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Speaker 7 (03:53):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the answer of Mark podcast Married
and Went Married in Media for Wednesday, which because tomorrow
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friends and people in the house. So actually we just
found out this just then. Carl with the K will
not be joining us. He got books, so Carl so popular.
Carl got to get he got them gigs, So Carl
got the gig. He is the black trivia guy, Carl
the K.

Speaker 8 (04:56):
How you guys doing miss y'all last week?

Speaker 7 (04:59):
Oh man, sorry Carl, Yeah, man, I don't know if
if I hit you or not, but we're glad to
see that.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
You know, you're you're thriving out in these streets.

Speaker 8 (05:09):
Got to do what you gotta do.

Speaker 7 (05:12):
So we held a spot for you, but we will
have to give way and we're gonna you have to
send us some trivia that we can use in your honor.

Speaker 9 (05:20):
Not a problem. Send me, I can do something. You're
gonna be in DC Virginia. I'll give it around that.
I'll give you about ten questions. That's good and we
don't be jealous. But Carl Paul the p is going
to be there instead. Wow, So what do you have
for us tonight?

Speaker 10 (05:37):
Well?

Speaker 3 (05:37):
First of all, Allison, who are we?

Speaker 11 (05:38):
Oh, we are the Allison and Work podcast, Married in media.
We are two gen X media pros who happened to
have been married for almost twenty five years. We grown
crick kids and we talked about everything from politics to
history with.

Speaker 12 (05:53):
Carl and pop culture and a whole lot of love.
That's who we are.

Speaker 7 (05:57):
And Carl with the K is a black man who
have as history and more on his side.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
What's going on? Curl? What you got for us this week?

Speaker 9 (06:04):
I've been doing trivia at Fridays, you know, I do
that every week Tuesday and Wednesday nights Owings Mills and
Tuesdays at the TGF Fridays in Owens Mills and Rundel
Mills on Wednesday nights.

Speaker 8 (06:15):
And this week's topic.

Speaker 9 (06:17):
The first two questions on the begear what we were
gonna call gone but not forgotten some people. So I
was doing a lot of trivia. I included Frankie, include Jays,
Earl Jones and things like that.

Speaker 8 (06:27):
So I'm gonna start with a couple of questions get
from that trivia.

Speaker 9 (06:32):
And the first one is Eartha kit Once made anti
war comments that may have gotten her blacklisted?

Speaker 8 (06:42):
To what president?

Speaker 3 (06:44):
What was? Who was the president?

Speaker 8 (06:46):
Was it Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon or Harry Truman?

Speaker 12 (06:50):
It was the Lyndon Baines Johnson.

Speaker 11 (06:53):
Because I love kits Oh, okay, I have a te
sure that because I was she had a It wasn't
even a quote because everything she said just sounded like
a quote and noteworthy. But she wants to ask the question,
when I go to church, I never see.

Speaker 12 (07:10):
Any black angels, not even in heaven.

Speaker 11 (07:17):
There's no nowhere. She was political and she told uh,
lady bird Johnson that she could be doing more than
just this garden or whatever.

Speaker 12 (07:28):
She was doing.

Speaker 9 (07:29):
Exactly she was she was trying Linden Uh, Lady Bird
was working on doing a like a beautification in urban communities,
and she came back and let her know that, you know,
there's a reason why, you know, these guys are becoming hippies,
they don't want to go to war. They you know,
you're sending it off to get killed. And that just

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did not bode well with her.

Speaker 12 (07:52):
And her mind.

Speaker 9 (07:54):
Yeah, that was That was when I It was kind
of amazing when I did the question last night. I
came I wait to see the response tonight because people
were like their jaws drop because everybody knows her from boat.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yeah, that's that Marcas. And I think I think we're.

Speaker 11 (08:10):
I thought you were going to say, uh that, yeah,
not even well a lot of people do.

Speaker 7 (08:16):
That one was nineteen sixty five, and I think I
think I'm finally coming into realizing how volatile the sixties
really were, you know what I mean, Like when you
really think about it and you put yourself there. I
don't think we really you know, you don't spend a
lot of time on it because that's we just kind

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of how we are. I guess as Americans, we take
we take for granted things, right, But that sixties when
you think about the establishment, the establishment, they had a
crisis because the young white people were like onto them
and they were very you know, you think about all
the people who got assassinated. I believe most of the

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rock stars that died in these tragic deaths, I think
they got taken out because the establishment was very concerned
because they were saying, well, if these twenty one year
old and eighteen year old and sixteen year old kids identify,
understand and align with these black folks and others, women
and who are fighting for their rights, we're gonna be

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we're gonna be in a mess. So anybody that had
influence was in a dangerous spot, you know.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
And I mean especially with Herbert Hoover.

Speaker 8 (09:28):
Yeah, you know, and.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
He ran for generations.

Speaker 7 (09:32):
Man, he he had stuff going on for generations, you know,
and then even and then you know, after he stepped down,
you know, after after whatever happened. Just think it was Bush.
So it's like very interesting, like when you really think
about the sixties and all that happened.

Speaker 13 (09:44):
But anyway, sorry, yeah, yeah, I mean that was that well,
that was you know, that got brought up a lot
last month at the convention because they were truck because
it was in Chicago and they had to the convention
with the riots in the sixties when they had the
convention in Chicago with the.

Speaker 8 (09:58):
Was it the eight, the eight or something like that.

Speaker 14 (10:01):
Oh, oh yeah, yeah, the Chicago Yeah. So and next up, No,
I don't mind here your time.

Speaker 8 (10:12):
I'm good. I'm good.

Speaker 9 (10:13):
I enjoyed this too much. I enjoyed this being with
you guys too much. So they can wait there, they'll
sit there, still drink.

Speaker 8 (10:21):
All right. Tyler Perry once paid Cicily Tyson a million
dollars for one day's.

Speaker 13 (10:29):
Work on what movie? Was it a Diary of a
mad Black woman? Media's Family Reunion? Or Why Did I
Get Married?

Speaker 3 (10:37):
Too?

Speaker 12 (10:39):
I think it's the Media's Family Reunion.

Speaker 7 (10:41):
I knew the answer, but now I don't exactly. Yeah,
that those those three weren't the ones I was thinking of.
So I knew the answer, but I don't know which
one it is.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
What is it?

Speaker 8 (10:51):
Why did I get married to?

Speaker 3 (10:53):
Wow?

Speaker 8 (10:54):
It was like one scene she was in there. But
Tyler had.

Speaker 9 (10:58):
So much love for Sicily that he want to make
sure she always got her flowers and her respect while
she was here. And he seems like he had no
problem writing the check for one day's work for that woman.

