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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Man I was supporting real Soama tune in and day.
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Well you are.
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Now it's angel what I call her ye way.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Yep, way up with Angela Yee. I'm Angela Yee. Jasmine
from the Jasmine brand.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Is here on my own brand and it is a.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
We Wednesday, Yes up here on way up. Also, I
feel like the smoke.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Outside I know in New York.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yeah, New York is they're saying right now is at
the top of the list of the world's worst air pollution.
So there's been all this smoke for from more than
a hundred wildfires that are burning in Quebec, and honestly
outside it's isn't it crazy that it traveled this far?
Speaker 5 (00:46):
It is Yesterday when we were out, I thought it
was like fog. I feel like I was in La again.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yeah, it's that bad that they've actually canceled outdoor activities
and events yesterday for students. Yeah, so anything outside school.
Did the school district announcements where that they're not doing
those things.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
So let me tell you something. I've been like coughing.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Yeah, somebody else was what was coughing? They thought it
was pollen. Initially they were like, is it the pollen
bad here, Yes.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Isn't it?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
No, not like New York has had the cleanest ear.
But you know we're in New York right now, and
it's definitely Yeah, take us back to where were we just?
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Now take us back to Philly.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Yes, yes, yes, we go back to Philly.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah, please take us back to Philly. But yeah, so
we have a great show today. It is Wealth Wednesday.
Now I'm excited about this one because we are going
to be having the CEO and president of Essence m
Caroline Wanga is going to be coming here. She's just
an amazing person. Yeah in general, like when you get
to hear her speak, but she used to be the
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head of de EI for Target when a lot of
companies didn't even.
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Have d I. Yes, d d e I is diversity
equity inclusion, Equity inclusion, Okay m hm.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
And so she'd be coming by. But you know Essence
Fast is coming up. But it's more than just Essence Fest.
They also own Afropunk and Beauty Con.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
Now I love Beauty Con.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yes, in Essence Studios, and so I'm just excited for
her to be able to talk about all of those
different things she took over.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
I was at Essence Fest last year. I'm there every year, Yes.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
You are, but you you had a big part last
year at Essencevest.
Speaker 7 (02:18):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I was tired, but I also and we'll talk about
why that was a special time for me in particular
last year when Caroline gets here. But she's gonna be
joining us today for Wealth Wednesday. And we also of
course start the show every day with shining a light,
shining a light on somebody who's done something positive, somebody
who's impacted your life, or maybe a story that you
saw on the news and you were like, this person's amazing.
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So we shine a light on those people, and you, guys,
shine a light on them. Eight ninety two ninety two
fifty one fifty is a number. Call us up, who
do you want to shine a light on this morning?
Let's get this Wednesday started off right. It's way up
with Angela Yee.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
We gonna light the fuck up.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I'm shin.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Turn your lights on y'all so much breading love to
those who are doing great.
Speaker 8 (02:59):
Now light.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Shine light. It's time to shine a light on them.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Yes, it's a way up at Angela Yee. I'm Angela
Yee and Jazz and from the Jasmine.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Brand is here.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Good morning, Good morning, and.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
It's time to shine a light on him. And today
we are going to shine a light on past to
a ar Bernard. We just met with him up here
on the show. But he is at the he's the
head of the Christian Cultural Center. But he has a
lot of amazing things going on. And I love this
because he has a background in finance and banking. And
what he's doing in East New York, which is in Brooklyn,
is he's building up like a billion dollar development that's
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going to provide affordable housing for people. Nice, yes, so
that you have some place to live, because you know,
when it comes to real estate right now, things are
pricing and we all know that when people don't have housing,
adequate housing, that trickles.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Down affects everything, every part of your life.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Imagine you don't have someplace great to go lay your
head at night, or you don't even want to be
at home, or you don't even have a home to
be in.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Yah.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
You know that's not an easy situation. So it's not
just about the church, but it's also about making sure
that people are taking care of in the community. I
love so imagine being able to build your own community.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
I love that.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
That's what's his name again, Pastor a Ar Bernard? Okay, yeah,
I love that all right?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Now, who do you guys want to shine a light
on eight hundred fifty one fifty eight draft you? Oh no,
we should talk to you, Chap. We didn't see you
at the roots picnic?
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Where were you?
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Draft?
Speaker 9 (04:25):
Listen?
Speaker 10 (04:27):
Let us to split a flotlight on you and my
missurface girls. I was running so late on Saturday. I
did not get down there.
Speaker 11 (04:34):
Till like eight o'clock.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
The hell, well, oh so you didn't come to see us,
but you came to see Lousy.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
You're not select. You came to see Laura Hill.
Speaker 12 (04:46):
Don't don't do it.
Speaker 10 (04:47):
Actually I left. I left you for Laura Hill.
Speaker 11 (04:49):
Got up there.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
I was.
Speaker 10 (04:50):
I was actually like having a very bad day that day.
But I didn't get down there until like eight o'clock.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Don't you feel bad for you know?
Speaker 10 (04:56):
I tell everybody like yo, I have to be down there, man,
I they get to.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Make it all right?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Well, we make it well anyway, trave We would love
to shine a light on you today, but we're gonna
take that back maybe another day.
Speaker 10 (05:12):
I'm trying to sound like, Oh, my girl's gonna be savious.
Defind me.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Oh no, no, no, trap, don't even try it now.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
Bye Trat, Bye Trav Bye.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Hey Brian, who you want to shine a light on?
Speaker 12 (05:26):
I want to shine light on my girlfriend?
Speaker 4 (05:27):
You now, okay, all right? Tell us why.
Speaker 12 (05:30):
You know she works a full time job. You know
that she stretches around sometimes, but she still comes home
and manage to take care of her two kids. You know,
I'm a busy man. I coach football and all that stuff.
So when I'm busy, she maintains home and she always
supports me when I'm down to the reason that the
house was the way it runs. I just gonna appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
You know what, We appreciate her too. That's really really dope, coach.
We're gonna send you. We're gonna send you a gift
for her, Okay, some Black Girls sunscreen, because you know
it is that time of the season. Well, we got
to make sure we protect our skin. And she's gonna
love it. It's a product that I use already. So
hold on the line. We're gonna get your address.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
All right, Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Well.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
That was Shina light ONUM eight hundred two ninet two.
Fifty one fifty is a number. In case you couldn't
get through, you can always still call up and leave
a message.
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You guys have the final say on the show every single.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Day, and when we come back, we have a yet,
let's talk about numbers.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Ice Spies will tell you what she has accomplished.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
And achieved, and we'll talk about the top fifty streaming artists.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
All right, in hip hop, it's way up at Angela yee.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
They says, soothing the rooms from industry shade to all
of gossip out sending Angela's spieling that.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Eet, hey, it's way up at Angela yee. I'm Angela ye.
And my girl Jazzmine is here from the Jasmine brand
dot com. Yes, all right, well, Ice Spice has yet
another notch under her belt. She is the artist with
the most top five hits on the Hot one hundred
and twenty twenty three.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Oh that's major.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Yes, Karma with Till the Swift Boys, a lot with
Pink Panther, has Princess Diana with Nicki Minaj. I mean
right now, that's what she has going on. So shout
out to her, okay for that. As far as the
fifty most stream rappers on Spotify. I think we all
know who's number one on that list. Of course we do,
who Drake Yes?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
But number two is Eminem.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
I'm kind of surprised by this.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Eminem is no joke.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
He's going nowhere and he's not even put an album
out in forever.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
And he's still number two. Yes, on the most streamed
rappers on Spotify. Number three is Kanye, number four is
Juice World, and number five is xxx Tantasion.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Okay, any women, I'm trying to look really quick, any
women on this list.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Nicki Minaj is number ten.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Okay, there we go. Yeah, so shout out to her.
Cardi is number eighteen on the list, and.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Omegan the Stallion is forty six.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
So those are the three women on the list.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Gosh, I'm eminem Is. That's amazing to me. All right, all.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Right now, people are very angry about be Simone. She's trending,
and that is all because of her latest post about
subscribing to her close friends. She posted, if you're not
on my close friends, you're not going to see much
of my life during this time. Close friends, I love you,
Thank you for being a safe space, and then there's
a link joined my close friends. Now people are very
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upset because they feel like she's offering subscriptions to see
her life after the passing of her good friend Jackie O.
Now I saw some of the people responding Bisimona's asking
for people to pay for access to her close friends
as she grieves her friend JACKIEO. How could you ever
bring yourself to use your friend's passing as a means
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to get people to pay for your close friends is insanity.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
This is beyond low and disgusting.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
What do you think, Angela?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Now I'll read somebody in her defense and somebody said,
y'all are really some goofies. B simone been promoting her
close friends is paid subscription, not because Jackie has passed.
Y'all should cancel yourself first, you dumb f's okay, all right?
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Now?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
My thing is this, Yes, she has always done this
with close friends.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
This was terrible, poor.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Timing absolutely to post something like this, And I can't
say what her intentions were or where her heart is
at on this. It just seemed like a terrible idea.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Yeah, yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
I agree with you, cause she did not specifically say
if you want to see me mourning my my friend.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Now she didn't. But yeah, you're right, it was just
poor timing because she does promote this close friends thing
a lot.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Right I think, and you know she's saying, you're not
going to see much of my life during this time,
close friends. I love you, Thank you for being a
safe space. That was, you know, because she's it seems
like she's going through something right now. I think she is,
So that's why I feel like it was an inappropriate post.
I think she could have just said thank you to
my close friends, I love you for being a safe space,
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left it at that, or if you want to post
a link to join my close friends, just do.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
That, or just don't post. Don't do that right now. Yeah,
it just was poor poor time. Timing was awful.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Yeah, and people were definitely dragging her all right now.
Hollywood and TV writers have been on strike for the
past month, and actors have now signal that they're willing
to join those picket lines because they have their own battles,
and this is something I think that was anticipated that
was going to happen on Monday. Members of SAG after
that represents film and TV actors. I'm a part of
SAG after because we actually had to join the union
(10:15):
in order to be a full time.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Employee here at iHeart.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
They voted to authorize a strike if they don't reach
a deal with major entertainment company studios by June thirtieth,
and nearly ninety eight percent of voting members were in
favor of that strike. So we know this writer strike
has been going on. It's been affecting a lot of
different shows that you might love, it's been affecting award shows. Yeah,
it definitely has right, So this is going to be
(10:40):
even doubly crippling if actors become involved for the entertainment industry. So,
actors are seeking higher pay and light of lower residual
payments for streaming content, same thing writers are looking for, right,
because there's all these streaming services that's been there's no
precedent for that prior to this, so it's not like
you're getting the money from the reruns and syndication and
(11:03):
all of that. Right, they went more generous studio contributions
to their benefit plans. And the union is also seeking
limits on self taped auditions for actors. They said that's
become a massive daily uncompensated burden on the lives of performers.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Now, I thought that was interesting, the whole you know,
the self taping and how it's kind of a bit
much for them.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yeah, I didn't know you got paid to go on auditions.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I would think that taping your audition and setting it
in would actually be easier.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
I would think so too, But it's something we don't
know because we're not in this world.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
All right, So that is we'll keep you guys updated
June thirty.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Yeah, with that by June thirtieth.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Okay, all right, that is your YEETI And when we
come back, we have about last night where we'll be
discussing what way down last night. It's way up with
Angela yee. I love hearing about your dating life night.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
So about last night last night? Last night, Za, I
went down?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
All right, it's way up at Angela yee. I'm Angela Yee.
Jasmine from the Jasmine.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
Brand here, good morning, Angela.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
I feel like these are Jasmine's dating chronicles.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
Yeah, really are.
Speaker 13 (12:06):
So.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
I wanted to talk about something that.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Just has to do it last night and it's this
is not completely what happened last night, but imagine imagine
for the guys, because the guys in the room reacted
very strongly, strongly when I talked about this. But when
you go out with somebody as a woman, I feel
like when I ever I got with somebody, early on,
I try to bring like a couple of my friends
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with me or make it more like a not a date,
but going out like a like a hey, come, yeah,
let's go have a drink or let's grab something to eat,
so it doesn't feel like in case I don't like you,
or in case I don't feel like, it's quote unquote safe.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
It's not a lot of.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Pressure, it's less pressure right to do that. But apparently
guys hate that.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Yeah, the guys in the room hated it. They were like,
that's an awful idea.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Yeah, but I feel like I always do that.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
You are that kind you were that you're that girl
to bring your friends.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah, but not And you know, after I feel comfortable,
then I'm okay with a one on one situation, But
I'm not always comfortable one on one. Initially, it initially
feels safer, right, But according to Dan, he said, well,
how do you get to know somebody? Because for guys,
we don't like that because we're trying to get to
know you and be alone like when I'm want and
(13:25):
have those conversations. But I also feel like you can
learn a lot about a person by seeing what they're
like around their friends.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Yeah you can. Yeah, you definitely can. Yeah, you definitely can.
What do you think I don't really bring I mean, well,
let's say last night, it was you were there on
my day, So let's be clear.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
You were there, I was there.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
This is not the first time you've been there on
a date. And I've gone out with you and you
know you're god and dates, you know, so I don't
I guess I was gonna say I didn't really I'm
not a fan of it, but apparently I am. But
apparently you were like I'm like, hey girl, which I'll do.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Gotta come good on.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Yeah, And I think that any guy has to like
have grace for that because I don't expect him to
pay for me. I don't want, you know, I don't
expect you guy to pay for me and nothing like that.
I can handle it myself, because I think that's rude.
I don't expect if I'm out with a guy, and
I know some people do you gotta pay for me
and my friends? No, I don't think if I invite somebody,
I don't look at it as a date.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
I look at it as more we're just hanging out.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Yeah. And what I also feel like is, especially you know,
if it's someone that you kind of like, they're gonna
have to be around you sometimes anyway, Angela, you know
what I'm saying, and vice versa, anyone that you're with
that's gonna have to be around me sometimes. Right, So
it's like you might as well, what if you don't
like them? If oh I don't like your guy, yeah,
it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I'm still gonna you gotta go.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
No, it's just like I wonder if he doesn't like you, Jazmine,
gotta go, I'd be like, well, sorry, Jasmine.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Here's the thing. The guy is gonna fake like he
likes your homegirl anyway, and vice versa.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Sometimes it's hard to though, sometimes it is hard to. Yeah,
don't call my friends at bozo, don't call my friends.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
A clown, don't call my friends a bug out.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Yeah, don't call my friends no names and would be okay, right?
Speaker 4 (15:04):
That is important to me. Some people are like I
don't care if my friends like you.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
I like my friends to like the guy because he's
not around, but not too much. Yeah that's not like yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Because I definitely have friends like hit up the guy
that I was dating behind my back, and I'm not
friends with people like that anymore.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
So you had to let that go.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
I don't like that.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
All right, Well that is about last night. Now you
know what's happening when we come back. Tell us a secret.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
For some people, this is their absolute favorite part of
the show. I got this idea from reading Cosmopolitan magazine
where they would have the confessions, and so people would
confess things and I'd be like, oh my gosh, but
these tend to be a little juicier.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
They are you have some really interesting callers.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Yes, And you know what, we always post these on
social media, and then I see some idiots in the
comments like this is all you talk about?
Speaker 4 (15:53):
No, this is one segment. Yeah, you post lots on
the show.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Yeah, we have, well Wednesday, we have amazing interviews. We
would just talk about marijuana regulations with Chairwomen's remain right.
There's a lot of things that happen on the show.
It's not just one thing. This show is multi fast,
but this is really fun.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
I ain't gonna lie.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Eight hundred two niney two fifty one fifty. Call us
up now if you want to get on the air,
tell us a secret.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
No judgment, no judgment. I wanna. We are going to
enjoy ourselves, are right.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Eight hundred two ninety two fifty one fifty. It's way
up with Angela.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Ye judgment free zone. Tell us a secret.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
All right, it's way up at Angela.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Yee.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
And you know what time it is, Jasmine?
Speaker 5 (16:30):
What time is it Angela?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
It's time to tell us a secret. That's right.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Eight hundred two ninety two fifty one fifty is a number.
You guys get to stay anonymous and we are not
going to judge you on whatever you have going on
in your life. Eight hundred two nine two fifty one
fifty Hello anonymous, call it tell us a secret.
Speaker 14 (16:48):
Okay. So when I was in college, I got with
one of my close friends by friends two times in
twenty four hours.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Oh did she ever find out?
Speaker 14 (16:59):
At the night time? And another time in three Yeah,
she did find out. Because I'm not gonna lie. I'm
a truth teller and I can't really lie for a
long time. So I wrote her a letter and told
her every little thing that happened, and I gave it
to her and she kind of shared it with her friends.
And I seen somebody else holding the letter one time,
and I was like, my dirty laundret.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Wow, Well what happened after that? But y'all not friends anymore?
Speaker 14 (17:26):
No, But it originally started because she just was spreading
her rumor trying to make it seem like I was
a bad person when I was in kind of like
a messed up plate. And her boyfriend was actually pretty
close to me. We were pretty we were better friends
than me and she her was. But I was angry
and wanted to prove a point. So I went off
and did my own game.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
And I don't regret it, Okay, you don't.
Speaker 14 (17:49):
It's a lesson learned every single thing that happened, Especially
when you do something so toxic, it makes you realize
where you went wrong and where you go wrong multiple times,
and a lot to situation like, it just shows you things.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Now, what happened to the guy?
Speaker 14 (18:03):
Oh my? So we ended up not being friends because
I realized he started acting funny. But he tell me why.
He every single year at some time of the year.
He's always in my views, like always in my views,
and I don't even have it like a friend. But
I'm like, yep, I know it was that good and
I did what I did.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Oh gosh, all right, well, thank you for sharing, no problem,
A good one, you too, Hey, Anonymous.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Color, how are you?
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Hi?
Speaker 14 (18:31):
Are you doing?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (18:32):
What's there as secret you want to share with us today?
How the mary?
Speaker 14 (18:37):
For over ten years?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Okay, Congress, I had been sleeping with my husband's cousin.
Speaker 14 (18:47):
Oh well, we known each other for a long time before,
and I didn't.
Speaker 15 (18:54):
Know that was his cousin.
Speaker 10 (18:55):
And I got a kid by him.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Wow, So who's kid does your husband think it is?
You think it's you don't know.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Wait a minute, So you're you have a child by
your husband's cousin.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
But your husband is raising it as though it's his own.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh. So what does the
cousin think about all this? Is he wanting to like
reveal anything? Do y'all feel like coming clean? Or is
this to the grave?
Speaker 4 (19:26):
To the grave?
Speaker 11 (19:27):
So what are you doing?
Speaker 14 (19:28):
What he gotta do?
Speaker 15 (19:29):
What he doing when he got to do?
Speaker 14 (19:31):
Poor baby? The baby she looks like me. Honey, twin, Honey,
that's a twain.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
How close is he with his cousin? Do you intend?
You intend to stay married?
Speaker 6 (19:49):
Though?
Speaker 14 (19:50):
Oh yeah, are you?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Are you still sleeping with the cousin?
Speaker 7 (19:57):
Hell?
