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What's good? What ups mustle?
You're checking out the Cruise Show podcast to

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subscribe? Here we go. Jason
Lee is here Hollywood on Locked Christ ninety

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two to three. Jason Lee,
how are you, buddy? What's going

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on? I feel great to be
back here. I have a new setup.

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You know, y'all get money now. Don't say this. iHeart money,

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dollar. This is none of ours. This is actually on loan.

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Right, We're not even supposed to
be in here, so we get kicked

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out in mid interview. Don't worry
about it. We'll figure it out.

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All good, Jason Lee, congratulation
me out before too. You know,

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I don't know if they kicked you. A shout out to Tom Pollman.

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Where the money? Come on?
Stop playing? Have you been kicked out

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of anywhere else? Like a party
or an even like? Was it embarrassing?

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I mean the last time I got
kicked out of a place, which

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is very rare because if you kicked
me out there there are consequences. I

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kicked out of Drake's birthday party once. Yeah, by Tristan Thompson. Tristan

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Thompson had security. Yeah, keep
me up. I didn't know I was

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getting kicked out. I was walking
to the front to go get h to

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meet Larsa Pippen, and as I
got to the front, I was politely

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pushed out And when I turned around, they were just like, yeah,

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they helped me out the party.
Let's go. Wow. Are you sure

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it was an official kickout or was
it just kind of like busy and I

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was kicked out? Damn? But
I love Drake so much that you know

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it was it was. It was
an honor to be kicked out of his

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party. Very love. They did
it so secretly too, from what you're

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saying. They're just kind of like, okay, well a gentle push.

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Yeah, they followed you out,
go a little bit further, almost there.

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It's all good. Yeah, man, A lot has changed, have

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you changed? Yes, I've evolved, evolved, that's right. A lot

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of growth, man, and we
see it on the ground, We see

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it all over the place. Congratulations. You're holding it down for your city

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of Stockton, which desperately needs you. Yes, I mean Stockton needs a

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lot. I always tell people that, you know, Superman is not a

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real person, so I can't save
Stockton, but I do believe me.

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Going back launching my nonprofit Hollywood Cares, foundation, the Iron Ratey Initiative,

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which I started ten year years ago
and the city didn't buy into it.

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The city leadership and the establishment pushes
out now that I have more resources,

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more platform, bigger voice, a
lot of time, a little bit more

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money, go back and do good
and then decided while I was there to

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just run for office and just won
in the primary. So here we are.

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Congratulations. It's crazy, right.
You set up an office, beautiful

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office, by the way, everything
looks great. You welcome the town.

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They come in, they're having coffee
with you. Yeah, they're asking you

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questions, and you say you could
ask me whatever you want. Yeah,

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I'm an open book. I literally
have a book. And you know I

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talked about Yes, sure have a
book. So I'm an open book.

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You asked me any question. If
you look at all my shows, you

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know, my shows used to be
real wild. They still wild, but

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it used to be real reckless.
So everything I've ever thought about has been

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out there. And I'm still me. I mean, I haven't lost the

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edge, and I'm still going to
have a big opinions. But I just

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understand right now my voice has a
lot more influence, and I know what

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it is now so I have to
be a little bit more responsible. I

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can't be as reckless all the time. Was there a particular instance or moment

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that helped pretty quick in that matter? I think in therapy, just trying

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to align everything of what I want
to be with who I am and where

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I am now. It's just just
there was some places that were all off

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right. Like I used to say
a lot of things to just get people

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going on social media because that's part
of getting people's attention, and when doors

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didn't open for me, I knocked
them down. And sometimes I bulldoze over

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people to do it. But now
I've seen it and I still will do

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it. That's the thing I'm trying
to tell people. They're like, they're

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like, are you sure we want
to vote for him? He's messy.

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Politics are messier than anything I've ever
done. I still actually made for it,

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but I'm being very careful because I'm
not giving them too much until I

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get elected and then they get all
to me. Oh yeah yeah. But

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have you encounter judgment because of who
you are and your social media presence from

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people but in your face? It
to my face, But I think that's

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something you can counted throughout the year, so it's almost like it's prepared for

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this moment. No, it still
sucks, right, it hurts more.

