Trump & Zelenskyy clash at White House, Tate Brothers Back in U.S., Angie Stone Dies

Trump Administration clashes with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House. The infamous Tate Brothers arrive back on U.S. soil in Florida, as Gov. Ron DeSantis condemns them in his states. Grammy-Nominate R&B Singer Angie Stone dies in car crash. Measles outbreaks, skype is shutting down.

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Speaker 1 (00:13):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, y'all, so you'll
already know, man. We talked weeklies after the talk with
WPP and Philadelphia one o six point five FM. We
talked weeklies after the talk with your boy Charles greg
and beautiful yeah, and the beautiful Laurence is and we
are definitely in the building today. Long day, windy day. Uh,

(00:35):
trash kings flying all across the street. You know where,
uh you know where? You know how you coming through
the park on park side and you go down to
get ready to go up. I had to turn all
the way around because the tree fell in the middle of.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
That Oh wow, yeah, my gosh.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
So you know how it always floods right there? Yeah,
hyper local news. If you go on that way, you
gotta go in through the bridge. Don't go there. I
think that's going towards like Martin Luther King Drive or
something that they called it that, So you don't want
to go there. I had to turn all the way
back around and then hit uh park side to Dry
Avenue instead of going over that bridge, under that bridge,

(01:17):
and so it was backed up, needless to say, but
uh yeah, so how was you up there? How was
your day?

Speaker 3 (01:24):
It was cool.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
I Uh, I went to the gym today. I was
too sore the other day, but I got my workout in.
And I ain't gonna say that gym I go to
because some call it the Section eight gym.

Speaker 5 (01:37):
But they got they got uh.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
I was impressed. I upgraded and I got.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
Massages like a hydro bed. Oh yeah, they got this. Yeah,
that's what they be calling it compared to the other ones.
But I guess I'm on Section eight because I'm a
member and I like it.

Speaker 6 (01:54):
But that was.

Speaker 4 (01:56):
Yeah, I had a good workout this morning. I had
a very good workout.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
So what, Oh my gosh, how much time you got?
Because I spent my half, my second half of yesterday
and today in car dealerships with my son who is
purchased his first car, which yeah, I'm excited for him.

(02:21):
But let me tell you how I had to prep
my son because I'm like, you gotta do your homework
before you go in this stuff car dealership. You gotta
know they're going to ask you X, Y and Z.
You gotta have responses ready. You gotta stand firm, you know,
you know, and if you if you got yeah, if
you gotta, if you gotta walk.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
You gotta walk.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, But I mean he pretty much had a good
after I prepped him, you know, and I'm like, these
are negotiating tactics. These are the things that they say
when they try to get you. This is what you
need to be prepared, prepared for. But he was. He
was prepared, and you know.

Speaker 5 (02:58):
Because Mama prepared them exactly.

Speaker 7 (03:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
I just was like, what do you get? He ended
up getting twenty You got a twenty twenty two Dodge
Charger RT.

Speaker 6 (03:12):
RT.

Speaker 5 (03:14):
That's like some cats.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
And I couldn't even be mad at him because I
had a charger before and I loved my chargers.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
They did, but they yeah, they yeah, you gotta put
a lot of I wanted one, and I was like,
let me rent one first.

Speaker 5 (03:30):
Yeah that I can't.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Get, not with all that. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (03:34):
Yeah, but that's what's up.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
He got a aced car and he got a good deal,
yeah the first place. And you know how it all
goes back to what I was teaching him about credit.
You gotta stay on top of your credit. You have
to protect your credit. So like, you know, put him
on my credit card years ago when he was probably
like sixteen or something like that. He has good credit
from that. That's how he was able to get the

(03:58):
loan on his own. Yeah, so glad about that because
I didn't want to be a So it was just like,
you know, it's just the you know, you're teaching your
children and grooming them and preparing them for like when
they get older, you can kind of you know, Oh
he knows about that. I told him about that. Yeah,

(04:19):
you missed the payments. That's on your credit.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Good credit, and then we pulled your whole credit up.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
Yeah, what's that? What you see today starts.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
To day for you, right, yeah, long day. Yeah, it's Ramadan,
the holy month from Ramadan. All the you know, all
us brothers Muslims out there celebrating, you know, I can
say we celebrating, you know, because this is what we.

Speaker 5 (04:47):
Do it for, right, what is Ramadan?

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Ramadan is the holy month Aramadan where Muslims fast, right,
and they say, this is when the devil's locked up,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 6 (05:00):
And we gonna make.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Sure that we do the right thing doing this month.
This is the only month that they act for, so
we can do it right. And so if you're out
there and y'all feel like you're struggling, just hold on,
it's only one month out of a full year, right,
and then when e come when we celebrate, you know,
the completion of Ramadan, right then you could ball out.

(05:22):
They ball out, you know, rock out with your ya
means as they say. But yeah, you know that's what
that's about. So I was a little tired today. Is
the first week is a little rough because you're not
used to it, right, but you get excited about it,
so sometimes it passed. But then when it starts to
tick down and you start looking at what your watch
like your we got fire minutes left before you eat,

(05:45):
you know that type of thing, you know, But you know,
you get real in the paint. So Sali gone uh
Raman and kareem to everybody that's out there that celebrating. Yeah,
that's how we get down. And so you're gonna jump
right into it. You ready for me always? All right,
let's get into the good news and bad news from
classically Sparkle Highlight me Earth.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
All right, I got the good news and the bad
news for y'all.

Speaker 5 (06:08):
So I'm gonna call this one. Here's just sixty second
Trump White House update.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
All right, So a California judge told the Trump administration
not so fast. After they tried to fire probationary federal
workers across agencies like the FBI and IRS. The administration
wanted employees to list five things they did weekly. The
judge ruled against Trump administration, ruling that the Office of
Personnel Management exceeded its authority.

Speaker 5 (06:38):
Here's another update.

Speaker 4 (06:39):
Trump's budget passed the House, slashing eight hundred billion dollars
from medicaid. It also cut taxes by four point five
trillion and boost of fence spending. Healthcare advocates are sounding
the alarm.

Speaker 5 (06:54):
Goodness, gracious, here's another one.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
Hold on, So what does that mean for people?

Speaker 4 (07:00):
It's I don't want to I don't want to say
a lot of different things, but medicare, Medicaid.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
Are They're basically.

Speaker 4 (07:08):
Looking at what's being allocated for resources for people that
are all Medicaid and medicare.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
Now granted, they have found.

Speaker 4 (07:16):
Like even through Social Security, that there are people at
one hundred and fifty years old that are still receiving instead.
Uh so they're doing the similar thing I believe with
the Medicare Medicaid. But unfortunately, when they're messing with these
there are people like I have an autistic niece and
she gets Medicare and her she's disabled, so her, her

(07:41):
her benefits may be affected if they you know, if
they're doing something with it. So whatever they're doing, I'm
just I hope that it's the right thing. Another update,
Trump is pushing to eliminate federal taxes on overtime pay
and tips.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
Did y'all hear about this? That's yeah, the House supports it.
But guess what. Unfortunately the Democrats voted against this. What Yes,
there was Democrats.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
It was twenty two hundred and fifteen to two hundred
and seventeen, and there was one Republican as well.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
So it's still the laws are still being written about.

Speaker 5 (08:16):
It, but absolutely they are.

Speaker 4 (08:17):
He is trying to sign it. So this one is
a good news part, all right, the last.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
So we can't just you can't run back it because
I'm so pissed off of of that, especially when I'm.

Speaker 4 (08:30):
Like, over time, you that many times I'll be like,
for what, they're just going to tax it?

Speaker 1 (08:35):
But no, I'm even talking about just the tips because
we've been, uh that we the Democrats been advocating for
better wages. Better wages.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
Absolutely, yeah, tip is huge too.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
But no, this is what I'm saying. And so if
we are arguing that we need at least fifteen dollars
minimum wage, a lot of us because I used to
be in the sector. I was a bartender, okay, so
we would get tips right, and they did would get
tax absolutely. We didn't always get all our tips right.

(09:13):
They would give them to us on the back end
or we had to claim that, which is which is taxed. Again.
But I was only getting what tricks like five dollars
an hour or something like that. So how can in
what are you talking about increase the minimum wage? Since

(09:34):
the minimum wage hasn't been increased. We get tips, and
you're okay with them continuing to tax the tips.

Speaker 4 (09:43):
I think it's the deliverer. Maybe they're like, we don't
want even want that messenger. That's the only thing, because
I know that working people have for me as as
a mother, a wife, as when I was a wife
and a mother, and I would work over to and
by the time I got.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
That money and I knew it was for sinkers, food and.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
House whole items, they taxed it. And I'm like, I
don't minds will not even work over time.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
I have a question because I tried to look into
this months ago before when it was more so of
like a part of the campaign pitch. And what I
did find at that time was that, you know, businesses
claim your tips as their income, so if there's no

(10:32):
tax on it, the tax doesn't really benefit the person
that's getting the tip if the business is claiming I
can't remember. I don't because it was a while ago
since I looked that up, but you know, I can't
remember if that's exactly how it went, and if that
was why there was kind of pushback on it, because

(10:53):
the businesses claim, you know, you have to enter your tips,
and if like the businesses are claiming that it's their
income and they're not being taxed on it, the tax
doesn't necessarily benefit the person that.

Speaker 5 (11:04):
But aren't they double dipping though, because then they taxing.

Speaker 4 (11:07):
They're taxing the employer, but they're calling his income, but
then as soon as they give it to the employer,
they're taxing.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Yeah, because on my on my chuck, I remember it
saying like the check that they give to me, I
remember it saying like this is how much you made,
Like it came up to like two hundred and fifty
dollars like for the week, and then it said tips
tips came up to maybe like one hundred and fifty
or something like that, and it's all said minus minus minus,

(11:35):
and this was minus was the taxes. And so I
was just like yo, hi, y'ap ah, y'all texted me
on the tips that I was supposed to get, not
necessarily under the table, but this is tax This is
the tips that I'm making on top of what you
already taxed me from the what you're paying me in
terms of my salary. So that particularly, I just don't get.

(11:55):
I don't get.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
We have to look into the legislation trying to be passed.
Is it is it no tax on tips for employers
or or is it no tax on tips for the employee?

Speaker 1 (12:09):
Good question.

Speaker 8 (12:10):
I thought it was. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:12):
I thought it was just an umbrella of tips, which
I thought was the the employee, because how could the employer?

Speaker 5 (12:21):
I don't know, But good question. I'll look into that,
all right. So did y'all see.

Speaker 3 (12:26):
The blow up with Trump and Zelensky? Ukraine's president.

Speaker 4 (12:30):
Zelensky left the White House early after a tense Oval
office meeting with Trump. Advance That was a lot that
was a lot, And I know everybody's going to give
their give y'all thoughts.

Speaker 5 (12:44):
On that one.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
What do y'all think that? Was it unpresidential that he
treated uh our guests like that, Zelensky?

Speaker 5 (12:53):
Or was it presidential?

Speaker 4 (12:54):
Is he feeling like he needs to stand up because
they feel like the US was not, you know, standing up?
So I know Zelenski, I know that Ukraine wasn't our enemy.

Speaker 5 (13:08):
They were like allies.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
So it seems a little weird, you know.

Speaker 4 (13:11):
So all right, this next one, and that was your
sixty second Trump White House.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
And I needed longer, my bad, I should have bet.

Speaker 5 (13:18):
That's okay, that's it. Just tell me about all right.

Speaker 4 (13:21):
So the US measles outbreak has reached one hundred and
sixty four sixty four cases across the nine states, with
Texas being hit the hardest at one hundred and forty
six cases and the first measles related.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
Child death since twenty fifteen.

Speaker 4 (13:37):
Most cases involve unvaccinated children, with eighteen hospitalizations. Measles is
highly contagious, spreading to ninety percent of unvaccinated people exposed
can call severe complications.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
All right.

Speaker 4 (13:51):
So the measle shot is called the MMR. The MMR
vaccine is safe and effective. Health officials urge immediate vaccination
to curb that outbreak. New Jersey has three cases in
Bergen County, prompting exposure warnings. Authorities are working to contain
the spread. That's uh, oh my goodness.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah, I don't know. I'm just kind of troubled about
that because I know they were saying, like, oh, well,
this is you know, this one death is basically like, oh,
it's nothing, but it's the one, and like that we
haven't had one in a decade or something like that.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
And yeah since twenty fifteen, yep, since that one.

Speaker 4 (14:31):
But the thing is is that I remember, right, and
I remember getting my kids get their mmrs.

