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We Still Don’t Know How to Treat Our Legends · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Let's get, let's get, let's get to it, time to
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  Speaker 1: do it. I'm the homegirl that knows a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about everything and everybody. You hear that exclusive? You know
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  Speaker 1: she don't lie about that, right? Lauren came in hot. Hey, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: what's up? It's Lauren LaRosa, and this is another episode
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  Speaker 1: of The Latest with Lauren LaRosa. This is your daily
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  Speaker 1: dig on all things pop culture, entertainment news, and all
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  Speaker 1: of the conversations that shake the room, baby. Now, y'all
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  Speaker 1: know we kick off the show behind the scenes of
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  Speaker 1: The Grind. Let's get into it. back on the grind. Alright,
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  Speaker 1: so over the weekend, you know, it was a lot
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  Speaker 1: of wind and a lot of rain. I was in
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  Speaker 1: the Jersey, Delaware area for all of the weekend, and
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  Speaker 1: we were preparing for a storm called the Northeaster. Now,
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  Speaker 1: that was a lot of flood, a lot of wind,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of rain. There were people in certain
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  Speaker 1: parts on the East Coast who really, really, really, they
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  Speaker 1: were damaged, and it hit them so much harder than
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  Speaker 1: it hit everybody else. Now, I don't really know all
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  Speaker 1: of the details of, you know, what areas were impacted
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  Speaker 1: the most, but I did see CNN, you know, providing
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  Speaker 1: updates and I get their alerts on my phone and
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  Speaker 1: I seen, you know, they were doing a count at
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  Speaker 1: one point of like lives lost. They were, you know,
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  Speaker 1: doing different flood warnings. I saw that in certain parts
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  Speaker 1: of the Carolinas, they had began offering emergency North Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: They began offering emergency ferry services to help people who
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  Speaker 1: can't get to the mainland and, because of different damage
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  Speaker 1: that was happening on the highway. So it was not
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  Speaker 1: safe to really be out and driving and maneuvering, even
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  Speaker 1: in certain areas that it was a lot less than
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  Speaker 1: all of that, right? Where it wasn't like life impacting or,
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  Speaker 1: you know, life or death. But it still wasn't that
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  Speaker 1: safe to be out and about. So I spent a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the weekend inside watching a lot of television.
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  Speaker 1: Me and my mom, we watched A Different World and
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  Speaker 1: the sequel, the new sequel on Netflix. My grandmother, she
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  Speaker 1: is not really like a different world person. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's a little bit too young for her. But she
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  Speaker 1: loves Tyler Perry. So while I get married, I end
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  Speaker 1: up watching that three times this weekend in two different households.
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  Speaker 1: But Sunday, when everything slowed down, And I was unsure.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, if this weather is still crazy like this,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to go anywhere. But Sunday, I was
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  Speaker 1: blessed to be a guest at the Women's in Delaware,
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  Speaker 1: which is where I'm from. black restaurant week so it
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  Speaker 1: was the closing out day of their food festival and
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  Speaker 1: it was amazing you know we were there with so
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  Speaker 1: many food vendors um i literally just got to walk
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  Speaker 1: around and eat all day long i mean fried chicken
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  Speaker 1: from you know uh there's a business in delaware called
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  Speaker 1: mitch mitch's more better chicken fried chicken is off the
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  Speaker 1: chain serena soul food full plate bust down um Marvelicious
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  Speaker 1: Water Ice, Homemade Water Ice, and these are all Black-owned restaurants.
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  Speaker 1: Urban Fork, which is a new restaurant I actually found
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  Speaker 1: out about, I didn't know about, in Wilmington, Delaware, where
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  Speaker 1: I'm from, another Black-owned restaurant. Oh, my God. They had these, like,
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  Speaker 1: Cajun shrimp doubled eggs. Lord. Then they had a student cook-off,
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  Speaker 1: which was also amazing as well, too. They had three students,
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  Speaker 1: all male chefs. The first place won $ 750 in groceries, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, gift cards to ShopRite. And then it went
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  Speaker 1: to $ 500 and then $ 250. They prepared meals right in
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  Speaker 1: front of a live audience. It was just a good time.
