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Guaranteed Human. 2025 is the year of the snake because we're supposed to be shedding. All our old bullshit. Yes, I did hear that. All our old bullshit. The bad energy, the negative energy, you know, the things that have caused you guilt, the things that you're insecure about. Like, this is the year that you're supposed to really, really, really let it all go. And it's about new beginnings and transformation.

And in 2006, it's the year of the horse.

And you're supposed to get off, get on that horse and, you know, ride into your destiny.

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Today's guest is the co-hosts of the infamous Breakfast Club, one of the most influential and longest running radio shows in hip-pop and pop culture history. He's the founder of the

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I'd be hearing that sometime

and I'd be like,

who fuck is she talking about?

You know what I'm saying? Like who is that? What do you mean? Like when I just hear all of that stuff, I'd be like, who is that person? Stop. Sometimes I do. You don't have great pride in what you've accomplished. Yes, absolutely. You don't feel like connected to it deeply.

Connected to it deeply.

You know it's so interesting? Yes, absolutely. You don't feel like connected to it deeply, like, um, connected to it deeply.

You know, it's so interesting when I was home for Thanksgiving and I was staying in my mom's house and I was staying in the room that I grew up in, like, that's the moments that, like,

those things hit you because, you know, you think about, oh, I was in here all of these years

praying, you know, to be in these, be in these moments like this, oh, I was in here all of these years praying, you know,

to be in these moments like this. So when you are in the midst of your, you know, answered prayers,

yes, that's when it hits you. What were you praying for in that room?

Just to be, you know, it's so funny, I tell the story all the time, but when I first started

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