WTW w/ Ashley Rae & Stephen Harper

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Speaker 1 (00:08):
All right, there you go.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
We talked weeklies after the talk from w PP MLP
Philadelphia one O six point five FM. We talked weeklies
after the talk, and we got a jam packed show
for you today. I'm your boy Charles Greg with the
beautiful Lawrence Sizzle and classy Lady Sparkles. Should be jumping
on shortly, uh, and I believe Lady done. I believe

(00:29):
I'm getting a couple. You know, chimes and alerts already
saying we're jumping on and all that good stuff. But
before we get into that, how was your day?

Speaker 3 (00:38):
So my day was good after I left the dealer
getting my annual car maintenance, which and I know we
talked about this probably last year when I got my
annual car maintenance. But that just as sitting in the
shop and waiting and waiting, and then you start seeing people,

(01:00):
well call all your cars ready, the ones that came after,
you're like, oh my gosh, I can't, Like I literally
I'm like I can't. But I was prepared. I took
my laptop, I got a little work done and all that. Afterwards,
I kind of spent some time with family and then
you know, now I'm here.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
That's right, yeah, man, and we definitely Yeah. I had
a long day, long day, moving around, moving and shaking,
shaky and moving, you know, trying to stay out the way,
as they say. But uh, there's a lot of things
happening in the city today. Yes, way too much, way
too much.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
It is going on.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, yeah, Doom Day is coming up. Yes, we got
the Roots picnic. Yeah actually.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
What's your thoughts on that? I mean, have you heard
anything about people going? Have you heard anything about the picnic?
What's going on?

Speaker 3 (01:56):
I did hear things about people going, and I think
this year is black Lily, so that's huge. Yeah, that's
huge and a lot of exciting people going to be there.
I kind of wish I would have been had time
to be in the building or you know, but yeah,

(02:19):
I know it's going to be a great show. Every
year they it never fails to, like, you know, each year,
I feel like it sets the bar like a little
bit higher than the year before. I think last year
we had Usher here, right.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Was it?

Speaker 2 (02:36):
I thought he was supposed to be coming this year.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
It was.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
I don't know if he performed, but he was there.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Right, Yeah, because everyone everyone was talking about us, couldn't
believe that usher was actually there.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
Beanie Stiegel, he's he's supposed to be there this year,
Marsha Ambrosia.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Hold on, wait so bean Bean's on the whole state property.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
As far as I know, Beanie Siegel. But you know,
if he's coming, he might bring the the the guys.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Out, bring the guys out.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yes, yes, And then it was Freeway Day yesterday, right or.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Uh, I can't remember. You know, we actually had the
opportunity to uh cover when they announced Freeway date free
Weight Day, which was.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah for sure, yeah, yeah that was great. But then
quest Love he's supposed to be in the building of course,
and a couple other people, but yeah, it's gonna be
it's going to be a a dope show. Today they're
supposed to have Jill Scott.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Nas not not yet.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Yeah tonight and then tomorrow lol, Wayne in the Roots,
Baby Baby Andre three thousand in the building and Gunna.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
So m and they be making Joker Andre three thousand
talking about you know, he'd be playing on what's that
the flute? The horn? I like him. I like him.
Whether he plays his little don't matter are kind of

(04:40):
the game.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
You can't say he ain't make his mark on On,
uh you know, on the culture. Absolutely, there's there's no
denying that. Uh yeah, but uh oh yeah, but it's
it's gonna be a lot of a lot of people
go there, baby face, Cameron will at you got, Adam

(05:06):
Blackstone featuring Fantasia, Tasha Cobbs, Leonard, He's gonna be there,
and just a lot of people. DJ Active Yeah, Diamond Cuts,
she's gonna be there. I love her. I love her too,

(05:28):
funk Flex Yeah. Yeah, it's a lot of a lot
of people.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yeah, I got it. I got a problem. I don't
get on my soap box.

Speaker 4 (05:40):
My goodness, do I.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Want to get on my soap son?

Speaker 5 (05:46):
I just saw arm Wait a minute, how about I'm
using her Mac machine and her mac.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
I don't even know.

Speaker 6 (06:00):
She said she didn't know you was home.

Speaker 4 (06:02):
Yeah it's the Mac is what it was, the laptop
the whole time.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yeah, how old is? How old is? The computer?

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Doesn't need home?

Speaker 6 (06:14):
Mm hmm they not? They not over two years?

Speaker 2 (06:18):
Okay, yea new Let me see crazy, So let me
see these are some of the people. All right, So beans, Marsian,
I'm like, when I tell you, Marsha and Bruce, I'm
in love with Marsha, and she's one of the most underrated,
probably one of the most underrated talents that's out there.
Shout out to Philly you know, uh love Thomas and

(06:42):
uh who is this? Oh my Brown? Yeah, no doubt,
no doubt, just gotten nods so so so that the
headliners today and today she read. Okay you happy about
Sexy Red?

Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yeah, I mean she she get get people hype, okay
or what I see now that's the get ready to
go out to turn up music for going out.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Okay, Okay, you know that's what's up. Shout out the
Sexy Red. I guess you know he put the I
guess it's room for everybody out in and out there.
You know the dream you know what I mean?

Speaker 6 (07:21):
DJ Diamond cuts.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Who's Who's me? I don't know, No Smino, I haven't
heard of sminauh Wiley, Wi Willow and Gilly Shout out
the domho red Man Okay, yeah, Matthew Man and red Man,
Black Thought, of course, shout out Black Thought, Marshall, Broster Court,
Funk Flex October London. Not sure who that is October London.

Speaker 6 (07:44):
Uh, when did little Wayne names start going over?

Speaker 3 (07:48):
And the roots maybe they're collab list like that.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
I like Laura London though. God, that's that's my girl
right there. Let me see Native Range run.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
I know Willow Smith.

Speaker 6 (08:06):
She was on a Tiny Desk right she.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
Was on the the one where where Black Thought is
on there and Black Thought and the band played for
her as she's sang Jimmy fallon Jimmy. That was really
good that band.

Speaker 6 (08:23):
She just did. She just did Tiny Desks too. That
went viral ver.

Speaker 5 (08:28):
Yeah, like it was like raw talent, Like she really
is talented.

Speaker 4 (08:34):
Yeah, she really is.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
Yeah, Yeah, I definitely know our big brother, will You
gotta be very proud of her because she's like our music.
I could see it.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
You don't sleep on all of the all of the Smiths.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
All to have a whole band.

Speaker 6 (08:58):
But you know, you know Jada used to have.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
A band, and yoh, Jada.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
I'm not talking about Jada. I'm talking about the kids.
About the kids, man, I can't. I'm talking about the kids.

Speaker 7 (09:14):
Man.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
We're not talking about Jada right now. Uh uh. But yeah,
I've seen jays and what is jaydon right en? He
uh he was he was torn for a while. Yeah,
the creator and all of them. I always little Willow

(09:35):
Willow from Uh with My Hair mm hm was my girl.
I was like, she killed that, she came out they
and so she gives me this, you know, this new
this new kind of music feel.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
She's kind of coming into her own.

Speaker 5 (09:54):
Wait a minute, I'm looking at that list, Fantasia, it's
going to be there.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
Hold on, I missed that.

Speaker 6 (10:00):
I know that's your girl.

Speaker 4 (10:01):
That's why I was like, wait, you.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
Try to put her back, hold on, let me pull her.
Need some screen time? There she go, she needs some
screen time.

Speaker 6 (10:14):
Who's she featuring with.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
On tomorrow?

Speaker 4 (10:19):
Mm hm, Oh that's gonna be nice.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah, okay, it's this whole weekend is gonna be such
a vibe, like on so many different levels, like R
and B, hip hop, neo soul. That's that's like the
that's what you want. That's what you want. Honestly you get,

(10:42):
you know, go through l a.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
Ghost facing Amyrie. Oh my gosh, I used to love
me something. Oh man, I love you. That was my girl.
She just disappeared. I'm glad she's doing music again.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
Yeah yeah, I think do a lot, but I liked her.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Tell You're out, Yeah, you can't can't. You can't go
wrong with well, there you go. There you have ladies
and gentlemen. I got that was just like a look
you you dropped off for a minute, Sparks. So how
was your day? And Danil, why don't you give us
your good news and bad news? Jump right into that
before we have our guests. Come on.

Speaker 4 (11:23):
All right, my day was it was all right. I
mean I went and I went and got an oil
change and I was like.

Speaker 5 (11:33):
Yeah, but the thing is is I went on groupon
and was like, let me get my let me I
get there, and I'm like, what the heck did I
even do groupon for?

Speaker 6 (11:42):
It was like, oh it's.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
I said, oh this is it's like click b Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
It was like I don't even going groupon anymore because
of that. So that they should complain about that.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
For sure.

Speaker 7 (12:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (12:03):
So but outside of that, I mean, it was a gorgeous,
gorgeous day. It was beautiful, beautiful all right.

Speaker 6 (12:11):
So we ready.

Speaker 4 (12:14):
All right, I ain't hear no music.

Speaker 8 (12:16):
You know you had.

Speaker 4 (12:21):
Early all right, Yes, we got some good news on
this one.

Speaker 5 (12:28):
Earlier this month, Mayor Cherrell Parker signed an executive order
to clean every block in Philadelphia this summer. On May thirty, first,
the city unveiled it strategy led by Carlton Williams from
the Office of Clean and Green Initiatives, involving.

Speaker 6 (12:46):
Multiple city departments.

Speaker 5 (12:48):
We are One Philly, a united city, was the rolling
cry that everyone was saying.

Speaker 6 (12:54):
That you know from Charrell Parker. She says that the.

Speaker 5 (12:57):
Goal of making Philadelphia the clean, greenest big city in America.

Speaker 6 (13:03):
Williams emphasized the importance of maintenance.

Speaker 5 (13:06):
He says, if you're allowing things to go unkept and undone,
chaos and other things will follow.

Speaker 6 (13:13):
The initiative started.

Speaker 4 (13:15):
It's starting on June third and Kensington.

Speaker 5 (13:17):
It'll a dress the litter, illegal dumping, graffiti and other issues.
They're going to use an app called quick Capture to
document the progress.

Speaker 6 (13:28):
Mayor Parker stated that.

Speaker 5 (13:29):
All Philadelphians want a cleaner say for green or Philly,
and this is what I mean when I say one Philly.
The project will involve a team of thirty eight people
and the week of June tenth is going to focus
on hunting and park Aloni, fern Rock, East, Oaklane, Felton
and Franklin neighborhoods.

Speaker 4 (13:48):
So do y'all remember when they did this, They used
to make you not park on the block.

Speaker 5 (13:55):
Remember that when you could to move your car, your
car gets told things you don't remember.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you had to move at a
certain time.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
So it's not like it's like, you know, brand new
type of rocket science.

Speaker 5 (14:12):
They used to put the red and white signs up
and yeah, be on one side of the street or yeah,
so I need that.

Speaker 6 (14:19):
Well that's what's coming back trip you your car will
be told or you will be tickets.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait
wait wait wait, hold on wait wait, I just need
for you to explain explain it to me. Won't one
more time?

Speaker 4 (14:38):
So they are doing a clean initiative, that's.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
And and what's the what's the okay, so what's going
to happen now initiative? Because maybe I wasn't listening, so
the problem with that. Go ahead, I'm gonna listen.

Speaker 4 (14:57):
The problem, but just just go through it, okay.

Speaker 6 (15:02):
All right, Well we'll talk about it after I'm at
the end.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
All right.

Speaker 4 (15:06):
The next story is about your boy, both of y'all boy.

Speaker 5 (15:14):
DT Donald Trump number thirty four, YEP, number thirty four.

Speaker 6 (15:20):
Number thirty four counts.

Speaker 9 (15:22):
Yes.

Speaker 5 (15:22):
Donald Trump was convicted on thirty four felony counts falsifying
of falsifying business records related to hush money scheme. For
the twenty sixteen election, he faces a historical legal challenges
as the first former US president convicted of a felony.

Speaker 4 (15:41):
Sentencing is set for July eleventh.

Speaker 5 (15:44):
That's the day after my birthday, but his legal team
is expected to appeal, possibly delaying it.

Speaker 4 (15:51):
Despite the conviction, Trump remains.

Speaker 5 (15:53):
A key political figure, and April CNN survey found that
twenty four percent of Trump supporters might still reconsider their
support even if he was convicted. A May, while a
May Emerson College poll revealed that twenty five percent of
voters would be less likely to vote for him.

Speaker 4 (16:15):
Trump's basically he's trailing by six points. When you're factoring
in his conviction.

Speaker 6 (16:23):
Six points.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
That's not a lot, not a lot at all.

Speaker 6 (16:28):
I'm not a Trump I'm not a Trump fan.

Speaker 4 (16:30):
I'm not a Biden fan.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
Yeah, I'm neither. But I'm gonna say this. The Democrats
keep falling short. You keep going let me turn his
music down real quick, Dilms. You're still going after or
you're still using the nineteen thirties playbook. Yeah, this is

(16:53):
twenty twenty four, about to go into twenty five election,
and you're still using an old dated playbook, you pushing
this conviction. All you did was make a lot of
because I'm hearing this, you got to keep your ear

(17:15):
to the street. All you hear is people saying, well,
you know, the criminal justice system is messed up anyway.
So all you did was so literally, all you did
was pat people on the back that say, you know what,
you're right. The criminal justice system is messed up, whether
you con victim or not. So we don't care about

(17:37):
the criminal justice system. They don't care about it. The
dims you and that sh the dims keep messing up
and falling flat. If you're trying to get this guy
out of the pocket, you have to come up with
new innovative stuff. We're in We're now in the AI initiative.

