November 20, 2023 • 29 mins
BIN News Anchor + Media Journalist Mimi Brown joins Host Ramses Ja to discuss the latest news surrounding entertainment mogul P. Diddy plus other headline stories from this past weekend.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Here at the Black Information Network, we know how important
it is for you to start your week off energized, engaged,
and enlightened. There are always major stories that break over
the weekend, and we feel you should know about the
ones we are talking about today, So stay tuned for
our weekend recap featuring bi in news anchor Mimi Brown.
This is the Black Information Network Daily Podcast and I
(00:25):
am your host, ramses Job. All right, Mimi, welcome back
to the show. How have you been.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I've been great. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
How are you I'm doing very well. I see that
you are feeling festive. I'm sure you're looking forward to
the Thanksgiving weekend coming up.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Absolutely. You know, Thanksgiving is like a blip because as
soon as you close your eye, it's Christmas time, right,
So yeah, yeah, literally the day after Christmas starts Thanksgiving.
I mean, excuse me, starts Christmas.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
So yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. Well, you know, I'm glad
you're in a good space. So let's do the news
first thing. Obviously, we have to mention that the former
first Lady of the United States of America passed away,
roslind Carter. That took place on November nineteenth Sunday. So
we are sending thoughts and prayers and well wishes to
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the whole Carter family. And you know, we lost a
national treasure and that deserves us to acknowledge that. Another
thing that people are talking about over the weekend is
obviously Cassie settling with Diddy a day after filing the
lawsuit accusing him of rape, abuse and sex trafficking. So
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I'll share a little bit with our listeners. This comes
from Yahoo. The singer, whose full name is Cassandra Ventura,
had accused Combs, the bad boy music mogul, and her
former partner, of subjecting her to years of abuse during
their relationship, and a complaint file Thursday and Federal District
Court in Manhattan. Combs had denied the allegations through his
attorney and a surprising move late Friday, the two announced
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the case was over before any prison seedings could begin. Quote.
I have decided to resolve this matter amicably on terms
that I have some level of control, said Cassie, age
thirty seven, in a statement. She goes on to say
I want to thank my family, fans and lawyers for
their unwavering support. And then Ditty responded with. We have
decided to resolve this matter amicably, said Comb's age fifty four.
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I wish Cassie and her family all the best. Love.
No details of the settlement were announced. The one certainty
is that it avoids a potentially nasty legal battle from
unfolding in public. So, I know you've heard about this.
What were your thoughts? What have people been saying? You know,
let let's discuss.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
You know, this is so I think for a lot
of people out of nowhere. I don't think that anyone
thought that this was going to be on their news
feed this past week. But you know, I ended up
reading all thirty five pages of the lawsuit and some
of the details were very, very shocking. You know, I
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think that, you know, we have to make sure that
we are allowing people who say that they've been abused
their space to be able to come forward whenever and
however they choose to do. So, you know, just some
of the highlights from the lawsuit for me were, you know,
just to touch on a few. It said things like
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the civil lawsuit describes Comb's miss Ditty basically being prone
to uncontrollable rage and accusing him accuses him of beating
her savagely on multiple occasions. You know, there was this
this this part in it where they speak on Kid
Cutty and his car being blown up. I think shortly
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after that news hit, Kid Cutty came out and said, yes,
of course that happened. There was just so many things
in this lawsuit that I think that people were talking
about and questioning why no one has ever heard any
of this because I think this really came out the
blue for so many people. I think that if this
is true, and according to her this is very true,
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his circle kept it really tight and very very quiet.
I think, uh, you know, he's come out and say
with another statement that's saying even though he's paid her,
he doesn't he's not admitting any guilt. He still denies
the allegation. So I don't know. I think a lot
of people are sort of in their own way, reading
between the lines and kind of feeling like, Okay, this
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came out one day, you paid it the next day.
That implies a lot of guilt. And I think a
lot of people too were asking why why now? And
that's because there is a New York's Adult Survivor Act,
which allows people who say they've experienced sexual assault to
take legal action even when the statute of limitations has expired.
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And that law expires this week on the twenty third,
So she had no choice but to if she was
still going to get this out, if she felt that,
you know, this was something that she could know longer
lived with. This was it that laws going away, And
it's something that New York has put on the books.
They put it on the books for a year, and
I was reading up on it and a lot of people,
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not just Cassiine. I think this is making news because
of Cassie and Diddy, but a lot of people have
come out and buyle lawsuits on people that uh, things
that have happened before are civil lawsuits and people that
have happened before that they can just now get out
because of this law, this new this new statute.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Well, I know that a lot of people have been
talking about this, and it's just like you said, there's
there's some people who are like, you know, this looks
like a shakedown. And there's some people was like, you know,
I knew it the whole time. I knew it, you know,
and they're you know, the internet is true to form
divided on this one. But you know, there's people who
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are very supportive of Cassie kind of saying her truth.
And then obviously Diddy being a powerful, prominent black man,
he's going to have supporters as well. Because since there's
money involved, you know, the optics of it, don't they're
not really all that comfortable for everyone. It'd be different
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if it was a criminal thing. But since it's civil,
and you know, these are the things that you can
keep from going to court by simply paying some money,
there are people who say that this is a shakedown.
There are people trying to you know, tarnish his name
and his reputation, and you know, who's to say what
is what?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
But and I had to say this too, but they
did say, according to Deadline, that she was offered ten
figures to keep this from going to court, to keep
this from getting to the public, and she turned it down.