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It hurts more. And when it's
people that you know from back home,

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and then and then when it's black
people out of people who look like for

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you, and then you know,
when it's people who you know, know

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you can help the city, you
know, But I think people had a

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lot of personal interest and a lot
of things to protect. There's a lot

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of skeletons that are falling out of
closets, and you know, I came

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out of the closet a long time
ago. I'm sure I have no problem

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helping those skeletons find their way out. And as we start exposing more and

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then showing people that they deserve more, they're like, damn, wait,

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I can actually live a better life. Yeah, and it doesn't take a

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miracle to make it happen. What
do you want to do for your town?

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I totally want to transform my So
I'm running for District six, which

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is the South Side, which is
predominantly black and brown. Lots of opportunity

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from economic development, job creation,
job growth, I mean the city.

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I can go on and on.
There's no clinic there. They need resources,

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the resources and you know, entertainment
Hollywood unlocked. I want to unlock

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Hollywood and bring them there to do
business and to bring nightlife, entertainment stuff

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for kids and families to do it. There's a lot of stuff to do.

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What's the biggest difference, I guess
you would say, like trying to

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navigate being in going into politics and
now you know, you obviously have Hollywood

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u lock, where people's like,
oh, well, he's just Hollywood unlocked,

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Like what does he know about Polico? Yeah, well, I mean

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it's almost like, well, first
of all, that's what I think has

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been the most interesting part because my
story didn't start at Hollywood Unlocked. That's

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when people got to know me because
I do it on camera. I do

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it for the world to see.
But before that, I work for a

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union for eleven years. I mean, I've worked at every level of a

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union when you are organizing in a
grassroots way, helping build power for workers

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at the work site. And then
before that, I worked in probation.

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Before that, I worked in education. So I've had so many different lives

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as a working class person that I
mean, I didn't lose that. I

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just became an entertainer, did my
job very well, built a very successful

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company, and now I have the
time and resources to go back and get

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back. Yeah, it's just what
people have seen. So like you as

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Hollywood and locked, they haven't seen
what you've done with if there's also people

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that look at look at somebody who
comes out of prison, you'll look at

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them as an ex convict. Now
they're in a box, that's all you

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see them as. There's still somebody's
son, dad, is still somebody who

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has an opportunity to earn redemption.
And like people believe and they buy into

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the belief that they're the sum of
one experience and one mistake or one job

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or one moment, we're an evolving
experience. I'm evolving. I'm not going

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to be perfect. I'm going to
make mistakes, like I tell people,

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I'm going to make decisions that people
like or don't like. But I'm going

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to always lead with intention and do
what's best for people. What about Latinos?

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Are they showing you love? Are
they showing support? They are?

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Are they showing up? They're showing
up? Let me tell you you know

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what's crazy. So somebody hit me
up and say Hey, man, you

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got to come meet with me.
I gotta teach you some phrases and tell

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the Latinos. I said, Man, I'm going to talk to them like

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a human being. I don't know
Spanish, so if they want to teach

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me some shit, if they want
to teach me, I want to learn

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it. But I'm not going to
come in and say, hey, let's

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go over here for you know this
moment and speak a language to get your

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vote. No, I want to
earn trust. I'm not earning votes,

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so I'm earning votes by earning trust. Right, So I think when I

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went back, one thing they tell
me. I met with this guy who

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leads the farm workers and he was
saying, you know how they spray pesticide

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on them in the fields, and
how they how they had a recent serial

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killer there and the person was targeting
Latinos and the community that's forty four percent

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Latino. They don't even offer translation
service at city hall. So instead of

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making it a campaign promise, like
let's wait until January when I get in

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two thousand and five, and I
won't call them mare, I said,

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listen, if you don't make this
policy happen right now, where you offer

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translation. I'm gonna go alive and
tell them that you don't like Mexicans and

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you're not gonna get elect two weeks
later. Now out for translation. It

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is good for you, Jason.
The things will be done when people want

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it to be done, and when
you press them. I'm gonna press them,

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Jason said, I will drag your
ass fulfilled. But the way that

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you but the way that you all
know me, have known me over the

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years, that's how I'm going to
be leading. So, my man,

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the conversations of the city hall,
I ain't going to be because those people

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or most of them, like,
there's one guy out there right now.

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His name is Brando. He just
recently got accused of like molesting his niece

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or something crazy. Right, whole
family's career, criminal politicians. You know,

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this is a guy who told me
he didn't want to help the kids

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in my community and want you to
go ask your rich friends like Rihanna and

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Floyd Mayweather to help them. This
is person I'm gonna be sitting by.

