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Speaker 1 (00:03):
But you're all being waiting for.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You're tapped in the way up with Angela. Yee.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Yes, it's Friday's Friday.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
Me and I Kim Woods are here today.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Ready for the weekend? Actually, I have the cookout happening
this weekend.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
In Miami this weekend.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Ooh, I love that for you. Also, Power Sessions tickets.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Are on sale right now and that's going to be
at the Hammersteine Ballroom at the Manhattan Center featuring Zeddie,
will Cash, Cobain, Mariah the Scientist, and Dee Herbal. That
goes down on December thirteenth. But tickets are on sale
now today, so make sure you get those tickets. Also,
we've been waiting a long time for this, but doctor
Gina Page, the founder of African Ancestry, is joining us
(00:48):
and me and Mano are going to find out our
African ancestry. Okay, so we'll find out where we're from,
what tribe, and we're gonna go way back and see
where our families from and what that connection is.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Like I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
All right, Well, let's get this show started with some
love and some positivity. Let's shine a light eight hundred
two ninety two, fifty one fifty.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Call us up, let us know who you want to
shine a light on its way up?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I'm a shine a shine.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Turn your lights on, y'all, lights on and spreading love
to those who are doing greatness.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Shine a light on them, shine the light or them.
It's time to shine a light on.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
His way up?
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Put angela yee? What's up? A quem woods? What's all?
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Are you ready to shine a light? This is a
little historical shine of light on my part. I want
to shine a light on Marie van and Britton Brown.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
She is the inventor of modern home security.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
So fifty eight years ago, a black nurse was tired
of being scared in her own home.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
This was in Queens, New York.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
And so while she's not the person that gets the
credit for it, because people have made billions from her invention,
she actually is the person who invented that. Her husband
was an electronics technician. She designed the system and he
put it all together. And that's because please forever to
come to yeah, to their neighborhood if something happened, if
they even showed up at all. She rigged cameras to
(02:06):
peepholes at different heights, connected them to a TV monitor inside,
added a two way speaker so she could interrogate visitors,
and a panic button that bypassed useless cops and went
straight to security.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
This was back in nineteen.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Sixty six, before anybody had home security. The patent office
couldn't believe it that a black nurse invented something that's sophisticated.
They finally granted her a patent, and she tried selling
to manufacturers. People laughed at her, but they studied her patent,
copied every detail, and that's when other home security systems
actually removed her name from history and benefited off of
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her design. Now that industry is worth seventy eight billion dollars.
Is that crazy? So we want to honor you, Marie
Van Britton Brown today.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Now, TJ, who do you want to shine a light on?
Speaker 6 (02:51):
Thank you for picking up. I want to shine the
light on my best friend Bud forty older brother, Derek.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
It's your deceased best friend's older brother.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Yes, you should be used the DJ with fat Man school.
That was just one of his best friends. But he
sent me your song. He made an amazing song dedicated
to his deceased brother. Called Forever Davil and it's amazing.
And anyone ever lost, anyone cloth or there to this
song will make you prye. It's amazing. And Angela, I
want to get you a shout out because you gave
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my aunt Carolin but the twenty five thousand dollars text
that I am Brooklyn Award. Yes, the last year.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Let me tell you something that's just Brooklyn Award. It's amazing.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
We're actually doing another event for that to give out
this year's awards next month. But I know I mean
a lot to these nonprofits, y'all on and I come
in anybody that's been doing the work that she's doing,
like in education, with the arts all of that.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
So shout out to Carolyn Butts too, and.
Speaker 6 (03:54):
Thank you God.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
All right, Forever Darrow. We appreciate you, Thank you for calling.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Thank you all right.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Well that was shine a Light eight hundred and two
nine two fifty one fifty. If you couldn't get through,
you could leave a message in China light that way.
When we come back, we have your yee tea. And
Jaylo was on Howard Stern and she talks about a
movie that she turned down that she shouldn't have and
later went on to win an Oscar could have been her.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
It's way up, they.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Say in the rooms, from industry shade to all of
gossip out send Angela's speeling that Yet.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
What's up his way up with Angela? Yee, I'm here,
a Keen Woods is here?
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Hey?
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Are you a j Loo fan?
