FULL SHOW: Ye Reconciles With Big Sean At Homecoming Show In Chicago + Dawn Dickson & Russ Interview

0:00This is an I Heart Podcast. Guaranteed Human. So, would like to buy Asia-Ratherne or so, at least 70% have a phone. I'm Dr. Joy, and this is Therapy for Black Girls. We spend our surviving middle school run getting into what's happening inside your kids' brain, the group chat, and their friendships, and what you can do about it. Your child is not doing this on purpose. That's the kind of perspective we've been pulling from the psychologists and psychiatrists who study this for living. Listen to Therapy for Black Girls on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Self-care September is your reminder to slow down, check in with yourself, get off your phone, and maybe ask why am I like this? I'm James Bek, host of the Psychology of your 20s podcast, and this month we're helping you make sense of the person that you are becoming, from setting boundaries and navigating friendships, to understanding anxiety, confidence, relationships, and attachment. Sometimes our biggest decisions, without us even realizing it, aren't driven by what we truly

1:02want, but by what will prevent us from feeling lonely or being alone. Listen to the psychology of your 20s on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. I survived nine months in captivity, and I've spent my life exploring how other people survive what should have destroyed them. I'm Elizabeth Smart, and these are the survivor files. Every week, I'm with survivors who live through the unthinkable, abducted, stalked, controlled, and nearly silenced. These are stories about what it takes to make it out alive. Listen to the survivor files with Elizabeth Smart on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you're bookshelf and you're for you page are equally important to your personality, welcome home. Pro Society is a weekly podcast that's part book club, part group chat for anyone who thinks pride and prejudice and love island deserve the same level of discourse. Each week, we're connecting the dots between books, the internet, and pop culture, with your

2:05favorite writers, book top creators, and plenty of overthought opinions. Yeah, I'm on set, so on set. And to pro society on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. Open up, open up, wake you up, wake you up, wake that ass up. Program your alarm to power 105.1 on I Heart Radio. Good morning, USA. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. Just hilarious, wake that ass up. Shall remain the guard. Peace to the planet is Friday. Yes. How y'all feel out there? I feel blessed, black, and highly favored. Happy to be here. Another day to serve our beautiful listeners. Good morning. That's right. The start of a three-day weekend. Of course Monday, we have all for Labor Day. I know a lot of you guys took off today, and you're headed to it. Maybe you're going for your last VK, or you're just heading out of town for a couple of days. Yes, the weekend is here. How y'all feeling? How you feeling, Jess? I feel good. I saw my babies yesterday. My daughter ran to me. She was so excited to see me. So, yeah, I came home cook dinner.

3:06Did she say, old life? No, she didn't. She said, mommy. Okay, just ask. Clown? That's your local road up warm. You're like, hello. That's what old life is. Okay, alright. Why are we going to celebrate the day? Why are we going to count the days one of the days? So, it's a four-day weekend. But what do you mean, don't count the days? Today is definitely one of them days. Yeah, the day is one of the days. Today is Friday. So, Friday is Saturday. Really, it's just three, I guess. Sunday. I count the days. No, it's a four-day weekend. I think it's a four-day. I count the most. I think it's a four-day. I count the mornings you can sleep in. The mornings you can sleep in at the day is I count. So, tomorrow. Okay. Saturday. Sunday Monday. Yes, that's it. Three days. No, three days. If you take off Friday, then yeah. Probably best to take off Friday. If you can. If you can. If you can. Yeah, it's probably best to take off Friday. Yes, yes. So, salute to everybody. I'm out in Chicago right now. I had to do a bunch of stuff in the show yesterday. And yesterday, of course, was my birthday. So, without to get out, without to tout, to get some nice food,

4:06we was going to go to the Kanye concert. I seen two chains at the airport. So, I knew it was going to be lit. He's here today and tomorrow. But I slept. I overslept. I ain't even going for an eye passed out. I don't know what. You didn't make the Kanye concert. I did not make that yad concert. I seen about it. I seen it online. I heard all about it. You're talking about a 49-feel, like. Yeah, so. You both do that 49. You ain't getting no nap during the day, you know? Nope. I was flying and knowing that. Nope. I was like, we're going to go to the after function. I had to DJ after and do some things after. But Salute to Kanye. The city was so excited that he was there. Everybody, I mean, there was people flying in all over the place. The airports were packed. Restaurants were packed. The city was excited to see. And this was black people, white people, Asian people. Like, people weren't excited. I think when you are artists of a certain age, you shouldn't even have after parties. Like, how old is Kanye? Kanye, about 49. What are you doing having to have the party? You don't need to have no after party for no Kanye West show. You don't need to have the party for no Kanye West show. You don't need to have the party for no Kanye West show. You don't need to have no after party for no Kanye West show. Man, he'd be tired of that. The demographic that's at the Kanye West show should be going home to get some rest. And then the concert is the party kind of sort of world. Yeah. The concert is the party. But when I asked people what their ages were,

5:08I was like, if you're 30 and old, to make some noise, it was just like, yeah. If you're 23 and older, I said, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But now we had a good time, though. So Salute to everybody who came out to law lounge last night. And I can't wait for Lauren to talk about, yeah, he's show because it was so many people in the building last night, I would love to hear it and hear some audio. Because I definitely missed it. So you was DJing for a bunch of 20 something years last night. 23. 2335, I would say. Yeah, you need to get your life together then. It's not like me. Yeah. And I have fun, actually. I honestly have fun. It was good, though. Test out your arms if you could really DJ it now. But I had a great time. But let's get to show cracking. Russ will be joining us this morning. Russ will be here. Yeah, he's got a new movie out called Don't Move It. It'll be out September 11th in select theaters. Andy's going to talk about his upcoming album, The Elephant and The Rider. And I like what Russ is doing. He's putting out a video, I think, our single every week leading up until the album release. Right. Yes. So we're going to be talking to Russ. And also Dawn Dixon, entrepreneur, Dawn Dixon will be joining us as well. Now, if you remember years ago, I don't remember how many years ago

6:08it was, Dawn Dixon came up here and she did crowdfunding for her company, Popcom, and a lot of people invested in Dawn Dixon. People invested in Dawn Dixon's company, but things haven't gone the way the investors would like them to. Oh, Dawn ended up under investigation and a whole bunch of other stuff. So if you've been wondering about your Popcom investment and where Dawn Dixon has been, she'll be here this morning to talk all about it. To discuss it, that's right. And let's get to show cracking. Of course, we got front page news and also you can get it off your chest 800-585-1051. Today is the Queen's birthday. So it's only right when we start with some Beyonce. Oh, dropping the clues, Bonson Beyonce. I thought we're drunken love. Goddamn, I'm feeling freaking out of Friday. Red played definitely in B. Nah, go ahead. No, no, no, that's how you was feeling. If you want to start, boy, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so fast. You want to play something lost, that's it. Red misses, great. Can't be mad at him. Mr. Breakfast, love, good morning. Front page news and next. Morning, everybody is DJ and V.

7:08Just hilarious. Shall I remain the guy? We ought to break his club. Let's get in some front page news. What's up, Mimi? Good morning, M.V. Josh. Shall I remain high on doing this morning? Let's black it out. How are you? Good morning. So we start this morning with another major development in the fight against Millen Ballots. So the Trump administration went back to the Supreme Court yesterday asking the justices to step in immediately and allow its postal service rules to take effect. Now, this is even though a federal judge has already temporarily blocked them. So we told you about this back and forth earlier this week. It is still going on. These rules would require the postal service to make a list. Every voter approved on that list would receive a ballot. But those ballots would have special barcodes that are scanned and checked against that list. Now, if your name is not on that list, you would not get a ballot. But here's what's new. As Millen Ballots start going out, the Trump administration wants those rules to be in effect.

8:11Now, he does not want to wait. So right now, they're unhold while the case plays out in the lower courts. He went back to the Supreme Court saying, no, can we get this done right now? California Congresswoman Norma Torres says the postal service, though, needs to do their job and not the president's bidding. Let's listen. Your goddamn job is to deliver the mail. We pay you to deliver the mail. That is it. We pay you to process the Republican agenda or to do Donald Trump's bidding. Your job, every stamp that we put on an envelope, is secure by your promise to do your job. I need every postal worker to demand their ability to continue to do their job. Yeah, I mean, I think the way we even should discuss it is we should be saying, Donald Trump is still trying to steal the midterm elections. Donald Trump is still trying to disrupt the midterm elections. Donald Trump is still trying to make it extremely challenging for people to vote. And I think everyone should just be preparing to show up to the polls.

9:11Okay, I would even consider, you know, bailing voting this year. I think that everybody should just be making a plan now to show up to the polls in person. Absolutely. Because to that point, we talked about this. This is another concern. Those ballots, their process in batches. So the way this is set up, if one ballot is missing a required vote, or a required barcode, or if a name is missing off of that batch, the entire batch of, again, like 10,000 would be sent back instead of mailed. And you would never even know about it. And so the states fighting these rules haven't until Tuesday to respond. And just a quick note, North Carolina starts sending out some of its mail and ballots today, September 4th. And that's part of why the administration says the Supreme Court needs to act quickly. Yeah, America, I'm glad that the states are fighting. But, you know, once again, I just feel like everybody should be preparing to show up to the polls. You know, I know I know mail in ballots are a matter of convenience for a lot of people. But if you even have a elderly people in your neighborhood, y'all should be thinking about plans now, it's September, right?

10:13November 3rd is when the elections are. You should be thinking about plans that get people to the polls now. Organizing, taking people on buses. Absolutely. That's right. And if you're a black parent paying for private school or hoping to send your child to a private school, there's a new Trump administration proposal that you need to know about. Because this could change how some private schools emit students and out scholarships and run programs created for students of color. So the Trump administration says if a private school gives a student an advantage because of their race, that school could face a major financial penalty. It could lose its federal tax exempt status, which for some schools is millions of dollars. And advocates are pointing out what that couldn't look like. So they say think about a private school where there aren't already many students of color. There aren't already many black students. Your child may have the grades, the test scores, everything to get in. But now the school knows that if race plays any role in helping to diversify its student body, millions of dollars could be on the line.

11:19And that could make the schools less willing to consider race at all, whether it's, you know, for admissions, scholarships, or other opportunities. And the Trump administration though, they say that's the point. It is saying that giving students opportunities based on race is discrimination, this decision. They say that the decision should be made on merit alone. And this is expected to affect up to 18,000 private schools and colleges. This is still a proposal. But if it is finalized, it would take effect on May of 2027. So that's crazy. Yes. I know. Very, very crazy. And if people asked us wondering, I just wanted to see what those grants help with enrollment. So the reason they give these grants, because I don't people would say the first thing I thought, well, why would they give grants to private schools when they have public schools? But they were saying that the private grants helps overcrowded in public classrooms. Also, it helps lower middle income families afford tuition when they can't afford it when they're trying to do it. And a lot of the schools are closing. So the closest schools, a lot of times are private schools.

12:21So that's why the government gives those grants. Yeah. Exactly. And so now, you know, they're just basically saying a lot of that too will depend on, it could depend on your race. Um, all right. Well, coming up at seven, there are some things that you may think is harmless, but your partner might disagree. We're going to talk about five things that people say cross the line in a relationship. We'll talk about that in the next. And what's that damn beeping noise? I keep hearing some beeping noise. No, please relax. Just thank you. Me. She put the battery in a fight and her alarm. You know how you got the coming. And I said, you know, smoke detector. I know. No, I mean, go what? I don't know. It's like the dead away. Continue, continue. We want to know what it is. Oh, I said it in the group chat. I know you was not for the air. Like, look down the tree. Get it on the chest. 800 five eight five. I'm working on the oven.

13:22Oh my gosh. Get it off your chest. Let's call this up right now. Molly got to work on her birthday again. It's the breakfast welcome morning. It's a new day. This is your time to get it off your chest. Wake up. Whether you're mad or blessed, sound it up and get some call up now. 800 five eight five one oh five one. We want to hear from you on the breakfast club. Hello, who's this? Are we on? Are we live? Are we live with some who's this? Yes. No, I didn't want to call in real quick because, you know, right now, as somebody who was working 16 18 hours a day, the government is traveling to people. And it's both five. Yes. I just seen both sides, well, well, we're just running from universities. If they were trying to form government, and that's both five. So it's like, it's, it's good enough enough. You know, I'm working. I work around the five. But I also work. And I'm delivering morning and night. To see my kids like this is crazy. This is crazy. I'm like, we need to be able to call both sides out.

