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Lil Nas X’s dad says he broke down when he saw him in jail + Naomi Osaka defeats Coco Guaff at the US Open · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: I'm a homegrowl that knows a little bit about everything
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  Speaker 1: power through power through But I wanted to check in
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  Speaker 1: today because being able to be home disconnecting a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like Young Thug and Atlanta all over the
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  Speaker 1: internet this weekend with the lead jail calls and all
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  Speaker 1: for when I can reach out. I did start reaching
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  Speaker 1: sorry to interrupt your holiday, but got a question. But
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  Speaker 1: I am feeling rejuvenated. I'm feeling full. I'm not feeling
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  Speaker 1: the most energetic, like I cannot wait to just get
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  Speaker 1: ready to go to bed and start the next day,
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  Speaker 1: but I do feel full, Like, you know, anytime I
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  Speaker 1: can spend some time at home, it's a good time,
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  Speaker 1: even though I always leave feeling like I don't have
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  Speaker 1: enough time, Like I feel bad that I don't get
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  Speaker 1: to see this person or that person y'all know how
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  Speaker 1: that goes. But yes, we are back to it, back
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  Speaker 1: to the latest. Now let's get on into it. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Little knights X is dad, right, We've been talking a
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  Speaker 1: lot about Little nas X currently facing felony charges following
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  Speaker 1: you know, his uh naked I was gonna say almost
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  Speaker 1: naked uh parade around LA at four am, but Little
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  Speaker 1: X actually did end up naked, so we can say
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  Speaker 1: his naked naked y'all be on me behind said naked
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  Speaker 1: naked naked a parade around LA a few weeks ago
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  Speaker 1: at four am, which was recorded by a bystander, and
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  Speaker 1: you know has been a whole thing since. So his
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  Speaker 1: dad spoke out outside of court. We did cover that
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  Speaker 1: here on The Latest with Lauren the Roads of the
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  Speaker 1: podcast will make sure you guys go check out that
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  Speaker 1: episode if you need to be caught up, and said
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  Speaker 1: that Little X does not use drugs, So at that
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  Speaker 1: point we were able to rule out, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: conversation at least according to his family, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: not according to any testing or anything that was done,
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  Speaker 1: because Little X was taken into a facility for what
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  Speaker 1: police believed was a potential overdose. But at least according
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  Speaker 1: to his dad, we were able to say, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Little X's dad is saying that drugs were not involved.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, moving forward, we still do not have any
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  Speaker 1: confirmation of any testing or anything like that in this
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  Speaker 1: situation for when he was taken to the facility. But
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  Speaker 1: Little Knox's dad sat down with Time magazine and did
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  Speaker 1: an interview. Now again, I told y'all that he did
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  Speaker 1: speak out outside of the court after Little nas X
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  Speaker 1: was arranged. But this is like his first full length interview.
