaker 1: showed you my video Baby Mama Salute. You was always
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  Speaker 1: saying I couldn't wrap, so I kept getting better and
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  Speaker 1: better because of you, Charlamine. So when I came up
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  Speaker 1: with the baby Mama Salute video, a thousand people went
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  Speaker 1: to check out the video. I like the rap and
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  Speaker 1: I like to do showcases, not because I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: be a famous rapper. I just love the music and
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  Speaker 1: I love hip hop and I love power one oh five.
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  Speaker 5: That's what A go with.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I just contributed something to your h your iPhone glasses.
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  Speaker 5: What do you said?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know what you meant.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, all racan whatever it's called.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, the glass to help them see it ain't matter,
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  Speaker 5: did think?
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  Speaker 6: So?
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  Speaker 3: Hello, who's this?
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  Speaker 8: Good morning people? We'll call them some Jersey. Let me
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  Speaker 8: just start off by by just giving everybody flowers. Saw
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  Speaker 8: off you envy. A lot of times you get overlooked there,
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  Speaker 8: But what you did from miss Jones back in the day,
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  Speaker 8: you caught the collar when things about to go go
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  Speaker 8: left at the other down of Dows. You don't figure
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  Speaker 8: it up, but she talks about it, and so your
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  Speaker 8: kudos for that for being loyal to somebody that looked
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  Speaker 8: out for you, you know, and you know she's local.
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  Speaker 8: Her kid goes to BC, so she's out in there.
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  Speaker 8: You probably see her, you know, on her regular basis.
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  Speaker 8: I'm not sure, Jess. Congratulations on the kids. Just the
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  Speaker 8: second going around and maybe some of the things that
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  Speaker 8: you may have not necessarily took for granted but didn't
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  Speaker 8: you just like totally get a chance to appreciate because
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  Speaker 8: it was maybe a little bit overwhelming, but embraced it
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  Speaker 8: all man, from the smell to the site, to the last,
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  Speaker 8: to the giggle, to the poops and all of that
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  Speaker 8: because you know, as you already know, it goes so fast,
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  Speaker 8: and you know it's the moment in time, and those
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  Speaker 8: two beside you, they can attest to it as well.
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  Speaker 8: And even though they have more every situation and every kid,
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  Speaker 8: there's something unique to it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, mister.
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  Speaker 8: Charlemagne's brother to you. And in our culture, the greatest
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  Speaker 8: pivot of all time was probably Malcolm x Uh. He
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  Speaker 8: went from one extreme together. Dick Gregory was another UH
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  Speaker 8: that did a phenomenal pivot, going from being a commed
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  Speaker 8: a crash comedian but then switching that into being like
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  Speaker 8: an advocate, associate justice fighter, and so forth. Uh in
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  Speaker 8: your trajectory seems like it's on that path. So salute
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  Speaker 8: to you and keep up the good work, because you
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  Speaker 8: back in the day you did have a lot of
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  Speaker 8: jerk juice on your brother, but you kind of set
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  Speaker 8: around and do a lot of the different things jerked
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  Speaker 8: you pause.
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  Speaker 5: Pause, thank you, yes, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Will get it off your chest eight hundred and five
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  Speaker 3: eight five one five one.
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  Speaker 5: The breakfast Clug of morning, the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 9: What you're doing, call of yo.
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  Speaker 3: This is your time to get it off your chest,
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  Speaker 3: whether you're mad or blessed. Eight hundred five one.
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  Speaker 7: We want to hear from you on the breakfast club.
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  Speaker 10: Hello.
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  Speaker 7: Who's this? Hey?
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  Speaker 11: This is your girl Bioncle from Atlanta back in the building.
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  Speaker 3: What's up, uncle?
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  Speaker 2: How you doing?
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  Speaker 11: Good morning, Good morning? Everybody is so good to hear
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  Speaker 11: from y'all. I got two things to get off my chest,
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  Speaker 11: all right. First thing the grand openings for Bankkad and Seafood,
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  Speaker 11: presented by t I and Killer Mike. Everybody keep asking
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  Speaker 11: me how was the food. Unfortunately I didn't get a
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  Speaker 11: chance to try to fool but it was good to
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  Speaker 11: see the two brothers coming out opening up their businesses
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  Speaker 11: and having some opportunities for people like us in the community. Also,
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  Speaker 11: I would like to shout out my non profits. It's
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  Speaker 11: called Forever I Love the Atlanta. First stell if you
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  Speaker 11: are and we help people in the inner city who
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  Speaker 11: got pet family is anybody who would need assistant We
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  Speaker 11: helped to get those low costs of free We do
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  Speaker 11: a lot of free giveaways. We support a lot of
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  Speaker 11: the at aliens like me who like reptiles and just
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  Speaker 11: who like the animal life.
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  Speaker 8: I used to be an animal control officer, so this
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  Speaker 8: is my.
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  Speaker 11: Way of giving back to the community. I'm looking to
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  Speaker 11: link up with other people and connect and be able
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  Speaker 11: to collab on some events. You can reach me at
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  Speaker 11: Forever I Love Atlanta at gmail dot com and hit
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  Speaker 11: me up on Facebook and Instagram.
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  Speaker 8: Thank y'all so much.
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  Speaker 5: Hello. Who's this?
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  Speaker 12: Hello to James, North Carolina.
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  Speaker 5: What's up off your chest?
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  Speaker 6: Yo?
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  Speaker 12: I would started to see if y'all had heard this story.
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  Speaker 12: And this Florida dude some years that wanted to come
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  Speaker 12: up with some money so he can get some concert tickets.
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  Speaker 12: So he goes online saying he'll do anything to earn
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  Speaker 12: some money. This guy hit him up and tells him
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  Speaker 12: he wants to hire him to put off three of
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  Speaker 12: his toes, couok him up and eat him, and he
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  Speaker 12: give him four thousand dollars and the dude tries to
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  Speaker 12: go through with it, but the guy that wanted his
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  Speaker 12: toes up ended up going back on his word and
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  Speaker 12: saying he can't go through with it, but he ended
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  Speaker 12: up paying a dude anyway, y'all ain't never heard that story.
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  Speaker 5: I never heard that story.
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  Speaker 3: And there's nobody I want to see that bad to
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  Speaker 3: cut off my fingers and toes. I mean, nah, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: I love home, I love knives, you know, I love Beyonce,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm not cut off my toes on my fingers
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  Speaker 3: to see anybody in concle.
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  Speaker 13: He wasn't the one that was going to get his
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  Speaker 13: toes go off. He was gonna cut somebody else's toes
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  Speaker 13: off and that person was gonna pay him.
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  Speaker 5: That's disgusting.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, and the dude was black too.
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  Speaker 2: That sounds like an episode of a criminal mind.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely, that's disgusting.
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  Speaker 3: But you have a good one and you need to
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  Speaker 3: do you need to do different searches on your TikTok
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  Speaker 3: and your Instagram. You searching for the wrong thing.
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  Speaker 13: No, man, this was one of a TV show. This
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  Speaker 13: was one of the TV show. Oh it's Florida.
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  Speaker 6: Man.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, now that explains it.
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  Speaker 5: It's Florida. Okay, definitely sounds like Florida.
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  Speaker 3: I have a good one, brother.
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  Speaker 5: It's the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 7: Good morning, the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 3: Morning everybody. It's DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlomagne, the God.
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  Speaker 3: We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest
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  Speaker 3: in the village.
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  Speaker 4: That's right, this divine being having a human experience, master,
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  Speaker 4: well being educator whom to keep going.
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  Speaker 6: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: She has many teaching certifications.
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  Speaker 4: She has many teaching certifications including meditation, breath work in
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  Speaker 4: a child, healing, and spiritual psychology. She's an energy healer.
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  Speaker 4: She hosting leads many spiritory treats a year. She teaches
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  Speaker 4: in God's Deli Meditations on the Choper app. She advises
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  Speaker 4: on well being. It teaches mindfulness for several corporations. She's
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  Speaker 4: an author of a book called Crystal Bliss. And she
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  Speaker 4: hosts a podcast on the Black Beck podcast network called
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  Speaker 4: Dropping Gems.
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  Speaker 5: It's My Good Sense.
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  Speaker 3: And she has a four year old that is taller
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  Speaker 3: than Charlamagne.
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  Speaker 12: That is a fact.
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  Speaker 4: Jebbie Brown, So are we talking about? The question is
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  Speaker 4: a big little boy in fact? Yes, welcome, good morning,
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  Speaker 4: good morning.
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  Speaker 7: How are you, Debbie?
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  Speaker 14: I'm incredible. This moment in time is a lot, but
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  Speaker 14: it's also there's magic in it for all of us.
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  Speaker 5: People that say, what are you talking about?
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  Speaker 3: Debbie does monkey pox? There is cold, and we had
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  Speaker 3: a recession interest rate at an all time high, but
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  Speaker 3: you still find the positive out of it.
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  Speaker 14: Life is both the human experience. We're always oscillating between
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  Speaker 14: these two ends of the spectrum, joy and grief. The
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  Speaker 14: viewpoint I have of it, and something I really had
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  Speaker 14: to come into in the pandemic was the moments that
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  Speaker 14: feel like joy. I have to let myself feel all
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  Speaker 14: of it because life is hard.
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  Speaker 15: There are times when people feel guilty too, because they
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  Speaker 15: may be experiencing a lot of positivity, but there's so
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  Speaker 15: much going on around you that you don't feel like
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  Speaker 15: you can even celebrate that.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, and I think it's important to because that's what
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  Speaker 14: allows us to sustain. The thing we've all gotten so
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  Speaker 14: wrong about the human experience is like everyone thinks that
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  Speaker 14: the goal is always supreme happiness, and that if it's
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  Speaker 14: not that, then those are the periods of your life
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  Speaker 14: you don't really sit with or look at or talk about.
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  Speaker 14: But we need the grief, we need the pain just
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  Speaker 14: as much as we need everything else. So you know,
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  Speaker 14: even in the midst of the moment of time we're
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  Speaker 14: having now where everything is crazy, I wake up every
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  Speaker 14: day and I'm just like, but how can I fuel
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  Speaker 14: my fire? How can I keep that internal oven inside
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  Speaker 14: of me just constantly going for myself, from my life,
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  Speaker 14: from my child.
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  Speaker 4: Can we go back to to like almost the beginning, right,
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  Speaker 4: Because when you think of DeBie deav a lot of
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  Speaker 4: us probably know deVie Dad from radio. I met you
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  Speaker 4: at kDa in La in like seven, and you know
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  Speaker 4: you on Sway Show. But it's like you've always been
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  Speaker 4: this spiritually connected person. When do you like first remember that,
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  Speaker 4: like connection to a high above.
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  Speaker 14: So many things play into that. I think by nature,
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  Speaker 14: I'm an only child raised by a single parent, which
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  Speaker 14: is a certain kind of experience that kind of keeps
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  Speaker 14: you in your.
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  Speaker 6: Head a lot.
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  Speaker 14: So I think that was a piece of it. But
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  Speaker 14: I've always just been fascinated by transformation of any kind,
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  Speaker 14: Like I was definitely reading self help books. As a
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  Speaker 14: little girl, I was just so interested in what made
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  Speaker 14: people themselves but also what kept people from becoming themselves.
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  Speaker 3: Now, one time you decided to give this all up. Right,
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  Speaker 3: you were very successful doing radio. You were in Houston,
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  Speaker 3: they were talking about syndication, you were talking about moving.
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  Speaker 4: Back to la and then you said you were one
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  Speaker 4: of the best radio personality in the country. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it's still one of the best personalities period, but you
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  Speaker 4: were on the radio as one of the best personalities
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  Speaker 4: in the country.
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  Speaker 3: And then you said I'm done with this. Well what
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  Speaker 3: made you say, you know what, I don't want to
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  Speaker 3: do this anymore.
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  Speaker 5: What was the like you said.
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  Speaker 3: That, why are you clinching yourself like that?
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  Speaker 7: You need to hear this this morning?
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  Speaker 14: You know, it was a couple of things. I think
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  Speaker 14: The amazing thing about the show that y'all do is
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  Speaker 14: you guys have established something so rare and different than
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  Speaker 14: has ever been I think in broadcasting. And you guys
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  Speaker 14: get to show up as your full selves at work.
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  Speaker 14: You get to have the conversations that matter to you.
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  Speaker 14: Where I was when I was doing radio that had
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  Speaker 14: started becoming so closed off. You know, at one point
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  Speaker 14: when I was working in radio, I was able to
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  Speaker 14: have meaningful conversations like I went viral with Kanye, went
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  Speaker 14: viral with Kendrick talking about mental health, and then you know,
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  Speaker 14: the powers that be, they just say talk less. You
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  Speaker 14: know where I used to have a talk break where
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  Speaker 14: I could really connect it like do that in eleven seconds.
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  Speaker 14: I just felt like I wasn't able to use this
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  Speaker 14: gift of communication at the level that God really commanded
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  Speaker 14: of me, at the level that felt fulfilling to me.
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  Speaker 14: I wanted to have more adventure. Like at that point,
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  Speaker 14: I knew spirituality was the leading leading journey amission from
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  Speaker 14: my life, and so I just said, I have to
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  Speaker 14: invest everything about myself into that.
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  Speaker 5: I remember you telling me that, you know, years ago.
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  Speaker 4: He was just like, in a therapy is great, and
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  Speaker 4: I'm glad you're in therapy, but you need more than
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  Speaker 4: just therapy to transform your life, Like what exactly does
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  Speaker 4: that look like?
