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Protected Species? Angel Reese Speaks Out + Wendy Williams Update · 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,
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  Speaker 1: right came, Hey, y'all was up into Laura the Rosa
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  Speaker 1: and this is another episode of the Latest with Lauren Rosa.
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  Speaker 1: This is you Dally did on all things pop culture, entertainment, news,
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  Speaker 1: and all of the conversations that shake the room.
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  Speaker 2: Baby. So you guys know, we always.
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  Speaker 1: Kick off the Latest checking in behind the scenes of
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  Speaker 1: the grind.
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  Speaker 2: So let's get two its.
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  Speaker 1: So, coming off of a very rust field weekend, I
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  Speaker 1: went home to Delaware this weekend and did a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of nothing with my family. Well, we technically did things,
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  Speaker 1: but it was technically us taking some time to do nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Like I mean as far as like all the ripping
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  Speaker 1: and running and things. My grandma literally said to me
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  Speaker 1: about like a week ago. She was like, you always
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  Speaker 1: coming here with something to do, You always ripping and running.
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  Speaker 1: You need to sit down. And I was like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: So these next couple of weekends that you know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: just here. I'm working during the week and I got
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  Speaker 1: my weekends free. I'm gonna take some time. So I
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  Speaker 1: went home this weekend. We played cards on Friday, literally
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  Speaker 1: all night long. My grandmother loves to play spades, so
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  Speaker 1: we played space and I was tired, y'all. We did
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  Speaker 1: the Breakfast club on Friday, and then after that I
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  Speaker 1: went home and slept for about an hour. Drove to Delaware,
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  Speaker 1: about a two hour drive, and then we played Space
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  Speaker 1: from about four or five o'clock all the way.
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  Speaker 2: To like twelve thirty in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, y'all know my grandma woke up the next day
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  Speaker 1: talking about can we play another game of spades. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: mamm we don't even have any players left at this point.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody is spades out. We also ate crabs, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: just spent time. Normally, when I'm home with my mom
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  Speaker 1: and my grandmother, we always watch movies. They love Tyler Perry,
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  Speaker 1: so we do a lot of the Tyler Perry movies.
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  Speaker 1: So Saturday I did that with them up until I
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  Speaker 1: went out to dinner with some friends. We watched Why
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  Speaker 1: Did I Get Married? And then we watched Why Did
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  Speaker 1: I Get Married?
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  Speaker 2: Too?
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  Speaker 1: On Sunday Sunday morning before I head it back home. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so yeah, this weekend was good. I think going home
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  Speaker 1: it's always like a reset. I don't know, if I
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  Speaker 1: get the type arrest that I get when I'm in
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  Speaker 1: Jersey because I'm like secluded, I'm in my apartment, I'm
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  Speaker 1: by myself, I'm able to like sleep and just kind
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  Speaker 1: of like be in silence. In delaware's a little bit
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  Speaker 1: different because you know, when you're home, everybody wants to
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  Speaker 1: make sure you get a chance to see them or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not always able to do all of that.
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  Speaker 1: But it is definitely a reset, Like it feels good
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  Speaker 1: coming back into like such a busy paced like city
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  Speaker 1: and like work life after being home where you know,
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  Speaker 1: things are a little bit like nobody cares about work.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody just wants to, like in real life, just like
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  Speaker 1: catch up and spend time. So yeah, we got to
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  Speaker 1: do that. So shout out to my guass. We got
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  Speaker 1: to do that. And I mean that's something that we
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  Speaker 1: do often. But it's been a while, y'all know, We've
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  Speaker 1: been on the go everywhere from you know, LA for
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  Speaker 1: BT Awards weekend to Essence Festival to just trying to
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  Speaker 1: get a day or two a sleeping in between. Like
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  Speaker 1: right now is really the season where I'm grinding, Like
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  Speaker 1: I'm grinding, grinding, grinding, trying to be very conscious why
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  Speaker 1: I don't grind myself into the ground, but I'm very
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  Speaker 1: aware that, like this is a season where like I
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  Speaker 1: got our prioritize, like checking some things off of the list,
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  Speaker 1: checking some boxes before I can like just chill. So,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of girls that are out here on her grind,
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  Speaker 1: let's get on into the latest because Angel Rees is
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  Speaker 1: having some issues and it's because she's a black woman.