So you know, a lot of this, you know, just
from what I've been reading, was you know, with her
wanting to share her story and at least put this
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on the record and have this gone to court. If
this is true, there would be you know, photos, evidence,
you know, all of those things, and so you know,
I think, you know, if if you're looking at this
from somebody who has a lot to lose, you do
want to kind of make this go away. And so
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a lot of people weren't surprised by the payout the
very next day.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah, yeah, And that's kind of That's the part about
it that makes I think some people feel uncertain is
because clearly Diddy can afford whatever, and you know, just
paying for something so that it doesn't become a headache
or a problem or a stain or whatever, even if
you're right, paying for it to go away might be
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the smarter tactic than fighting to clear your name, you know,
especially if you're about business and about money and you
know your reputation for the most part will remain intact.
It might just be the the simpler path is just
to you know, pay it. But I worry that if
we don't get to the bottom of things like this,
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it makes the world a little bit smaller for everyone.
Like if Diddy is indeed a monster of a man,
I think that we need to know that, you know,
and then other people need to learn lessons from that
so that they don't, you know, replicate and repeat that
type of behavior. And if he's and if he's not
then he I would I would imagine that clearing your
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name goes a lot further because you don't want people
leveling these accusations against you and other people in the
future that are baseless, just as a shakedown. And so
it feels like there's no real resolution here. But that's
just to me. I'm sure that you know, people are
going to debate this for a while.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
And absolutely absolutely and the last point that I really
want to make is that I definitely do feel like
this is a stain on his reputation. You know, the
Internet never forgets and black Twitter. They went to work
and literally found old interviews from ex girlfriends who said this,
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you know, years ago, in different interviews that no one
listened to, but now just make more sense. You know,
they went to work and found, you know, different interviews
of behavior that's very questionable. You know, there were names
(09:09):
dropped in this lawsuit of people who witnessed this. You know,
I think when you go that far and you can
kind of you know pinpoint. I mean, she was very
specific in this. There was this one story where she
told of the Intercontinental where they got into a fight
in the hallway and there was a video of it.
And she left and she came back because she felt
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like he's going to be even more upset if I
leave and don't come back. So she came back and
the staff ushered her, you know, back out because they
had seen the video. And then he allegedly paid fifty
thousand dollars for that footage. I mean, there are things
that I think now us knowing or you know, just
just having this this this out there, that you know,
(09:57):
there's there there will always be these questions now and
for so many women and for so many people, this
is this is a big issue. This is a big deal.
And I understand it was paid and it kind of
went away, but it changes things. It actually changes everything,
you know, for a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
And I'll take it a step further. I'm not going
to pretend, you know, because I come from a hip
hop broadcasting background, I'm not going to pretend like rumors
hav't swirled around Diddy for many years the way they
typically do. I don't want to be unfair to anybody.
That's not my way, but you know, he's had a
lot of wild rumors swirl around his name since the
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beginning of you know, bad Boy Records and so it's
not it's not it's just not the resolution that I
think that we can we can punctuate our lives by,
you know, like there was a me too movement once
upon a time, and there were a lot of men
that answered for the wrongs that they committed right, and
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there were lessons learned. I myself learned lessons. I don't
never thought of myself as a sort of predator type
of person. I've always done my best to be very
kind to everyone. But I learned that there's levels to kindness,
you know, and in some instances you just want to
ignore people because that's their version of peace and the
version of reality that they prefer. And so even saying
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hi might be you know, too much, and so my
kindness might not be well received. Weird, weird little lessons.
But I learned that, you know, the way the world
feels to my sisters that I share this planet with
is very different from the way the world feels to me.
And so the lesson that the punctual, the way that
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our lives were punctuated by that, and we could look
at that moment and become better. We could learn, other
people could learn, We could all live in a safer world,
and we could all reference the same phenomenon. Hey, hey,
you don't want to get me too. You know, not
to make light of it, but you do recognize that
I could say that and someone else could understand what
I mean, right, and we could we could collectively learn
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how to be better and hold each other more accountable.
That's kind of what could have happened here or else
if this was baseless. Again, I don't know you obviously,
you know know more about this, the the document and
the paperwork than I do. But if he was innocent,
this is just me being fair. I don't want to
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upset anybody. But if he was innocent, then of course
the other side of that is those people who would
abuse that new dynamic after the Me Too movement would
look at this and say, Okay, it's not fair to
accuse someone wrongfully, and there are consequences as a result
of that. And so I think that either way, this
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is not a resolution that we can all collectively grow from.
It's just it's just him putting out a fire, and
that's what we got. So the thing is that's not
the only music news. Unfortunately. The next story is a
little bit more. It's a brighter story. So from Vibe
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magazine Andre three thousand, he says, rapping it forty eight
feels inauthentic. He says, I don't have anything to talk about,
so I'll share a little bit about this. After announcing
the first solo project of his career, the forty eight
year old revealed that the new album Blue Sun did
not contain any lyrics. He's known for being one half
of the rhyming dual Outcast. The Georgian native detailed why
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he opted to release a flute album. New Blue Sun
was officially released on Friday, just before the weekend, and
it's described as a stunning eighty seven minute mind vendor,
minimalist and experimental, tribal and transcendent transcendent Sorry. The flute
album contains eight separate tracks. Each song has a sentence
length title, such as I swear I really wanted to
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make a rap album, but this is literally the way
the wind blew me this time and that night in
Hawaii when I turned into a panther and started making
these low register purring tones that I couldn't control. Stuff
was wild. So he says, I worked with some of
the newest, freshest, youngest and old school producers. I get
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beats all the time. I try to write all the time.