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  Speaker 14: So even with therapy, there's so many different kinds of therapy,
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  Speaker 14: and I think a lot of people, especially now because
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  Speaker 14: we're just so new to all of this, everyone goes
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  Speaker 14: to cognitive therapy, which is kind of like the standard
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  Speaker 14: talk therapy for some people that is actually not the
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  Speaker 14: best option. Depending on what you are coming to the
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  Speaker 14: table with, you may need somatic therapy, you may need
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  Speaker 14: all these different styles. But the piece about therapy is
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  Speaker 14: it keeps you in your head. It helps you understand
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  Speaker 14: yourself and the things that have happened, and it gives
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  Speaker 14: you the language to talk about it. But it doesn't
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  Speaker 14: always give you the opportunity to live this new knowing.
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  Speaker 14: At that point, it can be really powerful to invite
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  Speaker 14: in like spiritual practice or a self care practice, so
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  Speaker 14: that you are applying acceptance to yourself, applying loving to yourself.
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  Speaker 14: You know, it's one thing to know everything, but to
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  Speaker 14: know everything and still love yourself, To know everything and
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  Speaker 14: come into compassion for the people that have harmed you,
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  Speaker 14: it takes many different processes.
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  Speaker 15: I want to talk about your prime Shewed sessions. Yes, yeah,
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  Speaker 15: Draymond Green on now in particular, so you're talking about
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  Speaker 15: the mental well being and also being able to focus.
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  Speaker 15: Right with Draymond Green, Why in particular do you think
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  Speaker 15: athletes need to focus on something like this and how
• 15:30
  Speaker 15: do you think it helped them?
• 15:32
  Speaker 14: What I think is so important about that not just
• 15:34
  Speaker 14: from the athletic lens, but from the masculinity lens, like,
• 15:38
  Speaker 14: I think this is really a moment of divine masculinity,
• 15:42
  Speaker 14: of men's transformative healing, of men's kind of awakening.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: How receptive was he to this active like?
• 15:49
  Speaker 14: So receptive he came in and it was just a
• 15:53
  Speaker 14: joy and a privilege to work with Draymond because he
• 15:55
  Speaker 14: is so smart, so self aware already. And he came
• 15:59
  Speaker 14: in saying and if you watch the show, Deepak asked him,
• 16:02
  Speaker 14: you know, where are you at on an emotional level
• 16:05
  Speaker 14: from you know, one to ten? And I think he
• 16:07
  Speaker 14: said he was a four and then Deepak said, well
• 16:10
  Speaker 14: then you're suffering. And you know, he came into the
• 16:13
  Speaker 14: experience like, Okay, how does this work?
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: Tell me?
• 16:16
  Speaker 14: X Y and Z. By the later part of our
• 16:19
  Speaker 14: sessions when we were meeting, he was like, Okay, so
• 16:21
  Speaker 14: I've read this book. I've read this book. I've read
• 16:22
  Speaker 14: this book. I understand it like this, and he was
• 16:25
  Speaker 14: just really ready to feel things that maybe he hadn't
• 16:28
  Speaker 14: felt before.
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: Oh, I want to get back to the sessions on Amazon,
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: but I want to talk about the connection with Deepop
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: because i'd call you tupac choke, right, and so to
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: see you and deepok, actually working together now was like
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: surreal in a lot of ways.
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: How did that connection happen?
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: Oh my god.
• 16:43
  Speaker 14: So it really started where I was burned out. I
• 16:46
  Speaker 14: was working in radio. Like we talked about, I was
• 16:49
  Speaker 14: in my twenties and I ended up getting shingles, which
• 16:52
  Speaker 14: is highly painful for anybody that's had it, but it's
• 16:55
  Speaker 14: also specifically something you don't get to like your seventies
• 16:58
  Speaker 14: and your eighties. I had it in my twenties, and
• 17:00
  Speaker 14: so this was like, you know, ten years ago, and
• 17:05
  Speaker 14: I went online and I just typed in like detox
• 17:08
  Speaker 14: help retreat something, and the first thing that popped up
• 17:13
  Speaker 14: was a photo of Deepak and it was for his
• 17:16
  Speaker 14: health center. And so I ended up going on a
• 17:18
  Speaker 14: ten day detox retreat and it changed everything about my life.
• 17:21
  Speaker 14: And I ended up doing so many of the programs
• 17:24
  Speaker 14: that Choprah offered, which eventually led me to do their
• 17:27
  Speaker 14: teacher training program and get certified in meditation. And so
• 17:31
  Speaker 14: our relationship was really just growing and building, and when
• 17:34
  Speaker 14: Chopra Global launched about two years ago, I ended up
• 17:38
  Speaker 14: coming on board as their Chief Impact Officer and meeting
• 17:40
  Speaker 14: some of their initiatives.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: AHI we got more with deVie Brown when we come back,
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: so it don't ove it's the Breakfast Club.
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: Good Morning, the Breakfast Club.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: Morning. Everybody is DJ Envy, Angela Yee, Charlamage the guy
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: we are the Breakfast Club was still kicking it with
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: Debbie Brown.
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  Speaker 5: There's other ways to create healthy boundaries.
• 18:02
  Speaker 14: The first part is you have to become really aware
• 18:05
  Speaker 14: of yourself and who you are. I think a lot
• 18:07
  Speaker 14: of this boundary conversation tends to tilt into using boundaries
• 18:12
  Speaker 14: as more of a wall when I hear people talk
• 18:14
  Speaker 14: about boundaries, even on social media, I think we have
• 18:17
  Speaker 14: to really upgrade our understanding of why we don't have
• 18:20
  Speaker 14: them to begin with. You know, it's like everyone's like, no,
• 18:23
  Speaker 14: I'm going to have boundaries, and anybody that doesn't have
• 18:25
  Speaker 14: my boundaries like you're cut out of my life. And
• 18:28
  Speaker 14: people don't want to respect your boundaries, and there's such
• 18:30
  Speaker 14: this like harsh judgmental view. And the thing is the
• 18:33
  Speaker 14: people in our lives that are trying to climb over
• 18:36
  Speaker 14: them don't understand what they are either, which is why
• 18:39
  Speaker 14: they don't even apply them to their own selves. So
• 18:42
  Speaker 14: I think on the journey of finding boundaries, we always
• 18:46
  Speaker 14: have to try to steep it in overall compassion and
• 18:49
  Speaker 14: non judgment. A lot of us are doing things for
• 18:52
  Speaker 14: the very first time. A lot of us have just
• 18:55
  Speaker 14: heard about boundaries for the very first time. And very often,
• 18:58
  Speaker 14: if you don't have boundaries already, it's because different things
• 19:01
  Speaker 14: happened in your life that led you to kind of
• 19:04
  Speaker 14: disregard yourself in certain ways or not think that you
• 19:07
  Speaker 14: have the right or the worth to choose yourself.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: First, are you born with boundaries and then they get
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: torn down at some point?
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: We never have them and we have to learn how
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: to build them.
• 19:18
  Speaker 14: One of the reasons that I most often work with
• 19:20
  Speaker 14: and see in our childhood, certain things have to happen
• 19:24
  Speaker 14: for us to become the best version of our adult self.
• 19:27
  Speaker 14: There has to be certain kinds of role modeling in
• 19:29
  Speaker 14: place of behavior. There has to be role modeling of care,
• 19:34
  Speaker 14: of understanding, of listening of language. If we have experienced
• 19:38
  Speaker 14: certain emotional neglect or traumas Big t R. Little Tea,
• 19:42
  Speaker 14: it affects the way your core identity is established. Your
• 19:46
  Speaker 14: core identity is established in childhood. That is the peace
• 19:49
  Speaker 14: of you. That isn't the roles you play, but it's
• 19:51
  Speaker 14: the piece of you that thinks that you're worthy, that
• 19:54
  Speaker 14: thinks that you have rights, that knows that your emotional
• 19:59
  Speaker 14: life matters. If you're not given that opportunity to grow
• 20:02
  Speaker 14: that in a safe way, you don't know how to
• 20:05
  Speaker 14: set boundaries because you don't understand yourself your own needs,
• 20:09
  Speaker 14: You don't understand what you require.
• 20:12
  Speaker 15: And sometimes things bad happen to you or people burn you,
• 20:15
  Speaker 15: and then you're like, okay, moving forward.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: This is how I have to move.
• 20:18
  Speaker 14: Absolutely, And I think when that stuff happens in our
• 20:20
  Speaker 14: adult life, even still, it usually comes down to an
• 20:24
  Speaker 14: original wound that happened in childhood. There was something in
• 20:27
  Speaker 14: the dynamic with the child and the caregiver or whatever
• 20:30
  Speaker 14: adults may have been present, where their needs were not
• 20:34
  Speaker 14: looked at, and you maybe had to please the person
• 20:36
  Speaker 14: that was caretaking for you to get what you needed.
• 20:40
  Speaker 14: And so then in your adult life you find yourself
• 20:42
  Speaker 14: repeating those patterns in so many different ways, and friendships
• 20:44
  Speaker 14: and relationships and the jobs that you choose and the
• 20:47
  Speaker 14: way that you're dynamic with your boss and your coworkers
• 20:50
  Speaker 14: is like it permeates everything about your life. There is
• 20:54
  Speaker 14: nothing more important than childhood.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: So how do you base your circle there? Because there's
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: going to be some people that are into the things
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: that you're into, some people that don't care about it,
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: some people that don't believe. So how do you keep
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: your circle? Do you keep those people that are not
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: in your circle? Or do you set up those boundaries?
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: But it's like, all right, well, if you're not believed,
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: I'll wait for you to be a believer to be
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: in a circle. So but how do you go about
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: your your normal day.
• 21:16
  Speaker 14: I don't think people have to be believers, Like, I'm
• 21:19
  Speaker 14: not looking to convince anyone, and I'm okay if we
• 21:22
  Speaker 14: are not aligned in our beliefs, but I have to
• 21:27
  Speaker 14: prioritize what is actually nurturing my own life first. I
• 21:34
  Speaker 14: would say this, all of us hold on to too
• 21:36
  Speaker 14: many people for too long. There's not really the room
• 21:39
  Speaker 14: for that. And so over the last two years, like
• 21:41
  Speaker 14: I've massively shed in my life, and some of them
• 21:44
  Speaker 14: were highly intentional, like friendships that were misaligned because of character,
• 21:49
  Speaker 14: because of integrity, because of choices.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: How are those conversations like, so, let's say there is
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: somebody you're clicking, need to have a conversation, Yeah, because
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: they're not following the same journey that you're following, you
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: just don't want them around, honestly, So how do you
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: have those pusiesses?
• 22:03
  Speaker 14: So if you're me, you just have them. I'm not
• 22:07
  Speaker 14: taking other people's misdirected emotions personally, So if someone is
• 22:11
  Speaker 14: upset in our conversation, that's not going to rock me.
• 22:13
  Speaker 14: And I'm also not going to take on a lot
• 22:15
  Speaker 14: of guilt about it. I trust that my choices are
• 22:17
  Speaker 14: made in integrity. But you know, you have to be direct,
• 22:21
  Speaker 14: but you also have to know yourself to be direct
• 22:24
  Speaker 14: in a way that it's actually healing and beneficial, not
• 22:27
  Speaker 14: you know when people use that term brutally honest or
• 22:30
  Speaker 14: I keep it real. Real is relative. You're real is
• 22:34
  Speaker 14: based on your life experience, and it could be completely
• 22:37
  Speaker 14: fraudulent to someone else based on how they recognize real.
• 22:40
  Speaker 14: So I think there has to be a certain amount
• 22:43
  Speaker 14: of self awareness in yourself before you have that conversation,
• 22:46
  Speaker 14: and it's important to come into a space, if possible,
• 22:50
  Speaker 14: of more neutrality so that you can walk away from
• 22:54
  Speaker 14: something with lasting peace.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: So as a friend, let's say make the camera guide.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Let's say do you guide him first of what you
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: think of being a friend, Like, Hey, Nick, I think
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: that you're doing this too much. I think you need
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: to fall back and look at this or is it
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: one of those things like, bro, you're not going in
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: my direction, I gotta go.
• 23:09
  Speaker 14: When I started noticing that some friendships felt misaligned or
• 23:13
  Speaker 14: non reciprocal in the ways that were important to me,
• 23:16
  Speaker 14: I just made a mental note and I told myself
• 23:18
  Speaker 14: that I was going to slowly observe it. So you
• 23:21
  Speaker 14: could do that in a way of saying I'm going
• 23:22
  Speaker 14: to give somebody three strikes or three chances. But I
• 23:25
  Speaker 14: just started slowly observing and still interacting with the person.
• 23:29
  Speaker 14: How the flow of our relationship was, how often did
• 23:32
  Speaker 14: we talk, Were they able to show up for me?
• 23:35
  Speaker 14: Was I showing up for them? And I just watched
• 23:38
  Speaker 14: it over the course of the year. So I started
• 23:40
  Speaker 14: just observing people from afar, noticing things, keeping mental notes,
• 23:44
  Speaker 14: and then I really prayed about it. I said prayers,
• 23:47
  Speaker 14: I set intentions around it. Lead me to the aligned
• 23:50
  Speaker 14: friendships and partnerships allow me to remove with ease any
• 23:55
  Speaker 14: friendships or connections that are not serving or misaligned. That
• 24:00
  Speaker 14: was done, and I started really saying, Okay, yeah, that's
• 24:03
  Speaker 14: not a fit. I just called people up directly, and
• 24:05
  Speaker 14: I was like, Hey, I want to talk to you
• 24:06
  Speaker 14: about our friendship. I want to talk about our relationship.