Speaker 8 (04:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I love Jaelo.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
All right, well let's get into this, yek te. I
actually got some of Jlo's new makeup here also. But
she was recently on Howard Stern. By the way, this
is the first time she's ever had to sit down
with Howard Stern, so you know, she's got the movie
Kiss of the Spider Woman and theaters. Amongst the things
they talked about, she discussed a movie role that she
regrets turning down.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
And this movie was amazing. Listen to this.
Speaker 9 (04:58):
Adrian Lyne offered me on face and they turned it down. Yes,
why because the script wasn't good And then you went
to the movie and then he made it great and
Diane Lane got nominated for the Oscar.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
It haunts me a little bit.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
I can see why she would regret that that was
a great role.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
In addition to that, She talks about that time that
she did the Super Bowl halftime show with Shakira and
what she thinks about Bad Bunny and all the controversy
around that.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
All right, here she is.
Speaker 10 (05:26):
For me, it was always such a dream to do it.
And when they said, oh, you're gonna do it with
Shakira or Glory, I was like, it was almost like
you think that one Latin artists couldn't do it by themselves.
That was more the thing to me.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
But I have to say it was perfect.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
What about like the Bad Bunny?
Speaker 9 (05:43):
The whole thing is crazy.
Speaker 10 (05:45):
I applaud the NFL for doing that, especially at this time,
to go, hey, we're gonna put this artist in here
for everybody to see.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
All right, Well, shout out to Howard Stern and also
to j Low for that interview. And when we come
back into Friday, said we got new music Friday for y'all.
We're gonna do this twice today. We'll let you know
what new music is that? What should you be listening
to over the weekend.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
It's way up.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
This is a judgment, Freeze, tell us a secret?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
What's up? Is way put Angela? Yeah, I'm here with
my guy. I came with you.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Feeling good, I'm going to hear these secrets.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
All right, step bouncing on the seat. We're going to
get you right too.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
All right, it's anonymous, and you are in a no
judgment zone with me and I came eight hundred nine
fifty one fifty.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
What's up, anonymous, calor what's your secret?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
So I went to a high school and I didn't
get good grades.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Okay, okay, I was a person where you worked as
a third administrator in the back. That's nice.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
I'm the last day of school.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
I was literally gonna fail.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
So I changed on my grades and I gradually like
the top five of my class.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Oh you graduated top five class.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
It's one thing to change your grade. But girl, you
damn your gag. It's valid.
Speaker 9 (07:01):
Nobody knew that's crazy.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
I probably would have put like B minor.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I would have put bes and seeds. But she's like, no,
we do a top five. You going from being a
failings student to give it a connection.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Scholarships?
Speaker 11 (07:18):
What year?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
What year were you in high school?
Speaker 11 (07:21):
Because that nineteen.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Don't get me. But say were you a junior a freshman?
I don't need to know the tea to get you
exposed I'm saying, like, what freshman softball junior? Get me?
Speaker 9 (07:33):
They can't come get me.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
It's okay, it's over now.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Was you a senior?
Speaker 11 (07:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:38):
It was twenty nineteen, girl counted.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Did you get some college?
Speaker 8 (07:44):
Except I'm in college for right right now, I'll.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
Call it from college. You know what's crazy about that?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Because they probably saw so much improvement from her the
junior year, they were like, wow, she she.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Really she hit the books this year. She's a hard
work for Meanwhile, she did just give all delete for
good grade.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I needed that.
Speaker 6 (08:03):
I was literally at like a one point five.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
We had a one point five. Oh no, you okay?
School she had a one point.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
And then graduated like a three point eight.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
That's why.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
The lesson I learned from this is, if you're in school,
work in that office.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yes, yes, all right, thank you for calling, thank you.
Speaker 11 (08:28):
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (08:29):
All right?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Well that was tell us a secret eight hundred and
two ninety two fifty one fifty.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
If you couldn't get through, you could always leave a.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Message and tell us a secret for last word.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
And I came. When we come back, we have your
yee team.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
What's the team?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Oh man?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
So this was interesting, Rosie o'donnald had to sit down
interview and she talked about who her I guess worst
guest was, and we all love this actor.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
We'll tell you who. She said when we come back.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
It's way up shure, she's about to blow the lead
about this, but let's kid it.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Oh, angelus feeling that ye Tea, come get to see.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
What's up his way up at Angela. Yee, I'm here
with akem wits. How you feeling I'm good?