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Yeah, yeah, that's Look.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Well, this is not gonna get any better. But if
Ana was here, a Maya would have lost his mind.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Mayna would have had.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
And he's not here.
Speaker 11 (20:11):
Okay, thank god Mana was here.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Well, thank you for sharing. I don't know what else
to say.
Speaker 7 (20:20):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
It's no judgment, so okay, thank you. Hey An Adams Kylin,
how are you?
Speaker 10 (20:26):
I'm right, how you feeling?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
I'm good?
Speaker 5 (20:28):
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
You want to tell me and judgment a secret?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
All right?
Speaker 10 (20:32):
So I'm a step I have a family, and it's
ball as my family. No, I work every day of
the week, but really, on my own days, i'd be
with my other family.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Oh wow, So you have a whole other family.
Speaker 10 (20:46):
Charged them all that. So I try to keep yourself
with So far, it's been good for the last four years.
Four and you gotta do what you gotta do sometime.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
So wait, so you have two families. Tell me how
many kids are in each family?
Speaker 10 (21:02):
Well, I got three on one and four on the other.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Which one is the side family?
Speaker 10 (21:07):
Both of them? Because I have a girlfriend too.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Wait a minute, Oh my god, So you have a
girlfriend and two side families.
Speaker 10 (21:16):
Yeah, but as far as they know about seven days
a week at a restaurant.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Where is this money?
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Do they question? Like, how come there's not the money
that you should have?
Speaker 10 (21:25):
Well, I'm like the alpha man, so I don't get
questioned too much. I you know, I gotta go to work.
This is what I'm doing.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
And so with the girlfriend, how does she become your girlfriend?
Was that after the families or was that before?
Speaker 10 (21:39):
It was after because you know, I started general like
that and she's like the only one that noticed the truth.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
Oh so she knows.
Speaker 10 (21:46):
Okay, okay, he knows that the families don't know.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Do you are you still? Do you still sleep with
both of the women in with the two families?
Speaker 10 (21:53):
Is that a question?
Speaker 11 (21:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (21:56):
I don't know. Nobody has a girlfriend, so I don't.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Know seven of the seven kids? Are you gonna have
a family with your girlfriend?
Speaker 10 (22:02):
He's on a penalfil now, because I'm like, what's the
name of them things that that you that's you huge
to stop having?
Speaker 4 (22:10):
I ud hear them?
Speaker 10 (22:12):
No a condom?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Oh wow, Now I didn't even know what it was called.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
What's the name of them things?
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Do you ever want to tell both families you know
what's going on.
Speaker 10 (22:25):
I mean working and I'm you know, if we can
all get together and live with the one room, meet
both my families and my dolfriend, that'll be wonderful.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Yeah, because you want the kids to know each other, right, Yeah,
I do, I do. What do you think is going
to happen when you when you come clean?
Speaker 10 (22:42):
Wait, I gotta come clean? I say that.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Well, I'm just saying because you say you want the
kids to know each other, So at some point if
you come clean, what do you think will happen?
Speaker 10 (22:51):
I'm not sure. I mean I'm doing enough. I'll be
doing the most, so maybe they might, maybe they might jacket,
maybe they might be all right with it.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
But them kids gonna be a fan. Okay, Well, no judgment,
Thank you for sharing.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Stop yourself from judging.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Hey, Anonymous, Kylin, how are you?
Speaker 12 (23:07):
I'm good?
Speaker 4 (23:09):
I'm good. Thank you you want to share a secret
with us? No judgment?
Speaker 15 (23:13):
You thing my boyfriends are about like making them funky anyway,
So I'm a wooded girl. So these guys came in
and it was just throwing money at me, like I
total of two hundred thirty y'all wears.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
So we have some kids that I gave him the kids.
Speaker 14 (23:27):
Even though I had a boyfriend. Why that boyfriend ended
up having a girlfriend a four years so it was
worth it anyways, a man, So.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
You got how much for a kiss?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Was it like a pet kiss or a ton kiss?
Speaker 5 (23:41):
It's pay he so you do it again?
Speaker 10 (23:44):
Oh yeah, peck.
Speaker 12 (23:52):
Yep, all right, thank you.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
What do you think your boyfriend you said you have
a boyfriend that what would he say?
Speaker 14 (23:59):
Oh girl, you had a girlfriend of four years?
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Okay? All right, well, thank you for sharing.
Speaker 12 (24:08):
No problem by night?
Speaker 4 (24:10):
All right? Yes, well that was tell us a secret.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Thank you guys for always calling in and trusting us
to not have judgment against whatever it is you say.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
But you are anonymous. All right.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
When we come back, we have yet and we'll be
talking about Benny the Butcher.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
He was on with Joe Button.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
And imagine you have a record with one of the
biggest artists of all time and it doesn't come out.
We'll talk about it. It's way up at Angela ye sure,
she's about to blow.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
The lead ab off this spot. Let's get it. Angela's
feeling at yet, come and get the tea.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
It's way up at Angela. Yee, I'm Angela yee.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Hey Jasmine, Hey Angela Jasmin brand dot com, where we
get a lot of these stories from.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Yes, let's get into it.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Benny the Butcher, he was on Joe Button's Amazon Amstow
Conversation Lovers Only.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
And imagine you have a song with one of.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
The biggest artists, by the way, the number one Spotify
streaming artists. Okay, so Drake Drake, and you can't even
put that collap out. Here's what he has to say
about that record never coming out Buffalo Freestyle.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
I was pissed, man, it's a Drake record.
Speaker 15 (25:10):
This for surely was my biggest record when you went off, Bro,
and it's the record just sitting in my pocket book.
I understand the mechanics of the business. I can't speak
for Bro and his team. You know how I got schedules.
I might do a feature for somebody like Yo, Benny,
we ready to drop this Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Was like, you ain't dropping that Tuesday because we hold
them off.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
So you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 15 (25:27):
It's the biggest artists in the world. So I understand
his release schedule, and I'm saying it might be hectic,
or I understand, you know, he might have people who
are like, you know, we can't drop that right now
because we're doing this.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
So I understand that.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Right The name of the song will sounded kind of
Hi high too.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Buffalo freestyle, Yeah, yeah, because he's from Buffalo. I listen,
and I mean listen. He had been teasing it leaked online,
so you can still.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
Get it, Okay, I can hear it then prematurely.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Yes, And so like you said, he doesn't think that
it's Drake's fallt so there's no hard feelings. And you
also got to do that because you want to make
sure Jess the case this can happen, all right, give.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
It some validity now.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Benny the Butcher also said in this conversation that he
was this close to having a jay Z collaboration.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Imagine that they hit me.
Speaker 15 (26:13):
It was like your whole got an idea that of
a song that he wanted to do with you. And
I went out there and I stayed my right. I
went out there and I stayed for three days waiting
on a phone call. And then when I the day
that I linked up with him, I'm just kicking it Withding,
we having drinks it.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
He didn't mention the song, so I brought it up.
I'm like, yo, he said, you had an idea of it.
He was like, oh yeah, this.
Speaker 15 (26:31):
Is what I wanted to tell you. And as soon
as he said that, somebody's like, yo, we need you,
and they called him over here and he left and
we never got brought up again. It's like two three
years ago.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
Man, I'd be tight bad luck.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
He got bad luck. Yo.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Remember this song?
Speaker 6 (26:47):
Ida brought it up?
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Were supposed to do. This is bringing it up again.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Though, Oh you're right, yeah right.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Somebody from that team is probably like, oh, you know,
Benny the butcher was just talking about you and he's
still waiting up.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Okay, it can happen.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Chris Rock had called the cops a man tried to
film him. He said from his fire escape, there was
a peeping time with the camera right outside his window.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
That's what he told the cops.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
He was reporting that it was outside his New York
City home, and soho in Manhattan. I actually saw Chris
Rock one day in Soho walking down the block randomly.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
Really mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
I was at the store, Alison Olivia. He called nine
one one on Sunday night. NYPD raced over, but they
said when they got there, the suspect was nowhere to
be found. They said he fled after Chris Rock spotted him,
and he hopped into a white Mercedes and got away.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
So don't know what was going on. Imagine that that's
a violation.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Now, Chris Rock reported the man appeared to have a
camera and that they seemed to be attempting to either
film or snap pictures of him.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
And Manhattan, it's really hard to get away with stuff
like that too, because there's too many people that see you,
that are doing things. But the other, I guess flip
side of it is that there's so much going on.
Nothing looks weird now there is a lot going on.
There's so much going on. You could be walking out
somebody's house with a TV. Yes, there belong is that
nobody's gonna think anything.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
People gonna mind a business, Yes, we gonna mind our
business all right.
Speaker 14 (28:05):
Now.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
This is a really sad story. Nli Chappa.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
He actually donated a brand new basketball court in Raleigh,
and apparently that court was destroyed by fire less than
two weeks after it opened. So we tried to do
this amazing, great deed. They did say the cause of
the fire was determined to be a pile of fireworks
that have been ignited in the center.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Of the court.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
So Nick Walker, who is the Memphis Parks director, said
the court was a total loss. He said, it's very
sad that this random action destroyed a new and valued
community asset. Memphis Parks really appreciates the partnership and sponsorship
that led to the creation of the Dream Court, and
we really look forward to finding a way to get
an asset of similar quality back into the Raleigh community.
We've been in touch with the Liberman Charities and NLI
(28:48):
Chappa to express appreciation and support for the community.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Oh that's too bad.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Yeah, they're doing one hundred and twenty Dream Courts around
the country. So the Dream Court, who is the centerpiece
and an early Chapa, is always trying to do things
to help out.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
How about the community.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
It seems like he gives back a lot.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
All right, Well, that is your yee tea. And when
we come back, we have under the radar. These are
the stories that are not necessarily in the headlines, but
you know they're just as important, and we want to
make sure that you are aware. It's way up at
Angela Yee news.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
This in the news that relates to you. These stories
are flying under the radar.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
It's way up at Angela Yee. I'm Angela Yee.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Hey Jasmine, Hey, Angela, Happy Wednesday. I love that you
dance to whatever music is playing. I'm like, what's going on.
I'm trying to stay up all right.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Well way up.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Our New York residents have been urged to stay indoors.
There's unhealthy air quality and I can vouch for that.
I was outside walking here. I can stop coughing today
and it's very smoggy out and New York State they're
wanting residents to avoid being outdoors because of the potential
health risk that could persist. New York City has the
world's worst air pollution of any major city.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
During parts of Tuesday, there's heavy smoke.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
From more than one hundred wildfires that have been burning
north of the Canadian border that have drifted south. So
it's an alarming air quality and they are saying please
limit your outdoor activity. And also they have issued an
air quality health advisory.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Okay, you can definitely tell the difference here in New
York right now.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Yeah, in New York City public schools they canceled all
outdoor activities today. And you know, schools are still open,
but as far as being outside, no, yep, got to
be careful. I've never experienced something like this.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
This is my first.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
I'm used to dealing with pollution on a daily basis,
but not to this level.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
And there's some advice for if you have you know, kids,
you have to be even more concerned or you know,
infants and stuff.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
So yeah, check your local air quality levels. You can
go to air now dot gov. All right, and children
are very susceptible to changes in air quality. Their lungs
are still growing, so they breathe in a lot of
air relative to their body size.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Another story in Hawaii, there is a terminal used by
Southwest Hawaii flights at a Honolulu airport and they're.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
Saying bedbus bugs I've been an issue.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Last week they reported the bugs had made a home
at the e gates in Terminal two. At first, they
thought that they could easily rectify the situation. Just remove
what the things are that we're attracting the bedbugs. But
wasn't so easy. They actually had to dispatch a staff
and start deep cleaning and carpet removal. Then an exterminator
was summoned to apply pest controls. The gates were closed temporarily,
(31:24):
but they're saying this bedbug removal process will be ongoing
for three weeks.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Yeah, bedbugs are no joke.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Yeah, because they spread really quickly and it's hard to
get rid of them, and then they get on your clothes.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
Yeah. They said, people bring them in with their luggage
and that's how they kind of spread.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
In terms of the airline, and previously, American Airlines had
a bedbug infestation on one of their fleets and that's
an uproar imagine. I don't know if anybody's ever been
bitten by a bedbug before, but I've seen bedbug bites
and it is discussing crew members were bitten on this
flight and the use of insectivised insecticides was severe and
that caused some more issues At one point on American Airlines.
(32:02):
The Flight Attendants Union said, we've received countless reports this
week from concerned flight attendants who have experienced various health
issues after using crew bunks on our wide body fleet,
and so bedbugs do become an issue.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
Okay, well, how do we avoid? What are we supposed
to do so that this doesn't happen?
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Well, don't bring luggage directly into your home, they said. Initially,
leave your bags in the garage or a sealed plastic
bag or bin. Heat the luggage and its contents, for example,
if you put the bags in a black trash bag
in the sun, or purchase luggage with a heater, which
they do have those available, or you can buy a
luggage heater. Bedbugs can't live in high heat, so if
(32:38):
you heat your clothes and your contents.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
Of that bag, then you'll eliminate them.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Also, wash your clothes immediately after a chip using the
hot cycle or the alternative is the opposite, freeze the
contents of your bags that will also kill the bugs.
And then when you have to, you can use hot, soapy,
wetter and a scrub breast to remove bedbug eggs and
bug themselves. Also use a flash slight and look for
their presence. They're live moving bedbugs. They're tan, red or brown.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Oh my goodness, do you.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Do any of these things, Well, that's only if there's
bed bugs, like there's some type of fair.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
But this is how to But what you listed is
how to avoid them. So I feel like we should
be doing something every time we travel. No, I don't
do these I don't do any of these things.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
But one thing I don't like that people do is
do not put no bags on your bed. I see
this on TV shows and movies. If you put a
defo bag that you've had on the floor or a
suitcase on your bed, that is disgusting.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
Have you ever had bed bugs? Angela?
Speaker 11 (33:32):
I have not.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
Let me give a.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Question itching right now, just thinking about it, have you
not that I know of?
Speaker 5 (33:39):
I feel like you would know it.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Right Yeah, I think you would be you have bites.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
If you ever see what it looks like when somebody's
had bedbug bites, just look up a picture, all right.
We also have the Way of Mixed coming at the
top of the hour, and as we told you earlier,
Caroline Wanga is going to be joining us. She is
the CEO and president of Essence Ventures that includes the
Essence Fest which is coming up, also Afropunk, also Beauty
Con also Essen studios. We'll be having a conversation with
(34:05):
her today. But right now we're talking about bedbugs. Oh,
if you ever had them? Eight hundred two ninety two. No,
I don't know why he asked it. Oh, I thought
you were just saying to ask that. I was like,
why is he asking that? All right, well, you can
always also hit us up on social media at way
up with ye that's on Twitter and on Instagram and
way in with your bedbug stories.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
I want to hear him. I'm itching. It's way up
with Angela Yee.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
She's like the talk like they Angela Jean like they
Angela jee Man.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
She's spilling it all. This is ye t way off.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
Yes, it's way up with Angela.
Speaker 10 (34:39):
Ye.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
I'm Angela Yee. And Jasmine from the Jasmine Brand is here.
I'm here Angela, and this is your thing right here
right Yes, the Jasmin brand dot com is an entertainment
site and we got some entertaining things for you.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
And Angela also works for me too.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Oh that's right, let's not forget that all right now.
Dough Boy is thanking j Lo and Ja Rule for
clearing the sample. They said he begged for a a
year for twelve months in order for them to sign
off on sampling The Way I Walk for the for
his new track The Way I Walk.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
All right, here is what Dob Boy had to.
Speaker 9 (35:09):
Say, Thank you, j Low. I appreciate it. The begging
you last for a year finally made it happen. Ain't
none of little money I can't get done. Yeah yeah,
stand me, oh yeah, shout out y'ar rout two came
to Clutch for it.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
That was Gangston.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
I respect it.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
That was a song. I'm real, so I guess his
song Way I Walk.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
His album comes out on on Friday on June ninth. Persistence.
He was very persistent and patient. Yes, you gotta have patience,
so get ready for that album. He actually just did
lip service too, and that interview came out last week
and he has a song with Davee Loaf that's an
amazing track, and Dave's Loaf doesn't hasn't been doing features
prior to that. Here's what he had to say about it.
(35:47):
You just put out a new song, Roll the Dice
with daves Low. Dage Loaf has not really done any
features recently.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Yeah, how did that happen?
Speaker 9 (35:55):
Collabn with Days was always like on my bucket list.
Like when I was in jail, I used to listen
to her project to Sell Soul. I used to listen
to it all the time. Only man, she's so hard.
But when I came home, she like started falling back
a little bit right, and I'm like, man, damn, I
gotta get to her though. And then it was just
one day. I'm like, hey, look here, hold on, I
got some for you, and I sent to the song.
(36:17):
I sent her the role to Dight. She literally sent
a song back in thirty minutes.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
That's a good feeling.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
That is okay, Yeah, dad, we can't wait to hear
some new days low. Yeah, I'm ready for her all
right now gee herbo. It looks like he and Tina
had broken up his fiance. He posted on social media
I'm single yesterday on his Instagram story. So okay, I'm
not sure what led to this breakup, but I saw
he was trending because of it, and people were definitely
(36:43):
blaming him for all of this.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
We don't know what's going on, but we blame you.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Yeah, we have no idea what happened, but people are like, bro,
fix your family, hey, ish out here and God ain't
gonna keep sending you good women. Another said, boy, if
you don't go back home and help put your babies
to bed.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
Because they do have.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
He has two children with Tyaka, and then of course
he has one with Arikay.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
All right now.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Dominique Fishback says that in Transformers, there was a stunt
that she did that could have been very bad. She
was at the New York City premiere of Transformers Rise
of the Beasts, and she said, there's a part where
I'm supposed to go down into a cave. I had
a harness on and a guy is holding it. The
director wanted me to step down without looking so that
the camera could get more in my face before I
descended into the cave. But I missed the step and
(37:27):
I fell back.
Speaker 5 (37:28):
Okay, that sounds scared. I was imagining it.
Speaker 6 (37:30):
Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Yeah, So she said the what she ended up doing
there with that missing that step didn't even make it
in the final film. She said, it's not in there,
but the guy had to grab the rope to make
sure I didn't fall, So it could have.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
Been very bad.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
That's scary.
Speaker 4 (37:44):
That is so scary.
Speaker 5 (37:44):
When you were reading it, I was like, because I
could Picture the.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Whole Thing and Dominic fish Back and Anthony Ramo's co
star in the new Transformers movie and they're both from Brooklyn.
Speaker 5 (37:54):
Did Brooklyn Zone?
Speaker 4 (37:55):
Yeah, Brooklyn Zone And that's in theaters on Friday as well.
Speaker 5 (37:58):
We're gonna when are we gonna go see that?
Speaker 4 (38:01):
I'm down.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
I want to see it like asap. I would like
to see it. We might need some pre buy them tickets.
And speaking of the Transformers premiere, Pete Davidson was there
and he was talking about that. Remember he bought that ferry,
the Staten Island ferry.
Speaker 5 (38:18):
Yeah, what was that about?