• 24:09
  Speaker 14: And I said, I just want to let you know.
• 24:11
  Speaker 14: I don't have a lot of judgment around you or this,
• 24:14
  Speaker 14: but I need to share how I'm feeling. I usually
• 24:16
  Speaker 14: had supporting examples of you know, this experience happened, this
• 24:20
  Speaker 14: is the way it made me feel. What are your
• 24:22
  Speaker 14: thoughts on that. Some people in my life said, thank
• 24:27
  Speaker 14: you so much for telling me this. I felt something
• 24:31
  Speaker 14: changing between us. I never saw that. I didn't even
• 24:35
  Speaker 14: notice I was doing that. But you're absolutely right. I'm
• 24:38
  Speaker 14: sorry we were able to rebuild some people. It's just
• 24:41
  Speaker 14: like okay, I the show, you know, or f you like, okay,
• 24:47
  Speaker 14: but da da da da da da da. So I
• 24:49
  Speaker 14: think walking into setting boundaries, walking into shedding people, you
• 24:52
  Speaker 14: have to also walk in with a confidence of it's
• 24:55
  Speaker 14: okay if I lose them, it's okay if they don't understand,
• 24:58
  Speaker 14: and it's also okay if they blame me. None of
• 25:01
  Speaker 14: that has anything to do with me.
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: You know, you know, I thank God for you daily.
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: I tell you this all the time.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: But it's just like our relationship, it's never been a
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: time we didn't share information. It's never been a time
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: we didn't have, you know, deep conversation. It's just like
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: things evolved and went from Yo charlatvie listening to this
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: nippsey hustle bullets ain't got no name arguing about Kendrick Lamar.
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean to.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: Read deepaktrop or seven spiritual success, Like it just seemed
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: effortless the whole time.
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah, And is that what you should look for?
• 25:30
  Speaker 14: I guess absolutely, Like and I love us as a
• 25:33
  Speaker 14: case study of that, because we've been friends for now
• 25:35
  Speaker 14: like fifteen years, and we've seen each other at so
• 25:39
  Speaker 14: many junctures of the journey. But what we always had
• 25:42
  Speaker 14: was non judgment. We always had an openness, We always
• 25:45
  Speaker 14: had an ability to talk things through. And I think
• 25:48
  Speaker 14: you don't want to just hold on to people because
• 25:50
  Speaker 14: of a length of time or this like false sense
• 25:53
  Speaker 14: of loyalty which no one actually has a real definition
• 25:57
  Speaker 14: for that word, like changes with everyone. You have to
• 26:00
  Speaker 14: really look at, like what is kind of doing life
• 26:03
  Speaker 14: with a friend? Can we go six months without talking
• 26:06
  Speaker 14: because we're both in a different place and then come
• 26:08
  Speaker 14: back together. I think we should be allowed to But yeah,
• 26:11
  Speaker 14: being able to kind of just evolve as equals at
• 26:15
  Speaker 14: every step is what I look for in friendship. And
• 26:18
  Speaker 14: I'm also okay with things not having to be that deep.
• 26:21
  Speaker 14: There's some people in my life. I trust them to
• 26:23
  Speaker 14: be themselves and I show up as myself and I
• 26:25
  Speaker 14: give them what they can handle of me.
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: You don't pray about me every day.
• 26:29
  Speaker 14: You I was like, what is envy thinking?
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: Over there? I do thank God for you. You, thank
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: God for this whole situation. This situation we change our life.
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: We're openness with deep.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: I just want to know why you never told me that.
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: He don't say it.
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: Let me see what the blood is. I hear womb talking.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: We got more with Debbie Brown when we come back,
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: So it don't ove. It's the breakfast Club.
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: Good morning boning everybody.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: You seej the Envy Angela Yee Charalamage, the guy we
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: are the Breakfast Club was still kicking it with deVie Brown.
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: Chal.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: Now, let's talk about how a person can build a
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: daily self care like spiritual practice routine just start healing
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: and changing their life.
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: How does a person do that?
• 27:16
  Speaker 14: Oh, this is the most important thing. So you have
• 27:20
  Speaker 14: to make it sustainable, so that it's actually becomes your
• 27:23
  Speaker 14: lived experience and not just something you speak but are
• 27:27
  Speaker 14: not acting or living. And so what you want to
• 27:30
  Speaker 14: do when you're building a practice, first, identify how much
• 27:33
  Speaker 14: time you have. I know a lot of people work
• 27:35
  Speaker 14: really hard and have a lot of responsibilities. So even
• 27:38
  Speaker 14: if only five minutes is possible, please try to gift
• 27:41
  Speaker 14: yourself with this. But if you can be more expansive
• 27:43
  Speaker 14: and spend thirty minutes, spend an hour, that could be
• 27:46
  Speaker 14: really powerful. What you want to do is you want
• 27:48
  Speaker 14: to build your daily practice around the four pillars of wholeness,
• 27:52
  Speaker 14: which is mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual. You want to
• 27:56
  Speaker 14: find something to do every day that falls in one
• 27:58
  Speaker 14: of those categories. For mental, that could look like journaling,
• 28:02
  Speaker 14: that could be wow. I noticed that I keep thinking
• 28:05
  Speaker 14: about this one thought every day. It helps to build
• 28:08
  Speaker 14: or re establish your intuition, which is also something that
• 28:11
  Speaker 14: a lot of people lack because they so often go
• 28:15
  Speaker 14: against what their gut tells them to do. That's the
• 28:18
  Speaker 14: mental category. Looking at the emotional category, that could be
• 28:21
  Speaker 14: meditation every day really coming into a space of knowing
• 28:25
  Speaker 14: how to be with yourself, how to meet yourself, how
• 28:27
  Speaker 14: to remember all of who you truly are outside of
• 28:31
  Speaker 14: the roles that we play in life, outside of the
• 28:33
  Speaker 14: things that have happened to us. You look at physical
• 28:36
  Speaker 14: for some that's a workout, but that could also look
• 28:38
  Speaker 14: like a daily stretch practice, that could look like yoga,
• 28:41
  Speaker 14: that could look like remembering to massage your own shoulders
• 28:45
  Speaker 14: at the end of the night because you're aching and
• 28:47
  Speaker 14: you deserve your own touch. And then if we look
• 28:49
  Speaker 14: at the spiritual category, that could really look like affirmations
• 28:54
  Speaker 14: every day speaking life over yourself, and let's take it
• 28:57
  Speaker 14: a step deeper than some of the ones of like
• 28:59
  Speaker 14: I am abundant or I am love or I am strong,
• 29:02
  Speaker 14: really call forward what you want to embody. You know,
• 29:06
  Speaker 14: one of my first affirmations and my healing journey was
• 29:10
  Speaker 14: I'm a precious child of God, leading from my heart's center,
• 29:14
  Speaker 14: working in mastery of my being. Saying that over myself
• 29:18
  Speaker 14: every day changed me. So doing something every day that
• 29:22
  Speaker 14: supports who you are and who you're becoming and who
• 29:26
  Speaker 14: you have become is essential. It also teaches you emotional regulation,
• 29:31
  Speaker 14: which means that every day you can go into the
• 29:33
  Speaker 14: world as your true self and not as the version
• 29:35
  Speaker 14: of you that's constantly reacting to things.
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: What does self acceptance look like?
• 29:41
  Speaker 14: Deep surrender and deep trust. To accept yourself means that
• 29:46
  Speaker 14: you are aware of all that you are, including the
• 29:50
  Speaker 14: things that may be a little bit unfinished or the
• 29:52
  Speaker 14: things that you may have judged, but to know that
• 29:54
  Speaker 14: it all serves purpose. To have acceptance is to also
• 29:58
  Speaker 14: have this trust that I may not like everything that's
• 30:02
  Speaker 14: happening right now or that has happened to me, but
• 30:05
  Speaker 14: I do understand and trust that it is serving a
• 30:08
  Speaker 14: purpose I don't yet know, and so I am an
• 30:11
  Speaker 14: acceptance of what currently is doesn't mean you don't want
• 30:15
  Speaker 14: it to change, doesn't mean it doesn't have the potential
• 30:17
  Speaker 14: to change.
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: Is that the first step to beginning to love yourself?
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: How do you begin to love yourself?
• 30:23
  Speaker 14: I think they're kind of both happening at the same time,
• 30:25
  Speaker 14: but I will say, you know, to love yourself, it's
• 30:29
  Speaker 14: a constantly evolving process. But I think it does require
• 30:32
  Speaker 14: that daily practice that I talked about. Loving yourself can't
• 30:35
  Speaker 14: be related to how really you look, how other people
• 30:39
  Speaker 14: are validating you or not, how they're treating you. It
• 30:42
  Speaker 14: has to be like I exist, and that's enough, and
• 30:46
  Speaker 14: that alone is worthy of love.
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: The action I want to ask is, like, you know,
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: I know we have a lot of people listening right now.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: They might have seen the sessions they you know, probably
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: listen to dropping gems. I want to do like a
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: mindfulness minute, Like what's what's a breathing exercise? Is something
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: that we could do to like just ground people right
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: now in this moment.
• 31:05
  Speaker 14: I would love to are you guys all going to
• 31:06
  Speaker 14: do with me?
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: Sure? Okay? I want to ask.
• 31:10
  Speaker 14: Everybody right now listening connecting to the sound in my voice,
• 31:14
  Speaker 14: come into a relaxed state with your body. And I
• 31:17
  Speaker 14: want to invite you to gently close your eyes, let
• 31:20
  Speaker 14: your spine feel straight and support it. Release any tension
• 31:24
  Speaker 14: that maybe in your shoulders, maybe turn your palms upward
• 31:28
  Speaker 14: into a state of receiving. Unclench your job there's any
• 31:33
  Speaker 14: pressure present, and now let yourself just stretch your neck
• 31:36
  Speaker 14: a little bit from side to side. And now let's
• 31:39
  Speaker 14: connect to our breath. First, begin to notice how your
• 31:43
  Speaker 14: natural breath is feeling in your body. And now I
• 31:47
  Speaker 14: want to invite you to take your right hand and
• 31:51
  Speaker 14: place it over your chest, right at your heart center.
• 31:54
  Speaker 14: And now just notice what that pressure of your hand
• 31:57
  Speaker 14: feels like. Now we're going to begin some deep breathing
• 32:01
  Speaker 14: through her noses. We're going to do some big inhales
• 32:04
  Speaker 14: through her nose and then out of our nose, and
• 32:09
  Speaker 14: we'll do this three times together. And what we're looking
• 32:12
  Speaker 14: to do is take a big deep inhale, slowly fully,
• 32:18
  Speaker 14: starting now filling your chest and really stretch, take it
• 32:23
  Speaker 14: a little more air, and then hold the air at
• 32:26
  Speaker 14: the top once it's in. And now as we breathe
• 32:30
  Speaker 14: out of our nose, I want you to do it
• 32:32
  Speaker 14: slowly and fully, and now we'll begin that breath again
• 32:37
  Speaker 14: and through your nose, let your chest expand your heart open,
• 32:43
  Speaker 14: hold it and release. And now begin again.
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: In through your nose.
• 32:53
  Speaker 14: And hold it and release that breath, and it'll turn
• 32:59
  Speaker 14: a right. Now, silently to yourself, I'd like you to repeat,
• 33:05
  Speaker 14: I am calling forward my highest self, and I want
• 33:09
  Speaker 14: you to think about something currently present in your life.
• 33:12
  Speaker 14: It could be perceived as good as challenging, but something
• 33:17
  Speaker 14: that you've really been chewing on lately, some dynamic maybe
• 33:21
  Speaker 14: in your life or relationship, or something you're excited about.
• 33:26
  Speaker 14: And I would just want you to hold that seed
• 33:28
  Speaker 14: in your mind's eye, and I want you to think
• 33:30
  Speaker 14: about any nourishing or evolutionary choices or lens of perceptions
• 33:37
  Speaker 14: that you can shift to around whatever this morsel is
• 33:42
  Speaker 14: that you're chewing on. Is it about surrendering, is it
• 33:45
  Speaker 14: about an action step, or is it just an observation
• 33:49
  Speaker 14: something that can be released. I want you to think
• 33:51
  Speaker 14: of an intention around it. And maybe it is my
• 33:55
  Speaker 14: intention is to release this, or my intention is to
• 34:01
  Speaker 14: really feel all of this, or my intention is to
• 34:05
  Speaker 14: manifest this and silently within your own hearts to yourselves.
• 34:12
  Speaker 14: I want you to state that intention my intention is.
• 34:17
  Speaker 14: And now we're going to do a cleansing lion's breath,
• 34:19
  Speaker 14: which is going to be deep in hell through your nose,
• 34:23
  Speaker 14: and then it'll be followed out by signing it out
• 34:26
  Speaker 14: through your mouth with your tongue out and it'll sound
• 34:29
  Speaker 14: a little like this. So we'll begin our in hell
• 34:35
  Speaker 14: now through our noses and release through your mouth, and
• 34:45
  Speaker 14: now shake out your hand that was on your heart,
• 34:48
  Speaker 14: allow it to drop back down to the tops of
• 34:50
  Speaker 14: your thighs, and as you feel ready, gently open your eyes.
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: How can I want to sleep this night?
• 34:59
  Speaker 14: And you know that experience that we just did, and
• 35:01
  Speaker 14: everyone could start and end their day like that it
• 35:05
  Speaker 14: probably spent maybe a minute there. That is a daily practice.
