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Knicks Glory, White House Controversy & Protecting Black Legacy · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
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  Speaker 1: and everybody. You know, if you don't lie about that, right,
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  Speaker 1: Lauren Hay, y'all, what's up. It's Laura l Rosa and
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  Speaker 1: this is another episode of the Latest with Laura l Rosa.
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  Speaker 1: This is your deadly dial on all things pop culture
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  Speaker 1: and it's timing news and all of the conversations that
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  Speaker 1: shake the room. Baby, not today. You know you always
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  Speaker 1: kick it off checking in behind the scenes of the groin,
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  Speaker 1: So we are going to do that before we get started.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do it. So today I am feeling a celebratory mood.
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  Speaker 1: I'm yo. Let me tell y'all, I'm not a sports girly.
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  Speaker 1: I've said this multiple times. I will say this multiple
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  Speaker 1: times again and again and again. Because I'm not not
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  Speaker 1: a sports girly. Pay attention to sports for the pop
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  Speaker 1: culture of it, the excitement of it when it leads
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  Speaker 1: into what I do. But being in New York, I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to tell you, guys, during this time, when the
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  Speaker 1: next step one, it makes you just feel like you
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  Speaker 1: got a team and celebrating something. So I have friends
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  Speaker 1: that are intown. You guys may hear them in the
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  Speaker 1: background because my studios in my home. I got friends
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  Speaker 1: that are in town. I got friends coming into town
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  Speaker 1: for the parade that is going down this Thursday. I
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  Speaker 1: told you guys that I was going to try and
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  Speaker 1: see if I could maybe get you guys some sound
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  Speaker 1: or some something from that day of events anywhere in
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  Speaker 1: New York, whether it's the actual parade, surrounding events, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Looks like I'm gonna be out there doing all the things,
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  Speaker 1: so I will be bringing you guys that This is
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  Speaker 1: just feeling in New York right now. It's been fifty
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  Speaker 1: three some years since the Knicks have won a championship.
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  Speaker 1: This is only the third championship that has brought home
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  Speaker 1: in the franchise. So New York's on fire right now.
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  Speaker 1: Living here right now is literally like living in history.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get on into the latest now. In other sports news,
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  Speaker 1: shifting gears a bit Dana White and Donald Trump. They
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  Speaker 1: did the UFC Freedom to Fifty event that went down
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  Speaker 1: at the White House over the weekend, and I know
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  Speaker 1: people have been pissed about this going down from the
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  Speaker 1: day that it was announced. We had Dan know why
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  Speaker 1: I owned the Breakfast Club having a conversation about the
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  Speaker 1: event and here's what he had to say about it. Then,
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  Speaker 1: this was about a month ago.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you were on a Katie Miller podcast and
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  Speaker 2: you said, in regards to your relationship with Trump and
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  Speaker 2: has it cost the UFC business, you said, I don't
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  Speaker 2: give a shit. I don't know the answer to that question.
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  Speaker 2: I've gotten to a point in my life, especially after
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  Speaker 2: COVID and all that nutty shit that went on during
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  Speaker 2: that time, that I only want to be in business
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  Speaker 2: with and talk to people that I'm aligned with.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know about talk to people that I'm
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  Speaker 3: aligned but I want to do business with people that
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  Speaker 3: I'm aligned with for sure.
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  Speaker 2: So you're aligned with Trump on what exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Trump is a good friend of mine. I mean
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  Speaker 3: I've been friends with him for twenty five years. Friends.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you just happened to become the president of
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  Speaker 3: the United States and he and I have never had
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  Speaker 3: a He had us at the at the Trump DODJ
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  Speaker 3: Mahall when we first bought this company. The stigma that
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  Speaker 3: was attached to this thing, you can imagine. Think about this.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't allowed on pay per view. He was a
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  Speaker 3: grown adult, didn't have the option to buy it on
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  Speaker 3: pay per view, porn was on pay per view, the
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  Speaker 3: UFC was not allowed. That was the uphill battle we had.