Speaker 5 (14:38):
I got mine.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
But in health, if you know, there's different strains.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
So when you those thirty forty years ago are not
the same strains as it is now, even though it's
collectively called the same thing, right, So they're giving out
newer vaccines that help with those, you know, with those strains,
but people who already had it, they may be.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
Successible to it for a different strain.

Speaker 5 (15:02):
So all right.

Speaker 3 (15:03):
The next story is about Microsoft.

Speaker 5 (15:05):
Microsoft has announced.

Speaker 4 (15:07):
That Skype will be permanently shutting down on May fifth
of twenty twenty five after twenty two years of service.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Thank you Skype for your service.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
This decision allows Microsoft to focus on his team's application.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
So Microsoft, so Skype owns teams.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:24):
Microsoft purchased Skype in twenty eleven for guess how much.

Speaker 5 (15:32):
Eight point five billion dollars.

Speaker 4 (15:35):
Eighteen and twenty sky in twenty eleven. Yes, Microsoft purchased
skyped in twenty eleven for eight point five billion dollars,
was its largest at the time. But the services statuses
has decreased in recent years, and they said that there
have been no job cuts with.

Speaker 5 (15:52):
The change, So that's yeah.

Speaker 4 (15:54):
So people, Yeah, but I guess those same Skype people
just probably moved over to teams.

Speaker 5 (15:59):
Yeah, all right.

Speaker 4 (16:00):
A man drove seven hundred miles, yes, seven hundred miles
just to set his ex girlfriend's boyfriend house on fire
in Philadelphia. According to authorities, the twenty one year old
Harrison Jones traveled all the way from Michigan fueled by
rage and heartbreak. When he got to Philly, he allegedly
torched his ex girlfriend's current boyfriend's home and ran to

(16:25):
his car, which was parked a block away, which all
was caught on.

Speaker 5 (16:28):
Camera, so they've seen him running.

Speaker 4 (16:34):
Yeah, and he actually met this ex girlfriend online. So
luckily it said that the six people were injured, but
there's nothing life sustaining but that guy.

Speaker 5 (16:46):
Yes, he's the suspect.

Speaker 4 (16:48):
Yeah, but the suspect is now facing arson charges and
six counts of attempted homicide.

Speaker 5 (16:55):
Wow, so be careful, y'all.

Speaker 4 (16:59):
Yeah, Like I see the light flickering, I'm like, is
he here?

Speaker 5 (17:04):
Is he coming here?

Speaker 6 (17:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (17:07):
Alright, alright, all right.

Speaker 4 (17:08):
This last story is a tragic case. It's a tragic
case out of New York City. Six correctional officers are
now facing murder charges after they brutally after the brutal
death of a man in prison. The victim, forty five
year old John Sudds, was reportedly beaten to death inside
his cell. Officials say the officers use successive force, leading

(17:31):
to fatal injuries. Sudds family is demanding justice and prosecutors
are making it clear that no one is above the law.
The officers have been suspended and if convicted, they could
face some serious prison time. This case is shining spotlight
on abuse in the prison system and how many of
these cases have gone like this.

Speaker 5 (17:51):
That have gone unnoticed.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
So that's uh, your good news and your bad news
from classics, ladies. I don't know the one with the
Microsoft that's you know, teams is good.

Speaker 4 (18:07):
And then I guess the tips in the overtime that
one not too bad.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
Yeah, I guess you could say, uh, that's the Skype
is the old version of Zoom or Zoom is the
new version.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yeah, I mean teams is very similar.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
Teams of nobody new teams unless you was in the
corporate setting though, right, because they are the ones who
generally use teams, people within the corporate sector. But if
you just in general, like you you're you were using Zoom,
there's other there's other platforms like what we use, stream

(18:52):
Yard and a few other things, and uh, but no,
that's that's it's Jaba.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
I know Java is a I don't know if that's
like where you can do the visual. I know they
do a lot of messaging.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
But I don't know about it.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
I know I heard the jaba jab.

Speaker 5 (19:12):
Somebody gonna be like, yeah, I heard it, jab, I
heard the Jabba.

Speaker 6 (19:15):
You know.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
That's why. So which this story makes me think of
why I have been seeing as soon as I turn
on my computer. I don't know if you're iOS people
see this, but soon as we turn on a computer
now even at work, I get this new kind of
Microsoft three sixty five pop up that that's been coming up.

(19:38):
So I'm sure they're doing like some reworking and retweaking
as it relates to their organization. And so Microsoft three
and I've just seen something that's popping up selling a
full I guess lifetime Microsoft three sixty five for like
one hundred dollars or something like that.

Speaker 4 (19:56):
Oh that's about time, because I'll be like, where's give
me the serial number.

Speaker 5 (20:02):
Let me go ahead and find somebody who can you know,
if you're a student or you know, you.

Speaker 4 (20:08):
Used to put the CD back in the day because
them prices was nutty.

Speaker 5 (20:11):
It's like three hundred.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
Dollars, yeah, only four a year.

Speaker 4 (20:18):
That's why Google, yeah, Google Suite took over because they
were able to give you a lot of the same things,
right and you know, and then it's still it's like
you can bring it up any and everywhere.

Speaker 5 (20:30):
So it was like they had they had to do something.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
Adobe you can learn from that also. Adobe.

Speaker 5 (20:37):
Yeah, yeah, Adobe be tripping to drawing.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
But it's a lot of other things that's popping up,
so Adobe, but tighten up.

Speaker 4 (20:44):
Yeah, because if you want to text inside the form,
you gotta pay upgrade like what how scan is drawing?

Speaker 9 (20:51):
And be.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
The PDF documents you're talking about. Absolutely absolutely all We
talk week have to talk with wppm P Philadelphia six
point five Film We Talk week. These have to talk
with your boy Charles Gergen, the beautiful, beautiful Laurence. I
don't want you guys going nowhere when we come back, Uh,
make me go into some stories. If our guests isn't here,
they should have already been on by now. But uh

(21:17):
we'll be right back, y'all. Don't go nowhere. Let's all
one our wonderful young reporters. Shout out at Ella.

Speaker 3 (21:26):
Let's go reporter.

Speaker 10 (21:27):
Ella presents the new recipes that can help me looking
over to you, Ella, Thanks fellow.

Speaker 11 (21:32):
Now that follows upon us. What's not a better way
to start the fall seasons than an easy and simple recipe.
Pumpkin bet is the most delicious and easiest food you
can make for yourself, family, and friends in your community.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
Take a look, right, We're going to make.

Speaker 11 (21:44):
Pumpkin bread, So make sure you screenshot this recipe, and
let's get started. First, preheed you out into three fifty degrees.
In one of your bowls. Picture flour, baking, soda, bacon, powder, salt,
and pumpkin pie spice, but your fork. Mix Now with
your second ball, mix your sugar, oil and apple sauce
with a whisk. Once everything is mixed together, add your

(22:08):
pumpkin and mix again. When everything is mixed evenly, combine
both mixtures together. Make sure you scrape everything out so
nothing is wasted. Now mix evenly until there's no lumps.
After that, you want to set that aside and grab
your breadpan. Lather some butter all around and add a

(22:28):
little flour and spread it around until it looks like this.
Now you want to pour the bread batter into the
bread pan. Sure you scrape everything out so nothing is wasted.
Cut a line in the middle, and it's ready for
the oven. Make sure you are up and mix and
let the bread bake for sixty minutes. Once the sixty
minutes is up, take it out of the oven and let.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
It sit for a few minutes.

Speaker 11 (22:46):
When the bread pan is safe to touch, use a
straight edge to separate the pan and bread. This stuff
is optional, but if you have like sliced the bread
into thick slices and.

Speaker 10 (22:54):
It should look something like this, you.

Speaker 5 (23:01):
Were all done.

Speaker 11 (23:03):
Dig in and enjoy your pumpkin bread. This pumpkin bread
is a perfect way to feed your family, friends and
your community.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Well, what did you think about this recipe?

Speaker 10 (23:16):
I think that this recipe is perfect for the horizon
fall weather. Substituting the egg with the apple sauce is
a great option for others with an ecology.

Speaker 11 (23:24):
Thanks Wellow. I'm Ela Wanzan reporting for Youth Civic News.
Back to Ullo.

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(24:36):
into we're still waiting for our guess, we're gonna go
right into well load one another young reporter from u
Civic News. It did some research and wanted to jump
on her beat, and I think it was politics. So
we'll be right back, y'all.

Speaker 10 (24:55):
Hi, I'm Willow Jerdan with Ucivic News and I'm here
with my grandfather will and Gpa. What brings you out tonight?

Speaker 8 (25:02):
Well, I'm here to discuss the importance of the election
that's coming up and important the responsibility that we have
to do is out, get.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
Out to vote.

Speaker 10 (25:13):
What is your role?

Speaker 8 (25:16):
I have wear many hats, but one is a community activist,
and that means to keep people aware and make them
informed on the issues of the day so they can
come out and make a real good choice on voting
for the right candidates.

Speaker 10 (25:33):
What are some of the issues you see?

Speaker 8 (25:35):
Housing, education, transportation, There's a lot of things. Anything that
we do in our lives, it has to do with elections, politicians,
elective officials making those decisions. The amount of time that
you stay in school and the amount of days you
stay in school is based on what some elective officials

(25:59):
came up with.

Speaker 10 (26:00):
How important? How important is it to vote?

Speaker 8 (26:03):
It is very important. It's not just important, it's responsible.
Voting shit is not a selfish activity. It's a selfless
You vote to help others. So as you help others,
people help you and be a better world, a better city,
a better country to live in.

Speaker 10 (26:22):
Where do some of your beliefs come from?

Speaker 8 (26:24):
Well, my belief is based on I guess I would
very come from my home training. My parents told me
the importance of civic responsibility, caring, loving, sharing, being involved,
being responsible on your actions.

Speaker 10 (26:41):
Is there any positive knowledge you would give to the
people who don't vote.

Speaker 8 (26:45):
I would tell them if they can't come up with
a reason why they should vote for themselves, come up
with a reason why they should vote for someone else,
for their parents, for their children, for more street lights,
how they want a better community, do it for someone else.

Speaker 10 (27:06):
I'm Willow Jordan reporting from U Civic News, and I'm
here with my grandfather Willie Jordan.

Speaker 8 (27:12):
Thank you, you're welcome.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
My young that's that's like my how can I put it,
like my little niece, you know what I mean? She
got there, she did her stuff and was very proud
of her, very proud of the work and the growth
that I've seen in Willow and just an amazing time
that we had and teaching this is something that we
love to do when it comes to those kids. When
it comes to the youth, if you don't give them
some direction, they going to choose a direction, right, And

(27:38):
so you want to give them options to directions.

Speaker 6 (27:42):
Right.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
All of them may not choose the right one, most
of them will right, or what we define is the
right one, something that's going to give them options later
on down the way, because there's a lot of things
that's out there that's giving them different options that they're taking.
That's confusing them, and which is the reason why we
teach a lot about media literacy. So the things that

(28:04):
they're seeing, the content that they're consuming, is pushing them
a certain way. And if you don't give them the
tools to understand certain things in terms of the visuals
that they're consuming, they're gonna make decisions and those decisions
may not always be the correct decision to make. But

(28:25):
if you don't give them the tools or the insights
to be a little bit more discerning with their choices,
then all we can do is say it might be
our fault because we didn't give them those options, right,
we didn't give them those tools, And so I'm gonna
pass itzzles ready for me?

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Yeah am I?

Speaker 1 (28:50):
Yeah? You just go ahead. Why don't you talking a
little bit about, you know, use news or definitely what's
coming up next as it relates to like devoting because
there's something else very important and then going to your story.

Speaker 7 (29:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
So with ucivic News, that was a cohort that was
created for twelve weeks to provide civic engagement, media literacy,
digital media skills, training, reporting, journalism, all that stuff to

(29:24):
youth ages thirteen to twenty. It was twenty four, but
I think we only we had thirteen eighteen. Yeah, but
to give them the skills that they can create their
own content be civically engaged. So a lot of them,
the one the people that you the young ladies that

(29:45):
you just saw on there, they were our youth reporters
and they were reporting on civic News and all that.
So that's something that we're looking to start again, so
we'll have more information on that. But just remember that
upcoming election. The primary election is May twentieth, so your

(30:06):
last day to register to vote is gonna be made.
The fifth. Last day to request a mail in or
absentee ballot is May thirteen. So there's also some special
elections in PA, which I was looking for. The one
that's here in Philadelphia. Judges, Yeah, there's gonna be two judges.

