We Talk Weekly: Juicing, Seed Oils, Youth Politics, Lil Durk & Beyoncé

We talk, we play. All right, y'all. We talk weeklies after the talk on WPP, MRP, Philadelphia, 106.5 FM. We talk weeklies after the talk with your boy, Charles Gregory and the beautiful. Classy lady, Sparkle. And the beautiful. Lauren Sizzle. And my guy. Big exclusive. Definitely in the building, man. So I don't want you guys to go anywhere because you already know one of my favorite segments of the show are the interviews. And why are they my favorite segment of the show? Because I get the opportunity to talk to the good old folks downstairs. It's really fun. doing some amazing work and I get excited about hearing what they have today. So we're going to jump right into it. Classy lady, you know, who do we have today? Who do we have today? Yes, we have the renowned, I hope I'm pronouncing her name correctly. It's Sherry Calboom. MS, she's known worldwide as the juice lady. She is a nutrition expert, CEO of Trinity Wellness Institute, and she's also the author of 36 books that have sold more than 3.5 million copies. Now, dig this. She's the bestseller of the book Juicing for Life. She's a former nutritionist to George Foreman. She spent decades helping people improve their health through whole food nutrition. And now she tackles the controversy surrounding seed oils in her latest book, The Truth About Seeds Oil. You guys already know what to do. Let's give a warm We Talk Weekly welcome to Sherry Calboon. Hey, hey, how are you? How are you? Looks like you on mute. Let's see if we can fix that. Let's give a sound check one more time. Say hello for me. Say hello for me. Hey, hi. There we go. We'll give you another round of applause. How are you? How are you? How are you feeling today? I'm doing great. And thank you so much for inviting me on your show. And I'm really excited because this is a very hot topic. Lots of people are interested in the seed oils. Yes. The story behind it. Absolutely. Absolutely. Fantastic. Before we get into that, right, I want to back up and I just want to know a little bit more about you. You know, like what? What was, okay, so how about this? Let's start here. Was oils and nutrition and well-being, was that in the cards for you earlier? Or was it, you know, your training and your education and your background? Was this something that you knew that this is something that I wanted to focus on? I knew after I got well, and it was nutrition that really healed my body. In my 20s, I was really sick. I had chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia. And I ran around to different doctors and nobody knew what to do. And they still really don't about those conditions. They just manage them with drugs. But I was not getting any help at all. And so I thought, I've got to do something for myself or I'm never going to get out of this hole. I'm young. I'm single. I don't want to be sick the rest of my life, you know. And so I went to some health food stores and talked to people there. And learned my diet was really all wrong. I love junk food and fast food. And I was a sugar addict. And I was not a vegetable lover at all. So I changed my diet. I got a juicer. I went on a five-day juice fast. On the fifth day, my body expelled a tumor this size, the size of a golf ball with blue blood vessels attached. And I went, oh my goodness, that was spectacular. I'm sure I was heading in my mother's footsteps who died of cancer when I was six years old. And so I thought, well, tomorrow I'm going to wake up well. But I didn't. I was on a journey of healing. And it took me about three months. I kept juicing. I added in a plant-based diet. And in three months, one day I did wake up and feel like, wow, I got a new body last night. And that's when I decided I'm going back to school. I'm getting a degree in whole foods nutrition, a master's level degree. And I want to be a credible source. And I have been writing and teaching people about diet ever since. All right. So let's back up. Let's back up because I mean, your story is amazing and I appreciate you sharing the story, but I want to know, because I'm sure people who are watching are curious in you going through that journey to heal yourself. How did you know how to do that? What was it that Was the impetus or the trigger to say, I'm going to try this juice? Was it something that you read? Was it something because, I mean, we hear you have an amazing book and we have it, by the way, but some of the people that are watching don't. I want people to know the journey to what encouraged you or what was that trigger to say, let me try this particular juice or you read something in the newspaper maybe. maybe this may work with my healing journey. What was that? There was a book. It's an old book. I don't know if it's even in print anymore. It was a Norman Walker book was written, I think in the thirties and it was still popular then. And it did not have recipes, but it was all about juicing, healing the body. And it had numbers like one to 30 or something, and you could pick out what ailed you. And find the vegetables that you would combine, put them together to make a juice during healing to your body. And the reason that juice is so effective is that it's broken down so well. It gets right into your cells. The more you drink, the more you're flooding your body with those nutrients that are healing your body. So I had no recipes, though. I had to just try combinations. Some tasted awful. Some tasted good. That's why I've written 36 books and all of them just about have recipes in them. And I wrote Juicing for Life, my famous book that sold over 2 million copies, because I wanted people to have an A to Z guide, 50 different ailments. And you look up what ails you and you find the juices and the nutrients that help that ailment. And then delicious recipes. I knew people had to have that. Now, seed oil and juicing is a little different, right? But I want to talk about the juicing and then we'll go to the seed oil because that's why you're here. But juicing, what was one of the recipes that you found worked almost right away that was similar to a magic bullet? I mean, you know how we are. We are a microwave community society, so we want to know what works right now, right? But we know sometimes it takes time because you've been juicing for a while during your journey and you found out one day you woke up and was like, wow, it works. Right. But what was one recipe or one particular juice that you can say to the people who are watching, like, try this because it works. Yes. Try this because it does work. So I started with a base. She wants something that tastes good and carrot, apple tastes great. You can do carrot, apple, or I did a lot of carrot, lemon. Surprisingly, that tastes really good too. I put in some ginger because I did read somewhere and it's true. Now there are lots of studies. Ginger is an anti-inflammatory. It's very rich in zinc, which is great for your immune system. And I added in greens. And we just don't get enough of those leafy greens to really change our health and get all those minerals that our system needs. So I added in different greens from day to day. So I did things like kale or chard, spinach, parsley. green leaf lettuce. I kind of switched them up and changed them around. I also did some celery juice. I did carrot and celery and cabbage is another, really, you feel it when you drink it, but it's delicious. It tastes kind of nutty. It's a strange response that you get when you combine those. But I did, I kept switching up juices and trying different things but all of it working together, there was a lot of synergy. And that's when I started feeling better, a little better, a little better. And then of course I got rid of that tumor. That was pretty spectacular. And then I just kept on my program of detoxification and healing until one day I was completely well, the pain was gone. The illness was gone. I didn't have I feel like I had the flu all the time, which is how you feel when you have chronic fatigue syndrome. Yeah. Wow. You know what? That's such an amazing story and journey. And, you know, the recipes that you utilize, I do want to back up because you said celery. Celery has been a huge conversation lately in terms of healing and fixing. Why do you believe celery is important? an amazing recipe addition. What is it in celery that propels the immune system, so to speak? Well, you know, celery juice isn't most people's favorite flavor. Let's say that. Let's put it that way. If it's not and you just can't chug it on down, add some lemon or lime juice or a little apple or something. But I went searching for studies on celery because several years ago, it just kind of exploded onto the scene, you know, and everybody was talking about celery juice and run into their nearest juice bar to get a big glass of celery juice and on it went. And when I got my master's degree in nutrition, we were just told way back then that celery was just mainly water and sodium. And it, it, it didn't have a whole lot of nutrients to offer. And it was looked at as more of an addition to an appetizer tray, right? You could scoop up that dip with it. But then I found all these studies showing, proving that celery lowered blood pressure, lowered blood sugar. Those of you with diabetes or prediabetes should really perk up when you hear that. Lowered cholesterol. And it has in it three specific phytonutrients that fight cancer. especially fighting angiogenesis. That's the growth of the blood vessels out to the tumors to feed it. That's what I saw when my body expelled that tumor. I saw like somebody cut three or four or five blood vessels. There were little blue blood vessels attached to it. Well, something had, I call it God scissors, those vital nutrients that are shown in studies now to cut off angiogenesis, that blood supply. Wow. That's geez. I'm, I'm going to go get some celery right now. Amazing. The last question that I have for you is the transition from juice to the seed oils, right? So I want to talk a little bit about that because you started expansive studies in the oils, right? Most people just think of juice, not necessary oils. Can you elaborate on What was the start of that journey and what you have found? I started back in early 2000s studying oils. I connected with an importer of coconut oil way back in the early 2000s. And at that time, coconut oil was pretty demonized. People said, oh, it's a saturated fat. You shouldn't have it. It's not good for you. It's not heart healthy. Get it out of your diet. Don't put it on popcorn. Don't eat that theater popcorn if it has coconut oil on it. All of this false information was flooding the market, but I didn't know any better and I believed it too. But when this importer started telling me all of the wonderful benefits of coconut oil and how it's been a traditional staple in Southeast Asia and how many, many people have been healed and how good it is for you and started pointing to some studies that did show something different. I thought, I've got to look into this. So back in 2005, I wrote the book, The Coconut Diet, based on the research I'd done then and brought coconut oil back to the West. I was one of just two other writers to introduce coconut oil. And suddenly, within a couple of years, it was coming back into the Western market. Now you can find it everywhere. It's in great big jars at Costco and it's in all the grocery stores. And we were effective in that. But now we've come to a point in time where lots of people have been talking about seed oils and there's a lot of confusion. And a lot of it's just on TikTok or Instagram. And you know, you get a 90 second or a 60 second bite and you're going, what? And what's that based on? So I thought there's a real need for a book that really tells the truth. Here it is, the truth about seed oils. And so I went looking for research and I do have a co-author. So both of us were looking at research on what about seed oils, what does it show? And they are not good for us. And I did a study on how they're made. All of this is in my book. And then I wanted people to have shopping guides and great recipes and a lot of nutrition information about Seed oils and good oils as well, like coconut oil and olive oil and avocado oil are excellent oils for you. But the other ones, and I should name them really fast because people are wondering, what are they? Canola, soy, corn, safflower, sunflower, grapeseed, rice bran, cottonseed, excuse me, and peanut oil are the not good ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I was going to say soy has been overstudied at this point to say like, leave that alone. Yes. But I do want to, for those who are just tuning in, you're listening right now to We Talk Weekly after the talk. And we have the juice lady on. She's