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  Speaker 2: But what's new. Let's talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: So Angel Rees, who we know, recently transferred to the
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta Dream and when she switched teams, when she headed
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  Speaker 1: to Atlanta to the Atlanta Dream, it was such a
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  Speaker 1: big deal because Angel Rees is phenomenal. But also, like
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  Speaker 1: I have to think what we're beginning to watch happen
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  Speaker 1: with a WNBA, because y'all know, I'm not like a
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  Speaker 1: big sports person, Like I'm not religiously watching any team
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  Speaker 1: or any game or any series or anything like that.
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  Speaker 2: But there is an element.
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  Speaker 1: Of celebrity to the conversation around certain players, around certain teams,
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  Speaker 1: around certain things that are happening within you know, the WNBA,
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  Speaker 1: the NBA, And that's where I tap in and that's
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  Speaker 1: where I pay attention, you know, Angelies. I actually like
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  Speaker 1: years years, years and years ago when Ajuries had first
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  Speaker 1: got to college.
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  Speaker 2: I remember.
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  Speaker 1: Being in the newsroom and there being conversations about Anguries
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  Speaker 1: because she was They tried to make it seem like
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  Speaker 1: she was causing issues on the floor because she was
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  Speaker 1: competitive in the game, and that really wasn't it.
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  Speaker 2: The issue was that, you know, a lot of times,
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  Speaker 2: when you're.
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  Speaker 1: A black woman, you're good at what you do, you're
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  Speaker 1: confident in that, and you're not afraid to tell people
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  Speaker 1: or show that. It turns into that, it turns into
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  Speaker 1: what we do too much of whether we're too aggressive
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  Speaker 1: or we're too competitive, where we don't know how to
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like, I think the world
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  Speaker 1: loves to try and humble us a bit. And when
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  Speaker 1: I remember the earliest conversations I remember around angel Rees
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  Speaker 1: is the conversation of about you know, people were trying
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  Speaker 1: to say she was so ghetto because she was coming
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  Speaker 1: out of Baltimore and then there was a moment with
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  Speaker 1: her and Caitlyn Clark and you know, and I just
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  Speaker 1: remember feeling like, Wow, I know what it's like to
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  Speaker 1: be that girl that's from around that's good at some
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  Speaker 1: things or even if you're not good at you confident
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  Speaker 1: in the fact that you've been hearing you trying it
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  Speaker 1: and people don't really know.
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  Speaker 2: How to take it. So you got to carve out
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  Speaker 2: a space for yourself.
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  Speaker 1: And all these years later, we are back here Andresa's
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  Speaker 1: had tons of success, championship wins, She's been on the
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  Speaker 1: cover of Vogue, you know, has a very successful podcast.
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  Speaker 2: She is a brand of business and is excelling.
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  Speaker 1: And we're back here having a conversation about the color
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  Speaker 1: of her skin.
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  Speaker 2: Because there is a coach who.
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  Speaker 1: Heads up the Toronto Tempo and this head coach, Sandy
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  Speaker 1: bron Dello, was suspended without pay for one game because
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  Speaker 1: she was upset at a call that did or did
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  Speaker 1: not happen when it came to Angelry. So here's what
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  Speaker 1: went down during the dream the Atlanta Dreams game where
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  Speaker 1: they were playing Toronto on this past Friday, which they won,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, they won one eleven and ninety two.
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  Speaker 1: A player named Niara Sabali fouled angel Rees after after
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  Speaker 1: an offensive rebound took place.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So the.
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  Speaker 1: Call is being reviewed and the coach, Miss Sandy Brundello,
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  Speaker 1: yelled at the referees right and now she's yelling microphones
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  Speaker 1: pick her up, saying, Angel, she's a protected species. Hold
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  Speaker 1: up now, Yes, this is a very very very white
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  Speaker 1: woman that is saying this. Not only can I don't
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  Speaker 1: I don't care who you are referring to a black woman,
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  Speaker 1: a black person as any type of species. It's just
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  Speaker 1: like common sense of like no, pretty freaking races shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: do that. But I think, uh, you're a white woman.
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  Speaker 1: This is a black woman. Like it's just all all
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  Speaker 1: of the surrounding things around It would have been a
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  Speaker 1: huge signal or red flag to anybody. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: where you come from, because I've seen some outlets saying
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  Speaker 1: that Brondello is from Australia and that in Australia they
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  Speaker 1: use the term protect the species in their sports environment
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  Speaker 1: to express like frustration over like a lack of cause
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  Speaker 1: against players and like whatever, I don't care where you're
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  Speaker 1: from when you're here, or even if you're there, even
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  Speaker 1: if a Angel Reese or whatever black person, black woman
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  Speaker 1: was playing Australia. You gotta there's certain things in certain
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  Speaker 1: lines you don't cross. So she says this, It gets
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  Speaker 1: picked up on a mic as she's yelling at the refs,
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  Speaker 1: and of course it causes a widespread conversation. It made
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  Speaker 1: it to Twitter and Angel Reese responded and added her
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  Speaker 1: and said, so there was a person that was watching
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  Speaker 1: the game that said call them the black woman a
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  Speaker 1: species dot and Angel rees said, are we surprised?