(30:29):
But those if you go to Committee of seventy, they
have the Committee of seventy, yeah, they have. They have
an amazing twenty twenty five voter guide which pretty much
pretty much breaks down like who's running, what positions they're
running for, and what those positions do because a lot

(30:50):
of times people go to the polls and they know
they may even if they don't know who's running, they
know of the positions, but not exactly what those positions
will do.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
What's that site of guy.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
A Committee of seventy If you go to seventy seventy
dot org and then there's like the twenty twenty five
voter Guide and it has pretty much all the information
we're going to be voting for a city controller district attorney,
the judges of elections, the Inspector of elections, those and

(31:26):
when you go to each one, you can click on
what is what we're going to be voting for and
it gives a nice kind of breakdown, short breakdown of
what those positions do. So whoever the incumbent is, they
pretty much have to do that.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
This was it. Then you report on this. It's just accurate.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
Yeah, yeah, those are the voting dates. Yeah, I was
just looking for the exact date for the special election.
I saw something about May twenty fifth, but I just
want to confirm that so I can kind of I
can kind of mention that.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
So let me go over this while you uh, kind
of prepared for that. So make sure you vote. Make
sure you register to vote on college address or you
could oh cool, you can use your college ad. I
forgot about that. You can actually use your college address right,
definitely your home address. But important election dates. May fifth,
it's the last day to register to vote in the

(32:25):
municipal primary. You can go to vote dot pa dot
gov slash register. May thirteenth, last day to apply for
a mail ballot. You can go to vote dot pa
dot gov slash mail ballot and May twentieth election day.
Polls are open from seven am to eight pm. Completed

(32:47):
mail ballots must receive be received by eight pm. Vote
dot pa dot gov slash polls. You can go to
a vote dot pa dot gov. Just go to vote
dot Pa dot gov and make sure that you get
on and on the site and just easily navigate it.
It's really easy to navigate and find what you need. Yep.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
So the March twenty fifth special election date is correct.
The last date of register to vote for that is
March tenth, and the last day to request the mail
in ballot is March day eighteenth. So that's a special
election for the PA Senate District thirty six, the PA
House thirty five seat. And you know, the special election

(33:30):
is kind of like a general election, which means that
any registered vote voter may vote in this race.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
Oh wow.

Speaker 2 (33:36):
Yeah, So it's not like you need to have some
type of special privileges. No, you can just be a
regular registered voter.

Speaker 3 (33:46):
And it's important too, Like people don't realize that.

Speaker 4 (33:49):
I think that special election is some of the judicial
one of the most important.

Speaker 1 (33:53):
Especially.

Speaker 4 (33:55):
Yeah, so when you're saying, why did little Johnny or
you know, well, Mika, what happened when they went to
court and this judge was unfair. It's because these are
the people that when you don't vote.

Speaker 3 (34:08):
They're getting voted in.

Speaker 5 (34:10):
So learn who you're voting for.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
And yeah, exactly, exactly, yeah, all right, So the disgrace influencers,
the Tate brothers. They arrived back in the United States
to from to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after travel restrictions were
lifted allowing them to return. So Governor Ron DeSantis is

(34:38):
adamant that the Tate brothers are not welcome in the
state of Florida, stating his plans for his administration's investigation
into the brothers, who have dual citizenship in the US.
And they are British citizens as well. So thirty thirty
eight year old if you don't know who they are,
thirty eight year old brother Andrew Tate, he he is

(35:00):
the one that's the former professional box kickboxer and self
proclaimed misogynists who garnered ten million followers on x and
Both Andrew and his younger brother, thirty six year old
Tristan Tate, are staunch vocal supporters of President Donald Trump.
The pair have been banned on numerous social media sites
for hate speech and chauvinistic comments about women taking responsibility

(35:25):
for being sexually assaulted. So in twenty twenty two, the brothers,
along with two other women, were arrested and charged with
rape and human trafficking in Romania. So multiple women, multiple
female victims were lured to Romania where they were trafficked
and physically abused, and back in March twenty twenty three,

(35:46):
the brothers were granted and appealed to move from They
were in custody at that time, and they were granted
an appeal to move from custody to House ar US.
So there are Twitter accounts were reinstated when Elon Musk
took over, and the Associated Press reports a Trump official
express interest in the Tate brother's case, which sparked outrage

(36:08):
from conservative officials. Well, the Tate brothers have denied all allegations.
Andrew Tate spoke to reporters when the brothers arrived in
Florida and he just said, we live in a democratic
society where it's innocent until proven guilty, and I think
my brother and I are largely misunderstood. There's a lot

(36:28):
of opinions about us. Things that go around about us
on the internet, and there has so this is what
he was explaining to reporters. But there has been public
outcry because many of the Tate Brothers followers are school
age children and young men. But ironically enough, Mega supporters

(36:48):
and the Tate Brothers fans are excited to have them
back and in the state of Florida. But their case
is still pending, so they still have this act case
in Romania. But the travel band was lifted allowing them
to come over here.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
And who's excited.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
Well, you know, they had all these ten million fans
who have kind of still been following the brothers since
their arrest back in twenty twenty two. So the fans
are all excited, and then you have the the Mega supporters.
They're also I guess supporting him. The brothers too as well.
Oh wow, yes, so.

Speaker 4 (37:27):
Yeah, one of them I think I remember, very arrogant.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
Yes, yeah, yes.

Speaker 4 (37:35):
He's always talking about money in different ways.

Speaker 5 (37:38):
To obtain it.

Speaker 7 (37:41):
M hm.

Speaker 5 (37:41):
That's the younger one or the older one.

Speaker 2 (37:43):
Okay, all right.

Speaker 4 (37:45):
We'll see what the outcome is with that. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I don't hear that hitting the waves though, Like diddies,
do you?

Speaker 6 (37:58):
No?

Speaker 1 (37:59):
Did, Yeah, I don't hear it. Well it was, I
mean it was it was pretty problem.

Speaker 5 (38:04):
His thing been documentary and all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (38:07):
Well, his thing been out for a long time, man,
like his his situation with uh this this this trafficking,
it's been in the justice system for a long time.
So I didn't know it wasn't it was even before
the Diddy Diddy situation, right, So they had Andrew Tate
under the microscope for a long time. And so that's

(38:29):
why I.

Speaker 5 (38:29):
Remember when he got locked up.

Speaker 4 (38:31):
I just don't remember it being as like I said, well.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
He's not from He's not from here either, and it's
not not it's not like a Diddy though, not like
a Diddy. He's like more of an influencer that got big.
But if you're not necessarily like in that ecosystem, you know,
you wouldn't know about Andrew t just like you ain't
know which one.

Speaker 4 (38:52):
He was, right, Yeah, but I know who he is.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
Yeah, So so that said didd, he is a cultural icon.
So you know Diddy heard of Diddy, know somebody Diddy
listen to something about Diddy? You know, So no Diddy,
I think I was saying. But it's real, like puff. Yeah,

(39:20):
that's funny. That's funny. And so what else is in
the news? None of what guess is here. So let's
see what else was in the news today. I've seen
uh uh so shout out to I want to say,
Howard's let me see, let me let me make sure
I get this.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
Let's just double back to sparks story of Zolensky and Trump.
I don't know what you thought about that.

Speaker 4 (39:46):
I was trying to educate myself more on what the differences.

Speaker 3 (39:52):
Are that first on, I don't think that when I
watched it, I.

Speaker 5 (39:57):
Don't think that Zolensky was being uh disrespectful.

Speaker 4 (40:02):
Fans made it that he was being disrespectful. I think
that English is his second language, so he was still
trying to talk to two linguistics, and he may have
said some words that culturally that we in the States
may or just English speaking people might say that that's
a little bit you know that you don't say.

Speaker 3 (40:24):
And I think that it got.

Speaker 5 (40:26):
Blown out of proportion.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
I really do.

Speaker 4 (40:29):
I don't think that I don't think that the the way.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
That Trump got was needed.

Speaker 4 (40:37):
But I'm still trying to figure out if it's a
bigger picture like this is this anger going towards Putin
in Russia opposed to letting them like see that this
is the outcome, and then he was just collateral damage.

Speaker 5 (40:52):
Zelenski was so I'm still trying to figure out that.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
I guess what are your thoughts? I mean, I just
was kind of, you know, surprised, because I mean the
entire meeting was almost an hour long, so it was
like everything was fine up until like these last five
minutes and that was like when this, I mean, I

(41:16):
don't know if if because Zelenski asks Vance, jd Vance,
what was you know, because you know he I forget
where he went over to speak, and he went over
to speak somewhere, and he was kind of like talking
about I guess like Zelensky was asking him about his speech,

(41:37):
like if you could break down what you're saying, like
because of the speech, and I guess jd Vance was
like he just went from zero to sixty and he
just went off but crud.

Speaker 4 (41:49):
And I didn't like when he said, you're being disrespectful.

Speaker 5 (41:52):
You didn't even tell us thank you.

Speaker 4 (41:54):
That to me, he was just and I was so
literal at all. Yeah, it was kind of like he
was little in him at that moment. But what are
your thoughts?

Speaker 3 (42:02):
Did you watch it?

Speaker 1 (42:03):
I watched a little bit of it. I thought he
was a little much I mean Trump, I think Trump
did it a little way too much with that. But
I mean, I guess he's trying to prove his dominance or.

Speaker 5 (42:18):
That's what I'm thinking.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
You know, was it.

Speaker 2 (42:20):
Because he was the whole time. It was like they
were cool the whole time, and then it was like
when he aked advanced about the advance, just got all hyps.

Speaker 5 (42:28):
So the advance is he the instigator?

Speaker 2 (42:32):
Yeah, that's what it seemed like to me.

Speaker 4 (42:33):
Yeah, yeah, because it wasn't like that until heated saying
you didn't even tell us thank you or tell the president.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
Yeah, so yeah, yeah, and which wasn't true. It's like
he's always been grateful of the yeah yeah. And it
just like it was it just seemed like one of
the most awkward moments the whole thing. It was like
it just switched everything and it was just like you
see just back and forth, and then the way they

(43:03):
were talking to him, I just felt like they made
him like into a little kid, like you would belding
a little kid like h I just felt sad for
Zolensky because I don't know. But I mean, when it
comes to the deal that they're trying to put together,
I can understand Zelensky's his stance in it because it's like,

(43:24):
if I'm going to come and agree to this deal,
I need to make sure that you're the deal includes
security for Ukraine.

Speaker 4 (43:32):
I think it's going to I think it's going to
be okay, though it's crazy how you can what statement
I'm about to say, but he posted right, He put
up a post Zolensky as well as Trump.

Speaker 3 (43:47):
That they're going to be cordial.

Speaker 4 (43:49):
Yeah, so it sounds like it's gonna it's not going
to be you know, I feel like we as the viewers,
may make it bigger than what it is, and I
think it's not going to be as magnified as what
we may think it is.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
Yeah, and I think most people looking at this, this
is not anything that they've ever seen when it comes
to the United States interacting with other leaders from other countries.
So just for them to be shopped at like this
is going on, Like I agree with that, but everything
about this new error that we're in is anything but normal.

(44:24):
So a post right, he tweeted or yeah, yeah, yeah,
but it's just crazy and the measles like mm hmm
that part too. It's just man, I just hate to
see a lot of the crazy infections with the bird

(44:47):
flu and all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (44:50):
It just shows how important the Department of Public Health is.
All right, if you're talking about uh, taking funds away
from the apartments that literally protects the entire community, than
it's something to think.

Speaker 2 (45:04):
About, right, right, exactly.

Speaker 1 (45:07):
But if you feel you know that what's happening in
the country it's okay, then you know, don't get don't
get surprised when there's no And I'm not understanding. I'm
not a huge proponent of like vaccines because I feel
like there's a lot of big industries, right, a big

(45:29):
pharma who don't care, who generally don't care about the
people and just make certain things to make money. Right
that said, there's vaccines that has proven to work and
help total communities, right, and so I just think there
needs to be more conversation in more how can I

(45:52):
put it? It shouldn't be that easy to just which
it isn't. Right. You can't just create a vaccine and
just say hey, here you go. They have to go
through these checks and prolences.

Speaker 4 (46:01):
But but some of the things that we've had, like
we mentioned, like I mentioned earlier that they're thirty and
forty fifty years old.

Speaker 3 (46:10):
Now over time, you do.

Speaker 4 (46:11):
Want something like a vaccination that has that type of
time frame on it because then you can have studies
and research. But then you also know that there are
times where it's that old that it needs to change.
It needs to change because if we have this amount
of children who have autism, then what are we looking
at to say, at one time they were looking at vaccinations.

(46:33):
Are we looking at vaccinations now to say And I'm
not saying that vaccinations promote or give autism.

Speaker 5 (46:41):
I'm not saying that.