14:22Because at this point, they're both feminists. Oh, look, I completely agree. Like 100%. I'm like, what I want to leave, I want to leave you off of this. Like, I'm glad that you guys call out Trump and the administration. But at the end of the day, the president is really useless if, if laws don't make it to his best. So at the end of the day, the biggest culprit of why we're struggling is Congress, the House and the Senate. And they're not doing anything, either whether they're dominated by the Republicans, or whether they're dominated by Democrats, both of them, for whatever reason, have no problem taking our tax dollars and sending them overseas to other places. Yet, we can't get simple things fixed. Well, yeah, that's been going on since I'm 48 years old. I was born in 1878. I mean, that's been the argument since I was alive. You know, I'll appreciate you, Todd. I love you all. Keep doing what you're doing. Thank you, Jim. I'm brother. Hello. Who's this? Hey, this is Todd. This is from Maryland.

15:22Hey, Todd. This is from Maryland. Get it off your chest, Mark. Oh, my God. That's what I'm, yeah, so I'm calling for two blessings this morning. But first of all, thank you all for all that you do. I don't care what you say about your shadow, man. You're dope. Jesse, look amazing. And who you're dope. Lauren, you're dope. I really appreciate you all. I want to shout out two blessings. First of all, today is my 16 year anniversary with my husband, let him walk in state. Hey, congratulations. Yeah, it's the bears in the house. Yeah, I would never do like with anybody else, but him some sort of sighted. And the second thing, my friend also from Oregon, she started a business. Y'all is so dope. It's called Pinto Perception. Greeting cards. Black on. It says the things that we want to say. It has a QR code on the back of the card that links the music to the card. Dope. Please check it out. I would love to sing out. I have a whole bunch of her cards. I would love to sing it to y'all. I got some special cards for you. And these together, your wife. Solomon, I got some good stuff for all of y'all. I would love to sing it. And tell us how we combine this.

16:22I would love to support too. How can we buy? How can we purchase? Absolutely. So it's PintoPerception.com. That's P-T-N-N-E-B-T-O-Perception.com. And you can also follow her at under 4PintoPerception.com. I'm not about to lie to you. I'm about to buy it till I see it. I got to see it for a man. I want to sing it. That's all I want to do. I want to sing it to y'all. And if you love it, just tell it out. If you don't, don't think nothing. I mean, we talk about it now. Madison, go to your website right now. PintoPerception.com. Yeah, PintoPerception.com. It says all the things that we want to say. Like, if you want to tell your art for lacking fees isn't good. It's a car for that. Like, it's dope. Like, it's dope. It's dope. It's dope. It's a car for that. Like, it's dope. Like, it's dope. Oh, that's what I'm saying. I like it. I see, I see, I see, PintoPerception. PintoPerception. PintoPerception. PintoPerception. Yeah, I see one that says, I love you, prop. I see one that says forever. And always a daddy's girl. I love it. Oh, it is.

17:22It's a dope ride this day. It's a dope ride this day. That's brilliant. And like I said, you want to call on the back to put the music to the song. Like, it's something amazing. No. I love y'all. Keep doing what y'all do. Amazing. I appreciate you. I'm on your website right now, Lily. And this does look dope. I ain't going front now. Looks dope. Even the pictures. It looks like us. It's really, really dope. It looks like us. I've been asking y'all about it. I don't know if I just did it to the station. Like, you know, we're going to put your whole, you're going to put your whole and get you in. Send your address and everything. Okay. Perfect. Thank y'all so much. Thank you. Yes, looks like us. I'm black. Ain't no Dominican on here at all. I'm not Dominican, sir. I'm black. I'm not American. I'm black. I'm not American. I'm black, sir. I don't think I got any of it to be on the side. I don't see it. It says Penn, so it's P-E-N-N-E-D-2-T-O-Perfection.com. Oh, okay, okay. There's another one where it's like a, uh, it seems like a son in his father's looking at his father. So he lives alive through you. I love it. But get it off of you. They stuff look really dope.

18:22Yeah, look really good. 800-585-1051. If you need to vent, hit us up now. It's the breakfast club. Good morning. I'm telling. I'm telling. I'm calling you. This is your time to get it off your chest. Whether you're mad or blessed, 800-585-1051. We want to hear from you on the breakfast club. Hello. Who's this? Pamu. Hey, good morning. I'm going to get it off your chest. Good morning. Hey, y'all. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, Charlie. I'm going to be exploring and raised. Thank you. 843 was happening? Yes. Um, I just wanted to give just a update. I called a couple of weeks ago about going to California and where to smoke and all of that. Do you remember that call? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's all of you. Yeah, so we got out there. We went to Snoop's dispensary. And the parts of the very good out there. I got to give Snoop a shout out. Those parts are very good. We did smoke. We smoked on Venice Beach. And we smoked outside the hotel.

19:22But we didn't get nobody bothered as everybody was cool. Yeah. And I was in the family with you. How was the Cali? It was good. You ever had any of that? It was good. Well, we got pre-rolled with the key, but it was okay. I think Snoop's line is better. I ain't never in the way to know Caroline. It needs to be a rock on there again. I ain't always legal down here. I ain't never had no way to know Caroline. What the hell you talking about? Look at like, we ain't a legal and no-can-line. That's what I'm like. Hey, you got to know the right people. But yeah. You get y'all locked up and get drugs anyway. But you make it sound like y'all got your green three and stuff and no-can-line. Right. We don't, but we got some right here. Y'all got to try it. But if you ever in North Carolina just, are you having any shows in Greensboro? I just was in Greensboro earlier this year, but I'll be back next year. I'm here every year. Okay. Yeah. But I will be in Charleston and South Carolina. Never mind. That's not even near you.

20:23And so I mean, I just want to tell you, I like everything you're doing for us. And down in South Carolina, I live in North Carolina, but I am born and raised in South Carolina. Everything you do, the South Carolina is appreciated. And the way you shot us out, we appreciate that too. It's all I know. It's all I know is home. Yeah. Thank you, Mama. Yes. You're welcome. You have a good weekend. Get it off your chest. 83585051051. If you need to vent, you can hit us up. Now we got the latest one, Lauren. Coming up as Lauren. Yes, I'm here. Good morning. Oh, I'm here. You didn't make it to the concert, but I made it to work. I made it to work. I was dependent on you. I was dependent on you. I was dependent on you to make it to that concert. You know that no sauces? That was it? I do, but it's different with envy there because I could be like, look at this. Grab this. What about this? What's happening right now? It's not. Well, you remember I'm in Chicago, the whole Chicago station, they all are waiting. I could bring somebody in right now and give you all the details behind the scenes. Okay. I'll call you. But yeah, we're going to talk about Kanye. We talk about the dry effect that is morning. Beyonce, she gave us some gifts on her birthday. The conversation about Jay-Z never stops.

21:23So we're going to get into that. Colin Kaepernick entered the chat. And Kanye and Chicago, we're going to get into it. And the J-performing London yesterday? I'll be asking you. I'll be asking you. I'll be asking you. I'll be asking you. I'll be asking you. I'll be asking you. I'll be asking you. Tonight in the morning. Are you going? Me. I'll be going. I don't know if you're going to go and staff. I'll be asking you. His back hurts overseas. He's just relaxing. I mean, yeah, I could have went, but I got a family. I'm trying to help you. I want to enjoy Labor Day weekend. So, you know, it's not mandatory for rock nation employees to be there. I do all staff have to go. Okay. Not all staff. Not all staff. All right. All right. All right. All right. We got the latest coming up when we come back. It's the Breakfast Club. By Asia Riven or so, at least 70% have a phone. Middle school is a different world than the one we grew up in. I'm Dr. Joy and this is therapy for black girls. We spent real time on it in our surviving middle school run. Bringing in a child psychologist and a psychiatrist who's raising two black girls of his own to talk about what's really going on with our kids right now. So it's literally physiological and neurological and psychological chaos happening all this.

22:30We got into group chats and gaming, friendships and bullying, and how to tell the difference between healthy monitoring and the kind of surveillance that erodes trust. There's belonging. You could think of belonging as I can be myself and I can still be accepted. And then they're fitting in. Spitting in says I have to change who I am in order to avoid rejection. Then we turn the conversation toward the fathers sitting down with therapists, cure gains on black fatherhood and what it means to raise a daughter through this stage. You don't have more shorts so you can't do flips. You have on the dress you have across your legs. That's the range of this run from screen time to identity to the fathers doing the work at home. You have to get off her device. But the reality is there's a lot of life out there that we don't want you as your adults in the life to miss out on. This has been our surviving middle school run. Brought to you by the people who spend their careers thinking about exactly this. I'm Dr. Joy. Listen to therapy for black girls on the iHeartReneo app, Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcast.

23:31Self-Cast of Tampa is here, which means it's time to rethink what self-cant actually means. Yes, self-care can be a long walk. It can be an everything shower. It can be putting your phone on, do not disturb. But sometimes it's actually about sitting with the uncomfortable stuff. And understanding your patterns, your boundaries. Finally figuring out why you keep doing things that you swore you would never do again. I'm Gemma Speg, the host of the psychology of your 20s podcast. And each week we unpack the psychology behind the experiences that shape your 20s. From relationships and friendships to money, anxiety, confidence, attachment. Just becoming more comfortable with who you are. Unlike the quarter life crisis which is depicted as the collapse, the quarter life reinvention is the expansion and the growth of something. When we develop the ability to be happy by ourselves, nobody else can take that from you. So this self-care September, don't just take care of yourself. Get to know yourself as well. Listen to the psychology of your 20s on the iHeartReneo app, Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcast. On the new podcast, Solita, we share the messy reality of traveling alone as a woman.

24:38I can wait 4 hours for the next bus or this random dude is offering me a ride on his motorcycle. I choose option B. I'm Julie Pinero and I travel by myself because it's a rare space where I can say yes without asking anyone else first. I'm on a mission to reclaim the word solita, trading the pity for possibility. Every time I try to be alone, I kept meeting people and they were like, you smiled at us, not a lot of people smile around here. It's when you're alone that you're most receptive to the world as it is and not the lies you're sold about it. It can be a time where you push your limits, change your mind, or wake up to a new version of yourself. So whether you're a solo travel veteran or you're too nervous to book your first trip, I hope you listen to Solita on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. If you're a bookshelf and you're a 4u page are equally important to your personality, welcome home.

25:38This is Pro's Society, the weekly podcast that's part book club, part group chat for thought daughters, pop culture obsessives, and anyone who thinks pride and prejudice and love island deserve the same level of discourse. I'm Eli Rallo and every week we're connecting the dots between books, the internet, and the conversations everyone can't stop having. I'm gonna have to look up this story. I'm obsessed. From bestselling authors and your favorite book talk creators to the latest pop culture moments, nothing is off the table. It's like if you can hide some real messages inside compelling characters and that is a Trojan horse. Whether you're looking for literary deep dives, smart pop culture conversations, or a community of readers who love to think a little too much, you're in the right place. Listen to Pro's Society on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. See you between the pages. Morning everybody, it's DJ NV Jess Hilarious, Shalom A and the Guy, we are the breakfast club.

26:38I just want to say thank you to everybody for all your birthday wishes, the calls, the text, the social media love. I just want to say thank you, the love was felt and I'm hugging you guys back. 50 is a big age, yo, that's the big mouse on in your life. I'm not fit to go. I'm not there yet. I can't wait to I am, but I'm not there yet. You'll be 40 next year, but let's get to the latest with Lauren. Oh, no. Wow. You're not going low, Rallo. You're particularly bringing an energy to mainstream radio, the black radio. This sources trusted you. You hear that, it's crucial. Lauren, I'm a homegrown, I know it's a little bit about everything. Everything. She'll be having the latest. You asked the question that need to be answered on the breakfast club. A little brown girls look at you and go, I want to be like you. LL Cool, Ben. Talk, talk to me. So it is Beyonce's birthday today. I heard you guys mentioned in that earlier this morning and she gave us a few gifts on her birthday. So number one, she dropped a remastered Deluxe BD album. She's celebrating 20 years of that album.

27:38But today on her birthday, she dropped the second different version of it. So there are some new music on there, including irreplaceable. Now there was always a on the original BD album that dropped in 2006. There were Spanish language music on the Deluxe side of it. But I don't know if a lot of people knew that, but this time she dropped more Spanish language music and using a Selena's vocals and irreplaceable. It's called Aaron Plasible. It's the used CUMO La Florida, which was a big Selena song. And this is a big deal because Selena's a state hardly rarely ever allows people to use anything and sample anything. So let's take a listen to Beyonce's irreplaceable remix. Guess what? It's a baby. No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. Turn that down. The Molly, Molly, go and wake up going, huh? Mom, are you calling me? Mom. Okay, turn that up. But you know what, you'll be on say sound so good. And she sounded like she did a track with Jay Ball in years ago. And she's hopped on a remix of a Jay Ball in song and she sounded so good.