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  Speaker 1: It's a written interview with the Times. Last time I
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  Speaker 1: talked about this, I told you guys, I did not
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  Speaker 1: like the video that litl nas X posted in response
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  Speaker 1: to all of this stuff and everything following his release
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  Speaker 1: after posting his seventy five thousand dollars of bail. But
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  Speaker 1: his dad is saying, this is what happens when you
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  Speaker 1: become a famous celebrity at the age and under the
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  Speaker 1: pressure that Little nas X is under. Now we have
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  Speaker 1: mentioned that because his dad also did say that briefly
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  Speaker 1: when speaking to reporters outside of a courthouse, But he
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  Speaker 1: got more in depth here and went into you know,
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  Speaker 1: just what those pressures are for Little knights X. According
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  Speaker 1: to him, So Little Ex's father says that little kNs X,
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  Speaker 1: you know, has been, you know, more recently, very very
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  Speaker 1: tough on hisself. He's been trying to you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: experienced such career highs really really fast, and he's been
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  Speaker 1: trying to beat that, and that's a lot of pressure
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  Speaker 1: that he's put on himself. He also talks about the
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  Speaker 1: fact that, you know, Little n X is so young, right,
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  Speaker 1: Lil X is not even thirty years old, but he
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  Speaker 1: is the sole provider for his family, which can also
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  Speaker 1: be tough because you know, there's so many things that
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  Speaker 1: come back on you and fall back on you. But
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  Speaker 1: the biggest thing here that he mentioned was Little nas
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  Speaker 1: Ex's relationship with his mother. So what Little knas Ex's
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  Speaker 1: dad said was that little nas X has you know,
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  Speaker 1: always been just not in a good mental place and
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  Speaker 1: almost like beating himself up about his mom's conditions. So
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  Speaker 1: Little nas X was taken in by his dad. His
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  Speaker 1: dad received full custody of him when he was about
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  Speaker 1: ten years old and then raised him because Lix, his mother,
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  Speaker 1: who Little X's dad says, was a great mom, but
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  Speaker 1: she just couldn't beat her addiction. So she couldn't beat
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  Speaker 1: her addiction. So little knas X was then raised by
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  Speaker 1: his father. Now since then, in all of these years
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  Speaker 1: and you know, little nas X becoming little nas X
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  Speaker 1: and having this huge career success and all the things,
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  Speaker 1: has tried to help his mom. There was a sighting
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  Speaker 1: of his mom a few years ago and she was
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  Speaker 1: actually seen on a corner in Atlanta begging for food.
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  Speaker 1: Little knas X tried to help her. Then, he's tried
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  Speaker 1: to help her sense he's tried to help her before that,
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  Speaker 1: and his dad details in this article that she turned
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  Speaker 1: down his help. She does not want his help, and
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  Speaker 1: as a kid because at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: even though he is an adult, he is successful at
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  Speaker 1: this point, he's able to solve a lot of problems
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  Speaker 1: for a lot of people, not being able to solve
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  Speaker 1: her problem, and you know, just watching her go through
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  Speaker 1: the ups and the downs, and it seems like she's
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  Speaker 1: you know, not doing well for majority of the time,
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  Speaker 1: and he's having a hard time coping and dealing with that,
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  Speaker 1: especially because at the end of the day, despite all
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  Speaker 1: of that, he's still a kid. He's still her kid,
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  Speaker 1: let's say. And his dad talks about just how tough
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  Speaker 1: that is, especially when you're doing this in front of
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  Speaker 1: the world. And one of the things that he talked about,
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  Speaker 1: he says that, you know, when he first walked in
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  Speaker 1: to see little nas X, once he had got in
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  Speaker 1: the phone call and arrived there and all the things,
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  Speaker 1: he cried. And he says that he cried because, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it was just tough seeing his son, his baby boy
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  Speaker 1: behind the glass, you know, in the jail clothes and
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  Speaker 1: all the things, and it was just hard, especially because
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  Speaker 1: he knows what his son is dealing with. He says,
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  Speaker 1: I went to visit him in jail, and as soon
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  Speaker 1: as I walked through the door, I couldn't do anything
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  Speaker 1: but cry to see my baby boy on the other
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  Speaker 1: side of that glass. We shed tears with each other
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  Speaker 1: for a minute, and I had to tell him what
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  Speaker 1: you are going went through is normal. We all have
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  Speaker 1: breakdowns every now and then. But the difference is yours
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  Speaker 1: gets played out in the public eye. Yours gets played
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  Speaker 1: out in the public eye. Now, another thing that's Dad
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  Speaker 1: talked a lot about in this article was just the
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  Speaker 1: fact that it's unfortunate that when something like this happens,
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  Speaker 1: right because people experience this, there's a higher rate of
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  Speaker 1: people who experience mental breakdowns and you know, not being
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  Speaker 1: able to you know, mentally survive through triggering pressure points.
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  Speaker 1: But the fact that his was filmed and you know,
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  Speaker 1: broadcasted all over the world, it doesn't help. And he
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  Speaker 1: also said that, you know, when he was talking to
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  Speaker 1: Little needed X, the first thing X did was apologize.