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Well, he told Entertainment tonight while he was at the
New York City premiere of Transformers. He said, he has
no idea what's going on with that ferry. He said,
me and Colin were stoned a year ago and bought
a ferry and we're figuring it out. So they don't
even know what's going on with this ferry. They you know,
he's from Staten Island and they had plans to create
a restaurant, a bar and entertainment space on the boat
(38:40):
that people could visit while it was docked. But I
don't know if that can even happen, and so they
don't know.
Speaker 5 (38:47):
Have you ever bought something while you were high, a
purchase you regret.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
It, not a boat, a small purchase like sweater, likewhoes.
And I see that Gloria Govan is having some legal
issues as well. Now I was on social media and
I saw on the neighborhood Talk that she could find
herself in jail. She has to pay this default judgment
that's owed to Matt Barnes. She actually ended up having
(39:13):
to pay for court fees and everything. And so now
that sum is hundred and thirty seven thousand dollars and
so if she doesn't pay that bill, she could end
up going to jail on a default judgment.
Speaker 5 (39:25):
They seem to still be having some issues with each other.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
All right, well that is your yee t And when
we come back, we're going to talk about this. I
was knocked out yesterday, but there was a period of
time in my life when I could not sleep for anything,
and even when I had to get up at four
o'clock in the morning every day, I would just be
up all night. And we're going to talk about what
time you fall asleep and what that means when it
comes to your health. It's way up with the Angela Ye, I'm.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
You ride a way up with Angela Ye.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (40:01):
It's way up with Angela Yee. I'm Angela Yee. And
Jasmine from the Jasmine brand is here.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
Yes, I'm not just I'm my own brand. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
Yesterday, I had a long day, okay, Like came to
work and I honestly did not. I had to go
deal with some things with my brownstone in Brooklyn.
Speaker 5 (40:17):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
I was there for hours and I had a zoom.
Then I came to meet you. So I didn't get
home till probably like the missus, Yeah, like around ten
thirty at night. Okay, So I fell and fell asleep
immediately passed out, right.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
Can I just say something really quick? The thing is
you have obviously, you have like fifty jobs, that's the thing.
And then you have like other responsibilities.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
A lot of them. Some of them are people.
Speaker 5 (40:44):
Yeah, okay, I have some other responsibilities too, but not
as many as you.
Speaker 4 (40:50):
You have your own business. I do, all right.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
So they're saying here now, yesterday, when I tell you
I fell asleep, I tried to pull out my laptop
and do a little work.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
I just said forget it. It's not happening.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
And according to studies, going to sleep really quickly isn't
always a good thing, and taking too long is also
not a good thing. So what is that sweet spot, right,
Because sometimes you have so much going on in your
head you end up laying in bed just thinking and
you can't sleep tossing and turning.
Speaker 4 (41:15):
That's definitely happened to me. Both things have happened to me.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
So the time it takes for you to go to
sleep is clinically called sleep latency, and there's no set,
normal or healthy amount of time that it should take,
but there are some guide posts that you should follow.
So they said, according to the National Sleep Foundation, it
should take about fifteen to twenty minutes for a healthy.
Speaker 5 (41:34):
Person fifteen to twenty minutes.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
Now people with health conditions it can take thirty to
forty minutes. But they said it's good to spend the
half hour before bed winding ourselves down while we're awake
and do kind of a night bedtime routine. So they
have different things that you can be doing to make
sure that it's a routine. But falling asleep within a
half an hour is a good goal. And if you
fall asleep right when your head hits the pillow. It's
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not necessarily a cause for concern over all, but it
could mean that something is going on.
Speaker 4 (42:02):
It could mean that you simply need more sleep.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
That was my life, yes, for a long, long period
of time, and there would be times that I would
take a ten minute nap. I would set my alarm
for ten minutes because I needed a quick nap so quickly.
But that can be a sign of exhaustion, a sign
that we're overworking ourselves, a sign a burnout, a sign
that we're not spending enough time recovering and arresting. And
it may mean that you're not sleeping long enough and
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you're getting that quote unquote junk sleep. That's not enough
for you to feel well rested and nourished, nourished, nourished.
Another reason they said that it's really important to know this.
You could have a mental health condition. It could be
a side effective medication or caused by mental health diagnosis,
such as depression. So depression may make you sleepy, but
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so do certain antidepressants.
Speaker 6 (42:48):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 5 (42:49):
I took something before it used to As soon as
I would take it, it would put me right to sleep.
It was like for depression all right.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
Also sleep apnea that's very common in older adults. It's
a chronic sleep disorder. I know people who have that.
They have to sleep with that machine over their face. Yes,
that's where your upper airway is completely or partially obstructed
during sleep, leading to a decrease in oxygen content.
Speaker 4 (43:10):
That leads to sleep fragmentation. So you're always like waking up.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
And you can notice this if you're fatigued during the day,
if you're having some problems understanding things, your cognitive dysfunction.
So they advise a regular sleep schedule and to quit smoking.
If you smoke, all right, and if you fall asleep slowly,
that's the other side of the coin, and that could
be a symptom of insomnia, chronic pain, a psychological or
medical condition. That could mean that your sleep routine isn't
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the best. You have an inconsistent bedtime. I noticed that
even when I know on the weekend, I still will
wake up around the same time.
Speaker 5 (43:41):
Yeah, I wake up around the same time every day.
Speaker 3 (43:43):
You could feel emotional or stressed. That can make you
just be up all night, they said. Distress, anxiety and
other emotional concerns can trigger insomnia by leading to an
overactive sympathetic nervous system. So make sure you see a
medical provider because sleep is so important. That's why my
matches is important.
Speaker 5 (44:00):
Yes, you know, and well the bed I sleep on
in your place is very comfortable. All your places have
comfortable beds.
Speaker 4 (44:07):
For me, that's a Savoir mattress. Shout out to beds.
Speaker 5 (44:11):
It's nice, You're very nice. Nice.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
But I do believe in investing in the right mattress
because you don't want to wake up all sore. Your
body hurts. See hour you can't sleep. It's tossing and turning.
You can feel them, the wires. I've had those too.
You can feel the coils.
Speaker 5 (44:24):
And you've had those. I don't really invest in like
I should into the mattress situation. Yes, yeah, but it's
important to make it happen. All right.
Speaker 3 (44:30):
Well, when we come back, we have Caroline Wanga joining us.
She is the CEO and president of Essence Fenters that
includes the Essence Music Festival, the publication Essence that includes Afropunk,
that includes Beauty con that of includes Essence Studios, and
I can't wait for you guys to hear what she
has to say it's way up at Angela.
Speaker 4 (44:48):
Yea, yeah, it.
Speaker 12 (44:56):
Is on.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
Yes, it's way you put Angela yee. I'm Angela yee.
Jazzmine from the Jasmine brand is here.
Speaker 6 (45:02):
Yes, I'm here, Angela, Hi.
Speaker 4 (45:03):
You're here.
Speaker 11 (45:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (45:04):
And Caroline Wanga is about to be joining us.
Speaker 3 (45:06):
She is the president and CEO of Essence Ventures. That's
Essence Fest, Yes, Essence Magazine, Yes, Essence the Beauty Come
and Afropunk and Essence Studios, Essence Studios. That sounds exciting. Yeah,
so that's gonna be fun because I actually go to
Essence Fest every single year. I've also been to Afropunk
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quite a few times. I've never been to Afropunk. I
took my god daughter one year. She really really wanted
to go. Let's try to go this year. Okay, it's
in Brooklyn. It's actually kind of the same weekend as
Angela y e day. Some trying to figure that out
and figure that out, Angela, Yeah, we got to figure
that out because you know, I want to be able
to do it all.
Speaker 5 (45:44):
Yes, sometimes we cannot do it all.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
Okay, Yeah, you're absolutely right, And shout out to my
coffee company, Coffee uplifts people, I got a lot of
things that I need to handle with that.
Speaker 4 (45:55):
But that's been going well.
Speaker 10 (45:56):
You know.
Speaker 3 (45:56):
It's having a business and being a small business owner
is not easy. I'm trying to figure some things out
right now.
Speaker 5 (46:03):
And for those who don't know, it's in Brooklyn.
Speaker 3 (46:06):
The coffee shop is in Brooklyn, but the coffee is
available at several different places yet online coffeeplist, people dot com.
So if you're a coffee drinker, I haven't drank coffee
my whole life, right, so I'm newer to this, but
I actually have it every day now pretty much.
Speaker 5 (46:21):
Yeah, I have, And you make a little for me
every day too.
Speaker 4 (46:24):
And I have a coffee machine.
Speaker 5 (46:25):
I have a nice det lung machine, nice coffee in.
Speaker 3 (46:28):
My home, and I like to actually, here's a little
thing I do. I like to make my coffee with
actually chocolate oat milk. Yes, and it's delicious like that.
Speaker 5 (46:38):
And sometimes we add a little something in there too.
Speaker 4 (46:40):
Something's a little Baillies. All right. So we're gonna keep
it going.
Speaker 3 (46:44):
But Caroline Wanga is joining us, and I actually did
a whole coffee ceremony at Essence Fest last year. So
let's talk about what's happening this year. In case you've
never been, you're gonna love this conversation. But if you
have been and every single year you go on, you're
dedicated to it like I am, You're gonna love this conversation.
Caroline Wanga, CEO and President of Essence Ventures.
Speaker 4 (47:06):
When we come back, it's way up at Angela Yee.
Speaker 2 (47:10):
Yays, you back at it, bring in the magazine.
Speaker 3 (47:13):
Up with Angela Yee is on what's up its way
up with Angela Yee. I'm Angela Yee and Jasmine from
the Jasmine brand dot Com is here and we have
a very special guest, the epitome of what it is
that we try to talk about up here on way
up at Angela Yee.
Speaker 4 (47:27):
Caroline Wanga is here with us.
Speaker 5 (47:29):
Hey.
Speaker 3 (47:30):
Yes, you are the president and chief executive officer of
Essence Ventures and you also have your own Wanga woman too.
Speaker 6 (47:37):
I do, I do.
Speaker 4 (47:38):
So can you talk about Essence Ventures for people?
Speaker 3 (47:40):
Because we think of Essence Festival, we think of the magazine,
but there are other ventures too, That's why it's Essence Adventures.
Speaker 6 (47:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (47:47):
Well, first of all, congratulations, this is this is so dope.
We've done this before, but I couldn't be more honored
to be with you here. I'm super proud of what
you're doing and what you continue to do and who
would inspire.
Speaker 6 (47:58):
So I'm honored to be here Jazz when I'm to
be here with you as well.
Speaker 13 (48:01):
So let's talk about Essence Ventures, right, So here's the
way that I would have you think about it.
Speaker 6 (48:05):
There are a series of.
Speaker 13 (48:08):
Companies that sit under this brand called Essence Ventures, and
when you tie them together, the goal is to really
create a frictionless and browndrey list black economic engine. So
what it includes is Essence Communications, which is the festival
and the magazine and Black Women in Hollywood and all
these activations that everybody knows.
Speaker 6 (48:26):
What also sits with underneath me now as a part
of the group is Beauty Con.
Speaker 13 (48:30):
So people may remember the brand Beauty Conmber that. Yeah,
so most people like Beauty Con is a heck of
a following and had been dormant for a couple of years.
Speaker 3 (48:39):
We wonder what happens last summer?
Speaker 6 (48:43):
Yeah, so we acquired that last summer.
Speaker 13 (48:45):
In fact, we're doing this week, we're doing a media
day to talk about the relaunch of that.
Speaker 6 (48:50):
So we will be relaunching Beautycon this year.
Speaker 13 (48:52):
We've already got a couple of events on the calendar
for this year.
Speaker 6 (48:55):
As it is. What also sits within there's Afropunk.
Speaker 13 (48:57):
So Afropunk is a long standing brand that definition of
is it has always been the safest place for black
that's on the margin, meaning folks that have interested in
things that may not have been acceptable in black community.
May have been different, whether it be heavy metal, gamers,
comic con, all of that, but at the end of
the day, Afropunk is is the part of our portfolio
that stands anti anything right, anti homophobia, anti racism, anti right,
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and really has represented how we make sure that the
full spectrum of what it means to be black, because
it's not a monolith, is seen and heard equitably.
Speaker 6 (49:30):
And it's one of my absolute favorite communities.
Speaker 13 (49:32):
But than the fourth brand is Essen Studios, which is
our own production house. It basically became what saved our
business during the pandemic. It became a streaming platform for
the festival where we have forty five million views, sixty
five million views the next year, and so now what
we're doing is really reinventing what studios is going to
be to help fill in where our portfolio needs more
focus on particular Black segments to be able to drive forward.
Speaker 6 (49:53):
But that's what Essence Ventures is.
Speaker 4 (49:55):
That's a lot that had come up for each different.
Speaker 6 (49:59):
And I have to sleep different segments to go through
each of them.
Speaker 13 (50:02):
But it's a beautiful combination of something that as we
continue to refine it will really really really continue to
do our part to strengthen Black in terms of community,
Black in terms of value, Black in terms of culture,
Black in terms of capital, and all of that is
only good.
Speaker 3 (50:18):
And there's never a question for Essence Fest to be
in New Orleans, right listen, you.
Speaker 13 (50:23):
Know I have to tell me New Orleans because they
don't understand that this mouth is the horse's mouth.
Speaker 6 (50:27):
So the horse's mouth said, we're never leaving New Orleans.
Speaker 13 (50:30):
When you look at what the people that participate in
the festival do for the city of New Orleans, you
understand what would be different if we left. We're talking
about an annual impact, meaning every year of three hundred
and twenty seven million dollars a year that we pumped
straight into New Orleans, whether that be taxes, whether that
be lodging, whether that be flights. We're talking about what
we do to create thirty six hundred jobs locally, Like
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forget us coming in and having a good time to
spending that money. We are an economy for New Orleans
and what we can't do is abandon that for aesthetic.
Speaker 3 (50:59):
We're talking to Caroline Wanga, the CEO and president of Essence.
Speaker 4 (51:04):
Now, I know you saw a juvenile gonna be.
Speaker 13 (51:08):
Fifty years of hip hop in New Orleans without including me.
Speaker 8 (51:12):
That's crazy.
Speaker 6 (51:13):
See you chose violence.
Speaker 5 (51:16):
Were Where is the where?
Speaker 6 (51:20):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (51:20):
So listen, please address it.
Speaker 6 (51:23):
I'm gonna address it head on. Let me be really clear, right.
Speaker 13 (51:26):
So, one of the things we changed within the festival
is that we used to have like a theme each year,
Like last year was a.
Speaker 6 (51:31):
Black Joy for me. We came and visited and talked
with that.
Speaker 13 (51:34):
As we are doing this evolution of the festival, made
an intentional decision to not necessarily stick to try to
come up with the theme because it makes everything dramatic,
but instead look at what are black cultural moments that
are happening that are relevant that we want to tap into.
Speaker 6 (51:46):
And because this was the fiftieth anniversary of hip hop,
of course we like and so are we. So we
made a.
Speaker 13 (51:51):
Decision to celebrate the fifty years pop and started to
source talent and have conversations with talent. Right, and there
is no way in hell that we were not gonna
have any NOLA artists be a part of this day
and festival. Now, we have always created a festival that
had some things announced in some things a surprise, So
there will be surprise and delight moments that features some
Nola talent that a great baby, right, nia X was
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already on there as we talk about the you know
what we want to do with with the femces, right,
the female Martinez Martinez. But also part of my commitment
in this new era of essence was to be engaged
with the local New Orleans community authentically. So on Monday,
we've added an event that we started last year, which
is the.
Speaker 6 (52:33):
Family Day in the Block Party. That entire roster is.
Speaker 13 (52:37):
All New Orleans talent from across the musical spectrum of
New Orleans.
Speaker 6 (52:41):
So whether or not a particular.
Speaker 13 (52:42):
Individual was on a roster is different from we don't
care about NOLA artists.
Speaker 6 (52:46):
Okay, so that's the way that I'll address it.
Speaker 3 (52:48):
Okay, good, well, I'm glad we put it out there
right away. Because but that's how.
Speaker 6 (52:52):
To watch juvenile social handles.
Speaker 3 (52:54):
If you want to know more, we're talking to Caroline Wanga,
the CEO and president of Essence.
Speaker 4 (53:00):
Now let's talk about.
Speaker 3 (53:01):
You, yes for a second, because just you having this
role at Essence and the way you started. You came
in and then within a month you became the CEO
of that part.
Speaker 4 (53:10):
You came in under hook about it.
Speaker 3 (53:13):
So let's discuss for yourself just having to put all
of this together and being on the front lines of
everything and clearly some things have to change because you're
bringing your own vision and trying to see what needs
to evolve into a different space. How has that been
for you? Because that's not easy. I saw an article
we're doing this where you talked about five failures. Allow
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yourself five failures a day. If you get to six,
there's a problem, or you get to.
Speaker 4 (53:40):
Yeah, hit rese But how hasn't been for you?
Speaker 13 (53:44):
I sincerely appreciate the question because I took the opportunity
to come to this brand as an active service, and
what I mean by that is like this thing does
not belong to me or to you, like it belongs
to the community. I came into a whole bunch of stuff.
But what I think is most important to understand is
the business was not healthy because of how it had
been treated within time INK and the work to rebuild
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that business was a lot financially, was a lot culturally,
but the level to which there was missed moments and
misinformation and where hurt people had hurt people and all
of that, the volume of it was much louder than
I understood it to be before I came in the
beauty is My prior role was working in creating inclusive
environments and listening, and so as much as I was
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worried about not coming from the media space, I ended
up needing the skills that I had in my last
job to just listen and be honest about the fact
that we've taken all of this in and we're not
going to decide where we're going to go. But then
I would say, the mantle is heavy, and some of
that is self inflicted, and I don't know that I
was fully prepared, and so I think there were moments in.
Speaker 6 (54:45):
Especially that first year, where I just had to sit down.
Speaker 13 (54:49):
And go, do you still want to You now know
the weight of the mantle. You get to decide, and
every time I got into one of those moments, the
answer was yes.
Speaker 6 (54:59):
So to be able to go through.
Speaker 13 (55:01):
That and then now have these other brands sitting with
me and to see where we are as a business.
We've had a two hundred and sixty percent increase in
profitability in three years. We've increased our team by thirty
six percent. We've increased salaries about forty seven percent. Like
every day that I said yes with this team is
manifesting in a way that is even beyond what I
could imagine.
Speaker 6 (55:21):
And so the days are still hard, but the progress.
Speaker 13 (55:24):
That has been proven on behalf of our community is
the thing that keeps me fueled. With the teams that
we work with and the partners like y'all and the
family that continue to.
Speaker 6 (55:33):
Help this thing show.
Speaker 4 (55:34):
Numbers don't lie, they don't lie at all.
Speaker 6 (55:35):
And on the days where I get to the sixth trail,
we just end the day and.
Speaker 5 (55:38):
Seek in the month.
Speaker 3 (55:39):
Okay, yep, Caroline Wanga is here with us. We are
gearing up for Essence Fest. But let's not forget Essence
is more than just the festival. We'll talk more about
that when we come back. It's way up at Angela Yee.