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Well, let's get into some yet.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
So recently, Rosie O'Donnell was on the Sampang Tonight Show.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
And I mean she's interviewed like a ton of people.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
She's interviewed Madonna, Tom Cruise, like some of the heaviest hitters.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
George Clooney.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Well, he did ask her who was her worst guest,
and here's what happened.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Well, I love the guy, but he's not good on
talk shows. Keanu Reeves, really he's so sweet, but he
would not answer a question.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I'd say, so, Keanu, how's it going?
Speaker 1 (09:40):
How you feeling good? I finally said, after like three minutes.
You know, Keanu, it is a talk show.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
You have to talk. Well, we did flash back to
that interview. That interview was in nineteen ninety seven. Oh,
we actually have the clip for you guys. So it
feels like in the beginning of this interview, he was
giving a lot of like yes no answers. He was
visibly uncomfortable too. He kept like shifting in.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
His yes no answers or not what an interviewer wants.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Oh my gosh, it's the worst.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
But anyway, here is what happens when she tries to
shift things a little to make him feel more comfortable.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
You don't do a lot of these shows, do you No?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
I don't.
Speaker 12 (10:15):
Do you hate them?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
I'm not comfortable with them? But do you want a
snack or something?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
I know it was hard for her to say that,
because sometimes you could like a person and also understand
that they're an introvert.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
They don't do a lot of interview.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Everyone's good at interview, like radio type stuff, and everyone's
get at that. It's a talent.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Yeah, and some people hate doing it, to be honest.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
So who is your least favorite interview?
Speaker 3 (10:37):
I don't know that I have a least favorite. I
think it's hard when people don't open up like that.
But I also am empathetic to the fact that some
people can't because they have so many things in their
life they just don't want to say too much. And
sometimes people go do interviews and people are trying to
get them to say something like shocking or you know, everyone's.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Trying to get that little moment.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Yeah, so I am empathetic to that, but I also
so do feel like that's why people need media training.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
And I've done media.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Training for a lot of people to explain to them
and help them get more comfortable with answering questions and
being more personable. So when they show up, it is
your true authentic self. But you're comfortable. Yeah, all right,
well that is your Yet when we come back, we
have under the radar. These are the stories that are
not necessarily in the headlines. They're flying under the radar,
but you need to know about them.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
It's way up, it's in the news that relates to you.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
These stories are flying under the radar.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
What's up as way up with Angela Yee and I'm
here with my guy a Keim Woods.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
You ready to go under the radar?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Girl, Let's find out now.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
A judge in Illinois said she has serious concerns over
whether federal law enforcement agents are following her order, and
that order is to avoid violent encounters with protesters and
journalists in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I can guess know, I mean based off the news
they or not.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Yeah, she said she's getting images and seeing images on
the news and the paper reading reports where she's having
serious concerns that her order is not being followed. That's
US District Court Judge Sarah Ellis, and she will require
all federal agents with body cameras to have them on
during encounters with immigration protesters. She said, that's a nice
thing about body cameras. They pick up events before the
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triggering event happens. We've all seen some videos with them
definitely not following those orders.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
And also the body cameras will kind of unnessary because
you see them do the crime and then they still
don't get they get away with it.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
So it's like, and I do want to say also
that this looks like people capturing slaves when I see
what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Crazy the way that they're rounding people up, chasing.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Them there to Chicago, with all those with all those
kids that they took out of the building.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
The kids and with their faces covered and zip top,
doing whatever they want.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
And not caring about human beings.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
It's discussing some of them were US citizens, even though
you shouldn't do it to anyone, but still like that's crazy.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Yeah, nobody, No, I don't even care if you are
here illegally. There's no reason for you to be treated
in that way. Like if you need to detain somebody,
there are humane ways to do things, all right, Well,
that is you're under the radar.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Now we do have the way it mixed.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
At the top of the hour plus, doctor Gina Page
is going to be joining us. She is the founder
of African Ancestry and Mayno and I have been waiting
to get our results. She's had them, but I wanted
to book her to come on the show and read
them to us and explain them to us in person.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
So we're gonna do that today. It's way up.
Speaker 10 (13:20):
She's like the tut like they Angela Jean like they
am Jealie Jean Man.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
She's spilling it all. This is yeaky way up. What's up?
Speaker 4 (13:30):
His way up with Angela Yee. I'm here with my guy,
I keen Wood, what a do?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Happy Friday?
Speaker 4 (13:35):
All right?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
Comedian extraordinaire, And there is since is a new music Friday,
might as well talk about this. There is an Iceman
snippet that has been circulating. I first saw this on
the blogs. I saw it on Hip Hop All Day.
