August 7, 2025 • 6 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Cawen's Entertainment Report. He's on the Fresh Show.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
The music fans of a certain age time for I
Cream may remember the days when Eminem ran through the
streets of New York with a bunch of bleached blonde
Baggy Jean lookalikes for an iconic performance of the Real
Slim Shady at the two thousand Video Music Awards. Now
twenty five years later, he did another Stan lookalike context
contest in New York for the Young Ins. It is
(00:26):
now a term that has kind of worked its way
into the English language, but Stan is the meaning of
an obsessed fan, and I feel like we use it
for all kinds of things now, even for items that
were very into The word was officially added to the
Oxford English Dictionary back in twenty seventeen as well. But
in the song's memorable eight minute music video, the actor
(00:47):
Devin Sawa, who was a lot of nineties babies first Crush,
he also played Casper. At one point he plays the Stan,
the obsessive Eminem fan in the music video, and he
writes him and writes him, and m doesn't respond until later.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
It was it was very much a moment in time.
Who was on the to didoh.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
There are some eminem stories that I love. I don't
know if they're all true. That what I think is true,
I think I've confirmed or it's been said before, but
that my name is was written as a dare like
a friend of his said, you can't write a number
one song in five minutes or an hour or something
like that, and it was a short period of time.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
And then he did it, and he did the second one.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
And I've asked a bunch of executives is and no
one's been able to confirm it for me. But you know,
when artists are brand new, brand brand, brand new, and
it's not like it used to be, but they'll do
like promo tours where they'll take they'll the label will
take them to radio stations all over the country and
bring them in and hey, this is our new artist
so and so, and you know, you know, want you
to hear the song.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
And then it's always awkward.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
They have to do this like, you know, twice a
day or you know, twice a city, five times a day,
all day where it's like hi, program director, and then
they sit in the office they listen to the song
while the artist sits there and stares at you, and
then at the end it's like, oh, this was great,
you know whatever. So I guess the first one that
Eminem ever did was in New York and the label
met him there and in the lobby of the very
first one he ever did, he said, this is I'm
(02:08):
not doing this is the only one I'm doing ever,
and they're like ever, He's like, no, I'll do this.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
We're never doing this again. And it's like okay, dude,
Like you're not going to do a promo too, Like oh,
and he was a nobody. Well, to the best of
my knowledge, the only time you've ever been back at
radio station is when he chose to go back into
radio station.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Otherwise he like, doesn't he didn't. I love it. I'm
not doing this right, And he didn't, and he was right.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
He did, he was right, And here he is and
now he's celebrating twenty five years of Stan Devin Sawa
actually showed up to the lookalike contest with his son,
who took a picture with Eminem. It was a very
much a full circle moment, and he is doing all
kinds of fun.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Things to celebrate that anniversary.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
This year, BT has officially hit pause on two of
its most iconic shows, the BET Hip Hop Awards and
the Soul Train Awards, both getting suspended indefinitely, according to
the network. The b ET CEO confirmed it in a statement, saying,
we have a team that's actively thinking about where those
award shows might best live as the media climate continues
to evolve.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
They aren't gone.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
We also still have the NAACP Image Awards and the
Stellar Awards, and he said it's not about them going away,
it's about us reimagining them. Of course, the BET Hip
Hop Awards launched in two thousand and six, while the
Soule Train Awards traces back to nineteen eighty seven, and
for decades, both shows have celebrated artists and influential influential
figures contributions I can speak to Black culture and music.