28:40She can have full of Spanish. So that sounds good. I don't know. Happy birthday. Yeah, she has another song on the album. It's a collab with Aloma, which is their first time collabing as well too. But she also dropped a ton of different merch on her website. She upgraded some of the videos that she put out originally around this album as well too. So happy birthday to Beyonce and thank you, girl. Thank you for the gifts. We were okay. Yeah, now I'm moving on over a bit still in the same crib. Jay Z. I saw yesterday, and we were talking about this a bit earlier. There were a lot of fans who were upset that Jay Z had this virtual listening party. And why the upsetful. So he had a virtual listening party on station head. And you know, fans tuned in and he's over in the UK doing his thing and about to perform there. And I think people thought, I think I know people thought new music was coming. They thought that we were going to get on the stream. And we were, you know, celebration of all the reasonable doubts and, you know, blueprint and all the things, but maybe a little hint of new music and it didn't happen. People were upset. People were making up stuff about Jay Z didn't get mad at Jay Z when the stuff they made up

29:43isn't true. How you got, how you gash yourself up to think that there's new music coming? They never said that. Yeah, they shouldn't be upset. You know, you could want new music. I want new music, but I wasn't like, said like, damn it. He tricked me again. No, I wasn't upset. I mean, they're not out here like marching, but they were disappointed. They felt like for what? What? Are you listening to what you're saying? I hear what you're saying. I'm just telling you what. They're not out here more. Right. Anytime anything Jay Z does, they always think like, remember they put that September first. Stay tuned. And it was just like Jay Z popping up at the pop up shops. People thought it was new music. They thought it was another announcement. People just wanted. We've heard. But remember when he had, when he let that little girl Jay Z and if you him again and he told her people, well, maybe he said to somebody else, why could have told her. Just wait. Just shut up, sit back and wait. Now he wasn't telling, telling her, he was saying to the people, that's like, all the speculation and trying to figure out this, trying to figure out that and lying and all of that. Yo, just, just wait. Just be patient. Just shut up. I may have something I may not, but like, just wait.

30:45Calm down. Yeah. People comes out. I don't know what you're saying. It's also a good thing that people say that. It's a good thing that people want to Jay Z out and are asking about it because there's a bunch of artists out there that nobody's asking ish about. They don't care if they got a new record or old record. So the fact that people are still inquisitive about Hover and his new project and what he's talking about, that's a good thing. That's very true. Yeah. Well, another conversation that I see circulating around Jay Z right now, it's Colin Capronick. He's been doing some press because he has a new book that is coming out. And one of the things that people are picking up is a quote that he gave, you know, after Jay Z did the Roots picnic freestyle where he addressed, you know, having products in target. So Colin Capronick is responding to that. And he says quote, I just want you to know one, you're serving the culture up to a bunch of racists and two, they don't care about you. He said, this is what he's recalling that he says to Jay Z. He says you're the music guy to them. They quite literally need a black face and have said as much. So yeah.

31:45And I saw too that, you know, Colin Capronick, there are people have a comment. He said that Jay Z is, let me let me run my check. He said that Jay Z is what? He said that the enough, Jay Z is the music guy to them and that they just need a black face. And he's serving up the, he's serving up the culture to a bunch of racists and they don't care about you. He recalls telling Jay Z. Okay. But that's what he said in this book. No, this is what he said. He never having a conversation following when you know that he did the Roots picnic freestyle. So Colin Capronick is now doing press because he has his book coming. And this is one of the things that he said in his book. Okay. Maybe he said in the book, but this article is talking about you. I don't know. No, a conversation that they had with Colin Capronick. He recalled the time where he had that conversation with Jay Z. Got you. Got you. Got you. Yes. Now, I'm saying that's what he told Jay Z. Oh, yes. He says that he remembers having that conversation with Jay Z. Did you argue check? You get. I'm just listening to the story. What you're hearing with us? Is there more? No, I mean, that was, that's the thing from it. I think I'm going to read Colin's book.

32:45I just hope Colin is out here doing these interviews. I hope someone just asked him a simple question. If you feel this way about the NFL, why have you spent the past decade trying to get back in the NFL? Like we've seen him refer to the NFL as a plantation. And that statement he called them racist. So how come you want to be back in the league so bad? Like just a couple of years ago, he wrote a letter to the New York Jets wanting to be on the practice squad. You know what I mean? In 2022, he said he would be willing to be a backup quarterback to get back in the door. So why do you want to be in a league that you consider to be so racist? I don't understand that. Like it is this way. Maybe going to where his least race is at. I don't know if you talk about it. The least race is always right. I said the whole league is racist. You can't black bar me from a place I don't desire to be. Well, so the conversation to sit down was with NBC's Leicester Hall, right? And there's a bit more. So he says first and foremost, he's talking about the fact of Jay Z getting a backlash and target, right? And you talk about, you know, people wanting to be places and not want to be places. So Colin Kaepernick says the backlash that Jay Z received for partner with the NFL and going to counter to people's interest in 2019 was a major problem for him.

33:49So much that it's still been brought up in 2026. So he's saying Jay Z knows that this is an issue for people. And that's why he had to do the freestyle. So he's honestly amopping and he's saying Jay Z knows what he's doing, but he just doesn't care. I just don't understand how you can be upset with somebody for partnering with the NFL when you've been actively trying to get in the league for a decade. He wrote a letter to the New York judge asking to be on the practice squad. He said he was willing to be a backup quarterback just to get his foot in the door. These are things that Colin Kaepernick has said. So I just, I just don't understand, you know, how one person is considered, you know, a sell out for the partner with the NFL, but you've been actively wanting to be back in the league for the past decade. It just seems very personal, right? Because when he was trying to get back in the league, to my knowledge, didn't Jay Z help him try to get back in the league and get him on the issue, to practice where he can do it. So this seems more than just a left or right type of thing. It seems personal, it seems like they have their own personal issues and it's horrible because they're both prominent figures and they both tried to help the community and they do it in their own ways, but it just seems like they're not on the page with this.

34:51And they just keep throwing shots at each other. I just hate that black brothers that really try to help. I don't think they're throwing shots at each other either though. I think that this has been more of the public talking like, you know, Jay Z did the three styling and Colin made this statement, but I don't think they've been throwing shots at each other. That's the other line on this issue. Yeah. And then sit down. He says like Jay Z has a guilty conscience because now people are realizing that he keeps stepping into these positions, but you don't really hear from Jay Z much. And Colin Kaepernick, we don't never hear directly from him, right? I don't have a problem with somebody responding after years and years and years and years and people saying things about them. Hey, they throw shots at each other. That's why I just wish that they would just, you know, they both do things for our community and the fact that they're not on the same page and they helped each other at one point. I just would love them to get together somehow somewhere. I don't really like Kaep. I don't really like Kaep. And people have, you know, people have, people have tried to get them to have conversations. See, one of the people didn't want to have conversations. And it wasn't Jay Z. Jay Z. Wow. You put your rock nation jacket on.

35:51I'm listening. Hold on. Make sure. I put the rock. I put the rock. I put the jacket on. I put the jacket on. I'm speaking into my, maybe don't have a conversation in a few days. My wire. We were being a good place if they could come, if they could come to the middle and have that conversation. I just think it would be better for them. But in all seriousness, so it is, it is, I don't know, it just seems very hypocritical. Like, I don't see how you could say that he's serving the culture up to a bunch of racists, but you've been trying to actively get back in the league for 10 years. But I need to read his book. Maybe he talks about reasons. Maybe he got his reasons. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Maybe I need, maybe. But I do hope in one of these interviews that he's doing for his book, somebody asked him that. Because that to me is a very obvious question. Let's last time you spoke to him. Oh, yes. Yeah. Yeah. I don't want any context. Oh, okay. All right, y'all. Well, rap in the latest and we'll get to Kanye in the next latest. I know we didn't get to go through all the conscious stuff too, but we'll get to, we have some of the audio from the concert in a big reunion that happened in Chicago for Kanye with an artist that you guys love to see him with.

36:51So we'll get into that in the next latest. All right. From page news is up next. And Shullamane, you're dunking. What you doing today for your dunking? Well, you know, it's Friday, so we do the people's darkest. So you can call in 1-800-585-1051. And you can give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid. That's right. So call us up right now as the breakfast club. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ, NV, Jessalari, Shullamane, the guy we ought to breakfast club. And let's get to some front page news. What's up, Mimi? Good morning, NV, Jess Shullamane. How y'all doing? Good. Good. Good morning, Mimi, bro. All right. So we're going to start with the story that we didn't get to in six. The White House has launched a deportation video game. Have you guys heard about this? No. What the hell, man? Cut it out, Mimi. I worked to play so much. What's the name of it? I was like, what is it called? It is called Rio Run. And it works like these old snake games. So, yeah, so you move around the screen collecting people and every person you collect, it counts as someone deported. Stop. Yes, please.

37:52Stop. Don't play that music right at a time like this. They want it. Our game is called Build a Wall. So player stat rocks to build a border wall. We want to block that. We want to block that. Not after Tetris. Now, we're not going to do that now. Listen, this is crazy while little figures try to get across. And too many people make it through. The screen says border breached. And so all of this is happening on an official government website, right? This is not a random campaign. It is called arcade.gov, the official government federal website. Now, the White House says the games are a way to promote President Trump's agenda and what it calls culture of fun and winning. That's crazy. Critics say, yeah, critics are pointing out these are real people's lives and that taxpayers are paying for the government to play video games or host these video games on the website. So. You know, it's so crazy. Not the worst video game out there. That's the sad part. Yeah. I'm just saying, you know, there's video games out there that have murder and kidnappings.

38:54And you know, a lot of shooting and a lot of killing. I'm just saying it's not the worst video game out there. I don't know what to mean. I just don't think we expected. I mean, I'm just based on real people though, like in real life situations, having in a real time right now. He said, one was called running. A running one was the other one called building. It's not running. It was real run. But think about how many how many years have people been saying things like video games, videos, videos, videos, videos, videos, videos. I don't know. It's sad, but it's powerful to call us in America, God damn it. Yeah, it's sad. But definitely teach racism and violence. Real run and build the wall running. Run nigga run is nothing. You just gave somebody a idea. You just gave somebody up there and I did, okay. You didn't get this off. And I've been trying to get the story in all week because I do really like what Hampton University is doing with AI.

39:56So the HBCU is just opened in 11,000 square foot AI centers. So the idea is to make sure that students and the surrounding community aren't left behind as AI changes the way we work. So but we're talking podcasting, music production, fashion design, photography, showing people how AI can actually help them in different careers. And what I also really like about this is that you don't have to be a Hampton University student to use it. They say the center is open to entrepreneurs, people in the community who might not otherwise have access to this kind of technology. And they say you don't need any AI experience to get started. And it's open to the public now, but they do ask that you make an appointment. So congratulations. It's amazing. Every how you feel about it, yo. Big big eight, you stuff. I mean, the president, Salute to President Williams, he said that he definitely wants to make sure that Hampton University is ahead of the curve, whatever it comes to it, especially with technology. But like you said, me, you better make an appointment because they're not going to let you on that campus when they get an appointment.

40:56I went on that campus a couple of weeks ago and scared it's like, nah, we know you all I had to call the president to get on the campus. So if you're not going to get on that campus, if you don't make an appointment, so you make sure you make an appointment if you want to go to that facility. Yeah, 11,000 square foot a lot happening there. Absolutely. And lastly, do we have time? Are we out? Nothing we out. We out. OK, we'll see. I'm going to read the last story. Oh, not rest there, but. Yeah. All right. She was about to see just some of the boat couples. That's hilarious. She's just checking me. How was? I was. That's OK. It's OK, Jess. I will save it. You should have stuck in your Howard gun. Watch him out. You should have made this your Howard gun. All week long, you've been ignoring that story, but you decided. That's what you get. That's what you get. That's what you get. It's a little to the real age. I'll be on the yard this week. And I'll be. I'll be stopping through Hampton University this week. I'm going to Cousins Festival. And I will be on the yard. So if you see me on the yard, say something. I will be there this week. Well, it's sound like you're going to jail.