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  Speaker 3: So you can imagine venues didn't want us because you know,
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  Speaker 3: these guys were like, what kind of people will show
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  Speaker 3: up to watch this kind of an event. And he
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  Speaker 3: had us at the Trump taj Mahal for the first
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  Speaker 3: two fights, you know, thirty and thirty one, UFC thirty
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  Speaker 3: and thirty one, and then after we did those two first,
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  Speaker 3: he showed up for the first fight of the night
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  Speaker 3: and stayed till the end for both events. And you
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  Speaker 3: think the Trump brand then and the UFC brand and
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  Speaker 3: every good thing that ever happened to me in my
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  Speaker 3: career after that. He was always the first guy to
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  Speaker 3: reach out. So then when he was running in sixteen,
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  Speaker 3: he called me and asked me, would you speak for
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  Speaker 3: me at the Republican Convention. And everybody told me not
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  Speaker 3: to do it, don't do it, this is going to
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  Speaker 3: be bad, and he's never gonna win and all that
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  Speaker 3: kind of stuff. But this was a guy that was
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  Speaker 3: always good to me and you know, always traded me well,
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  Speaker 3: and I did it.
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  Speaker 1: So they went on. Of course, trust on did the event,
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  Speaker 1: and I think for people. You know, it's the timing
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  Speaker 1: and the optics like we literally have you know, seached
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  Speaker 1: fire conversations happening with Iran. People can't afford the gas
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  Speaker 1: and to eat, but we can spend all of this money,
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  Speaker 1: thousands and thousands of dollars to throw a UFC event
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  Speaker 1: on Trump's birthday in the White House. Just insane. But
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  Speaker 1: there was something that went down at this event that
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people are upseid about and honestly which
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  Speaker 1: has become the focus of the conversation around the event.
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  Speaker 1: So Fighter Josh hokitd had this to say about Michelle Obama. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: the attacks are still coming at the Obama family, which
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  Speaker 1: I think, you know, goes to show just how impactful
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  Speaker 1: and how important they are in our nation's histories, in
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  Speaker 1: our nation's history as the first Lady, forever first Lady
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  Speaker 1: and forever President Michelle Obama and Barack Obama. But Josh
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  Speaker 1: Hokit he had beatenother fightening Derek Lewis on the White
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  Speaker 1: House lawn and decided to talk about this and Michelle Obama.
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  Speaker 4: Let's say a listen, hey, shout out to Trump for
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  Speaker 4: having the ball to put some shit like this on
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  Speaker 4: and if I'm gonna tell you that there's only one
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  Speaker 4: person more incredible than the incredible Holy and that's why
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  Speaker 4: Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Now listen, Alex Fererra, I
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  Speaker 4: want to Shama on your mama. And lastly, Mochelle Obama
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  Speaker 4: is a man. Am I right, America, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 4: Josh hulk it And of.
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  Speaker 1: Course this has been getting him dragged very very bad. Now,
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  Speaker 1: there are some outlets to lean the other way, and
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  Speaker 1: y'all know what I'm talking about that are upset and
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  Speaker 1: thing that it's like such a joke or a talking
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  Speaker 1: point to push back on or debate on that there
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  Speaker 1: are people that are debating, not they're debating, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: There are people that are talking about this and talking
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  Speaker 1: about this being a perfect example of, you know, racial
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  Speaker 1: treatment when it comes to black women in this country.
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  Speaker 1: This is something that is not new with Michelle Obama.
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  Speaker 1: This is misinformation that they've been trying to spread for
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  Speaker 1: some time now. But just the treatment of Michelle Obama
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  Speaker 1: since we have ever met her from certain groups of people,
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  Speaker 1: this has been it. So us over here on this
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  Speaker 1: side who love and respect our forever first lady, were
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  Speaker 1: you can't get us like, nothing that you can do
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  Speaker 1: or say will catch us up, will stop you know,
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  Speaker 1: us from speaking about Michelle Obama and Barack Obama in
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  Speaker 1: a way that is nothing but legacy, honor, and respect.