(17:58):
We're on the AI generation. They don't care about what happened.
I'm gonna get off because I need to get this
sister Ashley on. I can't talk about because you know
we politics, right, we can table it.

Speaker 6 (18:14):
Table that please, all right, And here's the last point
for it.

Speaker 5 (18:18):
Despite his conviction, Trump can still run for president. The
US Constitution does not disqualify convicted individuals for running or
holding the presidency. The decision rests with the vote and
the political My good.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
So, so now you're saying that all of the people
who felt that they couldn't vote after they got convicted,
all of hold on check.

Speaker 4 (18:42):
But when I fact checked that, that's the that's the reason.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
You know what I got. Let me play this real quick.

Speaker 6 (18:48):
The story is blown me. You people must be idiots.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
What are you doing?

Speaker 6 (18:54):
Are you people out of your mind?

Speaker 5 (18:56):
Are you just so with it?

Speaker 6 (18:58):
Any clue? Your conduct is outrageous.

Speaker 5 (19:02):
You think I'm stupid.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
I'm not stupid.

Speaker 5 (19:04):
What you're pre supposing is that the person sitting behind
here is going to believe this nonsense story that.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
You made up.

Speaker 6 (19:11):
Yes, either that or you're stupid?

Speaker 2 (19:13):
Or is this your wife fiance that she's stupid? Democrats, Republicans,
everybody across the board. If you're in politics right now,
you have to do something different because this is a mess.

Speaker 5 (19:28):
Go ahead, all right, this is the last story, and
this is bad news. The good news was the Cherrell
Parker cleaning up the pH.

Speaker 4 (19:40):
That's good news news. Clean up Phillies.

Speaker 10 (19:44):
The University of Arts and Philadelphia will permanently permanently close
on June seven due to financial difficulties and declining enrollment,
an announcement by President Carrie Walk. The closure follows the
sudden withdrawal of the university's accreditation by the Middle States

(20:04):
Commission on Higher Education.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
All upcoming summer courses are canceled and no new.

Speaker 5 (20:10):
Students will be enrolled in the fall. The university is
working on transfer pathways for current students to go to
nearby institutions such as Temple, Drexel, and more College of
Art and Design. A town hall for the university community
is scheduled for June three.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
Wow, they're getting That's a shame that I was just
talking and learn about people say that, there we go again.
We're in a different generation. It's people literally saying I
don't want to go to college anymore. I don't need
to go to college. They're doing and YouTube university, YouTube university.

(20:47):
What they're doing is finding more ways or different ways
to college, get to Google college and and just do
you know, their own thing and become entrepreneurs.

Speaker 5 (20:58):
And that the world, the world is pushing that because
they're doing certifications now. And that was like yesteryear's when
you did on the job training where you would get
certain that kind of thing. They're bringing that back because
now you could do certifications and get a certificate and
that holds the same as a degree to the you know,
to some point as well as experience. So they're saying,

(21:21):
if your resume and your experience is equivalent to you know,
an associates or bachelor's then But I don't see nothing
wrong with that either. But I also see something wrong
with the whole you know, the student loans and stuff.

Speaker 4 (21:36):
Like that needs to and I think Biden did work
on that.

Speaker 6 (21:40):
He did come through with his promise.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
Some because everyone didn't get that song.

Speaker 4 (21:45):
So I'm still waiting and I did years.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
So so what I will say is is there should
have been we have to innovate faster. They should have
been focused on certifications programs when most people just want
you to have a specialty in something specific. They don't.
You don't need a full on degree to specialize in

(22:12):
I don't know, liberal arts.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
You don't have to do that.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
You don't you don't have to do that. You just
need a specific some specificity in what you're doing at
the trade or.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
The associate's degree can be.

Speaker 5 (22:25):
The about that because it's a two year Yeah, because
even to get like your sterile processing or certain nursing degrees,
it's two years.

Speaker 6 (22:36):
Like two years is.

Speaker 4 (22:37):
The new amount of time that they're doing, even in certificates.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
So I agree with you that on that one years.

Speaker 6 (22:45):
So that was your good news and your bad news.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
I want to bring her comment up real quick because
she said he class She said Trump is a class
A filming definitely, which is the problem. Which is the problem.
You're you're trying to be You're trying to go high
when someone is going low. You can't, you know how,

(23:08):
you know how they say you can't out play a player.
You can't do it when someone is beating you in
being dirty the whole time. You can't. You can't. So
now you have people saying, what this Trump thing? Or
what about uh Junior Biden? What's his name? The other Biden,
the one that they've been trying to convict for a
long time, the son, the son I can't think.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
Of his name, Donald Trump Junior or Eric Joe Biden's son.
That's the one that pay.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
Rest in peace to bol But what the point that
I'm making is now that you turned over the rocks
and seen all of the little roly police and the
worms and everything running around. Now it's the target. It
is back, I'm sure m hm. And so why I
mean he deserved to be uh uh. That's not dissolving him, right,

(24:09):
I'm just saying that it's certain things that you need
to put.

Speaker 3 (24:11):
More recently, suing them or something like that.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
For all that, Let's go to a commercial break. Not
a commercial break, Let's go to one of our little videos,
and then we're gonna come back with our dynamic interview.
Because you know our interview, E don't know. I can
get on my soapbox and I start spitting bars on
all of them because our proud with the whole policy.

Speaker 4 (24:34):
I want to know what the interview he says too,
like what what would they believe about?

Speaker 2 (24:39):
Okay, we can ask her. I want to talk about
her though, right, but we're gonna talk to want to
get back, were almost trying to go anywhere. When we
come back, we're gonna talk to you. This your boy
Charles Greg with the beautiful Lawrence and beautiful We'll be
right back after the show. What's going on you guys?

Speaker 10 (24:56):
This is Bridge Kelly, and you are locked into he
talked weekly.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
We talked, He's after the Talking w P P M
l P Philadelphia one on six point five film we
talked week, He's after the Talk with your boy Charles
Gregor and the Beautiful Classic Sparkle and a Beautiful.

Speaker 8 (25:48):
She froze again, Lady has does in the building. What's
up y'all?

Speaker 2 (25:53):
Wait, Spark?

Speaker 11 (25:54):
What are you doing?

Speaker 3 (25:54):
Spark?

Speaker 12 (25:56):
You can't hear me?

Speaker 2 (25:57):
Yes, I said in the Beautiful you just sat there.

Speaker 8 (26:00):
Gee, no listen, get thank you.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
That was I wasn't looking then that was Lauren for
that's isle fault.

Speaker 4 (26:08):
Where is Lauren?

Speaker 11 (26:09):
I don't see it all, but I was on time
my best apologize, apologized, Yeah, let me put myself in jail.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
I put myself in jail real quick. Director jail. You
know I deserve that. I deserve that. That's my bad,
my bad, and so what I further mean, Classic, You're
gonna You're gonna do our intro for the person who
we have today, who.

Speaker 4 (26:34):
We have to do today?

Speaker 5 (26:35):
We have Ashley Ray Harper, a versatile figure in entertainment,
debuts as both producer and director with her pointed film Read,
released under her company, Ashley Ray Production's LLC. Addressing themes
of teenage depression and suicide. Her work aims to illuminate

(26:56):
the struggles of youth, sparking vital conversation and fostering empathy.

Speaker 4 (27:01):
Y'all already know what to do. Give a warm We
talk weekly. Welcome to Miss Ashley Ray Harper.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
Hello, Hello, how are you? Since we're talking about before
before we do anything, right, why don't you let us
know how how was your day? How were you doing
to day?

Speaker 13 (27:18):
Today was good.

Speaker 14 (27:19):
I slept all day because it's hot here Carolina.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
Okay, it's very hot.

Speaker 13 (27:25):
So I was like, let me just stay in bed,
and that's what I did.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
The North kakak and shout out to them. You know,
I think I was thinking about maybe moving down there
one day, one more again. But uh, you know, as
you specialize in, you know, serious conversations, vital conversations, we
was just having a vital conversation. Why don't you ask
her questions? Since you wanted to know real quick?

Speaker 6 (27:51):
You said, you're in Raleigh.

Speaker 5 (27:53):
I'm in Charlotte, Mary, Charlotte, Okay, okay, I lived in Fayetteville,
not too far. So we were talking about Donald Trump
and his thirty four felony convictions.

Speaker 4 (28:07):
And this question is to everybody because if you know,
if you live in the US, he's the you know,
overseer for the you know, for the United States.

Speaker 6 (28:17):
What is your take on Democrat Republican?

Speaker 5 (28:21):
Would you still vote for him regard you know, regarding
him being a convicted felon.

Speaker 6 (28:27):
Now, and I know some people.

Speaker 4 (28:29):
Don't like to share who they vote for, but feel free,
this is a safe space.

Speaker 14 (28:35):
I'm gonna I I'm twenty one, I'll be twenty two
when I when I vote again.

Speaker 13 (28:41):
And because I voted in twenty.

Speaker 14 (28:43):
Twenty and I voted for Biden, so you know what,
I'm still on the edge. I'm probably gonna vote for
Biden again.

Speaker 13 (28:48):
And then I'm gonna.

Speaker 14 (28:49):
Hope for like twenty twenty eight, maybe a gen Z
president can pop up, because I need someone who is
around my age to run this country.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
So see, that's that's my point. That's exactly my point
is this way of thinking.

Speaker 5 (29:06):
Wait, Ashley, you're gonna okay, you said you're going to
just vote for Biden because why.

Speaker 14 (29:13):
At this point, I don't know who else is the
best choice. Yeah, and I'm more worried about getting my
college degree, so I'm just like, can I just vote
for Biden and then keep trying to be a senior
in college so I can have fun.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
That's that's what I'm they people don't care. They just
let me just get this overwit and go.

Speaker 13 (29:34):
I feel like we've been in the same situation.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
Yes, hold on, hold one second. I just wanted to
give you a rounded applause. There you go, Yeah, go ahead.
I'm sorry, I ask you go ahead and finish the statement.

Speaker 13 (29:48):
It's okay.

Speaker 14 (29:49):
I just I feel like we've been in the same
situation since like twenty when COVID happened and all that tobacco.
So I just like twenty twenty four, I wasn't expecting
much that I was not expecting Biden and Trump possibly again,
and I was like, oh great, let's hope for twenty
twenty eight.

Speaker 13 (30:06):
Please please.

Speaker 3 (30:08):
So, as a you know, youth voter, pretty much knew
what are some of the things that you feel like
you know, voters around your age bracket that they want
in a candidate, great question, the things that they want
to be done.

Speaker 14 (30:25):
So since I am an adult ish I still feel
like I'm seventeen, but I wish there were I wish
they would give us an opportunity to have jobs like
run out of college because I'm struggling trying to find
a job currently. And then also, rent should not be
two thousand dollars per month, our payments shouldn't be like

(30:45):
eight hundred dollars per month. I just feel like make
it a little bit easier for us newcomers in the
world of the adults.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
They the economy, so we want to do better with
the economy. I got you, no doubt, Okay, goohy spar
you got it. You got it.

Speaker 5 (31:03):
Well, Actually, tell us more about what I spoke as
far as your introductions. Tell us how did you start
to get into film? And as you said, you still
feel like you're seventeen. So do you still live at home?

Speaker 13 (31:15):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (31:16):
I do.

Speaker 14 (31:17):
I'm currently a senior at Campbell University and I am
majoring in mathematics and I'll get my bachelors in science
in math next.

Speaker 13 (31:27):
Year in the fall.

Speaker 6 (31:28):
And are you analytical thinker?

Speaker 13 (31:30):
Yes?

Speaker 14 (31:32):
Yes, and then I plan on get my master's in
science and operations research.

Speaker 13 (31:36):
So that's my goal thing of life.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
So still yeah, I love that. I love that. Do
you feel have you seen hitting figures?

Speaker 7 (31:47):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (31:48):
What was your thought on hitting figures, and do you
believe that, you know, more women should get into the
scope or maybe more women of color. What's your thoughts
on that.

Speaker 14 (31:57):
I fell in love with the movie because I was like, yes,
I finally have someone that looks like me and loves
math because I love talking about math, and people kind
of look at me sideways, especially at school, people really
look at me sideways. They're like, why are you doing math?
Isn't like math is disgusting. I'm like, actually, math is
very helpful in the world today. You can do financial
you can do business, you can really do anything and

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put your mind to it as.

Speaker 13 (32:21):
A math major, and people don't understand that.

Speaker 14 (32:24):
And I'm just like, I'm trying to make the difference
in the world, please, so don't push down my dreams.

Speaker 6 (32:29):
So how'd you get into film from math?

Speaker 13 (32:33):
I got into film by I didn't really get into
the film by math.

Speaker 14 (32:41):
Math was already kind of like in me because my
mom's was a math major and a math teacher, and
then my dad listening to computer science major and then
he also is in the military doing data analysts. So
I've just always loved math. But then film came by
by me watching like movies and TV shows, and then
I just at writing in general and now I'm just

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a fobal and filmmaker.

Speaker 4 (33:05):
Wow, tell us more about what the film is about.

Speaker 5 (33:08):
I know you mentioned about, you know, depression and a
lot of the things that your generation is starting, you
know that they're going through.