Speaker 3 (46:42):
But there have been research to look to say.

Speaker 4 (46:45):
When this child is new born and you're giving MMRS
and you're giving the I can't think of the other
ones off the top of my head, but the measles,
the you know those different ones. The child is two
months old and they're getting like fun five shots, five
shots their blood Their blood is still like the cells
are still developing.

Speaker 1 (47:06):
So is.

Speaker 4 (47:08):
It more ideal to start a vaccination when they're at
least five years old or four years old? Let their
immune systems get to it, but they're not even in school,
sometimes in daycare. But if other kids are vaccinated, then
how's the non vaccinated.

Speaker 3 (47:24):
Kid a threat?

Speaker 5 (47:26):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (47:27):
So I just think that there are things I know.

Speaker 4 (47:30):
RFK is now at first he was four vaccinations and
not I am for balance. I think that vaccinations help,
but I think some of them don't.

Speaker 3 (47:39):
There's one called HPV.

Speaker 4 (47:41):
My kids were younger, they were like, oh, we're going
to do the HPV and I said, well, that is
for when you start to have sexual activity.

Speaker 5 (47:48):
They're not at that age, and then you have to
get three series of them.

Speaker 4 (47:52):
But guess what when I didn't give it to them,
let's just say ten years ago, now, they said, oh,
it's better to get it now because now they have
two hundred more strains that this one covers opposed to
the one that had ten years ago, which only covered
sixty strains.

Speaker 3 (48:08):
Do you see what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (48:09):
So sometimes you just have to be your own advocate
and research and find out what you're putting into your body.

Speaker 5 (48:17):
And you know they're saying, now COVID.

Speaker 4 (48:19):
If anybody got the COVID shot and your memory is
not what it used to be, or you have fog.
They're trying to say, maybe it's the it's the remnants
of COVID the vaccination. Yeah, but we won't know until
thirty years from them.

Speaker 6 (48:36):
And.

Speaker 5 (48:38):
Said the study shot, So that's crazy.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
All right, Where there you go. I mean, I agree,
I agree with you, agree with you. We just got
to do more work. You gotta be more vigilant, and
we have to pay attention to the things that we
are consuming and putting in our body spirit. And there's
a reason why an Sists was able to survive and

(49:03):
do certain things without a lot of the medicines that
we have and take and consume today, because it's a
lot of natural remedies that we just don't think about
or we just kind of lost the science of it.
But start doing research, start digging.

Speaker 4 (49:19):
But then we also got a lot of innovative therapy
that they didn't have. Those machines and liposcopic and surgeries.
Used to get certain surgeries and be down. Now you're
only down for like not even half the time. So,
like I said, it's a balance in it all. Don't
look at just holistic medication and don't think western medicine
is helpful but a lot of the times it's like,

(49:41):
let those two worlds mirror and see what the better
results can be.

Speaker 1 (49:46):
That's right, spark all that stuff. Yeah, and that's her,
that's her little ecosystem. She's like me talk all right,
let's don't finish because I think it's necessary to talk
a little bit about So Howard University, let me read

(50:07):
your story real quick. Howard University men swimming and diving
team has been making waves in collegiate swimming. Here are
some key highlights recent achievement the Howard I think It's Bison.
The Howard Bison claimed their second Northeast Conference ANC championship
title in three years on February twenty third, twenty twenty five.

(50:28):
This victory was secured and a thrilling finish, with the
team holding on to first place throughout the four day
event and clinching the win in the final four hundred
free relay. Notable performances. Tristan Stevens said a personal best
of one what's that one minute? No, that's one hour
forty seven point wow, that's a long time in a

(50:52):
two hundred back final. Emerald Thompson three earned browns in
the two hundred brus with a program record. Then we
have Mason Green set a program record of let me
see in the two hundred fly Za Swally was named
anyc Most Outstanding dobver and after winning both the one

(51:12):
meter and three meter dives, so coaching success. The coaching staff,
led by Nicholas Ascue was named Any Coaching Staff of
the Year. The Courtenay Miller earned Diving Culture of the Year.
Let's say coach Ascue has been instrumental in reinventing, revitalizing

(51:32):
the program since taking over eight years ago, creating an
electric collegiate swimming environment, and attracting recruits from across the
country internationally. So we're gonna talk a little bit about
the historical significance. Howard University is the only historically Black
college or university HBCU with a varsity swimming team. That's why,

(51:55):
so big, yeah, yeah, And so the team has been
breaking barriers and changing the landscape of collegiate swimming. They
hosted the first Battle of the burr and twenty twenty two,
revolutionizing the approach to swim meters and DJ performances, DAN
troops and large crowds. The program has broken over sixty
school swim records during SQ tenure. Wow. How success has

(52:19):
inspired other schools to make swimming events more engaging and spectacular,
and so that's a huge thing historically back HBC, you
winning such a title like that, because generally, if I'm
being honest, you don't think black focused swim like that.
You don't think black focus swim like that, you know,

(52:42):
And so our other brethren they're usually more known to
swim and break records and all that good old stuff.
But this right here has a lot of brows going
up brazen, and so kudos to them. They needed to
be amplified. I didn't hear too many people talking about them,
so talking about them here, and it's pretty local. It's

(53:03):
pretty local, you know, And so that's a good piece.
What y'all think about that.

Speaker 2 (53:08):
I think it was awesome. Yeah, yeah, I thought it
was awesome. I think I just love to see you know,
young black people of color students or whatever being involved
in something other than or seeing themselves and things other
than the traditional sports and things that we tend to

(53:32):
see ourselves in or push our children to be. I'm
always an advocate of, like, you know, telling young children
that they can be more than just don't aspire just
to be like a basketball player or a professional basketball
player or a professional football player or whatever, even though

(53:54):
those things are great, but like there's so many other
things that we can't do and should be doing.

Speaker 1 (54:00):
Yeah, for sure, for sure, for sure.

Speaker 2 (54:03):
But yeah, shout out to Howard.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
Yeah Shot Award University. I love my love my Black book.
I love my black folk. I love my black folk.
Uh you want you had something to say, work? I
look like you. Okay, there we go.

Speaker 5 (54:16):
I was singing black and black, black.

Speaker 1 (54:20):
Black. I know that's right. I got another story here.
So well, the Overbrook High School, that's my alma mater, right, Panthers,
shout out all the Panthers out there Overbrooke in the
West Philadelphia area. They call it the Castle on the Hill.
And so Overbrook High School women's basketball team has a
volleyball team. I'm sorry when's volleyball team has recently achieved

(54:42):
a significant milestone. In the twenty twenty four five seven
they celebrated an undefeated season, marking a historic moment in
the school's athletic history. This achievement makes them the only listen,
the only varsity team at Overbrook. How to accomplish such
a feat. So you're talking about a high school that's

(55:06):
almost one hundred years old, never ever won. Oh wow,
so that's why so big, right. However, it's worth nothing
that not all matches have resulted in victories. For example,
if the team lost the match against mastere Charge the
Shoemaker High School with a score of zero to three,
despite the loss, their overall performance has been remarkable acculmmodating

(55:28):
in the undefeated season. So you want to know more,
shout at the Overbrook for the Overbrook called at them. Yeah,
amazing young women who's been doing some amazing things. So
do you see a trend here?

Speaker 2 (55:40):
How do you feel?

Speaker 1 (55:41):
I feel great about that because I'm starting to see
a trend when it comes to uh success in athletics
on a younger side of things, right, And you know,
it's good to see that people are being acknowledged and
being recognized, especially our young you know, that's something that's
not negative. That's the point right.

Speaker 4 (56:04):
Right, And a lot of the things that we don't
really it's almost like how you say about the fashion world,
like they're looking at the fashion of the person, but
who created who designed it? It's the shout out to
these teachers, these professors that are behind these kids that
are either motivating them, pushing them there in the morning
with them telling them they could do it. So shout

(56:26):
out to the teachers and the whole you know, that
whole team of staff or whoever is in that village
for these young people and what they're doing, because they're
not doing it by themselves.

Speaker 5 (56:35):
They definitely have those those motivators.

Speaker 1 (56:38):
Yeah, yeah, we've been talking about they're talking about the teachers,
how important the teachers are, and they don't get recognized
very much, underpaid. And I don't know if you have
been seeing the teacher TikTok hashtags, that a lot of
these teachers are struggling in these schools. Some of the
kids are not listening to them. They having challenges in
there in terms of the environment, the ecosystem. They're trying

(57:01):
to keep the environment at a teachable pace, but it's
not happening. And they're having a lot of physical challenges
in there also, And so a lot of teachers they
need some help, y'all. They need some help. They need
money in there, they need to be paid. So keep
continuing to talk to excuse me, talk to your legislators

(57:22):
to see how we can get more funds in there
and talk to these principles. Also because the last person
who we had here is mentioned that a lot of
the principles has a lot of leadway and you know,
in terms of making asks for their school. So they
got to do some work in there too. So yeah,

(57:43):
so I don't want you guys to go anywhere. Let
me let me go to Ima, go to Spark. I
don't want you guys, I know right, I don't want
you guys to go in there, and we'll be right back.
Let's go. Let's go to Rock Sande first and then
we go to franchise Francistic game.

Speaker 12 (57:57):
If we cannot be complained, unless.

Speaker 13 (58:10):
We just want to get a little background as to
who the fantastic noises and the noisemakers, if you can
let us know, yes, absolutely so, once again, I am
fantastic noise.

Speaker 14 (58:21):
I am the original noisemaker. So no one's gonna make
as much noise as to me. Okay, and right here
we have the Noisemaker band. This is only half of it.
The other stuffs are upstairs, the my My Kevin, Kevin, Lamar,
Lannie and Dobbs, who are the actual band members. These
are the background singers, and we can make some noise.
We can to bring that noise today. So that's that's
what we would do. How did you guys get together?

Speaker 6 (58:43):
Man?

Speaker 14 (58:43):
So it started with I've been doing this on my
own for almost three years now, and man, I've got
each of these people here have different background stories. Most
of us went to the same church together, and we
just kept going this one her, this is my one
of my assistants, said, one of like.

Speaker 7 (58:59):
The my my biggest support of my biggest sugary hears
of assessant. So we just been building and the same
thing with upstairs with the band, just meeting through. People
kept networking, kept saying and it was just like God
or dang bamn here we are awesome.

Speaker 11 (59:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (59:13):
Well, could you guys do we talked weekly?

Speaker 7 (59:14):
A favor?

Speaker 11 (59:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (59:15):
Can you give us a drop in a melody type way?

Speaker 14 (59:19):
A type way?

Speaker 4 (59:19):
Okay?

Speaker 6 (59:20):
So we talked weekly. Yay.

Speaker 14 (59:22):
So we're gonna do something like this.

Speaker 15 (59:25):
Wait talk weekly. Come in here with us, wait talk.
We come in here them we talk. We we come
in here, we talking. We come in here, we talk.

Speaker 1 (59:36):
We come in here.

Speaker 9 (59:37):
Now we talk. We me come.

Speaker 1 (59:47):
We talked weekly after the Talk with w PPM a
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weekly after Talk with your Boy and Beautiful Classic and
Beautiful Laurence.

Speaker 3 (59:55):
Can we cut that part up?

Speaker 1 (59:57):
Yeah, we're gonna cut sorry, look like a sister. Why
don't you give me someoni. I know you got some
more news in there from me, another story. I'll holler
at you boy, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:00:05):
So the ninety seventh Academy Awards are upon us. They're
going down on actually tomorrow, March the second, at the
Adobe Theater at Ovation, Hollywood. So I was I was
trying to think, like have I seen any of these movies? Like,

(01:00:26):
and it's of course, you know, it's like honoring movies
that were released in twenty twenty four. And I'm just like,
what was I doing in twenty twenty four because a
lot of the lists I was, I mean, I got
like some stuff that I like, I really want to
see this person win, but actor in the leading role.

(01:00:46):
Some the nominees were Adrian Brodie from The Brutalist, Timothy
Chalamet a complete unknown, Coleman Domingo you know sing sing
ralph ns mm hmm from Conclave, Ralph Finds is It?

(01:01:08):
Sebastian Stand from the Apprentice, So who y'all rooting.

Speaker 5 (01:01:13):
For one more time?

Speaker 2 (01:01:21):
Adrian Brody from The Brutalist, Timothy Charlameat from a complete
unknown dommant and done got his name backwards. Coleman to Mingo,
Sing Sing, Ralph Finds, Conclave, and Sebastian Stand The Apprentice.
I didn't see any of these movies, but I heard

(01:01:42):
Sing Sing was really good. And you know, Coleman Domingo
is from Philly, so like he gets my boat, Like, oh,
I didn't know that he's a he's a actor. And
he went to my alma mater, the Temple University Client
College of Meeting Communication, right, and he went Overbrooke, didn't
he Yeah, so all right, just to hear a default

(01:02:06):
then yeah, exactly exactly.

