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EXCLUSIVE: Gizelle Bryant Responds To Eminem’s Harassment Allegation · 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: It's Lauren Rosa and this is the Latest with Lauren
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  Speaker 2: Baby.
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  Speaker 1: Now today, hopping right on into the latest because I
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  Speaker 1: got some te tails for y'all. Okay, so it's like details,
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  Speaker 1: but it's given the tea because I'm about to really
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  Speaker 1: take y'all on into this story. So today there was
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  Speaker 1: a story that broke. There were some documents that were filed. Giselle,
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  Speaker 1: Brian and Robin Dixon of the Reasonably Shady podcast.
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  Speaker 2: You guys know they.
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  Speaker 1: Are our podcast cousins, which means they are also a
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  Speaker 1: podcast here on the Black Effect Network, are being accused
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  Speaker 1: of harassment by Eminem.
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  Speaker 2: By rapper Eminem, y'all are probably like, wait, what for.
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  Speaker 1: Anybody who doesn't know the back of the story hearing
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  Speaker 1: Eminem and real housewives of any sort in the same sentences,
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  Speaker 1: like how did we even get here? Don't worry, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: I got you, So listen Giselle Bryant and Robin Dixon
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  Speaker 1: created their podcasts some years ago. They created their podcast
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  Speaker 1: back in February. I'm sorry, they created their podcast back
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  Speaker 1: in May of twenty twenty one when they created the
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  Speaker 1: podcast Resonably Shady, And if you guys watched their show,
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  Speaker 1: you understand that. Of course, the title of the podcast
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  Speaker 1: is a playoff of how they get into things and
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  Speaker 1: topics and you know, just their personalities and what they're
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  Speaker 1: known for on the Real Houseworves of Atlanta or you know,
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  Speaker 1: formerly Real hos Wives of Atlanta because Robin is alum
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  Speaker 1: of Giselle is still actively on the show. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if fits never in a million years when
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  Speaker 1: I first saw that they launched this podcast, what I
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  Speaker 1: think that Eminem would be like, hold on wait, what
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  Speaker 1: uh uh? That shady that I saw mine? But it happened,
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  Speaker 1: and I remember when this story broke, because what happened
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  Speaker 1: was so they launched a podcast in May of twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty one. They then went on to file a trademark
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  Speaker 1: application for the name reasonably Shady in February, following the
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  Speaker 1: date that they launched. Now, when they went to go
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  Speaker 1: and file this trademark Eminem opposed the trademark application in
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  Speaker 1: February of twenty twenty three, and when he opposed it,
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  Speaker 1: he argued that his brand would be damaged if the
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  Speaker 1: ladies obtained the trademark because of the things that they
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  Speaker 1: would be talking about. And he alleged, you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: that thing that people always do when they try and
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  Speaker 1: push back on a trademark application, where they talk about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, people being confused, and the consumers would be confused.
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  Speaker 2: And he says.
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  Speaker 1: Consumers who have known him by Slim, shady or Shady
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  Speaker 1: since the nineties would be confused. He says he also
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  Speaker 1: owns the trademark for shady for merchandise.
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  Speaker 3: You.
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  Speaker 1: So he's arguing that he's pushing back right now that
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  Speaker 1: following month after So the month after March janiu Ver
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  Speaker 1: March March twenty twenty three, after eminem pushback, Gasel Bryant
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  Speaker 1: and Robin Dixon's attorney gave a statement to some outlets
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  Speaker 1: and he said, Robin Dixon and Jasell Bryant deny any
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  Speaker 1: likelihood of confusion between Eminem's trademarks and their reasonably Shady
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  Speaker 1: Podcast trademark. We are prepared to defend any allegations against
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  Speaker 1: them regarding their intellectual property. All right, so that is
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  Speaker 1: the background on how we got here. Now, there's been
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  Speaker 1: some back and forth since this. This has been ongoing
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  Speaker 1: since twenty twenty three. At this point, there were conversations
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  Speaker 1: about depositions. I know that Robin and Giselle were deposed
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  Speaker 1: by Eminem's attorneys, But this has been I mean, in
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  Speaker 1: my opinion, this has been the greatest publicity for their
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  Speaker 1: podcast that anyone could ask for.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, their podcast makes headlines.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about them literally this week in a previous
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  Speaker 1: episode where they talked about kay Michelle potentially joining the
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  Speaker 1: Real House was of Atlanta and kay Michelle then responded
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  Speaker 1: to that and that picked up everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Right, But of course, these are.
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  Speaker 1: Women who have a huge audience because of the platform
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  Speaker 1: of you know, Housewives that they were on for as
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  Speaker 1: long as you know, for as long as a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people can remember Potomac.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, it's not like they need the.