telling us about, one, her new book, The Truth About Seed Oil. Amazing book. We have it here, We Talk Weekly. But I just want to make sure that you guys are listening because when we talk about increasing your health and living and your nutrition and taking your journeys of even weight loss, This is something that you want to look into. All right, classy lady, holler at me, holler at me. Hi, juice lady. Hello. Hi, this is Sparkle talking to you. I'm a self-proclaimed herbalist. So I, like yourself, have done a lot of research. I have a health background. So I am like, when you talk about juicing, you spoke about celery. I do okra, all of those beautiful things. So I want to talk to you about the GI system. As far as what people don't believe, a lot of things like even the zoister family, such as herpes, chicken pox, shingles, those things are really caused from parasites. And a lot of times when we get those parasites, sometimes even dementia could cause those things. What is something that you could say that will allow us to bind parasites as far as something we can juice and drink to excrete those things out of our bodies to be free of that family of parasites. Well, juice your grains and turmeric and ginger. I would say they don't like those two very much either. But pumpkin seeds, they go after the parasites. And then you can do, you talked about herbs. So wormwood is a good one. You could do wormwood tincture. would be excellent to go after those parasites as well. And then there are all sorts of herbal combinations on the market, you know, parasite cleansing diets and supplements and so forth to get extra herbs in there. They also don't like garlic very well. So you can juice garlic and it's very surprising when you juice it. I was shocked the first time I tried to juice with garlic in it. It was really delicious and doesn't taste like garlic. Thank you for that. And another thing I can add is oil of oregano. You have to be careful with oil of oregano because if you take it too much, just like anything, you want to just take it for a good seven days, let your body rest for a month or two to reintroduce it. But yes, those are some very, very good ones. Also, what would you recommend? I always say I won't use it on my body if I can't digest it or eat it. So you spoke about coconut oil. being used. I use that. And here's a hack for some women. There's a, there's a oil or an herb called Damiana. So I take Damiana and I actually put it in my coconut oil and use it on my body. Damiana is something that increases the libido in men and women. But what's your, what, what's your outlook on using something for your body that you're able. To use as something like juicing or something? What would you recommend? Almost like a skincare or overall routine for something like that. You know what's really hot right now? Beef tallow for your skin. So many people have different tallows on the market with different herbs in them and other natural ingredients. I mean, things that you would eat. Not that I recommend you eat a jar of the tallow that's for your skin. But more people are cooking with tallow right now. Steak and Shake was, I think, the first restaurant to become very popular in switching their seed oil out to beef tallow to cook their fried foods. And then many other restaurants have jumped on board and are using beef tallow as well. But it's becoming a trend. It's a big trend out there. Beef tallow for your skin. And I use it. I do too. That was a good one. I forgot about that one. Yeah. Isn't that fun? And then I take my eye makeup off with olive oil. So I keep a little jar in the bathroom and at night I take my eye makeup off and I swear my eyelashes are getting a little longer and a little thicker. And I read that that could happen and I didn't expect it to happen for me, but every time I do my eye curler. I think, well, I think they're getting a little longer. Amazing. Real quick. I just want to jump in real quick. Classy lady. Cause we have some comments you have. Look, you have everyone excited on here. So I want to bring up the first comment. So Monica, definitely your friend to the show. She says, do you have a recipe for juice combo for acid reflux? Oh my goodness. Yes. Okay. I do. Um, And I have several other remedies as well. So acid reflux, it can be either you're too acidic or you don't have enough stomach acid. And so you want to treat it differently, but you try different things and you see what's going to help you. The greens and celery juice are very, very good, no matter which cider. On. But you can take two teaspoons of apple cider vinegar and get the raw apple cider vinegar, the one with the mother in the bottom, you know, it's kind of cloudy. Get the raw apple cider vinegar, two teaspoons in water and drink that 15 minutes before your meal. If that helps you, then it's an indicator that you are low on stomach acid. But if it doesn't help you, then I recommend you take a teaspoon of baking soda and get a good one, like from the health food store that doesn't have garbage in it, and mix a teaspoon of baking soda in water and drink that 15 minutes before your meal. Ginger is also excellent for acid reflux. And so you can juice up ginger and you could have like a little glass of, ginger with maybe some apple and celery before dinner. You can also get chewable at your health food store. Most of them have this chewable ginger tablets that are sweetened with stevia. So no bad sugars, no bad stuff in there. And then it is recommended to chew one to two of those before your meal. So my husband, we've learned a lot about that this year because he's been plagued with that in the last few months. And all of these things have been helping him. Amazing. Look, let me give you a round of applause for that one. Amazing. Amazing. So we have another question. Like I said, you have everyone just like going crazy on here. Amazing work. And so this is Tony J. This is mom. Hey, mom. Love you, mom. So she asked the question, can you juice and freeze the juice? For safe example, can you put it in an ice tray? Can you freeze it like ice and then drop it in whatever? Can you do that? Absolutely. All of the above. Lots of people right now are, because they're so busy, so many of us are so busy, do big batch juicing. So they juice a lot of juice all at once and then freeze it, like get little canning jars and don't fill it all the way to the top because they will expand. You can also definitely put it in ice cube trays. And that is a trending thing right now. And here's a double whammy, freeze cantaloupe juice. And it is excellent for indigestion, acid reflux, also known as GERD. So it is very soothing to the esophagus and it can really help. So having a couple cubes of cantaloupe, frozen cantaloupe juice right after dinner can be very, very helpful for you. Jeez, shout out to mom. She was like, yo, I got to donate $ 2 for that. Thank you so much. Amazing, amazing. And so this is why we do shows like this to make sure that we give to the community. And one of the things that we always say is that we're solutions based. So we don't just talk problems. We talk about solutions. How can we fix some things? And you definitely are giving information to fix. Go ahead, classy lady. She answered a whole lot of different things. Juice Lady, can you tell us about what. Women in the perimenopause or that menopause part of their life, what kind of juices would help either I know you mentioned tallow, which is one I believe that helps as well with the skin for hot flashes and stuff, but what's something else that they can use to help them as they go through that journey? Ginger may not be your best friend because it can bring heat. It might be, so you can try it, but maybe you have to cut down. We don't want you to have hot flashes. We don't want you to have night sweats. I can tell you that so many people that I've worked with when they get on the better program, I call it of really feeding your body, juicing and juicing a variety of things like celery can be one of your best friends. Celery and apple can be a good friend to you and juicing different greens. And then really looking at cleaning up your diet, getting rid of processed foods, fast foods, junk food, sugar. Sugar can be an enemy to you, especially right now. And watch the coffee, not too much caffeine. So maybe just one in the cup in the morning, um, and watch the, the wine at night, all of these things can affect you hormonally. So, um, if you get on a really good program, if you juice every day, if you have calming juices at night, like celery is known to be very, very calming, that is going to really help your system. And I've had ladies who've gotten rid of all hot flashes, all night sweats, um, improve their skin, improve their libido, on it goes. Fantastic work. You know what? I can have- Your libido improves. Yeah, how about that, right? I mean, you know what? Geez, I can have you on all night to talk. That went so fast. Guys, you are already on, Lauren. I'll let you- Oh, hi, Juice Lady. I have a question. What would you say out of all of your clients, the people that have purchased your products, what would you say is the biggest success story that you know of that you could tell us right now? Great question. Oh, wonderful question. I'm so excited. To tell you, and it's hard to say which one, but this one's pretty dramatic. A lady came to me a number of years ago and she had gained 50 pounds of water weight. Both her naturopathic doctor and her allopathic doctor, that's conventional medicine, said there was nothing more they could do for her, get her affairs in order because they didn't think she was going to live. And she came to me as kind of the last ditch hope, right, of what do I do? So we went over her diet. We did the diet diary, looked at everything, and she was actually eating pretty decently. So I said, here's what we're going to do. We're going to add a 16-ounce glass of green juice, and it can be whatever greens you want, from cucumber to zucchini, celery, and then the green leaves, and you can put some apple in there, green apples, lower in sugar, and ginger and so forth, and make it taste good, or a little squeeze of lemon. But I want you to have one 16-ounce glass of green juice three times a day before each meal. In a month, she contacted me again. She had lost all 50 pounds of that water weight. She was chopping wood, walking around the block, cleaning her house, cleaned out her garage. She was well. She certainly was not going to lose her life. Amazing. You're going to have people running out, grabbing your book and grabbing a juicer. I need to get a juicer. If anybody's watching and you want to donate a juicer, holla at Charles Gregg. You send it to We Talk Weekly. They're kind of expensive. I want a juicer, though. But yeah, so Sharon, you got something you want to add, sir? Yeah, just a couple questions from a practical standpoint as far as juicing goes. I know in this economy we currently live in right now, organic is a little bit more expensive than So do you recommend when you start juicing, is it all organic or can you use the other fruits in the supermarket? Well, I would send you to ewg.org. That stands for environmentalworkinggroup.org. Every year they test fruits and vegetables for what's highest in the pesticide residues and what's the lowest. You can look at the clean 15 list and you don't have to buy organic on that list. And you can look at what's near that list. Because it's a long list. But the dirty dozen, the top 12, are the worst offenders. And they can have maybe 40 to 60 different pesticide residues on them. They're often the thin-skinned fruits and veggies like the grapes and plums. Strawberries. Yeah, all the berries are. Always on that list. Apples are on that list. Spinach, kale, chard, and so forth are on that list. But take a look at it. You can get the free app. Download it on your phone. So it can be very helpful when you go shopping. And so we can kind of divide it out and, and say the top 12. Yeah. Look for organic or just skip it. Right. Uh, and then maybe what's close to that top 12 and then the rest, you can kind of maybe not go organic, but I know it is hard. And when you're pinching pennies, but if you're not pinching them too tightly, you can say, well, do I want to spend a few extra pennies or, or, or dimes on this? Um, Think about this. What you do for your health at the front end is really going to affect the back end. The back end is what you spend when you get sick, right? You're over a counter meds, your day's missing from work, whatever it's costing you to be sick and your family to be sick. So we want to prevent that and that you're investing in your health. You're investing in your body, your health of tomorrow. You're building today. Amazing. I have one last question. How was