41:56See, I get you a inch in me. And you take a high on me. There you go with the real inch. See, next time I'm a double thing, you know, giving you that. This is going to be. No. Goodbye, Mimi. Have a great weekend. Make sure you subscribe to Mimi Brown's podcast, the front page, new podcast on the Black Effect podcast network. I'm sure of the story that she should have done over the age, the Hampton University story. She's going to do on her podcast. No, representing each piece of you is the story. She should have done. Thank you, Mimi. Now when we come back, Russ will be joining us. We're going to talk to Russ. If it Russ is a new project. Big Russ. OK. What's Russ right? I don't know. Russ will be joining us when we come back as the breakfast club. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. It's DJ NV Jess hilarious. She'll remain the guy. We are the breakfast club. We're on the roses here as well. We got a special guest in the building. Miss Don Dixon. Good morning, Don. How are you? I'm doing good. How's your energy today? I'm feeling good. I'm so lucky to see you and to be here. Good work. What are we here to talk about there? You got so much going on always.

42:56I think just catching up. OK. Obviously last time I was here five years ago, I think in so much has changed. Definitely been on this show changed my life with my crowdfunding campaign. That was what big shares ago. So a lot of shames. I think just catching up on an Africa now. Yeah, I saw that. You have the real estate development based in a crowd that is to call pop. Pop comes the business that I raised money for when I came. Last time. The crowdfunding campaign went crazy. Thank y'all. And things happen with that business. A lot of people invested and over 10,000 investors. Now this platform was catalyst for that. It was a raise to over a million dollars for the first time. I was the first female founder to do that. And a lot of that came from just being here and reaching the platform that you reach. And business, things happen in business. And a lot of things that it goes planned with that business. So that's something we definitely could touch on. And then I ended up moving Agana and starting a real estate

43:59business just out of me trying to find my way. So it's so much happening five years. I don't even know where to start, you guys. Let's start with, I mean, you mentioned that there was a lot that happened with the pop company business. So let's start there. Like when you say there was a lot that happened, walk us through. So you're here crowdfunding campaign there's $6 million. Yes. $6 million. $6 million. And from that after that step, then what begins to happen for Dawn? What started to happen was we took that money and went right into action and started to scale and started to place so really quick backstory. Popcom makes software for vending machines that make them smarter. So essentially it's the operating system that allows the vending machines to collect data. Since vending machines are standalone sales units, it collects the data about customers walking by, it collects the data about sales. It was something new in the market. So we had to be a market maker. So I raised the money to develop the platform, raise the money to build the machines, put them in the market, hire a whole staff.

44:59And as we're growing so fast, things are happening as far as we're taking off. We're blown up. We have all these customers. But to continue to grow, you still need more money. I was following that playbook of what they teach us as entrepreneurs in the venture capital world. I raised over 7 million. I raised 1.3 million from venture capital and then 6 million from crowdfunding, which gave everybody a chance to invest. So when it's time to go raise that next round, because after we met all of our milestones with the crowdfunding campaign, that next round was a series A through VC. And that next round collapsed. And that was unexpected, shocking, devastating. Because I had an investor commit to funding that round for 2.5 million as a lead. And then they didn't raise their fund. And a lot of people don't understand how this thing works. Venture capitalists raised money from limited partners, from other people, from family offices. So when they don't close their money, entrepreneurs don't get their money. And so out of nowhere, basically in two months, I go from a business that's booming,

46:02we're generating revenue, we're growing to out of money. And you need to fire your team, lay off your team. It's like Friday, the board tells me, you gotta lay off these people on Monday. It was devastating. It was never, I never saw that come in. Now when you say that there's a lot of things that people don't understand when it comes to like just the different rounds and the reason the money and who gets what and what goes where. I was reading an article, I'm a watchdog article, and they quoted some of the different things that concerned people that are looking at your journey from the outside. And they talk about minimal revenue, vanishing assets, assets, not really understanding your operations and the fact that you relocated overseas. So when it comes to those things that people from the outside are flagging, explain to us from the inside, like what happened? So like when a revenue didn't work out. Yeah, I mean, we were generating revenue, but in the early stage, start up, in the beginning, all the money's going into building the product. So we spent millions on building software, millions on hardware, millions on staffing over six years.

47:05And when you start to get into your revenue flow, it takes a few years to really break even, to really get into the red, I mean, into the black out of the red. So people just did not understand that all the development costs that go into building a software platform and hiring staff. So we did have assets, which was crazy because that watchdog article came out and it made me go under investigation. I had a full SEC investigation on me because they said, okay, everything you said. And I was cleared. But what did actually happen is the assets didn't get reported on the balance sheet. Like I'll take that one. That was my fault. Because this is the assets weren't on the balance sheet at all. When I'm so busy raising money and when we went to get our financials updated with SEC, we left out over 800,000 worth of assets that are on the book. So it was actually being updated right now after me going through eight months of investigation. We did have revenue. We were doing over 35,000 a month in revenue. But of course, that's not enough to cover operations when your payroll burn and expenses are over 120,000.

48:08But when you're building a business to scale, you know you're gonna spend more in the early days as you're ramping up. And so we just didn't get a chance to break that threshold of where revenue caught up to expenses. We didn't get to make it. So why did you say the audited financial filing towards zero dollars? Because no, the audit, so the audit it wasn't zero dollars. We did get audited in our financials and our revenue did match up to what we said. So we were doing about 35,000 a month. So that's an MRR. We launched the product only six months. So the product had only been launched for six months, like ready for market and ready to go out. A real product, they're not a prototype. No, the product. Yeah, we had 15 vending machines around the US and even one in Qatar and Vendel Mall. So the real products were working with real brands, real partners were generating revenue for six months. But then it's time to really ramp it up. So that's when the next round would have come in and allowed us to continue to scale, put more vending machines in the market, make more revenue and then catch that revenue number up. But no, the revenue never covered our monthly expenses.

49:11So that's where we're burning investment money as we're ramping up. The error that I made was overlooking the assets on the balance sheet. They just got left off. But there was nothing fraudulent that happened. There was the revenue was reported, but many investors did complain because they believe they were supposed to get a return in two years. They were looking at this investment, like it's the stock market. Yeah, you can't look at no investment. There, early stage private equity investment usually takes eight to 10 years to get a ROI. But at this time, when I saw the crowdfunding, it was also the time when everybody started to be able to trade crypto on apps and use apps for like Robinhood. People were confusing investing in my company with investing in Tesla. They're asking me, okay, I invested $250 in your business, why can't I cash out right now or why can't I cash out in two years? And I'm like, we're not publicly traded. We're using the money you gave us to build a business.

50:11The early investors in Uber, in Apple, and Microsoft, it took them seven to 12 years to get a return. So why do I have to return your money in two years? And that was just because the education around difference between publicly traded stock and privately held shares, it wasn't there. All of this happened so quickly with the jobs acting with me being the first to do it. I'm out here promoting my business and showing what I'm doing, but I didn't properly educate people publicly on what it meant to invest in a private company. It didn't mean you're getting your money right back. What do you say to people who like just at a basic scale, because I end the article, they also talk about the fact that people, that there was complaining that there was like no third party verification, like there were no photos, there were no contractors, or different things being provided in the public filing. So it appeared as if you had no paying customers at scale and no visible deployment or like actual footprint of the company. So when you said to people that bring that up, because that's not true.

51:11And I contacted up people with the watchdog article and I provided all proof and verification that I have been sending updates that I did have pictures, that I did have those things in the filing. And they said, they're like a clickbait kind of website because they said we don't talk to founders, we don't give you a chance to tell your child of the story and we go off of investors. And there was like three investors that, not to diminish them, I'm grateful for their investment, but no one invested over $500 in their complaining and said I stole their money when I have investors who literally put in a half a million. And they are understanding like, this is what happened with the company, we're still working on it, but the ones that maybe didn't have as much understanding of how the system works, they were saying, oh, you didn't update us, but I have a private Facebook group that I started in 2019. I have over 2800 investors in there and I send regular updates. I also have an email list of over 8600 investors that get an email from me. But 2000 unsubscribed. So I'm like, okay, of my 10,000 plus investors,

52:12some of you guys aren't getting updates. Some of you guys may legitimately feel that you don't know what's going on, but it's out there. We have a group, I have a private of YouTube page, where I do live town halls and let them ask me questions. So all this is documented. I share this with the WatchTalk article, but. You said something that's interesting, right? Because you know, like you said, 10,000 everyday people did invest in popcorn. And you take money from just, I guess, regular everyday people as a poll, the venture capitalists, do you believe you owe them a different level of accountability? Absolutely. And that's why I send these updates. That's why I get on these platforms, like now explaining. That's why I wrote a whole response. It's on my sub-stack and pulled documents and showed everything as evidence to show them that, you know, I was a good steward and I am a good steward of their capital. Did things go different than I planned? Yes. You know, what I do some things a little bit differently, especially when it comes to my staffing, yes. But was anything done illegally, fraudulent or misleading?

53:14No. But the expectation of a return in even two to five years, it just wasn't realistic. But I do have a responsibility. So I try to do as much as I can to educate them, but if I can't force them to read these things, at least once a year I send a whole breakdown of like where the businesses at, explaining their stocks and their shares. And even yesterday on my IG live, somebody got in my IG live and said, so where's my shares in pop-com? It's like I can't do enough. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you know, let's say, I didn't know we was gonna get right to it. I was trying to ease into it before I knew it. She said so, they told me that you was a fraud. You're right. And you can't break it. Now we didn't go out. I'm like, I'm not an unshovened guy. I'm not going to have to worry about this. I'm not going to show to ask you. But also I think it's a thing of two is like, when you're a woman in text space and especially a black woman in a text space, it's a lot of things that like, I remember hearing your story and it was like, she raised this money and like, it was exciting to hear. And I know even what you did right, what you did wrong, you know, whatever. If you're in that space and you are like, figuring out and trying to turn the light on,

54:15trying to reach that light switch, there's a lot that you're gonna learn. And I think that it's something that like, people don't want to admit when it happens. If things do happen. But the criticism is valid. And I think the thing that sounds the worst is when you think about, oh, how much was it at six points? From the public six million and from overall seven point three. Okay, but then it is to that, that watch the report Lawrence reading, there is a 2003 filing that shows zero dollars in revenue, zero dollars in cash and only $750 in total assets. When somebody hears those numbers, what aren't they understanding about where that money went? That was, that is a mistake. That is wrong. Those, those filings are incorrect and they're being updated right now. I will take four responsibilities for that. Those filings got put in in 2025 when I went to refile to be able to relaunch the company. I decided to relaunch because so many brands are reaching out to me. I said, okay, it's time to relaunch. I'm just hurriedly trying to relaunch. So I'm pulling financials and pulling files from 2022 and 2030, given them to these guys to do an audit, I will take responsibility that I overlooked

55:15that the balance sheet was wrong. The balance sheet is where all the business lies. That is my fault. I'm just moving too fast. Nobody caught it either. The crowdfunding platform didn't catch it. The accountants didn't catch it. I didn't catch it because there's so many movement parts. We just, we just didn't put the right balance sheet on there. The assets are over a hundred thousand. That's going to be refiled as happening right now. The revenue is negative. We are in the red as a company that's been in business. What is seven years at this point, we had not broke even for cash flow for us to have positive on the balance sheet. So there's going to show negative cash flow, but there's positive assets. The software still in GitHub is protected. All of the machines we built, which our assets are still stored and they're safe. But guess the SEC documents do look bad. It does look bad and it's getting fixed. Why do you think people connected those things in the first place? Like was there a transparency problem that allowed that situation? But if they don't check the emails and read the pop-com investor, Facebook group,

56:15they don't know what's going on. And it could look like to the public that, that's exactly what happened because I never told the story. I'm first of all very private about these things. And second, it's hard to process. Like it could be embarrassing. It could be like, what did I do wrong? It could be like, you know, I'm a big success story. I'm on this show. I'm on cover for magazines. I'm in ink and all these, and then it's like, oh, now it's shut down so quick. I had to process that. So maybe I wasn't being as transparent to the public, but I was transparent to my investors. They knew if they don't read the updates, I can't force them, but I never, ever was quiet on them. I always told them everything that I was doing. So I'm actually, I feel that the investigation was a blessing because during that time from 2020 to 2023, a lot of us got rich. You know, I got a lot of money from online something. Selling something online, of course, having a company invested in and raising money, in which, by the way, I want to say, raising money is not what is important. It's making money. I was raising money to get to revenue.