Speaker 2 (55:52):
You've ride a way up with Yee.
Speaker 3 (55:55):
It's also a wealth Wednesday. Let's not forget that. And
we are talking about somebody who has some of the
chea codes for you guys who have your own businesses
or maybe you want to come out and join us
for Essence Fest. This year we have Caroline Wanga, the
CEO and President of Essence.
Speaker 4 (56:11):
Let's talk about this lineup a little for me.
Speaker 3 (56:15):
Yes, because I mean, honestly, first of all, a lot
of women on here, and I mean Andie is also
going to be doing fifty years of Women, Yes, and
hip hop. I know there's going to be some amazing
surprises there are there when it.
Speaker 4 (56:28):
Comes to that. But headliner is Missy Elliott, Miss Lauren.
Speaker 3 (56:31):
Hill, come on, Megan thee Stallion, come on, Jill Scott
is going to be there. Trina, that's your favorite Jazmine, Yes,
I love her favorite.
Speaker 4 (56:40):
Song of all I love trump Come on?
Speaker 6 (56:42):
That was an anthem.
Speaker 4 (56:44):
That was anthem and you said Mia ex remy my eve. Yes, and.
Speaker 2 (56:51):
La is DJ that's right.
Speaker 4 (56:53):
Say all of the Marine is going to be there.
Speaker 5 (56:55):
I remember her.
Speaker 3 (56:56):
I mean, that's amazing that you have the most amazing
women as far as hip hop artists Marie Lennox and
we absolutely love money long m.
Speaker 6 (57:04):
Yeah, everybody coming outside.
Speaker 3 (57:06):
So talk to me about the whole process, like of
how something like this comes together. Who was the first
person that you're like, we book around this.
Speaker 6 (57:13):
You know, I would love to tell you this beautiful
organized story.
Speaker 4 (57:16):
But I'm gonna tell you how it actually happens, right because.
Speaker 6 (57:18):
We real out here. What we have decided was that
we were going to lean into the When you are
a festival.
Speaker 13 (57:23):
That's been around for twenty nine years, people get worried
about who you're gonna put on.
Speaker 6 (57:26):
Your roster, and so there may be organizations out there
that try to block particular town.
Speaker 5 (57:29):
The formative festival competition.
Speaker 13 (57:31):
Hey, it's the highest form of flattery. And you got
to make next well civity contracts. You can't come perform alone.
Speaker 5 (57:35):
I never thought about that kind of stuff.
Speaker 13 (57:37):
Oh yeah, bibit, okay, come on, we're twenty nine years old.
All these other ones is new. So in order to
continue to win against us, you gotta cheat. So you
cheat the time, so many contracts to cut people off.
So I say that because one of the first things
was who's available, right, We can't move our date, Like
our date is the fourth of July weekend. You know,
other festivals may have a date, but they can play
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maybe within a week.
Speaker 6 (57:58):
It's fourth of July weekend.
Speaker 13 (58:00):
That's when we do it, and so availability has to
be there. Then we went down the path of how
do we make sure that there's a multi generational representation right,
and so it was really about that.
Speaker 6 (58:10):
And then just like we said about hip hop, we
looked at what are some.
Speaker 13 (58:12):
Cool moments that this year represents, and so it happened
to be the twenty fifth anniversary of the Miseducation of
Lauren Hill Missy gets.
Speaker 6 (58:21):
Into the Rock.
Speaker 13 (58:23):
And then when we look at Meghan the styling like
we had Nicki Minaj last year, Meghan is killing it all.
Speaker 5 (58:28):
Yes she is.
Speaker 13 (58:28):
And so really it became really a matter of just
reverse engineering into what makes sense on headliners.
Speaker 6 (58:33):
I know, from a hip hop perspective.
Speaker 13 (58:35):
We were also really passionate about having regional representation and
making sure that it wasn't the hip hop of anyone
area that was kind of leading.
Speaker 6 (58:42):
And so that's what kind of led to these curations.
Speaker 13 (58:44):
And then we looked at what do we want to
do differently with how we host, We've had many different
host pieces and so we looked at comedians.
Speaker 3 (58:50):
This year we're talking to Caroline Wanga, the CEO and
president of Essence and as far as Wanga Women, yes, yeah,
because I always think it's important to have your own
personal brands as well and what you do.
Speaker 4 (59:04):
So can you just give us, I'll give you a
break some Wa Woman.
Speaker 5 (59:07):
Yes.
Speaker 13 (59:08):
So Wanga Woman was born out of the way that
I was choosing to talk about how purpose played a
role in my life and really how shedding what was
a way of operating that wasn't authentic as who I
was changed the trajectory of my career, my life, my finances.
And so we founded Wanga Women really out of demand.
People wanted us to come and talk more about how
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do you weaponize authenticity for.
Speaker 6 (59:31):
Your own good.
Speaker 13 (59:32):
The mission of Wango Woman is to democratize authenticity by
helping people find their purpose. Yes, it comes with speaking opportunities,
but there's courses and other things that are literally just
based on what I did to find myself because the
personal mission in it for me is it took me
so long having been a mom at seventeen and being
stuck at that failure for almost eighteen years and not
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seeing what I'd done and operating apologetically, and people renegotiated
my potential without my permission, and a whole bunch of
other stuff.
Speaker 6 (01:00:01):
I was so stuck there for almost twenty years.
Speaker 13 (01:00:04):
And when I finally unlocked who I was and looked
back to fix my life, my psychological birthdays and all
that stuff, I got so angry that it took so long.
That my mission became getting people to get to that
place sooner so they can have funner sooner. And so
the mission is simply to democratize authenticity by getting people
connected to their purpose so that they can start to
activate their purpose in the world. Because I believe that
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everybody has a purpose that's uniquely theirs, and if they
don't go after it, the world goes without.
Speaker 6 (01:00:29):
So we say, who you are is who you are.
Speaker 13 (01:00:31):
If you can't be who you are where you are,
you change where you are, not who you are.
Speaker 4 (01:00:34):
Yeah, I better connect.
Speaker 5 (01:00:35):
I want to get sooner.
Speaker 13 (01:00:37):
I like that because then like there's a conercorpia of
fun and excitement for you.
Speaker 6 (01:00:41):
Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 4 (01:00:42):
Yeah, doctor wanga.
Speaker 5 (01:00:45):
About it, talk about it. I'll be so proud about it.
Speaker 6 (01:00:50):
You know, thank you so much, thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (01:00:52):
For coming there.
Speaker 3 (01:00:53):
She got her doctorate from Dylan University. And my second one, yeah,
your second one for my mama. That's for my mom
and dadd who I told her never be a doctor.
Speaker 13 (01:01:00):
And now they're like, I'm like, that's fine, celebrate you
can Yeah, doublet.
Speaker 6 (01:01:06):
I'm doubling that. Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:01:08):
Where can people go to find information?
Speaker 6 (01:01:09):
Ess once festival dot com.
Speaker 13 (01:01:11):
Pay attention to our social our social for things like
the app and of the things that will be dropping soon.
Speaker 6 (01:01:15):
And if nothing else, y'all be in my DMS. You
know how to find me.
Speaker 3 (01:01:18):
Okay, all right, it's a way up at Angelae Caroline,
doctor Caroline Wanga, thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 6 (01:01:23):
Thank you love.
Speaker 3 (01:01:24):
All right, Well, coming up next, we do have ask
ye eight hundred two nine two fifty one fifty is
a number we are here to help me and Jasmine
Brand are here on way up at Angela Yee.
Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
Light everybody, whether it's relationship, for career advice, Angela's dropping facts,
you should know.
Speaker 4 (01:01:40):
This is ask what's up? It's way up at Angela Yee.
I'm Angela Yee.
Speaker 3 (01:01:43):
Jasmine from the Jasmine Brand is here, Yes, and it
is time for asking ye. And I've been doing this
segment for a long time, just trying to help people
out give them advice. So today we have Zachovia on
the line. Hezea Kovia.
Speaker 11 (01:01:56):
Oh my gosh, Hey Angela, how are you girl? I'm
good hanging there.
Speaker 3 (01:02:03):
How about to I'm doing good to thank you for asking.
I appreciate you.
Speaker 11 (01:02:08):
Oh my gosh, I'm excited.
Speaker 4 (01:02:10):
So what is your ask you question today?
Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
So?
Speaker 11 (01:02:14):
I have two boys, he won the spot and my
other one to be three tomorrow, and I feel like
I'm like dealing with depression kind of go bad at
this point because I can't work because we don't have
any family support enough to watch the kids. Me and
Dad like we're together, he's working, but like in the meantime,
(01:02:38):
I'm dealing with my own stress and like having to
be under the pressure of all the responsibility.
Speaker 10 (01:02:43):
As a mom.
Speaker 4 (01:02:44):
Right, that's a lot.
Speaker 11 (01:02:45):
I get kind of like stressed out, and I get mad,
and I sometimes take it out on him in a
wrong way or I don't know how to express it.
How do I not let this like what I'm going through?
How do I not let it? Our relationship and til
how do I'm not let it faus?
Speaker 3 (01:03:04):
Okay, Well, I think it feels like you need to
do some things for yourself at times to make your
because at least you're acknowledging the fact that, like, you know,
how you've been feeling. And I do also want to
point out that I don't know if you have postpartum,
but there it could last for years.
Speaker 5 (01:03:19):
Yeah, it could last longer than you think.
Speaker 3 (01:03:20):
So it could also be that as part of it.
But also having kids is not an easy thing. I
heard your cuties in the background right now, and I
just feel like, you know, it also could be I
know people who have had kids and the husband or
the father works and sometimes it's difficult to be in
the house with the children and not be around other adults.
Speaker 4 (01:03:42):
During the day, and you.
Speaker 3 (01:03:44):
Know, so I know that's difficult too, and I feel
like it's time for you to do some things that
you need to handle for yourself to Koba, like have
you been making sure that you go outside, that you
go for walks.
Speaker 11 (01:03:55):
I go outside, and of course they always got to
be right pre hearing me. I mean, I do try
to like get some air and things like that, and
then I try to like, you know, talking to myself,
like not in a crazy way, but I'm like I
talked thinking out loud.
Speaker 3 (01:04:11):
Don't worry, I talk to myself all the time. So
she talks to herself in front in front.
Speaker 6 (01:04:14):
Of the stop.
Speaker 8 (01:04:15):
Yes, sometimes feel like I'm like, it makes you feel better,
But then I kind of backchecked because then when I
get around here, I just be like, I'm just not
good enough.
Speaker 4 (01:04:27):
No, not at all.
Speaker 3 (01:04:29):
Do you get to see your friends and family? Do
you are you able to do that? Do you do
you have time to do that? Do you ever have
time away from the kids to be able to enjoy yourself.
Speaker 11 (01:04:37):
I really don't like every chime going somewhere arriving, they're
like right in the car, like they're like my little
grope best friends.
Speaker 5 (01:04:46):
That's cute. But like you said, Angel, like you're saying,
I know that it's really hard, but you're gonna have
to try to figure out a small period of window
of time where you can be by yourself without your kids.
Speaker 11 (01:04:56):
Yeah, and then the worst one of the worst scenario
case scenariously came up, Like last night I caught him
siding up with his excess snap.
Speaker 5 (01:05:06):
Okay, so now I just.
Speaker 11 (01:05:09):
Feel like I'm unraveling because it feels like it's kind
of my fault or what did I do to make
you feel like you're going to do that?
Speaker 4 (01:05:16):
Right?
Speaker 11 (01:05:17):
And you know men, and you know men, they don't
let it like kicks. They don't like it. They don't
like to feel at all.
Speaker 3 (01:05:22):
All right, Yeah, I think it's important for you to
let him know how you feel without blaming yourself or
blaming him.
Speaker 4 (01:05:29):
It's how you feel. And part of it could be postpartum.
Speaker 3 (01:05:32):
I wouldn't out rule that because that's definitely a real thing.
Part of it is that you need to do some
things for yourself to make yourself happy, Like what are
things that you can do? Who can you see as
their family you can go with? Can you make sure
if other people have kids? Can you have a playdate
so you can have some more adult interaction with people
outside of your relationship, because sometimes it is unfair to
(01:05:52):
burden our significant other with the issues that we're having
right right, and you need to find somebody else that
you can communicate with, and that I could even be
you know, you can have some time for some online therapy.
You know, we use better help up here, and that
definitely helps us as well. But you know, even you
acknowledging this, I think you need to make some active things.
(01:06:13):
You know, How can do you have anybody that can
watch the kids? Can he watch the kids while maybe
you have a girl's night out or a family time,
or just even a few hours or even sometime by
yourself to go to the spot, get a facial, do
what you need to do, get a massage, you know,
to make yourself feel better.
Speaker 4 (01:06:29):
How can you make that happen? What city are you in?
Speaker 11 (01:06:32):
I calling you for the therapist? South Carolina?
Speaker 5 (01:06:34):
LOLd, Okay, South Carolina.
Speaker 6 (01:06:36):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:06:36):
We can probably do something for you and set something up,
but I just want you to take some time because
you know, I feel like you're blaming yourself for this,
but it's really the two of you because he has
to just like you're understanding how difficult it must be
for him, he has to understand how difficult it is
for you.
Speaker 5 (01:06:53):
And you're working too, you're at home with kids.
Speaker 3 (01:06:54):
Right and he has to realize that's a full time
job that does not stop.
Speaker 11 (01:06:59):
So so much. And it's like crying out because like
it's really a lot.
Speaker 3 (01:07:05):
Let's get your information and let's see what we can
schedule for you so that you can do some fun
things or something that is more meditative for yourself, so
you can just regroup. And I think for you and him,
you know, it's not going to help for him to
be on his xen for you to feel like that's
your fault and you drove him to that that's not true.
Speaker 5 (01:07:22):
We just go fight him, Angela, we can go fight
him and then.
Speaker 3 (01:07:26):
But she wants to make her relationship work, and part
of that is communicating and also coming up with some
solutions on how you guys can move forward together, how
he can be helpful in your journey as a mom
who never has to stop working, right, you know, So
hold on, Let's figure out some things that you can
do in the immediate so that you and then let's
(01:07:47):
get some long term solutions. I think there's a short
term solution we can do so you can feel happier
right now. But let's make sure this is a constant
work that we're going to be doing. Yep, all right,
hold on, okayza Koba, yeah, all right. Eight hundred nine
fifty one fifty is a number. It's ask ye And
when we come back, we have last words and if
y'all have any advice to definitely hit us up.
Speaker 5 (01:08:09):
Yeah, you know she's not alone.
Speaker 3 (01:08:11):
She's not alone because I can imagine in Jasmine, you're
a new mom.
Speaker 4 (01:08:15):
I've been saying you have a new mom for two years.
Speaker 5 (01:08:17):
Yeah, you know what told me I had postpartum though.
Speaker 3 (01:08:19):
Yeah, and it's okay, all right, it's way up at
Angela ye take up the.
Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
Phone, tapping to get your voice heard. What the word bit?
He is the last word on Way up with Angela Yee?
Speaker 4 (01:08:31):
What's happens? Way up at Angela Yee.
Speaker 3 (01:08:33):
I'm Angela Yee and Jasmine from the Jasmin brand dot
comments here with me today.
Speaker 5 (01:08:37):
This was a great day.
Speaker 3 (01:08:38):
Yeah, we're both a little coffee and tired. I feel
like there is all this fog and pollution.
Speaker 5 (01:08:45):
Did you say coffee and tired?
Speaker 4 (01:08:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:08:46):
Coffee like cough all coughing, Yeah, like coffeeh I'm made
up a word.
Speaker 5 (01:08:51):
Okay, because I'm drinking coffee, so I was kind of confused.
Speaker 4 (01:08:54):
Yeah, I mean cough got it.
Speaker 5 (01:08:55):
Yeah we are. It's a weird situation in terms of
the air outside.
Speaker 6 (01:08:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:08:59):
Then the oration is really really bad right now because
of these wildfires in Canada.
Speaker 4 (01:09:03):
I can't believe that it's affecting us.
Speaker 5 (01:09:05):
It's a lot of stuff through our lifetime we've experienced.
This is kind of unique.
Speaker 3 (01:09:08):
Yes, yeah, climate change is a real thing too, all right,
So I want to thank everybody for listening today. Thank
you to Caroline Wanga for joining us. She is the
CEO and president of Essence Ventures. Yes, we are gearing
up for Essence Music Festival that is actually coming up
at the end of this month into July.
Speaker 5 (01:09:26):
Oh it is, yeah, so that's kind of soon. The
summer is already taken away.
Speaker 4 (01:09:31):
Yeah, tear it's happening.
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Also, thank you to everybody who calls for tell us
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We appreciate you, guys. Some of you all are dirt bag,
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It takes a lot, even though synonymous, I do feel
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y'all want to go viral, and you do, but you
can always leave a message eight hundred two nine two
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start the show with that, with people shouting out other people.
(01:10:05):
Sometimes yourself. Sometimes you need to shine a light on
yourself because we all do go through a lot and
we need to acknowledge that and appreciate what it is
that we have going on.
Speaker 4 (01:10:15):
So thank you, guys, We appreciate you so much.
Speaker 3 (01:10:17):
It is a wealth Wednesday, So make sure you get
your finances in order.
Speaker 5 (01:10:21):
Tell your bills, check your credit score or your.
Speaker 3 (01:10:23):
Bills, check your credit score, think about investing, and remember
just because you have debt to take care of, it
doesn't mean you can't be investing at the same time.
Speaker 4 (01:10:31):
I had to do that for long period.
Speaker 3 (01:10:33):
It's fifty dollars a month is what I was doing,
and it came out pre taxes, so I didn't even
notice it out of my check.
Speaker 4 (01:10:38):
I know that's right, all right? Well, it is way
up with the Angela.
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Ye, and as usual, you guys have the last word,
the final say on the show.
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Eight hundred two nine fifty fifty.
Speaker 10 (01:10:47):
Hey, Angela, I wanted to let you know I hooked
up with several.
Speaker 1 (01:10:50):
Married women and they didn't tell.
Speaker 2 (01:10:52):
Me they were married.
Speaker 10 (01:10:52):
I should have to say, have a good day, yeah,
bless you.
Speaker 7 (01:10:55):
My feature is that when I was in college it
was just one. It was really hard, and the teacher,
a white male, always staring at me all the time,
and so during office meeting to get help, we had
sex a couple of times. And then at the end
of the semester, when you tried to give me less
than an A, I remind you.
Speaker 2 (01:11:18):
Yeah, listen you vibbing way up with Angela.
Speaker 12 (01:11:20):
Yee
Man I was supporting real Soama tune in and day.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Well you are.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Now it's angel what I call her ye way.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Yep, way up with Angela Yee. I'm Angela Yee. Jasmine
from the Jasmine brand.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Is here on my own brand and it is a.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
We Wednesday, Yes up here on way up. Also, I
feel like the smoke.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Outside I know in New York.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Yeah, New York is they're saying right now is at
the top of the list of the world's worst air pollution.
