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Championship Energy, HBCU Excellence & A Summer in New York Begins · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: La can't even Hey, y'all, what's up. It's Laura La
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  Speaker 1: Now we are back with another episode of the Latest,
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  Speaker 1: and you guys know, we start the episodes here with
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  Speaker 1: the behind the scenes of the Grind checking let's get
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  Speaker 1: it so checking in behind the scenes of the Grind.
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  Speaker 1: I had the privilege and the honor over the weekend
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  Speaker 1: to attend the seventh annual HBCU week Awards Gala. So
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  Speaker 1: I've actually been a participant in the gala. I've worked
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  Speaker 1: at carpet, I've been honored. I was honored last year
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  Speaker 1: as one of the Rising Stars at the gala, but
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  Speaker 1: this year I just attended and support. You guys know,
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  Speaker 1: I talk a lot about going to HBCU, graduating from
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  Speaker 1: an HBCU. Shout out to HBCU, Shout out to Delaware
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  Speaker 1: State University. Our president, doctor Tony Allen, and his lovely
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  Speaker 1: wife for in the building as well too, and y'all.
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  Speaker 1: But supporting organizations like HBCU Week are really really really
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  Speaker 1: really really really really important to me, number one, because
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  Speaker 1: these are the type of organizations that support me as
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  Speaker 1: an HBCU alumni, with or without platform, jobs, interviews, all
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  Speaker 1: the things that are happening now. HBCU Week and Ashley
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  Speaker 1: Christopher have been the biggest supporters of me for as
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  Speaker 1: long as I can't remember. They put me on some
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  Speaker 1: of my first big stages as a host and as
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  Speaker 1: a journalist on carpets. So I'm really loyal, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I support people not just because they support me, but
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  Speaker 1: especially when they support me. But secondly, I just know
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  Speaker 1: what talking about organizations like HBCU Week everywhere you go,
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  Speaker 1: I know what that does is for the support of
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  Speaker 1: the organization. Now, HBCU Week, can you talk about their support?
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  Speaker 1: They have been so monumental in the community and their
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  Speaker 1: organization from literally birth out of where I'm from, Wilmington, Delaware. Actually, Christopher,
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  Speaker 1: who was the founder is from Wilmington, Delaware. She started
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  Speaker 1: the organization with our former mayor, God Restless Soul, who
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  Speaker 1: recently passed away from cancer. But I remember the organization
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  Speaker 1: at its inception just being, you know, a smaller organization
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  Speaker 1: that was playing attention to all of the kids from
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  Speaker 1: communities that wanted to go to these schools that people
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  Speaker 1: didn't really understand if they should support or not. Because
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  Speaker 1: HBCUs like it's really trendy, and you know, it's all
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  Speaker 1: good now for people to be like HBCU historically Black
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  Speaker 1: College University yego US, But it wasn't always like that.
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  Speaker 1: I remember literally being told if I went to a
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  Speaker 1: HBCU that my career in entertainment was staggered or potentially
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't even take off because no one knew of those
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  Speaker 1: schools and people didn't support those schools. So that's why
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  Speaker 1: I'm always screaming at the top of my lungs about
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  Speaker 1: organizations like HBCU Week. And let me tell you guys
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  Speaker 1: what they do. So HBCU Week comes into a student's life,
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  Speaker 1: they create community for them, They create resources as far
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  Speaker 1: as internships, mentors, guides throughout their college process and even
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  Speaker 1: after college, but helping them secure jobs to some extent,
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  Speaker 1: but they get them to and through college financially. So
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  Speaker 1: just in twenty twenty five alone, right. They do a
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  Speaker 1: college fair every year. Their college fair had over two
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  Speaker 1: thousand on the spot acceptances to HBCUs. They had over
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  Speaker 1: six hundred scholarships offered. Of that two thousand of those
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  Speaker 1: two thousand students that were offered on the spot acceptance
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  Speaker 1: into HBCUs at their college fare this year. And they
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  Speaker 1: gave out over twelve million dollars in scholarships just in
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, twenty five, just in twenty twenty five alone.