Speaker 6 (33:16):
Tell us more about that.

Speaker 14 (33:18):
Yes, So Red is about a girl named Billy. She's
going through depression and suicidal thoughts and she's just trying
to understand what's wrong with her, if it's a chemical
imbalance or someone bullied her. She's trying to figure that out,
and her parents don't really know why. So they sent
her to a mental health facility after they found her

(33:39):
in a bathtub. So they did the film, and she's
also in like group therapy and just therapy in general,
and then she realizes at the end that she really
needed the help and she's happy that her parents sent her,
even if she paid them for a little bit. So
the film really touches on like, yes, I might hate
you in the moment.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
I appreciate you. Well, why do you feel like that's important?

Speaker 6 (34:03):
Man?

Speaker 14 (34:05):
Because I experienced this specifically.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
I didn't go to a mental health facility, but I
was threatened of going.

Speaker 13 (34:12):
To one by a former school of mine.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
So I was like, I love.

Speaker 14 (34:17):
Writing, so why not just put it in a film
and showcase how much we need it? And then also
I've seen films and shows just like did not they
didn't they didn't do it right. I didn't do like
the mental health right. They were like making a mockery
of it, and then like they wouldn't care because they
got the money off of it.

Speaker 13 (34:36):
I'm like, no, that's not right.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
M Yeah. I kind of asked you that as a
and the pretty much was a rhetorical question because it's
so important right now. And I feel like, especially in
the black community, one thing that that we we don't
feel as important as our mental health. And I tell
people that mental health is just important as you going

(34:58):
and getting your annual check up, you know, and doing
things like that you know six months ago, and get
your your teeth clean and things like that. But you know,
therapy and getting your mental health, you know, getting mental
health support is just as important as you know, your
regular health because if it's it goes untreated, it leads
to health problems down the line. So I, you know,

(35:21):
I commend you for you know, just especially being young
and highlighting that. I just think that's awesome.

Speaker 4 (35:29):
Thank you, Ashley.

Speaker 5 (35:32):
What do you think that you know, if a young
girl sixteen seventeen were to need that type of resources,
like what do you what would you tell parents, Not
so much the young person, but what would you tell
parents that they could do to help someone that's having
a cry out.

Speaker 14 (35:50):
Like that, Just listen to them. Don't think that they're
just doing it for attention. Most of the time people
aren't doing it for attention. They're actually needing the help.
You just need to like listen to them, and if
they don't want to talk to you like that, get
them the help, like take them to the er or
take them to your doctor, and just get like resources

(36:12):
because sometimes you do it too late and then it's over.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
So mhm.

Speaker 4 (36:19):
Do you think parents are a little too strict on
the generations that are coming up?

Speaker 5 (36:25):
Do you think that like invading your privacy or you know,
putting too much pressure on them, Like you said, even
moving out is very expensive right now, wanting them to
get a job.

Speaker 13 (36:39):
That's that. I think some parents are too strict.

Speaker 14 (36:44):
My parents weren't, Thank goodness, because I don't know what
would have happened if they weren't. But I'm happy they're
not strict on me. They just want the best for me.
But some parents, I think they go over like too overboard,
and then when their kids get older, they don't want
to talk to them, and it's.

Speaker 13 (36:57):
Because you were strict.

Speaker 14 (36:58):
Without them, you didn't believe them to health, you aren't
believing anything. So I think some parents, like I get
that you want to be friends with your kids, but
don't be so much rude to them to the point
they like think lower themselves, just like have that like
standard ground, like Okay, I'm your parent, but I'm also
here for you, and yes I'm going to do this

(37:20):
for you, but you will have to also like be
okay with what I'm telling you to do.

Speaker 3 (37:25):
I think that also it helps if those parents, I mean,
you could be strict, but don't be negative, don't talk
down to them, and yeah, constantly use encouragement and encouraging
words and lifting them up and you know, given though
positive energy and letting them know that they can do
things and they can succeed at things. Because I feel

(37:48):
like I had a strict parents, but no matter how
strict they were, I felt like I didn't appreciate it.

Speaker 8 (37:54):
Then, but now I'm like, oh, I see why now
that I'm older, but I.

Speaker 3 (37:58):
Didn't have that. Yeah, how much do you think social
media plays a part and when it comes to mental health,
because now, especially with women, you're getting on TikTok, you're
getting on Instagram and you're seeing these quote unquote Instagram
models and these girls that look like they're at a

(38:22):
size too, And I guess ten if you that, Like,
what are your thoughts about how social media affects mental health?
Laura the parents of the kids, I'm talking about the girls.
For young girls, like, for young girls getting on social media, like,
what does that play in their mental health?

Speaker 14 (38:47):
I think it plays a huge part because social media
paints a picture that what you're looking at as a reality,
but in reality, it's not actually true. It's just a
part of someone's day. So I feel like a lot
of girls shouldn't just look at something and be like
I should look like that, or I should get surgery,
or I should do this, that and the other, And
I'm like, you're beautiful the way you are like these

(39:09):
people that's probably not how they look like on a
regular day basis. So this is what they do as
a brand or this is what they do for the
to get money. So I think a lot of girls
need to realize, like, not everything's real, just like reality TV.

Speaker 13 (39:23):
Not everything's real on reality TV.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
So you're you're actually playing in the film, Is that correct?

Speaker 14 (39:33):
No, I am the director, the producer, the writer, everything.
I'm not the cinematographer. I am because I have a person.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
That you're just behind the scenes.

Speaker 14 (39:44):
Yeah, I'm just behind the scenes. I did everything behind
the scenes.

Speaker 3 (39:48):
It was talk a little bit about that, like you
know your work and because that's not an easy task
either or not.

Speaker 13 (39:56):
Yeah, it wasn't easy. When I did it, I was
kind of going for the ride.

Speaker 14 (40:03):
I didn't I didn't know what I was doing per se,
Like I kind of knew, but then I was like
I need to just get do it, just do it
and then figure out later how I like do this.
Like I knew how to cast, and I had to
find good actors. Trying to make sure the actors had
all had good chemistry was hard. I was kind of
nervous of if my cast was kind of good chemistry.

(40:25):
But as you can see on the film, they all
have good chemistry. So I was like Okay, I did
good on that, and then finding locations was the hardest
one for me because I didn't want to have to
pay but so much and I was like, I hope
I can find something for free. And then I was
finally able to find something for free and I was
really really grateful.

Speaker 4 (40:44):
So where can we find your movie?

Speaker 14 (40:50):
It's on YouTube under my production company channel, so Ashley
Ray Productions. So it's under that production channel. And I'm
excited to do more short films to get them to
get my production channel up more running more.

Speaker 6 (41:08):
You should be very proud of yourself.

Speaker 15 (41:10):
I mean, they have a whole production and you would producer, director, writer,
Like that's something to really that's impressive, Ashley, That's really
something to be proud of.

Speaker 1 (41:21):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (41:22):
I'm like the young filmmakers, what was the hardest thing
for you and this whole kind of production piece, What
was the hardest thing for you or that you felt
was a.

Speaker 14 (41:31):
Challenge believing in myself? I was like, I was like,
are y'all sure I can do this? Because I don't
think I can. Oh, and my parents and my publicist
miss Leslie, she really they all all three of them
are really like you got this actually like, I know

(41:51):
you can do this. You got this, Like if you
need to cry to me, you can, like it's okay.
And then they were really happy when I finished it
and they.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
Are really proud of me.

Speaker 2 (42:01):
Yeah, Leslie is great. Do you feel do you ever
look at something like any of the films that's out there,
any of the shows, and get inspired, like what producer
or director inspires you to continue to produce and do

(42:21):
great film.

Speaker 13 (42:25):
I want to work with her so bad.

Speaker 8 (42:29):
Okay, I want to so bad.

Speaker 14 (42:33):
I love the Insecure and I think watching that show
that gave me I was like, I'm that black girl.
I am definitely her because I would be like, yeah,
that's me. That's something I would do across the street. Wrong, Yeah,
that's something I would do. Like, I feel like working
with her would be cool. And then also working with

(42:53):
like I love her pieces because I think Red is
kind of in that realm of heavyness. I don't want
to do too heavy where I can't get out of it,
but I think doing more heavy pieces and getting a
lot of social impact awareness out would be.

Speaker 1 (43:09):
Good for me.

Speaker 2 (43:10):
If you had the opportunity to cast the A list
kind of cast, you know who would be you got
five people that would play in your movie, that would
be you know, two leads and then the rest like
the other three? Right, who would be that all star
cast in your film?

Speaker 14 (43:28):
Ooh, I really want to get Storm Read on a
Brian project. I love Storm Read. Also, a lot of
people say that I look like Storm Read. I think
it's a compliment, but I'm like where I'm like, I
don't think I look like her, but she's so pretty.

Speaker 8 (43:41):
So I see.

Speaker 4 (43:45):
Storm Reid.

Speaker 14 (43:46):
I also want Marseille with Martin. That girl knows how
to act, Like, Yes, I would love her in one
of my films or my show like I have a series.

Speaker 13 (43:55):
I'm trying to get off the ground too.

Speaker 14 (43:57):
I feel like she would play a great character in
that one.

Speaker 13 (44:01):
Who Else?

Speaker 14 (44:03):
Terrence Howard interesting, Okay, I can see him playing a
dad or a grandpa, Like I can see him doing
that who else wants?

Speaker 13 (44:14):
There's a lot of people out there.

Speaker 4 (44:16):
There's a lot of you do resemble Storm Retail?

Speaker 2 (44:21):
Really really do let me see something? Because as you
were saying, and I was like, who is that with me?

Speaker 8 (44:28):
Along?

Speaker 4 (44:30):
Along?

Speaker 7 (44:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (44:32):
Adu? Yeah.

Speaker 14 (44:35):
Also Carrie Washington, I'm obsessed with her and Scandal.

Speaker 13 (44:39):
So if she could, you know, play with my mom
and something that'd be great.

Speaker 14 (44:42):
Yeah, who else would be just like someone else?

Speaker 13 (44:48):
But Lolo Tongue, she's really good. And the summer I
Turn Pretty and.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
What's her name, Lola, Lola Tongue, Lola Tongue.

Speaker 14 (44:58):
Oh yeah, it was in the summer I Turn Pretty
and I love that show Hitty sound on Broadway and
I was kind yeah this year that's okay. But yeah,
I would love to have her on a project. That
would be cool because like my projects are like geared
to teenagers.

Speaker 3 (45:15):
That's like my realm.

Speaker 5 (45:16):
So I would love to like so actually add to
that three songs you would have for a soundtrack for
the movie that Charles just describes, I would do.

Speaker 14 (45:28):
A British version of Who Lives, Who Dies? Who Tells
a Story. If you've ever seen Helmet's Hamilton you would understand.

Speaker 6 (45:38):
I've seen Hamilton.

Speaker 3 (45:39):
Yeah, I love that song.

Speaker 14 (45:42):
I just like I like the arrangement. I used to
do music, so I like the arrangement of the song.
I don't really have two others. To be honest with him,
I listen to music, but I mean that's on your
play list.

Speaker 13 (45:57):
Now, what'd you saying?

Speaker 6 (45:59):
What what's on your playlist?

Speaker 5 (46:01):
Now?

Speaker 15 (46:02):
A lot?

Speaker 13 (46:03):
What is on my playlist?

Speaker 14 (46:05):
I listen to Travis Scott, I listen to Hamilton. I
listened to Broadway a lot, actually, and then I also
listened to a British.

Speaker 13 (46:14):
Artist named Ray. She's really good.

Speaker 6 (46:16):
I like her.

Speaker 14 (46:17):
She's just coming out next week and I can't wait
to listen. I also have just like it depends on
my mood or if I'm driving for like a long time,
I just have like a different bunch of songs jumbled
into one playlist. I've also listened to Justin Timberlake and.

Speaker 13 (46:34):
Justin Timberlake.

Speaker 3 (46:36):
Yes, you know on.

Speaker 5 (46:37):
Hamilton, you know the one I like is I think
it's just Shot you Get White The Shot? Yeah, yeah,
that one's like really cool. But Hamilton's great, great, great theater.

Speaker 6 (46:49):
I went to Chicago to see it.

Speaker 8 (46:51):
Yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 14 (46:53):
I remember when I came out in like twenty fifteen,
and I was like, mom, can I go to Broadway?
And then I looked at the tickets and I was like,
never mind.

Speaker 3 (47:03):
Can you tell us a little bit about All We Got?

Speaker 13 (47:06):
All We Got?

Speaker 14 (47:08):
That was a film I did when was it was
like twenty twenty one. It was like twenty twenty twenty one.
It was like COVID time ish. It's about like a
dysfunctional family and just trying to figure out how we
how we understand each other and not fight all the time,
with going through like death and like funeral and just

(47:30):
basically everything life happens to you at fast. So that's
basically what that is. And I played the younger version ever,
like I played young Renee, and that was a challenging
It wasn't really challenging.

Speaker 13 (47:43):
Actually, it was a fun role for me because I
got to be myself.

Speaker 3 (47:49):
It was like a bag though, right, Yeah, it was
a flash vaccine. Yeah, so that was fun. You got
to play yourself.

Speaker 5 (47:57):
Yes, how do you financially support your you know, when
you're doing your films, Like, what would you tell someone
else young that says, hey, it's too expensive or you know,
I don't have the right type of lens or you know,
anything that would be discouraging to themselves?