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  Speaker 1: I so love, y'all know I talk about Delaware and
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  Speaker 1: being from Delaware all the time. And the reason why
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  Speaker 1: I do it is because when I was really trying
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  Speaker 1: to figure out life and career outside of just a
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  Speaker 1: traditional banking industry, which is like a really big, it's
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  Speaker 1: like banking and healthcare or like the hospitals are where
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  Speaker 1: like most people in Delaware, like, you know, where I
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  Speaker 1: grew up, where they work. Creative industries weren't a real
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  Speaker 1: thing in Delaware, especially not when I was in high school.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's a lot better now. City Council, shout out
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  Speaker 1: to Trippy Congo. They're, you know, really big. The Congo family,
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  Speaker 1: they're huge in Delaware. They own funeral homes where I'm from.
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  Speaker 1: But City Council back in my hometown has done a
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  Speaker 1: lot to really pour into the creative arts industry in
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  Speaker 1: these non-conventional career fields. So just seeing... You know, a
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  Speaker 1: food festival that literally platformed all black owned restaurants. Loved it.
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  Speaker 1: The city that I grew up in, you know, downtown Wilmington, Delaware.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people know of it now because like
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  Speaker 1: Biden as the president. You know, his home base was
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  Speaker 1: in Delaware. Literally, the place where we had this event at,
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  Speaker 1: maybe about a block up, was where Kamala and Biden's
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  Speaker 1: Delaware-located headquarters or offices were located. So as you guys
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  Speaker 1: can imagine, tourism has really changed in Wilmington, Delaware. Like,
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  Speaker 1: we're a small city, but there's a lot happening there. Like,
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  Speaker 1: there are so many hotels that they've built, new restaurants. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God, everywhere you turn, it's a floor-to-ceiling window luxury
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  Speaker 1: apartment building. And it was not that way when I
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  Speaker 1: was coming up. Like, we didn't really have much of anything.
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  Speaker 1: It was literally like the inner city was the inner city.
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  Speaker 1: It was the hood. Like, it's so different now. And
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of times the businesses that are minority-owned,
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  Speaker 1: Black-owned businesses that are owned by the people who are
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  Speaker 1: really from the community, once you bring in these big
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  Speaker 1: corporates and these chains and these chain restaurants, they get
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  Speaker 1: drowned out. So the fact that the city is putting
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  Speaker 1: such a spotlight and taking the time to to make
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  Speaker 1: sure that people know that they are there and know
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  Speaker 1: where they are and what the food tastes like and
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  Speaker 1: how you find it. Amazing. I was honored to be
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  Speaker 1: a part. I had a really great time. I posted
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  Speaker 1: a recap, uh, from that event and some of the
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  Speaker 1: food that I tried on my Instagram. I'm Lauren La
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  Speaker 1: Rosa everywhere. L O R E N L O R
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  Speaker 1: O S A. So if y'all want to check that out,
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  Speaker 1: if you just happen to be driving through the Delaware
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  Speaker 1: area and need some recommendations, I'm going to tag all
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  Speaker 1: of the food vendors and, over on my social that
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  Speaker 1: were there. Everything. I didn't try one thing that was
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  Speaker 1: not good. Y'all, I ate vegan peach cobbler. It was warm.
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  Speaker 1: It was amazing. It was good as hell. It was
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  Speaker 1: from Rooted AF. Vegan peach cobbler from Rooted AF. Let's
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  Speaker 1: get on into the latest though. So I told you
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  Speaker 1: guys that I spent a lot of time this weekend
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  Speaker 1: just sitting still. So me, my mom, my grandmother, we... Literally,
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  Speaker 1: we're able to take the time to just have a
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  Speaker 1: sit down. I went over to visit my grandmother when
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  Speaker 1: I first got to Delaware. And a lot of times
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  Speaker 1: with me, I think the hardest part of this job,
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  Speaker 1: everybody asks me every time I'm home, people always ask
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  Speaker 1: me like, do you really love it? And what's it
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  Speaker 1: been like? The hardest part of... working in an industry
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  Speaker 1: that does demand a lot of your time and you
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  Speaker 1: have and you have to physically show up and you
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  Speaker 1: know there's a lot even when I'm with my mom
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  Speaker 1: and my grandmother sometimes they're like yo get off your
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  Speaker 1: phone because I'm always watching something or trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: out like you know is there a story I can
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  Speaker 1: break or like whatever the case may be that's the
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  Speaker 1: hardest part because at the end of the day my
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  Speaker 1: mom and my grandmother are not getting any younger and
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm able to be a lot more
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  Speaker 1: balanced in life and in my day to day when
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  Speaker 1: I'm like really interconnected, like when I'm really connected to them,
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  Speaker 1: but also to just being in a position of like
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  Speaker 1: a caretaker for anybody who has ever taken care of anyone,
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  Speaker 1: you know, older or even, you know, same age, um, But,
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe they're going through some things health wise,
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  Speaker 1: whatever the case may be. You know that it's like
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  Speaker 1: a job itself. Like it requires a lot of detail,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of planning, a lot of time as well.