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  Speaker 1: That's amazing, y'all. Like it is if you have never
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  Speaker 1: tried to figure out Scott larship money and getting people
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  Speaker 1: to give you free money so you're going to pay
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  Speaker 1: for your education, you might not understand me, but trust
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  Speaker 1: me and believe me when I tell you it is
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  Speaker 1: not easy. And for this organization to be a smaller
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  Speaker 1: organization at one point that is now a mass the
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  Speaker 1: large number of success that it has. Like at the
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  Speaker 1: organization's gala this year that I attended, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: talk about a little bit about here. She announced. Ashley
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  Speaker 1: Christopher announced that they just signed on a new partner
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  Speaker 1: with Christian Care. Christiana Care is like the premier hospital
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  Speaker 1: organization or business in Delaware, Right, So all of the
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  Speaker 1: major hospitals are under Christiana Care. Under this umbrella, HBCU
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  Speaker 1: Week now has a partnership with them five hundred thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars just this year alone, and scholarship money came from
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  Speaker 1: that partnership. They were able to send students, multiple students
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  Speaker 1: to school on a fifty thousand dollars scholarship and offered
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  Speaker 1: them a connection to Christiana Care, to employers there and internships.
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  Speaker 1: And they had two students speak who actually have went
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  Speaker 1: through the program and whose lives have been changed, Like
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  Speaker 1: stuff like this is always going to matter to me
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  Speaker 1: because it's like these this is like the real work.
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  Speaker 1: This is like the grass roots work that like it's
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  Speaker 1: so important because giving a kid community, giving a kid
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  Speaker 1: belief in themselves, giving a kid financial assistance in a
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  Speaker 1: situation where they can't figure it out, it changes their life. Literally,
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  Speaker 1: it is like the make or break for so many
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  Speaker 1: young black students. When I used to work for Barclaycard
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  Speaker 1: in Wilmington, Delaware, I was on the community relations team
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  Speaker 1: quick Story, and we were working on a savings product
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  Speaker 1: that was geared toward inner city students, right, like kids
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  Speaker 1: that don't come from a lot of money, but trying
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  Speaker 1: to get them excited about saving money. And the reason
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  Speaker 1: why that was so important as an initiative for the
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  Speaker 1: bank was because in the research that they found, we
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  Speaker 1: found that majority of students who drop out of college
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  Speaker 1: four year institutions, which are also is a process that
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  Speaker 1: even get accepted into and get there, most of them
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  Speaker 1: drop out because they're lacking money under a thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 1: It's small things like not being able to put gas
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  Speaker 1: in your car that stops a student from going to class,
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  Speaker 1: your car being broken, you're not being able to you're
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  Speaker 1: not being able to fix it, trying to figure out
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  Speaker 1: how you're gonna eat as you're traveling back and forth,
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  Speaker 1: book money, toll money. It's small things like that to
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  Speaker 1: stop a student from going to a college or four
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  Speaker 1: year university and building community that can change your life.
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  Speaker 1: So being able to make it where student doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: to wear or has to wear it way less about finances,
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  Speaker 1: that's the real work and I'm always gonna support that.