Speaker 6 (48:13):
What would you tell them?

Speaker 14 (48:15):
Uh, there's free resources like everywhere on Instagram especially and
on like Facebook groups, diamon. There's a lot of free resources.
And also, don't be discouraged if you can't get your
film off the ground.

Speaker 13 (48:30):
Quickly. It just takes a minute.

Speaker 14 (48:32):
My parents were really grateful and they were able to
give me money for my film last time, but this
next time, I'm trying to raise the money myself.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
So yeah, you know what's interesting if I want to
do this to you real quick, I want you to
think about you know what TED is like doing a
Ted talk.

Speaker 1 (48:55):
You know what that is?

Speaker 2 (48:56):
Yes? Cool? So I want you to think in yourself
the stage talking to other young people who is interested
in you know, produce and creating. And I want you
to give me, you know, like a thirty second to
a minute kind of like talk to uplift and get

(49:18):
them encouraged to do some of the things that you're doing.
What would you say to them?

Speaker 14 (49:25):
So I would say that, yes, it's it's a difficult
industry to get into. That is the understatement that everyone
knows about. But don't let your guard down, don't let
your hopes down, don't let your dreams down.

Speaker 3 (49:41):
You can do this.

Speaker 13 (49:43):
You just have to find the right people.

Speaker 14 (49:46):
Finding the right people is like either you can go
to college and you can go to the film schools.
Because because University of Southern California, they have a lot
of people that go to the film school and scout
and just try to find people to either model or
they like direct or they write or act or everything.
They find people and those people really get what they want.

Speaker 13 (50:08):
You also can go to like acting schools. I went
to Acting Out Studio, so you can also do that.

Speaker 14 (50:14):
And acting schools they can get you agents, they can.
Just don't go to the scam ones because you don't
want to spend two thousand dollars on something that's not
going to help you, don't do it.

Speaker 1 (50:24):
I did.

Speaker 14 (50:25):
And I also think like getting just starting somewhere, like
with the script. Just write a script, write a story,
write something, and then go off that and then go
online and look up how do I write a shark film?

Speaker 13 (50:37):
How do I cast? How do I direct? How do
I write YouTube? University will help you so much. It
will help you so much.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
So thank you. That's your tad tak fantastic. I'm gonna
keep you around them for plots for that. When that
was really good, That was really good. Well, I know
your parents are super proud of you, very very bright, youngly,
and I want you to continue to do the things
that you're doing, continue to empower and uplift those who

(51:09):
are following in your footsteps, right, But I want you
to continue pushing hard even when those times get tough.
Everything all of us felt like giving up or felt
like something was too hard, but we kept going, right,
So I want you to continue to keep going and
know your worth and know the power that's within you, right,

(51:30):
So I want you to take that with you. And
so before we let you leave, I just want to
say thank you for coming to the show. And I
want you to tell everyone how they can get in
contact with you, how they can find your movies, all
that good old stuff.

Speaker 14 (51:45):
So you can find me on Instagram at Ashley Ray
Harper and also at Ashley Roy Production's LLC. And that
does the same for my facebooks as well. And my
movie is on My movie Red is on YouTube at
Astley Productions and that's my YouTube channel.

Speaker 2 (52:03):
So fantastic. So you gotta make a promise to me.
So when you casting Easter Rey and Terrence Howard and
all that good old stuff, make sure that you know
you come back or we talk weekly and shore with
some love. I had no doubt. Well there you have it,
ladies and gentlemen. I don't want you to go anywhere
when we come back, they're gonna talk a little bit

(52:24):
more about some of the things that's going on, and
not only the community, but in the world, because you know,
I was knowing my soul blocks for a while. So
don't go nowhere. We'll be right back y'all after this.
What's going on?

Speaker 4 (52:34):
You guys, this is Bridge Kelly and you are locked intos.

Speaker 3 (52:36):
You talk weekly?

Speaker 2 (53:13):
Yeah, we're right on time. We talked weekly after they're
talking to b P P M M P Philadelphia one
o six point five f M. We talked weeklies after
the talk with your boy Charles Gregory and the beautiful.

Speaker 4 (53:23):
Lawrence and the beautiful Classic ladies.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
Beautiful lady, there go bright young people. I like the
young people there. They're the future. They're doing some great work.
They're doing some great work. And so what's up, Classic lady?

Speaker 15 (53:38):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (53:40):
Do you want to go back on?

Speaker 15 (53:42):
No?

Speaker 2 (53:43):
I don't even want to talk about them no more.
What's up, lady? How was your day? I don't want
to talk.

Speaker 8 (53:51):
My day was little good.

Speaker 1 (53:52):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (53:53):
I'm trying to jump in head and figure out what
your own talking about. I feel like I'm like I
missed some stuff I heard about.

Speaker 1 (53:58):
The the.

Speaker 3 (54:01):
I'm about to say the allegations, he's allegations. No more right,
the convictions. I heard about the convictions.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
But Land, you know, so.

Speaker 8 (54:13):
Is he is he still able to run? He's still
letting them run.

Speaker 2 (54:18):
Yeah, I mean he wasn't sentenced, you know, so unless
he's going to serve time for a long time, uh,
he'll probably be able to run. I think what this
is is just it just gives his campaign a black eye.
And I'm sure people, because I'm already hearing these people,

(54:43):
I don't care. As long as I get enough check
with his name on it, I don't care what he did.

Speaker 3 (54:49):
I'm like you people, he's already gearing up and he's
making threats. And if somebody show you who they are
the first time, you better believe them. But when you
hear stuff like that, that just lets you know for everybody,
it's about their bottom, lind. So it's almost like where
I say that told thing about something your soul to

(55:09):
the devil. So it's like, you don't care about any
of this stuff morally. You just want money, and so
that's what happens with the world.

Speaker 2 (55:15):
Yeah, And to that point, now that you say that,
you know it's one of those things that if if
the most important thing is they just want that money,
then that says something about the struggling it what they're
going through. Right, And so if the only thing they
worried about is money, they don't care how you treat them,

(55:37):
what you call them, you know, the unjust, unjustice that
they're going through. All they want is a check. So
that tells me they struggling. It's people out here struggling.

Speaker 8 (55:51):
They're willing to deal with that and take all of
that on the change, just check, you know.

Speaker 2 (55:58):
And so what does that say? I mean think you
have to peel back the layers and see what the
root cause of it is, you know, what's actually going on,
not not what's happening on the surface.

Speaker 16 (56:09):
And you know, I just you know, just I think
both candidates is just but like they for real, it's
like who's on.

Speaker 5 (56:22):
The independent ticket? Who can we start highlighting that? You
know that may be like okay, you know here I am, and.

Speaker 2 (56:30):
You know the problem from some of my Democratic friends
will hate the fact that you said that, what do
you mean independent? No, it's supposed it be. It's kind
of like yo, then on in one breath, right, all
of the service and All of the work that we
taught weekly do is to encourage you to utilize your voice,

(56:52):
to amplify the fact that you can use your voice,
not what to say, right. And so the problem becomes
when you advocate and you promote and you endorse the
ability for people, the individuals that had a right to vote,
and you should vote, and why should you vote because
your ancestors gave you the ability to vote. But then

(57:15):
you say, but I want you to vote, and you
should vote for this person though, it's something wrong with
that ideology, It's something wrong with that train of thinking, right,
because now it appears that it's an agenda there with
you pushing for me to have a right to vote.

(57:38):
That's a problem. And so we talk weekly. We can't
endorse any candidate, right, we just have to report the
facts and what's going on. And the facts aren't one sided.
The facts is the facts, what's going on, whether we like.

Speaker 6 (57:55):
It or not.

Speaker 3 (57:57):
Yeah, And I think we do our due diligence and
stressing the fact that get out and vote.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
Get out of vote period, full stop.

Speaker 3 (58:06):
And republic, Republican or Democrat, just get out and vote period.
Those are used to home that like either one of
that saying it is so I'm not voting, well, you're
pretty much did vote, not vote as a vote for somebody.

Speaker 6 (58:22):
It is.

Speaker 2 (58:23):
Yeah, that's true. So get out and vote, utilize your voice.
Don't listen to anyone telling you who to vote for.
Do your due diligence.

Speaker 5 (58:33):
But I've learned, I think it was in high school
or college, that your local and state votes are what
really matters towards what the presidential vote is.

Speaker 6 (58:46):
Because the presidential vote in the.

Speaker 5 (58:49):
House vote is really what's voting it, but it's the
other vote that come from local and state that drives
those decisions accurate.

Speaker 2 (59:01):
We literally just talking on the surface. Don't listen to
people telling you who to vote for. And this is
whether I'm talking about your local election, the primary, to
the president. I don't All I'm saying is do your
due diligence, find out who better reflects your overall goal

(59:23):
or what you would like, and you vote for your interests. Right,
you have people saying, oh, you vote for the collective interests,
But if the collective interest doesn't reflect your personal interest,
then what then happens is you'll have disgruntled people saying,

(59:44):
why did I vote for X? Y, and Z. So
do your due diligence, see who you would like to
vote for, and don't listen to anyone else telling you
who to vote for. That's the biggest mistake that you
can get. And that's what I would tell you to do.
Do your own due diligence. Don't let anyone bully you
into who you should vote for. Vote for your interests.

(01:00:07):
Vote for the people who you believe represents what your
interests in your morals and ethics.

Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
Are people people should be voting in every election, and
not just presidential election, because I descriptibly descriptively remember and
I think it might have been like twenty eighteen, there
was a primary election that it had the lowest voter
turnouf and next thing you know, they cut welfare benefits

(01:00:36):
and people were complaining like, oh they cut down my
food stamps. I don't get as much as I got before. Well,
when you didn't go out and vote for those people,
that the ones that shouldn't have gotten gotten in and
that was their initiative, and and.

Speaker 2 (01:00:55):
That happened a sizzle because most people don't vote in
those elections, and it's not a lot of information. It
is a lot of information out I think the way
that they market it is wrong, but they need to
continue to amplify when those elections are most of the
money go to the presidential election. That's where all of

(01:01:17):
those big dollar signs come from. That's the lobbyist all
of it, right, But when it comes to the other
smaller elections, that's even more important. When they start voting
in them judges, you know those judges. That's you know
that you talking about little Poogy. You will free little Poogy.
Well that was that judge that roofed little Pooky that

(01:01:39):
you didn't vote for, and.

Speaker 3 (01:01:42):
Then it gets elected to the Superior Court and then
the government there.

Speaker 4 (01:01:48):
For years and on there for years.

Speaker 2 (01:01:50):
Right because they're appoint there. They become appointments at that point.
And so especially with the Supreme Court. Once you get
to the Supreme Court, you're appointed there. You ain't getting off.
You ain't getting off there.

Speaker 5 (01:02:04):
I was just watching that on Netflix, Ruth Ginsberg. She
has something called Battle of the Battle of Sexes or.

Speaker 4 (01:02:12):
Something like that. But it was really really good.

Speaker 6 (01:02:14):
And you know, before her.

Speaker 5 (01:02:16):
Passing, you know, they highlighted this and they also spoke
about her being on the Supreme Court justice but she
was a freedom fighter.

Speaker 4 (01:02:24):
She definitely was for the women she was. It was
a great movie watch.

Speaker 3 (01:02:31):
Talk about the Streets. That was mm HM said, yeah,
as I talk about Boots to the Streets, that was her.

Speaker 2 (01:02:40):
You got to see the one with Shirley Chisholm.

Speaker 6 (01:02:42):
I saw that one too. Regina uh, Regina Hall with
no Regina King.

Speaker 2 (01:02:48):
Yeah, that was good, that was great. You know that
that one under people radars. You know there's a lot
of people who don't get there just just as it
called just desserts. You know, they're they're flying hours when
they need to. And she was a fighter, right, that's
for president.

Speaker 4 (01:03:05):
That's right, that's right woman to run for president.

Speaker 2 (01:03:10):
And she would have did an excellent job too. They
an excellent job.

Speaker 6 (01:03:14):
It was there.

Speaker 4 (01:03:14):
They kind of set up type of things.

Speaker 6 (01:03:16):
For her to lose.

Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
But it was one of those things. But we have
to continue to talk about some of the issues that's
plaguing our communities, that's plaguing our societies, and don't be
scared to continue to talk and talk justice, talk, you know,
be unapologetic about the facts things that are going on,
and you know, supporting those smaller voices that would like

(01:03:40):
people to hear don't be scared to, you know, amplify
those voices and support those small voices because those are
the people that's doing the work. Those are the people
who are doing the work. Which is why I'd like
to give platform to those who are don't want to
work out there in those communities, because you know, Miss Johnson,

(01:04:04):
she's the one that can you know, walk in the
middle of fifty thousand negroes that's out there about to
kill theyself. But everybody respect Miss Johnson, everybody love missus Johnson.
But nobody talking to Miss Johnson on how to fix
what's going on. They just coming up with these bride ideas, Oh,

(01:04:25):
we could fix it like this right, which is a problem.

Speaker 6 (01:04:29):
And so.

Speaker 2 (01:04:31):
We got another interview coming up, and then we're gonna
go into the sizzle, you know, So don't go anywhere.
When we come back, sisters, gonna tell us who we
got today. We'll be right back, y'all. After this.