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  Speaker 1: He said, he said that he went to visit Little
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  Speaker 1: Nize X and Lilie X said to him, tell everybody,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry they saw me like that. And as dad says,
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  Speaker 1: even in the moment where he was apolog even in
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  Speaker 1: that moment, right like, imagine, he's in jail, he's scared,
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  Speaker 1: you know, mentally, he's still trying to get it together.
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  Speaker 1: You know, doesn't seem like he's in the best place,
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  Speaker 1: according to his father, and he's apologizing even in that
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  Speaker 1: moment to other people for something he's going through. And
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  Speaker 1: his dad said, you know, it's just unfair that he
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  Speaker 1: has to deal with all of this in front of
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  Speaker 1: the world. But you know, his dad did say, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he says, hopefully this is a turning point in his
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  Speaker 1: mental stability. Sometimes God will take you through your worst
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  Speaker 1: moment to give you your best moment, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: I think what he means here is like you know,
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  Speaker 1: of course, as a father, you don't want your child
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  Speaker 1: to go through anything like this, especially not as public
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  Speaker 1: as this has been, but it does alert everyone in
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  Speaker 1: your life and you yourself. Hey I need help. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I can't take this all on by myself. And let
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  Speaker 1: me tell y'all something.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: Ugh, the pressure of just figuring out your life at
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  Speaker 1: a certain age and a certain point is a lot.
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  Speaker 1: And little Knazac says we talked about is successful. We
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  Speaker 1: know that, but I think trying to match success literally
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  Speaker 1: is like the devil. Like It's like they say, a
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  Speaker 1: comparison is the thief of joy, right. Imagine you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's like you're always looking back at what you've done,
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  Speaker 1: trying to be better than what you did. When you
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  Speaker 1: did it in the first place, you weren't there was
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  Speaker 1: nothing to compare it to, so you weren't thinking about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what boundaries or what heights or what ceilings
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  Speaker 1: you had to break. You just did it. You just
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  Speaker 1: did what you loved. You just did what you wanted
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  Speaker 1: to do. You just took advantage of the opportunity that
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  Speaker 1: was in front of you. Man, I felt that when
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  Speaker 1: his dad said you know, he's always trying to do
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  Speaker 1: better than what he did before. He's always competing with
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  Speaker 1: himself and putting his pressure on himself, and it had
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  Speaker 1: to play out in front of the world. I can't
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  Speaker 1: imagine little Nazex is like he's super famous at this point. Right.
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  Speaker 1: And whether you believe this is a publicity stunt or
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  Speaker 1: whether you believe that this is an actual you know,
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  Speaker 1: mental episode or mental breakdown, it doesn't even matter in
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  Speaker 1: this conversation because think about that, if this is truly
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  Speaker 1: a mental breakdown, right according to his dad, you know,
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  Speaker 1: his dad saying is saying, this is what this was.
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  Speaker 1: It's sad. It's sad because you look at someone like
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  Speaker 1: little nas X who's had the opportunity to change his life,
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  Speaker 1: his family's life, and do as much as he can
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  Speaker 1: do for the people that he loves, and internally he's
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  Speaker 1: in this prison and battling trying to get out of this.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this, this this barricade of like what can
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  Speaker 1: I do and how can I do it better? And
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  Speaker 1: even if this is a PR stunt, it's sad as
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  Speaker 1: well because that same feeling, that same prison, that same
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  Speaker 1: trapped I have to do this, I have to do that.
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  Speaker 1: I have to wine up this. I have to one
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  Speaker 1: up that is what led to that, right allegedly, if
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  Speaker 1: this is something, if this is a publicity sun you know,
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  Speaker 1: like other some people are alleging both situations and both scenarios.