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  Speaker 1: And my grandmother's biggest thing right now is I don't
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  Speaker 1: need nothing from you. I'm good. Home is paid off.
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  Speaker 1: We are good. I just want you to spend time.
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  Speaker 1: So I try to be really intentional about that. But
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  Speaker 1: I always feel guilty like I'm not doing enough when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to spending time with her. because I know
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  Speaker 1: she ain't going to be here forever. But I try
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  Speaker 1: and make it where when I do spend time with her...
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  Speaker 1: We just kick it. Like, we literally just kick it.
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  Speaker 1: I have unbothered time where I'm not doing anything. I
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  Speaker 1: don't got to talk to nobody. I ain't working. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not any of that. And that's what this weekend was.
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  Speaker 1: So we watched... Well, first of all, y'all, I talked
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  Speaker 1: to y'all about me being in Vegas for the iHeartRadio
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  Speaker 1: Music Festival. And when I was there, because I talk
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  Speaker 1: to my mom and my grandmother every day, I was
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  Speaker 1: trying to explain to my grandmother what I was there
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  Speaker 1: for and why, like, what I was doing. She didn't
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  Speaker 1: understand nothing at all. She'd just be like, you know...
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  Speaker 1: keep doing what you're doing. I wish you didn't have
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  Speaker 1: to get on a plane so much. She's scared of flying,
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  Speaker 1: but keep doing what you're doing. I know you're going
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  Speaker 1: to be great. I know you're being great. I'm proud
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  Speaker 1: of you. Everybody like, she just knows that is everything
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  Speaker 1: is going well because she's able to watch me on TV.
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  Speaker 1: And so many people talk to her about me. Um,
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  Speaker 1: but I was able to show her the video that
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  Speaker 1: I posted via my Instagram, um, and my YouTube channel
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  Speaker 1: of me presenting the award during the I heart radio music, uh, festival. Um,
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  Speaker 1: Not the award, I'm sorry. Bringing Ciara out on stage.
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  Speaker 1: And just some of the love backstage at the Breakfast
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  Speaker 1: Club was showing prior to me going on stage. Let's
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  Speaker 1: take a listen to that audio real quick. Well, Lauren
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  Speaker 1: about to go introduce Ciara at the iHeartRadio Music Festival. Okay?
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  Speaker 1: And me, Justin Envy, about to do something at the
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  Speaker 1: iHeartRadio Music Festival. But we here at the iHeartRadio Music Festival.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go, Lauren! Let's go, Lauren! Let's go, Lo. Let's go, Lo.
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  Speaker 1: This what you do, Lo. So she watched this video
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  Speaker 1: and she was ecstatic. Oh, my God. Her seeing, you know...
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  Speaker 1: me on a stage, but it was like, it was
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  Speaker 1: like probably 10 to 15, 20,000 people in that arena. She,
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  Speaker 1: oh my, the conversation we had after that was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: she was like, I remember when you first went away
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  Speaker 1: to college and I would drive down every weekend or
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  Speaker 1: every other weekend, or maybe sometimes like every other week,
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  Speaker 1: my grandmother would drive down, she would come, she would
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  Speaker 1: take me grocery shopping. And sometimes we would just sit
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  Speaker 1: in the car and like eat lunch. You go to
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  Speaker 1: KFC or, you know, some grandmas love a KFC with
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  Speaker 1: a parfait cups. We would go to KFC, and we
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  Speaker 1: would just talk, and she knew that me being in
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  Speaker 1: college meant that I was doing something better, like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: bettering myself. Not better, like, better than anybody, but just, like,
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  Speaker 1: bettering myself. But when I would explain to her the
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  Speaker 1: things that I wanted to do, I know she could
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  Speaker 1: see it for me, and I was doing a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things. then, like I was producing fashion shows and
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  Speaker 1: I would have all these great internships, but I don't
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  Speaker 1: think she ever really understood how it would play out
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  Speaker 1: in real time because, you know, I'm a different generation.