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So if he thinks I'm not going
to get up there and be me when

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I'm sitting next to him, he's
God bless him. He's crazy ready,

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Yeah, they not ready? Man, congratulations, you're doing a lot of

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work. You're doing the groundwork right. You're showing up and you're showing out,

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and you're there for people, and
people want to speak to you and

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have a lot of questions for you. You're being extremely honest with them,

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and you're there with your heart and
your family. Right. Yeah, my

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family's here too. You know,
my family has been helping us find a

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real grassroots campaign. And the people
that are watching this right now saying,

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but that's the guy from love and
hip hop, But that's the guy.

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Yeah that is. And you know
what I will say this, You know,

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everybody looking at where we're going with
the even with the presidential election and

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how the world has changed around us, you got to become the change you

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want to see. I'm not going
to give up my cool last day job

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to go and be of service.
I feel like everybody should do their part,

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whatever that part is. But you
can't. You know, when I

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sit and watch people complain about oh, well this is going this way,

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or the Democrats or the Republicans,
well shit, what you're gonna do about

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it? We're gonna sit back and
let the story be told. And you

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be a bise standard or are you
going to actually jump in. I'm choosing

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to jump in the game. And
that's it, you know, wind loser,

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draw. At least I could say
I did my best part as a

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friend of Rihanna's. Have you heard
any music questions coming? Huh? Nope,

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not nothing. Yes you have playing, Yes you have. You don't

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talk about tell them what you told
me the other day and privately about that

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song with jay Z on it.
No, I'm making stuff up, I

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promise you. What's crazy. I
never talked to her about her music because

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that's just not what we be on. Yeah, she doesn't necessarily want to

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talk about that either though, right. I mean, she'll bring up stuff

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which I'm not going to talk about, but I don't. I don't.

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I don't talk about it. You
don't go fishing for the music, nah,

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I don't fish for nothing, because
I you know, it's just an

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honor to even be a you know, talking to her, I've realized that,

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like a lot of times when when
talking to artists like you actually get

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a better conversation when you talk about
completely different stuff, whether it's close,

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whether it's just right life. So
you know, I couldn't come here without

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dropping the name. Everybody watching knows
I'm a name dropper. Let me tell

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who I was with the other night. Give it to him Jackson. Literally

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the other night, I get a
call to go hang out with Bad Bunny.

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Okay, go hang out Bad Bunny. You know what we talked about

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all night? Hookah, hookah,
hookah. He has flavors. He has

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a hookah man walks around with a
backpack and pulls out a hookah at any

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moment. And we went to two
parties in l A, which you know,

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we never see hookah at a party. Really like you gotta go to

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a lounge, and he had the
hookah man pulled up everywhere we went back

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there. His name was Crazy.
He'll pull out a hookah and we would

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start smoking hookah. What's his favorite
flavor? I don't know the flavor because

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I was too nervous to ask.
Was it more like men flavor? It

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was a little minty, minty blue
men. I don't know it was it

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was good adaring it? Or did
you have your own I have my own

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things? No, no, my
own piece. How quicker you do identify?

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Like a messy question as it on
folds or you know, my mind

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is already working ahead of time.
Right. So, like, I just

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interviewed Safari on my show, which
is probably one of the episodes broke because

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I kept asking about the time I
heard that Nikki allegedly tried to stab him.

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Right, I heard this long time
ago, and I had him on

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my show. He's sitting there,
might as well ask him. And so

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I asked him every messy question I
could think about, and I could.

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You know, I try not to
make a guess uncomfortable, but because so

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far as such a good friend,
I intentionally made him I can. Yeah,

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I asked, it's the Lord's work. The Lord or to not be

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happy if I don't do this,
right, that's right. Speaking of how

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are you and Beyonce? Things are
rough, things are okay, things are

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not, things are not okay.
Let me clear there, Let me clear

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that things ain't never rough. For
me. I sleep well at night.

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My my thread count is so high, I don't even know what Beyonce is

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one of the greatest, if not
the greatest artists to ever live. I've

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said on my show. I think
she's I said she's greater than Michael Jackson.

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People have been said about that you
know, I know that's the generational

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debate that I'm not going to have. Keep your beads and your bees off

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my page. I think that Beyonce
is a great artist, but I also

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think that everybody is subject to criticism. She's not God, So why the

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people that have made her a god
have made it impossible to criticize her.

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I simply criticized somebody on her team
and she just had to take a stray

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for it. But you know,
we clearly are looking at Diddy now.