And this is him talking to GQ. Even now people think, oh, man,
he's just sitting on raps or he's just holding these
raps hostage. I ain't got no raps like that. It
actually feels sometimes it feels inauthentic for me to rap
because I don't have anything to talk about in that way.
I'm forty eight years old, and not to say that
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age is a thing that dictates what you rap about,
but in a way it does, and things like oh sorry,
and things that happen in my life, like what are
you talking about? I gotta go get a colonoscopy? What
are you rapping about? And my eyesight is going bad,
and I don't know. I've heard the Fluid album and
I'm like, hey, this is good music. I really like it.
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I'm I'm a fan of his obviously. I've said on
the radio many times Outcast is the best group of
all time hip hop group. I'm Wu Tang, people go
get mad Wu Tang run DMC. You know, hey, bring
me to smoke. But I can make my case here right. Plus,
like there's a little secret that I know my ex
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girlfriend is actually his wife. He's married to my ex girlfriend.
So I'm a big fan of Andrea three thousand all
the way through. And I'm you know, I'm happy that
he's living his truth and I do have like a
little bit of an aperture into his world. What were
your thoughts on all this when when the news starts.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Broke, I was like a flute album. But then I
have to say I listened to it and I loved it.
In fact, I did some yoga to it.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I was cooking dinner to it. It's so relaxing. It's
literally one of those those albums that you can put
on and you just don't realize that so much time
has gone by because it's it's so relaxing and it
just it takes you to another place. So I'm here
for it, and I love what you said about. Hey,
I'm forty eight years old. What am I supposed to
rap about? And that's not to take away from anybody
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still rapping at forty eight. That's just a self awareness
of himself, like, you know, this is this is where
I am in my stage, you know, and this is
this is what I have to give and I love that.
I love everything about him, so I would have to
agree with you one hundred Like this is it. I
hear it playing at the spot. I mean, you know,
there's just so many places this is going to go.
(16:32):
And someone said something about, you know, the sampling that's
going to come from this. I mean, it's genius when
you think about it, honestly, yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah. And the thing is it shows that artists, our
artist our musical artists, don't have to be so one dimensional.
The response, even if it's you know, I don't know
what the sales numbers look like, but even the critical
response to something like this, I think that it gives
a lot of our let's say, mid school and new
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school rappers, additional license for additional creative outlets that aren't
based around some of the more negative things that we
hear so frequently in rap music. It allows people to, hey, listen,
I want to make a gospel album. You know, you
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Snoop made a gospel album, but it but you know,
this is Andre three thousand no rapping. It's a whole
different musical format for a whole different musical palette. And
you know, just like you said, it's beautiful music. And
the fact of the matter is that when I wake
up in the morning, I'm not thinking about the club
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and lean when i'm you know, dropping my son off
at school, I'm not thinking about you know, leading the block.
You know, you know, like I'm in a different space.
So you know, there's times in life when you know
those things are important. There's times when you got a
hus won't get your money. There's times when you got
to protect your family, you got to get to it.
And then there's times when you want to relax and
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be at peace and take a walk with your family
or you know, those things all are apart, like black
people do all of this stuff. And Andre three thousand,
I think is giving our creatives, our grios, the people
that tell our stories in the musical space, license to
expand and offer new new styles, new new creative works.
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And I think that that's probably the most special thing
of all.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Absolutely, I would have to one hundred and ten percent
agree with you. I love growth, you know, I love
the growth, and I love allowing the audience that started
with you to be able to grow with you. It's
it's great.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
News. Anchor Mimi Brown is here with us discussing the
weekends major stories all Right. Dexter wades preliminary autopsy shows
his body was carelessly mishandled before a secret burial. This
according to Ben Crump, I'm going to share a bit
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from the route to bring us up to speed. An
independent pathologist released the initial findings from the autopsy of
Derek Dexter Wade, sorry, the Mississippi man fatally struck by
a police car earlier this year and buried by the
county unbeknownst to his family. The findings reveal Wade had
identification on him at the time of his death. Doctor
Frank Peretti, hired by civil rights attorney Ben Crump, released
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the initial findings following the exhumation of Wade's body. Reddy
noted that Wade had several identifying items on his person,
including his health insurance card and identification which contained his
home address. Already said Wade was completely run over by
the police card that struck him back in March. The
report also said that Wade's body was in an advanced
state of decomposition and that he suffered multiple blunt force
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injuries to the skull, ribs, and pelvis. His left leg
was also amputated it wasn't embalmed when the county buried
him in a Heines County popper's grave weeks following the incident. Quote,
the tragic news we received from the independent pathologist today
was heartbreaking for everyone who knew and cared for Dexter Waite,
especially his mother. The fact that Dexter had a state
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identification card and several other identifying items shows us that
there was a concerted effort to keep the truth and
manner of his death from his family. There is no excuse,
not even incompetence, or not notifying the next of kin
of an identified man's death. This according to Ben Crump
in a statement, So this obviously has got many people upset,
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especially us in the black community, because it's hard to
imagine this happening to a person who was white and
have a body be treated so carelessly, and again have
a mother worried for seven months with no answers, no
idea of where her child is. What's your take on
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this story so far?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
You know, this story is very, very traumatic. I can't
even imagine what that mother must be going through. I
think you you basically said it all. You know, this
happened in Mississippi and in and around Jackson State. He
was hit in March. His family was not notified until August,
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as you As you mentioned, he was buried in a
pauper's grave. His identification was on him. And I think,
I think what what needs also to be said is
that this mother was also suing the police department because
I believe it was her brother was killed by officers.
