All right, here we go.

I'm Ed Baba, Don Lemon.

How you doing, Ahmed?

I'm doing okay.

Question is you. How are you doing? Good to see you. Welcome

back. That is the most interesting thing. Thank you very much. When I say, when I see people,

hey, how are you doing? No, no, the question is, how are you doing? Yeah, it's like, it's like just

go to casual and other live. No, brother, you were, you were center stage in the middle of a fight for the First Amendment. Oh, yeah, I know. Don't I know? I had no idea that it was going to be this. And, you know, I see folks out there, here's the thing. You know what the conundrum is right now? Obviously, to win the

case, that's a, that's the very simple thing. So there's a lot of talk out there and a lot of

people going on conservative shows or whatever, just a lot of opinions. Everybody's opinions are

like assholes. You know what I mean? Everybody has one. So the key is not to get caught up

in the noise. The key is to, because the real win is in the court house in the legal system, right?

But everything else is just kind of noise.

And that is kind of the weird conundrum of it all.

There's people asking me what I think, think what and and if I'm trying to capitalize on this it's like no I didn't ask for this and you know I have these I have a full calendar every single day I'm ed of um I'm speaking at this conference I'm this content. I'm interviewing this guest. I'm going to be in this, at this charity, I'm going to be hosting or emceeing this thing, things that were all already on my calendar. And so now when people see me at those things, are like, oh, look, there he is, capital Capitalized him. Like, no, no, no. This was my life before.

You just weren't paying attention, right? Like last night I had an event for, I had two events. I had an event for prostate cancer awareness that I've been a fashion show that I've been doing for 10 years that raises awareness. A big thing. And it's called Blue Jacket. And so I didn't walk in the fashion show,

but I went as an ambassador, right?

At first I wasn't going to go. And then there are people who are giving me awards. And then YouTube asked me to speak at something. And Spotify asked me to speak at something. And then I had the on-air fest. And then I have my city winery show that I do with D.L. Hugley. So these are things that I've had before. This is, you know, and so that's the only thing that really bothers me is people think that I'm trying to capitalize on this. And I'm not. I'm just out here doing my thing. I've only done one real interview. And that was Jimmy Kimmel. Great interview, by the way. Thank you. It was a great interview. And yeah, that's the thing.

You're not capitalizing on anyone who's been paying attention to your work.

You've been out here doing all this well before.

And if anything, it's more remarkable that you're still doing it.

Like the goal was to intimidate you.

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