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  Speaker 2: And then tagged the coach with the clown face? So
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  Speaker 2: now you.
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  Speaker 1: Know what I'm saying, since she wants to talk about
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  Speaker 1: protective species. Uh, this coach, Brondelo will miss the Tempo's
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  Speaker 1: next the Temple's next game against the Las Vegas Aces.
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  Speaker 1: So the WNBA put out a statement and they said,
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  Speaker 1: the w NBA expects all coaches and team personnel to
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  Speaker 1: uphold the higher standard of professionalism and respect that are
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  Speaker 1: fundamental to our league. And then Brondelo issued an apology
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  Speaker 1: early on Saturday, which of course she had to.
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  Speaker 2: I mean she plays with all black women. That's another thing.
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  Speaker 2: It's like.
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  Speaker 1: Every time one of these instances happened, people will love
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  Speaker 1: to argue, like what is of Like, okay, she said
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  Speaker 1: this word because she's from like where she's from, it's
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  Speaker 1: okay because it's known as this. But like you're with
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of black women, you're playing, you're where you're
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  Speaker 1: working in a w NBA, from coaches to staff to
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  Speaker 1: the actual players, like you're hearing and seeing the things
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  Speaker 1: that they are experiencing and having a battle in real life.
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  Speaker 1: No matter where you're from, your life experience should have
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  Speaker 1: taught you enough by now at Broundello's big age, because
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  Speaker 1: she looks old at her big age, that you should
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  Speaker 1: have known that that was It's just not acceptable to
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  Speaker 1: even Paedi tu in conversation. What happened was she didn't
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  Speaker 1: think it would be picked up. She didn't think people
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  Speaker 1: would hear her, and we did. So she issued an apology.
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  Speaker 1: She said, Angel, I'm sorry last night, in the emotion
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  Speaker 1: of the moment after Naiara's injury, I use a phrase
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  Speaker 1: that I shouldn't have used, and I take full responsibility
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  Speaker 1: for that. My frustration was with the officiating, so the refs,
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  Speaker 1: but my words unfairly put focus on you, the head coach,
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  Speaker 1: the Brondelo, the white woman who is from Maustralia, who
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  Speaker 1: works for the Toronto Tempo, who called Angel Reese a
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  Speaker 1: protected species, continued to go on and say, I also
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  Speaker 1: understand that my words are carried I also understand that
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  Speaker 1: my words carried an impact beyond what I intended, particularly
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  Speaker 1: for black women in our league. And I'm deeply sorry
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  Speaker 1: for that, I said, my competing with coaching and learning
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  Speaker 1: from incredible black women. That is what I'm saying, y'all. Like,
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  Speaker 1: that's why I don't like, I don't think that all
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  Speaker 1: non black people have hate in their hearts, and like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like, I don't think everybody is just always
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  Speaker 1: like out to like hate other people. However, I do
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  Speaker 1: think that we should never excuse things that our hate,
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  Speaker 1: like literally our hate or can cause other hate, because
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  Speaker 1: regardless if you intend to do something or not, there
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  Speaker 1: is an effect on so many other people if you
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  Speaker 1: do make the decision to do that, and if we
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  Speaker 1: make the decision to just let us slide and be like.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's not what she meant. And I think, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I get it.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out to the WNBA for suspending her for one
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  Speaker 1: game without pay for using a term, but I think
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  Speaker 1: that it should have been a bit more because you're
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  Speaker 1: working in an environment full of black women, have been
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  Speaker 1: for so long. How do you not know that the
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  Speaker 1: issue is we heard it and we weren't supposed to,
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  Speaker 1: she says.
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  Speaker 2: The coach.
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  Speaker 1: She continues to say I regret that my words caused
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  Speaker 1: harm and hurt to a community I respect so deeply.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I believe it respect so deeply,
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  Speaker 1: because if you respect it black people and black women
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  Speaker 1: so deeply, you would really try to try to empathize
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  Speaker 1: with the conversations that we're having about the struggles that
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  Speaker 1: we face being looked at as less than human and
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  Speaker 1: being treated as if we are species, as if we
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  Speaker 1: don't hurt, as if we don't have pain, as if
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  Speaker 1: we don't need equal pain. Like there's all these things
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  Speaker 1: that are like basic common knowledge about black people versus
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  Speaker 1: the others, and especially black women, and you're with them
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  Speaker 1: on a daily it's kind of scary to me, honestly, Like,
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  Speaker 1: let me just look up how long she's been a coach.