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  Speaker 1: So like my, my dreams, my goals, my aspirations are
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  Speaker 1: so different than what She came up having to do— my
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  Speaker 1: grandmother retired from Avon. For those of you guys who
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  Speaker 1: don't know, Avon is an old beauty brand. I think
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  Speaker 1: they're still around. But they would sell, you know, soaps
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  Speaker 1: and different things for the home. And she worked in
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  Speaker 1: their factory there until she retired from work. My grandmother
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  Speaker 1: did not graduate from high school, so she always had
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  Speaker 1: to do— just what she was able to do to
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  Speaker 1: get by. And when she retired and, you know, got
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  Speaker 1: her foot in a little bit, she did really good
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  Speaker 1: with saving and, you know, making herself comfortable and setting
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  Speaker 1: herself up. So for her, she's always just wanted me
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  Speaker 1: to be happy and to be comfortable and, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to have a job with good benefits and just be
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  Speaker 1: able to take care of myself and have my family
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  Speaker 1: and all the things. But she's always supported and understood
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  Speaker 1: that my dreams are way bigger than just I want
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  Speaker 1: to retire from a job. She didn't always understand it,
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  Speaker 1: but she always was there. Always showed up. So I think,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's different for her now that she's older
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  Speaker 1: and she can't physically show up a lot more. So
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  Speaker 1: when I'm home and I'm showing her these things, it
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  Speaker 1: just watching the joy in her face that she was
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  Speaker 1: able to watch that clip. It puts such a joy
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  Speaker 1: in my face on my face as well. And then
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  Speaker 1: we watched Tyler Perry's. Why did I get married? And
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  Speaker 1: she's been again, Tyler Perry's. Why did I get married again?
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  Speaker 1: My grandmother has been waiting to watch that movie. We
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  Speaker 1: literally had just finished all of the, why did I
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  Speaker 1: get married? Um, movies in a franchise. The last time
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  Speaker 1: I was actually home, so that probably was about a
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  Speaker 1: couple weeks ago, And we rewatch Tyler Perry all the time.
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  Speaker 1: My mom and my grandmother swear by Tyler Perry. To
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  Speaker 1: be honest with you, they always ask me, when am
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  Speaker 1: I going to work with Tyler Perry? Like to my grandmother,
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  Speaker 1: all of this stuff is great. And she loves it
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  Speaker 1: and loves watching it. She loves watching us on Netflix.
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  Speaker 1: She just sits and does that all day long. But
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  Speaker 1: when I make it to work with Tyler Perry in
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  Speaker 1: any capacity, acting, interviewing him, whatever I'm going to do,
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  Speaker 1: I could literally just be standing next to him in
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  Speaker 1: the elevator and take a picture. That'll be like winning
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  Speaker 1: an Oscar and me to my grandmother, to be honest
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  Speaker 1: with y'all. Like she loves him so much. We watched
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  Speaker 1: that movie over the weekend and then I saw the report.
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  Speaker 1: That the Netflix film landed at number one on Nielsen's U.S.
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  Speaker 1: streaming movie rankings. So it racked up over 900 million
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  Speaker 1: minutes of watch time during the week of September 7th
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  Speaker 1: through the 13th. So this is like in going like
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  Speaker 1: there's more at this point because we all we at
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  Speaker 1: the 28th. And me and her were having a conversation
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  Speaker 1: just about, you know, Tyler Perry, how he does things and,
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  Speaker 1: you know, how big his career is and where he
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  Speaker 1: started from. And she said to me, I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my mom don't do that. She said to me, she said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I, in my lifetime, never really understood people
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  Speaker 1: who were like so free. People who could like just
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  Speaker 1: think of something and go out and do it at all.