So there's been all this smoke for from more than
a hundred wildfires that are burning in Quebec, and honestly
outside it's isn't it crazy that it traveled this far?
Speaker 5 (00:46):
It is Yesterday when we were out, I thought it
was like fog. I feel like I was in La again.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Yeah, it's that bad that they've actually canceled outdoor activities
and events yesterday for students. Yeah, so anything outside school.
Did the school district announcements where that they're not doing
those things.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
So let me tell you something. I've been like coughing.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Yeah, somebody else was what was coughing? They thought it
was pollen. Initially they were like, is it the pollen
bad here, Yes.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Isn't it?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
No, not like New York has had the cleanest ear.
But you know we're in New York right now, and
it's definitely Yeah, take us back to where were we just?
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Now take us back to Philly.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Yes, yes, yes, we go back to Philly.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah, please take us back to Philly. But yeah, so
we have a great show today. It is Wealth Wednesday.
Now I'm excited about this one because we are going
to be having the CEO and president of Essence m
Caroline Wanga is going to be coming here. She's just
an amazing person. Yeah in general, like when you get
to hear her speak, but she used to be the
(01:47):
head of de EI for Target when a lot of
companies didn't even.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Have d I. Yes, d d e I is diversity
equity inclusion, Equity inclusion, Okay m hm.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
And so she'd be coming by. But you know Essence
Fast is coming up. But it's more than just Essence Fest.
They also own Afropunk and Beauty Con.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
Now I love Beauty Con.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yes, in Essence Studios, and so I'm just excited for
her to be able to talk about all of those
different things she took over.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
I was at Essence Fest last year. I'm there every year, Yes.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
You are, but you you had a big part last
year at Essencevest.
Speaker 7 (02:18):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I was tired, but I also and we'll talk about
why that was a special time for me in particular
last year when Caroline gets here. But she's gonna be
joining us today for Wealth Wednesday. And we also of
course start the show every day with shining a light,
shining a light on somebody who's done something positive, somebody
who's impacted your life, or maybe a story that you
saw on the news and you were like, this person's amazing.
(02:39):
So we shine a light on those people, and you, guys,
shine a light on them. Eight ninety two ninety two
fifty one fifty is a number. Call us up, who
do you want to shine a light on this morning?
Let's get this Wednesday started off right. It's way up
with Angela Yee.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
We gonna light the fuck up.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I'm shin.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Turn your lights on y'all so much breading love to
those who are doing great.
Speaker 8 (02:59):
Now light.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Shine light. It's time to shine a light on them.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Yes, it's a way up at Angela Yee. I'm Angela
Yee and Jazz and from the Jasmine.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Brand is here.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Good morning, Good morning, and.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
It's time to shine a light on him. And today
we are going to shine a light on past to
a ar Bernard. We just met with him up here
on the show. But he is at the he's the
head of the Christian Cultural Center. But he has a
lot of amazing things going on. And I love this
because he has a background in finance and banking. And
what he's doing in East New York, which is in Brooklyn,
is he's building up like a billion dollar development that's
(03:35):
going to provide affordable housing for people. Nice, yes, so
that you have some place to live, because you know,
when it comes to real estate right now, things are
pricing and we all know that when people don't have housing,
adequate housing, that trickles.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Down affects everything, every part of your life.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Imagine you don't have someplace great to go lay your
head at night, or you don't even want to be
at home, or you don't even have a home to
be in.
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Yah.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
You know that's not an easy situation. So it's not
just about the church, but it's also about making sure
that people are taking care of in the community. I
love so imagine being able to build your own community.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
I love that.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
That's what's his name again, Pastor a Ar Bernard? Okay, yeah,
I love that all right?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Now, who do you guys want to shine a light
on eight hundred fifty one fifty eight draft you? Oh no,
we should talk to you, Chap. We didn't see you
at the roots picnic?
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Where were you?
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Draft?
Speaker 9 (04:25):
Listen?
Speaker 10 (04:27):
Let us to split a flotlight on you and my
missurface girls. I was running so late on Saturday. I
did not get down there.
Speaker 11 (04:34):
Till like eight o'clock.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
The hell, well, oh so you didn't come to see us,
but you came to see Lousy.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
You're not select. You came to see Laura Hill.
Speaker 12 (04:46):
Don't don't do it.
Speaker 10 (04:47):
Actually I left. I left you for Laura Hill.
Speaker 11 (04:49):
Got up there.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
I was.
Speaker 10 (04:50):
I was actually like having a very bad day that day.
But I didn't get down there until like eight o'clock.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Don't you feel bad for you know?
Speaker 10 (04:56):
I tell everybody like yo, I have to be down there, man,
I they get to.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Make it all right?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Well, we make it well anyway, trave We would love
to shine a light on you today, but we're gonna
take that back maybe another day.
Speaker 10 (05:12):
I'm trying to sound like, Oh, my girl's gonna be savious.
Defind me.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Oh no, no, no, trap, don't even try it now.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
Bye Trat, Bye Trav Bye.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Hey Brian, who you want to shine a light on?
Speaker 12 (05:26):
I want to shine light on my girlfriend?
Speaker 4 (05:27):
You now, okay, all right? Tell us why.
Speaker 12 (05:30):
You know she works a full time job. You know
that she stretches around sometimes, but she still comes home
and manage to take care of her two kids. You know,
I'm a busy man. I coach football and all that stuff.
So when I'm busy, she maintains home and she always
supports me when I'm down to the reason that the
house was the way it runs. I just gonna appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
You know what, We appreciate her too. That's really really dope, coach.
We're gonna send you. We're gonna send you a gift
for her, Okay, some Black Girls sunscreen, because you know
it is that time of the season. Well, we got
to make sure we protect our skin. And she's gonna
love it. It's a product that I use already. So
hold on the line. We're gonna get your address.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
All right, Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 8 (06:10):
Well.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
That was Shina light ONUM eight hundred two ninet two.
Fifty one fifty is a number. In case you couldn't
get through, you can always still call up and leave
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Day, and when we come back, we have a yet,
let's talk about numbers.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Ice Spies will tell you what she has accomplished.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
And achieved, and we'll talk about the top fifty streaming artists.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
All right, in hip hop, it's way up at Angela yee.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
They says, soothing the rooms from industry shade to all
of gossip out sending Angela's spieling that.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Eet, hey, it's way up at Angela yee. I'm Angela ye.
And my girl Jazzmine is here from the Jasmine brand
dot com. Yes, all right, well, Ice Spice has yet
another notch under her belt. She is the artist with
the most top five hits on the Hot one hundred
and twenty twenty three.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Oh that's major.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Yes, Karma with Till the Swift Boys, a lot with
Pink Panther, has Princess Diana with Nicki Minaj. I mean
right now, that's what she has going on. So shout
out to her, okay for that. As far as the
fifty most stream rappers on Spotify. I think we all
know who's number one on that list. Of course we do,
who Drake Yes?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
But number two is Eminem.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
I'm kind of surprised by this.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Eminem is no joke.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
He's going nowhere and he's not even put an album
out in forever.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
And he's still number two. Yes, on the most streamed
rappers on Spotify. Number three is Kanye, number four is
Juice World, and number five is xxx Tantasion.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Okay, any women, I'm trying to look really quick, any
women on this list.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Nicki Minaj is number ten.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Okay, there we go. Yeah, so shout out to her.
Cardi is number eighteen on the list, and.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Omegan the Stallion is forty six.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
So those are the three women on the list.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Gosh, I'm eminem Is. That's amazing to me. All right, all.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Right now, people are very angry about be Simone. She's trending,
and that is all because of her latest post about
subscribing to her close friends. She posted, if you're not
on my close friends, you're not going to see much
of my life during this time. Close friends, I love you,
Thank you for being a safe space, and then there's
a link joined my close friends. Now people are very
(08:15):
upset because they feel like she's offering subscriptions to see
her life after the passing of her good friend Jackie O.
Now I saw some of the people responding Bisimona's asking
for people to pay for access to her close friends
as she grieves her friend JACKIEO. How could you ever
bring yourself to use your friend's passing as a means
(08:36):
to get people to pay for your close friends is insanity.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
This is beyond low and disgusting.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
What do you think, Angela?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Now I'll read somebody in her defense and somebody said,
y'all are really some goofies. B simone been promoting her
close friends is paid subscription, not because Jackie has passed.
Y'all should cancel yourself first, you dumb f's okay, all right?
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Now?
Speaker 3 (08:57):
My thing is this, Yes, she has always done this
with close friends.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
This was terrible, poor.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Timing absolutely to post something like this, And I can't
say what her intentions were or where her heart is
at on this. It just seemed like a terrible idea.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Yeah, yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
I agree with you, cause she did not specifically say
if you want to see me mourning my my friend.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Now she didn't. But yeah, you're right, it was just
poor timing because she does promote this close friends thing
a lot.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Right I think, and you know she's saying, you're not
going to see much of my life during this time,
close friends. I love you, Thank you for being a
safe space. That was, you know, because she's it seems
like she's going through something right now. I think she is,
So that's why I feel like it was an inappropriate post.
I think she could have just said thank you to
my close friends, I love you for being a safe space,
(09:43):
left it at that, or if you want to post
a link to join my close friends, just do.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
That, or just don't post. Don't do that right now. Yeah,
it just was poor poor time. Timing was awful.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Yeah, and people were definitely dragging her all right now.
Hollywood and TV writers have been on strike for the
past month, and actors have now signal that they're willing
to join those picket lines because they have their own battles,
and this is something I think that was anticipated that
was going to happen on Monday. Members of SAG after
that represents film and TV actors. I'm a part of
SAG after because we actually had to join the union
(10:15):
in order to be a full time.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
Employee here at iHeart.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
They voted to authorize a strike if they don't reach
a deal with major entertainment company studios by June thirtieth,
and nearly ninety eight percent of voting members were in
favor of that strike. So we know this writer strike
has been going on. It's been affecting a lot of
different shows that you might love, it's been affecting award shows. Yeah,
it definitely has right, So this is going to be
(10:40):
even doubly crippling if actors become involved for the entertainment industry. So,
actors are seeking higher pay and light of lower residual
payments for streaming content, same thing writers are looking for, right,
because there's all these streaming services that's been there's no
precedent for that prior to this, so it's not like
you're getting the money from the reruns and syndication and
(11:03):
all of that. Right, they went more generous studio contributions
to their benefit plans. And the union is also seeking
limits on self taped auditions for actors. They said that's
become a massive daily uncompensated burden on the lives of performers.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
Now, I thought that was interesting, the whole you know,
the self taping and how it's kind of a bit
much for them.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yeah, I didn't know you got paid to go on auditions.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I would think that taping your audition and setting it
in would actually be easier.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
I would think so too, But it's something we don't
know because we're not in this world.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
All right, So that is we'll keep you guys updated
June thirty.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Yeah, with that by June thirtieth.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Okay, all right, that is your YEETI And when we
come back, we have about last night where we'll be
discussing what way down last night. It's way up with
Angela yee. I love hearing about your dating life night.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
So about last night last night? Last night, Za, I
went down?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
All right, it's way up at Angela yee. I'm Angela Yee.
Jasmine from the Jasmine.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
Brand here, good morning, Angela.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
I feel like these are Jasmine's dating chronicles.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
Yeah, really are.
Speaker 13 (12:06):
So.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
I wanted to talk about something that.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Just has to do it last night and it's this
is not completely what happened last night, but imagine imagine
for the guys, because the guys in the room reacted
very strongly, strongly when I talked about this. But when
you go out with somebody as a woman, I feel
like when I ever I got with somebody, early on,
I try to bring like a couple of my friends
(12:31):
with me or make it more like a not a date,
but going out like a like a hey, come, yeah,
let's go have a drink or let's grab something to eat,
so it doesn't feel like in case I don't like you,
or in case I don't feel like, it's quote unquote safe.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
It's not a lot of.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Pressure, it's less pressure right to do that. But apparently
guys hate that.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Yeah, the guys in the room hated it. They were like,
that's an awful idea.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Yeah, but I feel like I always do that.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
You are that kind you were that you're that girl
to bring your friends.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah, but not And you know, after I feel comfortable,
then I'm okay with a one on one situation, But
I'm not always comfortable one on one. Initially, it initially
feels safer, right, But according to Dan, he said, well,
how do you get to know somebody? Because for guys,
we don't like that because we're trying to get to
know you and be alone like when I'm want and
(13:25):
have those conversations. But I also feel like you can
learn a lot about a person by seeing what they're
like around their friends.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
Yeah you can. Yeah, you definitely can. Yeah, you definitely can.
What do you think I don't really bring I mean, well,
let's say last night, it was you were there on
my day, So let's be clear.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
You were there, I was there.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
This is not the first time you've been there on
a date. And I've gone out with you and you
know you're god and dates, you know, so I don't
I guess I was gonna say I didn't really I'm
not a fan of it, but apparently I am. But
apparently you were like I'm like, hey girl, which I'll do.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Gotta come good on.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Yeah, And I think that any guy has to like
have grace for that because I don't expect him to
pay for me. I don't want, you know, I don't
expect you guy to pay for me and nothing like that.
I can handle it myself, because I think that's rude.
I don't expect if I'm out with a guy, and
I know some people do you gotta pay for me
and my friends? No, I don't think if I invite somebody,
I don't look at it as a date.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
I look at it as more we're just hanging out.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Yeah. And what I also feel like is, especially you know,
if it's someone that you kind of like, they're gonna
have to be around you sometimes anyway, Angela, you know
what I'm saying, and vice versa, anyone that you're with
that's gonna have to be around me sometimes. Right, So
it's like you might as well, what if you don't
like them? If oh I don't like your guy, yeah,
it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I'm still gonna you gotta go.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
No, it's just like I wonder if he doesn't like you, Jazmine,
gotta go, I'd be like, well, sorry, Jasmine.
Speaker 5 (14:47):
Here's the thing. The guy is gonna fake like he
likes your homegirl anyway, and vice versa.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Sometimes it's hard to though, sometimes it is hard to. Yeah,
don't call my friends at bozo, don't call my friends.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
A clown, don't call my friends a bug out.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Yeah, don't call my friends no names and would be okay, right?
Speaker 4 (15:04):
That is important to me. Some people are like I
don't care if my friends like you.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
I like my friends to like the guy because he's
not around, but not too much. Yeah that's not like yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Because I definitely have friends like hit up the guy
that I was dating behind my back, and I'm not
friends with people like that anymore.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
So you had to let that go.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
I don't like that.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
All right, Well that is about last night. Now you
know what's happening when we come back. Tell us a secret.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
For some people, this is their absolute favorite part of
the show. I got this idea from reading Cosmopolitan magazine
where they would have the confessions, and so people would
confess things and I'd be like, oh my gosh, but
these tend to be a little juicier.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
They are you have some really interesting callers.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Yes, And you know what, we always post these on
social media, and then I see some idiots in the
comments like this is all you talk about?
Speaker 4 (15:53):
No, this is one segment. Yeah, you post lots on
the show.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Yeah, we have, well Wednesday, we have amazing interviews. We
would just talk about marijuana regulations with Chairwomen's remain right.
There's a lot of things that happen on the show.
It's not just one thing. This show is multi fast,
but this is really fun.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
I ain't gonna lie.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Eight hundred two niney two fifty one fifty. Call us
up now if you want to get on the air,
tell us a secret.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
No judgment, no judgment. I wanna. We are going to
enjoy ourselves, are right.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Eight hundred two ninety two fifty one fifty. It's way
up with Angela.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Ye judgment free zone. Tell us a secret.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
All right, it's way up at Angela.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Yee.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
And you know what time it is, Jasmine?
Speaker 5 (16:30):
What time is it Angela?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
It's time to tell us a secret. That's right.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Eight hundred two ninety two fifty one fifty is a number.
You guys get to stay anonymous and we are not
going to judge you on whatever you have going on
in your life. Eight hundred two nine two fifty one
fifty Hello anonymous, call it tell us a secret.
Speaker 14 (16:48):
Okay. So when I was in college, I got with
one of my close friends by friends two times in
twenty four hours.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
Oh did she ever find out?
Speaker 14 (16:59):
At the night time? And another time in three Yeah,
she did find out. Because I'm not gonna lie. I'm
a truth teller and I can't really lie for a
long time. So I wrote her a letter and told
her every little thing that happened, and I gave it
to her and she kind of shared it with her friends.
And I seen somebody else holding the letter one time,
and I was like, my dirty laundret.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Wow, Well what happened after that? But y'all not friends anymore?
Speaker 14 (17:26):
No, But it originally started because she just was spreading
her rumor trying to make it seem like I was
a bad person when I was in kind of like
a messed up plate. And her boyfriend was actually pretty
close to me. We were pretty we were better friends
than me and she her was. But I was angry
and wanted to prove a point. So I went off
and did my own game.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
And I don't regret it, Okay, you don't.
Speaker 14 (17:49):
It's a lesson learned every single thing that happened, Especially
when you do something so toxic, it makes you realize
where you went wrong and where you go wrong multiple times,
and a lot to situation like, it just shows you things.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Now, what happened to the guy?
Speaker 14 (18:03):
Oh my? So we ended up not being friends because
I realized he started acting funny. But he tell me why.
He every single year at some time of the year.
He's always in my views, like always in my views,
and I don't even have it like a friend. But
I'm like, yep, I know it was that good and
I did what I did.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Oh gosh, all right, well, thank you for sharing, no problem,
A good one, you too, Hey, Anonymous.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Color, how are you?
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Hi?
Speaker 14 (18:31):
Are you doing?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (18:32):
What's there as secret you want to share with us today?
How the mary?
Speaker 14 (18:37):
For over ten years?
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Okay, Congress, I had been sleeping with my husband's cousin.
Speaker 14 (18:47):
Oh well, we known each other for a long time before,
and I didn't.
Speaker 15 (18:54):
Know that was his cousin.
Speaker 10 (18:55):
And I got a kid by him.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Wow, So who's kid does your husband think it is?
You think it's you don't know.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
Wait a minute, So you're you have a child by
your husband's cousin.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
But your husband is raising it as though it's his own.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh. So what does the
cousin think about all this? Is he wanting to like
reveal anything? Do y'all feel like coming clean? Or is
this to the grave?
Speaker 4 (19:26):
To the grave?
Speaker 11 (19:27):
So what are you doing?
Speaker 14 (19:28):
What he gotta do?
Speaker 15 (19:29):
What he doing when he got to do?
Speaker 14 (19:31):
Poor baby? The baby she looks like me. Honey, twin, Honey,
that's a twain.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
How close is he with his cousin? Do you intend?
You intend to stay married?
Speaker 6 (19:49):
Though?
Speaker 14 (19:50):
Oh yeah, are you?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Are you still sleeping with the cousin?
Speaker 7 (19:57):
Hell?
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Yeah, yeah, that's Look.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Well, this is not gonna get any better. But if
Ana was here, a Maya would have lost his mind.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Mayna would have had.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
And he's not here.
Speaker 11 (20:11):
Okay, thank god Mana was here.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Well, thank you for sharing. I don't know what else
to say.