Speaker 7 (01:04:50):
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Speaker 2 (01:05:37):
Ok w P P M M P Philadelphia one O
six point five f M. We talked weekly. After they
talk with your boy Charles Gregan and Beautiful Lawrence and
beautiful ladies, Beautiful. I love that clip because it always
shows the group of young women who were actually getting

(01:05:59):
bullied at work and no one would come out there
to amplify those voices. We talked weekly, said you know what,
we'll be right there, and we were able to with
five women, we were able to amplify those voices. And
they literally been thinking us ever since. And that's what

(01:06:20):
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on Twitter, on Facebook. We all are we everywhere where?
You're never there that my man always say so without
further do Laurne says, who do we have today? Who
do we have to day?

Speaker 3 (01:06:52):
So we have mister even Thomas. He is a versatile
universal artist from Trust and he has risen to industry
prominence with his exploration and rock and alternative music, earning
acclaim including five Grammy Award considerations. It's captivating sound, exemplified

(01:07:15):
by lights by hits like Best Days and search Me
is readily available on major platforms like iTunes, Google Play, Spotify,
and Amazon. Let's give a warm We Talk Weekly. Welcome
to miss Keen THOMASO.

Speaker 1 (01:07:36):
Are you? How are you my brother?

Speaker 2 (01:07:38):
My brother?

Speaker 1 (01:07:39):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (01:07:39):
My friend?

Speaker 1 (01:07:40):
Man? I'm doing good? Man doing good? What about you guys?
How is everyone doing good? Awesome? Glad to be here,
Glad to be here. Thanks for the opportunity, appreciate the
appreciate the opportunity to come on the show.

Speaker 12 (01:07:56):
We talked week for sure, So I can't wait to
see what I can't wait to see how this is
gonna go.

Speaker 3 (01:08:03):
Well, Jay said, you be anywhere in the world, but
you're here with us.

Speaker 1 (01:08:07):
That's right.

Speaker 12 (01:08:07):
You know where in the world, and I and we are.

Speaker 1 (01:08:10):
I'm with the team. Now, we're we're traveling. So I'm
sitting in the back and just waiting on them. So
I was like, man, I'm on the road right now.
So yeah, we're traveling right now.

Speaker 12 (01:08:20):
But hey listen and make sure I make time for
the people that that really give me the opportunity.

Speaker 1 (01:08:25):
So I'm grateful and blessed to be here. Thank you
for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:08:30):
For sure, it's a pleasure. It's a pleasure.

Speaker 12 (01:08:33):
Uh huh, all in there, uh Texans. So yeah, man,
just working promo runs, you know what I mean, just
promo runs.

Speaker 1 (01:08:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
So you're promoting what right now? Specifically, uh your new album,
your new drop. What are you promoting right now?

Speaker 14 (01:08:53):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:08:53):
So I'm promoting my new single U called back Home.
It's by Stephen.

Speaker 12 (01:08:58):
Thomas, and uh, that's what we're promoting right now. Just
I mean literally just on the go. It just came
out May seventeenth and has shit over three hundred thousand
TikTok views in less than twenty four hours. We're now
at the five hundred thousand views and it has since
charted in the top one hundreds on media Base and

(01:09:21):
we were told that it also charted in the top two.

Speaker 1 (01:09:25):
Hundreds on Billboards.

Speaker 12 (01:09:26):
So this is pretty busy for my debut single and
rocking alternative music, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:09:32):
So let's talk a little bit about that, right because, uh,
you know what's interesting is because I hate to put
people in boxes, right and you know, you say, all right,
this person is rock, this person is R and B,
this person is soul. Right, So when you use the
term alternative, right, how would you classify that if you
needed to explain somebody your genre music?

Speaker 12 (01:09:54):
So, I mean most people will say, I mean, rocking
alternative is kind of like that. It's kind of like
that between genre of heavy metal and just rotten music
with the pop feel, you know what I'm saying. So
it's it's kind of one of those things where it's
like the in between. So rocking alternative is kind of
like the thing. But for me, I'm a multi genre artist.

(01:10:17):
I'm universal all the way around and well rounded. Just
kind of like a basketball player. It's kind of like
Ray Allen, Ray Allen, could you know he could shoot threes?
You know, he could drive lebron Kobe. You know, it's
kind of like those guys. Those guys are all well
rounded ballplayers. That's just who I am. I'm a well
rounded ball player. So you got somebody that can go
from hip hop to R and B, anything and everything.

Speaker 1 (01:10:42):
Whatever you want. Steven Thomas.

Speaker 2 (01:10:47):
Fantastic, fantastic. So most people when we think are rock,
I mean it's changing now, because you know, black folks
for aren't monolists, right, we not just one one kind
of sector, right, We're we're we're expensive, you know, and
we're and we're different, we like different things. There was
a time where you wouldn't even consider it's still to

(01:11:09):
the day, I guess kind of you know, you still
when you think black folks, you don't think rock right
or turnative. So so what's your thoughts on that and
do you kind of get that like that kind of
like interesting when you tell someone you know your style
of music or when they hear you.

Speaker 12 (01:11:28):
So the biggest thing is I've told everybody on my team, look,
I have a I have a certain way that we
want to promote this record.

Speaker 1 (01:11:37):
When we were talking, when we were talking and having meetings,
it was all about the what people are going to say?
Number one? Right, So you got what people are going.

Speaker 12 (01:11:47):
To say number one, But the number two we got
how do we want people to to, you know, to
receive the record?

Speaker 1 (01:11:54):
Well, I'm like, you know what, let's do this. How
about we do a let's do a here first, see
later approach.

Speaker 12 (01:12:04):
So a lot of people still don't know that I'm black,
but I'm an African American and singing rock music.

Speaker 1 (01:12:10):
We haven't released any pictures on any social media at
all on purpose.

Speaker 12 (01:12:15):
I did it on purpose. Now, if you go to
my Spotify, if you go to my Apple Music, you're
going to see that. But the thing is is that
it's the approach of here first, see later.

Speaker 1 (01:12:26):
It's that way. There's no opportunity for you to put
this record in the box at all by far. So
my biggest thing was even you know, shout out some
of the public's lesson you know.

Speaker 12 (01:12:39):
Let's when she started sending out different things and started
sending out you know, ther stuff, and just on the
campaigns on the record. She caught the idea right off
the game. I mean, at person, it was all about,
hey put this, put put your face on the on
the album cover. I'm like, no, bro, no, no, no,

(01:13:00):
but all because here's the thing. Where I'm from, we
are a ninety six point three percent Caucasian state, right
so it is three point seven percent census zero. I
think it's TWAD twenty two. You may have to correct
me if I'm wrong, but if I'm not mistaken, really
three point seven percent.

Speaker 1 (01:13:20):
African Americans in that state, we are.

Speaker 12 (01:13:22):
Like zero point one percent Matt Tino or or like
zero point five that Chinese point another point five point
one percent. I think it was Caucasian, his Caucasian and
Caucasian and other races, and like alone was literally like
ninety two point three percent.

Speaker 1 (01:13:43):
So for the most part, now.

Speaker 12 (01:13:46):
Do you understand my plight or why I say no,
let's go this way, Let's do it like this, because
at the end of the day, again, I want to
to here first see later, because when you know you
have a hit, you know you have a hit, and
you know what I mean to be good, you know
what I'm saying, So why give people an opportunity. I'm
taking the right from people by letting you see who

(01:14:07):
I am off the getting. Why get something that you
can have and listen to and embrace a sound that
is a sound that is is new and refreshing but
very unique. And then the wow factor is when you've
seen the that's the best part.

Speaker 1 (01:14:29):
So now it's it's like beyonest that she's in country
right and most of you know, here's the crazy part
before and I'm making this known before Beyonce, we're country.

Speaker 12 (01:14:39):
My country record was already done. I'm just waiting to
release through mm hmmm. I have a country record that's
ready for the two, so, believe it or not. I
got many different directions that I can go and they
and the best part about it is that they all
sound like different duple. I'm not even gonna I'm not
even gonna hold you living in the studio and I'm saying, Man,

(01:14:59):
I sound white.

Speaker 8 (01:15:00):
I'm one hundred percent real.

Speaker 1 (01:15:06):
I'm gonna keep it real with you, you know what
I mean.

Speaker 17 (01:15:08):
And because I heard that, I was just like, oh shoot,
like I shock my om day on self. I said, uh,
go back and watch the live at the studio. I said,
I said, Joe, we can really do this.

Speaker 3 (01:15:19):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:15:21):
You know, but it was it was one of those.

Speaker 12 (01:15:24):
Things where it was just it was it was the
shocking for myself, but it's also me challenging myself to
see what I can do, what I can pull off,
you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:15:34):
And that's how I look at it. Why not?

Speaker 8 (01:15:37):
Yeah, you know what, It reminds me of Universal?

Speaker 1 (01:15:40):
Why not?

Speaker 5 (01:15:41):
You know the voice when they had when they were
they had their backs turned and you come out and
you had to sing, and it was like hear it
first and then see later, and then they would turn
around to you know, to see.

Speaker 1 (01:15:53):
Them, yes, ma'am.

Speaker 8 (01:15:54):
Yeah, the idea was it to.

Speaker 3 (01:15:58):
Make that call in the term, was that your decision
to do that or do you have like a marketing
team like I want to whose decision.

Speaker 8 (01:16:06):
Was to not do the faces.

Speaker 12 (01:16:08):
So a lot of a lot of my decision was
on me on that because when it comes to marketing,
I do a lot of I've done a lot of marketing.
I've been doing it since I was I mean, almost
sixteen years of my life in this industry.

Speaker 1 (01:16:23):
So I do a lot of my marketing on my own,
you know.

Speaker 12 (01:16:26):
And again, when you're independent, you got to have excuse me,
you need probably like twenty and thirty zerousand dollars a month.

Speaker 1 (01:16:33):
So if you don't have it, you figure out ways,
you learn ways.

Speaker 12 (01:16:36):
But I started early, at an early age, and my
team's doing this right, So I learned a lot, and
I had people teach me the business first, okay, and
then it was like business first, music later, because I
started realizing that this game is nothing but ninety percent business,
maybe ten percent music, not even that, maybe ninety five

(01:16:56):
percent business and five percent music.

Speaker 1 (01:16:59):
So it's all about the business first. But one of
the things is that you just learn different things as
you go through time.

Speaker 12 (01:17:09):
Not only that, but I'm a graduate, a recent graduate
as well, with a business degree, and so a lot
of classes I took was marketing and things like that too.
So all that did was just an ins But sometimes
you have to be if you want to get people,
you have to understand that. I say, don't be so
original that you're not relatable. So it's kind of like,

(01:17:31):
don't be so traditional that you can't go out the
box and be non traditional. That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (01:17:38):
So, see, you showed the roots picnic earlier and we
have so much versatile stuff going on here in Philly
this week.

Speaker 2 (01:17:47):
So would you do that? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:17:50):
So would you have to come back.

Speaker 5 (01:17:51):
To Philly like next year, and you know, make your
grand interest with showing your face like.

Speaker 1 (01:17:57):
You know, listen, let's do it. Listen, listen, hook it up,
let's hook it up, let's do it. I'm all about
it because I appreciate you all.

Speaker 12 (01:18:06):
I appreciate every DJ, every radio and that's because you
know what I actually was on their personality and it
was the first team to be known to be national
radio in my home state. On the second a FM
station called ninety eight point seven to B, So I
did it, and I understand that without you.

Speaker 1 (01:18:23):
All, the record's not gonna get broke.

Speaker 12 (01:18:26):
So I'm all about showing love and paying homers to
the DJs and people that show me love one hundred percent.

Speaker 1 (01:18:31):
So if I'm in the city, you best believe I'm
there with you. That's my word.

Speaker 2 (01:18:36):
Fantastic. So so as you say that, do we have
permission to play and show you video and stuff like?
We gotta get permission to do that. We got your permission.

Speaker 12 (01:18:45):
Please please do whatever you want to play, man. I mean,
I'm good for it, you know what I'm saying, So
please please show the LAMB. I really appreciate the opportunity
for sure.

Speaker 3 (01:18:55):
For sure, I asked that question because I don't know
if you know, but that is a marketing strategy, a
marketing strategy that was used many, many many years ago, okay,
with black artists because the record execs who were white
wanted to make the money and they knew, you know,

(01:19:15):
during the times where of segregation and things like that,
they knew if they if listeners knew that the artists
were black, they wouldn't support it, so they.

Speaker 13 (01:19:25):
Would hide the faces of us.

Speaker 8 (01:19:27):
They would hide our faces.

Speaker 3 (01:19:29):
So that's why I asked that question because I don't
I know, you're not that old. But I also wanted
to know.

Speaker 15 (01:19:37):
Was that.

Speaker 3 (01:19:39):
Did that play a part in your decision making?

Speaker 8 (01:19:41):
Like did you know about that?

Speaker 13 (01:19:42):
Did that play apart?

Speaker 8 (01:19:43):
And also if you had a team, That's why I
was like, was this a marketing team?

Speaker 2 (01:19:48):
No, he just know that's his that's his, you know,
and he probably indirectly. Some people just get it right,
And I think it's just one of those things you
just get it, you know. And image, I'm an image,
I'm an image. Uh, I'm a credential image consultant. Right,
And and what what happens is they say people make

(01:20:11):
snap judgments to what we initially see, and we'll process
this information about making judgments about the wearer, right, and
so in in in fashion, pretty much ninety percent of
what we do is nonverbal. Right, fashion is nonverbal. You're
seeing is that's you're communicating a message based on what

(01:20:31):
you have on right, right, right, and so so we're
not saying anything at that point. Right. And so just
to go to your position, I think that it's the
music that's speaking for It is bigger than whom you are,
so to speak, because that's your voice, right, and so
definitely I definitely get it. And Bob Marley to your

(01:20:51):
to your point, ladyes Dot, Bob Marley did the exact
same thing with his group, you know, and so.