57:16I'm not raising money to just say I raised all this money. You gotta give it back. So it's not like, I'm a success because I raised money, but it's because I built something. But at this time, a lot of us were just getting money, and a lot of people were scamming and getting scam. A lot of things happened. Now we're seeing this. And I appreciate that I got investigated. They find truth, combed forensically searched to the penny, everything that I did. It was very challenging, but I saved all my records. And I was cleared of everything. And that is a blessing because I now can stand on something. Like, hey, yeah, it does, it does look crazy. It could look crazy that you raised $7 million in the business out of business. And all these people are like, what happened? And you're like, okay, where's all the money? But they, I had to account for every penny of that money. Because this is a serious business. Taking people's money under the SEC, you know what, we've seen people go to jail for the past couple of years. And they loved the block of work. We've seen it. So it's like, hey, investigate me. Yes, yes.

58:17Show, let me show you all of my, all of my, everything. And that's what we really found. What happened? The balance sheet from 2023, there was no depreciation recorded over the years. The balance sheet from 2022 and 23rd, three didn't get translated to 2025 for the filings and it set zero. They didn't pull over the numbers. And it looked crazy. There's going to be a lot of crowd people that participated in the crowd funding. And they're going to be like, well, you're saying, you know, we shouldn't have had to say, because we don't know business, but then we'll say, you didn't even know how to file our paperwork. So maybe you don't know business. Yeah, well, maybe I didn't know that and I learned now. I don't know everything. I'm not going to pretend that I do. Had I ever been, had I ever done SCC filings before 2020? No. Had I ever been audited before 2022? No. A lot of things I've never done in my life. You know, have I ever handled this much cash from investors, never in my life? Am I 25 years of entrepreneurship? I never done this things before. So I learned. It's overwhelming. It's so many things to learn. I'm in charge of everything. At the end of the day, it's all on me.

59:17Everything's on me. Taking a trash out on me and getting the code lives on me. And I, you know, you worked with our salary, right? I worked for our salary from 2022 until we start. I just stopped giving myself a salary so I could preserve cash because luckily, I have multiple streams of income. I make good investments. I also make great money speaking at other things. So I said, listen, there's no need for me to keep taking money. I have a popcorn for a salary. I don't have to have it. And as a shareholder, I'll get my money on the back end when I sell the business. I'm not, it's fine. So I just was able to prolong us not shutting down. I was just using my salary to pay other things which a lot of us do. And another thing that I had to do was be a personal guarantor for so many things for popcorn. You know, I had to... You wanted the personal debt too. Oh, everybody suit me. Oh, wow. Oh, yeah, I went into this, oh, you know, credit 800. Commodity credit 500 because they suit me for everything. You know, and that's another big thing

1:00:17that we realize. Yeah, like when you're a CEO of a company and you're going out and getting your lines of credit, getting an office building, getting all these things, I'm signing my name next to it. Because I'm CEO. Even though I'm not even the majority shareholder because I have all these investors now and I only own like 30%. It's a big company now. It's still on me. So when popcorn had to suddenly leave our office, who got sued for two years rent? Me. When popcorn couldn't pay the cash flow American Express because, you know, we're doing the thing. Using American Express to run through all of our bills through it and then getting the points and using that for, you know, we had the game down. Everybody would play in the game. What happened when you don't pay that bill? They sued me. SBA loan from PayTech Protection. They sued me. Like me, myself. And so that's something people don't realize as well. When you're doing these businesses, and I even thought I'm independent of the business. I'm the CEO, but I'm not responsible for this debt.

1:01:20When the company shut down, they get looking for somebody. All people want to know is you're not a scammer. Yeah, exactly. So how do you separate your intentions from your results? Because I'm listening. I'm like, I don't think you're intentional with the try to get over on people. Yeah, and I didn't get over on anybody. You know, I even sold $50,000 of my crypto in 2020, what, 2022, and put it into the business to keep the business going. I mean, that's a joke. I wouldn't do that. Yes, I'm investment. I have paid all the pop-coms bills since 2023 myself. Important context. Yeah, I've paid the storage bills. I've paid the server bills. I've paid all of the G Suite bills to keep all of our documents stored. I've paid the bills to store the documents in a drop box. That's a bill. I pay Google to store all of our files. I pay that out of my pocket. A scammer would have took their money and went. But I believe in this business, and it's a great business. It's a great product, and people still want it. And I did everything I said I was going to do with the money, but we didn't go to the next step, because we still were going.

1:02:23I did not consider how expensive it was going to be to launch that pop shop local program. I didn't budget for it. This is what happened. We didn't budget. It cost us $100,000 that we never planned to spend. And that's what really took it over there. How is Dawn the person right now? Dawn the person. Coming up out of all of that. Obviously, because you're getting back out here. Yeah. This is my first time out here. Yeah. So how? That's a lot to have that. It's a lot especially when getting called a scammer. It was hard for me, because I never experienced anything like that. I knew that when I opened up my company to let everybody invest, my intentions were so pure. Like now my people can invest. My community can invest. I was so excited on this show talking about how we can create wealth together. So I was hurt to let them down. That hurt me so deep. Because I'm like, we get so disappointed in our community.

1:03:23We always let each other down. We can't trust each other. I don't want to be another person where they like, see I get every money and I can't trust her. But I'm also a public lesson. So I'm like, OK, I put myself out there. And now they can see what this process looks like. And I just continue to tell the story and tell the truth. Dawn, the person is good. Now that I've been investigated and cleared by, like, I know you can't say I didn't have the wrong because I know I didn't. You know, like even me, I did things wrong. I was sad that things were wrong as far as I could have made better hearts and better decisions. But as far as fiscally, as far as legally, as far as anything that could be in the scam, adjacent category, no. But did things go left at times? Yes. So me, after now four years of this, I feel great. Yeah, I feel good. I feel really positive and optimistic also because I was kind of nervous. Like, what if I can't bring this back? But the fact that customers still want it, I just was ahead of my time.

1:04:24So I feel really encouraged. And then the fact that like, honestly, God just gave me this amazing business in Ghana to let me be able to support myself more, to pay popcorn bills. You know, I'm just grateful that life goes on. And I also have so many other streams of income that I built for myself over the years that I'm not defined by one thing. I mean, I listen, I don't have no reason not to believe it. But people will say, well, how do you afford to move the Ghana in? How did you afford, how are you affording the land if all the money is gone? It's unfortunate because popcorn money is gone, but not Dondex and money. I'm a 47 year old adult that's been working since I was 20 years old. I made good investment decisions. I save money. I also get six figures a year from speaking and doing influence to work for tech products. Like, people just, I don't talk too much about that. I also have other businesses. I have my real estate business in Ghana, which is under my D1 consulting. So I've had D1 consultants since 2005. It's been my own personal business.

1:05:26And I've been generating money for that for years. That's how I could afford to stop paying myself a salary for popcorn. So I think the lesson is also have multiple strings of income and build them over time. Plan for, you know, I have a daughter. She was in college. I could not go broke. I have to support her. So knowing this, I've been investing. I got my first whole life policy when she was a baby. If anybody knows about whole life insurance, it gains cash value over years. My daughter's 22. So if nothing else, that's one place where the money's at. So it's just that I didn't need to use popcorn money to make money. I make money myself. Yeah. Well, it's Don Dixon. If people want to complain to you directly, who today? What did they do, Doc? Hey, we need to go to the website. Don't follow my Instagram. You know, popcom.com.ai is still a business is there. Don Dixon. Not me. Come find me. And Don at popcom.shop. Email me investors. If y'all think you haven't heard from me in years, that's my email.

1:06:26I just want to say too, you getting back on the horse, like, is I commend you for that. Cause I watched a couple of businesses last year. Take a break because they couldn't scale. And I know that your lives will be tied to your businesses. So I wish you the best of luck. And what you're trying to figure out in this new world. I'm just going to do what you're not. It's not. It is not. It is not at all. Well, thank you, Don. Thanks for having me. I just appreciate the opportunity to just clear the air too, y'all. Cause y'all put me out there. So at least, oh, it's it. Even your audience will be like, Hey, this will happen. You're showing up as first. Yeah, some people need to show up to do that. I'm here. And I'm open. You got my email. So hit me up. Absolutely. It's Don Dixon, it's the breakfast club. By age, a rather than or so, at least 70% have a phone. Middle school is a different world than the one we grew up in. I'm Dr. Joy and this is therapy for black girls. We spent real time on it in our surviving middle school run, bringing in a child psychologist and a psychiatrist who's raising two black girls of his own to talk about what's really going on with our kids right now. So it's literally physiological and neurological, psychological chaos happening all this

1:07:28end up. We got into group chats and gaming, friendship and bullying and how to tell the difference between healthy monitoring and the kind of surveillance that a road's trust. You're belonging. You could think of belonging as I can be myself and I can still be accepted. And then they're fitting in. Fitting in says I have to change who I am in order to avoid rejection. Then we turn the conversation toward the fathers, sitting down with therapists, cure gains on black fatherhood and what it means to raise a daughter through this stage. You don't have more shorts so you can't do flips, you have on the dress here, across your legs. That's the range of this run, from screen time to identity to the fathers doing the work at home. You have to get off her device. But the reality is there's a lot of life out there that we don't want you as your adults in the life to miss out on. This has been our surviving middle school run. Brought to you by the people who spend their careers thinking about exactly this. I'm Dr. Joy. Listen to therapy for black girls on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast.

1:08:29Self-care September is here, which means it's time to rethink what self-care actually means. Yes, self-care can be a long walk. It can be in everything shower. It can be putting your phone on, do not disturb. But sometimes it's actually about sitting with the uncomfortable stuff and understanding your patterns, your boundaries. And finally, figuring out why you keep doing things that you swore you would never do again. I'm Gemma Speg, the host of the Psychology of your 20s podcast. And each week we unpack the psychology behind the experiences that shape your 20s, from relationships and friendships to money, anxiety, confidence, attachment, just becoming more comfortable with who you are. Unlike the quarter life crisis which is depicted as the collapse, the quarter life reinvention is the expansion and growth of something. And we develop the ability to be happy by ourselves. Nobody else can take that from you. So this self-care September, don't just take care of yourself, get to know yourself as well. Listen to the psychology of your 20s on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:09:30When I was 14 years old, I was kidnapped and health captive for 9 months. I survived and I've spent my life exploring how other people survive what should have destroyed them. I'm Elizabeth Smart and these are the survivor files. You just remember this low taunting voice next to my ear saying, shut up, don't say anything. Every week I'm with survivors who lived through the unthinkable. I knew if he woke up, without a doubt he was going to hurt me. I started feeling that there was someone at the end of my bed and I just started screaming. They are abducted, stalked, controlled and nearly silenced. But these aren't stories about what's taken from them. Their story is about what it takes to make it out alive. Listen to the survivor files with Elizabeth Smart on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. On the new podcast, Solita, we share the messy reality of traveling alone as a woman.

1:10:35I can wait 4 hours for the next bus or this random dude is offering me a ride on his motorcycle. I choose option B. I'm Julie Beniero and I travel by myself because it's a rare space where I can say yes without asking anyone else first. I'm on a mission to reclaim the word Solita, trading the pity for possibility. Every time I tried to be alone, I kept meeting people and they were like, you smiled at us, not a lot of people smile around here. It's when you're alone that you're most receptive to the world as it is and not the lies you're sold about it. It can be a time where you push your limits, change your mind or wake up to a new version of yourself. So whether you're a solo travel veteran or you're too nervous to book your first trip, I hope you listen to Solita on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Good morning everybody. We are the Breakfast Club. Let's get to the latest with Lauren. Lauren become a straight face.

1:11:35She gets to do somebody to get noticed. She gets to detail. I'm a home girl that knows a little bit about everything. She be having the latest on her. The latest with Lauren La Rosa. Sometimes you have facts, sometimes you have details, sometimes you have a little bit everything. Well, it's the latest. All right. All right. Now let's head on over to Chicago because last night Kanye West kicked off his homecoming concerts there. And they called it in a homecoming because Kanye hasn't performed in Chicago since 2021. I heard it. There was a heat wave. But the people did not care. They were in line for hours waiting to get into this concert. He sold out the first night, also sold out tonight. That's over 70,000 people. And he said 72,000. They said yes. He's been doing big numbers. New Orleans was big as well too. It was like 63 to 65,000 people sold out as well. But this is big because it's Chicago. It's home. But a surprise, a big surprise happened when Kanye West brought out big shine in two chains to do click. Let's take a listen to Big Sean on click.