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  Speaker 1: Because we've seen it all. We went through with them
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  Speaker 1: while they were in the White House. It's still happening
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  Speaker 1: post White House. But it's just sad. I mean, seeing
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  Speaker 1: it on the White House lawn was sad, but the
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  Speaker 1: event was very Uh. I wasn't surprised, I'll I'll just
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  Speaker 1: say that right, I was not surprised that rhetoric like
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  Speaker 1: this took place at that event. However, I will say
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  Speaker 1: Dana White, CEO, you know, leadership over there at within
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  Speaker 1: the UFC is pushing back on this, even going down
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  Speaker 1: during the event. So he spoke the Time magazine and
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  Speaker 1: he's trying to separate himself from these comments him in
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  Speaker 1: his organization. He says, I understand that the Obama's are
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  Speaker 1: public figures, but I'm completely against saying nasty and false
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  Speaker 1: things about people's families. He says, everyone knows my position
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  Speaker 1: on free speech, but I hate that kind of nonsense. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the White House did not immediately respond to Time magazine's outreach.
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  Speaker 1: I will be reaching out to myself to the White House,
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  Speaker 1: because now in the beginning, they didn't respond to anything,
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  Speaker 1: and they were getting so much backlash about this event
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  Speaker 1: in general. I don't know if that's why they just said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're not going to say nothing at all.
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  Speaker 1: But there were reports that the White House was trying
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  Speaker 1: to get the video scrubbed online, like trying to get
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  Speaker 1: it taken down. So I don't know if that was happening,
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  Speaker 1: because they are trying to say like they're trying to
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  Speaker 1: protect Michelle Obama. But I would not I wouldn't put
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  Speaker 1: money on that being the reason why. But now all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, CNN has provided this video of Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump and as you know, the Fighter is making these
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  Speaker 1: comments or after actually so he makes these comments and
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  Speaker 1: then you see Donald Trump take off a chain that
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  Speaker 1: was given to him by the fighter. Now, just me
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  Speaker 1: being in media and understanding how narratives and headlines and
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  Speaker 1: all these things work, in my opinion is this video
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  Speaker 1: was circulated, was found and circulated two outlets trying to
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  Speaker 1: make it seem as if Donald Trump also had nothing
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  Speaker 1: to do in his distancing himself from these comments. But
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  Speaker 1: here's my thing. You can't be a president that goes
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  Speaker 1: on truth social and post you know, monkey imagery of
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  Speaker 1: our forever first lady in the family. And then, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we see this video of you taking off a chain,
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  Speaker 1: which just so happened to happen after a person made
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  Speaker 1: these comments. You don't know if he, you know, really
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  Speaker 1: registered what the comments were at the time. You look,
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  Speaker 1: he'd just be waking up from some things a lot
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  Speaker 1: of times in these public events. So I'm not banking
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  Speaker 1: on the fact that he took the chain off because
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  Speaker 1: he was disgusted by the comments. I'm not buying that whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: But that is what is circulating now. But in the meantime,
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  Speaker 1: the Obamas are out here just living their best life
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  Speaker 1: as they always are per usual, going high when the
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  Speaker 1: people go low. So they're going to be opening up
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  Speaker 1: a presidential center in Chicago later this week, and they
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  Speaker 1: actually popped out in Chicago to see their official portrait
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  Speaker 1: that will be in like this official library that they
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  Speaker 1: have now, the official life will be opening on June fourteenth.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll actually be in Chicago this summer at some point,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm gonna go by there because I'm really excited
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  Speaker 1: to see this portrait. The portrait was painted by intern
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  Speaker 1: actually renowned artists and Ninji d car A Congili. I'm
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  Speaker 1: probably still saying her name wrong, and I really apologize
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  Speaker 1: last name Crosby, but she is a renowned, internationally renowned painter,
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  Speaker 1: and she was on site when the Obamas came to
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  Speaker 1: see the painting for the first time. Let's take a
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  Speaker 1: listen to just the beauty in the essence of the
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  Speaker 1: Obama man. I missed them in the White House so much.
