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This is your daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment news, and the conversations that shake the room.

So today, behind the scenes that are grind.

Back on the ground.

Checking in, it has been a week.

This has been the first week back from our July 4th holiday break.

And it has been tough. I told you guys, it's been tough getting up every morning. So I am so happy,

like, thank the Lord that we are at the end of the week. And I'm going to be able to sleep in a bit.

But this weekend, you know, it'll be festive and we're back to work on Monday.

I'm going to try and, you know, disconnect a bit because I really enjoyed doing that last weekend

for the 4th of July. But we'll see what's possible because y'all know that is so much easier

said than done than when you live in a world where things are happening 24-7 every minute of the day.

Now, getting on into the latest, if we are speaking about things happening,

there's new music that is dropping.

We have, or dropped at this point about the time you guys hear this podcast,

Justin Bieber has dropped his new album called Swag, which was, it was a surprise album,

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