(03:32):
The ogb ET Awards recently celebrated twenty five years since
its inception.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
So we will see.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
They also are reviving, as they told us one of
six and Park one of six and sports is the
new thing that they got going on, and I know
I would switch back from TRL to that. So I
guess this whole report is just for old millennials.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
It's very much going over.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
From school and go back and forth between One of
six and Park and TRL.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Absolutely time, it was the time.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
I'm Carson Daily. Here's the biggest star in the world. Hi,
biggest star in the world.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
How you doing? You're good?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I got with every star.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
You happy to be here? You want to come back
to my house after this? Okay?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Here's the number seven song.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Okay, and he's still at it, toudo. Maybe we should
act like we don't care.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
It's interested, guy, it's just like a thousand teenager just
screaming times squares shut down, the Backstreet Boys walking. The
Backstreet Boys are in TRL. Hey guys doing thanks for
coming by? Yeah, thanks seeing me going pretty well? All right,
here's I want it that way Number one t r L.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
It was a time. Oh he was, he's got don't
even care.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
And it's weird for me to see all these things
getting canceled. But I mean, things are changing, and I
guess everybody has to get a little more creative.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Plus his heart. Man, what a guy. And you're right.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
He's on the Today Show now, which is perfect because
the all the people to watch the Today Show grew
up watching trl.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
My favorite story about him is he will not go
on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen because he's
scared of what he will bring up from his past.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Don't blame him.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
He turns it down multiple times.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Right.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
He's a smart man, Savannah, because Andy goes there everyone.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
He's like John Mayer of the Two Thousands, except maybe
more prolific. Carson Neely got with everybody, God bless him.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
He got with Brittany and Christina. Dude, you that's tough
to do. That's crazy, right, you.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Brought that, You brought the world together. You maybe you
should run for president.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Man. You're bringing people together with that, with.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
That thing, right, That's like how the d from Counting
Crows and you if you've seen him, you know he
got with Jennifer Andison and Courtney Cox and they were
best friends and it didn't split them apart.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I don't know how he did that.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Because I don't either. That dude must have something going on.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I'd like to know whatever he's taken or same, whatever
a secret move is, right, I'll let.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
You boy man.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
And lastlie after being convicted on those prostitution charges, Attorney Mark,
how do I say his last Nie, thank you, thank
you ja period.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Yes, yes, what I know.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I was locked in for that case, Like I listened
to it every single day, Like yeah, and you got this. Yeah,
he's on retainer.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, I don't know if he's the just.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Right, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Well he's thank you Jason for reading my mind, he
says that man says did He is already looking ahead,
telling his legal team that he is planning to perform
at Madison Square Garden. If that is what he is
telling his team, he's said to be sentenced in October.
For now, he's drawing inward, focused on preparing family relationships
(06:29):
and personal reflection before stepping back into the spotlight.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Is what his plan is. That's a great social video.
It's just standing outside and the right.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Somebody better wear a mustache and glasses if they want
to go to that concert.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
But okay, I guess it's okay to dream.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Did he. By the way, if you missed any part
of our show, just type the Fred Show on demand
on the Free I Heard radio app.
Cawen's Entertainment Report. He's on the Fresh Show.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
The music fans of a certain age time for I
Cream may remember the days when Eminem ran through the
streets of New York with a bunch of bleached blonde
Baggy Jean lookalikes for an iconic performance of the Real
Slim Shady at the two thousand Video Music Awards. Now
twenty five years later, he did another Stan lookalike context
contest in New York for the Young Ins. It is
(00:26):
now a term that has kind of worked its way
into the English language, but Stan is the meaning of
an obsessed fan, and I feel like we use it
for all kinds of things now, even for items that
were very into The word was officially added to the
Oxford English Dictionary back in twenty seventeen as well. But
in the song's memorable eight minute music video, the actor
(00:47):
Devin Sawa, who was a lot of nineties babies first Crush,
he also played Casper. At one point he plays the Stan,
the obsessive Eminem fan in the music video, and he
writes him and writes him, and m doesn't respond until later.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
It was it was very much a moment in time.