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Everybody's not above reproach. You know, everybody thought they were the king Queen

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of the hill. You all will
have your day. I love Beyonce.

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I spent a lot of money to
see her on tour. I'm going to

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go see her at thousands thousands.
Will continue to support her. But you

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know, her team she needed.
She need to judge up the team a

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little bit. You know, the
way she got rid of them girls in

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the group, she may need to
get rid of a couple of people on

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Is it the team or the fan
base that's the big problem. The beehive

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is a beehive is great, right, but they'll also build up an artist

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so high that you know, the
artists may feel a way beyond move away.

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Beyonce deserves to be built up that
I because she's but the people around

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her who are employees think that they're
Beyonce, and those are the people that

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ruin the image, the credibility,
the cachet of the artists. I'll tell

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you, like dua Lipa's publicis,
I don't know who you are, but

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you're a problematic person. And a
next time I see you'm gonnake a picture

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you just put on my social media. This person intentionally avoided black media on

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the carpet during the Grammys. We
do a lipa and went all around us

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to get to these other people when
do a lipa. I'm assuming would have

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stopped for us had she noticed that
we wanted to talk to. Sure,

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But it's the people around the artists
that I've always found to be problematic.

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Yeah, to your Priorgreyia runs into
that a lot. Yeah, they're the

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word artists, and they ruin it
for artists. They speak for the artists

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in many ways, and they may
not necessarily know what they're doing. And

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guess what, you don't really need
them. All you need is some college

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kid who needs to write, who
knows how to write a press release.

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When you are dual LIPA, you
can have you can have yours, your

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intern call up to this show,
my show, any show. We're going

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to book you whenever you want to
come, and who you are. It's

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always the publicist fighting to maintain a
job that they barely got and are no

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good at. Some of you can't
even spell the press releases, need a

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press release. But it's those people, the gatekeepers to this imaginary gate that

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social media is eliminated, that are
the problems and saying no to things that

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could further the artists that can help
them in a major way, right exactly.

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That's why a lot of you are
unemployed now because your artists can't afford

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you, because nobody's buying their ship
because you're not bringing them to wear its

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hot. Yeah. Yeah, that's
why there's so many cuts, right.

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I mean an artists are not selling
tours, labor, they tickets are not

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selling right, Like ask artists like
when they see them pull up with a

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lot of people say yo, what
the fuck's you're overhead? Like, bro,

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like are you making that much money? Because it's insane. I feel

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like there's a lot of things that
it's not really necessary. You're right,

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like publicists, they're not. So
I don't want to describe to a publish

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certainly is here to raise a war
against I have a lot of amazing publicist

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friends. Hate on all publicies.
I just think that like, for example,

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you saw Wendy Williams that special she
has right, that publicist driving her

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around. I know Wendy personally,
I've never seen this person. This person

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asked Wendy, who was clearly delusional, do you want to go to the

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Oscars. Wendy Williams likes talking about
celebrities, showing like being on carpets with

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the celebrities, so that in itself
was showed me like you want to to

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take yo, I'm running for city
council. Raggedy ass up there for the

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Oscars and be that plus one on
the carpet so you can network and build

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that cachet of doing a TikTok that
she was somebody special for it. You

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know what I hate when motherfucker's do
it for the look. That's what I'm

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saying. I hate that shit.
I can see through a place so quick,

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it's like, bro, you just
can smell it. You just got

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you hit up. You texted somebody
last minute broke, can you get me

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in? And you just flicked up
and then you left back home and act

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got you. You were in no
disrespect to my publicists. But I was

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watching something the other day, how
you saying all this? And my public

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one of my publicists was in the
background of a celebrity doing an interview,

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intentionally being seen on camera, and
I wanted to text them. I ain't

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gonna say the person and say why
you all in the why you all in

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the middle of the interview because you
want to be seen? And look,

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I'll criticize other people's supposes, but
I gotta do my own as well.

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They all do it. It's like, if you want to be the star,

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go get some talent, then start
tiktoking or whatever you do. Whatever

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these people do, you know before
gets banned and then become the star.

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But other other than that, get
out the way. Yeah, for sure,

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do your thing, your job,
do your job. Have we Texteddy?

