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Speaker 1 (00:02):
I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody.
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You don't know if you don't lie about that. Right, Hey, y'all,
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Now hopping right on into it today in the latest.
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Literally, this news broke today, This news broke July thirty,
first five for anybody that may listen to this after
our posting date. Justin Timberlake has just revealed a very
serious health issue that he has been battling for some
time now. He says, he has revealed that he has
a line disease. Now, Justin Timberlake has been on tour.
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With the tour coming to the end, he wanted to
speak to his fans a.
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Bit, so he posted to x.
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He posted a post with a long caption and he
went under the post and he responded in the comments
of his post as well. Justin Timberlake says, well, as
these two incredible years come to an end and I
look forward to the future, I wanted to write something
from the heart. It's not an easy task to try
and contextualize the world win of touring, but I will try.
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This has been the most fun, emotional, gratifying, physically demanding,
and at times gruelling experience. I've been doing this for
thirty plus years, which feels crazy to say, and have
given all that I have to this. I could not
have done it without my family, my friends, the tea
and kids, and all of your support. As many of
you know, I'm a pretty private person, but as I'm
reflecting on the tour and festival tour, I want to
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tell you a little bit about what's been going on
with me. Among other things, I've been battling some health
issues and was diagnosed with Limee's disease, which I don't
say so that you feel bad for me, but to
shed some light on what I've been up against behind
the scenes.
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If you've experienced this disease or know someone who has, then.
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You're aware that living with this can be relentlessly debilitating,
both mentally and physically. When I first got the disease,
I was shocked, for sure, but at least I could
understand why I would be on stage and in a
massive amount of nerve, pain, or just feeling crazy fatigue
or sickness. I was faced with a personal decision. Do
I stop touring or keep going and figure it out.
I decided that the joy that performing brings me far
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out weighs the fleeting stress my body was feeling. I'm
so glad I kept going. Not only did I prove
my mental tenacity to myself, but I now have so
many special moments with all of you that I will
never forget. I was reluctant to talk about this because
I was always raised to keep something like this to yourself.
But I'm trying to be more transparent about my struggle
so that they aren't misinterpreted.
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And make sure you guys remember that line.
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I'm trying to be more transparent about my struggles so
that they are not misinterpreted. Sharing all of this with
the hope that we can all find a way to
be more connected. I like to do my part to
help others experiencing this disease too. And he says he's
going to continue in a comment, so in the comedy, says,
to every one of you came to see me on
the Forget Tomorrow tour or JT Live twenty five or
any other tour show throughout the years for that matter.
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Your energy and love continue to humble me.
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Your signs, messages and do yourself t shirts has made
me laugh and smile so many times, and hearing and
watching you all sing these songs word for word at
the top of your lungs will forever leave me in alle.
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You have made my dreams come true.
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To my crew being singers, dancers, tour life really is
like nothing else. It takes a special type of person
to be able to do it, much less do it well.
You all have been such a beautiful family away from
home For me, I will always so. He's talking to
his team At this point. He says, if you've made
it this far in the caption, which is crazy because
I didn't begin to skip some sentences. If you've made
it this far in the caption, you deserve a medal.
My heart is filled with gratitude. Love each other, be
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good to each other. Don't take it for granted to
just Silace and Finn. Nothing is more powerful than your
unconditional love. You're my heart and my home. I'm on
my way. Those are his babies with love.
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JT.
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Now the reason why I pointed out to you guys,
and I said, don't forget this line. Justin Timberlake says,
but I am trying to be more transparent about my
struggles so that they are not misinterpreted. Because when I
saw the headline of this story, I instantly thought about
just the last couple of things that we've heard of
when it comes to Justin Timberlake in this last year.
He's been in the headlines this past year for some things,
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you know that it had been pretty public. He got
the DUI arrested in Hampton's was a video going viral
of him on social where he was having you know,
some sort of like verbal back and forth with one
of It looked like a stage hen or like, you know,
something like that. You couldn't really tell what they were
talking about. So it's kind of it's kind of unfair
to make it a verbal back and forth because I
couldn't tell what they were talking about, but it was
you could tell it was a pretty tense, intense conversation.
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But the Dui and you know, just you never know
what people are going through. I think what a person
like Justin Timberlake, who has been doing it for so
long and he says, you know, he was raised to
keep things like this private, but also to Justin Temperlake
comes from that era of celebrity where you don't take
people along your journey for real. For real, celebrity is celebrity,
Your real life is your real life. The two are
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typically separate, and they're typically very private, and fans are fans.
There's three there's three elements too. Celebrities that come from
the era that a Justin Timberlake comes from. When you
look at like a jay Z, A Beyonce, I mean, shoot,
and she's younger, but even like a Rihanna, as much
as we feel like we know Rihanna right out of
all the people I just named, as much as we
feel like we know Rihanna because she's on social with us,
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she get busy in the comments. She might shoot a
couple clapbacks at you in the tweets or you know,
in the shave room comments. You don't know her step
by step, you don't know her day by day. She's
not taking you along. Celebrities like a Cardi B, however,
are completely different and have been allowed to be completely
different because of the social media heavy based and vlog
and streamer culture that our world now is in, but
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Justin Timberlake is completely different.
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So for him to.
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Open up like this, I say all that to say,
huge deal for him, but it really did make me
think about how how much of a breath of fresh
air it must be to be a celeb like Justin Timberlake,
come from that era of number one, you don't let
nothing outside your house, but also too, as a celebrity,
you keep those worlds separate of here's my life, here's
what I'm really dealing with, and here is the brand
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and the you know, the fairytale of Justin Timberlake. To
be able to like shed all that in front of
your fans and the people that are coming to see you,
the people that are already reading these headlines about you and
all the things, it has to be a very like
like a very relaxing, you know, let it all out.