Speaker 5 (01:02:08):
Because I ain't seen none of those movies.

Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
I know, I said the same thing. I'm like, I
gotta do better. Actress in the leading role, Cynthia Ribo
Wicked Uh, Carla Sophia Gascon, Amelia Perez The Movie, Amelia Perez,
Mickey Madison The Movie, and Noura Demi Moore The Substance

(01:02:31):
and Fernanda Torres. I'm still here. That's a tough one,
you know. I gotta go with my girl Cynthia.

Speaker 4 (01:02:39):
Send me this list because I need to know the.

Speaker 5 (01:02:44):
Movies.

Speaker 4 (01:02:44):
This is a shame, like where did they even like
coming attractions? Where do they play him at?

Speaker 1 (01:02:49):
Now?

Speaker 5 (01:02:49):
I know because everything is streaming, Like I know, we
talked one.

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
Time about the ads, but yeah, I don't see the
ads like that exactly. And then it's like who else?
I mean, I don't know. I can't speak for everybody else,
but who has time to sit down and watch a movie?

Speaker 1 (01:03:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:03:05):
Part I mean, but you got the Netflix and chill t.

Speaker 3 (01:03:10):
Times where you like more intentional.

Speaker 5 (01:03:12):
But I don't be. I don't see the ads.

Speaker 4 (01:03:16):
It used to be a time you're watching it right
on much of that and something comes across and you're like, oh,
I want to see that, But now with all these streaming,
I don't see it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:25):
Ads still come on, but I.

Speaker 4 (01:03:27):
Must be and the kids we share streaming, they must
got the upgraded ones because I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:03:34):
See a lot of I know, and it's not what
it used to be. You know, I used to see well,
a lot of people aren't really watching like regular TV,
you know, on regular TV. You're always showing like, oh,
this movie coming out, that movie, but you know, you
don't see a lot of that now, and it's just
like you got to go to a movie to see
a movie to see the ads that they show for
what's coming out. But I'm gonna give it to a

(01:03:54):
wicked you know, that's the one with Cynthia Revo and
Arianna grind So I'm gonna just go with them. Even
though Demmy Moore, I think this would be her first
Oh wow for real, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:04:08):
G I Jane.

Speaker 5 (01:04:09):
She did amazing work.

Speaker 1 (01:04:14):
I think I think Meryl Street was another one that
they've been robbing for long.

Speaker 3 (01:04:19):
It's been the first.

Speaker 2 (01:04:22):
She got hurt her just I think it's starting out.
Day was kind of yeah, but we can continue to
listen later, no doubt.

Speaker 1 (01:04:32):
We got a brother waiting for an interview, you know,
we we This is the segment to which I have.
I'm super excited about why because we get the opportunity
to talk to the good old folks, right and so
this gentleman, someone with my retremendous amount of respect for,
so who're giving it to me to day? Who won't
do the honest today? Okay, sister why don't you tell us?

(01:04:57):
Who do we had to day? We had to day?

Speaker 2 (01:04:59):
Oh so we I have the amazing mister Adam Emil.
He is a cutting edge R and B pop artist
who was discovered by the platinum selling group Color Me
Bad in twenty fifteen, touring with them until They're split
in twenty eighteen. Now a long time opening act for
the enduring I Love the Nineties tour, he continues to

(01:05:19):
captivate audiences with his innovative sound and dynamic performances. So
let's give a warm we talk weekly. Welcome for mister
Adam Amil.

Speaker 6 (01:05:33):
What's up? What's up? Are you all doing?

Speaker 5 (01:05:36):
Awesome?

Speaker 6 (01:05:37):
Hell?

Speaker 3 (01:05:37):
Loveesome?

Speaker 6 (01:05:39):
All right, thank you for having me, what's happening?

Speaker 2 (01:05:42):
Thank you for joining us, Thank you for joining us.
How are you?

Speaker 6 (01:05:46):
I am doing well, blessed by the best? Thanks.

Speaker 2 (01:05:49):
I know that's right, I know that's right.

Speaker 3 (01:05:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
We usually ask that question because now it's so much
going on, you know, in just every I guess every
level that you can you can think of that. We
love the check in with people and just make sure,
like how are you actually doing? Because a lot of
times we say hey, how are you doing? In passing

(01:06:12):
it's just like your your default is just like, oh
I'm doing good, but that's not always the case, is
very true. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. So we're excited to
have you and we want to know more about you today.
How did you get your start in music?

Speaker 16 (01:06:29):
Well, just as a kid playing piano and singing and
listening to great records due to my father just always
constantly playing music.

Speaker 6 (01:06:38):
And I guess it's just I was in my bones
and in my spirit.

Speaker 16 (01:06:41):
A lot of musicians in my family, you know, before me,
that came before me, and I guess that had something
to do with it as well. But you know, constantly
doing recitals as a young and six seven eight years old.
I never thought about it, but I was always in
the music field, even as you know, in my younger years.

Speaker 6 (01:07:01):
When I got older, I wanted to start recording.

Speaker 16 (01:07:03):
So I had a BR five thirty two to four
track recorder and I used to do my own things
with that, and eventually that led to me in my
collegiate years where I cut my first album.

Speaker 6 (01:07:17):
Started with a three song EP, then that turned to
an album.

Speaker 16 (01:07:20):
Then that turned me booking myself all throughout the city
and going to Miami, doing shows in LA and I
did that for about ten years and then had to
take two years to cool off and Color Me Bad called,
and it was a different phase career at that point,
you know, touring the world with legends.

Speaker 6 (01:07:42):
So yeah, it started very early, I guess in my life.

Speaker 2 (01:07:45):
Wow wow, And it seems like, you know, you were
pretty much grinding this whole time because you know, just
listening to your journey from beginning to when you actually
did get the call from Color Me Bad, that you
put in a lot of work.

Speaker 16 (01:08:03):
Absolutely, yeah, I mean a lot of it was fun,
but there were things that you know, most people or
myself didn't want to have to do.

Speaker 6 (01:08:12):
But as you open.

Speaker 16 (01:08:14):
Yourself up for to be comfortable being uncomfortable, it becomes
a part of you. So just cold calling people or
you know, scouring the internet for opportunities networking, which is
something that I love to do.

Speaker 6 (01:08:28):
But yeah, it was it was a process for sure.

Speaker 9 (01:08:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:08:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:08:33):
And what was it like, you know when you first
actually got that call.

Speaker 16 (01:08:39):
Well, I didn't know if it was the Color Me
Bad that I thought of. I thought maybe it was
a different group that was you know, titling them with
the same name. But when I found I knew it
was for real when they told me they were gonna
fly me to Singapore for a person interview. That's that's

(01:09:00):
when I knew, and things start kind of getting interesting
and I just thank god.

Speaker 6 (01:09:07):
And uh yeah, yeah it was. It was different. It
was amazing.

Speaker 16 (01:09:13):
It was bittersweet because going all the way to Indonesia,
I didn't know if they were kidnapping me or what
the case was.

Speaker 4 (01:09:21):
Adam over the time, like with your career, has your
definition of success changed now?

Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
It has tell us about that.

Speaker 16 (01:09:32):
I mean, I think when I was starting out, probably
in my college years, you know, you have this concept
of you know, you have to be famous or you
have to be you know, super duper big or whatever
the case be. And as I traveled the world with
the legends, I saw that happiness is first.

Speaker 6 (01:09:52):
And then I noticed.

Speaker 16 (01:09:54):
That the successes can sometimes be spaced out and there are,
for lack of better term, dead periods, even with like
actors having a big movie and then not having a
role for two years. You know, that time frame is
important on how you conduct your life and how you
keep your health and what you do in that off season.

Speaker 6 (01:10:16):
So success for me now is and then, but it's
more and so just.

Speaker 16 (01:10:21):
Being happy, continuing to do what I love to do,
reaching new people. And it's not about being the biggest
artist in the world, but more so being somebody that
people respect and.

Speaker 6 (01:10:36):
You know, a legacy that can be remembered.

Speaker 4 (01:10:38):
M And just for those watching, and you've definitely, like
Sizzle said, you've put in some work.

Speaker 3 (01:10:44):
But for those watching, and he's talking about.

Speaker 5 (01:10:47):
Color me bad.

Speaker 16 (01:10:48):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:10:48):
They were a group from the nineties that were, you know,
very hot, and I.

Speaker 5 (01:10:53):
Found myself saying.

Speaker 3 (01:10:59):
Sex that was a little risk.

Speaker 4 (01:11:08):
All so, so, Adam, let us know, like when the
lights go out, when when the when the.

Speaker 3 (01:11:17):
Crowd cheering is calmer? Who who is Adam?

Speaker 4 (01:11:21):
And Mill?

Speaker 3 (01:11:21):
Who is he.

Speaker 16 (01:11:23):
When the lights go out? I mean, I'm definitely a
family guy. I'm definitely a very spiritual guy. My mind
is always operating and working. I'm always trying to find
ways to uplift my fellow brothers and sisters. I'm always
trying to find ways to be the best friend I
can be to those that are close to me. I

(01:11:45):
would like to give myself credit for for I believe
being a good listener to others. I'm humble, you know,
I think I'm a very fun guy to be around.
I'm a virgo if that means is anything to anybody, So.

Speaker 3 (01:12:02):
That September virgo.

Speaker 16 (01:12:03):
Yeah yeah, so see see that can help him, That
can help himpoint in some personality things as well.

Speaker 6 (01:12:13):
But ultimately just a family guy.

Speaker 16 (01:12:15):
Uh, extreme lover of music and making great sounds and
music and just you know, wanting to be a good
person to everybody that I come in contact with.

Speaker 3 (01:12:25):
Awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:12:27):
Well, it says that you're you're touring or opening acts
for the I love the nineties tours. Tell us how
that's nostalgic, tell us how the crowd is acting and
and even some of the with yourself opening in some
of the other guests.

Speaker 16 (01:12:45):
Yeah, I mean, you know, the three year run that
I have with Color Me Bad was phenomenal. Uh, they
had some internal situations. Uh so my that my stay
ended after three years. Uh, and the fact that I
was able to make the connections and right relationships to
be able to stay around that tour in a different

(01:13:06):
capacity as a solo artist for five additional years and
going you know, you know, can't be overlooked. So but
the crowds are always ready to come out and have
a good time. They're wearing their nineties gear. You know,
we got acts like Rob Basse and Tone Low, Vanilla
Ice Young MC, Color Me Bad is actually doing shows

(01:13:30):
the in the new capacity. You know, you got Montel Jordan.
We did shows with TLC, Salt and Pep was a
big part of the headlining space when I was uh,
you know, when we were doing our biggest, our largest
amount of shows, so I had had to I ended
up having a good relationship with the ladies as well,

(01:13:50):
which was phenomenal. But yeah, I mean, we've been in
Canada and the crowds are always insane over there. They
are always ready the party. But yeah, it's it's a
once in a lifetime experience.

Speaker 1 (01:14:05):
You name it. Some you're naming some artists that was
in the eighties and nineties. Hold on, let me let
me give you a shout out real quick.

Speaker 12 (01:14:11):
Hold on, if we cannot be completed unless you listen
to you, why.

Speaker 1 (01:14:16):
You gotta give you gotta throw her in there. You
tell you name some greats in that in that line up,
How was it to be you know, amongst some of
those those huge names. And you know sometimes when those
people are mentioned, we we it's this nostalgic feeling right,
and so you're part of that kind of ecosystem. Now,

(01:14:39):
how does that feel?

Speaker 6 (01:14:41):
It feels incredible.

Speaker 16 (01:14:43):
I thank God all the time for it to be
able to learn from from people that are thirty plus
years in the industry can't be overlooked.

Speaker 6 (01:14:51):
You know. The longevity.

Speaker 16 (01:14:53):
You know, like I say that that the time that
fans don't see is critical. You know, you' age, you know,
minimum fifteen minutes to an hour, you know, but life
happens and the rest of that time, you know, so
you can't have bad habits, you can't be speeding on
the freeway in your nice cars, and you know, it's

(01:15:14):
a lot of things that can go wrong. So I
think thirty years plus hanging with those people, getting seekerts
from them, finding out what they do in their lives
outside of music, to secure their families in different ways,
just being friends with them. I mean, we hang out
all the time. Tone calls me every time he's in
the city, you know. Yeah, Tone is a big brother

(01:15:34):
to me. Coolio is a big brother to me. Resting
Peace he was such an amazing spirit. Yeah, I mean,
it's incredible.