• 35:10
  Speaker 14: What we just did that was breathwork. So that's an
• 35:12
  Speaker 14: experience that you can invite into your life to regulate
• 35:16
  Speaker 14: your nervousness. Yes, because what was happening internally as we
• 35:19
  Speaker 14: did that was our body was able to come into
• 35:21
  Speaker 14: the present moment. If you're under deep stress or you
• 35:25
  Speaker 14: have had trauma, you don't feel present in your body.
• 35:29
  Speaker 14: And so to just be able to settle into yourself
• 35:33
  Speaker 14: and then to give yourself that nourishing breath that resets
• 35:37
  Speaker 14: your emotional center. It changes what's possible.
• 35:40
  Speaker 6: The thing about.
• 35:41
  Speaker 14: Trauma, depression, stress, anxiety, it limits what's possible in your
• 35:46
  Speaker 14: life because it limits the choices you make and how
• 35:49
  Speaker 14: you view yourself.
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: Well, thank you so much, Debbie for to follow you.
• 35:55
  Speaker 14: Dev hev me on Instagram at Debbie Brown, my website
• 35:58
  Speaker 14: Debbie Brown and on Amazon on Prime Video watch The Sessions.
• 36:02
  Speaker 14: It is an incredible, incredible documentary by Religion of Sports, myself,
• 36:07
  Speaker 14: Deepak Chopra and NBA superstar Draymond Green.
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: And pick up Debbie Brown's book, Crystal Bliss. Devil was
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: talking about crystals way before everybody else was that book
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: dropped in with twenty fourteen. Yeah, and make sure you
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: subscribed to Debbie's podcast dropping Gyms on the Black Effect
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: podcast network. It's so many you know, high level conscious
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: conversations on that podcast, So make sure you subscribed to
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: that Black Effects.
• 36:32
  Speaker 7: Well, Breakfast Club, it's Debbie Rapp the Breakfast.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: Club Morning Everybody. It's DJ Envy Jess, Hilarious, Charlamage the
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: guy we are the Breakfast Club Jess. It's on maternity leave,
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: so Laura LaRosa is filling in and we got a
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: special guest in the building, the Icon Living. Yes, missus Erica,
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: welcome back.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Peace, Peace, peace.
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: How are you feeling?
• 36:54
  Speaker 6: Exclisit there?
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: You going off right?
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: Congratulations on receiving the cf DA Fashion Icon Awards.
• 37:01
  Speaker 14: Oh, thank you very very much.
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: I have no idea what that means, but I feel
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: like you deserve all the awards.
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: Congratch they say, I found out it's the Oscar of fashion. Really,
• 37:11
  Speaker 6: so that that award means a lot to people in
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: the fashion industry and to us as artists as well,
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: you know, creators who are love as well trying to
• 37:21
  Speaker 6: you know, evolve our culture, you know, So that means
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: a lot to be recognized.
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: It's always fore like you had an effortless style. Do
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: you really put a lot of thought into how you
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: how you drive?
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: Sometimes?
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: Okay?
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: You know, sometimes I do, and sometimes it's just grace.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: Now, you said that during your speech that this was
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: an award that you wanted for a long time. Was
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: that true that long after?
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: Since? You know, I didn't even know that you could
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: get an award for that, but just wanted to be
• 37:45
  Speaker 6: recognized for the canvas that I create when I go out.
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: It's really important to me. It's my therapy. You know,
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: I can't leave without half of mine, like I said,
• 37:57
  Speaker 6: and the speak together, it was just something that came
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: with my head. You know, it's a nagging thing, and
• 38:04
  Speaker 6: sometimes when I don't try really hard, it sometimes gracefully
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: comes together. I guess maybe because of my attention, the
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: fashion gods gave me the keys out here in these streets.
• 38:14
  Speaker 9: You talked about your best friend who accompanied you to
• 38:17
  Speaker 9: the award, and afraid of him introducing you to a
• 38:20
  Speaker 9: lot of the fashion houses and stuff like that. Were
• 38:22
  Speaker 9: fashion houses always like open and like rushing to support
• 38:26
  Speaker 9: you in all of your creative ideas or did you
• 38:28
  Speaker 9: have to was there a fight, because a lot of
• 38:29
  Speaker 9: artists talk about it being a fight trying to get
• 38:31
  Speaker 9: into the couture houses.
• 38:32
  Speaker 6: You know, I was out since nineteen ninety seven, and
• 38:35
  Speaker 6: social media was really the opening to a lot of
• 38:38
  Speaker 6: these relationships because they could now directly get to the
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: artists where they probably didn't know how to get to
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: the ones that they wanted to feature before. The first
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: person that reached out to me was Tom Ford. Tom
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: Ford wanted to do a perfume at White Petruli, which
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: was this natural incense labor for years. This was two
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: thousand and two two. Yeah. So that's Tom Ford and
• 39:07
  Speaker 6: some Fords from Texas as well. So we kind of
• 39:09
  Speaker 6: formed of a bond. I guess as I evolved my
• 39:12
  Speaker 6: style other uh uh houses or artists, cause it's really
• 39:17
  Speaker 6: the creative director. Yeah, it's the person. He is the
• 39:21
  Speaker 6: He is the house at the time because his vision
• 39:23
  Speaker 6: is trusted most. And they started, you know, kind of
• 39:26
  Speaker 6: paying attention to you know, the good, the guardiness or
• 39:28
  Speaker 6: the freedness or the hoobo sheetness. It it's been called
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: all kinds of things. Next words, Roberto Teach sheet m
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: I mean he was uh the creetive director of J
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: and she at the time, and that was my first
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: booll campaign and he let me co style with him
• 39:44
  Speaker 6: put things together. And I think it just after that
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: I was kind of, you know, I was on the
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: radar or for a certain thing. Definitely the page to
• 39:53
  Speaker 6: go to if you want to know what's.
• 39:54
  Speaker 9: Next, And how do you pick, Like the other day
• 39:57
  Speaker 9: at the CFDA Wards, you're in Tom Brown, how do
• 39:59
  Speaker 9: you pick designers? In which houses now you want to
• 40:01
  Speaker 9: work with? Because I'm sure they're all banging. You can
• 40:04
  Speaker 9: do what you want now.
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: Right And I picked Tom specifically for this event because
• 40:09
  Speaker 6: he's the chairman of the event, yes, and he's he's
• 40:12
  Speaker 6: also a very very good friend of life and his
• 40:15
  Speaker 6: art is just so amazing. So I thought, since I
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: was being honored, I would also honor him by wearing
• 40:21
  Speaker 6: one of his pieces. And I chose one from Runway,
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: a really beautiful architectural shape, real pretty, and I said,
• 40:29
  Speaker 6: but I need something futuristic ancient to go on top.
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: And I saw this AI. I think he saw this
• 40:35
  Speaker 6: post this morning. I'm not sure, but I saw this
• 40:38
  Speaker 6: AI rendering of this this head piece, and I reached
• 40:43
  Speaker 6: out to the person and I told him, this is
• 40:45
  Speaker 6: really beautiful I would love to challenge a designer to
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: bring this to life in the five D world or
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: D world. He said, okay.
• 40:53
  Speaker 14: So I called a.
• 40:54
  Speaker 6: Friend, Chris Habana, who does a lot of crafting, amazing jeweler,
• 40:59
  Speaker 6: and he's said yes, And he had three days and
• 41:01
  Speaker 6: he pulled the team together and they did some three
• 41:03
  Speaker 6: D printing to try to really, it's amazing, it's amazing.
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: Do you remember where you were at when you got
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: the call that you was getting the c FDA.
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: I was at home and my agency forwarded me the email.
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: I was like, wow, okay, that's good stuff, that's good.
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: Did you know what you was going with? Did you
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: see that vision?
• 41:23
  Speaker 6: Absolutely not? Okay, absolutely not. This thing was three weeks away.
• 41:28
  Speaker 6: I know I was gonna wear it tomorrow.
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: You've done capsules before with people and collaborated. You ever
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: thought about doing your whole line, like a full clothing
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: line from America bad from Ruda to Tutor and everything
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: in between, And.
• 41:41
  Speaker 6: I have thought about that. I had a chance to
• 41:43
  Speaker 6: practice that with Marnie and Francesco Riso. We did a
• 41:49
  Speaker 6: collapse Marnie and Badu last year. A lot of things
• 41:53
  Speaker 6: happened for me in fashion last year, right, you know
• 41:55
  Speaker 6: there was the last two years. It was my first
• 41:59
  Speaker 6: fashion week, so that's when I really started to catch
• 42:04
  Speaker 6: the bug and I met Francesco because we went to
• 42:07
  Speaker 6: the met ball together and we drew up some things
• 42:11
  Speaker 6: and talked about some things and had a capsule line
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: that came out and these leads are part of it.
• 42:19
  Speaker 9: The collab was everywhere. It was what yes, everybody was
• 42:23
  Speaker 9: in y'all collab in Marnie. That was your first fashion week? Yes,
• 42:26
  Speaker 9: like you attending or like what do you mean by that?
• 42:28
  Speaker 6: Yeah? It was my first fashion week in twenty twenty three.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, and that was so during that time. That
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: collab is No.
• 42:36
  Speaker 6: Twenty two?
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: Is that collab? The collab when you got to work
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: with your daughter of Puma two with Marnie or was it?
• 42:42
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: Okay, yes? And how did that feel?
• 42:45
  Speaker 9: Because it's like, okay, we see lebron and Bronnie on
• 42:47
  Speaker 9: the court and their like you know, but like this
• 42:49
  Speaker 9: is your lane and now your daughter is coming into
• 42:51
  Speaker 9: it and you all are working with a fashion house.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: How did you feel just doing that with her?
• 42:55
  Speaker 6: Oh? It was surreal. It was a dream, you know,
• 42:59
  Speaker 6: because of Puma, such an individual person that I didn't
• 43:02
  Speaker 6: know what direction she wanted to go in, and I
• 43:05
  Speaker 6: still don't. You know, she's she's twenty, so she's kind
• 43:08
  Speaker 6: of finding her way. And sometimes when your kid is
• 43:12
  Speaker 6: an artist, they don't want to follow your shadow. Yeah,
• 43:16
  Speaker 6: they want to find their own thing. But she was
• 43:19
  Speaker 6: cool with supporting me and standing beside me, and she
• 43:23
  Speaker 6: was like, Mom, I don't care. Yes, this is for you.
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: So would you do your own line? Do you want
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: to do your line or that's not something that's in
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: your posture right now?
• 43:30
  Speaker 6: Absolutely?
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: Would you have the time for it?
• 43:33
  Speaker 6: Oh? Yeah, I would make time.
• 43:34
  Speaker 9: I saw online you were doing some interviews just after
• 43:37
  Speaker 9: their words, and you were in some Jordan's. Yes were
• 43:39
  Speaker 9: though that was a Jordan Virgil clab. No, okay, it
• 43:44
  Speaker 9: was because they were saying it was like an unreleased.
• 43:46
  Speaker 6: It was an unreleased one, but it wasn't Virgil. It
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: was shoe surging.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: Gotch you okay?
• 43:52
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: People just give you like how do Yeah?
• 43:55
  Speaker 6: They're doing.
• 43:56
  Speaker 9: People online was going crazy over the colab. They were
• 43:59
  Speaker 9: trying to figure out where, like how you even got
• 44:01
  Speaker 9: the shoes?
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: Showed up at my door? Yo? I was like yeah, I.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: Was like yo, all my fashion block page out.
• 44:12
  Speaker 6: Yes, shoot, y'all zoomed in on.
• 44:14
  Speaker 9: I zoomed in because I'm like, I don't even see
• 44:16
  Speaker 9: any of virgils, Like, you know he has anything he does,
• 44:20
  Speaker 9: you know it's him.
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't seen none of that.
• 44:21
  Speaker 5: She's sarved to get busy.
• 44:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, maybe I'm not gonna say nothing about it,
• 44:27
  Speaker 6: nothing but what we will tell y'all another time when
• 44:31
  Speaker 6: the news come out.
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: That's right, you feel about that.
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: We have more with Erica bat do when we come back.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: Don't move.
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: It's the Breakfast Club, Good Morning Burning.
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: Everybody is DJ env Jess Hilarius, Charlamage the guy. We
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: are the Breakfast Club long A Rosa feeling in for
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: Jess and was still kicking it with Erica Baddo Charlam.
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: Now, you've always been an artist that's sensitive about You
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: told that a long time ago. But you said in
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: your speech at c fd A that is scary being
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: an artist in the social media era.
• 44:56
  Speaker 5: So how is social media made that critique worse?
• 44:59
  Speaker 6: I guess yeah, it is scary. I mean I've heard
• 45:02
  Speaker 6: my own kids be afraid to express and share their art.
• 45:06
  Speaker 6: Eric Abadu, kid is scared to share their art and
• 45:09
  Speaker 6: express themselves because the audience is so vicious at this point,
• 45:14
  Speaker 6: and they have such a huge appetite for blood, and
• 45:19
  Speaker 6: they want people to be disciplined and humbled and punished
• 45:23
  Speaker 6: for their success. Almost it's what it seems like. So
• 45:27
  Speaker 6: that's why, you know, a lot of kids are afraid
• 45:30
  Speaker 6: to share their work or share their art, or feel
• 45:34
  Speaker 6: like they have to come at it with some kind
• 45:36
  Speaker 6: of armor on. And that armor doesn't allow for the
• 45:40
  Speaker 6: art to truly express itself, in my opinion, so it's
• 45:45
  Speaker 6: a scary time for art. We didn't have to do that.