Speaker 7 (11:09):
And he name he named I think he has named
one of the areas of the studio after her, and yeah,
one of the others and others.

Speaker 9 (11:15):
Right, That's why it's kind of funny every time I
hear somebody like, oh, Tyler Perry movies, it is Tyler
Perry movies. Are that, I'm like, you know, you really,
really really If you don't like his movies, that's fine,
but you cannot deny what this man has done for
a lot, I mean a lot of actors.

Speaker 8 (11:33):
It's old and young.

Speaker 7 (11:35):
The arguments that are out there is it really is
just and I get it, you know. But but also
what people don't talk about the woke crowd is when
he did for Colored Girls to kind of silence the critics,
and nobody watched that. I don't I don't even think
he directed it. I think I think he did it,
but I don't think he directed it. I don't think
he directed it. Actually, that was one of my questions

(11:56):
last night too. So you know, that's something else we
don't really talk about is a lot of our a
lot of our art or whatever that we think is
so highbrow whatever. The reality is, it's business in Hollywood
is business, and so sadly, yes, it's an amazing story,
amazing production, amazing you know. No, I mean it's a

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part of our rich history and cinematic history.

Speaker 3 (12:21):
But people go see.

Speaker 8 (12:23):
It not so much they catch it on cable. And
I mean and.

Speaker 9 (12:28):
That but that that actually what you just said about
the entertainment aspect that crosses racist. I mean, yeah, the
Marvel movies do a whole lot better than Pray Love,
you know, So that's just that's just human nature as
far as well.

Speaker 8 (12:43):
So I get I get upset more when I see
here some.

Speaker 9 (12:45):
Of the high brow people putting Tyler Perry down for
the product that he puts out. I'm like, until people
stop watching it, he's gonna keep making.

Speaker 7 (12:55):
It well, and people have to, like you said, if
they don't watch it, it's not gonna so and again,
I'm sorry, I got rants today, so I pulled out Babes.
Heard this before when I was in Saint Louis. Never forget.
I was hosting a black filmmaker's conference, and.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
Of course the Brother and the Sister this movie.

Speaker 7 (13:18):
I'm blank now because I'm fifty eight, but everybody knows
the movie.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
I was amazing. There were two.

Speaker 7 (13:22):
Lawyers who used their life savings to make this movie
and they were taking it around to different cities, you
know what I mean and Sankofa.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
Oh, and it was powerful.

Speaker 7 (13:35):
It was it was It was very powerful because you
didn't see dark black people that you know featured in movies.
And it was it was powerful because it made you
be like, wow, you see the power of cinematography right
here was the thing. At the same time, this is
when master P got into the movie business. And I

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asked the question about you know what he did was,
which was really and we used to go to Blackbuster
Video everybody and you go on the weekends, you're just
looking for a black face. The movie could suck you
just looking for a black movie, right, And so he
made twenty million dollars, not than two hundre million.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
Dollars whatever it was.

Speaker 7 (14:12):
I asked the crowd of these are people in the
movie business. Are you aware of what to what master
P just did? And they were like no, you know
what I mean. But it's like, how can you not
be aware? You could have done the same thing with
Sankofa right at Blockbuster instead of going around the country
having people come out. But it was like that kind
of that that happens all the time. The business and

(14:35):
the art you got. You gotta have both to show business.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
Right exactly.

Speaker 8 (14:39):
I mean I love them. I don't know if you
saw that Eddie Murphy for Dolamite is my name?

Speaker 9 (14:43):
Yeah, he did, remember how that's how Dolamite He basically
took his movie to what one theater bought the theater,
you know, and take it around.

Speaker 8 (14:52):
That was before video, of course.

Speaker 12 (14:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (14:56):
Last, but not least, little military history for you. Marcealitte
Harris is the first black woman brigadier general, representing what
branch of the military. Was she in the Air Force,
the Marines, or the Army? All three of theirs have
a brigadier general. Which one was she.

Speaker 11 (15:16):
Mm hmm shamelessly, I mean shamefully. I do not know.

Speaker 12 (15:24):
I'll just say Army.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
I'm feeling army for some reason.

Speaker 8 (15:27):
Air Force?

Speaker 10 (15:28):
Ah?

Speaker 3 (15:29):
Is this the is this the movie? This being?

Speaker 7 (15:31):
This being the movie that's starring from Scandal?

Speaker 3 (15:35):
Uh Carrie Carrie Washington.

Speaker 12 (15:38):
No, that No, this that one's about the male. Yeah,
that's about the.

Speaker 8 (15:42):
The that's about the male.

Speaker 9 (15:43):
The ladies and the Wax and the Women Army Corps, uh,
the male crew. They Yeah, those little.

Speaker 8 (15:53):
Tiny stories are always interesting when you look at the backstory.
I love those.

Speaker 13 (15:57):
Yeah, but time is never never good enough to watch
every movie that's out there.

Speaker 7 (16:02):
I will watch now, you know what I this is
a this was I didn't realize this one, Carl, and
I don't know why. So Watermelon Man, you know the
movie Watermelon Man. If you me that movie, look god
from classic. I didn't realize that that was. I didn't
realize that was Melvyn Van Peebles who directed that.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
That's right.

Speaker 7 (16:23):
Yeah, and because you know, because he because his his
were so kind of like avant garde, and that that
had so many stars in it, and I mean it
was like a mainstream movie that's smashed, but it was
it was still ahead of it, way ahead of his time.
And if you if you're if you're watching this and
have never seen Watermelon Man, make sure you watch it.
It's like a black guy is a white guy turns

(16:46):
black or white guy turns white guy turns black, and
so uh, features of the of the of the time.
It had a lot of popular white actors. I didn't
realize it was so mainstream and that's why I was like, oh,
I didn't realize that was him, but very successful anyway, Yeah,
that was and Sweet Sweet Sweetbacks.

Speaker 8 (17:05):
The is an interesting movie.

Speaker 9 (17:08):
When I first watched it, like and you know, first
of all, I was too young to watch it when
it first came out.

Speaker 7 (17:12):
So you know, including his son who was naked in
it exactly.

Speaker 9 (17:18):
But then when I went back to watch it again,
I was like, okay, because we watched it in film
and at Howard in one of our film classes, so
we were trying to look at it from a cinematic
making of it.

Speaker 8 (17:28):
And for what he did with what he had was amazing.

Speaker 9 (17:34):
Yeah, you know, I mean he didn't have a whole
lot of of course, a lot, a whole lot of money.
But once again, behind the scenes, people like Bill Cosby,
Sidney Poitier, they gave him money for Sweet Sweetbacks.