it working with, the former heavyweight champion of the world, George Foreman. Those were some of the happiest days of my life. I was on 13 years with the George Foreman grill on QVC. And of course the other spokesperson, I was in three infomercials with George. We called him the gentle giant. When he shook hands with you, it was very limp because he said his hands were weapons. He didn't want to hurt anybody. He was soft-spoken. He was kind. He was funny. I loved doing shows with him. And I never knew he had a good sense of humor. It was kind of subtle. And I never knew what he was going to come up with. So it was always kind of fun, you know, and he loved vegetables. He always wanted vegetables on the grill with his meat, whatever was cooking. So we always had vegetables on the side. He was just a great person, a great human being. He loved God. He loved his family and he loved America. Amazing. Amazing. Amazing. A couple of questions for you real quick. You have, you have, if you're just tuning in, ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to the juice ladies. She's talking about her new book, Make sure you go out and grab it. So listen, if there's a legacy that you would like to leave, what would that be? I would love for people to say, you know, she really cared about me. I knew that she really cared. And I do. I care about each person. I don't want anyone to suffer. And I want each person to fulfill God's plan for their life. Each of us have a purpose. We're here for a reason. If we're sick, it's hard to fulfill our purposes. And that's the second part of it that I want everybody to be able to be healthy and well, so they can fulfill their purpose of why they're on this earth. Let me give you a round of applause for that. Such a beautiful person. I gotta, I gotta mention your blouse though. You're like, I love the color. I love the blouse. You look amazing. So I had to tell you that real quick. You're quite welcome. You're quite welcome. One last question, because I had a, uh, a woman talk about this before when we had a conversation about hair loss. Men go through it, and some women go through that too, thinning hair. Are there anything that you could recommend in terms of juice to... You're already shaking your head, so you already know where I'm going, so I'll just give you the mic. Hey, yes. Well, what a question. What a wonderful question. I went through it and discovered... that I have an allergic response, especially to wine. I cannot drink it. Makes my hair fall out. Sweets do the same thing. So I had to start learning. Okay, we've got to cut here. No wine, no sweets. And then I found some enzymes, Nesformula, and I normally don't talk about product, but I can't not tell you this. Nesformula protein digestion. It helps to digest the protein as you eat it. And then Nesformula, number four, helps to clean up the protein that's floating in your system. So when you do that, it helps your hair grow back. It helps it get a little stronger so that it isn't so weak and breaks off easily. And then ginger is very helpful. And I call it ginger for the scalp. So you can juice up ginger and rub it on your head, rub it on your scalp. It's tingly and it stimulates the hair follicles to grow more. So sometimes if you have a little extra time, you can do that maybe 10 minutes before you wash your hair, rub it all in some ginger juice. And I know if you do some of these things, I'm telling you, you're going to see some hair growth. Wow. I never heard that before. I'll give you another round of applause. I just want to thank you for coming to the show. But before we leave, why don't you let everyone where they can get your book? How can they find you? All that good old stuff. Yeah. Okay, so we want to talk for just a second about juicers because you mentioned that. I love the Nama J2 only because you don't have to stand there and plunge, you know, push the produce through. You put it in the top chamber, close the lid, turn it on, walk away and go clean your kitchen, make food, whatever you want to do. And Nama J2, use my code JUICELADY and you'll get 10% off. You'll get free shipping. So come visit me at JUICELADYINFO. That's my website.com. Sign up for my free newsletter. You'll get the seven anti-inflammatory juices in the ebook. And then get my book, The Truth About Seed Oils, that I've been talking about. It's on Amazon. If you go to the landing page on my website, it'll take you over to Amazon. But it'll really help you to understand which juices are best for you, which ones are slimming and will help you lose weight, which ones are for your brain and will help to improve brain power. And then follow me on All the social media is the same at Juice Lady Sherry, C-H-E-R-I-E. And I would just love to connect with you. And then I'm having a retreat next April, a wellness retreat. It's going to be fabulous. We're going to juice and have organic gourmet plant-based foods. We're going to have tons of classes and you'll learn so much. So go to my website, find out more about that. Sign up for my retreat next April. Round of applause, round of applause. Well, we want to thank you for coming on the show. And one thing that we tell everyone on the show is once you come to the show, you're a friend to the show, so you're always welcome to come back. I want to wish you the best and just continue to do what you do. We have your book and we're going to keep reading and we just have to find another time for you to come back. Would you mind just coming back, doing us the honor? I would love to come back. I love your show. You all have fabulous energy and you're a great show. I'll be back. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. And you have a great rest of your night. And we talk to you later. Thank you. There you go. All right, y'all. We talk weeklies after the talk on WPPMLP Philadelphia 106.5. That's when we talk weeklies after the talk with your boy Charles Berger. And the beautiful. Classy ladies. And the beautiful. Lauren. And my gang. Big exclusive. And we are in the building. What an amazing show. She said. Yeah, she told me some stuff. I ain't even know. I thought I knew some stuff. I come in here and smell like ginger next week. I know it's on my scalp. One thing I want to add. Though about ginger, ginger is only activated when you heat it. It has the more activation. So I know you can juice it raw, but I promise you, if you were to give it, like cut it, put it in some water, boil it and then juice it. You'll get more of the activation from ginger. Interesting. Oh yeah. So, so most ginger shots and I do, um, have somebody who makes them. They, they're cold. Yeah. Yeah. No ginger, um, has a better active ingredient and it works better when you, it's almost like you bring it alive. So there's another product that activates when you heat it. So I kind of get the, cause it changes it, uh, metabolically from an A to a C and makes it more available to your system. So I get what you said. And she was right about pumpkin seeds. Pumpkin seeds basically block the DHEA for hair loss, especially for women. So if you get pumpkin seeds and put a little pin and a little hole in it, you can put it in your scalp to prevent hair loss. Okay. Yeah. Cause with men it's meaning sometimes your testosterone is too high. And when you have a high testosterone, you have a, more likely chance of hair loss. Okay. But it blocks. The DHA when you use pumpkin seeds. How about the women? Same thing. Yeah. That's what I just said. I use it. I take pumpkin seeds and. Pumpkin seed oil or you just eating pumpkin seeds? Pumpkin seed oil. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I'm quite sure of digestively, but when you having something in your digestive system, it has to go through the intestines. It has to go in the acidic. So, but when you're putting it Directly on your skin, it's absorbent in a different way. Interesting. And it's the biggest organ on the body. Yes, that's what I was talking about. Look up Damiana. I promise you. People put it in their tea. They take it by liquid. I don't like the taste, so I just put it in my coconut oil and then use it as a lotion. Okay. And where is your book at? You need help writing it? Are you telling me... This is my new project. This is what we about to work on. Exactly. Yeah. Cause you gotta go keep giving up all this game and they can't go get the information in one central place. So, You know, Sparkle's book is coming soon. It is. It is. You're talking about a million dollars worth of games. You see what I'm saying? That's right. A million dollars worth of health games. She's just sitting on it. Oh, yeah. Activate your agenda. All right. I'm about to. We hired. That's it. That's it. We're in the building, man. And you already know what we got coming up next. We got. Good news and bad news. You already know what class ladies spark. Why don't you give it to me early? Okay, y'all. Today, I attended an amazing event. It was the Women's Wonder Philly Tourship. It was like an engagement from the mayor, Sherelle Parker. One of my good sissies, Dr. Michelle Enix Kenny, invited me. It was downtown. at one of the temple buildings, and it was amazing. The story is good news and bad news, but it's news. I'll say that, but. I'm landing here. So with Sherelle Parker, it's also her birthday, so I guess she's a Virgo. And we did a contribution of singing happy. Birthday to her. And what she basically voiced today was just about unity and about community and about sisterhood. There was women from all walks of life, from different ethnicities, races, shapes, sizes, the whole bit that we're honored today. I think her name is Kiwana. Which is... Kiwana McKinney? Yes. That's my folks right there. She's amazing. I mean, amazing. Shout out to... That's Big Sis. Shout out to Kiwana McKinney. When I tell you, she put together this event today, which was. Purple got an award. Okay. Shout out to Purple Black World. Purple got an award as well. As I said, my sissy, Dr. Michelle Enix Kenny, she got one too. But it was When I say the past couple of weeks, I've been kind of comfortable. You have to have a spirit of, I won't use anger, but I'm going to use fire in order for you not to be comfortable and keep it going. When I say today was that day that the fire was put under my feet to continue to work hard, to do, to expand. It was definitely that. Even to being with Tom? Oh, my gosh. We talk weekly, y'all. I'll put him in first. Wait a minute. You can't help this. When you're trying to pick yourself up. First of all. Kick you when you dance. Yeah. I was feeling all inspired. She put this fire under. I'm like, yeah, I want to support. Yeah. And I mean, I get one day, see. That's what Einstein said. He said, I wrote one through ten, and I made nine not there. And everybody was like, oh, you missed nine. But all of the other nine times I got right, ain't nobody say nothing. You know what I'm saying? So all the times I'm on time, early, leaving late, I don't ever hear him go on air and tell everybody, smart left, three hours later. But when I'm. Seven minutes late, all right, I get it. Well, In 2023, Mayor Shirell won against David O. Y'all remember that? Yeah. Because here we saw weekly, we were the only, I say, I'll. Say platform that had every mayoral candidate during that time that came. On the air. That's right. So in 2023, Mayor Shirell won against David O and she became the first Philadelphia's first woman mayor and hundredth mayor and black mayor, black woman mayor. Well, the time has come again to vote. Okay. You know that. Yeah. We're going to be covering everything. So, I don't know if you guys heard of this young lady's name, but I believe she's the first one to put her name. In the hat. Yeah. Her name is Shania Bennett. Now, she's 26 years old, and guess what? She's a former member of of Philadelphia Mayor Sherelle Parker's administration. And she plans to run against her former boss next year. Of November, 2027. So Mayor Parker appointed Bennett in 2024 as the director of youth engagement in her administration to bridge the gap between generations. Bennett put in her resignation from the role May of this year. So she resigned of this year. Bennett's whole pitch is that she's stating there will be no need for a traditional ad budget because she's doing her whole campaign through social media. She put it bluntly, and I. Quote, most young people are already content creators. They're already familiar with me, so I don't have to pay them, end quote. So Bennett will have a social- Bennett will have a social media kickoff schedule for September 26th of this year of 2026. And she's clear that it's not just going to be social media. She's going to do legwork. She still plans to knock on doors and show up to events, treating online reach as an addition to her face-to-face politics, but not a replacement. My question, and I think this is wonderful. Again, I like Mayor Parker. I know. I like Mayor Parker. We've interviewed her. I've given her questions that you would say, how do you like her? And you're asking those tough questions. Well, you got to get uncomfortable to ask those critical, crucial questions when you're hiring someone to represent the community. So when I asked those those critical questions and she answered them appropriately, it was because I wanted to speak for the people and hear what her response was. Now, this young lady, I'm not very familiar with her. I know I will be. But her being. 