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  Speaker 1: So this year's gala, I went home, We attended. Shout
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  Speaker 1: out to Anthony Anderson he hosted the gala alongside Ashley
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  Speaker 1: Christopher and stuff like that too that I think is
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  Speaker 1: so fire. So Anthony Anderson was awarded in were last
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  Speaker 1: year during my season of being awarded by HBC Week,
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  Speaker 1: and decided that he just believed in what Ashley Christopher
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  Speaker 1: was doing so much that he wanted to come back
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  Speaker 1: and host because he understood what his presence means in
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  Speaker 1: that room of her donors and in the press and
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  Speaker 1: just you know, platforming the organization. Steven A. Smith has
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  Speaker 1: been a brand ambassador or a face of this organization
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  Speaker 1: for years now and carries it on his back. Y'all
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  Speaker 1: can love him and hate the man. I don't agree
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  Speaker 1: what everything does, it says, but one thing that I
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  Speaker 1: always love to tell people is when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: HBCU Week, I've seen it with my own eyes how
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  Speaker 1: much this man supports Actually Christopher, a black woman, and
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  Speaker 1: what she's doing, and in how much he leverages who
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  Speaker 1: he is so that she can be able to continue
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  Speaker 1: to do what she does bring money in. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he goes on national platforms and does media and press
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  Speaker 1: about the organization and talks about it very often, and
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  Speaker 1: that means a lot when you're building what she's building
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  Speaker 1: from scratch and getting people to believe in you. Having
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  Speaker 1: a name like that steven A Smith actually spoke at
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  Speaker 1: the gala. He was saying how he was headed to
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  Speaker 1: San Antonio for Game five. Knicks fan, let's say listen
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  Speaker 1: to steven A talk about just his game for experience.
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  Speaker 1: When this is when the you know, the Knicks made
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  Speaker 1: that huge comeback. Uh, they were down twenty nine, made
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  Speaker 1: that huge comebacks. Listen to see that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like one you gave me, said it to you.
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  Speaker 4: Devin's gonna be tied to too. We most home court events,
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  Speaker 4: we post.
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  Speaker 3: The leverage, and as in chopped, the league chopped down.
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  Speaker 4: I just refused to believe we were gonna come back.
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  Speaker 4: I lost, baby.
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  Speaker 5: We tip trimmed into twenty.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't believe he tripped to sixteen to twelve.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't believe we tripped it to six.
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  Speaker 3: It with me in the jump shot and I said,
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  Speaker 3: demn it, it's gonna happen us again.
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  Speaker 1: And then we took the league.
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  Speaker 3: But it was one point two seconds level and I
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  Speaker 3: didn't see the play.
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  Speaker 4: I bowed my head and I prayed, God's that's truth.
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  Speaker 1: I never saw the play.
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  Speaker 3: I re lied on the noise of the crowd to
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  Speaker 3: tell me whether the Nicks one or loss. Because I
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  Speaker 3: literally was convinced if I looked up, they would hit
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  Speaker 3: the game with the shot and breaking my heart. And
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  Speaker 3: that's the story. And I'm like this, now I.
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  Speaker 4: Can get back to what I wanted.
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  Speaker 1: To which word, And then you know, him being able
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  Speaker 1: to correlate that into the importance of you know, HPCUS
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  Speaker 1: and being on the campuses and being a graduate and
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  Speaker 1: you know, just the mantra or the the moniker that
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  Speaker 1: we have as people that come from HBCUs and why
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  Speaker 1: what HBCU is doing was also really amazing to hear
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  Speaker 1: in the room.
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  Speaker 3: I said, a listen, and I've been I've got on
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  Speaker 3: some people's nerves.
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  Speaker 4: And what I'm shocked about is add that I actually
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  Speaker 4: did in on people's nerves, because when you're from an HBCU,
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  Speaker 4: you would think that people would be used to that.
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  Speaker 4: That's something we did instead, and we do.
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  Speaker 6: It with the mission to.
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  Speaker 4: Create change and to do what we think is best
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  Speaker 4: and to face adversus dead on the face of let
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  Speaker 4: you know, we not We're not be they, we're not breaking,
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  Speaker 4: and we're not caring, we're not backing up.
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  Speaker 1: We gonna continue to.
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  Speaker 7: Launch clothing when we go forward into the future. No
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  Speaker 7: doubt it's gonna be difficult, but it's also gonna be
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  Speaker 7: very very.
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  Speaker 3: Inspiring because when we talk about many second.