Speaker 7 (17:44):
Yeah, Bill Cosby was getting everybody. But that's the other part,
you know, the history is so it's interesting. And I
just saw the CIK came up with Spikeley talking about
when he raised money. He said, of course, the first
call was Bill Cosby. You know, it's like Sidney Poitier.
Think they both have been starwarts in the whole giving
back to the community. You remember the Cosby's donations to

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all of HBC using.

Speaker 9 (18:07):
And I know a lot of people and a lot
of people sit there, sit around and say bad things,
and I go like, you know, you just don't know
what's going on behind the scenes. You don't know what
these people are doing, and you just I want to
be so famous that I start getting hated on.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
I don't know it out loud. Now, don't out loud.

Speaker 12 (18:22):
Let's stick with each other then, yeah, don't.

Speaker 7 (18:24):
Say it out loud and keep the freaky stuff down.
Don't get wild man Carl with the KYE.

Speaker 8 (18:30):
I appreciate you.

Speaker 9 (18:31):
Guys so much, thank you for having me, and I
definitely will be checking in next week.

Speaker 8 (18:35):
Best of luck.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
Tomorrow, thanks so much.

Speaker 7 (18:37):
Caral with the K ladies and gentlemen joining us as
he does most shows, and so we're not gonna have
crowld tomorrow, but we're gonna have him there in spirit.
I'm gonna send us some questions and we got some
giveaways at tomorrow's event with Trivia from Kral with the
K that I'm excited about tomorrow. And so now, speaking

(18:58):
of can we turn our.

Speaker 11 (19:01):
Light down a little bit, touch just a scouch.

Speaker 12 (19:07):
So nice, thank you speaking.

Speaker 7 (19:09):
So see, Baby, I know you wanted to We didn't
want to keep kral on because we had things to do.
But I was going to say, just like Bill Cosby,
in a lot of ways, this Diddy thing, I think
is similar from a standpoint of a lot of people
have come out. I saw John O'Brien say something about it,
and you saw the people talk about it how a

(19:33):
lot of the and again not justifying anything that Diddy.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
Diddy did, not justifying anything he did.

Speaker 7 (19:41):
But probably the final straw could have been when he
when he when he tried to sue the liquor giant, right.
And it was interesting, Baby, I heard John Hope Brian
talk about and I told you about I told you
about it.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
Then I thought about it.

Speaker 7 (19:57):
I heard then I heard a clip from Diddy and
with his with his beef, and I was like, it is.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
It's very interesting.

Speaker 7 (20:04):
John O'Brien basically said a company, you do a deal
with a company, right, which he did with the liquor brand,
and he took the brand from zero to a billion.
The stratosphere everybody was talking about sarrac right, and so
he was John O'Brien, who was a businessman and a
community man and all that kind of stuff, and he's
he's a little bit older than us. His view was like, look,

(20:27):
you did with a partnership that you guys agreed upon.
They paid you a lot of money, and at the
end of the day, you know, he was saying, well,
did he wanted sarak. He wanted his brand to be
not only an urban brand, he wanted it to be
for everybody else. And he was saying they felt like

(20:47):
it didn't resonate in other places. So basically, hey, man,
you should have left it alone. You don't sue them.
Your deal was basically your deal, you know what I mean. Boom,
So I heard that, I told you about it, I
felt about it.

Speaker 3 (21:04):
I was like, Okay.

Speaker 7 (21:05):
Then I heard Diddy's perspective, and I think this is
the thing that So this isn't even talking about anything
his legal issues, just talking about from a standpoint of
when they come to you with a brand that's dying
on the vine and then you you know, twenty thirty
forty times it the value, the popularity, everything else. And
so to a guy like that, the same thing that

(21:27):
makes you him is the same thing that says, what
do you mean it's not going to sell in Iowa?
My record's sell on Iowa. And actually he has a
point because the party, the freak Offs, is what we're
talking about. But when you think about it, he for
what decades, had the party everybody was at, not the

(21:49):
freak offfs. I'm just saying in general, when you say
Hollywood party Diddy, it was the most influential people in
the world at the party. Okay, So you know what
I mean. It wasn't just for black people. His parties
weren't just for young black people, the Hollywood all the
people in Hollywood.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
You know.

Speaker 7 (22:05):
You know, I just saw one of the guys from
from the show where they get hand out money, you know,
Kevin uh talking about he went to the party dressed
in white and he had he had to watch on
and he told Tom Brady, then you know, my watch
is better than yours.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
You know.

Speaker 7 (22:20):
So these are two people who you wouldn't you know,
associate with Diddy, but they associated with it. So I
could see in his mind like, yeah, I'm not just
the urban I'm not just the black guy. I'm not
just an urban brand. I am the man. When you
talk about partying or whatever whatever. So I just when
I saw that perspective, I said, and so in that situation,
you always have to realize you don't own it. You

(22:42):
got to just keep it moving, right, I'm not going
through I have. We had a similar conversation this week
about something I'm going through from the standpoint of and
at the end of the day, if you don't own it,
if you don't own it, it's only so far you
need to go before you can call. And so, you know,
so they were saying that that lawsuit and what it
brought and the stock value and all the things that

(23:04):
happened was almost the final straw to be like, all right,
so all those protects you probably had from those people
probably got pulled away. And then while I almost like
when Bill Cosby they say wanted to buy NBC, it
was kind of the same thing. You're fine as America's
dad on NBC, and now you're talking about owning NBC.

Speaker 3 (23:23):
That ain't gonna happen.

Speaker 7 (23:24):
And so some, you know, some say that that's why
SOMEN was taken out, and this and that that, and
so then back to we were talking about in the sixties,
it's kind of the same thing.

Speaker 10 (23:30):
You know.

Speaker 7 (23:31):
Okay, you're fine, you're prominent, you're you're good. Don't push now, Oh,
come on now, because the same thing happened when Puffy
tried to get with him IRV Gotti and these other
they tried to do a distribution thing, and that's when
Gotti's company got raided and everything fell apart. Because that's
the ultimate thing. If you if you got, if you
produce it and distribute it, now that's a whole different ballgame.

(23:54):
Kanye West, the same thing. We're good, you're good selling
our brand, but no you can't. We can't let you
in here because if we let you in here, then
we don't have any value because really, you guys are
the ones that create the style. So it's like this
loop that happens time and time again. And I guess
the question is when will people learn is it the
ego thing that what makes people not be able to stop?

Speaker 12 (24:15):
I don't know, I have no you know, my thing
is this?

Speaker 11 (24:21):
You know it hasn't been convicted and all that he
has been indicted, So these charges are there, and I
find a lot of it to be just so disturbing
as a mother of daughters who are talented and who
might have wanted to go into this business, in that business.

Speaker 12 (24:43):
And I find that that arrogance peace.