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And so I was listening to Attorney Crump and he
was talking in a press conference and he said this,
this this police department is very familiar with the mother
because of that. So when this happened, it wasn't like,
you know, this was some name they had never heard of.
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She's been in litigation going through this for years now.
They were very familiar with her. They seem to have
just chose this course of action, and it's just very unfortunate.
I can't even imagine the funeral was happening today for
this young man. The mother was told that she wanted
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the body exoomed. She was told to show up at
a certain time so they could exhume the body. She
got there, it had already been exhumed. It was missing. Yeah,
they didn't let her see it. I mean, there are
just how many ways are you gonna just, you know,
kill this lady over and over and over again? You
know what I mean? How strong must you be as
a black woman to continuously you know, first you're fighting
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for your brother, and now you have to pivot and
fight for your son, almost in the same manner, with
the same people. I can't even imagine. My heart goes
out to her, to her family, for the situation for
this young man. He had two kids. You know what
all this must feel like. You know, I pray that
most of us will never know.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
You know, wow, you know what. I'm gonna take a
moment here. I want to thank you for that response.
You know, I work in a social justice space radio space, right,
and a lot of the brunt of what we feel
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as a community is absorbed by black women. I've learned
that I see it right. Whenever there's a dead body,
you know, there's a black woman somewhere crying over that body.
Black women are organizing. Black women are the backbone of
everything that we would call progress in my estimation, and
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one of the things that I've done my best to
include is a black woman's voice. And I can't always
make that happen. It's based on a lot of logistics,
and we could have a larger conversation about that. But
I think that your response to this story shows me,
lets me further know, and hopefully let's our listeners further
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know why it's important to have a black woman at
the table to have these types of conversations, because as
tragic as this story is, there's an element there that
me in my manhood, my manliness. You can just see
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so much further. I would have never thought how often
does this woman have to die the same death? And
now I'm thinking like she's had everything taken from her,
and I'm thinking of the individual, and then you mentioned
how strong must she be? And then I think back
to emmittt Till's mom, I think back to Mamie. I'm like, yeah,
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so I really do appreciate that response. I know we're
supposed to talk about the news, but if you're a
black woman and you're listening to my voice, you need
to hear thank you from me, and so I thank
you because I'm going to do my best for you.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Yeah, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
All right, Tim Scott, let's talk about this guy again.
So his staffers were upset at his campaign abruptly ending
by surprise. So I'll share a bit from news one.
So nine of the now former staff members and other
allies of Scott's campaign expressed umbrage at being caught by
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surprise when Scott announced Sunday on Fox News that he
was suspending his campaign. This, according to Political, the apparent
consistent consensus sorry excuse me among those interviewed was that
Scott's exit strategy was quote handled incredibly and as one
person identified as a Scott campaign official told Political, which
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also reported severe organizational deficiencies for the overall campaign. At
least one other person was a bit more forthcoming with
their assessments and suggested Scott broke from the traditional way
political candidates to spend their campaigns. All right now, This
is also from Political. Quote I've seen better run city
council campaigns equipped a GOP operative supporting Scott in the primary.
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This person goes on to say a lot of people
were upset. I'll use the word upset here last night.
The right thing to do is give your staff thirty
minutes of notice and have a conference call beforehand. It
was typical of the whole effort less than Thirty minutes
before Scott announced he was ending his run, his campaign
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sent out a last minute fundraising solicitation, an apparent preparation
for the Iowa caucuses early next year, but to the
staffers chagrin, minutes later they heard Scott say on live TV,
when I go back to Iowa, it will not be
as a presidential candidate. So people are upset with this guy.
(27:08):
Beginning middle end in it seems like, give us your thoughts.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Yeah, So it was handled extremely poorly. In my opinion,
I think that the least you can do is and
inform your staff, the people who have been working for you,
the people who have been putting out statements for you
and trying to help you secure this nomination, doing all
the things for you so that your campaign has the
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legs to stand on, and you don't tell them that
you are thinking of withdrawing or you know, dropping out,
or however you want to put it. I think those
are the first people that you need to inform, so,
you know, I think that that having your staff be
caught off guard is you know, not from what I
(27:58):
know of the campaign, sounds very typical. But and then
the other part of it that was a little weird
for me was the fundraising. So if you know that
you are going to drop out, I wasn't. I wasn't
exact on the fundraising push, unless that's you know, for
the r n C later on. I don't know, but
it just all just seemed to be very weird.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
It seemed very trumpish.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Yeah, so absolutely, there you go.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Yes, yes, so I I I everyone who's listening knows
that this was coming. I say, good riddance. I'd be
happy never to hear about this person again. That's how
I feel personally. If you're a supporter of what's his name,
Tim Scott, I I wish you well in the future,
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and uh, you know, maybe he'll run again and with
a better platform and better talking points, and then maybe
I'll come around. Who knows. But this version of the story,
I'm glad to see it's done, and uh that'll be that.
So these are more stores, as always, can be found
at bionnews dot com. I'd like to thank you again
as always for your insight. Once again, our guest is
BION News anchor Mimi Brown. This has been a production
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(00:25):
am your host, ramses Job. All right, Mimi, welcome back
to the show. How have you been.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I've been great. Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
How are you I'm doing very well. I see that
you are feeling festive. I'm sure you're looking forward to
the Thanksgiving weekend coming up.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Absolutely. You know, Thanksgiving is like a blip because as
soon as you close your eye, it's Christmas time, right,
So yeah, yeah, literally the day after Christmas starts Thanksgiving.