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  Speaker 1: Reach of the publicity moment, but it's a good one
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  Speaker 1: if you're going to make one. So in the headlines today,
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  Speaker 1: Eminem says that they're harassing him because after they were
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  Speaker 1: deposed Giselle Bryant and Robin Dixon. Now it's Eminem's turn
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  Speaker 1: to be deposed. They're asking for Eminem to be deposed
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  Speaker 1: by their attorneys. So his attorneys and their attorneys are
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  Speaker 1: going back and forth, or they have been going back
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  Speaker 1: and forth. They're trying to figure out when he's going
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  Speaker 1: to be deposed. Originally they had agreed to October twenty
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  Speaker 1: ninth of this year for the position for Eminem, and
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  Speaker 1: then things went haywire. They couldn't agree on the time.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Giselle and Robin felt like Gizelle and Robin
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  Speaker 1: felt like, you know, because Eminem's attorney and basically said,
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  Speaker 1: look y'all want eleven am Eastern Standard time. He's asking
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  Speaker 1: for two pm. It's very hard to get Eminem to
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  Speaker 1: sit down for a deposition taken when you can get them,
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  Speaker 1: is my advice to you. But if we need it,
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  Speaker 1: And he also said, can we make sure that this is,
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  Speaker 1: you know, less than two hours, because we made sure
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  Speaker 1: you guys, deposition was less than two hours, but we'll
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  Speaker 1: say as late as you need. They took that as
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  Speaker 1: you basically like, you better be lucky we even sitting
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  Speaker 1: down for this deposition, Like do you know who this is?
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  Speaker 2: This is Eminem girl. Okay, y'all better be lucky.
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  Speaker 1: We even given y'all the time we give y'all take,
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  Speaker 1: take it or leave it, and they're saying, no, that's
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  Speaker 1: not fair, that's not how these things work. So I
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  Speaker 1: reached out to Gazelle and I called her on the
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  Speaker 1: way here into the podcast, and I'm like, listen. And
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  Speaker 1: when I called her, she was like, hello, because what
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  Speaker 1: I call people? Because there's people are so used to
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  Speaker 1: be calling being like, hey, such and such is happening.
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  Speaker 2: What's going on? You gotta statement?
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  Speaker 1: You know. She was a little bit apprehensive at first
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  Speaker 1: when I called her, but me and her know each other.
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  Speaker 1: We did a few black events together. But she was
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  Speaker 1: just more so like what did I do?
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  Speaker 2: Lauren? Like why are you calling?
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  Speaker 1: But I asked her she would speak to you guys
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  Speaker 1: are low riders, just about what's going on. So y'all
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  Speaker 1: can hear right from her because Eminem is accusing them
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  Speaker 1: of harassment. So I'm like, who better to speak than
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  Speaker 1: those in question, Giselle Bryant or Robin Dixon.
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  Speaker 2: So let's give Giselle a call. She knows we're calling.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Hi, Hi, Okay, so we're taping, so you're on
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  Speaker 1: the podcast now the Latest with Laurena Rosa.
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  Speaker 2: You're here with my audience.
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  Speaker 1: I called them the Lowriders, and they're gonna be so excited.
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  Speaker 2: To hear from you great way.
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  Speaker 1: Well, okay, so I just gave them some background on
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  Speaker 1: everything that has been happening to catch them up. You know,
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  Speaker 1: from the time you guys created the podcast to filing
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  Speaker 1: for the trademark and Eminem's team pushing back on the trademark,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, talking about this would confuse the audience
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  Speaker 1: and it would damage his brand. But today the story
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  Speaker 1: broke via US Weekly in page six that Eminem is
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  Speaker 1: accusing you guys of harassment because there was a disagreement,
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  Speaker 1: or not even a disagreement, but there was no agreement
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  Speaker 1: to be reached on a time of the deposition that
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  Speaker 1: he's supposed to sit down on.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 4: So thatstory his attorneys deposed Ropping and I separately, right,
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  Speaker 4: And in doing that, they asked for the day, the
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  Speaker 4: complete day, and you know when we finished is when
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  Speaker 4: we finished. But they asked for the complete day, and
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  Speaker 4: that is what we gave them, and in turn, that
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  Speaker 4: is what we're asking for from him, he could only
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  Speaker 4: come up with a two o'clock start time of the day, and.
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  Speaker 2: That's just not sufficient. So we're not harassing the man.
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  Speaker 3: We're just asking for what we were asked to do,
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  Speaker 3: which was give the seven hours in the day a
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  Speaker 3: nine to five situation.
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  Speaker 5: So he finally came up with I think a day
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  Speaker 5: that he could sit I think at two o'clock, and
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  Speaker 5: my attorney told his attorney that she.