Speaker 11 (24:47):
Of well you're gonna do this or whatever, because the
exact same thing that you allege was done to him
because of the power thing is the same thing that.

Speaker 12 (25:00):
Yes, So that's that's kind of how I feel about it.

Speaker 11 (25:04):
Like do the people that make the real money moves
and all this whatever, We probably never even know their
names because they know to move in silence.

Speaker 12 (25:14):
And so it's that arrogance peace.

Speaker 11 (25:16):
And let's not forget you know who you are in
this society as far as being in this case, uh
you know, a black man.

Speaker 12 (25:26):
And but if you didn't, if you.

Speaker 11 (25:28):
Weren't trying to allegedly traffic people or uh do mental
and bodily harm to people and more, then you're not
going to be You're not going to.

Speaker 12 (25:40):
Be in that position. So the same thing that was
done to him, and you get that, like Paul Mooney
called your your wake up call.

Speaker 11 (25:47):
And your blank wake up call, and so yeah, I
I for a long time, I've like, you know, who
am I no one not in the business or whatever.
But that sort of negative uh energy that that radiated
from that whole camp and all of the things that
have happened from you know, the deaths that happened in
the nineties and all of you know, all that the

(26:10):
deaths that happened recently, you have people speaking out now
more freely. They're from Albie Shore talking about this book
that this supposedly is kim Porter's book that they say
is not that was put out by some.

Speaker 12 (26:23):
Friend who's not a friend. It's too it's too much
the same thing could have been.

Speaker 11 (26:28):
Would he have been as successful if he had done
things in the light almost on that side?

Speaker 12 (26:33):
Who knows right? Right?

Speaker 11 (26:36):
And I think that, you know, I'm just am I disappointed, no,
because it seems like that's a lot of this business
when people are You got people sort of hungry to
be in and then people who hold the power.

Speaker 12 (26:49):
And it's the same thing.

Speaker 11 (26:51):
You got somebody who wants to lick a brand to
be in Iowa and somebody who really is over.

Speaker 12 (26:56):
The liquor brand who holds the power.

Speaker 11 (26:58):
So you know, that's the scales of justice for me,
and we'll see what happens in court. But for me,
especially as a mom of talented kids, and we have
a daughter who's a singer, right, So the thought of
her being a lamb going into a wolf's den is
too much and I would be mad as hell, okay

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if her spirit was broken in that way, because we
know that leads to other things.

Speaker 12 (27:25):
It can lead to other things.

Speaker 11 (27:27):
I think about our girls, Stacy lattisaw are Gona Maya,
these people who have said I'm out.

Speaker 12 (27:33):
Yeah, I'm talented, but I do without it? And why
you know what I mean? Why so I don't really
you know, I hear.

Speaker 11 (27:41):
You got he was getting too big for himself and
was pushing and suing and all this. But bro, if
you know you got a thousand bottles in the closet
of baby oil for what reason, I do not know,
then she didn't be quiet.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
Right doing loud?

Speaker 12 (27:57):
And so that's how I feel about it.

Speaker 3 (27:59):
Well, you mentioned that Reporter book.

Speaker 7 (28:01):
By the way, I just saw article Clive Davis, who's
ninety four, asked about Didty.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
He said, I don't know who Diddy is. Wow. Wow,
isn't that amazing.

Speaker 12 (28:10):
Because it doesn't start because it doesn't start with Titty.

Speaker 7 (28:13):
Exactly, start with and all those dead people before Herald
kim Porter, Whitney Houston.

Speaker 11 (28:20):
So yeah, and let's think about the me Too movement
from a couple of years ago when people were coming out.

Speaker 12 (28:25):
We got folks sitting in jail. We got very powerful
people who you know, were in jail no longer with us.

Speaker 11 (28:31):
Jeffrey Epstein, and so it didn't start with Diddy, but
it didn't have to continue with It doesn't have to continue.

Speaker 12 (28:39):
Period, right.

Speaker 7 (28:41):
So, speaking of the book, the man behind the publication
of the Womb when I reported to be Seawan colms
X partner Kim Porter tells Rollings don't that he can't
guarantee the books authenticity after flash drive containing a book
for two music industry sources be in sisity, he believes
it to be true. Now again, I'll be sure, and
others have said this is not true. This is just
a smoke screen.

Speaker 11 (28:58):
Because one of the pasts in it is like, uh,
I'll be Kim supposedly is al and Dinny sitting at
the table.

Speaker 12 (29:07):
Kim walks in, what are y'all doing? What are you
talking about?

Speaker 11 (29:10):
And then she's coerced into engaging in a threesome. That's
when so, now so make an al too, And he's saying,
you know, that's not true. So he says it's continuing
to try to kill his characters.

Speaker 12 (29:24):
Yeah, take it with a grain of salt.

Speaker 3 (29:26):
Yeah, because it is number one at Amazon.

Speaker 7 (29:29):
But again and other entertainment news, you know, fat Man
Scoopy mentioned he passed away. Come to find out it
was heart disease, hypertension, cardiovascular disease caused by plaque build up.
And I just want to say, all please, men, everybody,
do you know your numbers? You know, I took my
blood pressure today and was it was slightly elevated after
it's been lol lo lo lo for quite some time.

(29:50):
And again, I love the fact that I'm in the
habit now. I take my blood pressure, I take my
sugar readings that way every day so there's no surprises.
So I know, do you know your numbers if you're
over fifty, especially black men, know your numbers. And again,
you know, I have high blood I have high cholesterol.
I don't longer have hyper pressure, but high cholesterol.

Speaker 11 (30:09):
But do you hear that he no longer has high
blood pressure? What mark is on a strict uh? You know,
right of sugar and all that. And it's just the
choices that you make. And I'm proud of you.

Speaker 7 (30:24):
I think the sugar to sugar is the magic sweet
tooth cutting off the sugar. I think it's been the magic.
So okay, So basically we've been out and about baby.
So we were outside this past weekend. I wanted to happen.
You know, you got a quick thing we saw.

Speaker 12 (30:39):
Was the couple marriage.

Speaker 11 (30:44):
Laugh that our girlfriend's son, Yancey new killing topics.

Speaker 12 (30:51):
A couple of glass built the lab right.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
There, My.

Speaker 7 (30:58):
Boys, you've been bad a long time, big time weekend.

Speaker 12 (31:01):
And before that, Skyler and I went to.

Speaker 11 (31:04):
The Truth and Classic, the Truth and Service Classic, the
Howard versus Hampton game where for the eighth in a row,
Hampton was a victoria. So it's this big you know,
they're trying to drum up support. It is really support
for all the HBCUs because you see these two schools
in the nation's capital going for it. So so it

(31:26):
was Friday night.