• 45:48
  Speaker 6: We didn't have to deal with that. You heard the
• 45:50
  Speaker 6: few little comments and things, but those weren't strong enough
• 45:54
  Speaker 6: to penetrate a strong person. But these things are now
• 46:00
  Speaker 6: because when people come in here in numbers. We've talked
• 46:03
  Speaker 6: about group thinks so many times. It was a prediction
• 46:06
  Speaker 6: that I made with the Windows Seed in twenty ten
• 46:11
  Speaker 6: a group thing would overshadow art, and it is right
• 46:15
  Speaker 6: now because people can, people can. I think it's very
• 46:19
  Speaker 6: smart to get at the channels instead of getting at
• 46:22
  Speaker 6: the the the bloggers and the people. We see artists
• 46:26
  Speaker 6: penalizing the channels themselves, and I think that's the smart thing,
• 46:30
  Speaker 6: because that's what has to change. If that doesn't, if
• 46:33
  Speaker 6: there's no place to do that then and it won't
• 46:36
  Speaker 6: be done.
• 46:36
  Speaker 5: I agree.
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: Does that make you hesitant to release music?
• 46:39
  Speaker 6: No, not me.
• 46:40
  Speaker 5: You haven't dropped in fourteen years.
• 46:42
  Speaker 6: Fourteen years, it's been some time.
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: Fifteen I can make you put your phone down.
• 46:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, twenty fifteen, let's take okay, the ten years.
• 46:55
  Speaker 16: But the album, well, well, one reason I don't have
• 47:00
  Speaker 16: to is because I am a performance artist and I've
• 47:05
  Speaker 16: been doing that constantly for the last thirty years, eight
• 47:09
  Speaker 16: years out, eight months out.
• 47:11
  Speaker 6: Of the year, all year round, I do. So that's
• 47:14
  Speaker 6: what I love to do. Only put out albums when
• 47:17
  Speaker 6: I have something to say, like you have something, yeah,
• 47:20
  Speaker 6: something pressing to say or push out. But I have
• 47:25
  Speaker 6: more than enough space to get my art out on stage,
• 47:29
  Speaker 6: so it's not totally necessary to put out album For me.
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I would just love to see the like the
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: Division of God has shown you, because like, if you
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: look at your catalog right your catalog literally has predicted
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: where we are now. So I can only imagine the
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: stuff you're creating right now. How far into the future
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: you seeing things?
• 47:49
  Speaker 6: Me too, I mean, I'm writing right now. I got
• 47:51
  Speaker 6: a project coming.
• 47:52
  Speaker 5: Out soon, a full album.
• 47:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah wow, but I can't tell y'all about it. How
• 48:00
  Speaker 6: soon to be, Biden?
• 48:02
  Speaker 5: I just got got goosebump? So how soon?
• 48:05
  Speaker 6: It's gonna be soon?
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: Soon, like by the end of the year soon or
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: next year soon.
• 48:09
  Speaker 6: See, it's an important one. It's a collab album.
• 48:13
  Speaker 5: Oh you're another artist.
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: You're not gonna say, who are you?
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: You can hundred three thousand a rap again?
• 48:18
  Speaker 6: He's a guy that's okay, So yeah, wow, do I
• 48:22
  Speaker 6: think you're a rap again?
• 48:23
  Speaker 9: I'll say, is this gonna be the collab album that
• 48:24
  Speaker 9: gets in the rap again? And also you can answer
• 48:26
  Speaker 9: do you think he'll rap again?
• 48:27
  Speaker 6: And and why would you say is this gonna be
• 48:30
  Speaker 6: the collab album? Because you're assuming that it's him. Yeah,
• 48:34
  Speaker 6: I'm asking you can assume whatever you want. But I
• 48:38
  Speaker 6: don't know. I don't know. I don't think he has to.
• 48:41
  Speaker 6: He's speaking with that instrument. It's the same thing. It missed,
• 48:46
  Speaker 6: the same kind of thing. Yeah. The way he make
• 48:48
  Speaker 6: us feeling with bombs over back Dad is the way
• 48:52
  Speaker 6: he makes people who are ready for that feel. It's
• 48:55
  Speaker 6: the same thing. It's his energy, it's his air. When
• 48:58
  Speaker 6: I feel it. That's the rap to me. He wrapping
• 49:02
  Speaker 6: to me, that's true.
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: I can see what y'all are twin flames too. Because
• 49:06
  Speaker 4: he was on stage and it was one part of
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: the show. He just started going making all kinds of
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: noises and the crowd was answering him back, and then
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: he goes, I wasn't saying, he.
• 49:17
  Speaker 9: Presented you with your c FDA fashion that kind of word. Yeah,
• 49:21
  Speaker 9: on the way that, like, I know you, you reached
• 49:23
  Speaker 9: out to him to have him present to you, and
• 49:26
  Speaker 9: you guys had a conversation.
• 49:26
  Speaker 6: He was saying, I did.
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 49:29
  Speaker 6: It was a kind of tricky thing. I actually reached
• 49:31
  Speaker 6: out to Tianna Taylor because I think she's next. Wow, Yeah,
• 49:37
  Speaker 6: I think she's I think she has a really good
• 49:40
  Speaker 6: grasp for on art, in fashion, functional art. I'm really
• 49:45
  Speaker 6: impressed and inspired by. But I asked her. I'd asked
• 49:48
  Speaker 6: andre before but he didn't respond, And then they came
• 49:54
  Speaker 6: back and totally after I asked Tianna that Andreas said yes,
• 50:00
  Speaker 6: and I had to figure out how to you know,
• 50:02
  Speaker 6: maneuver that. Yeah, you know, because that meant a lot
• 50:05
  Speaker 6: to her. Oh yes, I want to tell her I
• 50:07
  Speaker 6: love you so very much, and I'm so happy that
• 50:09
  Speaker 6: we're a friends, and I hope that that did not
• 50:12
  Speaker 6: bring a wedge between us in any way. But that's
• 50:14
  Speaker 6: hundred eighty thousand girl and your best friend.
• 50:17
  Speaker 5: You got to talk to people. You gotta talk through
• 50:18
  Speaker 5: people to get to him. No, oh, you just said
• 50:20
  Speaker 5: they came my sister Okay told me that he was
• 50:23
  Speaker 5: found you.
• 50:24
  Speaker 6: No, No, well sometimes, yeah, it depends you know how
• 50:28
  Speaker 6: busy he is. Yeah, I'll follow proper protocol.
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I said, artist, when did you realize that you
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: didn't get You said, You're gonna do what you want
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: to do. You're gonna put out what you want to
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: put out. You don't necessarily have to fit in the
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: box of every artist. You don't have to follow the
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: platform and say this is it, take a leave it.
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: When did you get to that.
• 50:48
  Speaker 6: Point in the contract negotiation in nineteen ninety seven, ninety five?
• 50:56
  Speaker 6: Oh no, I mean I didn't have to do it,
• 50:59
  Speaker 6: you know, and they didn't have to you know. I
• 51:01
  Speaker 6: figured it was a partnership and I was doing the
• 51:03
  Speaker 6: record label of Favor. I knew who I was, I
• 51:06
  Speaker 6: knew what I was getting ready to do. I had
• 51:07
  Speaker 6: a mission and nothing was going to infiltrate it, not
• 51:10
  Speaker 6: even my own fearing doubts. And I'm still on mission.
• 51:14
  Speaker 6: Best work is still in me and I have not
• 51:16
  Speaker 6: accomplished whatever that is yet, because there's still this feeling
• 51:20
  Speaker 6: of use and greenness and gross.
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: When you look at other artists without saying names, do
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: you see it in them like they're selling themselves out?
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: I know they're different. What made me think about it is,
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: you know, when j Cole jumped into that beef, he
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: came back and said this is not for me. People
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: isshed on them and said this, that and the other.
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: But that was his assignment and you can't be mad
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: as assignment, and even me as a fan, was kind
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: of like he was on a mission.
• 51:45
  Speaker 5: He realized.
• 51:46
  Speaker 6: I understand that sometimes I believe that, you know, being
• 51:49
  Speaker 6: on mission or your assignment is not always to do
• 51:52
  Speaker 6: something heavenly and great and good. Sometimes it's to create
• 51:55
  Speaker 6: some chaos so that you may shake things up. Fertilizer
• 51:59
  Speaker 6: is put into a pot to disturb the roots. It's
• 52:02
  Speaker 6: poisoning them so they have to move. You can't really
• 52:05
  Speaker 6: judge it. You don't know what somebody's mission in because
• 52:08
  Speaker 6: it all counts.
• 52:09
  Speaker 5: It's all matter, and you don't know what journey God
• 52:12
  Speaker 5: got them more.
• 52:12
  Speaker 6: That's right.
• 52:13
  Speaker 5: You don't get Macha Max without Malcolm Little, that's right.
• 52:16
  Speaker 6: You don't get Ericabaudu without trying to take it.
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: Street name.
• 52:23
  Speaker 6: You don't get Eric Abadu without butchery knife Batty there.
• 52:27
  Speaker 6: That's my new Monica.
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: Everybody, we got more with Erica bad Doo. When we
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: come back, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning to everybody.
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: We are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking with Ericka
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: Baddo Lauren.
• 52:38
  Speaker 9: Were their points like bag Lady, I was saying earlier
• 52:41
  Speaker 9: in the room that I remember when bag Lady for
• 52:44
  Speaker 9: me started hitting differently and I was listening to it.
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: And it was like, ooh, I get it now.
• 52:49
  Speaker 9: When I was younger, I was just listening to it
• 52:51
  Speaker 9: because it was played in my house and I loved
• 52:52
  Speaker 9: the song. But I literally remember that feeling for you.
• 52:55
  Speaker 9: Were there points in your life where you had to
• 52:57
  Speaker 9: be like, oh I get it, like I feel it lady,
• 53:00
  Speaker 9: or like was this song of service for someone else?
• 53:02
  Speaker 6: You mean feeling my own song?
• 53:04
  Speaker 9: You're you're feeling your just Even before Bad Lady was created,
• 53:07
  Speaker 9: maybe there was a time in your life that you know,
• 53:10
  Speaker 9: created or inspired the song. When did you get out
• 53:13
  Speaker 9: of the bad Lady phase? And what did that feel
• 53:15
  Speaker 9: like for you?
• 53:15
  Speaker 5: She has a lot of baggage.
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: Men have told Lauren that she needs the healing. A
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: couple of men did that to Lauren. They said, I'll
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: spend the block what you need to heal.
• 53:26
  Speaker 5: You need to work on yourself.
• 53:28
  Speaker 6: So what y'all think about the two guys instead of that?
• 53:30
  Speaker 5: Be right? I think they're right on a journey.
• 53:34
  Speaker 6: She's on a journey. And the two men that you respect,
• 53:37
  Speaker 6: one of them are respect told you that you need
• 53:40
  Speaker 6: to work on yourself. Yes, as an insult or as
• 53:44
  Speaker 6: encouragement in love.
• 53:45
  Speaker 9: The second one, I think it was an insult and
• 53:47
  Speaker 9: deflecting the first.
• 53:49
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 53:49
  Speaker 9: The first one, I think it was like he really cares,
• 53:52
  Speaker 9: Like that's why when he said it, I was like, Okay,
• 53:53
  Speaker 9: I hear you. I'm in a point in my life
• 53:55
  Speaker 9: now where I can do the accountability.
• 53:56
  Speaker 6: But does he need to work on himself as well?
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: Yes he does?
• 54:00
  Speaker 6: Does he know? Yes?
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: He does?
• 54:02
  Speaker 6: Okay?
• 54:02
  Speaker 7: Cool?
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: Second one really know, like it's.
• 54:04
  Speaker 6: You really know he got to work on hisself.
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: I don't even want nothing to do with that, Like
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: it's bad.
• 54:08
  Speaker 9: But I asked that because I just feel like as
• 54:11
  Speaker 9: I got older and realized how much you do care,
• 54:13
  Speaker 9: especially emotionally, sometimes yeah, it weighs into other things and
• 54:17
  Speaker 9: it closes doors, or it cuts off relationships, or you
• 54:19
  Speaker 9: just miss out on good things. And every time I
• 54:21
  Speaker 9: listen to that song, I'm like, man, how did she
• 54:24
  Speaker 9: know that people was going to need this?
• 54:25
  Speaker 14: You know?
• 54:26
  Speaker 6: I was writing what I felt, you know, in my heart,
• 54:28
  Speaker 6: and I did hear it later and I talking to myself,
• 54:33
  Speaker 6: my future self.
• 54:34
  Speaker 9: Where were you at that time of your life when
• 54:36
  Speaker 9: you were talking to your future self? Like, what was
• 54:37
  Speaker 9: the transition you were trying to make?
• 54:38
  Speaker 6: I think I was transitioning out of a relationship where
• 54:42
  Speaker 6: I was not happy about it, yeah, and realizing that
• 54:47
  Speaker 6: I had to leave some things behind, some parts of
• 54:49
  Speaker 6: me behind. So it felt like a funeral or sort
• 54:52
  Speaker 6: because you have a party, you have to die every
• 54:55
  Speaker 6: time you evolve, You got to leave it back there.
• 54:57
  Speaker 6: You want it because it's familiar, and a lot of
• 55:01
  Speaker 6: times we like to resort to the familiar, even if
• 55:03
  Speaker 6: it talks. So you have to lead at courts that
• 55:07
  Speaker 6: beautiful old you that's to be left, and you have
• 55:10
  Speaker 6: to walk forward and I look back. That's the hardest part,
• 55:13
  Speaker 6: not leaving the people, but it's leaving your always and you.