And here is what Drake is saying on this snippet.
People are saying, by the way, just so you can
listen properly, that he's talking about ASAP Rocky.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
About drinking game pod is so strange about drinking.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
It just bile were heading nor Face Nobody dramas and
how we were out spicy.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah, there's no den testify, so you're just sitting on
by eating.
Speaker 11 (14:16):
Him in elegation.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
You know.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
The reason why people believe that is because he's talking
about your day ones testifying to put him in jail,
and he's saying you never did ish for your brothers
or maybe they forgot. And they're talking about this ACEP
really assault trial ACEP Rocky was facing over twenty years
and so now they're saying things are awkward and did
this whole acet mob fallout from all of this? So
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that's why they're saying, that's what the snippet is about,
all right, And Mark Wahlberg is joining forces with Prize
from the fujis about it for a documentary about his
life and all of the legal dramas that he has.
You know, Prize was found guilty of conspiracy, witness tampering,
and failing to register as an agent of a foreign government.
He was scheduled to be sentenced up to twenty years
(15:02):
last month, but the date was pushed because he had
to undergo emergency colon surgery. Mark Wahlberg said that Prize
is a legend and he's rooting for him to tell
his story.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
They're longtime friends. He said.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Everyone is fascinated by all the twists and turns, like
it's some kind of thriller. But for me, this is
just my life, the real, messy, complicated truth of what
I've been living through. So this all has to do
with that Chinese Communist Party official who was sentenced to
death for bribery and the encounter that he had with him.
You know, Prize was accused of facilitating bribes from low
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to high profile celebrities.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Oh dang, you didn't know about this, you know, I know,
you never know what's going on.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Like I would watch that movie, I would watch The
Two Girls and what's it come out on Netflix?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Well, they just didn't deal, So we don't know where
it's going to come out, but it's still you know,
it's an upcoming documentary that Mark Wahlberg is.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Gonna love it now.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Love Jones, Nia Long, and Lorenz Tate are reteaming on
a Netflix romantic drama and this is gonna be based
and inspired by Maxwell's Urban Hank Sweet album that was
Maxwell's debut album. The film's logline is kept under wrapped
right now, but people are excited to see the two
of them back together again. And lastly, Netflix has set
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a premier date for Eddie Murphy's documentary Being Eddie. They
announced that that is going to be on Netflix Wednesday,
November twelfth, So get ready for that. All right, Well
that is your yet and when we come back, we
got your new music Friday. That's Friday's a Friday, and
so we're going to tell you what you should be
listening for, and you're gonna tell us what you're loving.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
It's way up, whether it's.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Relationship with career advice, Angela's dropping facts.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
This is ask what's up his way up at Angela?
Speaker 6 (16:43):
Yee.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
I'm here with Akeem Woods say extraordinary and we both
have different viewpoints on many things.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
But today we have Joss on the line for ask ye.
What's up? Joss?
Speaker 11 (16:54):
What's up?
Speaker 10 (16:55):
On?
Speaker 4 (16:56):
What's good? What is your question for? Ask Ye?
Speaker 11 (16:58):
Yeah? I have a sort of date, I guess on Saturday,
and just want some advice as to how you know
I should be in that moment and stuff.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Okay.
Speaker 11 (17:08):
The other thing is that I think that they kind
of hang out with someone that I've tried to talk
to before and things didn't pan out.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
I don't know if I should bring that up, right,
But how do you know she hangs out with the
other girl?
Speaker 6 (17:23):
You like?
Speaker 7 (17:23):
How do you know that I've seen them like maybe
with each other a.
Speaker 11 (17:27):
Few times here?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Now they'll bring that up because then you seem like
you creeping all her DMS and stuff.
Speaker 11 (17:32):
Oh true? And I'm really not okay, Okay, I was
going to bring a game called We're Not Really Strangers.
I'm not sure if y'all know about that, the Red Box.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Okay, I think that's too much.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
To think cute. Yeah, okay, where are you guys going?
Speaker 11 (17:47):
So we're going to a place called Purple Ocean. It's
a little vegan spot.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Okay, I'm not.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Mad at that a little game that's cute, like to
get to know each other matter and you know what
they'll bring it and if it feels right, and you
could bust the game out. If it doesn't feel right,
then you don't have to, but at least you're prepared.