Speaker 7 (20:20):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
It's no judgment, so okay, thank you. Hey An Adams Kylin,
how are you?
Speaker 10 (20:26):
I'm right, how you feeling?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
I'm good?
Speaker 5 (20:28):
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
You want to tell me and judgment a secret?
Speaker 1 (20:32):
All right?
Speaker 10 (20:32):
So I'm a step I have a family, and it's
ball as my family. No, I work every day of
the week, but really, on my own days, i'd be
with my other family.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Oh wow, So you have a whole other family.
Speaker 10 (20:46):
Charged them all that. So I try to keep yourself
with So far, it's been good for the last four years.
Four and you gotta do what you gotta do sometime.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
So wait, so you have two families. Tell me how
many kids are in each family?
Speaker 10 (21:02):
Well, I got three on one and four on the other.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Which one is the side family?
Speaker 10 (21:07):
Both of them? Because I have a girlfriend too.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Wait a minute, Oh my god, So you have a
girlfriend and two side families.
Speaker 10 (21:16):
Yeah, but as far as they know about seven days
a week at a restaurant.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Where is this money?
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Do they question? Like, how come there's not the money
that you should have?
Speaker 10 (21:25):
Well, I'm like the alpha man, so I don't get
questioned too much. I you know, I gotta go to work.
This is what I'm doing.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
And so with the girlfriend, how does she become your girlfriend?
Was that after the families or was that before?
Speaker 10 (21:39):
It was after because you know, I started general like
that and she's like the only one that noticed the truth.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
Oh so she knows.
Speaker 10 (21:46):
Okay, okay, he knows that the families don't know.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
Do you are you still? Do you still sleep with
both of the women in with the two families?
Speaker 10 (21:53):
Is that a question?
Speaker 11 (21:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (21:56):
I don't know. Nobody has a girlfriend, so I don't.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Know seven of the seven kids? Are you gonna have
a family with your girlfriend?
Speaker 10 (22:02):
He's on a penalfil now, because I'm like, what's the
name of them things that that you that's you huge
to stop having?
Speaker 4 (22:10):
I ud hear them?
Speaker 10 (22:12):
No a condom?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Oh wow, Now I didn't even know what it was called.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
What's the name of them things?
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Do you ever want to tell both families you know
what's going on.
Speaker 10 (22:25):
I mean working and I'm you know, if we can
all get together and live with the one room, meet
both my families and my dolfriend, that'll be wonderful.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Yeah, because you want the kids to know each other, right, Yeah,
I do, I do. What do you think is going
to happen when you when you come clean?
Speaker 10 (22:42):
Wait, I gotta come clean? I say that.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Well, I'm just saying because you say you want the
kids to know each other, So at some point if
you come clean, what do you think will happen?
Speaker 10 (22:51):
I'm not sure. I mean I'm doing enough. I'll be
doing the most, so maybe they might, maybe they might jacket,
maybe they might be all right with it.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
But them kids gonna be a fan. Okay, Well, no judgment,
Thank you for sharing.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Stop yourself from judging.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Hey, Anonymous, Kylin, how are you?
Speaker 12 (23:07):
I'm good?
Speaker 4 (23:09):
I'm good. Thank you you want to share a secret
with us? No judgment?
Speaker 15 (23:13):
You thing my boyfriends are about like making them funky anyway,
So I'm a wooded girl. So these guys came in
and it was just throwing money at me, like I
total of two hundred thirty y'all wears.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
So we have some kids that I gave him the kids.
Speaker 14 (23:27):
Even though I had a boyfriend. Why that boyfriend ended
up having a girlfriend a four years so it was
worth it anyways, a man, So.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
You got how much for a kiss?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Was it like a pet kiss or a ton kiss?
Speaker 5 (23:41):
It's pay he so you do it again?
Speaker 10 (23:44):
Oh yeah, peck.
Speaker 12 (23:52):
Yep, all right, thank you.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
What do you think your boyfriend you said you have
a boyfriend that what would he say?
Speaker 14 (23:59):
Oh girl, you had a girlfriend of four years?
Speaker 4 (24:02):
Okay? All right, well, thank you for sharing.
Speaker 12 (24:08):
No problem by night?
Speaker 4 (24:10):
All right? Yes, well that was tell us a secret.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Thank you guys for always calling in and trusting us
to not have judgment against whatever it is you say.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
But you are anonymous. All right.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
When we come back, we have yet and we'll be
talking about Benny the Butcher.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
He was on with Joe Button.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
And imagine you have a record with one of the
biggest artists of all time and it doesn't come out.
We'll talk about it. It's way up at Angela ye sure,
she's about to blow.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
The lead ab off this spot. Let's get it. Angela's
feeling at yet, come and get the tea.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
It's way up at Angela. Yee, I'm Angela yee.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Hey Jasmine, Hey Angela Jasmin brand dot com, where we
get a lot of these stories from.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Yes, let's get into it.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Benny the Butcher, he was on Joe Button's Amazon Amstow
Conversation Lovers Only.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
And imagine you have a song with one of.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
The biggest artists, by the way, the number one Spotify
streaming artists. Okay, so Drake Drake, and you can't even
put that collap out. Here's what he has to say
about that record never coming out Buffalo Freestyle.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
I was pissed, man, it's a Drake record.
Speaker 15 (25:10):
This for surely was my biggest record when you went off, Bro,
and it's the record just sitting in my pocket book.
I understand the mechanics of the business. I can't speak
for Bro and his team. You know how I got schedules.
I might do a feature for somebody like Yo, Benny,
we ready to drop this Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
Was like, you ain't dropping that Tuesday because we hold
them off.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
So you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 15 (25:27):
It's the biggest artists in the world. So I understand
his release schedule, and I'm saying it might be hectic,
or I understand, you know, he might have people who
are like, you know, we can't drop that right now
because we're doing this.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
So I understand that.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Right The name of the song will sounded kind of
Hi high too.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Buffalo freestyle, Yeah, yeah, because he's from Buffalo. I listen,
and I mean listen. He had been teasing it leaked online,
so you can still.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
Get it, Okay, I can hear it then prematurely.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Yes, And so like you said, he doesn't think that
it's Drake's fallt so there's no hard feelings. And you
also got to do that because you want to make
sure Jess the case this can happen, all right, give.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
It some validity now.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Benny the Butcher also said in this conversation that he
was this close to having a jay Z collaboration.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Imagine that they hit me.
Speaker 15 (26:13):
It was like your whole got an idea that of
a song that he wanted to do with you. And
I went out there and I stayed my right. I
went out there and I stayed for three days waiting
on a phone call. And then when I the day
that I linked up with him, I'm just kicking it Withding,
we having drinks it.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
He didn't mention the song, so I brought it up.
I'm like, yo, he said, you had an idea of it.
He was like, oh yeah, this.
Speaker 15 (26:31):
Is what I wanted to tell you. And as soon
as he said that, somebody's like, yo, we need you,
and they called him over here and he left and
we never got brought up again. It's like two three
years ago.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
Man, I'd be tight bad luck.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
He got bad luck. Yo.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Remember this song?
Speaker 6 (26:47):
Ida brought it up?
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Were supposed to do. This is bringing it up again.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Though, Oh you're right, yeah right.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Somebody from that team is probably like, oh, you know,
Benny the butcher was just talking about you and he's
still waiting up.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Okay, it can happen.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Chris Rock had called the cops a man tried to
film him. He said from his fire escape, there was
a peeping time with the camera right outside his window.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
That's what he told the cops.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
He was reporting that it was outside his New York
City home, and soho in Manhattan. I actually saw Chris
Rock one day in Soho walking down the block randomly.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
Really mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
I was at the store, Alison Olivia. He called nine
one one on Sunday night. NYPD raced over, but they
said when they got there, the suspect was nowhere to
be found. They said he fled after Chris Rock spotted him,
and he hopped into a white Mercedes and got away.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
So don't know what was going on. Imagine that that's
a violation.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Now, Chris Rock reported the man appeared to have a
camera and that they seemed to be attempting to either
film or snap pictures of him.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
And Manhattan, it's really hard to get away with stuff
like that too, because there's too many people that see you,
that are doing things. But the other, I guess flip
side of it is that there's so much going on.
Nothing looks weird now there is a lot going on.
There's so much going on. You could be walking out
somebody's house with a TV. Yes, there belong is that
nobody's gonna think anything.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
People gonna mind a business, Yes, we gonna mind our
business all right.
Speaker 14 (28:05):
Now.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
This is a really sad story. Nli Chappa.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
He actually donated a brand new basketball court in Raleigh,
and apparently that court was destroyed by fire less than
two weeks after it opened. So we tried to do
this amazing, great deed. They did say the cause of
the fire was determined to be a pile of fireworks
that have been ignited in the center.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Of the court.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
So Nick Walker, who is the Memphis Parks director, said
the court was a total loss. He said, it's very
sad that this random action destroyed a new and valued
community asset. Memphis Parks really appreciates the partnership and sponsorship
that led to the creation of the Dream Court, and
we really look forward to finding a way to get
an asset of similar quality back into the Raleigh community.
We've been in touch with the Liberman Charities and NLI
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Chappa to express appreciation and support for the community.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Oh that's too bad.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Yeah, they're doing one hundred and twenty Dream Courts around
the country. So the Dream Court, who is the centerpiece
and an early Chapa, is always trying to do things
to help out.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
How about the community.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
It seems like he gives back a lot.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
All right, Well, that is your yee tea. And when
we come back, we have under the radar. These are
the stories that are not necessarily in the headlines, but
you know they're just as important, and we want to
make sure that you are aware. It's way up at
Angela Yee news.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
This in the news that relates to you. These stories
are flying under the radar.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
It's way up at Angela Yee. I'm Angela Yee.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Hey Jasmine, Hey, Angela, Happy Wednesday. I love that you
dance to whatever music is playing. I'm like, what's going on.
I'm trying to stay up all right.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Well way up.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Our New York residents have been urged to stay indoors.
There's unhealthy air quality and I can vouch for that.
I was outside walking here. I can stop coughing today
and it's very smoggy out and New York State they're
wanting residents to avoid being outdoors because of the potential
health risk that could persist. New York City has the
world's worst air pollution of any major city.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
During parts of Tuesday, there's heavy smoke.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
From more than one hundred wildfires that have been burning
north of the Canadian border that have drifted south. So
it's an alarming air quality and they are saying please
limit your outdoor activity. And also they have issued an
air quality health advisory.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Okay, you can definitely tell the difference here in New
York right now.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Yeah, in New York City public schools they canceled all
outdoor activities today. And you know, schools are still open,
but as far as being outside, no, yep, got to
be careful. I've never experienced something like this.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
This is my first.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
I'm used to dealing with pollution on a daily basis,
but not to this level.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
And there's some advice for if you have you know, kids,
you have to be even more concerned or you know,
infants and stuff.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
So yeah, check your local air quality levels. You can
go to air now dot gov. All right, and children
are very susceptible to changes in air quality. Their lungs
are still growing, so they breathe in a lot of
air relative to their body size.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Another story in Hawaii, there is a terminal used by
Southwest Hawaii flights at a Honolulu airport and they're.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
Saying bedbus bugs I've been an issue.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Last week they reported the bugs had made a home
at the e gates in Terminal two. At first, they
thought that they could easily rectify the situation. Just remove
what the things are that we're attracting the bedbugs. But
wasn't so easy. They actually had to dispatch a staff
and start deep cleaning and carpet removal. Then an exterminator
was summoned to apply pest controls. The gates were closed temporarily,
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but they're saying this bedbug removal process will be ongoing
for three weeks.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Yeah, bedbugs are no joke.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Yeah, because they spread really quickly and it's hard to
get rid of them, and then they get on your clothes.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
Yeah. They said, people bring them in with their luggage
and that's how they kind of spread.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
In terms of the airline, and previously, American Airlines had
a bedbug infestation on one of their fleets and that's
an uproar imagine. I don't know if anybody's ever been
bitten by a bedbug before, but I've seen bedbug bites
and it is discussing crew members were bitten on this
flight and the use of insectivised insecticides was severe and
that caused some more issues At one point on American Airlines.
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The Flight Attendants Union said, we've received countless reports this
week from concerned flight attendants who have experienced various health
issues after using crew bunks on our wide body fleet,
and so bedbugs do become an issue.
Speaker 5 (32:14):
Okay, well, how do we avoid? What are we supposed
to do so that this doesn't happen?
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Well, don't bring luggage directly into your home, they said. Initially,
leave your bags in the garage or a sealed plastic
bag or bin. Heat the luggage and its contents, for example,
if you put the bags in a black trash bag
in the sun, or purchase luggage with a heater, which
they do have those available, or you can buy a
luggage heater. Bedbugs can't live in high heat, so if
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you heat your clothes and your contents.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
Of that bag, then you'll eliminate them.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
Also, wash your clothes immediately after a chip using the
hot cycle or the alternative is the opposite, freeze the
contents of your bags that will also kill the bugs.
And then when you have to, you can use hot, soapy,
wetter and a scrub breast to remove bedbug eggs and
bug themselves. Also use a flash slight and look for
their presence. They're live moving bedbugs. They're tan, red or brown.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Oh my goodness, do you.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Do any of these things, Well, that's only if there's
bed bugs, like there's some type of fair.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
But this is how to But what you listed is
how to avoid them. So I feel like we should
be doing something every time we travel. No, I don't
do these I don't do any of these things.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
But one thing I don't like that people do is
do not put no bags on your bed. I see
this on TV shows and movies. If you put a
defo bag that you've had on the floor or a
suitcase on your bed, that is disgusting.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
Have you ever had bed bugs? Angela?
Speaker 11 (33:32):
I have not.
Speaker 5 (33:33):
Let me give a.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Question itching right now, just thinking about it, have you
not that I know of?
Speaker 5 (33:39):
I feel like you would know it.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Right Yeah, I think you would be you have bites.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
If you ever see what it looks like when somebody's
had bedbug bites, just look up a picture, all right.
We also have the Way of Mixed coming at the
top of the hour, and as we told you earlier,
Caroline Wanga is going to be joining us. She is
the CEO and president of Essence Ventures that includes the
Essence Fest which is coming up, also Afropunk, also Beauty
Con also Essen studios. We'll be having a conversation with
(34:05):
her today. But right now we're talking about bedbugs. Oh,
if you ever had them? Eight hundred two ninety two. No,
I don't know why he asked it. Oh, I thought
you were just saying to ask that. I was like,
why is he asking that? All right, well, you can
always also hit us up on social media at way
up with ye that's on Twitter and on Instagram and
way in with your bedbug stories.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
I want to hear him. I'm itching. It's way up
with Angela Yee.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
She's like the talk like they Angela Jean like they
Angela jee Man.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
She's spilling it all. This is ye t way off.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
Yes, it's way up with Angela.
Speaker 10 (34:39):
Ye.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
I'm Angela Yee. And Jasmine from the Jasmine Brand is here.
I'm here Angela, and this is your thing right here
right Yes, the Jasmin brand dot com is an entertainment
site and we got some entertaining things for you.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
And Angela also works for me too.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
Oh that's right, let's not forget that all right now.
Dough Boy is thanking j Lo and Ja Rule for
clearing the sample. They said he begged for a a
year for twelve months in order for them to sign
off on sampling The Way I Walk for the for
his new track The Way I Walk.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
All right, here is what Dob Boy had to.
Speaker 9 (35:09):
Say, Thank you, j Low. I appreciate it. The begging
you last for a year finally made it happen. Ain't
none of little money I can't get done. Yeah yeah,
stand me, oh yeah, shout out y'ar rout two came
to Clutch for it.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
That was Gangston.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
I respect it.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
That was a song. I'm real, so I guess his
song Way I Walk.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
His album comes out on on Friday on June ninth. Persistence.
He was very persistent and patient. Yes, you gotta have patience,
so get ready for that album. He actually just did
lip service too, and that interview came out last week
and he has a song with Davee Loaf that's an
amazing track, and Dave's Loaf doesn't hasn't been doing features
prior to that. Here's what he had to say about it.
(35:47):
You just put out a new song, Roll the Dice
with daves Low. Dage Loaf has not really done any
features recently.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Yeah, how did that happen?
Speaker 9 (35:55):
Collabn with Days was always like on my bucket list.
Like when I was in jail, I used to listen
to her project to Sell Soul. I used to listen
to it all the time. Only man, she's so hard.
But when I came home, she like started falling back
a little bit right, and I'm like, man, damn, I
gotta get to her though. And then it was just
one day. I'm like, hey, look here, hold on, I
got some for you, and I sent to the song.
(36:17):
I sent her the role to Dight. She literally sent
a song back in thirty minutes.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
That's a good feeling.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
That is okay, Yeah, dad, we can't wait to hear
some new days low. Yeah, I'm ready for her all
right now gee herbo. It looks like he and Tina
had broken up his fiance. He posted on social media
I'm single yesterday on his Instagram story. So okay, I'm
not sure what led to this breakup, but I saw
he was trending because of it, and people were definitely
(36:43):
blaming him for all of this.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
We don't know what's going on, but we blame you.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Yeah, we have no idea what happened, but people are like, bro,
fix your family, hey, ish out here and God ain't
gonna keep sending you good women. Another said, boy, if
you don't go back home and help put your babies
to bed.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
Because they do have.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
He has two children with Tyaka, and then of course
he has one with Arikay.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
All right now.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Dominique Fishback says that in Transformers, there was a stunt
that she did that could have been very bad. She
was at the New York City premiere of Transformers Rise
of the Beasts, and she said, there's a part where
I'm supposed to go down into a cave. I had
a harness on and a guy is holding it. The
director wanted me to step down without looking so that
the camera could get more in my face before I
descended into the cave. But I missed the step and
(37:27):
I fell back.
Speaker 5 (37:28):
Okay, that sounds scared. I was imagining it.
Speaker 6 (37:30):
Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Yeah, So she said the what she ended up doing
there with that missing that step didn't even make it
in the final film. She said, it's not in there,
but the guy had to grab the rope to make
sure I didn't fall, So it could have.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
Been very bad.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
That's scary.
Speaker 4 (37:44):
That is so scary.
Speaker 5 (37:44):
When you were reading it, I was like, because I
could Picture the.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Whole Thing and Dominic fish Back and Anthony Ramo's co
star in the new Transformers movie and they're both from Brooklyn.
Speaker 5 (37:54):
Did Brooklyn Zone?
Speaker 4 (37:55):
Yeah, Brooklyn Zone And that's in theaters on Friday as well.
Speaker 5 (37:58):
We're gonna when are we gonna go see that?
Speaker 4 (38:01):
I'm down.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
I want to see it like asap. I would like
to see it. We might need some pre buy them tickets.
And speaking of the Transformers premiere, Pete Davidson was there
and he was talking about that. Remember he bought that ferry,
the Staten Island ferry.
Speaker 5 (38:18):
Yeah, what was that about?
