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Holding Court with Eboni K. Williams
Uppity Productions LLC
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Get ready to dive back into the courtroom, jurors, because this week, Eboni and Dustin are coming through with all the facts as they spill the tea on the latest legal headlines. They get into the surprising survey about Black high schoolers and their college dreams (14:42). As well as how a couple of young celebrities made some life-threatening choices this holiday weekend (32:16). And of course, they had to share their thoughts on the outrageous wig-snatching lawyer! This isn’t an episode you want to miss.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Ebony K Williams, attorney and host. Welcome to Holding Core, where we analyze the |
| 0:13.6 | latest legal headlines that everybody's already talking about. But we dig deep into how |
| 0:18.4 | the courts impact the culture. We break it all down, go in straight from gavel to your |
| 0:23.1 | newsfeed. And every week, we keep it a hundred, right Dustin? That's righty. Let's |
| 0:27.8 | hold court. Dustin Ross, my darling, we got the yellow burberrys on the |
| 0:32.7 | day. You know what time it is. It's like, you know how Joe Biden be saying the shit |
| 0:37.2 | about the Ray Bands. It turns out that what's his stupid name, something Brandon? |
| 0:40.3 | Yes, whatever his Sasha fierce name is for himself. We got to think about it. Before |
| 0:44.7 | the end of this episode, what would a name for this? All right, I ain't Dustin. I'm |
| 0:47.6 | busting when I got these glasses on. That's what it is. Listen, I like that. What's |
| 0:52.0 | happening, Ebony? Oh, everything is, everything is good. I saw you and our girl |
| 0:57.5 | Mandy out in the BK for the weekend. No, you know, whenever we get together, we have |
| 1:01.5 | us a good time. I do know that we definitely did. We were at every day people in Brooklyn |
| 1:06.1 | this weekend. Shout out to that. Having a wonderful time. I always have such a good time |
| 1:09.7 | at that party. No matter the city. So we were out in Brooklyn just filling the love, |
| 1:14.0 | filling the vibes outside of most people. I like it. I see this full beer game coming |
| 1:19.0 | on here. I like it. Gonna make changes. Like the song said. Okay, today. Make that change. |
| 1:25.5 | Make that change. Okay. So it's giving very sexy. Thank you. You're a little distinguished, |
| 1:31.6 | little, little fingering thumb on your chin. You know, saying a little bit of that. |
| 1:35.5 | Dustin said he'd do a pride. That's right. Okay. Pride. You better ask somebody. Don't |
| 1:39.7 | make it be pride. Okay. That's how he gets down. Now, I was your weekend. Beautiful. |
| 1:45.5 | No, thank you, baby. I had a really lovely weekend. I was really nerding out this weekend. |
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