Speaker 12 (31:27):
At Seawn's event.

Speaker 11 (31:28):
I'm trying to figure out get the name of hers
because what she's doing is amazing.

Speaker 12 (31:32):
So she already has a foundation.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
Game was the.

Speaker 12 (31:36):
Young Scholars Fund, Young Scholars Fund.

Speaker 11 (31:38):
She already has girls night out and you come out,
you have a good time, you raise money and goods
and services for different charities, especially for women and children.

Speaker 12 (31:46):
But this one is.

Speaker 11 (31:49):
Raising scholarship money basically for young mothers, women who find
themselves pregnant in college.

Speaker 12 (31:57):
And You're like, what can I do? I need this need,
need to support.

Speaker 11 (32:01):
So she started this branch of Girls Night Out for
that such as imaginations to you, Sean.

Speaker 7 (32:05):
And also I wanted to play this So this is
this is America is crazy? So shut should Knight from
prison now doing an interview from prison?

Speaker 3 (32:17):
Phones are illegal in prison? Right? You can have cell
phones in prison?

Speaker 12 (32:23):
Can Yeah?

Speaker 7 (32:23):
I don't think you can. But it's just interesting. So
he's on her actually news, he's on a news outlet,
being interviewed about the Diddy situation.

Speaker 3 (32:31):
I wanted to hear what he had to say.

Speaker 10 (32:33):
Nobody's stepping up on the fact that.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
Don't know what's going on, nobody's defending him.

Speaker 12 (32:40):
Right, you're right, nobody is defending him.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
But that's why I was interested in hearing your perspective.

Speaker 10 (32:46):
Okay, look at it like this. Okay, but do you
have a guy named Kebby she worked with in the scope.
It's got job but to bring from the age girls
and girls that have six with employees and other artists
to the point where his friend got caught up with
the same things. How they ready Puffy House is sex Chopakain.

(33:11):
They raided He's friend house for sex number one. I've
been known him a long time and we was friends.
Were not any means, but we were friends. He's not
a dummy, so he's smart enough to work his magic.
On top of that, this man right here, even involved
with the FBI and of his career, said he got

(33:33):
powerful people. One of his partners who started his company
with drug money. President Obama got him out of prison.
So it's not like he don't have no moves. But
I don't I don't think nobody's just County Mount. I
don't think he gonna lay down and let's clol in
the corner and die. He probably going through a lot
of right now because he probably going through a lot

(33:53):
of withdrawals for the drugs. But the industry got him
on drugs up here. Who you are, prison in jail
is a negative environment. Somebody can do something to them
and get a name for their self. They're gonna actually
do it. They can do whatever they feel they they
gotta do. The Peolgay Sept but we also gotta learn.

(34:16):
We gotta learn from our mistakes. Everything. You don't have
to be a mistakes. You gotta better yourself.

Speaker 3 (34:24):
El I'm sure on a legal phone.

Speaker 12 (34:26):
You know you cannot typically have cell phones, as we know.

Speaker 7 (34:31):
I mean, the fact that you can be in jail
and it's on a national news show.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
Are the repercussion? Perhaps?

Speaker 12 (34:40):
No, Perhaps they almost with who I forget yea.

Speaker 11 (34:44):
Perhaps they gave him you know, it's an exception and
they gave him a phone, So who knows?

Speaker 3 (34:48):
Go ahead, baby, he's diplomatic.

Speaker 7 (34:50):
Now they know he was doing interviews. Well, speaking of
being diplomatic, somebody wasn't diplomatic. Jerry Jones had a live
with Jamie Fox. The baby he says he doesn't remember.
He doesn't remember it. I guess he doesn't. Jerry Jones
harkened back to slavery times. He was on a live
with Jamie Fox. I don't know if you guys saw

(35:10):
this or heard this here it did?

Speaker 6 (35:14):
I have.

Speaker 12 (35:29):
What's the what are you talking about?

Speaker 10 (35:31):
Huh?

Speaker 12 (35:32):
What is he talking about?

Speaker 11 (35:33):
I mean what he's so, he's talking about the size of.

Speaker 12 (35:38):
Football players private parts.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
That's what you just said? He said?

Speaker 7 (35:41):
You know five nine runs a fourty and four to
two eight and a half inch bo what he didn't
he didn't know. He was on live obviously, but even
if you don't know, what are you talking about? And
it didn't feel like it was Jamie Fox didn't laugh.
It wasn't like he just connected or whatever.

Speaker 3 (35:59):
It was.

Speaker 12 (36:01):
What Yeah, he stopped it.

Speaker 11 (36:04):
Jerry Jones, you know, I was asking somebody about the
map work.

Speaker 12 (36:08):
I think I was talking a whisthm about it, and
he was like.

Speaker 11 (36:10):
This is nothing new, but even he was shocked. He
sounded he said, it sounded like something on the auction block.

Speaker 7 (36:16):
Well, and sadly it kind of like it's not shocking
because people always say that, you know, you know, the
owners of the NFL and the owners of these teams
that have these African American athletes that you know, I
mean obviously the correlations or the similarities between somebody's physical
prowess and you know.

Speaker 11 (36:39):
Whatever is it's ridiculous. And he said he does not remember.
He's going back to the whole.

Speaker 7 (36:45):
He's like, he like Clive Davis, who Puffy Puffy am
I Puffy wow?

Speaker 11 (36:52):
And I bet when when Puffy heard that, Clive Davis
said he didn't know he was.

Speaker 12 (36:56):
He probably really felt all alone.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
Oh yeah, you got me in this.

Speaker 12 (37:01):
Now you really feel all alone?

Speaker 7 (37:04):
And so well, we had a throwback, baby, we had
a fun throwback. I mean, let me just tell you something.
I just want to say this about not only my wife,
but my daughters and my dogs. Everyone is a blessing
and it's like, you know how you have the moment,
It's like you know how you have something. And then
I would say, I ever take it for granted, but

(37:24):
it's just refreshing when you like when Skylar comes downstairs
every day, it's the same positive energy.

Speaker 12 (37:31):
Hey guys.

Speaker 3 (37:32):
And then the same thing with you, baby.

Speaker 7 (37:35):
You know, I know you hate when I lerit you
when I stare at you, But what it is is
I just I'm just I'm so happy. I was like,
because you're so cool, you know what I mean, You're
you're beautiful, you're smart. But if at the end of
the day you're cool and seeing this, I had we
gotta play this.

Speaker 11 (37:49):
This is something we were on the radio on the
Howard University radiation, I guess, and it was I was
feeling a little crowded that day.

Speaker 3 (37:58):
But it's so funny.

