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I was about to ask you, how was Jingle Ball?

I know you in Atlanta.

I was in Atlanta for 96.1's Jingle Ball, which they do each and every year. I host the show with the talent down here. And it was amazing, man. Salute to everybody that performed last night from Belly Gang, YK, Nice, bankroll, Nelly, Big X the Plug, Ludacris, Jermaine Dupree, Bow Wow, De Brat, Ying, Yang Twins, Little John, Pastor Troy, Eastside Boys, little scrappy. I ran into everybody last night. Damn, that sounds like a family reunion. It was a family union. And the one thing I would say, you know, I do a lot of these shows and host a lot of these shows and bring out artists and do interviews. And it's always fun. But Atlanta always seems like a second home. And I'm explaining to you why. When I do these shows in New York, everybody's too cool. Like they perform, they go in their green room. They don't really want to talk. talk they don't want to written now not. Atlanta is like you're sitting there and you're just talking to everybody. Everybody's in the hall. Everybody's talking to somebody. Everybody's walking by. Everybody's like, where we're going after this? How's your family? What you're doing that? It's like a huge family reunion. So salute to 96.1, the jingle ball was amazing. If you went to the show last night, I hope you had an amazing time. I mean, Mariah the scientists was there. I seen Young Thug there. Kearney, Molly. It was just a dope show. So salute to Louis V. Sluid to Jill. It was just that they put together a crazy, crazy show. And I just had a good time. That's a lot of people.

Did y'all make the money back for that?

That's a whole lot of names that need a lot of money. I don't know. But, you know, because of all those names, you know, last year when I did it, I had a green room. This year, my green room was the hallway. So I didn't have a green room. So they cut my green room. And then also last year I had a driver this year Louis V picked me up from the hotel.

So I don't know.

I don't know if I had a driver.

This year, Louis V picked me up from the hotel. So I don't know. I don't know if they had to cut budgets. But regardless, it wasn't about that. It was about the listeners and the fans and everybody out there having a great time. Okay. Did your job have been getting cut too? I was going to say, is that a sign envy? But that's why I didn't complain. usually I would have been out of my life skin. It's like, yo, how I don't have a green room?

You know, usually I'd be like, yo, how are you a sign envy but that's why that's why i didn't complain usually i would have i would have my life skin it's like yo how i don't how i don't have a green room you know usually i'm like yo how you're going to pick me up but because of everything that's been going on in the world i just took it on the chin paws man i thought you was going to be here today man had a christmas present for you man who damn i'm well maybe i'm glad you the last time you gave me a Christmas present. It, maybe I'm glad you.

The last time you gave me a Christmas present, it was a mold of your ass. So maybe I'm happy. I wasn't there. This is a very thoughtful gift, man. You're not even here. That's whack. I thought you was going to be here this morning, man. I thought so, too. But the flights had another thing, and they didn't want me to come. So I said I'm going to fly out first thing in the morning.

Good morning, Leonard.

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