26 years old, I'm not saying that being too young is something where you can't do a job. However, wisdom of living does have an impact. I agree. Science shows that the frontal lobe or the frontal cortex is not fully developed until about 60. 25 to 30-ish. You know what I mean? So this job within politics, especially when you're a mayor of a city, you're usually the president of the city. Pretty much. So it's going to take a lot of other things that's going to be with critical thinking, executive decision. You know what I'm saying? I sure hope so. Here's my question. We both looking like... Here's my question, and then I want to hear. I want to hear what Sizzle and Exclusive said. When the person challenging the mayor used to work for the mayor, do you see that as courage or betrayal? First of all, it's a political job and everybody should have an opportunity at that job. I wouldn't look at it as political betrayal because sometimes some people don't feel like they need to be in a position to wait their turn because they may feel like, and especially in this case, she may feel like I worked under this administration. I see exactly what went on and I see exactly where I can make those improvements. And I absolutely love that she's now again, I know nothing about this young lady and I'm sure I will because one of the things this show does extremely well and why I've been such a huge fan is when it comes to politics, the way you guys disseminate the information to the community is incredible. You make it so relatable and, that everybody who listens understands it. That's why I always make it a point, especially around election season, to say, hey, you shouldn't be watching any other program, not even my show. You should be only watching We Talk Weekly because they do a phenomenal job and they ask the hard questions, which I respect, even knowing how you feel about Ms. Parker, which coincidentally, I had a post go viral last month about Mayor Parker. And it just simply asked a question. but it caused such a fire. This is the first time I ever went viral on Facebook. But anyway, the point I was trying to make. Is- I want to know what the question was. Yeah, let's- Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to go back. I'm going to look at it because I want to do it verbatim. I don't want to sell myself short. But here's the thing and what I love about Miss Bennett throwing her hat in the ring is most people of our generation always say the young people aren't engaged. That's right. And now we have a young lady who decide, not only am I going to be engaged, I'm actually going to take action. Now, win, lose, or draw, right? She did it. Win, lose, or draw. I think this is the type of action and the type of commitment and the type of thought process we need from the young people moving forward because politics are changing. The current administration has changed politics forever. It will never go back to what it used to be. Status quo is gone, in my opinion. And at the same time, we're ushering in new ideology. And that to me is what makes politics exciting for me in this moment. Let me make this clear. I'm no fan of this current administration. I'm talking about the president. I'm not talking about Ms. Parker. But I think this is the kind of energy we need from the young people. I agree. And I'm not changing my stance on what my comment was because what my comment was stating statistics and facts. No, that is absolutely true. How old is the mayor of New York? I'm dying. 35, 35. Yeah. So he's a very young, I think our president Obama, he got in president Obama was 40. 45, 45, 46. The mayor of Baltimore. Not a young guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I need that young energy, even if even if. See, here's the thing I hope that comes with that young energy is that she's wise enough to know that she still needs that help from, you know, advisors that are older and much more wiser. This is. She may not know everything. but we do know that a mayor has a cabinet, right? And we also know that our current mayor doesn't know everything and has some great thought thinkers on her cabinet. So I believe that this young lady could do an amazing job if she formulate a dynamic team. She already has experience. She was already working for the mayor. So I'm sure she has some touch points of what you should do if you are the mayor. Absolutely. Yeah. And I'm not sure if anybody is watching and they have any comments and they want to add any feedback to this. But, you know, I think going back to your comment about her age, what may even play into her part in her favor is when you said that, you know, the prefrontal cortex isn't completely formed until the age of 25. So if she's catering to those who are on social media between the ages of 18 and 25, they may be so tuned out based on what's going on with this current administration and just be like, oh, well, I like her. She appeals to me. She's on social media. She's around my age. And they may not even look into, oh, well, I need to be doing my research or whatever. And you're right. I read it that she's stating that there is a huge demographic of, let's just say, the 18 to 35-year-olds who have not voted. And those are the ones that are lost to votes that are familiar with her, that she's able to. Get their votes. So she did mention that as her target audience of when you. Say, how do we get the youth out? And she's the youth and she's going to, she knows what she is. So, yes. And then when you, if, even if you look at like over the past few years of elections and you start to look at where, People are spending their advertising dollars when it comes to certain parties. It's kind of shifting. And, you know, some people aren't spending their money. Some parties aren't really spending their money on social media. Some are. Some are starting to go towards, you know, podcasting and stuff like that. And some are not. And some are more so going to mainstream news. And some are not. So I think the flex to using... social media, it's a flex. You know what I mean? Well, I think that's how Trump even won. I think he was. Yeah, when he went to Rogan and all those other huge podcasts, I think that's where he definitely got. Over the hump. And it wasn't his idea. It was his daughter, I believe, or his son. One of the young people basically told him, We need to do this on social media. Right. And if you're out of touch, you need the right campaign manager. That's right. And so I believe Ms. Bennett is taking a page from Mayor Mamdani's book. That was a master class in how you run a campaign. And again, Democrats or Democratic Socialists, it's like every mayor should be reaching out to Mamdani. and whoever his campaign manager was, and just ask him, how are you, like, New York City is probably, you know, I guess, one of the, it is, I guess, the biggest city when it comes to, you know, entertainment and news, and New York, LA, like, they kind of run neck and neck, but the point is, the way, the things that he's able to do for the people, like, people are posting, like, issues on social media, like, we have a pothole on 145th and AFAD, And two days later, he put together literally a crew who kind of checks this stuff out and then go fill the pothole two days later. It's amazing what he's able to do. And for the life of me, what I don't understand is where he's finding the budget to do this stuff. But I do know he's introduced a few new taxes on the ultra wealthy. Which needs to happen. And one thing that Mamdani did that made sense you know when something say it make it make sense yeah one of the things that a lot of people can do and take in a page even our current administration could do from a page of his book is just listen to the people just listen to the people yeah start right there when the people are saying something yo we don't like this we have a problem with this we are starving we can't afford we can't get to the transportation we can't get to the supermarket just listen That's the first step. And it's been a lot of people that has been doing the work in Philadelphia that has been trying to tell the administration, listen, we've been doing this. All you have to do is listen. And their cries has been gone unheard. And that's why we have a platform like this, because we like to amplify those particular voices. All you have to do is listen. All right. Well, I want to know what y'all think. So if y'all feel as you listen to this commentary, Let us know what your thoughts are as far as the new administration that, you know, just put her head in the old administration, the Parker administration and what you want to see. So that was. Wait, wait, wait. But before we before we move on, we got a couple of comments because you said what you know. So one. So shout out to Hope. Hope is a good friend to the show. She said this is a great conversation. Monica, Monica. So shout out to Monica. Monica had. She made a post that had some great commentary as it relates to the youth and how we're blaming the youth pretty much, but we're not there to kind of direct them. And you can go to her post and see on Facebook about what her thoughts was. But her comment said, why does it have to be either or? Why can't it just be an opportunity? She goes on to say there is a mayor in Arkansas or Arkansas, Arizona. A.R. Is what? Arkansas, Arizona. That's Arizona. Arizona. She said was elected at 18. That's interesting. Yeah. And Tony, she said age versus knowledge. Older doesn't mean you know more, which is important. And one of the things that I like to say to also the people is don't count these young people out. They know they're the ones that's in the streets. They're the one that's really making the moves, right? Don't be scared to pass the baton. Start gatekeeping. Maybe even have some of these young people on your team. Stop gatekeeping. And that even goes to, let me start talking about legacy media and them gatekeeping. Because we are a result of... being gay capped, so to speak. But yeah, we have to do better. Yeah, she said Arkansas, yup, no doubt. So go ahead, classy lady, holla at me. Oh, that was, I'm just glad that everyone's chiming into the conversation. And yeah, with Toni, I saw her comment when she said about age doesn't mean you need more. And that wasn't what I was conveying. What I was trying to say is that it doesn't mean you know more but there are certain things that you haven't experienced in life sometimes that. You know, that as age brings it. But I'm not counting this young lady out. I haven't talked to her. I didn't do a huge. Background, but I am curious as everyone to see what it is that she's going to bring to the city of Philadelphia, what. Changes she's going to bring. As she voices that, What things is she going to make for Philadelphia to be a better city? Her and everyone else. Yeah, we need some diversity. We definitely need some diversity. One second. I do want to say anyone knows how to get in contact with this young lady. I think we reached out somewhere, but we want to get her on the show. So if you know, tell her to reach out to We Talk Weekly or send me her contact. I know Monica, she's already plugged in. So send that to her. I mean, we talk to everyone, but we want to have her on the show. a few times because we want to reach the young. We want to reach the youth who has that energy. And that's not discounting our, our, our, our, you know, wisdom, our folks of wisdom, our folks of, you know, that has the knowledge base because they're, they're here. We just want to know what's going on with the youth. What is it that we can do as an older generation to bridge this gap? Because when I'm starting to see there's a disconnect there, it's like, The older generation, the younger generation. It's divisive. It's not supposed to be division. That's right. And just to think about what we talked about the last. Mayoral candidates, Amon Brown. He was the youngest one out of those candidates. And he stated about having fresh eyes. I mean, what companies you know that if they're not scaling upward, that they have to do a reboot, and they look at. It to say, we need fresh eyes. We're not really talking about age