I mean, excuse me, starts Christmas.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
So yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. Well, you know, I'm glad
you're in a good space. So let's do the news
first thing. Obviously, we have to mention that the former
first Lady of the United States of America passed away,
roslind Carter. That took place on November nineteenth Sunday. So
we are sending thoughts and prayers and well wishes to
(01:14):
the whole Carter family. And you know, we lost a
national treasure and that deserves us to acknowledge that. Another
thing that people are talking about over the weekend is
obviously Cassie settling with Diddy a day after filing the
lawsuit accusing him of rape, abuse and sex trafficking. So
(01:36):
I'll share a little bit with our listeners. This comes
from Yahoo. The singer, whose full name is Cassandra Ventura,
had accused Combs, the bad boy music mogul, and her
former partner, of subjecting her to years of abuse during
their relationship, and a complaint file Thursday and Federal District
Court in Manhattan. Combs had denied the allegations through his
attorney and a surprising move late Friday, the two announced
(01:58):
the case was over before any prison seedings could begin. Quote.
I have decided to resolve this matter amicably on terms
that I have some level of control, said Cassie, age
thirty seven, in a statement. She goes on to say
I want to thank my family, fans and lawyers for
their unwavering support. And then Ditty responded with. We have
decided to resolve this matter amicably, said Comb's age fifty four.
(02:20):
I wish Cassie and her family all the best. Love.
No details of the settlement were announced. The one certainty
is that it avoids a potentially nasty legal battle from
unfolding in public. So, I know you've heard about this.
What were your thoughts? What have people been saying? You know,
let let's discuss.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
You know, this is so I think for a lot
of people out of nowhere. I don't think that anyone
thought that this was going to be on their news
feed this past week. But you know, I ended up
reading all thirty five pages of the lawsuit and some
of the details were very, very shocking. You know, I
(03:02):
think that, you know, we have to make sure that
we are allowing people who say that they've been abused
their space to be able to come forward whenever and
however they choose to do. So, you know, just some
of the highlights from the lawsuit for me were, you know,
just to touch on a few. It said things like
(03:24):
the civil lawsuit describes Comb's miss Ditty basically being prone
to uncontrollable rage and accusing him accuses him of beating
her savagely on multiple occasions. You know, there was this
this this part in it where they speak on Kid
Cutty and his car being blown up. I think shortly
(03:44):
after that news hit, Kid Cutty came out and said, yes,
of course that happened. There was just so many things
in this lawsuit that I think that people were talking
about and questioning why no one has ever heard any
of this because I think this really came out the
blue for so many people. I think that if this
is true, and according to her this is very true,
(04:05):
his circle kept it really tight and very very quiet.
I think, uh, you know, he's come out and say
with another statement that's saying even though he's paid her,
he doesn't he's not admitting any guilt. He still denies
the allegation. So I don't know. I think a lot
of people are sort of in their own way, reading
between the lines and kind of feeling like, Okay, this
(04:27):
came out one day, you paid it the next day.
That implies a lot of guilt. And I think a
lot of people too were asking why why now? And
that's because there is a New York's Adult Survivor Act,
which allows people who say they've experienced sexual assault to
take legal action even when the statute of limitations has expired.
(04:48):
And that law expires this week on the twenty third,
So she had no choice but to if she was
still going to get this out, if she felt that,
you know, this was something that she could know longer
lived with. This was it that laws going away, And
it's something that New York has put on the books.
They put it on the books for a year, and
I was reading up on it and a lot of people,
(05:09):
not just Cassiine. I think this is making news because
of Cassie and Diddy, but a lot of people have
come out and buyle lawsuits on people that uh, things
that have happened before are civil lawsuits and people that
have happened before that they can just now get out
because of this law, this new this new statute.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Well, I know that a lot of people have been
talking about this, and it's just like you said, there's
there's some people who are like, you know, this looks
like a shakedown. And there's some people was like, you know,
I knew it the whole time. I knew it, you know,
and they're you know, the internet is true to form
divided on this one. But you know, there's people who
(05:46):
are very supportive of Cassie kind of saying her truth.
And then obviously Diddy being a powerful, prominent black man,
he's going to have supporters as well. Because since there's
money involved, you know, the optics of it, don't they're
not really all that comfortable for everyone. It'd be different
(06:07):
if it was a criminal thing. But since it's civil,
and you know, these are the things that you can
keep from going to court by simply paying some money,
there are people who say that this is a shakedown.
There are people trying to you know, tarnish his name
and his reputation, and you know, who's to say what
is what?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
But and I had to say this too, but they
did say, according to Deadline, that she was offered ten
figures to keep this from going to court, to keep
this from getting to the public, and she turned it down.
So you know, a lot of this, you know, just
from what I've been reading, was you know, with her
wanting to share her story and at least put this
(06:43):
on the record and have this gone to court. If
this is true, there would be you know, photos, evidence,
you know, all of those things, and so you know,
I think, you know, if if you're looking at this
from somebody who has a lot to lose, you do
want to kind of make this go away. And so
(07:03):
a lot of people weren't surprised by the payout the
very next day.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah, yeah, And that's kind of That's the part about
it that makes I think some people feel uncertain is
because clearly Diddy can afford whatever, and you know, just
paying for something so that it doesn't become a headache
or a problem or a stain or whatever, even if
you're right, paying for it to go away might be
(07:28):
the smarter tactic than fighting to clear your name, you know,
especially if you're about business and about money and you
know your reputation for the most part will remain intact.