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  Speaker 7: What he has done and what he has meant to
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  Speaker 7: all of us, we always to him to continue the
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  Speaker 7: mission because actually, when you're the first to tell you
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  Speaker 7: how supporting people was ever a wonderfully one or two
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  Speaker 7: men and I miss his deal with he was always
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  Speaker 7: incredibly unit to me.
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  Speaker 4: He's always been incredibly good to agency.
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  Speaker 3: He usually always talking about perseverance, our obstacles, standard.
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  Speaker 4: You way you're supposed to need it is it.
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  Speaker 7: It's the process that you have to go.
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  Speaker 3: Through towards texasens if something is easy, and they will
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  Speaker 3: happen most jus usually at her circumstances.
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  Speaker 4: Even the way it serves as a roll blodel the
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  Speaker 4: pad what you're a that's why only what WICHI uh?
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  Speaker 1: Because you know where did the company.
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  Speaker 4: Is always in the place, no matter how that he
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  Speaker 4: I am.
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  Speaker 3: Come down here because this is.
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  Speaker 4: His family me. You know you talk about that basket
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  Speaker 4: as the HBC. You know you want to be you
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  Speaker 4: know where the real world comes from. We never see
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  Speaker 4: that with DA.
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  Speaker 1: That was breaking marbles with Reg David and real quick
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  Speaker 1: I wanna shout out UH Adam Blackstone, who won the
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  Speaker 1: Trailblazer Award UH this year during the UH seventh annual
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  Speaker 1: HBCU Week Awards Gala, Emmy Award winning Music Director, Tony
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  Speaker 1: Award winning UH Orchestra UH, who is the direct he's
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  Speaker 1: directed like major performances UH Rihanna, Lisha Keys justin Timberlake. UH.
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  Speaker 1: He was just on stage with Jay Z at the
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  Speaker 1: UH Roots Picnic as you know, part of UH the
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  Speaker 1: band with the Roots and you know, orchestra orchestrating UH
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  Speaker 1: a lot of that. He's also worked with the super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl for halftime shows and oscars. Like Adam Blackson is
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  Speaker 1: dope everywhere doing a ton of different things, but he
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  Speaker 1: very much cares about what our world looks like through
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  Speaker 1: empowering people. Another person that was also awarded is somebody
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  Speaker 1: that's near and dark to my heart, Felicia font who
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  Speaker 1: is the Global director of Black Music and Culture over
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  Speaker 1: at Amazon Music Now. I said, she's very narrow there
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  Speaker 1: to my heart because she's one of the people who
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  Speaker 1: didn't on me from a canapaign, but as a black
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  Speaker 1: woman who's navigating so much in this industry, decided to
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  Speaker 1: pour into me give opportunity, but more so like as
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  Speaker 1: like human and human woman and woman like really just
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  Speaker 1: pour into me in a way that like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you get like this idea of like everybody that's come
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  Speaker 1: before you, nobody wants to reach your hand back. You
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  Speaker 1: feel you get a little jaded sometimes you're going throughout
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  Speaker 1: these things. But I've been so blessed to not have
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  Speaker 1: that beat my full experience and have women like Felicia
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  Speaker 1: Font and her team over at a music shout out
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  Speaker 1: to as Sierra Leb who was there but it's no
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  Speaker 1: longer there, really always reached back and make sure that
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  Speaker 1: I was good. Like like sometimes she's calling and saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we just checking on you, watching things move for you,
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  Speaker 1: just checking on you. What do you need, What resources
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  Speaker 1: do you need? How can Amazon, how can we as
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  Speaker 1: black women in these roles support you? So very well
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  Speaker 1: deserved she received the Leadership Award, And when I say
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  Speaker 1: very well deserved, I mean she is so impactful and
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  Speaker 1: she elevates everything black music and representation across the world.
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  Speaker 1: So yes, okay, actually Christopher gets it right when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to these awards and the people that she spotlight.