Speaker 8 (01:20:57):
He starts about the business.

Speaker 1 (01:20:59):
I said, oh.

Speaker 3 (01:21:01):
Why at that point, I understand the business. And that's
a great thing to do because I was the artist.
They have to learn the business, you.

Speaker 12 (01:21:09):
Know what I didn't honestly, it was just all about knowing,
knowing where I grew up, right.

Speaker 1 (01:21:15):
But then two another thing is.

Speaker 12 (01:21:20):
This is a I'm just gonna be honest, but it's
a Caucasian dominated format.

Speaker 1 (01:21:27):
You you know, I have to understand that.

Speaker 12 (01:21:30):
I know that I'm possibly going to walk into the
doors where they looking at me crazy or they like
what is this is he really? And then I shock
you with this voice out of nowhere and you're like,
what the heck? Like where did this come from? Because
and and and here's the other half of it. So
I'll say this now, my radio guy, he said, Man,

(01:21:52):
I'm pitching you as the the old, the old.

Speaker 1 (01:21:55):
Version of a hip hop artist. I ain't gonna say
his name because he has some stuff right now. But
but he said, because of my images.

Speaker 12 (01:22:04):
How I look, my my my hip hop look, the
gold chains, the the bling bling with the with all
of this, it's totally unexpected, right, totally expected of how
I'm gonna come to you with the rock and alternative record.
It's gonna be expected if we use the same picture
and say, oh, check out the new country artist might

(01:22:26):
do that, right, We'll, we'll do, we'll, we'll go and
do you know, we we got some new stuff just
getting ready to come aboard.

Speaker 1 (01:22:31):
I'm actually getting ready to go out and film the
music video for back Home.

Speaker 12 (01:22:35):
And when we go and do that, I mean, who
knows what who knows what that's going to be like?
Who knows what that's gonna look like. I mean, I've
been talking to my team that's getting ready for the
video shoot, and I don't know what those what that
image as you say, my man, as you say, the
image is gonna look like to the t. But we've

(01:22:56):
already discussed an image that's not expected, right, right, said yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:23:04):
No, one hundred hundred percent, because you want to make
sure that it's consistent with the brand that you're already putting,
not one hundred percent. I get that. And so so
as you talk, you're a mommy of a couple people
I don't know if you're familiar with. I'm sure you're
familiar with.

Speaker 9 (01:23:21):
Like well I am right, okay, yeah, yeah, and him
and just did a record they did the record, got
that Hey, that's like hey.

Speaker 2 (01:23:32):
But I bring him up because I bring him up
because he you know, he talked a lot about, you know,
his position in his drama style of music and you know,
trying to juggle where he's from versus what his music
kind of you don't push his year, where he's going, right,

(01:23:55):
and the juxtaposition of how he doesn't necessarily fit into
either or right. And then you have, uh, are you
familiar with a gentleman by the name of Dax.

Speaker 1 (01:24:12):
D a X.

Speaker 2 (01:24:13):
His name is like Dax and so he does like
this not this guy, so he's really he's really dope, right,
and he does this like inspirational kind of rap. But
he he talked a lot about how he doesn't necessarily
fit in either right now. So so so I bring

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those two people are artists up for reason, and the
question to you do you ever feel right that you're
not ever quote unquote because you're you're going to this
non traditional kind of scope of music that you're saying
that you're you're you're going to that genre. Do you
ever feel like that, well, you don't fit in over here, right,

(01:24:55):
and and you're too blank to fit in over there? Right?
So what what is that that psych that psyche, that
that parent that that you know that that intern is
the introspection that you go through as it relates to
you sitting inside where you trying to you know, the
music that you're putting out, if that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (01:25:15):
So you know what, it was really tough.

Speaker 12 (01:25:19):
I came from and I'll just be honest. A lot
of artists started out in the Christian market. Uh, start church.
Everybody started. A lot of them started in church. Us
started in church, all of them. To be real with you,
I started out there right, But then it was like, Okay,
I got this, but I know I can say this,
I know I can do that. So it got to

(01:25:41):
a point to where I was like, man, you know what,
I really want to write everything. I always said, if
everybody gods, people, the why can't I make music for now?

Speaker 1 (01:25:54):
Mind?

Speaker 12 (01:25:54):
You Here's the other half of it though, too, when
you go into this secular rim, the secular rim like
we when this when this record first came out, we
had a radio station that was playing like depressing music, right,
so because this music because back home, really made them
feel good. They said it was too inspire. I keep it,

(01:26:15):
said it was too inspired. Like what it's like, all right, cool,
take it whatever, But what the what they want is
they want to hear you swear. They want to hear
you say talk about is the alcohol, the all of
the craziness that and in the secular from the R
and B to hip hop to you know, even rockets

(01:26:38):
like that. All of these genres are a lot like that,
except for probably like the pop rockets genre, because it's
not really you know, that's your.

Speaker 1 (01:26:45):
Maroon fives, you know, your uh Maroon fives and sharing,
you know, and sharing.

Speaker 12 (01:26:51):
So it's kind of like one of those things where
it is a psychological thing that, dang it plays on
my mind.

Speaker 8 (01:26:57):
You mean you you mean to.

Speaker 1 (01:26:58):
Tell me because I did swearing the record play.

Speaker 11 (01:27:03):
My guy.

Speaker 12 (01:27:04):
It's like, but it's okay, though, I got one coming
for you, see what I'm saying. So I'll go play
your game if I have to a little bit, because
see what I did was I turned around and I
have a record called get Ready.

Speaker 1 (01:27:19):
It's an R and B record that I released last year.

Speaker 12 (01:27:21):
And if you like Tank, Chris Brown, and ty Rens
all at the same time, just imagine them all on
one record and it's a it's a love record. I'm
not gonna lie to you, but imagine all three of
those artists and and think about Tanks when we probably
Chris Brown's with the bed, ty Reese's uh uh, take

(01:27:43):
Tyresee's dumb, you know sh h. You take that that record,
and you put all three of them together on one
and you imagine all three of them just doing a
verse of a little bit of everything, but really being
like it's it's it's a late night record, it's for
the it's for the.

Speaker 1 (01:28:02):
Grown and sexy. I'll just be you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 12 (01:28:05):
But also, now you take my country record that I'm
getting Ready to go, Kane Brown and Jimmy Allen and
a Justin Bieber on one record.

Speaker 1 (01:28:14):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (01:28:15):
I love it, No, I love it. I hear it.

Speaker 12 (01:28:19):
About being diverse, but it does it plays on your mind.
It's a psychological thing because I'm like, man, I came
out of the Christian market over here because I knew
I had more in me too, you know what I'm saying,
And I'm like yoo. And it gets tough because coming
from the Christian background, one thing that I've learned is

(01:28:39):
that Christian folks are very, very judgmental. When you step
out of the box, right, then they're quick, They're quick
to have something to say.

Speaker 1 (01:28:49):
But now JB.

Speaker 12 (01:28:51):
Little bro is talking about God and gave us like
the God and everything right, I'm just keeping it and
they welcome here.

Speaker 1 (01:28:59):
I mean we you see what I'm saying.

Speaker 12 (01:29:01):
So at the end of the day, I said, you
know what, I'd rather get up out of here before
I even get to going to that that side, because
then you have to worry about it. So so it
does play on your psychic right my man, Like my
man said, I think, what's my man's name?

Speaker 1 (01:29:18):
Is that Charles? Right, DJ Charles out there? You feel Charles?

Speaker 8 (01:29:26):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:29:27):
So all that it does play on it.

Speaker 18 (01:29:30):
But I do everything I can to not get caught
up on it, you see, and just be me like
this back Home record was inspired by machine Gun Kelly.

Speaker 1 (01:29:43):
I think I'm okay when I first heard it by
him and young Blood and I was like, oh, I
like this.

Speaker 12 (01:29:48):
And I'm literally in Louisiana and then UNSU homecoming because
I got cool with this dude named Jacob and they said, man,
you hanging out with us tonight. I said, party on, dudes,
but let's go do it. But I heard that song
and kid you not, it never left my mind. But
I was inspired by the music.

Speaker 1 (01:30:06):
It didn't matter what you look like.

Speaker 2 (01:30:07):
See that's what I said, That's what I like, And
I like to hear you say that, because that's the thing.
It's the one thing that no one else can do
better than you do you. Nobody could do you better
than you do you, right, And so if the music
is speaking to you, then you are regurgitating how you feel,

(01:30:30):
not how somebody else feel. The music made you feel.

Speaker 1 (01:30:33):
Music made you feel that way, right, you go energy.

Speaker 5 (01:30:37):
You know, I'm a person that we did see that
did something like to where you know, you didn't expect
it from him.

Speaker 6 (01:30:43):
Little nas X.

Speaker 4 (01:30:45):
He was coming out with the country and he was
like yeah, saying hey, and then.

Speaker 6 (01:30:50):
Came out that he came out the closet.

Speaker 3 (01:30:52):
He was like he came out.

Speaker 5 (01:30:58):
So so yeah, So I I understand that the diversity
of presenting to you know, to something that's different and
you know, letting letting those doors open and those opportunities
open for things that people aren't used to hearing when
it comes from that person, Like they wouldn't expect what
they're hearing from you and probably wouldn't give you opportunities

(01:31:20):
if they saw you before they heard you.

Speaker 2 (01:31:22):
So, Steve, I'm gonna pull this up because I want
you to have a look at him, because and the
reason I'm showing him, right, is because you're talking to
somebody who a lot of people don't know, but he
has almost eight million followers. Look his name is Dax, right,
And so I mean when you talk about being able

(01:31:46):
to have someone, I'm gonna show you this is I'm
gonna give you a picture so you can kind of
like see him for yourself and kind of like look
him up. Is because he he he also has been
struggling when it comes to not necessarily his identity, right,
but just the music genre that he's in. But he's

(01:32:08):
super dope, right. I don't know where he's from. I
don't know where he's from, but he just happen to
come through my my, my feet and I started listening.
I was like, Yo, this guy is dope.

Speaker 1 (01:32:20):
Like what what genre is he in?

Speaker 2 (01:32:23):
You gotta he he don't put hisself in the genre.

Speaker 1 (01:32:27):
Right, Okay, he one of them.

Speaker 2 (01:32:29):
Okay, he don't put itself in the genre. But I
mean when you talk about rapping over rock, rapping over
you know, gospel, I mean he does it. He does
it all right, Okay? But what he what? What what
made him unique is that you know, people started feeling
him so much that he would make content right, he

(01:32:52):
would do, you know, a song and then leave space
for his fans to emulate what he's doing on some
of his stuff, which was got you got you got,
But but what that did was I got you sizzle.
But what that did was just you know, it shows
that you know what you think with what he thought

(01:33:17):
that nobody was interested in exactly the biting on it.

Speaker 1 (01:33:23):
It was, it came, but it was. That's that's the thing.
It's it's about being that that sometimes you just got
to make your own lane.

Speaker 15 (01:33:32):
Bro.

Speaker 1 (01:33:33):
That's just is you just got to make your own lane.
You know what I'm saying, and I think that's what
that's what it comes down to. Now her was that sizzzzz.

Speaker 2 (01:33:41):
Yeah, go ahead, sizzle.

Speaker 3 (01:33:43):
I just wanted to know what do you think is
going to take when it comes to artists that want
to kind of cross the lines into other genres and
be accepted, like you know, for you having to, you know,
go through this little marketing thing where you didn't want
your your face to be seen like how Because I

(01:34:05):
know some people are saying, like Beyonce's doing it for
country and now you know, black artists are being accepted
in country, But what do you feel is going to
take for black artists to cross those genre lines whereas
white artists dominated and not and be accepted and not
be you know, kind of pushed away like well, nas said,

(01:34:27):
nas x.

Speaker 12 (01:34:27):
Is so so you I'll tell you this, and I'm
pretty sure I hope that you guys can really get
this and what I'm about to say and how I'm
about to say it. But you gotta understand that, and
I want to make sure I say it correctly. I'm

(01:34:48):
pretty sure all of you, right, all of you, every
single one of you right now that I'm looking at,
I'm pretty sure that all of you all, as DJs,
do not have one playlist of the same genre of music,
and my corrector, am I wrong?

Speaker 1 (01:35:03):
Let's answer ask that. First, I.

Speaker 12 (01:35:10):
Heard my man Charles, I heard says, Okay, Sparkle, that
got my other lady down here. Okay, I need y'all
to do. Y'all have the same playlist? Do you have
the same genre style of music on one playlist?

Speaker 3 (01:35:23):
Mmm? Absolutely not.

Speaker 6 (01:35:26):
To do.

Speaker 1 (01:35:26):
So here was my approach.

Speaker 12 (01:35:28):
My approach is this, I'm listening to music and as
a DJ, right, as a radio DJ, a DJ in
the clubs, things like that. Right, even we play diverse
music in the club. So why can't I give you
diverse music on your playlist? Because you're I guarantee you

(01:35:51):
you are not. Let me tell you something as real
as this is if we talk about race. Let me
say it like this. I was just on the show
with Kevin James. Me and keV just sold out West
Virginia's arena right at the auditorial and let me.