Speaker 6 (01:15:43):
Man. Only God could have done something like this.

Speaker 16 (01:15:45):
Man, I would have never dreamed in a million years
that they would find me on YouTube and I'd be
torn with salt and pepper.

Speaker 4 (01:15:52):
You know, never would have thought give us some and
like you said on YouTube, give us a little bit
of your music from Adam and mil for the people
who haven't heard or any of your songs.

Speaker 6 (01:16:08):
Yeah, you mean like songs that I have out now currently.

Speaker 2 (01:16:12):
M Yes.

Speaker 16 (01:16:13):
So my new single is titled Enough, Thank You for Asking,
featuring Cordy Blocker. It's available on all streaming platforms. It's
an Island vibe, great feeld love song. You'll love it.
You can play it with your children in the room.
You don't have to be afraid. And yeah, run run
those numbers up on that. Give me some feedback on
my I G which is Adam dot email. And then

(01:16:37):
I have more music that's coming. I have a new
single that's coming out very soon. But if you look
on my pages, you'll see some older music that I
have put out before this new project. So, but I
want to make sure I keep the light shined on
my new single Enough.

Speaker 1 (01:16:58):
I want to know you know what. One thing I
want to know is uh, because you you kind of
mentioned something that that that made me think of this.
We're in this era where there's this huge to B
as to R and B. Where is it? You know,
it's it's no more R and B. You know, it's

(01:17:18):
this new music, this new you know, a genre that's
that's dominating kind of music or what we grew up with.
What's your take on that? Do you feel like R
and B is lost now? Do you feel like it's
coming back? Do you feel like it will ever come back?
Do you feel like we're just innovating and we're on
something new? What's your what's your take on that? Because

(01:17:40):
you you come from the golden era of R and B, you.

Speaker 16 (01:17:43):
Know, yeah, No, I think you hit it on the head.
I think it is being innovated. I don't think R
and B is dead at all. R and B is
actually on the come up right now, Uh, in major,
major ways. I mean, if you talk about artists like Scissor,
you know that's R and B. No, you know, so
R and B is yeah, you know, it's so many

(01:18:04):
beautiful women that are singing amazing songs and getting the
recognition they deserve that are in the R and B classification.

Speaker 6 (01:18:12):
You know, Chris Brown is dominating the R and b Field.

Speaker 16 (01:18:16):
You got so many artists like Mario that are coming
you know, still doing projects, and you know so many
new young men that are coming out, Jacquez and you know,
Adam Amil. There's so many of us that are making
solid music. I think it's on the come up.

Speaker 1 (01:18:35):
Yeah. So when you think of when you think of
those particular artists, are there any that stands out to say, yo,
I want to be on the stage with that or
even you know, do they get you so inspired that
you feel like writing? You know?

Speaker 16 (01:18:51):
Yeah, I mean Chris Brown, a lot of Chris Brown.
I mean, he makes so much music, but you know
some of those records are just like, man, like how
many people were in the room with you, like this
is incredible?

Speaker 6 (01:19:03):
You know.

Speaker 16 (01:19:04):
But that's just the top of the food chain, man.
The top writers, top producers, top singer. Bruno Mars does
that to me too, yea, His his his writing, the lyrics,
you know, they definitely have deeper meaning than a lot
more music than I hear.

Speaker 6 (01:19:20):
You know, I didn't say that properly, but you get
what I'm saying.

Speaker 16 (01:19:23):
Yeah, So I like his, uh, his focus on the lyrics,
even that song he has with Lady Gaga, now like
you know, just meaningful lyrics, great melodies. So those those
two definitely inspired me, but I'm inspired by many.

Speaker 6 (01:19:39):
Yeah, but those are the top two that I think.

Speaker 1 (01:19:42):
You mentioned, Uh some of the greats that Chris Brown
one of the songs that stood out for me. I
believe he wrote this is uh what do you say?
It's never right time to say goodbye?

Speaker 6 (01:19:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:19:53):
Yeah, it's crazy. It's crazy, from the arrangement to the
to the lyrics everything, and and so after you said that,
I was like, yeah, not only does he have an
extensive catalog? Did we go out? Look like we went
not only do we have an extensive he has an
extensive catalog. Uh, He's just he's he's just a great

(01:20:16):
artist all together, amazing, absolutely absolutely. If you was to
think of the how can I put it? Think of
the perfect concert with your on it? You know what
would that be?

Speaker 16 (01:20:33):
I mean a lot of ways to do that one.
I mean, you know, whether we're doing you know, two
thousand artists with artists like you know Nelly or John Rule. Uh,
you know, I.

Speaker 6 (01:20:45):
Still got upbeats that would fit into that. We're thinking
R and B.

Speaker 16 (01:20:49):
I would think like Neo, you know, and you know,
Miguel or something like that. Uh, and you gotta throw
one of the female artists in there as well, you know. So,
I mean, it's a lot of ways to do it, man.
You can you can go music, soul child and Philly.

(01:21:13):
You can go about it a lot of different ways, man.
And that's something that I tried to work my catalog into,
being able to be on multiple type of stages and
not just you know, can only do one thing. A
lot of the shows that I do now are in
the nightclub hip hop shows, you know, and I'm up.

Speaker 6 (01:21:29):
There trying to sing.

Speaker 16 (01:21:31):
I'm singing, you know, but I make sure I do
upbeat songs because I'm opening up a Twister in April,
you know, and that's you know, that's certified hip hop,
you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (01:21:40):
So, so, Adam, do you write your own music?

Speaker 16 (01:21:46):
I've been working with a producer on this last project.
I do write my own music, but for this project,
I collaborated with the producer Toxic, and we put together
some magic.

Speaker 6 (01:21:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:21:55):
All right, So tell us how do you get prepared
for that mentally? Like, how do you prepare yourself to
just have you know, sometimes you get how to overcome
those creative blocks when writing or producing.

Speaker 16 (01:22:07):
Oh that's a great question. You know, time spent. You
have to embrace those moments as well too, though, because
that is what sharpens your talent, your skill, and your pencil. Yeah,
you have to face those heads on. It's like rain drops,
you know. You try to call on the higher being
to drop you a gym, and sometimes he's busy.

Speaker 6 (01:22:31):
And you have to sit through that. Uh and wait,
you know, but while.

Speaker 16 (01:22:35):
Continuing to push forward, and those magic things will happen.
I've been in the studio and couldn't get the last
line and then by the time I got home, I
heard it and I got it.

Speaker 1 (01:22:48):
You know.

Speaker 16 (01:22:48):
So just time in the studio experience will help you
overcome the doubt that that those blocks can create. And
you know, when you do have those blocks and those challenges,
that means that song is worth it. Because if you
were writing about love or sex is the word I

(01:23:11):
want to say, it's not as difficult as writing about
something you know deeper, you know, world peace or something
like that.

Speaker 6 (01:23:21):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:23:21):
So, yeah, so you mentioned something about when you said
the greats. It's so funny because like I was watching
the Super Bowl in a halftime in Kendrick Lamar and
you know he sampled Luthor Vandros you know, and it's
a lot of them, ROBERTA Fleck, a lot of them
who just left.

Speaker 3 (01:23:40):
You know, went on home to glory.

Speaker 4 (01:23:42):
And a lot of kids don't even know at this
generation who they are. So what should take on, you know,
sampling some of the greats to just you know, magnify
them so that they can still be relevant and their
their music lives on.

Speaker 16 (01:23:58):
I mean, I think they're lucky to be able to
do that, that the labels will pay that because I
know the States of Luther and all of those people
aren't budgeting on rights and the royalties and whatever the
fee is. So that's definitely top of the food chain
to be able to sample a Luther Vandro song. So
I look forward to being able to do some things
like that one day.

Speaker 6 (01:24:20):
Again.

Speaker 16 (01:24:20):
It revives those records as well too. It brings new
light to them, a new audience to them. And so
the kids still may hear the sample and think it's original, right,
but the radio knows that this money goes to the
Luther founder, to Luther estate, and then the older generation.

Speaker 6 (01:24:40):
I shouldn't say I don't always like these when we're older.

Speaker 16 (01:24:42):
But the more grown up generation knows that's a Luther record,
and then you'll hear more top forty radio stations or
what do we call it, contemporary radio. They'll start to
spend that record even more because it's getting hot in
the urban genre, you know, so it revives it.

Speaker 6 (01:25:01):
So I think it's a gift that keeps on giving.

Speaker 11 (01:25:05):
Mm hm.

Speaker 1 (01:25:06):
When you say the Luther, shout out to Luther. He
has a new documentary on I want to say the
PBS docs or something like that.

Speaker 6 (01:25:13):
I think that that.

Speaker 1 (01:25:14):
Yeah, it's amazing, yeah Hulu, Yeah, yeah, it's amazing too.
And because you mentioned that, who would be on your
Mount Rushmore?

Speaker 6 (01:25:24):
Oh man? How many do I get? Four? Right?

Speaker 1 (01:25:26):
Only four? I know that's hard.

Speaker 16 (01:25:28):
Yeah, well, I'm not gonna think too deep about it.
So I would have to say Stevie Wonder, I would
have to say Bob Marley May. I would have to
say it's starting to get tricky.

Speaker 6 (01:25:45):
Now you get it's starting to get tricky.

Speaker 16 (01:25:50):
Oh man, I mean you know what I have to say,
Whitney Houston. Yeah, you know, representing the women up there,
and I mean, but.

Speaker 6 (01:26:00):
Not least shucks it could be so many people.

Speaker 5 (01:26:05):
Yea, do they have to be gone?

Speaker 6 (01:26:08):
Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson.

Speaker 1 (01:26:13):
You know what, we was just arguing about Michael Jackson,
and I think he's If you want to think about, right,
the greatest, the greatest song in history, I think it
would have to come from Michael Jackson.

Speaker 3 (01:26:32):
Yeah, the greatest song in history.

Speaker 1 (01:26:35):
And what would be It would either have to be
Thriller or Billy Jean. No, I don't think so, I know,
I don't. I'm keeping it light because that's hard, right,
It's hard to do because we can say, to me,
I think he's the greatest entertainer all time. Yeah, but
then someone can say, well, how are you grating that?

Speaker 2 (01:26:55):
Right many hits?

Speaker 1 (01:26:57):
Yeah, but I have to give it to him. But
then but it's yeah, all right, cool. So so since
you said that, right, who would you think is the
greatest male group of all.

Speaker 6 (01:27:10):
Time, greatest male group.

Speaker 1 (01:27:14):
Of all time, of all time?

Speaker 6 (01:27:16):
Well, I mean, I guess we kind of gotta say
the Beatles right.

Speaker 16 (01:27:20):
Now, the greatest male group of all I mean, because
after the Beatles, I must be forgetting somebody.

Speaker 6 (01:27:27):
I would say the freaking Temptations.

Speaker 4 (01:27:29):
But you got you got ye.

Speaker 2 (01:27:38):
About error in general.

Speaker 1 (01:27:41):
See, And the reason I say New Audition is because
New Addition is the only who has a longer catalog
than them.

Speaker 2 (01:27:50):
Yeah, I would have to check.

Speaker 1 (01:27:52):
It ain't not to check. You're talking about no, because
even the Temptations, they didn't start.

Speaker 5 (01:27:57):
Out, brothers have a huge one. You how long they've
been run from six remember ship?

Speaker 1 (01:28:04):
Yeah, but they didn't have as many they didn't have
as many like pop hits than the New Audition.

Speaker 5 (01:28:10):
And that's because you ain't living at time.

Speaker 1 (01:28:13):
No, they did. You look at the catalog. That can't
look at the catalog. You know who's listening to the
Temptation that's older than us?

Speaker 3 (01:28:20):
That's why.

Speaker 1 (01:28:22):
No. But what I'm saying is people who's older than
us are still listening to New Audition. And you're talking
about great, you're talking about all right? Cool. So I
put it this way and this ship interview. I'm sorry
my brother Look we talk weekly, so we talk a lot, alright.
So this so this is the thing, This is this

(01:28:43):
is my defense. Right even if you say the brothers, right,
none of the brothers had more sic more success than
only Ron Osley. But you can't but New audition.

Speaker 17 (01:28:57):
You got Ronnie, you got bb D, bb D, you
got Bobby Brown, you got Ralph, you got Johnny gil
You come on there.

Speaker 3 (01:29:08):
They went solo, but so did the Osley.

Speaker 1 (01:29:10):
And they came back. No, but that's what I'm saying.
So who out around Osley do you remember as notable?