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  Speaker 1: Just this interaction alone made me realize what we miss
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  Speaker 1: so much in the White House. And I wish I
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  Speaker 1: was older, like I was an adult, but I was
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  Speaker 1: like a younger adult. I wish I was older, like
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  Speaker 1: right now, like understanding really how everything is working out
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  Speaker 1: and how one thing affects the other. I wish I
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  Speaker 1: had the Obama's in the White House right now, where
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  Speaker 1: I had even more of a better understanding of the
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  Speaker 1: symbol of them and like why we needed them and
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  Speaker 1: what was happening versus what wasn't. But let's take a listen.
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  Speaker 2: I feel the energypian Hi.
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  Speaker 1: Nice.
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  Speaker 3: Before we get any commentary in, we just got it's us.
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  Speaker 1: All of the stories within the story. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: you got everything in there.
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  Speaker 3: Real question is how come you didn't die my hair
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  Speaker 3: in the it's you know they don't. They usually touch
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  Speaker 3: it up a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: I thought about it.
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  Speaker 3: What was your sequence?
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  Speaker 5: So I did the drawing first. Of the two of you.
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  Speaker 5: We read all your books, We listened to all the
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  Speaker 5: interviews you all have done, podcasts and videos. My host
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  Speaker 5: studio got to know you. I wanted to make these
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  Speaker 5: decisions that tapped into those memories. So when you saw this,
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  Speaker 5: it felt familiar.
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  Speaker 4: It is beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: Is there anything that surprised you? It was good.
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  Speaker 5: It was so challenging because it made me push myself.
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  Speaker 5: It took me out of my comfort zone.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it looks fantastic. In fact, I'm going to have
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  Speaker 3: a suit made with this.
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  Speaker 5: You know how long.
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  Speaker 1: I've been wanting this woman to do something with And
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  Speaker 1: for me it wasn't honor. I mean it was we
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  Speaker 1: did it. And so Michelle Obama posted to her Twitter
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  Speaker 1: account today in the midst of all the noise, like
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  Speaker 1: and I really commend Michelle Obama because Michelle Obama does
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  Speaker 1: not seem like like when she decided to not go
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  Speaker 1: to the inauguration, you know, I was like, Okay, she
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  Speaker 1: is not for the bullshit whatsoever. So I know that
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  Speaker 1: she is a person who you know, and I watch
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  Speaker 1: her podcast a lot. We talk about her podcast in
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  Speaker 1: my opinion with her brother Craig Robinson. Hear a lot
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  Speaker 1: on The Latest with Laura La Rosa. She is not
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  Speaker 1: one to hold back her opinion or her feelings, so
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  Speaker 1: I know she sees everything that is happening, and I
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  Speaker 1: know that there are times where I'm sure she kind of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like even if it's not a lot of commentary,
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  Speaker 1: but wants to give a little jab here, a little
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  Speaker 1: jab there, because she's very slick with it sometimes when
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  Speaker 1: she does. But in the midst of all of the
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  Speaker 1: chaos and all the bs that was going on, she
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  Speaker 1: posted to her ex account in you know, conversation about
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  Speaker 1: the portrait. She says, Barack and I were so honored
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  Speaker 1: to have our portrait for the Obama Presidential Center. She
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  Speaker 1: talks about the artist and she says her artistic brilliance
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  Speaker 1: shines through and the way she infels such life and
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  Speaker 1: joy into the piece is truly extraordinary. We love it,
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  Speaker 1: and we think everyone who visits the center will too.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really excited to go see this. So when you're
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  Speaker 1: looking at the painting, first of all, the colors are beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: their brown skin, all the colors that pop off of
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  Speaker 1: the canvas. The backdrop is their love, their upbringing. You
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  Speaker 1: have their old home in the background. You see them
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  Speaker 1: sitting very presidential. It's like they're sitting in the now,
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  Speaker 1: and it's like all of the things that led up
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  Speaker 1: to the point that we're looking at them in the
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  Speaker 1: now of you have, you know, one of those famous
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  Speaker 1: photos from them, like back in the day, during their
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  Speaker 1: college time when they were studying. Man, it's just a
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  Speaker 1: timeline of their life and their legacy. And yeah, like
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  Speaker 1: that's the only way I'm ever have a conversation about
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  Speaker 1: Michelle Obama, Barack Obama. We need to be talking about honor, legacy, impact,
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  Speaker 1: and inspiration. Like people are disgusting, like honestly as human beings.