• 55:17
  Speaker 4: You're also playing Lucille in the Netflix movie The Piano Lesson.
• 55:23
  Speaker 5: Were you a fan of the play.
• 55:24
  Speaker 6: Absolutely. I went to HBC Gramley State University. I was
• 55:28
  Speaker 6: a theater major. I was a lesbian. So we did
• 55:31
  Speaker 6: a lot of August working material Lomaine Hansbury and a
• 55:35
  Speaker 6: myriad of black artists playwrights. But we did do that
• 55:40
  Speaker 6: play as well. And Lucille's part is very tiny, you know.
• 55:45
  Speaker 6: But the most important role I played was composing music
• 55:49
  Speaker 6: for the movie. Malcolm Washington, who is Denzel's son, is directing,
• 55:59
  Speaker 6: and he called me and asked if I were put
• 56:01
  Speaker 6: together some music for it. And I called my very
• 56:04
  Speaker 6: good friend Daniel Jones got risting, so safe journey. Daniel Jones.
• 56:08
  Speaker 6: He came and put some beautiful pieces together nineteen thirties
• 56:13
  Speaker 6: and I wrote, uh, lyrics over them, wow, And they're
• 56:16
  Speaker 6: use they're used in the movie The Piano Lesson, I
• 56:20
  Speaker 6: mean on Netflix.
• 56:21
  Speaker 4: Then they he's producing The Piano Lesson, right, Yes, was
• 56:25
  Speaker 4: he involved lately?
• 56:26
  Speaker 6: He he was around, but he he stepped back and
• 56:29
  Speaker 6: let his children work.
• 56:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, what do you learn from your children now now
• 56:34
  Speaker 5: that they're grown?
• 56:35
  Speaker 6: Oh, so many things. Like I told you guys, there
• 56:38
  Speaker 6: are definitely improvements on my design. Puma is at a
• 56:40
  Speaker 6: place now at twenty that I was thirty before I
• 56:45
  Speaker 6: was at her level of understanding and emotional intelligence and
• 56:50
  Speaker 6: compassion for people, integrity, discipline. Yeah, I was still a
• 56:55
  Speaker 6: child kind of twenty. I learned a lot from them,
• 56:58
  Speaker 6: and they aren't very judgmental, you know, so they just
• 57:02
  Speaker 6: kind of go along with whatever I do. We never
• 57:05
  Speaker 6: had rules. It was just do what I say, and
• 57:07
  Speaker 6: they did that, watched me. You know, I never hid
• 57:10
  Speaker 6: anything from them. Yeah, they're they're turning. They're having their
• 57:12
  Speaker 6: turn at showing me and teaching me patience and severity. Mama,
• 57:17
  Speaker 6: you gotta say what you feel, feel what you say.
• 57:19
  Speaker 6: That's mars. That that's the electronic, a little good mars. Yeah,
• 57:26
  Speaker 6: they will, they'll tell me it will only be so
• 57:29
  Speaker 6: kind now. And our first favorite saying is a couplistic saying.
• 57:34
  Speaker 6: Severity without mercy is cruelty. Mercy without severity is weakness.
• 57:42
  Speaker 6: So we try to walk that line. You know, Kindness
• 57:46
  Speaker 6: isn't all it being you know, appearing nice kindness is
• 57:50
  Speaker 6: all also telling somebody to beat it right kind to yourself.
• 57:55
  Speaker 3: You know, I've seen the Behi behive chased you a
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: little bit for a little bit.
• 57:58
  Speaker 6: Where's the behind now?
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: On Twitter?
• 58:03
  Speaker 6: I ain't seen to be honest a long time, and
• 58:07
  Speaker 6: I love feest. They don't know I like it. I
• 58:11
  Speaker 6: love it, and I total him. Were in them lately though,
• 58:20
  Speaker 6: they're gonna tell me tomorrow see him tomorrow.
• 58:25
  Speaker 5: I like the tweet when you said, Jay, you're gonna
• 58:27
  Speaker 5: let this woman needs be say something. Jay, You're gonna
• 58:30
  Speaker 5: let this woman need be.
• 58:34
  Speaker 6: I don't know why people think take things so serious.
• 58:37
  Speaker 6: It's just my sense of humor. I love Jay.
• 58:40
  Speaker 9: Well you saw the cover though, knowing that there is
• 58:42
  Speaker 9: the inspiration, Like does do those inspiration moments? Are you
• 58:45
  Speaker 9: feeling like, oh my god, they saw what I was
• 58:47
  Speaker 9: trying to do, they love it, they still doing it?
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: Or do you feel like, oh that was mine? Like,
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: don't bite.
• 58:53
  Speaker 6: I have to be very careful with this because my
• 58:56
  Speaker 6: children are watching me and that generation why chain and
• 59:02
  Speaker 6: as much as we love our art, it doesn't belong
• 59:06
  Speaker 6: to us once it goes out in the world. However,
• 59:09
  Speaker 6: though you can't manage what people are going to do
• 59:13
  Speaker 6: with the art. You can't manage whether they're going to
• 59:16
  Speaker 6: duplicate it or do another interpretation of it, or just
• 59:19
  Speaker 6: enjoy it or use it as an inspiration. You can't
• 59:22
  Speaker 6: manage that. But you don't have to remain silent about it.
• 59:26
  Speaker 5: You can.
• 59:26
  Speaker 6: If it makes you feel a way, you should say
• 59:28
  Speaker 6: something about it.
• 59:29
  Speaker 4: My last question, I feel like everything you do is
• 59:30
  Speaker 4: spirit all. Like I said earlier, is it even possible
• 59:33
  Speaker 4: for you to do any type of art without divine
• 59:36
  Speaker 4: energy being involved?
• 59:37
  Speaker 6: I don't think so, even if I'm not aware of it,
• 59:40
  Speaker 6: it's always involved. Yeah, something I know what it is.
• 59:44
  Speaker 6: It's something we floating on that's giving us like choice
• 59:50
  Speaker 6: of some sort. Yeah, you know, we're born, we're told
• 59:56
  Speaker 6: you know was forborn. You know, our religion was here already.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 6: What we're supposed to believe in the tribe, the ways,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 6: the haunting ways, what we worship, how we worship, how
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 6: we learn, how we cook, how we dressed. There's a
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 6: tribe and you learn that. Hopefully you go outside of
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 6: that once you are of age to explore other things,
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 6: because you want to see if that is true. And
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 6: then now you're an individual human which creator in spirit,
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 6: and then you have to learn how to go to
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 6: walk in that humanness, in that spiritualness.
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  Speaker 14: Like the I know I've been waiting even we don't
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 14: realize how big the fan base is.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: The reach is, Oh, this is the figure that you've created.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah, this is the problem.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 6: This is the called tyrone video, so that we I
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 6: actually reached out to Funko to do this because I
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 6: thought it was important for my kids to have these.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 6: They love funkos.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 5: That's dope.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 6: And I surprised them one day and said, I have
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 6: a Funko that's so dope like your own funk o.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 6: You yeah, yeah, well.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: You it's beautiful. That's dope. Well, thank you again for
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: joining us. We always appreciate you.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 6: I appreciate you all always.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 5: Poor me Erica, it's the breakfast club. Good morning, thank you.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 6: Good morning.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 4: I say something you may not agree with doesn't mean
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 4: I'm mean, who's getting that donk that donkey that don't
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 4: don't don't don't dunk?
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 7: The other day?
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: Right here to the breakfast club, bitch, you call me
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: the donkey of the day, but I mean no harm.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 4: Don't here today goes to a Baltimore man by the
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 4: name of Kevin Gross. Kevin is forty six years old,
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 4: just like I am. But I clearly make better choices
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 4: than Kevin. You know how sometimes people say, oh, you
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 4: think you better than me? The answer is, yes, yes,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 4: I do, because I make better choices. Not judging you
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 4: for anything you got going on. But you asked me
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 4: a question, Oh you think you better than me? Yes, hell, yes,
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 4: because I understand the strongest principle of growth lies in
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 4: human choice, and I make better choices than you. And
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 4: if you are currently enjoying this thing called freedom, well
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 4: you make better choices than Kevin as well, because he's
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 4: in jail, currently facing charges for allegedly shooting a twenty
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 4: eight year old co worker on the side of I
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 4: ninety five this past Monday morning. I know some of
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 4: y'all right now are either at or on the way
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 4: to jobs where.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 5: You think you can't stand your coworker.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 4: You believe you hate this co worker with all your heart,
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 4: and you just might, okay, just be better than Kevin.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 4: And the way you continue to be better than Kevin
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 4: is simply by making the choice not to shoot your coworker.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 5: Let's go to WBALTV for the report.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 17: Polease bond denied for forty six year old Kevin Gross.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 17: He's facing charges for allegedly shooting a twenty eight year
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 17: old coworker on the side of I ninety five early
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 17: Monday morning. According to charging documents, the victim called nine
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 17: to one one. When state police arrived, they found him
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 17: walking along the shoulder of ninety five with seven gunshot
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 17: wounds to the arm and torso. Court documents show he
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 17: told police he was on his way into work and
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 17: got a flat tire, so he pulled over on the
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 17: shoulder of ninety five, just north of the Howard County line.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 17: When he got out to inspect the tire, his coworker,
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 17: Kevin Gross, pulled up behind him and got out, wearing
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 17: a mask covering his mouth.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 9: Quote.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 17: Gross told him he must have hit a pothole or something,
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 17: but upon inspecting the tire, the victim could see the
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 17: tire had been slashed. Gross then produced a firearm and
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 17: began firing numerous shots end quote. Charging documents reveal that
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 17: two were assistant managers that planted aid in Elkridge. Gross
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 17: had recently been demoted, and the victim told police Gross
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 17: thought he had something to do with that demotion.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 5: Kevin, you got to write last name because this was gross.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 4: What a diabolical plan. The victim was on his way
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 4: to work and got a flat tire. He thought he
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 4: hit a pothole. His tire had been slashed. Oh, I
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 4: wanted who slashed him? And then when he got out
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 4: there inspect the tire, Kevin pulled up behind him with
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 4: a mask and shot him several times, all because he
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 4: thought his coworker got him demoted. Both of them were
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 4: assistant managers at Planet AID. Now y'all know what plan
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 4: today is right now?
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 4: They had organizations that collect the clothing donations. They got
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 4: the yellow bins all over the place you can put
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 4: the clothes and shoes in.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they accept clothing donations in seventeen hundred locations. Okay,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 4: in the Elkridge warehouse. You know where Elkridge is, right, yep.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 4: They collect fifteen point five million pounds of used clothes
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 4: and shoes annually. Well, clearly Kevin wasn't there for the car,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 4: so I needed to know what are the perks of being.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 5: An assistant manager at Planet eight.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 4: So I asked chat GPT, how much does an assistant
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 4: manager at Planet aid make? I don't know if this
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 4: is one hundred percent correct, but it says the average
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 4: salary for a manager at Planet aid might earn between
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 4: fifty thousand and sixty thousand annually. Now I need y'all
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 4: to always keep in mind that my education is limited
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 4: to a high school degree from night school. Okay, dropping
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  Speaker 4: the clues boumb for Berkeley High School rather than Monks Conta,
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  Speaker 4: South Carolina. But if it's one thing I understand is
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 4: prison math. And by prison math, I mean when you
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  Speaker 4: have to calculate in your mind whether or not the
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 4: choice you make is gonna be worth you going to prison. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: now let's do the prison math.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 4: I'm making fifty sixty grand a year and Baltimore as
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 4: a forty six year old man.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know about y'all.
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  Speaker 4: But if I can afford to put some food on
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  Speaker 4: my table and have a roof over my head, I'm
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 4: gonna be happy.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 4: Success is subjective, and if you're a freeman forty six
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  Speaker 4: years old, you can come and go as you please.
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  Speaker 4: You got a job you maintaining. That's a good life.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 4: If you don't think it's a good life, go to
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  Speaker 4: a prison right now and talk to these brothers doing fifteen,
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 4: doing twenty, doing twenty five, some of them doing forever,
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 4: and ask them when they trade lives with the freeman
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 4: making fifty to sixty grand as an assistant manager at
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 4: Planet eight.
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  Speaker 5: Hell, even if he got demoted, okay, even if he
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 5: got demoted, The.
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  Speaker 4: Warehouse lead role at Planet eight earns about twenty seven
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 4: thirty nine per hour. According to chat GPT, that's almost
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  Speaker 4: fifty seven grand a year if you working forty hours
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 4: a week. All I'm saying is, no matter how much
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 4: I can calculate this prison math.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, I've done addition, subtraction, multiplication, division. I tried to
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  Speaker 5: figure this out multiple ways, and guess what, it just
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  Speaker 5: don't compute.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, it just nothing add up. The victim is in
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 4: critical condition. He got seven times, he got shot seven times.
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  Speaker 4: Kevin Gross is charged with attempted first degree murder in Maryland.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 4: That's life in prison, first and second degree assault. Kevin
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  Speaker 4: Gross is also charged with first degree as sold, it's
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  Speaker 4: twenty five years in Maryland. Second degree is sold it's
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  Speaker 4: ten years in Maryland and he got other related charges.
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  Speaker 4: Moral of the story is Kevin is spending the rest
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 4: of his natural born life in prison. Therefore, the prison
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 4: math ain't adding up. It's just not worth it. You
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  Speaker 4: have to calculate it in your head. You got demoted.