Who was on the to didoh.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
There are some eminem stories that I love. I don't
know if they're all true. That what I think is true,
I think I've confirmed or it's been said before, but
that my name is was written as a dare like
a friend of his said, you can't write a number
one song in five minutes or an hour or something
like that, and it was a short period of time.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
And then he did it, and he did the second one.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
And I've asked a bunch of executives is and no
one's been able to confirm it for me. But you know,
when artists are brand new, brand brand, brand new, and
it's not like it used to be, but they'll do
like promo tours where they'll take they'll the label will
take them to radio stations all over the country and
bring them in and hey, this is our new artist
so and so, and you know, you know, want you
to hear the song.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
And then it's always awkward.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
They have to do this like, you know, twice a
day or you know, twice a city, five times a day,
all day where it's like hi, program director, and then
they sit in the office they listen to the song
while the artist sits there and stares at you, and
then at the end it's like, oh, this was great,
you know whatever. So I guess the first one that
Eminem ever did was in New York and the label
met him there and in the lobby of the very
first one he ever did, he said, this is I'm
(02:08):
not doing this is the only one I'm doing ever,
and they're like ever, He's like, no, I'll do this.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
We're never doing this again. And it's like okay, dude,
Like you're not going to do a promo too, Like oh,
and he was a nobody. Well, to the best of
my knowledge, the only time you've ever been back at
radio station is when he chose to go back into
radio station.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Otherwise he like, doesn't he didn't. I love it. I'm
not doing this right, And he didn't, and he was right.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
He did, he was right, And here he is and
now he's celebrating twenty five years of Stan Devin Sawa
actually showed up to the lookalike contest with his son,
who took a picture with Eminem. It was a very
much a full circle moment, and he is doing all
kinds of fun.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Things to celebrate that anniversary.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
This year, BT has officially hit pause on two of
its most iconic shows, the BET Hip Hop Awards and
the Soul Train Awards, both getting suspended indefinitely, according to
the network. The b ET CEO confirmed it in a statement, saying,
we have a team that's actively thinking about where those
award shows might best live as the media climate continues
to evolve.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
They aren't gone.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
We also still have the NAACP Image Awards and the
Stellar Awards, and he said it's not about them going away,
it's about us reimagining them. Of course, the BET Hip
Hop Awards launched in two thousand and six, while the
Soule Train Awards traces back to nineteen eighty seven, and
for decades, both shows have celebrated artists and influential influential
figures contributions I can speak to Black culture and music.
(03:32):
The ogb ET Awards recently celebrated twenty five years since
its inception.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
So we will see.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
They also are reviving, as they told us one of
six and Park one of six and sports is the
new thing that they got going on, and I know
I would switch back from TRL to that. So I
guess this whole report is just for old millennials.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
It's very much going over.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
From school and go back and forth between One of
six and Park and TRL.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Absolutely time, it was the time.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
I'm Carson Daily. Here's the biggest star in the world. Hi,
biggest star in the world.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
How you doing? You're good?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I got with every star.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
You happy to be here? You want to come back
to my house after this? Okay?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Here's the number seven song.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Okay, and he's still at it, toudo. Maybe we should
act like we don't care.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
It's interested, guy, it's just like a thousand teenager just
screaming times squares shut down, the Backstreet Boys walking. The
Backstreet Boys are in TRL. Hey guys doing thanks for
coming by? Yeah, thanks seeing me going pretty well? All right,
here's I want it that way Number one t r L.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
It was a time. Oh he was, he's got don't
even care.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
And it's weird for me to see all these things
getting canceled. But I mean, things are changing, and I
guess everybody has to get a little more creative.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Plus his heart. Man, what a guy. And you're right.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
He's on the Today Show now, which is perfect because
the all the people to watch the Today Show grew
up watching trl.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
My favorite story about him is he will not go
on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen because he's
scared of what he will bring up from his past.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Don't blame him.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
He turns it down multiple times.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Right.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
He's a smart man, Savannah, because Andy goes there everyone.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
He's like John Mayer of the Two Thousands, except maybe
more prolific. Carson Neely got with everybody, God bless him.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
He got with Brittany and Christina. Dude, you that's tough
to do. That's crazy, right, you.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Brought that, You brought the world together. You maybe you
should run for president.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Man. You're bringing people together with that, with.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
That thing, right, That's like how the d from Counting
Crows and you if you've seen him, you know he
got with Jennifer Andison and Courtney Cox and they were
best friends and it didn't split them apart.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I don't know how he did that.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Because I don't either. That dude must have something going on.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I'd like to know whatever he's taken or same, whatever
a secret move is, right, I'll let.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
You boy man.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
And lastlie after being convicted on those prostitution charges, Attorney Mark,
how do I say his last Nie, thank you, thank
you ja period.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Yes, yes, what I know.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
I was locked in for that case, Like I listened
to it every single day, Like yeah, and you got this. Yeah,
he's on retainer.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, I don't know if he's the just.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Right, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Well he's thank you Jason for reading my mind, he
says that man says did He is already looking ahead,
telling his legal team that he is planning to perform
at Madison Square Garden. If that is what he is
telling his team, he's said to be sentenced in October.
For now, he's drawing inward, focused on preparing family relationships
(06:29):
and personal reflection before stepping back into the spotlight.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Is what his plan is. That's a great social video.
It's just standing outside and the right.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Somebody better wear a mustache and glasses if they want
to go to that concert.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
But okay, I guess it's okay to dream.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Did he. By the way, if you missed any part
of our show, just type the Fred Show on demand
on the Free I Heard radio app.
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