per se, but it does matter. It definitely matters. You know what I mean? So we want someone who has a fresh look, fresh eyes at something, because sometimes when you're doing things the same way, what do they say? Keep doing the same thing? Expect a different result. You know what I mean? And you can't. So something has to be different. No doubt. I agree, because I think the old pipeline of politicians... that come to the city, what people forget is those bad habits go in those pipelines as well. So even if you have new people who coming through the pipeline when it comes to politics, I think maybe the best thing she did was kind of resign from the administration. So she can keep those ideas that she have fresh and not get, and I don't mean this in a derogatory manner, but be corrupted by the status quo that happens at city hall. That's right. That's, that's what happens. Like it's this old, not old way of thinking, but it's this kind of program political way or ideology, right? Like you got to play ball. You got to play ball. And I don't, you don't. And mom, Donnie, I was just about to say that. See, it was mom, Donnie. You said, you know what? I'm listening. I'm going to people's route and people seen it, heard it. And they wanted to support that. And what we're seeing now is, a nice change of thinking. And we need. To execute it. I just want to do this comment real quick. So Monica said Baltimore's mayor also. And you are correct. She needs to surround herself with experience on varying levels, which is the reason why. that she can have a cabinet. So she doesn't have to know everything. It's people, again, you don't have to, yeah, exactly. You got advisors, people from Kings. If you go back, Kings, even Jesus during the day had advisors, so to speak. And so we all need to do that. And again, she says, that's why my post, that's what my post was about. Stop talking at the youth and talk with them. A hundred percent agree. The Democratic Party also needs to get these youth and new ideas. A hundred percent agree. Here what I will. Also add is that even during the elections, they always try to cater towards the youth. And we looked at it as you're going about it wrong. It looked like they were pandering by doing the twerking, doing. This and that. And the youth even said, what are you doing? So they didn't have them at the table to get what they're... You know what I mean? They didn't have them at the table to get what their point of view or what they would suggest. Just like a lot of times with fashion designers, it's like they'll put something out, Gucci or a lot of them, and it's And it's on the racist line. It's like, who is at your table? And not enough representation. Right. Who are you inviting at the table? How is this green? Exactly. Target. I was about to say, we got to bring up Trump. This year, again, for Halloween. It's like, what are we doing? You guys have lost. market cap in the tune of like $ 12. 5 billion. Right. Because we refuse. Well, most of us refuse. Who's at their table? Exactly. Who authorized that? Who's approving it? It had to go through different tiers or different levels before it got to the approval level. Right. So I'm saying that in the same way as different parties. Why aren't these people at the table having these discussions with the youth? Look, Tony said, I'm 71. Some of us need the youth to help us understand all the changes. And Miss Tony, she's right. And it's four generations of youth. You have the silencers. You have the baby boomers. You have the Gen X. You have the Gen Zs. You have the millennials. Then you have the whatever those new ones that are coming. You have so many different ones. So when we talk about youth, Miss Tony will say, we're the youth. And then we're going to say that this generation, you know what I mean? Right. So it's different tiers to say we need all of them at the table in order for it. To be complete. That's why it's called a bridge. Super important. 100%. And then that's just last thing before we get out of here on that. When you are running for public office, you have to represent the people. Full stop. Not millennials, not boomers, not Gen X, no. For the people. So it means everybody gets to come to the table and have a voice because you're representing all of them. For the people. By other people. Yeah. It's just as simple as that. And that was your good news and your bad news from Classy Lady Sparkle. Good news and bad news, but Classy Lady Sparkle, I'm your boy, Charles Gregory, the beautiful. Classy Lady Sparkle. And the beautiful. Lauren Sizzle. And my guy. Big exclusive. Before we go to another story, let me get some, a little top five. I got a couple stories here that I want to just kind of get through, and then I'm going to throw it to Big Exclusive on some of the things that he has in terms of a story. But what I would like to do, Let's talk about some of the top five moments that kind of got, you know, got me thinking too. So let's see if I can pull this up real quick. So let's go to, you know, let's start sports. Why don't we just start, yeah, let's start sports first. So Ryan, so tonight, if you're watching, Ryan Garcia and Connor Ben will be fighting. Tonight in Las Vegas, all eyes now remember, The date is, what's the date today? So everybody who's listening, Saturday, September 12th, 2026. For those who are listening, who will be tuning in to us via our podcast, we're going to jump right into some of the stories, our top five stories. So Ryan Garcia versus Conor Benn, championship fight tonight. Tonight in Las Vegas, all eyes are on the ring, where Ryan Garcia puts the WBC welterweight title on the line against Conor Benn. at the T-Mobile Arena. Garcia enters as champion after winning the belt earlier this year, while Ben is looking for what could become the biggest victory of his career, and there's a cultural connection on both sides of the fight. Garcia has built a massive following, including among younger Latino boxing fans, while Ben carries the boxing legacy of his father, former world champion Nigel Benn and a major following in the UK. So if you're going to watch the fight, let us know who you would like to win. Let's jump into politics. Federal judge blocks controversial federal hiring question. Now, this was interesting. A major ruling out of Washington could affect how thousands of Americans apply for federal jobs. A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration for asking federal jobs applicants to explain how they would help advance the president's policies, which was interesting. Judge George O'Toole ruled that the question likely violated federal civil service law and First Amendment protections by potentially injecting policies into what is supposed to be merit-based hiring. According to Reuters, the question appeared in more than 70,000 federal job postings. And here's why this deserves our attention. Public sector employment has historically provided an important pathway to economically stability and the middle class for Black Americans and other communities of color. The administration maintains that the question was optional and wasn't intended as political loyalty tests. What y'all think about that? That's interesting. All right, let's go on to music. Beyonce, go ahead. No, go ahead. Uh, is anybody, it looks like, uh, I don't know about our connection. It looks like, um, we're getting people saying that it's a bad connection. You get a bad connection. Um, this is a bad connection. Let us know. All right. So we're going to keep it. All right. Since you can still see, we want to keep on going cause we doing a record, but you'll get the stream later. So let's jump right into a Beyonce celebrates 20 years B day today. Um, yeah, Beyonce is taking us back 20 years to an album that helped the five, the next chapter of her career. What happened? Okay. So her sophomore solo album, B-Day, originally released on her 25th birthday in 2006, is celebrating its 20th anniversary with an expanded edition. And B-Day wasn't just another Beyonce album. Records from the era, including Deja Vu, Ring the Alarm, irreplaceable, I used to like irreplaceable, irreplaceable, and get me body, helped establish Beyonce as a creative force completely independent of Destiny's Child. The project brought together R & B, funk, hip-hop, and live instrumentation while showcasing an increasingly bold visual identity that would become a signature of her career. So shout out to Beyonce. Jump into fashion. Macy's asks, what does American fashion look like? And this is interesting, right? What does American style actually look like in 2026? And this is my issue. So listen to this story. The retailer has brought together six designers from limited edition collections, including Tommy Hilfiger, Michael Kors, Donna Karan, Jonathan Cohen, and Lil Patin, right? And this is my thing. Why are those designers? None of them look like us. That old shit. I'm sorry. That old stuff again. That's the problem, right? Like the people. And that's the problem right there. Yeah, and they know where they get all their style from. You already know. We got the juice, and that's the problem right there. There's no one here that looks like us on here, but that's okay. And one designer particularly worth watching is Edwin Thomas, a Jamaican-born designer behind it, right? So Thompson will blend his Caribbean heritage and the energy of New York City, bringing bold color, streetwear, and multicultural influence into conversation about American style. So we always got to do that when we talk about fashion. Last, entertainment, Kendrick Lamar, mysterious movie is still alive. So apparently he's creating a movie. So and if you've been wondering whatever happened to the mysterious Kendrick Lamar movie, because he was talking about this a long time, apparently it's still happening. Kendrick is working with South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone on musical comedy project for Paramount. And so listen to, so take a look, keep an eye on all of the information that's coming out there. Cause you know, we love it. We love what's going on. And that's some of the top trending news right now. So big exclusive. You ready for me, my brother? I think I am. All right. Hotline. You got it. All right. So the voice, AKA Lord Dirk set the internet on fire yesterday when he was acquitted on all charges against stemming from a murder for hire, I'm sorry, stemming from a murder near the Beverly Center in 2002. The hit was intended for Quando Rondo, however, his cousin was the one that ended up being killed or unalived. Dirk was arrested in 2024 in Miami International Airport facing stalking charges and murder for hire and a RICO. When we say Dirk was acquitted of all charges, he was acquitted of the murder for hire and the stalking charges. And it was two other modified stalking charges that he was acquitted of. He hired a billionaire lawyer, Drew Finland. He has worked with a bunch of people. But Young Dolph, funny enough, gave him that nickname, the billion dollar lawyer. Rest in peace to Young Dolph. And Brian still, many people may know Brian still from his work with Young Thug and the Young Thug RICO case. And he's worked with such people as, again, right now, Lord Dirk, Diddy. He even did some work with Donald Trump, unfortunately, in my opinion. Any help to him is an enemy of the state to me, in my opinion. I'm just saying. But Dirk is not in a clear yet. Although he was acquitted of all charges, he still faces a RICO trial, which starts immediately, October 5th. They refused to release him, citing that he's a flight risk because he had booked international flights to different countries trying to evade arrest when he was locked up at Miami International. So the feds have kind of lost two huge cases back to back. Like that Young Thug case, they made a lot of mistakes when it came to that case. And now, Lord Dirk, when most of the world, honestly, everybody, you know, came to a consensus really that they was going to find him guilty and his life was over. But again, when you got that kind of money and you got friends like Drake who dropped 10 million to help pay for your defense, I mean, that goes a long way, a long way. And again, let me say it allegedly because Drake did say he helped, but he's never confirmed that $ 10 million figure. However, he had a lot of people helping him, the internet and all celebrities from all walks of life, including our own Meek Mill commented on it, And so a lot of people, and again, this is just some secondary information, but how the case originally came about was that one of his OTF members was arrested with a firearm. And the maximum time he was going to get for that firearm arrest was three years. However, in that interrogation room, he started talking, I know about this and I know about that. He