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  Speaker 1: Because like, mind y'all, my grandmother, when she first moved
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  Speaker 1: to Delaware, there were segregated streets. Like the street that
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  Speaker 1: my mother now lives and owns a house on. My grandmother, remember,
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  Speaker 1: she always tells me about she would walk down those
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  Speaker 1: streets and you could only walk on a certain side. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, she's from the South, from Virginia, moved to Delaware,
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  Speaker 1: grew up, you know, in the tobacco fields and, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just very Southern down home upbringing, period. And she's the
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  Speaker 1: oldest of her sister, not the oldest, but one of
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  Speaker 1: the oldest of her sisters and brothers. So, You know,
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  Speaker 1: her life was just so different. And she was talking
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  Speaker 1: to me about how no matter how much, you know,
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  Speaker 1: she complains about me going and going and going, it
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  Speaker 1: makes her feel free. It feels good to see her,
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  Speaker 1: to see me doing all these things. And that's why
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  Speaker 1: she loves watching like the Tyler Perry films, because she's
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  Speaker 1: been rocking with Tyler Perry from the very beginning. And
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  Speaker 1: it feels like home. It feels Southern. It feels love.
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  Speaker 1: It feels black. It feels family friendly. So to see
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  Speaker 1: him continue to make these movies and the movies get
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  Speaker 1: better each time, the actors are different each time, she's
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  Speaker 1: now learning Netflix and all the things. It really gives
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  Speaker 1: her a sense of joy that I don't think that
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  Speaker 1: anything else in life could give her. It's that freedom.
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  Speaker 1: It's so crazy because storytelling has this ability to do that,
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  Speaker 1: to free you from certain things and certain feelings. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: her biggest thing is she was married. She wishes she
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  Speaker 1: had been, you know, better in previous relationships or previous
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  Speaker 1: marriages or marriage. She was only married one time to
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  Speaker 1: my pop up. But she tells me all the time, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the way she was to the men that
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  Speaker 1: she was in relationship with was horrible. And she now
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  Speaker 1: looks back and she regrets that. And she's lonely. And
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  Speaker 1: it's really tough to hear her talk about those things.
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  Speaker 1: But when I'm with her and we're watching those movies
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  Speaker 1: and she's talking to me about You know, like she
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  Speaker 1: she knows all the storylines from Tyler Perry and she's
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  Speaker 1: explaining to me why she loves Tyler Perry so much. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, how it just makes her feel good. It
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  Speaker 1: makes her feel like old times watching his movies. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. It's just there. There's such a beauty about
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  Speaker 1: black storytelling. Even in the simplest form, like even in
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  Speaker 1: the form of like a why did I get married?
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  Speaker 1: People say what they want to say about it being
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  Speaker 1: shot in four days and this. But let me tell
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  Speaker 1: you something. Tyler Perry and the stronghold that he has
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  Speaker 1: on his audience ain't never letting up. Over 900 million
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  Speaker 1: minutes watched. He ain't never letting up. Number one in
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  Speaker 1: the movie genre across Nielsen's, you know, they're there. The
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  Speaker 1: numbers they release. It ain't never letting up. And that's
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  Speaker 1: why I'm literally like, I was watching my grandmother watch
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  Speaker 1: the movie and just the laughs and the giggles and the,
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  Speaker 1: it makes her feel good. It does. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what it is about Tyler Perry and his whole, especially
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  Speaker 1: older black audiences. Y'all can't tell them nothing about that man.
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  Speaker 1: But speaking of black television, A Different World also over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend had a really good announcement about the numbers.