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  Speaker 4: You don't even know if this.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 5: Person you shot had anything to do with.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 4: It, But even if they did, as soon as you
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 4: started formulating this plan in your head, just think about it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna cut his tires, I'm gonna shoot him a
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  Speaker 4: bunch of times. At some point your brain has to
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 4: say no, no, no, no, no, this prison math ain't mathing.
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  Speaker 4: This is not a situation that's worth having to eat
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 4: jail food for the rest of your life or having
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 4: an inmate treat your bunkie.
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  Speaker 5: Like a ball of cereal. So please let remy ma
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 5: give Kevin Gross the biggest he hall hee ha he ha.
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  Speaker 2: You stupid mother?
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 5: Are you dumb? You got demoted?
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 6: Take the l How do you get demoted from like
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 6: a Salvation army?
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  Speaker 5: Please? That's a good will?
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 6: Please?
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 5: And what could you do wrong?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 5: But he didn't even ask no questions. He just assumed it.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 5: Was this other this other person and shot him seven times.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 5: Now he's gonna spend the rest of his life in
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 5: prison for that. They don't need to play and you also,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 5: I mean we can if you want to what you
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 5: want to play a game? He's from Baltimore, the white
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 5: people in Baltimore.
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  Speaker 3: In Baltimore.
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  Speaker 9: No, but something that patty like that, like like you
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 9: got a point got a point clothing store. Then it's
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 9: not even like in a like a regular clothing store
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 9: plan b Yeah, like nah.
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  Speaker 5: Always do prison math though, whenever you're about.
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  Speaker 4: To make a choice that you think we're gonna get
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  Speaker 4: you in some type of trouble, especially if it's involving
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 4: any type of crime, just just calculated in your head.
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  Speaker 4: Is this worth the time you're gonna get? What's that situation?
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 5: That's it? All right?
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 3: Well, thank you for that donkey.
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  Speaker 7: Today the breakfast club.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 3: Warning everybody at CJ n V Jess hilarious, Charlamagna Dad,
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  Speaker 3: we are to breakfast club. Yes, it's on maternity leave,
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 3: so long on the roast is filling in and we
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  Speaker 3: got a special guest in the building. We have passed
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  Speaker 3: the stepfan Eki oh before I.
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  Speaker 4: Feel good, you got a new book out and not
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  Speaker 4: a power of your dreams. Yeah, I love a good
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  Speaker 4: dream book. I'm the type of person that I keep
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 4: dream books by my bedside. When I wake up, I
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 4: can look and see what certain things mean. Is that
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 4: what got you into wanting to write this book?
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  Speaker 9: No, So, I encountered God when I was nine years old,
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 9: and one of the ways that was so consistent was
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  Speaker 9: that he would speak to me through dreams. And it's
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 9: interesting where you talk about, you know, using like having
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  Speaker 9: books that tell you about symbols and things like that,
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  Speaker 9: because I think one of the reasons why maybe sometimes
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  Speaker 9: people don't even understand the fullness of their dream is
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  Speaker 9: because they pick it apart, and the whole dream is
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 9: telling a message. If you only pick it apart, you
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  Speaker 9: may not understand the fullness of it. But dreams have
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  Speaker 9: been so consistent for me ever since nine years old.
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  Speaker 4: That is a great point, because I never look at
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 4: the whole totality of my dream. I find like one
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  Speaker 4: thing that stood out.
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  Speaker 9: It's like a WebMD of dreams where people like get
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 9: books or go on Google and you're like, you only
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  Speaker 9: look at one thing. And that's one of the things
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  Speaker 9: I talk about in the book where you have to
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  Speaker 9: look at it like a whole story and to understanding
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 9: each symbol kind of like tell what is the dreams
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  Speaker 9: really saying?
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  Speaker 3: Like you said you had an accounter with God at
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 3: the age of nine, Yeah, what was that encounter?
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  Speaker 5: What did he say?
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 3: What was that conversation? Enlightened us with.
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  Speaker 1: What it was?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, So my father was murdered when I was eight
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 9: months old, and so I grew up with like a
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 9: lot of anger and I was like, man, God, you know,
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 9: if you didn't take my father, it was just another
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 9: reason why I got angry again.
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  Speaker 2: But that day literally, like.
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  Speaker 9: I remember being in my room and I could feel
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  Speaker 9: like a presence in my room and got my mom's room.
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  Speaker 2: She's and she's up.
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  Speaker 9: So the moment I hop in her bed, she's out cold,
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 9: like not moving, not responding, And I feel the same
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 9: presence again in her room and I was like, God,
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  Speaker 9: I'm like, if this is of you, cause wind to
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 9: flow through my ankles out of nowhere. The windows are
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 9: not open, nothing, there was like this wind that just
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  Speaker 9: flows through me. Because when my eyes closed, I could
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 9: see a man sitting but his home makeup was like light.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 9: So then I removed like the covers of my eyes
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 9: and I see him with my eyes open, sitting there.
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  Speaker 9: He gets up, He walks over to my mom and
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 9: I start asking him questions because I thought it was God,
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 9: and I was like, where were you with my dad?
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  Speaker 12: Dad?
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  Speaker 2: Did Dad? And he starts saying something. I had no
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: clue what he was saying. He walks over to my mom.
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  Speaker 2: He opens her hand. He put it's like this piece
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  Speaker 2: of paper in her hand, closes, it disappears. She wakes
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  Speaker 2: up that morning.
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  Speaker 9: Her pastor calls her and he was like, Hey, I
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 9: was in prayer and I just feel like to tell
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  Speaker 9: you that there was an angelic encounter in your home.
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  Speaker 9: But he didn't know to the degree of what he
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 9: was even saying. And I was like, Mom, I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 9: this happened randomly. The document we had been literally ripping
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 9: the whole house apart for just shows up on the table.
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  Speaker 2: And then I'm like, wait, was that the document? Like
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: was that what it symbolized?
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  Speaker 9: Like they put in her hand, and so I'm like, oh,
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 9: my gosh, I met God. And then I stood at
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 9: hearing the voice of God and it was like, that
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 9: was not me, that was an angel.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 5: What did the angel look like it looked like Homie
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 5: from the Crossroads video.
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  Speaker 9: It was so he had like a he had a
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 9: human form, but the only difference his home makeup was light.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 9: That was everything about him was like light radiating. So
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 9: I couldn't even tell you how to describe his features because.
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  Speaker 3: It was just light.
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  Speaker 9: I was going to say, like for you, it was
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  Speaker 9: a lot more clear. But like some people think they're
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 9: hearing things, but it might not be clear that is
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 9: God to them. How do you coach people through being able.
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  Speaker 2: To let that voice break through and understanding it is God.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I think one of the key things is found
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 9: the foundational element of it. Right, you don't need to
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 9: read the Bible for God to speak to you, but
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 9: you need to have an understanding of His voice in
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 9: the Bible so that you're not deceived by the voices
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 9: you hear. And so when you have a good foundation
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 9: of knowing the voice of God, even in his word,
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 9: then when you begin to hear him or you see
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 9: things in the book. One of the things I talk about,
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 9: even before I get into the subject of dreams, are
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 9: the different ways.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: We experience God's voice.
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  Speaker 9: The four primary way. So there are some people who
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 9: they are feelers right. You know, God has emotions. The
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 9: Bible talks about so many types of emotions, peace, you know, love, anger,
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 9: all these things. So there are people that you might
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 9: walk into a room there's a deal on the table
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 9: for you, everything checks off.
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  Speaker 3: But then you don't.
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  Speaker 9: You're not at peace with this. Something is like messing
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 9: up with you, Like, I don't think this is for me.
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  Speaker 9: The problem is that if we don't have a god
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 9: consciousness about life, we.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: Think it's us feeling that way.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 9: But the Lord is trying to share his emotions with you, like, hey,
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 9: I'm not in that. You know, it might look good
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 9: on paper, but I'm not in that. So those are
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 9: people that feel. There are people that know. There's some
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 9: people that just have an instinctive knowing, and for many
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 9: that is more heightened when you're a kid.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 2: There's a beauty with being a child.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 9: Your intelligence is not in the way the older we
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 9: get our wisdom blocks us from discerning the voice of
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 9: God because we're trying to, you know, outthink it. We're
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 9: overthinking it rather like where did this come from? Where
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 9: did that come from? And then there's the hearers. There
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 9: are people who you know audibly. It's more rare to
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 9: hear the voice of God audibly now, But he also
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 9: speaks in the form of thoughts. So there are these
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 9: distinctive thoughts or series of thoughts that you would really
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 9: like hear in your head. And it has nothing to
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 9: do with how you would naturally think, how you will naturally, like,
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 9: you know, think about a matter. The same way that
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 9: anxiety has a voice. You know, pain has a voice.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 9: The Lord also speaks to you through your thoughts, and
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 9: then they're seers and that's where dreams.
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  Speaker 6: Come in, you know what.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 3: For me, it's I remember when my my wife's father
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 3: passed away, right, and it was the weirdest thing. We
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 3: had balloons downstairs and it was her birthday and my wife,
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 3: out of nowhere, just started thinking about her dad. And
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 3: I don't know if this was whatever it was, but
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 3: out of nowhere, like midnight one am, the balloons that
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 3: were in the kitchen actually blew up the stairs and
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 3: came into the bedroom.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 5: That helium balloons.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, were healing balloons, Yeah, of course they would rise.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 5: He was thinking up the stairs.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: His experience with God.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 3: But it could have went to any one of the
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 3: bedrooms in the house.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 5: It went right to the bed.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 4: I believe I believe that was I believe that was it.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 4: I believe that was the sign. I believe that was him,
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 4: I really do. I'm not doing this sound no, but
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 4: it was out out of my house. Those balloons could
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 4: have went.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 3: And the fact that she was talking about her dad
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 3: and crying over him several hours earlier, this made me
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 3: feel like, damn, there are signs and there are angels.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 3: How do you you know, I guess, break down different dreams.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 3: What do the different dreams mean?
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 9: Yeah, So in the book I talk about just different
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 9: types of dreams, because the key thing, even before you
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 9: get into that, is to know why we dream, right God,
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 9: I mean? And their dreams can come from different places.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 9: A dream can come from you, a dream can come
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 9: from God. A dream can come from you know.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: The enemy. But when it comes from God.
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 9: God has a desire to has a desire to speak
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 9: to us more than we even desire to hear from him.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 9: Because regardless of where we find ourselves in life, regardless
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 9: of how successful we perceive ourselves to be, regardless of
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 9: all the things we have going on, we are first
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 9: His creation, and there's something there. Your life is not random.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 9: He desires to do life with you. He desires to.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: Partner with you.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 9: And so there are types of dreams like especially when
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 9: people see there, you know, loved ones who have passed on,
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 9: Those could be an encouragement dreams. Now, how the dream
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 9: is presented matters because when someone passes away, they lose
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 9: consciousness of the physical realm. But that does not mean
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 9: that who they are, their essence is gone. Right, They're
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 9: transitioning to a different life, you know, whether that's with
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 9: the Lord or you know, the opposite. Nobody wants that,
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 9: but they're transitioning now to like an eternal life.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: You know, in the spiritual realm.
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 9: They're not fully just gone. You know who they are,
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 9: the core of who they are, that their spirit man
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 9: is still with him.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 3: We have more with Pastor Stephanie Okafour when we come back.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 3: It's the Breakfast Club Good Morning more than everybody's DJ Envy, Jess, Hilarrys, Charlamagne,
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 3: the God. We are the breakfast Club Law and the
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  Speaker 3: Rosa feeling in for Jess and we're still kicking with
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 3: Pastor Stephanie okafor talk about you. If you feel comfortable
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 3: about the time you went to the doctor and God
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 3: told you something different than what your doctor told you.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 2: Oh that happened to me.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 16: You know.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: So when I was pregnant. I have a daughter.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 9: When I was pregnant with my daughter, I started experiencing
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 9: like a lot of pain.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 12: You know.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 9: We go to the are obg y n rather and
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 9: he's like trying to you know, even confirm the pregnancy.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 9: And he's like, man, I don't see a pregnancy here.
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 9: I just see some things that does not look good,
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 9: Like you need to go to the er.
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: So we rush to the er.
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 9: They tell me that I have like these fibroids that
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 9: have gone, you know, gotten really big because of the
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 9: pregnancy and the blood flow going like to the womb.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 9: So they you know, we share the results of the
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 9: doctor and he literally calls me. He was like, because
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 9: of the size of these fibroids, because of the location
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 9: of these fibroids, you need to terminate the pregnancy and
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 9: you need to terminate this because he was from his analysis,
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 9: the baby won't have room to grow and the firebords
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 9: could cause and even if you know, we take the
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 9: baby to term, the bleeding is going to be too excessive.
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 9: And he called back to back, he was like, I'm
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 9: telling you you need to terminate this and try again.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 2: Let terminate it.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 9: Let's take the fibroids out and try again. And so
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 9: I remember like I'm stealing a lot of pain, and
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 9: I just like I'm praying and calling out to God.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 9: And that night I have a dream and the Lord
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 9: comes to me and says, do a two key things.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 9: He says, no harm is going to come to your child,
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  Speaker 9: and he hands me a Bible. And when I woke up,
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  Speaker 9: I knew that the Bible was represented stand on my word.