started pointing fingers, pointing them out. Snitching. Now he didn't confess to three murders. Lord Dirk is found innocent of all those charges. Now he's got to face those charges for all those murders because he doesn't get any... The guy does. The guy does, yeah. He doesn't get anything for testifying. There's no immunity. There's no immunity, nothing. So now he's going to face probably life without parole because... a confession to those three other murders. I do have a question. Yes. So for the other one, okay, he's not guilty on this, but on the Rico. On the Rico. Heaven forbid, God forbid, if they found him guilty, what is the time? Life. It's over for you. So he's not out the woods. No, he's not out the woods. However, what people are saying is that because a lot of the evidence that they had for it, because he's on the Rico for the label he owns, OTF Records. Got you. So they're saying OTF was operating as a criminal organization. They used the RICO for the old mob. That's why it was invented. But now they're using the same thing today and they're using it on OTF. And Dirk is the head and owner of OTF. So they're saying he was running guns and drugs and murder for hire plots. So they're building the RICO based off that. But a lot of the evidence. That they had- Was from this case. They used in this case- So people are saying, other attorneys that I follow on social media and other places are saying they use most of their ammunition. So is that double jeopardy that they can't by. Law present this? No, not double jeopardy because he's not being accused of murder for hire. Right. Well, that's what I'm saying. And the RICO is more- But if it. Didn't work in this case and by law it was thrown out, they're saying tactics. If they use it. Tactics are tactics. The problem is the evidence, will it be admissible in the new trial? But why would you use it? Because it didn't work. Exactly. As a prosecutor, it's like, whoa. So that's why most people, or the consensus from the other lawyers I follow, they're saying that this is going to be really weak. It's going to be really hard for them, especially after this acquittal, because they used a lot of the ammunition that they had Even the witnesses that they used in the murder fire, they planned on using for the Rico case. However, they were found not credible. Right. I mean, just idiotic stuff. What celebrities went to go visit him? No, not visit him. A lot of people showed up to the courtroom. Kanye West showed up. A lot of people from the record label or from Chicago, Breezy 600, I think Vic Mensa was there a couple times. So he had a lot of people showing up for support. However, let me say this because I think it's important. People see these people in this celebrity lifestyle. This is a one-off. Feds are going to win 96% of the time. Shut up. you are not dirt. You are not special. You don't have $ 10 million to defend yourself. So my advice is stay out of the streets, find you something you love and turn it into a business, legal business, please. Because it's enough of us in prison. And I don't like that. A lot of people are celebrating that he got off. And the reality of the situation is, you know, Denzel said it in the movie, it ain't what you know, it's what you can prove. And unfortunately, they could not prove that. But again, I don't want people thinking that this is okay, because this is a problem. Like Chicago has issues. Philly has issues. Although our crime is way down. Salute to Mayor Parker for that, right? But at the end of the day, this is not the lifestyle that I would want people to glorify. To make it as a rapper and or as an NBA, all that stuff is a long shot. And fortunately, he made it and he still chose to do like idiotic things that kept him in the streets. I don't blame anybody who makes it and kind of moves on. Like there's no saying you can't come back and help. But we have too many examples of, you know, people making it and they throwing their lives away. You know, a couple that come to mind, Dirk, of course, because he's going through this trial. But then you had Nipsey Hussle. He couldn't stay off. Yeah, rest in peace to Nipsey. But it's a. Lot of people who come back home and they stay too long. And I just want the youth to understand that there is a better way. I tell my daughters all the time, growing up, I had an encyclopedia of Britannica on the wall. I know people like. What's that? I tell my daughters all the time, you have the information of the entire world in your hand. That's right. Use it. So use it. Like my daughters actually make money like through their phones, like online, like they have businesses. So there is a way again, parents teach them early fellas, the streets, kids, the youth, the street is not it. Find something better to do with some great mentors out there who are willing to steer you in the right direction. Streets is watching. Yeah. Streets is watching. No doubt. No doubt. Is that your story? You got something else for me or you good? NFL is back, bro. The NFL is back. So, ladies, if you have a significant other, a husband, a boyfriend. Leave them alone. Leave them alone. You know what Sunday is. You know what Sunday means. People wait nine months for football to come back, and it happens. Now, again, NFL, please, no more Wednesday games. Okay? Please. Let's not do that. Let's not do any more Wednesday games. I'll be tired Thursday morning. Even, like, to me, Thursday is crazy. I kind of got used to it, but at the same time, I can go without it. And I know Saturday is owned by college, but just for the love of God, no more Wednesday games, please. The Birds are back tomorrow. They are playing the Washington Commanders, I think, at 1 o'clock. Primetime, Sunday night football. You got the New York football Giants playing. Versus the Dallas Cowgirls, if I offended you, so what? We don't care. Deal with it. Deal with it. And this may be a problem moving forward. Look, we bleed green. Listen, we a Philadelphia fan team. Like, we love all Philadelphia teams. And that's just it. I'm not an Eagles fan. I'm a New York Giants fan. So, listen, I feel the heat already. I feel the heat. Oh, wreck it. Hold up. Wait, wait, wait. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. The story is baloney. You people must be idiots. What are you doing? Are you people out of your mind? Are you just? dull-witted? Do you have any clue? Your conduct is outrageous. Do you think I'm stupid? I'm not stupid. What you're presupposing is that the person sitting behind here is going to believe this nonsense story that you made up. No. Yes, either that or you're stupid, or is this your wife, fiancé? Fiancé. Listen, he is in jail for the whole football season. The whole NFL. You are in jail. I'm going to tell you what. So listen. Hold on. Hold on one second. I'm going to tease it. Go ahead. I'm listening to you. I'm going to tease it. Right. So next week. Hold on. I'm going to tell y'all. Hold on. how exactly I became a New York Giants fan. Tell us next week. I'm going to tell you next week. Yeah, that's a lot. For now, I just got to put you in jail right now. Wait, wait, wait. Put the camera on me. Put the camera on me. Philadelphia Eagles, I will offer you an apology right now for this. What? This atrocity. This is diabolical. We have no idea. Yeah, I snuck that up on there right there. Hold on, one more time, hold on. People must be idiots. What are you doing? Are you people out of your mind? Are you just dull-witted? You people must be idiots. What are you doing? Are you people out of your mind? Every time the Eagles beat the Giants, he must wear an Eagles jersey. I cannot do that. I am willing to do other things, just not that. I break out in hives when I make plays. And I don't have an Effie pen, so. People must be idiots. What are you doing? Are you people out of your mind? Are you just dull-witted? That's okay, I mean again I. We can have a run and bet, you know, and the Eagles play the Giants. We can play these little, you know, gentlemen's wager. I'll get every pin if you can put one in. I'm not putting that green on. People must be idiots. What are you doing? Are you people out of your mind? Are you just dull wittings? All right, all right. So, all right, hold on, hold on. Let's just stop talking about it. You've done your story. Yes. All right, cool. I got to go to Sizzle. I know, right? Before we go to the Sizzle, I just want to shout out a good friend of mine, Mont, who was the manager for PNB Rock. They're having a small, intimate, you know, memorial and cookout for him today. And they want us to come and do. We there. He made a big. A big memorial type of thing, like a studio. So he wants us to come and shoot that. When? I'll tell you. Yeah, please tell me. I want to just do a few moments of silence. He died September 12, 2022. That was the day he got shot in Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles in L.A. All right. Shout out to PNB Rock. Shout out to PNB Rock. That's still. That still stays. Yeah, right. Shout out to PNB. Shout out to Philly. Philly, you got to love Philly, man. If you don't, I mean, you got to love Philly. Philly, we, I mean, see, I don't even want, see, I'm thrown right now. I can't even think right now. Talk about Sherelle Parker, Mayor Sherelle Parker. The last, at the Dell, the last celebration they did was given to, it was a tribute to Huff, Gamble, and Bell. And do you know the sounds of Philly on how big that is? I don't think we get enough. I mean, she gave a huge day. She gave she gave Kenny Gamble key to the city and then they all got the Liberty Bell and and something else. But to have the old groups came up, it was probably one surviving member or none. But it was the Dauphinics, the Spinners, the Stylistics. The, I mean, the Jones girls. When I say this list goes on and on and all of this was by them, some. Way, shape or form. And I'm just, and their stuff is still being sampled to this very day. I literally, I went on record and I said that I don't, there's no other state. There's no other state in the U.S. that can Cause you, you, you do have like your Nashville's and you do have, but when I talk about just regular soul music, like just, there's no other state on the planet that can mess with us. None, none, none, none. Because I didn't even, you just mentioned like the Gambon Huff stuff. We didn't even get to like the Neo soul stuff. We didn't get to the battle rap stuff. Exactly. I mean, it's so much that Philly has contributed to music. But I'm also mentioning that as the root of the tree that allowed those, what you just named, which are the brand names. 100%. 100%. You know what I'm saying? Because the Soul Train was, that was them. The Soul Train opening, that's Leon, that's Campbell and Sue. Amazing. I'm like, yes. And I was just like, I mean, things that they were showing, it was just, it was beautiful. But to see them, their age, and they're still up there and they were tall, rest in peace to Tom Bell, he's not here. But it was just, it was just, I mean, the Lou. Ross and Just things that you grew up on. And just sample. And if you think about it, if you think about, like, Kendrick Lamar even using Luther Vandross. Kids didn't know who Luther Vandross was. I'm like, how do you not know? But Kendrick Lamar. That's funny. I just made that post. Like, I hear a song come on. Mm-hmm. And I'm like, I don't know if it's the original or the sample. Like, what's about to happen? And then some days I'm happy, some days I'm disappointed. But you know what? This is going back and it's basically going full circle on how we're talking about in the political ring of having the younger generation meet the older. And then we're talking about it in music. They're giving homage to the younger people saying, hey, we're going to, you know what I mean? So they're looking at it to say, We need this to be cohesive. Why aren't we doing it in other sectors? Agreed. You know what I'm saying? Agreed. Yeah. So, yeah. But thanks for giving me that. Absolutely. Absolutely. Yes. All right. So you already know what we got coming up next, y'all. What we got coming up next? We got the sizzle. We got the sizzle. Give it to me. Yes. And the pigs are in. The pigs are in. And they are numbered 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3. Yeah. So before I jump right on in to the sizzle, make sure you guys support We Talk Weekly News and Independent Journalism by subscribing to all major podcast platforms. And you can follow us on social media if you want to stay informed and connected. And if you want to help us expand our community-centered work, solutions-based reporting. You can make a donation on Cash App to Dollar Sign We Talk Weekly or PayPal by going to wetalkweekly.com and you can go and donate. And every contribution makes a huge, huge impact. So shout