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  Speaker 1: Like I don't agree with everything that is done by
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  Speaker 1: Trump and his administration and a lot of people on
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  Speaker 1: that side, but it just gets to a point where
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  Speaker 1: it's like who are you as a human and like
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  Speaker 1: what do you want your kids? And children either they're
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  Speaker 1: not yours to like emulate as they grow older, like
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  Speaker 1: we talk so much about well, you know, these different
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  Speaker 1: things when they happen to children of the world, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, just race relations and critical race theory and
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  Speaker 1: all of these things. But man, I just I'm always
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  Speaker 1: like people as grown adults, Like I said, I wish
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  Speaker 1: that I had Obama and you know, miss Michelle Obama
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  Speaker 1: in office when I was this age right now where
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  Speaker 1: I could really I feel like I appreciated them and
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  Speaker 1: I was like excited and happy and all the things.
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  Speaker 1: But like being an adult right now, where like I'm fully,
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  Speaker 1: fully on my own, Like the first time, like I remember,
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  Speaker 1: the first time Obama was elected, I was still figuring
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  Speaker 1: out life, still living off my mom and my grandmother.
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  Speaker 1: Like being out in the world on my own now,
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  Speaker 1: that would have just hit so differently. And it's just
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  Speaker 1: how how can you know that there are young people
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  Speaker 1: in the world that are figuring out life that, regardless
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  Speaker 1: if y'all look alike or not need what the Obama's
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  Speaker 1: bringing to the world, and decide to get on someone's
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  Speaker 1: platform or on a Mike and Joe Rogan just in
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  Speaker 1: a hand provided no statement whatsoever, but and just decided
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  Speaker 1: like that, I don't know, well, first of all, you're
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  Speaker 1: a grown ass man, like you're a man, she's a woman.
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  Speaker 1: Just that alone, Like I feel like, you know how
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  Speaker 1: I grew up men, women and babies, they were off limits.
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  Speaker 1: It's just I don't know, people are really disgusting. See.
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  Speaker 1: But let's go on over to some more positive news
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  Speaker 1: because french Montana is doing something really positive in relation
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  Speaker 1: to the Knicks. So the Knicks have been celebrated here
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  Speaker 1: in New York and I talked a lot about that
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  Speaker 1: in the opening of this podcast. But french Montana had
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  Speaker 1: posted because there was a taxi driver whose taxi was
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  Speaker 1: getting deliterated by the Knicks fans. They were all on
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  Speaker 1: top of the you know, the the uh, they were
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  Speaker 1: all on top of his taxi. The taxi organization came
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  Speaker 1: out and said that like he was removed from the
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  Speaker 1: taxi and you know, they paid her work because you
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: got to keep up keep your car, and there's fees
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  Speaker 1: and there's all these things. So so french Montana decided
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  Speaker 1: to collaborate with MD Motivator, who is a guy that
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: does a lot of like give back stuff, viral giveback stuff,
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  Speaker 1: giving out cars and different things across social to help
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  Speaker 1: the NYC cab drivers. So they are working with gofunding
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  Speaker 1: to help a taxi cab driver's name is Nordine. So
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  Speaker 1: he's a fifty nine year old New York cab driver
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  Speaker 1: who has spent years working hard behind the wheel, and
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  Speaker 1: they're helping him get support for himself and his family.