Speaker 1 (01:36:09):
Say this, it was ninety eight to ninety nine percent
white carcasis.

Speaker 12 (01:36:16):
So what I'm saying to you is that even the
Caucasian market that may listen to the dominated format of
runner in alternative music, or or a little bit of
this and a little bit of they're they're listening to
a little bit of this and a little bit of that,
whether it be whether it be the hip hop, whether
it be the whether it be the R and B,

(01:36:38):
whether it be the pop, even their user diverse.

Speaker 1 (01:36:41):
Right, you see what I'm saying. So I'm like, yo,
you know what, why not?

Speaker 5 (01:36:48):
I've noticed that a lot of the white artists like
Teddy Swims, you got Gwen Stefani, justin Bieber, they start in.

Speaker 4 (01:36:58):
Our culture first and then they tend to cross over.

Speaker 5 (01:37:03):
So they actually get us as you know, the appeasement
from us first, and then it's like that's what makes
them cross over to be accepted worldwide opposed is going
in their own sector and then coming over on this side.

Speaker 6 (01:37:18):
They start on our side and then.

Speaker 4 (01:37:20):
They cross over and it's almost like bye bye, but.

Speaker 6 (01:37:25):
See what's the phase.

Speaker 2 (01:37:27):
No, they snatch our music, they snatch our swagger and
then go over there because you know something, you know
for real, they want to be a certain type of
swagger and you know something that we have that special sauce.
But what they do is take that and put it
in you know, their culture and their people and their

(01:37:49):
music and act like they created it. I could go
all the way back to Elvis. I can even go
back to country music because you talking country music, they
started with us. So if you really want to get
in that conversation.

Speaker 1 (01:38:04):
Yeah, that's that's a long that's a long one exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:38:07):
So I say all that to say, you do you
because most of that vibration, my brother probably came from us. Anyway.

Speaker 12 (01:38:15):
I feel it, yo, I feel it, man, Listen, I
appreciate it. One and this this, this, this back Home
record is is really uh it's it's really something different.
It's not it's not expected. I can't wait until the
other records come out. I even got my next one
that's probably gonna follow up behind it soon called stay Strong.

Speaker 11 (01:38:39):
Uh.

Speaker 12 (01:38:39):
That record is going to be dedicated to a lot
of our troops, the military.

Speaker 1 (01:38:44):
And just people telling people to stay strong. And the
thing is is that.

Speaker 12 (01:38:50):
Look at all the things that we got going on
right now or politics, people need something to give them
a little something to stay stay strong. People need something
to give them a little something that says you got
to find your way back home. Finding your way back
home is about fighting your way back to you, peace, freedom, love, money.

Speaker 19 (01:39:09):
I mean, hey, if you if back Home for you
is money, then hey go get your money up because
maybe that money gave you the feeling of feeling accomplished.

Speaker 12 (01:39:20):
Maybe it gives you the feeling of feeling like you're successful,
Maybe it gives you you know, whatever back Home relates
to you. That's what back Home is. So that's why
back Home is such a strong record right now. And
that's why, as Charles say, do you And that's what
we're doing. We're doing We're gonna do us, and we're
doing us in a different way, and I'm doing it

(01:39:44):
to where it's all about diversity. It's all about different ethnicities,
different families, different people.

Speaker 1 (01:39:53):
You know what I'm saying. Because the music is for
the people. It's not for the politics. It's for the people.

Speaker 12 (01:40:00):
Because the people, which is you, are the people that
enjoy records like back Home, Stay Strong.

Speaker 1 (01:40:07):
You know what I'm saying. Yuh yeah, And that's what
I make music for. I make music for you as And.

Speaker 2 (01:40:14):
You know what, this is funny real quick because I
want to put in somebody somebody made a comment and said,
but I'm white, right, But that's what the music is
for is for us. You are the people, right you are.
You are the people. Don't matter if you write or not,
you are the people. Were doing it for the people.
You for the people right.

Speaker 1 (01:40:33):
Who said that, what's their name?

Speaker 8 (01:40:35):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:40:37):
What's your name? Meal?

Speaker 3 (01:40:44):
Let me tell you something.

Speaker 1 (01:40:45):
I know you white.

Speaker 17 (01:40:46):
That's why look back Home is just right for you, baby,
whoever mom girl, back Home is just for you.

Speaker 1 (01:40:56):
Listen right now. Back Home is in Germany.

Speaker 12 (01:40:59):
It is trending in Germany right now that you poland France.
So at the end of the day, whoever said that,
but a white that's the.

Speaker 1 (01:41:09):
Thing you black, purple, green of orange.

Speaker 7 (01:41:16):
Listen.

Speaker 1 (01:41:17):
It don't matter because you listen.

Speaker 12 (01:41:20):
They say when music, when words fail, music speaks.

Speaker 1 (01:41:26):
Always remember that when words fail, music speaks. And here's
the thing you gotta remember.

Speaker 12 (01:41:31):
Music by itself, right, words by itself, that's what makes
a song.

Speaker 1 (01:41:36):
That's right, That's what makes the music. The music is
for you, the people.

Speaker 2 (01:41:42):
You don't have to be sorry. We're saying that we
for THEO. We fool you. We listen, listen. This is
what always say. We are we are people together right
because we need to actually we need y'all to be
some our lives, right, and when we're going through the
underground round world, we needed some of y'all, right, you
feel exactly, so we have to do better with each

(01:42:05):
other man like honestly, yes, she said, I'm from Italy.

Speaker 1 (01:42:10):
Oh wow, Hey, Frank here listen, do me a favor.
Go follow me at Stephen T. Music.

Speaker 12 (01:42:16):
If y'all, if y'all got Instagram, all the listeners that's
on here right now, follow me at Stephen T.

Speaker 1 (01:42:22):
Music. There's an s T E p h E n
T is in Thomas Music again Stephen T. Music. If
somebody from my team is.

Speaker 12 (01:42:33):
On here, which I know they are, if y'all could
post it up in the chat or the comments Stephen
T Music, because you know what, my music is actually
playing over in Italy right now, and I know that
for a fact.

Speaker 1 (01:42:43):
So hey, you know what, listen, Hey, I welcome you,
I embrace you.

Speaker 12 (01:42:48):
I don't care who you are, whoever you are, come
come through, show love and that's what we're all about.

Speaker 2 (01:42:54):
Absolutely absolutely, and thanks for and thanks for watching. I mean,
this is the first time we got a common or
someone saying that they're listening from Italy, right and so
so what what we owe? And they said they will,
So they're gonna follow you. They're gonna follow you.

Speaker 12 (01:43:09):
Fantastic, grateful, grateful, and then go do your favorite stream
my record back Home right now, back Home by Steven
Thomas and see the name.

Speaker 1 (01:43:20):
Yeah please.

Speaker 2 (01:43:21):
So I want to thank you for I want to
thank you for watching, because it's important that you know,
we continue to expand we talk weekly. I mean, we're
getting people are listening to us in you know, in
the UK and you know, the Middle East. They don't
say the Middle East anymore, they say swanna you know,
but you know, yeah, yeah, we're we're we're being listened
to a lot of different places and so we're thankful

(01:43:42):
for you watching and listening and all of that. Man,
this time went so fast. So because it went so fast,
I want to invite you to come back.

Speaker 1 (01:43:50):
My brother too.

Speaker 12 (01:43:52):
Man, Seriously, I love I love to if y'all, if
y'all want to have me back, I would love to.

Speaker 2 (01:43:57):
We're gonna h who's your publicist who reached out to us?

Speaker 1 (01:44:02):
Leslie?

Speaker 2 (01:44:03):
We love that, Leslie?

Speaker 1 (01:44:06):
Leslie?

Speaker 2 (01:44:07):
So Leslie knows about our New Year's Eve show. Yeah,
we do a New Year's wrap up. She knows about
our New Year's wrap up. I want you to come
on doing our New Year's wrap up and uh, just
spend some time with us if you got the time
to do it. Yeah, for sure. It's about a three
hour show. You be one of our co hosts for today,
and we're gonna talk about what happened throughout the year,

(01:44:29):
and so we're gonna talk about Yes, it's about your music,
your top five moments of twenty twenty four. Twenty four. Absolutely,
but I just want to thank you for coming on
the show. My brother real quick, how can they get
in contact with you and all that good old stuff.

Speaker 12 (01:44:46):
Look, go follow me steven T Music as t E
p ah t n T is in Thomas Music, Steven
T Music on Instagram, Steven T Music on TikTok, Steven
T Music on all socials, stepntmusic dot com. If you
go to on my website, you'll see merch music everything,
and do me a favorite.

Speaker 1 (01:45:05):
Go follow my music, Go stream.

Speaker 12 (01:45:07):
Me on Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify, Go stream back home.
That's the new song that we're pushing and again it's
by your boy, Stephen Thomas Man. Shout out to my
team and shout out to all of you all for
having me on here. I really appreciate it and just
know that I would be honored to come back and
spend time with you all.

Speaker 1 (01:45:27):
I actually love you all. You all awesome, fantastic.

Speaker 2 (01:45:31):
We love you too, my brother. You keep going with
your look. You just keep doing you right, keep doing
you so. I want you guys to go anywhere when
we're gonna come back. We're gonna finish out the show
this time really fast. We're having a good old time,
so don't go nowhere when we could back, we got
the rest of the sizzle. Holight, what's going on you guys?

Speaker 8 (01:45:49):
This is Bridgie Kelly and you are locked into you talk.

Speaker 2 (01:46:27):
All right. We talked weeklies after the talking to w
P B M A P Philadelphia one o six point five,
and we talked weeklies after the talk with your boy
Charles Gregory and beautiful and the beautiful and beautiful dynamic interview. Uh,
the interview went to went too fast. Sometimes those interviews
do that. Shout out to you know, our viewers from Italy,

(01:46:50):
all the way from Italy. That was really cool. Really
appreciate you, uh following, you know, make sure you like
following subscribe that we Talk weekly, so you know every
time that we come on you can join in. And
they were watching from Twitch, which is do you know,
So that was the platform they were on. So kudos
to all of the family over there and continue to

(01:47:11):
keep watching and supporting because we are for the people.
That's who we are, for the people. When you are
one of those people. So without further do so, is
you ready for me?

Speaker 1 (01:47:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:47:24):
I'm talking.

Speaker 3 (01:47:26):
I just lost.

Speaker 2 (01:47:30):
All right, Well give it to me early.

Speaker 3 (01:47:33):
I had this. I'm sorry, I had this sage the
whole time and then now I can't.

Speaker 6 (01:47:43):
Go.

Speaker 3 (01:47:44):
I know, I don't know where this thing went with.

Speaker 2 (01:47:47):
It's probably one of the tabs that.

Speaker 3 (01:47:51):
What I did was I pulled it out of the
tab and I had a split screen at first.

Speaker 2 (01:47:57):
Sometimes it does that, and so why are you why
are you look for that?

Speaker 7 (01:48:02):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:48:02):
I got it?

Speaker 2 (01:48:03):
I found it, Okay, don't be all right?

Speaker 3 (01:48:06):
So before I get in really quickly, just subscribe to
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sign we Talk weekly. Everything supports what we do, all right, So,
Jennifer Lopez she has canceled her summer North American tour.

(01:48:29):
The tour would have kicked off on June twenty sixth
in Orlando, Florida, and ended in Houston on August first,
and this would have been her first tour in five
years for her latest album This Is Me Now. So
they a statement was really stating Jennifer's taking time off
to be with their children, family and close friends, and

(01:48:52):
they said. Jennifer also released her own statement saying, I
am completely heartsick and devastated by letting you down. Please
know that I wouldn't do this if I didn't feel
that it was absolutely necessary. I promise I will make
it up to you and we will all be together again.
I love you all so much until next time. So,

(01:49:14):
this tour cancelation comes on the heels of alleged marital
problems with husband Ben avlack So. Reportedly, the couple have
been living in separate homes over the past few months.
They were recently seen together on their way to be
Ben's daughters his daughter Violets high school graduation, and they

(01:49:35):
appear to be You know, Papa Rossi is always clicking
pictures of what appeared to be in a heated conversation,
which kind of looks from the picture that they were
it didn't look so good. So people are just speculating
that their marriage is over and Jalos taking time off
to work on her marriage with Ben. So you know

(01:49:58):
what I would say to that is leave her alone.
They just everybody just wants to I don't know, because
she's had a lot of public relationships, a lot of
people want to see her fail, which is just lamb.
The highly anticipated Mike Tyson versus Jake Paul fight, originally

(01:50:18):
scheduled for July twenty was also canceled Netflix close to
the statement on x formerly known as Twitter, stating unfortunately,
Jake Paul and Mike Tyson will not face off on
July twentieth as Plannedson Jison's I gave them both the
same Dyson. That's a cute name, though what Tyson's reason

(01:50:44):
also flared up. Flareup has limited his ability to train
fully for the next few weeks, so the fight will
be rescheduled for a date later this year after Mike's
able to resume training with no limitations that both fighters
can have equal time to prepare for this Once in
a lifetime matchup, so stay tuned for the next the

(01:51:05):
new fight date that's going to be announced by the
end of next week. Well, Mike Tyson was on a
flight from Miami to LA when he needed medical attention
for an ulcer flare up just thirty minutes before the
flight is scheduled to land. So Tyson is still maintaining
that he feels good and he's in the best shape
of his life. But a lot of people are questioning

(01:51:28):
d Tyson be fighting this fight anyway? No?