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  Speaker 1: So in two thousand and five, she was named an
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  Speaker 1: assistant coach of the San Antobia San Antonio Silver Stars,
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  Speaker 1: and she was promoted to a head coach in February
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  Speaker 1: twenty ten. SOT over a decade, clearly over a decade
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  Speaker 1: you've been working along with and learning from, and that's
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  Speaker 1: just minimal, right because she's she's come up in the
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  Speaker 1: sport prior to that from black women, and you don't understand, like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand how you can say you respect us
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  Speaker 1: in all these years in you don't understand why that
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  Speaker 1: is not something I should be said.
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  Speaker 2: Again, I think the issue is that we heard her.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine what she says when we don't hear so she
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  Speaker 1: continues to say, I have a lot of respect for
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  Speaker 1: you as both a player and a person, and I
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  Speaker 1: sincerely apologize to you, your teammates, and the Dream Organization
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  Speaker 1: for my comment. Yeah, I'm not mad at Angelies for
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  Speaker 1: shooting back at her on Twitter either, not mad at
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  Speaker 1: that whatsoever.
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  Speaker 2: Completely out of line.
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  Speaker 1: I know she got to slap on a wrist from
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  Speaker 1: the WNBA, but like, now you have a deeper rooted
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  Speaker 1: issue because now you've got the other girls that you're
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  Speaker 1: playing with and that you're working and the black women
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  Speaker 1: you're working with that are looking at you like hold on,
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  Speaker 1: wait what so is that how you really feel? And
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  Speaker 1: she's gonna run it ain't Reaes again, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like this is not I feel like no
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  Speaker 1: matter how much we kick and scream it to the
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  Speaker 1: top of the mountains, there's always gonna be this like
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  Speaker 1: notion that like people can just do and say what
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  Speaker 1: they want when it comes to us, especially black women,
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  Speaker 1: Like I hate that, and I'm not the type that
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  Speaker 1: like lean into, like, you know, a victim mentality or
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  Speaker 1: anything like that, But I do feel like sometimes there's
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  Speaker 1: like a lesser on the total pole narrative that we're
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  Speaker 1: like fighting against, even though we know that it's not
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  Speaker 1: like we know that we like make shit, make stuff go,
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  Speaker 1: excuse my language.
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  Speaker 2: We know that we make stuff go.
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  Speaker 1: We know that we are the economy, we know that
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  Speaker 1: we are driving entrepreneurship. We know that we're driving so
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  Speaker 1: many different facets and elements and genres of like life
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  Speaker 1: literally birthing, like we are we're literally carrying the black
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  Speaker 1: race on our backs, like we are giving birth to
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  Speaker 1: the net civil rights activists, scientists, black doctors, black lawyers,
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  Speaker 1: Like we're doing so much, and then it's still people
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  Speaker 1: can still like casually slip up in and make these
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  Speaker 1: mistakes and have a job after. I'm only passionate because
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  Speaker 1: I'm a black woman, and I every single day am
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  Speaker 1: having a tote this line of like, yeah, but it's
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  Speaker 1: different for me as a black woman, And I don't
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  Speaker 1: even really know how to describe the line that I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about that I'll be toting you know, I'd be
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  Speaker 1: kind of tiptoe around. But other black women listening to this,
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  Speaker 1: y'all gonna feel me, y'all gonna know what.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: It's literally that point of like, yeah, I hear you,
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  Speaker 1: but like I'm a black woman, it's a bit different
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  Speaker 1: for me, no matter how outspoken we are, you know,
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  Speaker 1: no matter how much support. And I love to see
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  Speaker 1: like when men, especially black men support black women are like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, standing in front of the bullet for us,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I love that because I
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  Speaker 1: think it shows that, like we're protected, and I think
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  Speaker 1: that that's all that he ever want is to show
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  Speaker 1: and feel that.
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  Speaker 2: But and that's why, like.
