Episode 841 | “Don’t Look Away Now”

The Joe Budden Podcast

Joe Budden

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4.6 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 197 minutes

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Summary

Off of the July 4th weekend, the greatest show in the world returns to the airwaves as the JBP begins its latest episode with recaps of the holiday (5:17) before turning to new music from Drake with ‘What Did I Miss?’ (36:38). The room discusses the rollout of the record and wonders if a villain arc will be beneficial for the Canadian rapper moving forward (1:07:15). Stephanie Mills calls out Essence Fest following a delay in many performances (1:35:08) as the JBP speculates other reasonings for low attendances at festivals, FBI’s Epstein investigation finds no client list (2:11:00), and the latest with Meg The Stallion’s former employee filing a lawsuit (2:15:42). Also, Naomi Osaka has been criticized for her interview following her loss at Wimbledon (2:31:05), the cast sends their thoughts and prayers out to families in Philadelphia and Texas (2:39:02), Chris Paul hints that the upcoming season will be his last leading the crew to discuss the top-10 point guards of all-time (3:04:42), and much more.

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0:00.0	The thoughts, views, and opinions expressed by this podcast,
0:03.2	as well as its hosts, are for entertainment purposes only.
0:07.3	I repeat, it is not serious.
0:09.8	It is not real.
0:11.2	No one is exposing, revealing, indicting, or telling you anything about themselves.
0:18.6	Also, we do not encourage you to try this at home.
0:21.5	We are trained professionals who do not have your best interest at heart or our own.
0:27.0	Enjoy the show.
0:29.8	That's funny.
0:31.0	That was a funny story.
0:31.9	For real?
0:32.4	You tune out.
0:33.0	Yeah.
0:33.0	Yeah, it's fine.
0:33.6	You tune out in real time.
0:34.6	It be the little things.
0:35.3	It'd be the little things that you just don't.
0:43.1	Yeah. I go through that too i don't have the mental capacity to hear a lot of the bandwidth i don't have the bandwidth i don't have the bandwidth to to listen to
0:51.2	to many words today yeah too many words today. Yeah?
0:56.1	Too many words.
0:57.9	It's like somebody, I'll be on the phone,
1:00.8	somebody be telling me a story that's really important to them about some shit that's happening in their life.
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