It might just be the the simpler path is just
to you know, pay it. But I worry that if
we don't get to the bottom of things like this,
(07:48):
it makes the world a little bit smaller for everyone.
Like if Diddy is indeed a monster of a man,
I think that we need to know that, you know,
and then other people need to learn lessons from that
so that they don't, you know, replicate and repeat that
type of behavior. And if he's and if he's not
then he I would I would imagine that clearing your
(08:10):
name goes a lot further because you don't want people
leveling these accusations against you and other people in the
future that are baseless, just as a shakedown. And so
it feels like there's no real resolution here. But that's
just to me. I'm sure that you know, people are
going to debate this for a while.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
And absolutely absolutely and the last point that I really
want to make is that I definitely do feel like
this is a stain on his reputation. You know, the
Internet never forgets and black Twitter. They went to work
and literally found old interviews from ex girlfriends who said this,
(08:49):
you know, years ago, in different interviews that no one
listened to, but now just make more sense. You know,
they went to work and found, you know, different interviews
of behavior that's very questionable. You know, there were names
(09:09):
dropped in this lawsuit of people who witnessed this. You know,
I think when you go that far and you can
kind of you know pinpoint. I mean, she was very
specific in this. There was this one story where she
told of the Intercontinental where they got into a fight
in the hallway and there was a video of it.
And she left and she came back because she felt
(09:32):
like he's going to be even more upset if I
leave and don't come back. So she came back and
the staff ushered her, you know, back out because they
had seen the video. And then he allegedly paid fifty
thousand dollars for that footage. I mean, there are things
that I think now us knowing or you know, just
just having this this this out there, that you know,
(09:57):
there's there there will always be these questions now and
for so many women and for so many people, this
is this is a big issue. This is a big deal.
And I understand it was paid and it kind of
went away, but it changes things. It actually changes everything,
you know, for a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
And I'll take it a step further. I'm not going
to pretend, you know, because I come from a hip
hop broadcasting background, I'm not going to pretend like rumors
hav't swirled around Diddy for many years the way they
typically do. I don't want to be unfair to anybody.
That's not my way, but you know, he's had a
lot of wild rumors swirl around his name since the
(10:37):
beginning of you know, bad Boy Records and so it's
not it's not it's just not the resolution that I
think that we can we can punctuate our lives by,
you know, like there was a me too movement once
upon a time, and there were a lot of men
that answered for the wrongs that they committed right, and
(11:03):
there were lessons learned. I myself learned lessons. I don't
never thought of myself as a sort of predator type
of person. I've always done my best to be very
kind to everyone. But I learned that there's levels to kindness,
you know, and in some instances you just want to
ignore people because that's their version of peace and the
version of reality that they prefer. And so even saying
(11:25):
hi might be you know, too much, and so my
kindness might not be well received. Weird, weird little lessons.
But I learned that, you know, the way the world
feels to my sisters that I share this planet with
is very different from the way the world feels to me.
And so the lesson that the punctual, the way that
(11:46):
our lives were punctuated by that, and we could look
at that moment and become better. We could learn, other
people could learn, We could all live in a safer world,
and we could all reference the same phenomenon. Hey, hey,
you don't want to get me too. You know, not
to make light of it, but you do recognize that
I could say that and someone else could understand what
I mean, right, and we could we could collectively learn
(12:09):
how to be better and hold each other more accountable.
That's kind of what could have happened here or else
if this was baseless. Again, I don't know you obviously,
you know know more about this, the the document and
the paperwork than I do. But if he was innocent,
this is just me being fair. I don't want to
(12:30):
upset anybody. But if he was innocent, then of course
the other side of that is those people who would
abuse that new dynamic after the Me Too movement would
look at this and say, Okay, it's not fair to
accuse someone wrongfully, and there are consequences as a result
of that. And so I think that either way, this
(12:52):
is not a resolution that we can all collectively grow from.
It's just it's just him putting out a fire, and
that's what we got. So the thing is that's not
the only music news. Unfortunately. The next story is a
little bit more. It's a brighter story. So from Vibe
(13:12):
magazine Andre three thousand, he says, rapping it forty eight
feels inauthentic. He says, I don't have anything to talk about,
so I'll share a little bit about this. After announcing
the first solo project of his career, the forty eight
year old revealed that the new album Blue Sun did
not contain any lyrics. He's known for being one half
of the rhyming dual Outcast. The Georgian native detailed why
(13:35):
he opted to release a flute album. New Blue Sun
was officially released on Friday, just before the weekend, and
it's described as a stunning eighty seven minute mind vendor,
minimalist and experimental, tribal and transcendent transcendent Sorry. The flute
album contains eight separate tracks. Each song has a sentence
length title, such as I swear I really wanted to
(13:57):
make a rap album, but this is literally the way
the wind blew me this time and that night in
Hawaii when I turned into a panther and started making
these low register purring tones that I couldn't control. Stuff
was wild. So he says, I worked with some of
the newest, freshest, youngest and old school producers. I get
(14:18):
beats all the time. I try to write all the time.
And this is him talking to GQ. Even now people think, oh, man,
he's just sitting on raps or he's just holding these
raps hostage. I ain't got no raps like that. It
actually feels sometimes it feels inauthentic for me to rap
because I don't have anything to talk about in that way.