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  Speaker 1: Spotlights at the gala and also Don Pou y'all know
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  Speaker 1: Brooklyn chop House. He's also responsible for Nah as you
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  Speaker 1: know a lot of Mary Jay's career. He was awarded
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  Speaker 1: a Living Legacy Award as well too. So it was
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  Speaker 1: an amazing night in my hometown and women's in Delaware,
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  Speaker 1: just celebrating impact in all things impact. And while this
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  Speaker 1: was happening while I'm back home last weekend for the
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  Speaker 1: HBCU we yalla and spending time with family, New York
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  Speaker 1: is going crazy. Okay, let's get on it into the latest,
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  Speaker 1: because I'm like, yo, when did I become a I
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  Speaker 1: was gonna say, a NIXTS fan, not a Knicks fan,
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  Speaker 1: but a basketball enthusias like I'm watching y'all, let's get
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  Speaker 1: into the latest. So over the weekend, as I'm home
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  Speaker 1: in Delaware, the Knicks played Game five in San Antonio
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  Speaker 1: and everywhere you were like, people were talking about the Knicks.
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  Speaker 1: And because people knew I live in New York working
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  Speaker 1: with the Breakfast Club, people were talking to me about
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  Speaker 1: the next like people were so excited. We were, I
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  Speaker 1: say we it. Me and my boyfriend were at a
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  Speaker 1: cookout with his family on Saturday. The did the game
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  Speaker 1: was happening. You got people on their phones just as
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  Speaker 1: long as you could just see the see the court
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  Speaker 1: and see the score. Like people were so tuned in
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  Speaker 1: and so tapped in to watch these boys make history.
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  Speaker 1: And baby, they did it. The Knicks won the first
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  Speaker 1: championship in fifty three. This is only the third championship
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  Speaker 1: win in the franchise's history. Congratulations to the Knicks. You
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  Speaker 1: talking about making impacts and changing trajectory, Okay, And because
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  Speaker 1: we've been so tapped into like all these playoff games,
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  Speaker 1: it's like such a good payoff when you see your
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  Speaker 1: team go through as much as they went through, just
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  Speaker 1: as individuals in their personal lives. You know, people talk
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  Speaker 1: a lot about Karl Anthony Towns and everything that he's
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  Speaker 1: dealt with over the last few years. Was like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: his career and the loss of his mom, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: everybody on the team has their story. But to see
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  Speaker 1: them get to victory, I understand why you see people
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  Speaker 1: like crying. Literally, Manica min Nut, there's a video. She's
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  Speaker 1: a sports analyst. If you do not know, there's a
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  Speaker 1: video of her. She's on the sidelines calling the game,
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  Speaker 1: and this is literally the moment when she realizes that
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  Speaker 1: the Nicks are about to win. She's speechless to a
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  Speaker 1: certain extent, and you see the tears roll down her eyes.
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  Speaker 1: A stick A listen, go.
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  Speaker 6: Down to history. A team that will live forever. Next
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  Speaker 6: stops the Canyon of Heroes. The New York Knicks are
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  Speaker 6: NBA champions.
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  Speaker 5: There is nothing like the love letter that in the
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  Speaker 5: organization has an opportunity to write to its fans and
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  Speaker 5: to its cities quite like winning a championship. Enjoy it,
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  Speaker 5: Knicks Fan, enjoy it. Nix Nations signed and sealed and
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  Speaker 5: delivered your twenty twenty six New York News.