1:12:36I love to see that because you know of all the probably issues that Big Sean and Kanye had. Remember Kanye crashed out on Sean on drink champs? Yes. Sean went on drink chance and replied. Yes. I love to see them, you know, reconcile. Yes. And don't think I was saying why I don't remember that. That was huge. It was huge. I think he said Sean was was like or something like that. He said he should have never signed him. Right. He was upset. He said that Big Sean and John Legend cited against him when he was on his whole little political running that that that was some sell out ish. Oh, and also to two now. The money. The biggest thing. Yeah. Big Sean said Kanye with him like six million dollars. Yeah. There was money business as well. But it was big Sean said he worked it out though right? He said he got some of it because they did say he worked it out. I'm sure. I'm not sure I'm going to post it as you. You almost say. Right. I'm sure they reconcile. Well, I'm going to come to collect. Well, big Sean. Finally. Big Sean also briefly gave Kanye a bit of flowers which I thought was fired at here too.

1:13:36Let's take a listen to that. Sean said I'm a love you fan. Yeah, I love you. I appreciate you. Yeah. I will say this though and I don't want to compare. But how I felt about when Jay Z did those content and how New York was so excited and everybody was out and about talking about it. That's how Chicago is. I'm in Chicago now. And all day yesterday people were super duper excited. People were flying in the airports were packed. I ran into two chains yesterday. Two chains says to loot and vergo season. But yeah, people were very excited that he was saying it was called the huge home company sold out two shows. So Chicago's excited. Super duper excited about that. No, the thing I'm gay, West. The other thing I'm happy about clearly Kanye West has been doing some type of work on himself because they haven't been no mental, you know, emotional outbursts we've seen in a while. Clearly clearly he's in a good head space. And I think that's the most important thing. I hope he stays there. Yes. Yeah. And the shout out to everybody that took the stage with him. Like I said, Twista, two chains, future came out as well.

1:14:37Future was there. Yeah. Big show. She said, and I go everywhere. Everywhere. Yeah. Now shifting gears a bit, but still talking music, Mary J. Blige. So you guys remember we talked about this. So no commercial. And I told you all the people were getting upset at Mary J. Blige because it appears in the current and it appears in the commercial. She is down with AI and the use of AI to create music. Let's take a listen to the original commercial because now it's being pulled. Let's take a listen to the tool that a eyes your voice. I'm going to be when you are by. It's crazy. You like it? It's dope. I just process because I don't know what the hell you're talking about. Yeah. So I like to learn what you're talking about. Now I was like, ah, okay, this is pretty dope. We could play with it more and learn more of everything that's pretty dope. For sure. Yeah. Now is being pulled for several reasons.

1:15:37Number one, so there was a statement that was issued. And in the statement, they make it clear that Mary J. Blige did not approve this at all, like this endorsement. They also say that so no, the company, the reason why this was even put out was because they went into a deal with the representative that they then found out was not an official representative for Mary J. Blige. They also mentioned that she was uncomfortable. And when they found out that she was uncomfortable with this whole thing, they are deciding to pull it. It don't seem like a commercial when you hear it. It seemed like somebody was recording behind the scenes footage and they used the full commercial. It doesn't seem like a commercial commercial. But it just seems like it's Mary J. Blige. Like if a company's that big, there's no way they would put that out without some type of permission or somebody signing off. But it doesn't seem like a commercial, like I said, it seemed like they had a camera behind the scenes and they were just filming as they were talking. But I mean, the company ran it. Like it was on their Facebook, it was on their social handles. So even if it is just behind the scenes nowadays, you don't need much to advertise something across social media. It worked. Like people, I mean, it didn't work well for her, but it got some traction to the company

1:16:38people looked into what it was. So I know one thing. If it is a real commercial, I'm so sick of y'all coming at Mary and her commercials. Mary can't do nothing. They don't even do without y'all being mad. Mary wanted to sing about chicken. Y'all got backlash. Mary and AI commercial, y'all got backlash. Can Mary get some endorsement money? Huh? She's one-todd. That's why she'd be on that stage. You know, barely long to sing for y'all. Because she got to do that because y'all want to let her make no extra money. Okay. Sick of this. Have Mary not earned the right? She has. I want to chicken red right now. Because I'm saying we got the commercial. No, don't you? Don't play that commercial. She don't like what you're doing. I always, first of all, y'all made me play the very first time when we talked about what were we talking about? I never made you play that Mary. We didn't play it. We didn't play it. When he first talked about what she said down with Sky Evans, I think. No, she brought it up. She brought it up. And they were pissed. They were like, why would y'all play that commercial? She y'all know she hates it. She hates it. She said it did not turn out the way that it was intended. It was not created. You was up there dancing. Took my week. Because I liked the commercial. It commercial. Like she was having fun.

1:17:38We all know. Well, listen, that commercial with Sono is not it's not approved. They're pulling it. Now we move on. Let Mary J. Blasphigree. Yes. Now that was the latest for the hour. It was brought to you guys by Top Dog Law. Any, wait, no, that's not the right one. They have won over a billion dollars for the client. So you guys get an accident called Top Dog Law. Their bark is their bite. The fact that you're not even reading this all paper. The fact that you just got these go up your head. Top Dog Law has none of the number on you, man. Speaking of commercial. That's right. That was crazy. Now let's jump in the Shullamans donkey. All right. Oh, slide on it. Before I have to do it, man, it's the people's donkey. OK, 1-800-585-105, man. Everybody get in. You can call up and do somebody else. Come in, they deserve for being stupid. OK, it's the world's most dangerous morning show the graphic club. It's your time to nominate a donkey of your own. Remember now, that's how they choose. Call in now, 800-585-1051. Donkey of the day for Friday, September 4th,

1:18:39Beyonce's, Born Day is the people's donkey. That's when we allow you to people to call in and give somebody the credit they deserve for being stupid. So 1-800-585-1051. Good morning. Who's this? Hey, this is JB. How you all doing? What's up, JB? How are you? Good. Who do you want to get the biggest e-haw, too, JB? Given the biggest donkey of the day, it's Johnny. Right. Who's Johnny? We're friends, but somebody, you know that I'm cool with. Doing a wit, whatever. Where are you from? Atlanta. You let him hit raw. And he ain't called you since. What happened? Oh, my God. I don't know that. I don't know that. But I know that's what happened. Now, that's not the case. He just planned, planned credit games and too much, doing too much. Now you're a cracker. He wasn't a cracker when you were butt-knuckin' and you were butt-knuckin' with him on top of you. Breathein' hard. Now you're a cracker. Johnny, no, no. This is not right. I mean, he's a fool. OK. What happened? What do you do to you? He says, no, never want to tell the truth.

1:19:43He's playing with bombs. Like, I'm about to get my degree class of 2027. And you know, we just hit it don't get it. So, sorry, bro. Take play with bombs. No. No playing with bombs. With bombs? You. Yeah, bombs. Oh, bombs, bombs, bombs, bombs, bombs, bombs. So you're not his only woman. You want to be his only woman, but you're not. And no, it's not even, and no, I don't even want to be the only one. I'm just this bad. I did what I needed to do. I'm just a bad guy. What did you need? Tell me what you needed to do. To me, right. I'm gonna give you a hand. I'm class of 2027, graduated from Georgia State. Get in my bachelor's, though. You know what time it is, Charlie Mayne? I know. I'm happy for you and I'm glad you graduated. Thank you. You are super successful. Boy, you gonna miss that man making your toes, girl. And it's okay. It's okay. I know what you're doing right now. You just trying to get it out your system. And it's okay. I'm here for you. I'm here for you to allow you to vent. I get it. I don't sleep. I mean, no, I'm good. I promise you I'm good. I'm good.

1:20:43All right. I believe you. All right. Thank you. Good morning. Who's this? Lala. Hey, Lala. Hey. Okay. So I've been trying to get on for a long time. Right. Let me tell you. I want to give my bed. Um, dance with the mess. Table. Okay. So I want to get my baby, baby. Don't get the other day. Oh, how many baby daddy's you got? One. Okay. You say daddy's. I didn't know. What's his name? His name is Ricky. Ricky. He working at home. And Miami. Oh, damn. Let me tell you what he did. So he started talking to this young girl. They called my pet a five-mile. Well, no, I come on now. No, girl. Let me tell you. So you just want to get on with the baby. I'm going to get on with the baby. I'm going to get on with the baby. I'm going to get on with the baby. The young girl signed the talk to his son. Both his parents. Both of his parents. So he ended up in guess what? The girl was his daughter free. He kicked his daughter out just so the girl in her daughter get moving. How old is Ricky? I'm a friend. Ricky is 45 years old.

1:21:44How old is the girl? Um, already 20. How y'all calling the man a pet a five? I don't know. I mean, she is young. That is crazy. I don't agree with the age difference. But you're not a pet a five. She's not on day. He knows that he can keep 45 years old. And don't say nobody over 21. Mom, what do you want? He's a pet a five. That was his daughter friend. Like they asked me to come out together. His daughter was going to fight her because she started dating his daddy. Very uncouth. Very uncouth. I wouldn't encourage no older man to do that. But you're not a pet a five. Like the moment that's the point. Let me tell you why he gets something to do today. OK. So he has a son with me. My son is 12 years old now. He was not doing anything for my son. Nothing. And I never actually asked him for money in my hand. I just tell him to do for my son. He stopped doing for my son right. Because I put him on child support. Child support was $4.29. That's $4.29. $2.29. Once the child was $4.29, he said he's no longer

1:22:47wants to do for my son. The school principal called him and he told the principal what you call a people. Hey, that's $2.29. Since broken man, that $2.29. That's $4.29. $4.29. $4.29. When there was his time to get my son, because he had a court order, when there was his time to get my son, guess what he did? What do you do? He called the police. He called the police on his 12 year old son and called the police that he don't want him. Hey. The **** of pieces. Damn. Damn. He got what? He ride around the hood. He ride around the hood on the little mouth pad. It's going to mouth pad. Damn. Damn. And still with everybody, like when everybody asked for his son, because he's 12, he stopped being in his son's life at seven years old. OK. So when everybody asked for his son, he said everybody that I don't allow him to see the son. When we went back to the court for touch for, he told the judge that I don't let him see the son. But every time it's talking to him to get the baby, he

1:23:48called the police. He listened. He told the girlfriend daughter to be in the world for his son for her birthday, which is his stepdaughter. That's what he did for his son. Nothing. It is all that they have had before they did. It is nothing. Nothing, nothing. I tried to put him in the Mimey times as a baby, but they weren't that. Well, thank you for calling, ma'am. I hope that y'all figure out. I hope y'all work it out at least for the young man. You know what I mean? I'm getting my butt. I'm going to get it out. He every time he see him or he is talking to get him, he called the police for him. There's no work it out. Well, maybe I need to meet your son because I need to know why he can keep getting the police called on him every time he come around. He went out and pulled the boy. How long is his dreadlocks? He got a mouth full of gold. I'm going to try to wait. He only has 10. She said he 10. 12, 12, 12. Don't do that. Don't do that. He only has a little chance. He's not even a dad. He's so good. OK, I'm just saying. You know, ma'am. Don't get to his son. Don't get kicked out and never win to the jack. That's what I'm talking about.

1:24:50That's what I'm talking about. He need to treat his little jit better, man. Exactly. He's a piece of ****. He's a pedophile. So, as all the misunderstood is, everybody know that Ricky **** is a pedophile. And he's a piece of **** don't take your head off. You have to stop saying that because that's defamation. You can't say that. But do you see him riding in the hood on the moped? A little moped. A little moped. He was old and he was already in his state 30. He what? He did what now? That's you. I was 20 years old and he was already in his state 30. That don't make you a pedophile. If you was late, you said you were in your 20s. Pedophile is on the 16 and I don't believe. Huh? Would you talk to your daughter? Hell no, but that'll make it. But I'm. He's what we shall listen. He's legally not a pedophile. But it's still big. More than that horrible. Yes. Salamay, one more question. Yes, ma'am. What you think about one million? You be going to the Super Bowl, baby. Cowboys going to the Super Bowl.