I'm forty eight years old, and not to say that
(14:38):
age is a thing that dictates what you rap about,
but in a way it does, and things like oh sorry,
and things that happen in my life, like what are
you talking about? I gotta go get a colonoscopy? What
are you rapping about? And my eyesight is going bad,
and I don't know. I've heard the Fluid album and
I'm like, hey, this is good music. I really like it.
(15:00):
I'm I'm a fan of his obviously. I've said on
the radio many times Outcast is the best group of
all time hip hop group. I'm Wu Tang, people go
get mad Wu Tang run DMC. You know, hey, bring
me to smoke. But I can make my case here right. Plus,
like there's a little secret that I know my ex
(15:22):
girlfriend is actually his wife. He's married to my ex girlfriend.
So I'm a big fan of Andrea three thousand all
the way through. And I'm you know, I'm happy that
he's living his truth and I do have like a
little bit of an aperture into his world. What were
your thoughts on all this when when the news starts.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Broke, I was like a flute album. But then I
have to say I listened to it and I loved it.
In fact, I did some yoga to it.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I was cooking dinner to it. It's so relaxing. It's
literally one of those those albums that you can put
on and you just don't realize that so much time
has gone by because it's it's so relaxing and it
just it takes you to another place. So I'm here
for it, and I love what you said about. Hey,
I'm forty eight years old. What am I supposed to
rap about? And that's not to take away from anybody
(16:12):
still rapping at forty eight. That's just a self awareness
of himself, like, you know, this is this is where
I am in my stage, you know, and this is
this is what I have to give and I love that.
I love everything about him, so I would have to
agree with you one hundred Like this is it. I
hear it playing at the spot. I mean, you know,
there's just so many places this is going to go.
(16:32):
And someone said something about, you know, the sampling that's
going to come from this. I mean, it's genius when
you think about it, honestly, yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah. And the thing is it shows that artists, our
artist our musical artists, don't have to be so one dimensional.
The response, even if it's you know, I don't know
what the sales numbers look like, but even the critical
response to something like this, I think that it gives
a lot of our let's say, mid school and new
(17:04):
school rappers, additional license for additional creative outlets that aren't
based around some of the more negative things that we
hear so frequently in rap music. It allows people to, hey, listen,
I want to make a gospel album. You know, you
(17:24):
Snoop made a gospel album, but it but you know,
this is Andre three thousand no rapping. It's a whole
different musical format for a whole different musical palette. And
you know, just like you said, it's beautiful music. And
the fact of the matter is that when I wake
up in the morning, I'm not thinking about the club
(17:46):
and lean when i'm you know, dropping my son off
at school, I'm not thinking about you know, leading the block.
You know, you know, like I'm in a different space.
So you know, there's times in life when you know
those things are important. There's times when you got a
hus won't get your money. There's times when you got
to protect your family, you got to get to it.
And then there's times when you want to relax and
(18:06):
be at peace and take a walk with your family
or you know, those things all are apart, like black
people do all of this stuff. And Andre three thousand,
I think is giving our creatives, our grios, the people
that tell our stories in the musical space, license to
expand and offer new new styles, new new creative works.
(18:31):
And I think that that's probably the most special thing
of all.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Absolutely, I would have to one hundred and ten percent
agree with you. I love growth, you know, I love
the growth, and I love allowing the audience that started
with you to be able to grow with you. It's
it's great.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
News. Anchor Mimi Brown is here with us discussing the
weekends major stories all Right. Dexter wades preliminary autopsy shows
his body was carelessly mishandled before a secret burial. This
according to Ben Crump, I'm going to share a bit
(19:09):
from the route to bring us up to speed. An
independent pathologist released the initial findings from the autopsy of
Derek Dexter Wade, sorry, the Mississippi man fatally struck by
a police car earlier this year and buried by the
county unbeknownst to his family. The findings reveal Wade had
identification on him at the time of his death. Doctor
Frank Peretti, hired by civil rights attorney Ben Crump, released
(19:31):
the initial findings following the exhumation of Wade's body. Reddy
noted that Wade had several identifying items on his person,
including his health insurance card and identification which contained his
home address. Already said Wade was completely run over by
the police card that struck him back in March. The
report also said that Wade's body was in an advanced
state of decomposition and that he suffered multiple blunt force
(19:54):
injuries to the skull, ribs, and pelvis. His left leg
was also amputated it wasn't embalmed when the county buried
him in a Heines County popper's grave weeks following the incident. Quote,
the tragic news we received from the independent pathologist today
was heartbreaking for everyone who knew and cared for Dexter Waite,
especially his mother. The fact that Dexter had a state
(20:15):
identification card and several other identifying items shows us that
there was a concerted effort to keep the truth and
manner of his death from his family. There is no excuse,
not even incompetence, or not notifying the next of kin
of an identified man's death. This according to Ben Crump
in a statement, So this obviously has got many people upset,
(20:37):
especially us in the black community, because it's hard to
imagine this happening to a person who was white and
have a body be treated so carelessly, and again have
a mother worried for seven months with no answers, no
idea of where her child is. What's your take on
(20:58):
this story so far?
Speaker 2 (21:00):
You know, this story is very, very traumatic. I can't
even imagine what that mother must be going through. I
think you you basically said it all. You know, this
happened in Mississippi and in and around Jackson State. He
was hit in March. His family was not notified until August,
(21:21):
as you As you mentioned, he was buried in a
pauper's grave. His identification was on him. And I think,
I think what what needs also to be said is
that this mother was also suing the police department because
I believe it was her brother was killed by officers.