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I can now breathe moment.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Because his career has not been like that for majority
of his big, huge career, and I don't think that,
you know, he definitely couldn't directly point to the DUI
and say, hey, I've been going through some things, because
he said medical issues with in other things as well.
I've been going through some things, so you know, show
me some empathy. No one will do that because as
we know, you know, driving under the influences, it hurts people,
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it kills people.
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So there's never an excuse for that.
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But I think, you know, when things happen in the
public eye, when these people who are names and our
celebrities and you know, have all these the following and
you know, they do have that curtain up that we
just talked about. I'm learning that when a lot of
times when these things happen, it's like what else is
going on?
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What else is there?
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And not making an excuse, but just wanting to understand
the person and not that you know what I mean,
and trying to separate the person from the celebrity of
the person. Now, speaking of this, there has been a
lie a conversation about Haulk Hogan since his passing, and
one of the biggest conversations I keep seeing happen every
time a headline hits with him is can you separate
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the man from the celebrity and from the actions?
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Right because of the N word being used?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Right, So, today a story broke it was the cause
of death for Hulk Hogan. So a heart attack, according
to several reports, is what caused the death of pro
wrestling icon Hawk Hogan. Now authority said this week, this
is a week after his passing. He passed away in Florida,
that his cause of death was formally listed as an
acute mile cardial in farction. I may be saying that wrong,
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but it's a technical term for a heart attack. That
is according to the District six Medical Examiner, who is
the medical examiner who did autopsy for Hawk Hogan. Now,
his manner of death was listed as natural. But I
knew when the story broke, so, you know, getting away
from separating the man from all the troubles, I knew
when the story broke. There was video of emergency responders
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responding to his home.
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You saw the video the stretcher.
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Being taken out of his home to an ambulance, and
there was about ten medical professionals actively attempting to get
his heart back going. And you could just tell by
the way that the emergency responders responded that this was
something that was like sudden, that it came out of nowhere,
and then they kind of talked about how fast things escalated.
Later on when police they released a statement and they
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mentioned that they got a call for cardiac arrest at
nine to fifty one, which you know cardiak arress Instantly,
you're gonna think cart attack. And then at eleven seventeen am,
Hawk Hogan was pronounced dead at a hospital. Now, the
reason why I tied these two ande together not that
I think Justin ter Malake is racist or Sadian word
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and I'll leave my comments about what I think about
Hawkogan personally out of this.
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I'm gonna leave it up to you guys.
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The reason why I tied this end though, is because
there has been a lot of conversation around do you
think of and look at hawk Hogan as the man,
the wrestling icon, the legend, or do you look at
him as a person who had a trouble past, who
did not get along with you know, his kids all
the time. There's stories out right now about his daughter Brooke,
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and you know, her wanting to be taken off of
the will at one point, and she received, you know,
according to an exclusive report, she received nothing after his
passing from his will because she had actually chosen to
take herself off of his will because she wanted to
say all the way out of the legal proceedings. This
is something that she had done back in twenty twenty
three just because of how much issues they had in
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their relationship, and a lot of it too was she
felt like the people around him were taking advantage of him.
But you know, she will receive some small amount of
money from like an assurance thing that hawk Holkt had
taken out. But it's I mean and not that it's
all about money. And she's actually said she said in
this report. It was an exclusive that TMZ did. She
said in this report that it's never been about the
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money for her because this was her dad. But I
do think that there's something to being the kid of
somebody who's worked so hard for their children to be
able to be okay after they leave this earth. And
she will be fine, she has been fine, but I
think that there's something too that. And I brought her
into this because it's very clear that at some point
she couldn't separate her father from the issues that they
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had amongst themselves, right, and she decided to separate herself
a lot of times. But right now, the conversation every
single time a headline breaks is do we separate the
man from the trouble past, and not even the past,
but like the just the trouble lifestyle, because some people
would argue, you know, even if these things happened whenever ago,
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that you know, actions are actions, and things recently, even
if it's not you screaming the N word right about
who your child is dating, but other things, political things
and just you know, stances that people take will remind
you that this is not a past issue.
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This is a current issue. But the man is going right,
and that is my point.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
So I would love to hear from you guys, because
this has been a conversation I've been watching online a
bit with most people feeling like you can do two
things at one time. When it comes to Halcogan, you
can say that he was a wrestling legend. At the
same time, you can remove the troubled history, the racist remarks.
To be able to do so, and a lot of times,
like we talked about with Justin Timberlake, there's.
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No separate anything. When you're celebrity.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
It's like whatever people deem as your real life, your
real story, you're real narrative.
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That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
You don't ever get the chance to kind of like
step away from that mask and be able to be
a regular person.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
It just doesn't happen.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
I mean, because once people get to know you, they
know you, and when you're as famous as a Hall
Cogan was or a Justin Timberlake is, it's impossible for
you to be able to step away from me in
that right, no matter where you go, what you do.
But my point is, I think it's pretty interesting how
people deal with celebrities and death versus when they're here
in real time. So, for instance, Justin Timberlake has had
a lot of conversation around him this year, and that
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you know, a lot of things have happened, and when they.
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Happen, it sticks to you.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
In hal Kogan, there's been a lot of things that
have been conversation around him for years, but now in
his passing, people are really trying their their best and
their hardest to memorialize him in a way that removes
him from the things that Hawk Hogan, the celebrity, became
known for. Are we able to do that? Honest answers?
Only take it outside to the street. You call the
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dreeps outside outside in the tweets. I wanna know how
y'all feel. This is the latest with Laura l Rosa.
I am Laura l Rosa. I've been all up in
the white man's business today, y'all. I wanna hear from y'all.
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