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  Speaker 1: And Jaylen Bronston was awarded h the Finals MVP. He
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  Speaker 1: had forty five points in the game. You're you literally
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  Speaker 1: like on my timeline because I'm always watching from like
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  Speaker 1: a pop culture standpoint, right Like, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: pretend like I'm like this huge sports girly shout out
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  Speaker 1: to the Monica mcnook to the world baby, and I
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  Speaker 1: tell her every time I get a chance to, I
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  Speaker 1: give it to y'all because running down the numbers, running
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  Speaker 1: down the places, running down the calls. But that's their thing,
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  Speaker 1: that's what they do. That is not my thing. However,
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  Speaker 1: what I love about watching franchises like the Knicks and
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  Speaker 1: other you know, big sporting events, is that the culture
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  Speaker 1: gonna show up. Okay, I mean everybody spike lee at
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  Speaker 1: Joel Tianna Taylor, like so many celebrities in the house
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  Speaker 1: in San Antonio for this game. Literally everybody you can
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  Speaker 1: imagine at this game. CARDI b. You know, Knicks fan,
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  Speaker 1: New Yorker. We know, we know Cordy. Y'all know how
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  Speaker 1: she coming about the Knicks and anything New York. She
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  Speaker 1: was watching the game at home from New York. And
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  Speaker 1: there's a sound that's gone viral now on TikTok her
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: reaction to the next winning Let's take a listen. You're
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: upside right now, get done right now, right now. Her
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  Speaker 1: street is calling me, her strengths.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: Is calling me.
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  Speaker 1: A baby. And when I say New York was late,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: I was not here, but you could just see it
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  Speaker 1: from your timeline all of my friends that was here.
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  Speaker 1: Literally everybody was out until like four or five o'clock
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: in the morning, which is the New York way in general.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: You're having a good New York summer, that's the New
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: York way. But it was different the celebration of the
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Knicks was so different. CARDI actually ended up at an
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: after party celebrating the Knicks. You know, I saw Travis
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Scott there, French Montana Quevo day was outside Okay sun
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: coming up heading out the club, and there was a
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  Speaker 1: photo that Carty as she was leaving and getting her
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Ferrari headed back to Jersey and they asked her like
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  Speaker 1: her message or like how she felt following the next one,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: like when how did New York feel like listening to party?
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: The next one the title it feels like the potholes
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  Speaker 2: will be fucking feels oh my god, back, thank you.
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: Today.
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  Speaker 1: And y'all know what else I love to see coming
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: from the pop culture fashion standpoint, Jordan Woods in her bag.
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  Speaker 1: That whole storyline just about her and Carl Anthony Towns
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  Speaker 1: is like love story, you know, hearing him speak about
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  Speaker 1: her after you know, the loss of his mom and
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  Speaker 1: just you know, like it feels like there was something
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: reinstated in him by finding her, them two finding each
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: other and now they're engaged and to be married. And
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: she posted this really really sweet, oh my god caption
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: on her Instagram. She said, trying to find the right
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: words because I'm still overwhelmed with emotion. The guys were
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: so locked in that I woke up this more still
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: saying oh and oh, waiting for Game six. Watching this
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: team all season has been unbelievable, not just because of
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: the undeniable talent, but because they're even better people than
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: they are players. To my soon to be husband and
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: best friend, you did it. I couldn't be more proud
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  Speaker 1: of you. Watching the humility you carried through every high
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  Speaker 1: and low, the way you put your faithful for anything else,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: the sacrifices you made, and the jewel you've brought to
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: every moment has been so inspiring. No ego, just hard work,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: gratitude and unwavering belief. What a journey this has been
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: for us. You always said, when I get my ring,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: I'll get you yours, and somehow it happened the exact way,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: two rings in one year. And then she started talking
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: about the Jordan Woods bag, because if you're not familiar,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: people say that the orange bag leather bag that she
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: wears all the time to the games. It's lucky because
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: when she wears it, they win, and the one time
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: she didn't wear it, they didn't win. So she continues,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Jordan Woods continues. As much as I'd love to give
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: all the credit to Woods by Jordan's Bag, which is
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: her shoe brand but now includes a bag for its
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: undefeated playoff run and unanimous MVP performance, there's no denying
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: how special the team truly is. Forever proud. But let
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: me tell you something about Karl Anthony Townshonney. He was
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: running around all of of the backstage or back arena
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: area right because they after they finished the game, they
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: go and take the portraits with the trophy. He walking
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: around with this trophy fiance in hand, telling everybody about
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: the bag. Let's take a list.