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Are we in contact? I'm not
texting Diddy? No, Look,

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there's no want that on record.
No. Look look let me say it's

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thought about texting them, But what
do you say. Here's the issue that

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I have with all this right,
I don't know Diddy. Everybody assumes because

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I had to show honorable and that
I've been to some Diddy parties that I

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know what you've been doing home been
do his own. But if you're in

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LA and you found out there was
a Diddy party at Ditty's house, you're

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going to Ditty's house. I've seen
people scale the wall to get in Ditty's

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house. Crazy, I've seen it. But on the other side of that

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wall is Beyonce, jay z Nas
the Baby. I mean, every big

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artist in the world is on the
other side of that wall. Or you

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want to get over there and sleep
with this person. This person is because

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what I find interesting about cancel culture
is that one thing I know for sure,

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if you in these clubs in LA
and if you're at these celebrity homes

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and parties, people are fighting to
get around these people and do all the

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dirty ship that they're now claiming has
been probatic. And I'm not saying that

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nothing's ever happened, because we all
know there's toxic people in the industry,

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But why did we see get Diddy
handcuff and we ain't seen Trump get handcuff?

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Why we see Diddy's kids get handcuffed, but we ain't seen Avonka Trump

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get handcuffed. These people motivated white
folks to climb up the wall at the

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Capitol to kill the vice President of
United States and take over Congress and stop

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an election. Yet they've been treated
with white gloves, white because they're white

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and I have That's not to say
that, you know, Diddy should be

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absolved in responsibility, because if Diddy
was the devil and he did the dirt,

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then he needs to go to jail. But I just feel like what

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we're portraying on TV for people to
watch, specially specifically young black and brown

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people, is that this is the
way we're gonna treat you if you make

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a mistake, and this is way
we're gonna treat the others. And I

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think there's something wrong with that,
but again, this is America right.

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What you're saying, change is free, bo Jason Lee, change, change

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you can count on. Do I
think that Diddy did it all? I

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don't know what do you think?
I don't know one thing. He's lost

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everything that just read it right now
coming in that he's so revoltd He's so

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revolt lost, his clothing, Macy's
school shut down. What else happened?

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Yeah, it offered me a job
for somebody was arrested for drugs, the

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drug mule, a white one at
that. Yeah, a black man got

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a white man arrested. This is
bad. But you know when they raided

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your house in l A and Miami
on the same day and the ground your

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planet at the same time, they
planned that. Ye. Yeah, that

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wasn't something they just woke up and
thought to do that. That is weeks

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and months and years, you know, planned out ahead of time. Scary

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times. Yeah, but you know
she almost worked with him. Man.

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Yeah, wait, last time I
was here once you mad that you weren't

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at revolt, Well I was it
not mad, but like you, I

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say, with your checks, like
we're not interested in your time, We're

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not interested in your time, or
God said not gonna take you over there,

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because it's like, yeah, I
know, it was definitely blessed.

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Sometimes that rejection is the protection.
I learned that. That's why somebody.

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That's why when I Heart said we're
no longer gonna renew year contract, it

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wasn't Yeah, because they couldn't afford
it. Tom listen, Hey, Tom,

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you know it wasn't. It wasn't
that they couldn't have afford it.

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They blamed it on the money.
Because when you really want something, you

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go find the money. That's my
point. Because they give it to what's

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the white boy they have been here
forever, Ryan Seacrest. You know,

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Ryan, Ryan don't need no more
money unless he get more fillers in botox.

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But it ain't him. What's the
other white boy in the uh?

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The old one, not him,
the other Tom Pulman not are you talking

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about un her talent? Yes?
I don't want to call anybody old.

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Valentine Duran, Elvis, Elvis Durand
don't need no more damn money. I

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ain't never heard one episode of the
Elvis Duran show. I bet I love

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Duran, Duran Duran. That's why
does Elvis Durant get all the money?

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Look, I'll be honest, why
he does. It's crazy at he'll take

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his audience like Italy. It's like, yo, bro, do he's gonna

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afford to? But here's the word, here's the non funny part. We

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got to start closing the gap of
well in this country and start giving black

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and brown shows opportunity, giving black
and brown shores more money, give black

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and brown shores more access and opulence, because you know what, you teach

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people who are watching that white is
better and black and brown is not.

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And guess what I can say it
because I don't work here in Tom poman

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No, I text him two weeks
ago and let him know they got one

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more time to let my name be
said on any airwave in iHeartRadio. And

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I'm gonna burn this ship all the
way to the fucking ground. Okay,

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Now, I love everybody, tom
No. I'll sip the rose with him

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and can on a boat and dance
with no shoes on, because that's the

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busies. But but, but,
but make no mistake about it. I'm

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a CEO over here, you ceo
over there. And the difference is I

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can't get fired by my CEO.
I am the CEO, and I just

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keep trying to tell people I really
this is what I'm really on. I'm

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really on. I'ming this equity with
everybody. We all deserve the same opportunity.