1:25:51Let's go. Yes, yes. We need that. We need that. I was with her. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you. Here's the thing. This is what we forgot just now. We was talking to somebody from Florida. OK, the craziest people in America come from the Bronx and all of Florida. I don't even know why we even tried to engage with her with any rationality or any type of logic. Right. You got to let people from Florida just cook. OK. I thought maybe she ain't know that though. Like that's why you was trying to teach her, but she was just so mad at her. I know. I know he's so mad. He had to tell us that he'd be riding around in the hood on the moped. And then the dude would do it. But I know he's so mad. He could be riding around on his good tummy. He's calling me a pedophile. Jesus Christ. All right. Oh, my God. Look at that pedaling pedophile. Oh, man. God damn. On the moped. Damn. Oh, my God, man. We do that every Friday. The people's donkey 1-800-585-1051. You can call up and give anybody you want the credit they deserve

1:26:54for being stupid. Morning, everybody. It's DJ NV Jessalariah. She'll remain the guy. We are the breakfast club on the roses here as well. We got a special guest in the building. You know him as one of the biggest independent artists out. If not the biggest, but now he's about to be a movie star. Come on. Russ, what's up, my brother? What up, man? I mean, it's like a whole career building a system where you're at a boss. So what's it like walking on a movie set where nobody gives a damn that you rest? Okay. You got a character. You got a hurry up and wait. You got to hit line. Somebody else wrote it. You got to surrender complete control. Surprisingly, it was one of the most just fulfilling experiences. Because of all those things you said, like, it wasn't all on me. You know what I mean? I got to finally sort of just show up on X-Mark's spot and just do your part. And everyone else is handling like the logistics and it was nice, man. And just to be part of a community, it gave me such a contrast with my music career. And it made me realize how lonely my music career has been.

1:27:54And just how like isolated I've been in my music career. And it was man, I was sending voice memos at the end of it, like ball in my eyes out to the director and the cast. Some people responded. Some people did not. But. Interesting. Yeah. So do you feel isolated as an artist? Well, yeah, you got to think, right? It's like I go downstairs in my house, in my studio and sit there by myself and make a lot of songs. And it's awesome. And I love it. Granite, like earlier on, I was maybe, you know, in the studio with more people. Because my boy, Boogey, it was in his house. But for the most part of the last five, six years, it's just been me, Dolo, in the basement, in the studio. And it's been great. But going on a movie set, it's, you know, 100 people. And we're all like here to do this one thing. That's the community. Yeah, it was so incredible. Because you just, you know, you're not by yourself in this thing. Yeah. It's not just you going through what you're going through. You guys are all kind of going through the same quote unquote struggle. It was just so beautiful. A lot of support. Yeah. And I was like, wow, I need to create this in my music career. And why I wanted to, it's you being independent cause there.

1:28:55Like, you know, you see a lot of you guys that sign the majors. It seems like it's a lot of camaraderie. Like maybe because you're independent, they like, you know what? Let's keep him over there. Because no, it was personal choice. Okay. Yeah. It was user error. Like a mo, no, it was just. Oh, yeah. No, it was just what it was was. Well, I don't need anyone to make a song. So I'll just make the songs by myself. You know what I mean? I didn't understand the value really of collaboration, I guess, in a sense. Like it's not that I haven't collaborated with people. But a studio session to me is so spiritual and private and vulnerable. I love that I don't want people around. Like don't watch me while I'm recording. Like, you know what I mean? You know what I mean? So for me, that was kind of the mindset. But after doing the movie, I'm way more open to, you know, getting into studio with people and just having fun doing and trying to make one thing with a bunch of people. Why have you named the elephant and the rider? So it comes from this psychology term, the elephant and the rider. I got introduced to a VIP therapy. And I don't know if you guys are familiar with it, but it's incredible, man.

1:29:57It just like kind of just explains the relationship between your conscious system, which is the rider, kind of like your brain, and then your automatic system, the elephant. Is that when you chain the elephant? When the elephant was chained? I don't know, I don't think so. But it's basically like the world teaches the elephant, the elephant adapts, and then the rider inherits the consequences. You know what I mean? So for me, an example is like, okay, well, earlier on in my childhood, my system learned to like scan for threats and watch everything super closely. And you know, because it's like, we need to be aware of any trouble that's on the way in order to feel safe. But like 30 years later, the rider in my adult brain is like, why can't you relax? And the elephant is like, because I'm doing the job that you needed me to do all those years ago. So it's like the goal to me is integration. It's not like control. It's not, you know, your brain or the rider telling the elephant, do as I say,

1:30:59it's more so understanding like, okay, what is happening right now? And is this from before or is it right now? You know what I mean? If what I'm feeling is actually just decades old of information, then I need to understand that instead of like running around in present day time, trying to make sense of what my body is feeling when my body is really reacting to something from 30 years ago. It's thinking that that's happening right now. It's like a people do a traumatic experience. Yeah, it's a matter of your body. It's interesting here. You said that because I've watched a lot of your interviews where you talk about like your process with music and just throwing things out there and almost not needing approval by people, just letting things just do what it wants to do. It sounds like you're almost working backwards from that now and kind of releasing control a little bit. Even though you've always seemed a little free, it seems like a different era of like, you're kind of open a little bit more. Well, I think I'm confronting things I never was willing to confront. And I think to be honest, I think as much as I wanted to believe I wasn't chasing the approval of people, I was.

1:32:00I kind of grew up with my dad being the authority. And then I outsourced the authority to the public. Oh wow, okay. You know what I mean? I can see that. You cared about what your dad thought. Right. You cared about what the public think. Well, and I was scared of getting in trouble with my dad. Scared of making a mistake to my dad. Now I'm scared of making a mistake to the public and getting in trouble by the public. Like, it's like I've made the public the authority, which makes sense because as a musician you do unfortunately, like from an economic standpoint, live and die by do people like you or not. Yeah, validation. You know what I mean? Like, I've always said with sports, it's so finite. It's like, you can hate that NBA player. But if he averages 20 and 10. You can't see it. It doesn't. It doesn't not. He's still going to still going to get a job. You know what I mean? You're not affecting his finances. But as a musician or public figure, it's like, if the public says we don't like you, it's kind of gets a little sketchy. Yeah.

1:33:00What did acting expose that music allowed you to hide? Hmm. Wow. Acting requires you to have immediate access to things that you're not immediately feeling. You know what I mean? With music, I'm only going to record this emotional song because I'm experiencing these emotions right now. So I'm not like trying to perform it. Acting is like, be sad now. It's like, um, to answer your question, it required me to have more empathy because I had to have empathy for what the character was going through. It didn't matter if I, Russell Vitale was scared in the moments like the character and how can you empathize with where the character is in his story and all that. So all the acting class I was taking, they were just emphasizing empathy is a huge, huge part of it. What shocked you the most about yourself in this role? I went in there so nervous, so nervous. That wasn't what shocked me because I was so nervous. I didn't think I was going to do that great. And as we kept filming, I felt like I did pretty well, especially there was just, there

1:34:03was moments on set where I was like, I know I killed that. And I remember just being so nervous and talking with my therapist about it. And I would like, this is what I do. I don't know if anyone else does this, but I would oscillate between two extremes of I have to be perfect and kill it. And like, oh my God, and start to spiral. And then why don't I even care about this anyway? You know, I mean, yeah, it's like, how about the next one? When daddy used to always say to me, growing up, you're never as good as they are. You're never as good as they say you are and you're never as bad as they say you are. And that's always kept me in that great area. I can't operate with extremes. You know what helped me so going into it, my therapist was like, how about going into it as a beginner? The truth. And I was like, oh, I didn't realize that that was accessible. Yeah. You know what I mean? Because it was like, oh wow, they're not expecting me to come on set and be Brad Pitt. They know this is my first role, but I'm going in there with those expectations of myself just because of who I am and how I'm wired. So when I walked in as like, okay, I am a beginner, ask questions, own it, and do your best

1:35:08every time and take it serious and honor the opportunity, meaning take the acting classes. Stay reading the script. Don't mess your lines up and like, I was dialed in. I was super, super dialed in. I took it serious. I honored the craft of it and the respect of it. And I didn't want to like be the guy there who's just trying to wing it and like, of course you're a wing and a because you're not even really an actor. I was like, no, I really took it serious, but I think going into it with that beginner mindset allowed me to be a sponge and it also allowed me to, you know, a little bit more liberty to make mistakes. Do you remember that period when it felt like the internet genuinely enjoyed what you did? Yeah. They did not lay with that entire Russ camp. My boy was just telling me like, I think it was 2018. He reminded me. He was like, there was a list that came out. I don't remember the list, but he was telling me yesterday. I've most hated people in the world. And it was like an end of your list. Trump was number one. I think Logan Paul was number two for like the forest thing and then me and then Kim

1:36:09John and then Kim. I think KD was number three because he went to the Warriors and then me and then Kim John. It's like what? It's nuts, but I remember that time vividly, vividly. What part of that criticism was unfair? And what part did you eventually realize? You know what I might have earned it? The delivery of my message was harsh, but I stand by my message. I was just calling out glorification of substance abuse. That was a crazy time in rap where it was just like, it felt like everyone was glorifying just hard drugs and being on them. You know what I mean? You completely won that argument. I understand. You look back at hindsight and look at all the people we've lost. You completely won that argument. Because that shouldn't be, it wasn't meant to be the thing. Again, me and my friends always talk about it. It's like, you know there's something backwards going on in society. If you come out and say like, stop doing all these drugs and promoting them and you're at the back. Like, I'm s***. It's like, got it. Okay. But again, to me, that was counterculture.

1:37:11Culture was not trying to hear that. It was counterculture to come out and be like, Xanax and Lean is done and you guys were losers. I was really talking to white kids too. Because I was that young white kid who wanted to try Lean because I heard it in a rap song. I was talking to them because I grew up with them. I'm like, you guys are losers. I know because I was one. I think we don't put you in the white rabbit category. They don't think that I'm white. You don't do a rough white? I do. No, I don't think so. I had to look up like, because you're like a Italian assistant. I had to look at that because I was so, so like Italian assistant. Y'all are like off white. Y'all are like, you're seasoning. I'm not like Virginia white. But that's what made me look. I'm like, I'm white, but Virginia white. But you know what I'm talking about. It's kind of where he's white. And I was like, well, why? Where is the flavor he trying to f*** like? Where'd that come from? So I looked it up and I was like, oh, OK. Yeah, they don't put me in that strange level. That's definitely. Yeah. It's cool though. Yeah, I mean, just like in just in some gray area. Can you cook?

1:38:12No, not at all. Yeah, you white. Side dog joke. OK, I'm joking. I mean you can't cook. Yeah, he's a weak cook though. I can make a pasta. Yeah, he can. You're Italian? I mean, like he literally will like. Oh, you're supposed to say we get. Posses from scratch. Sure. Posses from scratch. OK. Yeah, you just. No. Rapping. I got money and got a chef. I know that's right. That's right. That's a f***ing pop out. So you still need people to doubt you, to motivate you? No. Not at all. No. That just doesn't even do anything for me anymore. I think, well, that's not true. That's not all the way true. I stranger's doubting me doesn't do anything for me. You know what I mean? But if there's people around me, there's any sort of betrayal in my life that feels like it's based in you not believing in me anymore, that feels more for sure. Yeah. When you feel like people who are around you, they just like, they all of a sudden take your association for granted. And it's clear it's because, oh, you don't believe in this anymore. That feels, that's a little bit more intimate. Is that healthy? No.

1:39:13No, no. Yeah. It's not healthy. But whatever. You get rid of those people. You start to say, you have kind of friends. I'm the **** out of here. Okay, cool. Yeah. You said you had no friends. You tried to find friends. Yeah. I said no. No, I got the same people. I was the same too. I feel like if this movie is successful, I see Russ starting to invest in film. I'm working on mine next. Oh ****. This was it. Like you're the biopic? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I know you see this part like the come up. So yeah. I don't know. Well, listen Russ, man. Always a pleasure. A new movie. Don't move inside. What's September 11th? September 11th. The end is nationwide. Yeah. Okay. Sluited it. Sluited the Murray. What's my guy name Murray? James Murray. Yeah. Yeah. My guy James Murray. And when the guy was coming elephant in the ride. I don't know. I thought it was dynamite. I realize it wasn't because it's just so much more going on internally than I anticipated. Here he is. Yeah.

1:40:13You unpacking a lot, man. Yeah. Well, you know, it's interesting. It's like Santiago was this excavation album. The start of it. And then wild my last one from last year was sort of this like reconciling with myself by saying, you know what? I understand I've been keeping myself locked in this cage because I'm scared of the unknown. Scared to get hit again. I got hit by the world. Right. And now I'm scared to go out there again. So let me unlock myself from that. Let me go out here. And now the elephant and the rider is like, okay. Well, it's one thing to unlock yourself from the cage and go back out into the unknown. It's a whole other thing to feel okay while you're back out there. So I didn't anticipate not feeling okay. You know what I mean? Yeah. But that's what inevitably is going to come with like, okay, you're going back out to the unknown knowing it's scary and all these things. So you're naturally not going to feel okay about it, but you have to do it anyway. But let's unpack why you don't feel okay. That's still fair. So there's a point where constantly creating prevention from actually sitting with yourself. Yeah. Wow. And then you're going to think of a thing with productivity from avoidance.