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  Speaker 1: It's just sad to see because to even have to
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  Speaker 1: feel like that internally, where you get to a point
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  Speaker 1: where you have a mental you know, episode or breakdown,
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  Speaker 1: or where you get to a point where you feel
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  Speaker 1: like you got to pull a stunt, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: people are alleging, whatever the case may be, it's sad
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  Speaker 1: all the way around that someone has to feel that
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  Speaker 1: way about themselves, their abilities, their accomplishments, just everything. So
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  Speaker 1: I'm sending some love and some you know, I'm praying
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  Speaker 1: for little Nozex. And you know how people be like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm praying for you. Black people love to be like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm praying for you. Ain't said not their prayer. I
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  Speaker 1: actually am going to take the time because you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm new to a lot of this, and I always
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  Speaker 1: think God swear y'all. Like I've been on this fast
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  Speaker 1: for some time now. I'm done on the eighteenth of September,
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  Speaker 1: So you know, I'm like halfway through, and I'm doing
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  Speaker 1: it for thirty days. And the reason why I decided
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  Speaker 1: to fast was because I felt like I started to
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  Speaker 1: just I just wasn't being led by God like I
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  Speaker 1: was being led by You did this this well that time,
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  Speaker 1: so you got to do it better. Hearing people say
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  Speaker 1: what they liked or they did not like about me
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  Speaker 1: public opinion, you know, not even public opinion like internal
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  Speaker 1: thoughts and opinions. And I'm a very opinionated and strong
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  Speaker 1: minded person, but I think when you get on these
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  Speaker 1: public platforms, and you know, especially when things happen fast,
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  Speaker 1: you're still learning how to block out the noise. And
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  Speaker 1: I had, you know, become really really good at doing
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  Speaker 1: that coming into all of this, and I just felt
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  Speaker 1: myself slipping a little bit and allowing a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of the outside noise. And I'm like, ah, God, nope,
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  Speaker 1: chin chink, time to lock in, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, that's what my fast has been about.
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  Speaker 1: So reading this story, I felt for him, for little
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  Speaker 1: NASA's and for his family, but I really felt for him.
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  Speaker 1: So sending him some prayers and some love and speaking
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  Speaker 1: of pressure man, shout out to all of the athletes
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  Speaker 1: competing in the US Open that the US Open is
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  Speaker 1: another big stage, and shout out to all of the
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  Speaker 1: people that are there watching, support and cheering all the things,
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  Speaker 1: the families that are popping out. So it's a very
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  Speaker 1: strenuous for these athletes. They're playing and competing for hours
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  Speaker 1: at a time. But I want to take a quick
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  Speaker 1: moment to congratulate Naomi Osaka, who will advanced to the
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  Speaker 1: US Open quarterfinals after defeating Cocoa Golf. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: Coco Golf is our girl. Naomi Osaka is our girl
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  Speaker 1: as well. To Taylor Townsend, like, shout out to all
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  Speaker 1: of the black and tennis players out there on the
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  Speaker 1: courts dominating. But you know, two people can't win. So
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  Speaker 1: Naomi Osaka defeated Coco Golf and she'll be heading on
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  Speaker 1: end to the Corner Finals. Now, this will be Naomiosaka's
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  Speaker 1: first time back in the Corner Finals since she gave
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  Speaker 1: birth to her daughter back in July of twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's a big deal for Naomi Yosaka because you guys, remember,
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  Speaker 1: you know Naomio Osaka speaking of mental you know issues
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  Speaker 1: and just pressure and all the things she took some
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  Speaker 1: time to like really gather herself and get herself together,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And when she had her baby, she was
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  Speaker 1: also very vocal about when she wasn't feeling like herself
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  Speaker 1: and you know, her wasn't feeling like her game was
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  Speaker 1: what it was before she had her baby. And there's
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  Speaker 1: always so much conversation around her when she doesn't do
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  Speaker 1: well or when she's visibly upset or you know, just
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  Speaker 1: vocal about being emotional and vulnerable and that that's tough, man,
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  Speaker 1: That is so tough because in real life, you're going
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  Speaker 1: through things in real life, right, but then you also
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  Speaker 1: have the fans and the critics and the reporters and
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  Speaker 1: all the people who are chiming in as well. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, I know this feels good for her too advance,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, for her to be doing so well
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  Speaker 1: in the US Open. Now, I do want to take
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  Speaker 1: a minute because they did talk to Cocoa Golf after
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  Speaker 1: she did not win the match against Naiol Miosaka, and
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  Speaker 1: she talked a bit about, you know, just the pressure
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  Speaker 1: she's been on her because there's been a lot of eyes,
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  Speaker 1: you know, all these women this whole entire Open. Let's
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  Speaker 1: take a lis'sen to Cocoa Golf.