I think she may appreciate it if it's going well,
that you actually put a little bit of thought into it.
Speaker 11 (18:09):
Yeah, okay, cool, cool, cool cool. Well those those are
the things on my mind. And I really appreciate you guys.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
As I asked me, and I came one of the questions,
I don't have the box on me. All right, Well,
thank you, thank you for calling and putting us up
on this game.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
But I hope you well man, Yeah.
Speaker 11 (18:25):
Can you update us you guys?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yeah, I would love to do that.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
It's going to be Saturday, that's afternoon.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Ohay's a question?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Okay, Yeah?
Speaker 4 (18:33):
What is something you wouldn't want to change about yourself?
Speaker 11 (18:36):
So I'm in a space right now where I'm really
beginning to appreciate myself and love myself, and I wouldn't
want to change how I see myself, even though sometimes
my circumstance isn't the best and the things I want
to do to get to where I want to get to.
I don't do it just that perspective. I wouldn't want
to change that.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Okay, you're good answer.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Okay, I wouldn't want to change my motivation. I'd be
motivated a lot to do things and it helps me.
Speaker 11 (19:01):
Yah.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
All right, well, thank you, This is great good.
Speaker 11 (19:03):
Luves for sure, for sure, man, thank you guys. I
appreciate y'all.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
All right, having you take care?
Speaker 4 (19:08):
That's all right. You taught us something.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I know your new game to play. Wait until the barbecue.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Listen to lift service.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Oh all right, well that was asked ye eight hundred
and two nine two fifty one fifty. In case you
couldn't get through, you could leave a message and ask
us a question that way, And when we come back,
the founder of African Ancestry, doctor Gina Page is going
to be joining us.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
It's way up.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
This is way up with Angela. Let's go.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
You are a media maven, right, you never know what
Ang's gonna say.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Oh my goodness, it's way up with angelae. H. It's
time for the big reveal today. I'm here with Mano
of course, and doctor Gina Page, the co founder and
President of African Ancestry is here and we have seen
your work over the years.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
We've seen people understanding what their lineage is.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Is this only our African lineage? Just just tell us
if we you know Latin from part like, does it
tell us that too?
Speaker 12 (20:04):
So the test you to traces your mother's mother's mother's
mother's line going back two thousand years. How far back
do you know your mother or your grandmother grandmother? And
where was your grandmother from Saint Thomas? Okay, so before
Saint Thomas.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Doctor Gina Page.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
When we went to Saint Thomas, it actually was very
incredible for man Or to find some family members that
he had never met before.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
So things like this matter a lot.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
They're so little that we do know.
Speaker 12 (20:31):
So much was lost when our ancestors were stolen from
the continent, and it was intentional to disconnect us from
everything that makes us who we are, our names, our languages,
our families. When you trace your roots back to Africa,
it's like you're building a bridge between what you know
here or in Saint Thomas and where that ancestry was
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before the slave trade. And it's imperative. You said on
the phone, I need to know who I am. I
need to know who I am, and knowing where you're
from is critical to knowing who you are.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Right now, Mano and I are talking to doctor Gina Pace,
the founder of African Ancestry, about our roots. So there's
different types of DNA testing, but people do not like
the idea that their DNA is being used or the
information for other things, especially right now. We're so cautious
of what the government is doing with our information. So
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can you just tell us the process and then what
happens with the swabs that we actually send in the samples?
Speaker 12 (21:34):
I can so African Ancestry is completely different than any
other company in the industry. First of all, we're black
owned and black founded, so a black scientist is behind
this work. And so we have two tests. One traces
your maternal line mother to mother to mother to mother,
and then the other test traces father to father to
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father to father. But we didn't send you that test
because thirty five out of one hundred black men get
a European result. Let me get okay, Well, I didn't
want to come on here and tell you that here,
so that that's.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Why we came told me I was a white man. Okay,
like I want to have to deal with those repercussions.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Yeah, people get very dis very disappointed. Listen, and we're
just meeting for doctor Jeena Page.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
You've done a lot of celebrity reveals and they get
very emotional. I mean, Oprah, John Legend, you just Chadwick Bozeman.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Emotional now right as you should.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
So I just want to make sure that people understand,
like that we destroy the DNA.
Speaker 12 (22:40):
I didn't get to that part. Nope, it's gone. We're
the only company that destroys it.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
All right.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Doctor Jena Page is here with me and Mana. We're
finding out all about our roots. This is making me
feel like real connected so far, and I know he's excited.