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  Speaker 3: Works until five, that is when she's done. And because
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  Speaker 3: they said that, well they said, hey, we can find
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  Speaker 3: people to work after hours to you know, if Eminem
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  Speaker 3: were to go after hours in the deposition, we could
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  Speaker 3: find people to work, you know, after hours.
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  Speaker 2: And my attorney.
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  Speaker 3: Rightly so said, look, I don't work after hours, so no,
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  Speaker 3: that's not going to work. And it's not unreasonable to
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  Speaker 3: ask for nine ten o'clock start time, especially when he
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  Speaker 3: said no, he wasn't going to be deposed for like
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  Speaker 3: a year, so we had to depose his manager, Paul Rosenberg,
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  Speaker 3: which we did, and then finally Patton and Tray said no,
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  Speaker 3: you know, if Marshall Mathers is the person that is
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  Speaker 3: listed that is opposing our trademark, then he should be.
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  Speaker 2: Deposed, so we're not harassing him. We would just like
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  Speaker 2: for this to.
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  Speaker 3: Be done in the same frame that was done to
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  Speaker 3: me and Robert.
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  Speaker 1: So his attorneys mentioned that there was also something mentioned
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  Speaker 1: in the docs about you back and forth where his
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  Speaker 1: attorneys said, oh, is there a way that Okay, so
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  Speaker 1: here's a time, and I know you guys opposed a time,
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  Speaker 1: but also they had actually asked if the deposition could
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  Speaker 1: be two hours or less, because that's what the that's
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  Speaker 1: the amount of time they took with you guys.
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  Speaker 2: But you're saying that you guys gave them a full day.
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  Speaker 2: We gained them up.
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  Speaker 3: They asked for a full day, and so I took
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  Speaker 3: a full day off.
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  Speaker 2: Of my time, like I cleared my day for the deposition.
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  Speaker 3: It just so happened that his attorneys didn't have any
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  Speaker 3: more questions to ask after we told them that. No,
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  Speaker 3: we did not start name our podcast reasonably Shady after Eminel, so.
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  Speaker 2: Like there's nothing more to discuss.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, my lawyer's position is like, look, she doesn't know.
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  Speaker 2: Is he gonna talk slow?
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  Speaker 3: Is he going to have to take a million bathroom breaks?
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  Speaker 3: Is he going to answer the question adequately? So it
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  Speaker 3: is standard just to clear your schedule for the day
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  Speaker 3: and give a seven seven hours.
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  Speaker 2: And then there's the you know, the kind of like
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  Speaker 2: to take it or leave it?
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  Speaker 1: I know you guys kind of felt like when they
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  Speaker 1: changed when they suggested what they suggested about the time
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  Speaker 1: as far as he's busy, if this is the time
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  Speaker 1: you can get him, we suggest that you do it.
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  Speaker 1: There was like a oh, we feel like you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're saying we'll take it or leave it, and that's
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  Speaker 1: not fair. How does like, so, what is the Patent
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  Speaker 1: and Trademark Office saying to you guys after you guys
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  Speaker 1: of course are opposing all of these things and are
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  Speaker 1: kind of scene, you know, how this is playing out
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  Speaker 1: where the availability you know from what you're saying, isn't
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  Speaker 1: being made the same way, like have you heard from
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  Speaker 1: the patterns rate Mark raffis yet?
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  Speaker 2: So it is with them now.
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  Speaker 3: But but my position on that is the taket to
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  Speaker 3: leave it is crazy to me because that's not how
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  Speaker 3: we did business with them. They asked for specific days,
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  Speaker 3: we gave it to them. And for Eminem to say
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  Speaker 3: he's so busy, Lauren.
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  Speaker 2: I have seven jobs.
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  Speaker 3: I'm busy too, Sorry, but I cleared my schedule, and
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  Speaker 3: so did Robin for this, for this whole situation and
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  Speaker 3: the ticket of leave. It is even more crazy when
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  Speaker 3: he filed the petition.
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  Speaker 2: We were minding our business.
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  Speaker 3: He is coming up against us, so we think that
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  Speaker 3: if you're gonna come up.
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  Speaker 2: Against our patent, our trademark, you would find the time
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  Speaker 2: to be deposed. Very true, Very true.
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  Speaker 1: There at no point did he like him or his manager,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Rosenberg, Like they never just reached out and said,
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  Speaker 1: let's find like a happy medium here. Like this to
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  Speaker 1: me is kind of like it's a very far stretch
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  Speaker 1: between the two worlds.
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  Speaker 3: I not kind of kind of yes, we've been offered
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  Speaker 3: something that's not.
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  Speaker 2: Reasonable, okay, Monetary is okay. I My position is.