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And the way y'all are burning LA
up every day, and I mean

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the face of LA here that I
saw Elrona like just investing. That's the

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way you're investing everyody else because Elvis
Durant don't get off the house. No,

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I'm not mad at anybody getting more
may cover Elvis Durant wedding, miss

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birthday, parties, ship, if
he watched his car, it's gonna be

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on Yo. He's getting my heart. He's getting millions millions to do.

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What all I'm saying is that a
good show. I do agree that when

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people want to pay you, or
they see your real worth, they'll find

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that money. There's no excuses.
But don't make but but let's stop wondering

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why they can't find the money and
wonder why they can't see the worth.

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I agree that right there, I
want to get to the root of issue.

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The money is not the root money
is. Listen, they said they

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said we're gonna give you a radio
show. On I heard. I said,

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Okay, I'm moving to stocking to
vote for you. Wait, you're

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not gonna give me a radio show. I earned it. So let's start

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with the word Okay, I heard. So you're gonna you're gonna provide me

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the opportunity to art Okay, cooling
cruise. Then then you're gonna launch my

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show in fifty markets. It goes
major, and when it doesn't, when

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there's no rating, it's huge.
They won't do that for us, but

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they did that for you. That's
major, and it goes shade, and

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then it goes and then it goes
straight to number one, and then we're

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going to give you more markets,
and then you get to seventy two markets.

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But the number of the markets go
up, but the money don't.

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It's a fundamental problem with that.
And you can't tell me to be patient,

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because that's what my mother told me
when I was in a group home.

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That's what they told slave. Slavery
gonna be over, just wait on

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it. No, I want it
now. I'm not waiting for reparations.

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Give me what I earn right now, or you don't have the right to

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have me and if, if,
and any opportunity that I've had. The

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other day, me and my staff
were talking about ward shows that we own

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all this everything came out of people
and not giving them my worth or telling

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me no. So it's cool they
did me a favorite, like did he

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did you a favorite? Now you're
not getting diety. You're not the mule

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on the plane. Why would now? Because you Latino? I'm you know,

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he's saving that job for the white
boy. Jason Lee Hollywood un Locked.

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How can you get involved with your
organization, Jason say, I'm giving

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you a preview of how I plan
to lead when I get in there.

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Call it what it is. Black
and brown people and Stockton and like in

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many communities, are kept, they
keep their thumb on them. They're the

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most underserved, most early, first
forgotten, and least invested in a group

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of people. And I'm going to
be there now asking the questions and finding

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the resource to make that short change. How can they get involved with the

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campaign. They can go to Jason
leefor Stockton dot com and they can just

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hit us up and yeah, we
man, it's gonna be a movie in

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the general, big movie. Man. Congratulations, Thanks you. Super quick

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question before we end this, what
has there been something because I know you

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said politics is already messy and everybody
knows that, but has there been something

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that surprised you in politics ever since
joining it that you're just like, well,

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shit, it is surprising. I
think that. My surprise is I

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think the voter apathy, like people
are just like nothing's gonna change, or

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I'm not going to vote, or
it's a common thought. It's it's it's

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scary, it's sad. But I
also understand as I talk to people,

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I always end with by the way, everything I tell you I'm gonna do,

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I'm gonna do. And this isn't
the last time you're going to see

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me. And I'm not here to
take your vote. I'm here to earn

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your trust like I want them.
Like. Rebuilding trust is a real thing

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because voter apathy right now is at
an all time high. And I think

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even going into like the presidential stuff, the conversations people are having right now

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about who they gonna vote for this
and that I understand people and why they

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want to vote for Trump because he's
like that reality show candidate that right now

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in the ZEUS world, ZEUS Network
world, that's what we want is somebody

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who's out there giving us entertainment.
Be careful what you entertained, because once

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you entertain and it gets in there, you can't get it out, you

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know. It's a that's a scary
thing. And yeah, a lot of

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big decisions in him this year.
Yes, sir, We're with you every

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step of the way. Jason Lee
Cruise Show Real ninety two three, let's

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go by the way. I also
love you Tom Polleman, and iHeart but

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y'all fumble the backs. Hey Jack
and Richard the Cruse Show. Thanks for

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listening to The Cruise Show podcast.
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