We got more with doctor Jena Page when we come back.
It's way up.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
What's up? Its way up with Angela.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Ye, I'm here with Mano and we are talking to
doctor Gina Page, the founder of African Ancestry, about our roots.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
All right, So Mana, we'll start with you.
Speaker 12 (23:06):
So we found your mother's mother's mother's ancestry in the
country of Nigeria, but within Nigeria, we found matches with
your maternal DNA in two groups, the Yuruba. They have
this concept of ri and ri is basically your divine
consciousness and your destiny. And so they believe that if
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fate challenges you, aligning with your ri through discipline and
good choices can transform you. And I feel like that's
what you've done with your life.
Speaker 11 (23:42):
Now.
Speaker 12 (23:42):
We also found matches for you among Fulani people. So
the Fulani have a code of conduct. They emphasize self control, patience, courage,
modesty and respect.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
I'll give you half of those. And they say that.
Speaker 12 (24:02):
They believe that real power isn't in revenge but in restraint,
and that patience restores your name. Thank you, You're welcome.
Welcome to the African Ancestry family.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Right now, Mana and I are talking to doctor Gina Peyce,
the founder of African Ancestry, about our roots.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Let's see what Yeah, let's see what's going on with Angelina.
Speaker 12 (24:23):
We traced your mother's mother's mother's people and how far
back can you go with them?
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Only my grandparents, both of my mom's parents were from
Montra in the West Indies.
Speaker 12 (24:34):
I love this because a lot of times people ask me, well,
what if you're from the Islands. We got there exactly.
I'm like, that's the ship stopped the first All right,
I'm ready for Okay. So, Angela, we found your maternal
ancestry in Nigeria too. Okay, it's a totally different tribe.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Okay.
Speaker 12 (24:54):
So your tribe is the Canuri people. The Canuri are
the descendants of one of the oldest, most powerful empires
in Africa.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (25:05):
What I love about the Carnori is that girls were
taught and so then they were able to become teachers
and scholars. And in many communities the women weren't able
allows exactly.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Were busses back then exactly.
Speaker 12 (25:22):
And then the other thing that's cool about the Canori
women is that they're entrepreneurial.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Okay.
Speaker 12 (25:27):
We like that they're known for economic independence and also craftsmanship.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Okay, so you come by.
Speaker 12 (25:34):
What you do and the spirit of what you do.
Quite honestly, Welcome to the African ancestry.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
And how can people also if they want to find
out their African ancestry, how do they do that?
Speaker 12 (25:47):
We're online at Africanancestry dot com and we're on all
the socials at African Ancestry.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
And thank you so much, doctor Jnfage. I feel good
today good. Of course you can buss that full interview
on my YouTube's a way up with you when we
come back.
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What did do?
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What you got going on this weekend?
Speaker 1 (26:19):
This weekend you can catch me and Godfrey at the
Miami Improv Uh ticket to our a keemwood dot com
a k e e m wood dot com. You got
two shows tonight, two show Saturday, one show Sunday. Come
see us.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
I love Miami too. Yeah, so you're gonna have so
much fun.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Short, I'm excited.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
I love that for you.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
All right.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Well, I'm actually gonna be at the fortieth anniversary for
the Opportunity Resource Fund in Detroit tonight. I'll be doing
the keynote, so I'm really hyped for that. Also, Selena
Johnson is going to be performing. Can I wait to
see her?
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Absolutely? Agnore her.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
And tomorrow we have the cookout with Chef JJ that's
in Manhattan. It is sold out. Okay, yeah, so hopefully
you know y'all got your tickets. I can see you there.
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But of course this is your show, so you have
the last word.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
I've had crazy actions that put crosses in fless oil
on my front door. I've had crazy accents that literally
wanted to like cut me and I'm like, dude, all
because I'm dating somebody else. I've had crazy actions that
I wanted to have babies and I'm like, listen, this
ain't gonna work.
Speaker 8 (27:25):
You know, this is Sunny Francis for you in California.
What's up? Angela wanted to call and give you guys love.
I wanted to send some girls out to my mother
who passed away ten days ago and then was Susan
and she was the light of my life. Love everybody
while they're there, and while you can. Okay, everybody trust me,
piece of the clanet. I love you guys, everybody. God
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bless you.
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Yee