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  Speaker 1: I know, you know, people get on a shock for
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  Speaker 1: some of the comicsies made about Anguries, but like he
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  Speaker 1: comes gunning about her often when people are dragging her
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  Speaker 1: and talking about her in ways that you know, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people feel like other sports analysts would not
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  Speaker 1: be talking about her if she were not a black woman,
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  Speaker 1: or you know, the positions that they pin her in
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  Speaker 1: in conversations and the narratives. Yeah, so there's that that's
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  Speaker 1: uplift a bit. Speaking of black women, Wendy Williams, who
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  Speaker 1: would have been celebrating eighteen years in television last week,
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  Speaker 1: So July fourteen, two thousand and eight, the Wendy Williams
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  Speaker 1: Show kicked off and she went for thirteen seasons. Wendy
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  Speaker 1: Williams was outside celebrating her birthday. We have not seen
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  Speaker 1: Wendy and sometime, and you know, she's been a lot
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  Speaker 1: more low key since the beginning of all of this,
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  Speaker 1: but people are always constantly wondering how she's doing, how
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  Speaker 1: the conservativeship fight is going I can't answer any questions
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  Speaker 1: for y'all about how the conservativeship fighters going on because
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  Speaker 1: they don't really talk to media much about it directly anymore,
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  Speaker 1: ever since Wendy kind of got, you know, quoting from
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  Speaker 1: that judge in the conservativeship. But to be honest, when
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  Speaker 1: they do talk to media, it's not like it like
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  Speaker 1: they pick and choose, like I know she did an
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  Speaker 1: article in The New Yorker recently and stuff like that,
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  Speaker 1: but she was out and about.
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  Speaker 2: She was headed out for a birthday dinner.
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  Speaker 1: With her niece, Alex, and I think it was Alex's
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  Speaker 1: boyfriend or husband that was with her as well too.
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  Speaker 2: Let's take a listen to Wendy, Happy birthday. We congratulations,
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  Speaker 2: happy birthday.
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  Speaker 1: It's my birthday and my birthday is doing.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: Stellar as any plans for today tonight, A big body
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: with we have a friend. We have a friend Mike
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: Tucci and going to Chucci. Nice, nice sound and healthy.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you guys, you know, if you haven't seen
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: the photos, she looked really good as well too.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: Wendy looked really good.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: She looked together, she looked put together, had her makeup done,
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: She was smiling, she was you know, how to try
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: to have conversations about her cognitive like, you know, ability
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: to keep up with conversations and answer questions like it
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: was only one question that the fotoc threw at her,
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: but she was sharped. Hey, this is where we're going.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: We got a friend there. You know, it's my birthday.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: The pictures that her niece posted, she captioned it celebrating
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: the Queen Wendy Williams. And I saw Wendy Willis's brother
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: posts you know, some photos and celebration of her birthday
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: as well too. So from the outside looking in, it
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: looked like it looks like she's doing well.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: In that last article I did read about her from
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: The New Yorker, it was like in a column that
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: they did, she was saying, how, you know, she goes
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: to church every Sunday, but like she's still very unhappy
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: with her living circumstances because she's still in you know,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: that older lockdown facility where like she can't even let
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: herself out, everything has to be approved and all of that.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: But she's looking good and I think that that counts
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: for something because we saw what it was like when
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: she wasn't doing as well well physically, like you could
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: physically literally.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: See it on her.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I try to look out for any Wendy
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: update I can, because at the end of the day,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Wendy Williams is still Wendy Williams. And you know, I
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: think what we watched to happen with her was pretty insane.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Was really insane.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: It's like, Wendy Williams is literally one of the greatest
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: to ever do it in the talk show shoot even
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: in a radio space as well too. And watch her
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: walk away from the Wendy Williams Show without any ownership,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: without any other businesses surrounded by I have so many
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: I would love to sit down and have a very
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: in depth interview with Wendy about that time period of
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: her life and why, like why didn't you own need
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: an IP Why didn't you start businesses?
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Like why? Like was it?
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I was. Maybe one day that'll happen.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: We'll put that out there speaking into existence. Could you
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: guys know? We were following everything with thingship really really closely,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: down to the point where, you know, for the Breakfast Club,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: I actually went on assignment to the home where Wendy
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Williams was living just to see it myself, and it
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: was very lockdown. I couldn't even get upstairs. She was
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: not able to come downstairs and speak to me. We
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: had to talk on the phone while she looked out
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: of the window. It was a whole thing. So, you know,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: putting it out there of that interview maybe will happen
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: one day once she is, you know, a bit more
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: freed up from her conservativeship. But we'll just have to
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: wait and see. This has been another episode of the
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Latest with Lauren de Rosa. I tell you, guys, every
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: single episode, y'all could be anywhere with any old body
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: talking about anything, but y'all rather be right here with me,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: my Lowriders. I appreciate you, guys. I will see you
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: in my next episode.