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  Speaker 1: So they say that his cab was severely damaged during
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  Speaker 1: the recent celebrations in New York for the knicks and
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  Speaker 1: the vehicle. He relies on it to create a living
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  Speaker 1: and he works solely off of commission. So French Montana,
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  Speaker 1: along with a New York Taxi Workers Alliance, have launched
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  Speaker 1: a fundraise to help restore Nordine's business and get him
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  Speaker 1: back on the road. And now they're hoping that, like
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  Speaker 1: you know, other New Yorkers will support everywhere, come together
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  Speaker 1: and helping ever get back on his feet. And he
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  Speaker 1: handled it so gracefully, like he wasn't upset in the video.
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  Speaker 1: I saw at the people that are on top of
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  Speaker 1: his cab. I think it's like being in New York
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  Speaker 1: and you understood the excitement, but it was like damn,
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  Speaker 1: like you don't want to put somebody out of work
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  Speaker 1: and put them out of the way that they provide
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  Speaker 1: for their family. So it's good to see this happening
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  Speaker 1: now when they're trying to raise one hundred thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: for him. I haven't seen on this go fund me
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  Speaker 1: yet the actual amount that french Montana himself has donated,
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  Speaker 1: but I do believe french Montana getting involved will mean something.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, they're trying to raise twenty five thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: for him. Yeah, they're trying to raise twenty five thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars for him. At this point it is June fifteenth
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  Speaker 1: and six, twenty nine PM. They've raised two thousand, five
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  Speaker 1: hundred two, three hundred and fifty two dollars And this
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  Speaker 1: is just from everyday citizens and it reads you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mentioned to you guys. He's a fifty nine
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  Speaker 1: year old cab driver. His life was turned upside down recently.
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  Speaker 1: During the celebrations of the Knicks. His cab was vandalized
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  Speaker 1: and was reportedly he was oh wow. He was a
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  Speaker 1: reportedly assaulted and dragged from his vehicle by the crowd,
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  Speaker 1: and a matter of moments, the vehicle he was driving
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  Speaker 1: was severely damage, leaving him facing an incredibly difficult situation.
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  Speaker 1: The championship is in historic moment for New York and
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  Speaker 1: Knicks fans everywhere. It's been special to see New York
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  Speaker 1: come together to celebrate this title. But they say that
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  Speaker 1: their goal and showing his fund raise and is to
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  Speaker 1: act for help to get him back on his feet.
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  Speaker 1: So mda motivator, he says. French Montanna sent him the
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  Speaker 1: story and a partner with the Taxi Union, the New
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  Speaker 1: York Taxi Workers to help restore the business and change
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  Speaker 1: his life. Internet let's come together and help. So if
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  Speaker 1: you guys want to go and help out, I'm posting
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  Speaker 1: it to all of my socials. I'm Lauren laos A
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  Speaker 1: l o r E n l o r E n
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  Speaker 1: l o r O s A everywhere so you guys
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  Speaker 1: can find it on my socials. I just posted it
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  Speaker 1: to my Twitter account and I'll also be posting it
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  Speaker 1: to my Facebook and my Instagram. If you guys want
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  Speaker 1: to go and support, every little bit matters, by dollar,
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  Speaker 1: ten dollars, twenty dollars, whatever you can do, I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: every little bit matters. So listen, people in the community,
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  Speaker 1: it's a great time. We're celebrating the NEX step one.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we want to keep the positive vibes going
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  Speaker 1: because there's so much negativity in the world. But this
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  Speaker 1: cab driver and probably others like him, saw some issues
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  Speaker 1: of following the nixt win. Let's get together and figure
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  Speaker 1: it out. I'm Laura Rosa. This has been another episode
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: of the Latest with Laurna Rosa. I tell you, guys,
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  Speaker 1: every single episode, y'all could be anywhere with any old body,
• 20:31
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  Speaker 1: low Riders. I appreciate you, guys, and I'll check you
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: in my next episode.