Speaker 6 (01:51:33):
Yeah, let it be a mystery in everybody's mind.

Speaker 5 (01:51:39):
Yeah, I mean really from you doing like an influencer
and what he's given to the boxing world.

Speaker 6 (01:51:47):
Now, yeah, he's above it to me.

Speaker 3 (01:51:50):
That's what I said. I said he needs you, You
don't need him. You know, he's trying to make a
name for himself by doing this with you. You've already
proven you don't have anything to prove to anybody. And
alcar Cliff at fifty seven, so you're gonna take time
to heal and it's supposed to come.

Speaker 8 (01:52:06):
No, you're fifty seven by the time the also hel
something's gonna be wrong. Go sit down.

Speaker 5 (01:52:12):
And like you just showed with the pictures, he's fifty seven,
he won fifty fights. Like, if you were to take
that for every year of fifty eight fights, excuse me,
he has more fights than he has his age.

Speaker 6 (01:52:25):
And then looking at Jake Paul like, come on, it's
just now.

Speaker 5 (01:52:31):
Mike Tyson is up there with the greats, the legends,
Like I think that diminishes him in my opinion.

Speaker 8 (01:52:38):
And if he loses it really will so just go
sit down, sir.

Speaker 6 (01:52:44):
It happened for a reason. The also.

Speaker 1 (01:52:47):
Lay up.

Speaker 3 (01:52:49):
So no, no, no Jyson, no Jison, Jason.

Speaker 14 (01:52:56):
Learning someone name the fight.

Speaker 5 (01:52:59):
Now if you know what they should do, if they
were to do an AI type of thing, that's a
little different.

Speaker 6 (01:53:06):
Yeah, you know, like okay, if you still want to,
you know, do.

Speaker 4 (01:53:09):
An AI type of thing or uh you know, n
f T or some type of that.

Speaker 6 (01:53:16):
But in the ring, real like come on, tasting nothing.

Speaker 3 (01:53:21):
Improve iron mic and the problem child yourself, child, and
this man is thirty years older than you. This is
why this is like, child, go sit down, all everybody
just sit down. Oh man, I agree, I agree, he
does not he don't need he doesn't need that.

Speaker 8 (01:53:41):
What's that face?

Speaker 1 (01:53:42):
See?

Speaker 14 (01:53:54):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:53:54):
I mean I agree with all y'all. I do want
y'all to I do want y'all to understand it. This
ain't a real fight. I mean, from my understanding, they
they're wearing heavier gloves, they're wearing headgear. Is this is
such a fake fight?

Speaker 3 (01:54:12):
Man?

Speaker 6 (01:54:13):
It was like when he went against Roy.

Speaker 2 (01:54:16):
Now I think it's a little even a little different
than Roy's fight. I think so. I mean I could
be wrong, but yeah, I mean everybody want Mike to
kind of like fall back, you know, it kind of
tarnishes his you know, as they call the his nostalgia,
his his you know. But I don't know. You talk
about a born fighter that want to fight, that's hard

(01:54:39):
to tell him not to fight. It's like telling a
rabbit not to jump.

Speaker 3 (01:54:43):
Well, even even to tell him that he can't, it's
going to make him one, yeah, you know what I'm saying.
So to be like you can't do it, he'd like, well, yes,
I can, you know what I mean? Like that's that
I feel like for him, that's what.

Speaker 5 (01:54:54):
But it's almost like, what's what's the kid from Celtics,
the from the Boss Celtics. It's like him trying to say,
all right, m J, let's go let's go head to head,
like like, huh, you can't try to get from somebody's
prime when they're now in the third stage, like you
trying to make it where you're the person is there,

(01:55:16):
but that person for where they're for where they are
right now, that's it's not there.

Speaker 2 (01:55:21):
Honestly, what that that is is someone who truly admired
you when you were in what we known from you, right,
And so iron Mike, everybody want a piece of Iron Mike.
Who won't get that Iron Mike that knock you out
in under ten.

Speaker 3 (01:55:39):
Seconds and you just look back and then you're like,
way across my mind too, what Charles said, because my
first thought was like, why are they doing something? And
I was like, maybe it's not real. Maybe they just
doing this like a publicity. Maybe it's just it's a
setup for money.

Speaker 2 (01:55:55):
That's all the At the age that Mike Tyson is
and how he hits, that's why you can't take this
seriously because if it was a real fight, even at
the age that Mike Tyson is, he would.

Speaker 8 (01:56:10):
Hurt that guy, yea.

Speaker 2 (01:56:15):
And so you just had to take it with a
grain of salt, laugh at it and just you know,
it's a lot of boxers that don't like the idea
of these inflorencers jumping in the ring. Where you you
know this, I mean if you look at even his
record here right, let me pull it back up. I
mean look at his record. I mean literally he got

(01:56:39):
nine wins in one loss, which means only ten fights,
right right, and out of those ten he lost one,
only six knockouts. So when you talk about only ten percent,
literally ten percent of Mike fights, he didn't get the knockout,

(01:57:04):
only ten percent forty four out of his fifty.

Speaker 4 (01:57:08):
Come on, so the followers make it up there.

Speaker 2 (01:57:13):
You know, it's it's kind of like come on, like
so so you have to like look at it and
just be like cut it off.

Speaker 3 (01:57:19):
If I was Mike, I look at that that recer
you just looked at and you don't even qualify to.

Speaker 2 (01:57:24):
Exactly, you don't even qualify it. So so so if
you look remember we spoke earlier about if you peel
back the layers, right, sometime we have to. You know,
one thing, when I say, like even on his politicians
sometimes follow the money, because you brought up Madam Mayor

(01:57:45):
and some of the things she do. If you follow
that money, but I'm I'm gonna leave that alone for
right now because we passed it. That's your girl, you know.
But I want to make sure that we be honest
and hold every body accountable, because what's being accountable is
we tried to reach out to her and she flee us.

(01:58:07):
If we if we being honest, no, she didn't come on. No,
when we reached out, she came on. Because she was
called out for fleeing us. That's a fact. We're not
making that up. So we report the facts, all right,
and so she don't get a pass for that. But

(01:58:30):
she did interviews, which she get flowers for doing because
she you know, yeah, okay, we'll do it. That's going.
We were only we were one of the only platforms
that she did do that, and so she had to
get acknowledged for that. That's a fact. So as long
as we continue to report the facts, and the fact
is iron Mike Tyson is a goat. The fact is

(01:58:56):
mister Paul didn't have too many fights. He lost some fights. Fact,
he only had six knockouts. He had less knockouts than
he did in fights. Like it doesn't make none of
this makes sense, right, So you gotta look at it
and just say, hey, this is just fun, This is
just funny games. TV is entertainment, and if you put

(01:59:20):
it on it, put on a lens of that, then
you can say, Okay, I kind of get it. But
real fighters looking at this, like, come on, cut it up.

Speaker 6 (01:59:29):
He couldn't.

Speaker 2 (01:59:29):
He couldn't fight a real fighter at all. If you
pick somebody that's a true amateur fighter, he wouldn't.

Speaker 14 (01:59:37):
He.

Speaker 2 (01:59:38):
I would put him in with Hollywood Heart from Philly.
Hollywood Heart will knock him out, period, any name, any
boxer from Philly right now will knock him out. Anybody.
I go on a corner some of these blocks and
find out people that can knock him out. You're talking
about someone who I mean likes, and I won't take

(02:00:01):
away from that because anyone, if you truly like the sport,
then you continue. So if he take his losses and
continue fighting, he might truly have a career in boxing.
So anybody can do that. But I would just say
for this particular fight, if we keep it in context,
is entertainment.

Speaker 8 (02:00:22):
And they gonna make a whole lot of money off this.

Speaker 2 (02:00:25):
Everybody already made money off of.

Speaker 3 (02:00:27):
It just to see they just see what Mike. They
want to see Mike face, like really, let me see
what was about to have it.

Speaker 2 (02:00:34):
They already made money up case in point. You see
the shirt.

Speaker 8 (02:00:39):
Sign the contract, big boys sign the contract.

Speaker 2 (02:00:42):
That's his that's his signature. This is what Mike Tyson
said to him. You don't think they selling this as merch.
Mike Tyson ain't shaking nobody here and he don't like.
If Mike Tyson don't like you, you will look just

(02:01:04):
all entertainment. It's entertainment, all right.

Speaker 3 (02:01:09):
So final story. Nicki Minaj has canceled her Amsterdam concerts
schedule for this weekend, following following her recent arrest. The
announcement came via the promoter's website, saying, due to the
events of last week, the Nicki Minaj show on Sunday,

(02:01:29):
June second at Ziggo Doom in Amsterdam will no longer
be taking place. Tickets will be refunded at the point
of sale. So the prior week, Nikki was performing in
Amsterdam as part of her Pink Friday to tour when
she was detained outside the Amsterdam Shipple Airport after pre

(02:01:50):
road marijuana was allegedly found in her luggage. As Nicki
was en routed. The police had stopped her. Niki livestream
the incident on her lives on her Instagram Live, but
later deleted the video. Nikki also told the police the
pre road marijuana belonged to her security. Ultimately, Nikki did

(02:02:10):
go with the police and was held in custody for
several hours then release, and she wasn't able to perform
that night. But the Royal Netherlands government set in a
statement on x formerly known as Twitter, we have just
released a forty one year old American female who we
arrested this morning as Shippele on suspicion of exporting soft drugs.

(02:02:33):
After consulting with the Public Prosecution Service, the subject was
fined and can continue her journey. But ironically, Nikki posted
something on Instagram last month saying they've been trying to
stop me from coming to every show. They took my
bags before I could see them put it on the plane.
Now they're now saying they're waiting on customs. This is

(02:02:54):
what it looks like when people are paid big money
to try to sabotage your tour. After all els all
else failed, everything they've done is illegal. So according to
the Netherlands government. It is against the law to possess,
sell or produce drugs. However, the Netherlands has a policy
of tolerance regarding soft drugs. The sale of small quantities

(02:03:17):
of soft drugs and coffee shops is a criminal offense,
but the Public Prosecution Service does not prosecute coffee shops
for this offense. Neither does the Public Prosecution Service prosecute
members of the public for possession of small quantities of
small soft drugs. So these quantities are defined as no

(02:03:38):
more than five grams of cannabis and no more than
like five cannabis plants. So we've also seen another high
profile case for cannabis with Brittain Griner who was ultimately
sentenced to nine years on drug trafficking charges back in
August twenty twenty two. So should celebrities stop using substances

(02:03:59):
in the countries?

Speaker 6 (02:04:01):
Just absolutely, there's no question research.

Speaker 2 (02:04:05):
Yeah, if you if you don't know by now that
those I think, honestly, if I'm being honest, I think
a lot of countries don't necessarily look favorable favorable to Americans,
and so they look at a lot of the lifestyle
that we lead and they don't like certain things that

(02:04:28):
we do, and a lot of stuff that we do
you couldn't do in those countries. We are very very
progressive over here. I mean, so I think that celebrities
need to but I think they were being petty with

(02:04:48):
Nikki though, Like that's not to absolve her, but they
was being pet come on, like, but still don't don't
don't do that, like lead that stuff alone. You already
know they got it's a target on your back. You
probably the biggest, one of the biggest stars that have
ever been there. You know they're gonna have a target
on your back. And you Nikki, Like, who don't who

(02:05:10):
don't want to be around Nikki? Like that's Nicki Minos Like,
so I know they know her, they act like they
didn't know who she was. Like, first of all, you
know who coming in your country, that's that big. So
it's not like you didn't know that she was coming.
So she she that's I believe what she said. I

(02:05:32):
do believe what she said.

Speaker 3 (02:05:34):
Because you get in the country with it and then
you can't leave the country with it.

Speaker 2 (02:05:40):
Yeah, no, you're not supposed to. You gotta if you
leave the you know, in certain countries, in fact, if
you go to Paris. I'm not sure if it's anywhere else.
But if you go to like the Paris and buy
safe example, Louis Vauton back and it's over a certain amount,
they tax you for that. So you can't bring it

(02:06:00):
back in a box. You have to carry it like
you like it was your bag. M So they're watching
you purchase your they're watching your purchases, they're watching how
you move, you know. Man, I see you're talking to
somebody that hate traveling, and that's part of the reason,

(02:06:21):
right because of this, Like, I mean, I love America,
you know, I went to Mexico a couple of times,
but I'm I'm I'm here, I'm I'm I'm not a traveler,
big traveler at all. I do want to go to
Turks and cacos. So do you want to go to
like Egypt and stuff like that. But I'm still I
wouldn't be going there talking about I want to you know, yeah,

(02:06:45):
I'm not doing that.

Speaker 3 (02:06:48):
So yeah, all right, So I'm your girl, Lawrence sizzle,
And that was the sizzle.

Speaker 2 (02:06:52):
You ain't doing celebrity sizzle. I couldn't, uh no doubt,
So all right, y'all, that was uh the scizl. Ladies
and gentlemen, are your boy Charles Gregor, the.

Speaker 5 (02:07:06):
Beautiful Laurence and the beautiful classy ladies, beautiful lady.

Speaker 2 (02:07:11):
And that was we talked week these after talking w
p BM PEE Philadelphia one on six point five film.
We talked week these after the talk and that was
our show. Ladies and gentlemen, We see you next week.
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