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: It's so cute.
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  Speaker 1: I said that listen the bag gun.
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  Speaker 3: We got the bag, the bag made it.
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  Speaker 2: The bag.
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  Speaker 6: I want everyone in New York to know.
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  Speaker 4: That bag won a championship.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: I damn sure know now with that bag, that bag
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: held it down. It's one of the greatest clothing. Shout
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: out to them. I love to see it, Okay, I
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: love to see I'm happy that Jordan Woods is in
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: like this place that she's in her life. I feel
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: like there was like such a I don't know, we
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: don't know, got to bring it all in here, but
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: I'm happy for them. They It feels and gives that
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: they complete each other. And I know, I know how
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: good life has to feel. Or right now, you got
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: your championship, you got your ring, You about to get
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: married to the love of your life, you know what
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: I mean. Like, it's just I love happy endings. And
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: then all the pictures that their posts and are so
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: too and are actually going to receive the Key to
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: the city. This will be mary mont Donnie's first key
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: to the city that he's ever given out. And how
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: how fire is that he's going to get the beat
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: to the Knicks. Let's take a listen to mom. Donni
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: is Jalen Buns are going to be getting a key
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: to the city.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: The team is going to be presented keys to the
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: city on Thursday, the first keys to the City that
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: I've ever given out in our administration. And this team,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: they epitomize so much of we love about the city.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: The relentless liss, the drive, the hustle, and you look
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: at them and their individual journeys. So many of them
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: were overlooked, so many of them were counted out, and
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: they're here. And Mike Brown built a team where every
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: single player had a role not just in last night's game,
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: but frankly throughout the series, throughout the season, and it's
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: just a it's a beautiful thing to witness.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: They also without a a announcement that the parade to
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: celebrate the Knicks will happen at ten am at a
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: place here in New York called Battery Park, and it'll
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: go north along Broadway through the Canon of the Heroes
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: before concluding that City Hall, and they'll get the key
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: to their to the city and it'll be it'll be
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: a really amazing thing. That's gonna go down this Thursday,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: June eighteenth, So New York gonna be on fire for
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: a while, y'all. I feel like this is gonna set
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: the tone for the summer. Okay, but Cary say, get
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: my makeup, be outside, Like that's gonna be the vibe
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: for the summer because the people are just feeling good.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Everybody's so happy. You got the feed for World Cup
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: about the go down to New York is already still crazy.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Summertime in New York is already a vibe like that
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: was one of the best things I experienced moving here.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Like summertime in New York is like, especially as a
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: grown adult, like grown grown setting the wrong zone, you
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: know what.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: I like.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: It's a great time to be in the city of
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: New York. So we'll be bringing you guys some sound.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking about potentially attending the parade that I get
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: some sound for y'all. But y'all know, it's the only thing,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: the only thing for me, because y'all know, I'd never
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: mind going and getting to the things myself. They get
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: so crazy the Knicks fans, like all of the fighting
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: and the like.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Uh uh.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: I don't want to be wrapped up and all that.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: But I would love to see the actual parade. I
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: remember when the Phillies won and the parade happened. People
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: were I was in a high school. I think it's
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: like my senior year. People were leaving to go to
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: that parade, and I was like, oh, I wish I
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: would have experienced that. So now, living in New York
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: this year, literally this is history, I would love to
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: be able to say I went to the parade just
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: to experience it. So I'll let you guys know. Y'all know,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: if I do go, I'll bring it right back here
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: because I'm always keeping y'all in the Latest and the greatest.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: So this has been another episode of the Latest with
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Laurna Rosa. I tell y'all every single episode, y'all could
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: be anywhere with any old body talking about all of
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: the things, but y'all choose to be right here with me,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: my lowriders. I appreciate you, guys, and I'll catch you
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: and my next one.