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 9: So then I started opening scriptures that spoke about healing,
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 9: and I'm like, okay, God, no harm will come to her,
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 9: and this is what your word says about healing. And
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 9: so I got another obgyn because I'm like, God has
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 9: shown me like no harm is going to come to
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 9: this child. And the other obgyn she was like, you know,
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 9: I'm going to be optimistic, but I'm going to tell
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 9: you there is a scare and a concern. So we
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 9: need to get a specialist doctor, you know, involved, and
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 9: we need to watch this carefully. All of a sudden,
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 9: everything that was a concern started being reversed. So initially
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 9: they're like, we don't know if that you're going to
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 9: have room for this baby to grow. The doctor is like, oh,
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 9: you got room for two, you know. But the keithing
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 9: is getting that word from God. And I believe that's
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 9: why in the business of our lives, God still finds
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 9: that place when we're sleeping to speak to us and
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  Speaker 9: show us, like, I know, everything in your world is
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 9: telling you this is not going to work, but I'm
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  Speaker 9: showing you that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm with you.
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  Speaker 4: You talk about it in the book about how the
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 4: Bible and science talk about the benefits of getting what
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 4: I never heard that from the Bible.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, because Biblically, you know, we are body, soul, and spirit.
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  Speaker 9: And I think so many times, even in like Christianity,
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 9: we only focus on like, you know, the things we
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 9: got to do, like the spirit realm, the soul realm.
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 9: But there is like your body, and in order for it,
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 9: you have to be a good steward over your body.
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: You know, you have to.
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  Speaker 9: There are things that even as believers, it's just as
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 9: important and eat eating well just as important as working out,
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 9: because the body is the vehicles the thing that carries
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 9: your spirit.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: There's a thing that embodies your soul.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 9: So if your body is not healthy, that's not good stewardship,
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 9: you know, so when you're able to get proper rest,
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 9: and it's there's such a connection between you know, science
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 9: and even you know, our spirituality because from a scientific standpoint,
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 9: when you don't have enough rest, you have brainfall. That
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 9: affects your ability to even remember your dreams because when
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 9: you wake up and you come out of this place
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 9: where you had an encounter or X, Y and Z,
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 9: your body needs to be healthy enough to process what
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 9: was just deposited. And so if you're not getting enough rest,
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 9: it's very similar to you know, a computer, like if
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 9: you only allow your computer to die every single time,
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 9: it causes memory loss over time.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: Same thing.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 9: If you only go to bed when you feel like
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 9: shut down, like your ex completely exhausted and you just crash,
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 9: it's harder for you to remember your dreams because that
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 9: also affects memory loss, you know, when you're waking up
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 9: from those moments. And so being a good steward is
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 9: looking at every part. Even the Bible talks about you prospering,
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 9: you know, in all things right, not just in your spirit,
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 9: but in your soul, in your body. So there's a
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 9: scripture that talks about bring your whole body, your whole soul,
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 9: and your whole spirit blameless before God. So he's after
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 9: everything that be a good Do it because it all
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 9: connects this like the conversation with you about dreams in
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 9: the in the book feels like how people go and
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 9: get like he read my palm and but it's I
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 9: know it's different. And growing up in a church, my grandma,
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 9: she don't play that we're not allowed to do that
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 9: type of stuff. But then pastors will prophesy to you.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 9: What is why can we do one thing but not
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 9: the other?
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 2: That's a great question.
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 9: So when you look at the spiritual realm, just like
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 9: in life, right, there's good, there's evil. The spiritual realm
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 9: there's good, there's evil. So it's just like if you're praying,
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 9: Let's say you're praying for envy, right, and you're like, God,
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 9: what are your thoughts about envy?
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 2: And then the Holy Spirit might start showing you things
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 2: about him.
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 6: It's rock.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 2: Envy that is, get it together.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 5: Just what I pray? What God?
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 3: Like when somebody's being evil or they joking, like pray
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 3: for her eyelashes, right, and it's to the point where
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 3: it's like just joke too.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 5: Much.
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 3: There's no baby want me to continue on none of that.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 9: But the beauty is it's coming from God, right, and
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 9: what comes from Him is for your good. This is
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 9: and first of all, it is the source that you
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 9: can trust, right because it's the source that created you.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 2: It's a source that knows your life. It is a
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 2: source that is for you.
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 9: When you go to someone reading your palms, a terror
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 9: cart reader, a psychic, the source is demonic.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 5: Question.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 3: You know, when people do pray, some of the prayers frivolous,
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 3: like for instance, like if somebody praise for their team, right,
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 3: not pray to be healthy or to be safe during
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 3: your game, or pray your team wins. Or Lauren prays
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 3: for a man or Charlomagne praise to be a little
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 3: taller and I pray for that. Like how do those
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 3: type of prayers work when it comes to it's one
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 3: of those things where write it off or is it
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 3: one of those things to honestly to pray for things
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 3: that like I prayed that the Giants win next week?
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 5: Is real prayer or is it?
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 9: I think wherever God is so kind doesn't mean that
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 9: just because because you're like da, I pray the giants
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 9: win and guys, I all get the giants going to win.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 9: But as you grow in God, you start to understand that.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 9: You know, the power of prayer is when you pray
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 9: in alignment.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 7: With His will.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 9: But you have to first know his will, so that
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 9: takes maturity, right. But when you're still in that, like
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 9: you know, stage of being like a baby, you're random
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 9: things you could ask and sometimes he will do some
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 9: random things just to show you he hears.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 6: You and he loves you.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 5: How can they follow you?
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 9: Stephanie No, I'm on Instagram Stephanie E k I k
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  Speaker 9: e and then have a YouTube channel Stephanie k okafor
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  Speaker 9: yeah TikTok Stephanie A.
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  Speaker 5: K Oka for yeah you appreciator? Yeah, okay, okay okay.
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 3: The book and where people.
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 9: Can get it The Power of Your Dreams, and it's
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 9: available everywhere.
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 5: A guide to hearing and understanding how God speaks?
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 2: Why why you sleep?
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 5: All?
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 3: Well, before we get about of here, let's let's close
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 3: on a prayer.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 9: Yes, yes, yes, Heavenly Father, we thank you for just
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 9: everything you've done in this moment. Lord God, we thank
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 9: you even in talking about this book, because it's really
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 9: not about just getting a book out. But it's really
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 9: about getting people to be awakened to knowing that you
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 9: speak and you desire to speak to them, whether they're
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 9: awake or whether they're asleep. But even the power of
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 9: their dreams. Many people are ignoring their dreams in this
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 9: time and they are a world. You're trying to alert
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 9: them about their warnings. You want to make them aware.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 2: Of their ways. You want to prepare them. There are
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 2: ways you want to encourage them.
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 9: And to Lord that just pray that you will continue
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 9: to be glorified in and through everything that we do.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 2: We love you, Lord, We thank you and Jesus name.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 6: Amen.
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 3: Amen, Well, thank you very much, thank you.
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 5: Yes, come on, it's good, thank you.
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 7: It's a breakfast club, everybody.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 3: It's the dej n V. Jess, Ilarry Charlamagne's God. We
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 3: are the breakfast club. It's time for Jess. Fix my mess.
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 3: We got Stacy on the line. Stacy, good morning. What's
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 3: your question for Jess.
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 10: Yes, I got like a little I'm a lesbian. I'm
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 10: gonna start off saying that I share you.
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 13: What I said.
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 9: I'm a last man.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 10: I start with the woman. Okay, So that's that's like
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 10: baseline up, why I'm acting.
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 14: This question right?
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 6: Okay?
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 10: Like we parent good. She was in my high school
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 10: wee heart, but I got a current girlfriend now only
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 10: was gonna me and her broke up because she kid
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 10: on me.
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 11: But I have a current girlfriend.
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 10: And like whenever we're talking her, whenever we're going over anything,
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 10: she always bring up my current girlfriend, Like I don't
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 10: want to be conflicted on't arguing with her, and she's like,
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 10: you always getting defensive, Like it's not me being defensive,
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 10: but it's like a conversation that we don't meet to
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 10: have every time we're talking about anything, like we could
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 10: be talking about with our child ate today and it's like,
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 10: well did your girlfriend cook anything? Well did your girlfriend do?
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 10: Like I don't even understand why.
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 8: She's even being brought up right now?
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 2: You don't understand why she's argue.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 9: Yeah, So to be honest, you don't. You don't understand
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 9: why she's being brought up.
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 10: I mean she I say she's not mad, she says
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 10: she don't care, she says she's not jealous. But one
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 10: plus one equal too. But at that point from the conversation,
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 10: every time.
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 2: Then that then listen that you you you keep it
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 2: text only.
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 5: That's just it.
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 9: Like you if you can't stop talking, because obviously she's
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 9: not over you. If you can't if we can't have
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 9: a conversation about our child where you're not implementing the
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 9: fact that I have a girlfriend or anything like you're
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 9: you're you're bringing her up. That we just will not
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 9: talk verbally. We'll have to talk through text like late
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 9: lady ground rules.
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 2: Now, are you over her? Yeah, relationship that'll mean a
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 2: damn thing.
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 5: But are you so you over it?
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 12: Does not?
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 6: Girl?
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 5: All right?
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 2: So is your ex in a relationship?
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 10: No, she hasn't been in one since.
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 2: Say so obviously, so she's not over you.
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 12: She's to my.
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 10: Knowledge, I don't know. Maybe I wouldn't, but I got
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 10: you put to me. She say that she's not being
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 10: with nobody.
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 2: That's because she try all that is trying to get
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 2: you back.
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 6: Listen.
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 9: You know how many guys and told me y'all, I'm celibating, y'all,
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 9: like I'm just trying to get you back for real,
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 9: for real.
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 2: That's just.
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 10: She's not trying to get me back. Say I'm toxic.
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 9: Listen, and studs love toxicity. Okay, a lot of people
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 9: love toxicity.
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 2: So that's just what it is. She your baby mother,
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 2: is not over you. Your ex is not over you.
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 2: She's not.
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 3: How you can move.
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 2: Forward to that is just laid the ground rules. It
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 2: don't listen.
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 9: I'm not going to keep talking to you if you
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 9: got to bring up my girlfriend in our verbal conversations,
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 9: it's not we can do text only. We can still
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 9: co parent, but we will co parent through text, email, whatever,
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 9: until you get the point. I don't want to hear
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 9: about my girlfriend from you and and me being a relation,
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 9: me being in a relationship that shouldn't be a problem
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 9: because we're not getting back together.
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 2: Whether you celibate or not. You just still the mother
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 2: of my child.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 13: That's it.
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 2: That's all we got. That's it. It sounds good, what
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 2: it sound like? No, it does sound good.
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 10: But whatever her like, I'm about to be on the radio,
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 10: please going because I need somebody else to like, hoist
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 10: it over because no, no, what.
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 3: It sounds like?
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 5: No listen?
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 3: What does sound like?
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: No?
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 2: Listen listen listen, girls, shut up, no, listen. What it
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 2: sounds like to me? Is you like that attention from her?
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 9: Listen to it's messing with your relationship. But you still
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 9: you gotta put you ain't no gun in your head
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 9: making you talk to her about that. It's about the child.
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 9: It's text only, it's email only. Whatever, get a restrain
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 9: in order if she bother you like that.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 10: No, it's not vibing me like that, Like we co parent?
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 10: How about co parent with them?
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 9: Look exactly, that's what I'm saying. But you just so
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 9: it's just a verbal for you. You don't like her
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 9: bringing up your girlfriend, You tell her that.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 2: So yeah, so that's what you do.
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 9: You make it a text only situation where that's it
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 9: you because you entertaining it still at the end of
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 9: the day, Like you're still entertaining it all right now.
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 2: You can't control will come out of your ex mouth. No,
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 2: you can't.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 9: But at the same time, baby, it's not that hard.
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 9: It's I'm telling you, it's not that hard, like for
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 9: you to not talk to this woman. It's still co
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 9: parent it like verbally, that's just what it is. Like, Nah,
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 9: this is about the baby. Because because you can ignore
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 9: certain things in the text, you can ignore certain things
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 9: in a conversation, but it gets to you more when
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 9: you gotta hear it, you feel me like, just yeah,
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 9: talk about what you want to talk about in the text.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 6: That's all.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 9: When she call you, you get a phone with the baby,
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 9: take the phone back, all right, she love you.
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 2: Hang up.
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 6: That's it.
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 9: That's it, especially if it's a fact of your relationship.
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 9: Stoping attaining that.
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 10: Okay, And I have one more thing I want to say,
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 10: and then and this is and I'm gonna just leave
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 10: y'all alone, all right. I saw y'all last year at
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 10: our podcast and then you look amazing, and I just
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 10: want to say that. And I love you, you.
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 3: Said, I said, don't we trying to be gay with me?
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 6: But thank you?
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 2: Girls, No, no, no, no messing with you.
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 10: I seen y'all. I seen y'all act on the show.
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 10: I mean, I don't know, maybe I don't know.
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 11: I sawt y'all sday.
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 3: Just I got put shot shot.
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 2: Hey, y'all your girlfriend going, whoop your hand?
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 8: You let me stop?
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 11: Let me stop?
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 3: Well, thank you, mama, Just fix my mess. Eight hundred
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 3: five eight five one o five one call us up now.
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 3: It's the Breakfast Clover in the morning. Warning everybody, it's
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 3: d J n V. Just hilarious. Charlamagne the Guy.
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 5: We are the Breakfast Club.
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 4: It's time for positive Note what we got in the
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 4: positive Notice simply this, Uh nothing that's for you will
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 4: we require you to act out a character to get it.
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 5: Always remember that absolutely nothing. Have a great breakfast club.
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 5: Finish y'all done,