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Well, he told Entertainment tonight while he was at the
New York City premiere of Transformers. He said, he has
no idea what's going on with that ferry. He said,
me and Colin were stoned a year ago and bought
a ferry and we're figuring it out. So they don't
even know what's going on with this ferry. They you know,
he's from Staten Island and they had plans to create
a restaurant, a bar and entertainment space on the boat
(38:40):
that people could visit while it was docked. But I
don't know if that can even happen, and so they
don't know.
Speaker 5 (38:47):
Have you ever bought something while you were high, a
purchase you regret.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
It, not a boat, a small purchase like sweater, likewhoes.
And I see that Gloria Govan is having some legal
issues as well. Now I was on social media and
I saw on the neighborhood Talk that she could find
herself in jail. She has to pay this default judgment
that's owed to Matt Barnes. She actually ended up having
(39:13):
to pay for court fees and everything. And so now
that sum is hundred and thirty seven thousand dollars and
so if she doesn't pay that bill, she could end
up going to jail on a default judgment.
Speaker 5 (39:25):
They seem to still be having some issues with each other.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
All right, well that is your yee t And when
we come back, we're going to talk about this. I
was knocked out yesterday, but there was a period of
time in my life when I could not sleep for anything,
and even when I had to get up at four
o'clock in the morning every day, I would just be
up all night. And we're going to talk about what
time you fall asleep and what that means when it
comes to your health. It's way up with the Angela Ye, I'm.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
You ride a way up with Angela Ye.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (40:01):
It's way up with Angela Yee. I'm Angela Yee. And
Jasmine from the Jasmine brand is here.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
Yes, I'm not just I'm my own brand. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
Yesterday, I had a long day, okay, Like came to
work and I honestly did not. I had to go
deal with some things with my brownstone in Brooklyn.
Speaker 5 (40:17):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
I was there for hours and I had a zoom.
Then I came to meet you. So I didn't get
home till probably like the missus, Yeah, like around ten
thirty at night. Okay, So I fell and fell asleep
immediately passed out, right.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
Can I just say something really quick? The thing is
you have obviously, you have like fifty jobs, that's the thing.
And then you have like other responsibilities.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
A lot of them. Some of them are people.
Speaker 5 (40:44):
Yeah, okay, I have some other responsibilities too, but not
as many as you.
Speaker 4 (40:50):
You have your own business. I do, all right.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
So they're saying here now, yesterday, when I tell you
I fell asleep, I tried to pull out my laptop
and do a little work.
Speaker 4 (40:57):
I just said forget it. It's not happening.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
And according to studies, going to sleep really quickly isn't
always a good thing, and taking too long is also
not a good thing. So what is that sweet spot, right,
Because sometimes you have so much going on in your
head you end up laying in bed just thinking and
you can't sleep tossing and turning.
Speaker 4 (41:15):
That's definitely happened to me. Both things have happened to me.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
So the time it takes for you to go to
sleep is clinically called sleep latency, and there's no set,
normal or healthy amount of time that it should take,
but there are some guide posts that you should follow.
So they said, according to the National Sleep Foundation, it
should take about fifteen to twenty minutes for a healthy.
Speaker 5 (41:34):
Person fifteen to twenty minutes.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
Now people with health conditions it can take thirty to
forty minutes. But they said it's good to spend the
half hour before bed winding ourselves down while we're awake
and do kind of a night bedtime routine. So they
have different things that you can be doing to make
sure that it's a routine. But falling asleep within a
half an hour is a good goal. And if you
fall asleep right when your head hits the pillow. It's
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not necessarily a cause for concern over all, but it
could mean that something is going on.
Speaker 4 (42:02):
It could mean that you simply need more sleep.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
That was my life, yes, for a long, long period
of time, and there would be times that I would
take a ten minute nap. I would set my alarm
for ten minutes because I needed a quick nap so quickly.
But that can be a sign of exhaustion, a sign
that we're overworking ourselves, a sign a burnout, a sign
that we're not spending enough time recovering and arresting. And
it may mean that you're not sleeping long enough and
(42:25):
you're getting that quote unquote junk sleep. That's not enough
for you to feel well rested and nourished, nourished, nourished.
Another reason they said that it's really important to know this.
You could have a mental health condition. It could be
a side effective medication or caused by mental health diagnosis,
such as depression. So depression may make you sleepy, but
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so do certain antidepressants.
Speaker 6 (42:48):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 5 (42:49):
I took something before it used to As soon as
I would take it, it would put me right to sleep.
It was like for depression all right.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
Also sleep apnea that's very common in older adults. It's
a chronic sleep disorder. I know people who have that.
They have to sleep with that machine over their face. Yes,
that's where your upper airway is completely or partially obstructed
during sleep, leading to a decrease in oxygen content.
Speaker 4 (43:10):
That leads to sleep fragmentation. So you're always like waking up.
Speaker 3 (43:13):
And you can notice this if you're fatigued during the day,
if you're having some problems understanding things, your cognitive dysfunction.
So they advise a regular sleep schedule and to quit smoking.
If you smoke, all right, and if you fall asleep slowly,
that's the other side of the coin, and that could
be a symptom of insomnia, chronic pain, a psychological or
medical condition. That could mean that your sleep routine isn't
(43:35):
the best. You have an inconsistent bedtime. I noticed that
even when I know on the weekend, I still will
wake up around the same time.
Speaker 5 (43:41):
Yeah, I wake up around the same time every day.
Speaker 3 (43:43):
You could feel emotional or stressed. That can make you
just be up all night, they said. Distress, anxiety and
other emotional concerns can trigger insomnia by leading to an
overactive sympathetic nervous system. So make sure you see a
medical provider because sleep is so important. That's why my
matches is important.
Speaker 5 (44:00):
Yes, you know, and well the bed I sleep on
in your place is very comfortable. All your places have
comfortable beds.
Speaker 4 (44:07):
For me, that's a Savoir mattress. Shout out to beds.
Speaker 5 (44:11):
It's nice, You're very nice. Nice.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
But I do believe in investing in the right mattress
because you don't want to wake up all sore. Your
body hurts. See hour you can't sleep. It's tossing and turning.
You can feel them, the wires. I've had those too.
You can feel the coils.
Speaker 5 (44:24):
And you've had those. I don't really invest in like
I should into the mattress situation. Yes, yeah, but it's
important to make it happen. All right.
Speaker 3 (44:30):
Well, when we come back, we have Caroline Wanga joining us.
She is the CEO and president of Essence Fenters that
includes the Essence Music Festival, the publication Essence that includes Afropunk,
that includes Beauty con that of includes Essence Studios, and
I can't wait for you guys to hear what she
has to say it's way up at Angela.
Speaker 4 (44:48):
Yea, yeah, it.
Speaker 12 (44:56):
Is on.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
Yes, it's way you put Angela yee. I'm Angela yee.
Jazzmine from the Jasmine brand is here.
Speaker 6 (45:02):
Yes, I'm here, Angela, Hi.
Speaker 4 (45:03):
You're here.
Speaker 11 (45:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (45:04):
And Caroline Wanga is about to be joining us.
Speaker 3 (45:06):
She is the president and CEO of Essence Ventures. That's
Essence Fest, Yes, Essence Magazine, Yes, Essence the Beauty Come
and Afropunk and Essence Studios, Essence Studios. That sounds exciting. Yeah,
so that's gonna be fun because I actually go to
Essence Fest every single year. I've also been to Afropunk
(45:28):
quite a few times. I've never been to Afropunk. I
took my god daughter one year. She really really wanted
to go. Let's try to go this year. Okay, it's
in Brooklyn. It's actually kind of the same weekend as
Angela y e day. Some trying to figure that out
and figure that out, Angela, Yeah, we got to figure
that out because you know, I want to be able
to do it all.
Speaker 5 (45:44):
Yes, sometimes we cannot do it all.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
Okay, Yeah, you're absolutely right, And shout out to my
coffee company, Coffee uplifts people, I got a lot of
things that I need to handle with that.
Speaker 4 (45:55):
But that's been going well.
Speaker 10 (45:56):
You know.
Speaker 3 (45:56):
It's having a business and being a small business owner
is not easy. I'm trying to figure some things out
right now.
Speaker 5 (46:03):
And for those who don't know, it's in Brooklyn.
Speaker 3 (46:06):
The coffee shop is in Brooklyn, but the coffee is
available at several different places yet online coffeeplist, people dot com.
So if you're a coffee drinker, I haven't drank coffee
my whole life, right, so I'm newer to this, but
I actually have it every day now pretty much.
Speaker 5 (46:21):
Yeah, I have, And you make a little for me
every day too.
Speaker 4 (46:24):
And I have a coffee machine.
Speaker 5 (46:25):
I have a nice det lung machine, nice coffee in.
Speaker 3 (46:28):
My home, and I like to actually, here's a little
thing I do. I like to make my coffee with
actually chocolate oat milk. Yes, and it's delicious like that.
Speaker 5 (46:38):
And sometimes we add a little something in there too.
Speaker 4 (46:40):
Something's a little Baillies. All right. So we're gonna keep
it going.
Speaker 3 (46:44):
But Caroline Wanga is joining us, and I actually did
a whole coffee ceremony at Essence Fest last year. So
let's talk about what's happening this year. In case you've
never been, you're gonna love this conversation. But if you
have been and every single year you go on, you're
dedicated to it like I am, You're gonna love this conversation.
Caroline Wanga, CEO and President of Essence Ventures.
Speaker 4 (47:06):
When we come back, it's way up at Angela Yee.
Speaker 2 (47:10):
Yays, you back at it, bring in the magazine.
Speaker 3 (47:13):
Up with Angela Yee is on what's up its way
up with Angela Yee. I'm Angela Yee and Jasmine from
the Jasmine brand dot Com is here and we have
a very special guest, the epitome of what it is
that we try to talk about up here on way
up at Angela Yee.
Speaker 4 (47:27):
Caroline Wanga is here with us.
Speaker 5 (47:29):
Hey.
Speaker 3 (47:30):
Yes, you are the president and chief executive officer of
Essence Ventures and you also have your own Wanga woman too.
Speaker 6 (47:37):
I do, I do.
Speaker 4 (47:38):
So can you talk about Essence Ventures for people?
Speaker 3 (47:40):
Because we think of Essence Festival, we think of the magazine,
but there are other ventures too, That's why it's Essence Adventures.
Speaker 6 (47:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (47:47):
Well, first of all, congratulations, this is this is so dope.
We've done this before, but I couldn't be more honored
to be with you here. I'm super proud of what
you're doing and what you continue to do and who
would inspire.
Speaker 6 (47:58):
So I'm honored to be here Jazz when I'm to
be here with you as well.
Speaker 13 (48:01):
So let's talk about Essence Ventures, right, So here's the
way that I would have you think about it.
Speaker 6 (48:05):
There are a series of.
Speaker 13 (48:08):
Companies that sit under this brand called Essence Ventures, and
when you tie them together, the goal is to really
create a frictionless and browndrey list black economic engine. So
what it includes is Essence Communications, which is the festival
and the magazine and Black Women in Hollywood and all
these activations that everybody knows.
Speaker 6 (48:26):
What also sits with underneath me now as a part
of the group is Beauty Con.
Speaker 13 (48:30):
So people may remember the brand Beauty Conmber that. Yeah,
so most people like Beauty Con is a heck of
a following and had been dormant for a couple of years.
Speaker 3 (48:39):
We wonder what happens last summer?
Speaker 6 (48:43):
Yeah, so we acquired that last summer.
Speaker 13 (48:45):
In fact, we're doing this week, we're doing a media
day to talk about the relaunch of that.
Speaker 6 (48:50):
So we will be relaunching Beautycon this year.
Speaker 13 (48:52):
We've already got a couple of events on the calendar
for this year.
Speaker 6 (48:55):
As it is. What also sits within there's Afropunk.
Speaker 13 (48:57):
So Afropunk is a long standing brand that definition of
is it has always been the safest place for black
that's on the margin, meaning folks that have interested in
things that may not have been acceptable in black community.
May have been different, whether it be heavy metal, gamers,
comic con, all of that, but at the end of
the day, Afropunk is is the part of our portfolio
that stands anti anything right, anti homophobia, anti racism, anti right,
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and really has represented how we make sure that the
full spectrum of what it means to be black, because
it's not a monolith, is seen and heard equitably.
Speaker 6 (49:30):
And it's one of my absolute favorite communities.
Speaker 13 (49:32):
But than the fourth brand is Essen Studios, which is
our own production house. It basically became what saved our
business during the pandemic. It became a streaming platform for
the festival where we have forty five million views, sixty
five million views the next year, and so now what
we're doing is really reinventing what studios is going to
be to help fill in where our portfolio needs more
focus on particular Black segments to be able to drive forward.
Speaker 6 (49:53):
But that's what Essence Ventures is.
Speaker 4 (49:55):
That's a lot that had come up for each different.
Speaker 6 (49:59):
And I have to sleep different segments to go through
each of them.
Speaker 13 (50:02):
But it's a beautiful combination of something that as we
continue to refine it will really really really continue to
do our part to strengthen Black in terms of community,
Black in terms of value, Black in terms of culture,
Black in terms of capital, and all of that is
only good.
Speaker 3 (50:18):
And there's never a question for Essence Fest to be
in New Orleans, right listen, you.
Speaker 13 (50:23):
Know I have to tell me New Orleans because they
don't understand that this mouth is the horse's mouth.
Speaker 6 (50:27):
So the horse's mouth said, we're never leaving New Orleans.
Speaker 13 (50:30):
When you look at what the people that participate in
the festival do for the city of New Orleans, you
understand what would be different if we left. We're talking
about an annual impact, meaning every year of three hundred
and twenty seven million dollars a year that we pumped
straight into New Orleans, whether that be taxes, whether that
be lodging, whether that be flights. We're talking about what
we do to create thirty six hundred jobs locally, Like
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forget us coming in and having a good time to
spending that money. We are an economy for New Orleans
and what we can't do is abandon that for aesthetic.
Speaker 3 (50:59):
We're talking to Caroline Wanga, the CEO and president of Essence.
Speaker 4 (51:04):
Now, I know you saw a juvenile gonna be.
Speaker 13 (51:08):
Fifty years of hip hop in New Orleans without including me.
Speaker 8 (51:12):
That's crazy.
Speaker 6 (51:13):
See you chose violence.
Speaker 5 (51:16):
Were Where is the where?
Speaker 6 (51:20):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (51:20):
So listen, please address it.
Speaker 6 (51:23):
I'm gonna address it head on. Let me be really clear, right.
Speaker 13 (51:26):
So, one of the things we changed within the festival
is that we used to have like a theme each year,
Like last year was a.
Speaker 6 (51:31):
Black Joy for me. We came and visited and talked
with that.
Speaker 13 (51:34):
As we are doing this evolution of the festival, made
an intentional decision to not necessarily stick to try to
come up with the theme because it makes everything dramatic,
but instead look at what are black cultural moments that
are happening that are relevant that we want to tap into.
Speaker 6 (51:46):
And because this was the fiftieth anniversary of hip hop,
of course we like and so are we. So we
made a.
Speaker 13 (51:51):
Decision to celebrate the fifty years pop and started to
source talent and have conversations with talent. Right, and there
is no way in hell that we were not gonna
have any NOLA artists be a part of this day
and festival. Now, we have always created a festival that
had some things announced in some things a surprise, So
there will be surprise and delight moments that features some
Nola talent that a great baby, right, nia X was
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already on there as we talk about the you know
what we want to do with with the femces, right,
the female Martinez Martinez. But also part of my commitment
in this new era of essence was to be engaged
with the local New Orleans community authentically. So on Monday,
we've added an event that we started last year, which
is the.
Speaker 6 (52:33):
Family Day in the Block Party. That entire roster is.
Speaker 13 (52:37):
All New Orleans talent from across the musical spectrum of
New Orleans.
Speaker 6 (52:41):
So whether or not a particular.
Speaker 13 (52:42):
Individual was on a roster is different from we don't
care about NOLA artists.
Speaker 6 (52:46):
Okay, so that's the way that I'll address it.
Speaker 3 (52:48):
Okay, good, well, I'm glad we put it out there
right away. Because but that's how.
Speaker 6 (52:52):
To watch juvenile social handles.
Speaker 3 (52:54):
If you want to know more, we're talking to Caroline Wanga,
the CEO and president of Essence.
Speaker 4 (53:00):
Now let's talk about.
Speaker 3 (53:01):
You, yes for a second, because just you having this
role at Essence and the way you started. You came
in and then within a month you became the CEO
of that part.
Speaker 4 (53:10):
You came in under hook about it.
Speaker 3 (53:13):
So let's discuss for yourself just having to put all
of this together and being on the front lines of
everything and clearly some things have to change because you're
bringing your own vision and trying to see what needs
to evolve into a different space. How has that been
for you? Because that's not easy. I saw an article
we're doing this where you talked about five failures. Allow
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yourself five failures a day. If you get to six,
there's a problem, or you get to.
Speaker 4 (53:40):
Yeah, hit rese But how hasn't been for you?
Speaker 13 (53:44):
I sincerely appreciate the question because I took the opportunity
to come to this brand as an active service, and
what I mean by that is like this thing does
not belong to me or to you, like it belongs
to the community. I came into a whole bunch of stuff.
But what I think is most important to understand is
the business was not healthy because of how it had
been treated within time INK and the work to rebuild
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that business was a lot financially, was a lot culturally,
but the level to which there was missed moments and
misinformation and where hurt people had hurt people and all
of that, the volume of it was much louder than
I understood it to be before I came in the
beauty is My prior role was working in creating inclusive
environments and listening, and so as much as I was
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worried about not coming from the media space, I ended
up needing the skills that I had in my last
job to just listen and be honest about the fact
that we've taken all of this in and we're not
going to decide where we're going to go. But then
I would say, the mantle is heavy, and some of
that is self inflicted, and I don't know that I
was fully prepared, and so I think there were moments in.
Speaker 6 (54:45):
Especially that first year, where I just had to sit down.
Speaker 13 (54:49):
And go, do you still want to You now know
the weight of the mantle. You get to decide, and
every time I got into one of those moments, the
answer was yes.
Speaker 6 (54:59):
So to be able to go through.
Speaker 13 (55:01):
That and then now have these other brands sitting with
me and to see where we are as a business.
We've had a two hundred and sixty percent increase in
profitability in three years. We've increased our team by thirty
six percent. We've increased salaries about forty seven percent. Like
every day that I said yes with this team is
manifesting in a way that is even beyond what I
could imagine.
Speaker 6 (55:21):
And so the days are still hard, but the progress.
Speaker 13 (55:24):
That has been proven on behalf of our community is
the thing that keeps me fueled. With the teams that
we work with and the partners like y'all and the
family that continue to.
Speaker 6 (55:33):
Help this thing show.
Speaker 4 (55:34):
Numbers don't lie, they don't lie at all.
Speaker 6 (55:35):
And on the days where I get to the sixth trail,
we just end the day and.
Speaker 5 (55:38):
Seek in the month.
Speaker 3 (55:39):
Okay, yep, Caroline Wanga is here with us. We are
gearing up for Essence Fest. But let's not forget Essence
is more than just the festival. We'll talk more about
that when we come back. It's way up at Angela Yee.