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  Speaker 1: It hit number one on streaming on Netflix. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Netflix will do like the top 10 in the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: So it took the number one spot on Netflix in
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  Speaker 1: the United States and is now number one. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: So it's number one in the United States and it's
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  Speaker 1: number nine globally. And that's just four days after it
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  Speaker 1: premiered on September 24th, 2026. This is 40 years. So
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  Speaker 1: September 24th was the original date that A Different World
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  Speaker 1: premiered on television all these years ago. This is now
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  Speaker 1: 40 years after the original release. And it is number
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  Speaker 1: one in the U.S. and number nine globally on Netflix.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out to all of the original cast that came back. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: Kadeem Hardison, Ms. Jasmine Guy, uh, Kreese Summer. Uh, I
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  Speaker 1: know Jada Pinkett will be in, Jada Pinkett is there
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  Speaker 1: as well too. I'm going to, I say it will
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  Speaker 1: be because for those of you guys who haven't seen it, um,
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  Speaker 1: or I know a lot of people have only gotten
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  Speaker 1: through a certain amount of episodes. Jada Pinkett there as
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  Speaker 1: well too. There's a lot of callbacks to the original, um,
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  Speaker 1: different world as well too. I actually told myself that
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  Speaker 1: I was going to go back cause this weekend I
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  Speaker 1: may have a little bit more downtime too. I told
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  Speaker 1: myself I was going to go back and rewatch the
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  Speaker 1: original different world, at least like the last two seasons
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  Speaker 1: to then, and then rewatch a different world, the sequel. Um,
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  Speaker 1: because I know that there was like mad callbacks that like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to give it up to y'all, but
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  Speaker 1: there was so many callbacks. um to the original series
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  Speaker 1: that i was like there gotta be more like i
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  Speaker 1: know i'm missing some stuff because when i was watching
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  Speaker 1: the original different world i was watching it just excited
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  Speaker 1: to see it but i don't remember everything now one
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  Speaker 1: of the things that really made me sad though i
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  Speaker 1: saw um miss jasmine guy she posts a video of
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  Speaker 1: herself on instagram and she was talking about the fact
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  Speaker 1: that people have something to say about the way that
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  Speaker 1: she is aged And I'm assuming that these conversations are
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  Speaker 1: stemming from, you know, she's been doing interviews recently. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, she's in the movie. And in the movie,
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  Speaker 1: she's the older Whitney. But Miss Jasmine Guy, who is
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  Speaker 1: 64 years old, baby... She's an icon and people are
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  Speaker 1: just so freaking mean. So she posted a video in
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  Speaker 1: this beautiful dress. And she says, the internet can be
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  Speaker 1: brutal to women as we grow older. It asks us
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  Speaker 1: to celebrate life while criticizing every sign that we've lived it.
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  Speaker 1: Growing older brings change and I won't pretend every change
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  Speaker 1: is easy. But beauty, style, and joy don't have an
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  Speaker 1: expiration date. Let's spend less time judging ourselves and each
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  Speaker 1: other and more time loving each other. making memories and
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  Speaker 1: living the life we are here to live and when
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  Speaker 1: I saw her post it I'm like man I'm so
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  Speaker 1: obsessed she even had to do that period like love
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  Speaker 1: different world or not and I don't know anybody who
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  Speaker 1: don't love different world like I don't know any of
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  Speaker 1: my type of people but I was just so sad
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  Speaker 1: that she had to even address that and I also
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  Speaker 1: knew that because she addressed it it was going to
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  Speaker 1: make the conversation bigger. Um, now, you know, there are
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  Speaker 1: people that would argue we should be having the ageism,
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  Speaker 1: you know, conversations around women in, in the industry, especially
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  Speaker 1: black women, because it is, it's just unfair the way that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the jobs stop when you get of a
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  Speaker 1: certain age, the conversation changes when you get of a
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  Speaker 1: certain age. But to me, I just feel like when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to certain people, we got to protect them
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  Speaker 1: a little bit differently. And she is one of them.
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  Speaker 1: Like how dare anybody, um, Like, do you know how
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  Speaker 1: blessed she is to be here maneuvering, acting, doing everything
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  Speaker 1: she is doing, number one spot in the U.S. on
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  Speaker 1: Netflix at 64 years old? And not for anything brand
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  Speaker 1: new that just came out of Woodworks either. For a
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  Speaker 1: television show that was a hit 40 years ago to
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  Speaker 1: still be in demand from a character you introduced us
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  Speaker 1: to four decades ago? And not only to be in demand,
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  Speaker 1: but to do it and do it flawlessly. The rollout,
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: shout out to Jaleesia over at Netflix. The marketing rollout
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  Speaker 1: and everything was flawless. It made you feel like you
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  Speaker 1: were a homecoming. But just the talent of it, Cree Summoner,
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  Speaker 1: to see all of them back in the movie... And
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't like cheesy or cringe how they brought their
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  Speaker 1: storylines back in. And honestly, we got to learn a
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  Speaker 1: lot about, you know, where they are in love and
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  Speaker 1: in life, where those characters left off and where they
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  Speaker 1: are now. And I thought that that was so beautifully
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  Speaker 1: done as well, too. Shout out to Miss Debbie Allen,
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  Speaker 1: who is the reason why we have this, and Miss
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  Speaker 1: Phylicia Pryde. But like, I don't know, y'all. Sometimes I'm
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  Speaker 1: just like, We don't know what we have until it's
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  Speaker 1: not there anymore. I literally value and appreciate life, especially
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: people being able to age and live so much differently
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  Speaker 1: after my mom fought a cancer battle. My mom literally
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  Speaker 1: at age 55 years old, randomly just would not stop
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  Speaker 1: having strokes. And then we found out stage four cancer
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  Speaker 1: in two places in her body. I never even seen
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  Speaker 1: my mother have a cold, literally never. But the stress
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  Speaker 1: of just life and society and figuring things out on
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  Speaker 1: her own and being an entrepreneur. I looked at the
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: study before. I've mentioned this before on the podcast, The
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Withering of Black Women. And it's about the societal pressures
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  Speaker 1: and anxiety and stress and all the things that are
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  Speaker 1: put on black women and how it physically deteriorates your body.