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  Speaker 2: Today when I walk in the court and I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I put so much pressure on myself
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  Speaker 2: at my age at twenty one, and I realized like
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  Speaker 2: how much the girls on tour being successful at like
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  Speaker 2: twenty five, twenty six at those ages. So I think
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  Speaker 2: for me, it just gets me excited to realize if
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  Speaker 2: I have like four more years of just working as
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  Speaker 2: hard as I am right now and actually doing the
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  Speaker 2: right things, like where my game could be And it
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  Speaker 2: has obviously improved in the last four years from four
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  Speaker 2: years ago to now, So I think if I can
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  Speaker 2: make that same jump of improvement, it's a lot to
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  Speaker 2: be excited for the future for.
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  Speaker 1: But what I love, you know, in watching you know
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  Speaker 1: how all of the women that we've been talking about
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  Speaker 1: a lot during this US Open Venus Cocoa Golf, Naomi Osaka,
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  Speaker 1: Taylor Townsend, like how we've been watching them talk about
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  Speaker 1: each other and love on each other and be fans
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  Speaker 1: of each other. I think that that is so far
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  Speaker 1: because a lot of times, you know, when there's ever
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  Speaker 1: anything minority, they always make sure that they're not even
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  Speaker 1: make sure, but it just always can not always it
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  Speaker 1: can feel like when you're in it that there is
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  Speaker 1: not a lot of room. Y'all know how that conversation go.
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  Speaker 1: There's not a lot of room for all of us,
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  Speaker 1: maybe a few of us, maybe just one of us.
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  Speaker 1: But they are every day out there on that court
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  Speaker 1: showing no baby, we come. We come in tribes and
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  Speaker 1: we pull up and not just on HBCU day, but
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  Speaker 1: especially on HBCU day, shout out to HBCU Live be Open.
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  Speaker 1: But yes, we pull up in tribes and we were
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: talented in tribes. And the way that they have been
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  Speaker 1: supporting each other and talking about each other in these
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  Speaker 1: post conferences. Love to hear it, love to see it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take a listen to Naomi Osaka talk about she
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  Speaker 1: was actually sitting in the scenes after she had her
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  Speaker 1: daughter watching Cocoa gov play and now she's gotten a
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  Speaker 1: chance to play her Let's say a listen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'm a little sensitive and I don't
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  Speaker 3: want to cry, but honestly, I just had so much
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  Speaker 3: fun out here. I was telling everyone literally like I
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  Speaker 3: was in the stand like two months after I gave
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  Speaker 3: birth to my daughter watching Coco, and yeah, I just
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  Speaker 3: really wanted an opportunity to come out here and play.
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  Speaker 3: This is my favorite court in the world, and it
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  Speaker 3: means so much to me to be back here. I
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  Speaker 3: just want to say a really big thank you to
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  Speaker 3: my team. We've kind of been through a lot, and
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  Speaker 3: you know, it hasn't always been easy, but they've been
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  Speaker 3: through my side, and thank you, guys. I love you.