1:41:14Making sure that when I'm making songs, it's to put it simply therapy exercise. You know what I mean? Like I'm not trying to just be down there like every once in a while, like, you know, you just make some kind of mindless. But I'm trying to really use the music as the place to make sense of all of this and get it out. Because I know I'm not the only one dealing with it. I also think there needs to be this kind of content in the landscape. You know what I mean? Well, let's rush ladies and gentlemen. Don't move in theaters September 11th. Thank you for joining us, bro. Thank you. Yes, sir. Bye, Asia, rather than our soul, at least 70% have a phone. Middle school is a different world than the one we grew up in. I'm Dr. Joy and this is therapy for black girls. We spent real time on it in our surviving middle school run, bringing in a child psychologist and a psychiatrist who's raising two black girls of his own to talk about what's really going on with our kids right now. So it's literally physiological and neurological, psychological chaos happening all this end up.

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1:46:17DJ N.V. Jess hilarious. All the main legat we ought to break this club. Let's get to past the ox. Go, go, go. Go, go. DJ. DJ. DJ. DJ. DJ. DJ. DJ. DJ. DJ. DJ. DJ. DJ. DJ. DJ. DJ. DJ. DJ. DJ. DJ. DJ. DJ. DJ. DJ. DJ. DJ. Bass, MC. DJ. DJ. DJ. DJ. GJ. Dude DJ. DJ. DJ. DJ. DJ. DJ, DJ. DJ. Ridiculous. Dimitri decided to give me her sharing. Thank you, man. You had the honor roll there. I had the honor roll there and I will say like it was just really nice to be supported.

1:47:21Like I really like Atlanta because everybody pulls out like people from different labels, different managers, even the radio station. Me no pull out another city. Huh? You said everybody pull out. I thought I heard. I thought I heard. Everybody pulls out. Like pull out. You know what? You know what? You know what? You know what? You know what? You know what? You know what? You know what? Did I say that? Yeah, I know that. So can't. Yeah. I'm like, ah, you know what? Anyway, yeah. Buckhead Theatre was a movie. If you guys want to check it out, uh, mix you see it on my Instagram. But then also, we went to Morehouse, which is a really cool activation. Are y'all gonna go back to the HTC use? For sure. Yeah. That way. Yeah. But we gotta go home and all the way up. We gotta go home and see if we do something, well. I don't know her in there myself. We do it. We go to their homecoming season. I think that's the crew. The whole reference book I think we gonna do something like on the calendar. We will do something. But here's the thing, you had the honor roll out there last Friday. I think that we haven't been stressing enough that Niles and Moons has an album coming up. You haven't put together an album.

1:48:23Yeah. And it features some of the dopest, no, not, yeah. The dopest, some of the dopest new artists. Young artists, gonna hit pop the day. Yeah, I'm really excited about it. Our posse cut was the first single that we dropped R2D2 that featured everybody on there and it showed the range and flows. People from different places and Lanna, Charlotte, Portland, New Jersey, New York. Brooklyn, I feel like I gotta say Brooklyn differently. But our newest single, we just dropped a new single this week on Tuesday called Need You. It's really sticky, it's really catchy. And we shot this music video, which kind of plays in the style to offer the movie The Wood. So like that dancing. I love that. That's your thing. You love it. You know what I'm saying? I love that. To be honest, it wasn't even my idea. I'm just gonna spoil Vaze's idea. So Luke, just spoil Vaze, you know what I mean? I write a lot of his music. Why? You're gonna be an amazing producer when it dopest new artist out today. He just needs to give me more credit. And y'all do it this every day. These like natural lives. We live in natural lives. We live in natural lives. Oh you do. I've ate from Momscone or two by the way. That's what I'm saying.

1:49:23He got roots in Momscone. He actually is from Mexico. That's the thing. I thought that was crazy. Because you the only person I know from Momscone. I've got the right one. Oh my. Only person I know. He's gonna write on a roof. So who's on this song? So this song has Ben Raleigh on the hook. First verse is Rubin Vincent and then second verse is Swave. And it's produced by Rubin too, right? Yeah and it's produced by Rubin. I had to convince Swave to rap over somebody else. Come on, we're gonna get to the song. Oh my gosh. Let's listen to it. I'm trying to put some together because I need you. Ain't nobody here with a truth. I'm gone. I'm gone. That's all. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Ben Nilell. You're streaming that right now, right? You can stream that right now. Go stream that right now. Yeah. We're a thank you phrase. What was that? Full album drop. Full album is dropping. Soon. We have a date. You don't want to say it yet? Okay, you want to be able to roll out? You got to roll out. I got to roll out. That's fine. But it's all you're gonna know is that it was against the girls though. It is against the girls. It was about DJ drama. Yeah. Mr. Things gives it. Yeah, it's a girl.

1:50:24Yeah, yeah, it's really dope. And it's such a big co-song, you know, being that drama going to be able to talk is about the next generation of rappers and, um, yeah, man, I'm excited. And that's really like the only girl record that's the single. And I just really want to make sure I get it out because during the studio sessions, the guys like tried to trap it out. So every room I went in, it was just really hard. I'm like, can y'all like slow it down and do something for the ladies? Please, for me, like something. But I'm excited about this one and the next one's two because the next one, I mean, we got some songs note, but the, the, the, the pins are pinning. You know what I'm saying? Like it's just real lyricism and I know it's not like the most popular thing, but. Of course it is. No, it's not. People do not appreciate lyricism. They say that within the biggest rapper of the last 15 years of all been lyricists, Kendrick's lyricist, cold of lyricist, Drake's lyricist, Wally's lyricist. I gave her a chees saying, though, you said Drake's lyricist. Like, it's like, it's a big song to lyricist. You gotta stop acting like people, like the pins, having been the ones that actually

1:51:25have the most success. That's true, but that's like old regime and they came in a system before social media. They've been dominating for the last 15 years. That's the regime that's been in the last 15 years. That's my point. It's been like the past 20 years, the same guys. I've been listening to those guys since I was a 9th grade. I'm with them. I'm gonna tell you why the pin is important. It's why Jay-Z is still around. That's why now they're still around. That's why scoffies is still around. That's why bunbies are doing it. But do you think they're only able to break through with the pin because it wasn't so much noise? Like now it's like, you gotta be click, baby. You gotta have something viral. It's very old. That's what you call it. That's what you call it. Who has just recently broken through a positive pan? That's what I mean. I think noise is actual motion and it's not. It's just noise. Noise is always existing. You think it wasn't corny as goofy as rappers when all the people I just named were like. The Dalmatians? They cut the air. The brain always rises to the top. Huh? And you don't hit none of those goofy asses. None of them. Shout out to everybody you got on your tape, Margot Plus.

1:52:28You know, Rubin, you know, Swave, Kai-Kaz. Them guys get busy. They ain't gonna be around. I'll give it to you, Sam. You're saying the pinmanship earns you longevity. Yes, yes. Okay, yes. Okay. Well, definitely stream it now and we appreciate you. Yes, thank you guys. I appreciate it. So proud of you, girl. All right. Well, let's get to the mix. We throw it back on our Fridays. The people's choice mixes the breakfast slogan one. What do you think? What do you think? What do you think? What do you think? What do you think? What do you think? What do you think? What do you think? What do you think? What do you think? What do you think? What do you think? Who wants to see salutes and toenials glued to family? Malice? bi, I don't want to see salutes and toenials glued to family? Malice? Ah, those are my family out there. They support me and everything that I do. So, I got to go out to VA and support them. So , the negative originals at Avox State, Old Dominion. I can be on your yards this weekend. So if y'all see me shot me a holey, and I see y'all this weekend out on the 75-7. And also, Marley, they're Marley's birthday this weekend. 安~~~ Marley, I already had a birthday! You're right. Marley He already had a birthday?

1:53:28What, she celebrated this weekend? She чего? her original poll party was rescheduled due to weather and thunderstorms and stuff like that. So I'm here in Maryland celebrating my baby's birthday over again. We're going to do a redo for this baby shark pool party and next weekend, Baltimore City, the homecoming shows. I will be there at Baltimore Comedy Factory Thursday to Sunday. Y'all get six shows out of me. All right, so get your tickets now. Justin Larry is official.com and then Saturday, September 12th. I will be at Barnes and Nobles to do a book signing for it. So that's to be paired my co-parent and memoir. So I'm bringing the book to the city. Everything y'all asked will be granted. I love y'all so much. Can't wait to see y'all 410, Justin Larry's official.com for the tickets. And Rome will be there. Rome will be there as well. Thank you so much. Now, we're all going to be in the building that Barnes and Nobles on Saturday. So y'all going to ask them some questions too. Yes, the big big Rome, the reason for the book. Okay, there would be no parents in here for one of the big Rome. Okay, you need to relax. No, it's

1:54:29true. The Rome took you through there. Took you through there. And now you guys don't. Yeah, and that's why and that's why I'm resilient because of you. I want to shout out to us, spray ground, spray ground backpacks who does heavy support and heavy community give back when it comes to backpacks and the kids love them. They supply so many backpacks to people that can't afford backpacks, but they're doing something special in the city. The next couple of days, one day doing something at the post office, the big post office in the city, they have like a display of all their backpacks and they have exclusive collection of backpacks that people could come pick up. And also they have a gold helicopter. I guess landing or flying over time square, dropping over backpacks is weird, but salute the spray ground. I just want to say salute to James and everything that they do because they really support the community out there. And I've known James a long time. If you know James from Jersey, his nickname is Buddha, but he's been running spray ground for a while. And I just want to say salute to James. Well, I don't know James, but I need to know James was salute the spray ground

1:55:29because you know, I did my my annual backpack giveaway in my hometown amongst corner South Carolina and they gave me a great deal on backpacks. You know what I'm saying? I just DM them. I reached out to them on Instagram. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and they gave me they gave me a great deal on backpacks. So salute this spray ground. I'll connect you. He's a good dude. What if I want to be known as Buddha no more? Yo, why are you just put his old? Yeah, Buddha definitely sound like he owes somebody some money in Jersey. Don't don't don't don't remind me he was Buddha. You know, Buddha that came up all back and the Buddha selling backpacks. You still owe me somebody? I need to find your get in touch with Buddha. All right, well, you got a positive note. I do, but I first want to tell people man, my six annual mental wealth expo was happening Saturday, October 10th at the joel and dianne blue and wellness and events center in New York, New Jersey at the New Jersey Institute of Technology doors open at 10 30 AM. Soluta, my good sister, Debbie Brown. She is curating the whole event this year.

1:56:32We have you know, Dr. Mark Brackett is going to be there doing an emotional regulation and emotional intelligence panel. Jovian Zane, Koyah Webb and Michelle Williams. Yes, Michelle Williams from Destiny Child. They will be doing a healing processes and nervous system regulation panel. Kier games, the good brother Kier games will be there doing a mental wealth workshop. Dr. J. Barnet will be there doing a healing the inner child panel. My man Elliott Connie and Dr. J. Barnet and Dr. Rita Walker will be doing a exploring mental illness and personality disorder panel. And you know, this year we're focusing on nothing but solutions. Okay, nothing much solution. So we'll see you October 10th at the joel and dianne blue and wellness and events center in New York, New Jersey. It is a free event free free free free free. All you got to do is go to mental wealth exbow.com and rsvp to be there and we'll see you on October 10th now. Hold on, hold on, let me ask you a question. I think maybe next year you should do a panel and it's called Black Men Love each other. And

1:57:35we should go on stage and look at other Black men in the eyes and just tell them I love you, brother. I mean, yeah, you can do that during Pride Month too. Like you do you do a lot of pride. I was going to say why would mv set it up like that? What are you talking about? Because we should be able to say each other. We love each other for sure. Why you got to walk up to them and look them in the eye be like, I love you, brother. Like why you got to do that? Yeah, do that during Pride Month. Okay. Forget y'all. Yes, but the positive note is simply this. I love you, Buddha. My man, Sean. Go ahead. Accountability man. Accountability is a word that people like disay but they don't practice it. Okay. Accountability is essential personal growth. Okay. As well as team growth, how can you improve if you're never wrong? Huh? If you don't admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you're bound to make the same one again. So accountability. It's not just a word. It should be an action. Have a great day. Breakfast club, bitches. I'm finished with y'all done.

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