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  Speaker 3: We've gone this far. This is I don't know, we
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  Speaker 3: in year two of this nonsense. We're gonna go to
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  Speaker 3: the end of the road. But everything is now with
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  Speaker 3: patent trade and they're gonna come back with I guess
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  Speaker 3: their findings or their rulings or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: When you guys were offered, like when they tried to
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  Speaker 1: offer I guess like it's kind of almost like a
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  Speaker 1: settlement type of thing, like.
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  Speaker 3: A they want to say that I don't want to
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  Speaker 3: say that they offer the settlement. I want to say
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  Speaker 3: that there was some language of kind of like a
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  Speaker 3: happy medium, so to speak, and.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't happy and it wasn't medium.
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  Speaker 1: Are you able to tell us what that hit? I'm
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  Speaker 1: not Wait, first of all, you kih my nerd. I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't happy and it wasn't medium. Are you wouldn't give
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  Speaker 1: us any like what that was? Was it that you
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  Speaker 1: guys couldn't do the podcast or shady would have to
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  Speaker 1: be removed?
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  Speaker 3: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Are you able to.
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  Speaker 1: Give us anything on like what it was that they
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  Speaker 1: actually asked without telling us what they offered?
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  Speaker 3: I don't think legally I can say that. Okay, so,
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  Speaker 3: but I will tell you when this is.
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  Speaker 2: All over for sure. Okay, got you?
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  Speaker 1: And then my final question is the eminem's attorney gave
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  Speaker 1: a statement to an outlet and he says or no,
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  Speaker 1: this is actually from the document.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I read that wrong.
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  Speaker 1: In the document they say refusal to cooperate and assistance
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  Speaker 1: on following emotion over three hours start time difference prove
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  Speaker 1: that their pursuit of this deposition is designed to harass.
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  Speaker 2: Any response to that statement.
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  Speaker 3: Totally, that's a stretch and if if it is designed
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  Speaker 3: to harass, then I will say his lawyers harassed me
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  Speaker 3: because again I my schedule for the day, because that
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  Speaker 3: is what his attorney asked of us.
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  Speaker 2: So you can't ask me and Robin, two.
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  Speaker 3: Very busy black women to do something that Eminem can
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  Speaker 3: and will not do.
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  Speaker 2: Got it? Well, thank you?
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  Speaker 1: And I mean we love reasonably Shady. So I hope
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  Speaker 1: y'all figured this out because I don't know what else
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  Speaker 1: to call y'all. Like I really I was sitting here thinking,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, well, what else would they be like? Because
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  Speaker 1: it is very out you know, in the opening of
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  Speaker 1: this podcast before I called you, I said, it's very
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  Speaker 1: it's so unbringing for y'all with y'all personalities, the way
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  Speaker 1: y'all cover the topics y'all talk about your personas on
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  Speaker 1: the show, it's you know, the shade is there, but
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  Speaker 1: y'all can be reasonable. So where else do you go
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  Speaker 1: from here? Like, I just don't know what.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know anyone that listens to the podcast that
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  Speaker 3: knows about Robin and I that listens to Reasonably Shady,
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  Speaker 3: that thought about Eminem in any capacity. So this is
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  Speaker 3: not an issue like the pat and trademark of it all.
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  Speaker 3: It's like no one thinks about eminem, no one thinks
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  Speaker 3: about some shady and quite frankly, he didne stole shady
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  Speaker 3: from the black community anyway.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, I don't.
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  Speaker 3: Even understand why we have gone down this road, but
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  Speaker 3: we gonna be reasonably shady, Lauren, don't you worry.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, Well, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Enjoy your Thanksgiving. I know you're probably in the kitchen
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  Speaker 2: getting ready to cook. I'm out to head on home.
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  Speaker 1: And start to do the same myself. I appreciate you
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  Speaker 1: for tapping on in with the Latest. I really appreciate you.
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  Speaker 2: All right, thank you, all.
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  Speaker 1: Righty Brye, Well, guys, you have it right here. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what's gonna happen basically, but if in whatever
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  Speaker 1: happens next, you guys will hear it right here first
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  Speaker 1: on the Latest with Lauren and Rosa, because at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, there's always a lot to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: But my low riders, I tell you every episode, I
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  Speaker 1: am appreciative that you guys decide to be right here
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  Speaker 1: with me.
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  Speaker 2: It is my job, my due diligence, and I'm honestly.
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  Speaker 1: Starting to believe this is my calling to being these
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  Speaker 1: people's business. Okay, to bring you updates first foremost, but
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  Speaker 1: also make sure you know what.
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  Speaker 2: Is going on lately because this is the latest. I'll
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  Speaker 2: catch you guys in my next episode. Enjoy your Thanksgiving