Speaker 12 (38:00):
It out people in this house.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
Oh oh tw many people in this house.

Speaker 6 (38:09):
Can't get a man into myself.

Speaker 12 (38:11):
Lord, my college girl's back home. She got her books along.
And you can't gone a place to eat? Can you
stall the food life the first time?

Speaker 10 (38:24):
Too?

Speaker 6 (38:25):
Ain't nothing met to eat?

Speaker 12 (38:27):
I want some ice cream? Barks was in his mind,
turning the house into a real big su deal. Kiza,
no place to can Look.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
What am I gonna do?

Speaker 12 (38:38):
Okay, let's sit down. Oh I forgot do the people too?

Speaker 3 (38:45):
Dogs? Are people too? Okay?

Speaker 12 (38:47):
Shut out to Brownie up in heaven. We miss you, Brownie. Yeah,
so it was just a day. But you know what's funny.

Speaker 11 (38:53):
That was twenty twenty and the house was empty and
I mean full, And now the house is pretty empty.

Speaker 12 (39:00):
So be careful what you wish for.

Speaker 3 (39:01):
I know, see baby, see what you did?

Speaker 12 (39:04):
Yeah, I got a lot of space now.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
A lot of space.

Speaker 12 (39:06):
Time.

Speaker 7 (39:06):
I mean the time is five, the time goes by.
And speaking of time, we're gonna have a time tomorrow.
We're gonna have a time tomorrow night. We are gonna
be out at the commentary and uh, you know we're
excited about it. Oh that's my video. Okay, we're excited
about it. It's going down tomorrow. Doors open at five o'clock.

(39:28):
The program starts around six thirty ish. Okay, the program
starts around six thirty is. We'll get people plenty of
time to get there. We're gonna introduce some people there featured,
but then our podcast. So what we're doing is it's
live to tape, so it's not it won't be broadcast,
it'll be We're gonna.

Speaker 3 (39:44):
Record it in real time and then you know it,
edit the video and have that ready next week.

Speaker 11 (39:50):
The commentary is eight on one north of Glee Road
in Arlington, Virginia. Is there plenty of parking, Plenty of parking, Jesus,
plenty of parking.

Speaker 7 (40:00):
Come out, eat, drink, have a great time. We got
to steal a lineup. We're excited about it. As matter
of fact, if you haven't seen the if you haven't
seen the commercial, let's go this.

Speaker 3 (40:10):
Curci Real Quick will be the host.

Speaker 4 (40:15):
Executive chef from the commentary Frank cecil Ponte s.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
S O Family is going down at the Commentary this Thursday,
the first Alison and Mark Married and Media Podcast Live.

Speaker 4 (40:28):
Special guests include the amazing April Watts, who will be
the host, executive chef from the commentary, Frank cecil Ponte,
musician and owner of Flow Wine, Marcus Johnson, the first
black woman to solely own a tequila brand, Tiffany Capri
Hainsworth of T Capri Tequila, and popular social media influencer

(40:49):
Chima Eats will be in the house and you know
celebrities will be in the house supporting Allison and Mark
RSVP at Event Fright.

Speaker 7 (40:59):
Yes, as VP at Event Pride. That's what the AI
voice says, and make sure you do it. And so again,
if you said so, we can use this for a promo.
So tell everybody to join its Thursday.

Speaker 12 (41:09):
Okay, come on out and join us. It's tomorrow at
the commentary. Aight, oh one?

Speaker 11 (41:13):
Uh did I say North Glee Road? I think you
okay in beautiful Arlington, Virginia. We can't wait to see you.
I'm hearing from people who are like, I'm trying to
make it and you look here. It's low maintenance, that's us.
So if we see you, if we don't, we'll see
you the next time.

Speaker 12 (41:30):
But it's exciting.

Speaker 11 (41:31):
It's just gonna be a time for us to get
out and you know, to to talk with uh, meet
some of our family here and talk about a couple
of issues and also highlight you know, to be like
an executive chef at a beautiful establishment is quite defeat,
Like how how does how does somebody get to how

(41:52):
does a woman rise to that?

Speaker 1 (41:54):
To that?

Speaker 12 (41:54):
Uh, that status?

Speaker 11 (41:55):
Talk with Marcus Johnson, an old friend of ours who
is a musician, jazzmusician, but has also branched out and
has his own line of wine, you know, talking with
the media influencer. And Apral Watts is going to be there,
and now you know Apral Watts, uh, and it's just
going to be a good time.

Speaker 12 (42:13):
It's going to be a chill vibe and we're gonna
talk about you know, don't talk about some things.

Speaker 11 (42:19):
We won't get into a little bit of it. We're
talking about family relationships as well. Anything you want to
talk about.

Speaker 12 (42:24):
Questions for us. We got questions for you tomorrow night
as well. Get a good nap to ask yes, that
was okay?

Speaker 3 (42:34):
You know it's so funny. I don't know. Okay, we'll
wait to tomorrow. Do what ask Allison?

Speaker 11 (42:40):
Okay, what else did we want to talk about today?
I feel like you are missing the topic. I'm talking
about you know, the political race is heating up, you know,
not not too long now.

Speaker 12 (42:49):
I think we're under like six weeks or so. I
think that's what it is.

Speaker 11 (42:52):
And I do not believe we'll see another debate between
Harris and Trump, although she has said, come on, let's
do it.

Speaker 12 (42:59):
You know, Trump is saying that it's whatever. But the
next one up is the JD. Vans and Tim.

Speaker 11 (43:06):
Wall's debate coming up first part of October, so definitely
be watching for that. That should be a really good
one because I think intellectually they're going to be on
the same playing field, coming from different points of view,
so it'd be interesting to see.

Speaker 10 (43:24):
I am.

Speaker 11 (43:24):
I am interested to see Tim Wall's demeanor because I
don't I don't think he's afraid to go there.

Speaker 12 (43:31):
Oh no, I don't think he's afraid to go there.
And I think that it'll be a lot of this
from J D. Walls.

Speaker 3 (43:37):
Wow, Wow, Yeah, I think he's so.

Speaker 12 (43:40):
I think you just got to, like.

Speaker 11 (43:41):
Everybody's got to remain pro fresh now and you know,
and and get those points across.

Speaker 15 (43:48):
So that's how I feel like some missus s w
FC absolutely right. The execution in Missouri, the execution. I
meant to pull that up. That was so heartbreaking.

Speaker 7 (43:59):
And it's throughout the day I have been seeing people
say that on other points, you know, you know, someone's
talking about entertainment or whatever whatever, and people are like, yeah,
but what about the execution?

Speaker 3 (44:07):
I think heartbreaking. You know, the actually I don't have
the I don't have my name.