out to our funders and our supporters and our collaborators. Shout out to WHYY. Shout out to the Linfest Institute for Journalism. And so many other people that we have been fortunate enough to collaborate with all these years that have helped us and paved the way. All right. So I'm just going to piggyback off of Charles story. Yes. So, OK, so Beyonce is catching some heat from fans. Selena fans and Woo Child, they are not playing about Selena. They said, we do not play about this one right here. Beyonce just celebrated her 45th birthday and the 20th anniversary of B-Day with the deluxe edition of the album. So one of the tracks getting all the attention and all the fire and the shots fired is the Como La Flor. So I couldn't say, irreplaceable. It's the irreplaceable, but the Spanish one, the irreplaceable. There you go. Roll that R. Irreplaceable, whatever. All right. Whatever. So como se dice irreplaceable in Spanish? Let us know, y'all. Let us know. You watching this, let us know. You know, you know. All right, so now Beyonce, she takes her Spanish version of Irreplaceable, which I thought she did an amazing job. I mean, I liked it, you know. But she blends it with Selena's classic Como La Flor. So, and, you know, before anybody starts asking, wait, did Beyonce just use Selena's music without permission? Nope. she got it approved and all that Selena's family and the estate had approved the collaboration but that has not stopped some of Selena's fans for crashing out about this some critics say Beyonce is capitalizing off of Selena's legacy and using Selena's iconic status to appeal to a Latino audience And some fans, they've gone all the way, all the way across the fence to call Beyonce a culture vulture. This is idiotic. This is Latino fans. This is like staunch Selena fans. Some of those fans are idiotic. What they don't realize is what Beyonce will be able to do for Selena and her estate. And her legacy. And her family. Everything's going to go through. They're going to be able to make more money and she'll be able to, you know, her family's family will be able to, you know, live better and keep the music alive. Who's to say the next Latino artist won't sample that song as a whole. And it continues. Exactly. Yes. She would have been like mid fifties. Exactly. So she's bringing her back to life. What we talked about with, and, and how many of the, how many celebrities who had their time, they had their prime and then a younger one comes along and, has not done the same thing for the younger one or vice versa, whoever has the bigger platform. So, well, Selena's family, they're standing behind queen B a hundred percent. So Selena's widower, Chris Perez defended Beyonce on Instagram, giving her a huge shout out for showing respect to an icon. He basically said, look, nobody is going to outdo Selena's original, but why not appreciate another superstar putting some shine on Selena's music? Beyonce has previously put much respect on Selena's name, calling her an influencer on her growing up and on her when she was growing up in Houston. And she even recalls meeting Selena briefly when she was a child. So now they're having this whole conversation about culture influence and who gets to kind of reinterpret somebody else's music. So is Beyonce crossing a line? Or is this simply like an icon playing tribute to another icon? And are there some icons that we lost that it's just, their music is just untouchable. Like we just leave it alone. Like you, you do not touch their music. Like a Prince, a Michael Jackson, an Aaliyah, a Whitney Houston. Like, yes. Are there some icons that you just do not touch their music? I disagree. I think, Just like fashion. Nothing's off limit. Nothing's off limit. Because nothing's new under the sun. Everything that's old, you can make it new. You know what I mean? Right. Yeah. If you're going to sample something, I mean, within good taste. Now, if Beyonce was someone else. And trying to do it, and I'm not going to say a name of another celebrity. Yeah. But if she was somebody else. Sexy Red. Huh? She did something. I forget the song, but I lost it. I completely lost it. See, that's what I mean. Now, if it's in poor taste. That's what I mean. If it's not coming from a vetted person or if it's in poor taste, then yeah, don't touch it. But it's almost like the comments are coming from wild boars. What do you expect? You throw them. You throw them just, you know, as savages, you throw something out, they're going to just eat it. They're going to eat whatever. So, yeah. I agree with you. Now that I think about it, like, I think everything is okay to be touched. However, you need to be a certain caliber of artist to be able to even do it. Or do it right. That part, too. Exactly. And be serious. Like, take it as somebody's legacy. Their family is still here. They have generations of people. who still have those names and living with that legacy. And it means something to them. So be tasteful. I found out with Dolly Parton, she was saying that Elvis wanted to do her song over, but he wanted all the royalties or. Half of them. And she was like, no, that's somebody that's vetted. That's somebody that would have done it in good taste, but she walked away from it. So even though you still got somebody who can be who they are, if it doesn't give the love to it, And it don't make sense to know. Exactly. You know what I mean? Exactly. I want to, um, I mean, I think that that's an amazing story and that reminded me, and I don't know if y'all remember, but I did a quick little research. So, um, When Jennifer Lopez was cast as Selena back in the 90s, there was actually backlash because J-Lo is Puerto Rican and Selena is a Mexican. I think she's Mexican-American. Mexican-American, I believe. Puerto Rican and Selena are Mexican-American. Some people felt Selena should have been portrayed by a Mexican-American actress. That said, that particular community are very, I mean, they're consistent with the love that they have. Selena was beloved. I mean, she was loved. So it doesn't shock me that it's such an outrage based off of what Beyonce kind of, it doesn't shock me. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, like you said, it, for a person of Beyonce's caliber to do it, I think she was the best to do it. Yeah, 100%. And like you said, Spark, it will go to her family. It will bring her back. And not that she went out of relevancy, but yeah, exactly, exactly, exactly. All right, so Chris Rock says, the only way he's going to host the Oscar Awards again is if he wins one. Well, Chris Rock sat down with Variety for an interview about his upcoming film, Misty Green. So this is the first directorial work after a 12 year hiatus. When asked about returning to the Oscars, Chris said, I'm not getting nominated. The only way I'll go back is if I'm nominated and I'm not getting nominated. And that's OK. We'll deal with that if it happens. So Chris was then reminded that he made a movie about a woman who slaps her colleagues and he plays a character who has to decide whether or not to forgive her. So Chris was asked about how he feels four years after the slap. And he said, I wish nothing would have happened. So Chris also added, he also, yes. He also added that he is a different guy. So on another note, Chris Rock has also made a plea to DreamWorks for another Madagascar sequel. So he said, now this is me just playing devil's advocate because I got a little question after. So he said, I played Marty the Zebra in Madagascar. Me, Ben Stiller, and two other people. Now, if you know the franchise characters, you know that David Schwimmer was in it. He played Mel Gibson of the two people he's not mentioning. It was David Schwimmer. He played Mel, Melman, the giraffe and Jada Pinkett played Gloria, the hippo. So Ben, Ben Stiller played Alex, the lion. So now during the interview, Chris looks at the camera and said, I don't know who I'm talking to. Do you understand? I got divorced. I don't have Madagascar money anymore. We only did three. There's five ice ages. Five, okay? So Chris Rock finalized his divorce with his ex-wife Malik Compton Rock in August 2016. So this is me playing devil's advocate. Could all of this be indicative of a Chris Rock, Jada Pink, and Will Smith truce? I'm calling it. That they're all That he's going to do. If you don't talk in a mic. If he does, I mean, cause she was on the, yeah. Which is why I was, I forgot they did that together. Yes. It, now it could happen because most of the time when you do voiceover work, you're in the studio by yourself. It's not like the cast. It's all together. Right now. I don't know about no truce. Like you, I don't, I'm, Yeah, no, I don't know about no truce. Like, you can't just slap me in front of millions. I'm going to need my lick back. I'm petty. I'm vindictive. In front of millions, yeah, I'm going to have to get my lick back. So I wouldn't consider no truce with either one of them, to be honest with you. And again, that's just me. Like, you know, kumbaya to the world. I want everybody to get along. But you slapped me at the Oscars in front of millions of people. Mm-hmm. And then it was some half-hearted apology. But then you're going to go freestyle and bring it back up to bring it back to the consciousness, the forefront of the people's conscience. And it wasn't apologetic. Like, you was, like, taking a shot. Like, Philly, Westfield, Will Smith, that's my guy. Philly legend, icon in his own right. Chris got to get his lick back, though. There's no truth until I get my lick back. I'm sorry. If I could hit you with a brick from across the street, I would consider that getting my lick back. I went to the Met. And saw Chris when he came to Philly right after. That happened. And he was like, yeah, I know I'm in his city. F. As he should. Some people boo, but it was more that was like, I feel you. I just think that was so out of pocket. Yeah, who couldn't relate to Chris? But the only other thing, I think he. Just got diagnosed with either autism or Asperger's. And he came out and talked about it, Chris Rock. So social cues and stuff. So he might not really be feeling what you're saying. Because of the social cues and things like that. And I'm sure he's more mature than me anyway. I don't know. I just think that he probably just missing that. But I think I was going back four years ago. Then, whatever year that was, I was that day years old when I found out a lot about Jada's alopecia. And then, you know, like a couple of things like, you know, I mean, he made that joke. And that's what maybe he wishes he didn't make that joke that precipitated the activity. Not saying that it's right because I know they said sticks and stones may. Break my heart. Does she have hair now? I don't know. She got money? No, I know. That was a choice. She didn't have to show up bald. That's what I'm saying. Alopecia means it doesn't come back. There are now things that are showing. That she has hair. Who knows? I'm just saying when you say you were that days old, it might not have been totally me. I don't know. No, I just think comedians are too important for society to be handcuffed or stifled. I think they're the one or one of the people or persons in our society that are allowed to make observations without people taking it so personally or getting offended because it makes you laugh. I believe that social commentary is necessary, just like I feel when it comes to rap. it's necessary to convey those messages to the masses and to be able to say some of the stuff that's on our mind, but politically and being politically correct, we cannot say. Yeah. But we, we, we no longer live in that society anymore. It also said, with. The exception of one comic, Dave Chappelle. He liked the Teflon Don. Yeah. Like most other people. I don't think they could survive. you know what I mean? But the whole point of doing the Oscars and stuff from the beginning of time is a small roast. Always going bust on somebody. He was out of pocket. What it was is that it's almost like I worked at a hospital and this doctor, Dr. Schmidt, he was the meanest doctor ever. One day, his kid got sick. They came into the ER, him and his, the wife. And the kid, and she was bossing him around like nobody's business. I said, this is why this man comes here so mean. Because, This little four-foot woman, I'm looking at, that's how it is with, like, yo, you. Need to talk to your wife and be like, yo, be quiet. Because he's showing that he got big kahunas to Chris when she in his ear about something else. Like, you have misplaced anger, my brother. Like, why you come off of him like that? You know what I mean? I just feel like she habitually emasculates that man and publicly And it's kind of infuriating sometimes because of the respect that I have for Will Smith. But I also have to remember, these people are human. We all have our own issues. But those red table talks and then the scandal with the entanglement? Bruh. Yeah, and I think... I would. Have been divorced. I'm sorry. And Will Smith is pretty much like, I don't want to say pretty much because there's a lot of parts of his life that isn't an open book, but he has been open about a lot of stuff. I just, yeah, the Red Table Talk wasn't the best thing for his career. 