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Xzibit Only Made $5K for Pimp My Ride?! + Dwayne Johnson Joins Breakthrough | Celebrity Birthdays! · The Demia Avery Show

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  Hey, hey everybody. This is Deia Avery
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  of the Demia Avery Show. So, y'all
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  remember the show Pimp My Ride and the
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  host of that show, Rapper Exhibit? Well,
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  he only got paid
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  $5,000 for each episode. Come on in.
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  Let's talk about it. This is the Deia
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  Avery Show hosted by Deia Avery, where
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  some of your favorite entertainers,
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  celebs, and entrepreneurs come to
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  highlight all of their many talents.
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  [Music]
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  Hello, hello, hello everyone. This is
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  Deia Avery of the Demia Avery Show.
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  Thank you once again for joining me on
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  today's entertainment report. I so
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  appreciate it. But you know what to do.
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  Go ahead and hit that subscribe button,
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  hit that like and share
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  button. I really, really, really
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  appreciate it. So, how you guys been
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  doing with all this Diddy
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  news?
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  Y'all, I'm I'm cool with it because
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  it's, you know, it's news that I have to
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  bring to you guys and, you know, it's in
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  the world of entertainment, but it it's
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  been kind of draining. I'm not going to
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  even lie. I'm like, and it's got what, a
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  month and a half left of all this stuff.
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  So, you guys know I'm going to go ahead
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  and I'm going to continue to bring the
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  updates, but I like to do that during
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  the afternoon after everything um has
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  has completed, the jury has completed
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  and the court has dismissed and stuff
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  like that. But I'm a little drained. I'm
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  kind of glad that the whole Cassie stuff
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  is kind of moving on. Y'all see my
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  fingernail? I broke my fingernail today.
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  But I know it looks ghetto. I know it
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  looks ghetto, but it is what it is. So
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  anyway, so I I'm glad they're moving on
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  from the Cassie thing and moving on to
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  more things about the RICO charges and
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  and other things because um I wanted it
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  to be more
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  um
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  about other things besides the domestic
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  violence, which was was absolutely
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  horrible. Absolutely horrible. But I
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  wanted to see what else they had. And of
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  course, you guys know they have the Kid
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  Cuddy thing coming up today. And that
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  should be very interesting and different
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  and bring in different charges uh that
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  they have against him. So, we can start
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  seeing some more uh some more subjects
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  around this whole uh Diddy stuff. So,
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  anyway, we're going to go right into
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  other entertainment news. So, we got
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  some exciting news from uh for all of
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  you Dwayne Johnson, the rock fans. So,
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  I'mma go ahead and get started with
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  that. So, I was reading Deadline
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  magazine and they report um after
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  working with A24 on the Smashing
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  Machine, the anticipated MA drama out
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  later this year, Dwayne Johnson is
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  looking to get back in business with the
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  studio. Sources tell Deadline magazine
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  that he's coming aboard to co-star in
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  Breakthrough. That's a psychological
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  thriller pinned by up and coming uh
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  coming actor Zeke Goodman. Set in turn
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  of the millennium south southern
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  California, the story follows an
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  alienated young man who comes under the
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  influence of a motivational guru whose
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  intoxicating charm mass his morally
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  questionable methods of manipulation and
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  his own concealed darkness. We're told
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  Johnson will play the supporting role of
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  the guru
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  uh with casting still underway for the
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  lead role and other supporting roles.
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  So, he's back on the on the screen
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  again. So, if you are a rock fan, there
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  you have it. There you have it. Rock
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  fan. I like him as an actor. I mean, he
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  looks great on the
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  camera. Looks great on the camera, but
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  I'm excited for him to be back on the
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  camera.
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  So, okay. So, do you guys remember the
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  um the show Pit My Ride with the rapper
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  exhibit? So, I used to love it. And
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  look, I'm not a huge car fan. I mean, I
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  see some cars, I'm like, "Okay, that's
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  nice, you know, and I see some muscle
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  cars, you know, that I'm like, "Okay,
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  that's that's that's pretty nice." And
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  especially if it's painted real cool,
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  you know? And then I did watch Exhibit
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  and I was like, "Okay, I like I like
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  this show." And I used to actually watch
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  the the different ones and watch um the
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  reruns on YouTube and and see how they
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  pimped out their rides. So, Exhibit goes
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  on recently on this interview and he
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  talks about his experience as the host
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  of that show. And so come to find out
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  that Exhibit only got
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  $5,000 an episode for that
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  show and I was like
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  what?