(21:42):
And so I was listening to Attorney Crump and he
was talking in a press conference and he said this,
this this police department is very familiar with the mother
because of that. So when this happened, it wasn't like,
you know, this was some name they had never heard of.
(22:02):
She's been in litigation going through this for years now.
They were very familiar with her. They seem to have
just chose this course of action, and it's just very unfortunate.
I can't even imagine the funeral was happening today for
this young man. The mother was told that she wanted
(22:23):
the body exoomed. She was told to show up at
a certain time so they could exhume the body. She
got there, it had already been exhumed. It was missing. Yeah,
they didn't let her see it. I mean, there are
just how many ways are you gonna just, you know,
kill this lady over and over and over again? You
know what I mean? How strong must you be as
a black woman to continuously you know, first you're fighting
(22:45):
for your brother, and now you have to pivot and
fight for your son, almost in the same manner, with
the same people. I can't even imagine. My heart goes
out to her, to her family, for the situation for
this young man. He had two kids. You know what
all this must feel like. You know, I pray that
most of us will never know.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
You know, wow, you know what. I'm gonna take a
moment here. I want to thank you for that response.
You know, I work in a social justice space radio space, right,
and a lot of the brunt of what we feel
(23:33):
as a community is absorbed by black women. I've learned
that I see it right. Whenever there's a dead body,
you know, there's a black woman somewhere crying over that body.
Black women are organizing. Black women are the backbone of
everything that we would call progress in my estimation, and
(23:58):
one of the things that I've done my best to
include is a black woman's voice. And I can't always
make that happen. It's based on a lot of logistics,
and we could have a larger conversation about that. But
I think that your response to this story shows me,
lets me further know, and hopefully let's our listeners further
(24:20):
know why it's important to have a black woman at
the table to have these types of conversations, because as
tragic as this story is, there's an element there that
me in my manhood, my manliness. You can just see
(24:41):
so much further. I would have never thought how often
does this woman have to die the same death? And
now I'm thinking like she's had everything taken from her,
and I'm thinking of the individual, and then you mentioned
how strong must she be? And then I think back
to emmittt Till's mom, I think back to Mamie. I'm like, yeah,
(25:04):
so I really do appreciate that response. I know we're
supposed to talk about the news, but if you're a
black woman and you're listening to my voice, you need
to hear thank you from me, and so I thank
you because I'm going to do my best for you.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Yeah, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
All right, Tim Scott, let's talk about this guy again.
So his staffers were upset at his campaign abruptly ending
by surprise. So I'll share a bit from news one.
So nine of the now former staff members and other
allies of Scott's campaign expressed umbrage at being caught by
(25:44):
surprise when Scott announced Sunday on Fox News that he
was suspending his campaign. This, according to Political, the apparent
consistent consensus sorry excuse me among those interviewed was that
Scott's exit strategy was quote handled incredibly and as one
person identified as a Scott campaign official told Political, which
(26:05):
also reported severe organizational deficiencies for the overall campaign. At
least one other person was a bit more forthcoming with
their assessments and suggested Scott broke from the traditional way
political candidates to spend their campaigns. All right now, This
is also from Political. Quote I've seen better run city
council campaigns equipped a GOP operative supporting Scott in the primary.
(26:27):
This person goes on to say a lot of people
were upset. I'll use the word upset here last night.
The right thing to do is give your staff thirty
minutes of notice and have a conference call beforehand. It
was typical of the whole effort less than Thirty minutes
before Scott announced he was ending his run, his campaign
(26:48):
sent out a last minute fundraising solicitation, an apparent preparation
for the Iowa caucuses early next year, but to the
staffers chagrin, minutes later they heard Scott say on live TV,
when I go back to Iowa, it will not be
as a presidential candidate. So people are upset with this guy.
(27:08):
Beginning middle end in it seems like, give us your thoughts.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Yeah, So it was handled extremely poorly. In my opinion,
I think that the least you can do is and
inform your staff, the people who have been working for you,
the people who have been putting out statements for you
and trying to help you secure this nomination, doing all
the things for you so that your campaign has the
(27:35):
legs to stand on, and you don't tell them that
you are thinking of withdrawing or you know, dropping out,
or however you want to put it. I think those
are the first people that you need to inform, so,
you know, I think that that having your staff be
caught off guard is you know, not from what I
(27:58):
know of the campaign, sounds very typical. But and then
the other part of it that was a little weird
for me was the fundraising. So if you know that
you are going to drop out, I wasn't. I wasn't
exact on the fundraising push, unless that's you know, for
the r n C later on. I don't know, but
it just all just seemed to be very weird.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
It seemed very trumpish.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Yeah, so absolutely, there you go.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Yes, yes, so I I I everyone who's listening knows
that this was coming. I say, good riddance. I'd be
happy never to hear about this person again. That's how
I feel personally. If you're a supporter of what's his name,
Tim Scott, I I wish you well in the future,
(28:47):
and uh, you know, maybe he'll run again and with
a better platform and better talking points, and then maybe
I'll come around. Who knows. But this version of the story,
I'm glad to see it's done, and uh that'll be that.
So these are more stores, as always, can be found
at bionnews dot com. I'd like to thank you again
as always for your insight. Once again, our guest is
BION News anchor Mimi Brown. This has been a production
(29:11):
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