Speaker 7 (44:14):
I have the names and everything, but the scenario I
think this heartbreaking, of course, is that the family of
the person that the young man was accused of murdering,
they were asking that he not, you know, be put
to death, and I think the witness came forward and
basically said he did not do it and so and

(44:36):
that was probably what forty eight hours before, and so
just heartbreaking that.

Speaker 11 (44:43):
These Marcellus Williams, despite questions over evidence, still executed, and
the conservative judges.

Speaker 7 (44:49):
This is what this is now what we talk about
when people say, oh, my vote doesn't matter, or I
don't participate or I don't do this. Under that, I
think you have to look at, you know, the conservative judge,
the judges on the Supreme Court, the three Democratic judges
voted to not you know, to not put them to death,

(45:10):
and then the conservative judges they were overruled, and so
the conservative judges they wanted to move forward. And so
those judges, Kavanaugh and a few were you know, put
thereby former President Donald Trump. And not only Supreme Court,
but judges courts across the country were basically filled with

(45:30):
a lot of inexperienced judges who had very strong conservative views,
and they were put in there basically as supporters of
Donald Trump. And this is when when we talk about
I think the Supreme Court is definitely one at play.
What happens when people don't when you don't vote it,
don't participate, or don't you think you think you're you know,

(45:52):
you don't like the personality of the nominee, or or
whatever reason you give for not participating, your enforcing your
civic duties.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
It has an impact.

Speaker 12 (46:01):
And it's not just the it's not just the president
and vice president.

Speaker 7 (46:04):
Yeah, and when we talk about people of color, talking
about women, talk about anybody who's been you know, treated
a certain way. The reason government has always been a
big player, especially after the Civil rights movement, is because
in a lot of ways, these quote unquote programs are
this kind of like attention given to those people who

(46:27):
didn't have a fair playing field.

Speaker 3 (46:30):
They were those things were in place to help deal
with that. And so when that's gone.

Speaker 7 (46:35):
I was, you know, arguing with a young person, It's like,
would you realize a lot of people don't know history,
A lot of people don't pay attention, and so they'll
see a talking point on on Facebook or TikTok and
they'll they embrace them, not realizing people and impact impacts
your life. These are life These are life changing things
that are in play in the real time. And for

(46:56):
those people who just get your talking points in the
barbership oper on whatever, and I don't don't get it
for me.

Speaker 3 (47:02):
Don't get them for me.

Speaker 7 (47:03):
I'm just saying because I've been there. There was a
time in my life when I was like that, Ah,
my vote doesn't matter. Allison's always been a voter, always participated.
Early in our marriage, I was one of those people, Ah,
it doesn't matter the system of the system. But as
you get older, you start to realize, true the system,
there is a system. You know, white supremacy is real.

(47:23):
But what you're going to do, how do you manage it?
You know, something as simple as participating in your local school.
You got kids going to those meetings, participate in the PTA,
your local politics things. It affect your house and affect
your kids, and affect your neighborhood. And now the big picture,
you know, the big picture, same thing. You know, if
you can't if it's hard to send your kids to school,

(47:44):
hard to send your kid to college, if it's hard
to send your schools, whatever, if you are in need,
if you're not wealthy, because the wealthy can do what
they want to do in a lot of ways, you
can buy yourself out of it. But if you can't
buy yourself out of it, it behooves you to participate,
yourself a candidate that you feel I can help you,
and you know to say it doesn't work, especially if

(48:05):
you never participated, it's almost ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (48:08):
I look back on me and Troy Star every boy
this all the time, and I was stupid. I was stupid.

Speaker 7 (48:12):
I was ignorant because he would just be like so frustrated,
because you'd be like, I'm talking to a crazy person. Yes,
you're talking to a crazy where you're talking to an
uninformed person. And so as we head towards our elections,
not just presidential, what you're gonna do? You know, by
not participating, you're voting for somebody.

Speaker 12 (48:32):
That's a great point.

Speaker 3 (48:34):
By not participating, I don't buy, you know.

Speaker 7 (48:36):
And then even these social media influencers that have all
these strong opinions, it's weird.

Speaker 3 (48:41):
I don't understand. Are you getting checks?

Speaker 11 (48:42):
Now, let's talk about the social media before we get
out of here, because making news.

Speaker 12 (48:45):
Also in the election, Janet Jackson made big news.

Speaker 11 (48:50):
If you've logged onto any social media a platform, you
know that she was asked about. She was just basically,
I believe, asked about, you know, how do you feel
you have a black woman who is running for president?
And what an amazing time? And I think that though
we haven't heard from Janet, I do think that she

(49:13):
probably just says something off.

Speaker 12 (49:15):
The cuff, like really I or she wasn't black?

Speaker 11 (49:18):
Now, first of all, also too, like we saw, we've
seen other women candidates get you know, pretty far as
far as I'm talking about Hillary Clinton, right, but it's
still pretty amazing. There are no portraits of women as
president in the White House or in the history books, right,
So this is an amazing moment in time. And yes,

(49:40):
Kamala Harris identifies she she definitely she doesn't hide from
her mother's heritage. Mother is Indian, was an Indian American,
and her father is a Jamaican citizen.

Speaker 12 (49:51):
Right, he's right, but a professor here in the States,
or was, and she doesn't hide from that. But her
identity has been black because that word black. Let's be honest.

Speaker 11 (50:02):
Well, I'm not saying African American, Jamaican American. I'm not
saying like you know whatever, I'm saying black, which which
is almost like that sort of melting pot, if you will,
when you're here in America, based on not our rules,
but the rules set back in place centuries ago.

Speaker 12 (50:20):
About that, like you got that one drop, you are
who you are. You can identify how you identify.

Speaker 11 (50:24):
She happens to identify as a person of you know,
perhaps a blended heritage, but who went to a black school,
pledged to black sorority, who has never said that I'm
anything other than whatever you take me to be.

Speaker 12 (50:37):
So Janet says, you know, I heard she wasn't even black.

Speaker 11 (50:41):
Then this apology comes out, but then it turns out
it wasn't really from Janet. It was from maybe somebody
in her camp who has since been let go because
and for me, that reaction is weird, like I let
that person, that's why he got lego. I'll remember Randy
Jackson who came along.

Speaker 3 (51:02):
Afterwards. So I'm not gonna say that.

Speaker 11 (51:05):
I'm gonna do it because apparently he's also like very
heavily involved in her career but doesn't really know much
about whatever.

Speaker 12 (51:13):
So here's my thing. I feel like Janet, as the baby.

Speaker 11 (51:16):
Girl of the family, is probably always heavily relied on
the guidance of her brothers. But if a reporter asks
you a question, you've got to know it's gonna it
trumped anything else she was going to say, and that
in that article, right or whatever, and.