Speaker 3 (01:29:16):
But that's not my generation.

Speaker 1 (01:29:17):
No, it's a question.

Speaker 3 (01:29:18):
I got Okay, answer the question.

Speaker 5 (01:29:20):
The brothers he had diabetes.

Speaker 1 (01:29:22):
Think about it now, I'm you're thinking too much. Go ahead,
it's no because.

Speaker 3 (01:29:27):
It's not my generation.

Speaker 4 (01:29:28):
But the stats in the in the fact show that
they all went and did solo careers.

Speaker 1 (01:29:34):
We're not talking about just just went and did it,
So we're talking about successful.

Speaker 4 (01:29:39):
Ralph was not that successful with his sensitivity and his
other one they did a little bit or whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:29:46):
Johnny Gills, Yeah, it ain't.

Speaker 4 (01:29:49):
About Johnny Brown absolutely bb D absolutely cultural.

Speaker 1 (01:29:55):
What are you talking about.

Speaker 3 (01:29:56):
Saying we don't know their music?

Speaker 4 (01:29:57):
But I'm talking they're a group out of a group.

Speaker 6 (01:30:02):
I think they need to reiterate the questions.

Speaker 3 (01:30:06):
You see how a passionate we get. Now I'm going
to Google.

Speaker 1 (01:30:10):
Let me go go to Google, Go to Google. Just
tell me I'm right there's no other group, even with
the temptatious that I say. Okay, because y'all can say
Earth Winning Fire. Honestly, you talk about when you talk
about musically though, right, Earth Wind and Fire, you gotta
give it to all of them was like musicians. So
that's the difference. Right. But when you talk about success,

(01:30:32):
phenomenal success, you talk about since Candy Girl, Ron Honesley
ain't had they didn't have no Candy Girl. Yeah right,
you talking about from Candy Girl all the way.

Speaker 3 (01:30:44):
To Okay, here we go.

Speaker 4 (01:30:46):
Chris Jasper, he was part of the Athlete Brothers. He
released the album started with Kiss and like Chris, Ron Osley,
Ernie Eisley, like they all.

Speaker 5 (01:30:58):
Did solo careers.

Speaker 4 (01:31:00):
Okay, Now I would have to come back to tell
you how exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:31:03):
That's my point. That's my point. Though we talked about six,
we're not talking about just a spin off and oh
I did an album. We're talking about notable albums. I
give you, I give you Ralph Treadsland because I mean,
but the sensitivity situation, it was, okay, but you're talking
about all of all of them, all of them.

Speaker 2 (01:31:24):
So so just to reiterate what was Adam's for again.

Speaker 16 (01:31:31):
Uh, it was go ahead us much more yeap, oh,
Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley, Whitney Houston, and Michael Jackson.

Speaker 1 (01:31:43):
I get yeah, that one hard. That's a good that's
a good one because you put the you put Whitney
Houston arguably one of the greatest R and B singers
of all time. Arguably you can't even because who you're
gonna put up there?

Speaker 2 (01:32:00):
Yeah, yeah, nobody, Like she's in a league of her own,
you're not.

Speaker 1 (01:32:06):
And even even if you mentioned, safe example, Beyonce, because
I think she's probably one of the one of the
greatest of all time, one of them. Uh, you can't
even compare her vocally to Whitney Houston. You can't do it. Yeah,
Whitney Houston is the only musician right, vocalist who I

(01:32:26):
have ever who I have never heard of anyone debate
whether she could sing or not. I have heard that
with Beyonce, and I think she could say. I don't
get where they say she can't sing, but I I don't.
I don't want to say I'm part of it, Beha,
but I like Beyonce. Yeah, but I would never compare
it to Whitney Houston.

Speaker 2 (01:32:46):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. And I think with that
being said, like Adam, where do you see the direction
of R and B going? Because I feel like over
the last couple decades, it's it's transformed into so many
different yeah, you know, dynamics.

Speaker 16 (01:33:06):
Of yeah, different breakdowns of the genre.

Speaker 10 (01:33:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (01:33:12):
I think a lot of that has to do with
the consumers and what they support. I think the labels
are starting to, you know, catch on to what's popular
and what's popping. You know, if we can get out
of you know, put a little bit more money into
R and B, it'll probably come from some of the
newer hip hop artists genres. A lot of them are

(01:33:34):
having trouble with the law and you know, losing their
lives and you know, so you know it's only right
that you know, kind of push some of that money
in different different areas. So I feel very positive about
where R and B is shifting to. Yeah, I mean,

(01:33:55):
you know, I look forward to that. I mean, that's
a great question. I haven't thought about that.

Speaker 2 (01:33:58):
Yeah, we need no more people to be able to
get out get back out there and call themselves the
self pro self proclaimed king of R and B, or
Queen of R and B or whatever like we need
more of that.

Speaker 1 (01:34:13):
Yeah, yeah, So what's next for Adam? Amil? What's next
for you?

Speaker 6 (01:34:18):
Man? I appreciate it. Well, we got this new single
dropping coming up soon.

Speaker 16 (01:34:24):
I'll let you know the date when the label lets
me know, but I'm looking forward to I can't wait
to drop this new single title Don't Let Go. And
we got music videos coming out for both of my projects.
I'm doing that show opening up for Twister in April.
That's an Aurora, Illinois. We're doing some ninety shows coming
up this summer. I'm just you know, continuing the network

(01:34:45):
and meet my fans and reaching out to other business
partners and things like that. We're trying to We're working
on an amphitheater I hear where we can bring other guests,
my friends in and we can put on concerts.

Speaker 6 (01:34:57):
So we're working on that as well.

Speaker 16 (01:34:59):
So I'm excited, man, just keeping it going and you know,
collab with other artists and writing new material, just doing
what artists do best.

Speaker 4 (01:35:08):
Fantastic, fantastic Adam, before you go and earlier, before you go,
give us a little something acapella style?

Speaker 6 (01:35:20):
Oh you want me to sing?

Speaker 5 (01:35:22):
For the viewers that's watching.

Speaker 6 (01:35:25):
Let's see what I got. Let's see.

Speaker 9 (01:35:28):
Craving your body through the night feels like, come on, doodro,
I want the hold.

Speaker 6 (01:35:43):
And put you inside of.

Speaker 15 (01:35:45):
These A.

Speaker 3 (01:35:49):
Ye gave me.

Speaker 16 (01:35:53):
Was at the club last night, kicking it party until
five in the morning.

Speaker 4 (01:35:56):
So I thank you, appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (01:36:02):
Crazy so sorry. We had you one longer, a little long.
We like you, my brother, so we had you on
a little bit longer.

Speaker 6 (01:36:09):
I love it. I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:36:11):
So look, why don't you let everyone know where they
can find you. Gotta send us some music so we
can play on the chin station.

Speaker 6 (01:36:17):
Get the music. We ain't get the music. We wouldn't.

Speaker 1 (01:36:20):
We would have intro that we're gonna make sure that
we get the music.

Speaker 6 (01:36:23):
Okay, sure that we spent it down here.

Speaker 1 (01:36:24):
You know what I'm saying. In Philly, you don't shout
out to Philly shouts go birds. I'm sorry. Let me,
I'm gonna take good. Let me take a little little
brick right here and just acknowledge the birds, go birds,
shout out the Philadelphia Eagles.

Speaker 6 (01:36:35):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:36:36):
We needed that. Philly needed that type of love right now.
We got the w in there. Hold up brou I
like you, I like you. I like you, Adam. Who
is you rooting for?

Speaker 6 (01:36:46):
Oh? I was rooting for Philly. Yeah, my sister lived
in Philly for some time and I visited her out
there a lot. So I was going for Philly.

Speaker 16 (01:36:56):
Nothing against the Kansas City Chiefs, but it was Philly's time.

Speaker 1 (01:37:00):
It really really was. And real quick, you said you
mentioned something about Twist Man. I want to give you
Twisted his props too, because I think not only is
he one of the most underrated, you know, rappers, hip
hop artists out there. He don't get mentioned enough, but
also I think he's he's in the league of his own,
and he started a genre of hip hop that no

(01:37:21):
one ever, no one gives credit to. You know what
I'm saying. He the one that spearheaded a lot of that,
you know. So I'm gonna give Twisted a little shout
out coming from Pilly Man. So I would love to
hear more about your concert. Man, when y'all put this
this whole thing together and the amphitheater, you gotta keep
us posted, but go ahead, you know, let us know
how to get in contact with you, get your music,

(01:37:43):
all that good stuff.

Speaker 16 (01:37:43):
Absolutely I appreciated. My website is adam email dot com.
A D A M, E M I L dot com.
Follow me on I G I'll hit you back. It's
Adam dot email and also TikTok Adam dot email. Check
out my Spotify run up the numbers four me and
h Feel free to share the music when you check
it out.

Speaker 6 (01:38:03):
Hope you love.

Speaker 1 (01:38:03):
It fantastic real quick, what's one last fact? Give us
a quick snappy fact about Adam or mill something.

Speaker 6 (01:38:10):
No one knows news snapple fact.

Speaker 16 (01:38:13):
Uh hm hmm that nobody else knows.

Speaker 6 (01:38:18):
There might be a reason for that.

Speaker 1 (01:38:20):
No, just.

Speaker 6 (01:38:22):
I mean, I don't know. I don't know what to
tell you. Yeah, that's I mean, that's a tough one.

Speaker 16 (01:38:28):
I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:38:32):
The crates crates.

Speaker 6 (01:38:34):
Yeah, so you got to give you gotta give it.

Speaker 1 (01:38:37):
When you say I don't know, I'm gonna push a
little harder.

Speaker 6 (01:38:42):
I mean a snapper fact that nobody else knows about me.

Speaker 16 (01:38:45):
I mean that that makes me feel like my maybe
most embarrassing moment or something like that. But I mean, uh,
you know, there was one time I was doing a
show and I was in the backyard of a big
house and events and they had me come over and
do a concert. And the house was so expensive the
screen looked c through and uh I had to go

(01:39:07):
take a break in between my sets, and I walked
dead into the screen and every and everybody saw, you know,
I mean that, that's like it there. It's the moment,
you know, you know. But yeah, so.

Speaker 3 (01:39:23):
Would you put your hand out now where you walk on?

Speaker 6 (01:39:26):
I'm telling you, yeah, you're going right like right there
the screen.

Speaker 1 (01:39:34):
I promise you. My guy Adam and Mill y'all want
one more time how they can get in contact with you,
all that good stuff.

Speaker 16 (01:39:41):
Check me out on I g y'all, Adam dot emil,
that's a a M dot e M.

Speaker 6 (01:39:47):
I'll be looking for you, waiting on you.

Speaker 1 (01:39:49):
Fantasic, fantastic. But then you have ladies and gentlemen. I
don't want you to go anywhere when we come back.
We got a story. We got a story. Yep, yeah,
we got a story.

Speaker 6 (01:39:57):
So don't go nowhere.

Speaker 1 (01:39:58):
We'll be right back after this show. Your boy Charles
Greg with beautiful beautiful Laurence and my guy Adam A
Mill y'all, absolutely we see you on the other side.
Don't go nowhere, y'all.

Speaker 6 (01:40:19):
Sh sh.

Speaker 4 (01:40:34):
Sh Shock.

Speaker 1 (01:40:51):
We talked weekly after the Talking w P P m
P Philadelphia. One of six point tongue twisted out it
I forgot what world for a minute? One O six
point five that film. We talked weekly after they Talk
with your boy Gregg and Beautiful.

Speaker 2 (01:41:04):
Classic Beautiful Lawrence.

Speaker 1 (01:41:06):
Al Right, so you already know what's going on? Why
don't you getting story something that's popping out here and
the screets today?

Speaker 2 (01:41:13):
Yeah, Unfortunately, just a little sad note that Grammy nominated
R and B singer Angie Stone was killed in a
car accident early Saturday morning. According to reports, Angie Stone
and several others this morning, Yes, wow, Yeah. Angie Stone
and several others were traveling back to Atlanta from Alabama,

(01:41:36):
and at four a m. The car they were traveling
and flipped over and was subsequently hit by a big rig.
So Angie Stone was pronounced dead at the scene, and
the Alabama Highway Patrol had released the statement saying that
their twoenty twenty one Mercedes Benz sprinter van turned over

(01:41:57):
on Interstate sixty five at about four to twenty five
and am Saturday before being hit by a twenty twenty
one freight liner Cascadia truck driven by a thirty three
year old man from Texas. So sadly everyone in the
vehicle survived except Angie Stone. So Angie's children, Diamond and

(01:42:19):
Michael Archer said in a statement, never in a million
years did we ever expect to get this horrible news.
We are still trying to process and are completely heartbroken.
And Angie was pivotal in helping form the group Sequence.
The Sequence the first all female group on sugar Hill Records,
and Angie had hits such as No Moraine, Wish I

(01:42:41):
Didn't miss you, brother, and so many more. And she
was in the Neo Soul movement with Erica Badiu, Jill Scott,
Lauryn Hill, Macy Gray and so many others. And she
and Angie Stone shared a son with singer di'angelo. She
was sixty three years old, So resting peace to her.