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  Speaker 1: Love to see it, and I will be tuned. And
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  Speaker 1: I actually watched. Speaking of just taking some time with family,
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  Speaker 1: friends and oh, you know, holiday stuff, over the holiday weekend,
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  Speaker 1: I watched Taylor Townsend in the match that she recently lost,
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  Speaker 1: which would have advanced her on And man, when I
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  Speaker 1: tell you, baby girl play hard. She plays hard, and
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  Speaker 1: she is very entertaining to watch. And I'm not like
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  Speaker 1: the biggest like sports like watcher, Like I don't tune
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  Speaker 1: into every match and every game, and you know, like
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  Speaker 1: I'm not like a sports girl. But what I do enjoy,
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  Speaker 1: I enjoy and I do like tennis, and I do
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  Speaker 1: love especially since being at the US Open this year
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  Speaker 1: and feeling the energy and like, you know, the intensity
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: of just all the things, I've been following it a
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  Speaker 1: lot more closely. So we watched Taylor Townsend's match Sunday night,
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  Speaker 1: and oh my god, when I said she fought through.
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  Speaker 1: She did win, but she fought through. There was one
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  Speaker 1: point in the match where you could literally hear her
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  Speaker 1: and like see her mouth, I'm fighting, I'm fighting, I'm fighting.
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  Speaker 1: Because she had several chances to win this match, several
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  Speaker 1: chances and she did not. You know, take the moment.
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  Speaker 1: She did not win the match, but she fought hard.
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  Speaker 1: She tried to come back, and she talked about doing
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  Speaker 1: that in front of her son, and you know, just
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  Speaker 1: the attitude that she has to keep because this is
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: about losing or not or not losing. Because of the
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  Speaker 1: attitude her son has. Let's take a listen to that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it feels good.
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  Speaker 1: I told ag.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, wow, you stayed there the whole time.
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  Speaker 4: It was over three hours, and he sat there. And
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: when I was talking to my coach when she was
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: on the bathroom break, he was like, if you need anything,
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: I got you just asked me. I'm like okay. So
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: you know, it's nice to be able to have that.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, I was in the cool down area
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: and he was like, hey, mom, let's work out together.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: And I'm like, sir, I just played three hours. I
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: don't want to work out. He's like, let's do some squats.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like I'm good. So you know, that's the kid
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: thing where it's just like, you know, they have no idea.
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  Speaker 4: And I actually said it because I wanted to know
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: what he was going to say. I was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: he was like, good job. Mom's like thanks. I was like,
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: ahi lost. He was like it's.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Okay, And I was like that's the attitude.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: So I'm trying to embody that.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, shout out to all the tennis girlies out
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: there and everybody headed out to the US Open. As
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: things simmer on down listen y'all. Today's episode has been
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: a mixture of like release for me because I'm finally
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: back home following the holiday weekend, but also in preparing
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: for these stories today, I really just be sitting here thinking, like,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: you know, cause I've been fasting and I when I
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: begin the fast, I said it was for clarity. I
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: wanted to, you know, better block out the noise and
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: all the things. And I was reading these stories today
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, man, God be talking to me even
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: when I don't even know he's talking to me. Because
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: I've been trying to figure out. You know, where am
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: I receiving my messaging from during this fast? Like you know,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, I go to church, I'm listening to the word,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: I'm reading daily devotionals, but a lot of things haven't
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: been like hitting and sticking to me the way that
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  Speaker 1: I want to in this fast. That's why I'm doing it.
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  Speaker 1: I want to be quiet and still so I can
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: get the word. I'm like where the word at. And
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: then I was reading these stories and preparing this episode,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: and the one thing I kept hearing and seeing was
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: like perseverance. And I kept seeing and hearing God talk about,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: you know, just pressure and understanding how to navigate and
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: leaning on faith and pressure. So I'm gonna take that note.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: I hope you guys took that note with you too,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: from these stories and you know, just from the audios
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: and just from you know, hearing from the celebs themselves
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: in this episode. At the end of the day, there
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: is always a lot to talk about. And y'all know,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: y'all could be anywhere with anybody talking about it, but
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: y'all choose to be right here with me, my lowriders.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you, guys, and I will see you in
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  Speaker 1: my next, so