Speaker 12 (51:33):
Yeah, it's just.

Speaker 1 (51:35):
You know.

Speaker 11 (51:36):
But then it begs the question do we care about
what celebrities say? But I think in this climate, it's
very impactful.

Speaker 12 (51:42):
Look at Taylor Swift.

Speaker 11 (51:43):
Yeah it of thousands of people registered and the visceral
reaction from the Republican candidate posting on his social media
I hate Taylor Swift. Exclamation point all caps. We're in
a dangerous time right now. Uh, We're in a dangerous
time right now. So words have meaning big time and

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people listen.

Speaker 7 (52:05):
So yeah, yeah, sadly it was real. It was real
from a standpoint. Yeah, it was an article. We're doing
an article.

Speaker 11 (52:12):
And I said, just asked her. I think, just asked
her off the cuff, what do you think about Kamala Harris?
You know, you have a black woman who could be
the president. And she said, I heard she wasn't or
I heard she wasn't black. I heard she was Indian
and white. And it's like, at these words. And one
of the four agreements is use your words impeccably.

Speaker 3 (52:33):
And your celebrity.

Speaker 11 (52:34):
You always got to know to be on the And
I learned that a while ago because I get to
I get to speak. One of the great beautiful things
about our jobs is we get to go into community
and speak and on a real like great grassroots level kids, uh,
you know, women's groups, civic groups and all that Chambers
of Congress, Commerce, and understand that every word that you

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say is on the record.

Speaker 12 (53:01):
And Janet knows that. She's got to know that.

Speaker 11 (53:03):
So, yeah, it was unfortunate, but she has not she
has not. She has not apologized, right, not that she
has to apologize. She's saying what she wants to say.
It's misinformation. That's why I'm saying misinformation.

Speaker 7 (53:17):
And also and yeah, Tito, they were saying that that's
the other part when you talk about a news cycle.
In all fairness, Janet lost her brother, So the priority
for me to apologize on something that I did not
mean anything about it, and my brother has passed away.
I could see that too, you know what I mean.
Everybody's like, you gotta apologize, you gotta pology. She's like,

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I'm dealing with Tito right now. I'm dealing with my
family right now. I don't care about this. I mean,
I care, but I don't care more than I care
about my family.

Speaker 12 (53:45):
Well, I feel like if she didn't look and I
love Jana Jackson.

Speaker 11 (53:48):
This is nothing against Janney Jackson, but I feel like
if she didn't educate herself enough to know who the
candidate was, uh, you gotta care, like the election is
coming up, even if almost like you have to not
say anything because people listen.

Speaker 7 (54:05):
To you well, and I guess it does speak to
then Janet doesn't have the team around her.

Speaker 3 (54:10):
She really needs to.

Speaker 11 (54:11):
Randy Jackson because you know, Randy just happens to be
a big conservative person. So I'm sure sitting around they
just talked about it, and he said, what he said,
he's a Randy's a Maga Republican.

Speaker 12 (54:26):
Yeah, so interesting, right, fun fat Yeah.

Speaker 3 (54:28):
So Radio Twins said, did she fire her manager?

Speaker 12 (54:31):
What happened?

Speaker 7 (54:32):
Apparently that person that allegedly was not her manager but
the person who apologized. But yeah, apparently he has been fired.

Speaker 12 (54:40):
But like I said, well, because she's probably like, don't
speak for me.

Speaker 7 (54:42):
Yeah, she educated on that part. You're fired, Yeah, Randy
her Okay, Babe Tito. Now Allison, perhaps she had a
great interview with Tito. I should have played that. That
would have been great. So Alison, you actually interview Tito Jackson,

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and you also you're probably one of the world's biggest.

Speaker 12 (55:06):
Jackson's I got to be one of the world's five.

Speaker 7 (55:09):
And Jackson and the impact when you talk about brothers
who are a certain age and Michael's going, what's your take?

Speaker 11 (55:16):
Yeah, you know, the whole thing was, you know, Michael
and Tito up there jamming right now. It's just I
think we're at an age we're losing. We're losing a
lot of people you expect to lose someone who is
in their nineties.

Speaker 12 (55:30):
For me, nineties is when you lose people. Now, like
eighties still seems really young me because we're getting older.
But to lose Tito was just I don't know.

Speaker 11 (55:39):
You look back and you're just like all the jokes
made about Tito, you know, because you know, you played
the guitar and then we didn't really sing, didn't really
do all that whatever. But you realize that somebody like
Tito is just one of the foundations, one of the pillars,
as one of the older brothers. And when you lose
and we know about that, when you lose a foundation,
a pillar in the family, it hurts him. He was

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a family man. I used to watch his reality show
with his sons, and yeah, and I know that they're
really probably hurting right now because they were on tour,
they were doing you know, and and this happens. So
but I will say that I believe that he he
made his transition doing what he loved to do, which
is be on stage with his with his his family.

Speaker 7 (56:23):
So wouldn't that have been so much better if Michael
transitioned that way? That would have been so much better
because you know, again, you're right that that's what you know.
I think that's the that's what the joy, that's what
the joy is. Performing for artists like that, you know,
but at least it doesn't have to didn't have to
deal with the line like Odors from the Temptations, ain't

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nobody to see nobody.

Speaker 12 (56:46):
But Eddie Murphy.

Speaker 11 (56:47):
I'm looking at you with Tito give me a tissue.
And also Dave Chappelle who made jokes about Tito.

Speaker 2 (56:54):
Now what.

Speaker 3 (56:56):
Okay? Now what?

Speaker 7 (56:57):
So yeah, so tomorrow night, see tomorrow night. At the
commentary Lee.

Speaker 12 (57:02):
Road, Arlington, they don't want is it north or South
Lee Road?

Speaker 11 (57:09):
Now?

Speaker 3 (57:09):
I think it's north.

Speaker 7 (57:10):
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Speaker 12 (57:19):
You know, one North Lee Road and again Arlington. You know.

Speaker 3 (57:24):
Our podcast starts at seven. The show starts at six thirty.

Speaker 12 (57:27):
I have to dip out at eight o'clock because I
still have to be at work.

Speaker 3 (57:30):
Just to get her beauty sleep, her beauty sleep, and
so love y'all have a good evening.

Speaker 12 (57:37):
Can we talk about everything we want to talk about?

Speaker 11 (57:39):
Pretty much on my Facebook page, so oh yeah, you
talk about everything we wanted to talk about.

Speaker 7 (57:45):
We pretty much got everything and I think all right, family,
see you soon and again see you tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (57:51):
Okay, what's up? Family?

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