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  Speaker 1: Everything that we carry physically deteriorates our bodies. So to
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  Speaker 1: be in a position where you have carried and come
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  Speaker 1: up out of all of that and maintained a career
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  Speaker 1: for over 40 years in entertainment as a black woman,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: we got to do better about some things, y'all. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I know that, you know, we're in this era of
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: critique everything, make a YouTube video and a breakdown of everything.
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  Speaker 1: But some things should be sacred. And that's our problem.
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  Speaker 1: We don't treat it as such. We want to yell
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  Speaker 1: and argue and scream about how these institutions and these
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: award shows. Oh, I watched the VMAs last night. It
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: was so white. But I watched it. Don't get me wrong.
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  Speaker 1: I watched it. And hey, I love Madonna. Okay? Style inspo.
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  Speaker 1: Love the girl. Love Madonna. But our talent and our
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: people get to a certain age where we throw them
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  Speaker 1: out the pasture. And then we get upset that Other
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  Speaker 1: people treat us that way. But look how we treating ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: I hated that she even had to address that on
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  Speaker 1: social media. And it is making me so sad that
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  Speaker 1: if she gets back on her phone today and scrolling
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  Speaker 1: down the timeline, she's going to be having to feel
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  Speaker 1: and experience that all over again. I hope she's being
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  Speaker 1: poured into and showered with nothing but love today. Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out to all the black storytellers out there. that
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  Speaker 1: are making sure that icons and legends 40 plus years
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  Speaker 1: later can get on a screen and do what they
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  Speaker 1: do and be successful at it and then make a
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  Speaker 1: living from it. This has been another episode of the
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: latest with Lauren La Rosa. Oh my God. I would love, love, love, love,
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  Speaker 1: love to have a one-on-one conversation with Ms. Jasmine Guy
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  Speaker 1: about just this, all of this. I don't even know
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  Speaker 1: if there's something she would want to dive into further. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: can't believe we did that and i say we because
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  Speaker 1: it's like i do it but i say we because
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  Speaker 1: it's like when people are coming at you on social
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  Speaker 1: media i was about to close this but i just
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: got pissed off all over again when people are coming
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  Speaker 1: at you on social media if it feels like a
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  Speaker 1: pack like it felt like you being jumped like you
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  Speaker 1: in a fight you being jumped and it's just you
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  Speaker 1: oh we gotta do better Make sure y'all go check
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  Speaker 1: out A Different World on Netflix, the sequel, if you
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: have not already. If you have, tweet me. Let me
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  Speaker 1: know what you guys think about it. I'm Lauren LaRosa
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: on Twitter as well, too. Lauren LaRosa everywhere. L-O-R-E-N. L-O-R-O-S-A.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: And why did I get married again? Missing Janet Jackson.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: I did miss her in that storyline. in this um
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: but yes that is out as well too shout out
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  Speaker 1: to tyler perry and him being one of those people
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  Speaker 1: that keep us hired and keep you know our legends
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  Speaker 1: no matter what age if they want to work tyler
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  Speaker 1: perry got a job in a a bomb trailer for
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  Speaker 1: you from what i hear um so shout out to
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  Speaker 1: him So, yes, let's close it out now. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: yell at y'all enough. This has been another episode of
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  Speaker 1: The Latest with Lauren LaRosa. I tell y'all every single episode,
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  Speaker 1: y'all could be anywhere with any old body. Talking about
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  Speaker 1: all of the things, but you guys choose to be
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  Speaker 1: right here with me, my lowriders. I appreciate you, and
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  Speaker 1: I'll catch you in my next one.