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  So maybe I guess they didn't figure that
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  it was going to be such a success, but I
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  would figure you know maybe at the
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  beginning but that show got big and
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  people every you know a lot people start
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  watching that show. So I don't think it
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  it you know I can see it at the
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  beginning but it didn't he didn't get
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  paid any more than that after that. So
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  I'm going to read what he says. Um, he
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  said despite the show's widespread
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  success and cultural impact, the
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  financial compensation he received was
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  surprisingly low. Exhibit opened up
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  about the disconnect between public
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  perception and reality, explaining what
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  appears successful from the outside
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  doesn't always reflect the truth behind
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  the scenes. He shared that the initial
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  deal he signed was not favorable and
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  likely mishandled by his agents at the
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  time, but when you needed another agent.
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  They had no way of knowing how big the
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  show would become, and the contract
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  failed to secure better terms. Exhibit
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  had uh had also hoped that being on MTV
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  would promote his music by including his
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  videos, but the opportunity never came
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  to fruition. As the show p progressed,
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  exhibit began to feel restricted by the
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  obligations it's placed on him. So I
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  like they couldn't renegotiate. That's
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  crazy. He expressed dissatisfaction with
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  being unable to tour or pursue other
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  opportunities due to his commitment to
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  the show. His frustration only grew as
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  he realized the financial arrangement
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  was not improving in line with the
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  show's growth uh and popularity. He went
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  on to claim that the situation worsened
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  when Viacom MTV's parent company began
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  reducing his earnings. Although his
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  contract included a clause promising him
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  15% of all merchandise featuring his
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  name or likeness, that promise was
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  undercut. exhibit noticed that while the
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  first season's DVD box prominently
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  featured his face, later seasons did
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  not, with the packaging instead focusing
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  solely on the cars. This change appeared
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  to be a deliberate way to avoid paying
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  him his share of merchandise profits.
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  Exhibit also alleged that when the show
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  went into syndication, his music was
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  removed from the episodes.
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  This move, he believes, was specifically
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  to avoid paying him additional
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  royalties. His story sheds light on the
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  often unseen struggles artists face
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  behind the scenes even when their work
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  is widely
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  separated. I don't understand. Like I
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  feel like he should have somehow take
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  them to court cuz I most definitely
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  will. Even if I didn't do it then I'm
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  like I'm we going to take this to court
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  forever. Forever. I mean, it has to be a
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  reason why he didn't. Um, because he
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  seems like a smart dude. It must be some
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  reasons that we don't understand and why
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  he couldn't renegotiate his contract. I
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  I I don't get it cuz $5,000 an episode,
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  as big as that show was, I I I truly
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  don't get it. But and it takes a lot of
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  courage to even mention that on, you
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  know, on the uh on his interview. So,
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  wow. Exhibit. That's crazy. So, anyway,
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  that's all I got for right now, but
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  don't forget to come back later and
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  check out my postings for the Diddy
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  Mess. And again,
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  um, what's his name? Kuy is going to
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  testify today. And you guys, I I'm going
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  to do something a little different today
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  on our show. And I'm going to do this
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  from now on. We're going to do celebrity
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  birthdays.
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  celebrity birthdays. So, we're going to
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  start today and I got a list of
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  birthdays. That's today, May 22nd,
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  2025. And let's just shout out some
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  birthdays. So, Johnny Gil, happy
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  birthday. Naomi Campbell, happy
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  birthday. JD Williams, happy birthday.
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  Danielle Jones, happy birthday. Mr.
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  Dimples. Vivian Green, happy birthday.
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  Avery Sunshine, happy birthday. Paul
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  Winfield, happy birthday. Leela James,
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  happy birthday. Shirley M. Shirley Mock
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  Shirley Murdoch, happy birthday. We're
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  going to do our
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  song. Happy birthday to you. Happy
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  birthday to you. Happy birthday. Happy
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  birthday to you. Happy birthday to you.
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  Happy
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  birthday. Happy birthday. All right,
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  guys. See you later. Talk to you later
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  on. Bye.