(01:43:02):
Prayers up for the families. This is such a tragic loss.
It's just it's horrible that you know, everybody survived, and
that's like that survivor's guilt, you know everyone else yes, yeah,
oh my goodness, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:43:18):
And then great, you know gratitude too, like that could
have been them.

Speaker 2 (01:43:22):
Yeah, it's horrible, horrible, And I.

Speaker 3 (01:43:25):
Think they were coming from a show or going to
a show.

Speaker 2 (01:43:28):
Yeah, they were coming from a show. And I think
she actually had another show today, which of course, you know,
they had a I think a moment of silence or
something for her at that event.

Speaker 1 (01:43:39):
It's just man.

Speaker 4 (01:43:41):
As our last guest, Adam and Mill was talking like,
there's been so many nineties tours. She's been extremely busy
with putting on different tours.

Speaker 2 (01:43:51):
So yeah, yeah, you're heartbreaking. Yeah, she was just man,
she was awesome. She was awesome, and she did so
much in the industry. And it's just to have your
life and sixty three is young, you know what I mean,
just have her life cut short.

Speaker 3 (01:44:09):
There's no more.

Speaker 2 (01:44:12):
Black brother.

Speaker 1 (01:44:17):
I'm glad she did that. Y. She didn't definitely look
her age. She looked good, she looked she looked amazing.
And yeah, I don't know, man, it's just said, when
when we lose someone who we have grown up with
or grown up paying attention to, you know, so it's
always hard to hear when you know, we lose one

(01:44:39):
of the greats, and she's one that can be position
as as black excellence, you know. Yeah, so you know
we we we send our Condolec's love and support to
her family. And I'm sure that uh the next BT

(01:45:02):
awards their attribute to her as they should. Ye got
a nice little catalog also, yes, yes.

Speaker 2 (01:45:11):
All right, So pivoting back to the OSCARS conversation, So
the costume design the nominees, just wondering what because see,
you might have seen some of these movies, Pargain's see.
But so the dominees was a complete unknown. This is

(01:45:33):
costume design, a complete unknown.

Speaker 1 (01:45:37):
The that's the move that's the name of the movie.

Speaker 2 (01:45:39):
Yes, that's the movie's name, is a complete unknown. The
designer is Arion Phillips. The other move. The next movie.
The next nominee is Conclave, and there the designer is
Lissi Cris Crystal. And then the next nominee is Gladiator too.

Speaker 5 (01:46:04):
Mm hmm, yeah, Thanksgiving, I did.

Speaker 2 (01:46:10):
Jant Yates and Dave crossed. Yeah, so they're they're both nominated.
And then no for to anybody see that for.

Speaker 1 (01:46:18):
To n O s F is it a tea? Yeah? Yeah,
that's that.

Speaker 2 (01:46:30):
Yeah, and the design was Slender Muir's.

Speaker 1 (01:46:34):
She's going to win that, you think, So she's definitely.

Speaker 2 (01:46:37):
Gonna win that and then the other one is Wicked. Well,
Wicked had some Yeah, Wicked has some.

Speaker 1 (01:46:46):
Yeah. Yeah, they're definitely taking that. Yeah wow they didn't come.

Speaker 2 (01:46:51):
No, Yeah, but yeah that that Yeah, that's when that's
gonna be a tough one right there, because what did
you think about? What did y'all think about Gladiator? Like
the costume that was cool?

Speaker 1 (01:47:04):
They I think when we talk about originality and creativity, though,
glad it was good, but not we're talking about costume design.
Not necessarily movie, we're talking.

Speaker 2 (01:47:19):
About costume design, and so.

Speaker 3 (01:47:23):
Yeah, I mean it was I'm looking at the costumes.

Speaker 4 (01:47:27):
I mean, it wasn't something that it wasn't created before,
you know what I mean when I watched the other
Gladiators or.

Speaker 5 (01:47:35):
All of that, Like, it's not like I've not seen that.

Speaker 1 (01:47:39):
That's why now as I look at Wicked, right, I'm
thinking that maybe they because we've seen all of this
what no, but we've seen kind of the Wicked Witch,
and we've seen like because if you think of what's
the the movie the Pink what's the the movie that

(01:48:00):
just came out last year?

Speaker 5 (01:48:01):
Uh, Barbie, Barbie, they.

Speaker 1 (01:48:05):
Did all the pink and it was a gang like
that in there like they did all the pink. So
I don't see this standing out only because of maybe
the names attached to this. They might take it because
you know how that goes. But but this, uh, this
other movie, this one right here, not Forture. What is

(01:48:26):
it called Nastur? And I think this is in all
in French or something, right, it's the I can't remember.
But when we talk about just costume design, if we
truly talking about costume design, and that's right, this was
a remake. This was the remake of the original.

Speaker 3 (01:48:47):
Is a drama.

Speaker 2 (01:48:49):
It's a horror.

Speaker 1 (01:48:50):
It's a horror.

Speaker 2 (01:48:51):
But uh, what's it on now? On Netflix?

Speaker 1 (01:48:57):
It might be on Netflix or or uh prom m hmm,
let me see.

Speaker 2 (01:49:05):
They might get that because I've seen Oh I see Peacock.

Speaker 1 (01:49:12):
Oh okay, that's prom Well you can see it through prome,
I think on Peacock. Yeah mm hmm.

Speaker 6 (01:49:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:49:23):
And then and then the last one, which is usually like,
isn't this the one that they save for the end
of the show, the beig the best picture? Isn't that
the one they saved to the end. They have a
lot of nominees in here.

Speaker 1 (01:49:38):
You got this movie, Anora, you said, no, oh, oh
you're talking. We want another listen Best Picture?

Speaker 10 (01:49:48):
Bad?

Speaker 2 (01:49:49):
Yeah, I went to Best Picture. I was saying that
they have a lot of nominees in this category, but
they have Anura, the bru the lists a complete unknown conclave.
Dune Part two.

Speaker 6 (01:50:07):
Was good.

Speaker 5 (01:50:08):
You did see that Doom?

Speaker 1 (01:50:09):
I've seen Doom the first one or both of them?

Speaker 2 (01:50:14):
Yeah, Netflix, I need your list.

Speaker 1 (01:50:21):
You said Dune or what else?

Speaker 14 (01:50:24):
Was it?

Speaker 3 (01:50:24):
Nora?

Speaker 2 (01:50:25):
It was Dune part two? Amelia Perez, I'm still here,
Amelia Perez. That's the one that what's her name played in?
The one that played Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:50:41):
Yeah, yeah, this was in Uh it was some type
of conflict based around was it? Because I think the
way that they portrayed I think that this is a
Mexican movie or was a Mexican, Mexican centered movie, and

(01:51:01):
a lot of the I believe actors were not Mexican
and so or no, no, no, something along the lines.
If they portrayed them as stereotypical jobs. Oh no, let
me see. I had it on you the whole time.
I bet let me share this. But they were talking

(01:51:24):
about there you go. They were talking about so I
seen them on TikTok and they was a little upset that.
You know, some of the scenes were, uh, stereotypically driven
by way of what we would think immigrants that come

(01:51:45):
to America would work, right, So there was a lot
of needs and stuff like this, or they were a
bit upset about that, and I could see I could
see that. I mean, don't know, no one wants to
stereotypical rule. Like literally, case in point, I'm tired of
seeing you know, movies where all the black guys got
corn rolls in in shooting or or or convicts or

(01:52:08):
something like that. Yeah, they still don't like, yeah, we
don't even wear it. They were so weird. What are
you doing here? Right? You know what I'm saying? And
so what's the other one? So it was Amelia, I'm

(01:52:29):
still here. Let me see, I'm still here.

Speaker 2 (01:52:33):
And then you have Nickel Boys.

Speaker 1 (01:52:35):
Okay, yeah, this was pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (01:52:39):
H Then you got Nickel Boys.

Speaker 1 (01:52:43):
Nickel Boys. I haven't heard of that one. Nickel Boys,
the Nickel Boys, and then that one, hmmm interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:52:57):
And then you got the Substance. I like the name though,
check that one.

Speaker 1 (01:53:05):
What a new American masterpiece? As they say, uh, what's
the other one?

Speaker 2 (01:53:12):
The Substance?

Speaker 1 (01:53:14):
Oh, that's with DEMI right.

Speaker 2 (01:53:16):
Yeah, I think that's.

Speaker 1 (01:53:19):
That's my girl, man.

Speaker 5 (01:53:20):
Like, she looks great. She looks great. She's in her sixties.

Speaker 1 (01:53:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:53:28):
Yeah. One of my favorite movies is Ghosts. You know,
you got one of them old movies that you always
go to.

Speaker 1 (01:53:35):
This was the one when they said, uh she they
did a h you know when he come and be like,
hey it's Johnny. Yeah, yeah, Jack Nicholson and uh, what
movie was that?

Speaker 10 (01:53:48):
That was.

Speaker 3 (01:53:50):
The joker?

Speaker 1 (01:53:51):
It was that was a joker.

Speaker 2 (01:53:52):
That was I want to say the breaking, but it
was the something shining, the shining.

Speaker 1 (01:53:58):
Shining and so yeah, so they paralleled a video where
they showed how certain scenes matched to that, and so
they kind of did a modge I think to some
of the things. I'm gonna watch this tonight. What's this
one called the Substance? Come on, that's my girl, man,

(01:54:19):
I used to I think she was one of my
first crushes when I.

Speaker 5 (01:54:22):
Was She was beautiful.

Speaker 2 (01:54:24):
Yeah, she was so pretty. And then the last one
is Wicked.

Speaker 1 (01:54:27):
Wicked, Uh, get out of here.

Speaker 2 (01:54:33):
I'm supporting it though, because because it's Cynthia Revo, my favorite.
But she has an amazing voice though, like she heard
her sing you got it, but uh she does that.

Speaker 1 (01:54:54):
Oh that's hot. Okay, Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:54:57):
The thing about those PG movies though, is that kids
can go opposed to the R movies.

Speaker 5 (01:55:01):
So you're going to have a family of five versus
a family.

Speaker 4 (01:55:04):
Of two because you know what I'm saying, So ticket
sells are higher you have the family.

Speaker 1 (01:55:14):
But even even let me see, I want to say
so if I go back the so Dune two was
best movie. That was in there for best.

Speaker 2 (01:55:22):
Movie, was Best Picture, Best Picture, but.

Speaker 1 (01:55:26):
Even I'm surprised this wasn't in there for costume design. Yeah,
because yeah, we have some great stuff, great looks in there.
I mean when you talk about because if you're going
to put Wicked in there, if you're gonna put like,
what's the other movie you did for costume design? I

(01:55:48):
forgotten Gladiator? Like this fits right along. Absolutely we talk
about costume designer. So they got robbed from this. They
should have definitely been in there. This was this was
really Did you have any.

Speaker 3 (01:56:07):
Other stories though?

Speaker 2 (01:56:08):
Was it?

Speaker 4 (01:56:09):
I wanted to since we were talking about the Oscars,
just give we gave Andrew Stone our flowers, saying with
Gene happened actually found him and his wife in their
Mexico home passed away, and I think he was what
ninety three five ninety five?

Speaker 1 (01:56:29):
Wow?

Speaker 4 (01:56:30):
Yeah, and I think he was sixty three okay, yeah, okay,
and then the dog as well.

Speaker 1 (01:56:36):
Yeah, I didn't world, I didn't see Liberty's posts. He said. Shining. Yeah,
he called it the shining. And look, he said, I
usually don't watch side five, but substance is really good. See,
I gotta watch it. I'm watch god watch. Just appreciate you,
all right, what do you have? We already passed our time.
That went pretty fast. I mean we was talking, were

(01:56:57):
just running our mouths. So I appreciate all you got
then telling me come back out of here. Uh, everybody
who's been watching to day, Yeah, tune in for next week.
I'm your boy, Charles with the beautiful.

Speaker 5 (01:57:08):
Law and the beautiful class.

Speaker 6 (01:57:12):
That was all.

Speaker 3 (01:57:15):
We see you.

Speaker 1 (01:57:16):
We see you next week. I'll be out here like
last year.