100%. I just wanted to show that because y'all was asking about our hair or whatever. This is one of the latest images of... Jada Pinkett. She has a full head of hair. So you can find this. It's blonde? She dyed it blonde. But there's some roots coming out. It's like a. Number one or a very closed Caesar. No, then she a liar then. I just say it's definitely a horrible fashion choice. That's what I look at from the door. Like, yo, what do you have on? But yeah. Go ahead. What was you going to say? I'll just say this. Well, this is, I guess, why I came to kind of like this conclusion is because, and these are just my thoughts, you know, not the thoughts of, you know, the show. We talk weekly LLC or anything. But I just came to the conclusion that number one, like, you know, he did say he's a different person. And then he said that, um, Will Smith apologized to him the day after. Not that that means anything. Not that that changes any, anything or any way that he feels. He also made that open plea to dream works. You know what I mean? Cause that could be affecting his career too, with these two men, you know, not, you know, whatever they have going there, that could be affecting what, you know, who decides to work with him because maybe they have that going on. It's like, You got too much drama there, so I don't want to... It's kind of like if you think about people that have had beefs and their lives are just forever entwined because whenever you say one person's name, you got. To say the other. It's like Tupac and Biggie. You got to say those two names together. And now... you know, which I'll get to my next story. It's like, you may have to always say their names together. And then, you know, cause that's a beef we're going to be talking about. But I think Tony rock is more upset than Chris. Agreed. Cause he goes off. Now I think he is, he want to look back. He's going to be like, no, man, like, no, he's going to tell his brother. I agree. Lauren, like Chris Rock is to the point where he has to, he has a brand. his get back to work, that divorce might have cost him financially. And at the end of the day, you have to protect the brand so that you're able to continue to work. Because we all know how sparse roles get in Hollywood for Black folks. Black people, Black men, you know, and you know how that is. And I think if anything were to come of a truce, I think it would be for that. Because I've seen how Will has tried to build his career back up. And Chris has just been kind of laying back. I mean, he's doing the film festival, I think, for his movie that's coming out. He wants it to be up for an Oscar nomination, which I think that's why the question came up with the Oscars. Maybe the Oscars don't... It could be something where they wouldn't nominate him because they don't want that other. That element. Yeah, that to overshadow. The association. Yeah, because even when they asked him how he felt, he was like, well, it's all about my film. You know what I mean? I don't want that to take away from this character that I want to win. Yeah. So. And he's just tired of answering the question. I would be too. Yeah. I would be too. Yeah, absolutely. All right. So, okay, y'all. This is. Remy Ma and Clarissa Shields situation. This little situation is getting messy. Now we got these two names that we got to constantly be saying together. So they have been going back and forth on X. Remy has taken this beef from social media straight to the mic. You know that she's a battle rapper. She dropped a diss track called Wanna Go. And this track was on Crime Mob's Nuck If You Buck. And if you know Nuck If You Buck, That's not a love song. It's not a love song that beat. You already know what it is. And Remy has been throwing shots at Clarissa and she's throwing them right back. And, you know, even bringing up the relationship with Papoose, they're going through this divorce and the divorce is messy. And speaking of Papoose, they're still legally married and trying to finalize everything. She's basically telling Papoose to sign the papers, but that's not going well because I think there was supposed to be a pause on the divorce or something like that, but it's getting even more heated. So Remy suggested that Clarissa and Papoose, when they were in New York, that she's going to pull up again. Something about, you know, there's allegations of her saying something about, you know, she's going to jump. Her and She don't mess around, get knocked. She better stop it. Who's Clarissa saying that she pulling up on Remy? No, Remy's saying she's going to pull up on Clarissa. I like Clarissa. Me too. I'm a Clarissa fan. It's some parts that's just allegations and this stuff that they're throwing shots at each other on X and all that, but these comments definitely sound like if they get in the same room, this curtain is not backing down. Like, you know, Remy posted footage of these two. Remy had posted footage featuring two of Clarissa's boxing rivals, Amanda Serrano and, and, um, Alyssa Baumgartner, um, Then Clarissa had responded saying, I've been laughing all day. Well, Remy wasn't laughing because she came right back with some screenshots of some old messages. This was before. This was when Remy and Papoose was together. So she had dropped some screenshots when I guess Clarissa was supposed to be saying stuff to her. She was kind of sweating her or whatever. She called Clarissa fugly. Like, I haven't heard that in so long. Wait, I got one for you. Lauren, Sparkle, when was the last time anybody called you a Jezebel? Yes. That's what I was just getting ready to say. Papoose, he jumped into it. His whole track, Jezebel. I was like, Jezebel. 2026. Jezebel. Utah bottom. Yes. Wasn't on my bingo card. He trying to bring Jezebel back. And the record is actually like, you can, when you say whatever you want about Papoose, but the brother can rap. Okay. Yeah. And it's going to make sense. Yeah, exactly. And, you know, it's just crazy because we were so hype about Pap and Rim years ago. And now we're going to boxing, social media and diss tracks. And it's just this love triangle. So, I hate to see them come to blows and really it should be, these two women shouldn't be going head to head. It should just be Rem and Pap trying to settle their differences. That's it. Like, that's it. There's an old saying, the amount of time you were together is what the amount of time it's going to take to get over. Yes. So they were together for some years. Sorry. No, absolutely not. It's one of the parties. It's like one of the parties are going to be in that realm. Remy is the one that's keeping it. Remy just got to stop. I like Remy. I like Remy. She came out with another song. It was fire. She could have just took that and kept it going, kept it moving. The diss track against Pat or was it another one? It might have been that. I think she got a cease and desist. for that. She did for that. That Jones crazy. He said that she mentioned something about you getting all hype over this. I can't remember verbatim, but you're getting all hype over this guy. He's just mid. You know what I mean? That was cold. He was like, I don't want my child to hear this. It wasn't that bad though. She And Pap should know, he comes from a battle culture. She comes from a battle culture. I don't know if y'all watch Battle Rap, but if y'all do, y'all know that wasn't nothing. That was definitely. Like, come on. Come on, Pap. That was kind of corny. I think the problem is both of them are entertainers who need their names to stay in the algorithm. Like, again, Remy is nice. But that's, it's not. And honestly, and we don't know what's going on behind doors. They could be talking like, yo, come on, girl, we going to start this. I disagree, though. I'm just saying, like, you never know the way that, I mean, but the way they, they playing dirty. But I know one thing for sure, two things for certain, we wasn't talking about Remy Ma until all of this. I know that for a fact. Yeah. So when she's been all, everything right. Now, so. I don't know. Shout out to both of them. When this first happened... I'm sorry, Sparkle. Go ahead. I was going to say, Clarissa, same thing, kind of. When Clarissa first came out, all she kept saying, she wanted to fight men. She was a little bit, uh, but until the Remy Ma thing came, that's what caterpilled her up. Now, based on her getting her fights, so both of them. Fed off of each other to a degree. I think, honestly, as soon as she got with Pat, that's when Like her stocks went up crazy. If you ask me, that's what I'm saying. But, but, but I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want to dim Clarissa light. Cause she is the quote. It ain't no other box of female boxer that did. It's no male boxer. If you compare. The amount of belts, the amount of classes, there's no mailboxer that did what she did. But she only did in the beginning. It ain't no but. No, it is. No, it ain't no but. When she very first came out, she was not fighting the people that she fought to get to where she is. No. I remember when she first came out. Yeah, but- And it may just been time made it- Nah, our biggest paydays came when. But that's what I'm saying. The time landed at the same time. So you can't say which is bigger than the other. Do you understand what I'm saying? I see exactly what you're saying, yeah. It was those names and that money came with that notoriety. Thank you. Translate that, please. Because he'll be like, smart. Yo, I'm telling you. No, I mean, look, your opinion is valid. No, no, I'm agreeing with you. I'm saying that the stardom landed at the same time as the Rumi Ma situation. So it's really hard to decipher. Between which one the egg or the chicken was first. No, I agree with that. What I'm saying is, I'm saying just comparatively, I can't even say the word right now. If you compare, yeah, thank you. If you compare Clarissa Shields' titles, her weight class, and compare it to another male boxer, even a great, there's nobody that can compare with that. In terms of those weight classes and fighting at me. Now, you can argue to people that she fighting ain't all that great. Yeah, that would be my argument, level of competition. But taking that out, Right. It's nobody that can compare to her. Still, it's amazing. Or could that be that she needs to fight men at this point? No, no, no, no, no. I'm just saying that to your point, the Rimmel situation happened when she started to go. Up that ladder of those things. 100%. But I definitely agree. I definitely agree. And she get a Charleston, what's his name? White. Charleston White. She get him in the ring type of man. Oh, yeah. I don't know. But you know what? He might need that. Clarissa got put on her butt by a dude in sparring. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I saw that. I saw that. That's why you can't put no man in an equation. That kind of pissed me off, too. Because instead of her just accepting the fact that she made all these excuses and put no padding in the glove. Like, But when she first came out, she always wanted to fight a dude. That was her thing. But to me, that's like a gimmick. If she call out Roley one more time, I'm like, just give her what she asking for at this point. Then they'll be talking to him like, why you fighting? I don't think it's a gimmick. I really think in her mind, with her testosterone, Raquel Miller. Raquel Miller. Yeah, we have Raquel. Shout out to Raquel Miller. We had her on the show. We had her on the show. She wanted to fight Clarissa Shields. Wow. Yeah. I don't think she's fighting anymore, though. We need to get her back on the show. Yeah, absolutely. That's all you got. That's all you got. Yeah, I'm your girl, Lauren Sizzle, and that was the sizzle. And that was the sizzle, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your boy, Charles Gregory, the beautiful. Nice to meet you, Squire. And the beautiful. Lauren Sizzle. And my gang. Big exclusive. Listen, we need to reach back out to her. I want her back on the show. I want to know what she's doing. We got to reach back out there. Yeah. I like that. Raquel Pretty Beast Miller. Yeah. I like that. Yeah, yeah. All right, y'all. So, I mean, we had a dynamic show today, man. It was a dynamic show. And shout out to Big Exclusive's first, you know, show. Yeah, this was fun. Yeah, no doubt. 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