Speaker 2 (55:52):
You've ride a way up with Yee.
Speaker 3 (55:55):
It's also a wealth Wednesday. Let's not forget that. And
we are talking about somebody who has some of the
chea codes for you guys who have your own businesses
or maybe you want to come out and join us
for Essence Fest. This year we have Caroline Wanga, the
CEO and President of Essence.
Speaker 4 (56:11):
Let's talk about this lineup a little for me.
Speaker 3 (56:15):
Yes, because I mean, honestly, first of all, a lot
of women on here, and I mean Andie is also
going to be doing fifty years of Women, Yes, and
hip hop. I know there's going to be some amazing
surprises there are there when it.
Speaker 4 (56:28):
Comes to that. But headliner is Missy Elliott, Miss Lauren.
Speaker 3 (56:31):
Hill, come on, Megan thee Stallion, come on, Jill Scott
is going to be there. Trina, that's your favorite Jazmine, Yes,
I love her favorite.
Speaker 4 (56:40):
Song of all I love trump Come on?
Speaker 6 (56:42):
That was an anthem.
Speaker 4 (56:44):
That was anthem and you said Mia ex remy my eve. Yes, and.
Speaker 2 (56:51):
La is DJ that's right.
Speaker 4 (56:53):
Say all of the Marine is going to be there.
Speaker 5 (56:55):
I remember her.
Speaker 3 (56:56):
I mean, that's amazing that you have the most amazing
women as far as hip hop artists Marie Lennox and
we absolutely love money long m.
Speaker 6 (57:04):
Yeah, everybody coming outside.
Speaker 3 (57:06):
So talk to me about the whole process, like of
how something like this comes together. Who was the first
person that you're like, we book around this.
Speaker 6 (57:13):
You know, I would love to tell you this beautiful
organized story.
Speaker 4 (57:16):
But I'm gonna tell you how it actually happens, right because.
Speaker 6 (57:18):
We real out here. What we have decided was that
we were going to lean into the When you are
a festival.
Speaker 13 (57:23):
That's been around for twenty nine years, people get worried
about who you're gonna put on.
Speaker 6 (57:26):
Your roster, and so there may be organizations out there
that try to block particular town.
Speaker 5 (57:29):
The formative festival competition.
Speaker 13 (57:31):
Hey, it's the highest form of flattery. And you got
to make next well civity contracts. You can't come perform alone.
Speaker 5 (57:35):
I never thought about that kind of stuff.
Speaker 13 (57:37):
Oh yeah, bibit, okay, come on, we're twenty nine years old.
All these other ones is new. So in order to
continue to win against us, you gotta cheat. So you
cheat the time, so many contracts to cut people off.
So I say that because one of the first things
was who's available, right, We can't move our date, Like
our date is the fourth of July weekend. You know,
other festivals may have a date, but they can play
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maybe within a week.
Speaker 6 (57:58):
It's fourth of July weekend.
Speaker 13 (58:00):
That's when we do it, and so availability has to
be there. Then we went down the path of how
do we make sure that there's a multi generational representation right,
and so it was really about that.
Speaker 6 (58:10):
And then just like we said about hip hop, we
looked at what are some.
Speaker 13 (58:12):
Cool moments that this year represents, and so it happened
to be the twenty fifth anniversary of the Miseducation of
Lauren Hill Missy gets.
Speaker 6 (58:21):
Into the Rock.
Speaker 13 (58:23):
And then when we look at Meghan the styling like
we had Nicki Minaj last year, Meghan is killing it all.
Speaker 5 (58:28):
Yes she is.
Speaker 13 (58:28):
And so really it became really a matter of just
reverse engineering into what makes sense on headliners.
Speaker 6 (58:33):
I know, from a hip hop perspective.
Speaker 13 (58:35):
We were also really passionate about having regional representation and
making sure that it wasn't the hip hop of anyone
area that was kind of leading.
Speaker 6 (58:42):
And so that's what kind of led to these curations.
Speaker 13 (58:44):
And then we looked at what do we want to
do differently with how we host, We've had many different
host pieces and so we looked at comedians.
Speaker 3 (58:50):
This year we're talking to Caroline Wanga, the CEO and
president of Essence and as far as Wanga Women, yes, yeah,
because I always think it's important to have your own
personal brands as well and what you do.
Speaker 4 (59:04):
So can you just give us, I'll give you a
break some Wa Woman.
Speaker 5 (59:07):
Yes.
Speaker 13 (59:08):
So Wanga Woman was born out of the way that
I was choosing to talk about how purpose played a
role in my life and really how shedding what was
a way of operating that wasn't authentic as who I
was changed the trajectory of my career, my life, my finances.
And so we founded Wanga Women really out of demand.
People wanted us to come and talk more about how
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do you weaponize authenticity for.
Speaker 6 (59:31):
Your own good.
Speaker 13 (59:32):
The mission of Wango Woman is to democratize authenticity by
helping people find their purpose. Yes, it comes with speaking opportunities,
but there's courses and other things that are literally just
based on what I did to find myself because the
personal mission in it for me is it took me
so long having been a mom at seventeen and being
stuck at that failure for almost eighteen years and not
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seeing what I'd done and operating apologetically, and people renegotiated
my potential without my permission, and a whole bunch of
other stuff.
Speaker 6 (01:00:01):
I was so stuck there for almost twenty years.
Speaker 13 (01:00:04):
And when I finally unlocked who I was and looked
back to fix my life, my psychological birthdays and all
that stuff, I got so angry that it took so long.
That my mission became getting people to get to that
place sooner so they can have funner sooner. And so
the mission is simply to democratize authenticity by getting people
connected to their purpose so that they can start to
activate their purpose in the world. Because I believe that
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everybody has a purpose that's uniquely theirs, and if they
don't go after it, the world goes without.
Speaker 6 (01:00:29):
So we say, who you are is who you are.
Speaker 13 (01:00:31):
If you can't be who you are where you are,
you change where you are, not who you are.
Speaker 4 (01:00:34):
Yeah, I better connect.
Speaker 5 (01:00:35):
I want to get sooner.
Speaker 13 (01:00:37):
I like that because then like there's a conercorpia of
fun and excitement for you.
Speaker 6 (01:00:41):
Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 4 (01:00:42):
Yeah, doctor wanga.
Speaker 5 (01:00:45):
About it, talk about it. I'll be so proud about it.
Speaker 6 (01:00:50):
You know, thank you so much, thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (01:00:52):
For coming there.
Speaker 3 (01:00:53):
She got her doctorate from Dylan University. And my second one, yeah,
your second one for my mama. That's for my mom
and dadd who I told her never be a doctor.
Speaker 13 (01:01:00):
And now they're like, I'm like, that's fine, celebrate you
can Yeah, doublet.
Speaker 6 (01:01:06):
I'm doubling that. Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:01:08):
Where can people go to find information?
Speaker 6 (01:01:09):
Ess once festival dot com.
Speaker 13 (01:01:11):
Pay attention to our social our social for things like
the app and of the things that will be dropping soon.
Speaker 6 (01:01:15):
And if nothing else, y'all be in my DMS. You
know how to find me.
Speaker 3 (01:01:18):
Okay, all right, it's a way up at Angelae Caroline,
doctor Caroline Wanga, thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 6 (01:01:23):
Thank you love.
Speaker 3 (01:01:24):
All right, Well, coming up next, we do have ask
ye eight hundred two nine two fifty one fifty is
a number we are here to help me and Jasmine
Brand are here on way up at Angela Yee.
Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
Light everybody, whether it's relationship, for career advice, Angela's dropping facts,
you should know.
Speaker 4 (01:01:40):
This is ask what's up? It's way up at Angela Yee.
I'm Angela Yee.
Speaker 3 (01:01:43):
Jasmine from the Jasmine Brand is here, Yes, and it
is time for asking ye. And I've been doing this
segment for a long time, just trying to help people
out give them advice. So today we have Zachovia on
the line. Hezea Kovia.
Speaker 11 (01:01:56):
Oh my gosh, Hey Angela, how are you girl? I'm
good hanging there.
Speaker 3 (01:02:03):
How about to I'm doing good to thank you for asking.
I appreciate you.
Speaker 11 (01:02:08):
Oh my gosh, I'm excited.
Speaker 4 (01:02:10):
So what is your ask you question today?
Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
So?
Speaker 11 (01:02:14):
I have two boys, he won the spot and my
other one to be three tomorrow, and I feel like
I'm like dealing with depression kind of go bad at
this point because I can't work because we don't have
any family support enough to watch the kids. Me and
Dad like we're together, he's working, but like in the meantime,
(01:02:38):
I'm dealing with my own stress and like having to
be under the pressure of all the responsibility.
Speaker 10 (01:02:43):
As a mom.
Speaker 4 (01:02:44):
Right, that's a lot.
Speaker 11 (01:02:45):
I get kind of like stressed out, and I get mad,
and I sometimes take it out on him in a
wrong way or I don't know how to express it.
How do I not let this like what I'm going through?
How do I not let it? Our relationship and til
how do I'm not let it faus?
Speaker 3 (01:03:04):
Okay, Well, I think it feels like you need to
do some things for yourself at times to make your
because at least you're acknowledging the fact that, like, you know,
how you've been feeling. And I do also want to
point out that I don't know if you have postpartum,
but there it could last for years.
Speaker 5 (01:03:19):
Yeah, it could last longer than you think.
Speaker 3 (01:03:20):
So it could also be that as part of it.
But also having kids is not an easy thing. I
heard your cuties in the background right now, and I
just feel like, you know, it also could be I
know people who have had kids and the husband or
the father works and sometimes it's difficult to be in
the house with the children and not be around other adults.
Speaker 4 (01:03:42):
During the day, and you.
Speaker 3 (01:03:44):
Know, so I know that's difficult too, and I feel
like it's time for you to do some things that
you need to handle for yourself to Koba, like have
you been making sure that you go outside, that you
go for walks.
Speaker 11 (01:03:55):
I go outside, and of course they always got to
be right pre hearing me. I mean, I do try
to like get some air and things like that, and
then I try to like, you know, talking to myself,
like not in a crazy way, but I'm like I
talked thinking out loud.
Speaker 3 (01:04:11):
Don't worry, I talk to myself all the time. So
she talks to herself in front in front.
Speaker 6 (01:04:14):
Of the stop.
Speaker 8 (01:04:15):
Yes, sometimes feel like I'm like, it makes you feel better,
But then I kind of backchecked because then when I
get around here, I just be like, I'm just not
good enough.
Speaker 4 (01:04:27):
No, not at all.
Speaker 3 (01:04:29):
Do you get to see your friends and family? Do
you are you able to do that? Do you do
you have time to do that? Do you ever have
time away from the kids to be able to enjoy yourself.
Speaker 11 (01:04:37):
I really don't like every chime going somewhere arriving, they're
like right in the car, like they're like my little
grope best friends.
Speaker 5 (01:04:46):
That's cute. But like you said, Angel, like you're saying,
I know that it's really hard, but you're gonna have
to try to figure out a small period of window
of time where you can be by yourself without your kids.
Speaker 11 (01:04:56):
Yeah, and then the worst one of the worst scenario
case scenariously came up, Like last night I caught him
siding up with his excess snap.
Speaker 5 (01:05:06):
Okay, so now I just.
Speaker 11 (01:05:09):
Feel like I'm unraveling because it feels like it's kind
of my fault or what did I do to make
you feel like you're going to do that?
Speaker 4 (01:05:16):
Right?
Speaker 11 (01:05:17):
And you know men, and you know men, they don't
let it like kicks. They don't like it. They don't
like to feel at all.
Speaker 3 (01:05:22):
All right, Yeah, I think it's important for you to
let him know how you feel without blaming yourself or
blaming him.
Speaker 4 (01:05:29):
It's how you feel. And part of it could be postpartum.
Speaker 3 (01:05:32):
I wouldn't out rule that because that's definitely a real thing.
Part of it is that you need to do some
things for yourself to make yourself happy, Like what are
things that you can do? Who can you see as
their family you can go with? Can you make sure
if other people have kids? Can you have a playdate
so you can have some more adult interaction with people
outside of your relationship, because sometimes it is unfair to
(01:05:52):
burden our significant other with the issues that we're having
right right, and you need to find somebody else that
you can communicate with, and that I could even be
you know, you can have some time for some online therapy.
You know, we use better help up here, and that
definitely helps us as well. But you know, even you
acknowledging this, I think you need to make some active things.
(01:06:13):
You know, How can do you have anybody that can
watch the kids? Can he watch the kids while maybe
you have a girl's night out or a family time,
or just even a few hours or even sometime by
yourself to go to the spot, get a facial, do
what you need to do, get a massage, you know,
to make yourself feel better.
Speaker 4 (01:06:29):
How can you make that happen? What city are you in?
Speaker 11 (01:06:32):
I calling you for the therapist? South Carolina?
Speaker 5 (01:06:34):
LOLd, Okay, South Carolina.
Speaker 6 (01:06:36):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:06:36):
We can probably do something for you and set something up,
but I just want you to take some time because
you know, I feel like you're blaming yourself for this,
but it's really the two of you because he has
to just like you're understanding how difficult it must be
for him, he has to understand how difficult it is
for you.
Speaker 5 (01:06:53):
And you're working too, you're at home with kids.
Speaker 3 (01:06:54):
Right and he has to realize that's a full time
job that does not stop.
Speaker 11 (01:06:59):
So so much. And it's like crying out because like
it's really a lot.
Speaker 3 (01:07:05):
Let's get your information and let's see what we can
schedule for you so that you can do some fun
things or something that is more meditative for yourself, so
you can just regroup. And I think for you and him,
you know, it's not going to help for him to
be on his xen for you to feel like that's
your fault and you drove him to that that's not true.
Speaker 5 (01:07:22):
We just go fight him, Angela, we can go fight
him and then.
Speaker 3 (01:07:26):
But she wants to make her relationship work, and part
of that is communicating and also coming up with some
solutions on how you guys can move forward together, how
he can be helpful in your journey as a mom
who never has to stop working, right, you know, So
hold on, Let's figure out some things that you can
do in the immediate so that you and then let's
(01:07:47):
get some long term solutions. I think there's a short
term solution we can do so you can feel happier
right now. But let's make sure this is a constant
work that we're going to be doing. Yep, all right,
hold on, okayza Koba, yeah, all right. Eight hundred nine
fifty one fifty is a number. It's ask ye And
when we come back, we have last words and if
y'all have any advice to definitely hit us up.
Speaker 5 (01:08:09):
Yeah, you know she's not alone.
Speaker 3 (01:08:11):
She's not alone because I can imagine in Jasmine, you're
a new mom.
Speaker 4 (01:08:15):
I've been saying you have a new mom for two years.
Speaker 5 (01:08:17):
Yeah, you know what told me I had postpartum though.
Speaker 3 (01:08:19):
Yeah, and it's okay, all right, it's way up at
Angela ye take up the.
Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
Phone, tapping to get your voice heard. What the word bit?
He is the last word on Way up with Angela Yee?
Speaker 4 (01:08:31):
What's happens? Way up at Angela Yee.
Speaker 3 (01:08:33):
I'm Angela Yee and Jasmine from the Jasmin brand dot
comments here with me today.
Speaker 5 (01:08:37):
This was a great day.
Speaker 3 (01:08:38):
Yeah, we're both a little coffee and tired. I feel
like there is all this fog and pollution.
Speaker 5 (01:08:45):
Did you say coffee and tired?
Speaker 4 (01:08:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:08:46):
Coffee like cough all coughing, Yeah, like coffeeh I'm made
up a word.
Speaker 5 (01:08:51):
Okay, because I'm drinking coffee, so I was kind of confused.
Speaker 4 (01:08:54):
Yeah, I mean cough got it.
Speaker 5 (01:08:55):
Yeah we are. It's a weird situation in terms of
the air outside.
Speaker 6 (01:08:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:08:59):
Then the oration is really really bad right now because
of these wildfires in Canada.
Speaker 4 (01:09:03):
I can't believe that it's affecting us.
Speaker 5 (01:09:05):
It's a lot of stuff through our lifetime we've experienced.
This is kind of unique.
Speaker 3 (01:09:08):
Yes, yeah, climate change is a real thing too, all right,
So I want to thank everybody for listening today. Thank
you to Caroline Wanga for joining us. She is the
CEO and president of Essence Ventures. Yes, we are gearing
up for Essence Music Festival that is actually coming up
at the end of this month into July.
Speaker 5 (01:09:26):
Oh it is, yeah, so that's kind of soon. The
summer is already taken away.
Speaker 4 (01:09:31):
Yeah, tear it's happening.
Speaker 3 (01:09:33):
Also, thank you to everybody who calls for tell us
a Secret.
Speaker 4 (01:09:36):
We appreciate you, guys. Some of you all are dirt bag,
but we do appreciate you.
Speaker 5 (01:09:40):
It takes a lot, even though synonymous, I do feel
like it takes a lot to kind of actually say
out loud your secret.
Speaker 3 (01:09:44):
Yeah, we're not here to co sign you either, We're not,
but we really are, like, yeah, you know, some of
y'all want to go viral, and you do, but you
can always leave a message eight hundred two nine two
fifty one fifty in case you don't get through for
tell Us a secret or for a light that's always
positive and I love shining light. I love how we
start the show with that, with people shouting out other people.
(01:10:05):
Sometimes yourself. Sometimes you need to shine a light on
yourself because we all do go through a lot and
we need to acknowledge that and appreciate what it is
that we have going on.
Speaker 4 (01:10:15):
So thank you, guys, We appreciate you so much.
Speaker 3 (01:10:17):
It is a wealth Wednesday, So make sure you get
your finances in order.
Speaker 5 (01:10:21):
Tell your bills, check your credit score or your.
Speaker 3 (01:10:23):
Bills, check your credit score, think about investing, and remember
just because you have debt to take care of, it
doesn't mean you can't be investing at the same time.
Speaker 4 (01:10:31):
I had to do that for long period.
Speaker 3 (01:10:33):
It's fifty dollars a month is what I was doing,
and it came out pre taxes, so I didn't even
notice it out of my check.
Speaker 4 (01:10:38):
I know that's right, all right? Well, it is way
up with the Angela.
Speaker 3 (01:10:41):
Ye, and as usual, you guys have the last word,
the final say on the show.
Speaker 4 (01:10:45):
Eight hundred two nine fifty fifty.
Speaker 10 (01:10:47):
Hey, Angela, I wanted to let you know I hooked
up with several.
Speaker 1 (01:10:50):
Married women and they didn't tell.
Speaker 2 (01:10:52):
Me they were married.
Speaker 10 (01:10:52):
I should have to say, have a good day, yeah,
bless you.
Speaker 7 (01:10:55):
My feature is that when I was in college it
was just one. It was really hard, and the teacher,
a white male, always staring at me all the time,
and so during office meeting to get help, we had
sex a couple of times. And then at the end
of the semester, when you tried to give me less
than an A, I remind you.
Speaker 2 (01:11:18):
Yeah, listen you vibbing way up with Angela.
Speaker 12 (01:11:20):
Yee
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